That's odd. The mechanical car most people grew up with was a rattling death trap that couldn't sustain 80mph without overheating and fell apart after 60,000 miles.
Regardless, I don't think cars even break down anymore, do they? It's not unusual for modern cars to go to 200,000 miles. The seats generally wear out long before the engine does.
I bet people will start to get pissed about outsourcing THEN. But right now, it only affects geeks
Outsourcing is where companies move jobs to where the people are. There are two ways to get rid of it: you can allow the people to move to where the jobs are (through unrestricted immigration), or you can get rid of the jobs altogether.
Regardless, if you honestly think that the effects of world trade are limited to "geeks", then you're simply a dumbass.
you had 15 solid days of adventure, learning, and personal growth that would never have happened if you'd gone the easy Windows/Mac way.
LOL... yeah, installing drivers is an "adventure." And, you're learning something, too!
No, wait. You're not. Installing drivers teaches you as much about computers as hanging an airfreshner from your rear view mirror teaches you about cars. Not very damned much.
The link included with the article says, "OFX is based upon SGML and, like XML, it is an attempt to take the best features of SGML and remove much of the associated complexity."
Based on that, I'm not even sure if it's even an SGML application, or if it's just something that looks like SGML?
Open Finanical Exchange Specification 1.0.2, Section 2.3.1:
SGML is the basis for Open Financial Exchange. A DTD formally defines the SGML wire format for Open Financial Exchange. However, Open Financial Exchange is not completely SGML-compliant because the specification allows unrecognized tags to be present... Although SGML is the basis for the specification, and the specification is largely compliant with SGML, do not assume Open Financial Exchange supports any SGML features not documented in this specification.
But regardless, I'm suprised your SGML parser chokes so badly on this. It can't be worse than the crap that passes for html on most sites. What parser are you using?
And, um, you do know tags don't always need to be closed in SGML, depending on the DTD, right? Your writeup makes me wonder if you really understand SGML...
I have almost a dozen applications I use daily (e-mail, VPN, Windows login, intranet, FTP, etc), plus 20-30 I access 'occasionally', and their passwords have to be unique - and change at different times.
Whaaaaat? Why the hell would you have more than one password?
How do you get program listings to your homebrew DVR?
For example, how do you tell it to record Futurama and South Park? Is there some sort of public XML feed you're getting from your cable company, or what?
Probably not. If someone wanted to spend $10,000 recovering data off that drive, they probably could. And, I bet someone could walk in your garage, take the hard drive out of that machine, and leave you none the wiser.
Mac users, like Windows users, would be happy to use a free office suite if it was 1/2 as good as MS office, but was 100% compatable with MS office.
First, no I wouldn't. I'd pay good, solid cash for an office suit as good as MS Office, and it doesn't even have to be compatible. I won't use a shitty office suite, even if it's free.
And second, the only people who say "100% MS Office Compatible" are the ones who have absolutely never used office in a business environment. The COM interfaces and VBA support aren't heavily used, but ever office I've ever been in depends on them for at least one application.
The easiest way to steal all the data from someone's computer in a coffee shop is wait until he goes to take a piss and walk off with the machine.
If you want to mess with 0-day exploits and hacking wireless cards, you can do that from the parking lot of nearly any small business in America. There's nothing special about coffee shops.
First, your language is not like anything like Java, because Java does not have header files at all.
Second, your language is not anything like C, because C was carefully designed from the ground up to use header files and compilation units. Running this way will annoy your compiler, your linker, your debugger, and every other link on your tool chain, and muck up many standard C coding practices.
So, yeah. If you're using a language that's not like C or Java, and your tool vendor is telling you to do this, and your lead developer is telling you to do this, and your managers trust the lead developer's decisions, then do it. Your project isn't going to succeed or fail based on this decision.
WTF was that? Some damned codec that neither quicktime nor windows media player understands, that's what.
Which means that you proved your point beautifully -- people who use linux for a desktop often have absolutely no idea what the rest of the world does with computers.
The original Star Wars was decent a (but not great) movie. That's actually saying quite a lot right there -- ninety percent of everything is crap. And, frankly, I don't think they were made for kids.
