I concur. I use it on Windows so it might be different elsewhere, but...
Network timeouts after disuse get annoying "Lost connection" messages - there's no way to recover. It's faster to CTRL_ALT_DEL and open task manager and kill javaw.exe than to attempt to close it using the X and battle the "i can't close the application because the server isn't responding" logic.
"Update Status" gets stuck sometimes and you can't even "compare files" to see if you are up to date. "File is locked"... have to kill ST and restart, which gets slower with every version. The "file compare" function gets stuck on "Finding differences" and the only solution is a) find the temp file that is causing problems and delete it b) when that doesn't work, because it won't, reinstall ST completely.
When you check in a file, and "compare differences" to make sure everything is entered in the check-in message, you can either type in the commit box, or scroll through the differences in the compare tool - but not both. You could in the old version, so they intentionally cocked this up looks like.
Enter a commit message and forget to lock the file first (for those 5-second changes) or if there is some conflict on the local drive and it errors, it throws away the entire message and you have to re-type if you want it back. That's when I learned the art of selecting all and copy before hitting enter. And sometimes that doesn't work, so select all, cut, paste, and then you're sure it's on the clipboard so hit OK.
I use the keyboard as much as possible, but it's shite for keyboarding as mentioned.
"View Manager" is a travesty. I have had so many conflicts and such I couldn't make sense of, and it took 4 hours to sync a vew!!!! I resorted to copying the files manually from one view to another and then manually re-check them in to bring the base view up to date. I finally gave up and used labels/tags instead.
You open it, and it takes several minutes to get to a usable state, so let it run in the background. Well it calls SetForegroundwindow() every time it accomplishes something, so just start it and read slashdot and ALT+TAB back to slashdot a few times. when you no longer notice that it's annoying you, it's been ready for a while and you just lost half your workday. It's not a tool for the impatient.
I did ask the server admin where one of my files went and they couldn't find it (it's in the view, but can't do anything with it), but that was maybe 2005 version and we have updated.
It's easy to have duplicate files with the same name, especially when merging views. So one is "unknown" and the other up to date, then you update the other file and they switch. One is locked, the other isn't... Depending on the situation and how it happened you can actually lose commit comments and history when this happens, just choose the most useful one and remove the other one.
The view settings by default go to the first one in the list, so I have someone else's filtering on every folder and have to change it. I can add my own view type, and if it's alphabetically before everyone else's, the ENTIRE USER BASE for that server gets my new view as default. Name it something dirty with a leading underscore or less-than and hilarity ensues. Maybe they fixed that in 2008, but that's seriously broken. It's actually very easy for a simple user to make changes that affect all other users, like re-locating the local repository location for individual files or whole folders.
You can program it using COM objects, and it's fairly easy to find samples on like codegear, if that still exists, but documentation is crap. I wrote a VB6 app that would check stuff in and out and lock it and do simple stuff, just so I didn't have to load this virus into memory. I used it to select files for review documentation, since it's very difficult to get information out.
I asked for a simple "Copy folder location" or "Open containing folder" function - you have to right-click, properties, and then it's hard to sele
I'm forced to use Star Team, and although it has some nice features there are a LOT of things wrong with it. It is a good example of an anti-productivity tool. Can't believe they bought it. I have a suspicion they don't use it for their own source control, or they would have fixed a lot fo these things a long time ago. Nice as Turbo C/Pascal were in the day, and although I never used it Delphi seemed reasonable, I agree 100% bonehead.
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This is not intended to be a threat in any way, but if I can use your works for free just by arranging an "accident", you really have no protection at all. The goose that laid the golden egg and all that. You don't want to push for a law that gives any incentive at all to murder.
They usually wait until you adjust a little and then power-flush a gallon of water in a bidet-like fountain, then when you leave spray you again. Inevitably, every toilet will be, shall we say, visibly un-flushed upon entering the rest room, so you have to pre-flush using the manual black button.
Now, despite the obvious bugs, it has to have some sort of logic in there. I was going to reply saying "no, you're an idiot", but in preparing my response I decided that with any faulty junk software, the answer is to fix it in the next layer, and if you don't have another layer add one. Web formats database output, JS fixes web output.... Adobe makes a portable document and makes it dynamic, far from permanent.
