You just wait until we Republicans become protectionist, and make Democrats be the party that tells the blue collar that a bunch of assholes in China took their job. The natural set of American values are on our side, not yours, and it is only voter anxiety about the effects of trade that bring the blue collar to you. But, West Virginia is the canary in the coal mine for the Democrats. We will run vowing to kick all the Asian products out, dial back those European countries that did not help us in the war, and we'll see how you people fare trying to argue that French and Chinese people have a right to American jobs.
How come Cleveland has more spending on its public schools than most other G8 nations, but they are all shitholes. Maybe the students are stupid and unwilling to learn? Maybe they come from a culture that denegrates education before it even starts? I mean, how come Democrats always talk about more money for schools and for public institution but at the same time, continue to spend billions on an arts and media that does nothing but continually denegrate culture, learning, and refinement? I mean, people are only doing what you tell them, and you are telling them to do stupid stuff.
The essence of the Democratic plan is first Marx and then later Keynes, both of whom have been tried and failed for the last 100 years, repeatedly. Democrats would have us believe that if we take a bunch a big pile of money and give it to worthless people, then somehow we will have an economic recovery. What a crock! Yeah, like giving money to a bunch of crackheads in the ghetto or old ladies in mobile homes is going to accomplish anything. It's simply not.
The simple fact of the matter is, if Democrats REALLY wanted to stimulate the economy and distribute money evenly, then why not simply write checks to everyone, like George Bush did. That's Keynes in his purist and simplest form. Instead, we got a few hundred billion for welfare - as if that doesn't have enough money already, and a few billion for building some windmills, and then a few billion of a few things that might actually be useful, but you know that the Dems will never finish any of their projects and will wreck them the same way they have managed to wreck all of the major cities in the USA.
The only way there will be economic recovery is when there are enough layoffs for companies to be profitable. That will jack up the stock market, and from there, there will be capital to re-invest in the economy, ultimately creating more jobs where they are needed. This is actually already happening. Layoffs are coming, the stock market is going up, gradually, and some companies are going to be profitable. Unfortunately, we all know that Democrats will bitch about companies being profitable, and will prolong the recession in the interests of accumulating power, just like those traitors did during the Great Depression.
Studio albums have their place. Live is cool and all, but sometimes, a really good studio album can just be an auditory festival and in that regard it matters a bit less as to where the sound came from than that it exists.
Hey, how long can you keep a bunch of people around to write free Linux, free Java and free whatever else IBM makes. IBM would almost be better off resurrecting OS/2.
In AS/400. Dr. Frank Soltis, you are the original god. The whole OS runs in a virtual layer. That way, they were able to host legacy System/36 stuff up along side more "modern" OS/400. Everything is an object... yep..
Intel can make a graphics chipset. They have the capital to do it, and the equipment. The best nVidia CPU uses a 65nm process. Intel already has a ton of 45nm out there and has successfully tests 35nm. They just don't want to pay for the R&D to do it. Blowing a ton of dough to build a graphics chip just not that big enough of a market for them, at least until Sony came along.
Now, they will partner with Sony, get extensive experience in graphics, and can leverage their own extensive design experience, fabs, and own rather good CPU offerings. It's really a super deal for Intel, although it is a sad day for Sony, which now out-sources something that they for a long time took great pride in building.
If Intel takes this new technology they come up with, and puts it into PCs, then yeah, nVidia is doomed.
Aero is a half-hearted catchup maneuver to Linux and OSX delivered....blandness
I like Vista's U/I way more than I like Gnome, so much so that I'm tempted to blow away my Linux partition to check out Windows 7. I think Vista nails the start bar and menus way more than Ubuntu does. It's a personal preference I guess, because honestly, I really didn't care for XP that much, except it was a WinNT kernel that could play games better than Win2k could, but, Vista I really like.
I actually like Vista's start bar. The click in place rather than expanding is different but, the exploding start menu in 95-XP always drove me nuts when I inevitably loaded up with lots of programs, so the change makes sense. The use of the wheel mouse here is excellent. Recent Items in Vista actually seems to work whereas in XP it was always kinda "off". The search tool is nice to have, and I find it to be more useful than the one in KDE 4.2. Vista's Connect To VPN is just spot on. I love that. The way Vista does the application thumbnail in the task switcher on the bottom is rather spot on to me... I would not mind if the mouse over preview was actually a tad bit bigger.
