Maybe I, as a taxpayer, don't want my nickel going to the liberal/conservative/communist/libertarian rag on the corner, and I only want to financially support the local whack-job-environmentalist newsletter. Why should I be forced to subsidize the others?
It's called "democracy".
I think your government point alone is strong enough, your imaginative taxpayer is just a redneck.
As to how, I know it is not as powerful as some other choices, but have you considered just using HTML? I know it isn't a programming language in the strictest sense
While I agree with your post, I have to point out that HTML is no programming language at all, not even in the loosest sense. No loops, no conditionals (if, while...), no way of storing values, let alone compute them. HTML describes the structure of a document, nothing more, nothing less.
(To be fair, this is mistaken all the time, I even had a question that said 'which of these is a programming language' with the possibilities a) RAM b) EPROM c) FIFO d) HTML in my final exams. Pointing out that none of the options were correct, I was told 'check the one that's the least wrong'. Duh.)
Then again, from the POV of someone who uses Macs at work since 1996, System 7 really was a huge, stinking pile of shit compared to anything else at that time. Random crashes, slow data transfers, no multitasking whatsoever (sit there and watch your file copy take 20 minutes for that huge 40 MB SyQuest), constant updates that break stuff... bah. MacOS 8 was at least a bit better with time-slice stuff, and MacOS 9.2 was actually pretty good, even though still slow in many respects.
Know anything about the QA or management of the later versions of the classic MacOS? (OSX looks like one well-managed creature.)
"Headset"? The word you're looking for is "antenna". That's even worse because you tend to wear it for a much longer time a day than you'd hold your phone to your head.
Sounds to me as if you have never worked in advertising. The majority of people in the agencies we work with (among those are BBDO, Grey, EuroRSCG, Publicis and TBWA) are left-handed and use their mice accordingly (including myself).
Almost nobody uses the swapped mouse buttons, though, and if you think about that, it's clear that swapping mouse buttons is simply humbug. When I started using a mouse 25 years ago, I learned that the left button is for the 'normal' click, and it doesn't really matter which finger you use to click it. The button order is simply a learned thing, and why bother with another button configuration if you can learn the right thing from the start?
My boss uses the swapped mouse buttons and it drives me (and everyone else) insane when I have to use his computer - and he has difficulties dealing with normally configured mice, which means about every mouse except his own. So it's really a lose-lose-situation.
Why don't you just allow whitelisted mail only (depending on her age)? I know for sure when my kids are old enough for e-mail, they'll start with whitelist-only.
That's exactly what I meant. I use and program computers for 25 years now and just know How This Stuff Works. The problem is that I can explain *exactly* why something behaves like it does, just that most of the stuff is so desperately over the heads of people, that it just summarizes to a long list of "exceptions" they can't understand.
As it seems, we use the same line of explaining it, and I also just don't know what to tell to people who can't tell a list of icons from a menu. Darn. *g*
> double-click the menu option and wonder why the thing behind > the menu just got a click
I see this *very* often, people not knowing when to single-click and when to double-click. It makes me want to scream sometimes. How do you explain that in simple terms to people who are generally nice but honestly don't get it? No matter how I try to explain it, they'll always find the exception to that rule you just told them.
Tell me a simple rule to explain it to all and I will erect a giant statue of you directly next to my spaceship in case I ever make it to Pluto.
My first thought was "what a pity", but actually I guess if she reads it, it might still be a good channel to communicate with her. During my education I unfortunately didn't have much contact with our autists, but I've often heard that most autists get to the point where they react to any channel, as long as you try to reach them. One doctor explained to me that it's not that they don't want to react, most of them just don't make it "in time" for various reasons.
There is a book written by German autist Axel Brauns which is called "Buntschatten und Fledermäuse" (which means 'colorfulshadows and bats') in which he describes how he learned to speak and eventually to write, and generally talks of his life and how he perceives his surroundings, especially people. A *very* interesting read, however I don't know whether it's available in English (and amazon.de won't give me information on that), you might want to look out for it.
In case you wonder why I'm interested in the topic, my sister who had Down syndrome would be 15 today. Unfortunately, she didn't make it that far.
Ah yes. Reminds me of the great goatse.exe I found on some troll resource server years ago that set the desktop and window background to Mr Goatse and changed the mouse pointer and screensaver accordingly, all in a way that required registry fiddling to EVER get rid of all that. Send that as "niceass.exe" to the jerk who won't stop sending you all his funny, funny PowerPoint "jokes". Hilarity ensues.
