1. When you are drunk you are not completely in control of your faculties. So just because you didn't give away secrets this time doesn't mean that you will not do it next time.
Like I said people need to learn that what happens in public is public. It is totally fair and just to be judged by your actions in public. In fact that is the just about the only thing that it is far and just to judge people by.
Yes the boss might want to ask you about that picture if he finds it but again all that is in public is fair game and the sooner people learn that the better.
This is a bad dupe at best. From what I heard was that Google was thinking of putting these in ports as mobile data centers. Putting them off shore would cause more problems than it would solve. 1. Power. Wave power? Not with a barge. You might get a small part of you power from waves but not a lot. 2. Bandwidth. Fiber is fast everything else is slow. Running a fiber line out to a barge is iffy at best. 3. Weather. Now if you could put one on say an offshore drilling rig that might work. If you used stranded natural gas for power and sea water for cooling it might make a little sense.
"you will no longer receive proprietary and unreadable file formats from Windows users" Yes you will or you will from commercial prodcuts that run under Linux and or the Mac. As long as Office is around you will. Not to mention all the docs that are already in Office format. " you can design websites far more easily with greater features and usability, thanks to standards" But unless IE drops to less than what %5 of the market odds are that you will have to still support it. I see no end to testing under Firefox, IE, and Safari any time soon. Hopefully Chrome is close enough to Safari that you testing and fixing for one will cover both. And yes I know that Firefox and Safari tend to work closer to the standards than IE. But you still should at least test in each. "hardware manufacturers will be forced to please the Linux crowd by throwing resources into the development and improvement of the Linux kernel" Maybe but then again AMD, Intel, IBM, and now Via are already doing that. Oh and not to mention all the embedded companies. This one is already happened. "current Windows developers will turn to developing Linux applications instead of Windows ones (even just small internal company software counts here)" Maybe but without Visual Basic they are doomed. Frankly there is still a huge number that are already left out in the cold by Visual Basic.Net. Maybe Mono will be their best hope. "developers will need to cater for more idiots, which will most likely cause developers a lot of problems making a balance between power users and idiots with UI design - a better result should be obtained in the long run" Only if they make money at it. This is the key issue here. Programmers want stuff just like everyone else. That takes a paycheck. Right now Red Hat, Suse, IBM, Cantonical, and a large number of others are all paying for this. And please don't use the term idiots. People forget that most people use devices for work and they have NO clue how to maintain them. Most people that drive cars can not fix them, most pilots that fly planes are not A&Ps, and most people that use a stove can not fix those if they break. Making things easy to use is a good thing. A program that is powerful but hard to use isn't as good as a program that is powerful but easy to use.
Not really rose tinted glasses. I think it is human nature. We remember the good and forget the bad. It is the same with music, movies, and just about everything else. Hey Pacman on the Atari was great. If you are talking about an Atari 800 or even Atari 5200
Actually my wife wants to try out Vista 64. She currently dual boots in Ubuntu and XP. She likes Ubuntu just fine except that some of the graphics indexing programs for Linux don't handle indexing pictures on removable media as well as the programs on Windows. She does digital scrapbooking using Gimp and really needs good indexing software for all of her images. She figures she might as well try Vista64 on her new PC.
Except that the Apple Genius is there to provide tech support. The Microsoft Guru's are their to sell you Vista and not provide support. I thought that Vista was just not worth the effort. Bur frankly these ads are so bad and pushing the "We don't stink as bad as you think" really does make me wonder.
Windows Vista Guru = salesperson. Good grief Vista must suck. Their adds where people try Vista and say gee this doesn't suck. Their ads with with Gates and Sienfeld. Until now I thought that Vista was just too much pain for not enough gain. I thought that maybe Windows 7 would be better. Now I get the feeling that Vista is the Yugo of OSs. It must really suck if they are having to push this hard. I was going to put Vista 64 on my wife's new PC. Now I am going to rethink that one.
Yes this is how the world should work. People get judge by what they do and the choices they make. How else should people be judged? The Internet just makes the world so much smaller than it was. Suppose someone is going for a job at a bank. If the weekend before that person just happens to be a bar doing shots all night and makes an ass of themselves and the bank manager just happens to be at that bar that night. Do you think that the bank manager should ignore that? Well guess what the world is now one small town. The Internet is a public place. What you do on the internet now has the same effect as what you do in the middle of any small town. This isn't a privacy issue since this is public posted material. The Internet is a PUBLIC SPACE. What you do in Public counts. That it what people have got to understand. Your Myspace page, Flicker, and Facebook are PUBLIC unless you make them private. And unless your going to make illegal to Google anyone's name then yes that is the way it is going to be. And yes acting link a jerk in public is a case of poor judgment and it could effect your entire life. It is totally on topic and to the point.
