Those who fought in the American Revolution would say the same thing. Aren't Manning and all the other members of our armed forces supposed to be fighting for the same thing?
Also, wasn't there some story a couple weeks ago about the DOJ not being able to find any link between Manning and WikiLeaks?
No one ever graduated with the wide range of expert-level skills and the absurd amount of experience required. IT employers want candidates to know everything under the sun, and to have known those skills at least since they were created. For example, I remember seeing a job post 10 years ago that required 20 years of Java... do the math.
IT managers need to get real. The chances that they'll actually find a candidate with real expertise in PHP, RoR, Python, MySQL, Oracle, Apache, Cisco, JavaScript, jQuery, UI/UX, Photoshop, and Flash is pretty slim (yes, I saw that just the other day).
Wrong. By default, user actions which lead to destruction should always be confirmed only once, via prompt or otherwise. But give the 1337 users a way to turn of the confirmation mechanism if they like.
The recycle bin is really just a glorified mulligan for file deletion.
After AOL bought Netscape, they decided to keep the Netscape browser on life support (but strangle it anyway) by releasing versions 6.0 and later, which were cut from the maturing Mozilla 5 codebase:
Netscape 6.0 = Mozilla.5
Netscape 6.1 = Mozilla.9
Netscape 6.2 = Mozilla.9
Netscape 7.0 = Mozilla 1.1
Netscape 7.1 = Mozilla 1.4
Netscape 7.2 = Mozilla 1.7
Netscape 8.0 = Mozilla 1.7
At this point (May 2005) Netscape was irrelevant, as Firefox had taken over among the tech savvy, and word was spreading beyond us. Also, AOL had seen fit to saddle Netscape with ugly, ad-infested themes.
The 6x and 7x lines were premature at best, almost as if they were designed to nail the brand's coffin shut, which they did.
For the price of a tablet, you could get an arguably more powerful desktop machine. And on that desktop, you could easily produce any content you wanted, including spreadsheets, CAD/CAM, code... and not be limited by the primitive touch UI paradigm with its clunky virtual keyboard and mouse. Then you could take a break and consume some content, like/., or Half Life.
Tablets are primarily consumption devices because of the one-user-input-fits-all quasi-miracle of the touch screen. When a tablet can run and let me use Blender just as easily as a form factor with discrete user inputs, I might consider one.
Didn't WikiLeaks ask at least one federal department for help redacting names and other identifying info from the documents, and those departments declined to do so?
I bet the people who drafted this Bill for him (and I don't mean his staff) didn't know that, or conveniently forgot about it.
Iran, even if they ever did manage to create a nuclear bomb, would never drop it on Israel, because the entire Arab world would turn against them. Why? Wind. The prevailing winds in the region would blow the fallout from Israel to the northeast, over Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and maybe even Iran to the Caspian Sea. Otherwise, it would get blown over Saudi Arabia or Egypt.
As backward or simple as some may perceive Iran to be, I'm sure they know that fallout doesn't stay in the immediate blast zone.
Hacked PC's are the fault of the OS vendor. Not the user, or the ISP.
Blaming the user is like blaming the driver for their car's recall-worthy shoddy components.
Blaming the ISP is like blaming the highway department for a car's recall-worthy shoddy components.
Who does car recalls? The manufacturer, who usually passes on the cost of it to the vendors who provided the faulty parts (see Toyota and the Tacoma frame rusting). All the OEMs should pass on the cost of their support for Redmond's flawed OS's to... Redmond.
Unless Charney is simply saying that the users are to blame for not installing a safer OS. Because all the owners were at fault for their Explorers having the wrong Firestone tires installed at the factory. Right.
Actually, no. I scrolled down to find an illegibly blurred image of the answer text used as a background behind a dialog.
Coincidentally, I think that was the last time EE showed up in results for me, about a year ago. And it makes me wonder why so many people say, "Just scroll to the bottom."
I think we can all agree than this is a cynically brilliant play for MS in several ways. Nokia is now pretty much the lifeline for WP7, all the other Nokia OS's are dead, and MS can butcher Nokia's corpse pretty much as they wish, with little cash outlay. This may have a large impact outside the phone market.
This move seriously damages Qt, and probably by extension KDE. If we geeks perceive that KDE is withering and shift toward Gnome, MS can spring their.Net patent trap, since Miguel de Icaza is furiously infecting Gnome with Mono. Maybe it's crazy, but not impossible.
Also, if Meego never materializes as a serious in-car platform, Sync has one less competitor; MS has already been shopping it around beyond Ford.
Unlike Ballmer, Jobs is visionary. He has an aesthetic sense, really wants to be innovative, and has the drive to be.
Ballmer is just a pencil pushing, number crunching marketing drone who doesn't have a creative or innovative bone in his body. Because of this, nothing he does will get MS out of its slump. The MS board can only hope that Ray Ozzie is interested in the CEO job.
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Show me when Congress has declared war in the last 60 years. You can't, because it hasn't happened.
Those who fought in the American Revolution would say the same thing. Aren't Manning and all the other members of our armed forces supposed to be fighting for the same thing?
Also, wasn't there some story a couple weeks ago about the DOJ not being able to find any link between Manning and WikiLeaks?
Every bit of this smells rotten.
Nope. Chuck Norris has 8 wheels on the sole of each foot.
Certainly not enough to spell it correctly.
