How fitting are your replies, dear Foofoobar. Like any old fashioned Slashbotter, by reading something that hit too close to home, you get all worked up and feel the need to insult the poster.
You make false assumptions (that I'm apparently a computer programmer, Indian, AND working for Microsoft no less! hahah) Oh I love this! Perhaps you will fulfill #15 for me, right here and now! Do it, foobar, do it!
My dear Father Harvey whose countering of a Google Haiku so long ago was so very brilliant -- of course you get an eggroll.:gives giant eggroll Harvey:
1. Finally, a Windows XP uninstaller! 2. Finally, an IE uninstaller! 3. Jokes about the malicious/software wordplay -- is it a malicious tool to remove software or a malicious software removal tool? har har har 4. Does it run on Linux? 5. Imagine a beowulf cluster of these. 6. In Soviet Russia, software tools malice YOU! 7. In Korea, only old people run malicious tools. 8. Tin foil cap-sporting nerds complaining about WinVNC rumors. 9. ??? 10. Profit! 11. Declare bankruptcy. 12. Bitch about MS. 13. Spell MS with a dollar sign. 14. Tin foil cap-sporting nerds complaining about how this is a MS chokehold attempt on the market. 15. Anonymous posters claiming they had sex with your mother. 16. Mindless slashbotting. 17. 53 offtopic posts. 18./. owners modding down anything disagreeing with the Slashbot secular, pro-Linux, uniformity. 19. Some posts by the GNAA and/or Roland Piquepalle (one and the same) 20. One really long list of post summaries, to get modded down by angry Slashbots.
I have a machine here at work with both MS Office and OOo; while some machines configure office components to start up with the OS, I removed this (I like fast OS boots, don't mind slower app loads), yet MS Office consistently opens faster. Firefox is a touch slower than IE (understandable since the RENDERING ENGINE of IE is built into Windows).
What I was pointing out in the previous post is that there's a LOT of software, including OSS, that is too reliant on ever-increasing hardware power, not just MS software, as the progenitor post implied.
From login, I can see the desktop in about 3 seconds on my 2GHZ XP machine. The key is to have very few external programs starting up; too many have Office, P2P, BitTorrent, etc. all starting up upon boot, slowing things to a crawl. Again, not MS's fault so don't blame them.
We might get some return to efficient coding being the norm, instead of writing systems anyhow and throwing more/faster hardware at it until it runs acceptably (Microsoft; its you I'm looking at!)
Why are you looking at Microsoft when IE boots faster than FF and MS Office boots faster than OOo? Adobe Reader 6 takes eons to load (v. 7 does too if it doesn't auto-boot the quick loader), Solaris 10 uses up a behemoth 12 GB install, and so on. It seems to me that MS isn't the only one "throwing hardare" at the problem.
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An anonymous post, with anti-semite tones, gets modded as insightful on Slashdot?
Come on Slashdot, we're better than that. Don't bullshit away and say that it wasn't anti-Jewish in any way; fact is that's one of the first lies American skin heads put your way in tracts -- that the Jews are hampering us because we provide aide to Israel in the face of terror. Come on Slashdot, mod parent down for what it is, a racists, anonymous troll.
I've heard from too many people that punching out code all day at work makes them very hesitant to even touch a computer at home.
I've been 'punching out code' at the same job for the last 3 years, and nothing could be further from the truth. You write code at work, then go home and play some Age of Mythology or even write some code for my personal projects; frankly my computer is my lifeline (queue the jokes). On top of that, I'm married and have kids - fact is you don't get a whole lot of free time when you've got a family, so I look forward to my free time on my home machine, despite 'punching code' for 8 hours a day at work.
Researchers found that more than 80% of projects were due to the developers slacking off reading sites such as Slashdot.org. The other 20% were busy posting to the developer-friendly, productivity-munching nerd news site.
Sorry, but multiple langauge support, delegates, value types, almost everything I listed is not syntactic sugar.
Allow me to demonstrate:
Built for multiple language support: nothing to do with making your code look pretty; having multiple languages (currently more than 40) targetting the framework opens up the platform to a wide range of developers who use the right language for the right task.
Delegates: Type safe function pointers, enabling one represent a function as a variable, and integrated true event based programming (rather than Java's interface-as-events model) are weaved throughout the framework and act as a fundamental CIL type; not just syntax candy.
value types: Lightweight classes that are passed by value, are allocated on the stack, and never need to be collected by the garbage collector, really open up the doors for small, lightweight classes and comes in very handy when designing mathematical classes with very little overhead. Value types are also built into the framework and the runtime has an intimate knowledge of value types; much much more than syntax eye candy.
