Well, we could always send BushCo there as a first step to his "Mars Program" that seems to have sunk like a lead balloon. The resulting torrential outpouring of hot air would give the moon an atmoshpere like Venus - hot and toxic to human life. It would also result in a reduction in those same greenhouse gas emissions here on Earth.
Topics discussed include the history of the Windows Registry
I was hoping they would announce who was responsible, and kill him or her instead... the registry should be classified as terrorist WMD - Windows Melt-Down.
Its kind of like having sex with an unsavory woman. You know you should put that condom on, but its kinda of too late now. So you say "fuck it" and have at it...
... remember the scene with the landlady in Kingpin? I sincerely doubt you'd just say "fuck it" and have at it...
That has GOT to be one of the all-time scariest horror scenes in any movie. Doesn't matter who you are, what age you are, what sex you are - everyone reacts the same way! Given a choice, I think most people would take the radiation.
Ah, but remember Shakespeare - they want their pound of flesh, but nary a drop of blood!
The blood is for the cell phone provider (aka blood-sucking leeches) who disable all the fancy usb-upload/download features on your phone so you have to waste airtime with your pix, ringtones, etc., or get someone to unlock it.
I love my cell phone, but if they keep on trying to foist crap like that on me, its going to become VERY mobile - I'll toss the damn thing!
If I wanted portable music, there are already a ton of cheaper options that will give me the music I want, when I want it.
If I wanted a portable TV with crap resolution that will make me go blind faster than the kid next door watching scrabled dirty movies, I can buy a portable dvd player with a much better display, and watch what I want
The only good thing in the last couple of years is the polyphonic ringtones. I must have snarfled a couple thousand of them off the web sites so we can play "Name That Tune" (hint - javascript bookmarklet to re-enable right click, view source, search for string that ends in mp3, script to wget it:-).
You might want to learn how Google works. Punctuation and most non-text characters are discarded. That means your "win$hit" query is actually two words, "win" + "hit". Nothing to do with windows at all.
- Which is why I ended my comment with "It's a feature, not a bug!"
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Businessweek, almost as uninformed as Forbes...
Microsoft would not be what it is today if it were not for the failure of Apple to properly protect its Windows GUI
I seem to recall something about Microsoft stealing a TV set when Apple has already done the B&E...
(hint: google for "windows gui apple broke in stole tv")
Xerox. Not Apple. Not Microsoft.
Next we'll hear critics saying that "Lord of the Rings" is a "great piece of adult literature." It might be - to a kid. But go back and read it today. It'll put you to sleep.
Which sounds better: birthday party or LIFEDAY party? I know which one I'd rather be invited to.
Ewww! Its bad enough that parents are taking videos of your birth and plastering them all over the internet, and showing them to your friends during your birthday - I really don't want to see videos of them conceiving me!
I mean, okay, in my head I can understand they once were my age, they obviously did what any other couple with kids did, but I don't want to be invited to that party. Nobody should see their parents having sex past a certain age - it takes all the fun out of it.
Win$hit? Dude, at least "winblows" rhymes with "Windows". And that dollar sign is just too much... using it to imply that "Micro$oft" is greedy is fine, but combining it with "shit" and tacking it onto the end of "Win" is really reaching.
You need to work harder on your Microsoft bashing.
Gee, where have you been? "Win$hit" is perfectly acceptable - google says so. 48,100,000 hits for "Win$hit".
I wouldn't be surprised if we eventually see the development of something like this being subsidized by spam vendors - the next gen Outlook malware wil happily report that it has gone out of its way to find you other people who N33D $ B1GG3R PEN15, just like you, and enrolled you in 4 different "anti-virus products" that it has taken the liberty to "opt you into".
Of course, it will also note that at one time you read Lord of the Rings, and you will be bombarded with offers for juvenile, poorly written fantasy with 1-dimensional characters and boring plots, as well as all sorts of cheap rings and other [tt]acky jewelry.
