Absolutely true, and there's simply no getting around it. But pity the poor shlub who "has it" but is working for a customer/end user who doesn't and must therefore submit to lectures and instructions from a complete idiot who seeks to twist and subvert perfectly good art to satisfy his own losery point of view...sounds exactly like working as a developer!
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The internet has well over a petabyte of data in it.
Interestingly as I brought up slashdot just now I got an error that Spybot had blocked it from trying to install spyware on my machine (not that Firefox would have done much about it...)
I work a 25 hour week... I'm damned if I'd *ever* work 100 hours (that's 14 hours a day 7 days a week!). How do you ever have time for home life/fun/hobbies?
What's the point of having stock options if you have no life?
The activation sucks ass. I pay through the nose for MSDN universal... but am only allowed to install XP 10 times in the year - it'll stop allowing me to register after 10 installs. How am I supposed to test things?
(The answer is to run the corpfiles hacked version.. I'm still within the license (as long as I don't have more than 10 installs at once), and it's a lot less hassle).
The situation: Deadline for $500,000 contract in two days. Really hard to find memory leak in the code (only happens when there's >5 simultaneous users so you can't single step it). 3 developers had spend the last week trying to find it.
We'd put in a request for Developer Studio the previous month - the request had to be a 10 page report on why we needed it (heck, it's only $1000!).
I went to the manager. Stated that there was no way we could beat the deadline without some software to help us (it would be hard even with DS, but impossible without it). His response... "There's no money for it. Can't you pirate it?"
Penalties for missing the contract deadline by over a week amounted to over $10,000.
I'm glad I left that place...
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Wow, the roomba is actually real? I assumed it was just a design idea that nobody sane would ever build.
I mean, just what is the point of a motorised vacuum cleaner? It's not *that* hard to push one around a floor...
I doubt it's useful... how is it going to move the furniture out of the way - robotic arms? Does it automatically get out its extension kit and install it when it gets to the corners? Can it climb stairs?
I'm guessing it doesn't do any of these things, which makes it pretty useless...
Huh? Cheap standards based options have been around for years - I run Asterisk (Free,GPL) on my main server and have a couple of Grandstream phones ($50).. you don't actually need to run a server though, just plug the phone directly into ethernet.
Skype's business model is about vendor lockin. It's bizarre as it doesn't offer anything that the standard version doesn't. Their direct dial is quite expensive (although not unusual for VOIP - it's still *far* cheaper to use a cheap analogue dialup for overseas calls than VOIP).
I hope the linksys one is better than tha sipura branded one...
I bought one, and it had a really annoying background hiss - so loud sometimes it was unusable (this is a common problem with the Sipura if you google for it). I RMA'd it, and the tech guy tried to convince me that this was the *first* faulty Sipura they'd ever heard of (yeah, right...).
They shipped me a new one. Within 48 hours smoke started coming out if it and it died. I never bothered RMAing that one - it went straight into the bin.
The 12 months come from the babylonians (who also gave us 360 degrees in a circle). There were originally 360 days in a year, plus 5 days of debauchery which were 'non-days'. The romans tacked those extra days onto other months to even it out (which is why we have 31 days sometimes).
7 days and 12 months is also from out christian heritage (7 and 12 being the sums and products of 3 & 4 - ie. 3(heaven) and 4(earth)).
btw. Apparently they still have 360 day years in Ethiopia... so if you wanna party...
It doesn't return a value from main() which may cause a compiler to do funky things with the stack.
Even worse argc and argv are not passed correctly so the function will be called with more parameters than it accepts.
There's no attempt to determine the status of stdout - if redirected to an offline printer this software would crash.
The users locale settings are not taken into account...neither are the language settings. This is unacceptable in modern software.
The user friendlines of this software leaves a lot to be desired. No errors are reported should the user pass unwanted arguments.. they're simply ignored.
Consideration should be given to the use of a GUI interface.
My #1 feature request - reinstate the find dialog!
I find the new one really annoying:
a) A lot of the time I hit ^F and it doesn't look like anything has happened, so I keep stabbing it until I remember it's in a teeny tiny box at the bottom of the screen now.
b) For some reason it invokes itself sometimes, so I'll need to fill out a form or something and I can't type in the edit box because it keeps doing a find operation. When this happens the only solution is to shut down the browser and bring it up agian - *really* annoyting.
It's clearly a hacker tool. I've always used a mixture of tcpdump and ethereal and never heard of this... can't see that it has any legitimate purpose - you can't analyse packets with it, only break into networks.
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Absolutely true, and there's simply no getting around it. But pity the poor shlub who "has it" but is working for a customer/end user who doesn't and must therefore submit to lectures and instructions from a complete idiot who seeks to twist and subvert perfectly good art to satisfy his own losery point of view. ..sounds exactly like working as a developer!
The internet has well over a petabyte of data in it.
It has far less actual information...
Not at all. If you want to download linux and try to run it without a computer there's nothing stopping you at all. Linux is free.
However if you download IE without previously purchasing a copy of Windows you are breaking the law. IE is not free.
Interestingly as I brought up slashdot just now I got an error that Spybot had blocked it from trying to install spyware on my machine (not that Firefox would have done much about it...)
