The size of his bag(fnarr!) is irrelevant, since you wouldn't be able to carry three trolleyloads in any kind of bags - recycleable, reusable or oxygen free carbon fibre with brass knobs on.
Isn't that the point I just made? His needs are not the same as mine and deciding that the rest of the world can just do what he does is obtuse.
If I go to the supermarket on foot, I take a rucksack. If I go by car I use stackable/nestable crates which I fill at the checkout and take straight from the trunk into the house. Perhaps this only works for able-bodied people who have some sort of intelligence and a modicum of organisation?
Or perhaps it only works for arrogant stupid fools with no people skills or ability to empathise. Walk a mile in someone else's shoes before deciding what you do will work for them. Where I live I'm not even sure if they'd allow stackable crates into the shops. After all it would fucking cut into their little "enviro" bag racket. Even if it did work it would be considered weird and unusual. Perhaps with you don't care about looking weird. Fuck knows you don't care about telling people how to live their life or hurling abuse.
If you care about the environment how about you start by taking the toxin out of your posts.
The point with these "enviro" bags are that their robust and can be used for months or even years, compare that to how many disposable plastic bags you would use in that time period...
Bullshit. Total utter bullshit. Have you ever considered that popular opinion may have brainwashed you into thinking this way? We own about 30-40 of the "enviro" bags. Despite the markup charged, they are still cheap enough to consider for certain uses. However they're not robust. Sure they're not as flimsy as the plastic bags they make today. (Nothing is that flimsy). But still, they break all the fucking time. Anything over a couple of kilo risks them. When they do break - a small tear, a broken strap - they're disposed of because they're not worth fixing. How many of the plastic bags would it take to counter one broken "robust" "enviro" bag??? How many people buy more bags because they left their bags at home or in the car? How many people, like me, use them for things besides shopping?
In my local supermarket they offer cloth bags for around £2 and will replace them for free, the bags are biodegradable and will mulch quite happily in compost.
They're cheaper where I am but they're not disposed of for free. As for how biodegradable they are, I simply don't believe that. Just google: enviro bags not so environmentally friendly
Sure if the bags they're offering as alternatives really aren't that green then you should still consider my first argument, their use of flimsy bags are subtle hints for you to use something less disposable that'll last longer.
No, it's not a subtle hint at all. Bags so flimsy that I'm worried about a 1kg can of dog food breaking through in a single use and possibly breaking my foot is about as unsubtle as it gets. If the "enviro" bags were offered at cost, I might be more inclined to believe the motive for "offering" me the bag and providing a "subtle hint" was targeted at improving the environment and not at boosting their own profits.
What still gets me is the irony of trying to cut down on plastic bags while still heavily packing all the stuff you buy in large amounts of cardboard & plastics.
Now that I agree with. What's worse, if I buy something in bulk - say 12 cartons of long life milk, the cardboard boxes are so damaged in unpacking that I can't use them as packaging to take the milk out of the supermarket. If they cared about the environment, you'd be able to get stuff in the same package they were shipped in to the supermarket. Reuse that packaging (and don't charge for it!) and I may start taking other initiatives seriously.
I have a voluminous canvas bag which I take with me when I go shopping. How hard is that?
How volumnious? When my wife and I go shopping, we fill between 1 and 2 trolleys. Sometimes we go for a 3rd one if we
Clearly it's not a burden to you to take a large bag. Do you honestly believe that everyone is in the same situation? How many kids do you have? How many pets? Heck how many cars do you have? What happens if you need to go shopping unexpectedly? Which car is it in? Oh I must be a poluter if we own 2 cars yeah? Well you explain to me how to get to the train station of a morning with full buses that run to retarded timetables, or otherwise how my wife's suppose to cope with taking a newborn to get his vaccinations if I take the car.
I really hate it when people decide it's no bother for them to jump on some pointless bandwagon, so summarily dismiss your concerns. I should not need to be in constant fear that my shopping is going to fall on my foot and break it just because I don't happen to have brought my own carry bag with me (which is actually not as environmentally friendly as claimed).
