Although I can't find anything right now, I have heard that humans were like most animals and could synthesize vitamin C internally, and the anitoxidant/aging properties of the builtin amounts of vitamin C did in fact allow people to live to be hundreds of years old "back in the day".
Me, personally, I'm in my mid 30s and I'm ready to go at any time. I'm not saying that I don't like living or want to die, but I would have no strong objections if it were to be my time.
I've heard _many_ people complain about living, not a one about being dead.
As much as I like Google, I have a hard time feeling sorry for them on this one. What did they expect?
I'm guessing you are refering to a failed advertising business model?
Advertising, as good as it is by how many mouthes that it feeds, has gotten pretty annoying over the years. Its particularly annoying since the pseudo-science that is attempted to be applied to advertising.
The way I see it, there are currently only 2 forms of advertising that have any kind direct feedback to the "effectiveness" of the advertising. 1) TV comercials that advertise the $19.95 gizmo with $7.50 shipping and handling and the unknown cost of extra crap that the phone salesman pushes on you. Trust me, when the calls stop, so do the ads on TV. 2) Web comercials that get "click" values or "page view" values.
The later ones have gotten to be annoying. These have lead to the fun that we have on the web today. Obnoxious animated crap that you almost want to click on just to see it stop. A few years ago, popups were a big advertsising "page view" feature. We all know the drill.
The problem is that the feedback from web ads either by click throughs or page views has little to no correlation to selling crap and the new pseudo-science marketing types think the feedback is something real to the outside world, and they will do _anything_ to increase these numbers to some arbitrary number that is higher than it was the last time they measured it.
I'm sorry guys, there is nothing really there with these data. You need to go back to your companies that you work for and treat web ads like regular TV, magazine, and newspaper ads. They provide name recognition, establish some kind of emotional value to their product, etc. But the data from ads mean nothing.
I'm shocked that as smart as the people at google are have fallen into this myth. I'm guessing that they have always had some kind of stress associated how they were going to make money off of thier incredible services, but by billing people with arbitrary clicks on a world-wide available webpage that can be "clicked" by anything or anyone at anytime in the world at any time has its obvious drawbacks.
I say go back to thinking that advertising is just advertising and not some real game that can be won. As much as I and everyone else hates advertising, it must be a pretty cool job. You get to work on a neverending stream of short term projects that are pretty much only limited by your imagination. That has to be fun for you, it sucks for us, but it does pay many paychecks, and it looks like we are stuck with it at some level.
Now for the important stuff!
The guitars sound good, now give me about 10db more on the cow bell.
i am confused by the point you are trying to make. you compare your use of your car to the average computer user's use of his computer.
My point is clear. If my car was as broken as most people's computer, or if it took that much research to run, or 3rd party parts that had to be installed, or any of the stupid shit that people accept as "normal" for computers, I would not drive that car. I would buy one that worked.
while you do mention preventative maintenance, like oil changes, you don't do it yourself. you also don't prevent everything from occurring by checking ever little bit of your car. you do it on your computer though
No I don't. I do preventative maintence on my broken servers at work, but for my personal computers, the preventative maintence that I do now is that I turn off my laptop before transporting it in its laptop bag. I've learned that the powerbook latch is not that good and it comes open in my bag and my harddisk has bad sectors now, so I turn it off.
They are absolutely correct here although there are only four programs you should ever install for combating spyware: Adaware, SpyBot S&D, SpywareBlaster, and a good software firewall package (preferably one that tells you when something is trying to connect out to the Internet like ZoneAlarm).
Thanks for the tip. If I ever get spyware or adware on my Mac, Linux, or Slowaris boxen I'll install these and see if it helps.
Sadly, most people out there don't know, care, or care to know.
And why should they?
Although I'm more technically and mechanically inclined than most people, do you know what I know or care to know about my car?
I put gas in it when the trip odometer gets around 300 miles (gas gauge is broken).
I get someone to put new oil and stuff in it when its been about 3,000 miles or about 3 or 4 months. When I'm there I may get some other fluids or belts or hoses changed if I can't remember when the last time I've done it or it looks bad enough to change.
