The difference, as I see it, is that ISPs are actively cancelling accounts that use "excessive bandwidth", whatever that means. "Unlimited internet access", as advertised, just seems too hard of a concept to deal with.
Personally, if my access slows down because they're oversold, *shrug*. It's when ISPs threaten to cancel my account because I downloaded a few gigs at 2 in the morning (when no one was using the damn thing anyway) that I get offended. Most of them simply total usage over the month, and if you're over their magic limit (which changes every month, and which they refuse to put in writing), out go the threatening letters.
It's stupid, it's childish, and if we had any truth in advertising laws worth a damn, illegal.
What's funnier is the continual stream of posts claiming a single borg-like hivemind on Slashdot, that punishes you if you dare to say anything the slightest bit negative about Linux...
Continually modded up.
Yeah.
Hypocrites. Every last one of us.
If you want to turn this into a black/white Windows/Linux issue (which it most certainly is not), I daresay there are more pro-Microsoft posts on this site these days than otherwise, which makes me think there are more pro-Windows folks here than not. However, a goodly lot seem to be compelled to end their posts with "now this will just get modded down due to Slashbot hypocrite groupthink".
Guess what, Checkers? That sort of 12-year old boy prattling deserves modding down, because it's just pure flamebait.
Heh. I have the opposite problem. I'm seeing thousands of new grads coming out that are just as fanatical about Windows. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be for any reason beyond "it's what I know".
Another problem I find is trying to dismiss every problem Windows has, or somehow spin it into a good thing. Windows isn't perfect, nothing is. So when someone points out a flaw, and the Windows enthusist just tries to spin it as being nothing, or even a good thing, it again makes them sound full of it, and makes the rest of what they say sound less sincere.
So it's not a matter of never mentioning the other side, it's a matter of finding out what the person wants to do, and talking to them about how Windows would be a good solution for that. Sometimes that may involve pointing out things it does better, but you do that in a constructive, not a demeaning way. Also when a flaw is noted in Windows, acknowledge it, don't pretend it's nothing.
Generally I find that Windows people who are trying to convert someone take such a fanatical view of how cool Windows is and such a demaning view of Linux (complete with immature names like leenoox and Linblows) that it's no supprise most people percieve them as extremists with no clue.
Replace "Linux" with "Windows" in that post, and this is pretty much what I'm seeing.
Quite frankly, there are far too many people out there who are rabid about something because it's "what I know", not due to any technical merit. I can understand a bit of zealotry from the Linux folks, the whole underdog thing and all - everyone likes to root for the little guy.
I really don't understand it from the Windows side, though. What, did someone kick your pet dog? Do you take personal offense from someone insulting something you USE?
The late 80s, 90s and early 00s are a freakish period where computers were cheaper then networks
Actually, if you follow the trend, the 80s, 90s and early 00s are a period which showed that computers will forever be cheaper than networks. In relation to network speeds, computing power/storage has been growing by orders of magnitude. And it's accelerating.
Thin client could forseeably make a comeback someday, but we'd need a pretty severe re-interpretation of what needs to run locally for this to happen. And an amazing reduction in client costs. Believe me, network is by far the biggest cost factor in any large org once you take out central stores, etc. Pushing that much more on the network to save a couple of hundred dollars per client? Nonsense.
I think you're misunderstanding what the OP asked.
There's no question that a single non-threaded application won't benefit one whit from multicore/CPU machines. There's also no question that a multithreaded app, when they exist, do benefit.
However, pretty much no one these days runs a single non-threaded app, due to the very nature of the OS they're running on. Windows/Linux/anything runs dozens of background processes regardless of what you're doing - and THIS is what could potentially benefit from more than one CPU core. The very nature of a multi-tasking OS is parallelizable.
So, for those like myself who run several busy apps at once, there's a benefit. For those that only run one app, and close it before opening another, there's still a benefit. Those running a game under DOS, well no, there's no benefit.
You complain when the OS has too many bugs, you complain that there are too many patches and hotfixes, you complain when MS decides to roll them all into an SP, you complain when it available for download, and you complain when its mandated.
You hit the nail on the head exactly.
Personally, I'll stop complaining when:
1. The OS runs ZERO listening services by default. 2. The browser is not only NOT a default part of the OS, but refuses to run executable content. 3. The media player is not only NOT a default part of the OS, but refuses to run executable content. 4. The email client is not only NOT a default part of the OS, but refuses to run executable content.
