Yeah, I'd say you did a pretty good job of summing up my points.
I know of no Asian efforts to maintain a satellite-based internet venture; most countries in Asia have population densities that would enable them to retain their ground-based infrastructure. Because of the respective countries' laws regarding trade with North Korea, no vendor in Japan or South Korea will sell them a pipe to North Korean government.
I don't know of any either, but considering that alot of business gets done in Asia, there must be a market for such a service. I'm sure there is a business willing to fill this niche, even if at a high cost. I would be very surprised if there was not a single satellite company providing internet access over asia willing to sell North Korea internet access. I'm sure that your right about the laws of Japan and South Korea not allowing trade with NK, but not all corporations doing business in Asia follow the laws of those two countries. And China, which im sure launches satellites over asia all the time definately doesn't. I also maintain that China would not cut off North Korea's internet access at America's request. Hell before Bush came to office and screwed up our "cameras in North Korean nuclear power plants" deal China was considered one of our most dangerous "enemies". What has changed?
Considering how outdated even Soviet command and control systems were with regards to networking them, yes, I do seriously doubt North Korean Army to have anything remotely like what the American government has given their soldiers. Infrastructure-grade routers and such are surprisingly expensive, and given that they cannot afford to buy latest jets or keep their populace fed without outside aid, I doubt their capability to maintain a large infrastructure-grade network connection.
North Korea has shown on countless times that it is quite willing to let its people starve while spending phat cash on its military. Technology and networking equipment only get cheaper with time. I'm somewhat surprised that Soviet Russia did not have a good military network, but before the 1990s (about when the USSR collapsed?) they were certainly not alone. Networking equipment has become much cheaper since then. Also, the late 1990s was a buyers market for networking equipment on account of the tech downturn. I wouldn't be surprised if North Korea picked up some Cisco routers on the cheap from the many company liquidation auctions which were happening at the time.
You have insulted your parent poster, now I will insult you. it is the way of/.
You know precisely jack shit about networking. Why do post an "informative" correction about a subject you know nothing about?
Yes, the internet can route around specific failures, but it still has to go over some kind of physical link, and there are only a limited number of those going to North Korea. The internet is not some magical data genie that can take your bits anywhere, it requires a lot of infrastructure to get those bits from your house to Slashdot or China. We might like to think of the internet as a land of pure data and information, but it cannot exist without the physical layer.
You are a dumbshit. Ever hear of wireless networks? You can get satellite internet access for $100 a month. Even if there was no such thing as wireless magic data genie it would be impossible to cut off North Korea from the internet. Its not exactly rocket science to just bury miles and miles of cable all over the place. Incidentally, rocket science is a field which North Korea has been getting much better at lately. And no, we could not get China to cut North Korea's physical internet connections. You also do not know anything about international affairs.
Perhaps you're used to a western country like the U.S. or Europe, where you can get a net connection anywhere and it has multiple redundant paths, but that is not what North Korea is like. North Korea probobly has less bandwidth going in and out than most major universities in the west.
The Internet started as a military program. Do you actually doubt that North Korea's million man military has not built a world class network? Do you doubt that this incredibally expensive and vital network is not capable of carrying tcp/ip traffic?
As a side note to anyone that actually takes the "hacker school" threat seriously: If corperations or governments are not capable protecting their networks from 600 "hackers" who had never even been on the internet before they got a job in the government then their networks have probably already been hacked repeatedly. I don't care how smart Koreans are, they can't compete with real hackers who have grown up using the hardware.
How about Kerry Cheating during the debates?
If the RNC can't win then they at least muddy the waters. This story is how the RNC will seak to minimize the impact of Bush being completely unprepared for a real debate, extremely repetative with canned lines, and at times barely coherent. By saying that Kerry cheated they can both change the subject and make people think, "oh, so that's why Bush looked like such an idiot." It is the perfect way to distract people from how disturbing it is that the freaking President *can't* talk in depth about foreign policy because he simply doesn't understand it. Too bad Bush couldn't have Cheney by his side in the debate like during his testimony to the 9/11 commision.
