Posts by bombastic bob

That's a hell of Huawei to run a business, Chinese giant scolds FedEx after internal files routed via America

glass house, stones

"use your local or national post/package service."

heh, then they definitely WILL open it up to have a look.

There's something to be said about Huawei being inside of a glass house, throwing stones

Re: Check the label...

after a few of these, sure

Re: pun violation

The original was a bit better as far as PUNishment goes

Re: "Inadvertently misrouted." Wow, that's what I call a spectacular display of contempt.

I bet it was simply like what might happen to checked luggage - occasionally, it goes onto a different plane, and when that happens, might go to timbuktu before arriving at your destination. If they get it right, you will never know it happened...

While big orange spectre haunts certain Chinese firms, fiscal '19 treated Lenovo rather well

Re: Dependant state.

"We would get them from Taiwan"

and other places, INCLUDING MEXICO. Last I read it was becoming FAR more economical to have labor-intensive things done in Mexico rather than China, and tariffs would make this even MORE so.

And Mexico appears to respect our intellectual property. Unlike China.

"Trump's base of supporters would have no new shiny toys"

I have to wonder if the "shiny new toy" crowd consists MOSTLY of Anti-Trump'ers, just sayin'.

And those who can actually AFFORD 'shiny new toys' are probably not going to be affected much by an increase in tariffs for goods and stuff [or an outright embargo for that matter] as would those whose JOBS LITERALLY WENT TO THE FAR EAST and are NOW coming BACK!

Want to train a dragon? You'll need 500 million files, 730TB of data, 54,000 CPU cores...

Re: Files

/var/log/complaints.log

it's a symlink to /dev/null

Re: 730TB of data and 54,000 CPUs

and that future phone, with all of it's CPU cores, RAM, and computing power, will still have a 2D FLATTY interface, allegedly because it "wastes CPU cycles" to make it 3D Skeuomorphic... (whether people PREFER the 3D or not, and every study _I_ have seen says it's about 2:1 in favor of the 3D-like appearance of things as far back as Windows 3 and OS/2 PM 1.2...)

and people will STILL use their uber-powerful smart phones just to look at cat videos, e-mail, and the next gen of Fa[e][cebook. And maybe a game app or two...

meanwhile, Dreamworks would hopefully settle for an integrated solution where all xxx,xxx cores can work with one another gracefully. And probably running Linux, or a BSD or Solaris derivative OS...

thinking of 'mythical man month' there's 'mythical CPU core count increase' too, for determining how effective a 'moore's law' architecture evolution is when you can't just double the frequency any more.

Activist shareholders to target Zuck with giant angry emoji inflatable at Facebook AGM

Separate CEO and Board Chair

this would make a lot of sense. One is responsible to the board of directors and the shareholders, for making investments good, futures bright, and shareholders generally happy. The other runs the company. In a successful scenario there's collaboration between them but neither overrides the other [however the board CAN replace the CEO if he's totally screwed up]

While Zuck remains "majority vote" in the boardroom, he can also dictate policy as CEO. So basically it's a DICTATORSHIP as things are now. basically he's like Saddam Hussein or Fidel Castro or Hugo Chavez or Kim Jon Un or Mao Tse Tung...

Re: Who?

nothing wrong with making money. however, HOW you make it is an ethical issue

Re: !#$%*^!$%

if you use your imagination, I'm showing you MY 'inflatable emoji' - ha ha ha ha ha.

Re: You're missing the point.

uh not the same thing as tobacco... though tobacco in the US has been legal forever, built the economy in states like Virginia. Only since the 1960's has there been a push towards regulating tobacco and advertisements for tobacco products. But as long as people are informed, they should still be able to buy this stuff if they want (just don't smoke it near me or upwind of where I'm at)

As for Fa[e]ceBook, same idea. What you need to look at with them is really the obvious, that is ABuse of personal information, and the GENERAL LACK of full disclosure on this.

