finally updated:04 Sep 2004 20:05 UK time oJoS Statistics - Individual Statistics for 'Simon Lucy' View all Jossers sorted by : Name | Comments | Words | First Comment | Final Comment Number of Comments: 2,114 Number of Words: 161,089 First Comment: 19 Oct 2001 Final Comment: 03 Sep 2004 Number of Topics Posted: 32 First Topic: 15 Nov 2001 Latest Topic: 03 Sep 2004 When Item Comment 03 Sep 2004   DRM is _such_ a Good Thing   >>   03 Sep 2004   The Curious Incident....   The last paragraph was a quote from the book, so w....   >>   02 Sep 2004   Winnable Solitaire a....   It wouldn't steal 'winnable' entirely, indeed it w....   >>         You don't have to collect address information to p....   >>   31 Aug 2004   why bother being a c....   If there were a way in this life of guaranteeing, ....   >>      I'm scared.   I'm glad I wasn't drinking when I read that.   >>      More Windows servers....   If you ask the question, 'How many existing Window....   >>      How many of you know....   Oh, I use O-O design most days, my brain skipped t....   >>         I would think I have most if not all of that list ....   >>      Hacker need such a t....   Intellisense looks like its being disentangled fro....   >>      Incentive Pay Consid....   Read up on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs its much mo....   >>      I want out writing w....   I'm enormously glad no one invites me to parties.   >>         The problem, as I understand it, is not so much th....   >>      Drawing GUI...   Ok, I'll revise that. How do you get from your ....   >>         In every case, Edward.   >>      Americans need learn....   Hmmm, let me repeat. English is reasonably easy t....   >>         Its fun being quoted, but it would be better if it....   >>      Bill Gates on "profe....   I didn't say there was anything wrong in hiring fr....   >>   30 Aug 2004   Drawing GUI...   After all the time you've spent looking for a tool....   >>      Americans need learn....   Actually English is one of the easiest languages t....   >>      Bill Gates on "profe....   XP isn't much of a software development from the o....   >>         I wouldn't mistake external calm for internal fort....   >>      faux striped source ....   Music ruled paper. When input was cards and out....   >>      Avalon FAQ bloopers   Ah but it will only let you do it if you have the ....   >>   29 Aug 2004   Insourcing?   The automotive industry is different to almost eve....   >>      Compulsory support r....   Oh I guess there is an exception to that, trust ca....   >>         Actually contract terms which extend responsibilit....   >>      How Laundry destroye....   I would not mechanically rotate the spindle or any....   >>      Avalon FAQ bloopers   And repeats itself ad infinitum. I remember whe....   >>      Does XP SP2 include ....   Actually, Microsoft are admitting that changing fr....   >>      Relational databases....   This http://www.siderean.com/dc2003/701_Poster34.p....   >>      How much do icon des....   The IconExperience collections are fine, they have....   >>   28 Aug 2004   Avalon FAQ bloopers   Originally with the release of XP DirectX support ....   >>   19 Aug 2004   Bargaining for more ....   That's a hard case to make, although most core tim....   >>      GOOG off to the race....   Yep, today and tomorrow are not the days to value ....   >>      Code Olympics - what....   Blue screening with style marks.   >>      Why so much negativi....   Actually, I've found smaller companies, especially....   >>      How do you want to w....   Lucy is the family name, Simon the given name, hen....   >>         Ah its so good to make such _complicated_ linguist....   >>      How do you prepare a....   In general? How many corporations would you hav....   >>         I'm frequently amused by the amount of people that....   >>         In poorly run corporations perhaps.   >>         Hmmm lets see. Formal procedures to govern a proc....   >>   18 Aug 2004   Database help -- whi....   If you want to be strict, then you have a licence ....   >>      obsession   At times its like a nervous tic... Do developme....   >>      Plain-text messages ....   I prefer plain text mail for lots of reasons, but ....   >>   17 Aug 2004   Strange: Queries are....   Bi-value indices are less efficient than queries. ....   >>   16 Aug 2004   Why learn basic sear....   Hmmm, even if you don't get any formal education i....   >>         Not being stultified by a degree in CS is one thin....   >>         Well it can help to understand the fundamentals ev....   >>      UML?   One of the problems, one of the many problems, I s....   >>      contract penalties f....   No, not skirting anything, it just seems tedious t....   >>         I'll give you chance to catch up.   >>         Another truism that gets misunderstood. Joel ha....   >>         The difference in approach between prototype and i....   >>         Ummm I've been involved with management as well as....   >>         Oh and I never do mockups, prototypes (other than ....   >>         In all the years I've worked the amount of times t....   >>         And how about the corollary... When I present a....   >>      Guide to being an in....   Just add a :-} and it will be implicitly understoo....   >>      Doing free work - a ....   When I said that I can understand the '$60 an hour....   >>   15 Aug 2004      The thing that puzzles me is the motivation in thi....   >>      What makes a great p....   If I could just manage #7 above I'd be in clover.   >>   14 Aug 2004   This ain't about lov....   If, on the other hand, you could prove that someon....   >>         No, I'm not wrong. Eating in a restaurant is a ....   >>         Well, no.  If you receive a meal that you don....   >>         Well actually, that's precisely what you can do in....   >>      Coldfusion programme....   Just to be ad hominem for the moment, cos its fun,....   >>         I don't particularly care about the advert but it ....   >>      The Olympics   Actually, in team events the gold is multiplied by....   >>   13 Aug 2004   Mozilla vs wxWindows   Mozilla/XUL development is an extremely steep and ....   >>      The Olympics   It seems a goodly proportion of the population tha....   >>      word processor with ....   Actually, something like CityDesk is perfect for t....   >>      Determining a Produc....   50% is actually a phenominal result in direct mark....   >>   12 Aug 2004   Browser authenticati....   See here... http://support.microsoft.com/defaul....   >>      Notworking   There are two general ways. Either the gateway ....   >>      Windows XP SP2 and S....   So its beyond the wit of the install developers to....   >>         The two problems I had with the Release Candidate ....   >>      benefits of daily bu....   You should check out and merge before checking in.   >>         The next step then is to make it mandatory that a ....   >>      Python: Whitespace a....   Hmmmm I'm just contemplating the amount of suicide....   >>      Empower Termination   Yep, that last point is the one I'm relying on.   >>         What switch?  The terms are as they were, you....   >>         According to the Man, a number of these emails wen....   >>         I also had the same message, since its not even 12....   >>         The licence expires, however I doubt anything actu....   >>      Windows XP Lite   Microsoft can no longer force OEMs to take any Mic....   >>      T-SQL Stored Procedu....   You don't need hard coded literal strings, you can....   >>   11 Aug 2004   A good Career   Muppet, you are Bella's long lost love child.   >>      The Python Paradox   The words 'stop digging' and 'when in a hole' spri....   >>      Yet another Unix sec....   Don't hide under that bridge, come on out and say ....   >>      Good tips on downsiz....   This might sound like left field, but rather than ....   >>      White Box Linux   Nah, that's what email's for.   >>      CityDesk   On the underlined letters... Its part of the co....   >>      Microsoft Revolution....   There's a demonstration technology kitchen where t....   >>   10 Aug 2004   Pricing a source cod....   Along with KC's comments, pricing the value of the....   >>      Java, dates, and tim....   Unless the date was stored as UTC or GMT in the da....   >>      VB.Net Interview Que....   You might get cogent answers here http://gotdot....   >>      Solving the .NET/Jav....   I just upgraded to Installshield X for £55, that's....   >>      T-SQL Stored Procedu....   I'm intrigued as to why using a table or cursor fo....   >>   09 Aug 2004   Sacrificing parts of....   Work at home. Of course this means interruption....   >>      Solving the .NET/Jav....   So, rather than using Installshield X (which is wa....   >>      Shareware and ISV's ....   If you're running a coffee shop and are in the hab....   >>      T-SQL Stored Procedu....   Create a cursor of properties for the 'Package', e....   >>      Hidden URLs - How ea....   If you don't want particular links picked up by ro....   >>      What's with Ars Tech....   The internet is a voluntary collaboration of syste....   >>      Client side validati....   Imagine a form where the user enters a date, they ....   >>   08 Aug 2004   Getting Things Done ....   Getting things done is nothing to do with hanging ....   >>      JOS Homepage Dates   Its a feature that requires you to read the page, ....   >>      When: 20.00 16/08/01....   The French have had a couple of Prime meridien lin....   >>      UI design -> huma....   And if the target audience of the Thunderbirds fil....   >>         Actually I saw Thunderbirds yesterday, and I, Robo....   >>   06 Aug 2004   Market Research   The P.I.P.E is an interesting idea but as their we....   >>      Job Boards   You were hoping to be hired by more than one? A....   >>      Fog Creek Marketing   Making a budget depends on whether you care about ....   >>      Logo design costs   The only thing that matters is whether the client,....   >>      Google May Have Ille....   Issuing shares without declaring them, even for a ....   >>   05 Aug 2004   Naming an interface,....   Ahhh gotcha IAccountsDocument->IAccountsDocumen....   >>         If you have a collection of IOrderItem then I'd be....   >>      Pedant: Blah Details....   Its one of the results of using a verb as a noun. ....   >>      Hiring Mistakes   Oh, the only other comment would be why do their s....   >>         Two simultaneous events. You take away checkin ....   >>      MSSQL Sequencial RPC....   Instead of sending the query over the network crea....   >>      Great Hacker != Grea....   The two functions, nose down development and inter....   >>      A question for our n....   One can metaphorically do pretty much anything, it....   >>         Its fairly incredible that people can go the Rocks....   >>   04 Aug 2004   Ai, Ai, Ai I hate you very much...   >>   04 Aug 2004   Question about FogCr....   Anyone remember salad cream?   >>      Great Hacker != Grea....   Additionally, Eric is more than right.    >>         Ahhh Bizarro, my favourite Superman thread, everyo....   >>      How to decide on sw ....   But to be more helpful. Run, don't walk and go ....   >>         Along with a great many other types of people I'm ....   >>      SORTING   If you nest queries then you can concatenate field....   >>      A question for our n....   Oh, I can't help adding, though probably many migh....   >>         I'm not sure that 'watch out for the shady charact....   >>      well yes, wasn't tha....   Even without the usual bigotry about managers I'd ....   >>      Google image search ....   If you scat whilst icing you have greater problems....   >>      Platform for Commerc....   Since I don't think I've mentioned it for a while,....   >>      IE: deliberate bugs?   I think actually the real reason is resources. IE....   >>      IHTMLDocument2 + fri....   I think you're stuck in the driving a control remo....   >>      SoftICE paranoia   Unless your business is stepping through other peo....   >>      Not making sense of ....   Is there anybody there?   >>         If you get either a tarball or check it out from t....   >>      Confused About Linux   Not so silly if you want to install 50 at once, a ....   >>      SQL Server Reporting....   Crystal is considered bad, or hard, or difficult b....   >>   03 Aug 2004   more earth to micros....   Some are optional, such as the one that removes al....   >>      Developers retesting....   Usually this kind of ring-a-round-the-roses is dow....   >>      Your typical program....   Its cream that's been partially churned, its extre....   >>         Not unless they're a klutz and they get black bits....   >>         Watching someone eat a breakfast burrito off a pap....   >>      The appeal of the PC   Clones outsold IBM PCs within two years of the fir....   >>      What after "Village"....   Its a book that, if I remember rightly, involves a....   >>      ** how to get feel o....   Take them to the pub, or at least go with them to ....   >>   02 Aug 2004   Is my company dying?   It will if it isn't prepared for the next whatever....   >>   01 Aug 2004   Joel and Eric on Pau....   I haven't bothered to read the piece, why should a....   >>   31 Jul 2004   How do create a webs....   Use Manage Bookmarks, find the bookmark and select....   >>      What does google do?   There is not enough tequila in your diet.   >>   28 Jul 2004   How Google has ruine....   Allowing small lots of shares to be sold tends to ....   >>      Polish me no Patents   No the major problem with software patents is that....   >>         I'm not sure its particularly naive. I think the ....   >>      A profitable alterna....   Open Source is not a software distribution method,....   >>   27 Jul 2004   Polish me no Patents   >>   27 Jul 2004   SPAM   Control Panel/Add or Remove Programs I couldn....   >>      Polish me no Patents   I'd be fairly amazed if they actually lose their a....   >>      Software Pricing for....   They hold the article just long enough so thay can....   >>      Percentage of Develo....   