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So let me get this straight. In order to tell Omniture not to do anything on my machine, I have to give Omniture access to my machine. What sort of half-assed policy is this?
Jeebus F'n H Chroist! You had one job to do, and you screwed it up royally.
It's one thing when some obscure feature doesn't work correctly. It's another thing when a fundamental operation of your software hasn't worked for A YEAR since it came out.
Well unless you like to be cold and don't want to hear anything being said to you by your boss.
Down Parka and... can't hear the boss? What's the downside?:-)
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I, for one, LIKE it when makefiles and build environments are robust and broad. Multi-platform tarballs are generally more robust than apps written for a single architecture.
Have you heard about autoconf and automake?
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FYI - Their mainframe was running COBOL and JCL
No, their mainframe was running OS/390. JCL is the mainframe equivalent of bash or csh. COBOL is the business world equivalent of C/Java/Basic.
However they also sometimes insert advertising for local businesses into the national channels, and they do let national ads for DirecTV and Dish Network through.
This is actually standard. In fact, if you ever watch real satellite feeds (off of the 8-10 foot dishes), the national networks will actually show a banner to the effect of "break for local channel". You will also see this on the network news shows such as GMA or The Early Show, where local news and weather is shown the last 5 minutes of each half hour segment.
IIRC, the primary reason for SP3 (at least when it was initially announced) was to address one issue. Due to the number of people/organizations requesting downgrades from Vista to XP, as well as the number of new Dell/HP systems where the customer demanded XP, the range of possible product keys was running out. No, I am not going to waste the time to search for a link.
I believe my arguments against copyright, to which I came after many years of scepticism and pro-IP attitude, are sensible.
Ok, try this on for size:
I spend a year (or more) writing a novel. My income depends on the advance my publisher gives me (if I am lucky), as well as royalties from additional sales.
The novel is published and put in the book stores, priced at $25.
You come along and copy it, then sell it in the same book stores for $20. I now have to pay my publisher back the advance due to lack of sales.
it's about/counting/ and ultimately whether or not counting the old way (by hand, two people, under strict guidelines,) should be replaced by machine-aided counting (to avoid human error).
No, to be precise, it's about/counting/ and ultimately whether or not counting the old way (by hand, two people, under strict guidelines,) should be augmented by machine-aided counting (to avoid human error).
Is there another reason to charge as much for the online version as for the print version when, admittedly, their costs are less for the online customers.
If I were an "about to commit" customer, and I have thought about becoming one recently, this would put me off, I would like a good share of the savings passed on to me.
Ok, how about $10 per month, but you can only access each article once?
Now would you be happy? The benefit for the online customer is more content, more timely content and you can access it from anywhere.
Most of the problems and road blocks that I have seen are not from the technology that is used, but from people who are in charge of this technology. Fewer managers combined with a bunch of qualified (and creative) engineers can achieve what large companies can only dream of.
Think SkunkWorks as in Lockheed - No, I will not link to wikipedia, look it up yourself.
Restrictions on talking on the phone in airplanes: There were (valid?) concerns about cell phones interfering with airplane electronics. Now that these issues are more well understood, the restrictions are going away. Personally, I'd rather them be more safe than sorry.
Agree with caveats. Whether or not the phones interfere (speaking as an extreme frequent flyer), I DO NOT WANT THESE. Imagine coming home from a 5 day, 10 state trip (in the middle seat) and having to listen to someone talking to her girlfriend about the boy who just dumped her - for 2 hours. Give me someone with a box cutter any day. This is a recipe for airplane rage. Having +100 people packed in uncomfortable seats for a transcontinental trip is a recipe for someone to get hurt.
Windows is the single biggest stifler of progress in every IT shop I've been in. yes, there are other challenges, but those are for the most part, workable.
The biggest problem within Windows is that the OS and most application programs written for it insist that they know better than the user regarding the user's intentions.
While there are some times that this is correct, the user should be in control. The user should not have to find ways to work around the systems defective analysis of the desires of the user.
The second most important problem is that, to enforce the user's intentions the user must jump through hoops.
Unix (and it's derivatives), for the most part have a multitude of very small programs, all conforming to a specific set of rules. Each of these programs (ls,sort,more,cut,awk - you get the picture) is designed to be very compact, efficient and accurate. By using scripting in shells (no, I am not going to debate sh/bash/ksh/csh...), these programs are strung together to achieve a desired result.
In comparison, MS bundled a lot of these into one executable, which is mediocre in each part.
When preference is given to "just good enough to get by" as long as market share is maintained, no one should be surprised at the inevitable result.
