It's actually a known phenomenon that "real nice and clean and well-documented codebase" can in fact be _evil_! Because everyone except really lousy coders are afraid to touch it. "It's so beautiful it's practically dead" one could say.
If true that should eclipse for good the DivBug of lore. Can't wait for exploits to appear. But then - brainwashed people buying PIV Intels will get whatever they deserve. [grin]
I wonder what will American industry look like in, say, 20 years? What will it be producing? TV-sets, frigs, microwaves? That's Korea. Cars? Photo? Construction machines? Well, US _is_ loosing automotive sector and when it's done, it's all Japan + Germany(maybe). Agriculture? Canada(?). Etc... The only two US specialties left is computers + movies. We are talking here about computer sector slipping away. And Hollywood has been dropping the ball for quite some time too. Oh! I forgot the military. Yes, that's _the_ one I think. Other than that it looks more and more like Morelaw from "Interstate 60". Lawyers will be suing lawyers I guess. US has defeated USSR due to economy but when it in its turn starts failing... that won't be a pleasant sight.
Uhm, what platform? Surely not Windows. Because even if you aren't gonna use DX, programming something like a game is a huge PITA that no newcomer/student is going to enjoy. VB or C or Delphi - it's not gonna be easy. 15-20 years ago that would've been a valid point though. Today - you need to learn a whole pack of stuff even to start.
Amazingly - the more complex the computer system the larger is effort-to-wow-factor ratio it seems. What had you try to teach those kids? Do you think that doing some low-level stuff for simpler systems may spark their interest easier?( hmm, handheld game consoles?, smartphones?, or maybe non-WinCE-PDAs?) Also, it will undoubtably give them more insight into CS than any of.NET/VBA, BTW.
I skimmed TFA - it's a list of excuses basically. Valid excuses or not - who cares? The only fact I see is that if you live in Elbonia then becoming a programmer may look like a (relatively) good career. If you know that by going managerial or even clerk-like route you'll get a decent living for you and your family (with "programming" whatever that means, as a spare-time hobby if you wish so) then you must be pretty wicked to want to become a "professional" programmer. I mean - you are going to sacrifice a huge deal of your leisure time, social life etc while studying myriads of brain-dead and not-so-brain-dead-but-still technologies like C++/C#/Java/SOAP/RDBMS/etc/etc/etc only to gain a privilege to be regularly called a "moron" by your boss. WTF? If there are still good programmers in the US - they are probably not studying in universities, because what can they learn there?
Yes, because you may miss a goal while chewing your corn or opening your beer. American "Football" OTOH is nicely paced to allow for proper nutrition pauses.
Uhm, I have this wonderful idea here that needs only $20m(!) to complete. I cannot tell you any more details now (so that others don't steal it, you know), but if you send me this much money now, I promise that in the middle of 2008 we'll rule the world. PS: don't tell anything anyone, just send in the money.
This is probably one of the biggest issues with Apple - are they ready to get serious business outside of the LotF (Land of the Free)? Are Macs lacking in Japanese or Cyrillic support, BTW?
Do you see the difference between an application (where you compile it and send multiple copies out for users to (ab)use) and a "service point" like a web-site or in-house app. In other words: PHP domain (which I believe still kicks dotnet's ass for the web, despite its naivety, or maybe because of it) and Delphi/VC++ domains. OTOH - I've seen tons of Java applications, but have yet to see a reasonably "commercial grade" dotnet app. You know why? Because standalone apps are hard to make right and for web apps basically anything goes.
No they won't. They won't incorporate it into Longhorn. In case you did not notice Microsoft is being buried by their abomination of OS failing to accept any more supporting sticks and duct tape and crash-falling onto them. DotNet does not work as advertised (EG: have you seen any commercial apps in it?), Longhorn is bound to be a new WindowsME by all the signals. They may have posted a record quarterly profit, but all in all MSFT does not look like a good long-term investment; they may had been saved 10 years ago by NT team, but currently I'm not sure they have something - anything - solid up their sleeves.
I can imagine if someone like Sony announced that they are up for such a feat, I'm sure the moment they'd make it Bill would get a sharp and acute pain in his balls because that would account for a serious kick into them and mean that the only way for MS from now on is downhill.
You guys are always complaining that they don't make a phone "that should only make calls" and without any auxiliaries? This is the answer - a smartphone from _Dell_!
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Will it die off the same way Microsoft Antivirus from DOS 6.0 (IIRC) did?
I suggest you apply for this job:a spx
http://www.thedailywtf.com/forums/34190/ShowPost.
It's actually a known phenomenon that "real nice and clean and well-documented codebase" can in fact be _evil_! Because everyone except really lousy coders are afraid to touch it. "It's so beautiful it's practically dead" one could say.
And what finger was that? The third one?
Why, it is _perfectly_ crappy already.
