Part of the problem is that new features become available in later versions, where the code had to be written manually before.
Without that, though, it becomes yet another way for people to create crappy date parsers.
What, instead of relying on Microsoft's buggy date parsers? I have a bug replicated multiple times where if you parse a date with the locale set to en-au or en-uk, it still parses it as a US date. The issue varies from machine to machine, but it is there. This is on machines which definitely have the au locale. No solution found after vigorous googling, and reporting bugs to Microsoft is a ridiculous process that normally results in you paying $ and being told that this is a new "feature". So yes I will write my own date parsing code library thankyouverymuch.
Your comparison is wildly off the mark. If a politician sees a hooker, that has very little to do with his ability to govern the state. If Jimmy Wales takes money to edit an article on Wikipedia, then this goes directly to the heart of Wikipedia.
The importance of a politician seeing a hooker depends on their public statements. Most US politicians tend to claim to be as pure as driven snow. Hence it is a big issue as it speaks to their integrity, truthfulness and self-control.
I like to come home, flip on my 360, know it'll work (joke's on me I guess) and play games for an hour or two.. then put it away and go on with my life. It's nice to have a system that just does what it's supposed to do.
While it is annoying that SCO continues to exist, the injection of capital will mean: 1. Novell will get paid their licensing feels 2. Counter claims from IBM, novell and Red Hat may proceed
You could follow the british model: when prison overcrowding becomes a problem send them off to mars. Given the US prison population this sort of issue must be approaching rapidly.
How does this company maintain its "monopoly" without the help of the government?
What make you think they need any help from the government.
What's stopping you from starting your own competing food business, with your own supply chain all the way up from the growers?
Economies of scale, competing against a larger better financed organisation, the competition can modify prices to run you out of business, do I need to go on.
What's stopping anyone from doing so, if the "monopoly" is indeed engaging in price gouging?
Refer to above.
Why have we allowed ourselves to become dependent on having immediate access to the food we need to buy for that day, or else we starve? What happened to canned food, gardening, canning, hunting, and deep freezes? Isn't it better to save and plan ahead, so we don't actually need the monopoly's products, since it must then adjust prices downward to maximize profit at the lower level of demand?
Whinging about why society is they way it is doesn't do anything for your point.
Have you considered that without the "monopoly" providing you food at a price higher than you feel is fair, you'd starve just like your ancestors did in a famine?
Have you considered that with some competition the same thing could happen but for a lower price. Have you considered that a monopoly might choose to starve you?
Go ahead, vote in more bureaucrats, and price-fix their asses. That's what you want, right?
No. Nice strawman, make it yourself.
Wait, now they don't seem to have as good of a selection on the shelves, the food isn't as fresh, and the items you want are always in short supply.
Monopolies do that.
Now you use your bureaucrats to mandate that they must have product on the shelves at your fixed price.
Back to strawmen.
Wait, now they're packing up and going home because they have more profitable ventures to pursue? Outrage!
Cause that is what happens on "socialist" europe?
Here is where you can insert the favorite government program some politician promotes because, quote, "the free market has failed".
Here is where I insert my comment: Libertarianism is both unworkable and a way of justifying personal selfishness. Libertarianism ensures and entrenches the domination of the weak by the strong.
Second, I resent the implication that killing people leads to damaging a person mentally. Just because you disaprove of it doesn't mean it's on par with brain damage to those who choose to serve our country.
While I completely agree that the parent is an idiot, I don't know that I'd agree with this statement. My impression (and it cannot be anything more than that, I haven't done any formal study in the field) is that killing people is a traumatic event. My impression is that it may damage people mentally. There are some people who might not be affected by this, but they are the exception.
Before you jump on me, I think it can be neccessary. I would say someone being killed is a terrible thing: sometimes the alternative is worse. The same applies to war.
I'm not sure why you think this is anything new. There have alsways been stacks of things that can only be done on windows with command line only..Net tools like aspnet_regiis, regasm, installutil etc. But it isn't just programming related tools. Noooo, even relatively simple things like enabling SSL on an IIS site requires a command line hack.
Wait you are an exchange admin, you should be right at home with this. Ever tried moving the inetpub/mailroot?
