Sure I have. I'm allowing you to prove I'm wrong therefore making a complete ass of me and proving your point that.NET is the shining savior of man. Have at it.:)
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My code and HTML are seperated anyway. These days I develop the core logic in Python + C and only use PHP for templating (what it was really meant for to begin with).
I'm not really a Windows programmer so I don't quite grasp your meaning of no registry or components. Side-by-side versioning sounds useful but I don't really see why you need.NET for that.
Upgrading while an app is running does sound useful. I assume the interface has to remain the same?
I again don't quite see the thing about letting you mix languages. I mix languages all the time. What does.NET do that is different than what I'm already able to do?
I never make up my mind. It could be that Microsoft's commercials for.NET are just lame. They all seem to be talking about how you'll have time left from work to go party (oh yeh that'll happen) rather than the actual features.
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As always, if you think something doesn't suck then prove it. Everything I've seen of.NET has looked retarded to the point of making Java seem almost decent. If you can provide some good examples of why.NET, Java, or gas powered vacuum cleaners are useful tools then I'd be glad to change my view. I don't like most things Microsoft (excepting Flight Simulator) but my dislike for.NET stems 100% from.NET itself. I wouldn't have liked it coming from anyone. I like Ximian but I don't care fot their Mono obsession.
I sort of agree that it's lame to make snide remarks in story postings not directly related to the topic but I don't think it'd be appropiate to edit postings.
I haven't tried Newegg but I'll give it a look. I'm surprised TigerDirect has even that high a rating. It isn't uncommon for employees there to get death threats from angry customers.
I've had a couple problems with orders from iDOT but they were always willing to help me sort things back out and didn't want to make me pay the shipping to fix their mistakes. They have knowledgable tech support that responds well to questions. I do suggest having a phone open though if talking to their tech support.. they seem the only people on Earth that actually try to call you right away instead of just sending email. They ship COD which is a big benefit to me. You don't need to put your credit card or other data online to purchase from them that way.
I worked for TigerDirect. They encourage employees to lie to make a sell and lie to avoid giving any kind of support. I'd especially never buy a system from TigerDirect because their policy is to never accept a return (even if it's a totally broken product) and the extra warranty they sell is practically never honored.
The case they are using is very small already but there are plenty of other mini-itx cases that are even smaller if yo wanted to build your own. I don't much care for the idea of having my computer built into my keyboard (oops spilled my juice!) but it wouldn't be hard at all to build the computer into the LCD monitor or into the desk.. both things I've done.
Either way this is most certainly not a big empty box. At elast not if you get the decent one from iDOT.:)
I agree fully. I've ordered several things from iDOT and never been unhappy.
On the other hand I've worked for TigerDirect in the past and I can tell you that they will screw their customers at any chance they get. Even employees don't like to buy from them (and they get a discount). I'd suggest definately buying from iDOT instead of TigerDirect.
Probably nobody bothers because the people who need machines like this are likely to have IT staff that could build the systems easily enough anyway. I've used Knoppix and Morphix to this end before and they work rather well. I like to use compact flash to store settings and such on though. That's easier than needing to burn a new cd each time you want to tweak something.
I've worked for $15-$20/hr for telecommuting and usually feel I get a pretty good deal because I can work from anywhere. If I feel like visiting a friend I can do so without missing work. If I'm sick I can sleep a bit late and then wake up and do my work anyway.
I think American taxes make it a little hard on employers with telecomutting workers all over the place.. each state workers are in they seem to need an accountant that can handle that states extra paperwork. When I moved I lost my last telecomutting job partly because they didn't want to hassle with a new states taxes. Other than that though it seems to work really well. I can certainly do most admin and programming stuff better from home than from some office.:)
If they ever make it so that people can sue others for putting radiowaves through through their property then I'm going to be suing all the cell phone companies, satilite compnaies, etc. I'll let them put their radio waves through my property but only if they give me free access to them. I think I should get some right of way fee.:)
No, but they will notice if sites seem to all begin recommending Mozilla. People are very responsive to peer pressure even if they have no idea what they are doing.. especially when they have no idea what they are doing. Name recognition goes a long way.
Yeh no kidding.. I just hate those low communications barriers. I wouldn't want people to actually understand me.
Really. These things are stupid. Do the French replace all Latin words throughout the sciences with French versions? Do we really want to make it harder to communicate across countries and cultures? Is that really going to make the world a better place?
