Oh man, who would have thought! A source of scrith in our own solar system!
Guys, I wasn't so sure about getting into a space race with China, but now I know we need to get there first. Anyone know how close we are to an actual cziltang brone?
Yes, I'm quite sure the guy decided to lie to the whole internet, because it is utterly unthinkable that some kid making ten bucks an hour at an Apple Store in a mall somewhere would be wrong, or uninterested in helping.
The people at Genius Bars are not superheroes, they don't actually care about your problems, and the minute percentage of Mac users experiencing this problem does not warrant training every Apple Store employee everywhere.
Apple's a corporation, not your best friend. Learn not to be aghast when someone suggests they may be behaving as such.
I hope this chick loses. If she wins this idiotic suit, it would set legal precedent that it's the ISP's responsibility to police its users. That's just about the worst possible idea ever.
Seriously, anyone who needs to be told what is appropriate for meeting clients really should NOT be meeting clients. In real life or online.
And what happens if someone slips through the radar, gets hired, and conducts IBM business dressed as a flying phallus? Do they fire him? Get sued for discrimination, because there's no written dress code? Not IBM. They've been in the game too long to make naive mistakes like the one you're advocating. It's a litigious society; if you expect something from someone, put it in writing. That's all they're doing here.
Are you claiming that an iPhone will replace an iPod? That somehow, a telephone with 4-8 GB of storage will replace someone's 60GB iPod Video?
It's far more likely that $250 (iPod) + $500 (iPhone) > $250 (iPod) + $250 (Treo). The iPhone doesn't compete with a Treo+iPod combo; it competes with the Treo. And the only features it has to work with are youtube and itunes. That stuff's great for your average college student. As a business owner, I'm more likely to buy my employees a cost-effective, useful Treo than I am an iPhone.
First, we'll check out your carefully-selected feature comparison.
iPhone - Treo 128MB - 64MB 4-8 GB Hard Drive - 2GB SD Slot Visual Voicemail - No, thank god.* Auto-Landscape Mode - Unnecessary (square aspect ratio) Phone Numbers from Webpages - Yep Integration with Movie/Music Service (iTunes) - No, thank god.* Easy "Pinch" and "Spin" Navigation - Actual keyboard and a touchscreen Auto-Threading of SMS Conversations - Yep On-Screen Conferencing options - Yep Safari Browser with "Zoom on Element" Features - So many browsers I can't be bothered to list them here. Rich email client - Yep. Dozens. Smooth Integration with Google Maps, Youtube, and Mac Widgets - Yes, no (thank god), and no (thank god).
Next, I'll point out the price of this phone.
Price of the Treo 650 (which stacks up to the iphone except for itunes and youtube): $150 on eBay. Unlocked.
So, youtube and itunes. Worth a couple hundred bucks to you?
* Items with asterisks require proprietary service agreements to be useful. Try getting "visual voicemail" on any carrier but at&t. Also, AKAImBatman refers to "Integration with Movie/Music Service" as though it can be other than iTunes, which isn't the case. It's iTunes or gtfo, and I consider it disingenuous not to specify that.
Imagine the users of MySpace or FaceBook who might want to use this kind of thing to trick out their sites.
The fact that you don't find this idea terrifying is evidence that you're not qualified to make judgments on these matters.
Also, people have been talking about this "the user as the application developer" crap since BASIC came out, and it's just not going to happen, even if you use the word "mashup." Regardless, even this specific idea has already been done -- and in open source, no less.
From http://sprog.sourceforge.net/:
Sprog is a graphical tool that anyone can use to build programs by plugging parts together. In Sprog jargon, the parts are known as 'gears' and they are assembled to make a 'machine'. Gears are selected from a palette and dragged onto the Sprog workbench, where they can be connected together. Options can be set using a properties dialog on each gear. When assembly is complete, the machine can be run, reconfigured, or re-run.
