IE9 vs Firefox vs Chrome seems such a wash security wise at this point that the wisecracks are a bit worn. Chrome's auto-update and sandboxing may make it more secure, but gone (IMO) are the days where you can really be on solid ground mocking someone for using IE-- IE9 is a decent (though limited) browser, with a number of performance and security features that I do not believe firefox matches.
Those icons resided in the %allusersprofile%\desktop folder, which is (rightfully) only writeable by admin. By attempting to rename those icons, you were attempting to write to a system protected location. Darn tootin it asks for credentials, and Ill note that even on XP a non-admin would not have been able to rename them.
And for the record Win7 would give you the same issue.
Even so, I still feel if you had said "maybe those Nazis were onto something with the gas chambers", or "maybe the inquisition was onto something with that torture", or "maybe Pol Pot was onto something with those killing fields", I doubt it would have been modded anything other than troll.
Its a question of whether its a socially appropriate thing to say.
Can someone explain this for me? The current administration-- the one presumably doing the prosecution-- is NOT run by Romney OR a republican, but by the Dem. Obama.
Do you mean to imply that all republicans are pro-waterboarding? Because I can refute that right now-- its just not true.
Somehow I imagine if your comment had been about Jews and the Holocaust you would not have been modded funny. But somehow because the "genocide" was directed at Christians and not Jews, its ok to mock?
My interpretation is that Christianity never really made its peace with sexuality, like more natural religions, from the strange inheretence path of the greek cult of virginity into what was originally a Jewish sect.
Its kind of hard to reconcile that statement with the inclusion of the Song of Songs in the Bible.
An excerpt:
Awake, north wind,
and come, south wind! Blow on my garden,
that its fragrance may spread everywhere. Let my beloved come into his garden
and taste its choice fruits.
What do you suppose is being referenced here? Do you think that "garden" might be a metaphor for something?
So much for the Bible not making peace with sex; it simply has trouble with the idea of "free, unrestrained, sexuality". Its kind of like how theres nothing wrong with eating dinner, and lots wrong with spending your entire life devoted to food.
Maybe thats a false assumption; maybe a homosexual would be just as welcome at a baptist church as a heterosexual. I can tell you anecdotally that you certainly have not described every church out there, nor even a single church I have ever attended.
Of course, if he were to ask "what does christianity say about homosexual relationships", and then feel offended, thats not really anyone's fault but his. Certainly I've seen it with divorcees who get bent out of shape because, even though they know Christians say everyone sins, they didnt think it could POSSIBLY apply to their behavior, and that for anyone to dare to believe that their behavior is anything less than perfect is terribly judgemental.
True though... seeing the whole quote doesn't help much in my mind. Walking around aimlessly? Really? thats why you called 911? Because a guy is walking around aimlessly?
If youre on neighborhood watch? Yea, partly. Your job is to find suspicious behavior and report it.
A stranger wandering around aimlessly in the rain in a gated community IS suspicious. Its not illegal, but then neighborhood watch isnt a police force.
Example: Microsoft during Windows 95 release was adamant about not producing a TCP/IP stack for Windows claiming that the Internet was a waste of time and there is nobody in their right mind that would use it. Microsoft released and poured cash into their own proprietary network protocol (NetBUI).
Funfact: When I was working on my A+ back around 2004, the course material we used indicated that "one" of the communications protocols was TCPIP, but it was esoteric and of course everyone used NetBEUI.
I think I still have the book talking about how the future is NetBEUI and how TCP/IP is some backwoods protocol that noone uses.
As a (protestant) Christian, I think I can second that mormons tend not to be the litigious reactionary jerks that Scientologists can be, and Ive never heard of mormons organizing to kill someone or burn down an embassy.
I dont agree with mormonism, and I think their claim to Christianity is misplaced, but lets not unjustly accuse them here. Its about as absurd as the Chinese govt cracking down on Falun Gong-- if youre going to pick a dangerous and volatile group, these arent the ones youre looking for.
A lot of the problem is how awful the hardware buttons are. Everything wants to use the touchscreen, and the hardware keyboard is treated as a second class citizen (its basically impossible to dial a number on).
The problem is Im used to being able to very quickly initiate phone calls without having to look at my phone. On a blackberry I can do phone--companyname--phone and im immediately calling my PoC at that company. On an Android, it FEELS fast while youre swhooshing around between call log and dialer and contact list, but its much much slower, and requires my full attention.
So yay for futurism, except its loads less efficient and basically unusable in a car.