But there were two things that made Star Wars memorable: Han Solo and Darth Vader. Han Solo is a very good character -- I'd rank him in the top 100 all time best characters in film. Nothing short of Mifune himself playing Han Solo could have made him better.
Darth Vader, on the other hand, simply has no equal as a film villian.
The new Star Wars movies are not decent movies. Frankly, they are crap. And, I have to think hard to name even a single character in there. Not to mention, of course, that I have absolutely no fucking clue what The Phantom Menace was even about.
I'm afraid I have to agree with the parent. The best possible thing you can do for this company is simplify and documentation. You'll save them far more money in the long run then you will by skipping out on a few $2,000 Windows 2003 Server licenses.
What do you mean by "server?" File servers? Directory servers? Database servers? Web servers? Backup tape servers? Mail servers? Web proxy servers? What the heck are you serving?
And, how will adding servers improve your stability and security? Is there some sort of hot-backup software you're using that works on both linux and windows?
Regardless, if you're using 6 servers for only 50 users you might want to investigate whether or not all of them are really necessary. First figure out what you're trying to provide to these 50 users. Only then can you figure out the simplest way to provide it.
Submitting a petition to the state park service is not a proper channel.
Talk to your legislator, or talk to a lawyer. Bureaucracies make rules, not laws. And they're sure as hell not going to take public input unless they're forced to by a law or by lawsuit.
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That's odd. The mechanical car most people grew up with was a rattling death trap that couldn't sustain 80mph without overheating and fell apart after 60,000 miles.
Regardless, I don't think cars even break down anymore, do they? It's not unusual for modern cars to go to 200,000 miles. The seats generally wear out long before the engine does.
I bet people will start to get pissed about outsourcing THEN. But right now, it only affects geeks
Outsourcing is where companies move jobs to where the people are. There are two ways to get rid of it: you can allow the people to move to where the jobs are (through unrestricted immigration), or you can get rid of the jobs altogether.
Regardless, if you honestly think that the effects of world trade are limited to "geeks", then you're simply a dumbass.
you had 15 solid days of adventure, learning, and personal growth that would never have happened if you'd gone the easy Windows/Mac way.
LOL... yeah, installing drivers is an "adventure." And, you're learning something, too!
No, wait. You're not. Installing drivers teaches you as much about computers as hanging an airfreshner from your rear view mirror teaches you about cars. Not very damned much.
Based on that, I'm not even sure if it's even an SGML application, or if it's just something that looks like SGML?
Open Finanical Exchange Specification 1.0.2, Section 2.3.1: But regardless, I'm suprised your SGML parser chokes so badly on this. It can't be worse than the crap that passes for html on most sites. What parser are you using?
And, um, you do know tags don't always need to be closed in SGML, depending on the DTD, right? Your writeup makes me wonder if you really understand SGML...
What, are you 12 years old?
In every place I've ever worked, a computer is a tool used by humans to get work done, and not the other way around.
I have almost a dozen applications I use daily (e-mail, VPN, Windows login, intranet, FTP, etc), plus 20-30 I access 'occasionally', and their passwords have to be unique - and change at different times.
Whaaaaat? Why the hell would you have more than one password?
the problem is that the global *two* class society is being pushed instead of the global *three* class heavy on the middle society like it should be.
Four legs good, two legs better.
Can anyone tell me how far along Mono has come on OS X?
How do you get program listings to your homebrew DVR?
For example, how do you tell it to record Futurama and South Park? Is there some sort of public XML feed you're getting from your cable company, or what?
Probably not. If someone wanted to spend $10,000 recovering data off that drive, they probably could. And, I bet someone could walk in your garage, take the hard drive out of that machine, and leave you none the wiser.
Mac users, like Windows users, would be happy to use a free office suite if it was 1/2 as good as MS office, but was 100% compatable with MS office.
First, no I wouldn't. I'd pay good, solid cash for an office suit as good as MS Office, and it doesn't even have to be compatible. I won't use a shitty office suite, even if it's free.
