You completely missed the meaning of my last sentence. I was listing groups that politicians used to scare their peoples and leverage on irrational fears. The easiest way to get their agenda through is to scare people with some evil "others". Hitler used the Jews and Bush and his European pussy servants are doing the same with the Muslims.
The causes are many and very complicated. You see, the world is a lot more complex than the Goodies/Baddies bullshit our rules try to shove down our throats. They require a lot of effort instead of this ultra-security crap.
All the scientific knowledge wasted trying to fight the consequences could be used to fight the causes. But that's way too smart for the current administration to understand.
Let's hope the next is not so stupid, but I don't foresee significant changes.
We, people of the 1st World, will be happily marching towards fascism (again) frightened of those darky, weirdy baddies with long fangs dripping blood. There were the Indians, the Jews, then the Commies, now the Muslims, tomorrow someone else.
Yeah, I have to put up with the M$ drones having an orgasm everytime the Redmond dudes "invent" some new stuff that's been around for years in the Unix world.
In the nineties, I used to be extremely annoyed for not being able to manage servers remotely because the guys were all selling NT servers all around. When the Remote Desktop thingy appeared, they were all very amazed at the cleverness of Micro$oft. One of them told me recently "go check if Linux has one of those". And I said "Yeah, it was invented some 20 years ago or something, Linux didn't even exist!".
eMusic is the world's largest retailer of independent music and the world's second-largest digital music retailer overall, offering more than 2 million tracks from more than 13,000 independent labels spanning every genre of music. A subscription-based service that allows consumers to own, not rent their music, eMusic is the largest service to sell tracks in the popular MP3 format--the only digital music format that is compatible with all digital music devices, including the iPod®.
I only use CFLs, but when I try to explain the advantages to anyone, I always hear the same bullshit "but they are more expensive!". I gave up on trying to explain how much you can save in energy and replacement costs. People simply don't want to know. I hope the EU bans incandescents into oblivion. It's incredible how irrational people can be.
Functional? Bah! That's pretty old-fashioned. Why don't you move to object oriented instead?
All my programs consist in a class. I create a lot of static methods that call each other to perform the purpose. All methods return an integer with an error code and the caller can then check the results in static variables. Easy, no?
The coolest thing about OO is that, when I create suclasses I can, with if statements, know my type, and then execute code according to it. OO rocks!
You are mistaking "activist" by "fanatic". Most people make a choice to be activists because they know more than the others, not the opposite.
Fanatics, on the other side, simply don't want to know. Their faith is above any evidence. Of course, some activists are fanatic, but let's not label everybody the same way.
Nokia is a market leader, both on client and server side. Obviously, they don't like open standards. I know they pull the "adopt the standard but change one bit so it will be incompatible" scam and get away with it because they have the dominant position.
When I was in college, the computer labs were in a ground level, incredibly old prefab building. We had a brand new 4-story building waiting for cables to be installed for years. Apparently someone found there were corruption scams involved and the thing was slowly dragging through courts while the government and the construction contractor argued about who should pay for the cables.
During a particularly hard winter we used to get to the labs at 8:00 and we could see our own breath while working inside the rooms. Some computers wouldn't start until we had warmed them enough. When it came to the point of having to tip the computers and monitors to spill the water off before starting them, one of the teachers had a fit and ordered the personnel to move everything to the new shiny, dry, empty building. Kilometers of power, network and telephone cables were simply stretched on the ground, running alongside the walls.
I can't remember if someone lost their precious data, but I can recall some computers being hopelessly ruined by water.
Guys, instead of holding up your hands, start calling your national standard bodies and bug them as most as you can with embarrassing questions. Lobby your congressmen. Lobby your EU Parliament representatives. Lobby your government, president, king, emperor, sultan, dictator, tsar, wharever. Talk to the media. Many of you should have academic connections. Lobby them too.
This outrageous corruption won't stand if it's exposed in public. All this secrecy will only work on MS favor.
Call your country's delegation and ask them why they allow to become Microsoft puppets: http://www.noooxml.org/brm
We already have an ISO standard for office documents. It's called ODF. Sorry, Microsoft you showed up too late for this fight, like you did a few times in the past. We don't need another office document standard, please start supporting ODF or else just fuck off.
