Gezus, man! I think People Like You provide an invaluable service to users everywhere by providing an example of What Not to Do.;-) Consider yourself blessed.
Seriously, I hear there's a thing called folders you can use to store stuff. Might be worth a try?
"...we just can't seem to find anyone with an English degree to write for us."
I'd volunteer but I'm generally too busy trawling through the bad writing on Slashdot.
The folks at El Reg, whom of most are English (I hear they invented the language), serve up well-written fare. John Lettice, for example, I'd consider a decent writer, and most of submissions published in the Letters section shine as well.
Not really sure what you're asking, but if you're wondering how the size of the Outlook data files compare with standard mbox, I'd estimate they're 40% larger. Email messages (w/or w/o large attachments) doesn't have to be stored in a single file.
"An awful lot of people who write documents lack basic wordprocessing skills, yet they attempt complex desktop publishing tasks using a wordprocessor(!)"
I wonder how many people reading that statement actually get what second part means, let alone appreciate the differences between a text editor, a word processor and desktop publishing app.
"It's not so much the code, or the eyeball count, or the specific eyeballs. It's the attitude."
Interesting statement, but the difficulty is that because "attitude" is hard to quantify, it's left out of the equation.
My own opinion is that the line of reasoning used by the author resembles the constantly rehashed statements put forward by both sides on the issues of government vs. the private sector, or public private education. You can talk endlessly about how money motivates people and the market supposedly imposes accountability, but in the end things just aren't that simple. The Real World is full of examples that proves both sides wrong.
So, yes, things simply work better when people with less-than-selfish interests are involved. The author can deride the notion of "altruistic" motivations and put forth arguments concerning "professionalism," but in the end common sense and wisdom demand a greater role when deciding where to place one's faith, trust and expectations.
Getting a bit off-topic, but does *anyone* get that rainbow-bee-man guy???
Maybe it's me, but the only difference between commercials in which a fleshy middle-aged guy runs around in children's clothes and the Arnold Friedman home videos is that the commercials were shot in colour.
"So if Yahoo! junks up MusicMatch with its typical ads like their other online services, I'll dump it in a heartbeat."
Since you mentioned it...
As a DSL subscriber, I get Yahoo! email accounts but thankfully, I've had to use their web-based interface only twice. The "home page" they've set up for subscribers like me is so bad that I cringe having to go there to make an account settings change.
As for Yahoo! Groups, my opinion is that if similar content isn't available directly from my usenet server (or someone else's web-based archive), I can't possibly need it that bad. Nevertheless, it is annoying when stumbling across yet another "Press here to continue" advert-laden archived page when searching on Google. The advertising is insidious, but they're making money, right?
My own complaints aside, I feel bad for everyone who gets advertising footers added to each email they send -- but not as bad as I feel for myself having to change my procmail recipes to strip them off. Never been able to tell my friends the trouble I go to to "clean off" what they send me, so whinging on Slashdot for a day will have to suffice.
Hate to give a spelling lesson to you boys and girls, but if you're going to try and make a point, consider that the possibility that obvious misspellings (like poor grammar and lame-assed punctuation and sentence structure) may actually detract from your ability to make any impression that's not negative. Take notes if needed:
The word "hypocrite" is derived from the Latin (Greek actually, but that's another story) roots "hypo" + "crisis". Now that you know that, you'll recognise that the respective correct spellings are:
Hypocrite. Not "hippocrite" or "hyppocrite." "Rob Glaser" is, however, an acceptable substitute.
Hypocrisy. Not "hipocrisy" or "hippocrisy." Use "interoperability" if you can't remember the spelling tip I gave you.
Your comment about the number of complaints about the colour scheme being inversely proportional to the expressed interest of slashdot editors could simply be due to the distinct possibility that they all wear yellow-tinted glasses. My opthamlogist told me that aside from the Way Kewl factor, they're excellent for reducing glare. Maybe they work as well on us complaining trolls.;-)
"The consultation document itself uses the term "traffic data", but nowhere do I see an explicit indication that this refers to the contents of messages."
Does it matter?
Consider this: here in California, the local constabulatory spends most of its time driving around on the roads and freeways watching other people driving around (residents here spend most of their time in their cars).
Enforcement of traffic laws (read "giving out tickets") is what they're ostensibly doing. What typically occurs if/when you're stopped, however, is that you and your passengers will be subjected to any number of checks, and you, your passengers, and the vehicle you're driving in can be additionally subjected to direct searches.
