It's been a while since I've seen one that was so badly coded it was IE only. Online businesses are starting to give a crap instead of giving the job to the first spotty teenager to offer to do a website for them, as was common a couple of years ago.
There are some exceptions.... odeon.co.uk is still coded by retarded monkeys (but at least they've done a text-only version of their site now.. that looks bl$$dy awful).
Here's another idea: keyboards support at least 10 times as much business. For every man-hour involving a web browser, there are some 10 man-hours somewhere involving a local program. Yet you don't see Logitech-fanboys-vs-Cherry-fanboys flamewars, do you?
You've not read the dvorak articles on here have you?
My wife plays FFXI a lot and was complaining about framrates in busy scenes (50 or so people, water, half a dozen mobs.. where it's critical she gets fast response)... had to get her a 6800GT before we got a card fast enough to cope (£250.. ~$450). The cheaper cards dropped out completely under that kind of pressure.
That's on a game a year or two old. I'd hate to think what a modern game would need.. probably could bury a GTX.
Most mobile phone companies already do this around here.
My phone has a menu in it that tells me what where I am, and where my nearest shops are (bank, petrol station, police station.. the kind of stuff you're likely to want in an unfamiliar city).
My mobile phone already tells me where my nearest coffee shop is. And bank, petrol station, police station, etc.
Why would I need an *extra* device which is much more innacurate (APs don't stay the same nearly enough for this kind of data), and probably costs more too.
There's an open mailing list and bugs get squished relatively quickly. The guy who runs it is a techie and just wants to get software out there... no sign of the marketing department (yet).
Fat binaries don't make a lot of sense except in limited circumstances, since they won't run on OSX 10.3.x (gcc library incompatibility rather than OS related).
What we'll do is ship two separate packages until the demand for PPC drops off in a couple of years.
G5 is a dying platform *now*.. it's end of line.. I'm waiting for it to go bargain bucket and I might get one for fun, but it'd be insane to pay full price for a machine that'll be obsolete in 9-12 months.
XCode 2.1 can make them OK, but only for OSX 10.4+, not OSX 10.3.x (they updated gcc for 10.4, so it requires some shared libraries that don't exist on 10.3), so you end up having to ship two versions anyway... might as well parallel develop X86/PPC rather than 10.3.x/10.4 as users are more likely to know what processor they've got rather than which OS version.
They're twice as big (obviously) which increases download times/bandwidth costs (which can be quite significant).
For some reason XCode 2.1 can't compile ppc64 any more.. there are errors in the header files and apps won't build (of course if you did that you could end up with a universal binary that's 3 times the size of the original file!!).
btw. Universal binaries have nothing to do with directories (that bundling only happens on a specific class of app - anything remotely complex uses a proper install script).
I hope they do it properly and *not* take any notice of GNOME.. thinks like being unable to cancel a lot of actions because the cancel button was deemed to be 'too complex' by the usability expert... hiding all the useful options so you can't configure the damned thing any more, making every single app have its own font/style settings instead of a global one.. not to mention putting the OK/Cancel buttons the wrong way around for the sole reason that it's 'different to microsoft'.
4 digit pin.. any twit can watch you type 4 digits and memorize it. Why not 10? 20? A wasted opportunity to increase security IMO.
The terminals that the retailers use have *no* attempt at security (hand covers etc.) so the above becomes not only possible but likely.
Also, You're typing in public the same PIN that gives you ATM access to your entire bank account - and may of the standalone ATMs do *not* verify using the smartcard, meaning that duplication is more likely not less.
Plus the change in the rules that means if someone gets your pin *you* are liable even if it's clear someone has stolen/duplicated the card. This is the real reason they push Chip/Pin.
Also, If someone gets your card they don't even *need* the pin. Just try telling the cashier that you don't know your pin number.. they'll put it through as a normal transaction without even blinking.
