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Last post 06-11-2008 8:13 AM by MasterPlanSoftware. 2376 replies.
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  • 03-28-2008 11:59 AM In reply to

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    bstorer:

    SpectateSwamp:

    Boy are you nieve.

     

    He's totally naive.

     

    No, I'm nieve. Pay attention.

    SpectateSwamp:
    My abovetopsecret posts are picking up.

    No they aren't- I just looked, you have ONE reply on your 2008 post, which is a man telling you it's just a leaf. When even internet conspiracy nuts think you're making up nonsense about nothing, it's time to seriously examine your views...

     

    Also, frigging curse someone. It doesn't have to be a big curse which will destroy the World, just make someone lose their keys or something. 

  • 03-28-2008 12:02 PM In reply to

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    Programming languages don't matter with Swamp Search

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    bstorer:

    But let's get back to my previous questions that you didn't answer: "Maybe you've answered this at some point and I missed it, but I'm actually curious about your background.  What programming languages do you know, and what languages did you use?  Were you always working in different dialects of BASIC, or do you have, like, a C background or something?"

    Programming languages don't matter. It's application background that counts. Moving from one language to another isn't that difficult. Start simple and go from there. People will show you the key elements of the language you need to know and you are off. 2 or 3 weeks using a new language making changes to applications and you can be almost up to speed. With help of course.

    But with Spectate Swamp search I have no need to know anything more about languages. Ever again. Period.

     

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  • 03-28-2008 12:07 PM In reply to

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    SpectateSwamp:
    Programming languages don't matter. It's application background that counts. Moving from one language to another isn't that difficult.
     

    Okay, then let's talk about applications.  While SSDS can do many things, it can't do everything.  What other programs do you use?  Why don't you write better replacements for them, too? 

  • 03-28-2008 12:10 PM In reply to

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    SpectateSwamp:
    Programming languages don't matter. It's application background that counts. Moving from one language to another isn't that difficult.
    What the heck? Why are you avoiding it? It's a simple question out of curiosity. And it's a lie that moving isn't difficult. If it wasn't, how come you haven't gotten out of VB5 and moved to C++ ? (free compilers are available). I'll tell you why. It IS difficult.

    Here, I'll go first: GWBASIC -> QBASIC 4.5 -> VB 3 -> VB 6 / ASP (VBS) / VBA -> C# 2.0. Toss in HTML 4, CSS 2, and JavaScript for web. Dabbled in various others and can work with other technologies (Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, XML, whatever).

    Your turn.

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  • 03-28-2008 12:17 PM In reply to

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    Sharing simply with Spectate Swamp

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    bstorer:
    Okay, then let's talk about applications.  While SSDS can do many things, it can't do everything.  What other programs do you use?  Why don't you write better replacements for them, too? 
    It is not always about replacements. During my mapping project. The users were having nervous breakdowns trying to learn this complex system. Right from the start they had a 23 step proceedure to tie down the physical map to the digitizing board. I preloaded the 6 tiedown points at the beginning of the Map file and reduced the instructions to 6 or 8. That was the initial step in mapping and it panicked them. With this simple change the users were quickly digitizing away. The project was a success. They got their own mapping system. I had help developing my first program there as well. Thanks ElizabethSwamp

     

     

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  • 03-28-2008 12:20 PM In reply to

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    SpectateSwamp:
    Thanks ElizabethSwamp
     

    Huh?

    I am fucking lost now.

  • 03-28-2008 12:31 PM In reply to

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    Re: Sharing simply with Spectate Swamp

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     I think he is thanking his other personality... Must be..

  • 03-28-2008 12:33 PM In reply to

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    SpectateSwamp:
    Thanks ElizabethSwamp
     

    No problem, uh, I guess? 

  • 03-28-2008 12:41 PM In reply to

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    SpectateSwamp:
    Boy are you nieve.
    rc_pinchey is made of ice cream?

