Obviously you don't develop Windows applications. On W2K, I have had two "critical updates" and SP2 break one of our homegrown applications.
On that note, this really sucks. This application uses RPC and COM+ extensively. I get f'ing sick of hearing about these patches and scrambling to test them before I am forced to patch.
Don't tell me not to write code for Windows - I need my job...
I can obtain the same information without the professors or the books. What I'm currently paying for is a little piece of paper that certifies that I have recieved that information.
I agree with you, but I have a name to live up to.
Seriously, what I meant was related to something one of the few good math teachers I have had told me (I'm double majoring CS/Math, so I had plenty). That is the concept of never accepting what you are told unquestioningly. This, of course, can be applied to many areas of life in general. But this is the very foundation of discovery. We take it for granted that 1+1=2, just like people used to take for granted that the Earth was at the center of the solar system, for example.
This was all just a wind-bagged way of saying that any discovery, especially those scientific in nature, cannot be obtained by reading someone else's proofs/essays/code/whatever. Those who are not interested enough to do the proof themselves have questionable amounts to gain from seeing it on paper or their monitor.
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If you mod me down, I *will* introduce you to my sister!
/. that threat carries little weight.
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I'm glad they gave SCA a good reaming, I really fucking hate the Bosstones
Nice TMBG ref - I don't know if anyone caught that or not (or if they care, for that matter).
As opposed to the currently massive base of SCO UNIX customers?
Obviously you don't develop Windows applications. On W2K, I have had two "critical updates" and SP2 break one of our homegrown applications.
On that note, this really sucks. This application uses RPC and COM+ extensively. I get f'ing sick of hearing about these patches and scrambling to test them before I am forced to patch.
Don't tell me not to write code for Windows - I need my job...
>A reporter looking into the SCO story who knows little about open source wouldn't trust a tool made by one side of the disagreement.
Yeah, I can't imagine the reverse of that bias being true...
I wouldn't normally come in here and stick up for MS. But I have to mention the one thing about .NET that has made my life much easier - STRINGS!
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Honestly, how do you remember when the fuck to use a _bstr_t, or an LPCTSTR, or a CString, or whatever else it is today?
A string is an array of char(s)
Or that Xerox can sue Apple?
I can obtain the same information without the professors or the books. What I'm currently paying for is a little piece of paper that certifies that I have recieved that information.
Boy, I'm glad I'm not the only person who had a MCA PS/2 laying around. Still have it, running Slackware 7.1
And in the server market, those RS6000's with the old MCA bus (try an F40) will to this day blow out some very nice Pentium machines.
posting links to your own site, bb? shameless...
I agree with you, but I have a name to live up to.
Seriously, what I meant was related to something one of the few good math teachers I have had told me (I'm double majoring CS/Math, so I had plenty). That is the concept of never accepting what you are told unquestioningly. This, of course, can be applied to many areas of life in general. But this is the very foundation of discovery. We take it for granted that 1+1=2, just like people used to take for granted that the Earth was at the center of the solar system, for example.
This was all just a wind-bagged way of saying that any discovery, especially those scientific in nature, cannot be obtained by reading someone else's proofs/essays/code/whatever. Those who are not interested enough to do the proof themselves have questionable amounts to gain from seeing it on paper or their monitor.
Actually, I don't think even that can be _proven_