The Register is the IT version of The Sun; A Red Top tabloid.
The difference is, The Register is unashamedly and admittedly biased. They say what they think and tell you that. The Sun pretends it isn't, and has some idea that it represents the moral backbone of society.
Sorry, yes, I forgot the Scottish ones (not been to scotland since I cycled to John o Groats), and the Express! The express makes me giggle. More than 10 years after an open-and-shut case where someone who was drunk was speeding in a tunnel to get away from paparazzi hit a pillar, people still buy it in the vague hope that there's some NEW news about this 12 year old MAJOR MURDERING CONTROVERSY ZOMG!!!
It works both ways. The British government and the American government simultaneously had meetings with the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England 2 days ago.
Obama came out with tough new regulations. Gordon Brown came saying one wishy washy thing, whilst the Bank of England didn't get the tougher regulations they were asking for, and now want to challenge the government in court.
And as for the British press being cool, here's a quick rundown:
The Sun: Trashy tabloid, most popular paper, tells thick people who to vote for. Banned in Liverpool after a controversial story suggesting Liverpool fans were responsible for the Hillsborough disaster
The Mirror: Wishes it was the sun. Even more trashy.
The Times: Owned by Murdoch, like the Sun, but seems to understand that its readerbase has brains, whilst trying to slip political opinion through without you noticing.
The Independent: "independent", my arse. I used to read this. As much as I was against the Iraq war, I don't appreciate being lectured on it on a daily basis. They like preaching to the converted. People supposedly buy this one because it lacks opinion. The editor is best mates with the head of MI6. Also horrifically boring.
The Daily Mail: Right wing christian crap, obsessed with house prices and Elizabeth Hurley. Encourages people who haven't even watched the show to complain to the BBC about someone saying something rude, and complain they do, in their thousands.
The Guardian: They write this in a very small font, just so they can fit in the HUGE essays written by political activists who like to drone on and on and on about some green issue whilst everyone else has fallen asleep. You can read the entirety of the Sun in the time it takes to read the front page of the Guardian.
The Telegraph: Like the Daily Mail, but with less readers. Also obsessed with Elizabeth Hurley. Source of the expenses scandal, which they've been milking for nearly 2 months now. Ok, the MPs did wrong, but they also have jobs to do, and all they've been doing for the past 2 months is apologise, resign, and shout at eachother.
The People: Apparently still running. First UK paper to be printed in colour, but I haven't seen it on sale anywhere for years.
Metro: Free newspaper found outside tube and train stations. Written by the same company as the daily mail, but with all the political bias taken out. Designed to be read in 20 minutes. Always has a stupid non-news story on page 3 about someone's pet cat climbing Everest or something. Letters page
Various regional newspapers: "Local man bitten by local dog in local park". Win tickets to see Neasden FC playing this Saturday!!!
Private Eye: Fortnightly paper. Reports on the newspapers themselves. Prints stuff that newspapers don't dare print from freelance journalists because of the potential implications. Editor is Ian Hislop who is "the most sued man in Britain". Very cynical, and often quite funny.
Look, you fucking tosser... do you ACTUALLY BELIEVE that as a British man, I desire a slave? Given that your country took another 60 years and a civil-fucking-war to establish an abolition. do you think you are responsible for your country's inability to abolish slavery?
lets get down to some basics. You don't have any slaves, and you don't know any slavers. Good! Grow up.
I don't think people like the BNP who keep going on about the erosion of British values actually know what those values are.
I think, by the fact that you're writing this, that you represent British values, and yet think you're unique. I assume that you're British by the use of the word "we". Well, ME TOO, although. well.. take slavery for an example
are you a slaver?
no.. neither am I
You're not unique for believing this. You're NORMAL, So.. British values in fucking 2009. Please define again. Neither you nor I are responsible for the past. We are only responsible for our own actions. Don't pander to the apologencia. You have done nothing wrong. Just maintain your sense of good.
Well, to distinguish between British and American empires, the British would use the barrel of a gun to create democracies, rather than attack them and replace them with dictators. Also, the British would at least be down to earth enough to call it an empire.
Amateur. I've been finishing things before they've requested them for years! Gets me respect. OW PLEASE DON'T HURT ME NO BOSS I'M NOT READING THAT NERD SITE AGAIN!!!!!
I think they're thinking more "apps", and not "libstdc++.so".
Imagine freshmeat, but without the reams and reams of crap in it. A browseable interface with pictures, and "featured app of the month" and stuff. There's probably countless applications out there that would might make my life easier or more entertaining, but it's impossible to find. On games alone, look at all the unrated or 1/5 games on happypenguin.org. "oh no, it's another pacman clone written by a 13 year old in perl". If someone got paid to go through all this crap, and make it easy to install (which would basically be a point-and-click front-end to apt) it might be a good thing.
I'd be more prepared to listen to them if they first started giving a slice of their profits to the underpaid developers who made the games in the first place.
