That's interesting. On W2K system I have, right clicking on any icon on win explorer would hange explorer and I had to kill it and start it again. Was very hard to figure out what the heck was going on with no type of debug information or anything. I was about to reinstall the whole damned thing, until I erased the culprit, the "Eraser" program for some reason made it hang. It expands the right click menu on explorer with it's options and apparently it was hanging explorer. Now, you can blame it on a bug in this program, but the same program worked fine in another system. I got lucky but this clamored for a reinstall.
At work, installing the latest service pack screwed up my computer. When I applied service pack 4, it went ahead and did most of the work, but got an error and told me it didn't finish. What was the error? I have no idea, just told me there was an error. Great stuff huh? Now the service pack that is reported on the computer says it's got 4, but it really isn't at that level. Uninstalled it, went back to SP1, and got bombarded by the sasser worm. The fix from MS and symantec can't remove it, and now cmd.exe fails to start.
The "sponsored links" are *clearly* not part of your search results, those are the ads. They are also clearly marked as "sponsored links", you make it sounds like they sneak them in the search results.
This is just bad design, this shouldn't even be a question, most regular users won't have any idea what in the world you are talking about if you popup a warning dialog explaining what this is doing. It just makes no sense to allow a remote site to spoof a window like this, that's why early java applets waaaaaay before had a "warning" color coded message at the bottom (and still do).
After we've had that for so long, it's amazing that it wasn't considered for XUL.
Reply Quoting This MessageEdit Message SimmerD Member since: 1/5/2003
Posted - 9/21/2003 6:50:03 PM
Don't worry about it fellas. I described this technique publicly a few months before they filed the patent - hence Prior Art. Ironically, it was at a Creative Labs developer's forum.
During my stencil buffer talk, I described doing shadow volumes the 'reverse' way. At the time, I didn't realize the major reason why the z fail method is better than the z pass method, although I did realize they were logically equivalent, which is why it's now known as 'Carmack's Reverse' and not 'Dietrich's Reverse'!
> As opposed to Slashdot? In every case where there has been a problem with Windows security, it's been AFTER they released a patch for the vulnerability. Every one!
You've already been easily proven totally wrong on this. When can we expect your apology?
> You could break into my house if you broke a window. I don't consider my windows an "unpatched vulnerability."
If you break your common window with a rock, that is not a bug. If you can attack a program and make it do things it's not supposed to, that's a bug. There's a big difference here.
After all, from a real life analogy taken from the real world, if you put a firewall on your computer you should be fine. Think of it as a big wall around your house, unbreakable. You go watch TV (a passive undertaking) and you shouldn't expect break ins.
In the MS world, your wall won't do you any good, when bening functions like clicking on a link can cause a major security problem (let's not even talk about the simple task of reading email).
Goodness gracious, the other day I had to go to somebody's machine that had very nasty spyware installed! The spyware was so bad, that it would refuse to be removed and when I did and I wrote over the HOST file so it never goes to that server again, the spyware would overwirte my edited HOST file and remove it's entry! This type of stuff is just unnaceptable!
His reason for putting this in audio was that he believes nobody reads "essays" and that this is a better way to convey and explain this type of idea/message.
Ironically, he has so many "huh... hum... hum... huh... and huh... so... huh..." in there that this is not the case and we would all have been better off if he just wrote it. He also sounds pretty bored. Dave, please type it next time!
I have deprived him of no physical property, nor do I possess anything of his.
You did not pay for his time, time he could have spent making money off another person. You also didn't pay for his gas, which is not even a service.
The example you provided is a bad example, and to save you time, any example where somebody does any work for you is a bad example, because there's time lost when you don't pay, time that could be spent with other people to make money. So yes, there's is a tangible financial loss there.
Totally disagree with the reviewer there. The theme is minimalistic indeed, but just a bit too much. Plus, I don't know why it's really called a theme when the icons don't really match styles among themselves.
The previous theme looked a lot better. I'm aware of the lisencing issues, but this one is just plain ugly and minimalistic to the point that when you start the browser you wonder if this is a high school level test application.
