Your cynicism just totally sucks. What I take issue with is all the references to things that are bad BECAUSE of voting for the wrong president for the wrong reasons. The last 8 years show that it DOES matter and now we get a chance to get back on track with someone who is not a divisional asshole. So, shove it up your ass.
If you like the company that you are in start programming your own tools and solutions, let other people use them. There are tons of things you can do in QA along those lines. Also, it is important to start talking to the software engineers. Most companies like to hire internally if you can exhibit some capability.
Why not just use xml? You can put it in an archive if you want or use object de/serialization for convenient programming. If Access is overkill you could even just use a damned flat file. God! Why is this even something that you'd put on Slashdot?
Oh shit and I forgot something. When we griped about how much abuse we were taking telling people they would have to order a patch for OS 7.1, Apple offered us an extra 1$ if we could upsell them on the same call to buy File Maker Pro. Where is my beer bong? God those were bad days...Misery. Darker than they ticket takers eyes at the heroin carnival.
I couldn't agree more. I worked in a call center serving Apple when they came out with OS 7.1 (I think it was 7.1). This was a time when the os was horrible and parts of the computer would break because of the way that they packaged it in the box. People wanted to kill us for representing Apple during those dark days. Apple also is much more likely to make major revisions to their OS that leave all their clients with old hardware completely out of the water. One of the ways that they have been able to produce the OSs that they have is by not supporting backward compatibility, something that MS has strived to do. MS is an evil empire. Apple has been evil as well and has historically been one of the most xenophobic of companies and almost died because of it. I'm tired of Mac bigots and I hate MS-centric fools as well. Lets face it, there are evil and good aspects of both companies. I hate it but Visual Studio is a great product and it was not long ago (2 or 3 yrs ago) that I went to an Apple WWDC and they were just talking about thier first XML libraries for COCO. I wouldnt trade VS for COCO any day. Rant Rant Rant.....I hate them all and hope both companies are strife with herpies. Where is my martini? Glurb. I also hate Steve Jobs. Total sensationalist. At least you can look at Bill Gates and say, "That little prick is a geek. A manipulative, territorial, competative little prick but he is a geek." Jobs is just a light bulb in a room full of moths. He represents the marking shit heads that I came to utterly hate in the 80s. Where is my gin and tonic? Oh and one more thing, I utterly hate Steve Ballmer and would pay good money to see him duke it out with Dick Cheney, pastey face to pastey face. Where is my rig?
Think about what the aims are though. The Sierra Club is trying to expose, educate and preserve (somewhat non-questonable), Exxon is trying to keep it's income secure (questionable). No big deal except that Exxon's income is outlandish. The Sierra Club and all those who are saying that global warming is a real threat have no big financial reward (admittedly for the most part) for their views. Exxon obviously does.
Due to what Philosophy of Science calls the theory ladenness of all data, any one can make any number of theories about global warming with the current data at hand and Exxon is using it. The significant thing is that Exxon is trying to pay scientists to ruin the ability of society to correct possibly catastrophic problems so that it can continue making gobs of money which is horribly unethical. We all know that the kinds of changes we would have to make are for the better anyhow. THe problem for the oil companies is the threat that they would have to change.
This is just a guess but maybe there are zoning laws the affect the use of such a device. Do you live in an area with a homeowners association, maybe they can help. Also, if one of your neighbors have young kids the cops would be more understanding if some perants told them that the mosquito is driving their children into neurosis.
If the industry sees that the business model is worthwhile then they can incorporate it to pay the artist as well. But that assumes that the current business models of the music industry directly pay the artists for each sale, I don't think that is quite the way it works.
I generally agree but have to add that when I worked on a Naval base, we had a very good set of govies, mostly software engineers (some with PhDs) who operated at a very sophisticated level of computing and were not just sitting around and rotting in their chairs. Even the management was good. In this case it was often the contractors that were mediocre -- we had the full range of really good contractors and some who were only good for dragging tax dollars out of the millitary. I think the difference here was that the job was interesting (meteorological and oceanic weather modelling products). Most people will sit around and rot when they are restricted by small minded bureaucracies. Everything was fine at this place until you had to request office supplies.
I can't believe that I am here, this world has shackled my inner self. Golf, weenies, burnt toast. Randomness in nature, at some point, limits the accuracy of the little balls flying through the air. We are becoming artifacts. FISH $
But is Gates any better than Bush at pluggin up Security holes. Again, I think the comparison is valid although there have been a few more compromised computers than dead people, not many though.
