The 20th century was the first one where captains weren't expected to go down with the ship. Prior to the late 1900's, any captain who didn't get off the ship last (after all the other passengers) was publicly labeled a coward by every official asked, and was often prosecuted for not sufficiently looking after his passengers' safety.
The most famous shipwreck of all, RMS Titanic, had a captain (EJ Smith) who was on his last run before retirement (The White Star Line was sick of the guy bumping his ships into obstacles and other ships apparently, as he famously had done with RMS Olympic). Then ship met iceberg, Smith was indecisive for a very long time, the lifeboat loading was disorganized and haphazard for most of the incident, and when viewed even by the standards of the time, it was a general clusterfuck as far as evacuations go. OTOH, and to his credit, Smith didn't cowardly sprint for the first lifeboat and hop aboard, leaving the passengers to fend for themselves.
That's right, folks - this guy in this recent crash is worse than the guy who captained the Titanic.
You can get away with it if you build a custom UI with a solid cross-platform language/API geared for UI work (Qt stands out as an example on desktops - not sure how good it is in the mobile realm), or you can get away with good results if you write your own UI from scratch.
OTOH, trying to write for one platform's little UI esoterics (even if you're trying to avoid them), then trying to graft all that onto another platform? Yeah, that'd end up leaving a gap 10 miles wide in most cases.
Like you said - it's possible, but the vast majority of developers - both amateur and pro alike - don't frickin' bother beyond 'good enough', and the results usually leave plenty of room for improvement, which a single-platform native developer can take advantage of.
Pretty much what sibling said. These creatures will likely be launched into very low Earth orbit, and will likely hit re-entry in less than a couple months at most. A "nanosatellite" won't have any attitude control, or any fuel for that matter. It won't have the means to alter whatever orbit (and subsequent decay) it may get kicked off into.
Point of order: Property tax is set and collected by local governments, for local government use. Congress doesn't see a dime of it. The worst you'd have to pay in the middle of nowhere is some piddling sum to a county government (which would in that case almost all go towards the roads you use to get to that small farm, the county sheriff's office to pay the cops, and whatever school is closest). Unlike most forms of tax, in that case it actually has a beneficial use that is easily tracked.
Well, FWIW, the Department of Defense already requires IT-2 and IT-1 certification for anyone accessing their bits. IT-1 is the equivalent to Top Secret, in that it requires an investigation of the past 10 years of your life plus your current credit rating, a criminal records check dating back to the dawn of time, etc. Be thoroughly prepared to discuss in detail any breaks in your employment, any divorces you may have had, and a whole cornucopia of little details similar to that.
In other words, trust me - it's already here, and has been for some time.
(Disclosure - I have an IT-1 clearance from a previous job back in 2006. A colonoscopy would have been less invasive.)
Small point: There is a vast difference between some half-cobbled search term pecked in, and a statement of personal ideology. I mean, something like "Sen. Congresscritter criminal record" on Google has a lot more variations of context that could be applied than a Facebook-borne "Senator Congresscritter is a friggin pedophile/terrorist that stomps on puppies and then enjoys beating up old ladies while forcing his wife and kids to watch. If it wasn't for his money and status, he'd be enduring 30 years fo hard sodomy at the nearest federal penitentiary! Oh, and he cheats on his taxes - I have proof!"
Otherwise? While it would likely begin as just numerical data, I can see how the Facebook setup could be very easily abused. You're still parsing the words, after all, and those can easily contain the owner's name, or at least enough references to infer it quite easily.
...is there any frickin' way to occasionally allow someone to mod comments up to 6, or in this case 10? Because parent comment damned sure deserves to be.
1.- After seeing how badly Google has been getting pwned with Android malware the LAST thing MSFT wants is to be the easily pwned OS in this new market, and 2.- the REAL reason I'm willing to bet my last buck they are doing this....ready? PIRACY.
1. Android's malware woes weren't all (or even mostly) tied to the boot sector, so this makes no sense.
2. Err, how on Earth is locking the boot sector going to stop piracy? I may be missing something here, but seriously? Not seeing it.