So my point is, unless every one of us speaks up at that meeting where your manager says the client has requested for us to implement JS in a toilet, and says we absolutely will not do it and will quit if required to do so, and actually follow through on that, it is inevitable.
Since you posted AC and I can't assess your linguistic skills via a profile, I'll just say we can agree to disagree on how to spell "there". Otherwise, you make a solid point.
But I think this guy goes one better. He's legislating from the bench, and not like the normal accusations, this is like putting innocent people in jail. If you are accused of being an idiot, you go to jail in my courtroom. Accused of wearing plaid, no warrant needed you're in Bubba's room.
First post, on topic, and nailed it right on the head. Plus I'm drunk. I think I love you.
It's scary, honestly, to think how many lives are in the hands of people whose decisions to pursue FDA approval and continue research projects are based on profit potential, as opposed to saving lives.
The conspiracies about having cures for diabetes and AIDS but profit is in tempering the symptoms instead... sabotaging legit research into alternative therapies, discouraging natural medicines because anyone could grow it, and the ever-present direct marketing to consumers, who pressure the doctor into prescribing something because they're getting the same pressure on the other side from drug compaines. And then the "continuous release" reformulations which bypass the normal patent length... Does anyone think a normal company these days can't get a continuous release formula right the first time? No, it takes 14 years to figure that out and patent it, and you double the life of a cash cow.
Asinine rewards and bonuses for drug reps whose function in life is absolutely useless, and the poor people pay for that because they are the ones without good coverage. And for the middle class, who cares what the cost is - insurance pays for it, right?
Is it, in the interest of the people, right for medical research to be for-profit? For the good of the people, the furthering of humanity, the safety of our nation, the welfare of our most blessed resource children of all things... is it profit that should motivate us?
I understand gvmnt grants such as NIH in the US, but shouldn't that be all open-sourced, as it were, if any public money comes into play? Free access, no patents, or at least pricing restrictions on patents.
It sounds like socialism, and we're all scared of that... but regulations have to be in place. SEC relaxed restrictions on financials and the whole industry maximized its leverage and melted the economy - paper money burned at the stake. We know greed causes problems.
Allow me to pursue a tangent. Google fucked up the internet. How so? Well everyone wants a tech support site, because everyone has dll problems. So we have a thousand sites, a thousand differnt places to submit your questions, and a thousand answers multiplied by the number of wrong answers peopel give becuase they want to score response points, increase their post count or similar - wild guesses hoping to accidentally score. Each subpopulation self selected, and the search results will bring different ones to the top depending on what the error is, or how you phrase it. Adsense on each of these sites, and suddenly it's lucrative to set up shop repeating what everyone else already knows. KBalertz site is a copy of MSDN - what's the use? SQLServerCentral I think, and Experts-Exchange I thnk are blocked on my work lappy (hosts file) because they want me to sign up to see the answer. Well if I change my user-agent string to googlebot, I get to see the answers so fuck you I'm not signing up. A proprietary community and good google results makes money, but pollutes the internet. Consolidate the answers, have a few sources to search - Google did not mean to derail this, but it happened. Ironic, that the search leader made it harder to find good answers because the number of experts are spread over many different sites and cannot possibly provide correct information.
It's greed, and failing to work a truly sustainable business. Your customers dying cannot be good for business. Can't afford the drug, or getting a newer, untested version like VIOXX instead of more established therapies, more tested therapies - this does not help anyone.
I honestly thing 5 years of every drug's life should be spent in "beta" status - you will be tracked, and insurance can refuse to pay for it, but if you want to out of your own bulging pockets go for it. No lawsuite in the first 5 years, to protect the investment of the drug companies, but it will also hurt profits. Trade-off? Human lives saved at the expense of some corporate profits, balanced by svings on lawsuit settlements.
You seem to be a Finn based on your other comments - I would just like to clarify. Normally I'd say "like hell they would". But this would likely be tried in Finland, and so I assume your comment means "loser pays" is common in the legal system there?
On principle, US law has avoided that due to it being a potentially great imbalance. If I defend myself against the RIAA hoardes and loser pays, a technicality ruling could mean I have to pay millions in legal fees to RIAA laywers, while my defense is going to be a single affordable lawyer. My single guy against a hoarde of legal eagles makes it likely they can get out on a technicality my guy never saw coming. Losing the case means I am also bankrupt.