If use of data were 'opt in' only, for example, some people might want it, but it's likely MOST people would not. FB should sell the idea of an opt-in system, and make it happen and give users total control of what's disclosed (and to whom) and then nobody should complain, because that's what 'full disclosure' is all about. "Oh yeah our product is addicting, and we track you everywhere, but these are the benefits. Interested?"

Re: You're missing the point.

what hurts "moving away" the most is that you [basically] have to LOG IN TO FA[e]CEBOOK to VIEW FACEBOOK PAGES, or at least that's been MY observation, always not being able to see them because I refuse to create an F-book login.

yeah sometimes a search engine will return F-book links. Disappointing, but that's how it works.

Re: You're missing the point.

"it should be regulated as such."

whatever it is, their use of private citizens' data and the apparent lack of disclosure and "informed consent" seems to beg for some kind of legal action at the very least.

Regulatory agencies are basically there so that individuals don't have to go through the expense of lawsuits [class action or otherwise] for abusive, predatory, or outright illegal actions by a business, whether towards the customers, or towards the competition, or both.

However I fear that "regulation" might be like the 'can spam' act was a few years back, which had NOTHING to do with STOPPING spam, but instead ALLOWS it under some broad-brush conditions...

Re: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no ,no ,no, no .....

the title to this thread reminds me of the movie 'Little Nicky' where Little Nicky's brothers (spoiler alert?) were inside of a flask just before the devil "did something" with them... heh heh heh heh

Headsup for those managing Windows 10 boxen: Microsoft has tweaked patching rules

Da Whu... ?

I'm even more confused than I was when 7 came out with all of those 'flavors'.

Why can't the market-droids JUST STOP IT with the BUZZ-SPEAK and Three Letter Acronyms (TLAs)???

Screw that. I'm sticking with Linux and FreeBSD.

Microsoft Windows 10 'Burger King' build 1903: Have it your way... and it may still leave a nasty taste in your mouth

Re: Tells us a lot....attitude

'uninstallable' = "can be uninstalled". That is a *HUGE* gripe that I have with the built-ins. GETTING RID OF THEM is damn-near impossible. Well, maybe not now.

But here's the thing: Micro-shaft took away NEARLY EVERYTHING GOOD (particularly customization) from the users, replaced it with "uber alles what MS wants", and THEN let the dust settle. NOW, they're "slowly giving back our freedom" it seems, like some kind of sick/twisted perestroika.

Is this an OVERALL STRATEGY? You know, like a GAMBIT - 2 steps forward, one step back [in the direction Micro-shaft wants, of course]. MS wants to take over AND maintain control, and after taking too much, loosen's the reins a little so that the "stockholm syndrome" (end users liking their evil overlords for "giving them back something" after taking it all away) will work properly, boiling the frogs slowly instead of tossing them into the pot like lobsters.

Win-10-nic is STILL "doing it wrong", the lipstick might be on the OINKY end now, but it's still a BOAR, and it's still JUST LIPSTICK.

let us not forget:

a) 2D FLATASS FLATSO FLUGLY McFLATFACE

b) "Settings" vs Control Panel

c) ADWARE and SPYWARE _BUILT_ _IN_

d) "The Store"

e) "Start Thing" with TILES and cumbersome UI to UN-DO the @#$% thing

f) Forced Updates - no longer 'forced' they say...

g) Phone-like GUI on a DESKTOP

h) "The Metro" in general, UWP and 'all that' *EXCREMENT*

i) ONLY PAID CERT SIGNING for driver developers [even open source]

j) Embrace Extend Extinguish - their somewhat pathetic Linux on Windows attempt (have you seen Cygwin? It's been around for YEARS)

the list is longer but I think that's "a good start". There are always things I forget to mention, so many of them it's hard to keep track of them all...

I get the ones that have more meat in them.

Bug-hunter reveals another 'make me admin' Windows 10 zero-day – and vows: 'There's more where that came from'

60k can be earned in better ways

someone with the security know-how to spot bugs like that COULD _EASILY_ earn more than this amount in an annual salary by being a Linux admin or security professional consulting with businesses, etc..

