No Itunes 11 is the best itunes since itunes 3 or 4.
Itunes is three distinct products trying to be merged. Itunes Store, iTunes Media player, and Idevice Sync. If the the idevice Sync, and Itunes store where separate from the media player it would be a far better product.
It's also trying to be a e-book library and a file I/O manager for iOS apps. As an e-book manager iTunes is mediocre at best and it sucks for file I/O. Another thing is that quite a few not very computer savvy iDevice novices get confused by the inconsistency of the fact that iTunes is this monolithic all-in-one monstrosity on OS X/Windows but on iOS it is split into several separate Apps. Apple should split iTunes up into separate programs on OS X/Windows to reflect the iOS setup, which is the setup I like better anyway.
I don't know why, the MAFIAA and artists are generally very left-wing.
Only from a US (and to a somewhat lesser extent, UK) point of view. Remember that "left" from a (mainland) European perspective is generally viewed as significantly further left of "left" from a US perspective. Some policies of the US left are seen as draconianly "right" by many Europeans.
I used to get a big kick out of Fox News calling the likes of Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama 'Socialists', over here they'd be decidedly right wing, but now the joke has gotten old. Some dubo even called Hilary a Marxist which stil makes me chuckle. The confusion stems form the fact that the USA has no political left outside of a few university campuses and let's not forget those eccentrics in Vermont who elected Bernie Sanders, a self described Social Democrat to the senate... that surprised me when I found out. It also made me want to meet the guy. For Republican hard-liners, going to Vermont must be like going to Mordor or someplace like that...
The "one device, multiple contexts" thing I think rises above the tinkerer niche. But only if Canonical does it right.
Here's what I think would need to happen for Canonical to reach mainstream success:
1. They'd have to ship a powerful smartphone that can transform into a tablet or a laptop using a shell peripheral, as well as support a desktop experience using an external keyboard, mouse, and monitor. That way one device can be your smartphone, tablet, laptop, and desktop all at once.
2. It would have to be an awesome user experience in all four contexts. All apps would have to have responsive designs capable of adapting to the context transforming while still dealing with the same user data.
3. OS updates must continue to work as they currently do in Ubuntu. I get them from Canonical. Cell phone carriers should not be allowed to be involved in the process for the same reason my ISP does not decide what updates I install on my desktop or laptop.
4. Apple, Microsoft, Google, etc have to not beat Canonical to it. MS already has the Surface product which is teetering in that direction, but isn't quite there yet. So we know the big players are interested.
What worries me is I think there's a good chance that Apple, Microsoft, or Google will deliver #1 and #2 first, which will kill Canonical's chances. But if miraculously Canonical did it first, I trust them to deliver #3. I don't trust their competitors to deliver #3. Least of all Google, sadly.
5) They'd actually have to ship a stable bug free Mobile OS and if their desktop distribution is anything to go by they have a ways to go in that department.
google has decided it has the right to redistribute copyrighted images in full resolution
They've done no such thing. They distribute a smaller thumbnail, and link directly to the original.
Oh hell, I have a little Karma to burn...
I want Google to index my website to so that it is discoverable but I also want the search results to contain just enough data to induce people to visit my site looking for more. I suppose that as the site owner I could just block Google completely from indexing my site as other people here have suggested. That might work if Google was just one of 20 search engines and had, say, a 12% market share. Unfortunately Google has a hugely dominant 90% market share while Google's competitors (read: Bing) have to content them selves with the leftovers which makes Google's competitors unlikely to generate the kind of traffic I need for my site. So blocking Google is not really an option. One way to defeat this kind of leeching would be to serve only small images to requests coming from Google domains to try and to induce people to visit my site. It would be a bit of work, and you'd have to keep a constant eye on the logs over incoming requests because Google is sure to try and weasel it's way around your defences, but at least you'd get the satisfaction of making life a little harder for Google's engineers and maybe even screwing Google out of a bit of money in the process.
