For Instance, people "google" for YouTube video's all of the time. Even if you start out at bing.com and end up at youtube, Google is steering you to their search engine, which gives them more ad revenue. It is one of many less direct means that something like YouTube creates its value.
How many quick, one-off apps were EVER made in COBOL? And your description is also what you could say about C++, Object Pascal, *BASIC, Java,.NET Anything...
Also, VB WAS slow... to the already mentioned "retards". Most of the "slowness" came from constant string concatenation, using implicit type conversions, bad coding practices when instantiating forms with massive ActiveX baggage, Late Binding, COM/Marshaling Transparency, and about 100000 other things that all are avoided by competent people. Visual Basic made it VERY easy to run into these pitfalls and be completely unaware as to why. Blame the developer, however. Not the language.
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PHP is the "new VB". Visual Basic had the stigma that anyone who touched it was a retard and anything produced by it would be retarded. But just like PHP, it was because people with no coding background started with it. It does a whole lot of complicated things for you AND you can still find ways to shoot yourself and coworkers in the face. Ultimately though, if you truly were competent, you could produce some solid work. It's like racism, only toward developers of language X.
I will still run with noscript installed because I've yet to see a good XSS-preventing implementation that will allow *me*, as a user, to easily define what sites can run scripts on the sites I visit
Dude. How are *you* going to know that it is ok to run scripts on Slashdot.org that originate from slashdotscripts.com and not scriptsforslashdot.com? Even if you are a lunatic and micromanage the trusted sources of these scripts, how would selectively running any of them do you any good? I would imagine almost all sites are going to break horribly of you only enable HALF of the scripts, where flat out disabling them/running all scripts will give you a working site.
5. Thankfully the FTC and state attorney generals are trying to crack down on this sort of thing.
Are they? Why am I still seeing advertisements for Enzyte? They may cancel your "order" appropriately now, since owned by someone else now, but they still do exactly what you described... along with many others. It is not just on the Internet, it is on your TV. It is in your radio. It honestly seems like no one really gives a shit.
Exercise more. Sitting at a desk I can get my breathing down to almost nothing and my pulse down to 40. Do this for a year and your body becomes inefficient at getting oxygen into your system. Exercise and stretch your lungs. I do 50 pushups a day, and jogging on the weekend and it's changed my life.
I live in the American Gardens Building on W. 81st Street on the 11th floor. My name is Patrick Bateman. I'm 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself and a balanced diet and rigorous exercise routine. In the morning, if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing stomach crunches. I can do a thousand now. After I remove the ice pack I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower I use a water activated gel cleanser, then a honey almond body scrub, and on the face an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply an herb-mint facial mask which I leave on for 10 minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an after shave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion
I'll have a go. Darl McBride will come out of the woodwork and found to be an alien made robot. Now that his identity doesn't need to be hidden, he unleashes a genetically engineered plague that wipes out all of man kind... except for Hans Reiser. Together they forge an alliance and with the weapons taken from the RIAA, they wage a war against Heaven itself.
Which I don't really think is a bad thing in and of itself. If you can prove reasonably that someone downloaded MovieX, by all means, fine them 10x the going retail price. The trick is to go after people you KNOW committed copyright infringement. Not the maybe's. Not the torrent sites/Napster-like software producers.
So you are saying that your next door neighbor DOESN'T deserve to be covered because he has a Forrest Gump IQ and can only seem to hold down mundane minimum wage jobs?
Fact of the matter is, not everyone has the same opportunities. It isn't about how much "effort" you put into it. If no one informed you, life isn't fair and we all aren't on equal ground. By default no one person is more deserving than another. Measuring who deserves what, based on what opportunities are afforded to them is naive at best.
I hope a drunk hillbilly runs you off the road, you lose some limbs, a kidney, get a pin in your hip, and end up with 200k of medical bills and the inability to ever get out of your chair and do another bit of work to earn your pay for the rest of your life. Then when you get wheeled out of the hospital, I'd love to see the look on your face and reality sets in... that 200k was just for your stay... You have a lifetime of expensive medical needs... you will never have a job to pay for it all... there will never be enough charity to pay it all... and it wasn't your fault. At that moment, I will spit in your face. You deserve no less, sir.
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"bloat" - I do not think that word means what you think it means.
.NET is an ENTIRE platform. You likely could have a whole system where this is the only accessible API. Just like Java. Would you fault, say uTorrent, for having 40 megs of win32 dependencies?
This is the unfortunate case of a.NET application being apparently the only one in the core system, so it gets all of the weight of the dependency on Mono. However, when a few thousand applications in the system are.NET, that kind of a dependency is not even a second thought.
Did you read their patent claim? If you closed your eyes, had someone else read it to you, and you had no idea the company of which it came from, you would swear it was a Sun patent on Java/SOAP.
It is about the law of diminishing returns. It might sound cold. It might suck. But you really need to consider why Pizza Hut doesn't offer Pickle Chocolate pizza... The effort and cost to patronize the.01% of potential users just isn't worth it.
