I don't like your reasonable tone. Microsoft didn't have hordes of dweeby hipster douches lined up to buy Windows 7 phones, so therefor Windows 7 mobile is a complete and abject failure and it's completely safe to say this a single week. If you don't agree you're a Micro$hill.
I'll tell you what. You go find a woman you find attractive, and stand outside her house at night and peep through her windows. You can even make sure her window is very close to the sidewalk so you're not on her property.
When they arrest you, you tell them if she wanted privacy she should have shut that last 1" of her curtains. Let me know how it works out for you.
No no no. It's _secret_ money these "fat cat" Republicans get from their "corporate masters". You obviously aren't up on modern smug left wing kookery.
Right wing kooks thing the government is out to get them, left wing kooks thing the evil corporations are out to get them. Same idiocy, different set of assholes.
"Some Obama fan"? This place is crawling with them. I'm surprised nobody's whipped out that ridiculous "wtf has obama done" website. That site makes me laugh. I mean printing a laundry list of shitty legislation in no context or with no mention of the actual impact it's had? Seriously?
Well, aren't you being a bit of a drama queen if you get that scared when someone breaks into your house. I mean, odds are they're just there to steal a few things and will leave you unharmed, right?
Just kidding. If someone breaks into my house and I have the chance, I'll shoot them multiple times center of mass. I'm risking allowing something like that to happen to my family if I don't, and I can't take that risk. By the act of breaking into my house, he's assuming the risk - I won't. Sure, I'll feel like shit if it was some drunk teenager out out trying to steel some money, but I can't take the risk.
Thank God you can generally shoot someone if they break into your house and not have to deal with criminal proceedings, though it's still undesirable because the "ma baby din't do nothin'" family will sue your ass.
I'm primarily a.NET developer and do some Java coding as needed. I develop a UNIX CLI tool in Java that talks to a WCF web service - chosen because it was the only remotely possible way to get Kerberos working from UNIX to a WCF service so it can be pseudo password-prompt free.
I was going to post to defend Java a little, but really you're pretty much right. The only thing Java has going for it is cross-platform, which is why I'm using it. I've dabbled in Java for server side development, and it would be a huge step backwards in every way..NET is just ridiculously nice.
Maven is kind of an OK idea, and I kind of like it because I don't have to hunt around for library dependencies like you do with.NET - I wish Microsoft would add something similar, though of course they'd do it 100X better. And I think you're overstating how much Java sucked back in the day - it was obviously a good, groundbreaking idea at the time if you look at its overall success.
Speaking at least in terms of enterprise application development, you'd be crazy to choose Java over.NET unless you simply must run on UNIX. It's inferior in just about every way.
Plus it's retarded. You don't need WiFi to do wireless communications. I know - that's crazy talk but you can buy a $4 chip that will let you easily do wireless communications, or even easier a $17 Xbee chip that has a huge range and is trivial to get working for easy wireless communication.
They are a good aid in me repeatedly hitting it both before and after someone boards the elevator, and a visual aid to my sighing in exasperation when they make it on the elevator. They convey exactly the message I intended.
If you're at a busy intersection pressing the button, you may or may not be wasting your time, but the ones at pedestrian crossings in odd places mid-traffic light tend to do as advertised as evidenced by the annoyance they cause me as a driver when a jogger hits the button and I have to wait 1.5 minutes after the 10 seconds it takes him to cross before I can continue.
Yes, up to $4800 a year max out of pocket, and I pay for no insurance - my employer does there's no fee to me. That's out of an HSA (I don't pay taxes on it) and it's for a family of 3. And we can visit pretty much any doctor (at a discount) and spend the money on any kind of specialist I want.
I have absolutely no complaints and wouldn't trade it for any healthcare system in the world.
Now, when they jack up my taxes to levels at or above yours and enact policies that end my type of insurance/healthcare plan then I guess I'll have no choice but to take the lower level of healthcare service so the worthless slime who drinks and plays his PS3 all day from the slums can get better healthcare.
Nobody's wondering that because your point is silly. Almost any product has room for improvement upon initial release. If it's too bad nobody will buy the first version and a second version won't be released in most cases. If it's "good enough", improvements will be driven by customers and the second version will be better.
I know - it's just _amazing_ that you can't get feedback from a million people who have used your product _before_ you actually release it! What shoddy pre-release testing, they should have given 1 million people a version to test before releasing, amirite?