Yawn... my point still stands Linux software can be just as crappy as any other software. The OP pretty much lost everyting when he claimed the contrary. All you have to do to see that is visit the Ubuntu AQ site.
Honestly, when using Ubuntu, unless you are willing to troubleshoot problems, you should stick with the LTS releases only. I run the interim releases in VMs, but never on production systems.
I can't speak for Gnome 3 on Fedora, because I have not tried it yet. My strategy (with Ubuntu) has been to use olvwm or LXDE. I really did like Gnome 2 though, but other WMs are fine, and to me they are more easy-to-use than Gnome 3.
I was trying to get a root certificate to work with apt-get only to discover that one of the APIs apt-get relies upon had a SSL bug that was fixed in 12.10 but for some reason not in 12.04 after several weeks of waiting (incidentally that was another thing that just worked on Fedora). That's SSL bug was pretty much the only reason I upgrated to 12.10. Well that and the fact that the entire X installation on Ubuntu was dog slow, the desktop configurtation files were full of bugs, the tweaking utilities would crash and corrupt the configuration data for the desktop environment. Ubuntu 12.10 only made the performace issue worse. Not that it really matters, Fedora for all it's faults has so far made a better impression than Ubuntu, their quality assurance certainly seemt to be better. The whole sorry episode just goest to my point that the OP was blowing smoke when he claimed that on Linux you don't have to worry about software not working and no amount of modding me down is going to change that. There are Linux distros whose QA just plain sucks ass and Ubuntu is one of them. I have had better upgrade experienceos on both OS X, Windows and several other Linux distros that I have had with Ubuntu.
PS what is it with all you idiots talking about that one? It's been how long since we've all found out the release was a bit shite?
Yet still you come along with a story about how you have just changed over and it got all wrong.
Either a) old news, you've whined time and time again about it. You've got your fix now shut the fuck up or we'll bring up apple failures from bloody years ago and see how you like it b) made up, because you know it's both believable (because of the history of 12.10) and never going to be verified c) redundant, you used to have this problem then either Ubuntu fixed it a couple of weeks later, but you still want mileage out of it, or you moved to some other distro. But still want more mileage out of it.
I'm figuring (b) myself.
No, I actually did this and that is a real story. If i'ts any consolation the upgrade from 11.04 to 12.04 also blew up in my face although not as badly as the upgrade to 12.10. If I was lying I would have posted AC... like you.
If you ran Linux you wouldn't have to worry about software not being able to run.
Really? I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 12.04 to 12.10 and was greeted with a long sequence of crashing software the instant I logged in for the first time. I then switched to Fedora 18-64 after giving up on Fedora 17-64 a few months ago when it refused to boot on my desktop box. Fedora is an improvement, I'm probably the only Linux user in the known universe who actually likes Gnome 3 and it's certainly way snappier and less bug-ridden than Gnome 3/Unity is on Ubuntu. So far the Fedora updater is the only thing that has crashed on me. I'm not holding my breath expecting Fedora to handle the upgrade from F18 to F19 better than Ubuntu did the upgrade from 12.04 to 12.10 but until that turd hits the fan I'm happy. Generally speaking though, my user experience with upgrading from OS X 10.4 through 10.5, 10.6 and 10.7 to the current OS X 10.8 has been way smoother.
I have also had the impression that assert() is a hack that shouldn't be used much (?).
$ man assert
NAME
assert -- expression verification macro
SYNOPSIS
#include
assert(expression);
DESCRIPTION
The assert() macro tests the given expression and if it is false, the
calling process is terminated. A diagnostic message is written to stderr
and the abort(3) function is called, effectively terminating the program.
If expression is true, the assert() macro does nothing.
The assert() macro may be removed at compile time with the cc(1) option
-DNDEBUG.
Somebody forgot to remove some debugging code, embarrassing but hardly something that hasn't happened before and definitely not the end of the world as we know it.
