Tar them with 10 years of debt and feather them with a corporate sponsored education. Then they hit the real world and by the time they have themselves cleaned up their spirit is all but gone. Perfect!! Now get back to work!!!
Government agencies said the TTL (Tweet Threat Level or Time To Live) rose to an unprecedented, red-zone high today when members of a fringe terrorist organization all were doing their laundry and tweeting at the same time about how bored they were. News at 11!
... oh yeah... java... i remember that language. I guess it's good they open sourced it so museums can put it on display without any licensing issues.;)
Perhaps we need a seti type project to go though it all. We could dub it SAIG, Search for Any Intelligent Governance. I figure it would get the same number of false positives seti does.
The terrorists are broadcasting communications with steganography embedded in all those viagra and stock option emails. Please filter and retain all spam for further detailed and ongoing analysis.
In spite of my personal feelings about M$'s dog's breakfast of software, people selling something that they didn't buy themselves or make themselves should be shut down. I alway had the credo that if I made money or was entertained in some way with some commercial software, I'd pay for it. Same with music. It is important to get the money into the hands of the creators if you use their stuff or like it. I don't mind at all if someone cooks my music onto a CD for their mom but I'd be right pissed if some jackass was selling a van full of them behind the mall.
Ads cost brain cells, time, bandwidth, screen space, cache space, mouse clicks. They accelerate carpal tunnel and dimish visual acuity. They undermine asthetics and camoflage the point of the enviroment they are in. This is the same sell as television is free because of the ads. Cable, sattelite, whatever, costs you monthly just so you can watch "free" television rather then "pay" television. WTF? I doubt free windows will come with a free ISP connection. I don't want ads on my screen, piling up in my mailbox, filling my answering machine or blocking the view to the lake. Ads, no matter what or where they are cost you something directly, everytime! A "free" version of windows will most certainly not be free.
The Canadian census fiasco caused me no end of grief. They never sent me a form and then hounded me for a month about not sending the form they didn't send me in. Then one day I get a notice pinned to my door, without the form of course, threatening jail time and fines (3 months and $500). Well that's motivating so I tried to fill the thing out on-line but since I did not get a form I did not get a special code to punch in. On top of all that the java thing wouldn't run in FF and linux anyway. (At least they tried to keep it non-IE specific, I'll give 'em that.) So I called the toll-free number on the notice and dude did the question thing over the phone in 2 minutes and gave me a confirmation number. "What's that for?", I wonder. "In case anyone calls", he says. Yeah, yeah, I'm here now go away. But no. They continue to leave me threatening notices and phone messages for another two weeks so I finally find the local number and give dudette my confirmation number. She apologizes and tells me there is no way for her to know if I did the thing on-line or by phone. "Say what?? But isn't it in some computer somewhere? I clearly heard dude tapping on a keyboard!" Well yes but how it works is I have to call her directly and give her the confirmation number because she does not have access to that computer and the people that do (in our nations capital I presume, or possibly the District of Columbia which would explain much) don't send the info back to the local door bangers. I guess that feature would complicate things and I suppose they're still working out a few bugs.
Maybe if Vista is out for the next one in 5 years the info will be able to move in both directions.
SCO's case is certainly a sorry last swing in a losing battle but to me, this whole debacle says more about what a pathetic situation the justice system is in than SCO's necrotic flailing. Anyone who has used SCO products for any period of time (back to Xenix for me), could see clearly they have been on their way out for many years before the 2003 death rattle. The sadder tale in this is that the justice system can now so easily be used more as a tool for capitalism then a tool for justice speaks of an animal so encumbered by it's own gross weight that it cannot even get away from itself. This is truly a pathetic story. Put this case in front of Judge Judy where it belongs and get it out of the real world. It'll be over in half and hour (minus time for commercials).
I worked for an outfit on the west coast last year for a few months during a systems transition. One of the principals came to me one day and asked what was taking so long. He was an old school COBOL programmer from nineteen tickity two who didn't really understand oop and the monstrosity his company was building so I tried to walk him through what we were doing, saying in the process that I was working at getting it right the first time. I'm always thinking in terms of maintenance down the road. He flipped out and said, "I don't want it right, I want it now!" I kid you not.
