Most people like what they are used to and don't like what they aren't used to. Saying that can't tell what they like from what they are used to shows an in-depth lack of understanding of other individuals.
Well, I'm used to living under incompetent right-wing governments...
Yes, if Opera put the equivalent of Adblock, CS Lite and NoScript into their browser, with the same easy pop-up interface bottom right of the window, I'd switch. Those three are the things that keep me using Firefox.
Yup. I've turned down a job with a big e-commerce provider because the company had mandatory drug testing, and was getting into an intimate relationship with Microsoft. Their stock market value subsequently crashed to a thousandth of its original worth, and they were bought out by a small subsidiary of an Italian cement company. Using the Internet to search for red flags definitely works both ways.
As the ACLU has pointed out, companies that do random drug testing of employees actually have lower productivity than those that don't.
Anecdotally, I knew an ISP that was taken over by another larger company in the 90s. The new owners' policy of mandatory drug testing was instituted, and practically all the experienced sysadmins left for jobs where they wouldn't have to pee in a cup with someone watching. The downtime became ludicrous, and the company lost thousands of customers.
It's all very well and good to say "The first two bytes in a string are used to indicate the length of the string" but then what do you do a decade from now when a 16bit string is laughably small?
You do what you should have done the first time, and use a humber (variable length binary number) for the string length. See Ted Nelson's Literary Machines.
I thought the most potentially offensive part of The Last Temptation of Christ was the suggestion that Jesus worked as a carpenter making crosses for crucifixions. Made me laugh.
The alternative is to nationalize the media like they did with the BBC. I'm not entirely sure if that's good or bad, since the BBC is pretty good overall but the thought of government controlled media scares the shit out of me.
The US already has government-controlled media; look at the FCC and its decisions.
The BBC is interesting because it's arguably less government-controlled than the US media, in spite of being tax funded.
I've learned to buy Konami games as soon as the first price drop, because they always seem to manufacture too few copies to meet eventual demand and fail to reissue even their highest rated games.
Except cron+tar isn't sufficient. You need versioning. Otherwise if your database is corrupted and you don't notice immediately, your backup gets corrupted automatically.
I back up my web sites using cron + rsync + rdiff-backup.
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Yet another area in which the Amiga was first, but people nowadays don't know it.
Well, I'm used to living under incompetent right-wing governments...
I don't have any problem with h.264 video playback on my MacBook Pro.
What container are you using?
Yup. And it's prohibited by their rules, so the best way to get rid of it is to report it.
Or presumably the fourth option, fork it.
Yes, if Opera put the equivalent of Adblock, CS Lite and NoScript into their browser, with the same easy pop-up interface bottom right of the window, I'd switch. Those three are the things that keep me using Firefox.
Yes, well, I wonder why perl is used given that Ruby seems to be always preferable for any use...
[Go ahead, mod me flamebait, and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine! Bwahahaha!]
And the parent post to this post is an excellent example of the sort of patronizing and arrogant comment that could be career-limiting.
Outside of the imaginary world of Dilbert, managers are not all idiots. And no, I'm not a manager.
Yup. I've turned down a job with a big e-commerce provider because the company had mandatory drug testing, and was getting into an intimate relationship with Microsoft. Their stock market value subsequently crashed to a thousandth of its original worth, and they were bought out by a small subsidiary of an Italian cement company. Using the Internet to search for red flags definitely works both ways.
As the ACLU has pointed out, companies that do random drug testing of employees actually have lower productivity than those that don't.
Anecdotally, I knew an ISP that was taken over by another larger company in the 90s. The new owners' policy of mandatory drug testing was instituted, and practically all the experienced sysadmins left for jobs where they wouldn't have to pee in a cup with someone watching. The downtime became ludicrous, and the company lost thousands of customers.
You do what you should have done the first time, and use a humber (variable length binary number) for the string length. See Ted Nelson's Literary Machines.
The Amiga was really overpriced in Europe. The difference was over $100 there, and the prices of both machines were higher to start with.
Also, I borrowed an Amiga 1000 and saw it eat a bunch of floppies. I gather that bug was later fixed, but...
Buy DRM-free ebooks from fictionwise.com in mobi format, and they work just fine on the Kindle.
The mobi format is just HTML in a Palm PDB wrapper, and there are open source tools to manipulate it.
Buy books from fictionwise.com in DRM-free .mobi format.
Copy books onto Kindle via USB.
Problem solved.
Redmine provides pretty much all of that and is free open source software.
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I thought the most potentially offensive part of The Last Temptation of Christ was the suggestion that Jesus worked as a carpenter making crosses for crucifixions. Made me laugh.
Unix is like animal porn: it's not for everybody.
Except Ubuntu, but nobody uses that.
I left in 1997. Similar list of reasons. Blair coming to power was the final proof that there was not going to be any opposition.
The US already has government-controlled media; look at the FCC and its decisions.
The BBC is interesting because it's arguably less government-controlled than the US media, in spite of being tax funded.
I bought PixelJunk Eden and Echochrome because Sony had them for $5 in a sale in November. That's a reasonable price for a rental.
The downloadable games for $30? No way. I bought the disc version of Burnout Paradise, so I can always resell it.
I've learned to buy Konami games as soon as the first price drop, because they always seem to manufacture too few copies to meet eventual demand and fail to reissue even their highest rated games.
(I have both We Love Katamari and Rez.)
Except cron+tar isn't sufficient. You need versioning. Otherwise if your database is corrupted and you don't notice immediately, your backup gets corrupted automatically.
I back up my web sites using cron + rsync + rdiff-backup.
Yeah, the character classes are blatantly inspired by TF2.
An engineer who uses a shotgun and builds robotic turrets? Gosh, that sounds familiar...
So basically, the multiplayer is TF2 with gritty and gruesome graphics. Not sure that's something I want, really.
They paid $44m for the source code, then threw it away 2 years later? Awesome if true. Nice work, Palm.