As long as they finish the Cure for Cancer first, I say they can stop science altogether and route all their tax money into making people happy. At least that's what I always do...
That doesn't work in Safari. Or, at least, it doesn't work in the way you described... dragging it to the toolbar does nothing, alas. What is it supposed to do?
In the end, I did get an HP laptop, but got it from CompUSA. I got the HP L2000, and for about $40, the tech desk people there were able to do the customized partitioning job for me, reinstall the version of Windows that came with it, and leave me with blank, unformatted partitions to use for Fedora Core 4 x86_64. The tech guys there knew exactly what I wanted to do, understood it, and thought it was really cool.
At CompUSA? Are you entirely sure you weren't at, say PCClub or somewhere?
I'm tempted to declare the whole story as BS because of this part... never in my life have I seen an even remotely competent CompUSA employee.;)
That's why Linux developers need to change the equation. How could you make it profitable to write a driver for only 2% of the population? There's only one way: Make it 50 times *easier* to write the driver for Linux than Windows.
A possible solution is to provide a cross-platform "driver toolkit" API that allows you to write your Windows driver and your Linux driver (or OS X driver, for that matter) at the same time using the same, or very similar, source code. Make it robust enough so that it won't have a problem passing Windows Logo Testing, and you've just solved the problem. The hardware maker can now just write one version of their driver, and it'll run on 15% more computers than it did before.
But until Linux developers figure out how to change the equation, you'll never see better hardware support. In fact, from what I've read, because of the blind adherence to the GPL, Linus is actually more hostile towards drivers than anything else by frequently breaking the interfaces to them.
I don't think Lost is science fiction... it's certainly fiction, but so far the most "sci-fi-ish" idea has been that the island they're on has a really strong magnet, or magnetic force, on it... and that's not really all that "out there."
The Dharma Initiative was set up to research telekinetic forces, and some other meta-physical concepts, but so far in the series they haven't concretely demonstrated any of these as being 'real'.
No this isn't a personal attack on the editors; rather it is a challenge to them to improve Slashdot by paying closer attention to the important details that the parent so thoroughly pointed out. Slashdot is good; but they can make it great with a little diligence and effort.
Not gonna happen. Have you noticed that the new editors they hire are just as bad as the guys who have been there from the start? Now I understand you start a tech blog, you have no journalism training, maybe you haven't taken any english classes since 7th grade, that's fine. Site grows, suddenly there's a million people reading your, frankly, poorly-written and irresponsible entries. So you need to hire more staff... who do you hire? Somebody who *does* have journalism training and good writing skills? Or the jerk-off who was entrusted with an important web site and pulled it offline in a hissyfit [1]? A normal site would have picked the first guy; Slashdot picked the second. More recent hires, like Zonk, make it blatantly obvious that Cmdr Taco simply does not give a crap about his own website.
One major thing that brings me back to slashdot, is how easy it is on the eyes.
Only if you're colorblind. If you think that purple color in the Games section is easy on the eyes, I'm sorry, but I think you need to see an optometrist immediately.
FYI, mplayer on OS X has a really, really bad user interface. You can tell it was a port, and a poorly-done port at that... it took me probably a half hour to figure out how to quit. See, instead of the one Dock icon every OS X program gets, mplayer for some reason has two Dock icons... one of which works (has quit, minimize, etc) and one of which appears to do nothing at all. If you click in the movie window, (the nonfunctional Dock icon) you can't quit the program, use any services, or do anything at all because there's no menu.
In short, if you like a smooth user experience, avoid mplayer, at least on OS X. VLC is much, much better and plays DVDs like a champ.
I work at a hospital. The specialized software for the majority of our departments has only Windows versions. Two of the packages could run on Linux *servers*, but still required Windows for the clients. Our stand alone drug dispensers run Windows 2000 behind-the-scenes, as do our ultrasound machines and most of our lab equipment.
You can't run a medical practice without either:
1) Paying somebody HUGE bucks to write all this software from scratch for OS X or Linux, *and* somehow finding ultrasound machines and other specialized hardware that doesn't require Windows, or:
BTW, MS Project is just a Gantt chart writer. An equivalent came with my Mac Mini.
I think you're underestimating what Project can do, but what's the name of this "equivalent" so I can try it out? I've been looking for a Project-like program on OS X for ages, and so far I haven't found anything that's come close.
Exchange you can do Microsoft-free... if you're a sadist, you can use Lotus Domino/Notes all on OS X (the server and client both run on OS X.)
What bothers me is that I can't find a good replacement for Microsoft Project for OS X. If you talk to open source people about it, they'll all reply, "oh do you have POINTY HAIR" (clever) and dismiss how useful project management software is.
