So, the software component of a service that I provide is taxed as if it were shrink-wrapped software, and everything else (business analysis, support, etc) is taxed as before. What an extraordinary extra burden on both service provider and customer. Just the mechanics of deciding what is 'custom software', what is integration work on off-the-shelf software, and what is enhancements to existing systems makes my head hurt already.
Is this some sort of stealth plan to wind down the Chicago financial center and move everything to NY or something? Sigh.
If you mean the 1905 massacres, then I think endemic corruption, miscommunication, and resentment of the tsar among his courtiers were to blame rather than any decision by the actual tsar. He just wasn't good in a crisis -- weak, and wilfully deaf to the voices of warning yes, but not actively cruel.
The same is true of the 1915-1916 massacres of russian soldiers by the germans; the tsar's decision to make himself commander-in-chief was tremendously stupid but he was _trying_ to help. He succeeded only in damaging the already chaotic chain of command and making the disasters seem like his personal fault...
Not really tsar material, that man. But better than Stalin.
The czar was toppled in 1917, and he wasn't particularly cruel or dictatorial... it's more that the aristocrats resisted his reforms and that his army was too corrupt and disorganized to resist Germany.
Thank you... I'm available for public and private nitpicking... just call my agent...
Yes, but unlike the Metric system, Linux offers actual benefits.
Linux benefits: Free, open, stable, secure, easily modifiable. Saves billions of dollars and reduces dependence on single vendor.
Metric benefits: Measures everything relative to a single lump of iridium kept in Paris and on the incorrect original French calculation of the size of the earth. Good if you really like the number 10... except for time... and angles.
See, the metric system's benefits, while of course they are great, aren't really as compelling, commercially.
How is that a troll? Looks like a plain old statement. Could be considered offtopic, I guess, but then what was the cartoon Chinese accent doing in the article in the first place?
wtf is 'solly cholly'? is that supposed to be an imitation of a chinese accent or something? if so, wtf possessed the idiots who let it appear up there?
Yes, I agree that Mono works remarkably well and that.NET is a Good Thing. The main threat to my.NET happiness is Microsoft's own increasing weakness and unpredictability -- I'm hoping non-Microsoft.NET implementations take off and eliminate the MS dependancy.
I'm assuming that for those with a knowledge of physics or electronics or car racing or something, that is totally hilarious... so I'd better laugh so as to fit in...
In Galaxians, you score more for shooting the bold, enterprising aliens who go on bombing runs, and less for shooting the ones who just sit there in a grid. The lesson is clear -- be a mindless, obedient worker so that nobody has an incentive to hurt you.
On a more serious note, notice how the Civ series suddenly dropped the 'fundamentalist' govt type... with a little self-righteous note in the manual about how great they were for doing so. Ew.
Vic-20/c64 basic was a bit different. It was so lacking in syntactic and semantic functionality that to get anything done with it required that most of your program effectively be machine code, via pokes or data statements.
Therefore, I suspect that c64 basic didn't teach bad habits as much as more complete and imprisoning basics (BBC model B!) might have.
Of course you could probably make the same argument the other way round....
we ain't built for milk (lactose intolerance in asians is high).
Well, perhaps you could stop putting cheese and mayonnaise in or on every single food item in Japan then. It was bad enough when okonomiyaki started having mayonnaise but now we are faced with CHEESE SUSHI. I assume this change is driven by one giant evil dairy products keiretsu -- perhaps some kindly soul could simply assassinate them or something.
*88* episodes? The fact that someone kept Andromeda going for 88 episodes is deeply disturbing. I always assumed there were only about 4, and they got repeated a lot.
You young/. whippersnappers may be too young to remember when IBM controlled all of American computing and Microsoft were the courageous (but often mocked) young rebels, but believe me, a return to an IBM-dominated world is _not_ what you want.
And really, MFC gets a bit of a bad rap. Sure, Document/View is horrible, but other parts of MFC are pretty well done
As someone who spent many years with MFC and has (or had) a huge skill investment in it -- you're wrong. Almost every single class is riddled with special cases, exceptions, bizarre hacks put in to maintain compatibility with earlier bugs... it's a classic example of an underengineered design that has required the most brutal and tortuous maintenance to keep going. Why, surely only someone with no ability to judge the elegance and utility of a system could say what you said!
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So, the software component of a service that I provide is taxed as if it were shrink-wrapped software, and everything else (business analysis, support, etc) is taxed as before. What an extraordinary extra burden on both service provider and customer. Just the mechanics of deciding what is 'custom software', what is integration work on off-the-shelf software, and what is enhancements to existing systems makes my head hurt already.
Is this some sort of stealth plan to wind down the Chicago financial center and move everything to NY or something? Sigh.
Good news for Chicago tax lawyers, though.
