Moris' Chaves talk show was one of my favourites. VCPR (Vice City Public Radio) was quite amusing too.
When you listen to Vice City radio talk shows you realize, that dialogue writers there did absolutely unbeleivable job. Enough for couple of movies I suppose.
And music selection was just fantastic. Very athmospheric. No stupid techno-shit which mainly used in games now.
I've played for hours just to listen for it.
P.S. And of course the built-in "MP3 Player" was very handy.
US joined the war in Europe when it became clear that Russia will defeat Germany. If the direction of war would be opposite - US would join Germany.
Pure politics, my friends. US wasn't invaded, if you remember it.
I'm originating from little ex-USSR republic, around 25% of population here was destroyed during WWII. My granddad was participating in battles when he was a kid and was lucky enough to survive. My grandgranddad fought in guerilla squads and was captured and executed by Nazis.
All US loses in WWII is absolutely nothing compared to Stalingrad, Leningrad blockade or Nazi's concentration 'camps of death'.
So when US people beging saying that they won WWII or somehow influenced its result - it really pisses me off.
Actually, this is one of the reasons of people hating Americans.
In a lot of countries of the world you can own firearms. Maybe not so easy, as in US, but it's possible.
You can shoot the thief who've gotten into your house - but you cannot shoot you congressman to actually defend your rights (politicans would lie rarely if they can be shot legally, seems to be a good addition to constitution for me).
I recall sci-fi story about a planet, where politicans wear a medallion, which explodes when someone press 'disagree' button in their office's lobby. It was a very peaceful planet.:)
You'll need to have _complete_ (or at least almost complete) search index online at any given moment to make the system useful. As it will be distributed, there always will be lost segments of it (unless you have millions of users in network and hundreds of thousands of them online, which is quite tough thing to achieve). The speed will definitely suck and noone will wait 5 minutes to get results. Try searching files on p2p network.
If someone build such system, they will have to actually _pay_ users in the beginning to attract them. Without massive user base it's useless and new people won't participate.
Frankly, I don't beleive MSFT. They are too well-known for "security" and "stabilty". I wouldn't put my client's money in their products. Too risky. Another virus - and systems are doomed, work stuck, money lost, everyone get fucked up..NET fuss is mostly fuss. They haven't invented anything really new.
Eh, don't really know, are there any good and stable appservers for.NET apps? ('good' and 'stable' mean also 'non-Microsoft', the only good and stable things they produced so far are Minesweeper and Solitaire) Is.NET working well in n-tier environments?
I've used to study the examples, shipped with VS.NET. Just was curious. A lot of bad programming style. Which says something about their developers I think.
Also VS.NET seem to lack proper UML support, dont get started about Visio, it doesn't compare to Borland Together.
It's kind of sarcasm, eh? No matter of OS, if the piece of software is badly written, it will be insecure as long as it needs to communicate with the network. App-level firewall will probably save the situation, but these things are not quite common, afaik.
The answer is quite simple - in Russia average salary is about 200 USD and Windows costs almost twice more. Pirated copies, which are sold almost on every corner, are about 3 USD.
I'm willing to pay for software, but when it isn't so overpriced and badly written (Why the fuck they want Why the fuck should I suffer from viruses, when it's clearly a MSFT's failute to write secure OS?).
I use Linux as well, but need Windows for some specific applications and games.
Borland's JBuilder X and Oracle's JDeveloper 10g realy kick butt on J2EE development. Also, JBuilder X kicks butt in GUI, too. They both work on Linux (as they are written in Java).
> developing world class web apps can be done with.NET faster than in Linux
1. 'world class web apps' probably are build on J2EE?:) 2. see above
P.S. You can download JDeveloper for free from Oracle TechNet (as Oracle DB itself, Appserver and other apps). P.P.S. You can also get trial JBuilder from Borland. After 'evaluation period' it will become crippled 'foundation' version. The Net is filled with key generators, however.
Agree. All correct, unfortunately (maybe except OO bit).:(
I wonder, why Sun produced such inconsistent piece-of-crap, assuming they _really have_ resources to put together good Linux distro... They couldn't even build good LookAndFell for bundled Java apps - shame on them! Markedroids to blame, pobably?
"IIS for Linux" sounds too scary for me, considering it's record on security and stabilty in Windows version.
Linux port of IIS definitely _will_ be crappy in first versions.
Just imagine, IIS pushes Apache away from Linux and then some script-kiddie writes one more Nimda/Code Red... There will be blackout much bigger than Slammer's.
MySQL is good for simle CMS apps, one of which Slashdot is. However, data loss or broken DB integrity won't harm Slashdot too much.
Now imagine financial/banking database application wich process monetary transactions - in case of any serious data or integrity loss DBA and developers likely will get shot.:) Damages can count there for million dollars.
'Mission critical' means for DB not just TPS (transactions-per-second) numbers. Data safety is usually more important than speed.
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"I need a hug!...I'm LONELY, Moris! Lonely!"
Moris' Chaves talk show was one of my favourites. VCPR (Vice City Public Radio) was quite amusing too.
When you listen to Vice City radio talk shows you realize, that dialogue writers there did absolutely unbeleivable job. Enough for couple of movies I suppose.
And music selection was just fantastic. Very athmospheric. No stupid techno-shit which mainly used in games now.
I've played for hours just to listen for it.
P.S. And of course the built-in "MP3 Player" was very handy.
> Afterall, it is not rocket science
:)
> to code your own SMTP server with Visual Basic...
Very true! Proven by virus makers and Microsoft products.
US joined the war in Europe when it became clear that Russia will defeat Germany. If the direction of war would be opposite - US would join Germany.
Pure politics, my friends. US wasn't invaded, if you remember it.
