If you're playing with people who don't like to cheesemonkey the game, 3.5 was pretty good. Pathfinder's the only thing close to that WotC still makes though, and from what I hear it's beating 4th in sales these days due to the fairly awful reputation 4th has among many longtime players.
So I'm hoping that this new stuff goes backwards from everything they screwed up in 4th.
Of course another one can happen. IE 6 is just another Netscape 4 in terms of how it handled standards badly, had a lot of its own quirky stuff that people developed for, and then became a shambling zombie refusing to die for years after we wanted it gone.
You can also successfully run an organization without computers. What's your point?
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So now they've broken out a bazooka.
Seriously, they piss their customers off with their handling of SOPA. After that, their plan is... technical incompetence? Mishandling of accounts? Their lousy customer service is now in the spotlight because of this, and it's going to make their problems even worse because people remember a reputation for bad service long after they've forgotten all about SOPA.
You can't fix that with more ads from a second rate race car driver.
Because everyone is a bad driver when they're too busy talking on the phone to pay attention to what they're doing, dumbass. This isn't some new thing. It's been known for a very long time that most accidents are caused by distractions, and that talking on a phone (and even more so with texting) are significant distractions.
The NTSB is pointing out what is blindingly obvious to anybody who pays attention, rather then thinking that driving is a great time to be doing other stuff.
Seems ironic that the FF team is using stuff from seven years and two major versions ago while at the same time bemoaning that anybody might want to keep a version of Firefox for more then 6 weeks - especially enterprise users.
Interesting how they don't practice what they preach.
Another issue with this system is that it's easily trolled. There's people who put false claims in claiming to be a company when they're really not associated with the company at all.
It's a common problem with My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic videos on Youtube. Hasbro (the owner) allows them to be up, including full episodes. Someone else claims to be Hasbro and has it pulled, then the poster has to go to real Hasbro to get them to tell Youtube to reverse it. Eventually the account gets "flagged" for repeated violations even though they've all been false positives.
The system just plain sucks at handling this stuff.
Ars actually just covered this for anybody not in the US - the Patriot Act is a huge barrier that is making it hard for US companies to do business. Nobody in their right mind trusts US cloud providers with their (subject to non US privacy law) data.
Chrome has been ahead of FF in Enterprise manageability for quite a while now, since Google at least put a minimal effort in (while Firefox had people like Asa giving the middle finger).
That depends on where you are. Privacy laws in Canada most certainly do restrict Government agencies (and probably educational ones) from using Gmail because it's American and the Patriot Act is a rather severe problem that can't be mitigated.
Wasn't Ubi's absurd DRM supposed to fix this piracy thing? I guess it didn't work, and rather then admit that it drove all the paying customers away instead they want to say that somehow it failed and everybody pirated everything.
News flash - Your DRM sucks. I still haven't bought Settlers 7 because of it, and I likely never will. Another game got that money instead.
But I guess there's too many MBAs working there to figure out something so simple.
Consideirng how those third party AV vendors were complaining back in 2006 about how MS was putting in protection against patching the kernel into Vista, I don't really think I can take what they have to say seriously.
They're not in the security business, they're in the "sell people bloatware based on fear" business.
And while we're at it, why don't we just make cars that run on rainbows to solve our energy problems?
Most viruses in Windows today are spread either by stupid users, or flaws in third party applications (hello Flash!). As it turns out, stopping stupid users from doing stupid things an OS that isn't a locked down walled garden is really hard.
That, and Norton slows down and generally screws up Windows so much that it makes Microsoft look bad. I've never found a problem that couldn't be fixed with "uninstall Norton", because the damn thing is worse then most of the viruses it supposidly stops.
The user experience matters. Microsoft limited what sound drivers could do in kernel space years ago for the same reason - Creative's drivers were so bad that they made Windows as a whole look bad.
Programming stopped being something relegated to socially awkward types that nobody likes at least a decade ago, and really even longer then that. It was cool a long time ago. Then it wasn't.
You know what's happened now? Very little. When people use your stuff, they tend to be more interested in you. That's ALWAYS been true. Oh, and being loaded also helps, because money is sexy.
All they've done with this article is take a stereotype that wasn't true before, and said "hey, somehow Apple fixed it years before the product that fixed it existed! Aren't they awesome!?"
No. The only thing demonstrated here is how uncool and out of touch Slashdot is.
So just to be clear, it's a quarter in which one of the two companies didn't release a phone and before what is their best quarter. It's using estimated numbers for one of them (since actual numbers weren't given). It's comparing "shipped" to "sold" units.
Was there any purpose to this at all except to get cheap hits with the flamebait?
It depends on both. I mentioned specifically that you can write bad unreadable code in anything because it's true.
But that's like saying you can kill people with a screwdriver. It's true, but it's an awful lot easier with a shotgun. Perl just seems to make it an awful lot easier to "be clever" and come up with something that nobody can understand later. I don't consider that a good thing.
"Its syntax is very forgiving, and there are lots of ways to do most things"
That's probably why it's so commonly known as a write-only language. "Forgiving syntax" in particular usually leads to someone sitting around later trying to figure out WTF is going on.
It's possible to write bad unreadable code in anything, but it's just so much easier in Perl that I shudder anytime I get asked to look at someone elses Perl code. That has NEVER been a good experience.
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Yes it is. It also still falsely tells you it's up to date if it can't check: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679742
If you're playing with people who don't like to cheesemonkey the game, 3.5 was pretty good. Pathfinder's the only thing close to that WotC still makes though, and from what I hear it's beating 4th in sales these days due to the fairly awful reputation 4th has among many longtime players.
So I'm hoping that this new stuff goes backwards from everything they screwed up in 4th.