  • 03-28-2008 12:44 PM In reply to

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    SpectateSwamp:
    ..dodging the question..
    You're like a little kid:
    *fingers in ears* Lalalalalalalalalalala I can't hear you! Lalalalalalalalalalala
    It's a simple question. Are you avoiding it because you haven't used another language?

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  • 03-28-2008 12:51 PM In reply to

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    AbbydonKrafts:
    SpectateSwamp:
    ..dodging the question..
    You're like a little kid:
    *fingers in ears* Lalalalalalalalalalala I can't hear you! Lalalalalalalalalalala
    It's a simple question. Are you avoiding it because you haven't used another language?
     

    He has to have used another language, if only because VB didn't exist yet when he started.  Do we want to start taking guesses about languages he knows?  I'm going with COBOL.

  • 03-28-2008 12:54 PM In reply to

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    bstorer:
    I'm going with COBOL.
    I'll also place my bet on that one with a side bet on FORTRAN with a long on IDL and MACRO.

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  • 03-28-2008 1:08 PM In reply to

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    AbbydonKrafts:
    bstorer:
    I'm going with COBOL.
    I'll also place my bet on that one with a side bet on FORTRAN with a long on IDL and MACRO.
     

    Well, he probably has some BASIC in his past before VB.  Since he says he worked on VAXen, it's a good bet that he used VAX BASIC.   I'd bet he learned BASIC first, and then programmed in other languages using exactly those constructs which translated over from BASIC.  And since he did data processing data data processing, how about something like PL/I?  I can easily picture him only making use of perhaps 10% of its power.

  • 03-28-2008 1:47 PM In reply to

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    SpectateSwamp:
    But with Spectate Swamp search I have no need to know anything more about languages. Ever again. Period.

    I know he's not listening to us anymore now :) You asked him a straightforward question. And he didn't even give you a definite answer. 

    SpectateSwamp:
    People will show you the key elements of the language you need to know and you are off. 2 or 3 weeks using a new language making changes to applications and you can be almost up to speed. With help of course.

    Of course, with help ! I get it now ! The reason you don't answer about anything is that somebody else wrote Desktop Search for you ! Roger

    or Elizabeth perhaps ?
  • 03-28-2008 2:27 PM In reply to

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    Personality test for SpectateSwamp:

    Are you Male, Female or Other?

     

    I can't wait to see the answer to this question. Probably something about how he can use SSDS to query his own DNA to find out the answer, and give us a step-by-step command reference on how he did it. 

  • 03-28-2008 2:58 PM In reply to

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    Swamp Search too powerful for NetSquared MashUp - makes most computer apps obsolete

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    AbbydonKrafts:
    bstorer:
    I'm going with COBOL.
    I'll also place my bet on that one with a side bet on FORTRAN with a long on IDL and MACRO.
    Fortran H and I think the other was Fortran F, Cobol, RPG, Lots of Basic various flavors. Assembler etc but that doesn't matter. The only program I need has been written. SSDS. So I can just forget the rest. How could NetSquared be so blind or so chicken as to turf out Swamp Search. Who made the call. Nobody cares till it's their project that gets dissed because it's World shattering. Along with Aliens, Stones, Dinosaurs what ever and ever. 

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  • 03-28-2008 3:04 PM In reply to

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    SpectateSwamp:
    Along with Aliens, Stones, Dinosaurs what ever and ever. 
     

    I have a question for you.

    Do you ever find yourself sitting around, reading %ConspiracyPublicationOfYourChoice%, masturbating in a pile of your own feces, and think to yourself "Wow, it is amazing how fucking crazy I really am!" ?

  • 03-28-2008 3:14 PM In reply to

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    SpectateSwamp:
    Fortran H and I think the other was Fortran F, Cobol, RPG, Lots of Basic various flavors.
    Woohoo! Side bet paid off, too. Glad I did place much on the long shots.

    RPG, eh? God.. I remember having to do some Clipper stuff. Gotta give those AS/400s credit for one thing: They were rock-solid once they booted up.

