This nation is pretty evenly divided. The money in this nation is ALSO pretty evenly divided. If you dont believe that, ask yourself why the middle class actually pays the bulk of the taxes, not the rich.
In that there is money on both sides, your premise of one station owning all points of view in a community is false.
There will ALWAYS be a market for the alternative point of view, there for that point of view will be represented REGARDLESS of ownership. As I said before, the concern in business is for dollars. ALL OF THEM, not just those representing a single point of view. Dont consider businesses to be so stupid, that they would ignore the dollars of one side in favor of the other.
This isn't about adverising money, it's about freedom of speech.
Nonsense. If you dont listen, they dont make money. Ultimately, people decide. That is the marketplace. I dont care who thinks my post was a troll, as it only goes to prove how little most of you understand economics.
I guess some of the socialists out there believe that corporations only want SOME of your money. They want money from all sides, no matter how many outlets they own. Therefore, you can expect all points of view to be expressed.
I for one, would love to see NPR defunded, so that they can sink or swim on their own merit, rather than be subsidized by the government.
If one entity owns every station in a town; who is stupid enough to think that they will settle only for the advertising dollars of a single point of view. That is like believing a Right wing dollar is worth a dollar, while a left wing dollar is worth only 65 cents.
Any multitier Web Application that NEEDS to handle 1500 concurrent queries only proves that either the architect or the entire development team are nothing but IDIOTS.
It's an argument made by those who are not paid much to code. There is nothing wrong with using an IDE, if that IDE makes you more productive.
An IDE is not going to make a lowsy programmer better, but it will help a good programmer to write more code with less effort. On top of that, as IDE's go, show me a better one than VS.NET?
REAL PROGRAMMERS take advantage of any and every tool that they can, that will help them get code written, compiled, debugged and SHIPPED.
If you can do it faster in EMACS or Notepad, good for you, but dont knock other developers because they use tools.
You sound like someone who tightens the lugnuts on their car with their thumbs, and screams "REAL MECHANICS dont NEED a lugwrench".
Listen, I dont mean to insult anyone, but there is a difference between Web Developers attempting to learn programming, and Programmers doing Web Development.
Web Development for a Programmer, is a pretty simple task. If someone comes to Programming(essentially what ASP.NET entails)from a Web Development only background, things will appear much more complicated.
Consider it like the difference between a Web Site, and a Web APPLICATION. Web Sites require little if any real programming, where a Web Application will require a significantly greater skill set.
What I am saying, is that for trained Programmers, ASP.NET is the easiest way to build pretty powerful web applications.
Laptop manufacturers buy screens in bulk, and dont buy fancy packaging, manuals, etc, that drive up the price. The cost for everything is cheaper, especially shipping.
Consider how many LCD's that IBM buys for their ThinkPads, compared to mom and pop.
When you think about it like that, we should consider ourselves lucky that our LCD's dont cost more than they already do.
Lose the clock, it is a wasteful distraction at best, and find a better font for that center table. The TimesRoman is ugly. Find a sans-serif font instead, so that the Bold Headings stand out more.
I'm sure that I will get flamed for this, but you didnt mention the best one, which is ASP.NET by far. I dont care that it's Microsoft only, until Mono comes along, it is THE BEST period. Now, I'm not so much a Microsoft bigot that I cant admit that ASP itself, was easily the WORST. The only thing about ASP.NET that isnt great, is that you have to use VS.NET if you want to do codebehind effectively.
Along with Codebehind, ADO.NET is fantastic with ASP.NET, and a major improvement over ADO or ODBC connectors.
You have every.NET enabled language at your disposal, and they solved a major ASP problem with IsPostBack. I've done Web Applications in PHP and JSP, and while they are both fine, ASP.NET}s the easiest to learn and the most powerful. If it makes it out to other platforms, it will easily own the space.
What most companies cant afford; is distracted developers.
The added costs of offices is not as bad as a bunch of programmers who spend a great amount of company time looking for other jobs, or musing with their co-workers because they are too distracted to code.
Now sure, there are those who can code under those conditions, but I defy you to show me where an open cubicle actually INCREASES productivity.
I'm not saying that programmers need to be coddled one bit, I am saying that companies need to be proactive in providing the best environment possible for their employees to work. True, there is no better place for programmers than Microsoft, which is almost outrageous in the perks that we get, but I think almost any company can do a better job than they are currently doing.
Most companies can increase programmer productivity and efficiency by not being so fucking cheap, and getting rid of cubicles. I was a programmer for 4 years prior to coming to Microsoft, and in my first year in my own office, I wrote more code and BETTER code then I did in 4 years in my cube at Lotus.
I hated being in the building, not wanting to hear who was porking whom from a three cubes down(you know who you are, Bitch!)or the personal problems of a bunch people who hated management, hated the products they were working on, and hated life in general.
Once I got my office, or more importantly, ONCE I GOT MY OFFICE DOOR, I could shutout the bullshit, crank up the tunes, and get down to business. Microsoft lets you decorate your office however you want, so over time my office became my favorite place to be. People joke about how people at Microsoft would rather send email to someone in the office next door, rather than get up and ask a question face to face, but nobody likes to be interrupted from a programming train of thought.
I would never, EVER again work as a programmer, if it meant going back to a cubicle. In a cube, you are nothing but a faceless, nameless pod person, waiting to be replaced by some other pod who wants to work for less than you do.
Every one of the countries you mentioned, including Canada if you consider Quebec, would be speaking GERMAN now if not for the U.S.
Feel free to head to any one of them, and then convince these governments to start picking up the tab for their own National Defense, without the support of the America.
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This nation is pretty evenly divided. The money in this nation is ALSO pretty evenly divided. If you dont believe that, ask yourself why the middle class actually pays the bulk of the taxes, not the rich.
