VB should be a learning language and nothing more-- it absolutely should never ever, not even if you think it'll be easier to get shipped, be used in production code
I...I...I think I love you. *Sniff* Seriously, I think VB (version 6 in particular) is a nice, elegant little language, but it makes too many "business people", especially MBAs, think they can program. Truthyfully, I'm sick and tired of explaining why I elect to use a language that is in the least little bit less English-like than VB. I'll get down on my knees and kiss Billy-boy's buttocks the day he kills off VB, VBScript, and VBA. Of course, we'll lose half our programming staff, 'cos I'm kicking them to the curb as soon as he does that, but WTF do I care? It's job security.
...there are a million products out there that will create pdfs. XmlPdf is a quite excellent and robust one, IMHO.
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If you're so obsessed with correcting people's spelling that you can't spot a joke when you see one, I'd suggest you need to lighten up a little.
If it was a pun, it wasn't funny. In order to even perceive it as a pun, you'd have to be just as moronic as the person who wrote it.
If YOU are so high-strung you leap at the chance to tell someone else to chill out, perhaps you should take your own advice. This IS the Internet; a context-less, emotion-less void. If there is one thing on the 'Net that pisses me off more than anything, it's when people like you attempt to interpret someone else's intent by reading cold, dead, unfeeling WORDS.
Christ, I've never seen anyone in so dire need of a blowjob....or a life.
Great, just great. Now I see why the UT system gets 70% of the land grant money, and A&M only gets 30%. I'm glad Oklahoma kicked the shit outta UTA this last week. Serves 'em right.
Since when did Steve Gibson start posting here as an Anonymous Coward?
Some people use a screwdriver, others use a butter knife. That's the beauty of programming; there are numerous tools and technologies at your disposal that will all achieve the effect (or at the very least, a semblance of the effect) you desire. Business users typically don't know the difference anyway, so it's really a matter of programmer's preference. Pick those you feel most appropriate to your project, and leave the rest.
Most people I know don't get the beauty of something like C++. It's a massively complex language. So complex, as a matter of fact, that you can create OTHER languages with it (via templates). But, like any other, tool or technology, take what you want from C++, and leave the rest behind.
programmers fear design because they consider it a creative process rather than a logical one; he shows that the basic principles of good user interface design are logical and not based on some mysterious, indefinable magic."
I completely identify with this statement. I loathe user interface design because, quite frankly, I don't think I have an artistic bone in my body. As a consequence, I've always concentrated on component as well as application engine design. If I were an artist AND a programmer, shit, I'd be making video games or something then, instead of writing business apps for a living.
What features is Linux missing Windows 2003 can offer?
As a developer, I can answer this one: ASP.Net (among other things). Yes, yes, I am aware of Enterprise Java, JSP, php, etc. I've used all of these in one shape or another. ASP.Net is simply, IMHO, too powerful, too easy to use, and has built-in leveraging for the significant investment my office has made in microsoft products. Don't get me wrong though. We still have a couple of *nix boxes around in production, but only for things like serving up static html and providing file-server, and ftp-server services.
I agree with the sentiment that *nix is more stable, secure, etc, but I can't ignore the overwhelmingly large developer and support community that MS products have.
...and I just set up my first Linux box (RH9) a few weeks ago. If I wanted this kind of abuse, I would stick with Microsoft!!! *Sigh* I was really loving Linux too...the freedom, the power, the non-MS-ness...
I don't have 401k; I have teacher retirement. It's one of the perks of "hiding out" (according to my corporate IT cousins who change jobs willingly or unwillingly every 6-12 months) in a comfortable, low-paying state job it's almost impossible to be fired from.
Microsoft can go straight to hell, and take everyone with them, for all I care.
Oh, that would explain it. I don't particularly care for science fiction, other than the watered down variety we get in the theaters. And don't talk to me about culture. I'm sure the guy is a wonderfully prolific sci-fi hack, but when you were reading his books and being cultured (like bacteria), I was feeling up some fine-ass titties and getting blown.
Let's just hope that they're not packed in installer executeables that contain internal checksums to verify that the executeable hasn't been tampered with...
Well, thanks for reminding the BIOS makers & OEMs, ya frickin' fartknocker!
Well, I agree, but not on lack of programming ability. I think it's a lack of imagination, or a fear of trying new technologies. I have friend who runs a game dev shop out of hong kong. He says he loves it because he can get ten programmers (with equivalent skills to an american programmer) for what he would pay two programmers in the states. The problem he has experienced repeatedly though, is that they (the hong-kong-ese programmers) follow directions exactly, but lack any imagination whatsoever. They do exactly what they are told, and no more.
How does this apply to people who have been blind since birth and suddenly (through some miracle surgery) have their sight restored? They wouldn't know a face from a goatse.cx link, since their entire environment has been interpreted via sensory input collected from senses other than sight. Be an interesting study though. Quick! Someone write a doctoral thesis on this! Stat!
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VB should be a learning language and nothing more-- it absolutely should never ever, not even if you think it'll be easier to get shipped, be used in production code
I...I...I think I love you. *Sniff* Seriously, I think VB (version 6 in particular) is a nice, elegant little language, but it makes too many "business people", especially MBAs, think they can program. Truthyfully, I'm sick and tired of explaining why I elect to use a language that is in the least little bit less English-like than VB. I'll get down on my knees and kiss Billy-boy's buttocks the day he kills off VB, VBScript, and VBA. Of course, we'll lose half our programming staff, 'cos I'm kicking them to the curb as soon as he does that, but WTF do I care? It's job security.