I'm not sure why you think this is anything new. There have alsways been stacks of things that can only be done on windows with command line only..Net tools like aspnet_regiis, regasm, ildasm etc. But it isn't just programming related tools. Noooo, even relatively simple things like enabling SSL on an IIS site requires a command line hack.
Wait you are an exchange admin, Well you should be right at home with this. Ever tried moving the inetpub/mailroot?
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You could also add the following items as major failures of Intel: - race to 1Ghz - Itanium - Rambus - 64 bit x86
How did this go from Pakistan to a discussion on circumcision?
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I'm confused. Chris is wrong for enforcing the copyright on his images. So if Chris wrote code, released it under the GPL, had someone rip it off and build a commercial product around it that wouldn't be a problem according to you?
Before you raise that point about degraded images, let's expand the analogy: Chris offers dual licensing with a commercial option.
Are you just completely anti-copyright or is there something I'm missing?
But the issue, I think, is the paperwork. For instance, each application must be personally approved by the Attorney General (can you imagine poor Mr. Gonzales having to review and sign hundreds or thousands of such applications at a time?).
Actually this is not the issue.
The issue is that they cannot get warrants for the information they are retrieving. By all accounts the program captures all information flowing past and then filters that for interesting information. It does not have a specific target in mind, which means they cannot get a warrant.
Many of those cost areas are a self-imposed burden. WRT South Korea, Japan and Europe, there are two sides to that coin: 1. They might have to increase military $ to compensate for US departure 2. It is in the US's interests to ensure that it is *their* troops there rather than someone else's. It is a means of projecting power.
You're barking up the wrong tree. The US doesn't use its military to apply imperialistic pressure. The military is used sparingly (Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Kuwait, Somalia, Iraq - hardly an empire).
Yeah I learned about power when I started work on VisualBasic Script ASP back in 1998.
As someone who spent quite a lot of time working on ASP, I'd agree.
I used it a couple of years and then discovered PHP...
Which is indeed more powerful but hasn't grown rather than being designed. php is like a toolbox that includes 5 different versions of each of the same tool, some of which might have nasty side effects but are left in there for backwards compatibility. Using php well takes some time.
... - where all sorts of things that had been impossible (or required clunky plugins and server tsuris) were effortless: things like file uploads, dynamic image creation, and even mail.
File uploads could be natively done in asp. Likewise sending emails through CDO (among other options), shipping with IIS.
By that point Microsoft was selling.NET which required completely relearning everything you used to know. "No thanks," I said, and I learned PHP. And the great thing about PHP is that it changes incrementally, with no one completely redoing it from scratch so I have to go back for a complete (and infuriating) re-education every couple of years.
Having gone through the pain of migrating a 100,000+ LOC app to.Net, largely singlehandedly, which still delivering features to customers, I experienced the pain you avoided. That said, the pain of the upgrade was largely a one off. Thus far the changes from 1.0 to 1.1 to 2.0 have been evolutionary. The re-education is limited, cross fingers they don't do it again. I have to say, if they did do it again, it is a moot point as to whether we'd shift to java, it would be a similar level of pain.
That said,.Net is actually really quite pleasant in many ways. There are many features that should not have seen the light of day (viewstate, postback, not reading the freaking W3C standards etc), however most can be easily worked around. I much prefer working in.Net than I do in say php or perl.
You make some really good points, hoever... You break out a mouse for comfort (1 usb port) then someone comes by with a document on a memory stick (need another usb port, but the Air is all out of 'em)...
Like I said. It's the greatest 80s action flick ever made. I'm putting it in the same league as the original Die Hard, not Schindler's List.
24 isn't meant to be sophisticated. It's a simple pleasure, and you'd be nuts to treat it as anything else.
But it doesn't even reach that standard. In Die Hard, to use your example, the terrorists don't continually change plans. They just adapt their plans to match the damage done by the Bruce Willis. They are simply shown to be well prepared.
Compare that to the one of the seasons of 24. The terrorist plan seems to be: 1. Capture the secretary of state, which will "generate lots of traffic on firewalls" 2. Blow up some nuclear power plants 3. Because we expect (2) to fail we will also build a nuke
and I stopped watching about there, but I think there was also a (4), based on the expectation that 3 would fail.
