I still use usenet for asking technical questions. I don't understand your preference.
Back in the dejanews days there was still a lot of spam and a lot of RTFM types. The Deja interface was slow and clunky.
These days many companies block direct usenet access, so it is nice to have google groups with a convenient web interface around. Searching the archives is much quicker and easier.
He wants warrantless searches, he is anti-choice, he called his own wife a "cunt" in front of journalists, and he wants to continue the war in Iraq. Who cares if he is a "liberal" republican?
I'm starting to think that the commentators who call a McCain presidency a "3rd Term For Bush" are more accurate then people give them credit for. Sounds like more of the same.
Clinton would be a good vice president for Obama. A bigoted, would-be, assassin will have not motivation to shoot Obama given that such an action will put a woman and a "left wing nightmare" woman into the presidency.
Why would Clinton want to be vice president? They don't get to do anything that interesting in terms of power or change. Being the VP will also not speed up the amount of time she will have to wait to have another GOOD shot at the presidency. If she was the VP and Obama is a poor president that stigma will just stick to her. Look at Gore. There is no benefit in it for her.
Clinton has dreamed about being president all of her adult life. If that was the case for me and had I gone to all the trouble, expense etc... that campaigning takes I would stay into the very end.
Would having 20% of the share of the browser market make Firefox the most successful *end user* FOSS?
If so, I think it provides a loud message to old school free(dom) software developers who see crappy interfaces as only a small inconvenience that users SHOULD suck up and stop "whining" about.
IMHO one of the reasons for the success of Firefox among Jane User is the easy of use and simple interface.
Maybe with 20% market share I will start meeting web site designers who know that Microsoft is not "the internet", that there are other browsers and that the W3 sets the standards.
Another reader notes that the Obama campaign is also searching for a security expert to plug the holes that allowed a hacker to redirect Obama's site (Linux/Apache hosted by GoDaddy) to Hillary Clinton's (Windows/IIS hosted by Rackspace).
If I was an Obama campaign manager I would actually be thankful that happened. People like me, who started off being fans of the Clintons, have gotten turned off to them because of the negative tactics they and their strong supporters have used.
I had a refrigerator magnet that read "Come Back Bill, All Is Forgiven". I just moved and decided not to put it back up. In one day Geraldine Ferraro's reputation was ruined for me.
This move could have unexpected results. I think MS Word will always be prominent, even with competition opened up a lot more. Open Office has improved a lot over the years, but they can't seem to let go of decisions that keep OO big/clunky/slow/etc - without tweaking. I use OO at home on my Ubuntu box because it is the best thing on Linux for dealing with MS Office documents. Soon, that will no longer be true with MS deciding to support ODF. OO users like me may start dropping OO for koffice, "gnome office" and other alternative office software they previously stayed away from because of the MS interoperability issue.
I'm a programmer. My viewpoint is the opposite. I'm always feeling a bit worried in some part of my mind that H1-B visas or outsourcing will diminish the jobs in my field. At the least interesting and/or well paying ones. Even without that worry it seems like programming jobs last 1 - 2 years tops before something dries up at the company you are at. Not a career I would recommend to people unless they really loved tech and didn't feel that strongly about another career.
I have to wonder what planet these people read their news on, but I hope they are right and I am wrong.
I think the fact that was an emotional debate about this issue explains why many people don't take FOSS and FOSS people seriously. Getting emotional about a minor software feature? Not being enough of a grown up to realize that everybody wants the same things as the programmer so put in some options?
This is the result of a heated, emotional, and very interesting debate over a controversial new feature: As of version 2.4, the ability to manually resize the text input area has been removed;
It does pay to read Slashdot. I noticed this last night after upgrading to Ubuntu 8.04. I was thinking about sending a question about it to someone, but now I know it isn't a bug after all.
Sounds me to like you had your mind made up for the comment you wanted to make as you read mine.
I did not have those intentions at the same time. The question for which I was given a lie was about iPod Ubuntu compatibility. This was before I decided to give buying a Mac consideration. When I walked into the store to look at iPods I was so impressed with everything there I decided to be open minded about their computers. The conduct of the two salsepeople helped kill that.
1. If I am about to buy a bag of french fries for $2 I expect some respect. This is also true if I am about to buy a computer for the better part of $1000. Treating potential customers with basic respect is basic business. If Apple doesn't like it they will not and have not gotten my business. They aren't the only alternative to Windows in town.
2. I don't expect any kind of expert to know everything, least of all retail sales people. However, I do expect honesty. That means telling me that they don't know when they don't know. Giving me made up information to make a sale go through such that I would have spent money without getting what I wanted is flat our wrong.
----------- "short - obviously you've never shopped at Fry's before.:)" -----------
short - No offense to you, but while you may be okay with getting disrespected, being lied at to get your money and then doing business anyway.........I am not.
I almost went mac this year in a serious way. The prices were about right and I was tired of the hassles of the OSS world. Why didn't I go mac?
