This is already happening. Here are some of the results:
Theory: Common DLLs would be updated with new DLLs when new programs came out, so that old ones would automatically benefit from the new code. Result: DLL hell
Theory: Office2k and newer stuff with Windows installer 'tech'. Install on demand, restore file associations/missing files/shortcuts every time you run the program. Result: Nobody, not you, not MS, not the computer, at any time knows what's installed on the PC. Every time you try to remove a deskop/quicklaunch/start menu shortcut or a file association, the application will think for 2min then ask you to find the CD and let it look at that for another 2 min.
What's next? The computer smells you coming, sprouts legs and runs away?
The last reliable lifeform-like program available for computers was a virus.
You're prolly right. While many of us can truly claim we buy more music from new groups we find out via mp3s, just look at our friends and we can prolly name 3-4 that have gone the other way.
The only problem is, those codes are still in there and everybody has forgotten about them.
the other thing is that it has been proven that the codes can be turned back on using software without the user knowing and without rebooting the system.
I for example would have no idea how to check a system to see whether the code is turned on or not
Exciting will the future be. Everyone will know how to read, but nobody will know how to write clearly since they all use grafiti or other writing rec.
I mean, given time they'll be able to draw out characters, but given they do it so seldomly, it'll prolly look like the writing of a kid learning to write.
1) Glancing in your slightly parted wallet and seeing eg 5 red notes, 2 green ones, and 1 blue one?
2) Taking the wad of cash out of your wallet and viewing each note individually to ascertain its value?
Who the f*&k is going to count your money before they rob you anyway? You have a fat wallet, they'll take it. If they all happen to be $1s, bad luck, they'll take that risk.
If you live somewhere where everyone around you is trying to rob you anyway, you should really consider moving to a safer neighborhood.
When someone is told to implement feature A, they spend a little time sifting thru the 20yr old code, and do the minimum to get it done.
They write test cases to test A, unit, system, etc. Their team leader approves it, and of course all the tests pass before it goes out.
In the end, there's always some obscure way feat A interferes with feat B, but you're not going to write tests for every combination of keystrokes possible.
If you have user testing (u should), they'll find a score of bugs u didn't. Of course, the users too have a deadline to get stuff shipping and they too want to do the minimum possible.
In the end, nobody involved has a personal incentive to make it perfect. With proper testing procedures in place, everyone has a piece of paper with someone's signature on it which says they passed. They don't feel (too) guilty when there's a bug, (hey, my TL approved it!).
Anyway, how are you going to ask the customer for $20k extra so you can test for an extra week?
Here's the thing I don't get. Whenever you talk to recruiters, friends, your boss and such, they always say you should always wear a suit to an interview.
What do you mean you don't think a suit is necessary? I mean, as developers, we didn't wear suits to work, but even now, some of the others are wearing suits to work ever since the layoffs.
You know, given we have seen yoda move an Xwing with the force, wouldn't it have been more dignified and masterful for him to use the force to fight and/or control his light saber?
Yoda probably couldn't even reach Dooku's chest with his light saber, but who said yoda needed to hold onto his light saber to control it?
They already have, and they have also accused libraries of the same. Didn't work 20yrs ago, but just recently they tried to go after the libraries again. That'll teach shareholders not going to board elections. You end up with idiots wasting money going after libraries.
But who's going to calc the MD5? Are you going to DL the file, do the MD5, check it, then decide whether to keep it?
Or are you going to ask the sender's client to give you the MD5, which you go and check. So how's that any different from asking them to send you a song and they sending you a 20s track?
Actually, the thing that makes it possible is that in HK, you pay depending on where you get ON a bus. Doesn't matter if you get off at the terminal or the next stop.
Compare with Australia: you tell them where you want to get off and they calc the distance, and have bus nazis come on the busses checking if anyone stayed further than they paid for
Or in Japan: Get a mag tix when you get on, when you get off, dump the tix in the machine and it tells you how much to pay.
In HK it's swipe and go. In AU it would be choose a dest, then swipe. In JP, well the current card system seems OK as it is, can't save much time.
Another problem is, in AU they don't even have turnstiles in every train station, fat chance getting everyone to install a new system. Hey, we also have no less than 3 systems for electronic highway tolls in Sydney alone.
