That's the thing. I haven't seen a real example of DLL hell in years. Most people either statically compile everything or they just ship all the needed dlls to the installed folder.
Who still faces DLL hell in Windows? I thought every application just install all the dlls it needs in it's own directory. Do you have any examples of DLL hell that aren't 10 years old?
Except his generalization has been more the exception for all the nerds I've ever met.
Nerds tend to go for things with more depth/complexity then the average bear and it's true
I've never seen such a thing on average being true. Almost all the nerds I've come across are into just as much banal shit as the next person. Sure there might be a few areas that they like that tend to be more complex, but it's outweighed by the other shit.
Naming a school just seems like it would make for more inspired students than those at PS-1138.
Really? I never met a single person in all of my years of schooling that ever gave a flying fuck what the name of the school was. If you're academic success entirely hinges on what the name of the school is, you're probably hopeless.
What dynamic content? This has nothing to do with JavaScript.
With Adobe Reader, the only thing preventing execution is a warning. Disabling JavaScript will not prevent this (I don’t use JavaScript in my PoC PDF ), and patching Adobe Reader isn’t possible (I’m not exploiting a vulnerability, just being creative with the PDF language specs).
Especially if I open it with a viewer that knows no stinkin' JavaScript etc.?
Did you even bother to read the summary?
Disabling JavaScript will not prevent this.
To quote further from the actual article:
With Adobe Reader, the only thing preventing execution is a warning. Disabling JavaScript will not prevent this (I don’t use JavaScript in my PoC PDF), and patching Adobe Reader isn’t possible (I’m not exploiting a vulnerability, just being creative with the PDF language specs).
This has nothing to do with JavaScript or anything else. It has to do with the actual PDF language spec itself. Amazing how you got modded interesting by not even understanding what the issue is.
Or instead of wasting time and resources on trivial things like naming and renaming schools (does the name of the school really mean anything?) they should instead be working to foster more teachers like Escalante.
President Obama gets an A+ for his education speech just now. He made all the traditional and necessary points that one would expect a progressive Democrat to make — such as the crucial necessity of more early childhood programs — but he also added elements that will make teachers’ unions uncomfortable. And, frankly, that’s terrific. The Democratic Party has been too close to the unions for too long, and their interest is not precisely the same as the students’. The unions would be failing their members if they didn’t cry foul when bad teachers were pushed out, but that’s what we need more of. Education reform is going to mean challenging the unions, and Obama signaled that that’s what he plans to do.
And that's not really the only opinion piece you can find from the New York Times that is critical of the teacher's unions.
Nerds just obsess over more complex things. I hope that's a less inflammatory way of phrasing it.
But that still isn't even true. There are plenty of nerds who obsess over things you find to be simple and banal. And there are plenty of nerds who don't find what you consider to be "nerd subjects" to be all that interesting.
That's funny because there were plenty of nerds in the CS department at my school, including professors, who liked sports, collected figurines (usually Warhammer shit) and liked guns. Just because you find certain things banal and other things interesting doesn't mean that every "nerd" is going to agree.
There is a difference between not supporting it, and forbidding it.
Then don't download the update and keep running Linux.
And while the people doing it, are a minority, they are a vocal minority of early adopters.
I'd be willing to bet that almost no one is listening to them. Go to a Gamestop or Best Buy and ask the people in the PS3 section about running Linux on their PS3 and how this update disables it on older models. You will get blank stares.
Ya know... The folks that made it popular in the first place.
Do you have any actual evidence that the people running Linux on their PS3 are the people who were responsible for any of the popularity of the PS3?
It's all Sony. If it's a "subsidiary", then there's no such thing as a "separate and distinct"; they're all under the same CEO.
No, actually SCE has it's own CEO, Kazuo Hirai. Sony Music has it's own chairman and there is another chairman and CEO of Sony Corporation. You also seem to be profoundly ignorant about how conglomerates are run. They are basically made up of mostly autonomous units.
You're expecting good treatment from the company that put rootkits on its CDs?
Since when did SCE put rootkits on CDs? Oh, you're talking about Sony Music which is a completely separate and distinct subsidiary which has absolutely zero ties to SCE.
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Sorry this clown can’t make money there it wasn’t built for him to make money off.
I'm pretty sure Google would disagree with you on the intent of the Android Market.
That's the thing. I haven't seen a real example of DLL hell in years. Most people either statically compile everything or they just ship all the needed dlls to the installed folder.
Who still faces DLL hell in Windows? I thought every application just install all the dlls it needs in it's own directory. Do you have any examples of DLL hell that aren't 10 years old?
Since they were sound asleep while this was happening who was going to be "peppering his hide with lead"? The gun fairy?
Just leave him a giant package of oxycontin. He'll just off himself.
This is what? Like the 4th Google related April Fools posting?
April first jokes were ever funny?
Has anyone else noticed this new banner at the top of Slashdot?
Become a fan of Slashdot on Facebook
It's funny that as much railing on Facebook that is done on Slashdot that Slashdot is advertising for people to become fans of them on Facebook.