I like right click "preferences" on the desktop. It's way more thought out, and Vista's file folder dialog and file | open dialog is really good. Gnome's always had problems with lightweight file dialogs and Microsoft's under Vista are just really good.
Some people complain about how Vista changed the control panel around. I honestly think some of those changes are long overdue. I wouldn't mind seeing Gnome style themes dialog in Vista, to be sure, but I don't change themes all that often anyway largely because so many of the downloaded themes tend to suck. There's not that many for Gnome enough to be worth it and I'm honestly not going to pay for one for Vista. KDE's customize everything is pretty nice but honestly I only do that because the default font size in Ubuntu seems to be more for blind people than users. 8pt text please!
I like how Gnome does ISO's better and PDF thumbnails than Vista does. But, all in all, I'm not burning DVDs all the time and for that reason, the thumbnail is not nearly as useful as a good list view sorted by date, and there Vista works out better for me.
So yeah, Linux has its advantages, but I think that for at least me, I prefer Vista's user interface.
As far as catching up goes, I think, Linux still has some catching up to do. There is no C++ framework that makes an app as sharp looking as Microsoft's Fluent U/I does with MFC. Yeah, MFC is maligned as a porker, because, back then, we were resistant to the idea of C++ frameworks, but, all GUI frameworks are fat these days. And, the funniest thing, is that, with Windows I still get better database client connectivity, and, there's still no native grid control in GTK, and the grid control in WxWidgets sucks donkey dick, but the one in MFC works pretty good, and there's plenty more you can download, buy, etc, largely because Windows SDK is still pretty easy to make widgets for and Linux just doesn't have a good widget framework to stand on, because there are too many. Maybe if everyone settles on Qt, it will get better, but right now, a good grid for Linux is a rare thing.
I can assure you that this is going to change soon. Consider that Visual Studio 2010 UI is rewritten in WPF (have you seen the CTP?). Now imagine how much polish WPF is being given for.NET 4.0 to make it all actually work for the release;)
Well, the thing is with MS is that when they create a big platform shift, they stick with it. Like, WPF may not be so great now, but they will keep plugging away at it. But what's cool about MS is that they have the WPF track on one hand, but on the other hand, they are actually doing some stuff for native code and honestly I've thought that was dead. The ultimate thing that this thread is really about is GUI toolkits and I've actually been looking through a bunch for a personal project, and, of all terrible things, I've come around to the latest incarnation of MFC, and only for these reasons. a) MFC's Office 2007 option for look and feel is really rather beautiful. b) it does have doc / view support, and some (but not good) support for editing stuff in the gui. and c) these days, MFC is kinda slimmed down a bit. It's not that Microsoft has made it smaller. It's just, they haven't done too much with it over the last few years while the kitchen sink is being tossed into the likes of Qt, GTK, WXWidgets and even WTL are all getting larger. And certainly, Java Swing, WinForms, JavaFX and WPF are quite the porkers.
In all seriousness, the fusion of.NET and Office, using Visual Studio Tools for Office, makes for some interesting possibilities indeed. I mean, the Web may be all the rage, but, if you tell some people that they can use Excel as a front end into anything, they are going to jump on it, and if they are paying, I'll be happy to help them out, in a heartbeat, if I thought I could get a deal done, especially in this economy.
Sure, let someone walk in with a sucky table and javascript based grid on a web page and babble on about Web 2.0 and Linux, because I'll be there with the whole damn front end in Excel, and showing them how they can cut and paste and get data from everywhere, and have it all in Excel. And on top of that, I would probably even stoop so low as to talk about leveraging the COM Interop of.NET to talk to legacy VB6 objects and to kick out form letters in Word, and I'd could even see myself throwing in a blurb about how I could use WPF to implement a Clippy like guy that doesn't suck, so...
that when the dust all settles, my client would be able to pull all their enterprise data into Excel, click on a cell, and get a clippy like guy to help them prepare a form letter for mailing to a prospective client, using of course an Active X control to capture the signature in just a perfect way. The whole thing would probably way in at 100MB for about 2000 lines of code, but, you see, the secret of Office integration is not that you have all of this bloated stuff, its that, you are just adding on to what they already know so that it makes it easier for them to learn, and easier for me to get the sale, and, then, for the next step, then I can babble on about web 2.0 and Linux, or Windows, or whatever they prefer me to babble about!
