"Affect" is not a replacement for the word affection. Affect as a noun (and with stress on the first syllable) is a person's observed emotional response, and the emotions being assessed aren't merely affection. Flattened affect means more than a person isn't affectionate or lovey-dovey. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blunted_affect
I think this is it - the Walmart developers wrote the video download site under a Windows IE testing environment, had it all done, then someone took a look at it under Firefox. When they saw the mess they had written, they still wanted to release the service, so rather than spend time to make the site compliant, they threw in a browser check to tell non-IE users to go away . So I went away. Never to return.
4. A dismissive attitude towards computer security, safety precautions, environmental concerns, building codes, etc. I frequently hear "why bother?" as it's considered an inconvenience, likely cutting into profits, and only a dummy plays by the rules.
The strap failed. But taking that fact to the conclusion:
"the wrist strap broke and caused the remote to leave the user's hand." (from article)
is bogus. The failure of the strap did not cause the remote to leave the user's hand, unless the breaking strap also pried the user's fingers open. Or if the remote is unusually difficult to maintain a grip on without a strap tying it to the hand.
But it *was* invented during WWII while searching for a wartime material - a rubber substitute, according to your own link. So yes, this is (at least) the 2nd time that war and toys have crossed paths.
And Godwin's Law involves comparisons or analogies to Hitler or the Nazis, not a mere reference to that historical period. He didn't say using Silly String made the soldiers like Nazis.
You misunderstand this issue and then apply your "logic". Where is it claimed that this lawsuit was prompted by Microsoft having a monopoly on office software in Korea? It's a patent infringement lawsuit, and would apply equally to Apple had they been the offender. And there are Korean and other Asian office software that compete quite well against MS Office. Hancom Office comes to mind. See http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/tech/200509/kt2005 091220393512350.htm
I'd like to know how many people go up to someone they don't know and offer them a song. I'd expect that if you're offering an earphone to someone, you at least are acquainted with the person. Same thing for "squirting". I'd expect the squirter and squirtee are on speaking terms first. And I don't get all the "yuck!" comments about earwax - do most people have ears overflowing with wax, to the point that when they remove an earbud, it's encased in wax? Not my experience. And fear of ear infections? Most ear infections are on the other side of the eardrum, not where the wax is.
DOD 8500.1 4.19. Public domain software products, and other software products with limited or no warranty, such as those commonly known as freeware or shareware, shall only be used in DoD information systems to meet compelling operational requirements. Such products shall be thoroughly assessed for risk and accepted for use by the responsible DAA. -----------
Open Source (whether GPL or other) unfortunately is getting lumped into the above category. The simplistic managerial approach is "if it's free, it can't be installed". Pointing out that IE is free, Java is free, etc, doesn't do a thing. Of course we have apps built with all sorts of OSS, but I know of IT departments that still don't have a clear picture of what they can do. User asks for Firefox? Repeat the directive.
I've wished to move away from the Eastern USA seaboard, and even USA itself, for a long time. Yet here I still am. For a while I thought Norway. But I've heard about tremendous barriers for foreigners (at least, non-EU ones) getting employment. Other Euro countries like Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium are on my list. Lately, New Zealand has been on my mind, mainly due to the physical beauty, and it would be closer to my wife's home country. But I know nothing about IT job prospects there.
I've never been bothered by the name, but then, I've also never brought it up to my sister who was affected by childhood polio. A name change wouldn't make the GIMP worse in any way, but could improve its chances for acceptance as a serious application.
I guess the pharmaceutical company reference tied it to the movie remake, I'm sure young slashdotters wouldn't get the 1960's TV show "The Fugitive" reference.
Mainstream USA news programs offer lots of criticism of the USA government and the current administration. The news anchor is not going to offer this criticism, and the nightly major network broadcasts are not too critical, but there are Sunday morning programs of weekly news analysis given by round tables of panelists (usually journalists), with a good mix of differing views. Also, the Jim Lehrer news hour, on public TV nightly, does not kow-tow to the government the way the major networks often do. It's true that the powers-that-be call one's patriotism into question whenever one dissents, but that is not an indication that dissent is not socially acceptable. They would like it to be, but seems to me that dissent is alive and well.
The command line interface makes code no more hard to read than toolbars, icons, and side panels do. Wrapping code is optional and as I recall not set as default (if it is,:set nowrap fixes that). Adding control characters? Maybe if you open a windows-format file in unix mode and you see a bunch of ^M line endings. Where else?:set list is not typically set as default behavior.
When opening a file in vi presents you with nothing but the text (similar to a printout), how can you say that vi makes the program unclear or difficult to read? Pick an editor or IDE you like and can be proficient and productive with, but don't tell me that opening, say, a Perl file, with vi will obfuscate it any more than it already is;-P
Please explain how using vi obfuscates code. It injects a lot of meaningless boilerplate? (no). It forces you to write spaghetti? (no). If I "moved on", my new editor/IDE will write my beautiful, easy to read and comprehend code for me?
