Who wants to be soft on sex offenders? I'd like them locked up forever so that they can be studied and hopefully a cure found. I don't want them killed and I certainly don't want them treated like common criminals. They are people as ill as any other criminally insane person and therefore should not be in the mainstream prison system.
if they have complex spreadsheets, they are probably using the wrong tool for the job.
But the fact is that they are using that tool and a lack of a drop-in replacement is a deal breaker for them. What else would you use in any case (and bear in mind that I have seen a GUI Word document generator written in Excel VBA which is definitely the wrong tool for the job so I'm not defending misuse of tech).
What a bizarre comment. Where do they get all the other stuff they put on the machines. You make it sound like it would be a major hassle when it most certainly would not be.
And yet in the second sentence he uses "they're" correctly. Perhaps he just typed it in a hurry and maybe you should find something more important to worry about.
User-friendly implies friendly to the user which the Linux wireless networking software most certainly is not. I don't care about pretty pictures I want something that either does what I tell it or tells me why it isn't doing what I tell it not refusing to connect without giving me a clear indication of why.
If you were in the business of programming you'd have to evaluate whether it was financially viable to support niche OSes. Which is the problem with trying to get software produced for Linux or MacOS.
Where do I put this line? How do I blacklist certain access points? Thanks for the advice - I do appreciate it but I'm not quite sure why I should have to do the above when more user-friendly OSes don't require it and just allow you to connect to the network you've specified or otherwise doesn't pick the wrong one (putting me at risk of being arrested under the Computer Misuse Act over here in the UK).
And terrible WPA wireless support which works very easily on Windows but insists on connecting to my neighbour's router first and then refusing to see mine when I iwconfig the essid to be the correct one. Needless to say the graphics tools on both Ubuntu and Mandriva were a waste of time and I had to piss about with the command line tools and still couldn't get the frigging thing to work.
Most of the people in the world aren't under the jurisdiction of the FCC, including the authors of a lot of the wireless software in Linux. That wasn't my only gripe in any case. The lack of feedback from the various tools is another one. I don't want to debug modules just to find out why the GUI tool is crap and seems to change what information it offers randomly. Plus what the fuck is wmaster0 and why can't I delete it?
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Who wants to be soft on sex offenders? I'd like them locked up forever so that they can be studied and hopefully a cure found. I don't want them killed and I certainly don't want them treated like common criminals. They are people as ill as any other criminally insane person and therefore should not be in the mainstream prison system.
Cynical sarcasm maybe but hardly flamebait. Merry Christmas mods :P
but there is foundational material in computer science that derives from his findings
That explains a lot.
If you don't believe me, find a geek who hasn't heard of 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0. I have that stupid thing memorized
I hadn't before today and have now handed in my geek card until I can recite it back to an appropriate examination board.
if they have complex spreadsheets, they are probably using the wrong tool for the job.
But the fact is that they are using that tool and a lack of a drop-in replacement is a deal breaker for them. What else would you use in any case (and bear in mind that I have seen a GUI Word document generator written in Excel VBA which is definitely the wrong tool for the job so I'm not defending misuse of tech).
You could even do it in VBA. You might need a Windows cluster running at full capacity for a few years mind but you could do it.
An informed politician - will wonders never cease.
One sex offender has a list all to himself? Wow.
People are doing that now - not many of them but the numbers will grow.
What a bizarre comment. Where do they get all the other stuff they put on the machines. You make it sound like it would be a major hassle when it most certainly would not be.
In an important context yes but hardly relevant on an internet message board.
And yet in the second sentence he uses "they're" correctly. Perhaps he just typed it in a hurry and maybe you should find something more important to worry about.
Hostile reponses, accusations of being an idiot, belligerence - yep it's another normal day on slashdot.
There may be no more native versions of current apps but there would be plenty of other apps that will never run on Mac OS X suddenly able to.
Nah he's just yet another libertarian loon. I'm surprised he didn't mention starting a business as a panacea for all of society's problems.
Have a read of the top of the page again and then come back :P
User-friendly implies friendly to the user which the Linux wireless networking software most certainly is not. I don't care about pretty pictures I want something that either does what I tell it or tells me why it isn't doing what I tell it not refusing to connect without giving me a clear indication of why.
If you were in the business of programming you'd have to evaluate whether it was financially viable to support niche OSes. Which is the problem with trying to get software produced for Linux or MacOS.
Where do I put this line? How do I blacklist certain access points? Thanks for the advice - I do appreciate it but I'm not quite sure why I should have to do the above when more user-friendly OSes don't require it and just allow you to connect to the network you've specified or otherwise doesn't pick the wrong one (putting me at risk of being arrested under the Computer Misuse Act over here in the UK).
And terrible WPA wireless support which works very easily on Windows but insists on connecting to my neighbour's router first and then refusing to see mine when I iwconfig the essid to be the correct one. Needless to say the graphics tools on both Ubuntu and Mandriva were a waste of time and I had to piss about with the command line tools and still couldn't get the frigging thing to work.
The British taxpayer didn't put all that much into Wembley http://sport.independent.co.uk/olympics/article2369017.ece
Not very user-friendly is it? Would the mythical grandma be able to work this one out?
In which case why use a high level language at all - surely coding everything in Assembler would be the way to go.
That's why there are no memory leaks in C/C++ code [/sarcasm]
Most of the people in the world aren't under the jurisdiction of the FCC, including the authors of a lot of the wireless software in Linux. That wasn't my only gripe in any case. The lack of feedback from the various tools is another one. I don't want to debug modules just to find out why the GUI tool is crap and seems to change what information it offers randomly. Plus what the fuck is wmaster0 and why can't I delete it?