When VS.Net came out I thought to myself: 5 more years, and then I'll have to re-learn everything when the "new thing" comes out... Just like it did with GW basic, Qbasic, VB3, 4, 5, 6 and now VB.Net (yes they got better but that's because they were pretty bad to begin with).
But that's not the last of it. Same with Access, VBA, DAO->ADO->ADO.NET, ASP ->ASP.Net
It's true the old tech is still somewhat runnable, but you can't get a job programming DAO and VB5.
So I decided to get with a programming language that is designed by programmers and not by the marketing department.
Plus: It's free, it's well documented, and it works on just about any platform (even IBM mainframes)
If you want real webserver performance, look at mod_python. (www.modpyton.org)
Anyway, Python is great, VB is great, Java is great, C# is great, C and C++ are great, Perl is great, (insert language) is great. (there, happy?)
A piper cub has a stall speed of about 60 mph, and a top speed of about 170 mph (aviators, I'm just trying to make a point). On the other hand, the SR-71 blackhawk has a top speed in excess of 3500 ft/second (yes it's faster than a rifle bullet) or near 2000 mph +
Now, everyone wants their children to be the super performer, the one whose going to get to MIT or harvard on a full academic scholarship, so they want the shild to go fast.
Yet, the SR-71 has a very high stall speed, near 500 mph(DQMOT), which makes reflueling behind a 707 really tricky.
Anyway, if the kids are supposed to all go at the same speed because the teacher can only handle 120 mph, the piper cub putts along just fine, but the SR-71 will stall, drop to the ground, and make a 500 million dollar crater.
I went to Drake institute, summer 2002. (http://www.drakeinstitute.com/)
Visual bio-feedback and all.
I also, on the advice of my japanese wife who saw study done in japan on ADD and the relationship with the brain when under video-game mode and Alzeimer's, and their treatment was three-ball juggling. For ten minutes straight.
I couldn't juggle, at all.
I got the hang of it, slowly, trying every day. If I did 5 I was happy. That was summer of 2003.
On Dec 20, 2003 I hit 1150 juggles.
Last week, I did 1900 straight.
Now, I stop at ten minutes, and don't even count.
The level of concentration is insane when you get to above 500. The brain wants to stop, to roam, to defocus and wander. Yet 1/2 second of defocus, and the ball is on the floor.
You can't blink, you can't let your mind wander, you can't let your eyes stray.
Now, when I am feeling myself drift, I imagine that I am juggling fast (at 4/sec or so), and I get very focused very fast, and I can concentrate on the task at hand.
About biofeedback: It's a way for you to train yourself to relax yourself (I imagine my hands and feet are warm and do deep breathing exercises) and to focus your mind. It visually lets you know the spot you want to be at. Once you "get it" you know it, then don't need the visual feedback to know you're focused.
But like everything else, if you don't use it, you lose it.
Ultimately it's worked for me. My relationship with my wife has improved dramatically, my job is not suffering, my firends have all noticed a difference, and my schooling is progressing rapidly.
I'm 35. Yes it was expensive ($5500 for 40 1 hr sessions), yet in the grand scheme of things, it's not.
Oh, and My driving has improved greatly (I had 3 accidents in 4 years, but nothing, not even a scratch, since).
To poster: If you want to contact me, it's chris_mahan hat yahoo dotte com.
PS: The first 10 sessions were for stress reduction, learning how to drop stress levels. Very effective even though I slept through 3 sessions:)
Of course the cracker [=! hacker] could do one better and jumble money out of accounts and into others, like this:
Any account with balance less than $50, add whatever amount you can get from the next account. rs.movenext
Of course, the bank will not have been technically robbed, since they did not lose any money, but the amount of 800 calls would be just staggering. Imagine you find your bank account $500 short, and you call, and get a busy signal? You'be be driving down to their office right away, wearing a frown like at a funeral.
Except of course in our case where we have piece-of-crap software from thrid party vendor that makes windows XP act funny (not crash, mind you, but irritating as heck), so first thing we do on the dell 2350 is install 2000 pro over XP and spend some time loading video and nic card drivers.
