This full admin lazy programming thing drives me nuts.
I did some part time IT work at an agency, and I was severely annoyed when I found out that their booking system REQUIRES local admin privileges to run.
It needed local admin... TO INTERFACE WITH AN SQL DATABASE ON A SERVER.
I intended for all the users to run with limited local rights, since they had a high intern turnover rate and interns can't be trusted... but screw security, some program originally written in the Win98 days still has this idiocy in a new version released this year.
Sony will likely wither and die rather than adapt to the emerging open source "standard".
All video game consoles are closed source. Not just Sony.
I don't think the forces of greed can stop the revolution this time. Either ya get on board this love train or get left behind!
Right as soon as you produce a quality open-source game console (console, as in living room, not PC), make it a STANDARD (not 50 different controllers and configurations), and have enough marketing power to get kids and (non-basement) developers interested.
Back then having your own website meant something. You'd spend time crafting it (or copying it from elsewhere), and you'd update it from time to time. Friends, and the occasional stranger, would check it out. Maybe they would e-mail you, or leave a message in your guestbook if you had one.
Now no one cares if you have your own website. According to them, why would you want one? Everyone's on Facebook.
What you are remembering is the subculture that went with the web of the day. If you had Internet access... man, you had something special. This crazy ability to make friends from around the world, to meet people who like the same shows or games as you...
That's exactly it. Back then "the social web" was befriending strangers from around the world based on similar interests. Now "the social web" is all people you know in real life, but on Facebook.
Did you manage to get the rabbits to stop chewing on cables?
My girlfriend has a rabbit that she's not very good at supervising. It's already severed a bunch of cables, and all the rest are all patched with electrical tape. It even chewed into the fridge power cord once, resulting in a loud bang... and completely unscathed rabbit.
There's no reason every person on earth needs an IP.
There's no reason everyone needs their own phone number, either. In the old days, several houses shared the same phone number. Calls were distinguished by different rings. They got along just fine with that.
18 months? I'm amazed. I thought the TTC (Toronto) had lengthy escalator repair times.
They always put signs up with the date it should be back in service, and week-to-week they extend that date by another week. (Some of the damn things are broken more than they're working.)
If I were the clerk, I would have clued in right away and immediately started looking for the dorky looking guy with "cat who ate the bird" look on his face rapidly retreating from the area. Then I would have called-in security, and let them give him a hard time.
The problem is that each state, and even districts within states, appear to have their own election laws and bodies. In Australia, and here in Canada, federal elections are all coordinated by one single federal body.
As for voting methods, I like Ontario's way of doing it for Provincial and Municipal elections. You fill in an arrow next to your vote (or votes, depending on how many things are up for vote) on a very easy to understand legal sized piece of paper, hide it in a folder, and then it's fed into an optical scanner that looks like a photocopier, and stored in a safe inside the unit. Instant tabulation, and a paper record of votes under lock and key.
Federal elections are pretty simple: One candidate, one vote. You put an X in a circle on a simple as hell paper ballot. That's it.
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Totally. My original websites are (mercifully) lost to the void, but I learned a WHOLE lot through trial and error in those GeoCities days.
The only way to keep Microsoft out is to race to the bottom and there's no economic incentive for the hardware manufacturers to do that.
You're personally willing to make that sort of technological sacrifice just to keep Microsoft out?
The biggest knock on it, and one of the reasons the DS won, was horrible battery life.
Wrong. The biggest reason is simple: Content.
The games available for DS hold a wider appeal.
But that's another argument for another day.
I've registered 3 .ca domain names, and not encountered any sort of problems or difficulties. At all.
I don't know which .ca registrar you're dealing with, but the ones I've dealt with are fine.
Oh, but it was fully retarded unless it had admin rights. Plenty of quirks.
I personally spoke to the people who programmed the software. They said "It needs admin access. We're working on fixing that. Sorry."
I doubt anyone starts new projects in ActiveX today.
Lazy programmers stick with the tools they know. Many business people aren't tech-savvy, so they wouldn't know any better with regards to that.
