Just a thought. For the more critical things you have on a UPS, yank the plugs and let the UPS do it's job while you shut down? Gotta beat having your systems hosed.
Totally empathise with your rant, and have come across most of the problems you've stated much to my dismay but there are a couple of things that need correcting here.
You can avoid the high priority windows updates. It may not be wise to do so, and you'll get annoying popups, but you can definitely do it. You've clearly identified at least one thing that's changed on your system right there. I guarantee you there are others? 3 to 4 games? Did you patch them as well?
Also services failing to start or being shutdown during a start or shutdown etc. can corrupt your system by corrupting the data these services operate from. IIS is notorious for it.
Saying "nothing changed" is incorrect, inaccurate and makes you sound naive. Things changed. You just didn't initiate those changes.
"I'm not leaving myself open to identity theft," said Gerbus.
Quick! Close the barn door! The horse has bolted!
If the drive was being destroyed the store had no reason not to hand it over. He should have asked for it, or at the very least asked to be present at it's destruction.
This is actually quite funny. I thought it was insane that the MPAA and RIAA were so willing to sue their own customers if they didn't do everything legitimately but this is new: Sue your owners. Now let's get Metallica involved and we should see the comedy skits and cartoons roll across our web pages - it'll be even better than the Napster thing.
Can't wait till a company gets so desperate it sues itself. (I bet it's already happened and I get lots of links).
The guy made a complaint and you shouted him down and told him his needs were unusual (and therefore implied they were irrelevant or at least unimportant). I didn't need to look for anything that wasn't present.
A computer cares about what it's programmed to do, and that's all it cares about.
I'm amazed taht this is modded insightful. A computer cares about nothing. A computer is an object - it doesn't have emotions.
A computer doesn't care about how tired it is, or the problems it's having with its marriage, or how it doesn't think it gets paid enough.
Yes it cares about nothing as I said. But deprive it of what it requires and it'll stop functioning. Doesn't care how tired it is? True enough. Will continue to operate if clogged with dust and not maintained? False. Doesn't care about getting paid enough? True. Will continue to keep operating when not supplied with enough electrical current? False.
A computer cares about one thing: executing code.
And if that code tells it to fly the plane without crashing, then it cares about flying the plane without crashing more than any human possibly can.
Therein lies the rub. If you can program a computer to fly a plane without crashing under all circumstances that a human being would know to avoid the problem, you'll make millions. In the meantime we have stupid algorithms that fail to take into account all but the most typical environment, we have stupid decisions made about what is automated and what remains manual, we have politics entering into these decisions etc. To make it worse if the guys who program and test the software are having a bad day, think they're underpaid etc. you get a situation where bad code makes it into the software and each and every time the set of conditions is met that triggers that code, people are at risk. Or did you forget that we still don't have self programming computers? The human factor is still there - hidden and buried in an abstract mountain of computer instructions..
So if your gouvernement becomes corrupt to a point that even basic trust isn't justified any more, your personal data will be your least concern
I shouldn't be but I'm constantly amazed by the bravado with which stupid statements are made on/. only to be modded up.
It's precisely when your government becomes corrupt that their access to your private data becomes a critical issue. Without that personal data, the government can't control you. If the Nazi's didn't know who was and wasn't Jewish there could never have been a holocaust. Similarly it's hard to punish dissenters if you don't know who they are.
Give up your right to protect your personal data and you've given up whatever hope you have of turning the government around should corruption take a hold. Sadly few people seem to even understand something that basic anymore. No wonder freedom's become so unfashionable.
This illustrates an important point about the internet in general. It enables people to only mingle with those similar to them, which is a shame because my most enriching experiences come from a diverse range of different people, coworkers, family, none technically literate. If we are permitted to choose everything we encounter, then life becomes boring and you lose perspective unless you throw in a "surprise me" or two./I.
That's a load. Seriously if you lack the imagination to go out and research subjects you don't know, talk to people about other topics than the one the conversation began with etc. don't blame the Internet.
I've talked to people about aircraft and that's led to talking about photography. Other conversations that began with asking advice for a loved one about a medical condition have progressed to much wider friendship. In fact I've spoken to a much wider variety of people from many countries, persuasions and age groups than I ever would have without the Internet.
If you're going to make sweeping statements like that you're just going to annoy and alienate people. Quite frankly all you're doing is spreading FUD.
