Those silly ancestors, thinking that I wouldn't know anything that they don't.
For much of human history in Europe (roughly the thousand years from 500CE to 1500CE) it was accepted as fact that the ancients (i.e the Romans) knew far more than was known at the present time. There was a grain of truth to this.
You assume that a dismissive attitude to the knowledge of the ancients is a given. It isn't. Superstitious awe of a fallen civilisation can last a long time.
We as humans have invented everything that we need to make this world a wonderful place to live, we just need to learn how to distribute it fairly and use it sustainably.
Except maybe for cheap, efficient solar cells. And a cure for HIV.
Not just Web development, but also desktop UI development, SOA and Services development and Rich Internet Application development. And I forgot to mention Sharepoint and Biztalk, but that may just me trying to block out the memories.
If you think MSBuild is "incredibly simple" then you haven't done much with it. Try doing what I am at present: care and feeding of continuous integration builds and software releases for a large project on TFS. The build script is split over lots of files, some custom, some company standard. The build log is typically over 50Mb, and we have had bugs in the build that took my team-mates days to track down.
HTML/CSS/Javascript and XML are not part of asp.net, they are technologies that asp.net uses, as do other platforms. Javascript is a fully fledged programming language in its own right.
These may all be "part of" or "used by" the.net ecosystem, but that's the point, it's not one tool, one "language, and framework" as the original questioner assumed, but a complex ecosystem.
I gave up on Webster's as an authoritative source on the English language after they added bling to its dictionary.
Why shouldn't a dictionary have that word? People are going to use it, and other people are going to want to know what it means. A dictionary would be failing them by not including it.
The obvious answer is to choose a "best of breed" tool for each class of problem. Otherwise you'll end up writing device drivers in Javascript. Or browser scripting in C.
My employer is very much a "Microsoft shop", and C# is the tool of choice. But bear in mind that across all the projects that we bring C# to bear on, knowledge of the following is needed: C# SQL HTML CSS Javascript XML WPF MSBuild SOAP/WS*
In what sense isn't it scamming? Other than the sense that you say it isn't, so it can't be.
You see, in order to get people to join a dating site, you have to have people who already joined the dating site... we cannot avoid.. the fake profiles
It being necessary for making your business model work doesn't make it any less of a scam. It just makes your business model unworkable by legal means. You know, like most scams. You admit they're fake. You admit that you are lying to people, and if they knew they wpould shun you.
From your link: Microsoft Bob was designed for Windows 3.1x and Windows 95 and intended to be a user-friendly interface for Microsoft Windows, replacing the Program Manager.
we got the internet.... something people aren't really predicting.
I've got a copy of Arthur C. Clarke's book "2001: A space Odyssey" here. It was first published in 1968. He has Dr Floyd reading newspapers on his "information tablet" while on his way to the moon. That's a close enough prediction of the internet in information technology terms, but the internet is not just http://news.bbc.co.uk/ and http://www.nytimes./
He failed on on the social implications, which is what we think of as the internet.
He missed that "electronic newspapers" would have low enough barriers to entry to cause mass amateurism, and undermine the business models of existing newspapers, auction houses, classified ads businesses, encyclopaedias, music industry, maps, porn, TV, etc, etc.
He also missed some other trends - the moon spaceship is just a bigger, more expensive passenger jet, complete with servile stewardesses.
That tells me his web presence isnt up to snuff.Is he being paid to design a hip-hop web presence...
Typing in a HTML title isn't exactly AJAX. it just takes an minimal eye for detail and completeness. You know, like you'd want from an intelligent scientist.
Languages like Java and C# are being hailed while languages like C are derided and many posts here on slashdot call it outmoded and say it should be done away with, yet Java and C# are built using C.
You are oversimplifying to the point were you are making no sense at all. Languages like Java, C#, Ruby, Python, Perl, etc. are built using C. C is built using assembly. If you think assembly is therefor the perfect tool for every job, you are sorely wrong. It is the right tool for making C compilers, and these days that;'s about all. C compilers in turn are good tools for making device drivers,.net virtual machines, Java runtimes, dynamic languages etc. These aforementioned languages are in turn the best tools that we currently have for run-of-the-mill real-world web, desktop and server programming tasks. C is not anymore. It should not be done away with, but as a "general purpose language" for all tasks, it's rather past its prime. It's becoming a niche skill, like assembler before it. And there's nothing wrong with this.
