client-side web developers hate everything which is not IE I'm a web developer, and I hate IE. For me, these discussions remind me of the time I whipped up a simple, elegant, little webapp from scratch, sent it to review, and watched it break completely. Its little buttons did nothing in IE, and the reviewer didn't have Firefox installed, so he couldn't even see how the app was supposed to work. My mistakes were 1) relying on the spec for HTML4, and 2) forgetting to test in IE. While I admit I should have done more testing, I still have to protest that (to my knowledge) IE just doesn't have proper docs that describe how it works. With a standards-compliant browser, you can write to the specs and test. With IE, it's just blind testing until you find what works.
I wonder how many little sites built by IE-centric coders are going to need a lot of work in order to function well with IE8. None. Either they'll just stay broken, or all their pages will get prefixed with a magic tag that says RenderLikeIE7 or RenderLikeIE6 or RenderLikeIE5....
Hey mods, the parent isn't even Interesting, much less Insightful, and the grandparent is Insightful, not so much Informative. (Your account has been deducted $0.02.)
Seriously, running every script a page stuffs into a browser should not be the default, and it should not take an extension to fix it. Agreed. Also, one would hope that a script whitelister from Mozilla wouldn't need to be updated every three days or so.
Have you noticed how often NoScript gets updated? I wouldn't quite call it unobtrusive, especially since NoScript likes to make your browser open a tab to the NoScript site after an update. Really, how hard is it to prevent execution of javascript that didn't come from a site that's been whitelisted? I now use AdBlock Plus instead.
Your comment is funny because Stallman has pleaded so many times for credit where it's due, but I do hope you noticed that the name he came up with for GNU wasn't StallmanOS or RMoS.
correct me if i'm wrong but isn't blue ray (i refuse to go with the stupid spelling fad)...
OK, I'll correct you. It's actually spelled Blu-ray and it's not a fad. Stupid yes, but not a fad. I'd rather that companies had to trademark intentional misspellings than common words the way Microsoft tried to do with "Windows" and "Bob". If you won't use the term "Blu-ray", then how will you avoid confusion with a description of the laser that's in the device, as well as in HD-DVD players?
Alabama is actually one of the most accepting and welcoming societies on earth I'm from Alabama too, but before I buy that one, I want to hear your reaction to two words: gay marriage. If you're not up to typing an accepting and welcoming response to them, then you might want to edit this part of your post. And yes, I'm gay, so the attitude of my fellow Alabamians is important to me.
In an average week of work + home computing, I see maybe two or three UAC prompts the entire time, and I'm running with UAC on.
That's three times more than are necessary. I just got a copy of Vista with a new laptop, and what annoys me is that Vista will sometimes prevent a program from writing to the disk without displaying a UAC prompt and thus giving me the chance to approve the operation. I had to pause the download of a patch to World of Warcraft, and when I ran WoW again, it couldn't finish downloading the patch. When I ran the patch downloader directly, it couldn't write to the partial patch file, no cancel-or-allow option for me. Finally, I figured out that I could right-click the downloader icon and run it as Administrator, but the whole thing was such a pointless pain.
Hear, hear. I would rather Congress do away with the concept of criminal copyright infringement and get the government out of copyright enforcement (almost) entirely, than have the government sue you for it. This is such a bad idea on so many levels. Copyright should be only a civil matter, and the copyright owner should bear the cost and responsibility for taking action regarding it.
While I sit here and defend the obvious, I do not own a cell phone, and probably never will again. I realized that I REALLY don't need one. If you sit down and think about it, 90% of you probably don't either.
I resisted getting a cell phone for years. I don't like to yak all day on the phone, and I thought people would call me day and night if I got one. I finally got one because of a cross-country road trip. The idea of my car breaking down in the desert did not appeal to me. But I was wrong. I've had a cell phone for about five years now, and I don't talk on the phone or get any more calls than I did before. The difference is that people can get through to me when they need to, not when I get home. So the reason I got my cell phone in the first place (emergency use) is real and still valid. And I bet it applies to a lot more than 10% of us.
Quality of tech support is laughable - I was told by a tech "supervisor" that data transfer on my phone was very expensive because the screen was large. Not just physically, but it had a high resolution too. (Cingular) Fixed that for you.
This is not a problem with a market solution. This is a problem where the U.N. tells Russia to get its shit together, and stop these guys from doing things that piss off the rest of the world. Nigeria can get the same treatment. Please tell me you're kidding, that you don't really belive the UN can or will do anything about this problem. The only measure that might convince rogue ISPs to spam spamming the world is for them to get slapped around by other ISPs until they realize that if they don't play nice, they won't get to play--unless of course, you're willing to send SEALs to test how "bulletproof" the rogue servers are.
Or the even shorter version: if that quote was right, the USA, the UK, Canada and Australia should be the greatest enemies in history. You're not taking into account that the US, Canada, and Australia were colonies of the UK and have always spoken a common language (or close enough). When we talk smack about each other, we can absorb it in small doses and remain friends on the whole.
But if someone were to suddenly remove all the world's linguistic barriers at once, the result might be very different from the Anglophone lovefest.
