It was not used to work themselves into a 'murderous state'. It was meant to calm and focus. (Think about it, who's more dangerous, a raving raging lunatic with a semi-automatic, or a calm, cool and collect assassin with a knife)
It was also believed that it aided in night vision.
What are you getting so indignant about? Did you pay to use Google Maps? Did Google promise you that they'd release maps of the whole world? Did you sign some sort of promisary contract with Google?
No?
Then kindly stfu.
It's in beta, as you are fully aware. Feel free to comment on it's feature set, provide feedback on what could make it better etc. But do you really think they don't realize it's not complete? What's beta for?
Get off your high horse and come back when you aren't just coming up with unreasonable crap to bitch about.
Google only acquired the archives themselves, ie the data. They developed the storage/search/retrieval/interface-for-the-above system which acts on that data.
You've got a codebase writtin in VB6 (or whatever older platform).
That codebase is in production on whatever system it was originally designed to work on, and thus subsequently deployed on.
Future support for VB6 is dropped from the current development platform. Longhorn is released and doesn't contain the older VB6 runtimes. (Aside from the fact that _this_ will NOT happen for a VERY VERY long time as MS has ensured release after release that even that ancient history old crappy 16bit vb app still works, but anyways...)
So longhorn comes out. Do you upgrade your deployed platforms to this and break the support for your app? Or do you leave shit alone because it ISN'T EVEN BROKE!
This is what is really really pissing me off. NOBODY is forcing ANYBODY to upgrade ANYTHING. If it works today, and you upgrade to something newer that you KNOW won't support your current code base, that would be YOUR problem. There are VERY VERY few cases where the acceptable solution would be to force reimplementation of a codebase in a new tech just so it'll work on longhorn or whatever.
If you choose (Note that, 'you choose', very important here) to port your legacy VB code base to VB.NET, you'd better have a damned good reason. Did everyone have to go out and upgrade their c++ apps to c#/.NET apps just because it came out? Fuck no. Why is VB so freaking special then?
(It isn't, I already explained this fallacy above)
I'm sorry, but if you're a programmer and you're worried about your ability to program outside of VB6, you deserve to lose your job.
Sheesh, pleading with MS to prop up your job via the only thing you've ever bothered to learn.
There is no thing as a programmer who can only work in one language. People who can only use VB6 exclusively, I hate to break the news to you but, you're not programmers.
Besides, there are way better options now for new development, and any legacy support can still be done with existing tools. MS is not coming to your door to remove all VB6 tools from your machines for christ sakes.
Damned, if any of my programmers came to me bitching about this I'd likely fire them immediately.
Yeah, OK. The current market will just dry up overnight when 7-11 comes to market with crappy dope for twice the current street price. That'll work well.
It'll be cheaper and/or better or it won't go at all.
Sorry, that analogy doesn't work. An auction and writing a document have nothing in common no matter how hard you try.
Now, compare a traditional auction with an ebay auction and we might just get somewhere.
In a traditional auction, people get a real auctioneer or auction house to auction off their goods on their behalf. On ebay people get ebay to auction off goods on their behalf. It's just that simple.
Unfortunately, some politicians obviously don't like things that are just that simple because it's harder to squeeze money out of.
This is a BS cash grab if I've ever seen one. If this goes through, you're getting shafted Ohio.
I still can't believe that in this day and age, with more pr0n in existence than ever before in history, and available to anyone with access to google no less, that our society _still_ can't stand the idea of the exposed human body.
I firmly believe that until we can appreciate the true human form as it is, that all else is hopelessly lost.
Don't take that the wrong way, I am certainly not suggesting porn for the masses or anything like that, I'm not even talking about porn. I'm talking about the fact that our society finds it more offensive to see a real live human breast on television than it is to see someones head cut off on the evening news.
Don't know how the laws are where you're from, but in Canada the laws surround concealment of a weapon.
You're more than welcome to play Crocodile Dundee, as long as the knife and sheath are in plain sight. Hide it however and it's a concealed weapon which is very much illegal.
Oh, and butterfly and switchblade knives are always illegal, concealed or not.
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What's the difference?
And think about it before jumping to conclusions...
It was not used to work themselves into a 'murderous state'. It was meant to calm and focus. (Think about it, who's more dangerous, a raving raging lunatic with a semi-automatic, or a calm, cool and collect assassin with a knife)
It was also believed that it aided in night vision.
What are you getting so indignant about?
Did you pay to use Google Maps?
Did Google promise you that they'd release maps of the whole world?
Did you sign some sort of promisary contract with Google?
No?
Then kindly stfu.
It's in beta, as you are fully aware. Feel free to comment on it's feature set, provide feedback on what could make it better etc. But do you really think they don't realize it's not complete? What's beta for?
Get off your high horse and come back when you aren't just coming up with unreasonable crap to bitch about.
Google created Google Groups.
Google only acquired the archives themselves, ie the data. They developed the storage/search/retrieval/interface-for-the-above system which acts on that data.
Um, quit giving them your credit card number then?
Sheesh...
