What is interesting is that the amount of explicit violence seems to be increasing. Take for comparison Dirty Harry (R) and Final Destination 2 (MA).
In my country (Aus) R is 18+, MA is 15+.
The most violent moment I remember in Dirty Harry was someone getting beaten up. IIRC there was also a brief instance of full frontal nudity (of a dead body).
Compare that to Final Destination 2. You see someone get the bottom of a ladder through their eye (complete with blood spatters). You see someone get sliced and diced by some wire (the sliced and diced sections stay standing there for a moment or two). Added to that the effects were much more believable.
I was actually slightly disturbed by watching Final Destination 2. I wasn't disturbed by watching Dirty Harry.
I think overall you are right that female nudity is less acceptable, but equally violence is more acceptable. I'm not quite sure why this is.
This is actually quite possible with VS.Net. Well possible not to the extent of emacs. First off you can do whatever remapping of keys you want (which is rather nice). I also believe that you can write what are effectively macros to modify the behaviour of the IDE, not just to modify the code.
I haven't really got into this, as I am relatively happy with the environment. I got interested when I found one brain dead feature where if you copy something that is HTML (eg from a web page) and paste it, it gets pasted as encoded HTML. This is criminally stupid. Anyway, I found that there are tools out there to modify this behaviour in the way I described above.
When working with large frameworks (like.net, or for that matter the STL) or a large project, intellisense is a godsend. It gives you a thumnail sketch of what methods, and properties are exposed by any particular object. It also saves (in my case) on typos.
I guess I find your position a little strange, but maybe you have an excellent memory (I don't). Anyway, you can turn it off. Tools > Options > Text Editor > > General > Auto list members.
BTW I have switched this off when working in VC++6 some years ago. I was working on a slower machine running a larger project and it just wasn't handling it well.
It's crap anyway. When I work at home, I'm not as productive as when I'm at the office.
It is crap, but not for that reason. It is crap because some people are more productive at home and some people are more productive at the office. News flash Paul: Different environments suit different people.
Speaking for myself, it isn't even as simple as just a question as to whether I am working at home or at the office. I am more productive during the daylight hours when I am at the office because at home I tend to get distracted. On the other hand I am more productive at night when I am at home than at the office.
Which is much of WHY, in a race between weapons and armor, weapons always eventually win.
Uhhh no. Try reading up on say the WWI era battle cruisers. Then read about Jutland.
The reality is that weapons are a compromise between different elements. Picking say a WWII era tank as an example, the compromise is basically armament vs armour vs manouverability. The best tanks were a compromise of these elements.
In my experience KTHML is the worst of all the modern browsers (ie later than Netscape 4) when it comes to Javascript.
Just for example, try getting some javascript to add items to a select that works in IE 5+, Gecko, Opera and KHTML. This would be a pretty basic operation (one would think).
London is one of the most surveillance heavy places in the world. Yet not once have I read of any talking head crowing about how all of those cameras are going to make catching the responsible parties any easier. Preventing terrorism is what the cameras are for, right?
You haven't been watching the same news that I have been watching then. I watched the press conference with the heads of the different branches of the emergency services (fire, ambulance, etc) and dept. heads for the relevant affected services that was held a few hours after the bombings. The comment from the representative of the Police was that they were going to be going over all surveilance tapes.
This was also something that I heard repeated again and again in news coverage.
This might be a function of the news I get (Australia) as compared to the news you get.
Point 2 for Pocket PC is referring to the fonts and what you see on the screen. Point 11 for Palm is referring to the physical decive.
-1, RTA.
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I don't think it is terribly harsh. Frankly, if you are going to write comments about something you know next to nothing about then, I'm not sure I want to read your comments.
I've read two classics on TCP/IP (TCP/IP Illustrated volume 2 - Richard W Stevens and Internetworking with TCP/IP by Douglas E Cromer, I own Comer) and written some sockets code, yet I do not consider myself competant to comment in such an authorative way.
What is more, the comment that was made was so clearly wrong, and demonstrated a complete lack of understanding of the protocols. 5 mintues of googling on the ICMP protocol would have answered the question.
That said, by making someone a foe I effectively give them a -1 modifier. So it is merely a means that I am less likely to see their comments. It is not a statement that I have made them an implacible enemy whom I will hunt down.
You can't have multiple terms in search, that are all independantly highlighted.
