They're in the business for profit, nothing more, nothing else.
Not so. Bill Gates has been quoted many times as saying,"We are in the business of creating really great software."
Oh, Bill?
I'm waiting.... -----------------
I have to agree with the reviewer on the general quality of Manning books. I have "Web Devlopment with JavaServer Pages' by Fields and Kolb, and it is excellent, better than anything from Wrox, or Addison-Wellesley.
The other nice thing about Manning is you can buy a PDF copy of a book from their website www.manning.com for $13.50 plus 3.50 "processing fee" and apply the $13.50 as a credit to the hardcopy if you want to buy that later. Nice if you want to check it out before buying, or to keep a reference copy on your development box.
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The corrolary is my approach: buy something expensive enough that you always remember where you put it. I have a Rotring Rollerball pen that is worth a fair bit more than a regular BIC. I misplace BICs all the time, but I always know where my Rotring is.
Then again, I've never lost my keys, either, so maybe it's just me. -----------------
Then you're brain-browsing the web someday, and some script-kiddie hacks your cerebral cortex, and POW! you're working at McDonalds.
Or worse, M$ gets their hands out it, and your short-memory becomes a 'subscription-only' feature. -----------------
This may get modded as flame-bait, but what the hell;
Avoid Crystal Reports at all costs if you can. It's irrating, confusing, and buggy, and it's been that way since I started using it in 1993. On every one job I take I swear I won't use Crystal again, but somehow I keep getting stuck with it, becuase it's already being used, or somebody somewhere thought it was a good idea. If you need formatting and page breaks go with some kind of PDF generator, and find one with a Java interface because you're already on J2EE.
Report generation is one of the necessary evils of business application development, so the best thing you can do is find something that will let the users create their own reports; instead of pestering you to do it for them.
End of grumpy report creator rant. -----------------
Is the computer still gonna be so dumb that you have to say "tea, earl grey, hot" instead of being able to record a macro that responds correctly to "my tea"? (Star Trek writers obviously know zip about computers.) -----------------
Microsoft Daleks. Now that makes sense. A galaxy-dominating civilization that can't climb stairs.
(P.S. Terry Nation, who created and wrote most of Blake's Seven, also created the Daleks.) -----------------
Basically because peroxide is horribly nasty stuff. The german rocket people would fuel up the peroxide tanks, drive the peroxide truck away a few miles, wash everything down, and then bring in the catalyst truck to complete the fueling process. I can't remember what the catalyst was right now (maybe kerosene?), but the procedure was really dangerous. The peroxide you buy in the drugstore is 5% h2o2, while the rocket fuel is something like 90%. -----------------
Nice idea about error messages, have you thought of sending it to Microsoft?
My favorite is "Unexpected error", as opposed to the one we were expecting? -----------------
Control: Microsoft tech support suggests standard recovery procedure: re-format your hard drive and re-install the OS.
ISS: Uh, roger.
Control: And don't forget the service packs... -----------------
Yeah, right. I have MediaOne cable access, since MediaOne has the monopoly on cable in my area, and MediaOne got bought by AT&T.
Now, if you want broadband around here your choices are DSL from Verizon, or cable from AT&T. Now you can try to split hairs and tell me that AT&T isn't a 'Bell' company, but I ain't buyin' -----------------
It is the responsibility of management to bring profits to a company through all market conditions! A failure of a company to prevail over poor market conditions is a failure in management.
Yeah, like my CEO is going to admit to that. Instead, he blamed 'market conditions' and axed 150 jobs. Management is like everyone else in business, in a crisis step one is to allocate the blame, and it's never management.
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No, Scott Adams get his ideas from guys like this. In truckloads. Daily. He freely admits that all his comics are now based on stories sent to him by his readers. -----------------
SQL Server is a pretty good DBMS although there are questions about its scalability. The major problem is that it only runs on Windows NT, and there are major questions about its scalability. There seems to be a concensus that Win NT Server (4.0, 2000, etc) do not scale as well as Unix, Solaris, etc, which cripples the scalability of the DBMS. -----------------
Yer muddling up Tomorrow Never Dies (evil media mogul with stealth boat) with The World is Not Enough (MI6 headquarters blows up, followed by boat chase). S'okay, most people jumble the movies up, because they all kind of run together. -----------------
I'm sorry, but I remember first seeing Natalie Portman as a twelve-year-old girl in "Leon" (AKA "The Professional"). Thinking about her in any other way makes me feel like a dirty old man. -----------------
Fist Full of Dollars and Last Man Standing from Yojimbo; The Magnificent Seven and Battle Beyond the Stars from Seven Samurai.
Kurosawa based Ran on King Lear.
The quality of the work (Ran, Magnificent Seven) just goes to prove the old adage: "Good artists copy, great artists steal". -----------------
In 1987, the Logitech mouse shipped with a character-mode text editor called 'Point'. It used mouse gestures to perform basic text-editing functions (home, end, cut, copy, paste, etc). I used it for a while and got quite comfortable with it, but then TPTB found out and forced me to toe the party line and use SPF-PC (yuck!). -----------------
"Now pay attention, 007, here is your new laptop."
"All the usual refinements, laser cutter here, rocket launcher here, life-raft here,self-destruct mechanism here."
"Unfortunately, we've had to install Windows XP as an operating system, so you won't be able to use it as a computer." -----------------
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I once consulted for a public utility that is a union shop. I couldn't bill more than 35 hours a week! Now that hurt!
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They're in the business for profit, nothing more, nothing else.
Not so. Bill Gates has been quoted many times as saying,"We are in the business of creating really great software."
