If you need a manual for Windows (pretty much any version), you’re offically mentally disabled. It may be that what disables you, is being used to Windows’s way too much dumbed-down interfaces (Clippy would be proud), though.
But sorry, if you can’t handle Windows 7, then maybe you should try switching your brain to ON for a change. ^^ (Yes, I know that that won’t help in understanding Windows, as people would instantly switch to Linux.;)
A company named Skyhook Wireless is doing this. They are continuously driving trough whole continents with cars, mapping out wifi routers/stations/etc. They are what gives the iPhones/iPods their navigation (they have to real GPS). They are behind Maps Booster which plugs right into the Symbian (Nokia & others) geolocation APIs. (I bought it for 3€, and while it is less exact than GPS here, it also works inside buildings. Plus it makes first-time GPS satellite locking much faster.)
I wonder how this is different from what Google does, though.
But I don’t have a problem with SSID logging anyway. I mean, people who rely on SSIDs for security, really are idiots anyway. It’s not worse than knowing an IP. I can’t see where privacy could be a concern here. And I’m extremely strict about my privacy rules. I think it’s a good service. Hell, how could I not think that paying 3€ for someone to drive across every street on the continent is a good deal?
P.S.: No, I’m not affiliated. And I repeat: It’s not very exact here. I am lucky if I get 50m accuracy. While my A-GPS can get down to 3m. (Oh, and if anyone of you know a service that requires no further hardware, and can get down below 50 cm [ideally below 10cm], please contact me!:)
Yeah. Like walking trough Nazi Berlin 1944, seeing 60 cases of deadly friendly fire by the Nazis, and declaring their action a good thing.;)
Considering my 7-year experience with PHP, I’d say that the easy to find bugs are only artifacts of the horrible horrible architecture underneath.
A interpreter/compiler that allows you to put plain text right between your lines of code like this
<? echo "EVIL"; blablabla echo "PHP" ?>
and not throw an error because it considers any string without quotes to be a string anyway (or a constant, or...), which can be in an expression, which itself can be a statement with its result thrown away, deserves to be compared to something as completely insane as the above example.;)
Also, I only have to say “implicit casting guesswork”, to raise the hairs of pretty much every real programmer out there.
The biggest problem is it being PHP. Sorry, but as the wise Sioux used to say: When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, you should dismount.;)
Helpful tip to fix ambiguities: x a/b y == x a y || x b y but x a / b y = x a || b y
Or in other words: Since punctuation (including spaces and slashes/dashes) are just pauses of different length with maybe intonation changes, one can say that: “a/b” equals a shorter pause than “a / b”, and hence “a” and “b” have distance 0.5 in the first exable, but distance 2.5 in the second one. (When you count a normal space as distance 1.0.)
I came here to post the same thing. The only way a country of millions can “work” is with lots and lots of deceit, fraudulent concealment an lies over lies......on a cake of ignorance and daily-life problems.
Just like with processed “food”, shoes or sun-lacking weather, we humans aren’t made for it.
Now the power goes back to balance. With people waking up from their century-long hibernation and starting to think for themselves again. So I think the Internet is the best thing that ever happened to humanity. Its greatest invention. But we first must become used to what we unlearned. And on top of that deal with much more of it.
I don’t think we need to go back to anything. We need to go forward. What we need, is that states just become groupings of people with common interests, no matter where they live. And that those groupings are not unique, but more like partially-overlapping tags.
I’m already on to a solution for that. The only problem that I still have, is how to properly include the fact that we still have to live in physical proximity of people that might strongly disagree with us. (At least without giant migrations and resource wars.)
The “allergies” are not the fault of the cats, but your own damn fault, for using nasty chemicals, and eating crap like semi-heated animal proteins and industrial trash food. And for being too retarded to look up how to heal yourself, because you blindly believe your just-as-retaded doc.
(I have living proof that allergies can be healed. And that some go away when you simply stop eating heated animal proteins. So yes, I have the facts to have the right to make above statements.)
Human IS an animal! Did you mean cross-species? Because humans are oh-so-special?
Another thing that we will give up in the future...
