'cuz some of us aren't blessed with good operating systems at work. Some of us program in VisualBASIC and Visual C++ for a living. (QBasic felt about right for a quick coding and posting to those people who aren't blessed with good compilers, too.) If you got Linux, use perl, tr, anything like that. If you got DOS or WinXX then use QBASIC. It's there.
The reason IE does that, though, is that ECMA script defined that as the proper behavior, and suggested that future scripts should not use getYear()... I wish I knew what the proper replacement func was. {shrug}
Perhaps a bug in Netscape that the page takes advantage of? The getYear() func I believe is being phased out in favor of another function that is more "sensible"...
I had to sit down and write a quick ROT13 translator... sad, but I couldn't think of where I could get one to work on WinNT. It was a nice nostalgia thing. If you have WinNT you almost certainly have QBASIC, in which case, this will work:
DECLARE FUNCTION StrRot13$ (s AS STRING) DECLARE FUNCTION rot13$ (c AS STRING)
PRINT StrRot13$("JRYY vg ybbxf yvxr gur l2x oht qvqa'g erne vgf htyl urnq.") PRINT StrRot13$("LRC. GUR QBBZFNLREF UNIR ORRA CEBIRA JEBAT lrg ntnva.") PRINT StrRot13$("QVQ LBH FRR GUNG GBB") PRINT StrRot13$("UBHFGBA JR UNIR N CEBOYRZ.")
FUNCTION rot13$ (c AS STRING) DIM n AS INTEGER
n = ASC(UCASE$(c)) IF (n ASC("Z")) THEN rot13$ = c EXIT FUNCTION END IF
n = n + 13
IF n > ASC("Z") THEN n = ASC("A") + n - ASC("Z") - 1 rot13$ = CHR$(n) END FUNCTION
FUNCTION StrRot13$ (s AS STRING) DIM i AS INTEGER DIM tmpstr AS STRING
tmpstr = ""
FOR i = 1 TO LEN(s) tmpstr = tmpstr + rot13$(MID$(s, i, 1)) NEXT i
Oh, and if you can, distribute the email address and the URL to the article about what happened to your *friends and family* (and no one above and beyond that). I've told my family about it, and hopefully they'll understand that when my family all complains, my friends all complain, and that they've lost our dollars (which they have, since last year, my wife bought some things from there) they may change their mind.
Anyone remember the www.gumby.org and the www.ajax.org domain disputes. (both of which resolved with the companies retracting their lawsuits). I don't think either one ended with a DoS or anything of the sort. (And Ajax.Org was a site with contents which the media would have LOVED to hear about a DoS from.)
:-) I'm an old curmudgeon. (A mere 26, but still feeling old and crusty.) I don't have a problem with the guy doing it. It's cool. But, I also have the right to mock him. See, right now people who surgically alter themselves are not protected from my mockery.
A long while back, friends were getting tattooed. Well, a few of them got upset because "Everyone else was doing it" and so they went out and got pierced. And then, well, pierced in weird places. So, I made jokes that the next will come ritual scarring -- and then self-multilation.
Amazing how things said in jest come true sometimes. Lizard man may now be allowed to hang himself by his nipples from a tree, be spun around and beaten with rattan sticks until he has a vision.:-) (Watch my karma go way way down after my unsolicited mockery.)
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I didn't understand either... until I thought about it. 11-19-1999 is the *last* odd day you'll see in your life time. the next "odd" number is 11-21-1999... got an even digit. And then 12-01-1999... and then 2001... etc.
Ok, this is my little beef. It makes it easier for you to take care of the machines when the names are easily predictable. Unfortunately, it only makes sense when you treat all machines as equal. The people who use workstations do not think of their machines as equal.
When I want to access my coworker's disk down the cube row (because we're sharing a piece of code) then I have to ask him what his machine number is (by asset tag) over and over. Eventually, I learn that his asset tag is AA-002223... but before, I used to type DWINGERT - first initial, last name. Me being the covert person I am change my name back every time they tried to change my machine to asset tagdom.
