Well, I can't think of a real Slashdot-headed question to ask, so I'll go for the entertaining rather than socially relevant:
Presumably, throughout this development process for IE7, your team has had their nose to the grind-wheel, so to speak. What sort of things did you do to chill out and relax? Were there any in-office perks, like pool tables or whatnot? And were you actually all in the same office, or did some members of the team have to telecommute from far-off lands, like Oregon?
I like your suggestion. If there's one thing I hate more than bad GUIs, it's GUIs that wrap CLI executables, rather than shared object libraries. The CLI wrappers tend to do a crappy job, and they don't generally handle failure conditions well - but with an SOL, the user won't be SOL.:)
He didn't beat them in court, there was no judgement. They just backed out of the lawsuit.
And do you support a legal system where someone can sue YOU, using information that is so inaccurate that they actually don't even have your proper name?
RIAA vs. Osama Bin Laden Aliscool, tonight, on THE PEOPLE'S COURT.
I'm sensing a pattern here of rampant abuse-of-privilege in the tech industry powerhouses here. HP, McAfee... who knows what other companies have some stinkers in the board?
This might go a long way to explaining why the user constantly gets shafted with their purchases:) And what's with all that pre-installed software? Does anyone actually make use of that junk?
Uh. In the transaction you describe, one end of the deal (the steroid seller) might want a copy... so a printout or a screenshot could be used for blackmail or extortion purposes.
Technicalities like that always amuse me, especially when they work out in favour of "the little guy". We have a few laws like that here in Canada, and I hope they don't change.
I redid mine last month... but went with Brown. Oops. Who could've expected that pink would make a comeback? Ah well. Maybe I could put a ribbon-image on it instead...
I don't know what country you're from, but I do know that one of the rights many countries bestow upon their citizens is that of due process. The proper process for this is to have the police or the judge make the government request the info from Google's head office.
Well-said, thank you. As to the established media being able to adapt... in recent history, they've started to show an interest in catching up to their innovative rivals. So this could play out VERY interestingly. But, I fear, whenever the MPAA or RIAA are involved, it may degenerate into a witch-hunt.
So I hope this all just concerns news and talk radio! lol:)
That is an artificiality, implemented and enforced by a government agency. FM frequencies are merely a collective decision of a bunch of eletromagnetic energy to exist in a cohesive waveform for a period of time, and over a certain distance.
If they did something like "The Office", except with an office of tech geeks, it could work. The occasional crash ("SHIT! SHIT! THE RAID IS GOING DOWN! SHIT! Oh, wait, here's the hot spare. Crisis averted."), accident ("WHY DID YOU HAVE A GLASS OF WATER SO CLOSE TO THE ROUTER!?!?"), or interpersonal conflict ("Hey - did you hear that Jim got fired for blogging about Office Ninjas?")... it could work.
(Oh, and as a sidenote, that last one... it's not an impossible scenario. You might hear about it some time.)
Yesterday, my dental hygenist attempted to create an analogy of "not brushing my teeth" as being the same as "not updating my antivirus on the machines at work".
She didn't get my point when I said they run "Linux".
I found it amusing that he spooned it out, yes. Minority Report features the same sort of scenario.
But you're correct, it shouldn't work - most retinal scanners these days require the eyeball to be alive in order to detect the pattern. I think they look for an infrared signature as well? Not sure.
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Well, I can't think of a real Slashdot-headed question to ask, so I'll go for the entertaining rather than socially relevant:
Presumably, throughout this development process for IE7, your team has had their nose to the grind-wheel, so to speak. What sort of things did you do to chill out and relax? Were there any in-office perks, like pool tables or whatnot? And were you actually all in the same office, or did some members of the team have to telecommute from far-off lands, like Oregon?
Holy CRAP! Thanks for the link :) That's awesome.
Mmmm ... rotisserie astronauts. Yummy! And ready in a matter of hours!
