Not sure why this was modded flamebait, it is the core of the problem with captcha and why they have been getting progressively more obnoxious over the years. It takes little time for the bot writers to figure out how to get past them, but the annoyance to humans just keeps ramping up. It is an arms race between marketers and programmers, with users figuring out how much collateral difficulty they can accept.
There are some sites I am actually starting to wonder if we have actually passed a certain threshold.. they tend to be tech/hacker centric and for the life of me I can not get their captchsa most of the time. I usually have to cycle them several times and still get multiple failures. I suspect many members of the board simply have a program that solves the capacha for them....
I agree most cops are good people who work hard BUT police have an institutionalized problem of protecting the bad cops. So even though there are only a few bad apples, departments and fellow officers generally protect the bad cops rather then prosecute them due to the whole 'brotherhood' sticking together.
'inefficient waste of space' is probably part of the point. Just like other displays of status and wealth, people like showing off that they have the space TO waste.
Meh, this is like 'Netflix killed Blockbuster'.. a common and accepted meme but ignores the destructive buisnes practices going on. Kodak had, essentially, a raider for a CEO. He kept selling off profitable divisions in order to boost short term profits and then found a company with everything that worked owned by someone else. At which point he took his millions and did fine.
I gave up on C++ years ago. It has really become a 'geek cred' language with a constantly changing 'right' way an aesthetic, perfect for figuring out if a fellow geek is from the same snapshot of teaching you came from, but that is about it. It has become overly complex with redundant language features that one needs to keep relearning in order to understand other people's code.. and of course with complexity comes the ability to show off your knowledge through doing things in 'clever' ways.
Good for showing off.. bad for getting actual work done, esp for projects that last more then a year or two.
I would go further and say it has become a derogatory term of using C++ in anyway way other then the most current stylistic fad... not just doing things the OPP way but doing it the current C++ OOP way.
*nod* I tend to assume that many of the 'cloud' companies are traditional off site backup providers that have done a little rebranding.
Though such services are also useful for small companies that are not set up to host their own servers and want to move files between far flung people. I think a lot of geeks tend to forget that not every company is interested in having its own servers and IT dept when their buisness has nothing to do with computers.
Thing is, it will do no good. While having their own words is something, this actual behavior (and knowledge of it) is pretty old news. The people who dislike them will continue to dislike them, and the people who like them will continue to like them. A lot of people just buy the story presented by their particular news outlet and anything else is a 'left wing/right wing smear campaign'.
Plus, given just how well funded and connected they are, I am sure that the story will be pained rosy for them in the media and any importance will be downplayed, with possible redirection to 'those evil liberals smearing these good fighters!'. Just look at the cheer Gingrich got for slamming the media for asking questions he did not like... as long as you can paint yourself as the opponent to the correct people, it does not really matter what you do... at least if you are appealing to 'values' voters with their black and white morality.
Last time I checked, there are significant exemptions to things like gun ownership, speech, religion, etc. They have not been 'rights' since, well.. ever actually. All three were curtailed before the ink was even dry. A right is something that can not be taken away, and even though the wording calls it one, de-facto it is treated as a privilege under our legal system.
Castle Doctrine does not apply when the target is on public land. While the drone could see into the plot, it was still outside the hunting park's airspace.
Even if it was in their airspace, Castle Doctorine generally requires a threat to your safety and/or wellfare, though this varries from state to state depending on how macho the locals need to feel in order to not be emasculated or something.
That sounds expensive.... I think these people have already cost too much,.. they should be required to bludgeon themselves to death with one of those crates of source print outs they submitted to the poor judge years ago. See, recycling can be entertaining!
I think their physical presence is still in Utah: Contact Us, but I admit I did very little research and mostly depended on a vague association remembered from years ago ^_^
They are probably still borrowing to pay the lawyers, or they have bills piling up with the lawyers too invested to simply quit.. kinda like a 419 scam.
As someone who cut their teeth with C++ and Java, I found ObjC to be the most sane of the bunch, but then again I ended up really liking both C and SmallTalk when I started using them, and found both C++ and Java to be kludgy 'design by comity' languages.
I am noticing that through this tread, we started with 'Apple will allow users to restrict installations' to 'Apple will no longer allow non-'App' applications'. Good example of whisper down the lane rumors.... 'what if' becomes 'fact' in only a few pages...
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Not sure why this was modded flamebait, it is the core of the problem with captcha and why they have been getting progressively more obnoxious over the years. It takes little time for the bot writers to figure out how to get past them, but the annoyance to humans just keeps ramping up. It is an arms race between marketers and programmers, with users figuring out how much collateral difficulty they can accept.
