It is true that the beautiful flower often does grow from stinky shit.
There are so many wonders, so many great things, that come of the small, the weak, the mundane and ugly, that to list them all here would be cliche.
However, IE will always be the paragon of suckage that it is now, for all eternity. It is an avatar of slopped together kludge, that strides the very earth itself, leaving gigantic footprints of utter stupidity in its wake. That no force can stop it, of this I cannot be certain. But it can never be redeemed. None of the damned in hell are condemned like it is.
Mozilla may wane and die, or perhaps opera. Multitudes of both good and bad browsers might take shape and live long lives. But IE will never, ever improve.
Sneaking something into an appropriations bill, by definition, requires it be "sneaked"... impossible to do, if everyone knows about it. 3 weeks from now, 3 months from now, 3 years from now, there will be another bill, people won't be on guard for it, and it will return.
If this were a windows fanboy thread, you'd have 20 dozen MCSE bootcamp graduates screaming that you should spend the next 6 months using regmon to figure out which keys are for the app, which aren't. You're also supposed to sacrifice a chicken or something during the folly.
Bravado is never being wrong, even when you'd say someone else was if it were anyone else but you. It's never bothering to be introspective, to question yourself or your actions.
Confidence is knowing you'll get there eventually, even if you aren't there yet. You're allowed to ask questions along the way like "Should this be here?".
I would much rather rely on software that is like the latter, than I would the former.
Besides, I bet Simon Lok maintains a few hundred windows machines too, but since he can't read those comments at all...
What if some sick kiddyporn freak writes software that downloads images to an image viewer, without ever caching any of it to the HD? I'd be suprised if this doesn't already exist.
It's also responsible for Google Maps. That's the only big one that jumps out at me, but there are a few other uses I've seen, that I've liked. Try out greasemonkey, and make javascript work for you.
It's ECMAscript. Name hasn't caught on yet. ECMA = European Computer Manufacturer's Association, I do believe. Mozilla used to have some bugs where you couldn't use that as the attribute value for a "script" element. Or maybe that was with SVG.
You mean, you aren't aware that all video game-> movie transitions suck ass? Need I remind everyone of Street Fighter, the movie so bad it killed Raul Julia? Or how about Super Mario Bros. ?
Or maybe it's the confusion over why Microsoft would deserve anything but a token amount of upfront cash, seeing how they had nothing to do with writing what little story is behind a FPS game.
For extra karma, say that with a thick russian accent about how Windows will rule the world, while beating on the podium with your shoe.
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Decent question, wrong answer. I'm not the kind that has folders nested 10 deep, but for me, it goes in./job/portfolio, along with anything else resume-ish. Job leads and tips go in./job/leads, which doesn't exactly fit resume, you know? I might also have career as a subdir, and so forth. Most things that are fairly hierarchial.
I'm not an opponent of meta-data, I just know that it's hard to come by, and I don't want filesystem navigation to go away. If you want to know what I think can be searched for in a meaningful way like this (it's a pretty small subset of files), ask me sometime. It's currently a SQL database that has the most complex relationship diagram of anything you're ever likely to see...
I think your children will grow up in a country where they still can't own guns, but the police will carry them at all times, and the police will look more like an occupying army than the cops you see out and around today. I hope I'm wrong.
You do like some of the data I've seen on numerous user systems. I once saw a mac powerbook used by a salesman that had folders nested 25+ folders deep. Can't remember the exact count, but my understanding of HFS is that it can't be as high as I remember!
He'd have a folder named October1998, with files in it from April 2001, with another folder in it called 1997, that had a folder in it call May 1999, and so on. It was unbelievable. I was migrating the thing to a T20 with win2k, and as I remember, I ended up having to break up his folder tree quite a bit to even make it fit. NTFS5 wouldn't take it as is no matter what tool was used. Had to fill out paperwork documenting that I couldn't be 100% certain that all documents were migrated successully. Was the only one like that, out of 3500 or so.
Yeh, and the only useful one is the title. Searchable as a keyword. Big deal. Let me know when 1984 is both datatype string and year, and when you can look it up as videos of things that happened in year 1984, or videos about things that happened in 1984. Let me know when you can look it up as images of Actor Chris Doufalloufa, the guy whose shoulder appears in the one scene, and nothing else.
Then I might want to call it useful. Right now its a joke. Unless you always search for video clips between 50 and 419 seconds...
Also, how can you lose a document you can find via search?
When you can't remember what file format it was in, was that.doc or rtf? Did I write that back in May, or was it April. And damned, but I'm sure that that's gotta be a keyword for it! Or was it? Or, you remember all these things, and it still doesn't show up.
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It is true that the beautiful flower often does grow from stinky shit.
There are so many wonders, so many great things, that come of the small, the weak, the mundane and ugly, that to list them all here would be cliche.
However, IE will always be the paragon of suckage that it is now, for all eternity. It is an avatar of slopped together kludge, that strides the very earth itself, leaving gigantic footprints of utter stupidity in its wake. That no force can stop it, of this I cannot be certain. But it can never be redeemed. None of the damned in hell are condemned like it is.
