Oh come on, guys. Stop this pirating nonsense. (Yes, I'm determined to turn "pirate" into a metasyntactic variable. Making it a random swearword seems like a good start.)
NPMA (Non-Poseur Mac User): Someone who thinks that bash is a good Mac app, waits for someone to get Kile working on OS X, follows any hint of a fashion trend indicationg that ThinkGeek tees are in style (and regards all evidence to the contrary), does know preemptive multitasking from cooperative multitasking. Someone who bought his iBook because it's light, robust and sexy. Someone who believes that the Mac mini was destined (if not designed) to run headless. Someone who doesn't care about Photoshop but very much about DarwinPorts, Fink and/or Portage.
Someone who sees "is a *nix" as one of OS X's biggest advantages.
I don't care if you're more "real" or "trve" than me, but I do care about having an extremely sexy BSD descendant at my disposal.
(And just to flame you: Getting bought out by NeXT for a negative amount of money was one of the best thing that have ever happened to Apple.;)
It is a feature. Maybe it's a misfeature, but it's still a feature. If it wasn't they wouldn't have spent money putting in touch sensors and the accompanying logic instead of two microswitches and a couple pieces of plastic.
Open Source: Fri Mar 10 17:29:51 2006 UTC (7 weeks, 4 days ago) by deraadt:
proper geteuid calls because suse hires people who mistype things
Closed Source: User switching just got more convenient! With Microsoft X11's Privilege Escalation Technology (PET) you don't have to remember your administrator password anymore - if you need administrator privilieges they're right at your fingertips. X11 PET - a Microsoft innovation. (Patents pending)
Those dumb Nintendo marketers, they only got FOUR slashdot frontpages from a name change. C'mon, they can do better than that.
If that's what they're aiming after they should have called it the Nintendo Linus Torvalds Has Stolen UNIX. Launch titles might be Super Mario SCO or Smash Bros. Lawsuit.
People in academia that i know refuse to install 1.5 and still use 1.4.2
Add to that many Java projects. Gentoo still flags the 1.5 JDK/JRE as experimental because many packages just aren't source-compatible (one of the problems I remember is with people using "enum" as a variable name, which is fine with 1.4 but breaks with 1.5, where "enum" is a keyword).
For example when you're writing a complex Java application that supports scripting. Using Jython, you can expose parts of your application to the scripting interface, giving the scripter a great deal of control over the app.
PHP/Python are better, but most code I see is frankly horrible.
Unfortunately PHP's tendency to encourage bad code has given it an extremely bad image. I use PHP as my main scripting language (for hypertext preprocessing as well as on the shell) and when using some care one can write either quick-and-dirty throwaway scripts or well-organized code. It's not much slower than Ruby or Python either, as far as I can tell (although not being slower than Ruby is not that great a feat).
I think PHP should be forked; the fork would clean up the function signatures (which lack consistency), probably modularize the language and maybe add GUI capabilities by default (probably using wxWidgets instead of GTK). And of course it would lose the ability to mix HTML and PHP code, which is one of PHP's greatest misfortunes; a template engine designed for simplicity would be a superior replacement in my opinion.
Such a fork might gain more credibility with developers who don't like PHP's inconsistency and/or have been put off by craptacular PHTML websites. The reorganization of the functions would probably increase readability, as well.
The fact that someone deprived me of caffeine. Actually I don't even drink coffee, but whenever I drink something containing caffeine (cola, a strong tea etc.) I usually do it because I want the caffeine - thus drinking decaf would be pointless.
What possible use is it? Apple owns Akamai. Their updates download faster than just about anyone's. If they use a torrent system it _will_ be slower (end user upload speed), not faster, and someone will sooner or later figure out how to upload trojans in place of updates and really wreck their day.
That's true. Once someone sends you data, it's utterly impossible to detect whether the data is what it pretends to be. If there was a way to mark a data - you know, like signing it, only digitally - it might be possible to create secure downloads. But of course that's all science fiction. Mankind has not yet developed a way to securely transfer anything in any oher form but plain text and there's no way of, say, taking arbitrary data and reducing it to a number, which could be used to verify that the data has not been tampered with.
If only there was something like a certificat of proof that some piece of data indeed comes from Apple! This will truly be one of the great challenges of scientists in the future.
Are you still allowed to donate blood? As far as I know the Red Cross won't let anyone who has ever been in the same room as the label of a bottle of hepatitis C vaccine anywhere near them. I don't know whether A and B have similarly severe effects, but I went to school with a girl who went through hepatitis and as a result isn't allowed to donate blood for the rest of her life.
Actually, (being a native German speaker) I'd write the baby's cry "wäh" - although I'm implying the W there. Still, most people should understand it. Our culture has been americocentric for decades and as far as I know there is no phoneme in standard AmE that isn't widely spoken in Germany.
I think that as for German the name just sucks. It evokes entirely the wrong connotations - after all the German pronounciation of "Wii" is homonymous to "wie", which translates to "how". Naming your console like a question just begs for stupid remarks. And, sorry Nintendo, it doesn't really look that cute. In French and especially English "Wii" is a clever name, especially as the English interpretation implies that people are using the thing to play together, but in German the name implies just one thing: Confusion as to how.
