Nobody's going to get it. Though I have to admit that your comment is a lot funnier than the original post. I think Hemos just thinks he is special cause he gets mail from Brin.
Am I the only one who thinks that making things heat is kinda useless for drinks? Cold coffee caffeinates as well as warm coffee does, but warm soda/beer is a major nuisance.
So, wake me up when there's a self cooling can of Jolt Cola available....
(Win)(Lose) - I can't think of a way for the user to lose under open source, while the code-creator wins.
I can. Code creator releases shitty 2.4.15 kernel, users download it and run it, it breaks their filesystems and they are fucked, while the code creator learns an interesting new thing about file system handling.
When I went from MAC to PC about 100 years ago the one thing I miss most was the close all windows keystroke. IIRC crtl-shift-w ?
Well, just in case you haven't already figured it out in the mean time, <Win>+M will do the trick nowadays... They're learning, albeit slowly.
And in case someone wants to bitch about keyboards with Windows keys (I used to:)), I've got a Happy Hacking Keyboard and there's just nothing else to do for the second set of Alt keys...
You are right in both your claims, I think, but...
Keyboard-based navigation tools -- e.g. a command-line interface -- are ten times faster if
the user has already learned the interface.
Okay, totally valid point. It _is_ of course non-obvious how to use vi for text editing or bash for file manipulation. Still, most people who use computers for work use them for hours a day - and mostly using the same applications. So, being able to use them is IMO much preferrable to being "simple".
the user doesn't have to re-learn the commands.
That, of course is an implementation problem - if you take a look at GNU software, there's the Readline library that controls how you enter text (and a few more things:)) in almost any application. So you set your preferences once, and they work in your mail client, on the shell prompt and in your web browser, just the same (of course, with configurable exceptions and all the candy you'd expect from a solution for smart people).
Trouble with readline is only that it's GPL licensed, and therefore never found adaptation in any non-free (or non-GPL, for that matter) software...
The vague space of the hard disk should not exist for you.
Call me old fashioned, but I for one am _not_ baffled by the vast regions of "vague space" that my file systems offer me. I don't want hundreds of stacked desktops for everything I do. This might be nice for Joe Random Luser, but if you intend to do _LOTS_ of things with your computer, and interconnect them, having the power of a file system at your disposal helps a lot.
It is possible to build labyrinths of internal directories that eventually become too deep to navigate via the mouse.
Yeah, that's the way it goes - the same "usability experts" who have brought us the "tree control for everything" metaphor that totally sucks in large directory trees now want to oversimplify even more.
Perhaps, if the mouse is incapable of filling your needs, you should consider alternatives... such as the keyboard and a sensible autocompletion. Every time I see someone use a keyboard based navigation tool (Windows Commander comes to my mind, or bash completion), they're about ten times faster than click-move-click-move sequences.
It's not a direct connection, and probably not even terribly accurate, but if enough people respond to an advertisement this way and margarine guys end up selling 1% more product, that is a major deal to them. So even if they miss a few times, they come out ahead.
That's quite an interesting thought... It would be nice to have a comparison between "traditional" and web advertising, then, in terms of effectiveness. After all, advertisers always complained about the low click-through and even lower "buy-through" rates from web advertising...
I'm not at all convinced that TV ads score much better in this area. I just hope this doesn't mean they'll become even more annoying and people start talking about "micropayment" for all the dumb stuff that's on TV...
All the talk about the decline of the labor society and a new economy that is going to develop because information is not scarce by nature is not very new.
I've read it before in lotss
free software essays of varying quality, but there's still no explanation offered on how this is going to put food on my table (not in the way of making money, but in the way of literally producing the stuff and shipping it to the store around the corner), or build a computer, for that matter. I agree that the community can whip up a microprocessor design, but I'm not sure about the billion-dollar semiconductor plant to produce it...
How would that be handled, by waiting for people who think it's a cool idea? They'd have to wait for people who think it's a cool idea to build all those manufacturing tools and so on... In short, I don't think this can work.
