I wasn't trolling or joking in the slightest. I know what the stated intent was, but I'd stake money that it will be deliberately misinterpreted at least once. A potential argument was that an officer felt that the filming would result in an immediate risk to his safety, along the lines of "I thought he might be uploading it live and encouraging viewers to come stop me".
I found Homebrew to cover almost everything Unixy I need on a regular basis. I run plenty of Unix daemon - PostgreSQL, Apache, etc. - on my laptop on a regular basis, and they do about as well as I'd expect them to on any laptop.
Now the big question, how much time does it cost you to commute?
Given that the bus drives in the carpool lanes and has its own toll booth, there's no way I could drive from East Bay to my office in SoMa in less time. Even worse would be if I didn't rent a monthly parking spot and had to find one every day.
What the hell is wrong with feeling like a suburb?
I live in Alameda, across the bay from San Francisco. It's a wonderfully quiet little place with low crime and great schools. I loving living there, walking to the library, driving five minutes to a beach, etc. It's not like the stereotypical suburban wasteland of soulless strip mall after strip mall and the quality of life is wonderful.
That said, I think I'd go insane if I didn't work in the city. There's so much more energy here, and a million things to do, see, and look at every day. It's a little noisier and more crowded than I'd want in a house setting, but I love working here.
Oh, my daily commute involves walking a block to the transbay bus, reading a book for half an hour, then walking a block from the bus terminal to my office. For a couple of bucks more and a longer walk, I can also ride the ferry in much less time (to the point that I'd have a hard time finishing a drink you can buy at the onboard bar).
No one who primarily wants a Unix workstation goes anywhere else but Linux.
That's a big surprise to those of us who bought a Mac so we could have a nice Unix workstation.
I can run a Linux desktop (or a thousand, if you want me to) but I switched so that I could stop messing around with my desktop and spend my time using it.
Are you telling me the GP paid a not-insignificant markup for a luxury, premium laptop which proponents will consistently reiterate is made of superior parts and Just Works(c), and it's flawed?
In related news, there's a BMW repair shop near my house. There's a difference between "well made" and "magically impervious to any kind of damage or defect imaginable".
Macs are notoriously finicky about wireless connectivity. Before you reply with [citation needed], just do a quick web search for crying out loud.
That's the exact opposite of my experience, where I've had no trouble passing traffic on an overloaded conference network where some nearby non-Apple weren't even able to get a DHCP lease. In my office environment, I can't recall ever hearing a Mac user complaining about Wi-Fi issues where it didn't turn out to be an actual network outage. I'm not saying that Macs are magic or have some special hardware that no one else in the world gets to use, but I'll assert that they're solid machines with good hardware that performs well.
You know, it could be that you've read complaints from the stereotypical Mac hipsters who were annoyed that their expensive new machines didn't magically solve the network problem they already had. That probably wouldn't surprise me. They seem to work well enough for the rest of us, though.
In almost all states it takes over 80 hours of work PER WEEK for someone making minimum wage to pay for a shoddy apartment.
What? I just moved from a place where a nice - not remotely shoddy - 2-bedroom apartment was $600. That's about 82 hours per month of minimum wage work. The cruddier apartments started around $350, or about 50 hours of minimum wage work.
Yes, many people would prefer to live someplace more interesting than a small midwest city. I guess I'd prefer to live in a condo in SoMa. Doesn't mean I can afford to or "deserve" to, though. Sometimes you have to settle for something less than your personal ideal.
"Intellectual property" laws (patent, copyright, and trademark) exist for a reason.
RMS said not to use the term "intellectual property" because it's so vague as to be meaningless, and I'd have to agree. I'm actually OK with most trademark law, and trademarks were originally launched as a consumer protection. The idea was that if you're used to buying Bob's Pickles, and you really love Bob's Pickles, it shouldn't be legal for Joe's Dills to disguise their inferior product as Bob's to trick you into buying something you wouldn't want. Sure, the concept gets abused (as people in London are painfully aware of right now) but I think the underlying idea is sound: you register your name and "signature", and others aren't allowed to identify themselves as you to trade on your good reputation.
