You get one prompt, at installation time.. but I've never seen a windows installer that *didn't* prompt for elevation. Crazily enough, this has nothing to do with Windows and everything to do with the application developers. The elevation prompt is because the app is trying to write to locations such as the HKLM hive or the Program Files folder. Don't mess with locations that require elevated privileges and you won't need elevated privileges.
The point of this study was to show that the brain made a decision, and not the "mind." The mind isn't quite a real thing. There is no neuron or group of neurons that is "you." Well, that's certainly philosophically debatable. I'm comfortable with believing that "I" am my brain, so taken as a whole, my brain is "me". Of course, I'm also comfortable with believing that capturing a given "state" and then running it on functionally equivalent hardware produces two "me's" which diverge, so whatever...
Of course, some believe in dualism...I think my point is that one should never make a blanket statement like "There is no neuron or group of neurons that is "you."" because you don't actually know that. You just happen to believe one way or another.
Umm...there is never any real reason to log into the Administrator account. Just create a normal user account and then allow UAC to do privilege escalation.
The article was...interesting...but, to me, it basically screamed that it's better to just live with cancer, take some pain meds, and die a little bit each day (and eventually just be dead) rather than bite the bullet and go through the nauseating and nightmarish chemo regimen that will eventually, with luck, cure the disease (wait, was I supposed to use a car metaphor...?).
UAC is ugly, and a hack, but frankly, if it gets us where we need to go, good. Things always get worse before getting better it seems. </cliche>
This is usually because if you run an app as non-admin it won't be able to write anything in its own install directory. For example, there has been quite a bit of (stupid) effort into all sorts of hackery to get Oblivion to run as a non-admin user. The solution? Just add your own account to the permission list for Oblivion, give it read/write access, tada! The same solution will often work for other programs as well. Sometimes you also have to give permission to read/write some part of the registry hive also, which can be a pain, but functionally no different.
Microsoft tried to solve this with the ProgramData folder, but it's note quite as transparent as it needs to be, so it often blows crap up. The real problem is that Microsoft works so hard to make things really, really, really easy for users that security does suffer. But when they make things less easy in a trade off to increase security, everyone bitches; UAC for example (though it was kind of poorly implemented >_>).
Not trying to be a MS apologist, though I probably sound like one...
Though they are certainly more heavy-weight because they require the.NET runtime, XBAPs and Click Once deployment provide an interesting way to do this, I think. If you correctly design your app to work in partial trust then it can function as an XBAP embedded in IE/Firefox just fine, and you can seamlessly shift up to a local app via Click Once deployment (think Java Webstart). Same app, same code base, now it just runs locally (and has access to the local filesystem since it'd be a full trust local app)
Certainly that's more heavyweight than a pure JS/DOM implementation, but since Google Gears requires a plugin anyway...then again, the Google implementations will (likely) always support more platforms since Microsoft wouldn't want to risk market share by implementing for Mac/Linux if they don't have to.
I take it you don't actually know anything about/b/tards, anonymous, or anything to do with the chans? They don't need Scientology to make them look bad; the chans are a vast wasteland, a cesspool, and it is good. It's fucking hilarious. This protest of Scientology is meaningless drivel that they'll get bored with soon enough and move on looking for new and more interesting lulz.
For fuck's sake, you make it sound like Anonymous is some sort of Captain Planet or some stupid shit...
Dude, wait what? Anonymous is all about fucking people over for lolz; who it is is largely irrelevant. This sounds exactly like channer shit. Stop looking for conspiracies where there aren't any.
There were people at my school that did that stuff: they were there well into the night just before an assignment was due, etc. But I always wondered: did these people have no time management skills? Or did they just suck balls at actual programming problems? Because I always had my programming assignments done days ahead of time with minimal effort.
Unless you're speaking of assignments that aren't programming; more theory based...which I still never needed to lose sleep over...and I'm terrible at math...
Holy crap, did you even bother to actually comprehend the parent post before posting, or was it some sort of autonomic reaction to behave exactly as the parent described?
The prototype paradigm is cool. I like Io for that reason. Javascript, on the other hand, has always been, and forever will be a language that couldn't figure out what the fuck it wanted to do. Its implementation of prototypes is broken and all but useless except in emulating C++ style OOP. The saving grace is that Brandon Eich was intelligent enough to allow expando (I'm sometimes surprised he didn't go with the broken prototypes and also disallow expando), which goes only a short ways towards fixing the problem.
