I'm more worried about the steady growth of entitlements. Bread and circuses will snuff even the biggest economy, eventually. What a bipartisan disaster.
It's reasonable for developers to take advantage of security flaws in an operating system, especially when they go long-unfixed, even if doing so is a stupid thing to do.
I'm from the "you're part of the problem, or part of the solution" school of thought on this one.
Not when they're going with the reasonable assumption that Windows has given that user administrator rights by default. That's a design flaw at the OS level that developers are stupidly taking advantage of.
What is you, boss, a politician? It's reasonable or stupid: take your pick.;)
A quality app targets a Limited Account, period.
This catch-me-screw-me game of hiding half the app in the Windows Registry, and other whacky nonsense (Do You Hear Me, Hewlett-Packard?!?!?!?), so that the user sees all manner of annoying errors when running sanely is the height of wrongheaded.
Never been an OS X user, and I'm certainly getting perusuaded away from thinking they used X. I stand educated. So rare to learn anything on/. these days...
You're saying X is comparable to Windows (the windowing systems?)...yeah..and?
No, I'm saying X is a full-on network protocol, and not fairly compared to the Windows GDI.exe.
Looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_X
Mac OS X's core is a Unix operating system (OS) built on top of the XNU kernel, with standard Unix facilities available from the command line interface (Apple released this core as a free and open source operating system named Darwin). Over this core, Apple layered a number of components, including the Aqua interface and the Finder, to complete the GUI-based operating system which is Mac OS X.
The question becomes how deep is Aqua? The tone of your question would seem to imply that the answer is "everything above the command line", and I don't know enough to argue otherwise.
What a wrong-headed piece of flamebait.
X is a portable, network-based display system, and its various capabilities make it roughly as fair to compare the Microsoft Windows windowing system to X as it does to compare the Microsoft kernel to Linux.
BTW: what, pray tell, do you think Mac OS X is running, hmmm?
I stated the idea that an arguable claim amounts to little if the author won't stand by the claim by name.
This has been turned into a "conspicuous hostility to anonymous speech".
You may as well call me a racist for disagreeing with Obama's policies, a sexist for disagreeing with Clinton's, or ageist for disagreeing with McCain's, or unpatriotic for disagreeing with Bush, or a bigot for falling short of agreement with California's.
Keep going, that I may be the world's first bumper-sticker mummy.
The point was that if people are too challenged by the responsibility of getting behind the wheel, then we should keep ratcheting down their transportation options until we find a level where they can safely operate.
If a bicycle proves too great a burden, then let a man walk.
And if he can't walk without being a menace, let him sit in the corner.
I'm speaking in hyperbole, but the whole dependent mentality of no-one being accountable for crappy behavior is one of the more destructive threads in society.
As a happy Nokia E61 user, a touchscreen is not terribly important. I like this unit, though I'd rather get it sans the camera.
The E61 fueled my Google Reader addiction, helping me get through boring classes and keeping me entertained while wondering when my flight was actually taking off.
The S60 software has the simplest setup for use as a wireless modem I've ever encountered, and the T-Mobile GPRS service has been, while not exactly cheap, extremely useful and effective.
Not to be too glaring a shill, I'll give my Nokia Ex1 experience 2.5 snaps out of 3 in a "Z" formation, and strongly consider upgrading to this svelte gadget.
...because i++ is somehow obfuscated?
A Venn diagram of programming languages would reveal substantial overlap.
So, RTFM, and use the tool at hand as intended.
And, no, I'm not recommending a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_golf#Perl_golf or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOCCC, I'm talking about knowing the tool and taking a common-sense approach. If 80% of the people can read increment/decrement, eliminate excrement and use them, say I.
In which case http://noscript.net/ at least gives you a fighting chance to see WTF, at least in a FireFox context.
At work, where Mr. Softy p0wnz0rz me, I'm less concerned.
I don't know what the top SES pay levels are, but that's 4 to 5 times what I think it is.
If you're interested in reducing corruption, try transparency.
No matter how many times it's done, it's always amazing to see people endorse corruption.
Request you name the golden period of US history where this was not the case. The Washington Administration?
The only effective change I can see is to diminish the power of the Fed. All else amounts to band-aids or salt for the wound, AFAICT. Truly amazing are those who'd grant even _more_ power to DC.
That is nearly on topic.
From the original posting:
redact blocks from an image, but do it so that the excised pixels can somehow be retrieved.
If the email settings within Outlook could be considered "an image" then trying to manage email setting using Outlook could be compared to digging around a redacted file, trying to retrieve some missing pixels.