The few other episodes I've seen seem to revolve around unecessary tension being added over ill conceived plans (on both sides).
There are few, if any, 80s action movies that are as illogical and poorly planned (plotwise) as 24. The only reason that 24 gets away with it is that it is broken up into 24 episodes and they seem to think the viewers have no memory of the previous episodes or they are only watching to see Jack torture someone/blow something up/run around looking heroic. Unfortunately, given the popularity of the show, they seem to be right.
If you want an example of a really well written TV show with a consistent plot and characters, look at the first season of Desperate Housewives. It went really downhill from there though.
I guess your standards are different to mine. Lost is a just screwing with your mind, why bother watching? The writers have no idea where they are going, so why would you watch to find out where it is going? 24 plot summary: terrorists are trying to do x, Jack tortures and shoots some people to prevent x. The terrorists then reveal that the failure of x was just part of their plan and move on to plan y. That gets really boring and stupid when it happens every episode. I mean how many redundant plans do these guys have?
As someone who has trained as an engineer it is always nice to know that there is an alternative career that, particularly one that may not require reskilling.
(for the humour impaired in FBI, NSA, CIA and ASIO (particularly ASIO), this is not intended seriously).
Many religious texts are not always read in the language they were originally written. That means people need to expend effort in translating them and often need to be experts in this area. For example the bible is written in Hebrew, Coinae Greek and Aramaic. There needs to be some means of compensating these people. I suppose the obvious approach is to fund this from the religious organisations pay for the translations.
The other problem is how exactly one defines a religious text. Scientology could argue that some of their stuff is training materials rather than religious texts.
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Part of the problem is that new features become available in later versions, where the code had to be written manually before.
Without that, though, it becomes yet another way for people to create crappy date parsers.
What, instead of relying on Microsoft's buggy date parsers? I have a bug replicated multiple times where if you parse a date with the locale set to en-au or en-uk, it still parses it as a US date. The issue varies from machine to machine, but it is there. This is on machines which definitely have the au locale. No solution found after vigorous googling, and reporting bugs to Microsoft is a ridiculous process that normally results in you paying $ and being told that this is a new "feature". So yes I will write my own date parsing code library thankyouverymuch.
Your comparison is wildly off the mark. If a politician sees a hooker, that has very little to do with his ability to govern the state. If Jimmy Wales takes money to edit an article on Wikipedia, then this goes directly to the heart of Wikipedia.
The importance of a politician seeing a hooker depends on their public statements. Most US politicians tend to claim to be as pure as driven snow. Hence it is a big issue as it speaks to their integrity, truthfulness and self-control.
I like to come home, flip on my 360, know it'll work (joke's on me I guess) and play games for an hour or two.. then put it away and go on with my life. It's nice to have a system that just does what it's supposed to do.
Doorstop with a glowing red ring?
While it is annoying that SCO continues to exist, the injection of capital will mean:
1. Novell will get paid their licensing feels
2. Counter claims from IBM, novell and Red Hat may proceed
It isn't like SCO actually has a case.
You could follow the british model: when prison overcrowding becomes a problem send them off to mars. Given the US prison population this sort of issue must be approaching rapidly.
Hey it worked for Australia (I'm an Australian).
Do they feed all liberterians the same crack?
How does this company maintain its "monopoly" without the help of the government?
What make you think they need any help from the government.
What's stopping you from starting your own competing food business, with your own supply chain all the way up from the growers?
Economies of scale, competing against a larger better financed organisation, the competition can modify prices to run you out of business, do I need to go on.
What's stopping anyone from doing so, if the "monopoly" is indeed engaging in price gouging?
Refer to above.
Why have we allowed ourselves to become dependent on having immediate access to the food we need to buy for that day, or else we starve? What happened to canned food, gardening, canning, hunting, and deep freezes? Isn't it better to save and plan ahead, so we don't actually need the monopoly's products, since it must then adjust prices downward to maximize profit at the lower level of demand?
Whinging about why society is they way it is doesn't do anything for your point.
Have you considered that without the "monopoly" providing you food at a price higher than you feel is fair, you'd starve just like your ancestors did in a famine?