BTW the first movie is out on DVD now and they did a pretty good job with the re-release.
Well, we might HATE the MPAA and their way of doing business, but of course that doesn't mean we shouldn't buy all the shiny new DVDs they release...
I hate to repeat myself, but people who complain about the MPAA and RIAA all the time, but still rush out to buy every new CD or DVD they think they could like need some serious attitude adjustment.
The strongest form of cryptography was invented in the 19th century and does not require a computer (XOR against one-time-pad), though computers certainly make it faster.
Wrong. The Vernam cipher was developed in the 20th century.
Now you see why MS supports IMAP: Their customers really pushed hard for it. Is it part of some big MS-conspiracy? Possibly but there's no good evidence and certianly no rationale.
They aren't supporting IMAP. I've got a Courier-IMAPD-driven mail service running, and there are all kinds of compatibility problems. For example, it used to work fine with OE5.0. Then, one day, a user comes along with OE5.5 installed, complaining he can't use subfolders.
A quick tcpdump on my side shows that OE5.5 insists on sending slashes as folder path delimiters, no matter how much the IMAP server specifies it wants to use dots. Guess what, it works with MS Exchange...
They're not supporting IMAP, the open standard, they're once again supporting almost-IMAP, the M$-implementation-defined standard.
What kind of anti-spam initiative is it that causes all the trouble? Searching for Microsoft and Anti-Spam only yields another case where it got them in trouble, Microsoft's Anti-Spam Filter Targets Competitors. Though the article is old and kind of unrelated, I find it funny that Google doesn't have a single high-ranking link to a Microsoft-owned page that describes their so-called initiative. Given how they're yapping for every piece of positive PR, how come they're not advocating their exceedingly consumer-friendly initiative a bit more publicly?
Now, if this weren't Microsoft, who brought us everything that is good, I'd say the whole thing is just an outright lie.
Companies should be doing what's right for their customers, not what's right for their checkbooks and customers be damned.
You know, actually that's pretty much the consumers' fault, if they keep on filling the companies' checkbooks while bitching about the lobbying efforts directed against them.
Think about it the next time you buy that shiny new DVD.
There is always the fact that Java is being natively excluded from Win XP.
"Natively excluded"? Just because they didn't smach a JVM on the install CD doesn't mean they're excluding it, they aren't excluding Microsoft Office just because you have to install it separately.
Of course, that's not a very Sun-friendly move, but "excluding" isn't exactly what "not including" means.
Can't we have a dialog without having the word "hate" mentionned?
God, how I hate you fucking hippies...
Anyways, reading the original PZ statement, it really sounded as if he had specifically tried to keep the WP from quoting him that way, and they did. Small wonder people blame them.
With regard to the screenplay, we already know that they've decided to take a bit of license with the story line, and increase Arwen's role (she's a lead character's love interest). They decided to do so because she really doesn't have much of a role in the story -- with the possible exception of Galadrial, no female character does.
No? I believe that Eowyn is a pretty substantial character. After all, she kills the Nazgul king and stuff. She also has a love story to offer, though hers is not as teenage-stupid-girl-goes-wooh as the Arwen-and-Aragorn thing is going to be.
I'm also looking forward to the movies, but focussing a bit more on Eowyn instead of putting in a cheesy happy ending with the Elven girl would have been better IMO.
I'd like to know if the order in which I read the books, does in fact, matter.
Not terribly much, still I'd recommend you start with The Hobbit, then progress to LotR and finish with the Silmarillion to get all background details. If you're not satisfied then, start digging through the History of Middle Earth series to see how Tolkien's work developed...
I also think this order shows nicely how the third age stories progress from a friendly, adventurous, almost for-kids setting at the beginning of the Hobbit to the dark and looming atmosphere of some LotR chapters.
