Then you should fire the ass of whichever mail administrator decided that configuring a mail server to not follow the RFC's was a good idea.
This is one very good reason mail is such a problem child: there's a high number of clueless admins who assume just because they don't understand how it works, breaking the rules is fair game.
...must developers continue to inflict us with the 3D interface meme? Time and time again these "wouldn't it be cool if..." ideas turn out to be entirely crappy.
Who wants hand gestures instead of a mouse? Someone who uses a computer for 10 seconds at a time on a conference stage.
Who wants to have to wander around a rendered landscape to visit only the sites some software has chosen for them? My grandparents. No, wait, not even them.
People need to quit wasting cash developing crappy ideas, and spend some time generating GOOD ideas to develop.
A single piece of software that crashes the underlying operating system isn't the fault of the operating system any more than a cement truck crashing through the front of a china shop is the fault of the street.
Its an issue of how many points of failure you have. If you use powerpoint you have: * Your computer failing * The projector failing * Windows crashing You forgot this:
* Microsoft Office crashing
Now, let's say instead of relying on the OS and applications to work, I'm using a LiveCD on a USB key. Now, we've removed the OS and software failing options, and the lists look more like this:
* Your computer failing * The projector failing * Microsoft Office crashing * Windows crashing
If you use Google Docs and a bootable OS on a USB key you have:
* Your computer failing (easily replaced with another generic machine) * The projector failing * Your internet connection failing * Google's servers failing (this does happen from time to time for Google Docs and Gmail).
Looks pretty even to me, except I have seen far fewer Google crashes or significant network downtime than I have MS Office crashing or Windows crashing. I'd say Google wins.
It's not that the offerings Linux has are better or worse, they're just significantly less consistent. Which means duplication of effort, a waste of resources, and most significantly of all, reduced usability.
One thing to remember though is that when people speak of Linux's "user interface", they're referring to something that isn't part of the actual OS, but instead is yet another series of applications developed by outside parties, which is going to complicate matters infinitely. On the plus side, it also means that if you don't want to (or for some reason can't) use Xorg, you don't have to.
Imagine choosing a vehicle to purchase because the manufacturer claims it gets 40MPG (17km/l), and finding out later that it only manages 30MPG (12km/l). The manufacturer simply tells you "drive downhill all of the time".
Imagine buying a 500 gig hard drive, but once it's out of the box you discover the company has shipped you a 375 gig drive. The company tells you "Well, if you compress all of your files it will seem like 500 gigs".
Advertisers must be held to the strictest ethical behaviors in courts by consumers, because they won't do it themselves, nor will most governments interfere with business until the offenses become egregious. I can most certainly see why someone who has paid their hard earned cash for a notebook display that is advertised with a 'millions of colors' capability would expect to get just that, instead of a display that uses tricknology to make thousands of colors seem more presentable.
And imagine your significant other promising to be faithful, but upon further investigation discovering they only meant 3/4 of the time.
I would agree if the content was posted under a GoDaddy service. The information was not, meaning that GoDaddy pulled a domain registration from a client for nothing which they have any purview over, nor did they (seemingly) have a contract with the client for anything more than providing domain registration services.
While not identical, it would be analogous to General Motors reposessing a car your purchased from them because you received a speeding ticket.
....because Rupert Murdoch would have just bought them and fired the people who questioned whether NewsCorp has the right to restrict freedom of information.
And, by the way, I hope GoDaddy's reading this. I'm moving my domains away from you because of your lackadaisical approach to our constitutional rights.
I actually spent three months trying out over 15 different players hands-on, including driving 80 miles to a larger metro area one day to try several stores. I'm not an Apple fanboy by any stretch of the imagination, but the iPod was miles ahead of other portables in terms of its physical and software interfaces (two years ago, don't know if others have passed it since).
Don't assume you're the only person who makes informed decisions, because lo and behold most of us actually do.
And if Apple had done anything remotly like this sort of crap, I'd never have bought an iPod, regardless of how good it was.
You must be new to the MMO business model. That's standard practice in the MMO business.
Your claim is sort of like saying that just because you paid for WindowsXP you should have free access to every new piece of software Microsoft releases, because by god, you already PAID for Windows.
If you don't want to pay for the expansion, you can keep playing WoW all you like without the expansion pack. If the subscription fee is an issue for you, you can always play an offline RPG. There's nothing untoward about a company charging for the thousands of hours of dev time and expense to offer (what sounds like) a significant expansion, though.
Well, I think that's kind of the point. Why would you want to spend time training on something that isn't used very often? If that's your goal, it seems to me that you're more interested in stats than you are in immersion in your character. I've done the same thing in games before, true, but I'd say you're mislabelling a player behavior that pulls away from the immersion of the system as a flaw in the system.
