So the page layout is messed up, or the applet layout is messed up?
Well, the functionality seems to be there if you just manage to navigate through the visual mess. All I know is that it doesn't seem to work properly - even on Windows - on anything else than IE and that they're refusing to "fix it" if you use anything non-compliant such as Linux or Mac (doesn't work there either).
So sounds like those programmers need to get a grip and realize windows +ie isn't the only combo out there
I think it's a question of how the system (which is used in every one of our national institutions such as universities and government) was specified to begin with. I suspect that in order save money the compatibility issues were limited to Windows and IE only. The poor code-monkeys have just taken the easiest, specification compatible route.
Slashdot readers probablyt won't like the last phrase
And why would I object to it? It's a pretty well known fact that there are pages that just won't work with anything else than IE.
At work, for instance, I can't use Firefox for certain tasks because the Java-based admin pages (finances and grading) at our University won't work with it. Java apps load and work to some extent, but the layout is so screwed up in a Firefox that the pages are essentially useless. In Linux the pages won't work at all because of some weird Java problems (I thought Java was supposed to be platform independent?).
Complaining won't help, because IE is such a de facto standard that, according to the people who maintain the admin software, there is no support for "non-compliant" software such as Firefox and never will be.
By your logic, we could install video cameras everywhere
Uh. Not really. If you're trading something on the net that sounds/looks like a copyright infringement, why shouldn't the companies have the right to check it out?
Isn't that reserved for the trial? How could you have an investigative phase if you'd have to prove the case first?
As far as I know, and at least over here, the cops can search your home if there's a "reasonable cause" for it. Such a cause might be you smoking pot on the balcony and your neighbours reporting it, or that someone posts kiddieporn on the usenet using your (forged) IDs.
I don't disagree with you, but let me play the Devil's advocate for a while.
What would it really change? That's what I've always been wondering about when the alien conspiracy nuts talk about The Truth being kept hidden from the public - "because it would cause mass panic, global public unrest and a religious crisis".
Why would there be mass panic, public unrest or a religious crisis?
Did the discovery that Earth revolves around the Sun and not vice versa cause mass panic and a religious crisis?
I've been building and maintaining computers (tons of PCs and a few Alphas when they were still around) for myself, friends and colleagues for ages, but I've grown sick of all the hardware and software installation/tweaking that an end-user is supposed to do. It'd be nice to just plug a computer in like a landline phone these days, select all the software and services you wish to subscribe to and then just start using the computer. No installation of software, no hassle with network settings or myriad hardware/software complications. A subscription could be free for some software (OSS) whereas other software could be charged for.
My bet is that most people would want a such "workstation console": a relatively closed, highly standardized hardware/software combo. It'd be like a game console, but it would also run applications like MS Office or OpenOffice on a remote server.
Aren't they still producing singles that were meant for that?
Oh, I get it. You want to download the entire album and, if you don't like it that much, you'll just delete it - whenever you get to that... meanwhile you'll share it with the entire internet aka "your friends".
If you are in the office and must go to visit a client across the city your boss thinks that you aren't working.
What happened to the communication between the boss and an employee? If the boss gives you crap about the visit to a client, tell him to call the damned client and have him to confirm that it was a business call.
If you need to buy a new printer for you home-pc, where you work usually, that's not working.
Huh? Say again. I don't think you're supposed to be buying a new printer for your home-pc on company time.
If you work at night, when your boss isn't watching the damn thing, you aren't working
Well, if the tracking shows that you're at work the boss can hardly complain about it. See. This invention works for you.
I bet the submitter and most people posting in this thread are not familiar with a concept such as "time clock" or that you're not supposed to loiter around or conduct personal business on company time.
for counting every minute that they might or might not be on or off duty and holding that against them
And the problem with that is... what? If you're on the company time, you're not supposed to be "goofing off on the other side of Manhattan" way off your route.
As long as the terms of tracking are put into the contract, I don't see any problem with that. You know what you'll be signing for.
That surely sounds as if peer review is everything.
Yep. I realized that soon after I posted - it was ambiguous. What I meant to say was that having a journal with a peer review practise does not necessarily mean that the journal is of a high scientific quality. The quality of the peer review is everything.
That editor and those reviewers can function the same way, regardless of the method or terms of publication.
Fair enough. I suppose it'll just take to build it.
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The words "Spock", "Kirk" and "ass" should never be in the same sentence...
Yep. That's the expert characterization I got from the developers when I complained about these problems. Made me chuckle as well...
Well, the functionality seems to be there if you just manage to navigate through the visual mess. All I know is that it doesn't seem to work properly - even on Windows - on anything else than IE and that they're refusing to "fix it" if you use anything non-compliant such as Linux or Mac (doesn't work there either).
