Actually, I recently wrote a Windows Forms application to an Access backend via ADO.NET/OLEDB. This was written FOR a Ma & Pa sort of shop.
Access was the perfect solution to the problem. It worked brilliantly.
Python & Pysqlite were also considered, but the startup time was a problem. Which I thought was a major shame, but without Access &.NET I would have had to waste a lot of time or deliver a sub-optimal solution...
When it's acceptable to laugh at 9/11 corpses (3% of death toll at hiroshima) in polite company, I'll laugh with you about nukes.
While I understand your post is a passionate one, and largely understandable, I think it's wrong of you to say "Hey, more people died in this disaster than that disaster."
A corpse is a corpse. A tragedy is a tragedy. There's no comparison, there's no reasoning, there's just death.
It doesn't matter if it's one person or a million: loss of life sucks.
Fact: People, particularly the western world, are fools. We've been brought up that way. Dumbed down, consumered up.
Fact: Other people don't care about us, they care about themselves. Do you care about Australia's sugarcane industry? Do I? Well, uh, not really, no. It doesn't really affect me.
Well, it does, but it's far too complex for me to bother working out so hey, I'll take the easy way out and ignore it like the rest of Australia.
Actually, in Australia people would probably care more about sugarcane than IT. But that's a whole other post.
Anyways, stop vesting your faith in people. The government is no better.
Kapersky has flagged it as a Trojan, though I still stand firm in my belief that this is in no way a trojan as it does nothing even slightly malicious.
Uh, so posting IP & date/time information on a public web site for all to see isn't malicious?
Well, if it helps you sleep...
What are you trying to do exactly? TRYING to fuck up people's lives?
I reported a showstopper bug two days ago that crashed Apache 2 hard.
It's been fixed now, but I don't see how they can go and say "Oh, it's really really getting there now" after bugs like that have been discovered so recently.
But PHP's development is odd to say the least. In the Betas alone, entire sections of functionality have been rewritten. From scratch. I mean, shit.
Don't get me wrong, PHP is a great language and PHP5 is a step in the right direction but the development of PHP seems, to me at least, so hell for leather.
Most of the useful stuff (i.e. not Windows Forms, not SqlClient afaik) has been standardized via the ECMA.
The Windows Forms port should never have started. Simple as that. It's dangerous legally, its usefulness is questionable. Personally, I like it when developing for Windows, but for Linux it's just a hack.
If there's any part of.NET that is critical to.NET on Linux which is not in the ECMA standard, somebody for the love of god enlighten me and the Mono/PNET developers.
As a Java programmer, maybe im bias but i really hope that.net doesnt become the de-facto language on the linux client.
Feels like 10 years building a viable alternative to Microsoft and just as the goal is in sight... handing it over:o\
Bah. Programming languages are programming languages, irrespective of who came up with them. Developing software for Linux with.NET does NOT necessarily make Microsoft a winner. If it does, where's your reasoning?
Avoiding Windows Forms is your first step to ensuring Microsoft is not a winner. Look into wx.NET (however incomplete it may be, it looks promising).
Yes it's their tech, yes they're evil, no it's not the death knell for Linux.
Last time I tried learning to program with gtk2, the API reference manual was soo incomplete (incomplete function description, calling semantics, etc.)
I had little trouble picking up GTK+ 2.0 and bits of GLlib. The reference manual is not "soo incomplete" - a few widgets are poorly documented, and you'll need to go digging elsewhere for info, but for most part it's not too horrendous.
That is the greatest argument for requiring a hard expiration date on all laws.
Yeah, just look what it's doing for the lifetime of copyright in the US. The government is blatantly stealing from the public on behalf of corporations in that particular instance.
I strongly doubt that refinement would be to the benefit of a supposedly free country. It just raises more opportunities for the public to get fucked over. More so.
We're not given the choice of whether or not we want to view it (as with all advertisting, it's thrust in our face without concern for whether or not we're interested), and we're paying to watch it.
I feel for the Telstra Cable customers on 300Mb p/m plans who generally won't know any better and will visits sites containing these ads which may very well contribute significantly to their download limit. Worse, once they hit their limit they're charged AU 20c per MB.
Something like this could get expensive fast. I hope it does, and I hope/pray that lawsuits ensue.
But, knowing this wonderful world of ours, I sure as fucking hell doubt it.
