Thankfully, next-gen webapps are going to be the death of IE6 because in another year nothing is going to support it anymore. IE7 will die at a much faster pace.
"[Y]ou often pay a premium for intangible features--specific certifications or backings, regulatory approval, availability through an authorized source, etc."
To the tune of 180x the price in this case.
The problem is these "intangible features" are WHY no one can afford health care. That and the fact that the moment you get insurance and government involved as the primary parties that make payments the price goes through the roof because companies treat both entities like bottomless sacks of cash. The price gets out of reach and the citizens cry for the government to pay for it all because insurance companies are out of reach of a lot of people.
Yeah... nothing is more surprising than yet another establishment president continuing to do the same shit and appoint the same assholes as his predecessor.
It's almost as if it doesn't matter which of the major parties you vote for. Huh. That's strange.
It's the same thing that happens when the right suddenly cares about being fiscally conservative... when they don't control the purse strings.
Anyone who votes R or D is a fucking moron, period. Even if a particular candidate is good, you're still feeding two machines that are hell bent on eroding individual liberty so pad their own pocketbooks. It's that simple. It's the reason I could never really get behind Ron Paul. I agree with a lot of his views, particularly on the Fed, but so long as he's a Republican, he's still part of the problem.
They may be open to all, but do you think paying some asshole to astroturf on a right-wing nut job blog is a legitimate use of taxpayer money?
Then there's the whole discussion on what groups are infiltrated and why and if they're monitored further because someone says something "suspicious" or whatever. This never goes well and it never stops at a reasonable level.
Let me start by saying that I AM a privacy advocate and that it's absolutely fundamental to have the ability to keep your life private in a free society.
With that said, if you're worried about your personal privacy, why the fuck are you posting on Facebook? Seriously. And how much are you paying for your Facebook account? And who exactly is paying for your Facebook account? Etc.
I have a Facebook account because I don't care who knows who my friends are. There's nothing I post on Facebook that I am concerned about anyone finding out about. If I was, I wouldn't post it because I'm not a moron. I do this realizing everyone from advertisers to law enforcement agencies MIGHT use that information at some point. It doesn't mean I don't care about privacy, it just means that there are plenty of aspects of my life that I don't care if the entire world knows about.
If you want to be more private, don't get a Facebook account. The internet, however, is a PUBLIC network. Social networking is a more or less public. When you use someone else's FREE service, they don't owe YOU anything and you have NO rights as far as they're concerned. That's reality.
Privacy is becoming less and less of a social norm. I don't say this because I think it's a good thing, but "western civilization" in general seems all to eager to piss away liberty. After all, who needs free speech and privacy when we can have free health care and welfare instead?
The puking ad? Really? Don't hey have some guy that works in some office who oversees things to make sure shit like that doesn't make it past, say, storyboards?
I never cease to be amazed by some of the epic fail churned out by these huge corporations with gobs and gobs of cash.
The problem is, when you spend the amount of money MS did and make a huge deal about Seinfeld then they should have been vastly superior. (Bill Gates having his mug shot on his ID was classic though.)
The other problem is I got to the end of those commercials with a sort of "Huh?" feeling. I hadn't a clue what I was supposed to want or buy or what the ad was even saying. They were just odd. Which is fine on a sketch comedy show, but not so much on an advertisement.
I wish these would return though and get rid of these AWFUL "I'm a PC" and "Windows 7 was my idea" ads. Really? Your idea? The guy that does an ad in the bathroom and calls his mom about Windows 7 being his idea? I've always wanted to be THAT guy and do what he does!
I can't believe how long the gem transition is taking either. That's been the most frustrating part of it. (I'm running 1.9 right now for just about everything though.) You'd think by the time 1.9.1 was out people would have been converting (and in many cases it's just not that hard).
Yeah, there's a big difference between blanket anti-technology and a warning against the misuse of said technology. There's also something to be said for the fact that being civilized or successful or "good" and the technological achievements of a society are not necessarily intermingled.
However, what we should be discussing is the irritation of over-analysis and what happens when people try to sound deeper and more sophisticated than they really are. That's what produces questions like the one posed here.
I don't even know what the point of reading Mac threads on Slashdot is though. I used to think Mac fanboys were the most annoying people on the planet... until I started reading what their equally ignorant detractors had to say.
Ruggedised laptops... seriously? Apple? Gee, I wonder when Ferrari will start making dump trucks.