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  • 03-28-2008 3:14 PM In reply to

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    SpectateSwamp:

    AbbydonKrafts:
    bstorer:
    I'm going with COBOL.
    I'll also place my bet on that one with a side bet on FORTRAN with a long on IDL and MACRO.
    Fortran H and I think the other was Fortran F, Cobol, RPG, Lots of Basic various flavors. Assembler etc but that doesn't matter. The only program I need has been written. SSDS. So I can just forget the rest. How could NetSquared be so blind or so chicken as to turf out Swamp Search. Who made the call. Nobody cares till it's their project that gets dissed because it's World shattering. Along with Aliens, Stones, Dinosaurs what ever and ever. 

     

    RPG!  Of course!  That actually explains so much, such as this line of thinking:

    SpectateSwamp:
    The Prime directive of computing was "Extract, Sort AND Report"

  • 03-28-2008 3:15 PM In reply to

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    bstorer:

    RPG!  Of course!  That actually explains so much, such as this line of thinking:

    SpectateSwamp:
    The Prime directive of computing was "Extract, Sort AND Report"

    Haha! It sure does.

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  • 03-28-2008 3:19 PM In reply to

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    Re: Programming languages don't matter with Swamp Search

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    JamesKilton:

    Personality test for SpectateSwamp:

    Are you Male, Female or Other?

     

    Before he takes the personality test, don't you think it is beter to let him first take the turing test to make sure that he is really a human (or a AI which can pass the turing test but given his grammar I doubt that)?

    It's just that I can help but think that he will even fail the turing test.

  • 03-28-2008 3:23 PM In reply to

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    SpectateSwamp:
    The only program I need has been written. SSDS. So I can just forget the rest. 

    Just a show of hands, who else on this forums believe that programming isn't about continuous learning ? And even though you have a "working" program, who hasn't looked back at what they wrote and said "I could've made that so much better".

  • 03-28-2008 3:26 PM In reply to

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    MasterPlanSoftware:

    SpectateSwamp:
    Along with Aliens, Stones, Dinosaurs what ever and ever. 
     

    I have a question for you.

    Do you ever find yourself sitting around, reading %ConspiracyPublicationOfYourChoice%, masturbating in a pile of your own feces, and think to yourself "Wow, it is amazing how fucking crazy I really am!" ?

    Does it still count if the feces came from someone else?

  • 03-28-2008 3:34 PM In reply to

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    SpectateSwamp:
    The only program I need has been written. SSDS. So I can just forget the rest.
     

    To recap, here are some of the things SpectateSwamp doesn't need:

    • Microsoft Windows
    • A web browser
    • DigiCam drivers
    • Windows Media Player
    • Telephone switching software
    • Programs that allow emergency dispatchers to send the fire department to his trailer, which was set aflame by an unnamed fellow whose avatar may or may not have a yellow super nova in it
  • 03-28-2008 3:36 PM In reply to

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    bstorer:
    Does it still count if the feces came from someone else?
     

    Nope. We all do THAT... Could hardly be considered crazy at that point.

  • 03-28-2008 3:43 PM In reply to

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    bstorer:
    To recap, here are some of the things SpectateSwamp doesn't need

    ...:

     

    Similarly, in Spectate's world, nobody, and I mean nobody, needs more than a Grade 9 education.   After all, nobody needs:

    • doctors
    • electrical engineers
    • automotive engineers
    • architects
    • policemen
    • paramedics
    • nurses
    • lawyers
    • judges
    • software developers
    SSDS clearly makes all of those professions obsolete.  One visit to SwampShack teaches you everything you need to know.
  • 03-28-2008 3:43 PM In reply to

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    MasterPlanSoftware:

    bstorer:
    Does it still count if the feces came from someone else?
     

    Nope. We all do THAT... Could hardly be considered crazy at that point.

     

    Phew!  That's a relief. 

