As the evidence mounts that every adventure undertaken by this atrocious President has been an abject failure, the meme I see with ever increasing frequency is "they [the Bush administration] aren't really conservatives." The propagandists on talk radio sure have been saying the exact opposite for the past five years.
1) There is a high chance you are a Scientologist 2) There is a high chance you are a Republican 3) There is a high chance that both (1) and (2) are true.
Regardless, your string of strawmen and self-destructive cynicism does not an argument make.
1) Microsoft's problems are due to the fact that they write crappy software, and abuse their monopoly. These are not philosophical differences, they are factual criticisms.
2) Apple's harshest critics are their fans. They want the company to succeed so they want problems fixed, and say so loudly.
3) I don't use Linux, not in that community, but your success ratio isn't too high so far. It's not unreasonable to assume you are mistaken here as well.
This article is PRO Microsoft, posted to the front page, and yet you complain. By disregarding all the cogent replies to this topic you just cheapen the debate in the very way you are claiming to abhor.
I work for hotels.com, and I guess I'm incredibly lucky. We just completed a major re-architecting of the site, something that was actually the continuation of some smaller prior efforts. The end result, though, it that we have a very well architected site, fully OO for the booking path (i.e. search to book), a high degree of code reuse, many (but not enough by far) unit and regression tests, and code that is *fairly* well documented. It's not nearly the nightmare you describe.
The project I was on before this one was actually dedicated solely to refactoring. (The current one was technically a visual redesign, but we made it an architectural one as well.)
Now, to be sure there is room for improvement. There always is. But I am by no means ashamed of the code we have, and there are some core areas that I think are quite worthy of admiration.
Hell, there's a rumor that Expedia might utilize some of our code to replace similar functionality on their site. Considering that they only recently began the process of switching away from C, we're kind of flattered.
Well, while an Exchange killer is certainly one of the holy grails insofar as breaking corporate lock-in to Microsoft, I have to admit a certain degree of skepticism. While OSS has seen it's fair share of success, it has not as yet been able to break into the corporate backoffice software market. This is at least partially due to the continuing reluctance of managment to use software that doesn't cost a damn thing.
I briefly looked around Zimbra's site, so please correct me if I'm wrong, but this looks like another free-as-in-speech replacement software suite. I don't see the PHB's getting excited about this until they have to pay good money for it.
Like most of the morons around here, I am not a physicist, but I'm going to toss and idea out there anyhoo.
I've noticed that sometimes when dealing with spiral phenomena (hurricanes, tornadoes, whirlpools, etc.) there are secondary, much smaller spirals that are thrown off from the main body. Could this be in effect here? Could the black hole be throwing off gravitational "eddies" that cause stars to be formed?
A dork with air amerikka as his url is going to bloviate about my knowlege of 'Enterprise?'
Why yes, I am, because you don't know what the fuck you are talking about. Oh wait! You're not implying that because you listen to Rush Limbaugh that you are more of an expert in the web enterprise server area, are you? Because that would be just fucking idiotic.
That you can point to five or six Big Successes that don't use Microsoft servers totally MISSES the point that corporate America, internally, does.
Huh! I seem to recall....
80% of what market? The 'waste time' sites we all browse from home, and that people slough off at work reading?
Yeah! That sounds familiar! "Waste time" sites, you said! It turned out you were full of shit, utterly, and completely. But rather than be a man and admit wrong, you change the subject.
And hey crackah, you got any statistics to back up your bullshit? Cuz right now you pullin shit out of yo ass so regularly it's like you be made up of Metamucil or some shit.
80% of what market? The 'waste time' sites we all browse from home, and that people slough off at work reading?
You have no idea what you are talking about. Not a little, not a small amount. Nothing. You may be all proud of the little ASP scripts you write, or whatever the fuck it is you do, but rest assured what you know about the enterprise is: dick all.
What does Google run on? eBay? hotels.com? Amazon.com? The iTunes Music Store? E*Trade? Adobe.com? wired.com? The New York Times? CNN? The United Nations?