Seriously, do have to have a fucking article on women in the computer industry twice a month?
There aren't a lot of women in IT and we shouldn't be doing ANYTHING to change it anymore than we should try to change the disproportionate number of men in the construction or auto maintenance fields. Fucking get over it. How many of you have a woman mechanic? I'm sure they exist, but in the last 4 shops I've put various cars through I've never seen an actual grease monkey that was a woman.
We do not need to do anything to meet any gender/racial/religious/past time/favorite food/whatever quota.
Actually, I have to tell you... the worst thing about the Nazi regime is that it's convinced everyone in the "civilized world" that things are peachy because they're not the Nazis. It's worse in the US where we "beat them and destroyed fascism because we're the red, white and blue and blah, blah, blah."
So, even as the USA and UK become more draconian and controlling in ways that would have made Hilter nut himself, we keep looking back saying, "We're nothing like those guys. None of our police wear skull."
I need a license to get married and a license to open a business. I need a license to drive on the roads I pay for and a license for my dog to keep his nuts in my county. I need a license for my gun and a license for my trailer. The list goes on. Free society? Where?
And anyone who really believes they live in a free society, please let me know so I can either remind you that you're a naive asshat or start working on expatriating if it turns out you do, indeed, know your ass from a hole in the ground.
Oh fucking fuck. The only other place I've heard "denier" used in that is in reference to the holocaust and that's EXACTLY why it's used in that context. So fuck Goodwin. It's not like it's always invalid to draw that damn comparison. It was relevant.
Of course... I can see you're already in a particular camp which is why it's an "obvious reality" to you. You must be a pretty talented guy to see an "obvious reality" from such a limited pool of data and a very, very, very tiny timeline.
One thing I will agree with you on though, reality is going to win every time. The strong survive and the weak die so, in that sense, I'm really hoping this whole global climate change thing is the real deal. If anything needs a major culling, it's humans.
The problem is that "democracy" isn't anymore inherently nurturing of liberty than any other -cracy or -archy or -ism. "Democracy" is a method in and of itself and nothing more.
Intelligent people who care about their community are the exception, not the rule. Responsible people who know jack shit about their government and their elected officials are the exception, not the rule. Is a government where people who can be swayed by 30-second blurbs on whether the asshole on TV has a nice smile or not really conducive to freedom? Freedom be damned! I just want me free health care! It's my right!
Seriously, would you rather live in a democracy or under a benevolent monarch who genuinely loved his people? Do most of us around here think design or decision by committee produces the best results?
Then there's the argument as to what a democracy is vs. a democratic republic/monarchy/oligarchy/whatever.
"Antithetical to liberty" was probably harsh on my part. I should have simply stated that democracy in and of itself has nothing to do with liberty. If a majority has the power to vote away from you some fundamental right they don't care about but you, in the minority, do, is it really a "free" society? No. Your master just happens to be the uneducated, fat, lazy and ignorant majority rather than some guy with a crown.
I believe everyone should have the OPPORTUNITY to vote. However, I believe there should be a system in place that makes sure a person actually knows their ass from a hold in the ground. For instance, I don't believe in random jury pools. I believe you should have to specifically register to be in the jury pool and you shouldn't be able to vote until you've done so. (Incidentally, taking a civics class that explains the historical significance of juries and, more importantly, jury nullification should be part of registration.)
Does letting "Joe Sixpack" vote do good for society? We don't let "Joe Sixpack" design our cars, build our computers, represent us in court or do open heart surgery on us. Why then do we let him make decisions about who is best to govern the populace with no experience?
There is more to a free society than voting. Much more. Juries and grand juries, for instance, are also a bulwark against tyranny (I'd argue moreso than the voters when practiced properly). However, they can be easily neutralized by injecting a bunch of disinterested sheep into them, just like juries.
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Except that a most holy binary paladin would never do the bidding of the evil empire!
(Hahaha. Your post made my morning. Thanks!)
LOL M$ can't code
Tell that to YouTube.
Thankfully, next-gen webapps are going to be the death of IE6 because in another year nothing is going to support it anymore. IE7 will die at a much faster pace.
"[Y]ou often pay a premium for intangible features--specific certifications or backings, regulatory approval, availability through an authorized source, etc."
To the tune of 180x the price in this case.
