At my consulting Job I use evolution. Ah so much better.
Umm, why?
Honest question - I haven't used it (no Win32 version, no linux desktop to speak of right now). But I have looked at the screenshots on Ximians page, and all I see is an Outlook knock-off. If everything is a copy of Outlook, where does the 'so much better' part come in? What does it do that Outlook doesn't (apart from 'not launch email viruses' - but that's not enough of a reason, as Outlook CAN be configured properly)
Then you've barely used Excel. The fact that you can't spell it correctly, even though it plaffs you with the name in huge letters every time you start it, is a good indication of this.
OpenOffice may very well blow (never used it), but so does UnOpenOffice.
The best part is the rapper who is singing and dancing to a great anti-piracy song.
...you could have explained that you meant "a black guy who is moving spastically and non-lip-synchronously to an incredibly horrible anti-piracy farce 'rap'" before I wasted my time downloading all 16MB of this mindless propoganda. At least qualify your definition of 'great', like so:
"To me, 'great' is a synonym for that feeling you get when someone else throws up in your mouth".
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From the 'unused speech' article:
Recently discovered documents detail the steps Nasa and the Nixon administration would have taken had the Apollo XI astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin been unable to return from the moon.
Man, I'd be utterly pissed off if I was that third guy no-one ever remembered. Future generations will probably think he was a cardboard cutout.
"Yeah, I'm Michael Collins" "Who?" "MICHAEL COLLINS. I was 1/3 of the first moon landing" "Ahhh, come on. I know it was Aldrin and Armstrong. Pull the other one" "Goddamn it, that's the last time I offer to be designated driver"
Yes, let's put this article on Slashdot, so a few million would be hackers can go ahead and deface a couple of hundred websites apiece.
That's just reactionary, or perhaps looking for an excuse to bash slashdot.
I heard about this web defacement day ON THE RADIO this morning before I even saw it on slashdot (which I was going to write up a separate 'end of the world' type post about).
One of my personal bugbears. No-one can agree on the right number of spaces to indent by
And Christ, what a retarded thing that is to have a religious issue over!
Anyway, python doesn't care. Spaces, tabs, whatever, just so long as you're consistent. If the line is part of a block (something you would put inside braces in C), it should be indented more than the line just before the block (and subsequent lines should match).
if x:
if y:
print "both x and y are true"
print "these lines would cause an error if"
print "the indentation was different to"
print "the 'x and y' line"
else:
print "x is true, y is false"
print "the first half of the if"
print "doesn't affect the indentation"
print "requirements for this block"
print "x is true, y may be" print "at this point, who cares about x and y?"
It's hard to deny the simplicity of code like this. If you've programmed in almost any language at all, this is pretty much intuitive. The only problem I can see is if people are using different editors where one expands tabs to spaces, and the other doesn't, and they're continually updating the same blocks. Using any decent text editor cuts out this problem though.
Secondly, so what if China does get to the moon? What did it get the US, moon rocks?
Right. And how long did the US spend on the moon? How much of it did they explore? How much of it did they try mining? How many bases did they set up to investigate the possibilities of low-G farming, research, production? How many weapons and defenses did they test there? How many new ideas for vehicles, or space shuttle designs (taking advantage of the fact that less propulsion would be required to leave the moon's gravitational field) did they test there? How many living environments did they try creating, to preserve the future of our species in case an asteroid wipes out life on Earth? How many observation turrets did they set up so they could ignore atmospheric interference when studying other stars and planets? How many other millions of things I can't even imagine have they NOT tried?
Mmm. But how many rocks did they pick up, and how many fucking US flags did they stick into the ground instead, never to return? The fact that the US has squat to show for their trip to the moon doesn't mean another trip is worthless. It means the original plan had no vision or imagination, only a misplaced desire to 'beat those dirty commies'.
GO CHINA.
Darl McBride must be Ballmers cousin or something
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I can just hear him chanting:
Discovery discovery discovery discovery!
I think that's about the only hard fact I really learned from all three pages of this interview. They're going into discovery right now!
I downloaded Firebird 0.6 last night because Mozilla was still in release candidate mode. If I'd realised they were serious about the term Release Candidate, I would've just grabbed that.
Does anyone know if anyone is working on a usable 'save tabs' feature? When I use Opera, and accidentally close it (or it crashes), I load it up and all my previous windows are there. I *need* this feature because I can't just browse in a single window, and I have yet to use a browser that doesn't crash after a few arns.
Once Mozilla has this, Opera and it's ads (and it's stupid 'wand' that doesn't ever properly disable) is history.
Oh, and have they fixed the bookmark manager in this version? It's incredibly annoying right now (in Firebird 0.6, if you select a folder and add a new folder, the new folder is made a sibling of the selected folder, not a child).