So "loser pays" can have the effect of making the little guy roll over for anything but the surest of victories.
A single citizen getting the attention of a legislator is a lobbyist. Most aren't that good at it and only get the form letter response. Sometimes they get corporate backing and do it for a living.
It's like campaign contributions - we'd rather companies not give money to legislators in exchange for favors. But if there is a candidate we believe in, we would like to be free to contribute time or money towards getting their message out.
Freedom sometimes helps the bad guys, because you can't write laws that say "...but if your intentions are honest, it's not illegal".
Is it possible that we wouldn't be downloading everything there ever was, if we had grown up in a world where copyrights were limited in any meaningful sense?
Removing IE has nothing to do with it, and all of these mod points were wasted. At the time, web browsers were add-on features which cost money, and MS gave away IE for free to gain market share. There was no problem with that either, if a company wants to make a product and give it away fine.
The problem is bundling a freebie in with a market-dominating product, in order to bury the freebie's competition. What if your telephone company gave away newspapers with DSL? Your newspaper company would crap buckets. What happens when the paper company goes under and the telephone company never updates its paper? Everyone gets it in the butt. Surprisingly, some people have a problem with this.
It could be one of the top ten, one of the top hundred, or one of the top in the history of ever. This phrase conveys no useful information. Please be a little more specific next time, or skip the hyperbole. As far as I know there are millions of these and this is one of them.
Based on the MAFIAA's track record, I'm wondering if that's a good idea. If it's a Winamp type m3u it also contains the location of the file, so that combined with the poster's IP address is really no different from how TPB got busted.
If you think this is a troll, you obviously don't work amongst people. Just shut up for a while and maybe I'll get that done, but with all your blabbing and meetings and documentation I just cannot do what you're paying me to do.
It's strange that they use the same words as their target audience? You might not use it like that, but someone who accepts that sometimes a computer just "eats" documents, that's how they work, like having a random number generator deciding when to fail a disk write, this person would use it that way.
I have not heard of this guy, and while I usually think whoop diddly bang whop another bloke is dead, in a bit of a sing-songy voice, right near, but not actually in, the back of my head, no, I mean closer to the front, this guy seems like a hoot and I'm happy the internet brought me something new today.
They host the tracker, so it's not quite as simple as you suggest. If they didn't host the tracker you'd be dead on. And in fact a torrent can have multiple trackers I think so TPB could turn theirs off and be completely free.
Part of the reason this is such a big deal is TPB is often used as the tracker, even for other torrent search sites. Closing TPB search functions won't do much to affect copying, but shutting down the tracker would be a severe blow to the infrastructure. Other trackers would have to drastically step up and host the load. Maybe that's no big deal, but it would be chaotic for a while I'm sure.
I can't find the sources where I read this, so take with a grain of salt... but the search functionality doesn't seem to be the target here. They want the tracker shut down, or else they are totally clueless.
You would not be able to copy the car without someone else buying it first. Or if every car is a copy someone had to build the first one. So you are getting the benefit of other people's work for free regardless of how you're doing it. Of course if we could copy cars we would have the scarcity problem solved and there would be no hunger or poverty, and we would move on to the next phase of being inhabitants of the universe.
Take blueprints - someone worked long and hard to figure all of it out. Even if the person doesn't lose anything because you copied it, it wouldn't have existed without their work. If you find value in it when building your home, you should repay them by making something of value in return using your time end effort or you are simply a societal parasite. Often since this is not possible, money serves as a decent intermediary.
The reason you have mixed feelings is because the law, and the industry, are both set up to disadvantage customers and creators in the interest of business.
Sometimes people copy stuff they shouldn't, and no one will ever be able to stop that. Doesn't make it right, but often the company can benefit.
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I concur. I use it on Windows so it might be different elsewhere, but...
Network timeouts after disuse get annoying "Lost connection" messages - there's no way to recover. It's faster to CTRL_ALT_DEL and open task manager and kill javaw.exe than to attempt to close it using the X and battle the "i can't close the application because the server isn't responding" logic.