Tip of the week: Even if you're not writing QT code, the integrated qmake builder works WAY better than the autoconf stuff.. then again, anything works better than autoconf;-)
It's the C programming language which is at fault here. Arrays in C aren't really arrays, they're just pointers. Most modern languages (such as D, which all C++ programmers should investigate) have bounds checking on actual arrays.
Crippling an important C function is a dumb idea. Firstly, most of the code I write (mostly VST softsynths) isn't subject to any security risks. Who is going to crack a rarely used plugin for a much larger application which probably has holes of its own? Secondly, nine times out of ten, the "count" parameter I pass usually comes from the "sizeof()" function, so it's rather difficult to get that wrong.
In any respect, kernel aside, Microsoft has a perfectly good overflow-proof language which can be used to write the majority of their applications in. You may have heard of it.. it's called C#/.NET. Effectively, what they are doing is banning the use of an essential C function in programs which actually have to be written in C because.NET isn't low level enough. Oh well. not my problem. Good luck, MS.
Wow.. that's a huge response to what effectively was a joke to make a point;-) Ok, I admit it, I can't design a rocket, but it would be a darn site easier than recovering that filesystem.. for a start, I could probably read most of the rocket stuff from books.:-)
undelete WHAT? you don't know the filename. You have 13 million files to undelete. go for it! When a unix filesystem deletes a file, it merely removes the filename from a linked list, and the file's contents are scattered across the disk. Your knowledge of filesystems is somewhat lacking, mate.
well, rocket science isn't really "rocket science". You put fuel in it, it burns, and it ejects pressure from the back.
Unfortunately, running an undelete program IS rocket science. First, you need the filenames. 13 years of data sounds like a lot of filenames, probably auto-generated.
Brief summary..
1) I hate abuse of P2P. Some of us use it for efficient downloading.
2) I'm not a pirate
3) Normally, I'd read the back of the book and buy it if I wanted it.
4) Tell me why I should buy it. Here's your chance.
That's a shame. Me, all of the greatest minds in science, all of the porn stars, rock stars, philosophers, and anyone who has ever contributed anything to enriching our lives, and of course, chuck norris, will be partying in hell, while you get to live on a cloud with Jerry Falwell.
Slashdot Mirror
"China Starts/Stops Blocking Google"
"China briefly blocks Google" would've done. Honestly, the quality of English in Slashdot stories these days is deteriorating below 5th grade.
"LONDON, England (CNN) -- Scientists in the United States are developing.."
Wait.. where?
It is when I do it in my clown suit.
Nah.. they probably just downloaded the "iSurgery" app for their iPhone.
The difference is, The Register is unashamedly and admittedly biased. They say what they think and tell you that. The Sun pretends it isn't, and has some idea that it represents the moral backbone of society.
Sorry, yes, I forgot the Scottish ones (not been to scotland since I cycled to John o Groats), and the Express! The express makes me giggle. More than 10 years after an open-and-shut case where someone who was drunk was speeding in a tunnel to get away from paparazzi hit a pillar, people still buy it in the vague hope that there's some NEW news about this 12 year old MAJOR MURDERING CONTROVERSY ZOMG!!!
It works both ways. The British government and the American government simultaneously had meetings with the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England 2 days ago.
Obama came out with tough new regulations. Gordon Brown came saying one wishy washy thing, whilst the Bank of England didn't get the tougher regulations they were asking for, and now want to challenge the government in court.
And as for the British press being cool, here's a quick rundown:
The Sun: Trashy tabloid, most popular paper, tells thick people who to vote for. Banned in Liverpool after a controversial story suggesting Liverpool fans were responsible for the Hillsborough disaster
The Mirror: Wishes it was the sun. Even more trashy.
The Times: Owned by Murdoch, like the Sun, but seems to understand that its readerbase has brains, whilst trying to slip political opinion through without you noticing.
The Independent: "independent", my arse. I used to read this. As much as I was against the Iraq war, I don't appreciate being lectured on it on a daily basis. They like preaching to the converted. People supposedly buy this one because it lacks opinion. The editor is best mates with the head of MI6. Also horrifically boring.
The Daily Mail: Right wing christian crap, obsessed with house prices and Elizabeth Hurley. Encourages people who haven't even watched the show to complain to the BBC about someone saying something rude, and complain they do, in their thousands.
The Guardian: They write this in a very small font, just so they can fit in the HUGE essays written by political activists who like to drone on and on and on about some green issue whilst everyone else has fallen asleep. You can read the entirety of the Sun in the time it takes to read the front page of the Guardian.
The Telegraph: Like the Daily Mail, but with less readers. Also obsessed with Elizabeth Hurley. Source of the expenses scandal, which they've been milking for nearly 2 months now. Ok, the MPs did wrong, but they also have jobs to do, and all they've been doing for the past 2 months is apologise, resign, and shout at eachother.
The People: Apparently still running. First UK paper to be printed in colour, but I haven't seen it on sale anywhere for years.
