No, I'm saying that I'm a much more well-rounded person because I went through those experiences. Considerably better so than the homeschooled people I know.
That's fine. And the other guy has the right to hit you back. When you stop asking to be further pummeled by launching those rockets, then you will stop being pummeled.
Go look at the West Bank for an idea where things are starting to turn around and working at least a little. Progress is being made there. Gaza? Hamas? Not so much.
As a public-school kid with an IQ of 165 and who was reading at a college level at age 9, I'll give you a hearty fuck-you on your "pity". I spoke with an adult's capacity of vocabulary about then. And it caused scorn and ridicule. And unlike the stunted homeschoolers I've met (every single one of them--something like half a dozen who came into my high school throughout the years I was there, plus a few more here at college), I learned and grew from those experiences.
As for "favoring" private or Ivy universities: I got into Cornell and Harvard for my undergraduate degree and chose not to go because I didn't have the money (though I'll be applying again as a grad student). I'd suggest that many homeschoolers have parents that can afford those schools, or are on the opposite end of the spectrum where their parents are poor enough/one-moderate-income enough to have the bills covered. The incomes are probably skewed to the minima and maxima when it comes to homeschoolers, I'd guess.
Put it this way: if a guy's coming at you with a knife and you've got a gun, would you grab a knife to engage him on-the-level or would you pick up the gun and shoot him dead?
Why should they? The Palestinians keep lobbing rockets ("oh, it wasn't us," says Hamas, and the Israelis are perfectly justified to say "fuck you, buddy, you're 'in charge' over there, act like it"), the Israelis will proceed to stomp on them.
Why should the Israelis accept casualties? (Note that I don't say that the Palestinians have to like it or accept it, either--but there's something indescribably stupid about poking the fate bear over and over and over again.)
Not at all; I can't stand the OS X look and feel more than anything, though they do put some great ideas into their machines. I've got a Windows XP Pro laptop, two Linux servers (one running the LAMP stack and also running my Windows 2k3 and Windows 2k8 virtual machines, the other my Mono development box), an old SPARCstation running some flavor of SunOS (don't have the thing plugged in), and an old laptop that dual-boots Xubuntu and XP Pro, though the latter gets more use as it's turned into my media and emulator-playing machine.
I work on whatever works properly and is the best tool for whatever I'm working on at the moment. I'm writing a web-based browser game in my spare time in PHP/MySQL; most of my consulting is either in.NET or in helping.NET people work better with Mono because they want to get away from Microsoft licensing costs.
I don't need any help from DefectiveByDesign to call the FSF a bunch of loonies. They've proven that very well themselves. And not for their licensing per se, though their licenses are unethical (CDDL/MPL good, BSD good, GPL bad--take a look and figure out why), but because they want to tell everyone else what to do with their code.
Code should only be free (and I use the real-world definition of "freedom," not Stallman's) when the creator chooses to make it so.
Being as intentionally disingenuous as you are is demeaning to everyone involved, including yourself.
They specifically wanted people to clog up appointments so people with real problems and questions couldn't get in--and evangelize to them while they wait, too.
This was a meatspace DDoS, and you encourage people to join the organization that sponsored it. Bravo, sir. Bra-fucking-vo.
No, I didn't; that's a good point. I do contracting work for small and medium-sized businesses more than those very large ones, so I can't speak to that. But even despite that, there's a pretty good chance that it's still cheaper over the long term--though any business worth its salt will take a look and figure that out for themselves rather than just picking one or the other because they like it better.
And one of mine is "use what works best," not "use what some fat greybeard says meets his idiotic standards for 'freedom'."
I'm free to recommend to clients Windows or Linux servers and apps that run on them as I see fit. That's freedom. RMS wants me to stick to shit he and his cronies have vetted as being OK by them. That's not freedom.
That's great to hear. I help to manage a couple of IIS6 servers, running some.NET applications, and security updates have always been a pain. Never mind that it often requires a server reboot. The IIS6 process also takes about a minute to restart, if I need to do so. That's a huge amount of time compared to the few seconds it takes Apache. It's not even taking into account the occasional IIS freeze when trying to restart. I have to use pskill to terminate the process properly, and then finally start up IIS. There goes 3 or 4 minutes of service downtime.