By the way, vim has the ability to do code completion and the other "intellisense" you mention. Other IDEs can be more sophisticated in those areas, but I really don't get your obfuscation comment.
They didn't fix the one thing I really hate about Yahoo mail - the fact that when I log in, I first have a screen of "My Yahoo" kind of content (news headlines), and THEN I have to click Inbox to view my messages. When I go to mail and log in, I expect to be presented with my messages. Gmail gets this right. Similarly, Outlook; it doesn't first show me RSS feeds or other such stuff, it shows me my MAIL. Why won't Yahoo?
"If we're not willing to use it here against our fellow citizens, then we should not be willing to use it in a wartime situation."
He states (according to the reporter) that it would be a public relations risk to use these weapons on people in foreign countries and assert they are non-lethal (or safe), if we are not willing to use them on our own people.
Nowhere does he state that the government is proposing, nor does he propose, a plan to start using them on US citizens, or "testy U.S. mobs" as CNN shouts in the headline. Maybe he did say that at the meeting, I don't know, but the reporter didn't give enough information to back up the sensationalist headline.
Will Google give me something interesting if they pick up "fwap fwap fwap fwap..."?
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You're equating all programming with programming large meaningful systems that require the full lifecycle. I disagree.
Part of the idea of a personal computer is that the average user can "program" the computer to do tasks. If I want to reduce a set of tasks that would typically require me to perform many repetitious things on the computer, to something that the computer can do for me all at once, should I have to A) wait for some company to produce software for me to buy that does this, or B) go to school and learn software engineering (your apparent solution), or C) have an easily-approachable means of communicating to the computer what I want done (scripting language, etc)?
Programming doesn't have to mean being a computer programmer by trade, rather, being able to instruct the computer to do something it isn't pre-set to do. There is a place between people who use their computer as a glorified TV and people who are engineers. These people should be able to get more out of their computer without going the full route of being a computer professional.
Who has a Windows computer that inexplicably freezes now and then? Yes, who?
Who has a Windows computer that suffers degraded performance and the discovery of spyware/viruses/etc?
Who has a Windows computer that doesn't offer the equivalent of iLife out of the box?
Anyone I know who has used Windows for more than a few years nods their head (or rolls their eyes) in a camaraderie of sufferers whenever typical Windows problems (which you seem to deny) are mentioned.
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"Affect" is not a replacement for the word affection. Affect as a noun (and with stress on the first syllable) is a person's observed emotional response, and the emotions being assessed aren't merely affection. Flattened affect means more than a person isn't affectionate or lovey-dovey. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blunted_affect
I think this is it - the Walmart developers wrote the video download site under a Windows IE testing environment, had it all done, then someone took a look at it under Firefox. When they saw the mess they had written, they still wanted to release the service, so rather than spend time to make the site compliant, they threw in a browser check to tell non-IE users to go away . So I went away. Never to return.
From my anecdotal experience:
4. A dismissive attitude towards computer security, safety precautions, environmental concerns, building codes, etc. I frequently hear "why bother?" as it's considered an inconvenience, likely cutting into profits, and only a dummy plays by the rules.
And don't forget, you can Barf (TM) your phonebook lists to people who are within shouting distance!
Hey, Adobe gave every employee an iPod Shuffle! Best company ever!
The strap failed. But taking that fact to the conclusion:
"the wrist strap broke and caused the remote to leave the user's hand." (from article)
is bogus. The failure of the strap did not cause the remote to leave the user's hand, unless the breaking strap also pried the user's fingers open. Or if the remote is unusually difficult to maintain a grip on without a strap tying it to the hand.
But it *was* invented during WWII while searching for a wartime material - a rubber substitute, according to your own link. So yes, this is (at least) the 2nd time that war and toys have crossed paths.
And Godwin's Law involves comparisons or analogies to Hitler or the Nazis, not a mere reference to that historical period. He didn't say using Silly String made the soldiers like Nazis.
On Slashdot, only random lusers recycle old memes.
You misunderstand this issue and then apply your "logic". Where is it claimed that this lawsuit was prompted by Microsoft having a monopoly on office software in Korea? It's a patent infringement lawsuit, and would apply equally to Apple had they been the offender. And there are Korean and other Asian office software that compete quite well against MS Office. Hancom Office comes to mind. See http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/tech/200509/kt2005 091220393512350.htm
I'd like to know how many people go up to someone they don't know and offer them a song. I'd expect that if you're offering an earphone to someone, you at least are acquainted with the person. Same thing for "squirting". I'd expect the squirter and squirtee are on speaking terms first. And I don't get all the "yuck!" comments about earwax - do most people have ears overflowing with wax, to the point that when they remove an earbud, it's encased in wax? Not my experience. And fear of ear infections? Most ear infections are on the other side of the eardrum, not where the wax is.
Is their target audience UPS? Or are hip people really that into brown? Clue to Microsoft, brown isn't the new black, brown is the... brown.
This adds to the confusion:
DOD 8500.1 4.19. Public domain software products, and other software products with limited or no warranty, such as those commonly known as freeware or shareware, shall only be used in DoD information systems to meet compelling operational requirements. Such products shall be thoroughly assessed for risk and accepted for use by the responsible DAA.
