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What is .NET?
CyberBry writes "There's a great technical overview of Microsoft .NET over at arstechnica: "In a remarkable feat of journalistic sleight-of-hand, thousands of column inches in many "reputable" on-line publications have talked at length about .NET whilst remaining largely ignorant of its nature, purpose, and implementation. Ask what .NET is, and you'll receive a wide range of answers, few of them accurate, all of them conflicting. Confusion amongst the press is rampant. The more common claims made of .NET are that it's a Java rip-off, or that it's subscription software. The truth is somewhat different.""
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just when i was starting to behave
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the strongest word is still the word "free"
I just have to...
fucking 'eh
That's because he runs a laughably incompetent news site packed with erroneous reports and diabolical postings. Long live trolls!
Screw this shit.
Fuck the Welsh!
First post of goodness!! Yee-hah!
Isn't it awefully nice to have a penis,
Isn't it frightfully good to have a dong?
It's swell to have a stiffy,
It's divine to own a dick,
From the tiniest little tadger,
To the world's biggest prick.
So three cheers for your Willy or John Thomas,
Hooray for your one-eyed trouser snake,
Your piece of pork, your wife's best friend,
Your Percy or your cock,
You can wrap it up in ribbons,
You can slip it in your sock,
But don't take it out in public,
Or they will stick you in the dock,
And you won't come back.
Didn't read the article.
Wow. 2 Slashdottings for us Arsians in such a sort span of time... I hope some of your guys get subscriptions to that site to help us with the bandwidth bill.. =D
.NET was something about subscription services and some set of servers... Now it all makes sense...
Back on topic, I can attest that this is a great article. Before, all I knew of
Great read!
Tim Dorr
Owner/Manger
A Small Orange
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the strongest word is still the word "free"
and you too, fucking nigger lover.
A FAG IS YUO.
I hate the idea that only one password gets me into everything. Do I want to trust Microsoft to be the weakest link in my security scheme? I don't have much faith in their security products thusfar, what is to insure that their password DB isn't cracked and everything I use is exploited because of it.
I prefer my internal(memorized) password list.
People have been saying it for ages and I ignored it till now but it's true: Slashdot is becoming more and more riddled with idiots.
Someone posts that and get's modded insightful? The poster clearly hasn't even read the article, never mind actually making an insightful comment about the subject in question, about which prisoner-of-enigma clearly knows nothing.
I hit the karma limit a while back by posting sensible, informed, sometimes witty comments. And yet here we are, people wanting informed, reasoned, exciting discussion, struggling to be heard against a cacophony of nonsense which gets promoted to the top.
Hmmm, sounds just like the Top 40.
Here's the sad fact: populism sucks, and moderation is populism in action. What does this say about democracy? I wouldn't like to think, but hey: George W Bush.
Yours Sincerely, Michael.
- The moderator is a moron who knows absolutely nothing on the topic.
- There is a problem with the moderation system and things should change
I know this is a stale, trite argument that is not going to do anything, but seriously. I post and read Slashdot daily because so far, none of the moderation problems have affected me. I didn't realize how serious the problems were. This site is geared towards a community of individuals with a slightly higher level of intelligence, but this system seems to be degrading to a level of absolute un-usability.Make Corrections As Needed
I put my karma behind what I say, unlike you.
Yours Sincerely, Michael.
Also, it's decrying, not decreying. Oh, and there's no irony involved, Alanis.
Yours Sincerely, Michael.
.NET is the latest greatest Not Engineered Technology to come from Microsoft.
Sorry, but I have to post this anonymously as I don't want to be moderated off-topic.
My Slashdot Commenting Study
Is it just me or is blatantly ripping off some other company's wierd name pretty the mark of uncreative losers. And it seems even lamer now that ars digita has just gone down for the count.
Ok smartass. The service that was being discussed was .NET. Passport is a PART of .NET(a major part). Adding to the discussion by sharing my views on why I will not support Passport(and .NET integration with Passport) is a valid area of discussion when concerned with .NET. When you educate yourself a little further on .NET and all of its implications as a technological strategy of service integration, then you have the right to moderate me down in a discussion dealing with the .NET strategy.
Some KDE Myths.
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o ut h-metatheme.jpeg Its a
...Gnome/GTK
..and some other I missed out, its not
KDE Myth: Koffice owns, Kspread, Kword..they own, Gnome-office sucks.
Truth:
o Gnumeric has made some huge steps in the last 6 months, with the
semi-intergration of Guppi (graphing)...its a very stable Spreadsheet
application, offers many features that kspread dreams of. More Functions,
more file filters,.. Kspread is more like a budget/cutdown version of
Gnumeric.