In that there is money on both sides, your premise of one station owning all points of view in a community is false.
There will ALWAYS be a market for the alternative point of view, there for that point of view will be represented REGARDLESS of ownership. As I said before, the concern in business is for dollars. ALL OF THEM, not just those representing a single point of view. Dont consider businesses to be so stupid, that they would ignore the dollars of one side in favor of the other.
In other words, get a clue.
Nonsense. If you dont listen, they dont make money. Ultimately, people decide. That is the marketplace. I dont care who thinks my post was a troll, as it only goes to prove how little most of you understand economics.
I for one, would love to see NPR defunded, so that they can sink or swim on their own merit, rather than be subsidized by the government.
If one entity owns every station in a town; who is stupid enough to think that they will settle only for the advertising dollars of a single point of view. That is like believing a Right wing dollar is worth a dollar, while a left wing dollar is worth only 65 cents.
Nonsense.
You are obviously not an architect. Shut the fuck up and learn something.
I thought that Slashdotters were smart enough to understand my point. I guess not all of them, huh?
No, tell that to Novell.
Whoops, no, tell that to Lotus.
Never mind, tell that to Netscape.
Idiot.
Impossible, because you cant read.
You take Google's fine R&D department.
I'll take Microsoft's R&D and Marketing departments, backed up by 40 Billion dollars with nowhere to go.
You think you are going to win?
There are empty buildings somewhere in Mountain View, CA that housed the last people who thought that way......
Someone finally gets it.
What are you, 12?
You acknowledge that they dont care about you, but you seem to believe that they SHOULD.
No, fool. Its about your cash. Not you, your cash. If you are not likely to buy from them, then you are shit, and not to be heard from.
But the point is; this is true for any company that you do business with. They care about customers. Getting them and keeping them.
Last time I checked, they were doing those things better than anyone else. ITS BUSINESS.
Any multitier Web Application that NEEDS to handle 1500 concurrent queries only proves that either the architect or the entire development team are nothing but IDIOTS.
You have not seen VS.NET if you believe that. Go away.
I dont have time to write all the areas in which this idiot is wrong.
An IDE is not going to make a lowsy programmer better, but it will help a good programmer to write more code with less effort. On top of that, as IDE's go, show me a better one than VS.NET?
REAL PROGRAMMERS take advantage of any and every tool that they can, that will help them get code written, compiled, debugged and SHIPPED.
If you can do it faster in EMACS or Notepad, good for you, but dont knock other developers because they use tools.
You sound like someone who tightens the lugnuts on their car with their thumbs, and screams "REAL MECHANICS dont NEED a lugwrench".
Idiot.
Web Development for a Programmer, is a pretty simple task. If someone comes to Programming(essentially what ASP.NET entails)from a Web Development only background, things will appear much more complicated.
Consider it like the difference between a Web Site, and a Web APPLICATION. Web Sites require little if any real programming, where a Web Application will require a significantly greater skill set.
What I am saying, is that for trained Programmers, ASP.NET is the easiest way to build pretty powerful web applications.
Fair enough?
Consider how many LCD's that IBM buys for their ThinkPads, compared to mom and pop.
When you think about it like that, we should consider ourselves lucky that our LCD's dont cost more than they already do.
"Just because you can, does NOT mean you should".
Lose the clock, it is a wasteful distraction at best, and find a better font for that center table. The TimesRoman is ugly. Find a sans-serif font instead, so that the Bold Headings stand out more.
Just my two cents.
Along with Codebehind, ADO.NET is fantastic with ASP.NET, and a major improvement over ADO or ODBC connectors.
You have every .NET enabled language at your disposal, and they solved a major ASP problem with IsPostBack. I've done Web Applications in PHP and JSP, and while they are both fine, ASP.NET}s the easiest to learn and the most powerful. If it makes it out to other platforms, it will easily own the space.
Dude, when I am SEVENTY, it will still be Aerosmith, Aerosmith and more Aerosmith. Got it?
The added costs of offices is not as bad as a bunch of programmers who spend a great amount of company time looking for other jobs, or musing with their co-workers because they are too distracted to code.
Now sure, there are those who can code under those conditions, but I defy you to show me where an open cubicle actually INCREASES productivity.
I'm not saying that programmers need to be coddled one bit, I am saying that companies need to be proactive in providing the best environment possible for their employees to work. True, there is no better place for programmers than Microsoft, which is almost outrageous in the perks that we get, but I think almost any company can do a better job than they are currently doing.
Have you ever heard of someone straining through a CS degree because of an overwhelming desire to become a TESTER?
If you cant do, you Teach.
If you cant code, you TEST
Because you TSUCK!
I hated being in the building, not wanting to hear who was porking whom from a three cubes down(you know who you are, Bitch!)or the personal problems of a bunch people who hated management, hated the products they were working on, and hated life in general.
Once I got my office, or more importantly, ONCE I GOT MY OFFICE DOOR, I could shutout the bullshit, crank up the tunes, and get down to business. Microsoft lets you decorate your office however you want, so over time my office became my favorite place to be. People joke about how people at Microsoft would rather send email to someone in the office next door, rather than get up and ask a question face to face, but nobody likes to be interrupted from a programming train of thought.
I would never, EVER again work as a programmer, if it meant going back to a cubicle. In a cube, you are nothing but a faceless, nameless pod person, waiting to be replaced by some other pod who wants to work for less than you do.
Loser.
Every one of the countries you mentioned, including Canada if you consider Quebec, would be speaking GERMAN now if not for the U.S.
Feel free to head to any one of them, and then convince these governments to start picking up the tab for their own National Defense, without the support of the America.
Just see how far that gets you, you idiot.
Freedom isnt free.
I'm sure you can find a nice dictatorship somewhere where your thoughts would be welcome.