"Update Status" gets stuck sometimes and you can't even "compare files" to see if you are up to date. "File is locked"... have to kill ST and restart, which gets slower with every version. The "file compare" function gets stuck on "Finding differences" and the only solution is a) find the temp file that is causing problems and delete it b) when that doesn't work, because it won't, reinstall ST completely.
When you check in a file, and "compare differences" to make sure everything is entered in the check-in message, you can either type in the commit box, or scroll through the differences in the compare tool - but not both. You could in the old version, so they intentionally cocked this up looks like.
Enter a commit message and forget to lock the file first (for those 5-second changes) or if there is some conflict on the local drive and it errors, it throws away the entire message and you have to re-type if you want it back. That's when I learned the art of selecting all and copy before hitting enter. And sometimes that doesn't work, so select all, cut, paste, and then you're sure it's on the clipboard so hit OK.
I use the keyboard as much as possible, but it's shite for keyboarding as mentioned.
"View Manager" is a travesty. I have had so many conflicts and such I couldn't make sense of, and it took 4 hours to sync a vew!!!! I resorted to copying the files manually from one view to another and then manually re-check them in to bring the base view up to date. I finally gave up and used labels/tags instead.
You open it, and it takes several minutes to get to a usable state, so let it run in the background. Well it calls SetForegroundwindow() every time it accomplishes something, so just start it and read slashdot and ALT+TAB back to slashdot a few times. when you no longer notice that it's annoying you, it's been ready for a while and you just lost half your workday. It's not a tool for the impatient.
I did ask the server admin where one of my files went and they couldn't find it (it's in the view, but can't do anything with it), but that was maybe 2005 version and we have updated.
It's easy to have duplicate files with the same name, especially when merging views. So one is "unknown" and the other up to date, then you update the other file and they switch. One is locked, the other isn't... Depending on the situation and how it happened you can actually lose commit comments and history when this happens, just choose the most useful one and remove the other one.
The view settings by default go to the first one in the list, so I have someone else's filtering on every folder and have to change it. I can add my own view type, and if it's alphabetically before everyone else's, the ENTIRE USER BASE for that server gets my new view as default. Name it something dirty with a leading underscore or less-than and hilarity ensues. Maybe they fixed that in 2008, but that's seriously broken. It's actually very easy for a simple user to make changes that affect all other users, like re-locating the local repository location for individual files or whole folders.
You can program it using COM objects, and it's fairly easy to find samples on like codegear, if that still exists, but documentation is crap. I wrote a VB6 app that would check stuff in and out and lock it and do simple stuff, just so I didn't have to load this virus into memory. I used it to select files for review documentation, since it's very difficult to get information out.
I asked for a simple "Copy folder location" or "Open containing folder" function - you have to right-click, properties, and then it's hard to sele
I'm forced to use Star Team, and although it has some nice features there are a LOT of things wrong with it. It is a good example of an anti-productivity tool. Can't believe they bought it. I have a suspicion they don't use it for their own source control, or they would have fixed a lot fo these things a long time ago. Nice as Turbo C/Pascal were in the day, and although I never used it Delphi seemed reasonable, I agree 100% bonehead.
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Your proposal gives me an incentive to kill you.
This is not intended to be a threat in any way, but if I can use your works for free just by arranging an "accident", you really have no protection at all. The goose that laid the golden egg and all that. You don't want to push for a law that gives any incentive at all to murder.
Slow down, hoss, you're one step away from reinventing Time Cube.
You must be great fun at parties
To be fair, I think that ship's computers were comparatively secure at that point...
Here at the office, we have auto-flushers.
They usually wait until you adjust a little and then power-flush a gallon of water in a bidet-like fountain, then when you leave spray you again. Inevitably, every toilet will be, shall we say, visibly un-flushed upon entering the rest room, so you have to pre-flush using the manual black button.
Now, despite the obvious bugs, it has to have some sort of logic in there. I was going to reply saying "no, you're an idiot", but in preparing my response I decided that with any faulty junk software, the answer is to fix it in the next layer, and if you don't have another layer add one. Web formats database output, JS fixes web output.... Adobe makes a portable document and makes it dynamic, far from permanent.
So my point is, unless every one of us speaks up at that meeting where your manager says the client has requested for us to implement JS in a toilet, and says we absolutely will not do it and will quit if required to do so, and actually follow through on that, it is inevitable.
