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Speaking from personal experience only, I've never used the Windows Store, and I don't know anyone who has.
I'd love to see the numbers of Windows 8 installs vs Windows Store accounts.
I'm pretty happy about this because I don't drive. I ride a bicycle, and the two times I've been involved in a genuine aggressive altercation with another vehicle, the car had stolen license plates.
One of those times the police had planned to charge the passenger with attempted murder (We were both travelling south, I was going about 25 km/h, they pulled in close beside me, and opened the car door into me). When it turned out the license plate was stolen/hadn't been registered for 10 years, I was at a loss as to why anyone would want to drive around with stolen plates on their car (me being a law abiding citizen), and the police said it's to avoid speed cameras and to steal petrol (turn up to petrol station, fill up, drive off). Apparently petrol theft is like one of the number one crimes here
I created the file.. added a few forum links with user/pass combos.. and within about 48 hours, the file was nuked and I had an email from google stating a document I had put on google docs broke their terms of service.
I went through the terms of service and couldn't find anything regarding passwords, but it did say that anything I put in google docs was owned by google and publishable by google, so I guessed that was the reason (they can't publish passwords?)
edit: I didn't get kicked off of google docs altogether though, just the one file got nuked
I got caught out with the pre-defined host config because I didn't realise I needed to allow both tcp AND udp through the firewall, so my work machine was unable to access my privately shared folder on the home machine (tracker server/relay server/dht options all disabled)
Once that was sorted, I have a perfectly good replication system working amonst all my machines, just like dropbox, without the centralised control, this is awesome
However I will say, your ability to admit insecurity about your skills/acknowledging you could be better probably places you _above_ average! The scariest devs are the ones who think they're very good, but in reality are poor. For example I know something I'm really weak at is writing good multi-threaded code, I try and keep things as simple as possible, but I know other people who think they can write great multi-threaded code, but spend vast amounts of time debugging deadlocks.. Hmmm
edit: turns out I should have just finished reading the article.. bigger telescopes!
MAYBE if it was some company making bucket loads of money off of GPL code they were deliberately and knowingly abusing the license!
If only more people were like him. Hell, how many people do you hear about, who, when charged with a crime put their hand up and say "Yes, I did it". Not many, even for simple things like traffic violations.
How much? As much is needed for everyone to have a rationalised discussion. As I write this I realise that with media outlets such as FOX, that makes it pretty hard.
As Bradley Manning said, most military information has a tactical shelf life of 48-72 hours, after that most information can (and should) be released. Perhaps a more transparent/accountable military would be a harder target for fundamentalists to rally support against, but I wouldn't actually know.
Firstly, if I could ride to/from work without riding on roads, I would. I don't feel safe riding on the road. I don't like riding on the road, but I do it because where I live there is no other option. I have travelled to Canberra and I'm incredibly jealous of their cycling infrastructure.
Secondly, roads are paid for by fuel tax, so yes, I'm getting a free ride because my bike doesn't consume fossil fuels, only weetbix. I do own a car however, and do spend over $100aud per week on fuel (kids taxi service). So I do contribute to the infrastructure costs.
I guess I mostly agree with what the article suggests, hell, when I'm riding and another bloke on a bike rides through a red light, I think "you shouldn't be on the roads if you're unwilling to follow the road rules", it even makes me irritated. There are a vast number of cyclists who don't know the actual road rules when it comes to cycling. I thought I did until I sat down with the rule handbook and read the cycling section from start to finish, and realised I commonly broke a number of rules.
Riders who insist on cycling in the middle of the lane - irritating. I realise a cyclist needs to keep enough space for themselves, and riding right next to parked cars is scary as hell due to the fear of someone opening a car door on you (it's not pretty), but if I'm ever holding up traffic, I just pull over and wait for the cars to clear. The worst thing you could experience is having someone in a car sitting on your shoulder, so close you can feel the heat from the engine.
