They DID make reasonable accomodations, though. They tried to get him a mouse that worked, spent a couple hundred dollars on it if you read what the AC said. They didn't solve the problem even through all their efforts, and the manager couldn't do his work without the mouse. They fired him for being unable to complete his work, not because of his disability. The AC was just happy because they guy was apparently also a whiner.
They're trying to "cover themselves" in the sense of not divulging information about the hack until the people who need to know about it first are informed, probably the kernel developers, any users whose passwords may have been compromised, etc. They don't know what has happened entirely, so they don't want to start saying things until they have actual information. I don't blame them. They'll come out with it when they have the whole thing straight. At least they're not just sweeping the whole thing under the rug and saying "Sorry for the temporary outage, we're having some technical issues!" or some other such bullshit.
Have you thought that perhaps implicit typing is a BAD thing, not just lazy, and the people you talk with are just unable to express it very well?
Inventions aren't always made by single people, either. Unless you think that, say, the CPU in your computer is made by a single-person enterprise. Or that things like Teflon weren't made in a research environment with other people.
The open-source push is because it keeps the process open. Anyone can add to it if they feel like it, and yes, it is controlled by a majority, but that's a good thing. Because that means it's not controlled by a single dictating minority who may or may not do what the group needs it to do.
I think you've set up a straw man, and don't truly understand the benefits of communication between people. You should try it sometime, it's helpful.
How's the Kool-aid taste?
Hell, I've got even neater features on Linux now, such as the fact that I can start a processor-intensive application running and my machine doesn't become completely unusable (mmm, efficient thread switching...). Let's see you try that under Windows or OSX.
Dunno. I have both going fine and dandy to me via Comcast. They leave me alone, I don't run business-level traffic over the connection. I figure it's only fair, and this way I have my own mail and web server that I control completely. If they do start blocking it, I'm going somewhere else. Until then, I recommend them.
when someone registers wordpres.org DNS succeeds, and it works transparently. It's only if the name ISN'T found in DNS that this service would do it's "magic". I'm not a fan, not even any connection to the company, but you're just setting up a straw man for something you don't understand...
But it's also voluntary. That's what lets me ignore this service, and lets muppets who want a page like VeriSign put up get one if they so desire. I'm sure as hell not gonna use it, and I'm going to tell everyone else I know not to, but I'm not gonna stand in their way of letting people make dumb decisions. My problem will come when an ISP requires that I use their service.
Well, towns will give you land just for living there so I don't see what your issue is... just that he's publicizing it? That he thought of it before you did? What exactly IS your issue with this guy?
Or perhaps they just wanted to imply that there's a competition between the colors, and you can choose which one you want, create a false rivalry between the two "camps" to get people interested. People are great at supporting things when they become a fan of it, instead of just being another consumer choice. Look at the zeal with which people support the iPod versus other digital music players. Sony wants to create "camps" within it's own consumer pool, and get them to compete with each other, and generally just buy more stuff.
The parent talked about ads, not pop-ups. I never click on pop-ups, and never search for products in them knowingly. I'll only click on streamlined, inline, unobtrusive ads.
I can still save an Excel file to.csv with it just asking "you sure you wanna do this?" or something similar, rather than having to use a plugin to export it. Same with XML. Same with lots of other formats. Now MS is making ODF a LESSER format than even.csv, and that's what's wrong with this whole system. It should just be another format you can save to, as a valid file format, period.
I do every now and then. But the product has to be interesting to me... I'll click on ads in/. or on tech news sites. When I was shopping for a new digital camera, I clicked on a few of those ads, same as when I am currently shopping for a laptop. Some crappy sites come up, but this is where I can find the product I actually want. I figure it's worth it.
Who says that the spreadsheet ISN'T the interim format? 65,000 some odd rows really can be filled quite easily with very flat data. Which is what a spreadsheet is, a flat data file. If you're linking one spreadsheet to another, etc., then yes, use a database. But Excel is just sometimes the easiest way to work with the data you've got instead of having to code an SQL statement for each specific bit of data. We do data processing on a server, and it's easiest to test our transforms if we can just send it out of Excel, rather than having to set up a database, and then figure out an SQL statement that gets the data we want. And if we delete the data later... that's just more database admin stuff. It's easier for office lackeys to just use a file like they're used to. Get off your high horse. This is a good extension to Excel.
