Careful with the broad brush there, kid. I'm over forty, and so are a lot of my Libertarian friends who have been warning people about this shit for decades.
Problem is, you're like the economists who warned about 12 out of the last 3 recessions. Cry wolf too often and people stop listening, even if there are wolves out there. It's just human nature.
Awww. Come here and let me hug you. You're too sweet!!!
We can vote, but governments are run by money and corporations.
Sounds like you've already given up. Nothing guarantees that you're going to be and remain one of the downtrodden like giving up. (Nobody promised you easy.)
Hopefully this will push browser makers and web designers to handle UTF-16 surrogate pairs properly.
Don't hold your breath; it's hard to do right without causing other catastrophic problems. (You really don't want to make indexing into a string by character position be an O(n) operation; lots of common operations rely on that not being true, and changing that alters the complexity class of many algorithms in horrible ways.)
They want the ones with no sense of ethics or morality.
Wrong. They don't want the ones who'll sell the data to the highest bidder while skipping town, which is a real risk with the truly amoral. They want the ones who'll actually keep their secrets because they believe that this is the right thing to do, which is a form of moral action. (Of course, they also want the people they hire to be persuadable as to who the arbiter of what is moral is, but true amorality won't do at all.)
This is hardly a case of a kid doing something stupid without thinking it through.
Well, technically it was. Committing fraud is stupid (as is getting caught), whether or not you use a computer to do so, and he didn't seem to think through the consequences of getting caught. If his actions don't prove a certain level of stupidity, I don't know what does (did he think he'd be able to spend that money freely on whatever he wanted, no questions? Stupid! Stupid!). The only open question is whether you consider him a kid or not. To be pedantically correct about it all, of course.
He certainly qualifies as scum though. It's not mutually exclusive with being stupid, a kid or an adult, or generally lacking in the ability to plan things through properly. I suppose we can hope that he will learn his lesson and become an upstanding member of the community in future. (Hey, I'm sometimes an optimist!)
Imagine Iraq, but with everyone armed, your own troops defecting, and every person you kill potentially related in some way to people who are on your side. Oh, and any infrastructure you destroy is your own.
As a long-time Java programmer who wants to learn/use C++, I'd love to hear your insights, so that I don't appear on your wall of shame.:)
The order of declaration matters a lot in C and C++, far beyond anything you're used to with Java. Arguments to functions can and will be executed in any order; be very careful with those side-effects. There's no global root class in C++. This makes a huge and subtle difference. C++ programmers think that char is always 1 byte long. Java programmers think it is always 2 bytes long. (I find both conceits amusing.)
IDEs increase productivity a lot with their features, vim increases productivity a lot by not having to touch your mouse every 3 seconds. Combining the two would be incredible imo.
I have a touchpad just below my keyboard (it's a laptop) and I find that's much better for my productivity and my wrists than using a mouse; I don't need to move my hand much more than I would when reaching for the Escape or Backspace key. (Plus, you can access a very large set of the actual code editing functionality of Eclipse at least purely via menus; if only that was true for some of the other things too, but I'm convinced that the developers of egit actively hate their users.)
"Eclipse requires about 3 megabytes of memory (depending on what you're using it for)."
If you are using it for anything, I think it probably does use more memory than that.
If you're using Eclipse to fill up your hard disk a bit more, it uses less memory than that. Otherwise, if you want to do something foolish and actually try executing it... a bit more than 3MB will be required. I don't think it can finish checking for updates without using 50 times more than that IIRC.
You mean the collaborative web system that barely manages to do basic things like integrate its calendar with Outlook, let alone Exchange or the other plethora of calendaring systems out there?
My friend, you're exhibiting a lot of Stockholm syndrome there; do you work for Microsoft perchance? (If you do, when will Sharepoint support CalDAV? Even read-only would be genuinely useful, because that will let me pull the calendar events into my dev team's main shared calendaring system from some of our external partners rather than leaving their meeting requests orphaned.)