To put it blutantly KDE toolbars and general gui design are/have always
been a mess.
o Abiword also offers similar benefits of Gnumeric (features and File
Filters) hey does Kword have a good import/exprt RTF?! alpha-quality? wtf?
How long has Kword been in-existence? and they still cant properly render
RTF still? Even the list of known filters (export and import) available
looks very sad. http://www.koffice.org/filters/status.phtml
Considering Abiword is also being developed for many other platforms, its
done pretty well so far. Can you say WYSIWYG?
o Kivio doesnt offer everything you would want, and if you want specific
stencils, you have to fork out for them...Is this where FreeSoftware is
going? We get cutdown versions of a product,... DIA isnt bound to a
company hard bent in making a profit. So when DIA starts employing some of
these Stencils, what happens then? you spent $$$ for nothing?
http://www.thekompany.com/products/kivio/stenci
KDE Myth: Konq ownz mozilla, netscape etc...
Truth: Mozilla is truely more standards complient, as of late 0.9.4+
series, The Mozilla engine is really starting to shine now, Konq has
always had a hard time rendering any DHTML/Javascript, even with some
webpages the fonts are screwed.
Mozilla isnt Perfect, but hey, everything renders properly. Konq trys to
hard to be "Internet Explorer" on the linux desktop, Its time to
completely drop the KHTML shit, If theres a better, more mature
engine...use it. KHTML was once needed, now its not.. And if you want to
Compare Gnome Galeon,..I dare you.
Nautalus was once critised as being a slow, dog, rah rah.. well it was,
yeah it was slow,...but it has improved, but it seems kde users still like
to think that. Well if it makes you happy. Nautalus is very themeable
http://jimmac.musichall.cz/screenshots/ximian-s
welcome change away from the Windows File Manager look.
KDE Myth: GTK+ is just damn ugly
So you havent tried the abundance of GTK+ themes? cleanice? eazel?
thinice? pixmap?
Yeah, Gtk themes that have been around longer than kde2... and with the
upcoming release of GTK2, themes are getting better and faster. Themes
under KDE just dont look "pretty". Even Gnome icons are better. So
customising Gnome to look differently isnt that hard..however KDE just
looks like that, Mosfet just looks tacky.
KDE Myth: We have all the cool appz. QT/KDE rulesss!
Oh really? So lets now count Evolution, GIMP, Red Carpet, Xchat, XMMS,
Galeon, Balsa, Gnumeric, Pan, Abiword, mplayer, Glade, Anjuta
has plently of cool apps.
KDE Myth: Gnome is loosing, its dead, just use KDE.
Well considering most new distros have KDE preinstalled as default, ie,
Mandrake, Lindows, Caldera, Corel, Suse
surprising Gnome is losing *some* support, But with Ximian and Redhat
Gnome/GTK will keep on living. QT is hardly community developed, GTK+ has always been community developed...and thus we as the linux community we _should_ support it.
I didn't read the article, but I thought that I'd chime in. Considering that I've done quite a bit of work on the .NET infrastructure and have headed up many different development teams at Microsoft, I feel that it is a responsibility, nay requirement, that I say something.
.NET! And it was GLORIOUS! It wasn't until I came out of the coma some 2 1/2 years later that I could act upon this newfound insight. I approached Microsoft with the idea, and here I am, working as the lead on my dream...my vision.
.NET started as an idea that I came up with over 2 years ago. When I say "I", thats what I mean. I was the sole person to have the vision for something this groundbreaking.
It all started when I worked at "Norris' Steak House & Bowlarama". I was called for an emergency pin polishing job (as I was the only person with enough expertise for the job). As I headed down the bowling lane with my rags and special pin polish, some guy thought it'd be funny to bowl a 14lb ball right into my legs. He did so, and I came crashing down face-first into the gutter. I tried to get up, but had broken my ankle, so I called out to the guy and asked him why he would do such a thing. His response was something like "Because you're a fucking wanker". The girl that was with him just pointed and laughed at me until he grabbed her by the buttocks and they turned to leave. That was when I grabbed the ball he had struck me with and hurled it at his head. I missed, instead it hit his jailbait girlfriend and ended up busting her head all across the far wall. Needless to say, he wasn't very happy about the fact that I had just killed his girl, so he grabbed like 10 bowling balls, walked right up to where I was laying, and dropped five of them on my face and the other five on my crotch.
That was when I had a dream. A dream of
As far as I know, the guy who broke my ankle and put me in the coma was put away in some prison in Missouri. Apparently he'd accidently shot a shopkeep while he was attempting to rob a store and ended up in prison. Sometime later they found his dead body with a broomstick shoved 4 feet up his rectum.