How exactly is Nazism (National Socialism) a right wing idealogy? Their platform was quite leftist.
Romey-care and Medicare Part D are essentially socialist ideas. God knows, I have heard enough loudmouths shout that into a microphone on Fox News. Nevertheless it seems that, you can still steal ideas from socialists and use them to buy yourself votes, even thought you are a card carrying conservative because both Romney and Bush both did it. Not that I'm trying to compare US Republicans to Nazis but they do provide a few very good examples for how right wing politicians have borrowed ideas they claim to abhor from the left. Another good example is Otto von Bismark who introduced old age pensions, accident insurance, medical care and unemployment insurance to disarm the German Social Democrat party. The Nazis themselves claimed they were neither left nor right but still they accepted support from leading conservatives of their day while throwing Social Democrats and communists/socialists/marxists into KZ camps or just beating them to death in Gestapo dungeons. They even formed a coalition government with the DNVP a far right nationalist party. The Nazis got large sums of money from some very wealthy right wingers. If you know anything about the politics of the 1920s and 30s you'd know that wealthy bankers and industrialists of that period would rather have burned their money than use it to support lefties/communists/marxists/socialists so why would they give millions upon millions to Hitler?
Or maybe he has, only to find out it's already been patented. I've run across more than one "how the fuck did they get a patent for that?" moment in my career. "Common business practice X on a computer" sort of shit. It gets downright absurd sometimes.
I regularly come across people that make me wonder how they ever got a driver's license, that does not mean I want to permanently revoke all driver's licenses. I'd just like to send a select group of tardy drivers to get reeducated.
Yup. Could just as easily infect a jailbroken iPhone this way.
This sort of infection vector is nothing to get excited about.
Last time I looked (a few months ago) some 38% of Chinese iOS users had jailbroken their phones and the trend was declining. China must be a small market for Apple since globally, only 10% of iOS users had bothered to jailbreak.
Extremes are always a lot closer than it seems : in extreme socialism/communism everything is controlled by a single government entity ( the government owns everything, including all companies ) In extreme capitalism, everything is controlled by a single company ( the company owns everything, including the government ).
Unsurprisingly , the end results are the same.
Right, compare Stalinism and Nazism, one extreme left wing the other extreme right wing, the difference wasn't really all that great in the way they operated. One of my favorite descriptions of these two systems comes from some nameless Soviet citizen who observed that Russians were forced to choose between two homicidal dictators and they chose the one who spoke Russian.
Obviously, Boeing should simply have specified that all the contractors deliver components that accept and output plaintext, and then used pipes and awk to cobble the pieces together into a working system! What could possibly go wrong?
As long as they did the scripting in VI... nothing. Emacs on the other hand?? Phew!... don't get me started.
Please start by dropping the teddybears from 'The Empire Strikes Back'
My fear is that you have about the median level of Star Wars knowledge, and that you're the audience he'll make it for.
Star Wars knowledge? Ok, So I misremembered which movie the Battle of the Teddybears disaster was in, BF deal. Just comes to show how unwatchable everything after the first two installments (aka 'Episodes IV and V') was. I haven't watched any of the SW movies again since 'Episodes I-III' came out. The whole series needs a reboot and of all the disasters of the SW series, the Battle of the Teddybears (aaaaaaww cute) is the absolute worst mistake GL made. Even at 10 years old when I watched that cheese festival unfold for the first time I realised that Lucas had finally ruined Star Wars good and proper. Of all the Star Wars series only first movies (aka. 'Episodes IV and V') and the Clone Wars animated series can be watched without cringing (althought episodes I-III had a few tolerable moments and even the Robot Army vs. Gungans scene is still not as horribly cheesy as the Battle of the Teddybears). Oh, and another crappy part of Episode VI is the cheesy slapstick comedy in the 'Battle of the Great Pit of Carkoon' scene.
He could reboot "Episodes 1-3" and not do much damage.
