Ignore the fact that Microsoft could have just supported Java in the first place instead of trying to illegally maintain their monopoly by undermining it.
Will they really? How? We don't have a single Islamic fundamentalist leader in Europe and are very unlikely ever to have one. Whereas the US does have a Christian fundamentalist in the White House and the separation of church and state seems to be being eroded there. Are you a British Daily Mail reader by any chance?
Since VS doesn't generate your business logic and since that's the most important part of a business app, I've got no idea how not having to work out your GUI placements on a piece of graph paper or having to hunt through manuals/search the web for that method you can't quite remember the name of makes you any less of a programmer. Even in my former career as a mainframe programmer we used a screen painter and could get a list of APIs from Quickref.
White people are an annoying drop on the bottom line to short termist morons in charge of corps. They haven't yet realised that we nasty expensive westerners are the ones that buy their output, but no doubt it'll occur to them eventually.
Considering that you get thousands of hits when you type arms to africa into google I just picked one. How about this one, it's got a more professional gravitas to it.
I'll dispute until I'm blue in the face that the problems of this society are not at the bottom but at the top and your opinion is something I disagree with and therefore have every right to say so. I'm mystified at the hypocrite charge though, is that supposed to upset me or something?
You asked for a source, you didn't specify whether you wanted one you agreed with or not. Your snide remark about 1st world welfare sorta suggested that you resented paying for the lazy poor sponging off your taxes, which describes a tiny fraction of real welfare claimants rather than the neo-con world view painted by the likes of Charles Murray. If you don't want to be called on untruthful statements don't make them.
Not that it's particularly relevant (penning a book doesn't give one universal authority over topics related to it, you know) but "a few years later" with respect to what, and in what context?
Charles Murray was the author of The Emerging British Underclass which was used as an excuse to remove large amounts of welfare protection by the US, UK and Australian governments. This rhetoric is still spouted even though the author has largely repudiated it now.
It's very hard for you to understand my point when you're busy putting words in my mouth. Please consider listening, instead of simply waiting for your turn to talk.
So you're not spouting discredited 20th century opinions because you resent paying tax? My point is that if you are it might be an idea to see where your tax is really being wasted instead of blaming the bottom rung of society for all its ills.
Why would you want to use scripts to configure servers? Crazy programming shit that's so 20th Century. Except any remotely competent admin would use WSH and WMI to its fullest capacity, even if that means actually typing stuff. Good Windows admins would never have your dumb attitude, some things are done well using a GUI, some things are done better with scripting or command line. The beauty of a command line and scripting though is that it doesn't require several megs of explorer.exe and a graphics driver running in kernel mode in order to do basic admin.
As if Access is suitable for large-scale corporate use. Large-scale corporate projects use proper databases. Please cite all you want, a big project will want DB2, Oracle, SQL Server etc not the joke that is Access. OO not understanding VBA doesn't make OO crap, it has a scripting language too. Just because it isn't VBA (which as a VBA coder I can quite happily say sucks) doesn't mean there's a flaw in the product.
Those debts were run up by our pet dictators during the cold war as part of indirect subsidies to the arms industry. Now those countries have removed said dictators why should they have to pay back money that was used to oppress them. As for the crack about the welfare state, dude you're so last century. Even Charles Murray said it was a crock a few years later. If you're unhappy about your government wasting money tell them to get out of Iraq or end corporate welfare, the few who do exploit the welfare system are a much smaller deal than those two.
Microsoft shills always blame the user for their 'stupidity'. The GP there expects you to jump through the hoops normally required by older Linux distros just to surf the web. So much for 'intuitive' Windows.
I'm 34 and I think Lexx is crap and Seven of Nine was a so obvious attempt to revive a flagging show. Don't even get me started on that stupid sci-fi channel thing with Tracie Lords.
Apache was a bit of a crap example since it's used a lot more than any other web server. Saying that FOSS software is the only complex kind and everything else is simple is also bollocks. Using Excel to its full capacity takes a lot of learning, installing Oracle isn't something that can be done by grandma and setting up a webserver properly is not a simple task whether it's hand hacking an apache config file or trawling through all the GUI options in IIS.
A single format for configuration files is good. Putting all in one place is very bad. It makes copying settings from one machine to another awkward and if that file gets damaged your whole system doesn't boot. Not to mention that it gets fragmented and is more difficult to defrag than the file system.
Because a lot of people think that if you commit a crime that means you deserve to be sexually assaulted, irrespective of actual logic whereby if someone comes out of prison even more screwed up than they went in they're even more likely to reoffend.
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Probably goes like this:
Coder(s): this will take two weeks to fix and test properly
Management: you've got four hours.
So bad they named it twice.
Does it make them immune to bird flu.
Ignore the fact that Microsoft could have just supported Java in the first place instead of trying to illegally maintain their monopoly by undermining it.
