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"Browsers & HTML aren't a platform for building rich, interactive applications."
True. Unfortunately try telling that to gullible middle management who listen sheep fashion to all the marketing evangelists from various vested interests trying to flog them WebBaseAppOfTheWeek and then think virtually anything can be done easily or efficiently with a browser.
Re:excuses. Kids are not a hindrance to learning..
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Man , you're just Mr Fuckin-Amazing arn't you. Do you wear a cloak and stand around with your fists on your hips a lot while surveying us lesser mortals and just shaking your head in disbelief that some people just like to relax after working their arses off in an office for 10 hours?
What , you mean like a Java compiler and JVM for example? Or did you think they were written in Java (which in turn was written in java etc, turtles all the way down)?
Err, yeah, right, whatever. I mean obviously millions are worrying about the data format of word documents and I heard that even Bono discussed it with major world leaders and the Pope recently , but personally if I'm going to support a good cause I got for stuff like oxfam or the red cross or cancer research. Call me old fashioned if you will.
"more fragments of apocryiphal and gnostic texts continue to be found."
Hmm , yes , they'd take up at least a few pages of A4. Besides which, I wouldn't trust religious nutters with any kind of standard to be used by normal people.
Experts from Boeing, bring them on. Experts from the Society of Biblical Literature?? Wtf?? What the hell have they got to do with a computer data formatting standard??
Or did they just require some people who had experience of a large project at its Genesis.
Personally I'd sooner spend a whole 30 mins (gasp) in a shop and get stuff that I think looks ok , than rely on some 18 year old packer to pick veg etc out of the almost-out-of-sell-by-date basket that the shop wants to clear out.
True , but on the other hand for your average user it makes little odds whether you have a "full" driver or a partial driver that talks to the serial port. They're not going to care if you can just plug the hardware into the port and do cat "wibble" >/dev/ttyS0 from a shell prompt to make it wibbulate. They're going to want a GUI wrapper on that.
If someone goes to this sort of trouble to get your details they won't be using them to get a few hundred here or their out of ATMs. No , you'll be buying Mr Nthungu Kwaweli of Lawless Province, Nigeria, his 4th AMG SL 600 and a side order of AK47s.
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UFS would be good for cross platform. Its been around for a long time, supports ACLs and I suspect wouldn't be too hard to implement since you could just use the BSD code. Chances of it happening though I suspect are slim.
If you want to get rid of workers you make them redundant and give them a payoff. You don't just boot them out on their arses. This isn't the 19th century.
How can you fire programmers for a group failure? Normally a sacking that quick only results from gross misconduct. How can any individual coder be accused of gross misconduct for a bad product arising from a TEAM effort? Unless management went through the code module by module and tallied up the bugs in each and fired anyones who tally when over some limit. Even so, I feel some lawsuits gestating if this really is true (and not simply journo hype).
How can you fire programmers for a group failure? Normally a sacking that quick only results from gross misconduct. How can any individual coder be accused of gross misconduct for a bad product arising from a TEAM effort? Unless management went through the code module by module and tallied up the bugs in each and fired anyones who tally when over some limit. Even so, I feel some lawsuits gestating if this really is true (and not simply journo hype).
If you're a quadraplegic in an electric wheelchair and it breaks down you're not going to be able to do much about that either. So whats the difference?
Not necessarily. Electric chairs are generally reserved for quadraplegics, not people who have full use of their upper torso. They get the manual chairs, and those require 2 hands.
The problem with small high revving engines is that all their power is in the top of the rev range meaning you've got bugger all low down where you need it when for example pulling away (unless you want to burn the clutch out). You also spend all your time changing gears to keep the engine in its sweet spot if you can get it up there to start with. Theres a good reason 170bhp 14000rpm motorbike engines arn't used in cars.
"Bottom line: You don't have to buy a matchbox vehicle to save on fuel. Just dump a few cylinders from the engine."
Problem is , large cars and small engines don't go well together. I remember test driving an old opel omega with a 2.0 engine. It was so slow it felt like I was driving a bus and I would have no confidence pulling out into fast moving traffic in it. I didn't buy it.
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"Browsers & HTML aren't a platform for building rich, interactive applications."
True. Unfortunately try telling that to gullible middle management who listen
sheep fashion to all the marketing evangelists from various vested interests
trying to flog them WebBaseAppOfTheWeek and then think virtually anything can
be done easily or efficiently with a browser.
