Owning the IP to something has nothing to do with if you actively developed it or not. There are companies that do nothing but buy/sell/manage IP without actually developing anything.
Right now I have MORE tabs open on firefox than I do on Chome. Firefox is using ~220MB private bytes, Chrome is using... *adds up the 10 freaking processes*... 640MB (651MB if you count the googletalkplugin.exe).
This is OK on my development machine here, because I have 8GB, but I could see where someone with only 1-2GB might not like Chrome. It would constantly cause paging.
Time to move on to something better (and less biased) than Wikipedia. When someone can arbitrarily allow or block my edit, it's not really "the encyclopedia that everyone can edit".
Their web servers are toasted. When you try to do something like set a download record, perhaps you should ensure your IT infrastructure can handle it as well as your PR infrastructure can.
His workaround uber hack that completely makes UAC worthless requires an installer that has to be run under an admin level account.
Nothing is broken or worked around here. He just figured out how to make a userland app talk to a server account (that was installed as administrator) without causing a UAC popup.
The GPL only applies if you modify the original application code. If you keep the application in tact, don't touch it at all, and just call it externally as a library, your code does NOT become infected with the GPL.
Everyone else in the IT world already knew this, but I must say that I'm SHOCKED to see this reported on/.
Is the level of irrational Microsoft hatred here at/. diminishing?
Support OS Freedom! Let people choose what they like (Windows / Mac / Linux / BSD) and don't mock them for it!
To those who hate the United States (or any government for that matter), ANY information released by any governmental department is spun as "propaganda".
Nothing about it is mentioned on yahoo photo or on flickr. No migration tools on either site.
Something that no one has mentioned MAY be the reason Yahoo photo is shutting down. Yahoo photo = free forever, no matter how much you upload. Flickr = charges you if you upload more than a handful of pictures.
Follow the money. The proof is in the profit. etc.
Leaking confidential documents is a federal crime.
Even though you all seem to support the crime that has been committed, that doesn't change the fact that it's a crime. Criminals should be brought to justice.
Dissent is legal, propogating your dissent by leaking confidential documents is a crime.
I think slashdot (which has firm roots in 'alternative' computing such as Linux / BSD / PHP / etc.) isn't really the right place to ask a question like this if you expect to get an unbiased answer. Their icon for Microsoft is Bill Gates as a borg, for christs sake. Go ask on www.asp.net forums if PHP or Ruby is a good language for beginners to start learning and see what results you get there;)
With ANY language, you can learn good or poor programming habits. VB will LET you not use 'option strict' and implicitly convert types, but it certainly LETS you do it the correct way as well. If you take the time to learn good habits, you can write very robust code in VB.NET as quickly and efficiently as any other language out there. With mono, you can even run your code on a Mac or a PC running an 'alternative' OS!
Than a bunch of news / blogs / other anti-MS sites?;)
Seriously though, walmart has been selling linux PCs for a while now without hyping them as much as the anti-MS crowd would hope. If you feel a company has a good product, give them some of the best advertising they can get... word of mouth!
I have 3 years experience on VB.NET & ASP.NET and 4 prior years experience in VB5/6 and classic ASP. I make $75K/yea + 5% (of my gross) 401(k) matching + a sizable bonus every year (last year it was $5K).
My resume is listed on Monster, Dice, and Career builder. Though I list Linux and FreeBSD experience, I've yet to get a call for a Linux or FreeBSD job. I get at least 2 calls weekly from headhunters for.NET jobs.
Regardless of how much everyone at/. loves to hate Microsoft, you can't argue that having experience in Microsoft technologies (again, regardless of how you feel about those technologies) makes you more marketable.
Could I get a PHP+MySQL job or an SQP job? Certainly. Are those technologies so popular that headhunters salivate when they see my resume? Not a chance.
I think saying that menus aren't useful for ALL genres of games is incorrect.
Clearly, as demonstrated by classic arcade games (Frogger / Pac Man / Dig Dug / etc), you don't need menus for a very simple arcade game.
However, more complex such as strategy (Warcraft / Master Of Orion / Civilization) would be impossible to implement without clever use of menus.
I don't think you can say menus always SHOULDN'T be included any more than you can say they always SHOULD be included. It's more of a matter of genre and complexity as to whether or not menus are appropriate.
