Totally agree with this.
ALL ISPs should ruthlessly firewall off their clients. If you want to run a server of any type, you should have at least the smarts to negotiate your ISPs web site and unblock the right port numbers.
Businesses only allow thru the ports they need. Individuals should have the same restriction/protection. It is too much to expect the average joe out there to understand the details of computer security, though purists out there would say "then they shouldnt be allowed near the Internet!". But the Internet isn't supposed to be an elitist medium anymore.
(Though quite off topic)
Viewing child porn, and especially paying for it means that there is a market for it, which means someone has to produce it. Which means physically getting some poor kid to Pose for it.
Thats a common sign put on Poker Machines, at the insistance of the government of course, here in Australia.
Perhaps should be put on the top of Slashdot too.
Yeah that hit me from the article too.
The Shuttles to be phased out in 2010, but they wont have a substitute before 2015.
Any sensible manufaturing company would know that means you have something in development NOW for release in 2010. Waiting until the old product is out of date is just dumb.
Yeah. I can't believe you'd quit just because you're ask to use a new IDE and language. Personally I love it when that happens.
When the structure of a company changes... new bosses, rules, culture, offices... that can scare people who were comfortable with the Old Way.
I found that when my little crowd were taken over by another company. It's scarey. You have to interact with all these people who don't know you and your quirks.
If you were looking for an excuse to move on anyway, then it's a good time to do it. But don't just blame a programming language.
I just want to point out that putting an ad about rotten toenails at the top of your article, which includes an an animation of the nail being ripped off the toe, really discourages readers from sticking around.
They went to the moon in the 1960's, when I was a little kid.
Now I'm a middle aged man....I'm getting old here, and we still haven't even got back to the moon yet. 2020? I'll be in my fifties. And then will a manned landing on Mars be even in my lifetime?
Well, yes, and that's a good comeback for any of the dodgier religious stories.
The Flood and how the kangaroos all ended up in Australia and without inbreeding problems, Carbon Dating, Dinosaurs, how light for stars millions of lightyears away from us has reached us...
God, because s/he is God, can do anything. He can rig the story, mess with the Graphics Engine, cheat any way he likes.
If God wants a shroud that looks like that, then he does what he damn well wants to.
Actually less kidding than you think.
The claustrophobia issues involved in being stuck in a suit like that for long periods of time would be quite real. (to me, anyway)
There thing that would stop me from going into space in a new or old suit it small, but important (to me).
What if I get an itchy nose?
I know it sounds silly, but I'm serious. I can imagine getting a serious, claustrophobic panic attack in one of those things, of something as minor as that. Being trapped in this thing and unable to take it off.
It might be great to learn DVORAK for your own use, but then you go to the office, and the keyboards are all QWERTY. So you are forced to be bilingual - bi-textual?
And for the people it really matter to... secretaries and the like who have to type serious speeds, it would be a major nuisance.
It's tough to break standards once they are embedded, especially when it's only for an incremental improvement.
I thought his message was simple and sensible.
ISPs should take a little bit of responsibility for what comes out of their network.
I would love my ISP to send me alerts when I am using unusual ports at unusual volumes. Warn us users that something is wrong on our PCs.
I do agree that many old TCP/IP protocols, like email and FTP, were designed for a time when the net was a peaceful, academic place. And they need updating.
... 1980? 1981? 1982? I forget. I went to a Computer Exhibition, looking at what would be the best computer to buy. At the time the choice was between the Commodore Pet, the Apple II, the TRS-80, and the Sinclair ZX-80. (Went with a TRS-80 clone. It was cheap).
Unisys and the like were showing off the mini-computers running lame Space Invaders games drawn in text with extended character sets. Arcade games were big, and they wanted to show they were "with it".
But Apple had set up the LISA. A monster of a Ten Grand computer with the most gorgeous graphics you'd ever seen. WYSIWYG was the big theme. Text editors with FONTS, a windowing system, a mouse, a painting program. Jaw dropping at the time and a complete rethink of how a computer should be.
And here we are nearly 25 years later, running with the same paradym, just with the pictures colour in.
