Well, as a rule, those dismiss and despise hand-coding website sources who grew up on wysiwyhtg (what you see is what you hope to get) junk. It is so, just swallow it.
I don't think hand-coding, by choosing a proper editor is a time waste or a manpower-waste. Well, if you have good coders, that is. Making dreamweaver puppies drop it and start hand-coding screams for disaster. As always, the rule is use what you have (resources, people, knowledge) properly.
One could argue certain technologies would require so much effort and resources if hand-coded, that it really would be unreasonable to do so. Agreed. But, it's not the technology that chooses you, it's you who picks a technology. Think twice before jumping into something big time.
And it's not true, that hand-coding makes harder to create validation-compliant sites. Actually it can make you get used to follow such compliance rules more rigorously.
All in all, there's no shame in using either way, it's the resources you have, the goals you set, the technology you choose, the business constraints you must follow that should make you decide, and not personal preference or belief.
Besides the fairly obvious offensive nature of this proposal against free speach, there is one other aspect of such moves that disturbes me greatly, since I still remember the days when in my [and neighboring] country free speach was non-existent, i.e. one could speak but retaliation was quick, swift. And thing is, such moves always raise the feeling in me that the ultimate purpose is to be able to go after people whose opinion is eventually disliked, which doesn't mean they will, but the possibility is there, and if the general trust towards authorities is not full (which I can tell it isn't, these days), then people just might hold back, even if the "threat" is not entirely real. And that is not a good thing in a democratic society. It's never a good move to make the people think that the government - or the different agencies - are on some higher level power pedestal where they can't be hurt and they are the only ones that know how to drive a country and the people's only prerogative is to submissively follow. Unfortunately, political rhetorics has evolved to such extent these days, that driving the masses to desired directions seems to be more a routine job than ever.
I mean, if anyone and his neighbor's dog can file a patent about practically anything, how would anyone expect that the paperwork involved in dealing with the sh*tloads of useless crap would descrease ? Only one solution I'd see working would be a stricter and saner regularization of the patent submission process, not to increase the processing of the submitted crap, but to decrease the number of submissions that are potentially junk from the beginning but they still have to wate insane amount of hours and people to judge those submissions.
Well, fellas, here's a new example of how newspeak can transform the world. I'm sure many of you remember those endless discussions about how the term "intellectual property" is flawed, in that it tries to mean too much for too many people at the same time and those who want can fit it to mean practically any subset of the terms "IP" can be applied to in a general form. And now, someone pops up and makes a deduction from this name, that will be correct if only taken the term itself in consideration, but being as inherently flawed as the term itself in the broader context. There have been some examples for such moves during our known history, when a word, a concept, a term has been misused so cleverly for a longer period that in the end they managed to change the conceived meaning of those words among the people. Yes, I know I'm being also too broad here, but this is the first thing that popped into my mind (well, the second, since the actual first was something like "hehh") when reading the above quote.
The first I've ever coded on was one like this (I was 12-13, but it actually was around '90-'91), the first I owned was a C64C, and then a C64G, which was the one I really liked, and I still have it. It's like an old friend that never pisses you off and when you sit down with him with a beer you can chat hours long:D
My problem is with the very high level of simplification this suggests. I mean, the human brain is much much more complex than that, i.e. watching violent scenes and becoming violent. When someone sits down to watch a movie with violent scenes in it, or plays a game with violent elements, (s)he knows what (s)he's doing, i.e. (s)he didn't sit down there with the intent of later becoming violent, but to see a movie or to play a game. What I - fairly foggishly, sorry - try to say is that the brain isn't some pipeline where only one course of action can follow, and which action is influenced or caused only by one actual event. How many people have you seen coming out from an action movie and starting to beat each other up ?:)
I'd say that anything - be that watching violent scenes or else - influences the brain some way. But I still think that this type of violence to cause anything "bad" one has to be in such a state of mind to be extremely sensitive to violence, be it caused by bad experiences, some illness, or something else.