Nope, wont see that one here, but lets post old news instead about something that the CIA did, and blah blah blah... so it continues.
Yeah, when somebody comes at you with useless facts about blatant corruption, fraud, and incompetence just remember: Kerry cheated in the debate.
That said you bring up some interesting points and make a good argument. It's bullshit that somebody modded you down. Talk about proveing your point!
World Homicide Rates per 100,000 population.
In 2000.
50.14 South Africa
21.40 Russia (1999)
10.00 Lithuania
_9.94 Estonia
_6.22 Latvia _5.64 U.S.A.
_2.94 Spain
_2.86 Finland
A total of 5 nations in the world have a higher homocide rate than us. Wow, I'm impressed that we only have the 5th highest homocide rate in the world. It sure is worth locking up so many nonviolent drug offenders and other thought criminals. In fact, I'm glad to live in a country where everyone is a criminal for one reason or another. Of course only some are prosecuted for the crimes which we all commit but I'm sure they are chosen fairly.
You have no idea what you talking about.
Clearly.
Our criminal justice system is effective, and it is a hallmark of a fair and equitable country.
Yeah, I sure get kick out of any system that can ruin the lives of young people with pointless posession convictions while letting a (well connected) former cokehead off the hook so he could become President and push the whole process one step further.
It's great that your coworker's sister in law got such great care. What do you say to the millions of people who work hard their whole lives only to die of something suptid that could have been prevented if only they had some basic tests done a few months ago. Do you know what basic care means? It means that if you are in the process of dieing (quickly, as in bleeding to death) they will do what they can to save your life. So sure you can stumble into an emergency room with multiple gunshot wounds and expect medical treatment but not much else. In many countries working for a living while not having access to a real doctor and medical care would be an outrage.
It's time for a little perspective:
And it still is a bastion of nearly unparelled freedom despite scare tactics and the internet-echo chamber of naysayings and phantoms of liberties lost.
The USA (call it "freedom" land if you want) has the HIGHEST encarceration rate (% of population in jail) of any nation. Does that sounds like a bastion of unparalleled freedom to you? It would almost be funny if it wasn't so sad.
Thanks for the explanation. For every day writing I'll probably be sticking with Word but the math functions you demonstrated are better than anything I have seen before. I've always wondered how my professors created those slick handouts. I will definately be learning more about LaTeX.
I guess we will have to agree to disagree on what makes a good word processor. To me the ability to edit all aspects of the document including spreadsheets and charts from within the word processor itself is vital. I can understand why you disagree and i'm sure LaTeX is a really cool program (i'll probably try it some time) but the features I'm describing are requirements for very many people including myself. Until you can actually click on a cell in a spreadsheet in LaTeX to change its value (there are other advantages to truly embedding a spreadsheed in a.doc) it will never be able to replace Word.
Graphing doesn't belong in a word processor any more than bitmap-creation does--it belongs in a graphing program.
There seems to be a recurring theme in posts comparing Windows/Office to their open source counterparts. If a feature is implemented by MS but not by the free alternative than that the feature is really there, just in a different (better;) form. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy cobbling together the output of several different programs as much as the next guy but this is rediculous. Saying that features *don't* belong in a word processor, and that therefore the OSS word processor is just as good as MS's actually strikes me as a little sad.
Haveing used MS Word's spreadsheet, grahing and drawing tools on countless occasions I can't understand why somebody wouldn't want these features in their word processor unless they never use them. It's often useful to have full-fledged spreadsheets/charts embedded in your document that can be modified without a whole lot of copying, pasting,and reformating.
Though I agree with the sentiment, we've been around this block a million times.
Just going for one more lap.
Don't buy it. Let the people who do enjoy it. In the mean time, let's talk about something a little more up-beat I should stop and smell the roses a little more often.