As for the elderly/disabled. It's a legal requirement that banks and CC companies supply non chip/pin cards on demand, and hopefully charities involved with such people have got the message out (this goes for everyone, btw. you don't have to qualify for it - just ask your bank for a 'signature only' card).
Footnote: Fraud has gone *up* by 20% since the introduction of chip and pin.
PIN is a nice idea but 4 digits? And those horribly insecure pads that everyone in the store can see?
PIN needs:
1. Random length up to 10-15 digits. 2. Some attempt at security on the retailers' readers! 3. Your pin for ATM/Cash should be different to your pin for purchases, and both should be easily changable if I'm bothered about the security of a recent purchase.
Their current system is *worse* than signature, because the an observant theif can have your 4 digit pin and card very easily in a crowded shop.. once they have that they have *proof* that they are you.
And the rub in the UK is they changed the contract terms so that if someone gets your PIN *you* are liable, not the shop or the CC company. If someone fakes a signature the merchant is liable.
For this reason when asked for a pin I just say "I don't know it" and do it the signature way (this is another reason why PIN doesn't increase security - it's damned easy to bypass by claiming you don't know it!).
They didn't include a handy link to the banks' website to login did they....
(I don't even trust it when my bank phones me. I ask for their department/name and phone the bank back on their registered number. Occasionally the bank clerk has got pissy with me about that, but most of them are quite happy to go through the extra security check).
Certainly wouldn't be allowed over here (it's illegal to pass on such data without explicit permission, and even then the DPR can turn around an fine you if you had no legitimate use for the data in the first place).
Replicator usage is rationed. It's used as a punishment for minor misdemenours. Money exists (latinum).
Trek *is* big government. It's big *military* government - a galaxy ruled over by a rigid military structure. You replaced the social class with military rank. It's 'benevolent' but only to those societies that swallow its ideology whole. It also has this view that it can do no wrong, despite having its own 'black ops' people as an open secret... not unlike certain governements in this century in fact (ST was always part political commentary).
Religion is everywhere in the Trek universe, just not on earth. It's even given some scientific basis (wormhole aliens?).
People *do* get pissed on in Trek, but you probably don't notice... the low level types who probably have few rations and work long hours cleaning jeffries tubes and stuff. What about those that work in the dilithium mines? All societies have their manual workers.. they're needed (the only sf that addressed this was the Asimov robot series, where they essentially did all the crappy work).
Human society is all alike.. the forms change, our definition of 'crapped on' changes, but the society remains the same. Humans are fundamentally self centred.. sure, capable of benevolence but in a society where you did try to eliminate class, money, etc. you'd just end up with people taking advantage of it.. try reading Animal Farm sometime.
reparse points are actually hard links not symlinks (and the default win32 implementation only allows them on directories).
cygwin does a reasonable symlink implementation, but it's not available to the wider OS. It *should* be possible, using an IFS filter driver, but nobody's written one.
Last place I was at they had some people come over from across the pond and they insisted the must use blackberies (we'd been mostly using the SPV with a couple of Treos at that point). We'd never heard of them up to that point.. after working out how much it would cost to implement a dedicated server, integrate it with the exchange server, plus pay for the phones (they were only available on import.. this is a little while ago.. you can get them on standard mobile phone tariffs now I believe) we ditched the idea.
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For the cost of esx server it's cheaper to buy 3 or 4 machines...
"Used to".
It's been a while since I've seen one that was so badly coded it was IE only. Online businesses are starting to give a crap instead of giving the job to the first spotty teenager to offer to do a website for them, as was common a couple of years ago.
There are some exceptions.... odeon.co.uk is still coded by retarded monkeys (but at least they've done a text-only version of their site now.. that looks bl$$dy awful).
Here's another idea: keyboards support at least 10 times as much business. For every man-hour involving a web browser, there are some 10 man-hours somewhere involving a local program. Yet you don't see Logitech-fanboys-vs-Cherry-fanboys flamewars, do you?
