So, employees will be beyond the reach of labor laws, in a location to which the company controls all access, and where the company owns the store and all the utilities.
Did you miss the word 'beta' -- or would you actually use a time-limited beta version of a backup system on a real server? I think you save more face by picking the former.
A "camel jockey" in english slang is a term of denigration for Arabs in general.
You forgot to add 'in my tiny village in Somerset which time has passed by and where every night the plowmen gather in the old thatched inn to sacrifice a goat to the Harvest God'.
Elsewhere in the UK, 'camel jockey' is a jockey who rides a camel.
As regards your percapetion
You leave my percapetion out of this! I'm taking pills for it, that's all I can do.
I wish people would stop presenting this as a mutual tiff. The feud stems from the Chinese _invasion_ of India -- large chunks of which they still hold.
Ffs, parent (and I guess grandparent) are among the VERY VERY FEW posts so far that come from people who know what they are talking about. I could care less what apps require admin rights to install, but seeing parent still at 1 while the 'haha lol i would still not trust m$ security' posts are modded up is just freakin' tragic.
The NT security model is more sophisticated than that of Unix, even with POSIX ACLs. MS are trying to make their app developers actually pay attention to said model. No change in model.
So well let's assume this is a fair test of programming skill, why is it that an Islamic state's team, Sharif University of Technology, beat out not only the top technical university of India (IIT) but all of the US's Ivy League schools -- not just MIT and CalTech?
Hmm, maybe they solved more problems in less time.
(The above is of course just a theory. It could be a global conspiracy against America).
But vendors like Sun and Microsoft want us to remain in the dark ages suckling on their poisoned teat when the world can now ween itself of that sour milk and move on to the glory of free beer.
So, your point is that while some of us sip the acrid, comfortless whisky of commercial software, the vast majority chug the malt liquor of in-house development. But one day, we'll all raise great steins of dark, strong beer, condensation beading on the outside while glorious abundant foam sloshes over the rim.... ARGH I MUST HAVE BEER.
Mmm no... no, I think rather than change the format of my own data I would tend to switch to a version control system that actually worked for me. Maybe I'm being eccentric. Then again maybe it's just incredibly obvious.
More generally, though, whether I was using Word docs or not, I'd be very worried at a system that stored a whole copy of each revision of any binary. Yeesh.
RoR is absolutely unbeatable in code size, ease of use, and time to get started. Conversely, it is absolutely not there in scalability, caching, I18N, distributability, performance, documentation and so on.
In other words, much like Ruby in general, only more so.
It's like mysql -- brilliant if you want to put up something that works in a hurry. Not suitable for industrial-strength use.
I don't know how TFA got it's result of RoR being faster, but I suspect it's because the app in question is so lightweight. On a small app, the unneccessary crap that Java does (or if you prefer, the excessive simplicity of RoR) will have a decisive penalty but if you try and do a large amount of processing in Ruby you will pay a horrible price, compared to any modern JVM.
Korean characters are not ideograms, except when they borrow chinese ones for names and hard words. They're phonetic, and a very elegant system it is -- or was, until the inevitable blurring and decay.
They were founded on Confucian principles -- 'male' sounds stick up and 'female' sounds lie passively underneath them. Gotta love that Confucianism @_@
Japanese characters are often ideograms, but to be honest the text is no more than maybe 1.5 times the density of English, for colloquial dialog. I think the key might be that the users are train passengers reading pulp novels, so that:
1 -- there isn't room to open a book
2 -- you don't really need to backtrack and appreciate the structure and rhythm:)
Thank you so much for providing a link to some actual reasoned discussion by people who know what they're talking about. Maybe someone will follow it.
The comments in this article have been enough to make me lose faith in humanity entirely. Or at least in that section of it that knows little about MS apis but feels compelled to get a big ol' anger session going anyway:)
Ah, the back of the DLL -- thus shifting the DLL's center of gravity to the rear, giving better code traction!
Seriously, though, they have an in-house development tool, and you want them to give it to everyone else. That's very community-spirited of you, but I expect you can understand why they might just keep it in-house anyway -- what with it being their software, and all that.
