Uranus, if it ever had rings, has swept clean its area. While not as pretty as a ringed planet, Uranus may pose less of a danger to probes since less damaging material encircles the planet.
And MS has been saying since Win2k "Do not write to the program files directory", "Do not hardcode paths", etc etc.
Basically if your application has hardcoded shit like "C:\docs and settings", or tries to write to the program files directory then its written by a retard. You will not get Windows Logo certification with crap like that.
Now Microsoft has pulled out a bigger stick with UAC, we are seeing all the incompetant developers coming out the woodwork and complaining that their dodgy shit doesnt work.
I'm glad when the UAC prompt comes up. Usually makes me have second thoughts about running the program.
Funniest shit happened here down-under right at the peak of Wii-hype. There were these little stalls in all the major malls selling really crap 'consoles' with motion sensitive controllers. I could just feel the disappointment when little Johnny gets told that his parents got "that motion video game thingo you wanted" and unveil one of these $80 pieces of shit.
Then instead of the nice productive soldier standing on guard duty you'd be more like the shabbily dressed hippy mooching off his parents, smoking weed and complaining about how "war is, like, bad, man."
This reminds me of another experiance I had a few weeks ago. This is 100% true. I saw this guy use parody in a thread, and the joke went right over this dumbass AC's head!
This reminds me of an experience I had a few weeks ago. This is 100% true. I work for a government agency doing sting operations against identity theives. We leave a plain vanilla envelope on a bench of a subway station containing fake customer records. If anyone opens the envelope then we give them a few days to report it.
I'm amazed that it usually ends up in the phase where I roll down there with uniform and stick a nightstick up the suspects ass. They never see it coming!
In their defense the GP2X handheld does look like an imitation of a portable game system thats been constructed barely well enough to pass a cursory inspection.
Heres a free lesson in patent trolling. You need to start with something small before you move up to the big guys.
Pick something small you Greeks invented, lets just pick say, Ass Sex with Other Men (In the Butt). Then pick a minority, such as faggots, and troll the hell out of them.
Then when you have a monopoly on gay sex, you can take the funds and start on bigger targets. Like womens shaving products or something....
> So which one is applied by the modern court system?
Definitely the latter. It might be getting hard to prove people guilty, but with enough screenshots and plaintext logs from the plantiffs agents we can make a damn good try!
> People would still pay (gasp!) for software, because most are under the moral law of supporting the authors.
They would! They would be paying a reasonable sum for OZPhx Windows Vista, and probably getting a bundle deal with OZPhx Word, from my totally legitmate online store. They would feel happy that their money was going to the author. Everyone would be happy, except that bgates@hotmail.com guy who wouldn't stop sending me links to goatse in my email.
You should have some form of copyright protection and it shouldn't be intrusive. I was trying an orm/data layer product the other day (diamond binding) and I was impressed by how the licensing didnt piss me off. Got a license file which looks like some signed xml, and the installer. Installed the product. Everything worked. Forgot about the license file which was still sitting in my email until like a week later.
Then I go to build in release and I get "Not licensed - go to dunnchurchill.com etc"
The only thing that it was doing was putting #warning pragmas into the code that I was using unlicensed software, and #error in release mode. So I found the license file used the thingo in the about box and I guess it jammed the details in the registry somewhere. Everything was working again.
The other thing is that i'm using the free non-commercial version (you have to register for the license file) - and its completely identical to the paid version - so they trust me not to abuse the terms. Also what surprised me was that the runtime didnt need any licensing - which for anyone familair with third party.net stuff you generally end up fucking around with licensing issues when you deploy.
I think thats basically a good way of doing things - its acceptable i think to remind the user that they havent got a license. Don't restrict how they use the product though , just rely on the agreement you have with them. I'm guessing everything is covered by the EULA I probably agreed to (non-commercial use etc), but the important thing is that it hasnt pissed me off yet.
This problem has been solved many many times over with modern OR mapping tools. It used to be the case where your options were pretty much: * Stuff around with a bunch of mapping files and write the code by hand. (Time consuming) * Use a template code generator (shitloads of code - gets you like 90% of the way there, and then you are stuffed and its impossible to maintain)
Now theres a third option, which is a plugin for your environment of choice that keeps some definitions synchronised behind the scenes and reads a bunch of metadata so nothings hardcoded and it can optimise queries at runtime.
Case in point: Earlier this week we bought a copy of Diamond Binding. Configuration was pretty minimal - it might not be the most customisable of tools, but I was never one for learning mapping theory anyway. Basically the setup time was ticking what tables I wanted in my data layer - it detected all the relationships and just worked out the box. I dont recall the price, but it was a bit over $500AU - which is about 2 days salary here.
