Ok, so we can easily find anomalies caused by nature, but how about anomalies caused by us?
Well, dunno if you'd consider any of this as an anomaly, but it's an equally topical use of Google's map technology (season premier is tomorrow, kids).
That article is nothing more than a Microsoft press release. This sort of garbage "informercial" is why blogging is gaining credibility over traditional journalism.
LOL. And this is different how from what's published by the real deal MS Press? It's never ceased to amaze me how, at their most technical, most all publications read like advertising copy. As to the article, Bill describe his place in the era of live software with
Make no mistake, Windows Live is our strategic bet to change the game and win, while we grow and drive revenue with MSN.com
But on a somewhat related note, a Goldman Sachs analyst discussing Google's acquisition of Writely says:
We disagree with Microsoft's approach of ignoring the consumer market for a hosted solution and leaving the door wide open for Google to come in and establish a presence in the consumer or potentially the small business market... Strategically, it seems like Microsoft should have been more proactive in leveraging its strengths..."
Maybe the strategy part of their strategic bets needs work?
Most of it seems structured in such a way to avoid any problems, so if by "not legal" you're referring to the act of keeping the digitised copies on your shiny new iPod, yeah, possibly.
Then again, is "posession" really a crime? And is it worth pursuing? Seems to me the RIAA et al. are more interested prosecuting indviduals for distribution.
If the "mystery of love" has been studied to the same extent as chocolate, than I would suggest that our understanding of how it works and the effects it has on us are a long way from being understood.
Put another way, if you take the 400 or so compounds in chocolate and study them invidually (putting aside the need to study all the possible combinations), you'll end up with something like "Big boobs in the female of the species increases the chances of successful mating." Hardly useful. Or informative.
My guess is that we'll be studying chocolate (and love) for years to come. And given that our science isn't much more evolved from the Poke It With A Stick And See What Happens method, we might as well enjoy the mystery. And the big boobs.
...users are capable of doing it if they weren't ignorant. 10 years ago when GUI mail readers barely existed... Windows is to blame for dumbing down our computer users to the point of being completely incompetent when it comes to dealing with a non-clicky-clicky interface."
Congratulations! You've earned extra Slashdot Coolness Points for 1) slamming Windows; 2) insulting the average user; and 3) being blissfully unaware that most normal people actually prefer a GUI interface!
Perhaps, but more importantly, he offered a reminder that 1) the "Ease of Use" design of Windows and many Windows-based apps does encourage stupidity; 2) GUI apps, despite their added features, can often be inferior to terminal-based programs (in this particular case, even dangerous); and 3) terminal-based programs need not be difficult to use as ordinary people were once perfectly happy typing cryptic-looking commands on a bare screen.
I'd say each of those is reminders is valuable, and the distinctions made are important.
This isn't so different than refering to Windows-based viruses as worms as "computer viruses." Put another way, if everyone does indeed want clicky programs and text/html email as another poster suggested, it's perfectly appropriate that they have a clear understanding that any problems they encounter are mostly the result of their preferences. A few comparisons and a little background are always useful.
Almost every PDF document on the OSDL website has been created on a Windows PC or on a Mac.
That's as funny as it is sad, especially given that Word regulary generates ugly looking documents, and that Word -> PDF is generally a Bad Idea.
The only excuse I can think of is the unlikely scenario where they were typed-up by an overworked secretary who didn't know anything else. But that would invite another TCO analysis, wouldn't it? Thirty minutes of LaTeX tutoring (for example) vs. the cost of a Microsoft Word license.
There nothing like searching for something (usually fairly obscure), and coming up with (a) a Wikipedia article, and (b) the same Wikipedia article on a dozen other sites with domain names that don't have any fscking thing to do with Wikipedia.
Sure there is.
Try a search for a Linux-related topic and then wade through the endless number of pages that are nothing more than "reprints" of a related man page without thinking it's a RTFM conspiracy.
Napster, founded by college student Shawn Fanning, as far as I can tell doesn't really exist any more. AFAIR Roxio bought it because they had a brand that meant "mediocre software" and wanted a brand/name that meant "cool".
Yeah, but did you know that Shawn Fanning didn't invent Napster?
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Umm... used Windows lately? As in a properly configured Windows?
The security model does that one already.
Ever administered a Windows system? It's as easy as setting a umask of 022 and using chmod where needed, isn't it? And no issues with file ownership, right? By the time you've set group policies, right-clicked your way through the file system and mucked about in the registry, do find time to tell us more about this security model.
Or are you suggesting that a Windows user needs a security expert to reconfigure the default installation on their new Dell box to make it properly configured?
