Rather than bemoan the direction Apple is taking, some of us are just happy to watch them head there.
Apple is turning into a 'shiney thing' consumer electronics manufacturer.
What was that Jobs said to Scully about selling sugar water to kids? I thought of it immediately when I saw the first iTunes promotional bottle cap on my Mountain Dew.
Well, what if the source code of the BIOS your machine uses was compromised? How about the firmware in your hard drive? Let's not even go into the code in the wireless router that sits RIGHT ON YOUR HOME NETWORK.
You've filed away copies of the signoff cover pages from the code audit reports on all of the above, I presume.
Well, presumably (and it continues to be more and more of a stretch to think so) Apple is also in the desktop PC business.... So they're still battling against the Microsoft behemoth. At least in that slice of their business. Maybe you're right. Maybe it's not very important any more to Apple.
I hope you didn't jeopardize your employer's business relationship with a client (apparently an important client if they sent someone as important as YOU there) by using SSH on their wires for anything trivial.
Someone has to break the cycle. And you can bet your ass that it won't be the users. It's your job. It's mine. After all we're the experts for a reason.
Err, fuck you. You're the data janitor. Your job is to store and organize and present the information. It's other people in the organization's job to create and use the information. You're a flipping high tech file clerk. Nobody cares that you're advocating the latest new Rolodex. Nobody fricking cares that there's a cool new DayPlanner out. We know, we know. Your red stapler is really really cool. And you're leading edge.
And when your employer finds out you have a netbook there, maybe you can hang out in the coffee shop and show it off to all your friends. While you peruse Monster and Dice looking for your next job.
If they can get past the firewall. And then there's the fact that for some of these organizations, there are vigorous active enforcement agencies to take care of said 'blackhat hackers.' Really, you don't want to casually hack around in a DOD network. Stick to messing up those PHP-based game sites, kiddies.
Somebody needs to bust out the teeth of a whole lot of the self-styled 'web designers' out there.
I mean, really. You're NOT a designer. You're not a programmer. You're not an engineer.
My mom was a Church Secretary for many years. She typed the bulletin every week, and the newsletter every month onto stencils. For the mimeograph machine to print.
That's what you're doing, web 'designers.' Deal with it. You're an information delivery clerk. Get outta the way of the information.
And we're all eager to enable whatever DRM Microsoft deems to push onto our computers. In the form of 'updates.' Oh joy.
Yes, we're really eager for that, and it's good that the self styled experts at Slashdot agree that it's in our best interest to bend over and smile whenever Redmond chooses to install whatever they wish.
You probably spent too much time making it 'look good' and should concentrate on presentation that gracefully folds back to reveal the page's content. Are the overlapping boxes decoration, or is it more content?
The layout can't be 'broken' if the layout isn't part of the content. Why are you leveraging the layout to be part of the content? Does it need to be?
These questions need to be asked at a very basic level. Many people fancy themselves as 'designers' when they should focus on delivering the information that their clients want instead.
And keep the page simple, because that tends to look better on all browsers.
That's the crux of it. But people get their egos all wrapped up in doing heavy formatting of pages, presumably because they don't understand the concept of HTML and the WWW whatsoever.
Let it go, 'designers.' You're delivering information. You're the modern equivalent of the file clerk behind that half-door. Jackson up on the third floor need the file on the Heillman Account. Snap snap. Get to it.
An upgrade from IE6 to IE7, IE8 or Firefox can be had from Microsoft / Mozilla Foundation
I agree with you regarding Mozilla. However, there are those of us who refuse to ever give Microsoft another cent, who are still using Windows 2000 for our 'doze boxes. I never intend to use a legal or illegal copy of XP or any of the other drek they have published. I'm just waiting for them to die instead. So I cannot 'upgrade' from Internet Explorer 6. It would not be a free 'upgrade.'
I use SeaMonkey on NetBSD mostly instead, of course, so the point is moot.
The real result is that geolocation filters will become more prevalent,
Bingo. It isn't hard to localize content, and the porn websites will be glad to do this. It could actually lower their cost to do business. Believe me, when a 16 year old kid comes into the adult bookstore, the proprietor wants nothing to do with them.
One of the problems with establishing a realistic community standard is that most people don't want to go on record and say they watch lots of pr0n, or buy sex toys; so the community standard comes out artificially low.
Believe it or not (I know which choice you'll make) there are communities where few people buy porn or sex toys.
I know that from where you come that probably just doesn't make sense at all.
I go to many websites that localize the ads on them. Right down to using the name of the small town I live near in the ad copy. To me, this demonstrates that content can easily be localized by the server delivering it. It wouldn't be automatic, and it wouldn't be free, but since it's viable for display ads on web pages, it shouldn't be too costly, I wouldn't think, for commercial porn sites to implement.
So yes. Every website that pushes out potentially infringing content would have to set up blacklists/whitelists. It sounds like a viable business plan to me. I would imagine the porn sites would love to just have a system in place that keeps the lawyers off their backs. They want to sell porn to customers, not have to worry about legal stuff.
