Mediocre isn't the bottom, by definition. Besides, open source software is some of the best in the world in some sectors (notably web servers). I don't know what your rant about democracy is about - OSS projects are very very rarely run democratically, and when they are it usually ends up in a mess. Where do I get to vote or decide how Open Office is written?
Meh - I go to all kinds of dodgy sites, and have yet to have a virus. Obviously I get a few warnings, Firefox warns me about some stuff, and I never ever actually run anything from a source I don't trust. My personal opinion is that most people get viruses from emails their friends have sent them, which they click yes to. Vista's UAC is actually pretty useful for me. It rarely pops up when I'm doing normal stuff, and it does stop stuff from running as admin. I used to have antivirus on this box, but I got rid of it because I cannot see how I personally will get a virus in the first place.
Back on topic - I think the major security problem of our time for the general populace is malware misrepresenting itself. Social engineering has always been the best way into any system, if you can get the user to run a program, you don't need to bypass any tough defences. All it takes for a lot of people is a pop-up window saying "Your PC is infected, click here to clean it".
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Personally I doubt your lack of success was determined by not knowing how to dress. I'd guess it was more to do with self-confidence. Once you'd moved into a field in which you were more successful (in school academical success does not equal social succes, much as some would like it to), you gained confidence and thus people noticed you more.
I may be way off the mark though, for all I know you used to wear bras as ear-muffs throughout high school.
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Fuck revenge. If your reason to have a software company, a nice boat, car, etc, and a nice wife is revenge on red-necks, you're going to be very unhappy later on in life. Being happy is nothing to do with revenge.
Besides, those red-necks will still go tell you to go fuck yourself down at the bar, and you won't be able to do anything about it, apart from telling them you about your company, boat, house, car, working from home, the country club, and your wife. I also like the way you've prioritised these aspects of your life.
Non-french companies not operating in France are not subject to French Law. However, these companies are operating in France, if there are customers in France.
Imagine a situation in which Massive company no. 1, based in Canada, supplies all of the US's need for one thing. Massive company no. 2, based in the US, supplies all of Canada's needs for the same thing. Why on earth should Canadian legislation apply to exclusively to company 1, and US legislation exclusively to company 2?
Bottom line - I think if you want to do business in our country, you follow our rules, end of. And no, I'm not French.
Wow, marketing is put forward as a serious alterative to scientific pursuits, and is +4 informative. I never thought I'd see the day slashdot. News for Nerds, Stuff that matters.
You're part of the problem. Usability is key, and if an application takes 20 seconds to start, people will complain. The IT department can railroad it in, but that will lead to resentment, especially if they have attitudes like yours. People who are using office applications are not necessarily nerds, you know.
Anyway, OO is nowhere near as bad as you a painting it. It does not take anywhere near 20 seconds.... I don't know where you got that from.
Ok... you seem to be arguing against taxation of all forms here. That's an interesting argument.
You're obviously talented enough to get by reasonably well. Many people do not have the talents to better themselves. They cannot become high paid workers. Also, their jobs have to be filled. There has to be someone doing low paid menial work, and those people cannot save enough for a rainy day. When something goes wrong (eg. they get injured at work, and cannot continue), the state IMO should step in, at least to some degree.
You would not be as well paid as you are without people less well paid than you. You also would not be able to live the life you're leading without people less well paid than you. Those people are way more likely to need the safety net than you, so it's all very well sitting on you pedestal saying you'd be ok, but you would not be there without those people.
Now, I am not necessarily advocating that the amounts the state steps in now are correct, but without state intervention, I believe there would be a much higher crime rate due to desperation of those not getting subsistence wages. Crime affects everyone, and if you believe we can just forget about those in poverty and it will not affect us, you're living outside of reality.
You also seem to be advocating Laissez faire capitalism, which does not work. Ever.
You know I spent half my life with people saying that Chinatown is a truly classic, engaging, subtle film, and I should definitely watch it. I'd tell them I have, and didn't rate it much. It was only recently that I realised I was confusing Big Trouble in Little China with Chinatown...
New languages are announced every week or so in different places... it doesn't change the fact that the language that most big projects rely on now is one of the old guard. C is, despite it's incarnations (or deformations, depending on who you believe) still king, and it was designed in 1972.
Basically, Google haven't made an announcement of anything - they are not committing themselves to anything, and they never fucking said they were when they made this "hint". This is basically a non-story about a blogger with too much time on his hands who has overanalysed Google's output and managed to get himself on/.. That's just my take, others may see this as significant, but to me : nothing to see here, move along.
