Was a New Order album I bought because of the "True Faith" track (from the Bright Lights, Big City movie), which I just had to have. Of course out also went $1,200 on a Technics CD deck as well, because I only had tape and turntable at the time.
I don't have the disc anymore (I do have the box somewhere) but I have this distinct memory of CDs being a lot thicker and heavier back then. Anyone remember that?
How many of you have had to spend countless hours tracking down memory leaks?
You didn't get a big show of hands here, eh? 1997 called, he wants his raw pointers back. Nowadays we use any of the myriad freely available pointer wrappers and libraries. If you're using any framework at all, chances are you have a pointer class. STL, Boost, ATL, APR, MFC, MC++, etc. They all do. If you are a masochist, that's fine. Just don't assume everyone else is too.
It's all thanks to Bjorne and his crap C++
Well, you're probably just trolling here, but C++ is hardly dead, and it's hardly crap. After all, the two languages you claim "buried" it are written in C++.
I think in this particular case, "good" is the same as the current definition, which is to say who sells the most albums. Is Britney Spears a better artist than Sarah McLachlan? I don't think so. But that's irrelevant because in the mainstream thermometer, Spears is indeed "better" than most everyone else.
If this brave new model consisted of artists coming to the top based solely on merit, then the system would work. There would be no megacorp spending millions to convince people that the crap they produce is somehow worth the CD it's pressed on, so only the bad artists would be at a disadvantage. The music "industry" would suddenly become a meritocracy. Best of all, anyone who actually wanted a Britney Spears song would be free to buy it.
Imagine a world where Lisa Gerrard or Rilo Kiley sell more records than Jessica Simpson or Hannah Montana. I like that. Probably ain't happening though.
It's entirely possible that he has a different demographic, or that there's some sort of AI there (a la Google news) to make a difference, though I doubt that.
I must admit I had not heard of this service until now, so I'm still going through it and trying to figure out how it works.
But after a quick look-see on Slashdot, Digg, Reddit, Propeller and a few other "important" social websites, I see that the prevailing majority is still parroting the usual "OMFGWTFBBQ BUSH 9/11 ANTHRAX MSM MIKKRO$AFTZ RON PAUL SHEEPLE TAH POLICE R BAD" line.
On the other hand, Musharraf stepping down hardly got a peep from them as of this morning, probably because most of them can't figure out the importance of that event. Lots of funny lolcat links though.
How exactly are your users any different from these?
Actually this is true for any non-trivial code base, enough of which exist in the commercial software world. There's nothing particularly specific here to the Linux kernel or open source for that matter.
I think Microsoft has to support ODF one way or another. But I think they're going to do that through plugins and whatnot.
But there's no way they would have adopted ODF as the interop format for Office. That would have been a Rob Weir blog post waiting to happen. And in reality, they don't have to, because formats are driven by the software that uses them, not the other way around. It's not like OO.org has 500 million installs. Who else is driving adoption of ODF?
Because Sun, IBM and other people who are inherently hostile to Microsoft control ODF. If Microsoft had adopted it and then went to them with a change to support something specific to MS Office they'd get the cold shoulder. Whether people like to admit it or not, Office is much more than a word processor and a spreadsheet (see SharePoint, etc.), has a hell of a lot more features than OpenOffice and its release cycle is much more active. So Microsoft can't afford to be screwed by the people who control the standard. Eventually they'd be forced to come up with their own version of it, and 'round the bush we go again with "OMFG embrace, extend, etc".
Not that OOXML is better, or even particularly appealing. But Microsoft does have the de facto standard (by sheer installed base weight) and what is pretty much the reference platform for office suites. So there's no way in hell that they would have adopted ODF. And I don't think any of their customers would have wanted that at all.
Personally, given the fact that they've opened up the binary format now, I plan on using the normal.doc format in the near future. I'm not interested in XML formats, regardless of who where they come from.
Well, OSS does "steal" (whatever that means) and Microsoft does innovate, so other than coming across as rather insecure in your distortion field, I fail to see your point.
Maybe next time you spot a cool technology early you'll want to email Mark Shuttleworth or IBM and ask them to fund the research. That way you won't have to do this again.
I'm sorry, you think only residential suburbs have zoning? Are you high?
No, zoning where you live is evidently very different from the zoning situation where this happened. According to Google maps, it's a residential area.
presuming a modicum of intelligence that you have not,
If you weren't trying so very hard to be clever and failing at it, you would have made the distinction of living downtown (or wherever it is that you live at) with zoning laws designed for that kind of area, and zoning laws for residential neighbourhoods. The former usually results in a flat i a building above a chinese takeout place, the latter does not.
Given where you live (obviously not in a residential suburb), your comments about zoning being evil are irrelevant. What, are you angry because your city prevented you from opening a plutonium processing facility in your empty lot?
For IT? I can't see where there would be a problem really.
Consulting firms usually have non-compete clauses (and if you're leaving in amicable terms, simply gentleman's agreements) about what you can do once you leave, if you're leaving for the competition or creating your own. Usually you're not supposed to dip into the client pool you were working with at the previous company, for six months to a year.
When I left my firm to start my own, I left on very good terms with them, so for the next six months I did something else while I built up some potential and new contacts. It was a good move because I ended up subcontracting some stuff to them. Everybody's happy, etc. YMMV of course.
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Was a New Order album I bought because of the "True Faith" track (from the Bright Lights, Big City movie), which I just had to have. Of course out also went $1,200 on a Technics CD deck as well, because I only had tape and turntable at the time.
I don't have the disc anymore (I do have the box somewhere) but I have this distinct memory of CDs being a lot thicker and heavier back then. Anyone remember that?