And they don't even tell us how what.
IE's (at least version 6's) XHTML support sucks. It has almost no XHTML support. XHTML is rendered as HTML 4, but a bigger problem is that IE doesn't even support the application/html+xml MIME type!! As a result I'm forced to configure my web server to send text/html as MIME type, causing all the other browsers to interpret the document as HTML 4 instead of XHTML. This makes XHTML almost useless.
Almost? The IE dev team has Fucking Killed(TM) XHTML. XHTML is useless to the point where usually the only sensible approach is to just settle on plain HTML. And remember that IE7 will not support application/xhtml+xml either, so XHTML is dead and stays dead.
Usually my approach to fixing IE's horrible CSS support is to conditional comment in a style sheet that just ensures that the site is navigable. I don't care if it looks like ass and whether IE users have two scrollbars while everyone else has none. In the future I'll probably add a conditional comment that displays a box saying something along the lines of:
I'm sorry that my site looks like a can of paint puked all over it but your browser doesn't properly support a web standard from 1998 on which my site relies (Level 2 Cascading Style Sheets (CSS2)). It has failed to properly implement CSS2 for the last eight years and it will continue doing so in the future - and in doing so it has forced and will keep forcing web developers to specifically work around its shortcomings. Please do yourself and the internet a favor and upgrade to a modern browser.
[link to getfirefox.com] Firefox is a browser that allows you to customize your browsing experience with numerous extensions. Needless to say, its CSS support is much superior to that of the Internet Explorer. It's also free, so why not try it?
[link to opera.com] Opera is often called the fastest of the major browsers. While it doesn't have Firefox's extensions it comes with a lot of stuff built in. Of course it understands CSS properly. It's free at the moment.
Even if you're into gaming a $50 NVidia will usually do the job unless you're one of those persons who think that anti-aliasing will miraculously turn a mediocre game into a good one. I bought my card at last year's Cebit for forty Euros (it's a noname Geforce FX5200) and I can still play most new games with most eye-candy active. Could, if my Cedega was working properly.
Everything above ~75 bucks is only for those people who actually believe that the more effects a game has the better it is. And, quite frankly, they deserve getting ripped off like that.
True. That's also why even though I think that Smells Terrific is great and quite funny most people won't get it. Then again most people wouldn't get most of what Olde English produces either.
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Locally non-mainstream religions get used because they're exotic? me.setColor(surprised);
Please tell me you're not responsible for drawing up any company's business plan...
"You're not responsible for drawing up any company's business plan."
Oh come on, guys. Stop this pirating nonsense. (Yes, I'm determined to turn "pirate" into a metasyntactic variable. Making it a random swearword seems like a good start.)
NPMA (Non-Poseur Mac User): Someone who thinks that bash is a good Mac app, waits for someone to get Kile working on OS X, follows any hint of a fashion trend indicationg that ThinkGeek tees are in style (and regards all evidence to the contrary), does know preemptive multitasking from cooperative multitasking. Someone who bought his iBook because it's light, robust and sexy. Someone who believes that the Mac mini was destined (if not designed) to run headless. Someone who doesn't care about Photoshop but very much about DarwinPorts, Fink and/or Portage.
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Someone who sees "is a *nix" as one of OS X's biggest advantages.
I don't care if you're more "real" or "trve" than me, but I do care about having an extremely sexy BSD descendant at my disposal.
(And just to flame you: Getting bought out by NeXT for a negative amount of money was one of the best thing that have ever happened to Apple.
It is a feature. Maybe it's a misfeature, but it's still a feature. If it wasn't they wouldn't have spent money putting in touch sensors and the accompanying logic instead of two microswitches and a couple pieces of plastic.
No, the real difference is as follows:
Open Source:
Fri Mar 10 17:29:51 2006 UTC (7 weeks, 4 days ago) by deraadt:
proper geteuid calls because suse hires people who mistype things
Closed Source:
User switching just got more convenient! With Microsoft X11's Privilege Escalation Technology (PET) you don't have to remember your administrator password anymore - if you need administrator privilieges they're right at your fingertips. X11 PET - a Microsoft innovation. (Patents pending)
Those dumb Nintendo marketers, they only got FOUR slashdot frontpages from a name change. C'mon, they can do better than that.
If that's what they're aiming after they should have called it the Nintendo Linus Torvalds Has Stolen UNIX. Launch titles might be Super Mario SCO or Smash Bros. Lawsuit.
People in academia that i know refuse to install 1.5 and still use 1.4.2
Add to that many Java projects. Gentoo still flags the 1.5 JDK/JRE as experimental because many packages just aren't source-compatible (one of the problems I remember is with people using "enum" as a variable name, which is fine with 1.4 but breaks with 1.5, where "enum" is a keyword).
For example when you're writing a complex Java application that supports scripting. Using Jython, you can expose parts of your application to the scripting interface, giving the scripter a great deal of control over the app.
