You've go to be kidding! Other than the ability to detect when you've accidentally typed the the same word twice in a row, the grammar checker in msword is completely worthless.
I think we all go into a movie and easily suspend disbelief. Some movies handle that well and maintain the illusion to the end. Other movies, however, so blatantly and unnecessarily disregard reality that it takes a concious effort on the moviegoer's part to maintain that suspension of disbelief. The effect is the same as if someone stands in the back of the cinema with a bullhorn and shouts every ten minutes: "This is just a movie!"
I do some web stuff but most of my work involves good old win32 gui apps. To me, the most appealing part of.net is that I will eventually be able to abandon the win32 api in favor of.net classes to do all the ui stuff.
Let's face it, the win32 api just plain sucks. MFC is no solution. It tries to hide the implementation details but fails miserably in that regard since it's almost impossible to do anything complicated without a detailed knowledge of the underlying system.
Actually, when the IP story came out a bunch of people said "open source is great" and another bunch of people said "it doesn't mean anything".
Now that this story is out a bunch of people are saying "open source is no better than closed source" and another bunch of people are saying "it doesn't mean anything".
The only difference is the posts you are referencing to make your "slashdotters have different standards" post.
That reminds me of an old (early 1980's) product named BILF (Basic Infinite Loop Finder). It was supposed to be run against BASIC source code and it would find all infinite loops in the code, or so the vendor claimed. A magazine reviewed the product. In their review they included a formal mathematical proof that such a program could never work. The vendor responded to the proof by saying that they would fix that problem in the next release!
For me, the decision of whether to reuse or reinvent depends on the level of expertise and/or interest I have in a particular area.
e.g. If a problem involves text parsing or indexing I will usually code from scratch to get an optimal solution. If I need general-purpose compression, I grab the zlib library without giving it a second thought. My projects tend to be a mix of reuse and reinvent.
Of course whether I'm doing a project for myself or for a client is also a factor.
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You've go to be kidding! Other than the ability to detect when you've accidentally typed the the same word twice in a row, the grammar checker in msword is completely worthless.
I think we all go into a movie and easily suspend disbelief. Some movies handle that well and maintain the illusion to the end. Other movies, however, so blatantly and unnecessarily disregard reality that it takes a concious effort on the moviegoer's part to maintain that suspension of disbelief. The effect is the same as if someone stands in the back of the cinema with a bullhorn and shouts every ten minutes: "This is just a movie!"
from the famous Betty & Barney Hill (not to be confused with Benny Hill)
...or Betty and Barney Rubble
Neither is Hindu. It's a religion too. I think that was the point.
Lycoris tries to dodge the flood of idiocy from Utah.
You are talking about SCO... Right?
I would bet that more than a few people lost their minds though.
Are you kidding? Have you seen the frugal gourmet? He's a bit over 15!
I wish I had some mod points. That is FUNNY.
When I read this article, the ad banner at the top of the page was for Windows Server 2003.
The tag line read "do more with less".
I am glad that Microsoft is finally admitting that Windows is "less".
I remember reading this a long time ago:
French is nothing more than badly mispronounced provincial Latin.
I think most spammers are going to be very careful about spamming any .gov domains.
Unless, of course, Planet Analog are a hive mind. Then it would be grammatically correct.
Actually, if you read the story, it was almost run over by a car.
Still pretty funny though.
I thought being a geek meant that you know every little detail of every app ever written. That's what my non-geek friends seem to think. :)
I do some web stuff but most of my work involves good old win32 gui apps. To me, the most appealing part of .net is that I will eventually be able to abandon the win32 api in favor of .net classes to do all the ui stuff.
Let's face it, the win32 api just plain sucks. MFC is no solution. It tries to hide the implementation details but fails miserably in that regard since it's almost impossible to do anything complicated without a detailed knowledge of the underlying system.
Actually, when the IP story came out a bunch of people said "open source is great" and another bunch of people said "it doesn't mean anything".
Now that this story is out a bunch of people are saying "open source is no better than closed source" and another bunch of people are saying "it doesn't mean anything".
The only difference is the posts you are referencing to make your "slashdotters have different standards" post.
That reminds me of an old (early 1980's) product named BILF (Basic Infinite Loop Finder). It was supposed to be run against BASIC source code and it would find all infinite loops in the code, or so the vendor claimed.
A magazine reviewed the product. In their review they included a formal mathematical proof that such a program could never work. The vendor responded to the proof by saying that they would fix that problem in the next release!
My telco (verizon) offers call-intercept for calls with blocked caller ids. I haven't had to talk to a telemarketer for months.
Beware of geeks bearing GIFs!
For me, the decision of whether to reuse or reinvent depends on the level of expertise and/or interest I have in a particular area.
e.g. If a problem involves text parsing or indexing I will usually code from scratch to get an optimal solution. If I need general-purpose compression, I grab the zlib library without giving it a second thought. My projects tend to be a mix of reuse and reinvent.
Of course whether I'm doing a project for myself or for a client is also a factor.
I agree. But my way is BEST.
Sometimes it's even worse than that.
Sometimes it's Not Invented by Me.
The trick is knowing when to reuse and when to reinvent. Neither approach is the best one the majority of the time.
They would win hands down. After all, they don't have the requirement that it still has to work.
MS-Tweaks I and MS-Tweaks II?
Didn't they receive licensing plans?
by then we'll have the technology to move Earth out of the way, right?
I *suppose* we could alter the asteroid's course, but that wouldn't be as cool.