This is the same sort of spinster crap that spawns movies like Outfoxed!, where the filmmaker actually zooms in on a split-screen interview so that all you see is the Republican, and then claims that only Republicans appear on the show! Or quotes a reporter praising someone in the Bush administration, meanwhile without showing you the full footage where the reporter is actually quoting someone from the Bush administration. To the world of the extreme left, anything popular that isn't leftist is suddenly a Republican conspiracy.
Have you seen Outfoxed (not heard about on Fox News)? I defy you to find one inaccuracy on a single point made in that movie. I don't mean "I can't believe they zoomed in on the republican". These arguments about the style of the movie instead of its arguments is how the Right sidesteps sooo many valid points. When John Kerry gets pissed about, as Jon Stewart put it, "The ironically named swiftboat veterans for truth, which are neither swift, nor truthful" the Right only says that since there are 527s on the left that John Kerry is flipflopping or some such nonsense. Kerry isn't attacking republican 527s, he is attacking one specific Bush campaign directed (there are proven links) smear campaign to discredit Kerry's war record. You can never have a straight argument with these guys. They build straw-men like they have a crow problem.
If F/911 can be said to be not a documentary it is because he doesn't actually really document anything. It's just him talking over CNN and fox news footage for two hours.
F/911 is in large part about CNN and Fox news. He argues that the people were intentionally lied to by the Bush administration reguarding Iraq and 911. The neoconservatives' used the "news" channels (CNN is now "news" though not as bad as Fox) to fool the nation (or part of it;).
More than 50% of Americans believe Iraq was involved in 911 (and WMD) due to a televised misinformation campaign by the Bush administration. The Bush administration's official ass-saving line is that there was no link. Now Bush can cover his own ass (to people dumb enough to believe him) by saying that he never said that Iraq did 911. He didn't have to use those words himself, but simply get the "news" channels to do it for him. I think the "news" channels deserve their prominant place in F/911
Personally, I thought Moore's movie was good though at times emotionally over the top. I just got Outfoxed: Rupert Murdock's War on Journalism off netflix. It is a documentary mostly composed of clips from Fox News Channel with additional commentary by former FNC employees detailing how the Republican talking points got a 24 hour "news" channel. Outfoxed is a more traditional documentary than F/911 and I think more effective at proving its point.
If Rio wants to win, they need to make an H2... something even more elite and ostentatious than the iPod.
The Cadillac of mp3 players.
In case you didn't get the joke, it's because Caddys and H2s are incredibly tacky. People who try to be elite and ostentatious frequently end up with rediculous. Nothing quite like the understated beauty of a BMW.
what you said is totally unrelated to reality.
grow up.
B: why not have the system just FIGURE IT OUT, for itself. makes sense to me.
Because Windows is already unsecure enough as it is. There was an mp3 virus a article a couple months ago that only worked on macs because Windows does not allow any.mp3 to be.exe so to speak. This is important. I like to be able to doubleclick on certain filetypes with no fear of the consequences.
its stupid to have a system that relies on an arbitrary three letters at the end of a name.
What if a.mp3 was really a.doc with a malitious macro? Doubleclick on "supercool.mp3" and youll be spamming your entire outlook contact list with "supercool.mp3"... You would look pretty stupid.
File extensions do not suck. I like to know that my.mp3 is not going to.exe. It's easy enough to drag a file over the icon for Windows Media Player or Winamp. Btw, if you havent already turned off "hide extensions for known file types" (in tool/folder options/view) I suggest you do it now. Then you can just rename the file extension to.mpg and let Media Player figure it out.
I never said OSs should not be taught, just that an OS choice does not make the programmer. As for how unpleasent it would be to clean up my code, I've just spent all summmer cleaning up the code of people who know a hell of alot more about UNIX than I do. Loops are a unifying concept of CS. Without loops CS would just be logic. You aren't just ignorant. you are also dick. Now if you will excuse me, I need to finish this prog. before Charley hits Tampa (on the last day of my internship).