So I'm pro-trademark in general, and yet completely opposed to software patents and infinite-minus-a-day copyrights. You can be all that at the same time.
I'd like to see more competition in the desktop OS market too, but pretending desktop licensing and mobile operatings systems are in the same market is fucking stupid.
I'm sorry, but did you think that "desktop computing" and "mobile computing" were markets? The market is simply "computing".
It doesn't really matter how many iOS devices Apple sells or Android devices Google and friends sell, people still aren't going to be writing software, producing spreadsheets, creating presentations, creating web pages, using most business systems, and authoring documents, on their tablets and phones.
Outside of an office, almost no one wants to do those things. (Note: you, I, and the rest of Slashdot don't statistically count. We're a tiny minority.) People want to share pictures, browse the web, listen to music, watch movies, and do lots of other things that phones and tablets are perfectly good at.
People may be buying tablets, but few are foregoing a PC/laptop as a result, they just get both.
Have you talked to anyone outside an office? I personally know plenty of people who bought an iPad and abandoned their desktops and laptops. When it comes time to upgrade their less-portable systems, the thought process becomes "you know what, I don't really use it anymore. I guess I'd like to run ${application foo}, but not so much that I want to buy a whole new computer just for it, and have to set aside desk space for it, and it just sits there the rest of the time..."
This is why you can't lump mobile and desktop together, for the most part they're different markets, the areas in which they intersect are fairly small and limited to for example, situations like tablets acting as a good carry round the home web browser instead of a netbook.
"This is why you can't lump digital and film cameras together, for the most part they're different markets, the areas in which they intersect are fairly small and limited to for example, situations like digital cameras acting as a good carry round the city camera instead of the nice film camera that they'll keep around for Important Stuff."
"Over half" would include a lot of men. Are you making the sexist assumption that no men would be uncomfortable typing that in an office setting?
I'm probably not one of those men. "Big boobs" doesn't offend me or make me uncomfortable. It does give me an awful impression of the author's maturity, though.
That fact doesn't change the fact that you cannot dictate the behavior of others simply because you are offended.
It seems the project manager at Microsoft did exactly that. Well, more specifically, they "dictated" it to avoid needlessly offended their users and contributors.
Forcing a re-write and apology is imposing on someone, it's curtailing their freedom of expression through arbitrary standards of offense.
What a fragile little ego you must have. A Linux developer asked Microsoft for a re-write and an apology, and being more adult about it than you seem to want to be, they cheerfully complied.
Exactly what field of study do you think is immune to dumb juvenile jokes?
Is there something about programming that's inherently gender-oriented? I mean, women typically don't make great NFL linemen. There's a natural reason why more women than men go into professional football. But staring at vim in a terminal window, I don't see anything inherently male about it. It's code. It's logic. Why deliberately dumb it down and drive away potential helpers
There aren't many women in tech fields.
In no small part because of silly things like this.
Do we blame women for driving men away from being librarians?
Do women librarians take great pride in how shitty they can be toward men who would otherwise be interested in their profession?
So men shouldn't tell women how to feel, but women can tell men how to code because of how it makes them feel?
When "how to code" involves not being an outright jackass, well, yeah. I'm not some political correct whiner by any stretch of the imagination, but I do believe in showing basic respect for others. My daughter is showing a strong interest in math science. Why should she have to dig through dumb juvenile jokes to learn about something like programming?
OK, so you don't care about my kid specifically or in general. Fine. How about this, then: is it a good or bad thing for you to make more than half of the world's population uncomfortable around your code? You're weeding out the majority of your developer pool and self-selecting for the remainder who thinks "HAHA B16B00B5 IS TEH FUNNY!". In that situation, your desire to insert off-putting humor in your code is doing yourself a great disservice.
However, what I don't understand is why the subject of the story just didn't leave McDonalds.
