Part of the controversy this time around stems from the revelation that the Microsoft's requirements for ARM-based Windows 8 devices include a mandatory Secure Boot feature, effectively locking down such devices and preventing them from booting non-Windows OSes.
The real solution to this is to go back to 80x25 screens, and better short-term memory. You think I'm joking, but I'm not.
I've been developing my own OS from scratch and right now I'm limiting myself to the 80x25 or 80x50ish modes for the primordial in-OS development environment. I agree that 25 lines is about all I need to see at a time. I could do with a bit more horizontal area, but horizontal scrolling makes up for the lack of columns nicely.
The language I've created to build the OS with runs as either compiled or interpreted code, making it easy to create, test, and add new modules in real-time. To this end I use the upper 25 rows for program output / display, and the lower rows for the debugger and "immediate" mode code editor. It's sort of like a limited tiling WM, or GNU screen-ish interface. I used to develop code in DOS based applications decades ago, and initially thought that modern graphical environments were far better suited to development. Naturally, I thought I'd be really cramped for space but it actually has worked out to be more comfortable in comparison. I've got noticeably less eyestrain than when I do my "day job" work in a modern IDE. It seems that what you say is true: 80x25 rows or so is all one really needs with a scrolling display. However, I supplement my short term memory with the additional pane.
Now reconsidering my stance against using console based editors in favor of IDEs for development on "proper" OSs as well...
You can try and invent imaginary rights and legal rulings to justify drug use, but at the end of the day, it's dumb.
I would need a lot of convincing to understand why the police would need to get PERMISSION to use IR gear in public to find grow houses (as if the IR signature of your house has some kind of right to privacy): they do it all the time in the UK, and only bikers, gangsters, druggies and idiots would have a problem with it.
First off: All Right Are Imaginary. They're fairly arbitrary as well. Fuck your perception of which "rights" others should have. This is about wasting money on pointless witch-hunts to me. I want them to get a permit before they spend my tax money to fly their helicopters at night over my house while they're distracted by thermal imaging. That permit needs to be issued by a judge after considering evidence that warrants the investigation, not green-lighted based on a whim.
Furthermore: Alcohol is a Drug. Now, let's recall Prohibition. The laws against alcohol made it possible for Mobs to make mad cash. When's the last time you bought booze from a gangster? It's not profitable for them to sell it... It doesn't take a brain scientist to figure out that laws against the substances that the general public find acceptable for recreational use create a big problem.
The government doesn't want to end the war on drugs. The War on Terror will never end either. They want the power to do whatever the fuck they want -- Which means turning your country into a Dystopia like the old USSR. See also: Homeland Security & TSA. Blindly trusting your government to use restraint with absolute power is fucking moronic.
On the contrary, Java's syntax is no more verbose than C++'s. It's the rich API of which you speak. Ask a C or C++ coder to draw a triangle on the screen. Ooo! I guess that's not what counts. What about a button? Get a single button displayed with OK on it... Hrm. Not so easy using only C or C++, especially considering they have absolutely no graphics API at all included with the language. Hell, I could do this in assembly 20 years ago. Set video mode with int 10, and write data to B800h and beyond. Ah, but direct BIOS interface is gone unless you're making your own OS. Oh, sure, that crap isn't what counts, I AGREE! So what is important? Datastructures, Classes? C and Java aren't much different. Hell, you have to make two files in C++ (header and implementation). What else matters? Elementary math and complexity? That's the same in C and Java.
What you're saying that a student will struggle with is the API, not the language. I put it to you that a student will struggle just as much using the C/C++ standard libs, and even more when trying to do anything that's not included in C or C++, in comparison to Java. In C or C++ you go and select and fiddle with a myriad of APIs for each specific platform, or even peruse amongst all the various different cross platform libraries there are. In Java there's a few well documented ways to do file & network IO (multiple on Win / Lin / Mac) -- List files in a Directory in C or C++, I dare you, There's heavy and Lightweight Graphics APIs in Java (they're well documented and cross platform, unlike Win / Mac / Lin)...
