I endorse this product!
@blakeyrat said:
@serguey123 said:Ok, from a purely philosophical view, that is correct, except is not american concept. Have you heard about the French Revolution?Have you heard about the Mayflower Accord?
It might not be an "American" (meaning: the government of the United States of America) idea, but it's definitely an American (the occupants of North America) idea.
Not to mention that the American Revolution started in 1776 and the French Revolution was from 1789–1799. The words "All men are created equal" was penned and signed in the Declaration of Independence 13 years before the French Revolution even began, making his arguement completely retarded.
@blakeyrat said:
And seemingly 100% of the local news crews, who like to create huge banners reading "SNOWSTORM '10!" with cute animated backgrounds. As if snowing is an actual event.) Fucking Californians.
"I even heard one guy on CNN talk about a "rain event". I swear to God, he said, "Louisiana is expecting a rain event." And I thought, "Holy shit, I hope I can get tickets to that!"" - George Carlin
@blakeyrat said:
Come on, has this actually happened? I'm sorry, but without any kind of cite or references, I doubt this has *ever* happened, much less is a trend.
The Tower of Pisa?
@dhromed said:
I didn't know morbs was post-op. Congrats!@XIU said:
There are no girls on my tubes!There was a girl on my tube, last time.
That was pretty good.
@blakeyrat said:
@Helix said:TRWTF is that
<a href="http://forums.thedailywtf.com/members/Indrora.aspx">Indrora</a> has not replied, i demand that a binding rule of TDWTF is that all OP of threads reply to their own thread at least once.</p><p> </p><p><br></p><p></blockquote>
He's got like 47lbs of furry porn comics to read. They sell them by the pound, you know.
I thought they came in 50lb bags? You know, like dog food.
@blakeyrat said:
But we already have a stupid slang name for the dollar: a buck.New rule! Let's start calling the dollar the "wheezle" just to confuse people! I bought a 8 wheezle lunch today.
Wow, nokidding. So drivers are going to start to expect 3d children to eventually turn 2d. And if they don't... 50 points!!!
@RogerWilco said:
In my day we played MUDs over telnet on 2400 baud modems. An 8086/88 XT was sufficicient. For example Infinity at the Virtual World Club of New Mexico, or later Dutch Mountains which we ran ourselves on an printer server because the lag from Europe to the USA was sometimes enormous, while on our server there was only a problem in the rare case someone printed something.We still chose a class and a race, levelled to level 60, did quests for the Infinity Gauntlet or the Dark Sword and slew monsters like the Purple Snorklewhacker, Puff the Fractal Dragon and Tiamat the Dragon God. These required groups with at least two tanks, preferably an anti-paladin, three healers and 6 damage dealers with complex tactics for the more advanced bosses. We often had up to 80 people online. A fresh level 60 would have around 1300 hitpoints and/or mana, but if you had the best gear and achiements, top players could have up to 5-6k HP if you were a tank, or 4k mana if you were a caster. For the damage dealers the top was if you could generate bug messages in the server log. My Half-giant Monk didn't get further then damage messages in capitals.
Ahh yes, I remember my first BBS too. 2400 baud rate modem connecting to the Wizards Realm BBS. Can't remember the name of that MUD though that they had, something about taking on the four elements: earth air water fire. There was some sphinx that would fuck you up. It was some local (at the time) BBS, a lot of the people would meet up on Friday nights. I'm from New Mexico and I never heard of the Virtual World Club though.
Found their info surprisingly.
Name: The Wizard's Realm BBS
Location: Albuquerque NM
Human-email: SYSOP@WIZREALM.COM
HTTP: http://wizrealm.com/twrmore.html
Modem: 505-839-0612 (28.8), 839-0067 (14.4), 839-0048 (2400)
Prices: 0.40/hour dialup; 0.80 telnet
@Nelle said:
@Xyro said:@Nelle said:@b_redeker said:[Citation needed]My guess would be that it will me more or less the same, plus or minus a couple CPU cycles, or some memory.if you are using java, i don't believe you care about CPU cycles or memory
citation
i know its from 2005 and that much has changed since then, but the cards in the industry have already been dealt. c/c++ got real-time/embedded/efficient and java got enterprise.
or do you really think that an average Java programmer cares about cpu cycles or ram?
hell if you'd googled memory problems and java, i'm sure the most common response would be setting the -Xm... flags and not "optimizing the code".
Not a very compelling article. While I did like the Doom series, Carmack is hardly the expert on what is the best language. He has made his living on developing rendering engines and video games in C. This is sort of like asking a UNIX fenatic to give a fair evaluation of Windows 7.
The reason most Java developers don't worry about cpu cycles is because they don't have to. For the last time: JAVE IS NOT A LOW LEVEL LANGUAGE! It is not designed to mess with memory address registries. Get over it. It is designed to remove this burdon from the programmer so that they can focus on design rather than low level "did I allocate enough memory?"
