Is this just a sign of maturing organization and transitional pain is a necessary side effect in order to have a better future, or is this a sign of things to come.
It's a sign of things to come. Start putting feelers out for another job already. Take it from someone who has learned this the hard way...
People realized the word processors sucked at typesetting.
Actually, it was perfectly possible to do seriously good typesetting with WP5.1. In fact, it was quite common.
In any case, you wouldn't necessarily have to run DOS; IIRC, WordPerfect was originally written for Data General platforms. I don't remember, though, whether it was for their Aviion unix clone, or whether it was AOS/VS only...
Hmmm. And nearly everybody I personally know who uses Apple does so because he/she doesn't want a windows-based computer, but has bought into the same headspace of the belief that they "have" to run MSOrifice to exist in the world. So much for thinking differently.
Well, I certainly don't hanker after MS's email client. It's an abomination at best. If I needed something more group-aware, I'd use Evolution, but for most purposes it's too much for me, so I'm happy enough with thunderbird.
As far as WP is concerned, OOo is more than good enough for me. It's not brilliant for real typesetting, but neither is Word. If I want to do that, there's always LaTex.
The issue in the OP concerning the brick/flip format sounds a bit dubious to me. About 3 (possibly 4) years ago I was at a point where I had to replace my phone, and at the time I found it very hard to find anything in my preferred "flip" format at all (at least in my price range). I eventually had to settle on what turned out to be a particularly sucky offering from Motorola (the T720).
My point is that these hardware trends seem to go around in cycles, and it seems unfair to pillory a provider like Vodafone for what is essentially a manufacturer's current policy.
...the "hi-fi" stereo is definately up in the air on that one I suppose...
Just as well. I love my iPod dearly, but I never forget that it's not a hi-fi system, no matter what snazzy device I plug it into. The dorks at Apple probably only listen to Titney Spears or Celine Dion [shudder] so they would never notice that the sound quality isn't up to scratch for real music in the living-room.
I don't know why any thread on Gnome, KDE or $DESKTOPENVIRONMENTOFCHOICE has to wind up with everybody bickering interminably about OS X.
Sure, I'm perfectly willing to agree that Apple's UI is sort of neat, just so long as nobody insists that I have to use it.
Placement of functions on menus doesn't really matter, since it doesn't take very long to get used to that.
What pisses me off most about OS X (or probably more strictly speaking, Aqua) is that godawful windowing system, where the size of every window you open is calculated to precisely exclude the contents you want to see. Then they compound this by failing to include a keyboard hot-key sequence to maximise windows (apparently possible only by clicking the traffic-light widget at the top, although they do unaccountably provide a hot-key for minimising the window).
OK, I might be a bit spoilt, since I'm sitting at a dual-screen Linux setup with heaps of desktop space, but I have to provide support for Mac laptops, and I don't find it much fun...
Most USB keys max out at 1GB. However, if you want to steal more than 1GB at time, a 60GB iPod is the way to go.
That's what your IT guys are paid to monitor. If someone is sucking down 60 GB of files at a time, that should ring some sort of alarm bell. Most sites I've worked at would raise eyebrows at a 500MB download.
this needs to be dealt with in corporate networks by assuming that any mounted USB drive of any sort is presumed to contain malicious code.
Only if said company never wants employees to take work home with them. You can't have it both ways; it isn't always secure, convenient or practicable to transfer files via email.
In any case, to claim that a 4thC BC fortification was inspired by Alexander the Great is somewhat stretching a long bow, given that (IIRC) he was born in 356 BC.
But now that I've just read TFA, I notice they didn't say it was. Seems it was just the submitter who didn't read it. Silly me.
You're assuming the person calling has some common sense or respect for others.
Maybe, but most of my callers aren't deliberately inconsiderate, they're just unaware. But what I really hate is machines that make assumptions about what I want. That's why I would never buy a phone that is programmed to interrupt under certain circumstances.
Maybe I'm unusual in this, but I have a strict personal policy of keeping my phone on silent or vibrate when I'm somewhere it'll inconvenience others. But equally importantly, I also never answer it when I'm talking face-to-face with someone else; I'll just tell them I'm not going to answer it, and let it ring until the voicemail kicks in.
After all, 99% of the time a voicemail or text message is all that is needed, and it certainly is not necessary to be rude to someone's face.
Another thing that bothers me here is that I see no mechanism for anyone other than the RIAA and its members to take part in this. Maybe my tinfoil head attire might be unwarranted, but it strikes me that this might be a very effective way for the RIAA to wipe out all competition.
