...to stop employing people who are so clueless when it comes to IT. Personal computers have been commonplace for more than twenty years now, it's time people started learning how to use them correctly.
I'm still coming across businessmen of a certain vintage (typically 50+) for whom it's a matter of pride that they "don't know anything about computers". FFS, it's 2011. Get a grip or retire.
Epiphany. The world's most useless browser. Basically, it was Galeon with all its features removed, and then replaced with a silly tag-based bookmarking system that is so unintuitive to use that no-one would ever bother with it.
I don't use Skype - not because I can't, just because I can't be bothered running yet another bloated application on my computer - and people never seem to have trouble getting in contact with me.
This is amusingly like a case in South Australia recently. A member of the state parliament (and minister) was arrested for allegedly looking at kiddie pics, but his name was suppressed by law (despite the name being all over Twitter within hours). He stood down from his ministerial post shortly afterwards So you had the strange case of TV news bulletins reporting, "A minister has been arrested on child pr0n offences" and then in the following report, "Minister John Smith[1] has resigned from cabinet, due to poor polling results".
[1] I can't remember his real name, but they did say it. Anyone watching that news bulletin would be able to put two and two together...
What is it with these crazy user-interface obsessionists? First they inflict themselves upon Gnome, then Ubuntu, Chrome and now Firefox.
Stop designing your software for idiots, and instead educate people. If people don't understand what the URL bar is for, explain it to them, rather than removing it for the rest of us who find it useful.
While it's not a panacea, Open Source is still better than closed especially when it comes to stuff like this.
True. Don't get me wrong, I make a livelihood almost entirely out of open source software. But it's still amazing how many people blindly recite the "open source is safer" mantra without looking at the issues of who they get their software from, who it was compiled by and how safe it really is...
And as long as someone trustworthy monitors the build and deployment. Open source, as much as I like it, isn't a panacea for these sort of things - they could easily slip something nasty into any open source package.
I find it difficult to believe that vendors could
be liable for what their customers do. Even with
preinstalled software - what if a customer later
illegaly installs another OS - eg, Solaris, SCO, etc. Is the vendor still liable then?
Hell, who cares whether Linus is (in reality) more or less important than someone else? I fully support getting Linus to the top of the list, because it highlights how ridiculous it is to take seriously a voluntary poll from a semi-tabloid magazine that reflects the opinion of the political elite in one single country...
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...so I won't be using your service then, Microsoft.
Just wait for the next massive solar storm...
...to stop employing people who are so clueless when it comes to IT. Personal computers have been commonplace for more than twenty years now, it's time people started learning how to use them correctly.
I'm still coming across businessmen of a certain vintage (typically 50+) for whom it's a matter of pride that they "don't know anything about computers". FFS, it's 2011. Get a grip or retire.
Epiphany. The world's most useless browser. Basically, it was Galeon with all its features removed, and then replaced with a silly tag-based bookmarking system that is so unintuitive to use that no-one would ever bother with it.
If they want to talk to you, they'll find a way.
I don't use Skype - not because I can't, just because I can't be bothered running yet another bloated application on my computer - and people never seem to have trouble getting in contact with me.
This is amusingly like a case in South Australia recently. A member of the state parliament (and minister) was arrested for allegedly looking at kiddie pics, but his name was suppressed by law (despite the name being all over Twitter within hours). He stood down from his ministerial post shortly afterwards So you had the strange case of TV news bulletins reporting, "A minister has been arrested on child pr0n offences" and then in the following report, "Minister John Smith[1] has resigned from cabinet, due to poor polling results".
[1] I can't remember his real name, but they did say it. Anyone watching that news bulletin would be able to put two and two together...
Gestural interfaces are ok on a touch screen, but when using a mouse, I find they're just inconvenient.
No-one is asking for this.
What is it with these crazy user-interface obsessionists? First they inflict themselves upon Gnome, then Ubuntu, Chrome and now Firefox.
Stop designing your software for idiots, and instead educate people. If people don't understand what the URL bar is for, explain it to them, rather than removing it for the rest of us who find it useful.
...why not do the same to the people who have been restricting all their other freedoms, too?
...keeping employment within their own borders, without imposing illegal tariffs.
...in times of financial difficulties: "This Presidential Alert brought to you by Coke!"
While it's not a panacea, Open Source is still better than closed especially when it comes to stuff like this.
True. Don't get me wrong, I make a livelihood almost entirely out of open source software. But it's still amazing how many people blindly recite the "open source is safer" mantra without looking at the issues of who they get their software from, who it was compiled by and how safe it really is...
And as long as someone trustworthy monitors the build and deployment. Open source, as much as I like it, isn't a panacea for these sort of things - they could easily slip something nasty into any open source package.
They're being ripped off.
Our on-call is as follows:
No fee for carrying the phone, but if called, the
rate is person's overtime rate (>US$100) per hour or part thereof.
Hence if a problem takes only five minutes, we still charge an hour.
I would maintain that only a totally screwed legal system would hold a dealer liable for what a customer does with their PC.
Guns are a little different. It can't hurt to sell a PC to a trigger happy moron.
I find it difficult to believe that vendors could
be liable for what their customers do. Even with
preinstalled software - what if a customer later
illegaly installs another OS - eg, Solaris, SCO, etc. Is the vendor still liable then?
I know that he went on to Atari after getting out of Commodore, but what happened to him after Atari went ballzup?
Hell, who cares whether Linus is (in reality) more or less important than someone else? I fully support getting Linus to the top of the list, because it highlights how ridiculous it is to take seriously a voluntary poll from a semi-tabloid magazine that reflects the opinion of the political elite in one single country...
...because Telstra's reputation is skating on thin ice as it is, as far as I'm concerned...
Since when did "not having kids" mean someone showed a lack of responsibility?
Compulsion. "You must do this". If my government told me to do that, I'd tell them where to go. But then, I live in a democracy (...at the moment).
...why dredge out tired old plots, characters and Universes when you can use your imagination and come up with your own?
Software: Code reuse is good.
Entertainment: Plot reuse is bad.