(Why did I write all that? Dunno. Just in a mood for waffling)
If the problem gets too serious (and I'm not convinced it has, yet) maybe Banks will have to take a step backwards into the old world of Specialized Apps for online banking.
You go to the Bank, they give you a CD with the "National Bank Online Transaction" application, which you install and it does that one thing. Connects to a specific IP address, verifies the heck out of you, and allows you to do nothing but Banking.
But then you'll have wizeguys distributing hacked CDs....
I can understand why people would want to do it. It's fun. It's a challenge. You can't knock such people for being adventurous.
But it's not in the interests of camera makers, who would have to support it, who have licencing contracts with people who supply components of the software, who dont want you to screw up the camera with bad software and then return it for repairs.
If you're gonna do this stuff you should expect to be on your own.
I think you are talking more about a more advanced editor than a programming language here. Perhaps one with Unicode, the ability to attack stickynotes, perhaps a formula editor as you find in MS & Open - Offices (which both use a text system for constructing the formulas).
There's a fundamental crossplatform readability in Text however. Easy to parse, to move to any OS, to read even if you dont have the languages IDE, to publish on the net, in books, to write on College whiteboards.
I can see the point of this... it look to me to be a bit like C Macros. A way to invent your own keywords and the like.
But, personally I find a major Hell can be to be given some C code that is chock full of Macros and then attempting to make sense of it. Having to go look in all sorts of places to figure out what neat trick the previous programmer was playing.
I'm very glad macros were downgraded in C++ and disappeared all together in Java.
Creating your own neat language extensions in XML might be fun and help you out in the short term, but pity the poor fool who has to make sense of it later.
And face it, XML is an excessively verbose, pain-in-the-arse to read. Especially when things get complex and nested.
But as a language translator, or a YACC front end, it's as good a plan as any.
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Totally agree with this.
ALL ISPs should ruthlessly firewall off their clients. If you want to run a server of any type, you should have at least the smarts to negotiate your ISPs web site and unblock the right port numbers.
Businesses only allow thru the ports they need. Individuals should have the same restriction/protection. It is too much to expect the average joe out there to understand the details of computer security, though purists out there would say "then they shouldnt be allowed near the Internet!". But the Internet isn't supposed to be an elitist medium anymore.
(Though quite off topic)
Viewing child porn, and especially paying for it means that there is a market for it, which means someone has to produce it. Which means physically getting some poor kid to Pose for it.
So yes, viewing it, creates child abuse.
"When it stops being fun to play," stop playing.
Thats a common sign put on Poker Machines, at the insistance of the government of course, here in Australia.
Perhaps should be put on the top of Slashdot too.
Yeah that hit me from the article too.
The Shuttles to be phased out in 2010, but they wont have a substitute before 2015.
Any sensible manufaturing company would know that means you have something in development NOW for release in 2010. Waiting until the old product is out of date is just dumb.
Free stuff, such as Open Source software, stifles commerce. It's Un-American.
Governments giving free stuff to people is doubley Un-American.
Yeah. I can't believe you'd quit just because you're ask to use a new IDE and language. Personally I love it when that happens.
When the structure of a company changes... new bosses, rules, culture, offices... that can scare people who were comfortable with the Old Way.
I found that when my little crowd were taken over by another company. It's scarey. You have to interact with all these people who don't know you and your quirks.
If you were looking for an excuse to move on anyway, then it's a good time to do it. But don't just blame a programming language.
I just want to point out that putting an ad about rotten toenails at the top of your article, which includes an an animation of the nail being ripped off the toe, really discourages readers from sticking around.
Ahem, yes. After I posted I realized my English had failed me in that sentence.
They went to the moon in the 1960's, when I was a little kid.
Now I'm a middle aged man....I'm getting old here, and we still haven't even got back to the moon yet. 2020? I'll be in my fifties. And then will a manned landing on Mars be even in my lifetime?
The future isn't moving forwards fast enough.
... does the Lobby Office have a lobby?
Well, yes, and that's a good comeback for any of the dodgier religious stories.
The Flood and how the kangaroos all ended up in Australia and without inbreeding problems, Carbon Dating, Dinosaurs, how light for stars millions of lightyears away from us has reached us...