Yeah, cause grandma jean has a whole trove of zombie machines out there just waiting to DDoS the first sucker that dares to spam her VOIP phone.
Common knowledge tells us that Telemarketing in general should not be a viable business. And yet, it is isn't it?
Did you miss the fine print in there?
Hint:
You talking about the US Do Not Call list?
Man I am sick of hearing this freaking argument.
You've got a codebase writtin in VB6 (or whatever older platform).
That codebase is in production on whatever system it was originally designed to work on, and thus subsequently deployed on.
Future support for VB6 is dropped from the current development platform. Longhorn is released and doesn't contain the older VB6 runtimes. (Aside from the fact that _this_ will NOT happen for a VERY VERY long time as MS has ensured release after release that even that ancient history old crappy 16bit vb app still works, but anyways...)
So longhorn comes out. Do you upgrade your deployed platforms to this and break the support for your app? Or do you leave shit alone because it ISN'T EVEN BROKE!
This is what is really really pissing me off. NOBODY is forcing ANYBODY to upgrade ANYTHING. If it works today, and you upgrade to something newer that you KNOW won't support your current code base, that would be YOUR problem. There are VERY VERY few cases where the acceptable solution would be to force reimplementation of a codebase in a new tech just so it'll work on longhorn or whatever.
If you choose (Note that, 'you choose', very important here) to port your legacy VB code base to VB.NET, you'd better have a damned good reason. Did everyone have to go out and upgrade their c++ apps to c#/.NET apps just because it came out? Fuck no. Why is VB so freaking special then?
(It isn't, I already explained this fallacy above)
I'm sorry, but if you're a programmer and you're worried about your ability to program outside of VB6, you deserve to lose your job.
Sheesh, pleading with MS to prop up your job via the only thing you've ever bothered to learn.
There is no thing as a programmer who can only work in one language. People who can only use VB6 exclusively, I hate to break the news to you but, you're not programmers.
Besides, there are way better options now for new development, and any legacy support can still be done with existing tools. MS is not coming to your door to remove all VB6 tools from your machines for christ sakes.
Damned, if any of my programmers came to me bitching about this I'd likely fire them immediately.
I think you meant: Last Generation ;)
Yeah, OK. The current market will just dry up overnight when 7-11 comes to market with crappy dope for twice the current street price. That'll work well.
It'll be cheaper and/or better or it won't go at all.
It worked? Wow. I don't think I've ever heard anyone suggest that prohibition was actually successful.
Organized crime was essentially the result of prohibition.
Sorry, that analogy doesn't work. An auction and writing a document have nothing in common no matter how hard you try.
Now, compare a traditional auction with an ebay auction and we might just get somewhere.
In a traditional auction, people get a real auctioneer or auction house to auction off their goods on their behalf. On ebay people get ebay to auction off goods on their behalf. It's just that simple.
Unfortunately, some politicians obviously don't like things that are just that simple because it's harder to squeeze money out of.
This is a BS cash grab if I've ever seen one. If this goes through, you're getting shafted Ohio.
Tell what? If it wasn't for his bad publicity over the past decade there would have been _no_ publicity for him and nobody would care.
Not that I can figure out why anyone _does_ care anyways.
It still doesn't matter.
You will still need IE in these cases.
Any ActiveX controls used on a webpage, typically found mostly in intranet sites, will still only run in IE.
Illegal?
Not available maybe, but illegal? I'd be quite surprised.
Best to pretend the flaws don't exist and then no actions need to be taken to fix them right?
I think the point being made is that this isn't working very well anymore.
If they are only using the modified software internally why would they be required to share them?
What do you think the RIAA and MPAA have been up to these past few years? Protecting the proper use of P2P channels?
You're either extremely naive, or you work for one of the **AA's.
If there are no design documents in existence, and no spec docs even, then you most certainly are NOT dealing with 'over-engineered' software.
You are in fact dealing with 'not-at-all-engineered' software.
Are you able to invoke change in these areas where you now work? Because if not, I strongly suggest bailing asap.
I still can't believe that in this day and age, with more pr0n in existence than ever before in history, and available to anyone with access to google no less, that our society _still_ can't stand the idea of the exposed human body.
I firmly believe that until we can appreciate the true human form as it is, that all else is hopelessly lost.
Don't take that the wrong way, I am certainly not suggesting porn for the masses or anything like that, I'm not even talking about porn. I'm talking about the fact that our society finds it more offensive to see a real live human breast on television than it is to see someones head cut off on the evening news.
Schemas aren't intended to be universal.
They are intended to support defining the structure of data for a given problem domain.
Yahoo is using schemas exactly as intended.
Don't know how the laws are where you're from, but in Canada the laws surround concealment of a weapon.
You're more than welcome to play Crocodile Dundee, as long as the knife and sheath are in plain sight. Hide it however and it's a concealed weapon which is very much illegal.
Oh, and butterfly and switchblade knives are always illegal, concealed or not.
Mods please mark things appropriately.
:)
This, while slightly OT, is not a Troll.
It's actually rather insightful in a way, but certainly not a troll.
Be nice