I have at least 10 browsers on this MacBook Pro, slightly fewer on my Ubuntu and Debian boxes [...] Lots of us developers collect browsers for testing against.
One OSX and two Debians. It appears to me that you are missing a significant browser market share (and I'm not talking about Lynx).
This being said, I'd be curious to see the user agent stats for nambla.org - maybe the FBI or NSA could tell us.
The MacBook Pro can run Windows natively or in a virtual machine.
Makes you wonder why someone would pay that much money for a regular Intel CPU, 4GB of RAM and a cheap 5400 RPM hard disk then, especially when the same specs can be found in a Dell Vostro for less than half the price (including Windows).
Chrome users are the type to have a sufficiently narrow set of abilities that they can solve silly puzzles but they can't conceive of a problem with one large corporation collecting huge amounts of data about people across the world.
It's sorta like seeing that IQ correlates with financial success, where financial success by definition requires a willingness to amass financial wealth and mostly depends on high skill in a very narrow set of abilities.
Could you say "narrow set of abilities" once more, I'm really getting in a kinky mood
I have at least 10 browsers on this MacBook Pro, slightly fewer on my Ubuntu and Debian boxes [...] Lots of us developers collect browsers for testing against.
One OSX and two Debians. It appears to me that you are missing a significant browser market share (and I'm not talking about Lynx).
This being said, I'd be curious to see the user agent stats for nambla.org - maybe the FBI or NSA could tell us.
I have a bogus name on my LinkedIn account. I've about half filled in my stuff, stopping when I felt it was too intrusive. I look once in a while, to see what garbage is on there for me to look at. LinkedIn == Myspace for "professionals"
If you don't take it seriously and you just put in bogus info and/or collect connections like business cards, then yes, it is useless and noisy (unless you are a headhunter). But if you take time to setup a proper profile, disable noisy features and maintain a relevant network of connections, it can bring interesting opportunities. For my last two contracts I was contacted via a LinkedIn reference and never sent a resume. (And I'm not talking about mass-mailing from head hunters but contacts from actual connections).
I don't buy much into the "give a reference" feature, but I know that potential (and current) clients have been looking at who are my connections to get an idea of who I am. Which is why I have only a handful of high-quality, relevant connections.
But hey, if you enjoy doodling around in Word every time you want to switch jobs or apply for a RFP, be my guest.
Since LinkedIn is there, it has become much more tricky to lie on a resume because there is always the possibility that the recipient of the lies stumble upon the discrepancies.
So for the last year or so, whenever I have to send a resume I simply send the PDF that I can get from my LinkedIn profile. And if I have to lie (like hiding my VB6 experience or the fact that I used to work for Enron), I do it on LinkedIn.
It's about how men are shit on in pretty much any divorce case.
Wife alleges you hit her? Off to jail, guilty until proven innocent buddy.
Wife alleges you molested the kids? Say goodbye to your kids forever, pal. Maybe if you're lucky we'll let you see them for a few hours once a month with a supervisor present.
Wife wants child support? We don't care that she's spending all the money on her new ex-con boyfriend's meth lab, you'll pay it or it's jail for you, sparky!
Wife is a drug addict who neglects the kids? Tough luck pal, she's still getting full custody over you. That's what you get for showing up to court with a penis.
Wife won't let YOU have the kids during your court-appointed custody days? File this paperwork. We'll look into it in about a year, if you're lucky.
You won't let HER have the kids during her court-appointed custody days? Freeze, motherfucker! Get you're hands on your head NOW! ON THE GROUND, ASSHOLE! DON'T MAKE ME SHOOT YOU!
Welcome to the world of divorce court, Mark.
Of course the real problem is those men who, for some reason, are afraid to "make a commitment". I wonder why.
Maybe for home users. In the enterprise, dongles are a PITA, especially with software and hardware virtualization.
A video editing workstation running virtualized? Now that's a novel idea.
I don't think you are familiar with the concept of software virtualization so maybe for you it is a novel idea, but it's been around for years. It allows for a more cost-effective way to license software, usually with some kind of concurrent users model.
Software virtualization can also offer a convenient way to offload heavy processing to a robust, elastic server infrastructure. I've never seen this setup for video editing (not my usual industry) but it is a frequent solution for huge number crunching applications (such as performance and attribution calculations in large financial services organizations) where beefing up workstations to support the intensive I/O is not cost-effective.
Hardware dongle. If your software is really worth that much, then I think it's justified.
Maybe for home users. In the enterprise, dongles are a PITA, especially with software and hardware virtualization. Besides, end users already keep losing their fobs, smart cards, ID cards, etc; preventing them from working because they lost a dongle is far from optimal.
I'd hate to be John Smith then. Because that one John Smith account must be valuable as fuck, since there can be only one!