The criminal mindset, however, precludes making this wiser [and less risky with respect to legality] choice.

I think I'd get a salary that's TWICE the 60k, every year, doing a legit IT admin position, with everything else that comes with it. You know, like the BOFH. Despite the occasional problems with management, users, consultants, sales-droids, and so on, there's a nice 2nd floor window...

Re: Wouldn't it be fun

"The advent of Google DocsLibre/Open Office, among other things, means that small businesses no longer have to have Windows on their machines"

more relevancy, though acknowledged "among other things" as including that...

"the main problem in the West are greedy people who just want to get rich, and don't care about anyone else"

WRONG. You are merely pandering to the "bourgeois vs proletariat" (i.e. communist manifesto) perception of "us vs them" and if you believe that, you're circulating your misconceptions amongst those who agree with you, and it proves NOTHING.

If you want to get down to it, the problem is the same one that's been there as long as there have been humans: A small group of elitists MANIPULATE PEOPLE and seek to CONTROL THEM, usually for nefarious purposes. Usually you find them in GOVERNMENT. People in BUSINESS, on the other hand, generally see everyone else as CUSTOMERS and, if they're smart, treat them accordingly.

A good customer is like gold pressed latinum. yeah even the Ferengi would agree.

People act according to THEIR OWN SELF INTEREST. period. I guarantee you there is NOBODY out there so altruistic (except maybe Jesus) to put EVERYONE ELSE ahead of himself and be self-sacrificing, etc. etc. etc.. Even those who jump on grenades have a self-interest in mind, such as "do it for the Corps/Country/friends". It may even be a matter of PRIDE. And this is _NOT_ a BAD thing... it is a GOOD thing!

So if you assume people act according to their own best interests, those in business WILL make money [because losing money loses the business, duh] and they will pay their investors, who ONLY invest to earn money, and their employees, who ONLY work to earn money, and so on. Then when the free market determines the proper return for investments and what wages the work is worth [and not gummints, special interests, unions, etc.] then we're ALL better off, because it works _WITH_ human nature and not AGAINST it.

SO if you you're looking for a SOURCE of "the problem", start with GUMMINTS, then ORGANIZED CRIME (almost the same as 'gummints' in many cases), then SOCIALIST ORGANIZATIONS and those who donate to them [i.e. Soros], as well as WHINY ACTIVIST JUDGES (and their l[aw]yer buddies) who ENABLE much of this.

It's more fun to dump the bug data/details and watch the chaos unfold...

Let adware be treated as malware, Canuck boffins declare after breaking open Wajam ad injector

Re: So...

javascript is pure evil anyway. it should be off by default, and ONLY used to support features that are impossible with style sheets [and only then, when ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY].

But the JQuery cult seems to have taken over web development. Ass-hats.

Giga-hurts radio: Terrorists build Wi-Fi bombs to dodge cops' cellphone jammers

Re: Diretional antenna

just tell her that if you wait a few hours and try again, it'll go WAY longer...

Re: Diretional antenna

you're right in that a directional antenna will greatly increase range. think radar dishes and old-style TV antennas. but it also reduces the chance of a signal being jammed by an omnidirectional jammer.

and wifi isn't the only wireless system out there [it's just cheaper and more available].

jamming RF isn't going to fix the problem. Too many places in the world literally CODDLE these terrorists and even ENABLE them. Indonesia might have to re-examine its own domestic policies, and controlling EVERYONE isn't the solution, because laws only stop LAW ABIDING CITIZENS from having their freedom - criminals (and terrorists) simply do not care about laws and will do whatever they want, anyway.

Re: WiFi Routers can be anywhere; cell towers are generally in fixed locations

shhh... dion't give them ideas.

It's 50 years to the day since Apollo 10 blasted off: America's lunar landing 'dress rehearsal'

Re: Stunning -- the US at its best

you make a good point about the Russians beating the USA into space... that was COMPETITION, which drove the space race!

