You know that the kernel is 5.1 for WinXP, and 5.2 for server 2003, right? Its really the same core OS, with different components installed (AD, DNS Server, etc).
I didn't say infinity, I said forever. "3. an endless or seemingly endless period of time: It took them forever to make up their minds." As far as a human life is concerned, a copyright lasts forever.
Do you know what forever means? Why throw in ambiquity when we know exactly how long the half-life will be? No need to try and confuse things by exaggerating, and 300 years isn't that long as the human race is concerned.
The tide always goes up and down. You can store the energey you get from solar and wind (which is actually solar). Fit your energy to your region.
What effect will using the tide have on the environment? What about debris in the water? Ships sink, it seems likely such an occurance could muck up any power generation based on the tides.
You also lose energy converting it, and batteries don't last that long. How long do you think we can run NYC on batteries if we have a few weeks of clouds and little rain? Remember, weather systems can span the entire North East, so we need to power ALL those people as well.
Of course; they're made in China by slave labor now. Maytag closed their last US factory last year. And what does that have to do with good tech vs bad tech?
Ahh, nice strawman. Trying to divert the conversation further off course. The arguement was about quality, not how newer items are made. I guess you lost that point? At any rate, none of this has anything to do with whether or not nuclear power is a good way to go.
Did you actually TRFA? It specifically said T-SHIRTS. Button shirts aren't any different than they ever were.
What, Gap and Express Mens don't sell T-SHIRTS? If they don't, I'd be suprised, since I never bought anything from those stores that had buttons except jeans. Which also fit.
That was likely the dumbest thing I've heard anybody say all week. Nice that you not only can't grasp a point, but seem to run screaming from it.
Really, dumbass, that can't READ what is written? Otherwise you wouldn't have mentioned t-shirts again.
I know your point, I said you can live with it or live as a hermit. In case you missed it, my reply was "oh well, too bad." Or get over it, or whatever other similar phrase you'd prefer.
Please, enough of your tangent and lets get back to discussing the topic; whether or not nuclear is a good idea for energy production compared to supposedly more eco-friendly means. Remember, we're also not dumping nuclear waste, we're storing it as best we can and AFAIK not much of it has leaked.
Some licensing is restrictive, sure. Mostly though its "you need to buy a license for each user / computer." I think that's fair, since its how authors make their money too. As for access to the code.. it can be helpful, but I have my own code already to maintain and that keeps me busy enough.
Really? Do principals and ideals feed your family? I'm willing to bet that most developers that contibute to OSS do so in their off time, after their day job that pays the bills. Only a portion of people are paid to write code to be given away.
Companies "move" to OSS for one main reason; money. They want the percieved savings from not having to buy licenses. Companies don't care about your ideals. They are getting free code that they don't have to maintain. If the "belly up" scenario happens, the company now has to maintain the software its using. That can become costly, and I'm willing to bet that most developers already have enough to do without assuming that responsiblity as well.
So tell me, what's the half-life of the spent fuel? I'd read it was 30,000 years.
Um, close to 10,000 years. And that's with what the US doing, which is NOT reprocessing it. If we reprocessed the waste, when we are ultimate done with the waste, the half life would be 300 years.
Since that's longer than recorded history, It's pretty much forever as far as human civilization is concerned.
So, how does that effect physics now that you've established that infinity is equal to 30,000 years?
Yes, I'm aware that coal plants spew radioactivity, as well as mercury and other even nastier things. I'd like to see my electricity come from solar, wind, etc.
Yes, wonderful. Lets have power sources where regional events will severely limit the power produced. I don't know about where you live, but in Vermont, the wind doesn't always blow, and the sun doesn't always shine. I'm fairly certain a large percentage of land has such climates as well.
I paid $650 for my Maytag washer, but that was twenty years ago.
And I bet the exact same washer today would cost you less, correct?
Your shirts "fit" because you're young and used to t-shirts that ride your adam's apple.
Interesting assumption, but very wrong. I don't wear shirts that choke me. Seriously, try going to Gap or Express Men's at some point. For colored / button shirts, try Macy's or something more upscale. You really do get what you pay for. Or maybe dropping a few hundred pounds? Hey, you made one way off assumption, so if I'm wrong there, let me know.