This isn't 1984. This is commercialism at its worst. They can charge you $1 for the "green" "enviro" bags which may be green in colour but are not good for the environment. It's called a scam. They had a problem: People were claiming that the use of plastic bags was a significant contributor to the environment (and I'm not saying this claim isn't true). They solved it creatively. Charge people for bags that are less environmentally friendly and don't bio-degrade, claim that they are enviro-friendly and paint anyone who questions it as the devil, then go back to the government and claim you're doing your part. Hell even try to claim concession for producing the new bags. I've even had more than one girl at the checkout be rude to for daring not to come with or buy enviro bags. She literally said "Doing your bit for the environment I see". I told her they weren't but didn't argue much. What I felt like saying was "get back to your minimum wage job you stupid drone and stop lecturing me on the environment".
Here in Australia you can still get the pastic bags in most places, but they are usually so thin they break. I bought a pair of 100 DVD spindles from Officeworks (similar to OfficeMax) about a week ago. I got across 2 city streets before they split. I went back and exchanged those spindles. I often come home with dogfood and/or softdrink where the checkout person has loaded over 4 kilos into one flimsy thin bag. Unsuprisingly they constantly break. I want to know how the occupational health and safety nazis can encourage the use of inadequate bags like this. These bags are accidents waiting to happen. I've had things fall on my foot on at least a couple of occassions. I've had cans of dog food fall and roll into the parking lot just moving these bags from the trolley to the car.
There's no rhyme or reason to it anymore. Once the environment card is played, all common sense and all actual logic goes out the fucking window.
The 'worst' case is that we find the higgs exactly where we expect it to be, confirming what we pretty much knew already, without adding any new real information.
Why is that the worst case? Science is the search for truth. Nature and reality don't change based on what we wish. That's the difference between science and magic/religion. We shouldn't care which theory wins out or what we gain from the knowledge. We should only care about which model most resembles what is real and measurable. Since we're talking about deductive reasoning, if we find that what we already know is correct, that still invalidates/eliminates entire other branches of enquiry. That means we don't have to waste time on those branches (unless there are other reasons to do so - and intellectual curiosity and the possibility of finding the unexpected might be reason enough - or we want further confirmation)
What I'm trying to say is that any definite result is a good result and we shouldn't let our emotional biases get in the way of actually doing the science.
It looks like you're troll. It should be obvious even to a bafoon that I was talking about officially complaining about being dismissed from a job, not posting to an Internet discussion. Even for a troll, that was weak as piss dude. Get some help.
They lie in their requirements, you lie on your resume, balance is achieved.
They lie in their requirements, and I catch them out. Nothing happens. I can't even complain.
I lie in my resume, and they catch me out. I'm out on my ear, possibly with money owed to me never paid. Usually excellent leverage for them if they want to get rid of me or impose unreasonable conditions.
If that's balance, I am a monkey. The only thing that is in my favour here is a good programmer - one who can communicate AND has the ability to design and code reasonably, adapting to different techniques/idioms is actually quite rare. Not so rare that I'm unique, and I'm not so good that I can't recognise others may be better. Just rare enough that fortunately for me there's more demand than supply.
If I have to report a pre-existing condition to the insurance company, I wouldn't have to report anything because all I have is existing conditions, if any.
But, if I do have any pre-existing conditions, that means I had them before they existed, which means I had them before I was born, and therefore...I've gone cross eyed.
My wife and I had different health funds. We were going to go with her's but ended up going with mine. The reason was that hers considered any genetic condition or condition diagnosed at birth (but not resulting from it) a pre-existing condition, and as such wasn't covered for the first year. In other words her fund said if our first child came out with a whole in his heart, tough titties for the first year you're on your own. We checked and rechecked and asked about mine and they had no such BS. She was pregnant (hence we were joining health funds). Guess which fund will never get another cent from us.
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So shut up and discuss the interesting stuff we have know now:D
Followed by the iPhone micro. It's a set of wireless headphones with no base unit. You have to supply the music by humming and both sides of the phone conversation.
Poor usability? Is there really anybody who thinks that Internet Explorer 7's user interface is better than Firefox 3's?
