4) It's kinda weird seeing the Aqua UI controls and metal skins in a Windows app, but it supports my theory that iTunes is a lead in for both iPods & regular hardware. Get them used to the way things are in the Mac world, and then get them to switch.
This is hardly surprising. Microsoft's intention was never to build the greatest browser, but to simply build a browser that would net them the largest market share. With the other big player out of the way now, there's little incentive for further "innovation".
And this is exactly the problem that free markets have in a general sense: the action(s) that maximizes a company's returns may not always maximize consumer utility.
In fact, once you install nethack on everything, you won't need to install anything else for months or years, considering how much else you're actually going to get done...
What I'd like to see is our Dictator of Homeland Security pinned down and made to explain
This will never, ever happen. Not with the DoHS and not with any other public post that commands respect, because that's not what the press generally does. The people who rise to professional careers in the press generally do it by observing the bounds of polite inquiry... in other words, their careers and politcal careers need to be somewhat symbiotic. The people that don't do this are either selected out of the system or find a niche, like our polemic friends Limbaugh, Coulter, Hannity etc.
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I'd imagine you get a lot of the occasional satanic and deliquency flak that adheres to fantasy, comics, role-playing, and the sundry.
Of course he gets it. I can't imagine how if C.S. Lewis, Tolkein, and Charles Williams got those accusations that Gaiman wouldn't...
Lewis and Tolkein about as Christian as you come, too, making it more ironic that many of their attackers were/are Christian fundamentalists.
All right, my ammendment would ask for an elaboration on afforementioned beliefs/philosophy.
Although I realize after asking that I'm probably more interested in how he's arrived at them as much as what the specific beliefs are, and I realize fully that questions like this are often personal enough that they're not well discussed in a public discourse.
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Do you have a set of religious beliefs or spiritual philosophy?
Predatory governments? What about the company that's getting punished here, who effectively figured out how to make everyone pay for something they didn't want in order to get something they did?
There may be examples where the California government has mistreated businesses and driven them to leave, but this is not one of them. They've taken an action which serves as a remedy for a practice that should never have been allowed in the first place.
Also by the time you've copied a feature from Windows, Microsoft has already copied something else from OS X
Clearly, then, the right thing to do is copy from OS X.
(Except for the fact that you want people who've never used anything but windows to be comfortable with it when you sit down in front of it, and the Mac OS X interface, while simple enough, may not fit that bill)
No one thinks microsoft has a monopoly on computer operating systems/desktops. What they do have a monopoly on for all intents and purposes is the distribution of operating systems with the OEMs.
That's been a practical monopoly on the desktop. But there's a hole in this: "solutions" providers like IBM can offer something else. They've got the purchasing clout to get MS-free machines from OEMs -- if a customer wants that. And it's starting to turn out that the customer sometimes does.
the energy from the gas is what wrecks the roads in the first place.
It is what wrecks the road. It's transfered via combustion process into mechanical energy and transferred to the road by the vehicle, true, but gasoline is most certainly the primary source of the energy in question.
There's an old joke among musicians "It's folk music... it doesn't have to be in tune". Although your style isn't folk music per se, it's that sort of singer/songwriter stuff where the songwriting is often more important, and an "authentic" sound might be more important than being strictly in tune....
Oo! Oo! Or you could try explaining your position to your fiancee.
No fiancee; two women with whom I came close to that status would probably have accepted the argument (in fact, one of them was quite familiar with it, having done a case study on DeBeers in the course of her degree in international finance). But notwithstanding this, I find that I don't just trip over these people -- women who aren't interested in diamonds, let alone those who women are in the combined set of those I'm interested in making a lifelong commitment to and those who don't care about diamonds -- among otherwise intelligent and pleasant human beings. For the combined set, three or four a decade.
But I will check out Amnesty International and see if I can't spend less time in places like Utah and Montana.:)
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Wait... you mean that you'd marry a girl like that?
The problem here is that the scarcity on girls like that is far from artificial.
If you know a place where that's not true, I'd be very anxious to hear about it.
..and do what? So, if I want to bother someone, and I have something important that needs saying, I could CALL them and SPEAK to them. Otherwise, how about I leave them alone (and they leave me alone) and not flood me with nonsensical, innane, vacuous text noise?
A bit harsh. Consider email. Yes, I know, much of it is nonsensical, innane, and vacuous, and friends forward you crap. But it's assyncronous communication, which is sometimes very convenient and quicker than having to work at synchronous. If you call someone and they're busy, it's quicker and often less expensive for them to retrieve a "call me" text message than otherwise. And then you know all those situations in which people consider it rude to be talking on the cell phone -- the subway, restaurants, etc? You can text message w/o disturbing anybody except those who are worried about the E/M energy your phone is emitting.
"Texting" can get out of control, but it's useful in a lot of situations, not just a frivolous extra.
There are a significant portion of the hard-core homeless that will simply stay off-grid, that's why they're homeless in the first place, they decline to participate.
