If "we" had the time and resources, someone could do a stealth op and determine if those user names existed before yesterday. However, don't discount the other alternative, "threatened censorship". In that case the only comments that would make it through are the ones you see.
Sorry man, you fell for a really weird version of the Version Number Marketing. Except this time, you seem to be saying they don't deserve to put good features in the next version?! Firefox "5 and 6"... ARE 4.1 and 4.2!
You're thinking of the long exhausting push to make FF4. But for X reasons, they chose to amp up the version numbering, as well as to drill out a couple of features.
Yes, "it took them too long", that's what we all spot Linux for, right? "Give us features, don't worry about polish" right?
Sounds like you're a Speed fan. So a great technique I learned a while ago is "Blue Sky" thinking - just suppose you wake up one day and an Aurora Build of FF has some Crazy optimization that makes it all go 3X faster. Would you return to Firefox?
I think the very low barrier to entry from the user perspective that woke us up from an IE-dominated web is now getting a little gritty. Feels to me we're sorta playing them off each other now.
I'm a solid FF fan. Sure, they cycled between speed, then more on features, but I'll gladly trade FF's versatility for some slight amount of speed Chrome might have.
I'll see your Boundaries and raise you Initiative.
First of all this is a suspicious (not post, but circumstances why they handed him that comp, when a yard sale could come up with better) setup. So either they hired 20 new peoplein one shot, of course hardware will lag. So since they apparently can't afford more, buy it yourself and let them do the authorized install.
"Interns" are not "temps". Now there's 100 different corp cultures, but "only 100", not 20,000. If they get upset that he spent $100 of his own money on RAM, *that's* the sign they don't care about initative. That's a sign that the job is thin, and he has to decide what it does for him in raw personal cash paycheck flow.
If they say "sure, we were down to our last IT dollar, so since you bought it, sure, we'll do the install next week." That says it was a money problem, and that the job has promise.
I don't watch any "TV". I haven't had a "TV" for seven years. However, I do watch a nice chunk of Hulu, because you can stack 3 episodes and watch them in a bloc on a random Thursday at 10PM. I wouldn't call House, Fairly Legal, or The Chicago Code "stupid". Every writer knows that scripts are "Hollywood-ized", so be it. But those are passably intelligent shows.
You can vote down (or up) ads on Hulu, so presumably if you downvote the Washing Machine ads some five times, they eventually go away. I try to vote up the Audible.com ads because I want to see who else is doing Audio Books, but nothing showed up yet.
But yes, I agree, your average '80's show won't cut it anymore.
I'm not sure about the terms ("unlimited talk and text") in the ad mean, but I just paid for $100 in minutes. The point of the $100 pack is that they have the longest expiration (I want to say a year but I forget.)
The point was that since it was an iPhone and I was already on AT&T anyway, I just gambled that the fewest hassles would be staying in carrier. The "store" rep at the mall warned that weird things might happen with this semi-unsupported move, but it took, and here I am.
The real point is if you have type of call known to be really long, like family, you offload that onto something else. (I did mine on a Magic Jack on a sandboxed laptop.) Then those minutes can last you some three months, and you save some $800 per year because you do your "net stuff" in a wi-fi zone.
It's WWII's Loose Lips Sink Ships problem, except this time we think the enemy is Terrorists.
These data sharing patterns were emerging some seven years ago, just after the trauma of the Dot Com Bust wore off.
For priorities, compare their response to privacy leaks by sneaky corps to their response to wikileaks when their own backyard was leaked. Will that meeting address the Sony disaster?
Burn the Contract Break Fee and then do a prepaid plan.
The point of a Smart Phone is the features and the "boring" apps like the calculator, and the nicer rendering in Safari. I despised my dumbphone with a passion - I don't call anyone much.
"Apps" themselves are brilliant - people often only have 7 must-use features and don't need $80 programs to cruise through their day.
Also Apple made the entire industry wake up and pay attention to UI for once.
If "projects like Kde will most definitely feel it", is that at all related to why Ubuntu wanted a third UI being thrashed out, even if this iteration isn't so good? Does anyone think this will tip the scales and lead to a KDE decline across the regular linux distros?
