Doesn't surprise me. Unlike OSX and Linux, Windows seems determined to be inscrutable on a regular basis. I've never found a file in Linux which I couldn't delete, whereas with Windows it's a fairly regular occurrence. Ultimately they do get deleted, but I shouldn't have to use techniques that venture that far out of the paradigm they're using for the entire OS to do it.
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One observation I've had is that people that work at MS give a wonderfully confused look when you point out that something doesn't work. It's as if there's this magic line circling their campus beyond which the magical pixies refuse to travel to make things work.
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I'm not surprised. I haven't applied to work at MS nor would I likely do so. The reason is that they abuse the H1-B visa program and for the longest time most of their employees were classified as temps and I don't think that anybody worth hiring deserves to be treated like that.
Yeah, but having to get through Windows 3.0, 3.1, 95, 98, 98SE, ME, XP and Vista to get to one that's apparently decent is asking a bit much. And that excludes DOS, NT and the versions of DOS+Windows prior to 3.0.
What's that got to do with anything? With AC posts you have no way of knowing which AC it is, with the GP post you can at least follow posts with that name on them.
Yeah but that would take taxpayer money whereas if you use eminent domain or quash the suit you don't have to spend more than a small fraction of that.
I'm always a bit curious as to why people are more comfortable with eminent domain than just paying the assessed value of whatever. Sure it costs tax payers more, but with a lot of it there's no real way of knowing that you're not going to be the next one that gets screwed by it in some fashion.
That means precisely zip. All it means is that they're expecting further leaks and are preparing for it. It also means that they realize that there's more material that could be leaked.
Beyond that it really doesn't mean anything at all.
Of course not, it embarrassed the DoD which does harm the US position as embarrassing the DoD makes it more difficult to justify the continued war effort.
As opposed to the US Military who is ultimately responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians during the genocide that followed our toppling of the Iraqi government?
I know you're trolling, but give me a break, the DoD is the last organization that should be commenting on another organization's bloody hands.
Clearly the CIA is way too busy to assassinate a few of their own informants for the greater good. Check back with them in a few months and they'll have bodies available.
That's been a serious problem in the US for sometime now. The Bush administration was notorious for keeping things secret whether or not there was a legitimate reason. Which was something which Nixon was notorious for as well.
The problem is that just because something is embarrassing to the military or intelligence agencies does not mean that it's a legitimate state secret. And that covering up things of little strategic interest just makes everybody curious about what else is being hidden.
It's shocking to me that it took the press nearly 6 years to get interested in why President Bush was keeping so many secrets when it's really their job to ask those sorts of questions.
I just wish they'd settle on a particular standard. My old Razr used mini-USB and my Nexus One uses a micro-USB connector, and I've seen ones that use other designs as well. Still better since they frequently package the adapter as a generic USB transformer plus a USB cable of the appropriate type.
I'm guessing what happened there was that the Fox broadcast stations there went dark to prevent people in neighboring areas covered by cablevision from seeing the programming live. But the article didn't make it clear which fox stations they were.
When you run a business that uses public property to operate you agree to give up some control. If they don't like it, you could always stop using the public right of way and stop operating across state lines. That would keep the intrusions mostly out.
Of course for an ISP to only be able to service a single block and be unable to provide anything beyond that, it would be significantly less useful than the BBSes of old.
You have a point, however, there is a bit of this which is definitely public service. It demonstrates to a couple significant markets and several ISPs that a lack of net neutrality can hurt them as well.
Yes, and whenever they find themselves in the odd position of having genuinely engaging material, they cancel it as soon as they can. Or they put it in a bad time slot, like after sporting events or move it all over the schedule.
Quality programming for them is pretty much accidental and a failing on the part of the execs to properly kill it.
Indeed. Often times a fork is merely a way of providing better focus on a particular set of issues. *BSD is a good example, there's still a lot of programmers that work on more than one of them, and often times features will originate on one OS and end up being ported to the rest.
