The hilarious (or maybe hilariously horrifying) thing is that MS has been providing awfully forgiving backwards-compatibility since the Windows 95 days. The really horrifying part in the linked example is that they provide this hand-holding to people who didn't even read "past the first page" of the SDK when the program was originally written for Win 3.1.
That said, "it made sense at the time" and/or "we really didn't have a choice back then" seem to be recurring themes in Windows development (at least on Raymond Chen's blog).
During my long sojourn with XP, I got to spend a lot of quality time with bluescreens. That said, it wasn't usually windows crashing so much as device drivers crashinig windows (I'm looking at you ATI!).
Well, he's not *entirely* wrong. The problem is that we use one acronym for every kind of nonrecoverable error in the windows os family, which is mainly the fault of ms (with blue-flavored error screens going back to 3.1 as I recall).
That said, with a little pedantry, it can be pointed out that the NT series has the uniquely-labeled 'STOP' errors (with handy error-id hex #), as well as the more stark NMI screens (especially those lovely Memory Parity Errors). Plus, there's the sad smiley bluescreen. That definitely started with Win8 (and ended, hopefully).
But in the end, it's bugchecks all the way down, no matter what your os is. The Guru Meditation is a great example from the Amiga.
Not a bad idea. How about seeding the internet with lots of legitimate-looking email addresses to cause spammers to waste time and resources?
No need to do that... spammers already do it to waste time and resources of anti-spam groups.
I think there's a 'Hitchhiker's' quote for that:
Half the electronic engineers in the galaxy are constantly trying to find fresh ways of jamming the signals generated by the Thumb, while the other half are constantly trying to find fresh ways of jamming the jamming signals
That said, I don't mean to flame Republicans in general. Just the virulently stereotypical ones I'm related to.
(In the interest of full disclosure, I actually registered Republican in '08, though that was to vote for Ron Paul in my first presidential primary. In retrospect, I wasn't nearly as well-informed a voter as I thought I was.)
And one more thing, the DMV is a poor example since that's a state agency.
It's hard to fathom why you think that. I specifically picked a state agency to point out how the state is forcing people to observe a religious holiday.
I believe that dear Mr. AC meant 'state agency' in the sense of an agency that is ultimately responsible to a state governor (1 of 50 such), as opposed to agencies who are ultimately responsible to a person often addressed as 'Mr. President'. Generally speaking, your local DMV is one such agency.
Hence the difference between *state secrets* (e.g. the judges of the chili cookoff at this year's Texas state fair, wouldn't want anyone to try and 'help' them with their impartial decision) and *State secrets* (e.g. the flight schedules for unmanned drones, wouldn't want someone to 'help' them make an unscheduled landing.)
When I was at Honeywell, I sat across from a very loud talker in finance. When she wasn't talking shit about her deadbeat (ex)-husband to friends/lawyers, she was explaining to suppliers that Honeywell paid on Net 60 terms and they could take it or leave it. It wouldn't surprise me to find that large companies are pushing to Net 90 if they can get away with it.
Learning about payment practices of larger (and sometimes smaller) companines has been one of the most... heartwarming aspects of working for a small business. Perfectly illustrated by the Obligatory Dilbert.
Suddenly your little newsletter is in more demand than you can meet, and you literally have to turn away some folks sans article. Some enraged would-be reader slices your car's tires for causing them the fruitless journey, thus the act of running out of in-demand newsletters becomes known as the "Slash-Tire Effect".
I fully expect the two divergent plots to merge. Keeping in mind that (spoiler):
Yeah, that's what we said about Half Life: Opposing Force, and apparently now it never officially happened.
I think this is a different situation, in that Opposing Force was developed primarily by Gearbox (if I recall correctly), as opposed to the Portal franchise, which is developed by Valve itself.
Turn in your geek card. All these should be familiar enough by now.
If we were real geeks, we'd refer to a "BSoD", when it occurs in an NT-family Windows OS, as a STOP Error (unless it's a "Hardware Error", or an "NMI Parity Check"). But clearly I'm just being +1 Pedantic Asshat. (On that note, I really wish Slashdot would let me change my nickname)
Uncle Sam's signature is already basically worthless as far as its promises to pay back its debt. What good would there be in being vouched for by a deadbeat, and basically a counterfeiting one at that.
I think you deserve a +1 Buzzword Bingo for managing that segue so gracefully.
Christ he was indicted on 20 counts, including mail fraud and trade secret theft. They have plenty of other indictments to work from.
Counts that they wouldn't have to spend nearly as much effort on, to boot.
I had the experience of being on a jury for a similar case in the Silicon Valley area a couple years ago. I'd have to say that the whole "e-mailing rather sensitive documents to yourself on the way out *and* using it in a competing startup" approach seems to be a foolproof way to get yourself found liable for little things like misappropriation of trade secrets.
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The hilarious (or maybe hilariously horrifying) thing is that MS has been providing awfully forgiving backwards-compatibility since the Windows 95 days. The really horrifying part in the linked example is that they provide this hand-holding to people who didn't even read "past the first page" of the SDK when the program was originally written for Win 3.1.
That said, "it made sense at the time" and/or "we really didn't have a choice back then" seem to be recurring themes in Windows development (at least on Raymond Chen's blog).
During my long sojourn with XP, I got to spend a lot of quality time with bluescreens. That said, it wasn't usually windows crashing so much as device drivers crashinig windows (I'm looking at you ATI!).
The BSOD came into being as a feature of Windows NT and has NEVER existed in the DOS derived versions of Windows (3.1, 95, 98, ME)
Oh, so very wrong.
Well, he's not *entirely* wrong. The problem is that we use one acronym for every kind of nonrecoverable error in the windows os family, which is mainly the fault of ms (with blue-flavored error screens going back to 3.1 as I recall).
