Not that I disagree with the principle of performance related pay, but how you judge performance can be manipulated in such a way that massive yields are made and everyone gets rich - when in reality the company is heading straight for bankruptcy.
At which point, of course, the government bails them out and they award themselves huge bonuses (for being good socialists)
If when I flipped up the top of the gear stick on my Aston Martin DB5 there was a little red button there. And just for kicks one night I decided to press that button while I was entertaining the latest of in my series of hot babes and she happened to be shot out of the roof of my car, I would be a little ticked off (and Q would also get an earful).
It's been a while since I've done any Windows programming, but IIRC, if the cursoron function is available for 3rd party vendors, then someone in Microsoft explicitly exported that function. It didn't just get there by magic. Who is at fault? MS making the function available and not documenting it and then changing it.
That's the same bullshit line that Mozilla tries when plugins break Firefox.
The OS is there to serve the end-users via vendor applications, not the other way round. In fact, on its own the OS is effectively useless.
You have to ask yourself why are there shortcuts? If applications can be written that can ignore the control established by the operating environment then what hope is there for even a basic level of security and stability.
Granted the hole is in Vista not Windows 7 - but I seriously doubt that it has been plugged.
In other words, every fossil was from a creature that was an evolutionary dead end.
Either I don't understand what you are saying - or you are wrong.
You and I are not dead ends - every creature between us and our bacterial forebears was an evolutionary success. The "aunts" and "uncles" that didn't reproduce are evolutionary dead ends - but that does mean their successful siblings were.
And there is nothing that says that once you reproduce you can't be fossilized. And on the flip side, you cannot say that those that were fossilized didn't reproduce...
Dinosaurs eggs are definitely evolutionary dead ends - but dinosaur adults are not (necessarily).
In my experience (blah blah blah), those who don't do stuff outside of 9 to 5 aren't necessarily bad at what they do - but people who are bad at what they do don't stuff outside 9 to 5.
It shouldn't be expected, because that's stupid, but it should be a note in the margin.
Sure Python and Shakespeare were innovative but they weren't the spearhead of any revolutionary movement. They were on the BBC FFS! (Well obviously Shakespeare wasn't).
Shakespeare was a resounding success because he appealed to the lowest common denominator. Now we look back in awe at his skill for three reasons: (1) because he was actually somewhat talented (2) because he talks strange and (3) mostly because we are too fucking high-brow for our own good.
Your little tirade posits an interesting point of view, but being elitist about Monty Python is ironic in the extreme.
In fact, it could be ironic - it all depends on the unmentioned intention.
Although, it would be a strange business strategy for Sony to drop the price of the Duo stick and increase their size in order to increase sales of UMD movies.
Like I always say, you just can't be up to them Japanese.
Here we see exactly what happens when the subject is exposed to the pedestrian humour of the genre typified by "I Love Lucy" and "The Honeymooners", while the more sophisticated Bonofskian humour exemplified by the Pythons soars albatrosslike over the head the individual. The juxtaposition of the two styles in the appropriate contextual form demonstrates vividly the technique in paramorphigenesis of the plentariationization after the dextratr.......
And from a management level the "Shit and Fix" programmer is great because they got the product out the door.
The "useless one" is the one who comes in to implement the simple feature that the customer wants, but can't. Not because it's beyond him, but because the original thing fails to provide the most important features for any product that is going to grow - maintainability and adaptability.
However, if I may adapt your motto - the "Quick shit, learn and dump" model actually works quite well.
There are a number of services that the container for these plugins should be provided and are therefore responsible for. Security is one of them - otherwise you can't claim to have a secure container.
Often we have heard of plugins being blamed for Firefox performance, for example, and I wouldn't accept that either.
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Depends on your definition of noob.
He's been installing and administrating Windows systems for 15 years - so by the general definition, he is no noob.
He's using Windows - so by my definition, he is a noob.
I know I shouldn't feed a troll, but I just can't resist.....
Outside of downloading, I upgraded from 9.04 to 9.10 (RC1) in about an hour - mostly unattended (while I was doing other stuff as well).
A friend of mine who is a complete MS fanboy is currently at 4 days and counting for a Windows 7 upgrade.
I think I value my time too much.
Not that I disagree with the principle of performance related pay, but how you judge performance can be manipulated in such a way that massive yields are made and everyone gets rich - when in reality the company is heading straight for bankruptcy.