And second, the only people who say "100% MS Office Compatible" are the ones who have absolutely never used office in a business environment. The COM interfaces and VBA support aren't heavily used, but ever office I've ever been in depends on them for at least one application.
'cuz you know who likes to hang out eating donuts and coffee, right?
If a cop decides to steal your laptop, a stupid siren isn't going to stop him.
The easiest way to steal all the data from someone's computer in a coffee shop is wait until he goes to take a piss and walk off with the machine.
If you want to mess with 0-day exploits and hacking wireless cards, you can do that from the parking lot of nearly any small business in America. There's nothing special about coffee shops.
First, your language is not like anything like Java, because Java does not have header files at all.
Second, your language is not anything like C, because C was carefully designed from the ground up to use header files and compilation units. Running this way will annoy your compiler, your linker, your debugger, and every other link on your tool chain, and muck up many standard C coding practices.
So, yeah. If you're using a language that's not like C or Java, and your tool vendor is telling you to do this, and your lead developer is telling you to do this, and your managers trust the lead developer's decisions, then do it. Your project isn't going to succeed or fail based on this decision.
Of course if a person is able to offer a non-rubbish opinion this is duly noted and further credence may be granted to their utterances in the future.
Huh? I wasn't listening. Were you talking rubish again?
Also, I've monitored calls from the start of the menu... Not very fun stuff because people just don't think.
They're stuck on hold. Why the hell should they have to be courteous to you?
WTF was that? Some damned codec that neither quicktime nor windows media player understands, that's what.
Which means that you proved your point beautifully -- people who use linux for a desktop often have absolutely no idea what the rest of the world does with computers.
It's a standard C idiom. You don't "decipher" idioms. If you don't immediately grok it, you don't know C at all.
If you don't write similar code yourself, you just don't know C very well.
And, if you don't understand the constraints on s and t after short reflection, you're simply not a programmer.
If you bitch when people check in idiomatic C, then perhaps you shouldn't be reviewing code written in C.
The original Star Wars was decent a (but not great) movie. That's actually saying quite a lot right there -- ninety percent of everything is crap. And, frankly, I don't think they were made for kids.
But there were two things that made Star Wars memorable: Han Solo and Darth Vader. Han Solo is a very good character -- I'd rank him in the top 100 all time best characters in film. Nothing short of Mifune himself playing Han Solo could have made him better.
Darth Vader, on the other hand, simply has no equal as a film villian.
The new Star Wars movies are not decent movies. Frankly, they are crap. And, I have to think hard to name even a single character in there. Not to mention, of course, that I have absolutely no fucking clue what The Phantom Menace was even about.
I've tried a lot of Java web frameworks, and I've never found one that's even close to ASP.Net. ASP.Net is very, very, very nice.
I suspect that JSF with a decent component library and good tool support could be as nice, but that doesn't exist yet. Maybe someday.
Try again, monkey boy. 0.00001 percent of 50 million is 5 .
I'm afraid I have to agree with the parent. The best possible thing you can do for this company is simplify and documentation. You'll save them far more money in the long run then you will by skipping out on a few $2,000 Windows 2003 Server licenses.
What do you mean by "server?" File servers? Directory servers? Database servers? Web servers? Backup tape servers? Mail servers? Web proxy servers? What the heck are you serving?
And, how will adding servers improve your stability and security? Is there some sort of hot-backup software you're using that works on both linux and windows?
Regardless, if you're using 6 servers for only 50 users you might want to investigate whether or not all of them are really necessary. First figure out what you're trying to provide to these 50 users. Only then can you figure out the simplest way to provide it.
Submitting a petition to the state park service is not a proper channel.
Talk to your legislator, or talk to a lawyer. Bureaucracies make rules, not laws. And they're sure as hell not going to take public input unless they're forced to by a law or by lawsuit.
- If someone says 0x1C2 dollars, an order of magnitude is 16.
- If someone says 111000010 dollars, an order of magnitude is 2.
- If someone says 0702 dollars, an order of magnitude is 8.
- If someone says 450 dollars, an order of magnitude is 10.
- If someone says e^6.109 dollars, an order of magnitude e?
I like my way better.