Elite or competent? I'm all for people tinkering with software in their spare time the problem is people who arent qualified start thinking *everything* in software development is as simple as the tiny little things they are doing. Then we end up with Visual Basic(the birth of Visual Basic came with the motto "its so easy you know longer need programmers... managers can write the code"... that worked out well).
Woooah there big fella. I didn't say that at all. I just said I don't care for those organisations as they are usually as you say a pain in the arse. They make me not really give a shit about what I do. So I now try not to work in places like that. Large enterprises are often full of clueless idiots in Change Control and Security.
I've been a contractor in large organisation where nobody in the security team knew what a buffer overflow vulnerability was(I was making idle chit chat with one person and asked if he had heard about one that had been discovered in the version of openssh we were using... next thing I know I get emails from security team members asking me what they should do... hell I had an application assess for security vulnerabilities by a guy who had no idea what a web server was). I've met UNIX "admins" that asked me what a quota limits were(a server I had a app running on was complaining that there was no more disk space... the admin checked it and saw there was 90% disk space free... I asked him to check the quota...). I've met network "admins" who don't know what UDP or TCP is. I've met fellow developers who, and I quote, "Don't think binary trees are used any more because of Java".
It's just my personal opinion but I would rather no longer subject myself to working with such, at best, mediocrity.
Oh I agree with you. This is why I now avoid working in large enterprises. The work is generally more satisfying in a small/medium size business. Far less tedious, time wasting meetings about nothing. And nothing beats actually helping people get there stuff done better because of you.
And in some places I have worked you would now get the following...
Were you authorised to show these people CutePDF? Who gave you permission to to install CutePDF on their machines? Did you fully evaluate CutePDF to certify that it is the Best of Breed? Are their security implications to using CutePDF? Who is now responible for maintaining CutePDF? Who is going to train users on its use? Has it been fully documented? Are change control and the standard image build team aware of this?
In such environments it is much easier and healthier to just not care any more.... the above situation is not uncommon.
There was a guy in Australia that was saying all catalytic converters would stop working at the stroke of midnight(Oddly no "journalist" ever asked him why a catalytic converter would be interested in what the date was). By an amazingly fortuitous coincident he had just published a book explaining how to survive such disasters. 2K was a great time to be a scam artist.
Also Borland. Many programmer out there like me cut their teeth using Borland Pascal/C/C++.... then we went thru a brief optimism with Delphi... then the insane Inprise name change... then a long spiral into insignificance. RIP Borland.
No. Because I didn't do it for those reasons. I did it because I wanted Killing in the Name to be the Christmas single. This would achieve 2 things for me 1. It would amuse me 2. It would save me from having to listen to a cover of a Miley Cyrus song everywhere I go for the next month(that's what they do with the Xmas No 1... every shopping centre and starbucks in the country plays it ad nauseum)
Im in the UK and I bought 6 copies of Killing in the Name. It was not about "sticking it to the man"(I'm 37 for christ's sake). Nor do I give two shits that Sony is making money off of it. I don;t give a fuck what Simon Cowell thinks of anything. I just wanted Killing in the Name to be number one at christmas. I wanted something other than the bland, synthesised crap that we get as a christmas number 1 these last few years. This is not a political statment. Please try to understand that.
I used to write filter drivers for NT. A filter driver is a driver that essentially sits in a stack of other filter drivers that process data to and from the hard disk. Do not get me started on Norton antivirus and it behaviour as a virus scanner. Also Word and Excel also do odd things when writing to the hard disk(I suspect they are using file system features that are not common/undocumented). Also don't get me start on the lack of documentation when writing file filter drivers in windows.
I'm not a day to day user of KDE so I can't comment on its features... but if you mean the group of related applications in windows then it is lame... It just groups together all the same windows of that application. With a tabbed browser I don't have to click on the taskbar item to see the list. Anyway what I would like to see is tabbed windows... that is windows that are grouped together in a tabbed parent window. These windows would be completely arbitrary... I could have a tabbed session with a word processor, a browser, a video game, a whatever. I think that is different unless I am misunderstanding what you mean by taskbar grouping?
I don't think it game changing. But there is the important difference that I only have one taskbar. With my browsing I will tend to have multiple browser windows each with multiple tabs... each window will be a different "topic" such as a particular thing I'm looking up... or a personal window with my email etc. If people are using tabs and only have one browser window then I think they are doing it wrong.
Scientists are just as online and wired as the rest of the world... they email each other, read each others papers and attend conferences regardless of nationality. Just imagine one researcher reading the usenet post or paper of someone else doing the same type of work as her... of course they will contact that person.
A real story from me was when I was at university and introduced a friend of mine(doign a PhD in microbiology) to USENET... this guy had never used or really heard of the Internet as it was quite new(and I am old:) )... A few days after showing him sci.biology(or whatever) and how to post he was so excited that he had already made contact with 4 or 5 people around the globe engaging in similar areas of research as him... It was truly an eye opener for me as to how powerful the Internet was going to be and how it would impact the world some day... alas I did not anticipate rickrolling or LOLcats...
