I don't know what kind of smoke you're inhaling to think that times are, on average, good, at least in the IT industry.
So here's the question - the American auto industry was crippled in the 70s and took years to recover. It's still pitifully weak compared the Japanese companies. So how does the US IT industry avoid this, remembering in particular that in the auto industry, there were only a few big auto manufacturers, whereas IT has many more players, and the players are part of the problem since they can trivially move development overseas - it's not Indian companies hurting us, it's our own companies hiring outside workers. If the American IT industry can't avoid this, what do we do? Just wait for our economy to depress enough that we're worth hiring again? Just "get another job, you slacker" isn't really an answer - what happens when that job goes overseas as well? An American worker, especially one on the east coast (where I am) literally cannot compete with an Indian one who's cost of living is a tenth of his, no matter how much "value" he brings to a job. Is America going to become a nation of managers, where no usefull products are actually produced here? That's actually where we were heading in the 80s, and then the software industry blew up and everyone said that it didn't matter that we produce hardly anything physical, because America is where all the intellectual development was. And for a while, it was even true.
The plugin thing looks pretty okay, actually, assuming you're going to trust him (I know you just said you aren't, but...:P). Plugins without a digital signiture from him won't load, although the plugin page says the user can force them. Seems like a nice balance between the need for security in a financial app and still giving your end users the ability to modify thier own software.
Um. What freedom is being guaranteed, here? On top of that, I believe the OP is wrong, and that the (at least some of) bills would preclude things like NAT and encrypted traffic without any especially loose interpetation. Certainly not as loose as it takes to decide that the DMCA applies to garage door openers and printer cartridges.
If you think about the logical consequences of a totally free market, you'll see that this kind of protectionism is inevitable. In a capitalist system, lawmakers and politicians are just another resource to be traded for goods and/or services. The same with media, which is even more important since access to information is essential for capitalism to work "properly".
It's a failure of the capitalist model. Be sure to remember this the next time some moron blathers about the free market being a cure for any economic problem.
It claims to be a reprint of an article by the Chronicle, which is at least a reputable news source. I suppose you could do some research on the names in the article and see what came up.
Quick.. mmm... flashy interfaces are easy and fast in Flash. Stuff like the cute installers you see for alot of games, for example, or the "multimedia" menus in CDs. I understand it's used alot for DVD menus, too. In web work, anywhere there's a java applet, it probably could be (and should be) done in Flash instead, assuming you need a plugin for it at all.
Bullshit, they justify it by selling advertising and by increased exposure. Journalism is about more than making money, so the "shareholder value" crap thats bandied about to excuse anything corporations do doesn't fly. If selling personal information is the only way they can justify an online presence, then they can close down, we don't need them.
Besides, Business Week is also running the article:
We must have the crappiest mainframe in existence. It's slower than ass, and we're replacing our inventory system with one running on win2k servers & oracle, which has a dozen times the functionality and 10 times the speed. But we have to maintain compatiblity with the legacy system, which means that the 15% of our records which are invalid (10 years of data entry errors, since the mainframe apps don't enforce inputs) can't be removed. I hate our mainframe. I wish it would die.
In cases like this, assume that people will do the reasonable, intelligent thing (like replace the car seat). People who don't do the reasonable, intelligent thing can't be relied upon to act correctly in any case and shouldn't be coddled.
Wow, shitload of replies here:p The reason why _I_ like an uninstaller in the Start Menu is because a) Add/Remove programs is alot of clicks away, and it loads like a fucking dog because of fucking Microsoft and thier HTML application fetish. (Oh, and while I'm ranting, msi sucks ass. I'd like an installer that takes less time to initialize than to actually run the install, thanks). FYI, putting a raw shortcut on the start menu is against the guidelines. Oh, and if whoever ranter about the publisher name being the top level folder - that's in the guidelines, too.
I like my start menu to be organized by program, with all the things I'd do with that program (without actually running it) in that start menu. For games with a dedicated server, I want a shortcut to the server there. If there's some common command-line switches, I want shortcuts to those instead of needing to make my own (like the safe mode switch for alot of games). Anything that's related to your application that's not integral to it (manuals if they're pdf or html files, but not if they're winhelp or html help) should be in your start menu.
No need for the bat file, you can just pass index.html to CreateProcess (might need CreateProcessEx, been a long time since I worked directly with the API there).
The logo is a scam - many of the apps that carry it, and even MS apps, don't follow the guidelines. There's lots of crap, and some of it is very dodgy - for example, you aren't permitted to have a link to your uninstaller in your start menu folder. There's a bunch of things you can and cannot do in the start menu, actually, along with more intelligent things like accessability support (very subjective, and many apps with the logo don't conform) and using system colors/fonts.
