If you use edit-and-continue in anything other than VB, you sir, are crazy.
In C++ it's just asking for trouble and in c# it barely works correctly. It's easier and safer to just kill the app and start over. However, in VB it seems to work pretty well. I especially like the immediate window.
Combine this with a peek at this asshat's website and a mention of "critical theory" on the toplevel, which anyone who follows politics knows is code for "Marxist" in much the same way that "liberal" has been replaced with "progressive" in modern usage as the old terms become associated with failed policies, ruined economies and mass graves.
You know, conservatism wasn't always like this. I mean, even the loony rants coming from far right seccessionist militia movements pre-Oklahoma City made more sense than you are right now. Conservatives used to be a mixture of libertarians and "if it ain't broke don't fix it" traditionalists. Conservatives used to brag that they should be called "classical liberals." Conservatives shared the Enlightenment goals of ever increasing knowledge, freedom, and prosperity for the masses that Liberals claimed to profess, but they mixed it with a healthy dose of skepticism that any Big Idea can successfully solve all humanities problems. Conservatives were essentially the first Postmodernists.
I used to be proud to call myself a conservative..
Now look at this shit. Skepticism was once the defining feature of conservatism (even if this skepticism manifested itself as populist distrust of academia--which is what "critical theory" is really all about, btw--academia's distrust of academia.) But it seems like ever since Bushcroft has rolled into the Washington, the Blind Obedience faction has managed to completely overwhelm the Republican Party, with anyone still retaining conservative, libertarian, or even traditionalist ideas slowly but surely realizing that they have more in common with their former opponents than they did with the opposition. Better to have liberals and progressives than cronyists, nepotists, and facists. So liberals are associated with mass graves, huh? Where is fucking Thomas Jefferson's mass grave?
So anyone entertaining skepticism of the Patriot Act or Monsanto is just a Marxist in disguise? You know, I know I'm just wasting my time replying to this crap. It doesn't even upset me so much that your faction of enforced ignorance is the unwitting dupe of some very scary corporate executives and government bureaucrats, working actively to make this world an uglier but more controlled place--because control and power are the only beauty they see in the world.
What pisses me the fuck off here, what really drives the rage with which I've been posting lately, is that you folks have co-opted a political movement and philosophy that was once associated with patience, humility, and honor, constructed a bizarre mythology of code words in which anyone who disagrees with you is a Stalinist, that has wrapped a lust for power and wealth in the American flag.
Wow, all this speculation. When windows refreshes like that it's because you changed a "system" setting, and set a "systemchanged" event. This causes applications that support it to refresh their settings from whatever store they have them in.
This happens when you say, change your proxy settings (on or off, hit apply - bang, a refresh).
Whether there are different codes (which could correspond to manufacturing facilities, amongst other things) - it still applies that you can reflash 40 hp out of the 1.8t, no mechanical changes. It increases the aggressiveness of the timing curve, increases booost, and increases fuel flow rates. Those things alone (computer-controlled) are enough to increase the power. Most turbo-charged cars have turbines with trim rates that flow a lot more than what the engine "needs" because it gives the auto manufacturer more leeway in tuning the engine. Thus, just turning up the boost (electronically) is not only feasible, but easy.
Well, actually, the 200sx is a Sentra, and they are both B14 chassis cars.
The 200sx can be gotten with an SR20DE (SE-R), which is the best 4 cylinder to have come out of Nissan (or many other manufacturers for that matter). You want an upgrade? Do a JDM SR20DET swap into an SE-R 200sx and have fun. (200whp 2.0l turbo fun!)
Nissan is now the parts-bin king of the auto world.
If you pull a gun out, you had better be using it to kill. Not only are you putting yourself, and everyone else around in GREATER danger when you pull the gun (what if he takes it), but "shooting to wound" will land you in a heap more trouble than just killing the person.
Also, in my state in particular (Texas), if you have a concealed carry license - multiple shots are VERY MUCH looked down upon. You shoot to kill on the first shot, period.
Guns are nothing to be lax with or about. Pulling a gun will automatically trigger the attacker's fight-or-flight, and if you don't seriously wound or kill them you may end up on the wrong end of that barrel.
You do not shoot them three, or four times in the chest "because it didn't stop them". You shoot them once through the heart and be done with it. There's a reason that our CCL requires the holder to be certified on a particular type of gun, as well as using the SAME gun during training that they wish to carry with the license. It's required accuracy so that shoot to kill does it the first time. doing otherwise is dangerous and ignorant.
