If their emails are managed in the same manner as the White House emails, then maybe they have nothing to worry about.
Seriously, though, this lawsuit is great stuff. On the one hand, you have a monopoly forced into a measure of transparency and accountability. Then you have that monopoly's shortcomings being made the subject of stories in The New York Times (this one in the Business Section, no less), to say nothing of similar stories in other papers elsewhere. The lawsuit itself may be about Vista, but the emails are about Microsoft. Whether you care about Vista or not, this is good for everyone.
The lawsuit will most likely be decided using a "reasonableness" standard, and the outcome will probably be similarly reasonable, like coupons or some such nonsense. The more interesting question is whether Microsoft itself is Ready(TM) or Capable(TM) to address the more fundamental problems of Vista, and what Windows users forced into upgrades by a variety of means will have to contend with in the interim.
In reading this story, I wonder about how individuals raised in cultures different than my own (read: USA) view issues of personal privacy vs. common good.
I'd wonder, too, but I'm still stuck on why the girls all have their bloodtypes in their photobooks.
So much for those that say watching CSPAN coverage of legislative hearings is as boring as watching paint dry.
The article, despite being spread across multiple pages, characterises the hearing fairly, so I won't bother reiterating except to say that the committee members were indeed uninformed, the witnesses were somewhere between clueless and dishonest, and the politics injected into the situation (notably from the Republicans) was so thick that I wondered whether anything could be agreed upon or any of the issues resolved. Hell, by the end of it, I doubt anyone really knew what the technical issues were, myself included.
The saving grace was watching (no one could hear what he was saying) the soft-spoken White House archivist and remembering the joke about how to tell the difference between an introverted and extroverted geek. Instead of shoes, it was microphones.
Your government in action, folks. The bad guys trying to cover up, the good guys trying to find out what's going on, and both groups taking its cues Microsoft weenies.
Because it's less expensive to lay pipes in the ground then high up it up in the air.
Ya know, that should seem obvious enough, but I wonder if you take into account all of the costs associated with a physical line being downed by weather, squirrels[1], etc., or the maintenance for anything directly exposed to the weather, you'd break even. Here in California, if it rains, even moderately, you can expect your power or DSL to go out for seconds, minutes or hours. In other states where it gets cold, things go out more frequently and for longer periods at a time for an entire season.
If the costs do break even, then we're back to the usual "infrastracture costs money and taxpayers don't want to pay" scenario that glosses over any and all of the (mostly obvious) efficiencies. I have read about cities in European countries that are taking different approaches (to avoid repeatedly digging up roads), so my guess is that there's evidence in favour of the infrastructure argument.
_________ 1. Squirrels are really just ordinary rats dressed up in squirrel costumes.
Websites fall into generally two categories: Information Delivery and Entertainment Delivery.
LOL. Pop Quiz Time.
Which of the following is most true:
a) Slashdot is an Information Delivery system. b) Slashdot is an Entertainment Delivery system. c) Slashdot is both. d) Slashdot doesn't deliver.
Your reasoning appears fine, but I think it's too narrow to be of much use and then, it's flawed. Susan Sontag wrote an essay on the subject in an essay entitled On Style years ago. I'll offer an alternative.
I watch the Charlie Rose fairly regularly. I don't watch entertainment news, nor do I bother with news dressed up as entertainment. The main reason I enjoy the show is because it's informative, not because of it's style. The style of the show, two more people sitting in a darked studio around an oak table, however, is the reason it's informative.
So, for example, if a book is supposed to Information Delivery, how much information does it (or can it) convey without its cover and bindings and typography. What value is a documentary that's badly filmed? And a computer program or website with an unappealing, unattractive, or otherwise uninteresting interface? Typically, it doesn't get used as much as the one that does so it fails to deliver Information or Entertainment.
The point here is that while you can draw conclusions on edge cases and characterise one side as "information" and the other as "entertainment", you can never separate style from content. You can attribute this to a failing in human nature (people who have beards look more intelligent, attractive girls have warmer personalities, etc), but it's an integral part of the way we experience the world around us, real or virtual.
