Here here! In high school I touted Windows because it played all the games, was "easy to use" because I didn't use it for much, and was generally everywhere. Been running Linux and OS X for a looonng time, feels good.
but I could only stand 1 minute 40 seconds before I RAGED. WTF. Seriously, somebody hand Microsoft's marketing department a bunch of pink slips and a dead fish, this STINKS.
I smell something fishy going on. Between this and OpenOffice tentatively "accepting" the ribbon theme, discussed here some time ago, as the new theme for OO.org 3 (right? could be wrong, too drunk to fact-check that verison...), it's starting to get stinky. Two of the biggest competitors from the OSS market, Firefox and OpenOffice.org, are considering - seriously - the "ribbon" layout. Who is paying out to make sure this sweet hard-to-use change in interface is adopted in OSS solutions? Would it not make sense to say "hey, if we can get our competitors to take on the look and feel of our products, then users will still credit us with the interface they'll see for the next 5-10 years?"
MS has a good chance of branding products they don't own by supporting, either through lobbies of internet users or sheer evil voting proxies, interface redesigns of their competitor's products. Even if a user isn't using an MS product, odds are they will now see the iconic "ribbon" and think "this doesn't work like Word or IE, but, oh! it isn't Word or IE - I guess I'll go download that now since these other softwares are just copying the original."
And people, particularly Americans, don't like imitation.
I think you're both right, but really the admin is the weak link here. While a dumb linux admin isn't a good thing, the distro they choose to use is also a big consideration. Some distros come with "Desktop" users in mind, and security might be lax by default to compensate for user-struggle (allowing third party repos by default, auto-sudo for the default user, etc), while other distros are geared more towards server use and thus install certain security measures by default, even when annoying (read: SELinux).
Windows goes the same way, as hopefully the company would say "Hey, lets get Server 200x instead of Vista Pro because its geared to be a server."
So I guess the admins are a weak link, but so are higher ups who want a particular brand of OS because it's corporate mandate.
Bad management is bad for security, bad admins are still worse.
This has me wondering what they plan to "do" with the IP involved...do they think its time the franchise was reworked to resemble original ideas or messages? Will they use it for making $$$ by doing deals with Disney/Sony/Whoever, on their own terms? Or will they let some of these characters just "die" and use their influence to introduce new, exciting heroes and villains, new powers and situations, grabbing a new (and old) audience with compelling characters and deep stories, as did the very comics that led to Iron Man, Thor et al?
And I would like more of the industry to follow that last idea, its already a trend that needs more attention: dropping old habits. What we, as a nation (off topic) need to do is seriously rethink how we conduct business. interact socially and how we prioritize science and health. Newspapers are learning the hard way, car manufacturers are struggling to innovate faster, and the comic industry has a chance to retool and rethink how they appeal to the masses, or they may end up like the banks and the car companies.
Depends on who "you" are, and its not so much playing the cards. The system admin is likely to be your weak link in a security situation, so it is up to the qualifications of your admin more than anything else. Granted, you'll probably find more people who are pro server admins on other systems more than linux just because linux is still only gaining running ground. If you hire a system admin, however, they should know the OS at hand or they SHOULD NOT BE HIRED. Period.
A shitty Linux admin is just as bad as a shitty Windows admin.
I completely agree, but as we've seen, this isn't likely. The administration is having plenty of issues just prosecuting the CIA officials who performed illegal interrogation, prosecuting the Bush administration for warentless wiretapping is, how you say, on the backburner?
I just want to say something to everyone who has replied: I'm not saying the telcos shouldn't be held responsible, I'm just saying that if they knew it was illegal and immoral, you better damn believe the government knew it was illegal and immoral too, and we shouldn't let them off the hook so easily just because they introduce legislation to protect themselves.
Actually, you had it right the first time. You see, as pointed out above, this isn't really JUSTICE in any sense: the telecoms were doing what they're gov't asked them in a time of fear and urgency, and the telecoms said "well, we have two choices:"
1) "Not only is this illegal, but its also wrong to invade privacy like that. No." Government definitely doesn't listen and/or just ignores what the telecoms want from the FCC later down the road. Public gets mad when government is all like "Hey, we asked for help against these terrorists but [BIG TELCO] said 'No.'" Telcos are bad guys.
