People tend to get obese later in life, but this might apply to a small number of people in prime breeding age. That used to be the case but it's not anymore. Clearly you haven't seen how many fat children there are running about in western countries (especially the Americans and UK).
He's probably right. After all obesity affects sex drive and extreme weight lose can make men shorter if you know what I mean and it can make it hard to get some fat woman's vag. Smoking and Obesity account for 75% of the cases of impotency so being fat may also mean you can't get it up. Basically everything is setup to make it harder for obese people to procreate.
They keep trying to make it harder to read which isn't accessible but some places (like rapidshare) have made it nearly impossible for even normal people to guess.
Being a pedo is probably like being gay so they are punishing people for how they were born. One could also mention that some of the gay community has ties to NAMBLA (ie allowing NAMBLA to march at their parades and what not) so maybe gayness and pedophilia are similar so we should be keeping a close eye on gay people.
To all those people commenting on black crime and poverty in this section, you have to remember the vast majority of black people live in the south where people in general make less money. So to compare all white incomes to all black incomes doesn't give a clear picture.
It would make more sense to compare southern incomes of blacks and whites or norther incomes of blacks and whites. Not that it matters any because being poor is no excuse for murdering someone or robbing a store in a country that has benefits set up to ensure people don't starve and can get medical access. Life at the bottom of the pile, in the US, is a damn site better than life at the bottom of Nigeria or Zimbabwe.
I personally think it's the blacks causing blacks to commit crimes. Not whitey oppressing them. If your people only create media that always going on about it's ok to be a "playa" or glamorizing drug dealers and how you have to have loads of "bling" then what do you think young black males are going to do? It's not the white man that has made Tony Montana an idol amongst some blacks.
The black community just finds it too easy to believe they're still being oppressed and need to live a life of crime to make it in the world rather than realise the world has moved on and they could improve themselves but it means changing.
But they do know how many devices other than desktops have been made and run Linux. As someone else mentioned, Linux is in a shit load of products. People who slag it off probably don't realise how often they use Linux in their day to day life.
True but it still stands that a lot of is down to the coder and not the language. I'd hope most hosts monitor people's PHP usage to some extent. I know ages ago I got booted off a host for using someone's script which was deemed harmful which is probably why I took the time to learn a bit of the language myself shortly afterwards.
The language is by no means perfect and I prefer working with Java but it's still a nice quick to learn powerful language.
Who says you have to upgrade to version 6? If you are renting hosting then your host if shit if they don't offer multiple versions of PHP. For instance www.prohosting.com allows you to use either v4 or 5 and will likely offer at least v5 and 6 if not all 3.
Secondly and decent host probably already has registered_globals off and as far as $HTTP_GET_VARS and the like go, do you not have a decent program to find and replace text?
Um, no it's not. It's only downfall is that it's too easy to do powerful things so idiots make dangerous code.
That is not the language's fault. Not everyone wants or needs a JBoss server or something equally silly for their website. PHP is still very good. Safe programming in PHP just needs to be preached more to the new users of PHP and some of the self taught people who perhaps learned off the net from someone else with little experience rather than a book since all books I've seen cover the basics on safety.
The only thing that annoys me is the fact it's function naming methods aren't consistent. It shows that it's had input from various places without any thought into standardizing things.
They have their client installed on everyone's XP and newer machine. They won't have a monopoly over night because people use what their friends use but they've done a lot better than Google which, imo, has a decent system since it allows you to chat in Gmail as well as in your client. They've added AIM functionality too to Gmail which is sweet.
All IM clients should work together, like Email. If everyone other than MS worked together than MS would have to.
The thing is though I'm not 100% MS would object seeing how they tried to have interoperability with AIM and YIM during their launch of MSN. They can't really change their minds and say that's not good any more.
Then you should stipulate that hardware companies should test the systems before hand and if they don't function properly in such a painfully obvious way that it blocks CD Burning software then they can't call it a designed for Vista system.
I'm not saying it's fully MS' fault. Dell needs to take some blame but if that Windows sticker is to have any value then MS should put some controls on how it's used if they don't already. Otherwise why waste money putting silly little stickers on the laptop/desktop?
That is an abuse of power gained through their monopoly. They know users would feel more comfortable with Windows so companies would like to use it so they're offering it at a low price but forcing companies to hold back on innovation.
