So that's what a working democracy looks like. For a Pirate Party to get any foothold in the UK, all their supporters would have to move into one small area.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that a big difference is the way updates to Windows preserve all the ugly broken hacks that incompetent or unnecessarily creative driver writers used. A well-written 3rd-party Linux driver tied in with DKMS and you'll probably never have to worry about it. But a badly-written driver will probably break the moment some ugly bug it was exploiting is fixed.
This reminds me of the maxim I usually apply: all driving situations are at most 2 mistakes away from serious danger. Somebody stepping out and you not anticipating it, somebody lane changing without indicating and you not noticing the telltale signs, somebody braking excessively hard and you not keeping enough distance to start with. The best you can do is to make sure you don't make your half of the mistakes.
WPF requires 3.0 or above, and WPF is so very attractive because it's much less pain than Windows Forms (finally, autosizing of widgets and built-in themability). Problem is, MS has finally released a GUI toolkit worth using but the majority of Windows machines are still running XP and therefore the first WPF application you ever use will require this massive (relative to the size of the application) dependency.
Indeed. Everybody has gotten so used to Windows "standing still" that many developers have got lazy and users are well into the comfort zone. Promoting familiarity and backwards compatibility has actually harmed Microsoft in the long run, since they now have trouble with uptake of their newer products.
Dare I mention that there are more than 2 parties in the UK? The sooner people get out of this 2-party mentality the sooner democracy will come closer to working again...
Just FYI, Windows Vista and onwards support keyboard layout changing at the login screen, and even setting the default keyboard layout at installation time (and probably later) that also applies to the login screen.
I actually did this once - just a simple case of tab-whoring and doing things too fast for my own good (it was rm -rf . in my case, in my home directory).
It was a good experience in that ever since that point I've actually been running daily incremental and weekly full backups of everything important to somewhere a normal user has no read/write access. And by 'important', I mean documents etc., not the 500GB of media. It's all about risk vs. cost, and I just don't have anywhere to backup that much data to, when most of it can be reacquired. In fact, I just back up a list of my media instead to make that process easier.
There's a lot of 'ideal solution' stuff being thrown around here, but the fact is that it's not practical for 99.9% of people. Most home user data is not worth the £10000 an ideal backup solution would cost.
You don't need to even if you don't get the choice!
Where I work at the moment, *everything* is in Subversion, but on joining I already had about a year of experience using Git, and quite frankly find Subversion too restrictive.
Luckily, Git has a wonderful tool called 'git-svn' which allows you to interact with Subversion repositories. As long as you keep your master branch linear (i.e. merging onto 'master' is always a simple 'fast-forward') your commit history won't confuse other people, and you can do all the things you like to do with Git.
I did this on the most recent project I worked on, and it worked amazingly well. I even learnt a whole load more about Git in the process. And even better than that, rather than cramming 'use Git!' down people's throats, I actually had other developers asking me to introduce them to Git after seeing/hearing me talk about things I could do with it.
As a side note, I've never found *any* version control GUI to be faster than knowing what you're doing in the equivalent CLI tool (and with something as powerful as Git, the equivalent GUI tool would be monstrous).
Speaking purely as a cynic, Intel were dragged into having to innovate by somebody (AMD) producing something better and also instruction-set compatible. That meant they had to invest some money in R&D rather than continuing to push their fairly abysmal P4 line because there was no choice. The emergence of AMD as a serious contender is what has done the industry good in this instance.
I'm sure that without actual competition, we'd be in the usual position (again) of a company not bothering to innovate because their profit margins are fatter without doing so.
Well, that comment aside, I'd say judging by the anti-Islam, anti-communism, anti-China rhetoric implies they are from around the States.
I'm not saying that this rhetoric is typical of the US, only that being American is typical of this rhetoric. (Also, I'm not implying that China is some shining beacon of fairness, but it's interesting to see the way the "evils" are listed.)
Best. Comeback. Ever.
There are a few semi-correct points in that guy's post, but they are hidden very well in a nice fluffy insanity-suit. I'm sure there is a way that what he said could be rephrased as something insightful (and get modded appropriately), but not in this discussion, and not with that attitude.
There is something much more dangerous than people talking on their cell phones, and I find it disturbing that people can even consider the possibility of doing it - texting while driving. Thats right, an activity which generally requires noticable periods of time looking at your phone, not at the road. I've witnessed this twice recently. Once was just an annoyance to everyone else (they were in a queue of traffic stopped at a red light, the lights changed, everyone moved, but they did not for about 30 seconds). The other was also at a crossroads, but in this instance they drifted across a red light at about 10mph staring at their phone (down near their lap).
Come on, if its that damn important, PULL OVER ALREADY! Sure, I couldn't actually give a shit if they died because of it, stupidity removing itself and all that, but unfortunately such an event usually injures more than just themselves...
If you want to start blaming PHP for security flaws, then at least be fair and blame C/C++ for buffer overflows too.
The problem is that PHP is "easy", meaning that you don't have to be a good programmer to use it. That means a lot of unexperienced people writing sites/scripts without any concept of the possible attack vectors.
