Personally, I think maybe congress should outlaw testing on crows. If a few of them get ahold of cell phones for instance, it's difficult to say just what kind of trouble we'd be in for...
We'd soon see posts in slashdot about welcoming our new crow overlords?
Last time I bought a new TV, I switched it on, pressed a few buttons as indicated by the quick-start guide and it auto-tuned all the channels - same with my VCR.
Hopefully when you want to use your TV and VCR for sensitive things (that special video you and your mate made) that you close the blinds so the neighbors can't watch.
He was elected by Americans. I'd say that makes him representative.
He's a Congressional Representative, all right, which means he represents his constituents only, who are the ones responsible for electing him. Three counties in one state. 650k people. Two tenths of one percent of the USA.
There was literally no way to satisfy both groups.
One word: localization. Make localized versions with custom niceties like this patched onto the software. Yes, this would increase complexity in an already complex environment, but it is a way to satisfy both parties.
In my view, Linux (and Windows) are crap because they are both based on primitive windowing/mouse and other "low" technology.
You are seriously misinformed about Linux architecture if you believe that. Most Linux distributions ship with GUI frameworks, but those are separate products that simply run on the Linux kernel.
Why the heck would you keep that in there? Why not as an XML file somewhere? The last thing you need is something that writes to the registry each time a program is launched. If said program crashes, it could corrupt your registry, which is not a good thing.
Unless every application can only be launched one instance at a time, you'll still need to write code to handle multiple processes trying to read/write at the same time to that XML file. This is what the Registry gives you.
This seems to be a favorite target of Linux advocacy trolls, I've noticed. Nobody says this is the perfect solution, but it gives you a way of storing a hierarchical collection of name/value pairs of various types of data. In that, it works well. Run Sysinternals' RegMon if your curious how often the Registry gets hit for reads and writes. Curiously, to date I've NEVER had to deal with a corrupt registry file.
I love Linux, depending on the distribution. I've used various other *nix systems. I've used VMS for heaven's sake. I've also used Windows and don't mind it too much. I don't get my undies in a knot about specific details of how these operating systems are implemented, I work around them and get my job done.
These companies were introduced to consumerspace and what happened? Customers didn't buy like they were supposed to. Losers! Countless VC firms realized that customers were the weak link in the chain and when a VC makes a radical discovery like this, the business world listens. So customers were out.
I put in 80 hour work weeks for seven years. I lived my work. I worked at work, then I went home and worked on work the rest of the night. Plus weekends. And holidays. That's assuming I didn't just live at work, which I did for weeks at a time. And all of my reviews were golden.
Luxury. In my experience, that kind of effort results in reviews that say "Meets Expectations" or "Satisfactory".
Dilbert may be cynical fiction, but there's some truth to the Wally character.
The Internet is not a closed medium. It would not be overly difficult to come up with a different, private protocol that masked or wrapped "normal" VoIP traffic as something else. Similarly, you could build end-to-end email using something different from SMTP to avoid anything sniffing for SMTP. Encrypt the traffic using a strong algorithm, but using a custom implementation that didn't have obvious headers and tags that would identify it easily.
This ruling will only be a problem for the general public, along with stupid criminals and terrorists. Technically savvy ones won't be tapped so easily.
We've now come full circle. First there was SGML, which is a "general purpose markup language for representing documents". Then HTML. Then XML. Now, XHTML, which is a "general purpose markup language for representing documents". What's wrong with this picture.
HTML is an application of SGML. Later, XML was derived from SGML to make parsing simpler, and it became radically more popular than SGML. XHTML is reinvention of HTML using XML instead of SGML to leverage the success of XML as well as continue the separation of content and presentation.
This does not represent a single-path progression in a circle, as you suggest, but refinement of an older standard using a newer one.
How about an "eBay bond" where sellers have to lodge the cash with eBay until the point at which the seller receives the goods, i.e. the money is in escrow until the whole transaction is complete. The company goes bust or fails to supply within a set period (agreed as part of the sale) then the money is refunded.
The scammer in the topic article, however, is one of those that uses a fake escrow company that claims to have received and held payment, but really hasn't, in order to get merchandise for free.
Consider for a moment that there are always active trolls who repost previously 5 star posts just to get karma from unaware mods. Now take the case of an editable post. You can get the post modded to 5 then swap the contents out with a porn troll. Not pretty.
So keep and a revision history, then associate the mod points only for the revision reviewed by the moderator.
This is serious, people. I do not know of any other product where the designers/developers are so far removed from the end user. Something that makes perfect sense to a highly trained, technically capable person will make absolutely no sense to a person who has trouble remembering 2 passwords. Really.
Part of the problem is that when developers *DO* try to involve end users, it's like pulling teeth to get any kind of concrete input on what they need and how they would like to accomplish it.
Sometimes the only way to get good input is to build something, get feedback, revise it, and repeat until they like it. The real problem then is getting management to not equate "build something" with "release something".
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American politicians are thus accomplishing what the terrorists could only dream of doing; they are destroying our once-great country from within.
Not to mention calling you unpatriotic for pointing this out. Patriotic for many appears to mean "following your leaders without question".
Don't trust Minnesota! Those gophers are greedy.
The rumors are true: Minnesotans are Nice.
Until they get behind the wheel, of course.
Do read up on the history of Mathematics as its a very fascinating subject.Though I am afraid Wikepedia is seriusly lacking in Content over this.
By all means, don't try to remedy that. It's not like they accept contributions or anything.
Personally, I think maybe congress should outlaw testing on crows. If a few of them get ahold of cell phones for instance, it's difficult to say just what kind of trouble we'd be in for...
We'd soon see posts in slashdot about welcoming our new crow overlords?
