Which is why we have to prevent them from taking control of the glossary of the dialog. We need to swallow our pride (and some of our intellectual honesty) and start using some of the revisionist redefinition tactics that they do. We need to stop assuming that an appeal to rationality is all it takes to convince someone, as most people aren't politically rational.
I can see from your ID number that you're an old fart too. I've loved (and frequently used) the line you use for your sig since I first read it in Pournelle's Byte column. Mid-80s was it?:-D
> My prediction is that NPR will be acquired by the AFN and be their "liberal" station.
Yeah, that is a bad analogy. Why is it that people automatically assume intellectual==liberal? Does this mean that Entertainment Tonight is only for conservatives? Seriously, does being informed about things in the world outside of my own personal interests automatically make me a liberal, with all the poisoned connotations that word has aquired? Am I required to be oblivious to the rest of the world outside of my local 6:00 newscast to be a proper American?
I wasn't really trying to be all that funny, I was saying what you said: users just want it to go away so they can get on with what they were doing. And Fareq raises a good point about InstallShield. I find myself saying "whatever, whatever, whatever" when I install Eclipse or NetBeans with all their license dialogs.
I've been proposing for a long time that the "Yes/No/Cancel" type dialog boxes should simply be replaced with a single "Whatever" button, as users NEVER read what the dialog box says.
> Microsoft's site will not have the kind of controversial material that has popped up at Black Hat. "All researchers at the BlueHat are responsible," Kornbrust said.
I know about Orion and the laser-based alternatives that are being researched. I loved the line from the Niven & Pournelle novel (can't remember which one) describing a takeoff with pulsed nukes: "God was knocking, and he wanted in BAD".
I asked the OP for existing technologies precisely because he was acting as though we have lots of viable alternatives to chemical rockets.
It doesn't really matter. Mom and Pop will go over to Best Buy, and the salesteenager will say "And this one comes with Microsoft Vista Foo-7..." and the folks will say "That's good, huh?", and then they'll buy it and take it home.
In other words, the manufacturers/integrators are the ones who will be making the "which version" decision. Only people like us who build our own machines are going to care.
Riiiiiiiight.
Microsoft deposes and says: WE DID NOT! THEY'RE GODDAM LIARS!!
Seriously, Microsoft is going to have so much "plausible deniability", IBM'll probably have a hard time proving they've ever been to Redmond, Washington.
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I can see from your ID number that you're an old fart too. I've loved (and frequently used) the line you use for your sig since I first read it in Pournelle's Byte column. Mid-80s was it? :-D
In Diebold's case, I'm not willing to ascribe to incompetence that which can be explained by malice.
Yeah, that is a bad analogy. Why is it that people automatically assume intellectual==liberal? Does this mean that Entertainment Tonight is only for conservatives? Seriously, does being informed about things in the world outside of my own personal interests automatically make me a liberal, with all the poisoned connotations that word has aquired? Am I required to be oblivious to the rest of the world outside of my local 6:00 newscast to be a proper American?
I wasn't really trying to be all that funny, I was saying what you said: users just want it to go away so they can get on with what they were doing. And Fareq raises a good point about InstallShield. I find myself saying "whatever, whatever, whatever" when I install Eclipse or NetBeans with all their license dialogs.
I've been proposing for a long time that the "Yes/No/Cancel" type dialog boxes should simply be replaced with a single "Whatever" button, as users NEVER read what the dialog box says.
Is that the ability to travel to other dimensions?
Whenever Steve Jobs says "now" or "in the stores next week" he usually means "within a year".
We've had decent network admin tools for the enterprise for a long time now. It's about time we had the same thing for botnets. ;-)
Does that mean domesticated or tame?
OK, don't do that then.
From *your* GP:
> The only thing that needs vacuuming is dead tuples, and the only operations that create dead tuples are UPDATEs and DELETEs.
So apps that UPDATE or DELETE are "written wrong"???? Sorry, I'll go on thinking it's a problem with PostgreSQL.
I know about Orion and the laser-based alternatives that are being researched. I loved the line from the Niven & Pournelle novel (can't remember which one) describing a takeoff with pulsed nukes: "God was knocking, and he wanted in BAD".
I asked the OP for existing technologies precisely because he was acting as though we have lots of viable alternatives to chemical rockets.
Really????? Please describe one example of an existing, non-chemical method to get 100kg into LEO.
Damn! I can't decide which is funnier, this, or the Thomas Edison/parachute post.
Kudos to you both.
I dated her little sister for a while, but their father was too much of a bear to deal with.
Opportunity.
Go to a command window and type "sudo rm -rf /".
In other words, the manufacturers/integrators are the ones who will be making the "which version" decision. Only people like us who build our own machines are going to care.
War, famine, pestilence and death were already being used?
That touching up a PowerPoint presentation for the 17th time is "accomplishing something"...
These guys?
Paging Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard...
Microsoft deposes and says: WE DID NOT! THEY'RE GODDAM LIARS!!
Seriously, Microsoft is going to have so much "plausible deniability", IBM'll probably have a hard time proving they've ever been to Redmond, Washington.
No, but it is like that other accessory that stuck to your phone.