Both Vista and Ubuntu have trouble with my older GeForce 6200 graphics card... Vista sometimes "snows" up when the screen goes black due to idle, but it stays up for weeks at a time and I use it for development day in and out.
Ubuntu, on the other hand, blows away the nvidia driver every time I get a kernel update, leaving me stuck at 800x600, and that -really- sucks.
The whole concept of separating content from presentation is what is crazy about HTML / CSS as a combination. You can't just go and shovel HTML through a different CSS renderer to get a different interface for some device or even a user that has different senses. You have to have the content, the pages, the meaning, the interaction all aligned to what users need for each medium.
Hi. QT4.x is here. You might wanna check it out. (Check out KDE 4.2 [and 4.3 when it's released] while you're at it. You might be pleasantly surprised.)
I might. But I must confess that I like Wx's programming model better. Wx has the Windows style message maps that are really simple to use. I've looked at Qt and Wx screen shots and have played with Wx a bit, but in both cases the dialogs and widgets are comparable to Windows 2000 with some splashes of XP but don't really quite come up to Vista. Linux is just not emphasized to be a desktop application development environment. IT's a server at its heart and always will be.
Still, with that said, the way user interface resources are handled in Wx is really rather amazing and if somebody ever integrated one of the very good Wx form designers into KDevelop, Microsoft would be in deep, deep trouble for C++. If I actually had money, I would take off a year and do the damn thing myself because it would be a really kick ass environment. Even the concept of using Wx as a basis for a more VB like language has a lot of promise to it. Wx forms editors really do outclass anything Microsoft has put out there for native C++ development, and its really because Wx just has a richer model for forms and both MFC and WTL are either built around code or the hopelessly obsolete Dialog resource.
I really only want to program in C++...its an artistic thing. Which ever platform does the best for me, I'm game for. I was into Linux for a while, but Microsoft won me back with Vista and VS2008... but once I finish my WTL paint program, I'll check. I can run 64 bit Linux on my Opteron, but can't run Linux. Maybe I should make my program for wxWidgets...
Microsoft is getting desperate in its failed attempts to keep Windows relevant as a development environment
Hey buddy, let me know when Linux gets a grid control that doesn't suck... but we've been waiting now for what, how many years, and there's no grid control in Linux that is even as good as some of the grid controls that were available in Windows 3.1.
In fact, let me know when the Linux GUI gets -ANY- control that doesn't suck. The listview are behind the times, the treeviews are slow, all the common dialogs look like high school projects.. the whole OS just has a bunch of junky controls that are completely inferior to their Windows counterparts.
It's telling that even even text entry boxes aren't as good - Linux don't cut and paste among each other all the time but on Windows I can cut and paste fairly often between my local desktop and a remote desktop.
HTML is a markup language. It was NEVER designed to give a pixel-picture representation of content. EVER. That would break mobile browsing, not to mention different resolutions, and everything else.
HTML was supposed to be a markup language but it is a layout language now. So now we have an ok markup language being shoehorned into a presentation langauge and let's throw some scripting on top of that.
Dude, the internet is a train wreck. screw all this browser shit, and let everyone have some basic kind of RDP.
Imagine the sum total of the economic cost to Web designers worldwide, if such a figure could be accurately assessed. I wonder just how large this number would be?
First off, if we really wanted standards compliant browsing, we could just send bitmaps over the server back to the client. We can stream bitmaps to the client and remote desktop works like a champ. The concept of a standards compliant browser is retarded from the get go because all consumers really truly need is a standards compliant remote desktop client, and that exists in RDP. All you have to do is be able to send clicks and keystrokes to a server, and get bitmaps back. No need for all this other crap we put people through, no need to shoehorn state into cookies and other crap. If you ask me, standards based web has completely fucked up computing and the future is going to be more like RDP than it will ever be HTML.
I am of the view that standards are nice in theory but impossible to achieve in practice. If we look at the track record of software standards, there's really only been one complicated standard that's actually worked out well, and that's C++. C++ works because, well, it leaves some basic things out of the standard and -doesn't- make promises about everything the way HTML tries to do. It's just impossible. Every other language either has an open source implementation that is a defacto standard, or there is a dominant vendor that people imitate.
IE sucks now, I'll give you that. I think Chrome kicks the shit out of FireFox, hands down. Firefox is on my shit list right now for not obeying a z-order, but before Chrome I did prefer that to IE.