Also, I've seen screenshots of it where there are more toolbar buttons on top. You have to add these through the toolbar configuration window right? Or are my defaults screwed up?
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... when the movie's water/liguid effects look like randomly changing goo. Gosh that was horrible, the human characters are expressionless and are reminiscent of what you would see on a saturday morning (3D) animated show.
And let's not talk about the generic dialog in the trailer...
"To free her people... a young girl, dares to defy the ancestral beliefs. Her name is "Kaena".
I'm assuming "immigrant visa worker" means H1B and L1 visa workers?
H1B workers are supposed to do jobs that can't be filled by people who live in this country. The reality is, at least when it comes to IT, these visas are not justified at all
L1s are unlimited, get to work here and don't pay full taxes on the pay they receive, because part of their pay is "living expenses". I sure as heck don't get my living expenses paid, additionally, they are under total control from the corporation hosting them so they can be paid much less.
... how he ignores the incessant whining of all the "fans" who are always complaining about his movies yet keep paying him for everything that he produces.
Truly, I'd like to know the trick, because goodness gracious it's so annoying to have every other moron out there come up with the "original" idea to post how much they hate the prequels and how they have spoilt their life and childhood memories. Or how about those geniouses with their Jar Jar jokes, we can never have enough Jar Jar jokes, can't we?
He probably loves these type of people, after all, they make him rich even though they don't like what he does! Maybe he should share the secret, how to make money off of morons who hate your product. I'd buy that book.
Using { and } are infintently better than relying on whitespace. These characters are clearly visible, and you can spot the being and end of a block of code more easily than with whitespace that could be used for either start or end.
Chosing whitespace for this type of stuff in a modern computer language is just plain stupidity. Talk about maintenance nightmares!
> Isnt it right that we lobby for Outsourcing in USA?
It is, but it's also right, if not more so, to resist it.
These are US companies buying labor in other countries, which not only drains our job market but sucks out taxes. You don't pay US taxes on your salary over there right? Would you mind if our government taxed our companies for the work you do over there? Wouldn't it make sense for us to tax the product you make?
Don't be surprised if new laws come out of this, it's going to be one of the hottest issues in this presidential election.
... a private army of Special Ops ready to bust into your house?
It seems like RIAA is populated by the worst managers each one of us have ever worked with, and they let them lose with their crazy ideas, and there's nobody that is sane to reign them in. What a crazy organization.
> I wonder if you are nitpicking and spliting hairs with your post. I wonder if all this "animation work" is done in other 1st world countries (like europe or New Zealand) or in 3rd world countries where the land is cheap done by professionals from Western civilisations?
Traditional animation work (2D art, mostly seen on TVs and Disney cheapequels) are done in South Korea, India, and other 3rd world Asian nations. For example, the Batman series (and JLA too) are drawn in Asia, while a few writers and character designers (and storyboarders) do the work here. In the tech industry, we're seeing a similar thing, with the designers probably staying here in most cases.
But the bulk of the animation work, inbetweening , key framing, and lead character animators are done overseas.
2D and 3D feature film stuff is another world and I wasn't talking about it. Lots of 3D work is done here, but soon you'll see it move offshore as well.
I know this because I can jump onto these fields, but believe me, these fields are not outsourceing proof at all. Nor do they pay nearly what high skilled Comp. Sci. work does either.
All these jobs with these skills are at risk. Unless your job requires you to be in the physical precense of your customer (and even then) your job is at risk.
BTW, many overseas artists are way better than their counterparts in the US....
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That's interesting. On W2K system I have, right clicking on any icon on win explorer would hange explorer and I had to kill it and start it again. Was very hard to figure out what the heck was going on with no type of debug information or anything. I was about to reinstall the whole damned thing, until I erased the culprit, the "Eraser" program for some reason made it hang. It expands the right click menu on explorer with it's options and apparently it was hanging explorer. Now, you can blame it on a bug in this program, but the same program worked fine in another system. I got lucky but this clamored for a reinstall.