I seem to be in marketing mode at the moment, must....   >>         Its almost certainly more than you can count on al....   >>      Innovator's Solution....   The EU isn't interested in pursuing MS because the....   >>         However much cash Microsoft does or does not have ....   >>      Following the McD's ....   IT is an umbrella that covers a multitude of dirty....   >>      Open Source = no rig....   Yes, I'll use and implement software that's under ....   >>         Granted and corrected Karl.   >>         In the USA software patent applications are made d....   >>         Well I've read all this. Can I have that bit of....   >>      How do I develop a D....   Depending on the type of development we create mai....   >>   26 Jul 2004   Third, er, sixth, er....   Dune was originally a serial in Galaxy, I think it....   >>      Free Online virus sc....   AVG, oh and AVG.    >>   25 Jul 2004   Why seek compliance ....   Compliance is not about running in different brows....   >>   23 Jul 2004   Gmail   After everybody has one, I shall not.  This s....   >>      Larry Osterman remin....   Each to their own but I think I'd have refused the....   >>      What kind of (paper)....   I may doodle, sometimes a diagram, sometimes some ....   >>      Politics in a startu....   Errr, you just have too many people. If all 40 ....   >>      Challenge:Being cont....   Its not uncommon. One of the problems is that t....   >>   22 Jul 2004   pet projects that fi....   Yes, Unix was invented so that the word 'plugh' co....   >>      Change management fo....   One of the large projects I managed, long, long ag....   >>         We keep the ddl scripts for generating the databas....   >>      Automation Errors   Does it? I guess I subscribe but then I get value....   >>         That's the standard 'I had an error on an automati....   >>         This needs more detail to get anywhere close. W....   >>      Software piracy   Copyright may not be theft in the same sense that ....   >>         If its reliant on MS development tools then get an....   >>      interesting FAQ on '....   Its all very reminiscent of the chipping of faxes.....   >>      Great blog post on i....   Certainly not in the week that Microsoft announces....   >>         Err yes. This quote is interesting... 'We talk....   >>   21 Jul 2004   New mouse, part thre....   Its twat, with a silent 't'. Can I say that? A....   >>      The Plague of Minimu....   Dayum, you missed the invisible :-}   >>   20 Jul 2004      Then he shouldn't be running them all at once, its....   >>      Indentation   Echo Mr. Forbes, although it is amusing that, on F....   >>      Good Looking To Do L....   I'll put it on my To Do List, under Unsolicited De....   >>      The World's Longest ....   The christian apparel thing crashed Object Desktop....   >>      Simple XML Compressi....   This is akin to extending signal flags (bits of ma....   >>      I don't save email f....   I keep all (ie. what I haven't deleted) my email i....   >>   17 Jul 2004   Last Straw   Sometimes there are no answers, there's nothing an....   >>      More IQ-ism   I imagine the silence so far has been one of incre....   >>         There is no measurement of commonsense other than ....   >>      Google could compete....   FUD is an industry disease, and one that Microsoft....   >>   16 Jul 2004   JoS Nicknames   the missing usage of the verb 'to be' marks that o....   >>         Do you somehow stop being a former car owner in Qu....   >>      Microsoft Blogs   So where's the 'under the desk cam' then?   >>      Log Anaylser - any r....   Analog does the job.   >>   15 Jul 2004   What do we teach our....   Actually, the egg and spoon race, and the sack rac....   >>   14 Jul 2004   I got those humpday blues...   >>   14 Jul 2004   I got those humpday ....   Virus scans happen every morning, after the virus ....   >>      Mozilla Flaw Runs Ar....   As jwz said once, any program that's around long e....   >>         Umm you don't need a COM object in order to create....   >>   13 Jul 2004   Coding Standards   The fault is not in the coding standards, if you d....   >>      The Coffee Test   Just to subvert my own test, cos I'm just that kin....   >>      Read-only USB?   Ok, gotcha. My mindset is locked into DRM.    >>         Ummm how does read only stop what's being read bei....   >>      Big Companies & ....   Sometimes you can, or rather sometimes the guess y....   >>      outsourcing blog   I've outsourced all my comments about outsourcing.....   >>      Have you tried Googl....   Well at least the Kalashnikovs aren't real on Usen....   >>         The ellision of apostrophes when they themselves i....   >>         Its at the end of each message. Unless you're t....   >>         I can't stand the 4Reply though, illiteracy is not....   >>      The price, idiot, wh....   Humour, without the 'u' looks like some kind of me....   >>      Eric on Hazards of H....   A degree is irrelevant two or less years after get....   >>   09 Jul 2004   Myserious billboard   Its an alien plot.   >>      The Myth of Technolo....   Of course any generalisation can be refuted with a....   >>         The US is around ten years behind the rest of the ....   >>      How to spot a SW dev....   TANSTAAFL   >>      Software as a found ....   Sculptor discovering the inner form inside the mar....   >>      I just received a te....   Any external protection scheme comes down to a con....   >>   08 Jul 2004   Music   The thrum of the fan, the staccato echo of the key....   >>      Problems Partitionin....   See here... http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/pr....   >>      Slashdot   A substantial example application. I'd be inter....   >>      Reading glasses   Singapore is an excellent place to have the test a....   >>         I would not get your rubber duck boxer shorts out ....   >>   07 Jul 2004   Protecting Intellect....   Patents don't protect software ideas, they're defe....   >>      Equating Cab Drivers....   You wanna go sath o' the river mate? This time o'....   >>   06 Jul 2004   Help for Newbie Tryi....   You can login to a machine in a domain without a d....   >>         It sounds like you don't have a local account on t....   >>      Job Titles   Don't give him any kind of title at all, therein l....   >>      What % of users have....   'Best numbers' is always going to be somewhat hit ....   >>      How does the RIAA id....   The argument that record companies are simply publ....   >>      Suddenly Unicode bec....   Chinese communism works because it is Confucianism....   >>   05 Jul 2004      My biorhythms must be off or something, it was P. ....   >>         Collins was simply one example and the Collins I w....   >>         This was precisely the position of publishing comp....   >>         If you think Unicode support is all that's require....   >>      software patents and....   Patents weren't created in the first place to help....   >>   03 Jul 2004   FireFox is NOT Broke....   Nope, I still have an outstanding bug on Livejourn....   >>   01 Jul 2004   Computer technicians....   Kissing someone against their will is assault. ....   >>      your most absurd IT ....   My wife received an email today from some lowly pe....   >>      What will the web be....   With a neural interface, the system itself would p....   >>      Data Types Chosen On....   Before the Currency data type (which is just a fix....   >>      The Cost of Validati....   However, there is no 'right' way to enter an addre....   >>   30 Jun 2004   Electronic Whiteboar....   I thought the whiteboard widget in Net Meeting had....   >>      The phrase "bet the ....   It did last in lots of ways. XGem was the real ti....   >>         Oh, and the credible alternative at the time was G....   >>         There's a current financial scandal going on in Lo....   >>      Visual Studio Expres....   What I meant to say was: I'm not sniffy about E....   >>         There is a bullet with your name on it.   >>   28 Jun 2004   $20 doesn't buy jack....   Yes price inflation can be due to scarcity as well....   >>      Administrative accou....   Ok. Yes you can use IDE's and such and yes you co....   >>   27 Jun 2004      Ok, developers of serious applications generally n....   >>   26 Jun 2004      Developers need administrative rights, or the majo....   >>      Uhh... What does ISV....   Nah, Microsoft has never been an ISV, Joel's right....   >>      DBAs vs. Coders   To emphasise the point. If you make select data f....   >>      Not a bug?   WONTFIX may mean that, but even if it does it shou....   >>   25 Jun 2004   How to accept credit....   Apply here, see how much the costs are. http://....   >>      Not a bug?   I've added comments to that effect and that a new ....   >>         If he's a QA owner of rpm then he'll be an employe....   >>      Open Source accounta....   Ummm, at the risk of droning on, I'll just point o....   >>      European formats in ....   You need a locale lookup table which has the local....   >>      Comdex   On the other hand... http://www.cebit.de/homepa....   >>      Microsoft Backwards ....   Not really no. Currently we write applications ....   >>      Maps and Multiple De....   This reminds me, MSDN subscribers now get a free s....   >>      I wanna be a grey be....   You realise that this means you also have to stop ....   >>   23 Jun 2004   CVS : impossible to ....   