Hostyle's sig, "If Caesar were alive, you'd be chained to an oar" inspired me.
We're all galley slaves in this modern economy, so, as with the kool-aid vendors in the presidential campaign with their smarmy little ads, we should accept this MS announcement and decide to feel good about it.
And that, my friend, is the Straight Audacity of a Hope Talk Express for Change You Can Wonder About.
Gender and race have rightfully been removed from the scope of politically correct comment.
Since discussing basic policy is too hard, we just settle for hammering a guy for being old.
This line of discussion rarely, if ever, comes up in the context of the other two branches of government, for some reason.
The rest of the captives and I are keen on feeling the Rorshachian
"Yes We Can"
zietgiest so prevalent in modern politics and this Microsoft announcement, as we sit chained to the oar.
This is a good point. Once, I was on a project where literally everything possible to save poor IIS 4.0 was worth doing.
So, in addition to setting the content header to "application/excel" so that LoserNet Explorer would send the information that way, I also had the HTML table include a "Total" row, with "=SUM(a1:a75)" or whatever the final row number would be within the markup, so that the total would be calculated on the client.
Oh, what a right disaster that.asp was, he remembered bitter-fondly.
Personally, the VBA.pdf is the most interesting of the lot.
Wouldn't want to sound ungrateful about some of the tasty bits not present, so let me hope that this is yet another positive step that encourages follow-on.
Again, unless you actually know the schema, you know little. This is slashdot. What do you mean, actually checking against real products before criticizing?;)
Baldric: Sir Bedevere, there is a flaw in the regular expression used to match 11b/g days. "Saturday" will match early, just "A Minute Past" the end of Friday, when we decide which standard is more standard for the day. Sir Bedevere: Can we use XML? Baldric: I have a cunning plan. We will use UTF-8, and have our system include SÃturday, instead of Saturday, so that there won't be any ASCII 97 characters except in the penultimate position. Sir Bedevere: Recall, Baldric, that I hired you away from Edmund Blackadder not to solve problems, but to maintain them. Your fix can go in, but you have to make sure that it ripples through the system and triggers at least twice as many problems, or we won't consume all our FTE.
Sir Bedevere: There are ways of making this work:
On days whose name match "\w*a\w", we use the old 11b/g standard.
However, on days whose name match "\w*y", we use 11n. Govvy: Splendid. You make this all sound so simple. How many Full Time Equivalents will this take to implement? Sir Bedevere:Three-score and a fortnight, no more. Govvy: This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere. Explain again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.
Now, now, Mr. G. I realize that major life transitions can be stressful.
In a left-handed sort of way, I can nearly empathize with you, seeing open communication and common sense whittle away at an iron grip on the market.
Nearly.
This homo-erotic outburst of yours is not a good sign. Smitty recommends a mellower approach for the remaining days of your vanity under the sun.
How about getting a shiny new camcorder and trying to make the insane proprietary data format work?
You probably won't succeed, but the effort may grant you some tiny notion of how much woe and misery you yourself have sewn amongst mankind.
Charity is cool, but repentance is cooler.
We can come up with counterfactuals all day, but I think that you're missing the point that any economy of non-trivial size is going to get sucked into international affairs.
Thus, though I agree with your quasi-Monroe Doctrine stance, I doubt it worky-worky in any practical way.
Which is also why I could never take Ron Paul too seriously--isolationism will be practical right after our economy does an old-school Windows3.0-style crash.
I don't fully disagree with your point, though I would phrase it more along capitalistic lines: competition is a natural requirement for systems not to suck. Competition is to economics as winter is to agriculture. Stuff needs to die off and recycle for nature to function. Homo Bureaucratus succumbs to the Iron Law of Bureaucracy
However, don't toss the baby with the bathwater. The government has driven significant societal change, e.g. integration of the armed forces, and significant technological change, e.g. the intertubes.
Like most things in life, it's hard to cleanly argue an extreme viewpoint, though I'm generally committed to the "less is more" school of thought.
I was about to write something negative, but then I thought: since they've given NPP to the likes of Gore and Arafat, perhaps there is a certain sense to the idea.
Why That Fsckin'
Wascal Taco Forgets
What The Formative
Wirtues Taking Formulaic
Websites To Fantastic
Wictories Tears Follicles
Wrenched Tyrannically From
Woefully Tufted Furrows*.
*Translation: site sucks so bad I'm ripping my hair out.
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On another plane, Emmett Watson smiles:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_the_Bastards_Out
Hostyle's sig, "If Caesar were alive, you'd be chained to an oar" inspired me.
We're all galley slaves in this modern economy, so, as with the kool-aid vendors in the presidential campaign with their smarmy little ads, we should accept this MS announcement and decide to feel good about it.
And that, my friend, is the Straight Audacity of a Hope Talk Express for Change You Can Wonder About.
