Despite the raw emotions, however, the issue is clear: do you support copyrights and ownership of intellectual property as envisioned by our elected officials in Congress and the European Union, or do you support "free" - as in free from ownership - intellectual property envisioned by the Free Software Foundation, Red Hat and others? There really is no middle ground. The future of the global economy hangs in the balance.
Gee I wonder if somebody has an over-inflated sense of importance?
You should be thankful and display your grades with pride. After all, some people have a very non-unique sequence of F's! So while you're complaining about your own misfortune, try to think about the folks who REALLY have it bad, OK?
In the real world, programs that I write will run orders of magnitude faster than ones that you write.
That's a pretty bold assertion. Will those programs be readable? Will they be organized such that someone else, or you for that matter, make sense of them later? Will they be the least bit portable? If a bug pops up, will anyone have a clue what's wrong?
The parent was right, except for the part about logic. In my experience, you have to be a very thorough and logical thinker to do this sort of work at all well. I think maybe he kinda pulled that one out of his arse.
My job requires me to be logical and to be a problem solver, both in finding solutions to puzzles and in trouble shooting. I rarely have to think about math or raw computer science. I work at much too high a level to think much about that stuff. I'm not that atypical.
My code will be fast too. It will be well organized and easy to read, even though I'm weak in the documentation area. When an error occurs, I will usually know what function is broken by hearing the error message, I will know what's broken within minutes, and I will have a fix installed within... minutes or hours. My code will scale quite well, and be easy to add on to.
Out here in the real world, we don't think about a few thousand rows in a database or a dialog box. That's play stuff.
I've seen it done with a timing light. Hook it up to the coil wire, run the wires out from under the hood, in through the window, and you're off and running. Point and shoot.
Reservoirs are made from rivers. I can't back this up with hard data, but I'd bet the slowing of water to form deep reservoirs has already slowed evaperation quite a lot, since a swirling river should have a very high evap. rate due to surface agitation. This will just make it worse.
Cleary I just pulled that out of my ass, but it makes at least a little sense:-)
"To google yourself, you must look within, sayeth the Oracle (c)"
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OK... so you're saying that Microsoft should switch to Bash and at some point someone will figure out how to make a better shell, which Microsoft should then adopt
Yes and no. They should either adopt BASH (or something, anything), or provide a decent work-alike. If someone comes up with a better shell that becomes somewhat ubiquitous, MS should upgrade or match it. OR MS can improve the shell on their own in the hopes that their version will become ubiquitous. I don't take issue with MS improving things, I take issue with them pretending the rest of the world doesn't even exist, and then say "look, we will now, at long last, give you what we say you need, while ignoring what you actually told us you need".
What they should really do is provide OUT OF THE BOX a working posix subsystem, so that native UNIX tools can run on windows without huge add-ons like cygwin (it has one, you know, it's just a piece of crap).
And who, pray tell, gets to decide what the "better" shell is?
Us, of course. The market place. The users. The customers. You and me. And I never said BASH is the end all be all of shells. It is however, light years ahead of anything currently provided by MS on Windows, few would dispute that. I challenge you to do something useful with cmd.exe. If they can't even provide us with what we all know works, why should we trust them to provide something better?
You don't see RedHat implementing some non-standard shell and shoving it down our throats, while refusing to provide a nice set of standard shells do you?
Even Apple has gotten the clue.
This is the kind of stuff that defines Microsoft. This is why they are so hated in so many circles. This is part of the reason the software industry is so f***ed up right now. And this is why Linux is doing so well.
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THEY started with the word 'innovation', not us! Sometimes it's better not to go crazy innovating, and just provide what is already known and proven. Once you do that well, THEN innovate.
This is like using square wheels on a car when everyone else has been using the well known and proven round wheel for years, and then one day switching to 28-point wheels with friggin' lazer beams on the hubs and saying "look, innovation! yaay!" All we want is FRIGGIN' ROUND WHEELS! When you give us round friggin' wheels, THEN start figuring out how to make better wheels.
Of course, when it takes 20 years to adopt what we all want, sure we're going to joke about it. That doesn't mean we don't want it, even if it is laughably late.
Good point. These are complicated times we live in eh? Whatever it is, I think you (CompactDick), in particular, should keep out of my cave/ass/jelly donut. Do you work for SCO, by any chance? Is that you, Darl?
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What good is it to measure distance/distance???
My car is fast... it goes 1 lightyear per lightyear!
Yeah but what most of us want to know is how many Library of Congresses per hour!