Nope if it is not then in this case it would be Apples fault. I have just dealt with so many WHQL drivers that are total junk that I assumed that Apple's driver was WHQL as well. Like the Nvidia drivers that seemed to crash a lot and the huge number of USB serial devices that just stop working randomly. So yes if the driver is not approved in this case it isn't Microsoft's fault.
Then it is both their faults. Apple for not testing their driver and Microsoft for making there approval process nothing but a way to get money. WHQL= I paid Microsoft but it still could be total crap.
Problem: Application crashes the OS. Blame: OS. Modern operating systems should not crash because of an application.
Problem: Device driver crashes OS. Blame: In a monolithic OS the driver is at fault. So it is the drivers fault. If the driver is approved by the OS manufacturer then you can also blame the QA department of the OS manufacture.
Problem: Application crashes. Blame: Application but maybe the OS if the Application works on a different version of the OS. No sane programmer uses undocumented interfaces any more. It is too risky and computers are fast enough. So the cause is broken compatibility.
So in this case I would have to say that it is Microsoft's fault the OS crashes. It is Apples fault for not doing enough testing.
What a boss may or may hold against you would really depend on the boss and or the job.
A coder doesn't tend to be in a very visible position so it may not matter as much. But would you want to hire someone who's Facebook page if full of profane rants about his ex boss, the people that he used to work with?
"If you have a lot of counterculture / political stuff on your shirt sleeve, and you try to pretend to be someone else, I have NO respect for that." My guess is that you are fond of counterculture stuff. How would you feel about someone that was strongly pro-life? Would you be as comfortable with them if they pushed that? What about if they counterculture stuff was racial purity? The vast majority of people have a lot of "tolerances" for what they believe in and little for what they don't. In fact it seems that most people actually use tolerant to mean "thinks like me". But yes I think it is fine to judge people on their judgment. People need to learn what should be private and what should be public.
You are using the wrong word. Your private life should be off limits. What you do in public is public. Having people judge you by how you act in public is they way that the world works. But guess what poor judgment will effect your life.
"If I buy a ford, how do i put a Mazda engine it it from the getgo and not pay the Ford tax?" Ford and Mazda use mostly use the same motors. Ford owns a bit part of Mazda. And it really isn't the same thing. X86 has always run many different Operating System. IBM didn't bundle PC-DOS with the PC you had a choice of PC-DOS, CP/M-86 and I think at one point Xenix. PC-DOS is the cheapest so that is what most people bought. So buying a PC is not like buying a car without a motor. So you analogy was flawed on many levels. It is more like buying a Bass boat without a motor. It should be a common thing and allow you to customize what you spend your money on. Imagine if a company made these rules. You can only buy this boat with this motor. If the boat breaks or is damaged you can not use that motor on any other boat. If you repaint or change too much of the boat then your motor will stop working until you call us and beg us for a fix motor code!
No. You can use any fluid. Helium is a good one to use since it doesn't become radioactive. The problem would be sealing it. I would guess that they would solar during the lunar day and nuclear for the lunar night.
And have you ever seen the DDK? ewwww.... Windows driver development is way nasty. Video drivers Now must be infested with DRM links and the Printer driver device model has changed. In fact I think that only the Video and Print drivers where changed in Vista. Sounds like the problem was that they didn't have enough time to get them right.
Well the truth it that Chrome might not be as slow under Linux as it is under Windows. If I remember correctly Windows is really slow at starting a new process while Linux is pretty fast. That was one reason why Apache was so slow on Windows and why they went to threads.
I hope that I can get to see them launch a successful flight. In nothing else it should be a lot cheaper than to launch from Florida than the middle of the Pacific.
"The crux of your defense appears to be that a website previously existed that Rowling was happy with. Yet one has to be clear on one aspect here: There is a large gulf between publishing large pieces of someone's work for a no-cost reference and publishing someone else's work for profit."
And if that difference isn't recognized you can be certain that many more fan sites will start getting nastygrams. It seems to me as if the author in this case was being very open to fan sites but not so much to people trying to make money off of plagiarism. Hack I don't even like Harry Potter but in this case it all seems reasonable. As for the the story description. A miss leading inflammatory story description on Slashdot? Never happens.
Oh I have no problem with it. I just don't delude myself that I am Google's customer. Hey if you want to have a different analogy then here. We are no more Google's customers than an Orange tree is a grove owner's customer. You could also use sheep and Shepard if you want. The thing is that we are not Google's customer we are their product it is as simple as that.
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1. When you are drunk you are not completely in control of your faculties. So just because you didn't give away secrets this time doesn't mean that you will not do it next time.
Like I said people need to learn that what happens in public is public. It is totally fair and just to be judged by your actions in public. In fact that is the just about the only thing that it is far and just to judge people by.
