You assume the plan was to benefit Americans by invading Irak. It was quite the opposite, the plan was to use tax money to finance operations while profits went to private companies, this is not a new concept.
Understand that modern warfare is ultimately governed by profit of the few at the expense of the masses, the economy was artificially inflated to mask the cost of the war.
Sadly, it is only when personal pockets of comfort are affected that the public at large start to question their government, when is too late.
And even then excuses will be made to defend the mental image that the exploited cling to, it was not my country that did this to me, it was something else.
Makes a interesting case about the underlying stimulus for competition-type personalities. I often found interesting that PvP servers and games attract a specific type of personality, that book makes me feel better about myself in comparison to them (for the humor-impaired that was a joke related to the book).
1) Who is responsible to change the customer queries when the schema changes and their reports no longer work? 2) Who is liable if the customer queries affect the performance of other processes/services (lack of index usage, expensive queries, etc)?
Make a replica of the database available for this type of queries, you can argue that uncontrolled queries can impact your operations and that an isolated environment is required.
Send them a Statement of Work with this costing scenario as your response.
I agree with you regarding ADO.NET, in the past we had good experiences with NHibernate as a replacement. It also has its share of issues but in my personal experience the benefits outweigh the pains, it can have a steep learning curve though.
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- In JavaScript you find all errors at runtime, in Java you can catch many at compile time. - Differences in browsers object models makes it counter-intuitive to write cross-browser JavaScript code, GWT can take care of these differences for you.
To clarify, I like both platforms (J2EE,.NET) for different things, as far as the API is concerned my logic goes like this: -.NET has less historic baggage -.NET was designed from learned lessons from Java and other languages From my experience, the.NET API feels cleaner than Java.
I understand your point is that the.NET API is inferior to J2EE, is this the case?
If so, would you explain which parts of J2EE do you consider superior and why? Pointing flaws in.NET alone doesn't provide a fair comparison.
You provide one example of API inconsistency and no further evidence to support your judgment. Have you shipped applications built in both platforms? I get the impression you haven't worked too much with.NET to know where the weaknesses of it are (and I know there are many), Array.Lenth and List.Count are not near the top 10 pains. Besides there are comparable inconsistencies in the Java libraries.
All your comments are great if you assume code writing speed is more important than readability, for quick & dirty disposable code that would be the case. For enterprise applications that require high-availability bugs introduced due to automatic stringnumber comparisons, non-explicit function parametrization etc. Can be very hard/expensive to identify and correct.
I was on a project in which we converted a VB.NET application to C# using automated tools, we found and fixed several bugs due to the (limited) type conversion that VB.NET offers while in C# it has to be explicit, Java is very similar to this.
Modern Olympics are a distant image from the virtuous competition they once were, commercialization has saturated any space it had for admiration. To the athletes kudos for enduring this, to the management shame on their lack of ethics.
So I can buy support from a 3rdParty and get off the Microsoft forced upgrade cycle for the thousands of Windows XP installs that have absolutely no business value in upgrading to Vista.
You can get the money back on Small Claims Court since: 1) You informed them that the machine won't boot on delivery 2) They agreed to fix it 3) They didn't
Corporations have positives and negatives in different degrees. Having one does not dismiss the other, unless you watched so many "The Real World" shows that you convinced yourself people are that uni-dimensional.
One of them is a convicted monopolist who decimated other companies to retain power. The other is an innovative company that create value through innovation.
Ask yourself the opposite question, "How is the next generation OS from Microsoft going to give me more value than me having to spend a couple more hundreds on something I already got or could get with a Mac.
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True love is action, not the emotion of falling in love.
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If a person (adult or child) cannot make an effort to make the game enjoyable for the other player, the other player won't play for long.
You assume the plan was to benefit Americans by invading Irak. It was quite the opposite, the plan was to use tax money to finance operations while profits went to private companies, this is not a new concept.
Understand that modern warfare is ultimately governed by profit of the few at the expense of the masses, the economy was artificially inflated to mask the cost of the war.
