There are more than enough Democrats on the take with ISP's as well. Additionally, there have been more than enough Democrats in power over time to have solved this problem as well. They were also bitched at for not taking Ajit to task over the cyberattack BS.
This is the same old long game of do nothing but blame the other side for things being bad.
Pure straw man argument. Tom Wheeler passed the net neutrality rules and seemed to be actually working for the benefit of the consumers and the American people. How is that "do nothing but blame the other side?"
I'm the maintainer of Mupen64Plus, an open source N64 emulator. I've heard rumors that 2 distributors (yongzh and zottd) were violating the GPL license of my project by distributing derived versions on the Android market without any offer for source code. I was going to contact the SFLC to go after these guys but haven't taken the time to do so yet. If google has pulled their products down already then it saves me the trouble of going after them. Breaking the spirit of OSS; bad karma for them.
I agree that SharePoint sucks, and I took a training course. I work for a large corp that has migrated all of the intranet to SP and my colleagues and I pretty much universally dislike it. It's slow, bloated, and the access controls are like a Soviet bureaucracy. If the only software that you use is Microsoft, then it can be a useful tool. But if you try to deal with Sharepoint using Firefox or Linux, it is extremely frustrating. If you are accustomed to the openness and speed of mediawiki then SP feels like a dog. I'll be setting up a Wave server as soon as google releases the source.
Hmm, I've already done something similar. I wrote a GUI in python using pygame for system/game selection. 47,000 ROMS including MAME, 14 or 15 consoles from the atari 2600 up to the N64, 7 home computers, and 4 handhelds. I haven't created any website for it because it really needs to be an integrated system - making it all run on a different machine/OS would take a lot of work. Almost all of the emulators have been modified to work seamlessly. All of them except one (for the Lynx) is compiled from source. It's all running on Fedora 8, 64-bit.
MESS doesn't really cut it for a lot of the systems; see: http://nonmess.retrogames.com/
I also lead the mupen64plus project:
http://code.google.com/p/mupen64plus/
If the authors of this benchmark test were competent they would have written the code for low-level tests like memory bandwidth in assembly language, so compiler choice would not impact them.
Not prejudice at all; merely a simple tool for estimating the quality of a piece of software in the absence of more rigorous information such as a code review.
Anybody can play this game, for example here are some more:
5. Requires 20MB Java runtime
6. Requires 100MB.NET runtime
7. Written by monkeys pounding on keyboards
8. Leaks memory and slows down / dies over time
9. Requires massive marketing organization to convince people to purchase it, because it can't stand on it's own merits
10. Written by a certified CMM Level 5 organization
Let's apply the recipe for detecting shitty software without evaluating the code:
1. Only runs under Windows (check)
2. Extremely poor performance or stellar system requirements compared to similar products (check)
3. Bloated with useless features and eye candy which don't actually improve the user experience (check)
4. Requires vbrun.dll (nope)
Patents and copyrights are intended to prevent people from free-loading off of the work of others
This statement is factually false. Go and read the US Constitution if you want to know what patents and copyrights are actually intended to accomplish.
'long long' has been used for years to force 64-bit integers; this isn't a new Microsoft thing. Probably the reason why MS decided to keep 'long' as 32-bit is that all the old-school C programs (ie, a lot of the crufty Win32 C software) were written with 'long' everywhere, since 'int' was 16-bit back in the DOS day. If they had changed long to 64-bit then all of these data objects would instantly become 64-bit on recompilation and the resulting bugs would be numerous and very difficult to find. The work-around is a massive and tedious search-and-replace operation over all of your source code. So, they greatly simplified porting old applications and avoided all of these bugs by sticking with 32-bit longs. Instead you'll just get a compiler error in any places where there are pointer->int conversions, and the fix will be obvious. I'm sure this decision was made with an eye towards legacy codebases.
