Posts made by TwelveBaud1
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RE: Adventures of Sharky! - Cheaper is not always better or cheaper.
@pjt33 said:
@LoremIpsumDolorSitAmet said:
What, you expect Americans to learn French and say milliard? That's insane!Talking of crazy standards, let's not forget that in the financial industry in England, b (billion) used to be, and is still in a few cases, interpreted as a million million, not a thousand million. Go go global confusion!
You've got that back to front. In most of Europe and Latin America the word cognate to billion means million million. The USA is the one causing global confusion here. -
RE: C:\PROGRAM
@ender said:
I've seen that at clients, and I'd really really like to know what triggers that, and how to disable it
This happens if anything's hooked into Active Accessibility for any reason. Examples include obvious assistive technologies like JAWS, nonobvious things like Windows Speech Recognition, Cortana, and NaturallySpeaking (for voice commands), and esoteric things like "that one high school kid's app we threw in with our print driver that clicks buttons for you and decided SendKeys was too unreliable". -
RE: "PCs are dead and Microsoft is a goner, everyone will soon upgrade to a tablet/phone/Chromebook"
@dkf said:
Professionally speaking, Android is most interesting as it is the simplest to get testing apps onto.
Build (essentially) a Windows 8.1 Metro app. Go to Project Properties, Target Frameworks, check the "phone" box. Connect your phone and hit F5. Done.@dkf said:This is far and away the most relevant thing, as we are getting students to develop for the platform as well, and they've got enough trouble with out One More Damn Thing in the way of deployment problems.
Under Microsoft policies, students can ship 100 free apps or unlimited paid apps, annually, with no restrictions beyond "isn't porn" and "doesn't crash or use native APIs", for free. Since 2006. Sideloading for testing (or porn apps or native API apps) is as easy as making sure your device is on the LAN and clicking "Deploy". Apple definitely can't say that. Google can only sort of say that.@dkf said:I suspect that similar concerns are going to mean that Android will totally dominate the “corporate internal apps” market (rather like Windows is very strong in the equivalent market for desktop applications).
Microsoft has better tooling and nomenclature for their "page-based" model than Google's "activity-based" model, and actually gives meaningful stack traces when things don't go according to plan. While people familiar with the Android ecosystem are probably going to be able to develop at a faster tempo on Android, the developer base for corporate internal apps is going to have a much easier time developing for Windows Phone, especially with the ability to make apps that compile for Windows and Windows Phone in a single project from the same source files, and that will keep the "corporate internal apps" market on Windows Phone. -
RE: My Ruby has derailed
@bstorer said:
@morbiuswilters said:
The official reason they dropped it was because all three major browser codebases' first, gutteral reaction to Web SQL was #include <sqlite.h> and the W3C has some silly requirement about "multiple distinct, interoperable implementations" rather than accepting that SQLite is the god damn standard now.They're both awful and Web SQL isn't even a standard any more, having been dropped by the W3C.
Which is how you know it was an utterly unredeemable piece of shit. Those fuckers are still clinging on to MathML and VoiceXML. -
RE: Damn forced upgrade to Win7!
@too_many_usernames said:
4. Some of my customer-specific apps don't work on Win7 64 bit. Third party, not mine, I know, I know. (Best part? The app was written in .Net...)
If they're your apps (.EXEs), recompile for "x86" instead of "AnyCPU" and they will magically start working again. -
RE: A pre-emptive "Fuck You" to Mozilla
@Ben L. said:
What? What was IE 4's plugin API called? I can't find anything about it.
Although it also shared the Windows Explorer "shell extension" API too, because Microsoft was taking the position that a Web browser should be a computer browser as well. -
RE: Terminal illness
@Daniel Beardsmore said:
What I should do over the Christmas break, when nobody's looking, is figure out why it's only getting one CPU core when it's been given four. That's the main reason why this problem became visible — massive performance degradation.
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RE: Steam-powered Linux
@Ben L. said:
EDUCATE THYSELF.user@ubuntu:~$ sudo hallowed are the ori
[sudo] password for user:
sudo: hallowed: command not found
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RE: More useless error messages
@BC_Programmer said:
I Don't understand what this has to do with Windows Error messages. It's a Knowledge Base article, not an Error Message, and the actual issue is a design feature.
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RE: DOMParser
@spamcourt said:
Bonus points: WebKit doesn't even implement this correctly.
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RE: It's a good thing that Mozilla fixed all those Firefox memory leaks!
