c'mon, we all know the Mac Demographic! Think the average MacUser wants to install his own disk drives?!? They picked the thing 'cause of it's appliance-like qualities. That's like selling a refrigerator with no compressor, allowing the user to buy a 3rd party unit.
That's silly. How many external drives are the average Mac user going to have? Is apple reverting to expansion chassis? They cheaped out on the Disk subsystem and that's that.
Luckily, where I work the emphasis is on rock-solid code. Management will accept the re-engineering of already 'working' code, but it's the same battle every time: convince me that the pay off is worth the extra time invested. I understand their point of view, but sometimes it gets tedious...
Many times in reviewing other peoples' code I see things that look like a half-assed implementation or poor design. It isn't until I dig deeper that I realize why it was done that way. I mean, you could write a script that says "reads through file line by line and process contents" but you need a person to say "Used positional delimitation within the '\' delimited fields to avoid multiple uses of strtok(,,)." It helps future users, and yourself.
Tax based on usage, rather than potential is much fairer. Keep the tax-free status on such things as food and neccesities, perhaps utilities and such would be tax-free for the first $X spent. Of course, it'll never fly...the government would have to lay off so many people!
I bought a GameBoy Color for plane rides and connecting flights when I didn't feel like reading. I didn't get any of the new innovative games, just Tetris (Needs no intro.), Super Mario Bro's DX (nice!) and Pokemon (Cool at first, but eventually tedious, and then offensive when I realized what a scam it was). Smaller than my lap top, fits in a pocket, and the translucent case and color display appealled to my lust for gadgets. Now I just have to figure out what I can use the IR port and link ports for and I'll be so happy.
My all-black Intellistation system looks real cool. If I had the same 2-way, 1 gig all SCSI setup in a beige box it would be just as fast, but not as impressive. Looks are important to me... functional looks are super sweet....
You must! Or no more cheese-buying! Funny how they object on the hormones in the beef being 'bad for you' when I'm sure all that cheese is a heartattack on a cracker. At least the French will die of a heartattack brought about by foodstuffs craeted by an ancient technology rather than a new one. If you're not French, oh well sorry. This just sounds like the Euros making noise so they feel important...like how the Russians moved first and without direction during the UN 'occupation' of Kosovo...hee hee
Fastest personal computer available...whatever. There's a vague claim, just like other vague crap that spills out of that clown's mouth. All the hype made it sound like you could pick up the phone and have one of these new Mac's shipped same day...30 day wait? 60 day wait? He's just as arrogant as Gates, only more obnoxious. Couple that imbecile frontman with too-many forthing Mac-Fanatics and the whole company makes me slightly nauseous....still, they sure are pretty boxes...
This "born into poverty" thing you keep repeating is nothing but...tada...culture. So basically, we gotta change these peoples' culture arround. Think they're gonna like that? Nope. Think those trying to do that are gonna get labeled rascists, fascists and worse? Yup.
Your opinion might be more understanding and fair, but mine is moe practical.
...is to tell you to go fuck yourself. There will always be poor. Poverty is relative. As long as someone has a place to live and food, and education, I owe them nothing. Our current society is a far from Pure Darwinism as you can get. Heh.
You tell all the poor rural people that they can't drive...how are they gonna get to work? How do they buy food? America has been built arround the automobile and it is an essential part of our society. I'll keep driving 'till they pry the wheel out of my cold, dead fingers.
WTF do you think the whole 'Y2K' thing happened? Sheeeesh....what's that quate about historical things and repetition? Hell...it's not even history yet...
I won't buy shareware. I try many packages, but always end up buying commercial. Why? The commercial packages are better (usually) and the lower cost for the shareware does not make up for the superiority of the commercial package I usually choose. UltraEdit is an exception.
I'll give you that. And Revision 5 slapped EVEN MORE pretty pictures on top of it...just when I had it ifgured out. Luckily you can bypass all the window dressing. But as for reliability? Nah. Your support sucks. I use the thing all the time..servers always up, replication is quick (or are your buddies still mailing you those 2 meg 'frog in a blender' shockwaves?) if you have a decent network. I have it on my office PC, my work laptop and my home PC. I can write email on the plane, plug the thing into a phone for a few minutes and it's all synched. Our group has a mail-linked DB for everything...Travel Expense Reports, Administrative forms, etc. If only it had a "Reply To All" button....
I want to ditch the GUI client and start using the CLI one, but I need a graceful transition. I mean, what does the system do if it sends out a block and it never gets the work back? I guess I could leave a little hole in the sky! Thanks,
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The quotes don't belong arround /multiple browsers/, the quotes belong arround /professional web developer/. And Netscape is far from dead.
c'mon, we all know the Mac Demographic! Think the average MacUser wants to install his own disk drives?!? They picked the thing 'cause of it's appliance-like qualities. That's like selling a refrigerator with no compressor, allowing the user to buy a 3rd party unit.