I'll tell you, because you are probably too stupid to figure it out. Most of those run on Apache. The ones that don't run on open source Java servlet containers. Google runs on their own software, software that is based on... APACHE!
Did you know that Expedia runs on IIS? Did you also know that they recently announced they are switching their entire platform to Java? Huh! Those fuckers! Don't have a CLUE as to what they're doing!
And just out of curiosity: Is Microsoft paying you to spooge like this, or are you doing it on your free time?
Gotta call bullshit on this one. First off, Apache has over 80% market share, and it by no means runs ASP pages. Second, file suffix is no guarantee for what lies underneath. Suffixes for Java frameworks alone run from the usual.jsp, to.dhtml (ATG Dynamo),.do (Jakarta Struts), to.tss (Tapestry) and so forth and so on.
I have been hearing variations on this theme for a long, long time: "One day a virus will be written for OS X." Well, OS X has been out for like five years now, and -- yoinks! -- nary a virus in that entire time. So please, if you have working knowledge about how to create a virus on OS X then by all means, publish the method or WRITE the damn thing.
Until then, please STFU. Imagined futures based on dreamy possibilities is no substitute for actual code. Until an actual virus for OS X is seen, the following statements are true and will remain so:
"There are no viruses on OS X. There never have been any viruses for OS X. It does not appear possible for viruses to exist on OS X."
Bollocks. The executives are responsible for maximizing profits while staying within the bounds of the law and any corporate bylaws and charters. If Yahoo is incorporated in such a way as to allow their subsidiaries to undermine individual liberties, then those bylaws should be changed and/or amended with the utmost expediency.
Which justifies or excuses nothing. Saying "it's just business" is not, nor has it ever been, a valid excuse. Yahoo is undermining free speech and the liberties given to all men everywhere.
Given that the Mac community are more concerned over Photoshop than databases its not really suprising that they haven't concentrated massively on transactionally written files (lots of small writes) and may have chosen to focus on optimizing the writing of big files and the maths and graphics processing that goes with graphics work.
More and more I consider the "Mac users are primarily photoshop users" to be somewhat of a strawman. I work at a Java shop, and many of our programmers, myself included, use Macs. So does our change management guy and much of netops. Yes, the graphics designers use Macs, but Macs are used throughout the company by many people for different reasons.
And the mayor of New Orleans, and the governor of Louisiana were briliant successes in that area?
Nope. They failed, too. Everyone in government has failed, I don't care what their party affiliation is. The governor is a Republican, he failed. I don't know what party the mayor belongs, but he/she failed as well. Everyone failed.
How does it feel to go through life in this constant state of hysterical anger?
Look, I'm sorry. I'm very, very upset about this whole thing. I have relatives in LA who no one in the family has heard from since this whole thing started. The fact that it was completely preventable is righteously infuriating. I apolozie if I was over the top, and I was, but please understand the rage that is boiling over this. The failure of the government is directly tracable to decisions made by this president.
Thank YOU. I'm not a big fan of libertarianism (see my sig) but by God I'm going to give you mad props for a reasonable and insightful post. The *fundamental* job of the government is to maintain law and order. Without it, man naturally descends into anarchy and chaos, as we are seeing stark proof of now. If the government cannot of will not prevent such chaos then it has failed at its most fundamental responsibilities.
suppose you had more information than the president by Tuesday morning about how bad it really all was. You have a crystal ball, right? Tuesday morning even the big news orgs were saying they didn't know what the fuck was happening out there. But by god, the president should have flown to New Orleans with a wetsuit and a shovel the moment the hurricane made landfall. Fuck me, how can we not see that.
How about this: "Hey Mr. FEMA director, why don't you get some planes with food and water ready. And we'll probably need some troops to maintain order." Sounds REASONABLE to me since that's EXACTLY what previous presidents have done in the exact same situation.