My car is 14 years old. Its broken down twice in the past 5 years that I have owned it. It broke down due to a broken water pump and a broken universal joint on the drive shaft (neither were diagnosable by physical inspection). I'm guessing these anecdotal data points are much less than what is expected of an average person to surf the web and read some email.
I know and spend much less time with things like my telephone, my television, my stereos, my dishwasher, my garbage disposal, my microwave, well every other electro-mechanical gizmo that "makes my life easier and better".
I'm sorry, but statements by us technogeekdweebies like Sadly, most people out there don't know, care, or care to know. only applies to computers. Actually, a large subset of the computer population that run something besides a Mac, Linux, or Solaris on their computer.
I hate to be l33t or whatever, but a statement like Sadly, most people out there don't know, care, or care to know. falls into that category, and that is following advice that there are 3 specific 3rd party programs required to keep your computer running (after careful research) and a 3rd party firewall product that is much beyond anyone's wants or needs for surfing the web and reading email. Oh, and I hear that people "need" or "should" also have a virus program on their computer also (after careful research, and constant updates).
I get reminded daily about how fundamentally stupid people are when they talk about their "computer problems". If I had those problems, I would throw the computer in the trash. End of problem.
Sometimes I think about creating a startup company that rebrands and sets up Windows correctly and sell it at a premium to people. Something akin to what Saleen does to Ford Mustangs. I would bet that people would pay well beyond Mac prices for a "PC" that runs almost as good as a Mac.
In Norway, you get a (paper) copy of your credit report every time someone hires a company to make one. It's the law over here. It seems reasonable. You've actually had to pay for getting to know your own credit details? It's kind of funny.
In America, one has to pay for freedom. And pay dearly.
On a side note, I should write a HOWTO on how I found the perfect Geek wife.
Yes, you should. I havn't heard of an American woman under 40 that cooks, cleans, and pays bills without also being a psycho bitch on the side. If she still does this in 5 years (without bitching)...
Wow. I'm speechless, and thats hard for me to say.
We send drug dealers and drug buyers to jail, we should treat spam the same way.
Oh, so the government should set up an arbitrary and updatable list of email content and bust anyone with possession of email with said content. Good call.
We should punish the idiots that buy things advertised in Spam.
Unfortunately, there is nothing illegal about the possession of penis enlargers, Viagra, or fake Rolex watches. Being an idiot should not explicly against the law. Fortunately, stupid people have enough trouble with existing laws, and they get weeded out accordingly. You've seen Cops right?
One could argue that the "war on drugs" is a failure, and for the most part they'd be right, but I was a kid in the mid to late 1970s and the culture has changed dramatically with regard to drugs. People used to smoke weed on downtown street corners, it certainly isn't that way anymore.
Now people smoke weed at their house, and dumbass inner city people now smoke crack on downtown street corners. Obviously we are winning the "war on drugs".
Name me 2 things wrong with getting high besides its illegal.
If signed into law, it would outlaw Internet ads that are deceptive or misleading and ban people from setting up false accounts to send spam, the junk e-mail that clogs consumers' online mailboxes and taxes the resources of Internet service providers.
Did the "innocent dumb user" set up a false account to send spam?
Did the "innocent dumb user" gain from sending spam?
Who cares, thow them in jail anyway:) I don't believe in innocent dumb users.
Ohio legislators sent an anti-spam bill to Gov. Bob Taft on Tuesday, with the aim of joining other U.S. states that have laws that put people who flood the Web with junk e-mail behind bars.
I guess if you use webmail the "Web" could get flooded with junk "e-mail" (previously known as email for at least 10 years), otherwise the "journalist" looks pretty dumb right from the 1st sentence.
If signed into law, it would outlaw Internet ads that are deceptive or misleading and ban people from setting up false accounts to send spam, the junk e-mail that clogs consumers' online mailboxes and taxes the resources of Internet service providers.
The measure would also allow the state attorney general to impose criminal and civil sanctions against spammers.
fraud n.
1) A deception deliberately practiced in order to secure unfair or unlawful gain.
2) A piece of trickery; a trick.
3) a) One that defrauds; a cheat.
