I've seen group projects get screwed up because although the Mac, which is the underdog, has had to learn to be super-compatible with everything else, the same can't be said of Windows. So you may be hearing the result of the network effects of everyone having Macs and her use of a different OS being a stumbling block to working together easily. I most certainly have seen that.
Except if Macs work with Windows and she has a Windows laptop, everyone should be fine. I think the reverse is true. Everyone's probably using Apple-only stuff line ichat or apple-share or ARD to do their work, and she's being left out because Apple is purposefully being non-compatible (Just like Windows).
And still there's a difference between a GUI that was well-designed by people who know something about HCI and... well, to be polite, one that wasn't.
I agree. A well designed GUI allows the home and end keys to serve their typewriter-established functions of beginning and end of line traversal. A badly designed GUI makes those keys work as history (instead of page up/down). I hate using the terminal on Mac OS X so much that I'll physically move and ssh in from a Linux machine before I click the terminal icon on OS X.
Don't you dip your hotpockets in ketchup and salt like everyone else? I'd put salt in my Mt. Dew Gamer Fuel (TM) if it didn't cause it to fizz so much. Who cares about rickets when we've got heart disease to promote?
What about scanning vets without ptsd, or civilians like cops with it? Even better, scan a lot of soldiers before they leave, and scan for differences when they come back. Note ptsd sufferers.
As their experiment stands currently, they might have only discovered a difference between a military-trained brain and a civilian one.
the native americans would stand in slack jaw amazement at york, as if he were possessed of magic. they never saw a black man before. york would further dumbfound them by taking out and reinserting his false teeth
Is it because he said "scuse me while I whip this out"?
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1998-09-12/
I hate wearing things on my wrist, which is why I used to have a pocket watch before I got a cell phone. I might wear Dilbert's invention though.
And if you use the same username on all of the sites, all it takes is one unscrupulous (or incompetent) site manager to quickly have your other accounts accessed.
How is this insightful? It could apply to literally ANY login and/or password system. Managers have powers over the things they manage? Really? I hadn't the faintest!
It's almost like using the same password everywhere, and once someone finds out that your/. password is "FOO@slashdot.org", maybe they'll try a username password combo of BlackCobra43/FOO@myspace.com over at myspace. Sure, Taco can fiddle with your/. account night and day, but do you really want him modifying your myspace? Even if he wouldn't, kdawson might. Circletimesquare responded a bit ago with a better alternative, but the originally stated plan was a bad example.
Microsoft has given the Chinese government preferential access to the Windows Source code. They even set up a lab of security researchers to look for vulnerabilities in the code. I don't think leaks onto the internet have anything to do with it. It's kind of like all the possible disadvantages of OSS with none of the advantages.
So essentially, it's NSA vs. China's group in a bughunt competition, and few if none of our "allies" can help, including MS.
pick something you will always remember say "frankie45"
lets say the website you are visiting is facebook.com
so your password there will be "frankie45face"
and your password at twitter.com would be "frankie45twit"
And if you use the same username on all of the sites, all it takes is one unscrupulous (or incompetent) site manager to quickly have your other accounts accessed.
You can build the same specs for less than the same number of dollars. Why would I buy this thing? It sounds like the asinine "Vision computer" ads with their "Full Gig RAM".
what other company offers a standard warranty three years on parts and labor? [...] that's a computer with an intel atom processor full gig of ram and 100...Gig hard drive. dvd. rom. seventeen inch monitor. For 499
It's like they got William Shatner's brother to do the radio commercial.
IT people understand a developer's job about as much as a janitor does.
You are aware that a lot of IT jobs cite "B.S. in Computer Science or equiv." as a requirement, right? Sit a *nix sysadmin down in front of a terminal and tell him he needs to fix a bug in some C code, and he'll happily whip out vi, gdb, and gcc. Sit a Windows admin down in front of a Windows machine and tell him he needs to fix a bug in some C code, and he'll fire up Visual Studio (or mingw). They may not get it done as quickly or cleanly as a regular developer, but they're light years ahead of your average janitor.
Now reverse the roles. Sure, a dev will have an innate grasp for scripting, but he'll be just as slow if not slower to get IT work done. My home computer is easy to set up (and that's what devs gauge IT work by), but setting up a business desktop, where there are policies in place to ensure the security of the company's data, is a lot more difficult and requires planning. Setting up and maintaining the servers and networks even more so (those can't just take a reimage). Making all of the above function as a system to work efficiently is the end goal.
Seriously - get overselves and STOP finding ways to make my job more difficult. MY job produces the revenue that pays YOUR salary.