I'm primarily a C and ASM coder by trade, but I know many other languages. I put it to you that anyone who's learned how to use the Java API docs will fit right in on any enterprise coding team with a large existing API.
C++ has a much more bloated syntax than Java -- It's just that you've confused syntax and API.
The comment field is a poor place to write a novel, or place a reference manual. The reference to D&D is in the actual jargon file (reachable by link at the bottom of my prior post). I'm not the author of the passage, though I did inserted video games to reflect recent observations of my own; This particular text is over a decade out of date, you see. File your grievances with Eric S. Raymond.
Go watch TV. Then come back. We'll talk then........
Back? OK, notice how TV ransoms you shit? Like the news & weather, the plot twist, etc? Much of the web does not do this. Paywalls are going up some places, and other places (like this one) let you pay to be free of the damn ads. Let's say you pay for TV from cable or sat dish provider. They inject local ads into the stream to target you, so even if you pay for the service you have to pay additional to get the few "premium" channels that don't have commercials. Imagine if your ISP were inserting ads into the sites you visit. Some tried, I believe, it was a huge stink and they stopped... settling for DNS redirects (use a different DNS).
TV is only about AV media and only secondarily about information and interactive stuff, but the web isn't, nor are the companies presented. However, I think they do a better job than the old media has. I can barely stand to watch TV at all the commercials are so intrusive in comparison.
An important point: Except in some relatively minor respects such as slang vocabulary, hackers don't get to be the way they are by imitating each other. Rather, it seems to be the case that the combination of personality traits that makes a hacker so conditions one's outlook on life that one tends to end up being like other hackers whether one wants to or not (much as bizarrely detailed similarities in behavior and preferences are found in genetic twins raised separately).
General Appearance
Intelligent. Scruffy. Intense. Abstracted. Surprisingly for a sedentary profession, more hackers run to skinny than fat; both extremes are more common than elsewhere. Tans are rare.
Dress
Hackers dress for comfort, function, and minimal maintenance hassles rather than for appearance (some, perhaps unfortunately, take this to extremes and neglect personal hygiene). They have a very low tolerance of suits and other ‘business’ attire; in fact, it is not uncommon for hackers to quit a job rather than conform to a dress code. When they are somehow backed into conforming to a dress code, they will find ways to subvert it, for example by wearing absurd novelty ties.
Female hackers almost never wear visible makeup, and many use none at all.
Physical Activity and Sports
Many (perhaps even most) hackers don't follow or do sports at all and are determinedly anti-physical. Among those who do, interest in spectator sports is low to non-existent; sports are something one does, not something one watches on TV.
Further, hackers avoid most team sports like the plague. Video games being a notable exception, both in terms of team play and consideration as a sport...
Hacker sports are almost always primarily self-competitive ones involving concentration, stamina, and micromotor skills: martial arts, bicycling, auto racing, kite flying, hiking, rock climbing, aviation, target-shooting, sailing, caving, juggling, skiing, skating, skydiving, scuba diving. Hackers' delight in techno-toys also tends to draw them towards hobbies with nifty complicated equipment that they can tinker with.
The popularity of martial arts in the hacker culture deserves special mention. Many observers have noted it, and the connection has grown noticeably stronger over time. In the 1970s, many hackers admired martial arts disciplines from a distance, sensing a compatible ideal in their exaltation of skill through rigorous self-discipline and concentration.
Today, martial arts seems to have become firmly established as the hacker exercise form of choice, and the martial-arts culture combining skill-centered elitism with a willingness to let anybody join seems a stronger parallel to hacker behavior than ever. Common usages in hacker slang un-ironically analogize programming to kung fu (thus, one hears talk of “code-fu” or in reference to specific skills like “HTML-fu”).
