You know what else kills bird flu (in much less than 5 minutes)? Ajax (the cleaner), bleach, fire, sulfuric acid, and I'm sure rat poison will do *something*
I'd like to see what this ass-grease (I mean, intestinal enzyme) does when it's actually injected into someone. Until then, I refuse to get excited about something that's less effective than Clorox.
Oh yeah, I can think of nothing better than loading up my favorite Ebert & Roeper podcast, skipping to 9:18 and ripping my favorite song. This is asinine.
The only good thing about all of this is that DRM doesn't work. The bad thing: you'll do federal time just to enact your rights to fair use.
What ever happened to people learning to use their tools properly? I, for one, don't want training wheels on everything I use... languages included.
It's offensive to me that people actually advocate infantile languages just so the inexperienced won't mess themselves. How about education as a nice compromise?
I inform people of their lack of talent rather frequently. You are being no friend at all to let someone continue down a path that only causes death and / or destruction. Sometimes... that happens. Many software bugs have indirectly killed people.
I've told friends that they bombed the interview, why they bombed, what areas need improvement, and if they have any hope. Sometimes they don't, so I put it out there bluntly and honestly. There's always time to change a career.
There's a fairytale that says something about accomplishing anything you set your mind to. It's a lie. I will never be an NBA player no matter how hard I try. I will never be able to do matrix multiplication in my head. People need to get rid of this childish notion and recognize their limits. Focus on what you actually have a hope of being good at.
Don't they know how much money you can make blasting Cialis advertisements on random people's computers? AdWare is much more lucrative. They need to step that bounty up. Remote execution exploits for Windows are like virtual gold.
JavaScript has gotten a pretty bad rap. I think unfairly. People tend to pigeonhole it as a "web" scripting language, which is certainly how it started off, but it's much more capable than that. Even Java started off as a "Web" language (with ambitions of world domination). Both have matured in the past decade.
JavaScript has all the niceties of modern OO languages and more, because it's prototype-based. All that's needed is some discipline, because it also allows you to write exceptionally ugly code. Both Perl and C++ are the same way. You can drop into procedural hell any time you like. In C++, you can even resort to goto statements or drop into assembler.
In JavaScript: you can have static class methods & members, encapsulation (private methods & such), multiple layers of abstraction, and features even Java can't handle, like: multiple inheritance, closures, reflection, and dynamic typing. Not to shabby for a crappy little scripting language.
Any nice OO language (like Python, Smalltalk, Ruby) in a browser sounds wonderful... but it'll never work for very long. Do you really think that Microsoft could keep proprietary language tweaks out of their implementations? It happens with JavaScript all of the time. Netscape added proprietary features because it was THEIR language. AFAIK, that stopped as soon as it was offered up for standardization.
Microsoft has continued to make proprietary "contributions" to JavaScript. If it weren't for them, everybody's JS implementations would work together in harmony. Microsoft alters their HTML, XML, CSS, and C++ implementations in ways that prohibit cross-platform compatibility (what a surprise). They'll do the same to Python.
Obviously a statement from someone that's never used FCP before. If FCP ran on Windows, Premier would have a fight on its hands... and it would lose very quickly.
OpenDNS will do phishing detection for you. Not only that, it'll correct common typos and speedup name resolution on your entire network. Oh yeah, it's also free, but it won't block those annoying fake search pages.
Nothing, as long as it's not censored. Teachers in the US have been suing student bloggers for really petty things. I can't imagine that it's much different across the Atlantic.
I'd like to know what provoked the punk. Was it justified or not? We do live in a world where teachers rape, molest, and physically assault the students in their care (yes, even in the UK).
In the US, I've seen teachers humiliate students so badly that they've transferred schools. I've seen teachers grab students by the neck and throw them around. I, myself, have been kicked in the legs because I was sitting sideways in my chair. I've even seen teachers give low grades to students they don't like, as they told me they were doing it.