And I like my car's airbags, fuel injection, rear heater/AC, power windows etc; I just wish it were able to be eaily and cheaply repaired.
Oh, like a CPU or graphics card? Oh wait. Yes, as things get more complex, you'll lose the ability to DIY and they become more expensive to maintain. Oh well. Do you think you should be able to do your own heart surgery too?
You can either accept it and live in modern society, or build a log cabin in the middle of Montana and live as a hermit.
The links aren't rants against new technology. On the contrary, I like new technology. I just don't like useful technology to die and don't like bad technology to stick around.
That's pretty much how the first one read. I've found that things today "break down" if they aren't properly maintained, not because steel was replaced with plastic. Or if you buy cheap crap at WalMart.
The long and short of it is that the STATES are getting THEIR rights trampled, which many (like myself, although I'm not the OP) believe is why the Federal goverment was able to over reach its power.
Keep in mind this is a brand new HP right out of the box. Factory image the only things I have installed are litterally firefox and MS Office.
Hmm... have a hard time believing that. Every out of the box computer is loaded with crapware. My Sony Vaio was blue screening anytime I tried to logon to my windows domain after I joined it to the domain. A reformat using a retail DVD and not the image that came with the Vaio fixed the issue.
If your drivers are crashing that much, get a better video card. Is it some bolted onto the MB card? Yuck.
I agree that the hardware vendors should also share part of the blame. However, Microsoft designed the campaign, and in addition is responsible for the capabilities of Vista (for all the hardware manufacturers knew, it might get faster before it was released to the general public). Therefore, on the face of it, the case might have merit.
Not sure I agree. Technically, the machines CAN run Vista right? Just home "Home Basic" version. But its still Vista.
Yes, this isn't entirely new. But that doesn't justify things in any way. In fact Microsoft should have learned from past experience and done things better this time.
No, and its pretty common outside the computer industry. How many commercials advertise a product ("lose 30 lbs in a week!") and then in the small print say it doesn't work ("results not typical; individual results may vary"). Hmm... I'm not sure how I feel on this one.
As I said, it seems the machines CAN run Vista... just the bare bottom one. Maybe a disclaimer, "may not run all versions of Vista" should have been included.
Huh. I think you need to do a wee bit of research on nuclear power.
I don't know if that's worse than emmissions and global warming or not; I'm just a layman.
Well, you can continue to warm the earth past the point where things like corn and wheat grow, and get cancer breathing in the vairious emissions from current engines and the buring of coal (which, incidently, throws radioactive material into the atmosphere), or we can produce a liquid waste which is easier to contain and deal with.
Interesting rants, those links. Of course he seems to have more problems than most people. My fridge, washing machine and dryer are about 10 years old. My clothes fit fine, but then I don't buy them at Wal*Mart either. My car, while more complicated, will also help me avoid skidding off the road when its slippery, or when traffic suddenly stops. The airbags and seatbelts will help shield me from harm that may otherwise kill me outright. The first link ignores all those thinsg. Oh, and washing machines are now $300 instead of $300 in 1950s money. (Of course $300 today is less than $300 in the 50s, and today your machine has dozens of settings).
He deserves *nothing*, because his creation is completely dependent upon freely copying the innumerable ideas of others.
That's a bit silly, don't you think? There's no difference between something like Terminator 2 and Robocop? Similar plots, one much more thought provoking.
Well, the OP went wrong in that slavery is forced, while SK chooses to write. But at a higher level, if writers in general cannot get paid for their labor, they will out of necessety have to do something else.
Some may still write, many won't. The end result is that we have far less literary works, which is a net loss for society, since some of those works would be thought provoking and may cause changes in societies thinking. For example, 1984 had a fairly large impact when it was first released, an impact that had lasted for quite sometime.
As humans, part of our existence is having some kind of shared culture. Art in all its forms is important, otherwise we're just little more than animals. May as well go back to hunting and gathering.
But what if tomorrow I invented a replicator just like you'd see on Star Trek....and I replicated myself a nice new car, just like yours. Then I go and find Linus and replicate the uber-badass laptop I imagine he must have, and finally I go next door and replicate my neighbor's candybar. Is that illegal? Hell no.
