You make a big mistake by assuming that in communism there's as much wealth to share. Communism prevents the most capable citizens of being productive. It stops ideas from blossoming and society from being developed as that may change the status quo. Communism is all about actively stalling development.
The newspaper in Oulu, Finland recently published old news and letters to the editor to celebrate it's history. In the beginning of the 80's there was a letter written to the newspaper by a communist. The writer was furious about the resources that the Oulu University was wasting in R&D of "spy phones" and "toys" and demanded the society to stop that. Resources were supposed to be spent in heavy industry and deeper cooperation with the Soviet Union.
What were these "spy phones" and "toys?" The first steps of Nokia cell phones.
One thing worth noting is also that Finland is a very homogenous country. Almost everybody are ethnically finnish. In spoken language we even refer to our swedish speaking minority as swedes even though they have nothing more than a language common with our western neighbour.
So people in Finland tend to associate people with countries instead of races. The only exception is maybe black people who are mostly associated with somali.
I don't understand how you can rationalize "fuck you, jews" to be anti-Israel, and not anti-Semitic.
Dude, nobody hates jews as a race or as individuals up here. Many oppose of their politics in Israel, though. Any jews living here don't have to worry about their security a single bit.
If it's true, that's a nice little bit of anti-Semitism at the end. He may want to be anti-Israel, but he's just exposed himself as a garden-variety anti-Semite, too.
Writing as a fellow Finn, I can assure you that most people here don't know the difference between Jews and Israel. I'm sure Jani only has hard opinions against the government and the politics of the Israel state.
Furthermore, I really think that the anti-semitist card has been used for far too long already. Hitler did a horrible crime against Jews but Israel shouldn't use that to gain political advantage any more. Israel is not the weak little victim in this conflict.
Jani has been pretty silent all year. Google groups only found 22 posts from him this year. The drop from previous years is huge.
Anyway, Jani did take part in discussions about Israel on the sfnet.keskustelu.maanpuolustus some five years ago. His opinions were not pro-Israel. This would add credibility to the irc-log. Maybe he knew the Finn who was recently killed in Lebanon by Israel?
If you want a bug fixed fast, you should make it as easy as possible for the developer to reproduce the problem:
1. Get the latest nightly build and a fresh start with a new mozilla/firefox profile 2. Write exactly step-by-step how to reprocuce the problem
If you do that, the developer can follow your steps. If he can reliably reproduce the bug, you've done a great job and helped identifying the bug. If not, there's not much the developer can do to help you.
There are lots of things that happen that we simply don't understand. Consider 'action at a distance'. The concept that object one can apply a force on object two without touching it.
Read for example "A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawkins. He explains gravity quite well there among lots of other issues regarding our universe.
Science will never be able to disprove religion.
Actually science has disproven religion for a long time already. Thousands of years ago people thought that our sun was God. Science has proven that it's not.
CVS replies with canned answers as long as it's less work for them than fixing the problem. Answering e-mails with canned answers is easy. But they will do something if you guys call them and people have to sit in the phone explaining it over and over again.
Make sure to tell long and pointless ramblings instead of technical details.
So Longhorn will open the docs and render a small picture of the document? It just blows my mind that MS didn't realise that it's a security hole begging to be abused.
Preview is as dangerous as opening a file. If the preview code has security issues, you only have to get a malicious file saved on the computer. Next time the user browses his/her files, it gets opened.
First of all, I've done about 7 years of VB programming and 4 of Delphi programming. I work as a developer in a company that uses both languages.
All the advantages you point out in VB are also in Delphi. It has an integrated IDE like VB does. You create software pretty much the same way except you use Pascal instead of Basic.
VB is only better at debugging. You can make changes without having to recompile and restart. But that's it.
Advantages of Delphi over VB:
- Wonderful backwards compatibility. Delphi apps written with Delphi2 can be compiled with Delphi7 without any modifications.
- Small and fast executables.
- The component model is just wonderful. It's truly enjoyable to write own components in Delphi.
- You can write advanced software with Delphi. It lets you dig deeper when you want to. For example: writing multithreading apps.
- Delphi offers much more components than VB6.
Do yourself a favour and try to learn Delphi. You won't regret it.
Are they not responsible for the power structure that is in place that allows atrocities to be comitted on a dily basis?
Are you really sure you want to blame the people of North Korea? Because I've tried very hard to not blame the citizens of USA for the Iraq war and war on terror.
