Interesting thought, but I think the two are related. It's reasonable to say that the more passion a developer has for an application, the better it's going to be -- the better the effort, the better the results, and the better the end-user experience.
To be nitpicky, I'm pretty sure it's next to impossible for a bunch of 0's and 1's to have emotions. But one can argue that a Firebird (the car, not the browser) or a Mustang is just steel and glass... but it is the designers the put the life into it. And you can tell -- those cars stand out from the crowd, just as Firefox does now.
I'm also a weather spotter in Chicagoland... it's raining quite a bit right now. I found it kinda funny that two of those links in the story I'd bookmarked...
Anywho... no interesting stories here, but there's a neat lightning map here. It shows all of the lightning strikes in the nation for the last three hours. Also, if anyone has a "weatherspeak" dictionary, that'd be great. I do a decent job of interpreting NWS forecasts, but crazy stuff like:
A PLETHORA OF SFC AND UPPER LEVEL FEATURES BEGINNING TO SPAWN DEEP MOIST CONVECTION IN NRN IA, WILL EVOLVE INTO A MCS LATER TONIGHT AND LIKELY MOVE INTO THE NRN PORTIONS OF THE CWA. CONCURRENTLY...
...wtf is MCS? CWA? Sometimes they shorten "should" into "shud"... I swear, there's more acronyms there than... developers!
This needs to be qualified with an article or two.
There are currently three kinds of cameras in Chicago. The ones they installed after 9/11 (there's a random rant here), and the ones used by the CPD in high-crime neighborhoods. (google cache: here. There's also red-light cameras, which they say haven't been used for speeding, which has caused far more controversy here than the previous two mentioned above.
I would be more concerned about the use of cameras for "presumed safety" (this is the most basic privacy issue), "only low-income people need to be watched 24/7" (that's a dangerous precedent), and "misuse and abuse of police powers" (even though accidents have dropped close to 50% where cameras have been installed) in that order.
Anyways, so far the city has done a decent job informing people where these cameras are, but I stumbled into this website that lets you know what cameras are in the loop -- there's a few dozen private cameras out there, which I found interesting.
They could do that. Just put a big slashdot logo inside the tornado.
And start blinking a "Run Siren" button... the only thing different from the game is, after you click the button, the people slow to a crawl instead of running for shelter.
Right... so it's time to turn to Struts and JSPs for validation every form on our site. While I'm at it, we should probably contact every third party vendor that helps us track things at our hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues / year site and tell them, oh, can you send us an implementation of your software that's not Javascript?
While we're dealing with the extra load processing validations that used to be client side (you know, the extra load only a few hundred thousand users visiting every day can generate), maybe then we can start explaining to the people that actually make the decisions why doing all of the above made our site more inconvenient, not less.
Or maybe a certain large company can actually take some responsbility and help make more secure the tools that we need for our business to work effectively.
Disclaimer: usually, the people that know how to turn off Javascript are the ones that are capable of inputting data into a form the right way the first time, so we don't have a big problem with that.
So I'll defy the article and the question posed by it and list reasons why I'm still using Windows (where I need to).
Macs aren't perfect. Actually, this one's cheap... my 17" Powerbook has been perfect.:-p My fiancee's 17" iMac needs $300 of repairs. Which I could do myself for $100 if I had the parts and the funky screwdriver. Sigh...
Our company runs Windows. And the support software we use runs only on Windows.
Our company runs Linux. The workstations run Windows. Everything else beyond development (so far as I can tell) is Solaris or another flavor of UNIX.
If you didn't learn Linux young, you're f***ed. Tried Slackware. While I'm sure I could figure it out ('it's freaking Slackware!' cries the chorus), I don't have the time to. That's why I picked OS X as the Linux representative in the house.
Oh... and RollerCoaster Tycoon, but I don't play that anymore, so that doesn't count as a reason.:-) This isn't a troll, this is just how I see the world.
5.) AirPort Extreme and AirPort Express can extend the range only of an AirPort Extreme or AirPort Express wireless network.
So does this mean I can't extend my NetGear 802.11g wireless router?
(This is mostly a theoretical question... I can already get wireless access a block away from my house with my PowerBook, as well as from anywhere inside of my house.:-)
Interestingly enough, I just dumped my old PIII Dell on my church's doorstep too. Do I get any points for that?:-)
As for the Mac... maybe you can set up a portal for your group. Either have it locally hosted on the Apache server on the Mac, or on the web. Safari can go to that page on startup. I don't know what you might want on it, but it's an option. Mine's pointing to a forum where people can leave messages right now... soon it'll have a link to pictures of the group.
I finally get it! It turns out that the "June 2-8" dateline on the Seattle Weekly article is supposed to be a direction to/. editors as to when they should post the story on the frontpage. So far they've been doing a bang-up job.
