I know people who have plasma screens with no tuner. They don't have or need a tv licence, but get a fair amount of hassle from the tv licensing authority who find it very hard to believe anyone would not watch broadcast tv.
Broadcast TV must be a lot better in Britain than it is in the US, for anyone to have trouble believing that someone would not want to watch it..
My job that I had while I was *in* college, there was less privacy than if I'd had a cubicle: just a desk, out in the open computer lab. Not only co-workers but the general public chattering all around me. And yet I got a lot more done than I typically do in a cubicle. My next two jobs after getting out of college were the same way.
So it can't just be about privacy, and it can't just be about noise levels. There has to be something about the little square box that inherently saps productivity, independently of the aforementioned factors.
I think the parent's point was that often the people who fight against violent games etc which supposedly make children/adults violent are the same people who say America has lost it's 'good old fashioned Christian values'.
But this is false. Some of the anti-violence crowd, it is true, are indeed the same old "family values" people who've been boycotting Disney since the 1990's over gay rights issues.
There are two completely different groups of people trying to take away your violent games. They may currently be allied against you, but eventually they will turn on each other, as they are still natural enemies.
The other ones are plain old socialists and hippies and other liberals. Violent games are bad because they go against the peace-and-love worldview. These people who want to remove violence from culture and ban guns and ban even remotely violent sports like (American) football... the guns and the football is where they part company with the right wingers.
You see the same two groups opposing porn. One hates it because it's a sin, the other hates it because it's sexist. Never forget or fail to note which one you are arguing against at any particular time.
I was under the impression that Harvey Danger was more toward alt rock than mainstream
What exactly is "mainstream rock"? The mainstream belongs squarely to hip-hop, whatever-they-call-dance-music-this-year, and plain old American Idol Pop. All rock is alternative.
End users don't care what makes a developer's life easier. Businesses who have to pay for the extra time you waste futzing around with all that stuff might possibly be convinced to care, but end users for whom everthing is free anyway have no reason to care and they never will. Until the entire open source world realizes this, Microsoft doesn't really have anything to worry about.
. As an aside, it's hard to recommend Firefox to some friends/family when they can't comprehend how useful tabbed browsing it. I've successfully converted a few people though and they all comment that they'd hate to surf the web without tabs now. Maybe they should rename them iTabs or something to make them trendy.
I converted my wife to Mozilla (before Firefox existed) because IE was fucked up on her computer, and it was easier to install Mozilla than to figure out was wrong with IE. Only then did she "get" stuff like tabbed browsing and text resizing that works. She's got a new PC since then, and Firefox was the first thing installed on it.
I would state that this categorically isn't a "blog", just a more useful incarnation of what people have been putting on the web for years. I'm pretty sure many other "blogs" are like mine (heck, looking at my RSS list, 99% will be better).
You just described almost all the "blogs" that I read. Except for my (real life) friends, I don't read blogs about people's personal lives or even political opinions. I read dozens of blogs about programming, security, etc, and I call them blogs because there's no other word for it. To call them "websites" is too general.
Now almost every copy of windows I see running is legit, because it came with the computer.
Piracy of applications is more important than piracy of the OS, and I don't think that has abated since the Win3.1 days. Possibly become more common. (IHNSTBTU = I Have No Statistics To Back That Up)
Of course in professional environment having a microcomputer with its own system and applications for each user is totally crazy, how is it even possible that such a silly idea has been so widely accepted ?
Because the first generation of things like VisiCalc and Word Perfect ran only on PCs, not on mainframes. Business users had a need for these appls, that their mainframe IT priests could not meet, so individual managers started using the started using their own departments budgets to put PCs on people's desks, until eventually everybody had one. It's the same story in every large company and other institution (edu, gov) everywhere.
If the TR-1 was in fact the first pocket radio EVAR, then it is a technological and cultural milestone worth remembering even if (as many people here point out) it doesn't look nearly as much like an iPod Mini as TFA claims.
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Next they'll be telling us that they plan to have that "powered flight" thing all sewn up by 2040.
Symantec will be around a long time protecting MS Windows customers.