2) "Well, its wrong, but you're the government, and I'm scared. Yes." Government gets information, wiretapping becomes public knowledge, public gets upset and government introduces bills to take the blame from them and put it on the telcos. Telcos are bad guys.
No matter what, they didn't have a chance. Risk being unpatriotic now or risk being unpatriotic later, either way the government was right and the telcos were wrong, because thats the law. Sounds like sweet, sweet JUSTICE to me.
As a web designer, I resent being compared to these weak-minded excuses for developers, I would liken them to "script kiddies" or "code monkeys." A true web designer is hard to come by, but we know how to write Javascript that doesn't leave the user helpless when they come through with Javascript disabled or NoScript turned on.
tl,dr: There are web designers, and then there are BS people holding BAs, please don't confuse us.
A Sears n' Roebuck stove from 1898 was as likely to be a piece of crap as a Zippo lighter is today.
I just bought a new Zippo not long ago, and its awesome. Oh, and you know what? Even if it does turn out to be complete crap, Zippo will repair or replace any non-functioning lighter for free because, since they started, they have never charged a customer a penny for a repair or replacement.
It's sooooo hard for me to open up IE, Firefox, Safari and Opera to make sure my website renders properly - oh the horror! If only my company gave me the resources to get the tools I need to make sure my pages work!
A hammer to most people is a hammer - even without using the right hammer for the right nail, you should be able to get the nail into the wood. As such, even if you're not using the right browser for the page, a good page will at least render properly, even if the "flashy" doesn't render properly.
It never ceases to amaze me how many "professional" web developers can't even write a basic HTML and CSS page without a dozen+ errors and sheer semantic idiocy (like using tables for layout).
While true, you can't just blame the web developers. I've had at least 10 years of experience in web development, starting with mostly HTML and experimenting with CSS when it was just hitting the web, but experience doesn't count for much in the industry. So, I had some classes at a state university that didn't treat web design as a profession until recently, and transferred a couple years ago to a technical institute that does provide a BA in web design.
I'm at the end of my scholastic career, but I can assure you that despite what has been taught at my school, about 5% of the people in the web design curriculum will actually be prepared based on what they learned at this school, and most likely they had prior experience in web design (like me). We learned Flash and the other Adobe apps, some (and I mean SOME) HTML, a touch of CSS and thats about it. Javascript? Nope. W3C standards? They don't mention them. Setting up and / or using a web server? HA! Not a chance.
It's sad, but its true - creating a usable Internet depends on education, and we can't depend on people to learn that themselves - some like myself have, but many more take the route that "if I take it in a class I'll know everything I need to know," and these people will be the majority of developers working at eBay and other web sites.
Actually, its relevant to the system you're on, such as some languages start counting at 1 while others start at 0. Seeing as there is no January 0, the 256th day is the proper day.
Excuse me, but did the fake protesters ever claim to be part of any specific religious organization or affiliation other than Christian? I don't think EA ever pointed a finger to a Christian organization and said "They did this!" Instead, they admitted it was a sham shortly after, so calm the fuck down.
If anyone slammed a Christian blogger for the protests, then thats just plain dumb - no evidence ever came from EA suggesting that a particular person or party was involved, and my guess would be that many of the people going to the convention found the protesters laughable at best, and didn't go home to comment on Christian sites and blogs about how appalled they were...the smart ones probably even figured out it was a marketing stunt.
You know what I mean? Of course you do. Anyone with half-a-brain for computers and Operating Systems regards this for what it is: CRAP. Seriously, "let us compare an OS upgrade (Snow Leopard) and the OS that is what MS wanted to release when they did Vista (7) and then throw in a completely different story about comparing to Ubuntu."
Seriously?
