Right, referrers don't work with copy and paste. But when I paste the link I always remove referrer codes if they are this obvious. I don't think that most users have turned referrers off though. Most won't know how to do this anyway. Some sites even rely on it (send you back to the main page otherwise or won't show images like some popular image hosters). Of course such a design decision is questionable in some if not most usage scenarios.
an incredible amount of resources is wasted in display information rather than actual text or graphical content
Isn't this one of the key features of PDF? PDF documents should (a) look the same on every device -- preferably forever, i.e. independent of any environmental constraints like available fonts -- and (b) be capable of representing very complex typography. So yes, you have to specify every little detail. If you just want to convey some information, use RTF or HTML or something. Heck, pure information needs no formatting, let it be plain text. But if the document should look really good (like, printing-books-good) and be portable you need more.
A little example: Imagine a justified paragraph. I don't know what it looks like in MS Word format but I had a look at ODT. The text is written in plain and obviously the program that processes the document has to figure out the spacing. In a PDF file it looks totally different. The producing application specifies the spacing so that there can never be any misinterpretation (provided the spec is followed and correct of course). I take my example from the license text of a book. A simple Permission is granted to copy and distribute becomes Td[(Permission)-296(is)-296(gra)1(nted)-296(to)-296(cop)10(y)-296(and)-296(distrib)20(ute).
Yes, this takes some resources. Whether they are wasted is another question.
Joel Spolsky once said: Most programmers would love to do it even if they didn't get paid.
I wouldn't go that far but I really love what I do. Maybe I'm an idealist but if you're just in for the money, maybe you've got the wrong job? Apart from that I think it's unrelated to the whole glory issue. Glory in IT imho isn't non-existent but rare.
And yes I know IT is much more than programming, it's just an example.
You can talk in phones in real time too (well, with the same latency, but its not noticable in that use).
You never attended a TeamSpeak session or something alike with this kind of latency (50-100ms), did you? Everybody starts talking because they don't hear anything, then all comes intermingled, than everybody pauses, waiting for the others to talk and so on... Two people are enough for that so this can be applied to ordinary phone calls. I'm not sure about 50ms but 100ms is definitely noticable.
It's kind of like two people walking down the street in the opposite direction facing each other and starting to "dance" because both took the same route to avoid collision.
Am I missing a joke or is it an error that the description of the GeForce FX 5800 features the image of a vacuum cleaner? I mean... not that a vacuum cleaner with 15 million transistors is not impressive...
Yes, this may be what the author had in mind. Still it's (in my experience) a wrong assumption. I know a few lefties (and I am one myself) and none of them uses the mouse with the left hand (also including me). In fact I know more righties than lefties that use the mouse with the left hand: one.
It must look pretty horrible at smaller sizes too otherwise I think they might have shown us a sample, no?
Then zoom out? But then given the limited density of pixels on the screen how do you suppose to see a usable result? (from Wikipedia: displays have something between 67 to 130 PPI, a laser printer has 600 to 1800 DPI).
I use Opera and there you have the ability to provide a master password. I'm sure Firefox has this feature too. (But I have to admit that due to Opera's proprietary nature I don't know whether the passwords are actually encrypted or not.)
For me a password manager is just a matter of convenience. I know all my passwords but I hate typing in my credentials every time I have to log in somewhere. So I just enter one password at the beginning of the session and have them all.
But I think you are right when it comes to the really important passwords. Everything with money for example I always type in myself (bank account or eBay or stuff like that).
I once had a look at Zabbix. It is very easy to install and provides tons of stats. You can build screens with preferred graphs and maps resembling your network and stuff. It's nice but I found it not to be expandable so you are pretty much stuck at the default values the agents collect (though it's been a while, maybe that changed).
I think many people don't know about pgrep and pkill. I like pkill more than killall since on Solaris machines killall really kills every process (unlike the Linux version).
For Perl I always have a copy of Beginning Perl on my hard drive. But it's also always the first hit on Google for beginning perl if you have to change the computer. I know, it's a PDF and it therefore has no cool AJAX Web 2.0ish effects but the function reference is great and whenever I forget how to create an anonymous hash reference and whatnot (which easily happens to me when not programming Perl for a while): it's there.
For PHP I always use php.net. I never searched for something PHP related I couldn't find there.
Solar Empire has no copy protection at all and has sold half a million copies.
There is something very wrong. I don't want to ask for permission to use something I legally bought. DRM server crashed? Sorry, no gaming for you today as it happened with Bioshock. There is absolutely no excuse for doing such a thing. Not piracy and nothing else. At least not in the way it is handled now (and I don't know of any unintrusive alternative).
Yahoo Mail has this for years now. You register a "base token" and can append another word to create a new email address. The delimiter is the "-" sign so there should be no problem with most web forms. This "base token" is independent of the email address the mails are actually sent to so there is no way (known to me) to get the real email address out of the throw away address.
So for example the real address is foo@yahoo.com and the token is bar you may start registering addresses like
bar-slashdot@yahoo.com
bar-pornmag@yahoo.com
...
and drop them whenever you feel like an address isn't needed anymore. I don't really understand why this feature isn't widely recognized by the public. There is no flaw I have heard from.
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Right, referrers don't work with copy and paste. But when I paste the link I always remove referrer codes if they are this obvious. I don't think that most users have turned referrers off though. Most won't know how to do this anyway. Some sites even rely on it (send you back to the main page otherwise or won't show images like some popular image hosters). Of course such a design decision is questionable in some if not most usage scenarios.
