Does this mean an economy that isn't magic, but is based on fish? Or an economy that is based on fish that aren't magic? Or an economy that isn't based on magic fish?
Its a reference to an old SNL skit:) But In my braind the magic fish in our economy is debt:)
You're going to read lots of comments along the lines of "This is great VB is horrible!" and "I can't believe they are doing this, my legacy application X depends on VB. This is horrible."
Both view points are correct. VB needs to be scrapped BADLY. It is a horrible horrible language. The second problem -- MS *FORCED* people to use VB, people who *KNEW* better, by making it the only way to do certain things (office automation comes to mind). So lots of developers have been forced into a language they didn't like when it suited MS, and the irony of being forced out of it again is deliscious.
The real mistake was making an inadequate langauge/API in the first place, that painted MS into this corner. I suspect some people will defect to open source, and it will radically slow uptake of new MS products which no longer support VB and VBA. Companies are *NOT* going to redevelop hundreds of VB applications because MS wants them to. *HUGE* companies like UPS rely on VB everyday to do their business (I've interviewed there).
Not how MS is doing this. But how they will attempt to lockout other OS's and vendors with this new initiative.
They could very easily create a smart card or some kind of token system that *COULD NOT* work in linux, or with LDAP (LDAP allows unix and other systems to authenticate against Active Directory).
YES!! I have extremely good ears -- so good I regularaly pick out artifacts in professional recordings. I even found a pop in a steely dan album (regarded as the best producers ever).
TVs bother me, monitors bother me. The older green palm backlights bother the ever loving fuck out of me. Those really nifty illuminated remotes they sell at RadioShaq, bug me.
Affordable LCDs are a godsend. Ive not run into one yet that makes noise, but Im sure theyre out there.
Ive always wondered if other people can hear it.
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They're missing a huge revenue stream IMHO. How many small and medium sized companies systems admins could get BACK to work (instead of writing spam rules).
Yes, but IBM would be pressured to give away their software for free. If its hardware, then it has an actual physical cost and people can say, oh... they need to charge something for it.
If you own a product that you *SHOULD* have been distributed the code to, you have legal rights regarding that code as given to you by the GPL.
So they may have to purchase the product in question? Although that may not even be necessary as they can argue they are seeking the code for the public good, which is exactly what they are doing IMHO.
This is pretty close to madness. One of the first thing you learn as a consultant is to not let the CUSTOMER tell you what they need -- theyre almost always wrong (and so are you).:)
If you *have* to have a hotswappable HD ready to go. Buy him a USB or Firewire external case and put a laptop HD in it, get a copy of ghost and ghost the machine to the new HD every night. This solution *sucks*. And im not sure ghost supports USB/Firewire HDs?
If your dad is likely to come home most nights, convince him he needs to keep ALL his work files in a single directory (My Documents is ideal for this). Grab a copy of Unison and sync the data back to a home machine each night over the network. Its pretty efficent as unison will only send back files that have changed. If his HD dies at some point -- goto best buy and buy a new laptop drive which you were going to have to do ANYWAYS for your hot swap plan. This plan is great if: your dad comes home often, you have enough HD space to back up his documents (delete some porn if you dont). AND e is not constnatly creating huge files (GB size).
This is what I do to backup my laptop -- I have about 5Gb of documents, and never more then 10 megs gets changed at once. I even have a 4gb virtual machine I backup now (in addition to the 5gbs), and that takes like 10 mins.
Just to be a jerk -- thats actually called "brute force" method, actually back in the day we called it "war dialing". I cant think of a metaphor for a dictionary attack for phone numbers.
Yep... an x-g/f of mines grandparents retired with several hundred thousand in the bank, and some pensions/SS. As her grandfather got older he got increasibly reckless with his money to the point that that hed buy pretty much *ANTHING*. I remember an incident where a telecrook called and wanted to sell him "earthquake jacks" for his mobile home. Cost: 4 grand. He was in love with the idea, of course they were a scam. Lucky enough for him some family members happened to be over to stop him -- but the telemarketer kept calling back and making THREATS when the family kept him from talking to the old man. I think he stopped calling eventually.
Anyway, call me crazy if you like, but I say that trusting in Jesus makes life better.
Except that there's ABSOLUTELY no proof that *ANY* of that happened except a book that may or may not be true, thats been proven to have sections redacted (reincarnation anyone?), and of course the bible fan club which couldn't know any more about the whole situation then anyone else. If this was *ANY* other topic you would demand proof, but somehow when someone brings up god a standard of proof ("no proof required") applies.
