Which is why the cost savings on running Linux is funny.
Did you not hear the whoosh go by your head?
Spend millions of dollars on a project, and do stupid things like cut corners that save you statistically irrelevant amounts of money on the project and result in a far more difficult to support product.
And before someone starts screaming about how its better because its OSS, when you do a project like this, even Microsoft will give you source in order to get their name stamped on it.
Since X-Plane runs on Linux at this point, I'd have to say spending 1.7m for a Linux flight sim just makes you fucking retarded.
www.x-plane.com
And before anyone says something stupid, its FAA certified for training and used by several aircraft manufactures for training of pilots, certification of their test pilots, and most importantly, design testing.
Hell Bell uses it to train thier pilots on military prototypes that are too expensive to actually put the pilot in and scaled composites uses it to test their designs and train pilots.
You have got to be at least 15 years old, probably more like 13 or 12 but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and say 15 so that way you at least can claim you could type when the usage of stupid things like M$ and TEXASS would have been cool, trendy and mildly amusing.
No one way is 'the right way' and this retarded idea that you follow someone elses method and tout how you use the 'XXX' process is a outstanding sign that you actually don't know what you are doing and are just following someone elses example trying to shoe horn it into your situation because you can't manage the development process yourself.
Mine does just fine, things you buy from the App Store can't, but the phone has no problem doing it. Hence why people get their mail, listen to the iPod, get SMSs and web browse all at the same time.
And you deal with all those problems when they occur, not wait till the very last minute to do everything because something might change.
You know almost exactly how many students are going to show up, a tiny percentage more than last year, the same way its been for the last... well, forever.
And what did you do with the time you were getting paid before you got your classroom assignment.
Teachers always have great excuses for being lazy fucks, but I've yet to have a teacher give me a valid reason that they do such a shitty job.
Yada yada yada, we don't get paid enough and have too much work to do, bitch bitch bitch.
Having worked around my highschool before and after the school year as a part time job I can safely say you had plenty of time to be prepared and instead you spent it not being there or talking to the others about what you did last summer or were planning to do next summer.
Quit your fucking bitching and do your job before you are replaced with a small perl script. Probably a short one liner, most likely a single printf statement.
Apparently you don't realize that social interaction is a rather large part of being an adult and surviving in the work force.
Of course, you missed that part of growing up because you were home schooled. So great, you are the super smart, and socially inept, hows that working out for you?
As an alternative you could actually try being a parent and paying attention the old fashioned way rather than using a website.
Likewise, the lazy fucks of teachers and administration could sit down with a pencil and paper and schedule the old fashioned way, you know, with their heads.
Teachers aren't paid too little, they are paid too much and do too little. Its funny that teachers in rural areas of the country seem to be doing so much better than all the high tech electronic areas where they get paid more.
But hey, what do I know, you keep on being a half assed parent and I'll keep on laughing at you when you post about retarded shit happening at your school because of technology not working while the rest of the world does fine sans technology.
I write this as a parent and a software developer. I write software to help people, not as a replacement for people and there in lies the problem, administrators and teachers know and do less and less and expect more and more pay.
I'm sorry, why exactly do you think you are entitled to have any freedoms when using someone elses equipment during the time that they are paying you to do a job?
The sense of entitlement you have blows my mind. If you want freedom, USE YOUR OWN COMPUTER ON YOUR OWN TIME AND STOP BITCHING.
The irony in your post is just off the charts. All that ranting about teaching the basic principals and you fail utterly at writing in general. The only reason I even stopped to read your post was the
Learn people what a spreadsheet is and does
I haven't seen that sort of language use since living in the most red neck rural areas of America, good job, rant about the very thing you can't do.
Its not that people aren't aware of these things, its that people don't care.
It doesnt' really effect them.
These sins are bad things, sure, but there are no viable alternatives that provide anything that can be considered a better alternative so no one gives a fuck about these 'sins'.
Give a bunch of food covered in pesticides that will make you sterile and water that tastes like oil to starving Ethiopians. Tell them that it will kill them in 10 years if they consume it.
They'll be happy to eat it all because right now its what they need and if they don't survive till next week anyway, what happens in 10 years isn't really an issue.
Staying on message doesn't matter when your message is irrelevant.
Please do not equate Geek with Stallman, GPL or FSF.