I've seen XKCD comics more story-worthy. I won't even go into why comparing two OSes that run on completely different hardware (for the most part) is utterly pointless, let's just say that Windows 7 wins for people using Vista while XP still wins for anyone running XP still, and Snow wins for anyone running Leopard or Tiger (and can upgrade to Snow), while Ubuntu wins for people who don't want to shell out for a major OS and who enjoy the experience that is Linux.
In the end, this is all moot: please, start comparing something useful, like sound editing software, or office productivity suites, or organic peanut butter and Jiffy.
ARARGARGASRGASDRGADRGHFDHDFJADFHJADFJADFJDFJ *loses all hair*
Seriously, this thought came to me sometime in 2007, when I proposed to a friend that asphalt could be paved with solar cells, thus turning the mostly useless highway system into a renewable energy source. Granted, the highway system isn't USELESS, but for the amount of space it covers and the expanse of the highway project, the US highway system has been extremely underutilized... I just hope someone else picks up on my highway Sheetz or electric train on the highway idea next. *Goes to file patents*
I say, don't despair! I don't even remember how it happened now, LSD, long meditation, perhaps failing out of university, but at some point everything just started clicking. I'm almost certain it was some kind of hallucinogen, but its nearly impossible to pinpoint. I think getting more in touch with myself and with nature, realizing that how other people thought or how they regarded my actions, wasn't as important as how I treated the world around me...karma, basically.
If you can find a way in your life to make the people around you smile, you'll never frown again - I promise. But I mean, make them smile genuinely, not like "I'm saying this because I know they'll 'laugh'," but be brutally honest in that comical way, make them smile when everything they think about the world says they shouldn't, because its true; its funny; its real life. Once you bring happiness to others, you'll find yourself overwhelmed in the same.*
*Personal experience, may not apply to everyone, but give it a shot.
Of course, when you start typing wolverine/long/path/to/script, doesn't your browser autofill at least some of the domain, limiting the room for typos?
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Here here! In high school I touted Windows because it played all the games, was "easy to use" because I didn't use it for much, and was generally everywhere. Been running Linux and OS X for a looonng time, feels good.
but I could only stand 1 minute 40 seconds before I RAGED. WTF. Seriously, somebody hand Microsoft's marketing department a bunch of pink slips and a dead fish, this STINKS.
Haha, good one - we know you work for MS - you have no friends, and your family has abandoned you. Enjoy your "safer" browsing experience alone.
At first I thought this was a laptop with four FULL SIZED screens, people have been adding tiny screens to everything. Bummer!
The sales rep that just sold a whole entertainment system with turbo chargers and auto-gutter-cleaning system just took a smoke break...
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I smell something fishy going on. Between this and OpenOffice tentatively "accepting" the ribbon theme, discussed here some time ago, as the new theme for OO.org 3 (right? could be wrong, too drunk to fact-check that verison...), it's starting to get stinky. Two of the biggest competitors from the OSS market, Firefox and OpenOffice.org, are considering - seriously - the "ribbon" layout. Who is paying out to make sure this sweet hard-to-use change in interface is adopted in OSS solutions? Would it not make sense to say "hey, if we can get our competitors to take on the look and feel of our products, then users will still credit us with the interface they'll see for the next 5-10 years?"
MS has a good chance of branding products they don't own by supporting, either through lobbies of internet users or sheer evil voting proxies, interface redesigns of their competitor's products. Even if a user isn't using an MS product, odds are they will now see the iconic "ribbon" and think "this doesn't work like Word or IE, but, oh! it isn't Word or IE - I guess I'll go download that now since these other softwares are just copying the original."
And people, particularly Americans, don't like imitation.
I think you're both right, but really the admin is the weak link here. While a dumb linux admin isn't a good thing, the distro they choose to use is also a big consideration. Some distros come with "Desktop" users in mind, and security might be lax by default to compensate for user-struggle (allowing third party repos by default, auto-sudo for the default user, etc), while other distros are geared more towards server use and thus install certain security measures by default, even when annoying (read: SELinux).
Windows goes the same way, as hopefully the company would say "Hey, lets get Server 200x instead of Vista Pro because its geared to be a server."
So I guess the admins are a weak link, but so are higher ups who want a particular brand of OS because it's corporate mandate.