Metro: Free newspaper found outside tube and train stations. Written by the same company as the daily mail, but with all the political bias taken out. Designed to be read in 20 minutes. Always has a stupid non-news story on page 3 about someone's pet cat climbing Everest or something. Letters page
Various regional newspapers: "Local man bitten by local dog in local park". Win tickets to see Neasden FC playing this Saturday!!!
Private Eye: Fortnightly paper. Reports on the newspapers themselves. Prints stuff that newspapers don't dare print from freelance journalists because of the potential implications. Editor is Ian Hislop who is "the most sued man in Britain". Very cynical, and often quite funny.
So. The British press is shit.
Look, you fucking tosser... do you ACTUALLY BELIEVE that as a British man, I desire a slave? Given that your country took another 60 years and a civil-fucking-war to establish an abolition. do you think you are responsible for your country's inability to abolish slavery?
lets get down to some basics. You don't have any slaves, and you don't know any slavers. Good! Grow up.
I think, by the fact that you're writing this, that you represent British values, and yet think you're unique. I assume that you're British by the use of the word "we". Well, ME TOO, although. well.. take slavery for an example
are you a slaver?
no.. neither am I
You're not unique for believing this. You're NORMAL, So.. British values in fucking 2009. Please define again. Neither you nor I are responsible for the past. We are only responsible for our own actions. Don't pander to the apologencia. You have done nothing wrong. Just maintain your sense of good.
Well, to distinguish between British and American empires, the British would use the barrel of a gun to create democracies, rather than attack them and replace them with dictators. Also, the British would at least be down to earth enough to call it an empire.
Amateur. I've been finishing things before they've requested them for years! Gets me respect. OW PLEASE DON'T HURT ME NO BOSS I'M NOT READING THAT NERD SITE AGAIN!!!!!
I think they're thinking more "apps", and not "libstdc++.so".
Imagine freshmeat, but without the reams and reams of crap in it. A browseable interface with pictures, and "featured app of the month" and stuff. There's probably countless applications out there that would might make my life easier or more entertaining, but it's impossible to find. On games alone, look at all the unrated or 1/5 games on happypenguin.org. "oh no, it's another pacman clone written by a 13 year old in perl". If someone got paid to go through all this crap, and make it easy to install (which would basically be a point-and-click front-end to apt) it might be a good thing.
Well, I like eating meat, they like eating meat, maybe they could.. oh uh..
It's not even news either. Studies showed that rats make high pitched (ultrasound) noises when you tickle them.
I'd be more prepared to listen to them if they first started giving a slice of their profits to the underpaid developers who made the games in the first place.
Tip of the week: Even if you're not writing QT code, the integrated qmake builder works WAY better than the autoconf stuff.. then again, anything works better than autoconf ;-)
It's the C programming language which is at fault here. Arrays in C aren't really arrays, they're just pointers. Most modern languages (such as D, which all C++ programmers should investigate) have bounds checking on actual arrays.
Crippling an important C function is a dumb idea. Firstly, most of the code I write (mostly VST softsynths) isn't subject to any security risks. Who is going to crack a rarely used plugin for a much larger application which probably has holes of its own? Secondly, nine times out of ten, the "count" parameter I pass usually comes from the "sizeof()" function, so it's rather difficult to get that wrong.
In any respect, kernel aside, Microsoft has a perfectly good overflow-proof language which can be used to write the majority of their applications in. You may have heard of it.. it's called C#/.NET. Effectively, what they are doing is banning the use of an essential C function in programs which actually have to be written in C because .NET isn't low level enough. Oh well. not my problem. Good luck, MS.
Wow.. that's a huge response to what effectively was a joke to make a point ;-) Ok, I admit it, I can't design a rocket, but it would be a darn site easier than recovering that filesystem.. for a start, I could probably read most of the rocket stuff from books. :-)
undelete WHAT? you don't know the filename. You have 13 million files to undelete. go for it! When a unix filesystem deletes a file, it merely removes the filename from a linked list, and the file's contents are scattered across the disk. Your knowledge of filesystems is somewhat lacking, mate.
well, rocket science isn't really "rocket science". You put fuel in it, it burns, and it ejects pressure from the back.
Unfortunately, running an undelete program IS rocket science. First, you need the filenames. 13 years of data sounds like a lot of filenames, probably auto-generated.
Brief summary.. 1) I hate abuse of P2P. Some of us use it for efficient downloading. 2) I'm not a pirate 3) Normally, I'd read the back of the book and buy it if I wanted it. 4) Tell me why I should buy it. Here's your chance.
"I'd still drive 5 miles roundtrip to the station every day."
That's 2.5 miles each way. You can clear that in 10 minutes on a bike.
flamunnydant
That's a shame. Me, all of the greatest minds in science, all of the porn stars, rock stars, philosophers, and anyone who has ever contributed anything to enriching our lives, and of course, chuck norris, will be partying in hell, while you get to live on a cloud with Jerry Falwell.