My favourite stupid thing about DVD-R and DVD+R, is that DVD+R was produced (think I have this the right way around) by the DVD ReWritable group, which was a breakaway/different group from the DVD Consortium.
So, impressed by their own cleverness, they get people to stamp their logo on DVD+ format discs. Which puts you in the situation I was in where I'd bought a spindle of DVD+R discs (precisely to avoid RW compatibility issues) only to take one out and find it had the letters 'RW' stamped on the disc in a prominent way.
This was not to indicate that the disc was re-writeable - it was to indicate that the disc was in a format of a type specified by the RW group. It took me a few minutes of googling to confirm that I did in fact have R and not an RW disc in my hand.
I haven't ever had to send an executable file as an e-mail attachment. I'm still trying to figure this one out. Why would you want to???
I write software. A few friends of mine test it. If I want them to try a new version (or they want the new version with the wobjob feature I just told them about), I send them an EXE.
Jiminy jillikers, that was hard to 'figure out'. How long did you think about this for?
I have come across the GMail/EXE problem, which is pretty annoying, but at the moment you can just rename the extension to.dat or something and it works. I wonder how long it will be before they scan all attached files for PE headers though.
(Incidentally, now I just use IM file xfer to send people EXEs of the latest version of my software. And before anyone asks, no, I don't want to send them the source of my software and insist they have a full dev environment set up to build it, and they live miles away so I can't hand them a copy).
The one time I visited Digg, I found the comments worthless.
Ah, it's not just me then. Good. Most of them seemed to be "Cool! I love this! Digg!!"
Slashdot comments are not by any stretch of the imagination uniformly good, but I have picked up an awful lot of information (or some combination of those words, at least) from comments over the years.
(Plus, I'm still not entirely sure how Digg's revolutionary system for readers voting on stories is different/better to kuro5hin's.)
The whole show, everybody around him puts on a false act of being happy and joyous, all the time sweating that they'll do something to piss the kid off.
Lastly, how about you take the bitter employees who like to complain about every little perceived slight and fire their asses ASAP for being disruptive. I know my girlfriend, who works as a softare developer and hates working for women, would back this wholeheartedly, but perhaps that's because it'd be the cause of most of her female peers getting fired on the spot.
I can't tell if you being funny or not.
So your girlfriend, who hates working with women, and wants all her female peers to be fired, is annoyed about other people being bitter and disruptive?
It was me who was being ironic, actually. I was just reciting the standard anti-Nintendo moan for a laugh - I own an N64 and GC and amongst others, I've played Eternal Darkness (yay!), Metroid Prime (meh), and various Mario games (yay! mostly).
So you lose!
Unless you're playing Mario Kart, which always makes you some kind of winner. I pity the people who can't see this:)
To be fair, with the example I gave, you can just tell Windows Update to get it all in the background and install when it's ready (and then wait a few hours), but I still get this problem when I'm setting up a new machine and want to get the OS up to date so I can image it before I install any apps. I don't want to hang around waiting for the update app to get its life together.
Vista also uses the existing app shim technology, which means MS will include shims for existing apps that have problems with LUA. For example, a common problem (apparently) is Application X opening a registry key for read/write, when it only actually reads from it.
Without a shim, the open call will fail if the key is not writeable with the LUA privileges. However the shim will say "Oh you only want to read from this, so we'll just open it as read-only for you instead." Thus the call succeeds and the app continues on its way.
Oh yeah, your average user is really going to make a slipstreamed CD for XP SP2...this is about mainstream adoption of SP2 by everyone, not just tech users.
(And if you think making a slipstreamed CD is not just in the realm of a technical user, then, well, I'd like you to meet my Dad, and most of the other half a billion people who use Windows...)
Also, some of the upgrade stuff is a bit retarded - e.g..NET Framework 1.1
I think the sequence goes something like this when you go to Windows Update:
".NET Framework 1.1 is available! You should get that."
"OK."
Download update. Requires reboot. Go back to Windows Update.
"You've got.NET Framework 1.1! You totally need these critical security updates!"
"Hmm...sounds important. OK."
Download update. Requires reboot. Go back to Windows Update.
"You've got.NET Framework 1.1! You probably want Service Pack 1."
"I thought I already upgraded this thing? Oh well, better be up to date."
Download update. Requires reboot. Go back to Windows Update.
"You've got.NET Framework 1.1 SP1! You totally need these critical security updates!"
"Arrrgghh!"
Download update. Requires reboot. Go back to Windows Update.
"I think you're up to date!"
"Thank fsck for that."
MS should really roll all those updates into one.
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I mean, now with future 360 games that they want to make "dark and atmospheric", they'll have to make an SD option that avoids the darker shades that can't be differentiated on an SD TV. Higher development costs.