It's not just disingenuous it's just just plain wrong. SF has never been about predicting the future. SF is an extremely broad genre but if I had to put it into a sound bite I would say it is about positing a "what if" and writing a story about it(this leave out a bunch of SF subcategories I know)... what if advanced aliens showed up tomorrow. What if we all had computers in our brains. What if we could travel quickly across the galaxy. What if there was an evil dystopic government that monitored our every move. They are all clichés in SF... but the stories written around them are about how human beings react to the changes. SF in a literacy genre that is an obvious reaction to the rapid changes in technology in the last several hundred years. And sometimes there are green slave girls involved.
Excellent. Your post and the ones below this clear up my problems and I agree with you. From my knowledge I am unaware of unix like operating systems to do this tho I can think of ways to do it if required. I agree this is not the same as sudo but does not really deserve a patent... its really not all that novel:)
I think I and other in this thread are not quite getting what you are saying. It has been said before. In both OS X and Linux if you attempt to do something that requries elevated permissions you will be prompted with a GUI thing. In OS X you will be promted with a box say are you sure(if you have not set up a root account) and a box asking for the root password(if you have). In say ubunut if I run the synaptic package manager to install new software I will be gui proimpted for a password to authorise this.
Can you please explain why this is different than the patent?
While Ill agree with you about sudo I would point out that many GUI systems including Linux and OS X *do* present a GUI when attempting to execute a task that requires higher permissions.
Settle down guy. My father worked many year in Au DoD and it is a bit of a running gag in those circles.... that the US invested all that money and our little OTHR can detect it. You are, like, aware that Australia and the United State a very strong allies and all. I heard about the test... the US sent out stealth aircraft and they were detected. I was a bit taken aback by the wake turbulence bit cause I thought that gave away a bit too much detail.
Hmmm... I thought we were still supposed to be keeping this a secret(Im an ex Australian DoD type)... you may be interested to know that the technology investment in Project Jindalee(BTW Jindalee means bare bones - a commentary on the funding situation from what I understand) is now used in over the horizon radar on Australia's north coast.
I am an Electronics Engineer and you are forgetting about heat dissipation. We would love to have 3 dimension integrated circuits but unless we come up with a good way to dissipate the heat they will be little molten balls of almost pure Si(or GaAs).
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I grew up in Australia and now live in Europe. Australia is much more sparsely populated than the US and we ditched the cheque before Europe.
Elite or competent? I'm all for people tinkering with software in their spare time the problem is people who arent qualified start thinking *everything* in software development is as simple as the tiny little things they are doing. Then we end up with Visual Basic(the birth of Visual Basic came with the motto "its so easy you know longer need programmers... managers can write the code"... that worked out well).
Woooah there big fella. I didn't say that at all. I just said I don't care for those organisations as they are usually as you say a pain in the arse. They make me not really give a shit about what I do. So I now try not to work in places like that. Large enterprises are often full of clueless idiots in Change Control and Security.
I've been a contractor in large organisation where nobody in the security team knew what a buffer overflow vulnerability was(I was making idle chit chat with one person and asked if he had heard about one that had been discovered in the version of openssh we were using... next thing I know I get emails from security team members asking me what they should do... hell I had an application assess for security vulnerabilities by a guy who had no idea what a web server was). I've met UNIX "admins" that asked me what a quota limits were(a server I had a app running on was complaining that there was no more disk space... the admin checked it and saw there was 90% disk space free... I asked him to check the quota...). I've met network "admins" who don't know what UDP or TCP is. I've met fellow developers who, and I quote, "Don't think binary trees are used any more because of Java".
It's just my personal opinion but I would rather no longer subject myself to working with such, at best, mediocrity.
Oh I agree with you. This is why I now avoid working in large enterprises. The work is generally more satisfying in a small/medium size business. Far less tedious, time wasting meetings about nothing. And nothing beats actually helping people get there stuff done better because of you.
And in some places I have worked you would now get the following...
Were you authorised to show these people CutePDF? Who gave you permission to to install CutePDF on their machines? Did you fully evaluate CutePDF to certify that it is the Best of Breed? Are their security implications to using CutePDF? Who is now responible for maintaining CutePDF? Who is going to train users on its use? Has it been fully documented? Are change control and the standard image build team aware of this?
In such environments it is much easier and healthier to just not care any more.... the above situation is not uncommon.
I'd be more concern about these guys
There was a guy in Australia that was saying all catalytic converters would stop working at the stroke of midnight(Oddly no "journalist" ever asked him why a catalytic converter would be interested in what the date was). By an amazingly fortuitous coincident he had just published a book explaining how to survive such disasters. 2K was a great time to be a scam artist.
Also Borland. Many programmer out there like me cut their teeth using Borland Pascal/C/C++.... then we went thru a brief optimism with Delphi... then the insane Inprise name change... then a long spiral into insignificance. RIP Borland.
