Great, yet another stupid feature (like splash screens) that yet another stupid batch of applications is going to use (autoupdate).
Windows/Linux et al need to open up the Update APIs so that only ONE application needs to update. I don't need Acrobat, Flash, MusicMatch, Office and Firefox all pinging webservers looking for updates when Windows Update, with a few tweaks and an API, is more than capable of managing it all for me, when *I* want to, and not have to deal with pop-ups and nag-ware anymore.
Not without a registry tweak, (although I think one of the new powertoys has a twiddle-box somewhere now). To be fair, bash and tcsh both also need variables set to enable this.
The problem is that the tax would be up front. Getting a rebate back on $1m worth of expenses on $1.1million worth of revenue would be harder for you than the guy making $20K per year and subject (one would hope) to closer review. In the end though, I can agree with this being a decent way of screwing the middle class.
Said attackers needed not crypto, munitions plans, or complex communications gear to pull off said attack. While I can agree with the GP in spirit, in practice I think it's naive to assume plans for missiles and anti-missile tools wouldn't eventually be used against us offensively if they fell into Iranian hands.
God I hate that. I couldn't remote manage a Cisco during a recent facilities move with a newer Serial Port-Less Thinkpad T43. I had to use a relatively ancient, but still very awesome HP Omnibook 6000. Saved the day that ancient hardware.
At 2AM, I would have been hardpressed to find a USB to Serial adapter at CompUsa.
I quit one job on personal ethic bias. It was the only one I've been walked out from. Even then, I spent time assisting my former bosses that things like router and firewall passwords were unchanged, and how to change them. The one time I was laid off, I was treated fairly well. Other than having to turn in my security card, and disabling my accounts, I was given free reign of the building to say my farewells to coworkers.
While I enjoy Joel's writings, in this case, I feel he's dead wrong. I routinely get interrupted by coworkers, and it's not the silly 15 second issues that disturb me, it's the complex issues that require me to visit their desks, make extra phone calls and the like. It takes me almost zero time to reacclimate where I was when I departed. It's the lost 15 minutes of time helping someone where the disturbance comes.
Then again, I have ADHD, so I'm used to rapidly switching tasks to stay interested...
We've got google desktop, which for nearly all written content, renders metadata less useful (not entirely, I concede).
In the scope of knowing which of these 1000 documents contains reference to Project Zorbulon, if you rely on metadata only (for example), you'll either get 0 to avg(doc count) returns as the average case, proper returns if your employees/content creators are diligent with metadata creation, or false positives. Whereas with proper automated search/indexing of content, you get 100% of hits that include Project Zorbulon.
I don't know. I like the idea of metadata. I just don't know how to solve the transportability/transferability issue. How do all computer systems treat metadata of a file, without resorting to file.ext.meta hacks? The Windows way of supporting multiple streams seems great:
file.txt
file.txt:stream1 <- Metadata here
But tools like tar, cp, mv, etc need to be able to work with this data, too. How to solve this problem?
No no, definitely not a Democrat, staunch independent. As a taxpayer of Massachusetts I want some of that $800m surplus back, but I'm pragmatic (pessimistic) enough to realize it's probably not going to happen.
You're talking about a Commonwealth that has a budget surplus right now, and one forecast for next year as well. Bottom dollar considerations do not apply as greatly as you would expect.
Because not everyone can spell properly, CDDB isn't always correct, and things get categorized wrong because no one bothers to put Metallica in "Heavy Metal" or "Rock" instead of "Classical"
It would be nice if every file had a section that specified it's metadata. Now how do you apply this to ASCII files? HTML? the like?
If, as expected, these spacecraft are going to orbit at the Lagrange points, then with an "eye-to-eye" distance of approximately 2*10^6 miles, and a distance of 93*10^6 miles to the sun, we get a ratio approximately 46:1.
Comparing my eyes at 3" in separation, to my ability to determine depth to at least 45", and you have a ratio greatly exceeding 150:1
I'd suggest that these spacecraft will do remarkably well in 3D compared to the human eye. Resolution, on the other hand, is a completely different argument.
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Great, yet another stupid feature (like splash screens) that yet another stupid batch of applications is going to use (autoupdate).
Windows/Linux et al need to open up the Update APIs so that only ONE application needs to update. I don't need Acrobat, Flash, MusicMatch, Office and Firefox all pinging webservers looking for updates when Windows Update, with a few tweaks and an API, is more than capable of managing it all for me, when *I* want to, and not have to deal with pop-ups and nag-ware anymore.
God, these people need to be shot.
