I would imagine that pay-to-win would certainly qualify as "feature that annoys you enough to quit" for many people.
For me, it was trying to be a tank or healer in the cesspool that is random cross-realm LFG. (And since they took out the "same-server-only" option, don't start up with "form your own group". It doesn't work any more.)
It was like empirical proof of the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory.
If all of the different websites are for the same corporation, you can buy a unified type certificate (UC or "multi-domain) with multiple company domain names listed. It's not ideal, but it does at least let you put all of your corporate domains on the same IP address and have it protected via SSL.
Tends to work better then a wildcard certificate, and a lot less expensive.
Well, maybe DNSSEC certificates will get rid of the SSL vendors.
If you have 100+ mails coming in on a daily basis, and have 6-7 years worth of mail to search through, folders can be useful for cutting down the search time atleast, esp. if you are able to setup rules to route the mails to folders automatically (Even with indexing, sometimes it takes a few seconds to complete the search)
If that's your only concern, just file it by year. Fast to file, fairly easy to search over leaving everything in the Inbox.
Putting the computer to sleep is so 2000s. My computer boots from SSD in under 10 seconds, bypassing all the buggy ACPI crap and fear of a dead battery.
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Having a SSD (or even a 10k RPM SATA) makes modern machines a pleasure to use again if you need to reboot frequently or if you're a multi-tasker.
I still regularly use the "suspend" option on my laptop, however, even with the SSD installed. It takes at least a few hours for a suspended laptop to drain the battery and it's more likely to wake up then hibernate (and much faster).
The original Far Cry was at least more sandbox'y then most others of the time. You could mix-up your approach, sneak around enemies, set traps, get hunted, stay quiet and let them wander off. Whereas traditional FPS of the time were extremely linear with only a single path to follow and nothing you could skip or flank.
The later missions got a bit linear and overkill, but the first few islands were fun and there were numerous ways to deal with the situations.
Well this is probably a move to increase focus, because who is going to buy a Zune? Aside from the iPod being so dominant, stand-alone MP3 players are going away as consumer smart phones take over. If you really want a Zune music player, you'll probably get a Windows-based phone instead.
Meh, unless the phone is tiny and light, the dedicated MP3 player serves far better over the long run in terms of battery life and cost. My little 8GB Sansa Fuze is on the larger end of the size scale but I much prefer it over fighting with my cell phone to just play music. And it only cost about $40-$50.
The time no longer spent waiting on the slow magnetic HDD to find the data that you're looking for on the drive along with much faster boot-up, program launching, and doing 2-3 things at the same time all weigh heavily in favor of the SSD.
Just keep good backups.
(Most of the issues seem to be firmware or the cheap SSDs.)
Hello, I am billions of dollars of enterprise backend software written in C# and.net. Can you please explain to me how Microsoft is going to phase out C# and convince the millions of C# developers to rewrite their enterprise software in HTML5 and Javascript?
Yeah, and see how many websites built in the last eight or nine years work without Javascript... Hell, for real security, go back to using Gopher!
There are something on the order of a few million websites out there, maybe a few hundred million.
95% of the time, you're probably visiting the same small set of websites, so just whitelist those. The other 5%? Temporary whitelist when you visit them. If they're worth visiting again, then maybe you whitelist them next week.
Which is a big step up from letting every single website out there that you happen to browse to, or which gets served up via some asinine server include, or because a hacked page imports javascript from some evil hacker site, or because a malicious web ad gets served up run stuff on your machine in a way that will infect your profile.
It may not be perfectly safe (nothing is), but you'll end up infected 10x to 100x less by using whitelisting.
And I would say that at least 80-90% of the sites that I visit once-only work just fine without Javascript or Flash enabled. Those that don't? Well, their competitors are about 3 clicks away. (Or else they have to be extra compelling to make me feel like it's worth it to whitelist or even temporarily allow.)
Until PG's administrative and userland utilities improve, users will continue to use MySQL.
Eh, pgAdmin III is already pretty darned good - the only thing missing is the ability to import/export data sets through the UI to other ODBC data sources (which would rock).
Setting up pgsql is not that hard anymore either - there's enough understanding out there now of how pg_hba.conf works (and why you want to configure stuff like that in a way that can't be touched by the database).
I worked for a company that had a manager who insisted on sending out a newsletter to everyone in the company customer database. We warned him that was illegal. We warned him that would be spamming.
