Counting germs and making it sound "scary" or "disgusting" has been a scam of the cleaning product industry since whenever people were able to mass produce chemical cleaning products. Probably around the 1950's or so. There's life all over and it is a damn good thing. I _would_ be scared if I found out I was working in an evironment where bacteria couldn't survive. I would get the hell out of that place pronto. All you have to do to keep from getting sick at the office is what people have been doing since long before "Formula 409" - wash your hands from time to time.
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Notice the disclaimer on the google cache of google: Google is not affiliated with the authors of this page nor responsible for its content.
Well, you can't send an html email to a phone that tricks the user to click a link that installs a trojan that records all your phone calls and uploads them to an IRC chat room at midnight, all without leaving your parents basement. So even though there is no security on current phones, it takes a bit more effort to listen in on their calls. The minimal physical ability required to climb the phone poll rules out most chee-toe eating script kiddies from tapping your phone line.
Much like the current president of the US, it appears the presidient of the Internet takes lots of vactaion. Probably more than any other president of the Internet.
Microsoft was politically agnostic and never contributed to political campaigns until the US government brought the anti-trust suit against them. They've been one of the number one contributors ever since. Bush pretty much put the anti-trust trial on ice as soon as he walked into office. Microsoft, a relatively young company, learned what most other big companies already know - political contributions are a necessary cost of doing business in the US. They could have saved themselves the cost of ever having an anti-trust trial brought against them at all if they would have learned that lesson earlier.
They won't make that mistake again. Here are the top contributors to Bush's 2004 campaign. Microsoft is in the top 20.
Microsft isn't listed as a top contributor to Kerry's campaign, but they are listed as a top contributor to Dean's campaign, so I guess they bet on the wrong horse there.
The article you link to seems to indicate that in the future they hope to go through an effective sterilization processes, but haven't developed one yet. It is a hard problem, and they only have theories on how to do it at this point.
Dude, when someone tells you to load 300 pounds of rocks into a boat and take it out on the lake he isn't trying to teach you something. He's trying trick you into spending a day moving 300 pounds of rocks and sinking your boat.
I don't have kids, but I've always thought the simplest solution is to not let your kids have TVs and computers in their rooms. Keep the TVs and computers in the family room or something like that. When I was a kid I was afraid of viewing anything too objectionable to my parents since you never knew when they were going to walk through the room. That and our 8086 couldn't display photo-realistic graphics anyway.
Well, according to the writeup, the apache licence will probably be compatable with the next version of the GPL, and doesn't restrict freedom at all. It is simply not compatable with the current GPL based on a technicality that doesn't sound too important. So I think the sky is doing just fine. Well, except for the ozone part of it I suppose.
Don't be a wanker. And why do posts like yours - that are clearly false - always get a +5 interesting? Since when are blatant lies interesting? Besides fetchmail, ESR has contributed to the linux kernel, GNOME, python, nethack, EMACS, SourceForge, Texinfo, the PNG libraries your browser is using to render all those pretty pictures after the whole gif thing, and no doubt a lot more. He's written books, FAQs, documentation, etc. He gained the ear of executives in the computer industry. Go ahead and grep the files on any flavor of unix, commercial or free, and ESR is one of the few names that is almost guaranteed to come up.
Wha? The benefit isn't that they'll do your returns for you. The benefit is that more people pay their fair share. I know the whole self sufficiency, get the gov't out of my life thing is really in vogue right now, but that's mostly because the benefits of all the state and federal infrastructure are all but invisible to us because we are so accustomed to them. Trust me: spend a little time in a country where you can't drink the water out of the tap, never know when the road is going to crumble out from under your car, nobody has an education, and you don't know when the sewage system is going to overflow and cover your feet in shit and you'll appreciate the benefit of getting more people to pay their taxes.
As a software developer if I were ever required to implement some sort of anonymous feature I would make damn sure I wouldn't write any code to keep track of the anonymous user. To do otherwise is stupid, unethical, and, in my opinion, fraudulently representing your product.
Not sure how you got modded up to +5 insighful, given that there were no sameless java plugs at all. I went to the article and searched for the word java.
The first two hits in the article point out that java was architected with security in mind. This is simply true, and hardly a shameless plug.
The next hit is in the question "How well do you think modern programming languages, particularly the Java language, have been able to help developers hide complexity?"
The answer starts with the word "Unfortunately" and goes on to explain that not even OO languages reduce complexity enough when an app gets big enough. The word "Java" isn't used once in the answer. That certainly isn't a plug.
