We have to find the villains who did this nefarious thing. Otherwise, we'd lack scapegoats and would have it admit to ourselves that:
- Adobe didn't learn a single damn lesson from Microsoft's Word Macro Virus debacles as to why allowing code to be embedded in what most users consider to be a static, non-code executing document is such a bad thing.
- A business that supposedly hires the Best And The Brightest and discards applicants due to bad SAT scores 15 years ago got pwned.
- Businesses were too dumb and shortsighted to update their browsers to something less obsolete and pay for a standard's compliant redesign of their web applications.
- That most of these massive attacks are caused by script kiddies in China trying to impress girls by exploiting corporate stupidity, as opposed to Neo's elite evil twin.
Batman's a shady character with a troubled past, lots of toys, and teenage boy partner who he dresses in tights. The cry for help would never make it past the filter.
When I think of the libertarians, one of two images usually come to mind:
1. An overweight wife-swapping gun nut with lots of unkept facial hair chomping on a large turkey leg (and getting large pieces of meat stuck in the beard/mustache). In other words, someone who sort of resembles ESR.
2. A rail thin wife-swapping gun nut who's shaved off all his body hair except what's on his head and who gets all his nutrients from a liquid diet that's supposed to make him live 140 years. In other words, picture someone who sort of resembles poo-master and Dual-Action Cleanse spokesperson Klee Irwin.
Perhaps fans of Apple products consider usability and "Just Works" to be an Essential Software Freedom and likewise consider any software with a bad UI that requires lots of fiddling to work to be "closed" to them.
Of course, one would have to be a free thinker to accept such a heretical idea.
Wouldn't there also be a sizable drop in the percentages of STD's contracted, unplanned pregnancies, traffic accidents, drunk and disorderly conduct, and homicides?
But in the last decade I've seen Linux on the Desktop split between two different competing environments and API's, usability experts not being able to get any meaningful traction early on in FLOSS projects, newbies being flamed on IRC for asking questions, legitimate criticism of user experience issues being written of as FUD, billions of FLOSS company dollars going to enterprise systems buyouts and kernel hacker salaries instead of high quality user testing labs (and then saying FLOSS has no money for such things like evil proprietary companies do), etc.
When I look at Microsoft, I don't see FLOSS's greatest enemy; I see a boogeyman and a scapegoat used to explain FLOSS' lack of success at getting outside of a server room.
I think it's more likely that there were other business considerations that had already made Google feel like it was difficult to do business with China, and the censorship lift is just PR gravy.
A better metaphor is that Apple's like a strict parent, and Android developers are like the know-it-all teenagers who drop out of high-school because they "don't need all these people's rules" who then get smacked in the face with the stone cold reality of why their parents were so strict about them graduating.
A lot of writing programs for other people to use actually involves getting into their heads and understanding what they're thinking, as well as accepting the bizarre way they sometimes think.
When someone says a feature in a software project you inherited doesn't work, before you spend 100 hours debugging a feature that you're not able to find anywhere in the code, it's helpful to understand how the brain works and be open to the possibility that the feature that everyone swears was there only exists in a constantly reconstructed human memory.
If you have problems with math, as I did, you might want to consider forgoing the classes and just buying a book and teaching yourself at your own rate of learning. The ability to pick up a book and teach yourself is a very important skill for a programmer to have.
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Bark Beetles don't like Rush Libaugh but Dung Beetles eat the stuff up.
We have to find the villains who did this nefarious thing. Otherwise, we'd lack scapegoats and would have it admit to ourselves that:
- Adobe didn't learn a single damn lesson from Microsoft's Word Macro Virus debacles as to why allowing code to be embedded in what most users consider to be a static, non-code executing document is such a bad thing.
- A business that supposedly hires the Best And The Brightest and discards applicants due to bad SAT scores 15 years ago got pwned.
- Businesses were too dumb and shortsighted to update their browsers to something less obsolete and pay for a standard's compliant redesign of their web applications.