No one ever graduated with the wide range of expert-level skills and the absurd amount of experience required. IT employers want candidates to know everything under the sun, and to have known those skills at least since they were created. For example, I remember seeing a job post 10 years ago that required 20 years of Java... do the math.
IT managers need to get real. The chances that they'll actually find a candidate with real expertise in PHP, RoR, Python, MySQL, Oracle, Apache, Cisco, JavaScript, jQuery, UI/UX, Photoshop, and Flash is pretty slim (yes, I saw that just the other day).
Wrong. By default, user actions which lead to destruction should always be confirmed only once, via prompt or otherwise. But give the 1337 users a way to turn of the confirmation mechanism if they like.
The recycle bin is really just a glorified mulligan for file deletion.
Rename the Recycle Bin "Bill Gates' Mansion" and a vigilante group will break in within an hour and use it to bombard the neighborhood with dog shit.
Which antiquated thoughts? The tag soup that HTML5 is bringing back?
After AOL bought Netscape, they decided to keep the Netscape browser on life support (but strangle it anyway) by releasing versions 6.0 and later, which were cut from the maturing Mozilla 5 codebase:
At this point (May 2005) Netscape was irrelevant, as Firefox had taken over among the tech savvy, and word was spreading beyond us. Also, AOL had seen fit to saddle Netscape with ugly, ad-infested themes.
The 6x and 7x lines were premature at best, almost as if they were designed to nail the brand's coffin shut, which they did.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_timeline, and my own memory of the time.
I prefer my desktop to be free of mono, that's why I use Mint KDE.
I believe Secunia is calling this one antifoidulous.pebkac.2011A.
I'm not sure how to respond to that.
For the price of a tablet, you could get an arguably more powerful desktop machine. And on that desktop, you could easily produce any content you wanted, including spreadsheets, CAD/CAM, code... and not be limited by the primitive touch UI paradigm with its clunky virtual keyboard and mouse. Then you could take a break and consume some content, like /., or Half Life.
Tablets are primarily consumption devices because of the one-user-input-fits-all quasi-miracle of the touch screen. When a tablet can run and let me use Blender just as easily as a form factor with discrete user inputs, I might consider one.
There's an example in the XKCD linked to near the top of the thread.
Why Manning? No one has been able to find a link between him and WikiLeaks.
Didn't WikiLeaks ask at least one federal department for help redacting names and other identifying info from the documents, and those departments declined to do so?
I bet the people who drafted this Bill for him (and I don't mean his staff) didn't know that, or conveniently forgot about it.
Iran, even if they ever did manage to create a nuclear bomb, would never drop it on Israel, because the entire Arab world would turn against them. Why? Wind. The prevailing winds in the region would blow the fallout from Israel to the northeast, over Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and maybe even Iran to the Caspian Sea. Otherwise, it would get blown over Saudi Arabia or Egypt.
As backward or simple as some may perceive Iran to be, I'm sure they know that fallout doesn't stay in the immediate blast zone.
Hacked PC's are the fault of the OS vendor. Not the user, or the ISP.
Blaming the user is like blaming the driver for their car's recall-worthy shoddy components.
Blaming the ISP is like blaming the highway department for a car's recall-worthy shoddy components.
Who does car recalls? The manufacturer, who usually passes on the cost of it to the vendors who provided the faulty parts (see Toyota and the Tacoma frame rusting). All the OEMs should pass on the cost of their support for Redmond's flawed OS's to... Redmond.
Unless Charney is simply saying that the users are to blame for not installing a safer OS. Because all the owners were at fault for their Explorers having the wrong Firestone tires installed at the factory. Right.
Don't forget about ezinearticles. They need hate too.
Actually, no. I scrolled down to find an illegibly blurred image of the answer text used as a background behind a dialog.
Coincidentally, I think that was the last time EE showed up in results for me, about a year ago. And it makes me wonder why so many people say, "Just scroll to the bottom."
JS rendered content may be a valid reason, but it's far from a good reason. Recent example: Gawker.
This. For the love of all, this.
They could have rolled this out in search prefs and exposed it to a targeted slice of search users, I wonder why they didn't.
If it ever does appear in prefs, I'm going to deliberately search for Experts Exchange.
I think we can all agree than this is a cynically brilliant play for MS in several ways. Nokia is now pretty much the lifeline for WP7, all the other Nokia OS's are dead, and MS can butcher Nokia's corpse pretty much as they wish, with little cash outlay. This may have a large impact outside the phone market.
This move seriously damages Qt, and probably by extension KDE. If we geeks perceive that KDE is withering and shift toward Gnome, MS can spring their .Net patent trap, since Miguel de Icaza is furiously infecting Gnome with Mono. Maybe it's crazy, but not impossible.
Also, if Meego never materializes as a serious in-car platform, Sync has one less competitor; MS has already been shopping it around beyond Ford.
Allow me to share with you one of the ~130k lines in my /etc/hosts:
Problem solved. Repeat for other hostnames you don't want tracking you.
Unlike Ballmer, Jobs is visionary. He has an aesthetic sense, really wants to be innovative, and has the drive to be.
Ballmer is just a pencil pushing, number crunching marketing drone who doesn't have a creative or innovative bone in his body. Because of this, nothing he does will get MS out of its slump. The MS board can only hope that Ray Ozzie is interested in the CEO job.