So do any of them manage the cache, by chance? If not that would about triplicate the level of WTF.
Master_Chief
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RE: It's easier if everything has the same name
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RE: Just what is HP up to?
@Helix said:
Switching
from one
version of Windows to another is like switching from one car to
another.But
switching from
Windows to Linux is like switching from a car to a motorbike.
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RE: Maths... they do still teach it in schools, right?
@Charleh said:
I'm on facebook, checking how many awesome friends I have when I see this:
6 - 1 x 0 + 2 / 2
ANSWER IT
"Challenge Accepted" I think to myself. I do mention that it depends on the order of precedence - but the correct answer taking that into account is 5.
Several thousand people have answered, some of them citing the above 'rules' - but a lot of people are coming to a conclusion of 7
SEVEN....?
I asked how anyone had got to 7 and some guy came out with some bullshit about the subtract sign inverting the 1 making it 6 + ((-1 x 0) + (2 / 2))... how exactly the fuck does that work?
Do I need to go on a bell tower climbing killing spree with a sniper rifle or are people just making this maths shit up on the fly? Tomorrow I expect to walk into a shop, spend £9.35, give the cashier £10 and get 7p change because they just decided to add some their own bullshit rules or maybe they are just counting in base 11.5...
Then I realise its 7 :D
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RE: DreamSpark, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love ThePirateBay
@blakeyrat said:
And frankly I don't believe your story because it's utterly, 100% different, than the process of getting products from either MSDN or Microsoft's employee discount program.
I can attest he is correct (NWTC, Wisconsin.) We use the same system, same fucktarded downloader program. However...
@blakeyrat said:
Fucking shit the world's full of entitled pricks.
Agreed. All in total I've probably gotten a few thousand dollars worth of very useful stuff through DreamSpark (and it's previous program, can't remember the name.) To bitch because they want you to use a download program based in Windows, and use that to justify theft, is asinine. Normally you'd have to shell out a few hundred bucks for most of the OSes I've gotten free (and a lot more for the Server Datacenter edition I have). To the linux people: If you have a linux machine, I guaranteeing you it's also a Windows machine (or could be.) And even more simply, take a hard drive to school, plug it in, and play minecraft for a couple hours in the lab while they download. (I downloaded all mine at school anyway, their Internet speeds were better.)
Also, I don't think it's trivial to point out that the download program exists solely as an anti-piracy measure, because I garun-fucking-tee if they hosted it via a Torrent or HTTP or FTP link, the first thing you'd do is go to $favorite_board and post saying "LAWL MICROSOFT SO STUPID, CLICK HERE FOR FREE WINDOWS!!)!11" and by continuing to pirate, you ensure they will continue developing new, more inconvenient methods to combat it.
In short, "They're treating us like animals, so let's shit on the floor" is not a good line of thought.
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RE: Screwed-up installation
@dkf said:
The last few times have been OK for me (probably due to me taking great care) but I remember the bad old days when opening a computer tended to involve a small blood sacrifice and much swearing
of oaths.FTFY.
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RE: What's the bigger WTF - the student or the college who rewards mediocrity with a degree?
@dhromed said:
@Algorythmics said:
Possibly a sexist thing for me to imagine, but I think it probably has more to do with what the word iron conjures up first in my head than anything else.
It's called stereotyping. It's not inherently evil, but it's really good to be aware that you're doing it.
Reminds me of my boss who said to the black guy in our office who plays in a band: "I bet you play funk!"
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RE: What's the bigger WTF - the student or the college who rewards mediocrity with a degree?
@oheso said:
@Master Chief said:
I could tell stories all day of my time at a local technical college (Don't know how that ranks against community college, don't honestly care). Frankly I knew almost everything I needed to know to graduate walking in, save for an excellent Photoshop class and an amazing web development instructor (PHP, HTML, CSS, JS, the usual fare. Guy was damn good though.)
I knew one girl that I always unfortunately seemed to end up in classes with, called her Database Action Barbie since my first encounter with her happened to be the SQL class. Not that she was pretty mind you, I called her Barbie because she was an incredible dunce. Seriously, every single concept needed to be explained in triplicate, and I don't honestly think she got it after that.
I have no idea if she graduated. I fucking hope not. I know that she wasn't alone, though, we had tons of middle aged folks in the same classes. It was a riot and a half watching these people, who could barely aim a mouse, try to learn ASP.net. Thanks to an earlier class in VB.net, I picked up ASP pretty damn easily (similar syntax, etc.) so I immediately became the person everybody wanted to ask questions during the work periods. Led me to take up the habit of doing the homework during the lecture so I could leave.
Our school claims to have good graduation rates, if that's so I'd say they're graduating a lot of under qualified people. I think the peak was when I had to take a class in Visio (already 2 years discontinued mind you when I took it) to make a credit requirement one semester, and sweet baby Jesus. I think we had some people in their 70's in that class, and I'm sorry, if you can't even find a pre-mounted network drive in Explorer, you have no damn business building anything for the Internet.
Ageism. My mother develops databases on big iron, while kids with iToys think that "hacked" means "I left my toy where my gf could get it and she posted a status update on fb."
I was going to respond to this by pointing out you were calling me an ageist after a story about a fellow college aged student, but you then decided to judge me based on my age in the same comment, so...yeah, that's a thing, I suppose. Good work.
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RE: Remember Bitcoin?
