No, they are waiting to introduce Jar-Jar's wife. Her name is not yet known, but I've heard that she's somewhat of a cross between Cruella deVille and Barney the Purple Dinosaur. Expensive taste in clothes, nastier than a wet Sith Lord, and you can guess what she talks like.
How much more usable does a browser need to be other than to point at port 80 on a remote machine? The rampaging horde analogy is more than a bit of an embellishment. Things were going along fine with Sun and Microsoft until Sun decided they would rather have the monopoly than let Microsoft have it. Guess who won? If you make a product, you have to expect that the people who use it might have some other things they want to do with it other than your grand scheme. Sun decided theirs was best and they didn't want to diverge. So now if you want to use JSP/EJB, you have some choices....I wouldn't call it a buffet exactly since you have to research all the EJB containers and figure out which ones comply to the standard, which ones sort of comply, and which ones suck. At least when you get something from Microsoft, you know what to expect (be it good or bad).
Sun should have also done more to get all virtual machines to comply with each other, as well as to make it easier to get the virtual machine installed. It is kind of a pain at the moment to get the VM installed that works with Java 2 and is cross platform. The VMs also tend to do things differently on each platform, so it makes it hard to write stuff that you can expect to really run anywhere.
MS didn't reinvent the UI with menus and toolbars in office. They subclassed the existing UI elements. Dundas actually does a good job of it. You get source with Dundas, as you do for MFC with Visual Studio. The Dundas stuff is pretty high-quality too; no hacks there.
Did they keep the ICBMs secret this time, or did it go haywire and start targetting the US again? Someone call Clint Eastwood and tell him to pack an overnight bag.
Yeah, and their big-screen to DVD process is much faster than it is here in the US. I thought it was amazing back when Batman came out on VHS as fast as it did. Now you can get the DVD a day after the movie premieres in the theater. China must have this efficiency thing down to a recipe!
Actually, I would wonder about the freedom part. Studies on sociology and economics say that communism has to participate in capitalism on a global scale. My guess is that it is profit that is their motive, not the greater good of humans or any sort of step towards freedom. Besides, wasn't it one of the Asian countries that William Gibson portrayed as a place where you could get *ANYTHING* you could ever want if the price was right? Maybe someone over there liked Gibson.
So the fact that their parents did not care enough about them to visit them in their room had nothing to do with it? The fact that their parents probably couldn't have given a damn if they went to school or not had nothing to do with what they did? So every violent, murdering crimnal is the way they are because they played video games?
One more question: Where is the trenchcoat wearing dude in Doom?
I would have to agree. Every project I did in college was done in some sort of Unix, mostly on Linux towards the end. (CS dept got a bunch of dells to replace the old Suns and SGIs, so Linux was the natural OS for them to pick.) I didn't use computers at all in High School (they only taught WordStar), and used mostly Apple IIe systems in Junior High. I write software for Windows systems as a profession.
But I'd have to say that the stuff I did on Linux in college was an invaluable experience. It was great to get in there and play with the pure concepts of the OS rather than having to deal with a bunch of window-based APIs just to get some text output easy. It also helps to have development experience outside of a windows based IDE. It gives you many options for getting the job done that someone that is window-IDE dependent might not be able to think about.
I thought I'd mention that my Grandfather just bought an e-machine that boots XP of of a flash ROM. I think the conculsions ESR came to were based on some not-so-great research. PCs will become cheap, but the most likely scenario will be that sales of the "loadable" version of windows will drop, but you'll get it pre-loaded in the flash rom when you buy the PC.
We also have some smart terminals at work that cost $300.00 that run WinCE. They are used to connect to Windows terminal services. I believe you end up paying some sort of fee for the amount of maximum user connections you need anyway. Still, this beats buying even a $500-$1k machine if you just need it to run the Citrix client.
I believe a lot of people praise Apache for how secure it is (which is true [mostly, it now appears] ), how reliable it is (true too), and the ability to fix bugs yourself because you have the source. I guess not a lot of people whipped out the old source and fixed this one on their own, eh?
The funny points are how it doesn't affect PHP under IIS and that someone decided to comment, "It is not really easy to execute." Well, no kidding Sherlock....except you warezed a program that demonstrated the exploit. I guess executing a program is hard these days....
I like that part about how everyone should sign their code over to the FSF so that it could be defended by an organization with money. Is this their only purpose of existence? Beware of your friends when lots of money is involved.
If you want a lot of hits, put pr0n on the front page. Seems to work, considering pr0n is the most profitable industry on the net.
Whatever you do, don't make it look like this. I've never seen a website that said so much but left me wondering, "What the hell is it that they do exactly?"
Actually, I don't know if that is the bad part. A smartcard has to be programmed that tells it the destination. People can't program VCRs....