Still, IE's break with standards was pretty damned good. Were it not for IE, we would have never have had InnerHtml. Nor would we have had a useful programmable DOM, event model and scripting language to go with in one package PLUS, the little chumpy that lets you go after a web server after the fact. You can blab about Netscape as much as you want, but IE had all the pieces in place to do Web 2.0 stuff as far back as IE 4. Back when Netscape fans were screwing around with layers, IE people could go and write real client / server systems in Javascript and HTML, as sick as that is.
One more time. Netscape started out ok, but IE 4.0 kicked the shit out of it. I would have -loved- to see Microsoft just run away with the internet, tell the W3C to kiss its ass, and load up a web browser with 2d and 3d graphics, all of the windows controls, all from the get go. With at one time a 90% market share, everyone would have benefited.
Frankly, if Google Chrome did it, I'd like to try it out. If FireFox did it, I'd like to try it out. But as it is, browsers are basically stagnant, hobbled by a standards committee that sucks.
And, one more think. I am sick of greater than less than typing way too much tags.
You probably had to tweak it though?
You obviously are not running Aero in a low memory configuration, that's the key. In fact I don't even think you could run it in a virtual server because you can't get hardware accelerated 3d in VM hosts. But I found that without the glass effects, I still preferred the desktop to XP and even Ubuntu, which prior to Vista had been my favorite.
I actually can't stand how new computers of any kind come with so much junkware. My wife's pre-loaded with Vista ACER notebook is pretty good so far, but in the past I've had big trouble with ACER machines. I could barely get Windows to work, OS/2 never flew, and Slackware would refuse to see my mouse.
I've actually had Vista running in a 512mb virtual machine on my Linux box. My whole Linux box had but a gig at the time, and I had Ubuntu, KDevelop, the virtual box, Vista in it, running Visual Studio 2008 to develop an Excel application. I was rather impressed that it all worked.
Interesting, but totally useless for cars. The wing is way too tall for traffic.
But for ships, its a different story.
Question is:
If it takes a 40 foot high wing to move a 1 ton car, how big of a wing would you need to move a 50,000 ton container ship? The heaviest sailing vessel yet constructed is the Star Clipper: Star Clipper, which is 5000 tons and traditionally rigged with about 50,000 square feet of sail handled by 20 crewman.
Has anyone here even looked at what the real motivation behind this study is? It's to create this idea that web hosts, are, surprisingly, wasting the valuable bandwidth provided by your friendly ISPs. Do a few stories like this over a few years, and suddenly, having Comcast charge Google for the right to appear on Comcast somehow seems fair.
The bottom line is, as a consumer, its my bandwidth and I can do whatever I want with it. If I want to go to a web site that has 20,000 character URLS, then, that's where I'm headed.
This strategy doesn't make sense. If nVidia makes chipsets for new Intel parts, doesn't that bolster Intel's brand? It's like, when you go to McDonald's, and get Heinz Ketchup rather than restaurant brand, it makes the whole place seem a tad bit classier. Having an Intel chip parked on a product with a high end nVidia graphics card bolsters the reputation of that chip considerably. Attempting to block that product to try and grab a few more chipset sales seems rather short sighted. Greed and stupidity go hand in hand.
And true, it may cost $50/car to $150/car more, but on the other hand, the cars won't get so miserably hot when sitting in the sun. So it would actually benefit most consumers.
This just pisses me off.
Cars and most consumer things are chock full of regulations that cost $100 more. Hey, guess what! Not everyone's going to Berkley and $100 means something. Why is it that all of these so called regulations fall on the backs of the middle class and the poor. There's taxes on smoking, taxes on drinking, taxes on all consumer things and even now the liberal leadership of this country goes around arguing that people have too much, casually declaring that it will be that people have these things... but the thing, is, you keep raising up prices, and they can't afford them any more.
The truth is, in this country, liberals are the enemies of the poor and middle class. But that's not to say that conservatives love them either. A conservative will rattle on all day about Jesus and then tell a homeless vet to get a job, all the while talking about how much they love the USA while cheering for GM to go bankrupt. Assholes. The best either of these mothers ever do is to throw out some welfare every now and some preaching now and then. But those are just tokens for the enormous cost all of the additional regulations of government and business impose on the common man. It will never change the fact that the government really does tax the poor and middle class with all of these fees and regulations rather heavily.