@El_Heffe said:
@boomzilla said:
@El_Heffe said:
I never said they can't sue. Anyone can sue anyone else for any reason, no matter how wrong or stupid. But that's not the point. Laws, courts and lawsuits are a form of regulation. If you want something that's completely unregulated, it's hypocritical to atttempt to use regulations to complain when things don't work out so well.To me the funniest part is all the people who said that bitcoin is wonderful because it is completely unregulated and free from control by TEH EVIL GOVERMENT and now that alll their bitcoins have been stolen they want to sue. Sorry, you can't have it both ways. You wanted unregulated, you got it.
How does "unregulated" equate to "can't sue?"
It reminds me of a joke a comedian once told while talking about his past drug use: "Here's a word of advice. If you give a hooker money to go buy coke, she will never come back with the coke."
As far as I'm concerned, all lawsuits pertaining to this matter should be immediately thrown out of court and stamped with the following:
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RE: What's the bigger WTF - the student or the college who rewards mediocrity with a degree?
@ochrist said:
I wouldn't have helped her the one time he did. It's obvious she was either in way over her head (in which case she shouldn't pass) or had put zero effort into learning a damn thing (in which case she especially shouldn't pass).@bighusker said:
It turns out that Sarah doesn't know anything about programming
I've met people like this (mostly girls, I'm afraid).
Most of them don't work in IT (anymore). And certainly not as programmers/developers. But this industry cannot work with 'hard' geek types only. There is actually a need for persons who can participate in projects with more 'soft' values (administrators, analysts, testers etc.), so TRWTF is probably the college, who inists on programming knowledge.
However, when that is said and done, I think more people should know what programming is about. I have met a few managers / project leads who knew next to nothing about the core problems in the project.
I believe you took the right decision (as I would have done exactly the same).
I've never understood the idea that just because someone is good at what you call soft skills that they can't program too. It should be a requirement, they would do much better at their jobs.
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RE: What's the bigger WTF - the student or the college who rewards mediocrity with a degree?
@TheCPUWizard said:
@Master Chief said:
...when I had to take a class in Visio (already 2 years discontinued mind you when I took it)...
Wondering how you took a class in 2018 (or beyond) already?????
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RE: What's the bigger WTF - the student or the college who rewards mediocrity with a degree?
I could tell stories all day of my time at a local technical college (Don't know how that ranks against community college, don't honestly care). Frankly I knew almost everything I needed to know to graduate walking in, save for an excellent Photoshop class and an amazing web development instructor (PHP, HTML, CSS, JS, the usual fare. Guy was damn good though.)
I knew one girl that I always unfortunately seemed to end up in classes with, called her Database Action Barbie since my first encounter with her happened to be the SQL class. Not that she was pretty mind you, I called her Barbie because she was an incredible dunce. Seriously, every single concept needed to be explained in triplicate, and I don't honestly think she got it after that.
I have no idea if she graduated. I fucking hope not. I know that she wasn't alone, though, we had tons of middle aged folks in the same classes. It was a riot and a half watching these people, who could barely aim a mouse, try to learn ASP.net. Thanks to an earlier class in VB.net, I picked up ASP pretty damn easily (similar syntax, etc.) so I immediately became the person everybody wanted to ask questions during the work periods. Led me to take up the habit of doing the homework during the lecture so I could leave.
Our school claims to have good graduation rates, if that's so I'd say they're graduating a lot of under qualified people. I think the peak was when I had to take a class in Visio (already 2 years discontinued mind you when I took it) to make a credit requirement one semester, and sweet baby Jesus. I think we had some people in their 70's in that class, and I'm sorry, if you can't even find a pre-mounted network drive in Explorer, you have no damn business building anything for the Internet.
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RE: I need help to blu ray my very frustrating situation ?
@anotherusername said:
@Master Chief said:
@anotherusername said:
The only good DRM is dead DRM. What you describe -- 100% accurate DRM (zero false positives, zero false negatives) -- simply can't be done.@El_Heffe said:
Weirder still that people tolerate the DRM in the first place.@anotherusername said:
Ya know, I've never had any of these strange DRM problems when I've downloaded hi-def movies in MP4 or MKV format.
Yes, I've noticed that movies which have had the DRM removed no longer have any DRM in them. Weird, huh?
When it's done properly, you never know it's there. It just keeps being done poorly.
I wrote something about this awhile back. Don't have it front of me, but the big points were:
Reasonable Price - If you charge an arm and a leg for a product that can so easily be obtained illegitimately, you will lose sales, promised. If you must charge a premium for given content, make it worth the while (extra content, gifts, etc. for buyers)
Err on the side of the User - If you assume your customers are criminals and force them to prove otherwise to use the product, you have failed. You will gain nothing but poor PR and a bad reputation as a content distributor. Secondly; if you can't verify authenticity because of outside problems (no internet, server offline, etc.) you can't just lock up whatever you've sold until conditions improve. People have paid for a product; SNES games I pull out of my closet still work in 2014, there's no reason my digital movies shouldn't work in 2024.
No Codes, no restrictions, no nonsense - If I bought a movie, I should be able to watch it on my PC, on my blu ray player, on my XBox, on my iPad, or on my Android Phone, or all at the same time if I really want to. As long as all the backend accounts are mine, there is no reason I shouldn't be able to. I've purchased the product; I should be entitled to use it as I see fit, excluding outright copying and distribution.
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RE: I need help to blu ray my very frustrating situation ?
@anotherusername said:
@El_Heffe said:
Weirder still that people tolerate the DRM in the first place.@anotherusername said:
Ya know, I've never had any of these strange DRM problems when I've downloaded hi-def movies in MP4 or MKV format.
Yes, I've noticed that movies which have had the DRM removed no longer have any DRM in them. Weird, huh?
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RE: I need help to blu ray my very frustrating situation ?
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