Isn't Flash supposedly sandboxed? And, what the hell is Flash doing in a PDF viewing utility?
Sandboxed? More like litter boxed.
Actually it use to be a litter box, but now it's an unrecognisable ball of patches filled with poo. You might be able to find something useful in there somewhere but it's no fun digging, and you'll wanna hold your nose during and take a shower after. With the number of stories about flash and PDF exploits I'm surprised the installers haven't grown to a gig yet. There mustn't be much original code left in there.
My guess is that if you're spending a quarter or a half million dollars on an outfit, you're not going to wear it much period. I suspect that it is going to end up behind a glass case for the remainder of its life.
You are utterly, 100% wrong.
Obviously it will be in the glass case. Why would you put it behind a glass case? That doesn't make any sense at all.
I don't know. If you're dumb enough to spend that amount of money on a costume...
Even if I had that sort of cash spare I don't think I could bring myself to buy much in the way of Starwars since those awful prequels.
... But I'm actually a little too short for it. The actor who was in the costume was 6' 6.5", I don't quite make that height. And really, what good is a Vader costume that you can't wear?
Apparently according to the article $250,000 and $365,000 worth of good. Sell it and you could by a home in a less expensive area, or one heck of an expensive car. Or heck, just take a year or two off work!
It does come with the unlimited right to say "Luke, I am your father", which would normally get you kicked in the balls if said more than twice a year.
Eventually, your friends would alter that deal. Pray they don't alter it any further.
You're walking around saying shit like that? What friends!?
That's a pretty broad comment. What are the skills that you require? If we're talking about people with experience writing object-oriented COBOL code and willing to work for little more than minimum wage, you're right. If we're talking about people able to write decent Java code for a reasonable salary, then post your requirements on Slashdot and I expect that you'll find a lot of applicants.
I'm talking about general broad skills. Like both competent C and Java. You'd be surprised at how hard it's getting to find a C business programmer. The local opportunties for C development are limited so universities aren't even teaching it here anymore...which is frightening.
Not all developers. This developer will pack up and leave if forced to eat garbage.
And your manager is sitting on a pile of resumes thick enough to beat a rhino to death, many of whom will be prepared to work for significantly less than you're currently making. During a recession, the beatings will continue until morale (or the job market) improves.
Really? Because where I am they're having trouble hiring people with the skill set we require.
Because communities cost money to maintain. Oracle doesn't care about whiny developers; they only care about the bottom line. Developers will use what they're told by their management. Period. End of story.
Yep, and if they don't like it they'll be updating their resumes and looking for other work in the background.
Stupid is stupid, no matter how much you have just bought to piss away.
Yes I did. Thanks for the correction (and for being civil in correcting me).
That's one heck of a freidn you must have there. I don't know Latin for a start so I wouldn't have a hope unless I was willing to learn it (which I'm not). Assuming she did more with the calculus she learnt, she'd be the ideal person to ask what the differences between Newton's writing and modern notation are. She might tell you they aren't as significant as I'm presuming.
While it does that, it should make Windows 8 the first release that breaks with the past by moving all legacy technologies into a sandbox a la what OS X originally did.
This would be a suicidal move.The legacy support is the only reason many people run Windows instead of moving to Linux or OSX. Windows has always been buggy and annoying but there are very few apps I know and love that I can't run on it.
Finally, they should work on extending whatever POSIX compatibility they still have left until Windows 8 can reliably run code originally written on Linux and OS X. Why? Because it would bridge one of the last gaps between Windows 7 and OS X.
Risky. The trouble is people would start dumping MS specific tools and writing Linux code that happens to also run on Windows....and then there's one less reason to use Windows. The thing is if Windows was the BEST implementation, it wouldn't be an issue, but I can't see that happening sadly.
Recent updates to the story via the Slashdot tagging system suggest that he may have swerved to avoid a Kangaroo, a common cause of accidents in South Eastern Austria.
What was that skip? Sonny's fallen off a cliff?!? Lead the way skip!
Politician is corrupt! Priest molested kids! People celebrate holiday! Religious people ignore science! Flood plain gets flooded!
If that counts as news, so does this.
Prefix each sentence with "Particular" or "A particular" and it becomes news. Particular instance of event is news even if event is common. The general case is not. This is not news.
