Impose restrictions on the use of telephones, mobile phones, email, snail mail, playgounds, school yards, and public transportation because obviously these are also a channel for sexual predators to operate on.
The end of innovation on the web will not be a lack of ideas, it will be a clusterfuck of political red tape.
Does this sound familiar to anyone? Placing financial gain over product value? Perhaps the development staff at Microsoft is sick of being the bain of every Windows/Linux users mind and wants to ensure this is a quality product.
Perhaps the previous (now fired) managers felt that understanding. Of course though, once the board of directors, none of whom probably do anything remotely challenging on a computer, have their say, heads will roll if they don't see a bottom line increase on their balance sheets.
When the first security holes are spotted in Vista, and corporate takes the heat, I hope they remember this move on their behalf to speed up the development so they could make an extra buck instead of releasing a quality product.
....that this article was written by a very narrow-minded individual. His ancestors were probably busy bashing Alexander Graham Bell and Henry Ford in the local papers during their generation also.
Cheers to this guy for surving cancer, but the article states in the footnote that the author is the owner of this business. He also continues to drone on about the employees obligation to his/her employer explains itself if you start from the bottom of the article.
If you are reading this article, I strongly suggest you read the following before listening to anything at all this guy has to offer, especially his request that you "look for another job". That is completely ludicrous.
Another great pre-space-shot quote:
"What an incredible Cinderella story, this unknown comes outta no where to lead the pack, at Augusta. He's on his final hole, he's about 455 yards away - he's gonna hit about a two-iron I think. Oh he got all of that one! The crowd is standing on its feet here, the normally reserved Augusta crowd - going wild - for this young Cinderella, he's come outta no where, he's got about 350 yards left, he's gonna hit about a five-iron, don't you think? He's got a beautiful backswing - that's - Oh he got all of that one! He's gotta be pleased with that, the crowd is just on its feet here, uh - He's the Cinderella boy, uh - tears in his eyes I guess as he lines up this last shot, he's got about 195 yards left, he's got about a - its looks like he's got about an eight-iron. This crowd has gone deathly silent, the Cinderella story, outta no where, a former greenskeeper now - about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac - It's in the Hole!"
Would be great if just before making his shot he could repeat this quote:
"So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking. So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga... gunga, gunga-galunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice."
It all depends who you talk to. I always try to answer that question with the fact it depends more on the programmer, than on the programming language. Do you really think Napster or Kazaa or MySpace have really great, elegantly written functions and well-maintained code when they were started? Probably not, but it was the idea of what to do with the programming language that made it great. You'll find a much bigger gap between the innovative minds of two programmers than the difference between two programming languages. Just pick one or the other and go with it.
Honestly, I have been developing web applications for some time and granted I use C#, but I've never been opposed to someone using Java, or PHP, or Oracle. My personal experience has been that every language has a slight edge in some regard, but they all do the same thing. There is a much greater difference in the talent of programmers than in the language being used.
If you pitted Steven Hawking in an Enzo Ferrari vs. Michael Schumaker in a Ford Taurus, who would win the race? I mean honestly. Mark me flamebait or troll I don't care, but all this Windows vs. Linux high school propaganda has got me sick of Slashdot.
The original post was a book review on developing.NET. It wasn't a, "Why anything except MS sucks" book review. Can we please stay on topic and get the ever-increasing in size chip off the linux community's shoulder? Thanks.
Also posted on digg 18 days ago:
http://www.digg.com/search?search=pandora
Be on the lookout for the article relating to how the songs get cached in the temp folder. Why even buy it? Honestly?
Times have changed. Microsoft's success can be attributed partially to the fact that IBM did not believe every home would be equiped with a personal computer. Gates seized that opportunity and made his millions.
Enter Google who is now poised to perform the same task as Bill but in different shoes and against Bill's company. Anyone who has read "The Road Ahead" (the original unmodified version) knows that Gates writes off the Internet and dismisses it similar to the way that IBM did with personal computing.
Google has taken that slip and now Microsoft is trying to play catchup. Deja Vu anyone?
Is it really a surprise if a CEO which sells PC systems and competes with Apple computer sales says he thinks they should get out of the game? Bill Gates would have said the same thing from the OS standpoint.
If he said anything else he would be criticizing his own company. Give me a break...
A chatroom full of idling operators, and intro CS students is not going to produce a technological breakthrough. Even if a question is asked, you'll likely get flamed for even thinking it was a good question after a significant amount of research.
I'd say on average, you could learn 1 small piece of information every 20 minutes. Compare that with reading a tech-journal, or a forum. Changes are the latter is going to offer a significantly better learning tool.
I agree with the others. IRC is dead, and soon, newsgroups will be too. Web-based forums will take over that just as web-based chat has overtaken IRC. I can get twice as much information in half the time just reading a coding website forum.
Must have been a "slow news day" for Wired.