I've been attacked while on my bike a number of times. The most common reason that I seem to get attacked for is filtering. That is, moving up between lanes at a red light, to the front of the queue, so to the folks in cars I guess I'm a queue jumper. I've had people drive past me in their car and have a passenger open their door into me (yes while we were both moving) - the police planned to charge that guy with attempted murder, but he was driving a car with stolen license plate. However, the more I get attacked, the more I want to break the rules, how ironic!
The worst are pedestrians though, they just walk out in front of you.
In Australia, the high price of fuel comes because the government puts something like a 50+% tax on it. Most people (incorrectly) assume that your car registration pays for infrastructure dev/maint, but car registration just pays for insurance/payouts for car crashes, and running of the registration system.
Most of themoney used to build and maintain roads, highways, etc, comes from the fuel tax. If we transfer to a new form of fuel that is supposedly free as this article suggests, where does the aus government look to get the money to pay for the roads?
Turns out it's bush fires.
Web server logs are another example, once you have a publicly accessible website, you'll see thousands of requests just trolling for phpmyadmin installs, versions of php forum software, known exploitable cgi scripts. I certainly felt better about it when I was ignorant of what was going on with my servers!
However, the example the author provided seems a little far fetched though? Could someone seriously pull this off?
Seems like a house of cards that would fall down the first moment he was required to talk with a colleague about some bit of code he'd committed to source control, he'd have to be a pretty good liar.
Thought I would format the drive before install, so booted up BartPE to format/partition the SSD (single primary 100%, 1024 block size), then rebooted to install Windows 8. Wouldn't activate due to it apparently not being an upgrade on an existing installation (woops!). Turns out I just needed to create a [N]:\Windows folder on one of the other disk drives before I installed. Anyways, had to reinstall it again..
At first I suffered revulsion, I mean, 17 years of muscle memory moving mouse to start button does not die easily. I was almost tempted to wipe it and re-install Windows 7.
As I have started modifying/customising the o/s, I'm beginning to like it more. I vaguely remember hating Windows 7 when I first upgraded from XP (I never bought vista)
Ctrl+Esc serves as a nice way to swap between metro/classic. It just sucks that there was less integration between Metro and desktop apps - they could have done something to make it more seamless surely?
Even though Windows 8 has only been out a couples of months, there are a fair few patches necessary
With SS/Stronglifts/Whatever, you begin with an empty bar, (or no bar if you can't squat at all), so the weight doesn't start out being something you need any genuine assistance with. With the power rack you have the safety pins. You adjust the safety pins to be at a point where if you are in the bottom of the squat, and you can't return to standing position, you just drop the bar off your back onto the pins (or lower it onto the pins)
With the bench press it's the same thing - you set the pins so they're below your lowest point in the bench press (bar touching sternum), but slightly above your neck level (I'm lucky in terms of bench / safety pin positioning, it's perfect for me) - when I fail a bench press, or can't push it off, I just let it hit the pins and slide out from underneath the bar.
Youtube example of what I'm talking about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCOo3RtKu1E#t=59s
If you don't have access to a power rack with safety pins I would not recommend doing the bench press without a spotter unless you back the weight off to something you will always confidently re-rack safely.
However a spotter with the squat is a recipe for ruin, best to just rely on the pins. Supposedly designed to handle 200kg+ dropped on them from 4+ft. Hopefully your gym hasn't bought a cheap shitty rack!
The thing I've come close to injuring myself the most with is the press. I was arching my back too much and putting a lot of pressure on my lower back - trick is to keep stomach tight when doing the press. Something I wasn't doing.
Imagine my surprise when I disovered Delphi has class methods too, but they were not copied to C#. I guess most of the time they're not particularly useful, but when you do need to create some factory code, having pure virtual class methods (template methods), is really useful.
Downside w/ Delphi is the metaclasses do not implicitly exist - you have to manually define it, eg TMyObjectClass = class of TMyObject; They should just be implicity, when you define a class, the metaclass is defined too. I guess when they first designed it memory constraints were still a consideration
No, static methods do not count.