Mr. Clarke's research implies that cell tower and Wi-Fi network locations are recorded, but phone location is *not* recorded, in the file at issue.
Of course, if you request the location of nearby restaurants via iPhone app, then your location is must be determined. I have seen no proof that user accessible *device* location data is stored.
If such data were available, why would an application like "Trails - GPS Tracker" ever need to "Resume recording"?
Cookbooks can be trouble because without insight into the advantages and vulnerabilities of a circuit, it might simply fail.
In radio frequency work, we often added variable attenuators in the signal path, to allow tuning. To know the attenuator range though, required creating a spreadsheet to track worst case signal levels forward and backward to the attenuators.
"The kind of knowledge that gives you deep understanding of analog circuits design. Can anyone suggest good books and maybe where to order them from?"
Many of these sources are going to be focused on integrated circuit design, but they are still great sources when combined with course notes.
You should be able to find course notes online from MIT or other universities. Universities have been videotaping professors for more than 20 years. Textbooks are terse. It is amazing to watch someone like Anton Mavretic casually calculate impedance and gain for various circuits.
Aside from the text suggestions here, you might find good references in online course descriptions and class notes.
I see you are unfamiliar with the Macjournals profiles of HSF+ and ZFS, which appeared in print, and informed their *debunking* of the AppleInsider piece.
Only if you are SERIOUSLY, honestly interested, refer to the following:
MWJ_20070611 "the reality of zfs"
MWJ_20060417 "Uniform type identifiers and their place in Tiger"
MWJ_20030531 "DiskWarrior explained"
MWJ_ 20030525 "HFS and HFS Plus Complete"
Macjournals *agreed* with you about ZFS being "cool" and better than HFS+, at some things.
But it is not a better startup volume for current and foreseen versions of Mac OS X.
Please go away, or backup your *despite*... Your sarcasm does not impress me, you shit.
um, slashdot is supposed to be all knowledge, but yet, i see nothing on precedent...
apple is known for doing stuff like this, e.g. aperture. the situation was somewhat different, but the response was generally the same, offer refunds to early adopters.
this is almost 100 million dollars in good-will... and pure apple. in fact, expect some lawyer to devise a class action suit on behalf of aggrieved shareholders -- angry about apple being too gracious with customers.
when i run windows at home, it is in a virtual machine, and the network cable gets yanked out the back of the box.
windows is someone else's problem at work, and the hassles of sql and applescript are enough for me. i refuse to let windows waste any more of my time.
you might think this is off-topic, but is it really? if you have a critical server, and it must not be hacked, you partition and make the core os disk read-only.
if your time is valuable and you are not paid to know windows, put a shroud on the beast, keep it off network whenever possible. buy mac os x or linux, buy an xbox, get on with life.
um, you're being a bit tough on a traumatized "public official", aren't you? there were so many corpses in saint louis, it bothers you that a public advocate didn't wait on coroner reports?
does it bother you at all that there is no identification or cause of death for a sizable pile of corpses to this day? suppose not.
as for oprah, she has a nice voice, white-friendly manners and a fuck-able face, but who claims her as a paragon of taste or virtue?
i fucking hate this nonsense, such posturing over the lies and exaggerations of an *addict*. oprah acting like she has never known a sot or junkie?
nigga, please.
anyone who has ever known an addict expects exaggerations and deceptions, the truth can be *physically impossible* for an addict to express or perceive, this is not news.
any person reluctant to accept this fact is an angry victim, or an incredibly stupid ideologue. those who get this reality vastly outnumber the ignorant.
hence, oprah has zero credibility after this fiasco.
