This is actually very interesting! I had friends in college who could smoke a prodigious amount of dope, holding the hits for super-long times, and they excelled in their classes. I wonder if part of it was training their vessels and capillaries to be wider, by increasing the CO2 concentration? That's... pretty far out.
Your response is incongruous (and in Courier, so I guess as far as the font's concerned, you're on topic). GP was stating "Microsoft chose to make things easier for mere mortals to do", your response is "yeah but they left the difficult way in as well, so you're stupid" -- your response is not a refutation, it's an orthogonal observation, turned into an insult at the end. Note that I'm not insulting you; I think insulting someone is the wrong way to do it, even if what I have to say is accurate and on target and a valid refutation. It's better to let people appear stupid on their own.
Besides, your refutation is not technically accurate, either: that command worked in Windows 2000. (Yes, you could argue that "since Windows XP" is a valid subset of "since Windows 2000" and that you intentionally meant to not cover all cases, and in that case, I'd say congratulations at having won this debate.)
I can almost guarantee that if you submit a bug in the right place in the right format, you'll get a response. That response will almost certainly be a request for a regression test. It doesn't take much skill, so better to have users do it than busy, highly skilled devlopers. When I have done this I have had very good results getting regressions fixed. Sometimes even in the same day.
I agree. I've also found that using a "simple test format" for reporting bugs helps a great deal, both in getting service and also the attitude of the support staff (at least, as far as car be interpreted from text-only email communication).
The simple format I use goes like this:
Repro Steps:
First, do...
Then, do...
Next, do...
Finally, do...
Expected Results:
The dialog should have appeared, with...
Actual Results:
The dialog was behind the main window...
In addition, I try to reduce the steps as much as possible, both so I can know exactly what part of the sequence is causing the bug (so I can avoid doing that, for now); and so the developers can better pinpoint the code that's causing it.
I've never understood countries that make drawings illegal. So what if a picture shows some boy boffing a girl? There's no victims, therefore no rights violated, therefore no crime.
Thank you for being a loyal AT&T U-verse customer! We have received your email and have created a trouble ticket for you automatically by monitoring your web postings. Please submit both a fresh semen sample and a two day old fecal sample so our customer service reps can verify your information and begin to investigate the issue.
Awesome image! In the future, every day I'll shit in a bowl in the morning. In the evening, I'll take the three-day-old bowl and flush it, clean it out, and prepare it for tomorrow.
All so I can have more expedient customer service.
Paid web hosting solutions can still give "This Account Has Been Suspended" just as easily as free hosting solutions if the alleged copyright owner sends the OCILLA notice to the hosting company.
Only if said blogger is an idiot and doesn't do his due diligence. The laws of the locality in which you are operating seems to me to be a significant part of the due diligence; hosting in Canada is cheaper not only due to the exchange rate, but also because it's colder up there and they don't need as much AC to cool the servers.;P
The term control also conveniently includes backup and legal protection from the DCMA.
You know, I thought for a couple days that Good Charlotte's song "Keep Your Hands Off My Girl" was geeky cool, from the line "I've got DCMA."
Then I looked up the lyrics, and it actually says, "I've got DC and Made." (Designer clothes I think?)
Then a bit later I remembered that it's pronounced "DMCA" (for Digital Millennium Copyright Act) and had nothing to do with the song at all, even as a double entendre. Oh well... (I agree with everything else you said.)
So, Windows should, out of the box, take measurements of every activity that it performs. When reading a file, save the checksum; also, save how long it took the file to read, and from where (in case it gets moved to a slower cylinder, or becomes fragmented).
Granted, I'm talking about saving a ton of data, which may not yet be feasible (but with today's quad-core CPUs, might be getting there -- they say "give a core to the antivirus" after all, and this is basically that).
Then, when an operation takes significantly longer than it is expected to, the computer can give an alert. (Of course, the alert process could be compromised as well; so, put this function in the hardware, and then the BIOS bloats and we get BIOS viruses; so, put it in the CPU, and I'll stop here.)
the other was the modem-friendly front page, which is less important now that there are browser search bars and I don't use a modem
I still prefer Google's home page for its sparseness, especially when I'm on the VPN and RDPed to a work computer. We're all (home, VPN, work computer) on fast pipes, but there's added latency that slows down the Bing image.
Would be nice if the first few bytes (or K) were measured, and depending on the perceived load time, they determined whether to show the image based on how long it would take to display. Like, "more than 3 seconds, show no image".
He must have seen me smirk or something, though, because since then I've been on the "turn your head and cough" list every time I try to board a plane. All for a three-day contract.
Don't do the crime if you can't do the time. (Yes, I consider DHS a criminal organization. Come get me.)
What's interesting about your programming example is: deep breathing is helpful in many regards, and requires conscious control. (It's useful for meditation, helping you get to sleep, calming you down from a fight-or-flight response in the workplace where either of those responses are not helpful, and energy healing.) Otherwise, we tend to sigh once every hundred breaths or so (an unconscious deep breath).
[...] when one side uses unconventional warfare, and disregarding traditional laws of war (such as, well, not wearing uniform, using human shields, pretending to be a civilian, etc)
A coworker was telling me recently that the schools are trying to reduce teaching about our revolutionary forefathers, because of the tactics they used and how similar they are to the tactics being used against us in the two countries we're terrorizing.
