The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, a film released in 2005...
...and Slashdot falls another notch in EVERY SINGLE *SUBSCRIBERS* OPINION. This is basic shit, relating to the actual audience you're targeting and having a fucking clue what you're talking about.
You should already have well and truly downloaded those by now....Oh wait, you mean the recent show with the same name and the constant stream of emo faggots as main characters?
"but that is not a question of scientific literacy"
Yes it is. If you believe you need more reliance on a 2000 year old fairy story in your country you can stay the fuck away from any science I have anything to do with.
If you're talking about 'hold your head this way, right click on your keyboard then unplug your RAM == crash' then yes a change might be something you weigh up.
When you're looking at the code and you see *'this is logically incorrect'* then you fix it immediately. If you're smart you also create some unit tests _proving_ that it was incorrect before and is now correct.
Fuck everyone else who wants to reformat the headers of this part of the project and has it all checked out, fuck people who bitch about 'stability' in the sense of things not changing (after all, you don't HAVE to upgrade), you just fucking fix it.
That's what a programmer does - tells a computer how to *correctly* solve a problem.
You may be correct but there's a couple of differences - firstly the processor designs are so incredibly complex now (Intel recently issued a 'microcode patch' that actually disabled some instructions on a certain batch of CPUs) that they're all optimised by computer, so it's unlikely that there's much leftover unused functionality. That brings me to the second point, in that whatever 'undocumented' behaviour is available is unlikely to be as useful as e.g. a deprecated opcode on a ZX80. Moreover, you don't go buy a ZX80 with exactly the same processor as everyone else any more. Not only do you have multiple brands to choose from for the same architecture, you probably aren't even paying attention to the exact model you are buying.
It's an oldschool attitude to not touch things, from back in the day where software was so flaky that chances were someone had already 'exploited' the bug to do something non-malicious.
It drives me fucking crazy, having been born pretty much into the internet age where the corrected answer can be available in *seconds*. It's pretty obvious from the description what the bug is, so saying you aren't going to fix it is, as you say, pure laziness.
"our culture is a culture of fear and cowardice:( plain and simple, when we all realise this collectively (lets hope it doesn't take a collective ass kicking) we'll grow up"
Your culture is a culture of guns. You don't even need to grow up about it if you just stop letting people shoot at each other all day long.
So you mean it has things like a background, icons, and a screen you interact with by touching it? FFS would you also like a patent for those rounded edges?
The ribbon and metro were undoubtedly the work of 'UX' people. I've long held that these people have no place in our industry and just make everything fucking suck for everyone else.
The original question (in my filtered view) was asking whether you'd be happy with China demanding information stored on US Microsoft servers.
If you're saying that question is hypothetical because China isn't the US then I disagree. Microsoft does business in China. The Chinese government could assert that its control over that data also extends to the US, in exactly the same way as has occurred here.
I don't think people would be anywhere near as comfortable with that.
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Are you a guy who is lifting bricks into place to make a building when the sun comes up in summer and makes you too hot to continue?
Are you there milking the cows to get us some milk when the sun _doesn't_ come up in winter and it's so freezing you can't move your fingers?
Nobody gives a fuck what _you_ think about what time it is, office boy, and after reading these all comments, I thank fuck for that.
Informative? A two word post? Do you people know what that word means?
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, a film released in 2005...
...and Slashdot falls another notch in EVERY SINGLE *SUBSCRIBERS* OPINION. This is basic shit, relating to the actual audience you're targeting and having a fucking clue what you're talking about.
Meanwhile the rest of the world sees that you ARE the baddies.
You should already have well and truly downloaded those by now. ...Oh wait, you mean the recent show with the same name and the constant stream of emo faggots as main characters?
Care to back that up with, say, some research?
"but that is not a question of scientific literacy"
Yes it is. If you believe you need more reliance on a 2000 year old fairy story in your country you can stay the fuck away from any science I have anything to do with.
If you're talking about 'hold your head this way, right click on your keyboard then unplug your RAM == crash' then yes a change might be something you weigh up.
When you're looking at the code and you see *'this is logically incorrect'* then you fix it immediately. If you're smart you also create some unit tests _proving_ that it was incorrect before and is now correct.
Fuck everyone else who wants to reformat the headers of this part of the project and has it all checked out, fuck people who bitch about 'stability' in the sense of things not changing (after all, you don't HAVE to upgrade), you just fucking fix it.
That's what a programmer does - tells a computer how to *correctly* solve a problem.
You may be correct but there's a couple of differences - firstly the processor designs are so incredibly complex now (Intel recently issued a 'microcode patch' that actually disabled some instructions on a certain batch of CPUs) that they're all optimised by computer, so it's unlikely that there's much leftover unused functionality. That brings me to the second point, in that whatever 'undocumented' behaviour is available is unlikely to be as useful as e.g. a deprecated opcode on a ZX80. Moreover, you don't go buy a ZX80 with exactly the same processor as everyone else any more. Not only do you have multiple brands to choose from for the same architecture, you probably aren't even paying attention to the exact model you are buying.
It's an oldschool attitude to not touch things, from back in the day where software was so flaky that chances were someone had already 'exploited' the bug to do something non-malicious.
It drives me fucking crazy, having been born pretty much into the internet age where the corrected answer can be available in *seconds*. It's pretty obvious from the description what the bug is, so saying you aren't going to fix it is, as you say, pure laziness.
Damn I wish I had points now.
"years of hard work undermined by someone who cobbles together a clone in a matter of weeks or days"
Sorry but if I can reproduce the game in entirety in days, then what you've done is years of dicking around.
It's time we stopped babying everyone who got the hang of 2D graphics and sound in Android like they've invented the internet.
"our culture is a culture of fear and cowardice :( plain and simple, when we all realise this collectively (lets hope it doesn't take a collective ass kicking) we'll grow up"
Your culture is a culture of guns. You don't even need to grow up about it if you just stop letting people shoot at each other all day long.
Erm... Foxxconn was around LOOOONG before iPhones were.
So you mean it has things like a background, icons, and a screen you interact with by touching it? FFS would you also like a patent for those rounded edges?
You're exactly right. This can probably be blamed more for the non-arrival of that 'Linux Heyday' we keep pretending is arriving than anything else.
UX has only ever made software _LESS_ usable. Good luck if you go down that road.
The ribbon and metro were undoubtedly the work of 'UX' people. I've long held that these people have no place in our industry and just make everything fucking suck for everyone else.
so that the society becomes wealthy due to absence of government in free market capitalistic economy
I nearly fell off my chair laughing. The 1800s called, they want their ideals back.
Now to ensure that every high-school age child in America gets one!
The original question (in my filtered view) was asking whether you'd be happy with China demanding information stored on US Microsoft servers.
If you're saying that question is hypothetical because China isn't the US then I disagree. Microsoft does business in China. The Chinese government could assert that its control over that data also extends to the US, in exactly the same way as has occurred here.
I don't think people would be anywhere near as comfortable with that.
That's right, because in 1994 law enforcement was infallible.
That's a stupid response. The child most likely didn't give consent to be shot either.
Then again if this story is from the US, 90% of your kids get shot before reaching adulthood, don't they? :-P
Thanks guys but would you fucking stop now? First you decide locked-in un-upgradeably consoles are cool. Then you decide DRM-laden games are cool.
Now you're going to make the industry think we all want to rent games ad-inifinitum. For fuck's sake STOP!!!
I sometimes like to play my games from 10 years ago. Will you be able to do that? FFS...
Hahahah laughing at you so hard now it hurts. I for one welcome "Jobi".