Your insistence that all Catholics, or all priests are butt bandits is laughable, of course
Anybody who does not actively and vehemently denounce the legitimacy of those priests who engaged in that behavior, is complicit in that behavior. All you've done is make some lukewarm statement about how a few bad people shouldn't influence my feelings on the matter. I have never, not a single time, heard a Catholic apologize to me for what happened, and try to restore my faith. Instead, I get people just like you, who blame ME for what happened and try to tell me I'm some sort of idiot for losing faith. It's clear you don't WANT me back, and I'm happy to oblige.
What you need is a spine. No offense, but they can't walk on you if you don't let them. If you really do have a history of creating *successful* products you shouldn't have too much of a problem finding alternate employment. No, really. Everyone is TRYING to hire right now, but because the market is flooded due to unemployment, they are being extremely picky. If you're good enough you CAN get a position and it WILL pay well.
I would hardly consider it "ownership" if you can be removed like that. A significant stakeholder, even a founder, maybe. But if you can be ousted, you're not an owner.
Whoever rated me Flamebait, are you a Catholic? Do you seriously consider my response to be a flame? I was close to this scandal. Too close. Instead of talking to me and trying to explain how such a terrible thing could happen within a good Church, and trying to restore my faith, you call me a flamer, or a troll? You are the lowest scum of this universe. Burn eternally in the Hell you believe in, fuckwad.
Since diamond is a crystal, or, if you like, a 3D polymer, what does it really mean to say that something is "molten diamond?" To what degree do the carbon atoms remain covalently bonded? Diamond in molten form could hardly be considered the same substance as crystalline diamond. With water, the individual H2O molecules maintain their identities in the solid and liquid phases. What about diamond?
You say it like finances are the only difficulty. Sourceforge is run and maintained by real people. You know, human beings with physical bodies, and perhaps families. These people would have to move their families to another country. I think you'd have to have a fanatical amount of idealism to do something like that. I certainly would not.
How many people actually use the VS IDE? Where I work, we compile with Visual Studio, but among my team there is only one person who actually edits in the IDE. We egg him about that from time to time, in good nature. To each his own, I hate the IDE, but the debugger is okay. Just because you're using Visual Studio doesn't mean you have to use the IDE.
The reason is that without it, the make language would be ambiguous. It would have no way of determining where the end of the command set is. The beginning of the next rule would be indistinguishable from a continuation of the previous command set. Had the language required some kind of separator or terminator between rules, the significant tab would not be necessary. Alas.
My previous reply was too terse, I think. What on Earth did you expect to happen? Here I am, a young kid, and I found out this person I was supposed to trust was doing terrible things to other people my age. And I, a 10 year old, was supposed to think spiritually at that moment? It's my fault? You people are fucking sick, and I'm glad I left. Thanks a lot for all the support you gave me back when this occurred, i.e. none at all. At the time, I figured nobody came to talk to us because they were all too busy fucking boys in the ass. Fuck the Catholic Church.
God? Who's that? My mom took me to a big pretty building once a week. Then I found out the guy standing in front was having sex with kids my age. So I decided to not go to the big pretty building any more.
But copyright holders have no control over the dissemination of books in public libraries!
Yes they do. If the library purchases one copy of a book, they can only loan out one copy of that book. They can't take it into the back room and make thirty copies of it. That's because... wait for it... the author and/or publisher maintains copyright control of that book.
Ok, I'll begin. I was Catholic. Then our priest was caught banging boys, and what did the church do? They sent him to California. I guess that sort of behavior is more acceptable down there. Since then, I'm atheist. Is that clear enough for you?
Obama made the promise, Congress is failing to uphold it. I don't see a problem here.
The problem is promising something that anyone with a basic understanding of how American government works knows he will be unable to deliver. Had he promised to work as hard as possible WITH the Congress to pass health care reform, that would have been one thing. Promising that it WILL happen is like promising that I'll be giving you my boss's salary. My boss has other plans.
These guys are dodging their civic duties for good PR and nothing more.
You are a moron. See the opinion of the Supreme Court, Gregory v. Helvering. I quote: "The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted."
You are a whiner who doesn't like the fact that other people are far more successful than you. "Civic duty?" Yeah, Page and Brin certainly haven't contributed anything meaningful to society... It's not like they invented an Internet search engine or something like that, right?