I don't work for them anymore.
I understood his point of view however. He needed to get buttons and clicky things in front of the customers as fast as possible. It seems customers will accept the mediocre over waiting and those folks are running a highly successful business as well a creating a giant mess for themselves in the repository.
In the end it seems that people will accept garbage over nothing. I personally don't subscribe to that philosophy but the reality seems to be that it does make for a pile of money.
I would rather know that my [insert product here] has problems then not, regardless of whether the manufacturer is ready willing and/or able to deal with it. It gives me the option to deal with it as well. Keeping me ignorant is not keeping me safe. Manufacturing has it's problems no matter what the field and bad things are bound to happen so blame is irrelevant to me. The issue is whether the product I am using is safe for my particular use. The manufacturer does not know the use I've put thier product to (am i playing WoW or running an air traffic control system?) so they are in no way informed enough to make the decision as to whether it is safe for me to use or not. It is my decision in the end and I appreciate having enough information to make that decision. Keep the expoits in the open. If the manufacturer does not have enough brains cells to fix it perhaps I have enough to determine whether to continue to use it or not.
that some of them thar gummermint mofo intarweb geniuses are putting together a contigency plan to save the pron. For god sakes won't somebody think of the pron!!
If you company you are looking at thinks your CS degree is the most important issue, you probably don't want to work for them anyway. I wager they've already missed the point.
Me too, even though I did heed the warning about erasing first. It didn't nuke my settings though, it just ignored them a created new ones. Check out your ~/Library/Thunderbird/... directory for two defaults setups. Here's how I fixed it... *Grumble*/*snort*/*drag*/*trash*/*drop*. Much better now!:)
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Tar them with 10 years of debt and feather them with a corporate sponsored education. Then they hit the real world and by the time they have themselves cleaned up their spirit is all but gone. Perfect!! Now get back to work!!!
Government agencies said the TTL (Tweet Threat Level or Time To Live) rose to an unprecedented, red-zone high today when members of a fringe terrorist organization all were doing their laundry and tweeting at the same time about how bored they were. News at 11!
... oh yeah... java... i remember that language. I guess it's good they open sourced it so museums can put it on display without any licensing issues. ;)
Not to mention that the best way to make people feel safe is to make them feel scared first.
Can't wait until the "glitch-resistant mechanisms" migrate throughout the rest of the Vista. It's gonna be awesome!
Perhaps we need a seti type project to go though it all. We could dub it SAIG, Search for Any Intelligent Governance. I figure it would get the same number of false positives seti does.
The terrorists are broadcasting communications with steganography embedded in all those viagra and stock option emails. Please filter and retain all spam for further detailed and ongoing analysis.
thank you,
everyone
If the thing has wifi, I've gotta find me a giant pringles can .
In spite of my personal feelings about M$'s dog's breakfast of software, people selling something that they didn't buy themselves or make themselves should be shut down. I alway had the credo that if I made money or was entertained in some way with some commercial software, I'd pay for it. Same with music. It is important to get the money into the hands of the creators if you use their stuff or like it. I don't mind at all if someone cooks my music onto a CD for their mom but I'd be right pissed if some jackass was selling a van full of them behind the mall.
From the don't-eat-that-johnny-that's-poop-dept:
Ads cost brain cells, time, bandwidth, screen space, cache space, mouse clicks. They accelerate carpal tunnel and dimish visual acuity. They undermine asthetics and camoflage the point of the enviroment they are in. This is the same sell as television is free because of the ads. Cable, sattelite, whatever, costs you monthly just so you can watch "free" television rather then "pay" television. WTF? I doubt free windows will come with a free ISP connection. I don't want ads on my screen, piling up in my mailbox, filling my answering machine or blocking the view to the lake. Ads, no matter what or where they are cost you something directly, everytime! A "free" version of windows will most certainly not be free.
