If more people stopped using Outlook, we'd all have many fewer problems with viruses sending out viruses, spam, and other crap.
The fact is that people who don't know what's going on well enough won't notice if the first machine they get (say, in the office) is running Evolution and OpenOffice and not Outlook with MSOffice.
Unless they expect the functionality that is deeply ingrained into Outlook and is nowhere else. Which, naturally, makes them more of a power-user. The sheep know how to read and respond to email. Sometimes even that requires "training".
Linux users can avaoid the whole issue by running 2.2.x, which should not be hardship for most.
False. We want new and updated drivers, and not all of them get back-ported to 2.2, and the new ones being written/rewritten/fixed in 2.5/2.6 are even less likely to make it back to 2.2.
If your alphabet is only one character, different passwords will differ on the number of this character repeated. Thus, what you need to remember is the number. Another way to think of a password of any alphabet is its binary encoding, which is really a number (or can be translated to).
So while (it seems) you're trying to be clever in saying that a one-character alphabet does not a secure password medium make, it is really equivalent to an alphabet of arbitrary (finite) size.
Of course, I could be misinterpreting what you're trying to say.:)
If I code a game made to work in windows 98, Microsoft can not (at this point) block your game from being run at the OS level (aka "taking away land") but really only through suing you to stop the game from being distributed.
But nobody cares, because the gamers upgrade to the latest and greatest. Hence, your game may work on Win98, but if you expect it to be sold, it HAS to work on newer systems (ie. 2k, XP, etc.). And Microsoft just has to break the APIs your game uses in the future versions of the OS, and then the article's argument still stands.
Unless, of course, you expect everyone to keep a copy of Win98 just to play your game, which will stop being feasible as soon as there are no drivers for Win98 that utilize the current hardware out there (video, sound, etc).
I'll tell you what I think: I think we should steal everything from the RIAA. Refuse to buy CDs anymore, and just pirate pirate pirate.
I respectfully disagree.
What I see as being better is instead of spending money and time on anything that has to do with RIAA, spend your time and money on hard-working talented local bands. Yeah, you know, the ones without million-dollar advertising budgets. The ones your cousin on the other side of the country (or around the world) hasn't heard about yet. The bands that create innovative music. Because they aren't doing it for the money.
What I propose is to STOP LISTENING AND BUYING any CDs, by any artist/band/etc that in ANY WAY deals with the RIAA.
And let the artist/band/etc know that because they're dealing with such an evil organization, they have lost your patronage. Make sure you spell it out to them. This may make bands think about who they're working with/for.
And move on to better local music.
Stop the piracy. Just ignore the RIAA. Let them just be happy, sitting around with no audience.
How would you feel if you got sued because of what you did for _FUN_.
Be careful how you word that. What one considers _FUN_, another can consider patent/trademark/copyright infringement, or illegal, immoral, or downright wrong.
obviously no one actually gives their real email address. No wait, that's the point! Give 'em a Real (tm) email address! e.g. sales@real.com, pr@real.com, abuse@real.com, etc.
Insightful post. Not modded up as it should be. But who cares? No one reads the dev stories anyway, everyone's just here to claim they're 1337 and (fill in the evil of the day) isn't.
Then again, no one will read this post either. Why bother?
Like the other poster said, thanks for letting me know they're still alive! I remember listening to them way back when... and then they disappeared somehow. Gonna go give it a listen once more.
KDE 3.0 is passable for a desktop GUI from a Windows standard. I'd place it at the level of Windows 95. KDE 3.1 is quie a bit nicer, and I would place it at the Windows 2000 level - if not close to XP in style and well thoughout icons/placement.
Or you could just use xpde and get your desktop a WinXP look. Or something.
if everyone in the industry went home after 8 hours of work, the industry would change.
Problem is, if those that fear losing their job over "not showing their dedication" continue to work long hours, it becomes the norm, and you're expected to do so. I've worked on a salaried, not per-hour basis, and that just means you stay there as long as you need to make stuff work. I don't get to "sign" schedules, that gets decided for me, for some reason "product release dates" are set far, far above.
Not trying to be a zealot, but I don't like blanket statements without qualification.
Most Linux desktop apps have not been very stable for me either, and what's worse, they don't FEEL stable.
