It's also true for regular Ubuntu I guess, but it just noticed it with the screenshot in TFA for some reason: that whole bar at the top of the screen completely defeats the purpose of Chromium's "tabs at the top of the screen" approach.
Yes, In 2008 AD you can do granular password policies, and yes this works VERY well. Not only do I have a pile of users with 15+ characters, I have users who WANT to use these passwords.
(dramatic voice) Welcome to the world of tomorrow!
Hey, relax. I wasn't trying to be agressive, I'm just saying it's ok for people to disapprove of Perelman's behaviour a to voice that disapproval. What's so wrong with that?
Hey, freedom goes both ways. He's free to say it's all bullshit and he doesn't want anything but for people to fuck off and leave him alone, I'm free to voice my opinion that it's selfish and stupid.
... it's a bit too unreliable and, more importantly, changeable...
Its changeability doesn't prevent you from citing it though: in the toolbox section on the left side of any page, there's a "cite this page" link, which gives you a link to the specific revision you're currently looking at. The main article may change, but that revision is immutable.
(I had to explain that to a friend of mine who's a teacher, not long after explaining him - to his amazement - that yes, anyone can actually modify it)
Also, never underestimate the fact of self-preservation, when encountered in a life threatening situation, people tend to do the right thing and move away from danger. People are self-regulating when it comes to life and death.
I doubt that very much. When faced with an imminent and life threatening potential car crash, people don't usually swerve or accelerate to try and avoid it, they completely panic and slam their breaks as hard as they can.
Exactly. That's the one big fact that always made me skeptical of the idea that goto was bad.
Of course, the point is that there are better structures that are often more elegant or appropriate, but I think a goto can be useful, even in high-level programming. I've found Bram Cohen's blog entry on the matter to be quite interesting: http://bramcohen.livejournal.com/66555.html
FTFA, the part about the Quicktake: "Sure you could download your snaps very easily onto your computer but that hardly made it a usable product. It typified Apple's approach at the time, when the company's management thought that its users would buy almost anything if it had an Apple logo on it. That attitude seems to be largely reformed now, although if you look at the iPod Shuffle I have my doubts."
I do remember using QuickTime, probably 2.x, on win95, around twelve or thirteen years ago. It was good indeed, in the sense that it got the job done. But then again, video on a personal computer was a relatively recent idea, and as you pointed out it was pretty much the only app which did that. If I may risk an analogy, it's as if you said Lotus SmartSuite is really cool because 1-2-3 once was.
I'm a non-native English speaker, and the confusion between the two has always puzzled me. To me the difference is extremely obvious, "it's" being the contraction of "it is", and "its" being possessive, like "his" or "hers". They have completely different meanings. The only times I see this mistake from non-native speakers, it's from people who have only a very basic knowledge of English, and more specifically never read anything written in English except an e-mail. They haven't learned the difference nor have been confronted to it, so they just pick randomly, and continue to do so because nobody corrects them. I suspect the reason many native speakers make the mistake is precisely because it's so common, i.e. when you start seeing a mistake very frequently you stop parsing it as one because it doesn't stand out anymore.
As a side note, there are many grammar nazis on slashdot, and this whole thread has a very orgiac feel to it, it's a lot of fun to read:-)
(and occasionally educational too, which is how slashdot should always be)
And what if you don't need or want them to stick around? I need to take notes for my daily work, and I never have to keep them. I throw paper away every single day. How about when you quickly write something down on a piece of paper during a meeting, only to transcribe it later on the computer?
Rubbish. If you connection is down you can't download your new mails or get the latest friend invites from facebook, same as with any other os / app.
But most (all?) google apps are now usable offline, same as any desktop app. So what you're saying is basically "when I have no internet I can't access internet, and it's google's fault"
I see no reason why you can't have your "traditional" development model (deadlines, programmers paid to do stuff they don't like, all those niceties) and still release the code as OSS. How about Ubuntu? Don't they have all of the above?
The fact that anyone can access and modify the code doesn't mean it must only be provided by volunteers.
Are we really in such a hurry when reading code? I'm under the impression that fixed fonts allow us, when we parse code, to see the different elements more clearly because their size is determined by the number of characters. But that's just an intuition. Anyone else has the same feeling?
The killer feature isn't speed, it's battery life. Being able to do useful office type work or to watch video for even 8 hours is priceless. With current laptops or even netbooks battery life is always something that has to be carefully managed, and while smartphones last long enough they are too small to use for the same kind of purposes.
