Never again. Matinee flicks or less-mainstream movies from now on. And you're probably right about the possibility of assault charges, but I didn't think about it until much later. This was in a pretty big city (not where I live) while I was away on an interview, so I think the chances of anything coming of it, besides she-bitch feeling sad for a few days, are pretty slim.
One of the last times I went to the movies, there was this 14-or-so-year-old brat behind me who wouldn't stop yacking on her cell phone. Throughout the first 5 minutes or so of the movie. I gave her a dirty look a few times and then told her to take her coversation outside the theater. Well this little soccer-mom-spawn just gave me the finger and kept on yacking.
So I calmly yanked the phone from her hand and told whatever dumb shit on the other end that she was haning up now, and threw the phone as hard as I could down onto the floor in front of the screen. Well this little bitch threw a shit-fit ranting all on about how her daddy was gonna sue me and all sorts of nonsense while the rest of the theater just applauded. I then went and got a manager and he threw her and her friends out of the theater.
All an all a satisfying night, and I only missed a few minutes of the beginning of the movie.
Unfortunately, given the state of the parenting these days, she probably went home and bawled to daddy and he bought his princess another cell phone.
Hello? American Express? Yes, I would like to contest this charge and any other charge coming from this company. They are charging me for unwanted services. Yes, that's all. Thank you.
What ever happened to that very useful "Allow Cookies From This Site" menu item in Firefox? I leave cookies disabled by default, but when I get to a site that simply wont work without them, I liked having a quick way to go enable them for the site.
Now I have to go all through the preferences dialog, find the site in that long Allow/Block list and change it to Allow. Very annoying.
Is there a quick (two clicks max) way to turn on/off cookies for whatever is the current page?
NEWSFLASH: Corporate America wants you to buy nonessential but expensive toys that are obsolete within two years. And why not buy them for your children too?
Now, now... Before we break out the pitchforks and torches, let's see exactly how MS plays this. The article is already slashdotted, so I'm going to have to do a little speculation.
If MS goes with a GL to D3D wrapper as a default implementation, but allowing vendors to write their own drop-in driver if they choose, then we get the best of both worlds.
For a small graphics device shop, maintaining a full ICD is a lot of work. If they had the option of "just do the D3D back-end and you'll get basic OpenGL functionality for free through the wrapper", the problem is solved. In this way, you actually get broader OpenGL support than you would with the current model, where anyone who wants good OpenGL support is stuck with having to implement a full ICD.
From the app writer's point of view it's also a win. Right now, as an OpenGL developer you have basically two choices: 1. Pick a PFD that goes through the graphics vendor's driver, and accept whatever coctail of driver bugs they never tested for you because you aren't Doom 3, or 2. Pick a PFD that runs your code through the dog-slow MS software path. If we had a 3. Pick a PFD that puts you in the safe but fast GL->D3D path, it would be easier and faster to bring accelerated OpenGL apps to market. I know of several OpenGL apps that purposely pick the software path because of driver bugs which wouuld immediately benefit from such a scheme.
So in conclusion, if MS is smart about this, they could keep their business focus on D3D, and broaden OpenGL support at the same time.
It would go a long way to keep people from investing in or running unscrupulous companies.
If the shareholders were personally liable for the actions their companies took you can be damn sure said shareholders would insist on stellar ethics and lawful company activity over pure return on investment.
Are people so brainwashed by capitalism that they think they have a moral duty to comply with their employers
90% of us are totally owned by our employers. To illustrate this, try taking a few years off of work and seeing how long you last.
If you happen to be part of the lucky 10% who are independently wealthy or own their own business, congratulations. But for the rest of us, our employers are the modern-day counterpart to the medieval feudal lords, and we obey or lose our livelyhood. It's a cruel fact of life.
I've always taken a "leave it to the states" approach. If states want to criminalize abortion, they ought to be able to. If states want to criminalize hangnail removal, let them. We'll see who ends up wanting to live in such a state.
Your argument assumes that buffer overflows are a natural and unavoidable aspect of C programming. I can show you plenty of examples of C modules without buffer overflows. Writing a complex system without buffer overflows is only a matter of using these modules together with a carefully constructed interface.
I also doubt your argument that achieving security in software is impossible. People have been doing it for years and years. Unfortuately we are seeing more and more security breaks because the percentage of careless programmers out there has been steadily rising.
You can write 100% bug-free code if you take your time, are careful and methodical, and do thorough unit and system tests. Those with the "Hey, all warnings but no errors--Ship It!" mentality give the software writing skill a bad name.
I assume if he didn't fight it was because he was doing too many illegal things at once.
