Get off your high horse, your rant is not suited to this particular situation. This AG is well within the job description, not using a loophole, and you have _zero_ evidence that anyone has 'the express purpose smearing' anyone. If anything it's a loophole that is allowing companies to do this.
I've always wanted to see "The Jesus Incident", I liked it better than Dune. Or, the one after that, forget the name now, but when Avatar first came out I thought it was the third in that series (the one after Jesus Incident).
Man for some years now they've been just doing shit for the sake of doing shit (I've heard all the arguments, they're all BS). They have a bunch of "UI Engineers" that just can't leave anything alone. Every new version sends me on a two week hunt for hacks and about:config settings to undo it all. And that's not working anymore for everything. I haven't seen it yet, but I'm almost resigned to moving to opera or chrome with this one -unless they've finally fixed the address bar so I don't have to type 'www' to make tab completion work, God knows why they thought they needed to break that.
Every 3.x version has been worse than the last, so, they've set my expectations.
My G1 keeps roaming even though there's no place anywhere I go that doesn't have t-mobile. I keep having manually selecting T-mobile but when I check back an hour later there's a big R and no data.
He can go to slashdot but myspace is blocked? I can spend all day listing reasons why someone might want to block myspace. I could also spend all day listing reasons why people at work should be allowed to browser slashdot.
The submitter places _all_ interactive websites into a single category, and then complains that IT Admins are abusing their powers when some are allowed and some are not.
They are _not_ all the same and the submitter is just looking for someone here to validate the idea that he(she?) is being picked on by IT bullies. This is so obvious I can't help but wonder why it made it to the front page.
.Net sucks on it's own, not because Microsoft made it. I think it's crap and I think Mono is just cross platform crap. My list of languages that suck:.Net|Mono VisualBasic Java RubyonRails All 'framework' languages that make it easy for people to crank out bloatware.
Last month I replaced 120MB of ruby dependencies with 14 bash scripts. But it seems like every time I turn around someone is presenting me with a new sack full of ax handles and asking me to alter our filesystem to support it. The current bane of my existence is an 'unsupported' gui.net app that won't run in anything except 1.49-somethingsomething.
My opinion is that how easy it is to implement your ideas is the _least_ important consideration, but so many programmers seem to think it's the only one that matters.
People rationalize. "Not enough people will do it, so it won't have any effect, so it's pointless for me boycott ACME Paper Co." The only thing in our culture that needs to change is for most of us to decide to patronize or boycott a company for the sake of claiming integrity, and not because we think our one dollar will make a difference.
This is why some individuals sort their garbage or buy a hybrid car, or refuse to buy dvd's. They (we) want feel like we have some integrity.
Verizon has a phone I really want, and has the best cell coverage in my area, but it's unlikely I will ever be their customer. If Verizon were the only cell provider in my area I would learn to live without a cell phone. I have no illusions that my lack of patronage will influence Verizon at all but I'm not going to live selfishly and hope that the other 200 million adults in this country don't.
Why is a straight up lie modded +5 insightful? After more than a decade of this topic being discussed how can there be anyone who doesn't understand that copyright law does not grant the author any power to dictate how I use his work?
Disclaimer: I know the parent is trolling (and based on previous comments is an employee of Apple) and can't possibly believe what he has written. I'm just practicing.
It is absolutely 100% legal for me to hack OSX and install it on my Dell at home. It's not a financial difference. It's a legal one. You misunderstand copyright law, economics, and real people (in contrast to characters in atlas shrugged). Given the foundational nature of these things, there's a good chance you're wrong about everything.
No, it's not part of being human. Browsing websites and looking at software, it is the way you find and install software on Windows. It is not how you find software in Linux. It's not any kind of pathology it's a different environment.
I don't believe you. Even if reality is within an order of magnitude of 'hundreds of millions' I feel comfortable asserting that 99.99% percent of that is crapware that no one would ever need on Linux. You can test this assertion by going to where you go to find hundreds of millions of applications and finding that the functionality found in them already exists in repositories and/or are already included in a standard installation.
