The advantage of PDF was that it was supposed to be portable. You didn't need Word, or WordPerfect, or whatever. You didn't even need Acrobat Reader as long as you had another file that understood the format. Thus the idea of two formats: the incomprehensible and unstable one from Microsoft, and the documented one based on PostScript if you needed it to be more portable.
I do wish that the PDF readers were read only. And that Adobe Reader only did reading, since it's the free tool. If Adobe wanted an advanced version with signing and user markup and certs then they could have had that version (they do actually), while leaving the basic free version as the "safe" reader.
Compare this to the original idea behind Java - guaranteed security because it was sandboxed and the byte code didn't allow breaking out of it (no overflowing stacks or pointer manipulation). That security did not last very long at all because the sandbox wasn't bullet proof, as well as featuritis creeping in over the years.
PDF was not originally intened to create and edit files. It was presentation only, and it made sense in that format. There are other programs out there to create documents. If you are collaborating, then PDF isn't the right tool anyway, just send word or openoffice docs back and forth, and trust the person you are collaborating with to not stick in malware. PDF is very often used to read in documents from people you don't know, so that the documents are not to be trusted.
The old Acrobat Reader was pretty simple, then after version 7 or 8 it started adding a boatload of pointless features.
In small towns there is a mix. Where there's parallel parking generally there aren't tons of cars as well, so it's easy to find a spot that's easy to park in. Elsewhere in small towns they can afford a wider road to have diagonal parking. In San Francisco there is often parallel parking (on a hill!) and you have to search just to find an open spot. Downtown San Jose is a lot of parallel parking too.
Actually the parking is hard. Parallel parking that is, very difficult for many people to do. Problem is that there's not a lot of training how to do this and only a few places have parallel parking with lots of cars (mostly downtown in big cities). Parallel parking between two parked cars is something I do once a year at the most, so I'm bad at it because of lack of practice. And if I get a new car then I need to learn it again because the dimensions changed.
Well, I'm pretty sure Trump doesn't have any "hero" to his name at all and is in no position to start yet another swiftboating attack on a competitor.
Next up, idiots complain about people who get Purple Heart medals - after all they didn't do anything except fail to get out of the way the bullets, and they'd rather see heros who didn't get shot and who wore their body armor correctly.
The whole point of the "hero" thing is not that they went and did some amazing superhuman feat, but that they went in the first place. You don't have to approve of the wars but the soldiers have put their lives on the line in order to defend others and that gives them hero status all by itself. There aren't a lot of things I agree with McCain about, but if I ever see him I'll give him a salute first thing.
I may be a libtard peacenik deskbound civvie, but if We The People are going to send out soldiers on our behalf then We The People should respect that and support them, no matter what some blowhard draft dodger says in his attack campaign.
The stunning part is that a lot of scientists had conjectured that snakes evolved from aquatic precursors, whereas this specimen is clearly land based.
The trusted source should be the auto service center. Even if you get a trusted over the air source, it should never be trusted unless the owner is involved and actively approves the transaction. Sure, flash a message on the screen first: "warning, the 432nd zero day flaw has been found on this system and an update is available", but don't install the patch without permission from the owner.
The sole reason they want this updates is because of a stupid entertainment system! Screw that, disallow updates over the air for petty shit, and stop designing systems with built in by-design security flaws.
Security is not that hard. What is making it hard comes from trying to keep security in a design that is actively fighting against security. Keeping things simple makes security simple. Trying to allow a system to do everything, including updating your OS over the air or accepting and executing arbitrary code that appears over the air, turns the security into a nightmare task that will never be completely finished.
The key concept is that convenience is the enemy of security, and vice versa. The two do not like to get along. Good security is inherently inconvenient. Sadly, a lot of modern security seems to be the result of patching bandaids on top of bad design choices.
Because Flash doesn't keep things simple. They go out of their way to screw over the user by adding unsafe concept (not just unsafe features). If they make the program so that it can only do presentations then it's a safer product. But instead they want to write files to your computer, hook up to DLLs, allow random byte codes from the internet to control operations that can potentially be unsafe.