So it doesn't perform as fast as native C, boo fucking hoo. If I was writing code for the CIA that needed to be lightning fast or Al Queda would swoop down and bomb the capitol I might go with something else, but if I'm developing some stupid little web app I'm gonna use Spring MVC, get it done in a couple of days and move on with my life in the knowledge that I did not have to suffer through one fucking segmentation fault.
@Someone You Know said:
Your second example would be preferred in this case, since it avoids creating a Double object that doesn't then get used for anything. That's why the static Double.toString(double) method exists in the first place. Granted, one extra local Double is probably not going to cause any serious problems, but it's better style (and slightly faster to type).
Fair enough, but I guess my point was that we don't really know which way is better: using the Double.toString(), the new Double(d).toString() or the use of the "String + double" overloaded "+" operator. Since I can't find how the logic for that is implemented it's hard to say which method is actually more effecient. On top of that, we don't know what the compiler is doing. The compiler might simply lump the two different ways together into the same byte code when all is said and done.
@mol1111 said:
@pkmnfrk said:
Everything else has been covered, but this is what bugs me:
@zelmak said:
String temp = "" + d;
If only there was a way to convert something toString!
That's pretty standard Java idiom. It's the shortest way to code that.
That and the primitive data types in Java do not have a toString() method. So you could do it like this I guess:
String temp = new Double(d).toString();
or
String temp = Double.toString(d);
Looking at the implementation that I found for the Double class, calling that method does this:
public static String toString(double d) {
return org.apache.harmony.luni.util.NumberConverter.convert(d);
}
That method looks like this:
<font color="#7f0055">public</font> <font color="#7f0055">static</font> String convert(<font color="#7f0055">double</font> input) {
<font color="#7f0055">return</font> getConverter().convertD(input);
}
getConverter() does:
<font color="#7f0055">private</font> <font color="#7f0055">static</font> NumberConverter getConverter() {
<font color="gray"></font> <font color="#7f0055">return</font> <font color="#7f0055">new</font> NumberConverter();
<font color="gray"></font>}
Wait, what? We need a new instance of the class we're already in? WTF?
And finally the convertD() method does this:
<font color="gray">055:</font> <font color="#7f0055">public</font> String convertD(<font color="#7f0055">double</font> inputNumber) {
<font color="gray">056:</font> <font color="#7f0055">int</font> p = <font color="#990000">1023</font> + <font color="#990000">52</font>; <font color="#3f7f5f">// the power offset (precision)</font>
<font color="gray">057:</font> <font color="#7f0055">long</font> signMask = <font color="#990000">0x8000000000000000L</font>; <font color="#3f7f5f">// the mask to get the sign of</font>
<font color="gray">058:</font> <font color="#3f7f5f">// the number</font>
<font color="gray">059:</font> <font color="#7f0055">long</font> eMask = <font color="#990000">0x7FF0000000000000L</font>; <font color="#3f7f5f">// the mask to get the power bits</font>
<font color="gray">060:</font> <font color="#7f0055">long</font> fMask = <font color="#990000">0x000FFFFFFFFFFFFFL</font>; <font color="#3f7f5f">// the mask to get the significand</font>
<font color="gray">061:</font> <font color="#3f7f5f">// bits</font>
<font color="gray">062:</font>
<font color="gray">063:</font> <font color="#7f0055">long</font> inputNumberBits = Double.doubleToLongBits(inputNumber);
<font color="gray">064:</font> <font color="#3f7f5f">// the value of the sign... 0 is positive, ~0 is negative</font>
<font color="gray">065:</font> String signString = (inputNumberBits & signMask) == <font color="#990000">0</font> ? <font color="#2a00ff">""</font>
<font color="gray">066:</font> : <font color="#2a00ff">"-"</font>;
<font color="gray">067:</font> <font color="#3f7f5f">// the value of the 'power bits' of the inputNumber</font>
<font color="gray">068:</font> <font color="#7f0055">int</font> e = (<font color="#7f0055">int</font>) ((inputNumberBits & eMask) >> <font color="#990000">52</font>);
<font color="gray">069:</font> <font color="#3f7f5f">// the value of the 'significand bits' of the inputNumber</font>
<font color="gray">070:</font> <font color="#7f0055">long</font> f = inputNumberBits & fMask;
<font color="gray">071:</font> <font color="#7f0055">boolean</font> mantissaIsZero = f == <font color="#990000">0</font>;
<font color="gray">072:</font> <font color="#7f0055">int</font> pow = <font color="#990000">0</font>, numBits = <font color="#990000">52</font>;
<font color="gray">073:</font>
<font color="gray">074:</font> <font color="#7f0055">if</font> (e == <font color="#990000">2047</font>)
