Well, newspapers managed to get it wrong in many ways, with things like print annual subscription 6 times cheaper than app annual subscription - that was either New York Times or New Yorker, IIRC.
Hopefully Apple will apply enough weight to get the point across.
"anatomy+101+no+drm+patch+torrent" - click - Stoprightthereyoucriminalscum! You have violated the law. Pay the court a fine or serve your sentence. Your downloaded files are now forfeit.
Well, IIRC, there even were a few real.jpg trojans in the wild, but of course no one would say it is _as bad as ActiveX_, duh.
Still, when relatively low-complexity pieces of software like image decoders get "execute arbitrary code" exploits once in a while, it's not surprising that complex VMs get a dozen every year, so yeah, "eventually download and run unsandboxed native code from random websites" is a common undocumented feature for plugins, popular malware vector and a good reason to install NoScript/FlashBlock/turn on "run plugins on demand"/etc.
putting out a new "revised edition" every 2 years for an ancient subject like calculus just so they can keep you from selling your textbook or buying a cheaper used one
... As opposed to complete inability to resell a license?
Hopefully, we'll get it either cheap enough to compensate or - in an ideal world - DRM free.
Worst case scenario would be publishers catching up and starting to sell them on their own, overpriced, some fucked up proprietary format and DRM'd up to the ears.
You (and that anonymous guy with a long list of Whatchamacallit Response Team members) really suck at detecting sockpuppets. They've got fucking different style and different behaviour, how the fuck are they "same person"?
You're conflating 2 entities, that AC crumbles 3 or more together (did somebody else make it on his list?).
That doesn't help and just makes weighted "He's wrong because (a) and (b), also compare (this post) and (that post) from his previous account" posts lost in the "Everyone's a shill! Reply to me and get on the list too!" noise.
Yes, it's hard, but doable. Re: bloat, it depends. Lua, for example, is around 100kB. Even if bindings take twice or four times that, it's an insignificant blip - just compare to single xul.dll's 16Mb or opera.dll's 15 or chrome.dll's 29. And all of those are just _parts_ of the application (well, except Opera, there it seems to be all there is + 1Mb of application exe)
A side note, per my observations, many would be happy to see Lua embedded in browsers, there's already Emscripten and there was a NaCl Lua bindings project.
Browser vendors instead compete in painting over JS with (not-)fancy(-enough) JITs and hanging new object model bindings on it. That makes me a little sad.
Sorry, should have clarified. That was a quote from limits table in MSDN blog post, which states 32K Unicode characters as name limit and 32K (without unit) as path limit, which left me wondering.
Why should it _replace_ JS engine? Sometimes I feel people forgot that <script> element has language="" attribute there for a reason.
Scripting engine shouldn't be hard coupled with the main application. Exposing DOM should be as easy as creating new FFI wrappers for the same old objects JS engine calls on.
Google guys seems to have it right, if they managed to include a new scripting layer without disturbing their old V8.
Of course what I (and I'm sure I'm not only one) really wish for would be not a single new language here or there, but a pluggable architecture for new scripting engines.
Now that could make all browsers want to catch up - but, sadly, there's no chance in hell that would happen in reality, what with even ES5 only just now becoming closer to a practically accepted standard and still lot of people with older browsers who need shims for ES5 support.
Here, a usecase from everyday life: Dropbox doesn't allow multiple root directories for syncing + many apps and games use hardcoded paths for storing user profiles = create junctions in Dropbox root, while cursing developers under your breath.
The other solution, of course, is to look for a better web storage/sync solution, but it's often not worth the trouble.
Nope, he just has a time machine. See, he doesn't even need a subscription to get that first post (check them timestamps!).
The real joke is how fast +1 Interesting mods got retracted (too bad I didn't screenshot that, now he's got none but funny/troll) and replaced with +1 Funny.
mklink can create symlinks (which were introduced with NT6.0's update to NTFS)/hardlink/dir junctions and is available out of the box since Vista/Server 2008. There's "fsutil hardlink" command on earlier systems, but to create directory junctions you had to install Resource Kit's linkd or Russinovich's Junction.
It's covered by second part. Smart new media marketing should pay idiots (what a widely available resource!) to go and promote opposing products. It'll make their own fanbase and product stand out in contrast. Maybe that already happens?
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Nah, personally,Yoda-style comparisons for pussies are I think.
Though it's at least reasonable code style requirement for when you work in team (unlike "only one return point" or "no do{}while() loops")
Well, newspapers managed to get it wrong in many ways, with things like print annual subscription 6 times cheaper than app annual subscription - that was either New York Times or New Yorker, IIRC.
Hopefully Apple will apply enough weight to get the point across.
Sure, all the more reasons for SOPA-likes.
"anatomy+101+no+drm+patch+torrent" - click - Stoprightthereyoucriminalscum! You have violated the law. Pay the court a fine or serve your sentence. Your downloaded files are now forfeit.
Well, IIRC, there even were a few real .jpg trojans in the wild, but of course no one would say it is _as bad as ActiveX_, duh.
Still, when relatively low-complexity pieces of software like image decoders get "execute arbitrary code" exploits once in a while, it's not surprising that complex VMs get a dozen every year, so yeah, "eventually download and run unsandboxed native code from random websites" is a common undocumented feature for plugins, popular malware vector and a good reason to install NoScript/FlashBlock/turn on "run plugins on demand"/etc.
