The beauty of features like LINQ being added to.NET is that they're case studies on FOSS double standards, because if that had been added to Java or Python, everyone and their little sister would be screaming to the four winds how totally cool it is and LOLOL, Microsoft doesn't have it.
Certainly anyone daring to utter the word "craziness" in conjunction with that fresh and exciting new feature would be considered a troll and dealt with accordingly by the unwashed masses of syntactic sugar-hungry Java developers.
I would think that adoption of Microsoft technologies at Microsoft tends to follow the same rates as their overall client base, mostly because Microsoft is no different from any other large company with IT requirements, budgets, staffing and legacy problems.
In some cases they tend to be early adopters (the core of microsoft.com was probably the first large.NET web site), but that's not always the case.
The nation is not bankrupt and the crisis was caused mostly by the credit bubble, not the war, although excessive spending due to said war does contribute to the federal deficit, which in turn has a ripple effect on other things, like the value of the dollar.
It's inevitable that some games will also desensitize some people (not just children) to violence, if only in the abstract, much as some movies also do the same.
That doesn't mean games or movies are a catalyst for violence, but having had the pleasure of seeing someone break every bone on their right hand after driving it through a car window because "it looks so easy in the movies", in my experience this tends to mean people are more likely to hurt themselves than others.
Of course it takes a special kind of special to do something like that.
I hear you. I think I actually owe money on my 401(k) now. I haven't even checked lately. Too scared.
Fortunately I moved most of my long-term investments to Europe and Canada a few years ago when I figured the dollar was going down the drain. Municipal bonds may not be sexy but at least in euros they're safe:)
X was built as a graphical client-server protocol, and it scales OK for a few dozen users (with caveats w/r to your bandwidth, etc) although it's not used that way very much anymore.
But it would never scale to the level that a just-serving-html-ma'am BSD/Apache box with a gig of RAM does.
Yes, just last night you were using one of your sockpuppet accounts to tell everyone about it. Didn't go well, that.
is going to come stripped of what little people liked about Vista
The hilarity here is that you were very probably one of the people who used the argument that those apps were broken as another bullet point in the "M$ sux" advocacy crusade, but now it's a veritable tragedy that Microsoft is replacing them with an installer. Actually, someone mentioned as much in response to the flamebait you posted.
All of this comes down to massive disruption and breakage of investment
If there's no way you can even justify making this point, since it's obviously not true, why even bother?
At first, yes, probably. But I'm guessing this is more of a pilot than anything else. If it pans out it's possible they'll offer the web-based subscription model without requiring a license seat.
I hope they implement this outside the browser though, as thin.NET clients.
Because it's supported by companies like IBM. There's infrastructure and investment behind the whole thing, and firms have felt comfortable betting the farm on those types of technology for 30+ years. There's also a lot of money to be made supporting it.
The mainframe platform does move, albeit at a rather glacial pace. They've been doing Java for a few years now, as well as web-based interfaces as an alternative to terminals.
$90? You're selling yourself cheap. Try somewhere around $120, for starters. It goes up from there. And these are rates for long-term projects, not wham/bam/thankyou/ma'am two week gigs to solve some obscure CICS problem.
That's assuming you have the resume and enough systems experience to back it up, but most people who do COBOL for a living do anyway.
In the mid-00s I seriously considered learning COBOL and C mainframe development after seeing how much those old farts from IBM were pulling in. It's far from sexy, but it's a lot of cash.
I'd disagree with that. Schools in India are still providing lots of people with mainframe skills. The whole shebang, like InfoMan, CICS, etc. Not just Cobol. At least that's my impression. I see a lot of people from Tata, InfoSys and IBM Global Services doing mainframe-centric maintenance and even new development at companies I have contact with these days.
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The beauty of features like LINQ being added to .NET is that they're case studies on FOSS double standards, because if that had been added to Java or Python, everyone and their little sister would be screaming to the four winds how totally cool it is and LOLOL, Microsoft doesn't have it.
Certainly anyone daring to utter the word "craziness" in conjunction with that fresh and exciting new feature would be considered a troll and dealt with accordingly by the unwashed masses of syntactic sugar-hungry Java developers.
I would think that adoption of Microsoft technologies at Microsoft tends to follow the same rates as their overall client base, mostly because Microsoft is no different from any other large company with IT requirements, budgets, staffing and legacy problems.