God, because s/he is God, can do anything. He can rig the story, mess with the Graphics Engine, cheat any way he likes.
If God wants a shroud that looks like that, then he does what he damn well wants to.
No matter what the topic, it can always be turned into an Iraq bitchfest.
Actually less kidding than you think.
The claustrophobia issues involved in being stuck in a suit like that for long periods of time would be quite real. (to me, anyway)
There thing that would stop me from going into space in a new or old suit it small, but important (to me).
What if I get an itchy nose?
I know it sounds silly, but I'm serious. I can imagine getting a serious, claustrophobic panic attack in one of those things, of something as minor as that. Being trapped in this thing and unable to take it off.
"Ancient Video Game generation"
The movie based on "Hunt the Wumpus" just wasn't very successful.
It might be great to learn DVORAK for your own use, but then you go to the office, and the keyboards are all QWERTY. So you are forced to be bilingual - bi-textual?
And for the people it really matter to... secretaries and the like who have to type serious speeds, it would be a major nuisance.
It's tough to break standards once they are embedded, especially when it's only for an incremental improvement.
I thought his message was simple and sensible.
ISPs should take a little bit of responsibility for what comes out of their network.
I would love my ISP to send me alerts when I am using unusual ports at unusual volumes. Warn us users that something is wrong on our PCs. I do agree that many old TCP/IP protocols, like email and FTP, were designed for a time when the net was a peaceful, academic place. And they need updating.
... 1980? 1981? 1982? I forget. I went to a Computer Exhibition, looking at what would be the best computer to buy. At the time the choice was between the Commodore Pet, the Apple II, the TRS-80, and the Sinclair ZX-80. (Went with a TRS-80 clone. It was cheap).
Unisys and the like were showing off the mini-computers running lame Space Invaders games drawn in text with extended character sets. Arcade games were big, and they wanted to show they were "with it".
But Apple had set up the LISA. A monster of a Ten Grand computer with the most gorgeous graphics you'd ever seen. WYSIWYG was the big theme. Text editors with FONTS, a windowing system, a mouse, a painting program. Jaw dropping at the time and a complete rethink of how a computer should be.
And here we are nearly 25 years later, running with the same paradym, just with the pictures colour in.
(Why did I write all that? Dunno. Just in a mood for waffling)
"Dropping like a CRT from the roof of a block of flats"
If the problem gets too serious (and I'm not convinced it has, yet) maybe Banks will have to take a step backwards into the old world of Specialized Apps for online banking.
You go to the Bank, they give you a CD with the "National Bank Online Transaction" application, which you install and it does that one thing. Connects to a specific IP address, verifies the heck out of you, and allows you to do nothing but Banking.
But then you'll have wizeguys distributing hacked CDs....
I can understand why people would want to do it. It's fun. It's a challenge. You can't knock such people for being adventurous.
But it's not in the interests of camera makers, who would have to support it, who have licencing contracts with people who supply components of the software, who dont want you to screw up the camera with bad software and then return it for repairs.
If you're gonna do this stuff you should expect to be on your own.
I think you are talking more about a more advanced editor than a programming language here. Perhaps one with Unicode, the ability to attack stickynotes, perhaps a formula editor as you find in MS & Open - Offices (which both use a text system for constructing the formulas).
There's a fundamental crossplatform readability in Text however. Easy to parse, to move to any OS, to read even if you dont have the languages IDE, to publish on the net, in books, to write on College whiteboards.
I can see the point of this... it look to me to be a bit like C Macros. A way to invent your own keywords and the like.
But, personally I find a major Hell can be to be given some C code that is chock full of Macros and then attempting to make sense of it. Having to go look in all sorts of places to figure out what neat trick the previous programmer was playing.
I'm very glad macros were downgraded in C++ and disappeared all together in Java.
Creating your own neat language extensions in XML might be fun and help you out in the short term, but pity the poor fool who has to make sense of it later.
And face it, XML is an excessively verbose, pain-in-the-arse to read. Especially when things get complex and nested.
But as a language translator, or a YACC front end, it's as good a plan as any.
Well, who the hell is Norton, and why are his Utilities so special anyway?
It looks less silly than putting one of those weird devices on your ear.
Just a another small step towards telepathy.