At that point, quite frankly I couldn't care less about bugs, patches, service packs, or automatic updating. Because there would be no need for any of it. Those 4 issues above cover pretty much every critical Windows update in the past umpteen years.
Take Windows XP gold, unpatched and put it on a public network, it will be compromised in 15 minutes and a bot within an hour. But do the same think with the contemperaneous release of Red Hat and OS/X, do the same thing and guess what they will all be compromised within a couple of days.
I'd like to see someone compromise a default Red Hat install from at least the past couple of years. Hint: no listening services == no way you can touch me in the fashion you describe. I'm told the same goes for OSX, but I can't speak from experience on this front.
If you're alluding to people running 4 year old software ("contemperaneous release"), then perhaps. However, I'd love to see what kind of exploit you can come up with that compromises a box that refuses all incoming connections. Which, sadly, Windows still doesn't do (no, a software firewall isn't quite there yet).
Short of a busted TCP/IP stack (and at that point there's very little you could do regardless), have fun taking over my machines.
Temperatures go well over 100F in Manitoba in the summer. For 2-3 months straight, some years. Believe me, Canada is not the arctic paradise some people think. It's one of the places where you need to invest heavily in BOTH heating and cooling of a datacentre.
It was always fun to show my house and car to people from more tropical climes. The car has a plug in for the block heater (absolutely required when it's -30 out), and A/C for the summer. The house has A/C, and a high-efficiency furnace for the winter.
What really gets them, however, is the drink machines located outside: they run small electric heaters during the winter. Yup, we need to warm up our Cokes here:)
But you can't do a damn thing with whatever is out there at the heliopause other than say, "Oooh! Neat picture."
Voyager is long since past the point of returning pictures to us. Exploring the heliopause may give us some answers to fundamental questions of science, like the nature of our Sun, gravity, you name it. But it most certainly isn't about "neat pictures".
If you put a man on Mars, then you've moved the world to colonizing another planet. To quote a few people from./, "We've got to colonize other planets it's a matter of survival." There'll be spinoff that will be immediately useful, and science and commerce will expand faster in ways that people can actually see.
Agreed. Agreed heartily. However, this isn't a shareholder's meeting, nor is it the latest Hollywood blockbuster. Most, daresay all important science is neither "immediately useful" nor "in ways that people can actually see"? Besides, $40 million is about 1/2000th the cost to land a man on Mars.
Billions of dollars spent on 'space exploration' and all you get is a bunch of pretty pictures from scientist who want to show that there is a planet around another star somewhere. Ostensibly, from reading their supporters here, so that they can prove there isn't a God somehow.
I must have missed the NASA directive that read "piss off all monotheists".
And enough with the Bush bashing already... the US Federal government is to damn fat.
Agreed. How much is Iraq costing the US taxpayer again?
It was never burdened with exploring space, but it was given the responsibility to protect American's from foreign threats. Threats like terrorist harboring dictators like Saddam Hussein
Considering that Hussein and Bin Laden would just as soon see each other dead, I'm really not sure what the hell you're talking about here:)
If CNN broadcasted continuing updates, 24 hours a day, on the "American hurricane status", then yes. If, however, you issue an alert only when there is reason to do so, and inform the public where, when, and what the alert covers, then no.
You issue an alert because you have reason to actually believe something disasterous could happen, and so people take appropriate precautions. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the USA isn't perpetually on a "hurricane alert status: yellow" level, covering the entire country, with no actual explanation as to WHY the alert has been issued.
There is a huge difference between a temporary alert that's LIFTED when the danger is past, and a news ticker continually reminding you of a non-existent (but potential) danger...
Well, I guess during the 60's if CNN had existed they might have scrolled the DefCon level constantly. It would be hard to argue the purpose in informing the public of that, other than to instill fear. Which is exactly what DefCon was used for, to scare us. The military of course had a use for it. But it's not like the general public could do *anything* about a nuclear war.
And the same goes for these terror alerts. I have yet to see the US government issue anything remotely specific ("warning, we have credible evidence that people should NOT take the NYC subway tomorrow"). Instead, you've got 300 million people feeling "informed", and quite helpless to do anything.
Know why?
Guantanamo(sp?) Bay. Full of suspected terrorists. Who will make up pretty much any story, in order to inspire TERROR. And it's working.
