Well sorta. Depends on the individual I'd say. Someone who has taken one of those courses in good faith not knowing any better (since not everyone reads/.) and who is willing to give up their spare time in an attempt to improve is surely not someone you'd think any less of.
Surely taking one of these courses shows that you are at least willing to put the time in to learn something new which in an ever-changing IT world is more of a plus than a minus. The quality of the course is not as important as the willingness to give up spare time to learn something new and you could steer such willingness in the direction of worthwhile learning.
Well nice as that would be, I fail to see the point of a feature that puts lots of green squiggles under perfectly good grammar and usually offers suggestions that would make the sentence nonsensical. Hence I turn it off.
MS Office needs a grammar checker that actually works. I hate the stupid thing, 90% of the time what it suggests is totally wrong so it gets switched off.
That would be true had the mainframe platform remained static since 1991. However it hasn't. You might want to think about why server vendors offer "mainframe-class" servers or why the Citrix model of having applications delivered to dumb terminals is popular. OS/360 is long gone, a Z Series is just another big ass server like any other, except that it's a damn sight more reliable than any Intel-based machine and has a hell of a lot more features.
You may be right. I've certainly worked on some hellishly bad COBOL systems on IBM mainframes and yet someone posted here that those projects were examples of how to do it. Jeez I feel so sorry for you Windows guys if that really is the case.
Does windows have an easy way of shifting everything that careless installers have left lying around? I've got a few things that won't uninstall for whatever cryptic reason. No doubt I can do it manually but that's not exactly ease of use is it?
Good point, although I'd rather just pay a one-off fee than a monthly one. However the ability to download it and watch it the same day would be even better.
No I've done without because I don't agree with piracy. My point, which you have totally ignored in your desperate need to put me down, is that the convenience of being able to watch what you want when you want to is an enormous (and quite possibly enormously profitable) reason why p2p is so popular. Babylon 5 was an example you dumbass not the whole story. The sooner the content providers open their fucking eyes the better for everyone including them.
However there are several alternatives to buying a $50,000 car. There are precious few to be had from the content companies. Here's an real example. I want to watch the last series of Babylon 5. I don't want to pay a lot of money for something I'm only going to watch once, none of the video rental shops carry it and I have no idea when any of the channels over here in the UK will show it again if ever. So what's my legal alternative? There isn't one apart from maybe ebay and I'd rather have a reliable way of getting something that I'd quite like to see (even though it may very well suck). That's the real appeal of p2p, not theft or cheapness (although I'm sure those are a significant factor too) it's the ability to get stuff that you would otherwise have to wait on the content providers to let you see.
Nor do they take into account the fact that labour isn't just a drain on the company profits, they're also the people that buy the stuff that companies produce. I have yet to see an economic positive in making it so that your customers are unable to afford your products.
If the US stopped making mess in the first place or at least punished those who did make the mess it would go a long way to removing that hatred. But no you carry on pissing people off and then pretending that they're the ones with the problem when they react.
The US trained a lot of the terrorists in Afghanistan to fight the Soviet army there. After seeing the success of a terror campaign against one superpower they turned their attention to the infidels occupying the Muslim holy land and Muslim Jerusalem.
As for the Iraqi insurgents they see the US forces as an army of occupation to be resisted and don't necessarily believe that they will be leaving any time soon. The troops in Saudi Arabia have been there a long time after all.
I do concede your point that it's a hell of a lot more complex than "they hate our imperialism" or "they hate our freedoms" but doing something about our imperialism would certainly remove a great deal of the recruiting power that the mullahs have.
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Well sorta. Depends on the individual I'd say. Someone who has taken one of those courses in good faith not knowing any better (since not everyone reads /.) and who is willing to give up their spare time in an attempt to improve is surely not someone you'd think any less of.
Surely taking one of these courses shows that you are at least willing to put the time in to learn something new which in an ever-changing IT world is more of a plus than a minus. The quality of the course is not as important as the willingness to give up spare time to learn something new and you could steer such willingness in the direction of worthwhile learning.
Might be true for you however you are just one shining light in the ever deepening darkness.
