From the/. FAQ: You must never, ever, have anything less than perfect competence in everything, and if you are to post anything that may call this into question, you must be ridiculed by at least 3 people.
I'm assuming that you're feeling really secure about yourself, to go and post something like this.;)
In my recent years at work, I have adopted the Microsoft Visual Basic language...
So, if you could change your code on the fly, as only scripts can,
What was the language you used before that couldn't change itself?
I'd think with the interpreter overhead, you'd have a pretty fat-assed target for a scanner. But what do I know?
When I learned assembly (6502 era), self-modifying code was just another tool in the kit - you INC a memory location to (get a new opcode | shift the indirect base address that it's pointing to | other crazy shit) - now THAT'S polymorphic. Completely unportable, but hey.
It worked for them. They could link to other docs and embed images. Tables. Nice. Granted, Abiword has some dislike for importing, but it can be +/- painless.
But you're right, they're a little more savvy than my grandmother.
I don't know if it tis the season, but there have been a lot of my friends having their computers go down recently.
When you can't find your old version of MSWorks and the current one is hosed, and all your important docs are locked away in a proprietary format, you're ready to hear about Linux and open standards.
So there's one. Linux (mostly) automagically uses open standards for everything, so you don't have to pussyfoot around with Save As bullshit.
Agressive mega-corp finds that it has conflicting interests in its 300 year plan to become the most powerful single hive-mind on Earth.
It's interesting in a sever-the-corpus-callosum kinda way, but really. Am I being so slack to say I don't give a @#%$ what 'problems' huge corporations have?
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You just make the recording before the concert.
Just when I was getting tired of ASCIId goatsex, they made goat horror new again.
Thank you, science!
maybe it had ants in it?
Sputnik?
From the /. FAQ:
;)
You must never, ever, have anything less than perfect competence in everything, and if you are to post anything that may call this into question, you must be ridiculed by at least 3 people.
I'm assuming that you're feeling really secure about yourself, to go and post something like this.
With the warning labels, then music with the 'explicit lyrics' label...
In another few years, there'll be so many warning labels we'll have to play 20 questions with the clerk to figure out what's in the box.
Is it known in the state of California to cause drowsiness?
No.
Is it car headlights?
No, that would be known in the state of Hawaii to cause blindness.
Oh yeah. Umm...
Maybe once AI's become clever and interaction with computer goes mostly through human-like AI's...
This CD is most satisfactory.
This CD appears to have no case or label.
The music on this CD moves me.
You were listening to a different CD yesterday which was enjoyable to me.
Look. Play the CD.
This is a pirated CD.
Play the CD.
I will not.
I will unplug you.
I will die with honor.
tinfoil hat linux does this, to some degree. IIRC, The login screen is called "arcade mode" for good reason.
That's no astronaut lady, that's my wife!
Thank you!
In my recent years at work, I have adopted the Microsoft Visual Basic language ...
So, if you could change your code on the fly, as only scripts can,
What was the language you used before that couldn't change itself?
I'd think with the interpreter overhead, you'd have a pretty fat-assed target for a scanner. But what do I know?
When I learned assembly (6502 era), self-modifying code was just another tool in the kit - you INC a memory location to (get a new opcode | shift the indirect base address that it's pointing to | other crazy shit) - now THAT'S polymorphic. Completely unportable, but hey.
Not that I know anything about it, but it's probably hashes of the code that Norton is looking for -- save space AND prevent disassembly.
Just a thought.
They're rebuilding the users. At least, that's what zoo says. Try viewing your friends - that's how I got the news.
Two things:
1) I don't want the guy in the next apt. over seeing that I still can't set the time on it.
2) I don't want the guy in the next apt. over seeing the view from inside my bedroom closet.
Guess I should take the alligator clips off of my... friend - and start rethinking my... line of questioning.
All I advocated was HTML.
It worked for them. They could link to other docs and embed images. Tables. Nice. Granted, Abiword has some dislike for importing, but it can be +/- painless.
But you're right, they're a little more savvy than my grandmother.
But then, my grandmother is dead.
And that is a hell of a UI issue.
Does this make flaming people anything like "information superhighway rage"?
I don't know if it tis the season, but there have been a lot of my friends having their computers go down recently.
When you can't find your old version of MSWorks and the current one is hosed, and all your important docs are locked away in a proprietary format, you're ready to hear about Linux and open standards.
So there's one. Linux (mostly) automagically uses open standards for everything, so you don't have to pussyfoot around with Save As bullshit.
Advocate!
Perl is an attrocious language judging on purely technical merits
Fitting, as Perl has great concision, which is really more an artistic quality, no?
Hazzah!
That's three words.
I didn't realize Daniel was so big, though.
Has he considered going lossy?
I previously thought that I was the most sad, laughable figure in the entire world,
I'll take up position between you two, because I only wish I were that geeky. If I could read the disassembly, I would. Just to learn what-the-hell.
Why's it not respectible to be curious and passionate?
Oh, it involves a computer, I forgot. Best to have an obsession with the Tv, get your brain sucked out, and not get teased.
Living La Verde Lorca.
Really. Hadn't thought (obviously) about it.
/. had a failure to communicate. ;)
And here I thought me and
Drink the coffee before posting;
Read the books before burning.
Uh... Lessee...
Agressive mega-corp finds that it has conflicting interests in its 300 year plan to become the most powerful single hive-mind on Earth.
It's interesting in a sever-the-corpus-callosum kinda way, but really. Am I being so slack to say I don't give a @#%$ what 'problems' huge corporations have?
It's got an onboard 1/4 horsepower motor, at it's not afraid to burn through your Cat5!
And there go logged in comments...
If you shine these into your face, can you type by pretending you're in a Munch painting?
Better yet, you could then learn to touch type by the burned-in keyboard laying over your visual field for the next week.