... or possibly not. The standards say what the page should look like when it's rendered correctly, but do the standards say things have to break in a specific way if the page itself is broken?
I thought there might be a shortage so I put in a mail order for one in mid-November, so I'd have it in time for Christmas. As it turns out, there's plenty of Wiis to go around here, so now I've been having to restrain myself from ripping the packaging open for a full month and then some.:-P
Nope, $399 buys you one and another for a kid, $200 of it is tax-deductible.
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I had the same experience with the same book. It's not that I dislike the content, it's just that this particular method of delivery bores me to tears. I can see how it *might* suit somebody else, but I think that's going to be the last Head First book I'm buying for myself.
Two minutes ago, actually, although I'd never install one these days. Of course it sucks that it requires a floppy drive, I was just trying to clarify, not opine.
Google suggests MCE is Media Center Edition. XP will install on a SATA system just fine, if you happen to have the SATA drivers on a *floppy*. The installer can't load them off anything else, or so I'm told.
Spell checking variable names isn't exactly what IntelliSense does, and Eclipse is actually better than vanilla VS.Net at producing red squigglies under your code (I'm told that VS does it for Visual Basic, but for C# you need something like ReSharper).
I don't see this as a "MS bad" kind of thing, rather just a really low-impact "problem" that would be less than trivial to fix.
That's one of my pet peeves. I hate being called a resource.
I have a theory. To the manager, the fact that you can't mix and match programmers (or sysadmins, or hell, any craftsman in any line of business) is intolerable: if you're not a resource, you're beyond their control. So they try to quantify us as resources in order to feel on top of things. I believe this is at least in part something they do on a subconscious level.
And of course, "our resources are limited at the moment" sounds a lot more professional-like than "raven's got a really bad hangover."
I've recently experimented with different kinds of music, and the key things that seem to indicate good programming music are: - No vocals. Vocals engage the left side of your brain, the one that should be coding. - No noise. Too random music confuses the right side of the brain, the one that should mind the big picture.
Classical and instrumental metal have been by far my best choices. Especially Mozart, Beethoven, Vivaldi etc. Highly recommended. I'm pretty sure good old-fashioned C64 tunes would fit the picture too.
That's not really my statement (I quoted it from a thread at a forum), and no, I don't usually generalize like that. In this case, however, I wanted to underline the fact that Gibson's expertise is widely disputed. I admit I chose a poor example, but I was in a bit of a hurry.
Grcsucks.com dissects a lot of Gibson's rants, and the conclusion is that he's more of a marketer than an engineer -- he uses marketing gimmicks to drive a point which may or may not actually be even valid. Like I said, he might be spot on with this one, but given his history it's dangerous to let him on the list of "people I listen to with regards to security."
Found this gem about Steve Gibson at wirelessforums.org:
Anyone that claims to be a security expert, yet does not participate in any of the security related mailing lists, does not attend security conferences, (does not attend hacker conferences), is not a security expert.
While his advice does have some merit, in most cases, the problems,
exploits, and effects are exaggerated far beyond reality and
borderning on alarmist.
While he may be right about this issue, you should be sure to check out GRC Sucks before giving him too much credit.
You've got a Live Bookmark to "Latest BBC Headlines." It's in the default installation. A live bookmark is basically the subject lines from an RSS feed in a submenu. Not very useful, but not exactly a bug either -- technically, you are subscribed to a feed, you just don't know it.
It's located in Bookmarks -> Bookmarks toolbar folder (at least on my installation), and in the bookmarks toolbar.
Too late for that. There is a huge amount of custom web apps already written in PHP, and that's enough momentum to steamroller any attempt to make a decent PHP. Nobody wants to pay for a rewrite that "doesn't add value," because most customers don't care about vulnerabilities until they are already exploited. Time to look at solutions that were well thought out to begin with.
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... or possibly not. The standards say what the page should look like when it's rendered correctly, but do the standards say things have to break in a specific way if the page itself is broken?
I thought there might be a shortage so I put in a mail order for one in mid-November, so I'd have it in time for Christmas. As it turns out, there's plenty of Wiis to go around here, so now I've been having to restrain myself from ripping the packaging open for a full month and then some. :-P
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
Nope, $399 buys you one and another for a kid, $200 of it is tax-deductible.
