Forgive me in advance if this comment is ignorant or seems thoughtless, but it's sincere.
We tend to forget this from time to time, but computers are there to serve people's needs. You need to understand how people interact with computers in order to design good user interfaces (why *does* your grandma prefer the mac, for example?). You need to understand customer requirements to design an application.
Now, if your autism makes it hard to relate to people, this may be an issue. If not, great. But think about it.
"MS has taken short-cuts and has simply written.NET wrappers for old COM stuff."
As I understand it, this is not true. There are a few sealed classes that I would prefer not be sealed, but COM has nothing to do with it. I have it on fairly good authority that the only *significant* part of.NET runtime that uses COM extensively is Enterprise Services (the COM+ application pooling stuff). All the rest is managed code and calls to the Win32 API where needed.
If you take a look at the memory managment of COM and.NET you will see that they are very different -.NET has non-deterministic garbage collection built in, where COM has no GC as such (each object should release its resources when usage count reaches zero).
It's not too hot at analysing the play within a play of a Midsummer Nights Dream. You will note that it considers "Snug" and "Lion" as separate characters, whereas in the PWP Snug is the character who plays the lion.
Amateur Dramatics, Community Theatre/Theater, call it what you will. Getting involved with a good drama group can be an excellent way of gaining social skills. And I don't just mean your local high school production of "Grease" or "Our Town" (good though they may well be). Try and get involved with an independent group outside of school or college.
I can't speak for the USA, but in Britain nearly every village and town has at least one drama group and they are usually pretty welcoming to outsiders. And, here's a tip for male nerds, memberships are usually 75% female.
But I can't act! You say. Well, maybe you could learn to. Or maybe you could put geek skills to use backstage, running the prompt book, creating special lighting effects, or building scenery.
Count cards.. Count cards.. K-Mart sucks.. Who's on first.. Count cards.. Fly Quantas we never crash.. K-Mart sucks.. There are 1002 toothpicks on the table.. memorise phone book A-L.. who's on first.. count cards...
"Who am I to say this should be disallowed? Let them have their fun".
You are their friend, their brother, and their teacher.
No man is an island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee.
OK. Mea culpa on the flaunt/flout front. Guilty as charged on that one.
As for "uncontrolled unregulated decentralized transnational communications network". Well, some parts of it are controlled and regulated. That's why I can't just pick my own IP address. As for transnational, why if you look carefully you will find that it certainly links nations but I would suggest that the majority of it is hosted on actual countries with actual legal systems. And we do have international laws. So it's not prima facie outside the reach of all law. Any I would argue that any "free speech" that the internet has ever had is largely an accident. It was never designed or intended as a free speech medium per se. So yes it may once have been a free speech haven and may even continue to be, but it doesn't have an inalienable right to be one.
By putting the word "abhorrent" in speech marks the poster suggests that these practices are somehow merely borderline or even acceptable. This may well be the way that aliens on the planet zzzorg behave, but I think I'm on safe ground when I say that the vast majority of humanity thinks otherwise. Even the good ol US of A.
Honestly, when did the internet become a haven of free speech? It never did and never will do because it's an international medium. Now, I'm a UK citizen and I'm 100% happy for my national laws to be used to shut down such a site.
What is free speech? I live in a democracy that allows me, should I so wish, to *campaign* for the legalisation for necrophilia. I can talk to anyone and everyone about it. If I can convince voters and lawmakers that it's OK, then I get my wish. If not, tough. It would remain illegal and I would have to accept the consequences of that.
Free speech allows me to campaign for changes to the law, but it doesn't allow me to flaunt the laws I don't like.
Reminds me of a comment made to my wife (English) while she was a student in the USA. She reversed into a parking bay at the mall, and was congratulated. "You must be British" they said "an American wouldn't be able to park in reverse".
Now before you all toast me, I don't hold this to be a general truth. But European cars are smaller and parking bays are often more crowded than their North American counterparts. And I'm led to believe this could be even more so in Japan. So yay to anything that helps you parallel park in a confined space.
Question is, how many Microsoft customers and potential customers are dumb enough not to spell the name right, but smart enough to guess it as "MikeRoweSoft"?
In any IT situation, the guy/s who knows the system administration/root passwords is always a potential risk. They've fired you, but they must have someone who knows the stuff you do, root passwords and all.
Hey, wait a minute, now the new guy is the risk. Fire him and pass the root passwords to the next guy. Repeat to fade...
Sounds like someone has been solving the wrong problem.
