I've been begging my company to let me install IE7 on my computer for the last few months, knowing it is going to break our web applications. Frankly, I'm excited because I hate our web applications and now I get to say "I told you so" to my boss, as well as get paid for plenty o' overtime to build a new one from scratch.
I just wish they would've listened back then so it wouldn't be such a rush job. But noooobody listens to the lowly developer.
You must be new here. That's what we do, complain about a corporation whose products we claim not to use (all linux/osx in my house:P ), or we revel in said company's imminent destruction.
give me a bloody break. if you can't figure out the ballot, you probably shouldn't be voting in the first place. yes, I know this goes against everything american, but it's pretty much how I feel. bite me.
for the record, I'm 22 and today's music sucks.
that said, I do think there's plenty of good stuff out there, but I don't hear anything that even compares to vintage dylan, doors, the cure or the clash.
I kinda think that's the nature of p2p sharing... going through my library, it's mostly A) classic rock/folk. Dylan, Hendrix, Zeppelin and such... b) punk music, where the bands themselves have encouraged the downloading of their music when I saw them live. c) anything else I want to listen to. Contains some new stuff, but the new non-punk stuff accounts for 3% of my very large collection.
I'm sorry, but I have serious trouble believing that Bush is capable of even aspiring to become such a fascist monster. The man is a moron. Now, I don't have any problem accepting that he is simply a figurehead for more influential people (lurking in the shadows, if you will).
As was posted earlier, if the Democrats can manage to find a half-decent candidate, they'll win the next one in a landslide.
Now ask me if I care. For the most part, not at all.
Not that I don't think it affects me, but I don't believe it will affect me any less to have another empty shirt pushing the polar opposite agenda.
Call me unamerican, but until I see a candidate worthy of office, I'm staying out of the voting booth.
I guess that depends what you decide the problem is. Is the problem that there's a window that pops up, or is it that said window irritates the user. Buying a new computer will fix the latter, as it relieves the irritation.
Art has been redefined many times in the past 300 years. Up until then, it was basically a trade. You went to school or did your apprenticeship, then eventually got to be an "artist" - as long as you kept in line with the standard schools of thought about what you should be painting or sculpting.
The art community has gone through cycles of rebellion since back in the day, but probably the main turning point was when a bunch of parisian art rejects went and created their own outcast's show- the Salon de Refuge... I probably spelled that wrong.
From then on, art has been more about mindframe than material. It got really extreme when the whole Pop art thing came around, where it got purely conceptual.
so the real question is... What is art?
I wrote dozens of papers answering and asking that question in college, and read hundreds more. I still haven't decided.
Games can be art- the character designers are some of the most talented illustrators I've ever met. But are they necessarily? no. but it's the same way with paintings, music, street performing, snowboarding, and photography. It's really all about the mindset of the artist. I just decided I don't want to get into it.
little offtopic note here-- I majored in Illustration, and Dr. Seuss is one of my favorite artists. Yes, it is definitely art. Check out some of his non-illustrations... he was an excellent fine artist.
My company just finished a site for a customer- an intelligent person, but completely non-tech savvy. To top it off, he has a minor disability that limits his ability to work on a computer. After it's been built (and approved by him), he calls back to complain that it's too difficult for him to use.
The software package that was main problem point for him is sold as is (explicitly stated in the TOS, which he never bothered to read).
The guy expects us to redesign the site, on our dollar, to make it easier for him to use. He uses the reasoning that the people who will visit the site are about as computer-literate as he is.
He's threatening legal action because it is too difficult to navigate.
Any well-designed site will meet ADA standards (or at least come close), but I have no sympathy for somebody who expects a company to take extra time to design the site just for their convenience. In this case, it's a bit different because he is our client, not a visitor to the website, but I think that only strengthens our case (he did approve it to go live).
I kicked the power cord out of my XP box at work today and got to complain that it wouldn't have crashed it on my Powerbook.
Seriously though, it's amazing that a system can work as well as it does with such a large variety of 3rd party drivers, etc. I still prefer OSX and Linux, but XP doesn't work *that* badly.
I do have lots of problems on that computer, but most are related to IE6, which I have to use for much of our web-based software. I hope IE7 works better- I haven't used it myself, but thus far I've had a lot of complaints about compatibility issues with the beta.
