You think that's bad? Try setting cookies to "confirm." It's scary when I see the amount of requests that were automatically going through, but it's super-annoying trying to manually check them all.
Using the scripts that nuke flash content (and it's easy to turn on/off) then you wouldn't have to worry about this.
At a previous job we had a proxy that pre-processed the HTML and stripped out the flash embed tags. Perhaps there's a way to run this locally and turn the flash nukage on/off according to need, but otherwise I built-in browser script or CSS works.
Of what? They'd have to find the exact location that the little flag was planted (assuming it's still there, probably not a lot to disturb it). Or perhaps they could look for footsteps or an "impact zone".
Of course, even if they used a telescope, the "cynics" would say that it's not really a telescope by a video screen or something. There's not really any way to win. Even if we sent of the idiots into space himself/herself, some world probably just say there were put through a simulation reconstruction.
That being said, there are always cynics, some just insist on being more anal than others. Why not send them ALL on an all-expense-paid one-way trip to the moon...?
Cynic: This is BS, we're still on Earth, it's just a machine. I'm opening my mask now....
*whoooooosh* *splattt*
You need to get a life? I have about 85+ fansubs and have watched up to 70-something. Of course, I watch them with my girlfriend, so maybe that's better (a lot of girls seem to like semi-romantic anime storylines).
If it's out on the cartoon network, I wonder if I can buy legal subbed DVD's. It's a series worth buying (though perhaps I'll wait until it's finished and then look for some sets).
For many companies, marginal products are often offset by good support.
For the music industry, it seems that they offer 90% of the time is a poor product (and one that's getting increasingly poor as copy-protection makes them less compatible).
The attitude toward the majority of consumers is that we're all music pirates.
And now this. There is no customer service, and an increasingly degraded product.
And yes, they wonder why CD sales are down? Truly, what do the major music companies have to offer except a bunch of aging big-names and song-of-the-moment artists who have been caught in contract hell?
Some foolish Autodesk coder forgot to remove the tooltip comment: "Click this to display an overview of the dialog box, idiot"
Forgetting this was probably a good way to get fired (as is mentioned) without a recommendation.
I've heard of a similar mistake, wherein a programmer for bank software was writing routines to do discounts, etc for customers who kept very large balances. To check the functionality of the routine, a message with some comment to the extent of "fat-cats with big walls" was printed as debug on transaction slips from the bank machine. However, the programmer forgot to remove this before the first production releases.
I'm assuming that he is also now an ex-coder (at least as far as the banks as concerned). As a warning, if you are going to put amusing and possibly insulting debug code in, make sure you write yourself lots of memos to remove it before production (or better yet, just use something not insulting).
Similarly, I remember at some point I was making a massmail system. On test messages, the header was "all is well and fine." Of course, in production one of the first messages was about a major security issue that resulted in formmail (yick) being removed from accounts, and since I forgot to remove the $subject="All is well and fine", the intended subject line was overwritten. I didn't get fired, but it did leave me red in the face. Luckily my boss and customers are understanding and have a sense of humour.
This was somewhat of a scandal sometime ago. Apparently a woman won a jackpot on a slot, lights flashed etc etc etc and she got a pile of credits. Just before she left, she decided to stick another quarter in, and won a second time!
The lottery corp refused to pay her out though (I think possibly only for the second win, not the first), as they second the (second?) win was a glitch, and didn't wasn't registered from the main computer - indicated by the lack of flashy lights the second time around.
All the machines have disclaimers saying that they are not obligated to pay for winnings due to a technical error. My question is, how do you tell? It would be pretty easy for them to say "oops, sorry no that machine is faulty, you only get $10 instead of $10000."
I think she eventually got her money in the end, but only because it went to the paper and created a lot of bad publicity for the local casinos. The big point is though, that the winning is not entirely on-the-spot chance/luck, but actually seems to be based on something coming from a main server. Whether there's a randomizing alghorithm or whatever,it seems pretty suspicious to me, as it probably means that your winnings are based more on getting lucky and catching a server during it's "win" calculation than actual random luck - they can probably adjust win thresholds etc from the home base.
No wonder they profit on slots...
I once went looking for this, but never found anything other than dual-monitor single cards, or AGP-PCI combo-cards.
I even posted it as a question to slashdot (rejected, of course).
As far as I know, they still haven't got dual-AGP video yet. I've heard rumblings of using the AGP-style port for other peripherals though, so perhaps somebody will get smart and develop a board that supports dual-video too.
It really sucks when you either have to put all the load on a single AGP card, or mix with slower PCI (not to mention that as PCI becomes obsolete newer models do not get manufactured for the port).
