In my case (as is the case with some other strabismus sufferers), both eyes are physically good. Strabismus is a condition where your eyes are crossed severely. In my case, my eyes pointed directly at my nose when I was born. My brain shut down most of the input from the right eye because it was confusing. Unfortunately, being as my issue is neurological, the opthamologists haven't come up with a way to correct it.
My vision has improved over the years, but I will never have fantastic depth perception.
...I'd be interested to see if this actually pans out. Patching is what caused my lazy eye to become as bad as it is.
I've had corrective surgery for my strabismus three times, and each time has made significant improvements, but most of my vision still comes from my one good eye. I'm one of the lucky ones - I have a good null point, so my eyes don't bounce all the time. I can drive just fine.:)
BTW, the medical term for lazy eye is actually occular nystagmus.
Microsoft may not have known about Daum Communications specifically, but they absolutely knew about other companies in the instant messenger space. AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, etc. Microsoft actively spent time trying to make MSN Messenger interop with AOL in late 1999/early 2000, only to have AOL constantly break the protocol they were using, until Microsoft finally gave up. (This isn't speculation - I worked at MSFT. I ran the Messenger betas that worked with AIM.)
I'd be hard pressed to believe that bundling Windows Messenger was not yet another attempt by Microsoft to make their product the de-facto standard.
I don't think that bundling is a bad thing, I just want the ability to selectively choose to install components or remove them that I don't want.
As I read the Constitution, it seems like the first amendment doesn't apply here, but the fourth amendment might:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
I would imagine my search results and queries fall under this amendment. What probable cause exists here?
Maybe I missed something, but how does this go about explaining how they were over-hyped?
He explains why the 6 button remote is a great idea.
The article clearly says:
For the purpose of this essay, let's forget about whether Apple failed to live up to its own PR. In fact, let's ignore the PR strategy altogether and focus on one of the product announcements: the new Mac Minis.
Okay, your info on MCE's use of DRM is a bit incorrect. As an MCE user, I know this to be true..
MCE puts mpeg2 content in a container format called dvr-ms. This container does allow for DRM, but MCE 2005 does not actually encrypt or restrict the content. I use my laptop (XP SP2) to play back content all the time.
MPlayer-OSX doesn't (quite) understand the format, but it does try to play it. I'm sure MPlayer/Linux would do fine, but I don't have a way to test it.
I am looking into switching to Myth, but it is proving to be quite difficult with my FusionHDTV 5 Lite card. It doesn't seem to like scanning for QAM256 channels on TimeWarner Cable...
Typical moronic response from you, too. Oh, and no, I don't feel like I need to hide behind an AC mask.
"Software that works" works because it has a development and a QA team. Open source doesn't always have the luxury of both being totally dedicated teams. My point was that if you're going to take the time to complain about it, do something about it! Help the project, *or*, go spend money on Quicken, Moneydance, Microsoft Money, etc and use them. There's nothing remotely productive or constructive about the OP's comments.
Oh, and FYI, I'm a developer on a piece of proprietary software, and I was a member of its QA staff for several years too. I happen to like aspects of both development models (open source and proprietary) and I am hardly a zealot of either.
Considering it's an open source application, why don't you help with it, test it and submit defects instead of just complaining about how a beta might be unstable?
That depends entirely on what you're doing with the iPod, really. I have an iPod Shuffle that gets used for running, working out, etc. It's solid state - I don't have to worry about damaging a hard drive.
I went skiing this weekend and forgot my Shuffle, but had my regular iPod. Did I risk exposing it to water and the forces that exist as I tumbled down the mountain? No - that surely would have destroyed it.
They both have their markets. You just may not be the market for the solid state one.
Normally I would have used my mod points to mod you down as flamebait, but instead I think I'll reply.
I happen to work for Symantec. I think we create great products. Yes, they have bugs. Sometimes they're bad bugs. Guess what - every piece of software installed on your PC has bugs. We fix them very quickly when it happens. We do a thing called "Rapid Response" and we turn around a patch as quickly as humanly possible. I've participated in one "Rapid Response", so yes, I do know what I'm talking about. Symantec is also a fantastic place to work. We have great people (both from a technical and human side). We provide services people need/want. So yes, I guess we do have a good business model.
We *do not* create these viruses. I find it amusing that the conspiracy theorists out there like to latch on to that idea. I love how it's hip and trendy to bash Microsoft, Apple, Symantec et al around here. I'm not aware of any Symantec employees arrested for creating any of the major viruses or worms that have spread lately. Maybe you know something you'd like to share with the rest of the class?
