EU was trash, and I'm glad they unceremoniously flung it off the cliff. The Clone Wars is shit, though, and now it's "officially" canon, as are the new books, the new milk-it-harder spinoff, the upcoming live action shit, etc. etc.
Disney Star Wars is pretty awful. TFA was a terrible story that did nothing original. And they're hard at work milking the shit out of it. It used to be such that I could ignore the spinoff shit and only watch the films, but it seems like the new spinoffs will bleed into the films, and if you want to know what's going or who the fuck that guy is you need to be aware of the spinoff shit.
Lucas Star Wars was good despite his attempts to make it worse and worse as time went on. Doing a complete rewatch before TFA, I hated much of the prequels. But they at least felt like they fit in the storyline and in the universe. TFA didn't - it was as cheap and lazy plot-wise as Jurassic Park, Rocky Balboa, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the new Star Treks, etc. TFA felt like fanfiction.
I call these things deboots. Plot-wise and character-wise they're basically reboots, creatively they're basically remakes, but officially they're new, original sequels.
The Constitution explicitly applies to things that didn't exist at the time of its writing, and the language was expressly crafted to include future changes in society, technology, etc.
Gravel and sand are harder than pedestrians and impact cars very frequently, typically at much faster velocities. Have you never driven behind a truck?
I know the relevant chemical properties of every material used to coat the exterior of cars. Hint: They weather. It stands to reason any material designed to VERY rapidly change or break down upon impact would weather more quickly.
Any material effective for the stated purpose would be stripped away quite rapidly. This is a pie-in-the-sky patent for a dumb idea.
For any given application it's consistent, including your web browser. Learn to use your tools.
Some shitty sites may behave differently by hijacking your keypresses, but that's just another reason to disable javascript trash by default. Same goes for shitty sites that hijack the context menu (right click).
You're literally complaining about trying to input data after switching contexts without checking to see what context you've switched to.
Why would you have to check? The cursor is literally right there, where you're looking, as you type. Further, I don't use a laptop or a trackpad, because I value my ability to get shit done.
You don't get to complain about time lost inputting data when you chose a fucking laptop keyboard and trackpad to input that data.
It's like showing up to work late because you chose to commute on a pogo stick, then blaming the stairs for letting you go up or down them depending on how you lean, and you lean back 2 times for every 3 times you lean forward.
Not when every select element has javascript bound to it that changes other shit on the page. Get real. You can't logically fight against backspace doing different things in different contexts without also fighting against just about every other damned key on the keyboard.
As far as I know every browser other than Chrome remembers it unless there's some especially shitty javascript on the page that fucks it up. The fact that this is a problem in Chrome is news to me, but it doesn't surprise me.
You don't have to suffer because we can't figure something out. You have to suffer because you're a dumbass who is hitting keys before knowing what your context/focus is.
The only browser that DOESN'T do this is Chrome. FF, PaleMoon, and IE11 all do it as far as I can tell. Some pages with shitty javascript can fuck it up, but this is a standard fucking feature.
So you'll just let us know when you have solved this incredibly easy problem, then? It seems you know quite a bit about HTTP, HTML/5, JS, CSS, browsers and UI design. More than me obviously, because I cannot imagine just how the fuck you would store every form value, JS variable, DHTML element state, dynamically loaded resource and HTML5 local store content perfectly back to their original states. What do I know though, I'm just an idiot developer.
Well, the tab has a state. Before navigation, store that state. Upon returning to that page in the history, restore that state. Chrome certainly has enough RAM to do this. A single GMail tab gives me 8 chrome.exe processes (32-bit, of course) and eats up half a gig of memory. In many cases, FF, PaleMoon, and IE DO restore form fields when navigating back and forth.
I'm laying the blame at Microsoft's door. They also decided that the Enter key should submit a form as apparently tabbing to the submit button and *then* pressing Enter was really hard for the retards in the focus group. This causes even more issues than backspace as it is easy to have a partially completed form submitting when you didn't expect it to because (again) you weren't in a form input. Then the site grumbles at you for not filling in all the required fields...
Why in the hell would you hit Enter when you're not in a text field? Do you just randomly paw at the keys?