It's like the difference between using pure HTML 1.0 where you had nothing but markup and could only do a presentation, versus modern web with javascript, flash, silverlight, activex, and training the user to allow automatic software updates.
It's the same elsewhere. Idiots want their programs to do everything. If it's convenient, then do it, and only luddites would want it differently. Ie, Adobe Reader, a program that *reads*, keeps having to have security patches because that *reader* was changed to do complex crap that no one ever asked for above and beyond just presenting information. They could have left the format completely as a read-only format, lock down the byte codes to be safe, never even link in a function that writes to a file. But no, they screwed the pooch just so that some corporate weenies can sign documents and edit them. Similarly, a web browser should never have been allowed to write any files to your computer, *ever*, unless you explicitly request a download of a file. Nope, can't do that, it's too inconvenient for advertisers therefore we the users have to deal with the security headaches instead.
The issue with automobiles is just an extension of that short term thinking. Some moron with power thinks "hey, we can have java applets sent over DAB, I think we should do this in our vehicles, then we can upgrade their radios with advertising features without requiring the customers to head to a dealership!"
Problem isn't DirecTV itself, it's already better than than any cable company. The problem is with the state of the media companies; crap shows, crap lineups, bundled packages, restrictions on what providers can do with the content, etc.
I actually like the look of Windows 8 desktop (not the tiles though), once you use the registry to shrink the godawful fat border width. I always felt Windows 7 had too much eye candy. Get rid of the fluff and present only the important stuff. Even OSX has gone this way with Yosemite (though maybe it went a bit too far).
Live tiles are great on a phone (and a Windows Phone actually has a surprisingly good UI). They're not so useful on a computer though. They keep trying to push this sort of idea in Windows, with gadgets or active desktop, but it's never caught on. Live tiles are great for a tool that you look at only briefly just to see what's new, it's not so useful on a device that you sit in front of for hours. Besides the tiles do nothing that the web can't do.
No, it is about equal opportunity and equal end game. However that means men will *lose* some of their current state of privilege which infuriates some of those men. When women no longer have to work harder than men just to get to the same place then it will be equal, and we're nowhere near that place today.
I think they've got a secret backdoor network where they communicate with themselves. The outside world is baffled when they talk to each other in code yet they seem to understand each other. They say "SJW" and agree upon the meaning of it and agree on the concept that it's somehow bad; they agree that "gamergate" was not about women or doxxing at all but only about the miniscule problem of some journalists in game websites being biased; the instantly show up whenever certain names are mentioned like those names are on a master hit-list somewhere. It really is like a group of conspiracy theory nuts.
People have been accusing feminism of things it isn't since the word was first invented. Using things like feminazi just brands them as lunatics (a Rush Limbaugh classic trolling joke that some people took seriously).
Can you prove you're a developer? I guess not, since anonymous cowards refused to disclose the code and is only on slashdot for political purposes.
Get real. 99% of modern gaming devs aren't really doing development anyway, few people write the gaming engines anymore, so most gaming devs are really just scripting or creating graphics/animation/sounds. When you can got a working game done in a "hackathon" over a weekend then you know they're not really doing coding anymore. So why accuse Brianna of this when this is the way of the entire industry? Why is she the evil one who must be exposed by the crusading gamergate basement dwellers?
You're assuming she's done something wrong. You seriously think she's going to say "yup, the morons behind gamergate were right, abuse of women is a good thing because they shouldn't be in gaming, and I'm only doing this for the lulz"?
Good, we're tired of you bringing up your jihad against SJW every chance you get. Reddit used to have places for you, not sure where you can go now though.
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The company should fork over some money if the workers have to invest in an entirely new wardrobe.
Who gives a shirt?