Microsoft Press publishes one of the best books I've ever seen on writing secure code (called, suprisingly, Writing Secure Code, ISBN 0-7356-1588-8). It's written by 2 MS engineers. I'd say there certainly are people at MS who're very qualified to talk about security, and, hopefully, those will be the ones teaching the seminars.
The book talks a great deal about how having secure code is more than just the writing, especially in a corporate environment where you need to enforce standards on multiple programmers and have to deal with the pressures from marketing, etc. I think that, more than incompotent programmers, is what leads to the issues we see at MS.
That's not a benefit of 64 bit, though, they're just taking advantage of the move to 64bit to add some architecture changes to x86, and since everyone needs to write new compilers anyway, it's a prime time to do it. the 64bit PPCs won't get this advantage, for example.
I don't think this'd catch on, for the same reasons posted about about morale, and for the same reason subscription software is recieved very poorly. People like stuff to be theirs, or at least appear theirs, and a dumb terminal thats maintained by someone else certainly isn't that. It's ones thing to use one in a library, or as a workstation in your office (although I assume that most places these are used, most users are developers or engineers and are allowed a large degree of control over thier environment), but another entirely if it's YOUR computer in YOUR home.
Someone has to do that testing. Early adopters trade the risk of the technology being crap vrs. the odds of it working. If everyone waited for the price to come down, or whatever, it'd never happen. More than one decent technology has been pushed aside because of this.
I was at an arcade in Santa Cruz where the had the drumming games, and once kinda spiffy one where you had to match things by waving your hands around these globes. I think it was supposed to emulate goth dancing:P
On a side, note, DDR may seem stupid but a) it's really damn hard and b) people who're really good at it look amazing. I watched some guy do all the hardest levels in the arcade, and it was like watching a professional tap dancer. I, on the other hand, look like someone tazed a rabbit.
Not neccesarily. PHYSICAL security is near impossible, because anyone with physical access to the machine can get control. Local security (defined an legitimate, but controlled user access) is certainly possible.
However, it's been a design decision by MS for some years now that dekstop access (defined as being able to interact with the desktop, which does not require physical access) is a "barrier" - that there's no point in protecting once someone has that. IMO, that's a horrible mentality, and it's perfectly legitimate to bash them for that.
Well, if your template relies on the the objects it's going to be a container for implementing certain functionality, then it's not all that generic - in that case, I'd go with the derivation.
If you wanted a more complicated, but more extensible solution, your template should include a parameter for equality testing (or whatever), much like the STL set classes do. (It uses the < parameter to sort in a b-tree by default, but you can provide one of your own. Or you can just override < in whatever you're putting in the set).
It depends on your need, and what you're making. If you're making a package that'd you'd sell or be providing to other people, where you aren't involved in development, you certainly should go with the template - it's silly to expect them to change thier inheritence hierarchy to support you.
*giggle* So the humans are like Saddam, where they're lying to the machines (UN) about thier WMD (matrix super-powers) and refusing to accept the dicatates(UN resolution) of the machines (UN).
The Agents (US) are a special subset of the machines (UN), and are the special enemies of the rebels (Saddam), and there's a strong mutual hatred, to the point where the Agents(US) can be (almost) as human(evil) as the rebels (Saddam).
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So here's the question - the American auto industry was crippled in the 70s and took years to recover. It's still pitifully weak compared the Japanese companies. So how does the US IT industry avoid this, remembering in particular that in the auto industry, there were only a few big auto manufacturers, whereas IT has many more players, and the players are part of the problem since they can trivially move development overseas - it's not Indian companies hurting us, it's our own companies hiring outside workers. If the American IT industry can't avoid this, what do we do? Just wait for our economy to depress enough that we're worth hiring again? Just "get another job, you slacker" isn't really an answer - what happens when that job goes overseas as well? An American worker, especially one on the east coast (where I am) literally cannot compete with an Indian one who's cost of living is a tenth of his, no matter how much "value" he brings to a job. Is America going to become a nation of managers, where no usefull products are actually produced here? That's actually where we were heading in the 80s, and then the software industry blew up and everyone said that it didn't matter that we produce hardly anything physical, because America is where all the intellectual development was. And for a while, it was even true.
The plugin thing looks pretty okay, actually, assuming you're going to trust him (I know you just said you aren't, but... :P). Plugins without a digital signiture from him won't load, although the plugin page says the user can force them. Seems like a nice balance between the need for security in a financial app and still giving your end users the ability to modify thier own software.
Um. What freedom is being guaranteed, here? On top of that, I believe the OP is wrong, and that the (at least some of) bills would preclude things like NAT and encrypted traffic without any especially loose interpetation. Certainly not as loose as it takes to decide that the DMCA applies to garage door openers and printer cartridges.
If you think about the logical consequences of a totally free market, you'll see that this kind of protectionism is inevitable. In a capitalist system, lawmakers and politicians are just another resource to be traded for goods and/or services. The same with media, which is even more important since access to information is essential for capitalism to work "properly".