I normally have NS4 and IE5 on my AthXP1700 system. Both work fine. NS4 is faster than IE5 in normal cases, but sometimes it decides to 'think' about a webpage (maybe with crappy JS?) for a few minutes before letting me get back to work.
I didn't like IE5 because I can't ctrl-tab across pages.
Now we have Mozilla, and on MY system, it's slower than both. Maybe I'm used to things happening immediately when I click a button. Moz just seems to 'think' about every action a while first.
Plus it loses the ctrl-tab ability, not to mention all the other usability issues that kept me with NS4 rather than to use IE5.
So, I guess in this age of eye-candy, Mozilla is king ("ooh look-skins!"). Anyone with wrist pain can get stuffed eh?
Feng Shui is not superstition. That's the difference.
eg: don't sleep with your head under a window. Why? When it rains, your head'll get wet.
eg: don't sleep facing a mirror. Why? you'll scare the shit outta yourself if u get up at night.
It's all logic. Of course, over the years some reasoning has been lost and some of it is now crap. Just means you gotta be careful which 'expert' you choose.
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This is already happening. Here are some of the results:
Theory: Common DLLs would be updated with new DLLs when new programs came out, so that old ones would automatically benefit from the new code.
Result: DLL hell
Theory: Office2k and newer stuff with Windows installer 'tech'. Install on demand, restore file associations/missing files/shortcuts every time you run the program.
Result: Nobody, not you, not MS, not the computer, at any time knows what's installed on the PC. Every time you try to remove a deskop/quicklaunch/start menu shortcut or a file association, the application will think for 2min then ask you to find the CD and let it look at that for another 2 min.
What's next? The computer smells you coming, sprouts legs and runs away?
The last reliable lifeform-like program available for computers was a virus.
You're prolly right. While many of us can truly claim we buy more music from new groups we find out via mp3s, just look at our friends and we can prolly name 3-4 that have gone the other way.
The only problem is, those codes are still in there and everybody has forgotten about them.
the other thing is that it has been proven that the codes can be turned back on using software without the user knowing and without rebooting the system.
I for example would have no idea how to check a system to see whether the code is turned on or not
like magnetic ram, and all the other wiz-bang new techs in the news recently.
Question is, when is it going to be common? Nowadays, it seems even with standards, solid backing, things sometimes still don't take off.
And until they do, it's got nothing to do with us little people.
Great, so people with popups off don't know about it at all, and people with it on get so pissed off they don't DL it.
When is it time for us to move on from such an old architecture? Surely there is some luggage in there we can now do away with?
Even software languages have broken compatibility at times to advance. Can't hardware do the same?
Exciting will the future be. Everyone will know how to read, but nobody will know how to write clearly since they all use grafiti or other writing rec.
I mean, given time they'll be able to draw out characters, but given they do it so seldomly, it'll prolly look like the writing of a kid learning to write.
You're a retard.
Which will expose your money to view longer?
1) Glancing in your slightly parted wallet and seeing eg 5 red notes, 2 green ones, and 1 blue one?
2) Taking the wad of cash out of your wallet and viewing each note individually to ascertain its value?
Who the f*&k is going to count your money before they rob you anyway? You have a fat wallet, they'll take it. If they all happen to be $1s, bad luck, they'll take that risk.
If you live somewhere where everyone around you is trying to rob you anyway, you should really consider moving to a safer neighborhood.
When someone is told to implement feature A, they spend a little time sifting thru the 20yr old code, and do the minimum to get it done.
They write test cases to test A, unit, system, etc. Their team leader approves it, and of course all the tests pass before it goes out.
In the end, there's always some obscure way feat A interferes with feat B, but you're not going to write tests for every combination of keystrokes possible.
If you have user testing (u should), they'll find a score of bugs u didn't. Of course, the users too have a deadline to get stuff shipping and they too want to do the minimum possible.
In the end, nobody involved has a personal incentive to make it perfect. With proper testing procedures in place, everyone has a piece of paper with someone's signature on it which says they passed. They don't feel (too) guilty when there's a bug, (hey, my TL approved it!).
Anyway, how are you going to ask the customer for $20k extra so you can test for an extra week?
Digital TV has been broadcasting and available for over 2yrs. For (supposedly) little cost more than standard TV sets.