Absolutely. It's his moral responsibility not to offend others' sensibilities with the medical device permanently attached to his body. Why would he expect to be able to eat at the same facilities as non-cripples? You don't see people with artificial limbs politely asking for permission to be treated like regular humans, so what makes him think he deserves those rights?
we're probably close to the peak if we haven't passed it yet
I think we're past the tipping point. I have small kids and they watch a lot of Netflix cartoons. Between that $7 a month fee (with an Internet connection I would have anyway) and a decent digital antenna, I don't have a lot of desire to switch back to the $110 per month Dish Network plan I'd had. Yeah, there's stuff I miss. No, it's not worth an extra $103 per month to see it. Netflix + OTA content is Good Enough for us - and apparently for a lot of other people, too.
Considering her daughter was a mail-order bride, I wouldn't bet much on the personal integrity of this woman.
Dude, you suck and must never have been around other kids. My parents were decent, honest people who did their best to raise me, but I still did stupid things they never would have approved of. I'm doing my best to raise my own kids, but I'd bet lots of money that at some point they'll do things I would not have.
As of late I've been noticing and commenting to friends about a growing disregard for spelling, grammar, and proper English as a whole.
And as of late, I've been reading things written by people who in the past would have published almost nothing. Yeah, grammar is awful on Facebook. But 10 years ago, what would the writing outlets have been for those same people? Most of them certainly wouldn't be posting comments to a worldwide forum for everyone to see.
I don't think that the average person is any less grammatically skilled today than before. To the contrary, I'd bet money that a greater portion of the population can express themselves clearly in writing now than at any time in the past. It's just that the pool of contributors is also much larger now, and it includes a lot of people who aren't very good at it yet.
For any patent to be granted a list of expenses in developing the patent is also submitted. Then they have patent protection for 10x the expenses in revenue.
You can make that way simpler: let the applicant state the patent's value, and make the limit a multiple of that value. Of course, that's also the value their state should use to assess property taxes on it.
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I wasn't trolling or joking in the slightest. I know what the stated intent was, but I'd stake money that it will be deliberately misinterpreted at least once. A potential argument was that an officer felt that the filming would result in an immediate risk to his safety, along the lines of "I thought he might be uploading it live and encouraging viewers to come stop me".
So long as that expression does not jeopardize the safety of any member, suspect or bystander
Loophole found. "The filming jeopardized my safety by showing my best intentions in an unflattering light, so I had to make them stop."
I found Homebrew to cover almost everything Unixy I need on a regular basis. I run plenty of Unix daemon - PostgreSQL, Apache, etc. - on my laptop on a regular basis, and they do about as well as I'd expect them to on any laptop.
Now the big question, how much time does it cost you to commute?
Given that the bus drives in the carpool lanes and has its own toll booth, there's no way I could drive from East Bay to my office in SoMa in less time. Even worse would be if I didn't rent a monthly parking spot and had to find one every day.
What the hell is wrong with feeling like a suburb?
I live in Alameda, across the bay from San Francisco. It's a wonderfully quiet little place with low crime and great schools. I loving living there, walking to the library, driving five minutes to a beach, etc. It's not like the stereotypical suburban wasteland of soulless strip mall after strip mall and the quality of life is wonderful.
That said, I think I'd go insane if I didn't work in the city. There's so much more energy here, and a million things to do, see, and look at every day. It's a little noisier and more crowded than I'd want in a house setting, but I love working here.
Oh, my daily commute involves walking a block to the transbay bus, reading a book for half an hour, then walking a block from the bus terminal to my office. For a couple of bucks more and a longer walk, I can also ride the ferry in much less time (to the point that I'd have a hard time finishing a drink you can buy at the onboard bar).
No one who primarily wants a Unix workstation goes anywhere else but Linux.
That's a big surprise to those of us who bought a Mac so we could have a nice Unix workstation.
I can run a Linux desktop (or a thousand, if you want me to) but I switched so that I could stop messing around with my desktop and spend my time using it.
Are you telling me the GP paid a not-insignificant markup for a luxury, premium laptop which proponents will consistently reiterate is made of superior parts and Just Works(c), and it's flawed?
In related news, there's a BMW repair shop near my house. There's a difference between "well made" and "magically impervious to any kind of damage or defect imaginable".
Macs are notoriously finicky about wireless connectivity. Before you reply with [citation needed], just do a quick web search for crying out loud.