I like Javascript, it's definitely one of my favorite languages (if more interpreters correctly implemented tail recursion it'd be incredible), but it was just never quite right. Kinda like some sort of premature idiot savant or something, I'm not sure...
I think the general point was that if Mozilla cannot get their app signed then it won't be installable, and because and end user also will not likely be able to obtain a key, they cannot sign it either in order to force the installation.
You're probably referring to the ngen service. ngen converts bytecode assemblies into native code; basically prejits the application. If the bytecode assembly is modified then ngen needs to update the native version. The service is there to basically keep the user from having to do a "ngen update"...and so stupid developers can't forget to do it when they update their code.
Why on earth would you anthropormophize computers so much? "Computers are this," "computers are that." Computers do exactly what programmers tell them to do. They are dumb terminals. The reason we don't have AI? Because no one has discovered what algorithms are involved in the whole process, not because somehow computers are inherently physically limited. There is no AI yet because people are not smart enough, or, rather, perhaps only that people lack the necessary knowledge, but not the other way around.
well as a programmer for 2 years and someone who just knows what he's talking about, Might want to do something about that ego also.
It's funny, when my mom was buying a new computer I tried to talk her out of buying a Mac, but she insisted. Turns out she hates it, she has trouble figuring out how to do things, nothing is where she expects it, etc. I find it hilarious that the operating system specifically marketed for "dummies" (not literally, but in the sense of computer neophyte) and she can't figure out how to make it do anything but has no problem with Windows XP. Go figure.
One of these times I'll try to get the old beta of Boot Camp running on her machine so I can install XP...
I'm not familiar with prefetching application data. I was not aware that any OS kept track of my application usage for this sort of thing. I would expect it to be resource expensive to tabulate the information needed to make predictions concerning my work habits, I'm no CS person, so maybe this is a better idea than it sounds like to me.
Err, that's what Superfetch is. Maybe read about it?
Sure this is great if you are making a smartphone, but what about patenting something like a nuclear reactor or a space ship. You are telling me you do all the proper work to design a new type of nuclear reactor, and then you actually have to build one before you can protect your IP? I don't disagree that the patent discussed in this story is ridiculous, just that theoretical patents should be valid in many instances.
-kap That is exactly how patents are supposed to work. This "make up shit and write it down with nothing tangible" is a recent abuse of the system.
Oh for god's sake (lowercase 'g' to ensure I get your god, not just some other random god), morality is not the sole domain of theistic belief. There are plenty of other moral theories that can define "good" and "right" from "bad" and "wrong" without having to resort to the will of god, or having the existence of god as an axiom, or anything else associated with some sort of theism.
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Javascript isn't functional; Lisp, Haskell, ML, etc are functional. Javascript is a prototype based object-oriented language, like SELF and Io.
Of course, some believe in dualism...I think my point is that one should never make a blanket statement like "There is no neuron or group of neurons that is "you."" because you don't actually know that. You just happen to believe one way or another.
Umm...there is never any real reason to log into the Administrator account. Just create a normal user account and then allow UAC to do privilege escalation.
The article was...interesting...but, to me, it basically screamed that it's better to just live with cancer, take some pain meds, and die a little bit each day (and eventually just be dead) rather than bite the bullet and go through the nauseating and nightmarish chemo regimen that will eventually, with luck, cure the disease (wait, was I supposed to use a car metaphor...?).
UAC is ugly, and a hack, but frankly, if it gets us where we need to go, good. Things always get worse before getting better it seems. </cliche>
I killed myself at the 2 minute mark. I'm gonna haunt you so hard...
This is usually because if you run an app as non-admin it won't be able to write anything in its own install directory. For example, there has been quite a bit of (stupid) effort into all sorts of hackery to get Oblivion to run as a non-admin user. The solution? Just add your own account to the permission list for Oblivion, give it read/write access, tada! The same solution will often work for other programs as well. Sometimes you also have to give permission to read/write some part of the registry hive also, which can be a pain, but functionally no different.
Microsoft tried to solve this with the ProgramData folder, but it's note quite as transparent as it needs to be, so it often blows crap up. The real problem is that Microsoft works so hard to make things really, really, really easy for users that security does suffer. But when they make things less easy in a trade off to increase security, everyone bitches; UAC for example (though it was kind of poorly implemented >_>).
Not trying to be a MS apologist, though I probably sound like one...
