To a "normal" person, the "certificate" has no meaning. And all browsers couch the message in PC speak - "this *may* be an invalid certificate", etc. Which, to a user, means "sure, it may, but I always go here and it's safe".
If you want users to stop browsing there, three things need to happen:
* Browsers need a "safe" mode, on by default, that flat-out doesn't let you browse to those sites. No warning, no buts, no "Are you sure" dialogs. Just say no. * If people *need* to get there, give them some training on security issues and then take of the safety measures slowly. * IT departments need to stop cranking out their own internal certificates, or at least they need to update the CA list for users. God damn it, I don't want to see a certificate warning for internal sites.
I don't have to think about error messages, or even actual problems with the tool, when I use a hammer, or a car, or a washing machine. If it's broken, I call a pro and have it fixed, period. (Or, in case of the hammer, I finally give in and buy a good tool, not the $0.99 one from Home Depot;)
Same goes for software. That's what IT is for, taking care of software. Yes, I could do it myself - but that is not what I am paid for, that's what they are paid for.
It's not a matter of "underlings". I have the highest respect for web designers - it's a tough job, and I wouldn't be able to do it. But exactly as a web designer would never let me touch his web pages, I'd never let a web designer touch our code.
It's a matter of matching skillsets. And judging from the job interviews I get to see, there are plenty of people who have the misguided belief they're programmers - when they are web designers. It's a waste of time for them and me - so why not use proper labels and stop the confusion between both professions?
I'm sorry, but a web designer is not a "programmer". Just because you can sling around a bit of PHP and SQL still doesn't make you a programmer. The problem is that many people suffer from the delusion this would be enough. Unless you know quite a bit beyond that (the equivalent of at least 2-3 years of CS), you're not a programmer.
Yes, they can. Except that turning on the camera on a MacBook *automatically* turns on the little green LED right next to it. You'll know when it's on.
No, it's actually called "taking responsibility". If you fall for a Nigeria scam, that is YOUR fault. Nobody forced you to participate, you *chose* to because you were greedy. Part of a Nigeria scam is that you help somebody else to break the law.
Poverty, rape, starvation and murder usually have *unwilling* participants.
All I am saying is before you pull you cock out of your pants and say I have an OC48 sized penis bla bla bla, go and try and use the web with a 28.8 modem for 1 hour and tell me that 200 is slow.
It's not about "penis size". 200kpbs is *too slow* for most websites. Max. wait time before people give up is about 4 seconds. That's about 100KB of data. If you're using image-rich sites, that's not much. 200kbps is not broadband. It's not a modem, but neither does it qualify as broadband in any developed country except the U.S...
You are of course correct - simply outlawing bulk unsolicited e-mail might work. Except it would require our politicians to draft a law regarding the Internet. And they've shown that they're oh-so-fabulously competent in that area in the past, haven't they? (Heck, they can't even get decent *accounting* laws done without making a hash of it - viz. the Apple Airport ruckus)
(Sidenote2: This applies to Republicans and Democrats equally. Being a politician should disqualify people from making laws by default;)
Leaves us with existing legislation. There's plenty for unsolicited commercial e-mail already (UCE, CAN-SPAM,etc...) , we're just slow to enforce them. And, since they're enacted by politicos, they'll always allow for fundraising crap.
The *only* solution that will work, IMHO, is completely disallowing unsolicited e-mail by default. If you're a business, go turn on that feature. The underlying assumption is that people who're stupid enough to buy based on spam (and hence are the motivation for spam) will be too stupid to configure their e-mail client. (Semi-smiley here. People are stupid. Any solution that doesn't take that into account will fail)
Yawn. Not that old saw. Spam is not free speech - it's commercial speech, which has always been regulated. Hint: "Free Speech" does not mean that you can say whatever you want, whenever you want.
The fun thing is that the bloggers site is still up and running. It's the "pro's" who screwed up. But I'm glad they want to advise me on chosing the best OS....
Uhuh. You're obviously *not* using 10.4 at all. Spotlight and CoreData alone are a *huge* change.