Education
Nearly all hackers past their teens are either college-degreed or self-educated to an equivalent level. The self-taught hacker is often considered (at least by other hackers) to be better-motivated, and may be more respected, than his school-shaped counterpart. Academic areas from which people often gravitate into hackerdom include (besides the obvious computer science and electrical engineering) physics, mathematics, linguistics, and philosophy.
Food
Ethnic. Spicy. Oriental, esp. Chinese and most esp. Szechuan, Hunan, and Mandarin (hackers consider Cantonese vaguely déclassé). Hackers prefer the exotic; for example, the Japanese-food fans among them will eat with gusto such delicacies as fugu (poisonous pufferfish) and whale. Thai food has experienced flurries of popularity. Where available, high-quality Jewish delicatessen food is much esteemed. A visible minority of Southwestern and Pacific Coast hackers prefers Mexican.
For those all-night hacks, pizza and microwaved burritos are big. Interestingly, though the mainst
Heck, a nuclear meltdown would be a much bigger problem.
By golly, it'll be even worser if it opens the hell-mouth.
I'm more worried about the storm surge passing over R'lyeh and waking C'thulhu with an ear popping deep sea pressure change. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for the inevitable return, but the last thing we need is a cranky Old One... especially since we're all over his lawn...
So, what if you put in the disk, turn off your PC, boot the disk (which boots the OS and ntfs-3g to r/w save data / install files / etc), and the game plays with no Windows taking up any system resources at all... Turn off the game, reboot the machine into windows. It might even have the option to load the OS & boot loader into a separate partition on the drive so you can dual boot and not need the CD... Would that be cool with you? You know, sort of like an old game console, but better? (just wondering, since I'm making my own OS as a side project)
Yeah, that and if you don't do any sub pixel font drawing, then you can use the same exact code in portrait and landscape. However, if your display can be tilted then the vertical and horizontal sub pixel layout is swapped. Some Pentile displays are designed to be horizontally & vertically agnostic.
MS also has several patents on some sub-pixel rendering tricks, and although MS cross licensed them to Apple, who knows if they did so for their mobile devices? Maybe that's why you even need a high res retina display? To mask the lack of sub-pixel rendering? (can't be troubled to try and find out, ATM)
Just imagine if someone else had photographed this guy being taken down, at which point security would have to go for the person #3 as well... pretty soon you're going to run out of security guards.
No, the security guards would "deputize" some other innocent bystanders, and they would continue tackling the others who pulled out their phones. Eventually you'd run out of people to deputize or pull out phones, and once all that video is uploaded to Youtube it would yield the most infuriatingly accurate Street View ever!
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
And how exactly do you propose to take up our duty to overthrow such oppressive governments? Sticks and Stones? No. That's why the 2nd. exists... There is no clause: "The Guns and Militias must be federally approved, funded and employed."
Also from the USDI -- This is the section near the end where the crimes against us is listed -- Things that should not be tolerated, and a revolution started instead.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
Laws reducing and limiting Copyright & Patent reform? Laws enabling photographing of police? Refused; while contrary laws benefiting corporate interests are passed with regularity.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
That's what corporations are allowed to do to us. See the Sony vs G.Hotz deal, they could have sued him where the alleged infringement was committed, but instead chose a court thousands of miles away.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
TSA, Homeland Security. Additionally, they don't eat out our substance by way of quartered troops, they do so via increased taxes.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
Just this past month the armed forces declared Julian Asange an enemy of the state. Protip: Only Congress is supposed to be able to do that.
And on the issue of trying to peacefully right the wrongs:
We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity.
