I was hoping that your link would be the Story of Mel. I was pleasantly surprised to see that right at the top, it links right too the very same: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/unmaincamouflage.html """ 4 Hide Macro Definitions : Hide macro definitions in amongst rubbish comments. The programmer will get bored and not finish reading the comments thus never discover the macro. Ensure that the macro replaces what looks like a perfectly legitimate assignment with some bizarre operation, a simple example:
#define a=b a=0-b """
Just plain wrong. That won't even compile in any context where he's expecting it to be used. It #defines token "a" to be "=b a=0-b".
But I agree about the shitty design. Even worse than my own, which is merely ugly through absense of style, rather than presence of bad style.
So I follow your link supposedly to documentation, and I'm presented with a link labelled "Documentation", so what I'm on isn't actually the documentation, then?
However, there's also a link to "Manuals". Are the manuals not "Documentation"?
Before lauding their documentation so publicly, perhaps you should persuade them to pay Jakob Nielsen or sucklike for a quick once over of their site, so that it doesn't contain such flaws.
Desperately feel the need to shout "^^^^ THIS!!!!!" in reply to either your post or the "100k pages of fucking garbage" one.
But to add new and related content, I'd not hold up Perl as a great example of good Open Source documentation, unlike some. Like oracle, there may be plenty of it, but there's so much that many things might plausibly be in any of half a dozen locations. And if you know the language well enough to know immediately which one of the manpages the feature you're interested in is in, you probably don't need the manpage any more.
Are you trying to say that other RF comms technology is slower, but can carry more at the same time? Which wouldn't really stand up to much scrutiny at all.
A far better stupid analogy is to say that this is basically just the same as frisbeeing a dual layer DVD across a tennis court every 4 seconds.
> They have a pretty nasty reputation of not providing drivers that work [...]
You could simply have ended that sentence there. They're bodgers, full stop. When they deliver you the next version of the driver, it's in the form of a patchbomb which intersperses functional changes with cosmetic changes, so it's hard to see what's actually changed. I once even wrote a whitespace-changes remover *specifically* for IMG's patchbombs.
And let's not even start on the fact that their drivers were clearly written for MS Windows, and were then very very clumsily ported to Linux, so they do plenty of things in an inappropriate way.
I can view electronic documents on my mobile phone, and my mobile phone can run off solar panels, or a dynamo on an exercise bike. And I have 7 spare phones (OK, 6 real spares, 1 is now very much the junker for spare parts, but still technically works enough to view a pdf).
Which bit have I not thought through? Which bit which simultaniously permits paper books to survive, that is. You did mention power problems - are you sure those paper books will survive after they've been burnt for fuel?
Pretty sure I'm in the top 100 million. Knowing what wages are like in the US compared to over here, I'd be surprised if more than a handful of those with technical IT-related jobs there aren't also in that top 100 million. Slashdot readers that aren't in the top billion would probably be in the minority.
If you think the only thing you ever plug into the phone is a charger, then you're right. However, because that's not the only thing you plug into a phone, you're just plain wrong. E.g. http://www.euromobile.se/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/n/o/nokia_6310_system_connector.jpg
GIven that your argument does not mention radiation, it is as much an argument that kettles are harmful. Or puppies. Or the scientific method. Or anything.
The problem with that is that neither was able to form a well-reasoned and internally-understood argument in favour of the shots. They had to trust you and your explanation why it would be good for them. I'm definitely not saying you did anything wrong at all, quite the opposite; it's just that in a situation where they have such a dependence on you, they cannot be critical of what you're telling them, right or wrong.
Chan-however, I liked the *old* revived master, pre-regeneration-tho. Chan-that had some potential-tho. Chan-the reintroduction/per se/ wasn't bullshit-tho. Chan-the threat that he became, and I'll now stop it with those annoying "tho"s, Doctor becoming Dobby, and the harnessing of the power of the thoughts of humans, was about as low as it's ever been.
Recently, I've been counting sonic screwdriver uses. It sometimes gets up to double figures. We need the Tereleptils again, and a great fire of London...