Fuck are you clueless. Please be honest, you have never been near a decent CS department, have you? Loops, for crying out loud.
loops are what got me into cs in the first place (read around 3rd grade). btw I use Perl & Solaris at work but on my own time I prefer c++ & visual studio on (ghasp) Windows. My personal projects have lots of numerical analysis and almost no system calls. Sorry that I care more about my own program's internal logic than teh os it runs on. Of course Windows fans are teh suck. all praise be to linux, obviously the most important part of a well written program. suck my balls. I think a good cs program teaches the underlying concepts of cs (logic/loops/recursion) leaving the choice of language/os to the programmer.
I pray you use something other than Microsoft Windows?
Why? Computer Science has nothing to do with operating systems. CS was here before transisters, before UNIX, before Windows, and before Linux fanboys. I taught myself to program using Q-BASIC which came with MS DOS. I'm sure that this will shock all the people who think that CS has more to do with FUD than logic. CS is a state of mind which bases itself in logic, especially loops. A true CS geek cares more about the language than the OS.
Really, how can you take pot shots claiming Windows users can't be CS majors? I grew up on DOS and Windows and it is still my OS of choice for most things. If I need a webserver easy choice is some UNIX/linux but other than that I prefer Windows.
You are right that CS is a good idea for the right person but you have no clue about the right reasons.
I'm a bit disappointed that I couldn't buy a nokia this time but they just didn't have what I was looking for. I hope that when I buy next phone (1.5 years left on contract) I can get a Nokia. I'm not sure what has gotten into Nokia lately but there phones are going the wrong direction in terms of size. Smaller is better. Buttons in a semi-circle is stupid. Put a compact flash mp3 player in a tiny phone phone and you will own the market.
What do you recommend happen if Flash has an exploit?
I expect you might start by not installing Flash by default.
The Mozilla developer's shouldn't be babysitting the Windows OS.
It seems like common sense to me never hand any web content off to Windows. I may be a huge fan of WinXP but even I will admit that it isn't secure. So if by "babysit" you mean "program for" then I think thats the right approach. Seriously, if I was writing a web browser for Windows, no content would be passed straight to Windows without user intervention.
Obviously Windows has flaws and bugs. Is it the job of programmers to gripe and complain about these flaws or is it their job to deal with them? Again I ask, does Opera have this flaw?
Is there anything similar in opera? Same old Netscap bullshit, blame Microsoft for your problems. Ohhh! its so hard to write a web browser that doesn't have this security flaw. A web browser should never implement a protocol like this. This is not a plugin if it is standard in the browser. It is bad design. Windows' unsecure nature is the ENVIRONMENT. The job of the web programmer is to develop for whatever environment they plan on running the software on. If Windows is so insecure by its nature than why not program so that the OS's underlying security is not a factor for your web browser?
Aww fuck it, just blame Microsoft.
Actually Stepford Wives is more Park Cities, about 40 minutes away, inside of Dallas around Southern Methodist University. It has the only (or first?) school system in nation that avoided desegregation by simply declining federal money. More to the point, the houses and the women are all picturesque. The rest of the area is more down to earth Texan. The high standard of living is mostly a product of the tech industry's good wages. hooray! Now ask yourself if a geek could stand a Stepford Wife, or if a Stepford Wife would stand a geek.
Once while working as a shelfmonkey at K-Mart, I was summoned by a cashier to translate for a spanish speaking customer. I knew the only two relevent questions the customer might ask so I asked for them:(paraphrasing)
How long is the manufacturer's warrenty? 90 days.
How long is the protection plan? 90 days.
Being fluent in Spanish I had no trouble explaining to the customer exactly what the "protection plan" entailed.
When the customer asked if they should get it I smiled and said no. I was never asked to translate the "protection plan" again:-)
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Yeah, I'd say you did a pretty good job of summing up my points.
I know of no Asian efforts to maintain a satellite-based internet venture; most countries in Asia have population densities that would enable them to retain their ground-based infrastructure. Because of the respective countries' laws regarding trade with North Korea, no vendor in Japan or South Korea will sell them a pipe to North Korean government.