However, going forward, the Linux/GCC model is better. With this model you can do pointer arithmetic using 'long' and it will build properly for either 32 or 64-bit systems. It's more platform-independent. But the real kicker is the 64-bit ABI. The Application Binary Interface, which is the protocol used for passing arguments in function calls, is greatly improved for 64-bit GCC and results in 10-15% performance gains when porting from 32-bit to 64-bit. For free! MS chose a different ABI for backwards compatibility and it sucks - the performance improvement is much smaller.
Things brings back bad memories for me. I had a very similar experience with this same merchant a year ago, and I wrote the attached letter. I sent it through the mail to the New York BBB and the PriceGrabber offices out in CA. At that time (October, 2004), I spoke with a PriceGrabber rep on the phone and they removed PriceRitePhoto from their site. So how come these bastards got listed again?
To whom it may concern:
I am writing this letter to describe the experiences that I have had with a business called PriceRitePhoto.com. Their address is:1274 49th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11219 and their customer service phone number is (888) 365-4300. I found this business through the PriceGrabber.com website and attempted to purchase a camera from them. However this company was more interested in lying to me and manipulating me than selling me a camera.
I am spending my time and effort in order to inform you of the dirty tactics used by PriceRitePhoto.com with the hope that my story will save other potential customers the headaches and lost sleep that I have endured. The manager of PriceRitePhoto.com has already tried to silence my opinion through bribery and extortion but I think that the potential customers *deserve* to know the business strategies employed by PriceRitePhoto.com before deciding to do business with them.
I understand that I am the kind of customer that PriceRitePhoto.com doesn't want. I am an informed consumer and a comparison shopper. If they had simply been honest with me and told me that they were unwilling to sell me the Canon Digital Rebel camera unless I purchased some other accessories, I would have just found another company from which to purchase this camera. I probably wouldn't have submitted a negative review on PriceGrabber.com - I just would have gone my own way. But what I got instead of honesty were lies and manipulation, and I think these strategies are completely unacceptable for a professional organization and ought to be publicized.
I first read about the Canon Digital Rebel camera more than a year ago, and I instantly wanted one. However I was not able to afford to purchase one until recently. Several months ago I began researching the Digital Rebel and several other cameras in preparation for a purchase. I found the PriceGrabber.com website which offered reviews of many different merchants selling this camera, in addition to their prices. I saw that the various merchants fell into several different strata - about 7 or 8 were in the very lowest price range, from $799 to $850 including shipping. I found a merchant in the middle of this price range with a high rating and mostly positive reviews: PriceRitePhoto.com. I knew that I would also need some other accessories with the camera, and I planned on purchasing a USB 2.0 Compact Flash card reader and a Compact Flash card. I found that PriceRitePhoto.com had a USB 1.0 CF reader for $49, but did not offer a USB 2.0 reader. However Best Buy sold a USB 2.0 reader for $15, so I drove to purchase this item at Best Buy. After some research I decided that the CF card that I wanted was the Lexar 80x 1 gigabyte card. I looked on the PriceRitePhoto.com website but found that this merchant did not offer this card for sale, so instead I purchased it from TigerDirect.com.
So the only item left was the camera. On Thursday, September 16th, 2004 I placed order #7490 from PriceRitePhoto.com for a Canon Digital Rebel camera with 18-55mm EF-S lens for $799 plus $24.80 shipping. I thought I was getting a great deal at this time, but I had no idea what abuse I was in store for.
It began on the following Sunday, September 19th. I received an email at about 11:00 am, stating that I needed to call PriceRitePhoto.com to "confirm the information on your order". This is where the deceptions began, because the real purpose of this phone call was not in fact to verify my order information, but to sell me some additional items. What follows is certainly one of the most unpleasant experiences that I've ever en
My opinion of Slashdot posters just plummeted. Seriously, a few years ago there were so many insightful comments regularly posted. After reading this article it seems like most people here are jealous script kiddies. A truly intelligent individual wouldn't resent others for being intelligent also. Only those lacking confidence in their own abilities would lash out so viciously.
Like many of you here, I don't see the point in wasting bandwidth with pictures of all this banal crap that you see every day - like fast food. I am in the process of making my own photo sharing site (www.picturexchange.net) mostly for friends and family, but I like to post the 5% of my pictures that are the most beautiful and leave the rest for the digital bin.
