It may not be so much that the developers are not able to put themselves in the shoes of the average user, but do not want to.
Their goal is to write programs that they want, not programs that average users will be able to use.
I have written programs from the shoes of an average user, and the average users who paid for them like them. I hate them; I find the interfaces clumsy, slow, and missing incredibly useful features (e.g. regex search).
When I write programs for myself, the average user hates them.
How can a jerk talking possibly be charged with wasting an officer's time. The officer does not have to wait until the guy stops talking. If he has something else to do, he is free to ignore the jerk and go do it, no?
When I wrote "if I sell the satellite connection to begin with" my intention was to ask at what point it becomes illegal for an organization legally selling the satellite connections under contract with the media providers to perform these steps.
There are a lot of variables. I said I was overweight and lost a lot of weight. "Overweight" and "a lot" are relative. I started at 185 and now weigh 160. I'd like to get down to 155. If you are starting higher, it will take more.
The type of bike makes a big difference. I have a nice road bike and a not-so-nice mountain bike. I am a lot faster on the road bike - 5-10 MPH. Of course "nice" is pretty relative too. (Shimano 105/Ultegra vs. Shimano Alivo/Acera, if that means anything to you.)
I push myself pretty hard too.
You mentioned not cruising in top gear. You will burn more calories spinning faster in a lower gear than mashing in a high gear. It is better for muscle endurance and joints to spin faster as well.
I will address the first issue. Try being an engineer in a union shop.
Want to test a new procedure or program by going out to the shop and running the machine yourself? Bzzzzz.
Want to get something shipped to a customer by going out and doing it yourself because everybody else is busy? Bzzzzzzz.
Want to boot somebody off of a machine and do it yourself because the part needs to be done correctly and right now and the operator is not good or fast enough? Bzzzzzz.
Want to help somebody out by carrying a few parts 100 yards? Bzzzzzz.
Want to go out and do anything that is a union guy's job because learning how the machine and process works will help you design better? Bzzzzz.
Want to get a guy fired because he pulls the union protection crap every time you try to get something done better or faster that requires any minor one-time change to the floor operation, holding up engineering, shipping, billing, and the customer? BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.
I was an overweight wimpy nerd. 10 months ago I started taking the bus to work and biking the 9 miles home. I could hardly walk up the stairs by the time I got home. After a few months I could run up the stairs. One day I missed the bus and biked to work, and have been biking both ways since.
I lost a lot of weight, my blood pressure and heart rate are better, and I can bike 10 miles in under half an hour.
I enjoy my commute now more than I ever did driving.
That I do not hang out with people who are thicker than a ton of bricks or that I do not ascertain that the people I hang out with are thicker than a ton of bricks means that I do not have a life?
If the UN set up a competing ICANN and mandated that ISPs in their member regions use the new DNS root servers - which could potentially include all of the existing ones outside the USA, since they are not actually run by ICANN, they just carry ICANN's configuration) then there isn't much ICANN could do. US ISPs would have the choice of either switching to the new roots or having their customers potentially have links incorrectly handled in the future, if the two organisations[sic] didn't keep their configurations in sync.
The article pointed out the problem, and then ignored it. All of the computers are not in the US. The percentage of computers in the US is decreasing. If every computer in the US was virus-free, it would not fix the problems.
The answer is educating people. We should have classes. Perhaps in school?
I have been using Windows for 10 years and Linux for 8 years. I have never used anti-virus software. I have never had a virus. I stick my boxes behind firewalls, and apply security patches, and I do not do anything stupid.
If you do not have a firewall, do not apply security patches, and do stupid things, no anti-virus software is going to protect you.
Unions are often bad for non-union employees. Unions are often bad for those with less seniority but better performance. Unions are often bad for the taxpayers. Unions are often bad for the citizens that have to deal with the terrible elected officials that the unions push.
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It may not be so much that the developers are not able to put themselves in the shoes of the average user, but do not want to.
Their goal is to write programs that they want, not programs that average users will be able to use.
I have written programs from the shoes of an average user, and the average users who paid for them like them. I hate them; I find the interfaces clumsy, slow, and missing incredibly useful features (e.g. regex search).
When I write programs for myself, the average user hates them.
How can a jerk talking possibly be charged with wasting an officer's time. The officer does not have to wait until the guy stops talking. If he has something else to do, he is free to ignore the jerk and go do it, no?
Nowadays, I put the bike on the bus only when the weather is particularly bad (lots of snow/slush on the roads or lightning).