I have an android which likewise has a sensor, but it is still possible to hang up if you brush your cheek just right against it. It happens rarely, but does happen, and its kind of embarrassing.
Try calling an extension in a contact whos number is formatted as 111-222-3333 x444. This is a documented bug, android will choose to call 1112223333444 and get a "could not connect" error. You have to go through and reformat your contacts to replace the x with a semicolon; no other delimiter is accepted.
And you have a hang-up button or a mute button? I had understood the buttons on Android phones were set and static across hardware. There is a menu button, a home button, a back button, and a search button. The phone settings app doesnt allow selecting a hardware end call button except for the wake-up / sleep button.
And I would be interested to know if you have the ability to search by company name in your contacts with the stock app.
These problems have been verified on other models, incidentally.
I see lots of dedicated HP LaserJet4 and Laserjet P2205s. Know why? Because theyre about a thousand times more reliable than those crappy MFC devices that are slow, suck and fail all the time.
There was nothing to respond to, from a business standpoint. iPhone looks like it would be great for a personal phone, but I cant imagine trying to actually use it in business. Hanging up on accident because your cheek touched "end call" isnt exactly professional.
Stock phone app...
* Sucks at handling dual call situations. In some scenarios it will get confused and mix up which line you are on (displays youre on call A when youre actually on call B)
* Is slow and unresponsive. Ive received call notifications (vibrate), with the GUI taking 2 whole seconds to actually let me answer the call
* Sucks at dialing extensions. 111-222-3333 x444 does not work; you have to go through and re-edit all your contacts to let it dial extensions. If the number was dialed from an email signature, tough-- you have to manually enter the numbers (it tries to dial all 13 numbers at once and is unable to connect)
* Doesnt have a dedicated hang-up button. You have to wake the phone up, wait for GUI to respond, then hit "end call". You can specify a dedicated button, but its also the "wakeup" button, so if your phone goes to sleep while on a call you CANNOT wake it up without ending the call (brilliant design).
* No dedicated hardware mute button. Mute is a tiny little button below "end call"
Stock Contact list...
* Sucks at search. You cant just enter "company name" to find the company you want to call-- you have to know who the name on that contact is. Which kind of sucks if you have 300 clients and the point of contact keeps changing.
Its absurd that you get a $300 piece of hardware billed as a business android phone that is dreadful at actually contacting business clients, but at least it can play the latest game in the app-store right? Ive also heard the "just find the right app for that", which results in third party apps which suck at calls in other ways (like chewing up tons of CPU for indexing, or being even worse about extensions)
Everything business about the blackberry was perfect, from its awesome contact search to its outlook memo sync to how you could basically dial any number in any format from any app and the phone would figure extensions and whatnot out on its own. Yes, blackberries tend to be slow and not much use outside of email / phone, but that IS why we have laptops and tablets, right? Tacking a phone app onto a general purpose palm pilot doesnt make it a good business phone, and it would be great if the android devs could figure that out and nail down these basic phone features.
It seems like every time one of these stories about how BBY sucks and android is the future comes out, this mass of bitterness rises up in me because noone else seems to care that most modern smartphones suck at basic phone functionality, and that apparently im one of the few remaining in a dying market.
I just switched off of a Blackberry to a Motorola Admiral, and Im utterly disappointed. It seems like android has tons of shiney, but forgot to focus on the phone app and contact list. The upshot is i have a buggy, unresponsive phone app that misidentifies which call Im on, forgets to hang up, takes forever to let me answer incoming calls, etc.
I mean its wonderful that I can have an audio spectrum analyzer on my phone, but all I really want is a communication device. I already have a laptop if i want a general purpose computer.
Thought OS was responsible for 3rd party vulnerabilities?
Parent has been labeled troll but hes not wrong; this is the crap that people have been spouting and its nonsense. Show me an OS that cant get viruses, and Ill show you an OS that cant run third party binary code or interpreted code or receive updates.
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IE9 vs Firefox vs Chrome seems such a wash security wise at this point that the wisecracks are a bit worn. Chrome's auto-update and sandboxing may make it more secure, but gone (IMO) are the days where you can really be on solid ground mocking someone for using IE-- IE9 is a decent (though limited) browser, with a number of performance and security features that I do not believe firefox matches.
Those icons resided in the %allusersprofile%\desktop folder, which is (rightfully) only writeable by admin. By attempting to rename those icons, you were attempting to write to a system protected location. Darn tootin it asks for credentials, and Ill note that even on XP a non-admin would not have been able to rename them.
