Apple can just do as Microsoft does, rake in large sums of money to let the hardware manufacturers confirm to a MAC OS X ready logo and standard.
Who do you think does the certifying on these? A driver being certified to run on windows means it has been tested on every version of windows it is designed to support with as many other drivers as possible. Just certifying all of the drivers that they do is a lot of work.
My problem with keyboard shortcuts is that it is almost impossible to pick ones that A) are useful/"intuitive" and B) are not already taken by a major operating system or browser. Take my favorite irritation: wikipedia. I often end up trying to go directly from wikipedia to the firefox search box. On a non-irritating website all I have to do is hold down control and press 'L'. Someone at wikipedia thought it would be a good idea to make that reload the page. Granted, I think they were around before firefox had this feature, but it still annoys me every time it happens.
While I half agree with what your saying I think "it's hot don't touch" could of been learnt better in less dangerous ways.
Actually, I think that was the perfect way to teach it. Just letting the kid touch it with no warning gives them the opportunity to do it without caution. Telling them not to do it just spikes curiosity. Telling them they don't want to, but do it anyways if you want, ensures that they (probably) do it but are at least cautious. Same lesson, less pain. They even learn that adults at least occassionally know what the hell they are talking about.
You know that. I know that. The candidates know that. Unfortunately the droid at the employment agency doesn't. They are given a list of buzzwords to match and a pile of CV's. Any CV's that match the buzzwords get their addresses tippexed out and are faxed through to you. Daft, innit?
I have at times seriously considered putting a list of every acronym and technology that might remotely be related to what I am applying for at the top of the resume under the heading "Buzzword Bingo". I think if I ever get on a team reviewing applications I will submit one like that just to see the response it gets.
If you expand that concept to allow inmates to pursue certain careers then you have a host of new hardships. What jobs will you allow? Who will pay for the needed facilities? Where will the additional work space come from? Who will provide support? How will earnings be divided? What will happen when internal jobs go unfilled because the Reiser's of the jail are busy earning personal wealth while society pays for their incarceration?
One thing I failed to mention was that I don't think getting paid for the work should be an option. If you want to do something to help the community while you are in jail then you will be doing it without (material) personal benefit. In this specific case there is the question of Reiser being able to maintain (and upon release bank on) his status in the community. Is that enough of a concern to prohibit him from working on ReiserFS? Probably, but it should at least be considered.
There are also obvious logistical questions involved in providing a prisoner with the tools necessary to conduct any socially-beneficial task, but I don't know that those questions can be answered on anything but a case-by-case basis.
There's a continual argument over punishment vs rehabilitation that's more at the root of your specific comments, but that argument has been going on a long time. The fact is that prison is for both punishment and rehabilitation even if the balance isn't what it should be. Prison sentences are also a deterrent, so if Reiser is convicted yet continues his profession while incarcerated, especially if he keeps his earnings, then what deterrent does that really provide?
I agree there. Somehow I doubt that my personal method of handling the situation (go do the work, but you don't get paid) would be utilized by many inmates. That said, for the few who would use it I think it is a worthwhile effort to make the option available.
Would you think it should be different had this specific case not come up?
I have felt this way for quite a while. If a prisoner wants to do something that would be a productive contribution to society and it is easily within the means of the prison system to make it possible I don't see why it should be prevented. Someone who wants to spend their time doing something to help society would be, at the very least, not spending that time doing something self destructive.
Is Reiser somehow different enough to warrant a rethinking of centuries old techniques? Denying inmates their freedoms (including work) is certainly not controversial.
No, my issue is with the technique. Anyone who is sent to prison is given very few chances to improve themselves there, even if they want to. Unless you plan on giving people life sentences there better be something in place to try and ensure that they are better people when they get out than they were when they came in... or at the very least no worse.
Would allowing Reiser to continue working on his filesystem in prison make him a better person? No, probably not. It would, however, give him something productive to do that with himself and (hopefully) keep any existing problems from getting any worse.
I think what motivates so many to take the oposing viewpoint isn't that they question the justice system but rather that they want ReiserFS more than they care about crime and punishment.
Possibly. I would hope that there are at least a few people like me who see this as an opportunity for the justice system to allow someone who has (supposedly) committed murder to do still do something marginally helpful with his life/time. Is it atonement on his part or absolution on the system's? No, of course not... but I have a hard time imagining that letting him rot (here defined as: sit around doing nothing productive at all) in a cell is the better way to handle it.
