I am reminded of the time Coca Cola threatened a small Danish site with legal actions, although the only thing it did was list bargain prices of Coca Cola around the country. What’s wrong with these chaps?
Good luck to Dave going forward.
A little harsh, but really quite funny.
(Via Daring Fireball)
I know absolutely nothing about tequila, but I do know that I like them, and Bill seems to know a thing or two about them, and I’m inclined to believe anything he says.
Barack Obama take his daughters HUNTING every weekend — HUNTING LIBERALS, that is. Liberals are ALWAYS IN SEASON.
Oh yes.
Play with fire, and you will get burnt. While I tried to make Jonathan Zittrain look like an ignorant jerk, I did that to myself. Apparently, as Andreas Carlsen pointed out to me, there was an Estonian in on KaZaA and Skype, although I am pretty confident he had less to do it than did Janus Friis.
Still, I was put in my place, and an apology to Zittrain is in order. Sorry, Jonathan.
No, Janus Friis is not an Estonian. I don’t mean to brag of some sort of nationalistic pride, but really, he’s Danish.
Other than that, he’s not the brightest of the bunch.
From what Derek says, it sounds interesting. I don’t have any books on the way just yet, but this could be a way to publish, if I ever do write one.
Dan Cederholm reports on some whole new interpretation of the voting with your wallet–theory.
Ever since upgrading to Mac OS X Leopard I have been annoyed with how software updates work.
In Tiger (and Jaguar, if I recall correctly), after doing an update that required shutting down, even though that should never be required, you could choose between rebooting and shutting down. I always chose shutdown, due to a simple behavioural tendency with me: I ignore such updates until I am going to shutdown anyway.
Rebooting thus never appealed to me, and I do think it’s a weird default behaviour. A user may be notified of an update at any given time during the period the computer is turned on. This means that the user could very well be in the middle of doing something, maybe even something important, at which time the update would be de-prioritised.
So they wait. But then, in Leopard, the shutdown-function disappeared, and one could now only reboot. Quite irrational, yes.
The simple solution would be to just put the old button back in. But an even better solution would be automation. I see two possible directions, neither of which preclude the other:
These seem much more appropriate to me than interrupting whatever the user is doing, and asking them to take a pause of several minutes from whatever important task they have at hand. That’s a bit disregardful of the user, in my mind.
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Jonathan Holst is a programmer, language enthusiast, sports fan, and appreciator of good design, living in Copenhagen, Denmark, Europe. He is also someone pretentious enough to call himself the 'author' of a blog. And talk about himself in the third person.