Please start by dropping the teddybears from 'The Empire Strikes Back'.... IMHO the teddybear battle was the most horrible mistake of the entire series and it even tops Jar Jar Binks and the Yoda vs. Count Dooku fight scene, I laughed my ass off the first time I saw that scene.
No, they can't, but as far as I am concerned it''s a tossup between Fedora 18 and Ubuntu 12.x when it comes to deciding which is more crappy. Ubuntu absolutely dies when I fire up VirtualBox and it has a legion of really annoying bugs, some of which have been around since 11.x or earlier; as for Fedora 18 the 64 bit version didn't even boot on my IBM desktop. Still searching for a Linux distro that actually does a modicum of QA...
Yes a LOT more QA is needed also out side the box testing needs to be done do not just have auto tests they are easy to code to pass them while failing big time.
You also need a management that is willing to stand behind the QA team. QA can be a thankless job and when you start trying to teach new tricks to a bunch of old dogs who have gotten away with sloppy work for years it can lead discontent in the ranks. When the QA team starts doing things like limit developer's freedom to do projects in any language they happen to have the hots for at the moment, implement a code syntax checker to enforce coding standards, mandate a set of standard coding tools, make devs write unit tests, make user tests mandatory, throws code back at devs because it failed testing,.... (the list goes on) developers get pissed off and sometimes management folds. You will not change anything until you declare that untested and unreviewed equals unfinished if you really want to piss the developers off you can add the caveat that undocumented also equals unfinished. Just remember that the best way to boil a developer is by turning the QA heat up slowly. Don't make too many changes at once. Another thing about QA is that alluvasudden (according to CS studies) your developers are spending 5+ hours writing unit tests etc. for every 10 hours they spend writing code and that is not always popular with other people within the company who have grown used to them pumping out a lot of code with quality being a fortuitous byproduct of making deadlines.
It doesn't look like FUD exactly. That bit about two HD icons with identical model names side by side in no particular order isn't a geek vs. non-geek issue, it's a bad UI decision.
No auto login isn't geek vs. non-geek either, nor is having to root around on the fs to find the installer.
Things like that are just broken for geeks and non-geeks alike. It's a big step backwards from the old installer.
Red Hat installers have been buggy mess since forever. Even back in the days of Red Hat 4 there were issues like nag screens popping up but your crappy 640x480 display was so much smaller than the RH developer's magnificent 1280x768 display that the OK button ended up off screen. Another one of my favorites was a RH installer where you ended up filling out a form but to fill it out you needed information form the previous screen which was no biggie except.... there was no back button.... **curses** restart install... reach for pen and paper....
Come to think about it I'm not sure that RH even used a GUI installer until RH5 or 6 IIRC, but the thing was and always has been rather buggy.
It doesn't look like FUD exactly. That bit about two HD icons with identical model names side by side in no particular order isn't a geek vs. non-geek issue, it's a bad UI decision.
No auto login isn't geek vs. non-geek either, nor is having to root around on the fs to find the installer.
Things like that are just broken for geeks and non-geeks alike. It's a big step backwards from the old installer.
Red Hat installers have been buggy mess since forever. Even back in the days of Red Hat 4 there were issues like nag screens popping up but your crappy 640x480 display was so much smaller than the RH developer's magnificent 1280x768 display that the OK button ended up off screen. Another one of my favorites was a RH installer where you ended up filling out a form but to fill it out you needed information form the previous screen which was no biggie except.... there was no back button.... **curses** restart install... reach for pen and paper....
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No Itunes 11 is the best itunes since itunes 3 or 4.
Itunes is three distinct products trying to be merged. Itunes Store, iTunes Media player, and Idevice Sync. If the the idevice Sync, and Itunes store where separate from the media player it would be a far better product.