The problem is these "intangible features" are WHY no one can afford health care. That and the fact that the moment you get insurance and government involved as the primary parties that make payments the price goes through the roof because companies treat both entities like bottomless sacks of cash. The price gets out of reach and the citizens cry for the government to pay for it all because insurance companies are out of reach of a lot of people.
I usually give up about the time I hear that too.
Yeah... nothing is more surprising than yet another establishment president continuing to do the same shit and appoint the same assholes as his predecessor.
It's almost as if it doesn't matter which of the major parties you vote for. Huh. That's strange.
It's the same thing that happens when the right suddenly cares about being fiscally conservative... when they don't control the purse strings.
Anyone who votes R or D is a fucking moron, period. Even if a particular candidate is good, you're still feeding two machines that are hell bent on eroding individual liberty so pad their own pocketbooks. It's that simple. It's the reason I could never really get behind Ron Paul. I agree with a lot of his views, particularly on the Fed, but so long as he's a Republican, he's still part of the problem.
They may be open to all, but do you think paying some asshole to astroturf on a right-wing nut job blog is a legitimate use of taxpayer money?
Then there's the whole discussion on what groups are infiltrated and why and if they're monitored further because someone says something "suspicious" or whatever. This never goes well and it never stops at a reasonable level.
Let me start by saying that I AM a privacy advocate and that it's absolutely fundamental to have the ability to keep your life private in a free society.
With that said, if you're worried about your personal privacy, why the fuck are you posting on Facebook? Seriously. And how much are you paying for your Facebook account? And who exactly is paying for your Facebook account? Etc.
I have a Facebook account because I don't care who knows who my friends are. There's nothing I post on Facebook that I am concerned about anyone finding out about. If I was, I wouldn't post it because I'm not a moron. I do this realizing everyone from advertisers to law enforcement agencies MIGHT use that information at some point. It doesn't mean I don't care about privacy, it just means that there are plenty of aspects of my life that I don't care if the entire world knows about.
If you want to be more private, don't get a Facebook account. The internet, however, is a PUBLIC network. Social networking is a more or less public. When you use someone else's FREE service, they don't owe YOU anything and you have NO rights as far as they're concerned. That's reality.
Privacy is becoming less and less of a social norm. I don't say this because I think it's a good thing, but "western civilization" in general seems all to eager to piss away liberty. After all, who needs free speech and privacy when we can have free health care and welfare instead?
What... the... fuck?
The puking ad? Really? Don't hey have some guy that works in some office who oversees things to make sure shit like that doesn't make it past, say, storyboards?
I never cease to be amazed by some of the epic fail churned out by these huge corporations with gobs and gobs of cash.
I thought they were kinda funny.
The problem is, when you spend the amount of money MS did and make a huge deal about Seinfeld then they should have been vastly superior. (Bill Gates having his mug shot on his ID was classic though.)
The other problem is I got to the end of those commercials with a sort of "Huh?" feeling. I hadn't a clue what I was supposed to want or buy or what the ad was even saying. They were just odd. Which is fine on a sketch comedy show, but not so much on an advertisement.
I wish these would return though and get rid of these AWFUL "I'm a PC" and "Windows 7 was my idea" ads. Really? Your idea? The guy that does an ad in the bathroom and calls his mom about Windows 7 being his idea? I've always wanted to be THAT guy and do what he does!
I had to stop about a minute into it. Holy shit. I need a bath.
I hope so. I enjoy the language immensely. I liked Python, but I LOVE Ruby and like doing my web dev there. I don't even use Rails either.
I can't believe how long the gem transition is taking either. That's been the most frustrating part of it. (I'm running 1.9 right now for just about everything though.) You'd think by the time 1.9.1 was out people would have been converting (and in many cases it's just not that hard).
Yeah, there's a big difference between blanket anti-technology and a warning against the misuse of said technology. There's also something to be said for the fact that being civilized or successful or "good" and the technological achievements of a society are not necessarily intermingled.
However, what we should be discussing is the irritation of over-analysis and what happens when people try to sound deeper and more sophisticated than they really are. That's what produces questions like the one posed here.
I was originally going to make a comment about Mercedes not making tractors, but it turns out they did.
In fact, Googling a few other combos turned up some similar surprises.
Have you even used a Mac?
I don't even know what the point of reading Mac threads on Slashdot is though. I used to think Mac fanboys were the most annoying people on the planet... until I started reading what their equally ignorant detractors had to say.
