Bush made a deal with Japan to damage South Korea's economy in return for Japan acting as a stalking horse in starting a war with North Korea - which in turn Japan hopes will damage competitor South Korea's economy further...
Except of course the North Koreans will slip nukes into Tokyo Bay - not to mention Seattle, Oakland and Long Beach - and cost the Japanese - and the US - a few hundred billion dollars...
trying to explain away what Hatch said instead of simply identifying him as just another senile old Senator who should have been turned out to pasture years ago...
That was MY biggest mistake - not learning when to write crap to satisfy the boss! And then getting pissed off about it and quitting - which bites you later when you're looking for a job...
Multicentrix is over $600 although there is apparently a Lite version for $72 - don't know how crippled that version is. Sounds like an interesting product, tho...
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how much money does he have to finance a lawsuit against SCO?
SCO against IBM is a non-starter - one guy against SCO is also likely a non-starter...
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1) We have no function names, no file names, not even a precise description of what code or comments. Now, true, this guy says he was shown PAGES of code - NOT files, but Xerox copies - and that most of the Linux code was from Linux mailing list posts. Still, he can't write down (or remember, if he was not allowed to write notes) function names or specific comments? Something fishy, there.
2) He says some of the comments are identical but the code next to them ISN'T. This makes no sense unless SCO manipulated the comments. But why would SCO place identical comments next to non-identical code? Isn't that an OBVIOUS fake? Why would SCO do an OBVIOUS fake? Are they that stupid? Or was it an attempt to show fake code to analysts that will NOT be shown to the court - in other words, a publicity stunt?
3) This story doesn't resolve anything or even contribute to anything given its omissions and ambiguity.
What TV does is stimulate the imagination (sometimes not very much, considering the pap like "Friends", but still...depends on your interests - I suppose Friends could stimulate sombody's imagination - certainly Courtney Cox can stimulate mine...). The end result is shaped by the basic nature of the persons whose imagination is being stimulated.
Blaming TV for this is like blaming the sun or the moon for poets who laud them...
What is the alternative? Brain-dead people with no imagination...which is pretty much how I'd imagine Bhutan to be before TV...Okay, that might be harsh, I'm sure the people there are like anyone else and have been occupying their imagination in other ways for thousands of years.
The point is, now they can imagine the Western way of doing things - money, sex, violence, rock and roll and drugs...which they probably consider much more interesting than their way in the same manner that Western Oriental enthusiasts adopt Asian religion and martial arts and customs...
Whereas a break somewhere in the middle of the loop simply means, "I'm bugging out! See if you can figure out why!"
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"But can you sit down in a room with a bunch of whining user representatives with conflicting and incomplete requirements, a project sponsor with a too-tiny budget, a director who doesn't know the meaning of the word "no", a legacy code base written in the 1980s but bought three years ago because of the glossy brochure, while forty thousand client machines are grinding to a halt because some fool messed with the permissions setting on a database?"
Having lived through variants of that nonsense, I can advise you to quit your job NOW...You are absolutely wasting your time...Any organization that fucked up (which is most of them) should be dumped before it harms your mental and physical health.
regardless of whether the state prevents them from getting it at the library Net station...
Seriously, this is stupid. How the hell can an email sender determine whether someone who checks the email account is of legal age?
What's the matter? Iraq over with (supposedly) so now we start worrying about porn again?
You want to get rid of spam? Devise a technical solution. Otherwise, forget it. Even making spam illegal will never get rid of spam (it might reduce it somewhat) and dragging up this sort of complaint is just a waste of everybody's time.
Not to mention that the only way to get rid of spam is to convince EVERYONE in the world to NEVER CLICK ON IT! LOL!
When *I* was in school - that is, the 1960's - I was told my handwriting was lousy. So I started printing in cursive script - i.e., I don't connect the letters I write, I separate them.
Over the last thirty years, I have YET to see ANYONE's handwriting that is more legible than mine (and others have said so - and others have also been surprised at how fast I can print legibly).
What this personal experience means is - you monkeys never could write worth a fuck...so who cares if a kid can't figure out how to hold a pencil? He'll grow up to be a doctor anyway...or George Bush...
"The seventies lasted only ten years, so you cannot have programmed for fifteen years during the seventies..." This is idiotic - STARTING in the seventies, moron...
"You weren't even doing structured programming, much less OOP or event-driven programming." Structured programming came into vogue in the mid-to-late seventies and I practiced it. Event-driven programming was available in FoxPro in the early nineties and I practiced it.
"If you were really a techie, you'd be using Linux or FreeBSD by now." I have Red Hat 7.3 on my new box and Red Hat 7.0 on the old box. I use Windows 98 because that's what I had on the old machine and I don't feel like paying Microsoft $200 for anything newer. Plus I hope in the next couple months to do away with it completely and rely on Linux.