Why not have all the files in CVS? Yes a comple....   >>      C#/.NET (Vague Troll....   Everything is connected to everything else, those ....   >>      Another reply to "Ho....   Visicalc may be being used to make the point, but ....   >>         Interesting that anyone could think running Visica....   >>      Respect to Eric   I think the stack will look something more like ....   >>   22 Jun 2004   "Sharepoint... Share....   q.v. hyperbole and litotes.   >>   21 Jun 2004   Xbox 2 will not be b....   Backwards compatibility doesn't matter in the game....   >>      user access   Alternatively, tear a new hole in your jeans, if y....   >>      REL and REV attribut....   You might have guessed it, but Mozilla browsers su....   >>      Scoble's latest news....   This is what passes for Scoble's subtle wit. Bu....   >>      Byte shift   I think you'll find its nybble. ICL called thei....   >>      Prince II - Project ....   The documents are there to help manage a project s....   >>   19 Jun 2004   mozilla future   mozilla is the whole schmozzle, Gecko, Mail, XPCOM....   >>      Real use of CSS   Absolute isn't just about positioning the complete....   >>   18 Jun 2004   Content Editable   >>   18 Jun 2004   Joel's plea for cont....   See http://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware/def....   >>      Where have all the o....   There is an archive, you just can't see it.   >>      Writing code is dead   Read Microsofties and his fictional product of gra....   >>      Content Editable   If I remember rightly to get content editable on m....   >>         doc.body.contentEditable is the entire visible doc....   >>      Windows Progress Dia....   He didn't discuss why someone thought it a good id....   >>      What I want in JavaS....   Javascript + XPCOM is all you could ever want in a....   >>      Richer Client-Side P....   Lets see, you want to have a stateful process in a....   >>      Is this wrong?   If false is defined as 0 and true as non-zero, an ....   >>   17 Jun 2004   Software Development....   It isn't unethical for them to try and get you to ....   >>      "New API is HTML", b....   I was reading and agreeing all the way down the li....   >>      How Microsoft Lost t....   Re: DR DOS and breakage. Microsoft didn't break....   >>   16 Jun 2004   When is Manual Trans....   There is only one occasion when a manual gearbox i....   >>      Work relationship tu....   Ummm Paul of Tarsus...   >>      Interview with Scott....   In case the above comment was too eliptical, http:....   >>      Software architect   Just leave the money by the bed when you leave dea....   >>      WEB applications   In relation to IE on Windows its a lot better, it ....   >>      U.S. declines to cre....   Nah, global warming isn't happening, there's no ho....   >>      Poll: www.foxnews.co....   I'm moderately amused that anyone would expect to ....   >>   15 Jun 2004   WEB applications   The development problems of IE aren't so much that....   >>      Struts And XUL   It's an interesting idea (as is creating a XUL plu....   >>      Firefox 0.9 has bad ....   There's one, largely unhelpful answer, to all thos....   >>   12 Jun 2004   Using a debugger for....   Even if you're the perfect runtime engine for a pa....   >>   11 Jun 2004   Got an internet acce....   We run NG3 for source control which gives us remot....   >>      London JUG   One can just imagine the number of anoraks hanging....   >>      My custom JOS Reader....   Oh, you mean an offline reader such as CCS (Compus....   >>      CVS versioning &....   Nothing! Absolutely Nothing!   >>      Reflection on/in Int....   Like what the ';' is for?   >>   10 Jun 2004   Replacing an EXE on ....   For updates I'm currently using login scripts for ....   >>      DataStructure for Th....   A thought isn't a data structure. Its an event.....   >>      Can MSFT still disco....   The EU fine is for bundling Media Player, not for ....   >>      Joining the French F....   Is this prompted by something I heard the other da....   >>      IT Salaries in Europ....   If 6x8 = 42 that helps to explain how Danes manage....   >>   09 Jun 2004   Hiring programmers: ....   I'll fix it after they've both broken it.   >>      Correct term please   This is orthogonal to the OP but it reminded me of....   >>      Google: the search s....   Or that well known Caribbean island Condoleeza Ric....   >>      caught someone in of....   Did they use your desk? If not file it away for....   >>      project from hell, a....   Smart people repeat the mistakes but learn to call....   >>      Value of resume data....   Here's a troll, pay not, to cross the bridge.   >>   08 Jun 2004   How much does the re....   