If they won't believe or accept your response when you tell them how little effort portability requires, why should you care about their false perceptions? For instance, is it a concern that others will believe the non-programmer over you and make decisions which will have a negative impact on you?
Partly this is the general decline in willingness to take real responsibility for one's actions, but the corporate mentality is an exceptional piece of work in this regard. It's easier to get money from a company's representatives than an actual admission of wrongdoing, and not entirely due to increasing liability concerns (ObFuckingLawyers and the CYA At All Costs BS).
It borders on pathological, and is perhaps the biggest day-to-day frustration in dealing with these people. Bad enough when someone's incompetence and/or malicious intent causes me harm, but any rational person quickly reaches the point where their only desire is to go immediately to their offices and beat in their skull with a blunt instrument, screaming all the while that all you want is for them to FUCKING ADMIT THEY FUCKED UP.
The problem has a cause, and there's a reason why the solution works. The fact that you don't yet know either of those things is no reason to pretend they don't exist.
Why do 99% of the videos on Youtube, Google Video, etc., have the video and audio out of sync? Tried viewing inline and downloading, tried on more than one computer. At first I thought it was the stupid FLV format.
Are there any credible reasons to believe that humans in general are growing physically stronger and more durable, rather than overreliance on technology (in particular, antibiotics) actually having the opposite effect?
Ah, the eternal conflict between those who define freedom as the absence of external limitations and those who define it simply as ability without regard to resources. "I am required to breathe oxygen in order to survive; therefore I am not free."
considering Mr. Wales was shot dead last week. Apparently he's editing his own entry from the grave.
(Sweet Lord, do those clowns at the Register need to get laid.)
Even before the terrorist attacks of 9/11, it seemed 90% of television these days consisted of cop shows (forensic investigation being a large subset of "cop shows"). Since then, everything that isn't a cop show is heroic gubmint agents saving us from terrorists, when it isn't heroic cops saving us from the evil pornographic interweb and video games.
Fuck CSI. Fuck them up their stupid fucking asses.
"It's all about the games."
I didn't buy an Xbox for the games, I bought it for the Xbox Media Center. Of course I had to void the warranty, but I've never used a warranty for anything I've bought anyway.
I bet it won't be anywhere near as good as Xbox Media Center. Every time XBMC is updated I'm floored at the attention to detail in terms of usability -- it almost makes Tivo look like rocket science. Too bad my grandma would have to be a rocket scientist and/or break the "law" to get it.
If a state allows its citizens greater individual freedom than the federal statute, then the federal statute is to be given first priority.
Obviously, the reverse is true as well.
If it's half as funny as Old Man Murray was, I'm in:
"In a perfect world, we'd all lie blind and motionless in stacked coffins filled with pudding. It would be dark and warm and nobody would have to
compete with anybody and also the government would pay for the pudding."
"Why? Because the world of DNS has radically changed in amazing and profound ways in two years?"
No, so you had some idea that they've been doing something for the last two years. It looks bad for an organization to not update their site, mmkay?
As I said, this has been with every version since Firebird 0.6, increasingly worse up to and including the new Deer Park alphas. I should also note that creating a new profile from scratch did result in one improvement -- now it generally crashes quickly instead of hanging on at death's door for days at a time sucking all my CPU. Of additional note is that this problem continues even when I do not have Flash installed, with ALL plugins and extensions disabled, AND with both Java and Javascript disabled. How's that for a boot to the head?
Firefox for Win32 is incredibly stable and fast, only crashing perhaps once every few weeks if not months, and usually only when using video plugins. Under Slackware Linux 9.1, Firefox has been sucking worse and worse ever since it was called Firebird 0.6, to the point now where it runs for LESS THAN ONE HOUR before slowing to a stop and sucking up 100% CPU, requiring a restart. This is not a Slackware problem - a friend of mine with an identical Slack 9.1 setup has never had any problems like this with Firefox. This is not a Linux problem - no other application on the system does anything like this. This problem is still present even after upgrading all Mozilla libraries on the system, and it is incredibly frustrating for my Linux browser to suck so badly that it makes me feel like I'm using Windows. Unfortunately, at this time all the alternative browsers for Linux do not meet my needs. None of the numerous developers I've discussed this with appear to have any idea what the problem could be, despite my providing numerous GDB backtraces. I am currently considering running Firefox for Win32 under WINE. Yes, it's that bad.
Think that's bad? The place up the street from me charges TWO HUNDRED to reformat your hard drive and reinstall Windows. I could make some serious cash doing that, but I'd have to break all the mirrors in my house so I wouldn't have to look myself in the eye. A thing may be worth whatever someone will pay for it, but that's a steaming pile of bullshit any way you slice it. Of course, they could charge less than half that if they didn't have all that money stolen from them by thugs with badges.
