So who writes these 'automated tools' and who checks those?
Most likely they use those tools to check themselves, pretty much as you compile (most of) a compiler with itself, debug a debugger, and so on.
If you are interested in how these recursive tools work, check valgrind's documentation (interesting because it relates a bit how some design decisions were made so that valgrind could be used on itself) for example.
One of the things I've noticed is that many of the developers here (not you, necessarily, but many) seem to have an elitist attitude that only gets worse when dealing with IT types. They seem to feel superior to almost everyone else anyway (e.g., the overwhelming managers/bean counters/salesmen are idiots meme),
I don't feel superior to anyone, but I do have the skills that I'm supposed to have to do my job as secretaries have the skills to do theirs. I'm sure a secretary to do her job well needs access to stuff or people I don't need at all. On the other hand, I need access to other things.
Some people in IT departments like to give _everyone_ the same privileges; even having administration privileges in the very PC you are working on is a big deal. Other IT departments have several groups but they got them wrong: Staff, contractors, etc... and everyone in the staff can do things than no contractor can.
Fortunately this doesn't happen everywhere, but it does happen.
if you've already installed VI without authorization, why would you not just install Eclipse?
No idea where you get that vi example.
As I said in my original post, I install unauthorized stuff.
Like I said, not very believable.
Not that I give a fuck about what you think, but in real life it's usually a good idea not to call a liar to anyone you are attempting to have a civilized argument with.
So, what are the few other things you gloss over? If the approved tools don't work, why have you not presented your case for using something else? Eclipse is free, I fail to see how you could fail to convience your company to let you use that?
As I said in my original post, cost is not the issue. Getting an authorization to use Eclipse would be impossible. The support desk refuses to authorize installation of anything that they don't know inside out, because if something goes wrong they are supposed to help the user. That just the way it is. Of course, I could guarantee them that I won't ask for support, and that if something goes wrong I take full responsibility. Guess what... that's exactly the description of unauthorized software.
I didn't say you weren't productive;
You implied that I could be with whatever tools were given to me as long as I bothered to learn them. And no, it's not possible. It's like giving an accountant a programmable calculator and asking him to be as productive as he would be with Excel. So what do you think accountants do when Excel is not authorized? They just bring one from home. (Actually, my company does have a corporate office license, but I know of many companies that don't bother).
can argue to get a tool if none provided fit.
If you _ever_ succeed in finding, getting access to and convincing the right person -in a company with more than 20,000 workers- to authorize and buy a specific piece of software you need, _please_ send me your CV. My teammates and I would be very interested in having you on board. I will have someone give my boss a blowjob if that's what it takes to hire you.
It's either whatever comes with Windows, Office, and a few other things.
You obviously seem to believe (actually to be sure) that the problem is that I don't like the alternatives I'm given, instead of the possibility that the official, approved list, just doesn't have everything that is needed.
You call me a self important ass because I don't think it _possible_ to be a productive(*) Java programmer using only the JDK...obviously you must be a magician, or maybe you are less productive than you think you are.
(*) when compared to have someone with the same skill set and the proper tools.
Of course, now all you old fucks have no more need of public education and have fat wage packets
Dude, who the fuck do you think is paying for your generation education? Public education sucks almost worldwide and as a result people who can afford it (usually at the cost of spending half of that fat wage packet you mention) pay for private school for their kids.
Never crossed your mind that the other half don't, but are just as productive (or more so)?
No.
Maybe the other half can learn to use the authorized software instead of being so tied to one particular program and can't be bothered to learn something new.
OK OK, I'll give notepad another chance for my code editing, and I'm sure I can come up with two decent.bat script to launch the compiler and so on...
More good ideas? Email them all to ccguysboss@gmail.com:-)
Interesting how you say that "installing unauthorized software" = "more productive"
Yes. The stuff you mention is usually installed by other kind of users, definitely not developers.
If you want we can also talk about having the same policy regarding installed/installed software, permissions, etc for everybody (from programmers to secretaries) is counterproductive.
I assume the other half:
- Do it but don't admit it
- Or don't it but are way less productive than their peers
I don't know how it is for the rest of the slashdot crowd but almost everywhere I've worked it's impossible to be (decently) productive using only authorized software.
The sad thing is not a matter of cost, but a matter of paperwork. Something as basic as winrar (no, let's not go into why would I want to use winanything) is impossible to get by the official channels.
Also the autodetected scene changes would never work; the fashion in video editing these days is to use simple frame-to-frame cuts for scene changes..
The patent says they use audio analysis too.
Besides, this the google. Just because you (or I) can't think of an algorithm that works well all or most of the time it doesn't mean it isn't possible.
The interesting part of the patent is not
that they interrupt the video to show a commercial (surely there is prior art on that), but rather than the commercial breaks are determined automatically by analyzing the video and audio (detecting scene changes for example).
Also, they gather 'interaction data' with the first commercial, and use it for the following ones.
There's a bidding system to buy advertisement slots on specific video, so if there's a very hot video in say, youtube, you can put your commercial there almost inmediately... seems like the best way to maximize advertising costs.
