Italy took me about five minutes. Germany less than that. Egypt about twenty minutes, although that was largely because I was on a full to the brim 747...
I'm not prepared to travel to the states, since the state department and I differ on what we consider reasonable amounts of data being collected on my entry. If that's what I have to give your government to get in, then screw it.
How much does the program need and how does it stack up against the cost of a single cruise missile?
I guess the government ain't really about giving out any of the billions of dollars it's going to get from selling off parts of the Spectrum so that the poor people they're pulling the rug from under can still watch TV.
Most places I've worked won't allow open source software to be used unless the source is either in escrow or has a copy on company servers somewhere.
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The next time I'm remote managing a system on a command line, and need to use a new command I've not used before, I'll be sure and reflect on how it would be better if it were in HTML.
You'd really happily build window manager dependencies into Gnu/Linux? I mean, you could use lynx, but the presentation would be a lot worse than the current man / info pages...
Not true. I did a project for a large munitions supplier, and he told me that post "ban", they are now referred to as "Area restriction devices" and classed along with razor wire.
And vote who in, exactly? Rather not have Cameron looming over me like the smug public schoolboy he is. I'm more in favour of having Jacquie Smith fired into the center of the sun.
Can you honestly see executives allowing the mass destruction of New York, with the perpetrator being allowed to go free, to be allowed on screen? Because that's the whole point of the piece.
Heh, it wasn't my mac, it was only the third time I've ever used one, and knowing that it's just an overpriced unix box, spent twenty minutes looking for a way into/var. Could I find it?
I think I was actually complaining about something else, now I re-read my post...
Basically, I was moaning about an increasing trend toward fisher-pricing every software product I get my hands on and calling it "usability", when it's no such damn thing, and Vista seems, with it's over protective (yet insecure) security model, and search bar for *everything* (At the expense of HD life) to be the poster child for this trend.
Along with OS-X... I once spent an afternoon screaming at a laptop that wouldn't connect to a wifi network with the error message "Error connecting to network.". At least windows gives you some idea of what the problem is.
It wouldn't be a problem to integrate with those systems they weren't obfuscated to prevent reverse engineering. It also doesn't help that they seem to aim to prevent migration, in outlook in particular. You can't export as RFC2882.eml, which is importable by everything, but you can dump a.pst which can be read by any outlook product.
I don't think it's illegal, but they *have* built a de facto monopoly on half truths and big marketing. Saying other os-es need to look / feel like windows to gain market acceptance is a silly way to go about replacing it.
Why? Why should an increasing number of computer literate people have to cater to the needs of an increasingly small group of utterly non technical users. Why not make them catch up, instead of the rest of us slow down.
Good interface design is not synonymous with "The user is stupid, make the interface for stupid people."
Can you hear Steve Jobs cursing M$ extra loud today? Not being able to enter text is one (of myriad) reasons why I'd never get an iPhone. In fact, it seems like an incredibly interesting technology which will be almost certainly never used in anything other than M$ products...
Surely it's more of a cost / benefit analysis. If I've got 15,000 hard drives imaged then I've had to have my imaging farm switch from something else, which will cost money. Perhaps not a lot, but enough to make it hurt when they don't shift. There's also training support workers, drawing up contracts blah blah blah. Bureaucracy tends to fsck everything up...
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Italy took me about five minutes. Germany less than that. Egypt about twenty minutes, although that was largely because I was on a full to the brim 747...
I'm not prepared to travel to the states, since the state department and I differ on what we consider reasonable amounts of data being collected on my entry. If that's what I have to give your government to get in, then screw it.
How much does the program need and how does it stack up against the cost of a single cruise missile?
I guess the government ain't really about giving out any of the billions of dollars it's going to get from selling off parts of the Spectrum so that the poor people they're pulling the rug from under can still watch TV.
Woo and yay!
AAAAAARRRRRRRGHHHH... I clicked the top site to see what it was... Magically forgetting what tgp means. I sit next to my boss at work...