A long time back, I was reading some hardware reviews on sound cards. 1 of the reviews mentioned a card that was rather nominal, but came with a special set of headphones. In about a page of article, it glanced over the soundcard and then went into rave reviews of the headphones, which apparently used "white noise" to block audible frequencies except for the music/etc coming through the headphones.
My guess would be that this could be used to create a signal, and block it from human perception but perhaps still allow it to be picked up be electronics.
One question I have though, if they're making such advanced uses of white-noise technology now, and these headphones/soundcards came out over a year ago, why haven't I seen rave reviews on the technology and white-noise headphones available at every radio shack? From what I remember, including the price of the card the 'phones weren't that expensive.
The main problem with anime in North America, and especially on cable:
Baaad dubbing. For example, princess mononoke. The dubbing on the wolf gods was horrible. Part of what makes anime good (in it's pure undubbed form) is the emotion etc portrayed by good voice actors.
A real Japanese adult voice sounds pissed off sounds way better than when they hire some famous actor (or even worse, some off-the-street voice who hasn't even hit vocal puberty yet).
American female voices are also fricking annoying.
Subtitles have always been the way for me, even bad fansubs aren't as bad as bad dubs (and sometimes the mistakes are pretty hilarious too... Boy who sealed to tree. Girl who fall down well into past). Too bad standard cable doesn't offer voice-selection with the subtitle option (does digital? If I can get my anime channel in a semi-pure form I'd pay for that).
No disagreement here. As I said before, flash shouldn't be used to design webpages (HTML anyone?), unless - for example (brokensaints.com) - the site is one dedicated to flash movies (then it makes sense)
remember anti-skip CD players? "Perfect for Runners!")
The newer ones with longer antiskip anyhow. My older player has Anti-Skip, it still chirps and clips when I'm blading.
Memory-based players are nice because they don't skip and also have no (powered) moving parts to break or drain battery.
The timer is also useful for track-times, to see if you can get around a little faster next time (i.e. if your fitness is "improving"). I prefer to set my pace to a particular song though, fast upbeat music for harder work, and shorter songs for trying to make a sprint
Not movies per-say, but a lot of sites are coming out built almost entirely (and annoyingly so) in flash.
Some of this is acceptabe, such as sites totally dedicated towards flash entertainment in the first place, but in other cases flash/java/javaScript just leaves a lot of people in the cold.
Do you know if there was a key for win9x? I guessed that it probably stemmed from somewhere else, but I don't think that Microsoft actually adopted it until it became popular in other operating systems.
Command completion probably wasn't the best example though. For GUI itself, it seems that the MS seemed to steal GUI ideas from Mac back in the good ol' days.
NT4 & win95????
Maybe in NT4, but not in any of the win9X's I know of. I'm running win98 right now, if I type in cd win(tab) I get a big tab space, no name completion.
To my knowledge, this wasn't in ME either. Where did you get this idea from, or are we talking about something different? In the GUI it fills things out for you (which is actually often more annoying than helpful), but I don't know of anything that does this in a command prompt.
Quick way (internet)
Step 1: go to mysql.com and download mysql
Step 2: go to google.com and enter: +mysql +sample
Step 3: Spend some time reading, figure it out.
Standardized way (book)
The advantages of a good book are mainly in the way of standardization and security. While I've seen books that were crap in reference to this, most do a much better job of providing code samples than the underinformed indivuals writing "samples." That being said, major sites like Zend.com and php.net still provide good examples etc, but in that case you need some fore-knowledge to know what to look for.
All IMHO of course. Many of us are "example learners" as opposed to "book learners".
I've seen some Video CD's and DVD's in the back room at the video store... I guess if I bought them they could be considered "Perviously owned." Not sure how this would apply to audio discs though.
The Web was developed during the early nineties, at the time we had 286 processors just going in to the 386 world. So all that's needed to surf the World Wide Web (as a knowledge base) is a 286 with a dial-up connection and a web browser.
This will still get you IRC and email, and perhaps some access to news, etc in lynx. But yeah, no flash sites for these guys. I did OK on the local text-based internet with a 386/33 (I think, I may have had a 486 by then) and a 2400 baud modem.
It's a good forward step though, it's good to keep in mind that in many cases "anything is better than nothing"
I had a 386 computer. It played, but often enough I had to hit F5 (turn down detail) or lower the screenres a bit. Now they can play this thing on a phone? What exactly is the PC equivilency in the phones (CPU, RAM, etc)?
While I'm not about to upgrade to a new phone just to play doom... I might keep it in mind when the next time to upgrade comes (as long as the phone is also a good phone).