I've been writing PHP-based scripts for a few years now, and I've never had any vulnerability become apparent even when specifically inviting people to try and find them. My current site even has its source code publically viewable. The worst that anybody can generally do is impair their own experience of the site.
I'm not trying to be arrogant, just pointing out that the language is not to blame, ignorant programmers are.
I wish I could get more people to see that "on the computer" or "on the internet" is not a single activity. Through most of my early teenage years I was always being referred to as "playing on the computer too much" when actually I was doing a combination of keeping in touch with people and writing software. Hardly "playing".
Of course, now I'm a computer science/software engineering student, and 14 hours/day on a computer isn't exactly uncommon. But I'm not addicted - I can just as easily spend several days with barely any computer usage, and my favorite idea of a holiday generally involves not even having electricity (I like walking).
I'm not sure whether or not this classification of "the Internet" as an addiction is the work of officials who are just plain clueless/out of touch, or of those with less innocent intentions.
I've recently come across a similar situation of "nobody will attack this anyway" being good enough for production software. At one of the bus stops on the road that runs through the university I go to, there is an public information terminal. It has an admin panel.
Firstly, to get to this admin panel, all you have to to is tap the top-right of the touchscreen - yup, the same top-right you repeatedly hit to back out of screens. Secondly, only a username is required, not a password. And finally, they didn't escape input values at all, so entering
' or '1
results in a successful login. Usually when I'm bored and waiting for a bus I submit bogus maintenance call-out requests. Pointless, I know, but I figure some day they will find it annoying enough to fix it.
I too have never had problems yanking the power cord - however, in my experience using the reset button is a "harder" reboot than yanking the power cord, causing an instant interrupt of everything instead of using whatever latent charge is still in the capacitors.
At the risk of being modded a troll, I will say this... With the frequency at which many Windows installations need to be hard rebooted, is an XFS driver for windows a good idea? I have personally found that XFS does not handle a push of a reset button well, in my case having overwritten every open file with 0's.
A nation as rich as the United States should not be in a position where we owe money to anyone.
You appear to be contradicting yourself there... If the US as a whole was "rich" then there would not be a national debt. I think part of the real problem is that "wealth" for the most part is virtual. Unless you own your wealth in a hard resource like gold, you "own" nothing. And as far as I can tell, the US national debt far exceeds its treasury at current gold prices.
Its just a matter of time before a US president is going to have to bite the bullet and declare the nation bankrupt.
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So that's what a working democracy looks like. For a Pirate Party to get any foothold in the UK, all their supporters would have to move into one small area.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that a big difference is the way updates to Windows preserve all the ugly broken hacks that incompetent or unnecessarily creative driver writers used. A well-written 3rd-party Linux driver tied in with DKMS and you'll probably never have to worry about it. But a badly-written driver will probably break the moment some ugly bug it was exploiting is fixed.
This reminds me of the maxim I usually apply: all driving situations are at most 2 mistakes away from serious danger. Somebody stepping out and you not anticipating it, somebody lane changing without indicating and you not noticing the telltale signs, somebody braking excessively hard and you not keeping enough distance to start with. The best you can do is to make sure you don't make your half of the mistakes.
WPF requires 3.0 or above, and WPF is so very attractive because it's much less pain than Windows Forms (finally, autosizing of widgets and built-in themability). Problem is, MS has finally released a GUI toolkit worth using but the majority of Windows machines are still running XP and therefore the first WPF application you ever use will require this massive (relative to the size of the application) dependency.
Damn right. I think I'd kill myself if I had to do webdesign for a living.
Here are some nice example of IE7 failures I experienced recently while attempting to style a site:
http://iris.codescape.net/~alan/IE-rendering-fail-3.png
http://iris.codescape.net/~alan/IE-rendering-fail-2.png
http://iris.codescape.net/~alan/Rendering-odd-one-out.png
Indeed. Everybody has gotten so used to Windows "standing still" that many developers have got lazy and users are well into the comfort zone. Promoting familiarity and backwards compatibility has actually harmed Microsoft in the long run, since they now have trouble with uptake of their newer products.
Dare I mention that there are more than 2 parties in the UK? The sooner people get out of this 2-party mentality the sooner democracy will come closer to working again...
Just FYI, Windows Vista and onwards support keyboard layout changing at the login screen, and even setting the default keyboard layout at installation time (and probably later) that also applies to the login screen.
I actually did this once - just a simple case of tab-whoring and doing things too fast for my own good (it was rm -rf . in my case, in my home directory).
It was a good experience in that ever since that point I've actually been running daily incremental and weekly full backups of everything important to somewhere a normal user has no read/write access. And by 'important', I mean documents etc., not the 500GB of media. It's all about risk vs. cost, and I just don't have anywhere to backup that much data to, when most of it can be reacquired. In fact, I just back up a list of my media instead to make that process easier.