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Congrats you just earned yourself a foe. You need to read up on networking, and they maybe, just maybe, you might understand how stupid comparing HTTP, SMB, FTP etc to ICMP.
That is only half of it, read the full article for the way cisco behaved:
He continued to reply thoroughly to all their questions, until two months later when he received an email from Cisco's lawyer claiming that Cisco held a patent on his work. He asked their lawyer for specifics, but they refused to reveal any details....
Fernando went on to point out that from his experience vendors seem to be more concerned about who gets credit for finding a flaw, rather than about actually fixing it. Fernando explained, "Cisco was worried about not giving me credit because they claimed to have been working on the problem for four years. They offered to set up a meeting with some people of Cisco Argentina to show me documentation that would prove they had been working on the Path MTU Discovery attack for more than a year. It didn't happen....
One week prior to the eventual discloser, Fernando received a call from the CTO of Cisco Argentina who asked him for a copy of his resume. "He said he wanted to have a meeting with me, telling me they might have a job for me," Fernando shrugged. "The meeting was delayed a few times, then I never heard from him again. I wouldn't have thought much of it, but I mentioned it to other people and it turns out they'd had similar experiences. It seems this is a common practice for Cisco to offer someone work in the hopes you'll not talk to the media when the security issues are disclosed."
I like the way you think but I do wonder if you are going far enough though. People (well organisms) might continue to violate this law. I think we need something bullet proof.
I think we need to ban matter. Otherwise who knows, maybe a few billion years from now basic amino acids might combine with the intent of forming DNA.
If we ban matter we can all sleep secure at night knowing that nothing exists. Well I guess we wouldn't exist either, but if we did, we would be comfortable and happy knowing that nothing could harm us if we did exist.
The advanced driver model in Longhorn, for example, is going to mean easier driver development as well as a huge increase in stability (it will be very difficult for a driver to crash your box).
This is the first useful thing I have heard coming out of longhorn. I am quite serious.
WinFS sounds kind of neat, but I reserve judgement until it comes out. As it turns out it isn't. That aside, my suspicion is that it isn't going to set the world on fire (where is all the meta-data going to come from). Besides that I am not sure that it really offers anything over and above what is offered by the finder in OS X.
Graphic improvements don't mean anything to me, unless they make it easier to program against, and even than it takes some time for any benefits to be felt.
Indigo, well we will also wait and see. Again, this is only an advantage for programmers, and we will have to wait some time to see any benefit of that.
I also have an issue with Microsft releasing one major update to the API (.Net), and then releasing another API in relatively short succession. What is more they haven't pushed.Net enough, so you are pretty much limited to running.Net based apps on machines you own. So with the release of avalong and indigo we will have, wait for it 3 APIs. Win32,.Net and Avalon/Indigo.
Sorry, I should have been more specific. When you were talking about application folders, you were suggesting that the folders should have an extension to identify them as an application. Or at least the is the way it is done in NeXT/OSX. Later on you suggest that one possibility for identifying documents is to add a prefix (eg #) to them.
Part of me rebels at this idea. Maybe it is something about the fact that more and more information is being pushed into the folder and file name, so that the folder/file name is no longer just a name. Maybe it feels bad coming from a bit of a database background, as it violates 1NF.
Anyway, what I was wondering is, given the buzz about WinFS and other new filesystems, whether it might be another option to store this information in some other form. I seem to be hearing a lot of buzz about meta-data being stored in the filesystem, to the point that some people are (misguidedly) saying that the directory is dead. If storing meta-data is the way forward, this would seem to be another option.
I suppose the disadvantage of this is that there are certainly compatibility/portability issues.
Nice article. Particularly nice as you suggested some solutions rather than just complaining about the current situation.
I am curious though as to why you proposed prefixes to folder/file names as the way of identitifying different folder/file types. Why not some other form of meta-data? It is because prefixes/suffixes are the unix/linux way, or because you were wary of a solution that might require a new filesystem?
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You have a typo in your subject:
If space access becomes cheap and ubiquitous...
What is interesting is that the amount of explicit violence seems to be increasing. Take for comparison Dirty Harry (R) and Final Destination 2 (MA).
In my country (Aus) R is 18+, MA is 15+.
The most violent moment I remember in Dirty Harry was someone getting beaten up. IIRC there was also a brief instance of full frontal nudity (of a dead body).