It's also trying to be a e-book library and a file I/O manager for iOS apps. As an e-book manager iTunes is mediocre at best and it sucks for file I/O. Another thing is that quite a few not very computer savvy iDevice novices get confused by the inconsistency of the fact that iTunes is this monolithic all-in-one monstrosity on OS X/Windows but on iOS it is split into several separate Apps. Apple should split iTunes up into separate programs on OS X/Windows to reflect the iOS setup, which is the setup I like better anyway.
I don't know why, the MAFIAA and artists are generally very left-wing.
Only from a US (and to a somewhat lesser extent, UK) point of view. Remember that "left" from a (mainland) European perspective is generally viewed as significantly further left of "left" from a US perspective. Some policies of the US left are seen as draconianly "right" by many Europeans.
I used to get a big kick out of Fox News calling the likes of Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama 'Socialists', over here they'd be decidedly right wing, but now the joke has gotten old. Some dubo even called Hilary a Marxist which stil makes me chuckle. The confusion stems form the fact that the USA has no political left outside of a few university campuses and let's not forget those eccentrics in Vermont who elected Bernie Sanders, a self described Social Democrat to the senate... that surprised me when I found out. It also made me want to meet the guy. For Republican hard-liners, going to Vermont must be like going to Mordor or someplace like that...
The "one device, multiple contexts" thing I think rises above the tinkerer niche. But only if Canonical does it right.
Here's what I think would need to happen for Canonical to reach mainstream success:
1. They'd have to ship a powerful smartphone that can transform into a tablet or a laptop using a shell peripheral, as well as support a desktop experience using an external keyboard, mouse, and monitor. That way one device can be your smartphone, tablet, laptop, and desktop all at once.
2. It would have to be an awesome user experience in all four contexts. All apps would have to have responsive designs capable of adapting to the context transforming while still dealing with the same user data.
3. OS updates must continue to work as they currently do in Ubuntu. I get them from Canonical. Cell phone carriers should not be allowed to be involved in the process for the same reason my ISP does not decide what updates I install on my desktop or laptop.
4. Apple, Microsoft, Google, etc have to not beat Canonical to it. MS already has the Surface product which is teetering in that direction, but isn't quite there yet. So we know the big players are interested.
What worries me is I think there's a good chance that Apple, Microsoft, or Google will deliver #1 and #2 first, which will kill Canonical's chances. But if miraculously Canonical did it first, I trust them to deliver #3. I don't trust their competitors to deliver #3. Least of all Google, sadly.
5) They'd actually have to ship a stable bug free Mobile OS and if their desktop distribution is anything to go by they have a ways to go in that department.
So you mean Apple will try to get a design patent on radio buttons?
No they won't I've already patented concentric circles.
google has decided it has the right to redistribute copyrighted images in full resolution
They've done no such thing. They distribute a smaller thumbnail, and link directly to the original.
Oh hell, I have a little Karma to burn...
I want Google to index my website to so that it is discoverable but I also want the search results to contain just enough data to induce people to visit my site looking for more. I suppose that as the site owner I could just block Google completely from indexing my site as other people here have suggested. That might work if Google was just one of 20 search engines and had, say, a 12% market share. Unfortunately Google has a hugely dominant 90% market share while Google's competitors (read: Bing) have to content them selves with the leftovers which makes Google's competitors unlikely to generate the kind of traffic I need for my site. So blocking Google is not really an option. One way to defeat this kind of leeching would be to serve only small images to requests coming from Google domains to try and to induce people to visit my site. It would be a bit of work, and you'd have to keep a constant eye on the logs over incoming requests because Google is sure to try and weasel it's way around your defences, but at least you'd get the satisfaction of making life a little harder for Google's engineers and maybe even screwing Google out of a bit of money in the process.
You're picking a fight with AC?
You just lost everything.
Yawn... my point still stands Linux software can be just as crappy as any other software. The OP pretty much lost everyting when he claimed the contrary. All you have to do to see that is visit the Ubuntu AQ site.
Honestly, when using Ubuntu, unless you are willing to troubleshoot problems, you should stick with the LTS releases only. I run the interim releases in VMs, but never on production systems.
