> In other words, people who have the brains to work out how the system works should be banned from using it.
Ever been to a casino? The best folks get banned all the time. On the other hand, they're quite clear about their prerogative, and the laws support their ability to ban anyone anytime.
Whereas Best Buy is probably opening themselves up to false advertisement lawsuits -- a sale is a damn sale, and believe me you don't want to screw around with truth, justice, and 10% off, bub. Can you imagine the field day BB's competitors will have if they end up putting fine print in their flyers like "Best Buy reserves the right to deny sale prices to any customer for any reason"?
spoiler warning... ah hell, who cares, you've seen it or you won't.
I have the first DVD as well, and only that thanks to the dreary and disgusting mess of the second two Matrix movies, in the same fashion that George Lucas succeeded in turning me off to Star Wars (I own zero Star Wars DVD's). The first Matrix was great, but never for the acting. It was a perfect fusion of sci-fi and kung fu, complete with the philosophical reflections on reality (think of the treatment of chi in kung fu here).
The second one unfortunately had dialog that was as wooden and juvenile as the first, but it failed to bring anything original except more fight scenes and (rolling my eyes) a big car chase scene. And Keanu flying around like Superman. Dreadful. Stupid. Come to think of it, calling it juvenile insults juveniles.
It did have one saving grace: the architect. His little soliloquy on free will was masterful in writing and acting. Neo must have felt like Winston Smith in 1984 when O'Brien tells him the real story about Emmanuel Goldstein, but even more trapped by the inevitability of his fate.
But no, he just blasts out of there, becomes some sort of cyber-messiah, and gee wiz, turns out by the third movie the architect just lied about Zion's purpose and state of existence. Or if he was a construct (might explain some of his superpowers) then it sure as hell didn't get adequate exposition. I don't ask to be led by the hand, I do ask for the various premises of a film to feel like they weren't just made up on the spot, like so much improvised roleplaying gaming.
I think the Farrelly Brothers would have put more consistency and thought into this wretched trilogy than the Wachowski Brothers did.
Disable removable storage, disable addition of new devices by normal users. Presto. Now they can't tunnel their secrets out to their cell phone with a usb bluetooth adaptor either. However, wherever there is the ability to transmit information -- that's information in the theory sense, as in a single bit corresponding to agreed upon relevant data -- you're going to have covert channels. Short of sticking folks onto standalone computers in a faraday cage (i.e. SCI) you're going to have covert channels. Heck, even then if you personally trust the guy leaking the secrets, that info is carried out in the brain. Just that "take my word for it" isn't usually considered good intel (unless you're George W. Bush looking for WMD's)
Focus stealing is, if I recall correctly, a violation of MS's own UI guidelines. That's why they have the taskbar button blinking stuff now, for apps that are well behaved (outlook 2003 generally does the right thing for example, it does have a blinking tray icon for errors too). Large cascading menus are also a violation of MS's UI guidelines too. Umm, start menu anyone? Multiple tab rows? Voilation, but there's MS Word's prefs menu. The list goes on.
Windows has been steadily taking other steps toward looking like a desktop environment: none of the apps look the same. Office 2003 widgets don't look anything like windows media player which in turn doesn't look anything like the rest of windows.
To say nothing of the fact that I still can't drag a document onto a taskbar button. It knows enough about the operation to tell me that I can't do it, and to tell me to hover the drag over the button and let it pop up and drag it into the main window... but not enough to just perform a damn drag and drop action. Yes I know all about the difficulties of selecting the proper drop target when all you have is the taskbar button... so why can't they just make the damn button itself a separate drop target?
> As an Indian, I find the level of cynicism in comments in any article related to India quite surprising
Misplaced aggression I guess. Fact is, India's cheap. Pay an Indian a princely wage, with a safe workplace and full benefits... and it's still cheap. People lose their jobs here to that, and it creates resentment. It's all fairly understandable that people are going to vent their spleen.
