The solution to this is a 'Clean' icon. If the software has it, it by definition does not have any of the behaviors denoted by the other icons. Trademark all the icons, and make sure that people can only use the 'Clean' icon if the code is verifiably clean (which you can pay to have done for you).
4. This battle with giant elephant-like things. No one has ever written or thought about it before. Just watch!
So you mean he's going to splice scenes from the Battle of Hoth from Empire Strikes Back into the third movie? I thought it was great when Peter Jackson put it into his third movie, so I guess Lucas can try it, too.
This is one of the reasons why Apple stops things like this: it appears to be Apple-endorsed, but it doesn't live up to the actual product. It's at best a pale shadow of the real thing, so in addition to copying the design they spent R&D on, it dilutes the brand.
It's no surprise that the talks ended. Here's a rough transcript of the proceedings that I was able to smuggle out of Brussels:
Monty: Microsoft, we're going to levy heavy penalties for your past behavior. MS: Now, wait here: let's compromise. Monty: Okay, let's here it. MS: How about you don't levy heavy penalties for our past behavior. Monty: [silence] MS: Well? Monty: Heavier fines.
So your stress level has gone up because the company you work for has decided to lower the stress level of their customers, who wanted GUIs with on-screen help, intuitive interfaces, and the like. So the company has decided that the people who pay them should have less stress, while the people who they pay can handle a little more.
Yes, Microsoft is breaking your Anti-Trust laws. It doesn't matter what your laws are; MS is breaking them.
No, you won't do anything about it. It doesn't matter what you think or believe; there's too much riding on MS for you to seriously combat them. The revolution will not be mandated.
Alright, so why don't the computer makers (the people employing these call centers) write a little bit more into their contracts: <legalese>Whenever a tech hangs up on a customer, the customer is asked to say if (1) their problem was not solved (2) the tech gave them some 'do this and call back' advice (new part, new sw, etc) or (3) the problem is solved.</legalese> The call center gets paid based on how many problems get solved, and they get nothing for the other two. This seems so simple that there has to be some reason it's not happening.
The car is mine, and while on my private property I should be able to do whatever I like with it.
It's true. Go ahead and hack the thing out on your private property. However, that means you can no longer drive the car except on said property, since the roads are a public property and covered by these things called 'laws.'
Actually, the reference to Jobs' worth is a parenthetical statement that has somehow escaped its parentheses. If the little guys hadn't run off with a Lisp interpreter, the sentence would still have a happy ~.
"DNS is the backbone of the internet, in that it keeps things pointing to where they are going. The internet ceases to work in a reasonable fashion without it[1]. SiteFinder breaks DNS so that it does this job only in some cases, and in the cases where it should inform the user that they are in error, instead sends them off to a search engine that doesn't search well and is covered in advertising. Worse, if the user is using one of the thousands of internet applications that is not the Web, it displays the wrong error message. This has the overall effect of making the internet less useful, by confusing navigation on the network and making normal behavior have abnormal results. All the companies, government offices, and organizations using the internet as an important means of commerce thus lose productivity, time, and profit. In short, SiteFinder is a way to increase the profit of SiteFinder at the expense of the rest of the world."
[1] Yes, IP routes the actual packets. But DNS makes it reasonable.
Arguments like this always annoy me. You can care about more than one thing at a time. I care about my wife, and ALSO care about my civil rights. I also care about nuclear war, and the possible ethical issues involved in a whole slew of things. I'm sure you have the capability of doing the same.
You're right. When giving tech support, I often tell them to click the apple, and when the gateway appears to pull down the dell and select "I don't understand the meaning of the word 'context.'"
I mean, I'm sure it sucked for... horse farmers when the car was first mass produced, but for the whole soceity the creative destruction of those jobs was a good thing.
Ah, I remember the days back on the farm, strolling under the mustang trees and through the shetland pony bushes. My big brother Jeb and I used to play hide-and-seek in the Palamino fields, but when we got home Ma always had big glasses of American Cream Draft Juice ready for us.
But then the age of the automobile came and we realized that horse farming just couldn't support a family, and we had to sell off the land. I hear it's a ranch now.
Where Dean failed was in speaking to a minority, true. But I think you "misunderestimate" the majority; if they wanted someone who looked good and had political skill, Bush would not be in office right now. What they want is someone who will follow through on whatever their own particular pet policies are; education, social reform, the military, business, etc. We are, like it or not, a policy-driven democracy.
This leads to a bullet-point "feature checklist" of the type that makes Office look good, but turn out to be crap. Sure, all of these different things are "in the box," but do they work right? That's a much harder concept to grasp, and the internet might help out there, by giving more information on demand (think hyperlinks).
The internet will be a powerful tool in future politics, but it's not quite certain how to use it yet, despite what Dave thinks.
What would be evidence of a creator would be if things did NOT follow what was natural and obvious.... if we could find no explanation for why things had a weird ratio, or weird behavior...
I know this is Slashdot, so I'm guessing the answer already, but... have you ever met a "woman?"
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The solution to this is a 'Clean' icon. If the software has it, it by definition does not have any of the behaviors denoted by the other icons. Trademark all the icons, and make sure that people can only use the 'Clean' icon if the code is verifiably clean (which you can pay to have done for you).
4. This battle with giant elephant-like things. No one has ever written or thought about it before. Just watch!
So you mean he's going to splice scenes from the Battle of Hoth from Empire Strikes Back into the third movie?