It would likely be made illegal, and would almost have to be. Otherwise, one person would buy say the newest AMD processor with some neat cool thing that makes computer 100 fold faster. How would AMD recoup their investment costs if after one sale no one buys it? They wouldn't be able to do so. The people enabling the copying could make a lot of money though, but thats about it. Even the people that built the replicator would be in trouble, because a larger replicator can replicate a smaller one...
Mob rule? Its a minority of people, not a majority. Of course in the US we wouldn't want to trample the minority either just because the majority agrees.
From everything I heard, MS is actually a great place to work. Of course, I've heard that some projects aren't that great to be involved in, due to a crappy manager.
That's possible too, although shipping a buggy product isn't in MS' best interest. I think even their investors know that. If he wasn't planning to leave, I don't think he'd have pushed out the code, because while MS may want it out Right Now, they should know not to rush it. Maybe they were being unreasonable though, saying they wanted it Right Now, which leaves him in the position of "ship it, and I'll be blamed for it not working" or "refuse to ship it, and I'll be blamed for the delays." If MS put him in that kind of position, it could have added fuel to the fire to leave as well as prompted him to start looking anyway.
Well, we could go nuclear. At any rate, having millions of "clean" cars and a few plants to generate power will let us focus on making the plants as clean as possible. Then if fusion ever happens, we can start building those without changing the cars.
The cost to fix it is the same now as it will be in the future. You're not going to be doing more work now than you would, its just people not seeing the risk is faster approaching, and some don't see a risk at all.
Most developers are, like you, writing bespoke software that never leaves the company it was written for. You are not releasing your proprietary software to the public in the hope of competing with open source software.
Huh? How do you know? Do you really think an OTS package couldn't do here what I'm doing? It could. It wouldn't be exactly what this company wants. Which is the only reason I'm here; they want TOTAL control of the software.
On the other hand, open source software can probably help you get your work done faster. With projects like GCC, GNU binutils, Eclipse, Apache and MySQL or PostgreSQL, you don't need to pay huge licensing fees to proprietary software developers in order to get basic tools for software development and creation.
Doubtful. First, I don't get the support from the OSS community I'd need. I didn't get it running Linux at home, why would I think I'd get it here? Unless I pay for it, but then why not just buy commercial software?
GCC and GNU binutils aren't useful; C++ is less productive than C#. Command line has limited usefulness in productiveness. GUI wizards and VS' designers (which are just code gen untilities) save me a great deal of code writing. Changing a couple of properties and I get quite a bit of code.. faster than I could have typed it and with no error.
MySql is a joke toy Sql server. I would never consider it for serious use. Postgres is good, but I don't see Eclipse support inegrated (I'll admit I haven't looked though). I'm not sure how it performs compared to Sql Server. Also, I don't think Posgres comes with ancillary packages that I'm making use of in Sql Server; such as Integration Services, Notification Services, Reporting Services. I'll looking into whether or not Analysis services would benefit me as well. Does Postgres have similar features?
Apache is a good web server; I'm not sure how easy it is to configure. IIS is simple to install, then install the.Net framework, and a few more clicks everything is configured. Does Apache have such tools? I haven't found them, but its admittedly been a while since I looked.
I could have rolled my own hiearchal grid control on WinForms I suppose; buying one though saved me TONs of time. I'll admit I don't know if something similar exists in Java. I'm looking at WPF now and it will be a huge benefit to use, because I can create many controls by templating and compositing other controls. Is there a similar library in Java? In WinForms, it would take weeks to create a drop down box with two text boxes in each "item." Xaml lets me do it in a matter of seconds. Is there an equivolent in Java? Honestlly I'd like to know, I would like to do Java development... but i don't think I'd be doing it on Linux.
So that's all you can do? Delude yourself into saying I'm a liar? If you had a point, you'd explain it. What better way to prove I'm a liar, but you won't. You, and stop being a hypocrate. I didn't lie here, but I'm sure you've lied plenty in your life. So shove that line of crap already.
So, let me set the stage again; we're discussing "rights," correct? You said this: "Maybe your argument [about rights] would be better served by quoting relevant passages from the Constitution instead."
So explain what you mean; obviously I'm not getting it. What's your point, if I'm so off base? Be a man and explain yourself.