You've not read the dvorak articles on here have you?
You have to, with the some games.
My wife plays FFXI a lot and was complaining about framrates in busy scenes (50 or so people, water, half a dozen mobs.. where it's critical she gets fast response)... had to get her a 6800GT before we got a card fast enough to cope (£250.. ~$450). The cheaper cards dropped out completely under that kind of pressure.
That's on a game a year or two old. I'd hate to think what a modern game would need.. probably could bury a GTX.
Most mobile phone companies already do this around here.
My phone has a menu in it that tells me what where I am, and where my nearest shops are (bank, petrol station, police station.. the kind of stuff you're likely to want in an unfamiliar city).
My mobile phone already tells me where my nearest coffee shop is. And bank, petrol station, police station, etc.
Why would I need an *extra* device which is much more innacurate (APs don't stay the same nearly enough for this kind of data), and probably costs more too.
Sounds optimistic...
Let's say I'm within range of 50 access points all called 'Netgear'.
Where am I?
Wix is really nice, actually.
There's an open mailing list and bugs get squished relatively quickly. The guy who runs it is a techie and just wants to get software out there... no sign of the marketing department (yet).
Fat binaries don't make a lot of sense except in limited circumstances, since they won't run on OSX 10.3.x (gcc library incompatibility rather than OS related).
What we'll do is ship two separate packages until the demand for PPC drops off in a couple of years.
G5 is a dying platform *now*.. it's end of line.. I'm waiting for it to go bargain bucket and I might get one for fun, but it'd be insane to pay full price for a machine that'll be obsolete in 9-12 months.
Universal binaries are a bit funny..
XCode 2.1 can make them OK, but only for OSX 10.4+, not OSX 10.3.x (they updated gcc for 10.4, so it requires some shared libraries that don't exist on 10.3), so you end up having to ship two versions anyway... might as well parallel develop X86/PPC rather than 10.3.x/10.4 as users are more likely to know what processor they've got rather than which OS version.
They're twice as big (obviously) which increases download times/bandwidth costs (which can be quite significant).
For some reason XCode 2.1 can't compile ppc64 any more.. there are errors in the header files and apps won't build (of course if you did that you could end up with a universal binary that's 3 times the size of the original file!!).
btw. Universal binaries have nothing to do with directories (that bundling only happens on a specific class of app - anything remotely complex uses a proper install script).
I hope they do it properly and *not* take any notice of GNOME.. thinks like being unable to cancel a lot of actions because the cancel button was deemed to be 'too complex' by the usability expert... hiding all the useful options so you can't configure the damned thing any more, making every single app have its own font/style settings instead of a global one.. not to mention putting the OK/Cancel buttons the wrong way around for the sole reason that it's 'different to microsoft'.
Another thing that criminals do.. break the smartcard. The readers are hardcoded to drop to signature mode if the smarcard isn't responding.
Nope.
4 digit pin.. any twit can watch you type 4 digits and memorize it. Why not 10? 20? A wasted opportunity to increase security IMO.
The terminals that the retailers use have *no* attempt at security (hand covers etc.) so the above becomes not only possible but likely.
Also, You're typing in public the same PIN that gives you ATM access to your entire bank account - and may of the standalone ATMs do *not* verify using the smartcard, meaning that duplication is more likely not less.
Plus the change in the rules that means if someone gets your pin *you* are liable even if it's clear someone has stolen/duplicated the card. This is the real reason they push Chip/Pin.
Also, If someone gets your card they don't even *need* the pin. Just try telling the cashier that you don't know your pin number.. they'll put it through as a normal transaction without even blinking.
As for the elderly/disabled. It's a legal requirement that banks and CC companies supply non chip/pin cards on demand, and hopefully charities involved with such people have got the message out (this goes for everyone, btw. you don't have to qualify for it - just ask your bank for a 'signature only' card).
