I have been using Picnick for years with my Flickr account (because it's easier than me doing it in Photoshop myself--as I only have one copy of that on one computer) and only recently have I run into wanting to use something other than what they have for free.
But the elderly, who live on fixed incomes... poor families who depend on food stamps... or just a college student burdened with debt who wants to be able to take his girlfriend to a steakhouse for a special occasion... all of these people are seriously impacted.
Oh please stop with the rhetoric. Seriously, just stop right now.
I recently went to a nearly 100% organic diet and this includes grass fed, free range, organic meats (chicken, turkey, pork, and beef) which I get directly from a Wisconsin farmer. The last time I bought 10 pounds of ground beef from him it was $4.75 a lb. I could get it for even less if I bought 1/4 cow or more. We're not talking expensive meat here people.
Now, what's so great about this? First of all, I'm supporting a local farmer who takes the time to have smaller herds (better for the environment and the farming trade), who are grass fed and heritage breeds, which taste better than anything you'll buy at Big Box Grocery Store Foo. Oh, and the best part of it all? I don't spend the time driving to the grocery store the second I open 9 out of 10 packages of their ground beef because it smells like rotten eggs. This has happened so many times that I stopped eating ground beef from the grocery store for several years and switched to ground turkey instead. Thankfully I'm back to ground beef--because red meat tastes better.
Yeah, that awesome beef you guys pander--to the poor elderly and college students--is not only terrible for you it could kill you (and it has). Why the fuck people fall for Big Ag's bullshit I'll never know. $2/lb isn't worth the shits or worse.
People, if you're still eating corn-fed beef, stop. Find a local organic/grass-fed farmer and buy direct from them instead. If you can't do that, at least head to your local co-op and buy the meat from them instead (you'll pay closer to $7/lb however).
However, there are constantly things like this were Google seems to be standing behind its principle of "Don't be evil". I hope that they never forget it.
I think there's a difference between "doing no evil," and deciding that they don't want to police the Internet for specific countries. I have a feeling that while their words say one thing, this has less to do with their mantra than the simple fact that they have better things to waste their time doing than the bidding of Australia's ridiculous government.
Big question for me is whether or not you can turn off image loading. If so it would become my favorite app ever. Nothing more frustrating than wanting to load a page full of mainly text and having it take 5 minutes because Apple doesn't want you to ruin your browsing experience...
Without showing the numbers, they've admitted to nothing, and promised nothing.
Even if they gave us the numbers it wouldn't tell us jack. Numbers mean nothing w/o context of how they are getting the data they are charting. Is this a customer survey? If so, how is it administered and who is the population (people who call in to AT&T CSRs, random sampling via e-mail, what?)
I'm willing to bet that this is some sort of valid survey conducted on a regular basis by AT&T but the marketing team took it, stripped everything important, and threw it up there to say, "look at us we're trying," even though they've been trying to possibly years already and failing all the while.
"Paying our taxes" is just telling them that they ripped us off during the year and we'd like the money back.
Not when you're fucking smart it's not. I never get money back. I always owe. You know why? Because I prefer to make money on what I will end up paying them in April rather than them doing so.
If you're not trying to get as close to $0, then you're just plain stupid.
You designed the visualization, buddy. If it's "freaking crazy looking," rather than yielding any useful insight, then obviously you did not visualize it in a meaningful way. You failed, in other words.
I don't know this guy or how he obtained the data he used to build the visualization but based on his question asking what is happening, it would appear that he doesn't understand the data that he analyzed visually. So, to respond to your point that it's his fault because he couldn't properly frame the data visually, well, I can't say it's really his fault. He doesn't seem familiar with the data and thus probably wouldn't be able to give anyone else something useful.
I should have entered on my T-mobile Sidekick back before I switched to the iPhone. Using programmable shortcuts I was well over 100 WPM. I was probably in the 50 to 60 WPM if I had to use straight up typing.
Aside from texting WRs being totally useless, I am even less impressed by this stat after hearing that it's done w/QWERTY.
almost all of them are running them because upgrading isn't worth it for their application.