There's a lot of 'ideal solution' stuff being thrown around here, but the fact is that it's not practical for 99.9% of people. Most home user data is not worth the £10000 an ideal backup solution would cost.
You don't need to even if you don't get the choice!
Where I work at the moment, *everything* is in Subversion, but on joining I already had about a year of experience using Git, and quite frankly find Subversion too restrictive.
Luckily, Git has a wonderful tool called 'git-svn' which allows you to interact with Subversion repositories. As long as you keep your master branch linear (i.e. merging onto 'master' is always a simple 'fast-forward') your commit history won't confuse other people, and you can do all the things you like to do with Git.
I did this on the most recent project I worked on, and it worked amazingly well. I even learnt a whole load more about Git in the process. And even better than that, rather than cramming 'use Git!' down people's throats, I actually had other developers asking me to introduce them to Git after seeing/hearing me talk about things I could do with it.
As a side note, I've never found *any* version control GUI to be faster than knowing what you're doing in the equivalent CLI tool (and with something as powerful as Git, the equivalent GUI tool would be monstrous).
Speaking purely as a cynic, Intel were dragged into having to innovate by somebody (AMD) producing something better and also instruction-set compatible. That meant they had to invest some money in R&D rather than continuing to push their fairly abysmal P4 line because there was no choice. The emergence of AMD as a serious contender is what has done the industry good in this instance.
I'm sure that without actual competition, we'd be in the usual position (again) of a company not bothering to innovate because their profit margins are fatter without doing so.
Wow - I think that is the only time I've ever seen somebody try to trump tabloid "evidence" with a blog post...
Not saying that I disagree with the point that the Daily Mail is junk =)
Well, that comment aside, I'd say judging by the anti-Islam, anti-communism, anti-China rhetoric implies they are from around the States.
I'm not saying that this rhetoric is typical of the US, only that being American is typical of this rhetoric. (Also, I'm not implying that China is some shining beacon of fairness, but it's interesting to see the way the "evils" are listed.)
Indeed - I only recently stopped using Firefox for a while, and the first thing I noticed was "holy crap, there are ads in the comments now?!"
Best. Comeback. Ever. There are a few semi-correct points in that guy's post, but they are hidden very well in a nice fluffy insanity-suit. I'm sure there is a way that what he said could be rephrased as something insightful (and get modded appropriately), but not in this discussion, and not with that attitude.
There is something much more dangerous than people talking on their cell phones, and I find it disturbing that people can even consider the possibility of doing it - texting while driving. Thats right, an activity which generally requires noticable periods of time looking at your phone, not at the road. I've witnessed this twice recently. Once was just an annoyance to everyone else (they were in a queue of traffic stopped at a red light, the lights changed, everyone moved, but they did not for about 30 seconds). The other was also at a crossroads, but in this instance they drifted across a red light at about 10mph staring at their phone (down near their lap).
Come on, if its that damn important, PULL OVER ALREADY! Sure, I couldn't actually give a shit if they died because of it, stupidity removing itself and all that, but unfortunately such an event usually injures more than just themselves...
If you want to start blaming PHP for security flaws, then at least be fair and blame C/C++ for buffer overflows too. The problem is that PHP is "easy", meaning that you don't have to be a good programmer to use it. That means a lot of unexperienced people writing sites/scripts without any concept of the possible attack vectors. I've been writing PHP-based scripts for a few years now, and I've never had any vulnerability become apparent even when specifically inviting people to try and find them. My current site even has its source code publically viewable. The worst that anybody can generally do is impair their own experience of the site. I'm not trying to be arrogant, just pointing out that the language is not to blame, ignorant programmers are.
It's a damn good idea!
I wish I could get more people to see that "on the computer" or "on the internet" is not a single activity. Through most of my early teenage years I was always being referred to as "playing on the computer too much" when actually I was doing a combination of keeping in touch with people and writing software. Hardly "playing".
Of course, now I'm a computer science/software engineering student, and 14 hours/day on a computer isn't exactly uncommon. But I'm not addicted - I can just as easily spend several days with barely any computer usage, and my favorite idea of a holiday generally involves not even having electricity (I like walking).
I'm not sure whether or not this classification of "the Internet" as an addiction is the work of officials who are just plain clueless/out of touch, or of those with less innocent intentions.
I too have never had problems yanking the power cord - however, in my experience using the reset button is a "harder" reboot than yanking the power cord, causing an instant interrupt of everything instead of using whatever latent charge is still in the capacitors.
At the risk of being modded a troll, I will say this... With the frequency at which many Windows installations need to be hard rebooted, is an XFS driver for windows a good idea? I have personally found that XFS does not handle a push of a reset button well, in my case having overwritten every open file with 0's.
Its just a matter of time before a US president is going to have to bite the bullet and declare the nation bankrupt.
Unfortunately, the human race has several thousands of years of prior art on that one....
Ads? What ads? Oh yeah - I installed AdBlock Plus and Filterset.G Updater ages ago, and forgot about them.
The first thing I notice whenever I have to use another browser is how crowded webpages seem these days... Kinda like TV in the US.