Not illegal in most jurisdictions as long as there is a pre-existing business relationship. Presumably, if they're customers, then they qualify.
Doesn't mean it's not sleazy and prone to cause problems.
I can't really imagine a situation where they'd leave a broken page up for two months without a) fixing it, or b) changing the message to at least say "sorry, this doesn't work right now" unless it was intentional. It's a shame, too, because I like their stuff, but their combination of aggressive and sleazy marketing methods is not something I want to support.
Come work in the real world, where if it is not visibly broken and a manager doesn't make it a priority, it won't get fixed. And if you do put it on your list of "things to fix" it will be constantly pushed down to the bottom of the list by other fires.
So, it doesn't surprise me when opt-out / unsubscribe links don't work. Hell - even AOL's pages on support where you can sign up for their feedback loop are constantly broken.
One option for smaller setups is colored electrical tape at the cable ends. Such as blue/blue, yellow/red, etc (you can easily get 7 different colors of 1/4" electrical tape and that combined with the color of the cable allows for enough variation).
So now you need to find the grey wire with blue/green on the end and find the other end which also has blue/green and is a grey cable.
(Not necessarily good for those who are color blind - but it's cheap and reasonably foolproof.)
The 5" long stuff is great for small bundles or for making a spare 2-10 meter cable look neat before being tossed in a drawer.
There are also longer 7-8" lengths good for larger bundles, plus some extra large sized ones that are about 1 1/2" by 10-12". Those are great for heavy duty stuff such as long extension cords.
I personally ceased doing internal PC cable management a few years ago. I'm no longer interested in how it looks like on the inside.
That's fine for PCs where the internals don't get that hot. Like low-powered office desktops with a single hard drive and integrated video on the motherboard.
But for any PC where airflow matters - break out the velcro ties and use them to bundle the cables to allow for airflow.
(Plus it keeps loose cables from getting in fan blades and causing issues.)
In more permanent setups, plastic non-reusable cable ties are an even cheaper alternative, assuming there's little need to mess with the cables
Yeah, there's no such thing as a permanent setup in an office / home environment.
If it has modular plugs on the end so that you can quickly connect/disconnect without breaking out crimps or a soldering iron, velcro straps are the far better choice. Because as soon as you finish wiring up the rack - *something* will change and you'll have to run new cables or remove some of the old ones.
Bulk rolls of velcro strips can be purchased in 1/2" wide for about $1/foot. Sometimes they're pre-cut at a specific length, others are just one big roll of continuous velcro that you can cut to suit.
There are even 1 1/2" wide variants (typically cut in 12" lengths) for the heavy duty bundling.
(When we outfit a laptop user, all the spare cords in their bag are bundled with velcro strips. Any spare cables like network or power get bundled with velcro strips before being tossed in our spares storage drawers. If you buy them, always buy double what you think you'll need because they come in very handy for lots of other little things that you never thought about.)
Far from accurate, go check KOLO's site (a local news station) or FoxReno. They've had better details then CNN within an hour of the event (CNN was still reporting the wrong information up to 2 hours after the crash).
I would like to hear more about why they are stupid.
Because people are involved in the coding. Which means that they will resort to using the most generic codes possible, simply because it's impossible to remember 140k codes (or even how to search in a way that you pull up all 140k codes).
Time is money, time spent coding is wasted time. So the economic force will be to short-change coding time as much as possible. You won't have 5 minutes per code to sit and do searches, you'll have seconds (maybe a dozen or two at most) to categorize the injury and move on to the next code.
Then there's the whole issue of everyone coding in a consistent manner. When you only have 10 slots, that's rather easy. When you get up into 140k different codes, a lot of which are subtlety different, it becomes much easier and much less apparent that something was coded incorrectly or inconsistently.
GTA's v3 engine cheated on that. Run down a street, see nothing in front of you for 2-3 blocks. Switch the camera view to look backwards for 2 seconds to check on pursuit, then look forward again. All of a sudden the street was full of people and cars.
As soon as you glanced away, all those civilians and thugs would vanish.
How do you propose the SKEIN function determine whether the second argument is a filename, or the text to be hashed? Should he add that funciton as a further switch, and also implement the function of reading the contents of a file (which would presumably use "cat")?
Simply put, you follow the conventions established by md5sum and other command line hashing tools that have existed for many years/decades prior.
XP also added support for WiFi out of the box in a consistent interface no matter what WiFi card you were using.
