Yeah, we all realize that. My point is that, when you're sitting at a terminal and trying to view a text file, you need to learn the command. Don't tell me you said, "Gee, i need to catenate that file to nothing. Oh, and the command is 'cat'! I'm so glad i speak English, because otherwise that would have been counterintuitive."
Don't stop development on the old tree and shift all work to the restructuring project.
Instead, leave most of the manpower working on the old tree as always. Take a small team of your best people and have them gather input from the others, while the others keep working on the old tree. Then have the small team outline the changes that need to be made.
Work on the changes while simultaneously working on the usual stuff. Say, 90% of your manpower should do what they do now, and 10% should work on restructuring things. One mouthful at a time.
When you have a mouthful that you think is ready, branch the old tree. Merge your diffs into the branch, TEST IT, and if things seem to work, land the change onto the old tree.
Think about Unix: How long did it take you to learn that "cat" means "display some text"? About a second? Yeah, that's about as long as it would take someone who spoke only German.
On another note, it's the "X Window System", not "X Windows". That's why your favorite client/server bitmapped display manager's name doesn't infringe on a Microsoft trademark.
X is older than MS Windows. That suit wouldn't have a leg to stand on.
I agree that everyone should have a basic level of skill and training when it comes to such things as driving a car, being healthy, or operating a computer. However, the fact that millions of people still click email attachments called FOO.MP3.exe shows that such intricacies of computer security are too much for the average user.
Plus, people can't be on guard 24 hours a day. They have a job to do, and it probably has very little to do with file extensions.
Law-enforcement officials said more raids were imminent as they tried to shut down a multi-billion- dollar international piracy ring
Multi-billion dollar? How do they come up with these figures? "Oh, it cost our studio ten million dollars to make this movie, and you have a copy on your hard drive, so you stole ten million dollars from us."
If we had a police state like this 80 years ago, Prohibition would never have been repealed.
I wonder if, say, construction workers, when building a shopping mall, say stuff like, "Man, we have to put railings up? Come on, what kind of idiot would just walk off the edge and plummet to the floor below? Stupid users."
"What? Circuit breakers? What sort of moron would overload a circuit? Who needs circuit breakers? Stupid users."
So let me get this straight.. You're reading a book... about using a device... to automatically play... a computer simulation... of an activity that can't exactly be called a sport?
That's about as close as you can get to being an inorganic life form.
They leave them in because once the game is fully tested, they don't want to do anything that might foul things up. Plus even changing a single bit could cost a ton of money if IC presses have been made.
They don't tell the consumer because they don't want their game being solved in one day. Why buy your own copy of a game when you can just borrow your friend's (your friend doesn't need it anymore because he used cheat codes to find all the secrets in less than a week) and beat it in a week?
Gameshark doesn't have anything to do with these cheat codes. They reverse-engineer the game's machine code and figure out that, "By changing byte 0x4C2B0DF1 to 0xC2, we can disable the code that makes your energy go down when you get hit."
You're all idiots. It's UUDDLRLRBA. Also note that select and start are not part of the code. Once you press UUDDLRLRBA, you can do whatever you want -- press left again, press select six times, hold the B button, whatever.
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Yeah, we all realize that. My point is that, when you're sitting at a terminal and trying to view a text file, you need to learn the command. Don't tell me you said, "Gee, i need to catenate that file to nothing. Oh, and the command is 'cat'! I'm so glad i speak English, because otherwise that would have been counterintuitive."
The command might as well have been "rqszx"
Don't stop development on the old tree and shift all work to the restructuring project.
Instead, leave most of the manpower working on the old tree as always. Take a small team of your best people and have them gather input from the others, while the others keep working on the old tree. Then have the small team outline the changes that need to be made.
Work on the changes while simultaneously working on the usual stuff. Say, 90% of your manpower should do what they do now, and 10% should work on restructuring things. One mouthful at a time.
When you have a mouthful that you think is ready, branch the old tree. Merge your diffs into the branch, TEST IT, and if things seem to work, land the change onto the old tree.
Well, it turns out it's Italian, not Latin. Still, according to Mirriam-Webster, franca means Frankish (i.e. French), not free.