I wouldn't pay for mp3s at any time. If I am going to pay, I'll buy the CD and encode my own mp3s for my iPod.
Quality is an acceptable tradeoff against portability when I'm on the move, but when I buy music I want it to sound good on my hi-fi system at home. Mp3 and aac compression just don't cut it when you use a real stereo.
I have an LG U8120 which (despite its many other faults) renders most sites quite well. The drawback is simply the size of the screen. To get at most content involves so much scrolling around that the process becomes too cumbersome and frustrating, and I nearly always prefer to wait to use a proper computer.
...if the distributer can argue successfully that it had already been so diluted, it wasn't a trade secret anymore.
Fair enough; but I would have thought the MS source code wouldn't have been worth keeping secret in the first place, let alone redistributing.
Microsoft's claim that "making its source code public could allow hackers to find security holes in Microsoft products" is putting the cart before the horse. Sure they want to make a buck or two out of selling their binaries, but given their record for dealing with security holes, there is a good argument for giving anyone who finds them a pat on the back, taking them out to lunch and/or giving him a well-paid job.
The point is not that everyone should become a scientist, but simply that they not believe themselves dunces.
Indeed. Much of the world's scientific research is fairly much donkey-work stuff, but that in itself does not make it either useless or invalid.
There will always be those like Einstein, Pauling or Hawking who stand out from the crowd, but they often (or even usually) do so on the backs of researchers with more of a capacity for hard work than a particularly brilliant brain.
There's nothing particularly wrong with this; it's just part of the process of building on scientific knowledge.
I have Thunderbird's bayesian junk mail filtering running, along with a few pet filters of my own, and am happy that between them, these measures catch probably > 99% of all the spam that gets to my mailbox.
However, my point here is that the stuff is still getting to my mailbox. Also, the fact that I get the occasional false positive with the filtering means I still have to check the contents of the spambox before I consign it to/dev/null.
Seems to me that the only real remedy is to simply hunt down every spammer and kill him.
Also for anyone who's paid for a "subscription" it can seem like you're paying for a pretty poor service. You sort of implicitly expect a certain level of quality, and dupes (and other otherwise shoddy posts) detract from that.
Fair point.
Actually, I've been away for a few days, and haven't seen the earlier article (yet), but over recent months I have been half-heartedly wondering whether it's worth maintaining Slashdot's place on my hot-link local homepage, and it seems that it apparently is not. So, after several years' "patronage" (FWIW) and 1549 posts, I don't think I'm likely to bother very much any more.
It doesn't even take any particular malice to fuck up the database. Three months ago, my wife applied for, and duly received her Australian passport. Last week, her sister attempted to do the same, and was foiled by the fact that some dyslexic moron had in that short interval managed to scramble the letters of her mother's maiden name on the database and consequently she was regarded as some sort of unperson.
Needless to say, it took a pile of statutory declarations and other depositions to sort the mess out. God knows what she would have done if she had had no existing relatives.
If these bozos can't even get the basics right, I don't see how they are going to make any impression on terrorism.
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It's a sign of things to come. Start putting feelers out for another job already. Take it from someone who has learned this the hard way...
Actually, it was perfectly possible to do seriously good typesetting with WP5.1. In fact, it was quite common.
In any case, you wouldn't necessarily have to run DOS; IIRC, WordPerfect was originally written for Data General platforms. I don't remember, though, whether it was for their Aviion unix clone, or whether it was AOS/VS only...
Hmmm. And nearly everybody I personally know who uses Apple does so because he/she doesn't want a windows-based computer, but has bought into the same headspace of the belief that they "have" to run MSOrifice to exist in the world. So much for thinking differently.
Well, I certainly don't hanker after MS's email client. It's an abomination at best. If I needed something more group-aware, I'd use Evolution, but for most purposes it's too much for me, so I'm happy enough with thunderbird. As far as WP is concerned, OOo is more than good enough for me. It's not brilliant for real typesetting, but neither is Word. If I want to do that, there's always LaTex.
My point is that these hardware trends seem to go around in cycles, and it seems unfair to pillory a provider like Vodafone for what is essentially a manufacturer's current policy.
Just as well. I love my iPod dearly, but I never forget that it's not a hi-fi system, no matter what snazzy device I plug it into. The dorks at Apple probably only listen to Titney Spears or Celine Dion [shudder] so they would never notice that the sound quality isn't up to scratch for real music in the living-room.
I'm running older hardware, you insensitive clod!
Well, duh.