As for Flash, well, it mostly sucks, I wish it wasn't used, and tend to stay away from any sites that make use of it. I have, however, seen artists do amazing things with Flash, so much so that I wish everything I see on my computer screen would look and act the same way. And that's from someone whose uses a terminal for everything except general web browsing.
Sure I'm typing this on a 19" LCD but I don't intend to play games on it, I'll wait for something with REAL black levels, with REAL viewing angels, something actually, genuinely superior to the CRT I so foolishly sold for my the LCD.
I'm wondering whether it's even possible to get better results. I don't know enough about the technology to offer a comment, but I've yet to see a LCD that, despite all it's super keen advantages over CRTs, didn't have something that "wasn't quite right" about it.
Notebooks screens are particularly annoying in that no matter how much effort you expend in tweaking gamma settings, black is never black, and the grays are all really blue. Small wonder the default desktop colour scheme on most systems is blue.
I'm not sure I remember Aftermath, though I do have vivid memories of finding myself walking home at 8am on Sunday mornings stinking of cigarettes after a night of great music and lots of sex and drugs in women's bathroom stalls, encountering the stares of freshly-showered and nicely-dressed folks heading to breakfast or to a church service.
You're right about the music scene, however. It was alive and exciting. I moved to LA not long after and discovered, to my amazement, that the nightlife consisted mostly of a couple of "legendary" (read "filled with patrons who look like they belonged to a previous era") rock clubs on Sunset Blvd that closed at 1:30am, about the same time the city's main thoroughfares were emptied by traffic control. The afterhours scene consisted of sitting in a Denny's! AFAICT, it still does.
It took about 10 years for things to even begin to change. During that time, all I could do is repeat "WTF?", and think back to what I took for granted in Chicago. Funny how buying or listening to a CD isn't the same as "being there".
Funny that Trent should do it, he was a regular at a nightclub in Chicago over a decade ago that I was a part owner in, and used to scream about the record label monopoly even back then. Wonder if he ever remembers it...
It reduces the temperature of the chip. I would call that a cooler.
Using a general term when a more specific one would be more appropriate and more meaningful is... well, do I really need to spell it out? Or does referring to the common house fly as an anthropod, and your coworkers as invertebrates have any value?
The OP was correct. They're plastic fans. No more, no less. And if Wikipedia is any indication of common or appropriate usage, a cooler is most likely where you'll find fermented malted barley refreshments.
Hell, while I'm at it, there's no such thing as soy milk. it's SOY JUICE! Soybeans don't have and will never have teats.
I remember reading some internet columnist talking about the failed NT migration in 1999 or so, and I just found a description with references at the Wikipedia page on Hotmail. Specifically, the development history part and in the footnotes.
I knew the OP's comment was rubbish, but it didn't occur to me that Wikipedia had a page devoted to the subject. Thanks for the heads up.
For anyone who hasn't seen the Wiki page, it's an interesting read. Even more interesting is the information cited in the footnotes. Admittedly, much of it is "old" history, but not so old as not to be relevant in any discussion involving Microsoft or their technology.
They are not editors; they are posters. It's no different than someone aggregating news articles and posting them on all the other 'geek' sites. It was just one of the first to add discussion to the mix and thus became famous... Do not expect editing here, ever. It will not happen.
I don't think that's accurate. Story submission is not automatic, and editing does happen. From the FAQ:
Slashdot gets hundreds of submissions every day. Every day our authors go through these submissions, and try to select the most interesting, timely, and relevant ones to post to the homepage. There are probably as many reasons for stories to get rejected as there are stories, but here are some of the more common ones:... Badly worded subjects, Broken or missing URLs, Confusing or hysterical sounding writeup, It might be an old story, It might just be a busy day and we've already posted enough stories, Someone already submitted your story, Your story just might not be interesting!
Any of the above can be, and typically is, defined as editing. Unfortunately, what is missing from the list of criteria is a Common-sense Review of the Content (an onerous, time-consuming task, impossible to perform with a high school education or a quick Google or Wiki search, no doubt).