You are equating people who need a lot of computing horsepower ("power user") with those who know a lot (or even want to know a lot) about computers.
Having/wanting a three button mouse does not equate to knowing a lot about computers. Power users require a lot of functionality from their computer, and more mouse buttons facilitates that in a way that's incredibly easy to come to grips with. No computer knowledge required, just an easy way to perform multiple functions. Your average public moron has no trouble differentiating different buttons on his TV and VCR, I don't see why buttons on a mouse would be any different. I'd be willing to bet only around 20-40% of the population would have any trouble with more than one button, and those <40% aren't going to be paying megabucks for the newest G5.
Exactly what is wrong with just buying another mouse from another vendor?
I don't know if you've noticed this, but Macs are pretty goddamn expensive. It's a slap in the face to someone willing to overspend so much to be forced into finding and purchasing a replacement for the toy mouse that came with an otherwise powerful system.
You are equating people who need a lot of computing horsepower ("power user") with those who know a lot (or even want to know a lot) about computers.
Having/wanting a three button mouse does not equate to knowing a lot about computers. Power users require a lot of functionality from their computer, and more mouse buttons facilitates that in a way that's incredibly easy to come to grips with. No computer knowledge required, just an easy way to perform multiple functions. Your average public moron has no trouble differentiating different buttons on his TV and VCR, I don't see why buttons on a mouse would be any different. I'd be willing to bet only around 20-40% of the population would have any trouble with more than one button, and those Exactly what is wrong with just buying another mouse from another vendor?
I don't know if you've noticed this, but Macs are pretty goddamn expensive. It's a slap in the face to someone willing to overspend so much to be forced into finding and purchasing a replacement for the toy mouse that came with an otherwise powerful system.
Why, exactly, does the purpose of supporting a game/company need to be to hurt and kill another?
Damn it, you're right!
I'm going to make an all-new RTS, the goal of which is to conquer the world via reproduction. Naturally, it'll be called FuckCraft, in honor of Blizzard's litigous nature - they sure won't be claiming anyone is mistaking it for their game.
Hmm, penis upgrades, religious protestors, inbreeding and disease risks (AIDS epidemic! Condom production up, but reproduction halved!)... I think I'm on to a winner here.
Yo! I just bought this XBox! <Bob> Now that's a BAD Fred. Use this controller *ZAP* <Fred> Ow! <Bob> Again! *ZAP* <Fred> OWW! <Bob> Again! *ZAP* <Fred> (tears streaming from eyes) Owwie owwie owww! Make it stop... I swear I'll only buy real consoles from now on! <Bob> Justice is served.
Umm, did anyone happen to watch the extras that came with the first DVD?
I did, and what I saw amounted to one big fucking commercial.
"Hi, I'm some chick who works for bla bla corp, oh look! Collector's editions of the original trilogy in book format! That's pretty interesting, why don't we show some shots of that while I keep talking? Did you know we sell these? Mmmm, these books sure do look nice... I wish I could be saying 'Only $69.95!' right about now... hey, let's have a shot of the director. He seems to be saying something. Oh, he's saying he wanted to be true to Tolkien's original trilogy! Well, let's fade him out and fade back in this shot of the trilogy that we happen to publish! The only thing missing from this 'making of' feature is an 800 number!"
At least some of the extras on the Star Wars DVDs didn't appear to have anything to do with trying to sell me more crap.
When I buy a piece of software, I shell out my cash, and I get a box with a CD in it.
Then I go to install my newly purchased software, and suddenly it's making extra demands of me. Demands not disclosed at the time of sale. "If you don't agree to all this bullshit", it says (if I'm lucky), "you can return it for a refund".
Well, by this time I've ripped off the shrinkwrap, opened the box, and maybe broken a little sticker that seemed to be holding the CD case shut. The store won't take it back, and the manufacturer will tell you to take it back to the store.
You expect me to respect this charade as a legally binding contract of some sort? The fuck I will. Provided I don't break copyright laws, I think I'll do whatever I please with my software, regardless of what their 'license agreement' says.
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Unsubstantiated comment: Evolution is so much better.
Rating: +5, Interesting!
Unsubstantiated comment: Outlook is really a superior mail client.
Rating: 0, Flamebait.
Slashdot moderators are the online version of a fucking circle jerk. Go ahead, mod me down. See the cock sucking in action.
At my consulting Job I use evolution. Ah so much better.
Umm, why?
Honest question - I haven't used it (no Win32 version, no linux desktop to speak of right now). But I have looked at the screenshots on Ximians page, and all I see is an Outlook knock-off. If everything is a copy of Outlook, where does the 'so much better' part come in? What does it do that Outlook doesn't (apart from 'not launch email viruses' - but that's not enough of a reason, as Outlook CAN be configured properly)
I can't ever remember Excell crashing.
