How eloquent. I bow before your superior skills at being bitter about.. something..?
And even though I should not feed you, I can't resist. I do actually get some. Do you? Or is that why you feel the need to rant about stuff which really does not hurt or affect you in the least?;)
> It's easy to forget that there are many people alive today that only had access to very primitive technology when they were young.
Like.. in Africa?;)
Btw, there are other countries which would benefit from this, as well. In India, I saw a family of maybe 13 people sit around a large stone in front of their hut, presumably having breakfast, at ~0530 in the morning. The only light they had was from my passing car. And those people lived directly outside of a large & prestigious university.
It's not about them bundling a browser. It's about them using the same old tactics they always use, making sure there is something that somewhat works, make it very hard to remove it and make it extremely hard to interoperate with third-party products. And that's without gag-contracts which keep OEMs from bundling other browsers.
If they had not done all that, IE would never have been where it was all those years.
Because the first world is scared of the low-wage Wirtschaftswunder which Japan, Korea, Taiwan etc showed us. Only there is over a billion people in China. 10-20 years more and the next billion, the Indians, join the party for real. And by _that_ time, the Africans will be where China & India are now.
Where the former first world will be is anybody's guess, really.
You might just have used zsh instead. It's nice that Bash has caught up in some ways (ass array, **, etc) though:p
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Bah. Knives are a horrible security problem. Food should come pre-cut. I can count on about ten hands the number of times I have heard of people cutting their finger.
If people are that stupid, they will find a way to shoot themselves into their foot. If you _need_ to provide a password on CLI (i.e. almost never), you can disable history or, using zsh, either edit the history stack before it's written to file or
> If that "sucks", your service must come with free hookers or something.
And that is without taking the failure handling of AS/400 / iSeries / nameoftheweek into account. Anyone who says IBM sucks either does not know what he is talking about or was bitten when IBM was trying to take their business away. (Usual rules about middle management apply. There are dopes everywhere.)
> If the cell phone manufacturers had their way, mini-USB chargers would be so ubiquitous they wouldn't have to include them with the phones, saving them a few dollars per unit in costs and cutting their shipping rates in half.
If only those poor sods were not forced, at gun point, to not use USB in their _own designs_ by the evil overlords of the wall wart industry.
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How eloquent. I bow before your superior skills at being bitter about.. something..?
And even though I should not feed you, I can't resist. I do actually get some. Do you? Or is that why you feel the need to rant about stuff which really does not hurt or affect you in the least? ;)
Pussy. Real men access the NIC in raw mode.
Pussy. Real men write a kernel patch to expose the driver API to userspace and use that.
Pussy. Real men use /dev.
Pussy. Real men open a raw socket.
Pussy. Real men netcat to port 80.
Hey thanks, you spared me explaining this myself :)
> It's easy to forget that there are many people alive today that only had access to very primitive technology when they were young.
Like.. in Africa? ;)
Btw, there are other countries which would benefit from this, as well. In India, I saw a family of maybe 13 people sit around a large stone in front of their hut, presumably having breakfast, at ~0530 in the morning. The only light they had was from my passing car. And those people lived directly outside of a large & prestigious university.
Indeed. Invader Zim, I miss thee!
> we can finally give penguins the gift of flight as well!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trebuchet
It's not about them bundling a browser. It's about them using the same old tactics they always use, making sure there is something that somewhat works, make it very hard to remove it and make it extremely hard to interoperate with third-party products. And that's without gag-contracts which keep OEMs from bundling other browsers.
If they had not done all that, IE would never have been where it was all those years.
You want RT and RTFM. Period.
Just look at the list of adopters on rt.bestpractical.com
Whoah, I knew of the first three, but the last one is awesome!
In all seriousness, DE is great, I order shitloads off them.
Because the first world is scared of the low-wage Wirtschaftswunder which Japan, Korea, Taiwan etc showed us. Only there is over a billion people in China. 10-20 years more and the next billion, the Indians, join the party for real. And by _that_ time, the Africans will be where China & India are now.
Where the former first world will be is anybody's guess, really.
I can understand both 'their' and 'our' pov.
They pull a ninja _replacing_ Adobe Shockwave as de facto standard stunt.
Strange, but http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html does not seem to list "maximize the amount of snide remarks".
Prolly because they figured that would increase the load even more. I understand your pov. And theirs.
_Very_ interesting point. Thanks!
You might just have used zsh instead. It's nice that Bash has caught up in some ways (ass array, **, etc) though :p
Bah. Knives are a horrible security problem. Food should come pre-cut. I can count on about ten hands the number of times I have heard of people cutting their finger.
If people are that stupid, they will find a way to shoot themselves into their foot. If you _need_ to provide a password on CLI (i.e. almost never), you can disable history or, using zsh, either edit the history stack before it's written to file or
setopt histignorespace
which will enable you to
` secretstuff`
which is then not written to disk.
zsh does not care. You are free to
setopt InC___Ap__PEND_h_i_s_t_o_RY
if you want to. Underscores are ignored, as is case.
> > Even IBM does better, and they suck.
> If that "sucks", your service must come with free hookers or something.
And that is without taking the failure handling of AS/400 / iSeries / nameoftheweek into account. Anyone who says IBM sucks either does not know what he is talking about or was bitten when IBM was trying to take their business away. (Usual rules about middle management apply. There are dopes everywhere.)
..why is this not moderated over9000 (yet)? ;)
Yah, yah, it's old, but hey. It fits :)
My first thought about the story was: "Ugh, privacy!" so I agree with you, but this:
> As an easy example, think of all the people who've bought gold [...] Lots of public embarrassment potential. ..made me smile.
> If the cell phone manufacturers had their way, mini-USB chargers would be so ubiquitous they wouldn't have to include them with the phones, saving them a few dollars per unit in costs and cutting their shipping rates in half.
If only those poor sods were not forced, at gun point, to not use USB in their _own designs_ by the evil overlords of the wall wart industry.