Sorry, but the parent comment about a sane security model is perfectly valid. My guess is that it'll take a few more tries for Windows to reinvent itself and resolve the tortured directory system with the concept of a path and give up on inventing new models. Chances are it'll resemble Unix.
Allow me to list a few features coming in Vista that I am looking forward to:
Vastly improved networking stack (apparently superior to any other OS's)
LOL. I'd take the old stack if Windows included the networking tools typically found on any Linux system. Personally, if you want networking done right, I think you'll be using BSD.
Sorry, but Microsoft's perennial attempts at reinventing Windows invites, at the very least, skepticism.
A dupe here and a dupe there.... And pretty soon you're talking *real* repeats!
Think of it as an "Encore Presentation."
It's like HBO original programming. After a round of repeats, we get a new episode, then a repeat, then a new episode, then the season goes into limbo and the Slashdot DVD goes on sale.
Slashdot is not the Wall Street Journal. It is not The New York Times. Slashdot is an informal meeting ground. A town hall. A pub. A bulletin board in the quad on campus.
Sorry, but I don't buy it and nor should anyone else. Irrespective of how how one would like to consider Slashdot, it is a text-only medium. And at the risk of being redundant, I'll point out that in a text-only medium, all anyone has to go by is the text that appears on screen.
If an article submitter or poster makes glaring errors, none of us has much choice but to consider the possibility that either he/she is under the age of 12, is an illiterate that never graduated high school, or is someone that simply didn't consider his/her audience worth the trouble to write something worth reading.
On the other hand, if I were to be pedantic, I'd criticise someone's spelling Perl as PERL, or perl, but it's easy enough to attribute that sort of error to laziness, or simply not knowing. The same can't be said of the spelling and grammar mistakes that appear regularly in both submissions and posts. And how many of those are from individuals whose first (and only) language is English?
Here people might not properly capitalize a proper noun. They might transpose letters in 'thier'. They might use jargon that isn't in oxford. And all of that is OK with me.
Hardly a capital offence, but it is sloppy, and merits correction. So, yes, it's Oxford and not oxford.
Yeah, but the Office help files, among other bits too numerous to count, require IE, which is inextricably linked with Windows. This means that installing Office on a Mac requires you to install IE and Windows, first. Or something like that, right?
Style, flair, and innovation are Apple hallmarks with Steve Jobs at the helm. Dell is just another PC maker, nothing more. When Apple suffered through those other CEO's, the style, flair and innovation were missing.
There's a point in there somewhere, but it's the wrong one. Last I checked, style and flair go over like lead balloons in the boardrooms of most companies, and I doubt any manager is going to base an important purchasing decision possibly worth millions of dollars on the recommendations of a turtleneck-wearing sales rep.
As another poster pointed out, it might be hard to pick Michael Dell out of a lineup, but that's exactly the point. When you're catering to corporate America, you or your representative had better look and act like a banker or the bankers won't trust you with their money. On the other hand, if your business is in a specialty market, the entertainment industry, or you're looking for a job as a television weatherman, style and flair are appropriate.
A major Dutch retail chain recently had to recall a whole lot of Gilette Mach 3 razorblades. It turned out they were fakes. The packaging looked real enough, but the razors were nowhere near the quality Gilette makes.
I'm not sure that's such a good example.
First, razor blades are available in analog form only. And second, I doubt you'll get much sympathy from anyone who uses disposable blades (which is just about everyone) and is forced to pay ridiculous prices for them. Similarly, I doubt anyone considers the Gilette brand to have any quality than any other brand. All of them dull and clog up after a couple of shaves.
But while we're on the subject, what I find interesting is the private label brand phenomenon. Every gas station in America, for example, seems to be offering bad coffee dressed up with Starbucks-styled names and designer-styled coffee cups. Same low-grade coffee, of course, but new packaging is supposed to make feel better about their purchase, and it seems to work.
All in all, while there are brands that command respect, it seems that over the last decade or so that respect has eroded with the onslaught of knock-off items for a lower price and a new generation too cynical for their own good. Walmart is testimony to the fact that people often make their purchasing decision based solely on price. Is it surprising then, that a growing market exists for off-brands, dressed-up brands, or by extension, counterfeits?
The pressure itself is unlikely to kill her, but injuries sustained when thrown out of the pipe might.
No worries, then. I thus conclude my fear of heights to be totally irrational because it's not the falling that will kill me, but the hitting the ground part.
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Ok, so we can easily find anomalies caused by nature, but how about anomalies caused by us?
Well, dunno if you'd consider any of this as an anomaly, but it's an equally topical use of Google's map technology (season premier is tomorrow, kids).
Maybe someone can find Jimmy Hoffa?