Given that the shell namespace interfaces (which appear to have been what Devos meant, although he never really said) ARE documented, which is how come people write SOFTWARE with them, and that Devos never actually came up with a single instance of an undocumented API or interface, and that the area is really pretty well explored and understood, and that Devos' products just happened to include Windows API documentation and utility libraries... which he had to persuade people to buy somehow, even with the regular MS libraries and docs already available......no, actually, go back to believing what you believed before. It's easier, right?
You're right. Using silly little contraptions is just plain silly. Well argued.
Anyway, I note that in Japan lots of sites, even personal 'me and my dog' pages, have mobile versions. Not surprising since there have been a lot of web-capable phones there for a long time. It's just a matter of market forces -- maybe a big enough pool of people with browser-equipped phones will build up in the US, maybe not.
There is simply no point struggling against the stream of FUD in these Mono stories. It's one of the things that makes me glad the whole IT community isn't like Slashdot.
It's like pointing out the difference between theft and copyright infringement; it's part of a class of meaningful rational comments that there is no point making on Slashdot. I imagine every forum and milieu has such a class of statements... it would be interesting to map them.
Unproductive labor is bad. Only productive units can be allowed in hive. Workers who waste energy must be sent to the vats. It is therefore in interests of workers to be productive. To conserve energy. To obey.
(This message brought to you by the World Utilitarian Council).
There are several toolbars full of tiny icons that don't really mean anything to you unless you've used the program before. Most Apple apps, however, have one or two toolbars of big, clear icons
So, it's a choice between:
A -- lots of functions, but you have to actually learn something before you can use them fluently
B -- a small number of functions, but with biiig pretty pictures
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So, employees will be beyond the reach of labor laws, in a location to which the company controls all access, and where the company owns the store and all the utilities.
Boy, that's going to be one-sided.
Chess? That fancy new variant with the different kinds of pieces and the TWO COLOR board?
I'll stick with go, thank you very much. I don't need complex graphics and extra options -- I care about the gameplay.
You're describing Alpha Centauri, the 'real' Civ 3. Some found it a bit too abstract -- many loved it.
All the 'Unit with armor type X and attack power 7 that moves 4 squares' units were a little hard to empathize with, though.
There's not actually any such drink as a 'Bud Ick'. But it's an expression you hear frequently all the same.
Did you miss the word 'beta' -- or would you actually use a time-limited beta version of a backup system on a real server? I think you save more face by picking the former.
I'm from the UK -- could you express that in Football Fields or Areas The Size Of The Isle Of Wight please?
A "camel jockey" in english slang is a term of denigration for Arabs in general.
You forgot to add 'in my tiny village in Somerset which time has passed by and where every night the plowmen gather in the old thatched inn to sacrifice a goat to the Harvest God'.
Elsewhere in the UK, 'camel jockey' is a jockey who rides a camel.
As regards your percapetion
You leave my percapetion out of this! I'm taking pills for it, that's all I can do.
put 3 billion people in an area that can only make food for 1 billion, and what does supply/demand dictate?
War.
I wish people would stop presenting this as a mutual tiff. The feud stems from the Chinese _invasion_ of India -- large chunks of which they still hold.
Ffs, parent (and I guess grandparent) are among the VERY VERY FEW posts so far that come from people who know what they are talking about. I could care less what apps require admin rights to install, but seeing parent still at 1 while the 'haha lol i would still not trust m$ security' posts are modded up is just freakin' tragic.
The NT security model is more sophisticated than that of Unix, even with POSIX ACLs. MS are trying to make their app developers actually pay attention to said model. No change in model.
So well let's assume this is a fair test of programming skill, why is it that an Islamic state's team, Sharif University of Technology, beat out not only the top technical university of India (IIT) but all of the US's Ivy League schools -- not just MIT and CalTech?
Hmm, maybe they solved more problems in less time.
(The above is of course just a theory. It could be a global conspiracy against America).
Notice how they can abbreviate that to
Cherry O. S. Project
and thence to
Cherry OS Project
and thence to
CherryOS Project
and finally
CherryOS.
I gotta respect them -- they're not just a _bit_ slimy, they are slimier than Fungus the Bogeyman in a barrel of natto!
But vendors like Sun and Microsoft want us to remain in the dark ages suckling on their poisoned teat when the world can now ween itself of that sour milk and move on to the glory of free beer.
