Tell you what, I will give you $1 million dollars if you prove evolution is real. Whoa, slow down. Here is your one celled organism, you have 2 weeks to "evolve" a monkey. What? You need more time?...nope - I make the rules, I, Sera decide what is fair for the paranormal, not you. Is it fair? Certainly it is. Obviously as the scientist in this equation, I have proven that Evolution is false, you have two weeks to evolve a monkey to prove me wrong. No one has evolved a monkey in 20 years so I must be right. Right?
Point is - if I get to set the test I can always prove you wrong...always. If you really look at the sub-amazing Randi's tests they all are shell games that the house wins. It is no big deal if I offer a million dollars if I know I will win from the get go.
Not at all, at work I code ASP and C# all day, every day, it is a very nice suite, though I code java and jython at home. But, despite how nice it is... it still isn't worth the money. I work for an.edu and our pricing is just insane, I can drop VS Enterprise on a machine without thinking. The other side though, which I am acutly aware of, is that I am dropping thousands of dollars of software on a machine, thousands. I have the new version (been running Beta for a while) and it is very nice. But is it worth 1000's more than free? No. I can hand code my database hooks.
How about some standard syntax in.Net then? How about it has some (ANY!) relation to Office VB? Try this...fire up excel, make a dialogue, drop on a checkbox. Find me a way to know if that checkbox is checked or not. If you can, then tell me how to make a.net app know it. All I ask for is a java like.isChecked() - but I aint getting it.
Really?... are you sure as a scientist you want to make that statement? Nothing was intelligently designed? I am sure the boys at Monsanto would disagree with your view of thier geneticists level of smarts.
What? Perhaps if you type in a less MS shill tone I could see what in the heck you are after. OOo is open source, there is no propriety to it, grab the source, fork it all you want. Is SUN a major contributer? Yup. Is Star Office OS? Nope. Does OOo get all the cool stuff from Star Office as OS? Yup.
Really - what is your beef with the licence? OOo *IS* OS... there is no "Proprietary" to it.
Try this Jesus Christ you child of rampant consumerism get a grip. If your pants won't hold any more crap maybe it is time to look at folks around the globe that can barely find water that is drinkable. If you are so lost that you cannot find a bag to hold your toys, perhaps giving to others is needed.
2) How about making the "Administrator" account - an actual administrator account? I've *never* gotten a "permission denied" error, when doing something as root on a Linux system. WTF??!?
I have actually done this - a copy of Fedora will not allow even root to delete some files due to the secure linux part of it. It left be baffled at the time. Booted it with knoppix and nuked it from orbit, it was the only way to be sure. But it is possible.
You Sir have misunderstood. Certainly you understand that we are at war, a war that we must win. I would have thought that your daily two minute hate would have helped you understand, but let me explain the matter. We have always been at war with Oceania, this can be easily looked up in any textbook. Our war on terror, drugs and now porn are simply facets of that, certainly you can see this comrade. No one wants eternal war, but this is what Oceania has forced on us, even though it pains us. Comrade, you have the chance to help the State and yourself, even your own children. Certainly you know people that harbor these anti-state feelings. Surrender their names, we promise no one will be harmed and your stay in Minitrue will be short and profitable.
That is what the warehouse part is for. See you set the level - go through it, everyone goes to a staging level at the "end" the warehouse floor and ceiling move to make the next level, and then you start again... think Diablo, never the same level twice... kinda neat really... infinite dungeons for the taking....hmmm
Imagine though, that with the proper password that you could back that key up to a HD or CD... imagine temp passwords - "Bill, could you get my car from the Airport parking ramp? The password is "h&FT>l543", sadly I am here an extra week or two."..imagine that your iPod,usb HD, any usb device becomes a potential key - all passworded and hashed just for you. - To me this sounds great - no more locksmiths - gimme a cell phone with web access.
Word has had mediocre HTML export capabilities since 2000.
HA HA HA HA HA! Mediocre?? Try horse shite, and it is getting worse with each new upgrade. I have users that insist on using it to produce html from word and power point all the time. Bloated hideous code that is horrible to maintain and breaks every chance it gets. It actually saves me time in the long run to create css sheets for them and teach them the basic html needed to maintain their web docs. Please oh please never let anyone use the "export as html" function of MS Office.
I am not thinking of trademark, and I thought I was being quite plain. I don't secretly hate copyright law, I actively openly hate it. And perhaps if you go back and read my post you will notice that I was tring to explain something to you. I would hardly call that "whining"(sic). What has happened is that us "pack of rabid nerds" are arguing philosophy while you want us to be mired in the concrete thinking that you seem to want to be in. But go ahead and believe in your moral absolutes. If you really want to believe that 'illegal=immoral' (and thus 'immoral=illegal') then I will gladly sit on the bench next to the jaywalkers, those who tickle women in Virginia, those who kiss on a train in Wisconsin, those that make an ugly face at a dog in Oklahoma, and all the other amazingly dated and silly lawbreakers out there.
