You don't even need to use Hotmail for spam anymore. Instead, you can use GMail's (+) feature. So...when signing up on a site, type something like...
your.email+spam@gmail.com
Put whatever you want after the + sign. It will still route directly to your inbox. Then, just setup a filter to put anything with "+spam" to the spam folder or the trash or wherever.
Alright, now that I made a funny, time to get serious for a second.
Microsoft doesn't need to point to another vendor's site. In fact, they could host the latest version of browser X on their own Windows Update site. Or, if they don't want to do that, they could pop up a Windows saying, "Browser X is not an official Microsoft browser and we do not take responsibility for...blah blah blah." That would probably deter people from using a new browser as well.
Internet Explorer runs faster on Windows than Firefox does. And it works with sites that use ActiveX.
I have had the exact opposite experience. I run both Windows XP and Windows Vista and Internet Explorer is *always* slower than Firefox. It's noticeably slower, actually. It's the reason I originally decided to stick with Firefox in the first place. (Of course, now I like Firefox for other reasons.)
Today is February 20. This is listed as a critical flaw and they are taking 18 days to release a patch. I'm glad they're getting right on this.
Isn't it obvious? They are fixing it as fast as they can. The first 3 days are spent fixing the bug. The next 15 days is the start-up time of Adobe Reader so they can test their bug fix.
Yes, I know it's fiction. I wasn't using it as an example of behavior. I was using it because it's relatively common and most people understand what it's trying to show. (And, as many a natural disaster has shown, people do revert back to "survival mode" - from the rich to the poor - when put in the right situations.)
As for your comment:
although I think the intellectual crowd tends to reach a (relatively) mature ethic earlier in life.
I'm curious as to what you mean by "ethic." My only remark is that, if you're part of the intellectual crowd, you may be bias. (I'm part of the same crowd though and my gut instinct is that, an intellectual crowd will think through things more and come to more advanced conclusions...but that's without any sort of scientific backing. And, of course, I am biased as well.)
Hmmm...I was obviously talking about professional engineers - not the guy who tightens the bolt on the assembly line. That's a completely different line of work and a completely different way of thinking.
Really? He became VP because he didn't document his code? While you may be right, I would think that there are other forces at work that you may not know about. Correlation != Causation
I thought hackers were supposed to be ingenious and creative thinkers. Not the equivalent dumbass jocks on a rampage.
I think it's interesting that "hackers" are supposed to be so much better/smarter than "dumbass jocks." Really, consider the comparison.
Dumbass jocks - Their turf is real life. Hackers - Their turf is computers.
You get either group on their own turf, they're going to act very similar. Heck, all hackers and jocks are human, so, when put in the right situation, they're going to react similarly (ala Lord of the Flies). No reason to expect one group to be "better" than the other.
First off, you mention that there are varying levels of skill sets and that is reason you have to document everything. That will always happen and will not change with any half-decent sized organization, so get used to it now.
As for methods of documentation, my organization has found wikis to be very useful with process documentation. The trick to getting everybody to contribute to the wiki is making it easy to edit. I personally prefer MediaWiki's software, but a lot of people look at the text and freak out. As a result, we employed a "Word-like" document editor and people have really jumped onto the idea. It's still taking convincing of people who are used to huge Word documents that they e-mail around, but the centralized location of the wiki is slowly drawing people over the idea.
One tough sell point of the wiki is, "everybody can edit it! Oh no!" I'd recommend heading this off right away. Force everybody to log in (maybe through their Windows account) so that every change is tracked. Additionally, head this off to explain that this is a huge benefit of everybody being able to edit is that nobody needs to type a huge amount of information. Each person contributes only what he or she knows. (This is all basic wiki information, but when trying to sell a new technology to an organization, you have to really make sure you cover all the areas.)
If documenting your technical procedures puts your job at risk, then you aren't the right things, to be valuable enough to your company in the first place. I would even venture that you don't know what you're doing that you can't sustain your career on your skills alone and have to use methods like this to maintain your employment.
This idea of "write crappy code" "no commenting" "don't document" and other ideas is what causes half of the issues that I deal with on a day-to-day basis. I would keep around someone who does the top three far before I would keep around someone who tries to maintain their job by making them the only one who can perform their job.
(Alright...rant off. I get really upset by this type of thinking.)
However, your post shows extreme shortsightedness to what the people of this world are interested in. Yeah, Facebook, Twitter and the like *can* be extreme wastes of time. But, there is a reason that so many people are drawn to those sites. As engineers and "nerds," it would be interesting to not only know why (psychology playing a huge role in this), but what can be done to leverage technologies like these to actually provide something "worthwhile." (I put worthwhile in quotes as the worth of something is very relative.)
What may or may not be important to you is not what the populace as a whole agrees with. You're definitely entitled to your own opinion (and I will agree with you to some extent), but given the number of users of these sites, it's important to consider the bigger picture and implications.
I would ask what age group of people you're looking for. Facebook started out as a college-only website in ~2003 timeframe. It's gained popularity among an older crowd when they opened themselves up to everybody, but it doesn't have the popularity that it does among "the kids."
