There's nothing wrong with that, but if that's case, your participation in the discussion really needs to start and stop right there. Too many people view their personal ignorance of a situation as a license to make shit up based on their world view rather than do any kind of research.
Vista was crippled by know it all GUI designers who choked on their own fumes because they had their heads up their asses too long when designing things like UAC.
Other than, perhaps, the darkening of the screen and the design of the dialog itself, UAC is not a GUI design thing.
The "threatening to decapitate military officials" in the summary seems, as far as I can tell, to be a conflation of two separate Facebook posts he made: 1) "Sharpen up my axe; I'm here to sever heads" (which are apparently lyrics from a song) and 2) "This is part where I tell the Federal Government to go fuck itself. This is the part where I tell Generals, training our young med to fight Americans, I am coming for you. The Veterans will be with me."
The latter is probably what caught the government's attention.
As to "his Facebook page was reportedly private", also from the summary, a number of his posts were shared by people on his Friends list. If it's true that his page was private, it's very likely that the word got out through this sharing.
If the game was deficient in content then it required a "patch". Next up, games that come with no content. You have to buy it all, no discount on the "game".
1. If [Company releases additional content for Game], then [Game was deficient in content]. 2. [Company releases additional content for Game]. 3. Therefore, [Game was deficient in content].
Also, if some folks want to attempt to redefine the meaning of the word "patch" to put DLC in a bad light, that's their prerogative, but it's not very rational.
Sure, but I think saying that they're "Anonymous" lends them some credibility in the eyes of the mainstream media or consumers, when it's really undue.
Anonymous isn't a group with a well- or even vaguely-defined membership. That's kind of the point. If you can easily identify who is a member of Anonymous and who is not, it's time for a name change.
Ummmmm, Greenland was named that because it used to be green back when it was first discovered. Even allowing for travel/investment brochure hyperbole. Just sayin'...
That is, at best, an exaggeration. At worst, it's a downright lie. Greenland's current ice sheet is up to 110,000 years old. It was green as early as 450,000 years ago, but it's only been settled for about 5,000 years.
Greenland used to be farm land. It was called, "Green" land for a reason. But then about 600 years ago the planet cooled and Greenland farmers had to abandon their land.
Greenland's current ice sheet is over 100,000 years old. When people say "Greenland used to be green", they usually mean 450,000 to 900,000 years ago... not 600.
The thing that really amazes her is that OpenOffice is actually better at reading old Microsoft Office formats than more recent versions of Microsoft Office.
That really hasn't been my experience (with LibreOffice and a specific format, anyway).
For a project myself and a friend are working on, we needed to export data from an executable into a plain text spreadsheet format that allowed formatting (bold column headers, borders, etc.). He's running Microsoft Office 2010 and I'm running LibreOffice 3.5 (LO). The only format supported by both suites that seemed to fit the requirements was Excel 2003 XML (SpreadsheetML).
We quickly discovered a number of issues with LO's support for that format:
-- It's slow as hell opening the file, which contains less than 700 lines with 30-some columns.
-- If you format a column in LO and save the file, it writes out (potentially hundreds of) empty Row nodes to the file. If you then close and re-open this very same file in LO, you will be unable to save any changes; it will fail with a write error. If you open the file in Excel 2010 and save, Excel will collapse those empty rows into a single Row node spanning the same number of empty nodes LO wrote out. You will still be unable to save changes to this file in LO. Yes... LO writes out data that it can read but can't write back out a second time.
-- While LO supports things like Freeze Panes, it fails to export that information to the Excel 2003 XML file when saving.
LO uses a handful of XSLTs to import and export SpreadsheetML documents to and from it's internal format, so it's theoretically possible for me to fix these issues (except for the file open speed), but that would require a lot of research completely unrelated to the project I'm working on. In other words, a waste of my time.
My understanding of Steam, which since I'm a Linux user comes from posts from earlier threads (e.g.), is that you don't have to launch Steam to play the games (though that's the easy way) [...]. [...] So, yes, they can revoke your account and block you from their servers and stop you from buying new games, but they can never stop you from playing the ones you own.
I really like Steam, but the above ignores something very important: it's only true (if it's even true; I'm skeptical, but not currently in a position to test it) if you have actually installed the games you've purchased through Steam.