As for the rest, I largely agree, except for one bit:
There is ONE nice thing though, after this shit bombs we'll be getting Win 8 pads at Touchpad prices and if you end up with a $500 winPad for the firesale prices the touchpad went for are you REALLY gonna give a shit what it runs?
The fact that Android on the HP TouchPad was hurriedly pushed out and then widely broadcast says otherwise. The reason? An unsupported OS/arch means no new applications, no updates for existing ones (after awhile), and you;re basically stuck with something that becomes obsolete faster. Seems like a total waste of hardware after awhile.
a) OP's points are still wrong. You don't need to lock the hardware to one OS in order to prevent malware. Car analogy? No problem: It's like saying that the tire rims must be welded onto the wheels in order to prevent tire slashing. The OS (tires) can still be compromised no matter what you do to the underlying hardware, so the whole argument becomes one great big false premise.
c) Dude did do it incompetently. He's not a subscriber, yet there's a whole novella waiting mere moments after the story is posted publicly. His posting history also shows an incredibly strong pro-Microsoft bias, even to the point of nonsense at times.
d) see c)
As for the rest? Certainly you don't need WHQL certification to run drivers on Windows - but Joe Public will see a buttload of bells and alarms warning him if he tries to install it.
There are no major security reasons for doing it - period. Once someone has physical access, it's game-over anyway - no matter how hard you think you can lock it down.
Damn, that's a waste of effort... we do *continuous* automated builds for each of our projects, something on the order of once every hour. The only time a manual build is kicked off is either to gold it, branch it, or is kicked off from a PM not wanting to wait for the automatic one to trigger before testing an implementation out.
Oh, and no function should be longer than about 20 lines. If you can't see the entire function inside a single window, it is too complex and needs to be simplified. If you think your code is beautiful and it has been a month, you are confused. All non-trivial code is crap and could be improved in some way. Therefore, the goal needs to be to make all your code appear to be trivial.
Beautiful philosophy (seriously), but I sincerely hope you're willing to (and occasionally do) put your keyboard where your mouth is. The last thing any dev needs to put up with is a boss who talks the talk, but can't (or won't) walk it himself.
He is - just that he's a bit more collegiate (a nice way of saying "sneaky") about it.
Ferdinand Marcos(Who's regime I did get to witness first hand from the safety of a USAF base), now there's a right bastard for you.
The base is formerly known as Clark AB, before Mt. Pinatubo turned it into a giant ashtray. I know of what you speak, but... the thing about Marcos (and his ilk) was that his greed was a lot more blatant, and that he was able to enforce his will in the open, and without opposition for a very long time. I'm very willing to wager that if you took half the congresscritters we have and put them into the same culture and situation, they'd behave in much the same way as Marcos did.
Have you called your congress critter?
I'm kind of lucky in a way - most of mine (Oregon) are actually decent people (except for Wu - who the frig knew he was a Furry?) As a matter of fact, one of the biggest opponents to SOPA happens to be Sen. Wyden (D - OR).
Yes, the studios and record labels are all greedy bastards, but they're the ones who do have an actual stake in IP rights. When you're making a living based on how well your art is received, then let's talk.
Bad assumption, in that they don't give a shit about how well it is received, as long as they are the ultimate arbiters of it, and can make money off of it to the exclusion of everyone else - legitimately or not.
Agreeing to a licensing fee doesn't mean that that patents are necessarily valid. It could equally mean that the victim company's risk analysts said that the cost of "licensing" was less than the cost of fighting it in court.
It isn't a question of satisfying "some forum trolls", but rather a public demand to know what these patents are, so that folks like, say, Google, can engineer ways to stop "violating" these "patents".
That Microsoft wants to keep it a big secret says that they are more interested in making money (and spreading FUD) than in not seeing their alleged intellectual property violated. IMO, it is a gross perversion of the system.
All that they have to do is follow SCO example, and fire everyone and just spend the remaining money on legal fees.
Well, sorta. SCOX lasted a lot longer than they otherwise would have thanks to their little (copyright, not patent) adventure, but there was no settlement, the final death was rather inglorious, and any recognizable name involved with it became pure poison in the industry.
If anything, I think that the whole SCOX story taught a valuable lesson about how not to run a company's exit strategy.
