Getting a mac is like security through obscurity in a way.
Owning a mac is to say "this platform is so underused, the virus writers dont really care about it". If macs were the popular platform...hello virus, adware, spyware, etc.
I found this in an earlier article on slashdot (the one where they asked a grip of scientists what they believe without being able to prove).
This was spot on for me, and since we're in the smart room right now with this article, I thought I'd share. It's a wonderful explanation of why critical thinkers can still have faith. ----------------
TOR NØRRETRANDERS Science Writer; Consultant; Lecturer, Copenhagen; Author, The User Illusion
I believe in belief--or rather: I have faith in having faith. Yet, I am an atheist (or a "bright" as some would have it). How can that be?
It is important to have faith, but not necessarily in God. Faith is important far outside the realm of religion: having faith in other people, in oneself, in the world, in the existence of truth, justice and beauty. There is a continuum of faith, from the basic everyday trust in others to the grand devotion to divine entities.
Recent discoveries in behavioural sciences, such as experimental economics and game theory, shows that it is a common human attitude towards the world to have faith. It is vital in human interactions; and it is no coincidence that the importance of anchoring behaviour in riskful trust is stressed in worlds as far apart as Søren Kierkegaard's existentialist christianity and modern theories of bargaining behaviour in economic interactions. Both stress the importance of the inner, subjective conviction as the basis for actions, the feeling of an inner glow.
One could say that modern behavioral science is re-discovering the importance of faith that has been known to religions for a long time. And I would argue that this re-discovery shows us that the activity of having faith can be decoupled from the belief in divine entities.
So here is what I have faith in: We have a hand backing us, not as a divine foresight or control, but in the very simple and concrete sense that we are all survivors. We are all the result of a very long line of survivors who survived long enough to have offspring. Amoeba, rodents and mammals. We can therefore have confidence that we are experts in survival. We have a wisdom inside, inherited from millions of generations of animals and humans, a knowledge of how to go about life. That does not in any way imply foresight or planning ahead on our behalf. It only implies that we have a reason to trust out ability to deal with whatever challenges we meet. We have inherited such an ability.
Therefore, we can trust each other, ourselves and life itself. We have no guarantee or promises for eternal life, not at all. The enigma of death is still there, ineradicable.
But we a reason to have confidence in ourselves. The basic fact that we are still here--despite snakes, stupidity and nuclear weapons--gives us reason to have confidence in ourselves and each other, to trust others and to trust life. To have faith.
Because we are here, we have reason for having faith in having faith.
My buddy once told me the one big advantage of the tightly packed small New York apartment buildings was never having to pay for the net.
Sounds like you have the same problem. My neight bor wants to buy access from me right now... now thasts a cheap way to pay for my own cable. Or an expensive way to elarn he knows how to torrent.
ok, that sucked. This would have been more kickass if the news was tha gamers were aliens, robots, or at least some sort of mildly aaggressive animal. Human... just no punch to it:(
I guess you haven't run into this sort of NDA. Most companies do not want it publicized that a consultant did their work, so you are not allowed to mention it as a client. Just because you haven't run into that does not make it impossible.
So yes, I guess it isn't sufficient to convince you, and luckily, that doesn't really make a big difference to me. Take it for what it's worth. Alot of people post here anonymously without support, and you have to make a judgement call on their motives. Go look at my other posts... I usually crack jokes... I don't have an agenda here.
But seriously, if you can't figure out how to use DW as the powerful tool it is, so be it. If you find notepad easier, good for you.
I have no reason to try and fool you... I dont work for Macromedia, i just use it, alot. successfully. on many different sites.
If you're really working at the level I am, you'd know that as a design consultant for this type of site, you sign non disclosure agreements. F500 companies don't like to announce that their in-house design staff can't complete the project. I can tell you the last project I was on was about 10 coders and my team of 3 designers as a consultancy group. We billed over quite alot over a 2 year period working on a B2B configuration app for very large (multi terrabyte) servers.
The key to not having DW mess with jsp code is to just open up the code management options and tell it specifically what to, and what not to rewrite. That is how we kept several pages from breaking with some very heavy JSP writen into it, even when using a wysiwyg.
I have made several fortune 500 websites using dreamweaver. A few were heavy on JSP, some were static, all were very well designed and easy to maintain. They were even compliant.
Maybe you're getting you info and opinion from 10 years ago when it wasn't as good. But in the real design world compliant code is only interesting to people like you. The people who get paid to do it need it to render in a % of borwsers we are targetting as decided by our demographic. If compliant code didnt render in IE, there would be none on the web, except for maye you're one unreadable web page, maybe with firefox.
But the much more telling way of reading the question, which should garner the same answers is "What could you be led to believe with no proof" or worse... "how far could we go in twisting your reality to a story with no support because of the lack of basic critical thinking training in our society."
For more information on the topic, I reccomend "Demon Haunted World" by Sagan, or "Why People Believe Wierd Things" (cant recall the author right now, but a quick search of Amazon should pull it up).
