Dolt. I saw your stupid replies; they don't make any sense. Such a course would be stupid, as it's grading your note taking ability, NOT your knowledge of the subject matter. Any course that said I could use my notes for a test ALSO said I could use my text book as well.
Not showing up for class != cheating either. Copying notes doesn't mean you've learned the material.. and learning the material is the only point of the class. I guess in your view I cheated because I often skipped a class and did the studying on my own.
Hmm... totally made up story I would say. As an employee, she wouldn't be liable for the taxes even if she was the reason they didn't get paid. Tax liability doesn't transfer like that at all.
Sorry, but how is passing out the information you will receive in class anyway cheating? Such garbage nonsense. Copying notes isn't cheating. Bringing notes to the test is cheating.
So the $25k/yr secretary doesn't deserve healthcare yet every organization needs one? What makes you so much "better" than him/her that you deserve to be healthy and he/she doesn't?
Why are you equating having health insurance with being healthy? Look around buddy.. many people in the US DO have health care, but I certainly wouldn't call them healthy. Fat and lazy, perhaps. Not healthy. My health insurance doesn't pick my food, or pay my gym membership, or even give me discounts for exercising or eating right. It's not that the secretary doen't deserve insurance.. it's that she has to work for it. FWIW, I'm not sure having companies pay for healthcare has helped anything. It would likely be cheaper if employees had to directly pay the cost.. and could shop for a plan that suits their needs.
Anyway, stop the nonsense that having healthcare means you're healthy. It doesn't.
You shouldn't have to be a key employee to get adequate health care. That's wrong.
Which is why healthcare has to be offered to all employees. But to say I should have to pay for someone else (who, looking around, isn't ever BOTHERING to try and be healthy) is stupid.
We still need secretaries. We still need gas station attendants. Those people deserve adequate health care as much as you do.
Oh, shall I pay their electric bills too? How about help them pay their mortgage? After all, don't they "deserve" it? What you want to say is they're "entitled" to it, but you know exactly how a lot of people respond to that word. No, you're not entitled to have health insurance. And as I said, it's not necessary to have in order to be healthy.
Without these people you'd have a much harder time getting your job done. We still depend on them.
So what you're saying is that, without healthcare, all of our nations secretaries will die? Interesting premise. Can you back that up somehow? I have a suggestion though; if you're so concerned, you pay for their insurance for them. It's a free country, you're allowed to do that.
They may not have the ABILITY to move up.
Why not? Are they stupid? Is there a law prohibiting them from moving up?
You aren't "better" than anyone else.
I never said I was. I did go to college, get a BS, and have a skillset that the average person doesn't. It doens't make me better, but it makes me more useful.. thus my higher salary. On the flip side, there are jobs in this company that anyone can walk in off the street and easily be trained to do. That makes them less valuable. But it also doesn't mean they can't be healthy.
It'd be nice if they could get more affordable insurance, and I don't have a problem with that. But health insurance is broken.. and your only solution is to make me pay for a broken system. Auto insurance is there in the event of an accident. It's not there to pay for your gas, or to help you pay for regular maintance for your car. Yet that's exactly how health insurance works today. It's fundamentally broken. Insurance can't work if you're constantly making claims against it. Oh, and I would also like to point out that many health care providers provide a steep cash discount; 40 - 60% in some cases. Why people think health insurance is the ONLY way to pay for healthcare is beyond me.
First, it's not easy, dispite what you may hear bleated by media and politians. Second, that has consequences of it's own. My wife just came out of it a few years ago (divorce lead her to bancupcy). No bank even considers her for a loan. When we refinanced, my bank wanted her not to show up on the paperwork at all. Otherwise they'd deny the loan.
I guess you're right.. if you're a total idiot. But I'm sure most people still realize they are spending "cold hard cash" even when using a debit card. Those that don't probably bounce a lot of checks too. Making people go to the bank to withdraw cash doesn't stop people from spending money. It only adds extra inconvience (and pollution).
Well, certainly not now. We're in a recession. Of course, there are a signficant number of people that do fit your description. In MI, politians actually encourage people already on welfare and not working to have more kids.. so they can get more money for their state. Oh, and 99.9% of fat people simply ARE eating too much. People with glandular problems make up about 1 in every 100,000 people. Look it up.