Isn't that what the 'referer' header field is for?
I think you confuse influential with famous.
an incredible amount of resources is wasted in display information rather than actual text or graphical content
Isn't this one of the key features of PDF? PDF documents should (a) look the same on every device -- preferably forever, i.e. independent of any environmental constraints like available fonts -- and (b) be capable of representing very complex typography. So yes, you have to specify every little detail. If you just want to convey some information, use RTF or HTML or something. Heck, pure information needs no formatting, let it be plain text. But if the document should look really good (like, printing-books-good) and be portable you need more.
A little example: Imagine a justified paragraph. I don't know what it looks like in MS Word format but I had a look at ODT. The text is written in plain and obviously the program that processes the document has to figure out the spacing. In a PDF file it looks totally different. The producing application specifies the spacing so that there can never be any misinterpretation (provided the spec is followed and correct of course). I take my example from the license text of a book. A simple Permission is granted to copy and distribute becomes Td[(Permission)-296(is)-296(gra)1(nted)-296(to)-296(cop)10(y)-296(and)-296(distrib)20(ute).
Yes, this takes some resources. Whether they are wasted is another question.
my POV is not any less valid
I didn't mean to downgrade your opinion, I'm totally fine with it. I always got bored after two weeks of semester break.
Joel Spolsky once said: Most programmers would love to do it even if they didn't get paid.
I wouldn't go that far but I really love what I do. Maybe I'm an idealist but if you're just in for the money, maybe you've got the wrong job? Apart from that I think it's unrelated to the whole glory issue. Glory in IT imho isn't non-existent but rare.
And yes I know IT is much more than programming, it's just an example.
You can talk in phones in real time too (well, with the same latency, but its not noticable in that use).
You never attended a TeamSpeak session or something alike with this kind of latency (50-100ms), did you? Everybody starts talking because they don't hear anything, then all comes intermingled, than everybody pauses, waiting for the others to talk and so on... Two people are enough for that so this can be applied to ordinary phone calls. I'm not sure about 50ms but 100ms is definitely noticable.
It's kind of like two people walking down the street in the opposite direction facing each other and starting to "dance" because both took the same route to avoid collision.
Some people always disagree.
(can't wait for the first 'I disagree!' reply)
Couldn't find one but a search for "new yorker iphone cover" on YouTube produces this video on the first page. I just don't see why...
Oh my. Why didn't I think of that? Thank's for clarifying.
Am I missing a joke or is it an error that the description of the GeForce FX 5800 features the image of a vacuum cleaner? I mean... not that a vacuum cleaner with 15 million transistors is not impressive...
Short answer: No.
Long answer: Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
Wasn't so hard looking up the Wikipedia article for Jaiku either...
Yes, this may be what the author had in mind. Still it's (in my experience) a wrong assumption. I know a few lefties (and I am one myself) and none of them uses the mouse with the left hand (also including me). In fact I know more righties than lefties that use the mouse with the left hand: one.
And if it ain't there, then I just look it up on wikipedia
Yes. Wikipedia is an excellent choice. :)
It must look pretty horrible at smaller sizes too otherwise I think they might have shown us a sample, no?
Then zoom out? But then given the limited density of pixels on the screen how do you suppose to see a usable result? (from Wikipedia: displays have something between 67 to 130 PPI, a laser printer has 600 to 1800 DPI).
Then interactive? Porn will be so different. I can't wait!
I use Opera and there you have the ability to provide a master password. I'm sure Firefox has this feature too. (But I have to admit that due to Opera's proprietary nature I don't know whether the passwords are actually encrypted or not.)
For me a password manager is just a matter of convenience. I know all my passwords but I hate typing in my credentials every time I have to log in somewhere. So I just enter one password at the beginning of the session and have them all.
But I think you are right when it comes to the really important passwords. Everything with money for example I always type in myself (bank account or eBay or stuff like that).
Reproducing how?
I once had a look at Zabbix. It is very easy to install and provides tons of stats. You can build screens with preferred graphs and maps resembling your network and stuff. It's nice but I found it not to be expandable so you are pretty much stuck at the default values the agents collect (though it's been a while, maybe that changed).
About killing...
I think many people don't know about pgrep and pkill. I like pkill more than killall since on Solaris machines killall really kills every process (unlike the Linux version).
Sure this topic is somewhat funny but is it really worth being on front page?
For Perl I always have a copy of Beginning Perl on my hard drive. But it's also always the first hit on Google for beginning perl if you have to change the computer. I know, it's a PDF and it therefore has no cool AJAX Web 2.0ish effects but the function reference is great and whenever I forget how to create an anonymous hash reference and whatnot (which easily happens to me when not programming Perl for a while): it's there.
For PHP I always use php.net. I never searched for something PHP related I couldn't find there.
Very true. The answer remains no.
Solar Empire has no copy protection at all and has sold half a million copies.
There is something very wrong. I don't want to ask for permission to use something I legally bought. DRM server crashed? Sorry, no gaming for you today as it happened with Bioshock. There is absolutely no excuse for doing such a thing. Not piracy and nothing else. At least not in the way it is handled now (and I don't know of any unintrusive alternative).
So for example the real address is foo@yahoo.com and the token is bar you may start registering addresses like
and drop them whenever you feel like an address isn't needed anymore. I don't really understand why this feature isn't widely recognized by the public. There is no flaw I have heard from.