I don't know of any either, but considering that alot of business gets done in Asia, there must be a market for such a service. I'm sure there is a business willing to fill this niche, even if at a high cost. I would be very surprised if there was not a single satellite company providing internet access over asia willing to sell North Korea internet access. I'm sure that your right about the laws of Japan and South Korea not allowing trade with NK, but not all corporations doing business in Asia follow the laws of those two countries. And China, which im sure launches satellites over asia all the time definately doesn't. I also maintain that China would not cut off North Korea's internet access at America's request. Hell before Bush came to office and screwed up our "cameras in North Korean nuclear power plants" deal China was considered one of our most dangerous "enemies". What has changed?
Considering how outdated even Soviet command and control systems were with regards to networking them, yes, I do seriously doubt North Korean Army to have anything remotely like what the American government has given their soldiers. Infrastructure-grade routers and such are surprisingly expensive, and given that they cannot afford to buy latest jets or keep their populace fed without outside aid, I doubt their capability to maintain a large infrastructure-grade network connection.
North Korea has shown on countless times that it is quite willing to let its people starve while spending phat cash on its military. Technology and networking equipment only get cheaper with time. I'm somewhat surprised that Soviet Russia did not have a good military network, but before the 1990s (about when the USSR collapsed?) they were certainly not alone. Networking equipment has become much cheaper since then. Also, the late 1990s was a buyers market for networking equipment on account of the tech downturn. I wouldn't be surprised if North Korea picked up some Cisco routers on the cheap from the many company liquidation auctions which were happening at the time.
I think you're the doofus here.
/.
You have insulted your parent poster, now I will insult you. it is the way of
You know precisely jack shit about networking. Why do post an "informative" correction about a subject you know nothing about?
Yes, the internet can route around specific failures, but it still has to go over some kind of physical link, and there are only a limited number of those going to North Korea. The internet is not some magical data genie that can take your bits anywhere, it requires a lot of infrastructure to get those bits from your house to Slashdot or China. We might like to think of the internet as a land of pure data and information, but it cannot exist without the physical layer.
You are a dumbshit. Ever hear of wireless networks? You can get satellite internet access for $100 a month. Even if there was no such thing as wireless magic data genie it would be impossible to cut off North Korea from the internet. Its not exactly rocket science to just bury miles and miles of cable all over the place. Incidentally, rocket science is a field which North Korea has been getting much better at lately. And no, we could not get China to cut North Korea's physical internet connections. You also do not know anything about international affairs.
Perhaps you're used to a western country like the U.S. or Europe, where you can get a net connection anywhere and it has multiple redundant paths, but that is not what North Korea is like. North Korea probobly has less bandwidth going in and out than most major universities in the west.
The Internet started as a military program. Do you actually doubt that North Korea's million man military has not built a world class network? Do you doubt that this incredibally expensive and vital network is not capable of carrying tcp/ip traffic?
As a side note to anyone that actually takes the "hacker school" threat seriously: If corperations or governments are not capable protecting their networks from 600 "hackers" who had never even been on the internet before they got a job in the government then their networks have probably already been hacked repeatedly. I don't care how smart Koreans are, they can't compete with real hackers who have grown up using the hardware.
How about Kerry Cheating during the debates?
If the RNC can't win then they at least muddy the waters. This story is how the RNC will seak to minimize the impact of Bush being completely unprepared for a real debate, extremely repetative with canned lines, and at times barely coherent. By saying that Kerry cheated they can both change the subject and make people think, "oh, so that's why Bush looked like such an idiot." It is the perfect way to distract people from how disturbing it is that the freaking President *can't* talk in depth about foreign policy because he simply doesn't understand it. Too bad Bush couldn't have Cheney by his side in the debate like during his testimony to the 9/11 commision.
Nope, wont see that one here, but lets post old news instead about something that the CIA did, and blah blah blah... so it continues.
