All of you, PLEASE you're driving me INSANE with your rattling on about how Idle is pants. I know that. And I know what you think about CmdrTaco, I just don't care. And no, I don't want to join the GNAA so STOP ASKING. And I'm allergic to grits. Oh god, did you have to tell us that about yourself? I can't even make sense of this any more, must be a Microsoft Patch Tuesday submission in the firehose.
seeming to occur is the problem here. Someone defined that to account for the principal that if you run out of explanations, the only one left is correct. If I were a caveman watching this, I'd believe it is ESP. Only I wouldn't know what ESP is, so I'd think the two people involved were gods. Your definition leaves 'magic' as part of ESP, also the type of charlatanry performed by John Edwards and other cold readers, mere coincidence where the observer is ignoranct of the relationship of cause and effect, and many other possibilities.
In other words, if you had someone behind you, picking your pocket and writing your details on signs held aside or above your head, I could tell you a lot of stuff, and you'd think I were reading your mind. That's ESP according to this definition.
Also, being able to look up a dictionary definition doesn't make you better than anyone else, it simply highlights your own ignorance. If you knew what you were talking about you would elaborate a bit, not just copy and paste. I don't expect dictionary writers to be experts on every subject, so I tend to take it with a grain of sailt - they have to whittle down arguments among many perceptions to a few words. It's not an accurate representation of what all people in the field believe. If you don't know what you're talking about then just keep your fucking mouth shut. I really hate people like yourself that spout bullshit with smug authority.
*sigh* so much effort on an AC, I must find better things to do this morning.
If I worked for him anywhere, and I heard him spouting off like this, the LAST thing I'd do is correct him. I'm sure I would be fired, even if I did it one-on-one. Some people I might tell, but he has an air of vindictiveness that I would like to avoid.
If he asked me first, I'd tell him straight up, but once he makes an announcement like this, especially repeatedly, there is no way I'd correct him.
Even thought you're probably right, the scenario plays out in my head as a board meeting or similar, someone starts complaining about Google linking and getting ad revenue. Someone else says they shouldn't do that. Someone else decides they should start a campaign to get money from Google, and the announcement happens. At no time does someone say "hey, let's get some opinions from the guys who fix my computer."
It doesn't even matter what they know - they don't WANT to know. The problem is not indexing, or they would say "I will task you with stopping Google from indexing our sites, give us a proposal at next month's meeting." The problem is financial.
Spending your money to help people is socialism, giving your money to people who worked for it is good. Even if all they did was build stuff to kill people with, even if its our own people. Military suppliers are honest businessmen pulling themselves up by their bootstraps, while single mothers and people whose parents didn't insist on them getting a good education should be punished for their poor decision making. Having children outside of wedlock can be avoided by keeping your legs together you dirty hooker, everyone knows birth control isn't 100% effective. After all, if we help one out we have to help them all, and that's when government increases and taxes go up.
I'm pretty sure that's correct, I've watched Fox News before.
As well as "you're going in the right direction, keep it up."
Bush made it clear mid-dark skinned people weren't welcome, and Obama is trying to turn around all of the hate towards Muslims. I think there are more deserving winners, but encouraging America to keep working for peace is going to be a highly effective gambit, much more than awarding someone whose work is behind them.
So not agreeing with the strategy, but I can understand it.
Malpractice suits cost money Malpractice insurance costs money Misdiagnosis means malpractice suit is likely Doctor's office gets paid to do tests, not to review old tests
So it's a lot better for everyone* if the doc orders every newfangled test imaginable. In fact, lots of typical screening tests are now un-recommended, because we are spending far too much money testing people without symptoms, and then treating the problem.
A hospital will charge you $10 or more to wipe off the sticky residue left by taping various things to your body. It's just $1 acetone (nail polish remover), but the individual packaging for hygiene concerns brings the price up, as well as coverage for any lawsuits that might arise, and the fees for administration, and the facility's profit.
