You'll get it, if you live long enough. And this isn't a joke, there are lots of people who don't make it. Lots of Canadians (like Americans) are now flying overseas for surgery at their own expense, due to both countries broken medical systems.
They should add the feature where firefox doesn't crash every 60-90 minutes, that would be kind of nice. Imagine if IE crashed as often as firefox, how the fanboys here would lose it!!
"I know you don't like it but the comparison was apt. Deal with it." No way to argue with that really.
"If anything you are the zealot because you haven't provided a rational argument for why I should be providing free help to windows users" Quote me on where I said you should provide free help to windows users.
" or even why windows is better then a mac." Quote me where I said windows is better than a mac.
"Once you help somebody fix windows you become their bitch for life and they call you at least once a week because they broke something or another." This is not a true statement. It may have been true in your singular instance, but the statement as is, is false. Remember when I asked you if you saw the difference? You obviously didn't.
"Windows breaks, windows users are stupid. Those are simple facts which will not penetrate past your fan boi mind but they are true nevertheless." Hahaha...No comment necessary.
> See how that works? Surely you're joking with that comparison. Athough its true, some white people do kill and eat other people. I'm not sure globally how much race has to do with it, but I wouldn't doubt that statistically white people are disproportionately more likely to be cannibals, in a multicultural society anyways. But I don't think that was the point you were trying to make. Your outrageous comparison proved no point. You've never encountered that (cannibalism) scenario first hand (and I would bet no member, as in precisely 0%, of slashdot has either), whereas I would bet a signifigant portion have directly encountered either the exact scenario of a young inspired techie "fixing" the evils of commercial software, or a somewhat less severe form of it. Oh, and the fact that I cannot prove this doesn't make it true.
As for your rebuttal to the zealot comment, you're getting a little carried away. You're falsely interpreting my disagreement with your factually false statement as me stating that anyone that uses something other than wondows is a zealot. Wrong, I said you are a zealot, not all non users of windows.
> Oh and to answer your question. Yes once a week till I said no more. If you look back you'll see your statement was: "Once you help somebody fix windows you become their bitch for life and they call you at least once a week because they broke something or another." Your "Oh and to answer your question. Yes once a week till I said no more." rebuttal would have been appropriate if you had said: "I once helped somebody fix windows, and I become their bitch for life, getting called at least once a week because they broke something or another.
Do you see the difference between the two statements? One is a TRUE statement of a fact, the other is a FALSE generalization based on a singular personal encounter. Hence my characterization of you as a zealot.
> Ah the old "I have heard stories" bit. Ya he's lying through his teeth and you caught him! I'm sure this has never happened before! Good work!!
>Once you help somebody fix windows you become their bitch for life and they call you at least once a week because they broke something or another. Ok, obviously you're exagerrating. What did you really mean? I know this isn't true because I've helped plenty of people and they don't call me up on a weekly basis with problems. Do you really believe this to be true? Really? Be honest. Or is that no longer possible being an OSS zealot?
I think Somalia has a few problems beyond its economic system...lol
Countries in that general neighborhood seem to have a history of not being able to "get it together"....so blaming Somalia's problem on capitalism is a tad presumptuous.
"Sadly with access you lose more work-time minute for minute while waiting for the slow database than you save when writing the frontend."
Depends what you are doing. Access is not a client server database, using it in your scenario was obviously a poor decision. It doesn't mean Access is bad.
Unless of course Access is an acceptable solution and would maximize return on investment. Then again, this is slashdot, where economics, beyond the purchase price of software, are irrelevant.
"on a small set of DVD's (About 7 episodes per DVD) and several movies."
How does a person fit multiple SVCD format shows on one DVD? So, the quality is low, and therefore you can fit say 4 hours or so of video on a dvd, but how do you record this on a dvd so a standard home dvd player recognizes it as a dvd, but plays the content which is actually svcd?
"These are DVD's that will play in a DVD player, no they are not at a stupid 8Mbit bitrate, they are at a slightly better than SVHS bitrate which is better than the broadcast TV I recorded them from."