Of course, remotely putting that into the autostart folders of pesky coworkers is nice too. Praise Billy Boy for \\[IP address]\C$\ and null sessions. Heh.
> 90% of all eMail is useless the moment it arrives in your inbox.
Ah yes it is, especially when it's from my boss or the guys from the design department. In 90% of all cases they're already in my office, telling me they've just sent me an e-mail which said foo before my T'bird even fetches it from the server.
If I were a regular contributor to the 'pedia with some articles of my own, you can bet your ass the first thing I'd do if Google started charging for distributing MY work is calling my lawyer to check how to make money of this. If there's no money to be made (suing large corporations usually won't work), I'd at least remove the articles, and they can't deny that to me, *that's* the lawsuit I'd win for sure. Others will definitely see it the same way, especially if they contributed a lot (which I didn't). I'm sure people won't let Google make money out of their work. Usenet is one thing, it's blurbs we wrote to help each other. The 'pedia is blurbs we wrote to be useful.;)
Geez. Unless, of course, you simply click on the appropriate button in the toolbar.
How is not knowing how to operate Acrobat Reader insightful?
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I am with you for most of what you say, having gone the way from coder to manager, too, +5 Insightful. But I'd like to add something *very* important about "Management by walking around": Know when *not* to walk to certain people, because if they have something to do that is more complex than "change those HTML templates to make them XHTML compliant" or something as trivial. The interruption will stop their flow. I first read about it in Peopleware, but found not interrupting people at the wrong time essential even before reading the few books on management I read.
Of course, this implies that you have to know your staff and be able to judge whom you can interrupt when. Some people need to be interrupted from time to time, e.g. when they're stuck. Others, I tend to be one of them, work best uninterrupted and will report back when they have questions or are finished.
Bottom line: Know your people, have common sense, be yourself. People work best with managers who are genuine.
On the other hand, I use google since the days when they still had the old logo, way before they became big, and I didn't have an idea WTF that button would do, but I didn't bother to click, I always press ENTER. I mean, "I'm feeling lucky"? I'd made it "To First Result", at least that would've given an actual idea. "I'm feeling lucky" always sounded like an Online Casino ad to me.
You are correct. Just rip them to WAV and zip that. Yesterday/. had that article about all those KDE protocol handlers including, you guess it, zip:/. Makes for the same size as FLAC, except that I don't need to install anything, it'll work out of the box.
Ah, ACK. Good point. Although using something jailesque for only allowing the proper app to use the insecure lib would greatly help as an exploit would not only have to find that insecure version but also first gain the rights to run it.
Yeah, users/groups work fine, but any additional layer of security helps, and it's not so much of a performance hit unless you're in big business. We have a handful of FreeBSD servers containing lotsa jails for users, and they work great. No performance hassles expect when Doctor M runs his braindead SQL queries again to collect statistics from his 30 gig DB by selecting about everything in there instead of generating clever small SQL queries and doing the same thing in 10 MB of memory and seconds instead of minutes of full memory + swap.
...but to me it seems that the approach is the way to go. Install/uninstall by cp/rm or drag/drop, whatever you prefer. Ressource waste definitely is no reason for today's machines, at least on the desktop.
That's one nice idea, thanks! Maybe one can even use the special mac keys as meta keys or something by hacking the keyboard driver. Does this still work under Linux as it worked for DOS? *runs off looking it up*
Can you say "tech support nightmare"? You've got it all backwards. Can you say "tech support wet dream"?
"Okay, now enter your router password." -"I dunno. What is it?" -"Pick up the small box with the blinkenlights, theres a huge 8-digit number printed on it, this is it." -"Okay, I'm in. What now?"
Have you ever been doing tech support at some mid-sized ISP? People can't even tell you which router they have which would allow for resetting the device and using some DPL. Next thing is usually they start yelling at you about your 'incompetence'. Poor souls. Life must suck for those if their stupidity drags them down that much.
They might have been expensive, but they were MUCH better than what was even available for PCs at that time. I used the same keyboard from my Quadra until ADB went away. Heavy quality, so to speak, with infinitely variable height setting and a very nice typing 'feel'. Nice sound, too, and almost impossible to break. A coworker of mine accidently run over one with a forklift after it fell out of a window from the second floor and it still worked afterwards. Okay, I made that up, but the second floor part is true. My boss hadn't even noticed me throwing it out, so I don't want to make him suspicious if he reads this.
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It's called "democracy".
