It's actually legal in the US, too, or at least in California - the one potentially useful thing (assuming I ever become a bajillionaire) I learned having to take a stupid online course for a stupid speeding ticket. All you have to do is set aside some decent chunk of cash (I want to say 30k?) and get it certified by various authorities that that money will never be spent on anything other than paying for damages in case of a car accident.
Instant search is a huge pain, and I turn it off immediately. Then when it decides to randomly enable itself again every so often, I turn it off again! Autocomplete, on the other hand, I will grant is useful and nonannoying, but if it doesn't automcomplete the word bittorrent, and I have to type in the whole thing if that's what I'm looking for... who cares? I usually type the whole thing in anyway, cause it takes longer to wait for the dropdown to finish initializing and then count how many times to press down to get to what I was looking for, than it does to just type the whole query in.
Censorship is removing results from searches. Censorship is *not* removing entirely optional features from searches, that don't affect search results.
I feel your definition of "classic" is a bit skewed. The "classic" definition of "hacker" *is* the MIT definition, "one who enjoys fiddling around with technology for its own sake, and coming up with interesting solutions". The "guy who breaks into computers without authorization" definition is the recent one. Granted, there was certainly precedent for the semantic shift - the original MIT "hackers" were known for their pranks of sometimes questionable legality, with regards to such things as trespassing, lockpicking, etc... still, not quite the same concept.
A number of years ago, a forum site I was on decided to add this giant left sidebar to their site, a bunch of people complained, the admin got butthurt and banned everyone who even so much as used the word "sidebar" in a post; it was kind of hilarious.
This new sidebar is way more irritating than that one was.
Also, I used to be able to tell what level a reply was on compared to its parent and children... not so much anymore.
Ah, thanks for explaining it - I was looking for a footnote that wasn't there, while being also slightly confused as to what happened to * and **. And I certainly agree, censored out cussing is frelling dumb. Minced oaths, on the other hand, are fracking great, and those which were invented to be used in sci-fi shows, especially, are gorram awesome.
I think you mean, "what do you want to *try* to replace today... after spending hours on hold and talking to various people who all insist that it isn't their problem, if they can even be arsed to find your warranty instead of insisting that you never bought anything from them at all."
That said, I do hear that they do at least treat their business customers slightly better than their consumer customers... so perhaps they can at least get their shoddy crap replaced in a reasonable amount of time.
I've been running the latest FF4 beta for a couple months (b8 at the time, now b9), and I haven't had any issues with copy-pasting. I've had *other* issues (most notably, one where occasionally, all my open windows permanently stopped drawing their contents, and I had to close them and reopen them all), but not that one.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who read it like that ("wouldn't robots inspire programmers way the frack more than the average suit would likely be inspired by one?")
A tradition which *everyone loves*. (This year's was sort of lacking spirit, though. Though he did make up for it by linking the entirety of the post to Cee-Lo's Fuck You.)
Anyway, glad I'm not the only person who immediately thought of KoL. Hi, fellow Loather! (Even if you did post anonymously.)
Really, SQL's no Oracle? I agree, products are just products, and Microsoft's made some truly terrible ones, and many more mediocre, but supporting both MSSSQL and Oracle as we do, I'd be way the heck happier to only support the former. And admittedly I haven't tried OpenOffice in a few years, but when I did, it was a bugridden piece of garbage, while at the time, Office may have been bloated, but it was still quite useable (on the other hand, I still have Office '03 installed at home. I hate the ribbon too.) Outlook is terrible, and my mp3 player also runs Android, but I couldn't disagree more on Oracle.
And I like the Linux kernel fine, but I still haven't found a window manager I like the UI of much, and most of my interactions with the OS go through the window manager, so that's pretty important. (Course they broke all kinds of things in the Win7 UI, too; I've got replacements running for just about everything. Maybe I should go look for "make Linux look like Win2k" sometime when I'm really bored.)
I'm a bit late, but this isn't the first Android-running not-phone on the market. Archos has been making mp3 players that run Android for a couple years now; I've got an Archos 5, and while the UI isn't the greatest (mostly, I just wish it had actual buttons, not just a touchscreen), it is certainly much like a smartphone-minus-the-phone you were looking for. (Though it doesn't have a camera, I guess. That has never really bothered me. It has a large hard drive, wifi, and access to the Android marketplace, those are the important things.)
When the Isos were explained, I thought that was extremely interesting, too. I would happily have gone to see a movie about them. Sadly, it was explained, and then basically forgotten again other than to have a reason to claim the generic attractive female lead's character was special. That *was* my biggest complaint about the movie: it had huge amounts of potential to be an interesting movie, but they just didn't care. The plot was mainly gibberish. I can suspend disbelief, but only when there's something to suspend it *for*.
I'd love to see a movie that's actually about the Isos, though. Preferably one in which they *can't* create matter out of nothing, for entirely unexplained reasons.
