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Re:poetic
No, what's poetic is that the cresses mean Stability and "Always Reliable" in the Victorian language of flowers. That's a pretty good meaning for a hardy weed meant to save lives. Though there is no specific meaning attached to the Thale Cress that I can find online, the Indian Cress is the flower of Warlike Trophies, which would be quite an ironic match.
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Re:VS sucks
Actually, VS.NET is pretty buggy once you start using it on large projects. It crashes a lot. The compile is sometimes really slow. The UI designer for web pages/controls is useless on pages with a complex DOM. It has integration glitches with VSS. VS.NET 2003 is not much better. I've been on teams for both a complex J2EE project and a complex
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Re:Don't scream
If you think C# is great then good for you. I for one don't care for a language that lacks the ability to write gui apps or database apps. Both of those are absent unless you are using windows.
What about GTKSharp, Npgsql, MySQL.Net and the list goes on.... it seems to me like you could build a gui database app sans ADO.NET and Windows forms.
The problem with C# is that all the open source code is scattered all over net instead of being in a community repository. There is one at CSAN, but last I checked it had a total of 3 modules. We need a central repository with a consistant namespace. I, for one, am tired of using something like JoesAssemblies.SomeNetworkProtocol when I could be using CSAN.Net.SomeProtocol.
I'm a Perl guy by nature - but I've embraced C# because it's the closest thing to Perl 6 we're going to see for a long time. The only disadvantage with C# is the lack of a huge code library to build your applications on.
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Re:Not a low as it sounds
Helicopters, and to a lesser effect wing effect, find it easy to fly very near the ground. The airflow is disrupted by the ground, and this reduces the drag and increases the lift. This page and this page explain it well. This means that flying 5' off the ground is actually very easy, and as long as there is adequate room above the craft, it should be possible.
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