Now, we have "servers" that the administrators think are workstations... why? Because they're developmental servers, but are not administrated by the network administrators. I want my compile server named "Ogma" or something like that, so I can refer to it as Ogma. Everyone knows how to find a shared drive on Brahhma or Siva... but Ogma has the name AA-00422 or something. See, I can't even remember it now. You know what I end up using? IP address. Why? Only two numbers ever change in the IP address. The machine names should be easier to remember than the IP address for heaven's sake.
So, keep in mind... that information could be kept in a database elsewhere. In fact, it is even here. You can't remember that machine with asset tag 002222 is assigned to Daniel Chapman. You have to look it up. But guess what, if you need the machine name for Daniel Chapman you can guess that it is probably named DCHAPMAN. (Oh yes, we do have the BSMITH problem. in the old days, They started to add numbers after the name : BSMITH1, BSMITH2, etc. It's useful in our primarily windows based environment for "find machine")
"They're the hard ones for the school administrators to identify," Vita said. "It's easy to pick out the gang members with tattoos. It's these other people that kind of surprise administrators, and these are the ones they really need to identify." First, they say, "Hey, this software should only be used for people who identify themselves as potential problems." Then they go and say, "It's not the ones that look like potential problems that we should worry about.
So, we should worry about the gang members and profile them, or we should worry about the non-gang members and profile them? Or just profile everyone? Any way you look at it, it's $10,000 for what a school counseler should have been able to figure out with a personality profiling test. Isn't that partially what these school counselers are SUPPOSED to be for?
(no, I'm not criticizing or commending school counselers... just saying that this program looks like a poor man's version of a counseler -- sort of an eliza for $10,000).
Yeh, I was wondering if I was the only one who noticed that.
Honestly, though, it was a good article. Once in a while, reposting something that people who are new might have missed seems like "not a bad thing to do."
Steve Jackson did the industry a favor by making the "One With Everything" set. He established that even CCGs could be fun without collectability. (As I've heard rumors that he does not like secondary markets. Part of the reason that he republishes old GURPS modules.)
QUOTE: Additionally, SJG was awarded approximately $50,000 for its losses. SJG's lawyers got $200,000. Who really won this case? Dunno. Think they did pretty well. I started playing GURPS when I heard about it. Know a lot of other geeks. I still buy GURPS stuff just for nostalgia. And Illuminati Online is a rather popular ISP. Steve Jackson games is a great company, though, and it deserves all the business it can get.
Some products use both. Healthcare data frequently has people both 0 years old and 100 years old. Every now and then a supplier upstream will have some odd data. Like newborns getting geriatric services. (they're 0 years old, I tell you... just because they're senior citizens doesn't make them not 0.) Our company is Y2k compliant. We went through hell to do so. Problem is, we receive data that we cannot always validate (sometimes we don't receive birth dates... we receive "age"... and the company supplying the date is wrong.) Of course, our company is very good at telling our suppliers-of-data where their problems lie. But, eh. sometimes the "user typing the data" is another computer, too.
It's cool and all, but too bad they're not releasing the newer stuff. (no, I'm gracious for what they have released, and I know why they can't.)
I actually own, and can locate the disks for, newer versions. (of course, all the older versions I owned, I had pirated... got them all as a kid, and the first piece of software I purchased was TC++ 3.0 and then TP 7.0... wish I had more money to afford the Borland versions back then.)
Now I'm a microsoft programmer 99% of the time, but I *soooooo* wish I could use Delphi as easily as VB. Just doesn't pay to learn a new language for me, though. (not one that I don't get paid.) Feel like such a traitor.
