The answer to your question to my answer is a question: why didn't you assume I was being silly?
My interpretation was that you assumed I don't use metric regularly, and that it was an error. Since you glossed 9.3 mm in inches, this is a pretty safe guess, as inches are most commonly used in the United States, where there is a notorious absence of common knowledge about the size of a millimetre. However, most people who are comfortable with the metric system and use it regularly wouldn't even think twice about it, and even lacking an obscene knowledge of the iPhone 4's dimensions, would assume parody from context, particularly given Apple's prolonged emphasis on thinner hardware.
It is commonly portrayed to be a stereotype about Apple users that they are superficially concerned with a connection to nature and the mysticism of East Asia. Whether this stereotype applies is outside of the scope of this joke, and comedians in general. More specifically, "crystal salt imported from Tibet" is a common snake-oil cure-all sold by fraudsters purporting to be connected to secrets of ancient Chinese and Indian religions. This also plays into the recent concern over Chinese involvement in Tibet, which was particularly popular with the Left in the United States, often regarded as the primary market of Apple products, and the office of the Dalai Lama, which is located in Tibet, thus tying the location again to the mysticism of East Asia through its significance to Buddhism.
It's going to happen anyway; why not play the middleman, make a profit, and get to keep records of what they know? It's a win-win for everyone but the, um, well, citizenry. But who cares about them, right?
It depends on what side of the reality distortion field you stand on. Maybe it's crushed glass, maybe it's the new and beautiful iSafetySand! Who can say?
(I was actually going for a crushed iPhone 4. 'Thicker', not 'larger'. Yes? Maybe? I dunno.)
Damn—you got me. Nit successfully picked; for some reason I thought Altair BASIC was a compiler. However, VB6 does do native code generation, and BASICA was on the PC in the beginning in '81—that's pretty early.
Sorry, mate. Microsoft's first commercial product was a BASIC compiler, and compiling VB was possible right up until the switch to.NET. That includes VB6.
As another commenter pointed out, though, since WINE Is Not an Emulator, it wouldn't help in this case. You'd need some kind of x86 virtual machine still; Wine just provides APIs and binary loading.
Completely agree. Also annoyed with how the headline disagrees with the summary about "engineers" vs. "scientists or engineers". It's like watching the facts getting scraped out of the content and thrown aside. Goddamn, journalism is just the worst thing ever. It makes me want to go watch old Edward R. Murrow broadcasts to remind myself that there was a point in time where communication was valued, and journalistic integrity wasn't just something for quaint academics.
Some people just aren't comfortable with controllers that aren't XBOXHUGE. And y'gotta admit, the N64 controller was pretty big. I could see how a 360 gamer would feel, y'know, less alienated than usual on an N64.
Right—but at least their lobbyist have to fight each other to the death in order to get the right to do it. Isn't that what democracy is all about? *half-hearted rimshot*
While I personally agree that a delay of hours or days is perfectly acceptable (a) in the real world and (b) at present, we can't assume it will always be that way. As networks and machines get faster, it's not unsound to argue that even the current small delay could amount to a serious problem in the future. Zero-day exploits are everywhere, after all, and it's not like computer-mediated crime is decreasing, or even slowing in growth.
But, seriously: you're getting worked up over nothing. You've come into a chain of conversation that was about correct design, and tried to pave over it with a pragmatic solution that misses the issue. In general, I've found that when people come to gripe on Slashdot, taking up a more abstract view of the situation tends to draw better karma, and less likely to get nit-picked to death. It's not trolling per se, merely a sea of "me too"s trying to get in the comment that gets them the Insightful point. And, of course, some people just like chatting—didn't your signature say something about the abuse of the flamebait moderation just an hour or two ago?
It's perhaps not my place to judge, but the impression you've given of yourself from your past two posts suggests that you're very work-focused, or at least heavily burdened by the stress from your line of work. I might recommend getting out once in a while—you might even find that there are, in fact, people who use words with more than three syllables in everyday speech, and that, in general, most people don't freak out when they do.
The person to whom you were responding was speaking of fundamental issues in Ubuntu's update cycle. Ubuntu is targeted at regular users. Therefore, issues with Ubuntu must be addressed in a manner that accommodates the needs of regular users, and thus your suggestions are inappropriate remedies; moreover they are unnecessarily labour-intensive, which is antithetical to user experience programming.
Your statement that you personally do not enjoy focusing on the needs of average users does not make your position any more valid; rather, it makes your experience less relevant to this conversation. Why did you bother replying?
You are already aware that your suggestion is insufficient for the needs of the hypothetical average Joe, who has no idea that the vulnerabilities need patching in the first place, and doesn't tend to subscribe to security news sites. The hypothetical average Joe shouldn't need to be aware of those technical details.
Good and efficient management of the logistics of distributing security patches downstream (automated as much as possible) is essential to the viability of any package-managed system—whether or not you agree with package management as a concept.
In all likelihood, drinking coffee is probably just correlated to working or living conditions that don't involve as much exposure to carcinogenic substances.
Slashdot Mirror
1) http://www.minyanville.com/special-features/articles/steve-jobs-apple-buddhism-beginners-mind/5/19/2010/id/28278 ... you know what? You really just don't have a sense of humour.
2) http://www.bluejaguarmedicinearts.com/himalayan-crystal-salt/
3)
The Apache Software Foundation should never have entered the distributed computing arena.
Wait, what?
I'm on a horse.
Perhaps prefixing plosives pervasively presents palpably pesky prose problems?
The answer to your question to my answer is a question: why didn't you assume I was being silly?