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take your head out of your ass, please.
if i wanted to, i could easily load four different linux/bsd distro's on an off-the-shelf mac
what the original post was talking about is: how do you use linux, mac os x or solaris on your desktop in a world where every email in your organization (including the ones about brownies in the kitchen) *requires* palladium to read?
every hard-core tech could be forced to keep a windows computer on their desk (like me) even though their primary development platform is completely different
and then be forced to justify using the optimal platform for their job because it's not *standard* (and challenges tech support's ciphincter grip on the enterprise desktop environment)
"those that are despised by anime freaks in the US"
as a japanese, you should be more careful about using language like this... perhaps you speak english too well for your own good?
most "anime freaks" in america have never even seen either of the two shows you are talking about.
the anime industry in japan is very different from that in america--where there are only a few shows on during the evening/early morning hours (ignoring cable).
um, he had an obvious motivation... keeping a bunch of foul corporate scum out of his court.
cause might not be the right word.
he played his hand beautifully, got the findings of fact on record and tainted himself enough to never have to hear another microsoft case again. simply brilliant.
perhaps you are not aware that microsoft had a history of lying to and outwitting judge jackson prior to his "interview"?
what a clarification-- *mainstream language compiler*
such languages were not designed for gui and rad
such languages where created on legacy file systems
out here in the jungle though drones are performing ghoulish rituals like clustering macs and developing in-house apps driven by marketing (irad or die baby)
there are many niche products
it's like a star trek universe
and in this diverse eco-schism there are compiler/ides (out of the mainstream) which keep businesses going, and the vendors of these tools are *hanging on*
they may be decomposing, but they composing still
not all of these un-mainstream systems are a horror, i actually enjoy programming 4d (even though i have to export methods to text for personal archives)
you and others here make me feel so fucking stupid...
i have this notion, its so silly, that if i hook up a gook, spook, kike fucker up to the redneck rig for a drag about the dusty backways, well, that i'm making a statement about members of the gskf group.
see their blood ain't as red or salty as yours. you must appreciate that, being so smart.
it kinda feels good making a statement like that, in parts left along the road. lots of folks think like me, too, and its a wonder we let those gskf pieces of shit vote and drive.
what i don't get is why the kikes and fags want those laws. shit, why do my patriot friends get hunted down when they shoot up nosy cops.
murder is murder, just like the bible says. don't matter if its a cop, atf goon or gook of the boat, they all die the same. and if they ain't saved, all burn the same, too.
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you assholes make me furious.
killing a person because of who they are is prelude to genocide. much like the killing of a cop, it is a crime against the social order. how is this not a treason?
oh boy, where to begin... forget the example, may be stupid, so what, the point is that it is ridiculous to put a dozen fucken logic statements together with a little comment above stating what the mess should mean.
this is usually with an abundance of operators and a sparsity of parenthesis.
i spend every day untangling stuff into *short lines* and i feel good.
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` ** apply promotion filters ** ` selection sequence filter $version_needed:=$valid_version_code If ((Records in set("Selection_Filter_Set")>0) & $version_needed) $version_needed:=$version_needed & (Is in set("Selection_Filter_Set")) End if ` usages filter (cute hack? automatics!) If ((Size of array($usages_array)>0) & $version_needed) $usage:=[Promotion_Selection]Usage If (Substring($usage;1;1)="A") $usage:="A##" End if $version_needed:=$version_needed & (Find in array($usages_array;$usage)>0) End if ` revisions filter If (($filter_from_revision>0) & $version_needed) $version_needed:=$version_needed & ([Promotion_Selection]Revision>$filter_from_rev ision) End if ` date filter If (($filter_since_date#!00.00.00!) & $version_needed) $version_needed:=$version_needed & ([Promotion_Selection]Date_Changed>$filter_sinc e_date) End if
` ** apply version filters ** ` latin version filter If ($spanish_version & $version_needed) $version_needed:=$version_needed & $include_latin_versions End if ` cycle-feature filter $cycle_feature:=([Promotion_Selection]Usage="FEA") If ($cycle_feature & $omit_cycle_features & $version_needed) $version:=Substring($version;1;1)+"1" End if ` written text filter QUERY([Copy];[Copy]Pull_Version=($selection+$versi on)) $copy_okay:=((Records in selection([Copy])=1) & ([Copy]Proof_Status="OK")) If ($copy_okay & $version_needed) $version_needed:=$version_needed & (Not($omit_written_versions)) End if
$70,000 does not go very far in development, so if your doing research (i.e. potentially requiring *new* code), you cannot always just trade off time against money.