Isn't the whole point of "plugins" that they aren't built in? Ideally, it should come with no plugins, but with a large library of plugins to choose from. Kind of like Firefox.
don't give them any ideas. "Download the latest plug-in - only $3.99 for 3 months"
I want a phone that's a phone - period! I don't want a phone that's also a (crappy) camera and a (crappy) browser and a (crappy) email client and a (crappy) pda and a (crappy) mp3 player and a (crappy) tv and a (crappy) phone.
If I want crap, I'll go read Lord of the Rings.
But try to find a phone nowadays that doesn't have all that junk - you have to pay extra for "no features". Like paying extra for an unlisted phone number.
The one possibility which hasn't been discussed is a google-branded version of Windows
It hasn't been discussed for a reason - its dumb as shit. Walmart already sells winblows. Why let google subsidize it when they can subsidize it themselves and have themselves as the home page, etc., if its such a money-maker?
Most people know how to change their home page nowadays, or if they're running Win$hit, some drive-by malware will already have changed it for them.
Another entry for the justf'inggoogleit file: google for xp home pro hack
Hack can upgrade XP Home to XP Pro Lite Two byte freebie By Jan Libbenga Published Friday 3rd June 2005 12:34 GMT Get breaking Software news straight to your desktop - click here to find out how
German computer magazine C'T claims that by changing only 2 bytes from the file setupreg.hiv in Windows's XP Home kit, users can get access to certain functions only avalaible in Windows XP Professional, such as Remote Desktop, User management and enhanced security features.
C'T writes in its latest print issue (in German only) that you need to copy the root directory and the i386 directory of the WindowsXP CD to your harddisk, extract the Bootsector of your WindowsXP CD and change only 2 bytes in i386\Setupreg.hiv by using Regedit. In fact all you have to do is edit the binary key "default" and change "01" to "00" and "02" to "00" in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Homekey\ControlSet001\Services\ setupdd, C'T claims.
There are other ways as well. Google and Yahoo are your friends.
Buses run on a posted schedule, to within a minute or so, between stops. If you want to know when the next bus is at a stop, there's a chart with the whole bus route, and a list of times it will stop where you're standing.
You can also get on the net and see the whole schedule.
You can also call up, punch in the right number, and they'll TELL you when the next bus will be passing by.
The buses are cleaned every night. If they're not clean, they don't leave the terminus.
The interconnects with the subway work very well.
The interconnects with other buses also work - none of this waiting at a stop for 10-20 minutes between most buses.
It can be done - your city just has to WANT to do it.
You've never had to do a work-around for a buggy environment (*cough* IE *cough* Windows *cough* the first 3.x version of gcc *hork*)?
It helps to have an understanding of what's actually going on under the hood. It can give you a clue on how to test for edge cases so you can do a work-around that actually works, rather than just seeming to work.
As for the coffee in the water cooler - definitely send you for a mop and bucket. Better you "waste" 5 minutes of your time, than 5 minutes of yours plus 5 minutes of your managers, plus 5 minutes of someone else who is going to have to clean up the mess.
And while you're mopping up, I can lower your chair a few notches, grab your keyboard and replace it with that crappy one that's currently hooked to the server, stick a DOS boot disk in your cd-rom that has a copy of my old "BOOT_ERR" (a modified boot sector) on it so that next time you boot, you just get a whole bunch of error messages informing you that your CPU is now fried, and all sorts of other goodness for screwing around with the coffee:-)
Because rule number 1 is don't screw around with the coffee!
Caffeine is important to the success of any project:-)
You're not a developer if you can't even maintain your own machine.
Your own machine - not the group's dev machine.
If you can't even keep your own box running, you should be fired. You have demonstrated that you are not the least bit curious in how things work, and as such, will put forth the minimum effort to do the minimum amount of work to get paid.
There should be no room for intellectual laziness in this field.
Oh, what's that - your home directory is empty? Of course it is - you SAID you wanted more free space. Now you've got more free space than anyone. Just take your backup files and...
Oh, you don't HAVE backups? You left them in your home directory? Gee, its a good thing we did this exercise today, and not a year from now, when a hard disk failure would have cost you another year's work. Here, let me fix you up...
Okay, all fixed up. Oh, btw, the boss was wondering if you could email him those pictures of your kid's last birthday party. Everyone's been asking - so why don't you just cc the whole office?