It's an iridium weight that defines the kilogram. Do people actually use gradians?
*checks*
Hmm, windows calc.exe supports them.
In any case, the advantages of changing to these particular totally arbitrary units still escapes me
If you mean the 1905 massacres, then I think endemic corruption, miscommunication, and resentment of the tsar among his courtiers were to blame rather than any decision by the actual tsar. He just wasn't good in a crisis -- weak, and wilfully deaf to the voices of warning yes, but not actively cruel.
The same is true of the 1915-1916 massacres of russian soldiers by the germans; the tsar's decision to make himself commander-in-chief was tremendously stupid but he was _trying_ to help. He succeeded only in damaging the already chaotic chain of command and making the disasters seem like his personal fault...
Not really tsar material, that man. But better than Stalin.
The czar was toppled in 1917, and he wasn't particularly cruel or dictatorial... it's more that the aristocrats resisted his reforms and that his army was too corrupt and disorganized to resist Germany.
Thank you... I'm available for public and private nitpicking... just call my agent...
Yes, but unlike the Metric system, Linux offers actual benefits.
Linux benefits: Free, open, stable, secure, easily modifiable. Saves billions of dollars and reduces dependence on single vendor.
Metric benefits: Measures everything relative to a single lump of iridium kept in Paris and on the incorrect original French calculation of the size of the earth. Good if you really like the number 10... except for time... and angles.
See, the metric system's benefits, while of course they are great, aren't really as compelling, commercially.
(Let the metric system advocacy commence!)
You do realize there has been a thriving market in tools to help with migration from Unix to Windows for many years, right?
Yeah, it'd be a story about Jar Jar Binks.
*trampled to death under a stampede of negative moderations*
How is that a troll? Looks like a plain old statement. Could be considered offtopic, I guess, but then what was the cartoon Chinese accent doing in the article in the first place?
wtf is 'solly cholly'? is that supposed to be an imitation of a chinese accent or something? if so, wtf possessed the idiots who let it appear up there?
Ah
Yes, I agree that Mono works remarkably well and that
I'm assuming that for those with a knowledge of physics or electronics or car racing or something, that is totally hilarious... so I'd better laugh so as to fit in...
ROFL! Nice one!
Well, to be fair, emacs doesn't have a text editor either.
You're right! Everyone in America should start their own company! Then everyone would be employed!
Of course in the world of actual money, this philosophically satisfying approach often doesn't go down so well.
Client: How long will the project take, and what is its scope?
Proj Manager: It will never end, but continue to develop in a multitude of directions.
Client:
In Galaxians, you score more for shooting the bold, enterprising aliens who go on bombing runs, and less for shooting the ones who just sit there in a grid. The lesson is clear -- be a mindless, obedient worker so that nobody has an incentive to hurt you.
On a more serious note, notice how the Civ series suddenly dropped the 'fundamentalist' govt type... with a little self-righteous note in the manual about how great they were for doing so. Ew.
Vic-20/c64 basic was a bit different. It was so lacking in syntactic and semantic functionality that to get anything done with it required that most of your program effectively be machine code, via pokes or data statements.
Therefore, I suspect that c64 basic didn't teach bad habits as much as more complete and imprisoning basics (BBC model B!) might have.
Of course you could probably make the same argument the other way round....
Hrm. Well. Yes. Um.
I'm going to go home now.
How much time and money does it take to train, equip, and transport (into space) an astronaut?
How much time and money does it take to train, equip and transport (to Iraq) a marine?
Thus, the USA can afford to lose way more marines than astronauts.
They're not merely chunks of rock -- they're imaginary chunks of rock!
That was quite funny.
we ain't built for milk (lactose intolerance in asians is high).
Well, perhaps you could stop putting cheese and mayonnaise in or on every single food item in Japan then. It was bad enough when okonomiyaki started having mayonnaise but now we are faced with CHEESE SUSHI. I assume this change is driven by one giant evil dairy products keiretsu -- perhaps some kindly soul could simply assassinate them or something.
This phoney 'robopsychiatrist' isn't a real psychiatrist either -- heck, she's NOT EVEN REALLY A ROBOT!
*88* episodes? The fact that someone kept Andromeda going for 88 episodes is deeply disturbing. I always assumed there were only about 4, and they got repeated a lot.
You young
And really, MFC gets a bit of a bad rap. Sure, Document/View is horrible, but other parts of MFC are pretty well done
.NET...
As someone who spent many years with MFC and has (or had) a huge skill investment in it -- you're wrong. Almost every single class is riddled with special cases, exceptions, bizarre hacks put in to maintain compatibility with earlier bugs... it's a classic example of an underengineered design that has required the most brutal and tortuous maintenance to keep going. Why, surely only someone with no ability to judge the elegance and utility of a system could say what you said!
the abomination that is
I was right!