Yes the boss might want to ask you about that picture if he finds it but again all that is in public is fair game and the sooner people learn that the better.
This is a bad dupe at best.
From what I heard was that Google was thinking of putting these in ports as mobile data centers.
Putting them off shore would cause more problems than it would solve.
1. Power. Wave power? Not with a barge. You might get a small part of you power from waves but not a lot.
2. Bandwidth. Fiber is fast everything else is slow. Running a fiber line out to a barge is iffy at best.
3. Weather.
Now if you could put one on say an offshore drilling rig that might work. If you used stranded natural gas for power and sea water for cooling it might make a little sense.
"you will no longer receive proprietary and unreadable file formats from Windows users" .Net.
Yes you will or you will from commercial prodcuts that run under Linux and or the Mac. As long as Office is around you will. Not to mention all the docs that are already in Office format.
" you can design websites far more easily with greater features and usability, thanks to standards"
But unless IE drops to less than what %5 of the market odds are that you will have to still support it. I see no end to testing under Firefox, IE, and Safari any time soon.
Hopefully Chrome is close enough to Safari that you testing and fixing for one will cover both. And yes I know that Firefox and Safari tend to work closer to the standards than IE. But you still should at least test in each.
"hardware manufacturers will be forced to please the Linux crowd by throwing resources into the development and improvement of the Linux kernel"
Maybe but then again AMD, Intel, IBM, and now Via are already doing that. Oh and not to mention all the embedded companies. This one is already happened.
"current Windows developers will turn to developing Linux applications instead of Windows ones (even just small internal company software counts here)"
Maybe but without Visual Basic they are doomed. Frankly there is still a huge number that are already left out in the cold by Visual Basic
Maybe Mono will be their best hope.
"developers will need to cater for more idiots, which will most likely cause developers a lot of problems making a balance between power users and idiots with UI design - a better result should be obtained in the long run"
Only if they make money at it. This is the key issue here. Programmers want stuff just like everyone else. That takes a paycheck. Right now Red Hat, Suse, IBM, Cantonical, and a large number of others are all paying for this.
And please don't use the term idiots. People forget that most people use devices for work and they have NO clue how to maintain them. Most people that drive cars can not fix them, most pilots that fly planes are not A&Ps, and most people that use a stove can not fix those if they break. Making things easy to use is a good thing. A program that is powerful but hard to use isn't as good as a program that is powerful but easy to use.
Not really rose tinted glasses. I think it is human nature. We remember the good and forget the bad. It is the same with music, movies, and just about everything else.
Hey Pacman on the Atari was great. If you are talking about an Atari 800 or even Atari 5200
Actually my wife wants to try out Vista 64. She currently dual boots in Ubuntu and XP. She likes Ubuntu just fine except that some of the graphics indexing programs for Linux don't handle indexing pictures on removable media as well as the programs on Windows.
She does digital scrapbooking using Gimp and really needs good indexing software for all of her images.
She figures she might as well try Vista64 on her new PC.
Except that the Apple Genius is there to provide tech support. The Microsoft Guru's are their to sell you Vista and not provide support.
I thought that Vista was just not worth the effort. Bur frankly these ads are so bad and pushing the "We don't stink as bad as you think" really does make me wonder.
Windows Vista Guru = salesperson.
Good grief Vista must suck.
Their adds where people try Vista and say gee this doesn't suck.
Their ads with with Gates and Sienfeld.
Until now I thought that Vista was just too much pain for not enough gain. I thought that maybe Windows 7 would be better.
Now I get the feeling that Vista is the Yugo of OSs. It must really suck if they are having to push this hard.
I was going to put Vista 64 on my wife's new PC. Now I am going to rethink that one.
Yes this is how the world should work. People get judge by what they do and the choices they make. How else should people be judged?
The Internet just makes the world so much smaller than it was.
Suppose someone is going for a job at a bank. If the weekend before that person just happens to be a bar doing shots all night and makes an ass of themselves and the bank manager just happens to be at that bar that night. Do you think that the bank manager should ignore that?
Well guess what the world is now one small town. The Internet is a public place. What you do on the internet now has the same effect as what you do in the middle of any small town.
This isn't a privacy issue since this is public posted material.
The Internet is a PUBLIC SPACE. What you do in Public counts. That it what people have got to understand. Your Myspace page, Flicker, and Facebook are PUBLIC unless you make them private.
And unless your going to make illegal to Google anyone's name then yes that is the way it is going to be. And yes acting link a jerk in public is a case of poor judgment and it could effect your entire life.
It is totally on topic and to the point.
Nope if it is not then in this case it would be Apples fault.
I have just dealt with so many WHQL drivers that are total junk that I assumed that Apple's driver was WHQL as well.
Like the Nvidia drivers that seemed to crash a lot and the huge number of USB serial devices that just stop working randomly.