I have just completed a certificate program in UNIX/Open Systems plus three semesters of C++ as well as Perl and UNIX Systems Programming in C. I'd like to see you go back to school in twenty years and get three A's and a B in your last semester, rocket scientist...
This does not mean however that I intend to get back in the game as a professional programmer. I learned my lesson on that - programmers in the commercial marketplace are essentially clerks with lots of responsibility and no authority - which is why they run their mouths about their technical skills while bending over and kissing ass to the financial types. Only the open source people can get away with doing what they want - unfortunately none of them can make any money unless they work for Red Hat or consult on the side.
No, I'm going to use the knowledge I've gained in the last year and a half to administer my own system and write my own stuff from the ground up the right way.
Back in the eighties, Ted Nelson said at a West Coast Computer Faire that there was no acceptable software on the market. He was serious and he was right - and if he said it today, he'd still be right.
The crap you geek clowns put out is pathetic. At least Linux and other open source projects are advancing rapidly but they still are based on primitive and ineffective system design and development technologies. OOP is just a few principles extracted from AI research and applied imperfectly to the system design process. It will be superceded in the coming years by more effective methods. But those methods won't come from code-heads buried in current programming technigues.
Somebody wrote in Computer Language some years back that probably only 2% of programmers read one programming book a year or subscribed to the magazine. You so-called "professionals" are nothing more than "hacks" (and I don't mean in the positive sense of "hackers") and your output is garbage. Go work for Microsoft - you're the kind of mouth they need up there to justify their crap.
"Many of the early independents were resilient film exhibitors who ventured into production when they found their supply of film threatened. Carl Laemmle (Independent Motion Picture Company or IMP), Harry E. Aitken (Majestic Films), and Adolph Zukor (Famous Players) were among the pioneering independents who protested the Trust, and then laid the foundation for the Hollywood studios. Having entered the business through exhibition, they determined that they liked production better, and got out of the theater business as the nickelodeon boom ended around 1911."
In other words, the movie studios WERE STARTED BY PIRATES! (i.e., independents who were defying the copyrights and patents of the companies described in the articles).
First of all, I was not actually angry - I was disgusted by the incompetence displayed by the system designer - which is very common in the industry.
Secondly, my point about not understanding enough Apache was that REGARDLESS it should not require any designer to have to handle things that way.
Third, the error message displayed - while correct in telling the user to contact their sys admin - was displayed incompetently in a manner which would certainly confuse the end user - probably to the point of not bothering to visit the Web site again. Keep in mind this was not an application that blew up, but a Web site. If your Web site blows up, people won't come back. It's that simple.
The fact of the matter is that the level of incompetence in the IT industry is now taken for granted and accepted. Geeks who may be clever coders but lousy system designers are in charge. One reason I left programming after 15 years was this situation.
And yes, geeks who can't write an intelligible error message (intelligible to whomever has to MAINTAIN the app after they take the money and run) are morons...
First of all, I programmed for fifteen years in RPG, Cobol, and xBASE starting in the seventies.
Secondly, I am well aware that it is useful to have the end user report an error message. The question is how? You don't just dump the message to the screen. The user must be informed that a system error has occurred and that he should contact his system administrator (which in fact the error message in question did say, IIRC). However, the way the message was displayed would have been utterly confusing to anyone visiting the Web page.
In fact, it would be better to simply log the error (if possible) to an error file and simply put up a message that says a system error has occurred. The programmer can check the log for the actual error. In some system problems, of course, this might not be possible, but it's a better technigue than simply dumping the message to the screen to baffle the end user.
The fact of the matter is that error messages written by programmers - instead of system designers, who really are responsible - tend to be short, incomprehensible to anyone else (including maintenance programmers, note) and displayed at the wrong time to the wrong people.
In short, one reason why I'm not programming now is the level of incompetence in the field is now taken for granted and accepted as normal. The result is crap like Windows 98...
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Bush made a deal with Japan to damage South Korea's economy in return for Japan acting as a stalking horse in starting a war with North Korea - which in turn Japan hopes will damage competitor South Korea's economy further...
Except of course the North Koreans will slip nukes into Tokyo Bay - not to mention Seattle, Oakland and Long Beach - and cost the Japanese - and the US - a few hundred billion dollars...
Your tax dollars at work...
Have a nice day.
trying to explain away what Hatch said instead of simply identifying him as just another senile old Senator who should have been turned out to pasture years ago...
Fucking moron...
bowels of the Internet...
/. described so concisely before...
Never heard
High colonic - I think that's a hiccuping drunk US Army colonel in Iraq?
God, was that ever a good post! MOD PARENT UP!