WinForms isn't dead. In some circles, I'd say WPF is stillborn, and if there's anything good that came out of it, it was in fact Silverlight.
In fact, I would say that while WPF has its plus sides, its got a few drawbacks as well. Its -really- slow compared to WinForms, the nested control architecture isn't as good, the layouts and sizing aren't as flexible, and worst of all, there's no datagrid.
I understand the inspiration. Microsoft tried to make a modern client gui toolkit that gives you some of what html does, but I frankly think they missed the mark. If anything, WPF will inspire the idea that developer's have choices in control and widget sets and that will lead developers to look at things like Qt and Java or even Webkit, as I have done.
Because why, exactly? And before you start, try going with a reasoned argument, rather than paranoid ramblings. I know that's asking a lot, but...
I would be reluctant to classify as a paranoid ramblings a general distrust of concentrated power. A distrust of concentrated power is one of the few consensus's behind most mainstream Americans. We distrust the government, so we divide it between cities, counties states and the federal, and in each of those cases, we further divide that same government into legislative, executive and judiciary branches, and often we then divide the legislative branch even further. We distrust concentrated private power, so we enact laws and have in the past broken up corporations whose power was deemed too large. We arm our citizenry to check the government further, and we even further empower ourselves and our institutions to make free speech, hold private funds, and organize politically. So... you say, given that two of the most important software companies in the world are collaborating, how could it be a paranoid rambling to distrust them? I would say, how it could be consistent with any aspect of western culture TO trust them!
Any time Microsoft and Google decide to partner on something, you know the rest of us are just going to get screwed. Let's make these two giants work for us by competing against each other. While some may want a bipartisan, colluding government, it is only madness to want the same from corporations!
Two senators for 400k people? No thanks. Its bad enough places like Wyoming get two senators.
If there wasn't a bicameral Congress, or an electoral college, then, there would be no small states in the United States. The USA would basically look like New York, PA, Ohio, California, and Florida, populated but lacking farmland or natural resources and as a consequence, national wealth. In particular, until you build a lot of windmills, I wouldn't be ripping Wyoming too much, as, the vast majority of coal for American power plants comes from there.
I'm sorry, as I really like MySQL, but, Monty's just taking his billion dollars and trashing Sun as a cover. The bugs that he talks about, that he complains about, all have dates back to 2001... so, he could have fixed that stuff before Sun even bought him out. The bottom line is, Monty's pointing the finger at Sun when the reality is, he's probably doesn't want to work for anyone other than himself, and is just looking for an excuse to cash out. If he would just say that, I think everyone would get it, but, when you can look at the defects he's blogged about and see how old these bugs are, one has to ask, come on dude, why didn't you fix it, like, years ago?
Our non-American friends need to know that as far as cities go, Washington D.C., as a city, is probably the -worst- run city in the USA. Because it is the capitol, not only are they subject to their own local authority, but they are also subject to the whims of the US Congress. The existence of the whole thing is a joke because when the country was founded, the states squabbled even over who would have the honor of the national capitol, such that, eventually a few states kicked in a tiny plot of land, formed the "District of Columbia", and thus, the capitol is its own little piece of land under direct federal jurisdiction, whose habitants actually have no constitutional rights. Since that time, there's been a lot of talk about moving the capitol, or making DC a state, or doing something with it. But right now, we have a total screwed up mess of a city that has really no industry besides government, and the result is that, outside the museums, and government offices, the place is pretty much a big stinking ghetto whose most famous mayor was busted for smoking crack.
Cancer is something you are either genetically prone towards or not..
That's really interesting. I saw one study that indicated a genetic link between smoking and lung cancer.
Yes you can try in do things in order to help increase the odds of preventing some types of sickness and illness, but in the end you really have no control, unless of course you have personally figured out how to correctly manipulate your own genetic structure.
That's the one argument that, in my mind, comes to mind when considering the case for national health insurance. I tend to be opposed to it on ideological grounds, but, the three arguments that sway me, are 1) that it simplifies economic integration with the EU and Japan 2) encourages the formation of small businesses and 3) the risks of various diseases are not so random as we might think.