The AI of Elika was highly advanced and required a lot of processing power; the world size and dynamic loading, the draw distance, the number of polygons in the characters... If we had done a Wii version, it would have been toned down, probably linear; it wouldn't have been an open-world game, and so it would have been a very different experience."
Then the platform is not your target. The Wii isn't about pushing the latest fast hardware to its very limits, just so you can push a ridiculous amount of polygons per second onto the screen. It is about making games that are fun... and you can CERTAINLY do that within the confines of just about any machine. Remember the IBM XT? NES? Gameboy? Some of the best games I ever played had nothing but text, running on a 10mhz processor.
What is really sad is the increasing trend of LEGAL business models being dependent on misleading the customers.
You ever see that crap on TV "Try your free sample now! 30 day sample, FREE!!!". They tell you to verify you are over 18, you need a credit card. What they don't tell you, and what most people find out the hard way, is tucked away in your free samples informational booklet that you will never read is that when you ordered this free sample, you agreed to a monthly, recurring renewal of this product.
Ever want to try out a gym like Bally's? You know, where they offer you an introductory rate at almost nothing for a month? Yeah, about that. If you don't pay attention, then you forfeit your trial status if you don't appear at the gym something like 5x a week for that month, or you automatically become a "standard member" with all fee's and penalties applicable.
Ever seen a Cici's pizza, where they advertise their buffet for "Five Dollars and some change"? That is actually $5.99, without a drink, and if you are using anything but cash, you get nailed by a $1 "fee" for using their debit/credit machine. By the time you figure this out, you already have your family at the register, ready to eat. A little hard to back out then.
Some of these are more obvious than others, but the point is, we gave them an inch, and they took more than a mile. It is total bullshit and it is only getting worse.
I'm sorry. While I agree that reading a contract of any merit is important before agreeing to it, some EULA's are DOZENS of pages. I have two colleagues who's whole job is solely to read and interpret EULA's for software that has potential of being purchased. Combine these two things, with the affirmation that you can screw end users by hiding fees in the EULA and you are asking for absolute disaster. It shouldn't be allowed at all.
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For Instance, people "google" for YouTube video's all of the time. Even if you start out at bing.com and end up at youtube, Google is steering you to their search engine, which gives them more ad revenue. It is one of many less direct means that something like YouTube creates its value.
How many quick, one-off apps were EVER made in COBOL? And your description is also what you could say about C++, Object Pascal, *BASIC, Java, .NET Anything...
Also, VB WAS slow... to the already mentioned "retards". Most of the "slowness" came from constant string concatenation, using implicit type conversions, bad coding practices when instantiating forms with massive ActiveX baggage, Late Binding, COM/Marshaling Transparency, and about 100000 other things that all are avoided by competent people. Visual Basic made it VERY easy to run into these pitfalls and be completely unaware as to why. Blame the developer, however. Not the language.
PHP is the "new VB". Visual Basic had the stigma that anyone who touched it was a retard and anything produced by it would be retarded. But just like PHP, it was because people with no coding background started with it. It does a whole lot of complicated things for you AND you can still find ways to shoot yourself and coworkers in the face. Ultimately though, if you truly were competent, you could produce some solid work. It's like racism, only toward developers of language X.
I will still run with noscript installed because I've yet to see a good XSS-preventing implementation that will allow *me*, as a user, to easily define what sites can run scripts on the sites I visit
Dude. How are *you* going to know that it is ok to run scripts on Slashdot.org that originate from slashdotscripts.com and not scriptsforslashdot.com? Even if you are a lunatic and micromanage the trusted sources of these scripts, how would selectively running any of them do you any good? I would imagine almost all sites are going to break horribly of you only enable HALF of the scripts, where flat out disabling them/running all scripts will give you a working site.
5. Thankfully the FTC and state attorney generals are trying to crack down on this sort of thing.
Are they? Why am I still seeing advertisements for Enzyte? They may cancel your "order" appropriately now, since owned by someone else now, but they still do exactly what you described... along with many others. It is not just on the Internet, it is on your TV. It is in your radio. It honestly seems like no one really gives a shit.
Exercise more. Sitting at a desk I can get my breathing down to almost nothing and my pulse down to 40. Do this for a year and your body becomes inefficient at getting oxygen into your system. Exercise and stretch your lungs. I do 50 pushups a day, and jogging on the weekend and it's changed my life.
I live in the American Gardens Building on W. 81st Street on the 11th floor. My name is Patrick Bateman. I'm 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself and a balanced diet and rigorous exercise routine. In the morning, if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing stomach crunches. I can do a thousand now. After I remove the ice pack I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower I use a water activated gel cleanser, then a honey almond body scrub, and on the face an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply an herb-mint facial mask which I leave on for 10 minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an after shave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion
I'll have a go. Darl McBride will come out of the woodwork and found to be an alien made robot. Now that his identity doesn't need to be hidden, he unleashes a genetically engineered plague that wipes out all of man kind... except for Hans Reiser. Together they forge an alliance and with the weapons taken from the RIAA, they wage a war against Heaven itself.
you can't keep a business going if the sole source of income is from court cases
There is about a billion law firms out there that beg to differ
Yeah, no kidding. I was wondering where Chowder and Schnitzel were
Which I don't really think is a bad thing in and of itself. If you can prove reasonably that someone downloaded MovieX, by all means, fine them 10x the going retail price. The trick is to go after people you KNOW committed copyright infringement. Not the maybe's. Not the torrent sites/Napster-like software producers.
