I think the whole "you must use your real name" policy of Facebook is at the heart of this free distribution of personal information. The service is telling people it's both safe and desirable for random people to know who you really are. Then people are shocked by stories of people getting robbed while on vacation after posting an "on vacation" Facebook status. Anonymity is the safest for any public forum. Yes I get that they want to sell this idea of your old friends finding you. But they should allow people to obfuscate their identity if that's not what they are on Facebook for. It's not difficult to find a friend using an alias if that friend wants to be found. Instead they will terminate your account if they believe you are not who you say you are, and will only allow you to restore that account if you can prove your online identity is a real one. The fact that Facebook is often used as a game platform and most online games allow you to choose any name you wish just reinforces the appearance that Facebook is out of touch with Internet/web realities.
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I doubt Nurse Chapel would have been so actively pursuing Spock if he and Uhura were involved, and in Amok Time he would have sought out Uhura's comfort. And it was pretty clear in Plato's Stepchildren that by season 3 Uhura was admiring Kirk from afar.
Considering that Spock apparently was in a teaching role at the academy his relationship with a cadet was not professional and should have violated ethics standards, so was not particularly believable. Weakens his moral high ground in the Maru incident. That and Uhura at different times had interest in Kirk and Scotty - do they have to hook her up with everyone? One could say that the timeline was different and Spock and Uhura only hooked up in the new one but it's a bit of a stretch since there's no obvious reason the loss of one starship would change academy romantic hookups much.
"security reasons" can be a catch-all for anything, really.
Yup. In this case job security. The people running the site are not comfortable with that scary open source stuff and are afraid if it catches on then someone else who knows how it works will be hired to do their jobs.
Of course that's just my opinion, I could be wrong. Have run into that attitude in government however.
Interesting that Disney is killing off their popular online community Virtual Magic Kingdom next week while apparently seeing enough value in online communities to create a new one.
While Object Oriented Programming is an easy target because it's an unnecessary-fluffy-overhyped process layer put on top of traditional structured programming (that did the job quite well when followed), and is a process layer which tends to overcomplicate programming for no real benefit and in fact is counterproductive because it hides how stuff actually works and gets in the way of debugging and optimization...
(Yes the bloated and inefficient sentence structure is intentional and reflects the topic)
I think it's more a mindset than a methodology that's at fault. I remember in Computer Science classes being told by the professor that I should not be so worried about memory and computational efficiency, that I was ignoring the fact that hardware kept getting better and cheaper and would keep up. I thought he was incredibly dense because in my opinion efficiency is always desirable - you can always find another use for spare CPU cycles or spare memory, and an efficient program is always going to perform better. But a huge number of programmers have probably been taught this way.
It may partly be because the rate change doesn't happen until 10 days later. Is it helpful to have the proper rate stamp in advance? Sure. But it can also imply that the rate change has already happened and cause confusion. Historically the postal service hasn't even been able or willing to supply a stamp with the actual numeric value until a while after a rate change, so people may expect that by the time a 41 cent stamp comes out that's what first class mail costs.
Perhaps they could have left the number off and just said "first class" as they did for the last rate change, but that's a lot of real estate taken up by lettering on a souvenir stamp. They seem to have abandoned the idea of using an alphabetic character. Probably would have been a bad idea anyway since using the alphabet reminds people they raised the rates once again.
Why would a typical Dell customer who isn't interested in Vista, be interested in Linux ?
Good question. If Dell's worried about a wait and see attitude toward Vista I have a much more appropriate solution: bring back Vista vouchers. Sell the computer preinstalled with XP but with an option to install Vista later when the customer wants it.
Yeah Microsoft would not like that idea at all, but I think hardware manufacturers would love to be able to actually sell according to market reality. Instead I believe what's happening is people are buying the Vista machine and then wiping it clean and installing XP, so that they have that Vista license for futureproofing. That's a good reason to take Vista sales figures with a skeptical eye by the way.
Part of the reason the patches didn't include the changes was that at the time they were created the provinces hadn't decided to go along yet.