You will also note that I never said I downloaded anything, so take your hate elsewhere.
What he is trying to point out is that copyright as it stands is never what it was supposed to be. I hereby invent the word "Julurgeth". It is the name for my WoW character. It is a new word, unique, all mine. Even posting it makes it mine under the current law. Now, let us say I last for another 70 years, current law says my copyright lasts for death + (90,120, I don't know, fill in your local law here) And in the mean time 200 years later the Cure for Cancer is invented, named (you guessed it) "Julurgeth" in internal memos, and the product is "Julurg".... "No time to juggle your health, ask about Julurg."... And my great great grand daughter says "The scourge of Mankind, Cancer, will wait. I own the copyright on the words "Julurg" and "Jururgeth", pay me a royalty, here is proof of my 200 year old copyright on the word "Julurg", that everyone 130 years ago said was dead.
The deal is that Copyright has become the Jaywalking of the "New Millennium". Is it illegal? Yup. Should I care? Nope. Profit is never a 'right'. And stupidity should be it's own reward.
Crying every time someone gets sued for breaking the law doesn't make piracy any less unethical.
You are right, I also don't cry for the unethical practices of the music, pharma, and movie industries - What? Two wrongs don't make a right?
Realize what they are rebelling against - control. But now, for once, it is the hands of change that are in the hands of the masses.
Based on my experience, with six employers over a nearly twenty year career, it's rare to find a technically savvy manager above the level of team leader. I had one such boss and he was a joy to work for. Not only did he understand the technology, he also knew that he didn't know everything. Furthermore, he was not a micromanager and, after I'd worked for him for a couple of months, he would simply tell me what needed to be done and then trusted me to get the job finished. If you ever get a manager like that you are indeed lucky. A boss like that is easily worth, at least for me, passing up the chance to move to another company for more money, etc. I knew I had a good thing going and knew that my chances of having such a thing happen again was small.
Thanks for posting that in a swarm of "My Boss is an Idiot". I currently have such a Manager as you have described, I am a coder - and he is not, but he tries to help me however he can. He is fluent in tech, a REAL human being, and actually wants to learn about what you are doing and how you are doing it, but to learn, not to hold it against you. He knows he doesn't know it all, and as code goes he has an uncanny knack for how long a project should take, though, again he is no coder. He knows that all that matters is how the customers feel - and they feel good. In short, you described my Boss, best one I have ever had, will ever have, I am staying put, for the long haul. Did I mention the pension is good??
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Tell you what, I will give you $1 million dollars if you prove evolution is real. Whoa, slow down. Here is your one celled organism, you have 2 weeks to "evolve" a monkey. What? You need more time?
Point is - if I get to set the test I can always prove you wrong...always. If you really look at the sub-amazing Randi's tests they all are shell games that the house wins. It is no big deal if I offer a million dollars if I know I will win from the get go.
Sera
Not at all, at work I code ASP and C# all day, every day, it is a very nice suite, though I code java and jython at home. But, despite how nice it is
Sera
How about some standard syntax in
Sera
Really?
Seraphim
Who the fsck modded this "insightful"?
with a proprietary code base
Huh? Go get the source. Proprietary? To whom?
an open-sourced proprietary product.
What? Perhaps if you type in a less MS shill tone I could see what in the heck you are after. OOo is open source, there is no propriety to it, grab the source, fork it all you want. Is SUN a major contributer? Yup. Is Star Office OS? Nope. Does OOo get all the cool stuff from Star Office as OS? Yup.
Really - what is your beef with the licence? OOo *IS* OS ... there is no "Proprietary" to it.
Sera
Try this Jesus Christ you child of rampant consumerism get a grip. If your pants won't hold any more crap maybe it is time to look at folks around the globe that can barely find water that is drinkable. If you are so lost that you cannot find a bag to hold your toys, perhaps giving to others is needed.
Sera
Yeah, that helps.
I have actually done this - a copy of Fedora will not allow even root to delete some files due to the secure linux part of it. It left be baffled at the time. Booted it with knoppix and nuked it from orbit, it was the only way to be sure. But it is possible.
Sera
My one comment is -
Are you taking patients?
Sera
Wow...you got trolled by the Ugly American, sorry about that.
Sera
Why on earth would I want a shotgun, when I can use a BFG instead??
