Oh no, it wasn't me! I've been treating it fine! It must have been someone else messing around with my horse! I even hired all these dubious-looking men with badges to protect it!
Likewise. I was starting to get regular requests at work to fix stuff, but since I passed around the word that I'll charge £20-30 an hour for any future repairs, I've not had any for a while:) I'm not even sure £30 an hour would be worth it..
I did repair a couple of laptops recently for the CEO's daughter, but I did that on company time. One of them now has Ubuntu since they didn't have the restore disk, so she should at least have one good machine no matter what the hell she does with it..
I'd think that depends on the situation to be honest. If it was in a cinema for example, I'd really have no problem cutting them off immediately. On a bus, it would depend how loud they were being and how important the conversation was. I was happy just to put my headphones in.
If it turns out that I'm wrong, and what I said was otherwise causing other people to be just as misinformed and ignorant as myself.. then yes, I apologise in those cases.
I wish I had a link to the last post I accused of this. It was the first post ever on a just-created account, one minute after the story was posted, with probably more words in the comment than is humanly possible to type in two minutes.. all pro-MS BS.
I wasn't quite sure before that that any company would even bother to do such things as post shill comments to Slashdot, but I know now I'm sure that it does actually happen, rather than just seeing the accusations. We do perhaps overreact a bit though.
Not sure what "Seinfeldianism" is as I don't watch Seinfeld, but thanks for trolling anyway.
I was thinking specifically of when I was on a long bus ride to London last weekend and some girl was talking loudly to her mum on the phone for half an hour, in an otherwise relatively quiet environment. I put in my headphones. How my real world experience can qualify as beyond "annoyingly stupid", I'm not quite sure.
I'd like to point out that this was not a troll. It's my genuine experience, plus a genuine question (that I can't be arsed to install Windows and a free version of Visual Studio to find out the answer for myself).
Also there was a grammar mistake when I said "better with" rather than "better than".
I seem to be much more paranoid than average sure, but the last time I saw it happen it was a similarly worded post, with the first post on the account, with several hundred words all posted within a minute of the article. If he's not shilling then I'm interested to know his opinion of Android. Going with only either MS or Apple seems to be very short sighted to me. Going with MS would help foster competition somewhat, but I don't think they're the best company to give a foothold in any market.
Ah, fair enough. Last time it happened, I checked the posting history and it was their very first post, with about 1000 words, a minute after the article appeared (and no subscription).
It's not running in "bog standard Firefox" if it's using Silverlight, any more than DirectX games run in "bog standard Linux". To run Silverlight you need to install an extra framework. One which is currently only available for MS controlled platforms. Even if there was a Linux port I still would try to avoid it where I could.
I wouldn't want to develop apps in Mono in case MS manage to shut Mono down somehow for example.
I'm not going to argue that Visual Studio is bad, but saying "nothing comes close" is bullshit. I haven't even used a lot of IDEs in the last few years, but if we're talking Windows only IDEs, Borland's stuff is still pretty nice.
If I were to go back to an IDE over a text editor, I'd probably use Eclipse just for the cross-platform nature.
I'm not saying that I think it's the best possible tool though as even if it was the best available tool, it wouldn't be the best possible. I haven't tried enough of the alternatives to be able to say how high it should rank, but I certainly wouldn't put it below even just using a text editor. I like being able to just hit one key to compile and run rather than bringing down my console, so in those terms any IDE would be better than a text editor.. also having a project tree is nice.
Actually, even though I've just been using a pretty basic text editor (I use syntax highlighting and line numbers but that's about it) for all my web development stuff, I did quite like Visual Studio for C++ stuff around 1999. I haven't used that many IDEs, but it is much more responsive than Eclipse at least, and better with the BASIC IDEs and Delphi that I'd worked with previously. The lack of built in GUI design options was the only thing I didn't like, but they must have that by now?
I think Visual C++ 6 and Exchange are the only 2 MS products that I actually have had much respect for over the years.
Actually I saw a really interesting level for LittleBigPlanet2 where the guy had hacked the 2D gameworld into a very basic FPS that drew everything by painting sprites on the screen. You could only turn at 90 degree angles, everything rendered very slowly, so obviously not exactly the best gaming experience ever, but it was incredibly clever.
There have been very few times where MS has done anything but play follow the leader. I'd say perhaps no times, but I'm sure someone will point out an exception. Any time they've done something cool it's usually a result of buying another company up, rather than having the idea in-house.
It's not that at all, it's just obvious. 1 minute after the story was posted. At least this time they didn't make it quite so obvious. Last time I saw it they had several large paragraphs of pro-MS sentiment in the first post - again posted 1 minute after the story was up. The "best possible tools" line is a complete give-away though, seriously who outside of a marketing department would even say that? I certainly don't think that any programming tools available today are the best possible.
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Oh no, it wasn't me! I've been treating it fine! It must have been someone else messing around with my horse! I even hired all these dubious-looking men with badges to protect it!
Likewise. I was starting to get regular requests at work to fix stuff, but since I passed around the word that I'll charge £20-30 an hour for any future repairs, I've not had any for a while :) I'm not even sure £30 an hour would be worth it..
