Now come on... Opera has the concept of browsing sessions since a looong time ago. You can save/load your current tabs anytime you want.
About the sandbox mode, that would not be necessary if they made IE secure right from the start. I am using Opera for many years now and I have yet to get a single popup that I did not request. And I don't need to worry about security zones, separate process for each browser, etc. etc. ad nauseam. The optional security settings for IE in XP SP1+ is a JOKE! It makes IE completely unusable! I cannot even browse Google without adding it to my list of trusted site.
I am sorry, even if I think many MS products are cool and that OSS has a lot to do to catch up to them, IE 7 is clearly not one of these.
For example, I look at the #1 application "Delicious Library" and wonder how it would fare with my collection of around 2000 CDs or my friend's 300 DVDs for that matter. I agree it is beautiful, but not very practical IMHO...
I first really learned to program in Turbo Pascal. This program still exists and most of my code still run on XP. QuickBasic and VisualBasic are still lurking around too if that is your cup of tea...
Basic programming is the same no matter the language and tool.
It seems to me that old Maxtor drives are much more reliable than newer ones. I too have a 7 years maxtor drive that is still up and running.
BUT I bought a 200 GB HD from Maxtor in January 2004 and it just died last week ! As you can guess, the one year warranty didn't help make this less painful...
It's so much about modularizing things as it is to abstract them. I don't want to code a data access layer for each and every projects. And if I need to change from one DBMS to another, I don't want to adapt large chunks of code. Same thing for transaction management, concurrency, physical-conceptual mapping, exception handling, security and authentication, etc. etc. etc.
The big problem here is that most people fail miserably when trying to make those abstractions. It's not the kind of thing that you design and code in one night, one week or even on month. It takes time, experience and lots of thinking before choosing between different avenues.
Granted, for small projects and for specialized applications, that might not be necessary and you could probably do away without abstracting stuff because you don't have that kind of constraints. But the vast majority of code written out there do need it. And even in my limited experience, I have seen that kind of design/code written over and over and over.
Maybe someday someone somewhere will get the idea that it would be very useful to have a full-fledged n-tier/service oriented architecture build right into the framework, be it J2EE,.NET, Mono, whatever. And actually DO it and do it RIGHT.
I read the article and it is mentionned several times that the system is used for nuclear weapon simulations and further improvements are in part to be able to run even better simulations.
Can't they think of something more useful ?! Just how far do they need to go to know that using nuclear weapons is a bad thing (TM) ?! I'm still taken aback by all this...
I would be inclined to agree with you but the thing is, if I don't have to spend say at least 8 hours/week in the gym and tire my muscles and my body to get the results I want, then I can spend that time/effort on something else which might be more interesting and rewarding.
While it is true that a movie is more rewarding when looking at information/time ratio, you cannot realistically think it conveys as much information as a book.
Take for example the last Harry Potter movie : I read it over a year ago and when I saw the movie, I was a bit deceived at how it skipped over important stuff and left many things unexplained. In fact, only those that read the book could really fill in the blanks the director did not care to show.
The most obvious example of this is how would you explain why Snape was angry at Lupin and Black and also how he knew about Lupin being a werewolf ? In the book, we can read that Lupin, Black, Potter's father and the rat guy were making fun of Snape when they were at Hogwarts and at one point almost killed him when they put him and Lupin together at full moon so they would scare the hell out of him.
This last example is for a really simple movie, based on a book that read like the action is happening in front of you. Now imagine what it is when you try to represent on screen masterpieces such as Dune (the Children of Dune serie was risible IMHO and David Lynch's Dune is barely scratching the surface of the first volume).
I've read the whole serie in French and then again in English several times. I cannot stress enough how profound the insight into humanity these books provide. The movie by David Lynch barely scratch the surface of the material buried within them.
Also, don't let them know that you're intelligent. If you give them that impression, they will fear that you will realize how messed-up their processes and procedures are and point them out and try to change them. You have to pretend you're completely incompetent and will never have an opinion on anything, but rather just do as you're told.
What a load of crap ! If you want a job where you are considered like a drone, then abide by this advice. Otherwise, just be yourself and you will get the job that suits you most.
If you look like a desesperate guy with no guts whatsoever, you will get the corresponding job. If you are a leader, show it up ! Just don't be too arrogant:)
I must disagree with you. Putting together every single most expensive and/or powerful items on the market doesn't take that much knowledge about optimizing a gaming rig.
It's when you start out with a budget, say 1500 $, and try to build the most powerful machine under that constraint that optimization knowledge really shines. You need to ponder whether more RAM is better than CPU power or if getting RAID 0/0+1 is worth more.
All that bashing about Quebec because of its language... that simply amazes me.
Do you realise that almost every non English countries in the world has to learn English, at least the base ? Now, just how self centric are you to not even be willing to learn something new ?
And by the way, Spanish is usually spoken faster than French. I speak French, English, Spanish, Italian, German and Russian, in that order, so I think I know what I'm talking about here.
Terminal Server is indeed from a prehistoric age, but it doesn't matter since with.net/XAML/Avalon/etc., it's web technology that will get used to make thin clients. They are still taking years to deliver that thought:)
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Now come on ... Opera has the concept of browsing sessions since a looong time ago. You can save/load your current tabs anytime you want.
About the sandbox mode, that would not be necessary if they made IE secure right from the start. I am using Opera for many years now and I have yet to get a single popup that I did not request. And I don't need to worry about security zones, separate process for each browser, etc. etc. ad nauseam. The optional security settings for IE in XP SP1+ is a JOKE! It makes IE completely unusable! I cannot even browse Google without adding it to my list of trusted site.
I am sorry, even if I think many MS products are cool and that OSS has a lot to do to catch up to them, IE 7 is clearly not one of these.
