I think Pattaya Beach in Thailand with a nice Vaio laptop and wireless internet, with pretty girls in bikinis fetching me new batteries when I need them would be a good start. Meetings could be held in hot spas while getting a message.
Oh wait, there's a limitation that it has to be in a crowded room full of computer equipment. Not really a Dream Office now is it?
Well, I have ancient servers running on ancient Linux variants as well, just for showing off to Windows users.
Yeah, I have Gem Desktop running on MS DOS 3.3 and impress Vista users at how I am able to launch applications without needing to click 2 confirmation boxes. I can also impress them with the amazing framerate I get on the CGA version of Alley Cat.
I know the parent is probably going to get modded into oblivion, but they made an interesting point that will probably be missed. Why do we need to store all the information in a fully formatted document. I know that good ol' A4...or American Letter standard will persist for a long time, but surely if it's just the information we need to retain there would be a better way of storing it without all the formatting cruft thrown in that makes it hard to decipher if you don't have a massive spec to write a loader from.
Afterall everyone here is mainly worried about retaining the information in a format that is readable by future generations right? right!?
So some trailer park yokel who's a father killed some other trailer park yokel who had raped someone. Kinda hard to get excited about this, but my genuine feeling about this is that I hope the father gets let off.
You're saying lock him up for a long time - that's a punishment way of thinking. The killer just needs educating, locking him up doesn't benifit anyone but does cause harm to his family. What he did was out of fear, ignorance, and misinformation and he probably didn't have the mental tools to overcome what he had been presented.
Personally I was thinking that this will be the first movie I will buy in a HD format. Problem is, I don't know which HD format to get. So I guess I'll have to wait for the HD format game to play itself out before I can buy this:-/
So Yahoo et al are handing over information about people leaving the person open to persecution, and now the government is taking them to task over this.
I assume the same government will also be attacking ISPs who hand over people's information to corporations, leaving the people open to persecution. Or is there some corruption going on that would prevent this?
I've had related experiences. After watching porn on my computer I suddenly feel like I want to have sex with my wife. Seems there is a serious issue here with computer media affecting us.
The dumbass was probably thinking of Falun Gong that was banned by the Chinese Government in 1999. China's Feng Shui advisory service industry is still thriving.
Yeah um, the Chinese government actually has a whole Feng Shui industry themselves. You must be thinking about Falun Gong which was banned by the Chinese government in 1999. How does Taiwan even come into this?
The thing is, this is all some political game between governments and Microsoft. It's played out like this:
Government person A wanted to stop being locked into Microsoft products.
A was told to give a reason why.
A came up with "Because it's not a open format. Information is controlled my MS".
Policy was made that documents had to be in an open format
Microsoft pulled a naming stunt putting "Open" in the name
Policy was changed to format has to be an ISO standard
Microsoft responds by pushing OOXML through ECMA then tried to back door it through ISO
662 comments are thrown in
slashdotters spend hours playing this new game
???
Profit
So MS has changed the game by producing paperwork. The idea has changed from using standards that don't belong to MS, to using MS standards that are ISO approved. Nice move, but the reality is that most people are just happy to load MS documents in MS Word the same as they have always done. MS Word isn't going to change much, and the original idea has been buried.
Exactly what I was thinking. Besides, OOXML files seem to load fine in Word 2007 and 2003 (with the Office 2007 file format plugin). What's the problem? What benefit do I get from reading through 662 file format comments?
If god is in control of everything then why is it the most religious countries get hit with major earthquakes, flooding and tsunamis?
Because they are being punished for workshipping the wrong god. Don't you know that if you worship the wrong god you will be punished severly because the one thing god hates most is betrayal. Unfortunately all the information about the one true god was lost 1000s of years ago, so since then everyone who worships a god goes to the severest depths of hell. Your safest option is to be an atheist - the punishment is less severe.
Elsewhere in the world this sort of thing has been standard practice for defense scientists for over 30 years. If they are leaving because of this then they won't find piece of mind elsewhere. The security people just don't like workers keeping secrets that can be used to blackmail them. The people who collect this information don't care if you are gay, they just worry if you are a closet gay.
There's other things too. The enemy gets the same info from observation, they don't care about privacy laws. The security people, by collecting this information, can look for weak points, like suppose all the scientists are going to the same whore house or something. Chances are the enemy has planted a spy there, and so the security people can look for spies in that location.
Look we are talking about defense scientists. They make a choice to go into that field, they get told on day one that their personal lives will be observed.
Your's is the most sensible reply. I get your point, and if JT is giving lawyers a bad name...which is hard to say without smirking... then he should be tossed out of the club so to speak. Of course if this happens he might pop up again as a media correspondant, or as a member of some political lobbying group:-( but I guess that's life.