We'll have to talk to Information Security, Human Resources, and Legal about that. When you violate company policy by uninstalling a critical patch or by installing limewire or eDonkey, you open the company to risk, and stand to lose the company more money than I'd ever get paid for 60 years of service. Mordac, Preventer of Information Services, totally needs a twin brother: Cadrom, Enabler of Information Leaks.
And what's going to happen to all those "IE only" web sites the government, public schools and other agencies like to use?
They'll still exist, but the error page might get changed to:
"This page is IE only. Type '?browser=firefox' at the end of the URL to be automatically moved to the non-IE page. Safari users type '?browser=firefox' too. There are no other browsers *Jedi hand wave*."
I don't know anyone else who uses IE and hasn't upgraded to IE8.
I know several companies and some university departments. IE6 intranet applications are the dumbest thing in the world, but the "If it ain't broke don't fix it" mantra doesn't consider security when gauging levels of "broke", only whether the intended purpose still works, and that's a business decision, not Infosec/IT decision.
So in a game such as EQ (the only MMO I've played) you could kill people (on pvp servers) and take their gold. Clearly this is part of the game, but is it something you could be arrested for now?
You're marked as "funny", but I think it's a valid question. If I play a game of basketball with someone, and steal their wallet, that's a crime. How's that different than MMORPG gold theft; because the rules say stealing is okay? Then how is that different from a casino, where "skill" or luck allows either one party to take the money from the other party? Sounds like gambling to me, which is illegal in SK.
Oh... are people still using platinum? Well, I guess if you're willing to settle, rather than pay for unicorn horn, then it won't degrade your signal too much. Probably not enough to spoil your enjoyment, but a true videophile can tell.
Unicorn horn? Can't only virgins see the output from that type of cable? Oh wait, carry on.
Perhaps you should use your own argument rather than poaching someone else's.
Wow, you're an asshole. I told you my experience, and you called me a liar. I showed you corroborating stories and you accuse me of plagiarism or something. I'm using GF6600GTs. Go buy one and try it with Ubuntu. Try using vesa with the live CD.
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hacking is ILLEGAL in China
Unless you ARE China.
The good thing is thing is that currently things in China are better than they where during the Cultural Revolution.
Only because most people are good little citizens (with exception of google.cn users and these evil human rights proponents).
I've seen group projects get screwed up because although the Mac, which is the underdog, has had to learn to be super-compatible with everything else, the same can't be said of Windows. So you may be hearing the result of the network effects of everyone having Macs and her use of a different OS being a stumbling block to working together easily. I most certainly have seen that.
Except if Macs work with Windows and she has a Windows laptop, everyone should be fine. I think the reverse is true. Everyone's probably using Apple-only stuff line ichat or apple-share or ARD to do their work, and she's being left out because Apple is purposefully being non-compatible (Just like Windows).
And still there's a difference between a GUI that was well-designed by people who know something about HCI and... well, to be polite, one that wasn't.
I agree. A well designed GUI allows the home and end keys to serve their typewriter-established functions of beginning and end of line traversal. A badly designed GUI makes those keys work as history (instead of page up/down). I hate using the terminal on Mac OS X so much that I'll physically move and ssh in from a Linux machine before I click the terminal icon on OS X.
Olfactory feedback? Sounds fishy to me. Maybe she's yanking your chain.
I'm surprised, maybe your neighbor knows more about it than I do. Sounds like it has a fluid membership with loose requirements.
Don't you dip your hotpockets in ketchup and salt like everyone else? I'd put salt in my Mt. Dew Gamer Fuel (TM) if it didn't cause it to fizz so much. Who cares about rickets when we've got heart disease to promote?
What about scanning vets without ptsd, or civilians like cops with it? Even better, scan a lot of soldiers before they leave, and scan for differences when they come back. Note ptsd sufferers.
As their experiment stands currently, they might have only discovered a difference between a military-trained brain and a civilian one.
I'm certain the group has dried up by now.
went on their famous expedition, there was a black guy in their group, york
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York_(explorer) [wikipedia.org]
the native americans would stand in slack jaw amazement at york, as if he were possessed of magic. they never saw a black man before. york would further dumbfound them by taking out and reinserting his false teeth
Is it because he said "scuse me while I whip this out"?
Hehe, we are opposite. I _always_ wear my watch.
When's the last time you washed your wrist, Lela?
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1998-09-12/
I hate wearing things on my wrist, which is why I used to have a pocket watch before I got a cell phone. I might wear Dilbert's invention though.
When my friends hangout at our apartment, we all bring our laptops.
What are these "friends" you speak of?
It was a television show a while back about some neighbors in NYC who did stuff together because they were too poor to afford computers.
And if you use the same username on all of the sites, all it takes is one unscrupulous (or incompetent) site manager to quickly have your other accounts accessed.
How is this insightful? It could apply to literally ANY login and/or password system. Managers have powers over the things they manage? Really? I hadn't the faintest!