The killer feature MacOS has had forever is text-to-speech. Have the computer speak your text out loud, and the grammar errors stick out like sore thumbs... even if you're only casually listening. That's what I've always used for my writing.
Did you read 3001? The worst utopian tripe I've ever had the misfortune to be handed as a gift... criminy that book sucked. Yes, I realize that Arthur C Clarke invented the communications satellite and single-handedly build the first shuttle and yadda yadda, but if 3001 is any indication, this space elevator is a disaster waiting to happen. There was a goddamned ROBOTIC DRAGON in it! Goddamn!
IE (and Safari, BTW, made by Apple and the KDE project) allow the web designer to put javascripts inside of CSS tags. Is that a security flaw or not? Could argue either way, I suppose.
Don't blame Microsoft on this one, from reading the technical explaination, it sounds to me like MySpace doesn't have very strong security... their security seemed to be based entirely on searching for specific keywords (like "javascript") in input and blanking them out.
Maybe someday this post won't be posted in every single Slashdot games section story and won't be modded +5 every damned time. But don't hold your breath.
The point is that real developers, like you, have MSDN subscriptions to get it. The only people downloading the *LEAK* will be the dedicated fans that like to tinker with the latest and greatest.
I'm more amazed when I see a Slashdot story that doesn't have a misleading, or plain wrong, title and summary. Almost every topic has a high-moderated correction in the comments.
Does the "football field" measurement include the end zones? That makes a significant difference in the length. I think we need a "standard football field," which would be defined as 100 yards so we don't have to worry about the end zone issue.
Even sadder when you realize Office 12, coming out soon, *will* export to PDF. OpenOffice.org's gonna have to find something new to distinguish itself soon.
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As long as they finish the Cure for Cancer first, I say they can stop science altogether and route all their tax money into making people happy. At least that's what I always do...
That doesn't work in Safari. Or, at least, it doesn't work in the way you described... dragging it to the toolbar does nothing, alas. What is it supposed to do?
In the end, I did get an HP laptop, but got it from CompUSA. I got the HP L2000, and for about $40, the tech desk people there were able to do the customized partitioning job for me, reinstall the version of Windows that came with it, and leave me with blank, unformatted partitions to use for Fedora Core 4 x86_64. The tech guys there knew exactly what I wanted to do, understood it, and thought it was really cool.
;)
At CompUSA? Are you entirely sure you weren't at, say PCClub or somewhere?
I'm tempted to declare the whole story as BS because of this part... never in my life have I seen an even remotely competent CompUSA employee.
That's why Linux developers need to change the equation. How could you make it profitable to write a driver for only 2% of the population? There's only one way: Make it 50 times *easier* to write the driver for Linux than Windows.
A possible solution is to provide a cross-platform "driver toolkit" API that allows you to write your Windows driver and your Linux driver (or OS X driver, for that matter) at the same time using the same, or very similar, source code. Make it robust enough so that it won't have a problem passing Windows Logo Testing, and you've just solved the problem. The hardware maker can now just write one version of their driver, and it'll run on 15% more computers than it did before.
But until Linux developers figure out how to change the equation, you'll never see better hardware support. In fact, from what I've read, because of the blind adherence to the GPL, Linus is actually more hostile towards drivers than anything else by frequently breaking the interfaces to them.
(Possible Lost spoilers, beware!)
I don't think Lost is science fiction... it's certainly fiction, but so far the most "sci-fi-ish" idea has been that the island they're on has a really strong magnet, or magnetic force, on it... and that's not really all that "out there."
The Dharma Initiative was set up to research telekinetic forces, and some other meta-physical concepts, but so far in the series they haven't concretely demonstrated any of these as being 'real'.
I'm pretty sure that all consoles since the NES have done licensing.
... I think the original poster was referring to the horrible grammar which, indeed, means nothing. Thanks for the play-by-play, though.
No this isn't a personal attack on the editors; rather it is a challenge to them to improve Slashdot by paying closer attention to the important details that the parent so thoroughly pointed out. Slashdot is good; but they can make it great with a little diligence and effort.
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Not gonna happen. Have you noticed that the new editors they hire are just as bad as the guys who have been there from the start? Now I understand you start a tech blog, you have no journalism training, maybe you haven't taken any english classes since 7th grade, that's fine. Site grows, suddenly there's a million people reading your, frankly, poorly-written and irresponsible entries. So you need to hire more staff... who do you hire? Somebody who *does* have journalism training and good writing skills? Or the jerk-off who was entrusted with an important web site and pulled it offline in a hissyfit [1]? A normal site would have picked the first guy; Slashdot picked the second. More recent hires, like Zonk, make it blatantly obvious that Cmdr Taco simply does not give a crap about his own website.