On the contrary, my experience has been that non-native speakers of English are actually better at understanding other non-native speakers. I don't know why that is, but intuitively it makes sense -- non-native speakers probably learned from a diversity of other non-native speakers.
I was at a WinHEC panel session in 2008 and the panel leader had absolutely horrible English (I'm sure he was intelligent, but he wasn't intelligible). Somebody else, clearly of another racial background (the specific ethnicities are unimportant) stood up and asked a question, also in completely unintelligible English. The questioner and speaker went back and forth for several minutes speaking. Other non-native speakers in the audience were nodding their heads emphatically, indicating they could understand as well. I looked around and every American in the room seemed completely baffled.
He gave them 10 days to find the problem, invent a correct fix for it, a fix that works on all supported releases of Windows, quality test it, compatibility test it on thousands of configurations and against all the major pieces of 16-bit software that are still in use, and release it, and he was surprised when that didn't happen? What a dick.
I'm not thinking "What a bunch of losers, they waited six months then busted the thing out in a single day when they got called on it." I'm thinking "Wow, I'm pretty impressed they were able to do that in only six months."
People like you (and Ormandy) seem to have NO FREAKING IDEA how something as enormous as Windows is developed. I suppose you'd prefer they slam out a rough-cut patch in 24 hours, only to discover later that it introduces ADDITIONAL problems and vulnerabilities, and well I guess that's awesome for you because then you get to bitch at them for that as well. Get a real job and write some real software.
Yeah, the quality of Microsoft's products is clearly due to programmer incompetence, it certainly has nothing to do with management or mis-prioritization. As we all know, management at Microsoft is composed of angels and benevolent demi-gods. If only those developers with hearts of pure evil would stop messing everything up...
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Your insistence that all Catholics, or all priests are butt bandits is laughable, of course
Anybody who does not actively and vehemently denounce the legitimacy of those priests who engaged in that behavior, is complicit in that behavior. All you've done is make some lukewarm statement about how a few bad people shouldn't influence my feelings on the matter. I have never, not a single time, heard a Catholic apologize to me for what happened, and try to restore my faith. Instead, I get people just like you, who blame ME for what happened and try to tell me I'm some sort of idiot for losing faith. It's clear you don't WANT me back, and I'm happy to oblige.
What you need is a spine. No offense, but they can't walk on you if you don't let them. If you really do have a history of creating *successful* products you shouldn't have too much of a problem finding alternate employment. No, really. Everyone is TRYING to hire right now, but because the market is flooded due to unemployment, they are being extremely picky. If you're good enough you CAN get a position and it WILL pay well.
I would hardly consider it "ownership" if you can be removed like that. A significant stakeholder, even a founder, maybe. But if you can be ousted, you're not an owner.
Whoever rated me Flamebait, are you a Catholic? Do you seriously consider my response to be a flame? I was close to this scandal. Too close. Instead of talking to me and trying to explain how such a terrible thing could happen within a good Church, and trying to restore my faith, you call me a flamer, or a troll? You are the lowest scum of this universe. Burn eternally in the Hell you believe in, fuckwad.
Since diamond is a crystal, or, if you like, a 3D polymer, what does it really mean to say that something is "molten diamond?" To what degree do the carbon atoms remain covalently bonded? Diamond in molten form could hardly be considered the same substance as crystalline diamond. With water, the individual H2O molecules maintain their identities in the solid and liquid phases. What about diamond?
They should produce fewer successful games and more unsuccessful ones? I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to say.
If a business owner doesn't want to listen to the employees he/she hires, why would he care about hiring qualified applicants?
Good for you. Next applicant?
Fire the owner? Uhhh... Unless the company has a board of directors, how exactly does one do that? With a firearm?
Sure, I'll sign a form for you, it's called a Release of Employment.
I guess you think it's safe for a person to dig around for their headset and put it on while driving a car, then?
You say it like finances are the only difficulty. Sourceforge is run and maintained by real people. You know, human beings with physical bodies, and perhaps families. These people would have to move their families to another country. I think you'd have to have a fanatical amount of idealism to do something like that. I certainly would not.