Let's throw in Dashboard, Automator, 64 bit support,.Mac sync for keychain, GCC 4.0 and parental controls, too. And that's only the major ones I remember off the top of my hat. Now remind me again what Vista gives us that XP didn't have? (Except hot Aero)
The Xbox 360 is about ultra realistic graphics, fast paced driving and brutal violence in which strangers are humiliated through Xbox Live
You mean, like Rockstar's Table Tennis, Viva Pinata, Marble Blast, Uno,... ?
While the "family friendly" Wii has (a rather brutal) RayMan, Red Steel, Call Of Duty... ?
The Wii is about accessibility first, not about being family friendly. (It's just that the people who demand accessibility don't play too many of the gore-y titles)
Pretty much most of what's happening on game consoles *is* envelope pushing. That leaves the PC and the mobile market.
The mobile phone market is almost entirely Java, but not the right platform for something of Quake2 complexity. I've got no clue about the handheld (DS/PSP) market, but I'd expect most of them are C++ because nobody ever ported a JVM.
As for the PC market: You are aware that more and more games have at least layers of high level code in them, right? WoW has LUA for the user interaction. Civ IV has large parts written in Python.
I don't think it'll do much for dev hell, though - misestimation stays misestimation, no matter what the language. (And you haven't accounted for art & design with a language change). It *will* make working on games more pleasant as you spend less time on housekeeping tasks and more on the game
1. There is a minimal difference between Java and C++, but C++ is *still* faster. Yes, even with the newest JVMs. Even a 1% speed difference is critical - in most AAA games, we require 100% of the CPU, not 99%. That's obviously not a point for puzzle games, arcade remakes, etc.
And no, it's not a myth. I've done (and keep doing) extensive performance tests. What, you think we *like* C++???
2. That is the exact reason why those toolkits are written in C/C++.
3..NET now has XNA - a framework for making games. Java doesn't really - so I'd expect more.NET than Java games
4. Lisp has the problem that you can't hire enough competent developers. Naughty Dog abandoned Lisp for the later J&D games because they couldn't find anybody to keep it running.
5. Both Lisp and Java are very viable at a higher level - namely, game logic. For various reasons - memory constraints being one of them, and of course ease of integration - LUA is winning there, though.
In short, don't expect any games that push the envelope to be written in Java anytime soon.
Hm. Think about it. It might be shoes actually cause pleasure for her. Lots of it, obviously. There's an application there - but this being slashdot, I've got no idea what it would be;)
Then again, let's not forget the politics behind that. Disneyland bought - excuse me, lobbied the Republicans - for a large no-fly zone over their grounds right after 9/11 and got it almost immediately. Daley tried to get the same over downtown Chicago, to no avail. One might speculate it's because he's a Democrat. Either way, he was pissed at the party in power - Reps. Now, coincidentally a majority of the use of Meigs airfield is by major corporations who like backing Republicans. All the small time hobby pilots were just "collateral damage" in a political pissing match.
Still, he's getting re-elected, no matter if he wasted taxpayer money or not. That would be because he keeps things running, as opposed to the rest of Illinois. Chicago politics are always foremost about keeping the electorate happy. Heck, we lost one mayor because he didn't get the snow plowed fast enough. (Daley manages that by subcontracting his buddies in the construction industry - but the majority prefers that over actually being stuck in the snow)
Nope. Even before that. I'm old enough (or started early enough - that's how I like to see this!;) to have started on a Data General Nova Eclipse. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_General_Eclipse - and mine had a nifty *black* front board, dangit! )
5 MB of fixed HD, 5 MB of swappable HD - the size of a cheese wheel. Paper Punch, Teletype, that kind of stuff.
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And why wouldn't she?
To a "normal" person, the "certificate" has no meaning. And all browsers couch the message in PC speak - "this *may* be an invalid certificate", etc. Which, to a user, means "sure, it may, but I always go here and it's safe".
If you want users to stop browsing there, three things need to happen:
* Browsers need a "safe" mode, on by default, that flat-out doesn't let you browse to those sites. No warning, no buts, no "Are you sure" dialogs. Just say no.
* If people *need* to get there, give them some training on security issues and then take of the safety measures slowly.