I think your government point alone is strong enough, your imaginative taxpayer is just a redneck.
While I agree with your post, I have to point out that HTML is no programming language at all, not even in the loosest sense. No loops, no conditionals (if, while...), no way of storing values, let alone compute them. HTML describes the structure of a document, nothing more, nothing less.
(To be fair, this is mistaken all the time, I even had a question that said 'which of these is a programming language' with the possibilities a) RAM b) EPROM c) FIFO d) HTML in my final exams. Pointing out that none of the options were correct, I was told 'check the one that's the least wrong'. Duh.)
Then again, from the POV of someone who uses Macs at work since 1996, System 7 really was a huge, stinking pile of shit compared to anything else at that time. Random crashes, slow data transfers, no multitasking whatsoever (sit there and watch your file copy take 20 minutes for that huge 40 MB SyQuest), constant updates that break stuff... bah. MacOS 8 was at least a bit better with time-slice stuff, and MacOS 9.2 was actually pretty good, even though still slow in many respects.
Know anything about the QA or management of the later versions of the classic MacOS? (OSX looks like one well-managed creature.)
"Headset"? The word you're looking for is "antenna". That's even worse because you tend to wear it for a much longer time a day than you'd hold your phone to your head.
Sounds to me as if you have never worked in advertising. The majority of people in the agencies we work with (among those are BBDO, Grey, EuroRSCG, Publicis and TBWA) are left-handed and use their mice accordingly (including myself).
Almost nobody uses the swapped mouse buttons, though, and if you think about that, it's clear that swapping mouse buttons is simply humbug. When I started using a mouse 25 years ago, I learned that the left button is for the 'normal' click, and it doesn't really matter which finger you use to click it. The button order is simply a learned thing, and why bother with another button configuration if you can learn the right thing from the start?
My boss uses the swapped mouse buttons and it drives me (and everyone else) insane when I have to use his computer - and he has difficulties dealing with normally configured mice, which means about every mouse except his own. So it's really a lose-lose-situation.
Why don't you just allow whitelisted mail only (depending on her age)? I know for sure when my kids are old enough for e-mail, they'll start with whitelist-only.
That's exactly what I meant. I use and program computers for 25 years now and just know How This Stuff Works. The problem is that I can explain *exactly* why something behaves like it does, just that most of the stuff is so desperately over the heads of people, that it just summarizes to a long list of "exceptions" they can't understand.
As it seems, we use the same line of explaining it, and I also just don't know what to tell to people who can't tell a list of icons from a menu. Darn. *g*
> double-click the menu option and wonder why the thing behind
> the menu just got a click
I see this *very* often, people not knowing when to single-click and when to double-click. It makes me want to scream sometimes. How do you explain that in simple terms to people who are generally nice but honestly don't get it? No matter how I try to explain it, they'll always find the exception to that rule you just told them.
Tell me a simple rule to explain it to all and I will erect a giant statue of you directly next to my spaceship in case I ever make it to Pluto.
My first thought was "what a pity", but actually I guess if she reads it, it might still be a good channel to communicate with her. During my education I unfortunately didn't have much contact with our autists, but I've often heard that most autists get to the point where they react to any channel, as long as you try to reach them. One doctor explained to me that it's not that they don't want to react, most of them just don't make it "in time" for various reasons.
There is a book written by German autist Axel Brauns which is called "Buntschatten und Fledermäuse" (which means 'colorfulshadows and bats') in which he describes how he learned to speak and eventually to write, and generally talks of his life and how he perceives his surroundings, especially people. A *very* interesting read, however I don't know whether it's available in English (and amazon.de won't give me information on that), you might want to look out for it.
In case you wonder why I'm interested in the topic, my sister who had Down syndrome would be 15 today. Unfortunately, she didn't make it that far.
Ah yes. Reminds me of the great goatse.exe I found on some troll resource server years ago that set the desktop and window background to Mr Goatse and changed the mouse pointer and screensaver accordingly, all in a way that required registry fiddling to EVER get rid of all that. Send that as "niceass.exe" to the jerk who won't stop sending you all his funny, funny PowerPoint "jokes". Hilarity ensues.
Of course, remotely putting that into the autostart folders of pesky coworkers is nice too. Praise Billy Boy for \\[IP address]\C$\ and null sessions. Heh.
Mind to keep us updated on the communication experiment in your Journal? I'd love to read about it as it's going on.
> 90% of all eMail is useless the moment it arrives in your inbox.
