Since Q3, my backflip hasn't been equaled in ANY gym class.
Have you ever seen someone jump around like a rabbit for 45 minutes and ending with a tripple backflip into a canyon, while shooting a 3pointer upwards, carrying 150pounds of armour ?
Ha, I can't wait till this shit gets approved for the olympics !
okay, I admit that I peed a pit too much on tab delims. For 95% of all jobs they'll do everything XML does, and faster.
But I do have some quite nasty nested stuff, with non-static iterations (ie : inside transmission repeaters the iterations can grow or shrink) and with pointer links to other nested structures.
you'll adimit that that is no beaf for tab delimited crunchers, right ?
Well, I sure hope you're right as far as the.NET == XML equation goes. I'm not experienced with.NET to judge it.
as far as the XML not good for databases or PLs, you're right too, but you're missing one more section : data exchange. XML is pretty good at that : you can dunk anything (dunkeable offcourse) into an XML and send it over. The reading side can undunk it and process. Tab delimited stinks at this. So XML is a big leap over tab if you look at it from that perspective.
About the KISS principles, well, the pure existance of MS is the only axiom that keeps KISS alive. If MS hadn't been here, we would never have had a need for KISS. MS incorporates MICM (mae it complex, moronic) into ANYTHING they build.
I will depend heavily on the trend, and the trendsetter. If you want to chase a trent set by some small town startup, you're probably fucked indeed. If you follow a trens set up by a donkey with enough cash momentum to give that trend a huge initial push, you can hook up and ride along for quite some time. A few examples are.Net, XBox, java, 3D games, palm stuff... most of these started as a gadget that turned into a trend which turned into a full blown sector. Some of these will survive, some will die out.
Hey, the poster asked for interseting job opportunities, right ? He didn't ask for an interesting or valuabble job !
not that I can tell if the technology is any good, but if I lock you up for 10 days with 5 managers and a horse, both you and the horse will come out with eye-stare, mumbling '.NET is cool,.NET is the way to go...'
this assumes offcourse that all 5 managers are as brainwashed as possible, but that's probably the easiest part.
considering the fact that they make a buttload of money on Mouse Hardware, it surprises me trmendously that they haven't jumped the mp3 bandwagon yet...
Then again, the XBox hardware adventure hangover still got them knocked down I guess
this has been elaborated on quite often:if you want to hurt them, DONT buy the box for two reasons :
- promotion. If they can claim to have sold so many million boxes, they win on your purchase due to market share increse, even at a loss.
- an XBox on the shelve hurts MS more than one in your living room : imagine PS2 sold out, and tons of XBoxes still on the shelves. Now that's bad publicity !
Last time I heard, the MS Mac BSU was a profitable one, which is one of the reasons MS doesn't cut their budget (they can't shut it down alltogether due to that monopoly thingie in court)
is that, when I recently tried to acquire a.net domain held by Verisign, I had to send 4 mails before they even responded, and when they eventually did, it was just to say that my request had been forwarded to the sales dept (impressive since I had a cc to sales@verisign.com) and I would be contacted within 24 hours. That was 3 months ago. I've given up and purchased a.be domain instead.
I don't know if they're just to busy marketing, or perhaps don't like overseas clients... All I know is that it's damd frustrating to see a domain for sale (at a reasonable price even) and not being able to get a hold on a salesperson...
Well... maybe I shouldn't register domainnames anyway. After all, there are so many domains nowadays that the good old reflex of www.somethingyourelookingfor.com rarely send you to a relevant page anymore.
Many./ adepts adhere this slogan, which also applies to advertising. No matter how many skipping systems, popup blockers, spam filters, etc are invented, there will always be unwanted advertisment. Just as much as Falung Gong pamflets for instance just can't be killed in china.
That aside, offcourse you're free to block anything you like. I've personaly found that little on/off switch on my TV to be an excellent advertisement filter !
before you start calling someone a bozo, please consider the complexity, the cost and the frustration of administrative computing. Most of the people who have to work with the system don't know at all what they are doing and usually consider it clumsy, slow, inefficient and way to expensive for what it does (or usually doesnt) do.
Honestly I *can* understand how they are fed up with an aging system that gives constant headaches and is a budget drain. Eventually it would have blown up by a flipped employee. I se ethose situations every day, and when those IBM suppport bozo's arrive, things usually start taking an even worse turn.
That said, they should offcourse have backed up their stuff, and after cancelling support, at least have worked out a phase out of the system, with a phase in of a new, better system. But again don't completely blame them for such a situation. I guess that a large portion of govt IT is in an equally fucked up state, but better covered up.
someone had to say it : Steve Jobs pushed black design for NeXT cubes, and Apple had a black Performa 6200 series along time ago.