*Cough*,*Gag*,*spits*
...how often do you patch?
Every damn day. I've been trying to quit smoking forever. LOl!!!11111
>:^)
...there are a million products out there that will create pdfs. XmlPdf is a quite excellent and robust one, IMHO.
- If it was a pun, it wasn't funny. In order to even perceive it as a pun, you'd have to be just as moronic as the person who wrote it.
- If YOU are so high-strung you leap at the chance to tell someone else to chill out, perhaps you should take your own advice. This IS the Internet; a context-less, emotion-less void. If there is one thing on the 'Net that pisses me off more than anything, it's when people like you attempt to interpret someone else's intent by reading cold, dead, unfeeling WORDS.
Christ, I've never seen anyone in so dire need of a blowjob....or a life....cost the University of Texas $38 million...
Great, just great. Now I see why the UT system gets 70% of the land grant money, and A&M only gets 30%. I'm glad Oklahoma kicked the shit outta UTA this last week. Serves 'em right.
Saw 'em off, beeeeooottch!
Real men code in assembler
Since when did Steve Gibson start posting here as an Anonymous Coward?
Some people use a screwdriver, others use a butter knife. That's the beauty of programming; there are numerous tools and technologies at your disposal that will all achieve the effect (or at the very least, a semblance of the effect) you desire. Business users typically don't know the difference anyway, so it's really a matter of programmer's preference. Pick those you feel most appropriate to your project, and leave the rest.
Most people I know don't get the beauty of something like C++. It's a massively complex language. So complex, as a matter of fact, that you can create OTHER languages with it (via templates). But, like any other, tool or technology, take what you want from C++, and leave the rest behind.
isn't your first response to check it out on Google?
nope.
...I just got done...
Uhm, ok. So now are you "fixing to go get something to eat"?
wtf is 24, and who is jack? seriously. I don't know.
programmers fear design because they consider it a creative process rather than a logical one; he shows that the basic principles of good user interface design are logical and not based on some mysterious, indefinable magic."
I completely identify with this statement. I loathe user interface design because, quite frankly, I don't think I have an artistic bone in my body. As a consequence, I've always concentrated on component as well as application engine design. If I were an artist AND a programmer, shit, I'd be making video games or something then, instead of writing business apps for a living.
What features is Linux missing Windows 2003 can offer?
As a developer, I can answer this one: ASP.Net (among other things). Yes, yes, I am aware of Enterprise Java, JSP, php, etc. I've used all of these in one shape or another. ASP.Net is simply, IMHO, too powerful, too easy to use, and has built-in leveraging for the significant investment my office has made in microsoft products. Don't get me wrong though. We still have a couple of *nix boxes around in production, but only for things like serving up static html and providing file-server, and ftp-server services.
I agree with the sentiment that *nix is more stable, secure, etc, but I can't ignore the overwhelmingly large developer and support community that MS products have.
...and I just set up my first Linux box (RH9) a few weeks ago. If I wanted this kind of abuse, I would stick with Microsoft!!! *Sigh* I was really loving Linux too...the freedom, the power, the non-MS-ness...
>;^(
My understanding is that they will strip off everything but the BSD-based TCP stack and Services for Unix.
*DUH* >:^B
That's the part that works LOL.
Which is better (for Linux), Open Office or Star Office? MS Office compatibility is nice, but not essential. Thanks Linux folk.
will be running a stripped down version of windows
For Christs' sake, I hope they strip out the part that causes Windows to blue-screen every 5 minutes.
half of every American's 401(k) with them
I don't have 401k; I have teacher retirement. It's one of the perks of "hiding out" (according to my corporate IT cousins who change jobs willingly or unwillingly every 6-12 months) in a comfortable, low-paying state job it's almost impossible to be fired from.
Microsoft can go straight to hell, and take everyone with them, for all I care.
Any insight on that is much appreciated.
.Net by Don Box; it'll answer any and all questions you have about the CLR, and the examples are even written using C#.
Read Essential
Not exactly bedside reading material, but I give it an enthusiastic two thumbs up!
Soredewa! (-_-)
a master Science Fiction writer
Oh, that would explain it. I don't particularly care for science fiction, other than the watered down variety we get in the theaters. And don't talk to me about culture. I'm sure the guy is a wonderfully prolific sci-fi hack, but when you were reading his books and being cultured (like bacteria), I was feeling up some fine-ass titties and getting blown.
Oh, and Starship Troopers (the movie) sucked ass.
WTF is the GNAA and who gives a *fart*
Never heard of him.
Let's just hope that they're not packed in installer executeables that contain internal checksums to verify that the executeable hasn't been tampered with...
Well, thanks for reminding the BIOS makers & OEMs, ya frickin' fartknocker!
Well, I agree, but not on lack of programming ability. I think it's a lack of imagination, or a fear of trying new technologies. I have friend who runs a game dev shop out of hong kong. He says he loves it because he can get ten programmers (with equivalent skills to an american programmer) for what he would pay two programmers in the states. The problem he has experienced repeatedly though, is that they (the hong-kong-ese programmers) follow directions exactly, but lack any imagination whatsoever. They do exactly what they are told, and no more.
Anyhow this is what happens when you have a bunch of programmers from India working on your code.
and just think, pretty soon these guys in India will have your job!
Human face recognition is also built-in.
How does this apply to people who have been blind since birth and suddenly (through some miracle surgery) have their sight restored? They wouldn't know a face from a goatse.cx link, since their entire environment has been interpreted via sensory input collected from senses other than sight. Be an interesting study though. Quick! Someone write a doctoral thesis on this! Stat!