For those of us who have worked with ASP.net via.NET Framework 1.1 all of us have been painfully aware of the drawbacks:
- Manual compilation before every execution
- Slow debugging (IIS needs to be restarted to attach to the aspnet_wp process)
- Poorly defined/loose html elements
- Redundant programming/lack of controls (if you didn't take time to roll your own)
- No cross-page posting
Fortunately all these issues have been addressed:
- Pre-compilation
- No need to define html element values as protected
- Thin webserver program for viewing applications (improves debugging)
- Role management out of the box
- 45 new server controls
- Cross-page posting
- Whidbey performance enhancements
Also, to all the Java/PHP fans (myself included) out there, be sure to give this product/platform some serious respect. It is amazing.
"which studied the compensation and bonuses of 14,253 IT workers"
Where were these workers located? Do they all work for the same company? Are they outsourced workers? Perhaps the people responding to this are paid less because they have so much free time they can fill out this stupid survey by request.
Did any engineers at Firestone get prison time for causing hundreds of deaths? Is a security leak of information going to cause someone to spontaneously combust in a large ball of fire? How could software developers be expected to be more responsible than engineers or scientists or accountants or janitors?
Before everyone starts pointing the finger at evil Microsoft and Bill "The Devil" Gates please remember that M$ donates a boatload of it's earnings to Africa relief and disease research. They are doing their part to help 3rd world countries.
Also for those of you that RTFA, did anyone stop to think that maybe Gerald Ilukwe, the general manager of Microsoft Nigeria would know more about needs in Africa than your run of the mill Slashdot user?
Just try to analyze the whole situation before you cast of Microsoft as the evil one here. Also for those of you really interested in computing in 3rd world countries, I do enjoy reading about this invention from MIT
IMDB Bottom 100 List
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· Score: 5, Funny
How did Britney's Spears' Crossroads movie end up on IMDB's Bottom 100 list? It's like the best movie of all time! Thank God that movies like Gigli, Son of the Mask, and From Justin to Kelly aren't on this list! Oh wait, there they are....
Guess I should be on the lookout for "Legend Of Zorro" to be appearing here soon as well...
I got a little tired of Jerry Springer-esque morning radio talk shows in Chicago, so I switched to listening to audiobooks in the morning. Now, instead of feeling like I potentially lost intelligence listening to a program, I can feel productive and enlightened on the way to/from work. I use my iPod w/ the iTrip FM transmitter. Works like a charm.
In addition to the benefits of a nice commute, it's much easier on my eyes. I hate wearing reading glasses and I hate reading without them, so it's a catch-22. The audio book solves all of that. Praise be to Audible. For some reason their stock (ADBL) has been plummeting recently, and I can't figure why. Seems like a great/innovative idea.
Oddly enough, before visiting Slashdot today I visited msn.com and noticed this article which says that business executives and lawyers have very low 'prestige' in todays society and Scientists actually have a very high level of prestige
My point being that, when actions like this are taken to beat down the guy who obviously was forced to complete development on an application in 2 weeks instead of 2 months because of budget constraints because we're involved in a war we shouldn't even be in right now.... it make's me realize why that could be true.
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- You won't pay $500 for a bogus/counterfeit ticket.
- You won't have to wait 3 days in line for front row tickets.
Impose restrictions on the use of telephones, mobile phones, email, snail mail, playgounds, school yards, and public transportation because obviously these are also a channel for sexual predators to operate on. The end of innovation on the web will not be a lack of ideas, it will be a clusterfuck of political red tape.
Perhaps the previous (now fired) managers felt that understanding. Of course though, once the board of directors, none of whom probably do anything remotely challenging on a computer, have their say, heads will roll if they don't see a bottom line increase on their balance sheets.
When the first security holes are spotted in Vista, and corporate takes the heat, I hope they remember this move on their behalf to speed up the development so they could make an extra buck instead of releasing a quality product.
....that this article was written by a very narrow-minded individual. His ancestors were probably busy bashing Alexander Graham Bell and Henry Ford in the local papers during their generation also.
Cheers to this guy for surving cancer, but the article states in the footnote that the author is the owner of this business. He also continues to drone on about the employees obligation to his/her employer explains itself if you start from the bottom of the article.
If you are reading this article, I strongly suggest you read the following before listening to anything at all this guy has to offer, especially his request that you "look for another job". That is completely ludicrous.
Questions and Answers About Cancer in the Workplace and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Another great pre-space-shot quote: "What an incredible Cinderella story, this unknown comes outta no where to lead the pack, at Augusta. He's on his final hole, he's about 455 yards away - he's gonna hit about a two-iron I think. Oh he got all of that one! The crowd is standing on its feet here, the normally reserved Augusta crowd - going wild - for this young Cinderella, he's come outta no where, he's got about 350 yards left, he's gonna hit about a five-iron, don't you think? He's got a beautiful backswing - that's - Oh he got all of that one! He's gotta be pleased with that, the crowd is just on its feet here, uh - He's the Cinderella boy, uh - tears in his eyes I guess as he lines up this last shot, he's got about 195 yards left, he's got about a - its looks like he's got about an eight-iron. This crowd has gone deathly silent, the Cinderella story, outta no where, a former greenskeeper now - about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac - It's in the Hole!"