Have you considered that with some competition the same thing could happen but for a lower price. Have you considered that a monopoly might choose to starve you?
Go ahead, vote in more bureaucrats, and price-fix their asses. That's what you want, right?
No. Nice strawman, make it yourself.
Wait, now they don't seem to have as good of a selection on the shelves, the food isn't as fresh, and the items you want are always in short supply.
Monopolies do that.
Now you use your bureaucrats to mandate that they must have product on the shelves at your fixed price.
Back to strawmen.
Wait, now they're packing up and going home because they have more profitable ventures to pursue? Outrage!
Cause that is what happens on "socialist" europe?
Here is where you can insert the favorite government program some politician promotes because, quote, "the free market has failed".
Here is where I insert my comment: Libertarianism is both unworkable and a way of justifying personal selfishness. Libertarianism ensures and entrenches the domination of the weak by the strong.
Second, I resent the implication that killing people leads to damaging a person mentally. Just because you disaprove of it doesn't mean it's on par with brain damage to those who choose to serve our country.
While I completely agree that the parent is an idiot, I don't know that I'd agree with this statement. My impression (and it cannot be anything more than that, I haven't done any formal study in the field) is that killing people is a traumatic event. My impression is that it may damage people mentally. There are some people who might not be affected by this, but they are the exception.
Before you jump on me, I think it can be neccessary. I would say someone being killed is a terrible thing: sometimes the alternative is worse. The same applies to war.
Dammit, fixed the link.
.Net tools like aspnet_regiis, regasm, installutil etc. But it isn't just programming related tools. Noooo, even relatively simple things like enabling SSL on an IIS site requires a command line hack.
I'm not sure why you think this is anything new. There have alsways been stacks of things that can only be done on windows with command line only.
Wait you are an exchange admin, you should be right at home with this. Ever tried moving the inetpub/mailroot?
I'm not sure why you think this is anything new. There have alsways been stacks of things that can only be done on windows with command line only. .Net tools like aspnet_regiis, regasm, ildasm etc. But it isn't just programming related tools. Noooo, even relatively simple things like enabling SSL on an IIS site requires a command line hack.
Wait you are an exchange admin, Well you should be right at home with this. Ever tried moving the inetpub/mailroot?
You could also add the following items as major failures of Intel:
- race to 1Ghz
- Itanium
- Rambus
- 64 bit x86
How did this go from Pakistan to a discussion on circumcision?
Slashdot: using the power of non sequiturs to bring you rants on pet topics!
Coming soon:
* Satelite shootdown -> Vista sucks
* Distributed File systems -> censorship is evil
* any article -> Ron Paul (please ensure you mention how he was shafted and raised more money that one day than any other candidate)
What justice was that exactly?
I'm confused. Chris is wrong for enforcing the copyright on his images. So if Chris wrote code, released it under the GPL, had someone rip it off and build a commercial product around it that wouldn't be a problem according to you?
Before you raise that point about degraded images, let's expand the analogy: Chris offers dual licensing with a commercial option.
Are you just completely anti-copyright or is there something I'm missing?
But the issue, I think, is the paperwork. For instance, each application must be personally approved by the Attorney General (can you imagine poor Mr. Gonzales having to review and sign hundreds or thousands of such applications at a time?).
Actually this is not the issue.
The issue is that they cannot get warrants for the information they are retrieving. By all accounts the program captures all information flowing past and then filters that for interesting information. It does not have a specific target in mind, which means they cannot get a warrant.
He was on the side of the Germans during WWII. It even said so on their belt buckles.
Many of those cost areas are a self-imposed burden. WRT South Korea, Japan and Europe, there are two sides to that coin:
1. They might have to increase military $ to compensate for US departure
2. It is in the US's interests to ensure that it is *their* troops there rather than someone else's. It is a means of projecting power.
You're barking up the wrong tree. The US doesn't use its military to apply imperialistic pressure. The military is used sparingly (Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Kuwait, Somalia, Iraq - hardly an empire).
Oh really?
Yeah I learned about power when I started work on VisualBasic Script ASP back in 1998.
...
... - where all sorts of things that had been impossible (or required clunky plugins and server tsuris) were effortless: things like file uploads, dynamic image creation, and even mail.
