Unless your activex sites are available outside your intranet (and they never should be, now whould they, eh?), I don't see what your problem is. If MS wants to deprecate activex on a new or updated IE, of course your company will not be deploying the update, right? I mean, one does not do blind updates on critical work environments (like IE-based intranets with activex-based apps) without a full test beforehand, and even so, if it works as it is now, is there a reason to update (besides the constant need to waste $$$, that is)?
External antennas? WTF?!? Haven't even *seen* an external antenna in a mobile that wasn't a clam one for some years now... well, ok, a few motorolas out there still have them, some old siemens too... but Nokias? The US mobile market must be really strange if it still carries those.
Any of the 1xxx, 2xxx and some of the 3xxx are pretty simple. If you want an old phone, get a 6310i for instance.
Hey, I got rid of web project files as soon as I started using subversion and got in to continuous integration with cruisecontrol.net and nant... It's a stupid idea to have special "web projects" anyway, those are simply class libraries that get created outside what should be a single consolidated solution tree and compile to/bin instead of/bin/debug, and that force vs to load the project by calling the web server, which of course just has to be running when you load the solution. All of it very silly and unnecessary.
If you want to do a single quick dirty page just to test something, it's useful, but if you're doing a project that includes several class libraries with and without asp.net, just do everything in class libraries and configure the virtual dirs yourself. Much neater and nicer.
Just for the record, so you won't think I'm running my big mouth without actual experience on this, my latest.net project includes a solution with no less than 30 projects in it, which is no mean feat to mantain, let me tell ya. About 10 of those are web apps, imagine having all of them as "web projects" and loading the solution that for each one, had to go to the webserver to retrieve whatever it needs... or if I need to change virtual paths on the site, oh the pain! Been there, done that, got the tshirt, web projects out the window.
Anyway, no one should be learning anything from WoW in the first place. It is a game. Like many others have said before, just enjoy it without looking for any deeper meaning.
Not learning? From a game? Is that even possible? You have to learn to play it to, well, play it. You have to learn it's rules so you won't get banned. you learn different ways of interacting, and especially with MMO's, you really do learn a lot about interacting with people. It's a game, and games teach, period.
Of course, you can try and play it without "looking for deeper meaning", but that is probably impossible if you play it regularly. Eventually things in the game seem more real than they were, and the people in the game affect you much more. And if they do, the rules of the game world start to spill out into the real world, and that's what he is soap-boxing about.
First, the article is so dim-witted I wasn't expecting any serious responses to it... but I guess I was wrong:p
Second, if you don't like your time, change it. Put all your clocks one hour ahead. Seriously. I did it this year, and it works great, suddenly everyone is working on my schedule, it gets dark at the proper time, and I don't feel like I'm off all the time. Assume that everyone is wrong and you're right, like I do, and you'll be much happier for it. I am %D
The point to the Bible is that you can't be good enough to go to heaven. Therefore, you need a Savior who is good enough (aka perfect) who became a sacrifice for you.
Right, that's just what we need... some twat prattling on about how everyone who exists is not worthy to go to heaven so we need the middleman to set things straight for us stupid sinners... I need that like I need a shot in the arm, duh! You managed to confirm everything the other poster said, i.e. who needs a religion to talk to god? Sheeesh!
That's the problem with people, they want to get to heaven their way and not God's way. They think they can be good enough to get to heaven and they can't.
hahahahahaha! This is so idiotic I'm laughing my ass off! Get in to Heaven our way instead of God's way? ROFL! We invented heaven, you twat! In case you haven't noticed, religion and myth is man's own invention, and we're dumb enough to invent something that we make automatically out of reach except for the intervention of a perfect superior being we invented... lol yeah I guess you do have a point, we're just stupid that way.
aaaahhhh religious freaks... always make my day:D
I swear, one of these days, one of these days... POW! right in the kisser! - Origin unknown, presumably God's
The new TCP stack in Vista effectively implements TCP is such a way that it removes these limitations while preserving compatibility with old stack implementations.
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That is absolutely not what Microsoft has done. You honestly thing the reason they were only getting 10 Mb/s between their datacenters was due to memory copying? And when I said "implementation" I wasn't talking about the internal code, I was talking about the way it interacts across the wire.
Microsoft has completely revamped [microsoft.com] the way that TCP handles packet transmission.
If the new tcp stack retains compatability with the old one, then how are the innovations in the way it interacts with the network? For it to be compatible it has to "interact" with the network like any other stack, so it can't gain any leverage in that level, can it? Or are you saying that the new stack is only advantegeous if the machines are all vistas? Just curious how that works out.