The final hit is in the question "Do you have any concrete advice for Java developers? And are you optimistic about the direction software is headed?"
Note some good general purpose advice is given in the answer, and the term "Java" isn't used once in the answer.
No doubt part of the reason is open source developers do what is fun. Commercial software writers do what is easy for their customers. It is fun to write code using the latest bleeding edge libraries, so open source hackers do that. Maintaining binary compatability with old libraries is frustrating and confining, so you don't care too much about that unless you get paid. Learning the ins and outs of six different package managers and writing scripts so your app can be installed on any of them is not fun. It is tedious and boring, so it doesn't get done.
But if geek girlfriends are build like most geek guys, perhaps the pantie thing should be re-thought. But if panties are the gift it would also be a good idea to include a note indicating they are not for you geek to wear (like they do in "Weird Science", one of his favorite movies), but for the girlfriend to wear to "boot him up."
My credit card company, MBNA, has a system where you can generate a temporary credit card number, and assign a limit and expiration date to it. I try and use it for any "auto-renewing" system. So if I find a service I want to use for say $20 a year, I'll generate a CC# with a $20 limit, and an expiration date of next week. Then, a year later I have to manually renew with a new valid CC#, or they don't get any more of my money. Check if your credit card company has something like this.
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Modding down is a waste of mod points. Just don't mod trolls up and we should be ok. Who reads at 1? One goal of trolling to to suck mod points and moderator time away from posts that deserve them (since modding down costs points and time). Don't mod them down. Just mod good posts up.
OSS does a lot of things well. Things like development tools, operating systems, servers, and, well, I'm stumped past that. I've been running linux for 9 years, and it is all I run at home, so I'm not some MS flunky. OSS also does a lot of things really poorly. Easy installation, self configuration, and interoperation with business software are some of those things. As a startup you can't afford the time it takes to make OSS software interoperate with business software and other companies you will be working with. Start keeping track of the hours you spend trying to install and configure and make your OSS software work in this specific area, and you'll quickly see it isn't free. I'm guessing every piece of software you need is up to par and available right now in the commercial world, for a few thousand dollars. That isn't much considering the time and trouble it will save you.
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Counting germs and making it sound "scary" or "disgusting" has been a scam of the cleaning product industry since whenever people were able to mass produce chemical cleaning products. Probably around the 1950's or so. There's life all over and it is a damn good thing. I _would_ be scared if I found out I was working in an evironment where bacteria couldn't survive. I would get the hell out of that place pronto. All you have to do to keep from getting sick at the office is what people have been doing since long before "Formula 409" - wash your hands from time to time.
Notice the disclaimer on the google cache of google: Google is not affiliated with the authors of this page nor responsible for its content.
Too bad PGP phone never took off.
Well, you can't send an html email to a phone that tricks the user to click a link that installs a trojan that records all your phone calls and uploads them to an IRC chat room at midnight, all without leaving your parents basement. So even though there is no security on current phones, it takes a bit more effort to listen in on their calls. The minimal physical ability required to climb the phone poll rules out most chee-toe eating script kiddies from tapping your phone line.
Much like the current president of the US, it appears the presidient of the Internet takes lots of vactaion. Probably more than any other president of the Internet.
They won't make that mistake again. Here are the top contributors to Bush's 2004 campaign. Microsoft is in the top 20.
Microsft isn't listed as a top contributor to Kerry's campaign, but they are listed as a top contributor to Dean's campaign, so I guess they bet on the wrong horse there.
Excuse me, but the comment you were responded to wasn't ment for Americans or Europeans. Dumb ass.
The article you link to seems to indicate that in the future they hope to go through an effective sterilization processes, but haven't developed one yet. It is a hard problem, and they only have theories on how to do it at this point.
The funny thing is, if you go to the above link today you'll see in the picture in the upper right that the country is actually run by a small dog.
Dude, when someone tells you to load 300 pounds of rocks into a boat and take it out on the lake he isn't trying to teach you something. He's trying trick you into spending a day moving 300 pounds of rocks and sinking your boat.
I don't have kids, but I've always thought the simplest solution is to not let your kids have TVs and computers in their rooms. Keep the TVs and computers in the family room or something like that. When I was a kid I was afraid of viewing anything too objectionable to my parents since you never knew when they were going to walk through the room. That and our 8086 couldn't display photo-realistic graphics anyway.
