Your examples are also very direct. Let's not forget those people who gaslight, steal credit, spread rumours, and otherwise attempt to subtly sabotage your career.
But when the tool becomes the task. If is no longer useful.
You have just described Linux, Windows, MacOS, as well as every other browser.
Effectively you have said: "A car is just a car, as soon as I need to take it in for maintenance it is no longer useful". Even a simple tool like a spanner can benefit from being cleaned at some point in its life.
Get billions of dollars in taxpayer funded subsidies for something that nobody in their right mind would invest their own money in.
That is precisely how subsidies work and why they exist. I don't know what people are so upset about. The whole point of creating a subsidy is to entice entrants into the market.
There is no Brit alive who would say that spelling it authorize
Except for those working for Oxford whose dictionary which still lists 200 words with the primary British spelling being -ize and whose formal style guide notes that it is however rarely written that way outside of academic and legal publications. Also note that -yse is still correct, only the words where the 'z' follows the 'i' are spelt in the "American" way.
Don't worry this bit of pub trivia surprised me too. There's even a wikipedia page on this bizarre rule, and since we're on Slashdot and a nerd site we should also point out that there's a dedicated IETF tag: en-GB-oed to differentiate formal Oxford English from common UK English.
Note if you go to the Oxford english dictionary and search for "organisation" it will redirect you to "organization" and offer the -ise ending as an alternative, formalising the former. Yet if you search for "analyze" it will redirect you to "analyse" and point out that it is spelt differently in the US.
Wow, sure is great that everyone has the expertise to do that! Firefox, the browser for everyone!
Just like finely tuned street race cars are the cars for everyone? To be clear you're talking about a browser that isn't working at peak performance. There's nothing stopping everyone! using Firefox. Just like bugs like cache creep in Edge aren't debilitating, or how in Chrome if you use services that make heavy use of local storage services can cause your profile directory to inexplicably grow massively in size to the point where there are plugins to help you manage the amount of space it takes.
This may come as a shock to you, but technology in general takes maintenance. That is as true for your OS, or you mobile phone as it is for a browser profile that you have loaded and unloaded with shit for many years through hundreds of successive upgrades.
I didn't say Germany is great. I said your conclusion that CO2 reduction doesn't occur due to increase in cost isn't born out of the data. Quite the opposite actually it's disproven by it.
What you have pointed out though are vast differences between two countries that had very different starting positions and made very different policy decisions as they went.
It's not right to say that electricity cost had no effect, but rather to say the effect that it had did not overcome the policy decision that lead to the increase in CO2 emissions of the country. Comparing between countries is also disingenuous as you are trying to use it to prove the result of a single country. Data doesn't work like that, and if you do a bit of research you'll find that German energy consumption per household has actually reduced in step with the rising electricity cost. Unfortunately that result gets burred under the weight of substituting nuclear power for coal on the production side.
I haven't done it often but sometimes I type "defence" or insert unnecessary 'u's.
I once had a Brit call me out on the fact that I used authorize and colour in the same sentence. Stupid part is that the -ize ending is the preferred Oxford spelling with -ise having strong roots in French words.
The distinction is complex enough that I doubt you'll find anyone who can conclusively correctly spell every different word from both countries consistently.
The result of anything where the verb to pave applies for how the surface is improved is pavement.
This forms the basis of a lot of Americanisms. The language based on Americanisms is less rich and relies more on words that sound like other words or words that describe distinct things by appearance or function. Take for example a "movie" as a way to describe moving pictures which in British English has the historically distinct word a "film". While you go to the "movies" to watch a "movie" in the UK you would watch a "film" in a "cinema". A "caravan" in America is called a "trailer", which is indistinct from other "trailers". Also not just "car trailers", but also a "trailer truck" which would be called an "articulated lorry".
There's also no requirement in for a verb and noun to have the same spelling in the UK which leads to differences such as your "driver's license" and the UK's "driver's licence". The difference is that the government will "license" you by giving you a "licence", something that has no distinction in American English.
In a way American English is simpler to understand.
