The URL thing in the location bar. It's what's supposed to determine what content you're looking at. If you go to the same URL and it shows something different, that's likely an error - in specs if nothing else.
A link is supposed to take you somewhere else, not change the settings and leave you without a direct way to go back.
It's an error simply because the user who complained didn't like it. He's one of their target market and their misusing of the technology (cookies shouldn't override URLs) confused him. He didn't assume there was a link to go to the old homepage, as he was already at it. What good would a link be, which in a well-designed page only goes somewhere else, when he wanted to be right there?
It's like underlining non-link text, setting links to not be underlined, setting their color to not change when visited, etc. Not the end of the world, but a violation of good designed practices.
And you get this insight into the motivations of terrorists from the news?
What more could they do? Boston couldn't be more whipped, New Orleans sunk. The USA is falling apart because of the 2001 attacks, they don't need to do anything else.
Had the country responded rationally to anything they'd have been ripe for another attack. Instead there's been so much internal fighting that another terrorist attack would have pulled everyone together.
They'll wait until it'll do the most damage. Just a while after the USA declares the world safe from terrorism.
There's nothing terrorists want more than George Bush. He's their ultimate supporter. In their wet dreams he declares martial law and sticks around.
Sure, like a government is ever going to distribute them with Linux, the funding they get will be conditional on them freely choosing the Microsoft option.
You think that terrorists choose to strike randomly and are merely thwarted?
The USA is still going bankrupt as fast as it can, so why would the terrorists waste their time? They'll let the Aqua Teen Hunger Force terrorize us instead.
Whatever the truth is about the ideologies that caused the terrorists to attack, the truth is going bankrupt turning into a fascism is a victory for them. Anything that weakens the USA as an economic power reduces the USA's ability to fight a foreign war and that's what they want - USA out, them in.
They mostly aren't freedom fighters, just another round of slavers looking to own the people, but either way they're simply trying to tire you out. When you try to rest, that's when they'll kick you again.
Microsoft dropped its price on Windows and Office (reportedly) to $3. I doubt they really want into this market.
What they do want is to make sure the market for non-Windows PCs doesn't get any larger.
This is Microsoft, everything they do is intended to put someone out of business. Usually in an anti-competitive way by bribing standards boards, government officials, public threats of untenable lawsuits, announcing vaporware to steal sales from competitors, sabotaging competitors products, etc.
You might not know this, but the OLPC is intended to help people understand help on farming and politics. You can't give a 30yo militia member a book on farming techniques and expect him to turn his life around. However, you can give kids in the area laptops that aren't cool enough for the militia to bother stealing (and can be shut down remotely) and will eventually train them to be able to use that book on farming, or on road-building, or medicine.
A book is just a book. The OLPC is training to read, plus access to all the books.
The S-boxes were produced by a different NSA. This one supports spying on the American people in a way that the old NSA didn't. Since then governmental respect for individual privacy has gone way down.
Also, feel free to believe in the security of undisclosed code, but remember that far more crypto is broken because it's improperly used (ie, using a OTP twice, encrypting known plaintext, program stores plaintext key which is written to swap.) than because its algorithm has a technical hole.
Had the Enigma been used properly it would have been much harder to break than it was. I'm pretty sure any proprietary system in use will have its share of holes, in the algorithm and the implementation. There's simply no alternative to massive testing.
So after one side loses this arbitrary contest they're supposed to just walk away and let a group of people who they feel to be absolutely incompetent and insane run things.
Sure.
I do think that we should target leaders in wars, but the idea of replacing war is silly. What about when you replace it, but I don't?
Yeah, that'd be cool. Working for a company where the only goal is to put others out of business by making something crappier than what already exists but bundling it with other products to sell it. What a horrible feeling. Knowing that if you succeed with the Zune, for example, you're only going to hurt customers and competitors who make good products. I'd like the feeling at the end of the day that I made something people wanted..NET is the only thing that might be a solid tech, but they're playing so many licensing and patent games that anyone who uses it is insane.
As long as they've patented part of.NET (and they have) you'll be likely to receive a lawsuit if you ever develop anything MS really wants. It's like them buying you out, but with a patent lawsuit to drive your stock price into the ground first.
