My Estonian cousin tells me she regrets that she will no longer be able to tell people in other countries how many EEKs (Estonian Kroons) something is worth.
I honestly don't see much difference between c-form and vb-form languages. It's just a code interface to the system. I'm not defending classic VB, mind you. I just don't think the specifics of how you implement an if-then matter much. This is particularly so in vb.net and c-sharp. Most of the code looks almost the same.
I don't miss VB. The.net framework has been a massive improvement. It's not just developers who were inconvenienced. Thousands of business owners with specialized software were forced to look for alternatives.
I loathe Microsoft. I program in .net languages.
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Seriously. My life is made hell by one stupid microsoft idiocy after another day after day (I manage a server farm of Microsoft VMs). The fact that they treat their development community like crap (Classic VB, f'rinstance) and abandon products with... abandon doesn't help much.
Despite this, that's where the jobs are and all the crabbing of myself and the development community hasn't changed that. I hated MS in 2000. I hate it in 2010. I expect to hate it in 2020. And it's not going anywhere. Profits are up. Like the air, it exists. And I'll still be cranking out C#, ASP.net, or VB.net or whatever is called for.
On both sides, large swathes of the population have been persuaded to throw a monkey wrench into the gears of their reasoning, and so are able to justify any actions at all. I started this headline with "religious fanaticism" but the communists under Stalin were no better. It's the laziness of people who would rather be willfully stupid and lie to themselves in order to be psychologically comfortable that leads down the path to these atrocities. Fundamentalists of every ilk. Feh.
I've got a bone to pick with that pork-barrel study, but after we chew the fat together, I won't have a beef with them anymore - unless they're too chicken, in which case something fishy may be going on.
Several billions of civilizations evolved and died until that universe dissipated. Many of them had some "god" theory. Only a few of these, however, involved a bearded fellow in sneakers eating a chicken burrito for lunch during the process of creation. These civilizations tended to self-destruct over time from excessive gallows humor and binge drinking.
only then will I take it seriously. It's different from waterfall, but the results don't look different to me, and I have yet to see a decently designed independent study comparing the two (If you have some, please send links).
All of that is an accidental outgrowth of the dream of human space exploration. Fooey. All that is an intentional outgrowth of a policy of competing militarily with the Soviet Union while scoring political points at home. Space was our next battleground.
The technology migrated to the public sector as military technology is wont to do. There's no reason that investments in something a bit more practical, which would also yield more new technology.
And no, we're not on the verge of serious exploration of the solar system. It still costs too much. We may send more unmanned probes out, but I'll be we're not sending humans anywhere until we get something a little more sophisticated than rockets.
At some point, NASA had better pay for itself. Had NASA done something like say, a space-based power system, or a reversible global warming regulator system, or set up a free satellite internet system, would there be *any* debate about keeping it going?
Going to the Moon or Mars is awesome. Awesome doesn't pay the bills. Awesomeness is the reasoning of an adolescent. It's way past time for NASA to grow up.
is going to have a cow over this one. Even records of Twonkies are a *big* no-no. People will be wiped out of existence. Verizon will revert back to GTE. Microsoft will have go out of business in the eighties and... H-e-e-e-e-y...
It's not just the transformers I'd worry about. During the Carrington event, even the pylons created sparks. These days we have miles of metal power carriers, not to mention the wires between them acting as an impromptu generator.
While I'd like to think that the folks who run the power systems are bright enough and well organized enough to cut the power and disconnect the dangerous bits, I doubt that the system is set up for this, or that some half-witted upper management fool wouldn't think the engineers were overreacting and decide not to cut the power as that might affect his bonus negatively if he did and nothing severe happened.
So, if you absolutely trust the designers of the electrical system, and the reaction time of decisions that have to go through management, this might help. Better than nothing, I guess.
A *warning* system that will allow us to "send alerts." Well, woo hoo! Yeah, that'll show that nasty solar storm! Of course, the millions of miles of wire generating current will still fry anything connected to them and/or themselves, and our satellite system will be largely toast, but gosh *darn* it, we'll know 15 minutes ahead of time that it's going to happen.
Of course, to do anything real like putting our grid underground as we upgrade it would cost real money so we can forget that one.
Until then, it will be confined to its cage, fed only scraps of code, and be tortured by piling new bloated features on it's back until it's slow and harmless once again.
*Then* it will be released on an unsuspecting public.
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There are some who would claim it still is.
My Estonian cousin tells me she regrets that she will no longer be able to tell people in other countries how many EEKs (Estonian Kroons) something is worth.
I need an upgrade desperately.
