What about when you're coding without Internet access?
We all go home.
My dead-tree reference library is at home. I have the same computer setup at home as at the office (dual-screen linux box). I have a fast net connection. If the internet is off at the office, its because there's either a power failure (in which case the computers aren't working anyway) or the net is screwed up.
The web guys can't update the forums or the company blogs or the web site, the customer support people can't take their email any more... in fact, its only the coders who don't really have to go home, since we have our own local servers to test against... but since I carry my latest backups in my pocket, if I can't get it fixed in an hour or so, I go work from home for the rest of the day, same as a "snow day."
In fact, I'm kind of wondering why I don't telecommute 3 days a week... which is something we'll be discussing in the future...
I guess you could email each section of the book to your gmail account, one section or topic per email, and have google search it for you...:-)
I like O'Reilly books - I've got a bunch of them on my shelf - but a pocket reference that only goes up to 4.0 is worse than useless, considering the big changes in 4.1, and especially in 5x.
Unless you work for a company that doesn't allow external web-browsing during hours... In which case I recommend ANYTHING by O'Reilly.
Not this - it only goes up to MySQL 4.0. Is *anyone* still using that? Even 4.1 was a big improvement. "on duplicate key update" is a huge time-saver, both in coding and in run-time, when you have a large insert query with many potential dupes. 4.0? Sorry, "on duplicate key" isn't available.
For quickly looking up the most frequently used command syntax and other details, a MySQL user would usually be best served by a much more compact book
For quickly looking up the most frequently used command syntax and other details, a MySQL user would usually be best served by a quick trip to google.
Hungarian notation has one very special use - it helps weed out the weenies when you're looking for system programmers.
Its the same for people who do crap like LPCSTR... hey, you stupid bozos, that's a throw-back to 16-bit Windows 3x. It doesn't belong in 32-bit code on a flat-memory architecture where an int and a long are the same. And it certainly doesn't belong in code for a server for BSD.
And those who insist on "m_uiWhatever"... hey, f*cktards, what's with the "m_" - its a variable, so of course its in memory. And when you realize that you should have changed Whatever to be signed so that you can catch over/underflows, hope you remember to change all your variable names... again.
No, it doesn't piss me off at all that "your" tax dollars are helping some billionaire have a good time in space. But, I'm set for life as far as money goes; i'll never have to take a job I don't like. In my experience, people who brag about "working for everything they ever had" are pretty bitter, pissed off and miserable.:)
Fuck you:)
... as opposed to trust fund babies and welfare-for-lifers... neither of which will ever take a job they don't like... So, which one are you?
The fact that MMO servers rely on subsidized power and roads and protection is a fact, and money comes from the government, and thus from the people.
What is this "subsidized power" you speak of? Most of us aren't drawing from a pwer grid receiving subsidies - in fact, they (the utilities) are also tax payers, both directly (on their profits) and indirectly (on their purchases, the employers' portion of payroll and other taxes, etc).
Subsidized power? Not unless you're on wind or solar.
Technically, you should walk down to your provincial financial office and report your purchase. You will then be required to pay tax on that purchase. Most provincial governments don't waste too much time on this.
Technically, you could also then file for a rebate of the sales tax from the province you initially purchased the item from.
For example, if you buy furniture in one province, pay for it there (including sales tax), and have it shipped to your home province, you can pay the sales tax in your home province, and file the proof that you've paid it in your home province with the other province, and get your original sales tax back.
Nobody bothers because most times its not worth the hassle. If a $1,000 purchase is taxed at 8% in one province (Ontario), and 7.5% in another (Quebec), you're going to go through all that for what, 00.5% ($5.00)? On a $200 purchase, that's a whole buck, its not even worth the cost of the 2 stamps (one to your own province, on e to the other one).
They ran a newspaper article about it last year, and one gov't. tax worker said that, while it may be the law, you'd have to have fallen out of a tree and landed on your head to bother. About the only time it makes sense is if you live in a province that has no provincial sales tax (hello, Alberta, Nunavut, Yukon, and Northwest Territories).
Thanks... it is civilized, and, AFAIK, we're the only country that does this (provinces opting out with equivalent financial compensation). Its part of the checks and balances we enjoy.