That's the exact opposite of my experience, where I've had no trouble passing traffic on an overloaded conference network where some nearby non-Apple weren't even able to get a DHCP lease. In my office environment, I can't recall ever hearing a Mac user complaining about Wi-Fi issues where it didn't turn out to be an actual network outage. I'm not saying that Macs are magic or have some special hardware that no one else in the world gets to use, but I'll assert that they're solid machines with good hardware that performs well.
You know, it could be that you've read complaints from the stereotypical Mac hipsters who were annoyed that their expensive new machines didn't magically solve the network problem they already had. That probably wouldn't surprise me. They seem to work well enough for the rest of us, though.
In almost all states it takes over 80 hours of work PER WEEK for someone making minimum wage to pay for a shoddy apartment.
What? I just moved from a place where a nice - not remotely shoddy - 2-bedroom apartment was $600. That's about 82 hours per month of minimum wage work. The cruddier apartments started around $350, or about 50 hours of minimum wage work.
Yes, many people would prefer to live someplace more interesting than a small midwest city. I guess I'd prefer to live in a condo in SoMa. Doesn't mean I can afford to or "deserve" to, though. Sometimes you have to settle for something less than your personal ideal.
"Intellectual property" laws (patent, copyright, and trademark) exist for a reason.
RMS said not to use the term "intellectual property" because it's so vague as to be meaningless, and I'd have to agree. I'm actually OK with most trademark law, and trademarks were originally launched as a consumer protection. The idea was that if you're used to buying Bob's Pickles, and you really love Bob's Pickles, it shouldn't be legal for Joe's Dills to disguise their inferior product as Bob's to trick you into buying something you wouldn't want. Sure, the concept gets abused (as people in London are painfully aware of right now) but I think the underlying idea is sound: you register your name and "signature", and others aren't allowed to identify themselves as you to trade on your good reputation.
So I'm pro-trademark in general, and yet completely opposed to software patents and infinite-minus-a-day copyrights. You can be all that at the same time.
I'd like to see more competition in the desktop OS market too, but pretending desktop licensing and mobile operatings systems are in the same market is fucking stupid.
I'm sorry, but did you think that "desktop computing" and "mobile computing" were markets? The market is simply "computing".
It doesn't really matter how many iOS devices Apple sells or Android devices Google and friends sell, people still aren't going to be writing software, producing spreadsheets, creating presentations, creating web pages, using most business systems, and authoring documents, on their tablets and phones.
Outside of an office, almost no one wants to do those things. (Note: you, I, and the rest of Slashdot don't statistically count. We're a tiny minority.) People want to share pictures, browse the web, listen to music, watch movies, and do lots of other things that phones and tablets are perfectly good at.
People may be buying tablets, but few are foregoing a PC/laptop as a result, they just get both.
Have you talked to anyone outside an office? I personally know plenty of people who bought an iPad and abandoned their desktops and laptops. When it comes time to upgrade their less-portable systems, the thought process becomes "you know what, I don't really use it anymore. I guess I'd like to run ${application foo}, but not so much that I want to buy a whole new computer just for it, and have to set aside desk space for it, and it just sits there the rest of the time..."
This is why you can't lump mobile and desktop together, for the most part they're different markets, the areas in which they intersect are fairly small and limited to for example, situations like tablets acting as a good carry round the home web browser instead of a netbook.
"This is why you can't lump digital and film cameras together, for the most part they're different markets, the areas in which they intersect are fairly small and limited to for example, situations like digital cameras acting as a good carry round the city camera instead of the nice film camera that they'll keep around for Important Stuff."
How'd that work out?
are you just making a sexist assumption?
"Over half" would include a lot of men. Are you making the sexist assumption that no men would be uncomfortable typing that in an office setting?
I'm probably not one of those men. "Big boobs" doesn't offend me or make me uncomfortable. It does give me an awful impression of the author's maturity, though.
That fact doesn't change the fact that you cannot dictate the behavior of others simply because you are offended.
