I'm sure that's never happened before in the history of the world!
After getting burned a couple of times, I've pretty much decided to never buy a game at full price ever again. If a game sucks, well, now I'm never out more than $20. It gives me a warm fuzzy knowing that the kids out there will absorb the hype for me, and after six months, the real market value of the game appears. Some of the really popular games stay at near full price for many months (so, I just wait a little longer), increasing the chances of a great buy when they finally drop below $20.
enabling devlopers to develop using MS tools for deployment on *nix
If I had to use Visual Studio or whatever they call it now for development, I think my head would explode, as every principle of UNIX and the gross monstrosity of Microsoft would collide not unlike matter and antimatter in my brain. Just thinking about Microsoft's development platform is making me feel ill (binary project files and awkward autocompletion, sure why not...baarfff).
Every month, I think I see Bush featured in Mad magazine, but, even after reading the interview, it eventually sinks in that good ol' Alfred fooled me again.
I'm building an open source project in.NET and I want Linux, BSD and Mac OS X support...
You must be asleep, with such a pipe dream in your head. Well, perhaps not, if you develop with DotGNU and Mono, and, then, test on Microsoft's implementation. You can't expect to go the other way.
C# is an ECMA standard. Sun has refused to bring java before a standards body.
You really are naive. Both the Java Language and the JVM are published in books by Sun, I have them both, and they are both still current, even after several years. Sun has always had a good policy regarding forward compatibility, even Java 1.2 programs will run in 1.4. Only Java 1.1, as the original maturing version, is truly obselete. Further, is there a major operating system out there where Java doesn't work? Even IBM and HP have stakes in Java, and these are companies that hate eachother. Sun has done fairly well to build these sorts of checks and balances into the Java Platform, none of which exist for.NET.
People expressing such complacency are very disappointing. Actually, what's at stake here is even having the choice of privacy. What do you think now? At least, now, I can choose to do business with companies with good policies towards my information. I can still feel somewhat confident that the government doesn't have its tendrils into every aspect of my life. We do still have privacy, because of compartmentalization. Don't forget that.
Now personally I've always thought that the Republican candidates had more respect for individual privacy laws and that Democrats were more likely to attempt to legislate morality (and you know as well as I that this is impossible).
Republicans, being more business-minded, can't ignore the profitability of raw data. Democrats, being more social-minded, can't ignore the political value of raw data.
It's called by many names, such as spin, double-speak, etc. Relying on the government to protect citizens' privacy is naive, foolish, and downright stupid. The conflicts of interest are too great, and the temptations too strong.
This follows from the founding fathers' belief that man's fundamental state in nature is one of Freedom, and that man thrives in that state. The only real role of government is to prevent the woes of anarchy, such as murder and extortion. They believed in the free market. They believed in innocence until proven guilty. Their beliefs and the framework they laid out allowed the USA to become the wealthiest and most powerful nation in all of Earth's history.
Historians can tell you how the USA is the result of centuries of oppression by the Church and monarchies. The foundations of the USA could be easily traced all the way back to the beginning of the Renaissance, when people finally began to start thinking for themselves.
The real problem here is that there is no Constitutional right to privacy.
I disagree. The constitution clearly states that citizens should be safe with regard to their personal effects and papers (something along those lines), and I would interpret this to go as far as covering data, even digital data, such as bank records. Also, on a person's property, if they construct walls to prevent peering eyes, then that person has total right to privacy within those walls, unless evidence is sufficient for a court-ordered warrant.
The presumption of innocence is a root of the USA, we simply cannot allow it to be eroded away by socialists and fear-mongers.
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And it happens everywhere.
What makes workplaces so difficult is that humans over millenia have developed innate expectations based on appearances. Women who come to work made up to look post-orgasmic with a perfect complexion (the root purpose of cosmetics) really do distract the men, whether they realize it or not. Look at the presidential races, right now--who looks more "presidential", Kerry or Edwards? Part of growing up as a civilization is finding ways beyond this, but humans are still very very early in this journey.
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Many bigger companies have an "Ethics Compliance Hotline" that is supposedly "Confidential". Has anyone every used one? Was it effective?
Of course, these situations are highly political. So, you call the hotline, the boss gets canned and give you a real mean look on the way out (how many people could have squealed, anyway).
Were you one of the guys who would look at a broken C64 thoughtfully and say, "It could be the power supply...that'll be $45. Thanks." I hated those guys, especially after my dad fell for them once (great, two working power supplies and still one broken C64).
Many people use the J2EE framework. In open source that pretty much means jboss. Runs great on linux and you get to deploy lots of apache servers and use buzzwords like 'entity bean' and 'xml'.
