I won't buy a laptop that doesn't have a numeric keypad.
Why should I (a) have to move my hand well away from the keyboard to type in long numbers (e.g. 8-digit bug numbers) and (b) cart around an extra peripheral that eats up a USB port for no good reason?
Relevant questions in this situation are, "Will it handle my workload?", "How much does it cost?", "What kind of warranty does it come with?", and "Will it fit in my laptop bag?"
Do my employers pay me to make a fashion statement? No, they do not. So gives a rat's ass what it looks like?
What's wrong with animal names? My machines are all named after fish--my laptop is "havskatt" (Swedish for "harbour catfish") and my desktop is "valhaj" ("whale shark"). Lots more sensible then naming them after, say, candy bars IMO.
I'd just like if web and app devs would not assume that everybody runs every program fullscreen and size *everything* according to the screen res instead of the program window's actual dimensions. C'mon, it's not like the browser and OS make this information difficult to obtain.
Yes, I'm looking at you, Slashdot. (Among many, many others.)
Seconded (thirded—whatever). I've had the opportunity to work for a really great manager for about 12 years now, and I freely admit I wouldn't get half as much done half as well without him.
They're some of the hardest working, most creative, and fair minded people I've ever met.
/me reflects on the years he's spent actually living there, decides it's not worth shattering anybody's illusions, and in the true Swedish fashion, says nothing, nothing at all...
Who are you trying to kid? A lot of the extensions I liked *already* quit working ages ago. Likewise themes.
And the default UI has become progressively shittier over time, with fewer and fewer options remaining for making it sensible again. Nuking the status bar. Moving the tabs *above* the menu bar. And all the other senseless UXtard horseshit.
Actually, the correct headline would be "Tech *Hype* is Bullshit".
And Stalin did in fact have nukes. The USSR tested its first A-bomb in 1949.
And your analysis of the Arab Spring as being nothing more than the child of social media is shallow at best. I'm not a huge fan of social media, either--but I don't go around looking for instances of $random_event to blame on it.
Some of us of who aren't always so preoccupied as you with concocting justifications for psychopathy have heard of this thing called enlightened self-interest. You might want to read up on it sometime.
You got a problem with physics, architecture, materials science, civil engineering, design, graph theory, and a whole bunch of other nerdy subjects? News flash: "Technology" doesn't mean "only technical stuff that *you* happen to be interested in".
..to try to obscure the the fact that they don't actually *own* the source to MySQL, and never will. Any changes or additions they make make to it still have to be (a) made available under GPL and (b) given back to Oracle.
And this is why you're too much of a coward to sign in with an account here, right? It would have nothing to do with you getting banned time and again from the Ars forums?
And this is also why I spent last evening enjoying a 10-course dinner for the Lantern Festival at the Great Happiness Restaurant in Guangzhou while you dined on Cheet-Ohs in your mother's basement in Poughkeepsie? In your world, this somehow makes you a winner and me a loser? I'm having trouble following your logic here.
As for the postcard--in no way whatsoever was it "threatening", since all it said was something like, "Greetings from your old buddy Zontar in Stockholm. Behave yourself." Any "threat" you perceived was purely the product of your own imagination, most likely when you realised that (a) it was indeed possible (and even dead easy) to track you down, (b) someone with ill intent and time on his hands could just as easily have shown up at your door, and (c) you fucked up big time by admitting you'd even got the thing. Fortunately for you, (a) I am a more ethical being (and a smarter one) than you, (b) I am not vulnerable in the way that Jeremy, Jay, or your other victims were--and (c) you are not really worth the trouble in any case.
As for your ridiculous claims concerning Russinovitch: Anyone with the time & patience to check out your claims will discover, just as I did, that you managed to get more downloads of your crappy freeware than he did his because you mercilessly spammed every web forum you could find, just like you try to do here.
Saturday in the park, I think it was the 4th of July...
And Steve Bannon, poor guy, all he does is repeatedly say the things that a white supremacist would say and people start accusing him of actually being one! As if the things he says somehow indicate what his beliefs are!
Let's be fair, now--he's only spouting such things when he's not busy rooting for a war with China.
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...that we'll finally get a Nouveau driver that isn't a crash-prone piece of crap?
No, the original GNAA crew actually claimed to *be* GNs. There was that movie. And they were occasionally funny.
This is what it always seems to boil down to, with people like you--your desire to enjoy the suffering of others.
You should really think about what sort of person that makes you.
I live and work in Europe. Give me a minute, I'm sure I can guess the answer.
Aren't you supposed to be looking at the screen and not the scenery in any case?
I won't buy a laptop that doesn't have a numeric keypad.