  • 03-28-2008 4:09 PM In reply to

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    bstorer:
    Programs that allow emergency dispatchers to send the fire department to his trailer, which was set aflame by an unnamed fellow whose avatar may or may not have a yellow super nova in it
    OMFG!! HAHAHAHAHA!!! *head gonna asplode due to laughter containment*

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  • 03-28-2008 4:13 PM In reply to

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    Bifi:

    Before he takes the personality test, don't you think it is beter to let him first take the turing test to make sure that he is really a human (or a AI which can pass the turing test but given his grammar I doubt that)?

    It's just that I can help but think that he will even fail the turing test.

    Turing Test

  • 03-28-2008 4:42 PM In reply to

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    CodeSimian:

    SSDS clearly makes all of those professions obsolete.  One visit to SwampShack teaches you everything you need to know.

     

    Damn... No nurses? What will old men beat off to without them? DAMN YOU SS! DAMN YOUUUUU!

    Code is like a box of chocolates. You never know who stuck a turd in there and why.
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  • 03-28-2008 4:56 PM In reply to

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    dlikhten:
    Damn... No nurses? What will old men beat off to WithOut them? DAMN YOU SS! DAMN YOU SpectateSwaaaaamp!
    QFT.
    irc://irc.slashnet.org/#TDWTF (Redirects to #CodeLove )
    Yo dawg I herd hoard you like to search so I put a 2TB txt file in yo SSDS so your memory's maxed out and your computer cant do shit? -- Nyquist
  • 03-28-2008 5:07 PM In reply to

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    Lingerance:
    dlikhten:
    Damn... No nurses? What will old men beat off to WithOut them? DAMN YOU SS! DAMN YOU SpectateSwaaaaamp!
    QFT.

    ??

    Code is like a box of chocolates. You never know who stuck a turd in there and why.
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  • 03-28-2008 5:53 PM In reply to

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    dlikhten:
    ??
    The buttons for your reply are off the screen and unreachable as there isn't a scrollbar.

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  • 03-28-2008 6:03 PM In reply to

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    AbbydonKrafts:
    dlikhten:
    ??
    The buttons for your reply are off the screen and unreachable as there isn't a scrollbar.

    I see a scrollbar. It's at the bottom of the window in Firefox.

    Also, finally a tag that DOES break things! Try clicking it.

  • 03-28-2008 7:09 PM In reply to

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    Re: Get reality with Swamp Search

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    SpectateSwamp:
    They Yap and Yap about this being bad and that no good. But nothing, they produce nothing.

    Er, look at the video in my sig again.

    You know, the one where I've taken a 1280x1024 video footage, edited it to cut away boring parts and zoomed to relevant parts of the video to draw attention to the interesting parts? Amazing clarity, too, if I say so myself?

    Clearly more useful than what you've done, I'd wager.

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  • 03-28-2008 8:06 PM In reply to

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    Kids Cheer YellowHead AKA Spectate Swamp

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    CodeSimian:

    Similarly, in Spectate's world, nobody, and I mean nobody, needs more than a Grade 9 education.   After all, nobody needs:

    • doctors
    • electrical engineers
    • automotive engineers
    • architects
    • policemen
    • paramedics
    • nurses
    • lawyers
    • judges
    • software developers

    SSDS clearly makes all of those professions obsolete.  One visit to SwampShack teaches you everything you need to know.

    During the 93 election campaign. We went to Sangudo School and talked to the elementary students. I told Them basically what I said in the video. But it was Grade 8 instead of 9. They cheered me at the end of my speech. Not one of the other candidates got a cheer like that. The kids knew I wasn't lying to them. I could take on each and every one of the professions you have on the list. But that would get this post locked for being off topic. Spectate Swamp Search will make people far less dependent on Geeks that's for sure.

     

     

     

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  • 03-28-2008 8:19 PM In reply to

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    AbbydonKrafts:
    And it's a lie that moving isn't difficult.

    Moving from one language to another isn't difficult. Moving from one language to another and learning the peculiarities of that language is trickier.