There is no end to the stupidity, but it's a fact that lawsuit avoidance is a big part of the cost increases. Health care salaries have not gone up, patient insurance profits haven't gone up enough to explain it, but lawsuits are all over the place.
Looks like it detected and trimmed it, which is why you had to put a space in there. So the answer is yes, goatse turned out to be helpful, giving us the tools we need to prevent phishing attempts.
I read it as "Change the EULA and try again, AutoDesk."
"The Autodesk License is a hodgepodge of terms that, standing alone, support both a transfer of ownership and a mere license," said the ruling. "Autodesk expressly retains title to the 'Software and accompanying materials,' but it has no right to regain possession of the software or the 'accompanying materials'. Licensees pay a single up-front price for the software. Autodesk can require the destruction of the software, but only as consideration in the later purchase of an upgrade."
If the license explicitly allows regaining possession, a court would have to decide whether that is reasonable, and whether First Sale applies. In other words, is the EULA enforceable. Or if you bought directly and signed a contract, is the contract binding. After all, I can't write software which says "Clicking OK means you agree" if the license says "and you have to give me a baby, existing or new" because that's not reasonable. Is it reasonable for someone to sell software and expect to never be able to re-sell it? I believe that's still an open question, otherwise this case would not have gone far.
"DMCA counter notice" requires you to swear you are telling the truth. If you send a counter notice, you are pretty much saying you're ready to go to bat. You're also guilty of perjury if you're lying.
A proper counter-notice must contain the following information:
* The subscriber's name, address, phone number and physical or electronic signature [512(g)(3)(A)]
* Identification of the material and its location before removal [512(g)(3)(B)]
* A statement under penalty of perjury that the material was removed by mistake or misidentification [512(g)(3)(C)]
* Subscriber consent to local federal court jurisdiction, or if overseas, to an appropriate judicial body. [512(g)(3)(D)]
Why? Because they had different priorities. Probably cheap development, since.NET people are everywhere. Once a system like that starts running, you forget about startup costs and look at maintenance. Considering there was a 7 hour downtime on the market's best day, and they never approached the desired < 10 ms response time, the system was obviously not designed with uptime as the goal.
If it had been designed with lower runtime cost instead of lower development cost, I bet a different technology would have been in order.
I think you should re-focus on a poorly designed installation system. I'm assuming it uses windows installer instead of rolling its own.
I hate the registry too, and I believe each app should have its own config file (maybe centrally located, and if you can double-click on a file to make arbitrary changes, so much the better).
Having to know if a setting is a DWORD or a STRING or HEX is stupid. Being told on every one of MS's KB pages that the answer is a registry change but please don't fool with your registry because it will give you chlamydia just like your cousin did is a terrible way to provide support.
Separate file permissions means you use the file system security, and don't have to write additional security code to lock down the registry.
Lack of documentation on the registry is another big point. Standard Microsoft keys can be found on the internet if you have a specific problem, but there's no list that says here's what we look for, here is the data type, go have fun. They want you to use a GUI to change things, even when it takes 5 levels of clicking something and having a new modal dialog come up. No you can't copy something from the file you were working on and paste it into your settings, you're changing important stuff.
So there are valid criticisms other than blaming a specific company or a specific installer.
You might want to update your sig. "--- For a good time mail uce@ftc.gov" is a bit outdated. By "a bit" I mean 5 years. I think you're looking for "SPAM[at]UCE.GOV"
I would put things in a different order - education being first. Others would have their own order. I know something needs to be changed, but who decides?
Isn't it possible that Microsoft will slowly see benefit from releasing source code? I see CodePlex as the natural evolution of the openness started with WiX. Try a few things, it doesn't go too badly, and move out a bit more.
The one thing to remember is that Microsoft cannot release too much code - since they buy everything they make, it will take too much legal work to clear everything for release unless it starts out as open from the beginning. So we should encourage this as much as possible.
Even if you can't do anything with the source, having it is a lot better than not.