I am a Geek. I am not a follower. I think Stallman is a fucking moron on his best rants, it gets worse from there. I think GPL is a virus in disguise. It has its uses, but the battle cry for freedom is a lie. I am not part of any 'Free Software Movement', which is just the modern day hippie crusade which is powered by a bunch of idealistic idiots who wouldn't be able to feed their own families if they got their way.
Yes you will mark me as a troll, and thats fine, all I ask is that you do not try to associate geeks with this bullshit excuse for a crusade that you can all feel like you are part of so you finally have a team to play on rather than being left watching everyone else play.
This article is a perfect example of why no one outside of the crusade will ever take GPL or Linux seriously, you're a bunch of raving nutters. You say 'MS IS THE EVIL!!!!' followed almost if not immediately by 'WE ARE GODS FOR DOING THE SAME SHIT EVERYTIIME WE GET THE CHANCE!'. Its just a big bunch of politics and you aren't even any good at it, hence why no one gives a fuck outside of the crusade.
Again, I am a geek, mark me as a troll, but DO NOT mark me as one of you because I am a geek. I'm not a nut job lunatic blinded by high school angst and overwhelming need to stick it to the man like the rest of FS 'movement'.
Or whats more likely is that one of the previously mentioned groups DID send a DMCA takedown notice but doesn't realize they did it because they are such disorganized massive organizations.
So basically, you've never used a versioning system that didn't suck? MS doesn't even use VSS because it sucks that bad, for a long time they stopped even developing for it at all because they were trying to kill it off. Does it do anything well? The gui isn't any better than say WinCVS, its integration with Visual Studio is only as good as CVS/Subversion, not better. You're trolling, right?
I instinctively save files. And this is a bad thing to do with CVS; when I do a commit, my otherwise unchanged file can overwrite another engineer's more recent changes because I happened to save the file at a later date than him. The interesting thing is that this is not immediately apparent to either of us until we check out a fresh copy of the repository and he notices his changes are gone. And then I'm listed as the last modifier, and he comes to me...
My CVS server/client just mark unchanged files as committed on the local (committers) side when someone commits an unchanged file, the server ignores it, theres nothing to commit, no diff to create, nothing it can add to the system so it doesn't do anything.
You can't (or shouldn't) copy one directory to another within a source tree. Nor should you do it between repositories. CVS will commit your changes to the copied directory back to the original repository, unless you delete all of the CVS folders. This little quirk cost a few of my colleagues a few hours of debugging to figure out why their changes kept disappearing...
The only thing I can really say here is... duh? What did you expect it to do, magically know you wanted it to be treated differently even though you brought along all the files that tell it how to be treated? There changes weren't disappearing either, they were committed somewhere if you committed them.
CVS does not (or did not when I used it) enforce strict version control protocol. I can commit an entire repository back to mainline even if I have outdated files. Even if others have made more recent updates. I didn't know this was happening for a good few months of use...
My CVS server says 'up to date check failed' and blocks the commit, what server are you using?
Are you sure you've been using CVS, it hasn't really changed in years. Perhaps you should stop using some shitty server. I prefer CVSNT myself, builtin support for encryption and kerberos, atomic commits, and pretty much everything useful that SVN has to offer as well as compatibility with the massive amount of CVS servers and clients out there.
As for your ClearCase comments, CVS is capable of pretty much everything you just said, it can integrate with bug databases, mine does just fine, my repository is only a few million lines in one location so I can't speak to that part. Two or more developers can work on the same file and the merge is automatic most of the time as well. With a tag I can always checkout the exact same code, which is why our software has its build tag embedded in its resources. I've never heard of CVS having an issue with not having the correct checkout due to some cache error, but on that same not all our build machines do clobber builds, as we've only got a few million lines to build. ClearCase does appear to have the upper hand in merging to multiple branchs, but really it doesn't sound like you've used CVS much to give a very fair comparison.
Yes, I have 4 copies of CS3. SafeCast has never caused me a problem, whatever it does doesn't seem to bother Windows and seems to work fine with our disk imaging tools so while you are write that it shouldn't do it, the fact that it does in and of itself isn't really an issue.
Finally, SafeCast doesn't 'override operating system security and safeguards' by writing directly to the boot track, Windows DOES NOT PROTECT that area of the disk, which has been brought up on slashdot before.
You can sit around and whine about it on principle, the rest of us will sit around and make money then come here to laugh at you whining about it on principal, we'll see who gets further in life.
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Which is ... gigabit ethernet ... which is rather common, can you even buy a computer without it now?
Which is why the cost savings on running Linux is funny.