    Swampy's code is the equivalent of #include "my_ugly_pseudo_stoneage_environment.h". In other words, just like he said, he learnt the language - but not how to properly use it to create a compelling Windows application. You know, all of the "form control" things on a "GUI". Or these "subroutines" that the language also allows, unlike whatever crap he used before.

    AbbydonKrafts:
    Here, I'll go first: GWBASIC -> QBASIC 4.5 -> VB 3 -> VB 6 / ASP (VBS) / VBA -> C# 2.0. Toss in HTML 4, CSS 2, and JavaScript for web. Dabbled in various others and can work with other technologies (Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, XML, whatever).

    A sidetrack, if you will.

    I remember clearly one beautiful winter day. I was walking outside - I can't remember why I was outside, but I remember there was plenty of nice beautiful snow. And I got this sudden revelation.

    "So that is what the subroutines really mean."

    You see, my background is in 8-bit microcomputer BASICs. When I got to PC land, I started with GWBASIC. Everyone in my class was coding in this "Pascal" thing. I had downloaded this "Visible-Pascal" thing since I couldn't quite afford Turbo Pascal at that point (and I actually bought TP7 for DOS later on, and boy, was that ever fun). And, VPascal being an environment for people who were learning the language, the documentation specifically says "But the GOTO statement is specifically excluded, as encouraging bad habits!" How, exactly, was I supposed to do anything interesting, if I couldn't do GOTOs? A big dilemma for a BASIC expatriate!

    I remember some things falling in right place in my mind. Oooh, so that is what the thing means. I need to do GOSUBs and organise everything in separate subroutines and there is no need to mash around like a loon with GOTOs. It is hard to describe the transformation, really: I just suddenly understood what I had been doing wrong.

    A beautiful day - I could understand how to do something better. Some time later, we had a programming class in school - this time, using Turbo Pascal. I remember one of my friends, another fellow 8-bit BASIC expatriate, struggling with the Pascal syntax. "This doesn't make sense!" he said one week. But you know what he said next week? "Wow! This is amazing! You can do really amazing stuff with this thing!" Pretty much what I felt, too.

    And you know what? Since that, there's been plenty of such paradigm shifts for me. A lot of things look just weird beforehand; For a long time I just didn't get the C pointers, now I do. There's been a lot of advances that I've learned of that made me feel "wow, I can code much better now that I know about that one." Things like object orientation, variable scopes, how common data structures really work, what memory allocation actually entails, relational database model in general, just to mention a few really basic ones... And I definitely admit there's plenty of stuff I don't get right now, even after a few decades of happy toying with computers; maybe one day I actually understand Haskell syntax with those monads and doohickeys and whatever. It's obviously clever, I just don't get it right now.

    So, em, I guess I'd be delighted to hear what sort of paradigm shifts mr. Swamp has had? What sort of useful moments of understanding have you, mr. Swamp, had, that allow you to easily understand the fundamentals of a new programming language?

    Where, indeed, was the spark of enlightenment in Swampcode, if there indeed was such thing? I can't verify, my eyes hurt pretty bad when I last looked at it...

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  • 03-28-2008 8:22 PM In reply to

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    SpectateSwamp:

    CodeSimian:

    Similarly, in Spectate's world, nobody, and I mean nobody, needs more than a Grade 9 education.   After all, nobody needs:

    • doctors
    • electrical engineers
    • automotive engineers
    • architects
    • policemen
    • paramedics
    • nurses
    • lawyers
    • judges
    • software developers

    SSDS clearly makes all of those professions obsolete.  One visit to SwampShack teaches you everything you need to know.

    During the 93 election campaign. We went to Sangudo School and talked to the elementary students. I told Them basically what I said in the video. But it was Grade 8 instead of 9. They cheered me at the end of my speech. Not one of the other candidates got a cheer like that. The kids knew I wasn't lying to them. I could take on each and every one of the professions you have on the list. But that would get this post locked for being off topic. Spectate Swamp Search will make people far less dependent on Geeks that's for sure.