Quoth 3 Dead Trolls in a Baggie (many, many years ago), who put up all their stuff for free on their site: Of course, if you've downloaded this from Napster, screw you. You know what, free isn't good enough for you, you've gotta rip us off? That's okay, I will find you, and I will kill you.
My favorite radio station does this, too. Only difference is, I willingly listen to it; they even actually convinced me to send them a nontrivial amount of money. Why? Because they're *good* at it. They don't just repeat "please send us money because we're broke" over and over, all day - they tell amusing stories, they talk about comments donators have written, they play songs from the various gifts donators can receive; one time a couple years ago, someone said they donated because the station had just finished playing O Fortuna... so they laughed, and played O Fortuna again immediately.
If Wikipedia had a sense of humor about their campaign like that, instead of just begging, maybe I'd give them some cash, too. (Bonus gifts help, too; even if I was aware that I could buy the same cd for about a sixth the cost, there's just something different between "buy an overpriced item for charity" and "give money for nothing".)
Hey, do you work here? I'm in a similar place, though once I managed to trade seats with someone so I wasn't *right* next to tech support, it got much more tolerable. I don't honestly mind sitting out in the open with the rest of dev and QA on my team - in fact, I think I'd prefer it to having to sit in a cramped cubicle all day - but when I was sitting right next to tech support, I definitely had to tell them to shut up a few times. (Though I did get to listen to a few great this-customer-is-a-moron conversations).
Or, expressed more simply: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TropesAreNotbad
And I agree - it was a simple plot that had been recognizably done in its exact form at least a dozen times before, but it was still a fun movie, not just for the special effects. Heck, perhaps I shouldn't admit this, but I even cared about the characters. I'd rewatch Avatar a dozen times in a row before I rewatched Revenge of the Sith even once.
Because if someone compromised a password to an important account on one site, they wouldn't *already* try the same password at other sites? You could argue that using the same password multiple places is a vulnerability (true, though everyone still does it.) But admitting to it, not so much. (Since, as mentioned, everyone does it.)
Well, the story already exists: Zahn wrote them back in the early 90s. If they were put into film (and Lucas *wasn't* directing or responsible for the script), I would so camp out for that.
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It's actually legal in the US, too, or at least in California - the one potentially useful thing (assuming I ever become a bajillionaire) I learned having to take a stupid online course for a stupid speeding ticket. All you have to do is set aside some decent chunk of cash (I want to say 30k?) and get it certified by various authorities that that money will never be spent on anything other than paying for damages in case of a car accident.
But... that's my name! They can't have my name!
Instant search is a huge pain, and I turn it off immediately. Then when it decides to randomly enable itself again every so often, I turn it off again! Autocomplete, on the other hand, I will grant is useful and nonannoying, but if it doesn't automcomplete the word bittorrent, and I have to type in the whole thing if that's what I'm looking for... who cares? I usually type the whole thing in anyway, cause it takes longer to wait for the dropdown to finish initializing and then count how many times to press down to get to what I was looking for, than it does to just type the whole query in.
Censorship is removing results from searches. Censorship is *not* removing entirely optional features from searches, that don't affect search results.
Read the headline: Inventors of Unix Win... what the heck is Unix Win? Is that anything like Lindows?
I feel your definition of "classic" is a bit skewed. The "classic" definition of "hacker" *is* the MIT definition, "one who enjoys fiddling around with technology for its own sake, and coming up with interesting solutions". The "guy who breaks into computers without authorization" definition is the recent one. Granted, there was certainly precedent for the semantic shift - the original MIT "hackers" were known for their pranks of sometimes questionable legality, with regards to such things as trespassing, lockpicking, etc... still, not quite the same concept.
A number of years ago, a forum site I was on decided to add this giant left sidebar to their site, a bunch of people complained, the admin got butthurt and banned everyone who even so much as used the word "sidebar" in a post; it was kind of hilarious.
This new sidebar is way more irritating than that one was.
Also, I used to be able to tell what level a reply was on compared to its parent and children... not so much anymore.
Ah, thanks for explaining it - I was looking for a footnote that wasn't there, while being also slightly confused as to what happened to * and **. And I certainly agree, censored out cussing is frelling dumb. Minced oaths, on the other hand, are fracking great, and those which were invented to be used in sci-fi shows, especially, are gorram awesome.
Somehow I managed to read this title as "Is Retaliation the answer to Cylon attacks?"
The answer is clearly yes (assuming we have any ships left to retaliate with...)
I think you mean, "what do you want to *try* to replace today... after spending hours on hold and talking to various people who all insist that it isn't their problem, if they can even be arsed to find your warranty instead of insisting that you never bought anything from them at all."
That said, I do hear that they do at least treat their business customers slightly better than their consumer customers... so perhaps they can at least get their shoddy crap replaced in a reasonable amount of time.
If we don't know which, isn't he both? That's how quantum mechanics works, right?