Ultimately it really depends upon the situation and while competition can be quite healthy, cooperation can also be quite helpful to all parties involved.
Corporate backing takes many forms. Sometimes like with OO.org the majority of the work is being done by a corporation that takes the occasional patch from somebody else. Then there's projects where it's largely the reverse where most of the work is being done by individuals and programmers working for smaller companies with the occasional donation of a whole new feature.
I'm sure there's quite a bit of middle ground as well. I'd personally suggest that the latter is preferable to the former as it's less likely for this sort of huge, sudden change to occur.
That was a part of it. The bigger issue was that X11 had stagnated for quite some time, IIRC from 2000 when I did my first successful FreeBSD install to when that project made the switch there was little if any sign of progress.
I doubt very much that the change in licensing helped them.
The problem is that it's very, very hard to keep it out of the air. Yes, as long as you don't breathe it in you're fine, it's just that it's very difficult to avoid and you have to be very careful not to disturb it.
But that would mean that trolls would have to stop claiming that Firefox is constantly leaking huge amounts of memory and unusably sluggish.
Which is a bit odd, considering how easy it is to be fast when you're not fully featured and how all of those browsers seem to be getting features that Firefox has had for some time now.
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Wouldn't surprise me. The folks doing the development have spent a lot of time working on it and have avoided the temptation to just make each tab a completely different process.
Except that if that Murdoch bought media outlets even though it was completely illegal for him as a foreign citizen to own them and has pushed for less and less diversity in ownership ever since.
I agree with that. One of the things which separates Hemingway from most of the writers of his generation was that he was brief and to the point. He would rewrite a portion of a book over and over again until he got the words right. And he definitely understood the value of a word.
Most writers could learn a thing or two from him. Don't put in descriptions where you can get away with just using the right word. And don't put more description than is necessary for the reader to fill in the blanks.
Editing does indeed matter, but the people doing the editing are not drawing gargantuan salaries, they're pretty low in the organization and definitely not getting the kind of perks that the execs are. It's just too time intensive for a highly paid exec to waste time on.
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Doesn't surprise me. Unlike OSX and Linux, Windows seems determined to be inscrutable on a regular basis. I've never found a file in Linux which I couldn't delete, whereas with Windows it's a fairly regular occurrence. Ultimately they do get deleted, but I shouldn't have to use techniques that venture that far out of the paradigm they're using for the entire OS to do it.
One observation I've had is that people that work at MS give a wonderfully confused look when you point out that something doesn't work. It's as if there's this magic line circling their campus beyond which the magical pixies refuse to travel to make things work.
I'm not surprised. I haven't applied to work at MS nor would I likely do so. The reason is that they abuse the H1-B visa program and for the longest time most of their employees were classified as temps and I don't think that anybody worth hiring deserves to be treated like that.
Yeah, but having to get through Windows 3.0, 3.1, 95, 98, 98SE, ME, XP and Vista to get to one that's apparently decent is asking a bit much. And that excludes DOS, NT and the versions of DOS+Windows prior to 3.0.
What's that got to do with anything? With AC posts you have no way of knowing which AC it is, with the GP post you can at least follow posts with that name on them.
Yeah but that would take taxpayer money whereas if you use eminent domain or quash the suit you don't have to spend more than a small fraction of that.
I'm always a bit curious as to why people are more comfortable with eminent domain than just paying the assessed value of whatever. Sure it costs tax payers more, but with a lot of it there's no real way of knowing that you're not going to be the next one that gets screwed by it in some fashion.
That means precisely zip. All it means is that they're expecting further leaks and are preparing for it. It also means that they realize that there's more material that could be leaked.
Beyond that it really doesn't mean anything at all.
Of course not, it embarrassed the DoD which does harm the US position as embarrassing the DoD makes it more difficult to justify the continued war effort.
As opposed to the US Military who is ultimately responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians during the genocide that followed our toppling of the Iraqi government?
I know you're trolling, but give me a break, the DoD is the last organization that should be commenting on another organization's bloody hands.
