I do install computers for friends and other persons from time to time. (For money.)
And I always put Firefox, WinAMP, Calc98, Notepad++, XP-AntiSpy, XP-AntiDAU (self-developed cleanup tool), a good pre-learned Firewall, antivirus, spyware-scanner, a custom theme (that they really love), and other important software on it. Oh, and all updates and patches. Plus a small VNC tool that lets them request my assistance, when they call me (for money). Plus an install-cd (or image) with all this slipstreamed onto. (Which I also use to install it for them, so I can keep prices down. The rest of the price is for cleanly taking over data [and sometimes settings] from the old system, and scanning it for viruses/spyware.)
I never got any complaints. Only questions, and "aah, cool, nice" answers about the new gained abilities and securities.
Of course marketing for Firefox then might really help. They take what they know the name of. Same as in the supermarket. Same reason Coca-Cola and Pepsi put their logo everywhere, but never mention what it actually is. (A close-to-toxic sugar-water with a tiny drop of aroma.)
Ah. I see. Even the moderators are infected, and think it is normal, and somehow OK, to be religious, and that one even has to protect it. Well. Even that is typical schizophrenic behavior. You can read about it, even on Wikipedia. I should have expected it.
Well, I wish you to get well soon! (Or suffer the drawbacks from living in a twisted, false reality, where others suck you dry, and you love them for it.)
The one team that got access to the internals of Microsoft's new device, has only good things to say about it? Who'd have thunk of that?;)
Seriously. I bet my next set of moderation points on the fact that they had to agree to create this article, and spread it, in order to gain access to the device's internal infos.
Why Natal Is a Big Deal. Why Microsoft Are a Bunch of Criminals. Why Slashdot Is an Advertisement Site. Why You and I Are the Two Hottest and Coolest People On the Planet. (Sorry, I don't know this strange uppercase style, as I'm no native speaker.)
European? Say your damn country, for goat's* sake! There is no such country as "Europe", and there will never be! No matter what those EU-dictators say.
___ * Sounds about the same, has about the same chance of making your wishes come true. I like it. ^^
Which does in no way somehow make it ok. It's like saying "We follow Hitler, because they are all doing it!". (Godwin can kiss my ass on his bogus rule. ^^)
Wouldn't work, because it would be nearly impossible for the lasers to get into perfect harmony. Which would mean they would randomly cancel and amplify each other, depending on the phase, resulting in a pretty weak ray.
Can someone please expel the parent poster from his country? (No matter what country. No person deserves someone in his country who thinks this is ever close to OK.)
...how are they going to put it on every computer on every backwater town home, and check if it works?
I mean, I bet there is already a tool out there, to put the government software in a sandbox/VM/honeypot, with minimal resources assigned, to circumvent this. (It would be just like a Matrix for that thing. Muhahahaaa!)
It's not being smart. It's guessing. And it can be very wrong. Hiding bugs. In fact it's the same level of expecting the user to be retarded, that makes MS office unusable for professional users. It changes your quotes to "real quotes" even if you did not want it, makes every letter after a dot uppercase, even if you did not want that too, assists you here and there, until you get so annoyed from fixing this shit, that you just install OpenOffice......and notice that it got infected with that shit too.:(
At least you can disable the training wheels and wheelchair. Which is the first thing I usually do after installation. Of course, nowadays I do my documents with XHTML or some professional DTP tool.
$space_var=THIS IS A STUPID VARIABLE WITH SPACES IN ITS NAME; $$space_var = "this is some content"; print $$space_var; print_r($GLOBALS); if (!nonExistingVariable) {
nonExistingFunction(); }
This works perfectly in PHP 5.2.9. The spaces need to be protected spaces, for it to work. Same as " ", but in Unicode. Both of which are removed by Slashdot's filter. I can type them with Mod3-Shift-Space on my keyboard. Other space-like characters should work too. PHP thinks the non-existing variable can be interpreted as a boolean with the value "TRUE". And it never cares for the non-existing function. Unfortunately, I could not reconstruct the bug where you could put truly random stuff in that "if" block, without PHP noticing.
Oh the fun! But still better than IE's non-deterministic behavior of pure evil insanity. (Like a Javascript running onload to change the style of an element, moving another unrelated element down exactly 51 pixels, depending on some race condition. [Forgot if up or down.])
I agree. PHP is the biggest WTF of an interpreter I have ever seen.
If you do it right, you can manage to add non-code strings right between the lines of code. Without them being comments. I think this works because the interpreter does only parse code immediately before execution. Which means that if you have an "if" construct, with code inside, that will not be executed, it will not be parsed. If you got a bug in there that every other language catches on compile time, it will only reveal itself in that one-in-a-million case where that rare if construct is executed. Which is part of what makes debugging an incredible nightmare.
There is so much mess inside that interpreter, that I fear, reading its source, will make you go blind, to save your heart.;)
I even got a real trauma from it (and the IE), when I worked at a large Internet portal. Which lead me to switch to Haskell (and Python for scripting needs). I never looked back.
