It is so utterly, utterly unlike an MMORPG that I can only assume that your comment was the result of a cat walking across the keyboard. I realise the probability of a cat hitting the keys necessary to compose such a message are vanishingly small, but I prefer to believe that over facing the possibility that people with such poor reading comprehension skills are allowed to use computers unsupervised.
Google for 'FUD "fear, uncertainty and doubt"': 68,700 results
Google for 'FUD "fucked up disinformation"': 36 results
One of the above is a mainstream expansion. The other is 36 people who, just like the OP, don't know what it actually means. And substituting the former into the OP doesn't make a meaningful statement. MS warning that the lack of a central Open Source Corporation means enterprises have no guarantee of support in case of problems == FUD. MS saying their browser is faster at rendering some pages: != FUD.
There's a limit to how long someone over the (mental) age of 13 can stay on Slashdot without turning into a dick, exactly because of sequences such as this:
Chrome released with V8, claimed fastest JS engine "Wow! They've really pushed JS interpreters forward!"
FF demos Tracemonkey JS engine "Wow! FF have really risen to the challenge and shown that OSS can do even better!"
Apple releases Safari 4 with Nitro engine "Wow! JS speed is amazing across the board!"
MS says IE 8 faster at rendering some websites "OMG FUDzzisOfdfFUDUDUDUDU"
Jesus Christ, as soon as MS is mentioned anywhere on this site, the level of discussion descends to 8 year olds debating Batman vs Superman.
Not really that strange - looking at the wild differences between avg and max speeds across the board just tells you that the speed test is too unreliable to draw conclusions from. With that sort of variance you'd probably have to run about 20 tests, discarding the outliers before averaging, before getting anything remotely representative for each platform.
I wouldn't be at all shocked if he re-ran the exact same test and came up with a totally different ordering.
There is no point whatsoever to the first sentence of the summary except to imply that data is being sent:
"According to researchers, 'there is no link between the MMR vaccine and autism.' That's little comfort to Joe and Mary Blogs whose son has been diagnosed with autism."
Why mention the MMR vaccine at all unless you want to suggest a link? Same with the reference to personally identifiable data in the summary.
Did the person who submitted this story even read it before writing the summary? Did Taco even bo...actually, I'll not waste time finishing that sentence.
Short version for those who can't be bothered to RTFA: WGA doesn't send personally identifiable data, and the people sentenced were not end users but pirates (yeah, I said pirates. Suck it bitches.) who sold on illegal copies.
ISTR it's the phishing protection. If you disable that, it stops behaving so weirdly. I hunted for a solution after some particularly excessive thrashing that resulted in the chrome process, after a few minutes, having more I/O reads/writes than every other process on the system that had been running for hours.
The editors posted it because they are drooling morons. They see windows...bug...POST!
The submitter, however, knew exactly what he was doing:...an unpatched vulnerability in the WordPad Text Converter, a tool included with all versions of Windows. A phrase carefully worded to be completely true, and yet lead those who don't RTFM to get it completely wrong. It would be impressive if it weren't OH SO FUCKING TEDIOUS.
As a couple of ACs have already said, if you want to learn JS then don't start by learning a framework. Learn a framework/library once you've learned the language fully, and you've identified some functionality that the framework will provide and save you some time. Or alternatively never bother learning the framework because as a rule of thumb, JS frameworks are written by people who don't like JS and so try and rewrite it to be more like their favourite language. Oh, and writing cross-platform JS is now a piece of piss. Don't believe anyone who says otherwise, unless they're supporting some esoteric non-compliant embedded device (or Netscape 6).
A good book, as mentioned earlier, is the O'Reilly book with the imaginative title "JavaScript". Other books I have seen are just downright wrong in places; there probably are other good ones out there, but that's the only one I've seen first-hand. Once familiar with the language, read all of this site: http://javascript.crockford.com/ He's got an O'Reilly book out too, linked from the page (I've never read it, but the guy knows his stuff).
Gah! Database independent, yet almost invariably used on exactly one RDBMS. And you just know some of the more obscure query syntax makes the application on top of it database dependent anyway.
Even worse - I just ran those benchmarks on 3.1 with and without JIT enabled, and the results were slower across the board when the JIT was enabled. I ran the tests repeatedly with the same results.
I thnk we may have the all-too-common case of developers optimising for specific benchmarks and ending up with code that's extremely fast...at running those benchmarks. Needless to say, SunSpider ran FAR faster with JIT enabled.
[The new attack could affect] hash functions (such as MD5, SHA-256), stream ciphers (such as RC4), and block ciphers (such as DES, Triple-DES, AES)...The new attack method isn't necessarily going to work against the exact ciphers listed above
With:
Okay, he thinks that AES is immune to this attack...And this attack doesn't apply to any block cipher -- DES, AES, Blowfish, Twofish, anything else -- in common use
TFA also surmised that the train controls were running on Windows based on the fact that he'd seen something else related to trains running on Windows. Methinks the author's bias is showing through somewhat - which is a shame, because the first entry (and first entry only) about using a full blown Windows solution to display an arrow was actually pretty entertaining.