Yeah, when somebody comes at you with useless facts about blatant corruption, fraud, and incompetence just remember: Kerry cheated in the debate.
That said you bring up some interesting points and make a good argument. It's bullshit that somebody modded you down. Talk about proveing your point!
I did the research as you asked.
World Homicide Rates per 100,000 population. In 2000.
50.14 South Africa
21.40 Russia (1999)
10.00 Lithuania
_9.94 Estonia
_6.22 Latvia
_5.64 U.S.A.
_2.94 Spain
_2.86 Finland
A total of 5 nations in the world have a higher homocide rate than us. Wow, I'm impressed that we only have the 5th highest homocide rate in the world. It sure is worth locking up so many nonviolent drug offenders and other thought criminals. In fact, I'm glad to live in a country where everyone is a criminal for one reason or another. Of course only some are prosecuted for the crimes which we all commit but I'm sure they are chosen fairly.
You have no idea what you talking about.
Clearly.
Our criminal justice system is effective, and it is a hallmark of a fair and equitable country.
Yeah, I sure get kick out of any system that can ruin the lives of young people with pointless posession convictions while letting a (well connected) former cokehead off the hook so he could become President and push the whole process one step further.
Justice? Wake up!
It's great that your coworker's sister in law got such great care. What do you say to the millions of people who work hard their whole lives only to die of something suptid that could have been prevented if only they had some basic tests done a few months ago. Do you know what basic care means? It means that if you are in the process of dieing (quickly, as in bleeding to death) they will do what they can to save your life. So sure you can stumble into an emergency room with multiple gunshot wounds and expect medical treatment but not much else. In many countries working for a living while not having access to a real doctor and medical care would be an outrage.
It's time for a little perspective:
And it still is a bastion of nearly unparelled freedom despite scare tactics and the internet-echo chamber of naysayings and phantoms of liberties lost.
The USA (call it "freedom" land if you want) has the HIGHEST encarceration rate (% of population in jail) of any nation. Does that sounds like a bastion of unparalleled freedom to you? It would almost be funny if it wasn't so sad.
Thanks for the explanation. For every day writing I'll probably be sticking with Word but the math functions you demonstrated are better than anything I have seen before. I've always wondered how my professors created those slick handouts. I will definately be learning more about LaTeX.
I guess we will have to agree to disagree on what makes a good word processor. To me the ability to edit all aspects of the document including spreadsheets and charts from within the word processor itself is vital. I can understand why you disagree and i'm sure LaTeX is a really cool program (i'll probably try it some time) but the features I'm describing are requirements for very many people including myself. Until you can actually click on a cell in a spreadsheet in LaTeX to change its value (there are other advantages to truly embedding a spreadsheed in a .doc) it will never be able to replace Word.
Graphing doesn't belong in a word processor any more than bitmap-creation does--it belongs in a graphing program.
There seems to be a recurring theme in posts comparing Windows/Office to their open source counterparts. If a feature is implemented by MS but not by the free alternative than that the feature is really there, just in a different (better;) form. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy cobbling together the output of several different programs as much as the next guy but this is rediculous. Saying that features *don't* belong in a word processor, and that therefore the OSS word processor is just as good as MS's actually strikes me as a little sad.
Haveing used MS Word's spreadsheet, grahing and drawing tools on countless occasions I can't understand why somebody wouldn't want these features in their word processor unless they never use them. It's often useful to have full-fledged spreadsheets/charts embedded in your document that can be modified without a whole lot of copying, pasting,and reformating.
Though I agree with the sentiment, we've been around this block a million times.
Just going for one more lap.
Don't buy it. Let the people who do enjoy it. In the mean time, let's talk about something a little more up-beat
I should stop and smell the roses a little more often.
Go for it George Lucas. Ruin all of your movies.