Or are you going to try to tell me it's COMPLETELY DIFFERENT because Popfly calls them "blocks" instead of "gears" and it's on the web? Face it: Popfly is a mildly interesting idea, but it won't take off for two reasons. The first reason: nobody wants it. The second reason: Silverlight is ActiveX for Web 2.0, and nobody sure as hell wants that, either.
From left to right: John Montgomery (Group Program Manager), Andy Sterland (Program Manager), Alpesh Gaglani (Developer), Tim Rice (Developer), Suzanne Hansen (Program Manager), Steven Wilssens (Program Manager), Vinay Deo (Engineering Manager), Michael Leonard (Test Developer), Jianchun Xu (Developer), Dan Fernandez (Product Manager), Adam Nathan (Developer), Wes Hutchins (Program Manager), Aaron Brethorst (Program Manager), Paramesh Vaidyanathan (Product Unit Manager), and Murali Potluri (Developer).
That's nine managers and six developers. No wonder the team "hustles for resources." They're probably going broke paying management wages to sixty percent of the staff. It says three more people aren't pictured -- we can bet that two of them are more managers.
Backup wasn't weighted any heavier than the other sections in this subjective, unsubstantiated, OSNews-quality "analysis" that IW put out. The article was more of the same "linux gets the job done, but windows is more polished" crap.
Did anyone else get the issue where they trumpet their bold move toward the internet? I'm glad in my heart that they couldn't afford to continue printing their trash mag, but we can all now look forward to more "anonymous readers" spamming slashdot, digg, and other sites with links to Information Week's quasi-journalism. Just FYI.
Also, when did the "SKU" fad start? Seriously. Why was the word "versions" not used there? What about "offerings"? I understand IW writers using it, because of their desperate need to sound enterprisey, but other people have been using it too. On the bright side, they managed to get through a whole article without gibbering about "service-oriented architecture," so maybe they are improving.
Has to be better than the usual Olympic Game titles, which have been categorically awful.
Horse shit! "Track and Field" and the blockbuster follow-up, "Track and Field 2", were responsible for the best NES gaming sessions I ever had... until I got a Power Pad. I didn't like that thing then, and I didn't like it when they resold them as "Dance Dance Revolution."
Actually even this is against the teachings of Islam. At no point in the Koran does it say killing non-believers is acceptable.
I am sick to death of ignorant non-Muslims claiming this. The Quran explicitly instructs believers to kill non-believers.
This is from the Quran (9:5) fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them, an seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war); but if they repent, and establish regular prayers and practise regular charity, then open the way for them:
This pretty clearly tells you that Muhamed claims Allah wants non-believers killed -- unless, that is, they pray. And tithe. Imagine that.
There's no such thing as a "logical fallacy." A thing is either logical or fallacious, regardless of what you posted to Wikipedia.
Do you really think I'm going to take style advice from someone who leads a sentence with an ellipsis? You're not sure how you'd repair it? That was made obvious when you used an en-dash in the last sentence. Good work, champ!
I swear as I like, and no, I have nothing better to do. I'm in a hospital right now, waiting, essentially, for my wife or my child to need me to do something. They're both asleep, and I'm making sure they can both stay that way as long as they like. Oer forty hours of labor has earned them that. This leaves me with down time.
Furthermore, if anyone involved with this article -- not that there is one, except a shitty video -- would have spent the literal five minutes I spent to clean it up, it wouldn't have sucked. As it stands, it was posted to the front page of the world's most heavily trafficked technology news site, and it garnered less than fifty posts. Compare this to the average number of posts per article, and you'll see that it was in fact a terrible article.
Bad grammar, boring content, and a half-assed editorial "policy" have combined to make this suck.
Not that I really have to justify anything I say to you. You're either assuming I'm lying or insane at this point. So it goes.
If you registered your domain at Registerfly.com, then you should know it may be locked, and you are at the moment unable to access it through Registerfly's website (video).