At work, installing the latest service pack screwed up my computer. When I applied service pack 4, it went ahead and did most of the work, but got an error and told me it didn't finish. What was the error? I have no idea, just told me there was an error. Great stuff huh? Now the service pack that is reported on the computer says it's got 4, but it really isn't at that level. Uninstalled it, went back to SP1, and got bombarded by the sasser worm. The fix from MS and symantec can't remove it, and now cmd.exe fails to start.
Don't need to reinstall it? Think again.
Did he commit suicide, or was this an accident. Wow, that's weird!!! poor guy.
The "sponsored links" are *clearly* not part of your search results, those are the ads. They are also clearly marked as "sponsored links", you make it sounds like they sneak them in the search results.
This is just bad design, this shouldn't even be a question, most regular users won't have any idea what in the world you are talking about if you popup a warning dialog explaining what this is doing. It just makes no sense to allow a remote site to spoof a window like this, that's why early java applets waaaaaay before had a "warning" color coded message at the bottom (and still do).
After we've had that for so long, it's amazing that it wasn't considered for XUL.
I was wondering the same exact thing. My guess is that this would prevent it from being released to the public, specially GPL'ed.
Prior art from a talk on the technique
Reply Quoting This MessageEdit Message SimmerD Member since: 1/5/2003
Posted - 9/21/2003 6:50:03 PM
Don't worry about it fellas. I described this technique publicly a few months before they filed the patent - hence Prior Art. Ironically, it was at a Creative Labs developer's forum.
During my stencil buffer talk, I described doing shadow volumes the 'reverse' way. At the time, I didn't realize the major reason why the z fail method is better than the z pass method, although I did realize they were logically equivalent, which is why it's now known as 'Carmack's Reverse' and not 'Dietrich's Reverse'!
Linux Proves Security of Open Source: First Back-Door Attempt Thwarted"
> Let the real MSCEs take care of it for you
This is the funniest thing I've read this week, thanks!!!
> As opposed to Slashdot? In every case where there has been a problem with Windows security, it's been AFTER they released a patch for the vulnerability. Every one!
You've already been easily proven totally wrong on this. When can we expect your apology?
> You could break into my house if you broke a window. I don't consider my windows an "unpatched vulnerability."
If you break your common window with a rock, that is not a bug. If you can attack a program and make it do things it's not supposed to, that's a bug. There's a big difference here.
After all, from a real life analogy taken from the real world, if you put a firewall on your computer you should be fine. Think of it as a big wall around your house, unbreakable. You go watch TV (a passive undertaking) and you shouldn't expect break ins.
In the MS world, your wall won't do you any good, when bening functions like clicking on a link can cause a major security problem (let's not even talk about the simple task of reading email).
Goodness gracious, the other day I had to go to somebody's machine that had very nasty spyware installed! The spyware was so bad, that it would refuse to be removed and when I did and I wrote over the HOST file so it never goes to that server again, the spyware would overwirte my edited HOST file and remove it's entry! This type of stuff is just unnaceptable!
His reason for putting this in audio was that he believes nobody reads "essays" and that this is a better way to convey and explain this type of idea/message.
... hum ... hum ... huh ... and huh ... so ... huh ..." in there that this is not the case and we would all have been better off if he just wrote it. He also sounds pretty bored. Dave, please type it next time!
Ironically, he has so many "huh
I have deprived him of no physical property, nor do I possess anything of his.
You did not pay for his time, time he could have spent making money off another person. You also didn't pay for his gas, which is not even a service.
The example you provided is a bad example, and to save you time, any example where somebody does any work for you is a bad example, because there's time lost when you don't pay, time that could be spent with other people to make money. So yes, there's is a tangible financial loss there.
Totally disagree with the reviewer there. The theme is minimalistic indeed, but just a bit too much. Plus, I don't know why it's really called a theme when the icons don't really match styles among themselves.
The previous theme looked a lot better. I'm aware of the lisencing issues, but this one is just plain ugly and minimalistic to the point that when you start the browser you wonder if this is a high school level test application.
Also, I've seen screenshots of it where there are more toolbar buttons on top. You have to add these through the toolbar configuration window right? Or are my defaults screwed up?