I think it's a question of how the system (which is used in every one of our national institutions such as universities and government) was specified to begin with. I suspect that in order save money the compatibility issues were limited to Windows and IE only. The poor code-monkeys have just taken the easiest, specification compatible route.
And why would I object to it? It's a pretty well known fact that there are pages that just won't work with anything else than IE.
At work, for instance, I can't use Firefox for certain tasks because the Java-based admin pages (finances and grading) at our University won't work with it. Java apps load and work to some extent, but the layout is so screwed up in a Firefox that the pages are essentially useless. In Linux the pages won't work at all because of some weird Java problems (I thought Java was supposed to be platform independent?).
Complaining won't help, because IE is such a de facto standard that, according to the people who maintain the admin software, there is no support for "non-compliant" software such as Firefox and never will be.
Ok. Maybe that's it. I, for one, haven't seen much legal P2P file sharing. In fact, I don't believe that such thing exists to a significant extent.
Yes. And what will happen after they realize that the file has nothing to do with Microsoft?
Uh. Not really. If you're trading something on the net that sounds/looks like a copyright infringement, why shouldn't the companies have the right to check it out?
Ok. Access with some evidence such as IP number recordings might be more appropriate as a prerequisite for a search.
Isn't that reserved for the trial? How could you have an investigative phase if you'd have to prove the case first?
As far as I know, and at least over here, the cops can search your home if there's a "reasonable cause" for it. Such a cause might be you smoking pot on the balcony and your neighbours reporting it, or that someone posts kiddieporn on the usenet using your (forged) IDs.
And what business would these people have distributing illegal wares on peer-to-peer networks in the first place?
If it's illegal, as the author readily admits, then why should not the law crack down on such activities?
And that, sir, was the perfect punchline for this joke. ;)
Wouldn't it be safer to start with an Ursa Minor mission first?
I don't disagree with you, but let me play the Devil's advocate for a while.
What would it really change? That's what I've always been wondering about when the alien conspiracy nuts talk about The Truth being kept hidden from the public - "because it would cause mass panic, global public unrest and a religious crisis".
Why would there be mass panic, public unrest or a religious crisis?
Did the discovery that Earth revolves around the Sun and not vice versa cause mass panic and a religious crisis?
I've been building and maintaining computers (tons of PCs and a few Alphas when they were still around) for myself, friends and colleagues for ages, but I've grown sick of all the hardware and software installation/tweaking that an end-user is supposed to do. It'd be nice to just plug a computer in like a landline phone these days, select all the software and services you wish to subscribe to and then just start using the computer. No installation of software, no hassle with network settings or myriad hardware/software complications. A subscription could be free for some software (OSS) whereas other software could be charged for.
My bet is that most people would want a such "workstation console": a relatively closed, highly standardized hardware/software combo. It'd be like a game console, but it would also run applications like MS Office or OpenOffice on a remote server.
Oh, I get it. You want to download the entire album and, if you don't like it that much, you'll just delete it - whenever you get to that... meanwhile you'll share it with the entire internet aka "your friends".
Good info? Maybe, if you consider that vague theories expressed on a lunatic right blog as good info...
What happened to the communication between the boss and an employee? If the boss gives you crap about the visit to a client, tell him to call the damned client and have him to confirm that it was a business call.
If you need to buy a new printer for you home-pc, where you work usually, that's not working.
Huh? Say again. I don't think you're supposed to be buying a new printer for your home-pc on company time.
If you work at night, when your boss isn't watching the damn thing, you aren't working
Well, if the tracking shows that you're at work the boss can hardly complain about it. See. This invention works for you.
I bet the submitter and most people posting in this thread are not familiar with a concept such as "time clock" or that you're not supposed to loiter around or conduct personal business on company time.
And the problem with that is... what? If you're on the company time, you're not supposed to be "goofing off on the other side of Manhattan" way off your route.
As long as the terms of tracking are put into the contract, I don't see any problem with that. You know what you'll be signing for.
I wonder if /. accepts Microsoft related submissions these days only if they contain a witty soundbite that's in line with the OSS groupthink.
Hmmm.. that is actually a project I'd love to do.
"Perhaps Comair should have paid for the software upgrade to MaestroCrew." (in the Simpsons Comic Book Guy voice)
I, for one, welcome our advanced transparent transistor overlords.
Yep. I realized that soon after I posted - it was ambiguous. What I meant to say was that having a journal with a peer review practise does not necessarily mean that the journal is of a high scientific quality. The quality of the peer review is everything.
That editor and those reviewers can function the same way, regardless of the method or terms of publication.
Fair enough. I suppose it'll just take to build it.