Ever tried to get a law changed? We have law making bodies, not law unmaking bodies. Jury Nullification is our defense -- The last jury I was on, the judge tossed all the potential jurors out to get a new batch because we all said we wouldn't be able to make our decision in accordance with the unjust law he quoted -- Thereby removing our only recourse against the unjust rule of law. I followed the case, it took 4 complete jury changes to get 12 people who would uphold that bogus law. Ever gone up against a cop in court? It's a mock trial at best. Very rarely when some truly heinous stuff goes down they'll get a slap on the wrist. Hell, two cops called a wrecker to tow my neighbor's car for being parked the wrong way. I video taped them DROPPING THE CAR on its side, totaling it. Later, the judge refused to ad
I think the post you're replying to has a point. If I've got a "no smoking" sign on my house, and you come over to visit my "everyone's invited barbecue" then you light up a cigarette, the best I can do is ask you to leave. Not manhandle you to the ground, destroy your property, and take away your smokes. Replace the above with "no pictures" -- You show up with a camera, I can ask you to leave, because I don't like cameras, not because it's instantly illegal to take pictures on my property. You might make the rules in your private place, but you don't make the laws.
The police were there at the mall however, so the police alone had the authority to ask the fellow to leave, and respond appropriately. If I called the cops to escort you from my premise, you wouldn't expect me to jump in when they tried to subdue you, right?
It's bullshit that they acted the way they did in response to being photographed. The folks that stand up for the law when the law is unjust are truly fools. Laws are not right just because they're laws; Some are wrong, and need to be changed. The appropriate channels for change don't always work, so what choice have we but to ignore the laws that are oppressive? Rosa Parks broke the law by sitting at the back of a buss; Should she have just obeyed the law and tried to protest later instead? Sometimes you have to break a few bogus laws to get them changed.
What should be surprising to you isn't that people don't like facts about laws that are bogus, what's surprising should be that you're standing up for unjust and oppressive practices. What if it was your kid?
Enjoy your stack thrashing inefficient code. Learn ASM, and compare the code generated by your stated style and the style you're saying not to do.
Sure a compiler is supposed to do all sorts of optimizations to make your preference irrelevant, however, in practice they take a lot more hints from your code than you think.
code style is very important. Yes, we audit code. Yes, it works. We have yet to have gotten hit with a real-world exploit, critical bug or unexpected behavior from garbled input.
Is writing code this way slower and more expensive? Hell yes,
You can still audit code and use a code formatter. You don't write a bullshit script to run a regex on the files, instead you use software that understands the full syntax of the code and can not only reformat the text, but also catch typos as you type them. That way you don't run a compile that's doomed to error out at on syntactical error, like a missing semicolon, or misspelled type name.
Is it faster to write code this way, thus cheaper, and just as capable of being tested and audited? Hell Yes, if you believe in using the right tool for the right job to get more work done in less time, under budget and end up with bigger bonuses and longer vacations. If "code style is very important" then why the fuck aren't you using Automatic formatting? It helps keep the code maintainable, uniform, and more easily auditable. I would agree standardizing on a style guide is a good idea; However, if the coders can save in your project's style, and audit code in their preferred style they'll actually catch more bugs... esp. if they're just getting started with your company.
That you would pass over an applicant that understands it's syntax not spaces that matters, and there are tools to manage the spaces for your syntax, then it's a damn good thing you don't actually sign the checks or higher the applicants.
No. Learn two words instead: Flexibility. Autoreformatting.
Then you can stop worrying so much about the style of the damn code, and get your ideas into the computer without fussing over adhering to your own style. If you hop from one project to the next they'll have a different style guide. You don't worry about it. Configure the autoreformatter to save in their style and display in your preferred style.
Be careful being so consistent that you devolp habits, respond irrationally to change, and become inflexible. Another word for inflexible is Extinct.
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Remember when MS said that machines shipping Windows w/ SecureBoot (UEFI) must NOT have the ability to disable secure boot, or add user defined keys?
I do.
Part of the controversy this time around stems from the revelation that the Microsoft's requirements for ARM-based Windows 8 devices include a mandatory Secure Boot feature, effectively locking down such devices and preventing them from booting non-Windows OSes.
Linus could manage the Linux kernel's git repository from a Windows box. Would it really matter? No: What matters is that he could.
