How did this get modded insightful? If it was even remotely true that only government intervention can prevent total company domination, there would be not jobs today that paid more than minimum wage.
VB was probably a bad example. However, I have to agree that Linux has not yet provided a decent development environment. The productivity of Linux developers comes from skill and commitment to perservere despite their tools. Recent commentary about its hand-holding notwithstanding, M$ DevStudio is the *best* IDE and debugging environment ever produced for serious C/C++ programming. Oh how I'd love to have something remotely comparable on Linux! And don't try to tell me it's already there (unless you can point to specific projects). GCC is probably an okay compiler, but there's no comparable IDE available, and GDB *sucks* in comparison to source level debugging in DevStudio.
Professors who either won't or can't teach should be expected by any prospective college student. The reason can be summed up in one word... tenure. Guaranteeing anyone a job for life is stupid.
Not sure why this got modded informative. Once you get past the ranting and the profanity I thought there might be a gem, but Google doesn't turn up anything on "Sender Recipient Signing". Whatever you're talking about, that's probably not what it's called.
My personal favorite has to be the time my primary personal hard drive failed. From the smell I suspect the problem was a capacitor in the spindle drive circuitry. Data recovery services were much too expensive, and I had nothing more to loose, so I opened it up. I could tell when it powered up the platter didn't seem to know which way to spin. A deft flick of the finger at power-up in the right direction, and I was able to recover my data. It was kind of fun to see a hard-drive operate with no cover on!
Read up on Jury's rights before you report in. You do NOT have to follow the law, despite what the judge will tell you. In our judicial system jury's are the representative of the Sovereign people.
Maybe that's why Java died. It should have been named C++ Crippled. Maybe the world needs a 'safer' C++, but disallowing any significant use of the stack and eliminating deterministic destruction is not the way to achieve safer C++. Then there's the silly elimination of pointers to make it safe and simple, so why is it that the most common Java error seems to be "Null pointer exception"?
Affordable drives have far exceeded affordable backup capability. RAID 5 is great, but not enough. A couple of weeks ago I asked my XP system to go on 'standby', the first time I'd done that. It proceeded to wipe out the RAID array information from not 1 but 2 disks on my Promise SX6000 controller. The array was unrecoverable:-(.
When the management of a company makes decisions about what products it will offer, that's not censorship. I'm so tired of liberals calling private discretion censorship.
No, it is definately *NOT* the job of the courts to enforce the law. That is the job of the executive branch of government. The job of the courts is to *interpret* the law. And they have a primary duty to interpret it in the context of the constitution, at which they are failing miserably.
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The Founding Fathers already tried that, no ammendment needed if we'd just follow their constitution.
How did this get modded insightful? If it was even remotely true that only government intervention can prevent total company domination, there would be not jobs today that paid more than minimum wage.
Having a drobo attached prevents both of my Shuttle SN68PTG5 machines from booting. No solution forthcoming from Drobo so far.
VB was probably a bad example. However, I have to agree that Linux has not yet provided a decent development environment. The productivity of Linux developers comes from skill and commitment to perservere despite their tools. Recent commentary about its hand-holding notwithstanding, M$ DevStudio is the *best* IDE and debugging environment ever produced for serious C/C++ programming.
Oh how I'd love to have something remotely comparable on Linux! And don't try to tell me it's already there (unless you can point to specific projects). GCC is probably an okay compiler, but there's no comparable IDE available, and GDB *sucks* in comparison to source level debugging in DevStudio.
Professors who either won't or can't teach should be expected by any prospective college student. The reason can be summed up in one word... tenure. Guaranteeing anyone a job for life is stupid.
Not sure why this got modded informative. Once you get past the ranting and the profanity I thought there might be a gem, but Google doesn't turn up anything on "Sender Recipient Signing". Whatever you're talking about, that's probably not what it's called.
My personal favorite has to be the time my primary personal hard drive failed. From the smell I suspect the problem was a capacitor in the spindle drive circuitry.
Data recovery services were much too expensive, and I had nothing more to loose, so I opened it up. I could tell when it powered up the platter didn't seem to know which way to spin.
A deft flick of the finger at power-up in the right direction, and I was able to recover my data. It was kind of fun to see a hard-drive operate with no cover on!
Read up on Jury's rights before you report in. You do NOT have to follow the law, despite what the judge will tell you. In our judicial system jury's are the representative of the Sovereign people.
Maybe that's why Java died. It should have been named C++ Crippled. Maybe the world needs a 'safer' C++, but disallowing any significant use of the stack and eliminating deterministic destruction is not the way to achieve safer C++. Then there's the silly elimination of pointers to make it safe and simple, so why is it that the most common Java error seems to be "Null pointer exception"?
Affordable drives have far exceeded affordable backup capability. RAID 5 is great, but not enough. A couple of weeks ago I asked my XP system to go on 'standby', the first time I'd done that. It proceeded to wipe out the RAID array information from not 1 but 2 disks on my Promise SX6000 controller. The array was unrecoverable :-(.
When the management of a company makes decisions about what products it will offer, that's not censorship. I'm so tired of liberals calling private discretion censorship.
No, it is definately *NOT* the job of the courts to enforce the law. That is the job of the executive branch of government. The job of the courts is to *interpret* the law. And they have a primary duty to interpret it in the context of the constitution, at which they are failing miserably.