How does one emigrate to Canada, anyway?:)
Same way you emigrate to any other country - walk across the border, or fly in, or drive across, or come in a boat:-)
Seriously, if you're from the US, just drive across for a visit, then marry a Canadian. Same way Canadians emigrate to the US. (yes, Canada and the US have a "special understanding", in that most of us know someone who has done that, and we don't mind...). BTW, you don't actually have to marry - just be in a common-law relationship http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/sponsor/faq-spouse.ht ml#Q1, and that can be with someone of either sex.
However, you can forget it if you've got a criminal record, and that includes any drunk driving. While it might have "just" merited a fine in the US, its always a criminal offense in Canada, not a misdemeanor.
The original poster was correct - the federal gov't (the poster refers to Canada - not US) doesn't have the right under the constitution to force provincial governments to charge any form of sales tax.
Federal governments hold power over local governments by making it worth their while.
"Gee, local-government-A, you sure like that education grant, don't ya?"
"Yes, it's great for getting the citizens to be well educated and productive in life."
"That's great. By the way, we want you to teach creationism alongside evolution in your classrooms."
"You can't make us."
"I guess you're right. I guess we'd better leave. Oh, and, let's pick up those grants on the way out..."
"No, wait, I think we could find a compromise..."
. a province can assume responsibility for financing and administering a program which in the other parts of Canada would be carried out by the federal government; to assure that the contracting-out province or its citizens are not financially penalised, the federal government pays to that province compensating sums of money either directly or through tax abatements; or
. a province may receive a fiscal compensation instead of the federal contribution to a program through a conditional grant arrangement.
BTW - this has the force of the Supreme Court behind it. When the feds threatened to do an "end run" around this arrangement, the provinces took them to court, and won.
You mean you don't realize that money is taxed at every step where it changes hands? This is how it has always worked- why should the internet be any different?
doh - maybe because money ISN'T changing hands until you actually "cash out"?
Whoa - all that "national" stuff is paid for, either directly by taxpayers, or indirectly through bond-holders, or as "consumers." There is no such thing as "government-paid" anything - it all ends up coming out of your pockets, or your kids pockets.
In other words, taxing transactions that don't involve the exchange of legal tender - you know - REAL money - is pure BS, because nothing or REAL value has changed hands. Or will the IRS start accepting payment in Linden Dollars and WoW points?
They'd be totally unaffected if our national government laid down its arms, gave up having a military budget, and let other countries invade at will.
Go look at New Jersey (google for "new jersey the armpit of the world"). Then tell me that letting another country invade it wouldn't be a "Good Thing". Heck, they're probably praying for a hurricane or other natural disaster.
http://gilded-messiah.livejournal.com/2004/12/06/0
I'm from New Jersey. That's right, New Jersey. The Armpit of America. The sewage capital of the world. New York's retarded little brother. You can keep your pity, however, because I'm here to defend it, mostly. Like many escaped New Jersey inmates, I have a unique variant of Stockholm syndrome when it comes to my home state. I've fallen in love with my captor.
Don't get me wrong. New Jersey is a cesspool, just as you might have suspected. There really are girls with big hair and awful accents living in malls, women so awful that they turned the governor gay. These women really do have 400 pound boyfriends with hairy backs and low IQs. Turn signals are considered worthless luxury features, and, God help me, the whole state really does smell. However, it's New Jersey's consummate crappiness that ultimately makes it so great.
Radio personality Jean Shepard once said that New Jersey was "the most American of all states. It has everything from wilderness to the Mafia. All the great things and all the worst. For example, Route 22." Route 22, for those of you who don't know, is- I kid you not- a 24 hour strip mall that runs the length of the state. What is more quintessentially New Jersey- nay, more quintessentially American- than that?
It's also the only place to go at 3 AM when you decide it's a good time to get some coffee and disco fries, or perhaps visit White Castle, the only burger joint with the gall to call their visibly greasy laxative rat-patties "Sliders."
While not unique to the state, White Castle's hamburgers share a few characteristics with New Jersey: they're both guilty pleasures, they only appeal to a small portion of the population, and they're both ironically nicknamed. New Jersey is, after all, the "Garden State," which in New Jersey-speak means "densely populated paved hellscape." In fact, New Jersey is the most densely populated state of the union, which might lead you to believe that the state is crowded and polluted. It is. But the large population isn't all bad.
Because of its population density, New Jersey serves as a cultural microcosm of America as a whole. It is the proverbial "melting pot," where Godless, homosexual, French hippie crackheads live just a stone's throw away from inbred, racist, unwashed redneck crackheads. I know, because they're throwing stones at each other all the time.