Amnesty is an organisation that seems to have it's heart in the right place and it's mind off on holiday.
Typical responses to Amnesty in roughly the following order: 1) Ignore them 2) Acknowledge them only to tell them it ain't gonna change. 3) When they become a real nuisance kill whoever it is they're protesting about if it is an individual or kill off enough to get Amnesty's attention then blame Amnesty's meddling for the slaughter.
Listen to yourself. You've been brainwashed. "It works for me and for most people so if it's not right for you, well tough"??? You do realise that people hike and camp with mp3 players and music all the time don't you? You've well and truely fallen into the trap of being a self-centered ego-maniac. His needs aren't important because they don't also happen to be your needs? Ever heard of live and let live? What the? Ever heard that diversity is a good thing to be encouraged not stamped out with a commercial cookie cutter? Obviously what ever time you've spent in the wilderness hasn't helped you think and reason beyond your own selfish needs. Amazing that you can open your eyes and ears to nature, pay attention, and still walk away with so little learnt.
Holy shit! I can't imagine being on a team with that attitude? Do you people write tests? There are dependable ways of insuring that changes don't re-introduce old bugs, and if you can't fix one thing without causing a seemingly unrelated problem, you're working with some pretty smelly code.
You're new to this aren't you.
If you can find a way to PROOVE that a less than trivial fix hasn't broken something else, you'd be too busy sailing the world in a multi million dollar cruiser to post to/. - the very fact that you don't understand this makes me immediately think of you as a cowboy coder.
If you're working on a word processor or other piece of non-critical software no problem. When billions of dollars or lives are at stake you'll need to mitigate the risk with something other than "if you can't fix one thing without causing a seemingly unrelated problem, you're working with some pretty smelly code". Are you willing to bet your life on your code fix? How about the lives of your loved ones. There's plenty of software in a hospital or on an aircraft that must be that good.
As for tests they can only tackle a very finite number of situations. They're definitely good for finding bugs that have been introduced. They're no use whatsoever for prooving you definitely haven't introduced a new bug.
Vatsa matta you? Hey! Gotta no respect. Hey! Vista not so bad. Vista nicea face, ah shudduppa your face.
I fear only the Aussies will understand the reference. It won't be as funny if it has to be explained but the following song made it to number one many moons ago here in Aus:
Tell me how do you keep a straight face when singing about "the land of the free and the home of the brave" at a school where this kind of nonesense is allowed to fly?
If the parents that disagreed had any spines and their child also felt it was wrong they could do a number of things:
- Refusing to sign the pledge. Take it up with your school board, politicians, anyone who'll listen when the school refuses to allow extra ciricular activities. - Stage a civilised and peaceful protest at the school gates. This must include parents as well as the kids involved. - Point out that the pledge isn't legally binding unless a parent is signing it. Depends on state laws but can a minor enter into a contract this way to give away their rights? - Point out that an identity can be faked online. I wonder how long before some kid's suspended because someone masquerades as them. - Vote with your feet. Change schools. (Unfortunately if allowed to go uncontested this nonesense can and will spread so this shouldn't be your first reaction).
Mind you I'd say anyone who posts their illegal activies to an Internet blog is a moron, child or not. I don't think you can do anything if you're that dumb and anybody then tips off the police as to your actions. Wasting the resources monitoring and witch hunting is the issue here.
In the West they are given a female gender. "She is a good ship". Airplanes often are named and given nose art.
Then again it could just be all about a bunch of men with no ahem female companionship wanting any excuse to paint big titties on the plane, or to somehow not feel gay when they hump the whole in the wall in the ships galley. As usual it's overanalysed.
As for the bomb robots the less human they are the less you're going to have this sort of nonesense, but since those robots are so expensive I don't think these guy's managers' mind so much that they're cute and cuddly and not seen as quite so expendible.
The only other seats available were at the very back - the sort of seats that required binoculars. Any seat was going to require an immediate booking the way they were selling. We passed.
Hell knows Windows has its flaws but it's also an awefully versatile platform with a lot of content that some fantastic people have worked on and you're insulting every single one of them calling it dog food.
I hate that phrase. I absolutely detest it. Typical management BS. You're insulting the person's work and destroying their moral by calling it dog food. "Eat what you serve up" would be a better phrase. But it doesn't carry with it enough of a sting because it's not insulting.