I quit playing online poker because it's just not as fun. I was playing nickle/dime blind no limit tables (but you could only sit with a max of $10) on UltimateBet after I had gotten bored of PartyPoker and it hit me. This just wasn't any fun!
I'm not in it for the money, because I don't have the kind of money you have to be willing to risk in order to win the big money. Unless you DO have that kind of money, play home games with your friends.... don't both with the goring grind of online poker.
I live in the Cincinnati area and have been patiently waiting for the Cinergy (our local power company) BPL service to be deployed to my area. My message to anyone waiting for BPL to come to their area: DON'T HOLD YOUR BREATH!!
Cinergy had a huge multi-year beta test, followed by a production rollout.... that ONLY covered the area that the beta test did. That was over a year ago, since then, they've yet to expand their coverage area AT ALL.
It sounds too good to be true at $35 for 3mbit SYMETRICAL (no more DSL/Cable 20x download that you have for upload BS)
Normally, to see a story with good news from Microsoft on Slashdot is like seeing a story with good news for the Bush administration on CNN or MSNBC.
With all of the "Small niche thing you've never heard of chooses linux" stories they run here, was anyone else surprised to see this story picked up by slashdot?
Slashdot Mirror
TOY-level (iPad / Android) tablets are a fad.
LAPTOP-REPLACEMENT-level ($1200 / 4+GB ram / 2.5+ghz proc) tablets that run full OSs (Windows / OS X / Linux / etc) are the future.
Owning the IP to something has nothing to do with if you actively developed it or not. There are companies that do nothing but buy/sell/manage IP without actually developing anything.
Here's the direct link to go read about it if you don't want to go through the networkworld blogspam article: http://www.open-xchange.com/
The "Server edition" is $1300, and they make you open a blind link to a PDF to figure that out.
Here's a handy feature matrix but noticeably absent is the free "community edition": http://oxpedia.org/index.php?title=OX_Product_Matrix
Also, the activesync thing (oxtender) is completely non-free and only available in the licensed versions.
Right now I have MORE tabs open on firefox than I do on Chome. Firefox is using ~220MB private bytes, Chrome is using ... *adds up the 10 freaking processes*... 640MB (651MB if you count the googletalkplugin.exe).
This is OK on my development machine here, because I have 8GB, but I could see where someone with only 1-2GB might not like Chrome. It would constantly cause paging.
Time to move on to something better (and less biased) than Wikipedia. When someone can arbitrarily allow or block my edit, it's not really "the encyclopedia that everyone can edit".
You'd be surprised.
Where in the Constitution does it guarantee me the right to not be under government surveillance without a warrant?
I hope the government uses every resource and tactic at their disposal against enemy combatants.
Their web servers are toasted. When you try to do something like set a download record, perhaps you should ensure your IT infrastructure can handle it as well as your PR infrastructure can.
Does this mean that slashdot will be getting rid of their petty and immature Microsoft Bill Gates as the Borg icon?
His workaround uber hack that completely makes UAC worthless requires an installer that has to be run under an admin level account.
Nothing is broken or worked around here. He just figured out how to make a userland app talk to a server account (that was installed as administrator) without causing a UAC popup.
Big deal? Not really.
How is "Democrats looking for better ways to raise taxes" news? Did the people that put them in power not realize what Democrats stand for?
If it comes down to those two, I won't be voting FOR McCain, he'll just be the guy who happens to get my vote as I vote AGAINST Hillary.
The GPL only applies if you modify the original application code. If you keep the application in tact, don't touch it at all, and just call it externally as a library, your code does NOT become infected with the GPL.
:)
Read the GPL before posting stuff about the GPL
Everyone else in the IT world already knew this, but I must say that I'm SHOCKED to see this reported on /.
Is the level of irrational Microsoft hatred here at /. diminishing?
Support OS Freedom! Let people choose what they like (Windows / Mac / Linux / BSD) and don't mock them for it!
To those who hate the United States (or any government for that matter), ANY information released by any governmental department is spun as "propaganda".