This is not a problem and it does not violate any "UI principles".
When you are editing text, backspace edits text. When you are not editing text, backspace takes you back.
Are you going to claim that hitting U a time or two to get to "United States" on a drop down is violating "UI principles" because it behaves differently from hitting U in a text field?
Or the car was washed. Or the sky did that thing where water fell out of it. Or the sun hood got hot and cooked it away.
Any coating thin enough to GTFO upon impact with a person quickly and effectively enough for an underlying adhesive to garb and hold them against the force of the impact isn't going to last long in normal conditions.
You don't need to stretch when the numbers already fit.
Complaint: Men are rating down "women's" shows!!! Response: Men rate shows they don't like poorly, and rate shows they like highly. What's the problem?
Complaint: But men are rating down OUR shows!!! Response: Men and women can watch and rate the same shows.
Complaint: But women aren't watching "men's" shows and rating them poorly!!! Response: Maybe that's because they aren't watching them, and don't care to rate them.
Complaint: But men ARE watching "women's" shows and rating them poorly! Response: You keep talking about "women's" shows, but you can't list any that have a 90% female viewership share to establish that they are "women's" shows. All the while you are comparing these shows, and the demographics of those who rate them, to your self-defined "men's" shows which DO have 90% male viewership.
Looks like someone managed to get something on the plane.
I wonder how much "Allah Akbar"ing was going on ?
Given recent events, terrorism does in fact seem like the most likely hypothesis.
However, regarding your slur of the "Religion of Peace"... who do you blame for the IRA's terrorism? Christians? Catholics? Irish Catholics? Or just the IRA and their supporters?
Why blame the IRA? Any sane individual would support their goal. If you're mad about the violence, which wasn't their goal, note that they didn't like it either - they called ahead to get people out. And it was the Brits that left them with no option to try to achieve their goal other than violence.
Who do you blame for the Yankee's terrorism against their King and Country?
You guys know about WSUS Offline Update, don't you? Download all the patches and install them offline. Much quicker than letting Windows download them piecemeal (and obviously can be used to update machines that don't have a fast internet connection).
You know that this doesn't work, right? The offline servicing model can't patch certain things, and it doesn't know which it can't patch. For example, certain updates that require a reboot cannot be patched together via offline servicing. You have to install one set of updates, then process the next. It's on YOU to figure out which ones conflict.
Certain updates cannot be applied via offline servicing at all.
Other updates won't be detected as necessary until other updates are installed, such as those for later versions of IE or WMP. If you process an IE11 update before processing the update that installs IE11 itself, the IE11 update will never be applied unless you specifically know to reprocess it. If you are trying to build a clean image offline, your shit still needs to be updated the instant you boot it and install Office WhateverYearItIs.
The ONLY way to handle building a clean Windows image is to use a VM with Windows installed and booted into System Audit mode, then patched each Patch Tuesday. If you want to DEPLOY this image (actually use it), you need to snapshot your VM, then run Sysprep with the Shutdown and Generalize options. Then you have a VM ready to be captured via boot media, PXE, or whatever. THEN you roll back your snapshot to undo the Sysprep, Generalize step, which subtracts 1 from your rearm counter. If you don't do this, you're fucked after the third time. There's a way to blow out chunks of the registry via the command line if you boot to the system recovery console, and you can reset the Rearm counter, but as of January 2016 this doesn't actually fix the issues with deploying and authenticating Windows 7 from that image. I don't know what else MS added to detect tampering to the rearm counter, but it wasn't worth my time to figure it out. I am now resigned to maintaining and coddling a Windows 7 image in a VM because MS is shit.
Random number generators are notoriously pointless to test.
You know they're not actually random (I'm with Einstein on this one). "7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,..." is just as "random" as any other sequence.
People need to shut the fuck up about random numbers because they don't want random numbers. They want uniformly distributed numbers that don't fit any easily-identifiable pattern.
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EU was trash, and I'm glad they unceremoniously flung it off the cliff.
The Clone Wars is shit, though, and now it's "officially" canon, as are the new books, the new milk-it-harder spinoff, the upcoming live action shit, etc. etc.