I could go on with the delegate/event system, or a unified threading model, or output parameters, or...but I don't want to make this a how-far-can-you-piss contest. I don't mean to slam my old language Java at all. What I am saying is that Microsoft carefully observed Java, watched where it succeeded and what problems it encountered, then created a language with Java's strenghts, minus its weaknesses. After all, with Java's dominance in the 90s, they had several years to get it right, and fortunately for the Windows development world, they did.
It took me 3 years to have a basic understanding of what.NET was. 3 years just to figure out that it was basically Java.
As a former Java developer, it tooks me less than a week to discover that.NET was much more than Java. From a purely technical and programmatic standpoint,.NET's inclusion of operator overloading, value types, enums, delegates, multiple langauge support built in rather than added as an afterthought, just to name a few, truely make.NET much more than another Java. If it took you 3 years to discover that, then you need to take off your Java zealot blinders.
Looking at the bigger picture,.NET isn't just the framework & the languages though. For Microsoft,.NET is a strategy, a marketing phrase, a programming framework, a set of languages and tools. This is where the confusion set in as to what exactly is.NET, and it's Microsoft's fault for slapping the ".NET" moniker on everything.
The original date of Christ's birth is unknown at best. Some Jewish historians say he probably was born around the feast of Shavuot, which would fall closer to Autumn.
I am a Jewish believer in Christ, so we have something in common.:-) And yes, it is true that the Roman Catholic Church changed the day of the Sabbath from Friday night through Saturday night to Sunday, to conicde with the pagan Sun god worship.
The reason being, the founder of the Catholic Church and 'Holy' Roman Empire, Constantine, was a sun-god worshipper and a antisemite. He hated Jewish ways, so despite Jesus being a Jew and never intending to start a new religion, Constantine actually invented a religion based off his teachings, hence today we have the Catholic Church and its Protestant spin-offs. Today, sun-god worship is evident all over Christianity, everything from Sunday sabbaths to halos (those yellow sun shadows behind Jesus' head in some religious paintings).
Christmas is not Jesus' birth; December 25th was chosen to coincide with several pagan rituals, include the German winter solstice rituals and ancient Nimrod reincarnation celebration (Nimrod was mentioned in Genesis BTW).
It's sad that Christianity is so blinded to this. I'm just thankful I've been fortunate enough to be celebrating the true feasts of the Lord (Passover, Unleavened Bread, Shavuot, etc) for 15 years now.:-)
Of course not, the one true God knows our hearts. Wednesday, Thursday (Thor), Saturday (Saturnalia), Sunday (Sun-god day), so much of what we do comes from the ways of the world. If Christ were here again, I wonder what he'd have to say about all this.
While I would argue that Christmas is primarily a religious holiday, I will also concede that Christmas itself has mythological backgrounds; trees coming from German winter solstice rituals, silver and gold decoration of trees coming from Phoenician tree idol worship, decoration of balls coming from Egyptian celebration of the castration of a false god... the list goes on.
You say, "its a name, it doesn't have any meaning anymore". It's true we don't believe Thursday to be in honor of Thor any more, however, I firmly believe that if Christ were here on earth he wouldn't be too grateful that we've named our days of the week, our months, our calendar, our planets, our holidays and so on, all in honor of false gods. I can't help but think we're still doing the same idolatrous evil that Israel did in Biblical times.
As a believer in Christ, knowing that most of our calendar and most of the days of the week originate from names of ancient mythological gods, it makes me a little uneasy too.
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How fitting are your replies, dear Foofoobar. Like any old fashioned Slashbotter, by reading something that hit too close to home, you get all worked up and feel the need to insult the poster.
You make false assumptions (that I'm apparently a computer programmer, Indian, AND working for Microsoft no less! hahah) Oh I love this! Perhaps you will fulfill #15 for me, right here and now! Do it, foobar, do it!
:eats it, and asks for 2nds:
My dear Father Harvey whose countering of a Google Haiku so long ago was so very brilliant -- of course you get an eggroll. :gives giant eggroll Harvey:
I guess I'll have to remember to include you in the list next time. By the way, I'm Jewish, and I don't like the smell of curry, let alone the taste.