3) b) One who assumes a false pose; an impostor.
I know of no state in the United States where fraud is already legal. I'd be content with enforcement of existing laws before wasting time and effort passing new laws where enforcement of either the new or existing law is nonexistant.
They are the future of unaccountable editorializing.
Thats easy to say since anybody can throw up a blog nowadays, but how much more accountable and objective are the mainstream media sources? How much do they actually vary from one to another? Does 3 to 5 people saying the same thing all the time make it true or relevant?
I love the internet for freely available information. There is someone out there that has a very strong opinion on about every issue that there can be any kind of controversy. Look at slashdot. I learn a great deal relevant information about my field here. I also see a bunch of junk.
I'm not sure about blogs becoming the equivalent of journalism, but I believe that they are definitely an important form of communication and the dissemination of information and opinions.
I agree that trashing disks to eject them is unobvious, and would be pretty bad as the primary way to do so. No sane novice would ever figure that out, or be willing to experiment with it.
And the unlabeled foot pedals hanging underneath of a car dashboard do what now?
Tight security where it doesn't matter and sloppy security where it does.
Inexplicable configuration. This is broad a broad item and includes buried preference settings where you'd never think to look, default settings to most frustrating (think Word), system settings under inappropriate categories and items with more than one relevence only found under one.
Pop-Up windows which steal focus immediately from whatever task has focus (active rather than passive bulletins) Ever been typing something, and hit ENTER just as something pops up? Gee, what the heck was that about?
Hmm, being that OS X has none of these "features", I guess this reply will be modded as flamebait.
A press conference is not a peer reviewed journal. A woman walking in from of a camera does not mean a single stem cell helped her. Wait for journal publication, review, and commentary from experts before going around talking about how great this is.
The guys at Scaled Composites collected $10,000,000 without a peer reviewed journal of their scientific achievement.
I remember seeing a program talking about how insect flight is much more efficient than traditional methods... Something about the downstroke of the wing creating a vacume that pulls it back up.
Not sure. I've heard that the physics behind flys and bees are pretty impressive. I'd be even more impressed with something the size of a whale flying by flapping its wings.
There is a big difference between the mass of an insect, or for that matter the largest flying animal (a condor, I would guess) and the mass of even one person. Its pretty impressive on any account for a manmade heavier than air vehicle that can carry up to 200 people half way around the world (Boeing 757) or something like the stealth b2 bomber that can fly anywhere in the world and dump many tons of bombs on one tank of gas.
If bittorrent works off many users sharing bandwidth at once, I fail to see how this would help most blogs that don't have huge readerships.
But without p2p, you would have to upload the whole file to a server, tell your friends and family where the file can be downloaded. Which means that you would have server space with very generous bandwidth limits, etc, etc.
With a torrent, you create the torrent, register it with a tracker, and post on your blog or in an email, and you never have to think about it, nor would you have to wait for the upload to finish first before telling your friends & family.
What if someone buys a computer from some small company, and then installs a pirated copy on it (say they screw up and lose whatever discs they have) and claims the small company put it on there to get another licensed copy. Or what if they buy a computer without an OS (or with Linux) and claims the pirated copy they got was from the small company?
Unfortunately, his seniority makes him almost untouchable when reporting problems like this to senior management who see him as "dedicated and just as productive as everyone else". What they don't seem to notice is that he needs to work about 25-30% more hours per week than the rest of the staff just to produce adequate (not great) code.
Wow. Up until this sentence I read that he was superprogrammer, not just a workaholic grunt putting out "adequate" code.
If he is not setting any kind of standard of working 60+ hours a week w/o lunch breaks and he produces OK code, let him sit by himself and code. Go have lunch, get to work later than him, leave earlier than him, and enjoy life. If its not really affecting you, consider yourself lucky.
Towards the end of the week, any problem that he "solves" quickly usually requires at least a day or more to re-fix later on.
That did not come across very clearly. What is the magnatute and frequency of this?
So why worry about cross-platform GUI inconsistencies? So why worry about cross-platform GUI inconsistencies?
I've said this somewhere in this thread before, but I currently use 3 different OSes and 5 different hardware platforms.