Although I consider black to be an advantage over beige since you don't see coffe or cola stains that much, I really doubt that a new color will boost PC sales all that much. If there's one thing that Apple does right, it's 'everything' : just changing colors won't do. The iMac was (and is again) a new formfactor, a new system, new bus (USB/firewire) new drives (slot loading iMacs)
Well, I admit that you give hackers more chances to hack when they can get the hardware in their hands, but you'll have to admit that the number of dudes capable of such are far lower than just setting up a pr0n VISA number trap or card skimmers in a restaurant.
I can hardly believe that using HW at home to authenticate/secure connection & card integrity is going to increase abuse. And with such devices, the transaction company has more means of tracking you.
I really hope there are a lot off Googles out there to kick Amazons fluffy butt : Google has proven that ad-free online information (and in a way commerce) actually works. Works better even than the ones with Ads.
Amazon gives me headaches with all their fsking commercials and screaming colors. I don't go there unless I really can't find my info anywhere else. The opposite with Google : their layout is so nice I sometimes find myself just googling away for fun... like the old days when the internet was still fun to explore.
But John Q. Average doesn't know that... In belgium there were 2 online resellers of CDs and books. One of them made a deal with a big bank and a movie complex to have its URL printed on tickes and receipts. Good publicity, indeed, but much more important : the association of the URL with something trustable.
I thing online internet sales is a market where, right now at least, there IS bad publicity because people rae still too supicious and won't take risks.
the internet is a very young medium and most online buyers just don't trust much... yet. I'm a regular buyer, but wouldn't really consider buying a CD from a company that just showed up and is hosted on some obscure domain.
Wait until online buying settles down a bit, and everyone gets used to buying stuff everywhere. Then wait for VISA to become more secure (read : Hardware cardreader devices at home, which is inevitable) or for banks to do direct transactions between you and the book reseller. THEN we can start to evaluate models.
it's funny how the rest of the world insists on calling this 'belgian' waffles. There's nothing typically belgian about it : the rest of the world makes them exactly the same way for ages...
err... it's been like this for 4 years now...(ecept for the price that is : we're at approx 40EUro/month, which used to be 80 2 year ago)
Belgian national Telco is one of the biggest fuckups in the country. I really really hope they go pucky-up like sabena, the national airline.
We were all hoping that, with the liberalisation of the european telco market, other companies would invest in belgium and create some competition, but that happened only on the level of big corporations: those can get pretty good deals by playing the telcos against each other. For jan modaal (joe average as u dudes call him wrongly:-) nothing changed much, except more snailmail spam and tons of gruesome commercials (I really wonder if they have some of secret competition for the most moronic commercial. In anycase, they get more and more braindead over time, which is a good thing since I was scared they would one day firgure out how to check our bandwidth quota. That's right folks : the belgian national telco isn't capable of checking bandwidth quota.. *lol*... no, make that *weep*...)
Broadband in belgium also experienced heavy price cuts, with increasing subscribers as result, but decreasing bandwidth and increasing problems also.
I have 2 DSL connections from different providers, and both of them are worsening rapidly as theyr user base is growing : I used to have Q3 ping times around 40 to most uk and nl servers, but this has dropped to 130 in the past few months. After some HW upgrades, things are back to 75, which is still a shame for a 38EUR/month subscription.
Cable modem is a whole other story, with some clusters experiencing insane drops ( ping times over 300, ftp speeds below 25KB/sec) for months and months. Depending on the block and city one lives in, speeds range from the above mentioned 25KB/sec to a whopping 750KB/sec (KB yes indeeed !!) but with outages varying from monthly to daily and peaks of hourly !
The customers are ready for it now that the price is dropping, but are the telcos ? Belgacom (the belgian telco) is definitely not : their servers are cracking every day (last month the user webserver, the month before the SMTP server...) and telenet (biggest cable provider) has administration issues (my neigbour didn't pay the first 6 months because they forgot him. Then he received an invoice for 2 years)
Both have customer tech support that I wouldn't even let my dog piss at.
did it ever cross your mind that the author is perhaps not an english speaker ? I'd like to know your score when you comment in Hebrew or Arab. Your rating would probably be more like Hzra-Brdo'l !!!
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Since Q3, my backflip hasn't been equaled in ANY gym class.
Have you ever seen someone jump around like a rabbit for 45 minutes and ending with a tripple backflip into a canyon, while shooting a 3pointer upwards, carrying 150pounds of armour ?