A summary of the next 100 Slashdot posts:
/. owners modding down anything disagreeing with the Slashbot secular, pro-Linux, uniformity.
1. Finally, a Windows XP uninstaller!
2. Finally, an IE uninstaller!
3. Jokes about the malicious/software wordplay -- is it a malicious tool to remove software or a malicious software removal tool? har har har
4. Does it run on Linux?
5. Imagine a beowulf cluster of these.
6. In Soviet Russia, software tools malice YOU!
7. In Korea, only old people run malicious tools.
8. Tin foil cap-sporting nerds complaining about WinVNC rumors.
9. ???
10. Profit!
11. Declare bankruptcy.
12. Bitch about MS.
13. Spell MS with a dollar sign.
14. Tin foil cap-sporting nerds complaining about how this is a MS chokehold attempt on the market.
15. Anonymous posters claiming they had sex with your mother.
16. Mindless slashbotting.
17. 53 offtopic posts.
18.
19. Some posts by the GNAA and/or Roland Piquepalle (one and the same)
20. One really long list of post summaries, to get modded down by angry Slashbots.
<accepting no karma bonus for this crap>
600,000 users * $15 per user * 12 months = 108,000,000
say it with me, more than <pinky at corner of mouth> ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS
This is a blantant rip-off of Chris Pirillo's Rent My Chest. The least he could do is give the man some credit. :-)
I have a machine here at work with both MS Office and OOo; while some machines configure office components to start up with the OS, I removed this (I like fast OS boots, don't mind slower app loads), yet MS Office consistently opens faster. Firefox is a touch slower than IE (understandable since the RENDERING ENGINE of IE is built into Windows).
What I was pointing out in the previous post is that there's a LOT of software, including OSS, that is too reliant on ever-increasing hardware power, not just MS software, as the progenitor post implied.
From login, I can see the desktop in about 3 seconds on my 2GHZ XP machine. The key is to have very few external programs starting up; too many have Office, P2P, BitTorrent, etc. all starting up upon boot, slowing things to a crawl. Again, not MS's fault so don't blame them.
We might get some return to efficient coding being the norm, instead of writing systems anyhow and throwing more/faster hardware at it until it runs acceptably (Microsoft; its you I'm looking at!)
Why are you looking at Microsoft when IE boots faster than FF and MS Office boots faster than OOo? Adobe Reader 6 takes eons to load (v. 7 does too if it doesn't auto-boot the quick loader), Solaris 10 uses up a behemoth 12 GB install, and so on. It seems to me that MS isn't the only one "throwing hardare" at the problem.
An anonymous post, with anti-semite tones, gets modded as insightful on Slashdot?
Come on Slashdot, we're better than that. Don't bullshit away and say that it wasn't anti-Jewish in any way; fact is that's one of the first lies American skin heads put your way in tracts -- that the Jews are hampering us because we provide aide to Israel in the face of terror. Come on Slashdot, mod parent down for what it is, a racists, anonymous troll.
I was writing in C#, those were pretty get-property accessors I was using. So haha, I win and you lose.
if(vendor == MSFT)
{
throw new SlashbotAngryFitException();
}
else
{
Slashbots.Fud.Spew();
while(true)
{
Defense defend = new Defense();
defend.ToTheDeath(vendor);
ButtKiss praise = new ButtKiss();
if(RMS.IsScragglyOldHippy)
{
praise.BendOverFor(RMS);
}
if(GPL.IsFashionableForGeeksToDefend && GPL.NeverRead && GPL.IsViral)
{
praise.KissArse(GPL);
}
if(Linux.Creator == Linux && Linus.IsHumble && Linux.IsFashionableForGeeksToUse && MSFT == TEHSUXORS)
{
praise.LickPussy(Linus | Linux);
}
}
}
I've heard from too many people that punching out code all day at work makes them very hesitant to even touch a computer at home.
I've been 'punching out code' at the same job for the last 3 years, and nothing could be further from the truth. You write code at work, then go home and play some Age of Mythology or even write some code for my personal projects; frankly my computer is my lifeline (queue the jokes). On top of that, I'm married and have kids - fact is you don't get a whole lot of free time when you've got a family, so I look forward to my free time on my home machine, despite 'punching code' for 8 hours a day at work.
Researchers found that more than 80% of projects were due to the developers slacking off reading sites such as Slashdot.org. The other 20% were busy posting to the developer-friendly, productivity-munching nerd news site.
Sorry, but multiple langauge support, delegates, value types, almost everything I listed is not syntactic sugar.