Symantec does more than sell antivirus products to John Q. Public. Look at their corporate history:
# July 2005 VERITAS Merger # May 2005 XtreamLok Acquisition # April 2005 DataCenter Technologies, Inc. Acquisition # December 2004Platform Logic Acquisition # October 2004 @stake Acquisition LIRIC Acquisition # September 2004 KVault Software Limited Acquisition # July 2004 TurnTide Acquisition Invio Software, Inc. Acquisition # June 2004 Brightmail Acquisition # February 2004 ON Technology Corp. Acquisition # January 2004 Ejasent, Inc. Acquisition # December 2003 PowerQuest Corporation Acquisition # October 2003 Safeweb, Inc. Acquisition # August 2002 Riptech, Inc. Acquisition Recourse Technologies Acquisition SecurityFocus Acquisition # July 2002 Mountain Wave Acquisition # October 2001 Lindner & Pelc Acquisition # July 2001 Foster-Melliar Acquisition # December 2000 AXENT Technologies Acquisition # November 2000 Network Storage Management Group of Seagate Acquisition # February 2000 L-3 Network Security Acquisition
Several of those acquisitions are security consulting firms that tell big business how to secure their networks, for big bucks. I'd bet that they make more money from this than from their crunchy herbal shrinkwrapped stuff.
Unfortunately the 'planned feature' list is a little bit of the essentials, namely:
* Forwarding messages with attachments
The last time I tried to do that in Yahoo! mail, it didn't have that feature either. All attachments are removed from the forwarded messages. Maybe they have changed that, but if so it is either very recently or is only in the new beta version.
The "design for all browsers" paradigm isn't a good one.
Not to mention that no one really does it anyway. What most people/companies have time to do is to design for "both" browsers, with the definition of "both" changing over the years: Mosaic and Netscape, IE and Netscape, IE and Mozilla, etc.
Ouch. You know that feeling when you hear a song that came out when you were in high school, and you realize that it's on a classic rock station?
The really sad this is that if you're in your late 20's or early 30's, then the "grunge" rock songs that came out then are still being played into the ground on exactly the same stations that played them into the ground back then.
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I know people who have plasma screens with no tuner. They don't have or need a tv licence, but get a fair amount of hassle from the tv licensing authority who find it very hard to believe anyone would not watch broadcast tv.
Broadcast TV must be a lot better in Britain than it is in the US, for anyone to have trouble believing that someone would not want to watch it..
I even had mod points, but I blew them by posting before I saw this.
My job that I had while I was *in* college, there was less privacy than if I'd had a cubicle: just a desk, out in the open computer lab. Not only co-workers but the general public chattering all around me. And yet I got a lot more done than I typically do in a cubicle. My next two jobs after getting out of college were the same way.
So it can't just be about privacy, and it can't just be about noise levels. There has to be something about the little square box that inherently saps productivity, independently of the aforementioned factors.
I think the parent's point was that often the people who fight against violent games etc which supposedly make children/adults violent are the same people who say America has lost it's 'good old fashioned Christian values'.
But this is false. Some of the anti-violence crowd, it is true, are indeed the same old "family values" people who've been boycotting Disney since the 1990's over gay rights issues.
There are two completely different groups of people trying to take away your violent games. They may currently be allied against you, but eventually they will turn on each other, as they are still natural enemies.
The other ones are plain old socialists and hippies and other liberals. Violent games are bad because they go against the peace-and-love worldview. These people who want to remove violence from culture and ban guns and ban even remotely violent sports like (American) football... the guns and the football is where they part company with the right wingers.
You see the same two groups opposing porn. One hates it because it's a sin, the other hates it because it's sexist. Never forget or fail to note which one you are arguing against at any particular time.
I was under the impression that Harvey Danger was more toward alt rock than mainstream
What exactly is "mainstream rock"? The mainstream belongs squarely to hip-hop, whatever-they-call-dance-music-this-year, and plain old American Idol Pop. All rock is alternative.
That is, these folks are releasing to mp3 BECAUSE ipod supports it, and they are doing .ogg in the hopes that more companies will start supporting .ogg
At least one workplace in the past, everybody switched to using ogg for their ripped music, because the IT department started scanning for mp3.
already slashdotted before the first post
Yes, but for many web developers IE is broken.
End users don't care what makes a developer's life easier. Businesses who have to pay for the extra time you waste futzing around with all that stuff might possibly be convinced to care, but end users for whom everthing is free anyway have no reason to care and they never will. Until the entire open source world realizes this, Microsoft doesn't really have anything to worry about.
Actually that's not true.
Gee, here I was thinking that grandparent was being sarcastic.
. As an aside, it's hard to recommend Firefox to some friends/family when they can't comprehend how useful tabbed browsing it. I've successfully converted a few people though and they all comment that they'd hate to surf the web without tabs now. Maybe they should rename them iTabs or something to make them trendy.
