Last year I found a case where someone had already been "convinced" they needed to buy a £60 cable for their new HD setup. It was a SCART cable. They had a HDMI cable plugged in which had never been used until I asked why they had two A/V connections between the same things.
Actually, Flash is doing *much more* than a stand-alone video player, that's why a stand-alone video player will eat less resources.
HTML does much more than flash, yet a <video> tag takes just 8% CPU compared to the flash object it replaces which pigs an entire CPU core on my machine. Why, then, do the Flash developers constantly lie through their teeth to us with these bullshit excuses for their software sucking?
People using a toy OS designed solely for video games and $500 Office Reinstall 2010 can go STFU and keep buying these hardware workarounds for their box of treacle and molasses - after all it's not like they're short of cash. Everyone else will simply have to make do with the steadily growing stream of advances made in filesystem design since 1993.
I agree with you on Perl being as full of crap as PHP (especially the $%@-ing variables). The problem is that you have to consciously work around PHP's piles of crap constantly to do even simple things.
I'll give you an example:
my @array = list_returning_function() or qw(default values);
sub crash_and_burn {
@_ or throw 'up';
say $_ foreach @_; }
exec {
crash_and_burn(@array, 'some other value'); }; if ($@) {
error_handler($@); }
And then in the other corner...
<?php $array = array_returning_function(); if ( !$array ) { /* if you're lucky enough to have php 5.3, you could use "?:" in place of perl's "or" */
$array = array('default', 'values'); }
function die_in_a_fire(array $array = null) {
if ( is_null($array) ) {
throw new Exception('wuh');
}
$stuff = $array;
if ( func_num_args() > 1 ) { /* If you try to use the output of func_get_args directly, you get a fatal error. Seriously. */
$tmp = func_get_args();
array_shift($tmp);
$stuff = array_combine($stuff, $tmp);
}
foreach ( $stuff as $i )
echo $i, "\n"; }
Also I should point out PHP's @can be used in a useful way like Perl's exec/$@ (I don't think the similarity between them is a coincidence), but 99% of the time that's not what happens.
This is security theatre of the worst kind. Their whole (and only plausible) excuse for doing this is that nobody can pretend to be CNNIC over https now; given the reactions of people familiar with CNNIC I wonder why the hell anyone would in the first place.
Now thanks to a complete and utter retard at Mozilla blithely following a script without regard to the real world consequences, everyone gets to live with those consequences: hundreds of millions of net users who more often than not blindly click Yes to anything, who have been trained to associate a blue/green address bar with "safe".
Thanks for making the internet a "safer" place, Mozilla. Ugh.
It would all go to waste because there's no reason to fire missiles at the US any more.
Who would want to attack the war capital of Earth directly knowing that it's more than capable of retaliating in kind? Such a waste of effort... when it's doing a thorough job of destroying itself via security theatre and astronomical debt. By the time the US has finished medicating, litigating and consuming itself to death other countries will probably have already stripped it of any remaining natural resources and be ready to leave again. All perfectly legal and without firing a single bullet.
Terrorists will always find a way to get explosives on planes if they feel they need to.
Why bother? Thanks to security theatre, they can now simply blow themselves up in the scanner queue, which will kill the hundred or so people packed in there, will probably shut down the entire airport, and will cause the government to rape us even harder than before.
If being a final standard counted for anything, we wouldn't need gigantic workarounds like jQuery to emulate a sane event model in IE. We'd have DOM2 which was standardised eight years ago.
Then again if we waited for the W3C to standardise anything useful, we'd better be ready to solve problems that occur in the meantime. Like the heat death of the universe.
If they block bittorrent, they'll suddenly have millions of WoW players at their main offices with pitchforks and torches demanding to know why they can't update...
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Last year I found a case where someone had already been "convinced" they needed to buy a £60 cable for their new HD setup. It was a SCART cable. They had a HDMI cable plugged in which had never been used until I asked why they had two A/V connections between the same things.
Actually, Flash is doing *much more* than a stand-alone video player, that's why a stand-alone video player will eat less resources.