I've found the best reuse comes from simple modules, not from complex ones that try to do everything. The one that tries to do everything will still be missing the one feature you need. It's easier to add the features you need to the simple one because it's, well, simpler. With the fancier one you have to work around all the features you don't need to add those that you do need, creating more reading time and more mistakes.
Agreed. With most complex frameworks there is also the additional overhead of having to do things in a particular way. If you try to do it differently or need to add a feature that wasn't designed for in the original framework, you often find yourself fighting it rather than working with it. At that point you should ditch the framework, but often it's not your decision to make, and then cost of redoing things once the framework is removed makes it impractical.
Seriously, what's going on with the articles here? "My code is like a Taco"? Is that flying because of CmdrTaco's username?
Nothing new here: 1) Code reuse. Woopdeedoo. The whole industry has invested heavily in many paradigms for reusing code: The reusable library, module reuse, object reuse etc. 2) Stringing Unix commands together is news? Did I just take a Deloriane back to 1955? (Well that's a slight exaggeration. Unix has only been around since the 70s)
Finally, who wants to compare their code reuse to a crappy junk food chain? I'd rather think of myself as a professional that earns commensurate pay than a junk food server who needs to be trained to ask "would you like fries with that?".
Forget the company. I don't want anyone clogging up any unused unlicensed frequencies and causing interference for every other device that does use that space. It's unlicensed for a reason and that reason isn't so some douche can sidestep going through the proper channels to set up as a carrier whilst hosing everyone else's use of those frequencies.
Some even say that stop motion is cheaper than computer generated animation
Cut out the director's and actors' Salaries from the movies, and guess which one had a higher budget: Rudolph the Rednose Reindeer or Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones.
I'm confused. I thought Attack of the Clones was stop motion.
Yes, that's great, grab a dictionary. In your case, it's not a good use of the word aromatic. Peanut oil is composed of long-chain fatty acids, which are definitely not aromatic. A better phrase/word for you to use would be aroma compound/volatile. Even then, the fatty acids aren't really volatile. So further clarification of "peanut oil" might be needed in this instance.
Google aromatic peanut oil. Or keep trolling. Either way.
If you'll re-read what I said, peanut allergies don't tend to be mild because peanut oil drifts in the air.
As for mild allergies being blown out of proprotion perhaps that's true for some but what's driven all this is that people have actually died. All it takes for a mild allergy to become life threatening is an airway swelling up.
And regarding my wife, yes a lot of people think these allergies are "all in her head", which is ridiculous.
Certainly there are very real severe allergies out there. However, what's on the rise appears to be rather mild reactions that would de-sensitize given a chance.
You've clearly never seen an anaphylactic reaction nor had one.
I had allergies as a kid - cut grass would make me come out in welts. I have hayfever. For the most part I just ignore it.
Only one time, as an adult and very recently, I had the start of a severe reaction. I started to look like that scene from Hitch. Being real life and not a romantic comedy the danger was that my throat was starting to close up. My face and tongue was swelling. Luckily over the counter antihistamines brought it under control but my wife was monitoring to see if she needed to call an ambulance. It's just not the same thing as a mild reaction. The really scary thing is I don't know what cause it for sure - I suspect cleaning up prawn shells on a particular kind of prawn (banana prawn) off a bench, but I'm not allergic to other prawns.
My wife who does have anaphylactic reactions use to live with her brother and sister in law and they got the cooking wrong resulting in a week long hospital visit. Her sister in law, who didn't get along with her particularly well at the time, and who doesn't always like altering her habits to accomodate others, was so affected by what she saw that she threw up, then went through the entire house and ripped out any food that could even potentially cause a problem.
People with this problem are not just making it up. They are not just exaggerating the issue. Lack of awareness has led directly to deaths.
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All the neck-pinch does is put people to sleep. Courts are already effective enough at that.
Actually, it can kill as well. Please turn in your nerd badge at the door.
Texas courts are already effective at that too.
Is that kind of like a Glory Hole? Probably the same number of viruses.
No, not unless Ke$ha writes a song about it. Only then will it be truely skanky.
Isn't Flash supposedly sandboxed? And, what the hell is Flash doing in a PDF viewing utility?
Sandboxed? More like litter boxed.
Actually it use to be a litter box, but now it's an unrecognisable ball of patches filled with poo. You might be able to find something useful in there somewhere but it's no fun digging, and you'll wanna hold your nose during and take a shower after. With the number of stories about flash and PDF exploits I'm surprised the installers haven't grown to a gig yet. There mustn't be much original code left in there.
