Also, use the difference of the current time minus the start time, instead of computing the end time and using a simple less than/greater than comparison. This properly handles wraparounds, and only has a problem with differences more than half of the full range. (so don't keep comparing the time after it's ended!)
Keyword leeches are the worst. I have (or at least had, not sure if I aged it out) some assembly language experience in my resume. One recruitard send me an offer for what I think was an IBM 360 assembly language job because of the way Assembler was used like a holy word in the description, and another time I got an offer for PC board assembly at the nearby university tech labs. Not that I couldn't have done that, and the pay was pretty good for what the work was, and the commute would have been great too, but I was already making $50+/hr as an embedded systems programmer.
OH BOY! A BASE ON THE MOON! Yeah, sure, maybe it would have happened by 2029 at the rate NASA works these days, have you seen how the Senate Launch System keeps missing its milestones? And what exact value is a base on the moon? A lot of scratchy moon dust to give everybody silicosis? Helium-three (giggle) for (hahaha) fusion power (giggle *SNORT*)?
An orbital space station is much more useful because we need to learn to do things in zero-gee (like, say for getting to Mars), and the moon ain't gonna do that.
Actually, when I saw "Space station supply ship misses orbit" on Drudge yesterday, my first thought was of the launch SpaceX had done the day before. Then I remembered that SpaceX launched a geosat, and I smiled.
Also, it's the pilots themselves that carry this weight around when they get on and off of the plane. Do you like the idea of shlepping around a 35lb bag full of books in addition to a travel bag every day at your work?
And then someone has to print some of those books on a regular basis. And then someone has to dispose of them when they expire. And the pilots probably carry regularly updated information for every airport in the countries they might fly in, whether they go to that airport or not.
I think that's a likely cause. I doubt they're updating the app (executable) on a regular basis and pushing the update, when it's only the data that changes regularly. All it takes is one glitch in a weekly data update, and one badswitch statement to cause a program to crash.
Proper error handling is one of the most important things in keeping things running (especially in unattended systems), but one of the harder things to get right, because it's hard to test (as in QA) for every possible unexpected input. You have to get a bit paranoid with your coding, because garbage input really is out to get you.
I actually started drinking Diet Coke years ago because of the aspartame. I had one too many cans of Coca-Cola that just tasted awful (this was in the Coke Classic era after the New Coke fiasco), and found that the aspartame in Diet Coke not only tasted better, but consistently better.
I think one of the reasons that regular Coca-Cola tasted bad may have been because I don't care much for drinking them really cold, and the HFCS was probably tasting bad when it wasn't chilled. Aspartame has its own problems (it's not shelf stable at neutral pH, but perfect at soda-water acidity), and to me it has a bitter "before-taste" (in contrast to saccharine's bitter after-taste) giving it a bite that I actually sort of like.
And I really do not like saccharine. I'm old enough to remember Diet Pepsi from the '80s. It was absolutely awful. And really, all this got started when cyclamates got a bad reputation. It's actually still banned in the US, due to a lack of motivation to remove the ban.
I knew some wise-ass Windows 8 metrosexual type would say that. Hint: I'm not running that new of a version of Windows. Also, the game that is the reason I have Windows installed wouldn't respect the DPI setting anyhow.
Death was current? So they've finally developed the electrocution-over-internet protocol that everyone has been waiting for? This should be a success just from the people having to deal with Comcast customer support!
And I'm sure there were multiple dot-com start-up name generators around 2000 or so. But they all probably died due to running out of seed money. (ba-dum-pissh!)
But aren't PC sales on the decline these days? About the only thing driving PC sales these days (aside from simple replacement of broken computers) is when Microsoft end-of-lifes a version of Windows. And that may have been mostly because the computers that ran W2K and XP could be so low spec. Microsoft may have to force the end of legacy BIOS booting for this to happen in significant numbers.
Ditto for 24/96 and 24/192 audio. Too bad that Neil Young doesn't understand the concept that the purpose of higher resolution sources is to reduce artefacts during editing/mixing, and thinks that we need to carry around lossless high-resolution audio on dedicated player hardware.
I have a 1080p 37" TV set in the living room hooked up to a PC, six feet from the couch. I had to set Windows to 720p just so I could read the icon name text.
I came to say roughly the same thing. 4K resolution is absolutely overkill for video. Sitting six feet away from a 37" 1080p TV set to 720p in Windows (otherwise I can't even read the small text), I can watch a 480p video without feeling like I'm losing anything. I still don't have Blu-Ray, aside from a BD reader drive that a friend gave me because he wasn't using it. I put it on an Ubuntu box and have not even been able yet to play that Talledega Nights movie that was one of the earliest releases (I got it real cheap at a thrift store, it's my only BD disc at all).
Or they could, you know, consider an account that has at least one retail code registered to have spent at least $5? I doubt there are many Steam-based games that you can buy at retail for under $5, unless it's some kind of super clearance sale item.
The point is to restrict accounts that have with no purchase activity at all, because apparently it's easy (and free) to create a bunch of them with an automated script. You can't (or shouldn't be able to) generate retail codes with a script, so you can't use a script to create a large number of accounts with registration codes. The important difference is an account created with no effort vs one created with the effort to register games worth at least $5.
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Also, use the difference of the current time minus the start time, instead of computing the end time and using a simple less than/greater than comparison. This properly handles wraparounds, and only has a problem with differences more than half of the full range. (so don't keep comparing the time after it's ended!)
At least that's better than Window 98 crashing after 7 weeks! (because 1ms instead of 10ms)
Keyword leeches are the worst. I have (or at least had, not sure if I aged it out) some assembly language experience in my resume. One recruitard send me an offer for what I think was an IBM 360 assembly language job because of the way Assembler was used like a holy word in the description, and another time I got an offer for PC board assembly at the nearby university tech labs. Not that I couldn't have done that, and the pay was pretty good for what the work was, and the commute would have been great too, but I was already making $50+/hr as an embedded systems programmer.