Did you not hear the whoosh go by your head?
Spend millions of dollars on a project, and do stupid things like cut corners that save you statistically irrelevant amounts of money on the project and result in a far more difficult to support product.
And before someone starts screaming about how its better because its OSS, when you do a project like this, even Microsoft will give you source in order to get their name stamped on it.
www.x-plane.com
Costs a lot less and has far more testing and time put into it as well.
Since X-Plane runs on Linux at this point, I'd have to say spending 1.7m for a Linux flight sim just makes you fucking retarded.
www.x-plane.com
And before anyone says something stupid, its FAA certified for training and used by several aircraft manufactures for training of pilots, certification of their test pilots, and most importantly, design testing.
Hell Bell uses it to train thier pilots on military prototypes that are too expensive to actually put the pilot in and scaled composites uses it to test their designs and train pilots.
You have got to be at least 15 years old, probably more like 13 or 12 but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and say 15 so that way you at least can claim you could type when the usage of stupid things like M$ and TEXASS would have been cool, trendy and mildly amusing.
you are doing it wrong.
No one way is 'the right way' and this retarded idea that you follow someone elses method and tout how you use the 'XXX' process is a outstanding sign that you actually don't know what you are doing and are just following someone elses example trying to shoe horn it into your situation because you can't manage the development process yourself.
perfectly smooth surfaces are the best when they are dry.
Rubber on dry glass has a very high level of traction.
Rubber on glass with a tenth of an inch of water on it at 30 mph is pretty much like expecting tires to be useful on the International Space Station.
I could go into the reasons why, but theres no real reason to do so since this shit will never be rolled into production anyway.
Yea, cause county jail is full of hardcore criminals.
You've seen one too many tv shows.
Mine does just fine, things you buy from the App Store can't, but the phone has no problem doing it. Hence why people get their mail, listen to the iPod, get SMSs and web browse all at the same time.
You don't need special boxes or encryption to prevent your neighbors from knowing what you are watching, thats what a switch is for.
Thats what he said, a niche market. Contrary to Palms marketing bullshit, they aren't that popular.
And you deal with all those problems when they occur, not wait till the very last minute to do everything because something might change.
You know almost exactly how many students are going to show up, a tiny percentage more than last year, the same way its been for the last ... well, forever.
What a crock of shit.
'Gangs that have to be kept apart'
No wonder you have gang problems, you have idiots for faculty that don't know how to handle the problem.
And what did you do with the time you were getting paid before you got your classroom assignment.
Teachers always have great excuses for being lazy fucks, but I've yet to have a teacher give me a valid reason that they do such a shitty job.
Yada yada yada, we don't get paid enough and have too much work to do, bitch bitch bitch.
Having worked around my highschool before and after the school year as a part time job I can safely say you had plenty of time to be prepared and instead you spent it not being there or talking to the others about what you did last summer or were planning to do next summer.
Quit your fucking bitching and do your job before you are replaced with a small perl script. Probably a short one liner, most likely a single printf statement.
Apparently you don't realize that social interaction is a rather large part of being an adult and surviving in the work force.
Of course, you missed that part of growing up because you were home schooled. So great, you are the super smart, and socially inept, hows that working out for you?
As an alternative you could actually try being a parent and paying attention the old fashioned way rather than using a website.
Likewise, the lazy fucks of teachers and administration could sit down with a pencil and paper and schedule the old fashioned way, you know, with their heads.
Teachers aren't paid too little, they are paid too much and do too little. Its funny that teachers in rural areas of the country seem to be doing so much better than all the high tech electronic areas where they get paid more.
But hey, what do I know, you keep on being a half assed parent and I'll keep on laughing at you when you post about retarded shit happening at your school because of technology not working while the rest of the world does fine sans technology.
I write this as a parent and a software developer. I write software to help people, not as a replacement for people and there in lies the problem, administrators and teachers know and do less and less and expect more and more pay.
The FSF hasn't changed, you've just grown up and lost high school angst and need to rage against the machine.
Stallman hasn't grownup or lost the angst. It oozes from his face in the form of a nasty beard.
I'm sorry, why exactly do you think you are entitled to have any freedoms when using someone elses equipment during the time that they are paying you to do a job?
The sense of entitlement you have blows my mind. If you want freedom, USE YOUR OWN COMPUTER ON YOUR OWN TIME AND STOP BITCHING.
