Be more honest.. Objective C sucks... It really, really does. I daily wonder WTF apple is thinking here? All the Mac fans ever talk about is how easy to use Macs are but it seems to me that Apple doesn't give the same respect to their dev tools.
I must say... I've been working with XCode to write some iPhone apps lately and all I can keep saying to myself is, "What the hell were they thinking when they created this?" The iPhone may be one sweet device but the dev tools really suck. I'm yet to try out Android but I'm hoping for a nicer experience...
Kidnappings have become a way of life in Haiti where gangs use the tactic as their primary means of fund raising. If this technology is real, many people in Haiti would make use of it. It's an unfortunate state of the country that such a worry would become the way of life.
Comcast really does really suck... After years of problems where the connection and TV server goes out when it rain, I'm happy to announce my switch to Verizon's FIOS network... Gotta love the fiber...
Amazingly enough, I'm surprised that I love Verizon's FIOS so much b/c years ago I had sooooo many problems with them. Unstable lines, shitty service, etc...
Yes. I do... Especially ever since my local phone provider switched my land line over to fiber to the house. So my net and phone are all on the same fiber, so I might as well use the VoIP solution and save the money.
At least they put the fiber interface on battery backup so it works even with the power out. POTS is going away so we might as well work with it.
BTW, the fiber has been ultra reliable. 1 year with it now and not one outage!! Yeah!:-) So much better then the cable modem.
- X
Re:VB already gets the respect it deserves...
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The fact that you've never met a VB.NET developer who understands those programming concepts is a result of the glut of bad programers put out there by businesses and recruiting companies training anyone they can find off the street to code when the developer population ran short. I've seen plenty of Java projects implemented by idiots that ran 3 times slower then a VB 6 program my team had written 3 years earlier.
The difference was not and never is the language. It's the developers that come into the business b/c of the good pay ($$$) and never made it through a Computer Science degree at a 4 year school. I've been interviewing and hiring developers over the past 5 years and the story is always the same. There are those who went to school and understand the concepts, and there are those who were taught the basics at some training course and then figure out the rest by blindly stabbing at the problem until it kind of works. The sad part is that I've had interviewees actually tell me that they were a person that got into programming when some company pulled them off the street and trained them for 4 weeks, then threw them into a contract that they needed bodies in to rack up billable hours. The sad part is that those same people come out at the end of the contract thinking that they can really build something!:-(
There's always going to be a (large) group of unprofessional idiots in any profession that requires no certification or licences and makes good money. Look how the booming real-estate market suddenly created so many "investors". All of the sudden everyone's a real-estate expert.;-)
I've been thinking this would be possible...
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Ever since I've started playing with the.NET CLR and development tools, I've realized how easy it would be to integrate Microsoft's.NET technology into Apache 2.x for Windows.
In my opinion, Microsoft has stolen so much from Java, that it seemed obvious to me that the CLR was the equivalent of Java's JVM, and could be tied into Apache just the same way Java has on the server side. I would like to throw out an interesting idea, and maybe I'll get shot down for it, but it seems to me that it should be very easy to install an Apache web server that could support both.NET and Java server-side technologies.
To take that idea even further, wouldn't it be interesting if we could share state information and session variables via a standard interface so that both environments could work together in a single web application! Of course, we could roll our own session variable mechanisms using a common database or something, but wouldn't it be pretty if the handling of session data were abstracted and standardized across platforms?
BTW, I'm just serious geek who's always looking for a cool way to tie stuff together, even if it is from Microsoft. I code all kinds of things using both Java and Microsoft technologies.
Whatever fits....
Just brainstorming here... What do you guys think???
It's amamzing... Maybe it has something to do with Florida!
I had built a PC for my uncle who lives in Florida and shipped it from my place in NY. When he received it he called me and told me the machine was severely damaged. He then repackaged the computer and sent it back to me and I could not believe my eyes when I saw the way the machine had been beaten. I looked like someone had bothered to open the box and beat the computer with a hammer. The case was bent on all sides, the drive mounts were broken off, the motherboard had a big crack in it, and there were a few cables missing from inside the computer!!!
How the f*** does this happen???
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X=X+0 - It's the only thing I know is still true...