Last time I bought a new TV, I switched it on, pressed a few buttons as indicated by the quick-start guide and it auto-tuned all the channels - same with my VCR.
Hopefully when you want to use your TV and VCR for sensitive things (that special video you and your mate made) that you close the blinds so the neighbors can't watch.
He was elected by Americans. I'd say that makes him representative.
He's a Congressional Representative, all right, which means he represents his constituents only, who are the ones responsible for electing him. Three counties in one state. 650k people. Two tenths of one percent of the USA.
Nice, big over-generalization you've got there.
And just look at America's overreaction to Subway having a little joke at your expense.
Tom DeLay != America
There was literally no way to satisfy both groups.
One word: localization. Make localized versions with custom niceties like this patched onto the software. Yes, this would increase complexity in an already complex environment, but it is a way to satisfy both parties.
He claimed diplomatic immunity?
If it's someone more hardcore, well, I guess it won't matter either way.
Or, it might give them a reason to concentrate on your systems to find a weakness, rather than moving on to an easier target.
In my view, Linux (and Windows) are crap because they are both based on primitive windowing/mouse and other "low" technology.
You are seriously misinformed about Linux architecture if you believe that. Most Linux distributions ship with GUI frameworks, but those are separate products that simply run on the Linux kernel.
Why the heck would you keep that in there? Why not as an XML file somewhere? The last thing you need is something that writes to the registry each time a program is launched. If said program crashes, it could corrupt your registry, which is not a good thing.
Unless every application can only be launched one instance at a time, you'll still need to write code to handle multiple processes trying to read/write at the same time to that XML file. This is what the Registry gives you.
This seems to be a favorite target of Linux advocacy trolls, I've noticed. Nobody says this is the perfect solution, but it gives you a way of storing a hierarchical collection of name/value pairs of various types of data. In that, it works well. Run Sysinternals' RegMon if your curious how often the Registry gets hit for reads and writes. Curiously, to date I've NEVER had to deal with a corrupt registry file.
I love Linux, depending on the distribution. I've used various other *nix systems. I've used VMS for heaven's sake. I've also used Windows and don't mind it too much. I don't get my undies in a knot about specific details of how these operating systems are implemented, I work around them and get my job done.
These companies were introduced to consumerspace and what happened? Customers didn't buy like they were supposed to. Losers! Countless VC firms realized that customers were the weak link in the chain and when a VC makes a radical discovery like this, the business world listens. So customers were out.
Sounds like Breatharianism applied to business.
When is Slashdot going to get -1, Complaining About Mod System?
Wouldn't that be -1, Redundant?
It doesn't matter whether you are Bill Gates or some homeless guy on the street. To not try to make the life that you've been given better is a crime.
Now all I need to do is convince Bill Gates that he can improve himself [spiritually] by helping me improve myself [financially].
I put in 80 hour work weeks for seven years. I lived my work. I worked at work, then I went home and worked on work the rest of the night. Plus weekends. And holidays. That's assuming I didn't just live at work, which I did for weeks at a time. And all of my reviews were golden.
Luxury. In my experience, that kind of effort results in reviews that say "Meets Expectations" or "Satisfactory".
Dilbert may be cynical fiction, but there's some truth to the Wally character.
These are only as meaningless as any other historical documents...
The Internet is not a closed medium. It would not be overly difficult to come up with a different, private protocol that masked or wrapped "normal" VoIP traffic as something else. Similarly, you could build end-to-end email using something different from SMTP to avoid anything sniffing for SMTP. Encrypt the traffic using a strong algorithm, but using a custom implementation that didn't have obvious headers and tags that would identify it easily.
This ruling will only be a problem for the general public, along with stupid criminals and terrorists. Technically savvy ones won't be tapped so easily.
We've now come full circle. First there was SGML, which is a "general purpose markup language for representing documents". Then HTML. Then XML. Now, XHTML, which is a "general purpose markup language for representing documents". What's wrong with this picture.
HTML is an application of SGML. Later, XML was derived from SGML to make parsing simpler, and it became radically more popular than SGML. XHTML is reinvention of HTML using XML instead of SGML to leverage the success of XML as well as continue the separation of content and presentation.
This does not represent a single-path progression in a circle, as you suggest, but refinement of an older standard using a newer one.
You are right that HTML and XML are really not parallel, though, other than they share the same SGML syntax.
HTML is an application of SGML. XHTML is an application of XML, which is derived from SGML but is simpler to allow easier parsing.
XHTML is to XML as HTML is to SGML.
How about an "eBay bond" where sellers have to lodge the cash with eBay until the point at which the seller receives the goods, i.e. the money is in escrow until the whole transaction is complete. The company goes bust or fails to supply within a set period (agreed as part of the sale) then the money is refunded.
Oddly, someone has already thought of this.
The scammer in the topic article, however, is one of those that uses a fake escrow company that claims to have received and held payment, but really hasn't, in order to get merchandise for free.
Consider for a moment that there are always active trolls who repost previously 5 star posts just to get karma from unaware mods. Now take the case of an editable post. You can get the post modded to 5 then swap the contents out with a porn troll. Not pretty.
So keep and a revision history, then associate the mod points only for the revision reviewed by the moderator.
Seconded. Fantastic book with lots of illuminating anecdotes.
This is serious, people. I do not know of any other product where the designers/developers are so far removed from the end user. Something that makes perfect sense to a highly trained, technically capable person will make absolutely no sense to a person who has trouble remembering 2 passwords. Really.
Part of the problem is that when developers *DO* try to involve end users, it's like pulling teeth to get any kind of concrete input on what they need and how they would like to accomplish it.
Sometimes the only way to get good input is to build something, get feedback, revise it, and repeat until they like it. The real problem then is getting management to not equate "build something" with "release something".
supraconducting
That would be an insulator, wouldn't it?