IIS7 is ridiculously nice in comparison to IIS6. I actually went out and paid for a Windows Server 2008 license in order to run it on my dev box. One of my clients transferred three servers over from 2k3 to 2k8 and IIS7--and managed to downsize to two servers because of the improvements in allowing.NET apps to play nicely together (previously the third box was running an intranet app because otherwise it tended to make another box unstable, on IIS6).
Arrgh, don't talk to me about maintaining.NET applications. A program is only as easy to maintain, as the programmer allows it to be. I've had some painful memories of fixing issues in our.NET applications.
Ease of maintenance may be better encouraged in some languages, but I've seen spaghetti code in pretty much every language I've come across. The only conclusion I can make is that language is irrelevant. Only the programmer is really important.
Yes and no. Like I said upthread a bit, I find that.NET is more likely to nudge a programmer in the right direction.
Funnily enough, I've never had so much of an issue with the perl programs I maintain. For all its reputation of obfuscation, I've never had a problem with tracking down issues with our perl code. Then again, that particular programmer did a nice job of laying out the structure neatly.
I'm a little biased in that I absolutely hate Perl (give me ONE way to do any given thing so I don't have to know all the different ways when somebody else is writing code), but sure, a good programmer can alleviate any issues like that.
Bugger that for a joke. Give me something that I like, and I'll like coding in it, whether it's proprietary or not. Because I like it, you know that I will take pride in my work and do a great job.
You misunderstand; that was referring to the moron I replied to who was going "bawwwwwww, they isn't using my pet open source softwares, how do I annoy them best?!"--there are good reasons to use what he doesn't personally like.;-)
But, you never know what you like until you try it. So far, I have to say I'm liking Linux much more than Windows.
For a server, I prefer it because it's cheap and I don't have to screw with it once it's set up (although, to be fair, setting up a Linux server properly, for me at least, tends to take an unpleasantly long time--but I have more experience setting up and managing Windows boxes). The only problem I have is that the software running on top of it kind of sucks. Apache is nice, of course, and well-built, as is PostgreSQL, but the languages--ergh. PHP? My preferred *nix language because I can get stuff done fast, but I'm under no delusions that it's not a completely craptastic language. (Weak typing? Bad Thing.) Python? Better, but ugly and annoying. Ruby? Crap crap crap, though there are some impressive things like Merb being built atop that crap foundation. Perl? Ehhhhhhh.
If mod_mono worked worth a damn with Apache, I'd switch over all my stuff to Mono development tomorrow. (It's not like I can't just plug in a different database to my ADO.NET stuff. And it'd be cheaper to sell over the long run.)
No, I don't. I've seen this too many times for it to come off as anything else. I was pushing this point because of the idiotic first post by the AC.:)
Furthermore, you're assuming (and, I think, tacitly encouraging) violating the GPL by people illicitly releasing that code. (Yes, that's a violation of the GPL to do so.)
Interesting. I would have thought somebody who cheers this to be for the GPL.
Those idiots had no intention of buying Apple products--they were doing it for the hur-hur-hur "nerd cred" that comes from doing something so titanically stupid. The grunts on the ground aren't going to change Apple policy and the people who do wouldn't have even heard of the stupid little stunt. It was an idea conceived of by the basement dwellers and reaffirmed by the echo chamber of fellow gnulots that don't understand how the world actually works (and how that differs from how somebody might want it to work).
That is, amazing in how insane they are. They are the epitome of the knee-jerk crowd that taints open source. They and DefectiveByDesign (hello, Genius Bar Invasion bullshit) are the two that come to mind when I think of people doing a lot to hurt the causes they say they're for.
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I'm sure Canada wouldn't tolerate it from the US. We'd have to invade them and burn down their White House again.
You'll run out of ice to skate on, Mountie!
No, I'm saying that I'm a much more well-rounded person because I went through those experiences. Considerably better so than the homeschooled people I know.
That's fine. And the other guy has the right to hit you back. When you stop asking to be further pummeled by launching those rockets, then you will stop being pummeled.
Go look at the West Bank for an idea where things are starting to turn around and working at least a little. Progress is being made there. Gaza? Hamas? Not so much.
Bitter much? I'm not in a frat, but the proportion of assholes to decent folks is no different than among any other group.
