You say that but this is slashdot. Search for "Office Ribbon" or "Awesomebar" to see the sheer force of "The old system wasn't broken why update it?" or more accurately "I refuse to learn anything new" around here
Having built a myriad of websites in my time I can say with some authority that at any time a business has any contact with any customer, client or potential customer, or someone who's filling out the "contact us" form on the website they will not pass up the opportunity to request their name,DOB,email,address,postcode,phone number,NI/IRS/TAX code,type of dwelling,number of bedrooms,number of children,favourite ice cream,dog's name and colour of socks.
They will also make all of these mandatory, even if all you want to do is ask "are you open on sunday?"
I don't think there's any actual purpose to this, I just think that if there's a database then the boss will want to fill it with as much "data" as possible, just in case it's handy. Even if it's illegal they don't care, they probably don't even plan to use it for marketing, they just NEED TO KNOW!!!!
Or maybe the other 61% of people are not coders, hackers, devs, engineers or basement-dwellers and are still a bit scared of their computer, or think it's in charge, or has good reason to behave the way it does or - most importantly - think that if the computer goes wrong in *any way* it must somehow be their own fault.
As per request I'll refrain from saying "that's not what you need" but still. They wont be able to "enumerate" if you have a firewall, you don't need NAT to block incoming ports. I prepared these diagrams and post links whenever this is discussed on slashdot:
I remember getting that screen and it being such a shit hackjob (even more so than the rest of the site) that I double triple checked the URL and everything just to make sure it wasn't a MITM attempt at password stealing. And then continued to change my password to the old one, just like you. Nice
Feeling your pain, i became suspicious aged late 20s but the final nail in the coffin - scoring 37/50 on the autism test (normal humans get about 15 IIRC) - came when I was in my 30s.
Fortunately by that time I'd decided to get over it. A lot of which involves acting the part of someone who has self confidence (as opposed to the reality of total self doubt) and actually talks to girls on occasion (as opposed to spending too long trying to think of what to say and talking myself out of it).
The most important lesson I've learnt about interacting with humans is that if you stop TRYING so hard and are honest then what look like pitfalls - she talks about a book and author you've never heard of - become opportunities: you tell her you've never heard of either and show an interest. Turns out humans love it when you show an interest in them and the things they like, so just keep em talking and use your geek powers to remember this information for the next encounter: Did you finish that book you were reading? Who was the author again? (It's enough that you remembered this much, really!)
I find that with all software though, not just roms and not just android. But for a pertinent example the guy who ported UAE to android did a great job getting it running but stopped when it suited his needs. You can control the mouse pointer with the trackball (if your android HW device happens to have one) but you can't place the pointer using the touch screen, that part is fubar. And like 99% of of ports that get to the "it works for me stage" he's abandoned it and won't respond to messages asking for the source. Meaning the rest of us will have to start from scratch if we're to get past that problem, and no doubt whoever takes up that challenge will also get their version to the "works for me" stage and abandon it with completely different issues./rant
Re: belt tightening you're right. A millionaire can lose 10, 20, 30% of their income and still be a millionaire. For the rest of us losing 10/20/30% can mean the difference between paying the bills or being turfed out on the street
imagine the reverse of ebay sniper tools. Zillions of them. All programmed ( BY HUMANS ) to sell if the price drops below a certain value in order to cash in before they become loss making.
Also it would piss off every business in the country, what with all the cash flowing through them pipes, and the gov (both in the US and here in the UK) would NEVER do that
>ISPs implementing a lower "guaranteed bandwidth" threshold like you proposed in (1) >(e.g. your connection can peak at 5 Mbps but you're only guaranteed 1.5 Mbps)
This. Seems really dumbly obvious to me but I presume the corporations don't like the idea about having to be upfront about what "up to" means in terms of bandwidth.
