NoScript is THE extension I install on every FF. Incredibly useful and smart. Free. Along with FlashBlock they are my browsing essentials. When I get (more) geeky it's also several more but the important ones are those two. The retards here have complaints about it. The slashretards here have complaints about everything. Fuck you, people, you are scum. Slashdot is no more, the moderators are scum and this is dead. I could elaborate, but fuck you all the way to hell.
For tonight's news we are going to bash the poor retards who can't seem to secure their APs because, you know, anyone could drive to your backyard and plant child pornography all over your drives and make your printers spit it out non-stop, God forbid!. Tomorrow there will be another slashstupidity about how we need more freedom and how to combat Big Money and Big Brother by using open proxies and stick it up the stablishment's ass and that leaving your AP open is mighty tech-cool, libertarian and fashionable. Oh, the humanity.
Offtopic but good one. I mean it. I'm also sick of the sheeple born with their brain disconnected. Like the bunch of idiots here making light of hate crimes commited by the state.
Too frequently I am also enraged by retards but, I'm not trying to save you or anything, it's just a fit of rage but remember to look at nature, read Einstein's writings, listen to Bach. You deserve it. Idiots cannot ruin that.
stupidity cannot be made illegal unless prisons can be made the size of countries and countries the size of prisons.
As per your example: if you leave your car or your home open and you are robbed, you don't have any criminal or civil responsibility. Unless you are prepared to visit your mother in prison, don't say such stupid nonsense.
It's common knowledge that people and companies only do the minimum effort they can get away with so I expect systems to become weaker over time if this is enforced.
Most likely the few and mediocre developers left on this sorry project with clamorous, long-standing bugs, unresponsive GUI and substandard code that has been riding on the reputation of Firefox since version 1 won't hear you.
I have coded a number of small C++ programs, in the ballpark of 30,000 lines that run here and there in my office and somewhere else. My experience is that what is written on the source happens exactly, precisely in the executable. Not a single time in 13 years I have seen an unexplainable behavior. I have seen errors and bugs, that when corrected are never seen again. Computers are deterministic machines. I cannot, for the love of me, begin to understand what's going on inside the disastrous piece of crap that is Thunderbird, versions 2, 3 or 5.
I code only in C++, use the STL occasionally and don't have more sophisticated needs so this is undoubtedly the reason why I'm seeing a good correspondence between what I write and what happens. I can chosse the tech I am going to use to solve a problem at work (I'm that lucky) and so I pick with great care. If I had to venture a guess I would say Thunderbird is a mish-mash of unproven (or misused, excuse my ignorance here) technologies that don't go well together, coded by slightly incompetent people.
What follows is my notes on replacements: Googling for 'imap client' always returns the same old results: - eudora: dead, '90s feeling, doesn't tell the user why it is unresponsive or what it is doing, unusable in an office if you value your job - mulberry: nice but slow and occasionally stupid, specialy retrieving a folder for the first time. It retrieves just a screenful of headers and leaves the rest to work lazily. You hit 'end' and it retrieves every header in between, no matter if it's 100 or 20,000. Also, very dated HTML rendering. Also, bugtracker makes it look like it's going to explode anytime. Bad Unicode handling and long-standing bugs, typical of one-developer projects and his religious views - unusable in an office - pegasus mail: haven't looked closely - sylpheed: looks very nice, good Unicode, few bugs. It's one of my possibilities for the office if it survives day-to day operation - the bat: better in everything than everyone else, fast, tells you what it is doing. A long task can be cancelled. Good navigation by keyboard. Not good HTML rendering. Costs money but if it works the developers deserve every cent of the fucking 35 $UNIT they ask - another candidate for day-to-day testing and possible replacement of ridiculous thunderbird (whimperdinosaur? tee hee). - even considering outlook [express] 2007/10 but haven't really looked into them, I should know better. All google finds is hype of microsoft minions and marketing-speak - really good alternatives like mutt + offlineimap are unusable -sadly- in an office because lusers don't like it
Thanks. Finally an informed post. In Spain it's the same, we pay when buying blank media, printers, memory cards, etc.
This is not of course some 'fine' just in case you copy, nor does it give you any right to copy illegally, that would be blatantly unconstitutional but somehow uninformed people like to jump at the idea (we are being treated like criminals!! ZOMZG!)
It gives us the right to make private copies and to lend. Judges agree P2P is akin to personal lending assuming you have the original, which is why it's legal here in Spain, there have been enough rulings now so that this is settled. What's illegal is to profit from the copying or the linking. If you make a website with P2P links, that's ok unless there are advertisements in it, even google ads, then you are game. But P2P as it is is legal if you own the original. Otherwise it's not.