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If they won't believe or accept your response when you tell them how little effort portability requires, why should you care about their false perceptions? For instance, is it a concern that others will believe the non-programmer over you and make decisions which will have a negative impact on you?
It borders on pathological, and is perhaps the biggest day-to-day frustration in dealing with these people. Bad enough when someone's incompetence and/or malicious intent causes me harm, but any rational person quickly reaches the point where their only desire is to go immediately to their offices and beat in their skull with a blunt instrument, screaming all the while that all you want is for them to FUCKING ADMIT THEY FUCKED UP.
Their videos. Fuckers keep breaking videodownloader extension. And Google just did the same the other day. "Not evil?" As if.
But is he a bigger dick than Theo?
/. is stealing headlines from Lew Rockwell.
The problem has a cause, and there's a reason why the solution works. The fact that you don't yet know either of those things is no reason to pretend they don't exist.
Why do 99% of the videos on Youtube, Google Video, etc., have the video and audio out of sync? Tried viewing inline and downloading, tried on more than one computer. At first I thought it was the stupid FLV format.
Are there any credible reasons to believe that humans in general are growing physically stronger and more durable, rather than overreliance on technology (in particular, antibiotics) actually having the opposite effect?
No. You are entitled to nothing. Next question.
Actually, he's kind of a wanker :)
Ah, the eternal conflict between those who define freedom as the absence of external limitations and those who define it simply as ability without regard to resources. "I am required to breathe oxygen in order to survive; therefore I am not free."
considering Mr. Wales was shot dead last week. Apparently he's editing his own entry from the grave. (Sweet Lord, do those clowns at the Register need to get laid.)
Tim Berners-Lee disables blog comments.
Even before the terrorist attacks of 9/11, it seemed 90% of television these days consisted of cop shows (forensic investigation being a large subset of "cop shows"). Since then, everything that isn't a cop show is heroic gubmint agents saving us from terrorists, when it isn't heroic cops saving us from the evil pornographic interweb and video games. Fuck CSI. Fuck them up their stupid fucking asses.
"It's all about the games." I didn't buy an Xbox for the games, I bought it for the Xbox Media Center. Of course I had to void the warranty, but I've never used a warranty for anything I've bought anyway.
Because Joss would make Ender teh ghey, causing Card to implode.
"The Pope? How many divisions does he have?"
I bet it won't be anywhere near as good as Xbox Media Center. Every time XBMC is updated I'm floored at the attention to detail in terms of usability -- it almost makes Tivo look like rocket science. Too bad my grandma would have to be a rocket scientist and/or break the "law" to get it.
If a state allows its citizens greater individual freedom than the federal statute, then the federal statute is to be given first priority. Obviously, the reverse is true as well.
"Why? Because the world of DNS has radically changed in amazing and profound ways in two years?" No, so you had some idea that they've been doing something for the last two years. It looks bad for an organization to not update their site, mmkay?
As I said, this has been with every version since Firebird 0.6, increasingly worse up to and including the new Deer Park alphas. I should also note that creating a new profile from scratch did result in one improvement -- now it generally crashes quickly instead of hanging on at death's door for days at a time sucking all my CPU. Of additional note is that this problem continues even when I do not have Flash installed, with ALL plugins and extensions disabled, AND with both Java and Javascript disabled. How's that for a boot to the head?
Firefox for Win32 is incredibly stable and fast, only crashing perhaps once every few weeks if not months, and usually only when using video plugins. Under Slackware Linux 9.1, Firefox has been sucking worse and worse ever since it was called Firebird 0.6, to the point now where it runs for LESS THAN ONE HOUR before slowing to a stop and sucking up 100% CPU, requiring a restart. This is not a Slackware problem - a friend of mine with an identical Slack 9.1 setup has never had any problems like this with Firefox. This is not a Linux problem - no other application on the system does anything like this. This problem is still present even after upgrading all Mozilla libraries on the system, and it is incredibly frustrating for my Linux browser to suck so badly that it makes me feel like I'm using Windows. Unfortunately, at this time all the alternative browsers for Linux do not meet my needs. None of the numerous developers I've discussed this with appear to have any idea what the problem could be, despite my providing numerous GDB backtraces. I am currently considering running Firefox for Win32 under WINE. Yes, it's that bad.
It would be nice if OpenNIC would update their website so you had some idea that they've been doing something for the last two years.
Think that's bad? The place up the street from me charges TWO HUNDRED to reformat your hard drive and reinstall Windows. I could make some serious cash doing that, but I'd have to break all the mirrors in my house so I wouldn't have to look myself in the eye. A thing may be worth whatever someone will pay for it, but that's a steaming pile of bullshit any way you slice it. Of course, they could charge less than half that if they didn't have all that money stolen from them by thugs with badges.