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XFORMS will include sliders, but obviously no browser supports this yet (I could be wrong).

I co-authored an article that compares all the open source implementations of the .NET CLI. You can find it here.

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Of the three main types of IP, only trademarks must be defended to remain valid. Basically:

1. Copyright exists from the moment of creation, though it is much easier (read "possible") to defend if registered.For more information on copyright, go here
2. A Patent must be registerd for. It
3. Like a copyright, Trademark need not be registered; use of a mark is technically enough. Also like copyright, it is much safer to register. Even if registered, a trademark may be lost to the public domain if not defended.

And the pornstar moustache just tops it off.

Have you guys checked this site ? Dream Warrior Challenge Fun way of learning Webservices... cheers, Srini

On the stuff I've been reading about finding and fixing buffer overflows, it seems like it's generally not too hard to spot where these things could potentially happen.

From this statement I assume you are not a programmer. Buffer overflows caused by using known unsafe library functions (e.g. strcpy, strcat, gets, etc.) can be handled by simple pattern matching but actually investigating the code to make sure every memory/array access does not go out of bounds is not a simple pattern matching problem.

However some automated techniques have been developed to discover buffer overflows and similar errors in a generic manner. The most significant efforts I have seen are the Stanford Meta-level Compilation Project and the /GS switch in Visual C++.NET.

Try this link as well for a good case for adding deterministic finalization to both C# and Java.

http://www.devx.com/dotnet/articles/lp100901/lp100 901.asp

Since you want to pick an arbitrary date, let's look at the very peak of Microsoft's stock, December 1999. Yep, being down 54.7 perent is no fun, but then you look at the fact that NASDAQ is down 52.6 percent over that time and the darling duo RedHat and VA Linux are down 90+ percent over that time, and things look brighter. But oh no, one whole firm has downgraded them to a Hold? And if it was indeed Merrill Lynch, then that means it was Henry Blodget's call, he being the current Wall Street laughing stock and whipping boy for all his tech stock foolishness. The horrors.

As for the PocketPC, they must be doing something right to go from zero market share to 10% of the US market and 31% of the European market. Poor Palm dropped to 60% and 55% in those markets respectively, and with all the buzz that the iPaq's getting, they probably don't even want to think about what the market will look like next year. File that one under "Netscape, Part II."

And actually, the .NET framework has been available for anyone to download since MS released a preview of it last Fall. The beta of it along with the Visual Studio.NET beta have been available since last December. There are already beta versions of Perl and Python which work both with the framework and inside of Visual Studio.NET. HailStorm's the thing that's not available yet, so I'm not sure what you're talking about when you say that .NET hasn't even been described. If you're feeling like a good samaritan, maybe you could visit the ton of .NET links at www.devx.com/dotnet/resources/default.asp and let them all know that they're using vaporware.

Cheers,

Complainers are always louder, so of course, [C|ZD]Net picked that up.

The bottom line is that Microsoft had to make a tough choice: Build VB7 on VB6's codebase, and leave it behind from .NET, or bite the bullet and make the great, sweeping changes necessary to maintain parity with the state of the art.

Microsoft realizes that there will be a not-insignificant cost to migrate from VB6 to VB.NET. They're working on a migration tool, although it's barely functional in Beta 1. While the changes are significant, they are consistent, and for the most part, convertable automatically.

For reference, here's some links:
Microsoft's technical article on 6-to-.NET migration.
A DevX commentary that addresses some of .NET's naysayers, including VB.Not.

We're not scare-mongering/This is really happening - Radiohead

I'm not saying that hotspot isn't impressive, but it isn't anywhere near native code yet.

And becuase of this, I refuse to even acknowledge Sun sponsored benchmarks - they're rigged. So don't respond with Sunworld, Javalobby, or Sun.com benchmarks.

Sorry, you're absolutely wrong. Benchmarks show Microsoft's is the fastest - and from experience, I find microsoft's to be several times faster than Hotspot. What do you mean by sun's hotspot to be way faster? ROFL, it sucks crap. I remember sun claiming it made java as fast or faster than C++. It's crap, no speed improvement graphics wise (where MSJVM still kicks ass) and marginal improvement (no more than two times) with processing - still slower than microsoft's vm. Care to show me those supposed benchmarks? MS more or less stopped developing their VM and J++ long time ago Funny, they just released a new build a week ago. Proof here

On a related note, there is a very win-centric developer rag conducting a poll right now about whether W2K delays have influenced your Linux IT decisions. Go to www.devx.com and vote for Linux! Also, I know people that work there trying to introduce Linux content subversively, so if this generates a substantial number of hits, they may broaden there content offerings. jmwalker35 - 'cuz I can't remember my friggin' password

I downloaded the Linux preview yesterday and have been experementing with it. I'm impressed! Its a little unclear what version its supposed to be (Startup says 2.0(NC), About says 3.0 beta, and it has some things not found in 2.0) but it is faster than the Windows version.

Seems to work OK, parts of my project crashed the IDE but I think that has more to do with the DB2 libraries I tried bringing in from the Enterprise edition. Anything non-database is stable.

It'll be voted for with my $$ when the final comes out thats for sure!

A review from JavaPro can be found here