Finally, to add some information to your post: some groups have successfully sued the Spanish MAFIAA and got their money back for the blank media if it can be proven that the use of the -in this case- DVDs was to record works not protected by the racket like court proceedings (yes, the people suing were lawyers, they don't pay for their time and it's a lengthy process and it must be provan case by case so most people storing home movies don't bother but it's doable).
I am only considering VMware products again if they fire the idiot who wrote the blog post and cane him in the public square. Come on VMware, we are hoping for some retribution here.
Now, for the technical part, I'm only considering cloudy products again if they replace keyboards and human engineers with unicorns fluent in Lisp who can rainbow-activate and maintain the flockolent interfuzzys to the cervically index, to protect my data. I'm just not using any ol' cloud. No sir.
You haven't done the math. 1% is not nearly enough. This reply is 300 chars long and getting 3 wrong is annoying enough. Error rate should go down to.000001% for OCR to be a commodity, and that's with good 600dpi originals. Factor in crappy scans, poor resolution/contrast and you are in for a pretty tought ride.
> I wonder if people simply don't know the right and wrong ways, or do know, but can't or won't do it the right way.
I'll begin by stating this:
A people hire A people B people hire C people
When I was fresh out of college I thought things were run very differently that they are in 99.999% of places. Thus, working for the government does not mean that you want to serve your country, your culture or your society and it sure does not turn you into Abraham Lincoln, just like installing Debian does not turn you into Don Knuth.
Except for the absolutely most excellent companies in the world, of which there may be 30, everywhere else is filled with a bunch of career-anxious monkeys trapped in the results of choices they didn't understand and lifes they don't want; in the office they spend most of their energy staying put and trying to read the mind of the bigwigs, which in turn are also sucked in into a life they despise, also trying to stay put and read the mind of the bigwigs, which...
Results are secondary; what matters when someone has ditched their dreams for whatever reason is an endless, empty chase.
Thus, a good job does not earn you any points in most places, hence people turn to other games.
> Yours truly, ignorant script kiddie who prefers 1.6oz burger but orders 2 burgers if not satiated.
Wonderful. How very bright. That's precisely the right analogy for what I see everyday in 'enterprise' deployments: Total overkill of resources and money just to cover the ignorants' asses.
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> as that would imply the universe spontaneously lowering its entropy
The universe spontaneously lowers its entropy all the time. Cases in point: you, your parents, their parents, etc, etc.
NoScript is THE extension I install on every FF. Incredibly useful and smart. Free. Along with FlashBlock they are my browsing essentials. When I get (more) geeky it's also several more but the important ones are those two. The retards here have complaints about it. The slashretards here have complaints about everything. Fuck you, people, you are scum. Slashdot is no more, the moderators are scum and this is dead. I could elaborate, but fuck you all the way to hell.
For tonight's news we are going to bash the poor retards who can't seem to secure their APs because, you know, anyone could drive to your backyard and plant child pornography all over your drives and make your printers spit it out non-stop, God forbid!. Tomorrow there will be another slashstupidity about how we need more freedom and how to combat Big Money and Big Brother by using open proxies and stick it up the stablishment's ass and that leaving your AP open is mighty tech-cool, libertarian and fashionable. Oh, the humanity.
Offtopic but good one. I mean it. I'm also sick of the sheeple born with their brain disconnected. Like the bunch of idiots here making light of hate crimes commited by the state.
Too frequently I am also enraged by retards but, I'm not trying to save you or anything, it's just a fit of rage but remember to look at nature, read Einstein's writings, listen to Bach. You deserve it. Idiots cannot ruin that.
Dear friend,
stupidity cannot be made illegal unless prisons can be made the size of countries and countries the size of prisons.
As per your example: if you leave your car or your home open and you are robbed, you don't have any criminal or civil responsibility. Unless you are prepared to visit your mother in prison, don't say such stupid nonsense.
It's common knowledge that people and companies only do the minimum effort they can get away with so I expect systems to become weaker over time if this is enforced.
So please bring it on.
Most likely the few and mediocre developers left on this sorry project with clamorous, long-standing bugs, unresponsive GUI and substandard code that has been riding on the reputation of Firefox since version 1 won't hear you.
I have coded a number of small C++ programs, in the ballpark of 30,000 lines that run here and there in my office and somewhere else. My experience is that what is written on the source happens exactly, precisely in the executable. Not a single time in 13 years I have seen an unexplainable behavior. I have seen errors and bugs, that when corrected are never seen again. Computers are deterministic machines. I cannot, for the love of me, begin to understand what's going on inside the disastrous piece of crap that is Thunderbird, versions 2, 3 or 5.
I code only in C++, use the STL occasionally and don't have more sophisticated needs so this is undoubtedly the reason why I'm seeing a good correspondence between what I write and what happens. I can chosse the tech I am going to use to solve a problem at work (I'm that lucky) and so I pick with great care. If I had to venture a guess I would say Thunderbird is a mish-mash of unproven (or misused, excuse my ignorance here) technologies that don't go well together, coded by slightly incompetent people.
