Comment Re: Need developers? (Score 1) 140
Thank you for expressing your interest in a position at Microsoft. Unfortunately we are not currently hiring.
There, fixed that for you.
Thank you for expressing your interest in a position at Microsoft. Unfortunately we are not currently hiring.
There, fixed that for you.
Apple pops up a notification (more annoying than Microsoft actually) that says "install these patches now or later?", and you have to click and open up before you can even see what you're clicking "now" or "later" for. Then it turns out it's just something stupid like itunes. So I ignore it. Then a few days later it repeats. Then a few days after that. And so on. It's basically the apple store window, even though I have zero software anywhere on or in the vicinity of the mac that even saw that store. So yes, I am indeed crawling under that sink to see what shit the plumber left there. At least be glad microsoft isn't merging their updates and patches with their store.
While I must admit I liked the old Software Update system a bit better, overall I still find Microsoft's free-for-all pop ups during boot up to be far more annoying than the Growl-like notifications in OS X. For one thing, OS X NEVER says "I'm rebooting your system in x seconds" like Windows does, leaving you to scramble around to ask PERMISSION from your own computer to DELAY the Reboot.
BTW, Apple isn't "mixing their software updates with the App Store"; they are just using the same secure distribution method. It's not like they dump you at the front door of the App Store, hoping you'll get distracted by teh Shiny and buy something. And frankly, for the few apps I have that I have purchase through the Mac App Store, I kinda like the fact that their updates are announced/distributed in the same way, rather than having the Windows method of having the blizzard of pop ups each time I boot. With the OS X system, it's only ONE pop up, which can simply be dragged off the edge of the screen to dismiss.
By the way, you can customize plenty of things about how Updates and their notifications happen (or don't)
When the heat death of the universe comes, that thing will still be tanking along.
Yep. Just like my HP Laserjet 4.
Bought it at a thrift store about 5 years ago for $10. The copy count was 8,000. The engine is conservatively rated at 1,000,000 copies.
So, unless I start printing out and distributing copies of my Manifesto to the entire planet, it will likely outlive me.
That's why real pros backpedal with
sed 's/\%variablename\%/\$variablename/'
Get off my lawn, Whipper-Snapper!
Everybody with REAL experience (and real grey hair) knows that the MOS6510 was a custom variant of the 6502 (actually, not quite; I believe it was missing a couple of upper address lines, IIRC) that was built by Commodore for the C-64 computer (and maybe the VIC-20, too). And the joke of it all was the fact that Commodore didn't even USE the mini-VIA or real-time clock that were the main features of the 6510...
No, REAL programmers (like me, of course!) sit and hand-code machine-code (assembly is for dummies!) MOS6502 programs on their Apple 1 computers...
New versions of OnStar do not have this limitation, and can spy on you without disabling safety features.
And besides, the Court ruling only affects the 9th Circuit, plus, "Law Enforcement" NEVER disobeyed a Court Order, right?
because that amounts to surveillance. The closest thing to current system would be a detector placed at certain locations and would only ticket vehicles within 50meter radius. This would be similar to traffic cameras.
...Or those mysterious PAIRS of buried "loop detectors" (complete with a SHIELD buried between them, so that the "triggers" produced are crisply-timed), that have appeared (complete with the $50k (guessing) controller-boxes hiding in the bushes off the side of the road). What do you think a PAIR of loop detectors (positioned so you drive over one, then the other, in quick succession) in the SAME LANE is for?
I'll give you a hint: They are ALWAYS positioned within eyesight of the tall "lighting" towers (you know, the ones with the pan/tilt/zoom cameras in them, that the gummint called people crazy and paranoid for saying they (the hidden cameras) were there, until they started broadcasting the signals from them on the TV news every day).
Check it out. I am an embedded developer who has some experience working with vehicle loop detectors, and I can recognize a SPEED DETECTOR when I see one (that's why there are two detectors, to develop an "interval" between the signals, and the shield is to make the "detection time" more reliable (loop detectors were originally not designed to be so precise)).
They started appearing about 5 years ago on the interstate system in the state in which I live, and I have seen them in other states of the U.S.A., too. But no one EVER talks about them...
The difference is that I can choose to buy a vehicle without OnStar. This is a government mandate for all vehicle manufacturers. I no longer have a choice.
Again, you are missing the point.
Sheesh! I only mentioned OnStar specifically, because it is OBVIOUSLY the bellwether for LEO's uses for, and "interest" in, this type of technology in general.
Similar reasoning can help along the process of mandating all sorts of stuff.
...and almost all of it Unconstitutional.
Work is the crab grass in the lawn of life. -- Schulz