Will they really? How? We don't have a single Islamic fundamentalist leader in Europe and are very unlikely ever to have one. Whereas the US does have a Christian fundamentalist in the White House and the separation of church and state seems to be being eroded there. Are you a British Daily Mail reader by any chance?
Yes how dare they enforce their laws. What bastards!
Since VS doesn't generate your business logic and since that's the most important part of a business app, I've got no idea how not having to work out your GUI placements on a piece of graph paper or having to hunt through manuals/search the web for that method you can't quite remember the name of makes you any less of a programmer. Even in my former career as a mainframe programmer we used a screen painter and could get a list of APIs from Quickref.
I said the first answer meaning the second, but instead of training me they just hired someone with the skills already at greater expense.
White people are an annoying drop on the bottom line to short termist morons in charge of corps. They haven't yet realised that we nasty expensive westerners are the ones that buy their output, but no doubt it'll occur to them eventually.
Lucky you, last time I asked for training in a corp the boss said "why do you want that?"
And when was the last time any big corp gave a crap about that in the IT department.
Considering that you get thousands of hits when you type arms to africa into google I just picked one. How about this one, it's got a more professional gravitas to it.
I'll dispute until I'm blue in the face that the problems of this society are not at the bottom but at the top and your opinion is something I disagree with and therefore have every right to say so. I'm mystified at the hypocrite charge though, is that supposed to upset me or something?
You asked for a source, you didn't specify whether you wanted one you agreed with or not. Your snide remark about 1st world welfare sorta suggested that you resented paying for the lazy poor sponging off your taxes, which describes a tiny fraction of real welfare claimants rather than the neo-con world view painted by the likes of Charles Murray. If you don't want to be called on untruthful statements don't make them.
I don't believe this is true. Any sources?
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Not that it's particularly relevant (penning a book doesn't give one universal authority over topics related to it, you know) but "a few years later" with respect to what, and in what context?
Charles Murray was the author of The Emerging British Underclass which was used as an excuse to remove large amounts of welfare protection by the US, UK and Australian governments. This rhetoric is still spouted even though the author has largely repudiated it now.
It's very hard for you to understand my point when you're busy putting words in my mouth. Please consider listening, instead of simply waiting for your turn to talk.
So you're not spouting discredited 20th century opinions because you resent paying tax? My point is that if you are it might be an idea to see where your tax is really being wasted instead of blaming the bottom rung of society for all its ills.
Why would you want to use scripts to configure servers? Crazy programming shit that's so 20th Century. Except any remotely competent admin would use WSH and WMI to its fullest capacity, even if that means actually typing stuff. Good Windows admins would never have your dumb attitude, some things are done well using a GUI, some things are done better with scripting or command line. The beauty of a command line and scripting though is that it doesn't require several megs of explorer.exe and a graphics driver running in kernel mode in order to do basic admin.
As if Access is suitable for large-scale corporate use. Large-scale corporate projects use proper databases. Please cite all you want, a big project will want DB2, Oracle, SQL Server etc not the joke that is Access. OO not understanding VBA doesn't make OO crap, it has a scripting language too. Just because it isn't VBA (which as a VBA coder I can quite happily say sucks) doesn't mean there's a flaw in the product.
Those debts were run up by our pet dictators during the cold war as part of indirect subsidies to the arms industry. Now those countries have removed said dictators why should they have to pay back money that was used to oppress them. As for the crack about the welfare state, dude you're so last century. Even Charles Murray said it was a crock a few years later. If you're unhappy about your government wasting money tell them to get out of Iraq or end corporate welfare, the few who do exploit the welfare system are a much smaller deal than those two.
Microsoft shills always blame the user for their 'stupidity'. The GP there expects you to jump through the hoops normally required by older Linux distros just to surf the web. So much for 'intuitive' Windows.
I'm 34 and I think Lexx is crap and Seven of Nine was a so obvious attempt to revive a flagging show. Don't even get me started on that stupid sci-fi channel thing with Tracie Lords.
Who would rent a DVD from a shop when they could record it from TV for free? Honestly what a stupid question.
Apache was a bit of a crap example since it's used a lot more than any other web server. Saying that FOSS software is the only complex kind and everything else is simple is also bollocks. Using Excel to its full capacity takes a lot of learning, installing Oracle isn't something that can be done by grandma and setting up a webserver properly is not a simple task whether it's hand hacking an apache config file or trawling through all the GUI options in IIS.
Bit crap if all you can watch is DVDs about violas though.
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A single format for configuration files is good. Putting all in one place is very bad. It makes copying settings from one machine to another awkward and if that file gets damaged your whole system doesn't boot. Not to mention that it gets fragmented and is more difficult to defrag than the file system.
Because a lot of people think that if you commit a crime that means you deserve to be sexually assaulted, irrespective of actual logic whereby if someone comes out of prison even more screwed up than they went in they're even more likely to reoffend.