And along those lines, I wish they'd decouple message preferences from the address book. For example, I get a sales newsletter from an online computer parts retailer we all know and love, and the only way to tell Thunderbird to always display the images from that sender is to add them to my address book and set an option there. Why, oh why? Thunderbird already uses SQLite for other stuff, so why can't it have a table like showimages (address varchar, show boolean) instead of making me litter my contact database?
I always found that to use a program to fetch mail to the local machine was odd
...but then you advocate fetching mail to the local machine every time you view a message. If my boss sends me a message with a large embedded image, my email client will download it in the background while I'm doing other things. It's cached locally from then on and I can access it in an instant, even while offline. With webmail, my browser will download it in the foreground whenever I click on that message. It's not cached locally outside the browser, and there's a good chance that next time I open that message I'll have to wait for the image file to download again.
I have 400GB free on my laptop hard drive, and it's several orders of magnitude faster to fetch from than my Internet connection. Why not let my computer pre-download stuff for me so that it's ready when I want to access it?
Apple is unable to ship the version of GCC benchmarked there
I think you misspelled "unwilling". I know they don't like the GPLv3, but what specifically about it would prevent Apple from shipping newer versions of GCC?
This won't help you at all for the initial install, but you might like knowing that delta updates are one of the nice new features in Lion. Subsequent patches and software updates should be much smaller once you're up and running.
So basically if Amazon demanded no copyrighted material be stored on the service
...then they'd have to close that business unit by the end of the week. Hint: this post is copyrighted material. So is yours. So is the photo I took and uploaded to Flickr. In short, almost everything is copyrighted, and if Amazon tried to institute a no-copyrighted-material policy they'd be stuck with no customers but Project Gutenberg.
Or better, figure out why so many of your users are deliberately installing a browser alongside the one you normally offer. So you force IE6 on them because of some intranet app. Great. Must you really make them suffer with it on everything else? Put another way: what reason is there to want to forcible prevent people from using Chrome (or Firefox or Opera or...) if it makes them happier or more productive?
In this recession many laywers have been rightsized
When you don't have enough staff on hand to handle perfectly non-catastrophic situations, you've blown past "rightsized" into the realm of "gottengreedysized".
OK, then replace "fault" with "responsibility" and Registered Coward v2's point still stands. When a judge has told you to do something, it's your responsibility to get it done, even if you didn't directly cause the delay. So his laptop didn't work. He couldn't use a flash drive to move the document to a desktop and send it from there? Or have his IT guy (either on-staff or their usual contractor) do it for him? Or simply call the judge or clerk, explain the situation, and beg for an extension to fix the problem?
Regardless of how legitimate or not the excuse is, it's the lawyer's responsibility for addressing it appropriately. He didn't. And that's part why no one here has sympathy for him.
It is unethical for websites like WebMD to suggest that I take Benadryl for pollen allergies or Ibuprofen for a headache. How can they claim to be providing adequate medical advice? I should sue them for suggesting well-tested remedies to common conditions instead of requiring me to visit a doctor in person to receive identical recommendations.
If the book touches on a political or social issue then the opponents of the book's perspective seem to organize a negative review campaign.
How to use Amazon reviews:
If a product's ratings have a Gaussian distribution tightly grouped around a value less than 4 stars, skip it.
Sample the highest reviews. See if they praise attributes that you actually care about. If they're clearly insane or policy driven ("you have to buy this because it validates the worldview of everyone I agree with!"), pretend they don't exist.
Sample the lowest reviews. If they're clearly insane or policy driven (unless policy is "this product is riddled with DRM and bricked my Blu-Ray burner", etc.), pretend they don't exist.
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Why should I have to tell the search engine to actually search for what I specifically asked it to search for and not try to guess what I really wanted to search for?
That bugs me, too, but's lets face it: we're in the minority. Most people want to know that they've misspelled "lolcats", or appreciate help when trying to guess a song's title. For that matter, so do I! 95% of the time, Google's autocorrect is right about what I actually meant to search for, even if it's really annoying that other 5%.
I think they just need better heuristics. For example, it's one thing to correct "hotel californya" to the right spelling (146M results the usual way to 35K hits when spelled with a "y"). It's another to correct a long alphanumeric part number with 2,000 results to a similar string with 3,000 results.
I run my own mailserver and my email address is splattered all over the place. I got a spam yesterday. Gmail does an excellent job of spam filtering, but you can do a pretty great job with your own server.
Sorry you got modded down because it's a legitimate question. For me, though, the converse is true: I don't want to use any webmail sites when I have a perfectly good local app. I've used Gmail and it's a nice attempt at emulating a local client, but it doesn't offer me any advantages over Thunderbird on my netbook, or my iPhone's inbox, or Mail.app on my Mac. I use IMAP everywhere so all of my email is accessible and synchronized from all of those devices, and attachments download in the background while I'm doing other stuff. Almost all the time when I check my inbox, those attachments are ready for loading in an instant; I don't have to wait for my sister's vacation pics to start transferring whenever I open a message.
