Yeah, but who cares? You make up another psuedonym and carry on.
In fact, it's sort of one of our social responsibilities as renegade nerds to seed a reasonable amount of made-up bullshit on Facebook. It's what I'd call our 'Fuck you Zuck' obligation.
I wouldn't go so far as to say Facebook is the opposite of anonymnity.
I have three FB accounts, none of them provide any authentic information about a real person.
You can register for Facebook and just give them a fricking @yahoo.com email address, for petes sake.
They do have a band of 'enforcers' out trying to eke out and eliminate fake people on Facebook, but they only go after obvious fakes, etc. Spend several minutes writing up a fake 'history' of who you are and it only takes a few more minutes to create that person on Facebook.
Now, it's too embarassing to admit why I would even want any of those FB accounts. So that part of the process, I will remain anonymous regarding.
the question of advanced features that Office has - they may only be used by 1% of the company,
That 1% of the company would be better off, 90% of the time, not dicking around in the arcana of MS Office. There's work to get done, even if it means losing one's "guru" status because one knows all the flipper-key sequences in WordPerfect^w^wMS Office. .
I can't watch Youtube videos on my NetBSD box. Why should I have to? Why does it matter whether the companies you feel are important pay attention to it or not?
Part of the reason I like NetBSD is the absence of hot dogs and cowboys in it.
I can think of one reason to agree with the terms: the ad company in question may be about to die due to Google competition and they know if they agree they not only get a chance to survive but also give Facebook the incentive they need to proceed with this and block any large and healthy ad company from the service.
To me, though, that translates:
"My boyfriend isn't paying any attention to me lately. Maybe I can get Zuck to rape me."
I think I first ran Slackware at version 3.6 or so.
But I abandoned linux altogether shortly after the 2.0 kernel came out.
For my Unix needs, I run NetBSD. It configures today the same way it did when I first started using it. With vi. You can configure X11 using the O'Reilly X-Window System manuals. i.e. ~/.xinitrc ~/.xresources and so on. Everything for the system lives in/etc and is editable text. I can't understand why this isn't considered correct anymore on linux.
That's not far off the mark. If you want to get rid of every last bit of that 60 Hz pickup hum, shield your music room and only bring in DC to power the equipment. Gas lighting would add a nice touch.
Far too often, however, the problem comes not in whether you can properly educate your users/punish them for non-compliance, but whether you, as an IT entity, have the power to do so.
It sucks to work in places where the IT flunkies have that much power. It leads to all sorts of problems, like them spending too much time running around being thuggish, when they could be changing the toner in the Ljet4 up on third floor, like they're supposed to.
My techie alternative to this (techie, as opposed to 'office drone with phillips screwdriver skills') was when I wired my power supply into the Z axis of a co-workers oscilloscope, using a long wire that reached to my bench. Then, I could dim or brighten his 'scope by simply adjusting my power supply's voltage. Those were fun times. That was back when there was one computer in the lab, a shiney new '286 machine. We tried to lock it once using the lockswitch on the case. Someone who wanted 'in' used one of those spring loaded center punches, which blew the keylock away, unlocking the system.
Which brings me to the main point of this post: those spring-loaded center punches are great. When you encounter a keyboard with a sensor such as the one in this article has, give it a little encouragement to comply with your wishes. You want the sensor, of course, to die quickly and with little fuss or effort.
I don't know how quite how you frame an academic and author like Tolkien as the center of any great "public" controversy or event.
I think you do have a problem if you mimic the distinctive cover designs and typefaces of Tolkien's books.
The cover design of my copies of Tolkien's trilogy (the early 1970's editions I read back then) actually have a photograph of Tolkein on the back. Public figure, the way I see it...
Just like any any other business, there is a team of 'continuation engineers' involved in the product life of any piece of technology. If a piece of equipment seems to be lasting much longer than the warranty period, it's an opportunity for cost reduction.
The old slashdot was from before there was an apple.slashdot.org. Ten years ago Apple was considered a big joke by those of us who weren't part of a tiny minority.
Apple sees to it that Mac application software goes obsolete with each major revision of their systems.
So maybe you'll have to buy all new for full price instead of the upgrade version for a 40% price, but Mac users are used to spending and spending and spending. They expect to be forced to buy new software much more often than the 'doze crowd.
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Yeah, but who cares? You make up another psuedonym and carry on.
In fact, it's sort of one of our social responsibilities as renegade nerds to seed a reasonable amount of made-up bullshit on Facebook. It's what I'd call our 'Fuck you Zuck' obligation.
I wouldn't go so far as to say Facebook is the opposite of anonymnity.
I have three FB accounts, none of them provide any authentic information about a real person.
You can register for Facebook and just give them a fricking @yahoo.com email address, for petes sake.
They do have a band of 'enforcers' out trying to eke out and eliminate fake people on Facebook, but they only go after obvious fakes, etc. Spend several minutes writing up a fake 'history' of who you are and it only takes a few more minutes to create that person on Facebook.