That was MY biggest mistake - not learning when to write crap to satisfy the boss! And then getting pissed off about it and quitting - which bites you later when you're looking for a job...
Multicentrix is over $600 although there is apparently a Lite version for $72 - don't know how crippled that version is. Sounds like an interesting product, tho...
how much money does he have to finance a lawsuit against SCO?
SCO against IBM is a non-starter - one guy against SCO is also likely a non-starter...
1) We have no function names, no file names, not even a precise description of what code or comments. Now, true, this guy says he was shown PAGES of code - NOT files, but Xerox copies - and that most of the Linux code was from Linux mailing list posts. Still, he can't write down (or remember, if he was not allowed to write notes) function names or specific comments? Something fishy, there.
2) He says some of the comments are identical but the code next to them ISN'T. This makes no sense unless SCO manipulated the comments. But why would SCO place identical comments next to non-identical code? Isn't that an OBVIOUS fake? Why would SCO do an OBVIOUS fake? Are they that stupid? Or was it an attempt to show fake code to analysts that will NOT be shown to the court - in other words, a publicity stunt?
3) This story doesn't resolve anything or even contribute to anything given its omissions and ambiguity.
Have you ever heard of imagination?
What TV does is stimulate the imagination (sometimes not very much, considering the pap like "Friends", but still...depends on your interests - I suppose Friends could stimulate sombody's imagination - certainly Courtney Cox can stimulate mine...). The end result is shaped by the basic nature of the persons whose imagination is being stimulated.
Blaming TV for this is like blaming the sun or the moon for poets who laud them...
What is the alternative? Brain-dead people with no imagination...which is pretty much how I'd imagine Bhutan to be before TV...Okay, that might be harsh, I'm sure the people there are like anyone else and have been occupying their imagination in other ways for thousands of years.
The point is, now they can imagine the Western way of doing things - money, sex, violence, rock and roll and drugs...which they probably consider much more interesting than their way in the same manner that Western Oriental enthusiasts adopt Asian religion and martial arts and customs...
What makes the expression "!Found" hard to read?
Does it not state precisely what it means?
Whereas a break somewhere in the middle of the loop simply means, "I'm bugging out! See if you can figure out why!"
"But can you sit down in a room with a bunch of whining user representatives with conflicting and incomplete requirements, a project sponsor with a too-tiny budget, a director who doesn't know the meaning of the word "no", a legacy code base written in the 1980s but bought three years ago because of the glossy brochure, while forty thousand client machines are grinding to a halt because some fool messed with the permissions setting on a database?"
Having lived through variants of that nonsense, I can advise you to quit your job NOW...You are absolutely wasting your time...Any organization that fucked up (which is most of them) should be dumped before it harms your mental and physical health.
"which we all respect and believe in.'"
What do you mean "we", Rama Tut?
one hopes...
They're paying it back now, apparently...Third gold shipment worth scores of millions of dollars intercepted the other day...
regardless of whether the state prevents them from getting it at the library Net station...
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Seriously, this is stupid. How the hell can an email sender determine whether someone who checks the email account is of legal age?
What's the matter? Iraq over with (supposedly) so now we start worrying about porn again?
You want to get rid of spam? Devise a technical solution. Otherwise, forget it. Even making spam illegal will never get rid of spam (it might reduce it somewhat) and dragging up this sort of complaint is just a waste of everybody's time.
Not to mention that the only way to get rid of spam is to convince EVERYONE in the world to NEVER CLICK ON IT! LOL!
Must be a slow news day at
When *I* was in school - that is, the 1960's - I was told my handwriting was lousy. So I started printing in cursive script - i.e., I don't connect the letters I write, I separate them.
Over the last thirty years, I have YET to see ANYONE's handwriting that is more legible than mine (and others have said so - and others have also been surprised at how fast I can print legibly).
What this personal experience means is - you monkeys never could write worth a fuck...so who cares if a kid can't figure out how to hold a pencil? He'll grow up to be a doctor anyway...or George Bush...
No hooker? C'mon, get serious...Has to be a hooker...
Or at least a blow-up doll...
No porn on the big screen TV?
C'mon...
"The seventies lasted only ten years, so you cannot have programmed for fifteen years during the seventies..." This is idiotic - STARTING in the seventies, moron...
"You weren't even doing structured programming, much less OOP or event-driven programming." Structured programming came into vogue in the mid-to-late seventies and I practiced it. Event-driven programming was available in FoxPro in the early nineties and I practiced it.
"If you were really a techie, you'd be using Linux
or FreeBSD by now." I have Red Hat 7.3 on my new box and Red Hat 7.0 on the old box. I use Windows 98 because that's what I had on the old machine and I don't feel like paying Microsoft $200 for anything newer. Plus I hope in the next couple months to do away with it completely and rely on Linux.