[1] http://www.sethf.com/freespeech/censorware/essays
One major thing that brings me back to slashdot, is how easy it is on the eyes.
Only if you're colorblind. If you think that purple color in the Games section is easy on the eyes, I'm sorry, but I think you need to see an optometrist immediately.
FYI, mplayer on OS X has a really, really bad user interface. You can tell it was a port, and a poorly-done port at that... it took me probably a half hour to figure out how to quit. See, instead of the one Dock icon every OS X program gets, mplayer for some reason has two Dock icons... one of which works (has quit, minimize, etc) and one of which appears to do nothing at all. If you click in the movie window, (the nonfunctional Dock icon) you can't quit the program, use any services, or do anything at all because there's no menu.
In short, if you like a smooth user experience, avoid mplayer, at least on OS X. VLC is much, much better and plays DVDs like a champ.
Ditto that.
I work at a hospital. The specialized software for the majority of our departments has only Windows versions. Two of the packages could run on Linux *servers*, but still required Windows for the clients. Our stand alone drug dispensers run Windows 2000 behind-the-scenes, as do our ultrasound machines and most of our lab equipment.
You can't run a medical practice without either:
1) Paying somebody HUGE bucks to write all this software from scratch for OS X or Linux, *and* somehow finding ultrasound machines and other specialized hardware that doesn't require Windows, or:
2) Run Windows.
Guess which one is easier?
BTW, MS Project is just a Gantt chart writer. An equivalent came with my Mac Mini.
I think you're underestimating what Project can do, but what's the name of this "equivalent" so I can try it out? I've been looking for a Project-like program on OS X for ages, and so far I haven't found anything that's come close.
Exchange you can do Microsoft-free... if you're a sadist, you can use Lotus Domino/Notes all on OS X (the server and client both run on OS X.)
What bothers me is that I can't find a good replacement for Microsoft Project for OS X. If you talk to open source people about it, they'll all reply, "oh do you have POINTY HAIR" (clever) and dismiss how useful project management software is.
The killer feature MacOS has had forever is text-to-speech. Have the computer speak your text out loud, and the grammar errors stick out like sore thumbs... even if you're only casually listening. That's what I've always used for my writing.
Did you read 3001? The worst utopian tripe I've ever had the misfortune to be handed as a gift... criminy that book sucked. Yes, I realize that Arthur C Clarke invented the communications satellite and single-handedly build the first shuttle and yadda yadda, but if 3001 is any indication, this space elevator is a disaster waiting to happen. There was a goddamned ROBOTIC DRAGON in it! Goddamn!
Hasn't this guy seen what open source has done to revive dead/dying systems?
Like...?
Do you have any examples? I guess you could cite Firefox/Mozilla project for it, maybe.
IE (and Safari, BTW, made by Apple and the KDE project) allow the web designer to put javascripts inside of CSS tags. Is that a security flaw or not? Could argue either way, I suppose.
Don't blame Microsoft on this one, from reading the technical explaination, it sounds to me like MySpace doesn't have very strong security... their security seemed to be based entirely on searching for specific keywords (like "javascript") in input and blanking them out.
Windows is not customizable enough right out of the box. Every copy looks the same with the same blue theme and it is getting tiresome.
Let me get this straight:
Windows is not customizable enough because most Windows users don't change the default theme?
The logic of some of the Microsoft-bashing here on Slashdot is insane sometimes.
How come everybody on Slashdot is such a goddamned cynical pessimist? Is it possible that some new technology could be used for something *good* ever?
Maybe someday this post won't be posted in every single Slashdot games section story and won't be modded +5 every damned time. But don't hold your breath.
The point is that real developers, like you, have MSDN subscriptions to get it. The only people downloading the *LEAK* will be the dedicated fans that like to tinker with the latest and greatest.
I'm more amazed when I see a Slashdot story that doesn't have a misleading, or plain wrong, title and summary. Almost every topic has a high-moderated correction in the comments.
I've always wondered...
Does the "football field" measurement include the end zones? That makes a significant difference in the length. I think we need a "standard football field," which would be defined as 100 yards so we don't have to worry about the end zone issue.
Even sadder when you realize Office 12, coming out soon, *will* export to PDF. OpenOffice.org's gonna have to find something new to distinguish itself soon.
I agree. Both of those pieces of code happen so fast that it doesn't matter. Unless all your program does is reverse lists over and over and over...