Ah yes it is, especially when it's from my boss or the guys from the design department. In 90% of all cases they're already in my office, telling me they've just sent me an e-mail which said foo before my T'bird even fetches it from the server.
If I were a regular contributor to the 'pedia with some articles of my own, you can bet your ass the first thing I'd do if Google started charging for distributing MY work is calling my lawyer to check how to make money of this. If there's no money to be made (suing large corporations usually won't work), I'd at least remove the articles, and they can't deny that to me, *that's* the lawsuit I'd win for sure. Others will definitely see it the same way, especially if they contributed a lot (which I didn't). I'm sure people won't let Google make money out of their work. Usenet is one thing, it's blurbs we wrote to help each other. The 'pedia is blurbs we wrote to be useful. ;)
Geez. Unless, of course, you simply click on the appropriate button in the toolbar.
How is not knowing how to operate Acrobat Reader insightful?
I am with you for most of what you say, having gone the way from coder to manager, too, +5 Insightful. But I'd like to add something *very* important about "Management by walking around": Know when *not* to walk to certain people, because if they have something to do that is more complex than "change those HTML templates to make them XHTML compliant" or something as trivial. The interruption will stop their flow. I first read about it in Peopleware, but found not interrupting people at the wrong time essential even before reading the few books on management I read.
Of course, this implies that you have to know your staff and be able to judge whom you can interrupt when. Some people need to be interrupted from time to time, e.g. when they're stuck. Others, I tend to be one of them, work best uninterrupted and will report back when they have questions or are finished.
Bottom line: Know your people, have common sense, be yourself. People work best with managers who are genuine.
And I don't know whether it's funny or sad, because it's so true. I, for one, welcome our new Billy Boy trolling overlords!
On the other hand, I use google since the days when they still had the old logo, way before they became big, and I didn't have an idea WTF that button would do, but I didn't bother to click, I always press ENTER. I mean, "I'm feeling lucky"? I'd made it "To First Result", at least that would've given an actual idea. "I'm feeling lucky" always sounded like an Online Casino ad to me.
So I guess *your* dad doesn't use eMule? *g*
You are correct. Just rip them to WAV and zip that. Yesterday /. had that article about all those KDE protocol handlers including, you guess it, zip:/. Makes for the same size as FLAC, except that I don't need to install anything, it'll work out of the box.
Ah, ACK. Good point. Although using something jailesque for only allowing the proper app to use the insecure lib would greatly help as an exploit would not only have to find that insecure version but also first gain the rights to run it.
Yeah, users/groups work fine, but any additional layer of security helps, and it's not so much of a performance hit unless you're in big business. We have a handful of FreeBSD servers containing lotsa jails for users, and they work great. No performance hassles expect when Doctor M runs his braindead SQL queries again to collect statistics from his 30 gig DB by selecting about everything in there instead of generating clever small SQL queries and doing the same thing in 10 MB of memory and seconds instead of minutes of full memory + swap.
...but to me it seems that the approach is the way to go. Install/uninstall by cp/rm or drag/drop, whatever you prefer. Ressource waste definitely is no reason for today's machines, at least on the desktop.
That's one nice idea, thanks! Maybe one can even use the special mac keys as meta keys or something by hacking the keyboard driver. Does this still work under Linux as it worked for DOS? *runs off looking it up*
Can you say "tech support nightmare"?
You've got it all backwards. Can you say "tech support wet dream"?
"Okay, now enter your router password."
-"I dunno. What is it?"
-"Pick up the small box with the blinkenlights, theres a huge 8-digit number printed on it, this is it."
-"Okay, I'm in. What now?"
Have you ever been doing tech support at some mid-sized ISP? People can't even tell you which router they have which would allow for resetting the device and using some DPL. Next thing is usually they start yelling at you about your 'incompetence'. Poor souls. Life must suck for those if their stupidity drags them down that much.
They might have been expensive, but they were MUCH better than what was even available for PCs at that time. I used the same keyboard from my Quadra until ADB went away. Heavy quality, so to speak, with infinitely variable height setting and a very nice typing 'feel'. Nice sound, too, and almost impossible to break. A coworker of mine accidently run over one with a forklift after it fell out of a window from the second floor and it still worked afterwards. Okay, I made that up, but the second floor part is true. My boss hadn't even noticed me throwing it out, so I don't want to make him suspicious if he reads this.
Oh, wait.
You might want to read up on Buddhism. There is a nice short intro from Damien Keown, search your favourite online bookshelf.