Yes. Thanks in principle to one small but central part of the UI - awful bar I mean "awesome" bar. I use IE7 without getting the shits with it. If I couldn't install the oldbar and hide unvisited plugins I'd have gone back to Firefox 2. Not trolling either - completely serious. Now if you look at how the FF devs have responded to others feeling the same way - namely telliing those people that this bizzare counter productive change to the UI is the way of the future and that if they don't like it too bad - you start to comprehend that just maybe there is a real problem.
He argues that such a choice is simply too confusing to most non-technical people. And indeed, people like my dad and mom don't know, or want to know, what GNOME is.
That's a stupid destructive argument. You might as well argue that a driver doesn't really want to know what a manual vs automatic transmission is, or how to select a gear. The answer to that is: Too bad, you want to drive you need to know something about how to drive. Likewise, here you could give a simple explanation or provide a help button, give a sensible default, and move on.
r. In fact, they've done so much their best that the technical audiance, i.e. Slashdot/OSNews/Reddit, is constantly flaming them for removing config options.
Removing options is NOT the way to improve usability. Sensible defaults, and keeping advanced options out of standard dialogs (moving them to an addvanced button, or advanced tab) is the way to do it. Provide the ability for anyone to fix and tweak as much as they like. To continue the car analogy don't weld the bonnet to the car just because most people aren't mechanics.
By flaming, instead of offering useful feedback, they're discouraging the very people who made the software from improving it.
There are 2 problems here: 1) There are lots of idiots out there who neither care about the project nor appreciate the effort - they just want a feature or a problem fixed and are rude about it 2) People who aren't idiots and do go through proper channels are often discouraged. Significant bugs they take the time to find and report are closed off with WON'T FIX. Their concern is dismissed "This is the way we're doing it from now on". The options they've become reliant on are ripped away from them.
You have to understand that it's not the end user's job to appreciate the effort. Do you appreciate the effort put in by the mechanics and engineers that produced your car when it's broken down yet again and you're waiting for the auto club??? No, to these people there's something not working about the software. You do need to remind them that they haven't paid for the software and that being polite is better for everyone. However you can't expect them not to get frustrated.
I'm offended! I buy a violent video game with sexual themes and references, then I find out there's a crack, which enables sexual content. I then hunt down, download and install the crack which activates scenes I'd never have seen had I not done so. When I'm done enjoying the crack - laughing at it, beating off at it, whatever these people do watching video game porn - I decide there's money to be made by being shocked, so I sue. After all the content was in the game and it wasn't rated correctly. I only had to take several deliberate steps to release it.
Fucking idiots. Since you can't find a law that applies in all cases, I say apply the old biblical reference. If your eye offends you, pluck it out! While you're at it do the same to their legal counsel. No I'm not serious, but surely there are less stupid things to waste court time on.
But the Usenet I mourn is long gone, anyway, or long-transformed into interlocking comments on LiveJournals and the forums boards on tech-support Web sites.
Translation: The old gang has moved on from usenet, so rather than realize that this happens eventually to any social group, i've decided to declare the entire medium dead.
This guy sounds like he's about 15, feels like he's the center of the universe, and thinks he has all the answers to all the world's problems "if only the adults would listen".
Response to article. Stop talking out your arse and grow the fuck up.
And how much did you spend giving away treatments? A thousand people, so you added probably a few million dollars of up front cost to your program. Now you can't afford to pay the manufacturing bill - so you go into bankruptcy, and no one gets the cure.
What a bunch of gibberish.
You really believe that it costs a few million dollars to provide 1000 people with a drug??? The cost is in the R&D. Giving it away costs next to nothing. By comparison, how much does a marketing department cost?
A few million would buy a Super Bowl spot! If you have millions of dollars and no accountability, obviously marketing will not be your primary concern. But for the rest of us, it is!
More flawed logic, and a personal attack to boot. Even a superbowl add won't do for you what a few thousand people telling friends and family that they were cured of cancer will. You don't have to have millions of dollars and no accountability to appreciate that, and I resent the personal attack given that you don't know me from a bar of soap.