There are many ways to be an asshole and most are legal. Perhaps this kid had enough of his teacher's sadistic censorship loving ass. Maybe he's just a punk. We'll never know, but you can be sure that the student's side of the story will never be heard.
Getting rid of incompetent management is harder than it sounds. That takes skill & balls. I've read a lot about Jobs' management style. Most CEOs don't seem to be as hands on. He seems to have a no compromise "my way or the highway" approach. I think his value is in his micromanagement.
I second this suggestion. If you don't have a good overview of your system after a full Gentoo install, then you simply weren't paying attention. The available tutorials are easy to read and follow. There IS a lot of manual work, but going through the motions will help burn it into your head. Practice makes perfect (doing not reading).
True. You can't keep poor developers from introducing overflows in their own code... but you can prevent a poorly written IM client from allowing an attacker to root the entire machine. The problem has never been buffer overflows, it's what you can do to the operating system with an unprivileged process.
"One important difference between R and RW media, however, is that the re-crystalized alloy of RW media will gradually decrystalize, taking the data with it" (Wikipedia)
Windows 3.0 had these things called UAEs or Unrecoverable Application Errors that crashed Windows. You know how they fixed them? In Windows 3.1, they became GPFs or General Protection Faults. They happened just as often, so it seems that only the name changed.
In Windows 95 & Windows NT, the GPFs became access violations (recoverable), but we were introduced to something new: The BSOD (blue screen of death). With Windows XP, I no longer get BSODs. Now, my entire machine simply reboots itself for no apparent reason. No, there's no adware or viruses. This is just what Windows does and has done for years. It's gotta crash, the question is how?
I've been a reluctant Windows user for 16 years. In all of those years, they have failed to make their product leaner, more stable, easier to use, or less expensive. The cost of Windows increases and the same old problems never get fixed. Often, they get worse.
Microsoft is the Ford Motor Company of the software world. Obsolescence is definitely built-in. Their software guzzles computing resources like an Excursion swallows gasoline. Then there's the spontaneous crashing, not unlike Ford's little problem with cars spontaneously combusting (due to faulty cruise control switches).
They should merge together and form MicroFord. Would you trust your life to a car powered by the technological expertise of Microsoft and Ford? I know I would. My car's gone far too long without a service pack.
If these were "REAL" developers tools, they wouldn't only support interpreted byte code. I'm all for giving homebrewers training wheels like C#, but I can't get interested until they're offering full C++ support.
There's a lot of momentum in trying to push source code viewing onto these devices (not just HTML). It's no surprise that Microsoft is completely opposed to this.
As a software developer, I think having the source to every piece of software on the machine is more about corporate control... it's about empowering the user. Kids can learn about the inner workings of any function, if they wish. It may not be for everyone, but SOME will take advantage of this opportunity. The device can be changed, customized, or dissected without limitation. I believe that a truly open system will be fully explored by the genuinely curious. Learning and innovation will come naturally.
I think there's a misconception that kids will only surf the web or read books with these things. Experience tells me that kids will do whatever they're allowed to do, and then try to do a bit more. Every child wants to know how things work. Limiting use to rigid educational goals will only limit the student's ability to learn and slowly kill their curiosity. As long as closed source operating systems stay off of these devices, there's a hope that they will someday be completely open for exploration.
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You know what else kills bird flu (in much less than 5 minutes)? Ajax (the cleaner), bleach, fire, sulfuric acid, and I'm sure rat poison will do *something*
I'd like to see what this ass-grease (I mean, intestinal enzyme) does when it's actually injected into someone. Until then, I refuse to get excited about something that's less effective than Clorox.
If disclosure of vulnerabilities stops, exploits will still occur... only no one will know how they work or how to stop them. yeah, this is progress.
Oh yeah, I can think of nothing better than loading up my favorite Ebert & Roeper podcast, skipping to 9:18 and ripping my favorite song. This is asinine.