"It wasn't so long ago that you'd have needed a room full of all sorts of equipment to play music, watch videos, play games, etc. Now all you need is a decent PC. That's progress."
I dont think you understand. That guy has a band in the living room, a projector in his basement, and an arcade in the kitchen. You know, because it's more convenient.
Wheras the pioneer spacecraft carried media of human genome, voices, sounds, animals, how the world workewd, this mission needed to crater a giant comet.
Therefore, the media stored on board consists of Gigli, Ishtar, Hudson hawk, Battlefield Earth, and The Adventures of Pluto Nash.
"Excellent! A story of being called "stupid intern" by a woman who..."
Umm, in your paragrpah, he refers to himself as comminitng a "stupid intern mistake", and then goes on to say she was always good,a nd one of the nicest people he'd ever met. Where the hell did you get this tirade on her from? Not your quote.
Why the bitterness; Did she just send back your boxers without signing them or what?
"BTW: If someone uses missile defense lasers near your city, then you should have strong curtains just to make sure that any weak reflections wouldn't pass inside your house. And blind someone"
I'll keep that in mind if umm, they start ysing missle defense lasers in my city, because, yeah, I'll be more worried about the reflection than the MISSLES FALLING ON LOS ANGELES.
Of cours,e something tells me if there MISSLES FALLING I'll be doing something besides watching the laser show.
Now I know this might be a world killer, etc, but someone should be able to tell me with the trajectory it is on, which way the earth would be facing should it hit....
I'm just curious what will be cratered, what will be melted, what will be evaporated, and what will just die.
Thats why I'm here so late. Did I miss anything good?
Seriously though, this "corporate hacking" is so much more impressive than that silly bike thing we had to read earlier! (and it helped teachers..always good).
No, I really really do get the whole "because its there" thing. I climb mountains too.
Still, the bike system is cooler. Thata city would put the finances out for it, that people would use it, and that it would be successful to me with all of the social problems in my neck of the woods that would prevent it... It is cooler.
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Getting a mac is like security through obscurity in a way.
Owning a mac is to say "this platform is so underused, the virus writers dont really care about it". If macs were the popular platform...hello virus, adware, spyware, etc.
he strikes a blow for critical thinking, and that is your friend.
I found this in an earlier article on slashdot (the one where they asked a grip of scientists what they believe without being able to prove).
This was spot on for me, and since we're in the smart room right now with this article, I thought I'd share. It's a wonderful explanation of why critical thinkers can still have faith.
----------------
TOR NØRRETRANDERS
Science Writer; Consultant; Lecturer, Copenhagen; Author, The User Illusion
I believe in belief--or rather: I have faith in having faith. Yet, I am an atheist (or a "bright" as some would have it). How can that be?
It is important to have faith, but not necessarily in God. Faith is important far outside the realm of religion: having faith in other people, in oneself, in the world, in the existence of truth, justice and beauty. There is a continuum of faith, from the basic everyday trust in others to the grand devotion to divine entities.
Recent discoveries in behavioural sciences, such as experimental economics and game theory, shows that it is a common human attitude towards the world to have faith. It is vital in human interactions; and it is no coincidence that the importance of anchoring behaviour in riskful trust is stressed in worlds as far apart as Søren Kierkegaard's existentialist christianity and modern theories of bargaining behaviour in economic interactions. Both stress the importance of the inner, subjective conviction as the basis for actions, the feeling of an inner glow.
One could say that modern behavioral science is re-discovering the importance of faith that has been known to religions for a long time. And I would argue that this re-discovery shows us that the activity of having faith can be decoupled from the belief in divine entities.
So here is what I have faith in: We have a hand backing us, not as a divine foresight or control, but in the very simple and concrete sense that we are all survivors. We are all the result of a very long line of survivors who survived long enough to have offspring. Amoeba, rodents and mammals. We can therefore have confidence that we are experts in survival. We have a wisdom inside, inherited from millions of generations of animals and humans, a knowledge of how to go about life. That does not in any way imply foresight or planning ahead on our behalf. It only implies that we have a reason to trust out ability to deal with whatever challenges we meet. We have inherited such an ability.
Therefore, we can trust each other, ourselves and life itself. We have no guarantee or promises for eternal life, not at all. The enigma of death is still there, ineradicable.
But we a reason to have confidence in ourselves. The basic fact that we are still here--despite snakes, stupidity and nuclear weapons--gives us reason to have confidence in ourselves and each other, to trust others and to trust life. To have faith.
Because we are here, we have reason for having faith in having faith.
My buddy once told me the one big advantage of the tightly packed small New York apartment buildings was never having to pay for the net.
Sounds like you have the same problem. My neight bor wants to buy access from me right now... now thasts a cheap way to pay for my own cable. Or an expensive way to elarn he knows how to torrent.
I for one welcome our new human overlords.
:(
ok, that sucked. This would have been more kickass if the news was tha gamers were aliens, robots, or at least some sort of mildly aaggressive animal. Human... just no punch to it
Has anyone told Chris Rock that crackers are doing this?
