I can't boycott flying. If I don't fly, I don't work.
That doesn't mean I put up with the TSA silently. I got so tired of getting groped by them without warning (twice on the same trip!) that I now wear nothing but spandex when going through security. Haven't been patted down since.
Of course, my bags still get X-rayed, and every time my carryon goes through security at MSP it gets hand searched because, they claim, any bag with a CPAP (machine for treating sleep apnea) must be hand-searched. Of course, that's only at MSP.
The TSA's job is not aviation security. That's a guy on board with a gun and the willingness to use it to defend others. The TSA's job is airline passenger harassment. The more people are harassed in the name of aviation security, the safer they feel, and the more likely they are to keep flying. It's in the TSA's best interest to hassle passengers as much as they will stand for while still continuing to fly. That's how they decide what security measures to use.
If you want Very Messy Syntax, you know where to find it.
The benefits of case senaitivity are purely accidental, and can be dealt with in software. Breaking users' expectations for how things work cannot, and causes far more lossage than fixing the things you cite as benefits.
In computing, case sensitivity makes capitalization more than a grammatical flag. It alters the meaning of a word. That's exactly what it does not do in the real world.
Languages in the real world aren't just written. They're spoken. There's no difference at all between Romance (as in language) and romance (as in the art of love) when one speaks the words; you must differentiate by context alone. The capitalization of nouns in German is similar.
That's why the average non-computer-geek gets confused by case sensitivity (and the average computer geek who didn't start out on a case-sensitive OS).
People don't use capitalization to distinguish between two different words, however. Capitalization in a written Romance language is nothing more than a grammatical flag. If it were more, it would need to cause difference s in pronunciation, and it does not.
Why do users not expect case to matter? Because it doesn't in real life. That's why people have such a hard time with the concept. To the average user, there is no difference between Setup.exe and setup.exe, and having the two do different things violates the principle of least surprise.
I disagree, rather strongly. Case sensitivity is the single greatest user interface botch in Unix. People just don't think that way until they've been conditioned to do so by Unix. (No, German and homonyms are not counterexamples; in neither case does the case of the characters involved provide sufficient context for disambiguation. To see why, consider what happens when the words are spoken.)
That some software breaks on case-sensitive filesystems is just one more reason to avoid them. Personally, I do find myself wondering how much work it'd take to make ZFS case-insensitive but case-preserving.
People kept telling me I needed to learn to take a joke, too.
There's a difference between joking and bullying. "Can't you take a joke?" is the sign of the bully.
Ghyslain was 15. I was 44. Big difference in lots of things that go into one's mental makeup at those two ages. At his age, I'd have reacted the same way. As it was, my own bout with Internet infamy hit me hard for a while.
Further down the R&O, though, it notes that getting a fax number from the recipient's website does not count for permission if there's a note that unsolicited advertisements are not accepted at that number. See paragraph 15 on page 9, as well as the section of the new rules that I cited on page 34.
It's certainly possible to turn the lemons of Internet infamy into lemonade, but it takes a certain psychological makeup to ride that tiger. I'm pretty sure Ghyslain did what was right for him.
I'd like to sit down and talk with the guy, though...
No, a junk faxer can't visit your website and claim an existing business relationship. There has to be something more, such as a request from the receipient of the fax for information or a quote, or an actual purchase. Read the Order for exact details.
If you do publish your fax number on the net, you can flag it as not being publication for the purposes of accepting fax spam. I just added the following text to my home page's fax number listing:
(NOTICE: No unsolicited advertisements are accepted at either of these fax numbers, per 47 CFR 64.1200(a)(3)(ii)(B).)
I would recommend that anyone who puts their fax number on a web page do the same. (No, I'm not a lawyer.)
The TSA doesn't trat the Halliburton any differently from any other piece of luggage: if they don't like the way you look, you get strip-searched, regardless of what you're carrying.
I've carried a gunmetal gray Zero Halliburton Z5 computer briefcase for 5 years now. It looks like it's been thorugh hell (because it has), but still does the job. It goes wherever I travel.
I'm not at all complaining about the price. It's worth it to me to be able to run OS X. Yes, it's that good.
I don't get people buying Apple hardware to run Linux (or, now, Windows XP) on. If you're gonna run that, buy a white box, or build one. There is still a bit of a cost premium in absolute dollars (although you do get stuff for that extra money). OS X is good enough to be worth it.
You're right, it was rounded up. I got mine at my "local" Apple Store. It's a 2 GHz, 1 GB, 100 GB/5400RPM system. I did get AppleCare (which I'll highly recommend), and Office 2004. That drove the price up to $3576 with tax and the 250 miles I drove to go get it.
My explicit instructions from my boss were to "lean to the beefy side". If I'd been able to get it sooner than 3 weeks after the order date, I'd have gotten a 2.16 GHz, 2 GB, 120 GB disk version from the Apple Store online.
I've got a first generation MacBook Pro because my boss told me to go buy a laptop NOW, and yes, I could buy a Mac. If someone wants me to spend $4000 of their money, I'm not going to argue.
While this may be true of your peers, in her experience the fans almost never mention both. (We've had this conversation.) Some of my friends who recognize Caddyshack for the classic it is were quite surprised when I pointed out her role in TRON.
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I can't boycott flying. If I don't fly, I don't work.
That doesn't mean I put up with the TSA silently. I got so tired of getting groped by them without warning (twice on the same trip!) that I now wear nothing but spandex when going through security. Haven't been patted down since.
Of course, my bags still get X-rayed, and every time my carryon goes through security at MSP it gets hand searched because, they claim, any bag with a CPAP (machine for treating sleep apnea) must be hand-searched. Of course, that's only at MSP.