I did repair a couple of laptops recently for the CEO's daughter, but I did that on company time. One of them now has Ubuntu since they didn't have the restore disk, so she should at least have one good machine no matter what the hell she does with it..
I'd think that depends on the situation to be honest. If it was in a cinema for example, I'd really have no problem cutting them off immediately. On a bus, it would depend how loud they were being and how important the conversation was. I was happy just to put my headphones in.
If it turns out that I'm wrong, and what I said was otherwise causing other people to be just as misinformed and ignorant as myself.. then yes, I apologise in those cases.
Here's the post I was referring to: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1831452&cid=33967886
The first post in this discussion reminded me a lot of that post.
Thankyou. Still no other posts on that account, either!
Damnit.. the logo is so cool.. it's kind of like the Kindle logo.. must.. resist :s
I wish I had a link to the last post I accused of this. It was the first post ever on a just-created account, one minute after the story was posted, with probably more words in the comment than is humanly possible to type in two minutes.. all pro-MS BS.
I wasn't quite sure before that that any company would even bother to do such things as post shill comments to Slashdot, but I know now I'm sure that it does actually happen, rather than just seeing the accusations. We do perhaps overreact a bit though.
Ah, my apologies, seems it was pure trollage.
Not sure what "Seinfeldianism" is as I don't watch Seinfeld, but thanks for trolling anyway.
I was thinking specifically of when I was on a long bus ride to London last weekend and some girl was talking loudly to her mum on the phone for half an hour, in an otherwise relatively quiet environment. I put in my headphones. How my real world experience can qualify as beyond "annoyingly stupid", I'm not quite sure.
I'd like to point out that this was not a troll. It's my genuine experience, plus a genuine question (that I can't be arsed to install Windows and a free version of Visual Studio to find out the answer for myself).
Also there was a grammar mistake when I said "better with" rather than "better than".
Some comments above were talking about jamming basically everything, so I got a bit out of context and forgot this was GPS only. My bad.
Sorry, was getting out of context with those above talking of wanting jammers that can jam GPS + cellphones + wi-fi, etc..
Really it isn't that at all. A lot of people do the same thing with land lines in quiet environments.. and in fact not all public transport is noisy.
I seem to be much more paranoid than average sure, but the last time I saw it happen it was a similarly worded post, with the first post on the account, with several hundred words all posted within a minute of the article. If he's not shilling then I'm interested to know his opinion of Android. Going with only either MS or Apple seems to be very short sighted to me. Going with MS would help foster competition somewhat, but I don't think they're the best company to give a foothold in any market.
Ah, fair enough. Last time it happened, I checked the posting history and it was their very first post, with about 1000 words, a minute after the article appeared (and no subscription).
Hah! I foresaw your childish trick, and have in fact installed ... wait for it ... two jamming towers!
Why would people talk so loudly into their phones on public transport, etc, other than just to be an asshole? It works both ways.
It's not running in "bog standard Firefox" if it's using Silverlight, any more than DirectX games run in "bog standard Linux". To run Silverlight you need to install an extra framework. One which is currently only available for MS controlled platforms. Even if there was a Linux port I still would try to avoid it where I could.
I wouldn't want to develop apps in Mono in case MS manage to shut Mono down somehow for example.
I'm not going to argue that Visual Studio is bad, but saying "nothing comes close" is bullshit. I haven't even used a lot of IDEs in the last few years, but if we're talking Windows only IDEs, Borland's stuff is still pretty nice.
If I were to go back to an IDE over a text editor, I'd probably use Eclipse just for the cross-platform nature.
I'm not saying that I think it's the best possible tool though as even if it was the best available tool, it wouldn't be the best possible. I haven't tried enough of the alternatives to be able to say how high it should rank, but I certainly wouldn't put it below even just using a text editor. I like being able to just hit one key to compile and run rather than bringing down my console, so in those terms any IDE would be better than a text editor.. also having a project tree is nice.
Actually, even though I've just been using a pretty basic text editor (I use syntax highlighting and line numbers but that's about it) for all my web development stuff, I did quite like Visual Studio for C++ stuff around 1999. I haven't used that many IDEs, but it is much more responsive than Eclipse at least, and better with the BASIC IDEs and Delphi that I'd worked with previously. The lack of built in GUI design options was the only thing I didn't like, but they must have that by now?
I think Visual C++ 6 and Exchange are the only 2 MS products that I actually have had much respect for over the years.
Actually I saw a really interesting level for LittleBigPlanet2 where the guy had hacked the 2D gameworld into a very basic FPS that drew everything by painting sprites on the screen. You could only turn at 90 degree angles, everything rendered very slowly, so obviously not exactly the best gaming experience ever, but it was incredibly clever.
There have been very few times where MS has done anything but play follow the leader. I'd say perhaps no times, but I'm sure someone will point out an exception. Any time they've done something cool it's usually a result of buying another company up, rather than having the idea in-house.
It's not that at all, it's just obvious. 1 minute after the story was posted. At least this time they didn't make it quite so obvious. Last time I saw it they had several large paragraphs of pro-MS sentiment in the first post - again posted 1 minute after the story was up. The "best possible tools" line is a complete give-away though, seriously who outside of a marketing department would even say that? I certainly don't think that any programming tools available today are the best possible.