IMO the US people are nice. Too bad they have a rotten government that gives them a bad rep...
The parent coward really knows what (s)he's writing about. I'd only like to add one more thing: Don't rest your hands while you type. Let your arms move around the keyboard. Your elbows can rest on the chair though.
I started programming way before Windows and used to do only basic. When Visual Basic came, it was awesome. I ended up doing even some pretty big projects with VB3. You didn't even notice that it was "only" made with basic as I knew how to write fast code. Learned all the ugly tricks and invented a few more while I was at it.
Problems started when Microsoft released VB4. The changes were so big (vbx->ocx, 16bit->32bit) that I realy couldn't compile my software any more. One of our employees went through the trouble with a smaller project but mine was pretty close to impossible. So I thought I'd rewrite and make a new and better version at the same time. I guess I chose VB5 or 6 at that point.
To speed up VB6, I decided to write DLLs with C. That's a lot more efficient when handling strings. What I noticed was that VB stores strings as 16 bit unicode. However, when the string is passed to a DLL, VB converts it to 8 bit Ansi. When an array is passed, the whole array is converted. It was awfully slow. Worse was that there was no way to change that. After one week of frustrations I decided to give Delphi a try.
Now I have done almost only Delphi for 4 years. Delphi is pretty much as easy as VB but it produces way faster code. The best part is that you can go as deep as you want when you want it. You can write your own controls, the object model is beautiful, and everything just works and makes perfect sense. The difference is really monumental.
When I look back, I can't imagine how stupid I was for using VB earlier.
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You make a big mistake by assuming that in communism there's as much wealth to share. Communism prevents the most capable citizens of being productive. It stops ideas from blossoming and society from being developed as that may change the status quo. Communism is all about actively stalling development.
The newspaper in Oulu, Finland recently published old news and letters to the editor to celebrate it's history. In the beginning of the 80's there was a letter written to the newspaper by a communist. The writer was furious about the resources that the Oulu University was wasting in R&D of "spy phones" and "toys" and demanded the society to stop that. Resources were supposed to be spent in heavy industry and deeper cooperation with the Soviet Union.
What were these "spy phones" and "toys?" The first steps of Nokia cell phones.
I do my work because I like working and I like my work.
Exactly. Well written!
One thing worth noting is also that Finland is a very homogenous country. Almost everybody are ethnically finnish. In spoken language we even refer to our swedish speaking minority as swedes even though they have nothing more than a language common with our western neighbour.
So people in Finland tend to associate people with countries instead of races. The only exception is maybe black people who are mostly associated with somali.
I don't understand how you can rationalize "fuck you, jews" to be anti-Israel, and not anti-Semitic.
Dude, nobody hates jews as a race or as individuals up here. Many oppose of their politics in Israel, though. Any jews living here don't have to worry about their security a single bit.
If it's true, that's a nice little bit of anti-Semitism at the end. He may want to be anti-Israel, but he's just exposed himself as a garden-variety anti-Semite, too.
Writing as a fellow Finn, I can assure you that most people here don't know the difference between Jews and Israel. I'm sure Jani only has hard opinions against the government and the politics of the Israel state.
Furthermore, I really think that the anti-semitist card has been used for far too long already. Hitler did a horrible crime against Jews but Israel shouldn't use that to gain political advantage any more. Israel is not the weak little victim in this conflict.
Jani has been pretty silent all year. Google groups only found 22 posts from him this year. The drop from previous years is huge.
Anyway, Jani did take part in discussions about Israel on the sfnet.keskustelu.maanpuolustus some five years ago. His opinions were not pro-Israel. This would add credibility to the irc-log. Maybe he knew the Finn who was recently killed in Lebanon by Israel?
Why should I try a Linux distribution whose name sounds like a cow having bowel problems?
That's how bad the name sounded. It took me months to even try the distribution. Now I love it.
Why change the whole domain? Wouldn't it be easier just to get another domain for e-mail and stop accepting e-mail on the .org domain?
If you want a bug fixed fast, you should make it as easy as possible for the developer to reproduce the problem:
1. Get the latest nightly build and a fresh start with a new mozilla/firefox profile
2. Write exactly step-by-step how to reprocuce the problem
If you do that, the developer can follow your steps. If he can reliably reproduce the bug, you've done a great job and helped identifying the bug. If not, there's not much the developer can do to help you.