Bad management is bad for security, bad admins are still worse.
I want to express my opinion more! lol
This has me wondering what they plan to "do" with the IP involved...do they think its time the franchise was reworked to resemble original ideas or messages? Will they use it for making $$$ by doing deals with Disney/Sony/Whoever, on their own terms? Or will they let some of these characters just "die" and use their influence to introduce new, exciting heroes and villains, new powers and situations, grabbing a new (and old) audience with compelling characters and deep stories, as did the very comics that led to Iron Man, Thor et al?
And I would like more of the industry to follow that last idea, its already a trend that needs more attention: dropping old habits. What we, as a nation (off topic) need to do is seriously rethink how we conduct business. interact socially and how we prioritize science and health. Newspapers are learning the hard way, car manufacturers are struggling to innovate faster, and the comic industry has a chance to retool and rethink how they appeal to the masses, or they may end up like the banks and the car companies.
Or not, I'm high.
Depends on who "you" are, and its not so much playing the cards. The system admin is likely to be your weak link in a security situation, so it is up to the qualifications of your admin more than anything else. Granted, you'll probably find more people who are pro server admins on other systems more than linux just because linux is still only gaining running ground. If you hire a system admin, however, they should know the OS at hand or they SHOULD NOT BE HIRED. Period.
A shitty Linux admin is just as bad as a shitty Windows admin.
I completely agree, but as we've seen, this isn't likely. The administration is having plenty of issues just prosecuting the CIA officials who performed illegal interrogation, prosecuting the Bush administration for warentless wiretapping is, how you say, on the backburner?
I just want to say something to everyone who has replied: I'm not saying the telcos shouldn't be held responsible, I'm just saying that if they knew it was illegal and immoral, you better damn believe the government knew it was illegal and immoral too, and we shouldn't let them off the hook so easily just because they introduce legislation to protect themselves.
Actually, you had it right the first time. You see, as pointed out above, this isn't really JUSTICE in any sense: the telecoms were doing what they're gov't asked them in a time of fear and urgency, and the telecoms said "well, we have two choices:"
1) "Not only is this illegal, but its also wrong to invade privacy like that. No." Government definitely doesn't listen and/or just ignores what the telecoms want from the FCC later down the road. Public gets mad when government is all like "Hey, we asked for help against these terrorists but [BIG TELCO] said 'No.'" Telcos are bad guys.
2) "Well, its wrong, but you're the government, and I'm scared. Yes." Government gets information, wiretapping becomes public knowledge, public gets upset and government introduces bills to take the blame from them and put it on the telcos. Telcos are bad guys.
No matter what, they didn't have a chance. Risk being unpatriotic now or risk being unpatriotic later, either way the government was right and the telcos were wrong, because thats the law. Sounds like sweet, sweet JUSTICE to me.
As a web designer, I resent being compared to these weak-minded excuses for developers, I would liken them to "script kiddies" or "code monkeys." A true web designer is hard to come by, but we know how to write Javascript that doesn't leave the user helpless when they come through with Javascript disabled or NoScript turned on.
tl,dr: There are web designers, and then there are BS people holding BAs, please don't confuse us.
I just bought a new Zippo not long ago, and its awesome. Oh, and you know what? Even if it does turn out to be complete crap, Zippo will repair or replace any non-functioning lighter for free because, since they started, they have never charged a customer a penny for a repair or replacement.
Sears, eat your heart out.
It's sooooo hard for me to open up IE, Firefox, Safari and Opera to make sure my website renders properly - oh the horror! If only my company gave me the resources to get the tools I need to make sure my pages work!
A hammer to most people is a hammer - even without using the right hammer for the right nail, you should be able to get the nail into the wood. As such, even if you're not using the right browser for the page, a good page will at least render properly, even if the "flashy" doesn't render properly.
While true, you can't just blame the web developers. I've had at least 10 years of experience in web development, starting with mostly HTML and experimenting with CSS when it was just hitting the web, but experience doesn't count for much in the industry. So, I had some classes at a state university that didn't treat web design as a profession until recently, and transferred a couple years ago to a technical institute that does provide a BA in web design.