Compare the arrival in Rivendell in The Hobbit with the same scene in LotR to see what I mean. In the first one, the elves are merry foold jumping through the trees, in the second one they're the solemn warriors you'd expect after the Silmarillion history.
Or is there some kind of copy protection that I'm not aware of?
Yup. It's called pay-thousands-of-dollars-for-equipment-or-get-tota lly-crappy-quality, and it's one that really seems to work.
I don't see much merit in that method of copying...
These 500mb downloadable movies, are they dvd rips? if so wouldn't that be illegal? Somewhere in the DMCA it should say that of course.
Meep. Wrong answer. The copyright holder can rip whatever the fuck they want.
Just like Linus Torvalds can sell you a binary-only Linux version or Hans Reiser can do commercial versions of reiserfs.
I bet it was the Russians, trying to avenge what you people did to Dmitry Skylarov...
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Well, you might enjoy IBM and the Holocaust, then. Read it and scale to today's information technology and kill capability.
WTF? Whois Eric Idle?
This has nothing to do with age, this is ignorance, pure and simple.
Eric Idle is Harry the Haggler, Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-as-Sir Launcelot, and many more. He even met Adolf Hitler.
Nobody's going to get it. Though I have to admit that your comment is a lot funnier than the original post. I think Hemos just thinks he is special cause he gets mail from Brin.
So, wake me up when there's a self cooling can of Jolt Cola available....
I can. Code creator releases shitty 2.4.15 kernel, users download it and run it, it breaks their filesystems and they are fucked, while the code creator learns an interesting new thing about file system handling.
Wait, was that the "punishment"? :)
Well, just in case you haven't already figured it out in the mean time, <Win>+M will do the trick nowadays... They're learning, albeit slowly.
And in case someone wants to bitch about keyboards with Windows keys (I used to :)), I've got a Happy Hacking Keyboard and there's just nothing else to do for the second set of Alt keys...
Wrong. It's actual, real, hard GPL, and that's the reason it never got big... RMS even cites it in the famous anti-LGPL rant of his.
Keyboard-based navigation tools -- e.g. a command-line interface -- are ten times faster if
Okay, totally valid point. It _is_ of course non-obvious how to use vi for text editing or bash for file manipulation. Still, most people who use computers for work use them for hours a day - and mostly using the same applications. So, being able to use them is IMO much preferrable to being "simple".
That, of course is an implementation problem - if you take a look at GNU software, there's the Readline library that controls how you enter text (and a few more things :)) in almost any application. So you set your preferences once, and they work in your mail client, on the shell prompt and in your web browser, just the same (of course, with configurable exceptions and all the candy you'd expect from a solution for smart people).
Trouble with readline is only that it's GPL licensed, and therefore never found adaptation in any non-free (or non-GPL, for that matter) software...
Call me old fashioned, but I for one am _not_ baffled by the vast regions of "vague space" that my file systems offer me. I don't want hundreds of stacked desktops for everything I do. This might be nice for Joe Random Luser, but if you intend to do _LOTS_ of things with your computer, and interconnect them, having the power of a file system at your disposal helps a lot.
It is possible to build labyrinths of internal directories that eventually become too deep to navigate via the mouse.
Yeah, that's the way it goes - the same "usability experts" who have brought us the "tree control for everything" metaphor that totally sucks in large directory trees now want to oversimplify even more. Perhaps, if the mouse is incapable of filling your needs, you should consider alternatives... such as the keyboard and a sensible autocompletion. Every time I see someone use a keyboard based navigation tool (Windows Commander comes to my mind, or bash completion), they're about ten times faster than click-move-click-move sequences.
That's quite an interesting thought... It would be nice to have a comparison between "traditional" and web advertising, then, in terms of effectiveness. After all, advertisers always complained about the low click-through and even lower "buy-through" rates from web advertising...
I'm not at all convinced that TV ads score much better in this area. I just hope this doesn't mean they'll become even more annoying and people start talking about "micropayment" for all the dumb stuff that's on TV...
