A powerful story about loss of freedom and individuality, V for Vendetta takes place in a totalitarian England following a devastating war that changed the face of the planet. In a world without political freedom, personal freedom and precious little faith in anything comes a mysterious man in a white porcelain mask who fights political oppressors through terrorism and seemingly absurd acts.
That can be turned off by the cop when he/she goes on duty in case for some reason a fellow officer needs to use the gun, and so that the cop can turn it on when he gets home and his kids can't set it off.
Oh wait, that's the same as a safety and it won't prevent a criminal from taking the gun away, turning our theoretical switch off and using it against the cop.
Q. How do you keep track of all the clichés? A. It's like herding cats. I walk the walk and talk the talk.
Q. Did incomprehensibility come naturally to you? A. I wasn't wired that way, but it became mission-critical as I strategically focused on my go-forward plan.
Q. Is your work difficult? A. It isn't rocket science. It isn't brain surgery. When you drill down to the granular level, it's basic blocking and tackling.
Q. How do you stay ahead of others in the buzzword industry? A. Net-net, my value proposition is based on maximizing synergies and being first to market with a leveraged, value-added deliverable. That's the opportunity space on a level playing field.
My, my. Are we a bit stingy this fine Thursday afternoon? What makes you think I was "trolling"? That you don't particularly like what I said? Or you just can't handle reality?
Just in case you werent and are a clueless fuck, then allow me to retort..
*chuckle*
I dont think much of the nuclear weapons program
It was India who started that arms race. Of course because you're a clueless fuck [sic] you conveniently ignore that. Not that I care, really. But if you must use that argument, well.
As for the space program,
That's nice. And you need it why again?
And you know what, it fucking works. And we have failsafes in place if something goes wrong. What about yours?
Failsafes [sic], indeed. Mine? Dunno. We don't have any here in Elbonia.
Now thats what make me proud of who I am. We can take care of our own.
Yet India is spending billions of dollars on nuclear weapons, a space program of dubious value and high-tech voting equipment that fails to work half the time and is closed to public scrutiny. Yet they have people starving in the streets and deep problems like caste-insipired racism, sectarian violence, a prostitution industry that puts most of Asia to shame and one of the highest AIDS rates in the world. Not to mention the recent tsunami victims.
It's amazing how a society can have such stark contrasts.
Your experience must not be all that considerable then.
in VB it is hard to write good code and as a result you get worse code.
Nope, in VB it's easy to write crappy code, which is a considerably different thing. The fact that it's (or was) more component oriented than object oriented forced you to do things a bit different then you'd do in C++ or whatever, but then again Perl and Lisp are no different.
Yes, I've seen complex apps hacked together in Excell too
Ha, ha. Desktop apps you mean? I coded VB for many years and I rarely did anything with a GUI. You're obviously not aware of what VB could do.
If the apps where in Java or Delphi or... then they would probably run faster, have less bugs, have a better code base, be more extensible etc
Are you for real? What, you've never seen a badly designed and coded C++ application? Do you really believe it's the language and not the developer? Are you kidding me?
Anyone who suggests that it is good for mission critical or large projects should go and look at Java, Delphi, C++ or practically any other language out there.
You know what they say: all generalizations are stupid.
... as long as you don't shoot it at anyone. It's OK to own a laser, as long as you don't flash it at airliners full of people.
Let's hear it for the "evil government" "sticking it" to the little guy and another round of "oh our liberties are being curtailed", but what this dude did was fucking stupid and I'm glad they caught him.
Ummm, bullshit. VB6 is compiled to native code and except for a very few types of string processing and other niche things is as fast as anything produced by the MSVC++ compiler... because that's the compiler it uses. In any case, database reads and writes are not going to be any faster if you code them in assembler or VB, and that's what most VB applications are used for. UI apps are (in three year-old or newer hardware) effin' blazing fast.
and easy to write bad code in
True, but that is a limitation of the developer, not the language or the technology the language is built on.
so it shouldn't be used for anything other than a UI in a multi-tear system and shouldn't be used for large(anything more than a few hundred function points) systems.
Really now, that's quite the proclamation considering that many people developed quite complex apps with a more than a few hundred "function points", did them right and made quite a bit of money in the process.
Your other post is... completely ridiculous. Your claim that anyone who writes "non-free" software is somehow a misguided minion of evil is about as bad as it gets in this little oasis of stupidity-laced techno-activism.