Pffft. If people cared the facts, we'd have little to talk about here and action movies would be 10 minutes long.
So you are saying that your next door neighbor DOESN'T deserve to be covered because he has a Forrest Gump IQ and can only seem to hold down mundane minimum wage jobs?
Fact of the matter is, not everyone has the same opportunities. It isn't about how much "effort" you put into it. If no one informed you, life isn't fair and we all aren't on equal ground. By default no one person is more deserving than another. Measuring who deserves what, based on what opportunities are afforded to them is naive at best.
I hope a drunk hillbilly runs you off the road, you lose some limbs, a kidney, get a pin in your hip, and end up with 200k of medical bills and the inability to ever get out of your chair and do another bit of work to earn your pay for the rest of your life. Then when you get wheeled out of the hospital, I'd love to see the look on your face and reality sets in... that 200k was just for your stay... You have a lifetime of expensive medical needs... you will never have a job to pay for it all... there will never be enough charity to pay it all... and it wasn't your fault. At that moment, I will spit in your face. You deserve no less, sir.
Except when your backup server uses RAID...
DNSMasq. Nuff said.
Ick, you have to ask? For starters it's a round parenthesis language like C, Java, and other icky goo.
Use VBScript. Problem Solved.
"bloat" - I do not think that word means what you think it means.
.NET application being apparently the only one in the core system, so it gets all of the weight of the dependency on Mono. However, when a few thousand applications in the system are .NET, that kind of a dependency is not even a second thought.
.NET is an ENTIRE platform. You likely could have a whole system where this is the only accessible API. Just like Java. Would you fault, say uTorrent, for having 40 megs of win32 dependencies?
This is the unfortunate case of a
Did you read their patent claim? If you closed your eyes, had someone else read it to you, and you had no idea the company of which it came from, you would swear it was a Sun patent on Java/SOAP.
It is about the law of diminishing returns. It might sound cold. It might suck. But you really need to consider why Pizza Hut doesn't offer Pickle Chocolate pizza... The effort and cost to patronize the .01% of potential users just isn't worth it.
Well, whoever compiled this DVD chose to blur the faces out, presumably for reasons of political correctness.
Had they left it in, as is, then there would have been 100 folks offended for every one of the folks that would be offended by the blurred faces.
Welcome to human nature. You can't please everyone.
The AI of Elika was highly advanced and required a lot of processing power; the world size and dynamic loading, the draw distance, the number of polygons in the characters... If we had done a Wii version, it would have been toned down, probably linear; it wouldn't have been an open-world game, and so it would have been a very different experience."
Then the platform is not your target. The Wii isn't about pushing the latest fast hardware to its very limits, just so you can push a ridiculous amount of polygons per second onto the screen. It is about making games that are fun... and you can CERTAINLY do that within the confines of just about any machine. Remember the IBM XT? NES? Gameboy? Some of the best games I ever played had nothing but text, running on a 10mhz processor.
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What is really sad is the increasing trend of LEGAL business models being dependent on misleading the customers.
You ever see that crap on TV "Try your free sample now! 30 day sample, FREE!!!". They tell you to verify you are over 18, you need a credit card. What they don't tell you, and what most people find out the hard way, is tucked away in your free samples informational booklet that you will never read is that when you ordered this free sample, you agreed to a monthly, recurring renewal of this product.
Ever want to try out a gym like Bally's? You know, where they offer you an introductory rate at almost nothing for a month? Yeah, about that. If you don't pay attention, then you forfeit your trial status if you don't appear at the gym something like 5x a week for that month, or you automatically become a "standard member" with all fee's and penalties applicable.
Ever seen a Cici's pizza, where they advertise their buffet for "Five Dollars and some change"? That is actually $5.99, without a drink, and if you are using anything but cash, you get nailed by a $1 "fee" for using their debit/credit machine. By the time you figure this out, you already have your family at the register, ready to eat. A little hard to back out then.
Some of these are more obvious than others, but the point is, we gave them an inch, and they took more than a mile. It is total bullshit and it is only getting worse.
I'm sorry. While I agree that reading a contract of any merit is important before agreeing to it, some EULA's are DOZENS of pages. I have two colleagues who's whole job is solely to read and interpret EULA's for software that has potential of being purchased. Combine these two things, with the affirmation that you can screw end users by hiding fees in the EULA and you are asking for absolute disaster. It shouldn't be allowed at all.
Preferably something NOT to do with Cars, Robots, or Tools.