And finally to summarize, it is inevitable.
Since you posted AC and I can't assess your linguistic skills via a profile, I'll just say we can agree to disagree on how to spell "there". Otherwise, you make a solid point.
But I think this guy goes one better. He's legislating from the bench, and not like the normal accusations, this is like putting innocent people in jail. If you are accused of being an idiot, you go to jail in my courtroom. Accused of wearing plaid, no warrant needed you're in Bubba's room.
First post, on topic, and nailed it right on the head. Plus I'm drunk. I think I love you.
It's scary, honestly, to think how many lives are in the hands of people whose decisions to pursue FDA approval and continue research projects are based on profit potential, as opposed to saving lives.
The conspiracies about having cures for diabetes and AIDS but profit is in tempering the symptoms instead... sabotaging legit research into alternative therapies, discouraging natural medicines because anyone could grow it, and the ever-present direct marketing to consumers, who pressure the doctor into prescribing something because they're getting the same pressure on the other side from drug compaines. And then the "continuous release" reformulations which bypass the normal patent length... Does anyone think a normal company these days can't get a continuous release formula right the first time? No, it takes 14 years to figure that out and patent it, and you double the life of a cash cow.
Asinine rewards and bonuses for drug reps whose function in life is absolutely useless, and the poor people pay for that because they are the ones without good coverage. And for the middle class, who cares what the cost is - insurance pays for it, right?
Is it, in the interest of the people, right for medical research to be for-profit? For the good of the people, the furthering of humanity, the safety of our nation, the welfare of our most blessed resource children of all things... is it profit that should motivate us?
I understand gvmnt grants such as NIH in the US, but shouldn't that be all open-sourced, as it were, if any public money comes into play? Free access, no patents, or at least pricing restrictions on patents.
It sounds like socialism, and we're all scared of that... but regulations have to be in place. SEC relaxed restrictions on financials and the whole industry maximized its leverage and melted the economy - paper money burned at the stake. We know greed causes problems.
Allow me to pursue a tangent. Google fucked up the internet. How so? Well everyone wants a tech support site, because everyone has dll problems. So we have a thousand sites, a thousand differnt places to submit your questions, and a thousand answers multiplied by the number of wrong answers peopel give becuase they want to score response points, increase their post count or similar - wild guesses hoping to accidentally score. Each subpopulation self selected, and the search results will bring different ones to the top depending on what the error is, or how you phrase it. Adsense on each of these sites, and suddenly it's lucrative to set up shop repeating what everyone else already knows. KBalertz site is a copy of MSDN - what's the use? SQLServerCentral I think, and Experts-Exchange I thnk are blocked on my work lappy (hosts file) because they want me to sign up to see the answer. Well if I change my user-agent string to googlebot, I get to see the answers so fuck you I'm not signing up. A proprietary community and good google results makes money, but pollutes the internet. Consolidate the answers, have a few sources to search - Google did not mean to derail this, but it happened. Ironic, that the search leader made it harder to find good answers because the number of experts are spread over many different sites and cannot possibly provide correct information.
It's greed, and failing to work a truly sustainable business. Your customers dying cannot be good for business. Can't afford the drug, or getting a newer, untested version like VIOXX instead of more established therapies, more tested therapies - this does not help anyone.
I honestly thing 5 years of every drug's life should be spent in "beta" status - you will be tracked, and insurance can refuse to pay for it, but if you want to out of your own bulging pockets go for it. No lawsuite in the first 5 years, to protect the investment of the drug companies, but it will also hurt profits. Trade-off? Human lives saved at the expense of some corporate profits, balanced by svings on lawsuit settlements.
I will run for office some day, vote for me :)
I wrote a library adding support for MNG to IE - called MINGE
You seem to be a Finn based on your other comments - I would just like to clarify. Normally I'd say "like hell they would". But this would likely be tried in Finland, and so I assume your comment means "loser pays" is common in the legal system there?
On principle, US law has avoided that due to it being a potentially great imbalance. If I defend myself against the RIAA hoardes and loser pays, a technicality ruling could mean I have to pay millions in legal fees to RIAA laywers, while my defense is going to be a single affordable lawyer. My single guy against a hoarde of legal eagles makes it likely they can get out on a technicality my guy never saw coming. Losing the case means I am also bankrupt.