Those diseases come with the age (because of decades of eating crap) not from the age. Just so you know (And possibly can prevent them yourself. [Some of them can even be fixed trough eating species-appropriate, even when you're not in your 20s anymore.])
If you go to doctors to get healed, you obviously live in a reality distortion.
They are there to make money. If you are healthy, you will not come anymore, meaning they will not get any money.
That's just how the system works. You get money for threating people. But it stops when you heal them.
If you want real help, try an university clinic, where the geeks of the medical sector live, and they really gain respect from healing people. And learn as much as you can yourself.
But religious people believe all kinds of crap. Superstition, and the like. You have to go to the fortune-teller / priest/ whatever with her, and then actually follow the crap he tells her (and you) to do. She will buy all kinds of stupid crap, like the crystal of bleh to protect from bad ghosts, or some arm-band with magnets in it, to get her "spirituality" to "flow" right. And she will start only cooking strange things, like eating a pound of carrots every morning of every day, for ten years in a row!
Slowly, your whole life will follow the rules of some twisted freaks who tell her what "god and the spirits" told them she should do. Or in more scientifically proper words: She will go insane, and pull you with her, deep into the world of schizophrenia. (Which religion essentially is.)
Think of it like this: You wrote a book. And Google scanned it. Now you could sue them, but you think, well, it might be something good. So you try to call up Google, and tell them, that although they should have asked you first, you can make a deal of which both of you profit. But Google ignores you, and tells you that the Authors Guild already handles it all. Now you are stumped, because you never made any deal with that guild, to represent you. So how can they make a contract in your name. Deciding the price and terms for you? Well, if you ask them, they will tell you some bullshit about them OWNING IT AAAALLLL MUHAHAHA!!!1!1one And you're out of the game.
I don't think you think that this behavior is cool. ^^ Of both of them. Google and even more the Authors Guild.
So please inform yourself a bit, before taking sides.
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I do install computers for friends and other persons from time to time. (For money.)
And I always put Firefox, WinAMP, Calc98, Notepad++, XP-AntiSpy, XP-AntiDAU (self-developed cleanup tool), a good pre-learned Firewall, antivirus, spyware-scanner, a custom theme (that they really love), and other important software on it. Oh, and all updates and patches.
Plus a small VNC tool that lets them request my assistance, when they call me (for money).
Plus an install-cd (or image) with all this slipstreamed onto. (Which I also use to install it for them, so I can keep prices down. The rest of the price is for cleanly taking over data [and sometimes settings] from the old system, and scanning it for viruses/spyware.)
I never got any complaints. Only questions, and "aah, cool, nice" answers about the new gained abilities and securities.
The user's answer:
Aaah, Internet Explorer! I know that one! *click*
Of course marketing for Firefox then might really help. They take what they know the name of. Same as in the supermarket. Same reason Coca-Cola and Pepsi put their logo everywhere, but never mention what it actually is. (A close-to-toxic sugar-water with a tiny drop of aroma.)
Are they supposed to have Steve Ballmer commit seppuku? Announce they're going out of business?
That would be a start. ;) :P
Restore Netscape, Borland, and all the others you did deliberately and unfairly hurt, and we have a deal.
Ah. I see. Even the moderators are infected, and think it is normal, and somehow OK, to be religious, and that one even has to protect it.
Well. Even that is typical schizophrenic behavior. You can read about it, even on Wikipedia.
I should have expected it.
Well, I wish you to get well soon!
(Or suffer the drawbacks from living in a twisted, false reality, where others suck you dry, and you love them for it.)
... you extract millions from the meaning of pages! ;)
Sorry, couldn't resist.
The one team that got access to the internals of Microsoft's new device, has only good things to say about it? ;)
Who'd have thunk of that?
Seriously. I bet my next set of moderation points on the fact that they had to agree to create this article, and spread it, in order to gain access to the device's internal infos.
Why Natal Is a Big Deal.
Why Microsoft Are a Bunch of Criminals.
Why Slashdot Is an Advertisement Site.
Why You and I Are the Two Hottest and Coolest People On the Planet. (Sorry, I don't know this strange uppercase style, as I'm no native speaker.)
Do you see the suggestive pattern here? ^^
European? Say your damn country, for goat's* sake!
There is no such country as "Europe", and there will never be!
No matter what those EU-dictators say.
___
* Sounds about the same, has about the same chance of making your wishes come true. I like it. ^^
Well, guess what's the real source of most diseases? ^^
But doctors do not care to find the real source. It only takes time. better give her some pain "medication", and see you next week. $$$
So does every other major ISP in the country.
Which does in no way somehow make it ok.
It's like saying "We follow Hitler, because they are all doing it!". (Godwin can kiss my ass on his bogus rule. ^^)
Poor Ford Perfect. After earth, now his planet too has to die?
Stupid hyperspace bypasses.
Wouldn't work, because it would be nearly impossible for the lasers to get into perfect harmony. Which would mean they would randomly cancel and amplify each other, depending on the phase, resulting in a pretty weak ray.
Welcome to Slashdot. ;)
My other computer is a 4000 node Beowulf cluster. Does that count?