<font color="gray">075:</font> <font color="#7f0055">return</font> mantissaIsZero ? signString + <font color="#2a00ff">"Infinity"</font> : <font color="#2a00ff">"NaN"</font>;
<font color="gray">076:</font> <font color="#7f0055">if</font> (e == <font color="#990000">0</font>) {
<font color="gray">077:</font> <font color="#7f0055">if</font> (mantissaIsZero)
<font color="gray">078:</font> <font color="#7f0055">return</font> signString + <font color="#2a00ff">"0.0"</font>;
<font color="gray">079:</font> <font color="#7f0055">if</font> (f == <font color="#990000">1</font>)
<font color="gray">080:</font> <font color="#3f7f5f">// special case to increase precision even though 2 *</font>
<font color="gray">081:</font> <font color="#3f7f5f">// Double.MIN_VALUE is 1.0e-323</font>
<font color="gray">082:</font> <font color="#7f0055">return</font> signString + <font color="#2a00ff">"4.9E-324"</font>;
<font color="gray">083:</font> pow = <font color="#990000">1</font> - p; <font color="#3f7f5f">// a denormalized number</font>
<font color="gray">084:</font> <font color="#7f0055">long</font> ff = f;
<font color="gray">085:</font> <font color="#7f0055">while</font> ((ff & <font color="#990000">0x0010000000000000L</font>) == <font color="#990000">0</font>) {
<font color="gray">086:</font> ff = ff << <font color="#990000">1</font>;
<font color="gray">087:</font> numBits--;
<font color="gray">088:</font> }
<font color="gray">089:</font> } <font color="#7f0055">else</font> {
<font color="gray">090:</font> <font color="#3f7f5f">// 0 < e < 2047</font>
<font color="gray">091:</font> <font color="#3f7f5f">// a "normalized" number</font>
<font color="gray">092:</font> f = f | <font color="#990000">0x0010000000000000L</font>;
<font color="gray">093:</font> pow = e - p;
<font color="gray">094:</font> }
<font color="gray">095:</font>
<font color="gray">096:</font> <font color="#7f0055">if</font> (-<font color="#990000">59</font> < pow && pow < <font color="#990000">6</font> || (pow == -<font color="#990000">59</font> && !mantissaIsZero))
<font color="gray">097:</font> longDigitGenerator(f, pow, e == <font color="#990000">0</font>, mantissaIsZero, numBits);
<font color="gray">098:</font> else
<font color="gray">099:</font> bigIntDigitGeneratorInstImpl(f, pow, e == <font color="#990000">0</font>,
<font color="gray">100:</font> mantissaIsZero, numBits);
<font color="gray">101:</font>
<font color="gray">102:</font> <font color="#7f0055">if</font> (inputNumber >= <font color="#990000">1e7D</font> || inputNumber <= -<font color="#990000">1e7D</font>
<font color="gray">103:</font> || (inputNumber > -<font color="#990000">1e-3D</font> && inputNumber < <font color="#990000">1e-3D</font>))
<font color="gray">104:</font> <font color="#7f0055">return</font> signString + freeFormatExponential();
<font color="gray">105:</font>
<font color="gray">106:</font> <font color="#7f0055">return</font> signString + freeFormat();
<font color="gray">107:</font> }
Now, I haven't seen the implementation for the + operator overloading of String + double, so I can't say that it is any better.
@Someone You Know said:
Trustworthy or not, it's a lot more interesting than OzPeter's version. If the audience could submit insults to be included on the cards, it might make want to actually watch a match.
They should make it like Hockey: whenever there is a foul, the two involved get up and start fighting. First one to drop like a bitch has to go sit on the sideline for 1 minute.
Also, whenever somebody from the Italian team falls down, they are immediately red carded for being a diving baby.
@The_Assimilator said:
"The configuration must all a total number per hour with a hour many per 15 minutes option this must"
I am willing to be that a small green guy named Yoda wrote the requirements for you. You should be so fortunate.
@OzPeter said:
@b_redeker said:I know - that was weird given all the other theatrics in the game. Maybe he missed the team session where they told them to win at all costs ??? (witness the kick to Xabi Alonso's chest by De Jong)TRWTF is that the one time that Robben actually has a reason to fall over, he doesn't.
Disclaimer: I don't know anybody's names.
Or the time that Xavi(?) was pushed down from behind in the penalty area (second half) after beating the defender and didn't get the PK called...
The Dutch can't really bitch about that game, it was out of control on both sides. Plus, that "awsome" striker of yours missed TWO one on ones with the goalie... he has his chances.
They should have red carded everybody in that game except for the goalies and let those two duel it out. It was a mess.
@Joeyg said:
In Linux I can copy and paste between terminals by selecting text to copy, and right-clicking to paste. Under windows I need to load a GUI to even get more than one terminal, and copying and pasting is a goddamned nightmare. (Though Windows deftly avoids this by making its command line completely useless, to the point where you're better off using PuTTY to log into a real computer. And PuTTY, thankfully, does copy-and-paste correctly.)
