..OR we may draw conclusions about Michael and this 'reader' that he knows. Not personally, of course, just in passing from some web forum or other. Nothing really. Not even sure if her -or his- name really is 'reader.' In fact, it wasn't even Michael who posted this. It was the other Michael. Yes, that's it. There is no 'reader.' What is this 'geek' you speak of?
Bug report -- OS: duffbeer 7.03 Report: The system's command interpreter seems to have a glitch. It interprets 'discussion' as meaning 'article', which is completely wrong. I'm currently trying to reproduce the bug by posting on Slashdot. I'll see if I can get it to do it again.
>I'm not saying write everything in assembly, but "who cares if it's not very efficient" is a really terrible way to think. That's what Microsoft and the Nazis did.
I beg to differ. The Nazis were, sadly, very effective.
What is wrong with you slashdot nerdlingerlingers and all these stupid analogies? Do you think it makes you look smarter?
Damn. Just tell him to not use analogies and be quiet. Why would you try to compare it to some random idiot story? Can't you speak without swearing? There is no need to make up some even dumber analogy that is supposed to point out the fallacious logic in the GPs post. You only serve to bring a bad name to all Anonymous Cowards.
Looks like the courts in Finland just upheld a legislation barring an employer from reading employee e-mails. Couldn't find an announcement in English, nor are the translation tools too good, so you'll have to take my word for it. So they're faring well.
>In any case us western countries have had the lion's share of the distribution of wealth for far too long at the expense of poorer nations. I don't think we have the right to complain if an Indian coder takes our job.
This is very short-sighted, and a typical liberal American's view (read: someone who thinks they are progressive.)
The long-term macroeconomical problem is that this kind of development where all production jobs are distributed to third world countries reduces the natural evolution of the economy and degrades self-sustenance, probably hindering them forever from forming their own, healthy economies, effectively maintaining the status quo, the division between creators and producers.
One of the short-term macroeconomical problems is that, sooner or later, for example India starts becoming too expensive as the workers there start realizing their value (the quality may also start suffering as more hopefuls jump aboard.) At that point, the industry will just find another developing country to use, and leave India stranded.
Another short-term macroeconomical problem is that this developement will effectively recreate the gap between skilled workers and management again.. when companies outsource the production jobs (which, for IT, actually require much more skill than management), they will keep management jobs around because it's seen as a necessity. We will see a trend of modest but constant raises for middle to upper management because of the perceived operating cost savings, while the remaining skilled workers will see a steady degradation in compensation.
Then there's the matter of the reducing buying power of the home market as people are laid off, but that's not a problem yet since there're many emerging markets.
--- A personal opinion is that the only way this world will survive is the eventual conversion to a utopistic trade economy not unlike communism (please don't confuse the totalitarian state capitalisms of the USSR, China, Cuba and so on as communism.) I may, of course, be wrong.
I applaud you and your organization. It's a hard choice to go standards-compliant, but for the survival and evolution of the Internet it is the only viable choice. There's some amazing stuff you can do with plain CSS (menus without ECMAScript, anyone?), and a little ECMAScript so there's no reason why any proprietary extensions are needed.
Eventually when browsers can rely on users producing correct code, their bloat will be reduced and they may see great speed gains.
I have personally found Opera to be the most-compliant in average use. Moz would be more so, but there are some basic things in CSS that disturb it. IE is getting better.
Here I thought the users paid for the operating costs. Have you taken a business course? You know, the kind where they say things like "The purpose of a business is to make money, not lose it"?
A Good Thing To Do would be to visit bb4win and using their tutorials, install Blackbox* as the default shell instead of Explorer:) Then you can edit the BB menu and for instance create an item that lets you launch arbitrary programs..
*Warning: Do not try this if you suspect your wife/husband/whatever tries to beat you unconscious with a baguette every time you attempt it.
I seem to recall that if a company knowingly does not enforce a patent on one party without explicit agreement between the two, they lose the right to enforce it on any other parties. I may be thinking of copyright, though.. anyone know?
My post states that the so-called third world suffers from the first world's dominance and calls for improvement. Racist? Right.
Re:Yet Another Racist Linux User
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Well, responding to a troll here, but there are no intelligence tests out there where education isn't an (big) advantage -if the test doesn't outright require some taught skills, at least having been exposed to similar logic requirements earlier in their life.
While the above will explain most of the variation, another matter must be considered, that being evolution at work. Cultures and locations still have their own perils and challenges in everyday life, and a fair assertion is that in a somewhat hostile, agriculture-centered society, physical prowess is more important than intellectual, and therefore these individuals have a greater chance of survival and reproduction.
Which is why, without demeaning the value of said physical aptitude, we need to act fast to bring everyone to the same level of sophistication and education as the 'best' of the world.
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Actually, I get the feeling the author was dancing as close to anti-SCOism as he possibly could considering it was a local company in a fully unresolved case. There are telling uses of words in the text.
Right. Just like the FedEx man has to get *your* signature instead of the next-door neighbours or just leaving it your door with the FedEx logo proudly shining to the street.
Slashdot Mirror
It was about....
...here.
"There are gnome developers working on KDE?"
^^^^
See? There. Around there. My alphabet isn't what it used to be but it seems like the.. thing.
Could we please just stop using the goddamn word 'meme'? Especially since it's not even appropriate in this context?
This is probably the best defense in the history of law. It's actually legally sound, too.
..OR we may draw conclusions about Michael and this 'reader' that he knows. Not personally, of course, just in passing from some web forum or other. Nothing really. Not even sure if her -or his- name really is 'reader.' In fact, it wasn't even Michael who posted this. It was the other Michael. Yes, that's it. There is no 'reader.' What is this 'geek' you speak of?
You're thinking too small. Or perhaps too high.