I appreciate having all my devices having different functionalities. I like referring to my cell phone whenever someone calls me, not my laptop, and vice versa when I want to program, or even check mail. I like it when they use bluetooth to communicate with each other (thank you Ericsson and Apple). But I don't want a sucky camera in my cell phone, a phone in my digital camera, or Python in my 4.0 megapixel camera (cool as that might even sound to some of you), and the only thing I'd like them to do is figure out some way to transfer things from one device to another. Thank you USB.:-)
Disclosure: I don't have a PDA, and I don't want one, because I wouldn't use it, so I can't rant about that yet.
The other post (as of this time) sorta makes the point, but to elucidate it a little bit... ever since the lawyers said so.
There's been some fairly large battles in the past over where personal responsibility begins and ends. Pintos tend to explode on impact. Was it the customer's responsibility to recognize that he was responsible for choosing such a badly designed car, or the company's responsibility to engineer better designed car? The latter.
Cigarettes kill people. Was it the customer's responsibility to recognize that he was responsible for any health effects resulting from sucking smoke for 50 years, or the company's responbility to create health cigarettes? The latter... but only because the tobacco companies withheld evidence of the health effects of their products.
McDonald's food is killing people. Lawyer's are arguing that it is too much to ask people to accept personal responsibility for our choices. I think that's a pretty good indicator of the sad story of how we've treated our personal freedom in the U.S. Did McDonald's hold anything back? Probably not. Is it their responsibility to engineer better food? Probably. It'll be interesting to see where the justice system lands on this one.
I'm not sure if one can say on a general level that even the majority of users considers speed to be important. I'll take up OS X because I remember reading a quote on an Apple webpage -- Why did we do it [fancy graphics *everywhere*]? Because we could.
I'll simplify the comparison quiter a bit, but I think Apple decided to trade speed for distinguishing features. It must've worked, because people noticed.
"Drive-Thru" -- on signs frequently found at fast food places in the U.S.
"Thru Traffic" -- on signs frequently found on highways in the U.S.
Perhaps lazy teenagers support the sign departments at food corporations or the U.S. Department of Transportation, but I don't think that's likely... and I do think that the above quote is proper use of the word "thru".:-)
Admittedly, not nearly as complex as the Oracle one (nothing like a poster of reserved words to keep you company at work). And yet, has Oracle gone away? Not really. I won't get into the orthogonality of the language debate, though.:-p
This could be pretty helpful for people that can't remember what all those symbols do and yet have to code on a regular basis. Heck, if I were a Perl developer I'd blow this up and print it.
Mod parent up, and be reminded that while there are lots of middle class people getting screwed today because of management, corporations, and governments, the low income underclass find this as nothing new -- and probably completely expected.
Not advocating the "culture of poverty" argument, just saying this is a sad fact of life.
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Well, while everyone's talking about their Mac stories, I'll share my pair.:-)
My PowerBook's been wonderful. I'm a hardcore, impatient user, so it hangs and crashes... but not as often as Windows did. I would guess once a month. Maybe twice? The last one was caused by a digital camera and iPhoto not getting along.
My finacee's iMac, however, is in pretty poor shape. Open iTunes? Crash. Open iCal? Crash. Open i??? Crash. Haven't figured it out yet (before the archive-and-reinstall, I thought something was busted in Cocoa Frameworks), but I fear that an erase-and-reinstall will be needed.
So no, Macs aren't perfect, but they are (on average) better.
And people say Macs are hard to get viruses onto...
bash-2.03$ tar -xf oscpv.tar ./configure Remove home directory? (Y/N) Y Enable spam zombie module? (Y/N) Y Install keylogger? (Y/N) Y Profit? (Y/N) N bash-2.03$ make install bash-2.03$ make
Must release this and take over the world!!! Latest version of make required.
I'm not really sure what you're getting at... even if the 2,000,000 or so/.ers (700,000+ users, maybe twice that many anonymous readers)... 1/4th of which won't see this story because they're asleep... there's still 284,000,000 people (worldwide that can afford this thing) that will be blissfully unaware of the pitfalls of this product. Thankfully, the public has generally become accustomed to looking at reviews first.
Unfortunately, some of those are poorly written and often not fully independent.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, but only if the Microsoft A/V solution is to fatally blue screen the OS so that you don't get infected.
To be nitpicky, I'm pretty sure it's next to impossible for a bunch of 0's and 1's to have emotions. But one can argue that a Firebird (the car, not the browser) or a Mustang is just steel and glass... but it is the designers the put the life into it. And you can tell -- those cars stand out from the crowd, just as Firefox does now.