Probably we could be fed so much violence that the respective part of the brain couldn't go back anymore to a normal state, yet I doubt that movies or games can take an average person to such levels.
From the blog: please don't mistake silence for inaction - the thing is with silence, that everyone can "mistake" it for anything they want, since it tells exactly nothing. Additionally As I've walked different people through the plan, I've gotten "Does it have feature X?" "When is the beta?" "When does it release" and even the more thoughtful "What are you trying to accomplish with this release?" - does this really sound surprising ? I mean quite a few people have still hopes that IE will someday be a good browser, the guy should really be happy that people still are curious enough about a new release to ask and still have high hopes. I'd say it's about time to deliver.
Thing is, I feel we are only this far away from having to go to jail if you even have encryption tools on your machines. What would be your intentions with it besides encryptinc terrorist activities anyway ? Bleh.
[Section 3 of the RIPA]Intended primarily to deal with terror suspects
The problem is with the "primarily" part. Since when is an animal rights activist count as a terrorist ?
So, they disable the car. At the same time they also disable everything in the car from cellphones to cameras to laptops, gps, and whatnot. And, maybe also causing an accident by disabling highspeed car on the highway. Maybe not so much of an issue if they follow a murderer and the like, but in this world no action, not even a police action, is without errors, so they'd better be prepared to pay for unnecessary damages. Other than that, I guess it's better to disable a car then follow it for dozens of miles, as you can also see it on tv, and which is something I will never understand: instead of rushing into the car, crashing it or pushing it down the road, they start to follow it, through miles, causing them to speed even higher, get more nervous, thus the risk of causing accidents and injuring even more people will get exponentially higher. And then they tell how successful they are and how good it is to catch a runner. Right.
I've done that, no problems, and the files were really gone. I was pretty surprised, never seen anything like it. No probs though, I had the files on my portable drive, still, it was wierd. By damaged I meant that the first.avi was there on the media pc, it's size as a file was correct, but large chunks of it were missing and was unplayable. Anyway, I didn't want to make much fuss about it, just thought I'd mention since the general opinion regarding this bug in OSX here and in other forums seems to be fairly negative, but well, we all know that bugs happen, certain other OSes have taught us well:)
I don't think this is an OSX specific bug. Just this weekend I moved some video files over from a Windows desktop pc to my also Windows media pc (Windows based custom box) to a shared folder, then I went out for a tea, came back in, and I forgot the move was in process, and I switched off the media pc. About half an hour later I went back to my desktop pc, to see an error message about a failed write, then all the files I wanted to move have been deleted from the desktop pc. Checking the media pc, the first file was there, but damaged.
Wanting to create a new language instead of supporting an upgraded JavaScript shows one thing, how bad the IE codebase for JavaScript handling might be. This majorly smells like those situations where after a long update and extension period a code becomes so hard to handle that it's better to drop the whole thing and start a rewrite from scratch. Of course, if you argue for a new language, this probbably isn't such a big issue, since you'd need to write a new handler code for that anyway, and nobody will know what your reasons were.
Of course this is all just speculation. Wouldn't be the first time I'd be wrong, still, the smell is really strong.
I really miss the days (and I'm only in my twenties) when everyone just accepted what in computer-land kilo/mega/giga/terra bytes mean, and how and where they are used in which ways, and just went along to live their lives end of story. But then, a gazillion members of sixpack professionals came along who always know better, and they just couldn't stand the use of a system besides their good old 10-based. So they created the kibi, the mibi and the gibi, the three little moron ducklings whose names can't even be whispered without an idiotic smile. Better yet, they even tell you you're a f*cking moron if you don't use their names. Well, there is strength in numbers indeed, so fight or flight. What I've kept saying is, the sixpacks have time to argue about this, the rest of us just keep working, knowing what we mean by what we say in what context, and mind our own business. Let the rest keep arguing about non-issues that they made issues by their infinite wisdom. About suing Seagate, well, we all know there are certain people on this planet whose only goal in life is to find reasons to sue someone for their cash.
