Jan. 10, 2012? Why not immediately? Do Adobe coders suck that bad...
Honestly I think when a major vulnerability is found, companies should fix it immediately or face penalties.
You naive sod. You think the DEVELOPERS determine the release schedule? For all you know there are developers there with a fix ready and tested that are agitating and itching for it to go out.
While books aren't immune to it, I would think with an actual editoral process and some peer review, this is much less of an issue than some of the shit out there that is waved around as some sort of best practices of morons.
I've seen some pretty shockingly written and edited books. If you don't take the time to find quality material, you get random rubbish. That is as true of books as online content. The real advantage to the online content is chances are you're not the first to run into a bug, and chances are the book was written before that bug was discovered. Searching for errors is well worth it. And for pity sake get online. It's not 1980. Internet shouldn't be considered optional for a programmer.
How come nobody had ever thought of this? It's pure genius. Now, a similar option for telemarketers would be even better...
It's very nice for the people selling the services, at least until the law catches up with them. They get to charge the politicians for spam, and now the voters to spam back. Meanwhile if a politician gets too many robocalls, he simply involves the police or disconnects the number - using - wait for it - your tax dollars.
In other words for voters this is about as genius as beating their own head to a pulp against a brick wall.
Gotta love slashdot. A personal attack based on skimming this guy's profile for 5 minutes qualifies as interesting.
I've not known software engineers who wanted to be in a union either....but that is primarily a cultural thing. In other engineering disciplines unions are the norm. Also I make a lot of wise arse remarks. The days of slashdot being primarily a discussion board for serious topics is long over. Why don't you go ahead and take a look at my profile then malign me. Your ridiculous bad behaviour glorified on this board and you don't even see the irony of looking at how serious someone's comments are on that same board. I'd love to have you on my team. NOT.
Actually, I'm a lot more worried about the bubble bursting than I am about the "snot nose guys".
Right now, I make nice money. If this is a bubble, that will go up. And I'll get comfortable with that, and adjust my life to suit. When the bubble pops, my income will go way back down again, and that is going to hurt.
Then learn to manage your money. Otherwise you are arguing for everyone being on subsistence wages, which is going to hurt you, and everyone else a lot more.
Something you know, something you have, something you are - pick any two.
I thought it was something you forgot long ago, something you just had stolen, something you were before they beat the shit out of you and started cutting body parts off.
I would like to ask that the post office only deliver once a week. And that should be the day before garbage/recycling day. 60% of the mail I get goes straight into recycling. The next 30% goes into the shredder and into yard waste bin.
That is criminal. If the shopping malls can start eliminating or charging for plastic bags, for "green" reasons, there is no reason junk mail should be permitted. Find another way to advertise.
I didn't say anything about "reinventing." I said building more of what they have.
It costs a lot more to invent, test, and deliver something than it does to build another of something which already works. There's likely to be a lot of efficiency improvements with newer heavy lift rockets because of advances in technology. That has nothing to do with the point I made, which apparently went whizzing over your head.
You couldn't get the 50s and 60s parts anyway. The world and technology has moved on. No one is going to build an Apollo Guidance Computer which is slower (2MHz) and has less memory (4KB) than a desktop calculator. No none knows or cares how to build such low spec'd parts.
Vote with your wallet. If you're really against big media don't consume their products*. There's tons of high quality CC licensed, and independently produced, media out there. Otherwise quit your bitching.
*That doesn't mean you can pirate them. Consuming them anyway without paying isn't a protest.
Last time I checked, using something and refusing to pay for it was a protest. Whether or not it's effective or moral you can debate. Certainly it is not legal in most countries, but to argue that it's not a protest is childish and being modded up for it is childish too. As is the line "quit your bitching".
While we're at it there's a lot more dross on CC than in commercial and yep that's saying something. The only useful thing the industry does is increase the signal to noise ratio a little.
Finally as someone else pointed out the terms "pirate" and "consume" are correct only in the broadest terms here. No one is raping nor pilleaging, and nothing is being used up.
So while I understand your point, I disagree, and even if I were to agree I'd encourage you to make it more coherently.
Yeah I'll sign up for club med tomorrow. I'm irked because people come up with this nonsense as if it was sane advice and others mod it up. It's very VERY bad and unrealistic advice. Anyone stupid enough to follow it will likely end up miserable.
2) The poster is recommending young people do this instead of IT, not doing it as a second career. Pay attention before issuing such ridiculous vitriol.
How about you pay attention. He suggested they train WHILE doing the IT and I did not say that he was suggesting a dual career forever. He was clearly on about a transition - from a comfy desk job - to back greating work. Ridiculous.
3) My cousin is a plumber. He does not "dig trenches in the hot sun" or "wade through human excrement" on a daily basis. He does HVAC work in new commercial buildings and occasionally replaces showers and faucets for friends and family. Even after the housing/construction bubble burst, he had no problem finding work.