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I think you are thinking of dotgnu and portable.NET, not mono
We tend to forget this from time to time, but computers are there to serve people's needs. You need to understand how people interact with computers in order to design good user interfaces (why *does* your grandma prefer the mac, for example?). You need to understand customer requirements to design an application.
Now, if your autism makes it hard to relate to people, this may be an issue. If not, great. But think about it.
If you take a look at the memory managment of COM and .NET you will see that they are very different - .NET has non-deterministic garbage collection built in, where COM has no GC as such (each object should release its resources when usage count reaches zero).
Thanks to both of you for the advice.
Can anyone make a guess as to when some i386 ISO images might be available for testing? Thanks.
This guy might have the answers if you have any questions about the nature of time.
You know, I'm sure there's an urban legend along these lines somewhere. Anyone want to check www.snopes.com? Ah yes...
It's not too hot at analysing the play within a play of a Midsummer Nights Dream. You will note that it considers "Snug" and "Lion" as separate characters, whereas in the PWP Snug is the character who plays the lion.
My money's on the Ice Warriors, or Sutekh and the Osirans.
I can't speak for the USA, but in Britain nearly every village and town has at least one drama group and they are usually pretty welcoming to outsiders. And, here's a tip for male nerds, memberships are usually 75% female.
But I can't act! You say. Well, maybe you could learn to. Or maybe you could put geek skills to use backstage, running the prompt book, creating special lighting effects, or building scenery.
Try it.
No, this is Somerset (pronounced: ZummerZet) where we all drink Scrumpy with dead rats in it until we are drunk and poisoned by lead.
There's always The Elements of Programming Style by Brian W. Kernighan, P. J. Plauger ...
Count cards .. Count cards .. K-Mart sucks .. Who's on first .. Count cards .. Fly Quantas we never crash .. K-Mart sucks .. There are 1002 toothpicks on the table .. memorise phone book A-L .. who's on first .. count cards...
No. If you wish to construct a straw man for the purposes of argument, try doing some research first.
You are their friend, their brother, and their teacher.
As for "uncontrolled unregulated decentralized transnational communications network". Well, some parts of it are controlled and regulated. That's why I can't just pick my own IP address. As for transnational, why if you look carefully you will find that it certainly links nations but I would suggest that the majority of it is hosted on actual countries with actual legal systems. And we do have international laws. So it's not prima facie outside the reach of all law. Any I would argue that any "free speech" that the internet has ever had is largely an accident. It was never designed or intended as a free speech medium per se. So yes it may once have been a free speech haven and may even continue to be, but it doesn't have an inalienable right to be one.
Honestly, when did the internet become a haven of free speech? It never did and never will do because it's an international medium. Now, I'm a UK citizen and I'm 100% happy for my national laws to be used to shut down such a site.
What is free speech? I live in a democracy that allows me, should I so wish, to *campaign* for the legalisation for necrophilia. I can talk to anyone and everyone about it. If I can convince voters and lawmakers that it's OK, then I get my wish. If not, tough. It would remain illegal and I would have to accept the consequences of that. Free speech allows me to campaign for changes to the law, but it doesn't allow me to flaunt the laws I don't like.
Possibly because there's nothing to discuss if the talk hasn't happened yet? What's all this "sinister" stuff?
No? Oh, never mind.
None of us are the victors
I therefore conclude that no-one is writing history.
This seems a lot more profound in my head than when I wrote it down ...
Reminds me of a comment made to my wife (English) while she was a student in the USA. She reversed into a parking bay at the mall, and was congratulated. "You must be British" they said "an American wouldn't be able to park in reverse".
Now before you all toast me, I don't hold this to be a general truth. But European cars are smaller and parking bays are often more crowded than their North American counterparts. And I'm led to believe this could be even more so in Japan.
So yay to anything that helps you parallel park in a confined space.
He was damn unlucky.
Question is, how many Microsoft customers and potential customers are dumb enough not to spell the name right, but smart enough to guess it as "MikeRoweSoft"?
[Ducks for cover]
You see, the movie is what we call Fiction.
... didn't Aardman get its start working for the BBC in kids TV? "Morph" and all that?
In any IT situation, the guy/s who knows the system administration/root passwords is always a potential risk. They've fired you, but they must have someone who knows the stuff you do, root passwords and all.
Hey, wait a minute, now the new guy is the risk. Fire him and pass the root passwords to the next guy. Repeat to fade...
Sounds like someone has been solving the wrong problem.