I'm talking about meddling in areas such as renewal projects, shopping patterns/habits, and in general helping folks who live in that neighborhood rise above the bad situation they're in. Consider also this: What if the system were abused? What if neighborhoods (or rather, townships) were offered an 'out' from the blacklisting for a fee?
Also, what of the opposite? I can tell you right now that a black man in Harrison, Arkansas after dark is in greater physical danger than he would ever be in Compton, California. Would his particular GPS indicate that maybe he should keep driving until he sees a safer town for him (say, Sprinfgield, MO)?
Finally, since crime statistics are compiled on an annual basis, and often change from area to area each year, what you'd get is outdated at best, so it may well be useless to you in either event.
If, as you suggest, there is some significant difference in crime incidence during daylight hours as opposed to darkness, I'd like to know that, also.
Indeed, but I doubt the patent's stated goal would cover that, which is why I mentioned it.
If you live in a high crime area, you don't need me as a visitor. You have no complaint.
Well, unless he is a criminal, in which case he does want you as a visitor.
On a more serious note though, shying folks away from certain neighborhoods will decrease business to those areas, depressing them even further and, well, encouraging more crime. If this ever caught on, it would open a basket of crap. What if Bing goofed and blacklisted the wrong neighborhood? What if the bad neighborhood is trying to get some kind of renewal going, and businesses there desperately need the income? This would only delay things further, perhaps to the point of failure.
I get the whole safety concept of it, but honestly, this begins to meddle in a lot of things that really shouldn't be meddled in.
Okay, case in point: Highway 71 through Kansas City. Going southbound, it is very easy to miss a vital turn-off, and get deposited into one very rotten neighborhood. OTOH, during the day the folks are friendly enough, and I was able to ask directions, get gas, buy snacks, and one time to get a bad tire replaced. Once the sun went down, that place was not where you wanted to be (nearly everyone I spoke to there said as much), but during the day it was no problem. It eventually got so that I intentionally made stops there if I was passing through during the day, because quite a few of the business owners were very glad to see a stranger's face, the prices were reasonable, and they were a hell of a lot friendlier than the ones in better neighborhoods (let alone the truck stops).
As someone who spent a good share of his childhood living in such areas, I'm not put off by the fact that often I was often the only caucasian-skinned guy in some of the establishments, so I guess my lack of anxiety may be a factor in all of this.
In all though, that's a whole lot of subtle nuances that I sincerely doubt an algorithm could pick up on, and I suspect that a lot of otherwise good people are going to get screwed over by this thing.
Get that last part down, and you solve all the rest as listed, because you'll have more living space and potential resources than you'll know what to do with.
Oh, bullshit. The shoe shortage alone would cause wars that would make WWII look like a minor spat, and Mom-JeansGate would make Nixon look like a saint.
On a more serious note, the only way such a society could survive for long would be as long as civilization held up. As history shows, that's not always a given.
Ah, I see. Some random guy said so on a page and a few folks agreed with him. That's your big cite?
Here's why I asked for the citation in the first place: You made such an absolute statement, that all it takes is one contrary example to knock it down. (Said contrary example's base engine was fully standards compliant (W3C DOM, HTML 3.2, CSS, etc), before IE6 even came out. I know this because I used the thing as my main browser from 2000-2004).
That's the sucky part of being overly smug, yanno?;)
...that must be why GP said "That leaves [fans] money to come see your act, which is what you REALLY want as a musician anyway." Outside of the rare exception, musicians don't really get paid all that much (if at all) from selling albums - the music industry sees to that. No, they get the bulk of their money from performances.
Concerts are tough to profit from and are generally used to promote record/song sales.
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Welcome to Sharia Law made official.
(and at the rate things are going viz. immigration, welcome to Europe c. 2112).
Part of the job of a captain is to see to the safety of the crew and passengers. He failed at that.
failed at saving less than 1% of the occupants of the vessel..
Err, how would he know? He apparently bailed before even 1% of the passengers were safely off the ship.
We're falling into the same 21st century...
Okay, stop right there.