I don't think so. Microsoft has been sabotaging their own products to convince people that a competitor's is broken and generally breaking laws and contracts since the early 80s.
How proud would you be to be on the roll-out of an MS product and then find out that the product would have hit the market three years earlier, and worked properly, had MS not defaulted on their contract and put the original company out of business.
You'll start to realize that while MS does things, those things are usually stolen from the people who were really doing them. Sometimes honestly by buying the company, but usually dishonestly by offering to buy the company, stealing the tech, and backing out of the sale. Sometimes it's just by having all of their distributors sign exclusive deals.
Maybe if you were a lawyer you'd feel good, as you'd have contributed to this. Yay lawyers. But as a programmer or developer, you didn't and you mainly helped to sabotage the lives and careers of the non-criminals in other companies. Good job.
I'm glad to hear this. Because it means my competitors (you) are fucking retarded. Employee good-will is how you find most of the best new employees, it's how you get employees to go above and beyond. If you screw with that, and you certainly would, you'll have cost the company a fortune of its value by the end of the day.
You could cost a small company $500k in a single afternoon by running roughshod over developers. One leaves, a few more decide to look, a couple more just dislike you and stop putting extra time in.
Businesses are like people. Some people would talk to you and treat you well. If you saw someone about to tow these people's cars, you'd tell them. Other people are jerks and look for any excuse to piss you off, giving you a perp walk for the dumbest of reasons. These are the people you'd want to watch having their car towed. You don't want people in your company to think of you badly, or you'll never know when your car is being towed.
This isn't to say that I don't revoke access, but there's a way to do it. Or rather, ways not to. If you piss off a developer, and treating him like a criminal is sure going to do it, you're screwing yourself and your employer far faster than that developer could.
Anyone going through my things without my consent is a bad guy, except in very narrow circumstances with a court order or in hot pursuit of a dangerous criminal.
That it happens to be "law enforcement" officers who are the biggest violator isn't very delightful.
That's what I mean. If there were no teachers the parents would see this and could decide to pay more taxes, get involved, start home-schooling, or something. When there are incompetent teachers they look just like competent ones except to people who know the material.
As I mentioned, the kids who'd programmed before were fine, the teacher's instructions were just nonsense. Everyone else though, they were fucked.
I had just received my mark for one of the term projects (bubble sorting a list of ints, I kid you not, in an AP class) which despite functioning perfectly, received a lower mark than another student who didn't actually have any code - just prolific comments.
We took turns at the projector, showing the class our work and explaining our design choices. When I was there he called me wrong (on the same program he'd nearly flunked). I challenged him - told him that I was not wrong and knew from having used it before. He told me to sit down and see him after class and he'd show me... I snapped. I told him that I'd stay right there until he got the teacher's copy and I proved him wrong. He liked this idea until the book said I was right. Then he kicked me out of his class for a week for being pompous.
Man, was he ever shocked when the results came back from the AP test and I'd gotten the highest mark possible (5/5). Right up until then he thought I was incapable of programming. I showed him a ton of things I'd done - 3d graphical plots of arbitrary functions, text adventures, etc. He literally could not write a functioning bubble sort in the only language he ever used.
Had he not been there he wouldn't have failed us. The AP students could have talked to the principal about either working on our own, or going to the nearby university twice a week to get a professor to help us. (My school was actually fairly good about giving you opportunities to learn faster.) If the other students hadn't been through his nonsense they'd have probably given it a try later, ideally with a competent teacher, or none at all which have been better than an idiot.
I did a semester of digital electronics in grade 12. The teacher was a real analog guy and it was out of his area. He handled it well though, unlike the comp-sci teacher. He knew his limits, knew when to trust the book. Knew how to test things to check for himself... I handed him a project, he look at it and said 'nope', I looked again, said 'you sure', he said 'yep', and nonetheless, when asked he still traced it through with me to find the problem. He was wrong, but instead of punishing me, he said 'Wow, that's neat.'
So yes, I'd far prefer no teacher, or even just one acting like a study buddy, than an incompetent who thinks he's great.
No dice. Try being competent at the job you're doing.
If teachers didn't teach courses they didn't understand, parents would have to do something about it. If teachers teach things they don't understand nobody finds out, until the students end up failing.
