Amen to that, Have Brain, what a bunch of horse shit. Anti-smokers are seriously obnoxious, and this particular case is downright ridiculous. I'm pretty sure that as long as you don't start the motherboard from the smoker's machine on fire and huff the smoke, you'll be okay handling it for repair. Jeeziz, what a bunch of pussies.
My old SLVR had this problem, and the Sony-Ericsson, before that. I can still experience the cell phone noise if my iPhone is using the EDGE network, but not with 3G. I repeat, no noise with 3G.
Do you block access to peer-to-peer applications like BitTorrent?
No. We do not block access to any Web site or applications, including BitTorrent. Our customers use the Internet for downloading and uploading files, watching movies and videos, streaming music, sharing digital photos, accessing numerous peer-to-peer sites, VOIP applications like Vonage, and thousands of other applications online.
What. Evar. I'm running OS X and Vista Enterprise (in Parallels). Vista is okay, I think it's an improvement. But it's still no OS X. When they get rid of the registry in Windows, then I'll be impressed.
I hate to shock you, but your use of "Taxachusetts" automatically labels you as a Bushie. And nobody likes the Bushies, except other Bushies. So if you're really interested in protecting the reputation of the President, you're accomplishing nothing by trolling on Slashdot. Disclosure: I've never been a resident of NJ.
Sorry if someone already suggested this, but, why not penalize the companies whose services are advertised in the spam e-mail? Obviously this won't work with the Nigerian scams, but any legitimate company who shows up in spam could be fined. Or in cases of egregious abuse, company officers jailed. Kill the market for spam, and it should be reduced.
The problem of course, is getting worldwide buy-in.
"A naked jello-wrestling match between Angelina Jolie and Natalie Portman"
Wait, what? Well, if Dvorak is advocating that he can't be all bad, can he? I mean, what would you rather have, proprietary OS X & Apple hardware or a naked jello-wrestling match between Angelina Jolie and Natalie Portman?
The main complaint I have about the Office suite is that it's too feature-ful. And unintuitive. Too helpful, in an annoying way, and the actual help files are more confusing than helpful. Claris' word processor was relatively simple, so you could get on with writing your document and not spend %20 of your time fighting it's auto-formatting and trying to find things in the menus.
I think modularity would improve the whole office suite paradigm:
Start with a basic word processing application, then for more complex or specialized word processing, include modules that can be turned on and off. You do medical writing, you add the medical writing module and it gives you... I dunno, a latin spellcheck? Same thing for law, finance, scholarship etc. In fact, make the whole suite modular, and sell the modules separately.
I would like to have a great word processor, but I don't necessarily need a presentation application. Or you may need a spreadsheet that's really capable, but can get by with a simple word processing application like Textedit or Wordpad. Extrapolate this with all of the Office parts, database, e-mail client, calendaring, etc.
Office gets pirated so much because it's so damned expensive that the average home user can't afford it. If you have a small business, sure, you can write it off, but who needs to spend almost $500 to write letters?
I know there are a plethora of solutions out there of various levels of quality and compatibility, but the real life truth is: Microsoft Office is the standard for business documents and business collaboration. Even where I work in academia, your colleagues expect you to send your documents in Word, or Excel, or Powerpoint formats.
I also know that MS has done some of this with their "Standard" & "Professional" packages, but it still misses the point.
But that's the main problem with the whole Microsoft product line. They want to do everything up front. Ship a system with all the bells and whistles turned on. Look where it got them in the security sphere.
I love/hate Fox. I love 'em for producing some of the coolest television shows. I hate 'em for cancelling nearly every show I've liked, except the Simpsons, which, as said elsewhere here, I lost interest in a decade ago.
Maybe Fox needs to start treating their programming executives like they treat the audience. Change their workdays and hours around randomly without telling them. Don't tell anybody in the company who they are or what their jobs are. Then just up and fire 'em.
But seriously, Fox needs to clean house. They need to develop a new set of business practices with regard to programming. I mean, think about it, over the last ten years, how many shows that you liked has fox cancelled. How many shows that you hated ran forever?
I mean, you'd think they'd have figured it out by now, if you don't promote a show, and you reschedule it randomly it will fail. If you don't let the show run a few episodes so that the audience can get to know the characters, it will fail. I mean, c'mon, it's television programming and marketing. It's not rocket science.