(My opinions do not necessarily reflect those of my employer.)
I'm looking forward to the possibility to use MPlayer + the Win32 codec pack on my MacBook.
WMP for Mac couldn't play back the most recent WMV codec anyhow. Quite irritating.
Oh, build a damned bridge....
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...and get over it.
The reccommendations feature in iTunes is fantastic. Amazon's Reccommendations page has a "I own it" check box. I use this page frequently to find new music or books or DVDs I would be interested in based on the other things I own (even those I didn't buy from Amazon).
From TFA, it hasn't been determined if the cookie sent back contains your Apple ID. It may not. It may not contain anything traceable or of a privacy concern. How about trying to use iTunes on a clean install without buying anything first and seeing if it does the same?
But one thing is for sure - if you want service of a personalized nature, you have to be willing to let someone know something about you.
I was an orange badge at Microsoft in 1999, when the contractor lawsuits were going on. Other blue badges automatically assumed I was a money-grubbing orange badge, out to get what was rightfully theirs. People would stop talking when I entered a room. What irked me the most was that we had a group outing to Stevens Pass to go skiing. I paid my own way on the trip, and rode up with some of the guys on my team. On the way back, they decided they didn't want to drive all the way into Redmond, so I had to catch the bus back with the other blue badges. People literally did not want to allow me on the bus because I was an orange badge. I wanted to join and/or participate in a group called GLEAM (Gay and Lesbian Employees at Microsoft), yet they were actively exclusionary too.
What made all this so irritating for me was that I looked at my job at Microsoft as a crowning achievement in my career when I started there - I had every intention of doing my time and converting to blue. I knew I wasn't entitled to stock options or other benefits since I was an orange badge, but people didn't seem to recognize that I knew that.
Quite honestly, I still hold a grudge against Microsoft because of this. I work for a large software company now, where contractors that I've worked with are treated with the same respect as the full timers. Yeah, they don't get some of the benefits the rest of us do, but I've never seen anyone hold that over their heads. Just about every contractor I've worked with here has been converted to a full timer, also.
Objective-C *does* exist outside of the Mac (gobjc anyone?) and a large portion of the Cocoa API exists in a form known as GNUstep - maybe you've heard of it?
Sure, the.nib's created in Interface Builder do not work in GNUstep, but many other things do.
But, if you're focused on cross platform support, why are you using Cocoa or Carbon anyhow?!
I use it to search source code and docs on my machine all the time. It's the closest thing I have to Spotlight on my Windows machine.
The Enterprise version now indexes Lotus Notes. I don't think I've been this happy in years!! The searching in Notes leaves a bit to be desired, but since it's the corporate standard, I can't do much about that.
I don't use any of the content stuff, just the searching. I have it as a small edit box on my start bar. Doesn't take much real estate, and is really helpful. It would be nice to have a shortcut key (like Apple-Space for Spotlight) but I'll survive.
I work in the software industry, and every product ships with bugs. That's just how it works. Most companies put a severity level on bugs. Severity 1: ship blocker. Severity 2: really should fix it. Severity 3: we *might* get around to it.
The bug databases don't necessarily contain just bugs - there can be feature enhancements, documentation errors, etc.
Looking through the link you posted, I see 5603 defects in the "new", "started" or "reopened" categories. Of those, 7 are "P1" (aka Severity 1) defects, 144 are "P2", 4083 are "P3", 1160 are "P4", and 209 are "P5".
I didn't look at exact specifics, but some are probably localization errors - not functionality bugs.
Please learn a little more about the software development life cycle before making a comment like yours. Educating your employer about this would probably be a wonderful idea also.
So, for the bugs that would stop you from getting your job done, I see 151. It looks like it's time for you to evaluate OOo in your organization.
Considering Google Talk is a Windows app, and Google gives you instructions on how to configure several other Jabber clients to talk to their server, this is hardly surprising. It bodes well for us gaim users!
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In my case (as is the case with some other strabismus sufferers), both eyes are physically good. Strabismus is a condition where your eyes are crossed severely. In my case, my eyes pointed directly at my nose when I was born. My brain shut down most of the input from the right eye because it was confusing. Unfortunately, being as my issue is neurological, the opthamologists haven't come up with a way to correct it.
My vision has improved over the years, but I will never have fantastic depth perception.
...I'd be interested to see if this actually pans out. Patching is what caused my lazy eye to become as bad as it is.
