But but but if the taxes make people behave the way I want them to behave, that must mean they're a good thing, right? After all, I wouldn't require every person behave a certain way if I didn't know it was best for them whether they want it or not.
Slashdotters, as a group, have a complete inability to take an objective look at things. Everyone is too busy believing that world would be perfect if only everyone thought the way they did. That attitude gives you tremendous blind spots when dealing with reality.
Protecting people from themselves is always a terrible reason, and that's all this boils down to no matter how many times people wanna get all "think of the children."
You'd think the whole prohibition mess would have taught the puritanical moral high-ground people how well banning things works. Guess the real whack-a-mole game is trying to hammer the lesson into the nanny-stater head.
Meanwhile, if the law manages to shut down every prostitution ad on the web, they'll just go back to the streets. Good job! I miss walking through a sea of hookers on the way to the train station.
I see how you think you're making a point, but honestly, why should saying these things be illegal? Because it conflicts with some authority's opinions on certain matters? Too freakin bad, preventing some authority's opinion on influencing the thoughts and speech of the populace at large is the entire point of the first amendment.
Yes, but on the other hand, fuck Europe. Why bother catering to whiny bitches who only know how to leech their high-tech goods from AMERICA FUCK YEAH! and then demand tribute in the form of fines to allow the sales to continue?
The government also decides what is and isn't lawful, and in most cases simply defines whatever activity they wish to undertake as being just fine with them. Individual people not in the government don't have that power, even when they direct a major corporation.
You own the computers and networking equipment at your company? That seems like a highly unusual arrangement to me but cool on you if that is the case.
Ahh, they're nefariously offering a free trial of their software to allow people to find problems and begin developing software without having to pay for something not in its final state. I even noticed that with pure malicious intent they're informing people of the exact conditions under which it will no longer work. We should probably advance on Redmond, pitchforks in hand. Purging Microsoft with fire is the only way to stop this horrible evil... beta period.
Hell, I'd like the ability to overlay the windshield with a HUD conveying speed information and wheel angles so I know what everyone around me is doing. Maybe shade the lanes so I know when it's safe to change. Or something. Apple will figure it out when they produce the iCar system, found only in select fancy-ass cars.
Basically, it's single-use public transportation for people in cities who don't own cars. I use one two or three times a month to make runs to the big suburban shopping centers and such. Occasionally I take one for a few days and visit my parents. Otherwise I'm on foot, bike, train, or bus.
If only my worst problem was that I couldn't get my customers to stop buying one product I sell in favor of another.
Windows 7 is likely to shake things up completely, if the Internet hype machine is to be believed. I'm not entirely convinced it is yet, but things are looking up for Redmond.
Note the brilliant strategy Bill Gates employed here. Ruthless business practices and good enough technology to get a strangehold on the market, followed by the (amazing in some respects) willingness to step aside and let people with better technical chops improve the product until it is permalocked in the #1 position.
I think people keep forgetting that Bill was the Chief Software Architect, and his stepping down from that role is practically synchronous with Windows shedding the legacy cruft and transforming into what could be a seriously worthwhile piece of software.
If by making the point that the #1 alternative to the flagship Microsoft product is another Microsoft product you hope to somehow insinuate that Microsoft is dying, you are failing miserably.
I'll save you some trouble - I'm not a shill or an astroturfer, don't particularly like Microsoft, and I only use Windows at work, and only then because my client demands it. I am, however, a realist.
Will you become suicidally depressed when Windows 7 is a massive success? All signs are pointing to Microsoft starting to get their shit together for real, and that's gotta be the/.er's biggest nightmare.
Here's my plea to Slashdotters - please stop talking about the average user unless you actually know something. Your nerd-based opinion on the stupidity of the rest of the human race is not a fact upon which security can be implemented.
It's not about rumors and lies, it's about people who have a lot of anger about something they don't understand in the least. Zealotry does that to you.
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But but but if the taxes make people behave the way I want them to behave, that must mean they're a good thing, right? After all, I wouldn't require every person behave a certain way if I didn't know it was best for them whether they want it or not.
Slashdotters, as a group, have a complete inability to take an objective look at things. Everyone is too busy believing that world would be perfect if only everyone thought the way they did. That attitude gives you tremendous blind spots when dealing with reality.
Protecting people from themselves is always a terrible reason, and that's all this boils down to no matter how many times people wanna get all "think of the children."
