Re:Do we need the anti-smoking jab
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(I'm a heavy smoker and serial quitter, on my 5th attempt. 7 months so far.)
Have you ever watch someone you love die by lung cancer? Anticipated his approaching death even when he / she is somewhat healthy?
I'm sure there are worse, but this is not a peaceful process. You don't get a sudden call saying, "Lost the dad. Yes dear, heart attack", bury him the next day and deal with the memories. This is pure "He's skinny, in pain, dying. And we're powerless to even ease his pain" stuff. Give the family a break.
And no one needs your money for roads, education, utilities coming from tobacco tax. You'll cost much more when you're dying.
>My father has traveled much more extensively than me, and he agrees that it is absolutely not necessary to visit other countries if you don't want to.
1. Build some kind of machine to extract energy locally which ultimately has a global source.
2. Make the green punk with horn ears on the other side of the global space pay the electric bill.
3....
4. Profit
You can subsidize people looking for more porn or crap handycam rips of just released movies from theaters, but you shouldn't help fellow developers looking forward to get their hands wet with new hot technology as soon as possible, ha? What a crap way of bashing MS.
I'm a consultant, helping and working for people using tools and technologies from Microsoft. I'm really excited with all the new stuff coming with VS2008 / Framework 3.5 and having already downloaded VS2008 Beta2 VPC image, I would prefer getting it from a distributed network if I knew it.
Technologies work with web don't necessarily mean web2.0, and all the new options available to web development are just choices, they all fit for a particular problem. When you dismiss Flash, Silverlight and alikes, you don't propose anything to replace, do you? When you learned ansi C, everything started to look like nails ha? I'd really like to see you in a real life project. One single toolset for all problems is just a myth and you'll learn that when you face more problems.
For others who have some passion for something new, here are two more links giving some more info:
> People using MSFT tech are the types who are easily impressed and afraid of change...yet another flash type scripting thingy.
You don't care to read what's inside Silverlight, yet you mark (lots of) people as being afraid of change with a single move. Nice.
It's not a script thingy. It's the ability to use CLR on the browser (including all the cool stuff like Generics, LINQ etc.), DLR on top of CLR which means a new world of dynamic languages, XAML (the thing what you think a script thingy but actually an object serialization notation), etc etc.
MS developer community is currently bombarded with new technologies / methodologies / patterns since the last three or four years. Some ideas came from Java land (IoC containers, ORM), some built by MS (WPF, WCF) etc. It's in fact hard for the community to grasp all the new bits in such a short period of time but we are keeping up.
It seems that you have ideas without having the necessary knowledge.
He's the one behind the SourceForge release. Here's the part on the idea behind, from his release comments
Now, let's talk about why WiX was released as Open Source. First, working on WiX has never been a part of my job description or review goals. I work on the project in my free time. Second, WiX is a very developer oriented project and thus providing source code access increases the pool of available developers. Today, there are five core developers (Robert, K, Reid, and Derek, thank you!) regularly working on WiX in their free time with another ten submitting fixes occasionally. Finally, many parts of the Open Source development process appeal to me. Back in 1999 and 2000, I did not feel that many people inside Microsoft understood what the Open Source community was really about and I wanted to improve that understanding by providing an example.
After four and a half years of part-time development, the WiX design (and most of the code) matured to a point where I was comfortable trying to release it externally. So, last October I started looking for a means to release not only the tools but the source code as well. I thought GotDotNet was the place. However, at that time, none of the existing Shared Source licenses were flexible enough to accept contributions from the community. Then, in February, I was introduced to Stephen Walli who was also working to improve Microsoft's relationship with the Open Source community. Fortunately, Stephen was much farther along than I and had the step-by-step plan how to release an Open Source project from Microsoft using an approved OSS license.
Today, via WiX on SourceForge, you get to see the results of many people's efforts to improve Microsoft from the inside out. I'm not exactly sure what is going to happen next but I'm sure there are quite a few people who are interested to see where this leads. Personally, all I hope is that if you find the WiX toolset useful then you'll join the community and help us improve the toolset.
X: Roarrr! By creating their own open source license...embrace...conquer...my head is getting fuzzy...
Y: Actually, they're using IBM's CPL...
X: Damn! Let me pick another cliche from the book.
What happened to Fahrenheit?
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All I remember about it is that cool poster of flames on the water or something.
Will I have the moral right to spoil the ending of, say, Sixth Sense in about 2025 in a common forum? What is the threshold for this? 15 years? 20 years?
I red them all. I encourage my friends at work to read sci-fi, and encourage them to read/. at the same time. One is 21 years old. Poor kid, he would have "managed" to read them before turning into 10.
The fact that you spoiled (I insist), indeed, should be a surprise to the "reader" at any age and at any time.
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> Basically, I feel social networking destroys the essence of communication...
:)
Not so fast
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVY_Xcl1imA&feature=player_embedded
(I'm a heavy smoker and serial quitter, on my 5th attempt. 7 months so far.)
Have you ever watch someone you love die by lung cancer? Anticipated his approaching death even when he / she is somewhat healthy?
I'm sure there are worse, but this is not a peaceful process. You don't get a sudden call saying, "Lost the dad. Yes dear, heart attack", bury him the next day and deal with the memories. This is pure "He's skinny, in pain, dying. And we're powerless to even ease his pain" stuff. Give the family a break.
