Yep. And the fact of the matter is, nearly every operator in C++ has two different meanings depending on context.
Like assembly language (or say, English), C++ provides a vast landscape for the programmer to be able to express himself in many creative ways. Unfortunately, at this time, most people employed as programmers today are not skilled or disciplined enough to write correct, readable, maintainable, and efficient programs. Java, Pascal, and VB at least keep these people from making utter monstrosities.
Typical immature/. moderation of an opinion they're too afraid to consider.
Look, there are good and bad tailgaters, as well as good and bad tailgatees. It depends on the situation. If you are rolling along, blocking the highway in the left (or middle) lane, then you deserve to be tailgated, and possibly rammed. Neither provides a fully satisfactory outcome for the tailgater, however.
OTOH, in the absence of the above condition, tailgating is definitely uncalled for, and is only done by assholes.
anything that allows us, the admins, to remotely exercise greater system control via AD policies is a very good thing. I hope by "very good" you mean "incredibly evil".
Among the other evils inflicted upon the universe by Microsoft are the "features" that allow power-crazed MCSE geekoids to get their jollies screwing around with and locking down my desktop settings.
Of course they denied it! What would be the point of destroying evidence, and then turning around and admitting it?
IBM's lawyers should point out to the judge that SCO is attempting to play him for a fool. The accusation sounds as ridiculous as much of the rest of their case.
I think the thing to do would be to have every officer and director of SCO killed, along with their families, pets, friends (if any); their houses should be burned down, and their land salted. Surely the criminal trial and subsequent prison sentences would end sooner than this abortion of civil justice. And the world would be a better place.
The above paragraphs are intended to be interpreted ironically, literally, and hyperbolically, respectively.
That's a sign you should be looking for a better job. If your VP can't tell the difference between an IT professional and a janitor, you really don't want to work for him.
otoh, most VPs and managers of my experience think the same way. Ergo, I'm usually looking for a better job.
btw, the urge to universally ban something because *somebody* *might* abuse it is the root of at least a hell of a lot of evil. Of course, that's usually just a hypocritical rationalization for the urge to control everyone.
Here's my plan (once I'm the BMFIC): Eliminate 90% of the HR staff. Well, actually 100%, and replace with a few insurance and real estate agents. Double everyone's salary, and make them personally responsible for taking care of all their business equipment, space, benefits, etc. You want a 500 sq. ft. corner office, 2 30" widescreen LCD panels, 3 PCs running Linux, a fridge, a personal coffee pot? All yours... it's your money. You want to work at home, the park, the coffee shop, or your favorite bordello? All good. Only thing that matters is results.
Two restrictions to start with: Don't disturb other employees unnecessarily, and don't embarrass the company.
Bingo! Thw whole idea of a patent is based on the model of lots of research and development being expended to come up with an invention. To promote that research and development, a patent assures the inventor that those R&D costs can be recovered, without being undercut by competitors who have no such costs to amortize.
In software development, and business, there is no real research cost. Development cost is protected by copyright. So software and business patents are fundamentally bogus.
Frankly, I'm pretty well convinved that patents are completely unnecessary, at least in this era. In any case, they do more harm than good.
Was writing this post really worth the hundreds of dollars of your valuable time? I could have gotten 2 or 3 refunds from Dell in the time it took me to read it.
btw, $210 is >2% of $10,000. So you were off by 100% or more. Better do better accounting than that.
Anyone who thinks the article's author really meant the word 'sighted', is as clueless as he is. 'Sighted' in this context makes no sense; especially when it's a homonym for a word very commonly used in that context.
Bullshit. Speech is speech, no ifs or buts or excepts. And it should never be restricted by anyone.
If some idiot yelss "Fire" in a crowded theater, so what? After a bit of a hassle, he'll get his ass tossed out, and everything goes back to normal.
As for "inciting to riot", or inciting anything, that's utter nonsense. If people riot, or break the law, then they're still responsible for the consequences. Getting "incited" is no defense. And no one should bear responsibility for others' actions.
See? It's very simple. Freedom and property rights are all you need.
Because there are appoximately 13367494538843734067838845976576 possible keys. If you have say, 100,000,000 computers each sending in activation keys at the rate of 1,000,000 per second (1mHz), it would take about 423 million years to get through them all.
Assuming I did the math correctly.
Anyway, Microsoft certainly has a database of good keys. It would be interesting if someone "accidentally" exposed it the public.