clusters of apple hardware will fill a niche, it doesn't matter one bit that you want to commodify the market. maybe you should think about being a market analyst, and leave this kind of thinking to engineers.
that last statement was off-topic, like your post.
while you may have valid concerns about what constitues crime, your post is patently stupid. are such vehicles stolen because they are so enticing, or because someone was *looking* for wheels to swipe?
if such a car is stolen, might not that mean your car is left untouched on the same street?
protecting the law abiding is impossible if you maintain a purely defensive posture. even aikido which eschews harming any attacker includes strikes.
you must assess your needs... others have pointed out that document management, asset management and web publishing have different requirements.
bottom line: most organizations will be forced to customize whatever solution they are sold.
where i work we publish 16000 pages per year, old skool print catalogs... of course, phb (creative/operations) went into power-play mode and bought a newspaper/magazine focused system hoping to kill off development.
the "professional publishing system" jackals have been around now for about two years--in november 2000 we got a nice chart with some goals, one being shutdown of in-house systems (in production since 1989, the age of sneaker net).
our custom solutions cover asset management, copy styling, copy writing (for page and web), product pricing, data replication... lots of time-saving automation and business logic--over one hundred thousand lines of 4GL (4th Dimension and AppleScript).
their "team" solution? deadlines come and go, the vendor lies, managers waffle and waver, it's a mess.
reportedly, we must use their team-shit as it is tied into our publishing contract, and someday, when it works, we will have the source, all in Cpp. of course, it's based on SQL Server, and you can use Quark if you want, but even though they promised it could handle character style sheets, they really want everyone to use Word for copy writing.
i warn everyone who asks me about the system not believe what anybody says...
yeah, i could whine for hours, it's unbelievable. i'm guessing that our mad dash toward a steaming mirage of staff cuts and cut-rate prepress is costing us millions. the stress is causing me severe psychosomatic symptoms, seems like my head and genitals are being blood-starved. i am tempted to bail-out, but that means abandoning oppressed users and letting these obscene fuckers win.
the moral: if you have a database and think you understand databases, DO NOT PURCHASE A SYSTEM CREATED FOR ORGANIZATIONS NEEDING A DATABASE.
beware silly fucks who want to sell you their "tools" and do not really have any interest in how your enterprise data is currently managed.
when you inherit 70000 lines of code that do not work and the lead developer was logging only one system update per month but actually changing production code every few hours...
those pearls of wisdom will really hit you.
practical matters, bullet points and examples:
1) write code to be read
and if means going against the culture, fuck the culture of perl or c or whatever... believe in karma--got that urge to be clever, you'll get yours someday, trust in the dark side.
2) comment your readable code
but strip out old, boring comments (after they are petrified, before they are eroded by time)
3) put interface documentation in the interface
4) minimize documentation
face it, documentation is great for training new users and system roll-out, but it falls out of step fast and will be of minimal help to coders when the shit hits the fan.
if you cannot afford to have developers who think they should be managers sitting around keeping the documents ship-shape, or (miracle-of-miracles) have a writer on staff, your docs will be a joke.
LAMENESS FILTER AREA
** big fuck you to everyone who thinks shit like this is too cool... (declarations omitted)
$done:=False
Repeat
$position:=Position($3;$4->)
If ($position#0)
$2->:=Substring($4->;1;$position-1)
$4->:=Substring($4->;($position+1))
$done:=True
$0:=1
Else
RECEIVE PACKET($1;$receive;(32000-Length($4->)))
If (ok=0)
If (Length($4->)=0)
$2->:=""
$0:=0
Else
$2->:=$4->
$0:=1
End if
$done:=True
$4->:=""
Else
$4->:=$4->+$receive
End if
End if
Until ($done)
** refactoring can be fun, let everyone in on the party. very few people will know this syntax, but nobody should be mystified...