Amen to that. I'm from the Ted Nugent generation, and after many LOUD rock concerts (Thanks Hawkwind, for that Sonic Attack that really was), and two solid years of Joy Division and Big Black and other punk and new wave cranked in a factory environment during the infancy of the Walkman era, my ears ring constantly, and I DO have permanent hearing loss.
The ringing is so loud that I can't hear quiet sounds and certain frequencies. It can be extremely annoying too, just ask William Shatner.
Some of the jokes about this are pretty funny, but take a moment and take this stuff seriously, there is no cure for permanent hearing loss or tinnitus, and there may not be in your lifetime. Use high volume in moderation, wear ear plugs to concerts, and always use hearing protection around potentially damaging high volume noises in industry and sport.
I'd take anything that Jakob Nielsen says with a grain of salt. His usability guidelines are nearly impossible to implement without looking like his site. Which, while readable with lynx, well, I mean, look at it. Bleah.
It's very funny watching what happens when someone puts a comment on Slashdot that is in any way critical of [ ]. Usually, the moderation score goes up in the first few minutes, and then, as [ ]'s dittoheads are mobilized, more "Troll" points are added until the comment drops to -1, about an hour after the original posting.
Now here we have an article that's critical of [ ]. That doesn't happen often. Let's see what the dittoheads do.
Wil, thanks a lot. A really great interview, if somewhat belated.
I have to say, I was never a fan of STTNG. At all. I like TOS pretty well though. STTNG always looked like a hotel with all those earthtones on the set, the uniforms were terrible, and the show was preachy, predictable, and safe. Whereas TOS was the opposite.
That said, having read both your blogs, heard some audio of you, and read this, I've gained a lot of respect for you, and appreciate your work. You have a great "voice", and I'm glad things are going well for you. And I hope things get even better.
Ahhh, but 10 points off for mentioning The Matrix in the same sentence as Firefly, and/or intimating that it is the opposite of all the crap SF Hollywood has put out in the last few decades.
ehhhhh...you young'uns... 28.8k!? Why we had packet pigeons in my dayyy. Ehhhhh...zzzzzzz....Wha? Altavistaaahhh? Why we had... what was it? Gerbil? No, that ain't it, mmmmm, rat?! Nooooo.. Ahh, gopher, yeah, we had gopher, and a monochrome text screen. And we liked it that way.
"...are universities too careless with their data?"
Well, that all depends on what you mean by "universities".
Generally, administrative systems are administered by computer professionals who follow all the basic best-practices, just like everyone else. And, university departmental systems are administered by pros as well.
The main problem you have is the students on the network and the rogue professors (who you can't get to comply even with submitting their damn grades, much less computer security guidelines).
Another point is that academic networks are generally more open than corporate networks. The academic network is not homogenous, and needs to be able to allow whatever strange and curious systems might need to connect to others. In the name of research, don'tcha know?
One thing to remember is that these "...other computing snafus recently making headlines" are high profile because they're in the news. What about all the security incidents that aren't in the news? For example, the corporate incidents which don't get reported.
Anybody who has experience with trying to secure computers knows that you can't be 100% sure that you're un-crackable. You follow security best-practices, patch like crazy, do your best, and hope that your users don't use their login names as passwords.
I think singling out universities, in particular, is unfair. Especially if you're not familiar with the academic culture.
I just don't get it. The oil industry needs to get out of the oil business before the whole basis of their industry is gone. Diversify! Do something else. They know their product is polluting the earth. Don't they care about their own children's children? Idiots!
We need to be using renewable fuels and lubricants. Like ethanol and vegetable oils. We have the chemical and engineering technology to make this feasible. What's stoping it? Capitalism & economic short-sightedness.
Eh, what do I care? I'll be dead before the shit really hits the fan. All you twenty-somethings and your kids are the ones who're gonna be living in a world of hurt.
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Amen to that, Have Brain, what a bunch of horse shit. Anti-smokers are seriously obnoxious, and this particular case is downright ridiculous. I'm pretty sure that as long as you don't start the motherboard from the smoker's machine on fire and huff the smoke, you'll be okay handling it for repair. Jeeziz, what a bunch of pussies.
My old SLVR had this problem, and the Sony-Ericsson, before that. I can still experience the cell phone noise if my iPhone is using the EDGE network, but not with 3G. I repeat, no noise with 3G.