I think this John Smith thing is an urban legend. I never met a single John Smith. I suspect that this name appears only in the registers of motels where people pay by the hour or on the sign-in sheet in gay saunas. And probably millions of time in the Radio Shack database since they asked a name and a phone number to every dude that ever bought a Y adapter or a cheap clock radio in their stores.
In Chicago public schools, students go to school less than 6 hours a day and 170 days a year. This is one hour less per day and 10 days less per year than a typical schedule; between kindergarten and the end of high school the difference is almost 4 years.
Why shorter days and shorter years? So the schools can afford the teachers, who make (for that shorter schedule) the same salary as the teachers in other regions with a longer schedule. The union is very powerful and puts the benefits of its members before the mission of the schools - statistics about Chicago students reaching university are abysmal.
So while this whole thing in Arizona is a joke, at least it comes from a good place: a concern for the students. I guess the Universe needed to reestablish equilibrium.
He will set the country on the path to freedom from religious persecution and return us to our rightful place in God's plan. Eliminate the government and all those who stand in the way of worship of our rightful, true Ruler. The crimes that are performed in the name of our current governmental system, including but not limited to murder of innocent children, forcing citizens to pay for products they don't want, driving our society into unrecoverable debt that our children (if they aren't aborted) will never be able to repay, placing women in harms' way and outside of the role evolution has trained them for as mother and caregiver, stifling business under the guise and heavy hand of global warming, raising taxes on those of us who are successful, teaching our precious children ridiculous theories that men were once apes and spontaneously changed into what we are today, and attempting to diverge from the Christian principles that our forefathers observed and that this country was founded upon. We need to return to His holy way, and remove the heathens from our path, if necessary, by force. It's time to stopping giving away our children's inheritance to lazy jobless people and Godless welfare cases. It's time we took back our economy and this country.
Who would have thought Noam Chomsky would one day post on Slashdot
Seriously I don't know when all the damned corporate cheerleading started but when someone gets a +4 just for going "Nuh uh, you must be teh shill for not loving teh googles!" this place is getting seriously fucked up. its a fucking company okay, do you wear Google PJs too?
I simply pointed out that someone who defines Google as an "ad network" is biased and no more rational than the guy he complained about. If in that simple comment you see "corporate cheerleading" and you feel the need to ask me if I have Google PJ, then yes, in your own, personal reality, things must be deeply f*cked up.
I am no shrink so I can't tell if this is just an emotional problem or a symptom of something deeper, but maybe you should get a medical opinion because my friend it really does not take a lot for you to get the gears in overdrive.
17,000 patents should even things out enough to force the big players to negotiate and co-operate
It is a well-known fact that an arms race is a proven method to increase cooperation between the big players. The unfortunate side effect is that once one of the big players crumble, their weapons end up sold to terrorists and megalomaniac dotcom tycoons.
Yes, because its rational for you to passionately love one company (an ad network)
I stopped reading after "ad network" because someone who describes Google as such is either biased against Google or for Apple, which makes your comment no more rational than the first post.
iOS has parental restrictions. Enable restrictions, enable Safari, leave everything else disabled. No step 3.
But how do you get the parents of each patient to come down to the hospital to setup parental restrictions? That's the tricky part (especially if they are dead).
Just paint a black frame around some rectangular mirrors and put a big reversed brochure printout on the ceiling. Nobody will know the diff and you can keep the real tablets for yourself. (My experience at AOL is paying off.)
Brilliant! This has the side benefit of making the waiting room a very convenient place to snort coke! (my experience on Wall Street is paying off too!)
My favorites games lately: LA Noire, Deus Ex Human Revolution and Skyrim. Last year I really enjoyed Heavy Rain and the expansion packs for GTA4.
I think that in a gamer's collection there is room for more than one kind of game. And stuff that is clearly an hybrid (like RAGE) misses the point IMHO.
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I have at least 10 browsers on this MacBook Pro, slightly fewer on my Ubuntu and Debian boxes [...] Lots of us developers collect browsers for testing against.
One OSX and two Debians. It appears to me that you are missing a significant browser market share (and I'm not talking about Lynx).
This being said, I'd be curious to see the user agent stats for nambla.org - maybe the FBI or NSA could tell us.
The MacBook Pro can run Windows natively or in a virtual machine.
Makes you wonder why someone would pay that much money for a regular Intel CPU, 4GB of RAM and a cheap 5400 RPM hard disk then, especially when the same specs can be found in a Dell Vostro for less than half the price (including Windows).
Chrome users are the type to have a sufficiently narrow set of abilities that they can solve silly puzzles but they can't conceive of a problem with one large corporation collecting huge amounts of data about people across the world.
