Yeah, it pisses me off that I spend $4/day in gas just to go to work! Never mind the miles I'm putting on my car. It only makes sense to recoup the time=money on/.:)
And what really sucks is that it often comes at the cost of crippling newer features.
A version of Windows is basiscally *designed* to last abour 7 or so years. In my experience, they don't really have good long-term planning at Microsoft, which means backwards compatibility then has to be based on a bunch of hacks.
Indeed. Actually, people are often afraid of the unknown. The concept of "Internet" and "mod" in this case are the mysterious unknown. People are also often irrationally afraid for their kids.
The question is, how do we address those fears in this case. Education maybe?
>> "A psychopath can't tell the difference between right and wrong. A sociopath knows the difference - he just doesn't care."
According to your sig, the people enraged about Rockstar must be psychopaths then?;)
Amen to that. Until recently I was content just watching my girlfriend play her copy of San Andreas. Now I'm starting to get the urge to go and shell out $50 for my own box. I might even be willing to boot into Windows to play it!
People picking on sexual content really piss me off. Go advocate good parenting for a change!
Aye. Harware vendors piss me off. But I suppose I can't really blame them, since they're profit-oriented.
Although, I don't see how simply releasing the specs for a wifi card (so some very willing OSS coder(s) will write the Linux drivers *for* them) is going to damage the company. It's not like wifi technology is a huge secret. Am I missing something?
Yep! My dad got an Averatec piece of shit laptop with XP Home, and we tried, for a whole day, to get 2K working. The video driver (despite claiming to be for 2K/XP) consistently gave a blue screen on boot.
SuSE 9.1 worked fine.
(Eventually we gave up and put XP Pro on it, after which the laptop started having serious hardware issues - don't buy an Averatec!)
Indeed, a power user having trouble with power management?!?!
Seriously, though, you're right. That's Linux's main problem at this time, as I see it. I have fun tweaking and fixing things every day in Gentoo, but like the original article says, it's not for Regular People (and probably not for many of the Rest either). It will probably be a few more years before things like that really get ironed out. I'm trying to keep a positive attitude (and I sure hope I'm not kidding myself).
Microsoft was also the first to have a flight sim inside a spreadsheet programme. Is that innovation too?
Failure != Lack of innovation, but there's not a one-to-one correspondence. Innovation is an idea that revolutionises the way people do some group of tasks. Such an idea might fail at first because it's not delivered very well, but unless it catches on later and revolutionises the way we do things, it's not innovation.
So far, I haven't seen how making the browser a part of the US has revolutionised anything.
>>> So innovative that the KDE crew does it as well. <<<
Nothing to do with innovation. One of the goals of KDE is to make it easy for Windows users to migrate to. Probably the number one argument I hear from die-hard Windows users regarding their oss-phobia is that they've invested so much time learning how to use IE or Excel that they don't want to spend the same amount of time learning how to use Mozilla or OpenOffice. It completely trumps the ($) price difference for them.
You might have a point about VB development, but I find it truly hard to understand a similar justification of Visual C++ with MFC development of complex visual application.
At work, we have a small team of dedicated MS programmers (mostly VB, but some C++). I was showing one of them how to operate the new installment of Visual Studio a couple weeks ago. He was very, very confused with all the GUI changes. My point is that aside from the horribly painstaking process of developing a visual application with MFC (compare to, e.g., Delphi), the changes Microsoft makes with every installment of their development environment only add to the inefficiency of the task.
That reminds me of the old Soviet joke: "Q: Why don't we have any meat in the Soviet Union? A: Because we're taking 7-mile leaps toward communism and the cattle can't keep up!"
The statement "is still small" is ambiguous. I interpreted it the same way too, at first, which didn't make sense due to the reason you mention. The other interpretation is "as you increase the size of the collection, does it cease to be 'small' before the 20 GB mark or is it still 'small' at 20 GB?"
In other words, we're not talking about our perception of 'smallness' of an mp3 collection as depending on time but as depending on size. It's a function of at least those two variables.
Good point. They can let you connect for free as a chicken or a lizard or something, so all you can really do is walk around and observe (and probably get killed by some normal player for 1 XP or something). That would make a lot of sense.
I guess you won't have the ability to talk either.