I can't speak for Gnome 3 on Fedora, because I have not tried it yet. My strategy (with Ubuntu) has been to use olvwm or LXDE. I really did like Gnome 2 though, but other WMs are fine, and to me they are more easy-to-use than Gnome 3.
I was trying to get a root certificate to work with apt-get only to discover that one of the APIs apt-get relies upon had a SSL bug that was fixed in 12.10 but for some reason not in 12.04 after several weeks of waiting (incidentally that was another thing that just worked on Fedora). That's SSL bug was pretty much the only reason I upgrated to 12.10. Well that and the fact that the entire X installation on Ubuntu was dog slow, the desktop configurtation files were full of bugs, the tweaking utilities would crash and corrupt the configuration data for the desktop environment. Ubuntu 12.10 only made the performace issue worse. Not that it really matters, Fedora for all it's faults has so far made a better impression than Ubuntu, their quality assurance certainly seemt to be better. The whole sorry episode just goest to my point that the OP was blowing smoke when he claimed that on Linux you don't have to worry about software not working and no amount of modding me down is going to change that. There are Linux distros whose QA just plain sucks ass and Ubuntu is one of them. I have had better upgrade experienceos on both OS X, Windows and several other Linux distros that I have had with Ubuntu.
Just not 12.10.
PS what is it with all you idiots talking about that one? It's been how long since we've all found out the release was a bit shite?
Yet still you come along with a story about how you have just changed over and it got all wrong.
Either
a) old news, you've whined time and time again about it. You've got your fix now shut the fuck up or we'll bring up apple failures from bloody years ago and see how you like it
b) made up, because you know it's both believable (because of the history of 12.10) and never going to be verified
c) redundant, you used to have this problem then either Ubuntu fixed it a couple of weeks later, but you still want mileage out of it, or you moved to some other distro. But still want more mileage out of it.
I'm figuring (b) myself.
No, I actually did this and that is a real story. If i'ts any consolation the upgrade from 11.04 to 12.04 also blew up in my face although not as badly as the upgrade to 12.10. If I was lying I would have posted AC... like you.
If you ran Linux you wouldn't have to worry about software not being able to run.
Really? I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 12.04 to 12.10 and was greeted with a long sequence of crashing software the instant I logged in for the first time. I then switched to Fedora 18-64 after giving up on Fedora 17-64 a few months ago when it refused to boot on my desktop box. Fedora is an improvement, I'm probably the only Linux user in the known universe who actually likes Gnome 3 and it's certainly way snappier and less bug-ridden than Gnome 3/Unity is on Ubuntu. So far the Fedora updater is the only thing that has crashed on me. I'm not holding my breath expecting Fedora to handle the upgrade from F18 to F19 better than Ubuntu did the upgrade from 12.04 to 12.10 but until that turd hits the fan I'm happy. Generally speaking though, my user experience with upgrading from OS X 10.4 through 10.5, 10.6 and 10.7 to the current OS X 10.8 has been way smoother.
What is funnier that file:/// doesn't work.
The Captil F is required. at least in my limited testing.
Typing 'file:///' opened Finder.app from Safari's address bar just fine on my machine.
I have also had the impression that assert() is a hack that shouldn't be used much (?).
$ man assert
NAME
assert -- expression verification macro
SYNOPSIS
#include
assert(expression);
DESCRIPTION
The assert() macro tests the given expression and if it is false, the
calling process is terminated. A diagnostic message is written to stderr
and the abort(3) function is called, effectively terminating the program.
If expression is true, the assert() macro does nothing.
The assert() macro may be removed at compile time with the cc(1) option
-DNDEBUG.
Somebody forgot to remove some debugging code, embarrassing but hardly something that hasn't happened before and definitely not the end of the world as we know it.
How exactly is Nazism (National Socialism) a right wing idealogy? Their platform was quite leftist.
