... We're forcing people to adopt to some shitty UI instead of making the computer adapt to us....
Too many developers want to make the perfect UI. But everyone wants a different UI.
If a user does something expecting a certain result, that result should happen, if possible. If there are a dozen ways to do something, that is ok. And not usually expensive, if it is done at the start.
Not everything is possible, but that is what user options are for. Not as specials, but standard operations that can be selected.
The idea that one thing is best for all, is an Elitist fantasy... 8-P
Oh horseshit, you are just a power user and Windows has NEVER EVER been set up for power users OOTB. Remember the damned search dog in XP? Clippy? MSFT has been trying to make things simpler and friendly since the days of MSBob and ya know what? regular Joes LOVE that shit!...
Beginners love that stuff...
But after using it for a couple of weeks at work, every day, they are no longer beginners. And it does not take long for that stuff to grate on the nerves. That's why they all failed.
But if we could just turn it off when we are not longer liking it, that would be fine... 8-)
The problem, so far, with government making laws to account for the pollution costs. is that the politicians can't stand doing it in a neutral manner. They always try to use it as a way to make money for the government and "soak the businesses". That "throws a wrench" into the economy. If they could do it without sucking money out of people's pockets just for the politicians, then it could work ok. There have even been plans to do just that, from both sides. But the greedy pols shot them down.
I truly hope you're wrong - because if we burn all available fossil fuels then there is a very real possibility that we won't just be looking at high sea levels and global tropics and deserts, we'll be looking at a full on runaway greenhouse effect such as devastated Venus....
On the other hand, maybe it is the only thing holding off the next Ice Age, which is about ten thousand years overdue.
But then, we will probably catch another dinosaur killer asteroid before either happens, so cheer up. 8-}
If chimps are people, will they be able to vote? Hold political office? Cue the jokes.
I don't think that they would necessary need to be declared legally competent persons, just because they were given personhood status. That being said, I think I agree with those who say that perhaps we need a new classification instead.
Note that the new classification would be very similar to Slavery. 8-P
New laws, to fix bad things, often end up being worse that what they were supposed to fix. And sometimes, even an old bad fix that was tried before.
If the password is cracked, then data can be lost in seconds. So obviously everyone should be required to change the password every time they log on.... 8-P... Hell people really -will- use dictionary words... direct from the dictionary!
The dictionary attack doesn't know where the words are in the password. The entropy of a dictionary attack for a 5-10 word phrase is better than any 8 letter character, and much much better than 8 character password with regular rules.
A few years ago I would have agreed with you. But now days the entire poem, with the authors name, could be in the dictionary used to decode. Also it can be checked, not as individual words, but as a linked list in multiple dimensions.
... The whole point of plain text logs, readable by standard tools, is that you can always find out what happened... Let me tell you I do not want to have to deal with that shit at some ungodly hour. This is Windows Event Viewer crap.
Has no one written a Viewer for this log file? I could probably do it in a couple of hours, except Clarion only runs on Windows.... (ducks and runs) 8-)
... If someone can pull off that elephant illusion, then faking cold fusion well enough to fool a few researchers should be easy. I don't know exactly how the researchers were fooled, but there should be little doubt that they were.
There is some truth to this. They should get a couple of stage magicians to help the reserchers check for hidden "gotchas".
But it does sound like they covered it pretty well.
No one actually knows that it is a fraud. What we "know" is only standing on a shifting ice block, floating in a large ocean. Impossible is not a state that exists, only "impossible as I describe it".
Also, it sounds like they could take it apart. At least enough to do the testing on the materials...
The trolls causing problems may claim to be part of the group, that uses a social forum, but that does not mean it is true. Criminals lie. If you don't believe one thing they say, then you should not trust anything they say. These days computers are easy enough to use, there is no reason to believe they are even "geeks". Imagine criminals in a prison, allowed to use the prison library computers for "education", signing on to random sites just to harass people... 8-P
Most of the viewers are not smart, let alone geniuses either.
The show isn't trying to portray smart people, it's trying to portray dumb people's idea of what smart people are probably like..
Don't be an elitist ! Many of the people out there are smarter than you are, even if you are very smart.
That's not to say you are wrong. That's Hollywood's problem, they don't realise that the audiance is smarter than they are... Just because we will watch entertaining drivil, doesn't mean we would not appreciate something better. But it has to actually be better, not just bigger words.
Microsoft are not planning to toss the whole.NET ecosystem. I have no idea why people keep believing and repeating that shit.
The rumor is: Microsoft intended to write Windows in dotnet, that's what happened to Vista. But the people doing MS Office balked and delayed, it turns out rightfully. They never got Vista all the way into dotnet, and began removing the traces in Win7. Of course now it is just beginning to be reliable. But it is probably too late.
