Fortunately for me, I decided 2 things a few years ago:
1) There is nothing worth watching on Cable/Satellite, and nothing on broadcast TV that justifies the endless advertising torture perpetrated against its viewing audience.
2) The Olympics has long since forgotten why it exists, and is now nothing more than a shell game.
I can now feel sympathy and sorrow for those who are still chained to the Olympics addiction. Once you view television and the Olympics from the correct perspective, you can laugh at moves like the one perpetrated by NBC.
A more useful article that lists the patent numbers and claims in dispute.
You linked to a site which specializes in fictional writing. It's like quoting Star Trek as an authority on real faster than light travel. Think of fosspatents as a site that recommends reversing the polarity on the deflector dish to fix legal problems.
The thing that bugs me about this is that all you fuckers on the band wagon saying he should be pardoned in 2013 would be the first to call for his castration if you had been living in the UK in 1950.
Let's assume, for the same of argument, that RSA is being completely honest and sincere: their product is not compromised by the U.S. Government. Given that the U.S. Government can just slap any company in the U.S. with a National Security Letter; the violation of which comes with prison time, and which prohibits the recipient from even saying they got one; we can't trust any U.S. (or U.K., for that matter) company's word that they haven't been compromised by the Government.
So as our computer security companies start to decline, and our economy (which has a huge computer company component to it) declines even further, we can all tip our hats to the corrupt polititians that gave our three-letter agencies the power to deal a body blow to the very country they are supposed to be protecting; and to the agencies that use that power to harm us more than any terrorist plot ever could.
So an organization whose existence is predicated on lying, and whose employees, from the top of the food chain to the bottom of the food chain, have done nothing but lie to their country, from the top of the food chain to the bottom of the food chain, goes on a national TV show and says stuff that we are supposed to believe?
Either the NSA is staffed by utter morons, or they think we are the utter morons. There is a huge believability deficit in that agency, and an enormous cognitive disconnect among its leaders. It's yet another federal agency that needs a large funding reduction, and whose leaders need many years of therapy.
Speak for yourself. You're assuming that a lack of women programmers is a bug rather than a feature. I left my lower paying job at a place with no women programmers for a 60% pay increase at a company with women programmers. Before the week was over, I was calling my previous employer to ask for my old job back. The caustic, catty, backstabbing, childish environment created by women was so bad, I was willing to take a 60% pay cut to get out of it.
Now I'm happy at my job again, and running a small business on the side to make up the difference in pay. The single best way to ruin a satisfying career is to add women to it. I hope more women and young girls think that computers are just not for them.
Earlier versions of C# are also an ECMA standard, but nobody cares either way.
More than that: after the OOXML ECMA debacle, no one takes ECMA seriously anymore. Submitting a standard to EMCA now is like announcing that your blue-chip company is selling penny stocks.
I'm seeing a lot of posts about how watching broadcast TV is...stupid...but I do like...suffering through a lot of deafening ads.
I think you've just confirmed the reasons why so many people see broadcast TV as "old-school", and those who flagellate themselves in front of it as slightly north of insane.
"The cloud" just means you're putting all of that data on hard drives owned someone else you don't know.
I wish I could mod you higher than +5. The title of this article could be accurately rewritten as, "45% of All the Server purchasers are complete, unmitigated, fucking morons."
I agree, which is why I dumped Microsoft in 1999 and switched to Linux. Even back when Linux was "hard" to use, it still worked better than any version of Windows -- then and now. I don't see that changing any time soon.
I started reading the article linked to in, "start counting at zero", and stopped halfway through. I feel sorry for anyone who reads that article, but isn't a programmer (hell, even if they are programmers), as it is self-contradictory crap:
From the article:
Itâ(TM)s not about [pointer math] because pointers and structs didnâ(TM)t exist....So I found [the person who originally decided to start array indices at zero] and asked him [why he started array indices at zero].
Then the father of zero-index arrays said:
...if p is a pointer p+1 is a pointer to the next word after the one p points to.
He then goes on to admit that zero-index arrays are the most efficient means of calculating memory addresses, and brushes aside his self-contradictions by saying that the "why" is more important than the "how".
Which means, as should be obvious to everyone, that zero indices are the most natural way to express pointer arithmetic; internally to your language runtime if your language doesn't support pointers, or externally if pointers are programmer-facing.
The author of this article needs to brush up on computer fundamentals before self-publishing his absurd opinion pieces on computer fundamentals. Zero-index arrays are "conventional programming wisdom" because they have always been the easiest way to calculate memory addresses.
