The articles are probably written by some angry, semi-clued user who was fired for doing something stupid that made life harder for some sysadmins. Presumably someone thought he'd make a good tech writer.
Or some old versions of Samba, which defaulted to be more primary than existing infrastructure . User just meant to share a folder and suddenly all the office systems can't authenticate. Oops.
The age of convergence is here. Ages ago, I got a Diamond Rio, in a hurried buy because lawsuits were threatening to make it illegal. It stayed legal, obviously, and I had a number of such devices afterwards, but now my phone does that. I also have had GPSs (for geocaching!), calculators, lightweight computers, portable modems, gaming systems, PDAs, and all sorts of other things that I just don't need anymore because I got an Android Phone (NexusOne, for the curious).
I am not a heavy phone user in general. I lack a wallphone and don't talk on the phone very often or very willingly. That's ok. About 90% of my Android use is either as a very small computer (I love the note-taking app and sometimes use the sound recorder for voicenotes) or a data-communications device (GoogleMaps, Shazam, Skype, ssh, and so on).
This means that nowadays I have exactly 3 devices I carry around with me almost everywhere: My laptop (18.1" HP running Linux), my Android, and a Kindle (sufficiently different battery life and abilities, and sufficiently lightweight, that it hasn't converged and probably won't for awhile).
But then, not everyone will likely have my usage habits, and some people have strange ideas of device minimalism that they want to carry around 12 simple devices instead of 3 complicated/powerful ones.
The components of GNOME3 are mostly great, but the overall experience is terrible; the thing feels like it's designed for tablets, or as part of a blue-sky interface experiment. They took out most of the options that would've let people make it usable again, and have showed hostility to existing apps and user priorities (screensavers are so 90s? Really?). Compatibility with apps written against GNOME3 libraries is great, especially if we can get most of the good stuff from GNOME2 back.
If the GNOME Foundation doesn't want to deal with this, they should get rid of a lot of the people who made the poor decisions that led them to release a terrible, constraining product.
While some people get the policies wrong, in general the idea of IT policies is a good one; the only way to support business policies is to allow for sensible IT policies to exist. If the IT policies don't serve the business policies, someone's not doing their job right, but that's not a problem with the idea of policies existing at all. If you want to "thwart" your IT people, you'd better have a damned good reason.
Just about every time I have almost been run over by a car, it's been by some damned fool talking on the phone driving. Half the time they didn't even notice they almost hit me.
I've seen low-end tablets from China. I have one. At least the ones that were available 2 years ago are unusably slow. The next time I get one, I'll pay careful attention to the specs. A $90 tablet from china running ICS is garbage if it takes a full second for it to respond to any fingertap.
I'm sure the big donation targets won't mind the hassle of dealing with angry people trying to get their money back... and likely police involvement. That's just what charities need.
I'm uncomfortable with this, but I'm having trouble understanding exactly why. Maybe it's that I think law-and-order should remain a point-of-tension that requires special effort on behalf of law enforcement, and that tension serves a number of reasonable social purposes; discreet direct action should probably remain possible.
Maybe I'm fighting the tide, and maybe I should find a way to pin down my discomfort more, but this still is uncomfortable for me.
That's a fair argument. I mainly am bothered about abstract concerns for "authenticity" of food for taste reasons, but I am very sympathetic to concerns such as yours.
If you can't tell the difference, and arn't refraining from something for ethical/religious reasons, why does it matter? Whether you tell me that food is a delicacy from France or it's from down the street, it's going to taste the same to me. Either I'll like it or I won't. Stop worrying about this authenticity crap. You can't brand fish that way.
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If you want to highlight one of the founders of Apple, the Woz was far more influential and important than Jobs. Also, a much better guy.
He was careful not to celebrate death. Steve Jobs was a real human, and we should care about our fellow human beings, considering every death with sadness. However, Steve Jobs was not a great man, and the effects of him and the company he co-founded on the computer industry have not generally been positive.
As in Portal 2, we may not want him dead, but we can be happy he's not part of the computer industry anymore, and regret that he ever had as much influence as he did.
Once you've made significant code, major backend changes become a large hassle. This is effectively lock-in; it never has historically meant that your entire company and all of their developers are bound for life to the platform, but rather that somebody owns the APIs and that unless you're willing to jump through a lot of hoops, you sold yourself into bondage once you signed on.
It is better for the software community to demand open standards with free implementations so much as is possible. If the AppEngine backend really is something you can only get from Google, and then at a price, it's a poor choice.
What makes you think that "Republic" means enshrined rights and democracy doesn't? You're treating Democracy and Republic as terms at ends with each other, which is really not how they're used in political theory.
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Or in this case, a BUFH :)
The articles are probably written by some angry, semi-clued user who was fired for doing something stupid that made life harder for some sysadmins. Presumably someone thought he'd make a good tech writer.
Or some old versions of Samba, which defaulted to be more primary than existing infrastructure . User just meant to share a folder and suddenly all the office systems can't authenticate. Oops.