Dead right. And despite the fact we call it paranoia, slashdot paranoia is absolutely nothing compared to real paranoia. I have a paranoid schizophrenic aunt, and for the implication of every program like this, there's a very real chance she'd risk starvation before going to social services agencies.
OK, so it's not Lessig's nightmare per se, but this could be an illustration of what could become a growing phenomenon: machines making judgements about regulations....
Managers hate this kind of reality, because it is impossible to graph on a powerpoint slide. They may not even know it intellectually, because all the metrics they measure are pointing to the wrong conclusion -- but as they do what the metrics encourage them to do
Bin-go. This is seriously one of the largest problems I've seen everywhere I've worked, not just in software. People come up with these metrics, these indicators of performance -- and then assume that to increase performance, they can just focus on goosing their scores on the metrics.
I worked helping to manage an intranet at a call center once. One favorite call center metric? Average time spent on a call. So you get the floor manager out there trying to get everybody to get those call times down. Knowledgeable and skilled customer service and tech support people will, of course, be processing most calls more quickly, but there's so many ways to process calls quickly that don't involved good support/service that the metric fails if you try to focus on it.
It should be reflexive, drilled into suit-heads during business school, to think, when considering any metric: how many ways are there to make this number go up w/o actually improving our business?
I don't understand the difference between those two. How is it that you can prove the earth is flat but yet can't prove the goverment has been infiltrated by aliens?
"Absence" proofs are pretty hard to furnish: prove there is no God. Prove there are no aliens. Prove there are no black swans. Prove there are no WMDs. It's impossible to produce a "lack" of each of those things that's expansive enough to be sufficiently encompassing. Generally prima faciea burdens fall on the person making a claim.
(Although curiously enough, in science, we usually don't prove anything true anymore. Usually you just come up with a negative version of your hypothesis, run an experiment, and the statistics involved leave you with some probability that it's false. If it's a very low probability, then you're likely to have your hypothesis granted theoretical establishment.)
For example, how do you know that all the aliens in the government aren't faking all the evidence for the round earth? For all we know, all the evidence is just an illusion that is sustained by drugs the goverment puts in the drinking water.
I know what's real because I took the red pill and the oracle told me. So there.
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4) It's kinda weird seeing the Aqua UI controls and metal skins in a Windows app, but it supports my theory that iTunes is a lead in for both iPods & regular hardware. Get them used to the way things are in the Mac world, and then get them to switch.
Hmmm. Yello box lives, perhaps?
This is hardly surprising. Microsoft's intention was never to build the greatest browser, but to simply build a browser that would net them the largest market share. With the other big player out of the way now, there's little incentive for further "innovation".
And this is exactly the problem that free markets have in a general sense: the action(s) that maximizes a company's returns may not always maximize consumer utility.
You MUST have NetHack installed on everything...
In fact, once you install nethack on everything, you won't need to install anything else for months or years, considering how much else you're actually going to get done...
Well if he can achieve that then I'm gonna work doubly hard on Sex Over IP
Actually, I think what you're probably looking for is to arrange things the other way around.
Brings whole new meaning to the word MAC...
What I'd like to see is our Dictator of Homeland Security pinned down and made to explain
This will never, ever happen. Not with the DoHS and not with any other public post that commands respect, because that's not what the press generally does. The people who rise to professional careers in the press generally do it by observing the bounds of polite inquiry... in other words, their careers and politcal careers need to be somewhat symbiotic. The people that don't do this are either selected out of the system or find a niche, like our polemic friends Limbaugh, Coulter, Hannity etc.
I'd imagine you get a lot of the occasional satanic and deliquency flak that adheres to fantasy, comics, role-playing, and the sundry.
Of course he gets it. I can't imagine how if C.S. Lewis, Tolkein, and Charles Williams got those accusations that Gaiman wouldn't...
Lewis and Tolkein about as Christian as you come, too, making it more ironic that many of their attackers were/are Christian fundamentalists.
All right, my ammendment would ask for an elaboration on afforementioned beliefs/philosophy.
Although I realize after asking that I'm probably more interested in how he's arrived at them as much as what the specific beliefs are, and I realize fully that questions like this are often personal enough that they're not well discussed in a public discourse.
Do you have a set of religious beliefs or spiritual philosophy?
Because I like to use a full blown wordprocesser
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You've proved your point.
Predatory governments? What about the company that's getting punished here, who effectively figured out how to make everyone pay for something they didn't want in order to get something they did?
There may be examples where the California government has mistreated businesses and driven them to leave, but this is not one of them. They've taken an action which serves as a remedy for a practice that should never have been allowed in the first place.
What about the XML and XSLT sizes?
Also by the time you've copied a feature from Windows, Microsoft has already copied something else from OS X
Clearly, then, the right thing to do is copy from OS X.
(Except for the fact that you want people who've never used anything but windows to be comfortable with it when you sit down in front of it, and the Mac OS X interface, while simple enough, may not fit that bill)
No one thinks microsoft has a monopoly on computer operating systems/desktops. What they do have a monopoly on for all intents and purposes is the distribution of operating systems with the OEMs.