Why the assumption that pavement has something to do with being paved? Roads in the UK are paved and not called pavement. Pavements in the UK do not need to be paved, they can be asphalted or otherwise prepared.
For the summary's example of pavement versus sidewalk, pavement is less specific than sidewalk. Pavement refers to an improved surface and just as easily could mean a roadway, while sidewalk pretty specifically indicates an improved surface that is meant for pedestrians rather than vehicles.
You fell into a classic language trap.
"Pavement" only describes a surface in American English.
In British English "Pavement" is always a paved or otherwise surfaced and prepared path (as distinct from just dirt) specifically separate for the road and specifically for the use of a pedestrian.
You just assumed that there's different specificity because you assumed both words had the same meaning in both languages. That's still a fairly innocent mistake. Just don't forget that wearing thongs in public is perfectly acceptable but men should never be seen wearing suspenders, at least not unless you're the cast of Rocky Horror.
Not necessarily. Just like a windows XP machine that hasn't been formatted in a few years, often it's not the customisation but the buildup of stale shit in your profile that can often do this.
I myself had Firefox crash hard on me on every startup after an update. The solution was to create a new profile, import the old profile, and re-install all the same plugins I had previously. Fixed a lot of issues doing that and I had all the customisations I had previously.
What do you have in mind other than email and calendar?
Just as a few examples of what I use: - Integration with Skype for business (instant messaging, online meeting organisation, integration into phone systems e.g. my desk phone gets marked as busy when I have a calendar entry in outlook). - Integration with services (resource management in meeting rooms is done via exchange calendars, our entire resource booking system is managed through it including hiring of pool cars). - Integration with sharepoint for online sharing of materials, availability etc.
And that beside some of the smaller features that exist within the applications. e.g. the ability to send groups of people tasks, request responses, pre-design templates for survey style responses, etc. Some of these features if they exist at all are quite haphazardous in open source.
So does Windows XP. You can take Windows XP from my cold dead broke due to constantly paying for ransomware fingers.
Seriously if you're in favour of insecure, not only will you not find many friends here, expect some of us to out right tell you to fuck off. Your desire for shit code should not have a negative impact on others.
Nope, but by extension in our modern every improving and security conscious world all stale code should be purged. Extensions in Firefox were a major source of crashes and security issues. It's good to pour some chlorine in the pool every so often when you have had kids swimming in it.
There is no reason a normal web page should load slowly on any browser, Chrome or FF.
There's noticable performance differences between loading something like Youtube or Facebook on Chrome and old FF. That noticeable difference becomes a crippling difference when you have many tabs open as Chrome managed them far better and supported threading and process isolation to boot.
For some normal workloads, FF quickly became crippling to use. I don't care which designer is at fault, if popular pages are far nicer to navigate in Chrome than FF, then the problem is (was) with FF.
You are right. Increasing electricity rates in a goal of the greenies. There is a belief that high electricity rates will decrease demand. In reality it impoverishes the lower and middle classes while doing nothing to lower CO2 emissions.
Yes and no. Yes it does hit the lower and middle class proportionately. But no your conclusion isn't right. It has followed all over the world that rising costs of energy has a direct effect on consumption and efficiency of that energy.
It's why Germany's household power usage is lower than that of France, despite Germany having higher requirements for heating and lighting. The countries which raise costs are the first to drive efficiencies in design, and Germany's energy costs are directly reflected in the fantastic way they build new houses which use only a fraction of the energy and generate a fraction of the CO2 as those of the past.
You could also see that more drastically with the change in car markets in the USA over the past 5 years with rising petrol prices directly effecting SUV and large vehicle sales while coinciding with the adoption of European style cars. Naturally when the bottom fell out of the oil price sales in massive gas guzzlers spiked up again thanks to short term thinking by people.
Australia went through the same transition with mass retrofitting of insulation and solar panels directly to combat the rising cost of electricity. Dual pane windows which were once considered some European thing are now starting to appear in tropical climates as well, and the payback period and therefore adoption decreases the more energy rates rise.