The real solution to this is to go back to 80x25 screens, and better short-term memory. You think I'm joking, but I'm not.
I've been developing my own OS from scratch and right now I'm limiting myself to the 80x25 or 80x50ish modes for the primordial in-OS development environment. I agree that 25 lines is about all I need to see at a time. I could do with a bit more horizontal area, but horizontal scrolling makes up for the lack of columns nicely.
The language I've created to build the OS with runs as either compiled or interpreted code, making it easy to create, test, and add new modules in real-time. To this end I use the upper 25 rows for program output / display, and the lower rows for the debugger and "immediate" mode code editor. It's sort of like a limited tiling WM, or GNU screen-ish interface. I used to develop code in DOS based applications decades ago, and initially thought that modern graphical environments were far better suited to development. Naturally, I thought I'd be really cramped for space but it actually has worked out to be more comfortable in comparison. I've got noticeably less eyestrain than when I do my "day job" work in a modern IDE. It seems that what you say is true: 80x25 rows or so is all one really needs with a scrolling display. However, I supplement my short term memory with the additional pane.
Now reconsidering my stance against using console based editors in favor of IDEs for development on "proper" OSs as well...
If it's dark where you are... Never Look Up.
Sounds like being forced to play Russian roulette...
In Soviet Borderland, Bug Squash You!
You can try and invent imaginary rights and legal rulings to justify drug use, but at the end of the day, it's dumb.
I would need a lot of convincing to understand why the police would need to get PERMISSION to use IR gear in public to find grow houses (as if the IR signature of your house has some kind of right to privacy): they do it all the time in the UK, and only bikers, gangsters, druggies and idiots would have a problem with it.
First off: All Right Are Imaginary. They're fairly arbitrary as well. Fuck your perception of which "rights" others should have. This is about wasting money on pointless witch-hunts to me. I want them to get a permit before they spend my tax money to fly their helicopters at night over my house while they're distracted by thermal imaging. That permit needs to be issued by a judge after considering evidence that warrants the investigation, not green-lighted based on a whim.
Furthermore: Alcohol is a Drug. Now, let's recall Prohibition. The laws against alcohol made it possible for Mobs to make mad cash. When's the last time you bought booze from a gangster? It's not profitable for them to sell it... It doesn't take a brain scientist to figure out that laws against the substances that the general public find acceptable for recreational use create a big problem.
The government doesn't want to end the war on drugs. The War on Terror will never end either. They want the power to do whatever the fuck they want -- Which means turning your country into a Dystopia like the old USSR. See also: Homeland Security & TSA. Blindly trusting your government to use restraint with absolute power is fucking moronic.
The organized crime will do far more damage then any pot smoker anyway.
If the criminals are organized enough we call it a Government. Considering the average Politician's behavior, your statement is still correct.
On the contrary, Java's syntax is no more verbose than C++'s. It's the rich API of which you speak. Ask a C or C++ coder to draw a triangle on the screen. Ooo! I guess that's not what counts. What about a button? Get a single button displayed with OK on it... Hrm. Not so easy using only C or C++, especially considering they have absolutely no graphics API at all included with the language. Hell, I could do this in assembly 20 years ago. Set video mode with int 10, and write data to B800h and beyond. Ah, but direct BIOS interface is gone unless you're making your own OS. Oh, sure, that crap isn't what counts, I AGREE! So what is important? Datastructures, Classes? C and Java aren't much different. Hell, you have to make two files in C++ (header and implementation). What else matters? Elementary math and complexity? That's the same in C and Java.
What you're saying that a student will struggle with is the API, not the language. I put it to you that a student will struggle just as much using the C/C++ standard libs, and even more when trying to do anything that's not included in C or C++, in comparison to Java. In C or C++ you go and select and fiddle with a myriad of APIs for each specific platform, or even peruse amongst all the various different cross platform libraries there are. In Java there's a few well documented ways to do file & network IO (multiple on Win / Lin / Mac) -- List files in a Directory in C or C++, I dare you, There's heavy and Lightweight Graphics APIs in Java (they're well documented and cross platform, unlike Win / Mac / Lin)...