Maybe _this_ is why I'm getting more spam in my gmail account lately?
If it isn't, surely someone had a boner after reading the article and is coding as we speak...
However, I feel there's a need for an additional service to be developed: put flowers and candles on the grave. As soon as that's implemented, you'll never have to go to the cemetery again!
A drag and drop interface for this would be great!
If properly implemented you could share flowers and share a few bucks... (or get them for free)
Don't want to be stating the obvious but is the issue number 2 related to the page not being taller than the screen?
Well that's a new way I've been called an idiot this week:-) At least you get +1 for originality...
To answer the question no, that's not the problem. It happens to pages that obviously need the scroll bar, and the thing is, once a tab decides to remove its scroll bar, there is no way to make it come back (visiting another page in the same tab doesn't do it).
For some time I thought it could relate to a plug-in or a combination of plug-ins but I'm experiencing it now using a vanilla firefox.
It doesn't happen all the time, maybe once or twice a day.
There are at least two major bugs that have been there forever. I don't know if
they annoy everyone, or affect everyone or just the people I talk to.
1) The damn proxy prompt window. For god's sake, if there's already one open
window asking for the proxy user/pass, don't open another 20 at the same time.
This is quite easy to reproduce: From a firefox that needs proxy to get out,
go to any bookmark folder and choose 'Open All in tabs'.
2) For the life of me I can't figure out why sometimes the vertical scroll
bar dissapear. It's not a specific page. Once the scroll bar is gone, it's
gone forever, no matter what I load in that tab - if I open another tab
it's all fine.
Yes I've opened bug reports for this. And no, I'm not fixing it myself, I've
got my own projects to take care of.
Go ahead and mod me troll, I just needed to vent:-)
Show me a cross reference of IT folks who actually know what they are doing, have a passion for it, and I bet that subset is really small.
That's because what most IT people do at most companies is nothing to be passionate about, so once the 'I'm learning stuff' component is gone, you have people who know what they are doing but find it boring - because it is. Of course you may be lucky, for example by working as a network admin for a small company that let you do whatever you want as long as everything works smoothly, but that's quite exceptional.
That's why the best people go to companies where you can really be passionate about what you do. That's the way it is and that's the way it's always going to be (unless you have lots of money to throw to someone who might be overqualified for your needs anyway).
As for what _is_ there, well, most of the pages are broken, unavailable ("This project is not yet published"), so if the public documentation is any indication of the development status I'd say IE8 it pretty closed to the usual MS standard:-)
At the time the war started Spain was a (newly born) democracy. The government at the time was elected by the people.
Get your facts together instead of repeating what the new fascists are telling you. Learn about the 2nd republic, the constitution that was in place, and if you have the time look into what 40 years of a militar dictatorship caused to the country. Spain is still catching up with the rest of Europe.
I'm fine with the Church being a dictatorship as long as it only affects their followers. I've got a problem when they support a militar dictator that oppresses a whole country, though.
Well, if the Church wants to give the impression that they want
to fix their mistakes and apologize for them, I think it would be better
if they apologized for supporting dictatorships and benefiting from them
(as they did in Spain for 40 years, for example).
They could also get rid of child molesters and stop paying (lots of) money to keep things
under wraps, which obviously is not the best way to solve the problem.
These kind of news really pisses me off. A statue to Galileo 400 years late? WTF?
Sony, who sells both media and the equipment to view that media, things get complex.
You are forgetting the equipment to _copy_ the media and the _blank_ media. Basically with 100% sony stuff you can make a copy of a DVD you buy from sony pictures and still hear them complain about piracy and them not getting enough money.
There are multiregion blu ray players available as well. Still expensive as the original models need hardware modding, but available nonotheless. Besides, it's just a matter of time that some chinese manufacturer starts selling a model with a hidden menu that allow switching regions.
"There's a bug that happens once every 1,000 uses of this web survey but it would take me a week to pin it down and fix it."
How can you give a time frame for a non repeatable bug you still have to pin down? If you had a boss like mine you would be in trouble, because he would say "ok, fix it, I'll get you the time" and if a week later you don't deliver, he wouldn't be very understanding.
I guess these researchers don't consider the possibility that there may be advanced extraterrestrial civilization. Perhaps they should say the KNOWN universe
If they said that, someone would come here saying that just because it's not KNOWN to us (or them) it doesn't mean it isn't known by anyone else...surely if there's such a powerful laser in the universe someone (possibly not on Earth) must know about it.
The thing with being a pedantic is that there's always someone who can beat you to it, AND it's likely to be a slashdot regular:-)
Slashdot Mirror
If you are interested in how these recursive tools work, check valgrind's documentation (interesting because it relates a bit how some design decisions were made so that valgrind could be used on itself) for example.
Some people in IT departments like to give _everyone_ the same privileges; even having administration privileges in the very PC you are working on is a big deal. Other IT departments have several groups but they got them wrong: Staff, contractors, etc... and everyone in the staff can do things than no contractor can.
Fortunately this doesn't happen everywhere, but it does happen.
Not that I give a fuck about what you think, but in real life it's usually a good idea not to call a liar to anyone you are attempting to have a civilized argument with.