It seems the project manager at Microsoft did exactly that. Well, more specifically, they "dictated" it to avoid needlessly offended their users and contributors.
Forcing a re-write and apology is imposing on someone, it's curtailing their freedom of expression through arbitrary standards of offense.
What a fragile little ego you must have. A Linux developer asked Microsoft for a re-write and an apology, and being more adult about it than you seem to want to be, they cheerfully complied.
Exactly what field of study do you think is immune to dumb juvenile jokes?
Is there something about programming that's inherently gender-oriented? I mean, women typically don't make great NFL linemen. There's a natural reason why more women than men go into professional football. But staring at vim in a terminal window, I don't see anything inherently male about it. It's code. It's logic. Why deliberately dumb it down and drive away potential helpers
There aren't many women in tech fields.
In no small part because of silly things like this.
Do we blame women for driving men away from being librarians?
Do women librarians take great pride in how shitty they can be toward men who would otherwise be interested in their profession?
So men shouldn't tell women how to feel, but women can tell men how to code because of how it makes them feel?
When "how to code" involves not being an outright jackass, well, yeah. I'm not some political correct whiner by any stretch of the imagination, but I do believe in showing basic respect for others. My daughter is showing a strong interest in math science. Why should she have to dig through dumb juvenile jokes to learn about something like programming?
OK, so you don't care about my kid specifically or in general. Fine. How about this, then: is it a good or bad thing for you to make more than half of the world's population uncomfortable around your code? You're weeding out the majority of your developer pool and self-selecting for the remainder who thinks "HAHA B16B00B5 IS TEH FUNNY!". In that situation, your desire to insert off-putting humor in your code is doing yourself a great disservice.
Neckbeard Hacker would like a word with you.
HTML5, while faster than previous incarnations of HTML+JS
That makes no sense whatsoever, and is analogous to saying that .docx is faster than RTF.
However, what I don't understand is why the subject of the story just didn't leave McDonalds.
Absolutely. It's his moral responsibility not to offend others' sensibilities with the medical device permanently attached to his body. Why would he expect to be able to eat at the same facilities as non-cripples? You don't see people with artificial limbs politely asking for permission to be treated like regular humans, so what makes him think he deserves those rights?
we're probably close to the peak if we haven't passed it yet
I think we're past the tipping point. I have small kids and they watch a lot of Netflix cartoons. Between that $7 a month fee (with an Internet connection I would have anyway) and a decent digital antenna, I don't have a lot of desire to switch back to the $110 per month Dish Network plan I'd had. Yeah, there's stuff I miss. No, it's not worth an extra $103 per month to see it. Netflix + OTA content is Good Enough for us - and apparently for a lot of other people, too.
Considering her daughter was a mail-order bride, I wouldn't bet much on the personal integrity of this woman.
Dude, you suck and must never have been around other kids. My parents were decent, honest people who did their best to raise me, but I still did stupid things they never would have approved of. I'm doing my best to raise my own kids, but I'd bet lots of money that at some point they'll do things I would not have.
As of late I've been noticing and commenting to friends about a growing disregard for spelling, grammar, and proper English as a whole.
And as of late, I've been reading things written by people who in the past would have published almost nothing. Yeah, grammar is awful on Facebook. But 10 years ago, what would the writing outlets have been for those same people? Most of them certainly wouldn't be posting comments to a worldwide forum for everyone to see.
I don't think that the average person is any less grammatically skilled today than before. To the contrary, I'd bet money that a greater portion of the population can express themselves clearly in writing now than at any time in the past. It's just that the pool of contributors is also much larger now, and it includes a lot of people who aren't very good at it yet.
You shouldn't of said that.
Tim, I love ya, guy. Someday I truly hope to understand what you mean.
For any patent to be granted a list of expenses in developing the patent is also submitted. Then they have patent protection for 10x the expenses in revenue.
You can make that way simpler: let the applicant state the patent's value, and make the limit a multiple of that value. Of course, that's also the value their state should use to assess property taxes on it.
WinServer 2012 is getting some rave reviews for the new virtualization stuff especially, and it's not even out yet.
That right there is all you need to know about the IT publishing industry.