Of course. Half the people on this board have probably interviewed for school IT jobs... usually they pay 30% less than the same job in the private sector, and any time the district needs to cut budget, the IT jobs are the first to go. (Also: not in the teacher's union = relatively easy to fire.)
School talk the talk about wanting to adopt technology, but they don't walk the walk nearly as well as the corporate world. So, all the talented IT people are in the corporate world.
Maybe you're just using a shitty programming language where you need 100 lines of boilerplate crap before you can get down to the actual task at hand. Compare the difference between writing a GUI app in.net and one in Win32, for an illustrating example... 90% of your code in Win32 is just setting up complicated API calls.
Most people who "learn by doing" don't touch-type, they might be able to type without looking at the keyboard, but they're usually using 2-3 fingers on each hand, max. People who type that way, generally, are particularly at risk for injuries.
At least, I know that's the case for me-- I don't bother fixing it because despite that, my typing is faster than most of my co-workers, and I have the correct ergonomics to avoid carpal tunnel.
So... the native file sharing protocol for Windows is FIREWALLED by default?
And when it wasn't firewalled by default, Slashdot celebrated the high security of default Windows installs!!!
Damned if they do, damned if they don't, right? You can't have it both ways: either Windows is secure or it's usable. If you wanted it usable, you should have stopped griping about how insecure it was.
Using my Netflix Streaming benchmark, your configuration takes... infinite time to begin streaming the movie. On the other hand, Firefox takes approx. 10 seconds, making Firefox the clear winner by a margin of infinite time.
I'd rather have a computer that seems fast but takes 3 hours to do a video encode, than one that seems sluggish but could do the same video encode in 2 hours.
They were "swarming" Bungie because they're in freakin' KIRKLAND. The cops were probably bored as hell ticketing Lexus' for bad parking, and wanted to see something happen. Or maybe play a couple video games before they left.
It's not the bomb beeping, it's the red LED on top of it. According to Hollywood, red LEDs beep when they blink on and off... watch any movie featuring one, and I guarantee it'll be beeping.
The real danger for Hollywood bombs is the clearly-visible and accurate timer counting down to exactly when it's programmed to go off.
Oh please. CD burners all have huge buffers now. Where do you even buy one with a small enough buffer that this is an issue? Your argument is from 2002. Please update to a 2009 argument and come back, ok?
I don't, actually. I use applications to do my work, because my work isn't exclusively editing text files. (Pretty much the only thing those tools are really killer at.)
If your work *is* editing text files, then kudos. That's about the only task the "Unix Philosophy" is good for. For everybody else, they find an application that does what they need, then use it.
Just FYI, NT-based OSes (like Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 2003, 2008, etc) allow you to switch their scheduler from "server" mode to "desktop" mode.
Look in Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Performance Options -> Advanced (again). The two options are called "Programs" and "Background services."
No normal user cares about their video encoding being 2 seconds slower (over a 3 hour process) because they wanted to answer their email. If that's really important to you, you are probably doing your video encode overnight or during some time when nobody's using the computer, anyway, and then it doesn't matter.
Instant response is *always*, *always* more important than all other tasks. Always. One of the many, many things BeOS got right.
Well, wait, in the perfect world, you'd have to separate your list into like 4 programs: * HTML * XHTML * Javascript * Flash
And... oh wait, that's still too many because if you want HTML 5 why would you want all that bloated HTML 4 stuff around? So better split those two out. And really when you think about it, rendering HTML requires CSS, and that's a totally different parser, so split that one out too. And then of course, HTML + CSS is basically just rendering a page layout, so you better split your page layout engine into a different process, because otherwise you're just too bloated. And your Javascript parser should be a different process than the interpreter, because maybe I only use one and not the other, oh and HTML can come from a file or from a HTTP socket, so you should split the delivery mechanism from the rest of it HTML renderer, and don't even get me started on how many hundreds of processes should be involved in the download manager, and etc etc etc.
I think the Unix philosophy is utter crap, in short.
If you're a total computer nerd, and your idea of "task" is "render HTML!" then fine. But for a normal human being, a "task" is "RSVP to a party", or "watch an episode of MacGuyver", or "buy a book from Amazon."
If you're idea of "doing one task" is "interpret a Javascript function!" then you need to get out of the basement more often.
Wow, that's one thing Opera does right. Now if only I could get over the 99 things it does wrong, and the god-awful UI, I might be able to tolerate it long enough -- no I'm kidding, I hate that fucking browser.
There's a reason Opera isn't used by more people despite all the features it has. The smugness of its users like you doesn't help, either.
One of the reasons console gaming is better is because they don't let idiots tinker with the hundreds of options in things like "custom game profiles" that fuck things up.
I can guarantee if those users would just install and play the fucking game, instead of tinkering with the hundreds and thousands of pointless options from their sound card driver, their video driver, and the game itself-- they'd have a much more pleasant experience.
