>i>A government agency isn't going to allow someone to sidestep its authority when it comes to getting its hands on money. They will create an unlimited amount of BS to justify their theft.
Out of all the posts that have pointed out flaws in my idea, this is the only one that makes me think twice about my position. You could very well be right. Greed and politics knows no bounds - not even common sense.
If I had to guess, IMHO, IANAL or Tax Guy, etc... I'd say that it's because your house is now worth $140,000 or thereabouts. So in an unrelated note, congrats!
But! Open source software should never appraise for more than zero bucks. Since you can always snag the latest (and therefore better than the version that you have) for exactly zero. Put another way, the reason why your house is taxed at $140,000 or $60,000 or anything at all is because it is worth something - you cannot download one for free.
Well I know I got a good chuckle out of you. Grow some balls, sign in, and take your karma like a man. I dare you.
I'm electing myself unofficial ambassador from the USA on this one. Sorry 'bout this guy. In my newly elected position, I'd like to say the United States officially apologizes for him and people like him.
You see, we're at a really strange point in our history.
We've fought a dozen or so major wars and done pretty well. Up until recently, war was something that you go and do, not something that happens to you. When we went to war, we would ship out. War never happened here.
But a few years ago, it did.
Enemies of my country wiped out a few blocks in NYC. We fought Hitler, the Kaiser, and the Imperial Japanese Navy and never once had so much as a single inch of continental US soil touched. Then...NYC.
And we've kind of reacted the way the largest kid on the playground would if the smallest kid bloodies his nose. Surprise, then shock, then anger. All fueled by fear. (If the smallest kid can do this...I need to take precautions! Assert myself!) And we do. Loudly and ignorantly. It's ok to be dumb, just so long as you're fierce, don't you know!
And that's where we're at. The loudest Americans you see are the ones most afraid. You'll see them chanting "USA number one!" loudly, in the desperate hopes that it's true. They're currently signing away things our founding fathers fought and died for so that they may feel "safe". And if you point that out, then you're a goddamn liberal hippie who wants the terrorists to win.
We're at an ugly time in our history. Please bear with us, and hope as I do that we'll get over it sometime soon.
It's always been my experience that you program C or C++ when you're at home, and Java/C# at work. Some folks use Java at home, and I've never heard of anyone recreationally programming C#. They're both pretty much resume builders.
So I'd say a good data point would be to look at monster.com and careerbuilder and see which one has more jobs listed. I've found it to be about 60/40 in favor of MS/C#. But I learned Java anyways. =)
I agree completely. Why on earth go with a 250Mhz arm for the processor? That's 5 year old tech at least. For maybe 50 bucks more they could be running AMD Geode x86 at 1Ghz at least. The thing would be a PC you could hold in your hand. You wouldn't have to port anything to it. Every linux distro would work straight from the iso images. Wine and Windows XP would run on it. And software you could buy at CompUSA. All major GPS software would work on it. It would be a no-compromises handheld.
Why is far more important than how. You can get the how from reading the code. What the author was thinking, that's the part that's hard to figure out if the comments are missing.
Another thing I like to do is start with a function body, and do nothing but list the WHY items as a simple flow chart, like this.
function do_something()
{ /*check to see if the port is open*/ /*if the port is open, open the database*/ /*get the customer record*/ /*close the database*/
}
And then, fill in the code under each comment that does that bit. And when I'm done, leave the flowchart-ish comments in.
That's disgusting, and that has everything to do with why I despise the Xbox
I agree totally. If I had any mod points I'd mod you back up.
That's my main problem with Microsoft, and you've summed it up nicely. It isn't that they make bad software. Plenty of companies do. It's their attitude. It stinks.
A Circumstantial ad Hominem is a fallacy because a person's interests and circumstances have no bearing on the truth or falsity of the claim being made. While a person's interests will provide them with motives to support certain claims, the claims stand or fall on their own. It is also the case that a person's circumstances (religion, political affiliation, etc.) do not affect the truth or falsity of the claim. This is made quite clear by the following example: "Bill claims that 1+1=2. But he is a Republican, so his claim is false."
Fair enough. Just because you have a problem with someone's affiliations that doesn't mean that automatically they are lying about everything. But read the next paragraph:
There are times when it is prudent to suspicious of a person's claims, such as when it is evident that the claims are being biased by the person's interests. For example, if a tobacco company representative claims that tobacco does not cause cancer, it would be prudent to not simply accept the claim. This is because the person has a motivation to make the claim, whether it is true or not.
See? Microsoft has a bias, and so do the people they pay. I agree that it is wrong to reject their claims out-of-hand, but only a fool would say that there couldn't possibly be any connection. It absolutely is relevant. Even your source thinks so.
