The bid for this has gone to 10 million now... there is no way this can be serious.
One of the last bidders (fredfromnicca) had a rating of -2 - there is no way the company is going to collect this money now..
Pains to see the genuine efforts of the company to donate the proceedings from this auction to chairities has been hijacked for some cheap thrills by these sods...
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Lottery for Mohammed Bah Abba's Low Tech Fridge Reward programs held on the 5th of April, 2004. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number 27522465896-6453 with serial number 3772-554 drew lucky numbers 7-14-18-23-31-45 which consequently won in the 2nd category, you have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of 2,000,000 (EUROS ) (TWO MILLION EUROS)
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Please send your bank details, your social security number and a wire transfer of $200 towards clearance fees.
When you get the following upon visiting the link:
Server Error in '/' Application.
Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details:
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Source Error:
Line 18:
Line 19: ldr = MCP.GetDR("SELECT tsDocuments.*, Users.userLogin, Users.userFirstName, Users.userLastName, Users.userEmail FROM tsDocuments INNER JOIN Users ON tsDocuments.docCreator = Users.userID WHERE docID = " & lintID)
Line 20: ldr.Read()
Line 21:
Line 22: 'Update User Location
Source File: D:\WWW\TronSector\articles\article.aspx Line: 20
Stack Trace:
[NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.]
ASP.article_aspx.Page_Load(Object Sender, EventArgs E) in
oh... we got one of those thingies at home that you can shit in,and then whoosh! and the water takes it all away... though i couldn't find out ever, where?
But what if you gave this camera to those guys on the MountainDew or Surge commercials who only do exciting things constantly?
Then there'd be a lot of takes, and finally some geek hacking some cool effects to make us believe they actually succeeded in doing those exciting things:-p
java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "0 111000"
at java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(Num berFormatException.java:48)
at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:477)
at java.lang.Byte.parseByte(Byte.java:122)
at DecodeMessage.main(DecodeMessage.java:25)
Exception in thread "main"
Geez, i hate those who spoil my only fun in the whole day!
'Boy, I sure wish there was an easier way to pick up women, like published API with code samples?'
Published API with code samples might be easy, but is it fun? A true geek will always go for utter randomness, complete unpredictability and total bafflement - how else will he be a geek?
CDC never seriously marketed the computer as a minicomputer, but a few were sold at a price of over 100,000. Most importantly was that it influenced others to build small computers. Recall that the first computer designs were for word lengths of 40 bits. IBM and Univac were building 36 -bit computers
But hey, if you are an antique collector, you can get framed CDC Console Disk Controller at here [NewBegin] (with pictures)
All the card had was a moldy pizza, butts of cigarette, and what suspiciously looks like a... oh! you're sick man!
Don't even get me started on that laptop..it had a version of Windoze funnily similar to the one we use in America, but i thought hey, MS products may be a bit better in other languages! No such luck - reboot every hour
To think I came all the way back in time to post an update on this!
Since you have coded in the past, I believe you will still have the rationale and thought process required to code. But is there a compulsion about learning only the OS APIs?
Admittedly, the learning curve for these is rather steep, and something most developers tackler either in uni or during the early days. However, there is also a great number of developers who don't really meddle with specifics under the hood - application programmers for example. Such programmers form a large percentage of overall progamming community, and may not have a detailed understanding of OS architecture, API, etc, but are able to still create useful programs and utilities.
Also, as you mentioned you still meddle with Perl, PHP, etc., I believe you already have the foundation. Further, the real query should be what really do you want to work upon? Do you want to go back and delve into device drivers? Or write nifty little applications that would provide some significant need or provide something the OS doesn't do? Only in such situations would it make any sense, IMO, to learn the OS API's
If its only some application you want to write (perhaps a faster way of encoding/decoding MPEGs, etc), you can achieve this simply by knowledge of C. Since you already delve into PHP, if server-side development entices you, then you can choose to go either PHP way itself (since you already know it) or the MS way (eh no!) or the Java way.
Even something like VB doesn't hurt for making your front-ends with the least worry about underlying APIs, but you should first evaluate and understand what exactly you want to do.
but Sir, this was not discussed during the requirements gathering phase sir. I am not knowing if I am to send this documentation in advance sir. Please consider sir!