(No startup can afford that type of marketing unless they are extremely well funded, or their product is extremely inexpensive and requires multiple purchases.)
No startup I've ever heard of could put together the funds to do cancer research without being "extremely well funded". Do you have any idea what the hurdles are like to get medication ready for a medical trial? Do you have any idea what you're talking about at all?
but the first time you fire someone for violating that policy
Another one that thinks the solution is to fire employees, and gets modded insightful. You know what I get the impression that most slashdotters would make piss poor bosses. Firing employees randomly when they violate a policy to set an example isn't exactly smart.
Do you know what it costs to hire an employee, and get them up to speed doing their job well? Never mind the fact that the next person you hire to fill the roll might be a dud, or that the job market may mean the position goes unfilled for quite some time. Do you know what it does to morale? That gossip around the water cooler gets people updating resumes and looking for work elsewhere before they're fired for some other petty reason to set an example. Then there's the legal aspect - if you're wanting to avoid unfair dismissal claims providing clear guidelines is just one step - you have to show that the on the spot firing was justified. Then there's the human aspect - unless you're a soul-less piece of shit that cares not a jot about destroying a family's livelihood you may want to look for actions that don't leave people jobless.
I'm talking mandatory training where they lose computer access (and thus, don't get paid) until they do the training....and... After the first time everyone is sent to training for some poor schmuck being careless, I guarantee nobody will ever violate policy again
Boy am I glad you're not my boss. You may also wish to check what the laws are like where you are. What you're proposing is bound to be illegal in at least some (sane) places.
Remind me again, this week are we suppose to love Apple or hate them. I'm not a fan and any time I've posted comments that are less than adoring regarding me personal experiences with Apple, I've seen the moderation work like a yoyo. +5 no +2 no +4 no -1:Troll.
I mean moderation is broken and I say what I think without paying much attention, but it's annoying that it's so broken that you're not allowed to hold a consistent opinion without being punished for it.
Do they mean it's IP68 rated, submersible at depth for long periods of time, or is is merely IP65, splashable and washable?
As someone who went 8 years without damaging a phone then lost 2 to water damage in less than 6 months (one in a washing machine by mistake) let me say that IP65 might have been enough to save me (possibly not in the washing machine case). I wonder about any product like this though. Does it need re-application? Would it muffle speakers and mics? There's no such thing as a free lunch.
Creating the great product is only half the work - matching up products with customers is a lot harder than people think.
No, it really isn't that hard.
In the case of your 100% effective cancer cure, give it away for free to a few thousand patients and watch word of mouth do the rest. Oh wait, if you're in the marketing department you need to use a phrase like viral grass roots campaign because nothing is ever easy is it? You also have to come up with a name that sounds sexy but has nothing to do with the product - instead of a dorky name like NoMoreCancer or CanerOff you might come up with something nonsensical that doesn't tell you what the product does. Oh and never mind that this stuff should sell itself, lets put in advertising that makes everyone involved look like shonky used car salesmen and try and trick people into buying it.
Marketing people make it harder than it should be.
If you sit me down in front of a "new" and "upcoming" OS, I expect it's at late alpha or at best early beta. I don't expect it to work well. I don't look for detailed flaws.
So what they've just proven is that Vista SP1 is at least as good as late alpha software. Sounds about right.
Yes, great idea! The profit to be made mining a few cubic km of rock far outweighs the possibility that you bollox up the orbital dynamics and kill off most of the species on the planet.
It's geekporn. A geeky girl, soldering, throwing together electronics and showing you her enthousiasm for hacking and electronics? This *IS* porn.
Dude! That was terrible porn. I mean she used Windows! Windows for crying out loud!!! And did you see her solder joints? They were messy and horrible! No way that reader's going to go the distance!
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The size of his bag(fnarr!) is irrelevant, since you wouldn't be able to carry three trolleyloads in any kind of bags - recycleable, reusable or oxygen free carbon fibre with brass knobs on.
Isn't that the point I just made? His needs are not the same as mine and deciding that the rest of the world can just do what he does is obtuse.