On 2002-10-29, another third party, who had access to a Windows NT XP system with the first service pack applied, reported to me confirming that on that system it was now impossible to reproduce this bug.
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It is so utterly, utterly unlike an MMORPG that I can only assume that your comment was the result of a cat walking across the keyboard. I realise the probability of a cat hitting the keys necessary to compose such a message are vanishingly small, but I prefer to believe that over facing the possibility that people with such poor reading comprehension skills are allowed to use computers unsupervised.
Google for 'FUD "fear, uncertainty and doubt"': 68,700 results
Google for 'FUD "fucked up disinformation"': 36 results
One of the above is a mainstream expansion. The other is 36 people who, just like the OP, don't know what it actually means. And substituting the former into the OP doesn't make a meaningful statement. MS warning that the lack of a central Open Source Corporation means enterprises have no guarantee of support in case of problems == FUD. MS saying their browser is faster at rendering some pages: != FUD.
There's a limit to how long someone over the (mental) age of 13 can stay on Slashdot without turning into a dick, exactly because of sequences such as this:
Chrome released with V8, claimed fastest JS engine
"Wow! They've really pushed JS interpreters forward!"
FF demos Tracemonkey JS engine
"Wow! FF have really risen to the challenge and shown that OSS can do even better!"
Apple releases Safari 4 with Nitro engine
"Wow! JS speed is amazing across the board!"
MS says IE 8 faster at rendering some websites
"OMG FUDzzisOfdfFUDUDUDUDU"
Jesus Christ, as soon as MS is mentioned anywhere on this site, the level of discussion descends to 8 year olds debating Batman vs Superman.
Do you actually know what FUD means, or have you just seen other posters using it and fancied a go yourself?
DEPRECATED, motherfucker. DEPRECATED.
That is a truly shocking email. And if it were 10 years ago it may even be slightly relevant.
I wouldn't be at all shocked if he re-ran the exact same test and came up with a totally different ordering.
What the fuck are you babbling on about?
"According to researchers, 'there is no link between the MMR vaccine and autism.' That's little comfort to Joe and Mary Blogs whose son has been diagnosed with autism."
Why mention the MMR vaccine at all unless you want to suggest a link? Same with the reference to personally identifiable data in the summary.
Short version for those who can't be bothered to RTFA: WGA doesn't send personally identifiable data, and the people sentenced were not end users but pirates (yeah, I said pirates. Suck it bitches.) who sold on illegal copies.
Do you also need to buy CliffsNotes for Teletubbies?
ISTR it's the phishing protection. If you disable that, it stops behaving so weirdly. I hunted for a solution after some particularly excessive thrashing that resulted in the chrome process, after a few minutes, having more I/O reads/writes than every other process on the system that had been running for hours.
The editors posted it because they are drooling morons. They see windows...bug...POST!
The submitter, however, knew exactly what he was doing: ...an unpatched vulnerability in the WordPad Text Converter, a tool included with all versions of Windows. A phrase carefully worded to be completely true, and yet lead those who don't RTFM to get it completely wrong. It would be impressive if it weren't OH SO FUCKING TEDIOUS.
A good book, as mentioned earlier, is the O'Reilly book with the imaginative title "JavaScript". Other books I have seen are just downright wrong in places; there probably are other good ones out there, but that's the only one I've seen first-hand. Once familiar with the language, read all of this site: http://javascript.crockford.com/ He's got an O'Reilly book out too, linked from the page (I've never read it, but the guy knows his stuff).
And for the love of God, install Firebug.
Really? Until everyone pointed out how wrong you were, you claimed that what you found funny were the statistics.
Statistics. You fail it hard.
I could have a shave and pretend, if you like?
Gah! Database independent, yet almost invariably used on exactly one RDBMS. And you just know some of the more obscure query syntax makes the application on top of it database dependent anyway.
Yeah, it annoys the tits off me also.
I thnk we may have the all-too-common case of developers optimising for specific benchmarks and ending up with code that's extremely fast...at running those benchmarks. Needless to say, SunSpider ran FAR faster with JIT enabled.
Good point - they need to indicate that their web app is always "under construction". Maybe some sort of animated gif would be more appropriate?
With:
Slight shift in implications, dontchathink?
This is because Mr Taco is a socially retarded cunt.
Free, GPL AND open source? All in one package? However do they do it?!
A story about a leaked fucking trailer?
TFA also surmised that the train controls were running on Windows based on the fact that he'd seen something else related to trains running on Windows. Methinks the author's bias is showing through somewhat - which is a shame, because the first entry (and first entry only) about using a full blown Windows solution to display an arrow was actually pretty entertaining.