We need deregulation in this country but not Republican deregulation for just the rich. We need to deregulate - everybody -. No more stupid car regulations. No more seatbelt laws. No more taxes on smokes. Reform the drug laws. Get rid of car inspections. Get rid of taxes. Get rid of recycling laws. If the rich people of this country want you to have sorted trash, let THEM pay for it. Copying digital works is natural. Get rid of driver's licenses - for f--- sake -- driving is a right and who the hell is some elected politician jackass to tell me that driving is a privilege. Driving is a fundamental right and goes on in my house is my business, not some panty assed bitch with a phd and a head full of acid mumbling on about the whales or some church lady with her uterus cramped up into a bowtie whining about me not wearing a tie on Sunday for the Lawd. While we're at it, get rid of business license, get rid of marriage license...just get rid of all of these assholes and their NAZI fucking rules about the environment and religion and line them up against the wall shoot these busy bodies that call themselves leaders but drove this country into the ground.
Hunter S Thompson was wrong. Freak power isn't some marginal thing. Freak power won and took over. Church freaks, enviro freaks. These goddamned freaks have ruined this country. We've had fourty years of this shit and what we have? We're more sinful and wasteful than ever, because these freaks have ruined religion and environmental causes so much thaty you almost have to go hunting baby seals and burning up a cross just to rebel against these dick funguses.
Is it time for the poor and the middle class rise up and have not a Republican revolution or a Democrat revolution, but a French revolution in America? If we consider that 80,000 Frenchmen were executed out of a population of 20 million, that would equate to about 1.2 million people getting whacked. I figure if you spread that out evenly among Democrats and Republicans to include just about every politician, senior business leaders, university heads, just, the whole leadership of this country. You cannot sanely argue that any institution is competently lead in the United States today. Businesses and Government are both failing and crooked and incompetent, because our ruling class is either stupid or indifferent or both. Who cares! They suck! Let's get rid of them! Obviously, though, through some peaceful means... like, maybe they can build a city underwater or
Bush's ignorant policies brought the Dow from 10587 to 7949, with a run up to 13930 in the middle. Do you think that the recent boom-bust cycle based mainly on "creative" accounting was good for our economy?
The fact is that Democrats stabbed the country in the back, as usual. First they deliberately derailing Fannie Mae, and then, talked down world confidence in the economy, and finally, promised a whole slew of socialistic changes. When you see that the most dynamic economies in the world remain the ones that are the most deregulated, you can easily see that Democrats do not care about freedom at all, as much as they want to derail the free markets to put us all into their socialist slavery.
How fast do you expect a change in economic policies to make measurable effects in the economy
I expect Obama's plans will make the economy worse, not better. He will tout some successes in terms of class warfare but in terms of real wealth, the nation will continue to evaporate as more and more people are barred from engaging in free enterprise in the name of whatever it is they think up. This week its the environment, next week, it will be something else.
There is no hope for America at this point. We're headed to socialist slavery now, all dragged down by an ignorant lower class that lacks any utility or drive to compete, and that Dems keep that way so they can have more power.
The only thing to be done now is to passively resist the government where ever it is legally possible, collect as many munitions as possible until the revolution is necessary, and pray.
2. If you do put something in writing, include an attorney on the distribution list
The intent here is to basically use the attorney client privilege to hide evidence from a plaintiff. Isn't that a total violation of the spirit of discovery and a judicial process?
Don't speculate about how much trouble the company is in. Do not use words like "pirating" or "stealing." Use words like "may" or "might"
Again, if the software is not licensed, its pirated. That's usually how it works. If he feels that piracy is taking place, he should call it for what it is. That's the right thing to do. IF the management doesn't do it, then they are breaking the law and should be turned into the BSA.
f you report a potential copyright/licensing problem to the right people, and they conclude that it is in the best interest of shareholders to take no action, that's okay. In my view, you have fulfilled your responsibility to bring the issue to their attention. You can only do so much.
Isn't this wrong? I mean, "I wrote a note that kinda said that there was a problem, and so I'm off the moral hook".
Why is it too much to ask that corporate heads follow the law? If they want to use Office or Windows Server, then they should pay for it. That's pretty clear cut. If they do not want to pay for it, then they should consider an open source alternative.
Allowing pervasive theft of any kind, and demanding that employees misrepresent the truth, completely undermines our culture. You can't demand that people lie to keep their jobs, particularly when it comes to following the law.