HDTV supposely has been available too.
So why is it I have known ppl to buy new TV sets, but nobody seems to have bought, nor wanted to buy, an HDTV set.
Good luck trying to claim this will be mainstream in 5 yrs.
Here's the thing I don't get. Whenever you talk to recruiters, friends, your boss and such, they always say you should always wear a suit to an interview.
What do you mean you don't think a suit is necessary? I mean, as developers, we didn't wear suits to work, but even now, some of the others are wearing suits to work ever since the layoffs.
You know, given we have seen yoda move an Xwing with the force, wouldn't it have been more dignified and masterful for him to use the force to fight and/or control his light saber?
Yoda probably couldn't even reach Dooku's chest with his light saber, but who said yoda needed to hold onto his light saber to control it?
Given the safety record of its airlines, I wouldn't want to try any high speed trains there for a while...
They already have, and they have also accused libraries of the same. Didn't work 20yrs ago, but just recently they tried to go after the libraries again. That'll teach shareholders not going to board elections. You end up with idiots wasting money going after libraries.
Yeh, they could.
But who's going to calc the MD5? Are you going to DL the file, do the MD5, check it, then decide whether to keep it?
Or are you going to ask the sender's client to give you the MD5, which you go and check. So how's that any different from asking them to send you a song and they sending you a 20s track?
Sounds fun anyway.
Truth is, nobody wants to pay for mp3s. If I paid $1 for a song, I sure as hell want it in an uncompressed unerasable format (ie a real CD).
Being able to buy an mp3 feels too much like pay per view.
Actually, wouldn't this be a perfect opportunity to raid the RIAA HQ for 'pirates'?
Since they've told us everything that's on p2p is illegal, I think this counts as organised crime!
Actually, the thing that makes it possible is that in HK, you pay depending on where you get ON a bus. Doesn't matter if you get off at the terminal or the next stop.
Compare with Australia: you tell them where you want to get off and they calc the distance, and have bus nazis come on the busses checking if anyone stayed further than they paid for
Or in Japan: Get a mag tix when you get on, when you get off, dump the tix in the machine and it tells you how much to pay.
In HK it's swipe and go. In AU it would be choose a dest, then swipe. In JP, well the current card system seems OK as it is, can't save much time.
Another problem is, in AU they don't even have turnstiles in every train station, fat chance getting everyone to install a new system. Hey, we also have no less than 3 systems for electronic highway tolls in Sydney alone.
I normally have NS4 and IE5 on my AthXP1700 system. Both work fine. NS4 is faster than IE5 in normal cases, but sometimes it decides to 'think' about a webpage (maybe with crappy JS?) for a few minutes before letting me get back to work.
I didn't like IE5 because I can't ctrl-tab across pages.
Now we have Mozilla, and on MY system, it's slower than both. Maybe I'm used to things happening immediately when I click a button. Moz just seems to 'think' about every action a while first.
Plus it loses the ctrl-tab ability, not to mention all the other usability issues that kept me with NS4 rather than to use IE5.
So, I guess in this age of eye-candy, Mozilla is king ("ooh look-skins!"). Anyone with wrist pain can get stuffed eh?
Back to NS4 and waiting for Mozilla 2.
If I was hit by a bus, I think the last thing I'd care about was whether ppl at work knew my passwords...
Can we make they 'greyed out' menu items more 'grey'?
They look like my eyes r going blurry rather than being disabled items.
What I really want to know is, why does it take 3s to open the bookmarks tab, and when you go away and come back, it takes 3s again?
NS4.7 read bookmarks from a text file and took less than 1s, why is Moz so slow at everything?
Feels like Java all over again!
Just how are we supposed to identify which areas are Taliban controlled anyway?
But wait, wouldn't it be easier to defeat the Taliban if they were busy DL Mozilla and surfing the web rather than fighting back?
Feng Shui is not superstition. That's the difference.
eg: don't sleep with your head under a window. Why? When it rains, your head'll get wet.
eg: don't sleep facing a mirror.
Why? you'll scare the shit outta yourself if u get up at night.
It's all logic. Of course, over the years some reasoning has been lost and some of it is now crap. Just means you gotta be careful which 'expert' you choose.
Isn't UHT a term copyrighted by milk producers?