Yes, you do. Recently, while rearranging storage at a family member's house, I made the decision to throw out the manual for the circular saw. One of the tenants asked if it should be saved, in case someone needed to learn how to use it. Upon seeing the look I gave her, she said "Oh, right" to which my answer was "If they don't already know how they should not be using it.
I think we need to change error messages to things that are technically accurate, with hyperlinks to wikipedia.
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Right. The error message may change from minute to minute depending on the perception of the last editor.
Given a choice between a static yet cryptic message and one which will change without notice (and may not even be accurate), which would you choose?
While I know that the/. crowd prefers (as the commercials say "5 to1") wikipedia as a citation, this strikes me as "Lets make a new specialty for psychoanalysts - they can treat only helpdesk technicians.
It's why we've been recommending Toshiba laptops; with the exception of the Panasonic Toughbook series, they're the most solid we've seen so far...
The Toshiba machines may be solid, but their support sucks big time.
No company whose first line customer support rep explicitly refuses to transfer me to a supervisor will ever see another dime of my money, and Sony National Sales has been told so.
we encourage you to refer him/her to the MUSIC Coalition's website at www.musicunited.org.
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please feel free to contact me via e-mail at antipiracy2@riaa.com, via telephone at (202) 775-0101, or via mail at RIAA, 1025 F Street, NW, 10th Floor, Washington, D.C., 20004.
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Please reference Case ID A384215717 in any response or communication regarding this infringement.
Voila, no need to subpoena your name from the school, you just self-identified their next target.
Every Ubuntu user gets ROOT rights, even they dont know what is difference between super account (root) and normal account. Ubuntu just gives permits to user rule everything on machine what they dont even know, just some forum is tellin to do sudo.
Unless Ubuntu (and variants) have a) changed the installation since I last used it (admittedly this was 2+ years ago) and b) changed the operation of sudo, this is not true.
On Ubuntu, the first user (ie: the user name and password) is given an entry in the sudoers file, allowing them to use sudo to set themselves with root permissions for a limited time.
Once there is an entry (or entries) in the sudoers file, the user uses their own password when asked. The primary purpose of the sudo program is to allow root permissions to another user or group without giving them the root password. A secondary purpose is to log who did what as root in case of a system problem caused by an errant user.
Might I suggest 'man sudo' for more information?
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So let me get this straight. In order to tell Omniture not to do anything on my machine, I have to give Omniture access to my machine. What sort of half-assed policy is this?
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products that fail. Now that takes talent.No, their mainframe was running OS/390.
JCL is the mainframe equivalent of bash or csh.
COBOL is the business world equivalent of C/Java/Basic.
I spend a year (or more) writing a novel. My income depends on the advance my publisher gives me (if I am lucky), as well as royalties from additional sales. The novel is published and put in the book stores, priced at $25.
You come along and copy it, then sell it in the same book stores for $20.
I now have to pay my publisher back the advance due to lack of sales.
Now, is copyright good or bad?
Now would you be happy? The benefit for the online customer is more content, more timely content and you can access it from anywhere.
Second WTF:
What is with you setting up "Reply" and "Parent" links to logout?. If you had done this Sunday you would have been modded into oblivion.
While there are some times that this is correct, the user should be in control. The user should not have to find ways to work around the systems defective analysis of the desires of the user.
The second most important problem is that, to enforce the user's intentions the user must jump through hoops.
Unix (and it's derivatives), for the most part have a multitude of very small programs, all conforming to a specific set of rules. Each of these programs (ls,sort,more,cut,awk - you get the picture) is designed to be very compact, efficient and accurate. By using scripting in shells (no, I am not going to debate sh/bash/ksh/csh...), these programs are strung together to achieve a desired result.
In comparison, MS bundled a lot of these into one executable, which is mediocre in each part.
When preference is given to "just good enough to get by" as long as market share is maintained, no one should be surprised at the inevitable result.
Given a choice between a static yet cryptic message and one which will change without notice (and may not even be accurate), which would you choose?
While I know that the /. crowd prefers (as the commercials say "5 to1") wikipedia as a citation, this strikes me as "Lets make a new specialty for psychoanalysts - they can treat only helpdesk technicians.
gNFS, anyone?
No company whose first line customer support rep explicitly refuses to transfer me to a supervisor will ever see another dime of my money, and Sony National Sales has been told so.
There, fixed it for you. :)
You bet that the BSA has a different agenda.
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Voila, no need to subpoena your name from the school, you just self-identified their next target.
There is, however a difference between Hmm, thats interesting and They did WHAT??