As to why that omission exists, my guess is that it's deliberate.
However, what saves the day just about every single time. Including your problem is Google!
The corollary to what you wrote is what I see on mailing lists frequently. As an example:
How do I configure my wireless card? I Googled for hours and couldn't find anything!
I don't use Ubuntu, but I recall they offer some form of a Handbook that contains just about everything the average user needs to know. Alternatively, Luke, use the source with something along the following lines (for the "I'm Feely Lucky" crowd):
man -k wireless | while read f; do man $(echo ${f%%\(*}); done
The best way, I think, to thank those who go to the effort to write documentation is to read what they wrote. You might even learn something.
I'm saying it will give Windows some of the advantages of Unix environments. That does not mean GNU tools. That just means the ability to natively admin a server with a command line (instead of having to use remote desktop or install SSH)), a way to make minimal installs, a way to do most tasks with a shell and automate them along with better scripting, more protocol compatibility, etc.
I'm confused here. What I regard as functional starts with a terminal, a fully-featured shell, a way to connect securely to remote systems, and a basketful of standardised tools to do anything and everything needed, along with standardised documentation for each. And that's an uncomfortable minimum.
What you're suggesting is what Microsoft has already been doing. Introducing a series of ad hoc command-line utilities (an embarssingly limited subset of what's needed to get anything done) that may or not be included as part of the default installation and may or may not work with the next go around, all to be run using shortcuts (due to the lack of a sane path) from cmd.exe, the Notepad of command-line environments. You think incremental improvements are the solution to goofiness?
Sorry, but this whole thing reminds of the absurd statement everyone made that Windows 2000 could be managed entirely using command-line tools only. The fact of the matter is Microsoft doesn't get it, and quite frankly, I don't expect them to any time soon.
The OP put it best when he said Powershell ain't bash.
It's really testament to the shallowness of the boardroom that these are actually taken seriously by those with the ability to promote people.
Shallowness? Maybe it's that the principle behind dressing appropriately is that you're suppose to dress out of respect for the "other" guy.
If you walk into my office and expect me to take you seriously, I'd suggest you take the first step and take me seriously. If you can't do that, I'd suggest you pass your [w]ell-reasoned arguments backed up with meticulous research data to someone else, someone with whom I can share mutual respect, and have them talk to me.
What you do or how you behave on your own time no one cares about.
I've heard that HPV rates are lower in circumcised men.
If there's any validity to that, my guess is that it's because they can keep the damned thing on and not be subject to any changes in normal sensation.
Contrary to the typical medical brochure would have you believe, condoms simply "don't work" for the uncircumsized. And they work even less well for those of who need the... Xtra Large size.
ROFL. It's never ceased to amaze me that someone hasn't yet sat down and determined how it's possible that a joke whose premise is based entirely around the antics and unknowable reality of a delusional psychotic can strike a chord in millions of perfectly normal people.
Come to think of it, that almost sounds like I'm talking about Steve Jobs.
As a news site, Slashdot is invaluable and worth reading on daily basis. The headlines aren't done well, the editing is non-existent, and well, we all know the rest. That said, I do enjoy those occasions where I come across a good story from a reader, a novel insight, a tidbit of useful information from someone with specialised or privileged knowledge, or the successes of those trying to master the art of the pun. Regrettably, much of what I see more closely resembles the scribblings on a bathroom wall. Looking at it, or trying to read through any part of it may be useful in gauging general attitudes and opinions, but otherwise the dubious nature of such a pasttime (a characterisation embarassingly reinforced by the recent addition of the "Hot Comments" sidebar), should be obvious to anyone.
Your post, on the other hand, is worth reading on its own merits. For any number of different reasons. I sincerely hope that if you haven't already done so, you consider writing as a vocation.
I guess the guys behind Notepad can now take a well needed vacation!
Unlikely.
An overlooked aspect of Microsoft's recently announced interoperability effort is that a few developers from the Wordpad Group are going to be moved over to the Notepad Group. Real soon now, Notepad is expected to be able to read "Unix" text files.
