It may have something to do with the book he's releasing next month. He's a sad sack of crap that plays on the ignorance of politically-correct nutjobs. Granted, he does it very well, but he's still a sad sack of crap. I would hate to think that this post might entice someone to actually put money in his sad sack of crap's pocket, but it's a fact that should be brought to your collective attention.
I had the first out-loud laugh of the day when I saw that Amazon's "Customers viewing this book also viewed" feature returned a single entry for his book: Advanced Sex : 101 Positions and Techniques, for the Sexually Adventurous by Randi Foxx
The tree on the front page does not have an American flag. The intention is simply to choose your language, not necessarily your country. This happens to be a very similar language to that spoken in Britain. You can click on their flag.
We got the predecessor to that model, the TH-50PHD6UY, and we've been running it for almost two years now. It's every bit as amazing as the day we plugged it in and I have no gripes with the picture quality or design (from the styling to the remote and on-screen menus). While I'm not in the position to provide results of long-term testing across many different models, I can emphasize that I'm a visual junkie and the Panasonic has been everything I expected.
I'm not sure how many other brands have slots for expansion, but this one does. You can add new interface boards or swap existing ones for another. Quite sweet.
Lotus, Wordperfect, and dBase existed as the defacto standard long before most people knew who Microsoft was. If a new version of MS-DOS had broken those programs, the OS would have been rejected outright. Instead, Microsoft slowly built equivalent products, packaged them together, and stole the market share away. After they had the market share, they were free to shape the OS to better suit their programs. For a more recent example on a different OS, take a look at how the same mindset allowed Adobe to finally sell InDesign and effectively destroyed the substantial market share that QuarkXpress enjoyed.
The only way to stay on top is to keep raising the peak.
The letters Q, U, X, Y, and Z aren't used because there aren't enough names that start with those letters (in our culture). Otherwise, you run a pretty good chance of having hurricanes Xavier and Quentin pretty much every year.
sound like the guy doesn't know how to use the browser
Did you miss the part where they said he was the UI designer for previous versions? It was in the title. I think it's a safe bet that he knows how to use the browser. Probably, much better than anyone who's responding to the thread.
UI designers have the extremely difficult job of designing for the largest portion of the target audience. He's not saying that all of the features are horrible or that they don't have their place. He's merely suggesting that their focus is no longer capturing that majority and Firefox is.
I do read the classifieds, sometimes just to make sure our open positions are being printed. For all the whining about a tech slump, every company I've worked for has had many more positions available than competent candidates. I hate to say it, but the number of available IT jobs (and their respective compensation) varies quite widely with the class of employee you're after. Simply put, we would rather have open positions than lackluster employees.
Companies that try to get IT help for minimum wage will get what they pay for. People whose skills fall into that category will always exist in greater numbers and will always be in competition with each other for those positions.
Frankly, if it only costs $40 to make a processor, I'll throw an extra $10 on top and make myself a really sweet one. Huh? What do you mean that's not how much it really costs to make a processor?
OK, maybe we Slashdot readers can get together and pool our money. If we get ten thousand people, then we've got almost half a million to work with. What? That still won't work?!! I'm beginning to think the $40 per processor quote is bullshit.
Frankly, I sit in a fairly comfortable chair and I write code for a living. Many of the problems I solve take little time, require only basic equipment, and involve no manual labor. However, to imply that the cost to produce that code is extremely low would mean you must ignore the years I spent in college and on-the-job gaining the experience necessary to do the work. Otherwise, I'd be making minimum wage and any monkey could walk in off the street and do it.
As far as the military, there is a very detailed plan for decommissioning computer equipment that contained classified data, whether that equipment will be destroyed, auctioned, or donated. Hard drives are opened and the platters are physically destroyed with sandpaper or other abrasive substances and even monitors are degaussed with a heavy magnet and shattered if burn-in is an issue.
Other government agencies aren't held to the same standards, but the odds of national security secrets going out on a trashed drive are pretty close to nil.
I raised this issue with the manufacturer of my USB key, after it ceased to communicate. I was offered a brand-new one upon receipt of the old one, but had no way to clear the data (a CVS tree of our product). The tech said any obvious, physical damage (i.e smashing with a hammer) would void the replacement guarantee.
Apparently, a few seconds in the microwave does not qualify as obvious, physical damage.
After all, drop one of these babies and you're out a pretty penny.
If your camera can shoot 3000 photos, you're probably no longer concerned about removable media. You would probably get better performance with the chip memory soldered right on the board, too.
Dr. Patrick McGovern of the Museum discovered that the residues inside the vessels belonged to a "Phrygian cocktail," which combined grape wine, barley beer and honey mead.
