Which, um, is evolution (there's no such distinction as big E vs little e evolution that you made above, so I don't make it here). Evolution isn't drastic. It's a loooong, slow process over many, many generations.
Including random chance ( which everyone knows is seldom all the random.)
Do you have some great new quantum mechanical breakthrough to share with us? Or was the parenthetical statement above just pulled out of thin air because it sounded good?
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AWD Toyota Siena? It fits all of your requirements.
Well, considering that we're talking about Visual Studio, I don't think that you can count astronomical resource usage against Eclipse - VS is a multi-gigabyte install and has a huge footprint.
I haven't used Eclipse with C/C++, but it is great for Java.
That's funny. The company I work for is a MS shop. But we're starting to do a lot of things on Linux and in Java. Why? Because MS tools just don't cut it.
What MS got very very wrong about the stack that you mentioned:
- Your IDE is tied to a particular runtime. Want to compile for a different runtime? Install another IDE, 4 GB worth. (Yes, they finally fixed that in VS 2008 - only about 10 years after eclipse was able to target any existing JRE).
- Your web server version is explicitly tied to your OS. You want to upgrade to the newer web server? Upgrade your OS. MS doesn't care that it's incredibly disruptive. You need to upgrade your OS because it's end-of-lifed? Upgrade to newer version of IIS and deal with all of the pain involved.
In short, MS has gone waaaaayyy too far with tying everything together. Life in the real world is much easier on other platforms - where you can mix and match. Need to upgrade the Linux kernel? Fine, you'll still be using the same version of Java/Apache/Tomcat/whatever. Some testing is required, but it doesn't stop your development cycle for a month while everything gets sorted out.
For desktop programming: Mac OS X Developer tools. The refactoring in XCode is not as good as Eclipse, but miles ahead of Visual Studio. The build is very robust, and (not that students care), it can do distributed builds.
Of course, the words "Open Source" could have been used that way before then, but we can't find any record
Not to rain on your parade, Bruce, but the comment that you're replying to shows documentation of the term being used in 1990. I know that this isn't news to you, but this "I own the term Open Source" game that you play really turns a lot of people (who would otherwise be very sympathetic) away from your message.
And what you don't understand is that it's probably the environment that produced code of that quality. Maybe the app was supposed to be a proof-of-concept that management decided to put into production as soon as it was finished. You will soon understand how the company works, and the code that you produce will be no better.
The author spent $200 to buy an LCD monitor to replace a 19" CRT, saving $18 / yr electricity: more than a five year payoff.... There's no economic incentive to buy an LCD
Your understanding of economics is poor. Give me an investment opportunity where I'm guaranteed to make my money back in 5 years and it will continue to grow at least that rate after that, I'll put everything that I can into it, even if it's only "pocket change". In 5 years he will have made that money back and after that, it's gravy.
I read that. It's just a completely useless argument. If you're going to argue that locusts, katydids, crickets and grasshoppers had 4 legs a few thousand years ago and now have 6 then this discussion is hopeless. You'll believe anything if it helps to "support" the existence of a god.
Right, only problem is the alternative, when the end comes, you will know that you were wrong....
I love the self-certainty.... You pretend that there's only one "alternative" (to there being no god). What if the alternative is that the Muslims are right? Or that Odin is really up there throwing lightning bolts around? Or that the Hindus are right? Or the ancient Egyptians who worshipped Ra? I could go on. You put the blinders on and assume that your god is the only possible god (and you assume that only because that's what other people taught you).
I don't have a reference for who first said it, but I'll leave you with a fairly common way of viewing this among atheists: I just believe in one less god than you.
You know that our current classification of insect didn't exist until well after that was written, right?
It doesn't matter how they're classified. They don't have 4 legs. Nothing insect-like does. Certainly not locust, katydids, crickets or grasshoppers which are explicitly mentioned in the passage. The point stands - whoever wrote that passage didn't even know how many legs these creatures have (and thus was very unlikely omniscient).