Awesome friends. I wish all my friends were so nerdy.
I think you mean imaginary.
But he's also considered a villian HERE, because of his actions as shown in the documentaries.
And since it happened long ago in a galaxy far, far away, I think it's not totally inaccurate.
I wish the prequels had happened in a galaxy far, far, far, FAR, FAR away. Preferably inside a black hole.
My guess is that if you're spending a quarter or a half million dollars on an outfit, you're not going to wear it much period. I suspect that it is going to end up behind a glass case for the remainder of its life.
You are utterly, 100% wrong.
Obviously it will be in the glass case. Why would you put it behind a glass case? That doesn't make any sense at all.
I don't know. If you're dumb enough to spend that amount of money on a costume...
Even if I had that sort of cash spare I don't think I could bring myself to buy much in the way of Starwars since those awful prequels.
... But I'm actually a little too short for it. The actor who was in the costume was 6' 6.5", I don't quite make that height. And really, what good is a Vader costume that you can't wear?
Apparently according to the article $250,000 and $365,000 worth of good. Sell it and you could by a home in a less expensive area, or one heck of an expensive car. Or heck, just take a year or two off work!
It does come with the unlimited right to say "Luke, I am your father", which would normally get you kicked in the balls if said more than twice a year.
Eventually, your friends would alter that deal. Pray they don't alter it any further.
You're walking around saying shit like that? What friends!?
That's a pretty broad comment. What are the skills that you require? If we're talking about people with experience writing object-oriented COBOL code and willing to work for little more than minimum wage, you're right. If we're talking about people able to write decent Java code for a reasonable salary, then post your requirements on Slashdot and I expect that you'll find a lot of applicants.
I'm talking about general broad skills. Like both competent C and Java. You'd be surprised at how hard it's getting to find a C business programmer. The local opportunties for C development are limited so universities aren't even teaching it here anymore...which is frightening.
And your manager is sitting on a pile of resumes thick enough to beat a rhino to death, many of whom will be prepared to work for significantly less than you're currently making. During a recession, the beatings will continue until morale (or the job market) improves.
Really? Because where I am they're having trouble hiring people with the skill set we require.
Because communities cost money to maintain. Oracle doesn't care about whiny developers; they only care about the bottom line. Developers will use what they're told by their management. Period. End of story.
Yep, and if they don't like it they'll be updating their resumes and looking for other work in the background.
Stupid is stupid, no matter how much you have just bought to piss away.
Yes I did. Thanks for the correction (and for being civil in correcting me).
That's one heck of a freidn you must have there. I don't know Latin for a start so I wouldn't have a hope unless I was willing to learn it (which I'm not). Assuming she did more with the calculus she learnt, she'd be the ideal person to ask what the differences between Newton's writing and modern notation are. She might tell you they aren't as significant as I'm presuming.
While it does that, it should make Windows 8 the first release that breaks with the past by moving all legacy technologies into a sandbox a la what OS X originally did.
This would be a suicidal move.The legacy support is the only reason many people run Windows instead of moving to Linux or OSX. Windows has always been buggy and annoying but there are very few apps I know and love that I can't run on it.
Finally, they should work on extending whatever POSIX compatibility they still have left until Windows 8 can reliably run code originally written on Linux and OS X. Why? Because it would bridge one of the last gaps between Windows 7 and OS X.
Risky. The trouble is people would start dumping MS specific tools and writing Linux code that happens to also run on Windows....and then there's one less reason to use Windows. The thing is if Windows was the BEST implementation, it wouldn't be an issue, but I can't see that happening sadly.
As my wife says, "calculus has not changed much in the last 6 years, but my textbook has gone through 3 revisions in that time!"
I don't think basic calculus has changed in a few centuries.
Try reading the translated Principia Mathematica. (I won't ask you to go read the Latin)
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pm-notation/
The math itself hasn't changed. The way we write it has. It's like Shakespearian English vs. Modern English with all the variants in between.
Recent updates to the story via the Slashdot tagging system suggest that he may have swerved to avoid a Kangaroo, a common cause of accidents in South Eastern Austria.
What was that skip? Sonny's fallen off a cliff?!? Lead the way skip!
This is what's in my newspaper:
Politician is corrupt!
Priest molested kids!