There are lots of things that happen that we simply don't understand. Consider 'action at a distance'. The concept that object one can apply a force on object two without touching it.
Read for example "A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawkins. He explains gravity quite well there among lots of other issues regarding our universe.
Science will never be able to disprove religion.
Actually science has disproven religion for a long time already. Thousands of years ago people thought that our sun was God. Science has proven that it's not.
CVS replies with canned answers as long as it's less work for them than fixing the problem. Answering e-mails with canned answers is easy. But they will do something if you guys call them and people have to sit in the phone explaining it over and over again.
Make sure to tell long and pointless ramblings instead of technical details.
Are you gonna pay them? Where do we send the bill?
Hand counting costs the same per capita. Larger population -> more counters -> more people to split the expenses.
I'm also using Putty on my Nokia 9300 Communicator. I couldn't be happier about that phone!
So Longhorn will open the docs and render a small picture of the document? It just blows my mind that MS didn't realise that it's a security hole begging to be abused.
Preview is as dangerous as opening a file. If the preview code has security issues, you only have to get a malicious file saved on the computer. Next time the user browses his/her files, it gets opened.
First of all, I've done about 7 years of VB programming and 4 of Delphi programming. I work as a developer in a company that uses both languages.
All the advantages you point out in VB are also in Delphi. It has an integrated IDE like VB does. You create software pretty much the same way except you use Pascal instead of Basic.
VB is only better at debugging. You can make changes without having to recompile and restart. But that's it.
Advantages of Delphi over VB:
- Wonderful backwards compatibility. Delphi apps written with Delphi2 can be compiled with Delphi7 without any modifications.
- Small and fast executables.
- The component model is just wonderful. It's truly enjoyable to write own components in Delphi.
- You can write advanced software with Delphi. It lets you dig deeper when you want to. For example: writing multithreading apps.
- Delphi offers much more components than VB6.
Do yourself a favour and try to learn Delphi. You won't regret it.
You could have had all the advantages you mentioned ages ago by using Delphi.
Are the people really really innocnet?
Are you sure? Really really sure?
Are they not responsible for the power structure that is in place that allows atrocities to be comitted on a dily basis?
Are you really sure you want to blame the people of North Korea? Because I've tried very hard to not blame the citizens of USA for the Iraq war and war on terror.
IMO the US people are nice. Too bad they have a rotten government that gives them a bad rep...
Here's some info about Poland's motivations:
/ 19/in_poland_support_for_us_on_iraq_seen_as_unappr eciated/
http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2004/12
The parent coward really knows what (s)he's writing about. I'd only like to add one more thing: Don't rest your hands while you type. Let your arms move around the keyboard. Your elbows can rest on the chair though.
Adolf? Is that you?
I started programming way before Windows and used to do only basic. When Visual Basic came, it was awesome. I ended up doing even some pretty big projects with VB3. You didn't even notice that it was "only" made with basic as I knew how to write fast code. Learned all the ugly tricks and invented a few more while I was at it.
Problems started when Microsoft released VB4. The changes were so big (vbx->ocx, 16bit->32bit) that I realy couldn't compile my software any more. One of our employees went through the trouble with a smaller project but mine was pretty close to impossible. So I thought I'd rewrite and make a new and better version at the same time. I guess I chose VB5 or 6 at that point.
To speed up VB6, I decided to write DLLs with C. That's a lot more efficient when handling strings. What I noticed was that VB stores strings as 16 bit unicode. However, when the string is passed to a DLL, VB converts it to 8 bit Ansi. When an array is passed, the whole array is converted. It was awfully slow. Worse was that there was no way to change that. After one week of frustrations I decided to give Delphi a try.
Now I have done almost only Delphi for 4 years. Delphi is pretty much as easy as VB but it produces way faster code. The best part is that you can go as deep as you want when you want it. You can write your own controls, the object model is beautiful, and everything just works and makes perfect sense. The difference is really monumental.
When I look back, I can't imagine how stupid I was for using VB earlier.
I wouldn't put that much faith on that page. The part about Finland and Sweden destroying herds of reindeer is utter rubbish.
You need to have a Windows license for every computer.
You can install Mandrake Linux on as many computers you need without being a MandrakeClub member. Only one membership is needed if you feel like joining.
6810 and 6820 will have bluetooth.