Uhhh, perhaps your time would be better spent learning to communicate and interact productively with your children than spying on them. At least I'm sure they would like you more for it.
Hey I think 1.3 rules. I'm using it right now. I just got the opportunity to import all my outlook mail and dump outlook 2k for the Mozilla email client with bayesian filtering. Spam should no longer be such a frustrating issue.
I don't understand how so many people think that tech jobs are so bad - maybe the Sysadmin/web developer jobs suck but Engineering has treated me very well. I have EE/CprE degrees and my job rules. It doesn't stress me out; managers don't push me too hard (not hard enough more like it); I make $50k which is good money for a single person.
There are downfalls - there is a lot of uncertainty in the market, our company just got bought, there will be layoffs, we don't make much money. But we do MAKE something - semiconductor inspection equipment. Real hardware that costs big bucks.. And I like my job and am happy with it!
I never got in with the vaporware/web economy crap which was mostly driven by ADD-inspired entrepreneurs with a VISION but not a good one.
Perhaps most people would, but a good person would not. I believe that there exist individuals whose morals outweigh their desire for personal gain.. Think about it like this: what would be Jesus' price?
Re:"Netscape-style plug-in modules" - HUH?
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I think it's great that they removed the stupid PDF plug-in at least.. I almost always just right-click the thing and save it anyways, because Acrobat reader takes so long to load and it doesn't work correctly inside the IE client window.. Just try doing Alt-F-P and see what comes out of your printer.. At least before the acrobat plugin it would default to save as, so I could just left click rather than right click and select from the context menu..
Things are strange here in Dallas.. The telecom market is bad bad bad.. I have one network admin friend who's been out of work since July.. I have another friend who works for a _very_ large ISP and just found out that he's about to lose his job, along with everyone else at the NOC..
But the company I work for is different.. Our business is in the semiconductor market, which has been the shitcan for quite a while now.. In the past year we laid off basically the entire manufacturing team, as well as numerous admin staff.. However we've been hiring engineers (software mostly) the whole time.
I think this situation has served to generate some animosity towards the engineers on the part of the staff members who work upstairs... Such is life.
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There are more than enough Democrats on the take with ISP's as well. Additionally, there have been more than enough Democrats in power over time to have solved this problem as well. They were also bitched at for not taking Ajit to task over the cyberattack BS.
This is the same old long game of do nothing but blame the other side for things being bad.
Pure straw man argument. Tom Wheeler passed the net neutrality rules and seemed to be actually working for the benefit of the consumers and the American people. How is that "do nothing but blame the other side?"
I'm the maintainer of Mupen64Plus, an open source N64 emulator. I've heard rumors that 2 distributors (yongzh and zottd) were violating the GPL license of my project by distributing derived versions on the Android market without any offer for source code. I was going to contact the SFLC to go after these guys but haven't taken the time to do so yet. If google has pulled their products down already then it saves me the trouble of going after them. Breaking the spirit of OSS; bad karma for them.
I agree that SharePoint sucks, and I took a training course. I work for a large corp that has migrated all of the intranet to SP and my colleagues and I pretty much universally dislike it. It's slow, bloated, and the access controls are like a Soviet bureaucracy. If the only software that you use is Microsoft, then it can be a useful tool. But if you try to deal with Sharepoint using Firefox or Linux, it is extremely frustrating. If you are accustomed to the openness and speed of mediawiki then SP feels like a dog. I'll be setting up a Wave server as soon as google releases the source.
Hmm, I've already done something similar. I wrote a GUI in python using pygame for system/game selection. 47,000 ROMS including MAME, 14 or 15 consoles from the atari 2600 up to the N64, 7 home computers, and 4 handhelds. I haven't created any website for it because it really needs to be an integrated system - making it all run on a different machine/OS would take a lot of work. Almost all of the emulators have been modified to work seamlessly. All of them except one (for the Lynx) is compiled from source. It's all running on Fedora 8, 64-bit. MESS doesn't really cut it for a lot of the systems; see: http://nonmess.retrogames.com/ I also lead the mupen64plus project: http://code.google.com/p/mupen64plus/
If the authors of this benchmark test were competent they would have written the code for low-level tests like memory bandwidth in assembly language, so compiler choice would not impact them.