"Luke 16:19-31"
Meh. From a book "translated" & compiled by a bunch of Englishmen a thousand or more years after the events recounted. Not credible.
*Nelson Muntz impersonation* HA HA! Hey cthulu, behind the times much?
From Comcast's FAQ
Do you block access to peer-to-peer applications like BitTorrent?
No. We do not block access to any Web site or applications, including BitTorrent. Our customers use the Internet for downloading and uploading files, watching movies and videos, streaming music, sharing digital photos, accessing numerous peer-to-peer sites, VOIP applications like Vonage, and thousands of other applications online.
I am not a lawyer... thankfully.
Troll? Who the hell gave Bill O'Lie-ly moderator points?!
You think this is bad? Wait 'til these incompetents let someone nuke a city.
"You might be shocked to learn that a lot of us who are considered computer geeks are not the world's foremost verbal communicators."
Well, only if you disregard grammar, spelling, and vocabulary.
What. Evar. I'm running OS X and Vista Enterprise (in Parallels). Vista is okay, I think it's an improvement. But it's still no OS X. When they get rid of the registry in Windows, then I'll be impressed.
I hate to shock you, but your use of "Taxachusetts" automatically labels you as a Bushie. And nobody likes the Bushies, except other Bushies. So if you're really interested in protecting the reputation of the President, you're accomplishing nothing by trolling on Slashdot. Disclosure: I've never been a resident of NJ.
Sorry if someone already suggested this, but, why not penalize the companies whose services are advertised in the spam e-mail? Obviously this won't work with the Nigerian scams, but any legitimate company who shows up in spam could be fined. Or in cases of egregious abuse, company officers jailed. Kill the market for spam, and it should be reduced.
The problem of course, is getting worldwide buy-in.
"A naked jello-wrestling match between Angelina Jolie and Natalie Portman"
Wait, what? Well, if Dvorak is advocating that he can't be all bad, can he? I mean, what would you rather have, proprietary OS X & Apple hardware or a naked jello-wrestling match between Angelina Jolie and Natalie Portman?
I know! It's a tough choice!
I miss Claris/AppleWorks.
The main complaint I have about the Office suite is that it's too feature-ful. And unintuitive. Too helpful, in an annoying way, and the actual help files are more confusing than helpful. Claris' word processor was relatively simple, so you could get on with writing your document and not spend %20 of your time fighting it's auto-formatting and trying to find things in the menus.
I think modularity would improve the whole office suite paradigm:
Start with a basic word processing application, then for more complex or specialized word processing, include modules that can be turned on and off. You do medical writing, you add the medical writing module and it gives you... I dunno, a latin spellcheck? Same thing for law, finance, scholarship etc. In fact, make the whole suite modular, and sell the modules separately.
I would like to have a great word processor, but I don't necessarily need a presentation application. Or you may need a spreadsheet that's really capable, but can get by with a simple word processing application like Textedit or Wordpad. Extrapolate this with all of the Office parts, database, e-mail client, calendaring, etc.
Office gets pirated so much because it's so damned expensive that the average home user can't afford it. If you have a small business, sure, you can write it off, but who needs to spend almost $500 to write letters?
I know there are a plethora of solutions out there of various levels of quality and compatibility, but the real life truth is: Microsoft Office is the standard for business documents and business collaboration. Even where I work in academia, your colleagues expect you to send your documents in Word, or Excel, or Powerpoint formats.
I also know that MS has done some of this with their "Standard" & "Professional" packages, but it still misses the point.
But that's the main problem with the whole Microsoft product line. They want to do everything up front. Ship a system with all the bells and whistles turned on. Look where it got them in the security sphere.
I love/hate Fox. I love 'em for producing some of the coolest television shows. I hate 'em for cancelling nearly every show I've liked, except the Simpsons, which, as said elsewhere here, I lost interest in a decade ago.
Maybe Fox needs to start treating their programming executives like they treat the audience. Change their workdays and hours around randomly without telling them. Don't tell anybody in the company who they are or what their jobs are. Then just up and fire 'em.
But seriously, Fox needs to clean house. They need to develop a new set of business practices with regard to programming. I mean, think about it, over the last ten years, how many shows that you liked has fox cancelled. How many shows that you hated ran forever?