For example, I look at the #1 application "Delicious Library" and wonder how it would fare with my collection of around 2000 CDs or my friend's 300 DVDs for that matter. I agree it is beautiful, but not very practical IMHO ...
Good ! About time we stop reinventing the wheel !
I first really learned to program in Turbo Pascal. This program still exists and most of my code still run on XP. QuickBasic and VisualBasic are still lurking around too if that is your cup of tea ...
Basic programming is the same no matter the language and tool.
This macro will remove attachments from the current selection of mail items in Outlook. Pretty handy ...
Or you can use this link: http://www.waytoblue.com/media/video/the_real_simp sons_850k.wmv/ which is the video being streaming.
It seems to me that old Maxtor drives are much more reliable than newer ones. I too have a 7 years maxtor drive that is still up and running.
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BUT I bought a 200 GB HD from Maxtor in January 2004 and it just died last week ! As you can guess, the one year warranty didn't help make this less painful
Why not simply zip it ?
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As far as I know, there are programs/library for that format on every platform
When possible, I use non printable characters such as #1-27, #255, etc.
I have yet to see a brute force program which takes those into account. 255^8 is quite a number. I say 255 because #0 isn't possible usually.
That way, you can have stupid passwords which are still a beast to get.
No wonder French are so good at "Sex".
*ducks*
It's so much about modularizing things as it is to abstract them. I don't want to code a data access layer for each and every projects. And if I need to change from one DBMS to another, I don't want to adapt large chunks of code. Same thing for transaction management, concurrency, physical-conceptual mapping, exception handling, security and authentication, etc. etc. etc.
.NET, Mono, whatever. And actually DO it and do it RIGHT.
The big problem here is that most people fail miserably when trying to make those abstractions. It's not the kind of thing that you design and code in one night, one week or even on month. It takes time, experience and lots of thinking before choosing between different avenues.
Granted, for small projects and for specialized applications, that might not be necessary and you could probably do away without abstracting stuff because you don't have that kind of constraints. But the vast majority of code written out there do need it. And even in my limited experience, I have seen that kind of design/code written over and over and over.
Maybe someday someone somewhere will get the idea that it would be very useful to have a full-fledged n-tier/service oriented architecture build right into the framework, be it J2EE,
There are already 16ms LCD. I know LG is making some of these panels which gets manufactured by other vendors like BenHQ for example.
I read the article and it is mentionned several times that the system is used for nuclear weapon simulations and further improvements are in part to be able to run even better simulations.
...
Can't they think of something more useful ?! Just how far do they need to go to know that using nuclear weapons is a bad thing (TM) ?! I'm still taken aback by all this
I would be inclined to agree with you but the thing is, if I don't have to spend say at least 8 hours/week in the gym and tire my muscles and my body to get the results I want, then I can spend that time/effort on something else which might be more interesting and rewarding.
While it is true that a movie is more rewarding when looking at information/time ratio, you cannot realistically think it conveys as much information as a book.
Take for example the last Harry Potter movie : I read it over a year ago and when I saw the movie, I was a bit deceived at how it skipped over important stuff and left many things unexplained. In fact, only those that read the book could really fill in the blanks the director did not care to show.
The most obvious example of this is how would you explain why Snape was angry at Lupin and Black and also how he knew about Lupin being a werewolf ? In the book, we can read that Lupin, Black, Potter's father and the rat guy were making fun of Snape when they were at Hogwarts and at one point almost killed him when they put him and Lupin together at full moon so they would scare the hell out of him.
This last example is for a really simple movie, based on a book that read like the action is happening in front of you. Now imagine what it is when you try to represent on screen masterpieces such as Dune (the Children of Dune serie was risible IMHO and David Lynch's Dune is barely scratching the surface of the first volume).
I've read the whole serie in French and then again in English several times. I cannot stress enough how profound the insight into humanity these books provide. The movie by David Lynch barely scratch the surface of the material buried within them.
Also, don't let them know that you're intelligent. If you give them that impression, they will fear that you will realize how messed-up their processes and procedures are and point them out and try to change them. You have to pretend you're completely incompetent and will never have an opinion on anything, but rather just do as you're told.
What a load of crap ! If you want a job where you are considered like a drone, then abide by this advice. Otherwise, just be yourself and you will get the job that suits you most.
If you look like a desesperate guy with no guts whatsoever, you will get the corresponding job. If you are a leader, show it up ! Just don't be too arrogant :)
I must disagree with you. Putting together every single most expensive and/or powerful items on the market doesn't take that much knowledge about optimizing a gaming rig.
It's when you start out with a budget, say 1500 $, and try to build the most powerful machine under that constraint that optimization knowledge really shines. You need to ponder whether more RAM is better than CPU power or if getting RAID 0/0+1 is worth more.
Honestly, someone doing geoprocessing code in Perl is asking for troubles ...
Any scripting language that supports COM can be used with ArcGIS 9. For example, Perl is also supported.
They tend to rather touchy about their quaint local legacy language.
I suppose that little gem what not insulting to anyone in your universe ...
All that bashing about Quebec because of its language ... that simply amazes me.
Do you realise that almost every non English countries in the world has to learn English, at least the base ? Now, just how self centric are you to not even be willing to learn something new ?
And by the way, Spanish is usually spoken faster than French. I speak French, English, Spanish, Italian, German and Russian, in that order, so I think I know what I'm talking about here.
Terminal Server is indeed from a prehistoric age, but it doesn't matter since with .net/XAML/Avalon/etc., it's web technology that will get used to make thin clients. They are still taking years to deliver that thought :)
Like the election of G.W. Bush wasn't rigged in the first place. Sheez :)
IIRC, the Office suite is THE cash cow of Microsoft, not Windows.