Yes, but, everyone, please go get some real training before going all-out on J2EE. J2EE is really great, but the developers need some perspective of its complexity before it can be used effectively.
Can the same be said for Debian, whose stable release is starting to get a little crusty?
There is a lot of popular support for Debian. Also, there are people out there who apprciate the crustiness as a tradeoff for the higher chance of it working well. Further, Debian has one of the more flexible installation programs out there (/cdrom and/target can be NFS mounts during an install, for example, which is _extremely_ useful).
Even better would be to patent "breathing in a fart" and then go on to sue all customers of Mexican restaraunts and all the pro football fans in the country.
Working on shitty projects almost made me burn out of software development entirely, yet I see other people whore themselves to these projects year in year out with out a care in the world. It makes me thankful for diversity, that for every shitty job, there's someone just as shitty to take it.
For instance, I hope no one has been foolish enough to try compiling this stuff on a networked computer! God knows what's in so much source code. What if: downloaded, compile, phone home, busted.
who the hell would run a critical system with Microsoft rubbish ?
You overestimate the average IT customer. Whevever I hear someone say proudly that they have a big-ass server running Windows 2000 that controls things like parts of our insurance or finance industry, I cringe. I've also seen little camoflaged portable computers running Windows for the military (cringe again). You know, some people have even put Windows on a United States Navy ship (after Billy G. bought stock in the shipyard, I hear). We have all heard the story of it being towed back to port.
At this time, it is hard to establish whether or not full code has leaked, and this will undoubtedly remain the situation until an attempt is made to compile them.
How big are these files? I would expect the size of these tarballs to be comparable to Linux Kernel + GNOME + Mozilla + misc userland/bundled equivilents. If they are unexpectedly small (like less than a gig for W2K), then they are probably a hoax.
A software developer is more an artist than an engineer.
I've never found the distinctions between artist, scientist, and engineer helpful. All these disciplines require hard abstract thought, which sets them apart from other professions. Also, this requirement for genuine hard thinking is what suprises undergrads and causes such high dropout rates from such programs. This is also where secondary schools fall short and is where success is purely up to the individual.
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Apple, Sun, SGI, Mercedes.
Microsoft, Intel, Chevy.
AMD might be a Buick.
I'm sure that's never happened before in the history of the world!
After getting burned a couple of times, I've pretty much decided to never buy a game at full price ever again. If a game sucks, well, now I'm never out more than $20. It gives me a warm fuzzy knowing that the kids out there will absorb the hype for me, and after six months, the real market value of the game appears. Some of the really popular games stay at near full price for many months (so, I just wait a little longer), increasing the chances of a great buy when they finally drop below $20.
enabling devlopers to develop using MS tools for deployment on *nix
If I had to use Visual Studio or whatever they call it now for development, I think my head would explode, as every principle of UNIX and the gross monstrosity of Microsoft would collide not unlike matter and antimatter in my brain. Just thinking about Microsoft's development platform is making me feel ill (binary project files and awkward autocompletion, sure why not...baarfff).
Compile...and run?
I guess Bush is right out, then?
Every month, I think I see Bush featured in Mad magazine, but, even after reading the interview, it eventually sinks in that good ol' Alfred fooled me again.
As a .NET developer...
.NET and I want Linux, BSD and Mac OS X support...
I'm building an open source project in
You must be asleep, with such a pipe dream in your head. Well, perhaps not, if you develop with DotGNU and Mono, and, then, test on Microsoft's implementation. You can't expect to go the other way.
C# is an ECMA standard. Sun has refused to bring java before a standards body.
.NET.
You really are naive. Both the Java Language and the JVM are published in books by Sun, I have them both, and they are both still current, even after several years. Sun has always had a good policy regarding forward compatibility, even Java 1.2 programs will run in 1.4. Only Java 1.1, as the original maturing version, is truly obselete. Further, is there a major operating system out there where Java doesn't work? Even IBM and HP have stakes in Java, and these are companies that hate eachother. Sun has done fairly well to build these sorts of checks and balances into the Java Platform, none of which exist for
You have no privacy anyway.
People expressing such complacency are very disappointing. Actually, what's at stake here is even having the choice of privacy. What do you think now? At least, now, I can choose to do business with companies with good policies towards my information. I can still feel somewhat confident that the government doesn't have its tendrils into every aspect of my life. We do still have privacy, because of compartmentalization. Don't forget that.
Now personally I've always thought that the Republican candidates had more respect for individual privacy laws and that Democrats were more likely to attempt to legislate morality (and you know as well as I that this is impossible).