There's a couple of proofs that P=NP, gravity waves, all these holy grails are in there. I wonder if they should rename this site: "Popular Mechanics Research"
I have a soft spot for messing with the MMPI. Way, way back one of the first programs I ever touched was an MMPI for an Apple II. I um, altered it slightly so that everyone was a tad more paranoid. You have to screw with the MMPI... a program that determines mental health.. why, it almost makes me feel sane to think about it!
You compare the fact that the UK had a period 350 years ago when it wasn't democratic to the fascism and systematic extermination of millions of minorities in Germany 70 years ago? I'm sorry, but that's preposterous
No its not. The UK under Cromwell exterminated 50% of the population of Ireland. AT LEAST 500,000 people were killed, because they were Catholic.
Neither the US nor the UK have ever gone off the rails like Germany, so they're doing something right.
Actually, the UK did go off the rails. You just aren't that familiar with their history. Just read up on Oliver Cromwell, and maybe read some Irish web sites on what they feel about him.
Given its history, Germany has a special obligation to avoid fascist tendencies.
Assuming that we ourselves cannot become fascists, communists or some other radical party is the surest way to slip down to just that level of madness. The lesson of Germany is that we all have to police ourselves.
People forget a bit too readily that the Nazis didn't come to power in Germany on a platform of genocide, they came to power on a platform of law-and-order, traditional values, and national pride.
Um, Hitler's Mein Kampf - destroy all jews in europe because they are Germany's eternal enemy, avenge versaille, then go in and invade russia, kill everyone there, and, make plenty of room for german settlers.
you know its funny, but the fuhrer actually did try to keep his basic campaign promises... but, to your point, when it came time to organize the coup - Hitler never actually got enough votes in his own right, he did so partially because he told the then powers that be that the whole mein kampf thing was largely just rhetoric... or, they just didn't care, so long as they got the government contracts.
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Both Vista and Ubuntu have trouble with my older GeForce 6200 graphics card... Vista sometimes "snows" up when the screen goes black due to idle, but it stays up for weeks at a time and I use it for development day in and out. Ubuntu, on the other hand, blows away the nvidia driver every time I get a kernel update, leaving me stuck at 800x600, and that -really- sucks.
The whole concept of separating content from presentation is what is crazy about HTML / CSS as a combination. You can't just go and shovel HTML through a different CSS renderer to get a different interface for some device or even a user that has different senses. You have to have the content, the pages, the meaning, the interaction all aligned to what users need for each medium.
Ah, see that KDevelop 4 is in beta... that's good enough for me. By by ubuntu, here comes opensuse...
Hi. QT4.x is here. You might wanna check it out. (Check out KDE 4.2 [and 4.3 when it's released] while you're at it. You might be pleasantly surprised.) I might. But I must confess that I like Wx's programming model better. Wx has the Windows style message maps that are really simple to use. I've looked at Qt and Wx screen shots and have played with Wx a bit, but in both cases the dialogs and widgets are comparable to Windows 2000 with some splashes of XP but don't really quite come up to Vista. Linux is just not emphasized to be a desktop application development environment. IT's a server at its heart and always will be. Still, with that said, the way user interface resources are handled in Wx is really rather amazing and if somebody ever integrated one of the very good Wx form designers into KDevelop, Microsoft would be in deep, deep trouble for C++. If I actually had money, I would take off a year and do the damn thing myself because it would be a really kick ass environment. Even the concept of using Wx as a basis for a more VB like language has a lot of promise to it. Wx forms editors really do outclass anything Microsoft has put out there for native C++ development, and its really because Wx just has a richer model for forms and both MFC and WTL are either built around code or the hopelessly obsolete Dialog resource. I really only want to program in C++...its an artistic thing. Which ever platform does the best for me, I'm game for. I was into Linux for a while, but Microsoft won me back with Vista and VS2008... but once I finish my WTL paint program, I'll check. I can run 64 bit Linux on my Opteron, but can't run Linux. Maybe I should make my program for wxWidgets...
Microsoft is getting desperate in its failed attempts to keep Windows relevant as a development environment Hey buddy, let me know when Linux gets a grid control that doesn't suck... but we've been waiting now for what, how many years, and there's no grid control in Linux that is even as good as some of the grid controls that were available in Windows 3.1. In fact, let me know when the Linux GUI gets -ANY- control that doesn't suck. The listview are behind the times, the treeviews are slow, all the common dialogs look like high school projects .. the whole OS just has a bunch of junky controls that are completely inferior to their Windows counterparts.