Why should I (a) have to move my hand well away from the keyboard to type in long numbers (e.g. 8-digit bug numbers) and (b) cart around an extra peripheral that eats up a USB port for no good reason?
And did I mention that I'm left-handed?
HAND.
Relevant questions in this situation are, "Will it handle my workload?", "How much does it cost?", "What kind of warranty does it come with?", and "Will it fit in my laptop bag?"
Do my employers pay me to make a fashion statement? No, they do not. So gives a rat's ass what it looks like?
What's wrong with animal names? My machines are all named after fish--my laptop is "havskatt" (Swedish for "harbour catfish") and my desktop is "valhaj" ("whale shark"). Lots more sensible then naming them after, say, candy bars IMO.
I'd just like if web and app devs would not assume that everybody runs every program fullscreen and size *everything* according to the screen res instead of the program window's actual dimensions. C'mon, it's not like the browser and OS make this information difficult to obtain.
Yes, I'm looking at you, Slashdot. (Among many, many others.)
Seconded (thirded—whatever). I've had the opportunity to work for a really great manager for about 12 years now, and I freely admit I wouldn't get half as much done half as well without him.
They're some of the hardest working, most creative, and fair minded people I've ever met.
That was pretty much my point, yeah. The condescending "this will affect almost no one" bit made it obvious.
Linus is a douche.
Perhaps.
But he's a douche who's actually got some shit done.
Next question.
Need we really ask?
So what do you intend to do when the robots make the current concept of a "job" largely if not completely devoid of meaning?
I'm sleepless, thus in a shit mood, and that made me feel slightly better.
Thanks.
Who are you trying to kid? A lot of the extensions I liked *already* quit working ages ago. Likewise themes.
And the default UI has become progressively shittier over time, with fewer and fewer options remaining for making it sensible again. Nuking the status bar. Moving the tabs *above* the menu bar. And all the other senseless UXtard horseshit.
Actually, the correct headline would be "Tech *Hype* is Bullshit".
And Stalin did in fact have nukes. The USSR tested its first A-bomb in 1949.
And your analysis of the Arab Spring as being nothing more than the child of social media is shallow at best. I'm not a huge fan of social media, either--but I don't go around looking for instances of $random_event to blame on it.
Some of us of who aren't always so preoccupied as you with concocting justifications for psychopathy have heard of this thing called enlightened self-interest. You might want to read up on it sometime.
Because anyone who actually knows something about a subject and speaks up about it is by definition motivated only by greed. Uh-huh...
You got a problem with physics, architecture, materials science, civil engineering, design, graph theory, and a whole bunch of other nerdy subjects? News flash: "Technology" doesn't mean "only technical stuff that *you* happen to be interested in".
..to try to obscure the the fact that they don't actually *own* the source to MySQL, and never will. Any changes or additions they make make to it still have to be (a) made available under GPL and (b) given back to Oracle.
Oh, right, it's Syracuse, not Poughkeepsie. Whatever.
And this is why you're too much of a coward to sign in with an account here, right? It would have nothing to do with you getting banned time and again from the Ars forums?
And this is also why I spent last evening enjoying a 10-course dinner for the Lantern Festival at the Great Happiness Restaurant in Guangzhou while you dined on Cheet-Ohs in your mother's basement in Poughkeepsie? In your world, this somehow makes you a winner and me a loser? I'm having trouble following your logic here.
As for the postcard--in no way whatsoever was it "threatening", since all it said was something like, "Greetings from your old buddy Zontar in Stockholm. Behave yourself." Any "threat" you perceived was purely the product of your own imagination, most likely when you realised that (a) it was indeed possible (and even dead easy) to track you down, (b) someone with ill intent and time on his hands could just as easily have shown up at your door, and (c) you fucked up big time by admitting you'd even got the thing. Fortunately for you, (a) I am a more ethical being (and a smarter one) than you, (b) I am not vulnerable in the way that Jeremy, Jay, or your other victims were--and (c) you are not really worth the trouble in any case.
As for your ridiculous claims concerning Russinovitch: Anyone with the time & patience to check out your claims will discover, just as I did, that you managed to get more downloads of your crappy freeware than he did his because you mercilessly spammed every web forum you could find, just like you try to do here.
Saturday in the park,
I think it was the 4th of July...
HAND, AlecStaar.
Such modesty from one who's got a whole archive dedicated to him at Ars Technica. How touching.
And Steve Bannon, poor guy, all he does is repeatedly say the things that a white supremacist would say and people start accusing him of actually being one! As if the things he says somehow indicate what his beliefs are!
Let's be fair, now--he's only spouting such things when he's not busy rooting for a war with China.