Maybe you should talk to a fighter pilot sometime. They do a visual inspection before every flight. They KNOW their birds. And they know what not to tinker with... which is the whole point of the article... don't screw around with what you don't know.
Now, the fighter pilot isn't building airplanes - but the test pilot is! And he knows a damn site more than most pilots.
More importantly, the engineers building the planes have to know how to build and maintain them - they're writing the book on how to do it. So we're not talking about users here - we're talking about builders. Builders better know what they're doing, including how to maintain their machines, or they'll get bit by the same bugs over and over and over.
Developer != User.
Your attitude is that developers ARE just users, that they don't need to know what's going on "under the hood". So, what next - doctors who don't have to know about how the human body functions - just run through a checklist and then does whatever the book says, with no judgment? No thanks - I want a doctor who actually knows something about how my "execution environment" actually functions when he cuts me open.
This trend of being proud of "not knowing" is stupid.
If the developer isn't the best person to fix it, maybe he shuldn't have been screwing around with it in the first place.
If you can't fix it, don't break it.
If you do break it, you fix it - and if you end up screwing up really bad, well, maybe that's the feedback you need to teach you the lesson you obviously needed to learn in the first place
If you malloc it, you free it - or you make damn sure that it gets freed in all code paths, because you HAVE to clean up or its your fault when it gets p0wn3d
What's the point in hiring someone to develop software if they are going to spend half a day messing around troubleshooting their system ... Besides, a developer isn't guaranteed to be the best person to fix a problem
... then they shouldn't have been messing around with it in the first place...
Again, you screw it up, you fix it. I'll show you how to create an image for your system using dd, so when you DO screw up, you can restore it quickly. But if I just fix what you did, I haven't fixed the root problem (bad pun) - that YOU are the problem, and need to learn to take responsibility for your actions.
Want someone to learn to be a good cook? Make them eat their own cooking.
It applies to everything, including boxen.
Policy in most companies is not decided by employees mothers.
You'd be surprised. Gate's mother sat in on most board meetings for YEARS.
You're not a developer if you can't even maintain your own machine.
To be a decent developer, you have to understand not just how to write code (or, in too many cases, "move pretty icons on a screen") - you have to understand the environment it runs in, including file permissions.
You break it - you fix it.
You malloc it, you free it.
Didn't your mother teach you to clean up after yourself?
IT Lackey not giving support => IT Lackey should no longer be employed.
So-called "god-like Software Developer" can't even maintain his own machine => waste of skin exposed.
Not always - depends on where yu live Here, bailiffs are independent process servers. That's why I wrote "bailiff or process server":-)
Also, here the police are forbidden to do any such actions in civil cases. Their response - see a lawyer, who will hire a bailiff (a private process server) to serve the papers. Bailiffs here routinely get thrown down stairs, punched out, kicked, etc - its part of the job. They hae no "peace officer" status.
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Well, we could always send BushCo there as a first step to his "Mars Program" that seems to have sunk like a lead balloon. The resulting torrential outpouring of hot air would give the moon an atmoshpere like Venus - hot and toxic to human life. It would also result in a reduction in those same greenhouse gas emissions here on Earth.
I was hoping they would announce who was responsible, and kill him or her instead ... the registry should be classified as terrorist WMD - Windows Melt-Down.
yes, but iDiot was there before both of them ...
That has GOT to be one of the all-time scariest horror scenes in any movie. Doesn't matter who you are, what age you are, what sex you are - everyone reacts the same way! Given a choice, I think most people would take the radiation.
Ah, but remember Shakespeare - they want their pound of flesh, but nary a drop of blood!
The blood is for the cell phone provider (aka blood-sucking leeches) who disable all the fancy usb-upload/download features on your phone so you have to waste airtime with your pix, ringtones, etc., or get someone to unlock it.
I love my cell phone, but if they keep on trying to foist crap like that on me, its going to become VERY mobile - I'll toss the damn thing!
The only good thing in the last couple of years is the polyphonic ringtones. I must have snarfled a couple thousand of them off the web sites so we can play "Name That Tune" (hint - javascript bookmarklet to re-enable right click, view source, search for string that ends in mp3, script to wget it :-).
