Somebody pinch me; this must be a nightmare.
Software houses bowing to OS vendors never ceases to amaze me.
From IMil in comments: "Shocking statement #(n+1): 80% of the 80% believe that they belong to [the] 20%." A recursively shocking statement! i.e., (0..Infinity).inject (0.8) { |x,n| x * 0.8 }
"Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is pressing the U.S. Congress to enact a sweeping intellectual property bill that would increase criminal penalties for copyright infringement, including 'attempts' to commit piracy."
Is anyone actually falling for this crap? "'The goal is to make it so people never have to see code', said Gosling." -- Gag Me!
These people are still around? Amazing. Ooohhh, "tens of thousands of simultaneous users" -- scary! scary!
Chairing the WG is one way to fix your validation issues! (yes, I'm just being mean now -- ignore me. no but seriously.)
Grrrrr. This has been driving me crazy for almost two weeks. I don't understand why the main google search doesn't include google groups - I thought the whole point was to put everything behind a single search box. Bha.
"I mean, all through this presentation previously, I talked about how you're using the pawns and you're going to screw them if they don't do what you want, and dah-dah-dah. You can't let them feel like that." and "So you can't let them feel like pawns, no
This is too funny: "... provides you with the verbiage you need to explain SOA to non-technical people and 'sell' its long-term strategic benefits."
Saying the US is divided is an understatement - the country exists simultaneously in two parallel worlds and is connected only by a small machine that shoots newspapers clippings back and forth. The National Review exists in the other one.
That's what I'm saying. As soon as I saw this guy talking about auto-pilot software crashing a plane due to division by zero, I thought: 5 / 0 rescue nil wtf are you talking about? We've had exception handling, conditionals, and NaN forever.
Prediction: Microsoft will use 3D nonsensically and egregiously for the next two years. 3D notepad!
Nice to see hollywood capitalizing on national crisis so soon. Bastards.
Yes he is! He seems to not understand even fundamental F/OSS licensing concepts and always throws up that same "Open Source = everyone can check in anything" strawman.
Patrick Logan calls bullshit on a BUILDER.COM article on "scripting languages"... Quick list dynamic language misconceptions: inelegant, fragile, unprofessional, only used by monkeys..
Actual evidence that Bush lied and forced others to lie about intelligence from Iraq so that we could go to war.