And the camera at every stop "to increase passenger safety." Well, I remember these western movies where people in this thing called a stagecoach that moved at about 25mph would get stopped by these bad guys on horses. Just find a place where the pod goes out of sight from the road, put your jacket over the rails (auto-stop if it detects something in the track!), and wait for the prey.
It may be great, but there is one question: If the first company couldn't do it, what is the chance that the second company to try it won't eventually die? Excite and @Home merged, which looks pretty similar to this situation (profitable and un-profitable companies merging).
Also, if you have to go to a pub to make downloading fast enough to be bearable, you might as well get ISDN, a bottle of Jack Daniels, and some [optional] lubriderm. At least this way, you get to simulate sex with all the chicks you see rather than have to fantasize about it when you get home.
Well, he might be Neo. Only someone really anal retentive would make a bot. To keep himself regular, he has to eat a liquid diet of that slop they ate on the Nebudchanezzar.
What would you need a one button control for? All you need is to have about 7 whirly LEDs on the front and a speaker for a voice. Then you have the K.I.T.T bike and it tells you to watch out for the lightposts.
The added advantage is, of course, the turbo boost for jumping over those big annoying trucks. (But you would probably have to make sure you have one of those slotted seats for the landing...ouch!) The ejector seat function would be pretty fun too. Of course, they would probably pass a law against the ejector seat.....I know I would go into a busy public area and leave the bike unlocked so someone would steal it. I'm sure it would be hours of fun watching bike thieves getting their asses blasted off the bike during their getaway.
I guess the only downside is that the bike might come with a signed pic of David Hasselhoff. I don't know if I'd want to contaminate my paper shredder with that.
there are realitively few people who can shoot lasers out of there eyes or turn into a gigantic green monster when they are angry.
Really? I just married one of the few that does it? Do I get anything extra for the fact that she does both when she's pissed?
The skin on my backside used to be pretty pasty because, well, geeks don't get out much. Now its sort of tan after those close calls with the lasers. I still haven't had time to fix the hole in the concrete wall she made when I dodged her punch.
You forgot:
9. Countin' songs (99 bottles of beer, I have 10 dogs under my porch, etc)
10. Self pity songs (I don't have enough money for a beer, the ice box done broke and skunked my stash, etc)
11. Excuse songs (this trailer ain't big enough for both of us, goat ropin' ain't no way to provide for a family, etc)
I think he meant performance in terms of how much of an impact the CLR is having vs. a native runtime. Obviously there will always be applications for native code and there will obviously be the need for optimal algorithms. Also the mixture of CLR based thin clients to more robust applications (i.e. RDBMS of your choice) can probably be grouped into a set of apps where performance on the thin client isn't a show stopper.
Now we can talk about performance and real-time stuff where performance is always a show stopper. However, I doubt you'll see a CLR type architecture used in an RTOS any time soon. (But, hey, I don't do RT stuff, so what do I know?)
Oh man, I'm getting all teary eyed and choked up after that one. Especially since thats the first time I've ever seen someone respond to a personal anecdote without some sort of, "Fuck you, my situation is 10 times more poignant than yours," attitude.
Wow, and a marriage proposal on the same day. Love must be in the air. I hope my wife doesn't smell it because she'll want jewelry or something.
They knew what was in the box because the US's outstanding military was on watch. Remember they use Gaydar to detect gays in the military before they do any damage to the morale of the already underpaid soliders? Well, they developed DMCAdar at Area 51 and have been putting it to good use. The great thing is that it is all object oriented since obviously Radar-Gaydar-DMCAdar. The next thing you know, CNN will be reporting that all gays are copyright violators (see previous attempt at UML diagram) and will be shipped to camp X-ray to hang out with Osama's boys. The men will hold them down while the women beat the crap out of them.
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No, they are waiting to introduce Jar-Jar's wife. Her name is not yet known, but I've heard that she's somewhat of a cross between Cruella deVille and Barney the Purple Dinosaur. Expensive taste in clothes, nastier than a wet Sith Lord, and you can guess what she talks like.
Sun should have also done more to get all virtual machines to comply with each other, as well as to make it easier to get the virtual machine installed. It is kind of a pain at the moment to get the VM installed that works with Java 2 and is cross platform. The VMs also tend to do things differently on each platform, so it makes it hard to write stuff that you can expect to really run anywhere.
MS didn't reinvent the UI with menus and toolbars in office. They subclassed the existing UI elements. Dundas actually does a good job of it. You get source with Dundas, as you do for MFC with Visual Studio. The Dundas stuff is pretty high-quality too; no hacks there.
Did they keep the ICBMs secret this time, or did it go haywire and start targetting the US again? Someone call Clint Eastwood and tell him to pack an overnight bag.
Yeah, and their big-screen to DVD process is much faster than it is here in the US. I thought it was amazing back when Batman came out on VHS as fast as it did. Now you can get the DVD a day after the movie premieres in the theater. China must have this efficiency thing down to a recipe!