No kidding its a wild card. That's why I wrote this:
I'll spell it out ... Look at the Calendar. Today is Troll Tuesday. YHBT YFI HAND!
But you're welcome to come and join in the fun next Tuesday, having a bit of fun - its something a bunch of us do most Tuesdays :-)
- Which is why I ended my comment with "It's a feature, not a bug!"
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Businessweek, almost as uninformed as Forbes ...
I seem to recall something about Microsoft stealing a TV set when Apple has already done the B&E ...
(hint: google for "windows gui apple broke in stole tv")
Xerox. Not Apple. Not Microsoft.
Next we'll hear critics saying that "Lord of the Rings" is a "great piece of adult literature." It might be - to a kid. But go back and read it today. It'll put you to sleep.
Ewww! Its bad enough that parents are taking videos of your birth and plastering them all over the internet, and showing them to your friends during your birthday - I really don't want to see videos of them conceiving me!
I mean, okay, in my head I can understand they once were my age, they obviously did what any other couple with kids did, but I don't want to be invited to that party. Nobody should see their parents having sex past a certain age - it takes all the fun out of it.
Yes, but look at the misleading title:
I mean, when did we get scientists back on the moon in the first place? And was the meteor picketing, or was this a sit-down strike?
Corrected headline:
Gee, where have you been? "Win$hit" is perfectly acceptable - google says so. 48,100,000 hits for "Win$hit".
Or you can http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&wo rd1=win%24hit&word2=winblows googlefight
That's several hundred to 1 in favour of Win$hit.
It's not a bug - its a feature :-)
I wouldn't be surprised if we eventually see the development of something like this being subsidized by spam vendors - the next gen Outlook malware wil happily report that it has gone out of its way to find you other people who N33D $ B1GG3R PEN15, just like you, and enrolled you in 4 different "anti-virus products" that it has taken the liberty to "opt you into".
Of course, it will also note that at one time you read Lord of the Rings, and you will be bombarded with offers for juvenile, poorly written fantasy with 1-dimensional characters and boring plots, as well as all sorts of cheap rings and other [tt]acky jewelry.
don't give them any ideas. "Download the latest plug-in - only $3.99 for 3 months"
I want a phone that's a phone - period! I don't want a phone that's also a (crappy) camera and a (crappy) browser and a (crappy) email client and a (crappy) pda and a (crappy) mp3 player and a (crappy) tv and a (crappy) phone.
If I want crap, I'll go read Lord of the Rings.
But try to find a phone nowadays that doesn't have all that junk - you have to pay extra for "no features". Like paying extra for an unlisted phone number.
It hasn't been discussed for a reason - its dumb as shit. Walmart already sells winblows. Why let google subsidize it when they can subsidize it themselves and have themselves as the home page, etc., if its such a money-maker?
Most people know how to change their home page nowadays, or if they're running Win$hit, some drive-by malware will already have changed it for them.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/03/xp_hack/
Another entry for the justf'inggoogleit file: google for xp home pro hack
There are other ways as well. Google and Yahoo are your friends.
That's not the way it works here ...
Buses run on a posted schedule, to within a minute or so, between stops. If you want to know when the next bus is at a stop, there's a chart with the whole bus route, and a list of times it will stop where you're standing.
You can also get on the net and see the whole schedule.
You can also call up, punch in the right number, and they'll TELL you when the next bus will be passing by.
The buses are cleaned every night. If they're not clean, they don't leave the terminus.
The interconnects with the subway work very well.
The interconnects with other buses also work - none of this waiting at a stop for 10-20 minutes between most buses.
It can be done - your city just has to WANT to do it.
It works in Sim City - that's proof enough for the average slashdotter :-)
Thats why computers and politics mix so naturally nowadays - "Those who can't, do!"
You've never had to do a work-around for a buggy environment (*cough* IE *cough* Windows *cough* the first 3.x version of gcc *hork*)?
It helps to have an understanding of what's actually going on under the hood. It can give you a clue on how to test for edge cases so you can do a work-around that actually works, rather than just seeming to work.