No, you don't need a GUI to copy and paste. Where do you get your information / experience? So are you saying that opening a terminal window in linux/unix isn't a GUI, but opening command prompt in Windows is?
Using the command prompt, you click and drag over the text you want to copy, right click on it, then right click in the other command prompt. Why do you seem to not be able to do this?
As to your last point, what exactly is "copy-and-paste correctly" supposed to mean? And who made you the fucking governing body over how copy and paste should work?
@db2 said:
TFS can do exclusive or shared locks as well, and you can choose which type you want when checking out (I default to shared, and occasionally need an exclusive lock). It also doesn't suck a bag of rocks, which is nice.
You my friend are delusional. TFS is a steaming pile of shit, trying to be a version control, bug tracking software, auto building and deploying, IDE, email client, coffee maker all in one. We have two sides to our development team here: the Java guys and the .NET guys. For the .NET guys working in VS, TFS isn't all that bad. It integrates fairly well inside of VS. For the Java guys... well, it just sucks. There are plugins that you can purchase for eclipse and intelliJ, but they really suck.
Checking in: Say you want to check in a file, one file. You right click and select Check in Pending Changes... Why the fuck does every single god damned file I have checked out show up in the list making me scroll to ensure the file(s) that I want are the only ones being checked in?
Ticket Numbers: Why is there not a system for the ticketing like JIRA? Why can't I have my ticket numbers LM-100 for loss mitigation ticket number 100? Why does it have to be this single ever growing number (already after two months over 60k)? So 6 months from now I have to say "hey bob, did you look at ticket one million two hundred sixty four thousand four hundered and thrirty nine yet?"
Check out for edit: Why would I check something out that I do not intend to edit? In CVS/SVN/everotherfuckingsystem you can view files without having to check them out. When I check something out IT"S FOR EDIT. But in TFS, you check things out casually and if you want to check something back in you have to first go and check it out for edit, then you can check in your changes.
Renaming files/moving files :
Editing a file in Notepad/Wordpad/anyfuckingpad: TFS will not allow this unless the file is checked out for edit through TFS placing a lock on that file in the system so nobody else can check it out. So if I have something "casually" checked out and I want to edit it (say a SQL file or whatever) in some other editer other than eclipse or VS, I have to go to the TFS explorer (or eclipse or VS) and check the file out for edit placing a lock on the file. Nice.
Local changes: Eclipse has a nice feature that allows you to look through your local history that you haven't checked in. That way if you fucked something up you can go back to 3 hours ago and see what you've done. The TFS plugin for eclipse completely erases this feature. Now, while you say "that's not a problem with TFS" I don't give a fuck, I am a Java developer and I use eclipse. So they get attributed to TFS.
No Linking: If I had a ticket and said "hey bob, look at this ticket..." with JIRA I could link to it http://ourjira.com/ticket-100. But in TFS you cannot hyperlink to specific tickets, which forces you to send the number and have that person browse for it.
Bad UI: The web interface for TFS does not work in FF or Chrome. Now, considering that this product is mostly for developers, and most developers that I know use FF, this is pretty stupid.
Builds: We have a few older applications that perform ANT builds. This causes problems because ANT changes a couple of files, including two jars, and in order to do this (as stated earlier) I have to have them all checked out for edit...
Price: Not only does this steaming pile of shit cost a fuckton (metric of course) of money, now EVERY SINGLE PERSON that you want to be able to enter and view tickets has to purchase a $350 lisence. We have over 60 developers, 40 PM and BM's and 200 other users that used JIRA. Now we need about 200-300 lisences at $350 per person for a product that is no better than JIRA and SVN.
@Who_the_Fuck said:
@stratos said:Can't we just keep calling it "sad" and be done with it?I agree. It's quite sad to have to stay at home during a vacation. Me, I just go into the office as per normal, except that, instead of doing work, I just hang out, mess around on the computers and stuff. It's amazing how much *stuff* you can get done when you're able to simply tell everyone who wants something from you, "Sorry; I'm on PTO."
I think this is the saddest thing since Old Yeller died. I would have had respect had you had said "I sit at home on my vacation with a bottle of rum, a jar of patrolium jelly and jerk off all day to 'Morbs and the Donkey, a Love Story'", but going to work on your vacation?
@PJH said:
@JesusChrist said:@bjolling said:Catholic priests don't. Oh no.What's next? Internet censorship?Exactly, just banning a bunch of stuff is much easier than using parenting skills to make sure your kids aren't doing anything inappropriate on the net. Remember it's for the children. You don't hate children do you?
Neither does Mohammad if my learnings of it from certain media are to believed.