I find it peculiar that the article is talking about UN and US, and lots of posters here keep talking about Europe, as if the UN equals Europe. Uh?
UN is an international body of many nations, including the US (who is, btw, it's most important member in terms of $$$$$, if not in brainpower), european and NON-european nations. UN is not EU, get your facts straight before marching your ignorance / stupidity all over the place.
I have no idea why americans believe europe is having a "penis size contest" with the US... Europeans couldn't care less if the whole northern part of the american continent (excluding canada, of course) crawled it's way back to the hole it came from and quietly expired. Ah well.
Why oh why do drones like you insist on propagating the mindless drivel that comes out of the news agencies?
Hacking existed way before the age of computers, and was never linked to criminal activities, how many times does one have to repeat this?
It's amazing how one idiotic "reporter" on tv decides that a word will have a new meaning to make it more interesting for the couch-potato-zombies watching, and everyone accepts that! I can dig it on any other site, but here I'd think that people would know different... guess not. %|
*sigh*
go find your missing neurons or something - help keep slashdot an idiot-free environment
Riiiiiiiiight... As the saying goes, it gets better by the minute. So anyone can go to cisco's site and reset any login? If the site has been compromised, how can anyone think the email stored is the right one for sending the resetted password? Oh, sorry, not supposed to mention these things, right? Silly technical details like these always mess up those marketing numbers, can't have that, no siree.
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It's a truly great firewall, work in windows, linux and OS/2, very versatile, has all the features you could ever need, including IDS, VPN, IPSec, Remote GUI, etc. It's really very good, check it out.
Jumping to the wagon here, I don't see what's so hard to believe about the fact that a radiation-emitting device (especially those old nokias and ericssons) being right next to your head will affect your brain... after all, the brain emits electromagnetic radiation, it resonates, what's so hard to believe?
I find it funny that people always have to go out and search for a "material" (tissues, bones, whatever) explanation for it, as if the electromagnetic field of the brain hasn't been known to exist!
As for my 2 cents on the situation, what happened to you happened exactly the same to me... my first cellphone was a cheap ericsson (very good software, btw), and I just had to approach it to my head to start getting this strange pressure feeling inside my head, and a headache. Now the only headaches I have, very rarely, are located above my right eye, always (unless you smack my head in, of course), and this pressure and headache I got from the cellphone was a completely different thing.
No matter how I placed the phone, I always felt it. If I used it on the left side, I got it on the left side, if on the right, I got it on the right. If I placed the phone a bit farther the pressure and headache would take longer to appear, but it would come after a few minutes.
I always thought that cheap ends up costing you, so I ended up choosing my next model carefully, never mind the cost, and so far, my nokia 7250i is behaving very nicely, never had those symptoms again. Before that I had a 7110, which also cleared the symptoms, though not completely if I spoke for more than an hour with it...
Just for a final meaningless note, I did notice that when a call was about to come through, the ericsson would affect the tv all the way from the hall, while the later phones only affect the tv if left on the table in front of it or closer...:p
Well, that depends if the E stands for the symbol or not. The notation in euros is (euro symbol)500M, stupidly like the dollar. Only if you don't use the (euro symbol) does the notation become 500M euros. Of course, E can be a substitute for (euro symbol), and so the notation in the story is probably correct...
just another meaningless conversation --- oh, I miss my escudos... 500$00...:) --
Didn't he interview any scientists married to scientists? I'm no scientist, just a lowly programmer, and still I know I couldn't hitch up with someone who didn't share my interest in computers. I mean, who am I supposed to play warcraft with if the guy doesn't have a proper hand-keyboard coordination? And if I stay up working late, would I stand him nagging me all the time about it?
Better just choose a compatible (plug & play?) soulmate who will stay up late with you debugging/playing/whatever, and you'll do fine. I know I did.:)
Just because XML is a human-readable format and anyone can make one is I think the biggest problem of all in this ongoing xml-is-the-biggest-thing-since-sliced-bread saga.
I've been working with XML for 2 years now, and I am constantly reminded that, just as it happens with html, vb, or any other "simple to use" technology out there, anyone can use it, but few know how to use it well. I've seen xml structures that would have you rolling on the floor laughing, so inneficient and dumb were they.
It's just like databases, really. It's pretty easy to mess it up so badly it's unusable.