Just saying "the economic impact of real broadband would be immense" isn't enough.
My opinion is that is. Why build a highway system, when people are just going to use it for visiting their neighbours. Infrastructure questions are historically narrow and shortsighted, embarassingly so for the generations that follow.
Anyway, generally speaking, broadband is easily and widely available in the US as long as you live in an urban or semi-populated area.
Generally speaking, 640K was easily and widely available, but look where we are today.
The average user cannot tell there is a difference - because the Windows default is to hide the extension! It may be criminally insane, but its the default.
To the extent Windows reliance on extensions actually works. What's one to do with greetingcard.exe.pdf, to say nothing of more creative variations on the file naming scheme, or similar URL mechanisms in the context of an email client?
Add to the equation that it would be highly unusual if the majority of files on a typical user's hard driver weren't created with something akin to rwxrwxrwx. Good thing people have all those warning dialog boxes to warn them. People pay attention to those, right?
The only reason I see for this idiotic push to marginalize evolution and push creationism as a valid theory is because Christian conservatives see their influence on American culture slipping.
That, at least to me, is the interesting bit.
On the one hand, we're in the middle of an election cycle where there's serious issues with which to contend, and on the other hand, we have a vocal block of people and their elected representatives whose primary concerns are abortion, gay marriage and the teaching of evolution.
To be fair, I don't think the Protestant evangelical crowd is seeing their influence slip as much as they are trying to find relevance in a world that's changing around them. While fundamentalism in various forms has been on the rise both here and abroad in recent years, I'd like to think it's on the wane, at least where there's a sizable majority of the population ready and willing to move on and concern themselves with more important things. One reason among many that the prevalent theme of the current election campaign is change.
The Cubans who migrated to Florida are absolutely nothing like the Kurds, Palestinians or Albanians.
They aren't if your criteria involves armed agression and social strife. If you examine the middle and upper classes of any of those populations, or their expatriot counterparts, you'll find the similarities I was pointing out. My point was not that the groups were analogous (which is absurd), but that given a history of intense conflict, members of a given group are only to happy to pass around or hand down the resentments until it becomes a cultural badge of honour. The Miami crowd stands to lose their sense of aggrieved identity (to say nothing of the countless millions at stake), if they modify their attitudes or relinquish their right to be pissed off. And everyone who depends on them continuing to be pissed off (politician asking for contributions, government officials needing to justify their jobs, lawyers of all sorts, corporations who lost out, etc.) are only too happy to help them. And vice versa.
Incidentally, you left out the Serbs. Those living in Kosovo, and elsewhere.
Does this mean the expat's in Miami will finally shut up and I can visit Havana soon (legally).
The Miami crowd has too much to lose to allow that to happen. And they have enough political influence to prevent someone from dismissing them any time soon, despite a willingness by the American public to adopt a new perspective, keen interest by big business, and numerous attempts over the years by legislators and other interested parties who consider the current policy a long and drawn out failure to change the situation.
Besides, who in Cuba do you think is, or is going to be, running things?
On a side note, the term "expats" (no "s" needed, thankyou) I would reserve for someone like the English hanging out in the bars of Santa Monica, CA, watching football and drinking Guiness. The Miami crowd, on the other hand, will carry their memories, resentments and feelings forward for generations to come. Think of the Kurds in Iraq, the Palestinians in Israel, and both the Albanians and Serbs in Kosovo, among countless other examples, and you'll get the idea.
Tourists, cigar afficionados and late 50's model car enthusiasts will have to wait.