In the server world, hardware gets replaced because it no longer supports the workload, not because it has a prettier (or even better) GUI. Neither accountants nor CIOs tend to be the ones running the servers.
I can't see corporate America wanting to switch to an OS that charges hundreds of dollars a year per seat for what most would consider minor patches and updates.
What is it with the high percentage of Apple stories that make the front page? For the 95% of us who aren't drinking the Kool-Aid, it's getting ridiculous. Everything Apple does seems to make headline news. What's next, "Jobs visits executive washroom"? It's starting to make the front page look less like an amalgam, and more like Apple marketing.
With all of the Mac crowd self-gratification going on, perhaps it's time we stopped calling Cupertino's golden child "Apple", and instead refer to them as "Fapple".
I've come to prefer the system used in the Elder Scrolls series quite a bit, being a directed version of the skill-based subsumed in a class-based world. That is to say, you have a class, yes, but when you level, the options you are given to improve your character's stats directly reflect what you've actually been doing in the world.
Yes, it would take a spellcaster longer to level if they're focused on hand-to-hand combat (it would actually happen incidentally, through repated use of the skills that are associated with their class, but when they do eventually level, they would have the ability to increase their strength significantly more than if they had focused exclusively on spellcasting.
I find this to be a surprisingly effective compromise, and it reflects somewhat on the nature of experience and growth in the real world (minus the spellcasting, of course). By this I mean that if I were a surgeon, the more surgeries I participate in, the higher my skill is likely to grow, and therefore, my standing as a surgeon (overly simplified example, yes). This does not, however, preclude the option I have for taking tae kwon do lessons and improving my martial skills. Since I don't make my living as a martial artist however, even though my ability is improving in other arenas, it does not reflect back on my ability as a surgeoun.
Consider it as 'career track' versus 'personal development'.
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...about the Father, the Sun, and the Holy Ghost here.
I've found that "incompetent" is usually fitting.
Then you should fire the ass of whichever mail administrator decided that configuring a mail server to not follow the RFC's was a good idea.
This is one very good reason mail is such a problem child: there's a high number of clueless admins who assume just because they don't understand how it works, breaking the rules is fair game.
No, if you're a minor, you don't HAVE Constitutional rights, unless you've been emancipated by a court in advance of your 18th birthday.
Does anyone take Civics any more?
...must developers continue to inflict us with the 3D interface meme? Time and time again these "wouldn't it be cool if..." ideas turn out to be entirely crappy.
Who wants hand gestures instead of a mouse? Someone who uses a computer for 10 seconds at a time on a conference stage.
Who wants to have to wander around a rendered landscape to visit only the sites some software has chosen for them? My grandparents. No, wait, not even them.
People need to quit wasting cash developing crappy ideas, and spend some time generating GOOD ideas to develop.
Bullshit.
A single piece of software that crashes the underlying operating system isn't the fault of the operating system any more than a cement truck crashing through the front of a china shop is the fault of the street.
...Developer Richard Garriott has announced the release of his new game: Ultima II.
C'mon, this game is what, four years old? Someone out there is a sadonecroequinophiliac.
* Your computer failing
* The projector failing
* Windows crashing You forgot this:
* Microsoft Office crashing
Now, let's say instead of relying on the OS and applications to work, I'm using a LiveCD on a USB key. Now, we've removed the OS and software failing options, and the lists look more like this:
* Your computer failing
* The projector failing
* Microsoft Office crashing
* Windows crashing
If you use Google Docs and a bootable OS on a USB key you have:
* Your computer failing (easily replaced with another generic machine)
* The projector failing
* Your internet connection failing
* Google's servers failing (this does happen from time to time for Google Docs and Gmail).
Looks pretty even to me, except I have seen far fewer Google crashes or significant network downtime than I have MS Office crashing or Windows crashing. I'd say Google wins.
s/([A-Z])([A-Z]+)/$1 . lc $2/eg
Fixed that for you. Perl isn't PERL.
It's not that the offerings Linux has are better or worse, they're just significantly less consistent. Which means duplication of effort, a waste of resources, and most significantly of all, reduced usability.
One thing to remember though is that when people speak of Linux's "user interface", they're referring to something that isn't part of the actual OS, but instead is yet another series of applications developed by outside parties, which is going to complicate matters infinitely. On the plus side, it also means that if you don't want to (or for some reason can't) use Xorg, you don't have to.
Imagine choosing a vehicle to purchase because the manufacturer claims it gets 40MPG (17km/l), and finding out later that it only manages 30MPG (12km/l). The manufacturer simply tells you "drive downhill all of the time".