It seems to me that there is no substitute for actually knowing how things work at the most basic level and doing them by hand.
Knowing some assembler will make you a better C coder. Knowing some C will help you understand Java or C# better. Essential or all that's needed? Not at all.
Suppose we find trilobite skeletons on Mars... and the next day an alien ship enters our system. In his work, those two are contradictory events. They cannot happen in the same universe.
Nonsense, he said that finding evidence of advanced life (e.g. like a trilobite) on Mars makes it a lot less likely that there are aliens with spaceships. Not impossible, just improbable.
But there are all kinds of ways they COULD happen.So his theory is flawed.
I don't think you've shown that it could happen. Where's your example? Where are your arguments from probabilities?
Everything we know of has a basis in physical reality. Even ideas. How thick is your understanding of "spiritual"? I mean literally, how many centimeters is it?
Do you mean when it's in a book, on a DVD-Rom, or when it's in my head?
All of those things can be measured in centimetres. All of these are physical things. ideas, even nonsensical ideas like "spiritual" are always contained in some pattern of matter and/or energy.
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Those silly ancestors, thinking that I wouldn't know anything that they don't.
For much of human history in Europe (roughly the thousand years from 500CE to 1500CE) it was accepted as fact that the ancients (i.e the Romans) knew far more than was known at the present time. There was a grain of truth to this.
You assume that a dismissive attitude to the knowledge of the ancients is a given. It isn't. Superstitious awe of a fallen civilisation can last a long time.
Hey twerp: the 1980s called, they want their slur back. Get with the present
We as humans have invented everything that we need to make this world a wonderful place to live, we just need to learn how to distribute it fairly and use it sustainably.
Except maybe for cheap, efficient solar cells. And a cure for HIV.
If you had internet, you wouldn't need to ask stupid questions. How you're posting without internet, I don't know.
Not just Web development, but also desktop UI development, SOA and Services development and Rich Internet Application development. And I forgot to mention Sharepoint and Biztalk, but that may just me trying to block out the memories.
If you think MSBuild is "incredibly simple" then you haven't done much with it. Try doing what I am at present: care and feeding of continuous integration builds and software releases for a large project on TFS. The build script is split over lots of files, some custom, some company standard. The build log is typically over 50Mb, and we have had bugs in the build that took my team-mates days to track down.
HTML/CSS/Javascript and XML are not part of asp.net, they are technologies that asp.net uses, as do other platforms. Javascript is a fully fledged programming language in its own right.
These may all be "part of" or "used by" the .net ecosystem, but that's the point, it's not one tool, one "language, and framework" as the original questioner assumed, but a complex ecosystem.
I gave up on Webster's as an authoritative source on the English language after they added bling to its dictionary.
Why shouldn't a dictionary have that word? People are going to use it, and other people are going to want to know what it means. A dictionary would be failing them by not including it.
The obvious answer is to choose a "best of breed" tool for each class of problem. Otherwise you'll end up writing device drivers in Javascript. Or browser scripting in C.
My employer is very much a "Microsoft shop", and C# is the tool of choice. But bear in mind that across all the projects that we bring C# to bear on, knowledge of the following is needed:
C#
SQL
HTML
CSS
Javascript
XML
WPF
MSBuild
SOAP/WS*
this isn't "scamming"
In what sense isn't it scamming? Other than the sense that you say it isn't, so it can't be.
You see, in order to get people to join a dating site, you have to have people who already joined the dating site ... we cannot avoid .. the fake profiles
It being necessary for making your business model work doesn't make it any less of a scam. It just makes your business model unworkable by legal means. You know, like most scams.
You admit they're fake. You admit that you are lying to people, and if they knew they wpould shun you.
I'll say it again: how is this not a scam?
When probing for sites that serve malware, wouldn't you have to make the probe look identical to a legitimate user?
Otherwise the malicious site could just serve innocuous content to the probe and malware to everyone else.
There is no such verb as "to sublimate". The verb is "to sublime" -
On the contrary. In fact, being a grammar pedant on slashdot is a poor way to sublimate (third meaning, verb transitive) your desire for perfection.