Or retards trying to rationalize blaming things like these on the fucking president of the united states. You are the quintessential bullshit merchant - "the president smirked and played guitar while bodies floated". Praise the lord and pass the ammo. Oh, and here's a picture to prove it. Holy fucking shit.
The President is the head of the federal government. The government's primary purpose is to maintain law and order. They FAILED. Bush failed.
Oh but wait! Are you saying this isn't Bush's fault? That ol' refrain? Why, that shore do bring back memories... of every OTHER massive fuckup we've seen under this president. 9/11? Not his fault! Couldn't see it coming! Massive Iraq resistance movement? Not his fault! Couldn't see it coming! Utter destruction of a major American city? Not his fault! Couldn't see it coming!
Partisan fuck. Bush is a dick. Bush is evil. Keep trying to prop up your god with your mindless Limbaugh Fu. Then do us all a favor and go chew on a shotgun.
Then, why, WHY have they chosen to give birth to, and raise kids while living below sea level in the path of recurring hurricanes that happen every year like clockwork?
Every year? When was the last time a hurricane hit New Orleans? When was the last time ANYTHING like this happened?
But fuck, keep blaming the victims. Don't you feel better about yourself now? You're so smart. So good. Why, tragedy beyond your wildest expectations or control would NEVER happen to you.
People are DEAD. People are being RAPED. There are infants dying in the fucking streets and your focus is on blaming them, their parents. For all you know their parents DID stock up. But guess what? Their houses are now under nine feet of water. It is the government's JOB to maintain law and order, and they.. have.. FAILED.
Anyways, the articles are interesting, the picture is a lame argument (too easily forged, show me real dated proof, and a presidential schedule... and at best all it is says is the President is disengenous... doesn't mean he's doing a bad job).
What the fuck is it going to take you goddamn piece of shit apologist? There are THOUSANDS OF YOUR COUNTRY MEN *DEAD IN THE STREETS* and it could have been prevented. And what do you do? Immediately start doing your Limbaugh Fu, doing whatever you goddamn can to protect your fucking god.
Well, FUCK YOU, fuck your god, and fuck the entire GOP appartus and the brownshirts and propagandists that prop them up. We have ourselves here yet ANOTHER monumental fuck-up, and the best you can say is that it's "troubling", and start moaning about tax cuts. Nice. REAL fucking nice.
While this may be the easy way to do it, it sounds like it would also lead to massive unorganization. How are you going to back up your files if they are scattered all over the place for example.
Perhaps. I have to admit not being the best example of backing up data on my home machine, so I cannot speak from direct experience here. Having said that, however, I wonder if it wouldn't be *easier*: if you tell your backup utility to backup all files that meet a certain condition (emails, PDFs, etc.) and the utility is integrated with Spotlight, then it doesn't matter where the files are stored, you are guaranteed that they will be found and backed up. You would no longer be dependant upon making sure your files are in a certain location.
My thing is, I've never lost anything that was important to me as it is, at least on my computer. Sure, I may have downloaded something more than once because I didn't remember where I put it, but that's not big loss to me. But I know exactly where my main files are located and it's never been a problem.
Finding files is only a part of Spotlight. It really shines when you need to find something based on the content of that file, but don't remember (or need to remember) what it's called.
For example: If you open a Spotlight search window and type in a search phrase, it will not just find files based on that, but emails, PDFs, Pages documents, text files, and so forth. If you leave the Spotlight window open, type in a new email whose subject/body/etc. contains that phrase, then send it, it will dynamically show up in the Spotlight search window as soon as you send it.
You could do the same thing with a PDF: open up a Spotlight search, then download a PDF that contains your search text. Once the download is completed it immediately shows up in your Spotlight window.
This is incredibly helpful when doing actual work on the machine. You can find that email from so-and-so regarding whatever, or documents, or calendar appointments, or whatever just by hitting a hotkey and typing a few letters. You don't have to remember where you put files any longer, because it doesn't really matter.
