And that's why the Linux world is STILL trying to figure out how to INSTALL software. You've created such a horrid mess of interlinked libraries and packages that you can no longer even distribute a program without a huge effort.
Linux users used to mock Windows users for "DLL hell" back in the nineties. And then they went on to create something orders of magnitude worse.
In the rest of the civilized world, software installations do not depend on a big tree of other software installations, but instead include the files they need in their own distribution, thus working more or less out of the box.
I know this is a somewhat alien concept to most Linux users, but this is really how things work.
And why wouldn't I just encrypt my traffic with the password both the server and I know, thus eliminating both man-in-the-middle attacks, and establishing trust, without ever exchanging keys?
That is just about the most cluttered and horribly coloured web design I've seen all month. Congratulations. Maybe there's some worthwhile information on your site, but I will not know until it becomes less painful to look at.
...except you're just regurgitating information from an old Google story that has nothing to do with Google Maps, which doesn't use XMLHttpRequest at all, but instead far simpler DHTML tricks.
Why, exactly, would you say that "e = mc2" would have sounded like "total utter snake-oil lubed bullshit" to anyone? Maybe you can cite some sources for that claim?
We're stuck with this design because Microsoft uses it and is unwilling to change, and everybody else just copies Microsoft.
It is actually a horribly awkward user interface metaphor, and it gets in the way much more than it helps, and is fairly incomprehensible to new users. But nobody cares at this point of the game.
This has nothing to do with full disclosure. It is both responsible and customary to contant the developers responsible for the security hole in secret first, let them make a fix, and only then disclose the details.
Did you ever wonder why it is that most open-soruce security holes announced on slashdot have patches ready at the same time? It's not because open-source developer move lightning fast to patch. It's because they've had advance warning to develop and test the fixes before the announcement is made.
(x) Requires cooperation from too many of your friends and is counterintuitive (x) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business (x) Open relays in foreign countries (x) Asshats (x) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack (x) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes (x) Extreme profitability of spam (x) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
Snuff out the trolls, and you'll find a site filled with zealots and closet luddites and technophobes.
If it isn't aggressive Microsoft bashing or Linux apologetics ("I don't WANT software that's easy to use, and you're and idiot if you do!"), it's either doomsday prophecies about or belittling of the latest technological advances.
I can only hope this is because the actual intelligent people have long since given up on the site.
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"I figured out you were a troll, but since I don't actually understand the meaning of this word, I shall proceed to fall for you trickery anyway in an attempt to show my own superiority."
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> The truth of the matter is that the $10 one time fee serves to keeps the riff-raff out.
Ah yes, this is why Something Awful members are know as such refined and upstanding citizens.
> It's an advertisement first, comedy second.
If it's comedy second, it's not comedy in the first place. Humour with an agenda is not humour.
> Dev: "Here, we recreated the photoshop interface for Gimp. You may be more comfortable with it now"
Wait, when did this happen again?
That's what developers are THERE for. Offloading the developer's work onto the user is utterly crazy.
But quite common in the open-source world, and apparently this is supposed to be accepted behaviour.
And that's why the Linux world is STILL trying to figure out how to INSTALL software. You've created such a horrid mess of interlinked libraries and packages that you can no longer even distribute a program without a huge effort.
Linux users used to mock Windows users for "DLL hell" back in the nineties. And then they went on to create something orders of magnitude worse.
In the rest of the civilized world, software installations do not depend on a big tree of other software installations, but instead include the files they need in their own distribution, thus working more or less out of the box.
I know this is a somewhat alien concept to most Linux users, but this is really how things work.
> Agreed, there is balkanization in copy/paste methods in KDE. But OSX is not entirely consistent either, if you use any X apps.
GEE I WONDER IF THAT MIGHT BE A SYMPTOM OF THE PROBLEMS THE ORIGINAL POSTER WAS COMPLAINING ABOUT
I think this article is actually some sort of pastiche of the archetypal Slashdot post.
I think the word you're looking for is "unfunny". Possibly "inane", or "embarrassing".
And why wouldn't I just encrypt my traffic with the password both the server and I know, thus eliminating both man-in-the-middle attacks, and establishing trust, without ever exchanging keys?
That is just about the most cluttered and horribly coloured web design I've seen all month. Congratulations. Maybe there's some worthwhile information on your site, but I will not know until it becomes less painful to look at.
Saying "RFID" to a Slashdotter is like saying "nuclear" to an environmentalist. Both will react with as much blind fear and lack of rationality.
...except you're just regurgitating information from an old Google story that has nothing to do with Google Maps, which doesn't use XMLHttpRequest at all, but instead far simpler DHTML tricks.
So, when are we going to get an apology from the editors for posting an ad for an obvious scam?
No, I kid, I kid.
Why, exactly, would you say that "e = mc2" would have sounded like "total utter snake-oil lubed bullshit" to anyone? Maybe you can cite some sources for that claim?
We're stuck with this design because Microsoft uses it and is unwilling to change, and everybody else just copies Microsoft.
It is actually a horribly awkward user interface metaphor, and it gets in the way much more than it helps, and is fairly incomprehensible to new users. But nobody cares at this point of the game.
Would you like some cheese with that whine?
This has nothing to do with full disclosure. It is both responsible and customary to contant the developers responsible for the security hole in secret first, let them make a fix, and only then disclose the details.
Did you ever wonder why it is that most open-soruce security holes announced on slashdot have patches ready at the same time? It's not because open-source developer move lightning fast to patch. It's because they've had advance warning to develop and test the fixes before the announcement is made.
None of these apply:
(x) Requires cooperation from too many of your friends and is counterintuitive
(x) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
(x) Open relays in foreign countries
(x) Asshats
(x) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
(x) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
(x) Extreme profitability of spam
(x) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
Snuff out the trolls, and you'll find a site filled with zealots and closet luddites and technophobes.
If it isn't aggressive Microsoft bashing or Linux apologetics ("I don't WANT software that's easy to use, and you're and idiot if you do!"), it's either doomsday prophecies about or belittling of the latest technological advances.
I can only hope this is because the actual intelligent people have long since given up on the site.
Wow, a little bit defensive, are we?
"I figured out you were a troll, but since I don't actually understand the meaning of this word, I shall proceed to fall for you trickery anyway in an attempt to show my own superiority."
> If you see parentheses nested three or more layers deep, you can be sure the text was authored by a code jockey.
What if you see the word "author" used as a verb?
Yes, he said "here on slashdot".
Yes, the lack of desktop alternatives is one of the main reasons Windows has been so unsuccessful.