I know what you're thinking. You're thinking,"This still sounds completely awful." Like I said earlier, it is awful, and everyone there knows it. For a while, New Jersey considered changing its state song to Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run." Not only would this have been the only state song to contain the word "suicide," but also the only one about trying desperately to get the hell out of the state.
But if they did create a "virus-proof" OS, they would market it as such
I pointed out that they have already falsely marketed Windows 3.0, Windws 95, and Windows NT. as "virus-proof", and used that as a driver for sales. Their marketing lies - but they always have.
It doesn't matter - there's no real need for most people to run Windows anymore. A lot of applications run fine under Wine, and linux native apps are getting better all the time.
As proof of that, I'm writing this on a box that nether XP nor Win2k3 server would install properly on, because of the dual video cards... but SuSE 10.3 alpha 2 installed without a hitch, configured both cards öut of the box", along wth 8 gigs of applications.
I haven't used Windows in years, and I don't miss it. I don't miss needing special software and drivers, to connect to my cell phone via usb, or looking for a printer driver or video driver or sound driver, or a virus scanner.
Employees: This way, they can't be sued for criminal trespass or running afoul of PATRIOT when they access corporate computers.
Customers: The standard defense is that you own a CD of the music or downloaded it legitimately - so you're a "customer", so they now claim the right to snoop in your private life.
Sort of like SCO - "contracts are what you use against your partners."
Every once in a while someone will call into a radio talk show using a really crappy VoIP connection (Sympathetico base service, in most cases, with really lousy upload speed). They sound like they're talking from the bottom of a well with their head in a metal garbage can. Of course, their download speed is good enough that they can hear you, so they go "Must be your phone - I can hear you fine!"
I'd pay to see the MoGroll having to answer that in court... but I don't think MogTrolls are capable of testifying, since history shows they can't tell the difference between truth and fiction.
Add Daniel "Lying" Lyons, Bob Pretenderlie, Darl McBride and Gregory Blepp with his suitcase and the millions of lines of code... and I can see the judge starting to hand out death penalties to witnesses.
Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it... which is why succeeding generations continually get sucked in by empty promises from Microsoft.
But if they did create a "virus-proof" OS, they would market it as such and people would then upgrade to it. That might create a long-term problem, but they don't always seem to think long-term.
Microsoft claimed that Windows would be virus-free. There would be no Windows-specific viruses - just DOS viruses. That piece of bs died a quick death when faced with reality...
Then Microsoft claimed that Windows95 would be the end of viruses, because they wouldn't be able to run on a 32-bit protected mode OS... hahahahah. Oops - that didn't work.
Microsoft claimed that XP, being based on NT, would be so much more secure. Awwwwww.... 20 seconds from the time you jack into the net to he time you're infected... priceless...
Now they just keep their mouths shut, because those of us who have been through it all before are quick to point out how quickly their previous claims became road kill. Microsoft promotional claims are like lawyers and politicians - you can tell they're lying because their lips are moving.
Patches allow them to do another check on copies that passed previous validation checks. They "caught" a lot of people that way, so yes, they ARE using patches as an excuse to revalidate.
However, you missed my point - I said it wasn't in Microsofts' financial interest to make their OS virus-proof. How many people are dumping 2 and 3-year-old computers because they're full of viruses? And what about Microsoft's hope of selling OneCare subscriptions? That also goes bye-bye if there are no viruses.
Without viruses, most people would continue to run the same OS their computer came with, and only upgrade when they needed to, not when their box is full of malware.
So again, its not in Microsofts' financial interest to produce a decent OS when people are willing to put up with crack^H^Hp.
The trade group asked that any owner of a copyright, patent, trademark or trade secret be able to use "pretexting or other investigative techniques to obtain personal information about a customer or employee" when seeking to enforce intellectual property rights.
So they DO want everyone who's a copyright owner (which includes anyone who's ever written anything original) to be exempt. If this passes, you can pretext them on the "pretext" that you're looking for any evidence of them infringing, say, your copyright on your slashdot posts.
Also:
Basically, we want criminals to feel comfortable that who they're dealing with is probably some other criminal and let us in on what's going on," said Brad Buckles, the RIAA's executive vice president for anti-piracy.