Why do I have to confirm my username/password for the proxy server every time I launch a new browser, even though it saves the settings? Can this be fixed?
"maybe at some point, but given that it is now (and has been for a while) commonly accepted that teachers have low salaries, one would have to go beyond not thinking about it to actively ignoring it."
Exactly...try having a discussion with someone these days about something of any substance (politics, economics, etc) that suggests the possibility that their course of action may not be the wisest, and see what kind of reaction you get...interest in the possibility of learning something new, or an abrupt change of subject.
Here's an example....I was in a resort in mexico a few weeks ago and was chatting with a fellow from somewhere in the US. The subject inevitably turns to profession, and I learned he was in dry cleaning, but was planning on transitioning to real estate, primarily investing. Since I read a lot on the subject, I suggested that this might not be a particularly good time to enter this market. Now if someone has a different opinion than me, I'm interested to hear their angle, but his response was basically "Well, real estate's the only thing that always goes up", and changed the subject. Which is fairly typical of the majority of people these days, regardless of the subject.
Now, would you classify that as "[going] beyond not thinking about it to actively ignoring it"? I sure would.
Wrong. Programmers CAN do marketing; not necessarily as good as the best marketers but often satisfactorily and sometimes exceptionally (Bill Gates) well. Most small software consulting companies do 90 - 100% of their own marketing. How many marketing companies do their own programming do you think? (Turning on the excel macro recorder excluded). So no, I don't think you shattered my "world viaw."
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You'll get it, if you live long enough. And this isn't a joke, there are lots of people who don't make it. Lots of Canadians (like Americans) are now flying overseas for surgery at their own expense, due to both countries broken medical systems.
They should add the feature where firefox doesn't crash every 60-90 minutes, that would be kind of nice. Imagine if IE crashed as often as firefox, how the fanboys here would lose it!!
haha, ok loser!! you keep on truckin with your know it all oss buddies and everything will be ok!
Do you even pay attention to what the other person says when you are talking to them?
That had nothing whatsoever to do with our discussion. Whoosh.
Scared to address any of my points I see...finally figure out that you're an idiot?
"I know you don't like it but the comparison was apt. Deal with it."
No way to argue with that really.
"If anything you are the zealot because you haven't provided a rational argument for why I should be providing free help to windows users"
Quote me on where I said you should provide free help to windows users.
" or even why windows is better then a mac."
Quote me where I said windows is better than a mac.
"Once you help somebody fix windows you become their bitch for life and they call you at least once a week because they broke something or another."
This is not a true statement. It may have been true in your singular instance, but the statement as is, is false. Remember when I asked you if you saw the difference? You obviously didn't.
"Windows breaks, windows users are stupid. Those are simple facts which will not penetrate past your fan boi mind but they are true nevertheless."
Hahaha...No comment necessary.
> See how that works?
Surely you're joking with that comparison. Athough its true, some white people do kill and eat other people. I'm not sure globally how much race has to do with it, but I wouldn't doubt that statistically white people are disproportionately more likely to be cannibals, in a multicultural society anyways.
But I don't think that was the point you were trying to make. Your outrageous comparison proved no point. You've never encountered that (cannibalism) scenario first hand (and I would bet no member, as in precisely 0%, of slashdot has either), whereas I would bet a signifigant portion have directly encountered either the exact scenario of a young inspired techie "fixing" the evils of commercial software, or a somewhat less severe form of it. Oh, and the fact that I cannot prove this doesn't make it true.
As for your rebuttal to the zealot comment, you're getting a little carried away. You're falsely interpreting my disagreement with your factually false statement as me stating that anyone that uses something other than wondows is a zealot. Wrong, I said you are a zealot, not all non users of windows.
> Oh and to answer your question. Yes once a week till I said no more.
If you look back you'll see your statement was:
"Once you help somebody fix windows you become their bitch for life and they call you at least once a week because they broke something or another."
