There's absolutely no way no way I tell you to use a hook for a specially delivered payload to turn that ol Microphone on when you didn't know it!

Isn't that what FireFox is supposed to be? The lightweight fork of Mozilla minus all the built-in crap, which can be added via plugins? Since when did Firefox start embedding so many features?

They used a code generator for all the SQL. Only EXEC calls to auto-gen'd SPs, just did a religious doubling of single quote, and I'll be gobsmacked if I could find a way to inject squat.

I tried all that shit with unicode variations - nothing broke it.

Face it, it worked.

Excellent post!

Composition is less brittle than inheritance.

I usually related the story like this: In the 1700s, Isaac Newton and Leibniz invented calculus (you know that really hard stuff we still have a difficult time learning today.) By the late 1800s, math guys knew how to do almost anything using just a pen and paper (calculate orbits, really advanced mostly graduate level math stuff). They felt brilliant. And they said, "shoot, 30 years from now, we're going to essentially be God. From any starting point, we'll be able to predict any outcome."

Then the undecidability stuff with Goedel happened, and then we had intutionism with Brouewer, etc, and they realized it wasn't to be.

This sounds a lot like that.

The most important thing to teach kids is : don't leave records of what you say. I'm sure kids have done this forever and "everybody" knew they said it, same as when you post on FB; the difference is here is something someone can use as evidence.

Debian doesn't like 95% probability (stable should be stable). Plus Ubuntu ships with non-free parts that make it unacceptable to Debian.

I think the only reason I like Debian as a desktop is I use FluxBox as my windowing manager, no dock, and just use the whiz-bang GTK-based *apps*. Best of both worlds and fast.

pfft, I'm still running Netscape Navigator 1.0 with Trumpet Winsock on Windows for Workgroups 3.11. Leet!

Oh I forgot it easily handles the 3 hour window when the east is in EDT and the west is still in PST. At 3/13/2011 1:59 AM -05:00, it's 3/12/2011 10:59 PM -08:00. But one minute later at 3/13/2011 3:00 AM -04:00, it's 3/13/2011 11:00 PM -08:00!

I have seen countless examples of bad Business Programming for time, all while knowing that Windows had some elegant rules handling it at the Win32 API level. (So to speak.)

When DateTimeOffset came out, I heard it was supposed to eliminate all the problems. The problem was, I couldn't figure out how to use it.

Well finally between TimeZoneInfo.GetUtcOffset(DateTimeoffset) and TimeZoneInfo.ToOffset(DateTime, TimeSpan), I have a half-sane wrapper that gives me the accurate times. I put in 3/13/2011 2:00 AM -05:00, and it nicely gives me 3/13/2011 3:00 -04:00 as the "real time." There's even a helper called IsInvalidTime that tells me that 3/13/2011 2:00 AM isn't really a real time. I'm still trying to learn how to use IsAmbiguousTime.

The problem is I now am beholden Microsoft to do all this for me, and thus I don't REALLY understand how to do it. I guess I'll have to use Reflector to peek at the implementation.

I feel better today than I did yesterday. Bugged me for years.

Wow, this technique of if its not working reimage is such a lame idea that Google, amazon and every cloud in the world does it! Must be a dumb idea

Apple - Mac OS X - Windows Compatibility - How Mac works with PCs

Every new Mac lets you install and run Windows at native speeds, using a built-in utility called Boot Camp.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/compatibility/

I realize cd are 16 bit. I probably couldnt hear any diff on 24 bit which is the subject here. Flac sounds like CD and thats a BIT better than 128 mp3 on real speakrer

Maybe its in my head but cymbols always seem a bit brighter on CD versus 128k mp3.