RMS must be very proud of the progress the Linux Emacs editor has made over the years. And though he would try to deny it, I'm sure credits like this give him warm, fuzzy feelings. Thanks for Linux Emacs, RMS!;p
Funny but true, at least in terms of proprietary software. The observation even applies to Windows itself, since I can run it everywhere I want, including in a virtual machine on OS X, whereas Apple won't let people run OS X in a VM. Of course, I do anyway because I insist on building my own PCs. Currently I'm running Mavericks on VMware Workstation in a Win 8.1 host, but I get nervous every time I apply an update.
And yet, everyone that I've talked to in the hardware business still doesn't believe a touchscreen laptop adds any value. They exist specifically because of marketing hype and touch hysteria.
And yet, everyone that I've talked to in the hardware business still doesn't believe a touchscreen laptop adds any value. They exist specifically because of marketing hype and touch hysteria.
You're right, Apple would never do anything driven by marketing hype or touch hysteria.
On a serious note, I love my capacitive touch laptop (running Windows 8.1). As a developer I don't use the touch screen that much except for testing my cross platform, multi-touch enabled apps, but when I do use it "as an end user", it is nice as an extra option. Mostly I find myself gripping the side and casually scrolling a web page with my thumb, or pinching to zoom into a web page, etc.
Now let's get to the easy stuff that is obviously wrong with your post -- nobody said anything about restricting this to laptops. My kids love to use the 24" Windows 8.1 desktop with a screen that tilts, or more accurately reclines backward and down for a more natural angle. Microsoft is (justly) eating Apple's lunch in that particular space until they finish burying Steve Jobs and get around to introducing something. iPads are nice, but they aren't a 24" touch screen.
How does this address leakage of private media on the internet? Sure, you can "turn it off" to disable public access, but you can do that on DropBox too.
The typical pattern, whether DropBox or "Eggcyte" is something like the following:
(1) You post private stuff on the cloud (2) somebody else accesses it, whether it's intentionally or unintentionally shared (3) bad actors download the media and publish it on other outlets such as 4chan (4) you panic and disable the original share, although of course it is now too late. (5) Sad stories about you are published on news sites, along with stern and moralizing finger wagging.
I disagree. I think Bennett is trying to speak words of empowerment to women (vaguely = "feminism"), but the ironic thing is that he's denigrating other women at the same time. And denigrating them in a particularly offensive way, by caricaturing religious, modest dressing females as "morons".
At the end of his wall of wordiness, Bennett writes:
A woman never knows when she might meet a guy out in public that she's attracted to, and if they hit it off, it helps to have an outfit that says, "I'm a real woman, not a moron who thinks that if I engage in pre-marital kissing then Jesus will set me on fire with a blowtorch."
My wife chooses to dress modestly in public, as do lots of women in my circles, both religious and non-religious. To me, none of their outfits communicate that they are "morons".
The FBI and other TLAs are constantly engaged in illegal downloading of the private information of Americans. How ironic that they're so anxious to recruit only people who have never committed the very types of "crimes" they're being hired to do. What, do they find it cheaper to train beginners than to hire someone already experienced in the job? (I wish this post was purely a joke.)
For every study that suggests (or is construed to suggest even though it clearly doesn't) that climate change isn't occurring there's at least a hundred that says it is.
Ummmm, I think there are zero serious scientific studies that claim that climate change isn't occurring. Most people are aware that the climate has always been changing. You know, ice ages and so forth.
You know what I find hilarious? Just for making this observation, many people will peg me as a "climate change denier".
These IOCCC conferences always come up with more and more global warming alarmism, hurricane warnings, hockey sticks, polar bear extinctions, and the list goes on. Can't they give it a rest? And what about this pause, why don't they talk about that?
Certainly it would be unfair of me to say that all of my professors had a stilted and artificially narrow grading process. Some of them were very much as you describe and no doubt put a lot of effort into doing it right. Cheers!