My response to that phrase is "I don't make dog food. You must be thinking of someone else."
Pure and simple. When the price becomes unpredictable and rapidly inflated I'm going to be happy letting others fight over it. I'll just buy the DVD.
It's already ridiculous anyway. I was looking at going to a particular popular circus performance but it $500 for a night out with the other half? !%@# that!
Well I just got done diagnosing and removing a trojan on my mum's machine the hard way because neither AVG nor Spybot Search and Destroy picked it up even with the latest definitions.
It was running a process msmgs.exe (not msmsgs.exe, which is windows messenger) which was then saturating her dial up connection when she tried to hook herself up to the Internet for the first time. Only way to work out what was happening was to connect, then use netstat to work out there was definitely something suspicious then go through the task list to see what could be doing it. Quite frankly if she didn't have a geek for a son she'd have been in deep doo doo.
Virus makers are scum. They shouldn't be shot but they should definitely go to jail.
You're honestly telling me you don't understand why IDEs and compiler flags belong in a course about programming? Your entire justification for not teaching the IDE is that it's not needed and not useful yet when it's used correctly the IDE is a very powerful and simple to use tool that makes things easier. People justify not teaching use of IDEs because otherwise people don't know how to use the command line compiler and I'm saying both have a place in an intro course and no you don't have to go into every detail, but an introduction to the tools is a good thing.
Just what kind of IDEs are you using anyway? If I find an IDE is bogging me down and I have a choice in the matter I ditch it. Eclipse for example takes next to no setup. Install Java, unzip the damn thing and you're done with it. Set up a project. No problem. File->New Project. What's so freaking hard about that? Want to run the code, its a simple menu command.
I'd teach 1st year intro to Java with some mention of javac compiler options and Eclipse or similar. Your suggestion that neither are suitable is just plain ridiculous. Your experiences in a 3rd year class are irrelevant since we're talking intro to programming.
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Just a thought. For the more critical things you have on a UPS, yank the plugs and let the UPS do it's job while you shut down? Gotta beat having your systems hosed.
Totally empathise with your rant, and have come across most of the problems you've stated much to my dismay but there are a couple of things that need correcting here.
You can avoid the high priority windows updates. It may not be wise to do so, and you'll get annoying popups, but you can definitely do it. You've clearly identified at least one thing that's changed on your system right there. I guarantee you there are others? 3 to 4 games? Did you patch them as well?
Also services failing to start or being shutdown during a start or shutdown etc. can corrupt your system by corrupting the data these services operate from. IIS is notorious for it.
Saying "nothing changed" is incorrect, inaccurate and makes you sound naive. Things changed. You just didn't initiate those changes.
"I'm not leaving myself open to identity theft," said Gerbus.
Quick! Close the barn door! The horse has bolted!
If the drive was being destroyed the store had no reason not to hand it over. He should have asked for it, or at the very least asked to be present at it's destruction.
This is actually quite funny. I thought it was insane that the MPAA and RIAA were so willing to sue their own customers if they didn't do everything legitimately but this is new: Sue your owners. Now let's get Metallica involved and we should see the comedy skits and cartoons roll across our web pages - it'll be even better than the Napster thing.
Can't wait till a company gets so desperate it sues itself. (I bet it's already happened and I get lots of links).
The guy made a complaint and you shouted him down and told him his needs were unusual (and therefore implied they were irrelevant or at least unimportant). I didn't need to look for anything that wasn't present.
A computer cares about what it's programmed to do, and that's all it cares about.
I'm amazed taht this is modded insightful. A computer cares about nothing. A computer is an object - it doesn't have emotions.
A computer doesn't care about how tired it is, or the problems it's having with its marriage, or how it doesn't think it gets paid enough.
Yes it cares about nothing as I said. But deprive it of what it requires and it'll stop functioning. Doesn't care how tired it is? True enough. Will continue to operate if clogged with dust and not maintained? False. Doesn't care about getting paid enough? True. Will continue to keep operating when not supplied with enough electrical current? False.
A computer cares about one thing: executing code.
And if that code tells it to fly the plane without crashing, then it cares about flying the plane without crashing more than any human possibly can.