Standards were made so that developers wouldn't have to do things like this.
What you're suggesting makes it easier for web designers and harder for software developers, who should instead be devoting their time to making things standards compliant - not supporting other people's broken code.
You think that's bad? Microsoft's released so many versions of their software they've stopped using numbers and started using witty combinations of letters like "ME" and "XP".:P
The good looking, intelligent girl over there at the bar that you'd really like to talk to doesn't care much whether you are famous amongst a group of geeks and neither does she even remotely fathom why you'd be famous for that stuff in the first place.
Erm... well, I don't brag about being a geek. I happily admit to being one, but I don't walk up to "good looking, intelligent girls" and say "Yo, I'm a code jockey."
Would you?
This is the oddest point he makes in his entire rant. I mean, chances are if you run around in circles screaming "Geekgeekgeekgeekgeekgeek!" you're not an intelligent person, and I doubt you could hold intelligent conversation and so I seriously doubt that the said good looking, intelligent girl would think twice about talking to you.
I mean, there's no shame in being a geek but this guy makes out that we rave about it at every possible opportunity.
I may be taking this in too broad a sense (i.e. he might be talking directly about the dude he sent it too) but to me it sounds like he's playing the stereotype game.
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Yeah but then democracy happened and since then no democratic state can plan more than about 4 years ahead.
On the plus side, we're not all carrying large boulders around on our backs.
What's with all these languages that start with 'p'?
They're all programming languages maybe?
Actually, I recently wrote a Windows Forms application to an Access backend via ADO.NET/OLEDB. This was written FOR a Ma & Pa sort of shop.
.NET I would have had to waste a lot of time or deliver a sub-optimal solution ...
Access was the perfect solution to the problem. It worked brilliantly.
Python & Pysqlite were also considered, but the startup time was a problem. Which I thought was a major shame, but without Access &
When it's acceptable to laugh at 9/11 corpses (3% of death toll at hiroshima) in polite company, I'll laugh with you about nukes.
While I understand your post is a passionate one, and largely understandable, I think it's wrong of you to say "Hey, more people died in this disaster than that disaster."
A corpse is a corpse. A tragedy is a tragedy. There's no comparison, there's no reasoning, there's just death.
It doesn't matter if it's one person or a million: loss of life sucks.
Perhaps if they clubbed some baby seals?
or perhaps if they kill a dog
Here's my session with the emacs doctor:
... what?
... on sex?
I am the psychotherapist. Please, describe your problems. Each time
you are finished talking, type RET twice.
help me
Why do you say help you?
because I'm a loonatic
Is it because you are a loonatic that you came to me?
yes!
I see... Well, what makes you believe this is so?
well, I keep thinking "Hey, vi is pretty cool" but then I discover
something about it that sucks so I'm like "Wahey, fuck it"
Are you afraid of sex?
Can you elaborate on that?
elaborate
Tell me about something about your sexual history.
I'm going now.
Earlier you said you are a loonatic?
Fuck off creep!
I would appreciate it if you would talk about your sex life...
I think you're looking for this article :P
How naiive.
Fact: People, particularly the western world, are fools. We've been brought up that way. Dumbed down, consumered up.
Fact: Other people don't care about us, they care about themselves. Do you care about Australia's sugarcane industry? Do I? Well, uh, not really, no. It doesn't really affect me.
Well, it does, but it's far too complex for me to bother working out so hey, I'll take the easy way out and ignore it like the rest of Australia.
Actually, in Australia people would probably care more about sugarcane than IT. But that's a whole other post.
Anyways, stop vesting your faith in people. The government is no better.
Kapersky has flagged it as a Trojan, though I still stand firm in my belief that this is in no way a trojan as it does nothing even slightly malicious.
...
Uh, so posting IP & date/time information on a public web site for all to see isn't malicious?
Well, if it helps you sleep
What are you trying to do exactly? TRYING to fuck up people's lives?
I reported a showstopper bug two days ago that crashed Apache 2 hard.
It's been fixed now, but I don't see how they can go and say "Oh, it's really really getting there now" after bugs like that have been discovered so recently.
But PHP's development is odd to say the least. In the Betas alone, entire sections of functionality have been rewritten. From scratch. I mean, shit.
Don't get me wrong, PHP is a great language and PHP5 is a step in the right direction but the development of PHP seems, to me at least, so hell for leather.