The same person who does the Excel spreadsheet design could learn to use MS Access fairly easily. It's not that hard to use to do simple stuff
While above might be true for people with technical background, it's incredibly difficult for those who have barely any technical knowledge (other than being able check their email, create their presentation, write their letter, etc). Is it yet another tool, and brings with itself yet another set of complities.
You already have Excel. Chances are you have MS Access as well. It can make you that easy to use, eatrure rich front-end. It can be the backend as well, although preferrably you could use it to talk to a SQL server. It can talk to just about any database server you want over ODBC, be it Oracle, MS-SQL, MySQL(yuck), or whatever
Oh definitely, MS Access would come typically bundled with the entire Office suite, but how many executives really are able to get their head around it? You and I may have heard of ODBC, and the capability to connect to several databases, but an average "joe" user? That's asking too much IMO.
The whole point being why add more complexity to the end-user - which is something they are least interested in.
Slashdot Mirror
..why are we so interested in "skinning" LongHorn prior to its release? Are we all already tired of just slagging it? :
The bid for this has gone to 10 million now... there is no way this can be serious.
One of the last bidders (fredfromnicca) had a rating of -2 - there is no way the company is going to collect this money now..
Pains to see the genuine efforts of the company to donate the proceedings from this auction to chairities has been hijacked for some cheap thrills by these sods...
Dear Sir/Madam
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Lottery for Mohammed Bah Abba's Low Tech Fridge Reward programs held on the 5th of April, 2004. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number 27522465896-6453 with serial number 3772-554 drew lucky numbers 7-14-18-23-31-45 which consequently won in the 2nd category, you have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of 2,000,000 (EUROS ) (TWO MILLION EUROS)
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Please send your bank details, your social security number and a wire transfer of $200 towards clearance fees.
Look what I got ma!
When you get the following upon visiting the link:
.NET Framework
Server Error in '/' Application.
Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details:
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. Source Error:
Line 18:
Line 19: ldr = MCP.GetDR("SELECT tsDocuments.*, Users.userLogin, Users.userFirstName, Users.userLastName, Users.userEmail FROM tsDocuments INNER JOIN Users ON tsDocuments.docCreator = Users.userID WHERE docID = " & lintID)
Line 20: ldr.Read()
Line 21:
Line 22: 'Update User Location
Source File:
D:\WWW\TronSector\articles\article.aspx Line: 20
Stack Trace:
[NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.]
ASP.article_aspx.Page_Load(Object Sender, EventArgs E) in
D:\WWW\TronSector\articles\article.aspx:20
System.Web.UI.Control.OnLoad(EventArgs e) +67
System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +35
System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain() +731
Version Information: Microsoft
Version:1.1.4322.573; ASP.NET
Version:1.1.4322.573
oh... we got one of those thingies at home that you can shit in,and then whoosh! and the water takes it all away... though i couldn't find out ever, where?
But what if you gave this camera to those guys on the MountainDew or Surge commercials who only do exciting things constantly?
:-p
Then there'd be a lot of takes, and finally some geek hacking some cool effects to make us believe they actually succeeded in doing those exciting things
Looks like the dawn of times when one would have to decide what NOT to capture.
*sigh... life's tough
What "other" geeks?
java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "0 111000"m berFormatException.java:48)
at java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(Nu
at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:477)
at java.lang.Byte.parseByte(Byte.java:122) at DecodeMessage.main(DecodeMessage.java:25)
Exception in thread "main"
Geez, i hate those who spoil my only fun in the whole day!
"All the trips I make in the city are now randomized, as I will often divert a few hundred meters to go and collect an object around me."
So the harder the game gets, the lesser your chances of reaching anywhere on time?
Till it was found one of the dead hamsters was grossly overweight...
Oh, then they started complaining about a certain heart condition the hamster had...ah well, bad marketing after all.
'Boy, I sure wish there was an easier way to pick up women, like published API with code samples?'
Published API with code samples might be easy, but is it fun? A true geek will always go for utter randomness, complete unpredictability and total bafflement - how else will he be a geek?
