Yes, because the quality of the person is based on their manners at the movies.
Did you read the article?
This father feels the need to text her in movie theaters. Where other adults have paid money to be able to sit and watch something.
He didn't shoot him for texting, he shot him after he turned out to be a complete asshole over it and started throwing popcorn.
An armed society is a polite society. Sometimes an example has to be made. I thank the shooter for what he did, giving up his personal liberty so that we can all enjoy movies in peace.
In a nutshell: work on something truly great for your customers. Not for your delusional marketing requirements or internal power point power plays, e.g. "mobile and tablets are the future, and so we need to privilege their interface everywhere because we want Windows Everywhere."
This. Windows 8 was driven by powerpoint market analysts, not people who want to do work on computers.
They shouldn't have two GUI modes based on entirely different paradigms. It's absolute madness.
Why? I could easily imagine having a media player running in Metro while I'm working on the desktop. Metro is good for stuff like that. I could have skype on there as well, etc.
A single key to switch state between "real work" and "stuff that needs occasional attention" seems like a useful thing to me, especially if I could have something like the "Leap Motion" working in the Metro interface.
Scroll lock on, enter Metro, wave fingers at screen to do something.
Scroll lock off, go back to desktop.
Try hitting your scroll lock key a few times and imagining it. That seems really powerful to me...
Not speakiing for the GP, but I also kinda like it: 1. I like the visuals more than the glassiness of Vista/7. I'm a fan of bright, bold colors. 2. I like big buttons better than I like lists of things for selecting stuff. Functionally, it still is searchable/filterable so there's not really much of a downside. And the big square buttons are easier to hit with a mouse than little items on a list. 3. I like the way Windows 8 organizes programs better - they seem to be stopping the vendors from creating 9 million folders and icons for everything that you install.
It should really be the other way around. Drink at sixteen/eighteen and not drive until they've got over the initial "wow I'm drinking!" phase (two or three years later).
It's quite simple, really: a) If somebody is in "Metro" mode they stay there until they deliberately switch to "desktop". b) If somebody is in "desktop" mode, they stay on the desktop until they deliberately switch to "Metro".
Switching between the two should be an easy gesture, maybe even a special new key on machines with a proper mouse/screen/keyboard.
(And maybe the "scroll lock" key could work for us Model M diehards - is that really too much to ask? It even means we get a "Metro" warning light on the keyboard as a bonus feature).
Agreed. Ignorant fools who have no idea about smart pointers and containers should shut their traps rather than pontificate about C++, since they know nothing about its first principles.
Yep. I don't recall the last time I did manual memory management in C++ or had a buffer overflow. C++ pointers are either valid or NULL, just like Java. std::vector has had range checking for operator[] turned on by default for quite a few years. C++ done properly has just as much memory safety and automatic memory management as Java without all the downsides of a garbage collector.
The PINs were supposedly encrypted with 3DES (which isn't exactly robust)
Stop repeating those crappy news sites. There's nothing wrong with 3DES.
DES is one of the few cyphers which has never shown a weakness in the algorithm. Yes, it has a small key size, hence 3DES. The only real reason not to use it is software performance (DES was designed for hardware implementation, not software).
Programs written in Java or any other modern managed language are still much more secure than code written in C++. There are no stack or heap overflows to worry about, no double frees.
You're thinking of C, not C++.
(Trouble is, so are many people who put "C++" on their resumes...)
The problem with Java is that the exploits are in Oracle's hands, not ours. We can't fix them even if we know what they are...
The other problem with Java is that if I install the runtime on my machine to run a little corporate desktop app it also ends up in the web browser, exposed to every single web page I visit. In what universe was that a good idea?
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The problem with windows 8 is not metro,
Yes it is.
The constant dropping you into the "Metro" interface when you were busy using a desktop app is what ruins it.
Every laptop I ever owned had easy access to the disk through a panel in the bottom.
If we allow popcorn then what else should we allow? Nachos with cheese? How about a 30oz soda...?
Right...because a three year old will totally understand why the texting suddenly stops when the movie begins. Not.
Yes, because the quality of the person is based on their manners at the movies.
Did you read the article?
This father feels the need to text her in movie theaters. Where other adults have paid money to be able to sit and watch something.
He didn't shoot him for texting, he shot him after he turned out to be a complete asshole over it and started throwing popcorn.
An armed society is a polite society. Sometimes an example has to be made. I thank the shooter for what he did, giving up his personal liberty so that we can all enjoy movies in peace.
Which is an actual crime here?
The real "crime" is sitting in a movie and *needing* to text your three year old daughter.
The police are "good guys"?
Pull the hard disk out and image it when you get home. Anything fails? Restore the image before you send it back.
Or got for a minimal disk option then put a bigger/better disk in for Linux. Keep the original in a drawer.