And the US is supposed to be "the government should not be involved in the average citizen's everyday life." Which includes forcing me to pay for someone else's healthcare! But as soon as you take MY money to do that, I do get a say. Don't want me telling you how to live your life, DON'T USE MY MONEY TO CLEAN UP YOUR MESS.
Americans have got to wake up and realise that the world does not always revolve around the individual.
Actually it does. Only individuals rights. You can take the rights of 5 people and "add" them, and say that those five people have "more" rights than I do. There is no such things are rights that you get because other people agree. That's called tyranny. Mob rule. Democracy. (We're not a republic by accident, BTW). Of course it was a UK national that came up with the ideas on which this country was founded. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke
Prices for meds are high because we allow private companies to hold patents on their formulas. If we got rid of that (and banned them from advertising) prices would drop.
Personally, I don't need any medications at all. Since I improved my life style, I haven't had as much as a cold. My blood pressure is under control, and I have a family history. I have an annual. But most people can't seem to be bothered to do more than have two plate fulls of food, and then sit on the couch. A few extra minutes examining the nutrition info panel on almost all food, and 30 minutes of low intestity exercise three times a week would be all anyone would need. Seriously.. it's very little effort, and people can't be bothered. That's fine. They can die of diabetes. They're committing sucicide by poor diet and lack of exercise. Other's slowly drink themselves to death, or smoke themselves to death.
It's interesting you bring up lung cancer; if you're a smoker and get it...yup, die from it. Or pay yourself. That's always an option. Of course the other big cause of lung cancer is asbestoes. I can't fault people for that, since at the time no one knew.
In closing.. if your drugs cost more than $100 / month... maybe you need to re-examine your lifestyle. If you can't do that, I fail to see why I should help you pay for related complications.
Huh? Where did I like obesity and welfare? Given that obesity is a huge problem, it stands to reason that since the majority of people in the US are middle class, that the majority of obese people are middel class too. I haven't seen anything that said lower income are more likely than middle class to be obese (although I did less that upper class ARE less likely to be obese).
Oh, and eating pasta doesn't make you fat. Eating too much pasta or pork and NOT exercising at all makes you fat. That said.. off the top of your head, do you know how much a serving of pasta is, and about how many carbs are in it? What about calories? I know without looking it up (well, anymore).. but I'm responsible and track my calorie intake, and also my calorie expendature.
Fat is a lifestyle choice, not a disease. And yes, doctors DO want to make us think it's a disease; they cna make ALOT of money "treating" you that they wouldn't be able to if you just watched what you ate and exercised.
Socialized medicine doesn't cover "optional" procedures?
Your question is so vague that it can't be answered. Also, I never mentioned anything about optional procedures in my post. Did you reply to the wrong post?
Socialized medicine cannot cater to elitists that want the best of the best, and will pay for it?
Apparently not; that's why Canadians that can afford it come HERE.
Socialized medicine will not cover cosmetic "upgrade" procedures?
It shouldn't.. of course I think it's a matter of degree. I don't think a woman that wants a bigger rack should be billing medical insurance for that... but reconstructive surgery for a woman that lost her boobs to cancer would be fine with me. I don't expect people to be left as freaks after treatment, if possible.
I think in those reasons, and a few similar reasons, the bulk of it is explained.
Actually I'm not sure what you were getting at at all..
I have waited 4 hours in a -not- busy E.R., with head trauma and a good bit of blood loss, as a child. Here. In the U.S.. This was with G.E.'s blue Cross medical coverage (nothing better in 1980, that I know of), and few others even in the waiting area. It took threat of physical violence from my father to get service. Somehow, somebody magically became freed up.
This scenario is very common. We have plenty of 8 hour waits in cities that have actual populations. What are there, 15 people in your city?
Ahh.. another poster that doesn't understand triage. You guys keep bringing up the ER, which follows a triage plan. People that could have life threatening symptoms are always taken first over people that will survive even if they wait. And should another patient enter that also has potentially life threatening symptoms, you get bumped again.. because you're not going to die if you wait.
Oh, and if your dad would try that today, he would likely be arrested. As he should have been then. You (your dad) threaten physical harm on someone and then are suprised when they comply? God damn, are you really that naive?
This scenario is very common. We have plenty of 8 hour waits in cities that have actual populations. What are there, 15 people in your city?
The eight hour waits I mention are for just seeing your PCP. Totally non-emergent situtations. No, I've never had to wait that long to see my PCP.