So a cartoon of someone being shot in the head is now somehow the same as "I will kill someone!" versus "I wish someone was dead"? How can you tell with certainity? Or would you rather punish first, and never ask questions, as long as everyone pretends to get along fine, everything's great? That is, until someone snaps, and no one has any idea why it happened...
So all these people who advocate killing bush have been visited by the the Treasury Department? WTF does the treasury department have to do with the President anyway? Perhaps you meant the Secret Service?
Back on-track, there is a certain amount of leniency left in the First Amendment for sarcasm, and even a whole phrase called "macabre humor" that describes these kinds of things. If he had been planning to actually hurt the teacher, that's one thing, but I can't even think of the number of times I've said to myself (and others) "I wish I could kill that asshole" or something similar. It's not a threat, it's an expression of displeasure. And just like a previous poster noted, "Fuck you!" doesn't mean I plan on having any kind of sexual relation with the person it's directed at.
What about when you step in front of a car and get hit?
Oh wait, that's right, this is America. You can sue. And will probably win if the facts are on your side. Ever notice how most of these cases where the police are vilified and railed on against by the "human rights" crowd seem to disappear after they go to trial? Sometimes the police are in the wrong, but most of the time, they aren't. There needs to be oversight, but by and large, the police won't bother you if you don't give them a reason to.
Well, I've seen cases where the police are wrong. They are generally assumed right because of their training and the fact that their job is basically ensuring that the population does the "right" things.
I don't say the police don't do bad things. They are still people. But many of the times that they've been vilified have been cases where someone was doing something they probably shouldn't have been doing anyway, or exacerbated the situation somehow rather than just saying "Yes officer, I will comply with your legal request".
You might also consider the fact that you're exceptionally paranoid. They're almost certainly going to be giving the officers something similar to these wifi detectors rather than something that they can use to actually access the network.
I'm responsible to not let children fall into my backyard pool and drown. I'd sure as hell like someone that noticed the gate was open to tell me. This is the same thing. All they're doing is notifying people. It's the person's choice as to whether or not to do anything about it afterwards.
I see people like my parents and their neighbors having open shares on their machines with an open WAP, with tax data and all, and not realizing that the wireless, though convenient, is visible to me from across the street, and I'm able to look at the data they have with minimal work. They probably wouldn't want the neighbors or their kids knowing how much money they made or perhaps see that home video they made a while back. I helped them secure their networks, but not everyone knows someone like me.
"One would think that in a world of complete competition, direct competitors in a marketplace would never cooperate"
Well, that's what you get for thinking.
Sometimes you do have to cooperate with someone in order to get what you want. But not always. Sometimes it's easier and more economical to just be there first. Dairy producers, etc., they can't reasonably differentiate their products, so they just work together to make sure everyone buys MORE of their essentially identical products. That's what those co-ops are. Notice how there aren't any vehicle manufacturing co-ops? Or computer manufacturing co-ops? That's because they're differentiable products.
The system doesn't require someone to lose for someone else to win, but only one company can paint a single house, and I wouldn't want the kid that serves me hamburgers at McDonald's writing my OS kernel, no matter HOW much he likes computers, if he's not better at it than I (or most anyone else is), he has no business doing it. And no, corporations don't have internally competing divisions. They sort the competition out earlier because they don't have infinite resources. They have competing ideas and other things, choose one and go with it. Sometimes it's the wrong choice, but they've already committed.
What I took issue with was the inherent tone of your posts that "cooperation is the only way to get anything done". Which it's not. Because a mule won't cooperate with you just because it wants to. You have to give it incentive, a carrot on a stick. People like nice things, like boats and cars and big houses, so when you dangle that carrot in front of them, they do what they need to achieve it. Some actually achieve it, others fail, and others play for different rewards. But just because you don't agree with it doesn't mean it doesn't exist, and that it's not a strong (and often the only) motivator for productivity for many people. People don't dig ditches because it's fun or it makes them happy. They do it because it enables them to grow food. And if by growing more food they can have a down mattress to sleep on instead of hay, they're gonna dig more ditches than if there was no reward.
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They DID make reasonable accomodations, though. They tried to get him a mouse that worked, spent a couple hundred dollars on it if you read what the AC said. They didn't solve the problem even through all their efforts, and the manager couldn't do his work without the mouse. They fired him for being unable to complete his work, not because of his disability. The AC was just happy because they guy was apparently also a whiner.