My CompSci 11 AP teacher had never programmed before a summer intro course. He couldn't follow the bubble sort example (CS 11 is very easy) in the book, even with the teacher's edition. Only those of us who knew how to program going into the course passed the exam.
Had that teacher been exposed as the fraud he was, maybe those other students would have had a better chance.
He should be the one asking if you want fries with that happy meal.
Strange, all the cell phone providers I know of will stock phones regardless of who makes them. Apple didn't have to go with AT&T, but did for the exclusive deal.
Apple can never meet product demand initially, so it doesn't cost them anything to limit it like this.
The iPhone is where Apple bought heavily into DRM though. Apple's steep downhill slide into being a Sony clone is nearly complete.
Scalable and multi-touch, I dunno. But the Nokia n800 has scalable UI. If you click with a thumb instead of a fingertip the dialogs and on-screen keyboard open in a larger size. I think it registers touches in multiple places at once, but I haven't seen any UI take advantage of that.
The n800 is otherwise as far from the iPhone as possible. One has DRM to prevent tinkering, the other runs Debian.
They have an obligation to act in a way that they want to be treated by others. Not the 'golden rule' or anything lame, but merely the realization that you have very little right to ask people to stop things you're doing.
Theoretically they have an obligation to act legally, but we can see that they don't. As long as they're doing something to someone who can't afford to sue them they don't really have any compunctions at all.
If people did to corporate execs what huge lawsuits do to the people, execs might think differently in the future.
Sigh. Yes, we know. Thank your for basic OSes refresher material. But you know as well as we do that the drive lost very little capacity to being formatted and most of it due to labeling lies.
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The URL thing in the location bar. It's what's supposed to determine what content you're looking at. If you go to the same URL and it shows something different, that's likely an error - in specs if nothing else.
A link is supposed to take you somewhere else, not change the settings and leave you without a direct way to go back.
It's an error simply because the user who complained didn't like it. He's one of their target market and their misusing of the technology (cookies shouldn't override URLs) confused him. He didn't assume there was a link to go to the old homepage, as he was already at it. What good would a link be, which in a well-designed page only goes somewhere else, when he wanted to be right there?
It's like underlining non-link text, setting links to not be underlined, setting their color to not change when visited, etc. Not the end of the world, but a violation of good designed practices.
And you get this insight into the motivations of terrorists from the news?
What more could they do? Boston couldn't be more whipped, New Orleans sunk. The USA is falling apart because of the 2001 attacks, they don't need to do anything else.
Had the country responded rationally to anything they'd have been ripe for another attack. Instead there's been so much internal fighting that another terrorist attack would have pulled everyone together.
They'll wait until it'll do the most damage. Just a while after the USA declares the world safe from terrorism.
There's nothing terrorists want more than George Bush. He's their ultimate supporter. In their wet dreams he declares martial law and sticks around.
His particular political slant... ...which would put a laptop in the hands of poor children.
Sure. He may also be trying to make other points, but he's looking to give poor kids laptops.
Sure, like a government is ever going to distribute them with Linux, the funding they get will be conditional on them freely choosing the Microsoft option.
You think that terrorists choose to strike randomly and are merely thwarted?
The USA is still going bankrupt as fast as it can, so why would the terrorists waste their time? They'll let the Aqua Teen Hunger Force terrorize us instead.
Whatever the truth is about the ideologies that caused the terrorists to attack, the truth is going bankrupt turning into a fascism is a victory for them. Anything that weakens the USA as an economic power reduces the USA's ability to fight a foreign war and that's what they want - USA out, them in.
They mostly aren't freedom fighters, just another round of slavers looking to own the people, but either way they're simply trying to tire you out. When you try to rest, that's when they'll kick you again.
Microsoft dropped its price on Windows and Office (reportedly) to $3. I doubt they really want into this market.
What they do want is to make sure the market for non-Windows PCs doesn't get any larger.
This is Microsoft, everything they do is intended to put someone out of business. Usually in an anti-competitive way by bribing standards boards, government officials, public threats of untenable lawsuits, announcing vaporware to steal sales from competitors, sabotaging competitors products, etc.