I went to a very nice mac store, 3 times. The first time I asked one of the sales people a question I knew the answer to. I could see in her face she didn't know the answer. Instead of telling me that she gave me wrong information that could have cost me money. The 3rd time I went back I spent a lot of time playing on one of their systems to get a feel for it. I liked it very much. I didn't like the idea of having to relearn everything to migrate and I thought Ubuntu is very nice. Then a young clerk with a snotty attitude asked me to get off the chair I was using to check out the computer. I guess I wasn't as important as the class they were holding in the store. I figure if I was going to deal with snotty 20 somethings I should do it with the linux community and save myself a grand.
Then I wanted an MP3 player.
I was seriously considering an iPod.
Then I found out I could not use iTunes on Ubuntu without an emulator. Then I read a few "fuck you" articles from the mac high priesthood addressed to linux people who used iPods. then I read articles about how the iPod would get changes making more work necessary to get it going with linux.
I went on the ubuntuforums got some recommendations for linux friendly mp3 players. Then I bought a used one for $50 that does everything the iPod would have done for me and more.
I'm not a supporter of PETA. Whenever there is a thread about PETA on any kind of tech blog the same OLD jokes and the same DUMB comments are made. Over and over again. The people who post these recycled comments seem very pleased with themselves, completely unaware of how unoriginal they are.
Even on slashdot browsing at level 5.
Guys, I'm not saying agree with anybody, but how about opening the mind and letting an interrupt from the cerebral cortex get through before the fingers hit the key board?
If they're vegans for more than one narrow reason (which they seem to be) this will not make them happy.
I understand that people don't care, but looking at the desire to prevent cruelty to animals as "one narrow reason" is something I just can't wrap my head around
I can't recall the comedian, but someone once noted "Why do vegetarians need to make their food (tofu pups, veggieburgers) look like meat they simply wont eat?
Vegans aren't vegan because they dislike meat. They are vegans because ethically they don't like where meat comes from.
It drives me crazy when companies think that the only way out of their mess is to lay off the staff, when the people responsible for the mess (board of directors and executive), don't give themselves a pay cut of 10%. Chances are, knowing how US exeuctives pay themselves, it would proably equal the amount saved laying off 10% of their staff. But what do I know?
Traditionally, when a ship sank you put the officers on trial and reassigned the crew. The crew didn't make the decision that led to the ship sinking, their decisions were not the problem that needs to be fixed.
I was amazed that after my VERY well funded dot.com (remember Broadband Office ? )failed that almost all of the management got rehired quickly into good positions. They were the people that made the decisions that led to the company failing.
Rehiring those people is like taking a broken part out of a car in junkyard to keep your car running.
A lot of that was cronyism, but even so, the healthy of your company comes before helping your friend out. Your company is your job and your livelihood.
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I still use usenet for asking technical questions. I don't understand your preference.
Back in the dejanews days there was still a lot of spam and a lot of RTFM types. The Deja interface was slow and clunky.
These days many companies block direct usenet access, so it is nice to have google groups with a convenient web interface around. Searching the archives is much quicker and easier.
He wants warrantless searches, he is anti-choice, he called his own wife a "cunt" in front of journalists, and he wants to continue the war in Iraq. Who cares if he is a "liberal" republican?
I'm starting to think that the commentators who call a McCain presidency a "3rd Term For Bush" are more accurate then people give them credit for. Sounds like more of the same.
Clinton would be a good vice president for Obama. A bigoted, would-be, assassin will have not motivation to shoot Obama given that such an action will put a woman and a "left wing nightmare" woman into the presidency.
Why would Clinton want to be vice president? They don't get to do anything that interesting in terms of power or change. Being the VP will also not speed up the amount of time she will have to wait to have another GOOD shot at the presidency. If she was the VP and Obama is a poor president that stigma will just stick to her. Look at Gore. There is no benefit in it for her.
Clinton has dreamed about being president all of her adult life. If that was the case for me and had I gone to all the trouble, expense etc... that campaigning takes I would stay into the very end.
Don't count Ron Paul out yet! Um, sorry, too much digg.com :-)
Would having 20% of the share of the browser market make Firefox the most successful *end user* FOSS?
If so, I think it provides a loud message to old school free(dom) software developers who see crappy interfaces as only a small inconvenience that users SHOULD suck up and stop "whining" about.
IMHO one of the reasons for the success of Firefox among Jane User is the easy of use and simple interface.
Maybe with 20% market share I will start meeting web site designers who know that Microsoft is not "the internet", that there are other browsers and that the W3 sets the standards.
Does this mean that I can go can back to digg.com and find articles in the news section about topics other than Ron Paul?
Another reader notes that the Obama campaign is also searching for a security expert to plug the holes that allowed a hacker to redirect Obama's site (Linux/Apache hosted by GoDaddy) to Hillary Clinton's (Windows/IIS hosted by Rackspace).
If I was an Obama campaign manager I would actually be thankful that happened. People like me, who started off being fans of the Clintons, have gotten turned off to them because of the negative tactics they and their strong supporters have used.
