I love my iPhone and even when using it w/bluetoothe or earbuds it is still damn dangerous to drive with the thing because you MUST look at the stupid screen to dial it. Even my ancient Nokia had voice dialing! Only a few key numbers, but it worked well.
Cut and fucking paste already GOD DAMMIT! Go ahead, try an type in a 30 or 40 digit wireless access code!
Shhhhhhh, you said the "N" word. That can get you hacked to bits here.
Yes it is called OES or Open Enterprise Server and Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop. (SLED).
Novell Open Workgroup ( NOWS ) suite includes all the tools the push apps out, lock it down HARD and keep all the wheels spinning with the minimum amount of people.
Then sir if you think this is incorrect do you choose to hide? Anonymous Coward is so appropriate in your case since that is ultimately what you are.
Challenge my argument on the merits, instead of hurling ineffective insults as you lurk in your cowards corner and mumble.
Enlighten us as to why the analogy is wrong and do so in the bright of day, and respond with your/. user name.
Since you feel your opinion is the correct one defend it proudly and stand tall while doing so, unless of course you simply have no rebuttal other then to caste aspersions at those who use logic and legal theory that is grounded in over 500 years of jurisprudence.
Sorry, that simplistic view simply does not work and the moderation on your comment it simply fandom of the simplistic POV.
Personally I have never downloaded anything that came from TPB and I don't even have torrent software installed, so as I was reading this article I went to TPB's site and did a search for photo shop and of course found it.
I then clicked on download and Mozilla dutifully saved a file onto my hard drive called "Adobe_Photo_Shop_7.3896079.TBP.torrent". Now I am ignorant of the inner workings of how torrent software works, but my assumption is that the file contains the locations of the server(s) where I can obtain a copy of Adobe's commercial closed source photo editing software and circumvent both paying Adobe's demanded price and registration requirements for that software.
IANAL but this is simply Aiding and Abetting which is defined by FindLaw.com as follows:
Aiding and Abetting/Accessory
A criminal charge of aiding and abetting or accessory can usually be brought against anyone who helps in the commission of a crime, though legal distinctions vary by state. A person charged with aiding and abetting or accessory is usually not present when the crime itself is committed, but he or she has knowledge of the crime before or after the fact, and may assist in its commission through advice, actions, or financial support. Depending on the degree of involvement, the offender's participation in the crime may rise to the level of conspiracy.
For example, Andy draws a floor plan of a bank, knowing of Dan's intention to rob it. After Dan commits the robbery, Alice agrees to let him store the stolen money at her house. Both Andy and Alice can be charged with aiding and abetting, or acting as accessories to the robbery.
Although i am not positive I think that any reasonable and logical person can and would correctly draw the conclusion that the file is analogous to the map that "andy" drew for "dan". Further since my assertion is that the actions are indeed analogous, then the logical and inescapable conclusion can only be that the operators of TPB are indeed guilty and complicit in a wide range of crimes related to the unauthorized distribution of Adobe's property.
The expressed opinions not withstanding, the operators of TBP are indeed committing a crime contrary to their assertions that they are not. While you may or may not agree that their actions are actionable, you must submit to the logic of this case as it is defined and interpreted under current statutes and legal theory.
If I had mod points today I would mod you, but since I don't I will simply agree with you.
TOO MANY FUCKING TIMES I have been forced to upgrade a user account to "Power User" or worse yet make them a member of administrators because some asshole developer can't figure out that how to set things up correctly on install.
Windows allows you to set access rights on certain parts of the system, including the registry so that a program or user has the required rights to be able to insert/update/delete the keys that they need, but can these assholes get it right? NO! Why? A lot of the blame rests with Microsoft because of the garbage libs that are in things like.Net which simply assume they can go trampling all over the entire OS.
But most of the blame still remains with the devs because they cannot be bothered to take the time to map out their requirements and then have the installation program, which should only ever be able to be run as the local administrator BY the administrator that would set up the required resources, grant appropriate rights to those and ONLY those resources so that when their software was launched by the user, it would not be triggering UAC prompt after UAC prompt as the rpgram tries to go out and doe all the things it needs to do.