So, your point is that while some of us sip the acrid, comfortless whisky of commercial software, the vast majority chug the malt liquor of in-house development. But one day, we'll all raise great steins of dark, strong beer, condensation beading on the outside while glorious abundant foam sloshes over the rim.... ARGH I MUST HAVE BEER.
Mmm no... no, I think rather than change the format of my own data I would tend to switch to a version control system that actually worked for me. Maybe I'm being eccentric. Then again maybe it's just incredibly obvious.
More generally, though, whether I was using Word docs or not, I'd be very worried at a system that stored a whole copy of each revision of any binary. Yeesh.
RoR is absolutely unbeatable in code size, ease of use, and time to get started. Conversely, it is absolutely not there in scalability, caching, I18N, distributability, performance, documentation and so on.
In other words, much like Ruby in general, only more so.
It's like mysql -- brilliant if you want to put up something that works in a hurry. Not suitable for industrial-strength use.
I don't know how TFA got it's result of RoR being faster, but I suspect it's because the app in question is so lightweight. On a small app, the unneccessary crap that Java does (or if you prefer, the excessive simplicity of RoR) will have a decisive penalty but if you try and do a large amount of processing in Ruby you will pay a horrible price, compared to any modern JVM.
Korean characters are not ideograms, except when they borrow chinese ones for names and hard words. They're phonetic, and a very elegant system it is -- or was, until the inevitable blurring and decay.
They were founded on Confucian principles -- 'male' sounds stick up and 'female' sounds lie passively underneath them. Gotta love that Confucianism @_@
Japanese characters are often ideograms, but to be honest the text is no more than maybe 1.5 times the density of English, for colloquial dialog. I think the key might be that the users are train passengers reading pulp novels, so that:
1 -- there isn't room to open a book
2 -- you don't really need to backtrack and appreciate the structure and rhythm
Thank you so much for providing a link to some actual reasoned discussion by people who know what they're talking about. Maybe someone will follow it.
The comments in this article have been enough to make me lose faith in humanity entirely. Or at least in that section of it that knows little about MS apis but feels compelled to get a big ol' anger session going anyway
Ah, the back of the DLL -- thus shifting the DLL's center of gravity to the rear, giving better code traction!
Seriously, though, they have an in-house development tool, and you want them to give it to everyone else. That's very community-spirited of you, but I expect you can understand why they might just keep it in-house anyway -- what with it being their software, and all that.
Or maybe you can't.
How did this get to be +4?
Given that the shell namespace interfaces (which appear to have been what Devos meant, although he never really said) ARE documented, which is how come people write SOFTWARE with them, and that Devos never actually came up with a single instance of an undocumented API or interface, and that the area is really pretty well explored and understood, and that Devos' products just happened to include Windows API documentation and utility libraries... which he had to persuade people to buy somehow, even with the regular MS libraries and docs already available...
You're right. Using silly little contraptions is just plain silly. Well argued.
Anyway, I note that in Japan lots of sites, even personal 'me and my dog' pages, have mobile versions. Not surprising since there have been a lot of web-capable phones there for a long time. It's just a matter of market forces -- maybe a big enough pool of people with browser-equipped phones will build up in the US, maybe not.
He does it by making marks in the air with his fingers. You should see it -- it's baffling at first but oddly beautiful.
There is simply no point struggling against the stream of FUD in these Mono stories. It's one of the things that makes me glad the whole IT community isn't like Slashdot.
It's like pointing out the difference between theft and copyright infringement; it's part of a class of meaningful rational comments that there is no point making on Slashdot. I imagine every forum and milieu has such a class of statements... it would be interesting to map them.
Unproductive labor is bad. Only productive units can be allowed in hive. Workers who waste energy must be sent to the vats. It is therefore in interests of workers to be productive. To conserve energy. To obey.
(This message brought to you by the World Utilitarian Council).
There are several toolbars full of tiny icons that don't really mean anything to you unless you've used the program before. Most Apple apps, however, have one or two toolbars of big, clear icons
So, it's a choice between:
A -- lots of functions, but you have to actually learn something before you can use them fluently
B -- a small number of functions, but with biiig pretty pictures
I'll pick A.
When you finally get asked to do things which hasn't been done before, you're SOL.
Well, as that doesn't happen in the average human life, I imagine reading crap, writing it out again and forgetting it will remain popular.