Republicans, being more business-minded, can't ignore the profitability of raw data. Democrats, being more social-minded, can't ignore the political value of raw data.
Either way, privacy is at stake.
Very well said. Thank you.
It's called by many names, such as spin, double-speak, etc. Relying on the government to protect citizens' privacy is naive, foolish, and downright stupid. The conflicts of interest are too great, and the temptations too strong.
This follows from the founding fathers' belief that man's fundamental state in nature is one of Freedom, and that man thrives in that state. The only real role of government is to prevent the woes of anarchy, such as murder and extortion. They believed in the free market. They believed in innocence until proven guilty. Their beliefs and the framework they laid out allowed the USA to become the wealthiest and most powerful nation in all of Earth's history.
Historians can tell you how the USA is the result of centuries of oppression by the Church and monarchies. The foundations of the USA could be easily traced all the way back to the beginning of the Renaissance, when people finally began to start thinking for themselves.
The real problem here is that there is no Constitutional right to privacy.
I disagree. The constitution clearly states that citizens should be safe with regard to their personal effects and papers (something along those lines), and I would interpret this to go as far as covering data, even digital data, such as bank records. Also, on a person's property, if they construct walls to prevent peering eyes, then that person has total right to privacy within those walls, unless evidence is sufficient for a court-ordered warrant.
The presumption of innocence is a root of the USA, we simply cannot allow it to be eroded away by socialists and fear-mongers.
And it happens everywhere.
What makes workplaces so difficult is that humans over millenia have developed innate expectations based on appearances. Women who come to work made up to look post-orgasmic with a perfect complexion (the root purpose of cosmetics) really do distract the men, whether they realize it or not. Look at the presidential races, right now--who looks more "presidential", Kerry or Edwards? Part of growing up as a civilization is finding ways beyond this, but humans are still very very early in this journey.
Many bigger companies have an "Ethics Compliance Hotline" that is supposedly "Confidential". Has anyone every used one? Was it effective?
Of course, these situations are highly political. So, you call the hotline, the boss gets canned and give you a real mean look on the way out (how many people could have squealed, anyway).
Were you one of the guys who would look at a broken C64 thoughtfully and say, "It could be the power supply...that'll be $45. Thanks." I hated those guys, especially after my dad fell for them once (great, two working power supplies and still one broken C64).
Many people use the J2EE framework. In open source that pretty much means jboss. Runs great on linux and you get to deploy lots of apache servers and use buzzwords like 'entity bean' and 'xml'.
Yes, but, everyone, please go get some real training before going all-out on J2EE. J2EE is really great, but the developers need some perspective of its complexity before it can be used effectively.
Can the same be said for Debian, whose stable release is starting to get a little crusty?
/target can be NFS mounts during an install, for example, which is _extremely_ useful).
There is a lot of popular support for Debian. Also, there are people out there who apprciate the crustiness as a tradeoff for the higher chance of it working well. Further, Debian has one of the more flexible installation programs out there (/cdrom and
Another fine shining example for a society with a 50% divorce rate.
We should require parents who get divorced to eat their children.
Even better would be to patent "breathing in a fart" and then go on to sue all customers of Mexican restaraunts and all the pro football fans in the country.
Working on shitty projects almost made me burn out of software development entirely, yet I see other people whore themselves to these projects year in year out with out a care in the world. It makes me thankful for diversity, that for every shitty job, there's someone just as shitty to take it.
For instance, I hope no one has been foolish enough to try compiling this stuff on a networked computer! God knows what's in so much source code. What if: downloaded, compile, phone home, busted.
who the hell would run a critical system with Microsoft rubbish ?
You overestimate the average IT customer. Whevever I hear someone say proudly that they have a big-ass server running Windows 2000 that controls things like parts of our insurance or finance industry, I cringe. I've also seen little camoflaged portable computers running Windows for the military (cringe again). You know, some people have even put Windows on a United States Navy ship (after Billy G. bought stock in the shipyard, I hear). We have all heard the story of it being towed back to port.
At this time, it is hard to establish whether or not full code has leaked, and this will undoubtedly remain the situation until an attempt is made to compile them.
How big are these files? I would expect the size of these tarballs to be comparable to Linux Kernel + GNOME + Mozilla + misc userland/bundled equivilents. If they are unexpectedly small (like less than a gig for W2K), then they are probably a hoax.
A software developer is more an artist than an engineer.
I've never found the distinctions between artist, scientist, and engineer helpful. All these disciplines require hard abstract thought, which sets them apart from other professions. Also, this requirement for genuine hard thinking is what suprises undergrads and causes such high dropout rates from such programs. This is also where secondary schools fall short and is where success is purely up to the individual.