Well nice as that would be, I fail to see the point of a feature that puts lots of green squiggles under perfectly good grammar and usually offers suggestions that would make the sentence nonsensical. Hence I turn it off.
MS Office needs a grammar checker that actually works. I hate the stupid thing, 90% of the time what it suggests is totally wrong so it gets switched off.
That would be true had the mainframe platform remained static since 1991. However it hasn't. You might want to think about why server vendors offer "mainframe-class" servers or why the Citrix model of having applications delivered to dumb terminals is popular. OS/360 is long gone, a Z Series is just another big ass server like any other, except that it's a damn sight more reliable than any Intel-based machine and has a hell of a lot more features.
You may be right. I've certainly worked on some hellishly bad COBOL systems on IBM mainframes and yet someone posted here that those projects were examples of how to do it. Jeez I feel so sorry for you Windows guys if that really is the case.
Because mainframes aren't fashionable. A zSeries machine can do everything that any other big ass server can do.
Was just thinking that myself, but then one-eyed zealotry doesn't just exist in the FOSS camp.
Does windows have an easy way of shifting everything that careless installers have left lying around? I've got a few things that won't uninstall for whatever cryptic reason. No doubt I can do it manually but that's not exactly ease of use is it?
Can't see that making much money in San Francisco
That would be the Welsh and New Zealand models.
Good point, although I'd rather just pay a one-off fee than a monthly one. However the ability to download it and watch it the same day would be even better.
No I've done without because I don't agree with piracy. My point, which you have totally ignored in your desperate need to put me down, is that the convenience of being able to watch what you want when you want to is an enormous (and quite possibly enormously profitable) reason why p2p is so popular. Babylon 5 was an example you dumbass not the whole story. The sooner the content providers open their fucking eyes the better for everyone including them.
Sounds like a crap excuse to me. I'm an ex-mainframe programmer because the jobs are not there anymore, they've been shifted to India.
However there are several alternatives to buying a $50,000 car. There are precious few to be had from the content companies. Here's an real example. I want to watch the last series of Babylon 5. I don't want to pay a lot of money for something I'm only going to watch once, none of the video rental shops carry it and I have no idea when any of the channels over here in the UK will show it again if ever. So what's my legal alternative? There isn't one apart from maybe ebay and I'd rather have a reliable way of getting something that I'd quite like to see (even though it may very well suck). That's the real appeal of p2p, not theft or cheapness (although I'm sure those are a significant factor too) it's the ability to get stuff that you would otherwise have to wait on the content providers to let you see.
It's only piracy if you use a device not approved by the Ferengi.
Nor do they take into account the fact that labour isn't just a drain on the company profits, they're also the people that buy the stuff that companies produce. I have yet to see an economic positive in making it so that your customers are unable to afford your products.
Now I'm really depressed. I thought the Dutch were better than that.
GUI materials are self-documenting - you can see what you can do with them just by looking at them.
That's why there's no market for the For Dummies series. Something having a GUI frontend does not automatically make it easy to use.
If the US stopped making mess in the first place or at least punished those who did make the mess it would go a long way to removing that hatred. But no you carry on pissing people off and then pretending that they're the ones with the problem when they react.
The US trained a lot of the terrorists in Afghanistan to fight the Soviet army there. After seeing the success of a terror campaign against one superpower they turned their attention to the infidels occupying the Muslim holy land and Muslim Jerusalem.
As for the Iraqi insurgents they see the US forces as an army of occupation to be resisted and don't necessarily believe that they will be leaving any time soon. The troops in Saudi Arabia have been there a long time after all.
I do concede your point that it's a hell of a lot more complex than "they hate our imperialism" or "they hate our freedoms" but doing something about our imperialism would certainly remove a great deal of the recruiting power that the mullahs have.
Oh yeh we really respect our politicians over here *rolls eyes*. Perhaps you should find out stuff before posting nonsense like that.
And who sold him the nerve gas in the first place and only stopped supporting him when he slipped his leash?
There are a few filesystems with ACLs for Linux if you want to use them.