... when the movie's water/liguid effects look like randomly changing goo. Gosh that was horrible, the human characters are expressionless and are reminiscent of what you would see on a saturday morning (3D) animated show.
...
... a young girl, dares to defy the ancestral beliefs. Her name is "Kaena".
And let's not talk about the generic dialog in the trailer
"To free her people
LOL!
... have to release this and their next film "Cars" with Disney. After that, they no longer have to have their films distributed by Disney.
Also Disney gets the rights to any sequels for these films, if Pixar refuses to make sequels for them. (Like Toy Story 3)
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&o e=ISO-8859-1&q=unrelevant
Web Results 1 - 10 of about 5,260 for unrelevant. (0.55 seconds)
Did you mean: irrelevant
I'm assuming "immigrant visa worker" means H1B and L1 visa workers?
H1B workers are supposed to do jobs that can't be filled by people who live in this country. The reality is, at least when it comes to IT, these visas are not justified at all
L1s are unlimited, get to work here and don't pay full taxes on the pay they receive, because part of their pay is "living expenses". I sure as heck don't get my living expenses paid, additionally, they are under total control from the corporation hosting them so they can be paid much less.
A Jar Jar jokes, HAHAHAHAHA!!! That's so funny, Jar-Jar !!!! HAAHAHA, man, you're a riot!
... how he ignores the incessant whining of all the "fans" who are always complaining about his movies yet keep paying him for everything that he produces.
Truly, I'd like to know the trick, because goodness gracious it's so annoying to have every other moron out there come up with the "original" idea to post how much they hate the prequels and how they have spoilt their life and childhood memories. Or how about those geniouses with their Jar Jar jokes, we can never have enough Jar Jar jokes, can't we?
He probably loves these type of people, after all, they make him rich even though they don't like what he does! Maybe he should share the secret, how to make money off of morons who hate your product. I'd buy that book.
Using { and } are infintently better than relying on whitespace. These characters are clearly visible, and you can spot the being and end of a block of code more easily than with whitespace that could be used for either start or end.
Chosing whitespace for this type of stuff in a modern computer language is just plain stupidity. Talk about maintenance nightmares!
> Isnt it right that we lobby for Outsourcing in USA?
It is, but it's also right, if not more so, to resist it.
These are US companies buying labor in other countries, which not only drains our job market but sucks out taxes. You don't pay US taxes on your salary over there right? Would you mind if our government taxed our companies for the work you do over there? Wouldn't it make sense for us to tax the product you make?
Don't be surprised if new laws come out of this, it's going to be one of the hottest issues in this presidential election.
Somewhere in Mars, a little robot has a screen with the Blue Screen of Death.
... a private army of Special Ops ready to bust into your house?
It seems like RIAA is populated by the worst managers each one of us have ever worked with, and they let them lose with their crazy ideas, and there's nobody that is sane to reign them in. What a crazy organization.
Do you really work in any commercial art field?
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> I wonder if you are nitpicking and spliting hairs with your post. I wonder if all this "animation work" is done in other 1st world countries (like europe or New Zealand) or in 3rd world countries where the land is cheap done by professionals from Western civilisations?
Traditional animation work (2D art, mostly seen on TVs and Disney cheapequels) are done in South Korea, India, and other 3rd world Asian nations. For example, the Batman series (and JLA too) are drawn in Asia, while a few writers and character designers (and storyboarders) do the work here. In the tech industry, we're seeing a similar thing, with the designers probably staying here in most cases.
But the bulk of the animation work, inbetweening , key framing, and lead character animators are done overseas.
2D and 3D feature film stuff is another world and I wasn't talking about it. Lots of 3D work is done here, but soon you'll see it move offshore as well.
I know this because I can jump onto these fields, but believe me, these fields are not outsourceing proof at all. Nor do they pay nearly what high skilled Comp. Sci. work does either.
All these jobs with these skills are at risk. Unless your job requires you to be in the physical precense of your customer (and even then) your job is at risk.
BTW, many overseas artists are way better than their counterparts in the US