You Sir have misunderstood. Certainly you understand that we are at war, a war that we must win. I would have thought that your daily two minute hate would have helped you understand, but let me explain the matter. We have always been at war with Oceania, this can be easily looked up in any textbook. Our war on terror, drugs and now porn are simply facets of that, certainly you can see this comrade. No one wants eternal war, but this is what Oceania has forced on us, even though it pains us. Comrade, you have the chance to help the State and yourself, even your own children. Certainly you know people that harbor these anti-state feelings. Surrender their names, we promise no one will be harmed and your stay in Minitrue will be short and profitable.
I can beat that. At the school that I work at - we have a "Baasics of the Internet" that is a fully on-line class.
Sera
That is what the warehouse part is for. See you set the level - go through it, everyone goes to a staging level at the "end" the warehouse floor and ceiling move to make the next level, and then you start again... think Diablo, never the same level twice ... kinda neat really ... infinite dungeons for the taking....hmmm
Sera
Which is interesting. Because that men, who are more physical react verbally, and women, who are more verbal, react physically...
Sera
SD? As in South Dakota? Where abouts. I am in Brookings frequently and Vermillion on ocassion.
Imagine though, that with the proper password that you could back that key up to a HD or CD
Sera
HA HA HA HA HA! Mediocre?? Try horse shite, and it is getting worse with each new upgrade. I have users that insist on using it to produce html from word and power point all the time. Bloated hideous code that is horrible to maintain and breaks every chance it gets. It actually saves me time in the long run to create css sheets for them and teach them the basic html needed to maintain their web docs. Please oh please never let anyone use the "export as html" function of MS Office.
Sera
MECC? Did you get your nick from the old Minnesota Educational Computer Consortium?
Curious
Seraphim
Get over yourself, is is at best a flawed IQ test.
Kisses
Sera
P.S. The guy is obviously in over his head and was looking for help, glad to know "Mensa" would toss a drowning man an an anchor.
I am not thinking of trademark, and I thought I was being quite plain. I don't secretly hate copyright law, I actively openly hate it. And perhaps if you go back and read my post you will notice that I was tring to explain something to you. I would hardly call that "whining"(sic). What has happened is that us "pack of rabid nerds" are arguing philosophy while you want us to be mired in the concrete thinking that you seem to want to be in. But go ahead and believe in your moral absolutes. If you really want to believe that 'illegal=immoral' (and thus 'immoral=illegal') then I will gladly sit on the bench next to the jaywalkers, those who tickle women in Virginia, those who kiss on a train in Wisconsin, those that make an ugly face at a dog in Oklahoma, and all the other amazingly dated and silly lawbreakers out there.
You will also note that I never said I downloaded anything, so take your hate elsewhere.
Sera
What he is trying to point out is that copyright as it stands is never what it was supposed to be. I hereby invent the word "Julurgeth". It is the name for my WoW character. It is a new word, unique, all mine. Even posting it makes it mine under the current law. Now, let us say I last for another 70 years, current law says my copyright lasts for death + (90,120, I don't know, fill in your local law here) And in the mean time 200 years later the Cure for Cancer is invented, named (you guessed it) "Julurgeth" in internal memos, and the product is "Julurg" .... "No time to juggle your health, ask about Julurg." ... And my great great grand daughter says "The scourge of Mankind, Cancer, will wait. I own the copyright on the words "Julurg" and "Jururgeth", pay me a royalty, here is proof of my 200 year old copyright on the word "Julurg", that everyone 130 years ago said was dead.
The deal is that Copyright has become the Jaywalking of the "New Millennium". Is it illegal? Yup. Should I care? Nope. Profit is never a 'right'. And stupidity should be it's own reward.
You are right, I also don't cry for the unethical practices of the music, pharma, and movie industries - What? Two wrongs don't make a right?Realize what they are rebelling against - control. But now, for once, it is the hands of change that are in the hands of the masses.
Sera
Thanks for posting that in a swarm of "My Boss is an Idiot". I currently have such a Manager as you have described, I am a coder - and he is not, but he tries to help me however he can. He is fluent in tech, a REAL human being, and actually wants to learn about what you are doing and how you are doing it, but to learn, not to hold it against you. He knows he doesn't know it all, and as code goes he has an uncanny knack for how long a project should take, though, again he is no coder. He knows that all that matters is how the customers feel - and they feel good. In short, you described my Boss, best one I have ever had, will ever have, I am staying put, for the long haul. Did I mention the pension is good??
Sera
That clapping you hear is from me. Well put, congrats, and thank you for being a plugged in parent, there are precious few of you left.
Sera
Wasn't there a car powered entirely by flywheels? ...this is close linky