I like it how people tend to make sweeping generalizations without actual examples. Have you tried more than 50% of all Linux desktop apps? Or is it the 1 of 2 that you tried that didn't work for you? While we're at it, how do you define "don't FEEL stable"? I have yet to see XEmacs and Phoenix crash, as opposed to Word, IE, and DevStudio.
MS Windows has a very solid, polished feel to it.
As opposed to... Gnome 2, KDE 3,...? They don't "feel" stable?
The bottomline is, right now I'm the most productive when working from an SSH session on my Windows desktop.
That's funny, because when I realized that most of my time is using SSH and remotely displaying apps with Exceed, I stopped using Windows.
First, while developing Java, I realized that DevStudio's java1.1 isn't going to cut it, so I started using XEmacs with JDK. Then I started developing by using SSH/Exceed and running remote XEmacs sessions developing C/C++ on BSD machines.
I installed Cygwin on my W2k box. I installed XEmacs for Windows, used cvs and gmake, gcc and gdb, et al. And then I thought to myself: why use Windows when all I'm really doing is re-creating a Unix environment on top of it?
So I stopped dual-booting and dumped Windows completely. I have all the things I used before, except with actual POSIX compatibility, I know that everything will compile, instead of just *some* things in Cygwin.
Say one doesn't use Gentoo, but still wants to get the wonderfulness of a beautiful Mozilla and them good fonts. Where can one get the 'free-fonts' and 'share-fonts' packages? They're Gentoo-specific, but I want to get them without having to install Gentoo.
Click <a href="<? echo $HTTP_REFERER ?>">here</a> to go back
Except if I'm using links or elinks, I just might disable the appropriate $HTTP_REFERRER to be set: set it to something random or the page itself (as links allows) because say I'm not all into the "tracking" by companies of which pages I've been seeing before theirs. And then this magic also fails.
People, my web browser knows better than your server which page is "back" for me! Don't second-guess me and pretend you're 'leet.
On top of that, the above "go to referrer" is not equivalent to "go back" if you think about it: if I'm at A, and go to B, then C, my stack of pages is { A, B }. If I "go back", I am at B, with stack {A}. Stack = pages you previously saw. On the other hand, using "referrer" method, with stack { A, B }, being at C, going to referrer (B), my stack is now {A, B, C}, and I am at B. But now if I click "back" I should go to A. But, instead I will go to C!!
Sorry if it's too complex, but this is just to say that all the external methods to control my "backward browsing" are doomed to fail. My browser is the authority on my history list, not the server. Hacks with javascript are cute, but I prefer to disable javascript.
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They're all using the same company for their renaming strategies, which is using the same shell script to generate the new names...
If more people stopped using Outlook, we'd all have many fewer problems with viruses sending out viruses, spam, and other crap.
The fact is that people who don't know what's going on well enough won't notice if the first machine they get (say, in the office) is running Evolution and OpenOffice and not Outlook with MSOffice.Unless they expect the functionality that is deeply ingrained into Outlook and is nowhere else. Which, naturally, makes them more of a power-user. The sheep know how to read and respond to email. Sometimes even that requires "training".
...want to sue the Australian gov-t then?
False. We want new and updated drivers, and not all of them get back-ported to 2.2, and the new ones being written/rewritten/fixed in 2.5/2.6 are even less likely to make it back to 2.2.
So no, it's hardly "not hardship for most".
If your alphabet is only one character, different passwords will differ on the number of this character repeated. Thus, what you need to remember is the number. Another way to think of a password of any alphabet is its binary encoding, which is really a number (or can be translated to).
So while (it seems) you're trying to be clever in saying that a one-character alphabet does not a secure password medium make, it is really equivalent to an alphabet of arbitrary (finite) size.
Of course, I could be misinterpreting what you're trying to say. :)
But nobody cares, because the gamers upgrade to the latest and greatest. Hence, your game may work on Win98, but if you expect it to be sold, it HAS to work on newer systems (ie. 2k, XP, etc.). And Microsoft just has to break the APIs your game uses in the future versions of the OS, and then the article's argument still stands.
Unless, of course, you expect everyone to keep a copy of Win98 just to play your game, which will stop being feasible as soon as there are no drivers for Win98 that utilize the current hardware out there (video, sound, etc).
Liar. :)
And on the next line:
(Emphasis mine).
You obviously have way too much free time on your hands.
If you're claiming that you have, you either need a new hobby or a new line of work.
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it's funny. laugh. if you don't get it, move on.
I respectfully disagree.
