We have guy in our office who is a egotistical bastard. He thinks the world of himself and thinks everybody else is a retard (and frequently says so).
He spend half his day yapping the other half coding like a madman. The problem is that although he has read just about every book on software development he has never really produced a piece of software that was exceptional. Just so so programs that occationally crash for no reason. His programs are so badly designed he has to recompile and re-ship the entire application just to make configuration change (I guess he never read that you should have external configuration files).
The point of the story is that there is no equivalence between ego and quality code. This asshole is the most senior programmer but puts out half assed code and blames everybody else when things go wrong.
I remember the inventor of C# dismissing ORM as an overhyped solution in search of a problem. It seems like the.NET programmers don't really see value in an ORM solution. For example if you look at petstore application that MS wrote in.NET it's all recordset based. In fact all the SQL was generated on the client side IIRC.
The java people are all gung ho about ORM but the MS people don't seem to value it all that highly.
It's not nuance. They are anti federalists when it suits the republican party and pro federalists when it suits the republican party. Just look at the last election for an excellent example of that. A supreme court that was rabidly anti federalist intervened in florida, overrode their supreme court and said "this case can never be used as a precedent we reserve the right to back to our anti federalist position once we get our boy into office"
Well since Israel insists on running an apartheid govt you'd expect that wouldn't you?
I mean sure the palestenians act up and kill a few hundred people israelis a year but that does not compare to israel killing a few thousand palestenians, wounding thousands, arresting tens of thousands and torturing who knows how many.
I suppose the palestenians have the option of shutting up and sitting down but historically humans (especially arabs) have been very difficult to domesticate.
Kerry was in Ohio and he took questions from the audience. Some of them were downright hostile. They asked him about his war record, his supposed flip flopping, his record on the senate. Nothing was cencored, nothing was off the table. He answered every question till the people ran out of questions.
"People protesting and hacking in the name of the democratic party is only going to piss off the undecided people."
Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit. The freepers don't piss of the undecided, republicans calling democrats traitors does not piss off the undecided, the republicans calling democrats un american does not piss off the undecided and republicans saying that Kerry shot himself on purpose so he could get a purple heart don't piss off the undecided.
Attacking your enemy with everything you have actually pleases the undecided. They want somebody with convictions who is willing to fight for their convictions.
BTW get off that "party of McCain" shit. GW called McCain a failure and the republican party actually put our literature saying the McCain was not a war hero because he got captured and didn't accomplish his mission. They ran ads in NY saying McCain opposed breast cancer research!.
They love McCain when McCain is bashing democrats but they don't hesitate to call him an unpatriotic coward when he dares to run against Bush.
Republican party is no more the party of mccain then they are "compassionate".
"This amounts to nothing more than bully tactics that I might expect from other Political Parties, but not from mine."
And I think this is exactly why democrats will end up being losers. The republicans know that you are not willing to get down into the slime with them so they smack you with everything they have while you sit there with a shit eating grin congratulating yourself on how you are not as bad as they are.
Until you guys are willing to become as loathsome and downright evil as David Horowitz, Ann Coulter, BIll Oreilly or Rush Limbaugh you will continue to get spanked and humiliated in public.
I think that it's a given the supreme court is definately republican. Since they are the "last hope" of any case it's pretty accurate to say that the republicans are in conrol of the judicial branch too.
Could you please post a link to the free access runtime. I didn't know such a thing was out there.
Does this mean I can write access applications and distribute them to anybody I like for free? If so that's way too cool. I bet I can convince my company to stop paying for access on every desktop just to use a stupid application written by an employee.
Rekall looks looks real nice. Do you have real word experience with it? It actually looks like a contender for access replacement with a better programming language. If it works then it's the best kept secret in open source.
MS will relase a thousand press releases about how "innovative" their services is. If the govt tries to intervene they will complain that govt regulations are preventing them from "innovating" apple's ideas and technologies.
THis has nothing to with profit. They have a monopoly, they can (and do) subsidize most of their business units with their monopoloy profits from office and windows. This has to with "cutting off the air supply" of apple. The idea is to destroy the competition not to make a profit.
Having said that the profit will come in later. If MS is able to leverage their current monopoly to gain a monopoly in online music distribution they will be just like the RIAA. They will be able to charge everytime anybody buys music. They have been able to leverage one monopoly to gain another one in the past so it's certainsly doable.