X is OK on my Mac. Looks like ass sometimes. It has window management issues, but its at least usable. And yeah, being that over 90% of the world uses different OSes and possibly different hardware than I do, it would be nice to play with the other 90% I touch on this with my previous reply to another of your posts.
For the record, I think a purely C or C++ desktop app on any OS is an absolutely horrible design decision from a security standpoint.
I can respect that. Unfortunately, there isn't much else that is even remotely portable while maintaing execution speed.
Regarding Sun's monetary woes, I don't know if they make enough money off of Java to cover their related costs. I imagine it does.
OK. Out of curiosity, do you know where these funds come from? I mean they just dumped what, $1 bil to Kodak because of dumb patent stuff over Java. I've never paid directly for any java stuff.
It's their hardware and Solaris divisions that have performing so poorly lately.
Hmm, what else do they do? Sun is OK. I'll think they will hang in there. Gheesh, where I work, we cannot stop using Sun equipment because they give us like 80% discounts. We literally got an overengineered RAID array that was cheaper than I could buy the indivual disks from pricewatch. Solaris is good. Slow, but never really slows down under load. Its always the same. Sun is doing better about GNUising their default installs, which is a good thing.
Enough, I'm sick and tired. I've go a fever and about to fall asleep.
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Although I can't find anything right now, I have heard that humans were like most animals and could synthesize vitamin C internally, and the anitoxidant/aging properties of the builtin amounts of vitamin C did in fact allow people to live to be hundreds of years old "back in the day".
Me, personally, I'm in my mid 30s and I'm ready to go at any time. I'm not saying that I don't like living or want to die, but I would have no strong objections if it were to be my time.
I've heard _many_ people complain about living, not a one about being dead.
As much as I like Google, I have a hard time feeling sorry for them on this one. What did they expect?
I'm guessing you are refering to a failed advertising business model?
Advertising, as good as it is by how many mouthes that it feeds, has gotten pretty annoying over the years. Its particularly annoying since the pseudo-science that is attempted to be applied to advertising.
The way I see it, there are currently only 2 forms of advertising that have any kind direct feedback to the "effectiveness" of the advertising. 1) TV comercials that advertise the $19.95 gizmo with $7.50 shipping and handling and the unknown cost of extra crap that the phone salesman pushes on you. Trust me, when the calls stop, so do the ads on TV. 2) Web comercials that get "click" values or "page view" values.
The later ones have gotten to be annoying. These have lead to the fun that we have on the web today. Obnoxious animated crap that you almost want to click on just to see it stop. A few years ago, popups were a big advertsising "page view" feature. We all know the drill.
The problem is that the feedback from web ads either by click throughs or page views has little to no correlation to selling crap and the new pseudo-science marketing types think the feedback is something real to the outside world, and they will do _anything_ to increase these numbers to some arbitrary number that is higher than it was the last time they measured it.
I'm sorry guys, there is nothing really there with these data. You need to go back to your companies that you work for and treat web ads like regular TV, magazine, and newspaper ads. They provide name recognition, establish some kind of emotional value to their product, etc. But the data from ads mean nothing.
I'm shocked that as smart as the people at google are have fallen into this myth. I'm guessing that they have always had some kind of stress associated how they were going to make money off of thier incredible services, but by billing people with arbitrary clicks on a world-wide available webpage that can be "clicked" by anything or anyone at anytime in the world at any time has its obvious drawbacks.
I say go back to thinking that advertising is just advertising and not some real game that can be won. As much as I and everyone else hates advertising, it must be a pretty cool job. You get to work on a neverending stream of short term projects that are pretty much only limited by your imagination. That has to be fun for you, it sucks for us, but it does pay many paychecks, and it looks like we are stuck with it at some level.
Now for the important stuff!
The guitars sound good, now give me about 10db more on the cow bell.
You GOTTA have more cow bell!
An attack on the network is an attack on the network, period. If this sort of thing becomes respectable where does it end?
It begins and ends when these people contact me without my prior consent or knowledge.