What I see as being better is instead of spending money and time on anything that has to do with RIAA, spend your time and money on hard-working talented local bands. Yeah, you know, the ones without million-dollar advertising budgets. The ones your cousin on the other side of the country (or around the world) hasn't heard about yet. The bands that create innovative music. Because they aren't doing it for the money.
What I propose is to STOP LISTENING AND BUYING any CDs, by any artist/band/etc that in ANY WAY deals with the RIAA.
And let the artist/band/etc know that because they're dealing with such an evil organization, they have lost your patronage. Make sure you spell it out to them. This may make bands think about who they're working with/for.
And move on to better local music.
Stop the piracy. Just ignore the RIAA. Let them just be happy, sitting around with no audience.
Holy cow, it's an actually insightful post about college life! Impressive.
So true, so true... Anyway, I didn't have a laptop, we played games on our desktops/lab computers/etc. when I was in college...
Funny how CS = Computer Science and CounterStrike. And how they're almost mutually exclusive as well.
obviously no one actually gives their real email address. No wait, that's the point! Give 'em a Real (tm) email address! e.g. sales@real.com, pr@real.com, abuse@real.com, etc.
Insightful post. Not modded up as it should be. But who cares? No one reads the dev stories anyway, everyone's just here to claim they're 1337 and (fill in the evil of the day) isn't.
Then again, no one will read this post either. Why bother?
Like the other poster said, thanks for letting me know they're still alive! I remember listening to them way back when... and then they disappeared somehow. Gonna go give it a listen once more.
Spanks.Problem is, if those that fear losing their job over "not showing their dedication" continue to work long hours, it becomes the norm, and you're expected to do so. I've worked on a salaried, not per-hour basis, and that just means you stay there as long as you need to make stuff work. I don't get to "sign" schedules, that gets decided for me, for some reason "product release dates" are set far, far above.
Not trying to be a zealot, but I don't like blanket statements without qualification.
I like it how people tend to make sweeping generalizations without actual examples. Have you tried more than 50% of all Linux desktop apps? Or is it the 1 of 2 that you tried that didn't work for you? While we're at it, how do you define "don't FEEL stable"? I have yet to see XEmacs and Phoenix crash, as opposed to Word, IE, and DevStudio.
As opposed to... Gnome 2, KDE 3, ...? They don't "feel" stable?
That's funny, because when I realized that most of my time is using SSH and remotely displaying apps with Exceed, I stopped using Windows.
First, while developing Java, I realized that DevStudio's java1.1 isn't going to cut it, so I started using XEmacs with JDK. Then I started developing by using SSH/Exceed and running remote XEmacs sessions developing C/C++ on BSD machines.
I installed Cygwin on my W2k box. I installed XEmacs for Windows, used cvs and gmake, gcc and gdb, et al. And then I thought to myself: why use Windows when all I'm really doing is re-creating a Unix environment on top of it?
So I stopped dual-booting and dumped Windows completely. I have all the things I used before, except with actual POSIX compatibility, I know that everything will compile, instead of just *some* things in Cygwin.
Say one doesn't use Gentoo, but still wants to get the wonderfulness of a beautiful Mozilla and them good fonts. Where can one get the 'free-fonts' and 'share-fonts' packages? They're Gentoo-specific, but I want to get them without having to install Gentoo.
LOL, but I must insist: you should've been modded as 'funny', not 'insightful'...
Except if I'm using links or elinks, I just might disable the appropriate $HTTP_REFERRER to be set: set it to something random or the page itself (as links allows) because say I'm not all into the "tracking" by companies of which pages I've been seeing before theirs. And then this magic also fails.
People, my web browser knows better than your server which page is "back" for me! Don't second-guess me and pretend you're 'leet.
On top of that, the above "go to referrer" is not equivalent to "go back" if you think about it: if I'm at A, and go to B, then C, my stack of pages is { A, B }. If I "go back", I am at B, with stack {A}. Stack = pages you previously saw. On the other hand, using "referrer" method, with stack { A, B }, being at C, going to referrer (B), my stack is now {A, B, C}, and I am at B. But now if I click "back" I should go to A. But, instead I will go to C!!
Sorry if it's too complex, but this is just to say that all the external methods to control my "backward browsing" are doomed to fail. My browser is the authority on my history list, not the server. Hacks with javascript are cute, but I prefer to disable javascript.