No. Because I didn't do it for those reasons. I did it because I wanted Killing in the Name to be the Christmas single. This would achieve 2 things for me 1. It would amuse me 2. It would save me from having to listen to a cover of a Miley Cyrus song everywhere I go for the next month(that's what they do with the Xmas No 1... every shopping centre and starbucks in the country plays it ad nauseum)
It doesn't matter. It's just a laugh.
40p refers to the retail price. Amazon confirmed that it was paying 40p and taking a loss on the single.
I think you are reading far too much into this. Lighten up.
At 29 pence a copy it cost a grand total of £1.74...
Im in the UK and I bought 6 copies of Killing in the Name. It was not about "sticking it to the man"(I'm 37 for christ's sake). Nor do I give two shits that Sony is making money off of it. I don;t give a fuck what Simon Cowell thinks of anything. I just wanted Killing in the Name to be number one at christmas. I wanted something other than the bland, synthesised crap that we get as a christmas number 1 these last few years. This is not a political statment. Please try to understand that.
I used to write filter drivers for NT. A filter driver is a driver that essentially sits in a stack of other filter drivers that process data to and from the hard disk. Do not get me started on Norton antivirus and it behaviour as a virus scanner. Also Word and Excel also do odd things when writing to the hard disk(I suspect they are using file system features that are not common/undocumented). Also don't get me start on the lack of documentation when writing file filter drivers in windows.
I'm not a day to day user of KDE so I can't comment on its features... but if you mean the group of related applications in windows then it is lame... It just groups together all the same windows of that application. With a tabbed browser I don't have to click on the taskbar item to see the list. Anyway what I would like to see is tabbed windows... that is windows that are grouped together in a tabbed parent window. These windows would be completely arbitrary... I could have a tabbed session with a word processor, a browser, a video game, a whatever. I think that is different unless I am misunderstanding what you mean by taskbar grouping?
I don't think it game changing. But there is the important difference that I only have one taskbar. With my browsing I will tend to have multiple browser windows each with multiple tabs... each window will be a different "topic" such as a particular thing I'm looking up... or a personal window with my email etc. If people are using tabs and only have one browser window then I think they are doing it wrong.
Scientists are just as online and wired as the rest of the world... they email each other, read each others papers and attend conferences regardless of nationality. Just imagine one researcher reading the usenet post or paper of someone else doing the same type of work as her... of course they will contact that person.
:) )... A few days after showing him sci.biology(or whatever) and how to post he was so excited that he had already made contact with 4 or 5 people around the globe engaging in similar areas of research as him... It was truly an eye opener for me as to how powerful the Internet was going to be and how it would impact the world some day... alas I did not anticipate rickrolling or LOLcats...
A real story from me was when I was at university and introduced a friend of mine(doign a PhD in microbiology) to USENET... this guy had never used or really heard of the Internet as it was quite new(and I am old
It's not just disingenuous it's just just plain wrong. SF has never been about predicting the future. SF is an extremely broad genre but if I had to put it into a sound bite I would say it is about positing a "what if" and writing a story about it(this leave out a bunch of SF subcategories I know)... what if advanced aliens showed up tomorrow. What if we all had computers in our brains. What if we could travel quickly across the galaxy. What if there was an evil dystopic government that monitored our every move. They are all clichés in SF... but the stories written around them are about how human beings react to the changes. SF in a literacy genre that is an obvious reaction to the rapid changes in technology in the last several hundred years. And sometimes there are green slave girls involved.
Excellent. Your post and the ones below this clear up my problems and I agree with you. From my knowledge I am unaware of unix like operating systems to do this tho I can think of ways to do it if required. I agree this is not the same as sudo but does not really deserve a patent... its really not all that novel :)
I think I and other in this thread are not quite getting what you are saying. It has been said before. In both OS X and Linux if you attempt to do something that requries elevated permissions you will be prompted with a GUI thing. In OS X you will be promted with a box say are you sure(if you have not set up a root account) and a box asking for the root password(if you have). In say ubunut if I run the synaptic package manager to install new software I will be gui proimpted for a password to authorise this.
Can you please explain why this is different than the patent?
While Ill agree with you about sudo I would point out that many GUI systems including Linux and OS X *do* present a GUI when attempting to execute a task that requires higher permissions.
Settle down guy. My father worked many year in Au DoD and it is a bit of a running gag in those circles.... that the US invested all that money and our little OTHR can detect it. You are, like, aware that Australia and the United State a very strong allies and all. I heard about the test... the US sent out stealth aircraft and they were detected. I was a bit taken aback by the wake turbulence bit cause I thought that gave away a bit too much detail.
Hmmm... I thought we were still supposed to be keeping this a secret(Im an ex Australian DoD type)... you may be interested to know that the technology investment in Project Jindalee(BTW Jindalee means bare bones - a commentary on the funding situation from what I understand) is now used in over the horizon radar on Australia's north coast.
I am an Electronics Engineer and you are forgetting about heat dissipation. We would love to have 3 dimension integrated circuits but unless we come up with a good way to dissipate the heat they will be little molten balls of almost pure Si(or GaAs).