The streaks of light we sometimes see in the night sky and call meteors were not identified as interplanetary rocks until the 19th century. Before then, the streaks of light were considered only one of a variety of atmospheric phenomena, all of which bore the name meteor. Rain was an aqueous meteor, winds and storms were airy meteors, and streaks of light in the sky were fiery meteors. This general use of meteor survives in our word meteorology, the study of the weather and atmospheric phenomena. Nowadays, astronomers use any of three words for rocks from interplanetary space, depending on their stage of descent to the Earth...
meteor 1471, "any atmospheric phenomenon," from M.Fr. meteore (13c.), from M.L. meteorum (nom. meteora), from Gk. ta meteora "the celestial phenomena," pl. of meteoron, lit. "thing high up," neut. of meteoros (adj.) "high up," from meta- "over, beyond" (see meta-) + -aoros "lifted, hovering in air," related to aeirein "to raise" (see aorta). Specific sense of "fireball, shooting star" is attested from 1593. Atmospheric phenomena were formerly classified as aerial meteors (wind), aqueous meteors (rain, snow, hail), luminous meteors (aurora, rainbows), and igneous meteors (lightning, shooting stars). Meteoric in the figurative sense of "transiently brilliant" is from 1836.
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If their emails are managed in the same manner as the White House emails, then maybe they have nothing to worry about.
Seriously, though, this lawsuit is great stuff. On the one hand, you have a monopoly forced into a measure of transparency and accountability. Then you have that monopoly's shortcomings being made the subject of stories in The New York Times (this one in the Business Section, no less), to say nothing of similar stories in other papers elsewhere. The lawsuit itself may be about Vista, but the emails are about Microsoft. Whether you care about Vista or not, this is good for everyone.
The lawsuit will most likely be decided using a "reasonableness" standard, and the outcome will probably be similarly reasonable, like coupons or some such nonsense. The more interesting question is whether Microsoft itself is Ready(TM) or Capable(TM) to address the more fundamental problems of Vista, and what Windows users forced into upgrades by a variety of means will have to contend with in the interim.
In reading this story, I wonder about how individuals raised in cultures different than my own (read: USA) view issues of personal privacy vs. common good.
I'd wonder, too, but I'm still stuck on why the girls all have their bloodtypes in their photobooks.
Or why their fans would want to know.
Or why I know so much about photobooks.
Or notice the bloodtype.
So much for those that say watching CSPAN coverage of legislative hearings is as boring as watching paint dry.
The article, despite being spread across multiple pages, characterises the hearing fairly, so I won't bother reiterating except to say that the committee members were indeed uninformed, the witnesses were somewhere between clueless and dishonest, and the politics injected into the situation (notably from the Republicans) was so thick that I wondered whether anything could be agreed upon or any of the issues resolved. Hell, by the end of it, I doubt anyone really knew what the technical issues were, myself included.
The saving grace was watching (no one could hear what he was saying) the soft-spoken White House archivist and remembering the joke about how to tell the difference between an introverted and extroverted geek. Instead of shoes, it was microphones.
Your government in action, folks. The bad guys trying to cover up, the good guys trying to find out what's going on, and both groups taking its cues Microsoft weenies.
Because it's less expensive to lay pipes in the ground then high up it up in the air.
Ya know, that should seem obvious enough, but I wonder if you take into account all of the costs associated with a physical line being downed by weather, squirrels[1], etc., or the maintenance for anything directly exposed to the weather, you'd break even. Here in California, if it rains, even moderately, you can expect your power or DSL to go out for seconds, minutes or hours. In other states where it gets cold, things go out more frequently and for longer periods at a time for an entire season.
If the costs do break even, then we're back to the usual "infrastracture costs money and taxpayers don't want to pay" scenario that glosses over any and all of the (mostly obvious) efficiencies. I have read about cities in European countries that are taking different approaches (to avoid repeatedly digging up roads), so my guess is that there's evidence in favour of the infrastructure argument.
_________
1. Squirrels are really just ordinary rats dressed up in squirrel costumes.
Websites fall into generally two categories: Information Delivery and Entertainment Delivery.
LOL. Pop Quiz Time.
Which of the following is most true:
a) Slashdot is an Information Delivery system.
b) Slashdot is an Entertainment Delivery system.
c) Slashdot is both.
d) Slashdot doesn't deliver.