I had a refrigerator magnet that read "Come Back Bill, All Is Forgiven". I just moved and decided not to put it back up. In one day Geraldine Ferraro's reputation was ruined for me.
This move could have unexpected results. I think MS Word will always be prominent, even with competition opened up a lot more. Open Office has improved a lot over the years, but they can't seem to let go of decisions that keep OO big/clunky/slow/etc - without tweaking. I use OO at home on my Ubuntu box because it is the best thing on Linux for dealing with MS Office documents. Soon, that will no longer be true with MS deciding to support ODF. OO users like me may start dropping OO for koffice, "gnome office" and other alternative office software they previously stayed away from because of the MS interoperability issue.
Linux would be a lot more successful in the desktop arena if those developers could stop competing with each other and compete more with Microsoft
I'm a programmer. My viewpoint is the opposite. I'm always feeling a bit worried in some part of my mind that H1-B visas or outsourcing will diminish the jobs in my field. At the least interesting and/or well paying ones. Even without that worry it seems like programming jobs last 1 - 2 years tops before something dries up at the company you are at. Not a career I would recommend to people unless they really loved tech and didn't feel that strongly about another career.
I have to wonder what planet these people read their news on, but I hope they are right and I am wrong.
I think the fact that was an emotional debate about this issue explains why many people don't take FOSS and FOSS people seriously. Getting emotional about a minor software feature? Not being enough of a grown up to realize that everybody wants the same things as the programmer so put in some options?
Cranial rectal inversion at its best.
It does pay to read Slashdot. I noticed this last night after upgrading to Ubuntu 8.04. I was thinking about sending a question about it to someone, but now I know it isn't a bug after all.
I'm looking forward to losing a few other things out of the White House during the November 2008 upgrade
Sounds me to like you had your mind made up for the comment you wanted to make as you read mine.
I did not have those intentions at the same time. The question for which I was given a lie was about iPod Ubuntu compatibility. This was before I decided to give buying a Mac consideration. When I walked into the store to look at iPods I was so impressed with everything there I decided to be open minded about their computers. The conduct of the two salsepeople helped kill that.
1. If I am about to buy a bag of french fries for $2 I expect some respect. This is also true if I am about to buy a computer for the better part of $1000. Treating potential customers with basic respect is basic business. If Apple doesn't like it they will not and have not gotten my business. They aren't the only alternative to Windows in town.
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2. I don't expect any kind of expert to know everything, least of all retail sales people.
However, I do expect honesty. That means telling me that they don't know when they don't know. Giving me made up information to make a sale go through such that I would have spent money without getting what I wanted is flat our wrong.
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"short - obviously you've never shopped at Fry's before.
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short - No offense to you, but while you may be okay with getting disrespected, being lied at to get your money and then doing business anyway.........I am not.
I almost went mac this year in a serious way. The prices were about right and I was tired of the hassles of the OSS world. Why didn't I go mac?
I went to a very nice mac store, 3 times. The first time I asked one of the sales people a question I knew the answer to. I could see in her face she didn't know the answer. Instead of telling me that she gave me wrong information that could have cost me money. The 3rd time I went back I spent a lot of time playing on one of their systems to get a feel for it. I liked it very much. I didn't like the idea of having to relearn everything to migrate and I thought Ubuntu is very nice. Then a young clerk with a snotty attitude asked me to get off the chair I was using to check out the computer. I guess I wasn't as important as the class they were holding in the store. I figure if I was going to deal with snotty 20 somethings I should do it with the linux community and save myself a grand.
Then I wanted an MP3 player.
I was seriously considering an iPod.
Then I found out I could not use iTunes on Ubuntu without an emulator. Then I read a few "fuck you" articles from the mac high priesthood addressed to linux people who used iPods. then I read articles about how the iPod would get changes making more work necessary to get it going with linux.
I went on the ubuntuforums got some recommendations for linux friendly mp3 players. Then I bought a used one for $50 that does everything the iPod would have done for me and more.
I'm not a supporter of PETA. Whenever there is a thread about PETA on any kind of tech blog the same OLD jokes and the same DUMB comments are made. Over and over again. The people who post these recycled comments seem very pleased with themselves, completely unaware of how unoriginal they are.
Even on slashdot browsing at level 5.
Guys, I'm not saying agree with anybody, but how about opening the mind and letting an interrupt from the cerebral cortex get through before the fingers hit the key board?
Maybe a new investigation into the rivets could be worked into the plot of this movie.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vD4OnHCRd_4
I was amazed that after my VERY well funded dot.com (remember Broadband Office ? )failed that almost all of the management got rehired quickly into good positions. They were the people that made the decisions that led to the company failing.
Rehiring those people is like taking a broken part out of a car in junkyard to keep your car running.
A lot of that was cronyism, but even so, the healthy of your company comes before helping your friend out. Your company is your job and your livelihood.
Is how long I have had my yahoo account. If microsoft takes it over I will stop using it and have it deleted.