How exactly does that work, given that the width of a tab (or a space) is not necessarily the same as the width of the characters above the thing you are indenting?
This fails, because sometimes 4 characters is 4 spaces and sometimes it is 1 tab. When someone else sets the tabs to 2 characters, the code goes to hell.
Any major project that allows programmers to choose their own editors and their own tabs almost certainly requires those programmers to set those editors to replace tabs with spaces.
Proportional fonts are a disaster for code. How do you maintain block indenting with proportional fonts!?
Visual Studio will happily use any font for code and vi will happily word-wrap code. No one ever uses either feature, because both are a disaster for code.
Isaac Asimov blamed his right wing views on his second wife, Virginia. Quote:
"Furthermore, although a flaming liberal during the war, Heinlein became a rock-ribbed far right conservative immediately afterward. This happened at just the time that he changed wives from a liberal woman, Leslyn, to a rock-ribbed far right conservative woman, Virginia."
I had no idea people used that hoary old limit...even the convention posted in this "Ask Slashdot" is dated 1999.
The only current terminal/program I know that uses any sort of 80-column limit is the Windows shell...and that can be changed from the properties menu to any number you want. But who edits programs in the Windows shell!?
These days, programs limited to 80-columns are annoying on the modern monitors I use as 40-column programs were back in 1987.
Huh. Apparently pointing out that one should read what the article says before making claims about what the authors mean is a "troll", while speaking through ignorance is not. Yay slashdot, website of people who don't bother to find out.
I've used both extensively. For years I had an iRiver and used both Rhythmbox and Amarok. I still use Amarok for my home music system. But iTunes is simply easier to use. Amarok is klunky. Currently, it is hanging on me (as I type). I'll probably have to blast.kde/share/apps/amarok again to get it to work. A number of times in the past, updating Ubuntu has caused it to change streamers. An issue as it always loads one by default that can't playback without pops and clicks. But the big issue is that Amarok's podcast support is shit. Since I use my player (now an iPod, used to be an iRiver) for podcasting half the time, that's an issue. (I gave up on the iRiver because it was just too much of a pain to listen to podcasts.) It also refuses to deal with Last.fm, despite claiming to.
In addition, one wonders why, if "iTunes is largely considered a piece of shit", the vast majority of Windows and OSX users use it in preference of other things. iTunes is itself only a mediocre music player, but it does have the advantage of mostly working, and being easy to use. Neither of those is true for Amarok. And I'm not an Apple fanboy. I'm someone who tried to make non-Apple mp3s players and Linux music players work for five years before giving up, buying an iPod, and installing iTunes.
It's not FUD. It's all completely true, and I have neither the desire nor any incentive to "attack" Linux. It's a great OS, and the best in many, many arenas, including the one I spend my day job working on. But as a desktop OS, OSX is much better in nearly every respect except Open Source.
How is it a troll? It's completely true. I've run Linux as my main home desktop since around '99 and while Ubuntu is very good, the OSX interface is, frankly speaking, better and since OSX is Unix, it has most of what I wanted Linux for in the first place. I bought my wife an iBook a few years back, and have been increasingly jealous. Amarok just doesn't compare with iTunes. Picasa and Google earth are klunky as Wine apps. I'm tired of having to recompile the kernel to get my KVM switch to work and I'm tired of having to be in the crappy driver ghetto.
I'll continue to use Linux at work, in preference to the other choice there, which is Windows, but for home user type stuff, I'm just tired of all the maintenance work that goes into Linux. (Admittedly, part of this is dealing with commodity hardware on the PC side.) And I will continue to screw around with Linux boxes as a hobby. But for the machine that I use to get email, browse the web, watch movies, listen to music...I'd rather have something that works without the hassles of Linux.
If you want to call all this "troll", that's fine...but I know a little of people who used to use Linux and now use Powerbooks. A "troll" is when someone says something inflammatory that they do not believe to get a reaction. I'm saying this because it's true, though it makes me feel a bit melancholy to say it.
If it makes you feel any better, this is also the year I'm discarding my Windows game machine entirely.
What's your address? I want to go read your magazines. I'm sure you won't mind as, since they are just magazines anyone can get, you're not losing anything.
Also, do you have cable and a good TV? I have the urge to watch Stargate while you are at work.