Imagine buying a 500 gig hard drive, but once it's out of the box you discover the company has shipped you a 375 gig drive. The company tells you "Well, if you compress all of your files it will seem like 500 gigs".
Advertisers must be held to the strictest ethical behaviors in courts by consumers, because they won't do it themselves, nor will most governments interfere with business until the offenses become egregious. I can most certainly see why someone who has paid their hard earned cash for a notebook display that is advertised with a 'millions of colors' capability would expect to get just that, instead of a display that uses tricknology to make thousands of colors seem more presentable.
And imagine your significant other promising to be faithful, but upon further investigation discovering they only meant 3/4 of the time.
I would agree if the content was posted under a GoDaddy service. The information was not, meaning that GoDaddy pulled a domain registration from a client for nothing which they have any purview over, nor did they (seemingly) have a contract with the client for anything more than providing domain registration services.
While not identical, it would be analogous to General Motors reposessing a car your purchased from them because you received a speeding ticket.
....because Rupert Murdoch would have just bought them and fired the people who questioned whether NewsCorp has the right to restrict freedom of information.
And, by the way, I hope GoDaddy's reading this. I'm moving my domains away from you because of your lackadaisical approach to our constitutional rights.
Flushing a toilet does not make one a turd.
I actually spent three months trying out over 15 different players hands-on, including driving 80 miles to a larger metro area one day to try several stores. I'm not an Apple fanboy by any stretch of the imagination, but the iPod was miles ahead of other portables in terms of its physical and software interfaces (two years ago, don't know if others have passed it since).
Don't assume you're the only person who makes informed decisions, because lo and behold most of us actually do.
And if Apple had done anything remotly like this sort of crap, I'd never have bought an iPod, regardless of how good it was.
Much like I'll never buy a PSP.
You must be new to the MMO business model. That's standard practice in the MMO business.
Your claim is sort of like saying that just because you paid for WindowsXP you should have free access to every new piece of software Microsoft releases, because by god, you already PAID for Windows.
If you don't want to pay for the expansion, you can keep playing WoW all you like without the expansion pack. If the subscription fee is an issue for you, you can always play an offline RPG. There's nothing untoward about a company charging for the thousands of hours of dev time and expense to offer (what sounds like) a significant expansion, though.
I'm not addicted, I'm a level 51 dwarven priest.
No, I'd have said the same about whoever was in office if the same things happened under a different president.
Now quit reading from the Fox News scorecard, and start thinking for yourself.
I certainly didn't vote for them in 2004.
While it's a Good Thing(TM) that this has evolved the way it was, anyone surprised by this has forgotten this:
http://www.demotivators.com/idiocy.html
Well, I think that's kind of the point. Why would you want to spend time training on something that isn't used very often? If that's your goal, it seems to me that you're more interested in stats than you are in immersion in your character. I've done the same thing in games before, true, but I'd say you're mislabelling a player behavior that pulls away from the immersion of the system as a flaw in the system.
That only matters in some areas.
In the server world, hardware gets replaced because it no longer supports the workload, not because it has a prettier (or even better) GUI. Neither accountants nor CIOs tend to be the ones running the servers.
I can't see corporate America wanting to switch to an OS that charges hundreds of dollars a year per seat for what most would consider minor patches and updates.
What is it with the high percentage of Apple stories that make the front page? For the 95% of us who aren't drinking the Kool-Aid, it's getting ridiculous. Everything Apple does seems to make headline news. What's next, "Jobs visits executive washroom"? It's starting to make the front page look less like an amalgam, and more like Apple marketing.
With all of the Mac crowd self-gratification going on, perhaps it's time we stopped calling Cupertino's golden child "Apple", and instead refer to them as "Fapple".
I've come to prefer the system used in the Elder Scrolls series quite a bit, being a directed version of the skill-based subsumed in a class-based world. That is to say, you have a class, yes, but when you level, the options you are given to improve your character's stats directly reflect what you've actually been doing in the world.
Yes, it would take a spellcaster longer to level if they're focused on hand-to-hand combat (it would actually happen incidentally, through repated use of the skills that are associated with their class, but when they do eventually level, they would have the ability to increase their strength significantly more than if they had focused exclusively on spellcasting.
I find this to be a surprisingly effective compromise, and it reflects somewhat on the nature of experience and growth in the real world (minus the spellcasting, of course). By this I mean that if I were a surgeon, the more surgeries I participate in, the higher my skill is likely to grow, and therefore, my standing as a surgeon (overly simplified example, yes). This does not, however, preclude the option I have for taking tae kwon do lessons and improving my martial skills. Since I don't make my living as a martial artist however, even though my ability is improving in other arenas, it does not reflect back on my ability as a surgeoun.
Consider it as 'career track' versus 'personal development'.