I have over 70 games through Steam. Obviously it's impractical and completely unnecessary for me to have each and every one of them installed. I only have about 20 installed at the moment. If something were to happen that prevented me from logging in to my Steam account, I have no access to those other 50 games; games that I legitimately purchased.
As I said before: I like Steam. The above is "scary" to think about, but my confidence in Valve is relatively high at the moment, so my concerns about the above situation aren't enough to keep me away.
I also understand that you can transfer your license to someone else's account (I've seen people give away games when they ended up with multiple copies), so it doesn't even shit on first sale.
That's not entirely true. Most games can not be transferred away from the purchasing account. The "giving away" of a duplicate copy of a game is only available for a relatively few titles, or under special circumstances like promotions (link. For example, I purchased Braid a while back. I then purchased the Humble Indie Bundle V, which eventually included Braid. I was not able to gift this second copy of the game.
I used to visit Digg several times a day. Then they did a site redesign that was horrible.
It's important to point out that Digg v4 was quite a bit more than a "redesign". The closest thing I can compare it to is a ground-up rewrite of a major piece of software, where the new version not only looks different, but is missing some fundamental or well-liked features that were present in the previous versions.
It's hard to understate just how badly Digg screwed itself over with v4. The backlash was like nothing I had ever seen in, or read about, any similar circumstance. I had Digg Support close my account toward the end of the user revolt. (I refused to migrate to Reddit, though, because that site's design was (and still is) just terrible. It might have good content, but even the Mona Lisa can't spruce up a rusted-out utility shed.)
Earlier this week I got the urge to visit Digg for the first time in a long time... and it is such a sad, pathetic thing to behold. Where the most popular stories on the front page used to break 1000 "diggs", they now have two- maybe three-hundred diggs. Where submissions usually had a minimum of several dozen comments, now only the most popular stories seem to break a dozen. Most have only one or two...
Carreon seems to have shown himself to file odd lawsuits but being a lawyer, he isn't a complete idiot.
Someone's already pointed out Jack Thompson, so I'll offer another: Orly Taitz.
Idiots can still become lawyers and lawyers, much like any other highly skilled professional, can become idiots or crazy after being certified in their field. Just because you were smart or sane when you were younger is not a guarantee that you'll always stay smart or sane.
Hotmail was terrible before Microsoft took over. It could take several days for an email from one Hotmail address to reach the inbox of another Hotmail address.
Because half the country is convinced that allowing giant corporations to profit off the sick is the only non-"socialist" option.
Well, insurance companies don't actually profit from the sick. They profit from the healthy who are constantly paying into the company without the company paying out.
You know the little box you can tick that says "Send anonymous usage data to Microsoft"? It's that data. Not a focus group, but telemetry data from actual windows installs.
Oh. The thing everyone and their brother is told to NEVER check!
No wonder they got such asinine and utterly useless feedback. Because the only people giving them feedback were morons.
What's all this hate about? The angriest people seem to be the ones who consciously refused to provide any meaningful feedback. They then spit venom when decisions are made without the input they refused to give. And on a product they're not even being forced to use.
Apple is antitrust-proof because they don't control upwards of ninety percent of a market like MS do with desktop OSs.
I'm not sure that's the reason. Google owns roughly the same share of the search market as Apple owns of the tablet market, yet Google is currently under antitrust investigation by, I believe, more than one government.
Obama showed quite a bit of creativity and tact in performing an elaborate Cyber-Attack that left our best Security Researchers stumped for months [...]
I, too, am impressed. I had no idea Obama had such mad programming skillz, not to mention the time to do it.
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So, I say from the bottom of my heart, fuck you, Sean Smith. You got what you deserved.
See? This is the problem with radicals; they believe innocent individuals need to suffer for the disagreements of others.
Everybody agreed that godaddy.com stayed up. It was the websites they hosted which went down.
Who is this "everybody" you're referring to? GoDaddy.com itself was unresponsive when I checked it after reading this story roughly 4 hours ago.
Can't know, really [...]
There's nothing wrong with that, but if that's case, your participation in the discussion really needs to start and stop right there. Too many people view their personal ignorance of a situation as a license to make shit up based on their world view rather than do any kind of research.
He's mentally ill
How, exactly, do you know this? You have the qualifications to set a diagnosis and have enough data to comfortably do so?
Judge orders Chesterfield Marine's release from psychiatric facility
However, Raub's defense attorney admitted in court that during Raub's evaluation, mental health professionals found signs of "psychosis."