It's sorta like seeing that IQ correlates with financial success, where financial success by definition requires a willingness to amass financial wealth and mostly depends on high skill in a very narrow set of abilities.
Could you say "narrow set of abilities" once more, I'm really getting in a kinky mood
I have at least 10 browsers on this MacBook Pro, slightly fewer on my Ubuntu and Debian boxes [...] Lots of us developers collect browsers for testing against.
One OSX and two Debians. It appears to me that you are missing a significant browser market share (and I'm not talking about Lynx).
This being said, I'd be curious to see the user agent stats for nambla.org - maybe the FBI or NSA could tell us.
So, you're still stuck with Altavista, old pal? ;)
Until altavista has proven to be reliable, I'll keep using Excite.
> The number of abandoned puzzles (started but never finished) was also significantly higher for IE users
As usual, Microsoft products users show more common sense: they are the ones that figure out quickly that the puzzles are a waste of time!
I have a bogus name on my LinkedIn account. I've about half filled in my stuff, stopping when I felt it was too intrusive. I look once in a while, to see what garbage is on there for me to look at. LinkedIn == Myspace for "professionals"
If you don't take it seriously and you just put in bogus info and/or collect connections like business cards, then yes, it is useless and noisy (unless you are a headhunter). But if you take time to setup a proper profile, disable noisy features and maintain a relevant network of connections, it can bring interesting opportunities. For my last two contracts I was contacted via a LinkedIn reference and never sent a resume. (And I'm not talking about mass-mailing from head hunters but contacts from actual connections).
I don't buy much into the "give a reference" feature, but I know that potential (and current) clients have been looking at who are my connections to get an idea of who I am. Which is why I have only a handful of high-quality, relevant connections.
But hey, if you enjoy doodling around in Word every time you want to switch jobs or apply for a RFP, be my guest.
Since LinkedIn is there, it has become much more tricky to lie on a resume because there is always the possibility that the recipient of the lies stumble upon the discrepancies.
So for the last year or so, whenever I have to send a resume I simply send the PDF that I can get from my LinkedIn profile. And if I have to lie (like hiding my VB6 experience or the fact that I used to work for Enron), I do it on LinkedIn.
It's about how men are shit on in pretty much any divorce case.
Wife alleges you hit her? Off to jail, guilty until proven innocent buddy.
Wife alleges you molested the kids? Say goodbye to your kids forever, pal. Maybe if you're lucky we'll let you see them for a few hours once a month with a supervisor present.
Wife wants child support? We don't care that she's spending all the money on her new ex-con boyfriend's meth lab, you'll pay it or it's jail for you, sparky!
Wife is a drug addict who neglects the kids? Tough luck pal, she's still getting full custody over you. That's what you get for showing up to court with a penis.
Wife won't let YOU have the kids during your court-appointed custody days? File this paperwork. We'll look into it in about a year, if you're lucky.
You won't let HER have the kids during her court-appointed custody days? Freeze, motherfucker! Get you're hands on your head NOW! ON THE GROUND, ASSHOLE! DON'T MAKE ME SHOOT YOU!
Welcome to the world of divorce court, Mark.
Of course the real problem is those men who, for some reason, are afraid to "make a commitment". I wonder why.
Maybe for home users. In the enterprise, dongles are a PITA, especially with software and hardware virtualization.
A video editing workstation running virtualized? Now that's a novel idea.
I don't think you are familiar with the concept of software virtualization so maybe for you it is a novel idea, but it's been around for years. It allows for a more cost-effective way to license software, usually with some kind of concurrent users model.
Software virtualization can also offer a convenient way to offload heavy processing to a robust, elastic server infrastructure. I've never seen this setup for video editing (not my usual industry) but it is a frequent solution for huge number crunching applications (such as performance and attribution calculations in large financial services organizations) where beefing up workstations to support the intensive I/O is not cost-effective.
Hardware dongle.
If your software is really worth that much, then I think it's justified.
Maybe for home users. In the enterprise, dongles are a PITA, especially with software and hardware virtualization. Besides, end users already keep losing their fobs, smart cards, ID cards, etc; preventing them from working because they lost a dongle is far from optimal.
I know three.
Is that so? And what are their names?
(oh... never mind)
I am not important enough to blackmail.
Security by social irrelevance. Brilliant!
Also, I try to use social networking really with three categories of activities in mind:
1) Self-promotion: This stuff always goes on the social networking media. That';s what the media is there for!
2) Public thoughts: This is sort of like a mini-blog service. Things can go there if audience-appropriate.
3) Private activities and thoughts: No way in hell am I putting those on a social networking site!
I guess this post falls under category #2?
Because yes, here is a dark little secret: Slashdot is a social network... Can't wait for Zynga to release their new game: ServerFarmVille.