My own source of cynicism, which I'll be arrogant enough to say is not quite as misplaced, is that the savings companies incur will be pocketed by the executives. That's all. Five thousand jobs here and there so the CEO can get a few million in bonuses and sink it all into their mansion or buy some politicians. I have very little faith that the dividends of outsourcing will be recapitalized, but will merely serve to concentrate wealth into an self-perpetuating aristocracy. I just don't see any net benefits on average aside from the fact that people can get even cheaper goods from Wal-mart who will proceed to drive wages ever downward so that people will need to shop there to afford anything.
I say all this as a die-hard capitalist, because these disparities are ultimately bad for capitalism. I don't think we're all screwed as a result... though maybe my profession is.
I think you're confusing email with Instant Messaging. Try not to confuse the two.
Condescending much? I talk about systems, I get lectures about protocol. Wrong tree, I'm in this one over here. The typical design of a mail system allows for nearly instantaneous delivery. And that delivery delays of days have never been normal. I'm sure there's some fella running a mail gateway that requires him to tunnel it over RFC1149 (IP over Avian Carrier Transport) that might see a week's delay when the pigeons get eaten by hawks, but in the real world, there's no little net gremlins who put random delays in when the link quality is known and stable and the mail queues in the receiving MTAs are operating normally. The mail most certainly doesn't take little side routes to Lower Slobivia, it goes from my sending domain to the inbound MX on their domain, and it's generally not going to escape (user-defined forwards are a different issue, but I'm talking about typical operation). BITNet was neat, being able to watch my message go through the hops, but TCP/IP takes care of that routing now. Going on up to the application layer, when my mail gets delayed, I get a message to that effect, usually along with some explanation of why. If I don't, it's specific to that one wonky destination.
Instability is part of email, yes, and the current design is robust enough to handle most of it (not as much as I'd like, I think mailbox records never should have been taken out of DNS), but it's hardly the normal mode of operation. I'd love to see you get away with that "normal mode of operation" argument as a mail admin. The transport is unreliable -- hell, IP is unreliable. That's no excuse for calling the system unreliable.
...for me anyway: Ripping the disk out and throwing it across the room with a cry of disgust, with box soon to follow, and uninstalling the damn buggy piece of crap. I even put up with Ultima 8 because it had an interesting story. But U9 was just unplayable. And that's just on the technical side. On the artistic side, it betrayed the story by breaking continuity -- what the hell did the Avatar do when he came out of the Etheral plane, giving up literal godhood to return to Britannia, then seeing the Guardian's face engraved on the mountain, dragons flying overhead... did he go back home and get a ham sandwich and forget?
> a protocol that verifies that the sender really is the sender.
That's precisely what SPF is, but it operates on domain granularity. You want it for users, you need digital signatures, and PKI is its own collosal headache with no easy answers.
Of course a problem with SPF is that yes, you know casinohotnews.com is the sender. And in the next message, you know that hotcasinonews.com is the sender, then it's hotcasinosnews, then casinoshotnews, then casinohotinfo, and so on, each coming from a fresh set of IP's every month or so. Those sorts of spammers aren't too much of a problem, it's the zombies -- hijacked cable modems -- that are the real plague. But if SPF gets deployed widely enough to where mail from domains without SPF is rejected or simply delivered under stricter criteria (e.g. whitelist only or maybe some sort of future in-band C/R protocol) then the zombies will get chased into smaller corners as well.
Then spammers will move on to IM and blog spam, and my favorite, voice spam. Imagine IP telephony autodialing with recorded pitches for viagra. Oh joy.
> it can still sometimes take *days* to get an email to it's recipient and there's still no "problem" as such
If it takes "days" without any notification, then something most certainly is wrong -- if not broken, at least overloaded, and will be broken soon. If you know neither side is supposed to be queueing mail out or in, then mail should arrive immediately (modulo some sort of minutes-long polling/refresh interval in the delivery agent). Email does not typically travel through a dozen hops any more than you would expect your flights to have a dozen layovers. This is not 1988 anymore.
But it sure isn't spam that's the problem here, and even if it is, it's no excuse for email to be silently lost. The article simply demonstrates incompetence in action. But hey, it's also evolution in action: the company that can manage to keep email running will be more likely to keep their clients. The circle of life continues.. or something.