I stopped watching TV years ago. Now the only time I ever bother is when I walk in on somebody watching his show (or Mythbusters). Sad to see somebody that's actually doing something worthwhile pass away.
okay... It'd be funnier if I didn't deal with worse every day. Today I had a guy who couldn't use our web application. He hired a IT person to help him out, and was the middle man on the phone yelling things to the IT girl... I ask what browser he's using, he says he doesn't know.... Okay, I can understand there's people who aren't computer illiterate- at least he's smart enough to hire somebody... but I hear him ask her what browser he's using, she responds that she doesn't know what I'm asking....
he said his IT person was ready to quit because she was frustrated with our company... I told him to let her go.
in classic slashdot style...
"Coral reefs have been around for 225 million years. Now most of them are dead because they can't stand the heat and pollution. How much more proof do you need?"
show me proof that "most" of them are dead. Don't get me wrong, I'm concerned about it- I've participated in environmentalist events, I parked my car for good a while back and now just use public transportation, etc.... but I was a marine biology major in college, and coral bleaching is not as big an issue as greenpeace makes it sound. How much more proof do I need? how about some proof to start with.
...so the question is, does the law represent morality? whose morality?
Laws don't keep up with changing societies and personal viewpoints. Therefore, why should they be obeyed in the first place? To support a system that is rapidly becoming dated?
I recognize that this is completely ignoring the fact that the artists and labels have put money into production of this music, my point is that regardless of the issue, the argument that "it's wrong because it's illegal" is completely invalid. Slavery is still legal in some countries, does that make it okay for them, just not for us?
Fuck the system, download your music, spend your money supporting the artists when they come on tour. The artists themselves make way more money from the tour than from the album sales, and the record industry itself doesn't deserve the money.
I'm a punk.
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I've been begging my company to let me install IE7 on my computer for the last few months, knowing it is going to break our web applications. Frankly, I'm excited because I hate our web applications and now I get to say "I told you so" to my boss, as well as get paid for plenty o' overtime to build a new one from scratch.
I just wish they would've listened back then so it wouldn't be such a rush job. But noooobody listens to the lowly developer.
Grandma isn't so confused by OSX. IT's got the security, efficiency, and by far it wins on the clarity point.
I don't think linux is *quite* ready yet, but OSX will be kicking Vistas ass in the months to come.
You must be new here. That's what we do, complain about a corporation whose products we claim not to use (all linux/osx in my house :P ), or we revel in said company's imminent destruction.
I can't wait to watch it burn.
I can write a fairly solid voting program and I'm not even a real programmer.
;
if ($vote == "bush") {"UPDATE `bush`, VALUE = `bush`++"};
else if ($vote == "other") {"UPDATE `someone_else` VALUE = `someone_else`++};
else {$morons_who_cant_click_the_bloody_touchscreen++}
again, IANA(programmer), but it doesn't seem like it'd be that difficult.
give me a bloody break. if you can't figure out the ballot, you probably shouldn't be voting in the first place. yes, I know this goes against everything american, but it's pretty much how I feel. bite me.
(I am sooo drunk right now
for the record, I'm 22 and today's music sucks.
that said, I do think there's plenty of good stuff out there, but I don't hear anything that even compares to vintage dylan, doors, the cure or the clash.
I kinda think that's the nature of p2p sharing... going through my library, it's mostly A) classic rock/folk. Dylan, Hendrix, Zeppelin and such... b) punk music, where the bands themselves have encouraged the downloading of their music when I saw them live. c) anything else I want to listen to. Contains some new stuff, but the new non-punk stuff accounts for 3% of my very large collection.
I'm sorry, but I have serious trouble believing that Bush is capable of even aspiring to become such a fascist monster. The man is a moron. Now, I don't have any problem accepting that he is simply a figurehead for more influential people (lurking in the shadows, if you will).
As was posted earlier, if the Democrats can manage to find a half-decent candidate, they'll win the next one in a landslide.
Now ask me if I care. For the most part, not at all.
Not that I don't think it affects me, but I don't believe it will affect me any less to have another empty shirt pushing the polar opposite agenda.
Call me unamerican, but until I see a candidate worthy of office, I'm staying out of the voting booth.
I guess that depends what you decide the problem is. Is the problem that there's a window that pops up, or is it that said window irritates the user. Buying a new computer will fix the latter, as it relieves the irritation.
"Exit polls were the gold standard of election forcasting...until 2000. Funny...that's when all the trouble started, isn't it?"
As much a fan of the current government as I am NOT, there's been trouble with the political system for a lot longer than the last 6 years.
ooh never mind. Big kahuna beat me by a hair.
How are there 27 comments already and nobody has mentioned a typo in the HEADLINE?
s/Camers/Cameras
I'm starting to lose faith in slashdot...
but does it run Linux?
actually, it'd probably only run under windows.