Oh, Bill?
I'm waiting....
-----------------
I have to agree with the reviewer on the general quality of Manning books. I have "Web Devlopment with JavaServer Pages' by Fields and Kolb, and it is excellent, better than anything from Wrox, or Addison-Wellesley.
The other nice thing about Manning is you can buy a PDF copy of a book from their website www.manning.com for $13.50 plus 3.50 "processing fee" and apply the $13.50 as a credit to the hardcopy if you want to buy that later. Nice if you want to check it out before buying, or to keep a reference copy on your development box.
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The corrolary is my approach: buy something expensive enough that you always remember where you put it. I have a Rotring Rollerball pen that is worth a fair bit more than a regular BIC. I misplace BICs all the time, but I always know where my Rotring is.
Then again, I've never lost my keys, either, so maybe it's just me.
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Then you're brain-browsing the web someday, and some script-kiddie hacks your cerebral cortex, and POW! you're working at McDonalds.
Or worse, M$ gets their hands out it, and your short-memory becomes a 'subscription-only' feature.
-----------------
This may get modded as flame-bait, but what the hell;
Avoid Crystal Reports at all costs if you can. It's irrating, confusing, and buggy, and it's been that way since I started using it in 1993. On every one job I take I swear I won't use Crystal again, but somehow I keep getting stuck with it, becuase it's already being used, or somebody somewhere thought it was a good idea. If you need formatting and page breaks go with some kind of PDF generator, and find one with a Java interface because you're already on J2EE.
Report generation is one of the necessary evils of business application development, so the best thing you can do is find something that will let the users create their own reports; instead of pestering you to do it for them.
End of grumpy report creator rant.
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As a programmer, my two greatest assets are my hands.
Naah. Too easy. I'll wait for a less obvious straight line.
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Is the computer still gonna be so dumb that you have to say "tea, earl grey, hot" instead of being able to record a macro that responds correctly to "my tea"? (Star Trek writers obviously know zip about computers.)
-----------------
Microsoft Daleks. Now that makes sense. A galaxy-dominating civilization that can't climb stairs. (P.S. Terry Nation, who created and wrote most of Blake's Seven, also created the Daleks.)
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Basically because peroxide is horribly nasty stuff. The german rocket people would fuel up the peroxide tanks, drive the peroxide truck away a few miles, wash everything down, and then bring in the catalyst truck to complete the fueling process. I can't remember what the catalyst was right now (maybe kerosene?), but the procedure was really dangerous. The peroxide you buy in the drugstore is 5% h2o2, while the rocket fuel is something like 90%.
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Nice idea about error messages, have you thought of sending it to Microsoft?
My favorite is "Unexpected error", as opposed to the one we were expecting?
-----------------
Control: Microsoft tech support suggests standard recovery procedure: re-format your hard drive and re-install the OS.
ISS: Uh, roger.
Control: And don't forget the service packs...
-----------------
Yeah, right. I have MediaOne cable access, since MediaOne has the monopoly on cable in my area, and MediaOne got bought by AT&T.
Now, if you want broadband around here your choices are DSL from Verizon, or cable from AT&T. Now you can try to split hairs and tell me that AT&T isn't a 'Bell' company, but I ain't buyin'
-----------------
It is the responsibility of management to bring profits to a company through all market conditions! A failure of a company to prevail over poor market conditions is a failure in management.
Yeah, like my CEO is going to admit to that. Instead, he blamed 'market conditions' and axed 150 jobs. Management is like everyone else in business, in a crisis step one is to allocate the blame, and it's never management.
-----------------
No, Scott Adams get his ideas from guys like this. In truckloads. Daily. He freely admits that all his comics are now based on stories sent to him by his readers.
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SQL Server is a pretty good DBMS although there are questions about its scalability. The major problem is that it only runs on Windows NT, and there are major questions about its scalability. There seems to be a concensus that Win NT Server (4.0, 2000, etc) do not scale as well as Unix, Solaris, etc, which cripples the scalability of the DBMS.
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So far, I think that only works for battlebots.
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Rollerball here we come. (Oh crap, they're remaking that, too. Can life get more scary?)
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Yer muddling up Tomorrow Never Dies (evil media mogul with stealth boat) with The World is Not Enough (MI6 headquarters blows up, followed by boat chase). S'okay, most people jumble the movies up, because they all kind of run together.
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I'm sorry, but I remember first seeing Natalie Portman as a twelve-year-old girl in "Leon" (AKA "The Professional"). Thinking about her in any other way makes me feel like a dirty old man.
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Fist Full of Dollars and Last Man Standing from Yojimbo; The Magnificent Seven and Battle Beyond the Stars from Seven Samurai.
Kurosawa based Ran on King Lear.
The quality of the work (Ran, Magnificent Seven) just goes to prove the old adage: "Good artists copy, great artists steal".
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Until Microsoft releases Visual SmallTalk tm
Or is that redundant?
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In 1987, the Logitech mouse shipped with a character-mode text editor called 'Point'. It used mouse gestures to perform basic text-editing functions (home, end, cut, copy, paste, etc). I used it for a while and got quite comfortable with it, but then TPTB found out and forced me to toe the party line and use SPF-PC (yuck!).
-----------------
"Now pay attention, 007, here is your new laptop."
"All the usual refinements, laser cutter here, rocket launcher here, life-raft here,self-destruct mechanism here."
"Unfortunately, we've had to install Windows XP as an operating system, so you won't be able to use it as a computer."
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Actually, that sounds like the security process at CompUSA.
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