When you use a feature to emulate another feature, it is "half-baked". Seriously, have you tried to manage a gmail account with several hundred of labels? With a real hierarchical organization (read folder) it can be done, but not with flat level labels, at least not with the current interface.
Have you tried to manage an account with several hundred folders? Wouldn't the time required to sort all your emails into those folders rise exponentially with the number of folders? I'd also like hierarchial labels, but so far i haven't seen an email system that is easier to keep organized for huge number of mails than gmail.
He's not a stupid guy that way, and anybody that respects billionaires must ask themselves if they would do the same things with a company to maintain market share... Personally, I like to think I wouldn't, but that's why I am not a CEO. Yeah right. The reason why you are not a CEO is not because you have "higher standards" more moral or whatever. The reason is because you, and most of us, are not CEO:s is because we are just not.good.enough.
I'm a union member, but I have been fired. Probably not for laziness, but because the employer disliked me. This being in Sweden, where unions are supposed to have much more clout than in the US, for example. In the company I work for now, lazy arrogant and senior union members have also been fired easily. They just marked him for being late for work three times in a three month period. The union could do nothing.
I've even heard to female fashion outfit assistants that were fired for not dressing up (read: using short enough skirts and wearing enough makeup). So I have a really hard time believing that US airline unions would be so strong that they can protect "bad apples" to any degree that matters.
For example, data is now "paradigm agnostic". Seriously, wtf? When was data ever not "paradigm agnostic" and when did we develop the need for a term to describe it. Data is data. It is raw, and unanalysed, and as such the notion of a paradigm is completely irrelevant.
I think you must read that in the right context to understand it. Thousands of man-years have been spent to try and construct the Semantic Web, the thing that initially started the Web 2.0 meme. All the technologies that would make it easy to organize information; RDF, SPARQL, RIF, Dublin Core, OWL and so on. Not to mention the whole ontology science and how information has been categorized for ages. Each of these methods attach metadata, like "this book is in the tech section, this article in biology" etc. RDF is a complex language for defining metadata about the data.
Maybe all that is useless? Maybe you don't need any (manually added) metadata at all to find the information you want? A sufficiently advanced search engine seem to perform much better on large datasets than any human invented system for organizing the data when trying to find whatever you are looking for.
As parent says, there's no official studies about it, but as the children are basically getting dumber/less educated over time;
Wrong and wrong. There has been countless studies about it, and they all come to the same conclusion: children are becoming smarter and smarter. Read about the Flynn effect for just one example. Thanks to the standardized tests that school children are subjected to that are public records in most industrialized countries, the smartness of children is one of the most well-documented statistics in the world.
Kids are getting smarter, and the number of conflicts in the world is decreasing. But that's no fun to read about so the media don't report it.
How come you were *all* so scared that not a single one of you had the guts to ask for it to be removed? Even when it was demonstrated hands-on that a request like that would be perfectly acceptable?
Peer pressure? Afraid of being seen as being afraid of seeing dicks?
It is pretty clear why a female boss would put up a poster like that as a blatant display of power. Every guy that walks into her room will glance over the poster, compare his dick with the one in the poster and maybe get slightly uncomfortable. Imagine having a salary negotiation with your boss with ten dicks on the wall. She knew what she was doing, and that it was "illegal." Yet by having it, and intentionally breaking the rules, she demonstrates that she has more authority that anyone else.
I'm a gay man, and I've been told that my code is unusually clear.
Sorry to say this, but how great of a coder you are is inverseley proportional to the quality of your social life. That is, the more time you spend programming in front of the computer, the better programmer you become. Being gay, I'll bet you have spent much less time on average than most others, chasing women. I wonder what you did instead, HM?
Of the great programmers I've met, all the best were gay. Same thing with the females, if she is a good one, she's a lesbian. It has nothing to do with sex, it is all about experience.
Computer breaks and goes to the garbage dump. Rats eat the circuits dies and decays in the soil. Grass sucks up the lead from the soil and cows eat it. Cows are slaughtered and transformed into ham which you eat. Lead is then accumulated in the body.
Almost all agencies have their own CV format because they want all their consultants CV:s to look the same. So they will ask you to either fill in a lot of forms in their stupid, buggy in-house developed web application that will generate a CV, or they will send you a CV template that you are required to fill in. Either way, it is really stupid and a tedious waste of time, but that is how they work.
There are some that will use your CV, but censor your contact information so that the customer is prevented from contacting you directly. But they will still accept CV:s in PDF format as long as your contact details are removed.
