Depends on the people surveyed, too, I'd suspect. Your typical student is probably gonna buy the stuff because they don't know better. I'm a CS major in the honors college at my university, and I don't know one honors (ironically...) CS major that doesn't warez stuff. It's because those who know how to, will.
You count in the AOL audience, you get their ignorance, too.
Should be elegant, look good but be easy to use, and be as widely supported as possible. You want an easily navigated interface that suits your site, as well as a color scheme that is pleasant to look at.
Developing for the different viewing possibilites is a royal pain, but it a) should be done in the hobby arena, and b) MUST be done in the professional arena. Take into account when you're developing different browsers, platforms, resolutions, browser versions, etc. Because of these differences, try to conform to standards, make minimal use of technologies unsupported in some browsers (VBScript, lots of JScript) and try to code for ALL your users.
A good site will be easy to navigate, will help you along if you get stuck, is preferably searchable, and actually has content.
Whenever I receive an email from a spammer with one of those "click here to remove your email" links, I paste it into the browser, feeding in uce@ftc.gov as the email instead. Since those forms just feed into the spammer's "sucker" lists, it saves me the trouble of having to forward the email to them - the spammers just do it for me. Hitting up uce@ftc.gov 19 times a day - lets see how quickly they're put outta business:)
I'm working on a script that will let me send unsubscribe emails with uce@ftc.gov as the from header as well.
Given the circumstances terrorists operate under, MUCH more damage can be done with a car full fertilizer, and the IQ requirements are much lower.
Terrorists aren't interested in taking out one or two people, or hardened targets. They strike civillian establishments, which are not built to withstand a fertilizer bomb. Bunkers are. It's easier and cheaper to just buy the fertilizer, drive it into a parking garage, and set it off, rather than building a superlaser, mounting it on a plane, flying it into range, and setting it off.
Not every conventional warfare weapon is useful in the arena of terrorism, just like not every terrorist weapon is not useful in conventional warfare. How many car bombs did the US use in the Gulf War, again?
Exactly. People are quick to slam VB, and a lot of those criticisms are deserved. However, it has its place. For creating quick, simple user-friendly apps, it's unrivalled. For anything terribly complex, however, it really begins to show its weakness.
VB has its place. It's nowhere near being as good as C/C++ for 3D, server apps, drivers, etc., but it makes one heck of a good tool for developing simple user apps.
Regexes. No contest. After using them, it's difficult to imagine any mature language NOT having them. They're simply too powerful to ignore. It's a rather crippling feeling to have to work in a language that does not support them after having used them for a while.
I've been working in PHP and Perl for about a year and a half now, and all my university classes are all taught in Java. While there ARE regex libraries for Java, they aren't standard, and therefore aren't used when testing student submissions. I find myself pulling my hair out time and again when I run up against a problem that could be solved easily enough with a regex, but requires, due to the language, that I solve it the hard, long-winded slow way.
If you're gonna write a new language, make regexes native!
Most people work for 8 hours a day. Assembly line workers do the same thing for 8 hours a day plus
And they come home aching at the end of the day. My girlfriend works in retail, and comes home frequently quite unwilling to stand if at all possible. The fact of the matter is, repeated activity (IE, not sleeping) for prolonged periods of time can have adverse effects.
Heck, even sleeping can be hard on you. Anyone else ever made a transatlantic flight? The 7 hours in a seat (Even 1st class) is murder.
Now, I want a combo neural keyboard and mouse. I'll be the faster coder on Earth, and graphic work will be a breeze! Not to mention, when it's time for a little UT break, I'll be dead accurate!
When this is sufficiently fine tuned and is possible for humans to use safely, I'm gonna have a heyday.
I was on cable before I moved into the dorms at school, and it seemed that it was screaming. I'd max out, on a good day, at about 200 kBps down.
With a download accelerator on the university connection, I have hit 1.4 MBps (350 x 4 connections). That's megabytes, not bits. That kind of speed is really appreciated when downloading the lastest version of Castle Wolfenstein.
The bottleneck when downloading there is my memory and hard drive write speeds, not the net connection.
Then, who watches the watchman's watchman? And who watches the watchman's watchman's watchman? So on and so forth.
Until the people are the watchman, you're going to have corruption on all levels. That was the initial idea behind the American Government. Look where we are now. "Screw the people, what can it do for me?" Wonder why we have such a screwed up government?
The problem is, if the people are the watchmen, things like this don't come to be, you retain your freedoms, and Microsoft doesn't get paid. Therefore, we can be sure that that'll never happen. Microsoft can buy any legislation they want, these days...
Same here. I've been playing "violent" games since I was 13 or so, and I was always up for some target practice with the BB gun. I loved making swords out of sticks, or staffs out of bamboo, then having fights with the neighbor kids. And yet, somehow, I'm one of the most non-violent people you'll come across, even though I'm 18, 6'10" and 230 lbs., a wrestler, and could easily hold my own in a fight. I did all that and still managed to make it through high school without killing anybody. Heck, I've never even been in a fight.
It's not the games. It's not the action figures. It's not the toys with "super-duper killer-missle launching action". It's parents who don't know how to teach a kid what's right, what's wrong, and how to tell the difference. Reminds me of a recent Penny Arcade strip
Heh...my dad was employee #8 at Dell. Michael Dell used to help my Xerox my hand.