I've read this before, but my first assumption would have been that the people also enjoyed wine, beer, and mead (or more likely, braggots and melomels), but used the same containers to make them and did a lousy job of washing them.
It makes me wonder what future archaeologists will make of the stuff in my sink. "It looks as though these people drank a Mountain Dew, orange juice, beer, and chicken soup cocktail!"
I've in fact been something pretty close to your company's worst nightmare since about 1997... wrote most of the theory and propaganda for [open source] and talked IBM and Wall Street and the Fortune 500 into buying in...I'd be just as determined to do in any other proprietary-software monopoly.
MS Exec: "Dear Lord, this guy is full of the worst concoction of bullshit and self-importance I've ever seen. We have to get him a position in marketing."
"I'm sure FEMA's web developer is out there in a helicopter looking for survivors right now
There's a distinct possibility that this guy is standing in a soup kitchen somewhere slinging food or handing out supplies.
Or, the web developer normally has a lot on his plate that got even more complicated with the requirement of a high visibility, disaster-specific site. His boss probably paged him and said, "Get something up ASAP. It doesn't have to be perfect. Just get as much done as fast as you can."
Could it be better? Yes.
Is it working for the vast majority of people? Yes.
Is it a reasonable response in this amount of time? Yes, I think so.
I only had to read through 10-15 relatively inane comments before I got to some common sense. Thank you. You made my day.
Somehow, I can't picture a guy whose clothes are still stained and wet, hasn't eaten a decent meal in a week, can't find his wife and kids, and no longer has a house to go back to, is going to give a shit that he can't use his favorite open-source browser.
no one person country or entity owns any piece of that planet, and yet we are going to allow
This does not compute. You either lay claim to something and assume control or you make no claim and do not assume control. In other words, you must define "we" and establish who you're speaking for.
If I tape the key to my house on my front door, I'm an idiot. If someone notices and uses the key to enter my house, they're breaking and entering*, even if they only hung out and watched tv for a bit.
The new punishment is more appropriate to the offense, but trivializing it as something that should be overlooked is not the answer. An incompetent admin doesn't negate that the kids knew what they were doing was wrong.
* Breaking and entering requires only the slightest amount of force. Pushing open a door is considered sufficient.
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for Jack Thompson to release a book and benefit from all this free publicity.
Oh, wait a second.
It may have something to do with the book he's releasing next month. He's a sad sack of crap that plays on the ignorance of politically-correct nutjobs. Granted, he does it very well, but he's still a sad sack of crap. I would hate to think that this post might entice someone to actually put money in his sad sack of crap's pocket, but it's a fact that should be brought to your collective attention.
I had the first out-loud laugh of the day when I saw that Amazon's "Customers viewing this book also viewed" feature returned a single entry for his book: Advanced Sex : 101 Positions and Techniques, for the Sexually Adventurous by Randi Foxx
It was a baaaa-d joke.
It's a race, so there's sport.
It's for research, so there's a utility aspect.
They transport things, so they're vehicles.
One could argue that every one of the competitors is an SUV.
All the way to the left, third from the top.
We got the predecessor to that model, the TH-50PHD6UY, and we've been running it for almost two years now. It's every bit as amazing as the day we plugged it in and I have no gripes with the picture quality or design (from the styling to the remote and on-screen menus). While I'm not in the position to provide results of long-term testing across many different models, I can emphasize that I'm a visual junkie and the Panasonic has been everything I expected.
I'm not sure how many other brands have slots for expansion, but this one does. You can add new interface boards or swap existing ones for another. Quite sweet.
Lotus, Wordperfect, and dBase existed as the defacto standard long before most people knew who Microsoft was. If a new version of MS-DOS had broken those programs, the OS would have been rejected outright. Instead, Microsoft slowly built equivalent products, packaged them together, and stole the market share away. After they had the market share, they were free to shape the OS to better suit their programs. For a more recent example on a different OS, take a look at how the same mindset allowed Adobe to finally sell InDesign and effectively destroyed the substantial market share that QuarkXpress enjoyed.
The only way to stay on top is to keep raising the peak.
They could just take their $10,000 and buy all their employees a copy of XP.
List of retired names
Here's a list of the retired hurricanes:
The letters Q, U, X, Y, and Z aren't used because there aren't enough names that start with those letters (in our culture). Otherwise, you run a pretty good chance of having hurricanes Xavier and Quentin pretty much every year.
sound like the guy doesn't know how to use the browser
Did you miss the part where they said he was the UI designer for previous versions? It was in the title. I think it's a safe bet that he knows how to use the browser. Probably, much better than anyone who's responding to the thread.
UI designers have the extremely difficult job of designing for the largest portion of the target audience. He's not saying that all of the features are horrible or that they don't have their place. He's merely suggesting that their focus is no longer capturing that majority and Firefox is.