* IT departments need to stop cranking out their own internal certificates, or at least they need to update the CA list for users. God damn it, I don't want to see a certificate warning for internal sites.
Honestly? No.
I don't have to think about error messages, or even actual problems with the tool, when I use a hammer, or a car, or a washing machine. If it's broken, I call a pro and have it fixed, period. (Or, in case of the hammer, I finally give in and buy a good tool, not the $0.99 one from Home Depot ;)
Same goes for software. That's what IT is for, taking care of software. Yes, I could do it myself - but that is not what I am paid for, that's what they are paid for.
Still has nothing on the NPR coverage. I don't know *how* often I did get to hear the speech.
Uh - metric and SI are equivalent. Surely you mean "imperial is arbitrary"...
It's not a matter of "underlings". I have the highest respect for web designers - it's a tough job, and I wouldn't be able to do it. But exactly as a web designer would never let me touch his web pages, I'd never let a web designer touch our code.
It's a matter of matching skillsets. And judging from the job interviews I get to see, there are plenty of people who have the misguided belief they're programmers - when they are web designers. It's a waste of time for them and me - so why not use proper labels and stop the confusion between both professions?
I'm sorry, but a web designer is not a "programmer". Just because you can sling around a bit of PHP and SQL still doesn't make you a programmer. The problem is that many people suffer from the delusion this would be enough. Unless you know quite a bit beyond that (the equivalent of at least 2-3 years of CS), you're not a programmer.
Yes, they can. Except that turning on the camera on a MacBook *automatically* turns on the little green LED right next to it. You'll know when it's on.
Yes, let me think about that. Secure elections, or convenience for the election officials? Clearly, we must choose the latter!
No, it's actually called "taking responsibility". If you fall for a Nigeria scam, that is YOUR fault. Nobody forced you to participate, you *chose* to because you were greedy. Part of a Nigeria scam is that you help somebody else to break the law.
Poverty, rape, starvation and murder usually have *unwilling* participants.
Notice the difference there?
I advise you check your local legislation. There are few places that actually allow unrestricted commercial speech.
All I am saying is before you pull you cock out of your pants and say I have an OC48 sized penis bla bla bla, go and try and use the web with a 28.8 modem for 1 hour and tell me that 200 is slow.
It's not about "penis size". 200kpbs is *too slow* for most websites. Max. wait time before people give up is about 4 seconds. That's about 100KB of data. If you're using image-rich sites, that's not much. 200kbps is not broadband. It's not a modem, but neither does it qualify as broadband in any developed country except the U.S...
Funnily, I have 3 MBps, and that's ugly slow. Even funnier, I have an internal Gigabit network, and that's still quite slow for many things I do.
Excuse us who actually *do* things with the network for wanting faster connections.
Internet: Not just for surfing ASCII pr0n any more!
You are of course correct - simply outlawing bulk unsolicited e-mail might work. Except it would require our politicians to draft a law regarding the Internet. And they've shown that they're oh-so-fabulously competent in that area in the past, haven't they? (Heck, they can't even get decent *accounting* laws done without making a hash of it - viz. the Apple Airport ruckus)
;)
(Sidenote2: This applies to Republicans and Democrats equally. Being a politician should disqualify people from making laws by default
Leaves us with existing legislation. There's plenty for unsolicited commercial e-mail already (UCE, CAN-SPAM,etc...) , we're just slow to enforce them. And, since they're enacted by politicos, they'll always allow for fundraising crap.
The *only* solution that will work, IMHO, is completely disallowing unsolicited e-mail by default. If you're a business, go turn on that feature. The underlying assumption is that people who're stupid enough to buy based on spam (and hence are the motivation for spam) will be too stupid to configure their e-mail client. (Semi-smiley here. People are stupid. Any solution that doesn't take that into account will fail)
Yawn. Not that old saw. Spam is not free speech - it's commercial speech, which has always been regulated. Hint: "Free Speech" does not mean that you can say whatever you want, whenever you want.
The fun thing is that the bloggers site is still up and running. It's the "pro's" who screwed up. But I'm glad they want to advise me on chosing the best OS....
