When Solaris installs a full C compiler as a default part of the installation, then I might consider it as a serious operating system. Otherwise, it's a toy OS, just like that Microsoft thing.
Now, I'll sit back and see who takes this post seriously and posts an outlandish reply, despite the fact that it's an over the top post, and I'm practically telling them what I'm doing here. Now, this needs to be the middle paragraph so that lazy readers might skip it, instead only looking at the first and last paragraph. So, I'll just make a new paragraph here which says.
Cable companies have the same future that telegraph companies are currently enjoying. TiVo has the network features, and they're NOT in bed with the cable companies. That's not a bad thing any more than Google failing to make a big deal with Western Union was a bad thing.
You know, I dislike Democrats and liberals as much as anybody, but I'm not really sure that the President is meant to have his way ALL the time. Sure, it'd be nice for Bush to have his way 100% of the time, so we could actually fight a war, and fight terror, cut taxes to zero, have school prayer, criminalize abortion, eliminate public education, build a Mexico border fence with robotic machine guns, and lift all restrictions on business.
But, I'm a businessman, and have to see things as they are, from all sides. I'm not that old, but I've seen enough to know that the Republicans won't be in power all the time, and if we clear the way for a Republican President to use his absolute authority to do good things, that means we also clear the way for Democrats to also use absolute authority.
Nope, I think that's just a little too frightening.
You touched on but didn't explicitly identify the main problem: the law was a reaction to a very very few bad apples and it makes everybody else pay for the mistakes of those few.
Prices to the customer are higher because the prices to the companies are higher. This is truly a cure that is worse than the disease, introducing a huge level of economic inefficiency. If it's ever required for small companies, it'll raise the bar for entrepreneurs even further, lowering the number of companies created. This thing is attacking the capitalist economy directly. Our entire way of life is based on that kind of economy, and I have a sneaking suspicion that it originated as an attempt to undermine that, to move us towards a more European model. Could this be one of the reasons why this was enacted so quickly? That it was planned in advance, waiting for a reason to implement it?
Yes, because your peers will consider you uneducated, and prospective employers will be wary. I would think this would be self-evident. If a person doesn't take the time to be educated, that person is always going to be in second place. In a world where either you kill the lion or the lion eats you, second place is an uncomfortable place to be.
Grow up? I'm a rich fellow, retired at 38, with millions in the bank. I'm disciplined, and a good speller too. It matters not if you or anyone else accepts my complaining, because bad spelling is it's own punishment.
And I have little sympathy for people who are too lazy to spell words correctly. It's a symptom of a bigger problem that starts with our failed educational system. It's time to enact a zero-tolerance attitude towards spelling errors. Forgive the first one gently; relentlessly mock all errors after that. It's not that hard to have a little rigor in the use of a language.
Waaah Waaah. You weigh 275 pounds. News flash, you're not starving. Also news flash, you're not eating 2000 calories. It's probably more like 5000. Obviously, there's a serious disconnect between what's going in your mouth and what you think you're eating. Quit estimating what you eat and just get your scale out and measure it. You're not fooling me, and I'm not feeling sorry for you either, tubby.
That's what I'm talking about. Nobody's shoveling it in but you. And it's not a disease either, that's an excuse. It's a lack of discipline.
Trust me, I know. I weighed a lot more than you. I know all the tricks, and mind games that humans are capable of.
Also, WTF are you doing eating 800 calories a day during a diet? That's not discipline, that's just stupid. Being on a diet isn't a way to be an attention whore, it's a way to lose weight. The only reason you'd eat 800 calories is so that you can tell everyone around you that you're on a diet, and LOOK HOW HUNGRY YOU ARE AND HOW FAT YOU STILL ARE. I know, I did the same thing. It's a blame game. And nobody likes being around a fatty who talks about food or diets all day long. Just shut up and lose the weight.
Stop blaming everybody including mother nature. You're the one feeding your face. Nobody else.
I dropped from 350 to 150, and it's because I stopped stuffing my pie hole. I suggest you do too. And finally, quit eating up all the liberal claptrap from people who try to make you feel better about yourself, but aren't as honest with you as I am. I'm telling it to you straight. Quit your whining, lose the weight, or you will DIE and I won't shed a tear for you.
Making up diseases and reasons why people don't stop stuffing food into their faces is just providing convenient excuses for the weak and undisciplined.
