Yes, but that would need Adobe to implement such a feature, and why would they?
Because if something becomes sufficiently annoying, the cost of co-workers/spouses/roommates/bosses/etc. getting annoyed with you and your flash-web-ads blaring will exceed the benefit of using it for the purposes you want it for.
Don't pedophiles use hard currency, credit cards, cars, clothing too? I'll bet they use household cleaners all the time. Shouldn't government ban those things as well to prevent pedophilia?
Electronics generally means using "active electrical components". (And many of the comments here are taking that a step further to mean "digital electronics".) You could try to argue that a spark gap in a spark plug is a non-linearity, but you wouldn't find many takers.
It is (or should be) well known that signs like these are a lie. All my life I have seen these "speed limit enforced by aircraft" signs, which tells me that there is no speed enforcement on that road at all.
I've been on highways that not only have the signs, but also silhouettes of aircraft painted on the road, presumably at known intervals for purposes of clocking vehicles. However, I've never been pulled over there by any cop claiming to have "clocked me by aircraft".
Your interest is in the contents, not the container. Therefore, once you have a known-good copy of the data, you're all set.
Remember to keep a few of the old tapes/drives/whatever for the museum display, of course.
You might be interested in the "container" if it was itself interesting for some reason. A floppy disk owned by a particular person and labelled in their hand comes to mind as an example. Maybe something was crammed in the disk envelope with the disk. If it's of interest, you'd probably want to keep this piece of ephemera with the original item that contained it if it's safe to both items to do so.
OTOH . . . I would think that this would be avery unusual case.
oh, so the poor valet schmuck who finds a bomb, and it gets detonated, is the one who will suffer loss of limbs and/or life? I'd hate to be paid minimum wage doing two jobs - one of them being a bomb detector.
As a bonus, he'll also be the one blamed for anything that goes missing, not the TSA.
I wonder what would happen if you had separate keys for the ignition and glove-box/trunk?
Back in the day, all cars used to (at least all the old cars I ever had). Many cars now have valet keys that only let the driver open the doors and start the engine. Some expensive/fast cars also have a speed limiter engaged when the valet key is used.
But that does make you wonder if the TSA has the valets bust open locked glove boxes and trunks like they do locked luggage. That would be an even worse surprise.
Looks like they just copied the VLC link by accident. There was only one link there(besides its probably a virus and not a real VLC copy anyways). Yawn.
When it comes to these large media companies you should never attribute to stupidity that which can be adequately explained by malice.
And don't attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by "better return to stockholders".
While it is not "infringing content", VLC player IS illegal in the USA. It is a digital lock-breaking device. Linux distrobutions which include DVD playback capabilities are also illegal.
This is not surprising to me, but it hardly matters because it's not like VLC will cease to ever be easily available.
Maybe my memory is faulty or not up-to-date, but VLC on Linux doesn't pay DVDs out of the box, does it? I seem to remember needing to specifically enable a non-default repository and explicitly install playback libraries for DRM'd DVDs before they would play.
Inhofe . . . once denounced the 'arrogance' of scientists who suggest that 'we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate.'
Note to self: do not ask Sen. Inhofe to house-sit.
We should be able to moderate the story submitters in the same manner we moderate posts. Because this is Flamebait -1. Hell, the phrase "Climate Change Denier" is in the title itself. We're one step away from Godwinn'ing the submission itself: "[person I hate] is just like Hitler, receives funding from [some other schmuck]".
Flamebait? This story doesn't even hold a candle -- flamewise -- to one mentioning, e.g., daylight saving time or the US customary system of weights and measures.
There are many bugs that would easily be detected by actually using the application on a daily basis.
Users do not work for you. When they do post bug reports, it is most likely in frustration.
Providing that the developers actually have the ability and resources to do that. Most (much?, some?) software isn't developed for use in the programmers' domain, and real-world deployments often have conditions that aren't fully replicated or anticipated even in even a good simulated environment. Your developers probably don't operate a retail POS or limestone quarry or credit card call center or whatever environment the product is used in.