You should stop driving cars. Their lack of seatbelts and airbags make them little metal death machines with basically incalculable risk.
Except that risk isn't incalculable, and nuclear reactors don't all follow the same risk profile of something built in the 60s much less in Germany which in general has a far lower likelihood of natural disasters and willful disobedience of safety protocols like the Ukrainians as mitigating factors.
In the meantime, enjoy breathing those coal fumes. Not that you care because the country seems hell bent on wanting lung cancer one way or the other. Seriously do something about smoking too.
I worked in the public sector too for a while. Although I only used about 10 specific management programs for various tasks I do remember having to sort through several hundred in the software portal looking for the ones to install.
Anyway sorry for the "receptionist" joke, but consider yourself lucky. Most of the more bespoke systems (especially any that have to integrate with HRM) are fucking horrible to use.
I work for a US based Fortune 500 company as a result of being hired by a company they bought out. They left us alone for several years and during that time we maintained our own email systems on Linux. It was so much easier than now when we are forced to use corporate Exchange servers with awful Outlook clients.
So what you're saying is they eventually got tired of the lack of functionality you were providing and moved you to a system that is harder maintain due to its complexity and also the laundry list of improvements the end user gets as a result.
Sorry but no one cares how much effort you as the IT person has to put in.
Don't be stupid. Of course you can revoke email privileges
That is what was called an example. By refuting one example you haven't posed a counterarguement. There are countless features available in the Outloook/Exchange/Skype ecossystem that have no comparison in the Linux world and that goes well beyond calendars and email / user management too, all the way down to hardware support and building integration.
Slashdot Mirror
Your examples are also very direct. Let's not forget those people who gaslight, steal credit, spread rumours, and otherwise attempt to subtly sabotage your career.
You don't even need to be present to be bullied.
How do you import old file without importing al the junk you don't want?
You could manually export things which are important (passwords, bookmarks) and then reinstall your extensions.
Or just push this button: https://support.mozilla.org/en...
But when the tool becomes the task. If is no longer useful.
You have just described Linux, Windows, MacOS, as well as every other browser.
Effectively you have said: "A car is just a car, as soon as I need to take it in for maintenance it is no longer useful". Even a simple tool like a spanner can benefit from being cleaned at some point in its life.
Get billions of dollars in taxpayer funded subsidies for something that nobody in their right mind would invest their own money in.
That is precisely how subsidies work and why they exist. I don't know what people are so upset about. The whole point of creating a subsidy is to entice entrants into the market.
You are correct.
Oh the irony of talking about spellings and then spelling spelled spelt.
Hhahahaha more beer time.
There is no Brit alive who would say that spelling it authorize
Except for those working for Oxford whose dictionary which still lists 200 words with the primary British spelling being -ize and whose formal style guide notes that it is however rarely written that way outside of academic and legal publications. Also note that -yse is still correct, only the words where the 'z' follows the 'i' are spelt in the "American" way.
Don't worry this bit of pub trivia surprised me too. There's even a wikipedia page on this bizarre rule, and since we're on Slashdot and a nerd site we should also point out that there's a dedicated IETF tag: en-GB-oed to differentiate formal Oxford English from common UK English.
Note if you go to the Oxford english dictionary and search for "organisation" it will redirect you to "organization" and offer the -ise ending as an alternative, formalising the former. Yet if you search for "analyze" it will redirect you to "analyse" and point out that it is spelt differently in the US.
There, a useless fact for the day :-)
Terrorists are dumb.
That's what they want you to think.
They will never hack at this level.
Of course not, they don't need to either. Just pay someone or threaten to kill their family.
Wow, sure is great that everyone has the expertise to do that! Firefox, the browser for everyone!
Just like finely tuned street race cars are the cars for everyone? To be clear you're talking about a browser that isn't working at peak performance. There's nothing stopping everyone! using Firefox. Just like bugs like cache creep in Edge aren't debilitating, or how in Chrome if you use services that make heavy use of local storage services can cause your profile directory to inexplicably grow massively in size to the point where there are plugins to help you manage the amount of space it takes.