I'm not sure about this, I mean really it's not like he's truly evil, I know other lawyers who really are truly evil, the worst kind of people, who I think should burn in hell. Jack is someone who felt they found their cause in life, it's just that his cause positions him such that he's an opponent to those who partake in the enjoyment of action games. Yes he's an annoyance, but take away they guy's career completely, especially when there's such worse out there practicing law. Wouldn't just some kind of restraining motion to limit his outbursts be sufficient? I mean really he's been fed by the media to a certain extent. Should he lose his right to practice his profession? Is there truly joy in seeing your opponent defeated as such?
Yeah, my Taiwanese wife recently picked up a pink Kiss T-Shirt at a market with a picture of the 4 band members from the 70s. I asked her if she liked their music....Confusion followed...She thought they were an Anime cartoon:-/
And people laugh at me for using feeler gauges to adjust the distributor on my 600hp 6 pack 340 before a street race. Who's laughing now when the heat comes down!
did I mention that to restart the car while moving, you have to put the transmission halfway in between Reverse and Neutral, turn the key, then quickly shift back over into Drive in case the magical transmission gnome decides that you were closer to Reverse than Neutral
There should be some electrical cables connected to your transmission. One is for the reversing lights, and one is for the starter motor lockout. Short out the starter motor lockout and you can crank your engine while in Drive, or just hard wire a fat "Punch Me" button on the dash that connects the power directly to the starter solenoid.
It's 3pm in the afternoon where I am Taipei, but there's probably almost 0 creationists around here. I guess creationists all live on the other side of the flat earth.
Where's the pro-religion flamebait post? I sitting here waiting for the fun to begin and it's just not happening. What's the hold up? Has the scientific community found something too good to refute?
I prefer the form "I want to do you a favor and let you know that you are a , but I'm afraid that for just being the messenger you'll hold some sort of grudge against me, so I won't."
All good points, I'll try to explain to my boss that we need to cancel the interviews with anyone who has a CS degree because asking them to understand computer code is like asking a mathematician to do welding.
I agree that I don't see the point of porting C# to a server type operating system like Linux, and as far as writing CLI tools there probably isn't any difference between C# and Java. But for a Desktop operating sytem like Windows the introduction of C#/.NET as been bloody brilliant! Yes you are right, there's no place in the Linux space for Desktop Application Development Productivity tools as Linux is just for server apps.:-)
Seriously though, if it's appropriate then people will use it. If not then it will die. All options are there for people to pick from. Open Source software is driven by people working on stuff that they are interested in. If implementing C# floats their boat then it doesn't mean that they would have put that effort into developing some other language, so it's no loss that the effort has been put in. C++ is 5x faster though for stuff like image processing. Fortunately it's really easy to mix C++ and C# because that's the way C# was designed rather than the puritanical design that is Java. There are some advantages to it.
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I think Pattaya Beach in Thailand with a nice Vaio laptop and wireless internet, with pretty girls in bikinis fetching me new batteries when I need them would be a good start. Meetings could be held in hot spas while getting a message.
Oh wait, there's a limitation that it has to be in a crowded room full of computer equipment. Not really a Dream Office now is it?
Yeah, I have Gem Desktop running on MS DOS 3.3 and impress Vista users at how I am able to launch applications without needing to click 2 confirmation boxes. I can also impress them with the amazing framerate I get on the CGA version of Alley Cat.
I know the parent is probably going to get modded into oblivion, but they made an interesting point that will probably be missed. Why do we need to store all the information in a fully formatted document. I know that good ol' A4...or American Letter standard will persist for a long time, but surely if it's just the information we need to retain there would be a better way of storing it without all the formatting cruft thrown in that makes it hard to decipher if you don't have a massive spec to write a loader from.
Afterall everyone here is mainly worried about retaining the information in a format that is readable by future generations right? right!?
So some trailer park yokel who's a father killed some other trailer park yokel who had raped someone. Kinda hard to get excited about this, but my genuine feeling about this is that I hope the father gets let off.
You're saying lock him up for a long time - that's a punishment way of thinking. The killer just needs educating, locking him up doesn't benifit anyone but does cause harm to his family. What he did was out of fear, ignorance, and misinformation and he probably didn't have the mental tools to overcome what he had been presented.
So I think instead of "Idiocracy", we might end up with society splitting like in the "Time Machine". So who's the Morlocks?
Personally I was thinking that this will be the first movie I will buy in a HD format. Problem is, I don't know which HD format to get. So I guess I'll have to wait for the HD format game to play itself out before I can buy this :-/
So Yahoo et al are handing over information about people leaving the person open to persecution, and now the government is taking them to task over this.
I assume the same government will also be attacking ISPs who hand over people's information to corporations, leaving the people open to persecution. Or is there some corruption going on that would prevent this?
I've had related experiences. After watching porn on my computer I suddenly feel like I want to have sex with my wife. Seems there is a serious issue here with computer media affecting us.