You might consider your "freedom" to look at my source code a fundamental one. That's fine. Nudists consider their freedom to walk around naked a fundamental one as well. I'm sure other fringe groups have other fundamental freedoms they'd like to hoist on me to Show Me The Truth.
However, your freedom to call me an evil construct lacking a soul begins and ends with my right to write software and sell it for the highest price the market will bear. That is my freedom.
The very idea that you can stand there and equate your concept of freedom as applied to computer software to things like freedom of speech, freedom of association or the freedom to make a religious choice (ideas that people have fought and died for over the centuries) is insulting at best and retarded at worst. I recognize your right to write software and give it away the same way I recognize your right to pass gas or bake cookies. But please don't insult my intelligence by implying I'm going to burn in hell (and yes, that's how you sound) because I happen to sell software for $19.99 a pop.
You and everyone else (Stallman included) in the "join us or die" crowd sound so damn petulant and ridiculous preaching the evils of Microsoft (as if they were the only company in the planet that produces commercial software), quoting Ghandi and asking everyone "how evil do you feel today?" as if being able to type "make & make install" into a terminal somehow granted you a masters in philosophy, theology and politics. No shit, sometimes I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
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Wow, and only four years behind Windows (and OS X, I guess).
It's really disheartening when Eugenia from OS News fame has to run a contest to make a friggin' file chooser work. In 2004. My gawd.
Especially among the same ethnic groups. Mexicans tend to dislike other Mexicans but wouldn't even consider an Indian or a Chinese to be a competitor (after all problems among immigrants are largely about competition in the same sphere of influence).
There are exceptions there as well, of course, but it tends to be true.
One of the things Americans tend to forget is that there is as much difference between, say, Indians from Calcutta or Bangalore, and Mexicans from Mexico City and Monterrey. For an American (and this really applies to any population that recieves immigrants) they tend to be all the same, but they know the differences and those sometimes make for some bad blood among people, even if they're from the same country.
sims is a reflection of the majority of his readers. Ergo the OMFG teh MOVIEZ it sh0u1D b TEH FREE!!!!!1!!!one!!!!! comment, which of course also works to futher the quaint misconception that he is anything but a mediocre developer who can't spell, let alone "editorialize" (if one can call it that).
Like politics, circumstances sometimes propel people into the least appropriate positions.
Really? That explains why they started selling Apple-branded products
I love these stories. There's aboslutely NO WAY that maybe, just maybe, Linux is simply not a good choice in a given situation. So people like you immediately turn to name calling and FUD spreading.
I'd bet you a good quid that if this story was reversed (that is, "HP dumps Windows for Linux") I'd be seeing the exact opposite comments from yours, to the tone of "Oh I've always liked HP they're a great company and Fiorina is slowly getting her act together blah blah blah".
I wonder if they'd be doing the same thing if Kerry had won. Well if course they would!
It's interesting that this "get out the vote" campaign which was so championed by the lib media and Hollywood because they figured "everyone hates Bush so the more ignorant teenagers we convince to vote, the better" didn't quite pan out, now did it.
The democratic party got reamed yesterday. Positively reamed. The friggin' House minority leader got shafted for the first time in 50 years. The GOP holds a majority on both the House and Senate, and they won more governor races.
What these things do is suggest there is some kind of evil conspiracy to elect Bush at all costs and ignores the bigger picture. That'd be a mighty big conspiracy, if you ask me.
The horse is dead. Fuck it or walk away, but stop beating it.
So Arafat required a handgun in the UN General Assembly because...? For self-protection I gather? The fastest draw on the Middle East, eh?
On the other hand, why do you figure the Secret Service would rather fly the Friggin' President of the United States out of Australia before leaving him unprotected for even fifteen seconds? Because they have nothing better to do? Oh, but I'm sure what passes as the Secret Service in Australia is superior to the USSS. I'm sure they are.
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The problem is not that christians (or religious folk as a whole) think it's a metaphor - the problem is that they actually think it's fact. Metaphor or not. To consider it "fact" is dumb; to insist it's literal fact is ridiculous.
Your faith does not fact make, at least in the face of scientific evidence or lack thereof.
And I'm not going to even go into for how long everyone took that literally. It's called "flip-flopping" when you take a rigid stance on an issue and then progressively relax it as fact assails the viablity of the issue. It's that simple.
And uh, it would have happened to them if they had been using Linux as well - surely you haven't forgotten last year when Debian, GNU and Gentoo all got rooted because of a remote vuln, mmm?
