My high school had a computer teacher who taught what amounted to the entire first year of my college CS degree over the course of 2 years. Started in BASIC for the first week, then moved to VB for the rest of the year, at which it switched over to C++. Those were the best classes I ever took, and I wish that the rest of my experience in the CS discipline was the same. Here's to you, Mrs. Davis!
Seems like it would be even easier to just not have dropped support for those formats in the first place. Not everyone is as smart as you or I, there are a lot of older adults who view computers as black boxes, and they're too set in their ways to want to change. What makes you think that someone who can barely install programs is going to think to save an old file in a newer format?
Which means these people have access to someone who has the knowledge to change the default values. They have access to a 19-year-old relative. Or they did, until I swore off supporting Microsoft software forever because of Vista. The point was that they were using more up to date operating systems with older files... but looking back at the thread, I realize that I totally messed up when I tried to explain that, so my apologies. What I was *trying* to say was that there are lots of files stored in legacy formats, and it's a really dumb idea to suddenly stop supporting them without any warning.
I find it more amazing people are using buggy 10 year old software. It was never that great to begin with with XP being a vast improvement! No argument with you there man.
Ahhhh.... in the last year I've twice transferred documents from Windows 95-era computers to new machines running XP and vista. Both of them had files that easily dated back to 1997 if not earlier.
There's a lot of legacy shit out there that people still use, and if it suddenly stops working for the home users, without an explanation, that's just a stupid idea.
When gp talked about corporations as an entity, he was referring to the people in the corporations to make software policy. So you aren't stupid, the people above you are.
Do you have any idea how depressed I am to see a Snow Crash reference countered by a MMORPG joke?
You could have at least made the connection to L. Bob Rife.
Hmm, you'll give up your weekends off then? After all, it was the unions that bled for those.
I normally would never use the word "ungrateful" as an insult, but when I hear union detractors talk, I'm sorely tempted. Mind you, I'm not saying that unions are perfect, but what you don't seem to realize is that corporations have 1 single goal: to make money. They're beholden to their investors, not their employees. Striking gives us a way to ensure that our voices are heard alongside those of the stockholders.
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Whoa, mods, think about this one. GP's a troll, parent is bringing up a good point.
Damn, if you're gonna mod me down, at least use a modifier that makes sense. Offtopic? I'm replying to a troll, and I'm talking about trolls. Sounds pretty damn relevant to me.
I've gotta say, it's comforting to see this again. It felt weird to not have to quickly tab down a few times so that bystanders wouldn't think I was reading about eating someone elses fecal matter.
I, for one, am glad to welcome back "Mr. eating-shit-troll" back into the Slashdot fold.
Shit man, those of us on the left are just as outraged as anyone. If anything, more so. Those are my memories that they say are inappropriate for children. I wasn't allowed to watch anything but PBS when I was a child, and to think that that stuff is now classified as adult is just ridiculous.
You shouldn't blame this on the left any more than you should blame the right for those few idiots who say that Bert and Ernie are gay.
In short: douche-baggery knows no political party.
We're fortunate that the kind of people who host bittorrent sites(i.e. tpb) are very likely to scorn any changes like this in the.torrent format.
This is an area where the/. community holds the power to affect this outcome. If everyone on/./digg/everyotherinternetcommunity swore to never host a.p2p file, how successful would the format be?
How about we just fund civilian programs like they should be, and fund this by taking it from the money that the military would use to buy that set of nukes?
Because in this case, we're dealing with an officer of the law, someone who is given legal rights beyond everyday citizens. Simply put, police officers should never be allowed to say "I'm sorry, I fucked up, have a nice day". People with that much power should be watched and punished if they try to abuse it, and in this case, it seems as if the cop just decided to exercise their power for no reason, and then punish the victim when it became apparent that the cop was in the wrong.