So when the gummint behaves like CAPITALISTS, i.e. investing in R&D and new tech to COMPETE and succeed through INNOVATION, then it works! THAT is they way things OUTGHT to be, ya know?

But under normal circumstances, gummint is like a black hole into which money is thrown, and more demanded.

Re: 50 years since men first landed on the moon

"And all we've done is doubled our population, and basically fucked our planet."

No. just no. We have _NOT_ 'fucked' our planet. Humans do not have that kind of ability, even with atomic weapons. A volcano blowing up does MORE damage than SEVERAL (typical) nuclear weapons, combined. Think 'Mt St Helens' in Washington (state) a couple o' decades ago, which was estimated at around 25 megatons (there has only been a single bomb recorded as having been larger, and none exist today). Nature is THAT powerful, and it recovers. Humans, not so powerful.

The whole 'population bomb' and 'fucking the planet' mentality _IS_ the problem!!! For if whiny socialists weren't busy trying to "fix" non-existent problems, we'd BE ON THE MOON ALREADY, and probably COLONIZING MARS AS WELL. Yet, politicians and the elitists that ENABLE them would rather have their power/control and SOCIALISM is the vehicle they have chosen to GET and MAINTAIN it. And they DEPRESS economies and keep people out of work as a MEANS TO AN END.

If you buy rockets, you get rockets and the observable technological breakthroughs and economic benefits that come with it.

If you buy SOCIAL PROGRAMS, you get MORE DEPENDENCY, which means MORE VOTES for those that hand out other people's money to BUY those votes. Until Peter can't be robbed any more to pay Paul. Then Paul stops getting paid, when Peter says "who is John Galt".

Re: 50 years since men first landed on the moon

"And America has not been able to replicate it since 1972."

you know what _I_ blame, right?

Re: '13 Minutes to the Moon'

10 minute mail oughta get you "13 minutes to the Moon"

ok bad PUN-ishment... (where's my coat?)

Re: Species angst

it's the lack of what is now thought of as "toxic masculinity", that USED to drive us (as a species) to greatness instead of mediocrity...

When you "educate" (read: indoctrinate) 2 generations of younguns into believing in political correctness and getting participation trophies and "safe spaces" and "just talk it out with the bullies" all of their young lives, you get "what we have now" instead of IRON FACED MEN that TAKE RISKS and SUCCEED in the FACE of ADVERSITY!

The lessons of WW2 (and 100,000 years of human evolution) have been lost...

"In the same year - 1969 - the USSR was running around 200 bar in their vastly superior <snip> NK33"

Whoopee twiddle. They didn't get to the moon, though, did they?

obligatory reference to Arthur C. Clarke's "Superiority"

Re: From the dictionary definition

"the engineer's dream is that nominal is normal"

and yet, 'normal' from a statistics point of view, would include a lot of crash/burn and explosions...

So 'nominal' is compared to what is expected to happen. 'normal' is compared to the average. or something like it. We want 'nominal' not 'normal' for the abovementioned reason.

Re: Dumb, dumber, or dumbest ?

"Just how naive are you?"

Apparently, not naive enough to believe the "apollo denier" theories. And neither am I.

I watched every live coverage of every Apollo launch. I nearly missed one because I had to go to school, but the teacher left it on with a large TV (ok 25" black & white on a wheelie cart but still it was 1970'ish) in the classroom and the volume turned down. "History" after all.

I doubt, SERIOUSLY doubt, that any of it was made up. The tech was just SO obviously working, the science was good, and the entire WORLD was watching. Literally.

If you weren't actually THERE to remember it, you shouldn't be trying to pawn this theory off on people who WERE.

icon, because facepalm

Re: I'm terribly sorry (not really) that I have to be the one to pee in your crazy punch again

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a16/AS16-106-17393HR.jpg

I say it's the core of a former comet. LOTS of 'weathering' there, right? A few million years of solar winds and comet tail oughta make it like that, ya think?