They CAN give out 1:1 broadband, they just would then have to sell it as "always* 256KB/s" instead of "up to 3MB/s" and requiring that sort of honesty would be unfair on the poor ISPs
* except during electrical/equipment/divine intervention/etc/
Facebook DOES have its uses for those of us who don't use it as a competition to get the highest Friend count on the planet. I have only 20 friends on there, none of which live closer than 150 miles from me. We share photos and generally chat, organise the odd get together etc. It's great and much better than emails with attachments, esp for example when two people are having a chat and you can just chirp in with a funny comment, just like you were all physically in the same room. That wouldn't happen with email.. Am I supposed to convince these people, 18 of which are not computer nerds, at least one of whom only interacts with FB via a phone, that they should all set up blogs and rss feeds?
I agree Facebook the company is fairly evil, but until diaspora and/or the appleseed project takes hold and the entire thing is federated there are two options: Use Facebook or go back to the 20th century's way of communicating.
I maintain that Insomnia is still probably Nolan's best work, despite being a remake. Personally to have Al Pacino on screen in front of you and forget that you're watching Al Pacino acting was a really odd experience, says something about the immersiveness of it (is that even a word??)
Actually 2) has interesting connotations. Those of us old enough to remember the 80's will remember when Memory Mapped IO was the norm. This meant that the CPU treated all data as an extension of RAM. Your memory sticks, hard drive, floppy disk and network card buffers etc could all be mapped onto the CPU's memory space. Each had different speeds (obviously) and the total memory could not exceed the addressable space of the CPU (e.g. 4GB, but there were tricks for getting around this). To get something into RAM you'd copy the bits from one memory address (that's mapped to a drive) to another (mapped to a RAM stick).
x86 has IO mapped IO. RAM and where-the-data-comes-from are treated differently, you have to tell it that data is coming from an IO device and to pipe it through and the concept of "this bit over here is RAM that you can toy with using memset and all that" is hardwired to be different from "this is a drive and you have to talk to it like this".
Back to the topic at hand. SDRAM speed Non volatile storage could not only replace your RAM it could also replace your hard drive. An application "on disk" would no longer need to be "loaded into RAM" to be executed or accessed by the CPU. That is, if the "disk" was memory-mapped : the CPU would just be able to find it and execute it on the spot. No lag whatsoever.
Israel has stolen a slab of Jordan too. And Syria, And Lebanon. (Google for citations) And they also think it's fine to raid ships on international waters within the Mediterranean too. I'm wondering, at the past century's rate of growth, how long it'll be before Israel has annexed the whole planet.
(3) Have people in society stop acting weird about the fact that when they were young they too got drunk, naked, arrested, high and realize that, as it turns out, so did everybody else.
When everyone's naked pictures are on the internet naked pictures on the internet will cease to be career wrecking news.
I too have a NAS drive, photos get copied to my laptop from the camera then straight away I copy them over to the NAS. Also if i've been working on any projects/documents at the end of the session I copy them over too. It's just a mirror of "My Documents"... er, i mean my "home" dir... so backing up is not a technical exercise.
Every few months either my brother or I visits each other, we likve 150 miles apart and we swap about 8GB of backups, like a sneakernet version of rsync.
Super all important documents (including scans of birth certificates etc) are also on a 4GB SD card inside a metal tin in a rucksack with a set of clothes i keep ready in case of fire (or CIA raid:P ).
Don't forget "Exit For" and "Exit While" instead of break; - which not only explains exactly what's happening but also allows you to jump straight out of two nested loops on occasion if they are of different kinds, something you can't do in C#.
I also Like VB.Net's shortcut initialiser/constructor Dim foo as New ClassWithReallyReallyLongName() though C# now has var which does the same thing.
Where I work 3 out of 5 of us code C# for fun in our spare time. And in a way I'm glad that my job isn't the same as my hobby.
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You say that but this is slashdot. Search for "Office Ribbon" or "Awesomebar" to see the sheer force of "The old system wasn't broken why update it?" or more accurately "I refuse to learn anything new" around here
Having built a myriad of websites in my time I can say with some authority that at any time a business has any contact with any customer, client or potential customer, or someone who's filling out the "contact us" form on the website they will not pass up the opportunity to request their name,DOB,email,address,postcode,phone number,NI/IRS/TAX code,type of dwelling,number of bedrooms,number of children,favourite ice cream,dog's name and colour of socks.