If you keep expecting more from a person, up to a point they'll appreciate it, feel valued/challenged, but once they're past that point they're just going to become stressed,
You are a wise man. Thats *EXACTLY* what happens. My first (non fast food) job in college was as a sysadmin for a research lab. After the director of the lab discovered I was a fairly smart cookie, my job balooned from systems admin to include, Web Design, Writing Proposals, Managing Undergrads, being the resident software design/language guru, Photoshop Guy and Video-editing guy, and this was on TOP of my already difficult job of running a lab with 4 platforms (Linux, Solaris, IRIX, Windows). After a while it wears on you.
Second story, during the worst part of the dot com bust I worked at walmart, stocking SHOES. One night *5* palettes of shoes come (1-2 is a full nights work), and I hustled like you can't imagine to get the whole thing done, I basically had a 9 hour aerobics session. Long story short, boss comes in the next morning, "How was it last night?" I reply, "It was a *REAL* bad evening, 5 palettes, but I got it all done!" she says, "Thats great! Nice hustle!"... 5 minutes later she's yelling at me for not having stocked the shoe laces:) After that day I did the same hustle every night to get my 1-2 palettes put away, then I went to sleep in the steel or went home. There was no point in working hard for them.
Sure did do that... I spent hours staring at that screen:) I do believe however there were limits to how far you could step back -- and not over call/ret boundaries IIRC.
Yea, gaim is ugly... but so is AIM. Trillian is "pretty" but its a ramhog and can't keep its buddy lists seperate for seperate accounts, which is retarded.
Reminds me of a situation... I was invovled in the early formation of a distro in 1999 or so. This guy comes around and starts saying he has this wonderful idea -- hes gonna sell servers with our distro on it! He just needs us to make (extensive) modifications and he'll give us a 10% cut of the profits. When asked why we should do all the work and he should make the money, he says, "Well it was my idea."
Point being -- there are a lot of people who wanna be involved in OS but dont actually wanna do anything:)
Right, becuase having *anything* that isn't strictly necessary is stealing from the mouths of some poor person in a far off country whom the money could better serve. Except the money is stolen regardless by corrupt government officials (Im looking at you, UN) so... really... your stealing from government officals?
Join the club... here in the US we are taxed at the Federal (income), State (income/sales, vehicle/gas, compliance), County (hotel taxes, sales taxes, compliance), and City (property taxes, compliance, etc) level.
Other countries like to brag that we have one of the lowest tax rates in the world, but I really don't believe its true.
I haven't "only met two". I've known, to date, 6 D&D'ers, 5 of whom have emotional problems. I just chose two stories to tell. Yes I know its not a scientific sample, yes I know its not absolute proof. I don't see you questioning on the guy who says that D&D guys are "creative and intelligent?" you seem to have accepted that premise on even less proof.
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Its a reference to an old SNL skit :) But In my braind the magic fish in our economy is debt :)
Both view points are correct. VB needs to be scrapped BADLY. It is a horrible horrible language. The second problem -- MS *FORCED* people to use VB, people who *KNEW* better, by making it the only way to do certain things (office automation comes to mind). So lots of developers have been forced into a language they didn't like when it suited MS, and the irony of being forced out of it again is deliscious.
The real mistake was making an inadequate langauge/API in the first place, that painted MS into this corner. I suspect some people will defect to open source, and it will radically slow uptake of new MS products which no longer support VB and VBA. Companies are *NOT* going to redevelop hundreds of VB applications because MS wants them to. *HUGE* companies like UPS rely on VB everyday to do their business (I've interviewed there).
They could very easily create a smart card or some kind of token system that *COULD NOT* work in linux, or with LDAP (LDAP allows unix and other systems to authenticate against Active Directory).
TVs bother me, monitors bother me. The older green palm backlights bother the ever loving fuck out of me. Those really nifty illuminated remotes they sell at RadioShaq, bug me.
Affordable LCDs are a godsend. Ive not run into one yet that makes noise, but Im sure theyre out there.
Ive always wondered if other people can hear it.
They're missing a huge revenue stream IMHO. How many small and medium sized companies systems admins could get BACK to work (instead of writing spam rules).
Yes, but IBM would be pressured to give away their software for free. If its hardware, then it has an actual physical cost and people can say, oh ... they need to charge something for it.
So they may have to purchase the product in question? Although that may not even be necessary as they can argue they are seeking the code for the public good, which is exactly what they are doing IMHO.
Just like an EE to not know a joke when he see's one :)
Shows what you know! Ive designed several PC boards and I have no clue about that.
If neither of these are very good solutions, buy an external USB/Firewire drive and use unisyn to sync stuff TO the drive. Should be nice n speedy.