If this is true then people should complain to their governments. I'm sure we can count on the US gov doing nothing about it but hopefully the EU will put a stop to that at least happening over here.
Well to be fair if you want people to install it you have to give them a reason so people do need to be forced a bit into using it. They certainly won't install it if there is no need to.
They could do that but there is a lot more hassle involved if you want pretty 3D graphics. More so thanks to Intel coming in and ruining the 3D card market.
On of that if they opted to use DirectX they either have to make DX work on other operating systems or, quite rightly, be accused of using their monopoly to gain control of the internet. This would be assuming it actually worked decently and took off which I don't think it would. There are too many problems involved and that's why no one wants to attempt it aside from embedding Flash or Java games like Runescape.
That and most people do just want to find information on the net and not have to flip cubes or bounce balls to get to it.
That is true but if it's a business site you should test both because IE7 still has quirks and can't necessarily be fixed the same way as in IE6. It's over taking IE6 at a decent pace, imo.
At the rate our users appear to be converting to IE7, I'm hoping to pretty much forget about IE6 by the end of the year.
If you don't use it then why does it matter if you upgrade or not?
I fail to see your logic because, as a FF user on my Windows machine, I also realise that certain programs, like Steam use IE and sometimes you, unfortunately, have to use IE which is why FF has a view in IE add-on. So why not use the more secure version? It's not like it'll affect the performance of the machine.
Of course it matures. All software matures. It gets patched. Drivers get better. Third party software gets better. IT pros get better at managing it. Resellers get better at making machines that work well out of the box on it.
Your suggestion that nothing changes once a v1.0 product releases is what is rubbish. All of what I describe is true of nearly every piece of software, and definitely all OSs.
No a piece of software can be fixed but saying it needs to mature implies it's immature and thus not ready. Going from v1.0 to v 2.0 for software is the same as going from Win 95 to Win98. Of course it changes but it is also considered a different product. Which is also why you often have to pay for a major revision.
Console gaming was always superior to PC gaming in terms of quality because there wasn't any patching.
No patching? Every console I've ever owned (except the SNES) has patched itself. And games on them have received patches. And this seems like a reasonable tradeoff to me, as my current xbox 360 can do so very many things that my SNES back in the day could never do. Clearly you never owned anything older than an Xbox. No systems aside from the current gen and the Xbox updated itself. the PSX, SNES and PS2 are all superior machines to the Xbox and don't patch themselves. You're right the 360 does many more things that the SNES does not. It RROD for starters.
The SNES and even the NES did a lot more than you may think. The SNES had satelliview which had online capabilities. The NES had a disk drive and a modem which allowed Japanese gamers to perform stock and bank actions as well as check out game reviews. The reality is, unfortunately for MS (who would like to think they've innovated a lot in console gaming), that the Japanese were already ahead of them as always and just because it didn't take off in America doesn't mean it wasn't done already.
And lets follow that line of thought.
Compare an operating system to a car. A car is at least a couple orders of magnitude simpler (ie, less complexity) than an Operating System. And it has a high risk of death or injury if they dont get something right. Whereas with an OS the worst risk is some minor property loss.
Any car engineer would likely tell you that you're wrong. There is more to a car than the steering wheel and gear shift. Secondly, programming plays a major part of car design these days. In fact some cars run Windows if MS can supposedly get it right for the car then why not at home?
Yet cars have lots of problems. Lots of recalls. Lots of problems that dont cost car manufacturers enough money to make it worth going through a recall. Lots of poor user engineering, and inherently faulty (ie, fast fail) designs.
And operating systems are a little worse. But the complexity is hugely bigger, and the risks/downsides are much less.
Sounds pretty reasonable to me. Not ideal, but quite in line with a pragmatic approach to reality.
Exactly, when a car does fowl up on a massive scale it's taken off the market. That's not the case with an OS and an OS isn't just something you play around with. It's used to run businesses and takes care of a lot of very important data. This isn't something that should just be released in a half assed manner by a company that takes zero responsibility for what it does.
Why do you think company size and wealth should translate to better products? There is absolutely no evidence (and much counter evidence, Brooks, et al) to show that bigger companies produce better software.
Of course it should translate into better products. You have more money than anyone else. You should then be able to buy the best programmers, you should be able to have a huge testing facility and just on those two factors alone means you produce something better than some small timer.