Your reasoning appears fine, but I think it's too narrow to be of much use and then, it's flawed. Susan Sontag wrote an essay on the subject in an essay entitled On Style years ago. I'll offer an alternative.
I watch the Charlie Rose fairly regularly. I don't watch entertainment news, nor do I bother with news dressed up as entertainment. The main reason I enjoy the show is because it's informative, not because of it's style. The style of the show, two more people sitting in a darked studio around an oak table, however, is the reason it's informative.
So, for example, if a book is supposed to Information Delivery, how much information does it (or can it) convey without its cover and bindings and typography. What value is a documentary that's badly filmed? And a computer program or website with an unappealing, unattractive, or otherwise uninteresting interface? Typically, it doesn't get used as much as the one that does so it fails to deliver Information or Entertainment.
The point here is that while you can draw conclusions on edge cases and characterise one side as "information" and the other as "entertainment", you can never separate style from content. You can attribute this to a failing in human nature (people who have beards look more intelligent, attractive girls have warmer personalities, etc), but it's an integral part of the way we experience the world around us, real or virtual.
As for Flash, well, it mostly sucks, I wish it wasn't used, and tend to stay away from any sites that make use of it. I have, however, seen artists do amazing things with Flash, so much so that I wish everything I see on my computer screen would look and act the same way. And that's from someone whose uses a terminal for everything except general web browsing.
Sure I'm typing this on a 19" LCD but I don't intend to play games on it, I'll wait for something with REAL black levels, with REAL viewing angels, something actually, genuinely superior to the CRT I so foolishly sold for my the LCD.
I'm wondering whether it's even possible to get better results. I don't know enough about the technology to offer a comment, but I've yet to see a LCD that, despite all it's super keen advantages over CRTs, didn't have something that "wasn't quite right" about it.
Notebooks screens are particularly annoying in that no matter how much effort you expend in tweaking gamma settings, black is never black, and the grays are all really blue. Small wonder the default desktop colour scheme on most systems is blue.
I'm not sure I remember Aftermath, though I do have vivid memories of finding myself walking home at 8am on Sunday mornings stinking of cigarettes after a night of great music and lots of sex and drugs in women's bathroom stalls, encountering the stares of freshly-showered and nicely-dressed folks heading to breakfast or to a church service.
You're right about the music scene, however. It was alive and exciting. I moved to LA not long after and discovered, to my amazement, that the nightlife consisted mostly of a couple of "legendary" (read "filled with patrons who look like they belonged to a previous era") rock clubs on Sunset Blvd that closed at 1:30am, about the same time the city's main thoroughfares were emptied by traffic control. The afterhours scene consisted of sitting in a Denny's! AFAICT, it still does.
It took about 10 years for things to even begin to change. During that time, all I could do is repeat "WTF?", and think back to what I took for granted in Chicago. Funny how buying or listening to a CD isn't the same as "being there".
Funny that Trent should do it, he was a regular at a nightclub in Chicago over a decade ago that I was a part owner in, and used to scream about the record label monopoly even back then. Wonder if he ever remembers it...
Out of curiousity, which club was that?
It reduces the temperature of the chip. I would call that a cooler.
... well, do I really need to spell it out? Or does referring to the common house fly as an anthropod, and your coworkers as invertebrates have any value?
Using a general term when a more specific one would be more appropriate and more meaningful is
The OP was correct. They're plastic fans. No more, no less. And if Wikipedia is any indication of common or appropriate usage, a cooler is most likely where you'll find fermented malted barley refreshments.
Hell, while I'm at it, there's no such thing as soy milk. it's SOY JUICE! Soybeans don't have and will never have teats.
Ok, I feel better.
I remember reading some internet columnist talking about the failed NT migration in 1999 or so, and I just found a description with references at the Wikipedia page on Hotmail. Specifically, the development history part and in the footnotes.
I knew the OP's comment was rubbish, but it didn't occur to me that Wikipedia had a page devoted to the subject. Thanks for the heads up.
For anyone who hasn't seen the Wiki page, it's an interesting read. Even more interesting is the information cited in the footnotes. Admittedly, much of it is "old" history, but not so old as not to be relevant in any discussion involving Microsoft or their technology.