This is the same sort of spinster crap that spawns movies like Outfoxed!, where the filmmaker actually zooms in on a split-screen interview so that all you see is the Republican, and then claims that only Republicans appear on the show! Or quotes a reporter praising someone in the Bush administration, meanwhile without showing you the full footage where the reporter is actually quoting someone from the Bush administration. To the world of the extreme left, anything popular that isn't leftist is suddenly a Republican conspiracy.
Have you seen Outfoxed (not heard about on Fox News)? I defy you to find one inaccuracy on a single point made in that movie. I don't mean "I can't believe they zoomed in on the republican". These arguments about the style of the movie instead of its arguments is how the Right sidesteps sooo many valid points. When John Kerry gets pissed about, as Jon Stewart put it, "The ironically named swiftboat veterans for truth, which are neither swift, nor truthful" the Right only says that since there are 527s on the left that John Kerry is flipflopping or some such nonsense. Kerry isn't attacking republican 527s, he is attacking one specific Bush campaign directed (there are proven links) smear campaign to discredit Kerry's war record. You can never have a straight argument with these guys. They build straw-men like they have a crow problem.
If F/911 can be said to be not a documentary it is because he doesn't actually really document anything. It's just him talking over CNN and fox news footage for two hours.
;).
F/911 is in large part about CNN and Fox news. He argues that the people were intentionally lied to by the Bush administration reguarding Iraq and 911. The neoconservatives' used the "news" channels (CNN is now "news" though not as bad as Fox) to fool the nation (or part of it
More than 50% of Americans believe Iraq was involved in 911 (and WMD) due to a televised misinformation campaign by the Bush administration. The Bush administration's official ass-saving line is that there was no link. Now Bush can cover his own ass (to people dumb enough to believe him) by saying that he never said that Iraq did 911. He didn't have to use those words himself, but simply get the "news" channels to do it for him. I think the "news" channels deserve their prominant place in F/911
Personally, I thought Moore's movie was good though at times emotionally over the top. I just got Outfoxed: Rupert Murdock's War on Journalism off netflix. It is a documentary mostly composed of clips from Fox News Channel with additional commentary by former FNC employees detailing how the Republican talking points got a 24 hour "news" channel. Outfoxed is a more traditional documentary than F/911 and I think more effective at proving its point.
If Rio wants to win, they need to make an H2... something even more elite and ostentatious than the iPod.
The Cadillac of mp3 players.
In case you didn't get the joke, it's because Caddys and H2s are incredibly tacky. People who try to be elite and ostentatious frequently end up with rediculous. Nothing quite like the understated beauty of a BMW.
what you said is totally unrelated to reality.
.mp3 to be .exe so to speak. This is important. I like to be able to doubleclick on certain filetypes with no fear of the consequences.
.mp3 was really a .doc with a malitious macro? Doubleclick on "supercool.mp3" and youll be spamming your entire outlook contact list with "supercool.mp3"... You would look pretty stupid.
grow up.
B: why not have the system just FIGURE IT OUT, for itself. makes sense to me.
Because Windows is already unsecure enough as it is. There was an mp3 virus a article a couple months ago that only worked on macs because Windows does not allow any
its stupid to have a system that relies on an arbitrary three letters at the end of a name.
What if a
File extensions do not suck. I like to know that my .mp3 is not going to .exe. It's easy enough to drag a file over the icon for Windows Media Player or Winamp. Btw, if you havent already turned off "hide extensions for known file types" (in tool/folder options/view) I suggest you do it now. Then you can just rename the file extension to .mpg and let Media Player figure it out.
I never said OSs should not be taught, just that an OS choice does not make the programmer. As for how unpleasent it would be to clean up my code, I've just spent all summmer cleaning up the code of people who know a hell of alot more about UNIX than I do. Loops are a unifying concept of CS. Without loops CS would just be logic. You aren't just ignorant. you are also dick. Now if you will excuse me, I need to finish this prog. before Charley hits Tampa (on the last day of my internship).