Art has been redefined many times in the past 300 years. Up until then, it was basically a trade. You went to school or did your apprenticeship, then eventually got to be an "artist" - as long as you kept in line with the standard schools of thought about what you should be painting or sculpting.
The art community has gone through cycles of rebellion since back in the day, but probably the main turning point was when a bunch of parisian art rejects went and created their own outcast's show- the Salon de Refuge... I probably spelled that wrong.
From then on, art has been more about mindframe than material. It got really extreme when the whole Pop art thing came around, where it got purely conceptual.
so the real question is... What is art?
I wrote dozens of papers answering and asking that question in college, and read hundreds more. I still haven't decided.
Games can be art- the character designers are some of the most talented illustrators I've ever met. But are they necessarily? no. but it's the same way with paintings, music, street performing, snowboarding, and photography. It's really all about the mindset of the artist. I just decided I don't want to get into it.
Don't ever ask me that question again.
little offtopic note here-- I majored in Illustration, and Dr. Seuss is one of my favorite artists. Yes, it is definitely art. Check out some of his non-illustrations... he was an excellent fine artist.
I just had an amazing idea...
get a bunch of colorblind people and sue the pants off MySpace
related story--
My company just finished a site for a customer- an intelligent person, but completely non-tech savvy. To top it off, he has a minor disability that limits his ability to work on a computer. After it's been built (and approved by him), he calls back to complain that it's too difficult for him to use.
The software package that was main problem point for him is sold as is (explicitly stated in the TOS, which he never bothered to read).
The guy expects us to redesign the site, on our dollar, to make it easier for him to use. He uses the reasoning that the people who will visit the site are about as computer-literate as he is.
He's threatening legal action because it is too difficult to navigate.
Any well-designed site will meet ADA standards (or at least come close), but I have no sympathy for somebody who expects a company to take extra time to design the site just for their convenience. In this case, it's a bit different because he is our client, not a visitor to the website, but I think that only strengthens our case (he did approve it to go live).
I kicked the power cord out of my XP box at work today and got to complain that it wouldn't have crashed it on my Powerbook.
Seriously though, it's amazing that a system can work as well as it does with such a large variety of 3rd party drivers, etc. I still prefer OSX and Linux, but XP doesn't work *that* badly.
I do have lots of problems on that computer, but most are related to IE6, which I have to use for much of our web-based software. I hope IE7 works better- I haven't used it myself, but thus far I've had a lot of complaints about compatibility issues with the beta.
I was a biology geek long before building my first Linux box, and when I was a kid I always wanted to do just what he did.
Maybe there's no line between "jock" and "geek".
It's possible to be both.
all due respect to steve, this is the funniest joke I've seen today. I just hope it was intentional. You've got style.
I stopped watching TV years ago. Now the only time I ever bother is when I walk in on somebody watching his show (or Mythbusters).
Sad to see somebody that's actually doing something worthwhile pass away.
okay... It'd be funnier if I didn't deal with worse every day. Today I had a guy who couldn't use our web application. He hired a IT person to help him out, and was the middle man on the phone yelling things to the IT girl... I ask what browser he's using, he says he doesn't know.... Okay, I can understand there's people who aren't computer illiterate- at least he's smart enough to hire somebody... but I hear him ask her what browser he's using, she responds that she doesn't know what I'm asking....
he said his IT person was ready to quit because she was frustrated with our company... I told him to let her go.
in classic slashdot style... "Coral reefs have been around for 225 million years. Now most of them are dead because they can't stand the heat and pollution. How much more proof do you need?" show me proof that "most" of them are dead. Don't get me wrong, I'm concerned about it- I've participated in environmentalist events, I parked my car for good a while back and now just use public transportation, etc.... but I was a marine biology major in college, and coral bleaching is not as big an issue as greenpeace makes it sound. How much more proof do I need? how about some proof to start with.
I'll match your 20- I want the etchasketch plugin too
...so the question is, does the law represent morality? whose morality? Laws don't keep up with changing societies and personal viewpoints. Therefore, why should they be obeyed in the first place? To support a system that is rapidly becoming dated? I recognize that this is completely ignoring the fact that the artists and labels have put money into production of this music, my point is that regardless of the issue, the argument that "it's wrong because it's illegal" is completely invalid. Slavery is still legal in some countries, does that make it okay for them, just not for us? Fuck the system, download your music, spend your money supporting the artists when they come on tour. The artists themselves make way more money from the tour than from the album sales, and the record industry itself doesn't deserve the money. I'm a punk.