There is some evidence to back it up. Some is in Windows it's self...
How is a high level interpreted language "basics"?
We'll all eventually decide assembly programming is best.
I programmed for a few months in 6502 Hex code only. Thats basics. Well actually, the PDP machines and the MITS Altair, with the rows of toggle switches for Binary, were the real basics...
Compared to that, the arguments about what high-level language is better, is sort of like the medieval arguments about how many Angels could dance on the head of a pin. 8-P
Microsoft’s long love of the BASIC programming language extends all the way back to 1991, when the company purchased a pretty awesome (for its time) visual programming designer from Alan Cooper.
I'd say that MS's love of BASIC goes back at least a decade before that; they wrote the ROM BASIC for the TRS-80 (as I found when doing a PEEK scan through it).
Microsoft originally made their money on MBASIC, which ran on the 8-bit CPM operating system. It was at that time the most popular OS in the world, if you go by number of installations. And MBASIC was on almost all of them. It was also converted to other computers, or the computers were upgraded to run a daughter board just so they could run MBASIC.
But it required more RAM than many computers had, and the available boards were smaller static RAM boards.
So Microsoft came out with a 4Kb S100 Dynamic RAM board. (Yes Kb. And yes they once made hardware.)
But the boards didn't work. 8-( In fact, I never heard of a single one working. We put instruments on one, and even tried changing the connections. The chips just were not compatible with the CPUs used. Any of them.
So Microsoft required that -every- copy of MBASIC be bundled with the RAM board. People screamed, but they wanted the MBASIC so much that they paid it.
Microsoft never made any more hardware, AFAIK. But they still do business that way, sometimes...
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Too many developers want to make the perfect UI. But everyone wants a different UI.
If a user does something expecting a certain result, that result should happen, if possible.
If there are a dozen ways to do something, that is ok. And not usually expensive, if it is done at the start.
Not everything is possible, but that is what user options are for. Not as specials, but standard operations that can be selected.
The idea that one thing is best for all, is an Elitist fantasy... 8-P
Oh horseshit, you are just a power user and Windows has NEVER EVER been set up for power users OOTB. Remember the damned search dog in XP? Clippy? MSFT has been trying to make things simpler and friendly since the days of MSBob and ya know what? regular Joes LOVE that shit! ...
Beginners love that stuff...
But after using it for a couple of weeks at work, every day, they are no longer beginners. And it does not take long for that stuff to grate on the nerves. That's why they all failed.
But if we could just turn it off when we are not longer liking it, that would be fine... 8-)
It's free 'cause government pays for it!
Famous last words... literally!
The problem, so far, with government making laws to account for the pollution costs. is that the politicians can't stand doing it in a neutral manner.
They always try to use it as a way to make money for the government and "soak the businesses". That "throws a wrench" into the economy.
If they could do it without sucking money out of people's pockets just for the politicians, then it could work ok. There have even been plans to do just that, from both sides. But the greedy pols shot them down.
I truly hope you're wrong - because if we burn all available fossil fuels then there is a very real possibility that we won't just be looking at high sea levels and global tropics and deserts, we'll be looking at a full on runaway greenhouse effect such as devastated Venus. ...
On the other hand, maybe it is the only thing holding off the next Ice Age, which is about ten thousand years overdue.
But then, we will probably catch another dinosaur killer asteroid before either happens, so cheer up. 8-}
If chimps are people, will they be able to vote? Hold political office? Cue the jokes.
I don't think that they would necessary need to be declared legally competent persons, just because they were given personhood status. That being said, I think I agree with those who say that perhaps we need a new classification instead.
Note that the new classification would be very similar to Slavery. 8-P
New laws, to fix bad things, often end up being worse that what they were supposed to fix. And sometimes, even an old bad fix that was tried before.
So who else has the keys to your password manager? And how do you know?
That's why they are not used more...
all passwords should expire after at most 60
Why? How does this help with security?
If the password is cracked, then data can be lost in seconds. ... 8-P ...
So obviously everyone should be required to change the password every time they log on.
Hell people really -will- use dictionary words... direct from the dictionary!
The dictionary attack doesn't know where the words are in the password. The entropy of a dictionary attack for a 5-10 word phrase is better than any 8 letter character, and much much better than 8 character password with regular rules.
A few years ago I would have agreed with you. But now days the entire poem, with the authors name, could be in the dictionary used to decode.
Also it can be checked, not as individual words, but as a linked list in multiple dimensions.
... The whole point of plain text logs, readable by standard tools, is that you can always find out what happened ... Let me tell you I do not want to have to deal with that shit at some ungodly hour. This is Windows Event Viewer crap.
Has no one written a Viewer for this log file? I could probably do it in a couple of hours, except Clarion only runs on Windows. ... (ducks and runs) 8-)
Maybe it's a good thing. It raises at least the -possibilty- that it might be hard for other people to get his data, as well.