` spb20011109 standardize on vl_JRDC_position (kill vl_JRDC_Fposition)
` spb20011109 old cycles (2001) gone, remove $simplified_crossouts
`... switches and vastly simplify logic of price line assembly
` spb20011112 add Crossout Mode and Format interface menus
` spb20011119 fix bug where $second_price not initialized
`... and ensure no crossout when Just Reduced third price
`... is blank (no sale beyond discount)
` spb20011127 add redtag format menu
` sbp20011127 update redtag logic to consider case of price
`... modification pull number being reverted by offer or
`... exporting option (via check box)
` spb20011128 simplification of sale price method resulted
`... in stripping some strings from psuedo-price-line, so go
`... back to promotion record for Just Reduced flag
` spb20011212 fix tagging issue with Just Reduced where
`... Discount price does not get proper style sheet, remove
`... placement of unnecessary tabs, and kill $space_char
` spb20011218 fix tab placement for Just Reduced (good
`... for other types, but mistakenly put two tabs after
`... full price and none after discount, oops)
C_BOOLEAN($discount_or_sale_exists)
C_BOOLEAN($discount_and_sale_exist)
C_BOOLEAN($crossout_required)
C_BOOLEAN($just_reduced_selection)
C_BOOLEAN($redtag_selection)
C_STRING(16;$crossout_mode)
C_BOOLEAN($crossout_under)
C_BOOLEAN($redtag_graphic_required)
$redtag_selection:=(Position("RTAG";[Promotion]A va ilable)>0)
$redtag_selection:=$redtag_selection&(Not(Offer_ Override_Price_Mod))
$just_reduced_selection:=(Position("JRDC";[Promo ti on]Available)>0)
$discount_or_sale_exists:=(vp_Priceline_Second_P ri ce#"")|(vp_Priceline_Third_Price#"")
$discount_and_sale_exist:=(vp_Priceline_Second_P ri ce#"")&(vp_Priceline_Third_Price#"")
$crossout_mode:=vDigs_Crossout_Mode{vDigs_Crosso ut _Mode}
$crossout_required:=(($crossout_mode="Redtags Only")&$redtag_selection)
$crossout_required:=$crossout_required|($crossou t_mode="All Selections")
$crossout_required:=$crossout_required|($just_re duced_selection)
$crossout_required:=$crossout_required&$discount _or_sale_exists
$crossout_under:=(vDigs_Crossout_Format{vDigs_Cr os sout_Format}="Under Pricing")
my kid really likes "alice"... just learned to run around using the 'w' key (used to hop, but alice would die quick, shinjita) and slash lance-thrusting knaves. he's only two.
should i wallow in shame? what would jesus think? what does it all mean?
os9 does not have a backward tcpip stack, asshole. give me a port on your 10-base-t net and i could flood the fucken thing beyond use with an imac. os9 uses mentat streams, get some education.
let us play a game, shall we? organize ten thousand files. customize their application association, oh, and by the way, you cannot use an abstract file number, but must instead track the file path, and keep it current.
your file system will become slow as shit.
combine this nonsense with a windows-type registry. forget to back up for a few weeks. crash. lose all your bullshit file mappings.
but the system will be strangely faster! of course, you had to reinstall the system and initialize your drive.
this way lies windows madness. admit it, your a win-whore, aren't you? share the misery, apparently, some folks in cuppertino want to please you.
Slashdot Mirror
"Apple's iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, the iPhone 4, and iPad models are keeping track of consumers whereabouts"
I found this via Hacker News.
willclarke.net - Apple is not “recording your moves”
http://www.willclarke.net/?p=247
Mr. Clarke's research implies that cell tower and Wi-Fi network locations are recorded, but phone location is *not* recorded, in the file at issue.
Of course, if you request the location of nearby restaurants via iPhone app, then your location is must be determined. I have seen no proof that user accessible *device* location data is stored.
If such data were available, why would an application like "Trails - GPS Tracker" ever need to "Resume recording"?
Cookbooks can be trouble because without insight into the advantages and vulnerabilities of a circuit, it might simply fail.
