Except the ones that weren't monopolies in the first place, but the point that you are making is valid.
Restricting competition is definitely keeping me away from their platform. I'm not going to dev for a platform on which my hard work could be met with rejection by some gods on high.
My contract is up on the 19th. I was weighing the merits of an iPhone 3G, but I'll just make my way over to T-Mobile and snag a Dream.
Follow a link from a find (using the keyboard). This can be remedied with a bookmarklet trick in Safari, but not in Chrome.
Try it. Type-ahead find + enter to follow a link is just plain golden for browsing quickly from the keyboard. Safari for windows blows this so badly that, in certain circumstances, focus can't be returned to the find text box and esc won't dismiss it. This doesn't blow up so badly in OS X.
It would be forgivable for tech people to not know this, but it's not forgivable for browser people to not know this. I'm sure that they knew it and just went ahead and did it anyway. I also hate that the find behavior is more like Safari than Firefox or Opera, but that's personal taste.
I have to believe that there's just a bit of arrogance in the naming. Hanlon's razor can only go so far...
Considering that Biden stands a better-than-average chance of becoming president (sad, but, seriously, true), you might want to think of them in the same position.
First, it hardly seems cool to hijack the floor and irk a bunch of Congressional police who should be going home to try and ram some unlikely legislation through before a scheduled vacation.
Secondly, typing the PIN into the PA on accident isn't hacking, especially when that PIN is probably "12345." That only counts as being a hacker in a Harrison Ford movie. Real hacking films, like "Hackers" and "Jurrasic Park" show us true hacking, where you fly through file-systems in 3D.
Try EVDO-RevA or HSDPA. EDGE is awful by comparison.
If you want to pull down the latest Fedora ISO and run it in a VM on your laptop, using the Torrent over your cellular modem can be the best way to go. I've done it.
As a Sprint EV-DO modem user who has just watched the policy change from Unlimited to "use more than 5GB in any two of three months and we'll stop service," it seems like we're all just out of luck.
I still love my Sprint modem, but I'm certainly wary of it going out on me in the future.
Note that I'm talking about a modem, rather than tethering.
The big win with side projects that are entirely under your control is that the code is entirely your style. Almost all of the code that you write for work will have some legacy or shortcut warts, but your self-made utility code can be entirely of your own style and principles. This can be good or bad.
If you don't have any code that you can show, ask your prospective employer to concoct a reasonable example.
If you don't have any code of your own to show them, that tells them something. If they can't come up with a reasonable task for you to demonstrate your abilities, that tells you something.
Oh, there's some optimism. Has the lack of a license to practice stopped Dr. Phil from being a pain? (Answer: no).
The worst thing that Jack could do is stop talking, though. He's like PETA. Some people could agree with his points, but he makes it very hard to espouse those positions without being lumped in with the loonies.
I don't know of any for sure (I'd have to know the whole UI to make that claim), but I know of *plenty* of things that I only know how to do with the CLI, and that's my point. The UI needs to be more discoverable. I'm certainly better at wading through the weeds than my parents, and they're the market.
Don't get me wrong. I think that the day is coming. I've been keeping tabs on Linux distros since '97, and I'm very impressed with the finish on what I'm seeing.
As far as Compiz goes, I had to apt-get the compiz config panel so I could tweak the hell out of my setup. I mean, come on. The magic of compiz is in the absolutely absurd configurability, though that same configurability means that you have to navigate this insane universe of extensions that stomp on each other and/or handle tons of things in one place.
As far as the modem goes, it actually probed just fine and worked as soon as I installed Gnome PPP. No file editing, no bullshit.
Sadly, no documentation.
Perhaps all this needs is a one-stop-shop for tutorials with an emphasis on not saying "I prefer the CLI, so I did it this way."
Is this meant to be a joke? I just set up a Heron Compiz install, and I knew-of/had no choice but to go the the terminal at least 10 times over the course of setting it up.
Some things, like setting up my EVDO modem, lead only to lengthy manual file-edit/command sequences in Google searches, leaving me ready to tear out my hair. So, taking a whack at it, I plugged in the modem, installed Gnome PPP, auto-detected my modem, put in the dial commands, set up the number, and dialed.
It worked, but even that is way harder for my parents than "Install what's on this disc."
The big problem that I see for this is that there's no centralization for any of this. There's no one place to go to handle setting up everything, and there's insufficient/disorganized help. The software I write (it's Windows software, for Sony, so I can expect to be modded into the basement.... now) has a feature called "Show Me Help" that uses instructions and red-flashing highlight boxes to give a tutorial using the media and project that you already have in front of you. You can say "I want to learn how to use a transition with video events" and have it show you on your video events.
I'm fairly convinced that the same concepts could be used in the GUI, from recordable/scriptable help documents that wouldn't be much harder than a command-list to post online. I'd like to see the same ethic of community-assistance extended to the rank beginner, because the effort it would take to make full-fledged help easy for my mother would be high.