I'd hate to be John Smith then. Because that one John Smith account must be valuable as fuck, since there can be only one!
I think this John Smith thing is an urban legend. I never met a single John Smith. I suspect that this name appears only in the registers of motels where people pay by the hour or on the sign-in sheet in gay saunas. And probably millions of time in the Radio Shack database since they asked a name and a phone number to every dude that ever bought a Y adapter or a cheap clock radio in their stores.
I've told ya once, if you would look at my comment history you would see that i'm Australian.
Judging by the fact you've included me in your list of 'Known puppet accounts' i highly doubt the credibilty of the rest of your list.
Unless you are a puppet without knowing it. Ever seen the Manchurian Candidate?
In Chicago public schools, students go to school less than 6 hours a day and 170 days a year. This is one hour less per day and 10 days less per year than a typical schedule; between kindergarten and the end of high school the difference is almost 4 years.
Why shorter days and shorter years? So the schools can afford the teachers, who make (for that shorter schedule) the same salary as the teachers in other regions with a longer schedule. The union is very powerful and puts the benefits of its members before the mission of the schools - statistics about Chicago students reaching university are abysmal.
So while this whole thing in Arizona is a joke, at least it comes from a good place: a concern for the students. I guess the Universe needed to reestablish equilibrium.
He will set the country on the path to freedom from religious persecution and return us to our rightful place in God's plan. Eliminate the government and all those who stand in the way of worship of our rightful, true Ruler. The crimes that are performed in the name of our current governmental system, including but not limited to murder of innocent children, forcing citizens to pay for products they don't want, driving our society into unrecoverable debt that our children (if they aren't aborted) will never be able to repay, placing women in harms' way and outside of the role evolution has trained them for as mother and caregiver, stifling business under the guise and heavy hand of global warming, raising taxes on those of us who are successful, teaching our precious children ridiculous theories that men were once apes and spontaneously changed into what we are today, and attempting to diverge from the Christian principles that our forefathers observed and that this country was founded upon. We need to return to His holy way, and remove the heathens from our path, if necessary, by force. It's time to stopping giving away our children's inheritance to lazy jobless people and Godless welfare cases. It's time we took back our economy and this country.
Who would have thought Noam Chomsky would one day post on Slashdot
Seriously I don't know when all the damned corporate cheerleading started but when someone gets a +4 just for going "Nuh uh, you must be teh shill for not loving teh googles!" this place is getting seriously fucked up. its a fucking company okay, do you wear Google PJs too?
I simply pointed out that someone who defines Google as an "ad network" is biased and no more rational than the guy he complained about. If in that simple comment you see "corporate cheerleading" and you feel the need to ask me if I have Google PJ, then yes, in your own, personal reality, things must be deeply f*cked up.
I am no shrink so I can't tell if this is just an emotional problem or a symptom of something deeper, but maybe you should get a medical opinion because my friend it really does not take a lot for you to get the gears in overdrive.
17,000 patents should even things out enough to force the big players to negotiate and co-operate
It is a well-known fact that an arms race is a proven method to increase cooperation between the big players. The unfortunate side effect is that once one of the big players crumble, their weapons end up sold to terrorists and megalomaniac dotcom tycoons.
Yes, because its rational for you to passionately love one company (an ad network)
I stopped reading after "ad network" because someone who describes Google as such is either biased against Google or for Apple, which makes your comment no more rational than the first post.
iOS has parental restrictions. Enable restrictions, enable Safari, leave everything else disabled. No step 3.
But how do you get the parents of each patient to come down to the hospital to setup parental restrictions? That's the tricky part (especially if they are dead).
Just paint a black frame around some rectangular mirrors and put a big reversed brochure printout on the ceiling. Nobody will know the diff and you can keep the real tablets for yourself. (My experience at AOL is paying off.)
Brilliant! This has the side benefit of making the waiting room a very convenient place to snort coke! (my experience on Wall Street is paying off too!)
... I walk out of the waiting room with the tablet in my jacket
maybe you are the one who missed something (I mean: the 50 persons who made that same comment before you)
Really not an expert in Android so I am just throwing ideas here.
Since Android is based on Linux, chmod a-rwx would be an easy staring point. If the application cannot be read and executed, it cannot be started.
Better, erase the unwanted apps with 'rm' and keep only the one you want, the browser.
I looked on the AppStore and did not find neither chmod or rm, however there is a new Angry Birds
My favorites games lately: LA Noire, Deus Ex Human Revolution and Skyrim. Last year I really enjoyed Heavy Rain and the expansion packs for GTA4.
I think that in a gamer's collection there is room for more than one kind of game. And stuff that is clearly an hybrid (like RAGE) misses the point IMHO.