I have done much research on this, and in fact won a $100 bet with my father on this. There has never been a death due to an overdose of LSD. Ever. Not once, not ever. And there have been people who have taken *massive* overdoses, mostly on accident.
No deaths, no permanent damage, nothing.
LSD is as safe as baby aspirin.
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As the evidence mounts that every adventure undertaken by this atrocious President has been an abject failure, the meme I see with ever increasing frequency is "they [the Bush administration] aren't really conservatives." The propagandists on talk radio sure have been saying the exact opposite for the past five years.
There seems to be a slight disconnect.
From your message I can guess a few things:
1) There is a high chance you are a Scientologist
2) There is a high chance you are a Republican
3) There is a high chance that both (1) and (2) are true.
Regardless, your string of strawmen and self-destructive cynicism does not an argument make.
Your strawmen aren't even accurate.
1) Microsoft's problems are due to the fact that they write crappy software, and abuse their monopoly. These are not philosophical differences, they are factual criticisms.
2) Apple's harshest critics are their fans. They want the company to succeed so they want problems fixed, and say so loudly.
3) I don't use Linux, not in that community, but your success ratio isn't too high so far. It's not unreasonable to assume you are mistaken here as well.
This article is PRO Microsoft, posted to the front page, and yet you complain. By disregarding all the cogent replies to this topic you just cheapen the debate in the very way you are claiming to abhor.
I work for hotels.com, and I guess I'm incredibly lucky. We just completed a major re-architecting of the site, something that was actually the continuation of some smaller prior efforts. The end result, though, it that we have a very well architected site, fully OO for the booking path (i.e. search to book), a high degree of code reuse, many (but not enough by far) unit and regression tests, and code that is *fairly* well documented. It's not nearly the nightmare you describe.
The project I was on before this one was actually dedicated solely to refactoring. (The current one was technically a visual redesign, but we made it an architectural one as well.)
Now, to be sure there is room for improvement. There always is. But I am by no means ashamed of the code we have, and there are some core areas that I think are quite worthy of admiration.
Hell, there's a rumor that Expedia might utilize some of our code to replace similar functionality on their site. Considering that they only recently began the process of switching away from C, we're kind of flattered.
I briefly looked around Zimbra's site, so please correct me if I'm wrong, but this looks like another free-as-in-speech replacement software suite. I don't see the PHB's getting excited about this until they have to pay good money for it.
I've noticed that sometimes when dealing with spiral phenomena (hurricanes, tornadoes, whirlpools, etc.) there are secondary, much smaller spirals that are thrown off from the main body. Could this be in effect here? Could the black hole be throwing off gravitational "eddies" that cause stars to be formed?
A dork with air amerikka as his url is going to bloviate about my knowlege of 'Enterprise?'
Why yes, I am, because you don't know what the fuck you are talking about. Oh wait! You're not implying that because you listen to Rush Limbaugh that you are more of an expert in the web enterprise server area, are you? Because that would be just fucking idiotic.
That you can point to five or six Big Successes that don't use Microsoft servers totally MISSES the point that corporate America, internally, does.
Huh! I seem to recall....
80% of what market? The 'waste time' sites we all browse from home, and that people slough off at work reading?
Yeah! That sounds familiar! "Waste time" sites, you said! It turned out you were full of shit, utterly, and completely. But rather than be a man and admit wrong, you change the subject.
And hey crackah, you got any statistics to back up your bullshit? Cuz right now you pullin shit out of yo ass so regularly it's like you be made up of Metamucil or some shit.
80% of what market? The 'waste time' sites we all browse from home, and that people slough off at work reading?
You have no idea what you are talking about. Not a little, not a small amount. Nothing. You may be all proud of the little ASP scripts you write, or whatever the fuck it is you do, but rest assured what you know about the enterprise is: dick all.
What does Google run on? eBay? hotels.com? Amazon.com? The iTunes Music Store? E*Trade? Adobe.com? wired.com? The New York Times? CNN? The United Nations?