This is a terrible run-on sentence. Furthermore, it's ridiculously formulated to begin with. What the hell was so wrong with "Domains registered through registerfly.com may be locked or inaccessible via their website." Furthermore, what the fuck made them post a video? Even worse: it's a shitty video. It's exactly what you feared when you saw "(video)" up there. I realize that we're all balls-deep inside each other, celebrating web 2.0, but who really needs to see a video of some guy clicking around the internet and getting error messages? Honestly, I'm flabbergasted here. I have no idea why the hell anyone would post that. This is the reason you can't get anyone to RTFA around here. The article fucking sucks.
But let's continue:
You may even be unable to renew your domain because it has expired into a status known as 'redemption' through no fault of your own. By all accounts there are just under 2 million domains at risk here.
More crappy writing. Let's fix it. "Some domains cannot currently be renewed, because users must go through Registerfly to renew them. Registerfly is responsible for nearly two million domains."
There. Isn't that better? Real information, without trying to scare idiots with big words.
Enom dumped them as a reseller; their SSL cert has expired; it's a mess.
The funny thing about this terrible "sentence" is that it's actually the whole story here. How sad is that? Hint to assholes: semicolons are not your playthings. That's not how you use them. Were I to retain your ugly sentence structure, it would read, "Enom dumped them as a reseller, and their SSL certificate has expired; it's a mess."
But I won't, because that reads like shit. So, we're going to say "Registerfly and its parent company have split, and there is some doubt as to which company holds which accounts. Registerfly's SSL certificate has also expired, adding to their users' confusion."
Fortunately the principals in this are trying to restore order.
Oh good, the principals. Wait, what the fuck are you talking about? Nothing, that's what. This sentence doesn't even deserve to be rewritten.
The external website registerflies.com, originally crafted as a gripe-zone and forum for Registerfly users, has gotten inside the ranks of the post-shakup Registerfly management, made some friends and connections, and is creating a back-door problem-reporting form that goes directly to those who can correct a domain problem.
Well that's easy to read! Let's boil it down to the tasty data, keeping in mind that websites aren't people, can't make friends, and are generally not alive at all. That ought to help out the cavalier handling of grammar here. "Independent website registerflies.com, once created to host users' complaints about Registerfly's service, now contains information useful for getting domain problems solved."
The official Registerfly support ticketing system remains clogged with thousands of unanswered complaints.
Holy shit, a coherent and bullshit-free sentence! Let's frame it and hang it at the foot of the story! All together, now, and let's join up some of the shorter sentences:
Domains registered through Registerfly.com may be locked or inaccessible via their website. Some domains cannot currently be renewed, because users must go through Registerfly to renew them. Registerfly, responsible for nearly two million domains, recently split with its parent company, and there is some doubt as to which company holds which accounts. Reg
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...was convincing SCO she didn't exist.
Seriously waiting for Darl McBride to drop his coffee mug and see the name of IBM's lead attorney printed on the bottom.
Novell has 'no right to make self servicing deals on behalf of others which run contrary to the goals and ideals of the Free Software community'."
Bullshit. First, Novell isn't making deals on behalf of others. Second, Novell have every right to make the deal they made -- if the Samba folks don't like it, they should have said so in their copyright license. They didn't.
Also, from the Samba post: "The goals of the Free Software community and the GNU GPL allow for no such distinctions."
Guess what? It doesn't forbid such distinctions either.
Listen up, folks: nobody cares about your intent. The law is about the wording of the document. That sucks, but that's how it is right now. If you don't want people to do certain things with your code, SAY SO AHEAD OF TIME, IN THE LICENSE.
0. Make a working directory. I called mine "fff." Make two directories in it: 1 and 2. Now you'll have ~/fff/1 and ~/fff/2. 1. Copy the/chrome/classic.jar file from the OLD firefox version to your ~/fff/1 directory. For example, on Slackware it's/usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.7/chrome/classic.jar 2. Unzip the classic.jar file. Copy ~/fff/1/skin/classic/global/browser.css to your ~/fff directory. 3. Now copy the/chrome/classic.jar file from the NEW firefox install to ~/fff/2. 4. Unzip the classic.jar file. Copy ~/fff/browser.css into ~/fff/2/skin/classic/global/browser.css. Just overwrite the file, because it sucks. 5. From ~/fff/2, you can just do zip -f classic.jar. -f is freshen; zip will report that it updated the one file. 6. Copy ~/fff/2/classic.jar back to where you found it in the NEW firefox install. I had mine in/usr/lib/firefox2/chrome/. 7. Restart firefox, and let GTK render your widgets without any ugly gradients!