Its funny you mention posting history; you obviously never checked mine. If was constantly lying and posting stram man surely I'd been modded into oblivion by now right? Of course if you did check my history you'd see plenty of places where I admit I misunderstood or was wrong. I'm not above that.
So drop this "you lied" crap and make your point. Or continue to act like a baby and take your ball and go home, because you can't handle a debate like a man. If I am lying and making strawmen,the best way to shut me up would be to explain exactly what you meant, since you claim I'm not getting it. So go ahead. If you feel your made your point why do you bother to continue replying?
Did you go anonymous becaue you feel like you're the one looking like a fool?
So that's all you can do? Delude yourself into saying I'm a liar? If you had a point, you'd explain it. What better way to prove I'm a liar, but you won't.
So, let me set the stage again; we're discussing "rights," correct? You said this: "Maybe your argument [about rights] would be better served by quoting relevant passages from the Constitution instead."
So explain what you mean; obviously I'm not getting it. What's your point, if I'm so off base? Be a man and explain yourself.
Its funny you mention posting history; you obviously never checked mine. If was constantly lying and posting stram man surely I'd been modded into oblivion by now right?
So drop this "you lied" crap and make your point. Or continue to act like a baby and take your ball and go home, because you can't handle a debate like a man. If I am lying and making strawmen,the best way to shut me up would be to explain exactly what you meant, since you claim I'm not getting it. So go ahead. If you feel your made your point why do you bother to continue replying?
Did you go anonymous becaue you feel like you're the one looking like a fool?
I see. You're an ass. When called out on something stupid, you stomp and scream to distract from that. I explained in my first reply to you what was wrong with your statement and what that statement implies; I correctly convied your though, even if I didn't use your exact words.
If I'm a liar, than explain your point and how you think you can't get to my conclusion from your statement. Don't worry, I know you won't. Best would be to just admit your "rights are best argued from the Constitution" statement was stupid and move on.
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You know that the kernel is 5.1 for WinXP, and 5.2 for server 2003, right? Its really the same core OS, with different components installed (AD, DNS Server, etc).
I didn't say infinity, I said forever. "3. an endless or seemingly endless period of time: It took them forever to make up their minds." As far as a human life is concerned, a copyright lasts forever.
Do you know what forever means? Why throw in ambiquity when we know exactly how long the half-life will be? No need to try and confuse things by exaggerating, and 300 years isn't that long as the human race is concerned.
The tide always goes up and down. You can store the energey you get from solar and wind (which is actually solar). Fit your energy to your region.
What effect will using the tide have on the environment? What about debris in the water? Ships sink, it seems likely such an occurance could muck up any power generation based on the tides.
You also lose energy converting it, and batteries don't last that long. How long do you think we can run NYC on batteries if we have a few weeks of clouds and little rain? Remember, weather systems can span the entire North East, so we need to power ALL those people as well.
Of course; they're made in China by slave labor now. Maytag closed their last US factory last year. And what does that have to do with good tech vs bad tech?
Ahh, nice strawman. Trying to divert the conversation further off course. The arguement was about quality, not how newer items are made. I guess you lost that point? At any rate, none of this has anything to do with whether or not nuclear power is a good way to go.
Did you actually TRFA? It specifically said T-SHIRTS. Button shirts aren't any different than they ever were.
What, Gap and Express Mens don't sell T-SHIRTS? If they don't, I'd be suprised, since I never bought anything from those stores that had buttons except jeans. Which also fit.
That was likely the dumbest thing I've heard anybody say all week. Nice that you not only can't grasp a point, but seem to run screaming from it.
Really, dumbass, that can't READ what is written? Otherwise you wouldn't have mentioned t-shirts again.
I know your point, I said you can live with it or live as a hermit. In case you missed it, my reply was "oh well, too bad." Or get over it, or whatever other similar phrase you'd prefer.
Please, enough of your tangent and lets get back to discussing the topic; whether or not nuclear is a good idea for energy production compared to supposedly more eco-friendly means. Remember, we're also not dumping nuclear waste, we're storing it as best we can and AFAIK not much of it has leaked.
You know who wouldn't do that?
Why, the Flying Spagetti Monster of course! He'll never leave you room for desert, always quite satisifying!