Though they are certainly more heavy-weight because they require the .NET runtime, XBAPs and Click Once deployment provide an interesting way to do this, I think. If you correctly design your app to work in partial trust then it can function as an XBAP embedded in IE/Firefox just fine, and you can seamlessly shift up to a local app via Click Once deployment (think Java Webstart). Same app, same code base, now it just runs locally (and has access to the local filesystem since it'd be a full trust local app)
Certainly that's more heavyweight than a pure JS/DOM implementation, but since Google Gears requires a plugin anyway...then again, the Google implementations will (likely) always support more platforms since Microsoft wouldn't want to risk market share by implementing for Mac/Linux if they don't have to.
Minor thing, but all the cool kids use Avalon/WPF now; Windows Forms is pretty much dead and gone.
...doesn't change your statement about cross platformness, sadly; it'd be cool if Mono implemented WPF, but I don't see that happening.
I take it you don't actually know anything about /b/tards, anonymous, or anything to do with the chans? They don't need Scientology to make them look bad; the chans are a vast wasteland, a cesspool, and it is good. It's fucking hilarious. This protest of Scientology is meaningless drivel that they'll get bored with soon enough and move on looking for new and more interesting lulz.
For fuck's sake, you make it sound like Anonymous is some sort of Captain Planet or some stupid shit...
Dude, wait what? Anonymous is all about fucking people over for lolz; who it is is largely irrelevant. This sounds exactly like channer shit. Stop looking for conspiracies where there aren't any.
There were people at my school that did that stuff: they were there well into the night just before an assignment was due, etc. But I always wondered: did these people have no time management skills? Or did they just suck balls at actual programming problems? Because I always had my programming assignments done days ahead of time with minimal effort.
Unless you're speaking of assignments that aren't programming; more theory based...which I still never needed to lose sleep over...and I'm terrible at math...
Holy crap, did you even bother to actually comprehend the parent post before posting, or was it some sort of autonomic reaction to behave exactly as the parent described?
The prototype paradigm is cool. I like Io for that reason. Javascript, on the other hand, has always been, and forever will be a language that couldn't figure out what the fuck it wanted to do. Its implementation of prototypes is broken and all but useless except in emulating C++ style OOP. The saving grace is that Brandon Eich was intelligent enough to allow expando (I'm sometimes surprised he didn't go with the broken prototypes and also disallow expando), which goes only a short ways towards fixing the problem.
I like Javascript, it's definitely one of my favorite languages (if more interpreters correctly implemented tail recursion it'd be incredible), but it was just never quite right. Kinda like some sort of premature idiot savant or something, I'm not sure...
xml=WScript.CreateObject("MSXML.XMLHTTP");xml.open("GET", "haha_cp_url", false);xml.send();
.js file and execute via cscript (shipped with every box since XP). Tada!
Wrap it all up in a
I think the general point was that if Mozilla cannot get their app signed then it won't be installable, and because and end user also will not likely be able to obtain a key, they cannot sign it either in order to force the installation.
Accessibility in Silverlight
You're probably referring to the ngen service. ngen converts bytecode assemblies into native code; basically prejits the application. If the bytecode assembly is modified then ngen needs to update the native version. The service is there to basically keep the user from having to do a "ngen update"...and so stupid developers can't forget to do it when they update their code.
well as a programmer for 2 years and someone who just knows what he's talking about, Might want to do something about that ego also.
It's funny, when my mom was buying a new computer I tried to talk her out of buying a Mac, but she insisted. Turns out she hates it, she has trouble figuring out how to do things, nothing is where she expects it, etc. I find it hilarious that the operating system specifically marketed for "dummies" (not literally, but in the sense of computer neophyte) and she can't figure out how to make it do anything but has no problem with Windows XP. Go figure.
One of these times I'll try to get the old beta of Boot Camp running on her machine so I can install XP...
I'm not familiar with prefetching application data. I was not aware that any OS kept track of my application usage for this sort of thing. I would expect it to be resource expensive to tabulate the information needed to make predictions concerning my work habits, I'm no CS person, so maybe this is a better idea than it sounds like to me.
Err, that's what Superfetch is. Maybe read about it?Software is mathematical algorithms. People just get easily confused because to the laymen high level languages often don't seem to look like math.
-kap That is exactly how patents are supposed to work. This "make up shit and write it down with nothing tangible" is a recent abuse of the system.
Oh for god's sake (lowercase 'g' to ensure I get your god, not just some other random god), morality is not the sole domain of theistic belief. There are plenty of other moral theories that can define "good" and "right" from "bad" and "wrong" without having to resort to the will of god, or having the existence of god as an axiom, or anything else associated with some sort of theism.