Anectodes are meaningless. A few years ago I complained to google about some issue with google calendar (if I recall correctly), and a couple of days after the automated reply, I got a personal mail that was very helpful and friendly. That was while I was a mere user, not even a customer.
It gave me a good image of them much like your own experience gave you a bad one, but it doesn't prove anything, does it?
Surely you mean once they get past the "ow that hurts" misconception.
If it hurts, it's not done properly. The millions of people who enjoy anal sex are not all masochists:)
But I never said it should be illegal, where did you get that from? I think everyone should be free do end their life whenever they want, and should be helped if they're unable to do it for themselves. I'm only saying it's very often a bad idea, and suggesting that there may be some hope. Is that so crazy?
Beyond our purely thoeretical discussion about philosophy and politics, there's someone talking seriously about suicide. For real. I just don't feel like joining the apathetic lack of reaction, the "meh, whatever, he's free to do it" attitude.
Sure he's free to do it, and he should definitely be allowed to make that decision. I am merely suggesting he doesn't.
Hey, I know this is just an online forum, but I feel I gotta say what I'm suprised noone else has said yet : don't kill yourself!
Seriously, I won't claim I know how you feel because I can't possibly fathom what it must be like to suffer that much. But I know there are some people who carry on despite terrible diseases and constant pain, so I know it must be possible somehow. Adaptation takes time, I guess, but I think it's possible.
The point is, you can never know for sure what life has in store. It may seem completely hopeless now, but what if six months after you kill yourself some researcher stumbles entirely by chance upon a new drug that works wonders for Crohn's? You won't be able to feel silly, because you'll be dead. Besides, you never know what an individual can bring to others, or just how important he can be. What if you turn out to have a child that becomes the new Gandhi? What if your friendship and example of courage prevents someone else from comitting suicide, and that person goes on help thousands of others somehow?
I don't want to appear to give you lessons, but I genuinely believe that struglling for survival is always the most logical option. Sometimes you have no power to improve your situation at all, but that possibility may come later. To take advantage of it, you have to survive long enough. You want to get rid of your suffering, and suicide will do that. But it will also rid you of the enjoyment of not suffering, making the whole thing pointless.
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It's also true for regular Ubuntu I guess, but it just noticed it with the screenshot in TFA for some reason: that whole bar at the top of the screen completely defeats the purpose of Chromium's "tabs at the top of the screen" approach.
Yes, In 2008 AD you can do granular password policies, and yes this works VERY well. Not only do I have a pile of users with 15+ characters, I have users who WANT to use these passwords.
(dramatic voice)
Welcome to the world of tomorrow!
I'd say almost. Still uncanny, but now hardly more than some real people who pump their faces full of botox.
Hey, relax. I wasn't trying to be agressive, I'm just saying it's ok for people to disapprove of Perelman's behaviour a to voice that disapproval. What's so wrong with that?
Hey, freedom goes both ways. He's free to say it's all bullshit and he doesn't want anything but for people to fuck off and leave him alone, I'm free to voice my opinion that it's selfish and stupid.
... it's a bit too unreliable and, more importantly, changeable...
Its changeability doesn't prevent you from citing it though: in the toolbox section on the left side of any page, there's a "cite this page" link, which gives you a link to the specific revision you're currently looking at. The main article may change, but that revision is immutable.
(I had to explain that to a friend of mine who's a teacher, not long after explaining him - to his amazement - that yes, anyone can actually modify it)
Also, never underestimate the fact of self-preservation, when encountered in a life threatening situation, people tend to do the right thing and move away from danger. People are self-regulating when it comes to life and death.
I doubt that very much. When faced with an imminent and life threatening potential car crash, people don't usually swerve or accelerate to try and avoid it, they completely panic and slam their breaks as hard as they can.
Exactly. That's the one big fact that always made me skeptical of the idea that goto was bad.
Of course, the point is that there are better structures that are often more elegant or appropriate, but I think a goto can be useful, even in high-level programming. I've found Bram Cohen's blog entry on the matter to be quite interesting: http://bramcohen.livejournal.com/66555.html
Althoug it doesn't auto-mount. At least if you use the usb cable to recharge it at work or something, you're ok.
FTFA, the part about the Quicktake: "Sure you could download your snaps very easily onto your computer but that hardly made it a usable product. It typified Apple's approach at the time, when the company's management thought that its users would buy almost anything if it had an Apple logo on it. That attitude seems to be largely reformed now, although if you look at the iPod Shuffle I have my doubts."
I do remember using QuickTime, probably 2.x, on win95, around twelve or thirteen years ago. It was good indeed, in the sense that it got the job done. But then again, video on a personal computer was a relatively recent idea, and as you pointed out it was pretty much the only app which did that.