So "loser pays" can have the effect of making the little guy roll over for anything but the surest of victories.
A single citizen getting the attention of a legislator is a lobbyist. Most aren't that good at it and only get the form letter response. Sometimes they get corporate backing and do it for a living.
It's like campaign contributions - we'd rather companies not give money to legislators in exchange for favors. But if there is a candidate we believe in, we would like to be free to contribute time or money towards getting their message out.
Freedom sometimes helps the bad guys, because you can't write laws that say "...but if your intentions are honest, it's not illegal".
What's your bug report number?
Is it possible that we wouldn't be downloading everything there ever was, if we had grown up in a world where copyrights were limited in any meaningful sense?
Removing IE has nothing to do with it, and all of these mod points were wasted. At the time, web browsers were add-on features which cost money, and MS gave away IE for free to gain market share. There was no problem with that either, if a company wants to make a product and give it away fine.
The problem is bundling a freebie in with a market-dominating product, in order to bury the freebie's competition. What if your telephone company gave away newspapers with DSL? Your newspaper company would crap buckets. What happens when the paper company goes under and the telephone company never updates its paper? Everyone gets it in the butt. Surprisingly, some people have a problem with this.
one of the world's most powerful telescope arrays
It could be one of the top ten, one of the top hundred, or one of the top in the history of ever. This phrase conveys no useful information. Please be a little more specific next time, or skip the hyperbole. As far as I know there are millions of these and this is one of them.
Search the google for mindfuck pictures. When you see it, you'll shit brix.
"anytime, anywhere" is a little different from "some quiet music and a set of headphones", my internet friend.
What if your headphones become dysfunctional - are you still "anytime, anywhere"?
Construction outside your house at 2am with a hangover beginning - still "anytime, anywhere"?
Based on the MAFIAA's track record, I'm wondering if that's a good idea. If it's a Winamp type m3u it also contains the location of the file, so that combined with the poster's IP address is really no different from how TPB got busted.
Play it safe, leave only the indie stuff.
If you think this is a troll, you obviously don't work amongst people. Just shut up for a while and maybe I'll get that done, but with all your blabbing and meetings and documentation I just cannot do what you're paying me to do.
Now go away.
It's strange that they use the same words as their target audience? You might not use it like that, but someone who accepts that sometimes a computer just "eats" documents, that's how they work, like having a random number generator deciding when to fail a disk write, this person would use it that way.
That's not weird at all.
I have not heard of this guy, and while I usually think whoop diddly bang whop another bloke is dead, in a bit of a sing-songy voice, right near, but not actually in, the back of my head, no, I mean closer to the front, this guy seems like a hoot and I'm happy the internet brought me something new today.
Update: captcha = hooted.
They host the tracker, so it's not quite as simple as you suggest. If they didn't host the tracker you'd be dead on. And in fact a torrent can have multiple trackers I think so TPB could turn theirs off and be completely free.
Part of the reason this is such a big deal is TPB is often used as the tracker, even for other torrent search sites. Closing TPB search functions won't do much to affect copying, but shutting down the tracker would be a severe blow to the infrastructure. Other trackers would have to drastically step up and host the load. Maybe that's no big deal, but it would be chaotic for a while I'm sure.
I can't find the sources where I read this, so take with a grain of salt... but the search functionality doesn't seem to be the target here. They want the tracker shut down, or else they are totally clueless.
You would not be able to copy the car without someone else buying it first. Or if every car is a copy someone had to build the first one. So you are getting the benefit of other people's work for free regardless of how you're doing it. Of course if we could copy cars we would have the scarcity problem solved and there would be no hunger or poverty, and we would move on to the next phase of being inhabitants of the universe.
Take blueprints - someone worked long and hard to figure all of it out. Even if the person doesn't lose anything because you copied it, it wouldn't have existed without their work. If you find value in it when building your home, you should repay them by making something of value in return using your time end effort or you are simply a societal parasite. Often since this is not possible, money serves as a decent intermediary.
The reason you have mixed feelings is because the law, and the industry, are both set up to disadvantage customers and creators in the interest of business.
Sometimes people copy stuff they shouldn't, and no one will ever be able to stop that. Doesn't make it right, but often the company can benefit.