That's the way lawyers and lawsuits work, especially in the Fantasyland of "Intellectual Property" law -- throw anything and everything at the wall, see what sticks. Rinse, repeat.
We already "allow ZERO IMPORTS OR EXPORTS" on illegal drugs, because, you know, they're illegal. Meanwhile, most precursors are organic (poppies, coca, marijuana) that don't necessarily grow very well in U.S. latitudes. I agree with your premise, just not with your bullet points.
Two hours after the explosion I was saying (and several people have reminded me that I did) that the cause was probably some middle manager screaming at an engineer "WHADDYA MEAN I CAN'T SHIP ON TIME!!??!!".
I was talking about the X-Plane designer, not just the flight sim itself. The designer allows you to enter airfoil shape, engine thrusts, weights, etc. You almost have to be an aeronautical engineer to properly design a plane from the ground up. It's that sophisticated. Meanwhile, the actual flight sim behavior is based upon the entered airfoil designs and airflow calculations, so when you're flying in X-Plane you're basically flying in a software wind-tunnel (plus random weather settings).
Or they could just buy a copy of X-Plane for $79. Don't laugh, it's fscking phenomenal. Uses parametric airfoil designs and lots more. I'd be willing to bet some serious coin that the X-Plane designer is way better than OpenVSP; certainly X-Plane is going to be much more mature, it's been around forever.
You're right, that is Overly Critical. Consider: the image file (as with most other things Microsoft) gives the malware authors a single attack vector.
Sure, I'll elaborate. IE's built-in DWIM taught a generation that syntax didn't matter, coding style didn't matter, readability didn't matter, nothing but the final output mattered. This quickly (simultaneously) spilled over into Javascript, and the resulting craptasticness is with us to this day. Think back. In 2000, all the people who called themselves "HTML programmers" and such all hated hated hated Netscape, and the reason was, it didn't DWIM the way IE did, and actually expected them to CLOSE some of their blocks; expected them to actually be aware of what they were writing. The encouragement that IE (and Perl and VB for that matter) gave to people to simply hack out something ugly and barely functional and then move on to creating the next ugly buggy thing is the history of the first ten or twelve years of the Internet. And it all started with IE's DWIM.
Yeah, 'cause IE was so standard. Have some more Kool-Aid. How completely delusional do you have to be to even suggest that IE saved us from being non-standard? Get a grip man, your hold on reality is slipping away.
If it hadn't been for IE's "I know what you probably meant, you don't have to write even halfway decent HTML" bullshit we wouldn't have had a tenth of the web-nonsense we've had over the last 12 years.
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It could have been worse. They could have said "quantum".
More like if you're rich (enough), you don't have to pay attention to banking regulations. Or insider trading regulations. Or morality in general.
It would be interesting to apply what they learned here to the power grid.
Don't shoot! We surrender! You can have Michigan!
Sherrif Bart first man ever to whip Mongo. Mongo impressed.
That's the way lawyers and lawsuits work, especially in the Fantasyland of "Intellectual Property" law -- throw anything and everything at the wall, see what sticks. Rinse, repeat.
You're dreaming if you think medicine will ever be personal OR inexpensive. (At least in the U.S.)
So when can we expect to see one in every police cruiser, insurance office and personnel department?
I'm pretty sure missals make a "pew pew pew" sound.
We already "allow ZERO IMPORTS OR EXPORTS" on illegal drugs, because, you know, they're illegal. Meanwhile, most precursors are organic (poppies, coca, marijuana) that don't necessarily grow very well in U.S. latitudes. I agree with your premise, just not with your bullet points.
They were all home-schooled.
Yeah, 'cause the Tea Party was formed by paying attention to reality.
I lost my job because too many people voted for Republicans.
But that means we have to use Perl!
We should all thank $DEITY that pussies like you weren't around in the time of Magellan. NASA is in the business of exploration, not commuter transit.
Two hours after the explosion I was saying (and several people have reminded me that I did) that the cause was probably some middle manager screaming at an engineer "WHADDYA MEAN I CAN'T SHIP ON TIME!!??!!".
Damn! Where's my Insightful/Funny mod points when I need them? Well played, sir.
I don't know about you guys, but I have quite a bit of air in my colon.
I was talking about the X-Plane designer, not just the flight sim itself. The designer allows you to enter airfoil shape, engine thrusts, weights, etc. You almost have to be an aeronautical engineer to properly design a plane from the ground up. It's that sophisticated. Meanwhile, the actual flight sim behavior is based upon the entered airfoil designs and airflow calculations, so when you're flying in X-Plane you're basically flying in a software wind-tunnel (plus random weather settings).
Or they could just buy a copy of X-Plane for $79. Don't laugh, it's fscking phenomenal. Uses parametric airfoil designs and lots more. I'd be willing to bet some serious coin that the X-Plane designer is way better than OpenVSP; certainly X-Plane is going to be much more mature, it's been around forever.
Not affiliated, just a VERY impressed user.
Please. It's "have builded".
You're right, that is Overly Critical. Consider: the image file (as with most other things Microsoft) gives the malware authors a single attack vector.
Sounds useful, as I currently keep them in old mayonnaise jars.
Sure, I'll elaborate. IE's built-in DWIM taught a generation that syntax didn't matter, coding style didn't matter, readability didn't matter, nothing but the final output mattered. This quickly (simultaneously) spilled over into Javascript, and the resulting craptasticness is with us to this day. Think back. In 2000, all the people who called themselves "HTML programmers" and such all hated hated hated Netscape, and the reason was, it didn't DWIM the way IE did, and actually expected them to CLOSE some of their blocks; expected them to actually be aware of what they were writing. The encouragement that IE (and Perl and VB for that matter) gave to people to simply hack out something ugly and barely functional and then move on to creating the next ugly buggy thing is the history of the first ten or twelve years of the Internet. And it all started with IE's DWIM.
Yeah, 'cause IE was so standard. Have some more Kool-Aid. How completely delusional do you have to be to even suggest that IE saved us from being non-standard? Get a grip man, your hold on reality is slipping away.
If it hadn't been for IE's "I know what you probably meant, you don't have to write even halfway decent HTML" bullshit we wouldn't have had a tenth of the web-nonsense we've had over the last 12 years.