Every company I worked at uninstalled the preinstalled windows and installed their custom version.
Preformatted floppies were a good idea. Preinstalled windows is not in a corp environment.
A good example of that in the wintel world is dell servers. hey come with windows, but it's not preinstalled.
Except of course us married ones. We have the amazing ability to never have a moment of peace to ourselves due to the wife. You single geeks go and hang out at Fry's or at the NetCafe while we do dishes and watch some Hugh Grant flick.
Someone (you there) put together a site of non-RIAA labels, and we visit it, and buy music from those labels, and no music from the RIAA labels, so that they feel the heat.
What I see is we boycott the smaller RIAA labels, so that they will have to drop out of the RIAA or go out of business. Then we maintain a action list of those who drop out and go buy their music.
You see, the RIAA cannot live without it's members. Once Sony, Universal, and a couple of others are the only ones left on there, then the new artists will have choices.
In general, PHBs don't care what it's programmed in, and since intel servers ar cheaper than programmers, they don't even care too much if they're scripting languages.
The key is that the software integrator needs to be a good analyst, have good business acumen, give the users what they want quickly, and be willing to use the best tool for the job.
Unless you hadn't noticed, the US and Japan are actively constructing a missile defense system to protect against North Korean missiles. As well, since North Korea has delivery mechanisms, and may soon be able to build actual mushrooming nukes, it might be better to try and miss than to wait to go help the survivors (which is exactly what a japanese cabinet minister said last week, that the only thing the SDF could do is send rescue workers to help the survivors, in case of a missile attack by North Korea).
By the way, so you know, my wife is Japanese, from Fukuoka.
There needs to be a way for a vendor to present an invoice for services rendered. One that is binding in a court of law and one that does not cost an arm and a leg.
Which is why I don't go to concerts and therefore don't buy tickets.
If people voted with their wallets instead of spewing filth upon the head of the filthy rich on geeky forums and then spending their hard-earned cash on tickets and convenience fees, they'd change their tune.
Anyway: It's like saying the soup is salty and asking for seconds: mixed messages get you nowhere.
I did not imply that maturity was equivalent to wisdom.
I did not imply that abstinence was a defect. It's a choice. Like drinking. Drinking can be fun, and people abstain.
if you saw sex as a duty and felt "peer-pressured" then you probably did not want to do it. Anything that you do that you don't want to do is not going to be fun.
Also, if the girl is not willing, it's rape, regardless of the age.
Male teenage hormones can take jail for an answer. This is why it's very important to educate children well in that regard because a 18 year old fucks a 17 year old, and he's looking at jail time, hormones or not. Even if you didn't want to drive (personal choice, nothing wrong with that) you would still want your child to take a driving course before getting behind the wheel of a car, wouldn't you?
Sex is fun when it's done responsibly. When I mean fun, I mean, enjoyable, pleasurable, and relaxing. Just like driving and flying a plane. True you don't have to do it, but if you don't do it because you think it's scary, then seek therapy and make an informed decision.
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Exactly.
When VS.Net came out I thought to myself: 5 more years, and then I'll have to re-learn everything when the "new thing" comes out... Just like it did with GW basic, Qbasic, VB3, 4, 5, 6 and now VB.Net (yes they got better but that's because they were pretty bad to begin with).
But that's not the last of it. Same with Access, VBA, DAO->ADO->ADO.NET, ASP ->ASP.Net
It's true the old tech is still somewhat runnable, but you can't get a job programming DAO and VB5.
So I decided to get with a programming language that is designed by programmers and not by the marketing department.
Plus: It's free, it's well documented, and it works on just about any platform (even IBM mainframes)
If you want real webserver performance, look at mod_python. (www.modpyton.org)
Anyway, Python is great, VB is great, Java is great, C# is great, C and C++ are great, Perl is great, (insert language) is great. (there, happy?)