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My high school had a computer teacher who taught what amounted to the entire first year of my college CS degree over the course of 2 years. Started in BASIC for the first week, then moved to VB for the rest of the year, at which it switched over to C++. Those were the best classes I ever took, and I wish that the rest of my experience in the CS discipline was the same. Here's to you, Mrs. Davis!
I might actually have agreed with the point you were making, but I was too busy being disgusted by the way you used "lol".
You won't find any argument from me about how it *should* be, but the way Microsoft implemented it is crap.
Seems like it would be even easier to just not have dropped support for those formats in the first place.
Not everyone is as smart as you or I, there are a lot of older adults who view computers as black boxes, and they're too set in their ways to want to change. What makes you think that someone who can barely install programs is going to think to save an old file in a newer format?
Ahhhh.... in the last year I've twice transferred documents from Windows 95-era computers to new machines running XP and vista. Both of them had files that easily dated back to 1997 if not earlier. There's a lot of legacy shit out there that people still use, and if it suddenly stops working for the home users, without an explanation, that's just a stupid idea.
Wow man, seems like the mods don't understand sarcasm. That sucks that you got down-modded for that.
When gp talked about corporations as an entity, he was referring to the people in the corporations to make software policy. So you aren't stupid, the people above you are.
Parent is warning about fake link in the GP. How exactly is this offtopic?
Do you have any idea how depressed I am to see a Snow Crash reference countered by a MMORPG joke? You could have at least made the connection to L. Bob Rife.
scruffy seconds.
Hmm, you'll give up your weekends off then? After all, it was the unions that bled for those. I normally would never use the word "ungrateful" as an insult, but when I hear union detractors talk, I'm sorely tempted. Mind you, I'm not saying that unions are perfect, but what you don't seem to realize is that corporations have 1 single goal: to make money. They're beholden to their investors, not their employees. Striking gives us a way to ensure that our voices are heard alongside those of the stockholders.
Whoa, mods, think about this one. GP's a troll, parent is bringing up a good point.
Damn, if you're gonna mod me down, at least use a modifier that makes sense. Offtopic? I'm replying to a troll, and I'm talking about trolls. Sounds pretty damn relevant to me.
I've gotta say, it's comforting to see this again. It felt weird to not have to quickly tab down a few times so that bystanders wouldn't think I was reading about eating someone elses fecal matter. I, for one, am glad to welcome back "Mr. eating-shit-troll" back into the Slashdot fold.
How could we 'fsck /mnt/zh/' if we pulled the plug?
Shit man, those of us on the left are just as outraged as anyone. If anything, more so. Those are my memories that they say are inappropriate for children. I wasn't allowed to watch anything but PBS when I was a child, and to think that that stuff is now classified as adult is just ridiculous. You shouldn't blame this on the left any more than you should blame the right for those few idiots who say that Bert and Ernie are gay. In short: douche-baggery knows no political party.
touche
Honestly, I'm not sure I'm going to trust some guy with a soviet russia quote in his .sig.
I jest, I jest.
We're fortunate that the kind of people who host bittorrent sites(i.e. tpb) are very likely to scorn any changes like this in the .torrent format.
This is an area where the /. community holds the power to affect this outcome. If everyone on /./digg/everyotherinternetcommunity swore to never host a .p2p file, how successful would the format be?
What about those of us who have goatees?
How about we just fund civilian programs like they should be, and fund this by taking it from the money that the military would use to buy that set of nukes?
Perhaps you meant to say "croverlords"?
Try RTFA, the store did *not* call the police, it was the shopper who called, because the manager wouldn't let him leave the parking lot.
Because in this case, we're dealing with an officer of the law, someone who is given legal rights beyond everyday citizens. Simply put, police officers should never be allowed to say "I'm sorry, I fucked up, have a nice day". People with that much power should be watched and punished if they try to abuse it, and in this case, it seems as if the cop just decided to exercise their power for no reason, and then punish the victim when it became apparent that the cop was in the wrong.