Anybody else ever notice that the strongest proponents to sharing often have the least amount of useful things to contribute?
Posts made by Master_Chief
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RE: Nobody shares knowledge better than this
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RE: SQL injection prevention may affect your customers
@morbiuswilters said:
Seriously, though, I know it's for the same reason they allow the pissed-off looking Muslim through with little hassle: if we allow common sense to override political correctness, the terrorists will have won. Metaphorically, of course, not literally; believing security theater is going to save lives is just retarded.
If security was the real goal with this crap, no muslim would get into an airport, forget the plane itself.
You can call it racism or whatever you like, but I don't see anybody else flying planes into buildings as of late.
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RE: Apocalyptically Bad
@LINGsCARS said:
Right. A member with an Apple logo. That says just about everything we all need to know. If people cannot cope with some bright colours and a bit of flashing, then you must be a) epileptic, b) colour-sensitive, c) a Mac user.
You seem to be the latter type.
The other 115,000 unique visitors/mth and 600,000 page views/mth and the people who had £35 million of new cars delivered from my website (with no other route to market) in 2008 must be extremely colour blind.
You should use some of that money to pull up a new site that doesn't look like it was written by an epileptic script kiddie in 1994.
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RE: Why managers should never be allowed to make decisions
@levbor said:
@Exteris said:
The WTF is that 32bit XP only allows you to use 3GB of the 6GB in the machines.
3GB per process, but two processes can use up 6GB or more just fine.
Are you high? How on Earth can a process use memory the operating system can't address?
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RE: Why managers should never be allowed to make decisions
@snoofle said:
@morbiuswilters said:
32 bits is 32 bits regardless of OS.I haven't used Win XP in awhile, but I'm a bit surprised the professional version caps physical RAM at 4GB.
I finally got them all in a room and explained that by the time you take off 500mb for video memory, 750mb for windows, AV software, mandatory IM client, 500mb for outlook, word, excel, browser, an IDE, debugger, and an application or two, you've wiped out all your addressable ram and are thrashing.
Priceless response: so you mean you can't just put more memory in the box - there's other stuff you need to consider too?
How is it that these people get hired to manage IT and don't know a damned thing about computers!? I knew this stuff before I graduated high school!
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RE: Facebook cant count...
@DeLos said:
@Master Chief said:
Well, its not a difficult calculation to make.
If we had a dime for everytime a project manager said that.
All existing code to load the messages
echo($messagecount & "Links");
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RE: Facebook cant count...
@belgariontheking said:
Oh God stop the presses! A number was a little off on a website somewhere!
Well, its not a difficult calculation to make.
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RE: Search Engine Shennanigans
@Mithious said:
Obviously a troll, but for the benefit of others that haven't used IE8 I'll point out the factual inaccuracies.
Changing the provider can be done from the drop down button right next to the search button where it appears at the top level. No need to go through lots of settings dialogs. Typing google.com into the search box takes you to the search results page where google is the top result. Typing it into the address bar takes you straight to google.
Pretty much all as you'd expect. Nothing to see here, move along.
IE 8 even asked me to pick a search provider when I installed it. I was quite impressed with how painless it was.
Still use Firefox mostly though. What can I say, I fear change.
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RE: Java Interview gone wrong
@gsinau said:
If it's C++ it would be "E" ... not "D".
++ means to increment, so C incremented would be D.
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RE: Vista's Amnesia Strikes Again
@PJH said:
@Master Chief said:
Sorry for the shit quality, photofuckit struck
Oh, the irony: the file mentioned in the screenshot is a png, the screenshot isn't.The editor I use (Fireworks) generally pops out perfectly fine looking JPGs, I'm not sure what photofuckit did to this one on upload.
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Vista's Amnesia Strikes Again
My first WTF, be gentle. Found this while emptying my Recycle Bin. Sorry for the shit quality, photofuckit struck.
So, if I'm understanding this, Vista is telling me the file it wanted to delete for me doesn't exist, and it wants to know if i want it to...
Create...
The file...
To...
Delete it.
Or something.
For the record though, this is the only thing I've seen in Vista yet that truly made me go "What the fuck", despite years of using it. I still love it. :D
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RE: How DARE YOU use the company internet connection for work?
@AndyCanfield said:
This highlights the important difference between slow and disconnected. At one office we use a satellite link. During the day, if the file is large, we get cut off after a half-megabyte or so. At night the office is locked. I have to come in on Saturdays to upgrade Ubuntu on the server. We had to install a separate server, with the usual synchronization problems, because the last pages of a large report would be cut off. I have taken desktop computers to my house in order to download applications. And no, there is no other ISP.