I have dealt with App Store rejections on various projects, and it was quite a culture shock coming from the desktop development world. In many ways it reminded me of college. Giving the right answer is not important per se, but rather just providing the answer you know the professor/grader wants to hear. As a programmer, it rankles me for someone else to dictate major issues of app architecture that touch on quality in a debatable way.
But it's their way or the highway if you want to sell to iOS users. And yes, you do want to sell to iOS users. Android users never spend any money./slight-exaggeration
Even that is problematic. When people debate the most contentious issues, they tend to talk past each other and just repeat their side's talking points -- which are meaningless to the other side, due to lacking a common frame of reference in the debate. Bottom line, it would be way too easy to say that someone you disagree with is "unwilling to debate or defend that opinion" even though the other person thinks they are doing exactly that. It's almost like certain abstract topics themselves are the trolls, and both of the people are along for the ride in such a conversation.
I think moderators flagged this post before reading the whole thing -- the troll bits are obviously humor and the second half does express a serious and on-topic opinion.
Forgot to mention: any official policy that the US would disclose the purchased security vulnerabilities would be a sham. They would undoubtedly hang onto the most important/useful ones for some period of time. Lying is not an aberration at the TLA's, it's more like their job description.
Interesting. At least I don't have false negatives on my Yahoo account, as I get hundreds per day. I don't take the time to look for false positives, and I agree that would stink.
For me to bite the bullet and get an android phone.
No way am I going to get a windows phone again and risk it going out of support within a year or two.
Yeah, I definitely believe that this AC uses an old WP7 phone. They just exude credibility, and there's nothing fake or phony about their outrage whatsoever. Given that you can pick up an Android off Ebay for peanuts that will run circles around an old WP7 device and support a lot more apps to boot...
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RMS must be very proud of the progress the Linux Emacs editor has made over the years. And though he would try to deny it, I'm sure credits like this give him warm, fuzzy feelings. Thanks for Linux Emacs, RMS! ;p
Funny but true, at least in terms of proprietary software. The observation even applies to Windows itself, since I can run it everywhere I want, including in a virtual machine on OS X, whereas Apple won't let people run OS X in a VM. Of course, I do anyway because I insist on building my own PCs. Currently I'm running Mavericks on VMware Workstation in a Win 8.1 host, but I get nervous every time I apply an update.
And yet, everyone that I've talked to in the hardware business still doesn't believe a touchscreen laptop adds any value. They exist specifically because of marketing hype and touch hysteria.
And yet, everyone that I've talked to in the hardware business still doesn't believe a touchscreen laptop adds any value. They exist specifically because of marketing hype and touch hysteria.
You're right, Apple would never do anything driven by marketing hype or touch hysteria.
On a serious note, I love my capacitive touch laptop (running Windows 8.1). As a developer I don't use the touch screen that much except for testing my cross platform, multi-touch enabled apps, but when I do use it "as an end user", it is nice as an extra option. Mostly I find myself gripping the side and casually scrolling a web page with my thumb, or pinching to zoom into a web page, etc.
Now let's get to the easy stuff that is obviously wrong with your post -- nobody said anything about restricting this to laptops. My kids love to use the 24" Windows 8.1 desktop with a screen that tilts, or more accurately reclines backward and down for a more natural angle. Microsoft is (justly) eating Apple's lunch in that particular space until they finish burying Steve Jobs and get around to introducing something. iPads are nice, but they aren't a 24" touch screen.
iOS has touch screens. Windows has touch screens. ChromeOS has touch screens. Come ooooonnnn, Tim, you know you want toooooo!
How does this address leakage of private media on the internet? Sure, you can "turn it off" to disable public access, but you can do that on DropBox too.
The typical pattern, whether DropBox or "Eggcyte" is something like the following:
(1) You post private stuff on the cloud
(2) somebody else accesses it, whether it's intentionally or unintentionally shared
(3) bad actors download the media and publish it on other outlets such as 4chan
(4) you panic and disable the original share, although of course it is now too late.
(5) Sad stories about you are published on news sites, along with stern and moralizing finger wagging.
I guess not anymore. (Sorry.)
