I wouldn't say that the.NET environment is fundamentally well designed. The CLR is very, very good, and portions of the.NET framework are extremely good as well (once you wrap your head around them). The System.Windows.Forms framework, on the other hand, is too often just a shim over the native Win32 controls, which means you get some odd behaviour when you try to extend them in new ways, and some controls, like the ImageList are completely sealed so you can't extend it at all. This, in particular, really bothers me because it makes it difficult to use either high-color or 16-color icons on toolbars, etc without a lot of code to decide and build the toolbars at runtime, not to mention the fact the ImageList control in design mode is VERY buggy.
ASP.NET is pretty good, but I can't help but feel that some of the controls need more constructors that fill in the commonly used fields (TableCell in 1.1 not taking any parameters in it's constructor, forcing you to assign it to a variable just to set it's.Text property, for example), although I understand a fair bit of this is being fixed in the 2.0 Framework.
Now, Mono has already extended the framework with Gtk# (which I haven't had a chance to play with yet), and the entire Novell.* namespace. Except unlike most of Microsoft's 'embrace and extend' tactics, most of these are also usable in Windows with the proper assemblies installed into the GAC.
Until what point? If the risk analysis becomes too accurate, you might as well just invest the money yourself, because there would be no point in giving it to an insurer.
It certainly looks slick, but the last time I saw someone use it, they ran into bug after bug with the X-Box constantly crashing. There's also the fact that compiled versions of the XBMC are on legally shaky ground. The final flaw, as I see it, is that you're limited to either a controller, or the X-Box DVD kit remote control (or compatible), which has far fewer buttons available than the XBMC could actually make use of.
Don't get me wrong, though. If I had some spare money, I'd probably get an X-box for XBMC alone.
Actually, he didn't say if he played games on it at all, pirated or not. He may have bought it to hack on it, or as a crude media player. Or maybe he's one of those supposedly mythical beasts that bought the X-box to put Linux on it.
There certainly are ways for the end users to pay for someone to implement the features. The first (and most obvious) way is to go to the distributor (Novell, Red Hat, or Sun), and ask them to include the feature you desire. If you're a paying customer, you should have some sort of a voice at the company. The other option is a bounty system, where individual users can contribute to a pot of money that is paid out to the first person who implements the specific feature. I'm sure there are other methods for directing your funding to specific tasks, as well. On the other hand, telling people what to do when you have not given them anything in return is a sure fire way to get stonewalled.
people who produce art (or content, or however you want to look at it) may have dependants to support.
Yes, and their dependants may have dependants to support. No, the original rational for long copyrights was to prevent companies from merely waiting for the copyright to expire before publishing their 'enhanced' version they could copyright themselves. Supporting your dependants is a red herring, and it detracts from the real reasoning behind things. After all, people working as mechanics, accountants, or burger flippers still need to provide for their dependants, and you don't hear people suggesting that McDonald's should provide outside the original terms of employment.
Now, the big companies that want the term extension can't admit they would be so evil as to rob someone of the fruits of their labour, so this bogus story about protecting the artists' dependants is born. Perhaps we merely need to rethink how the term is applied, rather than arguing about the periods. Perhaps a term that is triggered by first publication would work better, although this fails for non-duplicated artwork like paintings and such.
How fitting that despite the fact you didn't want it to be a part of the discussion, the fact you brought it up made it the center of discussion in this thread. Regardless, the parties' policy is largely the same, only their justifications (excuses) vary. That doesn't stop them from fighting each other over it, though.
Yes, and what's stupider still is if they wanted to skew their results, they could just modify their own engine to do so, and no one would ever know. On the other hand, see that little box at the bottom that lets you search the support site... and the fact keywords in the googlebot cache version are all related to the page in question. There couldn't be any... connection... could there? Like making their search page more accuract for their customers?
NO! This must be a conspiracy by Google to destroy all other search engines by polluting them, while boosting their own pages. There's no other possible explanation! *sigh*
Could it be that EVERYONE is missing the point? Those words are most likely there for seeding the search function at the bottom of the page, not to increase placement or anything else. It's quite likely they use the same search engine for both the normal google search, and the intrasite google search, and instead of adding a feature that couldn't exist in the general search program they decided it would be easier to do this.
By the way, search for "traffic estimate" -- that page isn't even in the top 10, although a sample program from google that analyses traffic estimates is at #5 (almost certainly due to other people linking to it).
You can, but you need access to the ACLS, which MS thoughtfully decided to hide from the use in XP Home. Other posters have mentioned that booting into "safe mode" lets you get access to the disabled features.
cacls still exists in XP home, but using it is painful to say the least (not to mention typing it since calcs comes off the fingers much easier and often than cacls)
Reveal Codes is the function. Frankly, it's invaluable in correcting a document that has formatting problems. It's similar to switching between a WYSIWYG HTML editor and the raw HTML markup. It's a hard feature to get used to not having, and makes frustrating layout problems like margins or tab stops changing slightly mid-page far easier to correct than Microsoft Word's method.