I thought it was great when Peter Jackson put it into his third movie, so I guess Lucas can try it, too.
This is one of the reasons why Apple stops things like this: it appears to be Apple-endorsed, but it doesn't live up to the actual product. It's at best a pale shadow of the real thing, so in addition to copying the design they spent R&D on, it dilutes the brand.
It's no surprise that the talks ended. Here's a rough transcript of the proceedings that I was able to smuggle out of Brussels:
Monty: Microsoft, we're going to levy heavy penalties for your past behavior.
MS: Now, wait here: let's compromise.
Monty: Okay, let's here it.
MS: How about you don't levy heavy penalties for our past behavior.
Monty: [silence]
MS: Well?
Monty: Heavier fines.
Icons in the true sense? You worship your pixelated floppy disk because it represents a venerated religious figures?
No, the truly scary part is that this cycle might have already happened, and since the AI is dead no one ever knew. Kind of ironic, that.
Directions:
1. Throw out PC.
2. Get Macintosh.
3. Plug Macintosh In (Power *and* Printer).
4. Print.
For some reason, though, I don't see ESR following these directions. Maybe if I wrote them in Lisp?
So your stress level has gone up because the company you work for has decided to lower the stress level of their customers, who wanted GUIs with on-screen help, intuitive interfaces, and the like. So the company has decided that the people who pay them should have less stress, while the people who they pay can handle a little more.
Sorry, but it seems pretty reasonable to me.
Yes, Microsoft is breaking your Anti-Trust laws. It doesn't matter what your laws are; MS is breaking them.
No, you won't do anything about it. It doesn't matter what you think or believe; there's too much riding on MS for you to seriously combat them. The revolution will not be mandated.
Alright, so why don't the computer makers (the people employing these call centers) write a little bit more into their contracts:
<legalese>Whenever a tech hangs up on a customer, the customer is asked to say if (1) their problem was not solved (2) the tech gave them some 'do this and call back' advice (new part, new sw, etc) or (3) the problem is solved.</legalese>
The call center gets paid based on how many problems get solved, and they get nothing for the other two.
This seems so simple that there has to be some reason it's not happening.
Actually, the newest versions of WMA DRM don't work on OSX.
Sure, apologize to the orcs, but go right on insulting all us trolls! Insensitive clod!
The car is mine, and while on my private property I should be able to do whatever I like with it.
It's true. Go ahead and hack the thing out on your private property. However, that means you can no longer drive the car except on said property, since the roads are a public property and covered by these things called 'laws.'
Burn, karma, burn.
At least he likes Jaegermeister, I hear.
So he's useful as a bad-beer disposal service, then?
Actually, the reference to Jobs' worth is a parenthetical statement that has somehow escaped its parentheses. If the little guys hadn't run off with a Lisp interpreter, the sentence would still have a happy ~.
Actually, it was a system flag.
I'd say the percentage of Windows that works is much less than 15%...
"DNS is the backbone of the internet, in that it keeps things pointing to where they are going. The internet ceases to work in a reasonable fashion without it[1]. SiteFinder breaks DNS so that it does this job only in some cases, and in the cases where it should inform the user that they are in error, instead sends them off to a search engine that doesn't search well and is covered in advertising. Worse, if the user is using one of the thousands of internet applications that is not the Web, it displays the wrong error message. This has the overall effect of making the internet less useful, by confusing navigation on the network and making normal behavior have abnormal results. All the companies, government offices, and organizations using the internet as an important means of commerce thus lose productivity, time, and profit. In short, SiteFinder is a way to increase the profit of SiteFinder at the expense of the rest of the world."
[1] Yes, IP routes the actual packets. But DNS makes it reasonable.
It's certainly worked for Microsoft...
Arguments like this always annoy me. You can care about more than one thing at a time. I care about my wife, and ALSO care about my civil rights. I also care about nuclear war, and the possible ethical issues involved in a whole slew of things. I'm sure you have the capability of doing the same.
The any browser page is best viewed with eyes closed. Who chose that color scheme?
You're right. When giving tech support, I often tell them to click the apple, and when the gateway appears to pull down the dell and select "I don't understand the meaning of the word 'context.'"
Ah, I remember the days back on the farm, strolling under the mustang trees and through the shetland pony bushes. My big brother Jeb and I used to play hide-and-seek in the Palamino fields, but when we got home Ma always had big glasses of American Cream Draft Juice ready for us.
But then the age of the automobile came and we realized that horse farming just couldn't support a family, and we had to sell off the land. I hear it's a ranch now.
Where Dean failed was in speaking to a minority, true. But I think you "misunderestimate" the majority; if they wanted someone who looked good and had political skill, Bush would not be in office right now. What they want is someone who will follow through on whatever their own particular pet policies are; education, social reform, the military, business, etc. We are, like it or not, a policy-driven democracy.
This leads to a bullet-point "feature checklist" of the type that makes Office look good, but turn out to be crap. Sure, all of these different things are "in the box," but do they work right? That's a much harder concept to grasp, and the internet might help out there, by giving more information on demand (think hyperlinks).
The internet will be a powerful tool in future politics, but it's not quite certain how to use it yet, despite what Dave thinks.
I know this is Slashdot, so I'm guessing the answer already, but... have you ever met a "woman?"