MS has also put out some really lousy stuff over the years, like MS Bob, that were apparently "championed" all the way to release, then bombed. Apparently MS Bob was Melinda Gates' idea.
The Lanmanager hashing system breaks the password up into two 7-char sized chunks, converts them to upper case, and hashes each separately, and XP still uses Lanmanager hashes if you don't explicitly tell it not to (by changing a registry setting).
The first 14 characters are still used in Lanmanager hashes though, so this is only a security hole if the attacker can access the hashes.
PHP is... excessively convenient, but it is not Great. Its soul is an abominable junk-heap filled with the most disgusting assortment of rubbish imaginable, tangled up in mangled-up knots.
And then there are the pages people make using it.
Clearly spoken by someone with an unbiased opinion that has been carefully thought out with a level-head..
I have pretty extensive experience with PHP5/Zend Engine 2 (work and my current pet project), and if it is a "disgusting assortment of rubbish" it sure as hell doesn't show it.
I'd like to hear the "People bleed, it happens" defense used in court. It might work well if you give a menacing look at the jury when you say "it happens".
Reading his side of the story I got the impression that the unpleasantness only started *after* they had asked him for a price, if it happened the other way around then yes I do think that crosses the line.
Apple and Linux are all going in this direction; making the desktop look nicer but requiring better hardware. I don't think Apple or Novell are especially interested in making things better for hardware suppliers, they just want to woo more users.
Aero is a stunning interface, incidentally. It's way ahead of XP's Fisher-Price look, is much nicer than any Linux theme I've seen, and arguably looks better than Aqua too. You can tell MS said "Apple's interface looks nice, so lets spend 10x as much money and see if we can get it looking nicer".
Maybe he didn't expect that the diode would create the electric field, maybe it's hard to put a diode right next to the laser, or maybe he didn't think the free electrons would travel away so easily.
To me it sounds exactly like how photovoltaic cells work; a light beam gives an electron enough energy to dislodge it, and a diode forces the electron to jump through a few hoops to get back to where it started. At face value it's too obvious to not have been thought of before, so you can bet there's something NewScientist aren't covering well.
Under 50c per supporter isn't extortion, it's a bargain. For two years worth of work, over 100 thousand people who are likely to be big supporters because of the network this one guy created, I think whoever made the call to take the site over in a hostile way instead of just buying it made a huge.
How much would the campaign staff make in a year? Compare with how many people that staff member could be said to have recruited (out of their own productivity, not just by spending Obama's money).
I think by any measure $50k is a great deal, and it's nothing to someone with millions of dollars for his campaign.
Don't eat junk food; you'll die. Don't people get tired of finding things that kill them? Every day on the BBC I see either "gene found that makes old people back out of their driveway too quickly" or "toasters linked to prostate cancer".
The life expectancy these days is longer than it has ever been, so how about spending that time doing something other than wondering how you're going to die?
and the ability to do that is limited by what data types the shell can handle. Bash can handle one datatype, basically - text. It can't handle structured data, it doesn't really support binary data or numbers, let alone live objects you could interact with. bash supports arrays too, but yes I do agree that Microsoft has raised the bar with PowerShell (and I consider myself proficient in Bourne sh and Bourne Again sh so I'm not speaking out of ignorance). I know how annoying it can be when a process doesn't output the way you want and you have to cludge a sed script together to extract the info you want.
I don't think being able to interact with the GUI is important though, or even a good idea; I just think that objects are a much better way of passing data around than text.
Also it's not quite as drastic as you or the OP would make it seem. bash so good for those complex one liners where you have to start messing around with sed; but if you're writing a script and not just using the CLI on UNIX you have Perl, and usually Python and Ruby too, available at your fingertips. Often whenever you need to script something and bash isn't quite up to it Perl fits in nicely.
I would say that Microsoft has brought out some really great ideas in PowerShell, and it's exciting that this is in direct response to Linux's capabilities, but I don't think it's as bad as you've made it out.
If my high school sys admin was a benchmark for success you should try to get in the way of education as much as possible. If someone is programming in Brainfuck go ahead and remove the scripts and lock their account for a week even though you only saw the naughty word because you were searching for it.
The moment anyone does something that violates the terms of use (even something completely petty that doesn't affect anyone) find out which class and person is doing it, sprint to the class, sneak in quietly (wearing camouflage gear), tip-toe behind the person offending the petty rule, and scream in their ear while they're doing whatever it is they shouldn't.
Bonus points if you put your hand on their shoulder, and they turn around and see you glaring into their eyes with disgust just as you start to scream at them.
If you can demonstrate these skills to the board you're in; technical abilities don't matter in my experience.