Well, think about the unrealistic expectations that pr0n sets for sex in the real world. I have heard much anecdotal evidence about couples in their 20s where the woman has to basically act like pornstar in the bedroom in order to interest the guy at all because he's become so desensitized to sex by all the pr0n he's been seeing since he was 16.
Wow, anecdotal evidence. As in, someone told you some stuff. That's, ah, informative. In fact, actual studies show that most people who are interested in porn are usually interested in sex too. Apparently plain ol normal everyday real sex is somehow still good. Isn't that fascinating?
We're going to have an entire generation of kids who are completely jaded concerning sex while simultaneously haveing all kinds of complexes because their boobs, penis, butt, etc. is too small.
I could compose an essay to analyze and demolish this argument, but 1) I'm lazy, 2) I'm at work, 3) it's your assertions that require support first. So I have two simple heckles to offer instead:
Go ban Cosmo and GQ if body image problems are so deleterious.
I imagine spybot's BHO inoculation should block this. Anyone know? I use firefox on windows myself, but not for any other reason than that it's just a better browser. ff on linux is actually kind of painful to look at and sluggish to use still.
Oh my, Charamel is nice. I do occasionally have to switch themes for poorly-coded extensions that hardwire a nonresizeable window width, since charamel tends to be quite wide.
Here's a question: is there an XP theme that fits charamel? I hate hate hate every XP theme I've ever tried, so I normally run with themes off, but I'd love to see one that looked like charamel.
> UML is hardly that, the U is really an act of hubris.
It merely Unified OMT and Booch Notation, that's all. It doesn't stand for "Universal". UML is closer to a visual representation of existing OOP languages, and for that reason, actually lacks some of the neater features that OMT had. If you can ever find a copy, _OMT Insights_ by James Rumbaugh has modelling tips for OMT that use said features most elegantly. Not that it's entirely useful today, since there's really no choice but UML (and the giant encrusted edifice of MDA) today, but it's always useful to know the history...
Only a few people share my tastes in living. I know there is a price to be paid for participating in our materialistic culture. Few people that I have met are aware of how much they give up.
Snobbery from Emerson to Kerouac, "my unfettered free culture is so superior to yours"... ok, that was a bit harsh, but do note that your perch was a smidge lofty in that post.
I like to go to plays (varies from cheap to pricey), symphony (expensive), and opera (holy cow my wallet hurts). I can't begin to do all these in the same year, so I alternate, and I get cheap seats (you think airline seats are cramped, try row Z at the San Francisco Opera). From these I take nothing home but a ticket stub, a program, and hopefully a memory of a great performance. I give up some other creature comforts for this, though I'm still living beyond my means if I want to save at all (no debt tho) and yes I have to work my 40 hours for it. In a job I love to do. Life's good for me, and you tell me, what did I give up? I dare anyone to say I sold my soul for it, and I dare anyone to say I'm a materialistic blueblood for it.
> The phrase "begs the question" doesn't mean what you think it means. It does not mean, "this leads to the question."
There's always some grammar nazi who comes up with this "correction". There's always a vast sea of people who simply don't care. I used to be one of the former. Now I should hope to be one of the latter, but in the meantime...
Websters defines "beg" as "to require as necessary or appropriate"
Now consider that the original form of the fallacy was petito principi. Now consider that "begging the question" may have been a popular phrase that means precisely what you were correcting, before it came to be applied as a nickname for petito principi, i.e. to beg the original question. That's how colloquialisms come about after all.
> IE is tied to the OS in many ways and bookmarks are one of them.
It's hardly a deep tie. They're in the filesystem, the filename is the name of the bookmark (with.url appended) and their format is basically like that of a.INI file. Mozilla's bookmarks are in HTML which made it easy to view (and edit) as a file. This actually came in useful at times. I really see no reason however why it couldn't support both, at the same time even. Just switch bookmark backends on a per-folder basis. Probably beyond an extension hack tho, since there's too many ways to get into the bookmarks. I'd love to be proven wrong tho.