That all said, I myself prefer console gaming too. I'm just saying that nobody held a gun and *forced* you to fuck around with some crazy poorly-supported nVidia feature. Instead of spending hours on a fix, why not just ignore the feature and play the fucking game like a normal person?
OK... Windows (Vista Pre-Installs) come out of the box moronically set up. The default user is administrator but a window pops up asking for authorization for every action, whether it is a system-wide change or not, and if you turn it off no authorization is required even for system-wide changes.
So it's set up exactly like every single other OS on the market today, and that counts as "moronically" in your book. This post is great, because it lets me filter you out as an idiot to ignore in the future.
Furthermore, much vertical, printer/multifunction driver, and gaming software requires and assumes administrative access.
I am currently on a Windows XP(Radeon X600 graphics card should be fast enough) computer home with my parents, and both browsers I have tested in(IE, and FireFox) don't take frame breaks into account at all when scrolling. (At least as far as I can see)
XP isn't the current Windows version; Vista (which is 2.5 years old at this point) handles this just fine with zero flicker.
Ok. I have a desktop with two, different sized, monitors. (One a wide-screen 20", one a full-screen 19".) I couldn't figure out how to get X to use the correct native resolution for both monitors at the same time. It's *possible* that this isn't a problem with X, but was in fact a problem with the control panel in Ubuntu, but either way it's a problem that doesn't exist in other OSes.
If the open source community had been innovative enough to come up with something like Flash back before Flash existed, then the open source community could make the call whether to open-up the file format or not.
The solution to your issue is to *anticipate* software that is needed, and have it ready *before* it's popular. Instead of just waiting to see what Microsoft and Adobe do, then come up with a crappy clone of same.
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Of course. Half the people on this board have probably interviewed for school IT jobs... usually they pay 30% less than the same job in the private sector, and any time the district needs to cut budget, the IT jobs are the first to go. (Also: not in the teacher's union = relatively easy to fire.)
School talk the talk about wanting to adopt technology, but they don't walk the walk nearly as well as the corporate world. So, all the talented IT people are in the corporate world.
Maybe you're just using a shitty programming language where you need 100 lines of boilerplate crap before you can get down to the actual task at hand. Compare the difference between writing a GUI app in .net and one in Win32, for an illustrating example... 90% of your code in Win32 is just setting up complicated API calls.
Most people who "learn by doing" don't touch-type, they might be able to type without looking at the keyboard, but they're usually using 2-3 fingers on each hand, max. People who type that way, generally, are particularly at risk for injuries.
At least, I know that's the case for me-- I don't bother fixing it because despite that, my typing is faster than most of my co-workers, and I have the correct ergonomics to avoid carpal tunnel.
Good thing it's not a joke because it's not even slightly funny.
What's your point exactly? The US shouldn't be asking people if they were (or at least could have been) Nazis!? Seriously?
How could anybody possibly object to that question?
So... the native file sharing protocol for Windows is FIREWALLED by default?
And when it wasn't firewalled by default, Slashdot celebrated the high security of default Windows installs!!!
Damned if they do, damned if they don't, right? You can't have it both ways: either Windows is secure or it's usable. If you wanted it usable, you should have stopped griping about how insecure it was.
Either "half of the students" in your college are running Windows ME, or you're a liar.
All network access is turned off by default in newer versions of Windows, and you can't even turn them on for accounts with no password.
if I'm remembering correctly,
If I'm remembering correctly,
I can't recall specifically
Why don't you look up the answer and get back to us, Mr. Memory?
In other words, Opera has a shitty UI which makes it nearly impossible to even figure out what features it has.
Using my Netflix Streaming benchmark, your configuration takes... infinite time to begin streaming the movie. On the other hand, Firefox takes approx. 10 seconds, making Firefox the clear winner by a margin of infinite time.
I'd rather have a computer that seems fast but takes 3 hours to do a video encode, than one that seems sluggish but could do the same video encode in 2 hours.
Your opinion is your own, of course.
They were "swarming" Bungie because they're in freakin' KIRKLAND. The cops were probably bored as hell ticketing Lexus' for bad parking, and wanted to see something happen. Or maybe play a couple video games before they left.
It's not the bomb beeping, it's the red LED on top of it. According to Hollywood, red LEDs beep when they blink on and off... watch any movie featuring one, and I guarantee it'll be beeping.
The real danger for Hollywood bombs is the clearly-visible and accurate timer counting down to exactly when it's programmed to go off.
Oh please. CD burners all have huge buffers now. Where do you even buy one with a small enough buffer that this is an issue? Your argument is from 2002. Please update to a 2009 argument and come back, ok?
I don't, actually. I use applications to do my work, because my work isn't exclusively editing text files. (Pretty much the only thing those tools are really killer at.)