Sadly, it is only when personal pockets of comfort are affected that the public at large start to question their government, when is too late.
And even then excuses will be made to defend the mental image that the exploited cling to, it was not my country that did this to me, it was something else.
If anyone is interested about the psychological aspects of competion-based games, I suggest to grab a copy of No Contest By Alfie Kohn:
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Makes a interesting case about the underlying stimulus for competition-type personalities. I often found interesting that PvP servers and games attract a specific type of personality, that book makes me feel better about myself in comparison to them (for the humor-impaired that was a joke related to the book).
1) Who is responsible to change the customer queries when the schema changes and their reports no longer work?
2) Who is liable if the customer queries affect the performance of other processes/services (lack of index usage, expensive queries, etc)?
Make a replica of the database available for this type of queries, you can argue that uncontrolled queries can impact your operations and that an isolated environment is required.
Send them a Statement of Work with this costing scenario as your response.
I would argue it's intentional to keep the price of "good enough" PCs from reaching a point where the Microsoft OS is the highest component.
Perhaps he was talking about your emotional age?
When you have 80 developers working on a project in C/C++, the amount of defects introduced by errors in memory management tend to be very expensive.
Absolutely! And there are thousands of places in Iraq with little or no explosions.
I agree with you regarding ADO.NET, in the past we had good experiences with NHibernate as a replacement. It also has its share of issues but in my personal experience the benefits outweigh the pains, it can have a steep learning curve though.
- In JavaScript you find all errors at runtime, in Java you can catch many at compile time.
- Differences in browsers object models makes it counter-intuitive to write cross-browser JavaScript code, GWT can take care of these differences for you.
To clarify, I like both platforms (J2EE, .NET) for different things, as far as the API is concerned my logic goes like this: .NET has less historic baggage .NET was designed from learned lessons from Java and other languages .NET API feels cleaner than Java.
.NET API is inferior to J2EE, is this the case?
.NET alone doesn't provide a fair comparison.
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From my experience, the
I understand your point is that the
If so, would you explain which parts of J2EE do you consider superior and why? Pointing flaws in
You provide one example of API inconsistency and no further evidence to support your judgment. Have you shipped applications built in both platforms? I get the impression you haven't worked too much with .NET to know where the weaknesses of it are (and I know there are many), Array.Lenth and List.Count are not near the top 10 pains. Besides there are comparable inconsistencies in the Java libraries.
All your comments are great if you assume code writing speed is more important than readability, for quick & dirty disposable code that would be the case. For enterprise applications that require high-availability bugs introduced due to automatic stringnumber comparisons, non-explicit function parametrization etc. Can be very hard/expensive to identify and correct.
I was on a project in which we converted a VB.NET application to C# using automated tools, we found and fixed several bugs due to the (limited) type conversion that VB.NET offers while in C# it has to be explicit, Java is very similar to this.
I would argue that a cleaner API is one of the advantages of .NET over Java, cleaning up the Java libraries would certainly bridge this gap.
Apple is not a convicted monopoly, there is a difference.
Modern Olympics are a distant image from the virtuous competition they once were, commercialization has saturated any space it had for admiration. To the athletes kudos for enduring this, to the management shame on their lack of ethics.
So I can buy support from a 3rdParty and get off the Microsoft forced upgrade cycle for the thousands of Windows XP installs that have absolutely no business value in upgrading to Vista.
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You can get the money back on Small Claims Court since:
1) You informed them that the machine won't boot on delivery
2) They agreed to fix it
3) They didn't
You are using a logical fallacy (false dilemma):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
Corporations have positives and negatives in different degrees. Having one does not dismiss the other, unless you watched so many "The Real World" shows that you convinced yourself people are that uni-dimensional.
One of them is a convicted monopolist who decimated other companies to retain power. The other is an innovative company that create value through innovation.
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Ask yourself the opposite question, "How is the next generation OS from Microsoft going to give me more value than me having to spend a couple more hundreds on something I already got or could get with a Mac.
True love is action, not the emotion of falling in love.