Well, I supposed if doctors were actually omniscient they would have taken you first. However, a high fever can mean just about anything, and it could be exteremly serious. Even 103 can indicate something serious, and some quick googling revels that if your kid does get that high, you should take them in ASAP.
In your case, it was clearly obvoius what your problem was, and that it wasn't going to kill you. A 103 fever could be a symptom of something potentially fatal... but doctors wont be able to tell until they actually see the patient and run some tests.
Just because you fail to understand how triage work doesn't mean it's flawed; it means you didn't think things through logically.
Well then, I guess that's an incentive to work harder so you can get insurance isn't it? My sister said the same thing; she wants universal care, because she can't afford it. But she doesn't want to move up to management (which would be the next step) to be able to afford it. I was kind of shocked actually that she felt everyone else she pay for her when she wasn't willing to take on a job with more responsiblity (and more money).
We also don't have eight hour waiting periods to be seen either, which is why many of you Candians come here to Vermont to have your medical procedures done. If your universal care is so wonderful, why do Canadians make up a signifcant part of patients seen at my local health care providers?
I'm not saying the US system is perfect either, but a universal system is not the answer.
I've been doing servlet code for over a decade. I can still take the code from one of those old applications and make it run in a modern J2EE server. No changes necessary.
Likely because Java doesn't ever change the behavior of a library, even if it's technically buggy. Oh, and anecdote is not evidence.
There's at least one case where an upgrade broke an existing servlet.
The fact that Microsoft needed to make such radical changes after only a single release suggests that they have a problem with their engineering. No other server-side technology changes so radically between versions.
Where did I say radical changes? I just said changes that were great improvements. Of course, as DLL hell teaches us, sometimes code relies on the buggy behavior, and fixing it breaks applications.
It might also be interesting to you that even major car companies typically have problems with the first (or sometimes even second year) model cars. That doesn't mean the car company has "a problem with their engineering." It means that without limitless resources to test the design, there are bound to be mistakes.
Being able to run original ASP alongside ASP.NET I can understand. Needing to run ASP.NET 1.x alongside 2.0 I don't. That's just bad engineering.
Sorry, I disagree. If your application IS behaving properly on 1.1, why add risk by trying to run it on 2.0? And seriously, who cares? Extra assemblies take up insignificant amounts of disk spaces.
As for DLL hell, that's another problem with Microsoft's engineering. Microsoft likes to make libraries global. That's a bad idea for this very reason. J2EE apps bundle libraries inside the web application. So even if you have one app that requires an incompatible version of a lib, it won't impact another app running on the same server. Only if and when an API is stable and mature does it get moved up to a global level. And Sun takes the approach of getting input from the entire industry before making such a commitment. Thus you may or may not like an API, but a given API is not going to remove support for previous versions.
DLL hell doesn't exist on the.Net framework.. which is my point. SxS is thier answer to that problem... a problem many developers loudly complained about. And typically MS has, with.Net, marked members obsolete instead of changing their behavior. There are relatively few cases where upgrading doesn't just work. but from a risk perspective, why take a risk you don't need to? Just so you can say you have the newest version?
Microsoft takes the approach of imposing their will on the industry rather than asking for their opinion. You don't like Microsoft's API options? Don't worry, we'll impose a new and incompatible one next week.:-/
Again, I disagree somewhat. I think they do listen to thier customers; they wouldn't be around if they didn't, and they've made significant progress in the past decade. I do agree that sometimes they offer too many solutions to the same problem.. but sometimes this is done with good reason. Take WinForms vs Wpf. Both serve the same purpose... but Wpf makes many great improvements over WinForms. The same can be said of Remoting vs. WCF. And again, MS hasn't removed the older API at all. It's still there, and it still functions the same as previous versions.
I'm sure there are plenty of obsoleted APIs in the java servlet world as well. You CAN still use them, but are discouraged from doing so. And they'll continue to work, just like WinForms will.
Sorry, I can't fault him for not being rash. That's what got us into this perdiciment to begin with. Also, there are others that seem to be making it difficult to acomplish some of his goals. Like the Sentator that somehow claims that the people in Gitmo are somehow more "dangerous" than any other human in custody.
I do not agree with most 'welfare' programs that hand out money, but health care is worth the cost.