You didn't get a big show of hands here, eh? 1997 called, he wants his raw pointers back. Nowadays we use any of the myriad freely available pointer wrappers and libraries. If you're using any framework at all, chances are you have a pointer class. STL, Boost, ATL, APR, MFC, MC++, etc. They all do. If you are a masochist, that's fine. Just don't assume everyone else is too.
Well, you're probably just trolling here, but C++ is hardly dead, and it's hardly crap. After all, the two languages you claim "buried" it are written in C++.
The term "acute stupidity" does not begin to cover this. It's almost too painful to read.
The ********** on the second email was Bill Gates. Right?
BTW, how come the input box on the reply page for this section is really small but not on the others?
And seriously, that green background has to go.
I think in this particular case, "good" is the same as the current definition, which is to say who sells the most albums. Is Britney Spears a better artist than Sarah McLachlan? I don't think so. But that's irrelevant because in the mainstream thermometer, Spears is indeed "better" than most everyone else.
If this brave new model consisted of artists coming to the top based solely on merit, then the system would work. There would be no megacorp spending millions to convince people that the crap they produce is somehow worth the CD it's pressed on, so only the bad artists would be at a disadvantage. The music "industry" would suddenly become a meritocracy. Best of all, anyone who actually wanted a Britney Spears song would be free to buy it.
Imagine a world where Lisa Gerrard or Rilo Kiley sell more records than Jessica Simpson or Hannah Montana. I like that. Probably ain't happening though.
Be careful how you address him, or he'll add you to his little list.
Just twitter.
It's entirely possible that he has a different demographic, or that there's some sort of AI there (a la Google news) to make a difference, though I doubt that.
I must admit I had not heard of this service until now, so I'm still going through it and trying to figure out how it works.
I gather you mean this, right?
But after a quick look-see on Slashdot, Digg, Reddit, Propeller and a few other "important" social websites, I see that the prevailing majority is still parroting the usual "OMFGWTFBBQ BUSH 9/11 ANTHRAX MSM MIKKRO$AFTZ RON PAUL SHEEPLE TAH POLICE R BAD" line.
On the other hand, Musharraf stepping down hardly got a peep from them as of this morning, probably because most of them can't figure out the importance of that event. Lots of funny lolcat links though.
How exactly are your users any different from these?
Actually this is true for any non-trivial code base, enough of which exist in the commercial software world. There's nothing particularly specific here to the Linux kernel or open source for that matter.
Because it legitimizes them in the way that everybody says they must be. Public opinion and all that, imagined and real. It helps.
Yeah, that's him.
I think Microsoft has to support ODF one way or another. But I think they're going to do that through plugins and whatnot.
But there's no way they would have adopted ODF as the interop format for Office. That would have been a Rob Weir blog post waiting to happen. And in reality, they don't have to, because formats are driven by the software that uses them, not the other way around. It's not like OO.org has 500 million installs. Who else is driving adoption of ODF?
Because Sun, IBM and other people who are inherently hostile to Microsoft control ODF. If Microsoft had adopted it and then went to them with a change to support something specific to MS Office they'd get the cold shoulder. Whether people like to admit it or not, Office is much more than a word processor and a spreadsheet (see SharePoint, etc.), has a hell of a lot more features than OpenOffice and its release cycle is much more active. So Microsoft can't afford to be screwed by the people who control the standard. Eventually they'd be forced to come up with their own version of it, and 'round the bush we go again with "OMFG embrace, extend, etc".
Not that OOXML is better, or even particularly appealing. But Microsoft does have the de facto standard (by sheer installed base weight) and what is pretty much the reference platform for office suites. So there's no way in hell that they would have adopted ODF. And I don't think any of their customers would have wanted that at all.
Personally, given the fact that they've opened up the binary format now, I plan on using the normal .doc format in the near future. I'm not interested in XML formats, regardless of who where they come from.
Well, OSS does "steal" (whatever that means) and Microsoft does innovate, so other than coming across as rather insecure in your distortion field, I fail to see your point.
Maybe next time you spot a cool technology early you'll want to email Mark Shuttleworth or IBM and ask them to fund the research. That way you won't have to do this again.
By your estimation then, Linux is just an irrelevant half-baked copy of System V. Correct?
No, zoning where you live is evidently very different from the zoning situation where this happened. According to Google maps, it's a residential area.
If you weren't trying so very hard to be clever and failing at it, you would have made the distinction of living downtown (or wherever it is that you live at) with zoning laws designed for that kind of area, and zoning laws for residential neighbourhoods. The former usually results in a flat i a building above a chinese takeout place, the latter does not.
Given where you live (obviously not in a residential suburb), your comments about zoning being evil are irrelevant. What, are you angry because your city prevented you from opening a plutonium processing facility in your empty lot?
That doesn't bring the bacon home.
When your neighbour decides to turn his home into a fish & chips bar, you'll understand why zoning laws exist.
And if you don't like it, you can just buy his house. You can afford it, right?
Consulting firms usually have non-compete clauses (and if you're leaving in amicable terms, simply gentleman's agreements) about what you can do once you leave, if you're leaving for the competition or creating your own. Usually you're not supposed to dip into the client pool you were working with at the previous company, for six months to a year.
When I left my firm to start my own, I left on very good terms with them, so for the next six months I did something else while I built up some potential and new contacts. It was a good move because I ended up subcontracting some stuff to them. Everybody's happy, etc. YMMV of course.
Whoosh.
We should have more Olympic games. Every month, in each and every single country in the world.
Entertainment, physical well-being and saving the planet. Pick all three.
Unless of course it's you, or someone you care about.
Funny how that works.