Truth to tell, you come across as rather sullen here. I don't think I'd hire you, either. Sure he sounds sullen after this bad experience. How do you think he sounded during the interview, when he thought he had a shot at a much better job?
it doesn't serve his purpose to put out condescending statements like "the nerds got it right". That statement could be interpreted as a self-parody of his previous article called "Revenge of the Nerds". He called the same people "amateur sleuths" above. Perhaps you mean he should have used sneer quotes around the word "nerds"?
It seems that all but three digits of an ISBN (whether 10 digits or 13) are assigned to the publisher by an external agency. I would guess the publisher has no copyright on an ISBN.
However, even if they did, consider that the ISBN is a tiny part of a copyrighted work and that the ISBN is necessary just to identify that work. Off the top of my head, I can't think of any use of an ISBN (other than publishing your own book under somebody else's ISBN) that would not be fair use.
The store had no good reason not to toss him out. How about not taking a PR hit? If I heard that a store was throwing out everybody who didn't promise to buy a book, I wouldn't shop there.
Okay, I take your point about the timing of the patent licensing clause, but I think the Novell/MS deal was a pretty clear threat to free software and required a reaction. Time will tell whether it was an appropriate reaction.
So you're saying that objecting to the fact that TiVo, for example, is locking down their DVRs so that you can't modify GPLed code on your own TiVo (likely the only place where it would be useful to you to modify that code) is a "political agenda"? And a third revision of the GPL after about 15 years is "willingness"? Usually people like to implement political agendas on a smaller time scale than that. GPLv3 is more the result of ideology (or really, far-sighted pragmatism) than a political agenda.
It would be 100% as annoying. Those three keys that shift the focus with one press should never have been put where you could hit them accidentally while typing.
No. And if I was a complete dick, I'd just reject applications with no feedback whatsoever, not even a rejection letter. They're applying to me, I don't owe them anything, right?
Most of my job applications in the past have never got a response. It's a lot easier if you don't want to employ / deal with someone to simply ignore them after the failed interview etc. There's no obligation to respond to every application you get with helpful tips for next time. If you get as far as interview, it's nice to know why you didn't succeed but you shouldn't expect it.
You may not owe a job applicant anything legally, but once you interview them, morally and socially you owe them a formal rejection. Preferably a prompt one sent right after the decision is made not to hire them, not weeks later.
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Hey /., where are my mod points when I need them? +1 Informative
Hey mods, the parent isn't even Interesting, much less Insightful, and the grandparent is Insightful, not so much Informative. (Your account has been deducted $0.02.)
I read your post out loud and found myself in tears with laughter. Well done.
Have you noticed how often NoScript gets updated? I wouldn't quite call it unobtrusive, especially since NoScript likes to make your browser open a tab to the NoScript site after an update. Really, how hard is it to prevent execution of javascript that didn't come from a site that's been whitelisted? I now use AdBlock Plus instead.
Your comment is funny because Stallman has pleaded so many times for credit where it's due, but I do hope you noticed that the name he came up with for GNU wasn't StallmanOS or RMoS.
Hear, hear. I would rather Congress do away with the concept of criminal copyright infringement and get the government out of copyright enforcement (almost) entirely, than have the government sue you for it. This is such a bad idea on so many levels. Copyright should be only a civil matter, and the copyright owner should bear the cost and responsibility for taking action regarding it.
While I sit here and defend the obvious, I do not own a cell phone, and probably never will again. I realized that I REALLY don't need one. If you sit down and think about it, 90% of you probably don't either.
I resisted getting a cell phone for years. I don't like to yak all day on the phone, and I thought people would call me day and night if I got one. I finally got one because of a cross-country road trip. The idea of my car breaking down in the desert did not appeal to me. But I was wrong. I've had a cell phone for about five years now, and I don't talk on the phone or get any more calls than I did before. The difference is that people can get through to me when they need to, not when I get home. So the reason I got my cell phone in the first place (emergency use) is real and still valid. And I bet it applies to a lot more than 10% of us.It seems that all but three digits of an ISBN (whether 10 digits or 13) are assigned to the publisher by an external agency. I would guess the publisher has no copyright on an ISBN.
However, even if they did, consider that the ISBN is a tiny part of a copyrighted work and that the ISBN is necessary just to identify that work. Off the top of my head, I can't think of any use of an ISBN (other than publishing your own book under somebody else's ISBN) that would not be fair use.
Okay, I take your point about the timing of the patent licensing clause, but I think the Novell/MS deal was a pretty clear threat to free software and required a reaction. Time will tell whether it was an appropriate reaction.
So you're saying that objecting to the fact that TiVo, for example, is locking down their DVRs so that you can't modify GPLed code on your own TiVo (likely the only place where it would be useful to you to modify that code) is a "political agenda"? And a third revision of the GPL after about 15 years is "willingness"? Usually people like to implement political agendas on a smaller time scale than that. GPLv3 is more the result of ideology (or really, far-sighted pragmatism) than a political agenda.
It would be 100% as annoying. Those three keys that shift the focus with one press should never have been put where you could hit them accidentally while typing.