The advantage of PDF was that it was supposed to be portable. You didn't need Word, or WordPerfect, or whatever. You didn't even need Acrobat Reader as long as you had another file that understood the format. Thus the idea of two formats: the incomprehensible and unstable one from Microsoft, and the documented one based on PostScript if you needed it to be more portable.
I do wish that the PDF readers were read only. And that Adobe Reader only did reading, since it's the free tool. If Adobe wanted an advanced version with signing and user markup and certs then they could have had that version (they do actually), while leaving the basic free version as the "safe" reader.
Compare this to the original idea behind Java - guaranteed security because it was sandboxed and the byte code didn't allow breaking out of it (no overflowing stacks or pointer manipulation). That security did not last very long at all because the sandbox wasn't bullet proof, as well as featuritis creeping in over the years.
PDF was not originally intened to create and edit files. It was presentation only, and it made sense in that format. There are other programs out there to create documents. If you are collaborating, then PDF isn't the right tool anyway, just send word or openoffice docs back and forth, and trust the person you are collaborating with to not stick in malware. PDF is very often used to read in documents from people you don't know, so that the documents are not to be trusted.
The old Acrobat Reader was pretty simple, then after version 7 or 8 it started adding a boatload of pointless features.
In small towns there is a mix. Where there's parallel parking generally there aren't tons of cars as well, so it's easy to find a spot that's easy to park in. Elsewhere in small towns they can afford a wider road to have diagonal parking. In San Francisco there is often parallel parking (on a hill!) and you have to search just to find an open spot. Downtown San Jose is a lot of parallel parking too.
Actually the parking is hard. Parallel parking that is, very difficult for many people to do. Problem is that there's not a lot of training how to do this and only a few places have parallel parking with lots of cars (mostly downtown in big cities). Parallel parking between two parked cars is something I do once a year at the most, so I'm bad at it because of lack of practice. And if I get a new car then I need to learn it again because the dimensions changed.
Well, I'm pretty sure Trump doesn't have any "hero" to his name at all and is in no position to start yet another swiftboating attack on a competitor.
Next up, idiots complain about people who get Purple Heart medals - after all they didn't do anything except fail to get out of the way the bullets, and they'd rather see heros who didn't get shot and who wore their body armor correctly.
The whole point of the "hero" thing is not that they went and did some amazing superhuman feat, but that they went in the first place. You don't have to approve of the wars but the soldiers have put their lives on the line in order to defend others and that gives them hero status all by itself. There aren't a lot of things I agree with McCain about, but if I ever see him I'll give him a salute first thing.
I may be a libtard peacenik deskbound civvie, but if We The People are going to send out soldiers on our behalf then We The People should respect that and support them, no matter what some blowhard draft dodger says in his attack campaign.
The stunning part is that a lot of scientists had conjectured that snakes evolved from aquatic precursors, whereas this specimen is clearly land based.
The trusted source should be the auto service center. Even if you get a trusted over the air source, it should never be trusted unless the owner is involved and actively approves the transaction. Sure, flash a message on the screen first: "warning, the 432nd zero day flaw has been found on this system and an update is available", but don't install the patch without permission from the owner.
The sole reason they want this updates is because of a stupid entertainment system! Screw that, disallow updates over the air for petty shit, and stop designing systems with built in by-design security flaws.
Security is not that hard. What is making it hard comes from trying to keep security in a design that is actively fighting against security. Keeping things simple makes security simple. Trying to allow a system to do everything, including updating your OS over the air or accepting and executing arbitrary code that appears over the air, turns the security into a nightmare task that will never be completely finished.
The key concept is that convenience is the enemy of security, and vice versa. The two do not like to get along. Good security is inherently inconvenient. Sadly, a lot of modern security seems to be the result of patching bandaids on top of bad design choices.
Because Flash doesn't keep things simple. They go out of their way to screw over the user by adding unsafe concept (not just unsafe features). If they make the program so that it can only do presentations then it's a safer product. But instead they want to write files to your computer, hook up to DLLs, allow random byte codes from the internet to control operations that can potentially be unsafe.