If I go to the supermarket on foot, I take a rucksack. If I go by car I use stackable/nestable crates which I fill at the checkout and take straight from the trunk into the house. Perhaps this only works for able-bodied people who have some sort of intelligence and a modicum of organisation?
Or perhaps it only works for arrogant stupid fools with no people skills or ability to empathise. Walk a mile in someone else's shoes before deciding what you do will work for them. Where I live I'm not even sure if they'd allow stackable crates into the shops. After all it would fucking cut into their little "enviro" bag racket. Even if it did work it would be considered weird and unusual. Perhaps with you don't care about looking weird. Fuck knows you don't care about telling people how to live their life or hurling abuse.
If you care about the environment how about you start by taking the toxin out of your posts.
The point with these "enviro" bags are that their robust and can be used for months or even years, compare that to how many disposable plastic bags you would use in that time period...
Bullshit. Total utter bullshit. Have you ever considered that popular opinion may have brainwashed you into thinking this way? We own about 30-40 of the "enviro" bags. Despite the markup charged, they are still cheap enough to consider for certain uses. However they're not robust. Sure they're not as flimsy as the plastic bags they make today. (Nothing is that flimsy). But still, they break all the fucking time. Anything over a couple of kilo risks them. When they do break - a small tear, a broken strap - they're disposed of because they're not worth fixing. How many of the plastic bags would it take to counter one broken "robust" "enviro" bag??? How many people buy more bags because they left their bags at home or in the car? How many people, like me, use them for things besides shopping?
In my local supermarket they offer cloth bags for around £2 and will replace them for free, the bags are biodegradable and will mulch quite happily in compost.
They're cheaper where I am but they're not disposed of for free. As for how biodegradable they are, I simply don't believe that. Just google:
enviro bags not so environmentally friendly
Sure if the bags they're offering as alternatives really aren't that green then you should still consider my first argument, their use of flimsy bags are subtle hints for you to use something less disposable that'll last longer.
No, it's not a subtle hint at all. Bags so flimsy that I'm worried about a 1kg can of dog food breaking through in a single use and possibly breaking my foot is about as unsubtle as it gets. If the "enviro" bags were offered at cost, I might be more inclined to believe the motive for "offering" me the bag and providing a "subtle hint" was targeted at improving the environment and not at boosting their own profits.
What still gets me is the irony of trying to cut down on plastic bags while still heavily packing all the stuff you buy in large amounts of cardboard & plastics.
Now that I agree with. What's worse, if I buy something in bulk - say 12 cartons of long life milk, the cardboard boxes are so damaged in unpacking that I can't use them as packaging to take the milk out of the supermarket. If they cared about the environment, you'd be able to get stuff in the same package they were shipped in to the supermarket. Reuse that packaging (and don't charge for it!) and I may start taking other initiatives seriously.
I have a voluminous canvas bag which I take with me when I go shopping. How hard is that?
How volumnious? When my wife and I go shopping, we fill between 1 and 2 trolleys. Sometimes we go for a 3rd one if we
Clearly it's not a burden to you to take a large bag. Do you honestly believe that everyone is in the same situation? How many kids do you have? How many pets? Heck how many cars do you have? What happens if you need to go shopping unexpectedly? Which car is it in? Oh I must be a poluter if we own 2 cars yeah? Well you explain to me how to get to the train station of a morning with full buses that run to retarded timetables, or otherwise how my wife's suppose to cope with taking a newborn to get his vaccinations if I take the car.
I really hate it when people decide it's no bother for them to jump on some pointless bandwagon, so summarily dismiss your concerns. I should not need to be in constant fear that my shopping is going to fall on my foot and break it just because I don't happen to have brought my own carry bag with me (which is actually not as environmentally friendly as claimed).