Not that this is an excuse not to do your best to test it out before handing off to the end user, it's just that the conditions that make the bugs appear are sometimes the very conditions you don't anticipate and can't or don't know to test.
I've filed many bugs against certain open source projects only for the developers to respond with "How am I supposed to fix this? Why aren't you telling me anything?". I'm not sure why they think the first submission will contain everything they need to replicate the bug, but that seems to be the expectation.
That's a fair request. When the developer is secretly thinking of a bug report format and required additional information and users are required to guess what that is, they'll probably give up after one guess. After all, they didn't develop the product, so without telling them what's required to debug and how to report it, they'll probably never guess the secret. Refining the report with some back-and-forth would go a long way in cases where you're dealing with a user capable and willing to provide this extra info.
Of course, there will be users who just can't help that much due to their own limitations or the time they have available to debug your product, so their reports will probably never be all that helpful except in a statistical sense. That's OK. Not everyone is a programmer or QA specialist or whatever. You're probably not qualified to listen to a piano recital and give the performer constructive criticism either, even if you knew it didn't sound as pleasing as you would've liked.
You *owe* them a bug free product. If you did your job properly, this complaint would be moot.
OK. How you gonna get there, Chief? Certainly not by testing, since that would involve testing which means "using". Maybe not by end users but by someone "using" the software, whether you call them QA or whatever. So, what, you just write it bug-free in the first place? I don't know what you make, but I think it's safe to say that you should be paid more.
When writing error messages, don't have it spit out something sensible. Have it spit out something completely crazy but memorable, which you can then grep the code for. Something along the lines of "The Cake has hit the Fan" or "The Chickens are eating Pie". This improves the odds the user will remember it and report it correctly, giving you some hope of finding where the bug is in the code.
Or make it copy-and-pastable so no human memory is required. Or log it and make sending the log easy enough for your users. A nice user message followed by a more detailed procedure unwind or whatever applies in your application can be mighty useful.
A lot of posters elsewhere are using as their reasoning that they don't want their ticket money or any part of it going to Card.
Is there any evidence that he is getting any portion of ticket sales? Usually book rights are sold outright, so if that is the case he may not be getting ANY percentage of ticket sales.
Even if he sold the property outright, a successful movie makes another deal more likely. A flop makes it less so.
But at any rate, I can not buy anything from anyone for any reason -- or no reason at all. That action requires no justification except to myself, if that. It does not make me intolerant to choose how I employ my limited resources.
BTW, the anti-gay crowd is certainly not above boycotting those they consider "supporters" of same-sex marriage or any other issue they oppose. Just google "Million Moms" for examples of that. They, too, are exercising their rights to not buy something from someone they don't like. This action -- not patronizing one's perceived opponents -- is not intolerance. They may be intolerant in other ways, as may be some of Card's detractors for all we know, but a boycott is not an example of intolerance.
If Al Qaeda came up with a cure for cancer I'm sure we would use it, but I doubt we would pay them for it.
AC hits the nail on the head. The analogy is: "would you give money to Al Qaeda in exchange for cancer treatment?" It is not: "would you use a treatment for cancer developed by Al Qaeda?" This is not hair-splitting, it's money.
Marriage is not a "human right"... its a christian ceremony. Between a man and a woman.
Okay, how about a car analogy: "Only Fords are cars. You can call Toyotas anything you want, just not a "car". I've only had Fords, the way the maker intended."
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So what does it taste like?
Also, does it respond to music?
Any sane person already disables autoplay.
I think you're right, that's mostly true. However, not all your co-workers are sane, and you can still hear them and their speakers . . .
Yes, but that would need Adobe to implement such a feature, and why would they?
Because if something becomes sufficiently annoying, the cost of co-workers/spouses/roommates/bosses/etc. getting annoyed with you and your flash-web-ads blaring will exceed the benefit of using it for the purposes you want it for.