Well usually people are able to work out for themselves whether a comment is funny or insightful..
Except for a comment like this, which ingeniously works on many levels and could be funny or insightful, or neither. I'll have to wait for a mod to find out, but that's usually not the case.
It isn't about money, IMO. This guy built a significant amount of grassroots support for Obama, then found out that presidential politics is big business, and there's no room for the little guy. How would you feel if a 2.5 year labor of love was pulled out from underneath you? The campaign told him to make an offer... he did, based upon an approximated value of the time he spent on the profile this year. They scoffed, and went around him. Hell hath no fury like a true believer scorned.
All you have to do is read the tech articles. Back when ZFS was rumored into Mac OS X the comments at slashdot were insightful, intelligent, and informative. Exactly, on Slashdot everything you see is insightful, informative, or funny. On Digg the posts aren't any of these, so the best case scenario is that they're all underrated.
You can download a very small minimal iso and do a net install. I did it this evening -- the core system is pretty small, and comes down quickly. It's not as inconvenient as you might think.
Yeah, but if you do that you won't be able to stick your install CD into a music player any time you like and play the "Puffy Baba and the 40 Vendors" 4.1 song.
Creating an ISO is positively trivial. The file system layout is exactly the same as the FTP tree. Just be sure to make it bootable with mkisofs -b, or whatever "bootable" check-box your Win32 CD burner program has... If that's too challenging you can also burn the minimal ISO, and burn the install files to another CD. Boot up off the minimal ISO, then use the second CD as the source for the installation tarballs.
What I don't get is why don't Sun create a Flash alternative? They couldn't be in a better position to do so; the Java VM is practically everywhere, it's relatively more open and platform independent than anything Adobe or Microsoft will put out, and it doesn't only do 1990's looking forms any more; you can create some good looking stuff with it.
It seems the only reason is that there aren't any IDEs for it; a nice Java Flash MX-like IDE, maybe some API enhancements here and there, and you'd have a universal, extensible, open platform for real-time dynamic web content (or whatever it's called).
JavaScript and ActionScript are the same language, yes, but all that's shared is the syntax. The Windows Shell Host will run JavaScript too, but if you know web-oriented JavaScript completely, and ActionScript too, you won't know how to use JavaScript with the Windows Shell Host.
Our search engine, Who art in California
Defined in the dictionary be Thy Name;
Thy profits come,
No evil be done,
in China as it is in the US.
Give us this day our daily hits,
and forgive us our gratuitous links,
as we forgive those who gratuitously link on our sites;
and lead us not into porno,
but deliver us from evil. Amen.
I think you can simplify: To stay out of "Google Hell" don't try to cheat the system. Paying for hits is what AdWords is for.
However if you do find yourself in "Google Hell" and see Larry Page approach with a big grin and a pineapple, before feeling sorry for yourself just remember all the perfectly valid sites your SEO tactics pushed below the first page boundary and know they are looking down from "Google Heaven".
Remember; it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a irrelevant website to remain on the first page. Only by truly accepting PageRank into your heart will your website receive salvation.
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Apparently Lee Harvey Oswald became somewhat disillusioned with the Kennedy administration when he got that response from Kissinger.
I think you've mixed something up.
The Lanmanager hashing system breaks the password up into two 7-char sized chunks, converts them to upper case, and hashes each separately, and XP still uses Lanmanager hashes if you don't explicitly tell it not to (by changing a registry setting).
The first 14 characters are still used in Lanmanager hashes though, so this is only a security hole if the attacker can access the hashes.
And then there are the pages people make using it.
Clearly spoken by someone with an unbiased opinion that has been carefully thought out with a level-head..I have pretty extensive experience with PHP5/Zend Engine 2 (work and my current pet project), and if it is a "disgusting assortment of rubbish" it sure as hell doesn't show it.
Don't kid yourself. The requirements between a Linux box and a Windows box that can do the same things is very small. Linux never even ran on a 286..
I'd like to hear the "People bleed, it happens" defense used in court. It might work well if you give a menacing look at the jury when you say "it happens".
Reading his side of the story I got the impression that the unpleasantness only started *after* they had asked him for a price, if it happened the other way around then yes I do think that crosses the line.
Apple and Linux are all going in this direction; making the desktop look nicer but requiring better hardware. I don't think Apple or Novell are especially interested in making things better for hardware suppliers, they just want to woo more users.
Aero is a stunning interface, incidentally. It's way ahead of XP's Fisher-Price look, is much nicer than any Linux theme I've seen, and arguably looks better than Aqua too. You can tell MS said "Apple's interface looks nice, so lets spend 10x as much money and see if we can get it looking nicer".