Did one of them cut in on that girl you were lusting after? Don't worry, you were never going to ask her out anyway.
As a public-school kid with an IQ of 165 and who was reading at a college level at age 9, I'll give you a hearty fuck-you on your "pity". I spoke with an adult's capacity of vocabulary about then. And it caused scorn and ridicule. And unlike the stunted homeschoolers I've met (every single one of them--something like half a dozen who came into my high school throughout the years I was there, plus a few more here at college), I learned and grew from those experiences.
As for "favoring" private or Ivy universities: I got into Cornell and Harvard for my undergraduate degree and chose not to go because I didn't have the money (though I'll be applying again as a grad student). I'd suggest that many homeschoolers have parents that can afford those schools, or are on the opposite end of the spectrum where their parents are poor enough/one-moderate-income enough to have the bills covered. The incomes are probably skewed to the minima and maxima when it comes to homeschoolers, I'd guess.
Put it this way: if a guy's coming at you with a knife and you've got a gun, would you grab a knife to engage him on-the-level or would you pick up the gun and shoot him dead?
Why should they? The Palestinians keep lobbing rockets ("oh, it wasn't us," says Hamas, and the Israelis are perfectly justified to say "fuck you, buddy, you're 'in charge' over there, act like it"), the Israelis will proceed to stomp on them.
Why should the Israelis accept casualties? (Note that I don't say that the Palestinians have to like it or accept it, either--but there's something indescribably stupid about poking the fate bear over and over and over again.)
Sad but true: war has casualties.
Something about not picking a fight you can't win comes to mind.
>> Israel still attacks Gaza, as evidenced by the raid on Nov. 4th that broke the cease fire.
Too bad there were still rocket attacks throughout the cease-fire well before that raid. Inconvenient for your lies, eh?
The A380 can land anywhere a 747 can. The double-decker has problems with airport gates, but the President doesn't use gates, he uses tarmac stairs.
Erm. You can't quite just refit an old plane with the kind of setup that AF1 requires.
Isn't SAM 27000 at the Reagan Library?
Not at all; I can't stand the OS X look and feel more than anything, though they do put some great ideas into their machines. I've got a Windows XP Pro laptop, two Linux servers (one running the LAMP stack and also running my Windows 2k3 and Windows 2k8 virtual machines, the other my Mono development box), an old SPARCstation running some flavor of SunOS (don't have the thing plugged in), and an old laptop that dual-boots Xubuntu and XP Pro, though the latter gets more use as it's turned into my media and emulator-playing machine.
I work on whatever works properly and is the best tool for whatever I'm working on at the moment. I'm writing a web-based browser game in my spare time in PHP/MySQL; most of my consulting is either in .NET or in helping .NET people work better with Mono because they want to get away from Microsoft licensing costs.
I don't need any help from DefectiveByDesign to call the FSF a bunch of loonies. They've proven that very well themselves. And not for their licensing per se, though their licenses are unethical (CDDL/MPL good, BSD good, GPL bad--take a look and figure out why), but because they want to tell everyone else what to do with their code.
Code should only be free (and I use the real-world definition of "freedom," not Stallman's) when the creator chooses to make it so.
Rumors aren't SLAs. Nice try.
Wasn't a troll, actually (how dare I say anything against the gnulots!), but I didn't even notice the pun until you pointed it out. Thanks. :D
Being as intentionally disingenuous as you are is demeaning to everyone involved, including yourself.
They specifically wanted people to clog up appointments so people with real problems and questions couldn't get in--and evangelize to them while they wait, too.
This was a meatspace DDoS, and you encourage people to join the organization that sponsored it. Bravo, sir. Bra-fucking-vo.
No, I didn't; that's a good point. I do contracting work for small and medium-sized businesses more than those very large ones, so I can't speak to that. But even despite that, there's a pretty good chance that it's still cheaper over the long term--though any business worth its salt will take a look and figure that out for themselves rather than just picking one or the other because they like it better.
And one of mine is "use what works best," not "use what some fat greybeard says meets his idiotic standards for 'freedom'."
I'm free to recommend to clients Windows or Linux servers and apps that run on them as I see fit. That's freedom. RMS wants me to stick to shit he and his cronies have vetted as being OK by them. That's not freedom.