I honestly don't see much difference between c-form and vb-form languages. It's just a code interface to the system. I'm not defending classic VB, mind you. I just don't think the specifics of how you implement an if-then matter much. This is particularly so in vb.net and c-sharp. Most of the code looks almost the same.
I don't miss VB. The .net framework has been a massive improvement. It's not just developers who were inconvenienced. Thousands of business owners with specialized software were forced to look for alternatives.
Seriously. My life is made hell by one stupid microsoft idiocy after another day after day (I manage a server farm of Microsoft VMs). The fact that they treat their development community like crap (Classic VB, f'rinstance) and abandon products with... abandon doesn't help much.
Despite this, that's where the jobs are and all the crabbing of myself and the development community hasn't changed that. I hated MS in 2000. I hate it in 2010. I expect to hate it in 2020. And it's not going anywhere. Profits are up. Like the air, it exists. And I'll still be cranking out C#, ASP.net, or VB.net or whatever is called for.
On both sides, large swathes of the population have been persuaded to throw a monkey wrench into the gears of their reasoning, and so are able to justify any actions at all. I started this headline with "religious fanaticism" but the communists under Stalin were no better. It's the laziness of people who would rather be willfully stupid and lie to themselves in order to be psychologically comfortable that leads down the path to these atrocities. Fundamentalists of every ilk. Feh.
I've got a bone to pick with that pork-barrel study, but after we chew the fat together, I won't have a beef with them anymore - unless they're too chicken, in which case something fishy may be going on.
Several billions of civilizations evolved and died until that universe dissipated. Many of them had some "god" theory. Only a few of these, however, involved a bearded fellow in sneakers eating a chicken burrito for lunch during the process of creation. These civilizations tended to self-destruct over time from excessive gallows humor and binge drinking.
Deception or just *great* sense of humor. You decide!
Our votes have been unhooked for some years now, yet we keep going to the booths.
But I'm not jumping to any wild conclusions. Probably just a wild hare.
Wait.
only then will I take it seriously. It's different from waterfall, but the results don't look different to me, and I have yet to see a decently designed independent study comparing the two (If you have some, please send links).
All of that is an accidental outgrowth of the dream of human space exploration.
Fooey. All that is an intentional outgrowth of a policy of competing militarily with the Soviet Union while scoring political points at home. Space was our next battleground.
The technology migrated to the public sector as military technology is wont to do. There's no reason that investments in something a bit more practical, which would also yield more new technology.
And no, we're not on the verge of serious exploration of the solar system. It still costs too much. We may send more unmanned probes out, but I'll be we're not sending humans anywhere until we get something a little more sophisticated than rockets.
Semper Non-sequitor!
At some point, NASA had better pay for itself. Had NASA done something like say, a space-based power system, or a reversible global warming regulator system, or set up a free satellite internet system, would there be *any* debate about keeping it going?
Going to the Moon or Mars is awesome. Awesome doesn't pay the bills. Awesomeness is the reasoning of an adolescent. It's way past time for NASA to grow up.
I have a way of getting those old files back. 900 GB. Let's see. Gotta be in there somewhere....
is going to have a cow over this one. Even records of Twonkies are a *big* no-no. People will be wiped out of existence. Verizon will revert back to GTE. Microsoft will have go out of business in the eighties and... H-e-e-e-e-y...
It's not just the transformers I'd worry about. During the Carrington event, even the pylons created sparks. These days we have miles of metal power carriers, not to mention the wires between them acting as an impromptu generator.
While I'd like to think that the folks who run the power systems are bright enough and well organized enough to cut the power and disconnect the dangerous bits, I doubt that the system is set up for this, or that some half-witted upper management fool wouldn't think the engineers were overreacting and decide not to cut the power as that might affect his bonus negatively if he did and nothing severe happened.
So, if you absolutely trust the designers of the electrical system, and the reaction time of decisions that have to go through management, this might help. Better than nothing, I guess.
But not much.
A *warning* system that will allow us to "send alerts." Well, woo hoo! Yeah, that'll show that nasty solar storm! Of course, the millions of miles of wire generating current will still fry anything connected to them and/or themselves, and our satellite system will be largely toast, but gosh *darn* it, we'll know 15 minutes ahead of time that it's going to happen.
Of course, to do anything real like putting our grid underground as we upgrade it would cost real money so we can forget that one.
In case you hadn't noticed, the government was purchased by a consortium of corporations when Reagan got elected.
Nothing new to see here. Move along folks. Move along....
It's not like we were using them anyway. Heck, we probably saved on some tritium, assuming it didn't leak out when the power went off.
How could I find my way around without google's constant help?
Until then, it will be confined to its cage, fed only scraps of code, and be tortured by piling new bloated features on it's back until it's slow and harmless once again.
*Then* it will be released on an unsuspecting public.