Can't argue with the RIAA calling themselves a bunch of criminals... its truth in advertising.
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To be honest, I think "programmers" are objects, not reals (not even ints) ...
Then again, some of them don't really have any methods, so I guess they're just empty structs, no class.
Of course, it depends on how you #define things in the first place ... you can always assert() whatever you need to ...
We all go home.
My dead-tree reference library is at home. I have the same computer setup at home as at the office (dual-screen linux box). I have a fast net connection. If the internet is off at the office, its because there's either a power failure (in which case the computers aren't working anyway) or the net is screwed up.
The web guys can't update the forums or the company blogs or the web site, the customer support people can't take their email any more ... in fact, its only the coders who don't really have to go home, since we have our own local servers to test against ... but since I carry my latest backups in my pocket, if I can't get it fixed in an hour or so, I go work from home for the rest of the day, same as a "snow day."
In fact, I'm kind of wondering why I don't telecommute 3 days a week ... which is something we'll be discussing in the future ...
I guess you could email each section of the book to your gmail account, one section or topic per email, and have google search it for you ... :-)
I like O'Reilly books - I've got a bunch of them on my shelf - but a pocket reference that only goes up to 4.0 is worse than useless, considering the big changes in 4.1, and especially in 5x.
Not this - it only goes up to MySQL 4.0. Is *anyone* still using that? Even 4.1 was a big improvement. "on duplicate key update" is a huge time-saver, both in coding and in run-time, when you have a large insert query with many potential dupes. 4.0? Sorry, "on duplicate key" isn't available.
For quickly looking up the most frequently used command syntax and other details, a MySQL user would usually be best served by a quick trip to google.
Hungarian notation has one very special use - it helps weed out the weenies when you're looking for system programmers.
Its the same for people who do crap like LPCSTR ... hey, you stupid bozos, that's a throw-back to 16-bit Windows 3x. It doesn't belong in 32-bit code on a flat-memory architecture where an int and a long are the same. And it certainly doesn't belong in code for a server for BSD.
And those who insist on "m_uiWhatever" ... hey, f*cktards, what's with the "m_" - its a variable, so of course its in memory. And when you realize that you should have changed Whatever to be signed so that you can catch over/underflows, hope you remember to change all your variable names ... again.
Real programmers don't do hungarian. Ever.
Remember this? http://www.marryanamerican.ca/
What is this "subsidized power" you speak of? Most of us aren't drawing from a pwer grid receiving subsidies - in fact, they (the utilities) are also tax payers, both directly (on their profits) and indirectly (on their purchases, the employers' portion of payroll and other taxes, etc).
Subsidized power? Not unless you're on wind or solar.
Technically, you could also then file for a rebate of the sales tax from the province you initially purchased the item from.
For example, if you buy furniture in one province, pay for it there (including sales tax), and have it shipped to your home province, you can pay the sales tax in your home province, and file the proof that you've paid it in your home province with the other province, and get your original sales tax back.
Nobody bothers because most times its not worth the hassle. If a $1,000 purchase is taxed at 8% in one province (Ontario), and 7.5% in another (Quebec), you're going to go through all that for what, 00.5% ($5.00)? On a $200 purchase, that's a whole buck, its not even worth the cost of the 2 stamps (one to your own province, on e to the other one).
They ran a newspaper article about it last year, and one gov't. tax worker said that, while it may be the law, you'd have to have fallen out of a tree and landed on your head to bother. About the only time it makes sense is if you live in a province that has no provincial sales tax (hello, Alberta, Nunavut, Yukon, and Northwest Territories).
Thanks ... it is civilized, and, AFAIK, we're the only country that does this (provinces opting out with equivalent financial compensation). Its part of the checks and balances we enjoy.
Same way you emigrate to any other country - walk across the border, or fly in, or drive across, or come in a boatSeriously, if you're from the US, just drive across for a visit, then marry a Canadian. Same way Canadians emigrate to the US. (yes, Canada and the US have a "special understanding", in that most of us know someone who has done that, and we don't mind ...). BTW, you don't actually have to marry - just be in a common-law relationship http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/sponsor/faq-spouse.ht ml#Q1, and that can be with someone of either sex.
Seriously - http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/index.html
Check out the Provincial nomination link.
However, you can forget it if you've got a criminal record, and that includes any drunk driving. While it might have "just" merited a fine in the US, its always a criminal offense in Canada, not a misdemeanor.