And no one needs your money for roads, education, utilities coming from tobacco tax. You'll cost much more when you're dying.
...does rely on a certain amount of faith (that earlier theories are correct, that scientists in fields you're not familiar with are correct)...
Wrong. Earlier theories should be testable, verifiable. Nothing to do with faith.
Percona, XtraDB, Drizzle
> The server for the Alaska Volcano Observatory appears to be overloaded and is unresponsive.
/. homepage, right? kdawson, you're da man :)
And we're helping the poor sysadm by linking from
>My father has traveled much more extensively than me, and he agrees that it is absolutely not necessary to visit other countries if you don't want to.
Really?:) Ask the papa where you got this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamukkale
Or this:
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/145
or
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1195
Your post can also be read as it's also possible to write high performance sites with VB.NET. This is a violation of /. usage guidelines.
Please correct your post accordingly. Thank you for your cooperation.
Bring back Flemming Rasmussen
1. Build some kind of machine to extract energy locally which ultimately has a global source. 2. Make the green punk with horn ears on the other side of the global space pay the electric bill. 3. ...
4. Profit
You sound like those people trying to prove validity of Bible using some passages from Bible.
You can subsidize people looking for more porn or crap handycam rips of just released movies from theaters, but you shouldn't help fellow developers looking forward to get their hands wet with new hot technology as soon as possible, ha? What a crap way of bashing MS. I'm a consultant, helping and working for people using tools and technologies from Microsoft. I'm really excited with all the new stuff coming with VS2008 / Framework 3.5 and having already downloaded VS2008 Beta2 VPC image, I would prefer getting it from a distributed network if I knew it.
Funny that, US seems loosing the democracy at home while trying to bring it to Iraq.
For others who have some passion for something new, here are two more links giving some more info:
Miguel de Icaza
Scott Hanselman
You are one brave soul. Keep up the good work.
It works on Macs. Safari, Firefox, IE / Win, Mac.
> People using MSFT tech are the types who are easily impressed and afraid of change...yet another flash type scripting thingy.
You don't care to read what's inside Silverlight, yet you mark (lots of) people as being afraid of change with a single move. Nice.
It's not a script thingy. It's the ability to use CLR on the browser (including all the cool stuff like Generics, LINQ etc.), DLR on top of CLR which means a new world of dynamic languages, XAML (the thing what you think a script thingy but actually an object serialization notation), etc etc.
MS developer community is currently bombarded with new technologies / methodologies / patterns since the last three or four years. Some ideas came from Java land (IoC containers, ORM), some built by MS (WPF, WCF) etc. It's in fact hard for the community to grasp all the new bits in such a short period of time but we are keeping up.
It seems that you have ideas without having the necessary knowledge.
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He's the one behind the SourceForge release. Here's the part on the idea behind, from his release comments
Now, let's talk about why WiX was released as Open Source. First, working on WiX has never been a part of my job description or review goals. I work on the project in my free time. Second, WiX is a very developer oriented project and thus providing source code access increases the pool of available developers. Today, there are five core developers (Robert, K, Reid, and Derek, thank you!) regularly working on WiX in their free time with another ten submitting fixes occasionally. Finally, many parts of the Open Source development process appeal to me. Back in 1999 and 2000, I did not feel that many people inside Microsoft understood what the Open Source community was really about and I wanted to improve that understanding by providing an example.
After four and a half years of part-time development, the WiX design (and most of the code) matured to a point where I was comfortable trying to release it externally. So, last October I started looking for a means to release not only the tools but the source code as well. I thought GotDotNet was the place. However, at that time, none of the existing Shared Source licenses were flexible enough to accept contributions from the community. Then, in February, I was introduced to Stephen Walli who was also working to improve Microsoft's relationship with the Open Source community. Fortunately, Stephen was much farther along than I and had the step-by-step plan how to release an Open Source project from Microsoft using an approved OSS license.
Today, via WiX on SourceForge, you get to see the results of many people's efforts to improve Microsoft from the inside out. I'm not exactly sure what is going to happen next but I'm sure there are quite a few people who are interested to see where this leads. Personally, all I hope is that if you find the WiX toolset useful then you'll join the community and help us improve the toolset.
And give some credit.
X: Roarrr! By creating their own open source license...embrace...conquer...my head is getting fuzzy...
Y: Actually, they're using IBM's CPL...
X: Damn! Let me pick another cliche from the book.
All I remember about it is that cool poster of flames on the water or something.
-1. Clueless.
;, expect more than "without a special key"... Like "without a special key, your hard disk cannot be opened by anyone."
Next time you see a
So? Can it be the lack of bandwith? Or bad server side script programming? microsoft.com is also on the same OS. Can you /. it?
Will I have the moral right to spoil the ending of, say, Sixth Sense in about 2025 in a common forum? What is the threshold for this? 15 years? 20 years?
/. at the same time. One is 21 years old. Poor kid, he would have "managed" to read them before turning into 10.
I red them all. I encourage my friends at work to read sci-fi, and encourage them to read
The fact that you spoiled (I insist), indeed, should be a surprise to the "reader" at any age and at any time.
In the books, Asimov resolves this using the Second Foundation, who (secretly) guide the progress of society to make sure everything goes to plan.
And in real life, this is a spoiler without a warning.