LOL. And this is different how from what's published by the real deal MS Press? It's never ceased to amaze me how, at their most technical, most all publications read like advertising copy. As to the article, Bill describe his place in the era of live software with
But on a somewhat related note, a Goldman Sachs analyst discussing Google's acquisition of Writely says:
Maybe the strategy part of their strategic bets needs work?Have you tried the subscription model?
I hear it works well, though getting an extended lease time or supplementary benefits added without paying extra can be problematic.
But we're talking about music and music here. Your parable and the attorney general's actions are like apples and oranges.
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You think you're confused. I'm still working on the one (fruit) farmer saying "The pear farmer and I don't even sell the same produce
That's not legal.
Most of it seems structured in such a way to avoid any problems, so if by "not legal" you're referring to the act of keeping the digitised copies on your shiny new iPod, yeah, possibly.
Then again, is "posession" really a crime? And is it worth pursuing? Seems to me the RIAA et al. are more interested prosecuting indviduals for distribution.
Dunno if this is legit, but there's these guys who will do it for you and send everything back on a shiny-new loaded iPod.
If the "mystery of love" has been studied to the same extent as chocolate, than I would suggest that our understanding of how it works and the effects it has on us are a long way from being understood.
Put another way, if you take the 400 or so compounds in chocolate and study them invidually (putting aside the need to study all the possible combinations), you'll end up with something like "Big boobs in the female of the species increases the chances of successful mating." Hardly useful. Or informative.
My guess is that we'll be studying chocolate (and love) for years to come. And given that our science isn't much more evolved from the Poke It With A Stick And See What Happens method, we might as well enjoy the mystery. And the big boobs.
...users are capable of doing it if they weren't ignorant. 10 years ago when GUI mail readers barely existed... Windows is to blame for dumbing down our computer users to the point of being completely incompetent when it comes to dealing with a non-clicky-clicky interface."
Congratulations! You've earned extra Slashdot Coolness Points for 1) slamming Windows; 2) insulting the average user; and 3) being blissfully unaware that most normal people actually prefer a GUI interface!
Perhaps, but more importantly, he offered a reminder that 1) the "Ease of Use" design of Windows and many Windows-based apps does encourage stupidity; 2) GUI apps, despite their added features, can often be inferior to terminal-based programs (in this particular case, even dangerous); and 3) terminal-based programs need not be difficult to use as ordinary people were once perfectly happy typing cryptic-looking commands on a bare screen.
I'd say each of those is reminders is valuable, and the distinctions made are important.
This isn't so different than refering to Windows-based viruses as worms as "computer viruses." Put another way, if everyone does indeed want clicky programs and text/html email as another poster suggested, it's perfectly appropriate that they have a clear understanding that any problems they encounter are mostly the result of their preferences. A few comparisons and a little background are always useful.
Almost every PDF document on the OSDL website has been created on a Windows PC or on a Mac.
That's as funny as it is sad, especially given that Word regulary generates ugly looking documents, and that Word -> PDF is generally a Bad Idea.
The only excuse I can think of is the unlikely scenario where they were typed-up by an overworked secretary who didn't know anything else. But that would invite another TCO analysis, wouldn't it? Thirty minutes of LaTeX tutoring (for example) vs. the cost of a Microsoft Word license.
Indoor cats live longer.
There nothing like searching for something (usually fairly obscure), and coming up with (a) a Wikipedia article, and (b) the same Wikipedia article on a dozen other sites with domain names that don't have any fscking thing to do with Wikipedia.
Sure there is.
Try a search for a Linux-related topic and then wade through the endless number of pages that are nothing more than "reprints" of a related man page without thinking it's a RTFM conspiracy.
I'm not going to click on that link. The article's going to suck anyway.
I clicked it. And it sucked.
Somehow I think this is all your fault.
Napster, founded by college student Shawn Fanning, as far as I can tell doesn't really exist any more. AFAIR Roxio bought it because they had a brand that meant "mediocre software" and wanted a brand/name that meant "cool".
Yeah, but did you know that Shawn Fanning didn't invent Napster?
It's true.
Umm... used Windows lately? As in a properly configured Windows?
The security model does that one already.
Ever administered a Windows system? It's as easy as setting a umask of 022 and using chmod where needed, isn't it? And no issues with file ownership, right? By the time you've set group policies, right-clicked your way through the file system and mucked about in the registry, do find time to tell us more about this security model.
Or are you suggesting that a Windows user needs a security expert to reconfigure the default installation on their new Dell box to make it properly configured?
Sorry, but the parent comment about a sane security model is perfectly valid. My guess is that it'll take a few more tries for Windows to reinvent itself and resolve the tortured directory system with the concept of a path and give up on inventing new models. Chances are it'll resemble Unix.