More likely he was broke after the IRS took his money, and couldn't afford to hire an attorney to fight them.
Remember, the US government can take anything they want from you at any time for any reason, and you generally can do nothing about it. It's not legal, but does that really matter anymore?
The first company who can give me a single, flat monthly bill for local, long-distance and international calls (be it landline, VOIP, or mobile) gets my business. I don't care if it totals a little more than I am paying now. I hate all those silly plans with different payment structures, different hours costing different amounts, long distance (sometimes including across town) costing more than local, strange rates per country for international, etc. etc. etc.
Stretch due to rectangular projection of the world. One thing that massively sucks about google maps is the projection they chose. Rectangular projection gets ultra-distorted towards the poles. You'll see these effects best anywhere north or south of, say, 50 degrees and -50 degrees.
They ought to use a better, less distorted projection near the poles.
I second the parent post's suggestion. SUBMITTER: If your article is about some obscure TV show and you think it's possible that you're one of a relatively few slashdot readers who has even heard of it, at least use one sentence in your summary to, uhh, I don't know... SUMMARIZE it!
3. If they ask for permission to do anything, refuse them. Say 'I do not consent to that'.
DON'T DO IT! That's a GREAT way to get a baggie of pot thrown into your car and then "discovered" by the cop. Have fun in prison, non-consenter.
Once you are pulled over, you have NO RIGHTS. You have rights on paper, but the cop has already decided that you are guilty of whatever he wants to bust you for. Assume that if you are uncooperative in any way, you will be punished.
Anyone complaining that "experienced" developers are hard to find either 1. hasn't looked, or 2. is being too picky.
Here's a newsflash: You're not going to find someone who already has intimate knowledge of your company's system and can start at 100% productivity the first day. This is true for systems from obscure embedded platforms to some generic Windows app. There will always be a small amount of training required to get the guy or gal up to speed.
That said, as someone who's been on both sides of the hiring coin, I will conceed that it is not always easy to pick out the 1 or 2 genuinely talented guys from the 100 other "web monkey" resumes. But when you find those 1 or 2, DON'T THROW THEM AWAY because their experience doesn't match your list 100%.
Having to pay 10% of your income is a non-issue for people making $50,000,000/year
I'm sorry, but this is laughable. Having to pay $5 million to a wasteful government is NEVER a non-issue.
I think lots of slashdotters have a warped view of "rich people". They generally aren't monocle-wearing villians who stuff their pillows with $100 bills and eat poor people with tea and cheese. They're generally hard-working folks who don't like seeing their money go to waste.
That said, a flat tax without deductions is a horrible idea because it kicks the poor in the gut. A consumption tax with a refund for the poor, however, is a great idea as it encourages savings and investment and discourages the rampant over-consumption that is leading to record levels of consumer debt.
I suggest that if a great number of your users are using email as a file storage system that you as a diligent IT guy should spend some time figuring out ways to make it work for them.
Shouting "You're doing it wrong!" does not count as making it work.
You could say:
"I suggest that if a great number of your users are scheduling appointments by writing them on the wall clock with a big black magic marker rather than using their calendar book, that you as a diligent secretary should spend some time figuring out ways to make it work for them."
The point is, when users are doing it wrong, telling them that they are doing it wrong and showing them how it is supposed to be done is often the best solution.
If you are looking for another reason to throw out that old CRT and upgrade to LCDs here it is.
Presuppose dissatisfaction in consumer's previously purchaced product.
The DoubleSight DS-1900 packs two 19" LCD panels in a neat package and will take up less total space than that cathode ray tube whic has created the permanent bow in your desk.
Explain how new product is better.
You will end up with 2560x1024 pixels of screen real estate, enough to increase productivity substantially, but you won't have to sacrifice too much space due to the reasonable size of the display's footprint.
More benefits to owning new product like "increased productivity", glowing description of product's wonderful features.
Just another reason to go LCD...
End of sales pitch. There was not even a SHRED of news in the headline.
Of course, at the bottom of the article:
Where to buy DoubleSight CDS-1900 (Black) 19 in. Flat Panel LCD Monitor...
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Never again. Matinee flicks or less-mainstream movies from now on. And you're probably right about the possibility of assault charges, but I didn't think about it until much later. This was in a pretty big city (not where I live) while I was away on an interview, so I think the chances of anything coming of it, besides she-bitch feeling sad for a few days, are pretty slim.
One of the last times I went to the movies, there was this 14-or-so-year-old brat behind me who wouldn't stop yacking on her cell phone. Throughout the first 5 minutes or so of the movie. I gave her a dirty look a few times and then told her to take her coversation outside the theater. Well this little soccer-mom-spawn just gave me the finger and kept on yacking.