Great, now some jihad happy towelhead is going to come blow up this site because you said something about Mohammad. Thanks.
I vote no. I really hate people that get offended by every little thing and want everybody else to "take it down, its offensive man". My grandfather died in WWII, but I don't go around kicking Germans in the nuts for it, or hating Volkswagons. Ok, the VW Beatle is a piece of shit, but other than that, they're fine.
Oversensitive vaginas need to go fuck off. Just my 2 cents.
@RTapeLoadingError said:
Do they have to upgrade all the PCs blindly or could they upgrade one PC and see if the applications continue to work?
Out of interest, how many apps and PCs are we talking about?
They would, of course, have a test user group that they would upgrade and ensure things worked first on those PCs before pushing to everybody. They do that with other software, why they refuse to do it with SP2 is beyond me.
Probably around 2k PCs and god only knows how many apps. We have TONS of vendor apps that are used and probably 50 or so in house apps (although most of those are web applications, so the upgrade shouldn't affect them).
It wouldn't be a trivial thing to test all of the possible applications that we have, but it could be done. I guess they have deemed it "not worth our time."
@OzPeter said:
it was an XP Pro system with only SP 2 on it and I have no doubts that the application was barfing because of the how ancient the system was as I deal almost daily with the numnuts who wrote it. Now I have to somehow get the customer to convince their corporate IT monkeys to update the system (and I wonder if we get past IE6 this time?).
I feel you on this one. For some reason my company refuses to get past XP SP2. They are worried about possibly causing some applications to fail if we upgrade all of the PCs. Now, we just got licenses for Visual Studio 2010, which will not work on anything older than SP3. All of our internal employees are running IE6 still too :p Yes, we are on the bleeding edge of technology here.
We do need a mid level J2EE developer if you want to come over and maintain our awsome Java 1.4 workflow system :p Please send your resume to whyme@trwtf.com
@bstorer said:
@Xyro said:
...it will take 2-3 years until a decent implementation is created by SpringSure, if you consider 30,000 lines of XML configuration to be a decent implementation.the Apache Foundation...
FTFY
I don't know why the folks at Spring love XML configuration files so much.
@Smitty said:
Yeah I love the salaried plus on-call combo.
This part doesn't really bother me. While a little over time pay would be nice, I like knowing just how much money is going to be in my account at the end of the month. I don't have to worry about: did I get enough hours in to pay the bills? What bothers me is the second part of your post.
@Smitty said:
Unfortunately, on-call really means "IT bitch for a week". When anything, and I mean anything, is going wrong, the on-call person gets to deal with it. Even in the middle of the day during the week, even if the problem is with systems the dev has never seen and someone much more qualified is sitting next to him.
What bothers me is when I get calls such as "I can't log in.." or "the web site isn't up...". I... Don't... Care! I... Don't... Have... Access! For some reason, just because I wrote the application, I am expected to be the go to guy for anything that goes wrong. Nobody here seems to understand that I am a.) not tier 1 tech support, and b.) don't have admin access to the box, so I can't do anything about it anyway.
Managers, users write this down:
Developers != Tier 1 tech support
Developers != System administrators
Developers != DBA
@b_redeker said:
My guess is this was an attempt to make something generic. If you now loop the columns of the resultset, when you encounter the null column, you know it's the last.
Too bad you can't ask the original developer and beat him over the head with the null column.
Yeah, maybe it was developed with an old library that didn't have peek or size functionality, and to prevent going out of bounds on the result set they had a NULL column. Not the best way to do it, but it would certainly work.
@derula said:
@bstorer said:Bavarian cream donutsHello Wikipedia:Bavarian cream or Crème bavaroise or simply Bavarois[1]is a classic dessert, a Swiss invention according to the French,[2] but one that was included in the repertory of...
Who gives a shit what the French think?
@bstorer said:
@powerlord said:
I don't know what broken, retarded version of Eclipse you're using, but 3.4 copies styling without any such problems.@dhromed said:
@blakeyrat said:
I still don't get why your editors don't copy the style data along with the text-- what is this, 1985?Visual Studio does it.
Eclipse does it, but manages to screw it up by copying the highlight color as well (but not the foreground text color). So, by default it pastes black text on a dark-blue background that is impossible to actually read.
I think he's talking about when you copy and paste it into an email. It has nothign to do with eclipse, but with MS Outlook. Sometimes when I copy paste code into an email I have to select "Keep Text Only" and other times it shows the code just as it looks in Eclipse. I think the problem is with Outlook though and not Eclipse.
When I copy paste simple lines like:
InvCatTranslationEntry l_answer = null;
I get the black text with a dark blue background, but when I copy paste something like:
if ( null == l_answer )
{
//something
}
Everything looks as it does in Eclipse. And I use Ganymede for reference.
@dhromed said:
@amischiefr said:
And just how often does you company actually contact MS for support regarding IE6?What is your point?