I've never (really I mean never) needed anything that wasn't in my distro repository within weeks, often software makes it in on the same day. I have learned that there is almost always a reason software is not in a repo and that reason is almost never manpower, it's because the software itself is buggy or problematic to integrate. In such a case it's best that I wait anyway.
Oh, dude. When I'm forced to use a Windows machine my #2 pet peeve is the paste buffer. You don't realize how much middle clicking you do until you don't have it anymore.
but I'm sure most people have downloaded packages from third parties for their desktop systems and run them without being absolutely sure they were safe.
No one I know does this, ever. You have to read forums on the internet to hear stories of people installing software from outside of their distributions repository or from large vendors (i.e. HP,Myricom,Mellanox, etc.)
User wants to install software that is not available in his or her distributions repository. User files a bug report. Other users file bug reports for other applications. Users spent allocated votes on their favorite bugs. Repository admins use bugs and votes to assist in prioritizing their work.
That's -one- obvious solution. Problems like this are childs play and are therefore non-problems.
It's not petty, because 'IT' is not a generic term anymore and hasn't been for a long time. 'IT' are the guys who limit your inbox to 25MB, decide who gets to have two monitors, disable imap support on the exchange server and tell you that you have to have a windows desktop even though 100% of your work is done in Unix or Linux.
I disagree. In every company I've worked, 'IT' are the guys who manage the corporate network, email/web/file/print servers and do desktop support. My work has nothing to do with any of those things, I work in the engineering department.
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Get off your high horse, your rant is not suited to this particular situation. This AG is well within the job description, not using a loophole, and you have _zero_ evidence that anyone has 'the express purpose smearing' anyone. If anything it's a loophole that is allowing companies to do this.
I've always wanted to see "The Jesus Incident", I liked it better than Dune. Or, the one after that, forget the name now, but when Avatar first came out I thought it was the third in that series (the one after Jesus Incident).
What about 'Lobbyists' or 'Bribes'?
Man for some years now they've been just doing shit for the sake of doing shit (I've heard all the arguments, they're all BS). They have a bunch of "UI Engineers" that just can't leave anything alone. Every new version sends me on a two week hunt for hacks and about:config settings to undo it all. And that's not working anymore for everything. I haven't seen it yet, but I'm almost resigned to moving to opera or chrome with this one -unless they've finally fixed the address bar so I don't have to type 'www' to make tab completion work, God knows why they thought they needed to break that.
Every 3.x version has been worse than the last, so, they've set my expectations.
My G1 keeps roaming even though there's no place anywhere I go that doesn't have t-mobile. I keep having manually selecting T-mobile but when I check back an hour later there's a big R and no data.
I think there was a time in the U.S. when hospitals, lawyers, and drug companies couldn't ( or didn't ) advertise.
He can go to slashdot but myspace is blocked? I can spend all day listing reasons why someone might want to block myspace. I could also spend all day listing reasons why people at work should be allowed to browser slashdot.
The submitter places _all_ interactive websites into a single category, and then complains that IT Admins are abusing their powers when some are allowed and some are not.
They are _not_ all the same and the submitter is just looking for someone here to validate the idea that he(she?) is being picked on by IT bullies. This is so obvious I can't help but wonder why it made it to the front page.
Thank you. Somebody please mod this to 11, it illustrates the entire article.
.Net sucks on it's own, not because Microsoft made it. I think it's crap and I think Mono is just cross platform crap. My list of languages that suck: .Net|Mono
VisualBasic
Java
RubyonRails
All 'framework' languages that make it easy for people to crank out bloatware.
Last month I replaced 120MB of ruby dependencies with 14 bash scripts. But it seems like every time I turn around someone is presenting me with a new sack full of ax handles and asking me to alter our filesystem to support it. The current bane of my existence is an 'unsupported' gui .net app that won't run in anything except 1.49-somethingsomething.