The only question remaining is what will the governments do about it. My guess is "not much"
If you can read that quote and not be disturbed then there is something wrong with you. he could have said any number of things but he chose to say that god speaks through him. That his words are those of gods.
BTW even if he believes that " he is following Gods will" he does not not belong as the president of a democracy.
Virtually everybody in govt is a christian, and yet not all of them believe that god speaks through them. Not all of them have one on one conversations with god where god tells them to go and kill iraqis and al-quada. I have not heard one of them say that god told them to run and the god told them to go to war.
There is something profoundly disturbing about the president of the United States thinking that God is speaking to them and telling them to conduct affairs of war and peace.
It is right. That's the exact fucking quote ya moron. He also said things like "god told me to run for president" and ""God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did.".
"While you may still disagree with the true quote"
That was the true quote and I do disagree with him. I don't want a president that hears voices in his head. Do you?
"you cannot deny that it has a different meaning that what you're implying with your redaction."
What other meaning is there? What is your interpretation of that quote especially when taken in the context of all of his other mutterings about god and jesus.
"The truth isn't good enough for the Democrats, they must twist it into the shape they want it to be."
There is no twisting. He actually said those words. He said it in front of journalists who dutifully wrote it all down.
"Is your fear of Bush so much that you must actively engage in the same tactics you despise the opposition for?"
In a word yes. Kerry never said "god speaks through me". Those words alone should put deep fear and shame into the heart of every right thinking American.
Kerry is an asshole, he is boring, stupid and bundering. I am going to vote for him anyway.
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We have guy in our office who is a egotistical bastard. He thinks the world of himself and thinks everybody else is a retard (and frequently says so).
He spend half his day yapping the other half coding like a madman. The problem is that although he has read just about every book on software development he has never really produced a piece of software that was exceptional. Just so so programs that occationally crash for no reason. His programs are so badly designed he has to recompile and re-ship the entire application just to make configuration change (I guess he never read that you should have external configuration files).
The point of the story is that there is no equivalence between ego and quality code. This asshole is the most senior programmer but puts out half assed code and blames everybody else when things go wrong.
According to Budha being ego less makes you a better human being. Reason enough methinks.
I remember the inventor of C# dismissing ORM as an overhyped solution in search of a problem. It seems like the .NET programmers don't really see value in an ORM solution. For example if you look at petstore application that MS wrote in .NET it's all recordset based. In fact all the SQL was generated on the client side IIRC.
The java people are all gung ho about ORM but the MS people don't seem to value it all that highly.
Well that and IT'S A FUCKING TV SHOW!.
Little things like that.
It's not nuance. They are anti federalists when it suits the republican party and pro federalists when it suits the republican party. Just look at the last election for an excellent example of that. A supreme court that was rabidly anti federalist intervened in florida, overrode their supreme court and said "this case can never be used as a precedent we reserve the right to back to our anti federalist position once we get our boy into office"
Well since Israel insists on running an apartheid govt you'd expect that wouldn't you?
I mean sure the palestenians act up and kill a few hundred people israelis a year but that does not compare to israel killing a few thousand palestenians, wounding thousands, arresting tens of thousands and torturing who knows how many.
I suppose the palestenians have the option of shutting up and sitting down but historically humans (especially arabs) have been very difficult to domesticate.
Yes.
Kerry was in Ohio and he took questions from the audience. Some of them were downright hostile. They asked him about his war record, his supposed flip flopping, his record on the senate. Nothing was cencored, nothing was off the table. He answered every question till the people ran out of questions.
That's real balls.
"People protesting and hacking in the name of the democratic party is only going to piss off the undecided people."
Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit. The freepers don't piss of the undecided, republicans calling democrats traitors does not piss off the undecided, the republicans calling democrats un american does not piss off the undecided and republicans saying that Kerry shot himself on purpose so he could get a purple heart don't piss off the undecided.
Attacking your enemy with everything you have actually pleases the undecided. They want somebody with convictions who is willing to fight for their convictions.
BTW get off that "party of McCain" shit. GW called McCain a failure and the republican party actually put our literature saying the McCain was not a war hero because he got captured and didn't accomplish his mission. They ran ads in NY saying McCain opposed breast cancer research!.
They love McCain when McCain is bashing democrats but they don't hesitate to call him an unpatriotic coward when he dares to run against Bush.
Republican party is no more the party of mccain then they are "compassionate".
"This amounts to nothing more than bully tactics that I might expect from other Political Parties, but not from mine."