Re: I'm terribly sorry (not really) that I have to be the one to pee in your crazy punch again

what the HELL was THAT supposed to be, anyway?

no doubt green-screen'd in at some point.

*yawn* - should've made it a grey alien instead. Then more people would believe it.

Re: beancounters at the top

"Do NOT blame NASA for the failings of Congress."

I DO blame NASA, in some respects, for spending too much time going after politically-correct "science" projects... which isn't happening right now, thankfully. Politics drives them, it seems. I blame them for going along with it TOO WILLINGLY.

However, what Con-GRAB wants to do may be a whole lot WORSE. They'll spend money on agendas and political favors in the form of gummint contracts and NASA projects, like they have done somewhat recently.

Think of it this way: Con-GRAB will spend the people's money to BUY VOTES. It's "the establishment" that is behind it, regardless of which political party. It's ugly, dirty, corrupt, and evil. Knowing that, I vote for the lesser of evils whenever I have a choice.

I have something I put into a demotivational once. With a picture of the nearly complete space station from the movie "2001 a Space Odyssey", the caption reads"The Great Society" "If it hadn't been for LBJ and those whiny socialist liberals, we'd be colonizing Mars by now".

it's what happens when you divert money from BUYING ROCKETS (which boost the economy, cause technology to improve faster, and have far reaching economic benefits, as a Keynesian economist would LOVE this part), as compared to BUYING PEOPLE WHO DO NOT WORK by giving them "subsistence" for sitting on their ASSES [and taking drugs, and breeding, and protesting against America, and so on]. Yeah it's the truth, deal with it. So you get what you're PAYING FOR, ok? Gummint paying for ROCKETS gets rockets, heroes, great accomplishments worthy of news headlines and the people's adoration, and a better world and better economy and jobs and so on. Paying for WELFARE gets you WELFARE RECIPIENTS, lifelong dependents on handouts who DEMAND MORE, and vote for those who GIVE it to them.

Re: beancounters at the top

"if there is a viable business case to be had for being on the Moon"

1. space tourism

2. jumping-off spot for other places [we'll need moon bases for that] "Flight 404 leaving for Saturn at gate 12"

3. astronomy [telescopes, etc.] especially on the non-earth side

4. low gravity therapy (for people who can afford it)

5. "it's a frontier" (mining being one good possibility)

And so on. If I could, I'd go there. I'd probably want to set up a mining operation. The first people there will be able to get to the surface stuff, major lodes, and whatnot.

Also, it would be easier to allow people to mull around at 1/6 gravity, rather than zero gravity, between flights. Less vomiting, for one thing. And you could have large tanks of fuel and whatnot standing by for fueling up space ships, and they wouldn't need atmospheric accomodations, nor enough fuel to break away from the earth [just enough fuel to leave the moon's gravity, a LOT less].

I would also expect that shuttles to the moon would be more practical if you could fill them up with people for multiple destinations, like taking a short hop to a major hub (say LAX) for international flights.

Re: beancounters at the top

"21st century NASA, Boeing and the ULA seem to be top-heavy with people who are more interested in pay and politics than in getting the job done on time and without killing people"

Quite possible. Yet, look at Boeing's reputation taking a BIG hit over what they did with the newer 737's, and the resulting crashes, and what they're gonna have to do to fix it before the planes go in the air [are they STILL grounded? I haven't heard much].

If the FAA does its job correctly they should also manage space-related flight. And if it's UNSAFE, it gets GROUNDED, and the company responsible must fix it at no charge. That is actually good motivation to get safety and human life to the top of the priority list...

(and the same goes for space-liners around the world - no more 737 MAX fiascos)

Worthy of reminder when there's a crash anywhere in the world the FAA is going to want to analyze it to prevent it from happening again, and since many of those planes are built in the USA, they'll stick their noses in whenever they wanna, for good reason. It's one of the things gummint does _RIGHT_.

Anyway those bean counters that actually think bottom line comes before safety oughta fear losing their jobs the next time something like the 737MAX fiasco happens.