The amount of money spent so far has nothing to do with whether we should spend more money. Spent money is gone, no matter what we do.
Yes and no.
The hundreds of millions already spent got us a half-decent probe out to the heliopause. A small amount of money more might bring us some pretty cool data. If NASA cancels this, and we ever again want to explore the heliopause, we're looking at hundreds of millions *more*, and decades of waiting, just to get another probe out there.
It's also (essentially) the crux behind Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine. Say what you will about it otherwise, that part was spot-on.
"The Power of Nightmares" was an excellent documentary, btw. Some of it seems almost Davinci-Code-ish (ie: tinfoil hat), but let's face it:
When exactly will these "terror alerts" end? Or has the USA resigned itself to living in a perpetual state of terror forever? I guess my rock DOES keep tigers away...
No neo-con has ever been able to explain this to me - and sadly, this sort of thinking is moving into my country (Canada) as well. If we ever have our own 9/11, I shudder to think what this country will do. We've traditionally allowed our governments far more control of our lives than the USA as it is.
Don't worry on that front. This pales in comparison to pretty much anything else Bush has been involved in.
The things the current US administration has done in the past 4 years have all but guaranteed that almost all Canadians, Europeans, and Americans (outside of rural folk, those living in southern states, and millions of fundamentalist xians) will cry your litany for decades to come.
At least, this is how it looks from up North. And I'm living in traditionally right-wing Alberta:)
the moderation system clearly promotes some opinions over others and encourages a self-reinforcing groupthink
Welcome to the real world.
Take any group of people, especially one with strong common interests, and you'll find trends in how they think.
I'm at a loss as to how post #88766 about "slashdot groupthink" could possibly be, in any way, shape or form, insightful.
(Besides, if the moderation system was SO unbalanced, why do posts such as yours keep getting modded up, in story after story, no matter how off-topic they are?)
Since children started playing April Fools jokes in school.
The first place I had heard of this was sometime in grade school. Teachers started telling us that April Fools Day really ended at noon, so we weren't allowed to prank in the afternoon. Really, it's just a way to prevent the waste of an entire day.
Much like in the town I grew up in - Hallowe'en "officially" ended at 8pm. They even blew the town whistle to let everyone know. It was an easy way to keep kids from roaming the streets all night long.
Personally, I wish we could make Xmas end at noon. Not being superstitious, it sure would be nice to get some shopping in during an obligatory day off (and yes, I do realize the irony in that statement:)
Well said. Only problem is, these "kids" (and I use the term loosely, because I see this in college-age folk as well) are not being corrected anymore, and never do learn correct English.
I'm sorry, but a 22/23 year old who's about to graduate with a degree in damn near anything should at least be able to write coherent English (in my country, anyway:).
I just went through a stack of about 50 resumes that ALL had things like "u", their/they're/there, you're/your, etc. Yes, resumes are a minefield for the anal among us. They've always had your typical crop of gibberish.
But I'll tell you, I've been looking at resumes for the past 12 years or so, and I swear I could show you a nice exponential chart of "spelling mistakes per resume" vs "internet usage".
Who knows, in 20 years this may be how everyone communicates in written form. Doesn't mean I'm not going to look for applicants who can manage the most basic professionalism in their writing.
Unlike French, which is guarded by the French Academy, there is no "official", or "regular" English language.
Hate to burst their bubble, but the same goes for French.
Officials from France can disagree all they want, but in Quebec, they speak FRENCH. And it's rather different than parisian French, much in the same way American English is different from that spoken in London.
There are a lot of other places in the world that speak French as well, with their own dialects/slang/inflection. Regardless of what the French Academy says.
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The difference, as I see it, is that ISPs are actively cancelling accounts that use "excessive bandwidth", whatever that means. "Unlimited internet access", as advertised, just seems too hard of a concept to deal with.
Personally, if my access slows down because they're oversold, *shrug*. It's when ISPs threaten to cancel my account because I downloaded a few gigs at 2 in the morning (when no one was using the damn thing anyway) that I get offended. Most of them simply total usage over the month, and if you're over their magic limit (which changes every month, and which they refuse to put in writing), out go the threatening letters.
It's stupid, it's childish, and if we had any truth in advertising laws worth a damn, illegal.
What's funnier is the continual stream of posts claiming a single borg-like hivemind on Slashdot, that punishes you if you dare to say anything the slightest bit negative about Linux...