I actually very much agree with you. I hate when people try to add me as a friend, and I haven't heard from or seen them in years.
HOWEVER...
There is one, and only one, reason I keep a Facebook account.
Everybody uses it.
I cannot name one close friend who does not use Facebook to at least some extent. It's how I find out about what's happening in regards to events (nobody e-mails or calls anymore - and Facebook's setup actually makes sense), it's how I get pictures of real life stuff I do with friends, etc, etc.
Deep down, I despise Facebook. I would love to get rid of it. But, then I would be very far out of the loop on even closer friends (or my siblings who live hundreds and thousands of miles away). Facebook is a great way of keeping in touch without having to take a lot of time to do it (I can't call every friend every single day, for example).
- Stimulus Could Give Battery Industry A Jolt - Stimulus Gives Battery Industry a Jump Start - Stimulus Gives the Battery Industry A Gift That Keeps Going and Going and Going... - Battery Industry Charged Over Stimulus
My tip to people going gambling - take along X amount of money, and when it's done, it's done. Plan on spending it like you would on any other form of entertainment. And, of course, as Bryansix said, free drinks are not a bad thing.
Why should people who had the dumb luck to be born in some shithole country be blessed with lower-priced medicine?
This statement boggles my mind.
Sure, the people born in the war-torn, poverty-ridden, disease-ridden, crime-laden hell hole of a country is getting cheaper medicine. Of course, then they're also dealing with war, heavy poverty, disease and crime.
What Americans fail to understand is that, even the most poor off and worst person in America is (many times) still doing better than some of "rich" people in other countries.
Of course, if you want to go live in said countries so you can get cheaper medicine, be my guest. You might learn a thing or two.
Slashdot Mirror
It's times like these I wish the mod points went higher than 5.
Thank you very much for a good laugh. QuickTime = The Plague on my computer. How I wish I could get rid of it.
You don't even need to use Hotmail for spam anymore. Instead, you can use GMail's (+) feature. So...when signing up on a site, type something like...
your.email+spam@gmail.com
Put whatever you want after the + sign. It will still route directly to your inbox. Then, just setup a filter to put anything with "+spam" to the spam folder or the trash or wherever.
It's a beautiful thing.
Alright, now that I made a funny, time to get serious for a second.
Microsoft doesn't need to point to another vendor's site. In fact, they could host the latest version of browser X on their own Windows Update site. Or, if they don't want to do that, they could pop up a Windows saying, "Browser X is not an official Microsoft browser and we do not take responsibility for...blah blah blah." That would probably deter people from using a new browser as well.
all of a sudden everyone who clicks to install SomeBrowser is installed what could probably be called Microsoft-sanctioned malware.
Well, I don't know why Microsoft would be worried about that now. Heck, they've been shipping Windows for the last 20+ years! (Ba dum tsh!)
Thank you! I'll be here all night! Please try the veal.
Internet Explorer runs faster on Windows than Firefox does. And it works with sites that use ActiveX.
I have had the exact opposite experience. I run both Windows XP and Windows Vista and Internet Explorer is *always* slower than Firefox. It's noticeably slower, actually. It's the reason I originally decided to stick with Firefox in the first place. (Of course, now I like Firefox for other reasons.)
How terrifying is the thought that news could be turned 100% into opinion piece blathering with no actual research.
Shhhh...nobody tell him about FOX News.
This has to be the funniest thing I have read on Slashdot in quite some time. I laughed out loud...real world style. Thanks!
Today is February 20. This is listed as a critical flaw and they are taking 18 days to release a patch. I'm glad they're getting right on this.
Isn't it obvious? They are fixing it as fast as they can. The first 3 days are spent fixing the bug. The next 15 days is the start-up time of Adobe Reader so they can test their bug fix.
Yes, I know it's fiction. I wasn't using it as an example of behavior. I was using it because it's relatively common and most people understand what it's trying to show. (And, as many a natural disaster has shown, people do revert back to "survival mode" - from the rich to the poor - when put in the right situations.)
As for your comment:
although I think the intellectual crowd tends to reach a (relatively) mature ethic earlier in life.
I'm curious as to what you mean by "ethic." My only remark is that, if you're part of the intellectual crowd, you may be bias. (I'm part of the same crowd though and my gut instinct is that, an intellectual crowd will think through things more and come to more advanced conclusions...but that's without any sort of scientific backing. And, of course, I am biased as well.)
Hmmm...I was obviously talking about professional engineers - not the guy who tightens the bolt on the assembly line. That's a completely different line of work and a completely different way of thinking.
Don't troll. It's unbecoming.
Really? He became VP because he didn't document his code? While you may be right, I would think that there are other forces at work that you may not know about. Correlation != Causation
I thought hackers were supposed to be ingenious and creative thinkers. Not the equivalent dumbass jocks on a rampage.
I think it's interesting that "hackers" are supposed to be so much better/smarter than "dumbass jocks." Really, consider the comparison.
Dumbass jocks - Their turf is real life.
Hackers - Their turf is computers.
You get either group on their own turf, they're going to act very similar. Heck, all hackers and jocks are human, so, when put in the right situation, they're going to react similarly (ala Lord of the Flies). No reason to expect one group to be "better" than the other.