I disagree. I think Bennett is trying to speak words of empowerment to women (vaguely = "feminism"), but the ironic thing is that he's denigrating other women at the same time. And denigrating them in a particularly offensive way, by caricaturing religious, modest dressing females as "morons".
A woman never knows when she might meet a guy out in public that she's attracted to, and if they hit it off, it helps to have an outfit that says, "I'm a real woman, not a moron who thinks that if I engage in pre-marital kissing then Jesus will set me on fire with a blowtorch."
My wife chooses to dress modestly in public, as do lots of women in my circles, both religious and non-religious. To me, none of their outfits communicate that they are "morons".
Feminism -- You're Doing it Wrong.
Then they won't hire you.
The FBI and other TLAs are constantly engaged in illegal downloading of the private information of Americans. How ironic that they're so anxious to recruit only people who have never committed the very types of "crimes" they're being hired to do. What, do they find it cheaper to train beginners than to hire someone already experienced in the job? (I wish this post was purely a joke.)
For every study that suggests (or is construed to suggest even though it clearly doesn't) that climate change isn't occurring there's at least a hundred that says it is.
Ummmm, I think there are zero serious scientific studies that claim that climate change isn't occurring. Most people are aware that the climate has always been changing. You know, ice ages and so forth.
You know what I find hilarious? Just for making this observation, many people will peg me as a "climate change denier".
These IOCCC conferences always come up with more and more global warming alarmism, hurricane warnings, hockey sticks, polar bear extinctions, and the list goes on. Can't they give it a rest? And what about this pause, why don't they talk about that?
Huh? What? Oh. Sorry, carry on.
Let's do it for science.
This whole thing was just a big prank, and there was no crime involved.
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Certainly it would be unfair of me to say that all of my professors had a stilted and artificially narrow grading process. Some of them were very much as you describe and no doubt put a lot of effort into doing it right. Cheers!
I have dealt with App Store rejections on various projects, and it was quite a culture shock coming from the desktop development world. In many ways it reminded me of college. Giving the right answer is not important per se, but rather just providing the answer you know the professor/grader wants to hear. As a programmer, it rankles me for someone else to dictate major issues of app architecture that touch on quality in a debatable way.
/slight-exaggeration
But it's their way or the highway if you want to sell to iOS users. And yes, you do want to sell to iOS users. Android users never spend any money.
The one guy had a British accent, so I'm pretty sure no dentist in the picture. /justkiddingcantyoulimeystakeajoke
Even that is problematic. When people debate the most contentious issues, they tend to talk past each other and just repeat their side's talking points -- which are meaningless to the other side, due to lacking a common frame of reference in the debate. Bottom line, it would be way too easy to say that someone you disagree with is "unwilling to debate or defend that opinion" even though the other person thinks they are doing exactly that. It's almost like certain abstract topics themselves are the trolls, and both of the people are along for the ride in such a conversation.
I think moderators flagged this post before reading the whole thing -- the troll bits are obviously humor and the second half does express a serious and on-topic opinion.
Incorrect -- Virginia is a one party notification state, just like Georgia. See the breakdown here.
In my state, only one party needs to be aware of a recorded conversation, and it's perfectly fine for that to be the person doing the recording.
Forgot to mention: any official policy that the US would disclose the purchased security vulnerabilities would be a sham. They would undoubtedly hang onto the most important/useful ones for some period of time. Lying is not an aberration at the TLA's, it's more like their job description.
Fair enough, thanks for commenting. I enjoy beating up on ACs, hope you take no (major) offense. :)
Interesting. At least I don't have false negatives on my Yahoo account, as I get hundreds per day. I don't take the time to look for false positives, and I agree that would stink.
For me to bite the bullet and get an android phone. No way am I going to get a windows phone again and risk it going out of support within a year or two.
Yeah, I definitely believe that this AC uses an old WP7 phone. They just exude credibility, and there's nothing fake or phony about their outrage whatsoever. Given that you can pick up an Android off Ebay for peanuts that will run circles around an old WP7 device and support a lot more apps to boot...