If your waiter isn't an expert, you're eating at a shitty restaurant.
Basically, a computer repair technician is not in any position to recommend software. He's in a position to fix the computer and shut the hell up. Evangelism is annoying as hell, be it from a computer nerd trying to convert you to his political ideology*, or be it from an old guy with a Bible trying to convert you to his particular denomination. If the customer asks about alternatives, that's one thing, but that last thing your average person wants is some technician breathing down his neck about Ubuntu.
*If you don't think that "I want people to use OSS because it's OSS" is a political ideology, ask yourself why participation in the whole movement is defined by which legal document you release your software under. Ask yourself why the EFF and the FSF spend so much time lobbying politicians and pursuing court cases. The original poster didn't say anything about benefits of OSS over proprietary -- he specifically said he's driving customers away from DRM. I'm sorry, but the difference between MS Office and OpenOffice.org is not the difference between eating salmon with pasta and eating salmon with asparagus. The difference there is that you sacrifice a tremendous amount of functionality, and the only return is that your software meets some lofty political ideology. I run F/OSS almost exclusively, but I don't cram it down people's throats.
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Oh man, who would have thought! A source of scrith in our own solar system!
Guys, I wasn't so sure about getting into a space race with China, but now I know we need to get there first. Anyone know how close we are to an actual cziltang brone?
Next story, please
Yes, I'm quite sure the guy decided to lie to the whole internet, because it is utterly unthinkable that some kid making ten bucks an hour at an Apple Store in a mall somewhere would be wrong, or uninterested in helping.
The people at Genius Bars are not superheroes, they don't actually care about your problems, and the minute percentage of Mac users experiencing this problem does not warrant training every Apple Store employee everywhere.
Apple's a corporation, not your best friend. Learn not to be aghast when someone suggests they may be behaving as such.
I hope this chick loses. If she wins this idiotic suit, it would set legal precedent that it's the ISP's responsibility to police its users. That's just about the worst possible idea ever.
Are you claiming that an iPhone will replace an iPod? That somehow, a telephone with 4-8 GB of storage will replace someone's 60GB iPod Video?
It's far more likely that $250 (iPod) + $500 (iPhone) > $250 (iPod) + $250 (Treo). The iPhone doesn't compete with a Treo+iPod combo; it competes with the Treo. And the only features it has to work with are youtube and itunes. That stuff's great for your average college student. As a business owner, I'm more likely to buy my employees a cost-effective, useful Treo than I am an iPhone.
First, we'll check out your carefully-selected feature comparison.
iPhone - Treo
128MB - 64MB
4-8 GB Hard Drive - 2GB SD Slot
Visual Voicemail - No, thank god.*
Auto-Landscape Mode - Unnecessary (square aspect ratio)
Phone Numbers from Webpages - Yep
Integration with Movie/Music Service (iTunes) - No, thank god.*
Easy "Pinch" and "Spin" Navigation - Actual keyboard and a touchscreen
Auto-Threading of SMS Conversations - Yep
On-Screen Conferencing options - Yep
Safari Browser with "Zoom on Element" Features - So many browsers I can't be bothered to list them here.
Rich email client - Yep. Dozens.
Smooth Integration with Google Maps, Youtube, and Mac Widgets - Yes, no (thank god), and no (thank god).
Next, I'll point out the price of this phone.
Price of the Treo 650 (which stacks up to the iphone except for itunes and youtube): $150 on eBay. Unlocked.
So, youtube and itunes. Worth a couple hundred bucks to you?
