How much different would these comments look if the article were about Apple and (new iDevice)? I'm guessing the f-bomb would be dropped much less frequently.
There have been other attempts to measure certain populations like plankton, so this is not the baseline for this census, but a confirmation when added to other studies that build a picture of a decline over time.
A census is an attempt to measure the populace. You can measure as much as you can, then guess at the rest, which is what every population census tries to do. (We measured X immigrants, and we know that's not all of them, but with reasonable certaintly we can assume there are between W and Y immigrants).
I stopped using OOo. It's slow, I constantly encounter compatiblity issues with simple documents moving back to Office and so on. I used to mention OpenOffice to people and they'd say wow, free Office? Now I mention OpenOffice to people and they say yeah, my dad uses it and I'd rather have MSOffice. Even the OpenOffice website is very unappealing. If you click "I want to learn more", your only options for user types are Business and Government and so on. What about "90% of our userbase that just wants a word processor that doesn't cost $100"? And the whole page is BOLDED walls OF TEXT. That's REALLY pretty horrible DESIGN. Ugh. Get it together, people.
Batten the hatches, we're running negative karma! Bloat is creeping into all development, and it makes me mad. MS scarily enough seem to be the only developer fighting it (or, not getting exponentially worse at it, just creeping up in linear fashion). Most new Linux OSs are more bloated than Vista- even Slackware is falling in line just tossing together all the latest versions of stuff and coming across as a totally generic package in the process. The leanest, meanest, while still being full-featured and stable OS is... Windows 7. OpenOffice is so bloated that I just type stuff in WordPad or Notepad and format it at work. Firefox takes so long to scan just a handful of plugins that I don't load it at all unless I have to run a specific plugin, so I use Chrome. Now Chrome's going to start throwing in useless features because they're the hot new stuff, while basic features lag behind. Thanks, PC dev community, you're slowly convincing me that Microsoft and Closed Source are the way of the future.
Yes, all these Android flavors spoil the platform, but not in the way most people are pointing to. Personally, I think the problem is that stock droid sucks. Stock droid sucks especially hard considering I can only get Droid X (I accept no substitute) bundled with a ton of Verizon bloatware that keeps running no matter how often I shut it down and I'm sure it's broadcasting my location information and lots of stuff. And the default launcher is slow, fairly ugly, and not entirely stable. LauncherPro is everything the stock launcher should be, but it bugs me constantly with pop-ups about paid features. If stock droid would learn more from the droid community, the droid brand would be faring better. Spending $200 on a phone just to hear "everything on your phone sucks- download these dozen programs to patch it up"... sucks.
I know it won't stem the tide, but this is good research. I'm sure there are a million other algorithms in the world that can benefit from this. Shortcuts they had to invent to make sure they were using minimal processing time, full understanding of how much money and time it really took to get this process done to make other projects more practical, etc etc. This sort of thinking, even if silly on its own, has a broad range of applications.
I wonder how many Apple users are desperately trying to find an excuse for Jobs' decisions when including flash on a mobile device really isn't that big of a deal, and as with the article, you can load the flash in a stopped state so it doesn't affect performance if you don't want it.
But you're commiting just as deep of a fallacy. We only need two liftoffs to colonize another planet, maybe one. One robot or skeleton mission to terraform / lay down storage container labs. One to transport people (or ideally for colonization, women and sperm samples, or robot wombs, but here comes handwavium). We could do them both in one go, but I think the two mission model works out better.
Mostly correct. I'm all for episodic content- Commander Keen and DOOM were great for this back in the day. (Yeah, episodic content was totally invented in the late 2000s by Valve). But there is, and should continue to be, a proper place for actually buying a game and owning it. The new trend of being able to digitally purchase and download games, for example, is great- but once I own the game, the company shouldn't be able to take it back at a later date, for any reson.
Already posted, actually. So data points we have: Black boxes point to driver error. In virtually all known cases, there was absolutely no evidence that the driver was doing anything to stop the car. A few reports said the driver claimed to be on the brakes, but most showed that people's brains had shut off so that even if a 911 dispatcher was on a cell phone with them while they were hurtling out of control, they refused to comply with simple commands to try and stop the car. This exact scenario has happened before, for similar reasons, and everything points to the Toyota case being the same as Audi- including "fat-foot" Americans being the only ones experiencing issues even though cars with the same electronics overseas are just fine. Also, undoubtedly, America's Big 3 auto makers are adding fuel to the fire trying to regain market share as they recover. Yeah, one side of the debate stacks up better than the other at this point.
"As part of a settlement with CREW over missing Bush administration e-mails, the White House assured the watchdog that its system prevents employees from accessing personal e-mail accounts."
So what the White House actually promised was to try and put up a firewall, and people are jumping the firewall. It also promised that, if anyone made a FOIA-style request about goings-on that should have been on the record, that it would respond quickly and without being a douche about it. So, if there was a breach that they tried to prevent, it's now up to them to respond appropriately, and we're still inside a reasonable time to service this request, right?
