People who only experience Flash on Windows just don't have any idea how horribly buggy it is on other platforms.
I second this experience from the perspectives of Linux, Solaris, and OSX. Also the Adobe Acrobat Reader is horrible on those platforms. Especially working behind a corporate firewall. Dang thing wants to call home to Adobe all the time. Gave up on it and just use xpdf or Foxit. Adobe kind of had a monopoly going for flash and pdf. They started adding more junk to the applications and didn't focus on reliability. Looks like the horse has left the barn for good.
I'm having a hard time getting a tear to form in my eye over Adobe's flash problems. However, (and I say this as an OSX fan) if you thought Microsoft abused their monopoly... just give Apple a chance. They'll outdo Microsoft there too.
I don't own a Toyota but if I did I wouldn't be afraid to drive it.
Oh... You will be. You... will... be.
Here I'm dealing with readers who are largely (a) very intelligent, (b) educated, (c) interested in hard news and substance rather than "human interest", and (d) intensely interested in copyright law as it bears upon digitalization, software, and the internet.
Amen. That's why the bulk of Slashdot users appreciate your posts. It is real news. Not the Digg tabloid news of "Video of skateboard dog with two heads". Real journalism presents issues that readers may not wish be informed about, but need to be. If we only read about issues reported with a slant that we agree with or support, how do we ever become balanced and understanding of all sides of an issue. News is NOT entertainment. Thanks for the work you do to inform us about pertinent issues.
Okay - so how do you POSSIBLY apply a statistical analysis on something as subjective as a womans physical attractiveness?
There are stats on breast size. Just plug in the values....
Security requires a price in time and effort, and there are always compromises in order to get work accomplished.
It turns out that I have patched a serious vulnerability in Linux. Please download and install my patch as root on your system.
Sincerely,
Someone
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And while you're spending your time figuring out why something that isn't broken works, he is coding something that you aren't coding at all. Sure, coding until it passes isn't the ideal, but it's a whole lot better than not coding at all (you).
Perhaps, but there's a thing called "homework" that one can never escape. Things not well understood which require more time to figure out than is available in the regular workday are going to demand extra effort during off-hours. Anyone that retorts with an excuse of "I don't have time to..." is going to eventually be replaced by someone that will. Being one of the older programmers in our dept, I've witnessed too many over-40 folks who disengage from learning and personal development. Those not driven to understand the how and why of their work might be in the wrong profession.
We should all strive to have the highest integrity, be productive, be detail oriented, and to be continually learning. What employer wouldn't want their building full of employees like that?
He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him. -- Bion