I'm primarily a C and ASM coder by trade, but I know many other languages. I put it to you that anyone who's learned how to use the Java API docs will fit right in on any enterprise coding team with a large existing API.
C++ has a much more bloated syntax than Java -- It's just that you've confused syntax and API.
The comment field is a poor place to write a novel, or place a reference manual. The reference to D&D is in the actual jargon file (reachable by link at the bottom of my prior post). I'm not the author of the passage, though I did inserted video games to reflect recent observations of my own; This particular text is over a decade out of date, you see. File your grievances with Eric S. Raymond.
How do you figure?
Go watch TV. Then come back. We'll talk then........
Back? OK, notice how TV ransoms you shit? Like the news & weather, the plot twist, etc? Much of the web does not do this. Paywalls are going up some places, and other places (like this one) let you pay to be free of the damn ads. Let's say you pay for TV from cable or sat dish provider. They inject local ads into the stream to target you, so even if you pay for the service you have to pay additional to get the few "premium" channels that don't have commercials. Imagine if your ISP were inserting ads into the sites you visit. Some tried, I believe, it was a huge stink and they stopped... settling for DNS redirects (use a different DNS).
TV is only about AV media and only secondarily about information and interactive stuff, but the web isn't, nor are the companies presented. However, I think they do a better job than the old media has. I can barely stand to watch TV at all the commercials are so intrusive in comparison.
An important point: Except in some relatively minor respects such as slang vocabulary, hackers don't get to be the way they are by imitating each other. Rather, it seems to be the case that the combination of personality traits that makes a hacker so conditions one's outlook on life that one tends to end up being like other hackers whether one wants to or not (much as bizarrely detailed similarities in behavior and preferences are found in genetic twins raised separately).
General Appearance
Intelligent. Scruffy. Intense. Abstracted. Surprisingly for a sedentary profession, more hackers run to skinny than fat; both extremes are more common than elsewhere. Tans are rare.
Dress
Hackers dress for comfort, function, and minimal maintenance hassles rather than for appearance (some, perhaps unfortunately, take this to extremes and neglect personal hygiene). They have a very low tolerance of suits and other ‘business’ attire; in fact, it is not uncommon for hackers to quit a job rather than conform to a dress code. When they are somehow backed into conforming to a dress code, they will find ways to subvert it, for example by wearing absurd novelty ties.
Female hackers almost never wear visible makeup, and many use none at all.
Physical Activity and Sports
Many (perhaps even most) hackers don't follow or do sports at all and are determinedly anti-physical. Among those who do, interest in spectator sports is low to non-existent; sports are something one does, not something one watches on TV.
Further, hackers avoid most team sports like the plague. Video games being a notable exception, both in terms of team play and consideration as a sport... Hacker sports are almost always primarily self-competitive ones involving concentration, stamina, and micromotor skills: martial arts, bicycling, auto racing, kite flying, hiking, rock climbing, aviation, target-shooting, sailing, caving, juggling, skiing, skating, skydiving, scuba diving. Hackers' delight in techno-toys also tends to draw them towards hobbies with nifty complicated equipment that they can tinker with.
The popularity of martial arts in the hacker culture deserves special mention. Many observers have noted it, and the connection has grown noticeably stronger over time. In the 1970s, many hackers admired martial arts disciplines from a distance, sensing a compatible ideal in their exaltation of skill through rigorous self-discipline and concentration.
Today, martial arts seems to have become firmly established as the hacker exercise form of choice, and the martial-arts culture combining skill-centered elitism with a willingness to let anybody join seems a stronger parallel to hacker behavior than ever. Common usages in hacker slang un-ironically analogize programming to kung fu (thus, one hears talk of “code-fu” or in reference to specific skills like “HTML-fu”).