I've been running the latest FF4 beta for a couple months (b8 at the time, now b9), and I haven't had any issues with copy-pasting. I've had *other* issues (most notably, one where occasionally, all my open windows permanently stopped drawing their contents, and I had to close them and reopen them all), but not that one.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who read it like that ("wouldn't robots inspire programmers way the frack more than the average suit would likely be inspired by one?")
A tradition which *everyone loves*. (This year's was sort of lacking spirit, though. Though he did make up for it by linking the entirety of the post to Cee-Lo's Fuck You.)
Anyway, glad I'm not the only person who immediately thought of KoL. Hi, fellow Loather! (Even if you did post anonymously.)
Really, SQL's no Oracle? I agree, products are just products, and Microsoft's made some truly terrible ones, and many more mediocre, but supporting both MSSSQL and Oracle as we do, I'd be way the heck happier to only support the former. And admittedly I haven't tried OpenOffice in a few years, but when I did, it was a bugridden piece of garbage, while at the time, Office may have been bloated, but it was still quite useable (on the other hand, I still have Office '03 installed at home. I hate the ribbon too.) Outlook is terrible, and my mp3 player also runs Android, but I couldn't disagree more on Oracle.
And I like the Linux kernel fine, but I still haven't found a window manager I like the UI of much, and most of my interactions with the OS go through the window manager, so that's pretty important. (Course they broke all kinds of things in the Win7 UI, too; I've got replacements running for just about everything. Maybe I should go look for "make Linux look like Win2k" sometime when I'm really bored.)
I'm a bit late, but this isn't the first Android-running not-phone on the market. Archos has been making mp3 players that run Android for a couple years now; I've got an Archos 5, and while the UI isn't the greatest (mostly, I just wish it had actual buttons, not just a touchscreen), it is certainly much like a smartphone-minus-the-phone you were looking for. (Though it doesn't have a camera, I guess. That has never really bothered me. It has a large hard drive, wifi, and access to the Android marketplace, those are the important things.)
When the Isos were explained, I thought that was extremely interesting, too. I would happily have gone to see a movie about them. Sadly, it was explained, and then basically forgotten again other than to have a reason to claim the generic attractive female lead's character was special. That *was* my biggest complaint about the movie: it had huge amounts of potential to be an interesting movie, but they just didn't care. The plot was mainly gibberish. I can suspend disbelief, but only when there's something to suspend it *for*.
I'd love to see a movie that's actually about the Isos, though. Preferably one in which they *can't* create matter out of nothing, for entirely unexplained reasons.
Quoth 3 Dead Trolls in a Baggie (many, many years ago), who put up all their stuff for free on their site:
Of course, if you've downloaded this from Napster, screw you. You know what, free isn't good enough for you, you've gotta rip us off? That's okay, I will find you, and I will kill you.
My favorite radio station does this, too. Only difference is, I willingly listen to it; they even actually convinced me to send them a nontrivial amount of money. Why? Because they're *good* at it. They don't just repeat "please send us money because we're broke" over and over, all day - they tell amusing stories, they talk about comments donators have written, they play songs from the various gifts donators can receive; one time a couple years ago, someone said they donated because the station had just finished playing O Fortuna... so they laughed, and played O Fortuna again immediately.
If Wikipedia had a sense of humor about their campaign like that, instead of just begging, maybe I'd give them some cash, too. (Bonus gifts help, too; even if I was aware that I could buy the same cd for about a sixth the cost, there's just something different between "buy an overpriced item for charity" and "give money for nothing".)
Hey, do you work here? I'm in a similar place, though once I managed to trade seats with someone so I wasn't *right* next to tech support, it got much more tolerable. I don't honestly mind sitting out in the open with the rest of dev and QA on my team - in fact, I think I'd prefer it to having to sit in a cramped cubicle all day - but when I was sitting right next to tech support, I definitely had to tell them to shut up a few times. (Though I did get to listen to a few great this-customer-is-a-moron conversations).
Or, expressed more simply: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TropesAreNotbad
And I agree - it was a simple plot that had been recognizably done in its exact form at least a dozen times before, but it was still a fun movie, not just for the special effects. Heck, perhaps I shouldn't admit this, but I even cared about the characters. I'd rewatch Avatar a dozen times in a row before I rewatched Revenge of the Sith even once.
Because if someone compromised a password to an important account on one site, they wouldn't *already* try the same password at other sites? You could argue that using the same password multiple places is a vulnerability (true, though everyone still does it.) But admitting to it, not so much. (Since, as mentioned, everyone does it.)
Well, the story already exists: Zahn wrote them back in the early 90s. If they were put into film (and Lucas *wasn't* directing or responsible for the script), I would so camp out for that.
And here I thought maybe the Daleks made a site. They're *always* hijacking history.
Lies. I'm pretty sure if I had to replace all my forum posts with emoticons, the majority would be replaced with either :p, :/, or >.>.
About 29.4 m/s^2?