My spam problem is unique. I opted into spam (free trial of an online game) but I gave them a forwarding address. Now I don't want the email anymore.
The only way to (easily) unsubscribe is to reply to the email. However, since when I reply it's with a different email address than the one the email is sent to, it doesn't unsubscribe me.
Maybe the author meant to say "as long" as you can keep Windows running without a reboot, but the statement is ambiguous.
In any case, when I run Linux I find I regularly have to restart X (thanks to shitty apps I tend to gravitate towards:), which as far as a user is concerned is the same as a reboot because they have to close all their open apps, save their data, etc.
And don't get me started on X crashing:) My last Linux install was only rebooted twice for the whole 6 months I had it on that box, but I must have had to restart X twice per day thanks to shitty software. I don't blame Linux for this, anymore than I blame MS when "Dave's Crappy Freeware Tool" takes down explorer.exe.
The only reason I reboot WindowsXP is security patches. The only place that it really bothers me that I have to reboot a box is a production machine at work (which is one of the reasons I feel Linux is superior as a server).
My point is that for Joe User, getting Windows up and running is easier - as is maintaining it (major system failures notwithstanding, which are hard to deal with on any os). Anyone that says otherwise sounds dishonest and hurts the credibility of Linux.
If I was a shrink-wrapped sw developer, I would go for Windows first, then Mac (where the profit margin is much higher, if the stories are to be believed) and then I might consider Linux - however, I imagine the support costs for selling Linux software would be higher (the key word being *imagine* - I don't have any metrics to support this statement, so feel free to support/refute it:)
When it comes to desktop software, Linux is always a distant third - which basically sucks.
I don't think it's because people wouldn't buy it though - I figure it's because it would be difficult to support - though I don't know if it would be that much worst than supporting windows software...
for as long as you can get Windows to work, anyway
Do Linux-only users seriously believe this? I have never had a problem getting Windows to work (other than NT on shitty hardware, but I had that problem with Linux too).
I run WindowsXP primarily, but even when I was running Win98, I never had problems. Linux, on the other hand, ate my data one time (luser error on my part:).
Honestly, it's stupid comments like this that make it more difficult for me to get others to try Linux. If anything, Windows is easier to get working than Linux nine times out of ten.
That's right, online merchants should never store a CC number and I won't shop anyplace that does (not that I shop online - or over the phone either).
Incidently (so I don't get modded redundant) do online merchants use the 3 digit security number on the back of cards? I'm Canadian and in order to check my balance, etc, online with my CC I have to use it when I login (well, I did until they moved to a more secure password protected security model). Is that 3 digit code a Canadian thing or is it global?
I've posted this story before, but half the time clerks don't check signatures because customers are jerks if you do check.
My girlfriend is working as a cashier at a drug store. Somebody came in and bought around $50 worth of stuff. He wanted to put it on his visa - she takes the card, runs it through, and puts the card down beside her register while the transaction goes through. The guy asks for his card back and she says she'll give it back after she verifies the signature - and the guy freaks out!
(Keep in mind, she's very polite and friendly, not speaking with a "fuck off, I'll give it back when I'm ready" type attitude)
He reaches across the counter, grabs the card, rants about how much money he makes and how stupid she must be (incidently, she has a university degree and will be starting her first technical writing contract soon).
I used to get annoyed that cashiers don't check signatures - now I see why. Credit card fraud happens all the time but my girlfriend never had it happen on her register (unlike others at her store).
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The backwards ones confuse me - i mean, what the hell is this?
>:{
since ppl started doing them upside down, the complicated ones become unreadable
someone sorta said this, but maybe we need an RFC or a smiley standards (someone email w3 quick!)
The latest was a kid who wanted "5-10 sample chips for a school project." Uh-huh.
Funny yes, and most likely a modder, but friends of mine used to request free chips all the time when we were in college and they really did use them for school projects. I personally co-designed a digital voltage meter that plugged into a gameboy, so who knows what that guy could be doing that requires a mod chip:)
Indeed, the measure of a plot is its lack of formula or stereotype.
Look at Home Improvement. Same goddamn show every week. The sequence of events was almost always the same.
1) Someone has a problem. 2) Tim gives shitty advice. 3) Tim goes to his neighbor. 4) Tim get's the gist (jist? sp?) of that advice, but misrepeats it for a cheap laugh 5) Problem solved 6) Tim blows something up
Star Trek generally follows a formula but it's not nearly as bad as home improvement.