Dropping support means there will not be any more automatic updates pertaining to that particular software. I don't think anyone has ever called up MS for a problem with IE6.
Who cares about automatic updates from MS? My point is, changing a product because it is no longer supported seems like a silly reason to do so, unless you are relying on MS to actually provide security updates for your company. In which case it is time to hire some better security personel.
@Aaron said:
@amischiefr said:
The temperature 'does' spike, and it 'does' change every year. Saying that it has cooled over the last decade proves nothing.It proves nothing except that the predictions of more warming were wrong. I wasn't using 10 years of data in an attempt to prove that global temperatures were permanently trending down. Pretty big difference there bucko.
ORLY
@Aaron said:
Satellite data from the last decade proved that global temperatures were actually getting colder, so the "climate scientists" just changed their model to say "oh yeah, we didn't mean it's going to constantly get warmer, it'll probably go up and down a lot in between."
No, there have 'always' been spikes in the data. I have never seen any scientific study that illustrates that the temperature will increase every single year. If you have, please provide some links to creditable scientific studies that illustrate such. It doesn't prove that scientists saying "the average global temperature is warming" as wrong, it indicates that there is a cooling trend over the past decade. Nobody creditable that I have ever seen has ever said that the temperature didn't rise and fall from year to year, and decade to decade.
You then go on to show the solar activity chart, and claim that the earth IS warming up due to solar activity.
@Aaron said:
The earth's been getting hotter because the sun's been getting really friggin' hot. Whodathunkit? Crazy eh!?
Which one is it? Are we cooling or warming? Make up your mind.
I agree with you that the environmentalweeniez and Al Gore need to suck a dick. I am not on their side argueing that your turbo deisel is goign to kill us. I was argueing your logical reasoning for saying that scientists were wrong in stating that the average temperature is rising, which for some reason you are also trying to prove them right with your last sentance there.
@belgariontheking said:
That's not all. We're upgrading to IE8 this year because in June, IE6 drops off of official support by MS. I shudder to think how long IE6 would be the default if MS supported it forever.
And just how often does you company actually contact MS for support regarding IE6?
@Aaron said:
Satellite data from the last decade proved that global temperatures were actually getting colder, so the "climate scientists" just changed their model to say "oh yeah, we didn't mean it's going to constantly get warmer, it'll probably go up and down a lot in between." I can make better predictions than that for the stock market.
Wow, that's just amazingly stupid and ignorant.
The temperature 'does' spike, and it 'does' change every year. Saying that it has cooled over the last decade proves nothing. You need to look at longer trends. Look at the past data, between 1900 and 1910 the temperature dropped steadily there too. But, since 1900 to present, the average temperature overall is rising. There isn't some smooth exponential or logarithmic curve that models the data. Although, if I created one in Matlab for you, and it showed a steady increase (which it would), would you believe it then, or place it under Government conspiracy?
@blakeyrat said:
The fox smoking the blunt is epic. The filename suggests it's supposed to be a cat (gato), but I'm sticking with fox.
A fox you say? Ahh so Indora wrote this site. That explains quite a bit. Furry's like bright flashing lights.
@blakeyrat said:
You know, you guys don't have to agree with me. You also don't have to be complete assholes. I'm done with this thread.
I only see one person consistently being a condescending dick here.
@blakeyrat said:
I'm sure that lowers my 1337ness in your eyes, but I'd rather be less 1337 than accidentally delete files.
@blakeyrat said:
Do you care more about having bug-free software, or proving you're smarter than your co-workers?
@blakeyrat said:
Well, first of all, you can't expect a programmer who uses the word "grok" in casual conversation to do anything except sit in the basement and watch Star Trek.
@blakeyrat said:
It is known, but that's not the point. The point is you use that word instead of a word *everybody* knows as a way of sounding smarter than everybody else. I'm not a fan of that. Much like the ternary operator, you're using a word that's entirely redundant, yet not as well-known.Also, that book sucked shit. I'll never understand why that's considered Heinlein's best work.
@blakeyrat said:
I don't know what software industry you work for, but the one I'm in has a ton of friggin' idiots in it. If you have two equivalent options, and one is easier for friggin' idiots, you should use that one. Otherwise, the next friggin' idiot who gets a hold of your code (and it will happen sooner or later) is going to shit all over it trying to use the more advanced constructs you're comfortable with, but they are not.
@blakeyrat said:
Programming is only about "writing code" if you only care about writing code. If you care about creating good, stable products, usable products, writing code is the least of it. What amazes me most is how many programmers that simply do not get that.Did you get all that?
@blakeyrat said:
So you don't give a shit if the program you worked on becomes buggy because your replacement couldn't maintain it. Fine, if you feel that way, although I don't want to be a customer of your company knowing that.