Don't pedophiles use hard currency, credit cards, cars, clothing too? I'll bet they use household cleaners all the time. Shouldn't government ban those things as well to prevent pedophilia?
Like Tide.
You can't make this stuff up.
Come on, tell us who you are so we can not use you any more.
Don't you also want to know the names of the other companies that just quietly and politely handed over what was asked for?
TFA says the companies resisted - the shame here belongs on the US Government
More interesting would be to know the names of the companies who didn't resist and thus didn't make any noise at all . . .
Electronics generally means using "active electrical components". (And many of the comments here are taking that a step further to mean "digital electronics".) You could try to argue that a spark gap in a spark plug is a non-linearity, but you wouldn't find many takers.
Oh, no?
OBDII is wireless because you can plug a wireless adapter into it? O . . . . K. . . . .
It is (or should be) well known that signs like these are a lie. All my life I have seen these "speed limit enforced by aircraft" signs, which tells me that there is no speed enforcement on that road at all.
I've been on highways that not only have the signs, but also silhouettes of aircraft painted on the road, presumably at known intervals for purposes of clocking vehicles. However, I've never been pulled over there by any cop claiming to have "clocked me by aircraft".
Your interest is in the contents, not the container. Therefore, once you have a known-good copy of the data, you're all set.
Remember to keep a few of the old tapes/drives/whatever for the museum display, of course.
You might be interested in the "container" if it was itself interesting for some reason. A floppy disk owned by a particular person and labelled in their hand comes to mind as an example. Maybe something was crammed in the disk envelope with the disk. If it's of interest, you'd probably want to keep this piece of ephemera with the original item that contained it if it's safe to both items to do so.
OTOH . . . I would think that this would be avery unusual case.
oh, so the poor valet schmuck who finds a bomb, and it gets detonated, is the one who will suffer loss of limbs and/or life? I'd hate to be paid minimum wage doing two jobs - one of them being a bomb detector.
As a bonus, he'll also be the one blamed for anything that goes missing, not the TSA.
I wonder what would happen if you had separate keys for the ignition and glove-box/trunk?
Back in the day, all cars used to (at least all the old cars I ever had). Many cars now have valet keys that only let the driver open the doors and start the engine. Some expensive/fast cars also have a speed limiter engaged when the valet key is used.
But that does make you wonder if the TSA has the valets bust open locked glove boxes and trunks like they do locked luggage. That would be an even worse surprise.
Looks like they just copied the VLC link by accident. There was only one link there(besides its probably a virus and not a real VLC copy anyways). Yawn.
When it comes to these large media companies you should never attribute to stupidity that which can be adequately explained by malice.
And don't attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by "better return to stockholders".
While it is not "infringing content", VLC player IS illegal in the USA. It is a digital lock-breaking device. Linux distrobutions which include DVD playback capabilities are also illegal.
This is not surprising to me, but it hardly matters because it's not like VLC will cease to ever be easily available.
Maybe my memory is faulty or not up-to-date, but VLC on Linux doesn't pay DVDs out of the box, does it? I seem to remember needing to specifically enable a non-default repository and explicitly install playback libraries for DRM'd DVDs before they would play.
Congratulations for missing the point in the most American[tm] way possible. "No, look at them, then!"
Go ahead with your "it can't happen here" rant. Whatever helps you sleep at night. But don't say we didn't warn you.
You can get caned even if you are the CEO.
I'm pretty sure that's only in Singapore.
Inhofe . . . once denounced the 'arrogance' of scientists who suggest that 'we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate.'
Note to self: do not ask Sen. Inhofe to house-sit.
We should be able to moderate the story submitters in the same manner we moderate posts. Because this is Flamebait -1. Hell, the phrase "Climate Change Denier" is in the title itself. We're one step away from Godwinn'ing the submission itself: "[person I hate] is just like Hitler, receives funding from [some other schmuck]".