I'll tell you, because you are probably too stupid to figure it out. Most of those run on Apache. The ones that don't run on open source Java servlet containers. Google runs on their own software, software that is based on... APACHE!
Did you know that Expedia runs on IIS? Did you also know that they recently announced they are switching their entire platform to Java? Huh! Those fuckers! Don't have a CLUE as to what they're doing!
And just out of curiosity: Is Microsoft paying you to spooge like this, or are you doing it on your free time?
Gotta call bullshit on this one. First off, Apache has over 80% market share, and it by no means runs ASP pages. Second, file suffix is no guarantee for what lies underneath. Suffixes for Java frameworks alone run from the usual .jsp, to .dhtml (ATG Dynamo), .do (Jakarta Struts), to .tss (Tapestry) and so forth and so on.
Until then, please STFU. Imagined futures based on dreamy possibilities is no substitute for actual code. Until an actual virus for OS X is seen, the following statements are true and will remain so:
"There are no viruses on OS X. There never have been any viruses for OS X. It does not appear possible for viruses to exist on OS X."
Bollocks. The executives are responsible for maximizing profits while staying within the bounds of the law and any corporate bylaws and charters. If Yahoo is incorporated in such a way as to allow their subsidiaries to undermine individual liberties, then those bylaws should be changed and/or amended with the utmost expediency.
Occasionally the system works. Occasionally.
Which justifies or excuses nothing. Saying "it's just business" is not, nor has it ever been, a valid excuse. Yahoo is undermining free speech and the liberties given to all men everywhere.
Given that the Mac community are more concerned over Photoshop than databases its not really suprising that they haven't concentrated massively on transactionally written files (lots of small writes) and may have chosen to focus on optimizing the writing of big files and the maths and graphics processing that goes with graphics work.
More and more I consider the "Mac users are primarily photoshop users" to be somewhat of a strawman. I work at a Java shop, and many of our programmers, myself included, use Macs. So does our change management guy and much of netops. Yes, the graphics designers use Macs, but Macs are used throughout the company by many people for different reasons.
And the mayor of New Orleans, and the governor of Louisiana were briliant successes in that area?
Nope. They failed, too. Everyone in government has failed, I don't care what their party affiliation is. The governor is a Republican, he failed. I don't know what party the mayor belongs, but he/she failed as well. Everyone failed.
How does it feel to go through life in this constant state of hysterical anger? Look, I'm sorry. I'm very, very upset about this whole thing. I have relatives in LA who no one in the family has heard from since this whole thing started. The fact that it was completely preventable is righteously infuriating. I apolozie if I was over the top, and I was, but please understand the rage that is boiling over this. The failure of the government is directly tracable to decisions made by this president.
Thank YOU. I'm not a big fan of libertarianism (see my sig) but by God I'm going to give you mad props for a reasonable and insightful post. The *fundamental* job of the government is to maintain law and order. Without it, man naturally descends into anarchy and chaos, as we are seeing stark proof of now. If the government cannot of will not prevent such chaos then it has failed at its most fundamental responsibilities.
suppose you had more information than the president by Tuesday morning about how bad it really all was. You have a crystal ball, right? Tuesday morning even the big news orgs were saying they didn't know what the fuck was happening out there. But by god, the president should have flown to New Orleans with a wetsuit and a shovel the moment the hurricane made landfall. Fuck me, how can we not see that.
How about this: "Hey Mr. FEMA director, why don't you get some planes with food and water ready. And we'll probably need some troops to maintain order." Sounds REASONABLE to me since that's EXACTLY what previous presidents have done in the exact same situation.
Or retards trying to rationalize blaming things like these on the fucking president of the united states. You are the quintessential bullshit merchant - "the president smirked and played guitar while bodies floated". Praise the lord and pass the ammo. Oh, and here's a picture to prove it. Holy fucking shit.
The President is the head of the federal government. The government's primary purpose is to maintain law and order. They FAILED. Bush failed.