In radio frequency work, we often added variable attenuators in the signal path, to allow tuning. To know the attenuator range though, required creating a spreadsheet to track worst case signal levels forward and backward to the attenuators.
"The kind of knowledge that gives you deep understanding of analog circuits design. Can anyone suggest good books and maybe where to order them from?"
Many of these sources are going to be focused on integrated circuit design, but they are still great sources when combined with course notes.
You should be able to find course notes online from MIT or other universities. Universities have been videotaping professors for more than 20 years. Textbooks are terse. It is amazing to watch someone like Anton Mavretic casually calculate impedance and gain for various circuits.
Aside from the text suggestions here, you might find good references in online course descriptions and class notes.
I see you are unfamiliar with the Macjournals profiles of HSF+ and ZFS, which appeared in print, and informed their *debunking* of the AppleInsider piece.
Only if you are SERIOUSLY, honestly interested, refer to the following:
MWJ_20070611 "the reality of zfs"
MWJ_20060417 "Uniform type identifiers and their place in Tiger"
MWJ_20030531 "DiskWarrior explained"
MWJ_ 20030525 "HFS and HFS Plus Complete"
Macjournals *agreed* with you about ZFS being "cool" and better than HFS+, at some things.
But it is not a better startup volume for current and foreseen versions of Mac OS X.
Please go away, or backup your *despite*... Your sarcasm does not impress me, you shit.
The AppleInsider article is largely vacuous...
Please do not bother with this debunking (via Macjournals) unless you are truly interested. Thanks.
http://www.macjournals.com/news/2007/10/04.html#a79
um, slashdot is supposed to be all knowledge, but yet, i see nothing on precedent...
apple is known for doing stuff like this, e.g. aperture. the situation was somewhat different, but the response was generally the same, offer refunds to early adopters.
this is almost 100 million dollars in good-will... and pure apple. in fact, expect some lawyer to devise a class action suit on behalf of aggrieved shareholders -- angry about apple being too gracious with customers.
this doesn't bother me really...
when i run windows at home, it is in a virtual machine, and the network cable gets yanked out the back of the box.
windows is someone else's problem at work, and the hassles of sql and applescript are enough for me. i refuse to let windows waste any more of my time.
you might think this is off-topic, but is it really? if you have a critical server, and it must not be hacked, you partition and make the core os disk read-only.
if your time is valuable and you are not paid to know windows, put a shroud on the beast, keep it off network whenever possible. buy mac os x or linux, buy an xbox, get on with life.
um, you're being a bit tough on a traumatized "public official", aren't you? there were so many corpses in saint louis, it bothers you that a public advocate didn't wait on coroner reports?
does it bother you at all that there is no identification or cause of death for a sizable pile of corpses to this day? suppose not.
as for oprah, she has a nice voice, white-friendly manners and a fuck-able face, but who claims her as a paragon of taste or virtue?
i fucking hate this nonsense, such posturing over the lies and exaggerations of an *addict*. oprah acting like she has never known a sot or junkie?
nigga, please.
anyone who has ever known an addict expects exaggerations and deceptions, the truth can be *physically impossible* for an addict to express or perceive, this is not news.
any person reluctant to accept this fact is an angry victim, or an incredibly stupid ideologue. those who get this reality vastly outnumber the ignorant.
hence, oprah has zero credibility after this fiasco.
take your head out of your ass, please.
if i wanted to, i could easily load four different linux/bsd distro's on an off-the-shelf mac
what the original post was talking about is:
how do you use linux, mac os x or solaris on your desktop in a world where every email in your organization (including the ones about brownies in the kitchen) *requires* palladium to read?
every hard-core tech could be forced to keep a windows computer on their desk (like me) even though their primary development platform is completely different
and then be forced to justify using the optimal platform for their job because it's not *standard* (and challenges tech support's ciphincter grip on the enterprise desktop environment)
"those that are despised by anime freaks in the US"
as a japanese, you should be more careful about using language like this... perhaps you speak english too well for your own good?