Yeah, thats how pretty much all those industries work. Every car I've ever bought has been in
Because software is made to be multipurpose. They do not have all the customer configurations at their disposal for testing. They cannot predict everything that people will do with it. Console gaming is superior not because of the software, but becasue of the uniformity of the hardware (same goes for the Mac platform). So you would like me to believe that a Dell machine that launched with Vista and it's little "vista compatible" sticker has some kind of weird ass configuration that Microsoft didn't test for? Isn't the whole point of open betas to cover as many system configurations and unexpected user habits?
You're implying that MS will allow anyone to slap a Vista compatible sticker on any machine which then makes it pointless and you're also implying that they didn't use any of their public testing data or that MS themselves only have like two computers they test on. If my employer can afford to have over 10 different configurations to test its very basic software on then the world's richest company should be able to afford 10 times that at least.
The whole excuse that it's a multipurpose machine is not valid. Certainly not when you expect businesses to run your software and certainly not when free software out performs you. Linux is by no means perfect but I'd expect something I paid hundreds of dollars for to out perform something that's free and has the same hardware issues.
Again, because your car is made to do only a handful of things. Try to do something outside of that realm (ie. take your Prius offroading) and your warranty is void by no fault of Toyota. Take your operating system offroading, and somehow you're expecting the OS to protect us or recover from it. That doesn't make for a fair comparison. Doing something with a car you're not supposed to do implies doing something that voids the warranty. Well that's all well and good but the car manufacturer has taken on some responsibility for the car. Software publishers don't and basically say everything is your fault. That should not be legal.
Secondly, my previous employer was dumb enough to buy a few Vista machines. When I'm given these machines to set up for people and I turn them on for the first time and I'm getting errors and being told that drivers can't be used (drivers which came on the system) and the OS is slow to load. This machine is provided by Dell, it has a little sticker on it which MS tells me to look for because it means the machine I have is the best for running Vista so how is that comparable to driving a Prius off-road?
It's not and when a company wants to tell me this hardware is best for their OS then it better work and they can't fall back on some "it's multi-purpose" when they tell you that hardware is ok and certainly not when it's been launched for the first time and you haven't even installed anything or ran anything on it.
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He's probably right. After all obesity affects sex drive and extreme weight lose can make men shorter if you know what I mean and it can make it hard to get some fat woman's vag. Smoking and Obesity account for 75% of the cases of impotency so being fat may also mean you can't get it up. Basically everything is setup to make it harder for obese people to procreate.
The FBI allowed it so it would draw out closet pedos like yourself.
That's crossed my mind as well especially since it seems like you get fewer tries these days than before.
They keep trying to make it harder to read which isn't accessible but some places (like rapidshare) have made it nearly impossible for even normal people to guess.
Do you use a lot plugins or something? Because FF3 works fine for me on my Ubuntu install.
Being a pedo is probably like being gay so they are punishing people for how they were born. One could also mention that some of the gay community has ties to NAMBLA (ie allowing NAMBLA to march at their parades and what not) so maybe gayness and pedophilia are similar so we should be keeping a close eye on gay people.
To all those people commenting on black crime and poverty in this section, you have to remember the vast majority of black people live in the south where people in general make less money. So to compare all white incomes to all black incomes doesn't give a clear picture.
It would make more sense to compare southern incomes of blacks and whites or norther incomes of blacks and whites. Not that it matters any because being poor is no excuse for murdering someone or robbing a store in a country that has benefits set up to ensure people don't starve and can get medical access. Life at the bottom of the pile, in the US, is a damn site better than life at the bottom of Nigeria or Zimbabwe.
I personally think it's the blacks causing blacks to commit crimes. Not whitey oppressing them. If your people only create media that always going on about it's ok to be a "playa" or glamorizing drug dealers and how you have to have loads of "bling" then what do you think young black males are going to do? It's not the white man that has made Tony Montana an idol amongst some blacks.
The black community just finds it too easy to believe they're still being oppressed and need to live a life of crime to make it in the world rather than realise the world has moved on and they could improve themselves but it means changing.
If it doesn't say that then that means it's not accurate.
It's more about stopping these jack asses from doing what they're doing and not about making money off them in court.
But they do know how many devices other than desktops have been made and run Linux. As someone else mentioned, Linux is in a shit load of products. People who slag it off probably don't realise how often they use Linux in their day to day life.