Uhuh. You're obviously *not* using 10.4 at all. Spotlight and CoreData alone are a *huge* change.
.Mac sync for keychain, GCC 4.0 and parental controls, too. And that's only the major ones I remember off the top of my hat. Now remind me again what Vista gives us that XP didn't have? (Except hot Aero)
Let's throw in Dashboard, Automator, 64 bit support,
You mean, like Rockstar's Table Tennis, Viva Pinata, Marble Blast, Uno,
While the "family friendly" Wii has (a rather brutal) RayMan, Red Steel, Call Of Duty... ?
The Wii is about accessibility first, not about being family friendly. (It's just that the people who demand accessibility don't play too many of the gore-y titles)
Pretty much most of what's happening on game consoles *is* envelope pushing. That leaves the PC and the mobile market.
The mobile phone market is almost entirely Java, but not the right platform for something of Quake2 complexity. I've got no clue about the handheld (DS/PSP) market, but I'd expect most of them are C++ because nobody ever ported a JVM.
As for the PC market: You are aware that more and more games have at least layers of high level code in them, right? WoW has LUA for the user interaction. Civ IV has large parts written in Python.
I don't think it'll do much for dev hell, though - misestimation stays misestimation, no matter what the language. (And you haven't accounted for art & design with a language change). It *will* make working on games more pleasant as you spend less time on housekeeping tasks and more on the game
As a game developer, let me add to this:
.NET now has XNA - a framework for making games. Java doesn't really - so I'd expect more .NET than Java games
1. There is a minimal difference between Java and C++, but C++ is *still* faster. Yes, even with the newest JVMs. Even a 1% speed difference is critical - in most AAA games, we require 100% of the CPU, not 99%. That's obviously not a point for puzzle games, arcade remakes, etc.
And no, it's not a myth. I've done (and keep doing) extensive performance tests. What, you think we *like* C++???
2. That is the exact reason why those toolkits are written in C/C++.
3.
4. Lisp has the problem that you can't hire enough competent developers. Naughty Dog abandoned Lisp for the later J&D games because they couldn't find anybody to keep it running.
5. Both Lisp and Java are very viable at a higher level - namely, game logic. For various reasons - memory constraints being one of them, and of course ease of integration - LUA is winning there, though.
In short, don't expect any games that push the envelope to be written in Java anytime soon.
Hm. Think about it. It might be shoes actually cause pleasure for her. Lots of it, obviously. There's an application there - but this being slashdot, I've got no idea what it would be ;)
You might want to notice that the original poster talked about cyanide - which is an *organic* compound. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanide)
;)
Most carcinogens are organic compounds, too.
Glad to see that not only scientists give uninformed comments. But at least slashdotters sound more impressive when they do it
Well, yes, that would be questionable.
Then again, let's not forget the politics behind that. Disneyland bought - excuse me, lobbied the Republicans - for a large no-fly zone over their grounds right after 9/11 and got it almost immediately. Daley tried to get the same over downtown Chicago, to no avail. One might speculate it's because he's a Democrat. Either way, he was pissed at the party in power - Reps. Now, coincidentally a majority of the use of Meigs airfield is by major corporations who like backing Republicans. All the small time hobby pilots were just "collateral damage" in a political pissing match.
Still, he's getting re-elected, no matter if he wasted taxpayer money or not. That would be because he keeps things running, as opposed to the rest of Illinois. Chicago politics are always foremost about keeping the electorate happy. Heck, we lost one mayor because he didn't get the snow plowed fast enough. (Daley manages that by subcontracting his buddies in the construction industry - but the majority prefers that over actually being stuck in the snow)
Nope. Even before that. I'm old enough (or started early enough - that's how I like to see this! ;) to have started on a Data General Nova Eclipse. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_General_Eclipse - and mine had a nifty *black* front board, dangit! )
5 MB of fixed HD, 5 MB of swappable HD - the size of a cheese wheel. Paper Punch, Teletype, that kind of stuff.
There are too many of them!
Uh, no. On my first machine, I set 16 switches, then flipped the "Store/Next" button for each instruction word. Pretty much binary if you ask me...