- That most of these massive attacks are caused by script kiddies in China trying to impress girls by exploiting corporate stupidity, as opposed to Neo's elite evil twin.
Batman's a shady character with a troubled past, lots of toys, and teenage boy partner who he dresses in tights. The cry for help would never make it past the filter.
because critics would have lambasted the "XCore E8"?
Caution: not for use with Hungarian Tobacconists.
with Apps involving sex, Hitler's Mein Kampf, and Android.
So much for my dream of making a game where you fight Nazi hooker androids.
Cheapness tends to inhibit bean-counters' higher brain functions.
Make your own joke.
If your brain was repaired with foreskin neurons, someone could call you smeghead and it wouldn't be an insult.
When I think of the libertarians, one of two images usually come to mind:
1. An overweight wife-swapping gun nut with lots of unkept facial hair chomping on a large turkey leg (and getting large pieces of meat stuck in the beard/mustache). In other words, someone who sort of resembles ESR.
2. A rail thin wife-swapping gun nut who's shaved off all his body hair except what's on his head and who gets all his nutrients from a liquid diet that's supposed to make him live 140 years. In other words, picture someone who sort of resembles poo-master and Dual-Action Cleanse spokesperson Klee Irwin.
Or can tell them to go put their finger in Uranus.
Perhaps fans of Apple products consider usability and "Just Works" to be an Essential Software Freedom and likewise consider any software with a bad UI that requires lots of fiddling to work to be "closed" to them.
Of course, one would have to be a free thinker to accept such a heretical idea.
Wouldn't there also be a sizable drop in the percentages of STD's contracted, unplanned pregnancies, traffic accidents, drunk and disorderly conduct, and homicides?
Who cares about a week to read it? I'd be giddy with power if I could destroy the entire Library of Congress in 30 seconds with a bulk eraser.
In HCI the technical term for this is an affordance
I have no love for Microsoft.
But in the last decade I've seen Linux on the Desktop split between two different competing environments and API's, usability experts not being able to get any meaningful traction early on in FLOSS projects, newbies being flamed on IRC for asking questions, legitimate criticism of user experience issues being written of as FUD, billions of FLOSS company dollars going to enterprise systems buyouts and kernel hacker salaries instead of high quality user testing labs (and then saying FLOSS has no money for such things like evil proprietary companies do), etc.
When I look at Microsoft, I don't see FLOSS's greatest enemy; I see a boogeyman and a scapegoat used to explain FLOSS' lack of success at getting outside of a server room.
"Through sound and motion, you will be able to paralyze nerves, shatter bones, set fires, suffocate an enemy or burst his organs."
I think it's more likely that there were other business considerations that had already made Google feel like it was difficult to do business with China, and the censorship lift is just PR gravy.
Stockholm syndrome? No.
A better metaphor is that Apple's like a strict parent, and Android developers are like the know-it-all teenagers who drop out of high-school because they "don't need all these people's rules" who then get smacked in the face with the stone cold reality of why their parents were so strict about them graduating.
On Naboo with JarJar. George Lucas needs to outdo his last Christmas Special.
Is that CNN's Andrea Thompson who was on Babylon 5? You'd think she'd know about thing or two black holes.
A lot of writing programs for other people to use actually involves getting into their heads and understanding what they're thinking, as well as accepting the bizarre way they sometimes think.
When someone says a feature in a software project you inherited doesn't work, before you spend 100 hours debugging a feature that you're not able to find anywhere in the code, it's helpful to understand how the brain works and be open to the possibility that the feature that everyone swears was there only exists in a constantly reconstructed human memory.
If you have problems with math, as I did, you might want to consider forgoing the classes and just buying a book and teaching yourself at your own rate of learning. The ability to pick up a book and teach yourself is a very important skill for a programmer to have.
Is the robot hand dextrous enough to build a dextrous robot hand?
The Perl programmers weren't forgotten, just implicitly passed in.
The haters should save their outrage for when Steve Jobs is voted sexiest man of the year.