If the ISP traffic is heavy, please lower my bandwidth; do not disconnect me. I will be patien.
Why not use private torrent trackers?
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RE: Bad user experience by design
@VydorScope said:
Which is what happend above...
Again, there is a time and a place for debates, and a time and place for giving out info, and front of customer is the wrong time. Try to act like a proffesional in these situtations, and it will nornally pay off with respect from everyone. Get upset and argue, and you just look like a child.
I wouldn't get upset. I wouldn't lay down and let you walk all over me either. It is possible to do both.
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RE: Bad user experience by design
@VydorScope said:
Short version: There is a time an place to debate issues, and in front of the customer is almost never that time or place. :)
Or, you could take the bloody 30 seconds to explain to me, generally of course, why your idea is better and I'd never bring it up again. Hushing me like a child in front of a customer is the fastest way possible to piss me off.
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RE: Bad user experience by design
@PJH said:
This latest response isn't changing my opinion of your attitude. (Since you ignored the implied reason for including the middle east (buisness, not military, ethos.))
And the fact you've ignored the other responses in the same vein... well...
I refer the hono(u)rable troll to the answer I gave some time ago. You don't call your middle-eastern boss (if you're a westerner) an asshole - implied or otherwise. The implications for doing so are not the same for doing so in the US or Europe. In fact they're probably worse than doing it in the far east. And doing so is not going to get you his job.
Did I mention the word troll yet?
Oh yes, I did.
1) You make the assumption I give a rats ass about your opinion of me.
2) And no I didn't, but you both said essentially the same thing, and I can't figure out how to double quote on CS. Sue me.
3) I don't know business practices in the Middle East.
4) Because they're traditions doesn't make them right. If you get fired because you stuck up for a better idea that would improve usability of a product, then it's the companies loss, not yours. I can't believe any serious business person would fire someone because they refused to suck up with enough gusto, but if they will, then obviously they have inadquecy issues that need working out.
If I was working on a project, and one of my subordinates had a better idea and could make a logical thought out argument as to why it would be better, I would at least consider it, and likely go with it if he turns out to be correct. I'm sick and tired of seeing in business WORLDWIDE that good ideas and theories are stomped out of existence because some stupid fucking manager can't deal with not being right ALL THE TIME. To management across the Earth, and to you for that matter: Get over yourself.
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RE: Bad user experience by design
@PJH said:
Or with that attitude, maybe the middle east. It'd suit more.
I would agree normally, but the friggin business person they were developing the application for was ON. HIS. SIDE. If he had pushed it he could've gotten it done the right way.
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RE: Bad user experience by design
@takatori said:
--code for "stop contradicting me in front of the business users or feel my wrath".
FUCK THAT! If he's being an idiot I'll contradict him in front of his mother, and he can shove his wrath up his ass! What the hell kind of spineless corporate cog are you anyway!?!? If you stuck up for yourself and made it clear you actually want to make a better product, by the time his wrath comes around you'll have his damn job!
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RE: Marketing - by - Insult
@morbiuswilters said:
So he made a couple of ads that annoyed you and you are pleased that he died prematurely? And you actually try to claim you are charitable?
Not 24 hours after I heard he died, I saw a commercial he made selling health insurance.
I laughed. Hard. And I felt like an amazing asshole for doing so.
Does this make me a bad person?
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RE: You don't have frames? But they're awesome!
TRWTF, IMO, is the entire concept of a LMS. We have both Blackboard for homework and PeopleSoft for administrative stuff where I go to school (yes, I get fucked with TWO shit systems. Plus an unbelievably shitty in house email system that- well, think outlook for windows 3.1.) and I don't see advantages for either. Every IT instructor there loathes the damn thing and only updates Blackboard enough to "keep the beaurocrats off their asses" (actual quote). They all go through the speil on the first day of class saying how (school name removed to protect the guilty) wants them to tell us to use our student email accounts, then state flatly they KNOW the campus email system is shit, and if we want to use an alternate, just send them en email from it with our name and the course. Also, 3 of 4 I'm currently taking classes from use excel spreadsheets to track grades. Blackboard is often only updated biweekly, if that frequently.
My point, after all that rambling is, why even use a LMS? The instructors seem to prefer manually using an outlook mailing list, excel sheets to track grades, and just handing out homework in class. It seems to me an expensive, and entirely worthless piece of software.
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And jesus fucking christ, I swear if Community Server's editor deletes one more space out from in front of one of my words, I'll go postal.