How many people actually use the VS IDE? Where I work, we compile with Visual Studio, but among my team there is only one person who actually edits in the IDE. We egg him about that from time to time, in good nature. To each his own, I hate the IDE, but the debugger is okay. Just because you're using Visual Studio doesn't mean you have to use the IDE.
The reason is that without it, the make language would be ambiguous. It would have no way of determining where the end of the command set is. The beginning of the next rule would be indistinguishable from a continuation of the previous command set. Had the language required some kind of separator or terminator between rules, the significant tab would not be necessary. Alas.
My previous reply was too terse, I think. What on Earth did you expect to happen? Here I am, a young kid, and I found out this person I was supposed to trust was doing terrible things to other people my age. And I, a 10 year old, was supposed to think spiritually at that moment? It's my fault? You people are fucking sick, and I'm glad I left. Thanks a lot for all the support you gave me back when this occurred, i.e. none at all. At the time, I figured nobody came to talk to us because they were all too busy fucking boys in the ass. Fuck the Catholic Church.
God? Who's that? My mom took me to a big pretty building once a week. Then I found out the guy standing in front was having sex with kids my age. So I decided to not go to the big pretty building any more.
But copyright holders have no control over the dissemination of books in public libraries!
Yes they do. If the library purchases one copy of a book, they can only loan out one copy of that book. They can't take it into the back room and make thirty copies of it. That's because... wait for it... the author and/or publisher maintains copyright control of that book.
Cue the Catholic--bashing in 3.. 2.. 1...
Ok, I'll begin. I was Catholic. Then our priest was caught banging boys, and what did the church do? They sent him to California. I guess that sort of behavior is more acceptable down there. Since then, I'm atheist. Is that clear enough for you?
Obama made the promise, Congress is failing to uphold it. I don't see a problem here.
The problem is promising something that anyone with a basic understanding of how American government works knows he will be unable to deliver. Had he promised to work as hard as possible WITH the Congress to pass health care reform, that would have been one thing. Promising that it WILL happen is like promising that I'll be giving you my boss's salary. My boss has other plans.
These guys are dodging their civic duties for good PR and nothing more.
You are a moron. See the opinion of the Supreme Court, Gregory v. Helvering . I quote: "The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted."
You are a whiner who doesn't like the fact that other people are far more successful than you. "Civic duty?" Yeah, Page and Brin certainly haven't contributed anything meaningful to society... It's not like they invented an Internet search engine or something like that, right?
On the contrary, my experience has been that non-native speakers of English are actually better at understanding other non-native speakers. I don't know why that is, but intuitively it makes sense -- non-native speakers probably learned from a diversity of other non-native speakers.
I was at a WinHEC panel session in 2008 and the panel leader had absolutely horrible English (I'm sure he was intelligent, but he wasn't intelligible). Somebody else, clearly of another racial background (the specific ethnicities are unimportant) stood up and asked a question, also in completely unintelligible English. The questioner and speaker went back and forth for several minutes speaking. Other non-native speakers in the audience were nodding their heads emphatically, indicating they could understand as well. I looked around and every American in the room seemed completely baffled.
You're surprised that a Google-owned megasite adds support for a Google-made browser off the starting line? What else surprises you?
He gave them 10 days to find the problem, invent a correct fix for it, a fix that works on all supported releases of Windows, quality test it, compatibility test it on thousands of configurations and against all the major pieces of 16-bit software that are still in use, and release it, and he was surprised when that didn't happen? What a dick.
I'm not thinking "What a bunch of losers, they waited six months then busted the thing out in a single day when they got called on it." I'm thinking "Wow, I'm pretty impressed they were able to do that in only six months."
People like you (and Ormandy) seem to have NO FREAKING IDEA how something as enormous as Windows is developed. I suppose you'd prefer they slam out a rough-cut patch in 24 hours, only to discover later that it introduces ADDITIONAL problems and vulnerabilities, and well I guess that's awesome for you because then you get to bitch at them for that as well. Get a real job and write some real software.
Yeah, the quality of Microsoft's products is clearly due to programmer incompetence, it certainly has nothing to do with management or mis-prioritization. As we all know, management at Microsoft is composed of angels and benevolent demi-gods. If only those developers with hearts of pure evil would stop messing everything up...
You think he should volunteer 51 weeks a year? Or you think volunteering is a waste of time?