Allow me to list a few features coming in Vista that I am looking forward to:
Vastly improved networking stack (apparently superior to any other OS's)
LOL. I'd take the old stack if Windows included the networking tools typically found on any Linux system. Personally, if you want networking done right, I think you'll be using BSD.
Sorry, but Microsoft's perennial attempts at reinventing Windows invites, at the very least, skepticism.
From a FreeBSD mailing list post:
Windows: "Where do you want to go today?"
Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?"
FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming or what?"
A dupe here and a dupe there....
And pretty soon you're talking *real* repeats!
Think of it as an "Encore Presentation."
It's like HBO original programming. After a round of repeats, we get a new episode, then a repeat, then a new episode, then the season goes into limbo and the Slashdot DVD goes on sale.
That only works if he can read.
I think that's an open question.
This suggests he can't, but this suggests he can.
My guess is the second example is a fake, so rumours of his ability to read are probably exaggerated.
Slashdot is not the Wall Street Journal. It is not The New York Times. Slashdot is an informal meeting ground. A town hall. A pub. A bulletin board in the quad on campus.
Sorry, but I don't buy it and nor should anyone else. Irrespective of how how one would like to consider Slashdot, it is a text-only medium. And at the risk of being redundant, I'll point out that in a text-only medium, all anyone has to go by is the text that appears on screen.
If an article submitter or poster makes glaring errors, none of us has much choice but to consider the possibility that either he/she is under the age of 12, is an illiterate that never graduated high school, or is someone that simply didn't consider his/her audience worth the trouble to write something worth reading.
On the other hand, if I were to be pedantic, I'd criticise someone's spelling Perl as PERL, or perl, but it's easy enough to attribute that sort of error to laziness, or simply not knowing. The same can't be said of the spelling and grammar mistakes that appear regularly in both submissions and posts. And how many of those are from individuals whose first (and only) language is English?
Here people might not properly capitalize a proper noun. They might transpose letters in 'thier'. They might use jargon that isn't in oxford. And all of that is OK with me.
Hardly a capital offence, but it is sloppy, and merits correction. So, yes, it's Oxford and not oxford.
You can never be told what Perl is.
You just have to see it for yourself.
Is this what you saw?
But they leave Office
Yeah, but the Office help files, among other bits too numerous to count, require IE, which is inextricably linked with Windows. This means that installing Office on a Mac requires you to install IE and Windows, first. Or something like that, right?
Style, flair, and innovation are Apple hallmarks with Steve Jobs at the helm. Dell is just another PC maker, nothing more. When Apple suffered through those other CEO's, the style, flair and innovation were missing.
There's a point in there somewhere, but it's the wrong one. Last I checked, style and flair go over like lead balloons in the boardrooms of most companies, and I doubt any manager is going to base an important purchasing decision possibly worth millions of dollars on the recommendations of a turtleneck-wearing sales rep.
As another poster pointed out, it might be hard to pick Michael Dell out of a lineup, but that's exactly the point. When you're catering to corporate America, you or your representative had better look and act like a banker or the bankers won't trust you with their money. On the other hand, if your business is in a specialty market, the entertainment industry, or you're looking for a job as a television weatherman, style and flair are appropriate.
A major Dutch retail chain recently had to recall a whole lot of Gilette Mach 3 razorblades. It turned out they were fakes. The packaging looked real enough, but the razors were nowhere near the quality Gilette makes.
I'm not sure that's such a good example.
First, razor blades are available in analog form only. And second, I doubt you'll get much sympathy from anyone who uses disposable blades (which is just about everyone) and is forced to pay ridiculous prices for them. Similarly, I doubt anyone considers the Gilette brand to have any quality than any other brand. All of them dull and clog up after a couple of shaves.
But while we're on the subject, what I find interesting is the private label brand phenomenon. Every gas station in America, for example, seems to be offering bad coffee dressed up with Starbucks-styled names and designer-styled coffee cups. Same low-grade coffee, of course, but new packaging is supposed to make feel better about their purchase, and it seems to work.
All in all, while there are brands that command respect, it seems that over the last decade or so that respect has eroded with the onslaught of knock-off items for a lower price and a new generation too cynical for their own good. Walmart is testimony to the fact that people often make their purchasing decision based solely on price. Is it surprising then, that a growing market exists for off-brands, dressed-up brands, or by extension, counterfeits?
The pressure itself is unlikely to kill her, but injuries sustained when thrown out of the pipe might.
No worries, then. I thus conclude my fear of heights to be totally irrational because it's not the falling that will kill me, but the hitting the ground part.
Well, it's not far from the product you get when paying: If you pay for NAV the update subscription still expires, only after 12 months instead.
Uninstall and then reinstall NAV. You'll get another 12 months of subscription service.