Saying that ST lacks originality because all of the good ideas have been taken is a cop-out - yes, the bar has been raised, and it's hard to be completely original every week, but ST is just plain formulaic.
That's right - it's possible to have a plot without conflict (although it's usually boring:)
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YOu pulled the words out of my mouth.
There are two parts of my job - analysis and programming. If I can code faster in VB, Delphi, java, whatever, then I will ( of course, we have to consider company language/platform standards too, but anyway).
If I have a production environment w/ 1 ghz intel boxes with 256 megs of ram and I am writing software to display reports, I don't give a shit if I save 2 megs of memory by managing it myself. I want to get that app out as quickly and with as few bugs as possible.
I am quite capable of paying attention to memory management and other low level stuff (having learned asm before I learned VB) - I just don't see why I should bother.
At my company, we do business apps in VB (with the occasional com object in C++) and engineering apps/realtime apps in C++. I imagine this is how it works at most companies.
Believe me, there are many excellent VB coders out there. I'm personally in the business apps area, but I find that language is secondary. What really matters is being able to design your app properly (ie/ business layer, data layer, presentation layer), follow standards (for VB, SQL, and external docs), and document it well.
It's not that C++ is necessarily more difficult (for me or a good number of the coders here), it's that coding an app in C++ means I have to actually pay attention to memory management, pointers, etc. That's great if the users care about speed and keeping the app slim, but pointless if they want an app yesterday. I could do two vb apps for every one C++ app. There are many problems with VB, but VB.NET (a much more true oop language) addresses many of them.
Personally, the fact that mono is hitting Linux is a good thing - you may find more Windows programmers porting apps to Linux. Why would *anyone* complain about that? (Jokes about coding skills of Win32 programmers aside)
Not only that, but custom interface controls cannot be over-ridden by windows configurations, such as increasing the window button font size for people with vision problems.
It's like when someone uses CSS and puts '!important' in every element - some developers just can't accept that the UI should not be 100% under their control (ie/ some users need to be able to override).
I'm a young person. I took the first good job i could get when I re-entered the workforce after college. When you are a recent grad, apply to all industries, not just one. YOu can always move on later when you have a lot of experience.
I could move on now (3 years total experience now) but I love my job, it pays well, and it's very secure (as far as private industry goes).
Have you ever been through customs? Last time I went (April) I had to bring my laptop and a projector. They put the projector through the xray and asked me to turn it on. They saw the LED light up, and that was it.
They have no fucking clue what the guts of the thing was supposed to look like - I could easily have made it a powerful transmitter and nobody would ever know.
Even funnier - I catch my second hop (flight within the US) and I see a guy with some kind of transmitter/receiver with suction cups to attach to the window. Needless to say, the stewardess noticed after awhile and asked him to turn it off. Course, by then we could have been all dead:)
It's getting to the point where no electronics will be allowed as carry-on...
He helped start a company that took work-for-hire, no-credit-getting designers and gave them the credit they deserved...
And he later formed a company where he basically does games for corporations in a work-for-hire type situation. His name isn't even mentioned in the "about us" section of his company website.
Not that I lose any respect for him - I'm no elitist, anti-corporate type. Just figured his name would be on the website...
Pitfall was my favourite game when I was a kid. I'd say it's a tie between Pitfall! and Super Mario Bros. as to which game really invented the platform game genre.
Pitfall! is what originally got me programming. I remember doing a simplistic platform game in GWBasic using ascii characters. That lead to learning Pascal and C and eventually my career as a Programmer/Analyst.
Activision also deserves kudo's for keeping those programmers/designers from being forgotten. Of course, that lead to the whole rock star image conscious industry that spawned the likes of John Romero.
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Do the monkeys run on Linux?
WTF?
My spam problem is unique. I opted into spam (free trial of an online game) but I gave them a forwarding address. Now I don't want the email anymore.
:)
The only way to (easily) unsubscribe is to reply to the email. However, since when I reply it's with a different email address than the one the email is sent to, it doesn't unsubscribe me.
Maybe I should forge the header when I reply
Maybe the author meant to say "as long" as you can keep Windows running without a reboot, but the statement is ambiguous.
:), which as far as a user is concerned is the same as a reboot because they have to close all their open apps, save their data, etc.