As far as smoking warnings go, I remember that packs had the warnings that cigarette smoking was hazardous to your health as far back as the 1970s. I remember as a kid having classes going over, in the late 1970s all the way through h.s. in the 1980s, that smoking probably caused cancer, definitely caused emphysema, and was just all around bad for you. So, someone today, I think, in their 40-50s, ought to know that smoking is bad and should quit by now... but the thing is, I think the dirty secret is that its already too late, as you allude to.
Well I shouldn't say KDE, but I thought the "K" team had a virtual solution of their own, yeah. I think I would have tried it on my Opteron but I was using an older model that did not support hardware virtualization so it wouldn't install.
How about the millions of Americans who weren't told smoking is BAD(tm) when they were young?
We've known smoking is bad now for 40 years.
For your second exercise in compassion, go visit a cancer ward one of these days and try to pick the old folk who deserve treatment for kidney cancer from the undeserving
For your first exercise in reality, why don't you go see the billing department of said cancer ward, and you pick who you are going to pay for, out your paycheck. Let me know how much you pay, and how much you leave for the future of your own children.
So wait, you tell me that VMWare is far from doomed, then spend the rest of your plug touting Hyper-V? Like I said, VMWare is doomed man.
On the Linux end "VirtualBOX OSE" is great for the desktop... then there's a bunch of freeware ones. Even KDE has one I think. On the Windows end, there's the one that Microsoft makes...
Seriously, you can blame the victims of the disease all you like, at the end of the day the virus will spread if measures are not taken, and we are all better of by offering infected individuals treatment, no matter how stupid they were when they got infected.
This is just all not true and its really just buzzwords for doing the "right thing." The social interest that you advocate protecting is not public health but overall freedom. If we really wanted to do what is best for the public health, we would provide some modicum of public treatment for HIV and other chronic communicable diseases as an inducement to getting patients on board. Then, you mark them as infected both on their body and on an online database, so that you effectively quarantine them. Then they die and that's the end of the disease.
What you are advocating is that society actually accept that some additional members of it will be infected and will be killed, in order to protect the rights of those who are already infected. What's really happening when people shout compassion and what not, and what about the rights of the disease carriers, is that, they are accepting that their decision will cause innocent people to be killed but it is a worthwhile trade for a greater good of freedom, because most disease carriers, once they know they have it, won't spread the disease, any more than most gun owners won't go shooting up a mall.
So quit talking about this stupid ad-hominem attack of "well, blame the victim and all of these poor people and you have no soul..". Just be honest and say, yeah, I think more people will die from my health policies but it is better to have a free society than a police state.
It's not just Microsoft that has a free virtual server. Sun Microsystems OpenBox is free and its good. Then there's a bunch of other open source ones. So, I wouldn't go chalking up a threat to VMWare based on Microsoft. All those people writing free virtual server systems for Linux are cutting into the cake as well.
I'm sure your stance would change if you were someone who was in need of treatment and didn't have the appropriate medical insurance.
Probably would. But the way I see it now is, I smoke, I've smoked for 20 years, and I'm starting to get the first reduced lung function and I should quit but probably won't and I'll die from it, dragging myself and the rest of society down for a million bucks in chemo and treatment. What's up with that? Why should I keep 50 kids out of college because I was a dumbass? That's not right. Same thing with HIV. For the most part, you can prevent HIV. You can stay monogamous as much as you can. Don't be a slut, and use a rubber. Don't use needles. Sometimes you have to think about what your impact is on society.
I think the real problem is the outrageous cost of treatment. Some drugs being manufactured have higher marketing costs then they do for research.
Maybe the stuff is expensive because it is, well, actually complicated to research, make and produce. Science is a craft and crafts are expensive. I don't doubt that the workflow in a pharma company is probably retarded, and that makes it more expensive, but, at the same time, the problem is really that all the knowledge is completely new, so there's no automation in any of the research. It's not like McCoy can just drop a blood sample into the computer and whip up a batch of cure.
Anyway, you seem to have a rather callous view on who should or shouldn't get treatment and I think its deplorable.
That's Democracy. If you want to have private health insurance, have private insurance. Otherwise, accept that, there's going to be people who will make the argument that we should not blow too much medical money on sufferers of illnesses resulting from lifelong self indulgence or excessive risk taking.
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You just wait until we Republicans become protectionist, and make Democrats be the party that tells the blue collar that a bunch of assholes in China took their job. The natural set of American values are on our side, not yours, and it is only voter anxiety about the effects of trade that bring the blue collar to you. But, West Virginia is the canary in the coal mine for the Democrats. We will run vowing to kick all the Asian products out, dial back those European countries that did not help us in the war, and we'll see how you people fare trying to argue that French and Chinese people have a right to American jobs.
