I was aware of the second point on windows( work ) where I have thunderbird and firefox installed.
Many apps for the longest time let you specify which browser/accessory apps you want to use for it.
I wish both thunderbird and firefox had such features built in.
The company I work has windoze for a reason.....IE is the main browser for our product. I would like the option of using firefox with thunderbird without having to make firefox my default browser. It just wouldn't be "correct" to have firefox as my default browser at my job.
In an audio message posted late Monday explaining his reasons for the shutdown, Winer cited the financial costs of hosting the sites, technical difficulties in moving the blogs to a new server, stress and personal health issues as the reasons for the sudden shutdown.
Winer, who has offered free hosting to bloggers for the past four years, has promised to make exportable copies of blog contents available to the blogs' owners at their request. He says it will take at least two weeks to provide copies of the blogs' contents.
"I just did the best I could," said Winer, in his audio message. "This is not a company here... this is a person. To expect company-type service... that's just not going to happen."
The first reaction on reading the news is to assume the guy was being a dick in not giving notice when he saw this coming.
Reading the quotes from the article it may not be that cut and dried.
A single person doesn't donate his work to running a service for 4 years then just drop people for the hell of it.
The quotes above sound like he had other intense stuff going on in his life......things with a higher priority....that forced him to put off dealing with this in a better manner.
Maybe people wouldn't be angry at him if he mentioned the details of these extenuating circumstances, but then again why should he publish the personal details of his life? I'm sure anyone here can imagine several situations to make a hobby project you run the last thing on your list of priorities: a significant death, loss of a job, being forced to move, 1 or more of other things called "life" etc.
BTW, I only heard the term "blog" within the last 2 years, yet one of the quotes from the article said this guy ran weblog for 4 years.
Is the term "blog" newer then this guy's service?
I used to "blog" before the term and the software.
I just updated a personal website I had rather frequently.
As rusty as IE is, it still has 90 something percent of the market share.
As we all know many people will not bother to download another browser.
If a sizable chunk of people do try fireforx M$ will get off its ass and imitate the best features in a new version of IE so most people will again not bother to use anything other then what comes with their windows installation.
My post above was a comment about hoping Florida would use different voting machines.
The topic I was posting was AN ARTICLE ABOUT VOTING MACHINE PROBLEMS IN FLORIDA.
I was moderated down as being "off topic".
In other words, someone abused their temporary moderator's privelage to censor an opinion that they didn't like.......not an opinion that was off topic to the thread.
I didn't know that Judge Scalia had time to read slashdot!
Kerry's plans do not involve banning outsourcing and or constricting the "free market".
Kerry's plan involves taking away tax breaks that make it profitable for US corporations to send jobs.......and other money.....overseas.
This sounds fairly "free market" to me.
Why should the government subsidze US corporations?
Double that point by considering it will be the tax money of outsourced workers paying in part for that corporate subsidy.
I have my doubts about whether Kerry can or will follow through.
However, Kerry has a plan, a plan that doesn't interfere with the free market ideal, and he has promised to try.
The Bush administration has gone on public record via the Washington Post that they have no intention of trying to change anything having to do with outsourcing.
If you vote for Kerry, you/America at least has a chance.
If you vote for Bush you have a guarantee given by Bush that he will not do anything to help you with this issue.
Young Americans know they are working shitty jobs for what is little pay and less respect. GE does not like that their workers know this and act accordingly.
Young Indians, desperate for work take the shitty jobs for lousy pay and are greatful for it because in their country the shitty pay is not that bad due to lousy living standards/economies created by other self righteous greedy fucks like GE.
You may have no guilt, but would you feel the same if you had helped to export higher level jobs.....like software engineering where the aide you gave to GE put the end to the careers of grown ups with famlies to support?
The person making the complaint in the article is an Indian Catholic Priest.
So an Indian who serves a religion exported from the west is complaining about young Indians working jobs exported from the west because it interfering with social customs not exported from the west.
I have doubts, but at least Kerry is promising to do something about it.
Bu$h administration officials were quoted in the Washington Post as stating they thought out sourcing was good for the economy and they had no plans to stop it.
The problem may or may not improve if you vote for Kerry.
However, the problem is GUARANTEED to not improve if you vote for Bu$h.
I'm a gnu/linux user but I have to agree with this sarcastic comment.
Getting a 1/2 dozen text editors, each with a bizarre user-mean interface is "freedom" and "choice".
Similar situations with windoze are indicitive of bloat fwiw.
It is a myth that everything is smaller, faster and can fun on lighter footprint hardware with gnu/linux.
IMHO this comes from gnu/linux having a complete set of command shell programs which allows SOME use of low footprint hardware.mozillas just don't cutit ( neither does opera ).
Exactly.
Another article on slashdot had a similar title"__ years of ___".
Ha. You only get to use that title if the product has actually been in use in that time period.
Slashdot Mirror
I agree.
What you wrote matches my experience.
Its 15% method, 85% using the method consistently.
Steve
Seriously.
... just add more paper, dividers etc.
You have to go to a big office supply store to find them but
- their paper is cheaper then those day runner
packs.
- no batteries
- no logging in. Make your notes QUICKLY and
you are done.
- not nearly as fragile as PDAs.
- cheap
- flexible,
I was aware of the second point on windows( work ) where I have thunderbird and firefox installed.
Many apps for the longest time let you specify which browser/accessory apps you want to use for it.
I wish both thunderbird and firefox had such features built in.
The company I work has windoze for a reason.....IE is the main browser for our product. I would like the option of using firefox with thunderbird without having to make firefox my default browser.
It just wouldn't be "correct" to have firefox as my default browser at my job.