:) My last Linux install was only rebooted twice for the whole 6 months I had it on that box, but I must have had to restart X twice per day thanks to shitty software. I don't blame Linux for this, anymore than I blame MS when "Dave's Crappy Freeware Tool" takes down explorer.exe.
In any case, when I run Linux I find I regularly have to restart X (thanks to shitty apps I tend to gravitate towards
And don't get me started on X crashing
The only reason I reboot WindowsXP is security patches. The only place that it really bothers me that I have to reboot a box is a production machine at work (which is one of the reasons I feel Linux is superior as a server).
My point is that for Joe User, getting Windows up and running is easier - as is maintaining it (major system failures notwithstanding, which are hard to deal with on any os). Anyone that says otherwise sounds dishonest and hurts the credibility of Linux.
If I was a shrink-wrapped sw developer, I would go for Windows first, then Mac (where the profit margin is much higher, if the stories are to be believed) and then I might consider Linux - however, I imagine the support costs for selling Linux software would be higher (the key word being *imagine* - I don't have any metrics to support this statement, so feel free to support/refute it :)
When it comes to desktop software, Linux is always a distant third - which basically sucks.
I don't think it's because people wouldn't buy it though - I figure it's because it would be difficult to support - though I don't know if it would be that much worst than supporting windows software...
Wow, what the hell was my point again?
But I can't resist...
:).
for as long as you can get Windows to work, anyway
Do Linux-only users seriously believe this? I have never had a problem getting Windows to work (other than NT on shitty hardware, but I had that problem with Linux too).
I run WindowsXP primarily, but even when I was running Win98, I never had problems. Linux, on the other hand, ate my data one time (luser error on my part
Honestly, it's stupid comments like this that make it more difficult for me to get others to try Linux. If anything, Windows is easier to get working than Linux nine times out of ten.
Now, getting Windows secure on the other hand...
Nuts, you beat me to it :)
That's right, online merchants should never store a CC number and I won't shop anyplace that does (not that I shop online - or over the phone either).
Incidently (so I don't get modded redundant) do online merchants use the 3 digit security number on the back of cards? I'm Canadian and in order to check my balance, etc, online with my CC I have to use it when I login (well, I did until they moved to a more secure password protected security model).
Is that 3 digit code a Canadian thing or is it global?
I've posted this story before, but half the time clerks don't check signatures because customers are jerks if you do check.
My girlfriend is working as a cashier at a drug store. Somebody came in and bought around $50 worth of stuff. He wanted to put it on his visa - she takes the card, runs it through, and puts the card down beside her register while the transaction goes through. The guy asks for his card back and she says she'll give it back after she verifies the signature - and the guy freaks out!
(Keep in mind, she's very polite and friendly, not speaking with a "fuck off, I'll give it back when I'm ready" type attitude)
He reaches across the counter, grabs the card, rants about how much money he makes and how stupid she must be (incidently, she has a university degree and will be starting her first technical writing contract soon).
I used to get annoyed that cashiers don't check signatures - now I see why. Credit card fraud happens all the time but my girlfriend never had it happen on her register (unlike others at her store).
The backwards ones confuse me - i mean, what the hell is this?
>:{
since ppl started doing them upside down, the complicated ones become unreadable
someone sorta said this, but maybe we need an RFC or a smiley standards (someone email w3 quick!)
You're not very funny, but I found this so I forgive you.
The latest was a kid who wanted "5-10 sample chips for a school project." Uh-huh.
:)
Funny yes, and most likely a modder, but friends of mine used to request free chips all the time when we were in college and they really did use them for school projects. I personally co-designed a digital voltage meter that plugged into a gameboy, so who knows what that guy could be doing that requires a mod chip
Indeed, the measure of a plot is its lack of formula or stereotype.
Look at Home Improvement. Same goddamn show every week. The sequence of events was almost always the same.
1) Someone has a problem.
2) Tim gives shitty advice.
3) Tim goes to his neighbor.
4) Tim get's the gist (jist? sp?) of that advice, but misrepeats it for a cheap laugh
5) Problem solved
6) Tim blows something up
Star Trek generally follows a formula but it's not nearly as bad as home improvement.
Saying that ST lacks originality because all of the good ideas have been taken is a cop-out - yes, the bar has been raised, and it's hard to be completely original every week, but ST is just plain formulaic.
