The effects of spamming can be equated in a way with murder or rape when you consider the effects on society as a whole instead of on the individuals.
Both murder and rape have a horrible (or deadly) effect on one person. Assault is not as harmful, but assaulting perhaps 20 or 30 people could be as harmful to society as committing one murder or rape. Spam only has a small, almost negligible, effect on each individual but when you multiply it by 1.6 billion individuals it has an impact on society that can arguable be compared to the harm of a single murder.
If you run a restaurant or a farm you don't get much distinction between work and personal life, but you do get to be your own boss -- not a bad trade.
I don't use a single Windows app where a function is only available from the contextual menu.
Interesting... do you find it hard to get anything done using only Notepad?
Seriously though, for a specific example: many tray icons only work with a right-click.
Some areas don't use Daylight Savings Time and they seem to get along fine. Changing the time is more trouble than it's worth, so why don't we just get rid of it?
Dual-screen support is one reason I wished I bought a PowerBook instead of an iBook. I've got a 19" monitor sitting here doing nothing and I didn't know about the Spanner patch... thanks!
The phenomenon certainly isn't new, but now that you can take the source in high-quality digital, open it with your favourite sound/video/etc editing app and make changes directly instead of starting over from scratch. You don't even have to have talent anymore... wait, maybe that's not such a good thing.
It seems like there's no manager in charge of overall UI. It's hard to tell in the shrunken screenshot, but does it still say "Shut Do..." on the bottom of the start menu here? http://pcworld.com/news/graphics/121435-2308p020-2 b.jpg
You'd think something like that would be easy enough to find and fix.
Preferably his killer will be a stealthy ninja who will quietly step out of the shadows and say, "Do you own the trademark to the word irony too?" and then stab him.
You're trying to confuse the issue of committing a crime with being successful and doing good deeds as if those things somehow negate committing the crime.
I didn't say they should be punished because they are successful, I said they should be punished if they committed a crime despite the fact that they may also have done good things.
Let me get this straight: you're suggesting that if an entity has done good, then punishing it for its criminal actions would be wrong. That would mean that if a person committed a crime like assault it would be wrong to try them in court and punish them if they had previously done good things like volunteer work to feed the homeless.
That's not how it works, or how it should work. If a person or a company like Microsoft commits a crime, then they should be tried in court for that crime and punished appropriately.
As I've said a billion times, Microsoft program managers don't do anything without usability testing.
Well that does not explain the "Shut Do" button on the Longhorn Start Panel, or the fact that they've put a scroll bar inside the Start Panel. When you use the Start Panel it's the only thing on the screen -- it doesn't take a genius to just make it bigger.
Now I don't know whether they're doing usability testing or not, but I can tell you that it is not working.
And when everyone creates a slightly different short form as their alias, how will you use it when you're not at your own machine? It's better to start out with a common set of short forms that everyone uses and learn them even if it takes a bit longer.
While I'm not a fan of QuickTime it is quite easy to change the file associations so that movie file types open in VLC instead (cmd-i, open with: vlc, change all), and you still have QuickTime for movies embedded in web pages or whatever.
Nobody is arguing that the Sherman Act to prevent against monopolies is a bad thing because it protects consumers. The DMCA (which protects CSS) is generally a bad thing because it is used to make more money for corporations at the expense of consumers.
I switched to Dvorak years ago and I'm very happy with it. Copy and paste shortcuts are not as easy as with Qwerty, so I often use ctrl-insert and shift-insert instead. Doesn't really help on a laptop keyboard though.
That would have worked well for me because I almost never did homework, but I could ace the tests.
I actually had teachers threaten to lower my mark and/or start giving marks for homework because I wasn't doing it -- and I wasn't doing poorly in the classes at all, just not doing the homework.
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Their Marketing department has been printing press releases on that stuff for years now.
For the next version of Windows they should switch back to using the year for the name. Windows 2020 sounds good. ;)
Maybe Monsanto can genetically engineer up some cotton that can pick itself...