Forget that I would be happy if the two could could work together in both directions firefox thunderbird.
That is the only reason why I still use mozilla at home.
I *LIKE* having my mailer and browser integrated....at least to the point when I click on a link in thunderbird I get firefox to come up.
Steve
What you posted about this person may be true.
You do have a lot of work ahead of you to convince people of it posting from an anonymous nickname with unsubstantiated claims.
I agree The situation is just pregnant with possibilities
Exceedingly good point
Reading the quotes from the article it may not be that cut and dried.
A single person doesn't donate his work to running a service for 4 years then just drop people for the hell of it.
The quotes above sound like he had other intense stuff going on in his life ......things with a higher priority....that forced him to put off dealing with this in a better manner.
Maybe people wouldn't be angry at him if he mentioned the details of these extenuating circumstances, but then again why should he publish the personal details of his life? I'm sure anyone here can imagine several situations to make a hobby project you run the last thing on your list of priorities: a significant death, loss of a job, being forced to move, 1 or more of other things called "life" etc.
BTW, I only heard the term "blog" within the last 2 years, yet one of the quotes from the article said this guy ran weblog for 4 years.
Is the term "blog" newer then this guy's service?
I used to "blog" before the term and the software. I just updated a personal website I had rather frequently.
Steve
As rusty as IE is, it still has 90 something percent of the market share.
As we all know many people will not bother to download another browser.
If a sizable chunk of people do try fireforx M$ will get off its ass and imitate the best features in a new version of IE so most people will again not bother to use anything other then what comes with their windows installation.
I think the argument that the problem is not with your design but with what the users want is a failed argument from the get go.
As always, the ultimate answer to this kind of argument is market share.
In this case, what people people choose to use and what the distros choose to give the most support to.
The only restriction the GPL has is that someone can't take the work other did and keep others from it.
Now I am convinced there are bad moderators.
My post above was a comment about hoping Florida would use different voting machines.
The topic I was posting was AN ARTICLE ABOUT VOTING MACHINE PROBLEMS IN FLORIDA.
I was moderated down as being "off topic".
In other words, someone abused their temporary moderator's privelage to censor an opinion that they didn't like.......not an opinion that was off topic to the thread.
I didn't know that Judge Scalia had time to read slashdot!
I'm impressed
Lets hope they aren't ready by the time of elections.
Instead lets hope Florida gets embarrassed into using something else.
If they build this, crimes will still happen in this area anway.
Lets protect our rights to privacy
Kerry's plans do not involve banning outsourcing and or constricting the "free market".
Kerry's plan involves taking away tax breaks that make it profitable for US corporations to send jobs.......and other money.....overseas.
This sounds fairly "free market" to me.
Why should the government subsidze US corporations?
Double that point by considering it will be the tax money of outsourced workers paying in part for that corporate subsidy.
I have my doubts about whether Kerry can or will follow through.
However, Kerry has a plan, a plan that doesn't interfere with the free market ideal, and he has promised to try.
The Bush administration has gone on public record via the Washington Post that they have no intention of trying to change anything having to do with outsourcing.
If you vote for Kerry, you/America at least has a chance.
If you vote for Bush you have a guarantee given by Bush that he will not do anything to help you with this issue.
Translation:
Young Americans know they are working shitty jobs
for what is little pay and less respect. GE does not like that their workers know this and act accordingly.
Young Indians, desperate for work take the shitty jobs for lousy pay and are greatful for it because in their country the shitty pay is not that bad due to lousy living standards/economies created by other self righteous greedy fucks like GE.
You may have no guilt, but would you feel the same if you had helped to export higher level jobs.....like software engineering where the aide you gave to GE put the end to the careers of grown ups with famlies to support?
Interesting.
The person making the complaint in the article is an Indian Catholic Priest.
So an Indian who serves a religion exported from the west is complaining about young Indians working jobs exported from the west because it interfering with social customs not exported from the west.
I have doubts, but at least Kerry is promising to do something about it.
Bu$h administration officials were quoted in the Washington Post as stating they thought out sourcing was good for the economy and they had no plans to stop it.
The problem may or may not improve if you vote for Kerry.
However, the problem is GUARANTEED to not improve if you vote for Bu$h.
I'm a gnu/linux user but I have to agree with this sarcastic comment. Getting a 1/2 dozen text editors, each with a bizarre user-mean interface is "freedom" and "choice". Similar situations with windoze are indicitive of bloat fwiw.
It is a myth that everything is smaller, faster and can fun on lighter footprint hardware with gnu/linux.
IMHO this comes from gnu/linux having a complete set of command shell programs which allows SOME use of low footprint hardware.mozillas just don't cutit ( neither does opera ).
I am an IT professional and have lots of other reasons to avoid windows.
However, from time to time I think it would be useful to have a windows box at home.
The first thing that stops me is money
- cost of the OS
- cost of virus subscriptions
Then there is all the spamware you get with windows through MS & OEM
Then the lack of a real command shell
Then performace
Then M$ business practices
The last time I paid any attention to the caps lock key was to remap it to be my ctrl key to make using gnu emacs easier.
I got over emacs.
The key just sort of sits there.
Steve
Can we really afford to laugh?
Look how far SCO got and SCO is not out of the game.
Given this, it is apparent that the business world doesn't read slashdot or even groklaw.
Maybe the goverment will not either.
I think this book will definately fool some people who will matter.
Steve
Dennis Ritchie is not a Unix Celebrity.
He is a Unix *GOD*.
Please get this straight for the future
Exactly. Another article on slashdot had a similar title"__ years of ___". Ha. You only get to use that title if the product has actually been in use in that time period.