Forgive those that trespass? Fuck that. Put up a warning sign, and shoot all violators. Plain, fair, and simple.
i am confused by the point you are trying to make. you compare your use of your car to the average computer user's use of his computer.
My point is clear. If my car was as broken as most people's computer, or if it took that much research to run, or 3rd party parts that had to be installed, or any of the stupid shit that people accept as "normal" for computers, I would not drive that car. I would buy one that worked.
while you do mention preventative maintenance, like oil changes, you don't do it yourself. you also don't prevent everything from occurring by checking ever little bit of your car. you do it on your computer though
No I don't. I do preventative maintence on my broken servers at work, but for my personal computers, the preventative maintence that I do now is that I turn off my laptop before transporting it in its laptop bag. I've learned that the powerbook latch is not that good and it comes open in my bag and my harddisk has bad sectors now, so I turn it off.
End of preventative maintence.
Crumple zones don't matter when you have 2x the mass of the other guy.
People die from forces. Put simply F=M*A. A is basicly constant, M is variable. The more M you have the more force you apply to other people.
SUVs don't need crumple zones, thats what the other cars are for.
They are absolutely correct here although there are only four programs you should ever install for combating spyware: Adaware, SpyBot S&D, SpywareBlaster, and a good software firewall package (preferably one that tells you when something is trying to connect out to the Internet like ZoneAlarm).
Thanks for the tip. If I ever get spyware or adware on my Mac, Linux, or Slowaris boxen I'll install these and see if it helps.
Sadly, most people out there don't know, care, or care to know.
And why should they?
Although I'm more technically and mechanically inclined than most people, do you know what I know or care to know about my car?
I put gas in it when the trip odometer gets around 300 miles (gas gauge is broken).
I get someone to put new oil and stuff in it when its been about 3,000 miles or about 3 or 4 months. When I'm there I may get some other fluids or belts or hoses changed if I can't remember when the last time I've done it or it looks bad enough to change.
My car is 14 years old. Its broken down twice in the past 5 years that I have owned it. It broke down due to a broken water pump and a broken universal joint on the drive shaft (neither were diagnosable by physical inspection). I'm guessing these anecdotal data points are much less than what is expected of an average person to surf the web and read some email.
I know and spend much less time with things like my telephone, my television, my stereos, my dishwasher, my garbage disposal, my microwave, well every other electro-mechanical gizmo that "makes my life easier and better".
I'm sorry, but statements by us technogeekdweebies like Sadly, most people out there don't know, care, or care to know. only applies to computers. Actually, a large subset of the computer population that run something besides a Mac, Linux, or Solaris on their computer.
I hate to be l33t or whatever, but a statement like Sadly, most people out there don't know, care, or care to know. falls into that category, and that is following advice that there are 3 specific 3rd party programs required to keep your computer running (after careful research) and a 3rd party firewall product that is much beyond anyone's wants or needs for surfing the web and reading email. Oh, and I hear that people "need" or "should" also have a virus program on their computer also (after careful research, and constant updates).
I get reminded daily about how fundamentally stupid people are when they talk about their "computer problems". If I had those problems, I would throw the computer in the trash. End of problem.
Sometimes I think about creating a startup company that rebrands and sets up Windows correctly and sell it at a premium to people. Something akin to what Saleen does to Ford Mustangs. I would bet that people would pay well beyond Mac prices for a "PC" that runs almost as good as a Mac.
We're the users. That's our right as users.
Ah, but to gain real respect in the business world, you have to be a customer, not a user.
How much do you pay for google's services?
In Norway, you get a (paper) copy of your credit report every time someone hires a company to make one. It's the law over here. It seems reasonable. You've actually had to pay for getting to know your own credit details? It's kind of funny.
In America, one has to pay for freedom. And pay dearly.
On a side note, I should write a HOWTO on how I found the perfect Geek wife.
Yes, you should. I havn't heard of an American woman under 40 that cooks, cleans, and pays bills without also being a psycho bitch on the side. If she still does this in 5 years (without bitching)...
Wow. I'm speechless, and thats hard for me to say.
why don't we go after spammers in snail mail?
