I've used ActiveState's ActivePerl on several windows boxes over the years and have had "trouble-free" experiences with it. Granted, some of the more bleeding-edge modules weren't at the latest revs but the mainstream software I used didn't strictly require those either.
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Wow. I read the book several times and I don't ever recall thinking, "Hey, that's a great allegory for the sins of homosexuality!" Please. While I'll grant that Judeo-Christian values are present in his books, I don't recall ever getting the feeling that the "persecuted" people in them were being held up to ridicule by the writer. On the contrary, most of the "miscreants" you're thinking of are actually either vindicated in the end or actually noted as being generally misunderstood.
Stop being defensive. And stop pretending to know what lurking psychoses precipitated Anton's "cognitive dissonance." If the guy had all the same faults but was a regular old misogynist, would your position be the same, or would you cheer the story?
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Wasn't that one of his basic points? The dichotomy that Ender loved them all in spite of their flaws and in spite of the persecution by their "church" and "people," even after doing the things he did in the past?/shrug
Poor interface design isn't the issue. People who are computer illiterate expect computers to respond just like mechanical systems (e.g.: push the button and it instantly responds) and when things don't instantly provide tactile/audible/visual feedback that it "clicked" they will start spamming the button repeatedly. Teaching my parents to wait a few seconds after double-clicking a program icon on their PC's desktop took a while but it has served them well and drastically reduced the "problems" they were having.:P
So, really, it isn't a UI design issue; it's a voting machine response time/feedback issue, IMO.
My experience with the "bad stuff" you mentioned in AVG:
--> AVG instability. I've yet to have any stability problems across 6 PCs in my immediate family, all of which are used daily for gaming, VPN and web surfing. Two are Vista and 4 are XP. I've been using it for a couple of years now./shrug
--> URL/malware checker. I agree. I disabled this almost immediately.
--> Inability to easily stop the engine (like when gaming). Your rationale seems to be that you want to stop it because you think it kills system performance when gaming and similar activities. The only time AVG sucks up more than 0% CPU is when it is A) checking URLs or B) actually performing a scan on your HDD. Both of these can be mitigated 100% by A) disabling the URL checker and B) scheduling your scans to happen late at night or disabling the automatic one and scanning yourself every so often.
--> Lots of "BUY ME! I'M EVER SO SEXY!" ads for the full version. Agreed if you're rebooting your machines every day. My machines run 24/7, so I rarely see these ads. I might suggest using Suspend or Hibernate instead of powering your machines off; it's easier on the hardware and everything else than full reboots regardless.
Have you actually tried to have things changed in a government school? Yeah, that's what I thought. Attempt to change things, then come tell me how that whole "accountability" thing isn't completely broken.
I'd love to see some example of this, considering how obfuscatory the classical media is about some of the "facts" surrounding the candidates. (The videos of semi-literate rednecks getting themselves stirred up against "osama" aren't really representative of anything, btw, as most of them can't afford to drive into town to vote.)
Look it up sometime, particularly in the US with regards to government (i.e.: taxpayer-funded) schools, which have almost zero accountability to the taxpayers themselves. Or watch the movie Stand and Deliver, or read the book Ender's Game. Or look at the way unions enforce industry pay rates. Or how islamic dictatorships suppress knowledge outside of the mosques. History (especially recent history) is replete with dramatized examples of the repression of "excellence" in the anti-intellectual vein. Most commonly, it is the symptom of the desire to maintain power but almost as frequently, it is done in the name of saving face.
Very few things have ever goaded me into a red haze. This sort of thing is one of them and is one of the reasons I'm so glad to see my family home-schooling many of my cousins. Their steeper learning curve constantly reminds me of just how destructive the lowest-common-denominator aggregation of our schools really is.
...but maybe some of you could show that you do, in fact, have the capability to rub two brain cells together and distinguish between a clerical error and an actual security issue? I mean, we all know how easy it is to hate Big Infrastructure(tm) but sophistry doesn't help your arguments.
Not relevant. Most wireless devices like mice, keyboards and other things don't use the 2.4GHz WiFi spectrum. Frequency of the interference IS relevant. While the ultra-low power of the supposed infringing devices makes me think this is all hot air and blame-game shenanigans, that is a separate argument from WiFi.
We got here thanks to all the whining and complaining that The Man(tm) was unfairly targeting minorities (and, eventually, everyone) by profiling. Then, people bitched when they started searching grannies too in order to show "random sampling." Well, without being able to target folks based on statistical likelihood because of cries of racism/bigotry and then not being able to search anyone because it was done "stupidly," what are they left with? Blanket searches in the hope that looking in the right spots will yield evidence obvious enough to grant a warrant.
Are you seriously surprised? Hell, if this turns out better than the high-risk credit crisis we're in which was brought about by the same whining and complaining about racism/bigotry, I'LL be pleasantly surprised.