Romey-care and Medicare Part D are essentially socialist ideas. God knows, I have heard enough loudmouths shout that into a microphone on Fox News. Nevertheless it seems that, you can still steal ideas from socialists and use them to buy yourself votes, even thought you are a card carrying conservative because both Romney and Bush both did it. Not that I'm trying to compare US Republicans to Nazis but they do provide a few very good examples for how right wing politicians have borrowed ideas they claim to abhor from the left. Another good example is Otto von Bismark who introduced old age pensions, accident insurance, medical care and unemployment insurance to disarm the German Social Democrat party. The Nazis themselves claimed they were neither left nor right but still they accepted support from leading conservatives of their day while throwing Social Democrats and communists/socialists/marxists into KZ camps or just beating them to death in Gestapo dungeons. They even formed a coalition government with the DNVP a far right nationalist party. The Nazis got large sums of money from some very wealthy right wingers. If you know anything about the politics of the 1920s and 30s you'd know that wealthy bankers and industrialists of that period would rather have burned their money than use it to support lefties/communists/marxists/socialists so why would they give millions upon millions to Hitler?
Or maybe he has, only to find out it's already been patented. I've run across more than one "how the fuck did they get a patent for that?" moment in my career. "Common business practice X on a computer" sort of shit. It gets downright absurd sometimes.
I regularly come across people that make me wonder how they ever got a driver's license, that does not mean I want to permanently revoke all driver's licenses. I'd just like to send a select group of tardy drivers to get reeducated.
Yup.
Could just as easily infect a jailbroken iPhone this way.
This sort of infection vector is nothing to get excited about.
Last time I looked (a few months ago) some 38% of Chinese iOS users had jailbroken their phones and the trend was declining. China must be a small market for Apple since globally, only 10% of iOS users had bothered to jailbreak.
Extremes are always a lot closer than it seems : in extreme socialism/communism everything is controlled by a single government entity ( the government owns everything, including all companies )
In extreme capitalism, everything is controlled by a single company ( the company owns everything, including the government ).
Unsurprisingly , the end results are the same.
Right, compare Stalinism and Nazism, one extreme left wing the other extreme right wing, the difference wasn't really all that great in the way they operated. One of my favorite descriptions of these two systems comes from some nameless Soviet citizen who observed that Russians were forced to choose between two homicidal dictators and they chose the one who spoke Russian.
Obviously, Boeing should simply have specified that all the contractors deliver components that accept and output plaintext, and then used pipes and awk to cobble the pieces together into a working system! What could possibly go wrong?
As long as they did the scripting in VI... nothing. Emacs on the other hand?? Phew!... don't get me started.
Since when is Hollywood historically accurate? They added explosions in a Robin Hood movie and a hot air ballon in a movie about the three musketeers.
Yeah, Abraham Lincoln was a vampire hunter?!? I had no idea until I drank the Kool-Aid that is Hollywood's historical accuracy.
My fear is that you have about the median level of Star Wars knowledge, and that you're the audience he'll make it for.
Star Wars knowledge? Ok, So I misremembered which movie the Battle of the Teddybears disaster was in, BF deal. Just comes to show how unwatchable everything after the first two installments (aka 'Episodes IV and V') was. I haven't watched any of the SW movies again since 'Episodes I-III' came out. The whole series needs a reboot and of all the disasters of the SW series, the Battle of the Teddybears (aaaaaaww cute) is the absolute worst mistake GL made. Even at 10 years old when I watched that cheese festival unfold for the first time I realised that Lucas had finally ruined Star Wars good and proper. Of all the Star Wars series only first movies (aka. 'Episodes IV and V') and the Clone Wars animated series can be watched without cringing (althought episodes I-III had a few tolerable moments and even the Robot Army vs. Gungans scene is still not as horribly cheesy as the Battle of the Teddybears). Oh, and another crappy part of Episode VI is the cheesy slapstick comedy in the 'Battle of the Great Pit of Carkoon' scene.