Vista was crippled by know it all GUI designers who choked on their own fumes because they had their heads up their asses too long when designing things like UAC.
Other than, perhaps, the darkening of the screen and the design of the dialog itself, UAC is not a GUI design thing.
This link was presented on a message board I frequent: Update: Former Marine Arrested by FBI for Facebook Posts!!
The "threatening to decapitate military officials" in the summary seems, as far as I can tell, to be a conflation of two separate Facebook posts he made: 1) "Sharpen up my axe; I'm here to sever heads" (which are apparently lyrics from a song) and 2) "This is part where I tell the Federal Government to go fuck itself. This is the part where I tell Generals, training our young med to fight Americans, I am coming for you. The Veterans will be with me."
The latter is probably what caught the government's attention.
As to "his Facebook page was reportedly private", also from the summary, a number of his posts were shared by people on his Friends list. If it's true that his page was private, it's very likely that the word got out through this sharing.
They were a test of manliness [...]
That's some epic historical revisionism right there...
If the game was deficient in content then it required a "patch". Next up, games that come with no content. You have to buy it all, no discount on the "game".
1. If [Company releases additional content for Game], then [Game was deficient in content].
2. [Company releases additional content for Game].
3. Therefore, [Game was deficient in content].
This is called affirming the consequent and is a formal fallacy. It's not necessarily true.
Also, if some folks want to attempt to redefine the meaning of the word "patch" to put DLC in a bad light, that's their prerogative, but it's not very rational.
A pregnant woman is less likely to have fun with an assault rifle
Depends on which way her mood swings.
Before blaming the elevated temperatures on global warming [...]
Begs the question: Who's blaming this on global warming? The CNN article isn't. Hell, even the summary isn't.
Use of the excessively insulting term, "tea baggers" is not a sign of a serious argument.
I think most people realized that when members of the Tea Party started calling themselves that...
Sure, but I think saying that they're "Anonymous" lends them some credibility in the eyes of the mainstream media or consumers, when it's really undue.
Anonymous isn't a group with a well- or even vaguely-defined membership. That's kind of the point. If you can easily identify who is a member of Anonymous and who is not, it's time for a name change.
Ummmmm, Greenland was named that because it used to be green back when it was first discovered. Even allowing for travel/investment brochure hyperbole. Just sayin'...
That is, at best, an exaggeration. At worst, it's a downright lie. Greenland's current ice sheet is up to 110,000 years old. It was green as early as 450,000 years ago, but it's only been settled for about 5,000 years.
Greenland used to be farm land. It was called, "Green" land for a reason. But then about 600 years ago the planet cooled and Greenland farmers had to abandon their land.
Greenland's current ice sheet is over 100,000 years old. When people say "Greenland used to be green", they usually mean 450,000 to 900,000 years ago... not 600.
The thing that really amazes her is that OpenOffice is actually better at reading old Microsoft Office formats than more recent versions of Microsoft Office.
That really hasn't been my experience (with LibreOffice and a specific format, anyway).
For a project myself and a friend are working on, we needed to export data from an executable into a plain text spreadsheet format that allowed formatting (bold column headers, borders, etc.). He's running Microsoft Office 2010 and I'm running LibreOffice 3.5 (LO). The only format supported by both suites that seemed to fit the requirements was Excel 2003 XML (SpreadsheetML).
We quickly discovered a number of issues with LO's support for that format:
-- It's slow as hell opening the file, which contains less than 700 lines with 30-some columns.
-- If you format a column in LO and save the file, it writes out (potentially hundreds of) empty Row nodes to the file. If you then close and re-open this very same file in LO, you will be unable to save any changes; it will fail with a write error. If you open the file in Excel 2010 and save, Excel will collapse those empty rows into a single Row node spanning the same number of empty nodes LO wrote out. You will still be unable to save changes to this file in LO. Yes... LO writes out data that it can read but can't write back out a second time.
-- While LO supports things like Freeze Panes, it fails to export that information to the Excel 2003 XML file when saving.
LO uses a handful of XSLTs to import and export SpreadsheetML documents to and from it's internal format, so it's theoretically possible for me to fix these issues (except for the file open speed), but that would require a lot of research completely unrelated to the project I'm working on. In other words, a waste of my time.