I can see where Microsoft was going with the ribbon bar in Office2007, as far as making features more coherent and less nested goes.
Outlook email configuration could really benefit from a similar treatment, and not feel like an Underhanded UI Contest.
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I'm more worried about the steady growth of entitlements. Bread and circuses will snuff even the biggest economy, eventually. What a bipartisan disaster.
Ah, but who other than the government has the power to pick your pocket, then write laws declaring the practice legal?
The nicest thing I have to say about Redmond is nothing whatsoever.
A quality app targets a Limited Account, period.
This catch-me-screw-me game of hiding half the app in the Windows Registry, and other whacky nonsense (Do You Hear Me, Hewlett-Packard?!?!?!?), so that the user sees all manner of annoying errors when running sanely is the height of wrongheaded.
Never been an OS X user, and I'm certainly getting perusuaded away from thinking they used X. I stand educated. So rare to learn anything on /. these days...
Fair enough. http://developer.apple.com/macosx/architecture/index.html, while certainly swell eye candy, doesn't offer much in the way of specifics.
Looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_X The question becomes how deep is Aqua? The tone of your question would seem to imply that the answer is "everything above the command line", and I don't know enough to argue otherwise.
What a wrong-headed piece of flamebait.
X is a portable, network-based display system, and its various capabilities make it roughly as fair to compare the Microsoft Windows windowing system to X as it does to compare the Microsoft kernel to Linux.
BTW: what, pray tell, do you think Mac OS X is running, hmmm?
The most you can say is that poorly coded client apps encourage you to do something stupid.
That's the first time in 1,640 posts you've said "Winsom, lose some", you big fibber.
For all the crap output may equal that of 250 score horses.
I stated the idea that an arguable claim amounts to little if the author won't stand by the claim by name.
This has been turned into a "conspicuous hostility to anonymous speech".
You may as well call me a racist for disagreeing with Obama's policies, a sexist for disagreeing with Clinton's, or ageist for disagreeing with McCain's, or unpatriotic for disagreeing with Bush, or a bigot for falling short of agreement with California's.
Keep going, that I may be the world's first bumper-sticker mummy.
Your assertion that some objective "textbook definition" exists is as feckless as your anonymity.
Read http://www.amazon.com/Liberal-Fascism-American-Mussolini-Politics/dp/0385511841/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213699181&sr=8-1
The point was that if people are too challenged by the responsibility of getting behind the wheel, then we should keep ratcheting down their transportation options until we find a level where they can safely operate.
If a bicycle proves too great a burden, then let a man walk.
And if he can't walk without being a menace, let him sit in the corner.
I'm speaking in hyperbole, but the whole dependent mentality of no-one being accountable for crappy behavior is one of the more destructive threads in society.
This problem's not hard,
And for societal win,
To irresponsible retard:
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As a happy Nokia E61 user, a touchscreen is not terribly important. I like this unit, though I'd rather get it sans the camera.
The E61 fueled my Google Reader addiction, helping me get through boring classes and keeping me entertained while wondering when my flight was actually taking off.
The S60 software has the simplest setup for use as a wireless modem I've ever encountered, and the T-Mobile GPRS service has been, while not exactly cheap, extremely useful and effective.
Not to be too glaring a shill, I'll give my Nokia Ex1 experience 2.5 snaps out of 3 in a "Z" formation, and strongly consider upgrading to this svelte gadget.
...because i++ is somehow obfuscated?
A Venn diagram of programming languages would reveal substantial overlap.
So, RTFM, and use the tool at hand as intended.
And, no, I'm not recommending a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_golf#Perl_golf or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOCCC, I'm talking about knowing the tool and taking a common-sense approach. If 80% of the people can read increment/decrement, eliminate excrement and use them, say I.
In which case http://noscript.net/ at least gives you a fighting chance to see WTF, at least in a FireFox context.
At work, where Mr. Softy p0wnz0rz me, I'm less concerned.
The court of public opinion would reward "The Glorious Jihad" with few sales.
If you're interested in reducing corruption, try transparency.
The only effective change I can see is to diminish the power of the Fed. All else amounts to band-aids or salt for the wound, AFAICT. Truly amazing are those who'd grant even _more_ power to DC.
From the original posting: If the email settings within Outlook could be considered "an image" then trying to manage email setting using Outlook could be compared to digging around a redacted file, trying to retrieve some missing pixels.
I can see where Microsoft was going with the ribbon bar in Office2007, as far as making features more coherent and less nested goes.
Outlook email configuration could really benefit from a similar treatment, and not feel like an Underhanded UI Contest.