If I could moderate you above 5, I would. I bought a cheap color laser printer (Samsung CLP 550N) several years ago, (eight, I think) and printed many pages on the starter cartridges that came with the printer. My printing was sporadic, though, so the starter cartridges lasted me for years before I had to replace them.
Color laser is the way to go. Ink jets need to be trashed.
Don't forget to add a rider that says, "...and mandatory life imprisonment for torturing babies and/or kittens." Then, when the bill fails, you can call out all those who voted no as being pro baby and kitten torture.
Before you let anyone into your standards committee, make sure they don't work for Microsoft or a Microsoft affiliate. And if they do, make sure Microsoft isn't trying to push through a competing "standard".
Be sure you learn the ISO's lessons regarding Microsoft and its henchmen stuffing standards bodies.
You knew what was going on when you went into the project.
While true, Apple still carries a large amount of responsibility for locking people into its marketplace prison. If sideloading were an option, people could still get by without Apple's (or the Chinese Government's) consent.
That being said, I find it really, really hard to sympathize with Apple customers when they get burned over and over again without learning their lesson. It's like Homer (or was it Bart?) Simpson touching the hot stove: "doh!"..."doh!"..."doh!"....
That's an excellent visual, and highly accurate. Everyone can safely ignore this article, as it comes from fosspatents (Florian's anti-FOSS website). You can safely assume that nothing in the article is even remotely true; except, perhaps, that Samsung, Nokia, and Apple are real companies.
My poop already comes out black and tarry. Turning it into crude oil is the next logical step.
While your comment was humorous, it isn't what made me laugh. That honor went to the realization that there were Slashdot moderators who thought, "Wow, that's useful information; I'm going to mark that as informative!" What's even funnier than that is that there was more than one moderator who had the same thought.
The only thing I can say to those moderators is, "Here's your sign."
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Military intelligence has always been an oxymoron, so this shouldn't surprise anyone.
We are using the best interface that exists and that is unlikely to change.
At least not until we get the Do What I Want, Not What I Say language.
Fortunately for me, I decided 2 things a few years ago:
1) There is nothing worth watching on Cable/Satellite, and nothing on broadcast TV that justifies the endless advertising torture perpetrated against its viewing audience.
2) The Olympics has long since forgotten why it exists, and is now nothing more than a shell game.
I can now feel sympathy and sorrow for those who are still chained to the Olympics addiction. Once you view television and the Olympics from the correct perspective, you can laugh at moves like the one perpetrated by NBC.
I personally know a number of scientists who believe in creation/intelligent design
No, you don't. I'm not going to speculate on their actual profession, but it isn't "scientist".
A more useful article that lists the patent numbers and claims in dispute.
You linked to a site which specializes in fictional writing. It's like quoting Star Trek as an authority on real faster than light travel. Think of fosspatents as a site that recommends reversing the polarity on the deflector dish to fix legal problems.
The thing that bugs me about this is that all you fuckers on the band wagon saying he should be pardoned in 2013 would be the first to call for his castration if you had been living in the UK in 1950.
This is what Psychology calls, "Projection."
Let's assume, for the same of argument, that RSA is being completely honest and sincere: their product is not compromised by the U.S. Government. Given that the U.S. Government can just slap any company in the U.S. with a National Security Letter; the violation of which comes with prison time, and which prohibits the recipient from even saying they got one; we can't trust any U.S. (or U.K., for that matter) company's word that they haven't been compromised by the Government.
So as our computer security companies start to decline, and our economy (which has a huge computer company component to it) declines even further, we can all tip our hats to the corrupt polititians that gave our three-letter agencies the power to deal a body blow to the very country they are supposed to be protecting; and to the agencies that use that power to harm us more than any terrorist plot ever could.
So an organization whose existence is predicated on lying, and whose employees, from the top of the food chain to the bottom of the food chain, have done nothing but lie to their country, from the top of the food chain to the bottom of the food chain, goes on a national TV show and says stuff that we are supposed to believe?
Either the NSA is staffed by utter morons, or they think we are the utter morons. There is a huge believability deficit in that agency, and an enormous cognitive disconnect among its leaders. It's yet another federal agency that needs a large funding reduction, and whose leaders need many years of therapy.
Given this community's gender troubles....
Speak for yourself. You're assuming that a lack of women programmers is a bug rather than a feature. I left my lower paying job at a place with no women programmers for a 60% pay increase at a company with women programmers. Before the week was over, I was calling my previous employer to ask for my old job back. The caustic, catty, backstabbing, childish environment created by women was so bad, I was willing to take a 60% pay cut to get out of it.
Now I'm happy at my job again, and running a small business on the side to make up the difference in pay. The single best way to ruin a satisfying career is to add women to it. I hope more women and young girls think that computers are just not for them.
