D3PART3D wrote:Love and Hugs.mina.magpie wrote:Cool beans. I'll leave it at that then.
Mina.
departed....... if YOU start with that one you will be a soon departed....
*grins*
D3PART3D wrote:Love and Hugs.mina.magpie wrote:Cool beans. I'll leave it at that then.
Mina.
Who?D3PART3D wrote:LOL jee, I was just bringing attention to the weird coincidence that she ends all of her posts in a similar way to Zana.
given the local wildlife, you're actually pretty normal...mina.magpie wrote:All I ask is that you respect me and accept that we have different lives and experiences.
we are?rustypup wrote:given the local wildlife, you're actually pretty normal...mina.magpie wrote:All I ask is that you respect me and accept that we have different lives and experiences.
along with all the intro nonsense, keep in mind we're having a gathering of sorts in durban on 24th/jan
D3PART3D wrote:Love and Hugs.
Killjoy!UrBaN wrote:I'm not one to beat about the bush.
(No lewd references please jamin)
Mac's are for prissy little hipsters, graphic designers and other forms of life I have little to no contact with....mina.magpie wrote:Please don't tell me you like *gross spitty sound-effects* Windoze. Mac I can still forgive.
LOL. I'm sure.rustypup wrote:given the local wildlife, you're actually pretty normal...
I'm going up to Pretoria around the end of the month to do battle with Home Affairs, but if I'm in Durbs on the 24th ... who knows. A whole big social might be a bit much all at once though. Maybe I should just kick some butts in a nice Dawn of War LAN first huh?along with all the intro nonsense, keep in mind we're having a gathering of sorts in durban on 24th/jan
Shame on you. It's because of people like you that I'm forced to program in and for it.jamin_za wrote:Not only do I (and the vast majority of PC users) enjoy using Windows, but I earn a living supporting it
+1 on that Mina. I am likewise forced to program in C# cuz the company I work for needs to cater for the masses. If we had a choice 90% of what we do would have been on linuxmina.magpie wrote:Shame on you. It's because of people like you that I'm forced to program in and for it.jamin_za wrote:Not only do I (and the vast majority of PC users) enjoy using Windows, but I earn a living supporting it
Mina.
Hehe. Luckily I do mostly web-based development, so I manage to stay pretty neutral in terms of front-end. For some reason though I can't get anybody to try MySQL over MS SQL Server ... hence the Wincentricity.RuadRauFlessa wrote:+1 on that Mina. I am likewise forced to program in C# cuz the company I work for needs to cater for the masses. If we had a choice 90% of what we do would have been on linux
Maybe, though for small companies with not a lot of processing or spare cash, it makes no sense to pay licenses through your nose when there's a perfectly good Open Source alternative lying around. People are afraid of open source 'cause they worry they'll be left stranded if something breaks.RuadRauFlessa wrote:Well I have worked with both and I can say with confidence that MSSQL is waaay faster than MySQL
There's actually a fair bit of research out there, alot of it having come out in 2008. This might be a good place to start, though I warn that the author can be ... nerdy, which is saying alot, coming from me and directed at a board full of tech geeks.D3PART3D wrote:I didn't know about the hypothalamus' role and will educate myself...
Haha. Trying to drag it back on-topic now.Tribble wrote:Wow - and here I came to debate the topic. How stupid of me not to have expected that it would have been derailed
Agreed completely.mina.magpie wrote:Maybe, though for small companies with not a lot of processing or spare cash, it makes no sense to pay licenses through your nose when there's a perfectly good Open Source alternative lying around. People are afraid of open source 'cause they worry they'll be left stranded if something breaks.RuadRauFlessa wrote:Well I have worked with both and I can say with confidence that MSSQL is waaay faster than MySQL
Oh well, the customer is always right ... even when (s)he's wrong.
Mina.
I don't know Lance but you seem to be willing to make a pointlancelot wrote:Is it Mina who is the youngest she-male?
Fear of the unknown is more like it. Religion for one would actually point in that direction. It is born out of the fear of the unknown. Out of the fear that there is nothing after death. Those who feel that it is a moral issue inherintly also gets that from the religious perspective. The indoctrination of religion causes a lot of morals which this is actually one of.Tribble wrote:So why does society feel they have the right to control who these people want to be? For religious reasons? or moral ones?
I could not have said it any better. I still feel it is the cause of religion though.jee wrote:Tribbs, because people fear what they don't understand,
people fear that which is different from them,
people fear what they really covet but are too scared to acknowledge publicly and because someone else lives that life, they have to demean it because they are so scared someone else will find out that is really what they wish to have/be.
well, not so much society but a certain sect therein called the freemasons... you may have heard of them?Tribble wrote:why does society feel they have the right to control who these people want to be?
jee wrote:Tribbs, because people fear what they don't understand,
people fear that which is different from them,
people fear what they really covet but are too scared to acknowledge publicly(or to themselves) and because someone else lives that life, they have to demean it because they are so scared others will find out that is really what they wish to have/be.
I do believe that fear has a lot to do with it. A fear of all that is different and unique. Those that don't fit the mold/mould (arguing with my spellchecker re that word) and those that don't tow the line. I guess structured religions do fall into that category.RuadRauFlessa wrote:Fear of the unknown is more like it. Religion for one would actually point in that direction. It is born out of the fear of the unknown. Out of the fear that there is nothing after death. Those who feel that it is a moral issue inherintly also gets that from the religious perspective. The indoctrination of religion causes a lot of morals which this is actually one of.
I'd say it's probably something evolved into us, just like the need for religion seems to be. We are by nature racist, xenophobic, shut-ins - we're a social organism, and for reasons both of keeping interlopers out as well as to keep the group strong, we developed all these reactions. We drive out what's different because there is perceived security in sameness.jee wrote:Tribbs, because people fear what they don't understand,
people fear that which is different from them,
people fear what they really covet but are too scared to acknowledge publicly(or to themselves) and because someone else lives that life, they have to demean it because they are so scared others will find out that is really what they wish to have/be.