You'd think the whole prohibition mess would have taught the puritanical moral high-ground people how well banning things works. Guess the real whack-a-mole game is trying to hammer the lesson into the nanny-stater head.
Meanwhile, if the law manages to shut down every prostitution ad on the web, they'll just go back to the streets. Good job! I miss walking through a sea of hookers on the way to the train station.
I see how you think you're making a point, but honestly, why should saying these things be illegal? Because it conflicts with some authority's opinions on certain matters? Too freakin bad, preventing some authority's opinion on influencing the thoughts and speech of the populace at large is the entire point of the first amendment.
Yes, but on the other hand, fuck Europe. Why bother catering to whiny bitches who only know how to leech their high-tech goods from AMERICA FUCK YEAH! and then demand tribute in the form of fines to allow the sales to continue?
And get off our Internet while you're at it.
*bet you're offended anyway.
Just so you know, big businesses are owned by "ordinary citizens."
The government also decides what is and isn't lawful, and in most cases simply defines whatever activity they wish to undertake as being just fine with them. Individual people not in the government don't have that power, even when they direct a major corporation.
Yes, I think it is better or worse than blocking port 80.
You own the computers and networking equipment at your company? That seems like a highly unusual arrangement to me but cool on you if that is the case.
Ahh, they're nefariously offering a free trial of their software to allow people to find problems and begin developing software without having to pay for something not in its final state. I even noticed that with pure malicious intent they're informing people of the exact conditions under which it will no longer work. We should probably advance on Redmond, pitchforks in hand. Purging Microsoft with fire is the only way to stop this horrible evil... beta period.
You subscribe to definitions of "doesn't" and "never" that are somewhat less than strict, huh?
Hell, I'd like the ability to overlay the windshield with a HUD conveying speed information and wheel angles so I know what everyone around me is doing. Maybe shade the lanes so I know when it's safe to change. Or something. Apple will figure it out when they produce the iCar system, found only in select fancy-ass cars.
Basically, it's single-use public transportation for people in cities who don't own cars. I use one two or three times a month to make runs to the big suburban shopping centers and such. Occasionally I take one for a few days and visit my parents. Otherwise I'm on foot, bike, train, or bus.
It works very well in my opinion.
*shrug*
If only my worst problem was that I couldn't get my customers to stop buying one product I sell in favor of another.
Windows 7 is likely to shake things up completely, if the Internet hype machine is to be believed. I'm not entirely convinced it is yet, but things are looking up for Redmond.
Note the brilliant strategy Bill Gates employed here. Ruthless business practices and good enough technology to get a strangehold on the market, followed by the (amazing in some respects) willingness to step aside and let people with better technical chops improve the product until it is permalocked in the #1 position.
I think people keep forgetting that Bill was the Chief Software Architect, and his stepping down from that role is practically synchronous with Windows shedding the legacy cruft and transforming into what could be a seriously worthwhile piece of software.
Again, just realism.
Of course, according to their own goals, Intel is vastly more successful than AMD.
Lesson learned? You can try to impose your values on other people, but the only likely outcome is that your frustration levels will increase.
If by making the point that the #1 alternative to the flagship Microsoft product is another Microsoft product you hope to somehow insinuate that Microsoft is dying, you are failing miserably.
I'll save you some trouble - I'm not a shill or an astroturfer, don't particularly like Microsoft, and I only use Windows at work, and only then because my client demands it. I am, however, a realist.
Will you become suicidally depressed when Windows 7 is a massive success? All signs are pointing to Microsoft starting to get their shit together for real, and that's gotta be the /.er's biggest nightmare.
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RMS is right now hunting you down to kill you. Possibly by suffocating you in his armpit. What a way to go.
Here's my plea to Slashdotters - please stop talking about the average user unless you actually know something. Your nerd-based opinion on the stupidity of the rest of the human race is not a fact upon which security can be implemented.
I wouldn't guess buggy, idiosyncratic, or unreliable so much as a performance pig. The file system isn't a good place to chew cycles for kicks.
oh, cool. That seems reasonable to me. Say hi to Kanye for me.
Why trust you? What is your expertise? Do you "just know?" Do you have some sort of usability study? What are your qualifications?
It's not about rumors and lies, it's about people who have a lot of anger about something they don't understand in the least. Zealotry does that to you.
If your app is so performance critical that the overhead of exceptions is worth optimizing out, why the hell are you writing it in PHP?