asp.net w/ c# would be one reason. it's a fantastic dev platform, hatred for MS aside.
Was that sarcastic? Hatred for MS aside, I had a terrible time programming in ASP.NET w/ C#. It could have been Visual Studio, or maybe it was just me...
Is there a bug in the chair game? Try making Ballmer throw it on himself (ie, almost no power or angle). Tell me again: Is it Ballmer running off to Google?
Well, I would say that your post doesn't quite make sense. I would laugh if it were funny, but it is really hard to see what you were going for. Let me explain my confusion:
From first reading, it could be interpreted like this: You are the dialog of a typical IM user who can't be distinguished from a brain-dead conversation bot? I can see some sarcasm, but only if I added a who. But, is it the typical IM user that can't be distinguished from the bot, or is it the dialog? Colloquially, it could be both. Instead of using who, we could use "that", thus changing the meaning of the sentence.
But, what if you didn't want a who or that? What if you screwed up your "you're" and accidently kept the misplaced "the"? Taking out the "the" and changing the "you're", the sentence would now read: Your dialog of a typical IM user can't be distinguished from a brain-dead conversation bot? This obviously changes the sentence, giving a very differen't meaning.
Now, why does this really matter? Well, leaving out (or leaving in) certain words caused more confusion than humor -- I'm sure the person who modded you down thought you were just saying bad things in the normal, negative flaimbait way.
I apologize for being so technical a very small and unimportant sentence -- but you yelled at the modder, so I figure you deserved it.:)
Well, if you've ever talked to any tester who works/worked at EA, you'll know that they run their testers pretty hard. When you release software for console systems [on a deadline] where there is no chance for a "patch update" or "service pack", you have to get things done right the first time (which makes EA's testing department much more brutal than other companies' testing departments). If there were no testers at EA, or the testers did a mediocre job, the games would be crap -- in short, there would be no game! This is not to say the testers are the most important people -- as the parent post tried to do -- but it is at least giving the testers equal position on the chopping block.
No, Moses Lake is not the beauty spot you make it out to be.
Well, beauty IS in the eye of the beholder. The only response to your post's parent is "Okay.", because to that poster, no amount of arguing will ever change that.
Well, not quite. Our police forces (and I'm sure, yours too) use guns to fight those with guns. Us "good" patent holders will use them to fight the "bad" patent holders until there is a time we don't have to.
I would do whatever you think is best, but at the end, give each person a printout of this post (along with all the articles). If you can plug Open Source, and then show them that there are communities interested, it might just seal-the-deal (and might also tell your boss you did some research:) ).
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Was that sarcastic? Hatred for MS aside, I had a terrible time programming in ASP.NET w/ C#. It could have been Visual Studio, or maybe it was just me...
Is there a bug in the chair game? Try making Ballmer throw it on himself (ie, almost no power or angle). Tell me again: Is it Ballmer running off to Google?
Well, I would say that your post doesn't quite make sense. I would laugh if it were funny, but it is really hard to see what you were going for. Let me explain my confusion:
:)
From first reading, it could be interpreted like this: You are the dialog of a typical IM user who can't be distinguished from a brain-dead conversation bot? I can see some sarcasm, but only if I added a who. But, is it the typical IM user that can't be distinguished from the bot, or is it the dialog? Colloquially, it could be both. Instead of using who, we could use "that", thus changing the meaning of the sentence.
But, what if you didn't want a who or that? What if you screwed up your "you're" and accidently kept the misplaced "the"? Taking out the "the" and changing the "you're", the sentence would now read: Your dialog of a typical IM user can't be distinguished from a brain-dead conversation bot? This obviously changes the sentence, giving a very differen't meaning.
Now, why does this really matter? Well, leaving out (or leaving in) certain words caused more confusion than humor -- I'm sure the person who modded you down thought you were just saying bad things in the normal, negative flaimbait way.
I apologize for being so technical a very small and unimportant sentence -- but you yelled at the modder, so I figure you deserved it.
Cheers.
Well, if you've ever talked to any tester who works/worked at EA, you'll know that they run their testers pretty hard. When you release software for console systems [on a deadline] where there is no chance for a "patch update" or "service pack", you have to get things done right the first time (which makes EA's testing department much more brutal than other companies' testing departments). If there were no testers at EA, or the testers did a mediocre job, the games would be crap -- in short, there would be no game! This is not to say the testers are the most important people -- as the parent post tried to do -- but it is at least giving the testers equal position on the chopping block.
Well, not quite. Our police forces (and I'm sure, yours too) use guns to fight those with guns. Us "good" patent holders will use them to fight the "bad" patent holders until there is a time we don't have to.
How in the fsck? Brilliant!
I would do whatever you think is best, but at the end, give each person a printout of this post (along with all the articles). If you can plug Open Source, and then show them that there are communities interested, it might just seal-the-deal (and might also tell your boss you did some research :) ).