Microsoft dislikes Adobe? maybe flash, since it's a competitor to silverlight, but without Photoshop, all the MS-Fanbois would have no argument left for sticking with Windows
I'm quite worried about this device, because - imagine you'd learn you are HIV positive this way... wouldn't you break down and possibly try to commit suicide or so? when doctors tell you that you have a deadly, uncurable disease, they offer psychological help and such.
It's not like someone shows around his new gadget on a party and "WHOA! YOU'RE GONNA DIE SOON!"
yeah standards compliance is irrelevant... maybe to a nursery child - but in the real world, thousands of companies can't move away from IE6, because they wrote business apps in ActiveX and they are incompatible to anything else than IE6 (not even compatible to IE7)
and the fun didn't even start yet - imagine when newer hardware doesn't support XP anymore - then they can start running their apps in IE6 on XP on virtual machines.... someday on a virtual machine in a virtual machine etc.
staying away from standards violators like MS is the only way to create LASTING solutions, they just cause more and more expenses for developing the same things over and over again...
What I meant (and quite clearly stated) was: parents could tell their kids to NEVER pick on ANYONE, because you never know who will snap some day and take revenge... this should work especially well in these hysterical days...
the students are supposed to develop link-scanning bots!? These would be worth billions and the students are supposed to develop them for minimum wage?
God, is there anyone, that these fuckheads are not trying to rip off?
"Kilo" meant a factor of 1000, long before bits and bytes came... the pioneers of computing just called 2^10=1024 bytes a kilobyte, because 1024 "is nearly" 1000... but if we want to work precisely and consistently (like we have to, in science), then we CAN'T use the same prefix for different things in very close fields of research.
saying "kilo" for a factor of 1024 is just wrong, because kilo means 1000 - and it is totally correct, to clean this mess up and rename the factor of 1024 to "KIBI", 1048576 to "MEBI" etc, although this means adjustment for all of us. Future generations will thank us for leaving science tidy...
okay, I think we have reached an agreement... well it's more like we never disagreed, we just talked at cross-purposes.
great programmers should not reinvent the wheel all the time, but they have to be able to invent wheels if neccessary
well, that is no contradiction to what I said... most programmers are not GREAT programmers... they can get some things done, yes. they may rely on others work, yes, but doing so is not what defines a GREAT programmer... a GREAT programmer has to BE ABLE to write things themselves, if there isn't other people's code to rely on...
you are right, I'm not that into algebra (I'm a computer scientist, math was my subsidiary subject and I preferred graph theory). Still I had an algebra seminar about isotropy... meh...
I think there is about no area in any academic subject, that is completely understood and "a complete packaged tool" (automata theory maybe:o) ). I just meant that you should even know some algebra, if you want to write a 3D rendering engine...
so what you say is that GREAT workers in $job do nothing but copying what others did before? okay, then I am a great novelist, when I sell copys of the lord of the rings and the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, right? and hey, I could republish stephen hawkins papers - I'm a great physician, ain't I?
just let me make this clear: a GREAT programmer saves his employer time and money by thinking before coding and doing it right at first try (so they don't have to fix things all the time. finding bugs costs much much MUCH more money than the extra time for the thinking before doing...)
My wife works at a software manufacturers support hotline and she says there are NEVER complaints about the programs, that the CS Majors wrote, but LOTS of complaints about the programs, that the trained programmers wrote...
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24*7=168 DUH!
so she'd spend money on this because its an advantage, that the phone can't do more than what $10 phones could do 10 years ago?
your sister is pretty dumb...
Microsoft dislikes Adobe? maybe flash, since it's a competitor to silverlight, but without Photoshop, all the MS-Fanbois would have no argument left for sticking with Windows
They come in CANS!? Welcome to 1985, Microsoft! I'm really surprised they have a department that is farther behind than software development...
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2008/10/dodgy-digits-behind-the-war-on-piracy.ars/1
very interesting!
They should have given it to Wikileaks...
damn, I wanted to bring that up... didn't think someone else would have remembered :-)
That's so funny considering that "Journalists" today take most of their infos from wikipedia (and a little bit of google)
PEOPLE, PEOPLE! - BEHOLD!