:)
I've had corrective surgery for my strabismus three times, and each time has made significant improvements, but most of my vision still comes from my one good eye. I'm one of the lucky ones - I have a good null point, so my eyes don't bounce all the time. I can drive just fine.
BTW, the medical term for lazy eye is actually occular nystagmus.
Microsoft may not have known about Daum Communications specifically, but they absolutely knew about other companies in the instant messenger space. AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, etc. Microsoft actively spent time trying to make MSN Messenger interop with AOL in late 1999/early 2000, only to have AOL constantly break the protocol they were using, until Microsoft finally gave up. (This isn't speculation - I worked at MSFT. I ran the Messenger betas that worked with AIM.)
I'd be hard pressed to believe that bundling Windows Messenger was not yet another attempt by Microsoft to make their product the de-facto standard.
I don't think that bundling is a bad thing, I just want the ability to selectively choose to install components or remove them that I don't want.
No, I actually meant exactly what I said. ANSI. If you've seen the game you'd understand. ANSI tricks were used for animation.
We had something similiar as a BBS "door" back in the day. It was called Bordello, complete with cheesy ANSI sex graphics and all!
This doesn't affect all VoIP. Vonage, for example, sends out valid caller ID.
As I read the Constitution, it seems like the first amendment doesn't apply here, but the fourth amendment might:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
I would imagine my search results and queries fall under this amendment. What probable cause exists here?
Microsoft was a strategic partner of Symantec until the day OneCare was released. Note I said was.
Yes, I work for Symantec. Any opinions I express in a post are my own and not necessarily those of my employer.
Maybe I missed something, but how does this go about explaining how they were over-hyped?
He explains why the 6 button remote is a great idea.
The article clearly says:
For the purpose of this essay, let's forget about whether Apple failed to live up to its own PR. In fact, let's ignore the PR strategy altogether and focus on one of the product announcements: the new Mac Minis.
Okay, your info on MCE's use of DRM is a bit incorrect. As an MCE user, I know this to be true..
MCE puts mpeg2 content in a container format called dvr-ms. This container does allow for DRM, but MCE 2005 does not actually encrypt or restrict the content. I use my laptop (XP SP2) to play back content all the time.
MPlayer-OSX doesn't (quite) understand the format, but it does try to play it. I'm sure MPlayer/Linux would do fine, but I don't have a way to test it.
I am looking into switching to Myth, but it is proving to be quite difficult with my FusionHDTV 5 Lite card. It doesn't seem to like scanning for QAM256 channels on TimeWarner Cable...
Which is dead simple. Buy the MCE remote.
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I'm using MCE 2005 with a PVR500MCE card right now. Works great.
Typical moronic response from you, too. Oh, and no, I don't feel like I need to hide behind an AC mask.
"Software that works" works because it has a development and a QA team. Open source doesn't always have the luxury of both being totally dedicated teams. My point was that if you're going to take the time to complain about it, do something about it! Help the project, *or*, go spend money on Quicken, Moneydance, Microsoft Money, etc and use them. There's nothing remotely productive or constructive about the OP's comments.
Oh, and FYI, I'm a developer on a piece of proprietary software, and I was a member of its QA staff for several years too. I happen to like aspects of both development models (open source and proprietary) and I am hardly a zealot of either.
For the gaming industry, this is a bad thing.. Less customers = less revenue = less profit.
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As to if this is bad or good for teenagers, I'm not getting involved in that religious flamewar
Considering it's an open source application, why don't you help with it, test it and submit defects instead of just complaining about how a beta might be unstable?
That depends entirely on what you're doing with the iPod, really. I have an iPod Shuffle that gets used for running, working out, etc. It's solid state - I don't have to worry about damaging a hard drive.
I went skiing this weekend and forgot my Shuffle, but had my regular iPod. Did I risk exposing it to water and the forces that exist as I tumbled down the mountain? No - that surely would have destroyed it.
They both have their markets. You just may not be the market for the solid state one.
Wow, that was slightly insulting. Sexual preference implies it's a choice. The only choice involved in the matter is the choice to be yourself.
Normally I would have used my mod points to mod you down as flamebait, but instead I think I'll reply.
I happen to work for Symantec. I think we create great products. Yes, they have bugs. Sometimes they're bad bugs. Guess what - every piece of software installed on your PC has bugs. We fix them very quickly when it happens. We do a thing called "Rapid Response" and we turn around a patch as quickly as humanly possible. I've participated in one "Rapid Response", so yes, I do know what I'm talking about. Symantec is also a fantastic place to work. We have great people (both from a technical and human side). We provide services people need/want. So yes, I guess we do have a good business model.