MySQL is ok, but it lacks many important features that a corporate database should have. You don't sound like someone who has had experience with real enterprise databases, so you should research what your needs are before you start knocking SQL Server.
I usually hate Microsoft products, so please don't hold this against me. But I would take SQL Server 7/2000 or Oracle 8i/9i , over Access and MySQL any day. The Open Source DB's just aren't there yet.
My first problem with this is that it seems as though this type of system is only workable in live communication situations and doesn't help when trying to store an encrypted message. How does that help?
My second problem with this system is the fact that anyone could probably intercept the random number stream since it's being broadcast. It's probably true that someone who is intercepting the message can't decrypt it later but what about someone who tries to decrypt it right away? If they're listening to the random bit stream they could beat this encryption instantaneously....
I can't believe there were pictures of people using the phones on the street. I mean, who cares??? It's not like they were naked with the phones. That would be more interesting!!!
That error sucks. He needs a new Web hosting company. I was about to buy the software for my little brother, but he's exceeded his "transfer limit". Boy That SUCKS!!!!!
Embrace and extend... Always the same thing from M$. Sounds like the tobacco vs. CBS scenario where the media organization has to make a choice b/c as some one said in the movie, "The Insider", (I'm paraphrasing here..) "The more truth he tells on TV, the more liable we are and we could be sued for billions!". How can Microsoft own a DESCRIPTION of a standard they do not own? Doesn't make sense. M$ just wants to prove they own Kerberos b/c they couldn't come up with their own login/authentication system. Like they ever created anything. Keep up the good job slashdot. BTW, the guy from Samba who actually kicked off this whole fiasco is a political genius in my book.
Think about this. If Linux doesn't become easier to use, we will still be using Windows @ Work b/c nobody will want to put up with it. Think of the hours some of you must dread at work dealing with Windows crashes and stuff, the nightmare which is life now. You could be living a better life if Linux and Unix for that matter were easier to use and more generally accepted. Just think about it.:)
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Be more honest.. Objective C sucks... It really, really does. I daily wonder WTF apple is thinking here? All the Mac fans ever talk about is how easy to use Macs are but it seems to me that Apple doesn't give the same respect to their dev tools.
I must say... I've been working with XCode to write some iPhone apps lately and all I can keep saying to myself is, "What the hell were they thinking when they created this?" The iPhone may be one sweet device but the dev tools really suck. I'm yet to try out Android but I'm hoping for a nicer experience...
-Frustrated
Kidnappings have become a way of life in Haiti where gangs use the tactic as their primary means of fund raising. If this technology is real, many people in Haiti would make use of it. It's an unfortunate state of the country that such a worry would become the way of life.
Crappy ATI driver blue screens my Vista box every day... Maybe the attention this is getting will help me get better then 1 day uptimes for once!!!!
Comcast really does really suck... After years of problems where the connection and TV server goes out when it rain, I'm happy to announce my switch to Verizon's FIOS network... Gotta love the fiber...
:-)
Amazingly enough, I'm surprised that I love Verizon's FIOS so much b/c years ago I had sooooo many problems with them. Unstable lines, shitty service, etc...
But now the fiber rocks! Yeah!
My brand spanking new DELL PC with Vista ultimate installed blue screen's at least once a day.
:-(
Way to go Microsoft!
Yes. I do... Especially ever since my local phone provider switched my land line over to fiber to the house. So my net and phone are all on the same fiber, so I might as well use the VoIP solution and save the money.
:-) So much better then the cable modem.
At least they put the fiber interface on battery backup so it works even with the power out. POTS is going away so we might as well work with it.
BTW, the fiber has been ultra reliable. 1 year with it now and not one outage!! Yeah!
- X
The fact that you've never met a VB.NET developer who understands those programming concepts is a result of the glut of bad programers put out there by businesses and recruiting companies training anyone they can find off the street to code when the developer population ran short. I've seen plenty of Java projects implemented by idiots that ran 3 times slower then a VB 6 program my team had written 3 years earlier.