The end result includes lots of tickets being issued, of course. More importantly, the cop who routinely spends his day stopping people just as routinely is given opportunities to arrest individuals for crimes not mentioned in the motor vehicle code.
We've come to accept this as perfectly normal. And it may be, to the degree we chosen to give up certain rights when using public thoroughfares. But imagine if no one owned cars and everyone walked or worked from home -- the local cop walking the beat would have a hard time justifying knocking on your door to ask for ID and ask you questions about what you're doing.
You can learn the basics of adminstration from a few books (no single book is ever good enough on a specific topic). From there you can reinforce and expand your knowledge with practical experience, and that generally involves a home lab where you try to break and fix things.
As for on-line learning, nothing will replace reading the documentation (printing out and reading/re-reading manpages) but if your company has money to spend, google for "cbt" and you'll come up with a few options.
The caveat here is this: you will accomplish little without a solid grasp of both vi and the command shell. Add some programming 101 concepts to the mix, and you'll have most everything you need at your disposal.
Slashdot Mirror
MikeMacK writes "I'd say they are pretty high."
dgatwood writes "The odds are very low."
Somebody please make up my mind for me.
Gezus, man! I think People Like You provide an invaluable service to users everywhere by providing an example of What Not to Do. ;-) Consider yourself blessed.
Seriously, I hear there's a thing called folders you can use to store stuff. Might be worth a try?
Sheesh. I wonder whether I can vi for space to say I'm zero cats crazy.
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mutt user
"...we just can't seem to find anyone with an English degree to write for us."
I'd volunteer but I'm generally too busy trawling through the bad writing on Slashdot.
The folks at El Reg, whom of most are English (I hear they invented the language), serve up well-written fare. John Lettice, for example, I'd consider a decent writer, and most of submissions published in the Letters section shine as well.
"Me either." ?!!
You may want to consider the following alternatives to your notundoubleplusgood construction:
"Nor I."
"Neither of us understood it."
"I didn't understand it either."
"Me too."
Not really sure what you're asking, but if you're wondering how the size of the Outlook data files compare with standard mbox, I'd estimate they're 40% larger. Email messages (w/or w/o large attachments) doesn't have to be stored in a single file.
"Most users ARE idiots. It seems completely appropriate that they should be treated this way. I very much mean this."
...
So
Windows is made for idiots?
"An awful lot of people who write documents lack basic wordprocessing skills, yet they attempt complex desktop publishing tasks using a wordprocessor(!)"
I wonder how many people reading that statement actually get what second part means, let alone appreciate the differences between a text editor, a word processor and desktop publishing app.
"...hemmoroid of a horses..."
Can't be sure, but there might still time before you die to run that last email of yours through a spell checker.
"The "annoying foreign holier-than-thou asshole?"
Foreign to whom?
"Let's have a decision here so I know the proper kind of insult to reply with."
I think we'd all prefer you leave your insults at home. I'd suggest you stay at home, too, but getting out more often may do you some good.
On the subject of "pedestrian recognition systems," I'm reminded of something my dad once said while trying to teach me to drive.
"When you feel a bump, stop."
At the time, he was referring to concrete parking separators, but I think it reflected a more general approach.
... but some may find this kind of thing more informative, if not more entertaining.
http://www.harpers.org/HarpersIndex2004-08.html
'...if the bomb is supposedly "likely harmless"...'
...
In other news
Someone recalls reading the words "mostly harmless and "don't panic" in the same sentence.
"It's not so much the code, or the eyeball count, or the specific eyeballs. It's the attitude."
Interesting statement, but the difficulty is that because "attitude" is hard to quantify, it's left out of the equation.
My own opinion is that the line of reasoning used by the author resembles the constantly rehashed statements put forward by both sides on the issues of government vs. the private sector, or public private education. You can talk endlessly about how money motivates people and the market supposedly imposes accountability, but in the end things just aren't that simple. The Real World is full of examples that proves both sides wrong.
So, yes, things simply work better when people with less-than-selfish interests are involved. The author can deride the notion of "altruistic" motivations and put forth arguments concerning "professionalism," but in the end common sense and wisdom demand a greater role when deciding where to place one's faith, trust and expectations.
"Solution to anything(Political/Economical/etc..) is to wipe out Florida."
"Economical" ???
My thought was, "That's right up there with "analyzation," "resignate," and "foreign-handed policy."