You might not know this, but the OLPC is intended to help people understand help on farming and politics. You can't give a 30yo militia member a book on farming techniques and expect him to turn his life around. However, you can give kids in the area laptops that aren't cool enough for the militia to bother stealing (and can be shut down remotely) and will eventually train them to be able to use that book on farming, or on road-building, or medicine.
A book is just a book. The OLPC is training to read, plus access to all the books.
When it phones home to download more ads.
The S-boxes were produced by a different NSA. This one supports spying on the American people in a way that the old NSA didn't. Since then governmental respect for individual privacy has gone way down.
Also, feel free to believe in the security of undisclosed code, but remember that far more crypto is broken because it's improperly used (ie, using a OTP twice, encrypting known plaintext, program stores plaintext key which is written to swap.) than because its algorithm has a technical hole.
Had the Enigma been used properly it would have been much harder to break than it was. I'm pretty sure any proprietary system in use will have its share of holes, in the algorithm and the implementation. There's simply no alternative to massive testing.
We'd just charge up capacitors and touch them to metal lockers. It was neat when they'd weld themselves to it.
So after one side loses this arbitrary contest they're supposed to just walk away and let a group of people who they feel to be absolutely incompetent and insane run things.
Sure.
I do think that we should target leaders in wars, but the idea of replacing war is silly. What about when you replace it, but I don't?
Yeah, that'd be cool. Working for a company where the only goal is to put others out of business by making something crappier than what already exists but bundling it with other products to sell it. What a horrible feeling. Knowing that if you succeed with the Zune, for example, you're only going to hurt customers and competitors who make good products. I'd like the feeling at the end of the day that I made something people wanted. .NET is the only thing that might be a solid tech, but they're playing so many licensing and patent games that anyone who uses it is insane.
.NET (and they have) you'll be likely to receive a lawsuit if you ever develop anything MS really wants. It's like them buying you out, but with a patent lawsuit to drive your stock price into the ground first.
As long as they've patented part of
I don't think so. Microsoft has been sabotaging their own products to convince people that a competitor's is broken and generally breaking laws and contracts since the early 80s.
How proud would you be to be on the roll-out of an MS product and then find out that the product would have hit the market three years earlier, and worked properly, had MS not defaulted on their contract and put the original company out of business.
You'll start to realize that while MS does things, those things are usually stolen from the people who were really doing them. Sometimes honestly by buying the company, but usually dishonestly by offering to buy the company, stealing the tech, and backing out of the sale. Sometimes it's just by having all of their distributors sign exclusive deals.
Maybe if you were a lawyer you'd feel good, as you'd have contributed to this. Yay lawyers. But as a programmer or developer, you didn't and you mainly helped to sabotage the lives and careers of the non-criminals in other companies. Good job.
I'm glad to hear this. Because it means my competitors (you) are fucking retarded. Employee good-will is how you find most of the best new employees, it's how you get employees to go above and beyond. If you screw with that, and you certainly would, you'll have cost the company a fortune of its value by the end of the day.
You could cost a small company $500k in a single afternoon by running roughshod over developers. One leaves, a few more decide to look, a couple more just dislike you and stop putting extra time in.
Businesses are like people. Some people would talk to you and treat you well. If you saw someone about to tow these people's cars, you'd tell them. Other people are jerks and look for any excuse to piss you off, giving you a perp walk for the dumbest of reasons. These are the people you'd want to watch having their car towed. You don't want people in your company to think of you badly, or you'll never know when your car is being towed.
This isn't to say that I don't revoke access, but there's a way to do it. Or rather, ways not to. If you piss off a developer, and treating him like a criminal is sure going to do it, you're screwing yourself and your employer far faster than that developer could.
Anyone going through my things without my consent is a bad guy, except in very narrow circumstances with a court order or in hot pursuit of a dangerous criminal.
That it happens to be "law enforcement" officers who are the biggest violator isn't very delightful.
That's what I mean. If there were no teachers the parents would see this and could decide to pay more taxes, get involved, start home-schooling, or something. When there are incompetent teachers they look just like competent ones except to people who know the material.
As I mentioned, the kids who'd programmed before were fine, the teacher's instructions were just nonsense. Everyone else though, they were fucked.