Compare that to Final Destination 2. You see someone get the bottom of a ladder through their eye (complete with blood spatters). You see someone get sliced and diced by some wire (the sliced and diced sections stay standing there for a moment or two). Added to that the effects were much more believable.
I was actually slightly disturbed by watching Final Destination 2. I wasn't disturbed by watching Dirty Harry.
I think overall you are right that female nudity is less acceptable, but equally violence is more acceptable. I'm not quite sure why this is.
This is actually quite possible with VS.Net. Well possible not to the extent of emacs. First off you can do whatever remapping of keys you want (which is rather nice). I also believe that you can write what are effectively macros to modify the behaviour of the IDE, not just to modify the code.
I haven't really got into this, as I am relatively happy with the environment. I got interested when I found one brain dead feature where if you copy something that is HTML (eg from a web page) and paste it, it gets pasted as encoded HTML. This is criminally stupid. Anyway, I found that there are tools out there to modify this behaviour in the way I described above.
When working with large frameworks (like .net, or for that matter the STL) or a large project, intellisense is a godsend. It gives you a thumnail sketch of what methods, and properties are exposed by any particular object. It also saves (in my case) on typos.
I guess I find your position a little strange, but maybe you have an excellent memory (I don't). Anyway, you can turn it off. Tools > Options > Text Editor > > General > Auto list members.
BTW I have switched this off when working in VC++6 some years ago. I was working on a slower machine running a larger project and it just wasn't handling it well.
It's crap anyway. When I work at home, I'm not as productive as when I'm at the office.
It is crap, but not for that reason. It is crap because some people are more productive at home and some people are more productive at the office. News flash Paul: Different environments suit different people.
Speaking for myself, it isn't even as simple as just a question as to whether I am working at home or at the office. I am more productive during the daylight hours when I am at the office because at home I tend to get distracted. On the other hand I am more productive at night when I am at home than at the office.
# Join the military. Sex with the wrong person will open you up to a fraternization charge.
This is a bad example. The military has their own rules, their own courts and their own jails.
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Which is much of WHY, in a race between weapons and armor, weapons always eventually win.
Uhhh no. Try reading up on say the WWI era battle cruisers. Then read about Jutland.
The reality is that weapons are a compromise between different elements. Picking say a WWII era tank as an example, the compromise is basically armament vs armour vs manouverability. The best tanks were a compromise of these elements.
You have to learn Russian to get by in Mexico? You learn something new every day.
Minor correction, the current issue is unrelated to GTA3, it is about a mod to GTA:SA (San Andreas).
Some computers need ME due to applications and/or device drivers that only run under 9X/ME
9X/ME != ME. You still have the choice of running 98. It would be pretty unusual software to work on ME but not on 98.
IMO there is no reason to be running ME ever.
In my experience KTHML is the worst of all the modern browsers (ie later than Netscape 4) when it comes to Javascript.
Just for example, try getting some javascript to add items to a select that works in IE 5+, Gecko, Opera and KHTML. This would be a pretty basic operation (one would think).
London is one of the most surveillance heavy places in the world. Yet not once have I read of any talking head crowing about how all of those cameras are going to make catching the responsible parties any easier. Preventing terrorism is what the cameras are for, right?
You haven't been watching the same news that I have been watching then. I watched the press conference with the heads of the different branches of the emergency services (fire, ambulance, etc) and dept. heads for the relevant affected services that was held a few hours after the bombings. The comment from the representative of the Police was that they were going to be going over all surveilance tapes.
This was also something that I heard repeated again and again in news coverage.
This might be a function of the news I get (Australia) as compared to the news you get.
No.
It is more painful if the code has first been targetted at a single platform. It is always more painful.
Read that again.
Point 2 for Pocket PC is referring to the fonts and what you see on the screen. Point 11 for Palm is referring to the physical decive.
-1, RTA.
I don't think it is terribly harsh. Frankly, if you are going to write comments about something you know next to nothing about then, I'm not sure I want to read your comments.
I've read two classics on TCP/IP (TCP/IP Illustrated volume 2 - Richard W Stevens and Internetworking with TCP/IP by Douglas E Cromer, I own Comer) and written some sockets code, yet I do not consider myself competant to comment in such an authorative way.
What is more, the comment that was made was so clearly wrong, and demonstrated a complete lack of understanding of the protocols. 5 mintues of googling on the ICMP protocol would have answered the question.
That said, by making someone a foe I effectively give them a -1 modifier. So it is merely a means that I am less likely to see their comments. It is not a statement that I have made them an implacible enemy whom I will hunt down.