Yes, I mean they'll have to include a whole new control on the options screen to select from a couple of gamma profiles. Or tell people to turn up the brightness.
...is that they think Wikipedia is inaccurate, unaccountable, unapologetic for errors (no matter how much damage they might cause), and just a mess of childish trivia and jumbled facts.
And that's their job, goddamit! How dare Jimbo encroach on their territory?
Demarcation, comrades!
(Still, at least Wikipedia! Doesn't! Milk! Poor! Jokes! For! Long! After! They! Were! Only! Marginally! Funny! In! The! First! Place!)
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So, impressed by their own cleverness, they get people to stamp their logo on DVD+ format discs. Which puts you in the situation I was in where I'd bought a spindle of DVD+R discs (precisely to avoid RW compatibility issues) only to take one out and find it had the letters 'RW' stamped on the disc in a prominent way.
This was not to indicate that the disc was re-writeable - it was to indicate that the disc was in a format of a type specified by the RW group. It took me a few minutes of googling to confirm that I did in fact have R and not an RW disc in my hand.
I mean, what a bunch of goddamn muppets.
I write software. A few friends of mine test it. If I want them to try a new version (or they want the new version with the wobjob feature I just told them about), I send them an EXE.
Jiminy jillikers, that was hard to 'figure out'. How long did you think about this for?
I have come across the GMail/EXE problem, which is pretty annoying, but at the moment you can just rename the extension to .dat or something and it works. I wonder how long it will be before they scan all attached files for PE headers though.
(Incidentally, now I just use IM file xfer to send people EXEs of the latest version of my software. And before anyone asks, no, I don't want to send them the source of my software and insist they have a full dev environment set up to build it, and they live miles away so I can't hand them a copy).
Ah, it's not just me then. Good. Most of them seemed to be "Cool! I love this! Digg!!"
Slashdot comments are not by any stretch of the imagination uniformly good, but I have picked up an awful lot of information (or some combination of those words, at least) from comments over the years.
(Plus, I'm still not entirely sure how Digg's revolutionary system for readers voting on stories is different/better to kuro5hin's.)
(I'm not asking.)
Yeah, I'll get right on that.
I suppose that's one step above:
So how did it end? Don't leave us hanging! :-)
I can't tell if you being funny or not.
So your girlfriend, who hates working with women, and wants all her female peers to be fired, is annoyed about other people being bitter and disruptive?
/sigh
:)
It was me who was being ironic, actually. I was just reciting the standard anti-Nintendo moan for a laugh - I own an N64 and GC and amongst others, I've played Eternal Darkness (yay!), Metroid Prime (meh), and various Mario games (yay! mostly).
So you lose!
Unless you're playing Mario Kart, which always makes you some kind of winner. I pity the people who can't see this
...issue you with a speeding ticket, I imagine.
Hmm...I wonder how well Outlook handles 64-bit file sizes?
:-)
You may well be about to find out
The key word in your post is 'supposedly'.
...just look at where the WSAD keys are! How would you ever play a FPS on it?
Yeah, but they're all just kids' games.
Ok, who had 1 hour 59 minutes?
To be fair, with the example I gave, you can just tell Windows Update to get it all in the background and install when it's ready (and then wait a few hours), but I still get this problem when I'm setting up a new machine and want to get the OS up to date so I can image it before I install any apps. I don't want to hang around waiting for the update app to get its life together.
Nothing happened. The 'Power Users' group is still there, in XP Pro at least (can't speak for XP Home).
Without a shim, the open call will fail if the key is not writeable with the LUA privileges. However the shim will say "Oh you only want to read from this, so we'll just open it as read-only for you instead." Thus the call succeeds and the app continues on its way.
(And if you think making a slipstreamed CD is not just in the realm of a technical user, then, well, I'd like you to meet my Dad, and most of the other half a billion people who use Windows...)
Also, some of the upgrade stuff is a bit retarded - e.g. .NET Framework 1.1
I think the sequence goes something like this when you go to Windows Update:
MS should really roll all those updates into one.
Yes, I mean they'll have to include a whole new control on the options screen to select from a couple of gamma profiles. Or tell people to turn up the brightness.
Oh noes! Development costs will skyrocket!
And that's their job, goddamit! How dare Jimbo encroach on their territory?
Demarcation, comrades!
(Still, at least Wikipedia! Doesn't! Milk! Poor! Jokes! For! Long! After! They! Were! Only! Marginally! Funny! In! The! First! Place!)
Check out some of Thomas' later blog entries, especially this one if you want to feel like you got a good experience :-)
I bet that one is in pristine condition :-)
...I tried Emacs, but I didn't seem to have enough fingers.
(joke for UK residents)