I'm not talking about Linux, foo. I'm talking about OS X.
>(minus the constant barage of security patches)
Exactly. What do you think I'm talking about when I talk about administration?
Think about all the ancillary things you have to do to Windows to keep it stable and secure. Now tell me, do you think that time spent is worthwhile? Is there something else you'd rather do with your time? If so, maybe it's time to see if there's a better way.
If you like XP, that's fine. It's no skin off my nose, but I'm defending the author's choice of OS. It's a simple as that. If you want to use something else, go right ahead; I'm all about the choice, baby.
I'm getting tired of comments like this. Just because you derive some sick, deranged pleasure from knowing all the minutiae and strange behaviors of the software products you own doesn't mean that someone else does. Some folks just like to use friendly, intuitive software.
When people complain, Microsoft may choose to ignore them at their own peril. It's capitalism, baby. If they want to cater to the folks who like to "get their windows machine stable", that's fine. The rest of us have a fine selection of OS' to jump to.
If this gentleman uses OS X because he feels it is easier to understand and use, that's his perogative, and it is not a reflection of his skills as a computer user. In fact, I stand right beside him as a Mac OS X convert after years of staunch Microsoft support.
Some of us like to use the computer rather than wrestle with it.
Oh, and you can't tell me that you've never reformatted a windows box because it was just easier than trying to figure out what was wrong.
Sometimes, debugging the issue would take longer than a re-install. Sometimes, it is less costly to just rebuild rather than spend days comparing DLL versions, scanning through the registry, and all the other attendant menial tasks that come with debugging an unstable windows installation. Is it a bad driver? Bad device*? Bad registry keys? Conflicting DLLs? Bah. Who needs it.
Bottom line: When I use my machine, I want to get productive work done. I have better things to do with my time than be an administrator.
*I'm aware that Microsoft supports a "much wider range of hardware". I've heard that argument before. However, as a user, I'm not interested in what Microsoft chooses to support. I'm interested in a stable, easy-to-use machine with a decent selection of compatible periphals.
But surely HTMLers ought to know enough about the software world to know they aren't software engineers?
They should, and if they are gently corrected, that should be enough. If not, leave it be, and market forces will take care of them. There is no need to make them miserable while they circle the drain and simultaneously paint yourself as a jerk.
You know what? Fuck you. Fuck you and your elitist technological priesthood attitude.
I welcome anybody who has a sense of curiousity and a desire to start from somewhere.
Part of the "hacker" ethos is sharing knowledge, which is what this book aims to do. There is nothing wrong with using someone else's "trivial" hacks to learn more about doing your own. Honestly, I don't think anyone on this site can claim that they could have learned everything they know in absence of others knowledge.
When I started in my career, I was tormented endlessly by guys just like you, so I know just how it feels to be targeted by messages like this. It can hurt, very badly. So next time, before you start parading your cred around and slagging others who just want to learn, think about the beginners you may be hurting. Stuff like this cuts deep when you're just starting out, and our profession and passion suffers when there is no new talent.
So remember, everyone has to start somewhere, and not everyone is born with asbestos underwear. And those HTML guys who profess to be software engineers? They get theirs, but you don't need to make it worse by discouraging them from learning.
Actually, Galileo was excommunicated, which at the time was almost as bad as being driven out entirely. In addition, he was placed on house arrest and was confined there until he died, refusing to recant his observations.
The general rule of thumb is: States can strengthen federal law, but not weaken it.
Unfortunately, with this law, it looks as though the FTC has exclusive authority to enforce anti-spam regulations. Therefore, the individual state laws cannot "weaken" the authority of the FTC as stated by this law.
Also, with respect to "see state marijuana laws vs federal", the federal law supercedes the state laws to which you are referring. For instance, a gentleman was arrested by the federal government for growing medicinal marijuana as sanctioned by the State of California. The federal judge who oversaw the case held that the man was guilty, but set the penalty to one day in jail. To be sure, it was a light consequence for violating federal law that conflicts with state law, however, it did demonstrate that federal law is enforceable over state law.
Ahem. Mozilla *is* strict, plain and simple, but only if you use the proper doctype definition. If you don't you probably don't care about "strict" rendering anyway.
I don't use Opera, but I suspect the same is true. If it isn't, then why would you want a browser that intentionally misrenders pages for which the author did not clearly state a doctype? Aren't you just hurting yourself?
ideal: doctype def == strict or "standards" rendering no doctype == loose
This way you get to see most sites on the web, and those authors who have taken the care to craft their pages properly get their pages rendered in the fashion in which they intended.
It doesn't matter what they'll have to say as two identical trademarks can exist in two separate vertical markets (assuming the goods or services put forth in the registrations don't overlap.)