If I had extremely limited storage, or a very slow machine, Gmail would make more sense to me. However, I don't see any need for it right now.
I'll see your "clever" and raise you a "completely terrifying". I'm ashamed that it never occurred to me that something in a USB flash drive form factor wouldn't be a flash drive. I just got done lecturing a coworker about SQL injection, but I would've been utterly vulnerable to a "USB injection" attack up until 5 minutes ago.
There are three separate issues. First, the restriction works pretty much the other way around; you can use non-GPL libraries in GPL apps. If that weren't so, there wouldn't be so many BSDed libraries being called from GPLed code. Second, if you are the sole author of a work, you can release it any way you want to. Distribution licenses like the GPL don't apply to you because you already have all copying rights by default. Third, nothing even says the "license app" has to be actually linked into the main app. It could very easy be a standalone network daemon listening on localhost:9876.
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Which would still "forfeit" (pronounced "for-fit", at least in my region).
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And my teacher taught my that "seperate" is a verb, while "separate" is an adjective. She also taught the hard-and-fast "i before e" rule and caused me to lose a spelling bee, ironically by misspelling "forfeit".
I'll believe pretty much any crazy story you tell me about dumb ways of teaching spelling.
Same here, except with Bard's Tale on an Amiga. I made a hex dump of it's save file (with the 1337 AmigaBASIC program I wrote), loaded the game, sold something, and saved the game. Then I made another hex dump and compared it to the first to see what changed. The decimal value of one of those chunks looked an awful lot like my cash balance, so I changed all those bytes to 0xFF and reloaded the save file with crossed fingers. Voila! Diamond plate armor and fire horns for everyone in my party, and I was slaying a roomful of 4 groups of 99 Ice Giants (IIRC) in like 3 turns. It was a quick way to get from level 5 to level 40 or so in a couple of hunting trips.
Did you read the linked PDF at all? Here's what the rest of it said:
From: Bill Gates
Sent: Sunday, January 24, 1999 8:41 AM
To: Jeff Westorinen; Ben Fathi
Cc: Carl Stork (Exchange); Nathan Myhrvold; Eric Rudder
Subject: ACPI extensions
One thing I find myself wondering about is whether we shouldn’t try and make the “ACPI” extensions somehow Windows specific.
It seems unfortunate if we do this work and get our partners to do the work and the results is that Linux works great without having to do the work.
Maybe there is no way to avoid this problem but it does bother me.
Maybe we could define the APIs so that they work well with NT and not
the others even if they are open.
Or maybe we could patent something related to this.
In summary, Bill Gates explicitly wanted to break ACPI on Linux.
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And along those lines, I wish they'd decouple message preferences from the address book. For example, I get a sales newsletter from an online computer parts retailer we all know and love, and the only way to tell Thunderbird to always display the images from that sender is to add them to my address book and set an option there. Why, oh why? Thunderbird already uses SQLite for other stuff, so why can't it have a table like showimages (address varchar, show boolean) instead of making me litter my contact database?
I always found that to use a program to fetch mail to the local machine was odd
...but then you advocate fetching mail to the local machine every time you view a message. If my boss sends me a message with a large embedded image, my email client will download it in the background while I'm doing other things. It's cached locally from then on and I can access it in an instant, even while offline. With webmail, my browser will download it in the foreground whenever I click on that message. It's not cached locally outside the browser, and there's a good chance that next time I open that message I'll have to wait for the image file to download again.
I have 400GB free on my laptop hard drive, and it's several orders of magnitude faster to fetch from than my Internet connection. Why not let my computer pre-download stuff for me so that it's ready when I want to access it?
How bright is your screen? I don't have an iPad, but if it's anything like my iPhone, lowering the brightness has a huge impact on battery life.
Apple is unable to ship the version of GCC benchmarked there
I think you misspelled "unwilling". I know they don't like the GPLv3, but what specifically about it would prevent Apple from shipping newer versions of GCC?
This won't help you at all for the initial install, but you might like knowing that delta updates are one of the nice new features in Lion. Subsequent patches and software updates should be much smaller once you're up and running.
So basically if Amazon demanded no copyrighted material be stored on the service
...then they'd have to close that business unit by the end of the week. Hint: this post is copyrighted material. So is yours. So is the photo I took and uploaded to Flickr. In short, almost everything is copyrighted, and if Amazon tried to institute a no-copyrighted-material policy they'd be stuck with no customers but Project Gutenberg.
Or better, figure out why so many of your users are deliberately installing a browser alongside the one you normally offer. So you force IE6 on them because of some intranet app. Great. Must you really make them suffer with it on everything else? Put another way: what reason is there to want to forcible prevent people from using Chrome (or Firefox or Opera or ...) if it makes them happier or more productive?