@The_Assimilator said:
For the sake of satisfying my perverse curiosity, what does about:memory look like when that happens?While playing a videogame I noticed my system was a lot more sluggish than usual, so I exited and fired up Task Manager to be greeted by this "awesome" sight:
Watefox 24.0, ~30 tabs open. As a comparison, Waterfox 18.0 routinely handled hundreds of tabs while never exceeding 4GB, at which point it would crash.
Granted, this is Waterfox (a 64-bit fork of Firefox) so maybe it's not Mozilla's fault. But any way you look at it, using that much memory
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RE: How to fuck up op_Equality
@Ragnax said:
Wow.
The forum rule only applies to student work product; instructors, as they most definitely should know better, are open for mocking.
Question; does the forum rule regarding the avoidance of work done in an educational setting also extend to the course material itself?
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RE: Obamacare: TRWTF
@The_Assimilator said:
They implemented the ACA website in ASP.NET, going through a Jekyll proxy. The Java stuff is for the authentication backend for Medicare and Medicaid, and now this.They implemented the ACA in Java?
Suddenly the Republican shutdown of government makes a lot more sense.
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RE: Open source Google product breaks other open source Google product when used with third open source Google product
Why is Go trying to use ECDSA with RSA certificates? Obviously that doesn't stand a snowball's chance in hell of working...
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RE: Microsoft announces shut down product you never heard of
@dkf said:
But in some of those cases it's not clear at all that there's that level of information encoded. One of the most important things about a message is its “envelope”, so that the intended recipient realizes that there is a message there in the first place. That balloon picture in particular fails at that.
Guidance called for, and all pre-generated images provided, an image of a phone with the Microsoft Tag logo to the left of the image, and the text "Get the reader at gettag.mobi" underneath. It was assumed that once both readers and tags were more commonplace, the border and wacky color scheme would be sufficient. Of course, then companies asked about borderless custom tags with non-CYMK color schemes... -
RE: Microsoft announces shut down product you never heard of
@blakeyrat said:
Tag at least looks cool. But IIRC requires color printing too.
There's a four-color version with five layers of triangles, and a B&W version with seven layers of triangles. The idea was that using colors and only supporting a short tag ID allowed for smaller code images. It was also more amenable to the crazy stuff Ben L. likes to do.
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RE: Google's hatred of their own customers; Feedly's utter incompetence
Microsoft Outlook has supported both RSS feeds and OPML import since 2003. It's not pretty -- well, it is pretty, just much more like Outlook than an RSS reader -- but it's there and it works.
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RE: It seems like the only software we ever talk about is Steam, Go, and Firefox... so here's Steam
@MiffTheFox said:
Riven was the best Myst game, and that was published by Brøderbund (under the name Red Orb).
And when Red Orb and Brøderbund went belly-up, the guys that bought them from The Learning Company were Ubisoft, who (still!) publish Myst and Riven to this day. -
RE: It seems like the only software we ever talk about is Steam, Go, and Firefox... so here's Steam
You have 374 "subscriptions" directly associated with your account (full games you have "paid" for and can install, in addition to whatever else you currently have installed.)
If you add any games you've played but are not subscribed to (demos, tools, et cetera), that brings the total to 399.
If you add any games you "own" by virtue of them being free to play, that brings the total to 587. Yes, that means there are nearly 200 F2P games on Steam, most of which are absolute crap. -
RE: Quick Firefox bug
@Ragnax said:
@dkf said:
What's being pulled out is "oh hey every website ever! want a SQLite DB? awesome, here's the same API as SQLite, only in JavaScript! Now don't go over 10 megs, ya hear?"@Ragnax said:
I already wrote; I'm not sure. I just remember SQLite being pulled out. Though if I had to hazard a guess, I'd say the logical alternative is IndexedDB.SQLite was on its way out
In favor of what?
IndexedDB is the annoying new* web API, and as a backend they use SQLite.
* Actually, the W3C is trashing IndexedDB too, since every single browser that implemented IndexedDB used SQLite, and they only allow "multiple competing implementations". -
RE: Attack of the Scripts
@DrPepper said:
Binaries on windows? Again, you shouldn't care, you don't own these.