Or because the new configuration scheme is not backwards compatible and the time required to get up to speed on the new config is too much of a hassle. There should have been some sort of 1.3->2.0->2.2 configuration updater. If there is and I'm just blind please point in the general direction:)
What's not to like (other than a current lack of an official ubuntu theme)?
The lack of AdBlock Plus? How about the annoying and frequently repeated ads on Hulu that make you click on stuff? How about your viewing, usage habits, history, plugins, etc all being tracked by Google? I mean I could go on.
It's a fucking browser. Just like any other piece of software there are plenty of things to like and not like.
And you'll continue to be considered an obnoxious fool that's no better than a screaming fanboy because X isn't exactly the same as Y. We wouldn't expect anything more from a unskilled windows user.
Hmm, I wonder if you would have considered me a Linux fanboi back between 1997 and 2002 when I was Linux only? Maybe you'd consider me an Apple fanboi that I use OS X on my desktop? That would be cool. I could be a Google Chrome commercial: "Fanboi for PC, Linux, and Mac."
It didn't do what you wanted. You didn't find a menu item and you moved on probably without even consulting documentation or Googling. It's possible that OO is lacking the functionality you wanted to use.
1. I gave one specific example so my post wouldn't be 1000 words. I don't have time for that at 8 AM on a work day.
2. If a piece of software is a "threat" to Microsoft Office, then it better function like people who use Microsoft Office every day expect it to function. Resizing all the cells at once is B A S I C functionality, not some out of the way item that should be buried four levels down in the tree.
3. The general public (and I don't fall into that category) won't even give it as much time as I did.
Can't be a very competent review with that kind of language.
I'll keep that in mind for when I write a review of OO for Wired or the New York Times. In the mean time, since this is Slashdot, I'll keep posting exactly like I have for the last 12+ years. Thanks!
So I got a netbook for my wife for Christmas and the Dell 10v I got for $266 comes with Microsoft Works--which unfortunately does not, well, 'work' all that well. My wife hates Google Docs (which I use basically for everything that's not work related now) so I installed OpenOffice figuring that it would be about the same. Umm, yeah, it opens shit but the functionality of the software fucking sucks.
Prime example: I open a CSV file on the web. Firefox doesn't already know that CSV should be tied to OO? Shouldn't that have occurred at install time by OO? No, ok, I'll set it up--done. Takes a long fucking time to open OO. I mean a LONG time. It opens, sweet. I select all the fields and go to resize them all with a single click but--nothing happens. WTF? I try again. Nothing. I look on the menu bar quickly--nothing. WTF?
Listen, I'm glad that it opened my CSV and I'm glad it is free but for people to seriously consider it a contender, it better work like I expect it to work and everyone else expects it to work--and that expectation is based on experience with Office. Oh and BTW, Google Docs opened that same CSV and I was able to resize the fields as I expected.
I think most people can understand how ads are good in keeping sites free, but I don't think we'll have the pleasure of non-intrusive ads ever.
I think most people don't understand that they can block the ads using easy to install software. It never ceases to amaze me the number of people still using IE6 (with no quick and easy adblocking abilities) or some outdated version of Firefox without running ABP.
I use ads to pay for the work I do on my own website but I, as a publisher of content, do what I can to ensure that the majority of my regular repeat readership doesn't see them. So in addition to the fact that Google's partners are supposedly keeping their ads sane, I'm adding an additional layer of security for those I care the most about.
As long as at least one party out there does that, it should remain in balance--for the most part.
I actually applaud Firefox for this change. Marketing companies shouldn't just fuck everyone in the ass for their own gain.
I guess for the general public this type of statement makes sense. Most people probably have no fucking clue what Google stores about you and what they plan to store (e.g. Chrome has your browser history travel with you as well as extensions which means they have all that data on you on their servers too). But for the rest of us who know that they are doing this and really don't give a shit but really enjoy the phenomenal search results returned (simply stated: Bing blows goats compared to Google), it's fine.
I thank Mozilla for trying to sway me one way or the other but honestly, I can make up my own mind TYVM--and I'm a privacy freak. Clear your cookies and don't login to get customized search results if you're really that concerned.