As a sidenote, if I were to hire someone who'd keep arguing about this topic, I'd kick his ass so far away I'd never have to see it again until I'm ninety years old and don't give a flying f*ck anymore.
I cry bullcrap. Give me one who writes the games these people play over all the players that play the game, anyday. Besides, I wouldn't hire anyone who spends potentially productive hours of the day by gaming. Anyway, although there might be some connection between a certain kind of creativity and being good in certain types of games, I wouldn't prefer a gamer over a non-gamer just based on the gaming habits. As always with such opinions, one can find just as many counter-examples and pro-examples. Even I personally know many bright minds who do not spend countless hours playing games, but prefer cracking their minds on real life problems. And, believe us people, real life problems are far away from in-game problems and the in-game solutions are pretty much that, in-game manouvers that get you forward, and seldomly more. If someone says the gamer managers are so much better, I can only say that gamers or not, managers' capabilities fluctuate just as much - if not more - than anybody else's. And I'd prefer a manager having experience handling real people in real life issues than any secondlife or wow gamer who thinks that can handle a bunch of teens or midage smartasses who don't have anything else to do. There, I said it, suck it up.
So, I'd have just one question: if I travel, I'd need to buy another game in every country I happen to be ? If so, just keep the friggin' game, there are plenty others.
I'll be off topic, but I still have to say, it's not even funny anymore when I see this story got tagged as: science, space, linuxbites, linuxisinsecure, linuxsucks Get a grip already.
Great, when you can find me that version of Alibre 3D design software that runs on Windows, Mac, and Ubuntu, let me know... Heck, when you find a common version of a spreadsheet program that runs on those three platforms let me know! I know this is/. and hating MS is de rigeur, but in some cases having a monopoly platform is what enabled the explosion in IT and the penetration of computers into the corporate and home worlds.
Now, in my book, this attitude belongs to the hysterics stuff. Thing is, if the choice of the OS is depending on the availability of apps you want to use, this shouldn't be a problem. If there's no specific app you'd need - as very many average users -, then you should be able to pick the OS on your subjective preferences, or whatever else. But, you _should_ be able to do so. These days, you can't do that. And, on a sidenote, the "compulsory" (well, not exactly but you know what I mean) bundling of Windows on any prebuild PC an average user can buy has contributed in a _very_ large part to the situation where many apps are Windows-only. If freedom to choose the OS from day 1 would have been present, maybe we would be in a different situation, maybe not, we don't know, and this also is part of the problem.
Thing is, back in the days when I first saw a computer (pre-DOS and pre-Windows), there were a greater diversity in OSes, as laughable as it might sound. But we've evolved, so this is heaven now. How cool is that.
Just the other daz we had our arguments about MS-PL. Now, randomly I selected BlogEngine.NET from that list, and it's MS-PL. So, the top 25 open source projects ? Right. As open source, as MS-PL is. Some said, that MS wanting to get into the FOSS license soup is to blur and mix the meaning of FOSS, first step of it being calling their stuff open source even before their MS-PL being approved. Call them free software, or software developed under the PL, but calling them open source is a bit edgy.
All these events, this one, and all those leading here, seem just so weird. It's like since the US didn't go through all those "nice" things that happened in the 2/3 of the last century in large parts of Europe, they seem to think they need to make their citizens experience those times. I'm not taking sides now, all this being good or bad, but it's weird nevertheless. For me, well, no surprises, I got used to such things, since I was born, but I have no idea how I'd take this if I would've been born and living in the US for a lfietime.
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Well, as a rule, those dismiss and despise hand-coding website sources who grew up on wysiwyhtg (what you see is what you hope to get) junk. It is so, just swallow it.
I don't think hand-coding, by choosing a proper editor is a time waste or a manpower-waste. Well, if you have good coders, that is. Making dreamweaver puppies drop it and start hand-coding screams for disaster. As always, the rule is use what you have (resources, people, knowledge) properly.
