MS just hand-waves away the functionality though. Those aren't questions the decision-makers ask, they ask what's in it for them. They get a few nice dinners, drinks, and a fat kickback from Microsoft ("Look how much money I saved the University! Promote me!"), and everyone else is fucked because the system itself sucks. This is common any more, people selling their capital (not just monetary... their reputation, not upgrading their infrastructure, downsizing a good workforce, etc.) for a short-term black line in the ledgers. There's very little drive to create a solid, long-term plan any more.
Well, considering this is brand-new, that's to be expected. What do you imagine the problem percentage is for cable or DSL? Hell, I still get sound randomly dropped on my digital cable, and call them on that. You have a very skewed reality if 1.7% is completely unacceptable especially on a groundbreaking service.
Because unpopular software on Windows like Winamp religiously follows the Windows design guidelines . How the hell did this blatant turfing for his own, really tangental site, get modded up? People will deal with new and non-standard apps quite well for the most part. This isn't about the interface presented to the user, it's about the parts that are common to all desktops like menus and hooks to the WM.
Sounds like it's about time to stop using Microsoft software then, eh?
Yeah, yeah, usual arguments about MS. It takes pain to switch. But the question is which pain is less... known pain that you can plan for, or pain that blindsides you at 2am when you learn that someone has just downloaded your entire HR database?
I take it you've never had Windows randomly stop recognizing your print server. Or tried installing a printer over a network for Windows. A generic postscript driver just doesn't exist for Windows.
And binary drivers aren't good, they're just acceptable. We geeks would love it if ATI or NVidia had open source drivers, but they don't, and the free offerings don't work right because NVidia and ATI hide their specs. Not much we can do about it.
It's confusion, but it's also choice. Do a little research and you'll find what's right for you. One size rarely fits all. I know a number of co-workers that couldn't fit into my size medium t-shirts no matter how hard they tried;)
I don't tolerate people abusing the english language. Learn to spell "tolerate" and "intolerance" moron. Seriously, don't tolerate anything that someone might find offensive, because it's your god given RIGHT to be not offended, damnit! We should make sure no one can ever do anything that might possibly offend someone else, and make it a law! Let's outlaw interracial marriage. It offends me.
Most of the problem is that people are just looking for an enemy, looking for a pet cause they can get behind so they don't have to face the fact that they aren't doing anything actually useful with their lives (and I don't mean just people on about the usage of "gay". I mean people that get upset at violent video games, Republicans, Democrats, whatever. The most dangerous thing in the world is a person with too much time and a "cause")
Well, the article says that "everything" in WOW is apparently gay. So I'd say that there's an overwhelming majority of people using it and not caring, because I can virtually guarantee you that almost none of those references are actually meant in a derogatory-to-homosexuals connotation. Unless you know, PrinceWanksALot getting an epic mount before CharlizeTheronIsHot is in actuality a homosexual thing.
Nice try though.
And if someone calls something "cool", they're anti-hot? Perhaps it's just a colloquial saying anymore. I don't think of homosexuals when someone says something is "gay" any more than I think of ice when someone says something is "cool". I think it's just people manufacturing a perceived controversy because they see things one way, and everyone else doesn't give two shits.
How's the saying go "Apple makes Macs large so their users won't accidentally insert them into their anus, and makes the corners round in case they manage to do so anyway"?
Damn useful. Joints are quite often the weakest point of any system. If we can make them as strong or stronger than the rest of the system, it's very easy to make something in parts and assemble it where it needs to be, rather than having to say, cast everything all at the same time. It's really tough to move one big part as compared to lots of little parts.
Heat and cold cycles affect cloth-backed duct tape a lot. Get a roll of the aluminum backed metal duct tape, and you won't have any more problems with that (often called silver or aluminum foil tape).
120MB and it doesn't have ping? And people are confused when we Linux geeks say it's a bloated OS. I'm pretty sure Linux, X and something like XFCE will all fit in less than 120MB, and still include ping.
