If you're any good, you'll spend a lot more time understanding problems, designing solutions and finding good techniques for factoring code.
If you do nothing but "write code all day", you're a shitty developer.
> Any respect I had for you as a software developer is gone. Good luck though, sounds like you will need it.
And good luck to you too! Good luck on all the goals you'll never bother to accomplish. Good luck on all your inevitably unfulfilled dreams. Good luck on all the systems you'll never build, that nobody will ever use. Good luck on all the important jobs that nobody will ever notice you didn't finish. Good luck on living at home until you're 40, reading comic books, masturbating and trolling successful people on Slashdot.
Someone like Miguel shouldn't even bother to speak to a worm like you. It's a credit to his good nature that he would. Even if we all lost respect for him tomorrow, that would mean that at least we once had it.
To rebut your points:
1. Vista runs extremely well on any modern PC. You may need a video card to get a composite desktop, but I bet people who don't know enough to get a real video card won't care anyway.
2. Vista may not be revolutionary, but it's a clear improvement over XP. It's better looking, more polished and overall a much nicer experience.
3. Almost nobody is going to "buy" Vista. Very few people "bought" XP either. It just makes more sense to get it preloaded.
4. The drivers and other compatibility issues will be ironed out quickly. Right now Vista seems exotic, but it 3-6 months it will be standard on all new desktops. Software and hardware vendors will get on the bus quickly.
I didn't run any of the betas or RCs, but I downloaded it from my MSDN account as soon as it came out and I've been impressed. It's probably not 5 full years worth of work, but it's good.
My favorite trick for KDE is that you can use it to download a Windows XP ISO or go to Apple.com and buy a Mac. Either way, you can use KDE to radically improve your computing experience.
Thousands of Vista drivers won't come out until AFTER the operating system ships, and they are written by third parties. Other than guaranteeing that they are bascially functional, Microsoft cannot possibly test every driver for bugs and incompatibilities with every other driver or piece of software. This at least gives users a way to provide feedback about poor quality drivers.
This is typical anti-MS bashing. It's so incredibly obvious that the OP though hard about how he could take this announcement the worst way humanly possible. Congratulations... you're right... trying to fix a problem is, in fact, an admission that there *is* a problem. And UI improvements just go to show how poor the XP UI is, and kernel improvements just go to show how unstable Windows is... etc... etc... Don't you ever get tired of whining?
So yeah, I think it's pretty safe to say that KDE and Gnome developers were trying to rip off Acorn with their taskbars. Anything to try to increase familiarity with for all the millions of dedicated Acorn users. What a dipshit.
They you don't know a god-damned thing about Windows and that if they want you to administer their system, they will need to replace it with Unix. Or, alternately, you can just lie and tell them that Windows machines can't have ports open to the Internet. Let's just hope they don't figure out that something like 20% of all web servers run IIS and realize what a dumbshit you are.
I agree, this sounds like big pile of horseshit to me. Really, it sounds like you're desperate to get Unix in there any way you can, so you're doing a crappy job and blaming Windows for it. Just because you're a shitty Windows administrator, doesn't mean Windows can't be well administered. How the hell are all those IIS web servers managing to stay up?
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Both are implementations of an ECMA standard, and Microsoft's is perfectly good. They can't call it Javascript because that (was/is) a Netscape trademark, but it doesn't really matter, because Javascript is a TERRIBLE name for that language. It really has nothing to do at all with Java except for some similar, C style, syntax. Now, perhaps Firefox has added some functionality to Javascript and Microsoft needs to catch up a little, but fundamentally, there is nothing wrong with their implementation.
People on Slashdot have said VB is a bad language, and of course, slashdot isn't a pit of scum and lies and everything posted here is a least a little true. So instead of learning something valuable that can make you a lot of money (.NET is a very popular development platform, ask any IT recruiter), you've already decided that you're too cool for VB. Here's a tip, if you take anything you read on slashdot seriously, you're not too cool for ANYTHING.
1. Press Ctrl+C *twice* to copy to the clipboard for something a little more permanant.
2. You can turn this off. It's under options (View -> Windows In Taskbar). I prefer the old school MDI. I agree though, either go MDI or ditch it, but that half-assed solution is no good.
Assuming you have a reliable internet connection, the decision is simple:
For the features that Vonage (for example) provides for $25/mo, you have to pay approximately $50-75/mo from a land-line provider. On the other hand, your phone will be down maybe once every couple of years. If you are willing to tolerate your phone being down maybe one hour/month, you can save $300-400 per year.
In my opinion, you're much better off with Vonage and a good cell phone plan.
You're off by a factor there poncho. 99.9% uptime indicates about 1/3 of a day per year of downtime, which is better than what I've seen for most heavily used Unix systems.
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If you're any good, you'll spend a lot more time understanding problems, designing solutions and finding good techniques for factoring code. If you do nothing but "write code all day", you're a shitty developer.