I imagine he should care because he's likely the one going to get stuck between the people using/managing the product ("Where's that Windows support?") and the researchers ("Screw you, I'm going on sabattical!"). And he can't exactly go around requiring Interix (official Windows "personality" that's source-compatible with Linux) and LBW (unofficial Windows "personality" that's binary-compatible with Linux) on all the customer's machines... -
RE: Kilobits and PDFs
@spamcourt said:
@SamC said:
Try pdf.js. It's less than 1MB, and isn't made by crazy Eastern Europeans. Plus, it's been built into Firefox since February.Adobe Reader
Try Sumatra PDF. It's less than 5MB, and also opens ePub, Mobi, XPS, DjVu, CHM, CBZ and CBR. -
RE: Representative ... Query
@Serpentes said:
Query = "SELECT M.MID, MT, S, SF, SA,"
Get each cluster of values in the M ID, MT, S, SF, and SA columns, as well as counts of the records in each cluster where SB is -- assuming AU means collect information from some sort of spreadsheet -- the value of the upper-left cell and ST is 2, 11, or 12 respectively, provided (RT is zero and R has the value of the upper-left cell) or (RT is 2 and R is the value of the fifth, eighth, or ninth cells), and finally after all that exclude any groupings that have any records where ST is 3 and SB is the value of the upper-left cell. Oh, and sort by largest value of SA and largest MID after that.
Query = Query & "SUM(CASE WHEN (ST = 2 AND SB = " & AU(0,0) & ") THEN 1 ELSE 0 END),"
Query = Query & "SUM(CASE WHEN (ST = 11 AND SB = " & AU(0,0) & ") THEN 1 ELSE 0 END),"
Query = Query & "SUM(CASE WHEN (ST = 12 AND SB = " & AU(0,0) & ") THEN 1 ELSE 0 END), "
Query = Query & "FROM dbo.MM AS M LEFT JOIN dbo.MSL AS S ON M.MID = S.MID "
Query = Query & "WHERE ((RT = 0 AND R = " & AU(0,0) & ") "
Query = Query & "OR (RT = 2 AND R IN (" & AU(4,0) & "," & AU(7,0) & "," & AU(8,0) & "))) "
Query = Query & "GROUP BY M.MID, MT, S, SF, SA "
Query = Query & "HAVING SUM(CASE WHEN (ST = 3 AND SB = " & AU(0,0) & ") THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) = 0 "
Query = Query & "ORDER BY SA DESC, M.MID DESC"
And no, I have no idea what that means. At all.
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RE: Thanks, Valve.
@Ben L. said:
@blakeyrat said:
One feature of PunkBuster is server-side rendering of what you "should" see, followed by commanding the client to take a screenshot of what you "can" see, and comparing the two for differences. So if you're using an X-ray or radar mod, or custom textures, or a Mumble or Steam overlay, or your video card is fuzzing out, or the moon is out of alignment, it decides that they're too different and you're cheating and you get kicked.server tried to take a screenshot
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RE: "break"? What is this you speak of?
@blakeyrat said:
Brendan Eich designed JavaScript as part of a three-day-long coffee-fueled bender so that Netscape could have some vague sort of scripting language to connect Java applets with HTML content (i.e. the proto-DOM).DOM is just one of the many libraries JavaScript can access. That's like saying if I download Twitterizer third-party library for C#, the guy who wrote Twitterizer "designed" C#... it's complete nonsense.
I'm not being a pedantic dickweed, other than pointing out that 1) words have meanings, and 2) if you plug the meanings into the statements Miff is making, it's GIBBERISH.
And also he's dodging the bit about how he seemed to be implying that JavaScript wasn't object-oriented when it clearly is. Conclusion: Miff is an idiot.
Now, to rephrase Miff yet again, "Google probably designed about 10% of what JavaScript, as the only scripting language used in all of IE, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, and Opera, is most commonly used for today."
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RE: "break"? What is this you speak of?
Not to mention that you could just change the less-than-or-equal test in the while condition to be a strictly-less-than test, which gets rid of the need for an if statement or break statement entirely.
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RE: Sure, I'll agree to this EULA....
@dhromed said:
32- versus 64-bit java does not appear to grant any performance benefits. I haven't compared framerates, but the difference is insignificant, if any.
It's not a framerate-related performance benefit, it's a "look at all the stuff I can load!" performance benefit. 32-bit apps are capped at 4GB of memory -- 2GB* if you're running 32-bit Windows as well -- whereas 64-bit apps have no practical limit. Using the "Far" render distance in newer versions of Minecraft can in some cases cause it to load more than 2-or-4-GB-of-memory-worth of chunks, especially if you're using mods or have a lot of entities, which will cause it to crash.
*) If you're completely insane you can raise it up to 3GB but it's likely you'll get bluescreens because drivers are dumb and assume they have bargeloads of memory. -
RE: Who wants to see game-related WTFs today!?
Link is canonically left-handed in most LoZ games. However the player and his/her Wiimote-wielding paw is most likely right-handed. As a result, for the Wii version of the game, the non-UI objects are reversed the same way as the other games in this thread. (Or the GameCube version, I forget which they did first.)