This may come as a shock to you, but technology in general takes maintenance. That is as true for your OS, or you mobile phone as it is for a browser profile that you have loaded and unloaded with shit for many years through hundreds of successive upgrades.
I didn't say Germany is great. I said your conclusion that CO2 reduction doesn't occur due to increase in cost isn't born out of the data. Quite the opposite actually it's disproven by it.
What you have pointed out though are vast differences between two countries that had very different starting positions and made very different policy decisions as they went.
It's not right to say that electricity cost had no effect, but rather to say the effect that it had did not overcome the policy decision that lead to the increase in CO2 emissions of the country. Comparing between countries is also disingenuous as you are trying to use it to prove the result of a single country. Data doesn't work like that, and if you do a bit of research you'll find that German energy consumption per household has actually reduced in step with the rising electricity cost. Unfortunately that result gets burred under the weight of substituting nuclear power for coal on the production side.
I haven't done it often but sometimes I type "defence" or insert unnecessary 'u's.
I once had a Brit call me out on the fact that I used authorize and colour in the same sentence. Stupid part is that the -ize ending is the preferred Oxford spelling with -ise having strong roots in French words.
The distinction is complex enough that I doubt you'll find anyone who can conclusively correctly spell every different word from both countries consistently.
The result of anything where the verb to pave applies for how the surface is improved is pavement.
This forms the basis of a lot of Americanisms. The language based on Americanisms is less rich and relies more on words that sound like other words or words that describe distinct things by appearance or function. Take for example a "movie" as a way to describe moving pictures which in British English has the historically distinct word a "film". While you go to the "movies" to watch a "movie" in the UK you would watch a "film" in a "cinema".
A "caravan" in America is called a "trailer", which is indistinct from other "trailers". Also not just "car trailers", but also a "trailer truck" which would be called an "articulated lorry".
There's also no requirement in for a verb and noun to have the same spelling in the UK which leads to differences such as your "driver's license" and the UK's "driver's licence". The difference is that the government will "license" you by giving you a "licence", something that has no distinction in American English.
In a way American English is simpler to understand.
Are your streets not paved there?
Why the assumption that pavement has something to do with being paved?
Roads in the UK are paved and not called pavement.
Pavements in the UK do not need to be paved, they can be asphalted or otherwise prepared.
For the summary's example of pavement versus sidewalk, pavement is less specific than sidewalk. Pavement refers to an improved surface and just as easily could mean a roadway, while sidewalk pretty specifically indicates an improved surface that is meant for pedestrians rather than vehicles.
You fell into a classic language trap.
"Pavement" only describes a surface in American English.
In British English "Pavement" is always a paved or otherwise surfaced and prepared path (as distinct from just dirt) specifically separate for the road and specifically for the use of a pedestrian.
You just assumed that there's different specificity because you assumed both words had the same meaning in both languages. That's still a fairly innocent mistake. Just don't forget that wearing thongs in public is perfectly acceptable but men should never be seen wearing suspenders, at least not unless you're the cast of Rocky Horror.
So I need to lose all my customization
Not necessarily. Just like a windows XP machine that hasn't been formatted in a few years, often it's not the customisation but the buildup of stale shit in your profile that can often do this.
I myself had Firefox crash hard on me on every startup after an update. The solution was to create a new profile, import the old profile, and re-install all the same plugins I had previously. Fixed a lot of issues doing that and I had all the customisations I had previously.
What do you have in mind other than email and calendar?
Just as a few examples of what I use:
- Integration with Skype for business (instant messaging, online meeting organisation, integration into phone systems e.g. my desk phone gets marked as busy when I have a calendar entry in outlook).
- Integration with services (resource management in meeting rooms is done via exchange calendars, our entire resource booking system is managed through it including hiring of pool cars).
- Integration with sharepoint for online sharing of materials, availability etc.
And that beside some of the smaller features that exist within the applications. e.g. the ability to send groups of people tasks, request responses, pre-design templates for survey style responses, etc. Some of these features if they exist at all are quite haphazardous in open source.