Gender and race have rightfully been removed from the scope of politically correct comment.
Since discussing basic policy is too hard, we just settle for hammering a guy for being old.
This line of discussion rarely, if ever, comes up in the context of the other two branches of government, for some reason.
The rest of the captives and I are keen on feeling the Rorshachian "Yes We Can" zietgiest so prevalent in modern politics and this Microsoft announcement, as we sit chained to the oar.
This is a good point. Once, I was on a project where literally everything possible to save poor IIS 4.0 was worth doing. .asp was, he remembered bitter-fondly.
So, in addition to setting the content header to "application/excel" so that LoserNet Explorer would send the information that way, I also had the HTML table include a "Total" row, with "=SUM(a1:a75)" or whatever the final row number would be within the markup, so that the total would be calculated on the client.
Oh, what a right disaster that
Yeah, but at least they offer the appearance of wanting to feel like changing...
Personally, the VBA .pdf is the most interesting of the lot.
Wouldn't want to sound ungrateful about some of the tasty bits not present, so let me hope that this is yet another positive step that encourages follow-on.
Dude, that would be like reading the article!
Again, unless you actually know the schema, you know little. This is slashdot. What do you mean, actually checking against real products before criticizing? ;)
As was mine originally. We seem to be faring rather poorly with the mods, alas.
it would be
OK, maybe you have seen the database schema.
Somehow I doubt it.
DELETE
FROM comments
WHERE poster_name='Anonymous Coward';
Regret if the joke was too close to home for you.
These are things I'd love to do myself, but I'm still working on the basics.
Thanks to you, as well.
Baldric: Sir Bedevere, there is a flaw in the regular expression used to match 11b/g days. "Saturday" will match early, just "A Minute Past" the end of Friday, when we decide which standard is more standard for the day.
Sir Bedevere: Can we use XML?
Baldric: I have a cunning plan. We will use UTF-8, and have our system include SÃturday, instead of Saturday, so that there won't be any ASCII 97 characters except in the penultimate position.
Sir Bedevere: Recall, Baldric, that I hired you away from Edmund Blackadder not to solve problems, but to maintain them. Your fix can go in, but you have to make sure that it ripples through the system and triggers at least twice as many problems, or we won't consume all our FTE.
Sir Bedevere: There are ways of making this work:
On days whose name match "\w*a\w", we use the old 11b/g standard.
However, on days whose name match "\w*y", we use 11n.
Govvy: Splendid. You make this all sound so simple. How many Full Time Equivalents will this take to implement?
Sir Bedevere:Three-score and a fortnight, no more.
Govvy: This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere. Explain again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.
Now, now, Mr. G. I realize that major life transitions can be stressful.
In a left-handed sort of way, I can nearly empathize with you, seeing open communication and common sense whittle away at an iron grip on the market.
Nearly.
This homo-erotic outburst of yours is not a good sign. Smitty recommends a mellower approach for the remaining days of your vanity under the sun.
How about getting a shiny new camcorder and trying to make the insane proprietary data format work?
You probably won't succeed, but the effort may grant you some tiny notion of how much woe and misery you yourself have sewn amongst mankind.
Charity is cool, but repentance is cooler.
May fortune shine on these efforts to flatten out the learning curve.
Any sufficiently complicated plate of spaghetti is morally equivalent to any other.
We can come up with counterfactuals all day, but I think that you're missing the point that any economy of non-trivial size is going to get sucked into international affairs.
Thus, though I agree with your quasi-Monroe Doctrine stance, I doubt it worky-worky in any practical way.
Which is also why I could never take Ron Paul too seriously--isolationism will be practical right after our economy does an old-school Windows3.0-style crash.
Oh, he dreams of a Commodore 64 upgrade, as he boots his PET off of an old Sony walkman, at roughly the same pace as a modern JVM on good hardware.
I don't fully disagree with your point, though I would phrase it more along capitalistic lines: competition is a natural requirement for systems not to suck. Competition is to economics as winter is to agriculture. Stuff needs to die off and recycle for nature to function.
Homo Bureaucratus succumbs to the Iron Law of Bureaucracy
However, don't toss the baby with the bathwater. The government has driven significant societal change, e.g. integration of the armed forces, and significant technological change, e.g. the intertubes.
Like most things in life, it's hard to cleanly argue an extreme viewpoint, though I'm generally committed to the "less is more" school of thought.
I was about to write something negative, but then I thought: since they've given NPP to the likes of Gore and Arafat, perhaps there is a certain sense to the idea.
Note the implicit constraint on operating system.
Why That Fsckin'
Wascal Taco Forgets
What The Formative
Wirtues Taking Formulaic
Websites To Fantastic
Wictories Tears Follicles
Wrenched Tyrannically From
Woefully Tufted Furrows*.
*Translation: site sucks so bad I'm ripping my hair out.