* Items with asterisks require proprietary service agreements to be useful. Try getting "visual voicemail" on any carrier but at&t. Also, AKAImBatman refers to "Integration with Movie/Music Service" as though it can be other than iTunes, which isn't the case. It's iTunes or gtfo, and I consider it disingenuous not to specify that.
How exactly did the guy pronounce "f@ck"?
...yes it is.
This team sounds like a developer's nightmare.
Backup wasn't weighted any heavier than the other sections in this subjective, unsubstantiated, OSNews-quality "analysis" that IW put out. The article was more of the same "linux gets the job done, but windows is more polished" crap.
Did anyone else get the issue where they trumpet their bold move toward the internet? I'm glad in my heart that they couldn't afford to continue printing their trash mag, but we can all now look forward to more "anonymous readers" spamming slashdot, digg, and other sites with links to Information Week's quasi-journalism. Just FYI.
Also, when did the "SKU" fad start? Seriously. Why was the word "versions" not used there? What about "offerings"? I understand IW writers using it, because of their desperate need to sound enterprisey, but other people have been using it too. On the bright side, they managed to get through a whole article without gibbering about "service-oriented architecture," so maybe they are improving.
If the word "videoplay" in the URI didn't help you I'm not sure that a (video) tag would.
Actually even this is against the teachings of Islam. At no point in the Koran does it say killing non-believers is acceptable.
I am sick to death of ignorant non-Muslims claiming this. The Quran explicitly instructs believers to kill non-believers.
This is from the Quran (9:5)
fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them, an seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war); but if they repent, and establish regular prayers and practise regular charity, then open the way for them:
This pretty clearly tells you that Muhamed claims Allah wants non-believers killed -- unless, that is, they pray. And tithe. Imagine that.
There's no such thing as a "logical fallacy." A thing is either logical or fallacious, regardless of what you posted to Wikipedia. Do you really think I'm going to take style advice from someone who leads a sentence with an ellipsis? You're not sure how you'd repair it? That was made obvious when you used an en-dash in the last sentence. Good work, champ!
I swear as I like, and no, I have nothing better to do. I'm in a hospital right now, waiting, essentially, for my wife or my child to need me to do something. They're both asleep, and I'm making sure they can both stay that way as long as they like. Oer forty hours of labor has earned them that. This leaves me with down time.
Furthermore, if anyone involved with this article -- not that there is one, except a shitty video -- would have spent the literal five minutes I spent to clean it up, it wouldn't have sucked. As it stands, it was posted to the front page of the world's most heavily trafficked technology news site, and it garnered less than fifty posts. Compare this to the average number of posts per article, and you'll see that it was in fact a terrible article.
Bad grammar, boring content, and a half-assed editorial "policy" have combined to make this suck.
Not that I really have to justify anything I say to you. You're either assuming I'm lying or insane at this point. So it goes.
This is a terrible run-on sentence. Furthermore, it's ridiculously formulated to begin with. What the hell was so wrong with "Domains registered through registerfly.com may be locked or inaccessible via their website." Furthermore, what the fuck made them post a video? Even worse: it's a shitty video. It's exactly what you feared when you saw "(video)" up there. I realize that we're all balls-deep inside each other, celebrating web 2.0, but who really needs to see a video of some guy clicking around the internet and getting error messages? Honestly, I'm flabbergasted here. I have no idea why the hell anyone would post that. This is the reason you can't get anyone to RTFA around here. The article fucking sucks.
But let's continue:
More crappy writing. Let's fix it. "Some domains cannot currently be renewed, because users must go through Registerfly to renew them. Registerfly is responsible for nearly two million domains."
There. Isn't that better? Real information, without trying to scare idiots with big words.
The funny thing about this terrible "sentence" is that it's actually the whole story here. How sad is that? Hint to assholes: semicolons are not your playthings. That's not how you use them. Were I to retain your ugly sentence structure, it would read, "Enom dumped them as a reseller, and their SSL certificate has expired; it's a mess."