And this one is just plain stupid, of course knowing how to use the language you are programming in makes a difference in your ability to write bug-free software.
@blakeyrat said:
Secondly, writing bug-free software has pretty much nothing to do with your knowledge of the language.
@morbiuswilters said:
He said "btw: in Holland..." they have porn right there on the street, why would you want to use your 2 inch phone screen to look at porn when you could look simply look left?@dtech said:
@Mole said:
My typical mobile internet *without* browsing is 100 - 150MB. With browsing, it can easily reach 500MB.How do you do that? The only mobile thing I could think of is email (maybe IM). If you consider an average email 1 kB (I think they're actually smaller usually)... You geta million mails every month? Even without spam filtering I find that hard to imagine...
btw: in Holland "fair use" is legally defined as (user-average*10), if they offer that (and give a 2 warnings before billing/locking you out) companies may call something "unlimited"
Web browsing? File downloads? YouTube? Porn?
You're about four months too late. We already had this discussion.
[quote user="Renan "C#" Sousa"]
The Cadillac WTF was designed with high-quality materials that are built to last 100 years of daily use without any maintenance.
Estimated by a PHB. I'll only be convinced about it the day I check a 100-year-old WTF model and it lives up to this, which is less likely than me getting a DeLorean with a Flux Capacitor.
[/quote]
Which begs the question: what's in a name? Maybe the designer just knows this is going to be one big WTF.
BTW, Where the fuck is the door? How the hell do you get in this thing, fred flinstone style? Dukes of Hazard style? Maybe you get teleported in.
@stratos said:
However, since the "problem" seems to be the math, why the fuck are these people doing math anyway? They enter data, the software should be doing the math. Unless of course the application asks m2 and they only have a width and a height data, in that case they should be shot to preserve the gene pool.
Because sometimes you have to do the math by hand to make sure the jackass that wrote the code got it right.
@DaveyDaveDave said:
This would be a reasonable argument, if you showed the same list for the US with '0' against each year, because of all the friendly passers-by using their guns to prevent people getting shot. As per my post above, 20 times as many people get shot in the US, per 100,000 of population, than in England, so your numbers above are something like 100-times bigger for the US. Put another way,"does giving the right of the common man to carry guns prevent douchebags from shooting people? Apparently not even in the USA."
You completely missed the point of my arguement. I was not trying to compare America to Englend. I was trying to illustrate that even with all of those strict gun laws, you could not prevent people from being murdered with guns. True, you have shifted the burdon of murder to knives, bats etc., but you didn't stop the criminals from getting guns and using them. Sure, they are less accessible, therefore criminals are using alternate means of comiting crimes, but you haven't prevented it.
That was my whole point. Banning weapons only stops regular joes from carrying them. The criminals don't care about a 'no-gun law'. They will get them, and use them regardless.
@AJAXdrivenBuzzwords said:
Having worked in both Eclipse and Visual Studio I have to agree with OP that Eclipse is better. Move lines up and down without copying and pasting, Open Type (ctrl-shift-T), Open Resource (ctrl-shift-R), far superoir refactoring, incremental builds, Organize Imports, free plug-ins (I know VS has them but the second they get usable the author normally goes to a paid version).You can program for hours in Eclipse without taking your hands of the keyboard or taking a trip through the Solution Explorer.
Best of all its free, most of its plug-ins are free, and its got an open community that you can join to make it better.
Don't forget: being able to modify code while in debug mode.
@morbiuswilters said:
Pfft.. fuck that. I do all my banking with Citi, BoA and Chase. I know my money is safe, because Congress, the Fed and the Treasury cannot let them fail without looking like idiots; they will take every penny you have and use it to prop up my banks before they let me be at risk.
I'm confident in my financial security: my deposits are backed by the full faith, credit and vanity of the United States Government.
Yeah but as long as the small bank is FDIC insured you are guarenteed to get your money (up to a certain amount of course, which being a poor developer I'm not worried about, I don't know about you, but I don't currently have 20 Million sitting in any of my accounts).
@morbiuswilters said:
A person intending to murder will carry a gun whether it is legal or not. The only people who are stopped by gun bans are people wanting to defend themselves. In the US, mass shootings almost always happen in gun-free zones. Disarming law-abiding citizens turns a headline of "Madman Pulls Gun At Park, Shot By CCW Citizen Before Anyone Was Killed"* to "15 Dead In Park After Madman's Rampage, Turns Gun On Self". There is plenty of info out there on the Internet if you are actually interested in learning, but I'm not going to waste my time finding links for you.
Exactly. If they would let soldiers cary weapons on base (I mean ffs, they're fucking soldiers, their job is to shoot and kill the enemy, and they can't carry a weapon?) then the shooting on Ft Hood would have gone a lot differently. Taking away the rights of the individual to protect themselves does not stop criminals.