I'm thin. Do you know why? Because I don't overeat. I know how much I need, and I stop when I'm done. I'm not a slave of my body; my body works for me. That's called discipline.
This might offend some people, but here it is anyway. Nobody's forcing you to put food into your mouth. You're doing it yourself. What would we call someone who made $5000 a month, yet insisted on spending $10,000 a month? We'd call them undisciplined, that's what. Just like you don't spend more than you got, you don't eat more than you need.
I'm sick of people around me whining about how they don't have control over their lives because of some disease or crap. Notice how all the rich successful people aren't whining? (OK, I'm rich and successful, and I do whine. I whine about lazy and undisciplined people who blame others for their problems.)
Cruftiness is the quality of having cruft. Cruft is the stuff that accumulates on code over time. Cruft has no odor, but it stinks. Cruft has no mass, but it weighs the code down. Cruft can't be seen, but it's ugly. Cruft cannot be young, it's always old. Cruft can't be deliberately added, it only appears when you're not looking. Cruft can't be explained to managers, except through awkward car analogies. They still won't get it because managers drive well-maintained elegant foreign cars like BMW's, which gather no cruft. Programmers understand, because their Fords and Chevys are practically built of cruft. Harley motorcycles should have cruft, but noise dissipates cruft. Cruft is mysterious.
Cruft is never present on code which hasn't had enough work. Cruft only appears on code which has been worked too long, by too many people.
Your complex and well reasoned explanation fails to anticipate one explanation: the person you're responding to doesn't know what the word "rote" means. I had a very typical American education, and we most certainly did not learn F=ma by rote. We learned it by using it in calculations, in both lectures and laboratory exercises.
More often than not, decisions which are good for business are good for the American people if those decisions lead to more products or more uses for existing products. If this opening up of the handset is good for the phone companies, they might expand their business and hire more people. And maybe there'll be new companies starting up to take advantage of the new opportunities, thus hiring more people. And maybe those new companies will get some venture capital, making the money circulate around instead of sitting in someone's pockets.
I am disappointed that all of these iMac computers are ignoring the market which my friends and I fall into. We're conservatives, and we want vacuum tubes in our computers.
But, that ignores moral priorities. One thing that drives my liberal friends nuts is thinking about the banning of burkhas. They've got to decide which moral value is more important to them - freedom of speech and religious expression, or the right of a woman to show her actual nose in public.
Your little simplification of morality doesn't cause a single "correct morality" to arise. This issue is completely unaddressed, thus there are at least two correct and consistent solutions to the moral formula you presented.
I'm just saying that your positions on issues aren't what you are. Your basic moral beliefs determine your positions on issues, and in that sense define what you are.
I'm not talking about what you're born as or some nonsense like that. I'm just pointing out that what you personally consider to be right and wrong (your moral beliefs) determine what your positions on issues are.
Tying that back to the original discussion, that's why I don't understand it when people say they are conservative because they believe in the death penalty, or they are liberal because they believe in socialized medicine.
To use an analogy, nobody would say that they are an American because they like hot dogs. They might like hot dogs because they are American, but they are American for a deeper reason than that (they are citizens). For the sake of the analogy, ignore the fact that there exist some Americans that don't like hot dogs.:-)
You're not getting what I'm saying. You're not a "white male" because that's not a unified category, and it's not the foundation of anything. Same goes for sex and race. "White male" is a description of physical appearance, not what you are. Bill Gates is a white male. So are some of the people who beg on street corners. They are not the same, thus white male is not useful as a category.
I'm asking things like this: are you a man who takes care of his own family and think that you're not a good man if you leave that sort of thing up to someone else?
Or, what do you think is more important - living on your own terms as an independent, or becoming part of a collective to push some kind of social goal?
WHY do people mark me as a troll? Where's the sense in teaching people how to use explosives without even a background check? As far as I can tell, they're not even requiring people to piss in a cup. If you're working construction they're going to need at least that before you're going to be allowed to work with explosives.
Jeez, what's with the political correctness around here?
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Good grief, you even KNEW I was trolling, and yet you still answered.
I know. I'm a Solaris bigot, actually. I do believe that only child molestors use Linux, so I do know that there are compilers included in Solaris.
When Solaris installs a full C compiler as a default part of the installation, then I might consider it as a serious operating system. Otherwise, it's a toy OS, just like that Microsoft thing.