Some problems (forgive my pessimism)
Once cellular-multiplayer versions of popular
games comes out, I think that the cell phone companies are going to have some problems with plans like "Unlimited Evenings and Weekends". Airwaves in certain areas could very well start to get congested (as it is, I often cannot call out if I'm in a big city near a special event such as the yearly fireworks show, too many people on the phone).
The local phone company actually snipped their "unlimited long-distance" plan to X-hundred minutes because of a problem in small cities. Residents would wait until weekends or after 7 to dial the nearest big city where there were "free internet" providers, and hog the lines until early morning hours doing downloads. I can forsee the same issues with cells and games, etc, and you get a whole bunch of people constantly online playing doom or Tetris.
That day might be a ways away, but it is still a good possibility.
Evolution looks so much like Outlook there ought to be royalties involved
Ever checked out Lycroris? Looks familiar doesn't it. Thought and design theft go both ways though, notice what happens when you push "tab" with a half-typed file/directory in winXP (and I think 2k) command prompt? Hmmm, somehow I think that one got ripped off from the linux (perhaps unix or previous other) community, was it GPL'ed?
The point of making products like evolution similar to office is to provide the user with something they can relate to easily enough while providing them with better functionality or stability, etc (or just functionality on an alternate medium).
People recognise Microsoft layouts. In fact, I even like them. Chances are that if MS software didn't crash so much and wasn't so fricking expensive and/or ignorant in EULA's etc, then even linux users could find a use for it.
Linux systems can get a lot by mimicking windows graphical designs and ideas. MS can learn about (but probably won't) useful functionality and ability to grow from linux.
Amusing analogy. Keep in mind that while Mr Gates wasn't exactly a long-bearded geek, the original MS team was quite akin to this culture. I can't find a picture of it offhand, but I used to see one with a caption of "Would YOU have invested in them?" and all the pseudo-hippy-long-hair MS team.
Slashdot Mirror
The one that asmused me was in (I think) Space Question. You could hit the "Boss Key", but then it lost your game and you had to save. (evil buggers)
You think that's bad? Try setting cookies to "confirm." It's scary when I see the amount of requests that were automatically going through, but it's super-annoying trying to manually check them all.
Using the scripts that nuke flash content (and it's easy to turn on/off) then you wouldn't have to worry about this.
At a previous job we had a proxy that pre-processed the HTML and stripped out the flash embed tags. Perhaps there's a way to run this locally and turn the flash nukage on/off according to need, but otherwise I built-in browser script or CSS works.
Of what? They'd have to find the exact location that the little flag was planted (assuming it's still there, probably not a lot to disturb it). Or perhaps they could look for footsteps or an "impact zone".
Of course, even if they used a telescope, the "cynics" would say that it's not really a telescope by a video screen or something. There's not really any way to win. Even if we sent of the idiots into space himself/herself, some world probably just say there were put through a simulation reconstruction.
That being said, there are always cynics, some just insist on being more anal than others. Why not send them ALL on an all-expense-paid one-way trip to the moon...?
Cynic : This is BS, we're still on Earth, it's just a machine. I'm opening my mask now....
*whoooooosh* *splattt*
You need to get a life? I have about 85+ fansubs and have watched up to 70-something. Of course, I watch them with my girlfriend, so maybe that's better (a lot of girls seem to like semi-romantic anime storylines).
If it's out on the cartoon network, I wonder if I can buy legal subbed DVD's. It's a series worth buying (though perhaps I'll wait until it's finished and then look for some sets).
For many companies, marginal products are often offset by good support.
For the music industry, it seems that they offer 90% of the time is a poor product (and one that's getting increasingly poor as copy-protection makes them less compatible).
The attitude toward the majority of consumers is that we're all music pirates.
And now this. There is no customer service, and an increasingly degraded product.
And yes, they wonder why CD sales are down? Truly, what do the major music companies have to offer except a bunch of aging big-names and song-of-the-moment artists who have been caught in contract hell?
I'm just hoping that they don't play them WHILE driving.
Just *brake suddenly*
Gotta *swerves between lanes*
finish *runs over dog*
this *takes out a family of five*
level (*boom*).
Can you emulate windows in BSD like you can (with WINE) on linux. How do the speed/compatibility comparisons match up on both?
I liked this page here
Some foolish Autodesk coder forgot to remove the tooltip comment:
"Click this to display an overview of the dialog box, idiot"
Forgetting this was probably a good way to get fired (as is mentioned) without a recommendation.