> Some projects I've worked on don't really need foreign key enforcement, and subqueries, and what not provided by PostgreSQL
MySQL not supporting foreign keys is just fine. I just wish it would stop PRETENDING to support them by parsing and subsequently IGNORING foreign key declarations.
MySQL's documentation has typically heaped scorn on everything they didn't implement that version, then the attitude suddenly disappears when they do get around to implementing it. It strikes me as an astonishingly unproductive attitude, to say nothing of unprofessional. Go grab an old mysql rpm (with docs) or grab the docs out of the wayback machine if you want to see for yourself.
Incidentally, MySQL's speed comes mostly when using the MyISAM driver. Hope you weren't wanting a database larger than 2 gigs. I can and do fill up that much in a day with my postgresql db.
WTL says it extends ATL... does that mean it needs ATL, or is it by itself a superset of ATL? All I have these days is the standard C++ library (STL) which comes with the free commandline MSVC.
command line visual C++ (kind of an oxymoron isn't it?) here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/
Optimizing and all, it's the real thing. You can even use mozilla to download it. Platform SDK is brutally big tho (and requires IE to download) but manageable if you pare it down to just the parts you need. mingw's win32api might suffice for some of it if you prefer, but that's really made for gcc.
Must be a slashdot editor has this game, which is why everyone has to hear about it. In my warped way of thinking... now hear me out... people who have this game, and are interested in patch issues like this, are probably following it on the news and forums on the publisher's site. Now isn't that just nutty?
> Why stop at Opera? Run lynx! Dillo! Hell, I scoff at any browser over 1MB!
Dillo was heinously crashy for me. links (not lynx) is now a graphical browser, and it's actually very damn pretty -- only *nix browser where the fonts don't look like ass out of the box. Out of the box is important, since most people won't or can't change it.
Doesn't do cookies tho, so it was unusable for the web app I was trying to use it for. Or slashdot logins for that matter.
Slashdot Mirror
> In other words, people who have the brains to work out how the system works should be banned from using it.
Ever been to a casino? The best folks get banned all the time. On the other hand, they're quite clear about their prerogative, and the laws support their ability to ban anyone anytime.
Whereas Best Buy is probably opening themselves up to false advertisement lawsuits -- a sale is a damn sale, and believe me you don't want to screw around with truth, justice, and 10% off, bub. Can you imagine the field day BB's competitors will have if they end up putting fine print in their flyers like "Best Buy reserves the right to deny sale prices to any customer for any reason"?
> About the only areas where he'd have to be careful is others' copyrighted material (as mentioned above) and use of others' trademarks.
You mean like "Cisco", or "IOS", or "Catalyst"?
They're going to sue him into oblivion. Actually they'll just wave lawsuits at the university and they'll force him to pull his manual.
spoiler warning ... ah hell, who cares, you've seen it or you won't.
I have the first DVD as well, and only that thanks to the dreary and disgusting mess of the second two Matrix movies, in the same fashion that George Lucas succeeded in turning me off to Star Wars (I own zero Star Wars DVD's). The first Matrix was great, but never for the acting. It was a perfect fusion of sci-fi and kung fu, complete with the philosophical reflections on reality (think of the treatment of chi in kung fu here).
The second one unfortunately had dialog that was as wooden and juvenile as the first, but it failed to bring anything original except more fight scenes and (rolling my eyes) a big car chase scene. And Keanu flying around like Superman. Dreadful. Stupid. Come to think of it, calling it juvenile insults juveniles.
It did have one saving grace: the architect. His little soliloquy on free will was masterful in writing and acting. Neo must have felt like Winston Smith in 1984 when O'Brien tells him the real story about Emmanuel Goldstein, but even more trapped by the inevitability of his fate.
But no, he just blasts out of there, becomes some sort of cyber-messiah, and gee wiz, turns out by the third movie the architect just lied about Zion's purpose and state of existence. Or if he was a construct (might explain some of his superpowers) then it sure as hell didn't get adequate exposition. I don't ask to be led by the hand, I do ask for the various premises of a film to feel like they weren't just made up on the spot, like so much improvised roleplaying gaming.