Yeah... I've been trying to figure out the Microsofties at my work, and I keep hearing the argument over and over: "I use logic. If everybody uses it, it must be good." And then there's the big word: "compatibility". They feel like if they stray from the Microsoft way of life in any way, they'll have trouble communicating with others in the field.
It's sad, but I totally stumped a professional programmer at work when I said something about running a binary. How can you run a binary file? Maybe they're right... I've got communication problems now;)
Well, the following, I presume, doesn't apply to all hackers, but possibly to a good number of them. I think that what you describe as "joy at doing damage" may actually be a logical response to a feeling of being underestimated by others.
Let me elaborate. Let's say Joe Hacker feels that he is treated as an "entry level" IT professional despite his actual 10 years of software development and system administration experience (starting from somewhere in elementary school). He cannot find a good way to convince people that he can actually do something. However, Joe Hacker realises that inconveniencing people is generally a sure-fire way of getting people's attention. Not that will make Joe's life better in the long run, but Joe's perceived helplessness is what may be driving him to cause people pain.
I'm not really sure that it's joy that Joe feels, though. I think it's probably a long shot saying that people who tend to harm others voluntarily actually enjoy it, just because it seems that way to casual observers. There may be great emotional pain behind the sadistic smile. It's probably a complicated matter.
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Dude, push the cubicle wall out with your feet so you can get a scenic view of the great outdoors and launch a game of Tetris!
Jeez...
Yeah, it pisses me off that I spend $4/day in gas just to go to work! Never mind the miles I'm putting on my car. It only makes sense to recoup the time=money on /. :)
*flips to next excuse...*
>> You know I do not understand how a game in which you intentionally break the law and murder people is rated "M" ...
You know, I don't understand that either. Doing what you just described is certainly NOT mature behaviour!
If one person does this, they're stupid. If many people do this, it could have a profound effect.
Who's in this with me?
Actually, Microsoft's backwards comatiblity isn't anything special. It's really not *that* good.
And what really sucks is that it often comes at the cost of crippling newer features.
A version of Windows is basiscally *designed* to last abour 7 or so years. In my experience, they don't really have good long-term planning at Microsoft, which means backwards compatibility then has to be based on a bunch of hacks.
Well, yes, the Internet completely changed my situation :)
>> A 9yr old knowing C# is really not suprising.
;)
Moreover, with computers being so prevalent, what I have trouble understanding is WHY IT'S SO DAMN RARE?
All kids want to do is play games, and adults don't generally encourage them to look behind the scenes and figure out how it all really works.
When I was 9 I was happily coding away, but none of my friends were... oh wait... I had no friends back then
What, are we outsourcing the Internet?
Indeed. Actually, people are often afraid of the unknown. The concept of "Internet" and "mod" in this case are the mysterious unknown. People are also often irrationally afraid for their kids.
;)
The question is, how do we address those fears in this case. Education maybe?
>> "A psychopath can't tell the difference between right and wrong. A sociopath knows the difference - he just doesn't care."
According to your sig, the people enraged about Rockstar must be psychopaths then?
>> "...politicians would rather pass laws regulating the flow of information and sale of materials that they feel are harmful to a child."
I wonder how many of them actually care about the children. I think politicians will do just about anything to enhance their public opinion.
Amen to that. Until recently I was content just watching my girlfriend play her copy of San Andreas. Now I'm starting to get the urge to go and shell out $50 for my own box. I might even be willing to boot into Windows to play it!
People picking on sexual content really piss me off. Go advocate good parenting for a change!
Aye. Harware vendors piss me off. But I suppose I can't really blame them, since they're profit-oriented.
Although, I don't see how simply releasing the specs for a wifi card (so some very willing OSS coder(s) will write the Linux drivers *for* them) is going to damage the company. It's not like wifi technology is a huge secret. Am I missing something?
Yep! My dad got an Averatec piece of shit laptop with XP Home, and we tried, for a whole day, to get 2K working. The video driver (despite claiming to be for 2K/XP) consistently gave a blue screen on boot.
SuSE 9.1 worked fine.
(Eventually we gave up and put XP Pro on it, after which the laptop started having serious hardware issues - don't buy an Averatec!)
