That is because you are counting all the wannabe hacks who earn money because nobody who pays them got any idea of what a competent web developer is.
We real pros know our typography, chromatics, networks, design principles, writing, semantic markup, proper programming, usability, psychology, marketing, privacy/security, and all the other expertises. And ideally we work in teams where there is one expert person for every one of those things.
You mean other than trough the much more complex interpreters of Flash, Java and Quicktime?
It's shocking how many people here don't know that everything on a web page is "self downloading" (or more correct: telling the browser that it needs that file to do something, and the browser knowing how to handle it.)
And then the next day, the go and download a crack off of some random site, unrar it and run the exe as if it were the most normal thing in the world.
Well, how do you think those HTML pages, CSS sheets, JS files, images, and plugin files (flash,java,etc) work?
Download -> run trough interpreter -> render output
It depends on the interpreter. And I say that one is the same for any font, and therefore you could also use maybe an obscure Unicode character to wreak havoc in the interpreter. No matter what font it is.
Somehow I have the feeling that you do not understand how web pages work.
You mean you rather want to see yet another article of the two dwarfs of the cell phone industry having a mud fight to death with each other, while Nokia and some east-Asian companies laugh at them?
The real news is, that that piece of shit called the "space shuttle" got to orbit at all, without breaking into its parts and killing everybody. (You people convinced me that the space shuttle is this crappy, so you can call yourselves trolls if you disagree. ^^ Apparently it is discontinued for a reason, and is way below the usual reliability standards.)
Maybe they should stop eating sugar. Eat no sugar and short carbohydrates for a month, and you can eat nearly everything (especially beans & co) without any farting. (So it's actually the long-term effect of sugar making you fart, not the beans.)
Wouldn't yo just get used to the void, after some time?
Oh, and I won't click on a foxnews.com link for the life of me. There is nothing to learn from that site except for sensationalist and extremist lies and irrelevancies.
And I got down from 250 spam mails a day per account, to maybe one per week in total, from the first day on. That one mail usually landed straight in my IMAP(S) junk folder thanks to Thunderbird, and a script picked it up in the night, to train the filter with it. It was beautiful.
It is hard to install, but I found it fun, learned much, and as I said, I had the same filter power as Google, just with total freedom of configurability and quarantine settings. And IMAPS, SSMTP, etc.
I think spammers are doing us a service. When we have no predators, and actively support those with the biggest deficiencies the most (instead of everybody the same), something has to keep up natural selection, right?:D
One is a jumble of letters and numbers which I use to for access to things I have no desire to ever see again. Dump things like "we'll email you the download link".
That's what Mailinator and its friends/clones are for.:)
How did you get the idea that there would even be a recipient to process your reply? The only thing you did, was making them know that you exist, so they could send you even more spam.
How can you possibly not know this basic rule?
And what business are you reporting to whom? Have you ever tried finding out what business is behind it and who even cares for your report? (Protip: Every "business" you might find, will be fake. Nobody will be there.)
Nah. I'd go with the amount it takes to buy Visa, the US government including the millitary, and half the world.:D Then I'll nuke the other half from orbit. Just for fun. *muhahahahaaa*
Yes. Actually I have a white cat and a iron glove. Why do you ask?
...how did you come up with all this conclusions? Because from what I imagine to be most likely, you know close to nothing about Bill Gates's thoughts, Microsoft internals, Google internals, etc. So I can only guess you have no idea what you are talking about and in typical pundit fashion, pull things out of your ass, that support your p.o.v.
I really hope I am totally wrong with my guesses, and that you have some special insight. But if, then why did you not base your arguments on it by stating it? So correct me if I'm wrong, and I will thank you for having learned something.
I can put my ed2k and magnet links right in here. No problem at all.:)
ed2k://|file|[DivX - ENG] Monty Python And The Holy Grail 1975.avi|734478336|DD25EDAE3F63726F19C9B86CE4F117DE|/
What a great technology from... 2000! ^^
In my opinion, BitTorrent was a huge step backwards. Imagine if Bram Cohen had created some darknet (which would be the logical next step) with the same success instead.
Make your app run on Symbian and possibly J2ME too, and gain up to 5000% from the approx. 2% global market share of the iPhone.:)
(No, iPhone fans, I am not playing this down. I respect the iPhone for what it is. It's just that its global market share is really tiny. I wish your hopes all the best. But with statements like "Java is dead", and being the only phone to not have it, Jobs is not making many friends. ^^)
Sure it may be outside of the box of what you expected as an answer. But it's not a bad idea isn't it?