Fuel efficiency is actually calculated by a formula set forth by the EPA. Read this for a bit of enlightenment. It's not the car companies doing much deceiving there. Horsepower, that's often stated as engine horsepower (bhp), rather than whp, or the horsepower after losses of going through the rest of the drivetrain after the engine. And not reading serving sizes... there's something being done about misleading serving sizes.
What a lot of it boils down to is that the consumer doesn't do the work required to actually compare things (you know, capitalism), and then bitches when it doesn't do what s/he expects.
We all know how to use affect and effect correctly (if not, hand in your english card)
Though I will let you off with just a warning for using "pore" correctly instead of the more common "pour" and using the correct "affect" later in the post.
Object Oriented versus list processing (hence the name).
It's basically a mathematics-oriented language, and mostly useless for most things outside of that. An interesting intellectual exercise for geeks, useful if you're a mathematician, and that's about it.
Because, you know, fractals solve everything. Got an ogre on your tail? Mandelbrot his ass! WWII fighters closing in? Julia sets with an alpha of.75 to the rescue!
Lisp won't solve the problems, and it hard for many people to understand. C++/Java are a much more easily grasped paradigm.
And for Christ's sake, lay off the maths for a few minutes and try looking at another way of thinking.
You know, it's nice you looked up Pavlov. If you had spent half that time actually reading the 7 (tiny!) paragraph article in question, you'd have noticed this sentence "In other words if you install Vista, Microsoft can come in, snoop around your computer see if you are doing anything illegal and delete it." and it would have confirmed that "little voice inside [your] head"
But my guess is that you're just trying to get karma with as little work as possible.
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MS just hand-waves away the functionality though. Those aren't questions the decision-makers ask, they ask what's in it for them. They get a few nice dinners, drinks, and a fat kickback from Microsoft ("Look how much money I saved the University! Promote me!"), and everyone else is fucked because the system itself sucks. This is common any more, people selling their capital (not just monetary... their reputation, not upgrading their infrastructure, downsizing a good workforce, etc.) for a short-term black line in the ledgers. There's very little drive to create a solid, long-term plan any more.
Meh. VNC runs as slow as web apps. Often slower. A VPN with a laptop is good, but other than that... not so much IMHO.
Well, considering this is brand-new, that's to be expected. What do you imagine the problem percentage is for cable or DSL? Hell, I still get sound randomly dropped on my digital cable, and call them on that. You have a very skewed reality if 1.7% is completely unacceptable especially on a groundbreaking service.
Because unpopular software on Windows like Winamp religiously follows the Windows design guidelines . How the hell did this blatant turfing for his own, really tangental site, get modded up? People will deal with new and non-standard apps quite well for the most part. This isn't about the interface presented to the user, it's about the parts that are common to all desktops like menus and hooks to the WM.
Yeah, I know. Unfortunately comments like mine are in inverse proportion to the occurrence of common sense in business.
Sounds like it's about time to stop using Microsoft software then, eh?
Yeah, yeah, usual arguments about MS. It takes pain to switch. But the question is which pain is less... known pain that you can plan for, or pain that blindsides you at 2am when you learn that someone has just downloaded your entire HR database?
It seems you may be in a minority, though...
I take it you've never had Windows randomly stop recognizing your print server. Or tried installing a printer over a network for Windows. A generic postscript driver just doesn't exist for Windows. ;)
And binary drivers aren't good, they're just acceptable. We geeks would love it if ATI or NVidia had open source drivers, but they don't, and the free offerings don't work right because NVidia and ATI hide their specs. Not much we can do about it.
It's confusion, but it's also choice. Do a little research and you'll find what's right for you. One size rarely fits all. I know a number of co-workers that couldn't fit into my size medium t-shirts no matter how hard they tried
I don't tolerate people abusing the english language. Learn to spell "tolerate" and "intolerance" moron. Seriously, don't tolerate anything that someone might find offensive, because it's your god given RIGHT to be not offended, damnit! We should make sure no one can ever do anything that might possibly offend someone else, and make it a law! Let's outlaw interracial marriage. It offends me.
