Comment Complacency or fatigue? (Score 3, Insightful) 275
I think I am starting to see the effects of complacency.
Aren't you confusing complacency with fatigue? Passion with commitment? There is a price to be paid for the adrenalin high.
I think I am starting to see the effects of complacency.
Aren't you confusing complacency with fatigue? Passion with commitment? There is a price to be paid for the adrenalin high.
They're obviously using my HorribleNameGenerator library. I'm proud to have contributed to so many FOSS projects.
Nothing inspires more confidence in a complex cryptographic system than a name like "CipherShed.'
Is the geek born with this impulse to shoot himself in the foot?
We can only hope... eventually the walled gardens will be an effective quarantine and we can have our Internet again.
Your Internet was defined by the dial-up modem and a multitude of clients that fromed the basis of an Internet suite and were barely one or two steps up in convenience and functionality from the BBS of 1980 and Telnet, circa 1969.
It almost seems like an accident, though. They need to move to HTML5 because Microsoft supports its technologies like high school students support their relationships.
12 years for Win XP.
What is the difference between mainstream support and extended support?
Mainstream support --- Microsoft will offer mainstream support for a minimum of 5 years from the date of a product's general availability, or for 2 years after the successor product is released, whichever is longer. For example, if you buy a new version of Windows and five years later another version is released, you will still have two years of support left for the previous version.
Extended support --- Microsoft will offer extended support for either a minimum of 5 years from the date of a product's general availability, or for 2 years after the second successor product (two versions later) is released, whichever is longer.
I'm not even sure why you'd want to use any web browser at all for this kind of thing.
The general purpose web browser is becoming an afterthought.
You can live very comfortably within the walled gardens of Amazon, iTunes, Netflix and the rest --- and while the geek won't want to hear this, this is where most people are spending their time now.
They have only thought about it. So they are being prosecuted for a thought crime.
It's both a pity and a blessing that Orwell didn't live long enough to see the geek in full flight.
The organization and planning of a crime, the recruitment of others to assist you, is more than thought, it is action.
While the IS stuff is rather a hot news item, I do not agree that slashdot is really the place for it.
One of the reasons I look at Slashdot is to get a nice newsfeed without 5 items per day about wild muslims.
The problem is that the Slashdot geek seems increasingly resistant to any story outside his comfort zone.
You see this most clearly when a story cuts close to the bone on issues of race and class and gender in tech --- but it comes through elsewhere as well.
New keyboard. New Problems.
I think it is a safe bet that the folks back home are running Windows and that is all their local dial-up ISP can reasonably be expected to support.
Local support is the only answer here.
Not the once-a-year parachute drop --- and not the trans-oceanic telephone call that has to be scheduled across five or six time zones, perhaps more. There is no joy in that even when it is IT Pro to IT Pro.
Some desktop environment that hides anything unrelated to connecting to the net and accessing their account (dial-up software, email client, web browser, exchanging files between their hard disk/email attachments and USB drives). By "hide", I just want the rest to be out of the way, but not entirely removed, so that if necessary, I can guide them over the phone.
I don't see enough thought being given here to how his parents use their computer besides sending and receiving their emails.
Technical support by telephone across multiple time zones does not appeal.
Use a SSH or VNC server, and also use a dynamic DNS client so you have a hostname instead of some random IP address, Then you can control the machine directly when it's online....
His parents live overseas and he visits them only once a year.
To me that suggests that they are living in time zones at least six to eight hours apart, perhaps more.
There are also thousands of artists today that equal the top handful of masters of old times, it simply isn't acknowledge because it is subjective, and appreciation is inherently relative
1 Make a bold, dramatic assertion.
2 and. in your next breath, argue that is useless to offer any proof.
Such a talent is wasted in tech, You really ought to go into politics.
Your right gas cars are total non-perishable and never wear-out or need replacement parts, and gasoline can be recycled as well.
I need to know what an electric car is going to cost me over its projected service life. I need to know the up-front cost of replacing a battery. I do not want to base my purchasing decision on "green" energy subsidies that may disappear after the next election.
I remember the Z80 and 6502 instruction sets just fine.
Do you remember how to program a smooth-as-silk side-scrolling platform game for an MSDOS PC with 16 bit EGA graphics but no dedicated hardware support for animation?
Well buddy you and any job you have can go fuck itself. If you're planning to hire me solely because I can shave and buy a suit then I have no desire to work for you.
Oh, and if you want someone who does what I do and is good at it...
I'll have no trouble at all finding a replacement who has all your skills and none of your attitude,
If you work in any field involving network infrastructure, software development, information services, or data management/warehousing and your salary is at all dependent upon your attire, I strongly suggest you inquire with competing firms.
Your salary is defined by your usefulness to your employer and your potential for promotion --- which implies that you know how to dress for the different roles you must play within the company and are being realistic about your age and appearance.
The following statement is not true. The previous statement is true.