I remember not so long ago, that the Geneva Convention was an attempt to get more ruthless nations to conform to the standards of decency that the USA held to anyway. The attempts to weasel out of its fairly minimal standards is one the most egregious indications that we are quickly becoming a totalitarian state.
Ha! I don't know what the average tax bite is in the USA, but as you foreigners quickly find out, sales tax is everywhere. And for an upper-middle-class/.er, the income taxes (federal, socialist security, state, and sometimes local, and sometimes school district) easily get past 40%. And we file an exptremely detailed report on every aspect of our financial lives every year for the government's approval.
Most all health care is subsidized. Of course, in the American way, at ridiculous administration cost, with layers of corruption, and hugely complicated.
Excuse me, what is this "freedom" and "privacy" you speak of?
Right on. This must be the 1000th stupid-ass "study" that supposedly shows thousands of hours of lost time, and millions of lost dollars due to employee Internet surfing (or email).
It's all bullshit. To even get close to what they're trying to prove, they need to document time spent:
going to the bathroom
gabbing with cow-orkers
staring at the ceiling
talking to family & friends on the phone
scratching their ass
Here's a clue for all those busybody "researchers" and managers who think they're getting ruined by Internet surfing: It's none of your business what a clerical employee is doing at any particular time. There are only a couple of things you need to worry about:
Results being produced
Few laws being broken
Resources not being wasted
Other than that, mind your freaking business, and stop prying into your employees' personal work habits. Sticking them into a warren of veal-raising pens, you're lucky they get anything useful done at all.
Tomcat pilots liked to call the F/A-18 pilots FAGs (because they were Fighter-Attack Guys).
It always seemed odd to me that the *Navy's* *air superiority* fighter was the biggest fighter ever made. It is fairly gigantic.
I always thought the Blue Angels should be flying the F-14 (and the Thunderbirds the F-15). Maybe they could switch now that they're not going to be used in the fleet anymore. I doubt it, I expect the expense was the problem in the first place.
I've been using/. for about a year now I think. And I haven't yet figured out how/.'s interpretation of threading works. So I don't know who you called a moron, but I guess I'm volunteering.
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I think you mean
#include <iostream>
int main()
{
cout << "Hello World" << eol;
return 0;
}
42
By gum, I ain't using it until its maximum distance is a multiple of 100 good ol' American FEET!
Yep. And the fact of the matter is, nearly every operator in C++ has two different meanings depending on context.
Like assembly language (or say, English), C++ provides a vast landscape for the programmer to be able to express himself in many creative ways. Unfortunately, at this time, most people employed as programmers today are not skilled or disciplined enough to write correct, readable, maintainable, and efficient programs. Java, Pascal, and VB at least keep these people from making utter monstrosities.
Wait, I might be wrong about that.
Typical immature /. moderation of an opinion they're too afraid to consider.
Look, there are good and bad tailgaters, as well as good and bad tailgatees. It depends on the situation. If you are rolling along, blocking the highway in the left (or middle) lane, then you deserve to be tailgated, and possibly rammed. Neither provides a fully satisfactory outcome for the tailgater, however.
OTOH, in the absence of the above condition, tailgating is definitely uncalled for, and is only done by assholes.
Yes I did, long ago. I've also observed there are far more idiots than maniacs out there.
Among the other evils inflicted upon the universe by Microsoft are the "features" that allow power-crazed MCSE geekoids to get their jollies screwing around with and locking down my desktop settings.
Of course they denied it! What would be the point of destroying evidence, and then turning around and admitting it?
IBM's lawyers should point out to the judge that SCO is attempting to play him for a fool. The accusation sounds as ridiculous as much of the rest of their case.
I think the thing to do would be to have every officer and director of SCO killed, along with their families, pets, friends (if any); their houses should be burned down, and their land salted. Surely the criminal trial and subsequent prison sentences would end sooner than this abortion of civil justice. And the world would be a better place.
The above paragraphs are intended to be interpreted ironically, literally, and hyperbolically, respectively.
I'd have to assume you made the jump to base 32, and therefore you've described a medium gray. In some freaky system with 5 bit nibbles.
That's a sign you should be looking for a better job. If your VP can't tell the difference between an IT professional and a janitor, you really don't want to work for him.
otoh, most VPs and managers of my experience think the same way. Ergo, I'm usually looking for a better job.
btw, the urge to universally ban something because *somebody* *might* abuse it is the root of at least a hell of a lot of evil. Of course, that's usually just a hypocritical rationalization for the urge to control everyone.
