Comment Re:Hemos Says: "So Long, and Thanks For All The Fi (Score 1) 1521
It is by far my biggest regret in life. I've been so depressed about it I've only managed to post one other time since 2003.
Comment Re:Absolutely nothing. (Score 1) 415
This is exactly how I felt about a lot of recent "vigilantism", either online or in real life. It's too soul crushing for me to believe that there aren't great leaders out there who do understand human behavior. The idea that you need to treat the cause and not the symptoms seems lost on most people and that makes me sad.
Submission + - Fullscreen applications or window managers? 1
larppaxyz writes: Going back in time, when 14" displays and 1024x768 resolution were big deal we really didn't have choice but to run our applications fullscreen/maximized. You just could not fit enough text and UI elements to small window. Displays and resolutions got better and we still are running our browsers, text editors and utilities maximized. Our mobile phones and tablets have UI's that are minimalistic with big and clear buttons and common tasks are replaced with gestures. Is this trend coming to desktop computer UI's also? Do you like old school window managers more than full screen applications? Does it feel easier to just switch current application instead on moving around windows? Is it just issue with our current window managers we are using (or not using)? What does this all mean to UI desing in future?
Comment Re:Allergic reaction to MySQL (Score 4, Informative) 271
Teradata and the other big relational db products (vertical, greenplum, etc) are all _analytical_ databases, designed for small amounts of complex queries, where adding new data to the system takes minutes if not hours. They are completely unsuitable for running a live application against.
Comment There is no "separate file access for each column" (Score 1) 271
No idea where you got that particular piece of misinformation.
Comment Re:wow... (Score 1) 541
Uhhh...
Steam is one of the biggest DRM lock-in distribution systems ever invented.
That doesn't make it good or bad, but are you sure you know what you're talking about here?
Avoiding a Digital Dark Age 287
al0ha writes to recommend a worthwhile piece up at American Scientist on the problems of archiving and data preservation in an age where all data are stored digitally. "It seems unavoidable that most of the data in our future will be digital, so it behooves us to understand how to manage and preserve digital data so we can avoid what some have called the 'digital dark age.' This is the idea — or fear! — that if we cannot learn to explicitly save our digital data, we will lose that data and, with it, the record that future generations might use to remember and understand us. ... Unlike the many venerable institutions that have for centuries refined their techniques for preserving analog data on clay, stone, ceramic or paper, we have no corresponding reservoir of historical wisdom to teach us how to save our digital data. That does not mean there is nothing to learn from the past, only that we must work a little harder to find it."
Comment DMCA and Buy Something Else (Score 4, Insightful) 965
What we should be doing is trying to get the DMCA overturned; It is the bane of the tinker. It's ironic because I'm guessing many of the people working on this stuff over at Apple got interested in computers because of the creativity they could express by hacking away at computers.
I should say though, that Apple is not the only company in town creating hardware, I mean honestly a lot of these articles seem to make some leap at some point about how Apple is representative of all hardware manufacturers, when I think that's just not true. They create some stylish products, people buy them, and then they miss out on hacking the hardware. If people really want the option to hack the hardware, don't buy this locked down crap. It's not like Apple is the only game in town, they live off this spotlight everyone creates for them. Just get that less stylish piece of hardware that offers tons of customization and hopefully at some point Apple will have to learn what they should be doing.
I should say though, that Apple is not the only company in town creating hardware, I mean honestly a lot of these articles seem to make some leap at some point about how Apple is representative of all hardware manufacturers, when I think that's just not true. They create some stylish products, people buy them, and then they miss out on hacking the hardware. If people really want the option to hack the hardware, don't buy this locked down crap. It's not like Apple is the only game in town, they live off this spotlight everyone creates for them. Just get that less stylish piece of hardware that offers tons of customization and hopefully at some point Apple will have to learn what they should be doing.
Comment Nice spin (Score 1) 209
But any time Congress does something like this, it's really about protecting the pork.
I'm sure the Constellation has parts built in all 50 states so everybody get's a piece of the action.
Comment Re:Since when is THAT a crime? (Score 2, Funny) 138
I'm sorry, but you lost me at, "If Hollywood has taught me anything about the Judiciary system,"
Because if Hollywood has taught me anything about the judicial system, it's that attorneys in criminal courts are people who are better looking than people you meet in real life, crime scene videos are infinitely zoomable so you can see the killer's microscopic tattoos, that judges like you to give a mini-criminal procedure lecture every time you make an objection, and that juries are actually impressed by grandstanding.
Comment Use it as a media viewer (Score 1) 416
I have all my music, movies and TV shows on a Linux server running TwonkyMedia which streams them. As long as the audio and video are encoded in a format that the 360 can decode, the 360 can see your TwonkyMedia server and play anything from it. I have a PS3 as well as a 360 Elite and both work excellently as a media center for Twonky. I actually play games on the PS3 as well and am looking to sell my 360.
Comment Re:Krugman's prognostication skills aren't all tha (Score 1) 127
It makes them feel better. Having your preconceived notions of how things work proven wrong is hard and makes your head hurt.
Comment Re:Krugman's prognostication skills aren't all tha (Score 1) 127
There were economic policies that he supported when the Clinton Administration proposed them and opposed when the Bush Administration proposed them.
I'd love for you to give some specific examples.
Comment Re:why doesn't anyone understand apple (Score 1) 475
Why is the eject button for the ipod so tiny when compared to the Sync button? yet it's constantly nagging about my having to eject the ipod.
So weird... One wonders if Apple has ever done any usability analysis of their software.
Comment Could it be Attention Deficit Disorder? (Score 1) 601
A lot of developers suffer from ADD. Like right now I'm reading
ADD impacts you when the task seems overwhelming or requires too much thought. Instead of working on it, you'll find something else to do to keep busy.
Now you can get diagnoses by a doctor and start taking the pills and that's supposed to help.
The other thing to do is to try to break it down into smaller tasks that you can focus on without getting bored. Obviously this works better if you have someone who can help with this.
I have the same problem, I have something I want to do, know what I want to do, am really excited by it, but can't focus on it.