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Recently, I've found that no matter what, they'll ask for your resume in Word.DOC format. I've had my resume on my web page in a format which I think would be JUST fine for printing on just about any printer, and perfect for viewing. I spent an hour or two crafting the HTML (partially so I can brag about it). And they still asked for.DOC files. (although, I usually can point out "I don't have Word at home, but you should be able to print it out from your web browser and they accept that.)
Biggest problem I have with this group is that they're yet another Distributed-type project. It would be nice if we could have some sort of concerted effort on one distributed project before we spawn another. Distributed.net has a lot of experience with this sort of thing, and so they've got the infrastructure to handle it. We're spawning ANOTHER group, and they're reinventing the wheel as far as the organization, the client, etc. (Although, I admit, the screen saver IS pretty -- and I'm tempted to run SETI@Home on my home PC alng with the Distributed.net client.)
For now, I just run SETI@Home at work, where I don't want to explain (or even have a possibility of having to explain) "Code cracking" on my work computer.
Few seconds ago, I argued that I needed more money in life. Yet, I disagree with you. There's a big difference between programming for love and programming for money.
I need to eat, so I program for money. Give me LOTS of money, and I will program for you. I really like it that I get to do something I enjoy for money, but I don't program What I Want When I Want, and so you must recompense me with money.
Linux programmed something he loved, took no orders from anyone, it was something he would have used anyhow. All in all, he was going to write it because he wanted to. And while he was at it, why not release it free? He didn't feel a need for money, so hey, why not? I can sympathize with that. I can agree with it. Heck, everything I used to write used the "ultimate" shareware model: If you like it, send me money, because I could use money. That's it. I think I only ever mentioned it in the documentation. Program worked the same anyhow.
Why does everybody think that because I said I'm not in it for the money, I must be poverty stricken?
See, there's the rub: You're not poverty stricken. Since you've not been bitten by the "don't have enough money" bug, you're not wanting more. Trust me. I've got an old computer which crashes often. I'd REALLY love to get a new one. In all honesty, what I've got now is better than what I had. I had a '286, which I've built up to a Pentium 133 by buying parts that cost no more than $50 a time (and each time, I did not buy anything else "fun" that month). My entertainment budget is $30/mo.
Trick is: Kids + House + Car + Student Loans + Past Debt from Unemployement = Need More Money.
For the curious: Making $38. 7 yr experience, no degree, 3 years of it working for the company I work for now. As I understand it, I make industry minimum. Guess what: I was happy about my job before, but now knowing that even with 7 years experience, I'm "less valuable" (aka paid less) than new recruits, kinda ticks me off.
Maybe the reason is that you've not "settled down" into needing more money. I've discovered that I need more money than I needed 5 years ago. I now have a wife, a child, a car, and am trying to buy a house. Yet, I buy less "fun" stuff than I ever have. My computer nearly died, and that would have meant that I would literally have to go completely without a computer. That would have been hell. Because of that, I work my butt off doing two jobs.
Oh, by the way, I'm making a "nice" $38,000 now here in the US. (programming, 7 years experience, no degree. it sucks.)
We're not lucky that massacres happen more often with guns than explosives. Guns are more readily available. Do you know how to make a 2000lb bomb capable of blowing up a good sized building? probobly not. Can you go buy that same bomb at the local K-mart? No. Do you know how to make a gun? Probobly not. I remember in my "less-rational" days, I had a lot of "e-philez" (instructional text files) that covered this sort of thing. Including how to make a "Zip-Gun" and how to make some pretty impressive bombs. Luckily, I considered them interesting only to read, and not to perform.
BTW - Life is especially hard as a child of "roving parents." Geek culture is the only one that accepted me. Amazing how being an outcast let me get a job, and how outcasts molded me into their image. High school rocked for me, much more than college. I learned the right group to hang out with. College, I never did quite manage. (Even the geeks there were a bit exclusive.) Is all not divided into nice lines "geek" "non-geek"/"outcast" "popular." Hell, I was popular for a while in high school. (Weird situations, but it happens.)