I had just received my mark for one of the term projects (bubble sorting a list of ints, I kid you not, in an AP class) which despite functioning perfectly, received a lower mark than another student who didn't actually have any code - just prolific comments.
We took turns at the projector, showing the class our work and explaining our design choices. When I was there he called me wrong (on the same program he'd nearly flunked). I challenged him - told him that I was not wrong and knew from having used it before. He told me to sit down and see him after class and he'd show me... I snapped. I told him that I'd stay right there until he got the teacher's copy and I proved him wrong. He liked this idea until the book said I was right. Then he kicked me out of his class for a week for being pompous.
Man, was he ever shocked when the results came back from the AP test and I'd gotten the highest mark possible (5/5). Right up until then he thought I was incapable of programming. I showed him a ton of things I'd done - 3d graphical plots of arbitrary functions, text adventures, etc. He literally could not write a functioning bubble sort in the only language he ever used.
Had he not been there he wouldn't have failed us. The AP students could have talked to the principal about either working on our own, or going to the nearby university twice a week to get a professor to help us. (My school was actually fairly good about giving you opportunities to learn faster.) If the other students hadn't been through his nonsense they'd have probably given it a try later, ideally with a competent teacher, or none at all which have been better than an idiot.
I did a semester of digital electronics in grade 12. The teacher was a real analog guy and it was out of his area. He handled it well though, unlike the comp-sci teacher. He knew his limits, knew when to trust the book. Knew how to test things to check for himself... I handed him a project, he look at it and said 'nope', I looked again, said 'you sure', he said 'yep', and nonetheless, when asked he still traced it through with me to find the problem. He was wrong, but instead of punishing me, he said 'Wow, that's neat.'
So yes, I'd far prefer no teacher, or even just one acting like a study buddy, than an incompetent who thinks he's great.
No dice. Try being competent at the job you're doing.
If teachers didn't teach courses they didn't understand, parents would have to do something about it. If teachers teach things they don't understand nobody finds out, until the students end up failing.
My CompSci 11 AP teacher had never programmed before a summer intro course. He couldn't follow the bubble sort example (CS 11 is very easy) in the book, even with the teacher's edition. Only those of us who knew how to program going into the course passed the exam.
Had that teacher been exposed as the fraud he was, maybe those other students would have had a better chance.
He should be the one asking if you want fries with that happy meal.
Strange, all the cell phone providers I know of will stock phones regardless of who makes them. Apple didn't have to go with AT&T, but did for the exclusive deal.
Apple can never meet product demand initially, so it doesn't cost them anything to limit it like this.
The iPhone is where Apple bought heavily into DRM though. Apple's steep downhill slide into being a Sony clone is nearly complete.
Scalable and multi-touch, I dunno. But the Nokia n800 has scalable UI. If you click with a thumb instead of a fingertip the dialogs and on-screen keyboard open in a larger size. I think it registers touches in multiple places at once, but I haven't seen any UI take advantage of that.
The n800 is otherwise as far from the iPhone as possible. One has DRM to prevent tinkering, the other runs Debian.
No, they certainly aren't advertising driven and would never consider writing something just to drive readership.
They have an obligation to act in a way that they want to be treated by others. Not the 'golden rule' or anything lame, but merely the realization that you have very little right to ask people to stop things you're doing.
Theoretically they have an obligation to act legally, but we can see that they don't. As long as they're doing something to someone who can't afford to sue them they don't really have any compunctions at all.
If people did to corporate execs what huge lawsuits do to the people, execs might think differently in the future.
It changes when you get a state involved. If not for China, presumably the journalist wouldn't be jailed unfairly.
But then Yahoo wouldn't be able to get all the stolen tax money from the Chinese slaves (err, population) by cooperating with the government.
Seems reasonable to demand your government step in when others do.
Likely. They could deny you access to servers they run, but disabling your software for any reason seems illegal.
Your assertion requires assumptions which are, on the face of it, unlikely.
Stop what. Stop believing Valve are thieves for disabling something without warning, etc? I'll get right on that...
Sigh. Yes, we know. Thank your for basic OSes refresher material. But you know as well as we do that the drive lost very little capacity to being formatted and most of it due to labeling lies.