Disney Star Wars is pretty awful. TFA was a terrible story that did nothing original. And they're hard at work milking the shit out of it. It used to be such that I could ignore the spinoff shit and only watch the films, but it seems like the new spinoffs will bleed into the films, and if you want to know what's going or who the fuck that guy is you need to be aware of the spinoff shit.
Lucas Star Wars was good despite his attempts to make it worse and worse as time went on. Doing a complete rewatch before TFA, I hated much of the prequels. But they at least felt like they fit in the storyline and in the universe. TFA didn't - it was as cheap and lazy plot-wise as Jurassic Park, Rocky Balboa, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the new Star Treks, etc. TFA felt like fanfiction.
I call these things deboots. Plot-wise and character-wise they're basically reboots, creatively they're basically remakes, but officially they're new, original sequels.
The Constitution explicitly applies to things that didn't exist at the time of its writing, and the language was expressly crafted to include future changes in society, technology, etc.
Nah, I've just driven on a freeway before.
Gravel and sand are harder than pedestrians and impact cars very frequently, typically at much faster velocities.
Have you never driven behind a truck?
I know the relevant chemical properties of every material used to coat the exterior of cars. Hint: They weather.
It stands to reason any material designed to VERY rapidly change or break down upon impact would weather more quickly.
Any material effective for the stated purpose would be stripped away quite rapidly. This is a pie-in-the-sky patent for a dumb idea.
For any given application it's consistent, including your web browser. Learn to use your tools.
Some shitty sites may behave differently by hijacking your keypresses, but that's just another reason to disable javascript trash by default. Same goes for shitty sites that hijack the context menu (right click).
You're literally complaining about trying to input data after switching contexts without checking to see what context you've switched to.
Why would you have to check? The cursor is literally right there, where you're looking, as you type.
Further, I don't use a laptop or a trackpad, because I value my ability to get shit done.
You don't get to complain about time lost inputting data when you chose a fucking laptop keyboard and trackpad to input that data.
It's like showing up to work late because you chose to commute on a pogo stick, then blaming the stairs for letting you go up or down them depending on how you lean, and you lean back 2 times for every 3 times you lean forward.
Not when every select element has javascript bound to it that changes other shit on the page.
Get real. You can't logically fight against backspace doing different things in different contexts without also fighting against just about every other damned key on the keyboard.
As far as I know every browser other than Chrome remembers it unless there's some especially shitty javascript on the page that fucks it up.
The fact that this is a problem in Chrome is news to me, but it doesn't surprise me.
You don't have to suffer because we can't figure something out. You have to suffer because you're a dumbass who is hitting keys before knowing what your context/focus is.
The only browser that DOESN'T do this is Chrome. FF, PaleMoon, and IE11 all do it as far as I can tell. Some pages with shitty javascript can fuck it up, but this is a standard fucking feature.
Fucking idiot web browser developers
So you'll just let us know when you have solved this incredibly easy problem, then? It seems you know quite a bit about HTTP, HTML/5, JS, CSS, browsers and UI design. More than me obviously, because I cannot imagine just how the fuck you would store every form value, JS variable, DHTML element state, dynamically loaded resource and HTML5 local store content perfectly back to their original states. What do I know though, I'm just an idiot developer.
Well, the tab has a state. Before navigation, store that state. Upon returning to that page in the history, restore that state. Chrome certainly has enough RAM to do this. A single GMail tab gives me 8 chrome.exe processes (32-bit, of course) and eats up half a gig of memory. In many cases, FF, PaleMoon, and IE DO restore form fields when navigating back and forth.
CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL
Control got me out of this jam. Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
I'm laying the blame at Microsoft's door. They also decided that the Enter key should submit a form as apparently tabbing to the submit button and *then* pressing Enter was really hard for the retards in the focus group. This causes even more issues than backspace as it is easy to have a partially completed form submitting when you didn't expect it to because (again) you weren't in a form input. Then the site grumbles at you for not filling in all the required fields...
Why in the hell would you hit Enter when you're not in a text field? Do you just randomly paw at the keys?
This is not a problem and it does not violate any "UI principles".
When you are editing text, backspace edits text.
When you are not editing text, backspace takes you back.