I seriously believe that Edu is a collossal scam in the making that needs to have a ruthless but quality operation drive the price down. Thought experiment, do it in batches of five - "For $100,000 , teach the following 5 (quality) students a good degree".
(Inserting from elsewhere AC said: I'll keep my work desktop on 10.10. It's pretty stable right now, and my last two upgrade experiences with this machine have gone poorly. I'll probably upgrade my home machines sometime this weekend.)
You said "I'm waiting for the overly keen to discover the pain for me and report it faithfully to/.
Just getting to old to beat my head into the keyboard any more. Well in this case touch screen."
See, this is what troubles me. What should be the absolute heart of slashdot, two new releases of Linux, sporting different styles, is getting some 30 posts for BOTH distros combined, and you're the fourth to say "I'm beat, the exhausting tweaking is no longer for me".
Slashdot Mirror
New Zealand didn't make that Freedom on the Net report. Neither did France, another forerunner in 3-strikes.
If "we" had the time and resources, someone could do a stealth op and determine if those user names existed before yesterday. However, don't discount the other alternative, "threatened censorship". In that case the only comments that would make it through are the ones you see.
I hear we're making some head over at Sourceforge.
What does that number "do"?
Pi is famous, and the more well known number to crunch. Why crunch Pi Squared? Can't you just square Pi?
Sorry man, you fell for a really weird version of the Version Number Marketing. Except this time, you seem to be saying they don't deserve to put good features in the next version?! Firefox "5 and 6" ... ARE 4.1 and 4.2!
You're thinking of the long exhausting push to make FF4. But for X reasons, they chose to amp up the version numbering, as well as to drill out a couple of features.
Yes, "it took them too long", that's what we all spot Linux for, right? "Give us features, don't worry about polish" right?
Except that just might be changing.
"Staying on topic of Firefox",
Sounds like you're a Speed fan. So a great technique I learned a while ago is "Blue Sky" thinking - just suppose you wake up one day and an Aurora Build of FF has some Crazy optimization that makes it all go 3X faster. Would you return to Firefox?
I think the very low barrier to entry from the user perspective that woke us up from an IE-dominated web is now getting a little gritty. Feels to me we're sorta playing them off each other now.
I'm a solid FF fan. Sure, they cycled between speed, then more on features, but I'll gladly trade FF's versatility for some slight amount of speed Chrome might have.
I'll see your Boundaries and raise you Initiative.
First of all this is a suspicious (not post, but circumstances why they handed him that comp, when a yard sale could come up with better) setup. So either they hired 20 new peoplein one shot, of course hardware will lag. So since they apparently can't afford more, buy it yourself and let them do the authorized install.
"Interns" are not "temps". Now there's 100 different corp cultures, but "only 100", not 20,000. If they get upset that he spent $100 of his own money on RAM, *that's* the sign they don't care about initative. That's a sign that the job is thin, and he has to decide what it does for him in raw personal cash paycheck flow.
If they say "sure, we were down to our last IT dollar, so since you bought it, sure, we'll do the install next week." That says it was a money problem, and that the job has promise.
Nah, if they gave him that comp, they don't have the money... so buy the RAM yourself, get them to install it.
I'm having trouble logging in to slashdot with Midori on Windows.
That can't be promising for either usability (Maybe I am missing a setting) or the browser itself.
Hmm.
I don't watch any "TV". I haven't had a "TV" for seven years.
However, I do watch a nice chunk of Hulu, because you can stack 3 episodes and watch them in a bloc on a random Thursday at 10PM. I wouldn't call House, Fairly Legal, or The Chicago Code "stupid". Every writer knows that scripts are "Hollywood-ized", so be it. But those are passably intelligent shows.
You can vote down (or up) ads on Hulu, so presumably if you downvote the Washing Machine ads some five times, they eventually go away. I try to vote up the Audible.com ads because I want to see who else is doing Audio Books, but nothing showed up yet.
But yes, I agree, your average '80's show won't cut it anymore.
That's just it, I haven't done the chart yet, but aren't most of the big names moving to bandwidth caps?