Not prejudice at all; merely a simple tool for estimating the quality of a piece of software in the absence of more rigorous information such as a code review.
.NET runtime
:)
Anybody can play this game, for example here are some more:
5. Requires 20MB Java runtime
6. Requires 100MB
7. Written by monkeys pounding on keyboards
8. Leaks memory and slows down / dies over time
9. Requires massive marketing organization to convince people to purchase it, because it can't stand on it's own merits
10. Written by a certified CMM Level 5 organization
Go ahead, you try
Let's apply the recipe for detecting shitty software without evaluating the code:
1. Only runs under Windows (check)
2. Extremely poor performance or stellar system requirements compared to similar products (check)
3. Bloated with useless features and eye candy which don't actually improve the user experience (check)
4. Requires vbrun.dll (nope)
3 out of 4 aint bad?
Patents and copyrights are intended to prevent people from free-loading off of the work of others
This statement is factually false. Go and read the US Constitution if you want to know what patents and copyrights are actually intended to accomplish.
'long long' has been used for years to force 64-bit integers; this isn't a new Microsoft thing. Probably the reason why MS decided to keep 'long' as 32-bit is that all the old-school C programs (ie, a lot of the crufty Win32 C software) were written with 'long' everywhere, since 'int' was 16-bit back in the DOS day. If they had changed long to 64-bit then all of these data objects would instantly become 64-bit on recompilation and the resulting bugs would be numerous and very difficult to find. The work-around is a massive and tedious search-and-replace operation over all of your source code. So, they greatly simplified porting old applications and avoided all of these bugs by sticking with 32-bit longs. Instead you'll just get a compiler error in any places where there are pointer->int conversions, and the fix will be obvious. I'm sure this decision was made with an eye towards legacy codebases.
However, going forward, the Linux/GCC model is better. With this model you can do pointer arithmetic using 'long' and it will build properly for either 32 or 64-bit systems. It's more platform-independent. But the real kicker is the 64-bit ABI. The Application Binary Interface, which is the protocol used for passing arguments in function calls, is greatly improved for 64-bit GCC and results in 10-15% performance gains when porting from 32-bit to 64-bit. For free! MS chose a different ABI for backwards compatibility and it sucks - the performance improvement is much smaller.
Things brings back bad memories for me. I had a very similar experience with this same merchant a year ago, and I wrote the attached letter. I sent it through the mail to the New York BBB and the PriceGrabber offices out in CA. At that time (October, 2004), I spoke with a PriceGrabber rep on the phone and they removed PriceRitePhoto from their site. So how come these bastards got listed again?
To whom it may concern:
I am writing this letter to describe the experiences that I have had with a business called PriceRitePhoto.com. Their address is:1274 49th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11219 and their customer service phone number is (888) 365-4300. I found this business through the PriceGrabber.com website and attempted to purchase a camera from them. However this company was more interested in lying to me and manipulating me than selling me a camera.
I am spending my time and effort in order to inform you of the dirty tactics used by PriceRitePhoto.com with the hope that my story will save other potential customers the headaches and lost sleep that I have endured. The manager of PriceRitePhoto.com has already tried to silence my opinion through bribery and extortion but I think that the potential customers *deserve* to know the business strategies employed by PriceRitePhoto.com before deciding to do business with them.
I understand that I am the kind of customer that PriceRitePhoto.com doesn't want. I am an informed consumer and a comparison shopper. If they had simply been honest with me and told me that they were unwilling to sell me the Canon Digital Rebel camera unless I purchased some other accessories, I would have just found another company from which to purchase this camera. I probably wouldn't have submitted a negative review on PriceGrabber.com - I just would have gone my own way. But what I got instead of honesty were lies and manipulation, and I think these strategies are completely unacceptable for a professional organization and ought to be publicized.