Actually, I would wonder about the freedom part. Studies on sociology and economics say that communism has to participate in capitalism on a global scale. My guess is that it is profit that is their motive, not the greater good of humans or any sort of step towards freedom. Besides, wasn't it one of the Asian countries that William Gibson portrayed as a place where you could get *ANYTHING* you could ever want if the price was right? Maybe someone over there liked Gibson.
No, I think Hitler had a Colecovision. He played too much Zaxxon or something and came up with the idea of blitzkreig.
One more question: Where is the trenchcoat wearing dude in Doom?
But I'd have to say that the stuff I did on Linux in college was an invaluable experience. It was great to get in there and play with the pure concepts of the OS rather than having to deal with a bunch of window-based APIs just to get some text output easy. It also helps to have development experience outside of a windows based IDE. It gives you many options for getting the job done that someone that is window-IDE dependent might not be able to think about.
"Hey! You! Get your filthy fire-wire out of that port! You should be ashamed of yourself for sticking your wire into ports that don't belong to you!"
We also have some smart terminals at work that cost $300.00 that run WinCE. They are used to connect to Windows terminal services. I believe you end up paying some sort of fee for the amount of maximum user connections you need anyway. Still, this beats buying even a $500-$1k machine if you just need it to run the Citrix client.
I believe a lot of people praise Apache for how secure it is (which is true [mostly, it now appears] ), how reliable it is (true too), and the ability to fix bugs yourself because you have the source. I guess not a lot of people whipped out the old source and fixed this one on their own, eh?
The funny points are how it doesn't affect PHP under IIS and that someone decided to comment, "It is not really easy to execute." Well, no kidding Sherlock....except you warezed a program that demonstrated the exploit. I guess executing a program is hard these days....
I like that part about how everyone should sign their code over to the FSF so that it could be defended by an organization with money. Is this their only purpose of existence? Beware of your friends when lots of money is involved.
Whatever you do, don't make it look like this. I've never seen a website that said so much but left me wondering, "What the hell is it that they do exactly?"
And the camera at every stop "to increase passenger safety." Well, I remember these western movies where people in this thing called a stagecoach that moved at about 25mph would get stopped by these bad guys on horses. Just find a place where the pod goes out of sight from the road, put your jacket over the rails (auto-stop if it detects something in the track!), and wait for the prey.
Also, if you have to go to a pub to make downloading fast enough to be bearable, you might as well get ISDN, a bottle of Jack Daniels, and some [optional] lubriderm. At least this way, you get to simulate sex with all the chicks you see rather than have to fantasize about it when you get home.
Well, he might be Neo. Only someone really anal retentive would make a bot. To keep himself regular, he has to eat a liquid diet of that slop they ate on the Nebudchanezzar.
The added advantage is, of course, the turbo boost for jumping over those big annoying trucks. (But you would probably have to make sure you have one of those slotted seats for the landing...ouch!) The ejector seat function would be pretty fun too. Of course, they would probably pass a law against the ejector seat.....I know I would go into a busy public area and leave the bike unlocked so someone would steal it. I'm sure it would be hours of fun watching bike thieves getting their asses blasted off the bike during their getaway.
I guess the only downside is that the bike might come with a signed pic of David Hasselhoff. I don't know if I'd want to contaminate my paper shredder with that.
Really? I just married one of the few that does it? Do I get anything extra for the fact that she does both when she's pissed?
The skin on my backside used to be pretty pasty because, well, geeks don't get out much. Now its sort of tan after those close calls with the lasers. I still haven't had time to fix the hole in the concrete wall she made when I dodged her punch.
You forgot:
9. Countin' songs (99 bottles of beer, I have 10 dogs under my porch, etc)
10. Self pity songs (I don't have enough money for a beer, the ice box done broke and skunked my stash, etc)
11. Excuse songs (this trailer ain't big enough for both of us, goat ropin' ain't no way to provide for a family, etc)
Now we can talk about performance and real-time stuff where performance is always a show stopper. However, I doubt you'll see a CLR type architecture used in an RTOS any time soon. (But, hey, I don't do RT stuff, so what do I know?)
Wow, and a marriage proposal on the same day. Love must be in the air. I hope my wife doesn't smell it because she'll want jewelry or something.
How horrible would it be to have to define a path to a resource by separating the elements with bangs....oh, wait...
They knew what was in the box because the US's outstanding military was on watch. Remember they use Gaydar to detect gays in the military before they do any damage to the morale of the already underpaid soliders? Well, they developed DMCAdar at Area 51 and have been putting it to good use. The great thing is that it is all object oriented since obviously Radar-Gaydar-DMCAdar. The next thing you know, CNN will be reporting that all gays are copyright violators (see previous attempt at UML diagram) and will be shipped to camp X-ray to hang out with Osama's boys. The men will hold them down while the women beat the crap out of them.
Wife: "I think the dog ate it. You better take a plastic bag with you when you take him for a walk."
This makes portable MP3 player take on a whole new meaning.