Doubly so in that the Consumerist isn't reporting the names of the people they caught to anyone. They didn't do it to expose individuals. They did it to expose a widespread problem.
I've spent many, many hours playing games on my PSP. Games I've spent more than 20 hours playing: Loco Roco, Katamari, Lego Star Wars, Puzzle Quest, Ridge Racer, Tekken 6, Mercury Madness, Field Commander.
I bought mine a bit over a year ago (and so missed the early game drought), and there's never been a time where I've felt like playing but not had something to play on it. (Partially a function of my limited free time and free spending ways, admittedly.)
I've never understood the "must have" game thing. In 25 years of gaming, I've never come across a game I'd pay >$100 for. I buy systems not for one "must have" game, but because it has a good variety of good games. In my mind, bouth th PSP and DS meet that criteria. (I haven't bought a DS mostly because I don't really feel the need of a second portable when the first essentially fills all the time I have for portables. If I had a DS, I probably wouldn't bother with a PSP.)
Aristotle was smart. Smarter than me. Aristotle thought the sun revolved around the earth. Thinking the sun revolved around the earth now would be stupid for me. 'dI hope too stupid for you as well.
IIRC, the AACS is contractually bound to release new keys only every 90 days. If the hackers can prove that they can always get the key within a week or two, it will become essentially pointless to release new keys, and the entire scheme will be essentially worthless.
It is very unlikely the underlying algorithm will be broken, but then, the underlying algorithm isn't what makes DRM schemes impossible. The weakness of these schemes is that they require the key be somewhere in either the software or the hardware.
It is also very important to note that the hackers are just releasing the keys, not the methods they used to acquire them. I'm sure this is intentional as it means that the AACS has no way of knowing whether or not they can plug the hole that let the last key out before issuing a new one.
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How exactly does that work, given that the width of a tab (or a space) is not necessarily the same as the width of the characters above the thing you are indenting?
This fails, because sometimes 4 characters is 4 spaces and sometimes it is 1 tab. When someone else sets the tabs to 2 characters, the code goes to hell.
Any major project that allows programmers to choose their own editors and their own tabs almost certainly requires those programmers to set those editors to replace tabs with spaces.
Proportional fonts are a disaster for code. How do you maintain block indenting with proportional fonts!?
Visual Studio will happily use any font for code and vi will happily word-wrap code. No one ever uses either feature, because both are a disaster for code.
I had no idea people used that hoary old limit...even the convention posted in this "Ask Slashdot" is dated 1999.
The only current terminal/program I know that uses any sort of 80-column limit is the Windows shell...and that can be changed from the properties menu to any number you want. But who edits programs in the Windows shell!?
These days, programs limited to 80-columns are annoying on the modern monitors I use as 40-column programs were back in 1987.
Huh. Apparently pointing out that one should read what the article says before making claims about what the authors mean is a "troll", while speaking through ignorance is not. Yay slashdot, website of people who don't bother to find out.
I've used both extensively. For years I had an iRiver and used both Rhythmbox and Amarok. I still use Amarok for my home music system. But iTunes is simply easier to use. Amarok is klunky. Currently, it is hanging on me (as I type). I'll probably have to blast .kde/share/apps/amarok again to get it to work. A number of times in the past, updating Ubuntu has caused it to change streamers. An issue as it always loads one by default that can't playback without pops and clicks. But the big issue is that Amarok's podcast support is shit. Since I use my player (now an iPod, used to be an iRiver) for podcasting half the time, that's an issue. (I gave up on the iRiver because it was just too much of a pain to listen to podcasts.) It also refuses to deal with Last.fm, despite claiming to.
In addition, one wonders why, if "iTunes is largely considered a piece of shit", the vast majority of Windows and OSX users use it in preference of other things. iTunes is itself only a mediocre music player, but it does have the advantage of mostly working, and being easy to use. Neither of those is true for Amarok. And I'm not an Apple fanboy. I'm someone who tried to make non-Apple mp3s players and Linux music players work for five years before giving up, buying an iPod, and installing iTunes.
Perhaps you should have read the fucking article, because the fucking article says it is a squid. Hence my comment.
I usually feel it best to read the fucking article before commenting on the fucking article, so I don't look like an ignorant retard.
So I gather your time isn't worth much to you.
