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I keep expecting them to post a press release, saying: "Whoops! Sorry! Rounding error!"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Am I the only one not to see what all the fuss is about?
Nobody is forced to buy any of Apple's products. There are enough alternatives available.
People pay bucket-loads of cash for designer clothing, cars etc, how is this different?
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The Spaceborne Computer will be the last item removed from SpaceX’s Dragon capsule I think I saw this movie. Inspection didn't end well.
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If it doesn't pass the exam, will it be held back a year?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Bucking a major trend, company speaks out against the age-old practice. You know: like Windows
I say with love...
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And MS can know after the amount of complaints they received; forcing people to make up new insecure passwords, because the one they want is not long enough, doesn't contain numbers, or has been used in the past.
Also, the practice to be as annoying as possible is indeed age-old. As a security practice it was never recommended.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Sh1t!
I've long believed that mandatory password changing is ancient and obsolete.
I must have been wrong.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Sh1t!
That's not the best of passwords!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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k0RR3C7 H0R23 84773rY S74Pl3
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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I wonder how many people use that password everywhere?
TTFN - Kent
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The SALT I use to save it is XKCD
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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I'm reading a book that I've wished someone would write for a long time:
Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe: Steven Strogatz - amazon[^]
It's really well-written. The author makes a tough topic approachable and interesting.
Here are some snippets from the book:
Strogatz said: Without calculus, we wouldn’t have cell phones, computers, or microwave ovens. We wouldn’t have radio. Or television. Or ultrasound for expectant mothers, or GPS for lost travelers. We wouldn’t have split the atom, unraveled the human genome, or put astronauts on the moon. We might not even have the Declaration of Independence. It’s a curiosity of history that the world was changed forever by an arcane branch of mathematics. How could it be that a theory originally about shapes ultimately reshaped civilization? The essence of the answer lies in a quip that the physicist Richard Feynman made to the novelist Herman Wouk when they were discussing the Manhattan Project. Wouk was doing research for a big novel he hoped to write about World War II, and he went to Caltech to interview physicists who had worked on the bomb, one of whom was Feynman. After the interview, as they were parting, Feynman asked Wouk if he knew calculus. No, Wouk admitted, he didn’t. “You had better learn it,” said Feynman. “It’s the language God talks.” For reasons nobody understands, the universe is deeply mathematical.
Strogatz said:
Calculus for Everyone
Feynman’s quip about God’s language raises many profound questions. What is calculus? How did humans figure out that God speaks it (or, if you prefer, that the universe runs on it)? What are differential equations and what have they done for the world, not just in Newton’s time but in our own? Finally, how can any of these stories and ideas be conveyed enjoyably and intelligibly to readers of goodwill like Herman Wouk, a very thoughtful, curious, knowledgeable person with little background in advanced math? In a coda to the story of his encounter with Feynman, Wouk wrote that he didn’t get around to even trying to learn calculus for fourteen years. His big novel ballooned into two big novels—Winds of War and War and Remembrance, each about a thousand pages. Once those were finally done, he tried to teach himself by reading books with titles like Calculus Made Easy—but no luck there. He poked around in a few textbooks, hoping, as he put it, “to come across one that might help a mathematical ignoramus like me, who had spent his college years in the humanities—i.e., literature and philosophy—in an adolescent quest for the meaning of existence, little knowing that calculus, which I had heard of as a difficult bore leading nowhere, was the language God talks.”
Strogatz said: I’ve written Infinite Powers in an attempt to make the greatest ideas and stories of calculus accessible to everyone.
I really like it when you find a book that has an author who has considered the subject from many angles and figured out how to communicate it to anyone.
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Calculus?
Oh yeah. That's that Ancient Greek thing that Newton and Lieb-something claimed to have invented.
And it ain't rocket surgery -- once you "get it", you've got it, and it all seems simple.
It's well worth the time it takes to study it/figure it out.
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Several years ago, I came across this MOOC on Calculus, called Mooculus on YouTube[^]. Interesting way in which the professor teaches this subject.
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Thanks for sharing that. I watched the first part and added it to my Watch Later list.
Looks good.
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Produced in partnership with the makers of Axe body spray "Here we are now, entertain us"
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Yet another reminder of the kind of people who are running ms, these days.
And we wonder why windows and ms office have turned into such piles of cr@p.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: And we wonder why windows and ms office have turned into such piles of cr@p. Who's we? Office and Windows are the best versions they've ever had.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Quote: Office and Windows are the best versions they've ever had. Which versions are you referring to? ...or did I miss the sarcasm tag?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Current versions. No sarcasm.
If you disagree, you must be using them wrong.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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I do disagree with your opinion.
I did, and in the case of Windows 10, am still using them correctly. I develop applications with no problems under both Windows 10 and additionally, the best version of the Windows O/S, Windows 7.
The best version of Office is certainly not the 365 version. Any of them from '97 to 2016 are fine and work well. I started writing my book under Word 5 (DOS) and am finishing it with Word 2003 which works fast and well, especially when I am not connected to the internet - which is most of the time when I am writing.
The latest Excel I am using is 2016 which is fine - I don't use the other stuff, except PowerPoint occasionally, so I don't want to give any opinion on that.
Oh, I just realised I am wasting my time arguing with...
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: Windows 10 and additionally, the best version of the Windows O/S, Windows 7. Why is Windows 7 better than 10?
Forogar wrote: Any of them from '97 to 2016 '97? Really? The current version is more stable and does so many more things and the office apps are compatible with each other. The current version is many times better than 1997.
Forogar wrote: I just realised I am wasting my time arguing with... Way to go childish.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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It's made from the pheromones of sweaty gamers who haven't bathed in a week due to playing COD. It gives you the smell of a true gamer while you play Trivia Crack on your phone.
"When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid."
Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn.
Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning.
Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Here we are now, entertain us"
I smell stupid and contagious
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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This reminds of a bit from Monty Python : "... it's the first combined salad dressing and foot ointment."
Microsoft will probably extrapolate this to the first combined barbecue sauce and hemorrhoid treatment.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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