Your "Oh and to answer your question. Yes once a week till I said no more." rebuttal would have been appropriate if you had said:
"I once helped somebody fix windows, and I become their bitch for life, getting called at least once a week because they broke something or another.
Do you see the difference between the two statements? One is a TRUE statement of a fact, the other is a FALSE generalization based on a singular personal encounter. Hence my characterization of you as a zealot.
> Ah the old "I have heard stories" bit.
Ya he's lying through his teeth and you caught him! I'm sure this has never happened before! Good work!!
>Once you help somebody fix windows you become their bitch for life and they call you at least once a week because they broke something or another.
Ok, obviously you're exagerrating. What did you really mean? I know this isn't true because I've helped plenty of people and they don't call me up on a weekly basis with problems. Do you really believe this to be true? Really? Be honest. Or is that no longer possible being an OSS zealot?
I think Somalia has a few problems beyond its economic system...lol
Countries in that general neighborhood seem to have a history of not being able to "get it together"....so blaming Somalia's problem on capitalism is a tad presumptuous.
haha....are you really serious??
I think he meant only muslims contribute (conduct?) terrorism. Which isn't 100% true, but close enough. Who knows if they invented it though.
"Sadly with access you lose more work-time minute for minute while waiting for the slow database than you save when writing the frontend."
Depends what you are doing. Access is not a client server database, using it in your scenario was obviously a poor decision. It doesn't mean Access is bad.
Unless of course Access is an acceptable solution and would maximize return on investment. Then again, this is slashdot, where economics, beyond the purchase price of software, are irrelevant.
A *single* commodity PC should be able to easily handle thousands of transactions per hour, depending on the complexity of course.
How true.
Sorry, my question was about this actually:
"on a small set of DVD's (About 7 episodes per DVD) and several movies."
How does a person fit multiple SVCD format shows on one DVD? So, the quality is low, and therefore you can fit say 4 hours or so of video on a dvd, but how do you record this on a dvd so a standard home dvd player recognizes it as a dvd, but plays the content which is actually svcd?
"These are DVD's that will play in a DVD player, no they are not at a stupid 8Mbit bitrate, they are at a slightly better than SVHS bitrate which is better than the broadcast TV I recorded them from."
How did you do this??
So, has anyone used any of the DVD copying software from windows?? Can you make a recommendation, or anti-recommendation??
Why do I have to confirm my username/password for the proxy server every time I launch a new browser, even though it saves the settings? Can this be fixed?
You're an idiot.
"maybe at some point, but given that it is now (and has been for a while) commonly accepted that teachers have low salaries, one would have to go beyond not thinking about it to actively ignoring it."
Exactly...try having a discussion with someone these days about something of any substance (politics, economics, etc) that suggests the possibility that their course of action may not be the wisest, and see what kind of reaction you get...interest in the possibility of learning something new, or an abrupt change of subject.
Here's an example....I was in a resort in mexico a few weeks ago and was chatting with a fellow from somewhere in the US. The subject inevitably turns to profession, and I learned he was in dry cleaning, but was planning on transitioning to real estate, primarily investing. Since I read a lot on the subject, I suggested that this might not be a particularly good time to enter this market. Now if someone has a different opinion than me, I'm interested to hear their angle, but his response was basically "Well, real estate's the only thing that always goes up", and changed the subject. Which is fairly typical of the majority of people these days, regardless of the subject.
Now, would you classify that as "[going] beyond not thinking about it to actively ignoring it"? I sure would.
Or, maybe they didn't think about it first. Realistically, I wonder how many of them regret their decision once they get there...
Wrong. Programmers CAN do marketing; not necessarily as good as the best marketers but often satisfactorily and sometimes exceptionally (Bill Gates) well. Most small software consulting companies do 90 - 100% of their own marketing. How many marketing companies do their own programming do you think? (Turning on the excel macro recorder excluded). So no, I don't think you shattered my "world viaw."
Because a programmer can do marketing, a marketer can't do programming.
"These "near disasters" are so common"
Name ten.
Since they're so common it should be easy.