How come Cleveland has more spending on its public schools than most other G8 nations, but they are all shitholes. Maybe the students are stupid and unwilling to learn? Maybe they come from a culture that denegrates education before it even starts? I mean, how come Democrats always talk about more money for schools and for public institution but at the same time, continue to spend billions on an arts and media that does nothing but continually denegrate culture, learning, and refinement? I mean, people are only doing what you tell them, and you are telling them to do stupid stuff.
The essence of the Democratic plan is first Marx and then later Keynes, both of whom have been tried and failed for the last 100 years, repeatedly. Democrats would have us believe that if we take a bunch a big pile of money and give it to worthless people, then somehow we will have an economic recovery. What a crock! Yeah, like giving money to a bunch of crackheads in the ghetto or old ladies in mobile homes is going to accomplish anything. It's simply not.
The simple fact of the matter is, if Democrats REALLY wanted to stimulate the economy and distribute money evenly, then why not simply write checks to everyone, like George Bush did. That's Keynes in his purist and simplest form. Instead, we got a few hundred billion for welfare - as if that doesn't have enough money already, and a few billion for building some windmills, and then a few billion of a few things that might actually be useful, but you know that the Dems will never finish any of their projects and will wreck them the same way they have managed to wreck all of the major cities in the USA.
The only way there will be economic recovery is when there are enough layoffs for companies to be profitable. That will jack up the stock market, and from there, there will be capital to re-invest in the economy, ultimately creating more jobs where they are needed. This is actually already happening. Layoffs are coming, the stock market is going up, gradually, and some companies are going to be profitable. Unfortunately, we all know that Democrats will bitch about companies being profitable, and will prolong the recession in the interests of accumulating power, just like those traitors did during the Great Depression.
Studio albums have their place. Live is cool and all, but sometimes, a really good studio album can just be an auditory festival and in that regard it matters a bit less as to where the sound came from than that it exists.
Do0d, where ya been? Software *wants* to be free, man.
The irony, of course, is that Vista is way cooler than Ubuntu when you got a good buzz on.
Hey, how long can you keep a bunch of people around to write free Linux, free Java and free whatever else IBM makes. IBM would almost be better off resurrecting OS/2.
In AS/400. Dr. Frank Soltis, you are the original god. The whole OS runs in a virtual layer. That way, they were able to host legacy System/36 stuff up along side more "modern" OS/400. Everything is an object... yep..
Intel can make a graphics chipset. They have the capital to do it, and the equipment. The best nVidia CPU uses a 65nm process. Intel already has a ton of 45nm out there and has successfully tests 35nm. They just don't want to pay for the R&D to do it. Blowing a ton of dough to build a graphics chip just not that big enough of a market for them, at least until Sony came along.
Now, they will partner with Sony, get extensive experience in graphics, and can leverage their own extensive design experience, fabs, and own rather good CPU offerings. It's really a super deal for Intel, although it is a sad day for Sony, which now out-sources something that they for a long time took great pride in building.
If Intel takes this new technology they come up with, and puts it into PCs, then yeah, nVidia is doomed.
Aero is a half-hearted catchup maneuver to Linux and OSX delivered....blandness
I like Vista's U/I way more than I like Gnome, so much so that I'm tempted to blow away my Linux partition to check out Windows 7. I think Vista nails the start bar and menus way more than Ubuntu does. It's a personal preference I guess, because honestly, I really didn't care for XP that much, except it was a WinNT kernel that could play games better than Win2k could, but, Vista I really like.
I actually like Vista's start bar. The click in place rather than expanding is different but, the exploding start menu in 95-XP always drove me nuts when I inevitably loaded up with lots of programs, so the change makes sense. The use of the wheel mouse here is excellent. Recent Items in Vista actually seems to work whereas in XP it was always kinda "off". The search tool is nice to have, and I find it to be more useful than the one in KDE 4.2. Vista's Connect To VPN is just spot on. I love that. The way Vista does the application thumbnail in the task switcher on the bottom is rather spot on to me... I would not mind if the mouse over preview was actually a tad bit bigger.