They will also make all of these mandatory, even if all you want to do is ask "are you open on sunday?"
I don't think there's any actual purpose to this, I just think that if there's a database then the boss will want to fill it with as much "data" as possible, just in case it's handy. Even if it's illegal they don't care, they probably don't even plan to use it for marketing, they just NEED TO KNOW!!!!
You win slashdot today, well done.
Or maybe the other 61% of people are not coders, hackers, devs, engineers or basement-dwellers and are still a bit scared of their computer, or think it's in charge, or has good reason to behave the way it does or - most importantly - think that if the computer goes wrong in *any way* it must somehow be their own fault.
Only for dumb extensions that insist on checking if( majorVersion != 3 ){ bang(); } they deserve to burn
Because version numbering isn't the law handed down by the coding gods, probably.
As per request I'll refrain from saying "that's not what you need" but still. They wont be able to "enumerate" if you have a firewall, you don't need NAT to block incoming ports. I prepared these diagrams and post links whenever this is discussed on slashdot:
IPv4 NAT : http://cyclomedia.co.uk/blog/media/nat.png
IPv6 Firewall : http://cyclomedia.co.uk/blog/media/ipv6.png
Note the devices in the house that don't have any incoming ports. Not even ping? Note how it's the same in both diagrams? Do you get it yet?
Holy shit, they made them easy to play in an effort to allow people to ENJOY THEMSELVES whilst playing GAMES. The horror.
EASD : E = fwd, D = back, A = strafe left, S = strafe right.
Comes from playing Doom 1 and 2 where comma and period were strafe. Nearly 20 years ago. Get off my lawn, etc.
I remember getting that screen and it being such a shit hackjob (even more so than the rest of the site) that I double triple checked the URL and everything just to make sure it wasn't a MITM attempt at password stealing. And then continued to change my password to the old one, just like you. Nice
Feeling your pain, i became suspicious aged late 20s but the final nail in the coffin - scoring 37/50 on the autism test (normal humans get about 15 IIRC) - came when I was in my 30s.
Fortunately by that time I'd decided to get over it. A lot of which involves acting the part of someone who has self confidence (as opposed to the reality of total self doubt) and actually talks to girls on occasion (as opposed to spending too long trying to think of what to say and talking myself out of it).
The most important lesson I've learnt about interacting with humans is that if you stop TRYING so hard and are honest then what look like pitfalls - she talks about a book and author you've never heard of - become opportunities: you tell her you've never heard of either and show an interest. Turns out humans love it when you show an interest in them and the things they like, so just keep em talking and use your geek powers to remember this information for the next encounter: Did you finish that book you were reading? Who was the author again? (It's enough that you remembered this much, really!)
I find that with all software though, not just roms and not just android. But for a pertinent example the guy who ported UAE to android did a great job getting it running but stopped when it suited his needs. You can control the mouse pointer with the trackball (if your android HW device happens to have one) but you can't place the pointer using the touch screen, that part is fubar. And like 99% of of ports that get to the "it works for me stage" he's abandoned it and won't respond to messages asking for the source. Meaning the rest of us will have to start from scratch if we're to get past that problem, and no doubt whoever takes up that challenge will also get their version to the "works for me" stage and abandon it with completely different issues. /rant
Re: belt tightening you're right. A millionaire can lose 10, 20, 30% of their income and still be a millionaire. For the rest of us losing 10/20/30% can mean the difference between paying the bills or being turfed out on the street
imagine the reverse of ebay sniper tools. Zillions of them. All programmed ( BY HUMANS ) to sell if the price drops below a certain value in order to cash in before they become loss making.
Also it would piss off every business in the country, what with all the cash flowing through them pipes, and the gov (both in the US and here in the UK) would NEVER do that
>ISPs implementing a lower "guaranteed bandwidth" threshold like you proposed in (1)
>(e.g. your connection can peak at 5 Mbps but you're only guaranteed 1.5 Mbps)
This. Seems really dumbly obvious to me but I presume the corporations don't like the idea about having to be upfront about what "up to" means in terms of bandwidth.