PHP/Python are better, but most code I see is frankly horrible.
Unfortunately PHP's tendency to encourage bad code has given it an extremely bad image. I use PHP as my main scripting language (for hypertext preprocessing as well as on the shell) and when using some care one can write either quick-and-dirty throwaway scripts or well-organized code. It's not much slower than Ruby or Python either, as far as I can tell (although not being slower than Ruby is not that great a feat).
I think PHP should be forked; the fork would clean up the function signatures (which lack consistency), probably modularize the language and maybe add GUI capabilities by default (probably using wxWidgets instead of GTK). And of course it would lose the ability to mix HTML and PHP code, which is one of PHP's greatest misfortunes; a template engine designed for simplicity would be a superior replacement in my opinion.
Such a fork might gain more credibility with developers who don't like PHP's inconsistency and/or have been put off by craptacular PHTML websites. The reorganization of the functions would probably increase readability, as well.
Bash now comes with Solaris. Not just 10, but recent disk sets of 8 include it as well.
What, bash now comes with Solaris? And even multiple versions of it? Talk about bloat!
The fact that someone deprived me of caffeine. Actually I don't even drink coffee, but whenever I drink something containing caffeine (cola, a strong tea etc.) I usually do it because I want the caffeine - thus drinking decaf would be pointless.
You misunderstand. iTorrent will run on port 65536.
What possible use is it? Apple owns Akamai. Their updates download faster than just about anyone's. If they use a torrent system it _will_ be slower (end user upload speed), not faster, and someone will sooner or later figure out how to upload trojans in place of updates and really wreck their day.
That's true. Once someone sends you data, it's utterly impossible to detect whether the data is what it pretends to be. If there was a way to mark a data - you know, like signing it, only digitally - it might be possible to create secure downloads. But of course that's all science fiction. Mankind has not yet developed a way to securely transfer anything in any oher form but plain text and there's no way of, say, taking arbitrary data and reducing it to a number, which could be used to verify that the data has not been tampered with.
If only there was something like a certificat of proof that some piece of data indeed comes from Apple! This will truly be one of the great challenges of scientists in the future.
Decaf seems to give me Tourettes Syndrome (characterized by loud, uncontrollable outbursts laced with profanity). Any diagnosis?
Yeah, when I find out that someone has replaced my real coffee with decaf I start spewing obscenities, as well...
I used the vaccine as a metaphor to point out how unwanted hepatitis patients are there. I know that thre is no vaccine against C yet.
Are you still allowed to donate blood? As far as I know the Red Cross won't let anyone who has ever been in the same room as the label of a bottle of hepatitis C vaccine anywhere near them. I don't know whether A and B have similarly severe effects, but I went to school with a girl who went through hepatitis and as a result isn't allowed to donate blood for the rest of her life.
No, two syllables. Actually the full name is:
W (pronounced 'u') ii w ah ah ting tang walla walla bing bang
Gaming magazines have already agreed on shortening the name to "Nintendo WD".
Did you just Godwin the name of Nintendo's new console? Are they going to have to change to something else now?
And now we present to the world... the Nintendo Godwiin.
Actually, (being a native German speaker) I'd write the baby's cry "wäh" - although I'm implying the W there. Still, most people should understand it. Our culture has been americocentric for decades and as far as I know there is no phoneme in standard AmE that isn't widely spoken in Germany.
I think that as for German the name just sucks. It evokes entirely the wrong connotations - after all the German pronounciation of "Wii" is homonymous to "wie", which translates to "how". Naming your console like a question just begs for stupid remarks. And, sorry Nintendo, it doesn't really look that cute. In French and especially English "Wii" is a clever name, especially as the English interpretation implies that people are using the thing to play together, but in German the name implies just one thing: Confusion as to how.
And they don't even tell us how what.
What about the Ultra 64/Nintendo 64?
It's a 64 bit console from Nintendo. "Nintendo 64" is not a terribly unintuitive name there.
Almost? The IE dev team has Fucking Killed(TM) XHTML. XHTML is useless to the point where usually the only sensible approach is to just settle on plain HTML. And remember that IE7 will not support application/xhtml+xml either, so XHTML is dead and stays dead.
Usually my approach to fixing IE's horrible CSS support is to conditional comment in a style sheet that just ensures that the site is navigable. I don't care if it looks like ass and whether IE users have two scrollbars while everyone else has none. In the future I'll probably add a conditional comment that displays a box saying something along the lines of:
Even if you're into gaming a $50 NVidia will usually do the job unless you're one of those persons who think that anti-aliasing will miraculously turn a mediocre game into a good one. I bought my card at last year's Cebit for forty Euros (it's a noname Geforce FX5200) and I can still play most new games with most eye-candy active. Could, if my Cedega was working properly.
Everything above ~75 bucks is only for those people who actually believe that the more effects a game has the better it is. And, quite frankly, they deserve getting ripped off like that.
True. That's also why even though I think that Smells Terrific is great and quite funny most people won't get it. Then again most people wouldn't get most of what Olde English produces either.