The.vsd format is the status quo. It doesn't matter how idealistic you are about open standards (and I agree with you, they would make life easier for everybody). The fact is, if you want to replace Visio, you need to get around the compatibility barrier.
Nobody's disputing the fact that they're humans, and personally I couldn't care less about the fact that the service is outsourced overseas. What irritates me is that the service is always sub-par, and the agents difficult to understand.
My company outsources its overflow support calls, a decision I've been contesting since they made it.
Man, they'll throw the "Hacker" label on anyone these days, won't they? Why not? He wrote a script to automate the slow task of setting up accounts, in a creative abuse of the system. That's pretty much the definition of a hacker.
I certainly wouldn't consider him much of a cracker though...
You can't add pixels that aren't there, and an out of focus picture is effectively a lower resolution.
You can, however, apply statistical analysis and AI learning techniques to guess the likely locations of pixels. In that way, you can sharpen a photo somewhat, though it may be inexact. My understanding is that contextual analysis is the next step- if you have pictures of a person and a blurry person, and have more pictures of that person and less-blurry people, you can make predictions about who the fuzzy people are.
Of course, I wear a beard so that I'll always be fuzzy.
We see that things aren't perfect, and we see trends indicating that they are going to get worse. We want to do things to reverse those trends, because frankly, we don't want to have to hit rock bottom and start over with violent revolution.
I fussed around with client-side scripting issues for about a month when I was first learning Javascript. Since I started using Prototype, and later Scriptaculous and Mootools, I rarely have a problem.
Likewise, people keep complaining that it can be a problem for the maintainability and legibility of your code, but if you use a good development framework, you can abstract it out to where you don't add raw html pages, you add content which, passed through the appropriate module, will create XML, HTML snippets, or fully formatted HTML documents, depending on the needs of the user.
It does make for more work in the back-end, but it's hard to argue with wicked-fast pageloads, even faster dynamically-pulled content, the ability to turn a website into an RSS feed, or otherwise parse it with well-formed XML.
Don't get me wrong, there's a LOT of shit code out there, but if you know what you're doing, AJAX and XML are seriously cool, put less load on your servers overall, and give the user a better experience.
My understanding is that Web 2.0 is standards-compliant code, css-based design, with javascript and AJAX for efficiency and UI enhancements. Why does everybody hate on that?
Then I realized that though that's what Web 2.0 should be, it devolved into a corporate buzzword for the crapfest of flash and 'bad javascript' that everybody seems to think is so awesome.
All honesty, I like the new Slashdot, but I do wish it failed more gracefully when you break parts of it.
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The .vsd format is the status quo. It doesn't matter how idealistic you are about open standards (and I agree with you, they would make life easier for everybody). The fact is, if you want to replace Visio, you need to get around the compatibility barrier.
You hire Kevin Mitnicks and Frank Abignales. You don't hire these morons.
Nobody's disputing the fact that they're humans, and personally I couldn't care less about the fact that the service is outsourced overseas. What irritates me is that the service is always sub-par, and the agents difficult to understand.
My company outsources its overflow support calls, a decision I've been contesting since they made it.
Life isn't fair, but the judicial system is supposed to be.
Nah, if he were stoned, he would have thought it was funny.
Also, the suggestion of pretzels would have made him hungry.
neurovish, I want to buy your sign.
I heard that swiss banks aren't as private as they used to be.
/me goes off to look up "Money Laundering" on Wikipedia.
I certainly wouldn't consider him much of a cracker though...
FTP is still plaintext. I wouldnt' trust people within my own company either with that stuff. I'd use SFTP as you said, or pgp.
While the carpenter's hammer isn't inherently spooky, the thought of the application of it as a weapon is enough to make my stomach turn.
The same could be said about nuclear weapons- nothing spooky about them, until you consider the potential devastation.
He did have to deal with that whole 'Cancer' thing...
Uber-bonus points for the Evil Dead 2 reference.
I'm going to cut off my leg and get a minigun.
It's a risky operation, but I think it's worth it.
You can't add pixels that aren't there, and an out of focus picture is effectively a lower resolution.
You can, however, apply statistical analysis and AI learning techniques to guess the likely locations of pixels. In that way, you can sharpen a photo somewhat, though it may be inexact. My understanding is that contextual analysis is the next step- if you have pictures of a person and a blurry person, and have more pictures of that person and less-blurry people, you can make predictions about who the fuzzy people are.
Of course, I wear a beard so that I'll always be fuzzy.
That's really not the point though.
We see that things aren't perfect, and we see trends indicating that they are going to get worse. We want to do things to reverse those trends, because frankly, we don't want to have to hit rock bottom and start over with violent revolution.
a 9 is point and click, but it doesn't have a nice gui like metasploit does.
...As if there aren't already?
I mean, it's not like we have regular drivebys, but Russian spammers keep getting found dead... You do the math.
You're right. There are a lot of people talking on their phones.
I tell them that I'd be happy to teach the child other methods of circumventing the parental controls.
count me in.
I just tried 'apt-get install evil'. The closed it could come up with was 'evilwm', which is apparently a window manager.
I fussed around with client-side scripting issues for about a month when I was first learning Javascript. Since I started using Prototype, and later Scriptaculous and Mootools, I rarely have a problem.
Likewise, people keep complaining that it can be a problem for the maintainability and legibility of your code, but if you use a good development framework, you can abstract it out to where you don't add raw html pages, you add content which, passed through the appropriate module, will create XML, HTML snippets, or fully formatted HTML documents, depending on the needs of the user.
It does make for more work in the back-end, but it's hard to argue with wicked-fast pageloads, even faster dynamically-pulled content, the ability to turn a website into an RSS feed, or otherwise parse it with well-formed XML.
Don't get me wrong, there's a LOT of shit code out there, but if you know what you're doing, AJAX and XML are seriously cool, put less load on your servers overall, and give the user a better experience.
But don't get me started on Flash.
rather:
No slashdot thread is complete without at least one (1) Microsoft bash.
Corollary: As it adds to the completeness of the thread, it will be modded informative.
That's something I never really got.
My understanding is that Web 2.0 is standards-compliant code, css-based design, with javascript and AJAX for efficiency and UI enhancements. Why does everybody hate on that?
Then I realized that though that's what Web 2.0 should be, it devolved into a corporate buzzword for the crapfest of flash and 'bad javascript' that everybody seems to think is so awesome.
All honesty, I like the new Slashdot, but I do wish it failed more gracefully when you break parts of it.
I'm pretty sure that Google going down is one of the signs of the apocalypse.