That's been a practical monopoly on the desktop. But there's a hole in this: "solutions" providers like IBM can offer something else. They've got the purchasing clout to get MS-free machines from OEMs -- if a customer wants that. And it's starting to turn out that the customer sometimes does.
Microsoft are the kings of this kind of behavior, and I wouldn't be at all surprised to see this kind of settlement.
This isn't just good for knoppix, this is *highly* cool.
the energy from the gas is what wrecks the roads in the first place.
It is what wrecks the road. It's transfered via combustion process into mechanical energy and transferred to the road by the vehicle, true, but gasoline is most certainly the primary source of the energy in question.
There's an old joke among musicians "It's folk music... it doesn't have to be in tune". Although your style isn't folk music per se, it's that sort of singer/songwriter stuff where the songwriting is often more important, and an "authentic" sound might be more important than being strictly in tune....
:)
Not bad stuff, by the way.
You're verging on incoherent
:)
:)
I like to call it subtlety. You got my drift.
Oo! Oo! Or you could try explaining your position to your fiancee.
No fiancee; two women with whom I came close to that status would probably have accepted the argument (in fact, one of them was quite familiar with it, having done a case study on DeBeers in the course of her degree in international finance). But notwithstanding this, I find that I don't just trip over these people -- women who aren't interested in diamonds, let alone those who women are in the combined set of those I'm interested in making a lifelong commitment to and those who don't care about diamonds -- among otherwise intelligent and pleasant human beings. For the combined set, three or four a decade.
But I will check out Amnesty International and see if I can't spend less time in places like Utah and Montana.
Wait... you mean that you'd marry a girl like that?
The problem here is that the scarcity on girls like that is far from artificial.
If you know a place where that's not true, I'd be very anxious to hear about it.
..and do what? So, if I want to bother someone, and I have something important that needs saying, I could CALL them and SPEAK to them. Otherwise, how about I leave them alone (and they leave me alone) and not flood me with nonsensical, innane, vacuous text noise?
A bit harsh. Consider email. Yes, I know, much of it is nonsensical, innane, and vacuous, and friends forward you crap. But it's assyncronous communication, which is sometimes very convenient and quicker than having to work at synchronous. If you call someone and they're busy, it's quicker and often less expensive for them to retrieve a "call me" text message than otherwise. And then you know all those situations in which people consider it rude to be talking on the cell phone -- the subway, restaurants, etc? You can text message w/o disturbing anybody except those who are worried about the E/M energy your phone is emitting.
"Texting" can get out of control, but it's useful in a lot of situations, not just a frivolous extra.
There are a significant portion of the hard-core homeless that will simply stay off-grid, that's why they're homeless in the first place, they decline to participate.
Dead right. And despite the fact we call it paranoia, slashdot paranoia is absolutely nothing compared to real paranoia. I have a paranoid schizophrenic aunt, and for the implication of every program like this, there's a very real chance she'd risk starvation before going to social services agencies.
Is a three snort book anything like a three beer woman (or man) in a bar? The number of snorts it takes one to see useful information in the book?
OK, so it's not Lessig's nightmare per se, but this could be an illustration of what could become a growing phenomenon: machines making judgements about regulations....
Managers hate this kind of reality, because it is impossible to graph on a powerpoint slide. They may not even know it intellectually, because all the metrics they measure are pointing to the wrong conclusion -- but as they do what the metrics encourage them to do
Bin-go. This is seriously one of the largest problems I've seen everywhere I've worked, not just in software. People come up with these metrics, these indicators of performance -- and then assume that to increase performance, they can just focus on goosing their scores on the metrics.
I worked helping to manage an intranet at a call center once. One favorite call center metric?
Average time spent on a call. So you get the floor manager out there trying to get everybody to get those call times down. Knowledgeable and skilled customer service and tech support people will, of course, be processing most calls more quickly, but there's so many ways to process calls quickly that don't involved good support/service that the metric fails if you try to focus on it.
It should be reflexive, drilled into suit-heads during business school, to think, when considering any metric: how many ways are there to make this number go up w/o actually improving our business?
I don't understand the difference between those two. How is it that you can prove the earth is flat but yet can't prove the goverment has been infiltrated by aliens?
"Absence" proofs are pretty hard to furnish: prove there is no God. Prove there are no aliens. Prove there are no black swans. Prove there are no WMDs. It's impossible to produce a "lack" of each of those things that's expansive enough to be sufficiently encompassing. Generally prima faciea burdens fall on the person making a claim.
(Although curiously enough, in science, we usually don't prove anything true anymore. Usually you just come up with a negative version of your hypothesis, run an experiment, and the statistics involved leave you with some probability that it's false. If it's a very low probability, then you're likely to have your hypothesis granted theoretical establishment.)
For example, how do you know that all the aliens in the government aren't faking all the evidence for the round earth? For all we know, all the evidence is just an illusion that is sustained by drugs the goverment puts in the drinking water.
I know what's real because I took the red pill and the oracle told me. So there.