We *do not* create these viruses. I find it amusing that the conspiracy theorists out there like to latch on to that idea. I love how it's hip and trendy to bash Microsoft, Apple, Symantec et al around here. I'm not aware of any Symantec employees arrested for creating any of the major viruses or worms that have spread lately. Maybe you know something you'd like to share with the rest of the class?
(My opinions do not necessarily reflect those of my employer.)
I'm looking forward to the possibility to use MPlayer + the Win32 codec pack on my MacBook.
WMP for Mac couldn't play back the most recent WMV codec anyhow. Quite irritating.
...and get over it.
The reccommendations feature in iTunes is fantastic. Amazon's Reccommendations page has a "I own it" check box. I use this page frequently to find new music or books or DVDs I would be interested in based on the other things I own (even those I didn't buy from Amazon).
From TFA, it hasn't been determined if the cookie sent back contains your Apple ID. It may not. It may not contain anything traceable or of a privacy concern. How about trying to use iTunes on a clean install without buying anything first and seeing if it does the same?
But one thing is for sure - if you want service of a personalized nature, you have to be willing to let someone know something about you.
I was an orange badge at Microsoft in 1999, when the contractor lawsuits were going on. Other blue badges automatically assumed I was a money-grubbing orange badge, out to get what was rightfully theirs. People would stop talking when I entered a room. What irked me the most was that we had a group outing to Stevens Pass to go skiing. I paid my own way on the trip, and rode up with some of the guys on my team. On the way back, they decided they didn't want to drive all the way into Redmond, so I had to catch the bus back with the other blue badges. People literally did not want to allow me on the bus because I was an orange badge. I wanted to join and/or participate in a group called GLEAM (Gay and Lesbian Employees at Microsoft), yet they were actively exclusionary too.
What made all this so irritating for me was that I looked at my job at Microsoft as a crowning achievement in my career when I started there - I had every intention of doing my time and converting to blue. I knew I wasn't entitled to stock options or other benefits since I was an orange badge, but people didn't seem to recognize that I knew that.
Quite honestly, I still hold a grudge against Microsoft because of this. I work for a large software company now, where contractors that I've worked with are treated with the same respect as the full timers. Yeah, they don't get some of the benefits the rest of us do, but I've never seen anyone hold that over their heads. Just about every contractor I've worked with here has been converted to a full timer, also.
It means "What the deuce?"
Ever seen Family Guy? Stewie likes to say that.
Objective-C *does* exist outside of the Mac (gobjc anyone?) and a large portion of the Cocoa API exists in a form known as GNUstep - maybe you've heard of it?
.nib's created in Interface Builder do not work in GNUstep, but many other things do.
Sure, the
But, if you're focused on cross platform support, why are you using Cocoa or Carbon anyhow?!
I use it to search source code and docs on my machine all the time. It's the closest thing I have to Spotlight on my Windows machine.
The Enterprise version now indexes Lotus Notes. I don't think I've been this happy in years!! The searching in Notes leaves a bit to be desired, but since it's the corporate standard, I can't do much about that.
I don't use any of the content stuff, just the searching. I have it as a small edit box on my start bar. Doesn't take much real estate, and is really helpful. It would be nice to have a shortcut key (like Apple-Space for Spotlight) but I'll survive.
You've got to be kidding me.
I work in the software industry, and every product ships with bugs. That's just how it works. Most companies put a severity level on bugs. Severity 1: ship blocker. Severity 2: really should fix it. Severity 3: we *might* get around to it.
The bug databases don't necessarily contain just bugs - there can be feature enhancements, documentation errors, etc.
Looking through the link you posted, I see 5603 defects in the "new", "started" or "reopened" categories. Of those, 7 are "P1" (aka Severity 1) defects, 144 are "P2", 4083 are "P3", 1160 are "P4", and 209 are "P5".
I didn't look at exact specifics, but some are probably localization errors - not functionality bugs.
Please learn a little more about the software development life cycle before making a comment like yours. Educating your employer about this would probably be a wonderful idea also.
So, for the bugs that would stop you from getting your job done, I see 151. It looks like it's time for you to evaluate OOo in your organization.
Considering Google Talk is a Windows app, and Google gives you instructions on how to configure several other Jabber clients to talk to their server, this is hardly surprising. It bodes well for us gaim users!
http://www.google.com/talk/otherclients.html