I'm stuck between two teams that were supposed to collaborate.
The team A is C/C++ centric. They use open-source libraries and tools whenever they need.
The team B is composed of the typical Microsoft drones: They only consider C# or VB as valid languages, they write web apps for IIS only and they have a profound hatred for all things open-source.
I'm a strong Java advocate, but they won't listen to me. Team A because "Java is slow" or "Java is closed" or other bullshit like that. Team B, of course, because "it's not Microsoft".
Team B wants to standardize all our products in the MS platform. Our customers demand cross-platform stuff, so we will probably lose business because of that. Funny thing is that the C geeks are actually helping them.
I don't think Swing is hard to use, compared with other GUI toolkits, I think it's pretty cool.
If it looks good, well that's another thing. I think it has been improving a lot and now, a well-built Java application can run alongside with native ones, and users won't even notice.
Why do slashdotters hate Java so much? Even if they had something intelligent to say, but most of it is just prejudicial bullshit and senseless bashing.
Maybe his native language does not have a word for bigot. Mine doesn't. I would qualify someone that hates the French as "racista", meaning racist or bigot.
I risk some butthead modding me offtopic, but I will clarify your doubts. "la" is also French. It means "the" in the feminine, as in Spanish and Italian.
I know that. He was obviously trying to mix French and English but he got the singular/plural wrong. I corrected it while trying to keep the French/English mix.
Yeah, it puzzles me too. I think it's the effect of decades of conservative propaganda brainwash. In my own country most working people hate unions and strikes with all their guts.
Funny that the people I know that are more vocal against worker rights are the first to slack at the slightest opportunity.
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You completely missed the meaning of my last sentence. I was listing groups that politicians used to scare their peoples and leverage on irrational fears. The easiest way to get their agenda through is to scare people with some evil "others". Hitler used the Jews and Bush and his European pussy servants are doing the same with the Muslims.
The causes are many and very complicated. You see, the world is a lot more complex than the Goodies/Baddies bullshit our rules try to shove down our throats. They require a lot of effort instead of this ultra-security crap.
All the scientific knowledge wasted trying to fight the consequences could be used to fight the causes. But that's way too smart for the current administration to understand.
Let's hope the next is not so stupid, but I don't foresee significant changes.
We, people of the 1st World, will be happily marching towards fascism (again) frightened of those darky, weirdy baddies with long fangs dripping blood. There were the Indians, the Jews, then the Commies, now the Muslims, tomorrow someone else.
Yeah, I have to put up with the M$ drones having an orgasm everytime the Redmond dudes "invent" some new stuff that's been around for years in the Unix world.
In the nineties, I used to be extremely annoyed for not being able to manage servers remotely because the guys were all selling NT servers all around. When the Remote Desktop thingy appeared, they were all very amazed at the cleverness of Micro$oft. One of them told me recently "go check if Linux has one of those". And I said "Yeah, it was invented some 20 years ago or something, Linux didn't even exist!".
What's your point, besides the usual senseless Java bashing?
Kudos for you.
It's not a mixing problem, but a mastering problem. Albums are mastered after being mixed.
Quoting their website:
eMusic is the world's largest retailer of independent music and the world's second-largest digital music retailer overall, offering more than 2 million tracks from more than 13,000 independent labels spanning every genre of music. A subscription-based service that allows consumers to own, not rent their music, eMusic is the largest service to sell tracks in the popular MP3 format--the only digital music format that is compatible with all digital music devices, including the iPod®.
Well, While we're at it, why not deprecate the whole shit and get the problem solved for good?
I only use CFLs, but when I try to explain the advantages to anyone, I always hear the same bullshit "but they are more expensive!". I gave up on trying to explain how much you can save in energy and replacement costs. People simply don't want to know. I hope the EU bans incandescents into oblivion. It's incredible how irrational people can be.
Functional? Bah! That's pretty old-fashioned. Why don't you move to object oriented instead?