So... what's your IP address... Just curious :-)
They'd be able to do it legally by documenting reasonable suspicion of illegal activity and getting some sort of court order.
Kind of like if the repo man wants your car bad enough, he and the sherrif will come bust the lock off your garage door, legally.
I'd be happy with a radio show of Stewie just saying stuff. Anything. Can't get enough of that evil little bastard.
Better yet, the Stewie and Brian show. Who needs Howard Stern?
Speak faster please. My mind wondered after the
Wow! No wonder people do drugs!
You should be thankful and display your grades with pride. After all, some people have a very non-unique sequence of F's! So while you're complaining about your own misfortune, try to think about the folks who REALLY have it bad, OK?
The parent was right, except for the part about logic. In my experience, you have to be a very thorough and logical thinker to do this sort of work at all well. I think maybe he kinda pulled that one out of his arse.
My job requires me to be logical and to be a problem solver, both in finding solutions to puzzles and in trouble shooting. I rarely have to think about math or raw computer science. I work at much too high a level to think much about that stuff. I'm not that atypical. My code will be fast too. It will be well organized and easy to read, even though I'm weak in the documentation area. When an error occurs, I will usually know what function is broken by hearing the error message, I will know what's broken within minutes, and I will have a fix installed within... minutes or hours. My code will scale quite well, and be easy to add on to.
Out here in the real world, we don't think about a few thousand rows in a database or a dialog box. That's play stuff.
My math sucks. So what?
I've seen it done with a timing light. Hook it up to the coil wire, run the wires out from under the hood, in through the window, and you're off and running. Point and shoot.
Reservoirs are made from rivers. I can't back this up with hard data, but I'd bet the slowing of water to form deep reservoirs has already slowed evaperation quite a lot, since a swirling river should have a very high evap. rate due to surface agitation. This will just make it worse.
:-)
Cleary I just pulled that out of my ass, but it makes at least a little sense
Just put it all in Evian bottles.
Tell you what... if your rain fall rate gets too low, you can have as much of ours as you want, we here in WA have plenty to go around.
Hmm...
"Did you mean: microsoft"
"To google yourself, you must look within, sayeth the Oracle (c)"
What they should really do is provide OUT OF THE BOX a working posix subsystem, so that native UNIX tools can run on windows without huge add-ons like cygwin (it has one, you know, it's just a piece of crap).
Us, of course. The market place. The users. The customers. You and me. And I never said BASH is the end all be all of shells. It is however, light years ahead of anything currently provided by MS on Windows, few would dispute that. I challenge you to do something useful with cmd.exe. If they can't even provide us with what we all know works, why should we trust them to provide something better?You don't see RedHat implementing some non-standard shell and shoving it down our throats, while refusing to provide a nice set of standard shells do you?
Even Apple has gotten the clue.
This is the kind of stuff that defines Microsoft. This is why they are so hated in so many circles. This is part of the reason the software industry is so f***ed up right now. And this is why Linux is doing so well.
THEY started with the word 'innovation', not us! Sometimes it's better not to go crazy innovating, and just provide what is already known and proven. Once you do that well, THEN innovate.
This is like using square wheels on a car when everyone else has been using the well known and proven round wheel for years, and then one day switching to 28-point wheels with friggin' lazer beams on the hubs and saying "look, innovation! yaay!" All we want is FRIGGIN' ROUND WHEELS! When you give us round friggin' wheels, THEN start figuring out how to make better wheels.
Of course, when it takes 20 years to adopt what we all want, sure we're going to joke about it. That doesn't mean we don't want it, even if it is laughably late.
They were going to name it "Billy Gene" but the name "Blue Gene" just "Beat It".
Yeah, 9th grade was like some sort of nightmare for me which seems to just live on and on...
He was confused. He accidently posted the one he had setup for SCO. Going... doooowwwwwwnnnnnnn? mwahahahahahaa!
Good point. These are complicated times we live in eh? Whatever it is, I think you (CompactDick), in particular, should keep out of my cave/ass/jelly donut. Do you work for SCO, by any chance? Is that you, Darl?
Well, it's either my ass, or a hole in the ground. I still can't decide which.
Who is SCO?
Man, if you have to go to the liquor store to get Corona, I feel sorry for you. Too late, sucka, bwahahahahahaha!!!
Wow, Sun is really busy today, what with all the flare ups and stuff. I wonder how Sun's stock is doing. Hot perhaps? Hmmmm?
If I see a half-naked woman will the glasses say "sex"? I mean... because... that already happens.