That is my experience anyway, I have been in contact with lots of consultant agencies and not a single one has required that the CV be submitted in MS Word format.
Eh...those arm rests would kill me after just a few hours of coding. Second that. I bought it because it felt nice to sit in and forgot about the non-movable arm rests. Big mistake, the arm rests which are to wide apart and to high for me, strains my wrists a lot while coding. It is details like that you don't think about because you don't notice them before you have used the chair for a few hours. Lesson learned I suppose.
Geez, people bash on the network transaprency all the time, while it's actually the least of the problems. And it's completely irrelevant when an application connects locally because it happens over a shared-memory IPC (which unix sockets actually is, despite having "sockets" in the name).
It is the sheer complexity of it that is the problem. Applications does not get shared-memory IPC for free, unless they use the SHM extension. Using the SHM extension involves 1) checking for it, 2) writing code for it, 3) writing fallback code in case SHM isn't available. You have (or at least should) do that for each and every optional feature you want to use, and since almost everything in xorg is optional, you'll have to write a hell of a lot of fallback code.
And no matter how many times people state the opposite, IPC for graphics calls, carries a not insignificant overhead. Even with shm and it is trivial for anyone to measure the graphics performance of windows vs. xorg. Windows still beats it.
I had the same problem with Pirates! on the Amiga. I think inputting names to pirate photos was the copy protection scheme that occured at the start of the game. If you failed to enter the correct names, the game would be ultra-hard with lots of English frigates and Spaniards hunting you while your crew would mutiny. I never figured it out but managed to do quite well at the game never the less.
My favorite copy protection scheme was Simon the Sorcerers. It had a set of sprites, hats, cats, brooms and so on and you had to click on a matching direction on a compass. You only had eight different directions to choose from, north, south, east, west, north west, north east, south west and south east so it was brute force breakable since you only needed three correct answers in a row. I remember writing down big tables on my attempts with guessing the sprites so that I could find the correct solution for each one. I think I enjoyed "hacking" the copy protection more than actually playing the game.
Oh, they have been doing that since 1976 (as recently revealed by a recording of FRA's director acknowledging it). This is an attempt to legalize that practice, add a few useless "control stations" and give them even more authority.
Actually they have been doing that since the 1950's. It was revealed in the "IB" scandal. Named so after the secret buerau InformationsByrån that conducted the registrations. It was big news in the late 1970's. At the time, there were lots of Communists in Sweden and the establishment with the Social Democrats in lead was genuinly afraid that they would take over.
So Informationsbyrån was set up in secret and the information retrieved from the register was offensively used to keep the Communists in check. Unions used it to keep them out, employers used it to deny them access to important positions in the companies and so on. Some got their whole careers ruined thanks to it. IB is a good example of how when a democratic state feels threatened, it will do everything in its power to keep the status quo. Even if that means resorting to fascist methods.
I think you misunderstand Erlang if you try to write audio drivers in it.:) You don't write drivers using Erlang, you write ports (probably in C) which takes care of all low-level hardware details. Ports are then connected to Erlang similar to how extension modules work in other scripting languages, with the difference that Erlang's ports are real processes that use IPC to communicate.
Erlangs strength is modelling interactions between components and taking advantage of asynchronous processing. For example, you wouldn't write a 3d engine using Erlang. But you could definitely use Erlang to control all player connections, NPC characters and other objects in your grand MMORPG.
Disclaimer: I've only coded in Java since 1.5. ... Which suggests that you haven't coded for very long. It is not that Java is bad per se, it just that the competition beats it. Try Python, PHP, Ruby, Erlang, Bash, Lisp or any other really-high level language. You'll be pleasantly surprised and maybe you will also see why people dislike Java.
Ok, I'll bite...
*Why* exactly should my money support anything? That's not the choice you have. Either you pay more for a high-tech ticketting system that keeps cheaters out, or you pay less for no-charge public transport.
You didn't answer the question why someone suffering from a genetic order should have to pay. The reason why people without genetic disorders should pay for the health care for those that have, is because they can, while someone with Huntington's disease can't. It costs you a few dollars each month, while a Huntington's disease treatment probably costs millions in total. Not having people die of other peoples greed is more important than saving money.
That's the most fucked up reasoning written on slashdot in a long time. How is someone able to take advantage of being more likely to carry a genetic disease? Why should someone born with a genetic disorder have pay premium for something that is absolutely out of their control?