I still meet very few people who write software or are sysadmins or have almost anything to do with the computer industry who don't love it to some extent. Sure your real love may be de-legging roaches or hog taxidermy but you have to have a certain level of warm and fuzzies do be any good at this type of work.
Screw you. I've worked in unix-only, mixed and windows-only environments and I don't need some self-righteous fuck like yourself telling me about culture shock. Talk about culture...Now there is a culture of people like you waiting to give that very response. If you work in a particular environment that you like and have to move to another and start losing a skillset becouse you do not have the time to keep it up, that is not culture shock shit-head, it is losing a skillset and there is nothing wrong with being worried about that so again...fuck you asshole.
Many of us have taken jobs at shops that are Microsoft only shops. I hope that Mono takes off in a big way since that would give us a chance to easily port our apps over or at least develop on something other than fucking windows xp. It really sucks to get stuck in the MS world and not have the time to work in other environments and not be able to have other platforms run at the place that you work. Maybe Mono can be a bridge from the dark valley of MS purgatory.
Do we really need to care? Is it a testament to the human species that we are considering putting poeple on another planet so that they can watch a big rock smack Earth and wipe us all out? Damn! I bet if 100 yrs go by the cultural differences will be enough that the blokes on Mars (or whereever) will consider Earthlings a bunch of back water hicks (back planet in this case) and secretly spend lots of time day dreaming about the demise of the mother planet. My only heartfelt pang is that it would be a shame for technology and invention to be set back to 0 (at least in this plot of the universe).
I use firefox as my main browser but we have to realize that it is also kind of a memory hog. Not every user has a dev box. But then, most users don't have several web and database servers, an ide, etc. running at the same time as well.
He was making a valid point. We can spend billions developing a system that can detect an incoming threat and the enemy can spend nothing in comparison to change things so our system no longer is usefull. It is a fucking dumb idea and I think it is more about this regime bringing back everything that the Reagan administration was up to, handing out gobs of cash to gvt contractors, and talking like they are taking care of shit while they rape the country blind.
It is a more important election than 2000 because we have been lied to for the last 3 yrs. Have any friends/fam in the millitary? It didn't take M Moore to make that appearant.
Yeah, I don't want to meet people that need the web to meet people. I like boozing with people who need boozing to meet people. But...you know what?...I most like meating people who like to be meated.
I am a c# developer now after my last gig doing java work. Another scary thing that I have noticed (scary meaning that I would hate to see Java popularity diminish under.Net success) is the culture of developers using Windows technologies. In the days of VB COM and ASP for most Windows-based web development the culture of the developers was not as sophisticated as in other disciplines. Now that has changed with constant forums on patterns in C# and better OOP principles being used etc. Which is good for that community but it also means that it is maturing and becoming interesting enough to attract developers who would normally not have anything to do with MS technologies. When I scan Dice.com or other job sites I still see that Java is the web programming language of choice but it is such an easy transition to C#. I think really that it is the frameworks that will keep Java alive and that they(that are not open source) will have maintain a high popularity, since not many actually exist for.Net yet.
No, your wrong. Yes, it would be stupid to suddenly start taxing the shit out of gas but the idea is to change the way we do things...of course not overnight. AND you said nothing about WHAT we drive which is still just totally out of hand if you ask me. Do you work for Shell? We need to have alternatives. Hydrogen, of course is not one of the better choices but smaller (or at least more efficient) cars, alternative fuels, and public transportation are all attainable goals. Statements like yours just keep us on the wrong track by using dramatic terminology aimed at a narrow view of someone elses statement.
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Americans swill gasoline like petrol drunks. Not only do we buy huge automobiles as stupid status symbols but we worship anything that burns gas. Gas burning schooters, dirt carts, dune buggies etc. The american love affair with the car is constantly romanticised as well, we have developed a culture around it. I say make gas more expensive, tax the shit out of it and get some better public transportation going (much of which already is running on Natural Gas or electricity). We need a kick in the ass to hopefully knock us out of such an extreme dependancy.
That still does not explain why it had to be so violent and gory. It was sensational regardless of what "Philosophy" it proposes. Additionally, if you look at the views of Hutton Gibson, Mel Gibsons father you would definitly see that there are anti-semitic sentiments in his "Philosophy". Such things as the Holocost being a burnt offering to god or that most Jews were not actually effected by Nazi Germany, they instead had already fled to New York and LA (meaning the 6 million that disappeared from germany during those troubled times) I don't think this means that Mel is anti-semitic but it makes you wonder.
