Requiring the developer to install the correct old version of the compiler toolchain in order to make a change is much more reasonable than requiring every user to install an old version of a runtime environment, especially when said runtime environment doesn't like coexisting with other versions of itself.
Plus, Microsoft sucks. Compiling a C89 program in GCC is only a command-line switch away...
What do you mean, "most?" All the other commonly used languages -- C, C++, the various.NET languages, Java, etc. -- most certainly do not mutate like that! New versions come out, sure, but they're not so broken in design that programs written in different versions have trouble coexisting on the same system!
Clearly, the solution is for the rest of the world to stop doing business with the United States.
And as a US citizen, I urge you to please do it! The Federal government is no longer under citizen control; a worldwide embargo might be the only thing left that could stop it from continuing to run amok.
It's better than nothing though - as the American public's response to the absolute outrage that is this whole affair has only been a big, fat, shameful nothing.
The American media's response to this absolute outrage has been a big, fat, shameful nothing, so most Americans still don't even know what's going on!
If there isn't enough bandwidth, then it's your (the telco's) own' damn fault because we (the public) have paid you plenty of money three times over to build out the fucking infrastructure and your management bought yachts with it instead!
It's nothing less than turning an inherently peer-to-peer medium for expression into Cable TV 2.0. It's pretty much explicitly designed to stifle new innovation (whether created by a fledgling company or especially when created as an open, distributed/self-hosted protocol) in favor of large entrenched players like Google and Facebook.
The language continues to evolve thanks to the Klingon Language Institute, a nonprofit that promotes the language and culture. KLI founder Dr. Lawrence M. Schoen told the News that there isn't really a word for "resignation" in Klingon so Waddell translated the English word with the language's orthography, "which really doesn't work."
A true Klingon speaker would have simply said "pItlh," which translates to "done," in order to mark the end of an event.
You can call it anything you like, but if you expect to return it and get a refund, you're going to have to come up with a better reason than "The software does something it's not supposed to, I want a refund".
"The software is maliciously designed to attack me." How about that?
(Actually, a refund shouldn't even be sufficient. The appropriate response is more along the lines of criminal prosecution!)
So now you've gone from advocating "pentium-2 class machines or smaller" to a $200 486?!
I'm sure an OpenBSD router is great and all, but there's got to be a cheaper way to do it. At least suggest some little $50 ARM computer or a mini-ITX PC with a low-wattage CPU or something!
Every tech company works with the NSA. I don't need proof, because it's the only safe assumption to make. If any tech company isn't happy about that, the onus is on them to prove that they don't.
I have hopes that in the future we may be able to embed secure key management hardware in devices, which will make this kind of stuff a lot harder to defeat, but ultimately nothing will ever be able to make sure that digital data actually goes away. DRM -- which is what this is, just in a slightly different form and for a different purpose -- doesn't work, and can never work, not in an absolute sense.
(Hunters are paying the government, that's a revenue stream)
Not only that, it's revenue that pays for the parks and wilderness, preserving the habitat of those animals PETA loves so much. If the hunters didn't exist, then neither would the animals because it would all be farmland instead.
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Requiring the developer to install the correct old version of the compiler toolchain in order to make a change is much more reasonable than requiring every user to install an old version of a runtime environment, especially when said runtime environment doesn't like coexisting with other versions of itself.
Plus, Microsoft sucks. Compiling a C89 program in GCC is only a command-line switch away...
What do you mean, "most?" All the other commonly used languages -- C, C++, the various .NET languages, Java, etc. -- most certainly do not mutate like that! New versions come out, sure, but they're not so broken in design that programs written in different versions have trouble coexisting on the same system!
Clearly, the solution is for the rest of the world to stop doing business with the United States.
And as a US citizen, I urge you to please do it! The Federal government is no longer under citizen control; a worldwide embargo might be the only thing left that could stop it from continuing to run amok.
Are there any English-speaking countries that don't suck like that?
That just makes it shoot everyone indiscriminately.
The American media's response to this absolute outrage has been a big, fat, shameful nothing, so most Americans still don't even know what's going on!
The only genuinely useful one: the Civilian Conservation Corps.
In Georgia, the Highway Emergency Response Operators are sponsored by State Farm.
...including their education and work history, making it much harder to find a job.
In practice, yes. And not just in this respect, either -- schools, for example, do all kinds of things that would be unconstitutional to do to adults.
If there isn't enough bandwidth, then it's your (the telco's) own' damn fault because we (the public) have paid you plenty of money three times over to build out the fucking infrastructure and your management bought yachts with it instead!
Yes: AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint -- an oligopoly. What part of that did you not understand?
...because they didn't want to cannibalize their film sales, which is what the GP said.
What, you mean that device which the next five billion new Internet users will connect using instead of a PC?
It's nothing less than turning an inherently peer-to-peer medium for expression into Cable TV 2.0. It's pretty much explicitly designed to stifle new innovation (whether created by a fledgling company or especially when created as an open, distributed/self-hosted protocol) in favor of large entrenched players like Google and Facebook.
Nvidia's just saying that because they lost the bid for all the consoles.
(It doesn't mean it's not true, though.)
FTFY.
You're right! From the nydailynews article:
Everything designed to "make it easier for non-techies" ought to require pressing a button on the router.
"The software is maliciously designed to attack me." How about that?
(Actually, a refund shouldn't even be sufficient. The appropriate response is more along the lines of criminal prosecution!)
So now you've gone from advocating "pentium-2 class machines or smaller" to a $200 486?!
I'm sure an OpenBSD router is great and all, but there's got to be a cheaper way to do it. At least suggest some little $50 ARM computer or a mini-ITX PC with a low-wattage CPU or something!
Every tech company works with the NSA. I don't need proof, because it's the only safe assumption to make. If any tech company isn't happy about that, the onus is on them to prove that they don't.
The first half of that would be helpful, actually...
(If it were true, anyway.)
Given the latter, why have hope for the former?
Not only that, it's revenue that pays for the parks and wilderness, preserving the habitat of those animals PETA loves so much. If the hunters didn't exist, then neither would the animals because it would all be farmland instead.