The number of actual remote vulnerabilities that affect Windows and other Microsoft servers is damn low - as low as Linux and other Unix OSes. What most slashbots orgasmically call "viruses" are worms that require user intervention to infect the machine.
For a properly configured NT box, a BSOD is about as common as a kernel panic. And you'd be stupid to let an ATM be connected to the 'net, regardless of what OS you were using.
This is just another "OMFG WINDOZE IS TEH SUXXORZ!!!1!! HAHAHAHA!!!1!" slashbork fest. Nothing more, nothing less.
I remember reading Carl Sagan's Cosmos and thinking (as he did) that Titan was the most interesting body in the Solar System outside of the Earth (sorry, I'm a terran chauvinist).
It's amazing that we've had to wait more than 20 years since he wrote that to get 700 miles from Titan, and it's mind-boggling that we're actually going to drop a probe in there.
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Agh, not another Moore documentary.
Oh wait, that's the same as a safety and it won't prevent a criminal from taking the gun away, turning our theoretical switch off and using it against the cop.
I'm so impressed.
What? "it's time find"??
Q. How do you keep track of all the clichés?
A. It's like herding cats. I walk the walk and talk the talk.
Q. Did incomprehensibility come naturally to you?
A. I wasn't wired that way, but it became mission-critical as I strategically focused on my go-forward plan.
Q. Is your work difficult?
A. It isn't rocket science. It isn't brain surgery. When you drill down to the granular level, it's basic blocking and tackling.
Q. How do you stay ahead of others in the buzzword industry?
A. Net-net, my value proposition is based on maximizing synergies and being first to market with a leveraged, value-added deliverable. That's the opportunity space on a level playing field.
I really should get to work now.
Read 'em and chuckle.
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My, my. Are we a bit stingy this fine Thursday afternoon? What makes you think I was "trolling"? That you don't particularly like what I said? Or you just can't handle reality?
Just in case you werent and are a clueless fuck, then allow me to retort..
*chuckle*
I dont think much of the nuclear weapons program
It was India who started that arms race. Of course because you're a clueless fuck [sic] you conveniently ignore that. Not that I care, really. But if you must use that argument, well.
As for the space program,
That's nice. And you need it why again?
And you know what, it fucking works. And we have failsafes in place if something goes wrong. What about yours?
Failsafes [sic], indeed. Mine? Dunno. We don't have any here in Elbonia.
Now thats what make me proud of who I am. We can take care of our own.
ROFL, you sure do!
If you werent.. well ignorance is not curable.
Ignorance is, but stupidity is not. So I guess you're out of luck. Sorry.
It's amazing how a society can have such stark contrasts.
Your experience must not be all that considerable then.
in VB it is hard to write good code and as a result you get worse code.
Nope, in VB it's easy to write crappy code, which is a considerably different thing. The fact that it's (or was) more component oriented than object oriented forced you to do things a bit different then you'd do in C++ or whatever, but then again Perl and Lisp are no different.
Yes, I've seen complex apps hacked together in Excell too
Ha, ha. Desktop apps you mean? I coded VB for many years and I rarely did anything with a GUI. You're obviously not aware of what VB could do.
If the apps where in Java or Delphi or ... then they would probably run faster, have less bugs, have a better code base, be more extensible etc
Are you for real? What, you've never seen a badly designed and coded C++ application? Do you really believe it's the language and not the developer? Are you kidding me?
Anyone who suggests that it is good for mission critical or large projects should go and look at Java, Delphi, C++ or practically any other language out there.
You know what they say: all generalizations are stupid.
Let's hear it for the "evil government" "sticking it" to the little guy and another round of "oh our liberties are being curtailed", but what this dude did was fucking stupid and I'm glad they caught him.
Ummm, bullshit. VB6 is compiled to native code and except for a very few types of string processing and other niche things is as fast as anything produced by the MSVC++ compiler... because that's the compiler it uses. In any case, database reads and writes are not going to be any faster if you code them in assembler or VB, and that's what most VB applications are used for. UI apps are (in three year-old or newer hardware) effin' blazing fast.
and easy to write bad code in
True, but that is a limitation of the developer, not the language or the technology the language is built on.
so it shouldn't be used for anything other than a UI in a multi-tear system and shouldn't be used for large(anything more than a few hundred function points) systems.
Really now, that's quite the proclamation considering that many people developed quite complex apps with a more than a few hundred "function points", did them right and made quite a bit of money in the process.