Say what? The Federal Housing Finance Reform Act of 2005 (which passed the house but never made it out of committee in the senate) has nothing in it regarding Barney Frank.
Sponsor: Rep. Richard Baker [R-LA] Cosponsors [as of 2007-01-07] Rep. Robert Aderholt [R-AL] Rep. James Barrett [R-SC] Rep. Roy Blunt [R-MO] Rep. Geoff Davis [R-KY] Rep. Tom Feeney [R-FL] Rep. Michael Fitzpatrick [R-PA] Rep. Scott Garrett [R-NJ] Rep. Paul Gillmor [R-OH] Rep. Jeb Hensarling [R-TX] Rep. Walter Jones [R-NC] Rep. Thaddeus McCotter [R-MI] Rep. Patrick Mchenry [R-NC] Rep. Michael Oxley [R-OH] Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen [R-FL] Rep. Paul Ryan [R-WI] Rep. Jim Ryun [R-KS] Rep. Christopher Shays [R-CT] Rep. Robert Simmons [R-CT] Rep. Frank Wolf [R-VA]
Huh? What game was that you played? Did you have any specific complaints about the gameplay features or are you happy to just say "IT SUXORZ!" and leave it at that?
I had the chance to play this about a week ago and found it possibly the coolest gaming experience I've ever seen. Granted, I've not played hundreds of other PS2/PS3 games so my console experience is a bit limited. I also played this on a 61" HDTV with a nice big surround system with a large subwoofer, so the immersion was superb. I found the movement, camera control and weapon/item usage models very well done. I also found the switches between the scripted parts and the gameplay parts about as seamless as they get. The HUD clarity and ease of use was very good. I did not run into any spots where I got "glitched" and stuck on terrain objects or any areas where I had to reload a savegame due to bugs./shrug...I liked it a lot.
While I understand the basic premise of needing to basically understand the technologies you're charged with overseeing, you can understand the capabilities and limitations of those systems without having to know what variable type declarations need to be strict and which don't. WHile well intentioned, the submission misses the forest for the trees. I've got 3 guys that work with me that know how to program in at least 4 languages competently, but they're completely unreliable because they lack the ability to think on their feet when a problem presents itself that isn't covered in the google tutorials. You can buy any number of screwball, underpaid asians/indians/H1-B types that can do the same thing I can as long as they have the interwebz to double-reference any piece of code they cut&paste into a project. You canNOT buy people who can look at a problem and make intelligent decisions as to what the general pseudocode should look like to actually solve the problem(s) within budget and on time.
Is that per capita? Square miles covered as a percentage of the country's total size? I have more subjective issues with bandwidth and access reliability when traveling in the London/Cambridge, Paris, Taiwan and Ireland than I do at my Grandmother's cabin out in BFE, Alabama, or just about any other hotel I've stayed at recently in the US. Not being combative, just curious where this study is that I can reference when I see this "most connected" phrase thrown out.
This is just another one of their "it's the seriousness of the charges, not the substance of the evidence" red herrings. Welcome to democratic politics a la Bork, Thomas, etc.
"In today's news, a new CPU refrigerant system causes massive data loss for users as hard drives overheat and fail prematurely from abnormally high case temperatures. Film at 11."
Wait, being "discouraged" and being discriminated against based on sex are two different things. The former can be attenuated by raising strong youth which, I submit, is important in that if you can't buck up and get yourself into the position, you're going to do a disservice to your field by showing the same lack of guts in furthering your conclusions in the face of detractors. The latter is illegal in the US, despite being difficult to prove.
As the lady a few up mentioned, there's a whole lot more of a problem with people not strong enough to be doing hard work being given the position on a silver platter without having to prove themselves than there is with outright discrimination. Want an example? Congress. 'Nuff said.
I have a single-core 1GB machine sitting on my desk at home. It takes about 50 seconds to boot Vista 32bit home premium, which is about 10 seconds longer than Ubuntu (8.03) takes to boot. Methinks you should specify exactly how sucky of a single-core you're talking about.
Take a moment to think objectively (I know, it hurts, doesn't it?) about who would be emotionally charged about the aforementioned subject matter. Then consider a key element in most successful social engineering attacks. Then consider the fairly common commentary here on/. with regards to the people who would be involved in leading said WW3.
Going by this thesis, even backwater stone-age theocracies like Iraq should have come up with working nukes YEARS ago, especially considering how much fissile material was smuggled out of the old USSR. Let alone more sophisticated countries like North Korea.
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I've used ActiveState's ActivePerl on several windows boxes over the years and have had "trouble-free" experiences with it. Granted, some of the more bleeding-edge modules weren't at the latest revs but the mainstream software I used didn't strictly require those either.