In a nutshell: work on something truly great for your customers. Not for your delusional marketing requirements or internal power point power plays, e.g. "mobile and tablets are the future, and so we need to privilege their interface everywhere because we want Windows Everywhere."
This. Windows 8 was driven by powerpoint market analysts, not people who want to do work on computers.
They shouldn't have two GUI modes based on entirely different paradigms. It's absolute madness.
Why? I could easily imagine having a media player running in Metro while I'm working on the desktop. Metro is good for stuff like that. I could have skype on there as well, etc.
A single key to switch state between "real work" and "stuff that needs occasional attention" seems like a useful thing to me, especially if I could have something like the "Leap Motion" working in the Metro interface.
Scroll lock on, enter Metro, wave fingers at screen to do something.
Scroll lock off, go back to desktop.
Try hitting your scroll lock key a few times and imagining it. That seems really powerful to me...
Not speakiing for the GP, but I also kinda like it:
1. I like the visuals more than the glassiness of Vista/7. I'm a fan of bright, bold colors.
2. I like big buttons better than I like lists of things for selecting stuff. Functionally, it still is searchable/filterable so there's not really much of a downside. And the big square buttons are easier to hit with a mouse than little items on a list.
3. I like the way Windows 8 organizes programs better - they seem to be stopping the vendors from creating 9 million folders and icons for everything that you install.
So the reason you're posting AC is...?
Touch screen technology has been available for decades. Why do we not see touch screen monitors all over the place?
Answer: "Gorilla Arm Syndrome".
And fingerprints.
It should really be the other way around. Drink at sixteen/eighteen and not drive until they've got over the initial "wow I'm drinking!" phase (two or three years later).
This suffers from the usual "caffeine" bias in that it only works if you're not a regular coffee drinker.
Coffee/caffeine does nothing if you're a regular drinker
(except bring you back up to what the rest of the world considers "normal" - caffeine withdrawal is another subject).
They should hire me to fix it...
It's quite simple, really:
a) If somebody is in "Metro" mode they stay there until they deliberately switch to "desktop".
b) If somebody is in "desktop" mode, they stay on the desktop until they deliberately switch to "Metro".
Switching between the two should be an easy gesture, maybe even a special new key on machines with a proper mouse/screen/keyboard.
(And maybe the "scroll lock" key could work for us Model M diehards - is that really too much to ask? It even means we get a "Metro" warning light on the keyboard as a bonus feature).
How hard can that be?
You should stop reading wikipedia for your info. DES is woefully weak, hence triple DES, which is 168 bits long and has yet to be cracked.
Short key != weakness in algorithm.
DES has never been "broken".
Why does this happen?
I dunno, mine doesn't do it.
Try asking the people who maintain that particular compiler...
Agreed. Ignorant fools who have no idea about smart pointers and containers should shut their traps rather than pontificate about C++, since they know nothing about its first principles.
Yep. I don't recall the last time I did manual memory management in C++ or had a buffer overflow. C++ pointers are either valid or NULL, just like Java. std::vector has had range checking for operator[] turned on by default for quite a few years. C++ done properly has just as much memory safety and automatic memory management as Java without all the downsides of a garbage collector.
Is that still allowed? It started out as recommended practice but I thought they changed the license. Maybe it's just me.
OTOH, do people actually do that? Most of the Java apps I've seen just say "Install Java!!"
The PINs were supposedly encrypted with 3DES (which isn't exactly robust)
Stop repeating those crappy news sites. There's nothing wrong with 3DES.
DES is one of the few cyphers which has never shown a weakness in the algorithm. Yes, it has a small key size, hence 3DES. The only real reason not to use it is software performance (DES was designed for hardware implementation, not software).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Encryption_Standard#Replacement_algorithms
Its amazing how Java went from being the favoured child here on Slashdot to something generally reviled and hated over the past decade.
Why? Changing your mind when presented with strong evidence is a sign of intelligence.
You should only be "amazed" when this doesn't happen (ie. religion, politics...)
Programs written in Java or any other modern managed language are still much more secure than code written in C++. There are no stack or heap overflows to worry about, no double frees.
You're thinking of C, not C++.
(Trouble is, so are many people who put "C++" on their resumes...)
The problem with Java is that the exploits are in Oracle's hands, not ours. We can't fix them even if we know what they are...
The other problem with Java is that if I install the runtime on my machine to run a little corporate desktop app it also ends up in the web browser, exposed to every single web page I visit. In what universe was that a good idea?
all the pictures appear to be 'shopped.
ie. They're after tax dollars.
More amazing value from our taxpayer dollars...
A very rich child, with the government in their pocket. Why would they discontinue their behaviour?
Because Samsung is outselling them by a very wide margin...?