Yeah, I have to say. This is absurd. I've been here since '98, '99. This is the worst I've seen it. Come on, some basic checking would be a start.
Maybe it's time to auction off my userid.. Though I don't know why anyone would want it. There's just no prestige anymore.
I live in Talca, so I share your dismay. I only realized how desensitized I was when I incorporated a 5.7 into my dream, but didn't wake up.
Y vamos La Roja!
Yeah. In Chile we laugh at you California people making big deal of 7.0 magnitude earthquakes. Here those are called aftershocks.
For the record -- I was 60 miles from the epicenter of the 8.8 on February 27th. The quake wasn't that bad, but the aftershocks every 15 minutes for the next 3 days got tiring.
Uh. No, that language has been around since Windows 95, when they promised us that it was the "fastest, most secure version of Windows yet" and that everything we do "will be more fun!"
I bought two Acer Eee Pcs here in Chile, both came with XP Starter Edition. Just for giggles, I installed it on an old PC. Not only is it limited to three apps at a time (the NVIDIA app doesn't seem to count, but trying to configure things through the control panel is sometimes dicey), but video resolution is limited to 1024x768 (since beginning computer users won't know what to do if the resolution is too great!).
All in all, I tend to agree that it's a crap product.
(the netbooks run Linux, of course..)
That's what SOA aims at: interchangeable components in systems. You're not crafting one big program, or complex of programs, from end-to-end, making it up as you go. You're building uniformly-structured and interchangeable components, and assembling them.
You mean... like Unix?
Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (7) Well, it's an excellent idea, but it would make the compilers too hard to write.