Wow. I read the book several times and I don't ever recall thinking, "Hey, that's a great allegory for the sins of homosexuality!" Please. While I'll grant that Judeo-Christian values are present in his books, I don't recall ever getting the feeling that the "persecuted" people in them were being held up to ridicule by the writer. On the contrary, most of the "miscreants" you're thinking of are actually either vindicated in the end or actually noted as being generally misunderstood.
Stop being defensive. And stop pretending to know what lurking psychoses precipitated Anton's "cognitive dissonance." If the guy had all the same faults but was a regular old misogynist, would your position be the same, or would you cheer the story?
Wasn't that one of his basic points? The dichotomy that Ender loved them all in spite of their flaws and in spite of the persecution by their "church" and "people," even after doing the things he did in the past? /shrug
Poor interface design isn't the issue. People who are computer illiterate expect computers to respond just like mechanical systems (e.g.: push the button and it instantly responds) and when things don't instantly provide tactile/audible/visual feedback that it "clicked" they will start spamming the button repeatedly. Teaching my parents to wait a few seconds after double-clicking a program icon on their PC's desktop took a while but it has served them well and drastically reduced the "problems" they were having. :P
So, really, it isn't a UI design issue; it's a voting machine response time/feedback issue, IMO.
My experience with the "bad stuff" you mentioned in AVG:
--> AVG instability. I've yet to have any stability problems across 6 PCs in my immediate family, all of which are used daily for gaming, VPN and web surfing. Two are Vista and 4 are XP. I've been using it for a couple of years now. /shrug
--> URL/malware checker. I agree. I disabled this almost immediately.
--> Inability to easily stop the engine (like when gaming). Your rationale seems to be that you want to stop it because you think it kills system performance when gaming and similar activities. The only time AVG sucks up more than 0% CPU is when it is A) checking URLs or B) actually performing a scan on your HDD. Both of these can be mitigated 100% by A) disabling the URL checker and B) scheduling your scans to happen late at night or disabling the automatic one and scanning yourself every so often.
--> Lots of "BUY ME! I'M EVER SO SEXY!" ads for the full version. Agreed if you're rebooting your machines every day. My machines run 24/7, so I rarely see these ads. I might suggest using Suspend or Hibernate instead of powering your machines off; it's easier on the hardware and everything else than full reboots regardless.
Have you actually tried to have things changed in a government school? Yeah, that's what I thought. Attempt to change things, then come tell me how that whole "accountability" thing isn't completely broken.
I'd love to see some example of this, considering how obfuscatory the classical media is about some of the "facts" surrounding the candidates. (The videos of semi-literate rednecks getting themselves stirred up against "osama" aren't really representative of anything, btw, as most of them can't afford to drive into town to vote.)
Look it up sometime, particularly in the US with regards to government (i.e.: taxpayer-funded) schools, which have almost zero accountability to the taxpayers themselves. Or watch the movie Stand and Deliver, or read the book Ender's Game. Or look at the way unions enforce industry pay rates. Or how islamic dictatorships suppress knowledge outside of the mosques. History (especially recent history) is replete with dramatized examples of the repression of "excellence" in the anti-intellectual vein. Most commonly, it is the symptom of the desire to maintain power but almost as frequently, it is done in the name of saving face.
Very few things have ever goaded me into a red haze. This sort of thing is one of them and is one of the reasons I'm so glad to see my family home-schooling many of my cousins. Their steeper learning curve constantly reminds me of just how destructive the lowest-common-denominator aggregation of our schools really is.
...but maybe some of you could show that you do, in fact, have the capability to rub two brain cells together and distinguish between a clerical error and an actual security issue? I mean, we all know how easy it is to hate Big Infrastructure(tm) but sophistry doesn't help your arguments.
It's a .0 release. Haven't you learned anything from all the linux threads here?
Not relevant. Most wireless devices like mice, keyboards and other things don't use the 2.4GHz WiFi spectrum. Frequency of the interference IS relevant. While the ultra-low power of the supposed infringing devices makes me think this is all hot air and blame-game shenanigans, that is a separate argument from WiFi.
We got here thanks to all the whining and complaining that The Man(tm) was unfairly targeting minorities (and, eventually, everyone) by profiling. Then, people bitched when they started searching grannies too in order to show "random sampling." Well, without being able to target folks based on statistical likelihood because of cries of racism/bigotry and then not being able to search anyone because it was done "stupidly," what are they left with? Blanket searches in the hope that looking in the right spots will yield evidence obvious enough to grant a warrant.
Are you seriously surprised? Hell, if this turns out better than the high-risk credit crisis we're in which was brought about by the same whining and complaining about racism/bigotry, I'LL be pleasantly surprised.
Say what? The Federal Housing Finance Reform Act of 2005 (which passed the house but never made it out of committee in the senate) has nothing in it regarding Barney Frank.