The 20th century was the first one where captains weren't expected to go down with the ship. Prior to the late 1900's, any captain who didn't get off the ship last (after all the other passengers) was publicly labeled a coward by every official asked, and was often prosecuted for not sufficiently looking after his passengers' safety.
The most famous shipwreck of all, RMS Titanic, had a captain (EJ Smith) who was on his last run before retirement (The White Star Line was sick of the guy bumping his ships into obstacles and other ships apparently, as he famously had done with RMS Olympic). Then ship met iceberg, Smith was indecisive for a very long time, the lifeboat loading was disorganized and haphazard for most of the incident, and when viewed even by the standards of the time, it was a general clusterfuck as far as evacuations go. OTOH, and to his credit, Smith didn't cowardly sprint for the first lifeboat and hop aboard, leaving the passengers to fend for themselves.
That's right, folks - this guy in this recent crash is worse than the guy who captained the Titanic.
You can get away with it if you build a custom UI with a solid cross-platform language/API geared for UI work (Qt stands out as an example on desktops - not sure how good it is in the mobile realm), or you can get away with good results if you write your own UI from scratch.
OTOH, trying to write for one platform's little UI esoterics (even if you're trying to avoid them), then trying to graft all that onto another platform? Yeah, that'd end up leaving a gap 10 miles wide in most cases.
Like you said - it's possible, but the vast majority of developers - both amateur and pro alike - don't frickin' bother beyond 'good enough', and the results usually leave plenty of room for improvement, which a single-platform native developer can take advantage of.
Pretty much what sibling said. These creatures will likely be launched into very low Earth orbit, and will likely hit re-entry in less than a couple months at most. A "nanosatellite" won't have any attitude control, or any fuel for that matter. It won't have the means to alter whatever orbit (and subsequent decay) it may get kicked off into.
Point of order: Property tax is set and collected by local governments, for local government use. Congress doesn't see a dime of it. The worst you'd have to pay in the middle of nowhere is some piddling sum to a county government (which would in that case almost all go towards the roads you use to get to that small farm, the county sheriff's office to pay the cops, and whatever school is closest). Unlike most forms of tax, in that case it actually has a beneficial use that is easily tracked.
Well, FWIW, the Department of Defense already requires IT-2 and IT-1 certification for anyone accessing their bits. IT-1 is the equivalent to Top Secret, in that it requires an investigation of the past 10 years of your life plus your current credit rating, a criminal records check dating back to the dawn of time, etc. Be thoroughly prepared to discuss in detail any breaks in your employment, any divorces you may have had, and a whole cornucopia of little details similar to that.
In other words, trust me - it's already here, and has been for some time.
(Disclosure - I have an IT-1 clearance from a previous job back in 2006. A colonoscopy would have been less invasive.)
Small point: There is a vast difference between some half-cobbled search term pecked in, and a statement of personal ideology. I mean, something like "Sen. Congresscritter criminal record" on Google has a lot more variations of context that could be applied than a Facebook-borne "Senator Congresscritter is a friggin pedophile/terrorist that stomps on puppies and then enjoys beating up old ladies while forcing his wife and kids to watch. If it wasn't for his money and status, he'd be enduring 30 years fo hard sodomy at the nearest federal penitentiary! Oh, and he cheats on his taxes - I have proof!"
Otherwise? While it would likely begin as just numerical data, I can see how the Facebook setup could be very easily abused. You're still parsing the words, after all, and those can easily contain the owner's name, or at least enough references to infer it quite easily.
...is there any frickin' way to occasionally allow someone to mod comments up to 6, or in this case 10? Because parent comment damned sure deserves to be.
Couple 'o Points:
1.- After seeing how badly Google has been getting pwned with Android malware the LAST thing MSFT wants is to be the easily pwned OS in this new market, and 2.- the REAL reason I'm willing to bet my last buck they are doing this....ready? PIRACY.
1. Android's malware woes weren't all (or even mostly) tied to the boot sector, so this makes no sense.
2. Err, how on Earth is locking the boot sector going to stop piracy? I may be missing something here, but seriously? Not seeing it.