Are you going to claim that hitting U a time or two to get to "United States" on a drop down is violating "UI principles" because it behaves differently from hitting U in a text field?
At the hosts file? How do you block malware at the hosts file? Is there someone on Slashdot who could tell me more about hosts files?
Or the car was washed. Or the sky did that thing where water fell out of it. Or the sun hood got hot and cooked it away.
Any coating thin enough to GTFO upon impact with a person quickly and effectively enough for an underlying adhesive to garb and hold them against the force of the impact isn't going to last long in normal conditions.
You don't need to stretch when the numbers already fit.
Complaint: Men are rating down "women's" shows!!!
Response: Men rate shows they don't like poorly, and rate shows they like highly. What's the problem?
Complaint: But men are rating down OUR shows!!!
Response: Men and women can watch and rate the same shows.
Complaint: But women aren't watching "men's" shows and rating them poorly!!!
Response: Maybe that's because they aren't watching them, and don't care to rate them.
Complaint: But men ARE watching "women's" shows and rating them poorly!
Response: You keep talking about "women's" shows, but you can't list any that have a 90% female viewership share to establish that they are "women's" shows. All the while you are comparing these shows, and the demographics of those who rate them, to your self-defined "men's" shows which DO have 90% male viewership.
Complaint: UR RLY STRETCHING!!!
Response: QQ
Looks like someone managed to get something on the plane.
I wonder how much "Allah Akbar"ing was going on ?
Given recent events, terrorism does in fact seem like the most likely hypothesis.
However, regarding your slur of the "Religion of Peace"... who do you blame for the IRA's terrorism? Christians? Catholics? Irish Catholics? Or just the IRA and their supporters?
Why blame the IRA? Any sane individual would support their goal. If you're mad about the violence, which wasn't their goal, note that they didn't like it either - they called ahead to get people out. And it was the Brits that left them with no option to try to achieve their goal other than violence.
Who do you blame for the Yankee's terrorism against their King and Country?
They found an HIV-patient exhibiting an effective (to what degree is unclear from TFS) immune response to the HIV virus.
Let's give credit to the patient or the patient's immune system.
You guys know about WSUS Offline Update, don't you? Download all the patches and install them offline. Much quicker than letting Windows download them piecemeal (and obviously can be used to update machines that don't have a fast internet connection).
You know that this doesn't work, right? The offline servicing model can't patch certain things, and it doesn't know which it can't patch.
For example, certain updates that require a reboot cannot be patched together via offline servicing. You have to install one set of updates, then process the next. It's on YOU to figure out which ones conflict.
Certain updates cannot be applied via offline servicing at all.
Other updates won't be detected as necessary until other updates are installed, such as those for later versions of IE or WMP. If you process an IE11 update before processing the update that installs IE11 itself, the IE11 update will never be applied unless you specifically know to reprocess it. If you are trying to build a clean image offline, your shit still needs to be updated the instant you boot it and install Office WhateverYearItIs.
The ONLY way to handle building a clean Windows image is to use a VM with Windows installed and booted into System Audit mode, then patched each Patch Tuesday. If you want to DEPLOY this image (actually use it), you need to snapshot your VM, then run Sysprep with the Shutdown and Generalize options. Then you have a VM ready to be captured via boot media, PXE, or whatever.
THEN you roll back your snapshot to undo the Sysprep, Generalize step, which subtracts 1 from your rearm counter. If you don't do this, you're fucked after the third time. There's a way to blow out chunks of the registry via the command line if you boot to the system recovery console, and you can reset the Rearm counter, but as of January 2016 this doesn't actually fix the issues with deploying and authenticating Windows 7 from that image. I don't know what else MS added to detect tampering to the rearm counter, but it wasn't worth my time to figure it out. I am now resigned to maintaining and coddling a Windows 7 image in a VM because MS is shit.
Random number generators are notoriously pointless to test.
You know they're not actually random (I'm with Einstein on this one).
"7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,..." is just as "random" as any other sequence.
People need to shut the fuck up about random numbers because they don't want random numbers.
They want uniformly distributed numbers that don't fit any easily-identifiable pattern.
You should've just added some vinegar instead.
All for Silas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...