I live in downtown Dallas, walk around alone in the dark, ride a $1300 dollar bike all over the place, and have never had any problems at all. However, having lived in suburban "paradise" I have had a gun pulled on me twice, have been jumped once, and have been generally harassed more than a few times.
What's the difference?
I grew up. I look at people differently, and travel with an air of confidence. That makes a hell of a lot more of a difference than your zip code. Someone who's never actually been in a dangerous will simply never understand how much standing up straight and making sure people know you see everything going on around you makes.
A LOT. But I live and work in downtown Dallas, so my perception might be skewed a little bit.
Regardless - that's kind of a bad example anyway. Armani suits, Rolex watches, Ferraris - those are well beyond the means of the average "fashionable" user. A better comparison is to look at the "A&F" set. You know, all those kids (I use the term loosely) that have enough money to buy clothes plastered with "Abercrombie" or "Old Navy" or whatnot - because it's fashionable, and ATTAINABLE. The iPod is both, and so it aligns neatly with that set.
They still do diss it. General business was meant for secretaries and assistants. MIS doesn't give you enough on theory or technicality from CS or business.
Your ability to manuever politcally has nothing to do with MIS over CS. I have managed to not only keep a job for the last five years (through quarterly 5-35% layoffs), but recieved an offer to increase my pay by 33% when I left for my current job, at an 82% increase with insurance paid, free lunches, etc.
You are so on the money with that. I've lived in south Texas, Houston (17yrs), Nacogdoches (7yrs), and now Dallas (1yr). Dallas women are so fucking stuck on themselves it's ridiculous - and SMU in your backyard doesn't help.
Umm, you have to either ship a seperate language DLL for that, or you have to ship a new exe (depending on whether the string tables were in it or the dll). A localized version.
And it's not as easy as "changing some string table entries in the exe". Some language families use fixed-with fonts for english, making it very hard to make sure your dialogs, etc. are sized properly in that language.
You also have to worry about "unsupported" characters in some language versions when you're using anything that's not unicode (CString anyone?). Certain characters (like some Japanese chars) have 0 value first bytes for wide characters. This fucks all kinds of stuff up.
Sure, you can change the text of the language - but single-byte ASCII apps will NEVER run properly on multi-byte versions of the OS unless the language you use is single-byte. EFIGS only, and only certain fonts and sizes. So what's the point? Perhaps this is something _better_ than that shit. Windows NT based systems are all unicode internally, and AFAIK all the stuff that an NT build consists of is unicode. Translations are a lot easier.
IMS - Information Management System, a heirarchical database created by IBM in the dark ages of computing. Instead of having relationships in the fashion of a RDBMS, the entire IMS database is a bunch of lists, of lists, of lists, of lists, where any list can be part of any other list at any time. We studied this in a database class in school, and even got a chance to play around with a live system (or something based on the same principal, as what we used ran under VMS).
For some types of "queries" it is really incredibly powerful, but it is not very good at building very complex relationships.
This investment may or may not be a death-spiral. Just because the conversion ratio isn't variable (a "distressed investment") doesn't mean it isn't a death spiral. DIs are the true hawks, they will issue you a convertible bond (give you a loan) with VERY questionable terms. Usually on the terms that the lower the stock price goes, the more stock the loan issuer can convert to. Once the price is low enough - you can convert enough stock to own the company and liquidate it. Companies avoid this unless all other methods of credit have been exhausted. If you recieve a distressed investment bond, if you don't pull out of the gutter your assets WILL be liquidated. Period. No fund wants to keep running ownership of your failed company.
Private placements are not usually used the same way, but can be. In this case, they feel that there is enough risk involved in the investment that they are going to "hedge" their investment. Hedging, simply put, is managing the amount of risk (how much money you stand to lose) by creating "synthetic" investment instruments. (Usually a collection of like instruments / positions such that when combined can be viewed as one position/instrument)
It makes perfect sense - you invest X dollars in a company, which is worth Y shares (as a convertible bond). You then short X-Y (delta) shares on the open market. To really make it obvious you should just look at a delta-hedge example graph. The bond has a value curve based on stock price, and the short has a value curve based on stock price.. there's a delta you strive to maintain to keep making cash off it.
Now, the higher the stock price goes, the lower the short is worth to you - but you still make money. The lower the price falls, the less the bond is worth to you, but the more the short is worth - you still make money. You make money on VOLATILITY ALONE, not the absolute values of the bonds or stock prices. As long as the market is moving, you are making money. This is delta-hedging, and the difficult part is find the delta such that when the market moves (in either direction) you make money.