Its assumed that existing mail fraud laws are good enough for snail mail. We need new laws when old ones are broken using a different medium.
Name me 2 things wrong with getting high besides its illegal.
It depends on the drug in question.
Pick any. I don't care. I'll throw out a couple for beginners. Marijuana, heroin, cocaine, MDMA, LSD, psilocybin. Thats 6 to start with.
We send drug dealers and drug buyers to jail, we should treat spam the same way.
Oh, so the government should set up an arbitrary and updatable list of email content and bust anyone with possession of email with said content. Good call.
We should punish the idiots that buy things advertised in Spam.
Unfortunately, there is nothing illegal about the possession of penis enlargers, Viagra, or fake Rolex watches. Being an idiot should not explicly against the law. Fortunately, stupid people have enough trouble with existing laws, and they get weeded out accordingly. You've seen Cops right?
One could argue that the "war on drugs" is a failure, and for the most part they'd be right, but I was a kid in the mid to late 1970s and the culture has changed dramatically with regard to drugs. People used to smoke weed on downtown street corners, it certainly isn't that way anymore.
Now people smoke weed at their house, and dumbass inner city people now smoke crack on downtown street corners. Obviously we are winning the "war on drugs".
Name me 2 things wrong with getting high besides its illegal.
From TFA:
:) I don't believe in innocent dumb users.
If signed into law, it would outlaw Internet ads that are deceptive or misleading and ban people from setting up false accounts to send spam, the junk e-mail that clogs consumers' online mailboxes and taxes the resources of Internet service providers.
Did the "innocent dumb user" set up a false account to send spam?
Did the "innocent dumb user" gain from sending spam?
Who cares, thow them in jail anyway
Ohio legislators sent an anti-spam bill to Gov. Bob Taft on Tuesday, with the aim of joining other U.S. states that have laws that put people who flood the Web with junk e-mail behind bars.
I guess if you use webmail the "Web" could get flooded with junk "e-mail" (previously known as email for at least 10 years), otherwise the "journalist" looks pretty dumb right from the 1st sentence.
If signed into law, it would outlaw Internet ads that are deceptive or misleading and ban people from setting up false accounts to send spam, the junk e-mail that clogs consumers' online mailboxes and taxes the resources of Internet service providers.
The measure would also allow the state attorney general to impose criminal and civil sanctions against spammers.
fraud n.
1) A deception deliberately practiced in order to secure unfair or unlawful gain.
2) A piece of trickery; a trick.
3) a) One that defrauds; a cheat.
3) b) One who assumes a false pose; an impostor.
I know of no state in the United States where fraud is already legal. I'd be content with enforcement of existing laws before wasting time and effort passing new laws where enforcement of either the new or existing law is nonexistant.
They are the future of unaccountable editorializing.
Thats easy to say since anybody can throw up a blog nowadays, but how much more accountable and objective are the mainstream media sources? How much do they actually vary from one to another? Does 3 to 5 people saying the same thing all the time make it true or relevant?
I love the internet for freely available information. There is someone out there that has a very strong opinion on about every issue that there can be any kind of controversy. Look at slashdot. I learn a great deal relevant information about my field here. I also see a bunch of junk.
I'm not sure about blogs becoming the equivalent of journalism, but I believe that they are definitely an important form of communication and the dissemination of information and opinions.
I agree that trashing disks to eject them is unobvious, and would be pretty bad as the primary way to do so. No sane novice would ever figure that out, or be willing to experiment with it.
And the unlabeled foot pedals hanging underneath of a car dashboard do what now?
Tight security where it doesn't matter and sloppy security where it does.
Inexplicable configuration. This is broad a broad item and includes buried preference settings where you'd never think to look, default settings to most frustrating (think Word), system settings under inappropriate categories and items with more than one relevence only found under one.
Pop-Up windows which steal focus immediately from whatever task has focus (active rather than passive bulletins) Ever been typing something, and hit ENTER just as something pops up? Gee, what the heck was that about?
Hmm, being that OS X has none of these "features", I guess this reply will be modded as flamebait.
A press conference is not a peer reviewed journal. A woman walking in from of a camera does not mean a single stem cell helped her. Wait for journal publication, review, and commentary from experts before going around talking about how great this is.