Therein lies the rub. If you can program a computer to fly a plane without crashing under all circumstances that a human being would know to avoid the problem, you'll make millions. In the meantime we have stupid algorithms that fail to take into account all but the most typical environment, we have stupid decisions made about what is automated and what remains manual, we have politics entering into these decisions etc. To make it worse if the guys who program and test the software are having a bad day, think they're underpaid etc. you get a situation where bad code makes it into the software and each and every time the set of conditions is met that triggers that code, people are at risk. Or did you forget that we still don't have self programming computers? The human factor is still there - hidden and buried in an abstract mountain of computer instructions..
Do your coworkers know about this? ;)
Cow-orkers? Sounds rather dangerous and kinky to me.
So if your gouvernement becomes corrupt to a point that even basic trust isn't justified any more, your personal data will be your least concern
/. only to be modded up.
I shouldn't be but I'm constantly amazed by the bravado with which stupid statements are made on
It's precisely when your government becomes corrupt that their access to your private data becomes a critical issue. Without that personal data, the government can't control you. If the Nazi's didn't know who was and wasn't Jewish there could never have been a holocaust. Similarly it's hard to punish dissenters if you don't know who they are.
Give up your right to protect your personal data and you've given up whatever hope you have of turning the government around should corruption take a hold. Sadly few people seem to even understand something that basic anymore. No wonder freedom's become so unfashionable.
This illustrates an important point about the internet in general. It enables people to only mingle with those similar to them, which is a shame because my most enriching experiences come from a diverse range of different people, coworkers, family, none technically literate. If we are permitted to choose everything we encounter, then life becomes boring and you lose perspective unless you throw in a "surprise me" or two./I.
That's a load. Seriously if you lack the imagination to go out and research subjects you don't know, talk to people about other topics than the one the conversation began with etc. don't blame the Internet.
I've talked to people about aircraft and that's led to talking about photography. Other conversations that began with asking advice for a loved one about a medical condition have progressed to much wider friendship. In fact I've spoken to a much wider variety of people from many countries, persuasions and age groups than I ever would have without the Internet.
If you're going to make sweeping statements like that you're just going to annoy and alienate people. Quite frankly all you're doing is spreading FUD.
Amnesty is an organisation that seems to have it's heart in the right place and it's mind off on holiday.
Typical responses to Amnesty in roughly the following order:
1) Ignore them
2) Acknowledge them only to tell them it ain't gonna change.
3) When they become a real nuisance kill whoever it is they're protesting about if it is an individual or kill off enough to get Amnesty's attention then blame Amnesty's meddling for the slaughter.
Listen to yourself. You've been brainwashed. "It works for me and for most people so if it's not right for you, well tough"??? You do realise that people hike and camp with mp3 players and music all the time don't you? You've well and truely fallen into the trap of being a self-centered ego-maniac. His needs aren't important because they don't also happen to be your needs? Ever heard of live and let live? What the? Ever heard that diversity is a good thing to be encouraged not stamped out with a commercial cookie cutter? Obviously what ever time you've spent in the wilderness hasn't helped you think and reason beyond your own selfish needs. Amazing that you can open your eyes and ears to nature, pay attention, and still walk away with so little learnt.
Holy shit! I can't imagine being on a team with that attitude? Do you people write tests? There are dependable ways of insuring that changes don't re-introduce old bugs, and if you can't fix one thing without causing a seemingly unrelated problem, you're working with some pretty smelly code.
/. - the very fact that you don't understand this makes me immediately think of you as a cowboy coder.
You're new to this aren't you.
If you can find a way to PROOVE that a less than trivial fix hasn't broken something else, you'd be too busy sailing the world in a multi million dollar cruiser to post to
If you're working on a word processor or other piece of non-critical software no problem. When billions of dollars or lives are at stake you'll need to mitigate the risk with something other than "if you can't fix one thing without causing a seemingly unrelated problem, you're working with some pretty smelly code". Are you willing to bet your life on your code fix? How about the lives of your loved ones. There's plenty of software in a hospital or on an aircraft that must be that good.
As for tests they can only tackle a very finite number of situations. They're definitely good for finding bugs that have been introduced. They're no use whatsoever for prooving you definitely haven't introduced a new bug.
Vatsa matta you? Hey!
u tuppayoufacelyrics.html
Gotta no respect. Hey!
Vista not so bad.
Vista nicea face, ah shudduppa your face.
I fear only the Aussies will understand the reference. It won't be as funny if it has to be explained but the following song made it to number one many moons ago here in Aus:
http://www.lyricsondemand.com/j/joedolcelyrics/sh
You'd have to cover every part of the spectrum that isn't absorbed by air for this to work.