There are some sites I am actually starting to wonder if we have actually passed a certain threshold.. they tend to be tech/hacker centric and for the life of me I can not get their captchsa most of the time. I usually have to cycle them several times and still get multiple failures. I suspect many members of the board simply have a program that solves the capacha for them....
I agree most cops are good people who work hard BUT police have an institutionalized problem of protecting the bad cops. So even though there are only a few bad apples, departments and fellow officers generally protect the bad cops rather then prosecute them due to the whole 'brotherhood' sticking together.
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'inefficient waste of space' is probably part of the point. Just like other displays of status and wealth, people like showing off that they have the space TO waste.
*waits patiently for a car analogy*
Why do I see a family guy cut-scene in that idea.....
Meh, this is like 'Netflix killed Blockbuster'.. a common and accepted meme but ignores the destructive buisnes practices going on. Kodak had, essentially, a raider for a CEO. He kept selling off profitable divisions in order to boost short term profits and then found a company with everything that worked owned by someone else. At which point he took his millions and did fine.
I gave up on C++ years ago. It has really become a 'geek cred' language with a constantly changing 'right' way an aesthetic, perfect for figuring out if a fellow geek is from the same snapshot of teaching you came from, but that is about it. It has become overly complex with redundant language features that one needs to keep relearning in order to understand other people's code.. and of course with complexity comes the ability to show off your knowledge through doing things in 'clever' ways.
Good for showing off.. bad for getting actual work done, esp for projects that last more then a year or two.
You just listed one of memcpy's best features ^_^
Many still feel that operator overloading should never have been included in the language in the first place.
I would go further and say it has become a derogatory term of using C++ in anyway way other then the most current stylistic fad... not just doing things the OPP way but doing it the current C++ OOP way.
*nod* I tend to assume that many of the 'cloud' companies are traditional off site backup providers that have done a little rebranding.
Though such services are also useful for small companies that are not set up to host their own servers and want to move files between far flung people. I think a lot of geeks tend to forget that not every company is interested in having its own servers and IT dept when their buisness has nothing to do with computers.
Thing is, it will do no good. While having their own words is something, this actual behavior (and knowledge of it) is pretty old news. The people who dislike them will continue to dislike them, and the people who like them will continue to like them. A lot of people just buy the story presented by their particular news outlet and anything else is a 'left wing/right wing smear campaign'.
Plus, given just how well funded and connected they are, I am sure that the story will be pained rosy for them in the media and any importance will be downplayed, with possible redirection to 'those evil liberals smearing these good fighters!'. Just look at the cheer Gingrich got for slamming the media for asking questions he did not like... as long as you can paint yourself as the opponent to the correct people, it does not really matter what you do... at least if you are appealing to 'values' voters with their black and white morality.
Last time I checked, there are significant exemptions to things like gun ownership, speech, religion, etc. They have not been 'rights' since, well.. ever actually. All three were curtailed before the ink was even dry. A right is something that can not be taken away, and even though the wording calls it one, de-facto it is treated as a privilege under our legal system.
Castle Doctrine does not apply when the target is on public land. While the drone could see into the plot, it was still outside the hunting park's airspace.
Even if it was in their airspace, Castle Doctorine generally requires a threat to your safety and/or wellfare, though this varries from state to state depending on how macho the locals need to feel in order to not be emasculated or something.
Actually, if you are having sex anywhere you can be seen by the public, it is illegal anyway....
This was a recreational hunting park, so it was pure sport. I am guessing people who hunt for food probably could not afford to play there.
That if you have money, guns, and are white, then you have the moral high ground, or at minimal get what you want.
That sounds expensive.... I think these people have already cost too much,.. they should be required to bludgeon themselves to death with one of those crates of source print outs they submitted to the poor judge years ago. See, recycling can be entertaining!
That would make it easier.. they go a lot slower down there.
I think their physical presence is still in Utah: Contact Us, but I admit I did very little research and mostly depended on a vague association remembered from years ago ^_^
They are probably still borrowing to pay the lawyers, or they have bills piling up with the lawyers too invested to simply quit.. kinda like a 419 scam.
I think at this point a 'reasonable offer' would be a bag of corn nuts. At least then their VC parters would get a snack out of the deal.
A few square kilometers of Utah is a small price to pay....
Best, worse, it is all relative.
As someone who cut their teeth with C++ and Java, I found ObjC to be the most sane of the bunch, but then again I ended up really liking both C and SmallTalk when I started using them, and found both C++ and Java to be kludgy 'design by comity' languages.
I am noticing that through this tread, we started with 'Apple will allow users to restrict installations' to 'Apple will no longer allow non-'App' applications'. Good example of whisper down the lane rumors.... 'what if' becomes 'fact' in only a few pages...