I'm originating from little ex-USSR republic, around 25% of population here was destroyed during WWII. My granddad was participating in battles when he was a kid and was lucky enough to survive. My grandgranddad fought in guerilla squads and was captured and executed by Nazis.
All US loses in WWII is absolutely nothing compared to Stalingrad, Leningrad blockade or Nazi's concentration 'camps of death'.
So when US people beging saying that they won WWII or somehow influenced its result - it really pisses me off.
Actually, this is one of the reasons of people hating Americans.
> ...and Russia is a 3rd world country!
:)
Mod parent +5,Funny.
Sure! And don't forget to fit spam filtering code into 640K of RAM, which is enough for everyone. :)
What's the big deal in owning firearms?
:)
In a lot of countries of the world you can own firearms. Maybe not so easy, as in US, but it's possible.
You can shoot the thief who've gotten into your house - but you cannot shoot you congressman to actually defend your rights (politicans would lie rarely if they can be shot legally, seems to be a good addition to constitution for me).
I recall sci-fi story about a planet, where politicans wear a medallion, which explodes when someone press 'disagree' button in their office's lobby. It was a very peaceful planet.
> NASA also has photos, straight from their fake set in Hollywood where they produce all the "space" footage
:)
Ah, that one next room to Moon Landing Fake Set?
Oh, come on!
USA govt. fucks up its citizens in any possible way it can find. Americans gave up their 'rights to defence' long ago.
Shhhhh! It can hear you!
"Apple Corporation is proud to announce new version of XGrid technology, extended for use on iPod digital media player and Apple Pro Mouse."
:)
I wonder, what computational power will cluster of iPods have. Cluster of mice, anyone?
I love the idea, but...
You'll need to have _complete_ (or at least almost complete) search index online at any given moment to make the system useful. As it will be distributed, there always will be lost segments of it (unless you have millions of users in network and hundreds of thousands of them online, which is quite tough thing to achieve). The speed will definitely suck and noone will wait 5 minutes to get results. Try searching files on p2p network.
If someone build such system, they will have to actually _pay_ users in the beginning to attract them. Without massive user base it's useless and new people won't participate.
At office where I've used to work we got several meters of spam every morning.
> the relative lack of spam faxes
Not in this world.
Frankly, I don't beleive MSFT. They are too well-known for "security" and "stabilty". I wouldn't put my client's money in their products. Too risky. Another virus - and systems are doomed, work stuck, money lost, everyone get fucked up. .NET fuss is mostly fuss. They haven't invented anything really new.
.NET apps? ('good' and 'stable' mean also 'non-Microsoft', the only good and stable things they produced so far are Minesweeper and Solitaire) Is .NET working well in n-tier environments?
Eh, don't really know, are there any good and stable appservers for
I've used to study the examples, shipped with VS.NET. Just was curious. A lot of bad programming style. Which says something about their developers I think.
Also VS.NET seem to lack proper UML support, dont get started about Visio, it doesn't compare to Borland Together.
It's kind of sarcasm, eh? No matter of OS, if the piece of software is badly written, it will be insecure as long as it needs to communicate with the network. App-level firewall will probably save the situation, but these things are not quite common, afaik.
The answer is quite simple - in Russia average salary is about 200 USD and Windows costs almost twice more. Pirated copies, which are sold almost on every corner, are about 3 USD.
I'm willing to pay for software, but when it isn't so overpriced and badly written (Why the fuck they want Why the fuck should I suffer from viruses, when it's clearly a MSFT's failute to write secure OS?).
I use Linux as well, but need Windows for some specific applications and games.
Well, in fact it was sacrasm, you know. :)
Makes sence, actually.
More possibilities for FUD 'Look, Linux is insecure more than Windows!'.
Borland's JBuilder X and Oracle's JDeveloper 10g realy kick butt on J2EE development. Also, JBuilder X kicks butt in GUI, too. They both work on Linux (as they are written in Java).
.NET faster than in Linux
:)
> developing world class web apps can be done with
1. 'world class web apps' probably are build on J2EE?
2. see above
P.S. You can download JDeveloper for free from Oracle TechNet (as Oracle DB itself, Appserver and other apps).
P.P.S. You can also get trial JBuilder from Borland. After 'evaluation period' it will become crippled 'foundation' version. The Net is filled with key generators, however.
Agree. All correct, unfortunately (maybe except OO bit). :(
I wonder, why Sun produced such inconsistent piece-of-crap, assuming they _really have_ resources to put together good Linux distro... They couldn't even build good LookAndFell for bundled Java apps - shame on them! Markedroids to blame, pobably?
> Microsoft NEVER innovates
:)
Oh MY God! So their press releases are all lying? It can't be!
The problem is that Average Joe doesn't give a fuck about Linux - he see only MSFT ads around him.
:) *
You won't buy MSFT, I wont't buy MSFT, thousands of geeks won't buy MSFT - but jillions of Average Joes will.
* Written on a PC running pirated Windows XP Pro. MSFT - kiss my ass.
"IIS for Linux" sounds too scary for me, considering it's record on security and stabilty in Windows version.
Linux port of IIS definitely _will_ be crappy in first versions.
Just imagine, IIS pushes Apache away from Linux and then some script-kiddie writes one more Nimda/Code Red... There will be blackout much bigger than Slammer's.
Cool. :)
:) )
I suppose, correlated subqueries aren't on MySQL features list then? (/me too lazy to dig the docs
MySQL is good for simle CMS apps, one of which Slashdot is. However, data loss or broken DB integrity won't harm Slashdot too much.
:) Damages can count there for million dollars.
Now imagine financial/banking database application wich process monetary transactions - in case of any serious data or integrity loss DBA and developers likely will get shot.
'Mission critical' means for DB not just TPS (transactions-per-second) numbers. Data safety is usually more important than speed.