Most plumbing jobs are for all rounders and at the very least you have to do all that work at the start while you train. Sure some people transition to specialised jobs including teaching or something like the HVAC work your cousin does but that is the exception. I also suspect your cousin doesn't brag about the times he is up to his waste in poo. It's not something people want to hear, even though I think personally it's something to be proud of.
you're silly, old plumbers hire and teach younger people for the back breaking work, and get good exercise doing the rest. That's what my friend from high school does, he's 48 years old
If you are just starting out as a plumber in your mid-late 30s you have no chance of aquiring the knowledge to pass on. Book learning and tafe are not the reason your 48 year old friend is able to hire younger people. At 48 and with almost 30 years in the business he has some knowledge and expertise to share.
If I told any sane person a programmer should start their coding career at 35 and be teaching others to code instead of doing it himself in his 40s the'd laugh me out of the room. And you have the gaul to call me silly.
Yes, but in the real world the PHBs get hired, and you dont.
The truth is, people generally wont hire anyone older than they are, because theyfeel bad about telling older people what to do. Nothing else is relevant, certainly not skills and abilities.
If you are over 40, you had better be the boss, or life sucks.
What world are you living in. I know plenty of bosses in my workplace that are younger than me. I fill in for my boss when he's on leave sometimes. I don't mind doing it occasionally but his job is safe from me wanting to take over that's for sure.
Speaking as an oldie: we all did that - it still wont save you! Train up as a plumber now, while you can afford it.
...Because after 20+ years of sitting on your now flabby out of shape ass in front of a computer, with old bones starting to creak, that is the time to consider working in the hot sun digging trenches and wading through human excrement on a daily basis. What the fuck do you think a plumber does exactly? And who mods up such fucking idiotic bullshit?
That is actually the exact problem. You do not want buffers larger than the flight time of your circuit. You absolutely want the buffers to fill and drop packets otherwise.
You talkin' smack, fool? I will end you! I bloat like a buffer, sting like a TCP!
Ones the eye candy novelty factor has worn off which takes, ooh , 3 minutes , no one cares one way or the other. All it does is waste energy by forcing the GPU to do pointless calculations. You couldn't have picked a worse example to explain why computers are better today.
I WISH that were true. I turn all that crap off. But others spend hundreds of dollars because shiny means more advanced to them:(
Today's computers are built up with layer after layer of bloat that is designed to make it easier to code, but really makes the overall experience for the end user less than optimal.
Haha today's computers are easier to code are they? Pull the other one. It's the design patterns, endless layers of libraries and APIs that make coding a simple business app today a nightmare. Take J2EE for instance. No really take the damn thing!!! I for one blame that stupid Gang of 4 book. Over-engineer for infinite flexibility you will never use. Throw patterns and layers at the problem, then wonder why it's a mess. KISS is dead.
Well, as long as there is oxygen around, things should combust.
Sure, in a crude way you're right and there are a lot of electricals and combustibles on spacecraft. But HOW does it burn when there is no UP? We're so use to hot air rising that our everyday ideas of how to deal with a fire, like get down low, will not work in space. These are ideas that save lives here but are of no use if a fire were to break out. We can only develop new ideas if we get some direct experimental experience. Also it may lead to an ability to harness the differences inherent in a zero g process for industrial/manufacturing processes (but I'm just speculating here). This is worthwhile basic science.
"If people were giving Manos 10s just so that some rival could snatch the #1 worst movie title then that is truly sad. Manos is morally the true winner here in that respect."
So apparently it makes a lot of people feel ill but not quite in the same way.
People used to get excited when a CPU clock was measured in MEGAHERTZ! Now we're jaded...
The fucking things did not run a GUI that emulated transparent glass. They could process video or images that we use today etc. People use to get excited about ASCII art and how clever that was. Today you can see pictures Hubble has taken in intricate detail, and instead of playing ASCII strip poker people are viewing HD porn instantly.
When home computers were new anything they could do was a marvel. Now we've seen what more processing power can do. We have a lot of bloat. We also have a lot of functionality that is taken for granted. You have to remember that international direct dialing was considered a wonder when the BBC microcomputer was introduced. ("What, you mean no operator connects you!?")
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Jan. 10, 2012? Why not immediately? Do Adobe coders suck that bad...
Honestly I think when a major vulnerability is found, companies should fix it immediately or face penalties.
You naive sod. You think the DEVELOPERS determine the release schedule? For all you know there are developers there with a fix ready and tested that are agitating and itching for it to go out.
Political campaigns aren't funded by tax dollars (unless they agree to take only public funds which hasn't really been done since Carter vs Reagan).
That is just a matter of shuffling cash around so it looks like they are private funds. Occasionally they get caught.