If your work *is* editing text files, then kudos. That's about the only task the "Unix Philosophy" is good for. For everybody else, they find an application that does what they need, then use it.
Just FYI, NT-based OSes (like Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 2003, 2008, etc) allow you to switch their scheduler from "server" mode to "desktop" mode.
Look in Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Performance Options -> Advanced (again). The two options are called "Programs" and "Background services."
No normal user cares about their video encoding being 2 seconds slower (over a 3 hour process) because they wanted to answer their email. If that's really important to you, you are probably doing your video encode overnight or during some time when nobody's using the computer, anyway, and then it doesn't matter.
Instant response is *always*, *always* more important than all other tasks. Always. One of the many, many things BeOS got right.
It's like saying a compiler is broken because of a problem with an IDE dialog box: why would you rewrite the compiler?
You wouldn't, don't be purposefully dense. There's no way you're that stupid.
But if the compiler was poor because the UI tools that interface with it are poor, then you certainly re-write those UI tools. Duh.
What I'm saying is that software should be considered holistically. If the UI to X is broken, then X is broken. Period.
Well, wait, in the perfect world, you'd have to separate your list into like 4 programs:
* HTML
* XHTML
* Javascript
* Flash
And... oh wait, that's still too many because if you want HTML 5 why would you want all that bloated HTML 4 stuff around? So better split those two out. And really when you think about it, rendering HTML requires CSS, and that's a totally different parser, so split that one out too. And then of course, HTML + CSS is basically just rendering a page layout, so you better split your page layout engine into a different process, because otherwise you're just too bloated. And your Javascript parser should be a different process than the interpreter, because maybe I only use one and not the other, oh and HTML can come from a file or from a HTTP socket, so you should split the delivery mechanism from the rest of it HTML renderer, and don't even get me started on how many hundreds of processes should be involved in the download manager, and etc etc etc.
I think the Unix philosophy is utter crap, in short.
If you're a total computer nerd, and your idea of "task" is "render HTML!" then fine. But for a normal human being, a "task" is "RSVP to a party", or "watch an episode of MacGuyver", or "buy a book from Amazon."
If you're idea of "doing one task" is "interpret a Javascript function!" then you need to get out of the basement more often.
Wow, that's one thing Opera does right. Now if only I could get over the 99 things it does wrong, and the god-awful UI, I might be able to tolerate it long enough -- no I'm kidding, I hate that fucking browser.
There's a reason Opera isn't used by more people despite all the features it has. The smugness of its users like you doesn't help, either.
One of the reasons console gaming is better is because they don't let idiots tinker with the hundreds of options in things like "custom game profiles" that fuck things up.
I can guarantee if those users would just install and play the fucking game, instead of tinkering with the hundreds and thousands of pointless options from their sound card driver, their video driver, and the game itself-- they'd have a much more pleasant experience.
That all said, I myself prefer console gaming too. I'm just saying that nobody held a gun and *forced* you to fuck around with some crazy poorly-supported nVidia feature. Instead of spending hours on a fix, why not just ignore the feature and play the fucking game like a normal person?
Unfortunately, most GUI configuration tools are absolutely horrid. I won't argue that.
If the tool to configure X doesn't work, then X doesn't work. The UI *is* the application.
The sooner the open source community learns that, the sooner they'll be creating usable software instead of diving around in obscure config files.
OK... Windows (Vista Pre-Installs) come out of the box moronically set up. The default user is administrator but a window pops up asking for authorization for every action, whether it is a system-wide change or not, and if you turn it off no authorization is required even for system-wide changes.
So it's set up exactly like every single other OS on the market today, and that counts as "moronically" in your book. This post is great, because it lets me filter you out as an idiot to ignore in the future.
Furthermore, much vertical, printer/multifunction driver, and gaming software requires and assumes administrative access.
And that's Microsoft's fault... how?
I am currently on a Windows XP(Radeon X600 graphics card should be fast enough) computer home with my parents, and both browsers I have tested in(IE, and FireFox) don't take frame breaks into account at all when scrolling. (At least as far as I can see)
XP isn't the current Windows version; Vista (which is 2.5 years old at this point) handles this just fine with zero flicker.
Ok. I have a desktop with two, different sized, monitors. (One a wide-screen 20", one a full-screen 19".) I couldn't figure out how to get X to use the correct native resolution for both monitors at the same time. It's *possible* that this isn't a problem with X, but was in fact a problem with the control panel in Ubuntu, but either way it's a problem that doesn't exist in other OSes.
If the open source community had been innovative enough to come up with something like Flash back before Flash existed, then the open source community could make the call whether to open-up the file format or not.
The solution to your issue is to *anticipate* software that is needed, and have it ready *before* it's popular. Instead of just waiting to see what Microsoft and Adobe do, then come up with a crappy clone of same.