Continually modded up.
Yeah.
Hypocrites. Every last one of us.
If you want to turn this into a black/white Windows/Linux issue (which it most certainly is not), I daresay there are more pro-Microsoft posts on this site these days than otherwise, which makes me think there are more pro-Windows folks here than not. However, a goodly lot seem to be compelled to end their posts with "now this will just get modded down due to Slashbot hypocrite groupthink".
Guess what, Checkers? That sort of 12-year old boy prattling deserves modding down, because it's just pure flamebait.
Heh. I have the opposite problem. I'm seeing thousands of new grads coming out that are just as fanatical about Windows. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be for any reason beyond "it's what I know".
Another problem I find is trying to dismiss every problem Windows has, or somehow spin it into a good thing. Windows isn't perfect, nothing is. So when someone points out a flaw, and the Windows enthusist just tries to spin it as being nothing, or even a good thing, it again makes them sound full of it, and makes the rest of what they say sound less sincere.
So it's not a matter of never mentioning the other side, it's a matter of finding out what the person wants to do, and talking to them about how Windows would be a good solution for that. Sometimes that may involve pointing out things it does better, but you do that in a constructive, not a demeaning way. Also when a flaw is noted in Windows, acknowledge it, don't pretend it's nothing.
Generally I find that Windows people who are trying to convert someone take such a fanatical view of how cool Windows is and such a demaning view of Linux (complete with immature names like leenoox and Linblows) that it's no supprise most people percieve them as extremists with no clue.
Replace "Linux" with "Windows" in that post, and this is pretty much what I'm seeing.
Quite frankly, there are far too many people out there who are rabid about something because it's "what I know", not due to any technical merit. I can understand a bit of zealotry from the Linux folks, the whole underdog thing and all - everyone likes to root for the little guy.
I really don't understand it from the Windows side, though. What, did someone kick your pet dog? Do you take personal offense from someone insulting something you USE?
The late 80s, 90s and early 00s are a freakish period where computers were cheaper then networks
Actually, if you follow the trend, the 80s, 90s and early 00s are a period which showed that computers will forever be cheaper than networks. In relation to network speeds, computing power/storage has been growing by orders of magnitude. And it's accelerating.
Thin client could forseeably make a comeback someday, but we'd need a pretty severe re-interpretation of what needs to run locally for this to happen. And an amazing reduction in client costs. Believe me, network is by far the biggest cost factor in any large org once you take out central stores, etc. Pushing that much more on the network to save a couple of hundred dollars per client? Nonsense.
Old urban legend.
Also depends on what you define as "people": go back 6,000 years? 10,000? 250,000?
I think you're misunderstanding what the OP asked.
There's no question that a single non-threaded application won't benefit one whit from multicore/CPU machines. There's also no question that a multithreaded app, when they exist, do benefit.
However, pretty much no one these days runs a single non-threaded app, due to the very nature of the OS they're running on. Windows/Linux/anything runs dozens of background processes regardless of what you're doing - and THIS is what could potentially benefit from more than one CPU core. The very nature of a multi-tasking OS is parallelizable.
So, for those like myself who run several busy apps at once, there's a benefit. For those that only run one app, and close it before opening another, there's still a benefit. Those running a game under DOS, well no, there's no benefit.
You complain when the OS has too many bugs, you complain that there are too many patches and hotfixes, you complain when MS decides to roll them all into an SP, you complain when it available for download, and you complain when its mandated.
You hit the nail on the head exactly.
Personally, I'll stop complaining when:
1. The OS runs ZERO listening services by default.
2. The browser is not only NOT a default part of the OS, but refuses to run executable content.
3. The media player is not only NOT a default part of the OS, but refuses to run executable content.
4. The email client is not only NOT a default part of the OS, but refuses to run executable content.
At that point, quite frankly I couldn't care less about bugs, patches, service packs, or automatic updating. Because there would be no need for any of it. Those 4 issues above cover pretty much every critical Windows update in the past umpteen years.
Take Windows XP gold, unpatched and put it on a public network, it will be compromised in 15 minutes and a bot within an hour. But do the same think with the contemperaneous release of Red Hat and OS/X, do the same thing and guess what they will all be compromised within a couple of days.
I'd like to see someone compromise a default Red Hat install from at least the past couple of years. Hint: no listening services == no way you can touch me in the fashion you describe. I'm told the same goes for OSX, but I can't speak from experience on this front.
