These days, Mono plus Wine would be the perfect transition tool: Wine because a lot of third party libraries for.NET use P/Invoke. Unfortunately, there's no Mono-Wine bridge, so that's currently impossible.
Other than that, if you use NHibernate, you don't have to worry about using MS SQL; you can swap out with Postgres or MySQL easily. And then it's just a matter of Mono's completeness.
The first thing to do is check the commit logs to find who added that code. Then you ask him about it. After that, you can contact the forum poster if necessary -- though it might be the coworker, which is a degenerate case.
Living in a democracy isn't a privilege; it's illegal to deport me to Cuba [I am not a Cuban citizen nor have I ever been to Cuba].
Unless you're saying that I could easily be deported to Cuba against my will, in which case I would claim that that's an indication that we're in a police state rather than a democracy.
In Washington state, it's illegal to require an employee to sign a new noncompete agreement after they've started employment, if the consequence of not signing is termination. You can require an employee to sign in order to get a raise or a promotion or so forth, but not just to keep their job.
Of course, if they really want you to sign, they can write you up for every minor infraction and then fire you inside a week. Unless you're an exemplary employee, you can't really stop your employer from firing you on a whim.
Of course, I suspect the main cause for the various posts reacting against her point is an underlying, subtle sexism that still pervades male nerd culture, combined with a "holier-than-thou" insistence that it could not possibly invade such a "rational" group of people. Thus, the need for people to jump up and quickly rationalize away any such sexism when it inevitably comes to the surface. In my experience, people who think they are rational are often the least rational of all.
No; it's just a matter of laziness: when one pronoun works in 95% of cases and the majority of the remainder ignores pronoun misuse online, we don't want to bother with the extra two seconds to assuage the remaining 0.5%, and we react negatively to those who say we should spend our time on those people. Not in an angry "gtfo" manner, but in a manner of "This is why we act like this, and we don't see a reason to change". We're geeks, so the "and you should argue with us if you have a compelling reason for us to act differently" is omitted.
Yes; you need to print them on card stock, though, and they won't be shiny with most paper that you use (and the ink will run on the shiny paper if you're not careful).
You also need to have some care in aligning the front and back parts, and if you want a good product, corners will be a bit difficult.
It's more trouble than it's worth to most people, though. But if you had a good printer with an attached cutter and you could just click a few buttons to print out your desired deck, you'd see that happening rather often, most likely. And if good Warhammer 40k miniature templates were available, and everyone had these 3d printers, you'd see the same thing there.
Let me get this straight: you think that a document format should be compatible with MS formats? Isn't this an application-level thing? What groundbreakingly useful features can be expressed in OOXML and not ODF?
What makes a project non-commercial? If one unemployed guy runs a project that 99 developers from Red Hat contribute to, is the project non-commercial? Conversely, if a Red Hat developer submits a ten-line patch to a project, is that then a commercial project?
With FLOSS, it's not useful to talk of a project as commercial or noncommercial in most cases. The distribution can be commercial or noncommercial, though. So if I create a project in the EU, never get any money for it, and it gets distributed with Suse (for instance), Suse's commercial and their distribution of my code is commercial.
What the courts decide is something else entirely, and I look forward to hearing from them.
A company that sells and services printers used to make state IDs has the secret service on speed dial. So if you get a random person calling up and asking for drivers for a particular unit, and you know that one of them has been stolen recently, and the guy is calling from a private line, you put him on hold and call the feds.
Well, they could just, y'know, PURGE the data once it's been transferred to the central servers. Still need encryption for the duration of each trip, but that's a much smaller potential loss.
If you can't handle it, port the application to a more recent version of Windows.
If the application is sixteen years old, it should have system requirements that would be considered trivial by today's standards, so virtualization or emulation shouldn't cause as much of a performance hit. Instead, the application would perform as if it had been written today.
If the thought of typing in $\frac{n}{B}\sigma^2$ instead of hunting through menus and pages of symbols doesn't appeal to you, you can use LyX or OpenOffice as well. I'm not terribly impressed with OO Math at first glance, though.
Is the BBC a business? No. Should it then be constrained by what is good business sense and alienate 4% of voters? Especially since they can support just about everyone using a cross-platform client that only takes slightly more effort in QA?
It's not persistent *across* reboots, but *between* them. So you copy 5000 files and reboot and copy another 5000 and reboot...do that as much as you want and it's fine. But try it without the reboot, and you still crash.
In 1992, the only people using Linux were those willing to code entire operating systems.
In 2003, it was still the computer nerds, and generally the more extreme ones, using Linux.
Now, I'm seeing people who aren't computer nerds, but are still technically minded, using Linux.
In another five years, I suspect that, for anyone who could overcome the interface differences between two operating systems, it'll be a matter of which desktop environment they like most.
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These days, Mono plus Wine would be the perfect transition tool: Wine because a lot of third party libraries for .NET use P/Invoke. Unfortunately, there's no Mono-Wine bridge, so that's currently impossible.
Other than that, if you use NHibernate, you don't have to worry about using MS SQL; you can swap out with Postgres or MySQL easily. And then it's just a matter of Mono's completeness.