They CAN give out 1:1 broadband, they just would then have to sell it as "always* 256KB/s" instead of "up to 3MB/s" and requiring that sort of honesty would be unfair on the poor ISPs
* except during electrical/equipment/divine intervention/etc/
Facebook DOES have its uses for those of us who don't use it as a competition to get the highest Friend count on the planet. I have only 20 friends on there, none of which live closer than 150 miles from me. We share photos and generally chat, organise the odd get together etc. It's great and much better than emails with attachments, esp for example when two people are having a chat and you can just chirp in with a funny comment, just like you were all physically in the same room. That wouldn't happen with email.. Am I supposed to convince these people, 18 of which are not computer nerds, at least one of whom only interacts with FB via a phone, that they should all set up blogs and rss feeds?
I agree Facebook the company is fairly evil, but until diaspora and/or the appleseed project takes hold and the entire thing is federated there are two options: Use Facebook or go back to the 20th century's way of communicating.
I maintain that Insomnia is still probably Nolan's best work, despite being a remake. Personally to have Al Pacino on screen in front of you and forget that you're watching Al Pacino acting was a really odd experience, says something about the immersiveness of it (is that even a word??)
Actually 2) has interesting connotations. Those of us old enough to remember the 80's will remember when Memory Mapped IO was the norm. This meant that the CPU treated all data as an extension of RAM. Your memory sticks, hard drive, floppy disk and network card buffers etc could all be mapped onto the CPU's memory space. Each had different speeds (obviously) and the total memory could not exceed the addressable space of the CPU (e.g. 4GB, but there were tricks for getting around this). To get something into RAM you'd copy the bits from one memory address (that's mapped to a drive) to another (mapped to a RAM stick).
x86 has IO mapped IO. RAM and where-the-data-comes-from are treated differently, you have to tell it that data is coming from an IO device and to pipe it through and the concept of "this bit over here is RAM that you can toy with using memset and all that" is hardwired to be different from "this is a drive and you have to talk to it like this".
Back to the topic at hand. SDRAM speed Non volatile storage could not only replace your RAM it could also replace your hard drive. An application "on disk" would no longer need to be "loaded into RAM" to be executed or accessed by the CPU. That is, if the "disk" was memory-mapped : the CPU would just be able to find it and execute it on the spot. No lag whatsoever.
Israel has stolen a slab of Jordan too. And Syria, And Lebanon. (Google for citations) And they also think it's fine to raid ships on international waters within the Mediterranean too. I'm wondering, at the past century's rate of growth, how long it'll be before Israel has annexed the whole planet.
(3) Have people in society stop acting weird about the fact that when they were young they too got drunk, naked, arrested, high and realize that, as it turns out, so did everybody else.
When everyone's naked pictures are on the internet naked pictures on the internet will cease to be career wrecking news.
I too have a NAS drive, photos get copied to my laptop from the camera then straight away I copy them over to the NAS. Also if i've been working on any projects/documents at the end of the session I copy them over too. It's just a mirror of "My Documents" ... er, i mean my "home" dir ... so backing up is not a technical exercise.
Every few months either my brother or I visits each other, we likve 150 miles apart and we swap about 8GB of backups, like a sneakernet version of rsync.
Super all important documents (including scans of birth certificates etc) are also on a 4GB SD card inside a metal tin in a rucksack with a set of clothes i keep ready in case of fire (or CIA raid :P ).
Explains all the barrels of pork going into it
Don't forget "Exit For" and "Exit While" instead of break; - which not only explains exactly what's happening but also allows you to jump straight out of two nested loops on occasion if they are of different kinds, something you can't do in C#.
I also Like VB.Net's shortcut initialiser/constructor Dim foo as New ClassWithReallyReallyLongName() though C# now has var which does the same thing.
Where I work 3 out of 5 of us code C# for fun in our spare time. And in a way I'm glad that my job isn't the same as my hobby.