Hooves, not Hand(s)
Don't make me post my fanfiction.
Hooves, not Hand(s)
Don't make me post my fanfiction.
The 19114 example was from client side scripting
If because they moved from 'Microsoft Points' to wanting to store your payment info; so they have to be more serure with 'Microsoft Accounts'
my old 'Hotmail Account' is tied to my phone and windows 8 machines, windows store developer licenses, XBOX Live, etc. etc.
"As with so many other things, if you tried Apple System Profiler from Mac OS 9 you'd understand. It's a level of enlightenment that cannot be taught, only acquired through experience. Sadly, the immense and irrational hatred tech folks felt towards classic Mac OS really hurt the industry, as people would shun all the wisdom on offer. I would never go back (one can grow tired of co-operative multitasking!), but what I gained from using it was worth all the pain and more."
I don't know how sarcastic you are being.
But Mac OS has the advantage of only running on one brand of hardware. Made by them.
They just need to know the model number, and the entire hardware configuration can be deduced.
Oh, and PCI to AGP bridges are a thing. you can have an AGP card in a PCI slot.
My favorite is that in the footer of all our sites says something like this:
© <%= DateTime.Now.Year.ToString() %>And I always wonder: does that actually do anything? I'm not sure it does...
(quote fuction dosn't work...)
Automating it invalidates it. Someone has to manually put in a fixed year number when they update for the copyright message to be valid.
Otherwise, someone just has to run it on a machine set to they year 1901, print the page, and claim 'The Copyright expired, since this website was made over 100 years ago."
Also, you end up with FireFox claiming your page was written in 19114. (script saying (19 + currentyear) gets interpreted as a string concatination...)
@anachostic said:
@Lorne Kates said:
Average cost of new gTLD: $150k.
If I had the means, I would create a TLD named .exe and watch the world burn.
I always wish I had registered command.com when the 'net was younger.
I once found a case of (anonymised from memory, not cut and paste from source...):
operator == (point a, point b){
return (a.x == b.x && a.y == b.y);
operator != (point a, point b)
{
return (a.x != b.x && a.y != b.y);
}
Note the second && which should be a ||
The inequality operator is kinda important for .net collection classes like dictionary keys. This caused duplicate keys to end up in a dictionary under stress testing... this was in a published SDK from 'a large company in redmond'.
I'm wondering if the Silk Road arrest + Somalia/Kenya raids is the US demostrating that the 'shutdown' dosn't make them weak/vulnerable.
Or, they were afraid of losing the targets they were tracking during an extended shutdown; so 'closed the workitem' by taking action.
An apps that lets you turn on/off the lights from your phone (or a central server)? those don't look like standard light switches, maybe they are networked...
@flabdablet said:
especially when I know full well that the costs associated with doing that are (a) large and (b) likely to be passed on to me.
I am amused by some of Geico ads, but the amount of customer money them must spend on them...
Joke heard from my niece the other day:
3 young (talking) cows are standing in a field with their (also talking) mother; the the oldest one asks "Why did you name me 'Rose'?"
The mother replies, "Because just after you were born, a rose petal landed on your head."
The middle one asks, "So did a daisy petal land on me?", "Yes, that's why I named you Daisy."
The youngest says "Hurrrr derp derrr duhhh mok mok mok durrr.", "Hush now Cinderblock."
@Ben L. said:
@joe.edwards said:I usually work 40 hours at my new job, and it pays over double!
So you have to get a new job once a week? That must be painful.
But in 20 weeks he'll be getting over a million times his old salary, and destroy the world economy in less than a year.
@Ronald said:
Anyone else notice the cat?
Different at least, and I've bought many games that I never played just to support interesting ideas.
Anyway, for OP, there are many, many times more people who can draw/art stuff than can code, I don't think you'll have difficulty.
I would avoid 'public domain' collections though; some are littered with lifted art from commercial games; and you don't want to get bitten.