We're a.net shop and afaik DB was for VS2005/.net2 only - but I have no doubt theres similar tools for Netbeans or whatever your language of choice is half a google away.
So basically if you want to be tight and not spend any money, then its going to suck for you. Same as coding without an IDE. The tools are there though - and it seems that "mainstream" OR/M tools are out there - or at least "instant data layer" stuff for your average noobie VB.Net programmer thats actually got a solid OR/M foundation (instead of template codegen BS).
Actually its probably a bad thing. Anything that makes it easier for your average coder is just going to drive my rates down/cry
You do not have a right to enter my property without forfeiting some of yours. If you refuse, its fully within your rights to stay the fuck out.
You don't like the store policy, don't shop there. Articles like this are great to educate people about the overbearing moronic policy of these stores. That said they shouldnt encourage goddamn hippies thinking they have some moral right to enforce their rules on someone elses place of business.
So... the point you are trying to make is that a 3 or 4 year old OS with a SP doesnt support as much as your fresh Ubuntu download? Guess MS should be buying those magic hologram stickers they sell to audiophiles that can dynamically rewrite the CD or some crap.
Don't buy a shitty wireless adapter. I don't buy shithouse third world crap, and everything works out the box.
Yeah I found its hard to get used to at first. I was much slower using Word, until I got used to where everything had moved to, and now I guess I'm about the same speed. Its kinda hard to say i'm "faster", although the live preview of formatting can speed things up (but thats not a feature which would have to be exclusive to the ribbon).
In Excel though, which I barely use, its much much quicker to find things when I want to get something done.
Its definitely better, and definitely a more shallow learning curve imho.
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I bleach my ring you insensitive clod!
And MS has been saying since Win2k "Do not write to the program files directory", "Do not hardcode paths", etc etc.
Basically if your application has hardcoded shit like "C:\docs and settings", or tries to write to the program files directory then its written by a retard. You will not get Windows Logo certification with crap like that.
Now Microsoft has pulled out a bigger stick with UAC, we are seeing all the incompetant developers coming out the woodwork and complaining that their dodgy shit doesnt work.
I'm glad when the UAC prompt comes up. Usually makes me have second thoughts about running the program.
Funniest shit happened here down-under right at the peak of Wii-hype. There were these little stalls in all the major malls selling really crap 'consoles' with motion sensitive controllers. I could just feel the disappointment when little Johnny gets told that his parents got "that motion video game thingo you wanted" and unveil one of these $80 pieces of shit.
Gave me lulz every time.
Then instead of the nice productive soldier standing on guard duty you'd be more like the shabbily dressed hippy mooching off his parents, smoking weed and complaining about how "war is, like, bad, man."
This reminds me of another experiance I had a few weeks ago. This is 100% true. I saw this guy use parody in a thread, and the joke went right over this dumbass AC's head!
HE NEVER SAW IT COMING!
No.
Can't imagine why you'd care when you've got Tux Racer!
This reminds me of an experience I had a few weeks ago. This is 100% true. I work for a government agency doing sting operations against identity theives. We leave a plain vanilla envelope on a bench of a subway station containing fake customer records. If anyone opens the envelope then we give them a few days to report it.
I'm amazed that it usually ends up in the phase where I roll down there with uniform and stick a nightstick up the suspects ass. They never see it coming!
If anyone asks then you're my debugger, OG-RE CHOW TWO OH SIX OH ONE EIGHT
Needing three gig of RAM on my PDA should be enough for anyone....
FTFA Symbian got the cake, WM got the pie...
I'm confused...
Live has a better API, more features, and looks better.
Live's search also sucks cock.
One up on the chump in Doom 3!
In their defense the GP2X handheld does look like an imitation of a portable game system thats been constructed barely well enough to pass a cursory inspection.
Heres a free lesson in patent trolling. You need to start with something small before you move up to the big guys.
Pick something small you Greeks invented, lets just pick say, Ass Sex with Other Men (In the Butt). Then pick a minority, such as faggots, and troll the hell out of them.
Then when you have a monopoly on gay sex, you can take the funds and start on bigger targets. Like womens shaving products or something....
> So which one is applied by the modern court system?
Definitely the latter. It might be getting hard to prove people guilty, but with enough screenshots and plaintext logs from the plantiffs agents we can make a damn good try!
Little Johnny: "My stars! That radioactive truck of waste is skidding over and spilling liquid everywhere!"
