Look, I'm gonna be frank, Those fat ass outer planets haven't been pulling their own weight.
Haven't they, though? I'm no scientist (no, really) but doesn't their larger size have some kind of gravitational effect on other planets which helps keep them in proper orbit (or somesuch?)
I use my (PAID) yahoo account more than gmail because of this.
At least let me make rules to redirect my spam folder content to my inbox, or let me access the spam folder from my email client. I hate having to log on via a browser and wade through the spam folder because I might find an important message in there (and I often do).
In this area, I and many others find gmail sadly lacking, and their silence on the matter in response to queries is truly baffling.
I guess we could download the source and do it ourselves!
I don't know why so many comments were hating on this tool. As a big fan of "visualization" (Tufte books, etc.) I find Fudgie easy to understand and useful. The possibilities here are amazing.
who had trouble parsing this sentence?
"Moriarty, over on Ain't It Cool News is running a column about the upcoming J.J. Abrams Star Trek movie It took me three times to get it.
No, they don't have to open everything. But Microsoft has a history of being belligerent towards the open source communities. Everything from tweaking the SMB and Outlook APIs so as to break reverse-engineered implementations to using undocumented API calls to that whole "Linux users are Communists" flapadoo.
An overture of peace must be meaningful to the recipient, and the only sign of good faith Microsoft could offer would be to open up something that —as you put it— the community "really, really" wants.
To offer up a Slashdot bad-car analogy, GM can't say that they're committed to "going green" and then try to prove it by releasing a car painted in a new shade of green. That's lip service, and absolutely meaningless in the context of what "going green" actually means.
Microsoft is doing the same thing. Playing coy doesn't work for a huge corporation. They know exactly what the OSS community wants, and it is within their power to give it. So to do anything less does not constitute reaching out.
That said, even admitting out loud that "we know you want these APIs but it's tough for us to just give away the crown jewels, so bear with us while we learn how to change" would be a step in the right direction. But to ignore the issue completely while focusing on something far smaller that no one has even asked for is just more calculated Microsoft misdirection.
Once you start to blame Microsoft for everything, turn a cold shoulder towards them whenever they even mildly reach out, you're essentially becoming them on the other side of the mirror. What's worse is that this attitude will ensure that there will never be a point in time in the future when Microsoft can reconcile with OSS.
They aren't "reaching out" at all. If they really wanted to reach out, they would open the APIs for Outlook, Exchange, SMB, and who knows what else. Until they open these products, they're merely hand-waving. It's that simple.
They are a reputable dealer as per a couple of well-known cellphone forums (you might want to poke around the forums a little, and maybe even ask the question there):
Those decade old photos should be up on Google/Picasso, as an example. China has changed in so many ways in just the last ten years...of course, many things have not, but to see the cities grow can be interesting, I think:)
I've got mod points, but I think I'd rather participate.
it matters because if you have good rep on slashdot, chances are you're not a complete mumpty. On the other hand, if you have a dreadful karma on slashdot, you'll be saying the same old pants on other sites too.
And so what? Is all of this really so important? I find it fascinating that so many people on so many sites care more about their "reputations" than what they post.
It really ensures that if you post good stuff somewhere you can be trusted to post good stuff on other sites too.
Does it? Sometimes I don't WANT my "good" reputation to follow me. I like acting like a goon on something awful and like a lolcat-loving ding-dong on fark and like a...well...never-you-mind-like-what on consumptionjunction and 4chan.
When (and where) I want to be serious, I am. Others see it quickly enough too. It doesn't take long at each site I join for people to realize that I'm a "good poster". Honestly, it isn't complicated. Stay on topic, write well, be helpful, and the rest follows. Such has been my pattern over the years at sitepoint, namepros, webhostingtalk, and even here.
\Perhaps it's because I'm old \\And still use slashies \\\(reversed because slashdot doesn't like 'em forward for some reason)
Gizmodo had a recent review of the second rev eStarling, and had some pretty unkind things to say. FTFA:
The piss-poor image quality of this LCD panel made all that completely unimportant. The eStarling's screen is absolutely unacceptable. We tried displaying digital pictures of all different resolutions and aspect ratios on it, and all of them looked like we were viewing them on a cheap TV set. Yes, the images were in color, but that's about it. The display was just downright dim, blurry, and you could see scanlines and jaggies all through images that are normally tack-sharp. This display was so bad that it almost hurt our eyes to look at it.
I have found Gizmodo to be a reliable and unbiased source over the years, so I'd give this one a pass.
The industry pros discuss this sort of thing there all the time. The colocation sub-forum would be the best place to ask. I know that sounds odd, but that's the area on WHT where the best network/transit/BGP people hang out.
For 6-odd months I was a programmer with MCS (Microsoft Consulting Services). MS had just rolled out NT 3.1, and were just on the way to becoming an Evil Empire, which is actually why I quit.
I met billg during an MS-internal NT programming course in Seattle once, and he was obssessed with VB. Wanted everything done in VB. When I described the C++ work I was doing on some real-time newsfeed and stock quote applicaations for some big-name MS clients in New York, he started hammering me on why I wasn't using VB.
I was either too stupid or too naive or too hungover from the pervious night out to care, but I argued right back at him, telling him VB had a looooong way to go on the API front, the performance front, the stability front, etc.
He looked like he was ready to lock horns (and he was still *just* technically aware enough to have actually had an almost-descent tech conversation with), but his handlers ushered him away.
I got a good reputation after that for being utterly fearless, but for me that meeting was the metaphorical writing on the wall and I left soon after.