I had the same experience with the same book. It's not that I dislike the content, it's just that this particular method of delivery bores me to tears. I can see how it *might* suit somebody else, but I think that's going to be the last Head First book I'm buying for myself.
That's exactly what I'm saying. In C# 1.0 (up to .NET 1.1) you can't do that. In C# 2.0 you can explicitly specify you want that behavior:
// int? is synonymous with System.Nullable<int>, the generic nullable wrapper struct for value types
int? i = getIdByName(name);
C# doesn't let you assign null to a boxed value type (you can override this from C# 2.0 on by explicitly using a nullable type).
Well this is a nitpick, but I really meant that it *installs* fine after you go through the struggle of getting the drivers loaded.
Two minutes ago, actually, although I'd never install one these days. Of course it sucks that it requires a floppy drive, I was just trying to clarify, not opine.
Google suggests MCE is Media Center Edition. XP will install on a SATA system just fine, if you happen to have the SATA drivers on a *floppy*. The installer can't load them off anything else, or so I'm told.
Spell checking variable names isn't exactly what IntelliSense does, and Eclipse is actually better than vanilla VS.Net at producing red squigglies under your code (I'm told that VS does it for Visual Basic, but for C# you need something like ReSharper).
I don't see this as a "MS bad" kind of thing, rather just a really low-impact "problem" that would be less than trivial to fix.
Credit where credit is due -- this is an excerpt from Stevey's Tech News, Issue #1.
You're assuming it has to be a trade. It doesn't: vi-vim emulation for Visual Studio.
I'm a happy man these days, with VS IntelliSense, ReSharper refactorings and Vim modal editing. :)
That's one of my pet peeves. I hate being called a resource.
I have a theory. To the manager, the fact that you can't mix and match programmers (or sysadmins, or hell, any craftsman in any line of business) is intolerable: if you're not a resource, you're beyond their control. So they try to quantify us as resources in order to feel on top of things. I believe this is at least in part something they do on a subconscious level.
And of course, "our resources are limited at the moment" sounds a lot more professional-like than "raven's got a really bad hangover."
Thing is, I don't see why I'd want to leave Vim in the first place.
Make it work.
Make it right.
Make it fast.
Or,
The rules of optimization:
Rule 1: Don't do it.
Rule 2 (only for experts): Don't do it (yet).
I've recently experimented with different kinds of music, and the key things that seem to indicate good programming music are:
- No vocals. Vocals engage the left side of your brain, the one that should be coding.
- No noise. Too random music confuses the right side of the brain, the one that should mind the big picture.
Classical and instrumental metal have been by far my best choices. Especially Mozart, Beethoven, Vivaldi etc. Highly recommended. I'm pretty sure good old-fashioned C64 tunes would fit the picture too.
And that key is not trusted to the client? In that case, what does that add to just keeping the hash on the server side?'
:)
Not trying to be an ass here -- I just suspect I'm a bit dense today, so a more thorough explanation would be nice.
That's not really my statement (I quoted it from a thread at a forum), and no, I don't usually generalize like that. In this case, however, I wanted to underline the fact that Gibson's expertise is widely disputed. I admit I chose a poor example, but I was in a bit of a hurry.
Grcsucks.com dissects a lot of Gibson's rants, and the conclusion is that he's more of a marketer than an engineer -- he uses marketing gimmicks to drive a point which may or may not actually be even valid. Like I said, he might be spot on with this one, but given his history it's dangerous to let him on the list of "people I listen to with regards to security."
Found this gem about Steve Gibson at wirelessforums.org:
While he may be right about this issue, you should be sure to check out GRC Sucks before giving him too much credit.
Exactly how is that secure if you trust the client for both the content and the hash?
I tried to write an Evolution sort, but as usual, Evolution crashed on me :(
You've got a Live Bookmark to "Latest BBC Headlines." It's in the default installation. A live bookmark is basically the subject lines from an RSS feed in a submenu. Not very useful, but not exactly a bug either -- technically, you are subscribed to a feed, you just don't know it.
It's located in Bookmarks -> Bookmarks toolbar folder (at least on my installation), and in the bookmarks toolbar.
Too late for that. There is a huge amount of custom web apps already written in PHP, and that's enough momentum to steamroller any attempt to make a decent PHP. Nobody wants to pay for a rewrite that "doesn't add value," because most customers don't care about vulnerabilities until they are already exploited. Time to look at solutions that were well thought out to begin with.