I also strongly recommend an outside-of-Apple site of your own, where you can lead people to completely circumvent them passing by other products. Put it up high in Google etc. instead, and create some "word-of-mouth" in some target group forums. Where people really would be interested in it, and not even see it as advertisement, because it just fits with what they want to know about.:)
If you do all this, the whole iPhone store could collapse, and you would have a big chance of floating on the top.
Can anyone enlighten me? I thought there were only the strong and weak interaction, electromagnetism and gravity.
Is this some effect of electromagnetism? Or of one of the other forces?
Because if it were none of this forces, it would pretty much throw the whole standard model of quantum physics into a blender and force us to put it together again, wouldn't it?
You forgot non-deterministic rendering, "Object not found", "error in line 50" (when you got 20 files, and then it's not in like 50 anyway, but somewhere below or above it.) non-deterministic rendering, non-deterministic rendering, and, you guessed it: non-deterministic rendering.
There's nothing worse than unreliable race-conditions in page interpretation, and a huge mess of bugs, making it impossible to know if the 21st reload and the click one pixel below when the moon stands above Redmond, will render everything completely different, or just one pixel off.
Then they should have invested in working technology!
This will be great, because they will finally learn it the painful way.
If you always protect them, put a pillow here and there, and never let anything come to them, how exactly will they get any motivation to learn anything at all??
If you let them still run IE6, they will run it for 100 years if they can. And essentially you will be responsible for it, because after all, you would still protect them from that ohh so harsh, bad, bad, reality. ^^
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That is because you are counting all the wannabe hacks who earn money because nobody who pays them got any idea of what a competent web developer is.
We real pros know our typography, chromatics, networks, design principles, writing, semantic markup, proper programming, usability, psychology, marketing, privacy/security, and all the other expertises. And ideally we work in teams where there is one expert person for every one of those things.
You mean other than trough the much more complex interpreters of Flash, Java and Quicktime?
It's shocking how many people here don't know that everything on a web page is "self downloading" (or more correct: telling the browser that it needs that file to do something, and the browser knowing how to handle it.)
And then the next day, the go and download a crack off of some random site, unrar it and run the exe as if it were the most normal thing in the world.
Well, how do you think those HTML pages, CSS sheets, JS files, images, and plugin files (flash,java,etc) work?
Download -> run trough interpreter -> render output
It depends on the interpreter. And I say that one is the same for any font, and therefore you could also use maybe an obscure Unicode character to wreak havoc in the interpreter. No matter what font it is.
Somehow I have the feeling that you do not understand how web pages work.
You mean you rather want to see yet another article of the two dwarfs of the cell phone industry having a mud fight to death with each other, while Nokia and some east-Asian companies laugh at them?
This is not comedy wrestling, sir! ^^
The real news is, that that piece of shit called the "space shuttle" got to orbit at all, without breaking into its parts and killing everybody.
(You people convinced me that the space shuttle is this crappy, so you can call yourselves trolls if you disagree. ^^ Apparently it is discontinued for a reason, and is way below the usual reliability standards.)
Maybe they should stop eating sugar. Eat no sugar and short carbohydrates for a month, and you can eat nearly everything (especially beans & co) without any farting.
(So it's actually the long-term effect of sugar making you fart, not the beans.)
Should be easy to enforce on that Mars trip. :)
The problem is that you assume that there would be reasonable behavior going on. ^^
Reason and making sense has nothing to do with what usually makes such things go wrong.
It's deepest psychology.
Wouldn't yo just get used to the void, after some time?
Oh, and I won't click on a foxnews.com link for the life of me. There is nothing to learn from that site except for sensationalist and extremist lies and irrelevancies.
I found greylisting to be very effective too. It weeds out 90% of the spam, before the filters even start to process anything.
I installed this setup: http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Complete_Virtual_Mail_Server (Original site unfortunately defunct. This is a mirror.)
And I got down from 250 spam mails a day per account, to maybe one per week in total, from the first day on. That one mail usually landed straight in my IMAP(S) junk folder thanks to Thunderbird, and a script picked it up in the night, to train the filter with it. It was beautiful.
It is hard to install, but I found it fun, learned much, and as I said, I had the same filter power as Google, just with total freedom of configurability and quarantine settings. And IMAPS, SSMTP, etc.