> Please start by dropping the teddybears from 'The Empire Strikes Back'
Wrong movie. Here's your troll card.
Thanks for the offer but since I am a feral cave troll I'm afraid I already have a troll card so I won't need yours.
He could reboot "Episodes 1-3" and not do much damage.
Please start by dropping the teddybears from 'The Empire Strikes Back'.... IMHO the teddybear battle was the most horrible mistake of the entire series and it even tops Jar Jar Binks and the Yoda vs. Count Dooku fight scene, I laughed my ass off the first time I saw that scene.
They can't all be the worst!
No, they can't, but as far as I am concerned it''s a tossup between Fedora 18 and Ubuntu 12.x when it comes to deciding which is more crappy. Ubuntu absolutely dies when I fire up VirtualBox and it has a legion of really annoying bugs, some of which have been around since 11.x or earlier; as for Fedora 18 the 64 bit version didn't even boot on my IBM desktop. Still searching for a Linux distro that actually does a modicum of QA...
Yes a LOT more QA is needed also out side the box testing needs to be done do not just have auto tests they are easy to code to pass them while failing big time.
You also need a management that is willing to stand behind the QA team. QA can be a thankless job and when you start trying to teach new tricks to a bunch of old dogs who have gotten away with sloppy work for years it can lead discontent in the ranks. When the QA team starts doing things like limit developer's freedom to do projects in any language they happen to have the hots for at the moment, implement a code syntax checker to enforce coding standards, mandate a set of standard coding tools, make devs write unit tests, make user tests mandatory, throws code back at devs because it failed testing, .... (the list goes on) developers get pissed off and sometimes management folds. You will not change anything until you declare that untested and unreviewed equals unfinished if you really want to piss the developers off you can add the caveat that undocumented also equals unfinished. Just remember that the best way to boil a developer is by turning the QA heat up slowly. Don't make too many changes at once. Another thing about QA is that alluvasudden (according to CS studies) your developers are spending 5+ hours writing unit tests etc. for every 10 hours they spend writing code and that is not always popular with other people within the company who have grown used to them pumping out a lot of code with quality being a fortuitous byproduct of making deadlines.
1. Higher Pay
2. Good Management
3. Beatings
Pick any two.
4. Hire the consultant in China who did such good work for that cat video guy
It doesn't look like FUD exactly. That bit about two HD icons with identical model names side by side in no particular order isn't a geek vs. non-geek issue, it's a bad UI decision.
No auto login isn't geek vs. non-geek either, nor is having to root around on the fs to find the installer.
Things like that are just broken for geeks and non-geeks alike. It's a big step backwards from the old installer.
Red Hat installers have been buggy mess since forever. Even back in the days of Red Hat 4 there were issues like nag screens popping up but your crappy 640x480 display was so much smaller than the RH developer's magnificent 1280x768 display that the OK button ended up off screen. Another one of my favorites was a RH installer where you ended up filling out a form but to fill it out you needed information form the previous screen which was no biggie except.... there was no back button.... **curses** restart install... reach for pen and paper....
Come to think about it I'm not sure that RH even used a GUI installer until RH5 or 6 IIRC, but the thing was and always has been rather buggy.
It doesn't look like FUD exactly. That bit about two HD icons with identical model names side by side in no particular order isn't a geek vs. non-geek issue, it's a bad UI decision.
No auto login isn't geek vs. non-geek either, nor is having to root around on the fs to find the installer.
Things like that are just broken for geeks and non-geeks alike. It's a big step backwards from the old installer.
Red Hat installers have been buggy mess since forever. Even back in the days of Red Hat 4 there were issues like nag screens popping up but your crappy 640x480 display was so much smaller than the RH developer's magnificent 1280x768 display that the OK button ended up off screen. Another one of my favorites was a RH installer where you ended up filling out a form but to fill it out you needed information form the previous screen which was no biggie except.... there was no back button.... **curses** restart install... reach for pen and paper....