To throw garbage
(The cleaning company refused to send their employees inside my house to pick up the garbage bags)
...if you let me know how you found out precisely 92.3% of you was on this modified picture...
I love computers!
Ok maybe not when you start, but say, like, when you are, oh, like 50 cups down.
...
I'd especially like to see after you've fulfilled your life's mission
I'm sure on the grossing-out scale it'd be somewhere near goat.cx
From MS Research(of all the places) :-) :
CDC never seriously marketed the computer as a minicomputer, but a few were sold at a price of over 100,000. Most importantly was that it influenced others to build small computers. Recall that the first computer designs were for word lengths of 40 bits. IBM and Univac were building 36 -bit computers
But hey, if you are an antique collector, you can get framed CDC Console Disk Controller at here [NewBegin] (with pictures)
You lying bastard!
All the card had was a moldy pizza, butts of cigarette, and what suspiciously looks like a... oh! you're sick man!
Don't even get me started on that laptop..it had a version of Windoze funnily similar to the one we use in America, but i thought hey, MS products may be a bit better in other languages! No such luck - reboot every hour
To think I came all the way back in time to post an update on this!
Since you have coded in the past, I believe you will still have the rationale and thought process required to code. But is there a compulsion about learning only the OS APIs?
Admittedly, the learning curve for these is rather steep, and something most developers tackler either in uni or during the early days. However, there is also a great number of developers who don't really meddle with specifics under the hood - application programmers for example. Such programmers form a large percentage of overall progamming community, and may not have a detailed understanding of OS architecture, API, etc, but are able to still create useful programs and utilities.
Also, as you mentioned you still meddle with Perl, PHP, etc., I believe you already have the foundation. Further, the real query should be what really do you want to work upon? Do you want to go back and delve into device drivers? Or write nifty little applications that would provide some significant need or provide something the OS doesn't do? Only in such situations would it make any sense, IMO, to learn the OS API's
If its only some application you want to write (perhaps a faster way of encoding/decoding MPEGs, etc), you can achieve this simply by knowledge of C. Since you already delve into PHP, if server-side development entices you, then you can choose to go either PHP way itself (since you already know it) or the MS way (eh no!) or the Java way.
Even something like VB doesn't hurt for making your front-ends with the least worry about underlying APIs, but you should first evaluate and understand what exactly you want to do.
but Sir, this was not discussed during the requirements gathering phase sir. I am not knowing if I am to send this documentation in advance sir. Please consider sir!
I've reached an all time-high. Following is what I do now
/. reload /. every other minute
1. Goto news.google.com, cnn.com, bbc.co.uk every 2 or 3 minutes
2. copy and paste another line as part of my job.
3. Read every bit that I can understand on
4. Endless cups of tea - I'm upto 8 a day. Each tea-break lasts 15 mins
5. Lunch is between 12 and 2. I make sure I "utilize" the two hours fully.
6. I do all my personal work - be it making phone calls to pay my bills, emailing friends and old colleagues, etc. - at work.
7. Complain about my life to anyone who'd listen.
Needless to say, my popularity is at all time low!
The same person who does the Excel spreadsheet design could learn to use MS Access fairly easily. It's not that hard to use to do simple stuff
While above might be true for people with technical background, it's incredibly difficult for those who have barely any technical knowledge (other than being able check their email, create their presentation, write their letter, etc). Is it yet another tool, and brings with itself yet another set of complities.
You already have Excel. Chances are you have MS Access as well. It can make you that easy to use, eatrure rich front-end. It can be the backend as well, although preferrably you could use it to talk to a SQL server. It can talk to just about any database server you want over ODBC, be it Oracle, MS-SQL, MySQL(yuck), or whatever
Oh definitely, MS Access would come typically bundled with the entire Office suite, but how many executives really are able to get their head around it? You and I may have heard of ODBC, and the capability to connect to several databases, but an average "joe" user? That's asking too much IMO.
The whole point being why add more complexity to the end-user - which is something they are least interested in.
hehehe... for a moment I thought it was some sort of server error - till I actually read the page :-)
Clean and to the point :-p
oh my god, parent comment was "insightful"?
/. (and its mods)!
geez, I should start bashing Windoze as well, to gain more insight into working of