Maybe he didn't expect that the diode would create the electric field, maybe it's hard to put a diode right next to the laser, or maybe he didn't think the free electrons would travel away so easily.
To me it sounds exactly like how photovoltaic cells work; a light beam gives an electron enough energy to dislodge it, and a diode forces the electron to jump through a few hoops to get back to where it started. At face value it's too obvious to not have been thought of before, so you can bet there's something NewScientist aren't covering well.
QDOS is conspicuously missing from your examples.
Under 50c per supporter isn't extortion, it's a bargain. For two years worth of work, over 100 thousand people who are likely to be big supporters because of the network this one guy created, I think whoever made the call to take the site over in a hostile way instead of just buying it made a huge.
How much would the campaign staff make in a year? Compare with how many people that staff member could be said to have recruited (out of their own productivity, not just by spending Obama's money).
I think by any measure $50k is a great deal, and it's nothing to someone with millions of dollars for his campaign.
What's a "Yahoo"? Is that like a "Fax" or "Cassette" or something?
Don't eat junk food; you'll die. Don't people get tired of finding things that kill them? Every day on the BBC I see either "gene found that makes old people back out of their driveway too quickly" or "toasters linked to prostate cancer".
The life expectancy these days is longer than it has ever been, so how about spending that time doing something other than wondering how you're going to die?
I don't think being able to interact with the GUI is important though, or even a good idea; I just think that objects are a much better way of passing data around than text.
Also it's not quite as drastic as you or the OP would make it seem. bash so good for those complex one liners where you have to start messing around with sed; but if you're writing a script and not just using the CLI on UNIX you have Perl, and usually Python and Ruby too, available at your fingertips. Often whenever you need to script something and bash isn't quite up to it Perl fits in nicely.
I would say that Microsoft has brought out some really great ideas in PowerShell, and it's exciting that this is in direct response to Linux's capabilities, but I don't think it's as bad as you've made it out.
If my high school sys admin was a benchmark for success you should try to get in the way of education as much as possible. If someone is programming in Brainfuck go ahead and remove the scripts and lock their account for a week even though you only saw the naughty word because you were searching for it.
The moment anyone does something that violates the terms of use (even something completely petty that doesn't affect anyone) find out which class and person is doing it, sprint to the class, sneak in quietly (wearing camouflage gear), tip-toe behind the person offending the petty rule, and scream in their ear while they're doing whatever it is they shouldn't.
Bonus points if you put your hand on their shoulder, and they turn around and see you glaring into their eyes with disgust just as you start to scream at them.
If you can demonstrate these skills to the board you're in; technical abilities don't matter in my experience.
Well usually people are able to work out for themselves whether a comment is funny or insightful..
Except for a comment like this, which ingeniously works on many levels and could be funny or insightful, or neither. I'll have to wait for a mod to find out, but that's usually not the case.
Yeah, but if you do that you won't be able to stick your install CD into a music player any time you like and play the "Puffy Baba and the 40 Vendors" 4.1 song.
What I don't get is why don't Sun create a Flash alternative? They couldn't be in a better position to do so; the Java VM is practically everywhere, it's relatively more open and platform independent than anything Adobe or Microsoft will put out, and it doesn't only do 1990's looking forms any more; you can create some good looking stuff with it.
It seems the only reason is that there aren't any IDEs for it; a nice Java Flash MX-like IDE, maybe some API enhancements here and there, and you'd have a universal, extensible, open platform for real-time dynamic web content (or whatever it's called).
JavaScript and ActionScript are the same language, yes, but all that's shared is the syntax. The Windows Shell Host will run JavaScript too, but if you know web-oriented JavaScript completely, and ActionScript too, you won't know how to use JavaScript with the Windows Shell Host.
All rise to say a prayer for the damned.
Our search engine, Who art in California
Defined in the dictionary be Thy Name;
Thy profits come,
No evil be done,
in China as it is in the US.
Give us this day our daily hits,
and forgive us our gratuitous links,
as we forgive those who gratuitously link on our sites;
and lead us not into porno,
but deliver us from evil. Amen.
I think you can simplify: To stay out of "Google Hell" don't try to cheat the system. Paying for hits is what AdWords is for.
However if you do find yourself in "Google Hell" and see Larry Page approach with a big grin and a pineapple, before feeling sorry for yourself just remember all the perfectly valid sites your SEO tactics pushed below the first page boundary and know they are looking down from "Google Heaven".
Remember; it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a irrelevant website to remain on the first page. Only by truly accepting PageRank into your heart will your website receive salvation.