It's not a coincidence that Apple signed the contract with AT&T. The other providers wanted control, which Jobs wouldn't give up. AT&T let Apple control things on the phone and network that nobody else would let them control.
I just wonder wtf is wrong with this world. WHY ARE WE USING WINDOWS? It's 2007, and we're discussing which FILE COPY utility to use because Microsoft can't even copy a f**king file! This is ridiculous. Unbelievable.
It's really not the same, though. With the speaker cables: you can't even tell that there's a difference, so there's no way that one could possibly be "better" than the other. With wine, everybody agrees that the expensive wine tastes different than the inexpensive one, it's just subjective whether it's "better".
That doesn't mean I should get taken advantage of.
I've got news for you: there's only one person out there who's going to make sure that nobody takes advantage of you. That's you. If your employer is screwing you over, YOU have to stop them. Talk to your manager, tell them that it's not what you signed up for and that you need either more money or to lose the 24-hour call. If they don't comply, get a new job. It's as simple as that. If you let them walk all over you, then you're encouraging them - they get more work for less money.
You know, you might get people to pay attention to your message if you don't make overreaching statements like:
It's simple: The "Committee on Undergraduate Education" doesn't give a damn about undergraduate education.
That is an unreasonable conclusion to reach, even if one takes all of your assertions about kickbacks and corruption to be correct. Do you know anything about the CUE besides what you read in the article? Do you know what the CUE Guide is? Or the Core curriculum, which the CUE is in charge of?
Sorry, you're going to have to do better than quoting a competitor of the Coop if you want to prove that there's something fishy going on between the Coop and Harvard.
You'll note that your first quote makes it clear that the CUE shot down a proposal which would have cut costs for the Coop.
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Which, um, is evolution (there's no such distinction as big E vs little e evolution that you made above, so I don't make it here). Evolution isn't drastic. It's a loooong, slow process over many, many generations.
Including random chance ( which everyone knows is seldom all the random.)
Do you have some great new quantum mechanical breakthrough to share with us? Or was the parenthetical statement above just pulled out of thin air because it sounded good?
AWD Toyota Siena? It fits all of your requirements.
Well, considering that we're talking about Visual Studio, I don't think that you can count astronomical resource usage against Eclipse - VS is a multi-gigabyte install and has a huge footprint. I haven't used Eclipse with C/C++, but it is great for Java.
Holy shit, you've got to be kidding me! Even VS 2008 needs Resharper to even be close to Eclipse in functionality. Have you ever used a different IDE?
That's funny. The company I work for is a MS shop. But we're starting to do a lot of things on Linux and in Java. Why? Because MS tools just don't cut it. What MS got very very wrong about the stack that you mentioned: - Your IDE is tied to a particular runtime. Want to compile for a different runtime? Install another IDE, 4 GB worth. (Yes, they finally fixed that in VS 2008 - only about 10 years after eclipse was able to target any existing JRE). - Your web server version is explicitly tied to your OS. You want to upgrade to the newer web server? Upgrade your OS. MS doesn't care that it's incredibly disruptive. You need to upgrade your OS because it's end-of-lifed? Upgrade to newer version of IIS and deal with all of the pain involved. In short, MS has gone waaaaayyy too far with tying everything together. Life in the real world is much easier on other platforms - where you can mix and match. Need to upgrade the Linux kernel? Fine, you'll still be using the same version of Java/Apache/Tomcat/whatever. Some testing is required, but it doesn't stop your development cycle for a month while everything gets sorted out.
For desktop programming: Mac OS X Developer tools. The refactoring in XCode is not as good as Eclipse, but miles ahead of Visual Studio. The build is very robust, and (not that students care), it can do distributed builds.
Of course, the words "Open Source" could have been used that way before then, but we can't find any record
Not to rain on your parade, Bruce, but the comment that you're replying to shows documentation of the term being used in 1990. I know that this isn't news to you, but this "I own the term Open Source" game that you play really turns a lot of people (who would otherwise be very sympathetic) away from your message.
John Madden throws his support behind it - this should lower the price of turduckens significantly.