If you made music, you'd want to get paid for your effort
And if you were the entrepreneur who started Kazaa, you'd want to get paid for your effort, too.
What's that you say? Kazaa is making money by exploiting others? Welcome to the music industry.
English is the lingua franca of international commerce
I agree with you, but i find it kinda funny that you use a Latin phrase meaning "French language" to illustrate your point that English is top dog.
Recognizable keywords in your native lanugage aren't necessary at all. Ever use assembly language?
XDR 0, 3
PME 9, AX
LLA AX, AH
WNV BX, AX
BCO 0, AX
Think about Unix: How long did it take you to learn that "cat" means "display some text"? About a second? Yeah, that's about as long as it would take someone who spoke only German.
On another note, it's the "X Window System", not "X Windows". That's why your favorite client/server bitmapped display manager's name doesn't infringe on a Microsoft trademark.
X is older than MS Windows. That suit wouldn't have a leg to stand on.
I think the guys who invented extreme programming should file a claim against Microsoft for infringing on their "XP" trademark.
Why not change their name to Licrosoft?
How about they call it GNU/Lindows?
I agree that everyone should have a basic level of skill and training when it comes to such things as driving a car, being healthy, or operating a computer. However, the fact that millions of people still click email attachments called FOO.MP3.exe shows that such intricacies of computer security are too much for the average user.
Plus, people can't be on guard 24 hours a day. They have a job to do, and it probably has very little to do with file extensions.
From the article:
Law-enforcement officials said more raids were imminent as they tried to shut down a multi-billion- dollar international piracy ring
Multi-billion dollar? How do they come up with these figures? "Oh, it cost our studio ten million dollars to make this movie, and you have a copy on your hard drive, so you stole ten million dollars from us."
If we had a police state like this 80 years ago, Prohibition would never have been repealed.
The user/group/all methodology is totally inflexible
Name one granular thing that you'd like to do with Unix security and don't think is possible, and i'll tell you how to do it.
I wonder if, say, construction workers, when building a shopping mall, say stuff like, "Man, we have to put railings up? Come on, what kind of idiot would just walk off the edge and plummet to the floor below? Stupid users."
"What? Circuit breakers? What sort of moron would overload a circuit? Who needs circuit breakers? Stupid users."
This is a disgrace, the way people waste their time at work. It's cheating their employer, too.
I'd write more, but i don't want my boss to see me on Slashdot.
Hey, good for them. But you'd they'd put a new lock on the roof access door by now...
Who said UDUD?
So let me get this straight.. You're reading a book ... about using a device ... to automatically play ... a computer simulation ... of an activity that can't exactly be called a sport?
That's about as close as you can get to being an inorganic life form.
They have the cheat codes for testing purposes.
They leave them in because once the game is fully tested, they don't want to do anything that might foul things up. Plus even changing a single bit could cost a ton of money if IC presses have been made.
They don't tell the consumer because they don't want their game being solved in one day. Why buy your own copy of a game when you can just borrow your friend's (your friend doesn't need it anymore because he used cheat codes to find all the secrets in less than a week) and beat it in a week?
Gameshark doesn't have anything to do with these cheat codes. They reverse-engineer the game's machine code and figure out that, "By changing byte 0x4C2B0DF1 to 0xC2, we can disable the code that makes your energy go down when you get hit."
You're all idiots. It's UUDDLRLRBA. Also note that select and start are not part of the code. Once you press UUDDLRLRBA, you can do whatever you want -- press left again, press select six times, hold the B button, whatever.
Linux instructions:
/etc/hosts, add the following line:
/etc/hosts, add the following line:
1. In
0.0.0.0 goatse.cx
Windows instructions:
1. Install Linux
2. In
0.0.0.0 goatse.cx
Good work, you fooled me, and i'm usually not fooled by goatsex links. Luckily i have the site redirected in my /etc/hosts.
Just out of curiosity, did you moderate the post up yourself, or did moron moderators do it?
Boy, Microsoft sucks. This patch doesn't even address future, yet-to-be-discovered vulnerabilities.
What does "put it up" mean?
Do you get paid to run your site? Did it make you rich? Then you have an excuse. They don't.