Especially when we may once have contact with other planets. Because that is one level further. And if that would be OK, it would be much more normal to do it with a species from your *own* planet. Not that I understand what’s supposed to be so appealing about it...
You mean *perceived* genius, by all those who think parroting it around while acting like dicks would totally make them cool.
Sorry, to me his music was just bad. Not even bad in a hateable way. Just... horrible rhythmic structures and cringe-able dissonances. But I don’t go around, and insult others while telling them that my point of view is the only true one and everyone who thinks different is an idiot. Why? Because it’s music! Music is by definition subjective. There is no absolute good and bad. (Actually, there never is. Ever. But let’s not get too meta-philosophical here.)
In other words: If you like it, go ahead, be happy! But the douchebaggery of the highest order comes right from the person who complains about it in this case.
Are the things traded actual physical objects? Yes -> A bubble at least every 30 years is scientifically proven. No -> You’re good.
At least that is the leading view on stock markets since a long time ago. Of course the gambling junkies don’t care, and the government and companies are their pockets.
That’s true for every drug. It’s the definition of the whole thing. It’s why they raise the dosage all the time. (Often it’s impossible to raise it fast enough to not get down to zero anyway.)
Honestly, it’s not America. It’s not even the USA. It’s the US government (and|,) a bunch of criminals. And in this case also the EU fake government (as it’s not legally an actual government). The people of our unions are mostly OK. I don’t have a problem with them.
I have a problem with some dicks who are full of themselves thinking that they deserve to be in charge and to profit trough abuse. I have a problem with them intentionally dumbing down the population (or letting it dumb down), and then using them like a herd of cattle, making them angry with lies or using the “don’t care” that they developed, or so they can make new rules with the sole purpose of abusing people for profit. It’s how Hitler and Stalin did it. It’s now it’s still done.
Come on. We’re the intelligent people here! It’s our obligation to figure out a antidote for this.
(See, you did not say why. So I also don’t, to refute your statement. But I can add arguments on top anyway, to make it an actual argument. Like:)
DRMed information is lost, when the server or decoding system is gone. Criminalized circumventing DRM also is why it is a problem. I’d go so far as saying that being a problem is the point of DRM.
Hmm, right. Damn. Didn’t think about that. But you can actually not only click but do this:
Move the pencil very close to a surface.
Press and hold the little button.
The lead falls out until it touches the surface.
Move the pencil to the proper distance from the surface, so that the wanted length stands out.
Release the little button.
Raise the pencil and continue.
If done right, you don’t even need to move the pencil away from the paper but can do it in the process.
Also, to make the pencil always touch the paper, let it stand on its own weight, with maybe additional weight on it. Only held so it isn’t loose and can’t fall. Then when the pencil has lowered to a certain height, where nearly no lead stands out anymore, the above process starts.
I’d put the pencil in a cage, and have only free wheels and one servo-driven wheel touch it. Now add a sensor to one wheel, so that the height above the paper is known. And allow all wheels to be set into a free non-blocking mode for normal writing state.
Hey, that sounds doable! Where do you live? I want to come over and make it work!:)
“Whenever a controversial law is proposed, and its supporters, when confronted with an egregious abuse it would permit, use a phrase along the lines of 'Perhaps in theory, but the law would never be applied in that way' - they're lying. They intend to use the law that way as early and as often as possible.”
That is actually a good and interesting point. That it was once about the struggle about a far from perfect man, to do the best he can... and even when it’s usually more a catastrophe that is then averted, I can still understand (it makes sense in the story universe) why Marge loves him.:)
So your point is, that you like him, because he shows you how much of an epic failure you are?;)
I haven’t done all that dumb stuff. I’m proud of it. And yes, that makes me better than Homer. (Now please keep down the crab mentality. It is not right to hate people who did not fail. Any you are not entitled to a part of their success. It’s right though, to hate people who want to take and not give something back. Like for example those who want others to give them something of their success without offering any value.)
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If you need a manual for Windows (pretty much any version), you’re offically mentally disabled.
It may be that what disables you, is being used to Windows’s way too much dumbed-down interfaces (Clippy would be proud), though.