My understanding of Steam, which since I'm a Linux user comes from posts from earlier threads (e.g.), is that you don't have to launch Steam to play the games (though that's the easy way) [...]. [...] So, yes, they can revoke your account and block you from their servers and stop you from buying new games, but they can never stop you from playing the ones you own.
I really like Steam, but the above ignores something very important: it's only true (if it's even true; I'm skeptical, but not currently in a position to test it) if you have actually installed the games you've purchased through Steam.
I have over 70 games through Steam. Obviously it's impractical and completely unnecessary for me to have each and every one of them installed. I only have about 20 installed at the moment. If something were to happen that prevented me from logging in to my Steam account, I have no access to those other 50 games; games that I legitimately purchased.
As I said before: I like Steam. The above is "scary" to think about, but my confidence in Valve is relatively high at the moment, so my concerns about the above situation aren't enough to keep me away.
I also understand that you can transfer your license to someone else's account (I've seen people give away games when they ended up with multiple copies), so it doesn't even shit on first sale.
That's not entirely true. Most games can not be transferred away from the purchasing account. The "giving away" of a duplicate copy of a game is only available for a relatively few titles, or under special circumstances like promotions (link. For example, I purchased Braid a while back. I then purchased the Humble Indie Bundle V, which eventually included Braid. I was not able to gift this second copy of the game.
I used to visit Digg several times a day. Then they did a site redesign that was horrible.
It's important to point out that Digg v4 was quite a bit more than a "redesign". The closest thing I can compare it to is a ground-up rewrite of a major piece of software, where the new version not only looks different, but is missing some fundamental or well-liked features that were present in the previous versions.
Digg v4: How To Successfully Kill A Community
It's hard to understate just how badly Digg screwed itself over with v4. The backlash was like nothing I had ever seen in, or read about, any similar circumstance. I had Digg Support close my account toward the end of the user revolt. (I refused to migrate to Reddit, though, because that site's design was (and still is) just terrible. It might have good content, but even the Mona Lisa can't spruce up a rusted-out utility shed.)
Earlier this week I got the urge to visit Digg for the first time in a long time... and it is such a sad, pathetic thing to behold. Where the most popular stories on the front page used to break 1000 "diggs", they now have two- maybe three-hundred diggs. Where submissions usually had a minimum of several dozen comments, now only the most popular stories seem to break a dozen. Most have only one or two...
Proxy war or not, millions of people still died.
"Since nuclear weapons were invented no one has died in any war, ever" isn't his argument, though.
Carreon seems to have shown himself to file odd lawsuits but being a lawyer, he isn't a complete idiot.
Someone's already pointed out Jack Thompson, so I'll offer another: Orly Taitz.
Idiots can still become lawyers and lawyers, much like any other highly skilled professional, can become idiots or crazy after being certified in their field. Just because you were smart or sane when you were younger is not a guarantee that you'll always stay smart or sane.
Hotmail was great... before Microsoft bought it.
Hotmail was terrible before Microsoft took over. It could take several days for an email from one Hotmail address to reach the inbox of another Hotmail address.
However, not all programmers are equally good, so it might be wise to stick to languages that won't let you commit atrocities.
Never underestimate a person's ability to fuck things up.
Because half the country is convinced that allowing giant corporations to profit off the sick is the only non-"socialist" option.
Well, insurance companies don't actually profit from the sick. They profit from the healthy who are constantly paying into the company without the company paying out.
You know the little box you can tick that says "Send anonymous usage data to Microsoft"? It's that data. Not a focus group, but telemetry data from actual windows installs.
Oh. The thing everyone and their brother is told to NEVER check!
No wonder they got such asinine and utterly useless feedback. Because the only people giving them feedback were morons.
What's all this hate about? The angriest people seem to be the ones who consciously refused to provide any meaningful feedback. They then spit venom when decisions are made without the input they refused to give. And on a product they're not even being forced to use.
Holy shit, people...
Apple is antitrust-proof because they don't control upwards of ninety percent of a market like MS do with desktop OSs.
I'm not sure that's the reason. Google owns roughly the same share of the search market as Apple owns of the tablet market, yet Google is currently under antitrust investigation by, I believe, more than one government.
Obama showed quite a bit of creativity and tact in performing an elaborate Cyber-Attack that left our best Security Researchers stumped for months [...]
I, too, am impressed. I had no idea Obama had such mad programming skillz, not to mention the time to do it.