The original poster was correct - the federal gov't (the poster refers to Canada - not US) doesn't have the right under the constitution to force provincial governments to charge any form of sales tax.
Won't ever happen in Canada. Where a province doesn't want to participate in a federal program, they can "opt out" and take the cash. http://www2.marianopolis.edu/quebechistory/reading s/opting.htm
BTW - this has the force of the Supreme Court behind it. When the feds threatened to do an "end run" around this arrangement, the provinces took them to court, and won.doh - maybe because money ISN'T changing hands until you actually "cash out"?
Whoa - all that "national" stuff is paid for, either directly by taxpayers, or indirectly through bond-holders, or as "consumers." There is no such thing as "government-paid" anything - it all ends up coming out of your pockets, or your kids pockets.
In other words, taxing transactions that don't involve the exchange of legal tender - you know - REAL money - is pure BS, because nothing or REAL value has changed hands. Or will the IRS start accepting payment in Linden Dollars and WoW points?
Go look at New Jersey (google for "new jersey the armpit of the world"). Then tell me that letting another country invade it wouldn't be a "Good Thing". Heck, they're probably praying for a hurricane or other natural disaster. http://gilded-messiah.livejournal.com/2004/12/06/0
You said:
I pointed out that they have already falsely marketed Windows 3.0, Windws 95, and Windows NT. as "virus-proof", and used that as a driver for sales. Their marketing lies - but they always have.
It doesn't matter - there's no real need for most people to run Windows anymore. A lot of applications run fine under Wine, and linux native apps are getting better all the time.
As proof of that, I'm writing this on a box that nether XP nor Win2k3 server would install properly on, because of the dual video cards ... but SuSE 10.3 alpha 2 installed without a hitch, configured both cards öut of the box", along wth 8 gigs of applications.
I haven't used Windows in years, and I don't miss it. I don't miss needing special software and drivers, to connect to my cell phone via usb, or looking for a printer driver or video driver or sound driver, or a virus scanner.
Customers: The standard defense is that you own a CD of the music or downloaded it legitimately - so you're a "customer", so they now claim the right to snoop in your private life.
Sort of like SCO - "contracts are what you use against your partners."
Every once in a while someone will call into a radio talk show using a really crappy VoIP connection (Sympathetico base service, in most cases, with really lousy upload speed). They sound like they're talking from the bottom of a well with their head in a metal garbage can. Of course, their download speed is good enough that they can hear you, so they go "Must be your phone - I can hear you fine!"
I'd pay to see the MoGroll having to answer that in court ... but I don't think MogTrolls are capable of testifying, since history shows they can't tell the difference between truth and fiction.
Add Daniel "Lying" Lyons, Bob Pretenderlie, Darl McBride and Gregory Blepp with his suitcase and the millions of lines of code ... and I can see the judge starting to hand out death penalties to witnesses.
Re: Didio - you left off the "t" at the end.
Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it ... which is why succeeding generations continually get sucked in by empty promises from Microsoft.
Now they just keep their mouths shut, because those of us who have been through it all before are quick to point out how quickly their previous claims became road kill. Microsoft promotional claims are like lawyers and politicians - you can tell they're lying because their lips are moving.
Patches allow them to do another check on copies that passed previous validation checks. They "caught" a lot of people that way, so yes, they ARE using patches as an excuse to revalidate.
However, you missed my point - I said it wasn't in Microsofts' financial interest to make their OS virus-proof. How many people are dumping 2 and 3-year-old computers because they're full of viruses? And what about Microsoft's hope of selling OneCare subscriptions? That also goes bye-bye if there are no viruses.
Without viruses, most people would continue to run the same OS their computer came with, and only upgrade when they needed to, not when their box is full of malware.
So again, its not in Microsofts' financial interest to produce a decent OS when people are willing to put up with crack^H^Hp.
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So they DO want everyone who's a copyright owner (which includes anyone who's ever written anything original) to be exempt. If this passes, you can pretext them on the "pretext" that you're looking for any evidence of them infringing, say, your copyright on your slashdot posts.Also:
Can't argue with the RIAA calling themselves a bunch of criminals ... its truth in advertising.
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Bad lines - not just for cell phones anymore!
I won't go back to a single monitor setup - I want a 3rd. Maybe its time to start thinking about those oversized jobbies?