I think the majority of Americans thought that they corrected the mistakes they made 9 and 5 years ago when they elected the most recent idiot to office. Unfortunately they just brought a whole new idiot with a whole different secret agenda.
When the newspaper corporations continue to spout how the visitors brought in by the search engines are worthless because those people are drive-by visitors, I have to wonder about their content. If someone is brought in by a search engine they should be considered an opportunity. If you are not taking the time to ensure your design and content are meant to draw those opportunities into a goal, well, I think you're looking at this from the wrong way.
This is yet another reason why the newspaper industry just doesn't get it. Google gets it and so do the consumers. Microsoft doesn't get anything more than the bone they are being thrown.
I wish people would stop reporting on this story as, honestly, it's just a lame attempt at getting attention.
Will it, really? I don't think so. They are still going to sell W7 and Office and life will go on for Microsoft. And when people get Chrome and boot it up only to find IE8, Word, and Excel don't exist, and the inability to install Favorite Shareware application foo, then we'll be right back to square fucking one.
Or he's being a good employee and doing the right thing to ensure:
1. One to three years from now when the code needs to be revisited by him that he can quickly assess the code without thinking about it too much.
2. Long after he's gone another employee can come across the code and easily understand what was done and why.
3. Comments, to me, are like writing out all the steps in a math problem. Just because you arrived at the correct answer on the face of things does not mean that you understood what you did. Documentation proves, in many cases, that you did in fact know what the fuck you were doing.
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If you don't like comments, fold them out of the way and be done with it. I just don't see the problem here.
I want to know why admins keep this information if they are running a website that could be the subject of a subpoena? Delete the fucking shit already and be done with it. Then, when the feds come knocking, you simply reply, "I'm sorry my http.conf is setup to direct logs to/dev/null. Have a nice day."
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I have been using Picnick for years with my Flickr account (because it's easier than me doing it in Photoshop myself--as I only have one copy of that on one computer) and only recently have I run into wanting to use something other than what they have for free.
But the elderly, who live on fixed incomes... poor families who depend on food stamps... or just a college student burdened with debt who wants to be able to take his girlfriend to a steakhouse for a special occasion... all of these people are seriously impacted.
Oh please stop with the rhetoric. Seriously, just stop right now.
I recently went to a nearly 100% organic diet and this includes grass fed, free range, organic meats (chicken, turkey, pork, and beef) which I get directly from a Wisconsin farmer. The last time I bought 10 pounds of ground beef from him it was $4.75 a lb. I could get it for even less if I bought 1/4 cow or more. We're not talking expensive meat here people.
Now, what's so great about this? First of all, I'm supporting a local farmer who takes the time to have smaller herds (better for the environment and the farming trade), who are grass fed and heritage breeds, which taste better than anything you'll buy at Big Box Grocery Store Foo. Oh, and the best part of it all? I don't spend the time driving to the grocery store the second I open 9 out of 10 packages of their ground beef because it smells like rotten eggs. This has happened so many times that I stopped eating ground beef from the grocery store for several years and switched to ground turkey instead. Thankfully I'm back to ground beef--because red meat tastes better.
Yeah, that awesome beef you guys pander--to the poor elderly and college students--is not only terrible for you it could kill you (and it has). Why the fuck people fall for Big Ag's bullshit I'll never know. $2/lb isn't worth the shits or worse.
People, if you're still eating corn-fed beef, stop. Find a local organic/grass-fed farmer and buy direct from them instead. If you can't do that, at least head to your local co-op and buy the meat from them instead (you'll pay closer to $7/lb however).
What's wrong with netbooks?
They run OS X for $500+ less than their Apple produced counterparts.
Bring up? Sure. Successfully prosecute? That's up for debate.
However, there are constantly things like this were Google seems to be standing behind its principle of "Don't be evil". I hope that they never forget it.
I think there's a difference between "doing no evil," and deciding that they don't want to police the Internet for specific countries. I have a feeling that while their words say one thing, this has less to do with their mantra than the simple fact that they have better things to waste their time doing than the bidding of Australia's ridiculous government.