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RE: Where did Java go?
@Ragnax said:
You see; the actual JUSched process does request administrative priviledges through UAC. When it has finished the download of an update, it will run it automatically, but may fail to request administrative priviledges for the actual updater. This will cause the updater to claim the downloaded update was corrupted, when it is simply a matter of the updater not having been run with the correct priviledges. To perform an update that will succeed, again you run javacpl.exe as an administrator directly from Explorer and use its [Update now] button instead. The javacpl add-on will, when having been started with administrative priviledges, pass those on to the update's installer correctly and the installer will be able to do its job.
It gets worse though. If you have it set to prompt you before installing updates, then it will pop up a UAC prompt before telling you anything. And Microsoft has made it very clear that no legitimate app should ever do that; part of what makes UAC "work" is having the user deny unexpected requests. So by Oracle UAC prompting unexpectedly, they're conditioning users to act insecurely. -
RE: Work email on phone
@blakeyrat said:
@PJH said:
On Android, you can have all kinds of widgets and things on the lock screen (which they call the keyguard screen for some reason) and this makes it so that all you can see is your wallpaper and a clock.It's the facility to lock the keyboard so you don't inadvertantly active the phone when it's in your pocket.
Isn't that the... lock screen? How do those two things relate? -
RE: Write-only property
@RaceProUK said:
a) The handler being tested is OnPropertyChanged, so why not?
Why are you so quick to assume that they're testing?
b) Because they'd have to remember to change it back again
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RE: Write-only property
@RaceProUK said:
@configurator said:
If they're using the same MSDN sample code for handing PropertyChangedEvents that's been around since 2002, then no, it's protected. But either way, a) why is InvokePropertyChangedEvent a property when a method fits better with both the action and the name? b) Why don't they raise the visibility of OnPropertyChanged to public? It's in the source code... c) Why are they sending PropertyChangedEvents that say that no property they actually store a value for is changed?@RaceProUK said:
Yes, it does matter.Is OnPropertyChanged visible outside the class?
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RE: Technology has come a long way
@ubersoldat said:
Wow... how much code do you need to fill 150MB? And just for a mouse?
It's for every USB mouse, keyboard, and joystick they've ever released. Also, it's largely not code that's taking up the space, it's the images used in the Gestures training app if you have a Touch mouse. And the soundtrack. -
RE: A glorified launcher... for $69.99?
@Anketam said:
I hope that the 'deal of the day' was for 95% off.
Actually it was 100% off, for filling in a short survey with bogus information and leaving "YOUR PRODUCT SUCKS!" in the comments field. Still going on, too.
@C-Octothorpe said:Any luck on getting a refund?
Nope, that dignity is lost forever. But they'll refund him 1,000% of his money! -
RE: Metres or Miles .. who cares?
@OzPeter said:
Some things are hard to type. Ethylene Glycol: typing "Internet Exploder," especially when you do mean "intended example."
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RE: To turn or not to turn, that is the question.
Anyone else have the problem that the image doesn't show up unless and until you've successfully logged in to a Google Account?
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RE: Wine (also QR codes)
@PSWorx said:
As for a somewhat clever use of QR codes (among other things), I've recently found this game. Sadly, I couldn't try it out yet because I don't have an iThing though.
It's a shame that it specifically requires an iThing and refuses to work on any other platform when Firefox for Android, Chrome for Android, Chrome for iOS, IE9 for WP7, and IE10 for WP8 all support reading the accelerometer practically the exact same way. -
RE: Software outsourcing
@pscs said:
I don't know if this has been mentioned here before, but I thought it worth a mention....
Log audit reveals developer outsourced his job to China -
RE: Microsoft Surface - WTF?
@blakeyrat said:
@PJH said:
That only works for x86/x64 machines. For ARM machines, such as the Surface, Microsoft's logo requirements mandate that SecureBoot be on and never able to be turned off, and that Microsoft's ARM key (which they're not letting anyone piggyback except computer OEMs) be the only key on there.@El_Heffe said:@GreyWolf said:
So, no publisher key = no signed non-Microsoft
What are you talking about?
binary = no LinuxThere is so much ignorance around secure boot among the Linux community... where does it come from? A Slashdot article?
Anybody can get their key added to secure boot. It takes a little paperwork and a little money, but Microsoft isn't excluding anybody (IIRC they gave Ubuntu one for like $100) and if you don't want to piggy-back Microsoft's key, you're always welcome to go to the BIOS makers directly.
Unfortunately, after watching these two videos, I still know absoulutely nothing about the Surface.