Earlier versions of C# are also an ECMA standard, but nobody cares either way.
More than that: after the OOXML ECMA debacle, no one takes ECMA seriously anymore. Submitting a standard to EMCA now is like announcing that your blue-chip company is selling penny stocks.
I'm seeing a lot of posts about how watching broadcast TV is...stupid...but I do like...suffering through a lot of deafening ads.
I think you've just confirmed the reasons why so many people see broadcast TV as "old-school", and those who flagellate themselves in front of it as slightly north of insane.
"The cloud" just means you're putting all of that data on hard drives owned someone else you don't know.
I wish I could mod you higher than +5. The title of this article could be accurately rewritten as, "45% of All the Server purchasers are complete, unmitigated, fucking morons."
The NSA has the purpose of catching terrorists...
Yet the NSA still lets them run the House, Senate, and White House. Talk about sleeping at the wheel.
Keep using what works.
I agree, which is why I dumped Microsoft in 1999 and switched to Linux. Even back when Linux was "hard" to use, it still worked better than any version of Windows -- then and now. I don't see that changing any time soon.
I started reading the article linked to in, "start counting at zero", and stopped halfway through. I feel sorry for anyone who reads that article, but isn't a programmer (hell, even if they are programmers), as it is self-contradictory crap:
From the article:
Itâ(TM)s not about [pointer math] because pointers and structs didnâ(TM)t exist....So I found [the person who originally decided to start array indices at zero] and asked him [why he started array indices at zero].
Then the father of zero-index arrays said:
...if p is a pointer p+1 is a pointer to the next word after the one p points to.
He then goes on to admit that zero-index arrays are the most efficient means of calculating memory addresses, and brushes aside his self-contradictions by saying that the "why" is more important than the "how".
Which means, as should be obvious to everyone, that zero indices are the most natural way to express pointer arithmetic; internally to your language runtime if your language doesn't support pointers, or externally if pointers are programmer-facing.
The author of this article needs to brush up on computer fundamentals before self-publishing his absurd opinion pieces on computer fundamentals. Zero-index arrays are "conventional programming wisdom" because they have always been the easiest way to calculate memory addresses.
The real news here is "slashdot editors drunk at work, approve spam"
Obligatory: You must be new here.
If I could moderate you above 5, I would. I bought a cheap color laser printer (Samsung CLP 550N) several years ago, (eight, I think) and printed many pages on the starter cartridges that came with the printer. My printing was sporadic, though, so the starter cartridges lasted me for years before I had to replace them.
Color laser is the way to go. Ink jets need to be trashed.
Don't forget to add a rider that says, "...and mandatory life imprisonment for torturing babies and/or kittens." Then, when the bill fails, you can call out all those who voted no as being pro baby and kitten torture.
USB support, at least with Windows hosts, still seems to be broken though.
I run Windows as a guest on a Kubuntu host, and USB works fine for printers and USB drives.
Before you let anyone into your standards committee, make sure they don't work for Microsoft or a Microsoft affiliate. And if they do, make sure Microsoft isn't trying to push through a competing "standard".
Be sure you learn the ISO's lessons regarding Microsoft and its henchmen stuffing standards bodies.
You knew what was going on when you went into the project.
While true, Apple still carries a large amount of responsibility for locking people into its marketplace prison. If sideloading were an option, people could still get by without Apple's (or the Chinese Government's) consent.
That being said, I find it really, really hard to sympathize with Apple customers when they get burned over and over again without learning their lesson. It's like Homer (or was it Bart?) Simpson touching the hot stove: "doh!"..."doh!"..."doh!"....
Ignoring all the florian-spew
That's an excellent visual, and highly accurate. Everyone can safely ignore this article, as it comes from fosspatents (Florian's anti-FOSS website). You can safely assume that nothing in the article is even remotely true; except, perhaps, that Samsung, Nokia, and Apple are real companies.
My poop already comes out black and tarry. Turning it into crude oil is the next logical step.
While your comment was humorous, it isn't what made me laugh. That honor went to the realization that there were Slashdot moderators who thought, "Wow, that's useful information; I'm going to mark that as informative!" What's even funnier than that is that there was more than one moderator who had the same thought.
The only thing I can say to those moderators is, "Here's your sign."
His behavior in public forums and disrespect for others around him is a good example of [why] you should ignore him.
His consistent accuracy in predicting the consequences of disregarding Freedom is a great example of why you should listen to him.
Aside from the question of who gets to act as producer, how is this different from using CNN to do the same thing?
Governments around the world are terrified of their citizens getting information that hasn't been thoroughly spun by the former's propaganda machine.