The only version of Blade Runner available on blu-ray, for example, is his "directors cut"--where he makes little changes like having Roy Batty politely say "I want more life, Father" instead of "I want more life FUCKER!" when he kills Tyrell.
Sure, if all you bought was the "Final Cut" Blu-Ray rather than this version which was the workprint, original theatrical, original director's and Final Cut versions. Did you even bother to do 2 seconds of research before making your stupid claim?
What about blah blah blah poorly written managed code doesn't expose remote code execution,
Big deal. No need to exploit your program when I can just exploit your VM instead. The JVM has been a great source of security exploits. You'd think the people who are trying to protect people from the *gasp* horrors of native code would be competent enough to not write a program full of security holes, no?
Apparently they are breaking their own windows purposefully in order to fix them since fixing the real problems are too hard so they dick around with this stupid shit.
And at least this one actually somewhat rated the book more correctly than others at 6/10. Though with all the flaws pointed out that still seems high. I'm sure RickJWagner will come along soon enough with another 9/10 or 10/10 rated Slashvertisement for the next Packt book on Drupal he is offered.
Well as this review states the biggest issue is with shoddy editing. The books also tend to copy and paste lots of material from web sources but then add all sorts of errors into the mix. Also, by the time they release a book on some piece of software it is almost always a major version behind.
It may not be a great idea to write to specific version numbers. But when your business is about stability and making sure something is guaranteed to work, you're pretty much forced to write to version numbers otherwise you get customers that are pissed at you.
First, because the add-on developer should maintain the add-on and update its max-version (currently, the Mozilla add-on website permits max-version all the way up to 8.0a1).
That's fucking stupid. Why should the developer have to constantly update their add-on for nothing more than to bump the max-version string? Such a thing is nothing but a waste of fucking time.
Duh. Build up a huge hierarchy of preferred "editors" of the database and have them camp out the bits of metadata that they wrote. Then when it gets successful have those same people start marking en masse lots of the metadata to be deleted because it's not notable.
The difference is that those who organize letters to your congress critter expects his mail staff to be able to handle the mail.
I've never seen such an assumption being made. The whole point of a letter writing campaign is to flood their office with mail to show how many people are in support or against some issue. You're just making up bullshit up to justify what is perfectly fine in one case but *zOMG* when a computer is involved it is now somehow bad.
The laptop he is referring to is only 5.5 lbs, while, for example, Acer Aspire One is nearly 3 lbs. Unless you have no upper body strength, a difference of maybe 2.5 lbs is not that much.
(and the second largest isn't even a tenth the size of the US GDP)
And to post again, this is also false. For example, China has a GDP of $5.8 trillion, Japan has a GDP of $5.5 trillion and the list can go on. And last time I checked $5.8 and $5.5 trillion was well more than 1/10th of $14.6 trillion (2010 US GDP).
We should just hold a vote that asks "who thinks foreign governments really have a valid claim on ~10 trillion in US government liability?"
Since our foreign debt is only $4.5 trillion, one would hope that everyone would vote the correct option of "none" since none of them would have a valid claim to $10 trillion in liabilities they don't hold.
Yes, that was kind of the point. Since he was holding up WordPerfect as an example, which was *gasp* wait for it *gasp* a DOS program, he was clearly attempting to claim that the DOS era was something free of crashes which is completely absurd. Secondly, the claim that software older than DOS wasn't buggy and crash prone is also bullshit. Some of the most classic bugs that get pointed out when you read up on the history of C come from this supposed "golden age" where all programmers were apparently wizards of their craft. Except that this "golden age" is a nostalgic farce and there were plenty of shitty programmers in that day producing buggy and bloated (for the time) code.
Yep and posts like this one are fucking hilarious with such obviously made up shit like:
I'm old enough to remember when it wasn't like that. You'd run your program and it was ready in a second, you'd exit and it left no trace. Crashes were virtually unheard of. We have people where I work who only do data entry, and they still use wordperfect 4.2 on 386 hardware. I've seen their workflow and how fast it works for them and I can see if they "modernized" it would cripple their productivity.
Hahah lolwut? Crashes were virtually unheard of? Back in DOS crashes were basically a way of life with all the buggy software that each had their own handrolled version of psuedothreading, video ouput, etc. Secondly, WordPerfect 4.2? That was seriously buggy shit. Yep, this is just a bunch of old timers remembering a romanticized version of history that never really existed.
Notice I said that the solution was NOT to just copy Chrome. But I completely understand why someone who is getting their market share eaten by someone else trying to play the catch up and copy game.
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Those scenes were incredibly stupid and hamfisted into the story.
The only version of Blade Runner available on blu-ray, for example, is his "directors cut"--where he makes little changes like having Roy Batty politely say "I want more life, Father" instead of "I want more life FUCKER!" when he kills Tyrell.
Sure, if all you bought was the "Final Cut" Blu-Ray rather than this version which was the workprint, original theatrical, original director's and Final Cut versions. Did you even bother to do 2 seconds of research before making your stupid claim?
