Wake me up when there's only one fish left in the pond...
Did you know that diets are deadly? Health 'professionals' recommed that a 'safe' rate of loss is a pound a week. But they don't tell you that at that rate you will weigh ZERO pounds in a few years. You will be DEAD!
Gross generalization, check. Random links??? Darn, no random links, no karma for me.
This is not all research papers, but only research papers already available for free to everyone.
What? You think this site is all about facts? Fool. This is a chance for everyone to get free karma by posting their grand visions of free information and lamentations of big business and patents. Take your reality elsewhere.
So the company that is synonomous with "Blue Screen Of Death" is going to put there software in cars from the company that stands for "Fix Or Repair Daily" to build a car that won't crash?
It's a masterful plan. The car won't crash cause you'll never get it out of you driveway. And since you have the combined marketing power of MS and Ford, 95% of the population will own one.
I'm sure fanboys everywhere are rejoicing right now.
And the cryboys are also rejoicing in their own special way
New Star Wars computers fanboy: gets credit card, click, click cryboy: Waaaa, this sucks, waaaa they blew it, waaaa it's all big business, waaaa this doesn't hold a candle to [insert obscure sci-fi author here], waaa how could anyone buy this tripe, gets credit card, click, click
Nerds don't get chicks. When some nerds grow older and realize that they will never get chicks, they either: 1. Start touching little boys and girls 2. Start touching each other.
Just look at inmates, priests, and Middle Eastern men. Same thing.
So why Star Trek? Well, Star Trek fanatics are, on average, older and nerdier.
I make close to six figures. I'm on the path to be CIO of my company. A software system I built is currently deployed around the world. I've also done my fair share of travel, seen a bunch of cool places.
I also read alot. For example, ever since I was little, I've been a huge H.P.Lovecraft fan. I just can't read everything. Some things are too much of a struggle. Maybe it's some form of dyslexia or ADD, but I get by. Sure, I can't hang out in the Liberal Arts section of some college and discuss the litery style of James Joyce, but I think I'll survive.
My point was that their tests are flawed. Someone who is a master at what they're trying to test could fail because of the presentation of the questions.
Tried the demo and couldn't get past the first one. Too many words. I can handle multiple streams of information just fine, but one bloated verbose thing obviously wipes me out.
I can really see the bias now that everyone talks about. I'm perfectly fine at processing large amount of information if I can read it in chunks. But this wordy spaghetti academic writing is too confusing for me. I had a flashback to the reading comprehension sections of the tests in school where I had to read over the same paragraph a dozen times before I could figure it out. I can see how I did so awful in college, but am doing great in the real world.
So you have your opinion and I have mine. You think patent policy kills people, and I think your opinion is part of a FUD culture around here. Patents are evil, so anything bad you can say about them gives the FUDites a woody. Not that I'm saying that patents aren't evil, but people around here like the big ole bandwagons. There's alot more "me too" than there is intelligent, informed discussion. I'm waiting for an argument that patents eat babies. It's a mob culture. I think the Nazis killed the Jews because they used Microsoft and enforced copyright law.
Now, I could say that you should have some facts to back up your opinion, however, I'm too lazy to do any research myself. There's not much that I can do to crisicise your post that can't be directed back at mine. I don't care though. Heated debate, informed and civil or not, is more interesting to me than 2000 posts expressing the same opinion.
Slashdot is sounding more and more like high school jocks who pick on "nerds". (BTW, I'm not a Star Wars fan)
Actually, it's worse than that. It's people anonymously picking on themselves. Anime geeks calling Star Wars geeks losers and vice versa. The sad part is that in their minds, they really were the pathetic losers the jocks made them out to be in high school. Instead of rising above it, they sink to the same level by doing the exact same thing. And the grand tragedy of it all is that they still don't get the chicks;)
I get reward checks all the time. Me thinks you are exaggerating a bit to make for a good story. We all know how it's great fun for the little guy to bash the big corporation. All your examples seem to involve time. You have the expectation of instant service. I'm sure you waste no time in complaining about a boss who makes unreasonable demands of you.
I think the real April Fool's joke is getting people who aren't amused by the jokes to keep coming back to the site and post comments about them.
It's like going to the same store 3 dozen times in one day, buying the same shirt each time, and telling the cashier each time how much you really hate that shirt.
VC++ isn't a language. It's a language, C++, an IDE and a set of libraries including MFC.
1) code reuse is very high so LOC can remain very low
I think you're making generic comments without knowledge of the code. Just because a language is OO doesn't mean there is this magical code reuse that is lacking elsewhere. OO is about abstraction. The code reuse part is really just a myth, since good code in any language has reuse. In the C case, just create a window library that all your widget thingies call. Change the internals of that library without changing the interface specification or the contract and you have the same effect as the OO changes you're talking about.
2) features like skinning become a simple matter of loading an XML config file
Again, this has nothing to do with OO languages. Anything that has GUI and XML support can do sort of thing.
Slashdot Mirror
"I discovered a security flaw, details to follow, please give me money"
If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around to hear it, does a nerd still bitch about it?
Wake me up when there's only one fish left in the pond...
Did you know that diets are deadly? Health 'professionals' recommed that a 'safe' rate of loss is a pound a week. But they don't tell you that at that rate you will weigh ZERO pounds in a few years. You will be DEAD!
Gross generalization, check. Random links??? Darn, no random links, no karma for me.
This is not all research papers, but only research papers already available for free to everyone.
What? You think this site is all about facts? Fool.
This is a chance for everyone to get free karma by posting their grand visions of free information and lamentations of big business and patents.
Take your reality elsewhere.