:-(
;-)
The difference was not and never is the language. It's the developers that come into the business b/c of the good pay ($$$) and never made it through a Computer Science degree at a 4 year school. I've been interviewing and hiring developers over the past 5 years and the story is always the same. There are those who went to school and understand the concepts, and there are those who were taught the basics at some training course and then figure out the rest by blindly stabbing at the problem until it kind of works. The sad part is that I've had interviewees actually tell me that they were a person that got into programming when some company pulled them off the street and trained them for 4 weeks, then threw them into a contract that they needed bodies in to rack up billable hours. The sad part is that those same people come out at the end of the contract thinking that they can really build something!
There's always going to be a (large) group of unprofessional idiots in any profession that requires no certification or licences and makes good money. Look how the booming real-estate market suddenly created so many "investors". All of the sudden everyone's a real-estate expert.
Ever since I've started playing with the .NET CLR and development tools, I've realized how easy it would be to integrate Microsoft's .NET technology into Apache 2.x for Windows.
.NET and Java server-side technologies.
In my opinion, Microsoft has stolen so much from Java, that it seemed obvious to me that the CLR was the equivalent of Java's JVM, and could be tied into Apache just the same way Java has on the server side. I would like to throw out an interesting idea, and maybe I'll get shot down for it, but it seems to me that it should be very easy to install an Apache web server that could support both
To take that idea even further, wouldn't it be interesting if we could share state information and session variables via a standard interface so that both environments could work together in a single web application! Of course, we could roll our own session variable mechanisms using a common database or something, but wouldn't it be pretty if the handling of session data were abstracted and standardized across platforms?
BTW, I'm just serious geek who's always looking for a cool way to tie stuff together, even if it is from Microsoft. I code all kinds of things using both Java and Microsoft technologies.
Whatever fits....
Just brainstorming here... What do you guys think???
Not the Ping of Death!!!!
A denial of service attack could render Teddy sterile... Watch out!!!
It's amamzing... Maybe it has something to do with Florida!
I had built a PC for my uncle who lives in Florida and shipped it from my place in NY. When he received it he called me and told me the machine was severely damaged. He then repackaged the computer and sent it back to me and I could not believe my eyes when I saw the way the machine had been beaten. I looked like someone had bothered to open the box and beat the computer with a hammer. The case was bent on all sides, the drive mounts were broken off, the motherboard had a big crack in it, and there were a few cables missing from inside the computer!!!
How the f*** does this happen???
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X=X+0 - It's the only thing I know is still true...
MySQL is ok, but it lacks many important features that a corporate database should have. You don't sound like someone who has had experience with real enterprise databases, so you should research what your needs are before you start knocking SQL Server.
I usually hate Microsoft products, so please don't hold this against me. But I would take SQL Server 7/2000 or Oracle 8i/9i , over Access and MySQL any day. The Open Source DB's just aren't there yet.
That's reality... for the moment....
My first problem with this is that it seems as though this type of system is only workable in live communication situations and doesn't help when trying to store an encrypted message. How does that help? My second problem with this system is the fact that anyone could probably intercept the random number stream since it's being broadcast. It's probably true that someone who is intercepting the message can't decrypt it later but what about someone who tries to decrypt it right away? If they're listening to the random bit stream they could beat this encryption instantaneously....
I can't believe there were pictures of people using the phones on the street. I mean, who cares??? It's not like they were naked with the phones. That would be more interesting!!!
X=X+0. Is the only truth I know...
That error sucks. He needs a new Web hosting company. I was about to buy the software for my little brother, but he's exceeded his "transfer limit".
Boy That SUCKS!!!!!
Embrace and extend... Always the same thing from M$. Sounds like the tobacco vs. CBS scenario where the media organization has to make a choice b/c as some one said in the movie, "The Insider", (I'm paraphrasing here..) "The more truth he tells on TV, the more liable we are and we could be sued for billions!". How can Microsoft own a DESCRIPTION of a standard they do not own? Doesn't make sense. M$ just wants to prove they own Kerberos b/c they couldn't come up with their own login/authentication system. Like they ever created anything. Keep up the good job slashdot. BTW, the guy from Samba who actually kicked off this whole fiasco is a political genius in my book.
Think about this. If Linux doesn't become easier to use, we will still be using Windows @ Work b/c nobody will want to put up with it. Think of the hours some of you must dread at work dealing with Windows crashes and stuff, the nightmare which is life now. You could be living a better life if Linux and Unix for that matter were easier to use and more generally accepted. Just think about it. :)
And rememebr...
X=X+0