But to a business that wants to automate almost everything in the PM toolchain, Eclipse isn't even on the radar.
The biggest issue with that approach is that VS is tied to a single platform. If you're not working somewhere that buys into the whole of that stack, you're utterly uninterested in any of it. That's a lot of pro development shops, whatever you think.
This is one of the most incompetent and scientifically illiterate governments in living memory.
Only if you use the UK as your sole yardstick. Measure up against the mullahs of Iran or the mad isolationist NorKs and the current UK government manages to look vaguely passable...
Seems to me all that happened before Islam. Islam seems to have put the brakes on mid-east progress.
Actually, they were doing OK — some political problems, but generally still OK — but the thing that really caused things to slow down was the discovery of trade routes round the Cape of Good Hope. That greatly reduced the amount of revenue from taxes on trade between India and Europe, particularly in spices, and made the Middle East a lot poorer (and Europe quite a lot richer). FWIW, it also caused a lot of problems for some European states that depended on the same trade (e.g., Venice) at the same time, so it's clearly not religion-linked.
However, the current problems really rise rather later than that, probably with the rise of Wahhabism (founded in the 18th century) which is in many ways like the Reformation was for Christianity. Religious fundamentalism (of all types) tends to have problems with science, as science tends to produce equivocal answers that don't fit nicely with belief systems; when the fundies are in charge, scientific thought withers or departs for more hospitable parts of the world. None of this is Islam-specific, except in that they happen to be a current example.
Not that hugely. They only really change a few things, of which the most notable ones are the lack of a continuously present pointer and the different set of events. If your GUI doesn't depend on tracking unclicked mouse motion, you can probably transition relatively easily.
Which may be safer than everyone going exactly the same speed.
For a particular stretch of road there's going to be a natural safe speed to drive it at. That speed will depend on all sorts of things, such as the condition of the road surface, the number of junctions, the likelihood of pedestrians walking out into the road, etc. As long as people stay within the natural safe limit, the accident rate will be low. That's true even if everyone drives at the same exactly identical speed, which isn't gonna happen in reality! Let's get real here! Unfortunately, some people, let's call them "asshole jerkwads that are a waste of their father's spooge", feel that driving within the safe natural limit is not for them. These are the folks for whom law enforcement's involvement in traffic speeding offenses is intended, as they're a hazard to everyone in the area. We can deplore the fact that this is necessary, but some people just plain are asshole jerkwads that are a waste of their father's spooge. Once you've got that, you've got to post official speed limits and so on. Those official speed limits aren't always a precise match for the road's natural limit, but it's usually best to keep them fairly close; encouraging people to disregard or disrespect official notices is idiotic.
This is all quite apart from fact that there are some jurisdictions that regard speeding tickets as a way to extort money from the law-abiding. That's a different sort of asshole jerkwaddery, but it's still asshole jerkwads that are the problem...
Now the standard Printing API is designed for 2d. While for some 3d printers you can translate the page break into a go up level, but not all 3d Printers work the same, so you will want an API that takes a 3d diagram then send that to the drivers to figure out how to do it. So you can take many 3d applications and print 3d stuff from it without needing your app to be particular to the 3d printer you are using.
The fascinating thing is that the material you print with makes a very big difference to how you do the printing. While most people doing 3D printing are using something like ABS, that's not really all that robust; switching to nylon gets you a much stronger result. However, using nylon (hint: the very cheapest weed whacker nylon works well, but the expensive stuff doesn't because of all the added silica) means that the print head has to run a bit hotter and the material has different physical properties. AIUI, a pattern that works well for one print material does not for another; I shudder to think what a multi-material print would be like!
You also need error correction in the drivers if you're going to do a large print...
On the other hand, a self signed certificate which you have explicitly accepted is in many cases *BETTER* than a ca verified cert. In the former case you have explicitly chosen to trust a single party, whereas in the latter you are reliant on a large number of organisations.