Education
Nearly all hackers past their teens are either college-degreed or self-educated to an equivalent level. The self-taught hacker is often considered (at least by other hackers) to be better-motivated, and may be more respected, than his school-shaped counterpart. Academic areas from which people often gravitate into hackerdom include (besides the obvious computer science and electrical engineering) physics, mathematics, linguistics, and philosophy.
Food
Ethnic. Spicy. Oriental, esp. Chinese and most esp. Szechuan, Hunan, and Mandarin (hackers consider Cantonese vaguely déclassé). Hackers prefer the exotic; for example, the Japanese-food fans among them will eat with gusto such delicacies as fugu (poisonous pufferfish) and whale. Thai food has experienced flurries of popularity. Where available, high-quality Jewish delicatessen food is much esteemed. A visible minority of Southwestern and Pacific Coast hackers prefers Mexican.
For those all-night hacks, pizza and microwaved burritos are big. Interestingly, though the mainst
Heck, a nuclear meltdown would be a much bigger problem.
By golly, it'll be even worser if it opens the hell-mouth.
I'm more worried about the storm surge passing over R'lyeh and waking C'thulhu with an ear popping deep sea pressure change. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for the inevitable return, but the last thing we need is a cranky Old One... especially since we're all over his lawn...
So, what if you put in the disk, turn off your PC, boot the disk (which boots the OS and ntfs-3g to r/w save data / install files / etc), and the game plays with no Windows taking up any system resources at all... Turn off the game, reboot the machine into windows. It might even have the option to load the OS & boot loader into a separate partition on the drive so you can dual boot and not need the CD... Would that be cool with you? You know, sort of like an old game console, but better? (just wondering, since I'm making my own OS as a side project)
Yeah, that and if you don't do any sub pixel font drawing, then you can use the same exact code in portrait and landscape. However, if your display can be tilted then the vertical and horizontal sub pixel layout is swapped. Some Pentile displays are designed to be horizontally & vertically agnostic.
MS also has several patents on some sub-pixel rendering tricks, and although MS cross licensed them to Apple, who knows if they did so for their mobile devices? Maybe that's why you even need a high res retina display? To mask the lack of sub-pixel rendering? (can't be troubled to try and find out, ATM)
It's good that the crabs re-use their natural resources as best as they can.
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Your honor, the accused sent us certified mail attesting to the crime of unlawful access to our systems. He is guilty of hacking by his own admission.
You have no idea what idiotic web applications people are running.
You're wrong. I do: It's PHP... The rest of your comment is spot on though.
Just imagine if someone else had photographed this guy being taken down, at which point security would have to go for the person #3 as well... pretty soon you're going to run out of security guards.
No, the security guards would "deputize" some other innocent bystanders, and they would continue tackling the others who pulled out their phones. Eventually you'd run out of people to deputize or pull out phones, and once all that video is uploaded to Youtube it would yield the most infuriatingly accurate Street View ever!
Damn, this is the third time this week I've had to post this:
US Declaration of Independence:
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
And how exactly do you propose to take up our duty to overthrow such oppressive governments? Sticks and Stones? No. That's why the 2nd. exists... There is no clause: "The Guns and Militias must be federally approved, funded and employed."
Also from the USDI -- This is the section near the end where the crimes against us is listed -- Things that should not be tolerated, and a revolution started instead.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
Laws reducing and limiting Copyright & Patent reform? Laws enabling photographing of police? Refused; while contrary laws benefiting corporate interests are passed with regularity.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
That's what corporations are allowed to do to us. See the Sony vs G.Hotz deal, they could have sued him where the alleged infringement was committed, but instead chose a court thousands of miles away.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
Who votes our federal Judges into power? Oh, that's right, they're appointed...
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
TSA, Homeland Security. Additionally, they don't eat out our substance by way of quartered troops, they do so via increased taxes.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
Just this past month the armed forces declared Julian Asange an enemy of the state. Protip: Only Congress is supposed to be able to do that.