And for the record Win7 would give you the same issue.
I have yet to find something I can't do on the system.
Drop admin privileges without breaking every program in existence?
Run a version of IE that isnt dog slow?
Also, not enough shiney [not sure if joking]
Until IE5.5 crashes trying to render www.slashdot.org, that is.
Btw why the heck is slashdot a .org? Did geeknet become nonprofit when I wasnt watching?
What makes you think the begetting stopped?
Do folks honestly have this conception of christians reluctantly consummating a marriage or using sex for procreation only?
Even so, I still feel if you had said "maybe those Nazis were onto something with the gas chambers", or "maybe the inquisition was onto something with that torture", or "maybe Pol Pot was onto something with those killing fields", I doubt it would have been modded anything other than troll.
Its a question of whether its a socially appropriate thing to say.
Can someone explain this for me? The current administration-- the one presumably doing the prosecution-- is NOT run by Romney OR a republican, but by the Dem. Obama.
Do you mean to imply that all republicans are pro-waterboarding? Because I can refute that right now-- its just not true.
Somehow I imagine if your comment had been about Jews and the Holocaust you would not have been modded funny. But somehow because the "genocide" was directed at Christians and not Jews, its ok to mock?
My interpretation is that Christianity never really made its peace with sexuality, like more natural religions, from the strange inheretence path of the greek cult of virginity into what was originally a Jewish sect.
Its kind of hard to reconcile that statement with the inclusion of the Song of Songs in the Bible.
An excerpt:
Awake, north wind,
and come, south wind!
Blow on my garden,
that its fragrance may spread everywhere.
Let my beloved come into his garden
and taste its choice fruits.
What do you suppose is being referenced here? Do you think that "garden" might be a metaphor for something?
So much for the Bible not making peace with sex; it simply has trouble with the idea of "free, unrestrained, sexuality". Its kind of like how theres nothing wrong with eating dinner, and lots wrong with spending your entire life devoted to food.
Maybe thats a false assumption; maybe a homosexual would be just as welcome at a baptist church as a heterosexual. I can tell you anecdotally that you certainly have not described every church out there, nor even a single church I have ever attended.
Of course, if he were to ask "what does christianity say about homosexual relationships", and then feel offended, thats not really anyone's fault but his. Certainly I've seen it with divorcees who get bent out of shape because, even though they know Christians say everyone sins, they didnt think it could POSSIBLY apply to their behavior, and that for anyone to dare to believe that their behavior is anything less than perfect is terribly judgemental.
In the DC metro area they are everywhere. I daresay there are more 7-11s in a 10 mile radius of DC than there are Starbucks.
True though... seeing the whole quote doesn't help much in my mind. Walking around aimlessly? Really? thats why you called 911? Because a guy is walking around aimlessly?
If youre on neighborhood watch? Yea, partly. Your job is to find suspicious behavior and report it.
A stranger wandering around aimlessly in the rain in a gated community IS suspicious. Its not illegal, but then neighborhood watch isnt a police force.
Example: Microsoft during Windows 95 release was adamant about not producing a TCP/IP stack for Windows claiming that the Internet was a waste of time and there is nobody in their right mind that would use it. Microsoft released and poured cash into their own proprietary network protocol (NetBUI).
Funfact: When I was working on my A+ back around 2004, the course material we used indicated that "one" of the communications protocols was TCPIP, but it was esoteric and of course everyone used NetBEUI.
I think I still have the book talking about how the future is NetBEUI and how TCP/IP is some backwoods protocol that noone uses.
As a (protestant) Christian, I think I can second that mormons tend not to be the litigious reactionary jerks that Scientologists can be, and Ive never heard of mormons organizing to kill someone or burn down an embassy.
I dont agree with mormonism, and I think their claim to Christianity is misplaced, but lets not unjustly accuse them here. Its about as absurd as the Chinese govt cracking down on Falun Gong-- if youre going to pick a dangerous and volatile group, these arent the ones youre looking for.
I believe you can override it on a per-page basis. Thats how chrome deals with it.
A lot of the problem is how awful the hardware buttons are. Everything wants to use the touchscreen, and the hardware keyboard is treated as a second class citizen (its basically impossible to dial a number on).
The problem is Im used to being able to very quickly initiate phone calls without having to look at my phone. On a blackberry I can do phone--companyname--phone and im immediately calling my PoC at that company. On an Android, it FEELS fast while youre swhooshing around between call log and dialer and contact list, but its much much slower, and requires my full attention.
