Problem after problem was traced back to the use of global variables. Over time I'd eliminated a lot of them, but there's a lot left. It's hard to change how a function works if there's a back channel of globals passing state around. Globals break encapsulation, making code difficult to understand.
Sounds like it's time to refactor some code there Walt.
Assuming that "multiple in-memory screens" would be covered by this patent, Amiga 1000 did in fact have this in 1985. I did some checking to be sure, and it appears that not only were multiple workspaces supported, but each workspace could even have a different resolution and color depth. It also appears to have supported dragging items from one workspace to another.
It's the ascension of Jesus into Heaven that's missing from this version of Mark. And the ascension is NOT missing from the other Gospels in the Sinaiticus. And despite the article summary, the other Gospels and New Testament writings in the Sinaiticus specifically reference the Resurrection.
I guess this is one situation where leaving on Automatic Login actually wasn't a bad thing. If the thief had been forced to login using a guest account, he wouldn't have been using your Firefox profile, and your Foxmarks wouldn't have updated.
You left out something important: investigation (btw, not repair) of computer-based data is now included in Subsection (a)(1), which defines the intent of a private investigator. To wit: "(1) engages in the business of obtaining or furnishing, or accepts employment to obtain or furnish, information related to:
(A) crime or wrongs done or threatened against a state or the United States;
(B) the identity, habits, business, occupation,
knowledge, efficiency, loyalty, movement, location, affiliations, associations, transactions, acts, reputation, or character of a
person;
(C) the location, disposition, or recovery of
lost or stolen property; or
(D) the cause or responsibility for a fire,
libel, loss, accident, damage, or injury to a person or to property;"
So to fall under the law, you have to actually be investigating the content of the computer, not repairing it. And this law defines an "investigator" (i.e. someone "investigating") as a person or company that is in the business of obtaining and providing the acquired information, as outlined above.
In other words, you only have to have a PI license if you are actually doing PI work on the computer, not just repairing it.
BTW, I am a lawyer.
Not only did I find it ironic that an article about spam would be interrupted by an obnoxious pop-up that blackened the article in the background until clicking out of it, but I won't participate in your "survey" designed to send me more spam, and I won't be visiting your site anymore.
kthnx
They are written in Javascript but with special hooks that allow access to Firefox itself (e.g. creating new Firefox menu items, storing plugin settings between sessions, lots of stuff). The fact that the language is Javascript is not what causes the "bogging down", it's when a user installs many, many plugins. The same thing happens with IE when someone installs many, many toolbars or Browser Helper Objects. Don't overdo it and it's not a problem.
Round 17 complete and we're at $12.8 billion with 214 qualified bidders.
WTF! I thought there were only a dozen or so bidders, at least that's what the media has been leading us to believe. But now there are over 200? This thing is going through the roof, the submitter didn't do his homework very well.
You mean wait for another author to die before finishing his next book? His last book was split in half because he wasn't finished with it 3 years ago, and the second half STILL isn't done.
"...we're trying to do two diametrically opposed things at once--provide an advanced and open platform to developers while at the same time protect our partners from hacks, unlocking, etc. This is no easy task."
The Wire Act of 1961 made it illegal to place an interstate or international wager
Actually, it only made it illegal for those "engaged in the business of betting or wagering" to do so. The US Attorney has issued an advisory opinion on this long ago, available on the DOJ website, stating that this means the casual bettor does not fall under the Wire Wager Act: "In order to establish a violation of Section 1084(a), the government must prove four things: First, that the defendant was engaged in the business of betting or wagering -- in other words, that unlike a casual bettor, he or she derived all or much of his income from the business of gambling. Thus, the statute typically has been enforced against bookmakers and those that work for bookmakers in connection with taking bets or wagers on sporting events or contests..."
I have seen at least 10 stories about this on Digg today get yanked. Even stories about the yanking get yanked. It's not looking good over there.
Hang on, incoming transmission...
"zero-niner, foxtrot-niner, zero-two, niner-delta, seventy-four, echo-three, five-bravo, delta-eight, forty-one, fifty-six, charlie-five, sixty-three, fifty-six, snowman-snowman, charlie-zero"
Will it kill traditional TV ads...?