It's a failure of the capitalist model. Be sure to remember this the next time some moron blathers about the free market being a cure for any economic problem.
It claims to be a reprint of an article by the Chronicle, which is at least a reputable news source. I suppose you could do some research on the names in the article and see what came up.
To my (limited) knowledge, lexmark only puts the chips in it's laserjet toner cartridges, not on normal inkjets.
Speakeasy DSL has something like this.
Quick.. mmm... flashy interfaces are easy and fast in Flash. Stuff like the cute installers you see for alot of games, for example, or the "multimedia" menus in CDs. I understand it's used alot for DVD menus, too. In web work, anywhere there's a java applet, it probably could be (and should be) done in Flash instead, assuming you need a plugin for it at all.
Besides, Business Week is also running the article:
We must have the crappiest mainframe in existence. It's slower than ass, and we're replacing our inventory system with one running on win2k servers & oracle, which has a dozen times the functionality and 10 times the speed. But we have to maintain compatiblity with the legacy system, which means that the 15% of our records which are invalid (10 years of data entry errors, since the mainframe apps don't enforce inputs) can't be removed. I hate our mainframe. I wish it would die.
In cases like this, assume that people will do the reasonable, intelligent thing (like replace the car seat). People who don't do the reasonable, intelligent thing can't be relied upon to act correctly in any case and shouldn't be coddled.
Heh, just tried it myself and it doesn't work. I know theres a way to do it without looking up the mime type yourself, I must find it!
I like my start menu to be organized by program, with all the things I'd do with that program (without actually running it) in that start menu. For games with a dedicated server, I want a shortcut to the server there. If there's some common command-line switches, I want shortcuts to those instead of needing to make my own (like the safe mode switch for alot of games). Anything that's related to your application that's not integral to it (manuals if they're pdf or html files, but not if they're winhelp or html help) should be in your start menu.
No need for the bat file, you can just pass index.html to CreateProcess (might need CreateProcessEx, been a long time since I worked directly with the API there).
The logo is a scam - many of the apps that carry it, and even MS apps, don't follow the guidelines. There's lots of crap, and some of it is very dodgy - for example, you aren't permitted to have a link to your uninstaller in your start menu folder. There's a bunch of things you can and cannot do in the start menu, actually, along with more intelligent things like accessability support (very subjective, and many apps with the logo don't conform) and using system colors/fonts.
The book talks a great deal about how having secure code is more than just the writing, especially in a corporate environment where you need to enforce standards on multiple programmers and have to deal with the pressures from marketing, etc. I think that, more than incompotent programmers, is what leads to the issues we see at MS.
That's not a benefit of 64 bit, though, they're just taking advantage of the move to 64bit to add some architecture changes to x86, and since everyone needs to write new compilers anyway, it's a prime time to do it. the 64bit PPCs won't get this advantage, for example.
I don't think this'd catch on, for the same reasons posted about about morale, and for the same reason subscription software is recieved very poorly. People like stuff to be theirs, or at least appear theirs, and a dumb terminal thats maintained by someone else certainly isn't that. It's ones thing to use one in a library, or as a workstation in your office (although I assume that most places these are used, most users are developers or engineers and are allowed a large degree of control over thier environment), but another entirely if it's YOUR computer in YOUR home.
Someone has to do that testing. Early adopters trade the risk of the technology being crap vrs. the odds of it working. If everyone waited for the price to come down, or whatever, it'd never happen. More than one decent technology has been pushed aside because of this.
On a side, note, DDR may seem stupid but a) it's really damn hard and b) people who're really good at it look amazing. I watched some guy do all the hardest levels in the arcade, and it was like watching a professional tap dancer. I, on the other hand, look like someone tazed a rabbit.
Note that an anectodal story doesn't make a "statistic". The basic fact is no, there aren't any.
However, it's been a design decision by MS for some years now that dekstop access (defined as being able to interact with the desktop, which does not require physical access) is a "barrier" - that there's no point in protecting once someone has that. IMO, that's a horrible mentality, and it's perfectly legitimate to bash them for that.
If you wanted a more complicated, but more extensible solution, your template should include a parameter for equality testing (or whatever), much like the STL set classes do. (It uses the < parameter to sort in a b-tree by default, but you can provide one of your own. Or you can just override < in whatever you're putting in the set).
It depends on your need, and what you're making. If you're making a package that'd you'd sell or be providing to other people, where you aren't involved in development, you certainly should go with the template - it's silly to expect them to change thier inheritence hierarchy to support you.
The Agents (US) are a special subset of the machines (UN), and are the special enemies of the rebels (Saddam), and there's a strong mutual hatred, to the point where the Agents(US) can be (almost) as human(evil) as the rebels (Saddam).