Unless the company has no money, in which case the....   >>      Monumental Incompete....   So you want a written spec to cover appending the ....   >>         If you had to give a spec for every silly single t....   >>         I'm bemused as to why MS programmers should be rew....   >>      Lemme guess, you can....   At a guess, and it may be entirely nonsense, it so....   >>   07 Jun 2004   Sulking?   I doubt it and I doubt if he'll react to the prod.   >>      Getting hit by a bus   You spelled 'bus' fine. I imagine that the term....   >>      Postal code database....   There's a company that sells Global address data h....   >>      Comparing two sound ....   http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=mozclient&....   >>      Catching undercover ....   Unfortunately, in order for Marlowe to have writte....   >>      Is the tide now goin....   Well, lets see. I don't work 9-5, I work when I....   >>         Ho hum. What's the evidence for this 'reduced' pa....   >>         No the tide isn't going against Open source. Th....   >>      Software development....   My, my.  I wonder what you'd do if your favou....   >>   06 Jun 2004   Virus / Trojan Weird....   If you've got AVG then enable the email filter for....   >>      Piracy can be good?   There was a marketing mantra in the 80's that Visi....   >>      RDFS   Ummm, The C5. I'm not sure if that was an examp....   >>      Slacker Coworker   Calling Kiwis, fruits, would I think involve being....   >>   05 Jun 2004   640K Should be Enoug....   He did say something about 2Mb being the desireabl....   >>      Lazy man seeks simpl....   Hire someone for the project to assist you.   >>      Slacker Coworker   Did you breathe whilst you typed all that?   >>      Have you heard of th....   Nothing is going on here, everyone back to your Di....   >>   04 Jun 2004   what do you do when ....   You put a mirror on the floor behind you and look ....   >>      Microsoft Granted Pa....   I haven't bothered to look at the patent but it st....   >>      Aeron Chair   Ummm what do you do in your chair Matthew to cause....   >>      Windows XP SP2 And P....   I'd have thought #1 in the most pirated serial num....   >>      I hate this industry   If they actually made you an offer and you have co....   >>      Getting a client to ....   Stealing his pipes, especially if he has a very go....   >>      using opaque primary....   Oh the point about merging data from different ser....   >>         I find the misuse of GUIDs as record keys unfathom....   >>      Ayn Rand   You only have to know that Alcibiades was his mate....   >>   03 Jun 2004   If you were Microsof....   Ummm stupid acquisitions... Microsoft CRM Th....   >>      using opaque primary....   I use unique keys that may, or may not have some e....   >>      Long-term prospects ....   Though, actually the concept of C++ having an auto....   >>         In 1993, or thereabouts, there was an agent that w....   >>      Ayn Rand   I wasn't aware I had an ilk, I rather doubt I do. ....   >>         The lumbering prose, the grotesque simplifications....   >>         Restricted emotional growth.   >>      What is time?   Time does not increment, it does not change, it pe....   >>      Windows based Email ....   Courier. http://www.rosecitysoftware.com/ Its....   >>      This is ludicrous   This is old news and doesn't just matter in the UK....   >>   02 Jun 2004   Just a thought   Zope appears to have been swallowed whole by Plone....   >>      Planning to give my ....   People that insist on reviews and exit interviews ....   >>         You can give constructive criticism if you like, t....   >>      More on mail service....   All the mail sits on the IMAP server, or somewhere....   >>      The demise of the MD....   There's a difference between the Mac's SDI (take o....   >>      why has no one built....   Umm I actually did drive over my then laptop in my....   >>         Hard drives breathe through filters, dumping one i....   >>      VB at the Movies   Kill Bill, I think.   >>      Image library s/w   Well its to not encourage all those sweatshop soft....   >>      Passing args by refe....   I made one error in an example. It should have ....   >>         char *name[50] is an array of 50 pointers to char.....   >>         char *name; Is simply a pointer to some char si....   >>         The two bits of verbiage useful in understanding p....   >>      Self Defence   Defence was the way we all spelled it until around....   >>   01 Jun 2004   Very painful project....   If you reckon using lex and yacc you can get it ru....   >>      Off-the-wall UI   Go find some individual with the clearance who is ....   >>      Good email services   Get an ancient box, put BSD or Linux on it and the....   >>      Effects of "Anti-GMa....   I can't quite see the connection between freely ha....   >>   30 May 2004   Preparing to divorce....   What is having Red hat support going to mean for y....   >>   29 May 2004   Center a PropertyShe....   From dim memory you get the resolution of the enti....   >>      Microsoft, Oracle bu....   A question comes to mind. Do we really need thi....   >>      When flexible become....   Yes, that was a reasonable thing to do and if migh....   >>   28 May 2004   When flexible becomes broken.   >>   28 May 2004   Win2k forever   Sounds more likely that they've had their bottom s....   >>      When flexible become....   The process that most often screwed up was connect....   >>         They do go back to the search dialog, till they ca....   >>         Ged, I think that was part of what they thought....   >>         The search dialog is different to the regular form....   >>      Getting the UI right   If your developers don't understand the requiremen....   >>      Developer Change Log....   Whilst it might be nice to atomically check in all....   >>      Silly managers   Don't assume that the Director thought that becaus....   >>   27 May 2004   Tech work a "special....   Indeed. If there's one word that makes my skin cr....   >>      What does "Our Techn....   I wouldn't be so quick to point the finger at Micr....   >>      Drive letter issues ....   Well I wouldn't blame Windows for people that assu....   >>      Chris Stone on Open/....   Personally I'd take the LGPL (in the sense of the ....   >>         The above would not be a correct interpretation of....   >>   26 May 2004   Informal vs. Formal ....   Results. If you have results, tangible stuff, ....   >>      Drive letter issues ....   I think a little careful reading of that shows tha....   >>      Chris Stone on Open/....   If those jar files are licenced under the LGPL the....   >>         Ummmm, nope, nohow.   >>      A new era?   Look, anyone that complains about their name has a....   >>         Fourth, I think, rather than third, but true. ....   >>         I should think this thread is guaranteed to be Eri....   >>      I knew it   I'd imagine Novell's library has sufficient texts ....   >>      A Reg Hack to Make w....   There's a difference between a user that's a devel....   >>         And you create a regular user account for running ....   >>      The number of posts.....   Hmmmmm, and how long have you been connecting this....   >>      Screw math...   The grammar of mathmatics (and there can be many g....   >>         There is numeric integration and algebraic integra....   >>   25 May 2004   Help is updating to ....   Sell them the answer...   >>      Yet another cover le....   Dear Sir, Your job doesn't particularly interes....   >>      Screw math...   I'd be interested in seeing a description of alge....   >>         As the first forms of writing we have were about s....   >>      Proficiency in C   I think it took Dennis Ritchie about three or four....   >>      INGRESS opensourced   Since MS licenced the original source of SQL Serve....   >>   23 May 2004   The real problem wit....   And it produces UI that looks like my 10 year old ....   >>      Why Google will not ....   If there are one billion people making searches (w....   >>      Zip Scheduler   Ummm, scheduling things is an operating system kin....   >>      TechEd '04   If one has no underpants, one pants, neh?   >>   22 May 2004   French Words/express....   French has been intermingled  with the Englis....   >>      Magazines on line, g....   There is one significant drawback to magazines onl....   >>      Future of desktop de....   Errrm, Philo 'We need more graceful ways of han....   >>   21 May 2004   Sometimes, rarely   >>   21 May 2004   data retrieval metho....   Think about how generic data interfaces, like ODBC....   >>      Future of desktop de....   Its not all thin client, fat slobbering server mod....   >>      my gripes with Offic....   Yes, I forgot the :-}   >>         Matthew, you give it to someone that has to have a....   >>      Another take on the ....   They do different things. If your pants are on ....   >>      FUD: it's not just f....   e e cummings, a poet who wrote only in lower case.....   >>         Ah, you like descending block structures, explicit....   >>         Minix works on simple architectures, simple proces....   >>      VB: How do I recursi....   In life there are people who manage to tie their o....   >>      IEEE: Japanese best,....   Well that's it, coding will never become an Olympi....   >>      Large blocks of code....   It depends on the model of source control you're u....   >>