I hear medical tourism to Poland is all the rage. And Romania - I know if I get leukemia I'm going to fly straight to Romania!
Greece! Now there's a hell of a system for you!
Sorry, I'll take my high deductible plan where I can visit almost any doctor any time I want and pay the first $4800 myself then have insurance kick in. A hell of a lot better than paying $10k in extra taxes a year for mediocre state run healthcare.
Ahh, now you're resorting to lying. How cliche. Rich people receive better medical care in Canada (and everywhere). In fact, I receive better medical care than anyone but the wealthy in Canada, and I'm not rich by any means.
That's OK, I can't wait until Europe collapses under its own weight and the world sees what a fraud EuroSocialism is. If you think what happened in Iceland was bad, wait to see what happens across Europe as their governments realize "Oh shit, we can't afford to live in this system with a shrinking birth rate and poor immigrants flooding in".
20 years at most. If they're lucky they can manage it as a gradual decline. An Iceland here or there every 3-4 years instead of a massive conflagration.
God damn it. Why do people post these lies? The US measures the numbers more stringently. In the UK if a child is born with no hope of survival, they don't count it. In the US, it counts as an infant mortality.
Yes, we ration healthcare in this country - but up until now it has been based on how much extra life (across the whole population) that healthcare can give. The US rations healthcare too - based on how rich or poor you are. Our system is, frankly, better.
Better? I'm sure I misread, surely you meant "frankly, unsustainable", right?
The US is not some tiny little country like yours. 300 million people, with a larger number of completely worthless poor people spitting out large numbers of children they abuse or neglect.
How about we ship 30 million people or so to you, and we get to pick who. Since poor people are just as worthwhile from a societal perspective as rich people, don't' expect Bill Gates to be one of them - just saying.
And they're not worthless because they're poor, they're worthless because they're vermin. My wife does social work for these people and the myth of the noble poor is a huge joke. Sure, some of them really are good people who don't care if they don't have a 50" TV or designer clothes, have 1 or two kids, work hard, and raise good kids. But many are baby neglecting chain smokers who will abuse the welfare system to get junk they don't need, spit out kid after kid as a meal ticket, and then abuse or neglect the shit out of them. You wouldn't believe the stories of what these people do to their kids.
Not that middle class or rich people can't be similarly evil, but based on the numbers and percentages the poor as a "class" are anything but deserving of 4 hours of work every single week on my part to pay for their food, medical care, housing.
OMG! You mean something which takes money to create and support is rationed by the ability to PAY for it!?? Crazy talk! Quick, call Oprah - something is amiss!
I mean fuck, I figured we could just enslave doctors and have them treat us for free but you're telling me that medical training, R&D, equipment, and technology cost money and that we can't give everyone who makes $0 a year the same treatment as someone who makes $100k?!
Ironic. When the numbers are reversed you numbnuts will reject any claim that life expectancy numbers are based as much on other factors as health care. You'll also gloss over the lie of infant mortality rates, which are counted much more stringently in the US than other countries.
Our healthcare system is expensive and the best parts of it often exclude poor people, but it's still the best in the world in terms of what the majority of people in this country have access to. Considering how fat and unhealthy we all are due to choices outside healthcare, it's amazing we do as well as we do on any of these studies.
US medical technology is among the best in the world, but health care in the US is also the most expensive and least accessible in the world - which is why the elderly in the US are less healthy than elderly elsewhere in the world.
True, true, false, false. Our medical technology is the best in the world, it's silly to make claims we have poor healthcare in that sense or to use fake infant mortality rates or life expectancy rates which depend as much on cultural and other factors than on health care. The only "problem" is poor people don't have as much access as the middle class, and costs are skyrocketing.
Aww, come on. It's cute. He's like that guy that doesn't have a TV and takes every opportunity to let you know. "Brittney Spears?! Who's that, I don't have a TV!".
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I don't like your reasonable tone. Microsoft didn't have hordes of dweeby hipster douches lined up to buy Windows 7 phones, so therefor Windows 7 mobile is a complete and abject failure and it's completely safe to say this a single week. If you don't agree you're a Micro$hill.
Windows CE had a decent market share back in the day - they just let it languish too long.