Being able to aquire medical care when in need is a basic human right. If you don't like that fact, then there are plenty of third world countries you can ove to where the evil state won't "steal" your money to provide health care for the sick.
Am I only one who read it as "Planned startup fail is in the 2009" ? Yes, the rest of us are able to read. Maybe you need to have your glasses checked up?
So... Microsoft aids and abets copyright infringement? You may not have the right to redistribute all the fonts on your computer.
Welcome to the brave new world. OpenOffice.org is the one that's working "correctly" and preserving people's copyright. Uhm.. Redictio in lawsuitum: IF that practice was in any way illegal MS would have been sued for BILLIONS. They haven't, which means your argument is bull.
A: No, because companies are already so deep with old.xls files and macros built for said files that they will still be unwilling to transition from Microsoft Office to StarOffice.
That, and StarOffice just doesn't feel polished compared to MSOffice.
Um.. is that an euphemism for "it totally sucks in comparison?" The reason why companies use MS Office is because it is a pretty damn good product and everything else falls short of it. For a real vendor lock-in, try FrameMaker 6.0. That's definitely not something you want to get stuck with.
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When you use a feature to emulate another feature, it is "half-baked". Seriously, have you tried to manage a gmail account with several hundred of labels? With a real hierarchical organization (read folder) it can be done, but not with flat level labels, at least not with the current interface.
Have you tried to manage an account with several hundred folders? Wouldn't the time required to sort all your emails into those folders rise exponentially with the number of folders? I'd also like hierarchial labels, but so far i haven't seen an email system that is easier to keep organized for huge number of mails than gmail.
I'm a union member, but I have been fired. Probably not for laziness, but because the employer disliked me. This being in Sweden, where unions are supposed to have much more clout than in the US, for example. In the company I work for now, lazy arrogant and senior union members have also been fired easily. They just marked him for being late for work three times in a three month period. The union could do nothing.
I've even heard to female fashion outfit assistants that were fired for not dressing up (read: using short enough skirts and wearing enough makeup). So I have a really hard time believing that US airline unions would be so strong that they can protect "bad apples" to any degree that matters.
I think you must read that in the right context to understand it. Thousands of man-years have been spent to try and construct the Semantic Web, the thing that initially started the Web 2.0 meme. All the technologies that would make it easy to organize information; RDF, SPARQL, RIF, Dublin Core, OWL and so on. Not to mention the whole ontology science and how information has been categorized for ages. Each of these methods attach metadata, like "this book is in the tech section, this article in biology" etc. RDF is a complex language for defining metadata about the data.
Maybe all that is useless? Maybe you don't need any (manually added) metadata at all to find the information you want? A sufficiently advanced search engine seem to perform much better on large datasets than any human invented system for organizing the data when trying to find whatever you are looking for.
How are unions to blame for whatever is wrong with flying in the US?
Wrong and wrong. There has been countless studies about it, and they all come to the same conclusion: children are becoming smarter and smarter. Read about the Flynn effect for just one example. Thanks to the standardized tests that school children are subjected to that are public records in most industrialized countries, the smartness of children is one of the most well-documented statistics in the world.
Kids are getting smarter, and the number of conflicts in the world is decreasing. But that's no fun to read about so the media don't report it.
Thank you! That is what I meant. :) If it is not biomagnified, then maybe you wont eat lead.
How come you were *all* so scared that not a single one of you had the guts to ask for it to be removed? Even when it was demonstrated hands-on that a request like that would be perfectly acceptable?
Peer pressure? Afraid of being seen as being afraid of seeing dicks?
It is pretty clear why a female boss would put up a poster like that as a blatant display of power. Every guy that walks into her room will glance over the poster, compare his dick with the one in the poster and maybe get slightly uncomfortable. Imagine having a salary negotiation with your boss with ten dicks on the wall. She knew what she was doing, and that it was "illegal." Yet by having it, and intentionally breaking the rules, she demonstrates that she has more authority that anyone else.
Sorry to say this, but how great of a coder you are is inverseley proportional to the quality of your social life. That is, the more time you spend programming in front of the computer, the better programmer you become. Being gay, I'll bet you have spent much less time on average than most others, chasing women. I wonder what you did instead, HM?
Of the great programmers I've met, all the best were gay. Same thing with the females, if she is a good one, she's a lesbian. It has nothing to do with sex, it is all about experience.
Computer breaks and goes to the garbage dump. Rats eat the circuits dies and decays in the soil. Grass sucks up the lead from the soil and cows eat it. Cows are slaughtered and transformed into ham which you eat. Lead is then accumulated in the body.