I first read about the Canon Digital Rebel camera more than a year ago, and I instantly wanted one. However I was not able to afford to purchase one until recently. Several months ago I began researching the Digital Rebel and several other cameras in preparation for a purchase. I found the PriceGrabber.com website which offered reviews of many different merchants selling this camera, in addition to their prices. I saw that the various merchants fell into several different strata - about 7 or 8 were in the very lowest price range, from $799 to $850 including shipping. I found a merchant in the middle of this price range with a high rating and mostly positive reviews: PriceRitePhoto.com. I knew that I would also need some other accessories with the camera, and I planned on purchasing a USB 2.0 Compact Flash card reader and a Compact Flash card. I found that PriceRitePhoto.com had a USB 1.0 CF reader for $49, but did not offer a USB 2.0 reader. However Best Buy sold a USB 2.0 reader for $15, so I drove to purchase this item at Best Buy. After some research I decided that the CF card that I wanted was the Lexar 80x 1 gigabyte card. I looked on the PriceRitePhoto.com website but found that this merchant did not offer this card for sale, so instead I purchased it from TigerDirect.com.
So the only item left was the camera. On Thursday, September 16th, 2004 I placed order #7490 from PriceRitePhoto.com for a Canon Digital Rebel camera with 18-55mm EF-S lens for $799 plus $24.80 shipping. I thought I was getting a great deal at this time, but I had no idea what abuse I was in store for.
It began on the following Sunday, September 19th. I received an email at about 11:00 am, stating that I needed to call PriceRitePhoto.com to "confirm the information on your order". This is where the deceptions began, because the real purpose of this phone call was not in fact to verify my order information, but to sell me some additional items. What follows is certainly one of the most unpleasant experiences that I've ever en
My opinion of Slashdot posters just plummeted. Seriously, a few years ago there were so many insightful comments regularly posted. After reading this article it seems like most people here are jealous script kiddies. A truly intelligent individual wouldn't resent others for being intelligent also. Only those lacking confidence in their own abilities would lash out so viciously.
Like many of you here, I don't see the point in wasting bandwidth with pictures of all this banal crap that you see every day - like fast food. I am in the process of making my own photo sharing site (www.picturexchange.net) mostly for friends and family, but I like to post the 5% of my pictures that are the most beautiful and leave the rest for the digital bin.
Luke, you're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.
Uhhh, perhaps your time would be better spent learning to communicate and interact productively with your children than spying on them. At least I'm sure they would like you more for it.
Hey I think 1.3 rules. I'm using it right now. I just got the opportunity to import all my outlook mail and dump outlook 2k for the Mozilla email client with bayesian filtering. Spam should no longer be such a frustrating issue.
There are downfalls - there is a lot of uncertainty in the market, our company just got bought, there will be layoffs, we don't make much money. But we do MAKE something - semiconductor inspection equipment. Real hardware that costs big bucks.. And I like my job and am happy with it!
I never got in with the vaporware/web economy crap which was mostly driven by ADD-inspired entrepreneurs with a VISION but not a good one.
Richard
Perhaps most people would, but a good person would not. I believe that there exist individuals whose morals outweigh their desire for personal gain.. Think about it like this: what would be Jesus' price?
I think it's great that they removed the stupid PDF plug-in at least.. I almost always just right-click the thing and save it anyways, because Acrobat reader takes so long to load and it doesn't work correctly inside the IE client window.. Just try doing Alt-F-P and see what comes out of your printer.. At least before the acrobat plugin it would default to save as, so I could just left click rather than right click and select from the context menu..
Things are strange here in Dallas.. The telecom market is bad bad bad.. I have one network admin friend who's been out of work since July.. I have another friend who works for a _very_ large ISP and just found out that he's about to lose his job, along with everyone else at the NOC.. But the company I work for is different.. Our business is in the semiconductor market, which has been the shitcan for quite a while now.. In the past year we laid off basically the entire manufacturing team, as well as numerous admin staff.. However we've been hiring engineers (software mostly) the whole time. I think this situation has served to generate some animosity towards the engineers on the part of the staff members who work upstairs... Such is life.