That's great to hear. I help to manage a couple of IIS6 servers, running some .NET applications, and security updates have always been a pain. Never mind that it often requires a server reboot. The IIS6 process also takes about a minute to restart, if I need to do so. That's a huge amount of time compared to the few seconds it takes Apache. It's not even taking into account the occasional IIS freeze when trying to restart. I have to use pskill to terminate the process properly, and then finally start up IIS. There goes 3 or 4 minutes of service downtime.
IIS7 is ridiculously nice in comparison to IIS6. I actually went out and paid for a Windows Server 2008 license in order to run it on my dev box. One of my clients transferred three servers over from 2k3 to 2k8 and IIS7--and managed to downsize to two servers because of the improvements in allowing .NET apps to play nicely together (previously the third box was running an intranet app because otherwise it tended to make another box unstable, on IIS6).
Arrgh, don't talk to me about maintaining .NET applications. A program is only as easy to maintain, as the programmer allows it to be. I've had some painful memories of fixing issues in our .NET applications.
Ease of maintenance may be better encouraged in some languages, but I've seen spaghetti code in pretty much every language I've come across. The only conclusion I can make is that language is irrelevant. Only the programmer is really important.
Yes and no. Like I said upthread a bit, I find that .NET is more likely to nudge a programmer in the right direction.
Funnily enough, I've never had so much of an issue with the perl programs I maintain. For all its reputation of obfuscation, I've never had a problem with tracking down issues with our perl code. Then again, that particular programmer did a nice job of laying out the structure neatly.
I'm a little biased in that I absolutely hate Perl (give me ONE way to do any given thing so I don't have to know all the different ways when somebody else is writing code), but sure, a good programmer can alleviate any issues like that.
Bugger that for a joke. Give me something that I like, and I'll like coding in it, whether it's proprietary or not. Because I like it, you know that I will take pride in my work and do a great job.
You misunderstand; that was referring to the moron I replied to who was going "bawwwwwww, they isn't using my pet open source softwares, how do I annoy them best?!"--there are good reasons to use what he doesn't personally like. ;-)
But, you never know what you like until you try it. So far, I have to say I'm liking Linux much more than Windows.
For a server, I prefer it because it's cheap and I don't have to screw with it once it's set up (although, to be fair, setting up a Linux server properly, for me at least, tends to take an unpleasantly long time--but I have more experience setting up and managing Windows boxes). The only problem I have is that the software running on top of it kind of sucks. Apache is nice, of course, and well-built, as is PostgreSQL, but the languages--ergh. PHP? My preferred *nix language because I can get stuff done fast, but I'm under no delusions that it's not a completely craptastic language. (Weak typing? Bad Thing.) Python? Better, but ugly and annoying. Ruby? Crap crap crap, though there are some impressive things like Merb being built atop that crap foundation. Perl? Ehhhhhhh.
If mod_mono worked worth a damn with Apache, I'd switch over all my stuff to Mono development tomorrow. (It's not like I can't just plug in a different database to my ADO.NET stuff. And it'd be cheaper to sell over the long run.)
No, I don't. I've seen this too many times for it to come off as anything else. I was pushing this point because of the idiotic first post by the AC. :)
Furthermore, you're assuming (and, I think, tacitly encouraging) violating the GPL by people illicitly releasing that code. (Yes, that's a violation of the GPL to do so.)
Interesting. I would have thought somebody who cheers this to be for the GPL.
Those idiots had no intention of buying Apple products--they were doing it for the hur-hur-hur "nerd cred" that comes from doing something so titanically stupid. The grunts on the ground aren't going to change Apple policy and the people who do wouldn't have even heard of the stupid little stunt. It was an idea conceived of by the basement dwellers and reaffirmed by the echo chamber of fellow gnulots that don't understand how the world actually works (and how that differs from how somebody might want it to work).
BoycottNovell is an amazing organization.
That is, amazing in how insane they are. They are the epitome of the knee-jerk crowd that taints open source. They and DefectiveByDesign (hello, Genius Bar Invasion bullshit) are the two that come to mind when I think of people doing a lot to hurt the causes they say they're for.
Except that even the GPL doesn't require redistribution of source inside an organization, like a government.
And you assume that they will leave the source "lying around."