No, it's not. Not until people are expected to take reasonable care of themselves. People aren't "hardwired" to eat more today any more than they were 50 years ago. It's a personal choice, and people like to sugar coat the truth or say "it's not your fault," but if you're obese, its YOUR fault and YOU need to get your diet under control. Instead of making excuses (or letting others do it for them) these people need to act.
Until that happens, I'm not going to support national health care. And before you tell me it costs more to treat other symptoms related to obesity, I say cut off health care to treat those as well. You want to be fat and get diabetes? Fine, don't expect anyone to help you pay your related medical bills.
Are you insane? If you backported all of Vista's features to NT... you end up with Vista! But NT isn't going to change anymore, just like 2k isn't, and XP won't have any significant changes either.
Your argument is basically "well, they COULD put ABS brakes on my 1900 era car.. " and claiming its the same thing.
You're an idiot. The "ends" would be what McCarthy was attempting to do (rid the US of communists) and the "means" was how he attempted to go about it. Sorry, you don't just get to dismiss something because you don't like it.
And by the way, even if he was right in his accusations, our nation didn't collapse into communism either.. so what the fuck exactly was he a hero for, since had he done nothing, we'd have the exact same result: communism didn't take over the US.
Ahh, so the article makes up crap about "drm hooks and other performance sapping bagage" and you just accept that is how the kernel is built. I see. You don't even question what the "other performance sapping bagage" might be. I'd be curious to know as well. Since neither you or the article author are MS kernel developers, I don't care what you THINK might be in the execution path.
Your post also fails, because the author doesn't say if DRM or the "other baggage" is causing the greatest loss of performance, yet you jump all over the DRM aspect.
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Dolt. I saw your stupid replies; they don't make any sense. Such a course would be stupid, as it's grading your note taking ability, NOT your knowledge of the subject matter. Any course that said I could use my notes for a test ALSO said I could use my text book as well.
Not showing up for class != cheating either. Copying notes doesn't mean you've learned the material.. and learning the material is the only point of the class. I guess in your view I cheated because I often skipped a class and did the studying on my own.
Hmm... totally made up story I would say. As an employee, she wouldn't be liable for the taxes even if she was the reason they didn't get paid. Tax liability doesn't transfer like that at all.
Sorry, but how is passing out the information you will receive in class anyway cheating? Such garbage nonsense. Copying notes isn't cheating. Bringing notes to the test is cheating.
So the $25k/yr secretary doesn't deserve healthcare yet every organization needs one? What makes you so much "better" than him/her that you deserve to be healthy and he/she doesn't?
Why are you equating having health insurance with being healthy? Look around buddy.. many people in the US DO have health care, but I certainly wouldn't call them healthy. Fat and lazy, perhaps. Not healthy. My health insurance doesn't pick my food, or pay my gym membership, or even give me discounts for exercising or eating right. It's not that the secretary doen't deserve insurance.. it's that she has to work for it. FWIW, I'm not sure having companies pay for healthcare has helped anything. It would likely be cheaper if employees had to directly pay the cost.. and could shop for a plan that suits their needs.
Anyway, stop the nonsense that having healthcare means you're healthy. It doesn't.
You shouldn't have to be a key employee to get adequate health care. That's wrong.
Which is why healthcare has to be offered to all employees. But to say I should have to pay for someone else (who, looking around, isn't ever BOTHERING to try and be healthy) is stupid.
We still need secretaries. We still need gas station attendants. Those people deserve adequate health care as much as you do.
Oh, shall I pay their electric bills too? How about help them pay their mortgage? After all, don't they "deserve" it? What you want to say is they're "entitled" to it, but you know exactly how a lot of people respond to that word. No, you're not entitled to have health insurance. And as I said, it's not necessary to have in order to be healthy.
Without these people you'd have a much harder time getting your job done. We still depend on them.
So what you're saying is that, without healthcare, all of our nations secretaries will die? Interesting premise. Can you back that up somehow? I have a suggestion though; if you're so concerned, you pay for their insurance for them. It's a free country, you're allowed to do that.
They may not have the ABILITY to move up.
Why not? Are they stupid? Is there a law prohibiting them from moving up?
You aren't "better" than anyone else.
I never said I was. I did go to college, get a BS, and have a skillset that the average person doesn't. It doens't make me better, but it makes me more useful.. thus my higher salary. On the flip side, there are jobs in this company that anyone can walk in off the street and easily be trained to do. That makes them less valuable. But it also doesn't mean they can't be healthy.