My opinion is that how easy it is to implement your ideas is the _least_ important consideration, but so many programmers seem to think it's the only one that matters.
Very well put, I'm saving the text.
People rationalize. "Not enough people will do it, so it won't have any effect, so it's pointless for me boycott ACME Paper Co." The only thing in our culture that needs to change is for most of us to decide to patronize or boycott a company for the sake of claiming integrity, and not because we think our one dollar will make a difference.
This is why some individuals sort their garbage or buy a hybrid car, or refuse to buy dvd's. They (we) want feel like we have some integrity.
Verizon has a phone I really want, and has the best cell coverage in my area, but it's unlikely I will ever be their customer. If Verizon were the only cell provider in my area I would learn to live without a cell phone. I have no illusions that my lack of patronage will influence Verizon at all but I'm not going to live selfishly and hope that the other 200 million adults in this country don't.
Why is a straight up lie modded +5 insightful? After more than a decade of this topic being discussed how can there be anyone who doesn't understand that copyright law does not grant the author any power to dictate how I use his work?
Disclaimer: I know the parent is trolling (and based on previous comments is an employee of Apple) and can't possibly believe what he has written. I'm just practicing.
It is absolutely 100% legal for me to hack OSX and install it on my Dell at home. It's not a financial difference. It's a legal one.
You misunderstand copyright law, economics, and real people (in contrast to characters in atlas shrugged). Given the foundational nature of these things, there's a good chance you're wrong about everything.
If they don't claim them then why are they 'disputed'? Why don't they just get out of there and take away the number one terrorist recruiting tool?
No, it's not part of being human. Browsing websites and looking at software, it is the way you find and install software on Windows. It is not how you find software in Linux. It's not any kind of pathology it's a different environment.
I don't believe you. Even if reality is within an order of magnitude of 'hundreds of millions' I feel comfortable asserting that 99.99% percent of that is crapware that no one would ever need on Linux. You can test this assertion by going to where you go to find hundreds of millions of applications and finding that the functionality found in them already exists in repositories and/or are already included in a standard installation.
I've never (really I mean never) needed anything that wasn't in my distro repository within weeks, often software makes it in on the same day. I have learned that there is almost always a reason software is not in a repo and that reason is almost never manpower, it's because the software itself is buggy or problematic to integrate. In such a case it's best that I wait anyway.
He said nothing of the sort. What an asinine response.
Oh, dude. When I'm forced to use a Windows machine my #2 pet peeve is the paste buffer. You don't realize how much middle clicking you do until you don't have it anymore.
but I'm sure most people have downloaded packages from third parties for their desktop systems and run them without being absolutely sure they were safe.
No one I know does this, ever. You have to read forums on the internet to hear stories of people installing software from outside of their distributions repository or from large vendors (i.e. HP,Myricom,Mellanox, etc.)
You're describing a non-problem.
User wants to install software that is not available in his or her distributions repository.
User files a bug report.
Other users file bug reports for other applications.
Users spent allocated votes on their favorite bugs.
Repository admins use bugs and votes to assist in prioritizing their work.
That's -one- obvious solution. Problems like this are childs play and are therefore non-problems.
No.
Harsher prison sentences don't deter criminals, but increasing the certainty of getting caught does.
Before anyone typographically accosts me and demands a citation, I didn't read that anywhere it's just what I think is true.
It's not petty, because 'IT' is not a generic term anymore and hasn't been for a long time. 'IT' are the guys who limit your inbox to 25MB, decide who gets to have two monitors, disable imap support on the exchange server and tell you that you have to have a windows desktop even though 100% of your work is done in Unix or Linux.
I disagree. In every company I've worked, 'IT' are the guys who manage the corporate network, email/web/file/print servers and do desktop support. My work has nothing to do with any of those things, I work in the engineering department.