My impression has been that PayPal is kind of like a reverse-lottery.
In a Lottery, everybody knows a bunch of people who have bought lottery tickets and lost. They may have heard of one or two people who 'won big' in the lottery.
With PayPal, just about everybody who has ever used PayPal has successfully used it to pay for something and had no problems whatsoever. But they've also heard about one or two 'losers' and their horror stories.
Most regular people don't place a lot of trust in PayPal, but use it successfully to engage in small transactions, i.e. to buy inexpensive collectables on eBay.
And there are a few very very bitter people who will NEVER stop hating PayPal because they screwed something up and PayPal proved rather unforgiving.
That's just the deal. When someone comes into a forum like this screaming bloody murder about what a horrible mess PayPal is, all the regular folks who've had no problem with it just end up thinking "are they nuts?" And then they move along. Because there are net-cranks everywhere online, and you just have to expect it.
Go ahead and rant about PayPal. It just lowers your credibility with the rest of us. And we ARE the majority at this time. We'll figure it out if PayPal ever really goes sour in enough time to get out.
Landfills? You still throw AA batteries in the landfill?
I save mine up. Because we go on a backpacking trip to the BWCA (Boundary Waters Canoe Area) each year, and I like to pack in a whole heap of them to dump at the headwaters of the Brule River. Nobody ever seems to find them and the brook trout love using the piles of eroding battery cells as a place to hide.
But if you don't do backpacking, it's okay to throw them in any nearby body of water. Don't use lead acid cells. The chemistry isn't as complex and interesting.
Agreed. AAA batteries in my Palm III are the way to go.
My Newton has a broken battery door. If you look closely, you'll notice some rather 'elegant' design in the battery door of the early Newton. So elegant that it's broken on probably every example still in existence. Apple just doesn't do good battery compartments. They don't even try any more.
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I have a cell phone. It's a Tracfone and it sits on my desk at home.
We use it when we go out of town on trips sometimes.
Rather than bemoan the direction Apple is taking, some of us are just happy to watch them head there.
Apple is turning into a 'shiney thing' consumer electronics manufacturer.
What was that Jobs said to Scully about selling sugar water to kids? I thought of it immediately when I saw the first iTunes promotional bottle cap on my Mountain Dew.
Well, what if the source code of the BIOS your machine uses was compromised? How about the firmware in your hard drive? Let's not even go into the code in the wireless router that sits RIGHT ON YOUR HOME NETWORK.
You've filed away copies of the signoff cover pages from the code audit reports on all of the above, I presume.
Also, they're fucked because Slashdot has put it on apple.slashdot.org and not the yro.slashdot.org domain.
Go at it, fanbois. This is yer turf.
Well, presumably (and it continues to be more and more of a stretch to think so) Apple is also in the desktop PC business.... So they're still battling against the Microsoft behemoth. At least in that slice of their business. Maybe you're right. Maybe it's not very important any more to Apple.
They intentionally deviated from HTML standards to cause incompatibilities with other browsers,
You're talking about Netscape, right? And the non-standard crap they put in their browsers in order to leverage and sell their servers. Right?
I hope you didn't jeopardize your employer's business relationship with a client (apparently an important client if they sent someone as important as YOU there) by using SSH on their wires for anything trivial.
Someone has to break the cycle. And you can bet your ass that it won't be the users. It's your job. It's mine. After all we're the experts for a reason.
Err, fuck you. You're the data janitor. Your job is to store and organize and present the information. It's other people in the organization's job to create and use the information. You're a flipping high tech file clerk. Nobody cares that you're advocating the latest new Rolodex. Nobody fricking cares that there's a cool new DayPlanner out. We know, we know. Your red stapler is really really cool. And you're leading edge.
And when your employer finds out you have a netbook there, maybe you can hang out in the coffee shop and show it off to all your friends. While you peruse Monster and Dice looking for your next job.
If they can get past the firewall. And then there's the fact that for some of these organizations, there are vigorous active enforcement agencies to take care of said 'blackhat hackers.' Really, you don't want to casually hack around in a DOD network. Stick to messing up those PHP-based game sites, kiddies.
Somebody needs to bust out the teeth of a whole lot of the self-styled 'web designers' out there.
I mean, really. You're NOT a designer. You're not a programmer. You're not an engineer.
My mom was a Church Secretary for many years. She typed the bulletin every week, and the newsletter every month onto stencils. For the mimeograph machine to print.
That's what you're doing, web 'designers.' Deal with it. You're an information delivery clerk. Get outta the way of the information.
And we're all eager to enable whatever DRM Microsoft deems to push onto our computers. In the form of 'updates.' Oh joy.
Yes, we're really eager for that, and it's good that the self styled experts at Slashdot agree that it's in our best interest to bend over and smile whenever Redmond chooses to install whatever they wish.