Now, I'll sit back and see who takes this post seriously and posts an outlandish reply, despite the fact that it's an over the top post, and I'm practically telling them what I'm doing here. Now, this needs to be the middle paragraph so that lazy readers might skip it, instead only looking at the first and last paragraph. So, I'll just make a new paragraph here which says.
Solaris just plain sucks.
Cable companies have the same future that telegraph companies are currently enjoying. TiVo has the network features, and they're NOT in bed with the cable companies. That's not a bad thing any more than Google failing to make a big deal with Western Union was a bad thing.
Are you saying that it's no longer an issue that emacs hogs up 8 megabytes of my memory just to edit files? Amazing!
You know, I dislike Democrats and liberals as much as anybody, but I'm not really sure that the President is meant to have his way ALL the time. Sure, it'd be nice for Bush to have his way 100% of the time, so we could actually fight a war, and fight terror, cut taxes to zero, have school prayer, criminalize abortion, eliminate public education, build a Mexico border fence with robotic machine guns, and lift all restrictions on business.
But, I'm a businessman, and have to see things as they are, from all sides. I'm not that old, but I've seen enough to know that the Republicans won't be in power all the time, and if we clear the way for a Republican President to use his absolute authority to do good things, that means we also clear the way for Democrats to also use absolute authority.
Nope, I think that's just a little too frightening.
You touched on but didn't explicitly identify the main problem: the law was a reaction to a very very few bad apples and it makes everybody else pay for the mistakes of those few.
Prices to the customer are higher because the prices to the companies are higher. This is truly a cure that is worse than the disease, introducing a huge level of economic inefficiency. If it's ever required for small companies, it'll raise the bar for entrepreneurs even further, lowering the number of companies created. This thing is attacking the capitalist economy directly. Our entire way of life is based on that kind of economy, and I have a sneaking suspicion that it originated as an attempt to undermine that, to move us towards a more European model. Could this be one of the reasons why this was enacted so quickly? That it was planned in advance, waiting for a reason to implement it?
Yes, because your peers will consider you uneducated, and prospective employers will be wary. I would think this would be self-evident. If a person doesn't take the time to be educated, that person is always going to be in second place. In a world where either you kill the lion or the lion eats you, second place is an uncomfortable place to be.
Grow up? I'm a rich fellow, retired at 38, with millions in the bank. I'm disciplined, and a good speller too. It matters not if you or anyone else accepts my complaining, because bad spelling is it's own punishment.
And I have little sympathy for people who are too lazy to spell words correctly. It's a symptom of a bigger problem that starts with our failed educational system. It's time to enact a zero-tolerance attitude towards spelling errors. Forgive the first one gently; relentlessly mock all errors after that. It's not that hard to have a little rigor in the use of a language.
If this is how you treat people who tell the truth to you, then you're going to be surrounded by liars.
Waaah Waaah. You weigh 275 pounds. News flash, you're not starving. Also news flash, you're not eating 2000 calories. It's probably more like 5000. Obviously, there's a serious disconnect between what's going in your mouth and what you think you're eating. Quit estimating what you eat and just get your scale out and measure it. You're not fooling me, and I'm not feeling sorry for you either, tubby.
That's what I'm talking about. Nobody's shoveling it in but you. And it's not a disease either, that's an excuse. It's a lack of discipline.
Trust me, I know. I weighed a lot more than you. I know all the tricks, and mind games that humans are capable of.
Also, WTF are you doing eating 800 calories a day during a diet? That's not discipline, that's just stupid. Being on a diet isn't a way to be an attention whore, it's a way to lose weight. The only reason you'd eat 800 calories is so that you can tell everyone around you that you're on a diet, and LOOK HOW HUNGRY YOU ARE AND HOW FAT YOU STILL ARE. I know, I did the same thing. It's a blame game. And nobody likes being around a fatty who talks about food or diets all day long. Just shut up and lose the weight.
Stop blaming everybody including mother nature. You're the one feeding your face. Nobody else.
I dropped from 350 to 150, and it's because I stopped stuffing my pie hole. I suggest you do too. And finally, quit eating up all the liberal claptrap from people who try to make you feel better about yourself, but aren't as honest with you as I am. I'm telling it to you straight. Quit your whining, lose the weight, or you will DIE and I won't shed a tear for you.
Making up diseases and reasons why people don't stop stuffing food into their faces is just providing convenient excuses for the weak and undisciplined.
I'm thin. Do you know why? Because I don't overeat. I know how much I need, and I stop when I'm done. I'm not a slave of my body; my body works for me. That's called discipline.