I used Win2000 on a laptop for a year or two - hated it because every different WiFi radio card that you'd plug in or that came with the laptop had their own strange UI. Some wouldn't support hexadecimal WEP keys, others you had to figure out what nomenclature they were using when a user called up to try and get connected.
Well if you use a laptop in compact spaces and/or while travelling, your only alternative to "shitty touchscreen interface" would be keyboard and even shittier touchpad.... I'd poke at the screen with my finger all day long before having to use a fucking touchpad. But for real Power Computing(TM) a keyboard and mouse is definitely best.
The Thinkpad's pointer nubby is even better if you're a touch-typist. Fingers never have to leave the home row and you can easily interact with those UIs that are deaf to keyboard input. Only time I use the external mouse is if I need extended fine motor control such as a lot of drag-n-drop or a bit of sketching.
(Note: It works best if you turn the mouse sensitivity to the maximum so that just a small nudge gets you where you want to go. Otherwise your finger will get tired from having to press down too hard to move the pointer.)
I can't see a whole lot of development going into hybrid drives when it's entirely possible that the price point of SSDs will drop enough in a few years to justify mainstream use.
Eh, for business laptops, we've already crossed that point once they got below $2/GB. Why have your sales force sitting there twiddling their thumbs waiting on software to start-up because that 5400RPM platter can't keep up? Those people don't need a lot of storage, but they do frequently start programs, or boot up out at a meeting with a client.
I'd argue that any developer desktop who doesn't yet have either a 10k/15k SAS/SATA drive in it is wasting money. And the SSDs are now cheap enough to be a reasonable choice (unless you need 300GB or 450GB drives for some reason). Developers multi-task a lot, and if you pay attention you'll see that they spend a lot of time waiting on the hard drive.
Regular business desktops? Depends on the person, but now that prices are getting down in the $1.30 range on a regular basis, we're starting to roll them out to the power users.
Personal laptops and personal machines probably won't take off until we get below $1/GB and people get hooked on the speed through seeing it in action on a friend's machine.
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I would imagine that pay-to-win would certainly qualify as "feature that annoys you enough to quit" for many people.
For me, it was trying to be a tank or healer in the cesspool that is random cross-realm LFG. (And since they took out the "same-server-only" option, don't start up with "form your own group". It doesn't work any more.)
It was like empirical proof of the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory.
One needs a dedicated IP for each TLS site.
If all of the different websites are for the same corporation, you can buy a unified type certificate (UC or "multi-domain) with multiple company domain names listed. It's not ideal, but it does at least let you put all of your corporate domains on the same IP address and have it protected via SSL.
Tends to work better then a wildcard certificate, and a lot less expensive.
Well, maybe DNSSEC certificates will get rid of the SSL vendors.
If you have 100+ mails coming in on a daily basis, and have 6-7 years worth of mail to search through, folders can be useful for cutting down the search time atleast, esp. if you are able to setup rules to route the mails to folders automatically (Even with indexing, sometimes it takes a few seconds to complete the search)
If that's your only concern, just file it by year. Fast to file, fairly easy to search over leaving everything in the Inbox.
Putting the computer to sleep is so 2000s. My computer boots from SSD in under 10 seconds, bypassing all the buggy ACPI crap and fear of a dead battery.
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Having a SSD (or even a 10k RPM SATA) makes modern machines a pleasure to use again if you need to reboot frequently or if you're a multi-tasker.
I still regularly use the "suspend" option on my laptop, however, even with the SSD installed. It takes at least a few hours for a suspended laptop to drain the battery and it's more likely to wake up then hibernate (and much faster).
The original Far Cry was at least more sandbox'y then most others of the time. You could mix-up your approach, sneak around enemies, set traps, get hunted, stay quiet and let them wander off. Whereas traditional FPS of the time were extremely linear with only a single path to follow and nothing you could skip or flank.
The later missions got a bit linear and overkill, but the first few islands were fun and there were numerous ways to deal with the situations.
Well this is probably a move to increase focus, because who is going to buy a Zune? Aside from the iPod being so dominant, stand-alone MP3 players are going away as consumer smart phones take over. If you really want a Zune music player, you'll probably get a Windows-based phone instead.
Meh, unless the phone is tiny and light, the dedicated MP3 player serves far better over the long run in terms of battery life and cost. My little 8GB Sansa Fuze is on the larger end of the size scale but I much prefer it over fighting with my cell phone to just play music. And it only cost about $40-$50.