That is just plain wrong.
Almost all agencies have their own CV format because they want all their consultants CV:s to look the same. So they will ask you to either fill in a lot of forms in their stupid, buggy in-house developed web application that will generate a CV, or they will send you a CV template that you are required to fill in. Either way, it is really stupid and a tedious waste of time, but that is how they work.
There are some that will use your CV, but censor your contact information so that the customer is prevented from contacting you directly. But they will still accept CV:s in PDF format as long as your contact details are removed.
That is my experience anyway, I have been in contact with lots of consultant agencies and not a single one has required that the CV be submitted in MS Word format.
That is not the case and here is a thorough analysis of the controversy.
It is the sheer complexity of it that is the problem. Applications does not get shared-memory IPC for free, unless they use the SHM extension. Using the SHM extension involves 1) checking for it, 2) writing code for it, 3) writing fallback code in case SHM isn't available. You have (or at least should) do that for each and every optional feature you want to use, and since almost everything in xorg is optional, you'll have to write a hell of a lot of fallback code.
And no matter how many times people state the opposite, IPC for graphics calls, carries a not insignificant overhead. Even with shm and it is trivial for anyone to measure the graphics performance of windows vs. xorg. Windows still beats it.
I had the same problem with Pirates! on the Amiga. I think inputting names to pirate photos was the copy protection scheme that occured at the start of the game. If you failed to enter the correct names, the game would be ultra-hard with lots of English frigates and Spaniards hunting you while your crew would mutiny. I never figured it out but managed to do quite well at the game never the less.
My favorite copy protection scheme was Simon the Sorcerers. It had a set of sprites, hats, cats, brooms and so on and you had to click on a matching direction on a compass. You only had eight different directions to choose from, north, south, east, west, north west, north east, south west and south east so it was brute force breakable since you only needed three correct answers in a row. I remember writing down big tables on my attempts with guessing the sprites so that I could find the correct solution for each one. I think I enjoyed "hacking" the copy protection more than actually playing the game.
Actually they have been doing that since the 1950's. It was revealed in the "IB" scandal. Named so after the secret buerau InformationsByrån that conducted the registrations. It was big news in the late 1970's. At the time, there were lots of Communists in Sweden and the establishment with the Social Democrats in lead was genuinly afraid that they would take over.
So Informationsbyrån was set up in secret and the information retrieved from the register was offensively used to keep the Communists in check. Unions used it to keep them out, employers used it to deny them access to important positions in the companies and so on. Some got their whole careers ruined thanks to it. IB is a good example of how when a democratic state feels threatened, it will do everything in its power to keep the status quo. Even if that means resorting to fascist methods.
I think you misunderstand Erlang if you try to write audio drivers in it. :) You don't write drivers using Erlang, you write ports (probably in C) which takes care of all low-level hardware details. Ports are then connected to Erlang similar to how extension modules work in other scripting languages, with the difference that Erlang's ports are real processes that use IPC to communicate.
Erlangs strength is modelling interactions between components and taking advantage of asynchronous processing. For example, you wouldn't write a 3d engine using Erlang. But you could definitely use Erlang to control all player connections, NPC characters and other objects in your grand MMORPG.
You didn't answer the question why someone suffering from a genetic order should have to pay. The reason why people without genetic disorders should pay for the health care for those that have, is because they can, while someone with Huntington's disease can't. It costs you a few dollars each month, while a Huntington's disease treatment probably costs millions in total. Not having people die of other peoples greed is more important than saving money.
Exactly so. There is no right-to-avoid-paying-taxes-right.
That's the most fucked up reasoning written on slashdot in a long time. How is someone able to take advantage of being more likely to carry a genetic disease? Why should someone born with a genetic disorder have pay premium for something that is absolutely out of their control?
Being able to aquire medical care when in need is a basic human right. If you don't like that fact, then there are plenty of third world countries you can ove to where the evil state won't "steal" your money to provide health care for the sick.
A: No, because companies are already so deep with old .xls files and macros built for said files that they will still be unwilling to transition from Microsoft Office to StarOffice.
That, and StarOffice just doesn't feel polished compared to MSOffice.
Um.. is that an euphemism for "it totally sucks in comparison?" The reason why companies use MS Office is because it is a pretty damn good product and everything else falls short of it. For a real vendor lock-in, try FrameMaker 6.0. That's definitely not something you want to get stuck with.