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RE: All ready for the launch of Left 4 Dead 2
@powerlord said:
I can see all sorts of wtfs here:
- Other than for F2P games, only owned games should show up in that account's library.
- Games that have had free weekends in the past (such as L4D2) sometimes show up in your game library if another account has it installed.
- It will never get past 99% because Steam thinks it's preloading. The last part of a pre-load download is downloaded later for the final unlocking process.
- All installed content shows up for all accounts, as well as any content your account is licensed for but isn't installed.
- Content that's installed but that you don't have a license for will show up as "Preload complete". If you've been running Steam continuously since a free weekend ended, it will instead read "License Expired".
- In the preloading window, you can click Continue, but it will (usually silently) fail with a No Subscription error.
- Clicking Close will close the preloading window, but the game will still appear in your library and downloads window as "Preloading paused".
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RE: Measures
@Renan said:
AFAIK there's no device in the market that can do inertial navigation. Last I saw DARPA was backing some project on that, though.
The now-unsupported Motorola Devour supported inertial navigation using its gyroscopes and accelerometers, and now that those are standard equipment on phones the only reason not to support it is sheer laziness on the baseband developers' part. -
RE: GitHub is fucking broken fucking again
@blakeyrat said:
TFS, the replacement for SourceSafe is actually quite nice and has a lot of features you don't see elsewhere. Like being able to actually link the bug report with the source code check-in that fixed it, or being able to add images to check-in comments, and some other nifty stuff.
GitHub also supports the two you mentioned. If you use the magic words "issue #" or "bug #" (or even just a number sign) in your commit message, it's automatically linked and – if you use the words "fixes" or "closes" – closed. You can also add an image with![alt text](image url)
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RE: Semi Null
@pkmnfrk said:
Even in the logging example, I can't see the value. It means that you need to write 2 additional methods for every proper method you write?
No, you're supposed to write maybe 3 or 4 methods (total) that use reflection/AOP libraries/magic to figure out where they are, and then shove them into multiple proper methods at once. The value is that you can write a function that prints "Entering <insert-method-name-here>", and rely on AOP to insert that method name and inject it into each and every proper method you make, without you having to remember to do so and without "polluting" your source code.@pkmnfrk said:And, you can't tell that these additional methods are being called in the method concerned?
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RE: In 2076 we will be able to put 3GB files on 2GB flash drives
@barfoo said:
how about setting a bit that tells the OS that the drive was removed improperly,
They already have this.@barfoo said:and when it is detected on insertion having a dialog pop up saying, "This drive was removed without ejecting and may be corrupt."
They did this in Windows 2000 but removed it in Windows XP due to a large number of complaints, most of which were "This box I don't read pops up every time I stick in my flash drive, make it go away! whiiiine" -
RE: Governments register objections to .wtf TLD
@robbak said:
This is about icann preventing alliterative DNS systems.
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RE: UBUNTUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
@atipico said:
@Lorne Kates said:
Clearly you need ubuntu.ubuntu.ubuntu.(...).ubuntu.REPACK.PROPER.OwO.OGG.grUUp.x264.hd[DDR].torrent! Didn't you know that ubuntu.ubuntu.ubuntu.(...).ubuntu-LOL-OGG-grUUp-x264-hd[DDR].torrent was propered for using poweriso instead of bchunk? Man, those LOL guys don't know how to release!@ubersoldat said:
Downloaded it, but it refuses to run and tells me to get ubuntu.ubuntu.ubuntu.(...).ubuntu-LOL-OGG-grUUp-x264-hd[DDR].torrent instead.Use torrents
ubuntu.ubuntu.ubuntu.(...).ubuntu-LOL-xViD-grUUp-x264-hd[DDR].torrent -
RE: Explorer fails at sorting
@Cassidy said:
ObRant: WHY ISN'T THAT AN OBVIOUS USER CONFIGURABLE SETTING I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO MODIFY ARCHANE HEX KEYS ITS BROKEN THEY SHOULD FIX IT etc.
Because someday Nagesh will find it and set it and come on here a month later to complain about how his documents are sorted "1.doc", "10.doc", "100.doc", "101.doc", "11.doc", "2.doc", et cetera. -
RE: Explorer fails at sorting
@pjt33 said:
Try getting it to sort a directory which contains a lot of files whose names are GUIDs by name. I think it sorts on the second half or something similarly obscure.
It sorts on the number you get by taking digits from immediately after the "{" until you hit one of them weird hex thingies (A-F). -
RE: Convenient WTF self-contained in a single image
@SilentRunner said:
Just trying to get the little boys to write to be understood and not to write to try to look like a big boy who knows the bad words.
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