My phone got a malfunction - it's scratched to shit, is ancient, and has one of my hairs siiting behind the screen*. The weird thing is, it still does the two things I ask of it - make phone calls and keep battery charge (for about a week or so). Until it dies, or something else comes on the market I actually want from a phone, it's perfect. Screw fangled crap, I just want to reliably be able to make calls and have good battery life.
If others want other things from their phones, that is fine. I just want reliability with calls.
FWIW, Blackberry vs iPhone is a false comparison anyway - there are bound to be some crap blackberry products, purely because the reins on the iPhone are that much tighter. However, there are bound to some better blackberry prducts IMO because the reins are slightly looser.
* Fortunately it's just a normal hair - I do think I'd probably draw the line at looking at one of my pubic hairs every time I picked up my phone
Wait... is the game that good to justify hundreds of dollars for one instrument? AFAICT, most people play it for 1/2 an hour and get bored of it. Now, I'm not saying you didn't here..... but a little perspective may be in order.
No, man, you've got to make some NOISE about that. Fuck noise for a game of soldiers, this is Heavy Metal. You need to make some NOIZE!!!! COME ON!!!!!
STOP! In that last ad, correct me if I'm wrong, at 20 seconds it says "the family can invent their own porn games". Now, I'm not sure which market Apple were aiming for at that time, but I'm glad my dad didn't get one.
A little known fact about/. : Anonymous Coward actually has infinite mod points, but since he can't help but post to every discussion, he reverts all his modding.
The trouble with preserving everything of cultural importance in the UK is that there are so many buildings that fall into this category. Victorian churches are knocked down all the time, just because there's not the money to keep them up. Restoration was a program recently on the BBC, with loads of good causes which ideally should have been restored, but there's just no cash for it.
ps. the BBC website seems to be down ATM, no idea why.
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Again?
Mediocre isn't the bottom, by definition. Besides, open source software is some of the best in the world in some sectors (notably web servers). I don't know what your rant about democracy is about - OSS projects are very very rarely run democratically, and when they are it usually ends up in a mess. Where do I get to vote or decide how Open Office is written?
At least you didn't say "Wallah!", anyway.
In the same vein, a 55 year old man is going to like a teenaged girl much better than NAPOLEON DYNAMITE.
Meh - I go to all kinds of dodgy sites, and have yet to have a virus. Obviously I get a few warnings, Firefox warns me about some stuff, and I never ever actually run anything from a source I don't trust. My personal opinion is that most people get viruses from emails their friends have sent them, which they click yes to. Vista's UAC is actually pretty useful for me. It rarely pops up when I'm doing normal stuff, and it does stop stuff from running as admin. I used to have antivirus on this box, but I got rid of it because I cannot see how I personally will get a virus in the first place.
Back on topic - I think the major security problem of our time for the general populace is malware misrepresenting itself. Social engineering has always been the best way into any system, if you can get the user to run a program, you don't need to bypass any tough defences. All it takes for a lot of people is a pop-up window saying "Your PC is infected, click here to clean it".
Personally I doubt your lack of success was determined by not knowing how to dress. I'd guess it was more to do with self-confidence. Once you'd moved into a field in which you were more successful (in school academical success does not equal social succes, much as some would like it to), you gained confidence and thus people noticed you more.
I may be way off the mark though, for all I know you used to wear bras as ear-muffs throughout high school.
Fuck revenge. If your reason to have a software company, a nice boat, car, etc, and a nice wife is revenge on red-necks, you're going to be very unhappy later on in life. Being happy is nothing to do with revenge.
Besides, those red-necks will still go tell you to go fuck yourself down at the bar, and you won't be able to do anything about it, apart from telling them you about your company, boat, house, car, working from home, the country club, and your wife. I also like the way you've prioritised these aspects of your life.
Non-french companies not operating in France are not subject to French Law. However, these companies are operating in France, if there are customers in France.
Imagine a situation in which Massive company no. 1, based in Canada, supplies all of the US's need for one thing. Massive company no. 2, based in the US, supplies all of Canada's needs for the same thing. Why on earth should Canadian legislation apply to exclusively to company 1, and US legislation exclusively to company 2?
Bottom line - I think if you want to do business in our country, you follow our rules, end of. And no, I'm not French.
Wow, marketing is put forward as a serious alterative to scientific pursuits, and is +4 informative. I never thought I'd see the day slashdot. News for Nerds, Stuff that matters.