HTML does much more than flash, yet a <video> tag takes just 8% CPU compared to the flash object it replaces which pigs an entire CPU core on my machine. Why, then, do the Flash developers constantly lie through their teeth to us with these bullshit excuses for their software sucking?
If every Windows user had to be educated enough to pass a license test, Microsoft would go out of business within months.
I'm all for this.
We're all information criminals already, so why stop at MP3s?
Which is obviously the reason AMD's and VIA's CPUs had the same thing over half a decade ago, right? DRM sure was prolific back then.
I am guessing it would be the end that's at the front
Fine by me!
People using a toy OS designed solely for video games and $500 Office Reinstall 2010 can go STFU and keep buying these hardware workarounds for their box of treacle and molasses - after all it's not like they're short of cash. Everyone else will simply have to make do with the steadily growing stream of advances made in filesystem design since 1993.
It doesn't count as an "IDE" unless the code pane is 120x100px when the window's fullscreen and opening the program requires a splash screen.
I agree with you on Perl being as full of crap as PHP (especially the $%@-ing variables). The problem is that you have to consciously work around PHP's piles of crap constantly to do even simple things.
I'll give you an example:
And then in the other corner...
And that's just a basic syntax example.
Also I should point out PHP's @ can be used in a useful way like Perl's exec/$@ (I don't think the similarity between them is a coincidence), but 99% of the time that's not what happens.
This is security theatre of the worst kind. Their whole (and only plausible) excuse for doing this is that nobody can pretend to be CNNIC over https now; given the reactions of people familiar with CNNIC I wonder why the hell anyone would in the first place.
Now thanks to a complete and utter retard at Mozilla blithely following a script without regard to the real world consequences, everyone gets to live with those consequences: hundreds of millions of net users who more often than not blindly click Yes to anything, who have been trained to associate a blue/green address bar with "safe".
Thanks for making the internet a "safer" place, Mozilla. Ugh.
It would all go to waste because there's no reason to fire missiles at the US any more.
Who would want to attack the war capital of Earth directly knowing that it's more than capable of retaliating in kind? Such a waste of effort... when it's doing a thorough job of destroying itself via security theatre and astronomical debt. By the time the US has finished medicating, litigating and consuming itself to death other countries will probably have already stripped it of any remaining natural resources and be ready to leave again. All perfectly legal and without firing a single bullet.
So now that DRI has been good enough for a year at least, why does nVidia still have its head up its NIH ass?
Terrorists will always find a way to get explosives on planes if they feel they need to.
Why bother? Thanks to security theatre, they can now simply blow themselves up in the scanner queue, which will kill the hundred or so people packed in there, will probably shut down the entire airport, and will cause the government to rape us even harder than before.
Yes there is.
Now if only they'd kill off IE7 and 8 too.
If being a final standard counted for anything, we wouldn't need gigantic workarounds like jQuery to emulate a sane event model in IE. We'd have DOM2 which was standardised eight years ago.
Then again if we waited for the W3C to standardise anything useful, we'd better be ready to solve problems that occur in the meantime. Like the heat death of the universe.
You're all wrong! The only way to really be sure is XOR the data with itself, they'll never be able to decrypt that
What scares me most is the bad future they didn't visit after realising the present was FUBAR.
We're living in that timeline already, but we don't have any time machines to fix it.
That's the gayest car analogy I've ever heard!
If they block bittorrent, they'll suddenly have millions of WoW players at their main offices with pitchforks and torches demanding to know why they can't update...
The content of your post kind of contradicts with the complaint of your sig, doesn't it? You can't have it both ways.
Even if your software security is perfect, if your hardware cuts corners then all it takes is 100mW in the wrong place at the wrong time...
Are you only on Slashdot to post stupid catchphrases or something?
Seems like a clever move. Ubuntu turns their ignorant users into a profit source. It certainly doesn't have a shortage of them...
You can still sandbox IE on XP - just put Windows itself in the sandbox, where it belongs.