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Your cynicism just totally sucks. What I take issue with is all the references to things that are bad BECAUSE of voting for the wrong president for the wrong reasons. The last 8 years show that it DOES matter and now we get a chance to get back on track with someone who is not a divisional asshole. So, shove it up your ass.
If you like the company that you are in start programming your own tools and solutions, let other people use them. There are tons of things you can do in QA along those lines. Also, it is important to start talking to the software engineers. Most companies like to hire internally if you can exhibit some capability.
Why not just use xml? You can put it in an archive if you want or use object de/serialization for convenient programming. If Access is overkill you could even just use a damned flat file. God! Why is this even something that you'd put on Slashdot?
Oh shit and I forgot something. When we griped about how much abuse we were taking telling people they would have to order a patch for OS 7.1, Apple offered us an extra 1$ if we could upsell them on the same call to buy File Maker Pro. Where is my beer bong? God those were bad days...Misery. Darker than they ticket takers eyes at the heroin carnival.
I couldn't agree more. I worked in a call center serving Apple when they came out with OS 7.1 (I think it was 7.1). This was a time when the os was horrible and parts of the computer would break because of the way that they packaged it in the box. People wanted to kill us for representing Apple during those dark days. Apple also is much more likely to make major revisions to their OS that leave all their clients with old hardware completely out of the water. One of the ways that they have been able to produce the OSs that they have is by not supporting backward compatibility, something that MS has strived to do. MS is an evil empire. Apple has been evil as well and has historically been one of the most xenophobic of companies and almost died because of it. I'm tired of Mac bigots and I hate MS-centric fools as well. Lets face it, there are evil and good aspects of both companies. I hate it but Visual Studio is a great product and it was not long ago (2 or 3 yrs ago) that I went to an Apple WWDC and they were just talking about thier first XML libraries for COCO. I wouldnt trade VS for COCO any day. Rant Rant Rant.....I hate them all and hope both companies are strife with herpies. Where is my martini? Glurb. I also hate Steve Jobs. Total sensationalist. At least you can look at Bill Gates and say, "That little prick is a geek. A manipulative, territorial, competative little prick but he is a geek." Jobs is just a light bulb in a room full of moths. He represents the marking shit heads that I came to utterly hate in the 80s. Where is my gin and tonic? Oh and one more thing, I utterly hate Steve Ballmer and would pay good money to see him duke it out with Dick Cheney, pastey face to pastey face. Where is my rig?
Think about what the aims are though. The Sierra Club is trying to expose, educate and preserve (somewhat non-questonable), Exxon is trying to keep it's income secure (questionable). No big deal except that Exxon's income is outlandish. The Sierra Club and all those who are saying that global warming is a real threat have no big financial reward (admittedly for the most part) for their views. Exxon obviously does.
Due to what Philosophy of Science calls the theory ladenness of all data, any one can make any number of theories about global warming with the current data at hand and Exxon is using it. The significant thing is that Exxon is trying to pay scientists to ruin the ability of society to correct possibly catastrophic problems so that it can continue making gobs of money which is horribly unethical. We all know that the kinds of changes we would have to make are for the better anyhow. THe problem for the oil companies is the threat that they would have to change.
This is just a guess but maybe there are zoning laws the affect the use of such a device. Do you live in an area with a homeowners association, maybe they can help. Also, if one of your neighbors have young kids the cops would be more understanding if some perants told them that the mosquito is driving their children into neurosis.
If the industry sees that the business model is worthwhile then they can incorporate it to pay the artist as well. But that assumes that the current business models of the music industry directly pay the artists for each sale, I don't think that is quite the way it works.
I generally agree but have to add that when I worked on a Naval base, we had a very good set of govies, mostly software engineers (some with PhDs) who operated at a very sophisticated level of computing and were not just sitting around and rotting in their chairs. Even the management was good. In this case it was often the contractors that were mediocre -- we had the full range of really good contractors and some who were only good for dragging tax dollars out of the millitary. I think the difference here was that the job was interesting (meteorological and oceanic weather modelling products). Most people will sit around and rot when they are restricted by small minded bureaucracies. Everything was fine at this place until you had to request office supplies.
I can't believe that I am here, this world has shackled my inner self. Golf, weenies, burnt toast. Randomness in nature, at some point, limits the accuracy of the little balls flying through the air. We are becoming artifacts. FISH $
But is Gates any better than Bush at pluggin up Security holes. Again, I think the comparison is valid although there have been a few more compromised computers than dead people, not many though.
I still meet very few people who write software or are sysadmins or have almost anything to do with the computer industry who don't love it to some extent. Sure your real love may be de-legging roaches or hog taxidermy but you have to have a certain level of warm and fuzzies do be any good at this type of work.