My god, you people never cease to amaze me. Just as I thought I've seen everything here, someone comes along and takes the cake to new heights.
You might consider your "freedom" to look at my source code a fundamental one. That's fine. Nudists consider their freedom to walk around naked a fundamental one as well. I'm sure other fringe groups have other fundamental freedoms they'd like to hoist on me to Show Me The Truth.
However, your freedom to call me an evil construct lacking a soul begins and ends with my right to write software and sell it for the highest price the market will bear. That is my freedom.
The very idea that you can stand there and equate your concept of freedom as applied to computer software to things like freedom of speech, freedom of association or the freedom to make a religious choice (ideas that people have fought and died for over the centuries) is insulting at best and retarded at worst. I recognize your right to write software and give it away the same way I recognize your right to pass gas or bake cookies. But please don't insult my intelligence by implying I'm going to burn in hell (and yes, that's how you sound) because I happen to sell software for $19.99 a pop.
You and everyone else (Stallman included) in the "join us or die" crowd sound so damn petulant and ridiculous preaching the evils of Microsoft (as if they were the only company in the planet that produces commercial software), quoting Ghandi and asking everyone "how evil do you feel today?" as if being able to type "make & make install" into a terminal somehow granted you a masters in philosophy, theology and politics. No shit, sometimes I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
It's really disheartening when Eugenia from OS News fame has to run a contest to make a friggin' file chooser work. In 2004. My gawd.
There are exceptions there as well, of course, but it tends to be true.
One of the things Americans tend to forget is that there is as much difference between, say, Indians from Calcutta or Bangalore, and Mexicans from Mexico City and Monterrey. For an American (and this really applies to any population that recieves immigrants) they tend to be all the same, but they know the differences and those sometimes make for some bad blood among people, even if they're from the same country.
Wow, that sounds like... Windows.
Like politics, circumstances sometimes propel people into the least appropriate positions.
I love these stories. There's aboslutely NO WAY that maybe, just maybe, Linux is simply not a good choice in a given situation. So people like you immediately turn to name calling and FUD spreading.
I'd bet you a good quid that if this story was reversed (that is, "HP dumps Windows for Linux") I'd be seeing the exact opposite comments from yours, to the tone of "Oh I've always liked HP they're a great company and Fiorina is slowly getting her act together blah blah blah".
Amusing, if nothing else.
It's interesting that this "get out the vote" campaign which was so championed by the lib media and Hollywood because they figured "everyone hates Bush so the more ignorant teenagers we convince to vote, the better" didn't quite pan out, now did it.
The democratic party got reamed yesterday. Positively reamed. The friggin' House minority leader got shafted for the first time in 50 years. The GOP holds a majority on both the House and Senate, and they won more governor races.
What these things do is suggest there is some kind of evil conspiracy to elect Bush at all costs and ignores the bigger picture. That'd be a mighty big conspiracy, if you ask me.
The horse is dead. Fuck it or walk away, but stop beating it.
So Arafat required a handgun in the UN General Assembly because...? For self-protection I gather? The fastest draw on the Middle East, eh?
On the other hand, why do you figure the Secret Service would rather fly the Friggin' President of the United States out of Australia before leaving him unprotected for even fifteen seconds? Because they have nothing better to do? Oh, but I'm sure what passes as the Secret Service in Australia is superior to the USSS. I'm sure they are.
Let me repeat that: UTTERLY FUCKED UP.
Your faith does not fact make, at least in the face of scientific evidence or lack thereof.
And I'm not going to even go into for how long everyone took that literally. It's called "flip-flopping" when you take a rigid stance on an issue and then progressively relax it as fact assails the viablity of the issue. It's that simple.
The number of actual remote vulnerabilities that affect Windows and other Microsoft servers is damn low - as low as Linux and other Unix OSes. What most slashbots orgasmically call "viruses" are worms that require user intervention to infect the machine.
For a properly configured NT box, a BSOD is about as common as a kernel panic. And you'd be stupid to let an ATM be connected to the 'net, regardless of what OS you were using.
This is just another "OMFG WINDOZE IS TEH SUXXORZ!!!1!! HAHAHAHA!!!1!" slashbork fest. Nothing more, nothing less.
It's amazing that we've had to wait more than 20 years since he wrote that to get 700 miles from Titan, and it's mind-boggling that we're actually going to drop a probe in there.
It's just a shame that he's not around to see it.
Ignore twitter. He thinks anyone who disagrees with him must be employed by Microsoft.