This isn't 1984. This is commercialism at its worst. They can charge you $1 for the "green" "enviro" bags which may be green in colour but are not good for the environment. It's called a scam. They had a problem: People were claiming that the use of plastic bags was a significant contributor to the environment (and I'm not saying this claim isn't true). They solved it creatively. Charge people for bags that are less environmentally friendly and don't bio-degrade, claim that they are enviro-friendly and paint anyone who questions it as the devil, then go back to the government and claim you're doing your part. Hell even try to claim concession for producing the new bags. I've even had more than one girl at the checkout be rude to for daring not to come with or buy enviro bags. She literally said "Doing your bit for the environment I see". I told her they weren't but didn't argue much. What I felt like saying was "get back to your minimum wage job you stupid drone and stop lecturing me on the environment".
Here in Australia you can still get the pastic bags in most places, but they are usually so thin they break. I bought a pair of 100 DVD spindles from Officeworks (similar to OfficeMax) about a week ago. I got across 2 city streets before they split. I went back and exchanged those spindles. I often come home with dogfood and/or softdrink where the checkout person has loaded over 4 kilos into one flimsy thin bag. Unsuprisingly they constantly break. I want to know how the occupational health and safety nazis can encourage the use of inadequate bags like this. These bags are accidents waiting to happen. I've had things fall on my foot on at least a couple of occassions. I've had cans of dog food fall and roll into the parking lot just moving these bags from the trolley to the car.
There's no rhyme or reason to it anymore. Once the environment card is played, all common sense and all actual logic goes out the fucking window.
The 'worst' case is that we find the higgs exactly where we expect it to be, confirming what we pretty much knew already, without adding any new real information.
Why is that the worst case? Science is the search for truth. Nature and reality don't change based on what we wish. That's the difference between science and magic/religion. We shouldn't care which theory wins out or what we gain from the knowledge. We should only care about which model most resembles what is real and measurable. Since we're talking about deductive reasoning, if we find that what we already know is correct, that still invalidates/eliminates entire other branches of enquiry. That means we don't have to waste time on those branches (unless there are other reasons to do so - and intellectual curiosity and the possibility of finding the unexpected might be reason enough - or we want further confirmation)
What I'm trying to say is that any definite result is a good result and we shouldn't let our emotional biases get in the way of actually doing the science.
It looks like you're troll. It should be obvious even to a bafoon that I was talking about officially complaining about being dismissed from a job, not posting to an Internet discussion. Even for a troll, that was weak as piss dude. Get some help.
They lie in their requirements, you lie on your resume, balance is achieved.
They lie in their requirements, and I catch them out. Nothing happens. I can't even complain.
I lie in my resume, and they catch me out. I'm out on my ear, possibly with money owed to me never paid. Usually excellent leverage for them if they want to get rid of me or impose unreasonable conditions.
If that's balance, I am a monkey. The only thing that is in my favour here is a good programmer - one who can communicate AND has the ability to design and code reasonably, adapting to different techniques/idioms is actually quite rare. Not so rare that I'm unique, and I'm not so good that I can't recognise others may be better. Just rare enough that fortunately for me there's more demand than supply.
If I have to report a pre-existing condition to the insurance company, I wouldn't have to report anything because all I have is existing conditions, if any.
But, if I do have any pre-existing conditions, that means I had them before they existed, which means I had them before I was born, and therefore...I've gone cross eyed.
My wife and I had different health funds. We were going to go with her's but ended up going with mine. The reason was that hers considered any genetic condition or condition diagnosed at birth (but not resulting from it) a pre-existing condition, and as such wasn't covered for the first year. In other words her fund said if our first child came out with a whole in his heart, tough titties for the first year you're on your own. We checked and rechecked and asked about mine and they had no such BS. She was pregnant (hence we were joining health funds). Guess which fund will never get another cent from us.
So shut up and discuss the interesting stuff we have know now :D
Is that what they call quasi quasi moderation?
That's cwazsy.
Followed by the iPhone micro. It's a set of wireless headphones with no base unit. You have to supply the music by humming and both sides of the phone conversation.
Poor usability? Is there really anybody who thinks that Internet Explorer 7's user interface is better than Firefox 3's?