Put horns on it, produce 2000 of it and have them charge the enemies. I assure you it will discourage warfare like nothing else.
Beware the battle cattle. -- Tabitha
The time no longer spent waiting on the slow magnetic HDD to find the data that you're looking for on the drive along with much faster boot-up, program launching, and doing 2-3 things at the same time all weigh heavily in favor of the SSD.
Just keep good backups.
(Most of the issues seem to be firmware or the cheap SSDs.)
Hello, I am billions of dollars of enterprise backend software written in C# and .net. Can you please explain to me how Microsoft is going to phase out C# and convince the millions of C# developers to rewrite their enterprise software in HTML5 and Javascript?
The same way that they phased out VB6.
Yeah, and see how many websites built in the last eight or nine years work without Javascript... Hell, for real security, go back to using Gopher!
There are something on the order of a few million websites out there, maybe a few hundred million.
95% of the time, you're probably visiting the same small set of websites, so just whitelist those. The other 5%? Temporary whitelist when you visit them. If they're worth visiting again, then maybe you whitelist them next week.
Which is a big step up from letting every single website out there that you happen to browse to, or which gets served up via some asinine server include, or because a hacked page imports javascript from some evil hacker site, or because a malicious web ad gets served up run stuff on your machine in a way that will infect your profile.
It may not be perfectly safe (nothing is), but you'll end up infected 10x to 100x less by using whitelisting.
And I would say that at least 80-90% of the sites that I visit once-only work just fine without Javascript or Flash enabled. Those that don't? Well, their competitors are about 3 clicks away. (Or else they have to be extra compelling to make me feel like it's worth it to whitelist or even temporarily allow.)
Probably SoGo is the closest.
LDAP doesn't need to be part of the groupware stack, but Red Hat does need to get serious about its directory server competing with Active Directory.
Until PG's administrative and userland utilities improve, users will continue to use MySQL.
Eh, pgAdmin III is already pretty darned good - the only thing missing is the ability to import/export data sets through the UI to other ODBC data sources (which would rock).
Setting up pgsql is not that hard anymore either - there's enough understanding out there now of how pg_hba.conf works (and why you want to configure stuff like that in a way that can't be touched by the database).
I worked for a company that had a manager who insisted on sending out a newsletter to everyone in the company customer database. We warned him that was illegal. We warned him that would be spamming.
Not illegal in most jurisdictions as long as there is a pre-existing business relationship. Presumably, if they're customers, then they qualify.
Doesn't mean it's not sleazy and prone to cause problems.
I can't really imagine a situation where they'd leave a broken page up for two months without a) fixing it, or b) changing the message to at least say "sorry, this doesn't work right now" unless it was intentional. It's a shame, too, because I like their stuff, but their combination of aggressive and sleazy marketing methods is not something I want to support.
Come work in the real world, where if it is not visibly broken and a manager doesn't make it a priority, it won't get fixed. And if you do put it on your list of "things to fix" it will be constantly pushed down to the bottom of the list by other fires.
So, it doesn't surprise me when opt-out / unsubscribe links don't work. Hell - even AOL's pages on support where you can sign up for their feedback loop are constantly broken.
One option for smaller setups is colored electrical tape at the cable ends. Such as blue/blue, yellow/red, etc (you can easily get 7 different colors of 1/4" electrical tape and that combined with the color of the cable allows for enough variation).
So now you need to find the grey wire with blue/green on the end and find the other end which also has blue/green and is a grey cable.
(Not necessarily good for those who are color blind - but it's cheap and reasonably foolproof.)
Bulk velcro
Bulk 5" long strips about 3/4" wide
The 5" long stuff is great for small bundles or for making a spare 2-10 meter cable look neat before being tossed in a drawer.
There are also longer 7-8" lengths good for larger bundles, plus some extra large sized ones that are about 1 1/2" by 10-12". Those are great for heavy duty stuff such as long extension cords.
I personally ceased doing internal PC cable management a few years ago. I'm no longer interested in how it looks like on the inside.
That's fine for PCs where the internals don't get that hot. Like low-powered office desktops with a single hard drive and integrated video on the motherboard.
But for any PC where airflow matters - break out the velcro ties and use them to bundle the cables to allow for airflow.
(Plus it keeps loose cables from getting in fan blades and causing issues.)
In more permanent setups, plastic non-reusable cable ties are an even cheaper alternative, assuming there's little need to mess with the cables
Yeah, there's no such thing as a permanent setup in an office / home environment.