That's pretty sad: our administration wants to distance itself from its founders. Who do you think would be more right? The people who founded the damned country, or the idiots currently holding the reigns?
Thank you ever so much. I was just thinking, "It's been a while since I've rinsed nasally", and you helped with that -- except why did it have to be coffee?:)
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This is actually very interesting! I had friends in college who could smoke a prodigious amount of dope, holding the hits for super-long times, and they excelled in their classes. I wonder if part of it was training their vessels and capillaries to be wider, by increasing the CO2 concentration? That's ... pretty far out.
Your response is incongruous (and in Courier, so I guess as far as the font's concerned, you're on topic). GP was stating "Microsoft chose to make things easier for mere mortals to do", your response is "yeah but they left the difficult way in as well, so you're stupid" -- your response is not a refutation, it's an orthogonal observation, turned into an insult at the end. Note that I'm not insulting you; I think insulting someone is the wrong way to do it, even if what I have to say is accurate and on target and a valid refutation. It's better to let people appear stupid on their own.
Besides, your refutation is not technically accurate, either: that command worked in Windows 2000. (Yes, you could argue that "since Windows XP" is a valid subset of "since Windows 2000" and that you intentionally meant to not cover all cases, and in that case, I'd say congratulations at having won this debate.)
I agree. I've also found that using a "simple test format" for reporting bugs helps a great deal, both in getting service and also the attitude of the support staff (at least, as far as car be interpreted from text-only email communication).
The simple format I use goes like this:
In addition, I try to reduce the steps as much as possible, both so I can know exactly what part of the sequence is causing the bug (so I can avoid doing that, for now); and so the developers can better pinpoint the code that's causing it.
Yeah, isn't that what ACTA is all about?
Those aren't M&Ms, they're Mike and Ikes.
But, but, won't someone think of the toons?
P-r-r-r-r-r-rease?
OT: every time I see your sig, I think of this game. Thanks!
Hey, it's a better acronym than "I ANAL"!
That very simple description sounds like it would make a judge think seriously...
Awesome image! In the future, every day I'll shit in a bowl in the morning. In the evening, I'll take the three-day-old bowl and flush it, clean it out, and prepare it for tomorrow.
All so I can have more expedient customer service.
Or, "is left as an exercise for those who want to be put on a list."
Only if said blogger is an idiot and doesn't do his due diligence. The laws of the locality in which you are operating seems to me to be a significant part of the due diligence; hosting in Canada is cheaper not only due to the exchange rate, but also because it's colder up there and they don't need as much AC to cool the servers. ;P
You know, I thought for a couple days that Good Charlotte's song "Keep Your Hands Off My Girl" was geeky cool, from the line "I've got DCMA."
Then I looked up the lyrics, and it actually says, "I've got DC and Made." (Designer clothes I think?)
Then a bit later I remembered that it's pronounced "DMCA" (for Digital Millennium Copyright Act) and had nothing to do with the song at all, even as a double entendre. Oh well... (I agree with everything else you said.)
Exactly.
So, Windows should, out of the box, take measurements of every activity that it performs. When reading a file, save the checksum; also, save how long it took the file to read, and from where (in case it gets moved to a slower cylinder, or becomes fragmented).
Granted, I'm talking about saving a ton of data, which may not yet be feasible (but with today's quad-core CPUs, might be getting there -- they say "give a core to the antivirus" after all, and this is basically that).
Then, when an operation takes significantly longer than it is expected to, the computer can give an alert. (Of course, the alert process could be compromised as well; so, put this function in the hardware, and then the BIOS bloats and we get BIOS viruses; so, put it in the CPU, and I'll stop here.)
I still prefer Google's home page for its sparseness, especially when I'm on the VPN and RDPed to a work computer. We're all (home, VPN, work computer) on fast pipes, but there's added latency that slows down the Bing image.
Would be nice if the first few bytes (or K) were measured, and depending on the perceived load time, they determined whether to show the image based on how long it would take to display. Like, "more than 3 seconds, show no image".
This is my idea. Now it's yours.
Hahaha, lather rinse repeat. The watchers will someday learn that not watching at some point is not at all dissimilar to not watching at any point.
Uh huh. Tell us more. Like how to subscribe to your newsletter.
Don't do the crime if you can't do the time. (Yes, I consider DHS a criminal organization. Come get me.)
Yeah, not going to church is turning out to be as sexually fulfilling as going to an engineering university...
Ha, I heard the last two words of your post in the shrilly faux-female Monty Python voice, and am now thinking of the drunk philosophers skit. Thanks!
He did say "functional" programming, not "form" programming... :)
What's interesting about your programming example is: deep breathing is helpful in many regards, and requires conscious control. (It's useful for meditation, helping you get to sleep, calming you down from a fight-or-flight response in the workplace where either of those responses are not helpful, and energy healing.) Otherwise, we tend to sigh once every hundred breaths or so (an unconscious deep breath).
"That was never nine minutes just now!"
A coworker was telling me recently that the schools are trying to reduce teaching about our revolutionary forefathers, because of the tactics they used and how similar they are to the tactics being used against us in the two countries we're terrorizing.
That's pretty sad: our administration wants to distance itself from its founders. Who do you think would be more right? The people who founded the damned country, or the idiots currently holding the reigns?
Thank you ever so much. I was just thinking, "It's been a while since I've rinsed nasally", and you helped with that -- except why did it have to be coffee? :)