Yes. Thanks in principle to one small but central part of the UI - awful bar I mean "awesome" bar. I use IE7 without getting the shits with it. If I couldn't install the oldbar and hide unvisited plugins I'd have gone back to Firefox 2. Not trolling either - completely serious. Now if you look at how the FF devs have responded to others feeling the same way - namely telliing those people that this bizzare counter productive change to the UI is the way of the future and that if they don't like it too bad - you start to comprehend that just maybe there is a real problem.
He argues that such a choice is simply too confusing to most non-technical people. And indeed, people like my dad and mom don't know, or want to know, what GNOME is.
That's a stupid destructive argument. You might as well argue that a driver doesn't really want to know what a manual vs automatic transmission is, or how to select a gear. The answer to that is: Too bad, you want to drive you need to know something about how to drive. Likewise, here you could give a simple explanation or provide a help button, give a sensible default, and move on.
r. In fact, they've done so much their best that the technical audiance, i.e. Slashdot/OSNews/Reddit, is constantly flaming them for removing config options.
Removing options is NOT the way to improve usability. Sensible defaults, and keeping advanced options out of standard dialogs (moving them to an addvanced button, or advanced tab) is the way to do it. Provide the ability for anyone to fix and tweak as much as they like. To continue the car analogy don't weld the bonnet to the car just because most people aren't mechanics.
By flaming, instead of offering useful feedback, they're discouraging the very people who made the software from improving it.
There are 2 problems here:
1) There are lots of idiots out there who neither care about the project nor appreciate the effort - they just want a feature or a problem fixed and are rude about it
2) People who aren't idiots and do go through proper channels are often discouraged. Significant bugs they take the time to find and report are closed off with WON'T FIX. Their concern is dismissed "This is the way we're doing it from now on". The options they've become reliant on are ripped away from them.
You have to understand that it's not the end user's job to appreciate the effort. Do you appreciate the effort put in by the mechanics and engineers that produced your car when it's broken down yet again and you're waiting for the auto club??? No, to these people there's something not working about the software. You do need to remind them that they haven't paid for the software and that being polite is better for everyone. However you can't expect them not to get frustrated.
Both groups end up flaming.
Never mind the actual truth! Has Netcraft confirmed it? Or at least has Gartner predicted it will happen?
Let me see if I understand the mindset...
I'm offended! I buy a violent video game with sexual themes and references, then I find out there's a crack, which enables sexual content. I then hunt down, download and install the crack which activates scenes I'd never have seen had I not done so. When I'm done enjoying the crack - laughing at it, beating off at it, whatever these people do watching video game porn - I decide there's money to be made by being shocked, so I sue. After all the content was in the game and it wasn't rated correctly. I only had to take several deliberate steps to release it.
Fucking idiots. Since you can't find a law that applies in all cases, I say apply the old biblical reference. If your eye offends you, pluck it out! While you're at it do the same to their legal counsel. No I'm not serious, but surely there are less stupid things to waste court time on.
But the Usenet I mourn is long gone, anyway, or long-transformed into interlocking comments on LiveJournals and the forums boards on tech-support Web sites.
Translation: The old gang has moved on from usenet, so rather than realize that this happens eventually to any social group, i've decided to declare the entire medium dead.
This guy sounds like he's about 15, feels like he's the center of the universe, and thinks he has all the answers to all the world's problems "if only the adults would listen".
Response to article. Stop talking out your arse and grow the fuck up.
Next one, I'll make an example of. That's random.
Next one I'll consider how bad the violation is, and their overall performance, whether or not a warning would be sufficient. That's not random.
Just because you're not playing inie meanie miney moe, doesn't mean your actions are well thought out and non-random.
And how much did you spend giving away treatments? A thousand people, so you added probably a few million dollars of up front cost to your program. Now you can't afford to pay the manufacturing bill - so you go into bankruptcy, and no one gets the cure.
What a bunch of gibberish.
You really believe that it costs a few million dollars to provide 1000 people with a drug??? The cost is in the R&D. Giving it away costs next to nothing. By comparison, how much does a marketing department cost?
A few million would buy a Super Bowl spot! If you have millions of dollars and no accountability, obviously marketing will not be your primary concern. But for the rest of us, it is!