Big question for me is whether or not you can turn off image loading. If so it would become my favorite app ever. Nothing more frustrating than wanting to load a page full of mainly text and having it take 5 minutes because Apple doesn't want you to ruin your browsing experience...
Without showing the numbers, they've admitted to nothing, and promised nothing.
Even if they gave us the numbers it wouldn't tell us jack. Numbers mean nothing w/o context of how they are getting the data they are charting. Is this a customer survey? If so, how is it administered and who is the population (people who call in to AT&T CSRs, random sampling via e-mail, what?)
I'm willing to bet that this is some sort of valid survey conducted on a regular basis by AT&T but the marketing team took it, stripped everything important, and threw it up there to say, "look at us we're trying," even though they've been trying to possibly years already and failing all the while.
"Paying our taxes" is just telling them that they ripped us off during the year and we'd like the money back.
Not when you're fucking smart it's not. I never get money back. I always owe. You know why? Because I prefer to make money on what I will end up paying them in April rather than them doing so.
If you're not trying to get as close to $0, then you're just plain stupid.
You designed the visualization, buddy. If it's "freaking crazy looking," rather than yielding any useful insight, then obviously you did not visualize it in a meaningful way. You failed, in other words.
I don't know this guy or how he obtained the data he used to build the visualization but based on his question asking what is happening, it would appear that he doesn't understand the data that he analyzed visually. So, to respond to your point that it's his fault because he couldn't properly frame the data visually, well, I can't say it's really his fault. He doesn't seem familiar with the data and thus probably wouldn't be able to give anyone else something useful.
Yeah, WOY as in We Own You.
I should have entered on my T-mobile Sidekick back before I switched to the iPhone. Using programmable shortcuts I was well over 100 WPM. I was probably in the 50 to 60 WPM if I had to use straight up typing.
Aside from texting WRs being totally useless, I am even less impressed by this stat after hearing that it's done w/QWERTY.
almost all of them are running them because upgrading isn't worth it for their application.
Or because the new configuration scheme is not backwards compatible and the time required to get up to speed on the new config is too much of a hassle. There should have been some sort of 1.3->2.0->2.2 configuration updater. If there is and I'm just blind please point in the general direction :)
What's not to like (other than a current lack of an official ubuntu theme)?
The lack of AdBlock Plus? How about the annoying and frequently repeated ads on Hulu that make you click on stuff? How about your viewing, usage habits, history, plugins, etc all being tracked by Google? I mean I could go on.
It's a fucking browser. Just like any other piece of software there are plenty of things to like and not like.
And you'll continue to be considered an obnoxious fool that's no better than a screaming fanboy because X isn't exactly the same as Y. We wouldn't expect anything more from a unskilled windows user.
Hmm, I wonder if you would have considered me a Linux fanboi back between 1997 and 2002 when I was Linux only? Maybe you'd consider me an Apple fanboi that I use OS X on my desktop? That would be cool. I could be a Google Chrome commercial: "Fanboi for PC, Linux, and Mac."
Pay up GOOG.
It didn't do what you wanted. You didn't find a menu item and you moved on probably without even consulting documentation or Googling. It's possible that OO is lacking the functionality you wanted to use.
1. I gave one specific example so my post wouldn't be 1000 words. I don't have time for that at 8 AM on a work day.
2. If a piece of software is a "threat" to Microsoft Office, then it better function like people who use Microsoft Office every day expect it to function. Resizing all the cells at once is B A S I C functionality, not some out of the way item that should be buried four levels down in the tree.
3. The general public (and I don't fall into that category) won't even give it as much time as I did.
4. As far as PEBKAC, get real.
Can't be a very competent review with that kind of language.
I'll keep that in mind for when I write a review of OO for Wired or the New York Times. In the mean time, since this is Slashdot, I'll keep posting exactly like I have for the last 12+ years. Thanks!
So I got a netbook for my wife for Christmas and the Dell 10v I got for $266 comes with Microsoft Works--which unfortunately does not, well, 'work' all that well. My wife hates Google Docs (which I use basically for everything that's not work related now) so I installed OpenOffice figuring that it would be about the same. Umm, yeah, it opens shit but the functionality of the software fucking sucks.
