I used to work at a place that got a virus similar to your code. A user got it from a bad floppy and the EGA monitors kept blowing up (the user's and 2 more I hooked it up to). I finally hooked it to a Hercules monochrome monitor and the screen came up. I looked up the virus on a virus vendor's BBS system and printed removal instructions and removed it.
The hearings, as you may recall, did not go well for Team Prenda and all its associated players. While Wright may be somewhat limited in what he can do to Prenda, it appears he's doing his best to throw whatever book he can at them, randomly using as many Star Trek references as he can cram into the tight 11 page order.
but I do know that at my workplace tons of legit copies of windows 7 have started complaining that they are invalid copies. Clearly Microsoft has issues with their authentication procedures.
My first thought would be that the PC techs at my company are morons and did it wrong/illegally.
Let's have all the prime ministers, kings, queens and presidents write a Sudoku program in c++. Oh wait, 99.9% of them couldn't do it if they had 100 years. Obama gave up after writing "moveForward(100);".
While I agree with you in principle, I don't know ANY programmer that is 1,000x faster than another. At every job I have been at, I am the fastest programmer I know. I write the least code, it runs the fastest (because it's short), and it's very easy even for a junior developer to maintain (because it's short and easy).
When I leave a position, I am typically replaced by at least 3 programmers. And the work output goes to one-half or one-third anyway. This means, AT BEST, I am 5x-10x better than my replacements. Could someone be 10x faster than me? I haven't seen it in over 30 years, but maybe I could see 2x faster or 3x. That still puts the maximum I could imagine at about 20-30x faster than the least.
A 10x developer produces 1/10 the code and it still works and is easier to read and maintain and runs faster. It's these multigigabyte codebases (for a 100-page website) we have these days that are written by untalented people.
All the poker TV shows have said that 2-7 is the worst hand. I don't believe you when they are all in agreement. (At least not without a better argument than this.)
I have worked with women programmers and they were definitely in the bottom 10% of the talent. But nobody treated them that way and we always tried to treat them as equals. I worked most with a female Business Analyst (on mostly the same projects for over 7 years) and she was the absolute best of anyone I ever met in that type of job, which was translating what the customer said into design documents that could be followed by engineers.
My daughter wanted to be an artist. She's also very good with art on the computer and has always been good with computers in general. I explained to her that graphic designers make way more money than artists and that if they're pretty much the same to her, she should go that direction.
Since then, while she still takes Art in high school (and wins awards, including a best in show recently) she found an ROP class in high school where she spent 2 years learning Photoshop, InDesign and Maya. She's also in yearbook in her senior year and basically became the defacto leader (even over 2-3 year students) because she's so good and fast at making great layouts and all the other students come to her to ask questions about Photoshop or InDesign.
I steered her a little bit into a more "STEM" career, but she is still doing things she loves and is very happy and rewarded doing it. She'll be starting university as a Graphic Design major in the fall.
I also have not kept her from "boy stuff" as she likes video games and superhero shows, but also Disney stuff. We have built computers together.
It's too much if we are lowering standards to get there. If a woman can do the work, no problem. But I don't want bridges falling down because "we had to get more women in there somehow". That's stupid.
No. It's in our interest to introduce more women to it at a younger age (like instead of useless Trigonometry and Calculus they could take 2 years of programming as an option instead). But it's not in our interest to try to trick or force people who aren't interested in something to do it. We should not "steer" anyone. We should let them go into what they think is rewarding personally for their life.
This is so true. Can't we finally just be color-blind and sex-blind in the workplace? I honestly don't care as long as you can communicate effectively (meaning learn English if you are going to work in America) and you are good at what you do.
And if there were a female programmer that was a total rockstar anywhere I worked, I would gladly keep them over a man that was not as good. At the workplace, I care only about merit, not your sex. But it hasn't happened yet.
And I worked with female programmers that were in the bottom 10% of the programmers we employed. When layoffs came, better programmers were let go so we could keep the women and look better. That bothered me a lot, because one guy we let go in their place was really good.
Why not increase the number of skilled engineers? I don't care if 90% of my school teachers were women. And I don't care if 90% of my programmers are men. As long as they are good at what they do, I don't care.
Many people believe that excitotoxins are the reason for the rise in Alzheimer's. Given how they affect the brain chemistry, there may be something there. In any event, Alzheimer's IS rising, and the rise of MSG and Aspartame use in the US would explain the timeframes.
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I used to work at a place that got a virus similar to your code. A user got it from a bad floppy and the EGA monitors kept blowing up (the user's and 2 more I hooked it up to). I finally hooked it to a Hercules monochrome monitor and the screen came up. I looked up the virus on a virus vendor's BBS system and printed removal instructions and removed it.
The hearings, as you may recall, did not go well for Team Prenda and all its associated players. While Wright may be somewhat limited in what he can do to Prenda, it appears he's doing his best to throw whatever book he can at them, randomly using as many Star Trek references as he can cram into the tight 11 page order.