The first thing to do is check the commit logs to find who added that code. Then you ask him about it. After that, you can contact the forum poster if necessary -- though it might be the coworker, which is a degenerate case.
It's not a face, it's a rabbit making mochi.
Your elected officials are committing heinous acts. What's to stop them from electioneering? Morality?
Democracy is an AK-47 in every home.
We'd get a President who could run a successful, large company -- a damn big step up, I'd say.
Living in a democracy isn't a privilege; it's illegal to deport me to Cuba [I am not a Cuban citizen nor have I ever been to Cuba].
Unless you're saying that I could easily be deported to Cuba against my will, in which case I would claim that that's an indication that we're in a police state rather than a democracy.
If it's just US elections, give me the million and I'll set myself up in British Columbia.
In Washington state, it's illegal to require an employee to sign a new noncompete agreement after they've started employment, if the consequence of not signing is termination. You can require an employee to sign in order to get a raise or a promotion or so forth, but not just to keep their job.
Of course, if they really want you to sign, they can write you up for every minor infraction and then fire you inside a week. Unless you're an exemplary employee, you can't really stop your employer from firing you on a whim.
Of course, I suspect the main cause for the various posts reacting against her point is an underlying, subtle sexism that still pervades male nerd culture, combined with a "holier-than-thou" insistence that it could not possibly invade such a "rational" group of people. Thus, the need for people to jump up and quickly rationalize away any such sexism when it inevitably comes to the surface. In my experience, people who think they are rational are often the least rational of all.
No; it's just a matter of laziness: when one pronoun works in 95% of cases and the majority of the remainder ignores pronoun misuse online, we don't want to bother with the extra two seconds to assuage the remaining 0.5%, and we react negatively to those who say we should spend our time on those people. Not in an angry "gtfo" manner, but in a manner of "This is why we act like this, and we don't see a reason to change". We're geeks, so the "and you should argue with us if you have a compelling reason for us to act differently" is omitted.Yes; you need to print them on card stock, though, and they won't be shiny with most paper that you use (and the ink will run on the shiny paper if you're not careful).
You also need to have some care in aligning the front and back parts, and if you want a good product, corners will be a bit difficult.
It's more trouble than it's worth to most people, though. But if you had a good printer with an attached cutter and you could just click a few buttons to print out your desired deck, you'd see that happening rather often, most likely. And if good Warhammer 40k miniature templates were available, and everyone had these 3d printers, you'd see the same thing there.
Let me get this straight: you think that a document format should be compatible with MS formats? Isn't this an application-level thing? What groundbreakingly useful features can be expressed in OOXML and not ODF?
With FLOSS, it's not useful to talk of a project as commercial or noncommercial in most cases. The distribution can be commercial or noncommercial, though. So if I create a project in the EU, never get any money for it, and it gets distributed with Suse (for instance), Suse's commercial and their distribution of my code is commercial.
What the courts decide is something else entirely, and I look forward to hearing from them.
A company that sells and services printers used to make state IDs has the secret service on speed dial. So if you get a random person calling up and asking for drivers for a particular unit, and you know that one of them has been stolen recently, and the guy is calling from a private line, you put him on hold and call the feds.
Well, they could just, y'know, PURGE the data once it's been transferred to the central servers. Still need encryption for the duration of each trip, but that's a much smaller potential loss.
If you can't handle it, port the application to a more recent version of Windows.
If the application is sixteen years old, it should have system requirements that would be considered trivial by today's standards, so virtualization or emulation shouldn't cause as much of a performance hit. Instead, the application would perform as if it had been written today.
I take it they're not referring to this MinWin?
Have you seen the new equation editor it TeX?
If the thought of typing in $\frac{n}{B}\sigma^2$ instead of hunting through menus and pages of symbols doesn't appeal to you, you can use LyX or OpenOffice as well. I'm not terribly impressed with OO Math at first glance, though.
Is the BBC a business? No. Should it then be constrained by what is good business sense and alienate 4% of voters? Especially since they can support just about everyone using a cross-platform client that only takes slightly more effort in QA?
I thought Novell defined Evolution....
But in Soviet America, Microsoft brings patent suit against you!
+++ Out of Cheese Error +++
From Discworld. A magical computer powered by ants issued that error occasionally, along with a Divide By Cucumber error.
It's not persistent *across* reboots, but *between* them. So you copy 5000 files and reboot and copy another 5000 and reboot...do that as much as you want and it's fine. But try it without the reboot, and you still crash.
So if a flight enters US airspace 72 hours before it departs, in that case it would need to provide a passenger manifest?
I for one welcome our new time-retardant airline overlords.
In other words, Microsoft is slowly catching up with the rest of the operating systems.
In 1992, the only people using Linux were those willing to code entire operating systems.
In 2003, it was still the computer nerds, and generally the more extreme ones, using Linux.
Now, I'm seeing people who aren't computer nerds, but are still technically minded, using Linux.
In another five years, I suspect that, for anyone who could overcome the interface differences between two operating systems, it'll be a matter of which desktop environment they like most.