I think spammers are doing us a service. When we have no predators, and actively support those with the biggest deficiencies the most (instead of everybody the same), something has to keep up natural selection, right? :D
One is a jumble of letters and numbers which I use to for access to things I have no desire to ever see again. Dump things like "we'll email you the download link".
That's what Mailinator and its friends/clones are for. :)
How did you get the idea that there would even be a recipient to process your reply? The only thing you did, was making them know that you exist, so they could send you even more spam.
How can you possibly not know this basic rule?
And what business are you reporting to whom? Have you ever tried finding out what business is behind it and who even cares for your report? (Protip: Every "business" you might find, will be fake. Nobody will be there.)
How is it a good thing that idiots survive, instead of naturally being selected to not be selected. ^^
I actually think the spammers and doing something good, by weeding out the idiots.
It's very similar to a lion catching the weakest individual of his prey, keeping the herd as a whole stronger.
A honest question: What's the point of this padding again? Especially more than 128 bit padding or similar things.
It is because C is unable to do simple things like be flexible in its data structures? ^^
Nah. I'd go with the amount it takes to buy Visa, the US government including the millitary, and half the world. :D
Then I'll nuke the other half from orbit. Just for fun. *muhahahahaaa*
Yes. Actually I have a white cat and a iron glove. Why do you ask?
All the transaction errors that weren't so obvious, and where the card owner ended up paying it, because he could not afford defending himself.
...how did you come up with all this conclusions? Because from what I imagine to be most likely, you know close to nothing about Bill Gates's thoughts, Microsoft internals, Google internals, etc. So I can only guess you have no idea what you are talking about and in typical pundit fashion, pull things out of your ass, that support your p.o.v.
I really hope I am totally wrong with my guesses, and that you have some special insight. But if, then why did you not base your arguments on it by stating it?
So correct me if I'm wrong, and I will thank you for having learned something.
But if I am right, please just shut up. :)
Wouldn't he be talking about VI and Emacs then?
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I can put my ed2k and magnet links right in here. No problem at all. :)
ed2k://|file|[DivX - ENG] Monty Python And The Holy Grail 1975.avi|734478336|DD25EDAE3F63726F19C9B86CE4F117DE|/
What a great technology from... 2000! ^^
In my opinion, BitTorrent was a huge step backwards. Imagine if Bram Cohen had created some darknet (which would be the logical next step) with the same success instead.
Make your app run on Symbian and possibly J2ME too, and gain up to 5000% from the approx. 2% global market share of the iPhone. :)
(No, iPhone fans, I am not playing this down. I respect the iPhone for what it is. It's just that its global market share is really tiny. I wish your hopes all the best. But with statements like "Java is dead", and being the only phone to not have it, Jobs is not making many friends. ^^)
Sure it may be outside of the box of what you expected as an answer. But it's not a bad idea isn't it?
I also strongly recommend an outside-of-Apple site of your own, where you can lead people to completely circumvent them passing by other products. Put it up high in Google etc. instead, and create some "word-of-mouth" in some target group forums. Where people really would be interested in it, and not even see it as advertisement, because it just fits with what they want to know about. :)
If you do all this, the whole iPhone store could collapse, and you would have a big chance of floating on the top.
Well that's an easy one: Install Linux. :)
Can anyone enlighten me? I thought there were only the strong and weak interaction, electromagnetism and gravity.
Is this some effect of electromagnetism? Or of one of the other forces?
Because if it were none of this forces, it would pretty much throw the whole standard model of quantum physics into a blender and force us to put it together again, wouldn't it?
This is really really interesting to me!
You forgot
non-deterministic rendering,
"Object not found",
"error in line 50" (when you got 20 files, and then it's not in like 50 anyway, but somewhere below or above it.)
non-deterministic rendering,
non-deterministic rendering,
and, you guessed it:
non-deterministic rendering.
There's nothing worse than unreliable race-conditions in page interpretation, and a huge mess of bugs, making it impossible to know if the 21st reload and the click one pixel below when the moon stands above Redmond, will render everything completely different, or just one pixel off.
Cry me a river. ^^
Then they should have invested in working technology!
This will be great, because they will finally learn it the painful way.
If you always protect them, put a pillow here and there, and never let anything come to them, how exactly will they get any motivation to learn anything at all??
If you let them still run IE6, they will run it for 100 years if they can. And essentially you will be responsible for it, because after all, you would still protect them from that ohh so harsh, bad, bad, reality. ^^