You're part of the problem. Usability is key, and if an application takes 20 seconds to start, people will complain. The IT department can railroad it in, but that will lead to resentment, especially if they have attitudes like yours. People who are using office applications are not necessarily nerds, you know.
Anyway, OO is nowhere near as bad as you a painting it. It does not take anywhere near 20 seconds.... I don't know where you got that from.
Ok... you seem to be arguing against taxation of all forms here. That's an interesting argument.
You're obviously talented enough to get by reasonably well. Many people do not have the talents to better themselves. They cannot become high paid workers. Also, their jobs have to be filled. There has to be someone doing low paid menial work, and those people cannot save enough for a rainy day. When something goes wrong (eg. they get injured at work, and cannot continue), the state IMO should step in, at least to some degree.
You would not be as well paid as you are without people less well paid than you. You also would not be able to live the life you're leading without people less well paid than you. Those people are way more likely to need the safety net than you, so it's all very well sitting on you pedestal saying you'd be ok, but you would not be there without those people.
Now, I am not necessarily advocating that the amounts the state steps in now are correct, but without state intervention, I believe there would be a much higher crime rate due to desperation of those not getting subsistence wages. Crime affects everyone, and if you believe we can just forget about those in poverty and it will not affect us, you're living outside of reality.
You also seem to be advocating Laissez faire capitalism, which does not work. Ever.
You know I spent half my life with people saying that Chinatown is a truly classic, engaging, subtle film, and I should definitely watch it. I'd tell them I have, and didn't rate it much. It was only recently that I realised I was confusing Big Trouble in Little China with Chinatown...
Hah! That's where you're wrong. In my house, only a third of the programmers are below the median of the house.
Why not get him a baseball mit and just throw rocks at him? Best of both worlds! (if he's any good)
the right of free speech comes with the duty to exercise it responsibly
Fuck that. I'll use my free speech any way I want thanks, I do not need people like you telling me how I should or should not speak.
New languages are announced every week or so in different places... it doesn't change the fact that the language that most big projects rely on now is one of the old guard. C is, despite it's incarnations (or deformations, depending on who you believe) still king, and it was designed in 1972.
Basically, Google haven't made an announcement of anything - they are not committing themselves to anything, and they never fucking said they were when they made this "hint". This is basically a non-story about a blogger with too much time on his hands who has overanalysed Google's output and managed to get himself on /.. That's just my take, others may see this as significant, but to me : nothing to see here, move along.
My phone got a malfunction - it's scratched to shit, is ancient, and has one of my hairs siiting behind the screen*. The weird thing is, it still does the two things I ask of it - make phone calls and keep battery charge (for about a week or so). Until it dies, or something else comes on the market I actually want from a phone, it's perfect. Screw fangled crap, I just want to reliably be able to make calls and have good battery life.
If others want other things from their phones, that is fine. I just want reliability with calls.
FWIW, Blackberry vs iPhone is a false comparison anyway - there are bound to be some crap blackberry products, purely because the reins on the iPhone are that much tighter. However, there are bound to some better blackberry prducts IMO because the reins are slightly looser.
* Fortunately it's just a normal hair - I do think I'd probably draw the line at looking at one of my pubic hairs every time I picked up my phone
I don't consider 2 million pounds moving at 42 mph "incredibly slow"
You've obviously never waited in a queue at McDonalds then...
Wait... is the game that good to justify hundreds of dollars for one instrument? AFAICT, most people play it for 1/2 an hour and get bored of it. Now, I'm not saying you didn't here..... but a little perspective may be in order.
No, man, you've got to make some NOISE about that. Fuck noise for a game of soldiers, this is Heavy Metal. You need to make some NOIZE!!!! COME ON!!!!!
STOP! In that last ad, correct me if I'm wrong, at 20 seconds it says "the family can invent their own porn games". Now, I'm not sure which market Apple were aiming for at that time, but I'm glad my dad didn't get one.
Yes, and I should also point out it's cheaper as well.
A little known fact about /. : Anonymous Coward actually has infinite mod points, but since he can't help but post to every discussion, he reverts all his modding.
The trouble with preserving everything of cultural importance in the UK is that there are so many buildings that fall into this category. Victorian churches are knocked down all the time, just because there's not the money to keep them up. Restoration was a program recently on the BBC, with loads of good causes which ideally should have been restored, but there's just no cash for it.
ps. the BBC website seems to be down ATM, no idea why.