Most of the problem is that people are just looking for an enemy, looking for a pet cause they can get behind so they don't have to face the fact that they aren't doing anything actually useful with their lives (and I don't mean just people on about the usage of "gay". I mean people that get upset at violent video games, Republicans, Democrats, whatever. The most dangerous thing in the world is a person with too much time and a "cause")
Well, the article says that "everything" in WOW is apparently gay. So I'd say that there's an overwhelming majority of people using it and not caring, because I can virtually guarantee you that almost none of those references are actually meant in a derogatory-to-homosexuals connotation. Unless you know, PrinceWanksALot getting an epic mount before CharlizeTheronIsHot is in actuality a homosexual thing.
Nice try though.
And if someone calls something "cool", they're anti-hot? Perhaps it's just a colloquial saying anymore. I don't think of homosexuals when someone says something is "gay" any more than I think of ice when someone says something is "cool". I think it's just people manufacturing a perceived controversy because they see things one way, and everyone else doesn't give two shits.
How's the saying go "Apple makes Macs large so their users won't accidentally insert them into their anus, and makes the corners round in case they manage to do so anyway"?
What's funny is that they can never define where "micro" leaves off and "macro" begins
But surely Goku and Gohan will save us from this mutant bacterial menace!
Damn useful. Joints are quite often the weakest point of any system. If we can make them as strong or stronger than the rest of the system, it's very easy to make something in parts and assemble it where it needs to be, rather than having to say, cast everything all at the same time. It's really tough to move one big part as compared to lots of little parts.
Heat and cold cycles affect cloth-backed duct tape a lot. Get a roll of the aluminum backed metal duct tape, and you won't have any more problems with that (often called silver or aluminum foil tape).
120MB and it doesn't have ping? And people are confused when we Linux geeks say it's a bloated OS. I'm pretty sure Linux, X and something like XFCE will all fit in less than 120MB, and still include ping.
A screwdriver can be useful for hammering in a nail, but that doesn't mean it's the right tool for the job.
Fuel efficiency is actually calculated by a formula set forth by the EPA. Read this for a bit of enlightenment. It's not the car companies doing much deceiving there. Horsepower, that's often stated as engine horsepower (bhp), rather than whp, or the horsepower after losses of going through the rest of the drivetrain after the engine. And not reading serving sizes... there's something being done about misleading serving sizes.
What a lot of it boils down to is that the consumer doesn't do the work required to actually compare things (you know, capitalism), and then bitches when it doesn't do what s/he expects.
We all know how to use affect and effect correctly (if not, hand in your english card)
/GrammarNaziCop
Though I will let you off with just a warning for using "pore" correctly instead of the more common "pour" and using the correct "affect" later in the post.
Object Oriented versus list processing (hence the name).
It's basically a mathematics-oriented language, and mostly useless for most things outside of that. An interesting intellectual exercise for geeks, useful if you're a mathematician, and that's about it.
Because, you know, fractals solve everything. Got an ogre on your tail? Mandelbrot his ass! WWII fighters closing in? Julia sets with an alpha of .75 to the rescue!
Lisp won't solve the problems, and it hard for many people to understand. C++/Java are a much more easily grasped paradigm.
And for Christ's sake, lay off the maths for a few minutes and try looking at another way of thinking.
Nope. Quark is Windows too.
did yours avoid flying into the wall in a 7m by 7m room for over 5 minutes?
You know, it's nice you looked up Pavlov. If you had spent half that time actually reading the 7 (tiny!) paragraph article in question, you'd have noticed this sentence "In other words if you install Vista, Microsoft can come in, snoop around your computer see if you are doing anything illegal and delete it." and it would have confirmed that "little voice inside [your] head"
But my guess is that you're just trying to get karma with as little work as possible.