So yay for futurism, except its loads less efficient and basically unusable in a car.
I have an android which likewise has a sensor, but it is still possible to hang up if you brush your cheek just right against it. It happens rarely, but does happen, and its kind of embarrassing.
Try calling an extension in a contact whos number is formatted as 111-222-3333 x444. This is a documented bug, android will choose to call 1112223333444 and get a "could not connect" error. You have to go through and reformat your contacts to replace the x with a semicolon; no other delimiter is accepted.
And you have a hang-up button or a mute button? I had understood the buttons on Android phones were set and static across hardware. There is a menu button, a home button, a back button, and a search button. The phone settings app doesnt allow selecting a hardware end call button except for the wake-up / sleep button.
And I would be interested to know if you have the ability to search by company name in your contacts with the stock app.
These problems have been verified on other models, incidentally.
I see lots of dedicated HP LaserJet4 and Laserjet P2205s. Know why? Because theyre about a thousand times more reliable than those crappy MFC devices that are slow, suck and fail all the time.
Its a pretty good parallel, actually.
There was nothing to respond to, from a business standpoint. iPhone looks like it would be great for a personal phone, but I cant imagine trying to actually use it in business. Hanging up on accident because your cheek touched "end call" isnt exactly professional.
Compare to android.
Stock phone app...
* Sucks at handling dual call situations. In some scenarios it will get confused and mix up which line you are on (displays youre on call A when youre actually on call B)
* Is slow and unresponsive. Ive received call notifications (vibrate), with the GUI taking 2 whole seconds to actually let me answer the call
* Sucks at dialing extensions. 111-222-3333 x444 does not work; you have to go through and re-edit all your contacts to let it dial extensions. If the number was dialed from an email signature, tough-- you have to manually enter the numbers (it tries to dial all 13 numbers at once and is unable to connect)
* Doesnt have a dedicated hang-up button. You have to wake the phone up, wait for GUI to respond, then hit "end call". You can specify a dedicated button, but its also the "wakeup" button, so if your phone goes to sleep while on a call you CANNOT wake it up without ending the call (brilliant design).
* No dedicated hardware mute button. Mute is a tiny little button below "end call"
Stock Contact list...
* Sucks at search. You cant just enter "company name" to find the company you want to call-- you have to know who the name on that contact is. Which kind of sucks if you have 300 clients and the point of contact keeps changing.
Its absurd that you get a $300 piece of hardware billed as a business android phone that is dreadful at actually contacting business clients, but at least it can play the latest game in the app-store right? Ive also heard the "just find the right app for that", which results in third party apps which suck at calls in other ways (like chewing up tons of CPU for indexing, or being even worse about extensions)
Everything business about the blackberry was perfect, from its awesome contact search to its outlook memo sync to how you could basically dial any number in any format from any app and the phone would figure extensions and whatnot out on its own. Yes, blackberries tend to be slow and not much use outside of email / phone, but that IS why we have laptops and tablets, right? Tacking a phone app onto a general purpose palm pilot doesnt make it a good business phone, and it would be great if the android devs could figure that out and nail down these basic phone features.
It seems like every time one of these stories about how BBY sucks and android is the future comes out, this mass of bitterness rises up in me because noone else seems to care that most modern smartphones suck at basic phone functionality, and that apparently im one of the few remaining in a dying market.
Seconded.
I just switched off of a Blackberry to a Motorola Admiral, and Im utterly disappointed. It seems like android has tons of shiney, but forgot to focus on the phone app and contact list. The upshot is i have a buggy, unresponsive phone app that misidentifies which call Im on, forgets to hang up, takes forever to let me answer incoming calls, etc.
I mean its wonderful that I can have an audio spectrum analyzer on my phone, but all I really want is a communication device. I already have a laptop if i want a general purpose computer.
GLAdOS, MySQL, and PHP?
Sounds like a dangerous combination, to me.
And scienceblog is more willing to use a study that it doesnt link to to validate its positions.
Seriously WTF. No important details, no actual numbers, no study, but lets ridicule conservatives for being anti-science. You sure showed them.
Thought OS was responsible for 3rd party vulnerabilities?
Parent has been labeled troll but hes not wrong; this is the crap that people have been spouting and its nonsense. Show me an OS that cant get viruses, and Ill show you an OS that cant run third party binary code or interpreted code or receive updates.