That said, with a little pedantry, it can be pointed out that the NT series has the uniquely-labeled 'STOP' errors (with handy error-id hex #), as well as the more stark NMI screens (especially those lovely Memory Parity Errors). Plus, there's the sad smiley bluescreen. That definitely started with Win8 (and ended, hopefully).
But in the end, it's bugchecks all the way down, no matter what your os is. The Guru Meditation is a great example from the Amiga.
Not a bad idea. How about seeding the internet with lots of legitimate-looking email addresses to cause spammers to waste time and resources?
No need to do that... spammers already do it to waste time and resources of anti-spam groups.
I think there's a 'Hitchhiker's' quote for that:
Half the electronic engineers in the galaxy are constantly trying to find fresh ways of jamming the signals generated by the Thumb, while the other half are constantly trying to find fresh ways of jamming the jamming signals
That said, I don't mean to flame Republicans in general. Just the virulently stereotypical ones I'm related to.
(In the interest of full disclosure, I actually registered Republican in '08, though that was to vote for Ron Paul in my first presidential primary. In retrospect, I wasn't nearly as well-informed a voter as I thought I was.)
they don't appear to be very good at typing though
They're much better at sharing/retweeting "SCANDALOUS Truth About Obama/Democrats Revealed!!!" videos on their preferred social media platform.
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This isn't wikipedia, where people can trot out two simple words and feel justifiably smug, you know.
Exactly! This is where your trot out xkcd and feel smug!
This is also where you pray that maybe the New Slashdot will feature an edit button.
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This isn't wikipedia, where people can trot out two simple words and feel justifiably smug, you know.
Exactly! This is where your trot out xkcd and feel smug!
Your winnings, sir!
Aye, laddie. No TRUE feminist would ever do anything hypocritical...
Not if she were from the highlands, at any rate.
And one more thing, the DMV is a poor example since that's a state agency.
It's hard to fathom why you think that. I specifically picked a state agency to point out how the state is forcing people to observe a religious holiday.
I believe that dear Mr. AC meant 'state agency' in the sense of an agency that is ultimately responsible to a state governor (1 of 50 such), as opposed to agencies who are ultimately responsible to a person often addressed as 'Mr. President'. Generally speaking, your local DMV is one such agency.
Hence the difference between *state secrets* (e.g. the judges of the chili cookoff at this year's Texas state fair, wouldn't want anyone to try and 'help' them with their impartial decision) and *State secrets* (e.g. the flight schedules for unmanned drones, wouldn't want someone to 'help' them make an unscheduled landing.)
APK strikes again!
I'm pretty sure apk would have used at least one line break.
It's much much closer than "anonymous coward" is. Though it is a rather apt description.
That reminds me, it's been months since we've seen any comments from Michael Cristopheit.
When I was at Honeywell, I sat across from a very loud talker in finance. When she wasn't talking shit about her deadbeat (ex)-husband to friends/lawyers, she was explaining to suppliers that Honeywell paid on Net 60 terms and they could take it or leave it. It wouldn't surprise me to find that large companies are pushing to Net 90 if they can get away with it.
Learning about payment practices of larger (and sometimes smaller) companines has been one of the most... heartwarming aspects of working for a small business. Perfectly illustrated by the Obligatory Dilbert.
Suddenly your little newsletter is in more demand than you can meet, and you literally have to turn away some folks sans article. Some enraged would-be reader slices your car's tires for causing them the fruitless journey, thus the act of running out of in-demand newsletters becomes known as the "Slash-Tire Effect".
You are my hero forever.
Also, +1 Recursive Humor
I fully expect the two divergent plots to merge. Keeping in mind that (spoiler):
Yeah, that's what we said about Half Life: Opposing Force, and apparently now it never officially happened.
I think this is a different situation, in that Opposing Force was developed primarily by Gearbox (if I recall correctly), as opposed to the Portal franchise, which is developed by Valve itself.
I think there's a limitation to this. You don't see a lot of stuff out there being marketed as version 735 of the product.
I'm sure they'll decide that version 640 should be enough for anyone.
Turn in your geek card. All these should be familiar enough by now.
If we were real geeks, we'd refer to a "BSoD", when it occurs in an NT-family Windows OS, as a STOP Error (unless it's a "Hardware Error", or an "NMI Parity Check"). But clearly I'm just being +1 Pedantic Asshat. (On that note, I really wish Slashdot would let me change my nickname)
Uncle Sam's signature is already basically worthless as far as its promises to pay back its debt. What good would there be in being vouched for by a deadbeat, and basically a counterfeiting one at that.
I think you deserve a +1 Buzzword Bingo for managing that segue so gracefully.
Christ he was indicted on 20 counts, including mail fraud and trade secret theft. They have plenty of other indictments to work from.
Counts that they wouldn't have to spend nearly as much effort on, to boot.
I had the experience of being on a jury for a similar case in the Silicon Valley area a couple years ago. I'd have to say that the whole "e-mailing rather sensitive documents to yourself on the way out *and* using it in a competing startup" approach seems to be a foolproof way to get yourself found liable for little things like misappropriation of trade secrets.
Hookers, blow, and maple syrup?
And Poutine, I'm told.
You know, I'll bet Ralph Nader's looking for something new to write about...
Nope. But you keep you overly simplistic view of the world,..to yourself.
To be fair, the 'dummy terminal' has been supplanted by the more modern Fat Client.
Take that as you will.
I can only hope that yours is a sarcastic post.
Poe's Law strikes again!
"it only stands to reason that 'uncountable' should be extended to also have a plural form."
What's wrong with "uncountables?"
That was the one with Sean Connery and Kevin Costner, right?