Re: Those were the days

"a private company that puts its reputation on the line is a much better guarantee of safety."

I think so as well, at least in the CURRENT environment. [at least one lost space shuttle may have been due to environmental 'concerns', changing the glue that held the insulation on the fuel tank to a more 'environmentally friendly' one, which allowed it to break loose and damage the shuttle's wing, etc., because as we all know, "the environment" is more important than safety and human life... to THEM, anyway - it's their "god". But I digress...)

'Back in the day' the U.S. gummint was more interested in getting technological superiority over their 'behind the iron curtain' equivalents in the USSR, for several reasons, not the least of which WW2 was an ACTUAL MEMORY and nobody wanted to repeat it with the Soviet Union on the other side. And Kruschev was threatening everyone, banging his shoe, etc..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev

If the threat was not real, he made it SOUND real, for whatever reason.

So NASA was highly motivated to succeed. And JFK was as well. Presidents back then (both D and R) were ANTI-communists, and had memories of WW2, and so on. And so did the people, and the people love heros and want the world to be a safe place, and space became IMPORTANT, and so the motivation to succeed, and take the risks to get there [and pay for it].

I wish it were still that way, because I'd rather buy rockets and fire them into space than give money away for nothing. But I digress...

But now, private industries compete against one another the way the USA and USSR competed against one another. So the motivation is there to "beat Boeing" or "beat SpaceX" etc. and Amazon is in the mix now, and Virgin Air is in there someplace...

So yeah, company reputation and safety records and getting there first. THAT is the motivation!

Profit is good. (Ferengi rules of acquisition, heh). But without profit, there would be no investors, and therefore no 'bucks', and therefore, no "Buck Rogers". You can't be a wasteful black hole of expenses into which money is thrown, if you are a private industry. Take THAT anti-capitalists!

Oracle AI's Eurovision horror show: How bad can it be? Yep. Badder

Re: you're hired

yeah, reminds me of the "70's disco hit" I wrote in 10 minutes. It repeated the same 2 measure riff with the constant 4 on the floor and "funky bass line" and "horn hits" over and over and over and over... (same chord, too).

And the words (not sung, but spoken, badly): "Yowza boogie down to my dance fever baby." I think I got all of the 70's disco words in there in one go.

I wrote it and completed the recording in around 10 minutes, maybe 15 at the most, no kidding. I was making a point. 70's disco was plastic formulaic CRAP, so I created some equivalent CRAP to lampoon it. But I did it in the 90's...

Apparently this AI thing went to a whole lot of trouble to do the same thing for the 'Eurovision' stuff, heh.

Re: you're hired

well it makes the case that this style of music (like 70's disco, which was a WHOLE LOT WORSE) is "formulaic". You plug in the parameters to an AI and it *excretes* a "hit".

Without paying attention to lyrics the song would be mildly entertaining, as it DOES use familiar chord progressions in a way that's patterned after other "hit" songs. When you DO pay attention to the lyrics, it's like it was poorly translated from another language where it might've made sense. Even the worst bad-English embedded into southeast asian pop music is more sensible and congruent than THAT. (and I do like southeast asian pop music, which I consider to be better than most of what RIAA crams into our ears in order to market it to us until we like it).

Today i was working on a song of my own. yesterday I threw in a possible synth lead to it, but today it sounded like CRAP to me, not evoking a "cool!" reaction, and actually kinda lame (or perhaps formulaic), so I erased it, create a new song file without it. Strangely, _THIS_ song reminds me of what I threw away...

It's been a lean month for Microsoft's Visual Studio Code, but look! Remote Development

And also never leave the warm embrace of VS Code.

do my fingers STILL have to leave 'home row' on the keyboard to mousie-clickie a bunch of CRAP way too often? or has THAT encumberance FINALLY been fixed properly to the way it was in DevStudio '98 where there were HOT KEYS for just about EVERYTHING because properties were REAL DIALOG BOXES with accelerators!!! Oh yeah, I did that, it worked, it was fast and efficient, and 2 years later MICRO-SHAFT WENT THE WAY OF THE VB INTERFACE, excreated C-pound and ".Not", and it's been INFERIOR ever since...