Which HTML standard, 4.x or 5.x which css standard, 2.0, 1.0 , which DOM version etc. etc. etc. said in my best Charley Chan voice
These "standards" are a moving target and just when you think you have it right, some fucking pencil neck gets a hair up his ass and decides this one little thing needs to be changed, it is no small miracle that web even works at all.
There are so many kludges in HTML/CSS/XHTML - pick a flavor of the month that it simply boggles the mind. Then there are semantic arguments that this is a "structure" element, not a "display" element and there for it should not be affected by CSS when the whole god damned point of CSS was to be able to change the look and feel of a page without changing the HTML building blocks.
I would like to take most of then WW3 committee out and shoot them because far to many of them have their heads firmly up their ass so far that can;t tell shit from shine-ola.
Those standard's as the exist need to be junked, take what is good about the them, and re-build it into something that approaches logical, rather then what we have no which borders on lunacy.
If you were to take what currently exists and write the specs up with all the shit that has been crowbar'd into them and present it as a set of coherent specifications you would be laughed out of any standards body and told to go and bring something back that worked.
Yes and isn't this a wonderful feature? You can get a machine with n number of processors / memory
and then only pay for them when you need them. Lets say you are VISA and around x-mas of course processing capacity needs to double if not triple. You have the ability to crank it up ( for a price ) and then crank it back down ( and your price is less ) sounds good to me!
Actually the raised floors were not a requirement. It was just a hell of a lot neater for running all the cables.
and yes, an IBM Z Series. Need more horsepower? Wonder down the hall, find your IBM Engineer ( yes they all come with one ) and tell him, well actually he will tell you, that we need another CPU/Memory block. It will arrive in a lovely wooden crate and sometime after morning coffee he will unpack it, walk over the the Z Series, open the door, slide it into place, connect the cooling hoses and close the door. He will then walk to the maintenance terminal, type in the secret code, and your Z Series now has 64 more processors. All of this without anyone ever knowing it happened, well except for the nervous nelly of a CIO who jsut had to watch.
As one of the posts says it is all about the bandwidth
Think of a really good pc grade server, say Dell or HP and then imagine the backplane ie: the data bus as a model rocket. Yep goes fast for about 5 seconds.
Now think of an IBM Z Series mainframe and imagine the backplane ie: the data bus as the Saturn V rocket ( the one that sent he men to the moon) with all of the horsepower of the space shuttle added to it. You now have your appropriate analogy.
Also, mainframes (especially the old Big Iron kind that need special power supplies and special raised floors and stuff) can move a LOT of data VERY fast. Which is GOOD when you are a big bank potentially processing 1000s of transactions a minute
Also, mainframes (especially the old Big Iron kind that need special power supplies and special raised floors and stuff) can move a LOT of data VERY fast. Which is GOOD when you are a big bank potentially processing millions of transactions per second
I would not normally reply to something like this; however, I will because I see your point, but you need to understand a few things. Yes I couch my language slightly differently when dealing with my customers, but sometimes you tell it like it is, no bumpers, no soft edges.
I can and do appreciate the nuances and utility of many languages that I have and do write in and the applicability of each according to the problem at hand.
Having said that, it is beyond me why any language author who would appear to subscribe to the Sugar / Salt / Saccharin doctrine would produce a language that can be rendered utterly useless by a text editor that is miss-configured. I respect the work of Landin but I must, for obvious reasons, take exception to the "Off-side Rule". Surely the "sugar" of a closing delimiter that is visible and obvious does not, in and of itself, cause python fall into a realm of sugared language. Further it is perfectly obvious that Python is sugared a great deal by the class syntax.
I think python at its core is a quite useful language for certain applications, but to force me to subscribe to a particular formating doctrine is something I find unacceptable in terms of language function. There are a good many reasons to have and enforce formatting rules based upon style preferences, but on function I must disagree completely.
And the main problem I have found with young guys is they have absolutely no appreciation for talent and can't stand it when they are in a position to hire because quite frequently it eclipses their own by an order of magnitude (that's a gross generalization, of course, and not always true).