It'd be nice if they could get more affordable insurance, and I don't have a problem with that. But health insurance is broken.. and your only solution is to make me pay for a broken system. Auto insurance is there in the event of an accident. It's not there to pay for your gas, or to help you pay for regular maintance for your car. Yet that's exactly how health insurance works today. It's fundamentally broken. Insurance can't work if you're constantly making claims against it. Oh, and I would also like to point out that many health care providers provide a steep cash discount; 40 - 60% in some cases. Why people think health insurance is the ONLY way to pay for healthcare is beyond me.
First, it's not easy, dispite what you may hear bleated by media and politians. Second, that has consequences of it's own. My wife just came out of it a few years ago (divorce lead her to bancupcy). No bank even considers her for a loan. When we refinanced, my bank wanted her not to show up on the paperwork at all. Otherwise they'd deny the loan.
Well, if you heard it on /. it must be true!
Also, do you have any idea if there's a cost difference?
Except that things are already changing; FF has been gaining marketshare, and the web is becoming more and more compliant.
Huh? Plenty of people right now are feeling the consquences of living on credit.
I guess you're right.. if you're a total idiot. But I'm sure most people still realize they are spending "cold hard cash" even when using a debit card. Those that don't probably bounce a lot of checks too. Making people go to the bank to withdraw cash doesn't stop people from spending money. It only adds extra inconvience (and pollution).
Well, certainly not now. We're in a recession. Of course, there are a signficant number of people that do fit your description. In MI, politians actually encourage people already on welfare and not working to have more kids.. so they can get more money for their state. Oh, and 99.9% of fat people simply ARE eating too much. People with glandular problems make up about 1 in every 100,000 people. Look it up.
And the US is supposed to be "the government should not be involved in the average citizen's everyday life." Which includes forcing me to pay for someone else's healthcare! But as soon as you take MY money to do that, I do get a say. Don't want me telling you how to live your life, DON'T USE MY MONEY TO CLEAN UP YOUR MESS.
Americans have got to wake up and realise that the world does not always revolve around the individual.
Actually it does. Only individuals rights. You can take the rights of 5 people and "add" them, and say that those five people have "more" rights than I do. There is no such things are rights that you get because other people agree. That's called tyranny. Mob rule. Democracy. (We're not a republic by accident, BTW). Of course it was a UK national that came up with the ideas on which this country was founded. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke
Prices for meds are high because we allow private companies to hold patents on their formulas. If we got rid of that (and banned them from advertising) prices would drop.
Personally, I don't need any medications at all. Since I improved my life style, I haven't had as much as a cold. My blood pressure is under control, and I have a family history. I have an annual. But most people can't seem to be bothered to do more than have two plate fulls of food, and then sit on the couch. A few extra minutes examining the nutrition info panel on almost all food, and 30 minutes of low intestity exercise three times a week would be all anyone would need. Seriously.. it's very little effort, and people can't be bothered. That's fine. They can die of diabetes. They're committing sucicide by poor diet and lack of exercise. Other's slowly drink themselves to death, or smoke themselves to death.
It's interesting you bring up lung cancer; if you're a smoker and get it...yup, die from it. Or pay yourself. That's always an option. Of course the other big cause of lung cancer is asbestoes. I can't fault people for that, since at the time no one knew.
In closing.. if your drugs cost more than $100 / month... maybe you need to re-examine your lifestyle. If you can't do that, I fail to see why I should help you pay for related complications.
Huh? Where did I like obesity and welfare? Given that obesity is a huge problem, it stands to reason that since the majority of people in the US are middle class, that the majority of obese people are middel class too. I haven't seen anything that said lower income are more likely than middle class to be obese (although I did less that upper class ARE less likely to be obese).
Oh, and eating pasta doesn't make you fat. Eating too much pasta or pork and NOT exercising at all makes you fat. That said.. off the top of your head, do you know how much a serving of pasta is, and about how many carbs are in it? What about calories? I know without looking it up (well, anymore).. but I'm responsible and track my calorie intake, and also my calorie expendature.
Fat is a lifestyle choice, not a disease. And yes, doctors DO want to make us think it's a disease; they cna make ALOT of money "treating" you that they wouldn't be able to if you just watched what you ate and exercised.
Socialized medicine doesn't cover "optional" procedures?