It's like the difference between using pure HTML 1.0 where you had nothing but markup and could only do a presentation, versus modern web with javascript, flash, silverlight, activex, and training the user to allow automatic software updates.
It's the same elsewhere. Idiots want their programs to do everything. If it's convenient, then do it, and only luddites would want it differently. Ie, Adobe Reader, a program that *reads*, keeps having to have security patches because that *reader* was changed to do complex crap that no one ever asked for above and beyond just presenting information. They could have left the format completely as a read-only format, lock down the byte codes to be safe, never even link in a function that writes to a file. But no, they screwed the pooch just so that some corporate weenies can sign documents and edit them. Similarly, a web browser should never have been allowed to write any files to your computer, *ever*, unless you explicitly request a download of a file. Nope, can't do that, it's too inconvenient for advertisers therefore we the users have to deal with the security headaches instead.
The issue with automobiles is just an extension of that short term thinking. Some moron with power thinks "hey, we can have java applets sent over DAB, I think we should do this in our vehicles, then we can upgrade their radios with advertising features without requiring the customers to head to a dealership!"
Problem isn't DirecTV itself, it's already better than than any cable company. The problem is with the state of the media companies; crap shows, crap lineups, bundled packages, restrictions on what providers can do with the content, etc.
Why not? The FCC could disallow the whole deal instead if the parties don't agree.
I was talking about the Windows 8 *desktop*, not the metro stuff.
I'd rather see people paid based on the skills and experience they use on the job, rather than their negotiation skills or chutzpah.
Infringement is People! -- Charlton Heston
I actually like the look of Windows 8 desktop (not the tiles though), once you use the registry to shrink the godawful fat border width. I always felt Windows 7 had too much eye candy. Get rid of the fluff and present only the important stuff. Even OSX has gone this way with Yosemite (though maybe it went a bit too far).
Live tiles are great on a phone (and a Windows Phone actually has a surprisingly good UI). They're not so useful on a computer though. They keep trying to push this sort of idea in Windows, with gadgets or active desktop, but it's never caught on. Live tiles are great for a tool that you look at only briefly just to see what's new, it's not so useful on a device that you sit in front of for hours. Besides the tiles do nothing that the web can't do.
No, it is about equal opportunity and equal end game. However that means men will *lose* some of their current state of privilege which infuriates some of those men. When women no longer have to work harder than men just to get to the same place then it will be equal, and we're nowhere near that place today.
I think they've got a secret backdoor network where they communicate with themselves. The outside world is baffled when they talk to each other in code yet they seem to understand each other. They say "SJW" and agree upon the meaning of it and agree on the concept that it's somehow bad; they agree that "gamergate" was not about women or doxxing at all but only about the miniscule problem of some journalists in game websites being biased; the instantly show up whenever certain names are mentioned like those names are on a master hit-list somewhere. It really is like a group of conspiracy theory nuts.
People have been accusing feminism of things it isn't since the word was first invented. Using things like feminazi just brands them as lunatics (a Rush Limbaugh classic trolling joke that some people took seriously).
Can you prove you're a developer? I guess not, since anonymous cowards refused to disclose the code and is only on slashdot for political purposes.
Get real. 99% of modern gaming devs aren't really doing development anyway, few people write the gaming engines anymore, so most gaming devs are really just scripting or creating graphics/animation/sounds. When you can got a working game done in a "hackathon" over a weekend then you know they're not really doing coding anymore. So why accuse Brianna of this when this is the way of the entire industry? Why is she the evil one who must be exposed by the crusading gamergate basement dwellers?
You're assuming she's done something wrong. You seriously think she's going to say "yup, the morons behind gamergate were right, abuse of women is a good thing because they shouldn't be in gaming, and I'm only doing this for the lulz"?
Are you still mimeographing your newsletter? I'd like a copy.
Good, we're tired of you bringing up your jihad against SJW every chance you get. Reddit used to have places for you, not sure where you can go now though.