.NET which required completely relearning everything you used to know. "No thanks," I said, and I learned PHP. And the great thing about PHP is that it changes incrementally, with no one completely redoing it from scratch so I have to go back for a complete (and infuriating) re-education every couple of years.
.Net, largely singlehandedly, which still delivering features to customers, I experienced the pain you avoided. That said, the pain of the upgrade was largely a one off. Thus far the changes from 1.0 to 1.1 to 2.0 have been evolutionary. The re-education is limited, cross fingers they don't do it again. I have to say, if they did do it again, it is a moot point as to whether we'd shift to java, it would be a similar level of pain.
.Net is actually really quite pleasant in many ways. There are many features that should not have seen the light of day (viewstate, postback, not reading the freaking W3C standards etc), however most can be easily worked around. I much prefer working in .Net than I do in say php or perl.
As someone who spent quite a lot of time working on ASP, I'd agree.
I used it a couple of years and then discovered PHP
Which is indeed more powerful but hasn't grown rather than being designed. php is like a toolbox that includes 5 different versions of each of the same tool, some of which might have nasty side effects but are left in there for backwards compatibility. Using php well takes some time.
File uploads could be natively done in asp. Likewise sending emails through CDO (among other options), shipping with IIS.
By that point Microsoft was selling
Having gone through the pain of migrating a 100,000+ LOC app to
That said,
You make some really good points, hoever ... You break out a mouse for comfort (1 usb port) then someone comes by with a document on a memory stick (need another usb port, but the Air is all out of 'em)...
Most people with a Mac would get a mighty mouse.
When did insurgence against imperialism become a bad thing?
When you are the imperialists. Next!
Like I said. It's the greatest 80s action flick ever made. I'm putting it in the same league as the original Die Hard, not Schindler's List.
24 isn't meant to be sophisticated. It's a simple pleasure, and you'd be nuts to treat it as anything else.
But it doesn't even reach that standard. In Die Hard, to use your example, the terrorists don't continually change plans. They just adapt their plans to match the damage done by the Bruce Willis. They are simply shown to be well prepared.
Compare that to the one of the seasons of 24. The terrorist plan seems to be:
1. Capture the secretary of state, which will "generate lots of traffic on firewalls"
2. Blow up some nuclear power plants
3. Because we expect (2) to fail we will also build a nuke
and I stopped watching about there, but I think there was also a (4), based on the expectation that 3 would fail.
The few other episodes I've seen seem to revolve around unecessary tension being added over ill conceived plans (on both sides).
There are few, if any, 80s action movies that are as illogical and poorly planned (plotwise) as 24. The only reason that 24 gets away with it is that it is broken up into 24 episodes and they seem to think the viewers have no memory of the previous episodes or they are only watching to see Jack torture someone/blow something up/run around looking heroic. Unfortunately, given the popularity of the show, they seem to be right.
If you want an example of a really well written TV show with a consistent plot and characters, look at the first season of Desperate Housewives. It went really downhill from there though.
I guess your standards are different to mine. Lost is a just screwing with your mind, why bother watching? The writers have no idea where they are going, so why would you watch to find out where it is going? 24 plot summary: terrorists are trying to do x, Jack tortures and shoots some people to prevent x. The terrorists then reveal that the failure of x was just part of their plan and move on to plan y. That gets really boring and stupid when it happens every episode. I mean how many redundant plans do these guys have?
As someone who has trained as an engineer it is always nice to know that there is an alternative career that, particularly one that may not require reskilling.
(for the humour impaired in FBI, NSA, CIA and ASIO (particularly ASIO), this is not intended seriously).
Some of this might also come from more practical concerns: people who share the same subjects can swap notes and assignments.
Or maybe one kid was just smarter than the other and happend to gravitate towards games.
There may be some problems with this approach.
Many religious texts are not always read in the language they were originally written. That means people need to expend effort in translating them and often need to be experts in this area. For example the bible is written in Hebrew, Coinae Greek and Aramaic. There needs to be some means of compensating these people. I suppose the obvious approach is to fund this from the religious organisations pay for the translations.
The other problem is how exactly one defines a religious text. Scientology could argue that some of their stuff is training materials rather than religious texts.
I really, really like your idea though.