I was referring to his lifespan in the greater scheme of things, and the submitter's claim - oh, never mind, go back to sleep... ;-)
Sure, I'm perfectly willing to agree that Apple's UI is sort of neat, just so long as nobody insists that I have to use it.
Placement of functions on menus doesn't really matter, since it doesn't take very long to get used to that.
What pisses me off most about OS X (or probably more strictly speaking, Aqua) is that godawful windowing system, where the size of every window you open is calculated to precisely exclude the contents you want to see. Then they compound this by failing to include a keyboard hot-key sequence to maximise windows (apparently possible only by clicking the traffic-light widget at the top, although they do unaccountably provide a hot-key for minimising the window).
OK, I might be a bit spoilt, since I'm sitting at a dual-screen Linux setup with heaps of desktop space, but I have to provide support for Mac laptops, and I don't find it much fun...
That's what your IT guys are paid to monitor. If someone is sucking down 60 GB of files at a time, that should ring some sort of alarm bell. Most sites I've worked at would raise eyebrows at a 500MB download.
Only if said company never wants employees to take work home with them. You can't have it both ways; it isn't always secure, convenient or practicable to transfer files via email.
But now that I've just read TFA, I notice they didn't say it was. Seems it was just the submitter who didn't read it. Silly me.
To nitpick further, Greece didn't really exist as a nation until much later. It was really a collection of independent city-states.
Maybe, but most of my callers aren't deliberately inconsiderate, they're just unaware. But what I really hate is machines that make assumptions about what I want. That's why I would never buy a phone that is programmed to interrupt under certain circumstances.
Maybe I'm unusual in this, but I have a strict personal policy of keeping my phone on silent or vibrate when I'm somewhere it'll inconvenience others. But equally importantly, I also never answer it when I'm talking face-to-face with someone else; I'll just tell them I'm not going to answer it, and let it ring until the voicemail kicks in.
After all, 99% of the time a voicemail or text message is all that is needed, and it certainly is not necessary to be rude to someone's face.
Another thing that bothers me here is that I see no mechanism for anyone other than the RIAA and its members to take part in this. Maybe my tinfoil head attire might be unwarranted, but it strikes me that this might be a very effective way for the RIAA to wipe out all competition.
Quality is an acceptable tradeoff against portability when I'm on the move, but when I buy music I want it to sound good on my hi-fi system at home. Mp3 and aac compression just don't cut it when you use a real stereo.
I have an LG U8120 which (despite its many other faults) renders most sites quite well. The drawback is simply the size of the screen. To get at most content involves so much scrolling around that the process becomes too cumbersome and frustrating, and I nearly always prefer to wait to use a proper computer.
Fair enough; but I would have thought the MS source code wouldn't have been worth keeping secret in the first place, let alone redistributing.
Microsoft's claim that "making its source code public could allow hackers to find security holes in Microsoft products" is putting the cart before the horse. Sure they want to make a buck or two out of selling their binaries, but given their record for dealing with security holes, there is a good argument for giving anyone who finds them a pat on the back, taking them out to lunch and/or giving him a well-paid job.
Indeed. Much of the world's scientific research is fairly much donkey-work stuff, but that in itself does not make it either useless or invalid.
There will always be those like Einstein, Pauling or Hawking who stand out from the crowd, but they often (or even usually) do so on the backs of researchers with more of a capacity for hard work than a particularly brilliant brain.
There's nothing particularly wrong with this; it's just part of the process of building on scientific knowledge.
However, my point here is that the stuff is still getting to my mailbox. Also, the fact that I get the occasional false positive with the filtering means I still have to check the contents of the spambox before I consign it to /dev/null.
Seems to me that the only real remedy is to simply hunt down every spammer and kill him.
You might as well. Or at least outsource your spell-checking, since you're obviously incapable of doing it yourself. ;-)
Does anybody even use Konqueror? Can't say I personally know anyone who does...
Fair point.
Actually, I've been away for a few days, and haven't seen the earlier article (yet), but over recent months I have been half-heartedly wondering whether it's worth maintaining Slashdot's place on my hot-link local homepage, and it seems that it apparently is not. So, after several years' "patronage" (FWIW) and 1549 posts, I don't think I'm likely to bother very much any more.
Needless to say, it took a pile of statutory declarations and other depositions to sort the mess out. God knows what she would have done if she had had no existing relatives.
If these bozos can't even get the basics right, I don't see how they are going to make any impression on terrorism.
It might have been funny the first time it was said; now it's just boring. That's what -1: Redundant is for.