Except his generalization has been more the exception for all the nerds I've ever met.
Nerds tend to go for things with more depth/complexity then the average bear and it's true
I've never seen such a thing on average being true. Almost all the nerds I've come across are into just as much banal shit as the next person. Sure there might be a few areas that they like that tend to be more complex, but it's outweighed by the other shit.
Naming a school just seems like it would make for more inspired students than those at PS-1138.
Really? I never met a single person in all of my years of schooling that ever gave a flying fuck what the name of the school was. If you're academic success entirely hinges on what the name of the school is, you're probably hopeless.
What dynamic content? This has nothing to do with JavaScript.
With Adobe Reader, the only thing preventing execution is a warning. Disabling JavaScript will not prevent this ( I don’t use JavaScript in my PoC PDF ), and patching Adobe Reader isn’t possible (I’m not exploiting a vulnerability, just being creative with the PDF language specs).
Especially if I open it with a viewer that knows no stinkin' JavaScript etc.?
Did you even bother to read the summary?
Disabling JavaScript will not prevent this.
To quote further from the actual article:
With Adobe Reader, the only thing preventing execution is a warning. Disabling JavaScript will not prevent this (I don’t use JavaScript in my PoC PDF), and patching Adobe Reader isn’t possible (I’m not exploiting a vulnerability, just being creative with the PDF language specs).
This has nothing to do with JavaScript or anything else. It has to do with the actual PDF language spec itself. Amazing how you got modded interesting by not even understanding what the issue is.
Maybe the NYT is moderate enough to be critical, I just tossed up an example.
Yeah, you were basically pulling a Rush Limbaugh and smearing the NYT without actually doing any real research into your claims.
With the GPL, individual contributors would still own their own patches, features, etc.
Only if they don't sign a copyright attribution agreement as what happens with FSF software and things like MySQL.
Oracle couldn't just take all that contributed code and close it up, as it doesn't belong to them.
And Oracle isn't closing up any of the current OpenSolaris code. They wouldn't have any legal right to do so.
Or instead of wasting time and resources on trivial things like naming and renaming schools (does the name of the school really mean anything?) they should instead be working to foster more teachers like Escalante.
http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/obama-takes-on-the-teacher-unions/
Oh really?
From the first paragraph:
President Obama gets an A+ for his education speech just now. He made all the traditional and necessary points that one would expect a progressive Democrat to make — such as the crucial necessity of more early childhood programs — but he also added elements that will make teachers’ unions uncomfortable. And, frankly, that’s terrific. The Democratic Party has been too close to the unions for too long, and their interest is not precisely the same as the students’. The unions would be failing their members if they didn’t cry foul when bad teachers were pushed out, but that’s what we need more of. Education reform is going to mean challenging the unions, and Obama signaled that that’s what he plans to do.
And that's not really the only opinion piece you can find from the New York Times that is critical of the teacher's unions.
Nerds just obsess over more complex things. I hope that's a less inflammatory way of phrasing it.
But that still isn't even true. There are plenty of nerds who obsess over things you find to be simple and banal. And there are plenty of nerds who don't find what you consider to be "nerd subjects" to be all that interesting.
And what about the abstainer? Was he too busy playing farmville too?
That's funny because there were plenty of nerds in the CS department at my school, including professors, who liked sports, collected figurines (usually Warhammer shit) and liked guns. Just because you find certain things banal and other things interesting doesn't mean that every "nerd" is going to agree.
There is a difference between not supporting it, and forbidding it.
Then don't download the update and keep running Linux.
And while the people doing it, are a minority, they are a vocal minority of early adopters.
I'd be willing to bet that almost no one is listening to them. Go to a Gamestop or Best Buy and ask the people in the PS3 section about running Linux on their PS3 and how this update disables it on older models. You will get blank stares.
Ya know... The folks that made it popular in the first place.
Do you have any actual evidence that the people running Linux on their PS3 are the people who were responsible for any of the popularity of the PS3?
n that case your monitor must either support HDCP,
Nope.
or your not running at full 1080p
Nope.
or you've got something like AnyDVD HD installed.
Yep.
It's all Sony. If it's a "subsidiary", then there's no such thing as a "separate and distinct"; they're all under the same CEO.
No, actually SCE has it's own CEO, Kazuo Hirai. Sony Music has it's own chairman and there is another chairman and CEO of Sony Corporation. You also seem to be profoundly ignorant about how conglomerates are run. They are basically made up of mostly autonomous units.
Your monitor, graphics card support hdcp through dvi.
That would be kind of hard since my monitor predates HDCP.
1% of 1,000,000 is still 1,000. That's a lot of people to deal with.
No, it'll quite easy for them to deal with those people. SCE will just ignore them.
You're expecting good treatment from the company that put rootkits on its CDs?
Since when did SCE put rootkits on CDs? Oh, you're talking about Sony Music which is a completely separate and distinct subsidiary which has absolutely zero ties to SCE.