Some licensing is restrictive, sure. Mostly though its "you need to buy a license for each user / computer." I think that's fair, since its how authors make their money too. As for access to the code.. it can be helpful, but I have my own code already to maintain and that keeps me busy enough.
Really? Do principals and ideals feed your family? I'm willing to bet that most developers that contibute to OSS do so in their off time, after their day job that pays the bills. Only a portion of people are paid to write code to be given away.
Companies "move" to OSS for one main reason; money. They want the percieved savings from not having to buy licenses. Companies don't care about your ideals. They are getting free code that they don't have to maintain. If the "belly up" scenario happens, the company now has to maintain the software its using. That can become costly, and I'm willing to bet that most developers already have enough to do without assuming that responsiblity as well.
So tell me, what's the half-life of the spent fuel? I'd read it was 30,000 years.
Um, close to 10,000 years. And that's with what the US doing, which is NOT reprocessing it. If we reprocessed the waste, when we are ultimate done with the waste, the half life would be 300 years.
Since that's longer than recorded history, It's pretty much forever as far as human civilization is concerned.
So, how does that effect physics now that you've established that infinity is equal to 30,000 years?
Yes, I'm aware that coal plants spew radioactivity, as well as mercury and other even nastier things. I'd like to see my electricity come from solar, wind, etc.
Yes, wonderful. Lets have power sources where regional events will severely limit the power produced. I don't know about where you live, but in Vermont, the wind doesn't always blow, and the sun doesn't always shine. I'm fairly certain a large percentage of land has such climates as well.
I paid $650 for my Maytag washer, but that was twenty years ago.
And I bet the exact same washer today would cost you less, correct?
Your shirts "fit" because you're young and used to t-shirts that ride your adam's apple.
Interesting assumption, but very wrong. I don't wear shirts that choke me. Seriously, try going to Gap or Express Men's at some point. For colored / button shirts, try Macy's or something more upscale. You really do get what you pay for. Or maybe dropping a few hundred pounds? Hey, you made one way off assumption, so if I'm wrong there, let me know.
And I like my car's airbags, fuel injection, rear heater/AC, power windows etc; I just wish it were able to be eaily and cheaply repaired.
Oh, like a CPU or graphics card? Oh wait. Yes, as things get more complex, you'll lose the ability to DIY and they become more expensive to maintain. Oh well. Do you think you should be able to do your own heart surgery too?
You can either accept it and live in modern society, or build a log cabin in the middle of Montana and live as a hermit.
The links aren't rants against new technology. On the contrary, I like new technology. I just don't like useful technology to die and don't like bad technology to stick around.
That's pretty much how the first one read. I've found that things today "break down" if they aren't properly maintained, not because steel was replaced with plastic. Or if you buy cheap crap at WalMart.
No, similar to T2, but done really poorly. Besides, U.S. was much better than Robocop. ;-)
http://www.articlev.com/repeal17.htm
The long and short of it is that the STATES are getting THEIR rights trampled, which many (like myself, although I'm not the OP) believe is why the Federal goverment was able to over reach its power.
Keep in mind this is a brand new HP right out of the box. Factory image the only things I have installed are litterally firefox and MS Office.
Hmm... have a hard time believing that. Every out of the box computer is loaded with crapware. My Sony Vaio was blue screening anytime I tried to logon to my windows domain after I joined it to the domain. A reformat using a retail DVD and not the image that came with the Vaio fixed the issue.
If your drivers are crashing that much, get a better video card. Is it some bolted onto the MB card? Yuck.
I agree that the hardware vendors should also share part of the blame. However, Microsoft designed the campaign, and in addition is responsible for the capabilities of Vista (for all the hardware manufacturers knew, it might get faster before it was released to the general public). Therefore, on the face of it, the case might have merit.
Not sure I agree. Technically, the machines CAN run Vista right? Just home "Home Basic" version. But its still Vista.
Yes, this isn't entirely new. But that doesn't justify things in any way. In fact Microsoft should have learned from past experience and done things better this time.
No, and its pretty common outside the computer industry. How many commercials advertise a product ("lose 30 lbs in a week!") and then in the small print say it doesn't work ("results not typical; individual results may vary"). Hmm... I'm not sure how I feel on this one.
As I said, it seems the machines CAN run Vista... just the bare bottom one. Maybe a disclaimer, "may not run all versions of Vista" should have been included.