It's a feature that you'd never know you were missing unless you had used it, and then you'd realize it was invaluable.
Microsoft developed.NET because they know full well that the world will be migrating away from 32-bit x86 chips in the near future, and they need a clear upgrade to either Itanium or x86-64, depending on which one ends up winning out in the marketplace. Making a virtual machine based language infrastructure that can be dynamically recompiled to work on either of those two archetectures is a smart move, especially when you consider that one of those two platforms (Itanic) is not backwards compatible with x86. Control over.NET is important to Microsoft, but it's not like they don't already have exclusive control over the APIs people are using, namely Win32.
(though Xenogears has the most repetitive battles known to man)
I don't know, I think I found FFX more repetitive than Xenogears. Then again, I don't like the rock/paper/scissors aspect of the battle system in FFX, which is also one of the reasons I'm finding Xenosaga Ep.2 difficult to play. When I play an RPG, I tend to like using certain characters, and don't like being forced to use other characters by the game.
On the other hand, I'm still not sure why I dislike FF9 so much. I don't believe there's anything that's wrong with the game, specifically. For some reason, the story just didn't appeal to me. Out of the entire series, it's the only one I can't stand to play. Even FF8 and FFX-2 are more enjoyable for me.
On the other hand, Microsoft had been lamenting about the fact it was difficult to get people to install.NET Framework. The complaint was that it was difficult to get people to install this 23MB download because few people want to download something that big when they have no immediate need for it. Spyware peddlers come to the rescue by innovating a solution to Microsoft's problem. Aren't they such nice people?
Eat organic healthy food, we all know that putting random chemicals and hormones into your body isn't always the best thing in the world. if buying all organic isn't practical try finding a co-op.
We all know this? 'Organic' does not equal healthy, just as synthetic does not equal unhealthy. An extremely potent toxin (botulism) is completely natural, and is responsible for causing severe illness or death in many people every year. On the other hand, the artificial process of chlorinating the water supply has proved to be beneficial because it kills off most water-borne parasites. Now, if you were to ask if I think ingesting pesticides is a healthy thing for you to do, I'd have to answer, "No", but that doesn't mean I believe it's unhealthy, either. For a large number of them, there's just no evidence one way or another. Now, you may feel better about not ingesting those pesticides and other chemicals by eating so-called 'organic' foods, and that's fine -- it's your choice, after all.
Now, eating healthier types of food is always a good idea. Avoiding fast food whenever feasible, and increasing your intake of fruits and vegetables is usually positive to your general health. I'd suggest avoiding preprepared or processed foods, and cooking all your own meals using fresh ingredients as well. If nothing more, cooking your own meals, even if you think you're too tired to do so will benefit your health and perhaps your energy for the day.
It brought HP lots of stuff by merging with Compaq. Inferrior servers, PCs and laptops, for instance. I guess I should be thankful that new HPaq servers and workstations still have a ROM BIOS setup program, rather than a Windows 3.1 BIOS setup program on a hidden partition on the hard drive like older Compaq offerings.
Tribute... Maybe. Everything in that quote was completely true, but wether it was a tribute or not depends on how it was meant. Read it again, and assume the negative.
"(Gates) is one of the most important business leaders of his age," he said. "Microsoft technology has transformed business practices and his company has had a profound impact on the British economy."
Gates is undeniably one of the most important people in the world currently. Microsoft's technology has most definately changed business practices (witness the birth of anti-virus, anti-spyware, and spyware companies). And the impact it has had on the British economy is clear -- loads of money funnelled into Redmond.
It may be watertight against watertable flooding, but what happens when the sewer backs up? What about the condensation that tends to form on underground cement walls because they tend to be cooler in summer than the air? There are a lot of sources of flooding/water in basements.
Water isn't the only thing that can flood your basement. A sewage clog can cause sewage to flood your basement instead. If you live in a frigid environment, water main breaks are another possibility. To make matters worse, basements tend to be damp to various degrees, although if you live in an arid climate, this may be less of a concern. Anyone who's ever put bare cardboard boxes on a cement basement floor can attest to what happens to the cardboard (it turns to mush). Basically, if you're wiring things in a basement, a suspended ceiling is preferable to a raised floor.
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If you do write your MP, you may want to use Canadian terms, though. "Fair use" is called "fair dealings" in Canadian copyright law.
Given that well over 1/4 of the posts are by him (27 out of 107), perhaps he should get a job rather than post on Slashdot all day?
ASP.NET is pretty good, but I can't help but feel that some of the controls need more constructors that fill in the commonly used fields (TableCell in 1.1 not taking any parameters in it's constructor, forcing you to assign it to a variable just to set it's .Text property, for example), although I understand a fair bit of this is being fixed in the 2.0 Framework.
Now, Mono has already extended the framework with Gtk# (which I haven't had a chance to play with yet), and the entire Novell.* namespace. Except unlike most of Microsoft's 'embrace and extend' tactics, most of these are also usable in Windows with the proper assemblies installed into the GAC.