In some cases they tend to be early adopters (the core of microsoft.com was probably the first large .NET web site), but that's not always the case.
The nation is not bankrupt and the crisis was caused mostly by the credit bubble, not the war, although excessive spending due to said war does contribute to the federal deficit, which in turn has a ripple effect on other things, like the value of the dollar.
Keep it up and you can be the next twitter. Sockpuppets can't be far behind now.
If we're talking about High School Musical then I suppose I totally agree with that approach.
It's inevitable that some games will also desensitize some people (not just children) to violence, if only in the abstract, much as some movies also do the same.
That doesn't mean games or movies are a catalyst for violence, but having had the pleasure of seeing someone break every bone on their right hand after driving it through a car window because "it looks so easy in the movies", in my experience this tends to mean people are more likely to hurt themselves than others.
Of course it takes a special kind of special to do something like that.
The last time someone tried to support Debian they almost killed each other, IIRC.
I hear you. I think I actually owe money on my 401(k) now. I haven't even checked lately. Too scared.
Fortunately I moved most of my long-term investments to Europe and Canada a few years ago when I figured the dollar was going down the drain. Municipal bonds may not be sexy but at least in euros they're safe :)
Long story
Oh twitter, the lulz just don't stop with you. Did you notice someone posted a link to a picture of your wife in there? ha, ha.
X was built as a graphical client-server protocol, and it scales OK for a few dozen users (with caveats w/r to your bandwidth, etc) although it's not used that way very much anymore.
But it would never scale to the level that a just-serving-html-ma'am BSD/Apache box with a gig of RAM does.
Yes, just last night you were using one of your sockpuppet accounts to tell everyone about it. Didn't go well, that.
The hilarity here is that you were very probably one of the people who used the argument that those apps were broken as another bullet point in the "M$ sux" advocacy crusade, but now it's a veritable tragedy that Microsoft is replacing them with an installer. Actually, someone mentioned as much in response to the flamebait you posted.
If there's no way you can even justify making this point, since it's obviously not true, why even bother?
At first, yes, probably. But I'm guessing this is more of a pilot than anything else. If it pans out it's possible they'll offer the web-based subscription model without requiring a license seat.
I hope they implement this outside the browser though, as thin .NET clients.
Or the timeless "holy shit!"
No, it's flamebait because this is Slashdot and the story is not about Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer, but about the Google founders.
You need to keep your eyes on the goalposts. They move a lot.
So trollboy, any comments? Probably not, eh?
Because it's supported by companies like IBM. There's infrastructure and investment behind the whole thing, and firms have felt comfortable betting the farm on those types of technology for 30+ years. There's also a lot of money to be made supporting it.
The mainframe platform does move, albeit at a rather glacial pace. They've been doing Java for a few years now, as well as web-based interfaces as an alternative to terminals.
$90? You're selling yourself cheap. Try somewhere around $120, for starters. It goes up from there. And these are rates for long-term projects, not wham/bam/thankyou/ma'am two week gigs to solve some obscure CICS problem.
That's assuming you have the resume and enough systems experience to back it up, but most people who do COBOL for a living do anyway.
In the mid-00s I seriously considered learning COBOL and C mainframe development after seeing how much those old farts from IBM were pulling in. It's far from sexy, but it's a lot of cash.
I'd disagree with that. Schools in India are still providing lots of people with mainframe skills. The whole shebang, like InfoMan, CICS, etc. Not just Cobol. At least that's my impression. I see a lot of people from Tata, InfoSys and IBM Global Services doing mainframe-centric maintenance and even new development at companies I have contact with these days.
No, because those require authentication for the exploit to work.
They don't "sound" like they're more secure, they are. At least in this particular context.
Oh, I got that from the summary as well, my bad. Thanks for the clarification.
In that case I grudgingly admire nothing whatsoever about this =)
Illegal or not, I have to grudgingly admit I'm impressed by this. After all, they were just acting as middle men and taking a slice off the top.
Slick, however you look at it.
I was going to make a joke about posting here with your sockpuppet accounts when I noticed this, so never mind that.
Everyone is looking forward to the day we can lick the gloved finger of a TSA goon to figure whether or not we're allowed on the 3:15 to Chicago.
Let's go make a list, Mohinder!