And I think this is exactly why democrats will end up being losers. The republicans know that you are not willing to get down into the slime with them so they smack you with everything they have while you sit there with a shit eating grin congratulating yourself on how you are not as bad as they are.
Until you guys are willing to become as loathsome and downright evil as David Horowitz, Ann Coulter, BIll Oreilly or Rush Limbaugh you will continue to get spanked and humiliated in public.
I think that it's a given the supreme court is definately republican. Since they are the "last hope" of any case it's pretty accurate to say that the republicans are in conrol of the judicial branch too.
Mmmm. The grandparent said it was free. I'll look into how much it costs.
Could you please post a link to the free access runtime. I didn't know such a thing was out there.
Does this mean I can write access applications and distribute them to anybody I like for free? If so that's way too cool. I bet I can convince my company to stop paying for access on every desktop just to use a stupid application written by an employee.
No no no. You missed the point of the post. He wants something for free to replace something he paid money for.
He wants a handout not a to do list.
Rekall looks looks real nice. Do you have real word experience with it? It actually looks like a contender for access replacement with a better programming language. If it works then it's the best kept secret in open source.
You forgot.
MS will relase a thousand press releases about how "innovative" their services is. If the govt tries to intervene they will complain that govt regulations are preventing them from "innovating" apple's ideas and technologies.
THis has nothing to with profit. They have a monopoly, they can (and do) subsidize most of their business units with their monopoloy profits from office and windows. This has to with "cutting off the air supply" of apple. The idea is to destroy the competition not to make a profit.
Having said that the profit will come in later. If MS is able to leverage their current monopoly to gain a monopoly in online music distribution they will be just like the RIAA. They will be able to charge everytime anybody buys music. They have been able to leverage one monopoly to gain another one in the past so it's certainsly doable.
The only question remaining is what will the governments do about it. My guess is "not much"
Hell just put a 486 and dos on it. I have lots of great dos programs I could run on a small PC including some of my favorite games.
You know it's roughly the same dimentions as a 12" powerbook. It probably costs about the same too.
Something to think about.
If you can read that quote and not be disturbed then there is something wrong with you. he could have said any number of things but he chose to say that god speaks through him. That his words are those of gods.
BTW even if he believes that " he is following Gods will" he does not not belong as the president of a democracy.
Virtually everybody in govt is a christian, and yet not all of them believe that god speaks through them. Not all of them have one on one conversations with god where god tells them to go and kill iraqis and al-quada. I have not heard one of them say that god told them to run and the god told them to go to war.
There is something profoundly disturbing about the president of the United States thinking that God is speaking to them and telling them to conduct affairs of war and peace.
In actuality exchange does not do much. It's outlook that does all the heavy lifting.
If you want to replace exchange look to replace outlook first.
" Please get Bush's quote right"
It is right. That's the exact fucking quote ya moron. He also said things like "god told me to run for president" and ""God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did.".
"While you may still disagree with the true quote"
That was the true quote and I do disagree with him. I don't want a president that hears voices in his head. Do you?
"you cannot deny that it has a different meaning that what you're implying with your redaction."
What other meaning is there? What is your interpretation of that quote especially when taken in the context of all of his other mutterings about god and jesus.
"The truth isn't good enough for the Democrats, they must twist it into the shape they want it to be."
There is no twisting. He actually said those words. He said it in front of journalists who dutifully wrote it all down.
5K desktops does not seem like that big of a number to me. Didn't they already sign a deal for 100K desktops someplace?
Don't get me wrong. I am glad there are 5K more linux desktops in the world but Sun was hinting at much bigger numbers.
"Is your fear of Bush so much that you must actively engage in the same tactics you despise the opposition for?"
In a word yes. Kerry never said "god speaks through me". Those words alone should put deep fear and shame into the heart of every right thinking American.
Kerry is an asshole, he is boring, stupid and bundering. I am going to vote for him anyway.
"True. Iraq was arguably an actual threat,"
really? To who?
"Saddam's abuses were far worse than Slobo's."
Not nearly as bad as china, north korea, liberia, sudan, chechnia, or even the what's happening in palestine.
Too bad none of those people deserve freedom like the iraqis do. maybe if they had somethign we wanted.
"The top 25% of taxpayers pay 83% [ntu.org] of the taxes. "
Holy shit. The top 25% of the taxpayers in this country control virtually 99% of the wealth and yet they only pay 83% of the taxes.
Nice...