People celebrate holiday!
Religious people ignore science!
Flood plain gets flooded!
If that counts as news, so does this.
Prefix each sentence with "Particular" or "A particular" and it becomes news. Particular instance of event is news even if event is common. The general case is not. This is not news.
... And yes, stringing commands together is, empirically, news to many people, because I keep finding people who can't do it.
I don't know how to do surgery, but that doesn't mean basic surgical technique is news.
I've found the best reuse comes from simple modules, not from complex ones that try to do everything. The one that tries to do everything will still be missing the one feature you need. It's easier to add the features you need to the simple one because it's, well, simpler. With the fancier one you have to work around all the features you don't need to add those that you do need, creating more reading time and more mistakes.
Agreed. With most complex frameworks there is also the additional overhead of having to do things in a particular way. If you try to do it differently or need to add a feature that wasn't designed for in the original framework, you often find yourself fighting it rather than working with it. At that point you should ditch the framework, but often it's not your decision to make, and then cost of redoing things once the framework is removed makes it impractical.
Seriously, what's going on with the articles here? "My code is like a Taco"? Is that flying because of CmdrTaco's username?
Nothing new here:
1) Code reuse. Woopdeedoo. The whole industry has invested heavily in many paradigms for reusing code: The reusable library, module reuse, object reuse etc.
2) Stringing Unix commands together is news? Did I just take a Deloriane back to 1955? (Well that's a slight exaggeration. Unix has only been around since the 70s)
Finally, who wants to compare their code reuse to a crappy junk food chain? I'd rather think of myself as a professional that earns commensurate pay than a junk food server who needs to be trained to ask "would you like fries with that?".
I'm amazed someone was fooled by a bot. Here are some SIMPLE questions I tried on the above chat bots that always fool them:
Well I know my wife would ignore that instruction. I guess that makes her a bot.
Forget the company. I don't want anyone clogging up any unused unlicensed frequencies and causing interference for every other device that does use that space. It's unlicensed for a reason and that reason isn't so some douche can sidestep going through the proper channels to set up as a carrier whilst hosing everyone else's use of those frequencies.
Some even say that stop motion is cheaper than computer generated animation
Cut out the director's and actors' Salaries from the movies, and guess which one had a higher budget: Rudolph the Rednose Reindeer or Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones.
I'm confused. I thought Attack of the Clones was stop motion.
Yes, that's great, grab a dictionary. In your case, it's not a good use of the word aromatic. Peanut oil is composed of long-chain fatty acids, which are definitely not aromatic. A better phrase/word for you to use would be aroma compound/volatile. Even then, the fatty acids aren't really volatile. So further clarification of "peanut oil" might be needed in this instance.
Google aromatic peanut oil. Or keep trolling. Either way.
If you'll re-read what I said, peanut allergies don't tend to be mild because peanut oil drifts in the air.
As for mild allergies being blown out of proprotion perhaps that's true for some but what's driven all this is that people have actually died. All it takes for a mild allergy to become life threatening is an airway swelling up.
And regarding my wife, yes a lot of people think these allergies are "all in her head", which is ridiculous.
Certainly there are very real severe allergies out there. However, what's on the rise appears to be rather mild reactions that would de-sensitize given a chance.
You've clearly never seen an anaphylactic reaction nor had one.
I had allergies as a kid - cut grass would make me come out in welts. I have hayfever. For the most part I just ignore it.
Only one time, as an adult and very recently, I had the start of a severe reaction. I started to look like that scene from Hitch. Being real life and not a romantic comedy the danger was that my throat was starting to close up. My face and tongue was swelling. Luckily over the counter antihistamines brought it under control but my wife was monitoring to see if she needed to call an ambulance. It's just not the same thing as a mild reaction. The really scary thing is I don't know what cause it for sure - I suspect cleaning up prawn shells on a particular kind of prawn (banana prawn) off a bench, but I'm not allergic to other prawns.
My wife who does have anaphylactic reactions use to live with her brother and sister in law and they got the cooking wrong resulting in a week long hospital visit. Her sister in law, who didn't get along with her particularly well at the time, and who doesn't always like altering her habits to accomodate others, was so affected by what she saw that she threw up, then went through the entire house and ripped out any food that could even potentially cause a problem.
People with this problem are not just making it up. They are not just exaggerating the issue. Lack of awareness has led directly to deaths.