Ha, I can't wait till this shit gets approved for the olympics !
okay, I admit that I peed a pit too much on tab delims. For 95% of all jobs they'll do everything XML does, and faster.
But I do have some quite nasty nested stuff, with non-static iterations (ie : inside transmission repeaters the iterations can grow or shrink) and with pointer links to other nested structures.
you'll adimit that that is no beaf for tab delimited crunchers, right ?
but indeed, "Not something to bet the farm on"
Well, I sure hope you're right as far as the .NET == XML equation goes. I'm not experienced with .NET to judge it.
as far as the XML not good for databases or PLs, you're right too, but you're missing one more section : data exchange. XML is pretty good at that : you can dunk anything (dunkeable offcourse) into an XML and send it over. The reading side can undunk it and process. Tab delimited stinks at this. So XML is a big leap over tab if you look at it from that perspective.
About the KISS principles, well, the pure existance of MS is the only axiom that keeps KISS alive. If MS hadn't been here, we would never have had a need for KISS. MS incorporates MICM (mae it complex, moronic) into ANYTHING they build.
I will depend heavily on the trend, and the trendsetter. If you want to chase a trent set by some small town startup, you're probably fucked indeed. If you follow a trens set up by a donkey with enough cash momentum to give that trend a huge initial push, you can hook up and ride along for quite some time. .Net, XBox, java, 3D games, palm stuff... most of these started as a gadget that turned into a trend which turned into a full blown sector. Some of these will survive, some will die out.
A few examples are
Hey, the poster asked for interseting job opportunities, right ? He didn't ask for an interesting or valuabble job !
not that I can tell if the technology is any good, but if I lock you up for 10 days with 5 managers and a horse, both you and the horse will come out with eye-stare, mumbling '.NET is cool, .NET is the way to go...'
this assumes offcourse that all 5 managers are as brainwashed as possible, but that's probably the easiest part.
considering the fact that they make a buttload of money on Mouse Hardware, it surprises me trmendously that they haven't jumped the mp3 bandwagon yet...
Then again, the XBox hardware adventure hangover still got them knocked down I guess
this has been elaborated on quite often :if you want to hurt them, DONT buy the box for two reasons :
- promotion. If they can claim to have sold so many million boxes, they win on your purchase due to market share increse, even at a loss.
- an XBox on the shelve hurts MS more than one in your living room : imagine PS2 sold out, and tons of XBoxes still on the shelves. Now that's bad publicity !
Last time I heard, the MS Mac BSU was a profitable one, which is one of the reasons MS doesn't cut their budget (they can't shut it down alltogether due to that monopoly thingie in court)
is that, when I recently tried to acquire a .net domain held by Verisign, I had to send 4 mails before they even responded, and when they eventually did, it was just to say that my request had been forwarded to the sales dept (impressive since I had a cc to sales@verisign.com) and I would be contacted within 24 hours. That was 3 months ago. I've given up and purchased a .be domain instead.
...
I don't know if they're just to busy marketing, or perhaps don't like overseas clients... All I know is that it's damd frustrating to see a domain for sale (at a reasonable price even) and not being able to get a hold on a salesperson
Well... maybe I shouldn't register domainnames anyway. After all, there are so many domains nowadays that the good old reflex of www.somethingyourelookingfor.com rarely send you to a relevant page anymore.
Many ./ adepts adhere this slogan, which also applies to advertising. No matter how many skipping systems, popup blockers, spam filters, etc are invented, there will always be unwanted advertisment. Just as much as Falung Gong pamflets for instance just can't be killed in china.
That aside, offcourse you're free to block anything you like. I've personaly found that little on/off switch on my TV to be an excellent advertisement filter !
I think it's worth a retread.
retread ??? retarded reread ?
being a MacOSX fanatic, I'd like to note the hostorical importance and easy of reproduction of throwing Apple's on someone's head...
And blindfolded, you can add highscores !
sex !
very nice pictures... of your girlfriend/wife !
u'r a lucky d00d !
before you start calling someone a bozo, please consider the complexity, the cost and the frustration of administrative computing. Most of the people who have to work with the system don't know at all what they are doing and usually consider it clumsy, slow, inefficient and way to expensive for what it does (or usually doesnt) do.
Honestly I *can* understand how they are fed up with an aging system that gives constant headaches and is a budget drain. Eventually it would have blown up by a flipped employee. I se ethose situations every day, and when those IBM suppport bozo's arrive, things usually start taking an even worse turn.