     

    Well, you completely ignored my previous challenge about proving the world is as simple as you say it is.  Let me restate it: using only your own 2 hands, your copius intellect and raw materials:

    • Build your own camcorder from scratch
    • Design and build your own laptop
    • Write an operating system from scratch
    • Write a media player from scratch (i.e. you don't get to use MCISendString())
    • Write a web browser from scratch

    Oh, you can't do any of those things?  You take all of the amazing achievements of geeks and educated people for granted.  They have helped make the industrialized world into an amazing place where we have so much free time and disposable income that you can sit around posting spam to random message boards and uploading video that nobody cares about. 300 years ago, we would all be busy trying to survive, rather than living the comfortable lives we do.

    Seriously, you think a doctor doesn't need more than a Grade 9 education?  So you would be comfortable with a Grade 8 kid performing open-heart surgery or a liver transplant on you?  You have travelled to the U.S. and different provinces in Canada.  Did you fly?  Can you build your own airplane from scratch?  Do think the people who designed the planes that carried you from place to place had more than a Grade 9 education?

    You think that the people who designed your laptop didn't need an education?  How about the people who designed the technology that makes ALL YOUR HIGH-TECH TOYS POSSIBLE?  You think your fucking digital camera, laptop, camcorder, truck, television, and stereo would be possible in a world where nobody gets an education?

    You are a spoiled brat with a god complex.  An old man with the mental age of a child.  The world has passed you by while your mind rotted away. 

    If you don't like geeks and educated people, by all means.  Retreat to nature.  Live off the land.  Don't be a hypocrite and enjoy the fruits of geekery while you diss the people who made it all possible for you. 

    You should get down on your knees and thank the geeks of history that made it possible for you to disseminate your bullshit worldwide, even if nobody is listening.  In the real world, people just laugh at you and get on with their lives.  On the Internet, at least you can piss people off and get the attention you so desperately crave.

    Again I have to ask:

    WHY IS EVERYTHING YOU DO SO AWESOME, YET EVERYONE ELSE'S WORK IS WORTHLESS TO YOU? 

    Is your ego really that huge? 

  • 03-28-2008 8:35 PM In reply to

    Re: Kids Cheer YellowHead AKA Spectate Swamp

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    SpectateSwamp:
    During the 93 election campaign. We went to Sangudo School and talked to the elementary students. I told Them basically what I said in the video. But it was Grade 8 instead of 9. They cheered me at the end of my speech. Not one of the other candidates got a cheer like that. The kids knew I wasn't lying to them.
     

    Obviously they could relate to you because you are around their mental age.  Also, good job winning the hearts of Grade 8 kids.  Last time I checked, you have to be 18 to vote in Canada.

    Kids are great and all (we were all once kids!), but they don't exactly have the greatest judgement (*).  That's why they are placed under their parents care until they are 18.  Or are you suggesting that kids should be emancipated from their parents after Grade 9?  I would really like to hear the answer to this one.

    * Exhibit A: It is a trend for teenagers to set themselves on fire and post the video on Youtube:

    http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/story.html?id=af6dca12-5124-446f-bd61-0deb8305ff30

    The boy suffered first-, second- and third-degree burns to his torso Tuesday afternoon when another male student doused him with the spray and set him on fire. He was treated and released from hospital.

    "This is a fairly common thing around the province," said Middlesex Ontario Provincial Police Const. Doug Graham.

     

    Most adults I know wouldn't be too into that shit. 

    Exhibit B - Scientific research shows that the teenaged brain is less developed than that of an adult's, when it comes to decision-making:

    http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1200/is_19_165/ai_n6110300/pg_1 

    Age-related brain differences pack a real-world wallop, in his view. "From a biological perspective," Fassler asserts, "an anxious adolescent with a gun in a convenience store is more likely to perceive a threat and pull the trigger than is an anxious adult with a gun in the same store."