I don't think that's accurate. Story submission is not automatic, and editing does happen. From the FAQ:
Any of the above can be, and typically is, defined as editing. Unfortunately, what is missing from the list of criteria is a Common-sense Review of the Content (an onerous, time-consuming task, impossible to perform with a high school education or a quick Google or Wiki search, no doubt).
As to why that omission exists, my guess is that it's deliberate.
When the hell has building a giant wall ever helped anything?
Indeed.
A better idea would have been to arm Lou Dobbs with automatic weapons.
The corollary to what you wrote is what I see on mailing lists frequently. As an example:I don't use Ubuntu, but I recall they offer some form of a Handbook that contains just about everything the average user needs to know. Alternatively, Luke, use the source with something along the following lines (for the "I'm Feely Lucky" crowd):
man -k wireless | while read f; do man $(echo ${f%%\(*}); done
The best way, I think, to thank those who go to the effort to write documentation is to read what they wrote. You might even learn something.
I'm saying it will give Windows some of the advantages of Unix environments. That does not mean GNU tools. That just means the ability to natively admin a server with a command line (instead of having to use remote desktop or install SSH)), a way to make minimal installs, a way to do most tasks with a shell and automate them along with better scripting, more protocol compatibility, etc.
I'm confused here. What I regard as functional starts with a terminal, a fully-featured shell, a way to connect securely to remote systems, and a basketful of standardised tools to do anything and everything needed, along with standardised documentation for each. And that's an uncomfortable minimum.
What you're suggesting is what Microsoft has already been doing. Introducing a series of ad hoc command-line utilities (an embarssingly limited subset of what's needed to get anything done) that may or not be included as part of the default installation and may or may not work with the next go around, all to be run using shortcuts (due to the lack of a sane path) from cmd.exe, the Notepad of command-line environments. You think incremental improvements are the solution to goofiness?
Sorry, but this whole thing reminds of the absurd statement everyone made that Windows 2000 could be managed entirely using command-line tools only. The fact of the matter is Microsoft doesn't get it, and quite frankly, I don't expect them to any time soon.
The OP put it best when he said Powershell ain't bash.
It's really testament to the shallowness of the boardroom that these are actually taken seriously by those with the ability to promote people.
Shallowness? Maybe it's that the principle behind dressing appropriately is that you're suppose to dress out of respect for the "other" guy.
If you walk into my office and expect me to take you seriously, I'd suggest you take the first step and take me seriously. If you can't do that, I'd suggest you pass your [w]ell-reasoned arguments backed up with meticulous research data to someone else, someone with whom I can share mutual respect, and have them talk to me.
What you do or how you behave on your own time no one cares about.
I've heard that HPV rates are lower in circumcised men.
... Xtra Large size.
If there's any validity to that, my guess is that it's because they can keep the damned thing on and not be subject to any changes in normal sensation.
Contrary to the typical medical brochure would have you believe, condoms simply "don't work" for the uncircumsized. And they work even less well for those of who need the
I think "Kids In The Hall" have prior art here.
ROFL. It's never ceased to amaze me that someone hasn't yet sat down and determined how it's possible that a joke whose premise is based entirely around the antics and unknowable reality of a delusional psychotic can strike a chord in millions of perfectly normal people.
Come to think of it, that almost sounds like I'm talking about Steve Jobs.
As a news site, Slashdot is invaluable and worth reading on daily basis. The headlines aren't done well, the editing is non-existent, and well, we all know the rest. That said, I do enjoy those occasions where I come across a good story from a reader, a novel insight, a tidbit of useful information from someone with specialised or privileged knowledge, or the successes of those trying to master the art of the pun. Regrettably, much of what I see more closely resembles the scribblings on a bathroom wall. Looking at it, or trying to read through any part of it may be useful in gauging general attitudes and opinions, but otherwise the dubious nature of such a pasttime (a characterisation embarassingly reinforced by the recent addition of the "Hot Comments" sidebar), should be obvious to anyone.