They're trying to "cover themselves" in the sense of not divulging information about the hack until the people who need to know about it first are informed, probably the kernel developers, any users whose passwords may have been compromised, etc. They don't know what has happened entirely, so they don't want to start saying things until they have actual information. I don't blame them. They'll come out with it when they have the whole thing straight. At least they're not just sweeping the whole thing under the rug and saying "Sorry for the temporary outage, we're having some technical issues!" or some other such bullshit.
Funny... all the main development on our enterprise-level app is done in Linux. Seems we are getting work done...
Have you thought that perhaps implicit typing is a BAD thing, not just lazy, and the people you talk with are just unable to express it very well?
Inventions aren't always made by single people, either. Unless you think that, say, the CPU in your computer is made by a single-person enterprise. Or that things like Teflon weren't made in a research environment with other people.
The open-source push is because it keeps the process open. Anyone can add to it if they feel like it, and yes, it is controlled by a majority, but that's a good thing. Because that means it's not controlled by a single dictating minority who may or may not do what the group needs it to do.
I think you've set up a straw man, and don't truly understand the benefits of communication between people. You should try it sometime, it's helpful.
BTW, it's actually despair.com
How's the Kool-aid taste?
Hell, I've got even neater features on Linux now, such as the fact that I can start a processor-intensive application running and my machine doesn't become completely unusable (mmm, efficient thread switching...). Let's see you try that under Windows or OSX.
Dunno. I have both going fine and dandy to me via Comcast. They leave me alone, I don't run business-level traffic over the connection. I figure it's only fair, and this way I have my own mail and web server that I control completely. If they do start blocking it, I'm going somewhere else. Until then, I recommend them.
when someone registers wordpres.org DNS succeeds, and it works transparently. It's only if the name ISN'T found in DNS that this service would do it's "magic". I'm not a fan, not even any connection to the company, but you're just setting up a straw man for something you don't understand...
But it's also voluntary. That's what lets me ignore this service, and lets muppets who want a page like VeriSign put up get one if they so desire. I'm sure as hell not gonna use it, and I'm going to tell everyone else I know not to, but I'm not gonna stand in their way of letting people make dumb decisions. My problem will come when an ISP requires that I use their service.
...so why use samba? Why not use NFS or something that's native to both Linux and Mac and works with things like that?
Well, towns will give you land just for living there so I don't see what your issue is... just that he's publicizing it? That he thought of it before you did? What exactly IS your issue with this guy?
Or perhaps they just wanted to imply that there's a competition between the colors, and you can choose which one you want, create a false rivalry between the two "camps" to get people interested. People are great at supporting things when they become a fan of it, instead of just being another consumer choice. Look at the zeal with which people support the iPod versus other digital music players. Sony wants to create "camps" within it's own consumer pool, and get them to compete with each other, and generally just buy more stuff.
The parent talked about ads, not pop-ups. I never click on pop-ups, and never search for products in them knowingly. I'll only click on streamlined, inline, unobtrusive ads.
I can still save an Excel file to .csv with it just asking "you sure you wanna do this?" or something similar, rather than having to use a plugin to export it. Same with XML. Same with lots of other formats. Now MS is making ODF a LESSER format than even .csv, and that's what's wrong with this whole system. It should just be another format you can save to, as a valid file format, period.
I do every now and then. But the product has to be interesting to me... I'll click on ads in /. or on tech news sites. When I was shopping for a new digital camera, I clicked on a few of those ads, same as when I am currently shopping for a laptop. Some crappy sites come up, but this is where I can find the product I actually want. I figure it's worth it.
Does that also count for misspelling the word apostrophe?
Who says that the spreadsheet ISN'T the interim format? 65,000 some odd rows really can be filled quite easily with very flat data. Which is what a spreadsheet is, a flat data file. If you're linking one spreadsheet to another, etc., then yes, use a database. But Excel is just sometimes the easiest way to work with the data you've got instead of having to code an SQL statement for each specific bit of data. We do data processing on a server, and it's easiest to test our transforms if we can just send it out of Excel, rather than having to set up a database, and then figure out an SQL statement that gets the data we want. And if we delete the data later... that's just more database admin stuff. It's easier for office lackeys to just use a file like they're used to. Get off your high horse. This is a good extension to Excel.