To some extend that is valid point. For pay sites you want to make some effort to support anybody who is going to be putting money in your pocket. On the other hand you need to realize that by not supporting the approved standard that Microsoft is slowly taking money from your pocket and putting it into their own. You are spending MORE to try to follow a non-documented standard that can, and will be, changed any time it suits Microsoft. At the same time they are profitting because of less competition to their own line of products. You need to balance the amount your expending on pleasing your customers with how much you can afford to lose by wasting manhours to support faulty products.
Which is why I suggested that for non-profit sites it's a good idea to save effort and only code to the standards. For a for-profit site you'd have to more carefully weigh things out. Who are your core clients? What browser do they use? Will it hurt the site to restrict it to standard-compliant behavior? How much money will it save the company to do so?
The real problem is that coders that develop for IE rarely check how pages work in anything else while decent developers check not only Mozilla but also IE and often Opera, Lynx, Konquerer, and whatever else they can get their hands on. Therefore IE users always have the best browsing experience.
I suggest anybody developing not-for-profit sites to simply save themselves the trouble and not make any special effort to support IE. Code to the standards. If IE can still show your page then great. If not then let the users know IE sucks - put a 'Works best with Mozilla.' button on your page to link to where users can download Mozilla. Circa 1997 gimmicks still work.;)
I believe the current Mozilla and the Firebird branch share a codebase. In either case you can always decide to compile this in if you so wish but at least for now it shouldn't be compiled in by default. As always you have the choice of what comes in Mozilla.. because you have the source.
SVG makes as much sense to have compiled in as support for jpeg, gif, or png graphics. It's just a vector based image format.
Did you see anything that said where this fridge could be purchased? I liked it and was looking but I saw nothing about actually buying one.
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It could be using GA. They could pre-evolve to a basic level of being able to move and fight and so forth but let it further evolve as the game plays.. so that the bots can adapt as needed.
This seems like a fun idea. It'd be more fun though if they had this web enabled and running all the time. Then we could keep submitting new code to play. Of course you'd want to limit how often new players were added.. or someone would cheat by just reentering the same code over and over until it overwhelmed the competition.
LinuxFund to some extend gives money to potential projects but I find their voting process very poor. Not because it's bad but because few people, not themselves trying to get money, bother voting. The end result is that people that get their friends to go vote on their project get votes and nobody else does. If you really want to help lesser projects I suggest you vote at linuxfund.org and maybe get the LinuxFund credit card.
I wouldn't suggest they award the money to unpopular projects (mine are mostly that way too.. well people use em but seldom contribute) but I would suggest they exclude projects that have funding. I guess I'm suggesting they not give money towards Linux, Apache, PHP, MySQL, Gnome, KDE, Mozilla, OpenOffice, Perl, Python and various other tier one projects. Better to encourage people to write apps that are needed but not as popular. Spread the wealth a little.
I think I agree with waht you meant to say. I don't really buy the articles whine that disc speed is to slow because we have to much space.
If you want access to be faster then wisely spread your files across multiple disks and use smart caching in your designs. I frequently have data I need to access quickly stored on ramdisks and now and then flushed to the harddrives. If the data is to large for what I can afford in RAM then store indexes on the ramdisk along with recently/frequently used data.
I've rarely seen an app that needed to constantly read/write 20Tb of data. I think the problem is more in filesystem design than in hardware design. Filesystems should employ smart load balancing as well as good caching.
Mmmm I can't wait to have a dozen 20Tb drives at home.:)
Really? I find it much easier to rip a DVD than to get a decent copy from cable. Of course the way most cable looks I guess it'd be impossible to get a decent copy from it. I'd say it's even cheaper to rip a rented DVD than to have cable. I rent movies at 5 DVD's for $5. $1 is a pretty good price. Of course each takes up about $5 of disc space too. If only the dvd companies would sell hdd's pre-loaded with the selected movies then I'd gladly give them the $6/movie.:)
My experience is that any software project needs three versions to reach minimum quality. The first version is quick-n-dirty. The second version cleans up the quick-n-dirty version and adds features that were left out. The third version is mostly a rewrite that fixes any major structural problems and further cleans up the code.
I guess my point is that you should do a quick-n-dirty version first because it's often faster than a detailed plan, more complete, and results in working code. Then work towards a planned and ironed out version from that. You can have the best of both worlds.
True - but that is the price a customer pays for circumventing limitations. I'd accept credit cards but only if they'd made a deposit by money order or some decent kind of check first. So that if they charged back on me I could keep the deposit and just not sell to them anymore. It's been my experience that vendors get ripped off by chargebacks more often than customers get ripped off by vendors. Not to say vendors never rip off a customer.. just not as frequently.
