If we are to have learned anything from our electeed officials, it is that we should be very afraid and worried, because TERRORISTS might be able to compromise this system and STEAL our money. Try to spend at least 20 minutes a day actively worrying about this, more if possible.
I believe it was FDR who said, "We have nothing to fear, but TERRORISTS." Wiser words have never been spoken.
Mind you, I'm a ballroom dancer, so I'd love Strictly Ballroom simply for the soundtrack
Cindy Louper is typical ballroom dance music? Eeep. I know there's a reason I blocked those memories of the ballroom dancing lessons my parents made me take in junior high.
Look at the solider in the black. Make it white and we're pretty damn close to having our boys overseas looking like Storm Troopers. All that remains is for Bush to claim himself Emporer, and Chaney to learn the secrets of the Dark Side and become horribly disfigured in some sort of Volcano-related accident.
A good discussion on this topic can be found at this blog entry: Don't use stored procedures yet? Must be suffering from NIHS (Not Invented Here Syndrome). The content of the blog post (by Rob Howard, a former Microsoft employee who most definitely knows his stuff) is definitely a good read, but the real gems are in the comments, which there are plenty. There's an equally interesting thread on this discussion by another blogger with his entry called Stored Procedures are Bad, M'Kay?. Both worth reading, if nothing else for the comments.
He has shared his views on Microsoft's moves in his blog. Essentially, he is of the opinion that the dividend is good for shareholders, the stock buyback is good only for insiders.
Cuban has a very interesting blog, even more so for NBA fans. (For those who don't know, he's the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, an NBA team. He made his billions selling Broadcast.com to Yahoo! back in the dot com bubble.)
I agree that you can write your own loosely typed code faster, but try doing this is a software team. Or how about you are the new guy, the last guy quit, and now you have to make sense of his loosely-typed code. Or, hell, even if you are looking at your own code that you haven't looked at in two years, it's the same thing.
It all depends on the scope and scale of sites you are building, I guess. I recall hearing a stat from Microsoft that when comparing ASP and ASP.NET's performance on a real, frequently visited Microsoft Web site, if they used late binding with ASP.NET it's perf was just slightly better than classic ASP, but if they used early binding the site could handle something like 90% more requests per second.
For example, try changing 1 property on 10 text boxes. You must click each text box, then click on the property page, scroll down to the proper value, click on it, highlight the existing contents, then change it. It's terribly inefficient.
Actually, if you are changing a property that is common to all selected controls, such as the BackColor, you can select multiple controls, and the Properties window will display just those properties that are common to the selected controls. At least you can do this in VS.NET 2003.
I agree that the code-behind model leaves a lot to be desired. It is a hack, really, and despite the fact that MS has touted it as a clean separation of code and content, it's there solely because they could not get VS.NET to work any other way. With Visual Studio 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0, the code-behind model, while still available, will likely be left behind for the code-beside approach.
An interesting thing I've observed in the Koreans who are relatives or friends of the family that I've met is that they all start with the saying, "You look very X," where X can be any number of things. Usually, for me, X is "young," but I've heard "smart" and "handsome", too. Perhaps this is what the relatives where laughing about when I first met them, how young I look.
Because you just described what basically all non-Koreans go through when meeting the Korean extended family for the first time. Sitting there, having Mr. Kim and Aunt Park having an animated discussion in Korean that ends in laughter and a finger pointed squarely at you.
Nor can you compose HTML-formatted emails using the WYSIWYG tool with browsers other than IE... even though there exist such tools that work in Mozilla FireFox. Not that I'm into writing HTML-formatted emails, or anything.
So if you are holding back from people and trying to hide the fact that you were a dumbass one night and did something so monumentally stupid that you got yourself on Cops, then you might have something to lose?
What is it that you might have to lose there? I just don't get it.
Here's one thing, Sherlock - your job. Perhaps you work at Disney Land, and perhaps they don't like having someone who'd get snot drunk, slap around some woman, and run from the cops working their in their guest services department.
why not sign? Ya really don't have anything to lose.
Unless your employer, girlfriend/wife, friends, or family own a TV and aren't aware that you've been arrested. Then you might have something to lose, I reckon.
The writer seems so excited about his pun about Microsoft wetting itself that he ignored how awkward it sounds using the root word "shake" twice so quickly.
I don't know the author or his style, but perhaps he is doing that intentionally? Sort of like some of the greatest Simpsons lines: "You couldn't fool your mother on the foolingest day of the year if you had an electrified fooling machine," or "But if you quit, it'd be like an expert knot
tier quitting a knot-tying contest right in the middle of tying a knot."
Further, their ENTIRE history from day one shows them to be parasites who wait for someone with a good idea they can pounce on just as it's becoming big.
It's funny that you earlier mentioned Church in your post, because you are exhibiting the zeal of one who has blind faith and can't be bothered with the facts. Yes, Microsoft has made a lot of money by repackaging and reselling the ideas of others, but they've also released products they created as well. To claim otherwise smacks of ignorance.
New ventures, on the other hand, would decrease profits because they would have a high investment cost.
You seem to be implying that Microsoft doesn't spend money on new projects and ventures, but they do. I don't know what numbers he used to make the comparison, but at TechEd Steve Balmer said that Microsoft's budget on R&D each year is second only to Pfizer's. I believe MS spends tens of billions of dollars annually on research.
Didn't Kenomi make Track & Field? Seems like they are adept at making games that require hitting something as fast as possible.
Track & Field was a hoot of a game, the whole concpet - see who can mash the buttons the fastest - was solid entertainment back when I was in 5th grade.
No, it's definitely Lucas. If you look at movies that he's worked on--Indiana Jones, the original and special edition Star Wars--he really seems to have a thing for 'kids movies.'