My interpretation was that you assumed I don't use metric regularly, and that it was an error. Since you glossed 9.3 mm in inches, this is a pretty safe guess, as inches are most commonly used in the United States, where there is a notorious absence of common knowledge about the size of a millimetre. However, most people who are comfortable with the metric system and use it regularly wouldn't even think twice about it, and even lacking an obscene knowledge of the iPhone 4's dimensions, would assume parody from context, particularly given Apple's prolonged emphasis on thinner hardware.
It is commonly portrayed to be a stereotype about Apple users that they are superficially concerned with a connection to nature and the mysticism of East Asia. Whether this stereotype applies is outside of the scope of this joke, and comedians in general. More specifically, "crystal salt imported from Tibet" is a common snake-oil cure-all sold by fraudsters purporting to be connected to secrets of ancient Chinese and Indian religions. This also plays into the recent concern over Chinese involvement in Tibet, which was particularly popular with the Left in the United States, often regarded as the primary market of Apple products, and the office of the Dalai Lama, which is located in Tibet, thus tying the location again to the mysticism of East Asia through its significance to Buddhism.
Yes. An ostrich that didn't learn the metric system until high school and has yet to come to terms with it.
It's going to happen anyway; why not play the middleman, make a profit, and get to keep records of what they know? It's a win-win for everyone but the, um, well, citizenry. But who cares about them, right?
It depends on what side of the reality distortion field you stand on. Maybe it's crushed glass, maybe it's the new and beautiful iSafetySand! Who can say?
(I was actually going for a crushed iPhone 4. 'Thicker', not 'larger'. Yes? Maybe? I dunno.)
Damn—you got me. Nit successfully picked; for some reason I thought Altair BASIC was a compiler. However, VB6 does do native code generation, and BASICA was on the PC in the beginning in '81—that's pretty early.
Dimensions
115.2 mm (4.54 in) (h)
58.66 mm (2.309 in) (w)
9.3 mm (0.37 in) (d)
Can I get a "woosh"?
Sorry, mate. Microsoft's first commercial product was a BASIC compiler, and compiling VB was possible right up until the switch to .NET. That includes VB6.
Actually, it's finely-ground silica glass, imported from Tibet, verified to contain no particles thicker than 9.3 mm.
For some reason that makes absolutely no sense to me, I have the opportunity to moderate your post. How could that make sense?
As another commenter pointed out, though, since WINE Is Not an Emulator, it wouldn't help in this case. You'd need some kind of x86 virtual machine still; Wine just provides APIs and binary loading.
Completely agree. Also annoyed with how the headline disagrees with the summary about "engineers" vs. "scientists or engineers". It's like watching the facts getting scraped out of the content and thrown aside. Goddamn, journalism is just the worst thing ever. It makes me want to go watch old Edward R. Murrow broadcasts to remind myself that there was a point in time where communication was valued, and journalistic integrity wasn't just something for quaint academics.
Some people just aren't comfortable with controllers that aren't XBOX HUGE. And y'gotta admit, the N64 controller was pretty big. I could see how a 360 gamer would feel, y'know, less alienated than usual on an N64.
Right—but at least their lobbyist have to fight each other to the death in order to get the right to do it. Isn't that what democracy is all about? *half-hearted rimshot*
While I personally agree that a delay of hours or days is perfectly acceptable (a) in the real world and (b) at present, we can't assume it will always be that way. As networks and machines get faster, it's not unsound to argue that even the current small delay could amount to a serious problem in the future. Zero-day exploits are everywhere, after all, and it's not like computer-mediated crime is decreasing, or even slowing in growth.
But, seriously: you're getting worked up over nothing. You've come into a chain of conversation that was about correct design, and tried to pave over it with a pragmatic solution that misses the issue. In general, I've found that when people come to gripe on Slashdot, taking up a more abstract view of the situation tends to draw better karma, and less likely to get nit-picked to death. It's not trolling per se, merely a sea of "me too"s trying to get in the comment that gets them the Insightful point. And, of course, some people just like chatting—didn't your signature say something about the abuse of the flamebait moderation just an hour or two ago?
It's perhaps not my place to judge, but the impression you've given of yourself from your past two posts suggests that you're very work-focused, or at least heavily burdened by the stress from your line of work. I might recommend getting out once in a while—you might even find that there are, in fact, people who use words with more than three syllables in everyday speech, and that, in general, most people don't freak out when they do.
The person to whom you were responding was speaking of fundamental issues in Ubuntu's update cycle. Ubuntu is targeted at regular users. Therefore, issues with Ubuntu must be addressed in a manner that accommodates the needs of regular users, and thus your suggestions are inappropriate remedies; moreover they are unnecessarily labour-intensive, which is antithetical to user experience programming.
Your statement that you personally do not enjoy focusing on the needs of average users does not make your position any more valid; rather, it makes your experience less relevant to this conversation. Why did you bother replying?
But are you the hypothetical average Joe? That is the question.
You know what? This is the best comment. All of the other comments should go away. This one. This one right here is the best. It is.
You are already aware that your suggestion is insufficient for the needs of the hypothetical average Joe, who has no idea that the vulnerabilities need patching in the first place, and doesn't tend to subscribe to security news sites. The hypothetical average Joe shouldn't need to be aware of those technical details.
Good and efficient management of the logistics of distributing security patches downstream (automated as much as possible) is essential to the viability of any package-managed system—whether or not you agree with package management as a concept.
Because actually solving problems is haaaaaard!
In all likelihood, drinking coffee is probably just correlated to working or living conditions that don't involve as much exposure to carcinogenic substances.
rm "tax code" &> /dev/null
stderr is not stdout.