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Screw you. I've worked in unix-only, mixed and windows-only environments and I don't need some self-righteous fuck like yourself telling me about culture shock. Talk about culture...Now there is a culture of people like you waiting to give that very response. If you work in a particular environment that you like and have to move to another and start losing a skillset becouse you do not have the time to keep it up, that is not culture shock shit-head, it is losing a skillset and there is nothing wrong with being worried about that so again...fuck you asshole.
Many of us have taken jobs at shops that are Microsoft only shops. I hope that Mono takes off in a big way since that would give us a chance to easily port our apps over or at least develop on something other than fucking windows xp. It really sucks to get stuck in the MS world and not have the time to work in other environments and not be able to have other platforms run at the place that you work. Maybe Mono can be a bridge from the dark valley of MS purgatory.
Do we really need to care? Is it a testament to the human species that we are considering putting poeple on another planet so that they can watch a big rock smack Earth and wipe us all out? Damn! I bet if 100 yrs go by the cultural differences will be enough that the blokes on Mars (or whereever) will consider Earthlings a bunch of back water hicks (back planet in this case) and secretly spend lots of time day dreaming about the demise of the mother planet. My only heartfelt pang is that it would be a shame for technology and invention to be set back to 0 (at least in this plot of the universe).
That is the real bane to society of all the VB/Active X scripters who call themselves programmers.
I use firefox as my main browser but we have to realize that it is also kind of a memory hog. Not every user has a dev box. But then, most users don't have several web and database servers, an ide, etc. running at the same time as well.
He was making a valid point. We can spend billions developing a system that can detect an incoming threat and the enemy can spend nothing in comparison to change things so our system no longer is usefull. It is a fucking dumb idea and I think it is more about this regime bringing back everything that the Reagan administration was up to, handing out gobs of cash to gvt contractors, and talking like they are taking care of shit while they rape the country blind.
It is a more important election than 2000 because we have been lied to for the last 3 yrs. Have any friends/fam in the millitary? It didn't take M Moore to make that appearant.
Yeah, I don't want to meet people that need the web to meet people. I like boozing with people who need boozing to meet people. But...you know what?...I most like meating people who like to be meated.
I am a c# developer now after my last gig doing java work. Another scary thing that I have noticed (scary meaning that I would hate to see Java popularity diminish under .Net success) is the culture of developers using Windows technologies. In the days of VB COM and ASP for most Windows-based web development the culture of the developers was not as sophisticated as in other disciplines. Now that has changed with constant forums on patterns in C# and better OOP principles being used etc. Which is good for that community but it also means that it is maturing and becoming interesting enough to attract developers who would normally not have anything to do with MS technologies. .Net yet.
When I scan Dice.com or other job sites I still see that Java is the web programming language of choice but it is such an easy transition to C#. I think really that it is the frameworks that will keep Java alive and that they(that are not open source) will have maintain a high popularity, since not many actually exist for
No freedom!...Who said we need to talk about freedom. Confinement and little fast cars forever!
No, your wrong. Yes, it would be stupid to suddenly start taxing the shit out of gas but the idea is to change the way we do things...of course not overnight. AND you said nothing about WHAT we drive which is still just totally out of hand if you ask me. Do you work for Shell? We need to have alternatives. Hydrogen, of course is not one of the better choices but smaller (or at least more efficient) cars, alternative fuels, and public transportation are all attainable goals. Statements like yours just keep us on the wrong track by using dramatic terminology aimed at a narrow view of someone elses statement.
Americans swill gasoline like petrol drunks. Not only do we buy huge automobiles as stupid status symbols but we worship anything that burns gas. Gas burning schooters, dirt carts, dune buggies etc. The american love affair with the car is constantly romanticised as well, we have developed a culture around it.
I say make gas more expensive, tax the shit out of it and get some better public transportation going (much of which already is running on Natural Gas or electricity). We need a kick in the ass to hopefully knock us out of such an extreme dependancy.
That still does not explain why it had to be so violent and gory. It was sensational regardless of what "Philosophy" it proposes. Additionally, if you look at the views of Hutton Gibson, Mel Gibsons father you would definitly see that there are anti-semitic sentiments in his "Philosophy". Such things as the Holocost being a burnt offering to god or that most Jews were not actually effected by Nazi Germany, they instead had already fled to New York and LA (meaning the 6 million that disappeared from germany during those troubled times)
I don't think this means that Mel is anti-semitic but it makes you wonder.