Or if the retailer says "Qualifies for a FREE upgrade to Windows 7", that's a hidden fee. The cost is $0 and if you have sales tax, the tax is on $0 (as opposed to a gift like on The Price Is Right where the receiving party is responsible for sales taxes and/or licenses).
Nope, nothing like it. More like paying your neighbor's kid to go to the store and buy the upgrade disk. Only the store promised it would be free, so you're just paying the middleman.
Why should a middleman profit by selling you something prematurely, making it your responsibility to purchase and install the software at a later date? That's your time and money, for a free upgrade. I understand the part about installing it yourself - if you don't want to do that, then delay your purchase. But paying any sort of fee for a free upgrade is just not how you do things.
They've made a multi billion dollar business stuffing up Windows. They learned from Vista, but if you look at Windows 7 compared to Vista the biggest difference is that Vista drivers work in 7. That alone explains most of the instability and usability problems Vista had when it first got crapped out. A few more bug fixes for obvious issues and 7 launch will go smoothly, and you won't have the widespread fear-mongering everywhere. Poof, crap turns into a crap sandwich and people happily throw it down their gullets, thinking this time will be better.
I had a Microsoft refrigerator, top of the line. My neighbor couldn't figure out how to set the temperature with the foot pedal and built-in accelerometer, so all her food spoiled. The stupid woman took it back and got one of those Apple refrigerators that doesn't have a built-in accelerometer or foot pedal, choosing instead to have one that matched her decor. I painted my kitchen fuschia argyle to match and it looks AWESOME!!!11!!1!!eleventy. Why would you use a refrigerator that doesn't let you have that level of control?
Net Applications measures OS usage by tracking the machines that surf to the 40,000 sites it monitors for clients, which results in a data pool of about 160 million unique visitors per month
It really doesn't matter how many are downgrades for the purposes of this article. This is actual use, not purchases.
I too would be interested in the number of downgrades, but Microsoft is the only person who could tell us (different OEMs have different target markets, so just one OEM wouldn't be a trustable number), and it would not serve their purposes to reveal this yet. They have refused to divulge any such potentially harmful information repeatedly.
Ah, straight from the Libertarian Bible. It's funny when so many people are pro-Libertarian until they see Libertarian logic in action. Not that it's a bad thing, just amuses me.
Sorry if I have capitalized Libertarian if it wasn't appropriate - I get confused at the distinction sometimes.
And no one is downloading or mirroring this data? No one has hard copies of the complete 2008 law? This is trivial compared to the benefits. Right now we have a situation where a page can change the law, and elected congresscritters have plausible deniability.
I haven't found the source yet, but there was one case where a wording change was discovered to have been done by an aide without anyone's knowledge. This was on slashdot a while back.
And yes, this has come up before. Lots of comments everywhere.
As Martin Luther said, that is between the individual and God. You have the right to deceive yourself, you should not have the right to deceive your congregation.
Anyway, this analogy is crap because the judicial branch gets to interpret the legislative output, and whatever the judiciary thinks is what the law means.
Slashdot Mirror
Wrecked 'im? Damn near killed 'im.
Which netbooks have eInk screens?
All of you, PLEASE you're driving me INSANE with your rattling on about how Idle is pants. I know that. And I know what you think about CmdrTaco, I just don't care. And no, I don't want to join the GNAA so STOP ASKING. And I'm allergic to grits. Oh god, did you have to tell us that about yourself? I can't even make sense of this any more, must be a Microsoft Patch Tuesday submission in the firehose.
MAKE IT STOP, I beg of you.
seeming to occur is the problem here. Someone defined that to account for the principal that if you run out of explanations, the only one left is correct. If I were a caveman watching this, I'd believe it is ESP. Only I wouldn't know what ESP is, so I'd think the two people involved were gods. Your definition leaves 'magic' as part of ESP, also the type of charlatanry performed by John Edwards and other cold readers, mere coincidence where the observer is ignoranct of the relationship of cause and effect, and many other possibilities.