(b) has a wierd non-C like syntax which is a bit offputting for people who are used to C++/Java/C# style languages.
This is such a non-issue. Would you not use C because it has weird non-x86 Assembly syntax?
Most of the useful stuff (i.e. not Windows Forms, not SqlClient afaik) has been standardized via the ECMA.
.NET that is critical to .NET on Linux which is not in the ECMA standard, somebody for the love of god enlighten me and the Mono/PNET developers.
The Windows Forms port should never have started. Simple as that. It's dangerous legally, its usefulness is questionable. Personally, I like it when developing for Windows, but for Linux it's just a hack.
If there's any part of
As a Java programmer, maybe im bias but i really hope that .net doesnt become the de-facto language on the linux client.
:o\
.NET does NOT necessarily make Microsoft a winner. If it does, where's your reasoning?
Feels like 10 years building a viable alternative to Microsoft and just as the goal is in sight... handing it over
Bah. Programming languages are programming languages, irrespective of who came up with them. Developing software for Linux with
Avoiding Windows Forms is your first step to ensuring Microsoft is not a winner. Look into wx.NET (however incomplete it may be, it looks promising).
Yes it's their tech, yes they're evil, no it's not the death knell for Linux.
Erm ... no.
For one, people looking for Mozilla merchandise will most likely already be using Mozilla. Yeah?
Last time I tried learning to program with gtk2, the API reference manual was soo incomplete (incomplete function description, calling semantics, etc.)
g /api/
I had little trouble picking up GTK+ 2.0 and bits of GLlib. The reference manual is not "soo incomplete" - a few widgets are poorly documented, and you'll need to go digging elsewhere for info, but for most part it's not too horrendous.
Look into the tutorial anyway.
http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/
http://www.gtk.or
That is the greatest argument for requiring a hard expiration date on all laws.
Yeah, just look what it's doing for the lifetime of copyright in the US. The government is blatantly stealing from the public on behalf of corporations in that particular instance.
I strongly doubt that refinement would be to the benefit of a supposedly free country. It just raises more opportunities for the public to get fucked over. More so.
This is as bad as spam. Worse maybe.
We're not given the choice of whether or not we want to view it (as with all advertisting, it's thrust in our face without concern for whether or not we're interested), and we're paying to watch it.
I feel for the Telstra Cable customers on 300Mb p/m plans who generally won't know any better and will visits sites containing these ads which may very well contribute significantly to their download limit. Worse, once they hit their limit they're charged AU 20c per MB.
Something like this could get expensive fast. I hope it does, and I hope/pray that lawsuits ensue.
But, knowing this wonderful world of ours, I sure as fucking hell doubt it.
Yeah. Let's label them terrorists, like the rest of the underground community.
From what little I can understand of your post, it sounds very insightful.
Standards were made so that developers wouldn't have to do things like this.
What you're suggesting makes it easier for web designers and harder for software developers, who should instead be devoting their time to making things standards compliant - not supporting other people's broken code.
Capital letters, circumventing copy protection, speeding up Acrobat ... is there ANYTHING the shift key can't do?!?
You think that's bad? Microsoft's released so many versions of their software they've stopped using numbers and started using witty combinations of letters like "ME" and "XP". :P
The good looking, intelligent girl over there at the bar that you'd really like to talk to doesn't care much whether you are famous amongst a group of geeks and neither does she even remotely fathom why you'd be famous for that stuff in the first place.
... well, I don't brag about being a geek. I happily admit to being one, but I don't walk up to "good looking, intelligent girls" and say "Yo, I'm a code jockey."
Erm
Would you?
This is the oddest point he makes in his entire rant. I mean, chances are if you run around in circles screaming "Geekgeekgeekgeekgeekgeek!" you're not an intelligent person, and I doubt you could hold intelligent conversation and so I seriously doubt that the said good looking, intelligent girl would think twice about talking to you.
I mean, there's no shame in being a geek but this guy makes out that we rave about it at every possible opportunity.
I may be taking this in too broad a sense (i.e. he might be talking directly about the dude he sent it too) but to me it sounds like he's playing the stereotype game.
Oh yes, Bill Murray should have one for best actor. No doubt.
Yeah? I was too busy sleeping through Lost In Translation to notice his acting.
Sounds like the SCO/IBM case :P