Until what point? If the risk analysis becomes too accurate, you might as well just invest the money yourself, because there would be no point in giving it to an insurer.
Don't get me wrong, though. If I had some spare money, I'd probably get an X-box for XBMC alone.
Actually, he didn't say if he played games on it at all, pirated or not. He may have bought it to hack on it, or as a crude media player. Or maybe he's one of those supposedly mythical beasts that bought the X-box to put Linux on it.
There certainly are ways for the end users to pay for someone to implement the features. The first (and most obvious) way is to go to the distributor (Novell, Red Hat, or Sun), and ask them to include the feature you desire. If you're a paying customer, you should have some sort of a voice at the company. The other option is a bounty system, where individual users can contribute to a pot of money that is paid out to the first person who implements the specific feature. I'm sure there are other methods for directing your funding to specific tasks, as well. On the other hand, telling people what to do when you have not given them anything in return is a sure fire way to get stonewalled.
Now, the big companies that want the term extension can't admit they would be so evil as to rob someone of the fruits of their labour, so this bogus story about protecting the artists' dependants is born. Perhaps we merely need to rethink how the term is applied, rather than arguing about the periods. Perhaps a term that is triggered by first publication would work better, although this fails for non-duplicated artwork like paintings and such.
How fitting that despite the fact you didn't want it to be a part of the discussion, the fact you brought it up made it the center of discussion in this thread. Regardless, the parties' policy is largely the same, only their justifications (excuses) vary. That doesn't stop them from fighting each other over it, though.
NO! This must be a conspiracy by Google to destroy all other search engines by polluting them, while boosting their own pages. There's no other possible explanation! *sigh*
By the way, search for "traffic estimate" -- that page isn't even in the top 10, although a sample program from google that analyses traffic estimates is at #5 (almost certainly due to other people linking to it).
You can, but you need access to the ACLS, which MS thoughtfully decided to hide from the use in XP Home. Other posters have mentioned that booting into "safe mode" lets you get access to the disabled features.
cacls still exists in XP home, but using it is painful to say the least (not to mention typing it since calcs comes off the fingers much easier and often than cacls)
It's a feature that you'd never know you were missing unless you had used it, and then you'd realize it was invaluable.
Microsoft developed .NET because they know full well that the world will be migrating away from 32-bit x86 chips in the near future, and they need a clear upgrade to either Itanium or x86-64, depending on which one ends up winning out in the marketplace. Making a virtual machine based language infrastructure that can be dynamically recompiled to work on either of those two archetectures is a smart move, especially when you consider that one of those two platforms (Itanic) is not backwards compatible with x86. Control over .NET is important to Microsoft, but it's not like they don't already have exclusive control over the APIs people are using, namely Win32.
On the other hand, I'm still not sure why I dislike FF9 so much. I don't believe there's anything that's wrong with the game, specifically. For some reason, the story just didn't appeal to me. Out of the entire series, it's the only one I can't stand to play. Even FF8 and FFX-2 are more enjoyable for me.
On the other hand, Microsoft had been lamenting about the fact it was difficult to get people to install .NET Framework. The complaint was that it was difficult to get people to install this 23MB download because few people want to download something that big when they have no immediate need for it. Spyware peddlers come to the rescue by innovating a solution to Microsoft's problem. Aren't they such nice people?
Now, eating healthier types of food is always a good idea. Avoiding fast food whenever feasible, and increasing your intake of fruits and vegetables is usually positive to your general health. I'd suggest avoiding preprepared or processed foods, and cooking all your own meals using fresh ingredients as well. If nothing more, cooking your own meals, even if you think you're too tired to do so will benefit your health and perhaps your energy for the day.
It brought HP lots of stuff by merging with Compaq. Inferrior servers, PCs and laptops, for instance. I guess I should be thankful that new HPaq servers and workstations still have a ROM BIOS setup program, rather than a Windows 3.1 BIOS setup program on a hidden partition on the hard drive like older Compaq offerings.
As an added bonus, both can end up selling fewer units because of it.
It may be watertight against watertable flooding, but what happens when the sewer backs up? What about the condensation that tends to form on underground cement walls because they tend to be cooler in summer than the air? There are a lot of sources of flooding/water in basements.
Water isn't the only thing that can flood your basement. A sewage clog can cause sewage to flood your basement instead. If you live in a frigid environment, water main breaks are another possibility. To make matters worse, basements tend to be damp to various degrees, although if you live in an arid climate, this may be less of a concern. Anyone who's ever put bare cardboard boxes on a cement basement floor can attest to what happens to the cardboard (it turns to mush). Basically, if you're wiring things in a basement, a suspended ceiling is preferable to a raised floor.
Telemarketers? They seem to be allowed to use predictive dialers so long as they answer within a few seconds, otherwise they must terminate the call.
Have you read your EULA recently?