I still watch every episode. Each time, I cross my fingers and hope that it won't be shit./The Seeds of Doom/ hooked me as a youngster, there's no turning back.
> I'm also one of those weirdos who thinks the most recent few seasons of the show are boot-licking, Doctor-worshiping, ultra-melodramatic, vomit-inducing crap that caused Doctor Who to go from one of my favorite shows of all time to something I cannot physically stomach watching anymore.
Are you mad!?!?!?!?
You forgot "human-lauding".
There were more "brilliant"s (or synonyms) in every Tennant-era program than in a whole series of The Fast Show. Barf!
Give me Sylvester McCoy any day over that, with his "Your species has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched by only its ingenuity when trying to destroy itself".
I think his stance is more along the lines of "Electronic voting is hard", rather than impossible. Of course, that every single instance of it in the US presently is flawed in many ways (at many levels), is a good reason to come, from Bruce's undeniable premise, to the conclusion "Don't trust the current electronic voting machines. Use paper", yes.
Well, if you put Chomsky's arguments up against the Washington Post's, for example, in the late 70s, then the Washington Post was clearly in the wrong. I'm not sure what other cases you're talking about.
Are you under the misapprehension that the FBI operates in every other country in the world too? Your parochial view of simply running off and complaining to the FBI, simply doesn't apply to well over 6.5 billion people on this planet. And quite how you will do that anyway with broken kneecaps, I'm not sure.
Slashdot Mirror
I was hoping that your link would be the Story of Mel. I was pleasantly surprised to see that right at the top, it links right too the very same:
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html
He doesn't have much insigntful to say.
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/unmaincamouflage.html
"""
4 Hide Macro Definitions
: Hide macro definitions in amongst rubbish comments. The programmer will get bored and not finish reading the comments thus never discover the macro. Ensure that the macro replaces what looks like a perfectly legitimate assignment with some bizarre operation, a simple example:
#define a=b a=0-b
"""
Just plain wrong. That won't even compile in any context where he's expecting it to be used. It #defines token "a" to be "=b a=0-b".
But I agree about the shitty design. Even worse than my own, which is merely ugly through absense of style, rather than presence of bad style.
So I follow your link supposedly to documentation, and I'm presented with a link labelled "Documentation", so what I'm on isn't actually the documentation, then?
However, there's also a link to "Manuals". Are the manuals not "Documentation"?
Before lauding their documentation so publicly, perhaps you should persuade them to pay Jakob Nielsen or sucklike for a quick once over of their site, so that it doesn't contain such flaws.
Desperately feel the need to shout "^^^^ THIS!!!!!" in reply to either your post or the "100k pages of fucking garbage" one.
But to add new and related content, I'd not hold up Perl as a great example of good Open Source documentation, unlike some. Like oracle, there may be plenty of it, but there's so much that many things might plausibly be in any of half a dozen locations. And if you know the language well enough to know immediately which one of the manpages the feature you're interested in is in, you probably don't need the manpage any more.
Are you trying to say that other RF comms technology is slower, but can carry more at the same time? Which wouldn't really stand up to much scrutiny at all.
A far better stupid analogy is to say that this is basically just the same as frisbeeing a dual layer DVD across a tennis court every 4 seconds.
> They have a pretty nasty reputation of not providing drivers that work [...]
You could simply have ended that sentence there. They're bodgers, full stop. When they deliver you the next version of the driver, it's in the form of a patchbomb which intersperses functional changes with cosmetic changes, so it's hard to see what's actually changed. I once even wrote a whitespace-changes remover *specifically* for IMG's patchbombs.
And let's not even start on the fact that their drivers were clearly written for MS Windows, and were then very very clumsily ported to Linux, so they do plenty of things in an inappropriate way.
Get your Loonsong MIPS from Lemote:
http://www.lemote.com/en/products/mini-computer/2010/0310/111.html
The abstract seems to be talking about recovery from state compromise.
If you've got state compromise, you've already run code that you didn't want to run, and therefore you are not in control of your machine any more.
Game over. They're logging your keystrokes too, probably.
