Cider wrote:I've never really understood why Firefox carries on counting their downloads because, yes, we know ther are quite a few downloads. However, it doesn't really reflect usage and is artificially high because it counts all those people (including myself) who can't get the blasted autoupdate to work. But even then, its skewed because you can't tell those who use MSIs to distribute to larger environments.
And anyway, for the Windows-using downloaders, IE will still be on their system...
Can't they just leave it as "significant numbers" and then go off and do something less boring instead?
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Dude! It's the (grilled) cheese.
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MisterDonut wrote:Am I the only one who thinks Software Developers are overpaid (I shoud say, US Software Developers). Being one myself, I think I'm overpaid, when you think about how much teachers and nurses (those that are non-union) are paid / not paid.
You're not alone. I know I am overpaid as a software engineer. But relative to the cost of living, it's still not much. And engineers are not over paid relative to other professions. Like, I know CEOs are supposed to be an important part of an organizations, but 10's of millions worth!? What this country (US) needs and is doing everything it can to avoid is a good deep recession to work out some of the excess.
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As this is our little window into Microsoft, thought I share this:
I just got a note from my mole at MS that says her dept. just handed down a mandate saying employees need to give four weeks notice before taking a day off (e.g., a three day weekend) and one extra week for every additional day on top of that.
That's crazy if true. She wouldn't lie to me though.
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TextPad. I love it. It is one of the only tools I couldn't live without.
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I have a rich text editor that I wrote for my current employer. It is an ASP.NET web-control. Functionality is all client-side. As it is based on some free stuff that I found on-line I can give it out for free. I spent a huge amount of time making sure it worked consistently with IE, NN6.x+, FF, Safari (some limitations if the user has Safari 1.0). Not saying it is 100% perfect, but I think it is pretty close.
Charles or whoever, if interested, email me and I will send you a link to my webserver where you can try it out. If you like it I can email the source to you.
W3bbo wrote:These "rich edit boxes" are KILLING ME!!!
They reject XHTML when I type it in "HTML View" and keep on reprocessing everything!
They cause those "undefined" errors when you post from Firefox still in "HTML view".
And working with the markup in Gecko is impossible, the cursor doesn't represent caret position.
Can you PLEASE offer an alternative means of submitting posts to Channel9?
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What chaps my hide about EULAs is that often you cannot agree/disagree with them until AFTER you have torn open the box, cracked open the CD case (or envleope, with the bit of tape that says something like "by breaking this seal you agree to bla bla bla"). I tried returning software that had a EULA that I did not agree to and found myself in a whole world of hurt.
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But, but...the Bible says there were other people in the world who were not decendents of Adam and Eve and who lived outside of the garden of eden. Did you even read the link I posted? We are the Other People. We aren't subject to Original Sin, a life of guilt and fear, and all the rest of that Christian "goodness".
The college I attended was founded by Protestants by the way; not that it really matters.
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Beer28 wrote: Aloha wrote: phunky_avocado wrote: If you read Genesis carefully, it is clear that there were other people alive at the time when Adam and Eve were created and put into the Garden of Eden. (This puts an interesting twist on other chapters in the Old Testament by the way.)
We are the other people. At least I am.
Since it is clear that other people were alive you say, could you give us some biblical proof?
Did Cain and Abel have sex and children with their sisters or their mother?
I'm not saying it's not possible, I'm just saying...
Cain and Abel married their sisters yes. At that time there wasn't much choice. Also, the dna wasn't corrupted like it became after several generations, which is why God forbid them to marry family members when the law came.
As far as Biblical proof is concerned, What the bible says is proof. You have faith that the bible is false and in what you believe, I have faith in what the bible says. We both base our views on evidence. I feel that the bible's evidence is conclusive, whereas you don't seem to. Your first mistake seems to be that you took a bible class in a liberal worldly college point of view who probably doesn't believe the bible in the first place. That's like learning how to fix a car from someone who doesn't believe what the manual says, so he just adds to it or subtracts from it as he wishes. The car is not going to run correctly, if it runs at all. Try taking a class at a Christian university. They will show you things that the liberals either don't want you to know, or don't know themselves about the bible. -
There's no such thing as "biblical proof". It's all a matter of faith, right? Anyway, I learned this tidbit in a religion class in college, which was long ago, and I don't have my notes anymore.
But a quick google search turned up this tasty tidbit which is close enough.
No Original Sin for us, the Other Folks. I feel sorry for Christians.
Aloha wrote:phunky_avocado wrote:If you read Genesis carefully, it is clear that there were other people alive at the time when Adam and Eve were created and put into the Garden of Eden. (This puts an interesting twist on other chapters in the Old Testament by the way.)
We are the other people. At least I am.
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If you read Genesis carefully, it is clear that there were other people alive at the time when Adam and Eve were created and put into the Garden of Eden. (This puts an interesting twist on other chapters in the Old Testament by the way.)
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I just love the way the terms get convieniently redefined in order to deal with the cognitive dissonance of it all.
W3bbo wrote:I see the "free" in "free software" meaning "freedom" or "free speech", not "free beer"
Software can be "free" but at the same time not "Free"... take shareware for example
Likewise, it can also be "Free" but not "free"... I don't mind paying a weee bit for access to the source code, but nothing extortionate.... say £10-£20 if its a good app that I'd use a lot and need to configure, about £15 for an extensive class library, £5 for widgets and controls, etc...