A self-signed certificate is better only if you can independently verify that you've got the correct certificate and that it is still valid. Otherwise it is worse, because you've got no way at all to figure out if it is correct and whether it has not been rescinded yet (e.g., because of a break-in on the server). You're far better off to have a private CA run by someone you trust and to explicitly only trust that CA to issue for a particular service, rather than some random other CA. (The downside? That doesn't scale to the level of the internet.)
I'm assuming that the NSA isn't going round breaking into every random server on the internet and that the effort to recover a private key from the public key is "large". Dealing with being a Target Of Interest is whole 'nother level of difficulty...
Pretty sure they don't bother with that. The difference between cpu-memory bandwidth and general network bandwidth is colossal, and it would be very easy to detect that something untoward was happening. One of the points of spying is to do without being found out.
Intercepting at telco/ISP level is much easier, much more practical.
Even if cell phones were eliminated (which in my experience have been more or less a non-issue in theaters) you've still got the fact that its $8 for a ticket and then $5 for a popcorn, $5 for a soda, $5 for a box of Junior Mints.
There's your problem. Try not buying any of that stuff and you'll find your movie-going experience to be far more affordable.
That works, but I agree that violating DNC should carry very heavy pernalties. If I put my number out there specificlaly to say "don't call me", then I damn well don't want to be called.
Much as I dislike phone spammers, let's save the very heavy penalties for the fraud and misrepresentation. HOWEVER... They weren't just being annoying asses (not generally illegal, alas) and violating an agreement they'd signed up to (clearly a civil penalty thing), they were also telling lies about the details of what they were selling (assuming TFS is accurate). That's the sort of thing that sounds like it ought to be investigated on a criminal basis.
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Careful with the broad brush there, kid. I'm over forty, and so are a lot of my Libertarian friends who have been warning people about this shit for decades.
Problem is, you're like the economists who warned about 12 out of the last 3 recessions. Cry wolf too often and people stop listening, even if there are wolves out there. It's just human nature.
Awww. Come here and let me hug you. You're too sweet!!!
We can vote, but governments are run by money and corporations.
Sounds like you've already given up. Nothing guarantees that you're going to be and remain one of the downtrodden like giving up. (Nobody promised you easy.)
Hopefully this will push browser makers and web designers to handle UTF-16 surrogate pairs properly.
Don't hold your breath; it's hard to do right without causing other catastrophic problems. (You really don't want to make indexing into a string by character position be an O(n) operation; lots of common operations rely on that not being true, and changing that alters the complexity class of many algorithms in horrible ways.)
They want the ones with no sense of ethics or morality.
Wrong. They don't want the ones who'll sell the data to the highest bidder while skipping town, which is a real risk with the truly amoral. They want the ones who'll actually keep their secrets because they believe that this is the right thing to do, which is a form of moral action. (Of course, they also want the people they hire to be persuadable as to who the arbiter of what is moral is, but true amorality won't do at all.)
This is hardly a case of a kid doing something stupid without thinking it through.
Well, technically it was. Committing fraud is stupid (as is getting caught), whether or not you use a computer to do so, and he didn't seem to think through the consequences of getting caught. If his actions don't prove a certain level of stupidity, I don't know what does (did he think he'd be able to spend that money freely on whatever he wanted, no questions? Stupid! Stupid!). The only open question is whether you consider him a kid or not. To be pedantically correct about it all, of course.
He certainly qualifies as scum though. It's not mutually exclusive with being stupid, a kid or an adult, or generally lacking in the ability to plan things through properly. I suppose we can hope that he will learn his lesson and become an upstanding member of the community in future. (Hey, I'm sometimes an optimist!)
Well to be fair, they thought they were only taking a meter.
And they were really just looking for a close double-quote.
Imagine Iraq, but with everyone armed, your own troops defecting, and every person you kill potentially related in some way to people who are on your side. Oh, and any infrastructure you destroy is your own.
You mean like in Syria?
It could mean your code is very complex with a lot of functions.
But do they really need to be in one code unit? One source file?