Dude, you're not even a good troll. goatse.cx has been gone for a long time now.
Well, according to the writeup, the apache licence will probably be compatable with the next version of the GPL, and doesn't restrict freedom at all. It is simply not compatable with the current GPL based on a technicality that doesn't sound too important. So I think the sky is doing just fine. Well, except for the ozone part of it I suppose.
Don't be a wanker. And why do posts like yours - that are clearly false - always get a +5 interesting? Since when are blatant lies interesting? Besides fetchmail, ESR has contributed to the linux kernel, GNOME, python, nethack, EMACS, SourceForge, Texinfo, the PNG libraries your browser is using to render all those pretty pictures after the whole gif thing, and no doubt a lot more. He's written books, FAQs, documentation, etc. He gained the ear of executives in the computer industry. Go ahead and grep the files on any flavor of unix, commercial or free, and ESR is one of the few names that is almost guaranteed to come up.
Wha? The benefit isn't that they'll do your returns for you. The benefit is that more people pay their fair share. I know the whole self sufficiency, get the gov't out of my life thing is really in vogue right now, but that's mostly because the benefits of all the state and federal infrastructure are all but invisible to us because we are so accustomed to them. Trust me: spend a little time in a country where you can't drink the water out of the tap, never know when the road is going to crumble out from under your car, nobody has an education, and you don't know when the sewage system is going to overflow and cover your feet in shit and you'll appreciate the benefit of getting more people to pay their taxes.
As a software developer if I were ever required to implement some sort of anonymous feature I would make damn sure I wouldn't write any code to keep track of the anonymous user. To do otherwise is stupid, unethical, and, in my opinion, fraudulently representing your product.
Ha ha ha. Oh, wait, here's one and here's another one.
The first two hits in the article point out that java was architected with security in mind. This is simply true, and hardly a shameless plug.
The next hit is in the question "How well do you think modern programming languages, particularly the Java language, have been able to help developers hide complexity?"
The answer starts with the word "Unfortunately" and goes on to explain that not even OO languages reduce complexity enough when an app gets big enough. The word "Java" isn't used once in the answer. That certainly isn't a plug.
The final hit is in the question "Do you have any concrete advice for Java developers? And are you optimistic about the direction software is headed?"
Note some good general purpose advice is given in the answer, and the term "Java" isn't used once in the answer.
Oh. You compiled WINE. But I can see where you got that confused with the windows source code.
No doubt part of the reason is open source developers do what is fun. Commercial software writers do what is easy for their customers. It is fun to write code using the latest bleeding edge libraries, so open source hackers do that. Maintaining binary compatability with old libraries is frustrating and confining, so you don't care too much about that unless you get paid. Learning the ins and outs of six different package managers and writing scripts so your app can be installed on any of them is not fun. It is tedious and boring, so it doesn't get done.
But if geek girlfriends are build like most geek guys, perhaps the pantie thing should be re-thought. But if panties are the gift it would also be a good idea to include a note indicating they are not for you geek to wear (like they do in "Weird Science", one of his favorite movies), but for the girlfriend to wear to "boot him up."
My credit card company, MBNA, has a system where you can generate a temporary credit card number, and assign a limit and expiration date to it. I try and use it for any "auto-renewing" system. So if I find a service I want to use for say $20 a year, I'll generate a CC# with a $20 limit, and an expiration date of next week. Then, a year later I have to manually renew with a new valid CC#, or they don't get any more of my money. Check if your credit card company has something like this.
Modding down is a waste of mod points. Just don't mod trolls up and we should be ok. Who reads at 1? One goal of trolling to to suck mod points and moderator time away from posts that deserve them (since modding down costs points and time). Don't mod them down. Just mod good posts up.
OSS does a lot of things well. Things like development tools, operating systems, servers, and, well, I'm stumped past that. I've been running linux for 9 years, and it is all I run at home, so I'm not some MS flunky. OSS also does a lot of things really poorly. Easy installation, self configuration, and interoperation with business software are some of those things. As a startup you can't afford the time it takes to make OSS software interoperate with business software and other companies you will be working with. Start keeping track of the hours you spend trying to install and configure and make your OSS software work in this specific area, and you'll quickly see it isn't free. I'm guessing every piece of software you need is up to par and available right now in the commercial world, for a few thousand dollars. That isn't much considering the time and trouble it will save you.
If you can't stand to talk to your girlfriend for more than three minutes, perhaps you should re-think your relationship, no?