Love that game. Good for beginners too. Simple system, and it teaches you something that I consider to be very important to a good gaming group: Never become too attached to your characters.
And it's lots of fun. You already know you're doomed, so why not have a little fun with it? You know you gotta love a game where bragging sounds like this: "I had an investigator survive three whole games!
Mac OS X will not be available on any old x86 PC, though, as Apple wants to retain control over its hardware platform.
IMHO, this is exactly why Apple will never be number one. Every kid out there knows Apple hardware is way less expensive than what they sell it for. That's what keeps me from buying Apple, anyways.
You know, a certain other OS manufacturing guy took the other route. He made an OS and even though it is an inferior product, gave the buyer the freedom to install it on the hardware of their choice. He's doing pretty well these days.
"I've never heard the like, and I am stunned," said Gordon Davies, the commercial director of Microsoft reseller Compusys. "This is clearly going to take away revenue from the channel and from Microsoft," he said.
And there you have another problem when you deal with a monopoly. We know it's bad for software, but it's also bad for business. One entity makes the rules - there is no appeal, and no other supplier if you disagree.
I wonder if it'll take advantage of multi-core chips? Might make sense to do so, especially since that's also (sort of) similar to the hardware being simulated.
Yes, I did read the article. And no, I haven't read everything else in this thread. I'm responding to one post, not an entire thread.
If you'll read my post, I didn't say that hydrogen wasn't a problem. What I did say was that "hydrogen was not the only reason". I still stand by that. Wikipedia articles tend to present all sides of an argument, so you'll find points both pro and counter in most any article there.
What I get sick of are people hearing about hydrogen cars and going "OMG you're gonna blow up like the Hindenburg!!!11one11!!", and never once realizing that they were sitting on maybe 12 gallons of gasoline all the way to work, which has the explosive potential of two-fifths of a ton of TNT. No kidding.
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>i>A government agency isn't going to allow someone to sidestep its authority when it comes to getting its hands on money. They will create an unlimited amount of BS to justify their theft.
Out of all the posts that have pointed out flaws in my idea, this is the only one that makes me think twice about my position. You could very well be right. Greed and politics knows no bounds - not even common sense.
If I had to guess, IMHO, IANAL or Tax Guy, etc... I'd say that it's because your house is now worth $140,000 or thereabouts. So in an unrelated note, congrats!
But! Open source software should never appraise for more than zero bucks. Since you can always snag the latest (and therefore better than the version that you have) for exactly zero. Put another way, the reason why your house is taxed at $140,000 or $60,000 or anything at all is because it is worth something - you cannot download one for free.
I imagine it would be hard to tax free software, wouldn't it? This could be "Yet Another Reason"(tm) to move to open source.
Well I know I got a good chuckle out of you. Grow some balls, sign in, and take your karma like a man. I dare you.
I'm electing myself unofficial ambassador from the USA on this one. Sorry 'bout this guy. In my newly elected position, I'd like to say the United States officially apologizes for him and people like him.
You see, we're at a really strange point in our history.
We've fought a dozen or so major wars and done pretty well. Up until recently, war was something that you go and do, not something that happens to you. When we went to war, we would ship out. War never happened here.
But a few years ago, it did.
Enemies of my country wiped out a few blocks in NYC. We fought Hitler, the Kaiser, and the Imperial Japanese Navy and never once had so much as a single inch of continental US soil touched. Then...NYC.
And we've kind of reacted the way the largest kid on the playground would if the smallest kid bloodies his nose. Surprise, then shock, then anger. All fueled by fear. (If the smallest kid can do this...I need to take precautions! Assert myself!) And we do. Loudly and ignorantly. It's ok to be dumb, just so long as you're fierce, don't you know!
And that's where we're at. The loudest Americans you see are the ones most afraid. You'll see them chanting "USA number one!" loudly, in the desperate hopes that it's true. They're currently signing away things our founding fathers fought and died for so that they may feel "safe". And if you point that out, then you're a goddamn liberal hippie who wants the terrorists to win.
We're at an ugly time in our history. Please bear with us, and hope as I do that we'll get over it sometime soon.
...and I was with you 100%, right up to the "compassionate Filipina" bit. Where the hell did that come from?
It's always been my experience that you program C or C++ when you're at home, and Java/C# at work. Some folks use Java at home, and I've never heard of anyone recreationally programming C#. They're both pretty much resume builders.
So I'd say a good data point would be to look at monster.com and careerbuilder and see which one has more jobs listed. I've found it to be about 60/40 in favor of MS/C#. But I learned Java anyways. =)
IMHO, you deserve that +5 but you shouldn't have been modded funny. Nice to see a few people out there are still able to do their own thinking. =)
Thanks - that makes a lot more sense.