But maybe you were being subliminable and I just didn't get the ironical parts.
You think because you can see your desktop XP is finished loading?
Getting a bit off-topic, but does *anyone* get that rainbow-bee-man guy???
Maybe it's me, but the only difference between commercials in which a fleshy middle-aged guy runs around in children's clothes and the Arnold Friedman home videos is that the commercials were shot in colour.
"most users run with full priveleges (as an Administrator..."
That should read, "Most Windows users would find it difficult running under an account that doesn't have Administrative privileges."
"So if Yahoo! junks up MusicMatch with its typical ads like their other online services, I'll dump it in a heartbeat."
...
Since you mentioned it
As a DSL subscriber, I get Yahoo! email accounts but thankfully, I've had to use their web-based interface only twice. The "home page" they've set up for subscribers like me is so bad that I cringe having to go there to make an account settings change.
As for Yahoo! Groups, my opinion is that if similar content isn't available directly from my usenet server (or someone else's web-based archive), I can't possibly need it that bad. Nevertheless, it is annoying when stumbling across yet another "Press here to continue" advert-laden archived page when searching on Google. The advertising is insidious, but they're making money, right?
My own complaints aside, I feel bad for everyone who gets advertising footers added to each email they send -- but not as bad as I feel for myself having to change my procmail recipes to strip them off. Never been able to tell my friends the trouble I go to to "clean off" what they send me, so whinging on Slashdot for a day will have to suffice.
Hate to give a spelling lesson to you boys and girls, but if you're going to try and make a point, consider that the possibility that obvious misspellings (like poor grammar and lame-assed punctuation and sentence structure) may actually detract from your ability to make any impression that's not negative. Take notes if needed:
The word "hypocrite" is derived from the Latin (Greek actually, but that's another story) roots "hypo" + "crisis". Now that you know that, you'll recognise that the respective correct spellings are:
Hypocrite. Not "hippocrite" or "hyppocrite." "Rob Glaser" is, however, an acceptable substitute.
Hypocrisy. Not "hipocrisy" or "hippocrisy." Use "interoperability" if you can't remember the spelling tip I gave you.
Or maybe he has brown desktop wallpaper?
;-)
Your comment about the number of complaints about the colour scheme being inversely proportional to the expressed interest of slashdot editors could simply be due to the distinct possibility that they all wear yellow-tinted glasses. My opthamlogist told me that aside from the Way Kewl factor, they're excellent for reducing glare. Maybe they work as well on us complaining trolls.
If you ask me, the number of downloads would explode if someone wrote a Firefox extension to correct for Slashdot's new IT colour-scheme.
...
Ok, so you didn't. But if you did
"The consultation document itself uses the term "traffic data", but nowhere do I see an explicit indication that this refers to the contents of messages."
Does it matter?
Consider this: here in California, the local constabulatory spends most of its time driving around on the roads and freeways watching other people driving around (residents here spend most of their time in their cars).
Enforcement of traffic laws (read "giving out tickets") is what they're ostensibly doing. What typically occurs if/when you're stopped, however, is that you and your passengers will be subjected to any number of checks, and you, your passengers, and the vehicle you're driving in can be additionally subjected to direct searches.
The end result includes lots of tickets being issued, of course. More importantly, the cop who routinely spends his day stopping people just as routinely is given opportunities to arrest individuals for crimes not mentioned in the motor vehicle code.
We've come to accept this as perfectly normal. And it may be, to the degree we chosen to give up certain rights when using public thoroughfares. But imagine if no one owned cars and everyone walked or worked from home -- the local cop walking the beat would have a hard time justifying knocking on your door to ask for ID and ask you questions about what you're doing.
"Car air fresheners, baby ..."
Seems you've never taken a taxi in New York on hot humid summer afternoon.
To be fair, though, the cabs driven by Rastafarians aren't quite so bad (burning candles and incense seem to work better).
You can learn the basics of adminstration from a few books (no single book is ever good enough on a specific topic). From there you can reinforce and expand your knowledge with practical experience, and that generally involves a home lab where you try to break and fix things.
As for on-line learning, nothing will replace reading the documentation (printing out and reading/re-reading manpages) but if your company has money to spend, google for "cbt" and you'll come up with a few options.
The caveat here is this: you will accomplish little without a solid grasp of both vi and the command shell. Add some programming 101 concepts to the mix, and you'll have most everything you need at your disposal.