Or do I need a 4 million node botnet nowadays?
Can someone please expel the parent poster from his country? (No matter what country. No person deserves someone in his country who thinks this is ever close to OK.)
...how are they going to put it on every computer on every backwater town home, and check if it works?
I mean, I bet there is already a tool out there, to put the government software in a sandbox/VM/honeypot, with minimal resources assigned, to circumvent this.
(It would be just like a Matrix for that thing. Muhahahaaa!)
It's not being smart. It's guessing. And it can be very wrong. Hiding bugs. ...and notice that it got infected with that shit too. :(
In fact it's the same level of expecting the user to be retarded, that makes MS office unusable for professional users.
It changes your quotes to "real quotes" even if you did not want it, makes every letter after a dot uppercase, even if you did not want that too, assists you here and there, until you get so annoyed from fixing this shit, that you just install OpenOffice...
At least you can disable the training wheels and wheelchair. Which is the first thing I usually do after installation. Of course, nowadays I do my documents with XHTML or some professional DTP tool.
Man, you can go WAY further:
$space_var=THIS IS A STUPID VARIABLE WITH SPACES IN ITS NAME;
$$space_var = "this is some content";
print $$space_var;
print_r($GLOBALS);
if (!nonExistingVariable) {
nonExistingFunction();
}
This works perfectly in PHP 5.2.9.
The spaces need to be protected spaces, for it to work. Same as " ", but in Unicode. Both of which are removed by Slashdot's filter. I can type them with Mod3-Shift-Space on my keyboard. Other space-like characters should work too.
PHP thinks the non-existing variable can be interpreted as a boolean with the value "TRUE".
And it never cares for the non-existing function.
Unfortunately, I could not reconstruct the bug where you could put truly random stuff in that "if" block, without PHP noticing.
Oh the fun! But still better than IE's non-deterministic behavior of pure evil insanity.
(Like a Javascript running onload to change the style of an element, moving another unrelated element down exactly 51 pixels, depending on some race condition. [Forgot if up or down.])
Ok, I have to go to my therapy now... ;)
and Microport (sp?) Unix
OMG. For a second or two, I thought you said "Microsoft Unix". /fear /run /hide /cry
I agree. PHP is the biggest WTF of an interpreter I have ever seen.
If you do it right, you can manage to add non-code strings right between the lines of code. Without them being comments. I think this works because the interpreter does only parse code immediately before execution. Which means that if you have an "if" construct, with code inside, that will not be executed, it will not be parsed. If you got a bug in there that every other language catches on compile time, it will only reveal itself in that one-in-a-million case where that rare if construct is executed. Which is part of what makes debugging an incredible nightmare.
There is so much mess inside that interpreter, that I fear, reading its source, will make you go blind, to save your heart. ;)
I even got a real trauma from it (and the IE), when I worked at a large Internet portal. Which lead me to switch to Haskell (and Python for scripting needs). I never looked back.
Those diseases come with the age (because of decades of eating crap) not from the age. Just so you know (And possibly can prevent them yourself. [Some of them can even be fixed trough eating species-appropriate, even when you're not in your 20s anymore.])
If you go to doctors to get healed, you obviously live in a reality distortion.
They are there to make money. If you are healthy, you will not come anymore, meaning they will not get any money.
That's just how the system works. You get money for threating people. But it stops when you heal them.
If you want real help, try an university clinic, where the geeks of the medical sector live, and they really gain respect from healing people.
And learn as much as you can yourself.
Sup dawg, I herd yo liek joornuhls...
His name was Hoffmann, and there is a company for chemical cleaning stuff named after him here in Germany.
But religious people believe all kinds of crap. Superstition, and the like. You have to go to the fortune-teller / priest/ whatever with her, and then actually follow the crap he tells her (and you) to do. She will buy all kinds of stupid crap, like the crystal of bleh to protect from bad ghosts, or some arm-band with magnets in it, to get her "spirituality" to "flow" right.
And she will start only cooking strange things, like eating a pound of carrots every morning of every day, for ten years in a row!
Slowly, your whole life will follow the rules of some twisted freaks who tell her what "god and the spirits" told them she should do.
Or in more scientifically proper words: She will go insane, and pull you with her, deep into the world of schizophrenia. (Which religion essentially is.)
Been there, seen that. TYVM, but no thanks!
Not it the time is short enough, so it does not matter anyway. ^^
Or just add a remote control.
Again. You are completely off the point.
Think of it like this: You wrote a book. And Google scanned it. Now you could sue them, but you think, well, it might be something good. So you try to call up Google, and tell them, that although they should have asked you first, you can make a deal of which both of you profit.
But Google ignores you, and tells you that the Authors Guild already handles it all.
Now you are stumped, because you never made any deal with that guild, to represent you. So how can they make a contract in your name. Deciding the price and terms for you?
Well, if you ask them, they will tell you some bullshit about them OWNING IT AAAALLLL MUHAHAHA!!!1!1one
And you're out of the game.
I don't think you think that this behavior is cool. ^^
Of both of them. Google and even more the Authors Guild.
So please inform yourself a bit, before taking sides.