You're not even safe here!!!
I work a 25 hour week... I'm damned if I'd *ever* work 100 hours (that's 14 hours a day 7 days a week!). How do you ever have time for home life/fun/hobbies?
What's the point of having stock options if you have no life?
The activation sucks ass. I pay through the nose for MSDN universal... but am only allowed to install XP 10 times in the year - it'll stop allowing me to register after 10 installs. How am I supposed to test things?
(The answer is to run the corpfiles hacked version.. I'm still within the license (as long as I don't have more than 10 installs at once), and it's a lot less hassle).
True, but if a customer asks for the source code they must give it.. even if it's unmodified.
Apparently they've been asked for the source and point blank denied that they use asterisk.
And this matters how exactly?
They're still competing businesses. It is in their interests to slashdot their competitor and give them a bad name.
This one company (NuFone) making an accusation about a competitor (SysMaster).
Where's the evidence? Or did slashdot just post this without checking?
Oh, wait... this is slashdot...
I tried that line.
The situation: Deadline for $500,000 contract in two days. Really hard to find memory leak in the code (only happens when there's >5 simultaneous users so you can't single step it). 3 developers had spend the last week trying to find it.
We'd put in a request for Developer Studio the previous month - the request had to be a 10 page report on why we needed it (heck, it's only $1000!).
I went to the manager. Stated that there was no way we could beat the deadline without some software to help us (it would be hard even with DS, but impossible without it). His response... "There's no money for it. Can't you pirate it?"
Penalties for missing the contract deadline by over a week amounted to over $10,000.
I'm glad I left that place...
Wow, the roomba is actually real? I assumed it was just a design idea that nobody sane would ever build.
I mean, just what is the point of a motorised vacuum cleaner? It's not *that* hard to push one around a floor...
I doubt it's useful... how is it going to move the furniture out of the way - robotic arms? Does it automatically get out its extension kit and install it when it gets to the corners? Can it climb stairs?
I'm guessing it doesn't do any of these things, which makes it pretty useless...
Huh? Works fine... always has done.
Huh? Cheap standards based options have been around for years - I run Asterisk (Free,GPL) on my main server and have a couple of Grandstream phones ($50).. you don't actually need to run a server though, just plug the phone directly into ethernet.
Skype's business model is about vendor lockin. It's bizarre as it doesn't offer anything that the standard version doesn't. Their direct dial is quite expensive (although not unusual for VOIP - it's still *far* cheaper to use a cheap analogue dialup for overseas calls than VOIP).
I hope the linksys one is better than tha sipura branded one...
I bought one, and it had a really annoying background hiss - so loud sometimes it was unusable (this is a common problem with the Sipura if you google for it). I RMA'd it, and the tech guy tried to convince me that this was the *first* faulty Sipura they'd ever heard of (yeah, right...).
They shipped me a new one. Within 48 hours smoke started coming out if it and it died. I never bothered RMAing that one - it went straight into the bin.
The 12 months come from the babylonians (who also gave us 360 degrees in a circle). There were originally 360 days in a year, plus 5 days of debauchery which were 'non-days'. The romans tacked those extra days onto other months to even it out (which is why we have 31 days sometimes).
7 days and 12 months is also from out christian heritage (7 and 12 being the sums and products of 3 & 4 - ie. 3(heaven) and 4(earth)).
btw. Apparently they still have 360 day years in Ethiopia... so if you wanna party...
What, so that one user can infect the other 3 users?
:)
When Win64/Itanic usage gets into double figures maybe there'll be a virus
OK:
..neither are the language settings. This is unacceptable in modern software.
It doesn't return a value from main() which may cause a compiler to do funky things with the stack.
Even worse argc and argv are not passed correctly so the function will be called with more parameters than it accepts.
There's no attempt to determine the status of stdout - if redirected to an offline printer this software would crash.
The users locale settings are not taken into account.
The user friendlines of this software leaves a lot to be desired. No errors are reported should the user pass unwanted arguments.. they're simply ignored.
Consideration should be given to the use of a GUI interface.
Unfortunately, that option is broken.
Ctrl+F seems to be broken in that case. It always does 'find as you type' even if that functionality is disabled.
I'm sure 0.9 didn't do this. It's going to make find a real bitch to use.
There's also an http://www.google.com/bsd
it's dead...
You have a configuration problem. Works fine here on firefox 1.0/win32.
It also doesn't take a void argument.
My #1 feature request - reinstate the find dialog!
I find the new one really annoying:
a) A lot of the time I hit ^F and it doesn't look like anything has happened, so I keep stabbing it until I remember it's in a teeny tiny box at the bottom of the screen now.
b) For some reason it invokes itself sometimes, so I'll need to fill out a form or something and I can't type in the edit box because it keeps doing a find operation. When this happens the only solution is to shut down the browser and bring it up agian - *really* annoyting.
It's also not a network protocol analyzer.
It's clearly a hacker tool. I've always used a mixture of tcpdump and ethereal and never heard of this... can't see that it has any legitimate purpose - you can't analyse packets with it, only break into networks.