Does no one else notice that "move your stuff to the cloud" ... takes bandwdith?
Then in that corporate "never give ground" fashion, they'll just ratchet down the caps every 2 years or so.
We all need to go see that movie (Total Recall?) where someone cuts off the air. That's what we're headed to, Bit-Wise.
It's been a while but I vaguely recall AT&T reps being better than Verizon reps.
What else do you think MultiTouch was for?
Just you wait, someone will develop an interface that actually creates SFW real work with those motions.
"Johnson! What the HELL are you doing??"
"Your report is in your inbox, Sir."
I'm sure you meant you had to be "sweet" when you call in. Sacchrine is sweet. It's also known to cause cancer in Customer Service reps.
"Yes I'll hold. Uh Huh. Yep. Yep. That's okay, my name as four consecutive vowels, that's why your email to confirm didn't work... uh huh..."
AT&T GoPhone.
You even get a free Meatloaf Commercial to watch!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5YMVO7-8ns
I'm not sure about the terms ("unlimited talk and text") in the ad mean, but I just paid for $100 in minutes. The point of the $100 pack is that they have the longest expiration (I want to say a year but I forget.)
The point was that since it was an iPhone and I was already on AT&T anyway, I just gambled that the fewest hassles would be staying in carrier. The "store" rep at the mall warned that weird things might happen with this semi-unsupported move, but it took, and here I am.
The real point is if you have type of call known to be really long, like family, you offload that onto something else. (I did mine on a Magic Jack on a sandboxed laptop.) Then those minutes can last you some three months, and you save some $800 per year because you do your "net stuff" in a wi-fi zone.
With Chops to David Gerrold
HARLOT
Horny-Analog Realistic Lexigraphic Ontological Tabulator
Flip them an Angry Bird.
(Shrill) "Only Terrorists Want Peace and Quiet!" (/Shrill)
It's WWII's Loose Lips Sink Ships problem, except this time we think the enemy is Terrorists.
These data sharing patterns were emerging some seven years ago, just after the trauma of the Dot Com Bust wore off.
For priorities, compare their response to privacy leaks by sneaky corps to their response to wikileaks when their own backyard was leaked. Will that meeting address the Sony disaster?
Burn the Contract Break Fee and then do a prepaid plan.
The point of a Smart Phone is the features and the "boring" apps like the calculator, and the nicer rendering in Safari. I despised my dumbphone with a passion - I don't call anyone much.
"Apps" themselves are brilliant - people often only have 7 must-use features and don't need $80 programs to cruise through their day.
Also Apple made the entire industry wake up and pay attention to UI for once.
Old & Busted: Shareware
New Hotness: Low Orbit Privacy Cannons
Why are we simultaneously whining about threats to national security and purposely tricking users into leaking sensitive info?
Hmm, some good comments by AC's among the trolls.
Someone help me connect some dots.
If "projects like Kde will most definitely feel it", is that at all related to why Ubuntu wanted a third UI being thrashed out, even if this iteration isn't so good? Does anyone think this will tip the scales and lead to a KDE decline across the regular linux distros?
Don't you know, how hard it is to get mobile numbers of people? They're not in the usual standard listings...
But Pepsi will be happy to sell their data for a fee!!
The FBI must love this - think of the consequences on the Witness Protection Program!
I seriously believe that Edu is a collossal scam in the making that needs to have a ruthless but quality operation drive the price down. Thought experiment, do it in batches of five - "For $100,000 , teach the following 5 (quality) students a good degree".
(Inserting from elsewhere AC said: I'll keep my work desktop on 10.10. It's pretty stable right now, and my last two upgrade experiences with this machine have gone poorly. I'll probably upgrade my home machines sometime this weekend.)
You said "I'm waiting for the overly keen to discover the pain for me and report it faithfully to /.
Just getting to old to beat my head into the keyboard any more. Well in this case touch screen."
See, this is what troubles me. What should be the absolute heart of slashdot, two new releases of Linux, sporting different styles, is getting some 30 posts for BOTH distros combined, and you're the fourth to say "I'm beat, the exhausting tweaking is no longer for me".