Did DVD rentals kill ads? No. You actually *pay* to watch ads these days, as anyone whose ever rental a DVD at Blockbuster can tell you. Not only will you pay to download a show, but that show *will* contain ads. Whether at the beginning or in the middle (never at the end), there will be ads in the shows you pay for. It's like death, taxes, and Madonna. It's inevitable.
People are just too stupid to use them. I mean, if you couldn't figure out how to set the clock on your VCR, how in the hell are you going to figure out how to use a COMPUTER (*gasp*) to record your soaps???
You are way off (or using an ancient distro) on the memory stick. With KDE 3.4, when I plug mine in, I instantly get a nifty little memory-stick icon on my desktop, which I can just click once to open up a window that looks astonishingly like a Windows Folder view. Wow, how difficult is that??
Now we have a war on terrrorism. WTF? As if there is anything that anyone can do to prevent a bombing... ... he says from his comfortable monday-morning-quarterback chair. But at last count, it's been almost 3 years (WTF???) since a terrorist attack took 3,500 lives in this country. I'd call that a reasonable job of "prevention" myself.
Have you forgotten how it felt that day?
To see your homeland under fire
And her people blown away
Have you forgotten when those towers fell?
We had neighbors still inside going thru a living hell
And you say we shouldn't worry about bin Laden
Have you forgotten?
1) Contains a "bug", well let's just call it a "feature".
2) Sloppy code, but Hey! it works. Sort of.
3) Run on Windows only.
Sounds like every piece of comercial software sold by Microsoft to me.
is that your right to view DVDs will be obsolete in 10 years. Notice that in his "prediction" the viewing device is the media, which means no access to the media without permission from the viewing device, which means you no longer own the media.
Wow, sound like a really deal idea to me.
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Problem after problem was traced back to the use of global variables. Over time I'd eliminated a lot of them, but there's a lot left. It's hard to change how a function works if there's a back channel of globals passing state around. Globals break encapsulation, making code difficult to understand.
Sounds like it's time to refactor some code there Walt.
Assuming that "multiple in-memory screens" would be covered by this patent, Amiga 1000 did in fact have this in 1985. I did some checking to be sure, and it appears that not only were multiple workspaces supported, but each workspace could even have a different resolution and color depth. It also appears to have supported dragging items from one workspace to another.
"inexplicable"... You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
It's the ascension of Jesus into Heaven that's missing from this version of Mark. And the ascension is NOT missing from the other Gospels in the Sinaiticus. And despite the article summary, the other Gospels and New Testament writings in the Sinaiticus specifically reference the Resurrection.
I guess this is one situation where leaving on Automatic Login actually wasn't a bad thing. If the thief had been forced to login using a guest account, he wouldn't have been using your Firefox profile, and your Foxmarks wouldn't have updated.
You left out something important: investigation (btw, not repair) of computer-based data is now included in Subsection (a)(1), which defines the intent of a private investigator. To wit:
"(1) engages in the business of obtaining or furnishing, or accepts employment to obtain or furnish, information related to:
(A) crime or wrongs done or threatened against a state or the United States;
(B) the identity, habits, business, occupation, knowledge, efficiency, loyalty, movement, location, affiliations, associations, transactions, acts, reputation, or character of a person;
(C) the location, disposition, or recovery of lost or stolen property; or
(D) the cause or responsibility for a fire, libel, loss, accident, damage, or injury to a person or to property;"
So to fall under the law, you have to actually be investigating the content of the computer, not repairing it. And this law defines an "investigator" (i.e. someone "investigating") as a person or company that is in the business of obtaining and providing the acquired information, as outlined above.
In other words, you only have to have a PI license if you are actually doing PI work on the computer, not just repairing it. BTW, I am a lawyer.
Not only did I find it ironic that an article about spam would be interrupted by an obnoxious pop-up that blackened the article in the background until clicking out of it, but I won't participate in your "survey" designed to send me more spam, and I won't be visiting your site anymore. kthnx
Let us briefly pause whilst my 1988 Mercury Grand Marquis sputters loudly with contempt.