If you're alluding to people running 4 year old software ("contemperaneous release"), then perhaps. However, I'd love to see what kind of exploit you can come up with that compromises a box that refuses all incoming connections. Which, sadly, Windows still doesn't do (no, a software firewall isn't quite there yet).
Short of a busted TCP/IP stack (and at that point there's very little you could do regardless), have fun taking over my machines.
Heh.
:)
Temperatures go well over 100F in Manitoba in the summer. For 2-3 months straight, some years. Believe me, Canada is not the arctic paradise some people think. It's one of the places where you need to invest heavily in BOTH heating and cooling of a datacentre.
It was always fun to show my house and car to people from more tropical climes. The car has a plug in for the block heater (absolutely required when it's -30 out), and A/C for the summer. The house has A/C, and a high-efficiency furnace for the winter.
What really gets them, however, is the drink machines located outside: they run small electric heaters during the winter. Yup, we need to warm up our Cokes here
So he's Roland? :)
Oh boy.
./, "We've got to colonize other planets it's a matter of survival." There'll be spinoff that will be immediately useful, and science and commerce will expand faster in ways that people can actually see.
... the US Federal government is to damn fat.
:)
But you can't do a damn thing with whatever is out there at the heliopause other than say, "Oooh! Neat picture."
Voyager is long since past the point of returning pictures to us. Exploring the heliopause may give us some answers to fundamental questions of science, like the nature of our Sun, gravity, you name it. But it most certainly isn't about "neat pictures".
If you put a man on Mars, then you've moved the world to colonizing another planet. To quote a few people from
Agreed. Agreed heartily. However, this isn't a shareholder's meeting, nor is it the latest Hollywood blockbuster. Most, daresay all important science is neither "immediately useful" nor "in ways that people can actually see"? Besides, $40 million is about 1/2000th the cost to land a man on Mars.
Billions of dollars spent on 'space exploration' and all you get is a bunch of pretty pictures from scientist who want to show that there is a planet around another star somewhere. Ostensibly, from reading their supporters here, so that they can prove there isn't a God somehow.
I must have missed the NASA directive that read "piss off all monotheists".
And enough with the Bush bashing already
Agreed. How much is Iraq costing the US taxpayer again?
It was never burdened with exploring space, but it was given the responsibility to protect American's from foreign threats. Threats like terrorist harboring dictators like Saddam Hussein
Considering that Hussein and Bin Laden would just as soon see each other dead, I'm really not sure what the hell you're talking about here
Should we stop natural disaster warnings?
Huge difference.
If CNN broadcasted continuing updates, 24 hours a day, on the "American hurricane status", then yes. If, however, you issue an alert only when there is reason to do so, and inform the public where, when, and what the alert covers, then no.
You issue an alert because you have reason to actually believe something disasterous could happen, and so people take appropriate precautions. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the USA isn't perpetually on a "hurricane alert status: yellow" level, covering the entire country, with no actual explanation as to WHY the alert has been issued.
There is a huge difference between a temporary alert that's LIFTED when the danger is past, and a news ticker continually reminding you of a non-existent (but potential) danger...
Well, I guess during the 60's if CNN had existed they might have scrolled the DefCon level constantly. It would be hard to argue the purpose in informing the public of that, other than to instill fear. Which is exactly what DefCon was used for, to scare us. The military of course had a use for it. But it's not like the general public could do *anything* about a nuclear war.
And the same goes for these terror alerts. I have yet to see the US government issue anything remotely specific ("warning, we have credible evidence that people should NOT take the NYC subway tomorrow"). Instead, you've got 300 million people feeling "informed", and quite helpless to do anything.
Know why?
Guantanamo(sp?) Bay. Full of suspected terrorists. Who will make up pretty much any story, in order to inspire TERROR. And it's working.
The amount of money spent so far has nothing to do with whether we should spend more money. Spent money is gone, no matter what we do.
Yes and no.
The hundreds of millions already spent got us a half-decent probe out to the heliopause. A small amount of money more might bring us some pretty cool data. If NASA cancels this, and we ever again want to explore the heliopause, we're looking at hundreds of millions *more*, and decades of waiting, just to get another probe out there.
It's also (essentially) the crux behind Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine. Say what you will about it otherwise, that part was spot-on.