It's not FUD. It's all completely true, and I have neither the desire nor any incentive to "attack" Linux. It's a great OS, and the best in many, many arenas, including the one I spend my day job working on. But as a desktop OS, OSX is much better in nearly every respect except Open Source.
How is it a troll? It's completely true. I've run Linux as my main home desktop since around '99 and while Ubuntu is very good, the OSX interface is, frankly speaking, better and since OSX is Unix, it has most of what I wanted Linux for in the first place. I bought my wife an iBook a few years back, and have been increasingly jealous. Amarok just doesn't compare with iTunes. Picasa and Google earth are klunky as Wine apps. I'm tired of having to recompile the kernel to get my KVM switch to work and I'm tired of having to be in the crappy driver ghetto.
I'll continue to use Linux at work, in preference to the other choice there, which is Windows, but for home user type stuff, I'm just tired of all the maintenance work that goes into Linux. (Admittedly, part of this is dealing with commodity hardware on the PC side.) And I will continue to screw around with Linux boxes as a hobby. But for the machine that I use to get email, browse the web, watch movies, listen to music...I'd rather have something that works without the hassles of Linux.
If you want to call all this "troll", that's fine...but I know a little of people who used to use Linux and now use Powerbooks. A "troll" is when someone says something inflammatory that they do not believe to get a reaction. I'm saying this because it's true, though it makes me feel a bit melancholy to say it.
If it makes you feel any better, this is also the year I'm discarding my Windows game machine entirely.
This is not "half squid, half octopus". This is a squid with eight arms that is no more related to octopuses than any other sort of squid.
Squids and octopuses are far too far apart to breed.
This will probably be the year I replace my Linux desktop with a Mac.
What's your address? I want to go read your magazines. I'm sure you won't mind as, since they are just magazines anyone can get, you're not losing anything.
Also, do you have cable and a good TV? I have the urge to watch Stargate while you are at work.
Doubly so in that the Consumerist isn't reporting the names of the people they caught to anyone. They didn't do it to expose individuals. They did it to expose a widespread problem.
Yeah, thank God!
With Microsoft in control, we can be sure there will be no BS, FUD and market bullying.
RTFA. It's "Eldest or only", not just "eldest". Not much teaching an only child can do.
Heh. That sounds like Taco's first review of the iPod.
There was a Duke Nuk'em add-on pack called "Duke it out in DC" which took place among many DC landmarks, including a fully modeled White House.
I've spent many, many hours playing games on my PSP. Games I've spent more than 20 hours playing: Loco Roco, Katamari, Lego Star Wars, Puzzle Quest, Ridge Racer, Tekken 6, Mercury Madness, Field Commander.
I bought mine a bit over a year ago (and so missed the early game drought), and there's never been a time where I've felt like playing but not had something to play on it. (Partially a function of my limited free time and free spending ways, admittedly.)
I've never understood the "must have" game thing. In 25 years of gaming, I've never come across a game I'd pay >$100 for. I buy systems not for one "must have" game, but because it has a good variety of good games. In my mind, bouth th PSP and DS meet that criteria. (I haven't bought a DS mostly because I don't really feel the need of a second portable when the first essentially fills all the time I have for portables. If I had a DS, I probably wouldn't bother with a PSP.)
Most successful Sci-Fi shows run way too long. Stargate...Star Trek...X-Files...all should have ended years before they actually were.
Aristotle was smart. Smarter than me. Aristotle thought the sun revolved around the earth. Thinking the sun revolved around the earth now would be stupid for me. 'dI hope too stupid for you as well.
Unfortunately, the network's indecision about cancellation caused B5's last year to be flubbed. Years 2-4 were incredible, though.
IIRC, the AACS is contractually bound to release new keys only every 90 days. If the hackers can prove that they can always get the key within a week or two, it will become essentially pointless to release new keys, and the entire scheme will be essentially worthless.
It is very unlikely the underlying algorithm will be broken, but then, the underlying algorithm isn't what makes DRM schemes impossible. The weakness of these schemes is that they require the key be somewhere in either the software or the hardware.
It is also very important to note that the hackers are just releasing the keys, not the methods they used to acquire them. I'm sure this is intentional as it means that the AACS has no way of knowing whether or not they can plug the hole that let the last key out before issuing a new one.
I gather you weren't at CES, where more than one company was demoing applications using face recognition to help people organize family photos.