With a guide to hold her hand, I think Ubuntu could be easier than OS X or Vista for her to jump into.
Thats like leaving your house unlocked because you dont know what a lock is. Except you wouldn't be responsible for wire fraud if someone walked into your house and used your un-password-protected computer.
If they clicked on one of these links, though, you'd go straight to jail.
Anyone blaming any party other than the government for this disgusting demonstration of the concept of the slippery slope is an idiot.
Even on the face of it, putting in 8 gallons of gas + a huge amount of energy and getting back 800 miles does not mean 100 mpg.
If that were the case, a purely electric car that let a thimble of gas evaporate in the back would get 1000s of miles per gallon.
We don't even need to argue about whether this is really going to come anywhere near its claims (it isn't), safe (it isn't), or actually efficient when you consider the energy that it takes to compress air (it isn't).
We can just end at how stupid their claims are and move on.
XP is faster (handles high thread-count cases more efficiently and has a stupidly-easy-to-render UI), but it's certainly not less cluttered. One could argue that it has one bar to OS X's two, or that, un-themed, it's very spartan, but who cares? It's going away as an OS. Amiga Workbench 3.0 was awesome...
Vista is just Vista, though things like the type-find Start-bar are great time-savers if your machine has the horsepower to put the Start menu up in under 10 seconds...
But waging the OS war is somewhat ridiculous when you have three ports in an alien-bay-door as your only comfort for your road-warrior-unfriendly dead battery in an otherwise road-warrior-passable silhouette (it ain't perfect if it's tall enough to get the crunch-of-death from the coach-class seats that your company puts you in if the flight is less than eight hours).
In the world of practical portables, Apple brought a spoon to a knife fight. Apple's not playing for practical, though, so they'll be just fine.
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Oh.. Yeah. I guess I should stop using my Thinkpad.
Since IBM brought the feature out only two years before Apple, I can see how, given the time difference, we should credit this one to Apple.
Just about anything can get modded "Interesting," eh?
Except the ones that weren't monopolies in the first place, but the point that you are making is valid.
Restricting competition is definitely keeping me away from their platform. I'm not going to dev for a platform on which my hard work could be met with rejection by some gods on high.
My contract is up on the 19th. I was weighing the merits of an iPhone 3G, but I'll just make my way over to T-Mobile and snag a Dream.
Follow a link from a find (using the keyboard). This can be remedied with a bookmarklet trick in Safari, but not in Chrome.
Try it. Type-ahead find + enter to follow a link is just plain golden for browsing quickly from the keyboard. Safari for windows blows this so badly that, in certain circumstances, focus can't be returned to the find text box and esc won't dismiss it. This doesn't blow up so badly in OS X.
Mouse or die, apparently.
Is anyone else annoyed that the name "Chrome" is the same word as the internal urls used in Firefox?
chrome://browser/content/places/places.xul
chrome://mozapps/content/extensions/extensions.xul
etc. (obviously, these only work in Firefox)
It would be forgivable for tech people to not know this, but it's not forgivable for browser people to not know this. I'm sure that they knew it and just went ahead and did it anyway. I also hate that the find behavior is more like Safari than Firefox or Opera, but that's personal taste.
I have to believe that there's just a bit of arrogance in the naming. Hanlon's razor can only go so far...
Considering that Biden stands a better-than-average chance of becoming president (sad, but, seriously, true), you might want to think of them in the same position.
That said, McCain is really old, so maybe not...
I'm sure that they were largely on top of it, right up until their back-ups got linked on slashdot.
That's more force than any government could muster.
Whatever, Keanu.
Just watch out for the synaptic seepage...
Yes. We've clearly all been doing it wrong.
Please, please, teach us.
First, it hardly seems cool to hijack the floor and irk a bunch of Congressional police who should be going home to try and ram some unlikely legislation through before a scheduled vacation.
Secondly, typing the PIN into the PA on accident isn't hacking, especially when that PIN is probably "12345." That only counts as being a hacker in a Harrison Ford movie. Real hacking films, like "Hackers" and "Jurrasic Park" show us true hacking, where you fly through file-systems in 3D.
Wow, dude. Just wow.
Funny. Cull.com would have been a much better name, and probably not all too expensive to buy off of the squatter that almost certainly owns it.
Of course, then we would have had the crappy results and astoundingly bad layout of Cuil on top of an otherwise good name.
Right now, they're 100% bad. Maybe it's for the best.
Do you know who else didn't want to talk about prison rape?
Godwin's position is secure.
Try EVDO-RevA or HSDPA. EDGE is awful by comparison.
If you want to pull down the latest Fedora ISO and run it in a VM on your laptop, using the Torrent over your cellular modem can be the best way to go. I've done it.
(And, yes, I've switched to Ubuntu.)
As a Sprint EV-DO modem user who has just watched the policy change from Unlimited to "use more than 5GB in any two of three months and we'll stop service," it seems like we're all just out of luck.
I still love my Sprint modem, but I'm certainly wary of it going out on me in the future.