XML is really the most insignificant part of the whole. One has to know at least xpath and xslt to use xml properly. Because the great advantage I see about the format is the ease of transforming data from one format to another, and you that by applying transformations to it.
So instead of hardwiring the structure to the data (and banging you head on the wall when suddenly you need a slightly different structure for the same data), you just store everything in a format that will be easy to transform to suit your purposes. 80% of my work in xml is actually applying filters, transformations and the likes to my data.
An example: I work for an insurance company which is putting every kind of information is has on the web for the clients and the agents to consult. The data is mostly the same for everybody: contracts, receipts, etc.
Almost all applications deal with the same data, only in very different ways. Even in only one application, the same data can be manipulated in different ways. And of course, it is the web, so we need to cache stuff and minimize database access.
Some applications are on the intranet, others on extranet, others in the internet. We're using webservices to simpify access to the data (since it mostly the same for everyone), so the webservices work for everyone, handing out data that is then transformed for specific needs.
Since the basic format of the information is stable, we don't need to learn or implement new formats, different calls to webservices and the likes. We just take the information and transform it. Caching is straightforward for everyone (just text, after all), validation is easy (xsd).
XML is not for everything, but if you're working with pure information and passing it around to a zillion different apps, it sure beats sliced-bread.
Terribly so. And wouldn't it be funny if the weblog where this piece of information came from had gotten it from the original slashdot piece? Talk about slashdotting slashdot...:)
This is strange...
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The one time I submit a scoop it gets rejected, and half an hour later, here it is! No fair...
And can you believe it, it's the second site today to be hacked in which I had info? The other one, if you're interested, is a portuguese forum site, PTGate. Now excuse while I go and change my net passwords...:(
Interesting that we are doing with computers what God's has appearantly done with us. Or the Angels, or Set, or whoever seems to be toying around with us from time to time...
Ah, but don't you see? God is a programmer. We're just following his footsteps. Now for the clincher... what if there are bugs in the system?
God: What, bugs? No way, I'm perfect! Just let me fix this tiny little thing... (BUM!) Ooops, sorry Bill!
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Unless your activex sites are available outside your intranet (and they never should be, now whould they, eh?), I don't see what your problem is. If MS wants to deprecate activex on a new or updated IE, of course your company will not be deploying the update, right? I mean, one does not do blind updates on critical work environments (like IE-based intranets with activex-based apps) without a full test beforehand, and even so, if it works as it is now, is there a reason to update (besides the constant need to waste $$$, that is)?
External antennas? WTF?!? Haven't even *seen* an external antenna in a mobile that wasn't a clam one for some years now... well, ok, a few motorolas out there still have them, some old siemens too... but Nokias? The US mobile market must be really strange if it still carries those.
Any of the 1xxx, 2xxx and some of the 3xxx are pretty simple. If you want an old phone, get a 6310i for instance.
Hey, I got rid of web project files as soon as I started using subversion and got in to continuous integration with cruisecontrol.net and nant... It's a stupid idea to have special "web projects" anyway, those are simply class libraries that get created outside what should be a single consolidated solution tree and compile to /bin instead of /bin/debug, and that force vs to load the project by calling the web server, which of course just has to be running when you load the solution. All of it very silly and unnecessary.
.net project includes a solution with no less than 30 projects in it, which is no mean feat to mantain, let me tell ya. About 10 of those are web apps, imagine having all of them as "web projects" and loading the solution that for each one, had to go to the webserver to retrieve whatever it needs... or if I need to change virtual paths on the site, oh the pain! Been there, done that, got the tshirt, web projects out the window.
If you want to do a single quick dirty page just to test something, it's useful, but if you're doing a project that includes several class libraries with and without asp.net, just do everything in class libraries and configure the virtual dirs yourself. Much neater and nicer.
Just for the record, so you won't think I'm running my big mouth without actual experience on this, my latest
Anyway, no one should be learning anything from WoW in the first place. It is a game. Like many others have said before, just enjoy it without looking for any deeper meaning.
Not learning? From a game? Is that even possible? You have to learn to play it to, well, play it. You have to learn it's rules so you won't get banned. you learn different ways of interacting, and especially with MMO's, you really do learn a lot about interacting with people. It's a game, and games teach, period.