So does Windows XP. You can take Windows XP from my cold dead broke due to constantly paying for ransomware fingers.
Seriously if you're in favour of insecure, not only will you not find many friends here, expect some of us to out right tell you to fuck off. Your desire for shit code should not have a negative impact on others.
Nope, but by extension in our modern every improving and security conscious world all stale code should be purged. Extensions in Firefox were a major source of crashes and security issues. It's good to pour some chlorine in the pool every so often when you have had kids swimming in it.
There is no reason a normal web page should load slowly on any browser, Chrome or FF.
There's noticable performance differences between loading something like Youtube or Facebook on Chrome and old FF. That noticeable difference becomes a crippling difference when you have many tabs open as Chrome managed them far better and supported threading and process isolation to boot.
For some normal workloads, FF quickly became crippling to use. I don't care which designer is at fault, if popular pages are far nicer to navigate in Chrome than FF, then the problem is (was) with FF.
But it's now slower than it used to be for all the hype of being faster.
You broke something. Nuke your profile and start again.
Yes I am most definitely blaming the user here. If you think this is in any way slower than you have done something wrong.
You are right. Increasing electricity rates in a goal of the greenies. There is a belief that high electricity rates will decrease demand. In reality it impoverishes the lower and middle classes while doing nothing to lower CO2 emissions.
Yes and no. Yes it does hit the lower and middle class proportionately. But no your conclusion isn't right. It has followed all over the world that rising costs of energy has a direct effect on consumption and efficiency of that energy.
It's why Germany's household power usage is lower than that of France, despite Germany having higher requirements for heating and lighting. The countries which raise costs are the first to drive efficiencies in design, and Germany's energy costs are directly reflected in the fantastic way they build new houses which use only a fraction of the energy and generate a fraction of the CO2 as those of the past.
You could also see that more drastically with the change in car markets in the USA over the past 5 years with rising petrol prices directly effecting SUV and large vehicle sales while coinciding with the adoption of European style cars. Naturally when the bottom fell out of the oil price sales in massive gas guzzlers spiked up again thanks to short term thinking by people.
Australia went through the same transition with mass retrofitting of insulation and solar panels directly to combat the rising cost of electricity. Dual pane windows which were once considered some European thing are now starting to appear in tropical climates as well, and the payback period and therefore adoption decreases the more energy rates rise.
You should stop driving cars. Their lack of seatbelts and airbags make them little metal death machines with basically incalculable risk.
Except that risk isn't incalculable, and nuclear reactors don't all follow the same risk profile of something built in the 60s much less in Germany which in general has a far lower likelihood of natural disasters and willful disobedience of safety protocols like the Ukrainians as mitigating factors.
In the meantime, enjoy breathing those coal fumes. Not that you care because the country seems hell bent on wanting lung cancer one way or the other. Seriously do something about smoking too.
I work in the public sector on computers all day.
Oh you're a receptionist. Cool.
I worked in the public sector too for a while. Although I only used about 10 specific management programs for various tasks I do remember having to sort through several hundred in the software portal looking for the ones to install.
Anyway sorry for the "receptionist" joke, but consider yourself lucky. Most of the more bespoke systems (especially any that have to integrate with HRM) are fucking horrible to use.
I work for a US based Fortune 500 company as a result of being hired by a company they bought out. They left us alone for several years and during that time we maintained our own email systems on Linux. It was so much easier than now when we are forced to use corporate Exchange servers with awful Outlook clients.
So what you're saying is they eventually got tired of the lack of functionality you were providing and moved you to a system that is harder maintain due to its complexity and also the laundry list of improvements the end user gets as a result.
Sorry but no one cares how much effort you as the IT person has to put in.
Don't be stupid. Of course you can revoke email privileges
That is what was called an example. By refuting one example you haven't posed a counterarguement. There are countless features available in the Outloook/Exchange/Skype ecossystem that have no comparison in the Linux world and that goes well beyond calendars and email / user management too, all the way down to hardware support and building integration.