This might offend some people, but here it is anyway. Nobody's forcing you to put food into your mouth. You're doing it yourself. What would we call someone who made $5000 a month, yet insisted on spending $10,000 a month? We'd call them undisciplined, that's what. Just like you don't spend more than you got, you don't eat more than you need.
I'm sick of people around me whining about how they don't have control over their lives because of some disease or crap. Notice how all the rich successful people aren't whining? (OK, I'm rich and successful, and I do whine. I whine about lazy and undisciplined people who blame others for their problems.)
OK, rant over.
Cruftiness is the quality of having cruft. Cruft is the stuff that accumulates on code over time. Cruft has no odor, but it stinks. Cruft has no mass, but it weighs the code down. Cruft can't be seen, but it's ugly. Cruft cannot be young, it's always old. Cruft can't be deliberately added, it only appears when you're not looking. Cruft can't be explained to managers, except through awkward car analogies. They still won't get it because managers drive well-maintained elegant foreign cars like BMW's, which gather no cruft. Programmers understand, because their Fords and Chevys are practically built of cruft. Harley motorcycles should have cruft, but noise dissipates cruft. Cruft is mysterious.
Cruft is never present on code which hasn't had enough work. Cruft only appears on code which has been worked too long, by too many people.
Your complex and well reasoned explanation fails to anticipate one explanation: the person you're responding to doesn't know what the word "rote" means. I had a very typical American education, and we most certainly did not learn F=ma by rote. We learned it by using it in calculations, in both lectures and laboratory exercises.
I wish I paid by the GB. My ISP charges me by the byte. If you pay in advance, they charge by the short word (2 bytes).
How about a baseball analogy? You steal bases by running when the ball's not in the air.
A Car analogy? I got nothin.
More often than not, decisions which are good for business are good for the American people if those decisions lead to more products or more uses for existing products. If this opening up of the handset is good for the phone companies, they might expand their business and hire more people. And maybe there'll be new companies starting up to take advantage of the new opportunities, thus hiring more people. And maybe those new companies will get some venture capital, making the money circulate around instead of sitting in someone's pockets.
It's just a simple extrusion fabrication process. I'd have thought that Scotty would have that mastered by now.
I am disappointed that all of these iMac computers are ignoring the market which my friends and I fall into. We're conservatives, and we want vacuum tubes in our computers.
Same one you run on anybody. High school students aren't little angels, you know.
But, that ignores moral priorities. One thing that drives my liberal friends nuts is thinking about the banning of burkhas. They've got to decide which moral value is more important to them - freedom of speech and religious expression, or the right of a woman to show her actual nose in public.
Your little simplification of morality doesn't cause a single "correct morality" to arise. This issue is completely unaddressed, thus there are at least two correct and consistent solutions to the moral formula you presented.
No, sorry, you still don't get it.
:-)
I'm just saying that your positions on issues aren't what you are. Your basic moral beliefs determine your positions on issues, and in that sense define what you are.
I'm not talking about what you're born as or some nonsense like that. I'm just pointing out that what you personally consider to be right and wrong (your moral beliefs) determine what your positions on issues are.
Tying that back to the original discussion, that's why I don't understand it when people say they are conservative because they believe in the death penalty, or they are liberal because they believe in socialized medicine.
To use an analogy, nobody would say that they are an American because they like hot dogs. They might like hot dogs because they are American, but they are American for a deeper reason than that (they are citizens). For the sake of the analogy, ignore the fact that there exist some Americans that don't like hot dogs.
Are you really saying that teaching people to blow stuff up without doing a background check is a good idea?
Astonishing.
You're not getting what I'm saying. You're not a "white male" because that's not a unified category, and it's not the foundation of anything. Same goes for sex and race. "White male" is a description of physical appearance, not what you are. Bill Gates is a white male. So are some of the people who beg on street corners. They are not the same, thus white male is not useful as a category.
I'm asking things like this: are you a man who takes care of his own family and think that you're not a good man if you leave that sort of thing up to someone else?
Or, what do you think is more important - living on your own terms as an independent, or becoming part of a collective to push some kind of social goal?
See?
WHY do people mark me as a troll? Where's the sense in teaching people how to use explosives without even a background check? As far as I can tell, they're not even requiring people to piss in a cup. If you're working construction they're going to need at least that before you're going to be allowed to work with explosives.
Jeez, what's with the political correctness around here?