Obviously one of us is talking about what we think should be, while the other is discussing what is. I don't know that continuing to debate this discrepancy would prove fruitful or entertaining, so I am fine leaving it at this.
Just because he may work on a project of personal interest to you doesn't mean that he makes a "productive contribution to society"
To turn your own bad argument against you, how many people must have a personal interest in what he is doing for it to be a productive contribution to society?
Prison deprives all prisoners of making such contributions.
Yes, but why should it always do so? If a prisoner wants to make a productive contribution to society and it is not exceptionally difficult to allow that to happen, why not?
Prison is specifically about denying criminals their freedom and the impact to society is one of the costs that we bear. Sorry, but if Reiser goes to jail he forfeits his ability to freely choose the manner in which he spends his time.
No, he forfeits most of the choices available to those who are not in prison. Last I knew reading books was (mostly) just as much of a choice available to prisoners as staring at the wall. What I am proposing is that continuing to work on something that a larger community finds valuable is an acceptable choice to offer to him.
ReiserFS isn't as valuable as a human life. If it were, how many free murders would Linus be allowed to commit?
Did slashdot screw up and post half of someone else's comment in with mine? I never once made any statements about the relative values of ReiserFS and human life, nor did I say that he should be allowed to go free because of his contribution to society. Either the system is screwy or someone has serious reading comprehension issues.
Also, applying the concept of value to human life is inherently flawed unless you also consider another person to be capable of being a posession. Asking me about the relative value of human life is like asking how many numbers are in infinity, the two concepts are mutually exclusive.
Can he continue to work? If he's in jail I certainly hope not. That's the point.
Being prohibit from making a productive contribution to society is the point of prison? That is a new one to me. Granted there are details that would have to be worked out - granting internet access for that task exclusively being one of the more difficult - but I think if he wants to keep working on it that should at least be considered.
Sorry, trying to make Firefox look bad hasn't worked in the past and it won't work now.
You're basically saying, "Even things such as massive memory management issues can't make Firefox look bad, and that, of course, is by virtue of its being Firefox." That's some type of logical flaw, but I forget which one it is.
...that would be your "logical flaw" in assuming that the GP was stating that nothing can make Firefox look bad, instead of his real statement that baseless attempts to make Firefox look bad don't work.
Unless you were trying to categorize that as a "logical fallacy", in which case the only thing that comes to mind is a tautology (Firefox is good because it is Firefox).
Right, because it isn't at all possible that I was attempting to carry the joke into a comment about slashdot moderation. Now that you ask though, it is depressing feeling better about myself for insulting people I don't even know... or it would be, if I were you.
I disagree. Now you still have to find a 3rd source to agree with you and 3 sources to discredit me. And of course I just got off work so I have all day long to disagree with those who disagree with me in the first place. Better put on a cup of coffee.:-)
Actually, I think you owe us two more sources to confirm your disagreement. Well, I would think that, but we haven't found three sources to conclusively prove that three sources are needed to conclusively prove something.
On a side note, I need to ask to what extent will the extra power of the PS3/XBox 360 be used to produce better games and not just better graphics? It seems to me that most AI is still scripted and doesn't take all that much processing power, and few games would have much use for realistic physics of more than a handful of objects at the same time.
My understanding was that the processor configurations used for the ps3 or 360 (or both) were also pretty bad for doing AI. I don't remember the details, but it pretty much amounted to requiring a lot more clock cycles to get the same effects you could do on the wii.
I'd like to think the lack of a troll mod was because people thought you were commenting on the language that Shakespeare used, but I know the truth is more depressing than that.
Exactly. Mac cultists can't seem to understand the fact that Apple will never capture the gamer market.
Most gamers also can't seem to understand that, compared to the regular home user market, their's is miniscule. If gamers were all Microsoft had to push their platform it would have died a long time ago.
No, but seriously, I've got a girlfriend and a "healthy sex life". That doesn't mean being left handed has never come in handy.
Dude, I had the left-handed-bra-removal trick down to the point where I could snap my fingers on this one bra my ex had and it would undo it. She hated it when I did that. Maybe that should tell me more than it does. Either way, check it out, it works. Just don't get caught doing that, as somehow I doubt "some guy on the internet told me to look at your bra" would go over well.
One HUGE benefit to being lefty for any males our there. Well you know. Surfing for porn with your right hand.. You can uh, rest your left one on the desk or something.
One huge benefit for lefty males that aren't on slashdot: Most bras that hook in the back are (from the wearer's perspective) right side over left. All that fumbling around and being thwarted by the bra that you see in movies, that doesn't happen if you just use your left hand.
