All the wrongs in the world are not, in fact, the
fault of President Bush. But the overwhelming majority are:)
Zeldman
wrote some very poigniant thoughts about this very thing:
Although it is hard for many Americans to understand,
between Iraq and Guantanamo Bay,
many people in this world are
more afraid of the U.S. than they are of terrorists whose
objective is to wipe modern civilization off the face of the earth.
...
Taking out bin Laden while leaving nuclear weapons in play [in
North Korea] is like firing Michael Eisner and expecting Disneyland
to close. One fanatic with a bomb down his pants could take out
Manhattan, or London, or Rome. Three fanatics with three bombs
could do all three.
You just met THE Average American---too bad you let him get away. If we'd just locked him in a box in your basement, then that would've solved many of the world's problems...
Yes, and president Bush is the reason people have to die.
I thought you people said that President Clinton (the most powerful president, ever) was responsible for Saddam, the economy, terrorism, the lack of jobs, the stock market, lack of affordable health care, Al Qaida, OBL, Israel, the recent bombing in Spain, Shrub's "missing" Alabama NG records, and France.
How about having someone who knows what the heck they are doing, rather than a "businessman" (who generally can't tell the difference between a hole in the ground and his butt).
Think I'm wrong? How many CEOs know what they are doing? Do they know how the product is made, what problems are encountered? No.
Do they know what challenges their company faces on a fundamental (as opposed to the hazy/theoretical) level? Do they realize that by simply removing useless employees and streamlining their business practices they can save much more than "outsourcing"? They rely on their VPs and Middle Managers to cover up the truth ("Doing great, Boss!!"), while the CEO plays golf and plans the next merger so he can trigger the merger clause in his contract and get paid a few extra million.
These people are no more qualified to fix our economy than you are.
God, I hope your children were never exposed to a nipple on TeeVee. It is bad enough that the babies' bottle tops are shaped like them. Someone ought to do something about that.
Thank you for supporting the Ban on Nipples on TeeVee, but don't you dare try to shut down wholesome things, like when two football players smack together and one of them gets a broken leg or neck. That shit is the bomb!...and it helps Timmy build character!
How about you actually raise your children instead of using TeeVee to do it, Troll?
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If you've been involved in any kind of app deployment followed by its maintenance (especially web apps), you'll know that keeping presentation and code separate is extremely desirable. Integration of these two is a weakness, if anything.
Script kiddie programmers fail to understand this lesson, which is why PHP/MySQL shitsites are a bear to maintain (that, and tryting to normalize these databases is a laughable exercise, at best).
Hell, just try porting a P/M site to a nice DB so you can push more of the data manipulation functionality to the DB layer where it belongs and you're in for a real tear-jerker. My main frustrations with OSS is that most of the work is done 1) where the work is easier, 2) where most people (unwashed masses) congregate, and 3) with little regard to lessons learned and best practices.
The paper tray and toner bay are welded shut; when the printer senses either low toner or paper, it signals the office supply department to send up either a ream or a cart.
In the event of a paper jam, the printer signals the repair shop, who dispaches a specially-trained technician to clear the jam... so you don have to!
Not to mention that the display is mostly unusable when the #@$# triangle pops up, forcing you to take the car to the dealer if you want to use your radio presets (or, god forbid, change the base/treble).
So far, I've had to take the @#$@# thing in 4 times because one sensor was acting up and thought the car failed to start (mostly after "the fact").
Why not put up some diagnostic info on the screen? "ABS Failure in Braking System", "O2 Sensor clogged", "MG2 - Generator Failure", etc? Maybe even a nice like "star trekky" diagram pointing to the component ~.
Exactly. You could even display the history of all sensor messages with a timestamp. Hell, why not offer a USB port so we can download the stuff to our laptop for record-keeping purposes?
Oh, but then we wouldn't want to take the car into the dealer and get a little man-present...
~ I will probably buy the third extended release ~. Then, when the box set comes out, ~ I will buy it too ~.
You, sir, are a marketer's wet dream. I guess it makes all those many hours I spent locked up in a room listening to the S&M (that's 'sales and marketing,' but it means the same thing) slugs drone on and on about how they can "suprise and delight" the public with new campaigns worth the lost brain cells.