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Open Source (whether GPL or other) unfortunately is getting lumped into the above category. The simplistic managerial approach is "if it's free, it can't be installed". Pointing out that IE is free, Java is free, etc, doesn't do a thing. Of course we have apps built with all sorts of OSS, but I know of IT departments that still don't have a clear picture of what they can do. User asks for Firefox? Repeat the directive.
Yes, pure evil.
I've wished to move away from the Eastern USA seaboard, and even USA itself, for a long time. Yet here I still am. For a while I thought Norway. But I've heard about tremendous barriers for foreigners (at least, non-EU ones) getting employment. Other Euro countries like Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium are on my list. Lately, New Zealand has been on my mind, mainly due to the physical beauty, and it would be closer to my wife's home country. But I know nothing about IT job prospects there.
I've never been bothered by the name, but then, I've also never brought it up to my sister who was affected by childhood polio. A name change wouldn't make the GIMP worse in any way, but could improve its chances for acceptance as a serious application.
I guess the pharmaceutical company reference tied it to the movie remake, I'm sure young slashdotters wouldn't get the 1960's TV show "The Fugitive" reference.
Mainstream USA news programs offer lots of criticism of the USA government and the current administration. The news anchor is not going to offer this criticism, and the nightly major network broadcasts are not too critical, but there are Sunday morning programs of weekly news analysis given by round tables of panelists (usually journalists), with a good mix of differing views. Also, the Jim Lehrer news hour, on public TV nightly, does not kow-tow to the government the way the major networks often do. It's true that the powers-that-be call one's patriotism into question whenever one dissents, but that is not an indication that dissent is not socially acceptable. They would like it to be, but seems to me that dissent is alive and well.
And what does he want to be after he completes his education (he is now entering a math masters program)?
A patent attorney.
The command line interface makes code no more hard to read than toolbars, icons, and side panels do. Wrapping code is optional and as I recall not set as default (if it is, :set nowrap fixes that). Adding control characters? Maybe if you open a windows-format file in unix mode and you see a bunch of ^M line endings. Where else? :set list is not typically set as default behavior.
;-P
When opening a file in vi presents you with nothing but the text (similar to a printout), how can you say that vi makes the program unclear or difficult to read? Pick an editor or IDE you like and can be proficient and productive with, but don't tell me that opening, say, a Perl file, with vi will obfuscate it any more than it already is
Please explain how using vi obfuscates code. It injects a lot of meaningless boilerplate? (no). It forces you to write spaghetti? (no). If I "moved on", my new editor/IDE will write my beautiful, easy to read and comprehend code for me?
By the way, vim has the ability to do code completion and the other "intellisense" you mention. Other IDEs can be more sophisticated in those areas, but I really don't get your obfuscation comment.
They didn't fix the one thing I really hate about Yahoo mail - the fact that when I log in, I first have a screen of "My Yahoo" kind of content (news headlines), and THEN I have to click Inbox to view my messages. When I go to mail and log in, I expect to be presented with my messages. Gmail gets this right. Similarly, Outlook; it doesn't first show me RSS feeds or other such stuff, it shows me my MAIL. Why won't Yahoo?
Secretary Wynne is quoted once in the article.
"If we're not willing to use it here against our fellow citizens, then we should not be willing to use it in a wartime situation."
He states (according to the reporter) that it would be a public relations risk to use these weapons on people in foreign countries and assert they are non-lethal (or safe), if we are not willing to use them on our own people.
Nowhere does he state that the government is proposing, nor does he propose, a plan to start using them on US citizens, or "testy U.S. mobs" as CNN shouts in the headline. Maybe he did say that at the meeting, I don't know, but the reporter didn't give enough information to back up the sensationalist headline.
Will Google give me something interesting if they pick up "fwap fwap fwap fwap..."?
You're equating all programming with programming large meaningful systems that require the full lifecycle. I disagree.
Part of the idea of a personal computer is that the average user can "program" the computer to do tasks. If I want to reduce a set of tasks that would typically require me to perform many repetitious things on the computer, to something that the computer can do for me all at once, should I have to A) wait for some company to produce software for me to buy that does this, or B) go to school and learn software engineering (your apparent solution), or C) have an easily-approachable means of communicating to the computer what I want done (scripting language, etc)?
Programming doesn't have to mean being a computer programmer by trade, rather, being able to instruct the computer to do something it isn't pre-set to do. There is a place between people who use their computer as a glorified TV and people who are engineers. These people should be able to get more out of their computer without going the full route of being a computer professional.
Who has a Windows computer that inexplicably freezes now and then? Yes, who?
;)
Who has a Windows computer that suffers degraded performance and the discovery of spyware/viruses/etc?
Who has a Windows computer that doesn't offer the equivalent of iLife out of the box?
Anyone I know who has used Windows for more than a few years nods their head (or rolls their eyes) in a camaraderie of sufferers whenever typical Windows problems (which you seem to deny) are mentioned.
The truth? You can't handle the truth!