I've heard of a similar mistake, wherein a programmer for bank software was writing routines to do discounts, etc for customers who kept very large balances. To check the functionality of the routine, a message with some comment to the extent of "fat-cats with big walls" was printed as debug on transaction slips from the bank machine. However, the programmer forgot to remove this before the first production releases.
I'm assuming that he is also now an ex-coder (at least as far as the banks as concerned). As a warning, if you are going to put amusing and possibly insulting debug code in, make sure you write yourself lots of memos to remove it before production (or better yet, just use something not insulting).
Similarly, I remember at some point I was making a massmail system. On test messages, the header was "all is well and fine." Of course, in production one of the first messages was about a major security issue that resulted in formmail (yick) being removed from accounts, and since I forgot to remove the $subject="All is well and fine", the intended subject line was overwritten. I didn't get fired, but it did leave me red in the face. Luckily my boss and customers are understanding and have a sense of humour.
This was somewhat of a scandal sometime ago. Apparently a woman won a jackpot on a slot, lights flashed etc etc etc and she got a pile of credits. Just before she left, she decided to stick another quarter in, and won a second time!
The lottery corp refused to pay her out though (I think possibly only for the second win, not the first), as they second the (second?) win was a glitch, and didn't wasn't registered from the main computer - indicated by the lack of flashy lights the second time around.
All the machines have disclaimers saying that they are not obligated to pay for winnings due to a technical error. My question is, how do you tell? It would be pretty easy for them to say "oops, sorry no that machine is faulty, you only get $10 instead of $10000."
I think she eventually got her money in the end, but only because it went to the paper and created a lot of bad publicity for the local casinos. The big point is though, that the winning is not entirely on-the-spot chance/luck, but actually seems to be based on something coming from a main server. Whether there's a randomizing alghorithm or whatever,it seems pretty suspicious to me, as it probably means that your winnings are based more on getting lucky and catching a server during it's "win" calculation than actual random luck - they can probably adjust win thresholds etc from the home base.
No wonder they profit on slots...
5. Games/entertainment (how could you miss this?)
6. Chatting/Communication
I once went looking for this, but never found anything other than dual-monitor single cards, or AGP-PCI combo-cards.
I even posted it as a question to slashdot (rejected, of course).
As far as I know, they still haven't got dual-AGP video yet. I've heard rumblings of using the AGP-style port for other peripherals though, so perhaps somebody will get smart and develop a board that supports dual-video too.
It really sucks when you either have to put all the load on a single AGP card, or mix with slower PCI (not to mention that as PCI becomes obsolete newer models do not get manufactured for the port).
A long time back, I was reading some hardware reviews on sound cards. 1 of the reviews mentioned a card that was rather nominal, but came with a special set of headphones. In about a page of article, it glanced over the soundcard and then went into rave reviews of the headphones, which apparently used "white noise" to block audible frequencies except for the music/etc coming through the headphones.
My guess would be that this could be used to create a signal, and block it from human perception but perhaps still allow it to be picked up be electronics.
One question I have though, if they're making such advanced uses of white-noise technology now, and these headphones/soundcards came out over a year ago, why haven't I seen rave reviews on the technology and white-noise headphones available at every radio shack? From what I remember, including the price of the card the 'phones weren't that expensive.
The main problem with anime in North America, and especially on cable:
Baaad dubbing. For example, princess mononoke. The dubbing on the wolf gods was horrible. Part of what makes anime good (in it's pure undubbed form) is the emotion etc portrayed by good voice actors.
A real Japanese adult voice sounds pissed off sounds way better than when they hire some famous actor (or even worse, some off-the-street voice who hasn't even hit vocal puberty yet).
American female voices are also fricking annoying.
Subtitles have always been the way for me, even bad fansubs aren't as bad as bad dubs (and sometimes the mistakes are pretty hilarious too... Boy who sealed to tree. Girl who fall down well into past). Too bad standard cable doesn't offer voice-selection with the subtitle option (does digital? If I can get my anime channel in a semi-pure form I'd pay for that).
No disagreement here. As I said before, flash shouldn't be used to design webpages (HTML anyone?), unless - for example (brokensaints.com) - the site is one dedicated to flash movies (then it makes sense)
remember anti-skip CD players? "Perfect for Runners!")
The newer ones with longer antiskip anyhow. My older player has Anti-Skip, it still chirps and clips when I'm blading.
Memory-based players are nice because they don't skip and also have no (powered) moving parts to break or drain battery.
The timer is also useful for track-times, to see if you can get around a little faster next time (i.e. if your fitness is "improving"). I prefer to set my pace to a particular song though, fast upbeat music for harder work, and shorter songs for trying to make a sprint
Not movies per-say, but a lot of sites are coming out built almost entirely (and annoyingly so) in flash.