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Sure I have. I'm allowing you to prove I'm wrong therefore making a complete ass of me and proving your point that .NET is the shining savior of man. Have at it. :)
My code and HTML are seperated anyway. These days I develop the core logic in Python + C and only use PHP for templating (what it was really meant for to begin with).
.NET for that.
.NET do that is different than what I'm already able to do?
.NET are just lame. They all seem to be talking about how you'll have time left from work to go party (oh yeh that'll happen) rather than the actual features.
I'm not really a Windows programmer so I don't quite grasp your meaning of no registry or components. Side-by-side versioning sounds useful but I don't really see why you need
Upgrading while an app is running does sound useful. I assume the interface has to remain the same?
I again don't quite see the thing about letting you mix languages. I mix languages all the time. What does
I never make up my mind. It could be that Microsoft's commercials for
As always, if you think something doesn't suck then prove it. Everything I've seen of .NET has looked retarded to the point of making Java seem almost decent. If you can provide some good examples of why .NET, Java, or gas powered vacuum cleaners are useful tools then I'd be glad to change my view. I don't like most things Microsoft (excepting Flight Simulator) but my dislike for .NET stems 100% from .NET itself. I wouldn't have liked it coming from anyone. I like Ximian but I don't care fot their Mono obsession.
I sort of agree that it's lame to make snide remarks in story postings not directly related to the topic but I don't think it'd be appropiate to edit postings.
I haven't tried Newegg but I'll give it a look. I'm surprised TigerDirect has even that high a rating. It isn't uncommon for employees there to get death threats from angry customers.
I've had a couple problems with orders from iDOT but they were always willing to help me sort things back out and didn't want to make me pay the shipping to fix their mistakes. They have knowledgable tech support that responds well to questions. I do suggest having a phone open though if talking to their tech support.. they seem the only people on Earth that actually try to call you right away instead of just sending email. They ship COD which is a big benefit to me. You don't need to put your credit card or other data online to purchase from them that way.
I worked for TigerDirect. They encourage employees to lie to make a sell and lie to avoid giving any kind of support. I'd especially never buy a system from TigerDirect because their policy is to never accept a return (even if it's a totally broken product) and the extra warranty they sell is practically never honored.
The case they are using is very small already but there are plenty of other mini-itx cases that are even smaller if yo wanted to build your own. I don't much care for the idea of having my computer built into my keyboard (oops spilled my juice!) but it wouldn't be hard at all to build the computer into the LCD monitor or into the desk.. both things I've done.
:)
Either way this is most certainly not a big empty box. At elast not if you get the decent one from iDOT.
I agree fully. I've ordered several things from iDOT and never been unhappy.
On the other hand I've worked for TigerDirect in the past and I can tell you that they will screw their customers at any chance they get. Even employees don't like to buy from them (and they get a discount). I'd suggest definately buying from iDOT instead of TigerDirect.
Probably nobody bothers because the people who need machines like this are likely to have IT staff that could build the systems easily enough anyway. I've used Knoppix and Morphix to this end before and they work rather well. I like to use compact flash to store settings and such on though. That's easier than needing to burn a new cd each time you want to tweak something.
I've worked for $15-$20/hr for telecommuting and usually feel I get a pretty good deal because I can work from anywhere. If I feel like visiting a friend I can do so without missing work. If I'm sick I can sleep a bit late and then wake up and do my work anyway.
:)
I think American taxes make it a little hard on employers with telecomutting workers all over the place.. each state workers are in they seem to need an accountant that can handle that states extra paperwork. When I moved I lost my last telecomutting job partly because they didn't want to hassle with a new states taxes. Other than that though it seems to work really well. I can certainly do most admin and programming stuff better from home than from some office.
If they ever make it so that people can sue others for putting radiowaves through through their property then I'm going to be suing all the cell phone companies, satilite compnaies, etc. I'll let them put their radio waves through my property but only if they give me free access to them. I think I should get some right of way fee. :)
No, but they will notice if sites seem to all begin recommending Mozilla. People are very responsive to peer pressure even if they have no idea what they are doing.. especially when they have no idea what they are doing. Name recognition goes a long way.
I blow my nose at you, so-called Americans, you and all your silly English.. I fart in your general direction!
Yeh no kidding.. I just hate those low communications barriers. I wouldn't want people to actually understand me.
Really. These things are stupid. Do the French replace all Latin words throughout the sciences with French versions? Do we really want to make it harder to communicate across countries and cultures? Is that really going to make the world a better place?