Not without a registry tweak, (although I think one of the new powertoys has a twiddle-box somewhere now). To be fair, bash and tcsh both also need variables set to enable this.
Or if you have cable or ADSL, if you push 512k up you get exactly 0k down. Grrrrr.
Jeebus, dude, and M1A1 will fire itself for you...
The problem is that the tax would be up front. Getting a rebate back on $1m worth of expenses on $1.1million worth of revenue would be harder for you than the guy making $20K per year and subject (one would hope) to closer review. In the end though, I can agree with this being a decent way of screwing the middle class.
Said attackers needed not crypto, munitions plans, or complex communications gear to pull off said attack. While I can agree with the GP in spirit, in practice I think it's naive to assume plans for missiles and anti-missile tools wouldn't eventually be used against us offensively if they fell into Iranian hands.
But that is why there is an arms race, after all.
I'm not sure what you're talking about. Rarely when I'm searching does a wikipedia entry come up first, or even in the top 10 results for me.
My retort to that is take a three-week vacation. :-)
Why so?
Personally, I've found a half-hour or so of kumite to be a wonderful form of foreplay.
Really? Name it please. Because I've yet to find a single laptop LCD at the 15.4" form factor with 1900x1200 resolution. 1600x1040, yes...
God I hate that. I couldn't remote manage a Cisco during a recent facilities move with a newer Serial Port-Less Thinkpad T43. I had to use a relatively ancient, but still very awesome HP Omnibook 6000. Saved the day that ancient hardware.
At 2AM, I would have been hardpressed to find a USB to Serial adapter at CompUsa.
Don't forget Calumet Photo.
HP UX HATES passwords with @ in them.
I quit one job on personal ethic bias. It was the only one I've been walked out from. Even then, I spent time assisting my former bosses that things like router and firewall passwords were unchanged, and how to change them. The one time I was laid off, I was treated fairly well. Other than having to turn in my security card, and disabling my accounts, I was given free reign of the building to say my farewells to coworkers.
While I enjoy Joel's writings, in this case, I feel he's dead wrong. I routinely get interrupted by coworkers, and it's not the silly 15 second issues that disturb me, it's the complex issues that require me to visit their desks, make extra phone calls and the like. It takes me almost zero time to reacclimate where I was when I departed. It's the lost 15 minutes of time helping someone where the disturbance comes.
Then again, I have ADHD, so I'm used to rapidly switching tasks to stay interested...
Now if they'll fix MSDN, I'll be happy with them again.
Probably a vhost that just clobbered 10 of their OTHER customers.
We've got google desktop, which for nearly all written content, renders metadata less useful (not entirely, I concede).
In the scope of knowing which of these 1000 documents contains reference to Project Zorbulon, if you rely on metadata only (for example), you'll either get 0 to avg(doc count) returns as the average case, proper returns if your employees/content creators are diligent with metadata creation, or false positives. Whereas with proper automated search/indexing of content, you get 100% of hits that include Project Zorbulon.
I don't know. I like the idea of metadata. I just don't know how to solve the transportability/transferability issue. How do all computer systems treat metadata of a file, without resorting to file.ext.meta hacks? The Windows way of supporting multiple streams seems great:
file.txt
file.txt:stream1 <- Metadata here
But tools like tar, cp, mv, etc need to be able to work with this data, too. How to solve this problem?
No no, definitely not a Democrat, staunch independent. As a taxpayer of Massachusetts I want some of that $800m surplus back, but I'm pragmatic (pessimistic) enough to realize it's probably not going to happen.
Odds are, those are the blogs that aren't worth reading in the first place.
You're talking about a Commonwealth that has a budget surplus right now, and one forecast for next year as well. Bottom dollar considerations do not apply as greatly as you would expect.
Because not everyone can spell properly, CDDB isn't always correct, and things get categorized wrong because no one bothers to put Metallica in "Heavy Metal" or "Rock" instead of "Classical"
It would be nice if every file had a section that specified it's metadata. Now how do you apply this to ASCII files? HTML? the like?
s/45"/45'/g
If, as expected, these spacecraft are going to orbit at the Lagrange points, then with an "eye-to-eye" distance of approximately 2*10^6 miles, and a distance of 93*10^6 miles to the sun, we get a ratio approximately 46:1.
Comparing my eyes at 3" in separation, to my ability to determine depth to at least 45", and you have a ratio greatly exceeding 150:1
I'd suggest that these spacecraft will do remarkably well in 3D compared to the human eye. Resolution, on the other hand, is a completely different argument.