Oh but wait! Are you saying this isn't Bush's fault? That ol' refrain? Why, that shore do bring back memories... of every OTHER massive fuckup we've seen under this president. 9/11? Not his fault! Couldn't see it coming! Massive Iraq resistance movement? Not his fault! Couldn't see it coming! Utter destruction of a major American city? Not his fault! Couldn't see it coming!
Partisan fuck. Bush is a dick. Bush is evil. Keep trying to prop up your god with your mindless Limbaugh Fu. Then do us all a favor and go chew on a shotgun.
Amoral Republicans must die.
Then, why, WHY have they chosen to give birth to, and raise kids while living below sea level in the path of recurring hurricanes that happen every year like clockwork? Every year? When was the last time a hurricane hit New Orleans? When was the last time ANYTHING like this happened?
But fuck, keep blaming the victims. Don't you feel better about yourself now? You're so smart. So good. Why, tragedy beyond your wildest expectations or control would NEVER happen to you.
People are DEAD. People are being RAPED. There are infants dying in the fucking streets and your focus is on blaming them, their parents. For all you know their parents DID stock up. But guess what? Their houses are now under nine feet of water. It is the government's JOB to maintain law and order, and they.. have.. FAILED.
News flash: Many, many people have young children. With 48 hours notice, walking is not an option.
Anyways, the articles are interesting, the picture is a lame argument (too easily forged, show me real dated proof, and a presidential schedule... and at best all it is says is the President is disengenous... doesn't mean he's doing a bad job).
What the fuck is it going to take you goddamn piece of shit apologist? There are THOUSANDS OF YOUR COUNTRY MEN *DEAD IN THE STREETS* and it could have been prevented. And what do you do? Immediately start doing your Limbaugh Fu, doing whatever you goddamn can to protect your fucking god.
Well, FUCK YOU, fuck your god, and fuck the entire GOP appartus and the brownshirts and propagandists that prop them up. We have ourselves here yet ANOTHER monumental fuck-up, and the best you can say is that it's "troubling", and start moaning about tax cuts. Nice. REAL fucking nice.
Eat a shotgun barrel you fascist piece of shit.
While this may be the easy way to do it, it sounds like it would also lead to massive unorganization. How are you going to back up your files if they are scattered all over the place for example.
Perhaps. I have to admit not being the best example of backing up data on my home machine, so I cannot speak from direct experience here. Having said that, however, I wonder if it wouldn't be *easier*: if you tell your backup utility to backup all files that meet a certain condition (emails, PDFs, etc.) and the utility is integrated with Spotlight, then it doesn't matter where the files are stored, you are guaranteed that they will be found and backed up. You would no longer be dependant upon making sure your files are in a certain location.
My thing is, I've never lost anything that was important to me as it is, at least on my computer. Sure, I may have downloaded something more than once because I didn't remember where I put it, but that's not big loss to me. But I know exactly where my main files are located and it's never been a problem.
Finding files is only a part of Spotlight. It really shines when you need to find something based on the content of that file, but don't remember (or need to remember) what it's called.
For example: If you open a Spotlight search window and type in a search phrase, it will not just find files based on that, but emails, PDFs, Pages documents, text files, and so forth. If you leave the Spotlight window open, type in a new email whose subject/body/etc. contains that phrase, then send it, it will dynamically show up in the Spotlight search window as soon as you send it.
You could do the same thing with a PDF: open up a Spotlight search, then download a PDF that contains your search text. Once the download is completed it immediately shows up in your Spotlight window.
This is incredibly helpful when doing actual work on the machine. You can find that email from so-and-so regarding whatever, or documents, or calendar appointments, or whatever just by hitting a hotkey and typing a few letters. You don't have to remember where you put files any longer, because it doesn't really matter.
I have done much research on this, and in fact won a $100 bet with my father on this. There has never been a death due to an overdose of LSD. Ever. Not once, not ever. And there have been people who have taken *massive* overdoses, mostly on accident. No deaths, no permanent damage, nothing. LSD is as safe as baby aspirin.
You're fucking kidding me, right?