Footnote: Fraud has gone *up* by 20% since the introduction of chip and pin.
PIN is a nice idea but 4 digits? And those horribly insecure pads that everyone in the store can see?
PIN needs:
1. Random length up to 10-15 digits.
2. Some attempt at security on the retailers' readers!
3. Your pin for ATM/Cash should be different to your pin for purchases, and both should be easily changable if I'm bothered about the security of a recent purchase.
Their current system is *worse* than signature, because the an observant theif can have your 4 digit pin and card very easily in a crowded shop.. once they have that they have *proof* that they are you.
And the rub in the UK is they changed the contract terms so that if someone gets your PIN *you* are liable, not the shop or the CC company. If someone fakes a signature the merchant is liable.
For this reason when asked for a pin I just say "I don't know it" and do it the signature way (this is another reason why PIN doesn't increase security - it's damned easy to bypass by claiming you don't know it!).
Your bank *emailed*?
They didn't include a handy link to the banks' website to login did they....
(I don't even trust it when my bank phones me. I ask for their department/name and phone the bank back on their registered number. Occasionally the bank clerk has got pissy with me about that, but most of them are quite happy to go through the extra security check).
I'd expect that to be illegal under privacy laws.
Certainly wouldn't be allowed over here (it's illegal to pass on such data without explicit permission, and even then the DPR can turn around an fine you if you had no legitimate use for the data in the first place).
*All* of them?
Wake me when lions & lambs start shacking up together and trees start clapping their hands.
Should make good TV....
non-standard.. hmm...
Transparent Aluminium?
Some particles have their entire existence faster than light.
You can't *see* something go faster than light, by definition (duh!).
Quantum tunnelling is FTL, but nobody knows why/how yet.
Except trek does *not* have these things.
Replicator usage is rationed. It's used as a punishment for minor misdemenours. Money exists (latinum).
Trek *is* big government. It's big *military* government - a galaxy ruled over by a rigid military structure. You replaced the social class with military rank. It's 'benevolent' but only to those societies that swallow its ideology whole. It also has this view that it can do no wrong, despite having its own 'black ops' people as an open secret... not unlike certain governements in this century in fact (ST was always part political commentary).
Religion is everywhere in the Trek universe, just not on earth. It's even given some scientific basis (wormhole aliens?).
People *do* get pissed on in Trek, but you probably don't notice... the low level types who probably have few rations and work long hours cleaning jeffries tubes and stuff. What about those that work in the dilithium mines? All societies have their manual workers.. they're needed (the only sf that addressed this was the Asimov robot series, where they essentially did all the crappy work).
Human society is all alike.. the forms change, our definition of 'crapped on' changes, but the society remains the same. Humans are fundamentally self centred.. sure, capable of benevolence but in a society where you did try to eliminate class, money, etc. you'd just end up with people taking advantage of it.. try reading Animal Farm sometime.
That haven't though... replicator rations, gold pressed latinum....
It's impossible to have a society without money. It might take the form of sheep, pigs, little green pieces of paper, Ningi, Pu, whetever.
That's just a cmd.exe (and explorer.exe) limitation.
The NT kernel fixed the backslash brokenness years ago.
reparse points are actually hard links not symlinks (and the default win32 implementation only allows them on directories).
cygwin does a reasonable symlink implementation, but it's not available to the wider OS. It *should* be possible, using an IFS filter driver, but nobody's written one.
Presumably it's US growth not worldwide growth.
Last place I was at they had some people come over from across the pond and they insisted the must use blackberies (we'd been mostly using the SPV with a couple of Treos at that point). We'd never heard of them up to that point.. after working out how much it would cost to implement a dedicated server, integrate it with the exchange server, plus pay for the phones (they were only available on import.. this is a little while ago.. you can get them on standard mobile phone tariffs now I believe) we ditched the idea.
So contribute already... there's no entrance exam you know.
Would it really hurt to participate in an opensource project and *not* get paid???