Ah, that makes me all nostalgic about usenet before AOL. I remember clearly when AOL'ers started ruining the newsgroups.
Anyway, I don't think that starting over is going to work. There is way too much invested in the current standards. Plus, as someone else has mentioned, if Microsoft gets involved, its going to be the inter.NET
Well, here's what we can do: Build a fuel cell recharger that runs on electricity. Hook it up to a windmill. Put a windmill-recharger in every home. Then all you have to do to refuel your car is swap your fuel cells out of the car and into the charger. If you're not getting enough wind, the combo solar/wind recharger will be available as well.
As a Redhat shareholder, I certainly appreciate the decision to certify the more expensive system.
Re:All this hype about XML
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XML IS descriptive, so long as you use good names. Naming elements a, b and c is just developer fault.
It is not just a matter of using good, descriptive names. Whatever code is reading the xml is going to have to know what the names mean. A program reading xml could care less if the name is "a" or "AVeryMeaningfulName"
The reviewer seems overly worried about the laser pointer. I read about a study recently where eye cancer patients had a laser pointer shone into their eyes for 15 minutes, with no ill effects.
What a bunch of crap. "Psychological connection" ?? Pure bullshit. You're dependent on your environment's syntax checking or statement completion, and obviously unable to think thru a problem. Writing code is nothing more than defining a problem solution in specific syntax. If you can't do it on paper, you have a serious problem.
If I remember correctly, the Internet was originally created (in the public manner) for the free exchange of information No, you do not remember correctly, or you are confusing free as in beer with free as in speech.
The internet was created to facilitate communication, but has never, ever been intended to be free of cost to its users, who were initially academics at universities or research organizations. These universities bore the cost of development and paid for their members to use the internet, just as I had "free" use of the internet as a college student.
Since coming out of college, I have been responsible for paying for my own access to the internet.
Aside from the issue of access, there is the issue of content, eg news sites. In the early days of the WWW, about the only web sites were at universities, and the only published documents were research papers. No ads, but these sites were fully paid for by universities and research grants.
Now there are loads of companies out there who are trying to make money on the internet. Their sites would not exist if there weren't somebody paying to support them, either through subscription fees or advertising.
Since you're a web development company, I'd suggest you set up a documentation intranet site. With a little planning, you can make it easy for folks to figure out where to put their doc files and where to add a link. If you want to go that far, you could also scan in handwritten notes and diagrams and post those to the site as well.
I seriously doubt that Office will be rewritten to run on.NET, both for performance reasons, and because MS will not want people using Office on Linux with Mono.
Re:I was looking for a C book...
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how to use the STL, etc
STL is only available in C++, and is now known as the "C++ Standard Library". While not very OO, it is heavily dependent on templates, a feature not available in C.
The worst manager I ever had was consumed with politics and scheming. Made my life miserable, because those of us on his team were the pawns in his game.
Why don't we just have poll workers go door-to-door, so we don't discriminate against people with no car, or people who live 4 miles from the polling station instead of 2.
Ooh, I know, lets prevent Lexus from making technological advancements in their cars, because some people can't afford a car.
Life is always easier for some people than for others. That's just the way it is.
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Glad you brought that up. I never use "LOL" or any of those abbreviations. Nor smileys, for that matter.
Don't read usenet much, do you?
Ah, that makes me all nostalgic about usenet before AOL. I remember clearly when AOL'ers started ruining the newsgroups.
Anyway, I don't think that starting over is going to work. There is way too much invested in the current standards. Plus, as someone else has mentioned, if Microsoft gets involved, its going to be the inter.NET
I don't have a blue badge!
I have a dash in front of my name!
Nobody loves me!
Geez, get over it people. You are contractors, not kindergarteners.
My company is still running NT on all production servers, but we are planning to upgrade soon. To Win2K.
I doubt we'll ever see any XP servers in our operation. We've had NT running since '98. So in 5 more years we'll upgrade to Win2005.
Well, here's what we can do: Build a fuel cell recharger that runs on electricity. Hook it up to a windmill. Put a windmill-recharger in every home. Then all you have to do to refuel your car is swap your fuel cells out of the car and into the charger.
If you're not getting enough wind, the combo solar/wind recharger will be available as well.
As a Redhat shareholder, I certainly appreciate the decision to certify the more expensive system.
XML IS descriptive, so long as you use good names. Naming elements a, b and c is just developer fault.
It is not just a matter of using good, descriptive names. Whatever code is reading the xml is going to have to know what the names mean. A program reading xml could care less if the name is "a" or "AVeryMeaningfulName"
The reviewer seems overly worried about the laser pointer. I read about a study recently where eye cancer patients had a laser pointer shone into their eyes for 15 minutes, with no ill effects.
What I wanna know is, can I hold down the right softkey and move the phone to the left to go back?
What a bunch of crap. "Psychological connection" ?? Pure bullshit. You're dependent on your environment's syntax checking or statement completion, and obviously unable to think thru a problem. Writing code is nothing more than defining a problem solution in specific syntax. If you can't do it on paper, you have a serious problem.
Mod parent up!! Damn funny!
reg add HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon /f /v Shell /t REG_SZ /d "c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe"
Spray-on solar cells
Collect energy for free.
Good-bye fossil fuel.
AdCritic was gone
But now it has come again
Get out your wallet
If I remember correctly, the Internet was originally created (in the public manner) for the free exchange of information
No, you do not remember correctly, or you are confusing free as in beer with free as in speech.
The internet was created to facilitate communication, but has never, ever been intended to be free of cost to its users, who were initially academics at universities or research organizations. These universities bore the cost of development and paid for their members to use the internet, just as I had "free" use of the internet as a college student.
Since coming out of college, I have been responsible for paying for my own access to the internet.
Aside from the issue of access, there is the issue of content, eg news sites. In the early days of the WWW, about the only web sites were at universities, and the only published documents were research papers. No ads, but these sites were fully paid for by universities and research grants.
Now there are loads of companies out there who are trying to make money on the internet. Their sites would not exist if there weren't somebody paying to support them, either through subscription fees or advertising.
Since you're a web development company, I'd suggest you set up a documentation intranet site.
With a little planning, you can make it easy for folks to figure out where to put their doc files and where to add a link.
If you want to go that far, you could also scan in handwritten notes and diagrams and post those to the site as well.
I'm usually satisified with the search results I get at google. I suppose I'd say that if I find it, I find it at google.
I haven't used Altavista much, except for babelfish, but after reading this I may have to give it a try sometime.
I seriously doubt that Office will be rewritten to run on .NET, both for performance reasons, and because MS will not want people using Office on Linux with Mono.
how to use the STL, etc
STL is only available in C++, and is now known as the "C++ Standard Library". While not very OO, it is heavily dependent on templates, a feature not available in C.
Apparently California is considering imposing fees on the purchase of computer hardware to cover the costs of recycling.
The question is, if I want to keep the hardware I buy in the closet forever when I'm through using it, do I still have to pay the fee?
Sounds like with the microphone array it will be able to hear stomachs growling and go ahead and order lunch for everyone.
I know a guy whose wife left him to go live with some other guy she met playing EQ.
What the hell, she was ugly anyway.
Number 3 is oh so important.
The worst manager I ever had was consumed with politics and scheming. Made my life miserable, because those of us on his team were the pawns in his game.
Give me a break.
Why don't we just have poll workers go door-to-door, so we don't discriminate against people with no car, or people who live 4 miles from the polling station instead of 2.
Ooh, I know, lets prevent Lexus from making technological advancements in their cars, because some people can't afford a car.
Life is always easier for some people than for others. That's just the way it is.