The lack of trust in Microsoft's motives is completely and utterly justified..NET is great, however the owner of the patents on it is not well known for being nice to its partners nevermind competitors.
People's lack of trust in Microsoft's behaviour is not some paranoid delusion but the result of years of experience of watching them misbehave. How do you know that Microsoft won't try to say that Mono violates their patents? They've already said that Linux does, but in the case of Mono they may well be able to prove it. I work in C#.NET and I really enjoy my job but I wouldn't trust Microsoft not to shit on a competitor. Even a brief look at their long and chequered legal history would show that.
I don't think anyone actually runs VMs under Windows, it's rather the other way around.
Where I work now, we all use VMs running under Windows, and one of my jobs at the last place I worked was to create a VM with all the required software for the devs. One of the greatest things about virtualization is that you can give all your devs the same setup just by copying a VM to their physical machine. I also use virtualization under Windows at home for development purposes, where fucking up a VM is a lot easier to recover from than fucking up a host machine. I reckon you need to think again about your last statement.
Or on a TFT monitor that costs a reasonable amount. I'm going to buy a 32in TV as my next monitor as the resolution is just the same as a standalone one and I can do more with a proper TV.
It's not blind chance, it's mutations that provide an advantage being passed on to offspring. Now stop trolling Slashdot and go find some actual evidence for ID if it bothers you that much.
Not letting you easily run Explorer.exe as admin is more stupid. I know it can be done but it's a pain and should instead just ask for credentials if you want to write to a directory that the standard account doesn't have permissions on.
Norton Antivirus is a well recognised trojan offering 'to protect your machine from threats' but in reality siphoning money from your credit card once a year and bringing your machine to a standstill.
I read that and immediately thought what fucking idiots would use ActiveX for anything so fucking important. And then I thought fucking hell a bit more.
It won't happen until long after that. There are millions of XP installations around the world that do what their users want them to do. They won't be upgrading any time soon. IE9 not being on XP is fucking annoying for those of us who will need to support two versions of IE for a long time, just as we were seeing off IE6 and 7.
I have a cert, but I am well aware that that was only the start of what I needed to learn. Not all 'cert chasers' are stupid, in fact having something to wave in front of HR is often a good idea. Plus passing my cert took a lot of self-motivation and hard study which also looks good to a prospective employer.
I have however worked with more cowboys than Buffalo Bill too, and some of them had Master's Degrees.
Industry used to be responsible for training and educating workers appropriately beyond their academic career.
"Don't be ridiculous - someone else should do that. We should just sit around bitching about the lack of experienced staff and demand that the education system should be providing them, whilst at the same time trying our best to avoid paying any tax so that schools can't afford to do this.
Thank you for saying what I was thinking. Just because you don't feel like developing some shit app in your free time doesn't mean you're not a great developer in work time. If I was interviewing I would have to wonder what kind of well-rounded person would spend all their free time doing the same stuff they do at work and would worry that they lacked the requisite social skills to work in a team.
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The lack of trust in Microsoft's motives is completely and utterly justified. .NET is great, however the owner of the patents on it is not well known for being nice to its partners nevermind competitors.
People's lack of trust in Microsoft's behaviour is not some paranoid delusion but the result of years of experience of watching them misbehave. How do you know that Microsoft won't try to say that Mono violates their patents? They've already said that Linux does, but in the case of Mono they may well be able to prove it. I work in C# .NET and I really enjoy my job but I wouldn't trust Microsoft not to shit on a competitor. Even a brief look at their long and chequered legal history would show that.
Microsoft doesn't allow installation of Windows in a VM? Since when?
Don't try it unless you want to be zapped by Steve's orbiting death ray.
Where I work now, we all use VMs running under Windows, and one of my jobs at the last place I worked was to create a VM with all the required software for the devs. One of the greatest things about virtualization is that you can give all your devs the same setup just by copying a VM to their physical machine. I also use virtualization under Windows at home for development purposes, where fucking up a VM is a lot easier to recover from than fucking up a host machine. I reckon you need to think again about your last statement.
Those adverts are so fucking patronizing - I want to kill everyone involved in making them.
Are Sony offering any kind of counselling for those poor addicted geeks' horrendous withdrawal?
I hope I meet someone who bought one of those - I'm sure I could sell them a bridge or two.
You here so much bull about Islam these days so I tend to question everything I hear about it.
It does?
Or on a TFT monitor that costs a reasonable amount. I'm going to buy a 32in TV as my next monitor as the resolution is just the same as a standalone one and I can do more with a proper TV.
Good point well made. First FTFY that hasn't made me homicidal, well done ;-)
It's not blind chance, it's mutations that provide an advantage being passed on to offspring. Now stop trolling Slashdot and go find some actual evidence for ID if it bothers you that much.
Not letting you easily run Explorer.exe as admin is more stupid. I know it can be done but it's a pain and should instead just ask for credentials if you want to write to a directory that the standard account doesn't have permissions on.
Norton Antivirus is a well recognised trojan offering 'to protect your machine from threats' but in reality siphoning money from your credit card once a year and bringing your machine to a standstill.
You do know that web browsers can be used on networks other than the internet don't you?
I read that and immediately thought what fucking idiots would use ActiveX for anything so fucking important. And then I thought fucking hell a bit more.
You clearly haven't worked on a badly hacked 20 year old project. I shudder to think about what an awful mess Flash is internally.
I think Flashblock should be installed by default on all major browsers.
It won't happen until long after that. There are millions of XP installations around the world that do what their users want them to do. They won't be upgrading any time soon. IE9 not being on XP is fucking annoying for those of us who will need to support two versions of IE for a long time, just as we were seeing off IE6 and 7.
Douchebaggery is a superb word and I will be using it in conversation at some point this week :-)
I have a cert, but I am well aware that that was only the start of what I needed to learn. Not all 'cert chasers' are stupid, in fact having something to wave in front of HR is often a good idea. Plus passing my cert took a lot of self-motivation and hard study which also looks good to a prospective employer.
I have however worked with more cowboys than Buffalo Bill too, and some of them had Master's Degrees.
Industry used to be responsible for training and educating workers appropriately beyond their academic career.
"Don't be ridiculous - someone else should do that. We should just sit around bitching about the lack of experienced staff and demand that the education system should be providing them, whilst at the same time trying our best to avoid paying any tax so that schools can't afford to do this.
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Your Corporate Overlords"
Thank you for saying what I was thinking. Just because you don't feel like developing some shit app in your free time doesn't mean you're not a great developer in work time. If I was interviewing I would have to wonder what kind of well-rounded person would spend all their free time doing the same stuff they do at work and would worry that they lacked the requisite social skills to work in a team.