I have just completed a certificate program in UNIX/Open Systems plus three semesters of C++ as well as Perl and UNIX Systems Programming in C. I'd like to see you go back to school in twenty years and get three A's and a B in your last semester, rocket scientist...
This does not mean however that I intend to get back in the game as a professional programmer. I learned my lesson on that - programmers in the commercial marketplace are essentially clerks with lots of responsibility and no authority - which is why they run their mouths about their technical skills while bending over and kissing ass to the financial types. Only the open source people can get away with doing what they want - unfortunately none of them can make any money unless they work for Red Hat or consult on the side.
No, I'm going to use the knowledge I've gained in the last year and a half to administer my own system and write my own stuff from the ground up the right way.
Back in the eighties, Ted Nelson said at a West Coast Computer Faire that there was no acceptable software on the market. He was serious and he was right - and if he said it today, he'd still be right.
The crap you geek clowns put out is pathetic. At least Linux and other open source projects are advancing rapidly but they still are based on primitive and ineffective system design and development technologies. OOP is just a few principles extracted from AI research and applied imperfectly to the system design process. It will be superceded in the coming years by more effective methods. But those methods won't come from code-heads buried in current programming technigues.
Somebody wrote in Computer Language some years back that probably only 2% of programmers read one programming book a year or subscribed to the magazine. You so-called "professionals" are nothing more than "hacks" (and I don't mean in the positive sense of "hackers") and your output is garbage. Go work for Microsoft - you're the kind of mouth they need up there to justify their crap.
Didn't read the article, did you?
"Many of the early independents were resilient film exhibitors who ventured into production when they found their supply of film threatened. Carl Laemmle (Independent Motion Picture Company or IMP), Harry E. Aitken (Majestic Films), and Adolph Zukor (Famous Players) were among the pioneering independents who protested the Trust, and then laid the foundation for the Hollywood studios. Having entered the business through exhibition, they determined that they liked production better, and got out of the theater business as the nickelodeon boom ended around 1911."
In other words, the movie studios WERE STARTED BY PIRATES! (i.e., independents who were defying the copyrights and patents of the companies described in the articles).
in Tongue Magazine with Aimee...
Gene: So, Aimee, did you ever, you know, with another girl?
Aimee: Only Sarah Deutsch...
Gene: Right. And this thing about Lessig?
Aimee: I love men with glasses.
Gene: I hate it when that happens...
Yeah, and I get flamed for pointing out that geeks write lousy error messages...
And for those talking about bean counters, Apache isn't even a commercial app.... Whose bean counters are working in open source?
No, these are pure geeks who can't code either...
Sloppyness is a geek attribute along with cleverness and obtuseness...
You work for Microsoft, right?
First of all, I was not actually angry - I was disgusted by the incompetence displayed by the system designer - which is very common in the industry.
Secondly, my point about not understanding enough Apache was that REGARDLESS it should not require any designer to have to handle things that way.
Third, the error message displayed - while correct in telling the user to contact their sys admin - was displayed incompetently in a manner which would certainly confuse the end user - probably to the point of not bothering to visit the Web site again. Keep in mind this was not an application that blew up, but a Web site. If your Web site blows up, people won't come back. It's that simple.
The fact of the matter is that the level of incompetence in the IT industry is now taken for granted and accepted. Geeks who may be clever coders but lousy system designers are in charge. One reason I left programming after 15 years was this situation.
And yes, geeks who can't write an intelligible error message (intelligible to whomever has to MAINTAIN the app after they take the money and run) are morons...
First of all, I programmed for fifteen years in RPG, Cobol, and xBASE starting in the seventies.
Secondly, I am well aware that it is useful to have the end user report an error message. The question is how? You don't just dump the message to the screen. The user must be informed that a system error has occurred and that he should contact his system administrator (which in fact the error message in question did say, IIRC). However, the way the message was displayed would have been utterly confusing to anyone visiting the Web page.
In fact, it would be better to simply log the error (if possible) to an error file and simply put up a message that says a system error has occurred. The programmer can check the log for the actual error. In some system problems, of course, this might not be possible, but it's a better technigue than simply dumping the message to the screen to baffle the end user.
The fact of the matter is that error messages written by programmers - instead of system designers, who really are responsible - tend to be short, incomprehensible to anyone else (including maintenance programmers, note) and displayed at the wrong time to the wrong people.
In short, one reason why I'm not programming now is the level of incompetence in the field is now taken for granted and accepted as normal. The result is crap like Windows 98...
and some of Moller's aircars outfitted with cruise missiles, I CAN RULE THE WORLD!
Oh, wait, Bush is already...