All my programs consist in a class. I create a lot of static methods that call each other to perform the purpose. All methods return an integer with an error code and the caller can then check the results in static variables. Easy, no?
The coolest thing about OO is that, when I create suclasses I can, with if statements, know my type, and then execute code according to it. OO rocks!
You are mistaking "activist" by "fanatic". Most people make a choice to be activists because they know more than the others, not the opposite.
Fanatics, on the other side, simply don't want to know. Their faith is above any evidence. Of course, some activists are fanatic, but let's not label everybody the same way.
Nokia is a market leader, both on client and server side. Obviously, they don't like open standards. I know they pull the "adopt the standard but change one bit so it will be incompatible" scam and get away with it because they have the dominant position.
When I was in college, the computer labs were in a ground level, incredibly old prefab building. We had a brand new 4-story building waiting for cables to be installed for years. Apparently someone found there were corruption scams involved and the thing was slowly dragging through courts while the government and the construction contractor argued about who should pay for the cables.
During a particularly hard winter we used to get to the labs at 8:00 and we could see our own breath while working inside the rooms. Some computers wouldn't start until we had warmed them enough. When it came to the point of having to tip the computers and monitors to spill the water off before starting them, one of the teachers had a fit and ordered the personnel to move everything to the new shiny, dry, empty building. Kilometers of power, network and telephone cables were simply stretched on the ground, running alongside the walls.
I can't remember if someone lost their precious data, but I can recall some computers being hopelessly ruined by water.
Guys, instead of holding up your hands, start calling your national standard bodies and bug them as most as you can with embarrassing questions. Lobby your congressmen. Lobby your EU Parliament representatives. Lobby your government, president, king, emperor, sultan, dictator, tsar, wharever. Talk to the media. Many of you should have academic connections. Lobby them too.
This outrageous corruption won't stand if it's exposed in public. All this secrecy will only work on MS favor.
Call your country's delegation and ask them why they allow to become Microsoft puppets:
http://www.noooxml.org/brm
We already have an ISO standard for office documents. It's called ODF. Sorry, Microsoft you showed up too late for this fight, like you did a few times in the past. We don't need another office document standard, please start supporting ODF or else just fuck off.
I'm stuck between two teams that were supposed to collaborate.
The team A is C/C++ centric. They use open-source libraries and tools whenever they need.
The team B is composed of the typical Microsoft drones: They only consider C# or VB as valid languages, they write web apps for IIS only and they have a profound hatred for all things open-source.
I'm a strong Java advocate, but they won't listen to me. Team A because "Java is slow" or "Java is closed" or other bullshit like that. Team B, of course, because "it's not Microsoft".
Team B wants to standardize all our products in the MS platform. Our customers demand cross-platform stuff, so we will probably lose business because of that. Funny thing is that the C geeks are actually helping them.
You haven't touched Java for quite a few years, haven't you?
I don't think Swing is hard to use, compared with other GUI toolkits, I think it's pretty cool.
If it looks good, well that's another thing. I think it has been improving a lot and now, a well-built Java application can run alongside with native ones, and users won't even notice.
Why do slashdotters hate Java so much? Even if they had something intelligent to say, but most of it is just prejudicial bullshit and senseless bashing.
Next time you try to FUD, choose a link that works.
Maybe his native language does not have a word for bigot. Mine doesn't. I would qualify someone that hates the French as "racista", meaning racist or bigot.
Ok, I'll pay more attention next time :-D
I risk some butthead modding me offtopic, but I will clarify your doubts. "la" is also French. It means "the" in the feminine, as in Spanish and Italian.
Unions are financially supported by workers. So, if they have funds to cover for strikes, good. It's their money, they do whatever they want with it.
About French politics, I can't argue with you, I don't know enough.
I know that. He was obviously trying to mix French and English but he got the singular/plural wrong. I corrected it while trying to keep the French/English mix.
Yeah, it puzzles me too. I think it's the effect of decades of conservative propaganda brainwash. In my own country most working people hate unions and strikes with all their guts.
Funny that the people I know that are more vocal against worker rights are the first to slack at the slightest opportunity.