Hmm.. yes, you're right, but I can't think of a crappy movie with similar theme. I know one's out there though, I just can't remember the name.
Nuclear waste needs to be stored forever.
Huh. I think you need to do a wee bit of research on nuclear power.
I don't know if that's worse than emmissions and global warming or not; I'm just a layman.
Well, you can continue to warm the earth past the point where things like corn and wheat grow, and get cancer breathing in the vairious emissions from current engines and the buring of coal (which, incidently, throws radioactive material into the atmosphere), or we can produce a liquid waste which is easier to contain and deal with.
Interesting rants, those links. Of course he seems to have more problems than most people. My fridge, washing machine and dryer are about 10 years old. My clothes fit fine, but then I don't buy them at Wal*Mart either. My car, while more complicated, will also help me avoid skidding off the road when its slippery, or when traffic suddenly stops. The airbags and seatbelts will help shield me from harm that may otherwise kill me outright. The first link ignores all those thinsg. Oh, and washing machines are now $300 instead of $300 in 1950s money. (Of course $300 today is less than $300 in the 50s, and today your machine has dozens of settings).
He deserves *nothing*, because his creation is completely dependent upon freely copying the innumerable ideas of others.
That's a bit silly, don't you think? There's no difference between something like Terminator 2 and Robocop? Similar plots, one much more thought provoking.
Well, the OP went wrong in that slavery is forced, while SK chooses to write. But at a higher level, if writers in general cannot get paid for their labor, they will out of necessety have to do something else.
Some may still write, many won't. The end result is that we have far less literary works, which is a net loss for society, since some of those works would be thought provoking and may cause changes in societies thinking. For example, 1984 had a fairly large impact when it was first released, an impact that had lasted for quite sometime.
As humans, part of our existence is having some kind of shared culture. Art in all its forms is important, otherwise we're just little more than animals. May as well go back to hunting and gathering.
But what if tomorrow I invented a replicator just like you'd see on Star Trek. ...and I replicated myself a nice new car, just like yours. Then I go and find Linus and replicate the uber-badass laptop I imagine he must have, and finally I go next door and replicate my neighbor's candybar. Is that illegal? Hell no.
It would likely be made illegal, and would almost have to be. Otherwise, one person would buy say the newest AMD processor with some neat cool thing that makes computer 100 fold faster. How would AMD recoup their investment costs if after one sale no one buys it? They wouldn't be able to do so. The people enabling the copying could make a lot of money though, but thats about it. Even the people that built the replicator would be in trouble, because a larger replicator can replicate a smaller one...
Basically, it would destory our economy.
Mob rule? Its a minority of people, not a majority. Of course in the US we wouldn't want to trample the minority either just because the majority agrees.
From everything I heard, MS is actually a great place to work. Of course, I've heard that some projects aren't that great to be involved in, due to a crappy manager.
That's possible too, although shipping a buggy product isn't in MS' best interest. I think even their investors know that. If he wasn't planning to leave, I don't think he'd have pushed out the code, because while MS may want it out Right Now, they should know not to rush it. Maybe they were being unreasonable though, saying they wanted it Right Now, which leaves him in the position of "ship it, and I'll be blamed for it not working" or "refuse to ship it, and I'll be blamed for the delays." If MS put him in that kind of position, it could have added fuel to the fire to leave as well as prompted him to start looking anyway.
Well, we could go nuclear. At any rate, having millions of "clean" cars and a few plants to generate power will let us focus on making the plants as clean as possible. Then if fusion ever happens, we can start building those without changing the cars.
Indirection solves yet another problem!
The cost to fix it is the same now as it will be in the future. You're not going to be doing more work now than you would, its just people not seeing the risk is faster approaching, and some don't see a risk at all.
Most developers are, like you, writing bespoke software that never leaves the company it was written for. You are not releasing your proprietary software to the public in the hope of competing with open source software.
.Net framework, and a few more clicks everything is configured. Does Apache have such tools? I haven't found them, but its admittedly been a while since I looked.
Huh? How do you know? Do you really think an OTS package couldn't do here what I'm doing? It could. It wouldn't be exactly what this company wants. Which is the only reason I'm here; they want TOTAL control of the software.