I converted my wife to Mozilla (before Firefox existed) because IE was fucked up on her computer, and it was easier to install Mozilla than to figure out was wrong with IE. Only then did she "get" stuff like tabbed browsing and text resizing that works. She's got a new PC since then, and Firefox was the first thing installed on it.
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/27/16272
I would state that this categorically isn't a "blog", just a more useful incarnation of what people have been putting on the web for years. I'm pretty sure many other "blogs" are like mine (heck, looking at my RSS list, 99% will be better).
You just described almost all the "blogs" that I read. Except for my (real life) friends, I don't read blogs about people's personal lives or even political opinions. I read dozens of blogs about programming, security, etc, and I call them blogs because there's no other word for it. To call them "websites" is too general.
Now almost every copy of windows I see running is legit, because it came with the computer.
Piracy of applications is more important than piracy of the OS, and I don't think that has abated since the Win3.1 days. Possibly become more common. (IHNSTBTU = I Have No Statistics To Back That Up)
Of course in professional environment having a microcomputer with its own system and applications for each user is totally crazy, how is it even possible that such a silly idea has been so widely accepted ?
Because the first generation of things like VisiCalc and Word Perfect ran only on PCs, not on mainframes. Business users had a need for these appls, that their mainframe IT priests could not meet, so individual managers started using the started using their own departments budgets to put PCs on people's desks, until eventually everybody had one. It's the same story in every large company and other institution (edu, gov) everywhere.
If the TR-1 was in fact the first pocket radio EVAR, then it is a technological and cultural milestone worth remembering even if (as many people here point out) it doesn't look nearly as much like an iPod Mini as TFA claims.
Next they'll be telling us that they plan to have that "powered flight" thing all sewn up by 2040.
Symantec will be around a long time protecting MS Windows customers.
Symantec does more than sell antivirus products to John Q. Public. Look at their corporate history:
# July 2005 VERITAS Merger
# May 2005 XtreamLok Acquisition
# April 2005 DataCenter Technologies, Inc. Acquisition
# December 2004Platform Logic Acquisition
# October 2004 @stake Acquisition
LIRIC Acquisition
# September 2004 KVault Software Limited Acquisition
# July 2004 TurnTide Acquisition
Invio Software, Inc. Acquisition
# June 2004 Brightmail Acquisition
# February 2004 ON Technology Corp. Acquisition
# January 2004 Ejasent, Inc. Acquisition
# December 2003 PowerQuest Corporation Acquisition
# October 2003 Safeweb, Inc. Acquisition
# August 2002 Riptech, Inc. Acquisition
Recourse Technologies Acquisition
SecurityFocus Acquisition
# July 2002 Mountain Wave Acquisition
# October 2001 Lindner & Pelc Acquisition
# July 2001 Foster-Melliar Acquisition
# December 2000 AXENT Technologies Acquisition
# November 2000 Network Storage Management Group of Seagate Acquisition
# February 2000 L-3 Network Security Acquisition
Several of those acquisitions are security consulting firms that tell big business how to secure their networks, for big bucks. I'd bet that they make more money from this than from their crunchy herbal shrinkwrapped stuff.
McAfee is in the same game.
If someone writes an extention to put that feature back into Firefox I might consider it
about:config
keyword.URL=http://www.google.com/search?q=
Just type your search into the address bar and hit enter.
No doubt Java 6 is out next February and Java 7 the following february so how much longer can Java 1.4 be considered mainstram?
I support at least one application that runs on 1.2.
Unfortunately the 'planned feature' list is a little bit of the essentials, namely:
* Forwarding messages with attachments
The last time I tried to do that in Yahoo! mail, it didn't have that feature either. All attachments are removed from the forwarded messages. Maybe they have changed that, but if so it is either very recently or is only in the new beta version.
similarities based on a commonly used term are OK (X-Windows (System) is fine).
What is X-Windows System? It is the X Window System. Singular.
The "design for all browsers" paradigm isn't a good one.
Not to mention that no one really does it anyway. What most people/companies have time to do is to design for "both" browsers, with the definition of "both" changing over the years: Mosaic and Netscape, IE and Netscape, IE and Mozilla, etc.
I knew high school students who bought (or, rather, got their parents to buy them) computers specifically so they they get on BBS's.
eMule/aMule/etc. are much cooler
Cooler still is M.U.L.E..
Ouch. You know that feeling when you hear a song that came out when you were in high school, and you realize that it's on a classic rock station?
The really sad this is that if you're in your late 20's or early 30's, then the "grunge" rock songs that came out then are still being played into the ground on exactly the same stations that played them into the ground back then.