My personal plan for games is to ship with crappy self-made art; but with super-easy support for dropping in player made graphic/audio mods. But Ihavn't released anything to the public since commodore 64 days (80 column terminal emulator..)
Mothers love their children the same way Winston loved Big Brother.
COnsider what happened with Tesla and Top Gear
Someone, Somewhere must have made a robot to care for their virtual pets (probably the manufacturer's testing dept.)
@Ben L. said:
@morbiuswilters said:@TDWTF123 said:Women love men in tiny cars. Small cars are cool.Mebee in Yurop..
Let me make this simpler for someone well learnèd as yourself:
The size of the car is inversely proportional to the size of the nearest man's genitals.
Which is why being gang raped by Clowns is so terrifying.
I hate it when people spoil the shows on the weather channel.
On calculated GOTOs, I used them in UI code, when the user pressed a key the input routine jumps to:
GOTO Context+Keycode*100.
The main menu context was at 10000, submenus were at 10001, 10002, etc. interleaved.
The targets would mostly be just GOTOs in the main body of the code; unless the action could be completed in a single line (like setting a new context)
I was 10, and it was just a single line BBS; and it worked.
So, How long until we run out of fossil fuels to make CO2 from anyway?
The name of Microsoft's new console is "XBOB"
They are adding animated and fully voiced 'assistants' to the dashboard, to offer suggestions and announce promotions (ads).
My dad was a Boeing engineer, and would always complain whe, for example, the outside shot used a 737, but the interiors were shot on a 727.
What I learned from that, is that noone outside of your clique gives a crap about those little nitpicks.
Religious people have no morals, they only have fear of punishment.
Atheists do the right thing because it's the right thing to do. not because they are afraid of an old man - father figure in the sky, be he Santa Clause, Jehova, or some other diety that you obey like a child afraid of a spanking.
Atheists are far better people, acting out of love, trust and understanding for their fellow man, instead of the fear, suspicion, and hate caused by the mental illnesses known as religion.
The only differance between Religions, Cults, and Insanity is how many people share your delusions.
In response to a bit of the last post, I believe Viruses can carry snippets of DNA between animals, hence 'swine flu', 'bird flu' etc. But I am not a molecular biologist. I just think the glow-in-the-dark bunnys with jellyfish DNA are interesting.
The easiest, and most effective way to reduce gun deaths in the US would be to leagalize recreational drugs.
I suspect that all theFlash 'security issues' are just excuses to trick people into installing Chrome, so they get money fom Google.
Surely the ablity to determine if and when a computer script (like a SID file) will terminate is trivially solvable for any case?
Caution: may freak out badly written virus scanners:
http://steike.com/code/useless/zip-file-quine/droste.zip
I thought 'Oz the great and powerful' was really good, minus the few designed for 3d moments of things jabbing at the screen (saw in 2d)
'Burt Wonderstone' wasn't bad, but nothing will be lost by waiting for video.
Is there a framework/language that (can) enforce the 'type' of simple numbers? Ideally at compile time to not affect runtime permormance excessively.
For example, to calculate the size of a simple room... instead of:
float x = 7;
float y = 5;
float area = x * y;
you would have:
length x = length.fromfeet(7);
length y = length.fromfeet(5);
area result = x * y;
or:
length x = length.fromfeet(7);
timespan y = timespan.fromseconds(5);
velocity result = x * y;
Both would compile to basically the same code, but strict type-checking would be applied at compile time (or like with intellisense while you are editing code...) to eliminate any unit-type errors.
People who don't understand how to name variables...
Wrong example:
double InchesToPixels(double dblInches)
{
double dblPixels = dblInches * 72;
return dblPixels;
}
Better example:
double InchesToPixels(double inchInput)
{
double pxReturn = inchInput * (apitogettherightratioforthedevice());
return pxReturn;
}
I'm gonna go ahead and compare not reporting this to the Penn State scandal. Knowing and not reporting makes you an accomplice.
Imagine if tomarrow, someone managed to hack into them, and downloads/publishes the info.