Would be a lot simpler if they'd just pass a law saying they'll follow any changes the US makes to DST no matter how stupid (and this one is very stupid), because it seems like a foregone conclusion that they'll follow along for "business reasons".
No offense intended to Canadians and no implication that Canada should not function as a sovereign nation...it just my life would have been a lot easier if this had been decided earlier. I had to patch so many more systems because of how late some Canadian areas were added.
Virtually all the versions of linux my company is using in production already contains the correct tzdata
I originally was under that mistaken impression myself. In fact that is not true, because the Canadian provinces adopted the changes later and not all at once. To be sure you're covered you need to patch pretty much everything earlier then RHEL 5.
OK, maybe you don't care about the time zones in Canada. But you were potentially headed for an insensitive clod comment, and many people do need to be concerned with the rest of North America.
It is high time people realize that real people have views across the board, making them average out as moderate. Few people fall perfectly party line along the hard left or hard right.
Actually it's high time people realize that a two party system is silly. There should be at least half a dozen major political parties. Forcing people into the "liberal", "conservative", and "moderate" buckets is an oversimplification that does no one any good, and dilutes the idea of rule by the "will of the people". The choice of the lesser of two evils is a fundamentally unsound way to determine government. The 50-50ish split in the new senate is an example of how broken the current system is. There is simply no way the states are split evenly into two camps on issues in the way that arrangement would suggest, and yet the resolution of three close races has huge implications for the agenda of that body. If we had coalition government no one would care.
You may be on to something there. This whole exploding battery thing may just be Sony and Dell's attempt to build upon the old "Halt and Catch Fire" instruction http://experts.about.com/e/h/ha/Halt_and_Catch_Fir e.htm/ of days gone by. As you point out, Dell can't let itself fall behind. Unfortunately, Sony's special innovations seem to often run into problems with consumer "advocates" and the like. Just look at what happened when they tried to make a better music CD.
I don't think this is fair to Wine at all. There is much in Wine that works very well. Why must Wine be a perfect implementation of the Windows API to be useful in porting? In fact the parts of the Windows API Google is using might be quite solid and have gone through a number of optimizations over time. Google seemed to think it was a good approach.
I wish Wine was used more in the porting of Windows programs. It's best not to reinvent the wheel. Yes, Wine may be missing something you need. Add it, and then Wine will be better for the next project that comes along, and people may suddenly be able to use other applications than yours with Wine that they could not before. Reworking a program to use a new framework like QT or GTK, or a new language like Java, is fraught with peril. Many errors can creep in by trying to force the code to work in a new way than the original design.
I think the look and feel criticisms posted here have more basis, but is there anything keeping someone from skinning Wine to look more native? Maybe it's not there yet, but if that's an important consideration then you could spend the time you would have on a rewrite to massage Wine in this area.
Much power in the open source world comes from the easy reuse of code. Wine has already come a long way thanks to all of the applications that have been made to work. As new ones like Picasa are supported, Wine gets even better exercised and eventually optimized.
I wonder where Linux would be today if people had looked at it and said, "there are much more complete and stable UNIX-like environments such as BSD and Minix, so why bother working with that Linux thing?"
Shouldn't this whole thread be marked redundant? Yeah, OSS will service anyone, any time, anywhere. For free. That's just how it works. Of course Microsoft and Sun will service you too, but it'll cost you and you'll feel a lot worse afterwards.
Every menu, every window, every pixel is hand-drawn by the program
The program has hands? Wouldn't it be more efficient to just do the whole thing the computer way rather than the human way?
I'd heard OpenOffice.org was getting bloated...I'm not sure if this is being innovative or just spooky. Either way, I'll take a handless program like KOffice. Seems much safer and more proper.
Disney is saying movies should be available to the public sooner? The same Disney that creates artificial scarcity on its DVD titles by only releasing them for a limited time? The Disney that regularly creates situations like being able to rent Lion King 2 but not Lion King? Do they want people to be able to buy the DVDs they want, or not? Something doesn't add up here.
Only called that by the Cybermen, I believe. Just like I doubt Mars is called that by the Ice Warriors, except maybe when conversing with humans. They may have appeared to call it Mars in some episode, but as we all know most science fiction programs have a universal translator for the audience.