The age of convergence is here. Ages ago, I got a Diamond Rio, in a hurried buy because lawsuits were threatening to make it illegal. It stayed legal, obviously, and I had a number of such devices afterwards, but now my phone does that. I also have had GPSs (for geocaching!), calculators, lightweight computers, portable modems, gaming systems, PDAs, and all sorts of other things that I just don't need anymore because I got an Android Phone (NexusOne, for the curious).
I am not a heavy phone user in general. I lack a wallphone and don't talk on the phone very often or very willingly. That's ok. About 90% of my Android use is either as a very small computer (I love the note-taking app and sometimes use the sound recorder for voicenotes) or a data-communications device (GoogleMaps, Shazam, Skype, ssh, and so on).
This means that nowadays I have exactly 3 devices I carry around with me almost everywhere: My laptop (18.1" HP running Linux), my Android, and a Kindle (sufficiently different battery life and abilities, and sufficiently lightweight, that it hasn't converged and probably won't for awhile).
But then, not everyone will likely have my usage habits, and some people have strange ideas of device minimalism that they want to carry around 12 simple devices instead of 3 complicated/powerful ones.
I'm using WindowMaker with some GNOME components.
The components of GNOME3 are mostly great, but the overall experience is terrible; the thing feels like it's designed for tablets, or as part of a blue-sky interface experiment. They took out most of the options that would've let people make it usable again, and have showed hostility to existing apps and user priorities (screensavers are so 90s? Really?). Compatibility with apps written against GNOME3 libraries is great, especially if we can get most of the good stuff from GNOME2 back.
If the GNOME Foundation doesn't want to deal with this, they should get rid of a lot of the people who made the poor decisions that led them to release a terrible, constraining product.
While some people get the policies wrong, in general the idea of IT policies is a good one; the only way to support business policies is to allow for sensible IT policies to exist. If the IT policies don't serve the business policies, someone's not doing their job right, but that's not a problem with the idea of policies existing at all. If you want to "thwart" your IT people, you'd better have a damned good reason.
Both of our stories are consistent with an increased risk from talking on the phone while driving. It's not a 100% risk, obviously.
Just about every time I have almost been run over by a car, it's been by some damned fool talking on the phone driving. Half the time they didn't even notice they almost hit me.
I've seen low-end tablets from China. I have one. At least the ones that were available 2 years ago are unusably slow. The next time I get one, I'll pay careful attention to the specs. A $90 tablet from china running ICS is garbage if it takes a full second for it to respond to any fingertap.
There are quite a lot of people working at Mozilla. I imagine it's mostly staffing costs.
I'm sure the big donation targets won't mind the hassle of dealing with angry people trying to get their money back... and likely police involvement. That's just what charities need.
I'm uncomfortable with this, but I'm having trouble understanding exactly why. Maybe it's that I think law-and-order should remain a point-of-tension that requires special effort on behalf of law enforcement, and that tension serves a number of reasonable social purposes; discreet direct action should probably remain possible.
Maybe I'm fighting the tide, and maybe I should find a way to pin down my discomfort more, but this still is uncomfortable for me.
Common sense is less of a good measure for these things than science.
That's a fair argument. I mainly am bothered about abstract concerns for "authenticity" of food for taste reasons, but I am very sympathetic to concerns such as yours.
If you can't tell the difference, and arn't refraining from something for ethical/religious reasons, why does it matter? Whether you tell me that food is a delicacy from France or it's from down the street, it's going to taste the same to me. Either I'll like it or I won't. Stop worrying about this authenticity crap. You can't brand fish that way.
If you want to highlight one of the founders of Apple, the Woz was far more influential and important than Jobs. Also, a much better guy.
This is an important point and I'm glad to see someone making it.
I wouldn't really want any DBA to have us all in their sights; they might try something crazy like "DELETE FROM earth;"
If I have a club of people who meet up to play chess or soccer or something, yeah, it's a good thing.
They really need at least to implement groups and subscribable tags to posts if they want to compete.
He was careful not to celebrate death. Steve Jobs was a real human, and we should care about our fellow human beings, considering every death with sadness. However, Steve Jobs was not a great man, and the effects of him and the company he co-founded on the computer industry have not generally been positive.
As in Portal 2, we may not want him dead, but we can be happy he's not part of the computer industry anymore, and regret that he ever had as much influence as he did.
Once you've made significant code, major backend changes become a large hassle. This is effectively lock-in; it never has historically meant that your entire company and all of their developers are bound for life to the platform, but rather that somebody owns the APIs and that unless you're willing to jump through a lot of hoops, you sold yourself into bondage once you signed on.
It is better for the software community to demand open standards with free implementations so much as is possible. If the AppEngine backend really is something you can only get from Google, and then at a price, it's a poor choice.
What makes you think that "Republic" means enshrined rights and democracy doesn't? You're treating Democracy and Republic as terms at ends with each other, which is really not how they're used in political theory.
Are you under the impression that the only form of democracy is direct democracy? There are other kinds, such as *cough* democratic republics.