Facetious Flash:
Eolas Sues Mozilla and get source code for free.
In other news, the main sourceforge server and othe open source communities are moved to India, slightly out of reach of the US Courts.
On a more serious note:
If this happens, we can all go back to the good old days of well-formed html with linked media resources.
I see it like this:
A piper cub has a stall speed of about 60 mph, and a top speed of about 170 mph (aviators, I'm just trying to make a point).
On the other hand, the SR-71 blackhawk has a top speed in excess of 3500 ft/second (yes it's faster than a rifle bullet) or near 2000 mph +
Now, everyone wants their children to be the super performer, the one whose going to get to MIT or harvard on a full academic scholarship, so they want the shild to go fast.
Yet, the SR-71 has a very high stall speed, near 500 mph(DQMOT), which makes reflueling behind a 707 really tricky.
Anyway, if the kids are supposed to all go at the same speed because the teacher can only handle 120 mph, the piper cub putts along just fine, but the SR-71 will stall, drop to the ground, and make a 500 million dollar crater.
I went to Drake institute, summer 2002. (http://www.drakeinstitute.com/)
:)
Visual bio-feedback and all.
I also, on the advice of my japanese wife who saw study done in japan on ADD and the relationship with the brain when under video-game mode and Alzeimer's, and their treatment was three-ball juggling. For ten minutes straight.
I couldn't juggle, at all.
I got the hang of it, slowly, trying every day. If I did 5 I was happy.
That was summer of 2003.
On Dec 20, 2003 I hit 1150 juggles.
Last week, I did 1900 straight.
Now, I stop at ten minutes, and don't even count.
The level of concentration is insane when you get to above 500. The brain wants to stop, to roam, to defocus and wander.
Yet 1/2 second of defocus, and the ball is on the floor.
You can't blink, you can't let your mind wander, you can't let your eyes stray.
Now, when I am feeling myself drift, I imagine that I am juggling fast (at 4/sec or so), and I get very focused very fast, and I can concentrate on the task at hand.
About biofeedback: It's a way for you to train yourself to relax yourself (I imagine my hands and feet are warm and do deep breathing exercises) and to focus your mind. It visually lets you know the spot you want to be at. Once you "get it" you know it, then don't need the visual feedback to know you're focused.
But like everything else, if you don't use it, you lose it.
Ultimately it's worked for me. My relationship with my wife has improved dramatically, my job is not suffering, my firends have all noticed a difference, and my schooling is progressing rapidly.
I'm 35. Yes it was expensive ($5500 for 40 1 hr sessions), yet in the grand scheme of things, it's not.
Oh, and My driving has improved greatly (I had 3 accidents in 4 years, but nothing, not even a scratch, since).
To poster: If you want to contact me, it's chris_mahan hat yahoo dotte com.
PS: The first 10 sessions were for stress reduction, learning how to drop stress levels. Very effective even though I slept through 3 sessions
it's an ADO command.
Of course the cracker [=! hacker] could do one better and jumble money out of accounts and into others, like this:
Any account with balance less than $50, add whatever amount you can get from the next account.
rs.movenext
Of course, the bank will not have been technically robbed, since they did not lose any money, but the amount of 800 calls would be just staggering. Imagine you find your bank account $500 short, and you call, and get a busy signal? You'be be driving down to their office right away, wearing a frown like at a funeral.
Except of course in our case where we have piece-of-crap software from thrid party vendor that makes windows XP act funny (not crash, mind you, but irritating as heck), so first thing we do on the dell 2350 is install 2000 pro over XP and spend some time loading video and nic card drivers.
Every company I worked at uninstalled the preinstalled windows and installed their custom version.
Preformatted floppies were a good idea. Preinstalled windows is not in a corp environment.
A good example of that in the wintel world is dell servers. hey come with windows, but it's not preinstalled.
You could, but the burling plastic from the Palm would not only be unpleasant but also environmentally unfriendly.
Except of course us married ones. We have the amazing ability to never have a moment of peace to ourselves due to the wife. You single geeks go and hang out at Fry's or at the NetCafe while we do dishes and watch some Hugh Grant flick.