But the by far the biggest problem I have found to be more and more true these days is that some kid manages to get himself hired because he has a degree in java, manages to keep his nose clean and then gets to hire more talent as the project gets bigger and in most every case they turn down anyone with a vastly superior skill set that was born more then 3 years before they were because they prefer a quiet well lit office that doesn't stink of BO and stale junk food. I might be wrong, but somehow I doubt it very much.
Now you are probably thinking, "Must be some old fuck" and you would be right I am part of the over 50 crowd who has a very current skill set and has 30 years of programming experience to back it up. I am a consultant and I am frequently hired by CEO's and CFO's who are at their whits end with the "kids" that got hired by the other kids that got the job then decided the lights were brighter and more sparkley someplace else after talking management into using the latest and greatest hair brained library written in a language that uses tabs for scoping.
Mostly what I am is a janitor, a very very well paid one, but a janitor never the less, cleaning up messes left by kids.
Don't take offense because one of these days you (if you are any good) will be doing the same thing in 30 years and why? Not because you "need" the money but because you, like me, will hopefully have some ethics about our craft.
That much experience huh? So why did you pass him up? Were you intimidated by his skill set or was it that he didn't fit into your ( sounds like some 20 something kids club ) post modern punk world?
Your assumption is faulty as is your conclusion and your logic.
The simple observation that you took umbrage with my case usage could also point out that you are a grammar queen, but I digress.
While perl may have one or two attributes that could perhaps be (after careful examination and argument between those that care to argue about such things) considered positive, it has been shown time and time again to be used both incorrectly and without do regard or care by those self congratulatory individuals who pride themselves on creating code which after all is said and done is both unmaintainable and there no longer worth the energy it takes to polarize the magnetic realms of a disk drive to save it, much less read it.
So in answer to your questions: No I am not a java programmer, I consider it, much like xml to be an answer to a question that no one asked. I find it like so many of the other "modern" languages to be abysmal in form, function and performance.
I really doubt it will be an improvement on C. Assembler is pretty much the ultimate programming language followed by C and Pascal, in that order for general purpose programming. Everything else is simply a derivation of those, most of them not worth the time it took to write them.
Fabulous, he ported a language to the MAC. Ok groovey...
The bit about having to make adjustments to the library code is news why?
Not all OS's support everything in the world, that is just the way it is. If you implement a certain function or macro one way on one platform does not in any way mean that you will be able to implement exactly the same on another platform.
Simply do not accept ANYTHING that does not consist of a..z.A..Z,0..9 !
Accepting anything other then that is simply stupid.
You can discourage it on the front end by using a JS onkeyup method and on the back end you just strip them out, or if you detect anything other then those, simply reject the entire form.
I will put Novell's NetWare up against ANY Linux installation in the file and print service space and it will smoke them every time. Sorry Linux is a Great application server, But NetWare with NDS is just superior by any metric you would care to use in either the Closed Source or Open Source worlds.
Your local public School. Leave your FOOS/Closed Source prejudices at the door and just help.
My son is in elementary school, and let me tell you these people need all the help they can get. Even if is nothing more then cracking open a printer to clear some scotch tape out of the works or making sure some teachers machine is connected to the correct printer, every little bit helps.
If you can commit to even a few hours a week head to the local middle school or high school and be a proctor, trust me the teachers will take all the help they can get.
You have to go through a little BS to be a volunteer, but once you do in your local school district it will come back to you 10 fold, even if that payback is nothing more then the satisfaction that you are contributing to your community.
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I love my iPhone and even when using it w/bluetoothe or earbuds it is still damn dangerous to drive with the thing because you MUST look at the stupid screen to dial it. Even my ancient Nokia had voice dialing! Only a few key numbers, but it worked well.
Cut and fucking paste already GOD DAMMIT! Go ahead, try an type in a 30 or 40 digit wireless access code!
Shhhhhhh, you said the "N" word. That can get you hacked to bits here.
Yes it is called OES or Open Enterprise Server and Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop. (SLED).