I think the Farrelly Brothers would have put more consistency and thought into this wretched trilogy than the Wachowski Brothers did.
Disable removable storage, disable addition of new devices by normal users. Presto. Now they can't tunnel their secrets out to their cell phone with a usb bluetooth adaptor either. However, wherever there is the ability to transmit information -- that's information in the theory sense, as in a single bit corresponding to agreed upon relevant data -- you're going to have covert channels. Short of sticking folks onto standalone computers in a faraday cage (i.e. SCI) you're going to have covert channels. Heck, even then if you personally trust the guy leaking the secrets, that info is carried out in the brain. Just that "take my word for it" isn't usually considered good intel (unless you're George W. Bush looking for WMD's)
Focus stealing is, if I recall correctly, a violation of MS's own UI guidelines. That's why they have the taskbar button blinking stuff now, for apps that are well behaved (outlook 2003 generally does the right thing for example, it does have a blinking tray icon for errors too). Large cascading menus are also a violation of MS's UI guidelines too. Umm, start menu anyone? Multiple tab rows? Voilation, but there's MS Word's prefs menu. The list goes on.
... but not enough to just perform a damn drag and drop action. Yes I know all about the difficulties of selecting the proper drop target when all you have is the taskbar button ... so why can't they just make the damn button itself a separate drop target?
Windows has been steadily taking other steps toward looking like a desktop environment: none of the apps look the same. Office 2003 widgets don't look anything like windows media player which in turn doesn't look anything like the rest of windows.
To say nothing of the fact that I still can't drag a document onto a taskbar button. It knows enough about the operation to tell me that I can't do it, and to tell me to hover the drag over the button and let it pop up and drag it into the main window
> As an Indian, I find the level of cynicism in comments in any article related to India quite surprising
... and it's still cheap. People lose their jobs here to that, and it creates resentment. It's all fairly understandable that people are going to vent their spleen.
... though maybe my profession is.
Misplaced aggression I guess. Fact is, India's cheap. Pay an Indian a princely wage, with a safe workplace and full benefits
My own source of cynicism, which I'll be arrogant enough to say is not quite as misplaced, is that the savings companies incur will be pocketed by the executives. That's all. Five thousand jobs here and there so the CEO can get a few million in bonuses and sink it all into their mansion or buy some politicians. I have very little faith that the dividends of outsourcing will be recapitalized, but will merely serve to concentrate wealth into an self-perpetuating aristocracy. I just don't see any net benefits on average aside from the fact that people can get even cheaper goods from Wal-mart who will proceed to drive wages ever downward so that people will need to shop there to afford anything.
I say all this as a die-hard capitalist, because these disparities are ultimately bad for capitalism. I don't think we're all screwed as a result
I think you're confusing email with Instant Messaging. Try not to confuse the two.
Condescending much? I talk about systems, I get lectures about protocol. Wrong tree, I'm in this one over here. The typical design of a mail system allows for nearly instantaneous delivery. And that delivery delays of days have never been normal. I'm sure there's some fella running a mail gateway that requires him to tunnel it over RFC1149 (IP over Avian Carrier Transport) that might see a week's delay when the pigeons get eaten by hawks, but in the real world, there's no little net gremlins who put random delays in when the link quality is known and stable and the mail queues in the receiving MTAs are operating normally. The mail most certainly doesn't take little side routes to Lower Slobivia, it goes from my sending domain to the inbound MX on their domain, and it's generally not going to escape (user-defined forwards are a different issue, but I'm talking about typical operation). BITNet was neat, being able to watch my message go through the hops, but TCP/IP takes care of that routing now. Going on up to the application layer, when my mail gets delayed, I get a message to that effect, usually along with some explanation of why. If I don't, it's specific to that one wonky destination.
Instability is part of email, yes, and the current design is robust enough to handle most of it (not as much as I'd like, I think mailbox records never should have been taken out of DNS), but it's hardly the normal mode of operation. I'd love to see you get away with that "normal mode of operation" argument as a mail admin. The transport is unreliable -- hell, IP is unreliable. That's no excuse for calling the system unreliable.