It's almost like using the same password everywhere, and once someone finds out that your /. password is "FOO@slashdot.org", maybe they'll try a username password combo of BlackCobra43/FOO@myspace.com over at myspace. Sure, Taco can fiddle with your /. account night and day, but do you really want him modifying your myspace? Even if he wouldn't, kdawson might. Circletimesquare responded a bit ago with a better alternative, but the originally stated plan was a bad example.
Microsoft has given the Chinese government preferential access to the Windows Source code. They even set up a lab of security researchers to look for vulnerabilities in the code. I don't think leaks onto the internet have anything to do with it. It's kind of like all the possible disadvantages of OSS with none of the advantages.
So essentially, it's NSA vs. China's group in a bughunt competition, and few if none of our "allies" can help, including MS.
pick something you will always remember say "frankie45" lets say the website you are visiting is facebook.com so your password there will be "frankie45face" and your password at twitter.com would be "frankie45twit"
And if you use the same username on all of the sites, all it takes is one unscrupulous (or incompetent) site manager to quickly have your other accounts accessed.
funny - this girl seems to be quite popular *cough* :-)
Anyone has a picture ?
That's my sister you insensitive clod!
So that's a yes?
This is the President's job folks: to defend the laws passed by Congress
The requirement to defend the Constitution comes first. Unreasonable fines or punishment or something?
what other company offers a standard warranty three years on parts and labor? [...] that's a computer with an intel atom processor full gig of ram and 100...Gig hard drive. dvd. rom. seventeen inch monitor. For 499
It's like they got William Shatner's brother to do the radio commercial.
IT people understand a developer's job about as much as a janitor does.
You are aware that a lot of IT jobs cite "B.S. in Computer Science or equiv." as a requirement, right? Sit a *nix sysadmin down in front of a terminal and tell him he needs to fix a bug in some C code, and he'll happily whip out vi, gdb, and gcc. Sit a Windows admin down in front of a Windows machine and tell him he needs to fix a bug in some C code, and he'll fire up Visual Studio (or mingw). They may not get it done as quickly or cleanly as a regular developer, but they're light years ahead of your average janitor.
Now reverse the roles. Sure, a dev will have an innate grasp for scripting, but he'll be just as slow if not slower to get IT work done. My home computer is easy to set up (and that's what devs gauge IT work by), but setting up a business desktop, where there are policies in place to ensure the security of the company's data, is a lot more difficult and requires planning. Setting up and maintaining the servers and networks even more so (those can't just take a reimage). Making all of the above function as a system to work efficiently is the end goal.
Seriously - get overselves and STOP finding ways to make my job more difficult. MY job produces the revenue that pays YOUR salary.
We'll have to talk to Information Security, Human Resources, and Legal about that. When you violate company policy by uninstalling a critical patch or by installing limewire or eDonkey, you open the company to risk, and stand to lose the company more money than I'd ever get paid for 60 years of service. Mordac, Preventer of Information Services, totally needs a twin brother: Cadrom, Enabler of Information Leaks.
And what's going to happen to all those "IE only" web sites the government, public schools and other agencies like to use?
They'll still exist, but the error page might get changed to:
"This page is IE only. Type '?browser=firefox' at the end of the URL to be automatically moved to the non-IE page. Safari users type '?browser=firefox' too. There are no other browsers *Jedi hand wave*."
I don't know anyone else who uses IE and hasn't upgraded to IE8.
I know several companies and some university departments. IE6 intranet applications are the dumbest thing in the world, but the "If it ain't broke don't fix it" mantra doesn't consider security when gauging levels of "broke", only whether the intended purpose still works, and that's a business decision, not Infosec/IT decision.
So in a game such as EQ (the only MMO I've played) you could kill people (on pvp servers) and take their gold. Clearly this is part of the game, but is it something you could be arrested for now?
You're marked as "funny", but I think it's a valid question. If I play a game of basketball with someone, and steal their wallet, that's a crime. How's that different than MMORPG gold theft; because the rules say stealing is okay? Then how is that different from a casino, where "skill" or luck allows either one party to take the money from the other party? Sounds like gambling to me, which is illegal in SK.
Oh... are people still using platinum? Well, I guess if you're willing to settle, rather than pay for unicorn horn, then it won't degrade your signal too much. Probably not enough to spoil your enjoyment, but a true videophile can tell.
Unicorn horn? Can't only virgins see the output from that type of cable? Oh wait, carry on.
Perhaps you should use your own argument rather than poaching someone else's.
Wow, you're an asshole. I told you my experience, and you called me a liar. I showed you corroborating stories and you accuse me of plagiarism or something. I'm using GF6600GTs. Go buy one and try it with Ubuntu. Try using vesa with the live CD.