Then you've barely used Excel. The fact that you can't spell it correctly, even though it plaffs you with the name in huge letters every time you start it, is a good indication of this.
OpenOffice may very well blow (never used it), but so does UnOpenOffice.
The best part is the rapper who is singing and dancing to a great anti-piracy song.
...you could have explained that you meant "a black guy who is moving spastically and non-lip-synchronously to an incredibly horrible anti-piracy farce 'rap'" before I wasted my time downloading all 16MB of this mindless propoganda.
At least qualify your definition of 'great', like so:
"To me, 'great' is a synonym for that feeling you get when someone else throws up in your mouth".
From the 'unused speech' article:
Recently discovered documents detail the steps Nasa and the Nixon administration would have taken had the Apollo XI astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin been unable to return from the moon.
Man, I'd be utterly pissed off if I was that third guy no-one ever remembered. Future generations will probably think he was a cardboard cutout.
"Yeah, I'm Michael Collins"
"Who?"
"MICHAEL COLLINS. I was 1/3 of the first moon landing"
"Ahhh, come on. I know it was Aldrin and Armstrong. Pull the other one"
"Goddamn it, that's the last time I offer to be designated driver"
Yes, let's put this article on Slashdot, so a few million would be hackers can go ahead and deface a couple of hundred websites apiece.
That's just reactionary, or perhaps looking for an excuse to bash slashdot.
I heard about this web defacement day ON THE RADIO this morning before I even saw it on slashdot (which I was going to write up a separate 'end of the world' type post about).
And I don't even listen to the radio.
Absolutely
One of my personal bugbears. No-one can agree on the right number of spaces to indent by
And Christ, what a retarded thing that is to have a religious issue over!
Anyway, python doesn't care. Spaces, tabs, whatever, just so long as you're consistent. If the line is part of a block (something you would put inside braces in C), it should be indented more than the line just before the block (and subsequent lines should match).
It's hard to deny the simplicity of code like this. If you've programmed in almost any language at all, this is pretty much intuitive. The only problem I can see is if people are using different editors where one expands tabs to spaces, and the other doesn't, and they're continually updating the same blocks. Using any decent text editor cuts out this problem though.
Secondly, so what if China does get to the moon? What did it get the US, moon rocks?
Right. And how long did the US spend on the moon? How much of it did they explore? How much of it did they try mining? How many bases did they set up to investigate the possibilities of low-G farming, research, production? How many weapons and defenses did they test there? How many new ideas for vehicles, or space shuttle designs (taking advantage of the fact that less propulsion would be required to leave the moon's gravitational field) did they test there? How many living environments did they try creating, to preserve the future of our species in case an asteroid wipes out life on Earth? How many observation turrets did they set up so they could ignore atmospheric interference when studying other stars and planets? How many other millions of things I can't even imagine have they NOT tried?
Mmm. But how many rocks did they pick up, and how many fucking US flags did they stick into the ground instead, never to return? The fact that the US has squat to show for their trip to the moon doesn't mean another trip is worthless. It means the original plan had no vision or imagination, only a misplaced desire to 'beat those dirty commies'.
GO CHINA.
I can just hear him chanting:
Discovery discovery discovery discovery!
I think that's about the only hard fact I really learned from all three pages of this interview. They're going into discovery right now!
I downloaded Firebird 0.6 last night because Mozilla was still in release candidate mode. If I'd realised they were serious about the term Release Candidate, I would've just grabbed that.
Does anyone know if anyone is working on a usable 'save tabs' feature? When I use Opera, and accidentally close it (or it crashes), I load it up and all my previous windows are there. I *need* this feature because I can't just browse in a single window, and I have yet to use a browser that doesn't crash after a few arns.
Once Mozilla has this, Opera and it's ads (and it's stupid 'wand' that doesn't ever properly disable) is history.
Oh, and have they fixed the bookmark manager in this version? It's incredibly annoying right now (in Firebird 0.6, if you select a folder and add a new folder, the new folder is made a sibling of the selected folder, not a child).
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You are equating people who need a lot of computing horsepower ("power user") with those who know a lot (or even want to know a lot) about computers.
Having/wanting a three button mouse does not equate to knowing a lot about computers. Power users require a lot of functionality from their computer, and more mouse buttons facilitates that in a way that's incredibly easy to come to grips with. No computer knowledge required, just an easy way to perform multiple functions. Your average public moron has no trouble differentiating different buttons on his TV and VCR, I don't see why buttons on a mouse would be any different. I'd be willing to bet only around 20-40% of the population would have any trouble with more than one button, and those <40% aren't going to be paying megabucks for the newest G5.
Exactly what is wrong with just buying another mouse from another vendor?