Because no company has ever denied something right up until it happened, right?
Nokia denying it means absolutely nothing.
Of course another one can happen. IE 6 is just another Netscape 4 in terms of how it handled standards badly, had a lot of its own quirky stuff that people developed for, and then became a shambling zombie refusing to die for years after we wanted it gone.
You can also successfully run an organization without computers. What's your point?
So now they've broken out a bazooka.
Seriously, they piss their customers off with their handling of SOPA. After that, their plan is... technical incompetence? Mishandling of accounts? Their lousy customer service is now in the spotlight because of this, and it's going to make their problems even worse because people remember a reputation for bad service long after they've forgotten all about SOPA.
You can't fix that with more ads from a second rate race car driver.
Because everyone is a bad driver when they're too busy talking on the phone to pay attention to what they're doing, dumbass. This isn't some new thing. It's been known for a very long time that most accidents are caused by distractions, and that talking on a phone (and even more so with texting) are significant distractions.
The NTSB is pointing out what is blindingly obvious to anybody who pays attention, rather then thinking that driving is a great time to be doing other stuff.
Seems ironic that the FF team is using stuff from seven years and two major versions ago while at the same time bemoaning that anybody might want to keep a version of Firefox for more then 6 weeks - especially enterprise users.
Interesting how they don't practice what they preach.
Another issue with this system is that it's easily trolled. There's people who put false claims in claiming to be a company when they're really not associated with the company at all.
It's a common problem with My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic videos on Youtube. Hasbro (the owner) allows them to be up, including full episodes. Someone else claims to be Hasbro and has it pulled, then the poster has to go to real Hasbro to get them to tell Youtube to reverse it. Eventually the account gets "flagged" for repeated violations even though they've all been false positives.
The system just plain sucks at handling this stuff.
Ars actually just covered this for anybody not in the US - the Patriot Act is a huge barrier that is making it hard for US companies to do business. Nobody in their right mind trusts US cloud providers with their (subject to non US privacy law) data.
I didn't know that not funding your competition was "evil" now.
The standard for "evil" sure has declined.
You mean like this? http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/chromebrowser.html
Chrome has been ahead of FF in Enterprise manageability for quite a while now, since Google at least put a minimal effort in (while Firefox had people like Asa giving the middle finger).
That depends on where you are. Privacy laws in Canada most certainly do restrict Government agencies (and probably educational ones) from using Gmail because it's American and the Patriot Act is a rather severe problem that can't be mitigated.
Wasn't Ubi's absurd DRM supposed to fix this piracy thing? I guess it didn't work, and rather then admit that it drove all the paying customers away instead they want to say that somehow it failed and everybody pirated everything.
News flash - Your DRM sucks. I still haven't bought Settlers 7 because of it, and I likely never will. Another game got that money instead.
But I guess there's too many MBAs working there to figure out something so simple.
Consideirng how those third party AV vendors were complaining back in 2006 about how MS was putting in protection against patching the kernel into Vista, I don't really think I can take what they have to say seriously.
They're not in the security business, they're in the "sell people bloatware based on fear" business.
And while we're at it, why don't we just make cars that run on rainbows to solve our energy problems?
Most viruses in Windows today are spread either by stupid users, or flaws in third party applications (hello Flash!). As it turns out, stopping stupid users from doing stupid things an OS that isn't a locked down walled garden is really hard.
That, and Norton slows down and generally screws up Windows so much that it makes Microsoft look bad. I've never found a problem that couldn't be fixed with "uninstall Norton", because the damn thing is worse then most of the viruses it supposidly stops.
The user experience matters. Microsoft limited what sound drivers could do in kernel space years ago for the same reason - Creative's drivers were so bad that they made Windows as a whole look bad.
MSE already works better then the Norton & Mcafee bloatware, so their chances are pretty good.
Europe's already done it at least once: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_Patch_Protection#Antitrust_behavior
And that's saying something. This is utter shit.
Programming stopped being something relegated to socially awkward types that nobody likes at least a decade ago, and really even longer then that. It was cool a long time ago. Then it wasn't.
You know what's happened now? Very little. When people use your stuff, they tend to be more interested in you. That's ALWAYS been true. Oh, and being loaded also helps, because money is sexy.
All they've done with this article is take a stereotype that wasn't true before, and said "hey, somehow Apple fixed it years before the product that fixed it existed! Aren't they awesome!?"
No. The only thing demonstrated here is how uncool and out of touch Slashdot is.
So just to be clear, it's a quarter in which one of the two companies didn't release a phone and before what is their best quarter. It's using estimated numbers for one of them (since actual numbers weren't given). It's comparing "shipped" to "sold" units.
Was there any purpose to this at all except to get cheap hits with the flamebait?
It depends on both. I mentioned specifically that you can write bad unreadable code in anything because it's true.
But that's like saying you can kill people with a screwdriver. It's true, but it's an awful lot easier with a shotgun. Perl just seems to make it an awful lot easier to "be clever" and come up with something that nobody can understand later. I don't consider that a good thing.
"Its syntax is very forgiving, and there are lots of ways to do most things"
That's probably why it's so commonly known as a write-only language. "Forgiving syntax" in particular usually leads to someone sitting around later trying to figure out WTF is going on.
It's possible to write bad unreadable code in anything, but it's just so much easier in Perl that I shudder anytime I get asked to look at someone elses Perl code. That has NEVER been a good experience.
Now it also needs to detect those other viruses: Mcafee and Norton.
It's sad that most AV software is worse then the problem it generally fails to prevent, but it's true.
They get meal breaks in the game industry? Most of them work 100 hour weeks for 6 months of the year to meet marketing's absurd Fall release timeline.