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RE: Feeling a little Divvy
@Someone You Know said:
You see this a lot with people who have been told TABLES BAD! CSS GOOD! either without being told why, or without understanding why.
I like divs and css because then I don't need to fark around with a table which often, in my experience, leads to far worse code and less precision control.
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RE: M.S. Word is illegal because it uses XML!
@tster said:
It most certainly applies to databases. Anything where there is a schema describing the format of the data.
How can any judge take this patent seriously? This is akin to suing (or sueing?) IBM because you discovered electricity.
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RE: M.S. Word is illegal because it uses XML!
@Aaron said:
Seriously, WTF. The judge's whole argument seems to stem from Microsoft's "intent to bury" i4i. Right, and this is relevant in a patent infringement case because...?
I reiterate my earlier assertion of the necessity to educate patent judges with a clue-by-four. This idiot has somehow convinced himself that a patent means nobody is allowed to make a competing product!
I'm guessing that this judge, to quote Dave Barry [on an unrelated case], "probably got his job less on the basis of being knowledgeable in matters of law than on the basis of having attended the most company picnics."
No shit right? By this logic, Ford could sue basically every car company in existence excluding a few very new ones for using an assembly line, not to mention every other countless company that uses assembly lines.
The tech inquestion should certainly be patented, but the pantent they are presenting is astoundingly vague. It could apply not only to XML but to HTML as well, and probably a lot of other types of Data storage, maybe even SQL.
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RE: M.S. Word is illegal because it uses XML!
@bstorer said:
What the hell 2-year period are you talking about? Patents last 20 years, and this one was filed in 1994.
Foiled by my interlaced display again. Dammit.
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RE: M.S. Word is illegal because it uses XML!
If the patent was held by the company in 2001, surely the two year period expired by the time Word 03 was released, and DEFINITELY was expired before Word 07.
And OMG! You mean one company did better what another company did before with the intent to take away their customers!?! Holy fucking shit, somebody call the national guard, capitalism is working again!!!
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RE: M.S. Word is illegal because it uses XML!
The root of the problem is still just too many people in authoritative positions that don't know a floppy disk from a flash drive.
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RE: Deadlines
@tgape said:
Hmm... Death Valley goes from positive 40 in winter to positive 136 in summer...
I would assume that you are talking temperature inside an oven-like aluminum warehouse, then? Otherwise, that range seems a bit extreme for being on this planet.
Props to apparently the only person on this board who can read. The"warehouse" and "garage doors" bits I would've thought could give it away but, oh well...
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RE: Deadlines
Also, I can top you all in terms of shitty work conditions. At the Fedex terminal I work at, we have no climate control except for garage doors. In winter, it drops to minus 40, and in summer, it can get as hot as 130 degrees. So in summer, we usually firs thing open every damn door that isn't locked, and in winter, any time a driver opens a door to come in with his truck, he is instantly the least popular man in the building.
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RE: Deadlines
@morbiuswilters said:
Supposedly it was very expensive and "fancy" and used a software-based control. From what I could gather, it didn't have heating/cooling modes but instead just did what it had to to keep the "zones" within the right temp. The problem with our area was that the temperature sensor was in a completely closed-off room separate from us so the temperature the system "saw" for our area was often quite different. It also had another annoying problem: the zones all bumped temps up ~15 degrees after 6PM because the system assumed everyone was at home. Since we had lots of late-night releases, coding sessions or just run-of-the-mill disasters that required people to be in our area it was often hot as hell. We finally just got a heating pad and taped it to the temperature sensor in the other room. The system freaked out and quickly cooled the 90 degree room down to quite lovely temperatures. IIRC, we ended up breaking it...
Good grief, talk about overcomplicating something.
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RE: "The Destination of this bus is FILE_NOT_FOUND"
Damn you, now I crave wings.
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RE: CHEAP WOW GOLD!!!
@PeriSoft said:
So, your position is that paying a fixed amount for access to a given type of entertainment, either per-hour or per-unit, is fine, whereas paying a fixed amount for specific results within that entertainment system is terminal stupidity?
Or do you just believe that paying for any kind of entertainment at all is terminal stupidity?
Or do you, as I suspect, merely believe that anyone who pays money for things you yourself would not pay money for is terminally stupid?
Paying for access and paying for what amounts to nothing more than e-penis enhancement are two very different things.
I never said paying for a WoW ACCOUNT was stupid, I said trading real currency for gold was stupid.
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RE: CHEAP WOW GOLD!!!