This full admin lazy programming thing drives me nuts.
I did some part time IT work at an agency, and I was severely annoyed when I found out that their booking system REQUIRES local admin privileges to run.
It needed local admin... TO INTERFACE WITH AN SQL DATABASE ON A SERVER.
I intended for all the users to run with limited local rights, since they had a high intern turnover rate and interns can't be trusted... but screw security, some program originally written in the Win98 days still has this idiocy in a new version released this year.
Sony will likely wither and die rather than adapt to the emerging open source "standard".
All video game consoles are closed source. Not just Sony.
I don't think the forces of greed can stop the revolution this time. Either ya get on board this love train or get left behind!
Right as soon as you produce a quality open-source game console (console, as in living room, not PC), make it a STANDARD (not 50 different controllers and configurations), and have enough marketing power to get kids and (non-basement) developers interested.
Aren't you aware? "Release Candidate" has just become a fancy, more "progressive" name for "Beta".
Back then having your own website meant something. You'd spend time crafting it (or copying it from elsewhere), and you'd update it from time to time. Friends, and the occasional stranger, would check it out. Maybe they would e-mail you, or leave a message in your guestbook if you had one.
Now no one cares if you have your own website. According to them, why would you want one? Everyone's on Facebook.
What you are remembering is the subculture that went with the web of the day. If you had Internet access... man, you had something special. This crazy ability to make friends from around the world, to meet people who like the same shows or games as you...
That's exactly it. Back then "the social web" was befriending strangers from around the world based on similar interests. Now "the social web" is all people you know in real life, but on Facebook.
What's he gonna due? Use dolphin lawyers to sue them? I'd love to see that courtroom.
One could say that the cat doesn't understand the contract, but I haven't read a EULA that most people understand anyway.
The Sims 2 was not updated, the Quicktime update broke something that was previous working.
That, or Sims 2 was using an "Undocumented Feature".
Did you manage to get the rabbits to stop chewing on cables?
My girlfriend has a rabbit that she's not very good at supervising. It's already severed a bunch of cables, and all the rest are all patched with electrical tape. It even chewed into the fridge power cord once, resulting in a loud bang... and completely unscathed rabbit.
And if you borrow these notes to someone else to learn from them? Well, that is the purpose of education, isn't it?
Actually, in the school's opinion, it's to make money.
Not quite. Vista SP2 is still coming.
(Linux) [A girl next door type walks up] "Hi again, wanna grab dinner, [pause] I'm buying."
And then, she added: "Oh, but you have to cook it yourself, and if you dare ask how to do it my friends and I will laugh at you."
There's no reason every person on earth needs an IP.
There's no reason everyone needs their own phone number, either. In the old days, several houses shared the same phone number. Calls were distinguished by different rings. They got along just fine with that.
18 months? I'm amazed. I thought the TTC (Toronto) had lengthy escalator repair times.
They always put signs up with the date it should be back in service, and week-to-week they extend that date by another week. (Some of the damn things are broken more than they're working.)
Apple actually had some pretty decent printers until they dumped that product line in the '90s.
So he's not black enough, now?
That's nice. Why don't you tell him that?
If I were the clerk, I would have clued in right away and immediately started looking for the dorky looking guy with "cat who ate the bird" look on his face rapidly retreating from the area. Then I would have called-in security, and let them give him a hard time.
If they're that easily distracted by a TV, then they have bigger problems than a TV in a restaurant.
The problem is that each state, and even districts within states, appear to have their own election laws and bodies. In Australia, and here in Canada, federal elections are all coordinated by one single federal body.
As for voting methods, I like Ontario's way of doing it for Provincial and Municipal elections. You fill in an arrow next to your vote (or votes, depending on how many things are up for vote) on a very easy to understand legal sized piece of paper, hide it in a folder, and then it's fed into an optical scanner that looks like a photocopier, and stored in a safe inside the unit. Instant tabulation, and a paper record of votes under lock and key.
Federal elections are pretty simple: One candidate, one vote. You put an X in a circle on a simple as hell paper ballot. That's it.