I can view electronic documents on my mobile phone, and my mobile phone can run off solar panels, or a dynamo on an exercise bike. And I have 7 spare phones (OK, 6 real spares, 1 is now very much the junker for spare parts, but still technically works enough to view a pdf).
Which bit have I not thought through? Which bit which simultaniously permits paper books to survive, that is. You did mention power problems - are you sure those paper books will survive after they've been burnt for fuel?
Pretty sure I'm in the top 100 million. Knowing what wages are like in the US compared to over here, I'd be surprised if more than a handful of those with technical IT-related jobs there aren't also in that top 100 million. Slashdot readers that aren't in the top billion would probably be in the minority.
> And "carrier branded" versions? Sorry, never encountered that, must be something unique to your country
So you've never heard of little countries like the UK, France, and Japan?
If you think the only thing you ever plug into the phone is a charger, then you're right. However, because that's not the only thing you plug into a phone, you're just plain wrong. E.g.
http://www.euromobile.se/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/n/o/nokia_6310_system_connector.jpg
GIven that your argument does not mention radiation, it is as much an argument that kettles are harmful. Or puppies. Or the scientific method. Or anything.
The problem with that is that neither was able to form a well-reasoned and internally-understood argument in favour of the shots. They had to trust you and your explanation why it would be good for them. I'm definitely not saying you did anything wrong at all, quite the opposite; it's just that in a situation where they have such a dependence on you, they cannot be critical of what you're telling them, right or wrong.
Chan-however, I liked the *old* revived master, pre-regeneration-tho. Chan-that had some potential-tho. Chan-the reintroduction /per se/ wasn't bullshit-tho. Chan-the threat that he became, and I'll now stop it with those annoying "tho"s, Doctor becoming Dobby, and the harnessing of the power of the thoughts of humans, was about as low as it's ever been.
/The Seeds of Doom/ hooked me as a youngster, there's no turning back.
Recently, I've been counting sonic screwdriver uses. It sometimes gets up to double figures. We need the Tereleptils again, and a great fire of London...
I still watch every episode. Each time, I cross my fingers and hope that it won't be shit.
> I'm also one of those weirdos who thinks the most recent few seasons of the show are boot-licking, Doctor-worshiping, ultra-melodramatic, vomit-inducing crap that caused Doctor Who to go from one of my favorite shows of all time to something I cannot physically stomach watching anymore.
Are you mad!?!?!?!?
You forgot "human-lauding".
There were more "brilliant"s (or synonyms) in every Tennant-era program than in a whole series of The Fast Show. Barf!
Give me Sylvester McCoy any day over that, with his "Your species has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched by only its ingenuity when trying to destroy itself".
I think his stance is more along the lines of "Electronic voting is hard", rather than impossible. Of course, that every single instance of it in the US presently is flawed in many ways (at many levels), is a good reason to come, from Bruce's undeniable premise, to the conclusion "Don't trust the current electronic voting machines. Use paper", yes.
Well, if you put Chomsky's arguments up against the Washington Post's, for example, in the late 70s, then the Washington Post was clearly in the wrong. I'm not sure what other cases you're talking about.
"No, I'm talking about US voting on a ... " ... thread titled "Azerbaijan Election Results Released Before Voting Had Even Started"
If you observe the paper, you change it?
And thus wikipedia and blogs were invented.
So is the paper like a flip book?
GTFO?
Grand Theory Fields
^-------- Of
"Face it. It has nothing to do with the voting"
It has everything to do with the voting. The single most important ingredient is proportional representation, or the lack of it.
Are you under the misapprehension that the FBI operates in every other country in the world too? Your parochial view of simply running off and complaining to the FBI, simply doesn't apply to well over 6.5 billion people on this planet. And quite how you will do that anyway with broken kneecaps, I'm not sure.
I'll say nothing about the reliability of that source, and just leave these two logos here for your perusal:
;-)
http://www.aljazeera.com/Media/ver2/Images/header_logo2.png
http://www.theonion.com/static/onion/img/logo_2x.png?bccf76e7b6aa