Sounds like normal business for any company, so long as the people responsible for oversight weren't among the offenders.
Er, the texts of bills are always available online though, and you can read them, in fact I often do. Not that I'm opposing the rabble rabble vote them out thing.
This isn't bait and switch- this is clearly STEVE JOBS' ORIGINAL VISION! Only now has technology caught up to his masterful insight, such that the product and the plans he always envisioned can be offered together!
So the question as to whether or not something is open-source is resolved by trying to figure out what license(s) you can use it under. Yeah, that's everything I currently feel about the open source community in a nutshell. (and yes, I do know what I'm saying there)
I think he would have admitted to pure selfishness on this point- see his speech before congress. However, he meant that the author should keep the copyright, not the publisher. The publisher would continue to make money as a necessity, but the profit would stay with the author('s family). He would have still opposed, I think, Disney making money off Mickey Mouse forever, instead of the people and families who animated him.
"...and takes the view that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel". Mark Twain, 1835 to 1910. World War I, 1914 to 1918. Imagine if work like this would have been taken seriously back then.
In my area, I have two options for internet service: 1) Pay Comcast $60+ for a connection that flakes out constantly, is monitored and throttled, goes out during peak usage, and is subject to change without notice. 2) Pay ATT $20+ for a dry-loop DSL that only goes out for one day every six months or so, but otherwise works as advertised. Either way, screw cable ($60+/mo for freaking TV? You gotta be kidding me! People actually pay that!?), I stream and Netflix all my viewing.
Wait, what's that? The invisible hand of the markets actually doesn't police itself? Man, it's almost like I've heard this somewhere before. It's on the tip of my tongue. C'mon, what was it? Enron? Exxon Valdez? Goldman-Sachs? Bear Sterns? GM? Massey? No, that's not quite right... BP? I hate it when this happens!
In other news, my wife and her mom just walked up and watched the full-body scanning for a while the other day until a TSA goon screamed obscenities and threatened to have them arrested. Totally secure though.
Precisely. Maybe the Nexus One is vastly superior at tracing circles. Neither of these results would say anything whatsoever about how the phone actually performs in click detection.
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How much different would these comments look if the article were about Apple and (new iDevice)? I'm guessing the f-bomb would be dropped much less frequently.
Er, this IS the baseline for this census, you can see where I'm going.
There have been other attempts to measure certain populations like plankton, so this is not the baseline for this census, but a confirmation when added to other studies that build a picture of a decline over time.
A census is an attempt to measure the populace. You can measure as much as you can, then guess at the rest, which is what every population census tries to do. (We measured X immigrants, and we know that's not all of them, but with reasonable certaintly we can assume there are between W and Y immigrants).
I stopped using OOo. It's slow, I constantly encounter compatiblity issues with simple documents moving back to Office and so on. I used to mention OpenOffice to people and they'd say wow, free Office? Now I mention OpenOffice to people and they say yeah, my dad uses it and I'd rather have MSOffice. Even the OpenOffice website is very unappealing. If you click "I want to learn more", your only options for user types are Business and Government and so on. What about "90% of our userbase that just wants a word processor that doesn't cost $100"? And the whole page is BOLDED walls OF TEXT. That's REALLY pretty horrible DESIGN. Ugh. Get it together, people.
Batten the hatches, we're running negative karma! Bloat is creeping into all development, and it makes me mad. MS scarily enough seem to be the only developer fighting it (or, not getting exponentially worse at it, just creeping up in linear fashion). Most new Linux OSs are more bloated than Vista- even Slackware is falling in line just tossing together all the latest versions of stuff and coming across as a totally generic package in the process. The leanest, meanest, while still being full-featured and stable OS is... Windows 7. OpenOffice is so bloated that I just type stuff in WordPad or Notepad and format it at work. Firefox takes so long to scan just a handful of plugins that I don't load it at all unless I have to run a specific plugin, so I use Chrome. Now Chrome's going to start throwing in useless features because they're the hot new stuff, while basic features lag behind. Thanks, PC dev community, you're slowly convincing me that Microsoft and Closed Source are the way of the future.
Yes, all these Android flavors spoil the platform, but not in the way most people are pointing to. Personally, I think the problem is that stock droid sucks. Stock droid sucks especially hard considering I can only get Droid X (I accept no substitute) bundled with a ton of Verizon bloatware that keeps running no matter how often I shut it down and I'm sure it's broadcasting my location information and lots of stuff. And the default launcher is slow, fairly ugly, and not entirely stable. LauncherPro is everything the stock launcher should be, but it bugs me constantly with pop-ups about paid features. If stock droid would learn more from the droid community, the droid brand would be faring better. Spending $200 on a phone just to hear "everything on your phone sucks- download these dozen programs to patch it up"... sucks.