As for the rest, I largely agree, except for one bit:
There is ONE nice thing though, after this shit bombs we'll be getting Win 8 pads at Touchpad prices and if you end up with a $500 winPad for the firesale prices the touchpad went for are you REALLY gonna give a shit what it runs?
The fact that Android on the HP TouchPad was hurriedly pushed out and then widely broadcast says otherwise. The reason? An unsupported OS/arch means no new applications, no updates for existing ones (after awhile), and you;re basically stuck with something that becomes obsolete faster. Seems like a total waste of hardware after awhile.
a) OP's points are still wrong. You don't need to lock the hardware to one OS in order to prevent malware. Car analogy? No problem: It's like saying that the tire rims must be welded onto the wheels in order to prevent tire slashing. The OS (tires) can still be compromised no matter what you do to the underlying hardware, so the whole argument becomes one great big false premise.
b) there's no way to tell for certain, but it does happen a lot: http://waggeneredstrom.com/clients
c) Dude did do it incompetently. He's not a subscriber, yet there's a whole novella waiting mere moments after the story is posted publicly. His posting history also shows an incredibly strong pro-Microsoft bias, even to the point of nonsense at times.
d) see c)
As for the rest? Certainly you don't need WHQL certification to run drivers on Windows - but Joe Public will see a buttload of bells and alarms warning him if he tries to install it.
There are no major security reasons for doing it - period. Once someone has physical access, it's game-over anyway - no matter how hard you think you can lock it down.
HTH a little. /P
Damn, that's a waste of effort... we do *continuous* automated builds for each of our projects, something on the order of once every hour. The only time a manual build is kicked off is either to gold it, branch it, or is kicked off from a PM not wanting to wait for the automatic one to trigger before testing an implementation out.
Oh, and no function should be longer than about 20 lines. If you can't see the entire function inside a single window, it is too complex and needs to be simplified. If you think your code is beautiful and it has been a month, you are confused. All non-trivial code is crap and could be improved in some way. Therefore, the goal needs to be to make all your code appear to be trivial.
Beautiful philosophy (seriously), but I sincerely hope you're willing to (and occasionally do) put your keyboard where your mouth is. The last thing any dev needs to put up with is a boss who talks the talk, but can't (or won't) walk it himself.
Pat Leahy is not corrupt.
He is - just that he's a bit more collegiate (a nice way of saying "sneaky") about it.
Ferdinand Marcos(Who's regime I did get to witness first hand from the safety of a USAF base), now there's a right bastard for you.
The base is formerly known as Clark AB, before Mt. Pinatubo turned it into a giant ashtray. I know of what you speak, but... the thing about Marcos (and his ilk) was that his greed was a lot more blatant, and that he was able to enforce his will in the open, and without opposition for a very long time. I'm very willing to wager that if you took half the congresscritters we have and put them into the same culture and situation, they'd behave in much the same way as Marcos did.
Have you called your congress critter?
I'm kind of lucky in a way - most of mine (Oregon) are actually decent people (except for Wu - who the frig knew he was a Furry?) As a matter of fact, one of the biggest opponents to SOPA happens to be Sen. Wyden (D - OR).
Yes, the studios and record labels are all greedy bastards, but they're the ones who do have an actual stake in IP rights. When you're making a living based on how well your art is received, then let's talk.
Bad assumption, in that they don't give a shit about how well it is received, as long as they are the ultimate arbiters of it, and can make money off of it to the exclusion of everyone else - legitimately or not.
Agreeing to a licensing fee doesn't mean that that patents are necessarily valid. It could equally mean that the victim company's risk analysts said that the cost of "licensing" was less than the cost of fighting it in court.
It isn't a question of satisfying "some forum trolls", but rather a public demand to know what these patents are, so that folks like, say, Google, can engineer ways to stop "violating" these "patents".
That Microsoft wants to keep it a big secret says that they are more interested in making money (and spreading FUD) than in not seeing their alleged intellectual property violated. IMO, it is a gross perversion of the system.
All that they have to do is follow SCO example, and fire everyone and just spend the remaining money on legal fees.
Well, sorta. SCOX lasted a lot longer than they otherwise would have thanks to their little (copyright, not patent) adventure, but there was no settlement, the final death was rather inglorious, and any recognizable name involved with it became pure poison in the industry.