It's telling that even even text entry boxes aren't as good - Linux don't cut and paste among each other all the time but on Windows I can cut and paste fairly often between my local desktop and a remote desktop.
HTML is a markup language. It was NEVER designed to give a pixel-picture representation of content. EVER. That would break mobile browsing, not to mention different resolutions, and everything else. HTML was supposed to be a markup language but it is a layout language now. So now we have an ok markup language being shoehorned into a presentation langauge and let's throw some scripting on top of that. Dude, the internet is a train wreck. screw all this browser shit, and let everyone have some basic kind of RDP.
Imagine the sum total of the economic cost to Web designers worldwide, if such a figure could be accurately assessed. I wonder just how large this number would be? First off, if we really wanted standards compliant browsing, we could just send bitmaps over the server back to the client. We can stream bitmaps to the client and remote desktop works like a champ. The concept of a standards compliant browser is retarded from the get go because all consumers really truly need is a standards compliant remote desktop client, and that exists in RDP. All you have to do is be able to send clicks and keystrokes to a server, and get bitmaps back. No need for all this other crap we put people through, no need to shoehorn state into cookies and other crap. If you ask me, standards based web has completely fucked up computing and the future is going to be more like RDP than it will ever be HTML. I am of the view that standards are nice in theory but impossible to achieve in practice. If we look at the track record of software standards, there's really only been one complicated standard that's actually worked out well, and that's C++. C++ works because, well, it leaves some basic things out of the standard and -doesn't- make promises about everything the way HTML tries to do. It's just impossible. Every other language either has an open source implementation that is a defacto standard, or there is a dominant vendor that people imitate. IE sucks now, I'll give you that. I think Chrome kicks the shit out of FireFox, hands down. Firefox is on my shit list right now for not obeying a z-order, but before Chrome I did prefer that to IE. Still, IE's break with standards was pretty damned good. Were it not for IE, we would have never have had InnerHtml. Nor would we have had a useful programmable DOM, event model and scripting language to go with in one package PLUS, the little chumpy that lets you go after a web server after the fact. You can blab about Netscape as much as you want, but IE had all the pieces in place to do Web 2.0 stuff as far back as IE 4. Back when Netscape fans were screwing around with layers, IE people could go and write real client / server systems in Javascript and HTML, as sick as that is. One more time. Netscape started out ok, but IE 4.0 kicked the shit out of it. I would have -loved- to see Microsoft just run away with the internet, tell the W3C to kiss its ass, and load up a web browser with 2d and 3d graphics, all of the windows controls, all from the get go. With at one time a 90% market share, everyone would have benefited. Frankly, if Google Chrome did it, I'd like to try it out. If FireFox did it, I'd like to try it out. But as it is, browsers are basically stagnant, hobbled by a standards committee that sucks. And, one more think. I am sick of greater than less than typing way too much tags.
You probably had to tweak it though? You obviously are not running Aero in a low memory configuration, that's the key. In fact I don't even think you could run it in a virtual server because you can't get hardware accelerated 3d in VM hosts. But I found that without the glass effects, I still preferred the desktop to XP and even Ubuntu, which prior to Vista had been my favorite. I actually can't stand how new computers of any kind come with so much junkware. My wife's pre-loaded with Vista ACER notebook is pretty good so far, but in the past I've had big trouble with ACER machines. I could barely get Windows to work, OS/2 never flew, and Slackware would refuse to see my mouse.
I've actually had Vista running in a 512mb virtual machine on my Linux box. My whole Linux box had but a gig at the time, and I had Ubuntu, KDevelop, the virtual box, Vista in it, running Visual Studio 2008 to develop an Excel application. I was rather impressed that it all worked.
Interesting, but totally useless for cars. The wing is way too tall for traffic. But for ships, its a different story. Question is: If it takes a 40 foot high wing to move a 1 ton car, how big of a wing would you need to move a 50,000 ton container ship? The heaviest sailing vessel yet constructed is the Star Clipper: Star Clipper, which is 5000 tons and traditionally rigged with about 50,000 square feet of sail handled by 20 crewman.