Clearly the CIA is way too busy to assassinate a few of their own informants for the greater good. Check back with them in a few months and they'll have bodies available.
That's been a serious problem in the US for sometime now. The Bush administration was notorious for keeping things secret whether or not there was a legitimate reason. Which was something which Nixon was notorious for as well. The problem is that just because something is embarrassing to the military or intelligence agencies does not mean that it's a legitimate state secret. And that covering up things of little strategic interest just makes everybody curious about what else is being hidden.
It's shocking to me that it took the press nearly 6 years to get interested in why President Bush was keeping so many secrets when it's really their job to ask those sorts of questions.
I just wish they'd settle on a particular standard. My old Razr used mini-USB and my Nexus One uses a micro-USB connector, and I've seen ones that use other designs as well. Still better since they frequently package the adapter as a generic USB transformer plus a USB cable of the appropriate type.
I'm guessing what happened there was that the Fox broadcast stations there went dark to prevent people in neighboring areas covered by cablevision from seeing the programming live. But the article didn't make it clear which fox stations they were.
When you run a business that uses public property to operate you agree to give up some control. If they don't like it, you could always stop using the public right of way and stop operating across state lines. That would keep the intrusions mostly out.
Of course for an ISP to only be able to service a single block and be unable to provide anything beyond that, it would be significantly less useful than the BBSes of old.
You have a point, however, there is a bit of this which is definitely public service. It demonstrates to a couple significant markets and several ISPs that a lack of net neutrality can hurt them as well.
Yes, and whenever they find themselves in the odd position of having genuinely engaging material, they cancel it as soon as they can. Or they put it in a bad time slot, like after sporting events or move it all over the schedule.
Quality programming for them is pretty much accidental and a failing on the part of the execs to properly kill it.
Indeed. Often times a fork is merely a way of providing better focus on a particular set of issues. *BSD is a good example, there's still a lot of programmers that work on more than one of them, and often times features will originate on one OS and end up being ported to the rest.
Ultimately it really depends upon the situation and while competition can be quite healthy, cooperation can also be quite helpful to all parties involved.
Corporate backing takes many forms. Sometimes like with OO.org the majority of the work is being done by a corporation that takes the occasional patch from somebody else. Then there's projects where it's largely the reverse where most of the work is being done by individuals and programmers working for smaller companies with the occasional donation of a whole new feature.
I'm sure there's quite a bit of middle ground as well. I'd personally suggest that the latter is preferable to the former as it's less likely for this sort of huge, sudden change to occur.
That was a part of it. The bigger issue was that X11 had stagnated for quite some time, IIRC from 2000 when I did my first successful FreeBSD install to when that project made the switch there was little if any sign of progress.
I doubt very much that the change in licensing helped them.
The problem is that it's very, very hard to keep it out of the air. Yes, as long as you don't breathe it in you're fine, it's just that it's very difficult to avoid and you have to be very careful not to disturb it.
But that would mean that trolls would have to stop claiming that Firefox is constantly leaking huge amounts of memory and unusably sluggish.
Which is a bit odd, considering how easy it is to be fast when you're not fully featured and how all of those browsers seem to be getting features that Firefox has had for some time now.
Wouldn't surprise me. The folks doing the development have spent a lot of time working on it and have avoided the temptation to just make each tab a completely different process.
Except that if that Murdoch bought media outlets even though it was completely illegal for him as a foreign citizen to own them and has pushed for less and less diversity in ownership ever since.
I agree with that. One of the things which separates Hemingway from most of the writers of his generation was that he was brief and to the point. He would rewrite a portion of a book over and over again until he got the words right. And he definitely understood the value of a word.
Most writers could learn a thing or two from him. Don't put in descriptions where you can get away with just using the right word. And don't put more description than is necessary for the reader to fill in the blanks.
Editing does indeed matter, but the people doing the editing are not drawing gargantuan salaries, they're pretty low in the organization and definitely not getting the kind of perks that the execs are. It's just too time intensive for a highly paid exec to waste time on.