Bug report
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OS: duffbeer 7.03
Report:
The system's command interpreter seems to have a glitch. It interprets 'discussion' as meaning 'article', which is completely wrong. I'm currently trying to reproduce the bug by posting on Slashdot. I'll see if I can get it to do it again.
>I'm not saying write everything in assembly, but "who cares if it's not very efficient" is a really terrible way to think. That's what Microsoft and the Nazis did.
I beg to differ. The Nazis were, sadly, very effective.
Yes. It's called small talk and most civilized cultures avoid this particular aspect of it unless the person actually wants to know how you are doing.
What is wrong with you slashdot nerdlingerlingers and all these stupid analogies? Do you think it makes you look smarter?
Damn. Just tell him to not use analogies and be quiet. Why would you try to compare it to some random idiot story? Can't you speak without swearing? There is no need to make up some even dumber analogy that is supposed to point out the fallacious logic in the GPs post. You only serve to bring a bad name to all Anonymous Cowards.
If I have a monkey.
Looks like the courts in Finland just upheld a legislation barring an employer from reading employee e-mails. Couldn't find an announcement in English, nor are the translation tools too good, so you'll have to take my word for it. So they're faring well.
>In any case us western countries have had the lion's share of the distribution of wealth for far too long at the expense of poorer nations. I don't think we have the right to complain if an Indian coder takes our job.
This is very short-sighted, and a typical liberal American's view (read: someone who thinks they are progressive.)
The long-term macroeconomical problem is that this kind of development where all production jobs are distributed to third world countries reduces the natural evolution of the economy and degrades self-sustenance, probably hindering them forever from forming their own, healthy economies, effectively maintaining the status quo, the division between creators and producers.
One of the short-term macroeconomical problems is that, sooner or later, for example India starts becoming too expensive as the workers there start realizing their value (the quality may also start suffering as more hopefuls jump aboard.) At that point, the industry will just find another developing country to use, and leave India stranded.
Another short-term macroeconomical problem is that this developement will effectively recreate the gap between skilled workers and management again.. when companies outsource the production jobs (which, for IT, actually require much more skill than management), they will keep management jobs around because it's seen as a necessity. We will see a trend of modest but constant raises for middle to upper management because of the perceived operating cost savings, while the remaining skilled workers will see a steady degradation in compensation.
Then there's the matter of the reducing buying power of the home market as people are laid off, but that's not a problem yet since there're many emerging markets.
---
A personal opinion is that the only way this world will survive is the eventual conversion to a utopistic trade economy not unlike communism (please don't confuse the totalitarian state capitalisms of the USSR, China, Cuba and so on as communism.) I may, of course, be wrong.
On Moz/FB, this doesn't colour the bg:
... }
body { background: #000000;
This does:
<body style="background: #000000">
This is non-compliant behaviour of the strangest order.
I applaud you and your organization. It's a hard choice to go standards-compliant, but for the survival and evolution of the Internet it is the only viable choice. There's some amazing stuff you can do with plain CSS (menus without ECMAScript, anyone?), and a little ECMAScript so there's no reason why any proprietary extensions are needed.
Eventually when browsers can rely on users producing correct code, their bloat will be reduced and they may see great speed gains.
I have personally found Opera to be the most-compliant in average use. Moz would be more so, but there are some basic things in CSS that disturb it. IE is getting better.
Excellent stuff out there. Mod parent up.
>Only mozilla/netscape are truly cross-platform, and available to anyone for free.
Unfortunately Moz/FB have problems with some CSS.
Uh, no. A web document is currently a three-part ordeal:
1. Content. This is your data, text, articles.
2. Structure. This is the XHTML. Tables, links etc.
3. Layout. This is CSS. Style, display and layout.
One may need server-side stuff for the content part.
>You have no rights to the pipe I pay for.
Here I thought the users paid for the operating costs. Have you taken a business course? You know, the kind where they say things like "The purpose of a business is to make money, not lose it"?
A Good Thing To Do would be to visit bb4win and using their tutorials, install Blackbox* as the default shell instead of Explorer :) Then you can edit the BB menu and for instance create an item that lets you launch arbitrary programs..
*Warning: Do not try this if you suspect your wife/husband/whatever tries to beat you unconscious with a baguette every time you attempt it.
I seem to recall that if a company knowingly does not enforce a patent on one party without explicit agreement between the two, they lose the right to enforce it on any other parties. I may be thinking of copyright, though.. anyone know?
My post states that the so-called third world suffers from the first world's dominance and calls for improvement. Racist? Right.
Well, responding to a troll here, but there are no intelligence tests out there where education isn't an (big) advantage -if the test doesn't outright require some taught skills, at least having been exposed to similar logic requirements earlier in their life.
While the above will explain most of the variation, another matter must be considered, that being evolution at work. Cultures and locations still have their own perils and challenges in everyday life, and a fair assertion is that in a somewhat hostile, agriculture-centered society, physical prowess is more important than intellectual, and therefore these individuals have a greater chance of survival and reproduction.
Which is why, without demeaning the value of said physical aptitude, we need to act fast to bring everyone to the same level of sophistication and education as the 'best' of the world.
Actually, I get the feeling the author was dancing as close to anti-SCOism as he possibly could considering it was a local company in a fully unresolved case. There are telling uses of words in the text.
In other news, the Association For Leisure And Addicted Crack Users Of America is 'thinking about' suing Linus Torvalds for libel.
"It seems the OP has no place coding anyway, -- "
Unless, of course, he maintains code like this:
int main(int argc, char * argv[])
{
sOmE_TYpeOfMiNE VaRiAbLe_SoMeTYPEofMiNe;
return 0;
}
Right. Just like the FedEx man has to get *your* signature instead of the next-door neighbours or just leaving it your door with the FedEx logo proudly shining to the street.