But sorry, if you can’t handle Windows 7, then maybe you should try switching your brain to ON for a change. ^^ ;)
(Yes, I know that that won’t help in understanding Windows, as people would instantly switch to Linux.
A company named Skyhook Wireless is doing this. They are continuously driving trough whole continents with cars, mapping out wifi routers/stations/etc.
They are what gives the iPhones/iPods their navigation (they have to real GPS). They are behind Maps Booster which plugs right into the Symbian (Nokia & others) geolocation APIs. (I bought it for 3€, and while it is less exact than GPS here, it also works inside buildings. Plus it makes first-time GPS satellite locking much faster.)
I wonder how this is different from what Google does, though.
But I don’t have a problem with SSID logging anyway. I mean, people who rely on SSIDs for security, really are idiots anyway. It’s not worse than knowing an IP. I can’t see where privacy could be a concern here. And I’m extremely strict about my privacy rules.
I think it’s a good service. Hell, how could I not think that paying 3€ for someone to drive across every street on the continent is a good deal?
P.S.: No, I’m not affiliated. And I repeat: It’s not very exact here. I am lucky if I get 50m accuracy. While my A-GPS can get down to 3m. (Oh, and if anyone of you know a service that requires no further hardware, and can get down below 50 cm [ideally below 10cm], please contact me! :)
Yeah. Like walking trough Nazi Berlin 1944, seeing 60 cases of deadly friendly fire by the Nazis, and declaring their action a good thing. ;)
Considering my 7-year experience with PHP, I’d say that the easy to find bugs are only artifacts of the horrible horrible architecture underneath.
A interpreter/compiler that allows you to put plain text right between your lines of code like this
<? echo "EVIL";
blablabla
echo "PHP" ?>
and not throw an error because it considers any string without quotes to be a string anyway (or a constant, or...), which can be in an expression, which itself can be a statement with its result thrown away, ;)
deserves to be compared to something as completely insane as the above example.
Also, I only have to say “implicit casting guesswork”, to raise the hairs of pretty much every real programmer out there.
The biggest problem is it being PHP. ;)
Sorry, but as the wise Sioux used to say:
When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, you should dismount.
What is “Rant Nonsense”?
Helpful tip to fix ambiguities:
x a/b y == x a y || x b y
but
x a / b y = x a || b y
Or in other words: Since punctuation (including spaces and slashes/dashes) are just pauses of different length with maybe intonation changes, one can say that:
“a/b” equals a shorter pause than “a / b”, and hence “a” and “b” have distance 0.5 in the first exable, but distance 2.5 in the second one. (When you count a normal space as distance 1.0.)
Unfortunately it is still commonly accepted as making it factual anyway.
Just look at Wikipedia.
It boggles the mind how these people build their inner model of reality, when simple “ad populum— can make it a fact to them.
I came here to post the same thing. The only way a country of millions can “work” is with lots and lots of deceit, fraudulent concealment an lies over lies... ...on a cake of ignorance and daily-life problems.
Just like with processed “food”, shoes or sun-lacking weather, we humans aren’t made for it.
Now the power goes back to balance. With people waking up from their century-long hibernation and starting to think for themselves again.
So I think the Internet is the best thing that ever happened to humanity. Its greatest invention.
But we first must become used to what we unlearned. And on top of that deal with much more of it.
I don’t think we need to go back to anything. We need to go forward.
What we need, is that states just become groupings of people with common interests, no matter where they live. And that those groupings are not unique, but more like partially-overlapping tags.
I’m already on to a solution for that. The only problem that I still have, is how to properly include the fact that we still have to live in physical proximity of people that might strongly disagree with us. (At least without giant migrations and resource wars.)
What? Did she pop? Shouldn’t have gone with the cheap model IMHO... ;)
Well, it can’t reach the “quality” of his previous amazing work on the Internet Explorer. ;)
The “allergies” are not the fault of the cats, but your own damn fault, for using nasty chemicals, and eating crap like semi-heated animal proteins and industrial trash food. And for being too retarded to look up how to heal yourself, because you blindly believe your just-as-retaded doc.
(I have living proof that allergies can be healed. And that some go away when you simply stop eating heated animal proteins. So yes, I have the facts to have the right to make above statements.)