So yes if the driver is not approved in this case it isn't Microsoft's fault.
"Wouldn't they volunteer all this same information in the one-on-one interviews? "
Why would you? Just what questions to you ask at an interview?
It is a good policy in life to not act like an idiot in public. Simple rule is that anything you do in public reflects on you and is well public.
Then it is both their faults.
Apple for not testing their driver and Microsoft for making there approval process nothing but a way to get money.
WHQL= I paid Microsoft but it still could be total crap.
Here let me explain how computers work to you.
Problem: Application crashes the OS.
Blame: OS. Modern operating systems should not crash because of an application.
Problem: Device driver crashes OS.
Blame: In a monolithic OS the driver is at fault. So it is the drivers fault. If the driver is approved by the OS manufacturer then you can also blame the QA department of the OS manufacture.
Problem: Application crashes.
Blame: Application but maybe the OS if the Application works on a different version of the OS. No sane programmer uses undocumented interfaces any more. It is too risky and computers are fast enough. So the cause is broken compatibility.
So in this case I would have to say that it is Microsoft's fault the OS crashes. It is Apples fault for not doing enough testing.
no.
What a boss may or may hold against you would really depend on the boss and or the job.
A coder doesn't tend to be in a very visible position so it may not matter as much. But would you want to hire someone who's Facebook page if full of profane rants about his ex boss, the people that he used to work with?
"If you have a lot of counterculture / political stuff on your shirt sleeve, and you try to pretend to be someone else, I have NO respect for that."
My guess is that you are fond of counterculture stuff. How would you feel about someone that was strongly pro-life? Would you be as comfortable with them if they pushed that? What about if they counterculture stuff was racial purity?
The vast majority of people have a lot of "tolerances" for what they believe in and little for what they don't. In fact it seems that most people actually use tolerant to mean "thinks like me".
But yes I think it is fine to judge people on their judgment. People need to learn what should be private and what should be public.
You are using the wrong word.
Your private life should be off limits.
What you do in public is public. Having people judge you by how you act in public is they way that the world works.
But guess what poor judgment will effect your life.
"If I buy a ford, how do i put a Mazda engine it it from the getgo and not pay the Ford tax?"
Ford and Mazda use mostly use the same motors. Ford owns a bit part of Mazda.
And it really isn't the same thing. X86 has always run many different Operating System. IBM didn't bundle PC-DOS with the PC you had a choice of PC-DOS, CP/M-86 and I think at one point Xenix. PC-DOS is the cheapest so that is what most people bought. So buying a PC is not like buying a car without a motor.
So you analogy was flawed on many levels.
It is more like buying a Bass boat without a motor. It should be a common thing and allow you to customize what you spend your money on.
Imagine if a company made these rules.
You can only buy this boat with this motor.
If the boat breaks or is damaged you can not use that motor on any other boat.
If you repaint or change too much of the boat then your motor will stop working until you call us and beg us for a fix motor code!
No.
You can use any fluid. Helium is a good one to use since it doesn't become radioactive. The problem would be sealing it.
I would guess that they would solar during the lunar day and nuclear for the lunar night.
And have you ever seen the DDK? ewwww....
Windows driver development is way nasty. Video drivers Now must be infested with DRM links and the Printer driver device model has changed.
In fact I think that only the Video and Print drivers where changed in Vista. Sounds like the problem was that they didn't have enough time to get them right.
Chrome seems a lot slower opening tabs to me. Just saying that I see a lag.
Well the truth it that Chrome might not be as slow under Linux as it is under Windows.
If I remember correctly Windows is really slow at starting a new process while Linux is pretty fast. That was one reason why Apache was so slow on Windows and why they went to threads.
I didn't time it myself but Chrome does seem really slow to start a new tab.
I hope that I can get to see them launch a successful flight.
In nothing else it should be a lot cheaper than to launch from Florida than the middle of the Pacific.
"The crux of your defense appears to be that a website previously existed that Rowling was happy with. Yet one has to be clear on one aspect here: There is a large gulf between publishing large pieces of someone's work for a no-cost reference and publishing someone else's work for profit."
And if that difference isn't recognized you can be certain that many more fan sites will start getting nastygrams.
It seems to me as if the author in this case was being very open to fan sites but not so much to people trying to make money off of plagiarism. Hack I don't even like Harry Potter but in this case it all seems reasonable.
As for the the story description. A miss leading inflammatory story description on Slashdot? Never happens.
Actually their latest drivers are pretty dang good. Plus nVidia had a bunch of driver issues as well not long ago.
Oh I have no problem with it. I just don't delude myself that I am Google's customer. Hey if you want to have a different analogy then here.
We are no more Google's customers than an Orange tree is a grove owner's customer.
You could also use sheep and Shepard if you want.
The thing is that we are not Google's customer we are their product it is as simple as that.