He'll be pissed.
I guess you haven't run into this sort of NDA. Most companies do not want it publicized that a consultant did their work, so you are not allowed to mention it as a client. Just because you haven't run into that does not make it impossible.
So yes, I guess it isn't sufficient to convince you, and luckily, that doesn't really make a big difference to me. Take it for what it's worth. Alot of people post here anonymously without support, and you have to make a judgement call on their motives. Go look at my other posts... I usually crack jokes... I don't have an agenda here.
But seriously, if you can't figure out how to use DW as the powerful tool it is, so be it. If you find notepad easier, good for you.
I have no reason to try and fool you... I dont work for Macromedia, i just use it, alot. successfully. on many different sites.
If you're really working at the level I am, you'd know that as a design consultant for this type of site, you sign non disclosure agreements. F500 companies don't like to announce that their in-house design staff can't complete the project. I can tell you the last project I was on was about 10 coders and my team of 3 designers as a consultancy group. We billed over quite alot over a 2 year period working on a B2B configuration app for very large (multi terrabyte) servers.
The key to not having DW mess with jsp code is to just open up the code management options and tell it specifically what to, and what not to rewrite. That is how we kept several pages from breaking with some very heavy JSP writen into it, even when using a wysiwyg.
But logic is flawed too...they didn't buy a car, they bought Ford.
I have made several fortune 500 websites using dreamweaver. A few were heavy on JSP, some were static, all were very well designed and easy to maintain. They were even compliant.
Maybe you're getting you info and opinion from 10 years ago when it wasn't as good. But in the real design world compliant code is only interesting to people like you. The people who get paid to do it need it to render in a % of borwsers we are targetting as decided by our demographic. If compliant code didnt render in IE, there would be none on the web, except for maye you're one unreadable web page, maybe with firefox.
Actually it is MS antispyware.
Or, that really isnt your car. Its a car you bought from the dealership and rebranded it as yours.
were unavailable, because were on yahoo messenger, and well, he's on AIM and we all know how that goes.
yeah, i know, trillian.
But I can only prove I got a 404.
But the much more telling way of reading the question, which should garner the same answers is "What could you be led to believe with no proof" or worse... "how far could we go in twisting your reality to a story with no support because of the lack of basic critical thinking training in our society."
For more information on the topic, I reccomend "Demon Haunted World" by Sagan, or "Why People Believe Wierd Things" (cant recall the author right now, but a quick search of Amazon should pull it up).
"It wasn't so long ago that you'd have needed a room full of all sorts of equipment to play music, watch videos, play games, etc. Now all you need is a decent PC. That's progress."
I dont think you understand. That guy has a band in the living room, a projector in his basement, and an arcade in the kitchen. You know, because it's more convenient.
"Everybody knows that a real German's idea of a vacation is invading Poland."
:)
History says the real walk in the park vacation was invading France.
Wheras the pioneer spacecraft carried media of human genome, voices, sounds, animals, how the world workewd, this mission needed to crater a giant comet.
Therefore, the media stored on board consists of Gigli, Ishtar, Hudson hawk, Battlefield Earth, and The Adventures of Pluto Nash.
"Excellent! A story of being called "stupid intern" by a woman who..."
Umm, in your paragrpah, he refers to himself as comminitng a "stupid intern mistake", and then goes on to say she was always good,a nd one of the nicest people he'd ever met. Where the hell did you get this tirade on her from? Not your quote.
Why the bitterness; Did she just send back your boxers without signing them or what?
"BTW: If someone uses missile defense lasers near your city, then you should have strong curtains just to make sure that any weak reflections wouldn't pass inside your house. And blind someone"
I'll keep that in mind if umm, they start ysing missle defense lasers in my city, because, yeah, I'll be more worried about the reflection than the MISSLES FALLING ON LOS ANGELES.
Of cours,e something tells me if there MISSLES FALLING I'll be doing something besides watching the laser show.
Wait, was it pounds or kilograms of snacky cakes?
Shit. This is why we never should have strayed from the universal "50 turns of our Queens stomach" measurement system.
jk, I love Nasa, just like smart ass remarks slightly more.
"He's been married for a few years dude..."
/. speak, "its not a bug, its a feature."
Guess you aren't from Hollywood. Being married is an attraction.
Or in
Getting a female to talk to him without looking at his wallet.
Now I know this might be a world killer, etc, but someone should be able to tell me with the trajectory it is on, which way the earth would be facing should it hit....
I'm just curious what will be cratered, what will be melted, what will be evaporated, and what will just die.
Thats why I'm here so late. Did I miss anything good?
Seriously though, this "corporate hacking" is so much more impressive than that silly bike thing we had to read earlier! (and it helped teachers..always good).
No, I really really do get the whole "because its there" thing. I climb mountains too.
Still, the bike system is cooler. Thata city would put the finances out for it, that people would use it, and that it would be successful to me with all of the social problems in my neck of the woods that would prevent it... It is cooler.