most "anime freaks" in america have never even seen either of the two shows you are talking about.
the anime industry in japan is very different from that in america--where there are only a few shows on during the evening/early morning hours (ignoring cable).
um, he had an obvious motivation... keeping a bunch of foul corporate scum out of his court.
cause might not be the right word.
he played his hand beautifully, got the findings of fact on record and tainted himself enough to never have to hear another microsoft case again. simply brilliant.
perhaps you are not aware that microsoft had a history of lying to and outwitting judge jackson prior to his "interview"?
what a clarification--
*mainstream language compiler*
such languages were not designed for gui and rad
such languages where created on legacy file systems
out here in the jungle though drones are performing ghoulish rituals like clustering macs and developing in-house apps driven by marketing (irad or die baby)
there are many niche products
it's like a star trek universe
and in this diverse eco-schism there are compiler/ides (out of the mainstream) which keep businesses going, and the vendors of these tools are *hanging on*
they may be decomposing, but they composing still
not all of these un-mainstream systems are a horror, i actually enjoy programming 4d (even though i have to export methods to text for personal archives)
you and others here make me feel so fucking stupid...
i have this notion, its so silly, that if i hook up a gook, spook, kike fucker up to the redneck rig for a drag about the dusty backways, well, that i'm making a statement about members of the gskf group.
see their blood ain't as red or salty as yours. you must appreciate that, being so smart.
it kinda feels good making a statement like that, in parts left along the road. lots of folks think like me, too, and its a wonder we let those gskf pieces of shit vote and drive.
what i don't get is why the kikes and fags want those laws. shit, why do my patriot friends get hunted down when they shoot up nosy cops.
murder is murder, just like the bible says. don't matter if its a cop, atf goon or gook of the boat, they all die the same. and if they ain't saved, all burn the same, too.
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you assholes make me furious.
killing a person because of who they are is prelude to genocide. much like the killing of a cop, it is a crime against the social order. how is this not a treason?
oh boy, where to begin... forget the example, may be stupid, so what, the point is that it is ridiculous to put a dozen fucken logic statements together with a little comment above stating what the mess should mean.
) i on))
this is usually with an abundance of operators and a sparsity of parenthesis.
i spend every day untangling stuff into *short lines* and i feel good.
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` ** apply promotion filters **
` selection sequence filter
$version_needed:=$valid_version_code
If ((Records in set("Selection_Filter_Set")>0) & $version_needed)
$version_needed:=$version_needed & (Is in set("Selection_Filter_Set"))
End if
` usages filter (cute hack? automatics!)
If ((Size of array($usages_array)>0) & $version_needed)
$usage:=[Promotion_Selection]Usage
If (Substring($usage;1;1)="A")
$usage:="A##"
End if
$version_needed:=$version_needed & (Find in array($usages_array;$usage)>0)
End if
` revisions filter
If (($filter_from_revision>0) & $version_needed)
$version_needed:=$version_needed & ([Promotion_Selection]Revision>$filter_from_rev ision)
End if
` date filter
If (($filter_since_date#!00.00.00!) & $version_needed)
$version_needed:=$version_needed & ([Promotion_Selection]Date_Changed>$filter_sinc e_date)
End if
` ** apply version filters **
` latin version filter
If ($spanish_version & $version_needed)
$version_needed:=$version_needed & $include_latin_versions
End if
` cycle-feature filter
$cycle_feature:=([Promotion_Selection]Usage="FEA"
If ($cycle_feature & $omit_cycle_features & $version_needed)
$version:=Substring($version;1;1)+"1"
End if
` written text filter
QUERY([Copy];[Copy]Pull_Version=($selection+$vers
$copy_okay:=((Records in selection([Copy])=1) & ([Copy]Proof_Status="OK"))
If ($copy_okay & $version_needed)
$version_needed:=$version_needed & (Not($omit_written_versions))
End if
you must have a comprehension problem...
