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How Microsoft Dropped the Ball With Developers
cremou writes "As part of an Ars Technica series on how one developer migrated from Windows to OS X (and why), this second article concentrates on how Microsoft bungled the transition from XP to Vista. The author looks at some unfortunate decisions Microsoft made that have made Windows an unpleasant development platform. 'So Windows is just a disaster to write programs for. It's miserable. It's quite nice if you want to use the same techniques you learned 15 years ago and not bother to change how you do, well, anything, but for anyone else it's all pain... And it's not just third parties who suffer. It causes trouble for Microsoft, too. The code isn't just inconsistent and ugly on the outside; it's that way on the inside, too. There's a lot of software for Windows, a lot of business-critical software, that's not maintained any more. And that software is usually buggy. It passes bad parameters to API calls, uses memory that it has released, assumes that files live in particular hard-coded locations, all sorts of things that it shouldn't do.'"
We all know win32 sucks the big one... but as a digression - who else has been playing the adobe shooting game in the ad rather than reading the articles?
It's so frickin addictive!
Of course the big alcohol pushing companies don't want marijuana legal, neither does the DEA or other law enforcement agencies which would lose the millions or billions of dollars of funding. And look at all of those properties and cars which peaceful marijuana smokers and growers would retain rather than have seized for growing a flowering weed.
Marijuana remains illegal in the "Land of the free" because people remain apathetic, they fear their government, they are afraid to march and protest for fear they will be added to COPLINK (google it for info.) or some other database and be fingered for something.
"WE THE PEOPLE" and "Land of the free" are nothing now, the government rules the U.S., and the fight for marijuana's legalization is one small proof.
Plenty of people take garlic or other herbs for medicinal reasons, and cook with them and use them for other reasons too. But how many people say, "Medical garlic?" even when it has medical uses? We shouldn't have to legalize "medical marijuana", we should legalize MARIJUANA. It makes no difference why or how its used, as long as the user isn't harming anyone else.
Play some Bill Hicks videos (see YouTube) and open your eyes.
You are being played. The war on drugs is a joke which benefits big Pharma, DEA, and other involved governmental forces of oppression. Marijuana remains schedule I with no medical beneifts which is a crock of shit!
How can you stand for this? Why do you continue to allow the federal government to control your life?
Why does alcohol and tobacco remain legal but marijuana illegal?
Does NORML even matter anymore, or is their slow progress in legalizing marijuana just proof they were infiltrated and scuttled by law enforcement long ago and rendered ineffective? After all, they failed to support Jack Herer's collection of signatures this year for the voters to eventually vote in California to legalize marijuana for any use and provide amnesty to those arrested for its use or possession. I thought NORML was *for* marijuana's legalization, yet they failed to back Jack Herer's efforts, which raises a red flag in my opinion.
Some painkillers, like Opiate derivitive pain killers which are prescription only have liver-destroying additives included to discourage so-called abuse. These are also addictive and are big money makers for big Pharma and others who enforce their use. Big Pharma are the real drug dealers in America, with one organization protecting them.
Google LEAP, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, and check Google News for marijuana, and you'll see story after story about marijuana growers being busted, the war against marijuana IS BIG BUSINESS FOR THE GOVERNMENT and WE THE PEOPLE lose!
It's all about a control of your perception, marijuana allows for a change of perception, along with some other schedule I drugs. They want to control what you think, and remain rich off your misery.
The ability to simply run your Java code under 32 and/or 64 bit versions of the VM without recompiling and without the silly 32/64 prefixes/suffixes attached to the API is simply priceless. Good job Sun.
Give MySQL and PostgreSQL a spin.
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
I'm drunk. And stupid.
there are happy campers and there are unhappy ones...it seems that this guy who wrote an article is one of the unhappy campers!