Novell Open Workgroup ( NOWS ) suite includes all the tools the push apps out, lock it down HARD and keep all the wheels spinning with the minimum amount of people.
Then sir if you think this is incorrect do you choose to hide? Anonymous Coward is so appropriate in your case since that is ultimately what you are.
Challenge my argument on the merits, instead of hurling ineffective insults as you lurk in your cowards corner and mumble.
Enlighten us as to why the analogy is wrong and do so in the bright of day, and respond with your /. user name.
Since you feel your opinion is the correct one defend it proudly and stand tall while doing so, unless of course you simply have no rebuttal other then to caste aspersions at those who use logic and legal theory that is grounded in over 500 years of jurisprudence.
Sorry, that simplistic view simply does not work and the moderation on your comment it simply fandom of the simplistic POV.
Personally I have never downloaded anything that came from TPB and I don't even have torrent software installed, so as I was reading this article I went to TPB's site and did a search for photo shop and of course found it.
I then clicked on download and Mozilla dutifully saved a file onto my hard drive called "Adobe_Photo_Shop_7.3896079.TBP.torrent". Now I am ignorant of the inner workings of how torrent software works, but my assumption is that the file contains the locations of the server(s) where I can obtain a copy of Adobe's commercial closed source photo editing software and circumvent both paying Adobe's demanded price and registration requirements for that software.
IANAL but this is simply Aiding and Abetting which is defined by FindLaw.com as follows:
Aiding and Abetting/Accessory A criminal charge of aiding and abetting or accessory can usually be brought against anyone who helps in the commission of a crime, though legal distinctions vary by state. A person charged with aiding and abetting or accessory is usually not present when the crime itself is committed, but he or she has knowledge of the crime before or after the fact, and may assist in its commission through advice, actions, or financial support. Depending on the degree of involvement, the offender's participation in the crime may rise to the level of conspiracy. For example, Andy draws a floor plan of a bank, knowing of Dan's intention to rob it. After Dan commits the robbery, Alice agrees to let him store the stolen money at her house. Both Andy and Alice can be charged with aiding and abetting, or acting as accessories to the robbery.
Although i am not positive I think that any reasonable and logical person can and would correctly draw the conclusion that the file is analogous to the map that "andy" drew for "dan". Further since my assertion is that the actions are indeed analogous, then the logical and inescapable conclusion can only be that the operators of TPB are indeed guilty and complicit in a wide range of crimes related to the unauthorized distribution of Adobe's property.
The expressed opinions not withstanding, the operators of TBP are indeed committing a crime contrary to their assertions that they are not. While you may or may not agree that their actions are actionable, you must submit to the logic of this case as it is defined and interpreted under current statutes and legal theory.
If I had mod points today I would mod you, but since I don't I will simply agree with you.
TOO MANY FUCKING TIMES I have been forced to upgrade a user account to "Power User" or worse yet make them a member of administrators because some asshole developer can't figure out that how to set things up correctly on install.
Windows allows you to set access rights on certain parts of the system, including the registry so that a program or user has the required rights to be able to insert/update/delete the keys that they need, but can these assholes get it right? NO! Why? A lot of the blame rests with Microsoft because of the garbage libs that are in things like .Net which simply assume they can go trampling all over the entire OS.
But most of the blame still remains with the devs because they cannot be bothered to take the time to map out their requirements and then have the installation program, which should only ever be able to be run as the local administrator BY the administrator that would set up the required resources, grant appropriate rights to those and ONLY those resources so that when their software was launched by the user, it would not be triggering UAC prompt after UAC prompt as the rpgram tries to go out and doe all the things it needs to do.
You are joking, right?
Which HTML standard, 4.x or 5.x which css standard, 2.0, 1.0 , which DOM version etc. etc. etc. said in my best Charley Chan voice
These "standards" are a moving target and just when you think you have it right, some fucking pencil neck gets a hair up his ass and decides this one little thing needs to be changed, it is no small miracle that web even works at all.