Actually, much to the delight of *ahem* blackhat security researchers, they do (in other browsers too). It's just they're not intended to.
putting out a new "revised edition" every 2 years for an ancient subject like calculus just so they can keep you from selling your textbook or buying a cheaper used one
... As opposed to complete inability to resell a license?
Hopefully, we'll get it either cheap enough to compensate or - in an ideal world - DRM free.
Worst case scenario would be publishers catching up and starting to sell them on their own, overpriced, some fucked up proprietary format and DRM'd up to the ears.
You (and that anonymous guy with a long list of Whatchamacallit Response Team members) really suck at detecting sockpuppets. They've got fucking different style and different behaviour, how the fuck are they "same person"?
You're conflating 2 entities, that AC crumbles 3 or more together (did somebody else make it on his list?).
That doesn't help and just makes weighted "He's wrong because (a) and (b), also compare (this post) and (that post) from his previous account" posts lost in the "Everyone's a shill! Reply to me and get on the list too!" noise.
Bleh, that's what you get for not previewing.
Surely you mean Micros<tab>W<tab>
Or Micros<tab><ctrl-left><ctrl-end>w<tab> for cmd/Powershell (who the hell thought inserting full first match is a good idea?)
Surely you mean MicrosW
Or Microsw for cmd/Powershell (who the hell thought inserting full first match is a good idea?)
Yes, he's also the submitter of this article. What does it have to do with TechGuys?
Yes, it's hard, but doable. Re: bloat, it depends. Lua, for example, is around 100kB. Even if bindings take twice or four times that, it's an insignificant blip - just compare to single xul.dll's 16Mb or opera.dll's 15 or chrome.dll's 29. And all of those are just _parts_ of the application (well, except Opera, there it seems to be all there is + 1Mb of application exe)
A side note, per my observations, many would be happy to see Lua embedded in browsers, there's already Emscripten and there was a NaCl Lua bindings project.
Browser vendors instead compete in painting over JS with (not-)fancy(-enough) JITs and hanging new object model bindings on it. That makes me a little sad.
Sorry, should have clarified. That was a quote from limits table in MSDN blog post, which states 32K Unicode characters as name limit and 32K (without unit) as path limit, which left me wondering.
Why should it _replace_ JS engine? Sometimes I feel people forgot that <script> element has language="" attribute there for a reason.
Scripting engine shouldn't be hard coupled with the main application. Exposing DOM should be as easy as creating new FFI wrappers for the same old objects JS engine calls on.
Google guys seems to have it right, if they managed to include a new scripting layer without disturbing their old V8.
Of course what I (and I'm sure I'm not only one) really wish for would be not a single new language here or there, but a pluggable architecture for new scripting engines.
Now that could make all browsers want to catch up - but, sadly, there's no chance in hell that would happen in reality, what with even ES5 only just now becoming closer to a practically accepted standard and still lot of people with older browsers who need shims for ES5 support.
They're too big and important to care for /.
There's Mozilla's and Opera's guys, for example, who show up in web related discussions often, but big boys like Google, MS and Apple? Not so much.
Maximum file name length 32K unicode characters
Maximum path length 32K
So you can have filename that won't fit maximum path length?..
He was in too much hurry to get that first post and hadn't much chance to get pro-MS today.
His three other first-post-same-timestamp-as-article-but-no-subscription-account today succeed in looking down on Google, but don't have much to say about MS, except for "IE9 is now fully standards compliant and Google breaks the web".
Well, it just depends on definitions.
Most widely used is probably FAT32, with all the portable storage using it, but it surely is not advanced and feature rich.
Other filesystems are more advanced, but live on servers behind the scenes.
So NTFS takes middle ground being "most advanced widely used", which is not bad by itself, just a bit misleading turn of phrase.
Here, a usecase from everyday life: Dropbox doesn't allow multiple root directories for syncing + many apps and games use hardcoded paths for storing user profiles = create junctions in Dropbox root, while cursing developers under your breath.
The other solution, of course, is to look for a better web storage/sync solution, but it's often not worth the trouble.
WinFS was not even a filesystem, it was meant to be basically a database for metadata storage on top of NTFS.
Too bad they dropped it, it's an interesting idea.
I think only BeOS had something like that, with support for metadata and queries built right into BeFS.
Nope, he just has a time machine. See, he doesn't even need a subscription to get that first post (check them timestamps!).
The real joke is how fast +1 Interesting mods got retracted (too bad I didn't screenshot that, now he's got none but funny/troll) and replaced with +1 Funny.
Yes, you see that asterisk right next to his nickname that means "a subscriber account"... Oh, wait, there's none.
Yeah, he's also very, very fast to be able a) read the article, b) concoct a funny answer, c) post it the same minute the article was published.
All that without subscriber account, note.
He's really agile with the keyboard, this guy, he does it fourth time already today.
mklink can create symlinks (which were introduced with NT6.0's update to NTFS)/hardlink/dir junctions and is available out of the box since Vista/Server 2008. There's "fsutil hardlink" command on earlier systems, but to create directory junctions you had to install Resource Kit's linkd or Russinovich's Junction.
Maybe he's just, like, stupid.
It's covered by second part. Smart new media marketing should pay idiots (what a widely available resource!) to go and promote opposing products. It'll make their own fanbase and product stand out in contrast. Maybe that already happens?