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'cuz some of us aren't blessed with good operating systems at work. Some of us program in VisualBASIC and Visual C++ for a living. (QBasic felt about right for a quick coding and posting to those people who aren't blessed with good compilers, too.) If you got Linux, use perl, tr, anything like that. If you got DOS or WinXX then use QBASIC. It's there.
The reason IE does that, though, is that ECMA script defined that as the proper behavior, and suggested that future scripts should not use getYear() ... I wish I knew what the proper replacement func was. {shrug}
Perhaps a bug in Netscape that the page takes advantage of? The getYear() func I believe is being phased out in favor of another function that is more "sensible" ...
I had to sit down and write a quick ROT13 translator... sad, but I couldn't think of where I could get one to work on WinNT. It was a nice nostalgia thing. If you have WinNT you almost certainly have QBASIC, in which case, this will work:
DECLARE FUNCTION StrRot13$ (s AS STRING)
DECLARE FUNCTION rot13$ (c AS STRING)
PRINT StrRot13$("JRYY vg ybbxf yvxr gur l2x oht qvqa'g erne vgf htyl urnq.")
PRINT StrRot13$("LRC. GUR QBBZFNLREF UNIR ORRA CEBIRA JEBAT lrg ntnva.")
PRINT StrRot13$("QVQ LBH FRR GUNG GBB")
PRINT StrRot13$("UBHFGBA JR UNIR N CEBOYRZ.")
FUNCTION rot13$ (c AS STRING)
DIM n AS INTEGER
n = ASC(UCASE$(c))
IF (n ASC("Z")) THEN
rot13$ = c
EXIT FUNCTION
END IF
n = n + 13
IF n > ASC("Z") THEN n = ASC("A") + n - ASC("Z") - 1
rot13$ = CHR$(n)
END FUNCTION
FUNCTION StrRot13$ (s AS STRING)
DIM i AS INTEGER
DIM tmpstr AS STRING
tmpstr = ""
FOR i = 1 TO LEN(s)
tmpstr = tmpstr + rot13$(MID$(s, i, 1))
NEXT i
StrRot13$ = tmpstr
END FUNCTION
No, what the previous poster was saying is that 1972 is a good "replacement" date for 2000. The days of the week are all the same for a few years.
Though, if you can fix it in ASM, go right on ahead.
ACK, that last haiku
Lost its form when posted here
Gotta do preview!
OLD HAIKU:
Do you think that
we can have a haiku forum
to write down our thoughts?
Do you think that we can have a haiku forum to write down our thoughts?
Oh, and if you can, distribute the email address and the URL to the article about what happened to your *friends and family* (and no one above and beyond that). I've told my family about it, and hopefully they'll understand that when my family all complains, my friends all complain, and that they've lost our dollars (which they have, since last year, my wife bought some things from there) they may change their mind.
Anyone remember the www.gumby.org and the www.ajax.org domain disputes. (both of which resolved with the companies retracting their lawsuits). I don't think either one ended with a DoS or anything of the sort. (And Ajax.Org was a site with contents which the media would have LOVED to hear about a DoS from.)
:-) I'm an old curmudgeon. (A mere 26, but still feeling old and crusty.) I don't have a problem with the guy doing it. It's cool. But, I also have the right to mock him. See, right now people who surgically alter themselves are not protected from my mockery.
:-) (Watch my karma go way way down after my unsolicited mockery.)
A long while back, friends were getting tattooed. Well, a few of them got upset because "Everyone else was doing it" and so they went out and got pierced. And then, well, pierced in weird places. So, I made jokes that the next will come ritual scarring -- and then self-multilation.
Amazing how things said in jest come true sometimes. Lizard man may now be allowed to hang himself by his nipples from a tree, be spun around and beaten with rattan sticks until he has a vision.
I didn't understand either ... until I thought about it. 11-19-1999 is the *last* odd day you'll see in your life time. the next "odd" number is 11-21-1999 ... got an even digit. And then 12-01-1999 ... and then 2001 ... etc.