@durendal.mk3 said:
Most "free to play" browser-based MMO games have their entire financial model centered around this phenomenon.
Taking advantage of terminally stupid people is a cornerstone of capitalism.
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RE: CHEAP WOW GOLD!!!
Anyone who pays real money for videogame currency needs to be shot.
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RE: What The Puck
I'm so glad I don't write software that handles such things. Someone's getting a pink slip for this.
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RE: Ctrl Alt Tab in Excel
@morbiuswilters said:
That would be pretty disastrous, honestly. The value of gold would plummet due to an overabundance and anyone who owns gold (most people do in some form, I would think) would be pissed off. Then we'd end up with a bunch of cheap metal that's not good for much of anything except making electrical contacts.
Makes damn good electrical contacts though. That whole "inccorrodeable" thing is handy in that regard.
Besides, gold investors get on my nerves. Platnium FTW!
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RE: Ctrl Alt Tab in Excel
@aleph said:
Because Microsoft decided that they needed something to counter Expose, so Win+Tab (and the persistent equivalent, Ctrl+Win+Tab) brings up "Flip 3D", which in my opinion is a completely useless interface feature. It has the option of using the scroll wheel (or mouse, or arrow keys) to flip through the options. If I'm using a keyboard shortcut, why would I then want to reach over for my mouse?
So, Alt+Tab has been around for too long to change that shortcut. Win+Tab is Flip 3D. Ctrl is the persistence modifier for both. Shift is the reverse direction modifier for both. Thus, Win+Alt+Tab wouldn't be consistent with the other shortcuts, so it's not an option.
I think the Ctrl option should've been pushed into the accessibility settings, since anyone who needs the interface to stay up is probably also going to have a hard time hitting a 3 key shortcut. I also think that Alt+Tab and Alt+Shift+Tab are good enough for everybody, and that we don't need any of the other variations.
I like it because I get a full screen view of the windows instead of a 150 X 100 thumbnail myself. Plus it just looks cool, and as long as my applications keep me chained to Windows, I might as well enjoy it, yes?
Though in all honestly, I do still prefer Windows for my standard computing. With every edition you have a set group of people at the ready to, be it the first alpha release or the first retail or first service pack, to sit and bitch about anything and everything they can. Microsoft could write a program that, using a USB light, could turn anything into gold, and I'm sure some jackass on slashdot would whine because the resulting gold is heavy.
Some people cannot, and will not, be pleased.
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RE: Ctrl Alt Tab in Excel
@bullrider718 said:
Wonder if its only on Vista? Or maybe just me...
Confirmed, same behavior on Vista Home Premium SP1.
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RE: VISTA Memory Requirements - really?
@Weng said:
There's probably even more I'm not remembering off the top of my head.
Secured user directories. :)
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RE: Reading Fail
Makes me wonder why UI developers bother putting tooltips, instructions, and labeling on interfaces, nobody friggin reads em.
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RE: This is only the beginning...
Again, it just absolutely floors me when people spend a thousand dollars on a machine and don't bother to learn a damned thing about it. For some reason, this phenominon seems to be exclusive to computers.
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RE: OUR WEBSITE IS TOO IMPORTANT FOR ALT-TABS!
Someone like me who multitasks on a computer as easily as I breathe would be absolutely driven batshit by this. If it worked anyway, Firefox 3 apparently would now allow it to (or wasn't capable of focusing itself on the Vista desktop.)
Twenty bucks on which browser this works on...
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RE: $2 billion fund uses Front Page
Seems fine to me. Long as the site gives you the info you need, I don't see why it should be questioned at all. It's that kind of crap that gave us the Web 2.0 sites, so flashly and slick and nice but with NO useful features.
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RE: MAJOR WTF blocking live feed for thousands of viewers of a very, very important chess event
@Xelort said:
ARE YOU INSANE??!!?!!1!?!!?!one? FOR F*CK'S SAKE HOW DO YOU EVEN DARE TO THINK ABOUT THAT?!!?!?!?
Borisov The Terrible was there pal. Do you have any idea of what could have happened if cameras suddenly stops aiming him?
Choices were blood or cameras on Borisov. Hell, he's powerful enough to alter chess's rules!. Please, don't ever, EVER, say that again.
O_____o
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RE: The Actually Helpfull Helpdesk
@belgariontheking said:
@Master Chief said:
Thankfully I'm the honest type.
Hopefully that means you a) didn't share this information with the dishonest types and b) alerted someone about the insecurity.But I digress.
I left a text file on his desktop about it. Next day his password was changed.