Fuck are you clueless. Please be honest, you have never been near a decent CS department, have you? Loops, for crying out loud.
loops are what got me into cs in the first place (read around 3rd grade). btw I use Perl & Solaris at work but on my own time I prefer c++ & visual studio on (ghasp) Windows. My personal projects have lots of numerical analysis and almost no system calls. Sorry that I care more about my own program's internal logic than teh os it runs on. Of course Windows fans are teh suck. all praise be to linux, obviously the most important part of a well written program. suck my balls. I think a good cs program teaches the underlying concepts of cs (logic/loops/recursion) leaving the choice of language/os to the programmer.
sigh...
I pray you use something other than Microsoft Windows?
Why? Computer Science has nothing to do with operating systems. CS was here before transisters, before UNIX, before Windows, and before Linux fanboys. I taught myself to program using Q-BASIC which came with MS DOS. I'm sure that this will shock all the people who think that CS has more to do with FUD than logic. CS is a state of mind which bases itself in logic, especially loops. A true CS geek cares more about the language than the OS.
Really, how can you take pot shots claiming Windows users can't be CS majors? I grew up on DOS and Windows and it is still my OS of choice for most things. If I need a webserver easy choice is some UNIX/linux but other than that I prefer Windows.
You are right that CS is a good idea for the right person but you have no clue about the right reasons.
Seriously pal, your not doing your profession any favors here.
Cell phone user cares about two things: One, the phone looks good to them, and right now this means flip phones.
My last phone My current phone
If you ask me these phones look good.
I'm a bit disappointed that I couldn't buy a nokia this time but they just didn't have what I was looking for. I hope that when I buy next phone (1.5 years left on contract) I can get a Nokia. I'm not sure what has gotten into Nokia lately but there phones are going the wrong direction in terms of size. Smaller is better. Buttons in a semi-circle is stupid. Put a compact flash mp3 player in a tiny phone phone and you will own the market.
What do you recommend happen if Flash has an exploit?
I expect you might start by not installing Flash by default.
The Mozilla developer's shouldn't be babysitting the Windows OS.
It seems like common sense to me never hand any web content off to Windows. I may be a huge fan of WinXP but even I will admit that it isn't secure. So if by "babysit" you mean "program for" then I think thats the right approach. Seriously, if I was writing a web browser for Windows, no content would be passed straight to Windows without user intervention.
Obviously Windows has flaws and bugs. Is it the job of programmers to gripe and complain about these flaws or is it their job to deal with them? Again I ask, does Opera have this flaw?
Is there anything similar in opera?
Same old Netscap bullshit, blame Microsoft for your problems. Ohhh! its so hard to write a web browser that doesn't have this security flaw. A web browser should never implement a protocol like this. This is not a plugin if it is standard in the browser. It is bad design. Windows' unsecure nature is the ENVIRONMENT. The job of the web programmer is to develop for whatever environment they plan on running the software on. If Windows is so insecure by its nature than why not program so that the OS's underlying security is not a factor for your web browser?
Aww fuck it, just blame Microsoft.
Actually Stepford Wives is more Park Cities, about 40 minutes away, inside of Dallas around Southern Methodist University. It has the only (or first?) school system in nation that avoided desegregation by simply declining federal money. More to the point, the houses and the women are all picturesque. The rest of the area is more down to earth Texan. The high standard of living is mostly a product of the tech industry's good wages. hooray! Now ask yourself if a geek could stand a Stepford Wife, or if a Stepford Wife would stand a geek.
Once while working as a shelfmonkey at K-Mart, I was summoned by a cashier to translate for a spanish speaking customer. I knew the only two relevent questions the customer might ask so I asked for them:(paraphrasing) :-)
How long is the manufacturer's warrenty? 90 days.
How long is the protection plan? 90 days.
Being fluent in Spanish I had no trouble explaining to the customer exactly what the "protection plan" entailed. When the customer asked if they should get it I smiled and said no. I was never asked to translate the "protection plan" again
This is how Sony locks you in
No, this is how Sony locks you in.