One could argue certain technologies would require so much effort and resources if hand-coded, that it really would be unreasonable to do so. Agreed. But, it's not the technology that chooses you, it's you who picks a technology. Think twice before jumping into something big time.
And it's not true, that hand-coding makes harder to create validation-compliant sites. Actually it can make you get used to follow such compliance rules more rigorously.
All in all, there's no shame in using either way, it's the resources you have, the goals you set, the technology you choose, the business constraints you must follow that should make you decide, and not personal preference or belief.
Besides the fairly obvious offensive nature of this proposal against free speach, there is one other aspect of such moves that disturbes me greatly, since I still remember the days when in my [and neighboring] country free speach was non-existent, i.e. one could speak but retaliation was quick, swift. And thing is, such moves always raise the feeling in me that the ultimate purpose is to be able to go after people whose opinion is eventually disliked, which doesn't mean they will, but the possibility is there, and if the general trust towards authorities is not full (which I can tell it isn't, these days), then people just might hold back, even if the "threat" is not entirely real. And that is not a good thing in a democratic society. It's never a good move to make the people think that the government - or the different agencies - are on some higher level power pedestal where they can't be hurt and they are the only ones that know how to drive a country and the people's only prerogative is to submissively follow. Unfortunately, political rhetorics has evolved to such extent these days, that driving the masses to desired directions seems to be more a routine job than ever.
I mean, if anyone and his neighbor's dog can file a patent about practically anything, how would anyone expect that the paperwork involved in dealing with the sh*tloads of useless crap would descrease ? Only one solution I'd see working would be a stricter and saner regularization of the patent submission process, not to increase the processing of the submitted crap, but to decrease the number of submissions that are potentially junk from the beginning but they still have to wate insane amount of hours and people to judge those submissions.
Intellectual Property is actually property
Well, fellas, here's a new example of how newspeak can transform the world. I'm sure many of you remember those endless discussions about how the term "intellectual property" is flawed, in that it tries to mean too much for too many people at the same time and those who want can fit it to mean practically any subset of the terms "IP" can be applied to in a general form. And now, someone pops up and makes a deduction from this name, that will be correct if only taken the term itself in consideration, but being as inherently flawed as the term itself in the broader context. There have been some examples for such moves during our known history, when a word, a concept, a term has been misused so cleverly for a longer period that in the end they managed to change the conceived meaning of those words among the people. Yes, I know I'm being also too broad here, but this is the first thing that popped into my mind (well, the second, since the actual first was something like "hehh") when reading the above quote.
to fix the problem by reporting the installed memory rather than the available memory
:P
I wouldn't have expected any other `solution' from MS
Now if I could count how many hours of my life have I wasted because of disappeared boot.ini's, geez. Nice move, still.
The first I've ever coded on was one like this (I was 12-13, but it actually was around '90-'91), the first I owned was a C64C, and then a C64G, which was the one I really liked, and I still have it. It's like an old friend that never pisses you off and when you sit down with him with a beer you can chat hours long :D
to help other countries enforce US laws
Once you start to meddle, you just can't stop anymore.
direct neuroscientific support
:)
My problem is with the very high level of simplification this suggests. I mean, the human brain is much much more complex than that, i.e. watching violent scenes and becoming violent. When someone sits down to watch a movie with violent scenes in it, or plays a game with violent elements, (s)he knows what (s)he's doing, i.e. (s)he didn't sit down there with the intent of later becoming violent, but to see a movie or to play a game. What I - fairly foggishly, sorry - try to say is that the brain isn't some pipeline where only one course of action can follow, and which action is influenced or caused only by one actual event. How many people have you seen coming out from an action movie and starting to beat each other up ?
I'd say that anything - be that watching violent scenes or else - influences the brain some way. But I still think that this type of violence to cause anything "bad" one has to be in such a state of mind to be extremely sensitive to violence, be it caused by bad experiences, some illness, or something else.