Unless Garmin registered the iQue trademark with an explicit mention of interactive gaming electronics, Nintendo would be safe, no matter what Garmin thinks.
As a matter of fact, you could sell Xbox toilet paper if you wanted to; I doubt Microsoft included personal sanitation effects in their filing.;)
...that this is just a plan to fly the plane using passengers as a cheap, distributed, AI cluster? Just think, if you average the maneuvers of each of the sim pilots...;)
... but the dinosaur's remains spread across the world due to the fact that their living bodies were all together on the super-continent pangea, which then separated, leaving the remains spread across the continents we live on today.
Moreover, the article doesn't echo the article submitter when he said, "This helps to explain how creatures of such huge mass were able to spread around the world."
In fact, the article merely speculates that this is how sauropods and the like moved without collapsing under their own weight.
I'm not trying to knock the poster, but young people read this site, and I'd hate like hell for anyone to be misinformed.
Um, no they're not. They are more like Windows 95 to 98, or 2000 to XP.
Have you actually used those releases? I know the dot versioning is confusing, but you should think of them like OS X v1, OS X v2, etc.
The additions in functionality between versions of OS X are too great to be considered "service packs". Since "big bad evil MS" rarely includes appreciable new functionality in their service packs, it's more like mega-hotfixing on the MS side.
Margins are that tight. For the first few years, the consoles are sold at cost with the hopes that peripherals and games will provide the profit. The PSone, AFAIK, took years to offer a profit margin of $5-10.
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I'm not talking about Linux, foo. I'm talking about OS X.
>(minus the constant barage of security patches)
Exactly. What do you think I'm talking about when I talk about administration?
Think about all the ancillary things you have to do to Windows to keep it stable and secure. Now tell me, do you think that time spent is worthwhile? Is there something else you'd rather do with your time? If so, maybe it's time to see if there's a better way.
If you like XP, that's fine. It's no skin off my nose, but I'm defending the author's choice of OS. It's a simple as that. If you want to use something else, go right ahead; I'm all about the choice, baby.
*sigh*
I'm getting tired of comments like this. Just because you derive some sick, deranged pleasure from knowing all the minutiae and strange behaviors of the software products you own doesn't mean that someone else does. Some folks just like to use friendly, intuitive software.
When people complain, Microsoft may choose to ignore them at their own peril. It's capitalism, baby. If they want to cater to the folks who like to "get their windows machine stable", that's fine. The rest of us have a fine selection of OS' to jump to.
If this gentleman uses OS X because he feels it is easier to understand and use, that's his perogative, and it is not a reflection of his skills as a computer user. In fact, I stand right beside him as a Mac OS X convert after years of staunch Microsoft support.
Some of us like to use the computer rather than wrestle with it.
Oh, and you can't tell me that you've never reformatted a windows box because it was just easier than trying to figure out what was wrong.
Sometimes, debugging the issue would take longer than a re-install. Sometimes, it is less costly to just rebuild rather than spend days comparing DLL versions, scanning through the registry, and all the other attendant menial tasks that come with debugging an unstable windows installation. Is it a bad driver? Bad device*? Bad registry keys? Conflicting DLLs? Bah. Who needs it.
Bottom line: When I use my machine, I want to get productive work done. I have better things to do with my time than be an administrator.
*I'm aware that Microsoft supports a "much wider range of hardware". I've heard that argument before. However, as a user, I'm not interested in what Microsoft chooses to support. I'm interested in a stable, easy-to-use machine with a decent selection of compatible periphals.
Oh, and here's an informative link about the whole thing here.
Actually, that quote is from Marcus Brigstocke, a British comedian. Any other attributions are apocryphal.
It was a joke about ravers, it wasn't incidental prescience on the part of Nintendo in 1989.
I'm curious, what is a forester?
I assume it involves some sort of forest engineering?
(I'm really serious, I'd like to know)
*bzzzt*
Incorrect. WMA is not free to build into your device: WMA Licensing
But surely HTMLers ought to know enough about the software world to know they aren't software engineers?
They should, and if they are gently corrected, that should be enough. If not, leave it be, and market forces will take care of them. There is no need to make them miserable while they circle the drain and simultaneously paint yourself as a jerk.
You know what? Fuck you. Fuck you and your elitist technological priesthood attitude.
I welcome anybody who has a sense of curiousity and a desire to start from somewhere.
Part of the "hacker" ethos is sharing knowledge, which is what this book aims to do. There is nothing wrong with using someone else's "trivial" hacks to learn more about doing your own. Honestly, I don't think anyone on this site can claim that they could have learned everything they know in absence of others knowledge.