I like right click "preferences" on the desktop. It's way more thought out, and Vista's file folder dialog and file | open dialog is really good. Gnome's always had problems with lightweight file dialogs and Microsoft's under Vista are just really good.
Some people complain about how Vista changed the control panel around. I honestly think some of those changes are long overdue. I wouldn't mind seeing Gnome style themes dialog in Vista, to be sure, but I don't change themes all that often anyway largely because so many of the downloaded themes tend to suck. There's not that many for Gnome enough to be worth it and I'm honestly not going to pay for one for Vista. KDE's customize everything is pretty nice but honestly I only do that because the default font size in Ubuntu seems to be more for blind people than users. 8pt text please!
I like how Gnome does ISO's better and PDF thumbnails than Vista does. But, all in all, I'm not burning DVDs all the time and for that reason, the thumbnail is not nearly as useful as a good list view sorted by date, and there Vista works out better for me.
So yeah, Linux has its advantages, but I think that for at least me, I prefer Vista's user interface.
As far as catching up goes, I think, Linux still has some catching up to do. There is no C++ framework that makes an app as sharp looking as Microsoft's Fluent U/I does with MFC. Yeah, MFC is maligned as a porker, because, back then, we were resistant to the idea of C++ frameworks, but, all GUI frameworks are fat these days. And, the funniest thing, is that, with Windows I still get better database client connectivity, and, there's still no native grid control in GTK, and the grid control in WxWidgets sucks donkey dick, but the one in MFC works pretty good, and there's plenty more you can download, buy, etc, largely because Windows SDK is still pretty easy to make widgets for and Linux just doesn't have a good widget framework to stand on, because there are too many. Maybe if everyone settles on Qt, it will get better, but right now, a good grid for Linux is a rare thing.
I can assure you that this is going to change soon. Consider that Visual Studio 2010 UI is rewritten in WPF (have you seen the CTP?). Now imagine how much polish WPF is being given for .NET 4.0 to make it all actually work for the release ;)
Well, the thing is with MS is that when they create a big platform shift, they stick with it. Like, WPF may not be so great now, but they will keep plugging away at it. But what's cool about MS is that they have the WPF track on one hand, but on the other hand, they are actually doing some stuff for native code and honestly I've thought that was dead. The ultimate thing that this thread is really about is GUI toolkits and I've actually been looking through a bunch for a personal project, and, of all terrible things, I've come around to the latest incarnation of MFC, and only for these reasons. a) MFC's Office 2007 option for look and feel is really rather beautiful. b) it does have doc / view support, and some (but not good) support for editing stuff in the gui. and c) these days, MFC is kinda slimmed down a bit. It's not that Microsoft has made it smaller. It's just, they haven't done too much with it over the last few years while the kitchen sink is being tossed into the likes of Qt, GTK, WXWidgets and even WTL are all getting larger. And certainly, Java Swing, WinForms, JavaFX and WPF are quite the porkers.
In all seriousness, the fusion of .NET and Office, using Visual Studio Tools for Office, makes for some interesting possibilities indeed. I mean, the Web may be all the rage, but, if you tell some people that they can use Excel as a front end into anything, they are going to jump on it, and if they are paying, I'll be happy to help them out, in a heartbeat, if I thought I could get a deal done, especially in this economy.
Sure, let someone walk in with a sucky table and javascript based grid on a web page and babble on about Web 2.0 and Linux, because I'll be there with the whole damn front end in Excel, and showing them how they can cut and paste and get data from everywhere, and have it all in Excel. And on top of that, I would probably even stoop so low as to talk about leveraging the COM Interop of .NET to talk to legacy VB6 objects and to kick out form letters in Word, and I'd could even see myself throwing in a blurb about how I could use WPF to implement a Clippy like guy that doesn't suck, so...
that when the dust all settles, my client would be able to pull all their enterprise data into Excel, click on a cell, and get a clippy like guy to help them prepare a form letter for mailing to a prospective client, using of course an Active X control to capture the signature in just a perfect way. The whole thing would probably way in at 100MB for about 2000 lines of code, but, you see, the secret of Office integration is not that you have all of this bloated stuff, its that, you are just adding on to what they already know so that it makes it easier for them to learn, and easier for me to get the sale, and, then, for the next step, then I can babble on about web 2.0 and Linux, or Windows, or whatever they prefer me to babble about!