If true that should eclipse for good the DivBug of lore. Can't wait for exploits to appear. But then - brainwashed people buying PIV Intels will get whatever they deserve. [grin]
I wonder what will American industry look like in, say, 20 years? What will it be producing? TV-sets, frigs, microwaves? That's Korea. Cars? Photo? Construction machines? Well, US _is_ loosing automotive sector and when it's done, it's all Japan + Germany(maybe). Agriculture? Canada(?). Etc... The only two US specialties left is computers + movies. We are talking here about computer sector slipping away. And Hollywood has been dropping the ball for quite some time too. Oh! I forgot the military. Yes, that's _the_ one I think. Other than that it looks more and more like Morelaw from "Interstate 60". Lawyers will be suing lawyers I guess. US has defeated USSR due to economy but when it in its turn starts failing... that won't be a pleasant sight.
Uhm, what platform? Surely not Windows. Because even if you aren't gonna use DX, programming something like a game is a huge PITA that no newcomer/student is going to enjoy. VB or C or Delphi - it's not gonna be easy. 15-20 years ago that would've been a valid point though. Today - you need to learn a whole pack of stuff even to start.
Amazingly - the more complex the computer system the larger is effort-to-wow-factor ratio it seems. What had you try to teach those kids? Do you think that doing some low-level stuff for simpler systems may spark their interest easier?( hmm, handheld game consoles?, smartphones?, or maybe non-WinCE-PDAs?) Also, it will undoubtably give them more insight into CS than any of .NET/VBA, BTW.
I skimmed TFA - it's a list of excuses basically. Valid excuses or not - who cares? The only fact I see is that if you live in Elbonia then becoming a programmer may look like a (relatively) good career. If you know that by going managerial or even clerk-like route you'll get a decent living for you and your family (with "programming" whatever that means, as a spare-time hobby if you wish so) then you must be pretty wicked to want to become a "professional" programmer.
I mean - you are going to sacrifice a huge deal of your leisure time, social life etc while studying myriads of brain-dead and not-so-brain-dead-but-still technologies like C++/C#/Java/SOAP/RDBMS/etc/etc/etc only to gain a privilege to be regularly called a "moron" by your boss. WTF? If there are still good programmers in the US - they are probably not studying in universities, because what can they learn there?
Yes, because you may miss a goal while chewing your corn or opening your beer. American "Football" OTOH is nicely paced to allow for proper nutrition pauses.
Uhm, I have this wonderful idea here that needs only $20m(!) to complete. I cannot tell you any more details now (so that others don't steal it, you know), but if you send me this much money now, I promise that in the middle of 2008 we'll rule the world. PS: don't tell anything anyone, just send in the money.
They don't offer anything besides country?
And where do you usually have your left hand, huh?
Americans? I knew it all the way - Apple is a _Martian_ company.
Now someone a bit less lazy than me should post a clickable link to "the gambling site". :-)
Probably they forgot to wire the extra memory to the core?
Hmm, maybe I should start my own business - buy some low-mem cards, glue some DRAM modules onto it, sell them, profit(!).
This is probably one of the biggest issues with Apple - are they ready to get serious business outside of the LotF (Land of the Free)? Are Macs lacking in Japanese or Cyrillic support, BTW?
Do you see the difference between an application (where you compile it and send multiple copies out for users to (ab)use) and a "service point" like a web-site or in-house app. In other words: PHP domain (which I believe still kicks dotnet's ass for the web, despite its naivety, or maybe because of it) and Delphi/VC++ domains. OTOH - I've seen tons of Java applications, but have yet to see a reasonably "commercial grade" dotnet app. You know why? Because standalone apps are hard to make right and for web apps basically anything goes.
No they won't. They won't incorporate it into Longhorn. In case you did not notice Microsoft is being buried by their abomination of OS failing to accept any more supporting sticks and duct tape and crash-falling onto them. DotNet does not work as advertised (EG: have you seen any commercial apps in it?), Longhorn is bound to be a new WindowsME by all the signals. They may have posted a record quarterly profit, but all in all MSFT does not look like a good long-term investment; they may had been saved 10 years ago by NT team, but currently I'm not sure they have something - anything - solid up their sleeves.
I can imagine if someone like Sony announced that they are up for such a feat, I'm sure the moment they'd make it Bill would get a sharp and acute pain in his balls because that would account for a serious kick into them and mean that the only way for MS from now on is downhill.
Oh, that green smiling lizard looks so cute on KDE crash screen. Have they fixed start button constantly sticking to the mouse as for DnD, BTW?
I guess mainly it will incite people to move to Macs.
Yes, I visit it when I come to clean it up and do it some proper way.
You guys are always complaining that they don't make a phone "that should only make calls" and without any auxiliaries? This is the answer - a smartphone from _Dell_!