Of course, you can try and play it without "looking for deeper meaning", but that is probably impossible if you play it regularly. Eventually things in the game seem more real than they were, and the people in the game affect you much more. And if they do, the rules of the game world start to spill out into the real world, and that's what he is soap-boxing about.
shana
... does that mean you dislike Kevin Smith? I'm sure he's pretty distraught about that :p
First, the article is so dim-witted I wasn't expecting any serious responses to it... but I guess I was wrong :p
Second, if you don't like your time, change it. Put all your clocks one hour ahead. Seriously. I did it this year, and it works great, suddenly everyone is working on my schedule, it gets dark at the proper time, and I don't feel like I'm off all the time. Assume that everyone is wrong and you're right, like I do, and you'll be much happier for it. I am %D
Right, that's just what we need... some twat prattling on about how everyone who exists is not worthy to go to heaven so we need the middleman to set things straight for us stupid sinners... I need that like I need a shot in the arm, duh! You managed to confirm everything the other poster said, i.e. who needs a religion to talk to god? Sheeesh!
hahahahahaha! This is so idiotic I'm laughing my ass off! Get in to Heaven our way instead of God's way? ROFL! We invented heaven, you twat! In case you haven't noticed, religion and myth is man's own invention, and we're dumb enough to invent something that we make automatically out of reach except for the intervention of a perfect superior being we invented... lol yeah I guess you do have a point, we're just stupid that way.
aaaahhhh religious freaks... always make my day
I swear, one of these days, one of these days... POW! right in the kisser!
- Origin unknown, presumably God's
A thin layer of dust is essential for the preservation of a CD... cat's paws are usually a good idea too, while you're at it.
Ah! I, sir, store my data in clay, cooked to last a million years... in triplicate!
Redundancy is forever... or at least until the next upgrade
Riiiiiiiiiiight...
Now where's the restraining vest when you need one?
of course, the last paragraph should not be italicized... blame it on the missing /i and clicking on the wrong button... :p
The new TCP stack in Vista effectively implements TCP is such a way that it removes these limitations while preserving compatibility with old stack implementations.
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That is absolutely not what Microsoft has done. You honestly thing the reason they were only getting 10 Mb/s between their datacenters was due to memory copying? And when I said "implementation" I wasn't talking about the internal code, I was talking about the way it interacts across the wire.
Microsoft has completely revamped [microsoft.com] the way that TCP handles packet transmission.
If the new tcp stack retains compatability with the old one, then how are the innovations in the way it interacts with the network? For it to be compatible it has to "interact" with the network like any other stack, so it can't gain any leverage in that level, can it? Or are you saying that the new stack is only advantegeous if the machines are all vistas? Just curious how that works out.
I find it peculiar that the article is talking about UN and US, and lots of posters here keep talking about Europe, as if the UN equals Europe. Uh?
UN is an international body of many nations, including the US (who is, btw, it's most important member in terms of $$$$$, if not in brainpower), european and NON-european nations. UN is not EU, get your facts straight before marching your ignorance / stupidity all over the place.
I have no idea why americans believe europe is having a "penis size contest" with the US... Europeans couldn't care less if the whole northern part of the american continent (excluding canada, of course) crawled it's way back to the hole it came from and quietly expired. Ah well.
"ignorance is such a blessing!" - unknown
Why oh why do drones like you insist on propagating the mindless drivel that comes out of the news agencies?
Hacking existed way before the age of computers, and was never linked to criminal activities, how many times does one have to repeat this?
It's amazing how one idiotic "reporter" on tv decides that a word will have a new meaning to make it more interesting for the couch-potato-zombies watching, and everyone accepts that! I can dig it on any other site, but here I'd think that people would know different... guess not. %|
*sigh*
go find your missing neurons or something - help keep slashdot an idiot-free environment
Bwahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahah!
:p
*hehe*
*snigger*
*wipes tear from eye*
today isn't april fools, is it?
Riiiiiiiiight... As the saying goes, it gets better by the minute. So anyone can go to cisco's site and reset any login? If the site has been compromised, how can anyone think the email stored is the right one for sending the resetted password? Oh, sorry, not supposed to mention these things, right? Silly technical details like these always mess up those marketing numbers, can't have that, no siree.
:p)
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Please mod up the parent :p
http://www.fx.dk/
It's a truly great firewall, work in windows, linux and OS/2, very versatile, has all the features you could ever need, including IDS, VPN, IPSec, Remote GUI, etc. It's really very good, check it out.
Jumping to the wagon here, I don't see what's so hard to believe about the fact that a radiation-emitting device (especially those old nokias and ericssons) being right next to your head will affect your brain... after all, the brain emits electromagnetic radiation, it resonates, what's so hard to believe?
:p
I find it funny that people always have to go out and search for a "material" (tissues, bones, whatever) explanation for it, as if the electromagnetic field of the brain hasn't been known to exist!