And on the issue of trying to peacefully right the wrongs:
We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity.
Ever tried to get a law changed? We have law making bodies, not law unmaking bodies. Jury Nullification is our defense -- The last jury I was on, the judge tossed all the potential jurors out to get a new batch because we all said we wouldn't be able to make our decision in accordance with the unjust law he quoted -- Thereby removing our only recourse against the unjust rule of law. I followed the case, it took 4 complete jury changes to get 12 people who would uphold that bogus law. Ever gone up against a cop in court? It's a mock trial at best. Very rarely when some truly heinous stuff goes down they'll get a slap on the wrist. Hell, two cops called a wrecker to tow my neighbor's car for being parked the wrong way. I video taped them DROPPING THE CAR on its side, totaling it. Later, the judge refused to ad
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I think the post you're replying to has a point. If I've got a "no smoking" sign on my house, and you come over to visit my "everyone's invited barbecue" then you light up a cigarette, the best I can do is ask you to leave. Not manhandle you to the ground, destroy your property, and take away your smokes. Replace the above with "no pictures" -- You show up with a camera, I can ask you to leave, because I don't like cameras, not because it's instantly illegal to take pictures on my property. You might make the rules in your private place, but you don't make the laws.
The police were there at the mall however, so the police alone had the authority to ask the fellow to leave, and respond appropriately. If I called the cops to escort you from my premise, you wouldn't expect me to jump in when they tried to subdue you, right?
It's bullshit that they acted the way they did in response to being photographed. The folks that stand up for the law when the law is unjust are truly fools. Laws are not right just because they're laws; Some are wrong, and need to be changed. The appropriate channels for change don't always work, so what choice have we but to ignore the laws that are oppressive? Rosa Parks broke the law by sitting at the back of a buss; Should she have just obeyed the law and tried to protest later instead? Sometimes you have to break a few bogus laws to get them changed.
What should be surprising to you isn't that people don't like facts about laws that are bogus, what's surprising should be that you're standing up for unjust and oppressive practices. What if it was your kid?
Enjoy your stack thrashing inefficient code. Learn ASM, and compare the code generated by your stated style and the style you're saying not to do.
Sure a compiler is supposed to do all sorts of optimizations to make your preference irrelevant, however, in practice they take a lot more hints from your code than you think.
code style is very important. Yes, we audit code. Yes, it works. We have yet to have gotten hit with a real-world exploit, critical bug or unexpected behavior from garbled input.
Is writing code this way slower and more expensive? Hell yes,
You can still audit code and use a code formatter. You don't write a bullshit script to run a regex on the files, instead you use software that understands the full syntax of the code and can not only reformat the text, but also catch typos as you type them. That way you don't run a compile that's doomed to error out at on syntactical error, like a missing semicolon, or misspelled type name.
Is it faster to write code this way, thus cheaper, and just as capable of being tested and audited? Hell Yes, if you believe in using the right tool for the right job to get more work done in less time, under budget and end up with bigger bonuses and longer vacations. If "code style is very important" then why the fuck aren't you using Automatic formatting? It helps keep the code maintainable, uniform, and more easily auditable. I would agree standardizing on a style guide is a good idea; However, if the coders can save in your project's style, and audit code in their preferred style they'll actually catch more bugs... esp. if they're just getting started with your company.
That you would pass over an applicant that understands it's syntax not spaces that matters, and there are tools to manage the spaces for your syntax, then it's a damn good thing you don't actually sign the checks or higher the applicants.
No. Learn two words instead: Flexibility. Autoreformatting. Then you can stop worrying so much about the style of the damn code, and get your ideas into the computer without fussing over adhering to your own style. If you hop from one project to the next they'll have a different style guide. You don't worry about it. Configure the autoreformatter to save in their style and display in your preferred style.
Be careful being so consistent that you devolp habits, respond irrationally to change, and become inflexible. Another word for inflexible is Extinct.