There are so many kludges in HTML/CSS/XHTML - pick a flavor of the month that it simply boggles the mind. Then there are semantic arguments that this is a "structure" element, not a "display" element and there for it should not be affected by CSS when the whole god damned point of CSS was to be able to change the look and feel of a page without changing the HTML building blocks.
I would like to take most of then WW3 committee out and shoot them because far to many of them have their heads firmly up their ass so far that can;t tell shit from shine-ola.
Those standard's as the exist need to be junked, take what is good about the them, and re-build it into something that approaches logical, rather then what we have no which borders on lunacy.
If you were to take what currently exists and write the specs up with all the shit that has been crowbar'd into them and present it as a set of coherent specifications you would be laughed out of any standards body and told to go and bring something back that worked.
Yes and isn't this a wonderful feature? You can get a machine with n number of processors / memory and then only pay for them when you need them. Lets say you are VISA and around x-mas of course processing capacity needs to double if not triple. You have the ability to crank it up ( for a price ) and then crank it back down ( and your price is less ) sounds good to me!
Actually the raised floors were not a requirement. It was just a hell of a lot neater for running all the cables.
and yes, an IBM Z Series. Need more horsepower? Wonder down the hall, find your IBM Engineer ( yes they all come with one ) and tell him, well actually he will tell you, that we need another CPU/Memory block. It will arrive in a lovely wooden crate and sometime after morning coffee he will unpack it, walk over the the Z Series, open the door, slide it into place, connect the cooling hoses and close the door. He will then walk to the maintenance terminal, type in the secret code, and your Z Series now has 64 more processors. All of this without anyone ever knowing it happened, well except for the nervous nelly of a CIO who jsut had to watch.
No one is exaggerating
As one of the posts says it is all about the bandwidth
Think of a really good pc grade server, say Dell or HP and then imagine the backplane ie: the data bus as a model rocket. Yep goes fast for about 5 seconds.
Now think of an IBM Z Series mainframe and imagine the backplane ie: the data bus as the Saturn V rocket ( the one that sent he men to the moon) with all of the horsepower of the space shuttle added to it. You now have your appropriate analogy.
Also, mainframes (especially the old Big Iron kind that need special power supplies and special raised floors and stuff) can move a LOT of data VERY fast. Which is GOOD when you are a big bank potentially processing 1000s of transactions a minute
Also, mainframes (especially the old Big Iron kind that need special power supplies and special raised floors and stuff) can move a LOT of data VERY fast. Which is GOOD when you are a big bank potentially processing millions of transactions per second
Fixed that for ya. :)
No, you are wrong. C is a small elegant language you can do big things with. K & R did it right the first time, period.
All those "costly buffer-overflow virus attacks" were the fault of idiots who were just to lazy to do proper bounds checking.
Nope...
I have a score of zero (0) - I have a score of one (1) - I have not yet scored NULL
select * from players where score is null - eg: I have not yet scored
select * from players where score = 0 - I have scored and my score is zero (o)
I would not normally reply to something like this; however, I will because I see your point, but you need to understand a few things. Yes I couch my language slightly differently when dealing with my customers, but sometimes you tell it like it is, no bumpers, no soft edges.
I can and do appreciate the nuances and utility of many languages that I have and do write in and the applicability of each according to the problem at hand.
Having said that, it is beyond me why any language author who would appear to subscribe to the Sugar / Salt / Saccharin doctrine would produce a language that can be rendered utterly useless by a text editor that is miss-configured. I respect the work of Landin but I must, for obvious reasons, take exception to the "Off-side Rule". Surely the "sugar" of a closing delimiter that is visible and obvious does not, in and of itself, cause python fall into a realm of sugared language. Further it is perfectly obvious that Python is sugared a great deal by the class syntax.
I think python at its core is a quite useful language for certain applications, but to force me to subscribe to a particular formating doctrine is something I find unacceptable in terms of language function. There are a good many reasons to have and enforce formatting rules based upon style preferences, but on function I must disagree completely.