In this recession many laywers have been rightsized
When you don't have enough staff on hand to handle perfectly non-catastrophic situations, you've blown past "rightsized" into the realm of "gottengreedysized".
OK, then replace "fault" with "responsibility" and Registered Coward v2's point still stands. When a judge has told you to do something, it's your responsibility to get it done, even if you didn't directly cause the delay. So his laptop didn't work. He couldn't use a flash drive to move the document to a desktop and send it from there? Or have his IT guy (either on-staff or their usual contractor) do it for him? Or simply call the judge or clerk, explain the situation, and beg for an extension to fix the problem?
Regardless of how legitimate or not the excuse is, it's the lawyer's responsibility for addressing it appropriately. He didn't. And that's part why no one here has sympathy for him.
That's a very funny post, but please stop posting it whenever RIM comes up. It ages quickly.
What percentage of those people are AOL users because they're actively being scammed by the company?
60%.
I very often see a nurse at my family practice. LegalZoom has you dealing with paralegals. I think both are perfectly adequate for routine situations.
It is unethical for websites like WebMD to suggest that I take Benadryl for pollen allergies or Ibuprofen for a headache. How can they claim to be providing adequate medical advice? I should sue them for suggesting well-tested remedies to common conditions instead of requiring me to visit a doctor in person to receive identical recommendations.
If the book touches on a political or social issue then the opponents of the book's perspective seem to organize a negative review campaign.
How to use Amazon reviews:
Why should I have to tell the search engine to actually search for what I specifically asked it to search for and not try to guess what I really wanted to search for?
That bugs me, too, but's lets face it: we're in the minority. Most people want to know that they've misspelled "lolcats", or appreciate help when trying to guess a song's title. For that matter, so do I! 95% of the time, Google's autocorrect is right about what I actually meant to search for, even if it's really annoying that other 5%.
I think they just need better heuristics. For example, it's one thing to correct "hotel californya" to the right spelling (146M results the usual way to 35K hits when spelled with a "y"). It's another to correct a long alphanumeric part number with 2,000 results to a similar string with 3,000 results.
I run my own mailserver and my email address is splattered all over the place. I got a spam yesterday. Gmail does an excellent job of spam filtering, but you can do a pretty great job with your own server.
Sorry you got modded down because it's a legitimate question. For me, though, the converse is true: I don't want to use any webmail sites when I have a perfectly good local app. I've used Gmail and it's a nice attempt at emulating a local client, but it doesn't offer me any advantages over Thunderbird on my netbook, or my iPhone's inbox, or Mail.app on my Mac. I use IMAP everywhere so all of my email is accessible and synchronized from all of those devices, and attachments download in the background while I'm doing other stuff. Almost all the time when I check my inbox, those attachments are ready for loading in an instant; I don't have to wait for my sister's vacation pics to start transferring whenever I open a message.
If I had extremely limited storage, or a very slow machine, Gmail would make more sense to me. However, I don't see any need for it right now.
I'll see your "clever" and raise you a "completely terrifying". I'm ashamed that it never occurred to me that something in a USB flash drive form factor wouldn't be a flash drive. I just got done lecturing a coworker about SQL injection, but I would've been utterly vulnerable to a "USB injection" attack up until 5 minutes ago.
There are three separate issues. First, the restriction works pretty much the other way around; you can use non-GPL libraries in GPL apps. If that weren't so, there wouldn't be so many BSDed libraries being called from GPLed code. Second, if you are the sole author of a work, you can release it any way you want to. Distribution licenses like the GPL don't apply to you because you already have all copying rights by default. Third, nothing even says the "license app" has to be actually linked into the main app. It could very easy be a standalone network daemon listening on localhost:9876.
Which would still "forfeit" (pronounced "for-fit", at least in my region).
And my teacher taught my that "seperate" is a verb, while "separate" is an adjective. She also taught the hard-and-fast "i before e" rule and caused me to lose a spelling bee, ironically by misspelling "forfeit".
I'll believe pretty much any crazy story you tell me about dumb ways of teaching spelling.
Same here, except with Bard's Tale on an Amiga. I made a hex dump of it's save file (with the 1337 AmigaBASIC program I wrote), loaded the game, sold something, and saved the game. Then I made another hex dump and compared it to the first to see what changed. The decimal value of one of those chunks looked an awful lot like my cash balance, so I changed all those bytes to 0xFF and reloaded the save file with crossed fingers. Voila! Diamond plate armor and fire horns for everyone in my party, and I was slaying a roomful of 4 groups of 99 Ice Giants (IIRC) in like 3 turns. It was a quick way to get from level 5 to level 40 or so in a couple of hunting trips.
That's not even remotely true. Example: the Linux kernel and a binary-only graphics driver.
Sometimes, I almost miss ol' Jack Thompson. He should be good for a laugh right about now.
Did you read the linked PDF at all? Here's what the rest of it said:
In summary, Bill Gates explicitly wanted to break ACPI on Linux.