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I think the whole "you must use your real name" policy of Facebook is at the heart of this free distribution of personal information. The service is telling people it's both safe and desirable for random people to know who you really are. Then people are shocked by stories of people getting robbed while on vacation after posting an "on vacation" Facebook status. Anonymity is the safest for any public forum. Yes I get that they want to sell this idea of your old friends finding you. But they should allow people to obfuscate their identity if that's not what they are on Facebook for. It's not difficult to find a friend using an alias if that friend wants to be found. Instead they will terminate your account if they believe you are not who you say you are, and will only allow you to restore that account if you can prove your online identity is a real one. The fact that Facebook is often used as a game platform and most online games allow you to choose any name you wish just reinforces the appearance that Facebook is out of touch with Internet/web realities.
I doubt Nurse Chapel would have been so actively pursuing Spock if he and Uhura were involved, and in Amok Time he would have sought out Uhura's comfort. And it was pretty clear in Plato's Stepchildren that by season 3 Uhura was admiring Kirk from afar.
Considering that Spock apparently was in a teaching role at the academy his relationship with a cadet was not professional and should have violated ethics standards, so was not particularly believable. Weakens his moral high ground in the Maru incident. That and Uhura at different times had interest in Kirk and Scotty - do they have to hook her up with everyone? One could say that the timeline was different and Spock and Uhura only hooked up in the new one but it's a bit of a stretch since there's no obvious reason the loss of one starship would change academy romantic hookups much.
Our supplies of fresh water are limited but there's an awful lot of water in the ocean and it doesn't say it has to be fresh water.
"security reasons" can be a catch-all for anything, really.
Yup. In this case job security. The people running the site are not comfortable with that scary open source stuff and are afraid if it catches on then someone else who knows how it works will be hired to do their jobs.
Of course that's just my opinion, I could be wrong. Have run into that attitude in government however.
Actually no promises were needed in Denver. A Federal law was passed to say they could put the tower on Lookout Mountain no matter what anyone said:
http://broadcastengineering.com/RF/law-clears-obstacles-0104/
Interesting that Disney is killing off their popular online community Virtual Magic Kingdom next week while apparently seeing enough value in online communities to create a new one.
While Object Oriented Programming is an easy target because it's an unnecessary-fluffy-overhyped process layer put on top of traditional structured programming (that did the job quite well when followed), and is a process layer which tends to overcomplicate programming for no real benefit and in fact is counterproductive because it hides how stuff actually works and gets in the way of debugging and optimization...
(Yes the bloated and inefficient sentence structure is intentional and reflects the topic)
I think it's more a mindset than a methodology that's at fault. I remember in Computer Science classes being told by the professor that I should not be so worried about memory and computational efficiency, that I was ignoring the fact that hardware kept getting better and cheaper and would keep up. I thought he was incredibly dense because in my opinion efficiency is always desirable - you can always find another use for spare CPU cycles or spare memory, and an efficient program is always going to perform better. But a huge number of programmers have probably been taught this way.
I prefer the term "gubernator". He won a gubernatorial election, not a governatorial one.
Perhaps they could have left the number off and just said "first class" as they did for the last rate change, but that's a lot of real estate taken up by lettering on a souvenir stamp. They seem to have abandoned the idea of using an alphabetic character. Probably would have been a bad idea anyway since using the alphabet reminds people they raised the rates once again.
Good question. If Dell's worried about a wait and see attitude toward Vista I have a much more appropriate solution: bring back Vista vouchers. Sell the computer preinstalled with XP but with an option to install Vista later when the customer wants it.
Yeah Microsoft would not like that idea at all, but I think hardware manufacturers would love to be able to actually sell according to market reality. Instead I believe what's happening is people are buying the Vista machine and then wiping it clean and installing XP, so that they have that Vista license for futureproofing. That's a good reason to take Vista sales figures with a skeptical eye by the way.
Amen! Start by putting cane sugar back in soft drinks the way God intended!
Would be a lot simpler if they'd just pass a law saying they'll follow any changes the US makes to DST no matter how stupid (and this one is very stupid), because it seems like a foregone conclusion that they'll follow along for "business reasons".
