"The problem is that Microsoft needs a technology that gives it an edge, and HTML5/JavaScript is everybody's edge."
Pardon the French, but are you fucking kidding me? HTML5/JS isn't anybody's edge. HTML/JS is in no way appropriate for writing an actual application. It may work, barely, in some circumstances, but it's the worst tool for almost any job except where it's required (in the browser).
Fortunately, as stated elsewhere, the concern is with the abandonment of Silverlight (which isn't really that great a loss, except for the people MS tricked into investing time and money in), not.NET as a whole.
The real damage is marine cargo insurance, which is already scandalously high. Of course, if they're already charging 1-3% (and they are) with a loss rate of 0.005% (10k losses out of 200M shipments), then lowering the loss rate further probably isn't going to change much of anything.
Indeed. And even if the shipping companies didn't care, there's the whole customs thing -- most oceanic freight is international, not intra-national. Even though customs is a joke, it would be sort of difficult to claim that a container was lost at sea after it cleared customs.
I have no problem with unions as long as workers aren't forced to join them. My last job was a union shop, but I wouldn't join because we were supposed to pay into a strike fund (80% of "dues") which we could never draw from by definition since we were prohibited by law from striking. Sorry, but I'm not going to pay for someone else's insurance when it won't potentially benefit me in the least. Ended up getting laid off from that job along with all the other union employees too, so a whole lot of good their $120/mo did them.
Which is bullshit, really. Or at least if it's not a crime for the government to lie to the people, it should neither be a crime for people to lie to the government. What's good for the goose...
I receive lots of these e-mails actually. One of the curses of having [First Initial][Lastname]@gmail.com with no trailing letters/numbers I guess. Usually I'll just write a curt reply about having the wrong e-mail address, but occasionally I'll mess with people:
Random Dude: I'm so sorry baby, please stop ignoring me. Me: Fuck you, don't ever email me again. Random Dude: I deserve that. But I still love you. Me: If you really love me then you'll leave me alone.
Unfortunately there's no way to know what happened after that. Did he realize I wasn't who he thought? Did he get in an argument with his ex-lover about what they never wrote? Who knows. But this was by far the most unusual I think:
From: geena <____@gmail.com> Date: Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 12:19 PM Subject: Re: i hate all of you To: Stacy <____@gmail.com> Cc: "Kathryn" <____@gmail.com>, ____@gmail.com
we found these fake stickers yesterday and i put a butterfly tramp stamp on chris and another butterfly on his pee pee. i put a butterfly on top of my hoohaa. pictures available upon request.
I actually left that one alone, until one day I got a friend request on Facebook when the sender apparently added her contact list from GMail. She turned out to be pretty cute too. I said, "Hey, I remember you! You're that girl who tried to send me pictures of your naughty bits." Which was quite the icebreaker.
Yeah, except many parents aren't kicking their kids out; rather most kids want to move out ASAP, either for freedom, status, or both. There's a rather large stigma attached to living with parents in the US, else the "his mom's basement" jokes wouldn't really be funny. The fact that this is common only in the US is more a reflection of the fact that it's really only been *possible* in the US. Of course this may be changing with the current economy.
This is actually what OneNote -- the oft overlooked/maligned offering from MS -- is designed to do, and it does it pretty well believe it or not. Technically it's aimed at collaboration, but there's no reason it can't work equally well for self-organization.
I filed an FCC complaint last month regarding AT&T charging for tethering -- basically the same complaint. As expected, the FCC didn't do anything except give my contact information to AT&T so that AT&T could contact me to tell me that my contract basically allows them to impose whatever restrictions they want.
Obviously I realize the contract sucks, which is why I filed the complaint. If I have a 2GB plan, I should be able to do whatever I damn well please with those 2GB of data.
Hopefully this group (and the voices of others) will have more success. You can file a consumer complaint online here: http://transition.fcc.gov/cgb/complaints_tcpa.html if you're so inclined, though be aware that the FCC will give out your contact information to your carrier. Also false/anonymous, complaints probably won't help.
Until 20-30 years from now when every single software concept has been patented and those patents have all expired. What a wonderful time it will be.
Though I'm probably giving the patent trolls too little credit for adequately reworking existing concepts to "qualify" for fresh patents, and the USPTO too much credit for being able to identify these shenanigans.
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Has iTunes Been Hacked?
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Or, quite possibly, we're starting to see the impact of the Sony hacks themselves. I'd bet money that the affected people were using the same login information on each service, especially since both services use the same "username": the player's e-mail address. If you're not using unique passwords for each of your services (and especially the for the e-mail account that unifies them all), you're doing it wrong.
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If that run-on explanation was an example of your "copious documentation," then I believe you just proved the GPs point.
Hopefully the book is better researched than the summary suggests -- "First, do no harm" is not a part of the Hippocratic Oath.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath#Modern_version
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primum_non_nocere#Origin
"The problem is that Microsoft needs a technology that gives it an edge, and HTML5/JavaScript is everybody's edge."