The only good thing about all of this is that DRM doesn't work. The bad thing: you'll do federal time just to enact your rights to fair use.
What ever happened to people learning to use their tools properly? I, for one, don't want training wheels on everything I use... languages included.
It's offensive to me that people actually advocate infantile languages just so the inexperienced won't mess themselves. How about education as a nice compromise?
I inform people of their lack of talent rather frequently. You are being no friend at all to let someone continue down a path that only causes death and / or destruction. Sometimes... that happens. Many software bugs have indirectly killed people.
I've told friends that they bombed the interview, why they bombed, what areas need improvement, and if they have any hope. Sometimes they don't, so I put it out there bluntly and honestly. There's always time to change a career.
There's a fairytale that says something about accomplishing anything you set your mind to. It's a lie. I will never be an NBA player no matter how hard I try. I will never be able to do matrix multiplication in my head. People need to get rid of this childish notion and recognize their limits. Focus on what you actually have a hope of being good at.
Don't they know how much money you can make blasting Cialis advertisements on random people's computers? AdWare is much more lucrative. They need to step that bounty up. Remote execution exploits for Windows are like virtual gold.
JavaScript has gotten a pretty bad rap. I think unfairly. People tend to pigeonhole it as a "web" scripting language, which is certainly how it started off, but it's much more capable than that. Even Java started off as a "Web" language (with ambitions of world domination). Both have matured in the past decade.
JavaScript has all the niceties of modern OO languages and more, because it's prototype-based. All that's needed is some discipline, because it also allows you to write exceptionally ugly code. Both Perl and C++ are the same way. You can drop into procedural hell any time you like. In C++, you can even resort to goto statements or drop into assembler.
In JavaScript: you can have static class methods & members, encapsulation (private methods & such), multiple layers of abstraction, and features even Java can't handle, like: multiple inheritance, closures, reflection, and dynamic typing. Not to shabby for a crappy little scripting language.
Any nice OO language (like Python, Smalltalk, Ruby) in a browser sounds wonderful... but it'll never work for very long. Do you really think that Microsoft could keep proprietary language tweaks out of their implementations? It happens with JavaScript all of the time. Netscape added proprietary features because it was THEIR language. AFAIK, that stopped as soon as it was offered up for standardization.
Microsoft has continued to make proprietary "contributions" to JavaScript. If it weren't for them, everybody's JS implementations would work together in harmony. Microsoft alters their HTML, XML, CSS, and C++ implementations in ways that prohibit cross-platform compatibility (what a surprise). They'll do the same to Python.
"Does Final Cut have a fight on its hands?"
Obviously a statement from someone that's never used FCP before. If FCP ran on Windows, Premier would have a fight on its hands... and it would lose very quickly.
OpenDNS will do phishing detection for you. Not only that, it'll correct common typos and speedup name resolution on your entire network. Oh yeah, it's also free, but it won't block those annoying fake search pages.
http://opendns.com/
Borland's Turbo Vision UI was rather nice, considering it was all Text. It's even been ported for GNU toolsets: http://tvision.sourceforge.net/
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Screenshot from the link of it on QNX: http://tvision.sourceforge.net/tv2-QNX-tvscreen.j
The nice thing about it is that it's OO... one of the very first OO TUI's, if I remember correctly.
I have absolutely no idea how it'll work over a terminal. XTerms an option?
Don't elephant guns qualify as a "hunting rifle?"
Nothing, as long as it's not censored. Teachers in the US have been suing student bloggers for really petty things. I can't imagine that it's much different across the Atlantic.
I'd like to know what provoked the punk. Was it justified or not? We do live in a world where teachers rape, molest, and physically assault the students in their care (yes, even in the UK).
In the US, I've seen teachers humiliate students so badly that they've transferred schools. I've seen teachers grab students by the neck and throw them around. I, myself, have been kicked in the legs because I was sitting sideways in my chair. I've even seen teachers give low grades to students they don't like, as they told me they were doing it.