I'll tell you what. You go find a woman you find attractive, and stand outside her house at night and peep through her windows. You can even make sure her window is very close to the sidewalk so you're not on her property.
When they arrest you, you tell them if she wanted privacy she should have shut that last 1" of her curtains. Let me know how it works out for you.
No no no. It's _secret_ money these "fat cat" Republicans get from their "corporate masters". You obviously aren't up on modern smug left wing kookery.
Right wing kooks thing the government is out to get them, left wing kooks thing the evil corporations are out to get them. Same idiocy, different set of assholes.
"Some Obama fan"? This place is crawling with them. I'm surprised nobody's whipped out that ridiculous "wtf has obama done" website. That site makes me laugh. I mean printing a laundry list of shitty legislation in no context or with no mention of the actual impact it's had? Seriously?
Haha. As if you can alter reality by modding someone down.
"Wow, since I modded down that guy on SlashDot I disagreed with Java has suddenly become contemporary and relevant again!"
Well, aren't you being a bit of a drama queen if you get that scared when someone breaks into your house. I mean, odds are they're just there to steal a few things and will leave you unharmed, right?
Just kidding. If someone breaks into my house and I have the chance, I'll shoot them multiple times center of mass. I'm risking allowing something like that to happen to my family if I don't, and I can't take that risk. By the act of breaking into my house, he's assuming the risk - I won't. Sure, I'll feel like shit if it was some drunk teenager out out trying to steel some money, but I can't take the risk.
Thank God you can generally shoot someone if they break into your house and not have to deal with criminal proceedings, though it's still undesirable because the "ma baby din't do nothin'" family will sue your ass.
I'm primarily a .NET developer and do some Java coding as needed. I develop a UNIX CLI tool in Java that talks to a WCF web service - chosen because it was the only remotely possible way to get Kerberos working from UNIX to a WCF service so it can be pseudo password-prompt free.
I was going to post to defend Java a little, but really you're pretty much right. The only thing Java has going for it is cross-platform, which is why I'm using it. I've dabbled in Java for server side development, and it would be a huge step backwards in every way. .NET is just ridiculously nice.
Maven is kind of an OK idea, and I kind of like it because I don't have to hunt around for library dependencies like you do with .NET - I wish Microsoft would add something similar, though of course they'd do it 100X better. And I think you're overstating how much Java sucked back in the day - it was obviously a good, groundbreaking idea at the time if you look at its overall success.
Speaking at least in terms of enterprise application development, you'd be crazy to choose Java over .NET unless you simply must run on UNIX. It's inferior in just about every way.
I feel you, but not really applicable in a fairly busy 45mph street at rush hour...
Plus it's retarded. You don't need WiFi to do wireless communications. I know - that's crazy talk but you can buy a $4 chip that will let you easily do wireless communications, or even easier a $17 Xbee chip that has a huge range and is trivial to get working for easy wireless communication.
They are a good aid in me repeatedly hitting it both before and after someone boards the elevator, and a visual aid to my sighing in exasperation when they make it on the elevator. They convey exactly the message I intended.
If you're at a busy intersection pressing the button, you may or may not be wasting your time, but the ones at pedestrian crossings in odd places mid-traffic light tend to do as advertised as evidenced by the annoyance they cause me as a driver when a jogger hits the button and I have to wait 1.5 minutes after the 10 seconds it takes him to cross before I can continue.
Yes, up to $4800 a year max out of pocket, and I pay for no insurance - my employer does there's no fee to me. That's out of an HSA (I don't pay taxes on it) and it's for a family of 3. And we can visit pretty much any doctor (at a discount) and spend the money on any kind of specialist I want.
I have absolutely no complaints and wouldn't trade it for any healthcare system in the world.
Now, when they jack up my taxes to levels at or above yours and enact policies that end my type of insurance/healthcare plan then I guess I'll have no choice but to take the lower level of healthcare service so the worthless slime who drinks and plays his PS3 all day from the slums can get better healthcare.
I love when people think they're Executive Fudders releasing FUD that will shape teh Interwebz.
Nobody's paying attention to you, dude, and you're not the Master Manipulator, Glorious FUD Ninja - I promise.
Nobody's wondering that because your point is silly. Almost any product has room for improvement upon initial release. If it's too bad nobody will buy the first version and a second version won't be released in most cases. If it's "good enough", improvements will be driven by customers and the second version will be better.