In other words, if you had someone behind you, picking your pocket and writing your details on signs held aside or above your head, I could tell you a lot of stuff, and you'd think I were reading your mind. That's ESP according to this definition.
Also, being able to look up a dictionary definition doesn't make you better than anyone else, it simply highlights your own ignorance. If you knew what you were talking about you would elaborate a bit, not just copy and paste. I don't expect dictionary writers to be experts on every subject, so I tend to take it with a grain of sailt - they have to whittle down arguments among many perceptions to a few words. It's not an accurate representation of what all people in the field believe. If you don't know what you're talking about then just keep your fucking mouth shut. I really hate people like yourself that spout bullshit with smug authority.
*sigh* so much effort on an AC, I must find better things to do this morning.
If I worked for him anywhere, and I heard him spouting off like this, the LAST thing I'd do is correct him. I'm sure I would be fired, even if I did it one-on-one. Some people I might tell, but he has an air of vindictiveness that I would like to avoid.
If he asked me first, I'd tell him straight up, but once he makes an announcement like this, especially repeatedly, there is no way I'd correct him.
Even thought you're probably right, the scenario plays out in my head as a board meeting or similar, someone starts complaining about Google linking and getting ad revenue. Someone else says they shouldn't do that. Someone else decides they should start a campaign to get money from Google, and the announcement happens. At no time does someone say "hey, let's get some opinions from the guys who fix my computer."
It doesn't even matter what they know - they don't WANT to know. The problem is not indexing, or they would say "I will task you with stopping Google from indexing our sites, give us a proposal at next month's meeting." The problem is financial.
[JAVERT]
Now bring me prisoner 24601
Your time is up
And your parole's begun
You know what that means.
[VALJEAN]
Yes, it means I'm free.
[JAVERT]
No!
It means you get
Your yellow ticket-of-leave
You are a thief
[VALJEAN]
I stole a loaf of bread.
[JAVERT]
You robbed a house.
[VALJEAN]
I broke a window pane.
My sister's child was close to death
And we were starving.
[JAVERT]
You will starve again
Unless you learn the meaning of the law.
[VALJEAN]
I know the meaning of those 19 years
A slave of the law
[JAVERT]
Five years for what you did
The rest because you tried to run
Yes, 24601.
[VALJEAN]
My name is Jean Valjean
[JAVERT]
And I am Javert
Do not forget my name!
Do not forget me,
24601.
He's obviously a Republican.
Spending your money to help people is socialism, giving your money to people who worked for it is good. Even if all they did was build stuff to kill people with, even if its our own people. Military suppliers are honest businessmen pulling themselves up by their bootstraps, while single mothers and people whose parents didn't insist on them getting a good education should be punished for their poor decision making. Having children outside of wedlock can be avoided by keeping your legs together you dirty hooker, everyone knows birth control isn't 100% effective. After all, if we help one out we have to help them all, and that's when government increases and taxes go up.
I'm pretty sure that's correct, I've watched Fox News before.
As well as "you're going in the right direction, keep it up."
Bush made it clear mid-dark skinned people weren't welcome, and Obama is trying to turn around all of the hate towards Muslims. I think there are more deserving winners, but encouraging America to keep working for peace is going to be a highly effective gambit, much more than awarding someone whose work is behind them.
So not agreeing with the strategy, but I can understand it.
Malpractice suits cost money
Malpractice insurance costs money
Misdiagnosis means malpractice suit is likely
Doctor's office gets paid to do tests, not to review old tests
So it's a lot better for everyone* if the doc orders every newfangled test imaginable. In fact, lots of typical screening tests are now un-recommended, because we are spending far too much money testing people without symptoms, and then treating the problem.
A hospital will charge you $10 or more to wipe off the sticky residue left by taping various things to your body. It's just $1 acetone (nail polish remover), but the individual packaging for hygiene concerns brings the price up, as well as coverage for any lawsuits that might arise, and the fees for administration, and the facility's profit.
