Old Monty made a mint off the backs of the guys that worked on MySQL...
hairyfeet, you should really not prattle on about matters you obviously know nothing about. It does not make you appear wise or intelligent.
Just so you know: Monty gave me the opportunity to go from living in a slum, mired in debt, to owning my own home in a nice part of Europe in just a couple of years.
But his house in Helsinki is much bigger and nicer than my place in Stockholm.
Why would anyone buy a newer version of Windows if they can have XP forever. Microsoft could never compete against a free version of XP. Very few people would upgrade beyond it.
Exactly. This is why my Linux systems are all still running kernel 2.2.
XP was the end of the line in actual end user experience improvement.
Funny, I felt that way about Win2K.
But WinXP does hold a special place in my heart... Seeing that Fisher-Price UI on other people's machines helped goose me into switching to Linux full-time.
The seasonal flu vaccine is pretty useless in healthy people, can have significant to serous side effect, and probably is not worth the risk in the general population.
We can get flu shots for free at work. I used to get mine every year, but the day after I got mine last year, I came down with the worst flu I can ever recall having, and it lasted about twice as long as usual. No warning signs, either. I have a hard time believing that it was just a coincidence, and I think I'll just go without the shot, next flu season.
That being said, I resent people who apparently can't do basic maths getting in a lather and telling me that I shouldn't protect my kid from serious childhood diseases on account of a comparatively negligible risk of side effects, and--even worse--try to persuade the parents of my kids' friends not to get them vaccinated, either.
This seems to happen every time someone confuses a language with an environment and/or implementation and/or API.
Ca. 1998-2000, I was writing these things in JavaScript: *Web browser DOM stuff aka "Dynamic HTML" *Server-side ASP and NS-SSJS (Remember Netscape? They used to do servers, too...) *System apps using ScriptEase/JS on *nix and COM/ActiveWhatever/JS on Windows *Interaction in PDFs and SVG docs *Extensions for Macromedia (now Adobe) DreamWeaver *Extensions for Mozilla
We didn't have Ajax or Canvas in those days. We also didn't have smartphones or Justin Bieber.
But we still used JavaScript in lots of places, we still made phone calls, and we still changed the channel or hit the Mute button when MTV started playing crap.
I have no idea where your 1.2 GW per person figure comes from, but for your family's safely I hope it is hyperbole, since it would take about 1,000,000 toaster overs to generate that kind of power, though far be it from me to judge how dark you like your toast.
My theory is that he keeps the butter in the freezer.
I like working in a place where our VP sits in the same fishbowl as the rest of us, and wears a polo shirt and jeans.
In fact, while I've seem him dressed and made up look like the front man for Rammstein (in the office, yet), I've never (in 6+ years) seen him in a suit (not even in the office).
If you knew where I worked, you'd never believe me in a million years, either.:)
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I just set my phone to vibrate only. If it vibrates, I step out into the hall to check it.
Old Monty made a mint off the backs of the guys that worked on MySQL...
hairyfeet, you should really not prattle on about matters you obviously know nothing about. It does not make you appear wise or intelligent.
Just so you know: Monty gave me the opportunity to go from living in a slum, mired in debt, to owning my own home in a nice part of Europe in just a couple of years.
But his house in Helsinki is much bigger and nicer than my place in Stockholm.
Oh, the unfairness of it all!
Read up on a place called Andersonville.
When you're done, you can bury my heart at Wounded Knee.
The talking points are part of the program. The "damage control" part.
"Be careful how you choose your enemy, for you will come to resemble him."
Go tell that to the Khmer Rouge.
Why would anyone buy a newer version of Windows if they can have XP forever. Microsoft could never compete against a free version of XP. Very few people would upgrade beyond it.
Exactly. This is why my Linux systems are all still running kernel 2.2.
XP was the end of the line in actual end user experience improvement.
Funny, I felt that way about Win2K.
But WinXP does hold a special place in my heart... Seeing that Fisher-Price UI on other people's machines helped goose me into switching to Linux full-time.
Should we get rid of blackboards, too, because anyone can read what a student writes on it?
Blackboards typically can't be seen outside the classroom.
Blackboards are typically erased every hour or two.
Blackboards typically are not identically copied and archived.
The seasonal flu vaccine is pretty useless in healthy people, can have significant to serous side effect, and probably is not worth the risk in the general population.
We can get flu shots for free at work. I used to get mine every year, but the day after I got mine last year, I came down with the worst flu I can ever recall having, and it lasted about twice as long as usual. No warning signs, either. I have a hard time believing that it was just a coincidence, and I think I'll just go without the shot, next flu season.
That being said, I resent people who apparently can't do basic maths getting in a lather and telling me that I shouldn't protect my kid from serious childhood diseases on account of a comparatively negligible risk of side effects, and--even worse--try to persuade the parents of my kids' friends not to get them vaccinated, either.
I sometimes wonder how much junk mail bearing my name has been delivered to 1060 West Addison Street, :)
Chicago, Illinois 60613.
...Obama is even now stating explicitly that he wants "the middle class" to "stay there."
As opposed to letting them continue to slide as a class into poverty, yep.
Do Apple not pay well enough to merit sentences that parse?
FYI: A 'score' equals 20. 'Scores of people' in the context of 1 billion+ Internet users is not that damned impressive, sorry.
HTML that's not XML is SGML.
SGML leads to pain and misery.
Just wait until you have to use an SGML parser for something, much less try to write one.
I'd be very happy that it worked only in the one browser that's not available for my OS.
This seems to happen every time someone confuses a language with an environment and/or implementation and/or API.
Ca. 1998-2000, I was writing these things in JavaScript:
*Web browser DOM stuff aka "Dynamic HTML"
*Server-side ASP and NS-SSJS (Remember Netscape? They used to do servers, too...)
*System apps using ScriptEase/JS on *nix and COM/ActiveWhatever/JS on Windows
*Interaction in PDFs and SVG docs
*Extensions for Macromedia (now Adobe) DreamWeaver
*Extensions for Mozilla
We didn't have Ajax or Canvas in those days. We also didn't have smartphones or Justin Bieber.
But we still used JavaScript in lots of places, we still made phone calls, and we still changed the channel or hit the Mute button when MTV started playing crap.
Wow, so many people from my Friends list. Cool.
I have no idea where your 1.2 GW per person figure comes from, but for your family's safely I hope it is hyperbole, since it would take about 1,000,000 toaster overs to generate that kind of power, though far be it from me to judge how dark you like your toast.
My theory is that he keeps the butter in the freezer.
People whom you know to be burglars aren't likely to be in your Circles on Google+...
YAKTANNTSIO.
(You already know the acronym, no need to spell it out.)
Tin soldiers and Nixon coming... Four dead in Ohio...
Oh yeah, things were always better in the old days.
ProTip: If he's been making money from it, it's not a hobby.
Or Darlie toothpaste, changed ever so slightly to be PC.
But the logo and the Chinese name (héirèn yágao) haven't changed.
(Sorry for the bad pinyin--Slashdot apparently permits neither Hanzi nor proper diacritics.)
I like working in a place where our VP sits in the same fishbowl as the rest of us, and wears a polo shirt and jeans.
In fact, while I've seem him dressed and made up look like the front man for Rammstein (in the office, yet), I've never (in 6+ years) seen him in a suit (not even in the office).
If you knew where I worked, you'd never believe me in a million years, either. :)
What a hilarious and at the same time truly horrifying thought.
I apologise for the Downes Syndrome sufferers on crack who modded you Troll.