I know - it's just _amazing_ that you can't get feedback from a million people who have used your product _before_ you actually release it! What shoddy pre-release testing, they should have given 1 million people a version to test before releasing, amirite?
I hear medical tourism to Poland is all the rage. And Romania - I know if I get leukemia I'm going to fly straight to Romania!
Greece! Now there's a hell of a system for you!
Sorry, I'll take my high deductible plan where I can visit almost any doctor any time I want and pay the first $4800 myself then have insurance kick in. A hell of a lot better than paying $10k in extra taxes a year for mediocre state run healthcare.
That's your reply, you douchebag? You can't refute anything I said because they are facts.
Ahh, now you're resorting to lying. How cliche. Rich people receive better medical care in Canada (and everywhere). In fact, I receive better medical care than anyone but the wealthy in Canada, and I'm not rich by any means.
That's OK, I can't wait until Europe collapses under its own weight and the world sees what a fraud EuroSocialism is. If you think what happened in Iceland was bad, wait to see what happens across Europe as their governments realize "Oh shit, we can't afford to live in this system with a shrinking birth rate and poor immigrants flooding in".
20 years at most. If they're lucky they can manage it as a gradual decline. An Iceland here or there every 3-4 years instead of a massive conflagration.
God damn it. Why do people post these lies? The US measures the numbers more stringently. In the UK if a child is born with no hope of survival, they don't count it. In the US, it counts as an infant mortality.
So quick fucking lying.
Yes, we ration healthcare in this country - but up until now it has been based on how much extra life (across the whole population) that healthcare can give. The US rations healthcare too - based on how rich or poor you are. Our system is, frankly, better.
Better? I'm sure I misread, surely you meant "frankly, unsustainable", right?
The US is not some tiny little country like yours. 300 million people, with a larger number of completely worthless poor people spitting out large numbers of children they abuse or neglect.
How about we ship 30 million people or so to you, and we get to pick who. Since poor people are just as worthwhile from a societal perspective as rich people, don't' expect Bill Gates to be one of them - just saying.
And they're not worthless because they're poor, they're worthless because they're vermin. My wife does social work for these people and the myth of the noble poor is a huge joke. Sure, some of them really are good people who don't care if they don't have a 50" TV or designer clothes, have 1 or two kids, work hard, and raise good kids. But many are baby neglecting chain smokers who will abuse the welfare system to get junk they don't need, spit out kid after kid as a meal ticket, and then abuse or neglect the shit out of them. You wouldn't believe the stories of what these people do to their kids.
Not that middle class or rich people can't be similarly evil, but based on the numbers and percentages the poor as a "class" are anything but deserving of 4 hours of work every single week on my part to pay for their food, medical care, housing.
OMG! You mean something which takes money to create and support is rationed by the ability to PAY for it!?? Crazy talk! Quick, call Oprah - something is amiss!
I mean fuck, I figured we could just enslave doctors and have them treat us for free but you're telling me that medical training, R&D, equipment, and technology cost money and that we can't give everyone who makes $0 a year the same treatment as someone who makes $100k?!
KHAAAAAAAN!!!!!
Ironic. When the numbers are reversed you numbnuts will reject any claim that life expectancy numbers are based as much on other factors as health care. You'll also gloss over the lie of infant mortality rates, which are counted much more stringently in the US than other countries.
Our healthcare system is expensive and the best parts of it often exclude poor people, but it's still the best in the world in terms of what the majority of people in this country have access to. Considering how fat and unhealthy we all are due to choices outside healthcare, it's amazing we do as well as we do on any of these studies.
US medical technology is among the best in the world, but health care in the US is also the most expensive and least accessible in the world - which is why the elderly in the US are less healthy than elderly elsewhere in the world.
True, true, false, false. Our medical technology is the best in the world, it's silly to make claims we have poor healthcare in that sense or to use fake infant mortality rates or life expectancy rates which depend as much on cultural and other factors than on health care. The only "problem" is poor people don't have as much access as the middle class, and costs are skyrocketing.
Aww, come on. It's cute. He's like that guy that doesn't have a TV and takes every opportunity to let you know. "Brittney Spears?! Who's that, I don't have a TV!".
"I use Linux, I'm really very hardcore. I don't know much about Windows, but..."