My favorite car happens to be a diesel Land Rover.... I do like feeling safe....
You're not safer in a Land Rover than a car. You're just making the people around you less safe.
And what you don't understand is that it's probably the environment that produced code of that quality. Maybe the app was supposed to be a proof-of-concept that management decided to put into production as soon as it was finished. You will soon understand how the company works, and the code that you produce will be no better.
The author spent $200 to buy an LCD monitor to replace a 19" CRT, saving $18 / yr electricity: more than a five year payoff.... There's no economic incentive to buy an LCD
Your understanding of economics is poor. Give me an investment opportunity where I'm guaranteed to make my money back in 5 years and it will continue to grow at least that rate after that, I'll put everything that I can into it, even if it's only "pocket change". In 5 years he will have made that money back and after that, it's gravy.
I read that. It's just a completely useless argument. If you're going to argue that locusts, katydids, crickets and grasshoppers had 4 legs a few thousand years ago and now have 6 then this discussion is hopeless. You'll believe anything if it helps to "support" the existence of a god.
Right, only problem is the alternative, when the end comes, you will know that you were wrong....
I love the self-certainty.... You pretend that there's only one "alternative" (to there being no god). What if the alternative is that the Muslims are right? Or that Odin is really up there throwing lightning bolts around? Or that the Hindus are right? Or the ancient Egyptians who worshipped Ra? I could go on. You put the blinders on and assume that your god is the only possible god (and you assume that only because that's what other people taught you).
I don't have a reference for who first said it, but I'll leave you with a fairly common way of viewing this among atheists: I just believe in one less god than you.
You know that our current classification of insect didn't exist until well after that was written, right?
It doesn't matter how they're classified. They don't have 4 legs. Nothing insect-like does. Certainly not locust, katydids, crickets or grasshoppers which are explicitly mentioned in the passage. The point stands - whoever wrote that passage didn't even know how many legs these creatures have (and thus was very unlikely omniscient).
And Trebuchets are much better at attacking cities than these new "C" fonts.... Oh, wait. Never mind.
It's not a coincidence that Apple signed the contract with AT&T. The other providers wanted control, which Jobs wouldn't give up. AT&T let Apple control things on the phone and network that nobody else would let them control.
it'll probably require payment of a large fee to AT&T, AND require approval of your specific app by AT&T itself.
Do you really think that Steve Jobs would allow AT&T to do that? No way AT&T has any control over what gets installed on an Apple device.
I just wonder wtf is wrong with this world. WHY ARE WE USING WINDOWS? It's 2007, and we're discussing which FILE COPY utility to use because Microsoft can't even copy a f**king file! This is ridiculous. Unbelievable.
It's really not the same, though. With the speaker cables: you can't even tell that there's a difference, so there's no way that one could possibly be "better" than the other. With wine, everybody agrees that the expensive wine tastes different than the inexpensive one, it's just subjective whether it's "better".
Except that different wines actually taste different.
That doesn't mean I should get taken advantage of.
I've got news for you: there's only one person out there who's going to make sure that nobody takes advantage of you. That's you. If your employer is screwing you over, YOU have to stop them. Talk to your manager, tell them that it's not what you signed up for and that you need either more money or to lose the 24-hour call. If they don't comply, get a new job. It's as simple as that. If you let them walk all over you, then you're encouraging them - they get more work for less money.
You know, you might get people to pay attention to your message if you don't make overreaching statements like:
It's simple: The "Committee on Undergraduate Education" doesn't give a damn about undergraduate education.
That is an unreasonable conclusion to reach, even if one takes all of your assertions about kickbacks and corruption to be correct. Do you know anything about the CUE besides what you read in the article? Do you know what the CUE Guide is? Or the Core curriculum, which the CUE is in charge of?
Sorry, you're going to have to do better than quoting a competitor of the Coop if you want to prove that there's something fishy going on between the Coop and Harvard. You'll note that your first quote makes it clear that the CUE shot down a proposal which would have cut costs for the Coop.