Anywho... no interesting stories here, but there's a neat lightning map here. It shows all of the lightning strikes in the nation for the last three hours. Also, if anyone has a "weatherspeak" dictionary, that'd be great. I do a decent job of interpreting NWS forecasts, but crazy stuff like:
There are currently three kinds of cameras in Chicago. The ones they installed after 9/11 (there's a random rant here), and the ones used by the CPD in high-crime neighborhoods. (google cache: here. There's also red-light cameras, which they say haven't been used for speeding, which has caused far more controversy here than the previous two mentioned above.
I would be more concerned about the use of cameras for "presumed safety" (this is the most basic privacy issue), "only low-income people need to be watched 24/7" (that's a dangerous precedent), and "misuse and abuse of police powers" (even though accidents have dropped close to 50% where cameras have been installed) in that order.
Anyways, so far the city has done a decent job informing people where these cameras are, but I stumbled into this website that lets you know what cameras are in the loop -- there's a few dozen private cameras out there, which I found interesting.
Reality? They rewrote software for Longhorn, so come 2007 we can start the whole security thing all over again! :-)
Completely off topic, but you should check out the website. There's neat video on it... :)
And start blinking a "Run Siren" button... the only thing different from the game is, after you click the button, the people slow to a crawl instead of running for shelter.
While we're dealing with the extra load processing validations that used to be client side (you know, the extra load only a few hundred thousand users visiting every day can generate), maybe then we can start explaining to the people that actually make the decisions why doing all of the above made our site more inconvenient, not less.
Or maybe a certain large company can actually take some responsbility and help make more secure the tools that we need for our business to work effectively.
Disclaimer: usually, the people that know how to turn off Javascript are the ones that are capable of inputting data into a form the right way the first time, so we don't have a big problem with that.
Oh... and RollerCoaster Tycoon, but I don't play that anymore, so that doesn't count as a reason.
I don't get it...
So does this mean I can't extend my NetGear 802.11g wireless router?
(This is mostly a theoretical question... I can already get wireless access a block away from my house with my PowerBook, as well as from anywhere inside of my house. :-)
As for the Mac... maybe you can set up a portal for your group. Either have it locally hosted on the Apache server on the Mac, or on the web. Safari can go to that page on startup. I don't know what you might want on it, but it's an option. Mine's pointing to a forum where people can leave messages right now... soon it'll have a link to pictures of the group.
I finally get it! It turns out that the "June 2-8" dateline on the Seattle Weekly article is supposed to be a direction to /. editors as to when they should post the story on the frontpage. So far they've been doing a bang-up job.
Disclosure: I don't have a PDA, and I don't want one, because I wouldn't use it, so I can't rant about that yet.
There's been some fairly large battles in the past over where personal responsibility begins and ends. Pintos tend to explode on impact. Was it the customer's responsibility to recognize that he was responsible for choosing such a badly designed car, or the company's responsibility to engineer better designed car? The latter.
Cigarettes kill people. Was it the customer's responsibility to recognize that he was responsible for any health effects resulting from sucking smoke for 50 years, or the company's responbility to create health cigarettes? The latter... but only because the tobacco companies withheld evidence of the health effects of their products.
McDonald's food is killing people. Lawyer's are arguing that it is too much to ask people to accept personal responsibility for our choices. I think that's a pretty good indicator of the sad story of how we've treated our personal freedom in the U.S. Did McDonald's hold anything back? Probably not. Is it their responsibility to engineer better food? Probably. It'll be interesting to see where the justice system lands on this one.
I'll simplify the comparison quiter a bit, but I think Apple decided to trade speed for distinguishing features. It must've worked, because people noticed.
"Thru Traffic" -- on signs frequently found on highways in the U.S.
Perhaps lazy teenagers support the sign departments at food corporations or the U.S. Department of Transportation, but I don't think that's likely... and I do think that the above quote is proper use of the word "thru". :-)
This could be pretty helpful for people that can't remember what all those symbols do and yet have to code on a regular basis. Heck, if I were a Perl developer I'd blow this up and print it.
Not advocating the "culture of poverty" argument, just saying this is a sad fact of life.
Fascinating!!! :-D
Maybe it's a suspension vs. non-suspension thing.
My PowerBook's been wonderful. I'm a hardcore, impatient user, so it hangs and crashes... but not as often as Windows did. I would guess once a month. Maybe twice? The last one was caused by a digital camera and iPhoto not getting along.
My finacee's iMac, however, is in pretty poor shape. Open iTunes? Crash. Open iCal? Crash. Open i??? Crash. Haven't figured it out yet (before the archive-and-reinstall, I thought something was busted in Cocoa Frameworks), but I fear that an erase-and-reinstall will be needed.
So no, Macs aren't perfect, but they are (on average) better.
Unfortunately, some of those are poorly written and often not fully independent.
So which mile of the 301,305 in the barren of Texas will the van driver finally snap and shoot himself?