There are many ways to be an asshole and most are legal. Perhaps this kid had enough of his teacher's sadistic censorship loving ass. Maybe he's just a punk. We'll never know, but you can be sure that the student's side of the story will never be heard.
Governments can't be so repressive if their citizens are fully armed.
When did the U.K. embrace Big Brother?
Reading profiles and looking at friend lists will get old eventually. If Napster were still around, I doubt kids would even waste their time.
Getting rid of incompetent management is harder than it sounds. That takes skill & balls. I've read a lot about Jobs' management style. Most CEOs don't seem to be as hands on. He seems to have a no compromise "my way or the highway" approach. I think his value is in his micromanagement.
I second this suggestion. If you don't have a good overview of your system after a full Gentoo install, then you simply weren't paying attention. The available tutorials are easy to read and follow. There IS a lot of manual work, but going through the motions will help burn it into your head. Practice makes perfect (doing not reading).
True. You can't keep poor developers from introducing overflows in their own code... but you can prevent a poorly written IM client from allowing an attacker to root the entire machine. The problem has never been buffer overflows, it's what you can do to the operating system with an unprivileged process.
I came across this:
"One important difference between R and RW media, however, is that the re-crystalized alloy of RW media will gradually decrystalize, taking the data with it" (Wikipedia)
Windows 3.0 had these things called UAEs or Unrecoverable Application Errors that crashed Windows. You know how they fixed them? In Windows 3.1, they became GPFs or General Protection Faults. They happened just as often, so it seems that only the name changed.
In Windows 95 & Windows NT, the GPFs became access violations (recoverable), but we were introduced to something new: The BSOD (blue screen of death). With Windows XP, I no longer get BSODs. Now, my entire machine simply reboots itself for no apparent reason. No, there's no adware or viruses. This is just what Windows does and has done for years. It's gotta crash, the question is how?
I've been a reluctant Windows user for 16 years. In all of those years, they have failed to make their product leaner, more stable, easier to use, or less expensive. The cost of Windows increases and the same old problems never get fixed. Often, they get worse.
Microsoft is the Ford Motor Company of the software world. Obsolescence is definitely built-in. Their software guzzles computing resources like an Excursion swallows gasoline. Then there's the spontaneous crashing, not unlike Ford's little problem with cars spontaneously combusting (due to faulty cruise control switches).
They should merge together and form MicroFord. Would you trust your life to a car powered by the technological expertise of Microsoft and Ford? I know I would. My car's gone far too long without a service pack.
If these were "REAL" developers tools, they wouldn't only support interpreted byte code. I'm all for giving homebrewers training wheels like C#, but I can't get interested until they're offering full C++ support.
There's no dye fade with RW formats. He didn't even bother to touch on rewritable media. I imagine they'd be much more resistant.
"The system requirements for Windows XP demand a minimum of 1.5Gb"
That's BEFORE service packs and any software applications folks. Service packs and patches can add up to a gigabyte.
You can still get BeOS (fully graphical) to run on a single floppy disk (approx. 1/1000th of a gigabyte)
There's a lot of momentum in trying to push source code viewing onto these devices (not just HTML). It's no surprise that Microsoft is completely opposed to this.
As a software developer, I think having the source to every piece of software on the machine is more about corporate control... it's about empowering the user. Kids can learn about the inner workings of any function, if they wish. It may not be for everyone, but SOME will take advantage of this opportunity. The device can be changed, customized, or dissected without limitation. I believe that a truly open system will be fully explored by the genuinely curious. Learning and innovation will come naturally.
I think there's a misconception that kids will only surf the web or read books with these things. Experience tells me that kids will do whatever they're allowed to do, and then try to do a bit more. Every child wants to know how things work. Limiting use to rigid educational goals will only limit the student's ability to learn and slowly kill their curiosity. As long as closed source operating systems stay off of these devices, there's a hope that they will someday be completely open for exploration.
IE6 runs reasonably well in Wine.