WinForms isn't dead. In some circles, I'd say WPF is stillborn, and if there's anything good that came out of it, it was in fact Silverlight.
In fact, I would say that while WPF has its plus sides, its got a few drawbacks as well. Its -really- slow compared to WinForms, the nested control architecture isn't as good, the layouts and sizing aren't as flexible, and worst of all, there's no datagrid.
I understand the inspiration. Microsoft tried to make a modern client gui toolkit that gives you some of what html does, but I frankly think they missed the mark. If anything, WPF will inspire the idea that developer's have choices in control and widget sets and that will lead developers to look at things like Qt and Java or even Webkit, as I have done.
Because why, exactly? And before you start, try going with a reasoned argument, rather than paranoid ramblings. I know that's asking a lot, but...
I would be reluctant to classify as a paranoid ramblings a general distrust of concentrated power. A distrust of concentrated power is one of the few consensus's behind most mainstream Americans. We distrust the government, so we divide it between cities, counties states and the federal, and in each of those cases, we further divide that same government into legislative, executive and judiciary branches, and often we then divide the legislative branch even further. We distrust concentrated private power, so we enact laws and have in the past broken up corporations whose power was deemed too large. We arm our citizenry to check the government further, and we even further empower ourselves and our institutions to make free speech, hold private funds, and organize politically. So... you say, given that two of the most important software companies in the world are collaborating, how could it be a paranoid rambling to distrust them? I would say, how it could be consistent with any aspect of western culture TO trust them!
Any time Microsoft and Google decide to partner on something, you know the rest of us are just going to get screwed. Let's make these two giants work for us by competing against each other. While some may want a bipartisan, colluding government, it is only madness to want the same from corporations!
Two senators for 400k people? No thanks. Its bad enough places like Wyoming get two senators.
If there wasn't a bicameral Congress, or an electoral college, then, there would be no small states in the United States. The USA would basically look like New York, PA, Ohio, California, and Florida, populated but lacking farmland or natural resources and as a consequence, national wealth. In particular, until you build a lot of windmills, I wouldn't be ripping Wyoming too much, as, the vast majority of coal for American power plants comes from there.
I'm sorry, as I really like MySQL, but, Monty's just taking his billion dollars and trashing Sun as a cover. The bugs that he talks about, that he complains about, all have dates back to 2001... so, he could have fixed that stuff before Sun even bought him out. The bottom line is, Monty's pointing the finger at Sun when the reality is, he's probably doesn't want to work for anyone other than himself, and is just looking for an excuse to cash out. If he would just say that, I think everyone would get it, but, when you can look at the defects he's blogged about and see how old these bugs are, one has to ask, come on dude, why didn't you fix it, like, years ago?
Our non-American friends need to know that as far as cities go, Washington D.C., as a city, is probably the -worst- run city in the USA. Because it is the capitol, not only are they subject to their own local authority, but they are also subject to the whims of the US Congress. The existence of the whole thing is a joke because when the country was founded, the states squabbled even over who would have the honor of the national capitol, such that, eventually a few states kicked in a tiny plot of land, formed the "District of Columbia", and thus, the capitol is its own little piece of land under direct federal jurisdiction, whose habitants actually have no constitutional rights. Since that time, there's been a lot of talk about moving the capitol, or making DC a state, or doing something with it. But right now, we have a total screwed up mess of a city that has really no industry besides government, and the result is that, outside the museums, and government offices, the place is pretty much a big stinking ghetto whose most famous mayor was busted for smoking crack.
From this, comes our national CIO.
I'm like, not jumping for joy.
Cancer is something you are either genetically prone towards or not..
That's really interesting. I saw one study that indicated a genetic link between smoking and lung cancer.
Yes you can try in do things in order to help increase the odds of preventing some types of sickness and illness, but in the end you really have no control, unless of course you have personally figured out how to correctly manipulate your own genetic structure.
That's the one argument that, in my mind, comes to mind when considering the case for national health insurance. I tend to be opposed to it on ideological grounds, but, the three arguments that sway me, are 1) that it simplifies economic integration with the EU and Japan 2) encourages the formation of small businesses and 3) the risks of various diseases are not so random as we might think.