True but it still stands that a lot of is down to the coder and not the language. I'd hope most hosts monitor people's PHP usage to some extent. I know ages ago I got booted off a host for using someone's script which was deemed harmful which is probably why I took the time to learn a bit of the language myself shortly afterwards.
The language is by no means perfect and I prefer working with Java but it's still a nice quick to learn powerful language.
Who says you have to upgrade to version 6? If you are renting hosting then your host if shit if they don't offer multiple versions of PHP. For instance www.prohosting.com allows you to use either v4 or 5 and will likely offer at least v5 and 6 if not all 3.
Secondly and decent host probably already has registered_globals off and as far as $HTTP_GET_VARS and the like go, do you not have a decent program to find and replace text?
Um, no it's not. It's only downfall is that it's too easy to do powerful things so idiots make dangerous code.
That is not the language's fault. Not everyone wants or needs a JBoss server or something equally silly for their website. PHP is still very good. Safe programming in PHP just needs to be preached more to the new users of PHP and some of the self taught people who perhaps learned off the net from someone else with little experience rather than a book since all books I've seen cover the basics on safety.
The only thing that annoys me is the fact it's function naming methods aren't consistent. It shows that it's had input from various places without any thought into standardizing things.
They have their client installed on everyone's XP and newer machine. They won't have a monopoly over night because people use what their friends use but they've done a lot better than Google which, imo, has a decent system since it allows you to chat in Gmail as well as in your client. They've added AIM functionality too to Gmail which is sweet.
All IM clients should work together, like Email. If everyone other than MS worked together than MS would have to.
The thing is though I'm not 100% MS would object seeing how they tried to have interoperability with AIM and YIM during their launch of MSN. They can't really change their minds and say that's not good any more.
Then you should stipulate that hardware companies should test the systems before hand and if they don't function properly in such a painfully obvious way that it blocks CD Burning software then they can't call it a designed for Vista system.
I'm not saying it's fully MS' fault. Dell needs to take some blame but if that Windows sticker is to have any value then MS should put some controls on how it's used if they don't already. Otherwise why waste money putting silly little stickers on the laptop/desktop?
Surprisingly no MS sites seem to have been blocked.
I'm on my laptop which is an XP laptop with Windows Live Messenger version 2008 (Build 8.5.1302.1018) and it won't send Youtube URLs.
There is absolutely no legit reason for them to do this.
That is an abuse of power gained through their monopoly. They know users would feel more comfortable with Windows so companies would like to use it so they're offering it at a low price but forcing companies to hold back on innovation.
If this is true then people should complain to their governments. I'm sure we can count on the US gov doing nothing about it but hopefully the EU will put a stop to that at least happening over here.
Well to be fair if you want people to install it you have to give them a reason so people do need to be forced a bit into using it. They certainly won't install it if there is no need to.
They could do that but there is a lot more hassle involved if you want pretty 3D graphics. More so thanks to Intel coming in and ruining the 3D card market.
On of that if they opted to use DirectX they either have to make DX work on other operating systems or, quite rightly, be accused of using their monopoly to gain control of the internet. This would be assuming it actually worked decently and took off which I don't think it would. There are too many problems involved and that's why no one wants to attempt it aside from embedding Flash or Java games like Runescape.
That and most people do just want to find information on the net and not have to flip cubes or bounce balls to get to it.
That is true but if it's a business site you should test both because IE7 still has quirks and can't necessarily be fixed the same way as in IE6. It's over taking IE6 at a decent pace, imo.
At the rate our users appear to be converting to IE7, I'm hoping to pretty much forget about IE6 by the end of the year.
If you don't use it then why does it matter if you upgrade or not?
I fail to see your logic because, as a FF user on my Windows machine, I also realise that certain programs, like Steam use IE and sometimes you, unfortunately, have to use IE which is why FF has a view in IE add-on. So why not use the more secure version? It's not like it'll affect the performance of the machine.
Of course it matures. All software matures. It gets patched. Drivers get better. Third party software gets better. IT pros get better at managing it. Resellers get better at making machines that work well out of the box on it. Your suggestion that nothing changes once a v1.0 product releases is what is rubbish. All of what I describe is true of nearly every piece of software, and definitely all OSs.
No a piece of software can be fixed but saying it needs to mature implies it's immature and thus not ready. Going from v1.0 to v 2.0 for software is the same as going from Win 95 to Win98. Of course it changes but it is also considered a different product. Which is also why you often have to pay for a major revision.