But he's not doing what SpaceX is already doing.
SpaceX is going into orbit, while Bezos is staying in the sub-orbital tourist ghetto with the likes of Virgin and XCOR.
OH BOY! A BASE ON THE MOON! Yeah, sure, maybe it would have happened by 2029 at the rate NASA works these days, have you seen how the Senate Launch System keeps missing its milestones? And what exact value is a base on the moon? A lot of scratchy moon dust to give everybody silicosis? Helium-three (giggle) for (hahaha) fusion power (giggle *SNORT*)?
An orbital space station is much more useful because we need to learn to do things in zero-gee (like, say for getting to Mars), and the moon ain't gonna do that.
Actually, when I saw "Space station supply ship misses orbit" on Drudge yesterday, my first thought was of the launch SpaceX had done the day before. Then I remembered that SpaceX launched a geosat, and I smiled.
No, that would be "Crashing App Grinds Dozens of Flights to a Halt".
The proper image should be of large copper cables attached between planes and large metal stakes in the ground.
Also, it's the pilots themselves that carry this weight around when they get on and off of the plane. Do you like the idea of shlepping around a 35lb bag full of books in addition to a travel bag every day at your work?
And then someone has to print some of those books on a regular basis. And then someone has to dispose of them when they expire. And the pilots probably carry regularly updated information for every airport in the countries they might fly in, whether they go to that airport or not.
I think that's a likely cause. I doubt they're updating the app (executable) on a regular basis and pushing the update, when it's only the data that changes regularly. All it takes is one glitch in a weekly data update, and one bad switch statement to cause a program to crash.
Proper error handling is one of the most important things in keeping things running (especially in unattended systems), but one of the harder things to get right, because it's hard to test (as in QA) for every possible unexpected input. You have to get a bit paranoid with your coding, because garbage input really is out to get you.
The moon comes crashing to earth, the sun explodes and the spark of life on earth is extinguished
Then restore from the last save and add more struts.
I actually started drinking Diet Coke years ago because of the aspartame. I had one too many cans of Coca-Cola that just tasted awful (this was in the Coke Classic era after the New Coke fiasco), and found that the aspartame in Diet Coke not only tasted better, but consistently better.
I think one of the reasons that regular Coca-Cola tasted bad may have been because I don't care much for drinking them really cold, and the HFCS was probably tasting bad when it wasn't chilled. Aspartame has its own problems (it's not shelf stable at neutral pH, but perfect at soda-water acidity), and to me it has a bitter "before-taste" (in contrast to saccharine's bitter after-taste) giving it a bite that I actually sort of like.
And I really do not like saccharine. I'm old enough to remember Diet Pepsi from the '80s. It was absolutely awful. And really, all this got started when cyclamates got a bad reputation. It's actually still banned in the US, due to a lack of motivation to remove the ban.
I knew some wise-ass Windows 8 metrosexual type would say that. Hint: I'm not running that new of a version of Windows. Also, the game that is the reason I have Windows installed wouldn't respect the DPI setting anyhow.
Death was current? So they've finally developed the electrocution-over-internet protocol that everyone has been waiting for? This should be a success just from the people having to deal with Comcast customer support!
And I'm sure there were multiple dot-com start-up name generators around 2000 or so. But they all probably died due to running out of seed money. (ba-dum-pissh!)
1) Collect extensive intelligence from phone calls and internet activity of all Americans
2) Don't tell other agencies about it
3) ???
4) PROFIT!
But I might aluminum a car.
Congratulations, you now know you need glasses.
No, it means I have a lawn. Can you see it? Good. Now get off of it.
But aren't PC sales on the decline these days? About the only thing driving PC sales these days (aside from simple replacement of broken computers) is when Microsoft end-of-lifes a version of Windows. And that may have been mostly because the computers that ran W2K and XP could be so low spec. Microsoft may have to force the end of legacy BIOS booting for this to happen in significant numbers.
Ditto for 24/96 and 24/192 audio. Too bad that Neil Young doesn't understand the concept that the purpose of higher resolution sources is to reduce artefacts during editing/mixing, and thinks that we need to carry around lossless high-resolution audio on dedicated player hardware.
I have a 1080p 37" TV set in the living room hooked up to a PC, six feet from the couch. I had to set Windows to 720p just so I could read the icon name text.
I came to say roughly the same thing. 4K resolution is absolutely overkill for video. Sitting six feet away from a 37" 1080p TV set to 720p in Windows (otherwise I can't even read the small text), I can watch a 480p video without feeling like I'm losing anything. I still don't have Blu-Ray, aside from a BD reader drive that a friend gave me because he wasn't using it. I put it on an Ubuntu box and have not even been able yet to play that Talledega Nights movie that was one of the earliest releases (I got it real cheap at a thrift store, it's my only BD disc at all).
Aluminum Cans The guy actually opens some vintage pull-tab cans... for SCIENCE!
The Hackaday article that video was linked from
Or they could, you know, consider an account that has at least one retail code registered to have spent at least $5? I doubt there are many Steam-based games that you can buy at retail for under $5, unless it's some kind of super clearance sale item.
The point is to restrict accounts that have with no purchase activity at all, because apparently it's easy (and free) to create a bunch of them with an automated script. You can't (or shouldn't be able to) generate retail codes with a script, so you can't use a script to create a large number of accounts with registration codes. The important difference is an account created with no effort vs one created with the effort to register games worth at least $5.
He clearly wants to use it with his MAC computer.