The irony in your post is just off the charts. All that ranting about teaching the basic principals and you fail utterly at writing in general. The only reason I even stopped to read your post was the
I haven't seen that sort of language use since living in the most red neck rural areas of America, good job, rant about the very thing you can't do.
Its not that people aren't aware of these things, its that people don't care.
It doesnt' really effect them.
These sins are bad things, sure, but there are no viable alternatives that provide anything that can be considered a better alternative so no one gives a fuck about these 'sins'.
Give a bunch of food covered in pesticides that will make you sterile and water that tastes like oil to starving Ethiopians. Tell them that it will kill them in 10 years if they consume it.
They'll be happy to eat it all because right now its what they need and if they don't survive till next week anyway, what happens in 10 years isn't really an issue.
Staying on message doesn't matter when your message is irrelevant.
Please do not equate Geek with Stallman, GPL or FSF.
I am a Geek. I am not a follower. I think Stallman is a fucking moron on his best rants, it gets worse from there. I think GPL is a virus in disguise. It has its uses, but the battle cry for freedom is a lie. I am not part of any 'Free Software Movement', which is just the modern day hippie crusade which is powered by a bunch of idealistic idiots who wouldn't be able to feed their own families if they got their way.
Yes you will mark me as a troll, and thats fine, all I ask is that you do not try to associate geeks with this bullshit excuse for a crusade that you can all feel like you are part of so you finally have a team to play on rather than being left watching everyone else play.
This article is a perfect example of why no one outside of the crusade will ever take GPL or Linux seriously, you're a bunch of raving nutters. You say 'MS IS THE EVIL!!!!' followed almost if not immediately by 'WE ARE GODS FOR DOING THE SAME SHIT EVERYTIIME WE GET THE CHANCE!'. Its just a big bunch of politics and you aren't even any good at it, hence why no one gives a fuck outside of the crusade.
Again, I am a geek, mark me as a troll, but DO NOT mark me as one of you because I am a geek. I'm not a nut job lunatic blinded by high school angst and overwhelming need to stick it to the man like the rest of FS 'movement'.
Or whats more likely is that one of the previously mentioned groups DID send a DMCA takedown notice but doesn't realize they did it because they are such disorganized massive organizations.
So basically, you've never used a versioning system that didn't suck? MS doesn't even use VSS because it sucks that bad, for a long time they stopped even developing for it at all because they were trying to kill it off. Does it do anything well? The gui isn't any better than say WinCVS, its integration with Visual Studio is only as good as CVS/Subversion, not better. You're trolling, right?
My CVS server/client just mark unchanged files as committed on the local (committers) side when someone commits an unchanged file, the server ignores it, theres nothing to commit, no diff to create, nothing it can add to the system so it doesn't do anything.
The only thing I can really say here is ... duh? What did you expect it to do, magically know you wanted it to be treated differently even though you brought along all the files that tell it how to be treated? There changes weren't disappearing either, they were committed somewhere if you committed them.
My CVS server says 'up to date check failed' and blocks the commit, what server are you using?
Are you sure you've been using CVS, it hasn't really changed in years. Perhaps you should stop using some shitty server. I prefer CVSNT myself, builtin support for encryption and kerberos, atomic commits, and pretty much everything useful that SVN has to offer as well as compatibility with the massive amount of CVS servers and clients out there.
As for your ClearCase comments, CVS is capable of pretty much everything you just said, it can integrate with bug databases, mine does just fine, my repository is only a few million lines in one location so I can't speak to that part. Two or more developers can work on the same file and the merge is automatic most of the time as well. With a tag I can always checkout the exact same code, which is why our software has its build tag embedded in its resources. I've never heard of CVS having an issue with not having the correct checkout due to some cache error, but on that same not all our build machines do clobber builds, as we've only got a few million lines to build. ClearCase does appear to have the upper hand in merging to multiple branchs, but really it doesn't sound like you've used CVS much to give a very fair comparison.
Yes, I have 4 copies of CS3. SafeCast has never caused me a problem, whatever it does doesn't seem to bother Windows and seems to work fine with our disk imaging tools so while you are write that it shouldn't do it, the fact that it does in and of itself isn't really an issue.
Finally, SafeCast doesn't 'override operating system security and safeguards' by writing directly to the boot track, Windows DOES NOT PROTECT that area of the disk, which has been brought up on slashdot before.
You can sit around and whine about it on principle, the rest of us will sit around and make money then come here to laugh at you whining about it on principal, we'll see who gets further in life.