The TSA's job is not aviation security. That's a guy on board with a gun and the willingness to use it to defend others. The TSA's job is airline passenger harassment. The more people are harassed in the name of aviation security, the safer they feel, and the more likely they are to keep flying. It's in the TSA's best interest to hassle passengers as much as they will stand for while still continuing to fly. That's how they decide what security measures to use.
I knew there was a reason my boarding passes went into the shredder when I got home...
If you want Very Messy Syntax, you know where to find it.
The benefits of case senaitivity are purely accidental, and can be dealt with in software. Breaking users' expectations for how things work cannot, and causes far more lossage than fixing the things you cite as benefits.
In computing, case sensitivity makes capitalization more than a grammatical flag. It alters the meaning of a word. That's exactly what it does not do in the real world.
Languages in the real world aren't just written. They're spoken. There's no difference at all between Romance (as in language) and romance (as in the art of love) when one speaks the words; you must differentiate by context alone. The capitalization of nouns in German is similar.
That's why the average non-computer-geek gets confused by case sensitivity (and the average computer geek who didn't start out on a case-sensitive OS).
People don't use capitalization to distinguish between two different words, however. Capitalization in a written Romance language is nothing more than a grammatical flag. If it were more, it would need to cause difference s in pronunciation, and it does not.
Why do users not expect case to matter?
Because it doesn't in real life. That's why people have such a hard time with the concept. To the average user, there is no difference between Setup.exe and setup.exe, and having the two do different things violates the principle of least surprise.
Why do you care? Why not do as your users expect and ignore case when comparing?
Computers exist for people, not vice versa.
I disagree, rather strongly. Case sensitivity is the single greatest user interface botch in Unix. People just don't think that way until they've been conditioned to do so by Unix. (No, German and homonyms are not counterexamples; in neither case does the case of the characters involved provide sufficient context for disambiguation. To see why, consider what happens when the words are spoken.)
That some software breaks on case-sensitive filesystems is just one more reason to avoid them. Personally, I do find myself wondering how much work it'd take to make ZFS case-insensitive but case-preserving.
People kept telling me I needed to learn to take a joke, too.
There's a difference between joking and bullying. "Can't you take a joke?" is the sign of the bully.
Ghyslain was 15. I was 44. Big difference in lots of things that go into one's mental makeup at those two ages. At his age, I'd have reacted the same way. As it was, my own bout with Internet infamy hit me hard for a while.
Further down the R&O, though, it notes that getting a fax number from the recipient's website does not count for permission if there's a note that unsolicited advertisements are not accepted at that number. See paragraph 15 on page 9, as well as the section of the new rules that I cited on page 34.
It's certainly possible to turn the lemons of Internet infamy into lemonade, but it takes a certain psychological makeup to ride that tiger. I'm pretty sure Ghyslain did what was right for him.
I'd like to sit down and talk with the guy, though...
No, a junk faxer can't visit your website and claim an existing business relationship. There has to be something more, such as a request from the receipient of the fax for information or a quote, or an actual purchase. Read the Order for exact details.
If you do publish your fax number on the net, you can flag it as not being publication for the purposes of accepting fax spam. I just added the following text to my home page's fax number listing:
(NOTICE: No unsolicited advertisements are accepted at either of these fax numbers, per 47 CFR 64.1200(a)(3)(ii)(B).)
I would recommend that anyone who puts their fax number on a web page do the same. (No, I'm not a lawyer.)
I've got a DI-624. It only appears to do NTP if you put an NTP server in the Tools->Time page. Am I missing something?
The TSA doesn't trat the Halliburton any differently from any other piece of luggage: if they don't like the way you look, you get strip-searched, regardless of what you're carrying.
I've carried a gunmetal gray Zero Halliburton Z5 computer briefcase for 5 years now. It looks like it's been thorugh hell (because it has), but still does the job. It goes wherever I travel.
I'm not at all complaining about the price. It's worth it to me to be able to run OS X. Yes, it's that good.
I don't get people buying Apple hardware to run Linux (or, now, Windows XP) on. If you're gonna run that, buy a white box, or build one. There is still a bit of a cost premium in absolute dollars (although you do get stuff for that extra money). OS X is good enough to be worth it.
You're right, it was rounded up. I got mine at my "local" Apple Store. It's a 2 GHz, 1 GB, 100 GB/5400RPM system. I did get AppleCare (which I'll highly recommend), and Office 2004. That drove the price up to $3576 with tax and the 250 miles I drove to go get it.
My explicit instructions from my boss were to "lean to the beefy side". If I'd been able to get it sooner than 3 weeks after the order date, I'd have gotten a 2.16 GHz, 2 GB, 120 GB disk version from the Apple Store online.
I've got a first generation MacBook Pro because my boss told me to go buy a laptop NOW, and yes, I could buy a Mac. If someone wants me to spend $4000 of their money, I'm not going to argue.
Someone is. There's a link to the project on the front page of Tron-Sector.
I was 22 when I first saw TRON. Adult? I suspect I'd get a lot of disagreement on that...
It's actually a light yellowish green. In retrospect, I should have picked a slightly greener color, but it's far too late now.
While this may be true of your peers, in her experience the fans almost never mention both. (We've had this conversation.) Some of my friends who recognize Caddyshack for the classic it is were quite surprised when I pointed out her role in TRON.
She gained it, and has since lost it. She's back to a very nice shape.
Not many folks know her from both Caddyshack and TRON...the two groups of fans are quite distinct.
Oh, I doubt it...but they lost their power to make me feel bad a long time ago.
Cindy Morgan (the actress who played Yori) still is babe-a-licious, 24 years later... and in that costume...yow!