Prime example: I open a CSV file on the web. Firefox doesn't already know that CSV should be tied to OO? Shouldn't that have occurred at install time by OO? No, ok, I'll set it up--done. Takes a long fucking time to open OO. I mean a LONG time. It opens, sweet. I select all the fields and go to resize them all with a single click but--nothing happens. WTF? I try again. Nothing. I look on the menu bar quickly--nothing. WTF?
Listen, I'm glad that it opened my CSV and I'm glad it is free but for people to seriously consider it a contender, it better work like I expect it to work and everyone else expects it to work--and that expectation is based on experience with Office. Oh and BTW, Google Docs opened that same CSV and I was able to resize the fields as I expected.
Competitor, maybe, but threat, no.
I think most people can understand how ads are good in keeping sites free, but I don't think we'll have the pleasure of non-intrusive ads ever.
I think most people don't understand that they can block the ads using easy to install software. It never ceases to amaze me the number of people still using IE6 (with no quick and easy adblocking abilities) or some outdated version of Firefox without running ABP.
I use ads to pay for the work I do on my own website but I, as a publisher of content, do what I can to ensure that the majority of my regular repeat readership doesn't see them. So in addition to the fact that Google's partners are supposedly keeping their ads sane, I'm adding an additional layer of security for those I care the most about.
As long as at least one party out there does that, it should remain in balance--for the most part.
I actually applaud Firefox for this change. Marketing companies shouldn't just fuck everyone in the ass for their own gain.
I guess for the general public this type of statement makes sense. Most people probably have no fucking clue what Google stores about you and what they plan to store (e.g. Chrome has your browser history travel with you as well as extensions which means they have all that data on you on their servers too). But for the rest of us who know that they are doing this and really don't give a shit but really enjoy the phenomenal search results returned (simply stated: Bing blows goats compared to Google), it's fine.
I thank Mozilla for trying to sway me one way or the other but honestly, I can make up my own mind TYVM--and I'm a privacy freak. Clear your cookies and don't login to get customized search results if you're really that concerned.
I think the majority of Americans thought that they corrected the mistakes they made 9 and 5 years ago when they elected the most recent idiot to office. Unfortunately they just brought a whole new idiot with a whole different secret agenda.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
When the newspaper corporations continue to spout how the visitors brought in by the search engines are worthless because those people are drive-by visitors, I have to wonder about their content. If someone is brought in by a search engine they should be considered an opportunity. If you are not taking the time to ensure your design and content are meant to draw those opportunities into a goal, well, I think you're looking at this from the wrong way.
This is yet another reason why the newspaper industry just doesn't get it. Google gets it and so do the consumers. Microsoft doesn't get anything more than the bone they are being thrown.
I wish people would stop reporting on this story as, honestly, it's just a lame attempt at getting attention.
It will make Microsoft shit their pants.
Will it, really? I don't think so. They are still going to sell W7 and Office and life will go on for Microsoft. And when people get Chrome and boot it up only to find IE8, Word, and Excel don't exist, and the inability to install Favorite Shareware application foo, then we'll be right back to square fucking one.
*shrug*
Or he's being a good employee and doing the right thing to ensure:
1. One to three years from now when the code needs to be revisited by him that he can quickly assess the code without thinking about it too much.
2. Long after he's gone another employee can come across the code and easily understand what was done and why.
3. Comments, to me, are like writing out all the steps in a math problem. Just because you arrived at the correct answer on the face of things does not mean that you understood what you did. Documentation proves, in many cases, that you did in fact know what the fuck you were doing.
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If you don't like comments, fold them out of the way and be done with it. I just don't see the problem here.
Thanks for the video, that helped:
1. They don't seem to hold it side by side with anything I am familiar with but it looks really really thick in the video.
2. Why can't phones, like the iPhone, work with a bluetooth keyboard out of the box?
I want to know why admins keep this information if they are running a website that could be the subject of a subpoena? Delete the fucking shit already and be done with it. Then, when the feds come knocking, you simply reply, "I'm sorry my http.conf is setup to direct logs to /dev/null. Have a nice day."