I don't know if you've noticed this, but Macs are pretty goddamn expensive. It's a slap in the face to someone willing to overspend so much to be forced into finding and purchasing a replacement for the toy mouse that came with an otherwise powerful system.
You are equating people who need a lot of computing horsepower ("power user") with those who know a lot (or even want to know a lot) about computers.
Having/wanting a three button mouse does not equate to knowing a lot about computers. Power users require a lot of functionality from their computer, and more mouse buttons facilitates that in a way that's incredibly easy to come to grips with. No computer knowledge required, just an easy way to perform multiple functions. Your average public moron has no trouble differentiating different buttons on his TV and VCR, I don't see why buttons on a mouse would be any different. I'd be willing to bet only around 20-40% of the population would have any trouble with more than one button, and those
Exactly what is wrong with just buying another mouse from another vendor?
I don't know if you've noticed this, but Macs are pretty goddamn expensive. It's a slap in the face to someone willing to overspend so much to be forced into finding and purchasing a replacement for the toy mouse that came with an otherwise powerful system.
Studies show that computer-illiterate people are easily confused by multiple buttons. You'd be surprised, but it really is a problem.
And how many of these computer illiterates are buying state-of-the-art G5 desktop machines?
Come ON. It's a power user's machine. Sell the bloody iMac with a one button mouse, but have a bit of respect for your other (non-imbecile) customers.
If Sun becomes too controlling, a fork occurs and Sun loses all of the help that they're getting through OSS support.
And we all have to fuck around trying to pronounce "J*va".
With a few thousand Dollars, I can eat for a year or longer...
<Lazy Jones> Hey kids! Guess what's for dinner tonight?
<Kids> (decidedly unenthusiastic) Ramen?
<Lazy Jones> RAMEN!!
Hey, I misread the text I quoted! Another victory for skim-reading.
Why, exactly, does the purpose of supporting a game/company need to be to hurt and kill another?
Damn it, you're right!
I'm going to make an all-new RTS, the goal of which is to conquer the world via reproduction. Naturally, it'll be called FuckCraft, in honor of Blizzard's litigous nature - they sure won't be claiming anyone is mistaking it for their game.
Hmm, penis upgrades, religious protestors, inbreeding and disease risks (AIDS epidemic! Condom production up, but reproduction halved!)... I think I'm on to a winner here.
"Do you know what 'Contempt of Court' is?"
A Microsoft innovation?
Yo! I just bought this XBox!
<Bob> Now that's a BAD Fred. Use this controller
*ZAP*
<Fred> Ow!
<Bob> Again!
*ZAP*
<Fred> OWW!
<Bob> Again!
*ZAP*
<Fred> (tears streaming from eyes) Owwie owwie owww! Make it stop... I swear I'll only buy real consoles from now on!
<Bob> Justice is served.
Windows is just fine if you don't use outlook.
Uh, yeah. Or Outlook Express, or Internet Explorer, or Internet Information Services, or Word, or MS-SQL Server, or... or... or...
When
In
Network
Deliberately
Obstruct
Worthy
Systems
and as a bonus:
Make
Incompatibilities
Common
Retarding
Other
Software's
Operation,
Furthering
Takings
Umm, did anyone happen to watch the extras that came with the first DVD?
I did, and what I saw amounted to one big fucking commercial.
"Hi, I'm some chick who works for bla bla corp, oh look! Collector's editions of the original trilogy in book format! That's pretty interesting, why don't we show some shots of that while I keep talking? Did you know we sell these? Mmmm, these books sure do look nice... I wish I could be saying 'Only $69.95!' right about now... hey, let's have a shot of the director. He seems to be saying something. Oh, he's saying he wanted to be true to Tolkien's original trilogy! Well, let's fade him out and fade back in this shot of the trilogy that we happen to publish! The only thing missing from this 'making of' feature is an 800 number!"
At least some of the extras on the Star Wars DVDs didn't appear to have anything to do with trying to sell me more crap.
I'm a Texan living in Texas. Whenever a Canadian asks me what I think... I say "I don't."
Excellent quote, thanks. Very true to life.
When I buy a piece of software, I shell out my cash, and I get a box with a CD in it.
Then I go to install my newly purchased software, and suddenly it's making extra demands of me. Demands not disclosed at the time of sale.
"If you don't agree to all this bullshit", it says (if I'm lucky), "you can return it for a refund".
Well, by this time I've ripped off the shrinkwrap, opened the box, and maybe broken a little sticker that seemed to be holding the CD case shut. The store won't take it back, and the manufacturer will tell you to take it back to the store.
You expect me to respect this charade as a legally binding contract of some sort? The fuck I will. Provided I don't break copyright laws, I think I'll do whatever I please with my software, regardless of what their 'license agreement' says.
Perhaps they just want to keep MS from getting a strangehold on their company?
That's not mismanagement, it's learning from history.