Though, we'll have scads of even days after that.
Yeh, of course... but then again, I still program in VB.
Ok, this is my little beef. It makes it easier for you to take care of the machines when the names are easily predictable. Unfortunately, it only makes sense when you treat all machines as equal. The people who use workstations do not think of their machines as equal.
... but before, I used to type DWINGERT - first initial, last name. Me being the covert person I am change my name back every time they tried to change my machine to asset tagdom.
... that information could be kept in a database elsewhere. In fact, it is even here. You can't remember that machine with asset tag 002222 is assigned to Daniel Chapman. You have to look it up. But guess what, if you need the machine name for Daniel Chapman you can guess that it is probably named DCHAPMAN. (Oh yes, we do have the BSMITH problem. in the old days, They started to add numbers after the name : BSMITH1, BSMITH2, etc. It's useful in our primarily windows based environment for "find machine")
When I want to access my coworker's disk down the cube row (because we're sharing a piece of code) then I have to ask him what his machine number is (by asset tag) over and over. Eventually, I learn that his asset tag is AA-002223
Now, we have "servers" that the administrators think are workstations... why? Because they're developmental servers, but are not administrated by the network administrators. I want my compile server named "Ogma" or something like that, so I can refer to it as Ogma. Everyone knows how to find a shared drive on Brahhma or Siva... but Ogma has the name AA-00422 or something. See, I can't even remember it now. You know what I end up using? IP address. Why? Only two numbers ever change in the IP address. The machine names should be easier to remember than the IP address for heaven's sake.
So, keep in mind
So, we should worry about the gang members and profile them, or we should worry about the non-gang members and profile them? Or just profile everyone? Any way you look at it, it's $10,000 for what a school counseler should have been able to figure out with a personality profiling test. Isn't that partially what these school counselers are SUPPOSED to be for?
(no, I'm not criticizing or commending school counselers... just saying that this program looks like a poor man's version of a counseler -- sort of an eliza for $10,000).
(wish I could resell Eliza for $10,000).
Yeh, I was wondering if I was the only one who noticed that.
Honestly, though, it was a good article. Once in a while, reposting something that people who are new might have missed seems like "not a bad thing to do."
Steve Jackson did the industry a favor by making the "One With Everything" set. He established that even CCGs could be fun without collectability. (As I've heard rumors that he does not like secondary markets. Part of the reason that he republishes old GURPS modules.)
QUOTE:
Additionally, SJG was awarded approximately $50,000 for its losses. SJG's lawyers got $200,000. Who really won this case? Dunno. Think they did pretty well. I started playing GURPS when I heard about it. Know a lot of other geeks. I still buy GURPS stuff just for nostalgia. And Illuminati Online is a rather popular ISP. Steve Jackson games is a great company, though, and it deserves all the business it can get.
Some products use both. Healthcare data frequently has people both 0 years old and 100 years old. Every now and then a supplier upstream will have some odd data. Like newborns getting geriatric services. (they're 0 years old, I tell you... just because they're senior citizens doesn't make them not 0.) ... we receive "age" ... and the company supplying the date is wrong.) Of course, our company is very good at telling our suppliers-of-data where their problems lie. But, eh. sometimes the "user typing the data" is another computer, too.
Our company is Y2k compliant. We went through hell to do so. Problem is, we receive data that we cannot always validate (sometimes we don't receive birth dates
It's cool and all, but too bad they're not releasing the newer stuff. (no, I'm gracious for what they have released, and I know why they can't.)
I actually own, and can locate the disks for, newer versions. (of course, all the older versions I owned, I had pirated ... got them all as a kid, and the first piece of software I purchased was TC++ 3.0 and then TP 7.0 ... wish I had more money to afford the Borland versions back then.)