So I calmly yanked the phone from her hand and told whatever dumb shit on the other end that she was haning up now, and threw the phone as hard as I could down onto the floor in front of the screen. Well this little bitch threw a shit-fit ranting all on about how her daddy was gonna sue me and all sorts of nonsense while the rest of the theater just applauded. I then went and got a manager and he threw her and her friends out of the theater.
All an all a satisfying night, and I only missed a few minutes of the beginning of the movie.
Unfortunately, given the state of the parenting these days, she probably went home and bawled to daddy and he bought his princess another cell phone.
Hello? American Express? Yes, I would like to contest this charge and any other charge coming from this company. They are charging me for unwanted services. Yes, that's all. Thank you.
I hope this doesn't get lost in the comments...
What ever happened to that very useful "Allow Cookies From This Site" menu item in Firefox? I leave cookies disabled by default, but when I get to a site that simply wont work without them, I liked having a quick way to go enable them for the site.
Now I have to go all through the preferences dialog, find the site in that long Allow/Block list and change it to Allow. Very annoying.
Is there a quick (two clicks max) way to turn on/off cookies for whatever is the current page?
NEWSFLASH: Corporate America wants you to buy nonessential but expensive toys that are obsolete within two years. And why not buy them for your children too?
Today's religious chant: Buy, Buy, BUY!!!
Now, now... Before we break out the pitchforks and torches, let's see exactly how MS plays this. The article is already slashdotted, so I'm going to have to do a little speculation.
If MS goes with a GL to D3D wrapper as a default implementation, but allowing vendors to write their own drop-in driver if they choose, then we get the best of both worlds.
For a small graphics device shop, maintaining a full ICD is a lot of work. If they had the option of "just do the D3D back-end and you'll get basic OpenGL functionality for free through the wrapper", the problem is solved. In this way, you actually get broader OpenGL support than you would with the current model, where anyone who wants good OpenGL support is stuck with having to implement a full ICD.
From the app writer's point of view it's also a win. Right now, as an OpenGL developer you have basically two choices: 1. Pick a PFD that goes through the graphics vendor's driver, and accept whatever coctail of driver bugs they never tested for you because you aren't Doom 3, or 2. Pick a PFD that runs your code through the dog-slow MS software path. If we had a 3. Pick a PFD that puts you in the safe but fast GL->D3D path, it would be easier and faster to bring accelerated OpenGL apps to market. I know of several OpenGL apps that purposely pick the software path because of driver bugs which wouuld immediately benefit from such a scheme.
So in conclusion, if MS is smart about this, they could keep their business focus on D3D, and broaden OpenGL support at the same time.
It's just.
It would go a long way to keep people from investing in or running unscrupulous companies.
If the shareholders were personally liable for the actions their companies took you can be damn sure said shareholders would insist on stellar ethics and lawful company activity over pure return on investment.
Are people so brainwashed by capitalism that they think they have a moral duty to comply with their employers
90% of us are totally owned by our employers. To illustrate this, try taking a few years off of work and seeing how long you last.
If you happen to be part of the lucky 10% who are independently wealthy or own their own business, congratulations. But for the rest of us, our employers are the modern-day counterpart to the medieval feudal lords, and we obey or lose our livelyhood. It's a cruel fact of life.
Fifty hogshead-stones.
HAHA I stopped at:
wicked refactorings
It's hard to take something seriously when they use the word "refactoring".
I've always taken a "leave it to the states" approach. If states want to criminalize abortion, they ought to be able to. If states want to criminalize hangnail removal, let them. We'll see who ends up wanting to live in such a state.
Your argument assumes that buffer overflows are a natural and unavoidable aspect of C programming. I can show you plenty of examples of C modules without buffer overflows. Writing a complex system without buffer overflows is only a matter of using these modules together with a carefully constructed interface.
I also doubt your argument that achieving security in software is impossible. People have been doing it for years and years. Unfortuately we are seeing more and more security breaks because the percentage of careless programmers out there has been steadily rising.
You can write 100% bug-free code if you take your time, are careful and methodical, and do thorough unit and system tests. Those with the "Hey, all warnings but no errors--Ship It!" mentality give the software writing skill a bad name.
No, no no! It's not that complicated at all. Grandparent poster had it just right.
They are the government. You have money. They want it.
This, and this alone, is the rationale behind just about every tax we have to pay today.
I assume if he didn't fight it was because he was doing too many illegal things at once.
More likely he was broke after the IRS took his money, and couldn't afford to hire an attorney to fight them.