As for my 2 cents on the situation, what happened to you happened exactly the same to me... my first cellphone was a cheap ericsson (very good software, btw), and I just had to approach it to my head to start getting this strange pressure feeling inside my head, and a headache. Now the only headaches I have, very rarely, are located above my right eye, always (unless you smack my head in, of course), and this pressure and headache I got from the cellphone was a completely different thing.
No matter how I placed the phone, I always felt it. If I used it on the left side, I got it on the left side, if on the right, I got it on the right. If I placed the phone a bit farther the pressure and headache would take longer to appear, but it would come after a few minutes.
I always thought that cheap ends up costing you, so I ended up choosing my next model carefully, never mind the cost, and so far, my nokia 7250i is behaving very nicely, never had those symptoms again. Before that I had a 7110, which also cleared the symptoms, though not completely if I spoke for more than an hour with it...
Just for a final meaningless note, I did notice that when a call was about to come through, the ericsson would affect the tv all the way from the hall, while the later phones only affect the tv if left on the table in front of it or closer...
Well, that depends if the E stands for the symbol or not. The notation in euros is (euro symbol)500M, stupidly like the dollar. Only if you don't use the (euro symbol) does the notation become 500M euros. Of course, E can be a substitute for (euro symbol), and so the notation in the story is probably correct...
...:) --
just another meaningless conversation
--- oh, I miss my escudos... 500$00
Didn't he interview any scientists married to scientists? I'm no scientist, just a lowly programmer, and still I know I couldn't hitch up with someone who didn't share my interest in computers. I mean, who am I supposed to play warcraft with if the guy doesn't have a proper hand-keyboard coordination? And if I stay up working late, would I stand him nagging me all the time about it?
:)
Better just choose a compatible (plug & play?) soulmate who will stay up late with you debugging/playing/whatever, and you'll do fine. I know I did.
Just because XML is a human-readable format and anyone can make one is I think the biggest problem of all in this ongoing xml-is-the-biggest-thing-since-sliced-bread saga.
I've been working with XML for 2 years now, and I am constantly reminded that, just as it happens with html, vb, or any other "simple to use" technology out there, anyone can use it, but few know how to use it well. I've seen xml structures that would have you rolling on the floor laughing, so inneficient and dumb were they.
It's just like databases, really. It's pretty easy to mess it up so badly it's unusable.
XML is really the most insignificant part of the whole. One has to know at least xpath and xslt to use xml properly. Because the great advantage I see about the format is the ease of transforming data from one format to another, and you that by applying transformations to it.
So instead of hardwiring the structure to the data (and banging you head on the wall when suddenly you need a slightly different structure for the same data), you just store everything in a format that will be easy to transform to suit your purposes. 80% of my work in xml is actually applying filters, transformations and the likes to my data.
An example: I work for an insurance company which is putting every kind of information is has on the web for the clients and the agents to consult. The data is mostly the same for everybody: contracts, receipts, etc.
Almost all applications deal with the same data, only in very different ways. Even in only one application, the same data can be manipulated in different ways. And of course, it is the web, so we need to cache stuff and minimize database access.
Some applications are on the intranet, others on extranet, others in the internet. We're using webservices to simpify access to the data (since it mostly the same for everyone), so the webservices work for everyone, handing out data that is then transformed for specific needs.
Since the basic format of the information is stable, we don't need to learn or implement new formats, different calls to webservices and the likes. We just take the information and transform it. Caching is straightforward for everyone (just text, after all), validation is easy (xsd).
XML is not for everything, but if you're working with pure information and passing it around to a zillion different apps, it sure beats sliced-bread.
Terribly so. And wouldn't it be funny if the weblog where this piece of information came from had gotten it from the original slashdot piece? Talk about slashdotting slashdot... :)
The one time I submit a scoop it gets rejected, and half an hour later, here it is! No fair...
:(
And can you believe it, it's the second site today to be hacked in which I had info? The other one, if you're interested, is a portuguese forum site, PTGate. Now excuse while I go and change my net passwords...
Today isn't friday 13th, is it?
Interesting that we are doing with computers what God's has appearantly done with us. Or the Angels, or Set, or whoever seems to be toying around with us from time to time...
Ah, but don't you see? God is a programmer. We're just following his footsteps. Now for the clincher... what if there are bugs in the system?
God: What, bugs? No way, I'm perfect! Just let me fix this tiny little thing... (BUM!) Ooops, sorry Bill!