Sponsor:
Rep. Richard Baker [R-LA]
Cosponsors [as of 2007-01-07]
Rep. Robert Aderholt [R-AL]
Rep. James Barrett [R-SC]
Rep. Roy Blunt [R-MO]
Rep. Geoff Davis [R-KY]
Rep. Tom Feeney [R-FL]
Rep. Michael Fitzpatrick [R-PA]
Rep. Scott Garrett [R-NJ]
Rep. Paul Gillmor [R-OH]
Rep. Jeb Hensarling [R-TX]
Rep. Walter Jones [R-NC]
Rep. Thaddeus McCotter [R-MI]
Rep. Patrick Mchenry [R-NC]
Rep. Michael Oxley [R-OH]
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen [R-FL]
Rep. Paul Ryan [R-WI]
Rep. Jim Ryun [R-KS]
Rep. Christopher Shays [R-CT]
Rep. Robert Simmons [R-CT]
Rep. Frank Wolf [R-VA]
Furthermore, Barney Frank voted AGAINST this resolution in the house. http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2005-547
Please, if you're going to try this sort of shenanigan, at least source yourself properly.
Huh? What game was that you played? Did you have any specific complaints about the gameplay features or are you happy to just say "IT SUXORZ!" and leave it at that? I had the chance to play this about a week ago and found it possibly the coolest gaming experience I've ever seen. Granted, I've not played hundreds of other PS2/PS3 games so my console experience is a bit limited. I also played this on a 61" HDTV with a nice big surround system with a large subwoofer, so the immersion was superb. I found the movement, camera control and weapon/item usage models very well done. I also found the switches between the scripted parts and the gameplay parts about as seamless as they get. The HUD clarity and ease of use was very good. I did not run into any spots where I got "glitched" and stuck on terrain objects or any areas where I had to reload a savegame due to bugs. /shrug...I liked it a lot.
While I understand the basic premise of needing to basically understand the technologies you're charged with overseeing, you can understand the capabilities and limitations of those systems without having to know what variable type declarations need to be strict and which don't. WHile well intentioned, the submission misses the forest for the trees. I've got 3 guys that work with me that know how to program in at least 4 languages competently, but they're completely unreliable because they lack the ability to think on their feet when a problem presents itself that isn't covered in the google tutorials. You can buy any number of screwball, underpaid asians/indians/H1-B types that can do the same thing I can as long as they have the interwebz to double-reference any piece of code they cut&paste into a project. You canNOT buy people who can look at a problem and make intelligent decisions as to what the general pseudocode should look like to actually solve the problem(s) within budget and on time.
Is that per capita? Square miles covered as a percentage of the country's total size? I have more subjective issues with bandwidth and access reliability when traveling in the London/Cambridge, Paris, Taiwan and Ireland than I do at my Grandmother's cabin out in BFE, Alabama, or just about any other hotel I've stayed at recently in the US. Not being combative, just curious where this study is that I can reference when I see this "most connected" phrase thrown out.
This is just another one of their "it's the seriousness of the charges, not the substance of the evidence" red herrings. Welcome to democratic politics a la Bork, Thomas, etc.
When does an analysis show obvious disregard for enough of the facts that it becomes diatribe?
"In today's news, a new CPU refrigerant system causes massive data loss for users as hard drives overheat and fail prematurely from abnormally high case temperatures. Film at 11."
Absolutely. Minorities already labor under a lot of skepticism for that very reason.
Wait, being "discouraged" and being discriminated against based on sex are two different things. The former can be attenuated by raising strong youth which, I submit, is important in that if you can't buck up and get yourself into the position, you're going to do a disservice to your field by showing the same lack of guts in furthering your conclusions in the face of detractors. The latter is illegal in the US, despite being difficult to prove.
As the lady a few up mentioned, there's a whole lot more of a problem with people not strong enough to be doing hard work being given the position on a silver platter without having to prove themselves than there is with outright discrimination. Want an example? Congress. 'Nuff said.
I have a single-core 1GB machine sitting on my desk at home. It takes about 50 seconds to boot Vista 32bit home premium, which is about 10 seconds longer than Ubuntu (8.03) takes to boot. Methinks you should specify exactly how sucky of a single-core you're talking about.
Take a moment to think objectively (I know, it hurts, doesn't it?) about who would be emotionally charged about the aforementioned subject matter. Then consider a key element in most successful social engineering attacks. Then consider the fairly common commentary here on /. with regards to the people who would be involved in leading said WW3.
Sounds fairly on-target for /. to me. :P
http://forum.dead-code.org/index.php?action=profile;u=157;sa=showPosts Fascinating.
Going by this thesis, even backwater stone-age theocracies like Iraq should have come up with working nukes YEARS ago, especially considering how much fissile material was smuggled out of the old USSR. Let alone more sophisticated countries like North Korea.