Here's my plan (once I'm the BMFIC): Eliminate 90% of the HR staff. Well, actually 100%, and replace with a few insurance and real estate agents. Double everyone's salary, and make them personally responsible for taking care of all their business equipment, space, benefits, etc. You want a 500 sq. ft. corner office, 2 30" widescreen LCD panels, 3 PCs running Linux, a fridge, a personal coffee pot? All yours... it's your money. You want to work at home, the park, the coffee shop, or your favorite bordello? All good. Only thing that matters is results.
Two restrictions to start with: Don't disturb other employees unnecessarily, and don't embarrass the company.
Bingo! Thw whole idea of a patent is based on the model of lots of research and development being expended to come up with an invention. To promote that research and development, a patent assures the inventor that those R&D costs can be recovered, without being undercut by competitors who have no such costs to amortize.
In software development, and business, there is no real research cost. Development cost is protected by copyright. So software and business patents are fundamentally bogus.
Frankly, I'm pretty well convinved that patents are completely unnecessary, at least in this era. In any case, they do more harm than good.
Hahahahahahahahaha... they'll be surprised when they see our new clear-cut start, and then drive out there and find nothin' but dirt for 10,000 miles!
Was writing this post really worth the hundreds of dollars of your valuable time? I could have gotten 2 or 3 refunds from Dell in the time it took me to read it.
btw, $210 is >2% of $10,000. So you were off by 100% or more. Better do better accounting than that.
Hmmm. Well, you and the later replier make a good case. I wonder how and when that originated.
Parent should be modded funny, people.
Anyone who thinks the article's author really meant the word 'sighted', is as clueless as he is. 'Sighted' in this context makes no sense; especially when it's a homonym for a word very commonly used in that context.
Bullshit. Speech is speech, no ifs or buts or excepts. And it should never be restricted by anyone.
If some idiot yelss "Fire" in a crowded theater, so what? After a bit of a hassle, he'll get his ass tossed out, and everything goes back to normal.
As for "inciting to riot", or inciting anything, that's utter nonsense. If people riot, or break the law, then they're still responsible for the consequences. Getting "incited" is no defense. And no one should bear responsibility for others' actions.
See? It's very simple. Freedom and property rights are all you need.
Because there are appoximately 13367494538843734067838845976576 possible keys. If you have say, 100,000,000 computers each sending in activation keys at the rate of 1,000,000 per second (1mHz), it would take about 423 million years to get through them all.
Assuming I did the math correctly.
Anyway, Microsoft certainly has a database of good keys. It would be interesting if someone "accidentally" exposed it the public.
I remember not so long ago, that the Geneva Convention was an attempt to get more ruthless nations to conform to the standards of decency that the USA held to anyway. The attempts to weasel out of its fairly minimal standards is one the most egregious indications that we are quickly becoming a totalitarian state.
Ha! I don't know what the average tax bite is in the USA, but as you foreigners quickly find out, sales tax is everywhere. And for an upper-middle-class /.er, the income taxes (federal, socialist security, state, and sometimes local, and sometimes school district) easily get past 40%. And we file an exptremely detailed report on every aspect of our financial lives every year for the government's approval.
Most all health care is subsidized. Of course, in the American way, at ridiculous administration cost, with layers of corruption, and hugely complicated.
Excuse me, what is this "freedom" and "privacy" you speak of?
You fool! Now everyone will want one.
It's all bullshit. To even get close to what they're trying to prove, they need to document time spent:
Here's a clue for all those busybody "researchers" and managers who think they're getting ruined by Internet surfing: It's none of your business what a clerical employee is doing at any particular time. There are only a couple of things you need to worry about:
Other than that, mind your freaking business, and stop prying into your employees' personal work habits. Sticking them into a warren of veal-raising pens, you're lucky they get anything useful done at all.
Well, thanks for clearing that up!
Tomcat pilots liked to call the F/A-18 pilots FAGs (because they were Fighter-Attack Guys).
It always seemed odd to me that the *Navy's* *air superiority* fighter was the biggest fighter ever made. It is fairly gigantic.
I always thought the Blue Angels should be flying the F-14 (and the Thunderbirds the F-15). Maybe they could switch now that they're not going to be used in the fleet anymore. I doubt it, I expect the expense was the problem in the first place.
OK, smart guy, here's a B-52.
I've been using /. for about a year now I think. And I haven't yet figured out how /.'s interpretation of threading works. So I don't know who you called a moron, but I guess I'm volunteering.