The acceptance of fax signatures has to do only with fact that fax machines have been around for a long time, and people think they understand how they work. It just seems safer.
Sadly, the same people who make decisions based on the comfort provided by the familiarity of a technology are those who make policy at companies.
Tying the hardware to CDMA doesn't make much sense if you're planning on selling the device in other parts of the world, in particular Europe. And note that the device was designed with a quad-band GSM radio, so it's possible they were thinking ahead to non-US sales.
Personally, I'd never commit my feelings about a weekend coke binge (with or without a married person) to email, let alone one sent to someone's work account. But obviously my sense of personal boundaries are a bit skewed.
I get that, it's understandable up to a point. But you could also tell them about things like hotmail, yahoo, or gmail. They're free and accessible from more or less anywhere.
And how long did you stay there? If it was more than 2 weeks past however long it took to find another job, you're a sucker. No offense, but that's some super-duper bullshit treatment.
Particularly for the Slashdot crowd? Hell, a portion of the readership is probably responsible for helping to implement such measures.
Don't use your work email for personal stuff. It was never a good idea, and it's becoming ever less of a good idea. Don't say anything in an email that you wouldn't say in person or in writing. Be professional.
Also, don't forward chain letters, don't send around forwards of kitten pictures, pr0n, jokes, political screeds, etc. etc. Most people don't want to get it and you're wasting bandwidth.
If they don't give people what they want, which is honest standards, they will just speed migration away from them.
Sorry, but most people actually couldn't give a crap about standards. Most people just want a functional suite of office applications that works more or less the way they've come to expect such programs. Most people aren't even aware that there is such a thing as a file format, or that there are different types of them.
Most people also want to be able to easily exchange documents with other people. That's part of the reason why Office is so well entrenched. Sure, you can download a copy of OO to open an ODF file, but if you're running a business, you don't want to make your clients do that, because it's a hassle. Nearly everyone has Office, and practically nobody has OO (this is in rough marketshare percentages).
Don't get me wrong. I would rather have a clear, open standard with a decent existing implementation that's not tied to the whims of a vendor. But I and people like me really are a very small part of the market.
T-ray imaging systems are what are being proposed to scan people in airports and other secure places; you can get images under a person's clothing, so you can actually see what they might have concealed.
I think the best thing that could happen for Linux on the desktop is for one of the two major environments (I don't care which) to become THE standard, supported Linux X desktop standard.
I know, choice is good. So is focusing your efforts on making one usable product that people can standardize on. Don't even think of it as a product, think of it as a protocol. HTTP won out over Gopher, and the first is everywhere and makes all kinds of apps able to talk to each other; the second is a (fondly, for me) remembered also ran. And that's a good thing.
You'd think after the Swiss bank debacle it'd be pretty well known that trying to suppress this kind of information (particularly when it's distributed by an international organization), just guarantees that it will be more widely disseminated than it'd otherwise have been.
Someone circulate a memo about the Steisand effect to the lawyers of the US.
What does an athletic competition have to do with the internal politics of a country?
At the risk of running afoul of Godwin's law, Nazi Germany hosted the Olympics before the beginning of WWII. They mostly used it as a propaganda opportunity, and it's hard to say that the event led to any more openness or political moderation on the part of the German government.
The article didn't claim it was censorship. It made the (purely factual) claim that links to youtube were being blocked by msn messenger. Which they are.
Sounds like you're the sensationalist one out for attention.
From the "JavaFX Technology Overview" section of the JavaFX.com website:
Built on Java. JavaFX is not starting from scratch; it is built on the Java platform (Java SE and Java ME) and leverages the power and capabilities of the Java platform. It also extends the Java platform to deliver on the original promise of client-side Java.
Unless by "No JVM needed," you mean "No JVM needed apart from an already installed JVM."
None of those places are that bad. I've worked in plenty of worse/less conducive to getting shit done places than any of those. Hell, even the Mozilla folks look like they've got actual desks as opposed to, say, folding tables and chairs. And I've seen way dingier, more depressing cube farms than anything in that list.
As for "prosecuting" the military has weapons for that sort of thing. Lot cheaper to send a team of Navy Seals to handle a situation than to insist everything be US made.
Ha. Yeah. Let's send the military after, say, China where a significant amount of the goods the US consumes are made.
Notwithstanding the economic and trade disaster that would ensue (take a look at who owns US debt these days), they could fuck us up militarily. They've got nukes, they've got a way, way larger army than we do, and ain't nobody dumb enough to take our side in that little tussle. We've got the best weapons and a very well trained army. They've got numbers and weapons that are good enough.
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From the linked wikipedia article:
There are also open source implementations of major parts of the Cocoa framework that allows cross-platform (including MS Windows) Cocoa application development: GNUstep libFoundation Cocotron
This isn't an endorsement of the ease of development and portability; I'm merely noting that a prima face argument for cross platform Cocoa is possible.
Interesting idea. I imagine a lot of what the Supreme Court will do about these NSLs depends on who's in the White House come next year; both in terms of nominating replacement Justices and in terms of the Justices not wanting to hand too much power to someone they don't want to have it.