While books aren't immune to it, I would think with an actual editoral process and some peer review, this is much less of an issue than some of the shit out there that is waved around as some sort of best practices of morons.
I've seen some pretty shockingly written and edited books. If you don't take the time to find quality material, you get random rubbish. That is as true of books as online content. The real advantage to the online content is chances are you're not the first to run into a bug, and chances are the book was written before that bug was discovered. Searching for errors is well worth it. And for pity sake get online. It's not 1980. Internet shouldn't be considered optional for a programmer.
How come nobody had ever thought of this? It's pure genius. Now, a similar option for telemarketers would be even better...
It's very nice for the people selling the services, at least until the law catches up with them. They get to charge the politicians for spam, and now the voters to spam back. Meanwhile if a politician gets too many robocalls, he simply involves the police or disconnects the number - using - wait for it - your tax dollars.
In other words for voters this is about as genius as beating their own head to a pulp against a brick wall.
Gotta love slashdot. A personal attack based on skimming this guy's profile for 5 minutes qualifies as interesting.
I've not known software engineers who wanted to be in a union either....but that is primarily a cultural thing. In other engineering disciplines unions are the norm. Also I make a lot of wise arse remarks. The days of slashdot being primarily a discussion board for serious topics is long over. Why don't you go ahead and take a look at my profile then malign me. Your ridiculous bad behaviour glorified on this board and you don't even see the irony of looking at how serious someone's comments are on that same board. I'd love to have you on my team. NOT.
Actually, I'm a lot more worried about the bubble bursting than I am about the "snot nose guys".
Right now, I make nice money. If this is a bubble, that will go up. And I'll get comfortable with that, and adjust my life to suit. When the bubble pops, my income will go way back down again, and that is going to hurt.
Then learn to manage your money. Otherwise you are arguing for everyone being on subsistence wages, which is going to hurt you, and everyone else a lot more.
Something you know, something you have, something you are - pick any two.
I thought it was something you forgot long ago, something you just had stolen, something you were before they beat the shit out of you and started cutting body parts off.
I would like to ask that the post office only deliver once a week. And that should be the day before garbage/recycling day. 60% of the mail I get goes straight into recycling. The next 30% goes into the shredder and into yard waste bin.
That is criminal. If the shopping malls can start eliminating or charging for plastic bags, for "green" reasons, there is no reason junk mail should be permitted. Find another way to advertise.
They are lowering their broadband costs by 35%, but what about their prices?
Easily achieved by pulling 35% of the cables out of the wall every week. As a boon, all that cable pulling creates jobs!
We could also re-connect the ones we pulled out the previous week, but while this creates jobs it also raises costs in the long run.
Long live the great firewall!
I didn't say anything about "reinventing." I said building more of what they have.
It costs a lot more to invent, test, and deliver something than it does to build another of something which already works. There's likely to be a lot of efficiency improvements with newer heavy lift rockets because of advances in technology. That has nothing to do with the point I made, which apparently went whizzing over your head.
You couldn't get the 50s and 60s parts anyway. The world and technology has moved on. No one is going to build an Apollo Guidance Computer which is slower (2MHz) and has less memory (4KB) than a desktop calculator. No none knows or cares how to build such low spec'd parts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
Vote with your wallet. If you're really against big media don't consume their products*. There's tons of high quality CC licensed, and independently produced, media out there. Otherwise quit your bitching.
*That doesn't mean you can pirate them. Consuming them anyway without paying isn't a protest.
Last time I checked, using something and refusing to pay for it was a protest. Whether or not it's effective or moral you can debate. Certainly it is not legal in most countries, but to argue that it's not a protest is childish and being modded up for it is childish too. As is the line "quit your bitching".
While we're at it there's a lot more dross on CC than in commercial and yep that's saying something. The only useful thing the industry does is increase the signal to noise ratio a little.
Finally as someone else pointed out the terms "pirate" and "consume" are correct only in the broadest terms here. No one is raping nor pilleaging, and nothing is being used up.
So while I understand your point, I disagree, and even if I were to agree I'd encourage you to make it more coherently.
Wow, Squirrelmail. So at least they managed to migrate from pine at some point.
Yeah, they're planning the upgrade from squirrel to carrier pigeon as we speak!
1) Why so angry? You need to relax.
Yeah I'll sign up for club med tomorrow. I'm irked because people come up with this nonsense as if it was sane advice and others mod it up. It's very VERY bad and unrealistic advice. Anyone stupid enough to follow it will likely end up miserable.
2) The poster is recommending young people do this instead of IT, not doing it as a second career. Pay attention before issuing such ridiculous vitriol.
How about you pay attention. He suggested they train WHILE doing the IT and I did not say that he was suggesting a dual career forever. He was clearly on about a transition - from a comfy desk job - to back greating work. Ridiculous.