    Or do you wonder why a 12-year old who commits murder is not treated the same as a 20-year old?  Do you not understand why minors are not allowed to enter into legal contracts. 

    Exhibit C - Those kids thought you were awesome.  'Nuff said.  What's your next trick?  Impress a crowd full of 6-year olds?

  • 03-28-2008 8:55 PM In reply to

    • SpectateSwamp
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    Humming a tune for Spectate Swamp - It will happen.

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    WWWWolf:
    So, em, I guess I'd be delighted to hear what sort of paradigm shifts mr. Swamp has had? What sort of useful moments of understanding have you, mr. Swamp, had, that allow you to easily understand the fundamentals of a new programming language?
    I wrote a Desktop Search Engine. What have you done that makes the Geek World tremble. I must tell you I loved it when I put the line numbers back in. I knew the Geeks would go wild. Pure wild. My major "paradim shifts" came when the users loved what I was doing. That's where the real fun in "Data processing" resides. There have been numerous times If they weren't singing songs about me, they were definitely humming a tune.

    I could tell you some stories because I have nearly 40 years time to collect some. Your stores are dull and boring. Prove to me otherwise.

    Desktop Search - Computing's EASY button
  • 03-28-2008 9:13 PM In reply to

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    Humming a tune for Spectate Swamp - It will happen.

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    Sorry WolfieSwamp. You didn't deserve that. Even if you did pull the Wiki on Swamp Search. Not being a search engine. You'll be humming once you give it an honest try.

    Desktop Search - Computing's EASY button
  • 03-28-2008 9:13 PM In reply to

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    CodeSimian, thanks for your last two posts. I don't really care how Spectate takes it, I do have an appreciation for all other programmers before me, and while I might have accomplished quite a bit in my short career, it is nothing compared to what a lot of others have done. I know a lot of people bash microsoft, but if you look at it all in reality, its almost a miracle that (any product name here) works in the first place. You have large teams of developers working on different sections of an operating system or application and by the end all the pieces are like an orchestra playing. We can make some neat programs pretty easily these days, but we still use an IDE and usually some type of framework or API. Without those prerequisites, we would constantly be reinventing the wheel. It puts into perspective how well off we are to have these tools at our disposal.  Besides, even though programming can be kind of competitive and we are competitive by nature, the true value of software is determined by customers. We all think our software is pretty cool, but if you can't convince customers to feel the same way, it was all for nought. 

    As far as the teenagers go, they would think anything is cool simply because its different. It is something that is beyond what they understand with their limited experiences that they had so far. It is a good thing to get them excited so that we will get more people coming into the field into the future, but it does not say a darn thing about the quality of your work.

  • 03-28-2008 9:14 PM In reply to

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    SpectateSwamp:
    I wrote a Desktop Search Engine.
     

    BUT NOBODY USES IT.  So why should we be impressed again?

  • 03-28-2008 9:21 PM In reply to

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    SpectateSwamp:
    Your stores are dull and boring.
     

    CodeSimian:
    WHY IS EVERYTHING YOU DO SO AWESOME, YET EVERYONE ELSE'S WORK IS WORTHLESS TO YOU?

    Quoted for truth.

     

    If you're going to slag off geeks and geekery, write your own fucking programming language and your own compiler. Spectate Swamp Desktop Search is written in Visual Basic, and you don't have a bloody clue what's going on under the surface. The hardest part of your application, and someone else wrote it.

     

    SpectateSwamp:
    What have you done that makes the Geek World tremble.

    The "Geek World", as you understand it, only exists inside your head, and it's incapable of "trembling"- certainly not about SSDS, which the "Geek World" (if there were such a thing) hasn't actually noticed.

     

     

    Here's a question- you wrote SSDS in Visual Basic, right? So will you admit that the people who created Visual Basic are better programmers than you? I've changed a bulb on my car, and will freely admit that the people who built the car are better mechanics than I am...