As for the coffee in the water cooler - definitely send you for a mop and bucket. Better you "waste" 5 minutes of your time, than 5 minutes of yours plus 5 minutes of your managers, plus 5 minutes of someone else who is going to have to clean up the mess.
And while you're mopping up, I can lower your chair a few notches, grab your keyboard and replace it with that crappy one that's currently hooked to the server, stick a DOS boot disk in your cd-rom that has a copy of my old "BOOT_ERR" (a modified boot sector) on it so that next time you boot, you just get a whole bunch of error messages informing you that your CPU is now fried, and all sorts of other goodness for screwing around with the coffee :-)
Because rule number 1 is don't screw around with the coffee!
Caffeine is important to the success of any project :-)
Thank you for quoting me properly:
Your own machine - not the group's dev machine.
If you can't even keep your own box running, you should be fired. You have demonstrated that you are not the least bit curious in how things work, and as such, will put forth the minimum effort to do the minimum amount of work to get paid.
There should be no room for intellectual laziness in this field.
No problem ...
<clickety-click><clickety-click>
There - tons of free space.
Oh, what's that - your home directory is empty? Of course it is - you SAID you wanted more free space. Now you've got more free space than anyone. Just take your backup files and ...
Oh, you don't HAVE backups? You left them in your home directory? Gee, its a good thing we did this exercise today, and not a year from now, when a hard disk failure would have cost you another year's work. Here, let me fix you up ...
<clickety-click><clickety-click>
<clickety-click><clickety-click>Okay, all fixed up. Oh, btw, the boss was wondering if you could email him those pictures of your kid's last birthday party. Everyone's been asking - so why don't you just cc the whole office?
No problem, always glad to be of assistance.
Maybe you should talk to a fighter pilot sometime. They do a visual inspection before every flight. They KNOW their birds. And they know what not to tinker with ... which is the whole point of the article ... don't screw around with what you don't know.
Now, the fighter pilot isn't building airplanes - but the test pilot is! And he knows a damn site more than most pilots.
More importantly, the engineers building the planes have to know how to build and maintain them - they're writing the book on how to do it. So we're not talking about users here - we're talking about builders. Builders better know what they're doing, including how to maintain their machines, or they'll get bit by the same bugs over and over and over.
Developer != User.
Your attitude is that developers ARE just users, that they don't need to know what's going on "under the hood". So, what next - doctors who don't have to know about how the human body functions - just run through a checklist and then does whatever the book says, with no judgment? No thanks - I want a doctor who actually knows something about how my "execution environment" actually functions when he cuts me open.
This trend of being proud of "not knowing" is stupid.
If the developer isn't the best person to fix it, maybe he shuldn't have been screwing around with it in the first place.
If you can't fix it, don't break it.
If you do break it, you fix it - and if you end up screwing up really bad, well, maybe that's the feedback you need to teach you the lesson you obviously needed to learn in the first place
If you malloc it, you free it - or you make damn sure that it gets freed in all code paths, because you HAVE to clean up or its your fault when it gets p0wn3d
Again, you screw it up, you fix it. I'll show you how to create an image for your system using dd, so when you DO screw up, you can restore it quickly. But if I just fix what you did, I haven't fixed the root problem (bad pun) - that YOU are the problem, and need to learn to take responsibility for your actions.
Want someone to learn to be a good cook? Make them eat their own cooking.
It applies to everything, including boxen.
You'd be surprised. Gate's mother sat in on most board meetings for YEARS.
You're not a developer if you can't even maintain your own machine.
To be a decent developer, you have to understand not just how to write code (or, in too many cases, "move pretty icons on a screen") - you have to understand the environment it runs in, including file permissions.
Didn't your mother teach you to clean up after yourself?
So-called "god-like Software Developer" can't even maintain his own machine => waste of skin exposed.
Not always - depends on where yu live Here, bailiffs are independent process servers. That's why I wrote "bailiff or process server" :-)
Also, here the police are forbidden to do any such actions in civil cases. Their response - see a lawyer, who will hire a bailiff (a private process server) to serve the papers. Bailiffs here routinely get thrown down stairs, punched out, kicked, etc - its part of the job. They hae no "peace officer" status.