The effects of spamming can be equated in a way with murder or rape when you consider the effects on society as a whole instead of on the individuals. Both murder and rape have a horrible (or deadly) effect on one person. Assault is not as harmful, but assaulting perhaps 20 or 30 people could be as harmful to society as committing one murder or rape. Spam only has a small, almost negligible, effect on each individual but when you multiply it by 1.6 billion individuals it has an impact on society that can arguable be compared to the harm of a single murder.
If you run a restaurant or a farm you don't get much distinction between work and personal life, but you do get to be your own boss -- not a bad trade.
I don't use a single Windows app where a function is only available from the contextual menu. Interesting... do you find it hard to get anything done using only Notepad? Seriously though, for a specific example: many tray icons only work with a right-click.
Then it's a good thing I didn't read the article!
Some areas don't use Daylight Savings Time and they seem to get along fine. Changing the time is more trouble than it's worth, so why don't we just get rid of it?
Dual-screen support is one reason I wished I bought a PowerBook instead of an iBook. I've got a 19" monitor sitting here doing nothing and I didn't know about the Spanner patch... thanks!
I will not post to slashdot while drunk. I will not post to slashdot while drunk. I will not...
Well, you did manage to get an Insightful moderation, so either the mods are drinking too or you're smarter when drunk...
The phenomenon certainly isn't new, but now that you can take the source in high-quality digital, open it with your favourite sound/video/etc editing app and make changes directly instead of starting over from scratch. You don't even have to have talent anymore... wait, maybe that's not such a good thing.
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Is this that cybersex I've heard about?
It seems like there's no manager in charge of overall UI. It's hard to tell in the shrunken screenshot, but does it still say "Shut Do..." on the bottom of the start menu here? http://pcworld.com/news/graphics/121435-2308p020-2 b.jpg
You'd think something like that would be easy enough to find and fix.
Preferably his killer will be a stealthy ninja who will quietly step out of the shadows and say, "Do you own the trademark to the word irony too?" and then stab him.
You're trying to confuse the issue of committing a crime with being successful and doing good deeds as if those things somehow negate committing the crime.
I didn't say they should be punished because they are successful, I said they should be punished if they committed a crime despite the fact that they may also have done good things.
Let me get this straight: you're suggesting that if an entity has done good, then punishing it for its criminal actions would be wrong. That would mean that if a person committed a crime like assault it would be wrong to try them in court and punish them if they had previously done good things like volunteer work to feed the homeless.
That's not how it works, or how it should work. If a person or a company like Microsoft commits a crime, then they should be tried in court for that crime and punished appropriately.
I don't know about blind and deaf users, but sometimes I wonder if some Windows programmers are blind and deaf...
As I've said a billion times, Microsoft program managers don't do anything without usability testing.
Well that does not explain the "Shut Do" button on the Longhorn Start Panel, or the fact that they've put a scroll bar inside the Start Panel. When you use the Start Panel it's the only thing on the screen -- it doesn't take a genius to just make it bigger.
Now I don't know whether they're doing usability testing or not, but I can tell you that it is not working.
Regardless of why IBM and Sun like open source, it must help them make money or they wouldn't use it -- wait, maybe that is why they like it.
And when everyone creates a slightly different short form as their alias, how will you use it when you're not at your own machine? It's better to start out with a common set of short forms that everyone uses and learn them even if it takes a bit longer.
While I'm not a fan of QuickTime it is quite easy to change the file associations so that movie file types open in VLC instead (cmd-i, open with: vlc, change all), and you still have QuickTime for movies embedded in web pages or whatever.
Nobody is arguing that the Sherman Act to prevent against monopolies is a bad thing because it protects consumers. The DMCA (which protects CSS) is generally a bad thing because it is used to make more money for corporations at the expense of consumers.
I switched to Dvorak years ago and I'm very happy with it. Copy and paste shortcuts are not as easy as with Qwerty, so I often use ctrl-insert and shift-insert instead. Doesn't really help on a laptop keyboard though.
That would have worked well for me because I almost never did homework, but I could ace the tests.
I actually had teachers threaten to lower my mark and/or start giving marks for homework because I wasn't doing it -- and I wasn't doing poorly in the classes at all, just not doing the homework.
It's an Accounting reform act: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarbox