But with lots of experience, one knows what WORKS and what doesn't! Something that seems innovative will not usually work, but something that has worked a million times before usually will. Sometimes just working is better.(Emphasis mine)
Does that same train of though applies to people like The Wright Bros., Copernicus, Socrates, etc who went against conventional wisdom?
Flying is not something humans will ever be able to do... Conventional wisdom before 1900 (except Da Vinci)
Earth is the center of the galaxy... Conventional wisdom before Copernicus.
Justice is a bad and injustice is good... Conventional wisdom before Socrates.
Unconventional approches to a problem (regardless of the area) can sometimes lead to huge breakthroughs.
Or maybe you won't be allowed attachments... just plain text... no hidden 1 pixel images so people can tell when you've read the email
Hate to nitpick, but hey, here it is. The point of having the 1x1 image or any image at all is that it makes a request to the webserver which can be tracked. If they actually base64 encoded the image and put it as an attachment in the spam, it would be utterly useless except for a shim in the formatting.
There are technical solutions like PGP for those who are concerned about their emails being read.
For those people who are concerned about google monitoring thier searching habits, why not use a proxy server?
For those people concerned about privacy issues: If you don't understand the medium enough to protect yourself, don't trust it. The best solution for protecting yourself online is understanding the battlefield. Knowledge is power, therefore you should arm yourself. It is as simple as that.
You think that's bad? My name is the same name as a person with downs syndrome in another state. The problem is he was kicked off the football team for being to old (21 or so) in high school and it made all the papers because it seemed politically incorrect. Therefore, you search for my name, you get this guys press.
It's really bad when a prospective employer does a few google searches on your name and thinks you're retarded therefore won't give you an interview.
For those of you who didn't get that, he took out the spaces in the JavaScript.
Why not go the whole route like Yahoo did years ago and have NO linebreaks too? That would definitly save space. However, nothing saves spaces like writing proper code and using styles.
Raise the stakes high enough and most wont risk it. And hunt down the few that do.
Some hackers do it for the fame.
Some hackers do it for the money.
Some hackers do it for political reasons.
Some hackers do it because they (and / or their families) are held hostage in one way or another.
AT LAST! The secret to beating Solitaire... This could perhaps be the most significant event of our times!
You must not know about CTRL+SHIFT+Click when you are playing in 3-card mode. That sequence will give you... wait for it... ONE card and will go through the deck three times like it does in 3 card mode.
I know I know... it IS sad that I know that.
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When did the average geek see sunshine last?
Some of us have WINDOWS, you insensitive clod. (Pardon the pun)
You will hear from me shortly in an email. However, one BIG complaint I have from the site is the tiny font display in Gecko (and other?) browsers. 9px and font size=1? The developers for the site must be on a resolution of 640x480.
it's never gonna run the games you see on the shelf at a retail store
I disagree. Most games on Windows are developed on DirectX, OpenGL, or SDL. The last two will become more popular in the future due to the extreme portability of the libraries. OpenGL and SDL can interact directly with the framebuffer bypassing the OS layer for graphics meaning more portability. The only real obstacle is the OS reading the binary formats or the developers writing it with portability in mind. It is not that hard to get a nice big game (with a high frame rate) to run on multiple platforms if you are using OpenGL (the industry standard BTW) or SDL with portability in mind. For reference, take a look at the number of high quality games from Loki (http://www.lokigames.com/products/). I know for a fact Loki uses SDL for a good bit of their games (if not all).
You obviously haven't used OS X or even seen someone use it. I think it is a great idea because once you get used to which color has which function, it becomes very intuitive. A person can associate a color (opposed to text or icons) to an actions is much faster. It's also easier to tell someone without pointing. Imagine:
Tech Support A: Click the yellow button.
vs
Tech Support B: Click the button that looks like 2 squares overlapping.
Granted, most "close window" icons are the X but what about the minimize and fullscreen/restore buttons? And this is just for 3 buttons, so you're not having to remember 100 colors' different actions.
I do believe it was the 4.0 version now that you mention it. This was a while back, but I attempted to contact someone in the development team to assist in the devlopment since I am a developer myself. To my chagrin, the response was along the lines of "we don't need any help, thank you." Short and sweet, but at the same time somewhat rude. At the time, I was extremely interested in developing for the project for personal gain of experience and for the benefit of the project itself. My intentions were quite benevolent: I was not/am not looking for notoriety, money, or to expose the source.
As to the project's future, I still believe it would enjoy much more success if it had a larger developer team. Having more developers means faster development and possibly better code (not saying the current developers are bad). I am not as concerned about the licensing not being GPL/Open Source as a lot of other developers.
I appreciate your civility and look forward to your response.
I have actually downloaded it and installed it. It was really just a waste of my time. I downloaded it because all the screenshots they showed were nice and I had a spare box to play with before I put woody (Debian 3.0r2) on it.
My findings are that the GUI is very basic and not very intuitive. I understand that a lot of work has been put into the project, but it hasn't come very far in a couple years. IIRC, most of the actions were buried in places I wouldn't think to look. I seriously doubt this OS will succeed because of the combination of the following:
1. Closed Source 2. Small Dev team 3. Developers' poor attitudes
This OS has been developed for a few years now and there isn't hardly anything to show for it. This will be YAHOS (Yet Another Hobby OS).
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I doubt he wrote this for profit. He might be part of a government organization or his family may be held hostage until the virus is delivered. Believe it or not, this does happen. Software developers are the new mercenaries in this day and age and are hired more often than you would think by criminal and government organizations.
Interesting quote since he is screwing the people. People demand more satisfaction and with him being hung (not hanged) they should receive more satisfaction.
Mod me down for the blatant grammar nazi, but "hanged" is the word you are looking for.
The naming conventions are nothing more than a marketing decision. I can see the superbowl commercials with the new prodigy kid from IBM next year: "Now I'v said my ABC's, next time won't you sing with me."
.NET was created using the same concepts of Java. If you look at C# vs Java, you will notice few differences.
Start the flames about how different they are below this line.
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I totally agree that GTK should be rewritten in C++, but there is always gtkmm.
But with lots of experience, one knows what WORKS and what doesn't! Something that seems innovative will not usually work, but something that has worked a million times before usually will. Sometimes just working is better.(Emphasis mine)
Does that same train of though applies to people like The Wright Bros., Copernicus, Socrates, etc who went against conventional wisdom?
Flying is not something humans will ever be able to do... Conventional wisdom before 1900 (except Da Vinci)
Earth is the center of the galaxy... Conventional wisdom before Copernicus.
Justice is a bad and injustice is good... Conventional wisdom before Socrates.
Unconventional approches to a problem (regardless of the area) can sometimes lead to huge breakthroughs.
Or maybe you won't be allowed attachments ... just plain text ... no hidden 1 pixel images so people can tell when you've read the email
Hate to nitpick, but hey, here it is. The point of having the 1x1 image or any image at all is that it makes a request to the webserver which can be tracked. If they actually base64 encoded the image and put it as an attachment in the spam, it would be utterly useless except for a shim in the formatting.
There are technical solutions like PGP for those who are concerned about their emails being read.
For those people who are concerned about google monitoring thier searching habits, why not use a proxy server?
For those people concerned about privacy issues: If you don't understand the medium enough to protect yourself, don't trust it. The best solution for protecting yourself online is understanding the battlefield. Knowledge is power, therefore you should arm yourself. It is as simple as that.
You think that's bad? My name is the same name as a person with downs syndrome in another state. The problem is he was kicked off the football team for being to old (21 or so) in high school and it made all the papers because it seemed politically incorrect. Therefore, you search for my name, you get this guys press.
It's really bad when a prospective employer does a few google searches on your name and thinks you're retarded therefore won't give you an interview.
For those of you who didn't get that, he took out the spaces in the JavaScript.
Why not go the whole route like Yahoo did years ago and have NO linebreaks too? That would definitly save space. However, nothing saves spaces like writing proper code and using styles.
Raise the stakes high enough and most wont risk it. And hunt down the few that do.
Some hackers do it for the fame.
Some hackers do it for the money.
Some hackers do it for political reasons.
Some hackers do it because they (and / or their families) are held hostage in one way or another.
1.3.29 is the latest apache.
4.3.4 is the latest PHP, but some people can't upgrade due to backwards compatibilities.
I can't imagine how difficult this must be for Microsoft to do.
...
Step 1: Snoop on P2P traffic for IP's and search queries... it's clear text, so no real hassle.
Step 2: Contact ISPs whose netblock includes each IP in question for the home address of the perpetrator.
Step 3:
AT LAST! The secret to beating Solitaire... This could perhaps be the most significant event of our times!
... wait for it ... ONE card and will go through the deck three times like it does in 3 card mode.
You must not know about CTRL+SHIFT+Click when you are playing in 3-card mode. That sequence will give you
I know I know... it IS sad that I know that.
When did the average geek see sunshine last?
Some of us have WINDOWS, you insensitive clod. (Pardon the pun)
You will hear from me shortly in an email. However, one BIG complaint I have from the site is the tiny font display in Gecko (and other?) browsers. 9px and font size=1? The developers for the site must be on a resolution of 640x480.
it's never gonna run the games you see on the shelf at a retail store
I disagree. Most games on Windows are developed on DirectX, OpenGL, or SDL. The last two will become more popular in the future due to the extreme portability of the libraries. OpenGL and SDL can interact directly with the framebuffer bypassing the OS layer for graphics meaning more portability. The only real obstacle is the OS reading the binary formats or the developers writing it with portability in mind. It is not that hard to get a nice big game (with a high frame rate) to run on multiple platforms if you are using OpenGL (the industry standard BTW) or SDL with portability in mind. For reference, take a look at the number of high quality games from Loki (http://www.lokigames.com/products/). I know for a fact Loki uses SDL for a good bit of their games (if not all).
You obviously haven't used OS X or even seen someone use it. I think it is a great idea because once you get used to which color has which function, it becomes very intuitive. A person can associate a color (opposed to text or icons) to an actions is much faster. It's also easier to tell someone without pointing. Imagine:
Tech Support A: Click the yellow button.
vs
Tech Support B: Click the button that looks like 2 squares overlapping.
Granted, most "close window" icons are the X but what about the minimize and fullscreen/restore buttons? And this is just for 3 buttons, so you're not having to remember 100 colors' different actions.
I do believe it was the 4.0 version now that you mention it. This was a while back, but I attempted to contact someone in the development team to assist in the devlopment since I am a developer myself. To my chagrin, the response was along the lines of "we don't need any help, thank you." Short and sweet, but at the same time somewhat rude. At the time, I was extremely interested in developing for the project for personal gain of experience and for the benefit of the project itself. My intentions were quite benevolent: I was not/am not looking for notoriety, money, or to expose the source.
As to the project's future, I still believe it would enjoy much more success if it had a larger developer team. Having more developers means faster development and possibly better code (not saying the current developers are bad). I am not as concerned about the licensing not being GPL/Open Source as a lot of other developers.
I appreciate your civility and look forward to your response.
I have actually downloaded it and installed it. It was really just a waste of my time. I downloaded it because all the screenshots they showed were nice and I had a spare box to play with before I put woody (Debian 3.0r2) on it.
My findings are that the GUI is very basic and not very intuitive. I understand that a lot of work has been put into the project, but it hasn't come very far in a couple years. IIRC, most of the actions were buried in places I wouldn't think to look. I seriously doubt this OS will succeed because of the combination of the following:
1. Closed Source
2. Small Dev team
3. Developers' poor attitudes
This OS has been developed for a few years now and there isn't hardly anything to show for it. This will be YAHOS (Yet Another Hobby OS).
I doubt he wrote this for profit. He might be part of a government organization or his family may be held hostage until the virus is delivered. Believe it or not, this does happen. Software developers are the new mercenaries in this day and age and are hired more often than you would think by criminal and government organizations.
No, but I was always partial to the law firm of Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe...
And their partners in crime: Lye, Cheatham and Steele
So what you're saying is if you can't beat them, join them?
Gates should be hung
Interesting quote since he is screwing the people. People demand more satisfaction and with him being hung (not hanged) they should receive more satisfaction.
Mod me down for the blatant grammar nazi, but "hanged" is the word you are looking for.
What is a CAVE Good For?
How cool would Batman be without it?
Better yet, watch "Startup.com" which used to come on HBO. But, don't do what they did. ;)
The naming conventions are nothing more than a marketing decision. I can see the superbowl commercials with the new prodigy kid from IBM next year: "Now I'v said my ABC's, next time won't you sing with me."
Now MS NET that is an SUV!!!!
.NET was created using the same concepts of Java. If you look at C# vs Java, you will notice few differences.
Start the flames about how different they are below this line.
P.S. any moderators out there who can spare a "+1 informative" for the parent post?....
Sorry, man, but all I have is Two +1 Funnies, One -1 Troll, and Four -1 Offtopics. Go fish.