Mozilla may wane and die, or perhaps opera. Multitudes of both good and bad browsers might take shape and live long lives. But IE will never, ever improve.
D) None of the above.
Sneaking something into an appropriations bill, by definition, requires it be "sneaked"... impossible to do, if everyone knows about it. 3 weeks from now, 3 months from now, 3 years from now, there will be another bill, people won't be on guard for it, and it will return.
Want to read my k5 story about stealing that 20% when no one was looking?
Carly Fiorna! I didn't know you had a slashdot account! BTW, thanks for fixing the R&D labs at HP, they needed a good cleaning out.
Yeh, but I have to grant them that last one. He looks like he's been dead that long, at least...
Not to be picky, but an ethernet datagram is a frame. Packets are 1 level up.
Yeh, that's one of the 3 most popular TLDs, right?
If this were a windows fanboy thread, you'd have 20 dozen MCSE bootcamp graduates screaming that you should spend the next 6 months using regmon to figure out which keys are for the app, which aren't. You're also supposed to sacrifice a chicken or something during the folly.
Give me txt file configs any day of the week.
Bravado is never being wrong, even when you'd say someone else was if it were anyone else but you. It's never bothering to be introspective, to question yourself or your actions.
Confidence is knowing you'll get there eventually, even if you aren't there yet. You're allowed to ask questions along the way like "Should this be here?".
I would much rather rely on software that is like the latter, than I would the former.
Besides, I bet Simon Lok maintains a few hundred windows machines too, but since he can't read those comments at all...
I'll do you one better.
What if some sick kiddyporn freak writes software that downloads images to an image viewer, without ever caching any of it to the HD? I'd be suprised if this doesn't already exist.
Won't dispute that. It is pretty horrible, isn't it.
It's also responsible for Google Maps. That's the only big one that jumps out at me, but there are a few other uses I've seen, that I've liked. Try out greasemonkey, and make javascript work for you.
It's ECMAscript. Name hasn't caught on yet. ECMA = European Computer Manufacturer's Association, I do believe. Mozilla used to have some bugs where you couldn't use that as the attribute value for a "script" element. Or maybe that was with SVG.
But isn't this alot like saying "We'll return to the moon in the next 10 minutes, at the earliest" ?
Rocketships are cheaper than a horse and buggy was for your great-great-great-grandfather, but still not as easy to use!
You mean, you aren't aware that all video game-> movie transitions suck ass? Need I remind everyone of Street Fighter, the movie so bad it killed Raul Julia? Or how about Super Mario Bros. ?
Or maybe it's the confusion over why Microsoft would deserve anything but a token amount of upfront cash, seeing how they had nothing to do with writing what little story is behind a FPS game.
Stop using M$ slime, and I'll write up that TB extension myself.
Yes, but they were also the losers. So in that way, they *are* like windows users!
For extra karma, say that with a thick russian accent about how Windows will rule the world, while beating on the podium with your shoe.
Decent question, wrong answer. I'm not the kind that has folders nested 10 deep, but for me, it goes in ./job/portfolio, along with anything else resume-ish. Job leads and tips go in ./job/leads, which doesn't exactly fit resume, you know? I might also have career as a subdir, and so forth. Most things that are fairly hierarchial.
I'm not an opponent of meta-data, I just know that it's hard to come by, and I don't want filesystem navigation to go away. If you want to know what I think can be searched for in a meaningful way like this (it's a pretty small subset of files), ask me sometime. It's currently a SQL database that has the most complex relationship diagram of anything you're ever likely to see...
I think your children will grow up in a country where they still can't own guns, but the police will carry them at all times, and the police will look more like an occupying army than the cops you see out and around today. I hope I'm wrong.
I also suspect it will happen over here too.
You do like some of the data I've seen on numerous user systems. I once saw a mac powerbook used by a salesman that had folders nested 25+ folders deep. Can't remember the exact count, but my understanding of HFS is that it can't be as high as I remember!
He'd have a folder named October1998, with files in it from April 2001, with another folder in it called 1997, that had a folder in it call May 1999, and so on. It was unbelievable. I was migrating the thing to a T20 with win2k, and as I remember, I ended up having to break up his folder tree quite a bit to even make it fit. NTFS5 wouldn't take it as is no matter what tool was used. Had to fill out paperwork documenting that I couldn't be 100% certain that all documents were migrated successully. Was the only one like that, out of 3500 or so.
Yeh, and the only useful one is the title. Searchable as a keyword. Big deal. Let me know when 1984 is both datatype string and year, and when you can look it up as videos of things that happened in year 1984, or videos about things that happened in 1984. Let me know when you can look it up as images of Actor Chris Doufalloufa, the guy whose shoulder appears in the one scene, and nothing else.
Then I might want to call it useful. Right now its a joke. Unless you always search for video clips between 50 and 419 seconds...
Also, how can you lose a document you can find via search?
.doc or rtf? Did I write that back in May, or was it April. And damned, but I'm sure that that's gotta be a keyword for it! Or was it? Or, you remember all these things, and it still doesn't show up.
When you can't remember what file format it was in, was that
I got the opposite impression. That at some point, you wouldn't be able to see a filesystem hierarchy at all, and only the search box would be left.