The Canadian census fiasco caused me no end of grief. They never sent me a form and then hounded me for a month about not sending the form they didn't send me in. Then one day I get a notice pinned to my door, without the form of course, threatening jail time and fines (3 months and $500). Well that's motivating so I tried to fill the thing out on-line but since I did not get a form I did not get a special code to punch in. On top of all that the java thing wouldn't run in FF and linux anyway. (At least they tried to keep it non-IE specific, I'll give 'em that.) So I called the toll-free number on the notice and dude did the question thing over the phone in 2 minutes and gave me a confirmation number. "What's that for?", I wonder. "In case anyone calls", he says. Yeah, yeah, I'm here now go away. But no. They continue to leave me threatening notices and phone messages for another two weeks so I finally find the local number and give dudette my confirmation number. She apologizes and tells me there is no way for her to know if I did the thing on-line or by phone. "Say what?? But isn't it in some computer somewhere? I clearly heard dude tapping on a keyboard!" Well yes but how it works is I have to call her directly and give her the confirmation number because she does not have access to that computer and the people that do (in our nations capital I presume, or possibly the District of Columbia which would explain much) don't send the info back to the local door bangers. I guess that feature would complicate things and I suppose they're still working out a few bugs.
Maybe if Vista is out for the next one in 5 years the info will be able to move in both directions.
That seems like a lot of work when there are plenty of living examples down at my local pub.
SCO's case is certainly a sorry last swing in a losing battle but to me, this whole debacle says more about what a pathetic situation the justice system is in than SCO's necrotic flailing. Anyone who has used SCO products for any period of time (back to Xenix for me), could see clearly they have been on their way out for many years before the 2003 death rattle. The sadder tale in this is that the justice system can now so easily be used more as a tool for capitalism then a tool for justice speaks of an animal so encumbered by it's own gross weight that it cannot even get away from itself. This is truly a pathetic story. Put this case in front of Judge Judy where it belongs and get it out of the real world. It'll be over in half and hour (minus time for commercials).
'nuff said.
Oh man, I don't even want to think about the /. forums with all those faces and voices in a tiny little window.
Doesn't news become old news in about the same amount of time it takes to cook a DVD?
I worked for an outfit on the west coast last year for a few months during a systems transition. One of the principals came to me one day and asked what was taking so long. He was an old school COBOL programmer from nineteen tickity two who didn't really understand oop and the monstrosity his company was building so I tried to walk him through what we were doing, saying in the process that I was working at getting it right the first time. I'm always thinking in terms of maintenance down the road. He flipped out and said, "I don't want it right, I want it now!" I kid you not.
I don't work for them anymore.
I understood his point of view however. He needed to get buttons and clicky things in front of the customers as fast as possible. It seems customers will accept the mediocre over waiting and those folks are running a highly successful business as well a creating a giant mess for themselves in the repository.
In the end it seems that people will accept garbage over nothing. I personally don't subscribe to that philosophy but the reality seems to be that it does make for a pile of money.
I would rather know that my [insert product here] has problems then not, regardless of whether the manufacturer is ready willing and/or able to deal with it. It gives me the option to deal with it as well. Keeping me ignorant is not keeping me safe. Manufacturing has it's problems no matter what the field and bad things are bound to happen so blame is irrelevant to me. The issue is whether the product I am using is safe for my particular use. The manufacturer does not know the use I've put thier product to (am i playing WoW or running an air traffic control system?) so they are in no way informed enough to make the decision as to whether it is safe for me to use or not. It is my decision in the end and I appreciate having enough information to make that decision. Keep the expoits in the open. If the manufacturer does not have enough brains cells to fix it perhaps I have enough to determine whether to continue to use it or not.
Does no one remember this whole MS mess just a series of patches on DOS anyway? What risk when you've already gone this far?
you can program it in python?
that some of them thar gummermint mofo intarweb geniuses are putting together a contigency plan to save the pron. For god sakes won't somebody think of the pron!!
Indeed. They are more like outovators me thinks.
If you company you are looking at thinks your CS degree is the most important issue, you probably don't want to work for them anyway. I wager they've already missed the point.
Me too, even though I did heed the warning about erasing first. It didn't nuke my settings though, it just ignored them a created new ones. Check out your ~/Library/Thunderbird/... directory for two defaults setups. Here's how I fixed it... *Grumble*/*snort*/*drag*/*trash*/*drop*. Much better now! :)