You people are paying my salary, but damn, stop hitting the food pellet lever!
Now if only my other favorite NPR show, This American Life, would follow Car Talk's lead...
The Engines of Our Ingenuity also uses the POS Real Steam. (sigh) If only they'd go to Quicktime or (cough) WMP, then I could get my daily fix, instead of wrestling with real player and its low quality, noisy stream...
After you save it, do a "recover text" on the file (in word: file, open, file type: recover text), and you'll see all the crap like the last 10 editors of the file, autorecover locations, save locations (server/share/directory), etc.
All this makes it easy to do "remote network discovery" on some poor sap's company. Oh, and for those IE exploits that rely on a known filename/location, this makes it a snap to "discover" a file location, and then do a little social engineering to get your victem to go to mal.com and click on a link...
Thank you, Microsoft! What do you want to expose today?
~ let's fast forward to 2004 and you. All software that you and your father could possibly be interested in has already been written. That's probably not true, but it's hard to think of something, right?
Um, this guy is an idiot, or at best, criminally ignorant of past software development.
At least TWENTY years ago, clueless people were saying that "in a few years, programmers will be out of a job, because all the programs will be written." What a load of tripe. Who could've forseen the Gimp, Apache, Tomcat, etc. 20 years ago? What makes you think that you have any idea you know what great new things some people will invent in the next twenty years?
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You just met THE Average American---too bad you let him get away. If we'd just locked him in a box in your basement, then that would've solved many of the world's problems...
I believe the word you are looking for is "poor," as in "it is a poor law."
Think I'm wrong? How many CEOs know what they are doing? Do they know how the product is made, what problems are encountered? No.
Do they know what challenges their company faces on a fundamental (as opposed to the hazy/theoretical) level? Do they realize that by simply removing useless employees and streamlining their business practices they can save much more than "outsourcing"? They rely on their VPs and Middle Managers to cover up the truth ("Doing great, Boss!!"), while the CEO plays golf and plans the next merger so he can trigger the merger clause in his contract and get paid a few extra million.
These people are no more qualified to fix our economy than you are.
Of course, now that we're older, jaded, and bitter, try renting those flicks again. Bet you won't make it through the whole thing: ZZZZzzzzzz.
Honey, wake me up when they get to the part when the people get varporized; after that I'm going to bed.
Foolish Consistency?
Thank you for supporting the Ban on Nipples on TeeVee, but don't you dare try to shut down wholesome things, like when two football players smack together and one of them gets a broken leg or neck. That shit is the bomb! ...and it helps Timmy build character!
How about you actually raise your children instead of using TeeVee to do it, Troll?
Hell, just try porting a P/M site to a nice DB so you can push more of the data manipulation functionality to the DB layer where it belongs and you're in for a real tear-jerker. My main frustrations with OSS is that most of the work is done 1) where the work is easier, 2) where most people (unwashed masses) congregate, and 3) with little regard to lessons learned and best practices.
In the event of a paper jam, the printer signals the repair shop, who dispaches a specially-trained technician to clear the jam... so you don have to!
Oh, but then we wouldn't want to take the car into the dealer and get a little man-present...
Yeah, Hawkeye as played by Donald Sutherland in the original movie.
Father Mulcahy: He was drafted.
"Portland's top brass said it was OK to swipe your garbage--so we grabbed theirs."
You people are paying my salary, but damn, stop hitting the food pellet lever!
Tell that to Ford or GM...
Someone posted the story and an analysis, too.
All this makes it easy to do "remote network discovery" on some poor sap's company. Oh, and for those IE exploits that rely on a known filename/location, this makes it a snap to "discover" a file location, and then do a little social engineering to get your victem to go to mal.com and click on a link...
Thank you, Microsoft! What do you want to expose today?
That doesn't work; it brings all the trash along with it.
At least TWENTY years ago, clueless people were saying that "in a few years, programmers will be out of a job, because all the programs will be written." What a load of tripe. Who could've forseen the Gimp, Apache, Tomcat, etc. 20 years ago? What makes you think that you have any idea you know what great new things some people will invent in the next twenty years?