I'm still trying to envision laminated women
Or get it even cheaper at Bookpool for $25.50
patch
sorry, it was just so easy
Of course, it's always a conspiracy. Cool geeks hate Lucas.
Media reports that Lucas sneezed. OMG!! LUCAS GAVE THE SIGN TO THE TERRORISTS TO BLOW UP AMERICA!!!
So the company that is synonomous with "Blue Screen Of Death" is going to put there software in cars from the company that stands for "Fix Or Repair Daily" to build a car that won't crash?
It's a masterful plan. The car won't crash cause you'll never get it out of you driveway. And since you have the combined marketing power of MS and Ford, 95% of the population will own one.
I'm sure fanboys everywhere are rejoicing right now.
And the cryboys are also rejoicing in their own special way
New Star Wars computers
fanboy: gets credit card, click, click
cryboy: Waaaa, this sucks, waaaa they blew it, waaaa it's all big business, waaaa this doesn't hold a candle to [insert obscure sci-fi author here], waaa how could anyone buy this tripe, gets credit card, click, click
Groklaw gets it right
Of course. The Register is nothing but a tech tabloid.
You think your nose is running but it snot
Oh, it's easy.
Nerds don't get chicks. When some nerds grow older and realize that they will never get chicks, they either:
1. Start touching little boys and girls
2. Start touching each other.
Just look at inmates, priests, and Middle Eastern men. Same thing.
So why Star Trek? Well, Star Trek fanatics are, on average, older and nerdier.
Flaimbait, Troll, Offtopic: you know it's true.
Jeez, you don't get it.
I make close to six figures. I'm on the path to be CIO of my company. A software system I built is currently deployed around the world. I've also done my fair share of travel, seen a bunch of cool places.
I also read alot. For example, ever since I was little, I've been a huge H.P.Lovecraft fan. I just can't read everything. Some things are too much of a struggle. Maybe it's some form of dyslexia or ADD, but I get by. Sure, I can't hang out in the Liberal Arts section of some college and discuss the litery style of James Joyce, but I think I'll survive.
My point was that their tests are flawed. Someone who is a master at what they're trying to test could fail because of the presentation of the questions.
Tried the demo and couldn't get past the first one. Too many words.
I can handle multiple streams of information just fine, but one bloated verbose thing obviously wipes me out.
I can really see the bias now that everyone talks about. I'm perfectly fine at processing large amount of information if I can read it in chunks. But this wordy spaghetti academic writing is too confusing for me. I had a flashback to the reading comprehension sections of the tests in school where I had to read over the same paragraph a dozen times before I could figure it out.
I can see how I did so awful in college, but am doing great in the real world.
So you have your opinion and I have mine.
You think patent policy kills people, and I think your opinion is part of a FUD culture around here. Patents are evil, so anything bad you can say about them gives the FUDites a woody. Not that I'm saying that patents aren't evil, but people around here like the big ole bandwagons. There's alot more "me too" than there is intelligent, informed discussion. I'm waiting for an argument that patents eat babies. It's a mob culture. I think the Nazis killed the Jews because they used Microsoft and enforced copyright law.
Now, I could say that you should have some facts to back up your opinion, however, I'm too lazy to do any research myself. There's not much that I can do to crisicise your post that can't be directed back at mine. I don't care though. Heated debate, informed and civil or not, is more interesting to me than 2000 posts expressing the same opinion.
Without looking into it further ... likely killed people
Ahhh, whenever I need my daily dose of FUD, I always know where to point my browser.
Slashdot is sounding more and more like high school jocks who pick on "nerds". (BTW, I'm not a Star Wars fan)
;)
Actually, it's worse than that. It's people anonymously picking on themselves. Anime geeks calling Star Wars geeks losers and vice versa. The sad part is that in their minds, they really were the pathetic losers the jocks made them out to be in high school. Instead of rising above it, they sink to the same level by doing the exact same thing. And the grand tragedy of it all is that they still don't get the chicks
Sounds like someone needs a life.
Such as trolling Slashdot?
"Hey babe, I post to Slashdot. Wanna come back to my place see what stuff really matters?"
Also, spend more money to eliminate speeding? Well, who pays for that? Right now speeding tickets are a source of income.
The credit never came
I get reward checks all the time. Me thinks you are exaggerating a bit to make for a good story. We all know how it's great fun for the little guy to bash the big corporation. All your examples seem to involve time. You have the expectation of instant service. I'm sure you waste no time in complaining about a boss who makes unreasonable demands of you.
I think the real April Fool's joke is getting people who aren't amused by the jokes to keep coming back to the site and post comments about them.
It's like going to the same store 3 dozen times in one day, buying the same shirt each time, and telling the cashier each time how much you really hate that shirt.
Switch it up every few years, to keep these guys on their toes and not let them get too comfortable/corrupt.
Oh, you mean like the Presidentcy?
I was wondering if he ever read revelations.
Wow, modded Insightful. I guess the Religious Right is spreading it's will to Slashdot too.
VC++ isn't a language. It's a language, C++, an IDE and a set of libraries including MFC.
1) code reuse is very high so LOC can remain very low
I think you're making generic comments without knowledge of the code. Just because a language is OO doesn't mean there is this magical code reuse that is lacking elsewhere. OO is about abstraction. The code reuse part is really just a myth, since good code in any language has reuse. In the C case, just create a window library that all your widget thingies call. Change the internals of that library without changing the interface specification or the contract and you have the same effect as the OO changes you're talking about.
2) features like skinning become a simple matter of loading an XML config file
Again, this has nothing to do with OO languages. Anything that has GUI and XML support can do sort of thing.