This is a fairly sophisticated investment strategy, and this investment company is most likely a private hedge fund or something much like it. It's all about ALWAYS making _some_ money, instead of striving for some largely intangible and unobtainable long-term position, or shorting the shit out of a dying company to make that quick dollar and 1-time bonus for the investor. Rich people pay funds lots of money in management fees to invest like this because they will ALWAYS be making money, instead of just on booms.
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If you use edit-and-continue in anything other than VB, you sir, are crazy.
In C++ it's just asking for trouble and in c# it barely works correctly. It's easier and safer to just kill the app and start over. However, in VB it seems to work pretty well. I especially like the immediate window.
This is pretty well known. But I would hardly consider the difference between a 15k rpm drive and a 7200 rpm drive "artificial".
Plus, everyone knows Quantam drives were total crap.
Unfairly moderated down!
Well as long as someone is around.
Wow, all this speculation. When windows refreshes like that it's because you changed a "system" setting, and set a "systemchanged" event. This causes applications that support it to refresh their settings from whatever store they have them in.
This happens when you say, change your proxy settings (on or off, hit apply - bang, a refresh).
Whether there are different codes (which could correspond to manufacturing facilities, amongst other things) - it still applies that you can reflash 40 hp out of the 1.8t, no mechanical changes. It increases the aggressiveness of the timing curve, increases booost, and increases fuel flow rates. Those things alone (computer-controlled) are enough to increase the power. Most turbo-charged cars have turbines with trim rates that flow a lot more than what the engine "needs" because it gives the auto manufacturer more leeway in tuning the engine. Thus, just turning up the boost (electronically) is not only feasible, but easy.
But, of course, you knew that, didn't you?
Well, actually, the 200sx is a Sentra, and they are both B14 chassis cars.
The 200sx can be gotten with an SR20DE (SE-R), which is the best 4 cylinder to have come out of Nissan (or many other manufacturers for that matter). You want an upgrade? Do a JDM SR20DET swap into an SE-R 200sx and have fun. (200whp 2.0l turbo fun!)
Nissan is now the parts-bin king of the auto world.
If you pull a gun out, you had better be using it to kill. Not only are you putting yourself, and everyone else around in GREATER danger when you pull the gun (what if he takes it), but "shooting to wound" will land you in a heap more trouble than just killing the person.
Also, in my state in particular (Texas), if you have a concealed carry license - multiple shots are VERY MUCH looked down upon. You shoot to kill on the first shot, period.
Guns are nothing to be lax with or about. Pulling a gun will automatically trigger the attacker's fight-or-flight, and if you don't seriously wound or kill them you may end up on the wrong end of that barrel.
You do not shoot them three, or four times in the chest "because it didn't stop them". You shoot them once through the heart and be done with it. There's a reason that our CCL requires the holder to be certified on a particular type of gun, as well as using the SAME gun during training that they wish to carry with the license. It's required accuracy so that shoot to kill does it the first time. doing otherwise is dangerous and ignorant.
I live in downtown Dallas, walk around alone in the dark, ride a $1300 dollar bike all over the place, and have never had any problems at all. However, having lived in suburban "paradise" I have had a gun pulled on me twice, have been jumped once, and have been generally harassed more than a few times.
What's the difference?
I grew up. I look at people differently, and travel with an air of confidence. That makes a hell of a lot more of a difference than your zip code. Someone who's never actually been in a dangerous will simply never understand how much standing up straight and making sure people know you see everything going on around you makes.
Guayan, South America. If you own a hand gun in that country, you are legally required to carry it AT ALL TIMES.
To prevent theft, of the gun.
He would have to know some honest-to-goodness women for that to happen!
A LOT. But I live and work in downtown Dallas, so my perception might be skewed a little bit.
Regardless - that's kind of a bad example anyway. Armani suits, Rolex watches, Ferraris - those are well beyond the means of the average "fashionable" user. A better comparison is to look at the "A&F" set. You know, all those kids (I use the term loosely) that have enough money to buy clothes plastered with "Abercrombie" or "Old Navy" or whatnot - because it's fashionable, and ATTAINABLE. The iPod is both, and so it aligns neatly with that set.
I am practically crying, this is the funniest thing I've read all morning.
They still do diss it. General business was meant for secretaries and assistants. MIS doesn't give you enough on theory or technicality from CS or business.
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Your ability to manuever politcally has nothing to do with MIS over CS. I have managed to not only keep a job for the last five years (through quarterly 5-35% layoffs), but recieved an offer to increase my pay by 33% when I left for my current job, at an 82% increase with insurance paid, free lunches, etc.
Like I said, some of us are still dissing it.