Some of this is acceptabe, such as sites totally dedicated towards flash entertainment in the first place, but in other cases flash/java/javaScript just leaves a lot of people in the cold.
It's not there in 9x though. I've used NT only on a few occasions though so I never saw this until 2k
Do you know if there was a key for win9x? I guessed that it probably stemmed from somewhere else, but I don't think that Microsoft actually adopted it until it became popular in other operating systems.
Command completion probably wasn't the best example though. For GUI itself, it seems that the MS seemed to steal GUI ideas from Mac back in the good ol' days.
NT4 & win95????
Maybe in NT4, but not in any of the win9X's I know of. I'm running win98 right now, if I type in cd win(tab) I get a big tab space, no name completion.
To my knowledge, this wasn't in ME either. Where did you get this idea from, or are we talking about something different? In the GUI it fills things out for you (which is actually often more annoying than helpful), but I don't know of anything that does this in a command prompt.
Quick way (internet) Step 1: go to mysql.com and download mysql
Step 2: go to google.com and enter:
+mysql +sample
Step 3: Spend some time reading, figure it out.
Standardized way (book) The advantages of a good book are mainly in the way of standardization and security. While I've seen books that were crap in reference to this, most do a much better job of providing code samples than the underinformed indivuals writing "samples." That being said, major sites like Zend.com and php.net still provide good examples etc, but in that case you need some fore-knowledge to know what to look for.
All IMHO of course. Many of us are "example learners" as opposed to "book learners".
I've seen some Video CD's and DVD's in the back room at the video store... I guess if I bought them they could be considered "Perviously owned." Not sure how this would apply to audio discs though.
(yes, this is supposed to be humourous).
The Web was developed during the early nineties, at the time we had 286 processors just going in to the 386 world. So all that's needed to surf the World Wide Web (as a knowledge base) is a 286 with a dial-up connection and a web browser.
This will still get you IRC and email, and perhaps some access to news, etc in lynx. But yeah, no flash sites for these guys. I did OK on the local text-based internet with a 386/33 (I think, I may have had a 486 by then) and a 2400 baud modem.
It's a good forward step though, it's good to keep in mind that in many cases "anything is better than nothing"
I had a 386 computer. It played, but often enough I had to hit F5 (turn down detail) or lower the screenres a bit. Now they can play this thing on a phone? What exactly is the PC equivilency in the phones (CPU, RAM, etc)?
While I'm not about to upgrade to a new phone just to play doom... I might keep it in mind when the next time to upgrade comes (as long as the phone is also a good phone).
Some problems (forgive my pessimism)
Once cellular-multiplayer versions of popular games comes out, I think that the cell phone companies are going to have some problems with plans like "Unlimited Evenings and Weekends". Airwaves in certain areas could very well start to get congested (as it is, I often cannot call out if I'm in a big city near a special event such as the yearly fireworks show, too many people on the phone).
The local phone company actually snipped their "unlimited long-distance" plan to X-hundred minutes because of a problem in small cities. Residents would wait until weekends or after 7 to dial the nearest big city where there were "free internet" providers, and hog the lines until early morning hours doing downloads. I can forsee the same issues with cells and games, etc, and you get a whole bunch of people constantly online playing doom or Tetris.
That day might be a ways away, but it is still a good possibility.
Evolution looks so much like Outlook there ought to be royalties involved
Ever checked out Lycroris? Looks familiar doesn't it. Thought and design theft go both ways though, notice what happens when you push "tab" with a half-typed file/directory in winXP (and I think 2k) command prompt? Hmmm, somehow I think that one got ripped off from the linux (perhaps unix or previous other) community, was it GPL'ed?
The point of making products like evolution similar to office is to provide the user with something they can relate to easily enough while providing them with better functionality or stability, etc (or just functionality on an alternate medium).
People recognise Microsoft layouts. In fact, I even like them. Chances are that if MS software didn't crash so much and wasn't so fricking expensive and/or ignorant in EULA's etc, then even linux users could find a use for it.
Linux systems can get a lot by mimicking windows graphical designs and ideas. MS can learn about (but probably won't) useful functionality and ability to grow from linux.
Just IMHO though...
Amusing analogy. Keep in mind that while Mr Gates wasn't exactly a long-bearded geek, the original MS team was quite akin to this culture. I can't find a picture of it offhand, but I used to see one with a caption of "Would YOU have invested in them?" and all the pseudo-hippy-long-hair MS team.