The guys at Scaled Composites collected $10,000,000 without a peer reviewed journal of their scientific achievement.
I remember seeing a program talking about how insect flight is much more efficient than traditional methods... Something about the downstroke of the wing creating a vacume that pulls it back up.
Not sure. I've heard that the physics behind flys and bees are pretty impressive. I'd be even more impressed with something the size of a whale flying by flapping its wings.
There is a big difference between the mass of an insect, or for that matter the largest flying animal (a condor, I would guess) and the mass of even one person. Its pretty impressive on any account for a manmade heavier than air vehicle that can carry up to 200 people half way around the world (Boeing 757) or something like the stealth b2 bomber that can fly anywhere in the world and dump many tons of bombs on one tank of gas.
If bittorrent works off many users sharing bandwidth at once, I fail to see how this would help most blogs that don't have huge readerships.
But without p2p, you would have to upload the whole file to a server, tell your friends and family where the file can be downloaded. Which means that you would have server space with very generous bandwidth limits, etc, etc.
With a torrent, you create the torrent, register it with a tracker, and post on your blog or in an email, and you never have to think about it, nor would you have to wait for the upload to finish first before telling your friends & family.
This rocks.
What if someone buys a computer from some small company, and then installs a pirated copy on it (say they screw up and lose whatever discs they have) and claims the small company put it on there to get another licensed copy. Or what if they buy a computer without an OS (or with Linux) and claims the pirated copy they got was from the small company?
When you make a deal with the devil...
Usually your computer starts running slow. Your homepage changes. Google searches report strange matches. Stuff like that. Its pretty common.
Let me try some rough math with the help of a calculator.
To memorize 22 digits, this guy takes ~4 seconds. So for 100 digits that would take about 18 seconds.
Now I forgot, he did what in 11.8 seconds
Unfortunately, his seniority makes him almost untouchable when reporting problems like this to senior management who see him as "dedicated and just as productive as everyone else". What they don't seem to notice is that he needs to work about 25-30% more hours per week than the rest of the staff just to produce adequate (not great) code.
Wow. Up until this sentence I read that he was superprogrammer, not just a workaholic grunt putting out "adequate" code.
If he is not setting any kind of standard of working 60+ hours a week w/o lunch breaks and he produces OK code, let him sit by himself and code. Go have lunch, get to work later than him, leave earlier than him, and enjoy life. If its not really affecting you, consider yourself lucky.
Towards the end of the week, any problem that he "solves" quickly usually requires at least a day or more to re-fix later on.
That did not come across very clearly. What is the magnatute and frequency of this?
So why worry about cross-platform GUI inconsistencies? So why worry about cross-platform GUI inconsistencies?
I've said this somewhere in this thread before, but I currently use 3 different OSes and 5 different hardware platforms.
X is OK on my Mac. Looks like ass sometimes. It has window management issues, but its at least usable. And yeah, being that over 90% of the world uses different OSes and possibly different hardware than I do, it would be nice to play with the other 90% I touch on this with my previous reply to another of your posts.
For the record, I think a purely C or C++ desktop app on any OS is an absolutely horrible design decision from a security standpoint.
I can respect that. Unfortunately, there isn't much else that is even remotely portable while maintaing execution speed.
Regarding Sun's monetary woes, I don't know if they make enough money off of Java to cover their related costs. I imagine it does.
OK. Out of curiosity, do you know where these funds come from? I mean they just dumped what, $1 bil to Kodak because of dumb patent stuff over Java. I've never paid directly for any java stuff.
It's their hardware and Solaris divisions that have performing so poorly lately.
Hmm, what else do they do? Sun is OK. I'll think they will hang in there. Gheesh, where I work, we cannot stop using Sun equipment because they give us like 80% discounts. We literally got an overengineered RAID array that was cheaper than I could buy the indivual disks from pricewatch. Solaris is good. Slow, but never really slows down under load. Its always the same. Sun is doing better about GNUising their default installs, which is a good thing.
Enough, I'm sick and tired. I've go a fever and about to fall asleep.