This somehow eerily reminded me of Michael Jackson. Ick.
if I don't like what you've said on my private web-site, MUD or IRC channel, I have all the right in the world to delete the message, or ban your IP range, delete your user, or whatever
From my understanding, though, once a site starts deleting, say, defamatory messages it is reponsible for moving all of them. That is, one strategy would to be to remove no defamatory statements, and say, "freedom of speech." Once you start prohibitng true freedom of speech on your site, though, you are now liable for those defamatory statements you did not remove. At least that is my (mis)understanding of the matter.
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I believe it was FDR who said, "We have nothing to fear, but TERRORISTS." Wiser words have never been spoken.
Cindy Louper is typical ballroom dance music? Eeep. I know there's a reason I blocked those memories of the ballroom dancing lessons my parents made me take in junior high.
Look at the solider in the black. Make it white and we're pretty damn close to having our boys overseas looking like Storm Troopers. All that remains is for Bush to claim himself Emporer, and Chaney to learn the secrets of the Dark Side and become horribly disfigured in some sort of Volcano-related accident.
A good discussion on this topic can be found at this blog entry: Don't use stored procedures yet? Must be suffering from NIHS (Not Invented Here Syndrome). The content of the blog post (by Rob Howard, a former Microsoft employee who most definitely knows his stuff) is definitely a good read, but the real gems are in the comments, which there are plenty. There's an equally interesting thread on this discussion by another blogger with his entry called Stored Procedures are Bad, M'Kay?. Both worth reading, if nothing else for the comments.
Cuban has a very interesting blog, even more so for NBA fans. (For those who don't know, he's the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, an NBA team. He made his billions selling Broadcast.com to Yahoo! back in the dot com bubble.)
I am wagering that you work on your Web applications as a one man show, and that you are not working with a team of, say, six others. Correct?
I agree that you can write your own loosely typed code faster, but try doing this is a software team. Or how about you are the new guy, the last guy quit, and now you have to make sense of his loosely-typed code. Or, hell, even if you are looking at your own code that you haven't looked at in two years, it's the same thing.
It all depends on the scope and scale of sites you are building, I guess. I recall hearing a stat from Microsoft that when comparing ASP and ASP.NET's performance on a real, frequently visited Microsoft Web site, if they used late binding with ASP.NET it's perf was just slightly better than classic ASP, but if they used early binding the site could handle something like 90% more requests per second.
To get performance benefits and fewer bugs (leading to less testing/debugging time). Plus I rather enjoy writing cleaner code.
Actually, if you are changing a property that is common to all selected controls, such as the BackColor, you can select multiple controls, and the Properties window will display just those properties that are common to the selected controls. At least you can do this in VS.NET 2003.
I agree that the code-behind model leaves a lot to be desired. It is a hack, really, and despite the fact that MS has touted it as a clean separation of code and content, it's there solely because they could not get VS.NET to work any other way. With Visual Studio 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0, the code-behind model, while still available, will likely be left behind for the code-beside approach.
You can read more about code-behind's hackiness at this blog entry. There's also a good blog entry on the same topic by Andy Smith.
It's confusing b/c the article seems to reference classic ASP, but the title of the /. story says ASP.NET. I blame Kodos.
An interesting thing I've observed in the Koreans who are relatives or friends of the family that I've met is that they all start with the saying, "You look very X," where X can be any number of things. Usually, for me, X is "young," but I've heard "smart" and "handsome", too. Perhaps this is what the relatives where laughing about when I first met them, how young I look.
I speak from experience. :-)
We all know what the Fresh Prince became, but what ever happened to Mr. DJ Jazzy Jeff? Anyone? Anyone?
Nor can you compose HTML-formatted emails using the WYSIWYG tool with browsers other than IE... even though there exist such tools that work in Mozilla FireFox. Not that I'm into writing HTML-formatted emails, or anything.
Here's one thing, Sherlock - your job. Perhaps you work at Disney Land, and perhaps they don't like having someone who'd get snot drunk, slap around some woman, and run from the cops working their in their guest services department.
Unless your employer, girlfriend/wife, friends, or family own a TV and aren't aware that you've been arrested. Then you might have something to lose, I reckon.
I don't know the author or his style, but perhaps he is doing that intentionally? Sort of like some of the greatest Simpsons lines: "You couldn't fool your mother on the foolingest day of the year if you had an electrified fooling machine," or "But if you quit, it'd be like an expert knot tier quitting a knot-tying contest right in the middle of tying a knot."
It's funny that you earlier mentioned Church in your post, because you are exhibiting the zeal of one who has blind faith and can't be bothered with the facts. Yes, Microsoft has made a lot of money by repackaging and reselling the ideas of others, but they've also released products they created as well. To claim otherwise smacks of ignorance.
You seem to be implying that Microsoft doesn't spend money on new projects and ventures, but they do. I don't know what numbers he used to make the comparison, but at TechEd Steve Balmer said that Microsoft's budget on R&D each year is second only to Pfizer's. I believe MS spends tens of billions of dollars annually on research.
Never heard of the pencil method. I remember I always sucked ass at the shotput, could never rotate the D-pad appropriately.
Track & Field was a hoot of a game, the whole concpet - see who can mash the buttons the fastest - was solid entertainment back when I was in 5th grade.
This somehow eerily reminded me of Michael Jackson. Ick.
If so, they got screwed, as MSN is going to switch from ESPN to Fox Sports as their sports site of choice here shortly.
From my understanding, though, once a site starts deleting, say, defamatory messages it is reponsible for moving all of them. That is, one strategy would to be to remove no defamatory statements, and say, "freedom of speech." Once you start prohibitng true freedom of speech on your site, though, you are now liable for those defamatory statements you did not remove. At least that is my (mis)understanding of the matter.