No offense intended to Canadians and no implication that Canada should not function as a sovereign nation...it just my life would have been a lot easier if this had been decided earlier. I had to patch so many more systems because of how late some Canadian areas were added.
Virtually all the versions of linux my company is using in production already contains the correct tzdata I originally was under that mistaken impression myself. In fact that is not true, because the Canadian provinces adopted the changes later and not all at once. To be sure you're covered you need to patch pretty much everything earlier then RHEL 5. OK, maybe you don't care about the time zones in Canada. But you were potentially headed for an insensitive clod comment, and many people do need to be concerned with the rest of North America.
It is high time people realize that real people have views across the board, making them average out as moderate. Few people fall perfectly party line along the hard left or hard right. Actually it's high time people realize that a two party system is silly. There should be at least half a dozen major political parties. Forcing people into the "liberal", "conservative", and "moderate" buckets is an oversimplification that does no one any good, and dilutes the idea of rule by the "will of the people". The choice of the lesser of two evils is a fundamentally unsound way to determine government. The 50-50ish split in the new senate is an example of how broken the current system is. There is simply no way the states are split evenly into two camps on issues in the way that arrangement would suggest, and yet the resolution of three close races has huge implications for the agenda of that body. If we had coalition government no one would care.
You may be on to something there. This whole exploding battery thing may just be Sony and Dell's attempt to build upon the old "Halt and Catch Fire" instruction http://experts.about.com/e/h/ha/Halt_and_Catch_Fir e.htm/ of days gone by. As you point out, Dell can't let itself fall behind. Unfortunately, Sony's special innovations seem to often run into problems with consumer "advocates" and the like. Just look at what happened when they tried to make a better music CD.
It failed.
But in the year of the Shadow War, it became something greater: our last, best hope - for victory.
Maybe there's hope for Firefly.
Actually, science has provided us with an invention that allows you to "save your game" in a choose your own adventure book. Marvel at this wonder:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookmark
I wish Wine was used more in the porting of Windows programs. It's best not to reinvent the wheel. Yes, Wine may be missing something you need. Add it, and then Wine will be better for the next project that comes along, and people may suddenly be able to use other applications than yours with Wine that they could not before. Reworking a program to use a new framework like QT or GTK, or a new language like Java, is fraught with peril. Many errors can creep in by trying to force the code to work in a new way than the original design.
I think the look and feel criticisms posted here have more basis, but is there anything keeping someone from skinning Wine to look more native? Maybe it's not there yet, but if that's an important consideration then you could spend the time you would have on a rewrite to massage Wine in this area.
Much power in the open source world comes from the easy reuse of code. Wine has already come a long way thanks to all of the applications that have been made to work. As new ones like Picasa are supported, Wine gets even better exercised and eventually optimized.
I wonder where Linux would be today if people had looked at it and said, "there are much more complete and stable UNIX-like environments such as BSD and Minix, so why bother working with that Linux thing?"
Shouldn't this whole thread be marked redundant? Yeah, OSS will service anyone, any time, anywhere. For free. That's just how it works. Of course Microsoft and Sun will service you too, but it'll cost you and you'll feel a lot worse afterwards.
The program has hands? Wouldn't it be more efficient to just do the whole thing the computer way rather than the human way?
I'd heard OpenOffice.org was getting bloated...I'm not sure if this is being innovative or just spooky. Either way, I'll take a handless program like KOffice. Seems much safer and more proper.
Disney is saying movies should be available to the public sooner? The same Disney that creates artificial scarcity on its DVD titles by only releasing them for a limited time? The Disney that regularly creates situations like being able to rent Lion King 2 but not Lion King? Do they want people to be able to buy the DVDs they want, or not? Something doesn't add up here.
No, it's Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister. Nice try, though.
Given the current state of game development, a rubbish lister seems like just the ticket.
Only called that by the Cybermen, I believe. Just like I doubt Mars is called that by the Ice Warriors, except maybe when conversing with humans. They may have appeared to call it Mars in some episode, but as we all know most science fiction programs have a universal translator for the audience.