On the other hand, open source software can probably help you get your work done faster. With projects like GCC, GNU binutils, Eclipse, Apache and MySQL or PostgreSQL, you don't need to pay huge licensing fees to proprietary software developers in order to get basic tools for software development and creation.
Doubtful. First, I don't get the support from the OSS community I'd need. I didn't get it running Linux at home, why would I think I'd get it here? Unless I pay for it, but then why not just buy commercial software?
GCC and GNU binutils aren't useful; C++ is less productive than C#. Command line has limited usefulness in productiveness. GUI wizards and VS' designers (which are just code gen untilities) save me a great deal of code writing. Changing a couple of properties and I get quite a bit of code.. faster than I could have typed it and with no error.
MySql is a joke toy Sql server. I would never consider it for serious use. Postgres is good, but I don't see Eclipse support inegrated (I'll admit I haven't looked though). I'm not sure how it performs compared to Sql Server. Also, I don't think Posgres comes with ancillary packages that I'm making use of in Sql Server; such as Integration Services, Notification Services, Reporting Services. I'll looking into whether or not Analysis services would benefit me as well. Does Postgres have similar features?
Apache is a good web server; I'm not sure how easy it is to configure. IIS is simple to install, then install the
I could have rolled my own hiearchal grid control on WinForms I suppose; buying one though saved me TONs of time. I'll admit I don't know if something similar exists in Java. I'm looking at WPF now and it will be a huge benefit to use, because I can create many controls by templating and compositing other controls. Is there a similar library in Java? In WinForms, it would take weeks to create a drop down box with two text boxes in each "item." Xaml lets me do it in a matter of seconds. Is there an equivolent in Java? Honestlly I'd like to know, I would like to do Java development... but i don't think I'd be doing it on Linux.
So that's all you can do? Delude yourself into saying I'm a liar? If you had a point, you'd explain it. What better way to prove I'm a liar, but you won't. You, and stop being a hypocrate. I didn't lie here, but I'm sure you've lied plenty in your life. So shove that line of crap already.
So, let me set the stage again; we're discussing "rights," correct? You said this: "Maybe your argument [about rights] would be better served by quoting relevant passages from the Constitution instead."
So explain what you mean; obviously I'm not getting it. What's your point, if I'm so off base? Be a man and explain yourself.
Its funny you mention posting history; you obviously never checked mine. If was constantly lying and posting stram man surely I'd been modded into oblivion by now right? Of course if you did check my history you'd see plenty of places where I admit I misunderstood or was wrong. I'm not above that.
So drop this "you lied" crap and make your point. Or continue to act like a baby and take your ball and go home, because you can't handle a debate like a man. If I am lying and making strawmen,the best way to shut me up would be to explain exactly what you meant, since you claim I'm not getting it. So go ahead. If you feel your made your point why do you bother to continue replying?
Did you go anonymous becaue you feel like you're the one looking like a fool?
So that's all you can do? Delude yourself into saying I'm a liar? If you had a point, you'd explain it. What better way to prove I'm a liar, but you won't.
So, let me set the stage again; we're discussing "rights," correct? You said this: "Maybe your argument [about rights] would be better served by quoting relevant passages from the Constitution instead."
So explain what you mean; obviously I'm not getting it. What's your point, if I'm so off base? Be a man and explain yourself.
Its funny you mention posting history; you obviously never checked mine. If was constantly lying and posting stram man surely I'd been modded into oblivion by now right?
So drop this "you lied" crap and make your point. Or continue to act like a baby and take your ball and go home, because you can't handle a debate like a man. If I am lying and making strawmen,the best way to shut me up would be to explain exactly what you meant, since you claim I'm not getting it. So go ahead. If you feel your made your point why do you bother to continue replying?
Did you go anonymous becaue you feel like you're the one looking like a fool?
Well, as a professional you shouldn't screw the company you're leaving.. unless they screwed you first of course.
I see. You're an ass. When called out on something stupid, you stomp and scream to distract from that. I explained in my first reply to you what was wrong with your statement and what that statement implies; I correctly convied your though, even if I didn't use your exact words.
If I'm a liar, than explain your point and how you think you can't get to my conclusion from your statement. Don't worry, I know you won't. Best would be to just admit your "rights are best argued from the Constitution" statement was stupid and move on.