Probably we could be fed so much violence that the respective part of the brain couldn't go back anymore to a normal state, yet I doubt that movies or games can take an average person to such levels.
From the blog: please don't mistake silence for inaction - the thing is with silence, that everyone can "mistake" it for anything they want, since it tells exactly nothing. Additionally As I've walked different people through the plan, I've gotten "Does it have feature X?" "When is the beta?" "When does it release" and even the more thoughtful "What are you trying to accomplish with this release?" - does this really sound surprising ? I mean quite a few people have still hopes that IE will someday be a good browser, the guy should really be happy that people still are curious enough about a new release to ask and still have high hopes. I'd say it's about time to deliver.
I'm looking for inexpensive, and legal.
Interesting approach. I'm looking for quality, everything else [i.e. price, affiliation, medium] is secondary.
Thing is, I feel we are only this far away from having to go to jail if you even have encryption tools on your machines. What would be your intentions with it besides encryptinc terrorist activities anyway ? Bleh.
...
[Section 3 of the RIPA]Intended primarily to deal with terror suspects
The problem is with the "primarily" part. Since when is an animal rights activist count as a terrorist ?
[woman says]The police are my enemy
So, they disable the car. At the same time they also disable everything in the car from cellphones to cameras to laptops, gps, and whatnot. And, maybe also causing an accident by disabling highspeed car on the highway. Maybe not so much of an issue if they follow a murderer and the like, but in this world no action, not even a police action, is without errors, so they'd better be prepared to pay for unnecessary damages. Other than that, I guess it's better to disable a car then follow it for dozens of miles, as you can also see it on tv, and which is something I will never understand: instead of rushing into the car, crashing it or pushing it down the road, they start to follow it, through miles, causing them to speed even higher, get more nervous, thus the risk of causing accidents and injuring even more people will get exponentially higher. And then they tell how successful they are and how good it is to catch a runner. Right.
found through reverse engineering
I think we all know that hasn't stopped anyone before. So I still don't think this is a valid argument [pro closed source, that is].
I've done that, no problems, and the files were really gone. I was pretty surprised, never seen anything like it. No probs though, I had the files on my portable drive, still, it was wierd. By damaged I meant that the first .avi was there on the media pc, it's size as a file was correct, but large chunks of it were missing and was unplayable. Anyway, I didn't want to make much fuss about it, just thought I'd mention since the general opinion regarding this bug in OSX here and in other forums seems to be fairly negative, but well, we all know that bugs happen, certain other OSes have taught us well :)
I don't think this is an OSX specific bug. Just this weekend I moved some video files over from a Windows desktop pc to my also Windows media pc (Windows based custom box) to a shared folder, then I went out for a tea, came back in, and I forgot the move was in process, and I switched off the media pc. About half an hour later I went back to my desktop pc, to see an error message about a failed write, then all the files I wanted to move have been deleted from the desktop pc. Checking the media pc, the first file was there, but damaged.
[tracked] by online marketers and advertising networks
Well, if there only would be them. At least we know what their intentions are.
Wanting to create a new language instead of supporting an upgraded JavaScript shows one thing, how bad the IE codebase for JavaScript handling might be. This majorly smells like those situations where after a long update and extension period a code becomes so hard to handle that it's better to drop the whole thing and start a rewrite from scratch. Of course, if you argue for a new language, this probbably isn't such a big issue, since you'd need to write a new handler code for that anyway, and nobody will know what your reasons were.
Of course this is all just speculation. Wouldn't be the first time I'd be wrong, still, the smell is really strong.