Has anyone here even looked at what the real motivation behind this study is? It's to create this idea that web hosts, are, surprisingly, wasting the valuable bandwidth provided by your friendly ISPs. Do a few stories like this over a few years, and suddenly, having Comcast charge Google for the right to appear on Comcast somehow seems fair. The bottom line is, as a consumer, its my bandwidth and I can do whatever I want with it. If I want to go to a web site that has 20,000 character URLS, then, that's where I'm headed.
This strategy doesn't make sense. If nVidia makes chipsets for new Intel parts, doesn't that bolster Intel's brand? It's like, when you go to McDonald's, and get Heinz Ketchup rather than restaurant brand, it makes the whole place seem a tad bit classier. Having an Intel chip parked on a product with a high end nVidia graphics card bolsters the reputation of that chip considerably. Attempting to block that product to try and grab a few more chipset sales seems rather short sighted. Greed and stupidity go hand in hand.
This just pisses me off.
Cars and most consumer things are chock full of regulations that cost $100 more. Hey, guess what! Not everyone's going to Berkley and $100 means something. Why is it that all of these so called regulations fall on the backs of the middle class and the poor. There's taxes on smoking, taxes on drinking, taxes on all consumer things and even now the liberal leadership of this country goes around arguing that people have too much, casually declaring that it will be that people have these things... but the thing, is, you keep raising up prices, and they can't afford them any more.
The truth is, in this country, liberals are the enemies of the poor and middle class. But that's not to say that conservatives love them either. A conservative will rattle on all day about Jesus and then tell a homeless vet to get a job, all the while talking about how much they love the USA while cheering for GM to go bankrupt. Assholes. The best either of these mothers ever do is to throw out some welfare every now and some preaching now and then. But those are just tokens for the enormous cost all of the additional regulations of government and business impose on the common man. It will never change the fact that the government really does tax the poor and middle class with all of these fees and regulations rather heavily.
We need deregulation in this country but not Republican deregulation for just the rich. We need to deregulate - everybody -. No more stupid car regulations. No more seatbelt laws. No more taxes on smokes. Reform the drug laws. Get rid of car inspections. Get rid of taxes. Get rid of recycling laws. If the rich people of this country want you to have sorted trash, let THEM pay for it. Copying digital works is natural. Get rid of driver's licenses - for f--- sake -- driving is a right and who the hell is some elected politician jackass to tell me that driving is a privilege. Driving is a fundamental right and goes on in my house is my business, not some panty assed bitch with a phd and a head full of acid mumbling on about the whales or some church lady with her uterus cramped up into a bowtie whining about me not wearing a tie on Sunday for the Lawd. While we're at it, get rid of business license, get rid of marriage license...just get rid of all of these assholes and their NAZI fucking rules about the environment and religion and line them up against the wall shoot these busy bodies that call themselves leaders but drove this country into the ground.
Hunter S Thompson was wrong. Freak power isn't some marginal thing. Freak power won and took over. Church freaks, enviro freaks. These goddamned freaks have ruined this country. We've had fourty years of this shit and what we have? We're more sinful and wasteful than ever, because these freaks have ruined religion and environmental causes so much thaty you almost have to go hunting baby seals and burning up a cross just to rebel against these dick funguses.
Is it time for the poor and the middle class rise up and have not a Republican revolution or a Democrat revolution, but a French revolution in America? If we consider that 80,000 Frenchmen were executed out of a population of 20 million, that would equate to about 1.2 million people getting whacked. I figure if you spread that out evenly among Democrats and Republicans to include just about every politician, senior business leaders, university heads, just, the whole leadership of this country. You cannot sanely argue that any institution is competently lead in the United States today. Businesses and Government are both failing and crooked and incompetent, because our ruling class is either stupid or indifferent or both. Who cares! They suck! Let's get rid of them! Obviously, though, through some peaceful means... like, maybe they can build a city underwater or
WTF kind of sentence is that?
Means that they don't like the sound of other keyboards. "When you shut your eyes"=="sound", "ugly", means, "ugly sound".
I just cannot believe that there are people out there who would hang the future of user interface and client design on JavaScript...
JavaScript is a terrible language and a terrible environment to debug in compared to what you can do with a normal client application.
Bush's ignorant policies brought the Dow from 10587 to 7949, with a run up to 13930 in the middle. Do you think that the recent boom-bust cycle based mainly on "creative" accounting was good for our economy?
The fact is that Democrats stabbed the country in the back, as usual. First they deliberately derailing Fannie Mae, and then, talked down world confidence in the economy, and finally, promised a whole slew of socialistic changes. When you see that the most dynamic economies in the world remain the ones that are the most deregulated, you can easily see that Democrats do not care about freedom at all, as much as they want to derail the free markets to put us all into their socialist slavery.