You must have a GREAT Home Depot where you live. Mine doesn't have steam turbines and boilers.
Check Amazon and Ebay... 8-P
... If someone can pull off that elephant illusion, then faking cold fusion well enough to fool a few researchers should be easy. I don't know exactly how the researchers were fooled, but there should be little doubt that they were.
There is some truth to this. They should get a couple of stage magicians to help the reserchers check for hidden "gotchas".
But it does sound like they covered it pretty well.
No one actually knows that it is a fraud. What we "know" is only standing on a shifting ice block, floating in a large ocean. Impossible is not a state that exists, only "impossible as I describe it".
Also, it sounds like they could take it apart. At least enough to do the testing on the materials...
Well, it's only wrong if you compare it to the exact mathematical value. But then you're just being pedantic.
If it doesn't matter to you, thats fine...
But mother nature's punishments are quite severe.
In the real world, be pedantic or be dead. 8-P
The trolls causing problems may claim to be part of the group, that uses a social forum, but that does not mean it is true.
Criminals lie. If you don't believe one thing they say, then you should not trust anything they say.
These days computers are easy enough to use, there is no reason to believe they are even "geeks".
Imagine criminals in a prison, allowed to use the prison library computers for "education", signing on to random sites just to harass people... 8-P
... Eventually they stopped when they could no longer get a response from me.
This is not new, actually.
The old saying, "Please don't feed the trolls", is not a joke. It is serious.
The show isn't trying to portray smart people, it's trying to portray dumb people's idea of what smart people are probably like..
Don't be an elitist ! Many of the people out there are smarter than you are, even if you are very smart.
That's not to say you are wrong. That's Hollywood's problem, they don't realise that the audiance is smarter than they are...
Just because we will watch entertaining drivil, doesn't mean we would not appreciate something better.
But it has to actually be better, not just bigger words.
Microsoft are not planning to toss the whole .NET ecosystem. I have no idea why people keep believing and repeating that shit.
The rumor is:
Microsoft intended to write Windows in dotnet, that's what happened to Vista.
But the people doing MS Office balked and delayed, it turns out rightfully.
They never got Vista all the way into dotnet, and began removing the traces in Win7.
Of course now it is just beginning to be reliable. But it is probably too late.
There is some evidence to back it up. Some is in Windows it's self...
How is a high level interpreted language "basics"?
We'll all eventually decide assembly programming is best.
I programmed for a few months in 6502 Hex code only. Thats basics.
Well actually, the PDP machines and the MITS Altair, with the rows of toggle switches for Binary, were the real basics...
Compared to that, the arguments about what high-level language is better, is sort of like the medieval arguments about how many Angels could dance on the head of a pin. 8-P
Lingua::Romana::Perligata -- Perl for the XXI-imum Century
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/HTML/Perligata.html ...
Ok, we surrender! 8-)
Homo sapiens will never stop using Latin.
Almost all of the European and American spoken languages -are- Latin, with local accents.
From TFA:
I'd say that MS's love of BASIC goes back at least a decade before that; they wrote the ROM BASIC for the TRS-80 (as I found when doing a PEEK scan through it).
Microsoft originally made their money on MBASIC, which ran on the 8-bit CPM operating system. It was at that time the most popular OS in the world, if you go by number of installations. And MBASIC was on almost all of them. It was also converted to other computers, or the computers were upgraded to run a daughter board just so they could run MBASIC.
But it required more RAM than many computers had, and the available boards were smaller static RAM boards.
So Microsoft came out with a 4Kb S100 Dynamic RAM board. (Yes Kb. And yes they once made hardware.)
But the boards didn't work. 8-(
In fact, I never heard of a single one working. We put instruments on one, and even tried changing the connections. The chips just were not compatible with the CPUs used. Any of them.
So Microsoft required that -every- copy of MBASIC be bundled with the RAM board. People screamed, but they wanted the MBASIC so much that they paid it.
Microsoft never made any more hardware, AFAIK. But they still do business that way, sometimes...
... Pascal and, it's less popular cousin, Modula-2, were meant to be general purpose programming languages. ...
Modula-2 was what Pascal should have been.
But then the new versions of Pascal incorporated the new ideas.
And then many other languages incorporated them.
And Modula-2 was not so far ahead any more...
Besides which, is there any language that is completely dead? Honest question.
Fourth?
Arguments passed explicitly, on a macro-stack, in reverse-Polish notation like an HP calculator.
Actually, I think the astronomers still use it for telescope drives.
I would like to see a list of languages that are not known-shitholes. ...
Clarion. Used all over the world by professionals who need to get things done reliably as well as quickly.
But it's Windows only, at least for now.
And it's not cheap...