I really miss the days (and I'm only in my twenties) when everyone just accepted what in computer-land kilo/mega/giga/terra bytes mean, and how and where they are used in which ways, and just went along to live their lives end of story. But then, a gazillion members of sixpack professionals came along who always know better, and they just couldn't stand the use of a system besides their good old 10-based. So they created the kibi, the mibi and the gibi, the three little moron ducklings whose names can't even be whispered without an idiotic smile. Better yet, they even tell you you're a f*cking moron if you don't use their names. Well, there is strength in numbers indeed, so fight or flight. What I've kept saying is, the sixpacks have time to argue about this, the rest of us just keep working, knowing what we mean by what we say in what context, and mind our own business. Let the rest keep arguing about non-issues that they made issues by their infinite wisdom. About suing Seagate, well, we all know there are certain people on this planet whose only goal in life is to find reasons to sue someone for their cash.
As a sidenote, if I were to hire someone who'd keep arguing about this topic, I'd kick his ass so far away I'd never have to see it again until I'm ninety years old and don't give a flying f*ck anymore.
I cry bullcrap. Give me one who writes the games these people play over all the players that play the game, anyday. Besides, I wouldn't hire anyone who spends potentially productive hours of the day by gaming. Anyway, although there might be some connection between a certain kind of creativity and being good in certain types of games, I wouldn't prefer a gamer over a non-gamer just based on the gaming habits. As always with such opinions, one can find just as many counter-examples and pro-examples. Even I personally know many bright minds who do not spend countless hours playing games, but prefer cracking their minds on real life problems. And, believe us people, real life problems are far away from in-game problems and the in-game solutions are pretty much that, in-game manouvers that get you forward, and seldomly more. If someone says the gamer managers are so much better, I can only say that gamers or not, managers' capabilities fluctuate just as much - if not more - than anybody else's. And I'd prefer a manager having experience handling real people in real life issues than any secondlife or wow gamer who thinks that can handle a bunch of teens or midage smartasses who don't have anything else to do. There, I said it, suck it up.
So, I'd have just one question: if I travel, I'd need to buy another game in every country I happen to be ? If so, just keep the friggin' game, there are plenty others.
I'll be off topic, but I still have to say, it's not even funny anymore when I see this story got tagged as: science, space, linuxbites, linuxisinsecure, linuxsucks Get a grip already.
Great, when you can find me that version of Alibre 3D design software that runs on Windows, Mac, and Ubuntu, let me know... Heck, when you find a common version of a spreadsheet program that runs on those three platforms let me know! I know this is /. and hating MS is de rigeur, but in some cases having a monopoly platform is what enabled the explosion in IT and the penetration of computers into the corporate and home worlds.
Now, in my book, this attitude belongs to the hysterics stuff. Thing is, if the choice of the OS is depending on the availability of apps you want to use, this shouldn't be a problem. If there's no specific app you'd need - as very many average users -, then you should be able to pick the OS on your subjective preferences, or whatever else. But, you _should_ be able to do so. These days, you can't do that. And, on a sidenote, the "compulsory" (well, not exactly but you know what I mean) bundling of Windows on any prebuild PC an average user can buy has contributed in a _very_ large part to the situation where many apps are Windows-only. If freedom to choose the OS from day 1 would have been present, maybe we would be in a different situation, maybe not, we don't know, and this also is part of the problem.
Thing is, back in the days when I first saw a computer (pre-DOS and pre-Windows), there were a greater diversity in OSes, as laughable as it might sound. But we've evolved, so this is heaven now. How cool is that.
Just the other daz we had our arguments about MS-PL. Now, randomly I selected BlogEngine.NET from that list, and it's MS-PL. So, the top 25 open source projects ? Right. As open source, as MS-PL is. Some said, that MS wanting to get into the FOSS license soup is to blur and mix the meaning of FOSS, first step of it being calling their stuff open source even before their MS-PL being approved. Call them free software, or software developed under the PL, but calling them open source is a bit edgy.
All these events, this one, and all those leading here, seem just so weird. It's like since the US didn't go through all those "nice" things that happened in the 2/3 of the last century in large parts of Europe, they seem to think they need to make their citizens experience those times. I'm not taking sides now, all this being good or bad, but it's weird nevertheless. For me, well, no surprises, I got used to such things, since I was born, but I have no idea how I'd take this if I would've been born and living in the US for a lfietime.