Nothing about it is mentioned on yahoo photo or on flickr. No migration tools on either site. Something that no one has mentioned MAY be the reason Yahoo photo is shutting down. Yahoo photo = free forever, no matter how much you upload. Flickr = charges you if you upload more than a handful of pictures. Follow the money. The proof is in the profit. etc.
Leaking confidential documents is a federal crime.
Even though you all seem to support the crime that has been committed, that doesn't change the fact that it's a crime. Criminals should be brought to justice.
Dissent is legal, propogating your dissent by leaking confidential documents is a crime.
THERE IS A DIFFERENCE!!!
I think slashdot (which has firm roots in 'alternative' computing such as Linux / BSD / PHP / etc.) isn't really the right place to ask a question like this if you expect to get an unbiased answer. Their icon for Microsoft is Bill Gates as a borg, for christs sake. Go ask on www.asp.net forums if PHP or Ruby is a good language for beginners to start learning and see what results you get there ;)
With ANY language, you can learn good or poor programming habits. VB will LET you not use 'option strict' and implicitly convert types, but it certainly LETS you do it the correct way as well. If you take the time to learn good habits, you can write very robust code in VB.NET as quickly and efficiently as any other language out there. With mono, you can even run your code on a Mac or a PC running an 'alternative' OS!
Than a bunch of news / blogs / other anti-MS sites? ;)
Seriously though, walmart has been selling linux PCs for a while now without hyping them as much as the anti-MS crowd would hope. If you feel a company has a good product, give them some of the best advertising they can get... word of mouth!
I have 3 years experience on VB.NET & ASP.NET and 4 prior years experience in VB5/6 and classic ASP. I make $75K/yea + 5% (of my gross) 401(k) matching + a sizable bonus every year (last year it was $5K). My resume is listed on Monster, Dice, and Career builder. Though I list Linux and FreeBSD experience, I've yet to get a call for a Linux or FreeBSD job. I get at least 2 calls weekly from headhunters for .NET jobs.
/. loves to hate Microsoft, you can't argue that having experience in Microsoft technologies (again, regardless of how you feel about those technologies) makes you more marketable.
Regardless of how much everyone at
Could I get a PHP+MySQL job or an SQP job? Certainly. Are those technologies so popular that headhunters salivate when they see my resume? Not a chance.
I think saying that menus aren't useful for ALL genres of games is incorrect.
Clearly, as demonstrated by classic arcade games (Frogger / Pac Man / Dig Dug / etc), you don't need menus for a very simple arcade game.
However, more complex such as strategy (Warcraft / Master Of Orion / Civilization) would be impossible to implement without clever use of menus.
I don't think you can say menus always SHOULDN'T be included any more than you can say they always SHOULD be included. It's more of a matter of genre and complexity as to whether or not menus are appropriate.
I quit playing online poker because it's just not as fun. I was playing nickle/dime blind no limit tables (but you could only sit with a max of $10) on UltimateBet after I had gotten bored of PartyPoker and it hit me. This just wasn't any fun!
I'm not in it for the money, because I don't have the kind of money you have to be willing to risk in order to win the big money. Unless you DO have that kind of money, play home games with your friends.... don't both with the goring grind of online poker.
I live in the Cincinnati area and have been patiently waiting for the Cinergy (our local power company) BPL service to be deployed to my area. My message to anyone waiting for BPL to come to their area: DON'T HOLD YOUR BREATH!!
i al/PricingAndBenefits/
s .asp?news_id=420
b roadband/2100-1036_3-5777917.html
Cinergy had a huge multi-year beta test, followed by a production rollout.... that ONLY covered the area that the beta test did. That was over a year ago, since then, they've yet to expand their coverage area AT ALL.
It sounds too good to be true at $35 for 3mbit SYMETRICAL (no more DSL/Cable 20x download that you have for upload BS)
Current (The ISP that cinergy partnered with):
http://www.current.net/ServiceAndPricing/Resident
Press release from Cinergy:
http://www.cinergy.com/News/default_corporate_new
Recent investment in Cinergy BPL by Google:
http://news.com.com/Google+invests+in+power-line+
Normally, to see a story with good news from Microsoft on Slashdot is like seeing a story with good news for the Bush administration on CNN or MSNBC. With all of the "Small niche thing you've never heard of chooses linux" stories they run here, was anyone else surprised to see this story picked up by slashdot?