Look at England (taken from a news article outlining the stastics for gun crimes in England)
Homicides by firearm:
1998/1999 - 49
1999/2000 - 62
2000/2001 - 72
2001/2002 - 95
2002/2003 - 80
2003/2004 - 68
2004/2005 - 77
2005/2006 - 50
So, does taking away the right of the common man to carry guns prevent douchebags from shooting people? Apparently not even in England.
@DaveyDaveDave said:
Without the law, anyone can wander around with hidden guns and nobody can do anything about it until after they have pulled the trigger. With the law, if a policeman thinks you look suspicious, stops you and finds a weapon, he can arrest you. Or, more simply, nobody has any good reason to be carrying a gun around in a park, concealed or otherwise, so why allow them to?
That's just not true. You have to have a permit to carry a conceled weapon, and police have the right to ask to see your permit should they notice you have one. They do not have to wait until a trigger is pulled. Criminals don't have conceled permits. Well, at least most don't. I have never seen a case where somebody who had a conceled weapons permit robbed anybody at gunpoint (or anything else stupid like that).
@Daid said:
Or, you could, you know. Be a bit social? Instead of being the stereotypical psycho coder?
That was my first thought. Is the work you are doing so important that any noise is going to cause some kind of chain reaction that destroys the world?
If not, chill the fuck out and maybe socialize for once. I don't get it. So two co-workers were having a conversation... when normal people are involved, this kind of thing happens.
@Heron said:
I have to dissagree with you only because the place you work is not the industry average that I have witnessed. Here where I work, when I finish my MS in CS I will be given a 10k raise, but like bstore said: I am workign while getting it so I am not losing the 2 years. At Sandia National Labs the starting salary for a BS is 65k and an MS is 85k. That's a pretty big chunk. I think it really depends on what industry you get into. If you want to work for Lockheed Martin or some research facility then you really should get an MS. If you plan to work at AT&T fixing their website, it's worthless.@galgorah said:
You should definitly go for a masters degree.Let's say you spend $20,000 and two years getting your MS, at which point you get a job. The starting salary for MS degrees at my employer is only $5k/year higher than the starting salary for BS degrees.
@Someone You Know said:
@bstorer said:
@galgorah said:
It's almost certainly an Associate's degree, not a B.S. Otherwise, he wouldn't have to concern himself with the credits transferring.@feelthesicness said:
What is your degree in? computer science, I assume? You should definitly go for a masters degree.eh. I graduated last thursday. Got a shit degree that doesnt mean anything. and only 36 of my 108 credits transfer to any school offering a higher degree.
Or it's a B.S. from a school that other universities don't consider a "real" school. Mainstream universities often won't accept some transfer credits from online-only colleges and the like.
That and most universities that I looked at required between 124-130 hours for a BS in Computer Science, making the 108 1 1/2 semesters shy.
@Indrora said:
Try living next door to two guys who have sex loud enough to keep you awake.
I would rather not even think about living next to you and your furry boyfriend. I'ld probably end up going to jail for hunting without a lisence.
@blakeyrat said:
From Indora's site: http://sonof.bandit.name/files/wishlist.html
Did you know you can buy BY-THE-POUND furry porn comics!
http://www.rabbitvalley.com/item_7707_1370___By-the-Pound-Promotion-General-Readers.html
$1 per pound! How did I survive before Indora brought this to my attention!??
Somebody needs to rez the old furry sex thread where indora was supporting those freaks so we can laugh a little more at him.
@feelthesicness said:
Im not claiming to be some master web developer, never have never will. I do my part thats all i care about. Gets me paid.
Actually, yes you did. Put the site back up, I'll capture the screen shot for you.
@feelthesicness said:
Aaand seriously wtf is wrong with the igloo computer?? It sold for $2500. You tell me something you built that made no sense but made money off of it. Lay off me seriously. Im making money, your arent. get over it. I seen a computer/toilet that posted to twitter every time someone flushed the damn thing. Pointless?
We're not? I'm pretty sure that I make more money than a Walmart shelf restocker.
@Welbog said:
@Indrora said:Excuse me? Somtimes High schoolers can do a reasonable job.It is rare for me to regret having clicked a link. Thank you for this rare opportunity, Indrora.
Now, if you'll excuse me I need to vomit in abject pity for the poor son of a bitch who created that criminally offensive page.
I'll give you a hint as to who did it:
"Morgan (or indrora) is a programmer from New Mexico. He’s done lots of work and is soon going to publish a lot of that work on this blog."
@Heron said:
@savar said:
In Safari they show up off screen when you mouse over, so you have to scroll with your mouse because if you reach for the scroll bar the image will disappear, the overflow disappears, and the scroll bars disappear.It does that in Firefox 3.5, too.
Yeah but remember, all of his sites are tested in Firefox 1.0.3. You are using the wrong version.