Your post, on the other hand, is worth reading on its own merits. For any number of different reasons. I sincerely hope that if you haven't already done so, you consider writing as a vocation.
I guess the guys behind Notepad can now take a well needed vacation!
Unlikely.
An overlooked aspect of Microsoft's recently announced interoperability effort is that a few developers from the Wordpad Group are going to be moved over to the Notepad Group. Real soon now, Notepad is expected to be able to read "Unix" text files.
Just saying "the economic impact of real broadband would be immense" isn't enough.
My opinion is that is. Why build a highway system, when people are just going to use it for visiting their neighbours. Infrastructure questions are historically narrow and shortsighted, embarassingly so for the generations that follow.
Anyway, generally speaking, broadband is easily and widely available in the US as long as you live in an urban or semi-populated area.
Generally speaking, 640K was easily and widely available, but look where we are today.
The average user cannot tell there is a difference - because the Windows default is to hide the extension! It may be criminally insane, but its the default.
To the extent Windows reliance on extensions actually works. What's one to do with greetingcard.exe.pdf, to say nothing of more creative variations on the file naming scheme, or similar URL mechanisms in the context of an email client?
Add to the equation that it would be highly unusual if the majority of files on a typical user's hard driver weren't created with something akin to rwxrwxrwx. Good thing people have all those warning dialog boxes to warn them. People pay attention to those, right?
The only reason I see for this idiotic push to marginalize evolution and push creationism as a valid theory is because Christian conservatives see their influence on American culture slipping.
That, at least to me, is the interesting bit.
On the one hand, we're in the middle of an election cycle where there's serious issues with which to contend, and on the other hand, we have a vocal block of people and their elected representatives whose primary concerns are abortion, gay marriage and the teaching of evolution.
To be fair, I don't think the Protestant evangelical crowd is seeing their influence slip as much as they are trying to find relevance in a world that's changing around them. While fundamentalism in various forms has been on the rise both here and abroad in recent years, I'd like to think it's on the wane, at least where there's a sizable majority of the population ready and willing to move on and concern themselves with more important things. One reason among many that the prevalent theme of the current election campaign is change.
The Cubans who migrated to Florida are absolutely nothing like the Kurds, Palestinians or Albanians.
They aren't if your criteria involves armed agression and social strife. If you examine the middle and upper classes of any of those populations, or their expatriot counterparts, you'll find the similarities I was pointing out. My point was not that the groups were analogous (which is absurd), but that given a history of intense conflict, members of a given group are only to happy to pass around or hand down the resentments until it becomes a cultural badge of honour. The Miami crowd stands to lose their sense of aggrieved identity (to say nothing of the countless millions at stake), if they modify their attitudes or relinquish their right to be pissed off. And everyone who depends on them continuing to be pissed off (politician asking for contributions, government officials needing to justify their jobs, lawyers of all sorts, corporations who lost out, etc.) are only too happy to help them. And vice versa.
Incidentally, you left out the Serbs. Those living in Kosovo, and elsewhere.
Does this mean the expat's in Miami will finally shut up and I can visit Havana soon (legally).
The Miami crowd has too much to lose to allow that to happen. And they have enough political influence to prevent someone from dismissing them any time soon, despite a willingness by the American public to adopt a new perspective, keen interest by big business, and numerous attempts over the years by legislators and other interested parties who consider the current policy a long and drawn out failure to change the situation.
Besides, who in Cuba do you think is, or is going to be, running things?
On a side note, the term "expats" (no "s" needed, thankyou) I would reserve for someone like the English hanging out in the bars of Santa Monica, CA, watching football and drinking Guiness. The Miami crowd, on the other hand, will carry their memories, resentments and feelings forward for generations to come. Think of the Kurds in Iraq, the Palestinians in Israel, and both the Albanians and Serbs in Kosovo, among countless other examples, and you'll get the idea.
Tourists, cigar afficionados and late 50's model car enthusiasts will have to wait.
Ah, but didja know why?
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