I'm at the end of my scholastic career, but I can assure you that despite what has been taught at my school, about 5% of the people in the web design curriculum will actually be prepared based on what they learned at this school, and most likely they had prior experience in web design (like me). We learned Flash and the other Adobe apps, some (and I mean SOME) HTML, a touch of CSS and thats about it. Javascript? Nope. W3C standards? They don't mention them. Setting up and / or using a web server? HA! Not a chance.
It's sad, but its true - creating a usable Internet depends on education, and we can't depend on people to learn that themselves - some like myself have, but many more take the route that "if I take it in a class I'll know everything I need to know," and these people will be the majority of developers working at eBay and other web sites.
That scares me.
Actually, its relevant to the system you're on, such as some languages start counting at 1 while others start at 0. Seeing as there is no January 0, the 256th day is the proper day.
Excuse me, but did the fake protesters ever claim to be part of any specific religious organization or affiliation other than Christian? I don't think EA ever pointed a finger to a Christian organization and said "They did this!" Instead, they admitted it was a sham shortly after, so calm the fuck down.
If anyone slammed a Christian blogger for the protests, then thats just plain dumb - no evidence ever came from EA suggesting that a particular person or party was involved, and my guess would be that many of the people going to the convention found the protesters laughable at best, and didn't go home to comment on Christian sites and blogs about how appalled they were...the smart ones probably even figured out it was a marketing stunt.
You know what I mean? Of course you do. Anyone with half-a-brain for computers and Operating Systems regards this for what it is: CRAP. Seriously, "let us compare an OS upgrade (Snow Leopard) and the OS that is what MS wanted to release when they did Vista (7) and then throw in a completely different story about comparing to Ubuntu."
Seriously?
I've seen XKCD comics more story-worthy. I won't even go into why comparing two OSes that run on completely different hardware (for the most part) is utterly pointless, let's just say that Windows 7 wins for people using Vista while XP still wins for anyone running XP still, and Snow wins for anyone running Leopard or Tiger (and can upgrade to Snow), while Ubuntu wins for people who don't want to shell out for a major OS and who enjoy the experience that is Linux.
In the end, this is all moot: please, start comparing something useful, like sound editing software, or office productivity suites, or organic peanut butter and Jiffy.
ARARGARGASRGASDRGADRGHFDHDFJADFHJADFJADFJDFJ *loses all hair*
Seriously, this thought came to me sometime in 2007, when I proposed to a friend that asphalt could be paved with solar cells, thus turning the mostly useless highway system into a renewable energy source. Granted, the highway system isn't USELESS, but for the amount of space it covers and the expanse of the highway project, the US highway system has been extremely underutilized... I just hope someone else picks up on my highway Sheetz or electric train on the highway idea next. *Goes to file patents*
I say, don't despair! I don't even remember how it happened now, LSD, long meditation, perhaps failing out of university, but at some point everything just started clicking. I'm almost certain it was some kind of hallucinogen, but its nearly impossible to pinpoint. I think getting more in touch with myself and with nature, realizing that how other people thought or how they regarded my actions, wasn't as important as how I treated the world around me...karma, basically.
If you can find a way in your life to make the people around you smile, you'll never frown again - I promise. But I mean, make them smile genuinely, not like "I'm saying this because I know they'll 'laugh'," but be brutally honest in that comical way, make them smile when everything they think about the world says they shouldn't, because its true; its funny; its real life. Once you bring happiness to others, you'll find yourself overwhelmed in the same.*
*Personal experience, may not apply to everyone, but give it a shot.
Okay, offtopic trolling flamebait here, but...
Seriously, do SOME editing before posting any old journal entry or story submission. You know that "Preview" button? Use it.
Oh, go stick your cellphone in a dike!
Just to elaborate a little more, i4i's patent is for reading in XML formatted documents, not saving them (MS's patent).
Of course, when you start typing wolverine/long/path/to/script, doesn't your browser autofill at least some of the domain, limiting the room for typos?