And they are. The article says that numbers were stolen from their supply, meaning these are being activated by a KeyGen guesser.
Part of the trial will be for the court to unmask the John Does once Microsoft can prove they have a legitimate reason to unmask them.
but I do know that at my workplace tons of legit copies of windows 7 have started complaining that they are invalid copies. Clearly Microsoft has issues with their authentication procedures.
My first thought would be that the PC techs at my company are morons and did it wrong/illegally.
or that my ability has something to do with the fact that I have been accept into Mensa
That's a funny typo.
Let's have all the prime ministers, kings, queens and presidents write a Sudoku program in c++. Oh wait, 99.9% of them couldn't do it if they had 100 years. Obama gave up after writing "moveForward(100);".
While I agree with you in principle, I don't know ANY programmer that is 1,000x faster than another. At every job I have been at, I am the fastest programmer I know. I write the least code, it runs the fastest (because it's short), and it's very easy even for a junior developer to maintain (because it's short and easy).
When I leave a position, I am typically replaced by at least 3 programmers. And the work output goes to one-half or one-third anyway. This means, AT BEST, I am 5x-10x better than my replacements. Could someone be 10x faster than me? I haven't seen it in over 30 years, but maybe I could see 2x faster or 3x. That still puts the maximum I could imagine at about 20-30x faster than the least.
This sounds like he's talking from his 'feels' instead of from his 'facts'.
What else would you expect these days? People love to spout off without doing any research. It's a favorite pasttime of the era.
A 10x developer produces 1/10 the code and it still works and is easier to read and maintain and runs faster. It's these multigigabyte codebases (for a 100-page website) we have these days that are written by untalented people.
I actually prefer Hulu and web sites for shows instead of OTA right now, because there are only 1-2 commercials per break instead of 5-7.
All the poker TV shows have said that 2-7 is the worst hand. I don't believe you when they are all in agreement. (At least not without a better argument than this.)
Well...he just lost my vote.
Snipers too. There's a vast imbalance in snipers.
It is here too (USA). All the chemists I know personally are women. And apparently they are really good at it.
I have worked with women programmers and they were definitely in the bottom 10% of the talent. But nobody treated them that way and we always tried to treat them as equals. I worked most with a female Business Analyst (on mostly the same projects for over 7 years) and she was the absolute best of anyone I ever met in that type of job, which was translating what the customer said into design documents that could be followed by engineers.
My daughter wanted to be an artist. She's also very good with art on the computer and has always been good with computers in general. I explained to her that graphic designers make way more money than artists and that if they're pretty much the same to her, she should go that direction.
Since then, while she still takes Art in high school (and wins awards, including a best in show recently) she found an ROP class in high school where she spent 2 years learning Photoshop, InDesign and Maya. She's also in yearbook in her senior year and basically became the defacto leader (even over 2-3 year students) because she's so good and fast at making great layouts and all the other students come to her to ask questions about Photoshop or InDesign.
I steered her a little bit into a more "STEM" career, but she is still doing things she loves and is very happy and rewarded doing it. She'll be starting university as a Graphic Design major in the fall.
I also have not kept her from "boy stuff" as she likes video games and superhero shows, but also Disney stuff. We have built computers together.
It's too much if we are lowering standards to get there. If a woman can do the work, no problem. But I don't want bridges falling down because "we had to get more women in there somehow". That's stupid.
No. It's in our interest to introduce more women to it at a younger age (like instead of useless Trigonometry and Calculus they could take 2 years of programming as an option instead). But it's not in our interest to try to trick or force people who aren't interested in something to do it. We should not "steer" anyone. We should let them go into what they think is rewarding personally for their life.
"I would have a hard time, personally speaking, being one of the engineers working on those automated supermarket tills."
Not me, because I prefer the automated supermarket till. Whenever it's open at Home Depot, I'm there and out of the store in 10 seconds.
This is so true. Can't we finally just be color-blind and sex-blind in the workplace? I honestly don't care as long as you can communicate effectively (meaning learn English if you are going to work in America) and you are good at what you do.
And if there were a female programmer that was a total rockstar anywhere I worked, I would gladly keep them over a man that was not as good. At the workplace, I care only about merit, not your sex. But it hasn't happened yet.
And I worked with female programmers that were in the bottom 10% of the programmers we employed. When layoffs came, better programmers were let go so we could keep the women and look better. That bothered me a lot, because one guy we let go in their place was really good.
Why not increase the number of skilled engineers? I don't care if 90% of my school teachers were women. And I don't care if 90% of my programmers are men. As long as they are good at what they do, I don't care.
Many people believe that excitotoxins are the reason for the rise in Alzheimer's. Given how they affect the brain chemistry, there may be something there. In any event, Alzheimer's IS rising, and the rise of MSG and Aspartame use in the US would explain the timeframes.