If it has modular plugs on the end so that you can quickly connect/disconnect without breaking out crimps or a soldering iron, velcro straps are the far better choice. Because as soon as you finish wiring up the rack - *something* will change and you'll have to run new cables or remove some of the old ones.
Bulk rolls of velcro strips can be purchased in 1/2" wide for about $1/foot. Sometimes they're pre-cut at a specific length, others are just one big roll of continuous velcro that you can cut to suit.
There are even 1 1/2" wide variants (typically cut in 12" lengths) for the heavy duty bundling.
(When we outfit a laptop user, all the spare cords in their bag are bundled with velcro strips. Any spare cables like network or power get bundled with velcro strips before being tossed in our spares storage drawers. If you buy them, always buy double what you think you'll need because they come in very handy for lots of other little things that you never thought about.)
"Better" as in "more accurate."
Far from accurate, go check KOLO's site (a local news station) or FoxReno. They've had better details then CNN within an hour of the event (CNN was still reporting the wrong information up to 2 hours after the crash).
I would like to hear more about why they are stupid.
Because people are involved in the coding. Which means that they will resort to using the most generic codes possible, simply because it's impossible to remember 140k codes (or even how to search in a way that you pull up all 140k codes).
Time is money, time spent coding is wasted time. So the economic force will be to short-change coding time as much as possible. You won't have 5 minutes per code to sit and do searches, you'll have seconds (maybe a dozen or two at most) to categorize the injury and move on to the next code.
Then there's the whole issue of everyone coding in a consistent manner. When you only have 10 slots, that's rather easy. When you get up into 140k different codes, a lot of which are subtlety different, it becomes much easier and much less apparent that something was coded incorrectly or inconsistently.
GTA's v3 engine cheated on that. Run down a street, see nothing in front of you for 2-3 blocks. Switch the camera view to look backwards for 2 seconds to check on pursuit, then look forward again. All of a sudden the street was full of people and cars.
As soon as you glanced away, all those civilians and thugs would vanish.
How do you propose the SKEIN function determine whether the second argument is a filename, or the text to be hashed? Should he add that funciton as a further switch, and also implement the function of reading the contents of a file (which would presumably use "cat")?
Simply put, you follow the conventions established by md5sum and other command line hashing tools that have existed for many years/decades prior.
XP also added support for WiFi out of the box in a consistent interface no matter what WiFi card you were using.
I used Win2000 on a laptop for a year or two - hated it because every different WiFi radio card that you'd plug in or that came with the laptop had their own strange UI. Some wouldn't support hexadecimal WEP keys, others you had to figure out what nomenclature they were using when a user called up to try and get connected.
Well if you use a laptop in compact spaces and/or while travelling, your only alternative to "shitty touchscreen interface" would be keyboard and even shittier touchpad.... I'd poke at the screen with my finger all day long before having to use a fucking touchpad. But for real Power Computing(TM) a keyboard and mouse is definitely best.
The Thinkpad's pointer nubby is even better if you're a touch-typist. Fingers never have to leave the home row and you can easily interact with those UIs that are deaf to keyboard input. Only time I use the external mouse is if I need extended fine motor control such as a lot of drag-n-drop or a bit of sketching.
(Note: It works best if you turn the mouse sensitivity to the maximum so that just a small nudge gets you where you want to go. Otherwise your finger will get tired from having to press down too hard to move the pointer.)
I can't see a whole lot of development going into hybrid drives when it's entirely possible that the price point of SSDs will drop enough in a few years to justify mainstream use.
Eh, for business laptops, we've already crossed that point once they got below $2/GB. Why have your sales force sitting there twiddling their thumbs waiting on software to start-up because that 5400RPM platter can't keep up? Those people don't need a lot of storage, but they do frequently start programs, or boot up out at a meeting with a client.
I'd argue that any developer desktop who doesn't yet have either a 10k/15k SAS/SATA drive in it is wasting money. And the SSDs are now cheap enough to be a reasonable choice (unless you need 300GB or 450GB drives for some reason). Developers multi-task a lot, and if you pay attention you'll see that they spend a lot of time waiting on the hard drive.
Regular business desktops? Depends on the person, but now that prices are getting down in the $1.30 range on a regular basis, we're starting to roll them out to the power users.
Personal laptops and personal machines probably won't take off until we get below $1/GB and people get hooked on the speed through seeing it in action on a friend's machine.