You probably spent too much time making it 'look good' and should concentrate on presentation that gracefully folds back to reveal the page's content. Are the overlapping boxes decoration, or is it more content?
The layout can't be 'broken' if the layout isn't part of the content. Why are you leveraging the layout to be part of the content? Does it need to be?
These questions need to be asked at a very basic level. Many people fancy themselves as 'designers' when they should focus on delivering the information that their clients want instead.
And keep the page simple, because that tends to look better on all browsers.
That's the crux of it. But people get their egos all wrapped up in doing heavy formatting of pages, presumably because they don't understand the concept of HTML and the WWW whatsoever.
Let it go, 'designers.' You're delivering information. You're the modern equivalent of the file clerk behind that half-door. Jackson up on the third floor need the file on the Heillman Account. Snap snap. Get to it.
An upgrade from IE6 to IE7, IE8 or Firefox can be had from Microsoft / Mozilla Foundation
I agree with you regarding Mozilla. However, there are those of us who refuse to ever give Microsoft another cent, who are still using Windows 2000 for our 'doze boxes. I never intend to use a legal or illegal copy of XP or any of the other drek they have published. I'm just waiting for them to die instead. So I cannot 'upgrade' from Internet Explorer 6. It would not be a free 'upgrade.'
I use SeaMonkey on NetBSD mostly instead, of course, so the point is moot.
The real result is that geolocation filters will become more prevalent,
Bingo. It isn't hard to localize content, and the porn websites will be glad to do this. It could actually lower their cost to do business. Believe me, when a 16 year old kid comes into the adult bookstore, the proprietor wants nothing to do with them.
One of the problems with establishing a realistic community standard is that most people don't want to go on record and say they watch lots of pr0n, or buy sex toys; so the community standard comes out artificially low.
Believe it or not (I know which choice you'll make) there are communities where few people buy porn or sex toys.
I know that from where you come that probably just doesn't make sense at all.
But you should try to deal with it.
I go to many websites that localize the ads on them. Right down to using the name of the small town I live near in the ad copy. To me, this demonstrates that content can easily be localized by the server delivering it. It wouldn't be automatic, and it wouldn't be free, but since it's viable for display ads on web pages, it shouldn't be too costly, I wouldn't think, for commercial porn sites to implement.
So yes. Every website that pushes out potentially infringing content would have to set up blacklists/whitelists. It sounds like a viable business plan to me. I would imagine the porn sites would love to just have a system in place that keeps the lawyers off their backs. They want to sell porn to customers, not have to worry about legal stuff.
My impression has been that PayPal is kind of like a reverse-lottery.
In a Lottery, everybody knows a bunch of people who have bought lottery tickets and lost. They may have heard of one or two people who 'won big' in the lottery.
With PayPal, just about everybody who has ever used PayPal has successfully used it to pay for something and had no problems whatsoever. But they've also heard about one or two 'losers' and their horror stories.
Most regular people don't place a lot of trust in PayPal, but use it successfully to engage in small transactions, i.e. to buy inexpensive collectables on eBay.
And there are a few very very bitter people who will NEVER stop hating PayPal because they screwed something up and PayPal proved rather unforgiving.
That's just the deal. When someone comes into a forum like this screaming bloody murder about what a horrible mess PayPal is, all the regular folks who've had no problem with it just end up thinking "are they nuts?" And then they move along. Because there are net-cranks everywhere online, and you just have to expect it.
Go ahead and rant about PayPal. It just lowers your credibility with the rest of us. And we ARE the majority at this time. We'll figure it out if PayPal ever really goes sour in enough time to get out.
Isn't the purpose of the state for it to be something to wave your fist at and carry placards around protesting?
You mean I can't stay in college forever??
Landfills? You still throw AA batteries in the landfill?
I save mine up. Because we go on a backpacking trip to the BWCA (Boundary Waters Canoe Area) each year, and I like to pack in a whole heap of them to dump at the headwaters of the Brule River. Nobody ever seems to find them and the brook trout love using the piles of eroding battery cells as a place to hide.
But if you don't do backpacking, it's okay to throw them in any nearby body of water. Don't use lead acid cells. The chemistry isn't as complex and interesting.
Agreed. AAA batteries in my Palm III are the way to go.
My Newton has a broken battery door. If you look closely, you'll notice some rather 'elegant' design in the battery door of the early Newton. So elegant that it's broken on probably every example still in existence. Apple just doesn't do good battery compartments. They don't even try any more.
Or, maybe they made a deal with Microsoft. Such deals have been common in the past.
And as you're a well-known Microsoft advocate here (employee?) I wouldn't expect you to mention something like that, or even imply it.
needing a GUI
It's a security feature. It keeps people from being able to do anything on the server without a keyboard/monitor/mouse.
Also sells more KVM switches to datacenters. Always a good thing, no?
I mis-named it 'tinys.zip' in part of the above comment.