Note that I'm talking about a modem, rather than tethering.
One of my coworkers turned a dish and cover into a UFO on chains with a fog-machine, lights, and a mirror ball rigged inside.
He could lower the ball, turn on the fog, and party.
Do it up right and you could have a coffee-table on chains that, when raised, turns into the center of your party rig.
You should have side projects.
The big win with side projects that are entirely under your control is that the code is entirely your style. Almost all of the code that you write for work will have some legacy or shortcut warts, but your self-made utility code can be entirely of your own style and principles. This can be good or bad.
If you don't have any code that you can show, ask your prospective employer to concoct a reasonable example.
If you don't have any code of your own to show them, that tells them something. If they can't come up with a reasonable task for you to demonstrate your abilities, that tells you something.
There was 1 girl, who was 16, she 69'ed 3 times.
What was she?
Oh, there's some optimism. Has the lack of a license to practice stopped Dr. Phil from being a pain? (Answer: no).
The worst thing that Jack could do is stop talking, though. He's like PETA. Some people could agree with his points, but he makes it very hard to espouse those positions without being lumped in with the loonies.
Quiet censorship is far more nefarious.
Minor correction, but the atmospheric pressure on Mars is generally said to be 1/150th of that of earth, or between 6 to 10 millibars.
I don't know of any for sure (I'd have to know the whole UI to make that claim), but I know of *plenty* of things that I only know how to do with the CLI, and that's my point. The UI needs to be more discoverable. I'm certainly better at wading through the weeds than my parents, and they're the market.
Don't get me wrong. I think that the day is coming. I've been keeping tabs on Linux distros since '97, and I'm very impressed with the finish on what I'm seeing.
As far as Compiz goes, I had to apt-get the compiz config panel so I could tweak the hell out of my setup. I mean, come on. The magic of compiz is in the absolutely absurd configurability, though that same configurability means that you have to navigate this insane universe of extensions that stomp on each other and/or handle tons of things in one place.
As far as the modem goes, it actually probed just fine and worked as soon as I installed Gnome PPP. No file editing, no bullshit.
Sadly, no documentation.
Perhaps all this needs is a one-stop-shop for tutorials with an emphasis on not saying "I prefer the CLI, so I did it this way."
Is this meant to be a joke? I just set up a Heron Compiz install, and I knew-of/had no choice but to go the the terminal at least 10 times over the course of setting it up.
Some things, like setting up my EVDO modem, lead only to lengthy manual file-edit/command sequences in Google searches, leaving me ready to tear out my hair. So, taking a whack at it, I plugged in the modem, installed Gnome PPP, auto-detected my modem, put in the dial commands, set up the number, and dialed.
It worked, but even that is way harder for my parents than "Install what's on this disc."
The big problem that I see for this is that there's no centralization for any of this. There's no one place to go to handle setting up everything, and there's insufficient/disorganized help. The software I write (it's Windows software, for Sony, so I can expect to be modded into the basement.... now) has a feature called "Show Me Help" that uses instructions and red-flashing highlight boxes to give a tutorial using the media and project that you already have in front of you. You can say "I want to learn how to use a transition with video events" and have it show you on your video events.
I'm fairly convinced that the same concepts could be used in the GUI, from recordable/scriptable help documents that wouldn't be much harder than a command-list to post online. I'd like to see the same ethic of community-assistance extended to the rank beginner, because the effort it would take to make full-fledged help easy for my mother would be high.
With a guide to hold her hand, I think Ubuntu could be easier than OS X or Vista for her to jump into.
If they clicked on one of these links, though, you'd go straight to jail.
Anyone blaming any party other than the government for this disgusting demonstration of the concept of the slippery slope is an idiot.
Even on the face of it, putting in 8 gallons of gas + a huge amount of energy and getting back 800 miles does not mean 100 mpg.
If that were the case, a purely electric car that let a thimble of gas evaporate in the back would get 1000s of miles per gallon.
We don't even need to argue about whether this is really going to come anywhere near its claims (it isn't), safe (it isn't), or actually efficient when you consider the energy that it takes to compress air (it isn't).
We can just end at how stupid their claims are and move on.
XP is faster (handles high thread-count cases more efficiently and has a stupidly-easy-to-render UI), but it's certainly not less cluttered. One could argue that it has one bar to OS X's two, or that, un-themed, it's very spartan, but who cares? It's going away as an OS. Amiga Workbench 3.0 was awesome...
Vista is just Vista, though things like the type-find Start-bar are great time-savers if your machine has the horsepower to put the Start menu up in under 10 seconds...
But waging the OS war is somewhat ridiculous when you have three ports in an alien-bay-door as your only comfort for your road-warrior-unfriendly dead battery in an otherwise road-warrior-passable silhouette (it ain't perfect if it's tall enough to get the crunch-of-death from the coach-class seats that your company puts you in if the flight is less than eight hours).
In the world of practical portables, Apple brought a spoon to a knife fight. Apple's not playing for practical, though, so they'll be just fine.