I've read it before in lotss free software essays of varying quality, but there's still no explanation offered on how this is going to put food on my table (not in the way of making money, but in the way of literally producing the stuff and shipping it to the store around the corner), or build a computer, for that matter. I agree that the community can whip up a microprocessor design, but I'm not sure about the billion-dollar semiconductor plant to produce it...
How would that be handled, by waiting for people who think it's a cool idea? They'd have to wait for people who think it's a cool idea to build all those manufacturing tools and so on... In short, I don't think this can work.
Well, we might HATE the MPAA and their way of doing business, but of course that doesn't mean we shouldn't buy all the shiny new DVDs they release...
I hate to repeat myself, but people who complain about the MPAA and RIAA all the time, but still rush out to buy every new CD or DVD they think they could like need some serious attitude adjustment.
Wrong. The Vernam cipher was developed in the 20th century.
They aren't supporting IMAP. I've got a Courier-IMAPD-driven mail service running, and there are all kinds of compatibility problems. For example, it used to work fine with OE5.0. Then, one day, a user comes along with OE5.5 installed, complaining he can't use subfolders.
A quick tcpdump on my side shows that OE5.5 insists on sending slashes as folder path delimiters, no matter how much the IMAP server specifies it wants to use dots. Guess what, it works with MS Exchange...
They're not supporting IMAP, the open standard, they're once again supporting almost-IMAP, the M$-implementation-defined standard.
Now, if this weren't Microsoft, who brought us everything that is good, I'd say the whole thing is just an outright lie.
You know, actually that's pretty much the consumers' fault, if they keep on filling the companies' checkbooks while bitching about the lobbying efforts directed against them.
Think about it the next time you buy that shiny new DVD.
"Natively excluded"? Just because they didn't smach a JVM on the install CD doesn't mean they're excluding it, they aren't excluding Microsoft Office just because you have to install it separately.
Of course, that's not a very Sun-friendly move, but "excluding" isn't exactly what "not including" means.
God, how I hate you fucking hippies...
Anyways, reading the original PZ statement, it really sounded as if he had specifically tried to keep the WP from quoting him that way, and they did. Small wonder people blame them.
No? I believe that Eowyn is a pretty substantial character. After all, she kills the Nazgul king and stuff. She also has a love story to offer, though hers is not as teenage-stupid-girl-goes-wooh as the Arwen-and-Aragorn thing is going to be.
I'm also looking forward to the movies, but focussing a bit more on Eowyn instead of putting in a cheesy happy ending with the Elven girl would have been better IMO.
Not terribly much, still I'd recommend you start with The Hobbit, then progress to LotR and finish with the Silmarillion to get all background details. If you're not satisfied then, start digging through the History of Middle Earth series to see how Tolkien's work developed...
I also think this order shows nicely how the third age stories progress from a friendly, adventurous, almost for-kids setting at the beginning of the Hobbit to the dark and looming atmosphere of some LotR chapters.
Compare the arrival in Rivendell in The Hobbit with the same scene in LotR to see what I mean. In the first one, the elves are merry foold jumping through the trees, in the second one they're the solemn warriors you'd expect after the Silmarillion history.
Katz, btw, is full of shit.
Yeah, go ahead, mod me down. I don't care about my Karma.
Yup. It's called pay-thousands-of-dollars-for-equipment-or-get-tota lly-crappy-quality, and it's one that really seems to work.
I don't see much merit in that method of copying...
Meep. Wrong answer. The copyright holder can rip whatever the fuck they want.
Just like Linus Torvalds can sell you a binary-only Linux version or Hans Reiser can do commercial versions of reiserfs.
Well, ASCII art looks really dumb if you're not using "Plain Old Text" mode...
fr1st p0st would have been better.
I bet it was the Russians, trying to avenge what you people did to Dmitry Skylarov...
You'd better thank whatever you believe in that their weapons arsenal had a decade to rot since Soviet times.
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