$70,000 does not go very far in development, so if your doing research (i.e. potentially requiring *new* code), you cannot always just trade off time against money.
clusters of apple hardware will fill a niche, it doesn't matter one bit that you want to commodify the market. maybe you should think about being a market analyst, and leave this kind of thinking to engineers.
that last statement was off-topic, like your post.
the sword which takes life, gives life...
while you may have valid concerns about what constitues crime, your post is patently stupid. are such vehicles stolen because they are so enticing, or because someone was *looking* for wheels to swipe?
if such a car is stolen, might not that mean your car is left untouched on the same street?
protecting the law abiding is impossible if you maintain a purely defensive posture. even aikido which eschews harming any attacker includes strikes.
4D is a rad/rdms which is better than access.
that's just one, but it's a biggie.
you must assess your needs... others have pointed out that document management, asset management and web publishing have different requirements.
bottom line: most organizations will be forced to customize whatever solution they are sold.
where i work we publish 16000 pages per year, old skool print catalogs... of course, phb (creative/operations) went into power-play mode and bought a newspaper/magazine focused system hoping to kill off development.
the "professional publishing system" jackals have been around now for about two years--in november 2000 we got a nice chart with some goals, one being shutdown of in-house systems (in production since 1989, the age of sneaker net).
our custom solutions cover asset management, copy styling, copy writing (for page and web), product pricing, data replication... lots of time-saving automation and business logic--over one hundred thousand lines of 4GL (4th Dimension and AppleScript).
their "team" solution? deadlines come and go, the vendor lies, managers waffle and waver, it's a mess.
reportedly, we must use their team-shit as it is tied into our publishing contract, and someday, when it works, we will have the source, all in Cpp. of course, it's based on SQL Server, and you can use Quark if you want, but even though they promised it could handle character style sheets, they really want everyone to use Word for copy writing.
i warn everyone who asks me about the system not believe what anybody says...
yeah, i could whine for hours, it's unbelievable. i'm guessing that our mad dash toward a steaming mirage of staff cuts and cut-rate prepress is costing us millions. the stress is causing me severe psychosomatic symptoms, seems like my head and genitals are being blood-starved. i am tempted to bail-out, but that means abandoning oppressed users and letting these obscene fuckers win.
the moral: if you have a database and think you understand databases, DO NOT PURCHASE A SYSTEM CREATED FOR ORGANIZATIONS NEEDING A DATABASE.
beware silly fucks who want to sell you their "tools" and do not really have any interest in how your enterprise data is currently managed.
links to macintouch and macnn?!
cmdrtaco is speaking to the heart of mac fans, even those who prefer macfixit and mwj ^_^;
welcome to a kinder, cooler, wetter slashdot?
okay, so apple, being one of two most profitable pc companies of the dot-bomb era, should call you for business advice?
cool, someone with a clue.
yet watch the examples--each api/framework has its strengths but typography is definitely stronger in macos 9.x (atsui, derived from quickdraw gx).
when you inherit 70000 lines of code that do not work and the lead developer was logging only one system update per month but actually changing production code every few hours...
... switches and vastly simplify logic of price line assembly
... and ensure no crossout when Just Reduced third price
... is blank (no sale beyond discount)
... modification pull number being reverted by offer or
... exporting option (via check box)
... in stripping some strings from psuedo-price-line, so go
... back to promotion record for Just Reduced flag
... Discount price does not get proper style sheet, remove
... placement of unnecessary tabs, and kill $space_char
... for other types, but mistakenly put two tabs after
... full price and none after discount, oops)
A va ilable)>0)
_ Override_Price_Mod))
o ti on]Available)>0)
P ri ce#"")|(vp_Priceline_Third_Price#"")
P ri ce#"")&(vp_Priceline_Third_Price#"")
o ut _Mode}
u t_mode="All Selections")
e duced_selection)
t _or_sale_exists
r os sout_Format}="Under Pricing")
those pearls of wisdom will really hit you.
practical matters, bullet points and examples:
1) write code to be read
and if means going against the culture, fuck the culture of perl or c or whatever... believe in karma--got that urge to be clever, you'll get yours someday, trust in the dark side.