"The Power of Nightmares" was an excellent documentary, btw. Some of it seems almost Davinci-Code-ish (ie: tinfoil hat), but let's face it:
When exactly will these "terror alerts" end? Or has the USA resigned itself to living in a perpetual state of terror forever? I guess my rock DOES keep tigers away...
No neo-con has ever been able to explain this to me - and sadly, this sort of thinking is moving into my country (Canada) as well. If we ever have our own 9/11, I shudder to think what this country will do. We've traditionally allowed our governments far more control of our lives than the USA as it is.
Don't worry on that front. This pales in comparison to pretty much anything else Bush has been involved in.
:)
The things the current US administration has done in the past 4 years have all but guaranteed that almost all Canadians, Europeans, and Americans (outside of rural folk, those living in southern states, and millions of fundamentalist xians) will cry your litany for decades to come.
At least, this is how it looks from up North. And I'm living in traditionally right-wing Alberta
the moderation system clearly promotes some opinions over others and encourages a self-reinforcing groupthink
Welcome to the real world.
Take any group of people, especially one with strong common interests, and you'll find trends in how they think.
I'm at a loss as to how post #88766 about "slashdot groupthink" could possibly be, in any way, shape or form, insightful.
(Besides, if the moderation system was SO unbalanced, why do posts such as yours keep getting modded up, in story after story, no matter how off-topic they are?)
After all, he has a great fortune to risk by doing so.
:/
Well, yeah, that. And his life.
I'd venture that's one hell of a larger risk, but then again I ain't rich
Since children started playing April Fools jokes in school.
:)
The first place I had heard of this was sometime in grade school. Teachers started telling us that April Fools Day really ended at noon, so we weren't allowed to prank in the afternoon. Really, it's just a way to prevent the waste of an entire day.
Much like in the town I grew up in - Hallowe'en "officially" ended at 8pm. They even blew the town whistle to let everyone know. It was an easy way to keep kids from roaming the streets all night long.
Personally, I wish we could make Xmas end at noon. Not being superstitious, it sure would be nice to get some shopping in during an obligatory day off (and yes, I do realize the irony in that statement
Man.
Just imagine the stick figures needed to represent that.
I'll rent a movie under the new no late fee program and return it 3 years later with no extra charge
Well, there's nothing inconsistent with that statement. Which is why this lawsuit was filed, and why Blockbuster is having to back down.
Nothing to do with people being stupid, this is simply false advertising.
Why don't you just take a new nickname of "YOU'RE ALL HYPOCRITES!!!111one" so you can post empty comments and still pass on as much insight?
Hint: there are over 800,000 of us here. Regardless of what you may think, or may post, we are not all the same person.
Get over yourself. It's tiring seeing you post some inane comment about "Slashdot hypocrasy" in every other story.
No, what the parent said is true. Apple HAS done nothing to prevent users from getting their music from other sources.
Apple HAS done things to stop other sources from using Apple's DRM, or their own.
Real's perfectly free to sell un-DRM'd mp3s. In fact, they'd gain me as a very loyal customer if they did.
For those who don't know, the parent linked to the graphic for an old 80's Far Side cartoon, by Gary Larson.
The original caption states: The real reason dinosaurs became extinct.
Had that on my wall for many, many years. Still cracks me up.
Well said. Only problem is, these "kids" (and I use the term loosely, because I see this in college-age folk as well) are not being corrected anymore, and never do learn correct English.
:).
I'm sorry, but a 22/23 year old who's about to graduate with a degree in damn near anything should at least be able to write coherent English (in my country, anyway
I just went through a stack of about 50 resumes that ALL had things like "u", their/they're/there, you're/your, etc. Yes, resumes are a minefield for the anal among us. They've always had your typical crop of gibberish.
But I'll tell you, I've been looking at resumes for the past 12 years or so, and I swear I could show you a nice exponential chart of "spelling mistakes per resume" vs "internet usage".
Who knows, in 20 years this may be how everyone communicates in written form. Doesn't mean I'm not going to look for applicants who can manage the most basic professionalism in their writing.
Unlike French, which is guarded by the French Academy, there is no "official", or "regular" English language.
Hate to burst their bubble, but the same goes for French.
Officials from France can disagree all they want, but in Quebec, they speak FRENCH. And it's rather different than parisian French, much in the same way American English is different from that spoken in London.
There are a lot of other places in the world that speak French as well, with their own dialects/slang/inflection. Regardless of what the French Academy says.