To some extend that is valid point. For pay sites you want to make some effort to support anybody who is going to be putting money in your pocket. On the other hand you need to realize that by not supporting the approved standard that Microsoft is slowly taking money from your pocket and putting it into their own. You are spending MORE to try to follow a non-documented standard that can, and will be, changed any time it suits Microsoft. At the same time they are profitting because of less competition to their own line of products. You need to balance the amount your expending on pleasing your customers with how much you can afford to lose by wasting manhours to support faulty products.
Which is why I suggested that for non-profit sites it's a good idea to save effort and only code to the standards. For a for-profit site you'd have to more carefully weigh things out. Who are your core clients? What browser do they use? Will it hurt the site to restrict it to standard-compliant behavior? How much money will it save the company to do so?
The real problem is that coders that develop for IE rarely check how pages work in anything else while decent developers check not only Mozilla but also IE and often Opera, Lynx, Konquerer, and whatever else they can get their hands on. Therefore IE users always have the best browsing experience.
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I suggest anybody developing not-for-profit sites to simply save themselves the trouble and not make any special effort to support IE. Code to the standards. If IE can still show your page then great. If not then let the users know IE sucks - put a 'Works best with Mozilla.' button on your page to link to where users can download Mozilla. Circa 1997 gimmicks still work.
I believe the current Mozilla and the Firebird branch share a codebase. In either case you can always decide to compile this in if you so wish but at least for now it shouldn't be compiled in by default. As always you have the choice of what comes in Mozilla.. because you have the source.
SVG makes as much sense to have compiled in as support for jpeg, gif, or png graphics. It's just a vector based image format.
Did you see anything that said where this fridge could be purchased? I liked it and was looking but I saw nothing about actually buying one.
It could be using GA. They could pre-evolve to a basic level of being able to move and fight and so forth but let it further evolve as the game plays.. so that the bots can adapt as needed.
This seems like a fun idea. It'd be more fun though if they had this web enabled and running all the time. Then we could keep submitting new code to play. Of course you'd want to limit how often new players were added.. or someone would cheat by just reentering the same code over and over until it overwhelmed the competition.
LinuxFund to some extend gives money to potential projects but I find their voting process very poor. Not because it's bad but because few people, not themselves trying to get money, bother voting. The end result is that people that get their friends to go vote on their project get votes and nobody else does. If you really want to help lesser projects I suggest you vote at linuxfund.org and maybe get the LinuxFund credit card.
I wouldn't suggest they award the money to unpopular projects (mine are mostly that way too.. well people use em but seldom contribute) but I would suggest they exclude projects that have funding. I guess I'm suggesting they not give money towards Linux, Apache, PHP, MySQL, Gnome, KDE, Mozilla, OpenOffice, Perl, Python and various other tier one projects. Better to encourage people to write apps that are needed but not as popular. Spread the wealth a little.
I think I agree with waht you meant to say. I don't really buy the articles whine that disc speed is to slow because we have to much space.
:)
If you want access to be faster then wisely spread your files across multiple disks and use smart caching in your designs. I frequently have data I need to access quickly stored on ramdisks and now and then flushed to the harddrives. If the data is to large for what I can afford in RAM then store indexes on the ramdisk along with recently/frequently used data.
I've rarely seen an app that needed to constantly read/write 20Tb of data. I think the problem is more in filesystem design than in hardware design. Filesystems should employ smart load balancing as well as good caching.
Mmmm I can't wait to have a dozen 20Tb drives at home.
Really? I find it much easier to rip a DVD than to get a decent copy from cable. Of course the way most cable looks I guess it'd be impossible to get a decent copy from it. I'd say it's even cheaper to rip a rented DVD than to have cable. I rent movies at 5 DVD's for $5. $1 is a pretty good price. Of course each takes up about $5 of disc space too. If only the dvd companies would sell hdd's pre-loaded with the selected movies then I'd gladly give them the $6/movie. :)
My experience is that any software project needs three versions to reach minimum quality. The first version is quick-n-dirty. The second version cleans up the quick-n-dirty version and adds features that were left out. The third version is mostly a rewrite that fixes any major structural problems and further cleans up the code.
I guess my point is that you should do a quick-n-dirty version first because it's often faster than a detailed plan, more complete, and results in working code. Then work towards a planned and ironed out version from that. You can have the best of both worlds.
True - but that is the price a customer pays for circumventing limitations. I'd accept credit cards but only if they'd made a deposit by money order or some decent kind of check first. So that if they charged back on me I could keep the deposit and just not sell to them anymore. It's been my experience that vendors get ripped off by chargebacks more often than customers get ripped off by vendors. Not to say vendors never rip off a customer.. just not as frequently.