There is no end to the stupidity, but it's a fact that lawsuit avoidance is a big part of the cost increases. Health care salaries have not gone up, patient insurance profits haven't gone up enough to explain it, but lawsuits are all over the place.
*except the patient
Just wondering what slashdot does without the extra space:
http://mydomain.com/bankbanksecurity.html
Looks like it detected and trimmed it, which is why you had to put a space in there. So the answer is yes, goatse turned out to be helpful, giving us the tools we need to prevent phishing attempts.
I read it as "Change the EULA and try again, AutoDesk."
"The Autodesk License is a hodgepodge of terms that, standing alone, support both a transfer of ownership and a mere license," said the ruling. "Autodesk expressly retains title to the 'Software and accompanying materials,' but it has no right to regain possession of the software or the 'accompanying materials'. Licensees pay a single up-front price for the software. Autodesk can require the destruction of the software, but only as consideration in the later purchase of an upgrade."
If the license explicitly allows regaining possession, a court would have to decide whether that is reasonable, and whether First Sale applies. In other words, is the EULA enforceable. Or if you bought directly and signed a contract, is the contract binding. After all, I can't write software which says "Clicking OK means you agree" if the license says "and you have to give me a baby, existing or new" because that's not reasonable. Is it reasonable for someone to sell software and expect to never be able to re-sell it? I believe that's still an open question, otherwise this case would not have gone far.
"DMCA counter notice" requires you to swear you are telling the truth. If you send a counter notice, you are pretty much saying you're ready to go to bat. You're also guilty of perjury if you're lying.
A proper counter-notice must contain the following information:
* The subscriber's name, address, phone number and physical or electronic signature [512(g)(3)(A)]
* Identification of the material and its location before removal [512(g)(3)(B)]
* A statement under penalty of perjury that the material was removed by mistake or misidentification [512(g)(3)(C)]
* Subscriber consent to local federal court jurisdiction, or if overseas, to an appropriate judicial body. [512(g)(3)(D)]
Why? Because they had different priorities. Probably cheap development, since .NET people are everywhere. Once a system like that starts running, you forget about startup costs and look at maintenance. Considering there was a 7 hour downtime on the market's best day, and they never approached the desired < 10 ms response time, the system was obviously not designed with uptime as the goal.
If it had been designed with lower runtime cost instead of lower development cost, I bet a different technology would have been in order.
Also, Clara Furse who decided to use the Windows solution had been replaced, and the new CEO made it a priority to replace the system, article dated 1 June
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/59A7846C896BEA95CC2575E5007D8F33
I think you should re-focus on a poorly designed installation system. I'm assuming it uses windows installer instead of rolling its own.
I hate the registry too, and I believe each app should have its own config file (maybe centrally located, and if you can double-click on a file to make arbitrary changes, so much the better).
Having to know if a setting is a DWORD or a STRING or HEX is stupid. Being told on every one of MS's KB pages that the answer is a registry change but please don't fool with your registry because it will give you chlamydia just like your cousin did is a terrible way to provide support.
Separate file permissions means you use the file system security, and don't have to write additional security code to lock down the registry.
Lack of documentation on the registry is another big point. Standard Microsoft keys can be found on the internet if you have a specific problem, but there's no list that says here's what we look for, here is the data type, go have fun. They want you to use a GUI to change things, even when it takes 5 levels of clicking something and having a new modal dialog come up. No you can't copy something from the file you were working on and paste it into your settings, you're changing important stuff.
So there are valid criticisms other than blaming a specific company or a specific installer.
You might want to update your sig. "--- For a good time mail uce@ftc.gov" is a bit outdated. By "a bit" I mean 5 years. I think you're looking for "SPAM[at]UCE.GOV"
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2004/07/newspamemail.shtm
I would put things in a different order - education being first. Others would have their own order. I know something needs to be changed, but who decides?