The Dutch parliament moved against (well, abstained) the vote against the motion against software patents in europe?
Oh that was clear.
...for me anyway: Ripping the disk out and throwing it across the room with a cry of disgust, with box soon to follow, and uninstalling the damn buggy piece of crap. I even put up with Ultima 8 because it had an interesting story. But U9 was just unplayable. And that's just on the technical side. On the artistic side, it betrayed the story by breaking continuity -- what the hell did the Avatar do when he came out of the Etheral plane, giving up literal godhood to return to Britannia, then seeing the Guardian's face engraved on the mountain, dragons flying overhead ... did he go back home and get a ham sandwich and forget?
Bah. A pox on you, Lord British.
nuff said
> a protocol that verifies that the sender really is the sender.
That's precisely what SPF is, but it operates on domain granularity. You want it for users, you need digital signatures, and PKI is its own collosal headache with no easy answers.
Of course a problem with SPF is that yes, you know casinohotnews.com is the sender. And in the next message, you know that hotcasinonews.com is the sender, then it's hotcasinosnews, then casinoshotnews, then casinohotinfo, and so on, each coming from a fresh set of IP's every month or so. Those sorts of spammers aren't too much of a problem, it's the zombies -- hijacked cable modems -- that are the real plague. But if SPF gets deployed widely enough to where mail from domains without SPF is rejected or simply delivered under stricter criteria (e.g. whitelist only or maybe some sort of future in-band C/R protocol) then the zombies will get chased into smaller corners as well.
Then spammers will move on to IM and blog spam, and my favorite, voice spam. Imagine IP telephony autodialing with recorded pitches for viagra. Oh joy.
> it can still sometimes take *days* to get an email to it's recipient and there's still no "problem" as such
.. or something.
If it takes "days" without any notification, then something most certainly is wrong -- if not broken, at least overloaded, and will be broken soon. If you know neither side is supposed to be queueing mail out or in, then mail should arrive immediately (modulo some sort of minutes-long polling/refresh interval in the delivery agent). Email does not typically travel through a dozen hops any more than you would expect your flights to have a dozen layovers. This is not 1988 anymore.
But it sure isn't spam that's the problem here, and even if it is, it's no excuse for email to be silently lost. The article simply demonstrates incompetence in action. But hey, it's also evolution in action: the company that can manage to keep email running will be more likely to keep their clients. The circle of life continues
Wow, anecdotal evidence. As in, someone told you some stuff. That's, ah, informative. In fact, actual studies show that most people who are interested in porn are usually interested in sex too. Apparently plain ol normal everyday real sex is somehow still good. Isn't that fascinating?
We're going to have an entire generation of kids who are completely jaded concerning sex while simultaneously haveing all kinds of complexes because their boobs, penis, butt, etc. is too small.
I could compose an essay to analyze and demolish this argument, but 1) I'm lazy, 2) I'm at work, 3) it's your assertions that require support first. So I have two simple heckles to offer instead:
I imagine spybot's BHO inoculation should block this. Anyone know? I use firefox on windows myself, but not for any other reason than that it's just a better browser. ff on linux is actually kind of painful to look at and sluggish to use still.
Oh my, Charamel is nice. I do occasionally have to switch themes for poorly-coded extensions that hardwire a nonresizeable window width, since charamel tends to be quite wide.
Here's a question: is there an XP theme that fits charamel? I hate hate hate every XP theme I've ever tried, so I normally run with themes off, but I'd love to see one that looked like charamel.
> UML is hardly that, the U is really an act of hubris.
It merely Unified OMT and Booch Notation, that's all. It doesn't stand for "Universal". UML is closer to a visual representation of existing OOP languages, and for that reason, actually lacks some of the neater features that OMT had. If you can ever find a copy, _OMT Insights_ by James Rumbaugh has modelling tips for OMT that use said features most elegantly. Not that it's entirely useful today, since there's really no choice but UML (and the giant encrusted edifice of MDA) today, but it's always useful to know the history...
Only a few people share my tastes in living. I know there is a price to be paid for participating in our materialistic culture. Few people that I have met are aware of how much they give up.