They are written in Javascript but with special hooks that allow access to Firefox itself (e.g. creating new Firefox menu items, storing plugin settings between sessions, lots of stuff). The fact that the language is Javascript is not what causes the "bogging down", it's when a user installs many, many plugins. The same thing happens with IE when someone installs many, many toolbars or Browser Helper Objects. Don't overdo it and it's not a problem.
... it's called a SIM card.
Round 17 complete and we're at $12.8 billion with 214 qualified bidders. WTF! I thought there were only a dozen or so bidders, at least that's what the media has been leading us to believe. But now there are over 200? This thing is going through the roof, the submitter didn't do his homework very well.
You mean wait for another author to die before finishing his next book? His last book was split in half because he wasn't finished with it 3 years ago, and the second half STILL isn't done.
"...we're trying to do two diametrically opposed things at once--provide an advanced and open platform to developers while at the same time protect our partners from hacks, unlocking, etc. This is no easy task."
Fixed.
The Wire Act of 1961 made it illegal to place an interstate or international wager
Actually, it only made it illegal for those "engaged in the business of betting or wagering" to do so. The US Attorney has issued an advisory opinion on this long ago, available on the DOJ website, stating that this means the casual bettor does not fall under the Wire Wager Act: "In order to establish a violation of Section 1084(a), the government must prove four things: First, that the defendant was engaged in the business of betting or wagering -- in other words, that unlike a casual bettor, he or she derived all or much of his income from the business of gambling. Thus, the statute typically has been enforced against bookmakers and those that work for bookmakers in connection with taking bets or wagers on sporting events or contests..."
I have seen at least 10 stories about this on Digg today get yanked. Even stories about the yanking get yanked. It's not looking good over there. Hang on, incoming transmission... "zero-niner, foxtrot-niner, zero-two, niner-delta, seventy-four, echo-three, five-bravo, delta-eight, forty-one, fifty-six, charlie-five, sixty-three, fifty-six, snowman-snowman, charlie-zero"
...their tubes are clogged!
Will it kill traditional TV ads...?
Did DVD rentals kill ads? No. You actually *pay* to watch ads these days, as anyone whose ever rental a DVD at Blockbuster can tell you. Not only will you pay to download a show, but that show *will* contain ads. Whether at the beginning or in the middle (never at the end), there will be ads in the shows you pay for. It's like death, taxes, and Madonna. It's inevitable.
With all that pirated NASA software, how hard could it be?
People are just too stupid to use them. I mean, if you couldn't figure out how to set the clock on your VCR, how in the hell are you going to figure out how to use a COMPUTER (*gasp*) to record your soaps???
And in related news, the TEA are consulting Ouija Boards to determine the next Social Studies curriculum.
You are way off (or using an ancient distro) on the memory stick. With KDE 3.4, when I plug mine in, I instantly get a nifty little memory-stick icon on my desktop, which I can just click once to open up a window that looks astonishingly like a Windows Folder view. Wow, how difficult is that??
Now we have a war on terrrorism. WTF? As if there is anything that anyone can do to prevent a bombing...
... he says from his comfortable monday-morning-quarterback chair. But at last count, it's been almost 3 years (WTF???) since a terrorist attack took 3,500 lives in this country. I'd call that a reasonable job of "prevention" myself.
Have you forgotten how it felt that day?
To see your homeland under fire
And her people blown away
Have you forgotten when those towers fell?
We had neighbors still inside going thru a living hell
And you say we shouldn't worry about bin Laden
Have you forgotten?
the acceleration due to gravity might result in an unpleasant aftermath
Actually, it's the deceleration when meeting the ground that is usually the culprit.
1) Contains a "bug", well let's just call it a "feature". 2) Sloppy code, but Hey! it works. Sort of. 3) Run on Windows only. Sounds like every piece of comercial software sold by Microsoft to me.
is that your right to view DVDs will be obsolete in 10 years. Notice that in his "prediction" the viewing device is the media, which means no access to the media without permission from the viewing device, which means you no longer own the media. Wow, sound like a really deal idea to me.