Remember, the US government can take anything they want from you at any time for any reason, and you generally can do nothing about it. It's not legal, but does that really matter anymore?
Anyone here run a communications company?
The first company who can give me a single, flat monthly bill for local, long-distance and international calls (be it landline, VOIP, or mobile) gets my business. I don't care if it totals a little more than I am paying now. I hate all those silly plans with different payment structures, different hours costing different amounts, long distance (sometimes including across town) costing more than local, strange rates per country for international, etc. etc. etc.
No per-minute charges. No per-call charges.
Is this really that much to ask for?
Another curious "black-out" is here: Only recently did I learn that this is where Dick Cheney lives: Observatory Circle
Stretch due to rectangular projection of the world. One thing that massively sucks about google maps is the projection they chose. Rectangular projection gets ultra-distorted towards the poles. You'll see these effects best anywhere north or south of, say, 50 degrees and -50 degrees.
They ought to use a better, less distorted projection near the poles.
I second the parent post's suggestion. SUBMITTER: If your article is about some obscure TV show and you think it's possible that you're one of a relatively few slashdot readers who has even heard of it, at least use one sentence in your summary to, uhh, I don't know... SUMMARIZE it!
3. If they ask for permission to do anything, refuse them. Say 'I do not consent to that'.
DON'T DO IT! That's a GREAT way to get a baggie of pot thrown into your car and then "discovered" by the cop. Have fun in prison, non-consenter.
Once you are pulled over, you have NO RIGHTS. You have rights on paper, but the cop has already decided that you are guilty of whatever he wants to bust you for. Assume that if you are uncooperative in any way, you will be punished.
It's conversations like this that make me wish I majored in theoretical physics rather than computer engineering.
I call bullshit on your bullshit.
Anyone complaining that "experienced" developers are hard to find either 1. hasn't looked, or 2. is being too picky.
Here's a newsflash: You're not going to find someone who already has intimate knowledge of your company's system and can start at 100% productivity the first day. This is true for systems from obscure embedded platforms to some generic Windows app. There will always be a small amount of training required to get the guy or gal up to speed.
That said, as someone who's been on both sides of the hiring coin, I will conceed that it is not always easy to pick out the 1 or 2 genuinely talented guys from the 100 other "web monkey" resumes. But when you find those 1 or 2, DON'T THROW THEM AWAY because their experience doesn't match your list 100%.
Having to pay 10% of your income is a non-issue for people making $50,000,000/year
I'm sorry, but this is laughable. Having to pay $5 million to a wasteful government is NEVER a non-issue.
I think lots of slashdotters have a warped view of "rich people". They generally aren't monocle-wearing villians who stuff their pillows with $100 bills and eat poor people with tea and cheese. They're generally hard-working folks who don't like seeing their money go to waste.
That said, a flat tax without deductions is a horrible idea because it kicks the poor in the gut. A consumption tax with a refund for the poor, however, is a great idea as it encourages savings and investment and discourages the rampant over-consumption that is leading to record levels of consumer debt.
I suggest that if a great number of your users are using email as a file storage system that you as a diligent IT guy should spend some time figuring out ways to make it work for them.
Shouting "You're doing it wrong!" does not count as making it work.
You could say:
"I suggest that if a great number of your users are scheduling appointments by writing them on the wall clock with a big black magic marker rather than using their calendar book, that you as a diligent secretary should spend some time figuring out ways to make it work for them."
The point is, when users are doing it wrong, telling them that they are doing it wrong and showing them how it is supposed to be done is often the best solution.
If you are looking for another reason to throw out that old CRT and upgrade to LCDs here it is.
...
Presuppose dissatisfaction in consumer's previously purchaced product.
The DoubleSight DS-1900 packs two 19" LCD panels in a neat package and will take up less total space than that cathode ray tube whic has created the permanent bow in your desk.
Explain how new product is better.
You will end up with 2560x1024 pixels of screen real estate, enough to increase productivity substantially, but you won't have to sacrifice too much space due to the reasonable size of the display's footprint.
More benefits to owning new product like "increased productivity", glowing description of product's wonderful features.
Just another reason to go LCD...
End of sales pitch. There was not even a SHRED of news in the headline.
Of course, at the bottom of the article:
Where to buy DoubleSight CDS-1900 (Black) 19 in. Flat Panel LCD Monitor
Look to see who is financially behind this push, and pretend to be surprised when you find out the list includes:
Major appliance manufactureres and retailers
Automobile manufacturers and retailers
Air-conditioner manufacturers and retailers
Basically anyone who will benefit financially from people throwing things away and buying new.