If anything, I think that the whole SCOX story taught a valuable lesson about how not to run a company's exit strategy.
I'm talking about meddling in areas such as renewal projects, shopping patterns/habits, and in general helping folks who live in that neighborhood rise above the bad situation they're in. Consider also this: What if the system were abused? What if neighborhoods (or rather, townships) were offered an 'out' from the blacklisting for a fee?
Also, what of the opposite? I can tell you right now that a black man in Harrison, Arkansas after dark is in greater physical danger than he would ever be in Compton, California. Would his particular GPS indicate that maybe he should keep driving until he sees a safer town for him (say, Sprinfgield, MO)?
Finally, since crime statistics are compiled on an annual basis, and often change from area to area each year, what you'd get is outdated at best, so it may well be useless to you in either event.
If, as you suggest, there is some significant difference in crime incidence during daylight hours as opposed to darkness, I'd like to know that, also.
Indeed, but I doubt the patent's stated goal would cover that, which is why I mentioned it.
Sorry, but Detroit called 'dibs'.
If you live in a high crime area, you don't need me as a visitor. You have no complaint.
Well, unless he is a criminal, in which case he does want you as a visitor.
On a more serious note though, shying folks away from certain neighborhoods will decrease business to those areas, depressing them even further and, well, encouraging more crime. If this ever caught on, it would open a basket of crap. What if Bing goofed and blacklisted the wrong neighborhood? What if the bad neighborhood is trying to get some kind of renewal going, and businesses there desperately need the income? This would only delay things further, perhaps to the point of failure.
I get the whole safety concept of it, but honestly, this begins to meddle in a lot of things that really shouldn't be meddled in.
Okay, case in point: Highway 71 through Kansas City. Going southbound, it is very easy to miss a vital turn-off, and get deposited into one very rotten neighborhood. OTOH, during the day the folks are friendly enough, and I was able to ask directions, get gas, buy snacks, and one time to get a bad tire replaced. Once the sun went down, that place was not where you wanted to be (nearly everyone I spoke to there said as much), but during the day it was no problem. It eventually got so that I intentionally made stops there if I was passing through during the day, because quite a few of the business owners were very glad to see a stranger's face, the prices were reasonable, and they were a hell of a lot friendlier than the ones in better neighborhoods (let alone the truck stops).
As someone who spent a good share of his childhood living in such areas, I'm not put off by the fact that often I was often the only caucasian-skinned guy in some of the establishments, so I guess my lack of anxiety may be a factor in all of this.
In all though, that's a whole lot of subtle nuances that I sincerely doubt an algorithm could pick up on, and I suspect that a lot of otherwise good people are going to get screwed over by this thing.
Alzheimer's, Dementia... no big mystery to it, really.
What?
Oh, and practical interstellar travel.
Get that last part down, and you solve all the rest as listed, because you'll have more living space and potential resources than you'll know what to do with.
So, err, that whole 'growing sperm cells in a lab' thing comes naturally too, then?
Oh, bullshit. The shoe shortage alone would cause wars that would make WWII look like a minor spat, and Mom-JeansGate would make Nixon look like a saint.
On a more serious note, the only way such a society could survive for long would be as long as civilization held up. As history shows, that's not always a given.
Ah, I see. Some random guy said so on a page and a few folks agreed with him. That's your big cite?
Here's why I asked for the citation in the first place: You made such an absolute statement, that all it takes is one contrary example to knock it down. (Said contrary example's base engine was fully standards compliant (W3C DOM, HTML 3.2, CSS, etc), before IE6 even came out. I know this because I used the thing as my main browser from 2000-2004).
That's the sucky part of being overly smug, yanno? ;)
IE6 was the most standards compliant browser there was when it existed, even more so than Opera
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Musicians want to be paid.
...that must be why GP said "That leaves [fans] money to come see your act, which is what you REALLY want as a musician anyway." Outside of the rare exception, musicians don't really get paid all that much (if at all) from selling albums - the music industry sees to that. No, they get the bulk of their money from performances.
Concerts are tough to profit from and are generally used to promote record/song sales.
[Citation needed]