That's silly. How many external drives are the average Mac user going to have? Is apple reverting to expansion chassis? They cheaped out on the Disk subsystem and that's that.
Luckily, where I work the emphasis is on rock-solid code. Management will accept the re-engineering of already 'working' code, but it's the same battle every time: convince me that the pay off is worth the extra time invested. I understand their point of view, but sometimes it gets tedious...
Many times in reviewing other peoples' code I see things that look like a half-assed implementation or poor design. It isn't until I dig deeper that I realize why it was done that way. I mean, you could write a script that says "reads through file line by line and process contents" but you need a person to say "Used positional delimitation within the '\' delimited fields to avoid multiple uses of strtok(,,)." It helps future users, and yourself.
NASCAR isn't racing, it's a new form of advertising. I agree with the Anonymous Coward...so go ahead a moderate me down.
Tax based on usage, rather than potential is much fairer. Keep the tax-free status on such things as food and neccesities, perhaps utilities and such would be tax-free for the first $X spent. Of course, it'll never fly...the government would have to lay off so many people!
I bought a GameBoy Color for plane rides and connecting flights when I didn't feel like reading. I didn't get any of the new innovative games, just Tetris (Needs no intro.), Super Mario Bro's DX (nice!) and Pokemon (Cool at first, but eventually tedious, and then offensive when I realized what a scam it was). Smaller than my lap top, fits in a pocket, and the translucent case and color display appealled to my lust for gadgets. Now I just have to figure out what I can use the IR port and link ports for and I'll be so happy.
My all-black Intellistation system looks real cool. If I had the same 2-way, 1 gig all SCSI setup in a beige box it would be just as fast, but not as impressive. Looks are important to me... functional looks are super sweet....
Enough of the partisan statistic spewing. Lets get some real-world benchmarks.
You must! Or no more cheese-buying! Funny how they object on the hormones in the beef being 'bad for you' when I'm sure all that cheese is a heartattack on a cracker. At least the French will die of a heartattack brought about by foodstuffs craeted by an ancient technology rather than a new one. If you're not French, oh well sorry. This just sounds like the Euros making noise so they feel important...like how the Russians moved first and without direction during the UN 'occupation' of Kosovo...hee hee
What is a former employee of SGI gonna say? "Oh, all the worst people left the company...like me!"
Please.
My P3 500Mhz Intellistation does it at 8-9hours a unit. Nyah.
8 Bucks? What were you, the janitor? Christ I got twice that co-oping as a college student.
Fastest personal computer available...whatever. There's a vague claim, just like other vague crap that spills out of that clown's mouth. All the hype made it sound like you could pick up the phone and have one of these new Mac's shipped same day...30 day wait? 60 day wait? He's just as arrogant as Gates, only more obnoxious. Couple that imbecile frontman with too-many forthing Mac-Fanatics and the whole company makes me slightly nauseous....still, they sure are pretty boxes...
Wow...that's....painful.
This "born into poverty" thing you keep repeating is nothing but...tada...culture. So basically, we gotta change these peoples' culture arround. Think they're gonna like that? Nope. Think those trying to do that are gonna get labeled rascists, fascists and worse? Yup.
Your opinion might be more understanding and fair, but mine is moe practical.
...is to tell you to go fuck yourself. There will always be poor. Poverty is relative. As long as someone has a place to live and food, and education, I owe them nothing. Our current society is a far from Pure Darwinism as you can get. Heh.
You tell all the poor rural people that they can't drive...how are they gonna get to work? How do they buy food? America has been built arround the automobile and it is an essential part of our society. I'll keep driving 'till they pry the wheel out of my cold, dead fingers.
Never liked those books, the Ender character was very irritating...
WTF do you think the whole 'Y2K' thing happened? Sheeeesh....what's that quate about historical things and repetition? Hell...it's not even history yet...
I won't buy shareware. I try many packages, but always end up buying commercial. Why? The commercial packages are better (usually) and the lower cost for the shareware does not make up for the superiority of the commercial package I usually choose. UltraEdit is an exception.
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I'll give you that. And Revision 5 slapped EVEN MORE pretty pictures on top of it...just when I had it ifgured out. Luckily you can bypass all the window dressing. But as for reliability? Nah. Your support sucks. I use the thing all the time..servers always up, replication is quick (or are your buddies still mailing you those 2 meg 'frog in a blender' shockwaves?) if you have a decent network. I have it on my office PC, my work laptop and my home PC. I can write email on the plane, plug the thing into a phone for a few minutes and it's all synched. Our group has a mail-linked DB for everything...Travel Expense Reports, Administrative forms, etc. If only it had a "Reply To All" button....
Heh why not? Add a new device...no downtime for kernel recompile. Perhaps AIX is a bit over-engineered...but I'm not complaining.
I want to ditch the GUI client and start using the CLI one, but I need a graceful transition. I mean, what does the system do if it sends out a block and it never gets the work back? I guess I could leave a little hole in the sky! Thanks,