As a long-time Java programmer who wants to learn/use C++, I'd love to hear your insights, so that I don't appear on your wall of shame. :)
The order of declaration matters a lot in C and C++, far beyond anything you're used to with Java.
Arguments to functions can and will be executed in any order; be very careful with those side-effects.
There's no global root class in C++. This makes a huge and subtle difference.
C++ programmers think that char is always 1 byte long. Java programmers think it is always 2 bytes long. (I find both conceits amusing.)
IDEs increase productivity a lot with their features, vim increases productivity a lot
by not having to touch your mouse every 3 seconds. Combining the two would be
incredible imo.
I have a touchpad just below my keyboard (it's a laptop) and I find that's much better for my productivity and my wrists than using a mouse; I don't need to move my hand much more than I would when reaching for the Escape or Backspace key. (Plus, you can access a very large set of the actual code editing functionality of Eclipse at least purely via menus; if only that was true for some of the other things too, but I'm convinced that the developers of egit actively hate their users.)
"Eclipse requires about 3 megabytes of memory (depending on what you're using it for)."
If you are using it for anything, I think it probably does use more memory than that.
If you're using Eclipse to fill up your hard disk a bit more, it uses less memory than that. Otherwise, if you want to do something foolish and actually try executing it... a bit more than 3MB will be required. I don't think it can finish checking for updates without using 50 times more than that IIRC.
[IntelliJ] sucks utterly though for windows phone development.
People develop for that? Talk about small markets...
And VS has TFS, which integrates with Sharepoint
You mean the collaborative web system that barely manages to do basic things like integrate its calendar with Outlook, let alone Exchange or the other plethora of calendaring systems out there?
My friend, you're exhibiting a lot of Stockholm syndrome there; do you work for Microsoft perchance? (If you do, when will Sharepoint support CalDAV? Even read-only would be genuinely useful, because that will let me pull the calendar events into my dev team's main shared calendaring system from some of our external partners rather than leaving their meeting requests orphaned.)
But to a business that wants to automate almost everything in the PM toolchain, Eclipse isn't even on the radar.
The biggest issue with that approach is that VS is tied to a single platform. If you're not working somewhere that buys into the whole of that stack, you're utterly uninterested in any of it. That's a lot of pro development shops, whatever you think.
This is one of the most incompetent and scientifically illiterate governments in living memory.
Only if you use the UK as your sole yardstick. Measure up against the mullahs of Iran or the mad isolationist NorKs and the current UK government manages to look vaguely passable...
Seems to me all that happened before Islam. Islam seems to have put the brakes on mid-east progress.
Actually, they were doing OK — some political problems, but generally still OK — but the thing that really caused things to slow down was the discovery of trade routes round the Cape of Good Hope. That greatly reduced the amount of revenue from taxes on trade between India and Europe, particularly in spices, and made the Middle East a lot poorer (and Europe quite a lot richer). FWIW, it also caused a lot of problems for some European states that depended on the same trade (e.g., Venice) at the same time, so it's clearly not religion-linked.
However, the current problems really rise rather later than that, probably with the rise of Wahhabism (founded in the 18th century) which is in many ways like the Reformation was for Christianity. Religious fundamentalism (of all types) tends to have problems with science, as science tends to produce equivocal answers that don't fit nicely with belief systems; when the fundies are in charge, scientific thought withers or departs for more hospitable parts of the world. None of this is Islam-specific, except in that they happen to be a current example.
Pro: Deployed everywhere, so you can use it.
Con: Deployed everywhere, so we're stuck with it.
(although portables are stirring things a bit)
Not that hugely. They only really change a few things, of which the most notable ones are the lack of a continuously present pointer and the different set of events. If your GUI doesn't depend on tracking unclicked mouse motion, you can probably transition relatively easily.
Which may be safer than everyone going exactly the same speed.