> Any respect I had for you as a software developer is gone. Good luck though, sounds like you will need it. And good luck to you too! Good luck on all the goals you'll never bother to accomplish. Good luck on all your inevitably unfulfilled dreams. Good luck on all the systems you'll never build, that nobody will ever use. Good luck on all the important jobs that nobody will ever notice you didn't finish. Good luck on living at home until you're 40, reading comic books, masturbating and trolling successful people on Slashdot. Someone like Miguel shouldn't even bother to speak to a worm like you. It's a credit to his good nature that he would. Even if we all lost respect for him tomorrow, that would mean that at least we once had it.
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How are the Linux fans are going to justify Red Hat fucking them this way?
To rebut your points: 1. Vista runs extremely well on any modern PC. You may need a video card to get a composite desktop, but I bet people who don't know enough to get a real video card won't care anyway. 2. Vista may not be revolutionary, but it's a clear improvement over XP. It's better looking, more polished and overall a much nicer experience. 3. Almost nobody is going to "buy" Vista. Very few people "bought" XP either. It just makes more sense to get it preloaded. 4. The drivers and other compatibility issues will be ironed out quickly. Right now Vista seems exotic, but it 3-6 months it will be standard on all new desktops. Software and hardware vendors will get on the bus quickly. I didn't run any of the betas or RCs, but I downloaded it from my MSDN account as soon as it came out and I've been impressed. It's probably not 5 full years worth of work, but it's good.
So I could mod this +1 Funny
My favorite trick for KDE is that you can use it to download a Windows XP ISO or go to Apple.com and buy a Mac. Either way, you can use KDE to radically improve your computing experience.
No... for a raptor, that is pretty much the sustained rate. The burst transfer rates are often 110+ MB/s.
Thousands of Vista drivers won't come out until AFTER the operating system ships, and they are written by third parties. Other than guaranteeing that they are bascially functional, Microsoft cannot possibly test every driver for bugs and incompatibilities with every other driver or piece of software. This at least gives users a way to provide feedback about poor quality drivers. This is typical anti-MS bashing. It's so incredibly obvious that the OP though hard about how he could take this announcement the worst way humanly possible. Congratulations... you're right... trying to fix a problem is, in fact, an admission that there *is* a problem. And UI improvements just go to show how poor the XP UI is, and kernel improvements just go to show how unstable Windows is... etc... etc... Don't you ever get tired of whining?
XP Product activation is actually pretty forgiving of hardware changes. Usually only a motherboard swap or a complete rebuild will cause a problem.
So yeah, I think it's pretty safe to say that KDE and Gnome developers were trying to rip off Acorn with their taskbars. Anything to try to increase familiarity with for all the millions of dedicated Acorn users. What a dipshit.
You should get that checked out dude, you might have Parkinson's.
They you don't know a god-damned thing about Windows and that if they want you to administer their system, they will need to replace it with Unix. Or, alternately, you can just lie and tell them that Windows machines can't have ports open to the Internet. Let's just hope they don't figure out that something like 20% of all web servers run IIS and realize what a dumbshit you are.
I agree, this sounds like big pile of horseshit to me. Really, it sounds like you're desperate to get Unix in there any way you can, so you're doing a crappy job and blaming Windows for it. Just because you're a shitty Windows administrator, doesn't mean Windows can't be well administered. How the hell are all those IIS web servers managing to stay up?
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Both are implementations of an ECMA standard, and Microsoft's is perfectly good. They can't call it Javascript because that (was/is) a Netscape trademark, but it doesn't really matter, because Javascript is a TERRIBLE name for that language. It really has nothing to do at all with Java except for some similar, C style, syntax. Now, perhaps Firefox has added some functionality to Javascript and Microsoft needs to catch up a little, but fundamentally, there is nothing wrong with their implementation.
People on Slashdot have said VB is a bad language, and of course, slashdot isn't a pit of scum and lies and everything posted here is a least a little true. So instead of learning something valuable that can make you a lot of money (.NET is a very popular development platform, ask any IT recruiter), you've already decided that you're too cool for VB. Here's a tip, if you take anything you read on slashdot seriously, you're not too cool for ANYTHING.
"LINAIDH Is Not An Intelligent Door Handle"
1. Press Ctrl+C *twice* to copy to the clipboard for something a little more permanant. 2. You can turn this off. It's under options (View -> Windows In Taskbar). I prefer the old school MDI. I agree though, either go MDI or ditch it, but that half-assed solution is no good.
Assuming you have a reliable internet connection, the decision is simple: For the features that Vonage (for example) provides for $25/mo, you have to pay approximately $50-75/mo from a land-line provider. On the other hand, your phone will be down maybe once every couple of years. If you are willing to tolerate your phone being down maybe one hour/month, you can save $300-400 per year. In my opinion, you're much better off with Vonage and a good cell phone plan.
You're off by a factor there poncho. 99.9% uptime indicates about 1/3 of a day per year of downtime, which is better than what I've seen for most heavily used Unix systems.
Can someone who has read more of his writings please advise?
Cell radio may not provide much bandwidth, but latency certainly wouldn't be an issue. Do you notice a delay when you talk on your cell phone?
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