The dumbass was probably thinking of Falun Gong that was banned by the Chinese Government in 1999. China's Feng Shui advisory service industry is still thriving.
Yeah um, the Chinese government actually has a whole Feng Shui industry themselves. You must be thinking about Falun Gong which was banned by the Chinese government in 1999. How does Taiwan even come into this?
The thing is, this is all some political game between governments and Microsoft. It's played out like this:
Government person A wanted to stop being locked into Microsoft products.
A was told to give a reason why.
A came up with "Because it's not a open format. Information is controlled my MS".
Policy was made that documents had to be in an open format
Microsoft pulled a naming stunt putting "Open" in the name
Policy was changed to format has to be an ISO standard
Microsoft responds by pushing OOXML through ECMA then tried to back door it through ISO
662 comments are thrown in
slashdotters spend hours playing this new game
???
Profit
So MS has changed the game by producing paperwork. The idea has changed from using standards that don't belong to MS, to using MS standards that are ISO approved. Nice move, but the reality is that most people are just happy to load MS documents in MS Word the same as they have always done. MS Word isn't going to change much, and the original idea has been buried.
I'd just prefer to play ProgressQuest.
Elsewhere in the world this sort of thing has been standard practice for defense scientists for over 30 years. If they are leaving because of this then they won't find piece of mind elsewhere. The security people just don't like workers keeping secrets that can be used to blackmail them. The people who collect this information don't care if you are gay, they just worry if you are a closet gay.
There's other things too. The enemy gets the same info from observation, they don't care about privacy laws. The security people, by collecting this information, can look for weak points, like suppose all the scientists are going to the same whore house or something. Chances are the enemy has planted a spy there, and so the security people can look for spies in that location.
Look we are talking about defense scientists. They make a choice to go into that field, they get told on day one that their personal lives will be observed.
Your's is the most sensible reply. I get your point, and if JT is giving lawyers a bad name ...which is hard to say without smirking... then he should be tossed out of the club so to speak. Of course if this happens he might pop up again as a media correspondant, or as a member of some political lobbying group :-( but I guess that's life.
I'm not sure about this, I mean really it's not like he's truly evil, I know other lawyers who really are truly evil, the worst kind of people, who I think should burn in hell. Jack is someone who felt they found their cause in life, it's just that his cause positions him such that he's an opponent to those who partake in the enjoyment of action games. Yes he's an annoyance, but take away they guy's career completely, especially when there's such worse out there practicing law. Wouldn't just some kind of restraining motion to limit his outbursts be sufficient? I mean really he's been fed by the media to a certain extent. Should he lose his right to practice his profession? Is there truly joy in seeing your opponent defeated as such?
Yep, they should have used my weak event handler factory http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/weakeventhandlerfactory.asp
Yeah, my Taiwanese wife recently picked up a pink Kiss T-Shirt at a market with a picture of the 4 band members from the 70s. I asked her if she liked their music....Confusion followed...She thought they were an Anime cartoon :-/
And people laugh at me for using feeler gauges to adjust the distributor on my 600hp 6 pack 340 before a street race. Who's laughing now when the heat comes down!
There should be some electrical cables connected to your transmission. One is for the reversing lights, and one is for the starter motor lockout. Short out the starter motor lockout and you can crank your engine while in Drive, or just hard wire a fat "Punch Me" button on the dash that connects the power directly to the starter solenoid.
It's only SA because NT isn't a state
It's 3pm in the afternoon where I am Taipei, but there's probably almost 0 creationists around here. I guess creationists all live on the other side of the flat earth.
Where's the pro-religion flamebait post? I sitting here waiting for the fun to begin and it's just not happening. What's the hold up? Has the scientific community found something too good to refute?
I prefer the form "I want to do you a favor and let you know that you are a , but I'm afraid that for just being the messenger you'll hold some sort of grudge against me, so I won't."
All good points, I'll try to explain to my boss that we need to cancel the interviews with anyone who has a CS degree because asking them to understand computer code is like asking a mathematician to do welding.
I agree that I don't see the point of porting C# to a server type operating system like Linux, and as far as writing CLI tools there probably isn't any difference between C# and Java. But for a Desktop operating sytem like Windows the introduction of C#/.NET as been bloody brilliant! Yes you are right, there's no place in the Linux space for Desktop Application Development Productivity tools as Linux is just for server apps. :-)
Seriously though, if it's appropriate then people will use it. If not then it will die. All options are there for people to pick from. Open Source software is driven by people working on stuff that they are interested in. If implementing C# floats their boat then it doesn't mean that they would have put that effort into developing some other language, so it's no loss that the effort has been put in. C++ is 5x faster though for stuff like image processing. Fortunately it's really easy to mix C++ and C# because that's the way C# was designed rather than the puritanical design that is Java. There are some advantages to it.