Console gaming was always superior to PC gaming in terms of quality because there wasn't any patching.
No patching? Every console I've ever owned (except the SNES) has patched itself. And games on them have received patches. And this seems like a reasonable tradeoff to me, as my current xbox 360 can do so very many things that my SNES back in the day could never do. Clearly you never owned anything older than an Xbox. No systems aside from the current gen and the Xbox updated itself. the PSX, SNES and PS2 are all superior machines to the Xbox and don't patch themselves. You're right the 360 does many more things that the SNES does not. It RROD for starters.
The SNES and even the NES did a lot more than you may think. The SNES had satelliview which had online capabilities. The NES had a disk drive and a modem which allowed Japanese gamers to perform stock and bank actions as well as check out game reviews. The reality is, unfortunately for MS (who would like to think they've innovated a lot in console gaming), that the Japanese were already ahead of them as always and just because it didn't take off in America doesn't mean it wasn't done already.
And lets follow that line of thought. Compare an operating system to a car. A car is at least a couple orders of magnitude simpler (ie, less complexity) than an Operating System. And it has a high risk of death or injury if they dont get something right. Whereas with an OS the worst risk is some minor property loss.
Any car engineer would likely tell you that you're wrong. There is more to a car than the steering wheel and gear shift. Secondly, programming plays a major part of car design these days. In fact some cars run Windows if MS can supposedly get it right for the car then why not at home?
Yet cars have lots of problems. Lots of recalls. Lots of problems that dont cost car manufacturers enough money to make it worth going through a recall. Lots of poor user engineering, and inherently faulty (ie, fast fail) designs. And operating systems are a little worse. But the complexity is hugely bigger, and the risks/downsides are much less. Sounds pretty reasonable to me. Not ideal, but quite in line with a pragmatic approach to reality.
Exactly, when a car does fowl up on a massive scale it's taken off the market. That's not the case with an OS and an OS isn't just something you play around with. It's used to run businesses and takes care of a lot of very important data. This isn't something that should just be released in a half assed manner by a company that takes zero responsibility for what it does.
Why do you think company size and wealth should translate to better products? There is absolutely no evidence (and much counter evidence, Brooks, et al) to show that bigger companies produce better software.
Of course it should translate into better products. You have more money than anyone else. You should then be able to buy the best programmers, you should be able to have a huge testing facility and just on those two factors alone means you produce something better than some small timer.
Yeah, thats how pretty much all those industries work. Every car I've ever bought has been in
You're implying that MS will allow anyone to slap a Vista compatible sticker on any machine which then makes it pointless and you're also implying that they didn't use any of their public testing data or that MS themselves only have like two computers they test on. If my employer can afford to have over 10 different configurations to test its very basic software on then the world's richest company should be able to afford 10 times that at least.
The whole excuse that it's a multipurpose machine is not valid. Certainly not when you expect businesses to run your software and certainly not when free software out performs you. Linux is by no means perfect but I'd expect something I paid hundreds of dollars for to out perform something that's free and has the same hardware issues. Again, because your car is made to do only a handful of things. Try to do something outside of that realm (ie. take your Prius offroading) and your warranty is void by no fault of Toyota. Take your operating system offroading, and somehow you're expecting the OS to protect us or recover from it. That doesn't make for a fair comparison. Doing something with a car you're not supposed to do implies doing something that voids the warranty. Well that's all well and good but the car manufacturer has taken on some responsibility for the car. Software publishers don't and basically say everything is your fault. That should not be legal.
Secondly, my previous employer was dumb enough to buy a few Vista machines. When I'm given these machines to set up for people and I turn them on for the first time and I'm getting errors and being told that drivers can't be used (drivers which came on the system) and the OS is slow to load. This machine is provided by Dell, it has a little sticker on it which MS tells me to look for because it means the machine I have is the best for running Vista so how is that comparable to driving a Prius off-road?
It's not and when a company wants to tell me this hardware is best for their OS then it better work and they can't fall back on some "it's multi-purpose" when they tell you that hardware is ok and certainly not when it's been launched for the first time and you haven't even installed anything or ran anything on it.
People who stick with broken browsers, like IE6, should be shot. It's people like you that make web development more of a pain than it needs to be. :P