For a particular stretch of road there's going to be a natural safe speed to drive it at. That speed will depend on all sorts of things, such as the condition of the road surface, the number of junctions, the likelihood of pedestrians walking out into the road, etc. As long as people stay within the natural safe limit, the accident rate will be low. That's true even if everyone drives at the same exactly identical speed, which isn't gonna happen in reality! Let's get real here! Unfortunately, some people, let's call them "asshole jerkwads that are a waste of their father's spooge", feel that driving within the safe natural limit is not for them. These are the folks for whom law enforcement's involvement in traffic speeding offenses is intended, as they're a hazard to everyone in the area. We can deplore the fact that this is necessary, but some people just plain are asshole jerkwads that are a waste of their father's spooge. Once you've got that, you've got to post official speed limits and so on. Those official speed limits aren't always a precise match for the road's natural limit, but it's usually best to keep them fairly close; encouraging people to disregard or disrespect official notices is idiotic.
This is all quite apart from fact that there are some jurisdictions that regard speeding tickets as a way to extort money from the law-abiding. That's a different sort of asshole jerkwaddery, but it's still asshole jerkwads that are the problem...
first thing i thought was red herring
My first thought was "anchovy" (and so my second thought was "pizza!") but then I read the list again more carefully.
Now the standard Printing API is designed for 2d. While for some 3d printers you can translate the page break into a go up level, but not all 3d Printers work the same, so you will want an API that takes a 3d diagram then send that to the drivers to figure out how to do it. So you can take many 3d applications and print 3d stuff from it without needing your app to be particular to the 3d printer you are using.
The fascinating thing is that the material you print with makes a very big difference to how you do the printing. While most people doing 3D printing are using something like ABS, that's not really all that robust; switching to nylon gets you a much stronger result. However, using nylon (hint: the very cheapest weed whacker nylon works well, but the expensive stuff doesn't because of all the added silica) means that the print head has to run a bit hotter and the material has different physical properties. AIUI, a pattern that works well for one print material does not for another; I shudder to think what a multi-material print would be like!
You also need error correction in the drivers if you're going to do a large print...
On the other hand, a self signed certificate which you have explicitly accepted is in many cases *BETTER* than a ca verified cert. In the former case you have explicitly chosen to trust a single party, whereas in the latter you are reliant on a large number of organisations.
A self-signed certificate is better only if you can independently verify that you've got the correct certificate and that it is still valid. Otherwise it is worse, because you've got no way at all to figure out if it is correct and whether it has not been rescinded yet (e.g., because of a break-in on the server). You're far better off to have a private CA run by someone you trust and to explicitly only trust that CA to issue for a particular service, rather than some random other CA. (The downside? That doesn't scale to the level of the internet.)
I'm assuming that the NSA isn't going round breaking into every random server on the internet and that the effort to recover a private key from the public key is "large". Dealing with being a Target Of Interest is whole 'nother level of difficulty...
Pretty sure they don't bother with that. The difference between cpu-memory bandwidth and general network bandwidth is colossal, and it would be very easy to detect that something untoward was happening. One of the points of spying is to do without being found out.
Intercepting at telco/ISP level is much easier, much more practical.
Even if cell phones were eliminated (which in my experience have been more or less a non-issue in theaters) you've still got the fact that its $8 for a ticket and then $5 for a popcorn, $5 for a soda, $5 for a box of Junior Mints.
There's your problem. Try not buying any of that stuff and you'll find your movie-going experience to be far more affordable.
That works, but I agree that violating DNC should carry very heavy pernalties. If I put my number out there specificlaly to say "don't call me", then I damn well don't want to be called.
Much as I dislike phone spammers, let's save the very heavy penalties for the fraud and misrepresentation. HOWEVER... They weren't just being annoying asses (not generally illegal, alas) and violating an agreement they'd signed up to (clearly a civil penalty thing), they were also telling lies about the details of what they were selling (assuming TFS is accurate). That's the sort of thing that sounds like it ought to be investigated on a criminal basis.
Of course it also helps if you don't live in the city.
The techniques mostly work well in cities too, provided you've not got too many steep hills and don't drive too close to the car in front.