won big but gave it away

2011-06-14 Thread Michael Dinowitz
I was at a CF user group Tuesday night and I got lucky and won one of the raffle prizes. I had hoped for the CF Builder license but that was the second place prize and I won first. So there I was with a $2,200 credit for a single Adobe product. I wanted CF Builder and to use the credit for builder

Re: Why Microsoft has made developers horrified about coding for Windows 8

2011-06-14 Thread Ras Tafari
our ceo just moved to a mbpro, and we are investigating gmail hosted rather than exchange server. for me, msft seems, idk, "tired" in the market. but that may just be my perspective. however, at any sort of conference im at, most of the peeps i see with laptops out, have mac's. and it makes se

Re: Why Microsoft has made developers horrified about coding for Windows 8

2011-06-14 Thread Gruss Gott
G Money wrote: > > If a person can't appreciate the Windows operating system as a paragon of > programming achievement...then that person aint a programmer. > But if art don't sell then a poor artist you make. Ask a blogger. There are lots of OS's and many of them are all paragons of programmi

Re: Another awful corporatist choice for the Obama government...RIAA lawyer

2011-06-14 Thread Sam
Nuclear power! http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/06/crony_capitalism_and_obamas_anti-coal_crusade.html Is Exelon the new Haliburton in terms of evil corporations? . On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 2:29 PM, G Money wrote: > > And finally...where does Obama fit into all of this? > >

Re: Another awful corporatist choice for the Obama government...RIAA lawyer

2011-06-14 Thread G Money
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: > No, it isn't true. Quite the opposite, in fact, if you are talking > about large multinational corporations. As corporate income has risen > sharply amongst large corporations, individual income and government > revenues have fallen and our

Re: Another awful corporatist choice for the Obama government...RIAA lawyer

2011-06-14 Thread Judah McAuley
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:10 AM, G Money wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: > >> >> RIAA == stupid and evil >> Obama == a lot of corporatist water carrying >> >> Said so in 2008, still true in 2011. Sad. >> > > Is it possible to elect a president who is not corpora

Re: Why Microsoft has made developers horrified about coding for Windows 8

2011-06-14 Thread G Money
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Matthew Small wrote: > > There's no "rewrite" of Windows. You have to consider that Windows is an > *enormous* codebase that likely could not be rewritten in three years, nor > would I want it to be rewritten. > > This code, as much as it is maligned, has been te

Re: Why Microsoft has made developers horrified about coding for Windows 8

2011-06-14 Thread Matthew Small
There's no "rewrite" of Windows. You have to consider that Windows is an *enormous* codebase that likely could not be rewritten in three years, nor would I want it to be rewritten. This code, as much as it is maligned, has been tested for years by the general public and most of the serious bu

Re: Another awful corporatist choice for the Obama government...RIAA lawyer

2011-06-14 Thread G Money
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: > > RIAA == stupid and evil > Obama == a lot of corporatist water carrying > > Said so in 2008, still true in 2011. Sad. > Is it possible to elect a president who is not corporation-friendly? I mean, if you don't have at least some big corpo

Re: Another awful corporatist choice for the Obama government...RIAA lawyer

2011-06-14 Thread Judah McAuley
RIAA == stupid and evil Obama == a lot of corporatist water carrying Said so in 2008, still true in 2011. Sad. Judah On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 5:43 AM, Jerry Barnes wrote: > > " I think we all agree here." > > Maybe.  I could see at least one regular poster disagreeing. > > J > > - > > Ninety pe

Re: Activists cry foul over FBI probe

2011-06-14 Thread Cameron Childress
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Jerry Barnes wrote: > CHICAGO — FBI agents took box after box of address books, family calendars, > artwork and personal letters in their 10-hour raid in September of the > century-old house shared by Stephanie Weiner and her husband. Another Weiner? A probe in

Activists cry foul over FBI probe

2011-06-14 Thread Jerry Barnes
Activists cry foul over FBI probe Excerpt: CHICAGO — FBI agents took box after box of address books, family calendars, artwork and personal letters in their 10-hour raid in September of the century-old house shared by Stephanie Weiner and her husband. The agents seemed keenly interested in Wein

Re: Why Microsoft has made developers horrified about coding for Windows 8

2011-06-14 Thread Jerry Barnes
"All I'm concerned about is more stability at the OS level, and less opportunity for malware infections." In the back of my mind, the thought came across that this might be the reason for the rewrite (if it happens). "You are correct but a lot of developers are worried that their present skill

Re: Another awful corporatist choice for the Obama government...RIAA lawyer

2011-06-14 Thread Jerry Barnes
" I think we all agree here." Maybe. I could see at least one regular poster disagreeing. J - Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. - Henry Kissinger Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel

Re: Uh oh. Weiner Story Takes Another Turn

2011-06-14 Thread Jerry Barnes
"Media distraught over handling of Weiner" It's time to cut this Weiner story off. J - Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. - Henry Kissinger Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. - John

Re: I met her

2011-06-14 Thread Scott Raley
the red haired who is the center of attention touching herself all throughout the video. On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Erika L. Rich wrote: > > Which one? :) > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Scott Raley wrote: > >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urNyg1ftMIU >> >> From the Guild. Met h