I'm sad to say, you live in more of a dream world than he does. Heh. :) "Realizes his mistake", that's a good one. :)
I like your suggestion. If there's one thing I hate more than bad GUIs, it's GUIs that wrap CLI executables, rather than shared object libraries. The CLI wrappers tend to do a crappy job, and they don't generally handle failure conditions well - but with an SOL, the user won't be SOL. :)
He didn't beat them in court, there was no judgement. They just backed out of the lawsuit.
And do you support a legal system where someone can sue YOU, using information that is so inaccurate that they actually don't even have your proper name?
RIAA vs. Osama Bin Laden Aliscool, tonight, on THE PEOPLE'S COURT.
Not to be pedantic, but I think you meant "pedantic". ;-)
;-)
Being pendantic would mean that you were small, hard, and usually attached to a necklace.
I'm sensing a pattern here of rampant abuse-of-privilege in the tech industry powerhouses here. HP, McAfee ... who knows what other companies have some stinkers in the board?
:) And what's with all that pre-installed software? Does anyone actually make use of that junk?
This might go a long way to explaining why the user constantly gets shafted with their purchases
Uh. In the transaction you describe, one end of the deal (the steroid seller) might want a copy ... so a printout or a screenshot could be used for blackmail or extortion purposes.
Technicalities like that always amuse me, especially when they work out in favour of "the little guy". We have a few laws like that here in Canada, and I hope they don't change.
No joke, my stepdad died of colorectal cancer in '98 :(
:)
But, as stated above, that wasn't the reason for the website colour
Now why in the blue blazes would I buy one of those?
No, brown to go with the general colour-tone of the west coast pacific sunset I used as the header image.
I redid mine last month ... but went with Brown. Oops. Who could've expected that pink would make a comeback? Ah well. Maybe I could put a ribbon-image on it instead ...
I don't know what country you're from, but I do know that one of the rights many countries bestow upon their citizens is that of due process. The proper process for this is to have the police or the judge make the government request the info from Google's head office.
That's going to be quite a kerfuffle, I would imagine.
Kudos to google for protecting user's rights, though.
I think her son set it up for her.
Well-said, thank you. As to the established media being able to adapt ... in recent history, they've started to show an interest in catching up to their innovative rivals. So this could play out VERY interestingly. But, I fear, whenever the MPAA or RIAA are involved, it may degenerate into a witch-hunt.
:)
So I hope this all just concerns news and talk radio! lol
That is an artificiality, implemented and enforced by a government agency. FM frequencies are merely a collective decision of a bunch of eletromagnetic energy to exist in a cohesive waveform for a period of time, and over a certain distance.
Wasn't this news in the 1960s? Sheesh. ;-)
Awesome :) Forgot about that, I'll have to check it out.
:)
Father Ted rules, too, fwiw.
Superteeth! Repelling Plaque at every turn, by virtue of being completely incompatible with it!
If they did something like "The Office", except with an office of tech geeks, it could work. The occasional crash ("SHIT! SHIT! THE RAID IS GOING DOWN! SHIT! Oh, wait, here's the hot spare. Crisis averted."), accident ("WHY DID YOU HAVE A GLASS OF WATER SO CLOSE TO THE ROUTER!?!?"), or interpersonal conflict ("Hey - did you hear that Jim got fired for blogging about Office Ninjas?") ... it could work.
... it's not an impossible scenario. You might hear about it some time.)
(Oh, and as a sidenote, that last one
Yesterday, my dental hygenist attempted to create an analogy of "not brushing my teeth" as being the same as "not updating my antivirus on the machines at work".
:)
She didn't get my point when I said they run "Linux".
Too bad my mouth doesn't, though. Heheh
I found it amusing that he spooned it out, yes. Minority Report features the same sort of scenario.
But you're correct, it shouldn't work - most retinal scanners these days require the eyeball to be alive in order to detect the pattern. I think they look for an infrared signature as well? Not sure.