Exactly what does this mean? AFAIK, engineering IS designing. So what's the diff? What's he trying to say?
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Then here: http://www.c64.com/
I agree completely. Why on earth go with a 250Mhz arm for the processor? That's 5 year old tech at least. For maybe 50 bucks more they could be running AMD Geode x86 at 1Ghz at least. The thing would be a PC you could hold in your hand. You wouldn't have to port anything to it. Every linux distro would work straight from the iso images. Wine and Windows XP would run on it. And software you could buy at CompUSA. All major GPS software would work on it. It would be a no-compromises handheld.
Why is far more important than how. You can get the how from reading the code. What the author was thinking, that's the part that's hard to figure out if the comments are missing.
Another thing I like to do is start with a function body, and do nothing but list the WHY items as a simple flow chart, like this.
function do_something()
/*check to see if the port is open*/
/*if the port is open, open the database*/
/*get the customer record*/
/*close the database*/
{
}
And then, fill in the code under each comment that does that bit. And when I'm done, leave the flowchart-ish comments in.
Do not taunt happy fun power supply!
Over here on this thread. :^)
People just post these XBox money-loss stats to speed development on the Linux port. ;^)
That's disgusting, and that has everything to do with why I despise the Xbox
I agree totally. If I had any mod points I'd mod you back up.
That's my main problem with Microsoft, and you've summed it up nicely. It isn't that they make bad software. Plenty of companies do. It's their attitude. It stinks.
Well, let's take a closer look at the page you are quoting:
A Circumstantial ad Hominem is a fallacy because a person's interests and circumstances have no bearing on the truth or falsity of the claim being made. While a person's interests will provide them with motives to support certain claims, the claims stand or fall on their own. It is also the case that a person's circumstances (religion, political affiliation, etc.) do not affect the truth or falsity of the claim. This is made quite clear by the following example: "Bill claims that 1+1=2. But he is a Republican, so his claim is false."
Fair enough. Just because you have a problem with someone's affiliations that doesn't mean that automatically they are lying about everything. But read the next paragraph:
There are times when it is prudent to suspicious of a person's claims, such as when it is evident that the claims are being biased by the person's interests. For example, if a tobacco company representative claims that tobacco does not cause cancer, it would be prudent to not simply accept the claim. This is because the person has a motivation to make the claim, whether it is true or not.
See? Microsoft has a bias, and so do the people they pay. I agree that it is wrong to reject their claims out-of-hand, but only a fool would say that there couldn't possibly be any connection. It absolutely is relevant. Even your source thinks so.
Just not plug it into the net.
Chaosium, Call of Cthulhu.
Love that game. Good for beginners too. Simple system, and it teaches you something that I consider to be very important to a good gaming group: Never become too attached to your characters.
And it's lots of fun. You already know you're doomed, so why not have a little fun with it? You know you gotta love a game where bragging sounds like this: "I had an investigator survive three whole games!
Disclaimer: I don't work for Chaosium, YMMV, etc.
Thank you. Glad someone out there understands.
BTW, since your post I've also gained a %20 Troll. All for saying Mac hardware is overpriced, apparently. Which I still believe to be true.
Mac OS X will not be available on any old x86 PC, though, as Apple wants to retain control over its hardware platform.
IMHO, this is exactly why Apple will never be number one. Every kid out there knows Apple hardware is way less expensive than what they sell it for. That's what keeps me from buying Apple, anyways.
You know, a certain other OS manufacturing guy took the other route. He made an OS and even though it is an inferior product, gave the buyer the freedom to install it on the hardware of their choice. He's doing pretty well these days.
"I've never heard the like, and I am stunned," said Gordon Davies, the commercial director of Microsoft reseller Compusys. "This is clearly going to take away revenue from the channel and from Microsoft," he said.
And there you have another problem when you deal with a monopoly. We know it's bad for software, but it's also bad for business. One entity makes the rules - there is no appeal, and no other supplier if you disagree.
I wonder if it'll take advantage of multi-core chips? Might make sense to do so, especially since that's also (sort of) similar to the hardware being simulated.
...than buying a copy of Windows XP.
Ok AC, I'll bite.
Yes, I did read the article. And no, I haven't read everything else in this thread. I'm responding to one post, not an entire thread.
If you'll read my post, I didn't say that hydrogen wasn't a problem. What I did say was that "hydrogen was not the only reason". I still stand by that. Wikipedia articles tend to present all sides of an argument, so you'll find points both pro and counter in most any article there.
What I get sick of are people hearing about hydrogen cars and going "OMG you're gonna blow up like the Hindenburg!!!11one11!!", and never once realizing that they were sitting on maybe 12 gallons of gasoline all the way to work, which has the explosive potential of two-fifths of a ton of TNT. No kidding.