You implied that I could be with whatever tools were given to me as long as I bothered to learn them. And no, it's not possible. It's like giving an accountant a programmable calculator and asking him to be as productive as he would be with Excel. So what do you think accountants do when Excel is not authorized? They just bring one from home. (Actually, my company does have a corporate office license, but I know of many companies that don't bother). If you _ever_ succeed in finding, getting access to and convincing the right person -in a company with more than 20,000 workers- to authorize and buy a specific piece of software you need, _please_ send me your CV. My teammates and I would be very interested in having you on board. I will have someone give my boss a blowjob if that's what it takes to hire you.
You obviously seem to believe (actually to be sure) that the problem is that I don't like the alternatives I'm given, instead of the possibility that the official, approved list, just doesn't have everything that is needed.
You call me a self important ass because I don't think it _possible_ to be a productive(*) Java programmer using only the JDK...obviously you must be a magician, or maybe you are less productive than you think you are.
(*) when compared to have someone with the same skill set and the proper tools.
If you want we can also talk about having the same policy regarding installed/installed software, permissions, etc for everybody (from programmers to secretaries) is counterproductive.
- Do it but don't admit it
- Or don't it but are way less productive than their peers
I don't know how it is for the rest of the slashdot crowd but almost everywhere I've worked it's impossible to be (decently) productive using only authorized software.
The sad thing is not a matter of cost, but a matter of paperwork. Something as basic as winrar (no, let's not go into why would I want to use winanything) is impossible to get by the official channels.
Besides, this the google. Just because you (or I) can't think of an algorithm that works well all or most of the time it doesn't mean it isn't possible.
The interesting part of the patent is not that they interrupt the video to show a commercial (surely there is prior art on that), but rather than the commercial breaks are determined automatically by analyzing the video and audio (detecting scene changes for example).
Also, they gather 'interaction data' with the first commercial, and use it for the following ones.
There's a bidding system to buy advertisement slots on specific video, so if there's a very hot video in say, youtube, you can put your commercial there almost inmediately... seems like the best way to maximize advertising costs.
Maybe _this_ is why I'm getting more spam in my gmail account lately?
If it isn't, surely someone had a boner after reading the article and is coding as we speak...
To answer the question no, that's not the problem. It happens to pages that obviously need the scroll bar, and the thing is, once a tab decides to remove its scroll bar, there is no way to make it come back (visiting another page in the same tab doesn't do it).
For some time I thought it could relate to a plug-in or a combination of plug-ins but I'm experiencing it now using a vanilla firefox.
It doesn't happen all the time, maybe once or twice a day.
There are at least two major bugs that have been there forever. I don't know if they annoy everyone, or affect everyone or just the people I talk to.
:-)
1) The damn proxy prompt window. For god's sake, if there's already one open window asking for the proxy user/pass, don't open another 20 at the same time. This is quite easy to reproduce: From a firefox that needs proxy to get out, go to any bookmark folder and choose 'Open All in tabs'.
2) For the life of me I can't figure out why sometimes the vertical scroll bar dissapear. It's not a specific page. Once the scroll bar is gone, it's gone forever, no matter what I load in that tab - if I open another tab it's all fine.
Yes I've opened bug reports for this. And no, I'm not fixing it myself, I've got my own projects to take care of.
Go ahead and mod me troll, I just needed to vent
That's why the best people go to companies where you can really be passionate about what you do. That's the way it is and that's the way it's always going to be (unless you have lots of money to throw to someone who might be overqualified for your needs anyway).
I'm sorry to see that there's no SVG support.
:-)
As for what _is_ there, well, most of the pages are broken, unavailable ("This project is not yet published"), so if the public documentation is any indication of the development status I'd say IE8 it pretty closed to the usual MS standard
You must be a troll.
At the time the war started Spain was a (newly born) democracy. The government at the time was elected by the people.
Get your facts together instead of repeating what the new fascists are telling you. Learn about the 2nd republic, the constitution that was in place, and if you have the time look into what 40 years of a militar dictatorship caused to the country. Spain is still catching up with the rest of Europe.
I'm fine with the Church being a dictatorship as long as it only affects their followers. I've got a problem when they support a militar dictator that oppresses a whole country, though.
Well, if the Church wants to give the impression that they want to fix their mistakes and apologize for them, I think it would be better if they apologized for supporting dictatorships and benefiting from them (as they did in Spain for 40 years, for example).
They could also get rid of child molesters and stop paying (lots of) money to keep things under wraps, which obviously is not the best way to solve the problem.
These kind of news really pisses me off. A statue to Galileo 400 years late? WTF?
There are multiregion blu ray players available as well. Still expensive as the original models need hardware modding, but available nonotheless. Besides, it's just a matter of time that some chinese manufacturer starts selling a model with a hidden menu that allow switching regions.
The thing with being a pedantic is that there's always someone who can beat you to it, AND it's likely to be a slashdot regular
Well, maybe you didn't give a crap, but some of us still enjoy TV (and have no problem admitting it) and are glad that the strike is over.
It would have been interesting if some writers had started a joint venture with actors and produce something without studios, though.