Human IS an animal!
Did you mean cross-species? Because humans are oh-so-special?
Another thing that we will give up in the future...
Especially when we may once have contact with other planets. Because that is one level further. And if that would be OK, it would be much more normal to do it with a species from your *own* planet.
Not that I understand what’s supposed to be so appealing about it...
I’m a virus, you insensitive clod!
You mean *perceived* genius, by all those who think parroting it around while acting like dicks would totally make them cool.
Sorry, to me his music was just bad. Not even bad in a hateable way. Just... horrible rhythmic structures and cringe-able dissonances.
But I don’t go around, and insult others while telling them that my point of view is the only true one and everyone who thinks different is an idiot. Why? Because it’s music! Music is by definition subjective. There is no absolute good and bad. (Actually, there never is. Ever. But let’s not get too meta-philosophical here.)
In other words: If you like it, go ahead, be happy! But the douchebaggery of the highest order comes right from the person who complains about it in this case.
Look it up, guys.
It being “InfoWorld's Peter Wayner” (who’s that anyway?) does not mean that it’s not advertising.
Are the things traded actual physical objects?
Yes -> A bubble at least every 30 years is scientifically proven.
No -> You’re good.
At least that is the leading view on stock markets since a long time ago.
Of course the gambling junkies don’t care, and the government and companies are their pockets.
No. That’s what they mean with “baseline”.
I will not buuuaayy this record! It is scratched!
That’s true for every drug. It’s the definition of the whole thing.
It’s why they raise the dosage all the time. (Often it’s impossible to raise it fast enough to not get down to zero anyway.)
Seriously: News at 11.
I would hesitate to NOT do it! ^^
Honestly, it’s not America. It’s not even the USA. It’s the US government (and|,) a bunch of criminals.
And in this case also the EU fake government (as it’s not legally an actual government).
The people of our unions are mostly OK. I don’t have a problem with them.
I have a problem with some dicks who are full of themselves thinking that they deserve to be in charge and to profit trough abuse. I have a problem with them intentionally dumbing down the population (or letting it dumb down), and then using them like a herd of cattle, making them angry with lies or using the “don’t care” that they developed, or so they can make new rules with the sole purpose of abusing people for profit.
It’s how Hitler and Stalin did it. It’s now it’s still done.
Come on. We’re the intelligent people here! It’s our obligation to figure out a antidote for this.
DRM is a problem.
(See, you did not say why. So I also don’t, to refute your statement. But I can add arguments on top anyway, to make it an actual argument. Like:)
DRMed information is lost, when the server or decoding system is gone.
Criminalized circumventing DRM also is why it is a problem.
I’d go so far as saying that being a problem is the point of DRM.
Hmm, right. Damn. Didn’t think about that. But you can actually not only click but do this:
If done right, you don’t even need to move the pencil away from the paper but can do it in the process.
Also, to make the pencil always touch the paper, let it stand on its own weight, with maybe additional weight on it. Only held so it isn’t loose and can’t fall. Then when the pencil has lowered to a certain height, where nearly no lead stands out anymore, the above process starts.
I’d put the pencil in a cage, and have only free wheels and one servo-driven wheel touch it. Now add a sensor to one wheel, so that the height above the paper is known. And allow all wheels to be set into a free non-blocking mode for normal writing state.
Hey, that sounds doable! Where do you live? I want to come over and make it work! :)
I quote:
— meringuoid (568297) @ 2005-11-24 16:40 (#14107454)
That is actually a good and interesting point. That it was once about the struggle about a far from perfect man, to do the best he can... and even when it’s usually more a catastrophe that is then averted, I can still understand (it makes sense in the story universe) why Marge loves him. :)
So your point is, that you like him, because he shows you how much of an epic failure you are? ;)
I haven’t done all that dumb stuff. I’m proud of it. And yes, that makes me better than Homer.
(Now please keep down the crab mentality. It is not right to hate people who did not fail. Any you are not entitled to a part of their success. It’s right though, to hate people who want to take and not give something back. Like for example those who want others to give them something of their success without offering any value.)