3) My cousin is a plumber. He does not "dig trenches in the hot sun" or "wade through human excrement" on a daily basis. He does HVAC work in new commercial buildings and occasionally replaces showers and faucets for friends and family. Even after the housing/construction bubble burst, he had no problem finding work.
Most plumbing jobs are for all rounders and at the very least you have to do all that work at the start while you train. Sure some people transition to specialised jobs including teaching or something like the HVAC work your cousin does but that is the exception. I also suspect your cousin doesn't brag about the times he is up to his waste in poo. It's not something people want to hear, even though I think personally it's something to be proud of.
you're silly, old plumbers hire and teach younger people for the back breaking work, and get good exercise doing the rest. That's what my friend from high school does, he's 48 years old
If you are just starting out as a plumber in your mid-late 30s you have no chance of aquiring the knowledge to pass on. Book learning and tafe are not the reason your 48 year old friend is able to hire younger people. At 48 and with almost 30 years in the business he has some knowledge and expertise to share.
If I told any sane person a programmer should start their coding career at 35 and be teaching others to code instead of doing it himself in his 40s the'd laugh me out of the room. And you have the gaul to call me silly.
Yes, but in the real world the PHBs get hired, and you dont.
The truth is, people generally wont hire anyone older than they are, because theyfeel bad about telling older people what to do. Nothing else is relevant, certainly not skills and abilities.
If you are over 40, you had better be the boss, or life sucks.
What world are you living in. I know plenty of bosses in my workplace that are younger than me. I fill in for my boss when he's on leave sometimes. I don't mind doing it occasionally but his job is safe from me wanting to take over that's for sure.
Speaking as an oldie: we all did that - it still wont save you! Train up as a plumber now, while you can afford it.
...Because after 20+ years of sitting on your now flabby out of shape ass in front of a computer, with old bones starting to creak, that is the time to consider working in the hot sun digging trenches and wading through human excrement on a daily basis. What the fuck do you think a plumber does exactly? And who mods up such fucking idiotic bullshit?
That is actually the exact problem. You do not want buffers larger than the flight time of your circuit. You absolutely want the buffers to fill and drop packets otherwise.
You talkin' smack, fool? I will end you! I bloat like a buffer, sting like a TCP!
This is the DUMBEST THING EVER. I cannot believe people actually think this way. Are you familiar with the LAW SYSTEM?
No, but I'm familiar with the concept of a LEGAL system. ;-)
Ones the eye candy novelty factor has worn off which takes, ooh , 3 minutes , no one cares one way or the other. All it does is waste energy by forcing the GPU to do pointless calculations. You couldn't have picked a worse example to explain why computers are better today.
I WISH that were true. I turn all that crap off. But others spend hundreds of dollars because shiny means more advanced to them :(
Today's computers are built up with layer after layer of bloat that is designed to make it easier to code, but really makes the overall experience for the end user less than optimal.
Haha today's computers are easier to code are they? Pull the other one. It's the design patterns, endless layers of libraries and APIs that make coding a simple business app today a nightmare. Take J2EE for instance. No really take the damn thing!!! I for one blame that stupid Gang of 4 book. Over-engineer for infinite flexibility you will never use. Throw patterns and layers at the problem, then wonder why it's a mess. KISS is dead.
There goes stop drop and roll, would be more like Stop and remain motionless.
Pretend the fire is a T-Rex.
What ever happened to sending a urine bubble straight at it!? No imagination you guys!
Well, as long as there is oxygen around, things should combust.
Sure, in a crude way you're right and there are a lot of electricals and combustibles on spacecraft. But HOW does it burn when there is no UP? We're so use to hot air rising that our everyday ideas of how to deal with a fire, like get down low, will not work in space. These are ideas that save lives here but are of no use if a fire were to break out. We can only develop new ideas if we get some direct experimental experience. Also it may lead to an ability to harness the differences inherent in a zero g process for industrial/manufacturing processes (but I'm just speculating here). This is worthwhile basic science.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060666/
"If people were giving Manos 10s just so that some rival could snatch the #1 worst movie title then that is truly sad. Manos is morally the true winner here in that respect."
So apparently it makes a lot of people feel ill but not quite in the same way.
People used to get excited when a CPU clock was measured in MEGAHERTZ! Now we're jaded...
The fucking things did not run a GUI that emulated transparent glass. They could process video or images that we use today etc. People use to get excited about ASCII art and how clever that was. Today you can see pictures Hubble has taken in intricate detail, and instead of playing ASCII strip poker people are viewing HD porn instantly.
When home computers were new anything they could do was a marvel. Now we've seen what more processing power can do. We have a lot of bloat. We also have a lot of functionality that is taken for granted. You have to remember that international direct dialing was considered a wonder when the BBC microcomputer was introduced. ("What, you mean no operator connects you!?")
The idea that the universe can be understood as a computer program is essentially unfalsifiable.
Worse it's just a different take on Newton's clockwork universe.