What follows is my notes on replacements:
Googling for 'imap client' always returns the same old results:
- eudora: dead, '90s feeling, doesn't tell the user why it is unresponsive or what it is doing, unusable in an office if you value your job
- mulberry: nice but slow and occasionally stupid, specialy retrieving a folder for the first time. It retrieves just a screenful of headers and leaves the rest to work lazily. You hit 'end' and it retrieves every header in between, no matter if it's 100 or 20,000. Also, very dated HTML rendering. Also, bugtracker makes it look like it's going to explode anytime. Bad Unicode handling and long-standing bugs, typical of one-developer projects and his religious views - unusable in an office
- pegasus mail: haven't looked closely
- sylpheed: looks very nice, good Unicode, few bugs. It's one of my possibilities for the office if it survives day-to day operation
- the bat: better in everything than everyone else, fast, tells you what it is doing. A long task can be cancelled. Good navigation by keyboard. Not good HTML rendering. Costs money but if it works the developers deserve every cent of the fucking 35 $UNIT they ask - another candidate for day-to-day testing and possible replacement of ridiculous thunderbird (whimperdinosaur? tee hee).
- even considering outlook [express] 2007/10 but haven't really looked into them, I should know better. All google finds is hype of microsoft minions and marketing-speak
- really good alternatives like mutt + offlineimap are unusable -sadly- in an office because lusers don't like it
Anybody care to elaborate?
When this crap hits the front page I know this is an 'industry' site and not where I get news from.
I like momentum...
Thanks. Finally an informed post. In Spain it's the same, we pay when buying blank media, printers, memory cards, etc.
This is not of course some 'fine' just in case you copy, nor does it give you any right to copy illegally, that would be blatantly unconstitutional but somehow uninformed people like to jump at the idea (we are being treated like criminals!! ZOMZG!)
It gives us the right to make private copies and to lend. Judges agree P2P is akin to personal lending assuming you have the original, which is why it's legal here in Spain, there have been enough rulings now so that this is settled. What's illegal is to profit from the copying or the linking. If you make a website with P2P links, that's ok unless there are advertisements in it, even google ads, then you are game. But P2P as it is is legal if you own the original. Otherwise it's not.
Finally, to add some information to your post: some groups have successfully sued the Spanish MAFIAA and got their money back for the blank media if it can be proven that the use of the -in this case- DVDs was to record works not protected by the racket like court proceedings (yes, the people suing were lawyers, they don't pay for their time and it's a lengthy process and it must be provan case by case so most people storing home movies don't bother but it's doable).
Wake me up when my ESX hosts connect to the SAN wirelessly
I am only considering VMware products again if they fire the idiot who wrote the blog post and cane him in the public square. Come on VMware, we are hoping for some retribution here.
Now, for the technical part, I'm only considering cloudy products again if they replace keyboards and human engineers with unicorns fluent in Lisp who can rainbow-activate and maintain the flockolent interfuzzys to the cervically index, to protect my data. I'm just not using any ol' cloud. No sir.
You haven't done the math. 1% is not nearly enough. This reply is 300 chars long and getting 3 wrong is annoying enough. Error rate should go down to .000001% for OCR to be a commodity, and that's with good 600dpi originals. Factor in crappy scans, poor resolution/contrast and you are in for a pretty tought ride.
You actually impressed me with your differentials of gigateras
Fine Sir (or Madam),
I bow to your wisdom.
For the rest, a word: torrent
Sincerely,
me
it's full of stupid ideas!
> I wonder if people simply don't know the right and wrong ways, or do know, but can't or won't do it the right way.
I'll begin by stating this:
A people hire A people
B people hire C people
When I was fresh out of college I thought things were run very differently that they are in 99.999% of places. Thus, working for the government does not mean that you want to serve your country, your culture or your society and it sure does not turn you into Abraham Lincoln, just like installing Debian does not turn you into Don Knuth.
Except for the absolutely most excellent companies in the world, of which there may be 30, everywhere else is filled with a bunch of career-anxious monkeys trapped in the results of choices they didn't understand and lifes they don't want; in the office they spend most of their energy staying put and trying to read the mind of the bigwigs, which in turn are also sucked in into a life they despise, also trying to stay put and read the mind of the bigwigs, which...
Results are secondary; what matters when someone has ditched their dreams for whatever reason is an endless, empty chase.
Thus, a good job does not earn you any points in most places, hence people turn to other games.
> Yours truly, ignorant script kiddie who prefers 1.6oz burger but orders 2 burgers if not satiated. Wonderful. How very bright. That's precisely the right analogy for what I see everyday in 'enterprise' deployments: Total overkill of resources and money just to cover the ignorants' asses.