Now I'm a microsoft programmer 99% of the time, but I *soooooo* wish I could use Delphi as easily as VB. Just doesn't pay to learn a new language for me, though. (not one that I don't get paid.) Feel like such a traitor.
Recently, I've found that no matter what, they'll ask for your resume in Word
Biggest problem I have with this group is that they're yet another Distributed-type project. It would be nice if we could have some sort of concerted effort on one distributed project before we spawn another. Distributed.net has a lot of experience with this sort of thing, and so they've got the infrastructure to handle it. We're spawning ANOTHER group, and they're reinventing the wheel as far as the organization, the client, etc. (Although, I admit, the screen saver IS pretty -- and I'm tempted to run SETI@Home on my home PC alng with the Distributed.net client.)
For now, I just run SETI@Home at work, where I don't want to explain (or even have a possibility of having to explain) "Code cracking" on my work computer.
Few seconds ago, I argued that I needed more money in life. Yet, I disagree with you. There's a big difference between programming for love and programming for money.
I need to eat, so I program for money. Give me LOTS of money, and I will program for you. I really like it that I get to do something I enjoy for money, but I don't program What I Want When I Want, and so you must recompense me with money.
Linux programmed something he loved, took no orders from anyone, it was something he would have used anyhow. All in all, he was going to write it because he wanted to. And while he was at it, why not release it free? He didn't feel a need for money, so hey, why not? I can sympathize with that. I can agree with it. Heck, everything I used to write used the "ultimate" shareware model: If you like it, send me money, because I could use money. That's it. I think I only ever mentioned it in the documentation. Program worked the same anyhow.
Why does everybody think that because I said I'm not in it for the money, I must be poverty stricken?
See, there's the rub: You're not poverty stricken. Since you've not been bitten by the "don't have enough money" bug, you're not wanting more. Trust me. I've got an old computer which crashes often. I'd REALLY love to get a new one. In all honesty, what I've got now is better than what I had. I had a '286, which I've built up to a Pentium 133 by buying parts that cost no more than $50 a time (and each time, I did not buy anything else "fun" that month). My entertainment budget is $30/mo.
Trick is: Kids + House + Car + Student Loans + Past Debt from Unemployement = Need More Money.
For the curious: Making $38. 7 yr experience, no degree, 3 years of it working for the company I work for now. As I understand it, I make industry minimum. Guess what: I was happy about my job before, but now knowing that even with 7 years experience, I'm "less valuable" (aka paid less) than new recruits, kinda ticks me off.
Maybe the reason is that you've not "settled down" into needing more money. I've discovered that I need more money than I needed 5 years ago. I now have a wife, a child, a car, and am trying to buy a house. Yet, I buy less "fun" stuff than I ever have. My computer nearly died, and that would have meant that I would literally have to go completely without a computer. That would have been hell. Because of that, I work my butt off doing two jobs.
Oh, by the way, I'm making a "nice" $38,000 now here in the US. (programming, 7 years experience, no degree. it sucks.)
We're not lucky that massacres happen more often with guns than explosives. Guns are more readily available. Do you know how to make a 2000lb bomb capable of blowing up a good sized building? probobly not. Can you go buy that same bomb at the local K-mart? No. Do you know how to make a gun? Probobly not. I remember in my "less-rational" days, I had a lot of "e-philez" (instructional text files) that covered this sort of thing. Including how to make a "Zip-Gun" and how to make some pretty impressive bombs. Luckily, I considered them interesting only to read, and not to perform.
BTW - Life is especially hard as a child of "roving parents." Geek culture is the only one that accepted me. Amazing how being an outcast let me get a job, and how outcasts molded me into their image. High school rocked for me, much more than college. I learned the right group to hang out with. College, I never did quite manage. (Even the geeks there were a bit exclusive.) Is all not divided into nice lines "geek" "non-geek"/"outcast" "popular." Hell, I was popular for a while in high school. (Weird situations, but it happens.)