Who's to say they wouldn't blame you for the attack? You already 'confessed' that you know about the vulnerabilities, they ended their contract with you, and your motive is retaliation.
@dkf said:
Even GUI toolkit code is fantastically difficult to auto-test
Windows has an API used for disabled accessiblity (screen readers, etc.); does Linux have a standard How many standards does the linux world have?
My definition of "professional" is someone you hire to to a job because they know how to do it better than you.
The reason professional bodies (associations, licensing, etc.) exist is because without knowledge of the field, the person doing the hiring has no means to judge how good the professional is. (like the Dunning-Kruger effect)
Our site final testing is done with HOSTS entries to the staging IP address for each cluster.
Site gets switched live by switching the DNS entries to the new IP.
Domain name is also only a config file setting.
I've been wondering if '<b>1<i>2</b>3</i>' is valid or not... It offends me, but is it technically wrong?
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Anyway, I've been working of a HTML snippet auto-checker; for peices of localized HTML that get inserted into .aspx pages.
A full-on page validator wouldn't work, but all the tags/attributes should match.
Errors localizers have made include:
localizing attribute names
failing to localize link titles
extra/too little whitespace
and my favorite: leaving the anchor tags empty, so that the link exists, but there is nothing to click on.
Tiled server rooms floors are dangerous, as they get slippery when wet.
Many of us learned programming by painstakingly typing in code from paper magazines.
My first 3 months of owning a Commodore 64 we didn't have a disk drive, or a cassette drive.
Also it was used in a room where the light switch next to the door turned off the power to all the outlets in the room.
My childhood home was mostly wired by my dad, so there are switches next to each other where one is up=on/down=off, and 12 inches away up=off/down=on.
My dad was a wiring inspector for Boeing.
I don't fly very often.
(and the plumbing... my god.)
They just don't want to become 'penny' stocks when the big correction happens.
@ender said:
except for .net applications that use WPF - that's not available, while Windows Forms are; .net applications that are marked as AnyCPU [and don't rely on specific native DLLs] also run without modifications, as long as they don't use WPF).
Damn, I actually liked WPF. The origional Surface big-ass-tables basically depended on it.
Sadly, there are legal reasons they can't give you all those little bits of crap (toys, t-shirts, morale events...)
When Microsoft was sued in the class action by temps, that was one things the plantiffs pointed too as evidence that they were just like employees. So now we can't even use the ping-pong table in the break room...
I got ~$15,000 from that suit, but I wouldn't have filed for it on my own. It cost me more than that in the required breaks between contracts they have now. The jerks who filed it (I worked with one of them for a short while) ruined it for everyone.
The 'Click' thing is that the keyboard is held on by a magnetic connector; so when you get it nearly right, it snaps itself together; and you can easily just pull the keyboard away from the main unit; but it's been carefully balanced so you could hold the unit by the keyboard with the screen dangling and not falling off... (I wouldn't try it though) Basically attaching and removing the keyboard cover is very easy.
Why they are focusing so hard on that one little feature is a mystery to me. I do plan to buy a Surface if I don't have to spend money on a root canal/crown this friday. (no dental insurance, just out-of-pocket.) That would make a nice slogan "I'd rather have a Surface than a root canal."
If you upgrade a 7 system to 8, you can keep media center.
I suspect it's due to Googlrola making patent license noise, maybe MS wants to trim their liability.
"I'm probably still going to be writing 2012 on my checks until March."
"You still write paper checks?"
If I had to guess, I'd say your PC is in 'I have no mouth but I must scream' mode.
Even if you have all the audio options turned off, if an application tries to .Beep() something needs to respond to the API call, instead of BSOD'ing.
It is not the fault of anyone at Microsoft that your IT staff are Nazis.
You'll be happy to know the Media Center isn't in the default Windows 8 install (or so I've read; never installed the default version...)
I used to like Winamp, spent many hours creating visualizations, but it did get a bit crashy; even with visualizations off.
VLC is great for videos (fansubbed anime...), but I use WMP for music.