Ruggedised laptops... seriously? Apple? Gee, I wonder when Ferrari will start making dump trucks.
Seriously, do have to have a fucking article on women in the computer industry twice a month?
There aren't a lot of women in IT and we shouldn't be doing ANYTHING to change it anymore than we should try to change the disproportionate number of men in the construction or auto maintenance fields. Fucking get over it. How many of you have a woman mechanic? I'm sure they exist, but in the last 4 shops I've put various cars through I've never seen an actual grease monkey that was a woman.
We do not need to do anything to meet any gender/racial/religious/past time/favorite food/whatever quota.
Actually, I have to tell you... the worst thing about the Nazi regime is that it's convinced everyone in the "civilized world" that things are peachy because they're not the Nazis. It's worse in the US where we "beat them and destroyed fascism because we're the red, white and blue and blah, blah, blah."
So, even as the USA and UK become more draconian and controlling in ways that would have made Hilter nut himself, we keep looking back saying, "We're nothing like those guys. None of our police wear skull."
And our current system lacks petty nepotism and corruption... how?
A posse of yahoos? You mean like municipal court judges who work WITH the city attorneys and local police?
The "minority of police will always do bad things..."
And you think he's the one that's fed into some weird mythology? Ha!
And when gas was up to $4.50 here in the states around the last summer Olympics, people did, in fact, drive much less.
We don't.
I need a license to get married and a license to open a business. I need a license to drive on the roads I pay for and a license for my dog to keep his nuts in my county. I need a license for my gun and a license for my trailer. The list goes on. Free society? Where?
And anyone who really believes they live in a free society, please let me know so I can either remind you that you're a naive asshat or start working on expatriating if it turns out you do, indeed, know your ass from a hole in the ground.
Oh fucking fuck. The only other place I've heard "denier" used in that is in reference to the holocaust and that's EXACTLY why it's used in that context. So fuck Goodwin. It's not like it's always invalid to draw that damn comparison. It was relevant.
Of course... I can see you're already in a particular camp which is why it's an "obvious reality" to you. You must be a pretty talented guy to see an "obvious reality" from such a limited pool of data and a very, very, very tiny timeline.
One thing I will agree with you on though, reality is going to win every time. The strong survive and the weak die so, in that sense, I'm really hoping this whole global climate change thing is the real deal. If anything needs a major culling, it's humans.
The problem is that "democracy" isn't anymore inherently nurturing of liberty than any other -cracy or -archy or -ism. "Democracy" is a method in and of itself and nothing more.
Intelligent people who care about their community are the exception, not the rule. Responsible people who know jack shit about their government and their elected officials are the exception, not the rule. Is a government where people who can be swayed by 30-second blurbs on whether the asshole on TV has a nice smile or not really conducive to freedom? Freedom be damned! I just want me free health care! It's my right!
Seriously, would you rather live in a democracy or under a benevolent monarch who genuinely loved his people? Do most of us around here think design or decision by committee produces the best results?
Then there's the argument as to what a democracy is vs. a democratic republic/monarchy/oligarchy/whatever.
"Antithetical to liberty" was probably harsh on my part. I should have simply stated that democracy in and of itself has nothing to do with liberty. If a majority has the power to vote away from you some fundamental right they don't care about but you, in the minority, do, is it really a "free" society? No. Your master just happens to be the uneducated, fat, lazy and ignorant majority rather than some guy with a crown.
I believe everyone should have the OPPORTUNITY to vote. However, I believe there should be a system in place that makes sure a person actually knows their ass from a hold in the ground. For instance, I don't believe in random jury pools. I believe you should have to specifically register to be in the jury pool and you shouldn't be able to vote until you've done so. (Incidentally, taking a civics class that explains the historical significance of juries and, more importantly, jury nullification should be part of registration.)
Does letting "Joe Sixpack" vote do good for society? We don't let "Joe Sixpack" design our cars, build our computers, represent us in court or do open heart surgery on us. Why then do we let him make decisions about who is best to govern the populace with no experience?
There is more to a free society than voting. Much more. Juries and grand juries, for instance, are also a bulwark against tyranny (I'd argue moreso than the voters when practiced properly). However, they can be easily neutralized by injecting a bunch of disinterested sheep into them, just like juries.
Blah. Now I'm just carrying on.