If I may risk an analogy, it's as if you said Lotus SmartSuite is really cool because 1-2-3 once was.
mod +1 touching
I'm a non-native English speaker, and the confusion between the two has always puzzled me. To me the difference is extremely obvious, "it's" being the contraction of "it is", and "its" being possessive, like "his" or "hers". They have completely different meanings. The only times I see this mistake from non-native speakers, it's from people who have only a very basic knowledge of English, and more specifically never read anything written in English except an e-mail. They haven't learned the difference nor have been confronted to it, so they just pick randomly, and continue to do so because nobody corrects them. I suspect the reason many native speakers make the mistake is precisely because it's so common, i.e. when you start seeing a mistake very frequently you stop parsing it as one because it doesn't stand out anymore.
:-)
As a side note, there are many grammar nazis on slashdot, and this whole thread has a very orgiac feel to it, it's a lot of fun to read
(and occasionally educational too, which is how slashdot should always be)
And what if you don't need or want them to stick around? I need to take notes for my daily work, and I never have to keep them. I throw paper away every single day. How about when you quickly write something down on a piece of paper during a meeting, only to transcribe it later on the computer?
Rubbish. If you connection is down you can't download your new mails or get the latest friend invites from facebook, same as with any other os / app.
But most (all?) google apps are now usable offline, same as any desktop app. So what you're saying is basically "when I have no internet I can't access internet, and it's google's fault"
I see no reason why you can't have your "traditional" development model (deadlines, programmers paid to do stuff they don't like, all those niceties) and still release the code as OSS. How about Ubuntu? Don't they have all of the above?
The fact that anyone can access and modify the code doesn't mean it must only be provided by volunteers.
Are we really in such a hurry when reading code? I'm under the impression that fixed fonts allow us, when we parse code, to see the different elements more clearly because their size is determined by the number of characters. But that's just an intuition. Anyone else has the same feeling?
The killer feature isn't speed, it's battery life. Being able to do useful office type work or to watch video for even 8 hours is priceless. With current laptops or even netbooks battery life is always something that has to be carefully managed, and while smartphones last long enough they are too small to use for the same kind of purposes.
I wish I could mod you "+1 fascinating"
Anectodes are meaningless. A few years ago I complained to google about some issue with google calendar (if I recall correctly), and a couple of days after the automated reply, I got a personal mail that was very helpful and friendly. That was while I was a mere user, not even a customer.
It gave me a good image of them much like your own experience gave you a bad one, but it doesn't prove anything, does it?
Apple was lame at the time. But there was a company called NeXT which put out some very clever designs, and we know what came of that. Catch my drift?
Surely you mean once they get past the "ow that hurts" misconception. :)
If it hurts, it's not done properly. The millions of people who enjoy anal sex are not all masochists
But I never said it should be illegal, where did you get that from? I think everyone should be free do end their life whenever they want, and should be helped if they're unable to do it for themselves. I'm only saying it's very often a bad idea, and suggesting that there may be some hope. Is that so crazy?
Beyond our purely thoeretical discussion about philosophy and politics, there's someone talking seriously about suicide. For real. I just don't feel like joining the apathetic lack of reaction, the "meh, whatever, he's free to do it" attitude.
Sure he's free to do it, and he should definitely be allowed to make that decision. I am merely suggesting he doesn't.
Hey, I know this is just an online forum, but I feel I gotta say what I'm suprised noone else has said yet : don't kill yourself!
Seriously, I won't claim I know how you feel because I can't possibly fathom what it must be like to suffer that much. But I know there are some people who carry on despite terrible diseases and constant pain, so I know it must be possible somehow. Adaptation takes time, I guess, but I think it's possible.
The point is, you can never know for sure what life has in store. It may seem completely hopeless now, but what if six months after you kill yourself some researcher stumbles entirely by chance upon a new drug that works wonders for Crohn's? You won't be able to feel silly, because you'll be dead. Besides, you never know what an individual can bring to others, or just how important he can be. What if you turn out to have a child that becomes the new Gandhi? What if your friendship and example of courage prevents someone else from comitting suicide, and that person goes on help thousands of others somehow?
I don't want to appear to give you lessons, but I genuinely believe that struglling for survival is always the most logical option. Sometimes you have no power to improve your situation at all, but that possibility may come later. To take advantage of it, you have to survive long enough. You want to get rid of your suffering, and suicide will do that. But it will also rid you of the enjoyment of not suffering, making the whole thing pointless.
That's a jolly gay response. It makes me feel gay, thanks :)