Doesn't cut it.
You can't have multiple terms in search, that are all independantly highlighted.
Congrats you just earned yourself a foe. You need to read up on networking, and they maybe, just maybe, you might understand how stupid comparing HTTP, SMB, FTP etc to ICMP.
That is only half of it, read the full article for the way cisco behaved:
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He continued to reply thoroughly to all their questions, until two months later when he received an email from Cisco's lawyer claiming that Cisco held a patent on his work. He asked their lawyer for specifics, but they refused to reveal any details.
Fernando went on to point out that from his experience vendors seem to be more concerned about who gets credit for finding a flaw, rather than about actually fixing it. Fernando explained, "Cisco was worried about not giving me credit because they claimed to have been working on the problem for four years. They offered to set up a meeting with some people of Cisco Argentina to show me documentation that would prove they had been working on the Path MTU Discovery attack for more than a year. It didn't happen.
One week prior to the eventual discloser, Fernando received a call from the CTO of Cisco Argentina who asked him for a copy of his resume. "He said he wanted to have a meeting with me, telling me they might have a job for me," Fernando shrugged. "The meeting was delayed a few times, then I never heard from him again. I wouldn't have thought much of it, but I mentioned it to other people and it turns out they'd had similar experiences. It seems this is a common practice for Cisco to offer someone work in the hopes you'll not talk to the media when the security issues are disclosed."
Way to go Cisco!
I like the way you think but I do wonder if you are going far enough though. People (well organisms) might continue to violate this law. I think we need something bullet proof.
I think we need to ban matter. Otherwise who knows, maybe a few billion years from now basic amino acids might combine with the intent of forming DNA.
If we ban matter we can all sleep secure at night knowing that nothing exists. Well I guess we wouldn't exist either, but if we did, we would be comfortable and happy knowing that nothing could harm us if we did exist.
I recommend banning Acer. Clearly they were the root cause of the problem. They built hardware that was capable of hacking an open access point.
The advanced driver model in Longhorn, for example, is going to mean easier driver development as well as a huge increase in stability (it will be very difficult for a driver to crash your box).
.Net enough, so you are pretty much limited to running .Net based apps on machines you own. So with the release of avalong and indigo we will have, wait for it 3 APIs. Win32, .Net and Avalon/Indigo.
This is the first useful thing I have heard coming out of longhorn. I am quite serious.
WinFS sounds kind of neat, but I reserve judgement until it comes out. As it turns out it isn't. That aside, my suspicion is that it isn't going to set the world on fire (where is all the meta-data going to come from). Besides that I am not sure that it really offers anything over and above what is offered by the finder in OS X.
Graphic improvements don't mean anything to me, unless they make it easier to program against, and even than it takes some time for any benefits to be felt.
Indigo, well we will also wait and see. Again, this is only an advantage for programmers, and we will have to wait some time to see any benefit of that.
I also have an issue with Microsft releasing one major update to the API (.Net), and then releasing another API in relatively short succession. What is more they haven't pushed
Yes, thanks.
I am afraid I read the article in a little bit of a hurry and must have missed that on the way through.
Thanks for taking the time to correct me.
Sorry, I should have been more specific. When you were talking about application folders, you were suggesting that the folders should have an extension to identify them as an application. Or at least the is the way it is done in NeXT/OSX. Later on you suggest that one possibility for identifying documents is to add a prefix (eg #) to them.
Part of me rebels at this idea. Maybe it is something about the fact that more and more information is being pushed into the folder and file name, so that the folder/file name is no longer just a name. Maybe it feels bad coming from a bit of a database background, as it violates 1NF.
Anyway, what I was wondering is, given the buzz about WinFS and other new filesystems, whether it might be another option to store this information in some other form. I seem to be hearing a lot of buzz about meta-data being stored in the filesystem, to the point that some people are (misguidedly) saying that the directory is dead. If storing meta-data is the way forward, this would seem to be another option.
I suppose the disadvantage of this is that there are certainly compatibility/portability issues.
Batman,
Nice article. Particularly nice as you suggested some solutions rather than just complaining about the current situation.
I am curious though as to why you proposed prefixes to folder/file names as the way of identitifying different folder/file types. Why not some other form of meta-data? It is because prefixes/suffixes are the unix/linux way, or because you were wary of a solution that might require a new filesystem?