Allow me to demonstrate:
Built for multiple language support: nothing to do with making your code look pretty; having multiple languages (currently more than 40) targetting the framework opens up the platform to a wide range of developers who use the right language for the right task.
Delegates: Type safe function pointers, enabling one represent a function as a variable, and integrated true event based programming (rather than Java's interface-as-events model) are weaved throughout the framework and act as a fundamental CIL type; not just syntax candy.
value types: Lightweight classes that are passed by value, are allocated on the stack, and never need to be collected by the garbage collector, really open up the doors for small, lightweight classes and comes in very handy when designing mathematical classes with very little overhead. Value types are also built into the framework and the runtime has an intimate knowledge of value types; much much more than syntax eye candy.
I could go on with the delegate/event system, or a unified threading model, or output parameters, or...but I don't want to make this a how-far-can-you-piss contest. I don't mean to slam my old language Java at all. What I am saying is that Microsoft carefully observed Java, watched where it succeeded and what problems it encountered, then created a language with Java's strenghts, minus its weaknesses. After all, with Java's dominance in the 90s, they had several years to get it right, and fortunately for the Windows development world, they did.
It took me 3 years to have a basic understanding of what .NET was. 3 years just to figure out that it was basically Java.
.NET was much more than Java. From a purely technical and programmatic standpoint, .NET's inclusion of operator overloading, value types, enums, delegates, multiple langauge support built in rather than added as an afterthought, just to name a few, truely make .NET much more than another Java. If it took you 3 years to discover that, then you need to take off your Java zealot blinders.
.NET isn't just the framework & the languages though. For Microsoft, .NET is a strategy, a marketing phrase, a programming framework, a set of languages and tools. This is where the confusion set in as to what exactly is .NET, and it's Microsoft's fault for slapping the ".NET" moniker on everything.
As a former Java developer, it tooks me less than a week to discover that
Looking at the bigger picture,
What else are geeks doing this Christmas?
Enjoying my piece of coal, you insensitive clod.
Interesting thought. While that applied to paying taxes to the government, I suspect you might be right.
The original date of Christ's birth is unknown at best. Some Jewish historians say he probably was born around the feast of Shavuot, which would fall closer to Autumn.
I am a Jewish believer in Christ, so we have something in common. :-) And yes, it is true that the Roman Catholic Church changed the day of the Sabbath from Friday night through Saturday night to Sunday, to conicde with the pagan Sun god worship.
:-)
The reason being, the founder of the Catholic Church and 'Holy' Roman Empire, Constantine, was a sun-god worshipper and a antisemite. He hated Jewish ways, so despite Jesus being a Jew and never intending to start a new religion, Constantine actually invented a religion based off his teachings, hence today we have the Catholic Church and its Protestant spin-offs. Today, sun-god worship is evident all over Christianity, everything from Sunday sabbaths to halos (those yellow sun shadows behind Jesus' head in some religious paintings).
Christmas is not Jesus' birth; December 25th was chosen to coincide with several pagan rituals, include the German winter solstice rituals and ancient Nimrod reincarnation celebration (Nimrod was mentioned in Genesis BTW).
It's sad that Christianity is so blinded to this. I'm just thankful I've been fortunate enough to be celebrating the true feasts of the Lord (Passover, Unleavened Bread, Shavuot, etc) for 15 years now.
Of course not, the one true God knows our hearts. Wednesday, Thursday (Thor), Saturday (Saturnalia), Sunday (Sun-god day), so much of what we do comes from the ways of the world. If Christ were here again, I wonder what he'd have to say about all this.
While I would argue that Christmas is primarily a religious holiday, I will also concede that Christmas itself has mythological backgrounds; trees coming from German winter solstice rituals, silver and gold decoration of trees coming from Phoenician tree idol worship, decoration of balls coming from Egyptian celebration of the castration of a false god... the list goes on.
You say, "its a name, it doesn't have any meaning anymore". It's true we don't believe Thursday to be in honor of Thor any more, however, I firmly believe that if Christ were here on earth he wouldn't be too grateful that we've named our days of the week, our months, our calendar, our planets, our holidays and so on, all in honor of false gods. I can't help but think we're still doing the same idolatrous evil that Israel did in Biblical times.
As a believer in Christ, knowing that most of our calendar and most of the days of the week originate from names of ancient mythological gods, it makes me a little uneasy too.
Fair enough. :-)