When I started in my career, I was tormented endlessly by guys just like you, so I know just how it feels to be targeted by messages like this. It can hurt, very badly. So next time, before you start parading your cred around and slagging others who just want to learn, think about the beginners you may be hurting. Stuff like this cuts deep when you're just starting out, and our profession and passion suffers when there is no new talent.
So remember, everyone has to start somewhere, and not everyone is born with asbestos underwear. And those HTML guys who profess to be software engineers? They get theirs, but you don't need to make it worse by discouraging them from learning.
Be nice.
Actually, Galileo was excommunicated, which at the time was almost as bad as being driven out entirely. In addition, he was placed on house arrest and was confined there until he died, refusing to recant his observations.
Great man.
Just chill. He's mostly likely just a guy whose social skills are far eclipsed by his technical skills. Responding in kind only feeds the flames.
And you, AC, be nice.
You have a monitor that runs Windows 98? Cool.
This text is several years old, at least. In fact, the wayback machine puts it at about 5 years old.
Come on guys, you know this is really, really old.
The general rule of thumb is: States can strengthen federal law, but not weaken it.
Unfortunately, with this law, it looks as though the FTC has exclusive authority to enforce anti-spam regulations. Therefore, the individual state laws cannot "weaken" the authority of the FTC as stated by this law.
Also, with respect to "see state marijuana laws vs federal", the federal law supercedes the state laws to which you are referring. For instance, a gentleman was arrested by the federal government for growing medicinal marijuana as sanctioned by the State of California. The federal judge who oversaw the case held that the man was guilty, but set the penalty to one day in jail. To be sure, it was a light consequence for violating federal law that conflicts with state law, however, it did demonstrate that federal law is enforceable over state law.
Ahem. Mozilla *is* strict, plain and simple, but only if you use the proper doctype definition. If you don't you probably don't care about "strict" rendering anyway.
I don't use Opera, but I suspect the same is true. If it isn't, then why would you want a browser that intentionally misrenders pages for which the author did not clearly state a doctype? Aren't you just hurting yourself?
ideal:
doctype def == strict or "standards" rendering
no doctype == loose
This way you get to see most sites on the web, and those authors who have taken the care to craft their pages properly get their pages rendered in the fashion in which they intended.
It doesn't matter what they'll have to say as two identical trademarks can exist in two separate vertical markets (assuming the goods or services put forth in the registrations don't overlap.)
;)
Unless Garmin registered the iQue trademark with an explicit mention of interactive gaming electronics, Nintendo would be safe, no matter what Garmin thinks.
As a matter of fact, you could sell Xbox toilet paper if you wanted to; I doubt Microsoft included personal sanitation effects in their filing.
I don't know... I've never had the supreme court grant me a victory after the slot machine clearly told me I had lost...
...that this is just a plan to fly the plane using passengers as a cheap, distributed, AI cluster? Just think, if you average the maneuvers of each of the sim pilots... ;)
Oh, so the 25 units in my datacenter here are imaginary?
Or how about the XServes on U.S. Navy subs? Are those not real?
/me was smacked down! I did some research (Like I should have done in the first place), and you are right.
However, my original point mostly stands; dinosaurs did not get where they were by floating across the oceans like corks.
Thanks for the correction.
... but the dinosaur's remains spread across the world due to the fact that their living bodies were all together on the super-continent pangea, which then separated, leaving the remains spread across the continents we live on today.
Moreover, the article doesn't echo the article submitter when he said, "This helps to explain how creatures of such huge mass were able to spread around the world."
In fact, the article merely speculates that this is how sauropods and the like moved without collapsing under their own weight.
I'm not trying to knock the poster, but young people read this site, and I'd hate like hell for anyone to be misinformed.
I agree. The X.z notation has to go, but they are major improvements over the previous versions.
They really ought to do something like OS X2, or something like that.
10.x are service packs
Um, no they're not. They are more like Windows 95 to 98, or 2000 to XP.
Have you actually used those releases? I know the dot versioning is confusing, but you should think of them like OS X v1, OS X v2, etc.
The additions in functionality between versions of OS X are too great to be considered "service packs". Since "big bad evil MS" rarely includes appreciable new functionality in their service packs, it's more like mega-hotfixing on the MS side.
Actually, it's a "googol" or "googolplex", Google changed the term a bit.
Margins are that tight. For the first few years, the consoles are sold at cost with the hopes that peripherals and games will provide the profit. The PSone, AFAIK, took years to offer a profit margin of $5-10.
Brilliant, sir. Since the mods appear to have passed you over, I want to extend my thanks for a truly insightful comment.