One of his clients had an xbase program that needed to be updated, but the original programmer had this stupid idea of encrypting the program so it couldn't be decompiled. Meeting with the old programmer who moved to the coast was pretty expensive, but finally the old code could be finally read.
It was a royal mess.
My friend decided it would be simpler to analyse the software case by case (see why UML isn't that bad?) and recreate the interface including keyboard shortcuts and everything.
The project took him less than a month and the client was completely satisfied.
There are technologies in the works to create a true hologram, that has actual depth and appears different from different viewing angles, but this is incredibly performance intensive and expensive.
Indeed. I've seen holograms in tech museums, but they're only viewable from one angle. And worse, they're always BEHIND the glass with the imprinted interference patterns.
I've yet to see a hologram that can be displayed in any point in space (and could be viewed from nearly all angles) with just one or two projectors. THAT would merit a Nobel Prize.
When those Church lands were appropriated by the many greed governments around, they got distributed among nobles, bourgeois and other close friends of said governments. That's when being a poor European landless peasant really became a problem (for the peasant).
In short: actual History is more complicated than our cherished oversimplifications would prefer it to be.
I have to confirm your story. Here in Mexico, Plutarco Elias Calles' government banned Catholicism. They seized all temples and declared them property of the State, turning them into libraries and museums. They banned religious education, so they began preaching atheism in schools. Of course, if anyone disagreed he was jailed and executed for treason to the State. The punchline? Freemasonry.
Christianity (at least the one that the apostles preached, not today's cheap imitations) is a derivation of Judaism. Christians simply believe that Jesus is the Messiah that the prophets told about.
Islam, on the other hand denies that. For them, Jesus was just a prophet, St. Paul was a heretic and the jews are not God's favored people. Muslims are a breed of their own.
nope. Because the Knights Templar were Freemasons not Catholics.
If they're freemasons why the heck are they suing the Vatican? Freemasonry Lodges and The Vatican are sworn enemies and have many times declared the other as a menace to mankind and such. I can't see how a lawsuit regarding name-staining could possibly fit in here. Hello kettle, this is pot.
I find that poor usability is caused by the programmers' arrogance. They fail to understand that having a usability advisor is MORE THAN RECOMMENDED for any open source project. Their word isn't their opinion. Their word is AUTHORITY and should be followed.
To solve this problem, usability guidelines are published. wxWidgets have the wyoGuide. GNOME has the User Interface Guidelines.
"The reason you need that is because we don't want what happened to Unix to happen to Linux in terms of fragmentation."
What makes you think what happened to UNIX was bad? It's called evolution. Things change.
Let me remind you, my friend, that evolution means SUCCESSFUL ADAPTATION to an environment. What happens when a change (mutation) results in inadaptation? Extinction.
Evolution refers to a species. But in Linux what we have is not a single species, but a genus (a set of different species): Redhat, Debian, etc. "DNA" recombination is impossible in these. The resulting software would be inoperable.
LSB4, hopefully, will be a further step in the evolution of Linux: The convergence to a single species that will be able to share one single configuration.
In other words, yes, change is necessary, but there needs to be a period of stabilization. Just as stable/unstable releases in software. And LSB is providing this stability. LSB is, in fact, evolving.
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One of his clients had an xbase program that needed to be updated, but the original programmer had this stupid idea of encrypting the program so it couldn't be decompiled. Meeting with the old programmer who moved to the coast was pretty expensive, but finally the old code could be finally read.
It was a royal mess.
My friend decided it would be simpler to analyse the software case by case (see why UML isn't that bad?) and recreate the interface including keyboard shortcuts and everything.
The project took him less than a month and the client was completely satisfied.
Even if the data was encrypted, do you really think that the key wouldn't also be on the hard drive?
You could use a password *AND* an USB-stored keyfile to protect a truecrypt partition. Miss one, and you can't access it.
Speed hacks, aim bots, wall hacks... It'll be awful.
Oh no, that would be a walk in the park compared to this.
*drum rolls*
On your mark...
set...
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LEEEROY JEEEENKINS!!!
Didn't we just talk about rogue game programmers leaving stiff companies because of their lack of innovation?
All my Skip Doctor patients are dead :(
Since then I use flash drives for backup.
Isn't string theory dying?
Nope. It's just tangled up.
*Rimshot*
There are technologies in the works to create a true hologram, that has actual depth and appears different from different viewing angles, but this is incredibly performance intensive and expensive.