(unfortunately not joking:\)
Economic Warfare.
Someone (you there) put together a site of non-RIAA labels, and we visit it, and buy music from those labels, and no music from the RIAA labels, so that they feel the heat.
What I see is we boycott the smaller RIAA labels, so that they will have to drop out of the RIAA or go out of business. Then we maintain a action list of those who drop out and go buy their music.
You see, the RIAA cannot live without it's members. Once Sony, Universal, and a couple of others are the only ones left on there, then the new artists will have choices.
mini-vpn.
Easy no?
I actually use jEdit (jEdit.org) and it's very nice, with autocomplete (not for VB though, but that's ok) for java and a few others.
One Word: Cough*Camgirl*Cough
Personally, I am moving to Python. Nothing against VB per say, but tired of paying for the MS IDE.
I'll second that.
In general, PHBs don't care what it's programmed in, and since intel servers ar cheaper than programmers, they don't even care too much if they're scripting languages.
The key is that the software integrator needs to be a good analyst, have good business acumen, give the users what they want quickly, and be willing to use the best tool for the job.
Unless you hadn't noticed, the US and Japan are actively constructing a missile defense system to protect against North Korean missiles. As well, since North Korea has delivery mechanisms, and may soon be able to build actual mushrooming nukes, it might be better to try and miss than to wait to go help the survivors (which is exactly what a japanese cabinet minister said last week, that the only thing the SDF could do is send rescue workers to help the survivors, in case of a missile attack by North Korea).
By the way, so you know, my wife is Japanese, from Fukuoka.
Wouldn't it be totally bitching if they successfully demoed it during the next North Korean missile test over the Sea of Japan?
You're absolutely right.
There needs to be a way for a vendor to present an invoice for services rendered. One that is binding in a court of law and one that does not cost an arm and a leg.
About the sig:
That's because the more articulate monkey are being dropped from the branches to the waiting hyenas below.
Check out the drake institute:
http://www.drakeinstitute.com/
They have non-drup programs for add and adhd.
I went. email private for more details.
Which is why I don't go to concerts and therefore don't buy tickets.
If people voted with their wallets instead of spewing filth upon the head of the filthy rich on geeky forums and then spending their hard-earned cash on tickets and convenience fees, they'd change their tune.
Anyway: It's like saying the soup is salty and asking for seconds: mixed messages get you nowhere.
You have obviously nevere been arrested. It's not like in the movies.
[Troll to Troll]
I wouldn't have a problem with it, but I can imagine my conversation at LAX:
Me:
"My laptop is nuclear-powered, so don't drop it please."
Federal Screener (recoils in horror):
"You've got a NUKE in here?"
Armed national guardsmen (running hard toward me):
"Get Down Get Down NOWWW!!!"
Some other dudes in uniform (on the radio):
"We've got a 99-56!!! Notify STARTAC!!!"
Me: (writhing on the floor my hands pinned back)
"It's a Dell, Dude!"
Replying to a troll I know.
I did not imply that maturity was equivalent to wisdom.
I did not imply that abstinence was a defect. It's a choice. Like drinking. Drinking can be fun, and people abstain.
if you saw sex as a duty and felt "peer-pressured" then you probably did not want to do it. Anything that you do that you don't want to do is not going to be fun.
Also, if the girl is not willing, it's rape, regardless of the age.
Male teenage hormones can take jail for an answer. This is why it's very important to educate children well in that regard because a 18 year old fucks a 17 year old, and he's looking at jail time, hormones or not.
Even if you didn't want to drive (personal choice, nothing wrong with that) you would still want your child to take a driving course before getting behind the wheel of a car, wouldn't you?
Sex is fun when it's done responsibly. When I mean fun, I mean, enjoyable, pleasurable, and relaxing. Just like driving and flying a plane. True you don't have to do it, but if you don't do it because you think it's scary, then seek therapy and make an informed decision.
How about:
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