Indeed, a power user having trouble with power management?!?!
Seriously, though, you're right. That's Linux's main problem at this time, as I see it. I have fun tweaking and fixing things every day in Gentoo, but like the original article says, it's not for Regular People (and probably not for many of the Rest either). It will probably be a few more years before things like that really get ironed out. I'm trying to keep a positive attitude (and I sure hope I'm not kidding myself).
Microsoft was also the first to have a flight sim inside a spreadsheet programme. Is that innovation too?
Failure != Lack of innovation, but there's not a one-to-one correspondence. Innovation is an idea that revolutionises the way people do some group of tasks. Such an idea might fail at first because it's not delivered very well, but unless it catches on later and revolutionises the way we do things, it's not innovation.
So far, I haven't seen how making the browser a part of the US has revolutionised anything.
>>> So innovative that the KDE crew does it as well. <<<
Nothing to do with innovation. One of the goals of KDE is to make it easy for Windows users to migrate to. Probably the number one argument I hear from die-hard Windows users regarding their oss-phobia is that they've invested so much time learning how to use IE or Excel that they don't want to spend the same amount of time learning how to use Mozilla or OpenOffice. It completely trumps the ($) price difference for them.
Well, big and fat browsers are indeed big and fat. But what about lightweight browsers like Dillo?
emerge kde
(not quite graphical, but pretty easy; it does take a couple days, though...)
You might have a point about VB development, but I find it truly hard to understand a similar justification of Visual C++ with MFC development of complex visual application.
At work, we have a small team of dedicated MS programmers (mostly VB, but some C++). I was showing one of them how to operate the new installment of Visual Studio a couple weeks ago. He was very, very confused with all the GUI changes. My point is that aside from the horribly painstaking process of developing a visual application with MFC (compare to, e.g., Delphi), the changes Microsoft makes with every installment of their development environment only add to the inefficiency of the task.
That reminds me of the old Soviet joke: "Q: Why don't we have any meat in the Soviet Union? A: Because we're taking 7-mile leaps toward communism and the cattle can't keep up!"
Oh, thanks for the info! I might try Anarchy Online then.
I would still consider the chicken option if the chickens have large talons, though.
The statement "is still small" is ambiguous. I interpreted it the same way too, at first, which didn't make sense due to the reason you mention. The other interpretation is "as you increase the size of the collection, does it cease to be 'small' before the 20 GB mark or is it still 'small' at 20 GB?"
In other words, we're not talking about our perception of 'smallness' of an mp3 collection as depending on time but as depending on size. It's a function of at least those two variables.
What's so inconvenient about using a browser?
Good point. They can let you connect for free as a chicken or a lizard or something, so all you can really do is walk around and observe (and probably get killed by some normal player for 1 XP or something). That would make a lot of sense.
I guess you won't have the ability to talk either.
Yeah... I've been trying to figure out the Microsofties at my work, and I keep hearing the argument over and over: "I use logic. If everybody uses it, it must be good." And then there's the big word: "compatibility". They feel like if they stray from the Microsoft way of life in any way, they'll have trouble communicating with others in the field.
;)
It's sad, but I totally stumped a professional programmer at work when I said something about running a binary. How can you run a binary file? Maybe they're right... I've got communication problems now
Well, the following, I presume, doesn't apply to all hackers, but possibly to a good number of them. I think that what you describe as "joy at doing damage" may actually be a logical response to a feeling of being underestimated by others.
Let me elaborate. Let's say Joe Hacker feels that he is treated as an "entry level" IT professional despite his actual 10 years of software development and system administration experience (starting from somewhere in elementary school). He cannot find a good way to convince people that he can actually do something. However, Joe Hacker realises that inconveniencing people is generally a sure-fire way of getting people's attention. Not that will make Joe's life better in the long run, but Joe's perceived helplessness is what may be driving him to cause people pain.
I'm not really sure that it's joy that Joe feels, though. I think it's probably a long shot saying that people who tend to harm others voluntarily actually enjoy it, just because it seems that way to casual observers. There may be great emotional pain behind the sadistic smile. It's probably a complicated matter.
Ah, yes of course. I've heard multiple times that most hackers get caught as a result of bragging to their friends. ;)