Link please? :D
Indeed. I've seen holograms in tech museums, but they're only viewable from one angle. And worse, they're always BEHIND the glass with the imprinted interference patterns.
I've yet to see a hologram that can be displayed in any point in space (and could be viewed from nearly all angles) with just one or two projectors. THAT would merit a Nobel Prize.
From the blog comments:
This guy is not controlling anything with his hands. It's a pre-recorded sequence and he is "hand-syncing". Look closely.
Still, I'd like to know what technology they used to create the holograms... *IF* indeed they're real.
A laptop containing the unencrypted -
NEXT!!!
Then there was this guy named Martin Luther. You should check him out.
And thanks to him, we have creationists instead of catholics. Think about it.
When those Church lands were appropriated by the many greed governments around, they got distributed among nobles, bourgeois and other close friends of said governments. That's when being a poor European landless peasant really became a problem (for the peasant).
In short: actual History is more complicated than our cherished oversimplifications would prefer it to be.
I have to confirm your story. Here in Mexico, Plutarco Elias Calles' government banned Catholicism. They seized all temples and declared them property of the State, turning them into libraries and museums. They banned religious education, so they began preaching atheism in schools. Of course, if anyone disagreed he was jailed and executed for treason to the State.
The punchline? Freemasonry.
I have to correct you here, CastrTroy.
Christianity (at least the one that the apostles preached, not today's cheap imitations) is a derivation of Judaism. Christians simply believe that Jesus is the Messiah that the prophets told about.
Islam, on the other hand denies that. For them, Jesus was just a prophet, St. Paul was a heretic and the jews are not God's favored people. Muslims are a breed of their own.
In a sense, you could apply the same approach, except try to modify earth's orbit, which might actually be easier...
Didn't I see a low-budget japanese movie about this 20 years ago? Yes, they moved the Earth. With rocket engines. *rolls eyes*
"Bill, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
Icazablanca. Coming soon to your local theater.
nope. Because the Knights Templar were Freemasons not Catholics.
If they're freemasons why the heck are they suing the Vatican? Freemasonry Lodges and The Vatican are sworn enemies and have many times declared the other as a menace to mankind and such. I can't see how a lawsuit regarding name-staining could possibly fit in here. Hello kettle, this is pot.
If the Knights Templars are so holy, shouldn't they swear obedience to the Pope or something just as jesuits do?
IMO this is nothing more than a greedy grand-grandchild wanting his inheritance money. Next!
I found this article a while ago.
"Software Development's Evolution towards Product Design"
http://lostgarden.com/2006/02/software-developments-evolution.html
Here's the PDF. You'll love it.
I find that poor usability is caused by the programmers' arrogance. They fail to understand that having a usability advisor is MORE THAN RECOMMENDED for any open source project. Their word isn't their opinion. Their word is AUTHORITY and should be followed.
To solve this problem, usability guidelines are published. wxWidgets have the wyoGuide. GNOME has the User Interface Guidelines.
And here I thought that only happened with patents.
"The reason you need that is because we don't want what happened to Unix to happen to Linux in terms of fragmentation."
What makes you think what happened to UNIX was bad? It's called evolution. Things change.
Let me remind you, my friend, that evolution means SUCCESSFUL ADAPTATION to an environment. What happens when a change (mutation) results in inadaptation? Extinction.
Evolution refers to a species. But in Linux what we have is not a single species, but a genus (a set of different species): Redhat, Debian, etc. "DNA" recombination is impossible in these. The resulting software would be inoperable.
LSB4, hopefully, will be a further step in the evolution of Linux: The convergence to a single species that will be able to share one single configuration.
In other words, yes, change is necessary, but there needs to be a period of stabilization. Just as stable/unstable releases in software. And LSB is providing this stability. LSB is, in fact, evolving.
"But it's a birthmark! ... why are you looking at me like that with a scalpel in your hand?"
Ah, so the guys with the anal probes weren't aliens after all! See, they were just scanning your insides for hidden information!
Seriously. All you need to do is install a user-friendly Linux distro in the workers' machines, and install Windows using VirtualBox.
That's the only way to be sure.
If you're talking about installing software on the Windows Servers, I can only say this: ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND!?!?
This code sucks and people that develop it suck as well. They are people that do not believe rules are for them.
You would make an excellent agent... Mister Anderson.
So I suppose, there are more questions to answer:
1) At what amount of CAPS characters does the filter turn on?
OVER NINE THOUSAND!!!!!!
(Sorry, had to do it :P )