... ok, that was a bit harsh, but do note that your perch was a smidge lofty in that post.
Snobbery from Emerson to Kerouac, "my unfettered free culture is so superior to yours"
I like to go to plays (varies from cheap to pricey), symphony (expensive), and opera (holy cow my wallet hurts). I can't begin to do all these in the same year, so I alternate, and I get cheap seats (you think airline seats are cramped, try row Z at the San Francisco Opera). From these I take nothing home but a ticket stub, a program, and hopefully a memory of a great performance. I give up some other creature comforts for this, though I'm still living beyond my means if I want to save at all (no debt tho) and yes I have to work my 40 hours for it. In a job I love to do. Life's good for me, and you tell me, what did I give up? I dare anyone to say I sold my soul for it, and I dare anyone to say I'm a materialistic blueblood for it.
> human bodies are some of the most complex systems that exist, and they essentially maintain themselves.
Health care is one of the most rapidly growing fields in this country. Thanks for playing.
> The phrase "begs the question" doesn't mean what you think it means. It does not mean, "this leads to the question."
There's always some grammar nazi who comes up with this "correction". There's always a vast sea of people who simply don't care. I used to be one of the former. Now I should hope to be one of the latter, but in the meantime...
Websters defines "beg" as "to require as necessary or appropriate"
Now consider that the original form of the fallacy was petito principi. Now consider that "begging the question" may have been a popular phrase that means precisely what you were correcting, before it came to be applied as a nickname for petito principi, i.e. to beg the original question. That's how colloquialisms come about after all.
> IE is tied to the OS in many ways and bookmarks are one of them.
.url appended) and their format is basically like that of a .INI file. Mozilla's bookmarks are in HTML which made it easy to view (and edit) as a file. This actually came in useful at times. I really see no reason however why it couldn't support both, at the same time even. Just switch bookmark backends on a per-folder basis. Probably beyond an extension hack tho, since there's too many ways to get into the bookmarks. I'd love to be proven wrong tho.
It's hardly a deep tie. They're in the filesystem, the filename is the name of the bookmark (with
> Some projects I've worked on don't really need foreign key enforcement, and subqueries, and what not provided by PostgreSQL
MySQL not supporting foreign keys is just fine. I just wish it would stop PRETENDING to support them by parsing and subsequently IGNORING foreign key declarations.
MySQL's documentation has typically heaped scorn on everything they didn't implement that version, then the attitude suddenly disappears when they do get around to implementing it. It strikes me as an astonishingly unproductive attitude, to say nothing of unprofessional. Go grab an old mysql rpm (with docs) or grab the docs out of the wayback machine if you want to see for yourself.
Incidentally, MySQL's speed comes mostly when using the MyISAM driver. Hope you weren't wanting a database larger than 2 gigs. I can and do fill up that much in a day with my postgresql db.
WTL says it extends ATL ... does that mean it needs ATL, or is it by itself a superset of ATL? All I have these days is the standard C++ library (STL) which comes with the free commandline MSVC.
> Where can I get my free copy of Visual Studio?
/
command line visual C++ (kind of an oxymoron isn't it?) here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003
Optimizing and all, it's the real thing. You can even use mozilla to download it. Platform SDK is brutally big tho (and requires IE to download) but manageable if you pare it down to just the parts you need. mingw's win32api might suffice for some of it if you prefer, but that's really made for gcc.
Must be a slashdot editor has this game, which is why everyone has to hear about it. In my warped way of thinking ... now hear me out ... people who have this game, and are interested in patch issues like this, are probably following it on the news and forums on the publisher's site. Now isn't that just nutty?
> Why stop at Opera? Run lynx! Dillo! Hell, I scoff at any browser over 1MB!
Dillo was heinously crashy for me. links (not lynx) is now a graphical browser, and it's actually very damn pretty -- only *nix browser where the fonts don't look like ass out of the box. Out of the box is important, since most people won't or can't change it.
Doesn't do cookies tho, so it was unusable for the web app I was trying to use it for. Or slashdot logins for that matter.