Why wouldn't you just use the keyboard shortcut for that action, Ctrl-W? Perhaps they felt overriding it was OK because any user who relied on the keyboard for that stuff would use the built-in shortcuts rather than navigating the GUI by hand:P
A tip that works admirably for the Send Link, Page Setup, Print Preview, Import, and Work Offline commands. I could see using at least two of those pretty regularly on wikipedia.
All in all, I was pretty disappointed in WoW, but the one redeeming quality it had was that I was able to sell my character at a profit.:)
Considering the amount of time it takes to build up a character and get decent gear I think the term you are looking for is "sell my character and recoup some of the loss" Granted, that assumes that you got nothing out of the play time, but in the late game that is about how I felt.
Which means we need to get in a Meta-Meta edit war about the pros and cons of various criticisms of edit wars. That and someone needs to get into the wikipedia page and fix the link to recursion so it links directly to itself.
OK, no asumptions. So you'd agree that if the process doesn't work or individual processes work just as well, then a "standard" process doesn't offer any advantage, right?
I don't agree that individual processes work just as well when you are talking about functioning as a group. Eventually you will have people who follow one process attempting to work with code created under another. All I am saying is that having your entire team approach problems in the same way makes this situation easier. I am not trying to justify this in all situations, but I do see where someone would come up with the idea that it is worth trying.
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My problem with keyboard shortcuts is that it is almost impossible to pick ones that A) are useful/"intuitive" and B) are not already taken by a major operating system or browser. Take my favorite irritation: wikipedia. I often end up trying to go directly from wikipedia to the firefox search box. On a non-irritating website all I have to do is hold down control and press 'L'. Someone at wikipedia thought it would be a good idea to make that reload the page. Granted, I think they were around before firefox had this feature, but it still annoys me every time it happens.
There are also obvious logistical questions involved in providing a prisoner with the tools necessary to conduct any socially-beneficial task, but I don't know that those questions can be answered on anything but a case-by-case basis.
I agree there. Somehow I doubt that my personal method of handling the situation (go do the work, but you don't get paid) would be utilized by many inmates. That said, for the few who would use it I think it is a worthwhile effort to make the option available.Would allowing Reiser to continue working on his filesystem in prison make him a better person? No, probably not. It would, however, give him something productive to do that with himself and (hopefully) keep any existing problems from getting any worse.
Possibly. I would hope that there are at least a few people like me who see this as an opportunity for the justice system to allow someone who has (supposedly) committed murder to do still do something marginally helpful with his life/time. Is it atonement on his part or absolution on the system's? No, of course notObviously one of us is talking about what we think should be, while the other is discussing what is. I don't know that continuing to debate this discrepancy would prove fruitful or entertaining, so I am fine leaving it at this.
Also, applying the concept of value to human life is inherently flawed unless you also consider another person to be capable of being a posession. Asking me about the relative value of human life is like asking how many numbers are in infinity, the two concepts are mutually exclusive.
Being prohibit from making a productive contribution to society is the point of prison? That is a new one to me. Granted there are details that would have to be worked out - granting internet access for that task exclusively being one of the more difficult - but I think if he wants to keep working on it that should at least be considered.
...that would be your "logical flaw" in assuming that the GP was stating that nothing can make Firefox look bad, instead of his real statement that baseless attempts to make Firefox look bad don't work.
Unless you were trying to categorize that as a "logical fallacy", in which case the only thing that comes to mind is a tautology (Firefox is good because it is Firefox).
Right, because it isn't at all possible that I was attempting to carry the joke into a comment about slashdot moderation. Now that you ask though, it is depressing feeling better about myself for insulting people I don't even know ... or it would be, if I were you.
I'd like to think the lack of a troll mod was because people thought you were commenting on the language that Shakespeare used, but I know the truth is more depressing than that.
Dude, I had the left-handed-bra-removal trick down to the point where I could snap my fingers on this one bra my ex had and it would undo it. She hated it when I did that. Maybe that should tell me more than it does. Either way, check it out, it works. Just don't get caught doing that, as somehow I doubt "some guy on the internet told me to look at your bra" would go over well.
I just searched for it, appears to be indexed now. Evidently the googlebot was just slower on the draw than the other two.
Which means we need to get in a Meta-Meta edit war about the pros and cons of various criticisms of edit wars. That and someone needs to get into the wikipedia page and fix the link to recursion so it links directly to itself.