Those rights you're talking about are being whittled away under your very nose!
Tell me how do you keep a straight face when singing about "the land of the free and the home of the brave" at a school where this kind of nonesense is allowed to fly?
If the parents that disagreed had any spines and their child also felt it was wrong they could do a number of things:
- Refusing to sign the pledge. Take it up with your school board, politicians, anyone who'll listen when the school refuses to allow extra ciricular activities.
- Stage a civilised and peaceful protest at the school gates. This must include parents as well as the kids involved.
- Point out that the pledge isn't legally binding unless a parent is signing it. Depends on state laws but can a minor enter into a contract this way to give away their rights?
- Point out that an identity can be faked online. I wonder how long before some kid's suspended because someone masquerades as them.
- Vote with your feet. Change schools. (Unfortunately if allowed to go uncontested this nonesense can and will spread so this shouldn't be your first reaction).
Mind you I'd say anyone who posts their illegal activies to an Internet blog is a moron, child or not. I don't think you can do anything if you're that dumb and anybody then tips off the police as to your actions. Wasting the resources monitoring and witch hunting is the issue here.
Try walking into a building site and calling their work dog food and see how long you last. Trust me I'm light as air.
I think everyone's desperately trying to forget ME. I don't even see it mentioned on the boxes of games in the bargain bins half the time when 98 is.
In the West they are given a female gender. "She is a good ship". Airplanes often are named and given nose art.
Then again it could just be all about a bunch of men with no ahem female companionship wanting any excuse to paint big titties on the plane, or to somehow not feel gay when they hump the whole in the wall in the ships galley. As usual it's overanalysed.
As for the bomb robots the less human they are the less you're going to have this sort of nonesense, but since those robots are so expensive I don't think these guy's managers' mind so much that they're cute and cuddly and not seen as quite so expendible.
Call me cynical.
The only other seats available were at the very back - the sort of seats that required binoculars. Any seat was going to require an immediate booking the way they were selling. We passed.
Hell knows Windows has its flaws but it's also an awefully versatile platform with a lot of content that some fantastic people have worked on and you're insulting every single one of them calling it dog food.
"Eat your own dog food"
I hate that phrase. I absolutely detest it. Typical management BS. You're insulting the person's work and destroying their moral by calling it dog food. "Eat what you serve up" would be a better phrase. But it doesn't carry with it enough of a sting because it's not insulting.
My response to that phrase is "I don't make dog food. You must be thinking of someone else."
Pure and simple. When the price becomes unpredictable and rapidly inflated I'm going to be happy letting others fight over it. I'll just buy the DVD.
It's already ridiculous anyway. I was looking at going to a particular popular circus performance but it $500 for a night out with the other half? !%@# that!
Well I just got done diagnosing and removing a trojan on my mum's machine the hard way because neither AVG nor Spybot Search and Destroy picked it up even with the latest definitions.
It was running a process msmgs.exe (not msmsgs.exe, which is windows messenger) which was then saturating her dial up connection when she tried to hook herself up to the Internet for the first time. Only way to work out what was happening was to connect, then use netstat to work out there was definitely something suspicious then go through the task list to see what could be doing it. Quite frankly if she didn't have a geek for a son she'd have been in deep doo doo.
Virus makers are scum. They shouldn't be shot but they should definitely go to jail.
You're honestly telling me you don't understand why IDEs and compiler flags belong in a course about programming? Your entire justification for not teaching the IDE is that it's not needed and not useful yet when it's used correctly the IDE is a very powerful and simple to use tool that makes things easier. People justify not teaching use of IDEs because otherwise people don't know how to use the command line compiler and I'm saying both have a place in an intro course and no you don't have to go into every detail, but an introduction to the tools is a good thing.
Just what kind of IDEs are you using anyway? If I find an IDE is bogging me down and I have a choice in the matter I ditch it. Eclipse for example takes next to no setup. Install Java, unzip the damn thing and you're done with it. Set up a project. No problem. File->New Project. What's so freaking hard about that? Want to run the code, its a simple menu command.
I'd teach 1st year intro to Java with some mention of javac compiler options and Eclipse or similar. Your suggestion that neither are suitable is just plain ridiculous. Your experiences in a 3rd year class are irrelevant since we're talking intro to programming.
Have a nice day.