As far as smoking warnings go, I remember that packs had the warnings that cigarette smoking was hazardous to your health as far back as the 1970s. I remember as a kid having classes going over, in the late 1970s all the way through h.s. in the 1980s, that smoking probably caused cancer, definitely caused emphysema, and was just all around bad for you. So, someone today, I think, in their 40-50s, ought to know that smoking is bad and should quit by now... but the thing is, I think the dirty secret is that its already too late, as you allude to.
Well I shouldn't say KDE, but I thought the "K" team had a virtual solution of their own, yeah. I think I would have tried it on my Opteron but I was using an older model that did not support hardware virtualization so it wouldn't install.
How about the millions of Americans who weren't told smoking is BAD(tm) when they were young?
We've known smoking is bad now for 40 years.
For your second exercise in compassion, go visit a cancer ward one of these days and try to pick the old folk who deserve treatment for kidney cancer from the undeserving
For your first exercise in reality, why don't you go see the billing department of said cancer ward, and you pick who you are going to pay for, out your paycheck. Let me know how much you pay, and how much you leave for the future of your own children.
You have no idea what you are talking about
So wait, you tell me that VMWare is far from doomed, then spend the rest of your plug touting Hyper-V? Like I said, VMWare is doomed man.
On the Linux end "VirtualBOX OSE" is great for the desktop... then there's a bunch of freeware ones. Even KDE has one I think. On the Windows end, there's the one that Microsoft makes...
so, where does VMWare play?
on a cell phone?
Don't worry - I'm sure you can cure that with a Powershell script, you irritating prick
I probably could, actually. Except for its screwed up syntax, Powershell is the greatest scripting environment ever.
Seriously, you can blame the victims of the disease all you like, at the end of the day the virus will spread if measures are not taken, and we are all better of by offering infected individuals treatment, no matter how stupid they were when they got infected.
This is just all not true and its really just buzzwords for doing the "right thing." The social interest that you advocate protecting is not public health but overall freedom. If we really wanted to do what is best for the public health, we would provide some modicum of public treatment for HIV and other chronic communicable diseases as an inducement to getting patients on board. Then, you mark them as infected both on their body and on an online database, so that you effectively quarantine them. Then they die and that's the end of the disease.
What you are advocating is that society actually accept that some additional members of it will be infected and will be killed, in order to protect the rights of those who are already infected. What's really happening when people shout compassion and what not, and what about the rights of the disease carriers, is that, they are accepting that their decision will cause innocent people to be killed but it is a worthwhile trade for a greater good of freedom, because most disease carriers, once they know they have it, won't spread the disease, any more than most gun owners won't go shooting up a mall.
So quit talking about this stupid ad-hominem attack of "well, blame the victim and all of these poor people and you have no soul..". Just be honest and say, yeah, I think more people will die from my health policies but it is better to have a free society than a police state.
It's not just Microsoft that has a free virtual server. Sun Microsystems OpenBox is free and its good. Then there's a bunch of other open source ones. So, I wouldn't go chalking up a threat to VMWare based on Microsoft. All those people writing free virtual server systems for Linux are cutting into the cake as well.
I'm sure your stance would change if you were someone who was in need of treatment and didn't have the appropriate medical insurance.
Probably would. But the way I see it now is, I smoke, I've smoked for 20 years, and I'm starting to get the first reduced lung function and I should quit but probably won't and I'll die from it, dragging myself and the rest of society down for a million bucks in chemo and treatment. What's up with that? Why should I keep 50 kids out of college because I was a dumbass? That's not right. Same thing with HIV. For the most part, you can prevent HIV. You can stay monogamous as much as you can. Don't be a slut, and use a rubber. Don't use needles. Sometimes you have to think about what your impact is on society.
I think the real problem is the outrageous cost of treatment. Some drugs being manufactured have higher marketing costs then they do for research.
Maybe the stuff is expensive because it is, well, actually complicated to research, make and produce. Science is a craft and crafts are expensive. I don't doubt that the workflow in a pharma company is probably retarded, and that makes it more expensive, but, at the same time, the problem is really that all the knowledge is completely new, so there's no automation in any of the research. It's not like McCoy can just drop a blood sample into the computer and whip up a batch of cure.
Anyway, you seem to have a rather callous view on who should or shouldn't get treatment and I think its deplorable.
That's Democracy. If you want to have private health insurance, have private insurance. Otherwise, accept that, there's going to be people who will make the argument that we should not blow too much medical money on sufferers of illnesses resulting from lifelong self indulgence or excessive risk taking.