How fast do you expect a change in economic policies to make measurable effects in the economy
I expect Obama's plans will make the economy worse, not better. He will tout some successes in terms of class warfare but in terms of real wealth, the nation will continue to evaporate as more and more people are barred from engaging in free enterprise in the name of whatever it is they think up. This week its the environment, next week, it will be something else.
There is no hope for America at this point. We're headed to socialist slavery now, all dragged down by an ignorant lower class that lacks any utility or drive to compete, and that Dems keep that way so they can have more power.
The only thing to be done now is to passively resist the government where ever it is legally possible, collect as many munitions as possible until the revolution is necessary, and pray.
We shall overcome.
I mean, this is the same state that gave us the amazingly anti-science George W. "I believe God wants me to run for president" Bush
And now we have Barrack "I believe I am God" Obama, as the answer.
2. If you do put something in writing, include an attorney on the distribution list
The intent here is to basically use the attorney client privilege to hide evidence from a plaintiff. Isn't that a total violation of the spirit of discovery and a judicial process?
Don't speculate about how much trouble the company is in. Do not use words like "pirating" or "stealing." Use words like "may" or "might"
Again, if the software is not licensed, its pirated. That's usually how it works. If he feels that piracy is taking place, he should call it for what it is. That's the right thing to do. IF the management doesn't do it, then they are breaking the law and should be turned into the BSA.
f you report a potential copyright/licensing problem to the right people, and they conclude that it is in the best interest of shareholders to take no action, that's okay. In my view, you have fulfilled your responsibility to bring the issue to their attention. You can only do so much.
Isn't this wrong? I mean, "I wrote a note that kinda said that there was a problem, and so I'm off the moral hook".
Why is it too much to ask that corporate heads follow the law? If they want to use Office or Windows Server, then they should pay for it. That's pretty clear cut. If they do not want to pay for it, then they should consider an open source alternative.
Allowing pervasive theft of any kind, and demanding that employees misrepresent the truth, completely undermines our culture. You can't demand that people lie to keep their jobs, particularly when it comes to following the law.
Religious fuckwits, both sides.
Now we have environmentalists to take their place. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
I mean, this is the same state that gave us the amazingly anti-science George W. "I believe God wants me to run for president" Bush
I'll take Bush's ignorant peak 14,000 DOW over Obama's 7,500 enlightened socialist DOW any day of the week.
There's a couple of proofs that P=NP, gravity waves, all these holy grails are in there. I wonder if they should rename this site: "Popular Mechanics Research"
I have a soft spot for messing with the MMPI. Way, way back one of the first programs I ever touched was an MMPI for an Apple II. I um, altered it slightly so that everyone was a tad more paranoid. You have to screw with the MMPI... a program that determines mental health.. why, it almost makes me feel sane to think about it!
You compare the fact that the UK had a period 350 years ago when it wasn't democratic to the fascism and systematic extermination of millions of minorities in Germany 70 years ago? I'm sorry, but that's preposterous
No its not. The UK under Cromwell exterminated 50% of the population of Ireland. AT LEAST 500,000 people were killed, because they were Catholic.
Neither the US nor the UK have ever gone off the rails like Germany, so they're doing something right.
Actually, the UK did go off the rails. You just aren't that familiar with their history. Just read up on Oliver Cromwell, and maybe read some Irish web sites on what they feel about him.
Given its history, Germany has a special obligation to avoid fascist tendencies.
Assuming that we ourselves cannot become fascists, communists or some other radical party is the surest way to slip down to just that level of madness. The lesson of Germany is that we all have to police ourselves.
People forget a bit too readily that the Nazis didn't come to power in Germany on a platform of genocide, they came to power on a platform of law-and-order, traditional values, and national pride.
Um, Hitler's Mein Kampf - destroy all jews in europe because they are Germany's eternal enemy, avenge versaille, then go in and invade russia, kill everyone there, and, make plenty of room for german settlers.
you know its funny, but the fuhrer actually did try to keep his basic campaign promises... but, to your point, when it came time to organize the coup - Hitler never actually got enough votes in his own right, he did so partially because he told the then powers that be that the whole mein kampf thing was largely just rhetoric... or, they just didn't care, so long as they got the government contracts.