When I wrote "if I sell the satellite connection to begin with" my intention was to ask at what point it becomes illegal for an organization legally selling the satellite connections under contract with the media providers to perform these steps.
Everybody agrees that I can have a DVR in my house. Is it okay if I move it to my garage?
Is it okay if I buy a plot of land and get satellite and put my DVR there, and relay to my house over the Internet?
Is it okay if I let a friend put his dish and his DVR on my plot of land?
What if I charge some strangers to put their dishes and DVR on my land?
What if I have 200 people, but I rent DVRs to them?
What if I replace the hard drives in individual DVRs with a huge RAID array?
What if I virtualize the DVRs?
What if I sell the satellite connection to begin with?
At what point is it no longer legal?
Good thing that the Cortland Homes incident never actually happened.
(For those who do not know, it was a quasi-plausible scenario followed by non-plausible reactions from an Ayn Rand book.)
There are a lot of variables. I said I was overweight and lost a lot of weight. "Overweight" and "a lot" are relative. I started at 185 and now weigh 160. I'd like to get down to 155. If you are starting higher, it will take more.
The type of bike makes a big difference. I have a nice road bike and a not-so-nice mountain bike. I am a lot faster on the road bike - 5-10 MPH. Of course "nice" is pretty relative too. (Shimano 105/Ultegra vs. Shimano Alivo/Acera, if that means anything to you.)
I push myself pretty hard too.
You mentioned not cruising in top gear. You will burn more calories spinning faster in a lower gear than mashing in a high gear. It is better for muscle endurance and joints to spin faster as well.
Why? What is the point? Do they have any evidence indicating that getting a 9-year-old to make a promise will in any significant way improve his life?
Can we please drop the Balmer throws chairs joke?
They can jail you for forgetting something?
I do not do 20 mph on my way to work. I take it easy. I do 20+ on my way home and then shower.
I wrote not that I can do 10 miles in half an hour as part of my commute, just that I can do it.
I took a change of clothes and cleaned up with baby wipes.
I will address the first issue. Try being an engineer in a union shop.
Want to test a new procedure or program by going out to the shop and running the machine yourself? Bzzzzz.
Want to get something shipped to a customer by going out and doing it yourself because everybody else is busy? Bzzzzzzz.
Want to boot somebody off of a machine and do it yourself because the part needs to be done correctly and right now and the operator is not good or fast enough? Bzzzzzz.
Want to help somebody out by carrying a few parts 100 yards? Bzzzzzz.
Want to go out and do anything that is a union guy's job because learning how the machine and process works will help you design better? Bzzzzz.
Want to get a guy fired because he pulls the union protection crap every time you try to get something done better or faster that requires any minor one-time change to the floor operation, holding up engineering, shipping, billing, and the customer? BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.
I'm sure the judge will love me too. But unless somebody can prove that I did it on purpose, I'm okay.
I was an overweight wimpy nerd. 10 months ago I started taking the bus to work and biking the 9 miles home. I could hardly walk up the stairs by the time I got home. After a few months I could run up the stairs. One day I missed the bus and biked to work, and have been biking both ways since.
I lost a lot of weight, my blood pressure and heart rate are better, and I can bike 10 miles in under half an hour.
I enjoy my commute now more than I ever did driving.
No, it will not. PHash would identify a MediaSentry seeded MP3 the same as one ripped from your legally purchased CD, no?
Just use a huge key that you leave on a USB drive. You can accidentally lose it.
That I do not hang out with people who are thicker than a ton of bricks or that I do not ascertain that the people I hang out with are thicker than a ton of bricks means that I do not have a life?
Great idea. When can they start?
The article pointed out the problem, and then ignored it. All of the computers are not in the US. The percentage of computers in the US is decreasing. If every computer in the US was virus-free, it would not fix the problems.
The answer is educating people. We should have classes. Perhaps in school?
I have been using Windows for 10 years and Linux for 8 years. I have never used anti-virus software. I have never had a virus. I stick my boxes behind firewalls, and apply security patches, and I do not do anything stupid.
If you do not have a firewall, do not apply security patches, and do stupid things, no anti-virus software is going to protect you.
$200 billion more in taxes and $175 billion more in bailouts. The politicians need their cut.
Now do you see how it is supposed to work?
Why would they? It would hurt their business.
Unions are often bad for non-union employees. Unions are often bad for those with less seniority but better performance. Unions are often bad for the taxpayers. Unions are often bad for the citizens that have to deal with the terrible elected officials that the unions push.