Your question is so vague that it can't be answered. Also, I never mentioned anything about optional procedures in my post. Did you reply to the wrong post?
Socialized medicine cannot cater to elitists that want the best of the best, and will pay for it?
Apparently not; that's why Canadians that can afford it come HERE.
Socialized medicine will not cover cosmetic "upgrade" procedures?
It shouldn't.. of course I think it's a matter of degree. I don't think a woman that wants a bigger rack should be billing medical insurance for that... but reconstructive surgery for a woman that lost her boobs to cancer would be fine with me. I don't expect people to be left as freaks after treatment, if possible.
I think in those reasons, and a few similar reasons, the bulk of it is explained.
Actually I'm not sure what you were getting at at all..
I have waited 4 hours in a -not- busy E.R., with head trauma and a good bit of blood loss, as a child. Here. In the U.S.. This was with G.E.'s blue Cross medical coverage (nothing better in 1980, that I know of), and few others even in the waiting area. It took threat of physical violence from my father to get service. Somehow, somebody magically became freed up.
This scenario is very common. We have plenty of 8 hour waits in cities that have actual populations. What are there, 15 people in your city?
Ahh.. another poster that doesn't understand triage. You guys keep bringing up the ER, which follows a triage plan. People that could have life threatening symptoms are always taken first over people that will survive even if they wait. And should another patient enter that also has potentially life threatening symptoms, you get bumped again.. because you're not going to die if you wait.
Oh, and if your dad would try that today, he would likely be arrested. As he should have been then. You (your dad) threaten physical harm on someone and then are suprised when they comply? God damn, are you really that naive?
This scenario is very common. We have plenty of 8 hour waits in cities that have actual populations. What are there, 15 people in your city?
The eight hour waits I mention are for just seeing your PCP. Totally non-emergent situtations. No, I've never had to wait that long to see my PCP.
Well, I supposed if doctors were actually omniscient they would have taken you first. However, a high fever can mean just about anything, and it could be exteremly serious. Even 103 can indicate something serious, and some quick googling revels that if your kid does get that high, you should take them in ASAP.
In your case, it was clearly obvoius what your problem was, and that it wasn't going to kill you. A 103 fever could be a symptom of something potentially fatal... but doctors wont be able to tell until they actually see the patient and run some tests.
Just because you fail to understand how triage work doesn't mean it's flawed; it means you didn't think things through logically.
Well then, I guess that's an incentive to work harder so you can get insurance isn't it? My sister said the same thing; she wants universal care, because she can't afford it. But she doesn't want to move up to management (which would be the next step) to be able to afford it. I was kind of shocked actually that she felt everyone else she pay for her when she wasn't willing to take on a job with more responsiblity (and more money).
We also don't have eight hour waiting periods to be seen either, which is why many of you Candians come here to Vermont to have your medical procedures done. If your universal care is so wonderful, why do Canadians make up a signifcant part of patients seen at my local health care providers?
I'm not saying the US system is perfect either, but a universal system is not the answer.
I've been doing servlet code for over a decade. I can still take the code from one of those old applications and make it run in a modern J2EE server. No changes necessary.
Likely because Java doesn't ever change the behavior of a library, even if it's technically buggy. Oh, and anecdote is not evidence.
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There's at least one case where an upgrade broke an existing servlet.
The fact that Microsoft needed to make such radical changes after only a single release suggests that they have a problem with their engineering. No other server-side technology changes so radically between versions.
Where did I say radical changes? I just said changes that were great improvements. Of course, as DLL hell teaches us, sometimes code relies on the buggy behavior, and fixing it breaks applications.
It might also be interesting to you that even major car companies typically have problems with the first (or sometimes even second year) model cars. That doesn't mean the car company has "a problem with their engineering." It means that without limitless resources to test the design, there are bound to be mistakes.
Being able to run original ASP alongside ASP.NET I can understand. Needing to run ASP.NET 1.x alongside 2.0 I don't. That's just bad engineering.
Sorry, I disagree. If your application IS behaving properly on 1.1, why add risk by trying to run it on 2.0? And seriously, who cares? Extra assemblies take up insignificant amounts of disk spaces.