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Haven't they, though? I'm no scientist (no, really) but doesn't their larger size have some kind of gravitational effect on other planets which helps keep them in proper orbit (or somesuch?)
Someone help me out here?
And look good doing it too.
I use my (PAID) yahoo account more than gmail because of this.
At least let me make rules to redirect my spam folder content to my inbox, or let me access the spam folder from my email client. I hate having to log on via a browser and wade through the spam folder because I might find an important message in there (and I often do).
In this area, I and many others find gmail sadly lacking, and their silence on the matter in response to queries is truly baffling.
For some reason I just giggled like a schoolgirl when I read the article summary.
Yay for determination, passion and skill!
These folks remind me that there are still good, smart driven engineers out there, not just dullards and drones.
Why oh why don't the PHBs ever get this???
This would be very cool indeed.
I guess we could download the source and do it ourselves!
I don't know why so many comments were hating on this tool. As a big fan of "visualization" (Tufte books, etc.) I find Fudgie easy to understand and useful. The possibilities here are amazing.
Kudos to you, Fudgie (er...that sounds kinda bad)
Your analogy is filled with awesome and win. I wish I had mod points, but you seem to be well on your way.
This is the emergency holographic display hinge. Please state the nature of your display hinge emergency.
Thank you. I was about to post the same thing.
I think we need to step away from our screens for a while.
My preferred stack for years has been FLAPPP
FreeBSD, Lighttpd, Apache, PostgreSQL, Perl, PHP all running FLAPPPily together.
But shhhhh! A FLAPPPstack is like u****t; the first rule is that you don't talk about it.
No, they don't have to open everything. But Microsoft has a history of being belligerent towards the open source communities. Everything from tweaking the SMB and Outlook APIs so as to break reverse-engineered implementations to using undocumented API calls to that whole "Linux users are Communists" flapadoo.
An overture of peace must be meaningful to the recipient, and the only sign of good faith Microsoft could offer would be to open up something that —as you put it— the community "really, really" wants.
To offer up a Slashdot bad-car analogy, GM can't say that they're committed to "going green" and then try to prove it by releasing a car painted in a new shade of green. That's lip service, and absolutely meaningless in the context of what "going green" actually means.
Microsoft is doing the same thing. Playing coy doesn't work for a huge corporation. They know exactly what the OSS community wants, and it is within their power to give it. So to do anything less does not constitute reaching out.
That said, even admitting out loud that "we know you want these APIs but it's tough for us to just give away the crown jewels, so bear with us while we learn how to change" would be a step in the right direction. But to ignore the issue completely while focusing on something far smaller that no one has even asked for is just more calculated Microsoft misdirection.
They aren't "reaching out" at all. If they really wanted to reach out, they would open the APIs for Outlook, Exchange, SMB, and who knows what else. Until they open these products, they're merely hand-waving. It's that simple.
You can find several inexpensive unlocked GSM phones at http://myworldphone.com/
They are a reputable dealer as per a couple of well-known cellphone forums (you might want to poke around the forums a little, and maybe even ask the question there):
http://esato.com/
http://howardforums.com/
As stated in the title, I have no affiliation with any of these sites.
Anything with less Eric S. Raymond in it is good in my book.
I am, and I LOLed.
(remembers system 360s and 370s from college)
Seconded. I would love to see these.
And so what? Is all of this really so important? I find it fascinating that so many people on so many sites care more about their "reputations" than what they post.
Does it? Sometimes I don't WANT my "good" reputation to follow me. I like acting like a goon on something awful and like a lolcat-loving ding-dong on fark and like a...well...never-you-mind-like-what on consumptionjunction and 4chan.
When (and where) I want to be serious, I am. Others see it quickly enough too. It doesn't take long at each site I join for people to realize that I'm a "good poster". Honestly, it isn't complicated. Stay on topic, write well, be helpful, and the rest follows. Such has been my pattern over the years at sitepoint, namepros, webhostingtalk, and even here.
\Perhaps it's because I'm old
\\And still use slashies
\\\(reversed because slashdot doesn't like 'em forward for some reason)
At least I'm not the only one who though of Star Tekkin' by The Firm when I read that.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=FlTMXiqbDZU
This is the NEW slashdot. Only bad car analogies allowed. Please rephrase.
Not in the colo forum. Serious people do serious business there. The main hosting forum and the reseller forum are indeed both something of a joke.
But your answer (and your posting as AC) certainly tell me which parts of WHT *you're* familiar with, and more importantly, which parts you aren't.
The industry pros discuss this sort of thing there all the time. The colocation sub-forum would be the best place to ask. I know that sounds odd, but that's the area on WHT where the best network/transit/BGP people hang out.
For 6-odd months I was a programmer with MCS (Microsoft Consulting Services). MS had just rolled out NT 3.1, and were just on the way to becoming an Evil Empire, which is actually why I quit.
I met billg during an MS-internal NT programming course in Seattle once, and he was obssessed with VB. Wanted everything done in VB. When I described the C++ work I was doing on some real-time newsfeed and stock quote applicaations for some big-name MS clients in New York, he started hammering me on why I wasn't using VB.
I was either too stupid or too naive or too hungover from the pervious night out to care, but I argued right back at him, telling him VB had a looooong way to go on the API front, the performance front, the stability front, etc.
He looked like he was ready to lock horns (and he was still *just* technically aware enough to have actually had an almost-descent tech conversation with), but his handlers ushered him away.
I got a good reputation after that for being utterly fearless, but for me that meeting was the metaphorical writing on the wall and I left soon after.
And thanks for reading :) I hope it helps.