Flamebait? This story doesn't even hold a candle -- flamewise -- to one mentioning, e.g., daylight saving time or the US customary system of weights and measures.
There are many bugs that would easily be detected by actually using the application on a daily basis.
Users do not work for you. When they do post bug reports, it is most likely in frustration.
Providing that the developers actually have the ability and resources to do that. Most (much?, some?) software isn't developed for use in the programmers' domain, and real-world deployments often have conditions that aren't fully replicated or anticipated even in even a good simulated environment. Your developers probably don't operate a retail POS or limestone quarry or credit card call center or whatever environment the product is used in.
Not that this is an excuse not to do your best to test it out before handing off to the end user, it's just that the conditions that make the bugs appear are sometimes the very conditions you don't anticipate and can't or don't know to test.
I've filed many bugs against certain open source projects only for the developers to respond with "How am I supposed to fix this? Why aren't you telling me anything?". I'm not sure why they think the first submission will contain everything they need to replicate the bug, but that seems to be the expectation.
That's a fair request. When the developer is secretly thinking of a bug report format and required additional information and users are required to guess what that is, they'll probably give up after one guess. After all, they didn't develop the product, so without telling them what's required to debug and how to report it, they'll probably never guess the secret. Refining the report with some back-and-forth would go a long way in cases where you're dealing with a user capable and willing to provide this extra info.
Of course, there will be users who just can't help that much due to their own limitations or the time they have available to debug your product, so their reports will probably never be all that helpful except in a statistical sense. That's OK. Not everyone is a programmer or QA specialist or whatever. You're probably not qualified to listen to a piano recital and give the performer constructive criticism either, even if you knew it didn't sound as pleasing as you would've liked.
You *owe* them a bug free product. If you did your job properly, this complaint would be moot.
OK. How you gonna get there, Chief? Certainly not by testing, since that would involve testing which means "using". Maybe not by end users but by someone "using" the software, whether you call them QA or whatever. So, what, you just write it bug-free in the first place? I don't know what you make, but I think it's safe to say that you should be paid more.
When writing error messages, don't have it spit out something sensible. Have it spit out something completely crazy but memorable, which you can then grep the code for. Something along the lines of "The Cake has hit the Fan" or "The Chickens are eating Pie". This improves the odds the user will remember it and report it correctly, giving you some hope of finding where the bug is in the code.
Or make it copy-and-pastable so no human memory is required. Or log it and make sending the log easy enough for your users. A nice user message followed by a more detailed procedure unwind or whatever applies in your application can be mighty useful.
A lot of posters elsewhere are using as their reasoning that they don't want their ticket money or any part of it going to Card.
Is there any evidence that he is getting any portion of ticket sales? Usually book rights are sold outright, so if that is the case he may not be getting ANY percentage of ticket sales.
Even if he sold the property outright, a successful movie makes another deal more likely. A flop makes it less so.
But at any rate, I can not buy anything from anyone for any reason -- or no reason at all. That action requires no justification except to myself, if that. It does not make me intolerant to choose how I employ my limited resources.
BTW, the anti-gay crowd is certainly not above boycotting those they consider "supporters" of same-sex marriage or any other issue they oppose. Just google "Million Moms" for examples of that. They, too, are exercising their rights to not buy something from someone they don't like. This action -- not patronizing one's perceived opponents -- is not intolerance. They may be intolerant in other ways, as may be some of Card's detractors for all we know, but a boycott is not an example of intolerance.
If Al Qaeda came up with a cure for cancer I'm sure we would use it, but I doubt we would pay them for it.
AC hits the nail on the head. The analogy is: "would you give money to Al Qaeda in exchange for cancer treatment?" It is not: "would you use a treatment for cancer developed by Al Qaeda?" This is not hair-splitting, it's money.
Marriage is not a "human right"... its a christian ceremony. Between a man and a woman.
Okay, how about a car analogy: "Only Fords are cars. You can call Toyotas anything you want, just not a "car". I've only had Fords, the way the maker intended."