So close to being a "dellionaire" - my dad decided to leave Dell to start his own business which eventually tanked. He sold his stock options for some $12,000.
Maybe I should see if ol' Mike still remembers me...
If you're running Windows, get the Proxomitron. A few careful regexes, and you'll never see one of these again. Or a popup ad. Or an on-exit popup window. Or a javascript redirector. Or a million other things you hate.
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You count in the AOL audience, you get their ignorance, too.
Developing for the different viewing possibilites is a royal pain, but it a) should be done in the hobby arena, and b) MUST be done in the professional arena. Take into account when you're developing different browsers, platforms, resolutions, browser versions, etc. Because of these differences, try to conform to standards, make minimal use of technologies unsupported in some browsers (VBScript, lots of JScript) and try to code for ALL your users.
A good site will be easy to navigate, will help you along if you get stuck, is preferably searchable, and actually has content.
Oh, and NO auto-popups.
I'm working on a script that will let me send unsubscribe emails with uce@ftc.gov as the from header as well.
Any other ideas on how to abuse spammers?
Terrorists aren't interested in taking out one or two people, or hardened targets. They strike civillian establishments, which are not built to withstand a fertilizer bomb. Bunkers are. It's easier and cheaper to just buy the fertilizer, drive it into a parking garage, and set it off, rather than building a superlaser, mounting it on a plane, flying it into range, and setting it off.
Not every conventional warfare weapon is useful in the arena of terrorism, just like not every terrorist weapon is not useful in conventional warfare. How many car bombs did the US use in the Gulf War, again?
Not like we care about it or anything - it only has over 1500 comments :)
(Disclaimer: I'm as much a Jar-Jar hater as the rest...I just needed a way to post this :))
Good Will Hunting, anyone?
VB has its place. It's nowhere near being as good as C/C++ for 3D, server apps, drivers, etc., but it makes one heck of a good tool for developing simple user apps.
I've been working in PHP and Perl for about a year and a half now, and all my university classes are all taught in Java. While there ARE regex libraries for Java, they aren't standard, and therefore aren't used when testing student submissions. I find myself pulling my hair out time and again when I run up against a problem that could be solved easily enough with a regex, but requires, due to the language, that I solve it the hard, long-winded slow way.
If you're gonna write a new language, make regexes native!
And they come home aching at the end of the day. My girlfriend works in retail, and comes home frequently quite unwilling to stand if at all possible. The fact of the matter is, repeated activity (IE, not sleeping) for prolonged periods of time can have adverse effects.
Heck, even sleeping can be hard on you. Anyone else ever made a transatlantic flight? The 7 hours in a seat (Even 1st class) is murder.
Now, I want a combo neural keyboard and mouse. I'll be the faster coder on Earth, and graphic work will be a breeze! Not to mention, when it's time for a little UT break, I'll be dead accurate!
When this is sufficiently fine tuned and is possible for humans to use safely, I'm gonna have a heyday.
How else could he cause so much collective misery?
Nah...what's REALLY happening is that their Asian languages translator(s) quit, and they can't find a new one in time for their next release :)
It's so much easier to just forget about a substantial portion of the world, you know?
There's a recurring joke here in the office:
:)
Good programmers know how to write good code. Better programmers know how to steal it.
Free code repositories on the net are our best friend.
I bet it's the "Quantuim" :)
Rincewind? Where?! I don't remember him in the books...did he make a cameo?
(This is what you get when you have karma to burn. Ouch.)
Risk :)
With a download accelerator on the university connection, I have hit 1.4 MBps (350 x 4 connections). That's megabytes, not bits. That kind of speed is really appreciated when downloading the lastest version of Castle Wolfenstein.
The bottleneck when downloading there is my memory and hard drive write speeds, not the net connection.
Cable seems a lot like dial-up to me, now.
I love college.
Then, who watches the watchman's watchman? And who watches the watchman's watchman's watchman? So on and so forth.
Until the people are the watchman, you're going to have corruption on all levels. That was the initial idea behind the American Government. Look where we are now. "Screw the people, what can it do for me?" Wonder why we have such a screwed up government?
The problem is, if the people are the watchmen, things like this don't come to be, you retain your freedoms, and Microsoft doesn't get paid. Therefore, we can be sure that that'll never happen. Microsoft can buy any legislation they want, these days...
Oh, look! A DBZ action figure! (Score: -1, Violent)
Aheh...obligatory /.ism there...
It's not the games. It's not the action figures. It's not the toys with "super-duper killer-missle launching action". It's parents who don't know how to teach a kid what's right, what's wrong, and how to tell the difference. Reminds me of a recent Penny Arcade strip
Heh...my dad was employee #8 at Dell. Michael Dell used to help my Xerox my hand.
So close to being a "dellionaire" - my dad decided to leave Dell to start his own business which eventually tanked. He sold his stock options for some $12,000.
Maybe I should see if ol' Mike still remembers me...
If you're running Windows, get the Proxomitron. A few careful regexes, and you'll never see one of these again. Or a popup ad. Or an on-exit popup window. Or a javascript redirector. Or a million other things you hate.
Just with a one-way ticket.
Easy test:
Step 1: Press Alt-F4 to start the test.
Step 2: If you can read this, you passed.