Would be great if just before making his shot he could repeat this quote:
"So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking. So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga... gunga, gunga-galunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice."
A CNN article reports that a new study has shown that U.S. tech hiring has increased, despite oversees outsourcing....
;)
Looks like writers could be the next to suffer outsourcing
It all depends who you talk to. I always try to answer that question with the fact it depends more on the programmer, than on the programming language. Do you really think Napster or Kazaa or MySpace have really great, elegantly written functions and well-maintained code when they were started? Probably not, but it was the idea of what to do with the programming language that made it great. You'll find a much bigger gap between the innovative minds of two programmers than the difference between two programming languages. Just pick one or the other and go with it.
Honestly, I have been developing web applications for some time and granted I use C#, but I've never been opposed to someone using Java, or PHP, or Oracle. My personal experience has been that every language has a slight edge in some regard, but they all do the same thing. There is a much greater difference in the talent of programmers than in the language being used. If you pitted Steven Hawking in an Enzo Ferrari vs. Michael Schumaker in a Ford Taurus, who would win the race? I mean honestly. Mark me flamebait or troll I don't care, but all this Windows vs. Linux high school propaganda has got me sick of Slashdot. The original post was a book review on developing .NET. It wasn't a, "Why anything except MS sucks" book review. Can we please stay on topic and get the ever-increasing in size chip off the linux community's shoulder? Thanks.
It's too bad our 'war' leader doesn't fall into the intelligent category either. (yes, I'm from the U.S.)
People spend too much time watching television....
People eat too much fast food....
People don't exercise enough...
oh....
And people spend too much time on the internet...
Also posted on digg 18 days ago: http://www.digg.com/search?search=pandora Be on the lookout for the article relating to how the songs get cached in the temp folder. Why even buy it? Honestly?
Enter Google who is now poised to perform the same task as Bill but in different shoes and against Bill's company. Anyone who has read "The Road Ahead" (the original unmodified version) knows that Gates writes off the Internet and dismisses it similar to the way that IBM did with personal computing.
Google has taken that slip and now Microsoft is trying to play catchup. Deja Vu anyone?
If he said anything else he would be criticizing his own company. Give me a break...
A chatroom full of idling operators, and intro CS students is not going to produce a technological breakthrough. Even if a question is asked, you'll likely get flamed for even thinking it was a good question after a significant amount of research. I'd say on average, you could learn 1 small piece of information every 20 minutes. Compare that with reading a tech-journal, or a forum. Changes are the latter is going to offer a significantly better learning tool. I agree with the others. IRC is dead, and soon, newsgroups will be too. Web-based forums will take over that just as web-based chat has overtaken IRC. I can get twice as much information in half the time just reading a coding website forum. Must have been a "slow news day" for Wired.
- Manual compilation before every execution
- Slow debugging (IIS needs to be restarted to attach to the aspnet_wp process)
- Poorly defined/loose html elements
- Redundant programming/lack of controls (if you didn't take time to roll your own)
- No cross-page posting
Fortunately all these issues have been addressed:
- Pre-compilation
- No need to define html element values as protected
- Thin webserver program for viewing applications (improves debugging)
- Role management out of the box
- 45 new server controls
- Cross-page posting
- Whidbey performance enhancements
Also, to all the Java/PHP fans (myself included) out there, be sure to give this product/platform some serious respect. It is amazing.
"which studied the compensation and bonuses of 14,253 IT workers"
Where were these workers located? Do they all work for the same company? Are they outsourced workers? Perhaps the people responding to this are paid less because they have so much free time they can fill out this stupid survey by request.
.... are made on up on the spot!
Did any engineers at Firestone get prison time for causing hundreds of deaths? Is a security leak of information going to cause someone to spontaneously combust in a large ball of fire? How could software developers be expected to be more responsible than engineers or scientists or accountants or janitors?
Also for those of you that RTFA, did anyone stop to think that maybe Gerald Ilukwe, the general manager of Microsoft Nigeria would know more about needs in Africa than your run of the mill Slashdot user?
Just try to analyze the whole situation before you cast of Microsoft as the evil one here. Also for those of you really interested in computing in 3rd world countries, I do enjoy reading about this invention from MIT
Guess I should be on the lookout for "Legend Of Zorro" to be appearing here soon as well...
In addition to the benefits of a nice commute, it's much easier on my eyes. I hate wearing reading glasses and I hate reading without them, so it's a catch-22. The audio book solves all of that. Praise be to Audible. For some reason their stock (ADBL) has been plummeting recently, and I can't figure why. Seems like a great/innovative idea.
My point being that, when actions like this are taken to beat down the guy who obviously was forced to complete development on an application in 2 weeks instead of 2 months because of budget constraints because we're involved in a war we shouldn't even be in right now.... it make's me realize why that could be true.