  • 03-28-2008 9:22 PM In reply to

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    Re: Humming a tune for Spectate Swamp - It will happen.

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    CodeSimian:

    SpectateSwamp:
    I wrote a Desktop Search Engine.
     

    BUT NOBODY USES IT.  So why should we be impressed again?

     

     

    Also it isn't one. 

  • 03-28-2008 9:25 PM In reply to

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    Spook Forums love Spectate Swamp video.

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    I like that SpectateUnabomber tag. On one of the forums, the mod changed my name to SpectateSpam. Then they Banned me. It's a fine fine line we Spammers and Trolls walk.

    Sure is nice to be appreciated over at abovetopsecret.com forum. But don't worry. I'm not leaving you swampies just yet.

    Desktop Search - Computing's EASY button
  • 03-28-2008 9:27 PM In reply to

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    SpectateSwamp:

    I like that SpectateUnabomber tag. On one of the forums, the mod changed my name to SpectateSpam. Then they Banned me. It's a fine fine line we Spammers and Trolls walk.

    Sure is nice to be appreciated over at abovetopsecret.com forum. But don't worry. I'm not leaving you swampies just yet.

    I AM A GIGANTIC ASSHOLE. 

     

    Yes, we know.  You can leave anytime.  Really.  

    I hope you are not trying to tell us the Unabomber is one of your heroes?  Not that it would surprise anyone.  Y'know, as crazy and evil as he was, the Unabomber was an educated man.  A professor, actually.  The two of you don't have much in common, except for crippling mental illness.

  • 03-28-2008 9:29 PM In reply to

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    SpectateSwamp:
    we Spammers and Trolls walk.

     

    Thats as good as a confession as we're going to get as far as why he is here. To spam and troll.

  • 03-28-2008 9:29 PM In reply to

    • spenk
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    Re: Swamp Search too powerful for NetSquared MashUp - makes most computer apps obsolete

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    SpectateSwamp:
     How could NetSquared be so blind or so chicken as to turf out Swamp Search. Who made the call. Nobody cares till it's their project that gets dissed because it's World shattering.
    It didn't meet the rules therefore it wasn't allowed - why is this so fucking hard for you to understand?

    SpectateSwamp:
    Along with Aliens, Stones, Dinosaurs what ever and ever. 
    Indeed.

    SpectateSwamp:
    I could take on each and every one of the professions you have on the list. But that would get this post locked for being off topic. Spectate Swamp Search will make people far less dependent on Geeks that's for sure

    Now you are taking the piss more than ever - you know fuck all about anything other than drug induced ideas involving aliens and rocks. If you were my doctor I would take advice from just about anyone before you. 

    How can SSDS make people less dependant on geeks when the entire program is a total fucking mess with such esoteric commands even you can't get them right.

    SpectateSwamp:
    I wrote a Desktop Search Engine. What have you done that makes the Geek World tremble. I must tell you I loved it when I put the line numbers back in. I knew the Geeks would go wild.
    and it is a shit application, you can't even admit what it is never mind justify it's existance. Why any sane person (and this pretty much explains your opinion) would want to introduce line numbers back into a program is beyond me - please justify it if you can. Equally explain why giving line numbers that don't reflect the line number is a good idea...

  • 03-28-2008 9:34 PM In reply to

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    SpectateSwamp:
    Sure is nice to be appreciated over at abovetopsecret.com forum.
     

    http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread344757/pg

    One post here, you've been completely ignored.

     

    http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread342687/pg2&colorshift=yes

    Four posts by you here, one person dismisses your photos of a leaf as photos of a leaf, and one person replies saying every photo posted in the thread was brilliant, but he wants to see pictures of thousands of UFOs which can only be seen by an IR camera. Everyone else ignores you.

     

    http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread281060/pg1

    One post here, one reply dismissing it as pictures of leaves (again), and a second reply criticising you for using a camcorder to record things from a television. Now where have I heard that before...?

     

     

    Oh yes, Spectate, it looks like they fucking love you over there.  

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