I do read the classifieds, sometimes just to make sure our open positions are being printed. For all the whining about a tech slump, every company I've worked for has had many more positions available than competent candidates. I hate to say it, but the number of available IT jobs (and their respective compensation) varies quite widely with the class of employee you're after. Simply put, we would rather have open positions than lackluster employees.
Companies that try to get IT help for minimum wage will get what they pay for. People whose skills fall into that category will always exist in greater numbers and will always be in competition with each other for those positions.
Frankly, if it only costs $40 to make a processor, I'll throw an extra $10 on top and make myself a really sweet one. Huh? What do you mean that's not how much it really costs to make a processor?
OK, maybe we Slashdot readers can get together and pool our money. If we get ten thousand people, then we've got almost half a million to work with. What? That still won't work?!! I'm beginning to think the $40 per processor quote is bullshit.
Frankly, I sit in a fairly comfortable chair and I write code for a living. Many of the problems I solve take little time, require only basic equipment, and involve no manual labor. However, to imply that the cost to produce that code is extremely low would mean you must ignore the years I spent in college and on-the-job gaining the experience necessary to do the work. Otherwise, I'd be making minimum wage and any monkey could walk in off the street and do it.
As far as the military, there is a very detailed plan for decommissioning computer equipment that contained classified data, whether that equipment will be destroyed, auctioned, or donated. Hard drives are opened and the platters are physically destroyed with sandpaper or other abrasive substances and even monitors are degaussed with a heavy magnet and shattered if burn-in is an issue.
Other government agencies aren't held to the same standards, but the odds of national security secrets going out on a trashed drive are pretty close to nil.
I raised this issue with the manufacturer of my USB key, after it ceased to communicate. I was offered a brand-new one upon receipt of the old one, but had no way to clear the data (a CVS tree of our product). The tech said any obvious, physical damage (i.e smashing with a hammer) would void the replacement guarantee.
Apparently, a few seconds in the microwave does not qualify as obvious, physical damage.
After all, drop one of these babies and you're out a pretty penny.
If your camera can shoot 3000 photos, you're probably no longer concerned about removable media. You would probably get better performance with the chip memory soldered right on the board, too.
Dr. Patrick McGovern of the Museum discovered that the residues inside the vessels belonged to a "Phrygian cocktail," which combined grape wine, barley beer and honey mead.
I've read this before, but my first assumption would have been that the people also enjoyed wine, beer, and mead (or more likely, braggots and melomels), but used the same containers to make them and did a lousy job of washing them.
It makes me wonder what future archaeologists will make of the stuff in my sink. "It looks as though these people drank a Mountain Dew, orange juice, beer, and chicken soup cocktail!"
I've in fact been something pretty close to your company's worst nightmare since about 1997... wrote most of the theory and propaganda for [open source] and talked IBM and Wall Street and the Fortune 500 into buying in...I'd be just as determined to do in any other proprietary-software monopoly.
MS Exec: "Dear Lord, this guy is full of the worst concoction of bullshit and self-importance I've ever seen. We have to get him a position in marketing."
It's criticizing, not criticising.
It's capitalization, not capitalisation.
"I'm sure FEMA's web developer is out there in a helicopter looking for survivors right now
There's a distinct possibility that this guy is standing in a soup kitchen somewhere slinging food or handing out supplies.
Or, the web developer normally has a lot on his plate that got even more complicated with the requirement of a high visibility, disaster-specific site. His boss probably paged him and said, "Get something up ASAP. It doesn't have to be perfect. Just get as much done as fast as you can."
Could it be better? Yes.
Is it working for the vast majority of people? Yes.
Is it a reasonable response in this amount of time? Yes, I think so.
I only had to read through 10-15 relatively inane comments before I got to some common sense. Thank you. You made my day.
Somehow, I can't picture a guy whose clothes are still stained and wet, hasn't eaten a decent meal in a week, can't find his wife and kids, and no longer has a house to go back to, is going to give a shit that he can't use his favorite open-source browser.
no one person country or entity owns any piece of that planet, and yet we are going to allow
This does not compute. You either lay claim to something and assume control or you make no claim and do not assume control. In other words, you must define "we" and establish who you're speaking for.
On the Bios page, the company's IP attorney is listed before the scientists and advisors.
Maybe, it's nothing.
If I tape the key to my house on my front door, I'm an idiot. If someone notices and uses the key to enter my house, they're breaking and entering*, even if they only hung out and watched tv for a bit.
The new punishment is more appropriate to the offense, but trivializing it as something that should be overlooked is not the answer. An incompetent admin doesn't negate that the kids knew what they were doing was wrong.
* Breaking and entering requires only the slightest amount of force. Pushing open a door is considered sufficient.