*Crunch*
Little Johnny: "Oww. My thyroid hurts."
You know its true ;)
I'd like to thank everyone for their support and good karma in other threads, without which this post would not have been possible ;)
:D
Cheers guys
Its a fucking bomb you hippy. Do you expect to be smothered with happy jumping kittens that tickle you to death with rainbows coming out their asses?
Get some perspective here.
If you don't want to be on the receiving end then don't piss off the people that have it.
> People would still pay (gasp!) for software, because most are under the moral law of supporting the authors.
They would! They would be paying a reasonable sum for OZPhx Windows Vista, and probably getting a bundle deal with OZPhx Word, from my totally legitmate online store. They would feel happy that their money was going to the author. Everyone would be happy, except that bgates@hotmail.com guy who wouldn't stop sending me links to goatse in my email.
You should have some form of copyright protection and it shouldn't be intrusive. I was trying an orm/data layer product the other day (diamond binding) and I was impressed by how the licensing didnt piss me off. Got a license file which looks like some signed xml, and the installer. Installed the product. Everything worked. Forgot about the license file which was still sitting in my email until like a week later.
.net stuff you generally end up fucking around with licensing issues when you deploy.
:/
Then I go to build in release and I get "Not licensed - go to dunnchurchill.com etc"
The only thing that it was doing was putting #warning pragmas into the code that I was using unlicensed software, and #error in release mode. So I found the license file used the thingo in the about box and I guess it jammed the details in the registry somewhere. Everything was working again.
The other thing is that i'm using the free non-commercial version (you have to register for the license file) - and its completely identical to the paid version - so they trust me not to abuse the terms. Also what surprised me was that the runtime didnt need any licensing - which for anyone familair with third party
I think thats basically a good way of doing things - its acceptable i think to remind the user that they havent got a license. Don't restrict how they use the product though , just rely on the agreement you have with them. I'm guessing everything is covered by the EULA I probably agreed to (non-commercial use etc), but the important thing is that it hasnt pissed me off yet.
Wish bloody MS would do it like that.
This problem has been solved many many times over with modern OR mapping tools. It used to be the case where your options were pretty much:
.net shop and afaik DB was for VS2005/.net2 only - but I have no doubt theres similar tools for Netbeans or whatever your language of choice is half a google away.
/cry
* Stuff around with a bunch of mapping files and write the code by hand. (Time consuming)
* Use a template code generator (shitloads of code - gets you like 90% of the way there, and then you are stuffed and its impossible to maintain)
Now theres a third option, which is a plugin for your environment of choice that keeps some definitions synchronised behind the scenes and reads a bunch of metadata so nothings hardcoded and it can optimise queries at runtime.
Case in point: Earlier this week we bought a copy of Diamond Binding. Configuration was pretty minimal - it might not be the most customisable of tools, but I was never one for learning mapping theory anyway. Basically the setup time was ticking what tables I wanted in my data layer - it detected all the relationships and just worked out the box. I dont recall the price, but it was a bit over $500AU - which is about 2 days salary here.
We're a
So basically if you want to be tight and not spend any money, then its going to suck for you. Same as coding without an IDE. The tools are there though - and it seems that "mainstream" OR/M tools are out there - or at least "instant data layer" stuff for your average noobie VB.Net programmer thats actually got a solid OR/M foundation (instead of template codegen BS).
Actually its probably a bad thing. Anything that makes it easier for your average coder is just going to drive my rates down
You do not have a right to enter my property without forfeiting some of yours. If you refuse, its fully within your rights to stay the fuck out.
You don't like the store policy, don't shop there. Articles like this are great to educate people about the overbearing moronic policy of these stores. That said they shouldnt encourage goddamn hippies thinking they have some moral right to enforce their rules on someone elses place of business.
Your options are:
a) Live with it,
b) GTFO
So... the point you are trying to make is that a 3 or 4 year old OS with a SP doesnt support as much as your fresh Ubuntu download? Guess MS should be buying those magic hologram stickers they sell to audiophiles that can dynamically rewrite the CD or some crap.
Don't buy a shitty wireless adapter. I don't buy shithouse third world crap, and everything works out the box.
Yeah I found its hard to get used to at first. I was much slower using Word, until I got used to where everything had moved to, and now I guess I'm about the same speed. Its kinda hard to say i'm "faster", although the live preview of formatting can speed things up (but thats not a feature which would have to be exclusive to the ribbon).
In Excel though, which I barely use, its much much quicker to find things when I want to get something done.
Its definitely better, and definitely a more shallow learning curve imho.