I'll venture to guess that you're out of shape. Doesn't take a PhD to figure that out.
Exchange is just a hacked IMAP server. Check out www.bynari.com for a commercial-but-mostly-open-source-based replacement for it.
.NET is a an abomination, but MFC is "pretty well done"? You have got to be kidding me. MFC is a pile of shit. MFC = Messy Fucking Code
You are so on the money with that. I've lived in south Texas, Houston (17yrs), Nacogdoches (7yrs), and now Dallas (1yr). Dallas women are so fucking stuck on themselves it's ridiculous - and SMU in your backyard doesn't help.
Packet-writing FAT32, ugh.
Umm, you have to either ship a seperate language DLL for that, or you have to ship a new exe (depending on whether the string tables were in it or the dll). A localized version.
And it's not as easy as "changing some string table entries in the exe". Some language families use fixed-with fonts for english, making it very hard to make sure your dialogs, etc. are sized properly in that language.
You also have to worry about "unsupported" characters in some language versions when you're using anything that's not unicode (CString anyone?). Certain characters (like some Japanese chars) have 0 value first bytes for wide characters. This fucks all kinds of stuff up.
Sure, you can change the text of the language - but single-byte ASCII apps will NEVER run properly on multi-byte versions of the OS unless the language you use is single-byte. EFIGS only, and only certain fonts and sizes. So what's the point? Perhaps this is something _better_ than that shit. Windows NT based systems are all unicode internally, and AFAIK all the stuff that an NT build consists of is unicode. Translations are a lot easier.
Then tell him to buy a fucking cell phone.
That's why you use a handful of well-defined and strictly used prefixes.
s - struct
a - array
str - string (stl)
sz - string (c)
csz - CString
etc. Making up new prefixes for everything is just about as useful as not using them at all.
IMS - Information Management System, a heirarchical database created by IBM in the dark ages of computing. Instead of having relationships in the fashion of a RDBMS, the entire IMS database is a bunch of lists, of lists, of lists, of lists, where any list can be part of any other list at any time. We studied this in a database class in school, and even got a chance to play around with a live system (or something based on the same principal, as what we used ran under VMS).
For some types of "queries" it is really incredibly powerful, but it is not very good at building very complex relationships.
This investment may or may not be a death-spiral. Just because the conversion ratio isn't variable (a "distressed investment") doesn't mean it isn't a death spiral. DIs are the true hawks, they will issue you a convertible bond (give you a loan) with VERY questionable terms. Usually on the terms that the lower the stock price goes, the more stock the loan issuer can convert to. Once the price is low enough - you can convert enough stock to own the company and liquidate it. Companies avoid this unless all other methods of credit have been exhausted. If you recieve a distressed investment bond, if you don't pull out of the gutter your assets WILL be liquidated. Period. No fund wants to keep running ownership of your failed company.
Private placements are not usually used the same way, but can be. In this case, they feel that there is enough risk involved in the investment that they are going to "hedge" their investment. Hedging, simply put, is managing the amount of risk (how much money you stand to lose) by creating "synthetic" investment instruments. (Usually a collection of like instruments / positions such that when combined can be viewed as one position/instrument)
It makes perfect sense - you invest X dollars in a company, which is worth Y shares (as a convertible bond). You then short X-Y (delta) shares on the open market. To really make it obvious you should just look at a delta-hedge example graph. The bond has a value curve based on stock price, and the short has a value curve based on stock price.. there's a delta you strive to maintain to keep making cash off it.
Now, the higher the stock price goes, the lower the short is worth to you - but you still make money. The lower the price falls, the less the bond is worth to you, but the more the short is worth - you still make money. You make money on VOLATILITY ALONE, not the absolute values of the bonds or stock prices. As long as the market is moving, you are making money. This is delta-hedging, and the difficult part is find the delta such that when the market moves (in either direction) you make money.
This is a fairly sophisticated investment strategy, and this investment company is most likely a private hedge fund or something much like it. It's all about ALWAYS making _some_ money, instead of striving for some largely intangible and unobtainable long-term position, or shorting the shit out of a dying company to make that quick dollar and 1-time bonus for the investor. Rich people pay funds lots of money in management fees to invest like this because they will ALWAYS be making money, instead of just on booms.
that the NT and NTFS teams would allow the SQL Server group to take such a huge chunk of control from them? You've got to be kidding me! The filesystem will not be anything new. The SQL guys at MS have been trying to move to a DB FS for a while, but let's face it - the performance will absolutely SUCK. At most, this is SQL server for metadata slapped "on top of" NTFS, period.