Man , you're just Mr Fuckin-Amazing arn't you. Do you wear a cloak and stand
around with your fists on your hips a lot while surveying us lesser mortals
and just shaking your head in disbelief that some people just like to relax
after working their arses off in an office for 10 hours?
"Oh yeah and sleep is overrated. "
Yeah , whatever. Idiot.
What , you mean like a Java compiler and JVM for example?
Or did you think they were written in Java (which in turn
was written in java etc, turtles all the way down)?
"doing and partly to support a good cause."
Err, yeah, right, whatever. I mean obviously millions are worrying about the
data format of word documents and I heard that even Bono discussed it with
major world leaders and the Pope recently , but personally if I'm going to
support a good cause I got for stuff like oxfam or the red cross or cancer
research. Call me old fashioned if you will.
"more fragments of apocryiphal and gnostic texts continue to be found."
Hmm , yes , they'd take up at least a few pages of A4. Besides which, I
wouldn't trust religious nutters with any kind of standard to be used
by normal people.
Experts from Boeing, bring them on.
Experts from the Society of Biblical Literature?? Wtf?? What the hell
have they got to do with a computer data formatting standard??
Or did they just require some people who had experience of a
large project at its Genesis.
No , but its within walking distance. And if you know what you
want to buy and go at a quiet time its very quick.
Personally I'd sooner spend a whole 30 mins (gasp) in a shop and
get stuff that I think looks ok , than rely on some 18 year old
packer to pick veg etc out of the almost-out-of-sell-by-date basket
that the shop wants to clear out.
Err , no. Try reading the quote again. You might understand it at
some point.
True , but on the other hand for your average user it makes little /dev/ttyS0
odds whether you have a "full" driver or a partial driver that
talks to the serial port. They're not going to care if you can
just plug the hardware into the port and do cat "wibble" >
from a shell prompt to make it wibbulate. They're going to
want a GUI wrapper on that.
... I think he must've been headbutted by a whale at some point!
If someone goes to this sort of trouble to get your details they won't
be using them to get a few hundred here or their out of ATMs. No , you'll be
buying Mr Nthungu Kwaweli of Lawless Province, Nigeria, his 4th AMG SL 600 and
a side order of AK47s.
You're just taking the piss.
UFS would be good for cross platform. Its been around for a long time, supports
ACLs and I suspect wouldn't be too hard to implement since you could just
use the BSD code. Chances of it happening though I suspect are slim.
"Aaah, if only MS would publish the NTFS specs..."
Who cares anymore , it was reverse engineered long ago. How do you think
you get NTFS support under Linux?
If you want to get rid of workers you make them redundant and give them
a payoff. You don't just boot them out on their arses. This isn't the
19th century.
Uh , thats wierd. I *did* post to that story.
How can you fire programmers for a group failure? Normally a sacking that
quick only results from gross misconduct. How can any individual coder
be accused of gross misconduct for a bad product arising from a TEAM effort?
Unless management went through the code module by module and tallied up the
bugs in each and fired anyones who tally when over some limit. Even so, I
feel some lawsuits gestating if this really is true (and not simply journo
hype).
How can you fire programmers for a group failure? Normally a sacking that
quick only results from gross misconduct. How can any individual coder
be accused of gross misconduct for a bad product arising from a TEAM effort?
Unless management went through the code module by module and tallied up the
bugs in each and fired anyones who tally when over some limit. Even so, I
feel some lawsuits gestating if this really is true (and not simply journo
hype).
... use *nix.
If you're a quadraplegic in an electric wheelchair and it
breaks down you're not going to be able to do much about
that either. So whats the difference?
Not necessarily. Electric chairs are generally reserved for
quadraplegics, not people who have full use of their upper
torso. They get the manual chairs, and those require 2 hands.
It wasn't an american car, its a european model.
The problem with small high revving engines is that all their power is in
the top of the rev range meaning you've got bugger all low down where
you need it when for example pulling away (unless you want to burn the
clutch out). You also spend all your time changing gears to keep the
engine in its sweet spot if you can get it up there to start with.
Theres a good reason 170bhp 14000rpm motorbike engines arn't used in cars.
"that most of our energy "
Who is "our"? Depends on the country. France for example gets 75%
of its electricity from nuclear.
"Bottom line: You don't have to buy a matchbox vehicle to save on fuel. Just dump a few cylinders from the engine."
Problem is , large cars and small engines don't go well together.
I remember test driving an old opel omega with a 2.0 engine. It was so
slow it felt like I was driving a bus and I would have no confidence
pulling out into fast moving traffic in it. I didn't buy it.