More flawed logic, and a personal attack to boot. Even a superbowl add won't do for you what a few thousand people telling friends and family that they were cured of cancer will. You don't have to have millions of dollars and no accountability to appreciate that, and I resent the personal attack given that you don't know me from a bar of soap.
(No startup can afford that type of marketing unless they are extremely well funded, or their product is extremely inexpensive and requires multiple purchases.)
No startup I've ever heard of could put together the funds to do cancer research without being "extremely well funded". Do you have any idea what the hurdles are like to get medication ready for a medical trial? Do you have any idea what you're talking about at all?
but the first time you fire someone for violating that policy
Another one that thinks the solution is to fire employees, and gets modded insightful. You know what I get the impression that most slashdotters would make piss poor bosses. Firing employees randomly when they violate a policy to set an example isn't exactly smart.
Do you know what it costs to hire an employee, and get them up to speed doing their job well? Never mind the fact that the next person you hire to fill the roll might be a dud, or that the job market may mean the position goes unfilled for quite some time. Do you know what it does to morale? That gossip around the water cooler gets people updating resumes and looking for work elsewhere before they're fired for some other petty reason to set an example. Then there's the legal aspect - if you're wanting to avoid unfair dismissal claims providing clear guidelines is just one step - you have to show that the on the spot firing was justified. Then there's the human aspect - unless you're a soul-less piece of shit that cares not a jot about destroying a family's livelihood you may want to look for actions that don't leave people jobless.
I'm talking mandatory training where they lose computer access (and thus, don't get paid) until they do the training. ...and...
After the first time everyone is sent to training for some poor schmuck being careless, I guarantee nobody will ever violate policy again
Boy am I glad you're not my boss. You may also wish to check what the laws are like where you are. What you're proposing is bound to be illegal in at least some (sane) places.
Remind me again, this week are we suppose to love Apple or hate them. I'm not a fan and any time I've posted comments that are less than adoring regarding me personal experiences with Apple, I've seen the moderation work like a yoyo. +5 no +2 no +4 no -1:Troll.
I mean moderation is broken and I say what I think without paying much attention, but it's annoying that it's so broken that you're not allowed to hold a consistent opinion without being punished for it.
Do they mean it's IP68 rated, submersible at depth for long periods of time, or is is merely IP65, splashable and washable?
As someone who went 8 years without damaging a phone then lost 2 to water damage in less than 6 months (one in a washing machine by mistake) let me say that IP65 might have been enough to save me (possibly not in the washing machine case). I wonder about any product like this though. Does it need re-application? Would it muffle speakers and mics? There's no such thing as a free lunch.
Creating the great product is only half the work - matching up products with customers is a lot harder than people think.
No, it really isn't that hard.
In the case of your 100% effective cancer cure, give it away for free to a few thousand patients and watch word of mouth do the rest. Oh wait, if you're in the marketing department you need to use a phrase like viral grass roots campaign because nothing is ever easy is it? You also have to come up with a name that sounds sexy but has nothing to do with the product - instead of a dorky name like NoMoreCancer or CanerOff you might come up with something nonsensical that doesn't tell you what the product does. Oh and never mind that this stuff should sell itself, lets put in advertising that makes everyone involved look like shonky used car salesmen and try and trick people into buying it.
Marketing people make it harder than it should be.
...headlines read "No more head Jobs at Apple".
If you sit me down in front of a "new" and "upcoming" OS, I expect it's at late alpha or at best early beta. I don't expect it to work well. I don't look for detailed flaws.
So what they've just proven is that Vista SP1 is at least as good as late alpha software. Sounds about right.
Move it into orbit and mine it.
Yes, great idea! The profit to be made mining a few cubic km of rock far outweighs the possibility that you bollox up the orbital dynamics and kill off most of the species on the planet.
Sarcasm above.
It's geekporn. A geeky girl, soldering, throwing together electronics and showing you her enthousiasm for hacking and electronics? This *IS* porn.
Dude! That was terrible porn. I mean she used Windows! Windows for crying out loud!!! And did you see her solder joints? They were messy and horrible! No way that reader's going to go the distance!