VS Code written in NODE JS is like the WORST thing they could have done...

Warm Embrace = squicky kisses and the coils of a constrictor snake. I think I'll vomit, now.

Freed whistleblower Chelsea Manning back in jail for refusing to testify before secret grand jury

You live by political correctness/favoritism, you die by the LACK of it

just saying Pvt Manning would have been treated COMPLETELY DIFFERENT (by the press, in particular) had the sex change NOT happened...

Pvt Manning, enjoy your stay at the IRON BAR HOTEL!

And next time, show up and plead the 5th or something. You can be compelled to APPEAR, and go to jail for FAILING to appear, yet you can STILL remain silent when you DO finally appear, and "plead the 5th".

So STOP TRYING TO MANIPULATE PEOPLE (in particular SJWs) INTO FEELING SORRY FOR YOU. It's a SICKENING display...

You're on a Huawei to Hell, China tells US: We'll fight import tariffs, trade war to bitter end

yes, suppliers for the U.S. (in China) might have to face competition from other countries where the wages aren't quite slave-wages, and the the local gummint does NOT own the businesses [and grant special favors/breaks/whatever for the oligarch that owns/runs it].

The USA (and probably most of the rest of the world) will see a minor hiccup in their economy, if anything at all. Some prices will go up a bit. Suppliers and manufacturing in "other than China" will pick up the slack and get contracts China companies WOULD have had. That's pretty much what will happen, yeah. Looking forward to it! I know all too well what they're doing over there [having seen an example of a violated copyright/patent product made from stuff being made their under contract for a U.S. company, and that "4th shift" component that looks as if it were made from a plan created using X rays on the finished product, complete with the company logo etched into it - an OBVIOUS plagiarized clone!]

Tangled in .NET: Will 5.0 really unify Microsoft's development stack?

Re: .net to java converter ?

C (not micro-shaft's version) does not *NEED* exceptions. People who *KNOW* *HOW* *TO* *CODE* do NOT rely on exceptions, and test parameters so that they would NEVER HAPPEN in the FIRST place. Only the SLOPPIEST coders ever need to catch them, except for maybe bugs in the OS [which I've had to deal with from time to time]. But only if it's Windows...

Yeah C++ is great, too, when you do NOT use exception handling. Who's FEELING "brilliant" idea was it in the FIRST place to put THAT CRAP into the lingo in the FIRST place? I sentence YOU to 100 strikes with a CLUE BAT!

That's right - REAL coders do NOT use exceptions! When you code for the kernel, an exception usually causes data loss, a system crash, etc.. A _REAL_ programmer understands this, and writes BULLET PROOF CODE.

Re: The most divisive issue remains...

indent at 2, spaces only [no tabs]. And Allman style. And the worst thing I ever see in anyone's code is the construct "} else {" which should be punished by 50 lashes with a cat 5 o' nine tails...

There. I said it. The argument is NOW completed, and shall not be debated again. Heh.

(troll icon because obvious)

Re: Glad that Blazor is getting the official nod

Javascript as an application language, and I'm talking SPECIFICALLY about NodeJS, is an ELDRITCH ABOMINATION of the WORST variety, and needs to be *EXTERMINATED* just like a cockroach, for the exact same reasons.

If they'll survive a nukular fire, perhaps they'll DIE in a REGULAR one...

Re: what a mess

"Microsoft's platforms used to be quite simple - BEFORE they had .NET"

Fixed it for ya

(everything post .Not has been a continuous stream of "and then it went horribly, horribly, WRONG"

Re: With apologies to Tolkein

If I gave you 2 additional thumbs up, right NOW, it'd be at 42

Your FREE end-of-the-world guide: What happens when a sun like ours runs out of fuel

yeah let's dump nukular waste into the sun and make it go 'critical', that'll speed it up!