Or is 640K enough for you, too?
So a cartoon of someone being shot in the head is now somehow the same as "I will kill someone!" versus "I wish someone was dead"? How can you tell with certainity? Or would you rather punish first, and never ask questions, as long as everyone pretends to get along fine, everything's great? That is, until someone snaps, and no one has any idea why it happened...
So all these people who advocate killing bush have been visited by the the Treasury Department? WTF does the treasury department have to do with the President anyway? Perhaps you meant the Secret Service?
Back on-track, there is a certain amount of leniency left in the First Amendment for sarcasm, and even a whole phrase called "macabre humor" that describes these kinds of things. If he had been planning to actually hurt the teacher, that's one thing, but I can't even think of the number of times I've said to myself (and others) "I wish I could kill that asshole" or something similar. It's not a threat, it's an expression of displeasure. And just like a previous poster noted, "Fuck you!" doesn't mean I plan on having any kind of sexual relation with the person it's directed at.
Since when did Belgium lose it's status as a sovereign state?
What about when you step in front of a car and get hit?
Oh wait, that's right, this is America. You can sue. And will probably win if the facts are on your side. Ever notice how most of these cases where the police are vilified and railed on against by the "human rights" crowd seem to disappear after they go to trial? Sometimes the police are in the wrong, but most of the time, they aren't. There needs to be oversight, but by and large, the police won't bother you if you don't give them a reason to.
Well, I've seen cases where the police are wrong. They are generally assumed right because of their training and the fact that their job is basically ensuring that the population does the "right" things.
I don't say the police don't do bad things. They are still people. But many of the times that they've been vilified have been cases where someone was doing something they probably shouldn't have been doing anyway, or exacerbated the situation somehow rather than just saying "Yes officer, I will comply with your legal request".
You might also consider the fact that you're exceptionally paranoid. They're almost certainly going to be giving the officers something similar to these wifi detectors rather than something that they can use to actually access the network.
I'm responsible to not let children fall into my backyard pool and drown. I'd sure as hell like someone that noticed the gate was open to tell me. This is the same thing. All they're doing is notifying people. It's the person's choice as to whether or not to do anything about it afterwards.
I see people like my parents and their neighbors having open shares on their machines with an open WAP, with tax data and all, and not realizing that the wireless, though convenient, is visible to me from across the street, and I'm able to look at the data they have with minimal work. They probably wouldn't want the neighbors or their kids knowing how much money they made or perhaps see that home video they made a while back. I helped them secure their networks, but not everyone knows someone like me.
Except for the logs of many other users using his connection, which afford him plausible deniability.
"One would think that in a world of complete competition, direct competitors in a marketplace would never cooperate"
Well, that's what you get for thinking.
Sometimes you do have to cooperate with someone in order to get what you want. But not always. Sometimes it's easier and more economical to just be there first. Dairy producers, etc., they can't reasonably differentiate their products, so they just work together to make sure everyone buys MORE of their essentially identical products. That's what those co-ops are. Notice how there aren't any vehicle manufacturing co-ops? Or computer manufacturing co-ops? That's because they're differentiable products.
The system doesn't require someone to lose for someone else to win, but only one company can paint a single house, and I wouldn't want the kid that serves me hamburgers at McDonald's writing my OS kernel, no matter HOW much he likes computers, if he's not better at it than I (or most anyone else is), he has no business doing it. And no, corporations don't have internally competing divisions. They sort the competition out earlier because they don't have infinite resources. They have competing ideas and other things, choose one and go with it. Sometimes it's the wrong choice, but they've already committed.
What I took issue with was the inherent tone of your posts that "cooperation is the only way to get anything done". Which it's not. Because a mule won't cooperate with you just because it wants to. You have to give it incentive, a carrot on a stick. People like nice things, like boats and cars and big houses, so when you dangle that carrot in front of them, they do what they need to achieve it. Some actually achieve it, others fail, and others play for different rewards. But just because you don't agree with it doesn't mean it doesn't exist, and that it's not a strong (and often the only) motivator for productivity for many people. People don't dig ditches because it's fun or it makes them happy. They do it because it enables them to grow food. And if by growing more food they can have a down mattress to sleep on instead of hay, they're gonna dig more ditches than if there was no reward.