Gibson, for example, never ceases to surprise me.
That's right - it's possible to have a plot without conflict (although it's usually boring :)
YOu pulled the words out of my mouth.
There are two parts of my job - analysis and programming. If I can code faster in VB, Delphi, java, whatever, then I will ( of course, we have to consider company language/platform standards too, but anyway).
If I have a production environment w/ 1 ghz intel boxes with 256 megs of ram and I am writing software to display reports, I don't give a shit if I save 2 megs of memory by managing it myself. I want to get that app out as quickly and with as few bugs as possible.
I am quite capable of paying attention to memory management and other low level stuff (having learned asm before I learned VB) - I just don't see why I should bother.
At my company, we do business apps in VB (with the occasional com object in C++) and engineering apps/realtime apps in C++. I imagine this is how it works at most companies.
Believe me, there are many excellent VB coders out there. I'm personally in the business apps area, but I find that language is secondary. What really matters is being able to design your app properly (ie/ business layer, data layer, presentation layer), follow standards (for VB, SQL, and external docs), and document it well.
It's not that C++ is necessarily more difficult (for me or a good number of the coders here), it's that coding an app in C++ means I have to actually pay attention to memory management, pointers, etc. That's great if the users care about speed and keeping the app slim, but pointless if they want an app yesterday. I could do two vb apps for every one C++ app. There are many problems with VB, but VB.NET (a much more true oop language) addresses many of them.
Personally, the fact that mono is hitting Linux is a good thing - you may find more Windows programmers porting apps to Linux. Why would *anyone* complain about that? (Jokes about coding skills of Win32 programmers aside)
Zeldman abuses CSS. Check out this node at Disenchanted to see what I mean.
He completely lost the point of seperating content from style by overusing !important.
I haven't tried myself, but doesn't CSS support this sort of thing nicely?
Real people have levels, they are just hard to quantify.
:)
I'm a Programmer/Analyst level 5/4 myself
Not only that, but custom interface controls cannot be over-ridden by windows configurations, such as increasing the window button font size for people with vision problems.
It's like when someone uses CSS and puts '!important' in every element - some developers just can't accept that the UI should not be 100% under their control (ie/ some users need to be able to override).
The other neat thing is the reviewer stuffs a P3 1.26 and a Radeon 7500 into the system. Perfect for bringing to LANs!"
:)
Also perfect for setting off smoke alarms!
I'm a young person. I took the first good job i could get when I re-entered the workforce after college. When you are a recent grad, apply to all industries, not just one. YOu can always move on later when you have a lot of experience.
I could move on now (3 years total experience now) but I love my job, it pays well, and it's very secure (as far as private industry goes).
Don't know, specifically. Stewardess asked him if it transmitted and received - he said yes - she said turn it off, put it away. :)
Have you ever been through customs? Last time I went (April) I had to bring my laptop and a projector. They put the projector through the xray and asked me to turn it on. They saw the LED light up, and that was it.
:)
They have no fucking clue what the guts of the thing was supposed to look like - I could easily have made it a powerful transmitter and nobody would ever know.
Even funnier - I catch my second hop (flight within the US) and I see a guy with some kind of transmitter/receiver with suction cups to attach to the window. Needless to say, the stewardess noticed after awhile and asked him to turn it off. Course, by then we could have been all dead
It's getting to the point where no electronics will be allowed as carry-on...
I know that :)
Pitfall! came first, but SMB really solidified the genre.
Invented wasn't quite the right word...
He helped start a company that took work-for-hire, no-credit-getting designers and gave them the credit they deserved...
And he later formed a company where he basically does games for corporations in a work-for-hire type situation. His name isn't even mentioned in the "about us" section of his company website.
Not that I lose any respect for him - I'm no elitist, anti-corporate type. Just figured his name would be on the website...
Pitfall was my favourite game when I was a kid. I'd say it's a tie between Pitfall! and Super Mario Bros. as to which game really invented the platform game genre.
Pitfall! is what originally got me programming. I remember doing a simplistic platform game in GWBasic using ascii characters. That lead to learning Pascal and C and eventually my career as a Programmer/Analyst.
Activision also deserves kudo's for keeping those programmers/designers from being forgotten. Of course, that lead to the whole rock star image conscious industry that spawned the likes of John Romero.
Whatever happened to that guy anyway?