And the main problem I have found with young guys is they have absolutely no appreciation for talent and can't stand it when they are in a position to hire because quite frequently it eclipses their own by an order of magnitude (that's a gross generalization, of course, and not always true). But the by far the biggest problem I have found to be more and more true these days is that some kid manages to get himself hired because he has a degree in java, manages to keep his nose clean and then gets to hire more talent as the project gets bigger and in most every case they turn down anyone with a vastly superior skill set that was born more then 3 years before they were because they prefer a quiet well lit office that doesn't stink of BO and stale junk food. I might be wrong, but somehow I doubt it very much.
Now you are probably thinking, "Must be some old fuck" and you would be right I am part of the over 50 crowd who has a very current skill set and has 30 years of programming experience to back it up. I am a consultant and I am frequently hired by CEO's and CFO's who are at their whits end with the "kids" that got hired by the other kids that got the job then decided the lights were brighter and more sparkley someplace else after talking management into using the latest and greatest hair brained library written in a language that uses tabs for scoping.
Mostly what I am is a janitor, a very very well paid one, but a janitor never the less, cleaning up messes left by kids.
Don't take offense because one of these days you (if you are any good) will be doing the same thing in 30 years and why? Not because you "need" the money but because you, like me, will hopefully have some ethics about our craft.
That much experience huh? So why did you pass him up? Were you intimidated by his skill set or was it that he didn't fit into your ( sounds like some 20 something kids club ) post modern punk world?
Your assumption is faulty as is your conclusion and your logic.
The simple observation that you took umbrage with my case usage could also point out that you are a grammar queen, but I digress.
While perl may have one or two attributes that could perhaps be (after careful examination and argument between those that care to argue about such things) considered positive, it has been shown time and time again to be used both incorrectly and without do regard or care by those self congratulatory individuals who pride themselves on creating code which after all is said and done is both unmaintainable and there no longer worth the energy it takes to polarize the magnetic realms of a disk drive to save it, much less read it.
So in answer to your questions: No I am not a java programmer, I consider it, much like xml to be an answer to a question that no one asked. I find it like so many of the other "modern" languages to be abysmal in form, function and performance.
Yeah but you wrote in PERL a reporting language that was bastardized into something pretending to be an OOP language. Thanks but no thanks.
Ok so you are nit picking asshat but I digress...
I really doubt it will be an improvement on C. Assembler is pretty much the ultimate programming language followed by C and Pascal, in that order for general purpose programming. Everything else is simply a derivation of those, most of them not worth the time it took to write them.
Yes it is interesting.. So lets chalk this one up to really bad editing from the /. "editors"
Perhaps the article should have been titled, "Interesting adjustments on the OSX platorm while porting D".
Fabulous, he ported a language to the MAC. Ok groovey...
The bit about having to make adjustments to the library code is news why?
Not all OS's support everything in the world, that is just the way it is. If you implement a certain function or macro one way on one platform does not in any way mean that you will be able to implement exactly the same on another platform.
TheyareIrishwhoneedsthoseanyway Imeanreallyifyoulettheminyour databasewillbefullofwhiskeyand protistantwhishkeyatthat
How about something even simpler....
Simply do not accept ANYTHING that does not consist of a..z.A..Z,0..9 !
Accepting anything other then that is simply stupid.
You can discourage it on the front end by using a JS onkeyup method and on the back end you just strip them out, or if you detect anything other then those, simply reject the entire form.
I will put Novell's NetWare up against ANY Linux installation in the file and print service space and it will smoke them every time. Sorry Linux is a Great application server, But NetWare with NDS is just superior by any metric you would care to use in either the Closed Source or Open Source worlds.
Drop a line to bill at thclinic dot org and I will see what I can do.
Your local public School. Leave your FOOS/Closed Source prejudices at the door and just help.
My son is in elementary school, and let me tell you these people need all the help they can get. Even if is nothing more then cracking open a printer to clear some scotch tape out of the works or making sure some teachers machine is connected to the correct printer, every little bit helps.
If you can commit to even a few hours a week head to the local middle school or high school and be a proctor, trust me the teachers will take all the help they can get.
You have to go through a little BS to be a volunteer, but once you do in your local school district it will come back to you 10 fold, even if that payback is nothing more then the satisfaction that you are contributing to your community.