That said, they should offcourse have backed up their stuff, and after cancelling support, at least have worked out a phase out of the system, with a phase in of a new, better system. But again don't completely blame them for such a situation. I guess that a large portion of govt IT is in an equally fucked up state, but better covered up.
someone had to say it : Steve Jobs pushed black design for NeXT cubes, and Apple had a black Performa 6200 series along time ago.
Although I consider black to be an advantage over beige since you don't see coffe or cola stains that much, I really doubt that a new color will boost PC sales all that much. If there's one thing that Apple does right, it's 'everything' : just changing colors won't do. The iMac was (and is again) a new formfactor, a new system, new bus (USB/firewire) new drives (slot loading iMacs)
And anywhow, nothing beats a TiBook...
Well, I admit that you give hackers more chances to hack when they can get the hardware in their hands, but you'll have to admit that the number of dudes capable of such are far lower than just setting up a pr0n VISA number trap or card skimmers in a restaurant.
I can hardly believe that using HW at home to authenticate/secure connection & card integrity is going to increase abuse. And with such devices, the transaction company has more means of tracking you.
I really hope there are a lot off Googles out there to kick Amazons fluffy butt : Google has proven that ad-free online information (and in a way commerce) actually works. Works better even than the ones with Ads.
Amazon gives me headaches with all their fsking commercials and screaming colors. I don't go there unless I really can't find my info anywhere else. The opposite with Google : their layout is so nice I sometimes find myself just googling away for fun... like the old days when the internet was still fun to explore.
true. absoutely true.
But John Q. Average doesn't know that... In belgium there were 2 online resellers of CDs and books. One of them made a deal with a big bank and a movie complex to have its URL printed on tickes and receipts. Good publicity, indeed, but much more important : the association of the URL with something trustable.
I thing online internet sales is a market where, right now at least, there IS bad publicity because people rae still too supicious and won't take risks.
the internet is a very young medium and most online buyers just don't trust much... yet. I'm a regular buyer, but wouldn't really consider buying a CD from a company that just showed up and is hosted on some obscure domain.
Wait until online buying settles down a bit, and everyone gets used to buying stuff everywhere. Then wait for VISA to become more secure (read : Hardware cardreader devices at home, which is inevitable) or for banks to do direct transactions between you and the book reseller. THEN we can start to evaluate models.
it's funny how the rest of the world insists on calling this 'belgian' waffles. There's nothing typically belgian about it : the rest of the world makes them exactly the same way for ages...
Same thing with brussels sprouts
err... it's been like this for 4 years now...(ecept for the price that is : we're at approx 40EUro /month, which used to be 80 2 year ago)
:-) nothing changed much, except more snailmail spam and tons of gruesome commercials (I really wonder if they have some of secret competition for the most moronic commercial. In anycase, they get more and more braindead over time, which is a good thing since I was scared they would one day firgure out how to check our bandwidth quota. That's right folks : the belgian national telco isn't capable of checking bandwidth quota.. *lol*... no, make that *weep*...)
Belgian national Telco is one of the biggest fuckups in the country. I really really hope they go pucky-up like sabena, the national airline.
We were all hoping that, with the liberalisation of the european telco market, other companies would invest in belgium and create some competition, but that happened only on the level of big corporations: those can get pretty good deals by playing the telcos against each other. For jan modaal (joe average as u dudes call him wrongly
Broadband in belgium also experienced heavy price cuts, with increasing subscribers as result, but decreasing bandwidth and increasing problems also.
I have 2 DSL connections from different providers, and both of them are worsening rapidly as theyr user base is growing : I used to have Q3 ping times around 40 to most uk and nl servers, but this has dropped to 130 in the past few months. After some HW upgrades, things are back to 75, which is still a shame for a 38EUR/month subscription.
Cable modem is a whole other story, with some clusters experiencing insane drops ( ping times over 300, ftp speeds below 25KB/sec) for months and months. Depending on the block and city one lives in, speeds range from the above mentioned 25KB/sec to a whopping 750KB/sec (KB yes indeeed !!) but with outages varying from monthly to daily and peaks of hourly !
The customers are ready for it now that the price is dropping, but are the telcos ? Belgacom (the belgian telco) is definitely not : their servers are cracking every day (last month the user webserver, the month before the SMTP server...) and telenet (biggest cable provider) has administration issues (my neigbour didn't pay the first 6 months because they forgot him. Then he received an invoice for 2 years)
Both have customer tech support that I wouldn't even let my dog piss at.
Is Google the best company ever or what?!
Nope. Microsoft is.
did it ever cross your mind that the author is perhaps not an english speaker ? I'd like to know your score when you comment in Hebrew or Arab. Your rating would probably be more like Hzra-Brdo'l !!!
I think he made some pretty valid points.