Isn't it possible that Microsoft will slowly see benefit from releasing source code? I see CodePlex as the natural evolution of the openness started with WiX. Try a few things, it doesn't go too badly, and move out a bit more.
The one thing to remember is that Microsoft cannot release too much code - since they buy everything they make, it will take too much legal work to clear everything for release unless it starts out as open from the beginning. So we should encourage this as much as possible.
Even if you can't do anything with the source, having it is a lot better than not.
Or if the retailer says "Qualifies for a FREE upgrade to Windows 7", that's a hidden fee. The cost is $0 and if you have sales tax, the tax is on $0 (as opposed to a gift like on The Price Is Right where the receiving party is responsible for sales taxes and/or licenses).
Nope, nothing like it. More like paying your neighbor's kid to go to the store and buy the upgrade disk. Only the store promised it would be free, so you're just paying the middleman.
Why should a middleman profit by selling you something prematurely, making it your responsibility to purchase and install the software at a later date? That's your time and money, for a free upgrade. I understand the part about installing it yourself - if you don't want to do that, then delay your purchase. But paying any sort of fee for a free upgrade is just not how you do things.
They've made a multi billion dollar business stuffing up Windows. They learned from Vista, but if you look at Windows 7 compared to Vista the biggest difference is that Vista drivers work in 7. That alone explains most of the instability and usability problems Vista had when it first got crapped out. A few more bug fixes for obvious issues and 7 launch will go smoothly, and you won't have the widespread fear-mongering everywhere. Poof, crap turns into a crap sandwich and people happily throw it down their gullets, thinking this time will be better.
The next version is always better.
I had a Microsoft refrigerator, top of the line. My neighbor couldn't figure out how to set the temperature with the foot pedal and built-in accelerometer, so all her food spoiled. The stupid woman took it back and got one of those Apple refrigerators that doesn't have a built-in accelerometer or foot pedal, choosing instead to have one that matched her decor. I painted my kitchen fuschia argyle to match and it looks AWESOME!!!11!!1!!eleventy. Why would you use a refrigerator that doesn't let you have that level of control?
Net Applications measures OS usage by tracking the machines that surf to the 40,000 sites it monitors for clients, which results in a data pool of about 160 million unique visitors per month
It really doesn't matter how many are downgrades for the purposes of this article. This is actual use, not purchases.
I too would be interested in the number of downgrades, but Microsoft is the only person who could tell us (different OEMs have different target markets, so just one OEM wouldn't be a trustable number), and it would not serve their purposes to reveal this yet. They have refused to divulge any such potentially harmful information repeatedly.
An estimate in Dec. '08 from one OEM was 75%
http://www.crn.com/software/212501005
Ah, straight from the Libertarian Bible. It's funny when so many people are pro-Libertarian until they see Libertarian logic in action. Not that it's a bad thing, just amuses me.
Sorry if I have capitalized Libertarian if it wasn't appropriate - I get confused at the distinction sometimes.
Keep spreading the word, my friend.
And no one is downloading or mirroring this data? No one has hard copies of the complete 2008 law? This is trivial compared to the benefits. Right now we have a situation where a page can change the law, and elected congresscritters have plausible deniability.
I haven't found the source yet, but there was one case where a wording change was discovered to have been done by an aide without anyone's knowledge. This was on slashdot a while back.
And yes, this has come up before. Lots of comments everywhere.
http://www.google.com/search?q=congress+needs+source+control&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/03/federal-bill-wo/
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/07/why-congress-ne.html
http://tonybuser.com/post/189954813/congress-needs-a-version-control-system
http://bexhuff.com/2007/07/congress-needs-version-control-system
http://freegovinfo.info/node/1321
As Martin Luther said, that is between the individual and God. You have the right to deceive yourself, you should not have the right to deceive your congregation.
Anyway, this analogy is crap because the judicial branch gets to interpret the legislative output, and whatever the judiciary thinks is what the law means.