You'd probably have more success developing your own standard and convincing the world to switch (I'm not kidding).
Microsoft are trying to do something like that with Silverlight. Microsoft would do it, if Apple wanted to play.
Silverlight is known to be broken with Firefox 3. This will change sooner or later.
From your link: Microsoft Bob was designed for Windows 3.1x and Windows 95 and intended to be a user-friendly interface for Microsoft Windows, replacing the Program Manager.
So at best Bob was a shell, not an OS.
we got the internet. ... something people aren't really predicting.
I've got a copy of Arthur C. Clarke's book "2001: A space Odyssey" here. It was first published in 1968. He has Dr Floyd reading newspapers on his "information tablet" while on his way to the moon. That's a close enough prediction of the internet in information technology terms, but the internet is not just http://news.bbc.co.uk/ and http://www.nytimes./
He failed on on the social implications, which is what we think of as the internet.
He missed that "electronic newspapers" would have low enough barriers to entry to cause mass amateurism, and undermine the business models of existing newspapers, auction houses, classified ads businesses, encyclopaedias, music industry, maps, porn, TV, etc, etc.
He also missed some other trends - the moon spaceship is just a bigger, more expensive passenger jet, complete with servile stewardesses.
That tells me his web presence isnt up to snuff.Is he being paid to design a hip-hop web presence...
Typing in a HTML title isn't exactly AJAX. it just takes an minimal eye for detail and completeness. You know, like you'd want from an intelligent scientist.
It's just a bit harder to take it seriously when the HTML title of the page is still set to "New Page 1"
True, but a C compiler must output assembly. So in order to write a C compiler, you must understand assembly.
Languages like Java and C# are being hailed while languages like C are derided and many posts here on slashdot call it outmoded and say it should be done away with, yet Java and C# are built using C.
.net virtual machines, Java runtimes, dynamic languages etc. These aforementioned languages are in turn the best tools that we currently have for run-of-the-mill real-world web, desktop and server programming tasks. C is not anymore. It should not be done away with, but as a "general purpose language" for all tasks, it's rather past its prime. It's becoming a niche skill, like assembler before it. And there's nothing wrong with this.
You are oversimplifying to the point were you are making no sense at all. Languages like Java, C#, Ruby, Python, Perl, etc. are built using C. C is built using assembly. If you think assembly is therefor the perfect tool for every job, you are sorely wrong. It is the right tool for making C compilers, and these days that;'s about all. C compilers in turn are good tools for making device drivers,
It seems to me that there is no substitute for actually knowing how things work at the most basic level and doing them by hand.
Knowing some assembler will make you a better C coder. Knowing some C will help you understand Java or C# better. Essential or all that's needed? Not at all.
One-liners? I'm talking about the fact that the last movie was a turgid, overblown, special-effects-extravaganza shark-jumping mess.
The director for the project is to be Gore Verbinski, who proved himself on the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy
Proved himself what?
I mean, did you sit through the last one?
Suppose we find trilobite skeletons on Mars ... and the next day an alien ship enters our system. In his work, those two are contradictory events. They cannot happen in the same universe.
Nonsense, he said that finding evidence of advanced life (e.g. like a trilobite) on Mars makes it a lot less likely that there are aliens with spaceships. Not impossible, just improbable.
But there are all kinds of ways they COULD happen.So his theory is flawed.
I don't think you've shown that it could happen. Where's your example? Where are your arguments from probabilities?
Everything we know of has a basis in physical reality. Even ideas.
How thick is your understanding of "spiritual"?
I mean literally, how many centimeters is it?
Do you mean when it's in a book, on a DVD-Rom, or when it's in my head?
All of those things can be measured in centimetres. All of these are physical things. ideas, even nonsensical ideas like "spiritual" are always contained in some pattern of matter and/or energy.
Basically you're probably not going to catch anything from the cow, because it's a cow, but a human? Make sure yours is extra well-done.
I'll see your Kuru and raise you BSE
Drink someone's milkshake? Terrorism.
No, that's the oil business.
A Kiwi open source developer...
Do you mean the fruit, or the extinct flightless bird?
Both the fruit and the bird, but he spelled "sauce" incorrectly.