2) comment your readable code
but strip out old, boring comments (after they are petrified, before they are eroded by time)
3) put interface documentation in the interface
4) minimize documentation
face it, documentation is great for training new users and system roll-out, but it falls out of step fast and will be of minimal help to coders when the shit hits the fan.
if you cannot afford to have developers who think they should be managers sitting around keeping the documents ship-shape, or (miracle-of-miracles) have a writer on staff, your docs will be a joke.
LAMENESS FILTER AREA
** big fuck you to everyone who thinks shit like this is too cool... (declarations omitted)
$done:=False
Repeat
$position:=Position($3;$4->)
If ($position#0)
$2->:=Substring($4->;1;$position-1)
$4->:=Substring($4->;($position+1))
$done:=True
$0:=1
Else
RECEIVE PACKET($1;$receive;(32000-Length($4->)))
If (ok=0)
If (Length($4->)=0)
$2->:=""
$0:=0
Else
$2->:=$4->
$0:=1
End if
$done:=True
$4->:=""
Else
$4->:=$4->+$receive
End if
End if
Until ($done)
** refactoring can be fun, let everyone in on the party. very few people will know this syntax, but nobody should be mystified...
` spb20011109 standardize on vl_JRDC_position (kill vl_JRDC_Fposition)
` spb20011109 old cycles (2001) gone, remove $simplified_crossouts
`
` spb20011112 add Crossout Mode and Format interface menus
` spb20011119 fix bug where $second_price not initialized
`
`
` spb20011127 add redtag format menu
` sbp20011127 update redtag logic to consider case of price
`
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` spb20011128 simplification of sale price method resulted
`
`
` spb20011212 fix tagging issue with Just Reduced where
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` spb20011218 fix tab placement for Just Reduced (good
`
`
C_BOOLEAN($discount_or_sale_exists)
C_BOOLEAN($discount_and_sale_exist)
C_BOOLEAN($crossout_required)
C_BOOLEAN($just_reduced_selection)
C_BOOLEAN($redtag_selection)
C_STRING(16;$crossout_mode)
C_BOOLEAN($crossout_under)
C_BOOLEAN($redtag_graphic_required)
$redtag_selection:=(Position("RTAG";[Promotion]
$redtag_selection:=$redtag_selection&(Not(Offer
$just_reduced_selection:=(Position("JRDC";[Prom
$discount_or_sale_exists:=(vp_Priceline_Second_
$discount_and_sale_exist:=(vp_Priceline_Second_
$crossout_mode:=vDigs_Crossout_Mode{vDigs_Cross
$crossout_required:=(($crossout_mode="Redtags Only")&$redtag_selection)
$crossout_required:=$crossout_required|($crosso
$crossout_required:=$crossout_required|($just_r
$crossout_required:=$crossout_required&$discoun
$crossout_under:=(vDigs_Crossout_Format{vDigs_C
my kid really likes "alice"... just learned to run around using the 'w' key (used to hop, but alice would die quick, shinjita) and slash lance-thrusting knaves. he's only two.
should i wallow in shame? what would jesus think? what does it all mean?
chodai datte, namida--more chocolate, now!
okay fucker, i'll bite.
os9 does not have a backward tcpip stack, asshole. give me a port on your 10-base-t net and i could flood the fucken thing beyond use with an imac. os9 uses mentat streams, get some education.
who does not understand database concepts?
let us play a game, shall we? organize ten thousand files. customize their application association, oh, and by the way, you cannot use an abstract file number, but must instead track the file path, and keep it current.
your file system will become slow as shit.
combine this nonsense with a windows-type registry. forget to back up for a few weeks. crash. lose all your bullshit file mappings.
but the system will be strangely faster! of course, you had to reinstall the system and initialize your drive.
this way lies windows madness. admit it, your a win-whore, aren't you? share the misery, apparently, some folks in cuppertino want to please you.
so when was the last time you left your cradle out of an otherwise heavy suitcase...