Pardon the French, but are you fucking kidding me? HTML5/JS isn't anybody's edge. HTML/JS is in no way appropriate for writing an actual application. It may work, barely, in some circumstances, but it's the worst tool for almost any job except where it's required (in the browser).
Fortunately, as stated elsewhere, the concern is with the abandonment of Silverlight (which isn't really that great a loss, except for the people MS tricked into investing time and money in), not .NET as a whole.
Which is probably also a drop in the bucket.
The real damage is marine cargo insurance, which is already scandalously high. Of course, if they're already charging 1-3% (and they are) with a loss rate of 0.005% (10k losses out of 200M shipments), then lowering the loss rate further probably isn't going to change much of anything.
Or self driving cars. We could call them "automobiles."
Indeed. And even if the shipping companies didn't care, there's the whole customs thing -- most oceanic freight is international, not intra-national. Even though customs is a joke, it would be sort of difficult to claim that a container was lost at sea after it cleared customs.
I have no problem with unions as long as workers aren't forced to join them. My last job was a union shop, but I wouldn't join because we were supposed to pay into a strike fund (80% of "dues") which we could never draw from by definition since we were prohibited by law from striking. Sorry, but I'm not going to pay for someone else's insurance when it won't potentially benefit me in the least. Ended up getting laid off from that job along with all the other union employees too, so a whole lot of good their $120/mo did them.
Which is bullshit, really. Or at least if it's not a crime for the government to lie to the people, it should neither be a crime for people to lie to the government. What's good for the goose...
The Berlin Wall? Looks like it's going well so far.
I receive lots of these e-mails actually. One of the curses of having [First Initial][Lastname]@gmail.com with no trailing letters/numbers I guess. Usually I'll just write a curt reply about having the wrong e-mail address, but occasionally I'll mess with people:
Random Dude: I'm so sorry baby, please stop ignoring me.
Me: Fuck you, don't ever email me again.
Random Dude: I deserve that. But I still love you.
Me: If you really love me then you'll leave me alone.
Unfortunately there's no way to know what happened after that. Did he realize I wasn't who he thought? Did he get in an argument with his ex-lover about what they never wrote? Who knows. But this was by far the most unusual I think:
I actually left that one alone, until one day I got a friend request on Facebook when the sender apparently added her contact list from GMail. She turned out to be pretty cute too. I said, "Hey, I remember you! You're that girl who tried to send me pictures of your naughty bits." Which was quite the icebreaker.
Yeah, except many parents aren't kicking their kids out; rather most kids want to move out ASAP, either for freedom, status, or both. There's a rather large stigma attached to living with parents in the US, else the "his mom's basement" jokes wouldn't really be funny. The fact that this is common only in the US is more a reflection of the fact that it's really only been *possible* in the US. Of course this may be changing with the current economy.
Right, except those are ideals, not requirements.
This is actually what OneNote -- the oft overlooked/maligned offering from MS -- is designed to do, and it does it pretty well believe it or not. Technically it's aimed at collaboration, but there's no reason it can't work equally well for self-organization.
I filed an FCC complaint last month regarding AT&T charging for tethering -- basically the same complaint. As expected, the FCC didn't do anything except give my contact information to AT&T so that AT&T could contact me to tell me that my contract basically allows them to impose whatever restrictions they want.
Obviously I realize the contract sucks, which is why I filed the complaint. If I have a 2GB plan, I should be able to do whatever I damn well please with those 2GB of data.
Hopefully this group (and the voices of others) will have more success. You can file a consumer complaint online here: http://transition.fcc.gov/cgb/complaints_tcpa.html if you're so inclined, though be aware that the FCC will give out your contact information to your carrier. Also false/anonymous, complaints probably won't help.
Until 20-30 years from now when every single software concept has been patented and those patents have all expired. What a wonderful time it will be.
Though I'm probably giving the patent trolls too little credit for adequately reworking existing concepts to "qualify" for fresh patents, and the USPTO too much credit for being able to identify these shenanigans.
Or, quite possibly, we're starting to see the impact of the Sony hacks themselves. I'd bet money that the affected people were using the same login information on each service, especially since both services use the same "username": the player's e-mail address. If you're not using unique passwords for each of your services (and especially the for the e-mail account that unifies them all), you're doing it wrong.
To put that in perspective, here's the current FBI Agent breakdown:
0% of known men
0% of known women
25% of known hackers
100% of known little girls.
Depends whose WiFi you're using.
That could be himself.
Or a janitor.
So is Bitcoin, essentially. I've also never used a credit card, if you want to be pedantic.
I've never written a check for drugs.
You've obviously never seen a tweaker.
Anyone else read "Galloping Gertie" and immediately think Ubuntu?
Stop. Just stop. You had me at hum.
See: homage.