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The acceptance of fax signatures has to do only with fact that fax machines have been around for a long time, and people think they understand how they work. It just seems safer.
Sadly, the same people who make decisions based on the comfort provided by the familiarity of a technology are those who make policy at companies.
Buy, not by. Sigh. Drinking and typing is bad.
So, they'll do the open source world a favor and extinguish RoR?
I'll by six copies of Vista for that.
So, it takes a capable distribution and removes a lot of the stuff that makes it as usable as it is, in the name of freeing the user?
Huh.
Tying the hardware to CDMA doesn't make much sense if you're planning on selling the device in other parts of the world, in particular Europe. And note that the device was designed with a quad-band GSM radio, so it's possible they were thinking ahead to non-US sales.
That's really a precious story.
Personally, I'd never commit my feelings about a weekend coke binge (with or without a married person) to email, let alone one sent to someone's work account. But obviously my sense of personal boundaries are a bit skewed.
I get that, it's understandable up to a point. But you could also tell them about things like hotmail, yahoo, or gmail. They're free and accessible from more or less anywhere.
And how long did you stay there? If it was more than 2 weeks past however long it took to find another job, you're a sucker. No offense, but that's some super-duper bullshit treatment.
Particularly for the Slashdot crowd? Hell, a portion of the readership is probably responsible for helping to implement such measures.
Don't use your work email for personal stuff. It was never a good idea, and it's becoming ever less of a good idea. Don't say anything in an email that you wouldn't say in person or in writing. Be professional.
Also, don't forward chain letters, don't send around forwards of kitten pictures, pr0n, jokes, political screeds, etc. etc. Most people don't want to get it and you're wasting bandwidth.
Sorry, but most people actually couldn't give a crap about standards. Most people just want a functional suite of office applications that works more or less the way they've come to expect such programs. Most people aren't even aware that there is such a thing as a file format, or that there are different types of them.
Most people also want to be able to easily exchange documents with other people. That's part of the reason why Office is so well entrenched. Sure, you can download a copy of OO to open an ODF file, but if you're running a business, you don't want to make your clients do that, because it's a hassle. Nearly everyone has Office, and practically nobody has OO (this is in rough marketshare percentages).
Don't get me wrong. I would rather have a clear, open standard with a decent existing implementation that's not tied to the whims of a vendor. But I and people like me really are a very small part of the market.
Yes. Yes it does. It's un-fucking-believably bad.
It's had a long, long while to get good - and it still has the donkey ball sucking issues.
You and your silly insistence on consistent meanings for SI prefixes.
T-ray imaging systems are what are being proposed to scan people in airports and other secure places; you can get images under a person's clothing, so you can actually see what they might have concealed.
Check out the wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terahertz_radiation
I think the best thing that could happen for Linux on the desktop is for one of the two major environments (I don't care which) to become THE standard, supported Linux X desktop standard.
I know, choice is good. So is focusing your efforts on making one usable product that people can standardize on. Don't even think of it as a product, think of it as a protocol. HTTP won out over Gopher, and the first is everywhere and makes all kinds of apps able to talk to each other; the second is a (fondly, for me) remembered also ran. And that's a good thing.
You'd think after the Swiss bank debacle it'd be pretty well known that trying to suppress this kind of information (particularly when it's distributed by an international organization), just guarantees that it will be more widely disseminated than it'd otherwise have been.
Someone circulate a memo about the Steisand effect to the lawyers of the US.
What does an athletic competition have to do with the internal politics of a country?
At the risk of running afoul of Godwin's law, Nazi Germany hosted the Olympics before the beginning of WWII. They mostly used it as a propaganda opportunity, and it's hard to say that the event led to any more openness or political moderation on the part of the German government.
The article didn't claim it was censorship. It made the (purely factual) claim that links to youtube were being blocked by msn messenger. Which they are.
Sounds like you're the sensationalist one out for attention.
Unless by "No JVM needed," you mean "No JVM needed apart from an already installed JVM."
None of those places are that bad. I've worked in plenty of worse/less conducive to getting shit done places than any of those. Hell, even the Mozilla folks look like they've got actual desks as opposed to, say, folding tables and chairs. And I've seen way dingier, more depressing cube farms than anything in that list.
Ha. Oh, man. Funny. Thanks.
Your mother fucks donkeys for money.
Ha. Yeah. Let's send the military after, say, China where a significant amount of the goods the US consumes are made.
Notwithstanding the economic and trade disaster that would ensue (take a look at who owns US debt these days), they could fuck us up militarily. They've got nukes, they've got a way, way larger army than we do, and ain't nobody dumb enough to take our side in that little tussle. We've got the best weapons and a very well trained army. They've got numbers and weapons that are good enough.
This isn't an endorsement of the ease of development and portability; I'm merely noting that a prima face argument for cross platform Cocoa is possible.
Interesting idea. I imagine a lot of what the Supreme Court will do about these NSLs depends on who's in the White House come next year; both in terms of nominating replacement Justices and in terms of the Justices not wanting to hand too much power to someone they don't want to have it.
Yeah. Any interest I might have had in reading the review ended when I saw that.