As for DLL hell, that's another problem with Microsoft's engineering. Microsoft likes to make libraries global. That's a bad idea for this very reason. J2EE apps bundle libraries inside the web application. So even if you have one app that requires an incompatible version of a lib, it won't impact another app running on the same server. Only if and when an API is stable and mature does it get moved up to a global level. And Sun takes the approach of getting input from the entire industry before making such a commitment. Thus you may or may not like an API, but a given API is not going to remove support for previous versions.
DLL hell doesn't exist on the .Net framework.. which is my point. SxS is thier answer to that problem... a problem many developers loudly complained about. And typically MS has, with .Net, marked members obsolete instead of changing their behavior. There are relatively few cases where upgrading doesn't just work. but from a risk perspective, why take a risk you don't need to? Just so you can say you have the newest version?
Microsoft takes the approach of imposing their will on the industry rather than asking for their opinion. You don't like Microsoft's API options? Don't worry, we'll impose a new and incompatible one next week. :-/
Again, I disagree somewhat. I think they do listen to thier customers; they wouldn't be around if they didn't, and they've made significant progress in the past decade. I do agree that sometimes they offer too many solutions to the same problem.. but sometimes this is done with good reason. Take WinForms vs Wpf. Both serve the same purpose... but Wpf makes many great improvements over WinForms. The same can be said of Remoting vs. WCF. And again, MS hasn't removed the older API at all. It's still there, and it still functions the same as previous versions.
I'm sure there are plenty of obsoleted APIs in the java servlet world as well. You CAN still use them, but are discouraged from doing so. And they'll continue to work, just like WinForms will.
What about the part where he promised to help stabilize Iraq?
Ya, I call bombings almost everyday "stable" too.
What about where he promised we'd see no new terrorist attacks on American soil?
Actually, that's my doing. See, I have this rock that keeps terrorist attacks away. I found it just after 9/11. Pretty fortunate, huh?
But Bush has delivered on some huge promises, as much as many here are not willing to admit that or dislike some means uses to accomplish this end.
Did he promise to seriously undermine the core values of our way of life? If so, I think you're right.
It only stands to reason that Obama would like to continue successes on both agendas.
If you can conclusively prove that Bush's actions prevented an attack, fine. But you can't.
Sorry, I can't fault him for not being rash. That's what got us into this perdiciment to begin with. Also, there are others that seem to be making it difficult to acomplish some of his goals. Like the Sentator that somehow claims that the people in Gitmo are somehow more "dangerous" than any other human in custody.
I do not agree with most 'welfare' programs that hand out money, but health care is worth the cost.
No, it's not. Not until people are expected to take reasonable care of themselves. People aren't "hardwired" to eat more today any more than they were 50 years ago. It's a personal choice, and people like to sugar coat the truth or say "it's not your fault," but if you're obese, its YOUR fault and YOU need to get your diet under control. Instead of making excuses (or letting others do it for them) these people need to act.
Until that happens, I'm not going to support national health care. And before you tell me it costs more to treat other symptoms related to obesity, I say cut off health care to treat those as well. You want to be fat and get diabetes? Fine, don't expect anyone to help you pay your related medical bills.
Are you insane? If you backported all of Vista's features to NT... you end up with Vista! But NT isn't going to change anymore, just like 2k isn't, and XP won't have any significant changes either.
Your argument is basically "well, they COULD put ABS brakes on my 1900 era car.. " and claiming its the same thing.
You're an idiot. The "ends" would be what McCarthy was attempting to do (rid the US of communists) and the "means" was how he attempted to go about it. Sorry, you don't just get to dismiss something because you don't like it.
And by the way, even if he was right in his accusations, our nation didn't collapse into communism either.. so what the fuck exactly was he a hero for, since had he done nothing, we'd have the exact same result: communism didn't take over the US.
Sorry, the ends don't justify the means, and his witch hunt did more damage than good for this country.
Ahh, so the article makes up crap about "drm hooks and other performance sapping bagage" and you just accept that is how the kernel is built. I see. You don't even question what the "other performance sapping bagage" might be. I'd be curious to know as well. Since neither you or the article author are MS kernel developers, I don't care what you THINK might be in the execution path.
Your post also fails, because the author doesn't say if DRM or the "other baggage" is causing the greatest loss of performance, yet you jump all over the DRM aspect.
Nope, not that far away. Did you know the job was in NH? I wouldn't have even applied..
Tool. All kids get like that when they don't get their way. Its normal. I got similarly upset when I had to stop play with toy trucks or whatever.
I really wish people had to get a license before they have children.