At which point, of course, the government bails them out and they award themselves huge bonuses (for being good socialists)
If when I flipped up the top of the gear stick on my Aston Martin DB5 there was a little red button there. And just for kicks one night I decided to press that button while I was entertaining the latest of in my series of hot babes and she happened to be shot out of the roof of my car, I would be a little ticked off (and Q would also get an earful).
It's been a while since I've done any Windows programming, but IIRC, if the cursoron function is available for 3rd party vendors, then someone in Microsoft explicitly exported that function. It didn't just get there by magic. Who is at fault? MS making the function available and not documenting it and then changing it.
That's the same bullshit line that Mozilla tries when plugins break Firefox.
The OS is there to serve the end-users via vendor applications, not the other way round. In fact, on its own the OS is effectively useless.
You have to ask yourself why are there shortcuts? If applications can be written that can ignore the control established by the operating environment then what hope is there for even a basic level of security and stability.
Granted the hole is in Vista not Windows 7 - but I seriously doubt that it has been plugged.
It's a derivative work. So the royalties are still due.
However, I do believe that 'aful' is actually covered by GPL - and so maybe it is the OUP that is in trouble.
In other words, every fossil was from a creature that was an evolutionary dead end.
Either I don't understand what you are saying - or you are wrong.
You and I are not dead ends - every creature between us and our bacterial forebears was an evolutionary success. The "aunts" and "uncles" that didn't reproduce are evolutionary dead ends - but that does mean their successful siblings were.
And there is nothing that says that once you reproduce you can't be fossilized. And on the flip side, you cannot say that those that were fossilized didn't reproduce...
Dinosaurs eggs are definitely evolutionary dead ends - but dinosaur adults are not (necessarily).
There's nothing to see.
Ha! I crack myself up.
In my experience (blah blah blah), those who don't do stuff outside of 9 to 5 aren't necessarily bad at what they do - but people who are bad at what they do don't stuff outside 9 to 5.
It shouldn't be expected, because that's stupid, but it should be a note in the margin.
I'm extremely positive towards the guy but really I don't think he's done enough to deserve this.
Just like that other chap who was always making wild statements about what Microsoft was going to do next.
They let him go too. What was his name again? Will? Billy? ...something.
To be fair, if the guy gets the thing to work then he can call it whatever he wants.
Up to this point a 'hyperdrive' is a product of science fiction, so the only way you can stop him is to present your hyperdrive.
Fuck it, if he wanted to he could call it an 'Infinite Improbability Drive'.
He was sleeping with the FBI director's wife.
If 50% of the roads were mined, would you still use them?
Are you lost?
2 days after the fact.
Sure Python and Shakespeare were innovative but they weren't the spearhead of any revolutionary movement. They were on the BBC FFS! (Well obviously Shakespeare wasn't).
Shakespeare was a resounding success because he appealed to the lowest common denominator. Now we look back in awe at his skill for three reasons: (1) because he was actually somewhat talented (2) because he talks strange and (3) mostly because we are too fucking high-brow for our own good.
Your little tirade posits an interesting point of view, but being elitist about Monty Python is ironic in the extreme.
Yours affectionately,
John Paul Sartre.
Not just once either.
In fact, it could be ironic - it all depends on the unmentioned intention.
Although, it would be a strange business strategy for Sony to drop the price of the Duo stick and increase their size in order to increase sales of UMD movies.
Like I always say, you just can't be up to them Japanese.
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Oh we don't half talk posh don't we?
Here we see exactly what happens when the subject is exposed to the pedestrian humour of the genre typified by "I Love Lucy" and "The Honeymooners", while the more sophisticated Bonofskian humour exemplified by the Pythons soars albatrosslike over the head the individual. The juxtaposition of the two styles in the appropriate contextual form demonstrates vividly the technique in paramorphigenesis of the plentariationization after the dextratr.......
Stop that now! That's just silly.
Yeah, very funny, make fun of poor old George.
But don't forget many reputable artists support this - like... em.... Lily Allen.
And what about Sandie Shaw? Downloads of "Puppet on a String" must be crippling her career.
And from a management level the "Shit and Fix" programmer is great because they got the product out the door.
The "useless one" is the one who comes in to implement the simple feature that the customer wants, but can't. Not because it's beyond him, but because the original thing fails to provide the most important features for any product that is going to grow - maintainability and adaptability.
However, if I may adapt your motto - the "Quick shit, learn and dump" model actually works quite well.
There are a number of services that the container for these plugins should be provided and are therefore responsible for. Security is one of them - otherwise you can't claim to have a secure container.
Often we have heard of plugins being blamed for Firefox performance, for example, and I wouldn't accept that either.
Bing!