Most places I've worked won't allow open source software to be used unless the source is either in escrow or has a copy on company servers somewhere.
The next time I'm remote managing a system on a command line, and need to use a new command I've not used before, I'll be sure and reflect on how it would be better if it were in HTML.
You'd really happily build window manager dependencies into Gnu/Linux? I mean, you could use lynx, but the presentation would be a lot worse than the current man / info pages...
I thought Linus said the kernel wasn't going to go GPLv3? Admittedly, most of "Linux" is actually GNU, and will upgrade...
Not true. I did a project for a large munitions supplier, and he told me that post "ban", they are now referred to as "Area restriction devices" and classed along with razor wire.
And vote who in, exactly? Rather not have Cameron looming over me like the smug public schoolboy he is. I'm more in favour of having Jacquie Smith fired into the center of the sun.
The cache is nowhere near as good.
Read V for Vendetta, then a history if British politics and get back to me...
Can you honestly see executives allowing the mass destruction of New York, with the perpetrator being allowed to go free, to be allowed on screen? Because that's the whole point of the piece.
... another film that ignores the meaning of the source work in favour of appeasing popcorn fifteen year olds.
Alan Moore goes about it the wrong way, but he's right. Hollywood needs to start coming up with its own ideas again.
Heh, it wasn't my mac, it was only the third time I've ever used one, and knowing that it's just an overpriced unix box, spent twenty minutes looking for a way into /var. Could I find it?
Could I bollox. Must be 'usability' again...
To hell with it. I want to go back to DEC-10s and microcode. At least then you've got half an excuse for being confused...
But it's only a minor UI change, instead of a yellow box with an 'x' I get a floating translucent one...
But why can't changes like this be put on the GNOME roadmap, instead of having ubuntu drive linux UI development?
I think I was actually complaining about something else, now I re-read my post...
Basically, I was moaning about an increasing trend toward fisher-pricing every software product I get my hands on and calling it "usability", when it's no such damn thing, and Vista seems, with it's over protective (yet insecure) security model, and search bar for *everything* (At the expense of HD life) to be the poster child for this trend.
Along with OS-X... I once spent an afternoon screaming at a laptop that wouldn't connect to a wifi network with the error message "Error connecting to network.". At least windows gives you some idea of what the problem is.
It wouldn't be a problem to integrate with those systems they weren't obfuscated to prevent reverse engineering. It also doesn't help that they seem to aim to prevent migration, in outlook in particular. You can't export as RFC2882 .eml, which is importable by everything, but you can dump a .pst which can be read by any outlook product.
I don't think it's illegal, but they *have* built a de facto monopoly on half truths and big marketing. Saying other os-es need to look / feel like windows to gain market acceptance is a silly way to go about replacing it.
Why? Why should an increasing number of computer literate people have to cater to the needs of an increasingly small group of utterly non technical users. Why not make them catch up, instead of the rest of us slow down.
Good interface design is not synonymous with "The user is stupid, make the interface for stupid people."
D'oh. I'm not too happy about apple having it either, though, to be completely honest...
Can you hear Steve Jobs cursing M$ extra loud today? Not being able to enter text is one (of myriad) reasons why I'd never get an iPhone. In fact, it seems like an incredibly interesting technology which will be almost certainly never used in anything other than M$ products...
Meh, it's Friday afternoon. I'm allowed a couple of screwups, surely?
Sorry, that should be "java apps"
Really? Why don't you think speed is important to servers running linux?
Last time I checked there were plenty of linux servers running high powered linux apps.
Surely it's more of a cost / benefit analysis. If I've got 15,000 hard drives imaged then I've had to have my imaging farm switch from something else, which will cost money. Perhaps not a lot, but enough to make it hurt when they don't shift. There's also training support workers, drawing up contracts blah blah blah. Bureaucracy tends to fsck everything up...
I don't know if it's the acid I was taking at the time, but the motorcycle-riding knife fight with ninjas in that film was completely underwhelming.