If you *have* to have a hotswappable HD ready to go. Buy him a USB or Firewire external case and put a laptop HD in it, get a copy of ghost and ghost the machine to the new HD every night. This solution *sucks*. And im not sure ghost supports USB/Firewire HDs?
If your dad is likely to come home most nights, convince him he needs to keep ALL his work files in a single directory (My Documents is ideal for this). Grab a copy of Unison and sync the data back to a home machine each night over the network. Its pretty efficent as unison will only send back files that have changed. If his HD dies at some point -- goto best buy and buy a new laptop drive which you were going to have to do ANYWAYS for your hot swap plan. This plan is great if: your dad comes home often, you have enough HD space to back up his documents (delete some porn if you dont). AND e is not constnatly creating huge files (GB size).
This is what I do to backup my laptop -- I have about 5Gb of documents, and never more then 10 megs gets changed at once. I even have a 4gb virtual machine I backup now (in addition to the 5gbs), and that takes like 10 mins.
Just to be a jerk -- thats actually called "brute force" method, actually back in the day we called it "war dialing". I cant think of a metaphor for a dictionary attack for phone numbers.
Yep ... an x-g/f of mines grandparents retired with several hundred thousand in the bank, and some pensions/SS. As her grandfather got older he got increasibly reckless with his money to the point that that hed buy pretty much *ANTHING*. I remember an incident where a telecrook called and wanted to sell him "earthquake jacks" for his mobile home. Cost: 4 grand. He was in love with the idea, of course they were a scam. Lucky enough for him some family members happened to be over to stop him -- but the telemarketer kept calling back and making THREATS when the family kept him from talking to the old man. I think he stopped calling eventually.
Except that there's ABSOLUTELY no proof that *ANY* of that happened except a book that may or may not be true, thats been proven to have sections redacted (reincarnation anyone?), and of course the bible fan club which couldn't know any more about the whole situation then anyone else. If this was *ANY* other topic you would demand proof, but somehow when someone brings up god a standard of proof ("no proof required") applies.
You are a wise man. Thats *EXACTLY* what happens. My first (non fast food) job in college was as a sysadmin for a research lab. After the director of the lab discovered I was a fairly smart cookie, my job balooned from systems admin to include, Web Design, Writing Proposals, Managing Undergrads, being the resident software design/language guru, Photoshop Guy and Video-editing guy, and this was on TOP of my already difficult job of running a lab with 4 platforms (Linux, Solaris, IRIX, Windows). After a while it wears on you.
Second story, during the worst part of the dot com bust I worked at walmart, stocking SHOES. One night *5* palettes of shoes come (1-2 is a full nights work), and I hustled like you can't imagine to get the whole thing done, I basically had a 9 hour aerobics session. Long story short, boss comes in the next morning, "How was it last night?" I reply, "It was a *REAL* bad evening, 5 palettes, but I got it all done!" she says, "Thats great! Nice hustle!"... 5 minutes later she's yelling at me for not having stocked the shoe laces :) After that day I did the same hustle every night to get my 1-2 palettes put away, then I went to sleep in the steel or went home. There was no point in working hard for them.
Sure did do that... I spent hours staring at that screen :) I do believe however there were limits to how far you could step back -- and not over call/ret boundaries IIRC.
There's *LOTS* of good reasons for that. IE: Not wanting to mingle your work buddy list with your home buddy list.
I'll admit I opt-out of a lot of pop culture, but I don't know ANYONE looking forward to the King Kong movie.
Is this wishful thinking on their part? Am I completely out of it? Or is this a new marketing tactic?
Yea, gaim is ugly... but so is AIM. Trillian is "pretty" but its a ramhog and can't keep its buddy lists seperate for seperate accounts, which is retarded.
Point being -- there are a lot of people who wanna be involved in OS but dont actually wanna do anything :)
Someone mod this guy to hell for bringing up a horrible childhood memory :)
Yep, at rush hour it takes about 75 minutes for me to get from the UC Riverside campus to University of Redlands Campus, and they're 12 miles apart.
Right, becuase having *anything* that isn't strictly necessary is stealing from the mouths of some poor person in a far off country whom the money could better serve. Except the money is stolen regardless by corrupt government officials (Im looking at you, UN) so ... really ... your stealing from government officals?
Other countries like to brag that we have one of the lowest tax rates in the world, but I really don't believe its true.
I haven't "only met two". I've known, to date, 6 D&D'ers, 5 of whom have emotional problems. I just chose two stories to tell. Yes I know its not a scientific sample, yes I know its not absolute proof. I don't see you questioning on the guy who says that D&D guys are "creative and intelligent?" you seem to have accepted that premise on even less proof.