But I won't, because that reads like shit. So, we're going to say "Registerfly and its parent company have split, and there is some doubt as to which company holds which accounts. Registerfly's SSL certificate has also expired, adding to their users' confusion."
Oh good, the principals. Wait, what the fuck are you talking about? Nothing, that's what. This sentence doesn't even deserve to be rewritten.
Well that's easy to read! Let's boil it down to the tasty data, keeping in mind that websites aren't people, can't make friends, and are generally not alive at all. That ought to help out the cavalier handling of grammar here. "Independent website registerflies.com, once created to host users' complaints about Registerfly's service, now contains information useful for getting domain problems solved."
Holy shit, a coherent and bullshit-free sentence! Let's frame it and hang it at the foot of the story! All together, now, and let's join up some of the shorter sentences:
...was convincing SCO she didn't exist.
Seriously waiting for Darl McBride to drop his coffee mug and see the name of IBM's lead attorney printed on the bottom.
Novell has 'no right to make self servicing deals on behalf of others which run contrary to the goals and ideals of the Free Software community'."
Bullshit. First, Novell isn't making deals on behalf of others. Second, Novell have every right to make the deal they made -- if the Samba folks don't like it, they should have said so in their copyright license. They didn't.
Also, from the Samba post: "The goals of the Free Software community and the GNU GPL allow for no such distinctions."
Guess what? It doesn't forbid such distinctions either.
Listen up, folks: nobody cares about your intent. The law is about the wording of the document. That sucks, but that's how it is right now. If you don't want people to do certain things with your code, SAY SO AHEAD OF TIME, IN THE LICENSE.
I completely agree. I can't believe the sheer audacity of this jerk! The last thing America needs is its citizens attempting to enforce national laws!
wait...
0. Make a working directory. I called mine "fff." Make two directories in it: 1 and 2. Now you'll have ~/fff/1 and ~/fff/2. /chrome/classic.jar file from the OLD firefox version to your ~/fff/1 directory. For example, on Slackware it's /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.7/chrome/classic.jar /chrome/classic.jar file from the NEW firefox install to ~/fff/2. /usr/lib/firefox2/chrome/.
1. Copy the
2. Unzip the classic.jar file. Copy ~/fff/1/skin/classic/global/browser.css to your ~/fff directory.
3. Now copy the
4. Unzip the classic.jar file. Copy ~/fff/browser.css into ~/fff/2/skin/classic/global/browser.css. Just overwrite the file, because it sucks.
5. From ~/fff/2, you can just do zip -f classic.jar. -f is freshen; zip will report that it updated the one file.
6. Copy ~/fff/2/classic.jar back to where you found it in the NEW firefox install. I had mine in
7. Restart firefox, and let GTK render your widgets without any ugly gradients!
Can an unstable creator create a stable creation?
Oh, right. Sorry. I rescind the question.
If your waiter isn't an expert, you're eating at a shitty restaurant.
Basically, a computer repair technician is not in any position to recommend software. He's in a position to fix the computer and shut the hell up. Evangelism is annoying as hell, be it from a computer nerd trying to convert you to his political ideology*, or be it from an old guy with a Bible trying to convert you to his particular denomination. If the customer asks about alternatives, that's one thing, but that last thing your average person wants is some technician breathing down his neck about Ubuntu.
*If you don't think that "I want people to use OSS because it's OSS" is a political ideology, ask yourself why participation in the whole movement is defined by which legal document you release your software under. Ask yourself why the EFF and the FSF spend so much time lobbying politicians and pursuing court cases. The original poster didn't say anything about benefits of OSS over proprietary -- he specifically said he's driving customers away from DRM. I'm sorry, but the difference between MS Office and OpenOffice.org is not the difference between eating salmon with pasta and eating salmon with asparagus. The difference there is that you sacrifice a tremendous amount of functionality, and the only return is that your software meets some lofty political ideology. I run F/OSS almost exclusively, but I don't cram it down people's throats.