What is annoying is that in many Windows programs (at least Office 97) you can't even copy and paste the error message text. Your only option is to do a screen capture of the window.
What's annoying is that when I have my web application produce an error backtrace that can easily be copied and pasted, people send me a 500K screen cap of their browser window... which doesn't show the entire backtrace, obviously.
I completely agree, one of the problems here is not being in the mindset of the user.
That's all very well, but even if your error messages are in plain English, people still don't read them.
I get users complaining that they can't save a request they're entering, and they don't know why. When you ask them what is on the screen, it's a dialog box saying "You need to specify the whether enrollment is allowed for this event", and the cursor is positioned next to some checkboxes, yet they still somehow can't fathom that they have to check one of the boxes before they can save.
You're lucky if you're playing the PC version. On consoles, Valve and EA aren't even trying to stop the cheaters. They haven't even bothered to fix any of the map glitches that get exploited.
Yeah, I'm wondering how many geotagged Flickr photos there are that are licensed to allow Microsoft to re-use them commercially in this way. Surely not that many?
Ha! In 1990 I had 1MB of storage space on the University mainframe, and that was for everything.
I used to use my Atari ST for coursework, because it had way more storage space, and was faster at running my Lisp programs.
(Granted, the mainframe was shared with a hundred other people, but still... My share of it was slower than an ST.)
Being involved somewhat in Ruby's development, I've seen the "There's no need to document" myth bite people many times.
The single biggest reason why it's a myth: without documentation, you don't know what behavior is intended and supported, versus what behavior is an accident of implementation.
So then when the developer changes the (apparently accidental) API and hundreds of people's apps break, the blamestorming begins.
And then there are the situations where the copyright owner is known, but they have no interest in continuing to make the work available because there's insufficient profit in it.
For example, the movies "Spartacus" and "Lawrence of Arabia" were almost lost because the copyright owners decided they weren't worth the expense of maintaining, so they didn't bother to keep copies. And those were both Oscar-winning movies released only 50 years ago. If Columbia and Universal had refused to fund the belated restoration efforts, both movies would have been irretrievable by the time the copyright ran out.
Yes, it upscales. It also provides you with 1:1 pixel mapping via HDMI rather than an analog video signal. In some cases you get better texture rendering.
That said, for some games I prefer the PS2's output, so I kept mine.
The way I see it, Macmillan have demanded a price Amazon doesn't think they can sell books at, so Amazon have opted not to sell Macmillan books. Which is their right in a free market, right?
"Millions of people now own Kindles," Bezos said. "And Kindle owners read, a lot. When we have both editions, we sell six Kindle books for every 10 physical books."
Why would you actually buy it, when you can watch all you want for free?
This is a discussion about how people buy DRM-free media rather than pirating, when DRM-free media is available.
I'm asking where the DRM-free porn can be purchased. Telling me I can pirate porn for free is beside the point.
You say that, but I had a bitch of a time ripping a DVD recently, because it used some kind of copy protection mechanism that caused bad sector reads and made the ripping program loop indefinitely.
Slashdot Mirror
How many average Slashdotters live in the San Francisco Bay area?
I'm sure when the big one hits, we'll be telling all those Google employees how stupid they were, right?
What's annoying is that when I have my web application produce an error backtrace that can easily be copied and pasted, people send me a 500K screen cap of their browser window... which doesn't show the entire backtrace, obviously.
That's all very well, but even if your error messages are in plain English, people still don't read them.
I get users complaining that they can't save a request they're entering, and they don't know why. When you ask them what is on the screen, it's a dialog box saying "You need to specify the whether enrollment is allowed for this event", and the cursor is positioned next to some checkboxes, yet they still somehow can't fathom that they have to check one of the boxes before they can save.
You mean like the 75 million systems running BSD derivative OS X? Not exactly a lack of corporate support or a big failure.
Or do you mean the BSD code improvements contributed by Apple, like the Zeroconf support, the self-defragmenting code for the filesystem, and so on?
You're lucky if you're playing the PC version. On consoles, Valve and EA aren't even trying to stop the cheaters. They haven't even bothered to fix any of the map glitches that get exploited.
1. PHP. ...better stop there before I get modded into oblivion.
2. Visual BASIC.
3. Perl.
4. C.
5. C++.
The best developer won't write any code at all, unless he really has to.
Yeah, I'm wondering how many geotagged Flickr photos there are that are licensed to allow Microsoft to re-use them commercially in this way. Surely not that many?
Ha! In 1990 I had 1MB of storage space on the University mainframe, and that was for everything. I used to use my Atari ST for coursework, because it had way more storage space, and was faster at running my Lisp programs. (Granted, the mainframe was shared with a hundred other people, but still... My share of it was slower than an ST.)
To read books on.
The fact that you asked the question suggests that you've never actually compared reading books on e-ink to reading books on an LCD.
Being involved somewhat in Ruby's development, I've seen the "There's no need to document" myth bite people many times.
The single biggest reason why it's a myth: without documentation, you don't know what behavior is intended and supported, versus what behavior is an accident of implementation.
So then when the developer changes the (apparently accidental) API and hundreds of people's apps break, the blamestorming begins.
Funny, my experience of the Rails community is that it attracts a lot of crackpots who don't believe in documentation--not even API documentation.
And then there are the situations where the copyright owner is known, but they have no interest in continuing to make the work available because there's insufficient profit in it.
For example, the movies "Spartacus" and "Lawrence of Arabia" were almost lost because the copyright owners decided they weren't worth the expense of maintaining, so they didn't bother to keep copies. And those were both Oscar-winning movies released only 50 years ago. If Columbia and Universal had refused to fund the belated restoration efforts, both movies would have been irretrievable by the time the copyright ran out.
The right solution is to fix the brokenness of copyright law, not to write in a special exemption for a particular company.
For starters, we should have an orphan works provision, and the duration of copyright should be cut back down to reasonable levels.
Yes, it upscales. It also provides you with 1:1 pixel mapping via HDMI rather than an analog video signal. In some cases you get better texture rendering.
That said, for some games I prefer the PS2's output, so I kept mine.
...the iPhone controls what software you're allowed to run, to keep it secure. Otherwise it would suffer from exploits like this one.
Mentioned in TFA.
I wouldn't call C or C++ platform-independent either. Not without a huge amount of work and lots of precautions.
The way I see it, Macmillan have demanded a price Amazon doesn't think they can sell books at, so Amazon have opted not to sell Macmillan books. Which is their right in a free market, right?
I must have missed these sites where porn producers give their content away for free without DRM. That's why I was asking for examples.
Here you go, ACs--quote:
This is a discussion about how people buy DRM-free media rather than pirating, when DRM-free media is available. I'm asking where the DRM-free porn can be purchased. Telling me I can pirate porn for free is beside the point.
Wanting to increase sales of Pixar movies would be a conflict of interest for Jobs as a board member? Wat?
You say that, but I had a bitch of a time ripping a DVD recently, because it used some kind of copy protection mechanism that caused bad sector reads and made the ripping program loop indefinitely.
Where can I legally buy DRM-free porn?
(Sincere question.)