I know it won't stem the tide, but this is good research. I'm sure there are a million other algorithms in the world that can benefit from this. Shortcuts they had to invent to make sure they were using minimal processing time, full understanding of how much money and time it really took to get this process done to make other projects more practical, etc etc. This sort of thinking, even if silly on its own, has a broad range of applications.
I wonder how many Apple users are desperately trying to find an excuse for Jobs' decisions when including flash on a mobile device really isn't that big of a deal, and as with the article, you can load the flash in a stopped state so it doesn't affect performance if you don't want it.
But you're commiting just as deep of a fallacy. We only need two liftoffs to colonize another planet, maybe one. One robot or skeleton mission to terraform / lay down storage container labs. One to transport people (or ideally for colonization, women and sperm samples, or robot wombs, but here comes handwavium). We could do them both in one go, but I think the two mission model works out better.
Mostly correct. I'm all for episodic content- Commander Keen and DOOM were great for this back in the day. (Yeah, episodic content was totally invented in the late 2000s by Valve). But there is, and should continue to be, a proper place for actually buying a game and owning it. The new trend of being able to digitally purchase and download games, for example, is great- but once I own the game, the company shouldn't be able to take it back at a later date, for any reson.
Already posted, actually. So data points we have: Black boxes point to driver error. In virtually all known cases, there was absolutely no evidence that the driver was doing anything to stop the car. A few reports said the driver claimed to be on the brakes, but most showed that people's brains had shut off so that even if a 911 dispatcher was on a cell phone with them while they were hurtling out of control, they refused to comply with simple commands to try and stop the car. This exact scenario has happened before, for similar reasons, and everything points to the Toyota case being the same as Audi- including "fat-foot" Americans being the only ones experiencing issues even though cars with the same electronics overseas are just fine. Also, undoubtedly, America's Big 3 auto makers are adding fuel to the fire trying to regain market share as they recover. Yeah, one side of the debate stacks up better than the other at this point.
"As part of a settlement with CREW over missing Bush administration e-mails, the White House assured the watchdog that its system prevents employees from accessing personal e-mail accounts." So what the White House actually promised was to try and put up a firewall, and people are jumping the firewall. It also promised that, if anyone made a FOIA-style request about goings-on that should have been on the record, that it would respond quickly and without being a douche about it. So, if there was a breach that they tried to prevent, it's now up to them to respond appropriately, and we're still inside a reasonable time to service this request, right? Sounds like normal business for any company, so long as the people responsible for oversight weren't among the offenders.
Er, the texts of bills are always available online though, and you can read them, in fact I often do. Not that I'm opposing the rabble rabble vote them out thing.
But Palin and Co. were using their emails for business purposes (even if it was more day-to-day stuff, so far as the snoop caught).
Slashdot can now make a new headline about how poory researched a previous headline was?
This isn't bait and switch- this is clearly STEVE JOBS' ORIGINAL VISION! Only now has technology caught up to his masterful insight, such that the product and the plans he always envisioned can be offered together!
So the question as to whether or not something is open-source is resolved by trying to figure out what license(s) you can use it under. Yeah, that's everything I currently feel about the open source community in a nutshell. (and yes, I do know what I'm saying there)
I think he would have admitted to pure selfishness on this point- see his speech before congress. However, he meant that the author should keep the copyright, not the publisher. The publisher would continue to make money as a necessity, but the profit would stay with the author('s family). He would have still opposed, I think, Disney making money off Mickey Mouse forever, instead of the people and families who animated him.
"...and takes the view that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel". Mark Twain, 1835 to 1910. World War I, 1914 to 1918. Imagine if work like this would have been taken seriously back then.
In my area, I have two options for internet service: 1) Pay Comcast $60+ for a connection that flakes out constantly, is monitored and throttled, goes out during peak usage, and is subject to change without notice. 2) Pay ATT $20+ for a dry-loop DSL that only goes out for one day every six months or so, but otherwise works as advertised. Either way, screw cable ($60+/mo for freaking TV? You gotta be kidding me! People actually pay that!?), I stream and Netflix all my viewing.
Wait, what's that? The invisible hand of the markets actually doesn't police itself? Man, it's almost like I've heard this somewhere before. It's on the tip of my tongue. C'mon, what was it? Enron? Exxon Valdez? Goldman-Sachs? Bear Sterns? GM? Massey? No, that's not quite right... BP? I hate it when this happens!
In other news, my wife and her mom just walked up and watched the full-body scanning for a while the other day until a TSA goon screamed obscenities and threatened to have them arrested. Totally secure though.
Precisely. Maybe the Nexus One is vastly superior at tracing circles. Neither of these results would say anything whatsoever about how the phone actually performs in click detection.
We have some serious Robert Heinlein versus Philip K. Dick going on here. C'mon, anyone?