IT'S THE CHOSEN ONE!
wait, I'll be right over at your place, I just have to go to the pharmacy and get a red and a blue pill...
There has been an animated star wars series before... and (at least as a kid) I kinda liked... WAIT... SITCOM!?
I don't want to work, but I want lots of money... I'll get a lawyer!
I'm quite worried about this device, because - imagine you'd learn you are HIV positive this way... wouldn't you break down and possibly try to commit suicide or so? when doctors tell you that you have a deadly, uncurable disease, they offer psychological help and such.
It's not like someone shows around his new gadget on a party and "WHOA! YOU'RE GONNA DIE SOON!"
yeah standards compliance is irrelevant... maybe to a nursery child - but in the real world, thousands of companies can't move away from IE6, because they wrote business apps in ActiveX and they are incompatible to anything else than IE6 (not even compatible to IE7)
and the fun didn't even start yet - imagine when newer hardware doesn't support XP anymore - then they can start running their apps in IE6 on XP on virtual machines.... someday on a virtual machine in a virtual machine etc.
staying away from standards violators like MS is the only way to create LASTING solutions, they just cause more and more expenses for developing the same things over and over again...
Maybe it's time I finally try Chrome... It must be good, when Microsoft starts making PR against it...
none of these domains exist... thanks for wasting my time, asshole...
;-)
What I meant (and quite clearly stated) was: parents could tell their kids to NEVER pick on ANYONE, because you never know who will snap some day and take revenge... this should work especially well in these hysterical days...
Shouldn't it be enough to tell a bully, that picking on someone can put you on top of his death list, should he ever snap?...
the students are supposed to develop link-scanning bots!? These would be worth billions and the students are supposed to develop them for minimum wage?
God, is there anyone, that these fuckheads are not trying to rip off?
dude, you can change the default search engine WITHOUT reinstalling the OS! (I know this sounds crazy for Windows users...)
;-)
*scnr*
"Kilo" meant a factor of 1000, long before bits and bytes came... the pioneers of computing just called 2^10=1024 bytes a kilobyte, because 1024 "is nearly" 1000... but if we want to work precisely and consistently (like we have to, in science), then we CAN'T use the same prefix for different things in very close fields of research.
saying "kilo" for a factor of 1024 is just wrong, because kilo means 1000 - and it is totally correct, to clean this mess up and rename the factor of 1024 to "KIBI", 1048576 to "MEBI" etc, although this means adjustment for all of us. Future generations will thank us for leaving science tidy...
okay, I think we have reached an agreement... well it's more like we never disagreed, we just talked at cross-purposes.
great programmers should not reinvent the wheel all the time, but they have to be able to invent wheels if neccessary
well, that is no contradiction to what I said... most programmers are not GREAT programmers... they can get some things done, yes. they may rely on others work, yes, but doing so is not what defines a GREAT programmer... a GREAT programmer has to BE ABLE to write things themselves, if there isn't other people's code to rely on...
you are right, I'm not that into algebra (I'm a computer scientist, math was my subsidiary subject and I preferred graph theory). Still I had an algebra seminar about isotropy... meh... :o) ). I just meant that you should even know some algebra, if you want to write a 3D rendering engine...
I think there is about no area in any academic subject, that is completely understood and "a complete packaged tool" (automata theory maybe
I never questioned that - but to be a GREAT programmer, you have to BE ABLE to write all the stuff yourself IF you need to.
so what you say is that GREAT workers in $job do nothing but copying what others did before? okay, then I am a great novelist, when I sell copys of the lord of the rings and the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, right? and hey, I could republish stephen hawkins papers - I'm a great physician, ain't I?
just let me make this clear: a GREAT programmer saves his employer time and money by thinking before coding and doing it right at first try (so they don't have to fix things all the time. finding bugs costs much much MUCH more money than the extra time for the thinking before doing...)
My wife works at a software manufacturers support hotline and she says there are NEVER complaints about the programs, that the CS Majors wrote, but LOTS of complaints about the programs, that the trained programmers wrote...