So a page full of buzzwords and flashy pictures. Riiiight.
Which would you rather have? $100 each from one thousand people, or $1 each from one million people?
The former, clearly. Why would you want to have to make 3 orders of magnitude more sales to get only 1 order of magnitude more profit?
Well except the Xoom which was as big of a flop. Took it nearly 6 weeks just to sell 100k units.
What about blah blah blah poorly written managed code doesn't expose remote code execution,
Big deal. No need to exploit your program when I can just exploit your VM instead. The JVM has been a great source of security exploits. You'd think the people who are trying to protect people from the *gasp* horrors of native code would be competent enough to not write a program full of security holes, no?
The CLR is a VM. You can't ask the machine to load CIL. It has to be interpreted by the CLR first.
CIL is never interpreted. It is always JIT compiled.
Not even attempting to be remotely clever with your spamming?
Apparently they are breaking their own windows purposefully in order to fix them since fixing the real problems are too hard so they dick around with this stupid shit.
And at least this one actually somewhat rated the book more correctly than others at 6/10. Though with all the flaws pointed out that still seems high. I'm sure RickJWagner will come along soon enough with another 9/10 or 10/10 rated Slashvertisement for the next Packt book on Drupal he is offered.
Well as this review states the biggest issue is with shoddy editing. The books also tend to copy and paste lots of material from web sources but then add all sorts of errors into the mix. Also, by the time they release a book on some piece of software it is almost always a major version behind.
It may not be a great idea to write to specific version numbers. But when your business is about stability and making sure something is guaranteed to work, you're pretty much forced to write to version numbers otherwise you get customers that are pissed at you.
First, because the add-on developer should maintain the add-on and update its max-version (currently, the Mozilla add-on website permits max-version all the way up to 8.0a1).
That's fucking stupid. Why should the developer have to constantly update their add-on for nothing more than to bump the max-version string? Such a thing is nothing but a waste of fucking time.
Duh. Build up a huge hierarchy of preferred "editors" of the database and have them camp out the bits of metadata that they wrote. Then when it gets successful have those same people start marking en masse lots of the metadata to be deleted because it's not notable.
The difference is that those who organize letters to your congress critter expects his mail staff to be able to handle the mail.
I've never seen such an assumption being made. The whole point of a letter writing campaign is to flood their office with mail to show how many people are in support or against some issue. You're just making up bullshit up to justify what is perfectly fine in one case but *zOMG* when a computer is involved it is now somehow bad.
He is better known for the highly staged Man vs. Wild.
FTFY.
The laptop he is referring to is only 5.5 lbs, while, for example, Acer Aspire One is nearly 3 lbs. Unless you have no upper body strength, a difference of maybe 2.5 lbs is not that much.
(and the second largest isn't even a tenth the size of the US GDP)
And to post again, this is also false. For example, China has a GDP of $5.8 trillion, Japan has a GDP of $5.5 trillion and the list can go on. And last time I checked $5.8 and $5.5 trillion was well more than 1/10th of $14.6 trillion (2010 US GDP).
1) Total debt, United States of America, Inc. ~$1.4 trillion
You're an order of magnitude off. The US public debt is about $14.5 trillion.
We should just hold a vote that asks "who thinks foreign governments really have a valid claim on ~10 trillion in US government liability?"
Since our foreign debt is only $4.5 trillion, one would hope that everyone would vote the correct option of "none" since none of them would have a valid claim to $10 trillion in liabilities they don't hold.
That's not thinking outside the box. The correct decision is both. :P
Yes, that was kind of the point. Since he was holding up WordPerfect as an example, which was *gasp* wait for it *gasp* a DOS program, he was clearly attempting to claim that the DOS era was something free of crashes which is completely absurd. Secondly, the claim that software older than DOS wasn't buggy and crash prone is also bullshit. Some of the most classic bugs that get pointed out when you read up on the history of C come from this supposed "golden age" where all programmers were apparently wizards of their craft. Except that this "golden age" is a nostalgic farce and there were plenty of shitty programmers in that day producing buggy and bloated (for the time) code.
Yep and posts like this one are fucking hilarious with such obviously made up shit like:
I'm old enough to remember when it wasn't like that. You'd run your program and it was ready in a second, you'd exit and it left no trace. Crashes were virtually unheard of. We have people where I work who only do data entry, and they still use wordperfect 4.2 on 386 hardware. I've seen their workflow and how fast it works for them and I can see if they "modernized" it would cripple their productivity.
Hahah lolwut? Crashes were virtually unheard of? Back in DOS crashes were basically a way of life with all the buggy software that each had their own handrolled version of psuedothreading, video ouput, etc. Secondly, WordPerfect 4.2? That was seriously buggy shit. Yep, this is just a bunch of old timers remembering a romanticized version of history that never really existed.
Notice I said that the solution was NOT to just copy Chrome. But I completely understand why someone who is getting their market share eaten by someone else trying to play the catch up and copy game.
And yet nothing of value will be lost.