I mean, you'd think they'd have figured it out by now, if you don't promote a show, and you reschedule it randomly it will fail. If you don't let the show run a few episodes so that the audience can get to know the characters, it will fail. I mean, c'mon, it's television programming and marketing. It's not rocket science.
Amen to that. I'm from the Ted Nugent generation, and after many LOUD rock concerts (Thanks Hawkwind, for that Sonic Attack that really was), and two solid years of Joy Division and Big Black and other punk and new wave cranked in a factory environment during the infancy of the Walkman era, my ears ring constantly, and I DO have permanent hearing loss.
The ringing is so loud that I can't hear quiet sounds and certain frequencies. It can be extremely annoying too, just ask William Shatner.
Some of the jokes about this are pretty funny, but take a moment and take this stuff seriously, there is no cure for permanent hearing loss or tinnitus, and there may not be in your lifetime. Use high volume in moderation, wear ear plugs to concerts, and always use hearing protection around potentially damaging high volume noises in industry and sport.
I'd take anything that Jakob Nielsen says with a grain of salt. His usability guidelines are nearly impossible to implement without looking like his site. Which, while readable with lynx, well, I mean, look at it. Bleah.
It's very funny watching what happens when someone puts a comment on Slashdot that is in any way critical of [ ]. Usually, the moderation score goes up in the first few minutes, and then, as [ ]'s dittoheads are mobilized, more "Troll" points are added until the comment drops to -1, about an hour after the original posting.
Now here we have an article that's critical of [ ]. That doesn't happen often. Let's see what the dittoheads do.
Wil, thanks a lot. A really great interview, if somewhat belated. I have to say, I was never a fan of STTNG. At all. I like TOS pretty well though. STTNG always looked like a hotel with all those earthtones on the set, the uniforms were terrible, and the show was preachy, predictable, and safe. Whereas TOS was the opposite. That said, having read both your blogs, heard some audio of you, and read this, I've gained a lot of respect for you, and appreciate your work. You have a great "voice", and I'm glad things are going well for you. And I hope things get even better. Ahhh, but 10 points off for mentioning The Matrix in the same sentence as Firefly, and/or intimating that it is the opposite of all the crap SF Hollywood has put out in the last few decades.
Why "silly"? A cluster inter-connected by firewire. Sounds like a plan.
ehhhhh...you young'uns...
28.8k!? Why we had packet pigeons in my dayyy. Ehhhhh...zzzzzzz....Wha?
Altavistaaahhh? Why we had... what was it? Gerbil? No, that ain't it, mmmmm, rat?! Nooooo.. Ahh, gopher, yeah, we had gopher, and a monochrome text screen. And we liked it that way.
2040 days since leaving earth orbit
"...are universities too careless with their data?"
Well, that all depends on what you mean by "universities".
Generally, administrative systems are administered by computer professionals who follow all the basic best-practices, just like everyone else. And, university departmental systems are administered by pros as well.
The main problem you have is the students on the network and the rogue professors (who you can't get to comply even with submitting their damn grades, much less computer security guidelines).
Another point is that academic networks are generally more open than corporate networks. The academic network is not homogenous, and needs to be able to allow whatever strange and curious systems might need to connect to others. In the name of research, don'tcha know?
One thing to remember is that these "...other computing snafus recently making headlines" are high profile because they're in the news. What about all the security incidents that aren't in the news? For example, the corporate incidents which don't get reported.
Anybody who has experience with trying to secure computers knows that you can't be 100% sure that you're un-crackable. You follow security best-practices, patch like crazy, do your best, and hope that your users don't use their login names as passwords.
I think singling out universities, in particular, is unfair. Especially if you're not familiar with the academic culture.
" Don't be so quick to dismiss these pop-up ads. Be afraid. Be very afraid!"
I. For one. Welcome. Our. Evil. Alien. Ove...URk! Welcome. These. Concise. And. Useful. Bits. Of. Information.
I just don't get it. The oil industry needs to get out of the oil business before the whole basis of their industry is gone. Diversify! Do something else. They know their product is polluting the earth. Don't they care about their own children's children? Idiots!
We need to be using renewable fuels and lubricants. Like ethanol and vegetable oils. We have the chemical and engineering technology to make this feasible. What's stoping it? Capitalism & economic short-sightedness.
Eh, what do I care? I'll be dead before the shit really hits the fan. All you twenty-somethings and your kids are the ones who're gonna be living in a world of hurt.
Good luck with that.