First off, you mention that there are varying levels of skill sets and that is reason you have to document everything. That will always happen and will not change with any half-decent sized organization, so get used to it now.
As for methods of documentation, my organization has found wikis to be very useful with process documentation. The trick to getting everybody to contribute to the wiki is making it easy to edit. I personally prefer MediaWiki's software, but a lot of people look at the text and freak out. As a result, we employed a "Word-like" document editor and people have really jumped onto the idea. It's still taking convincing of people who are used to huge Word documents that they e-mail around, but the centralized location of the wiki is slowly drawing people over the idea.
One tough sell point of the wiki is, "everybody can edit it! Oh no!" I'd recommend heading this off right away. Force everybody to log in (maybe through their Windows account) so that every change is tracked. Additionally, head this off to explain that this is a huge benefit of everybody being able to edit is that nobody needs to type a huge amount of information. Each person contributes only what he or she knows. (This is all basic wiki information, but when trying to sell a new technology to an organization, you have to really make sure you cover all the areas.)
No. No no no no. Wrong. [RED FLASHING LIGHTS]
If documenting your technical procedures puts your job at risk, then you aren't the right things, to be valuable enough to your company in the first place. I would even venture that you don't know what you're doing that you can't sustain your career on your skills alone and have to use methods like this to maintain your employment.
This idea of "write crappy code" "no commenting" "don't document" and other ideas is what causes half of the issues that I deal with on a day-to-day basis. I would keep around someone who does the top three far before I would keep around someone who tries to maintain their job by making them the only one who can perform their job.
(Alright...rant off. I get really upset by this type of thinking.)
"Lying about it and causing a kerfluffle about it ought to be punishable."
Excellent use of the word kerfluffle, although the word is actually kerfuffle (no extra "L"). Man, that's a good word and should be used more often.
Kerfuffle
Kerfuffle
Kerfuffle
Well, I don't care so much about the downtime.
However, your post shows extreme shortsightedness to what the people of this world are interested in. Yeah, Facebook, Twitter and the like *can* be extreme wastes of time. But, there is a reason that so many people are drawn to those sites. As engineers and "nerds," it would be interesting to not only know why (psychology playing a huge role in this), but what can be done to leverage technologies like these to actually provide something "worthwhile." (I put worthwhile in quotes as the worth of something is very relative.)
What may or may not be important to you is not what the populace as a whole agrees with. You're definitely entitled to your own opinion (and I will agree with you to some extent), but given the number of users of these sites, it's important to consider the bigger picture and implications.
I would ask what age group of people you're looking for. Facebook started out as a college-only website in ~2003 timeframe. It's gained popularity among an older crowd when they opened themselves up to everybody, but it doesn't have the popularity that it does among "the kids."
I actually very much agree with you. I hate when people try to add me as a friend, and I haven't heard from or seen them in years.
HOWEVER...
There is one, and only one, reason I keep a Facebook account.
Everybody uses it.
I cannot name one close friend who does not use Facebook to at least some extent. It's how I find out about what's happening in regards to events (nobody e-mails or calls anymore - and Facebook's setup actually makes sense), it's how I get pictures of real life stuff I do with friends, etc, etc.
Deep down, I despise Facebook. I would love to get rid of it. But, then I would be very far out of the loop on even closer friends (or my siblings who live hundreds and thousands of miles away). Facebook is a great way of keeping in touch without having to take a lot of time to do it (I can't call every friend every single day, for example).
- Stimulus Could Give Battery Industry A Jolt
- Stimulus Gives Battery Industry a Jump Start
- Stimulus Gives the Battery Industry A Gift That Keeps Going and Going and Going...
- Battery Industry Charged Over Stimulus
But I don't think that they can legally use somebody else's actions against a prospective employee.
And how is he going to know whether they did use the information or not?
Well, that's actually good advice.
My tip to people going gambling - take along X amount of money, and when it's done, it's done. Plan on spending it like you would on any other form of entertainment. And, of course, as Bryansix said, free drinks are not a bad thing.
and they were being valued as being bigger than GM.
These days, the knitting that my grandmother sells at the yearly town fair is viewed as bigger than GM.
We love to talk shit about Wikipedia here on /,;
Hmmm...where can I find this Slashcomma site? Are there as many dupes posted as there are on Slashdot?
Why should people who had the dumb luck to be born in some shithole country be blessed with lower-priced medicine?
This statement boggles my mind.
Sure, the people born in the war-torn, poverty-ridden, disease-ridden, crime-laden hell hole of a country is getting cheaper medicine. Of course, then they're also dealing with war, heavy poverty, disease and crime.
What Americans fail to understand is that, even the most poor off and worst person in America is (many times) still doing better than some of "rich" people in other countries.
Of course, if you want to go live in said countries so you can get cheaper medicine, be my guest. You might learn a thing or two.
A study of 10,000 Amish people found there are no autistic Amish people. Amish do not vaccinate. To me that is all the evidence I need right there.
The strict Amish don't use electricity or computers. Maybe computer dust is causing autism.
Correlation != Causation