Now, it's too embarassing to admit why I would even want any of those FB accounts. So that part of the process, I will remain anonymous regarding.
Well, uh, you seeeee.... gp has apparently bought into the whole 'virtual world' thing and that includes pretend laws, etc.
the question of advanced features that Office has - they may only be used by 1% of the company,
That 1% of the company would be better off, 90% of the time, not dicking around in the arcana of MS Office. There's work to get done, even if it means losing one's "guru" status because one knows all the flipper-key sequences in WordPerfect^w^wMS Office.
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LaTeX. Designed by one of the best computer scientists in the world
Leslie Lamport is one of the best computer scientists in the world??
Apparently the programmers should do coffee-house gigs to make their living. Oh, and sell tee-shirts.
So are you implying we can all have our own personal definitions of 'science' and we should all just get along and be happy?
And I just keep using the same old ~/.fvwm2rc file, year after year after year.
It ain't supposed to be a fashion statement, people. geez.
How is NetBSD 'completely irrelevant'?
I can't watch Youtube videos on my NetBSD box. Why should I have to? Why does it matter whether the companies you feel are important pay attention to it or not?
Part of the reason I like NetBSD is the absence of hot dogs and cowboys in it.
Apparently you were trying to 'build them up' and give that program more credibility by saying it was made by the creators of Robot Chicken, eh?
I can think of one reason to agree with the terms: the ad company in question may be about to die due to Google competition and they know if they agree they not only get a chance to survive but also give Facebook the incentive they need to proceed with this and block any large and healthy ad company from the service.
To me, though, that translates:
"My boyfriend isn't paying any attention to me lately. Maybe I can get Zuck to rape me."
I think I first ran Slackware at version 3.6 or so.
But I abandoned linux altogether shortly after the 2.0 kernel came out.
For my Unix needs, I run NetBSD. It configures today the same way it did when I first started using it. With vi. You can configure X11 using the O'Reilly X-Window System manuals. i.e. ~/.xinitrc ~/.xresources and so on. Everything for the system lives in /etc and is editable text. I can't understand why this isn't considered correct anymore on linux.
That's not far off the mark. If you want to get rid of every last bit of that 60 Hz pickup hum, shield your music room and only bring in DC to power the equipment. Gas lighting would add a nice touch.
I have managed to enjoy listening to recordings on 78rpm platters. Even classical music a few times.
Far too often, however, the problem comes not in whether you can properly educate your users/punish them for non-compliance, but whether you, as an IT entity, have the power to do so.
It sucks to work in places where the IT flunkies have that much power. It leads to all sorts of problems, like them spending too much time running around being thuggish, when they could be changing the toner in the Ljet4 up on third floor, like they're supposed to.
My techie alternative to this (techie, as opposed to 'office drone with phillips screwdriver skills') was when I wired my power supply into the Z axis of a co-workers oscilloscope, using a long wire that reached to my bench. Then, I could dim or brighten his 'scope by simply adjusting my power supply's voltage. Those were fun times. That was back when there was one computer in the lab, a shiney new '286 machine. We tried to lock it once using the lockswitch on the case. Someone who wanted 'in' used one of those spring loaded center punches, which blew the keylock away, unlocking the system.
Which brings me to the main point of this post: those spring-loaded center punches are great. When you encounter a keyboard with a sensor such as the one in this article has, give it a little encouragement to comply with your wishes. You want the sensor, of course, to die quickly and with little fuss or effort.
try understanding the needs of your users before throwing "solutions" at them.
My practice is to decant the solution, then throw the precipitate at them. Less wasteful.
And yet Google still remains my #1 used web site online. Some may only ever browse what others point you at, but I actually go out and find things.
It sounds to me like you mostly browse where google points at.
Umm...
you can write w work of fiction that includes Steve Jobs
That's fan-fiction and fits in a different category.
Though the one with Steve Jobs and Jabba the Hut with the twist ending where the condom breaks is good enough to not be considered mere fan-fiction.
The cover design of my copies of Tolkien's trilogy (the early 1970's editions I read back then) actually have a photograph of Tolkein on the back. Public figure, the way I see it...
Just like any any other business, there is a team of 'continuation engineers' involved in the product life of any piece of technology. If a piece of equipment seems to be lasting much longer than the warranty period, it's an opportunity for cost reduction.
They started out life running TopView and don't understand the concept of overlapping windows.
Google is an advertising biz. Maybe the phishing site was from one of their 'associates.'
You're on apple.slashdot.org.
The old slashdot was from before there was an apple.slashdot.org. Ten years ago Apple was considered a big joke by those of us who weren't part of a tiny minority.
Apple sees to it that Mac application software goes obsolete with each major revision of their systems.
So maybe you'll have to buy all new for full price instead of the upgrade version for a 40% price, but Mac users are used to spending and spending and spending. They expect to be forced to buy new software much more often than the 'doze crowd.