Funny, but pure bull crit. M$ churned out garbage software with no regard for security. When that became apparent, they did little to address the situation, except to stop me from e-mailing documents created with their software. On the other hand, the current update system, apart from its "evil" features, works fairly well. The *owner* of the PC should have the right to turn off updates. For M$ to force updates when the update feature is turned off is reprehensible, and it should be criminal. No other company in the world could get away with this sort of behavior. Hopefully, the EU will slam them. In the future, M$ will be used as an example regarding the need for anti-trust laws.
When will someone do a comparison of Javascript (ECMA Script?) and CSS compatibility. That's what matters most to me. Speed on a PC affects me very little
You must write code only for your own use. My first job was with a software company that actually provide support and access to their source code. They were fanatic about everything, from formatting to spelling to writing comments using complete sentences. Their reasoning was that they sold their package to business executives, and they wanted everything about their product to be professional. Their customers also modified their code extensively, so it wasn't as if no one was looking. My point is in addition to the one made by others, that working with code filled with misspelled names is a pain in the aft.
Visual Studio has a lot of nice features, and you do well to point them out. But not everyone has turned to the Dark Side, frequently for business reasons. Therefore, your "silly question" comment reflects more upon you than upon the questioner. BTW, has M$ gotten around to adding code validation as you type to C#? I only have VS 2003, and the lack of that validation was beyond annoying.
Having lived through the Disco Scare of the late '70s, I can now confidently say that the Loudness War will also pass. At that time, Rock aficionados (me, too) were convinced that popular music was irreparably damaged. In fact, popular music is now more diverse and, frankly, IMHO, better than ever. As far as loudness, I think a lot of that has more to do with some of the popular genres taking advantage of the technology than anything else. As the genres evolve, the loudness craze will die down. BTW, does anyone remember Phase Linear and Bob Carver? I had one of their boxes that did noise reduction and peak expansion...
Now for the contrarian viewpoint. I have little sympathy for those who violate the law, regardless of their ideological reasons. The people, through their elected representatives, enacted laws regarding classified material. A long time ago, while I was in the military, I found out just how much damage selling old codebooks could do, as Soviet submarines suddenly became almost undetectable. "Outing" an unpopular classified may seem noble, but it is also a direct violation of the trust we all put in those who agree to keep secrets secret. And a tiny minority does not have the right to dictate to the vast majority, at least not in a democracy. As far as this case, the FBI is infamous for publicly pursuing people who are completely innocent...
I barely know the first thing about Linux, but as a developer, I can say three things. First, I hate Windows' hegemony; two, I think anything that forces M$ to improve their offerings is a Good Thing; three, I feel sorry of Linus Torvalds. Freedom of speech is also a Good Thing, and people should say what they think. But the constant invective directed at Linus, while he tries to keep the wheels on the Linux Express, must be incredibly wearing. Somebody has to call the shots, somebody has to make the final decisions. I wonder if Linus would have made his source public in the first place, if he knew what he was getting into.
Whether these things are appropriate for the authorities to use is an interesting discussion. But what happens, and it will, when these "flashlights" leak out to the public? Great for home defense! Also, they will be great for every petty thief. "Victimless" robberies the easy way. I wonder if short term memory loss goes along with the experience, so that the flashee won't even remember what the assailant looked like...
I'm not a Linux junkie, but I have worked in IT for a while. "Forking" in UNIX certainly didn't hurt its adoption. It seems well entrenched and perhaps at its strongest point ever. Our new SAP systems are all using it. 300 versions of Linux simply shows that there is a tremendous interest in the OS. Of the 300, I know of only six or seven. I recently chose Ubuntu as a learning platform (it loaded in VMWare). It was that or Fedora, and I had no confusion at all in making my choice.
At first, I was stunned. Then as I read other posts, I realized something. Either M$ actually does something good by preventing anyone from doing this, or everyone in the entire world leaves Windows. Either way, this is good news!
People do not become strong by enduring abuse. As another poster noted, bullying promotes anger, hatred, and violence. Yes, our children are growing up less strong and more selfish, but that is a sign of poor parenting and the declining values of society. Bullying is certainly not a solution to either of those things.
However, we do need to teach our children how to respond better to what I would call harsh teasing. Adding more Political Correctness will not stop adverse behavior. Children need to learn to let insults slide off (as long as that is all they are) and go on.
My family computer is a Dell laptop that is over four years old. It still runs great (you go, Dell!), but it was low tech when I bought it, and it needs replaced. With Vista coming out, I am really motivated... To switch to Mac. The only question is Mini or iMac.
Allegorical interpretation (placing a symbolic meaning on each piece of a narrative) does allow any meaning to be assigned to a text. I'm not talking about allegory. Each of the events on the six days of Genesis 1 describes part of the big picture of the evolution of the earth and life on it. Two examples. First, the waters being separated above and below describes the change from the earth being covered with water and the atmosphere being saturated with water vapor to a band of clear air forming between the sea and the clouds. Second, the waters drawing back to expose dry land describes what happened as a result of changes in plate tectonics, when two main convection chambers broke down into several smaller ones. The outcome was Pangaea. The rest of the account describes actual events in the same way.
As our understanding of the world and history improves, we are forced to reassess parts of our understanding of the Bible. However, the Bible has countless times affirmed itself, as it does in the present case.
I came to believe in a god while studying physics in college. Years later, I concluded the God of the Bible was indeed that god. After many more years, I still believe in physics and God. It took a long time, but I finally figured out that the Bible was meant to be understood, not taken in a wooden, literal sense. Now, I am amazed at the picture Genesis 1 draws of evolution. The Bible actually predicted what we have discovered since Darwin, but only if one gets past the idea that "days" has to mean 24 hour periods. As a reformed fundamentalist, I am now embarrassed by those who insist on trying to force their ideas into a weird mold and then justify it as "faith". Why couldn't God create evolution and then have a brief description of the process written?
Many applications need a small to medium size database that contains important but non mission-critical data. MySQL is perfect for those applications. No licensing hassles, no funds requests, no major administrative overhead. I don't have enough experience with MySQL to recommend it for a really critical database, but we do have plenty of need for smaller databases that we can set up quickly. I certainly don't see spending a lot of money on SQL Server (which we are doing) or any other big commercial server to run a bunch of small databases.
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Funny, but pure bull crit. M$ churned out garbage software with no regard for security. When that became apparent, they did little to address the situation, except to stop me from e-mailing documents created with their software.
On the other hand, the current update system, apart from its "evil" features, works fairly well. The *owner* of the PC should have the right to turn off updates. For M$ to force updates when the update feature is turned off is reprehensible, and it should be criminal. No other company in the world could get away with this sort of behavior. Hopefully, the EU will slam them. In the future, M$ will be used as an example regarding the need for anti-trust laws.
When will someone do a comparison of Javascript (ECMA Script?) and CSS compatibility. That's what matters most to me. Speed on a PC affects me very little
What I like is that you can generally get to the bottom of an issue, if you read enough of the comments...
You must write code only for your own use. My first job was with a software company that actually provide support and access to their source code. They were fanatic about everything, from formatting to spelling to writing comments using complete sentences. Their reasoning was that they sold their package to business executives, and they wanted everything about their product to be professional. Their customers also modified their code extensively, so it wasn't as if no one was looking. My point is in addition to the one made by others, that working with code filled with misspelled names is a pain in the aft.
Visual Studio has a lot of nice features, and you do well to point them out. But not everyone has turned to the Dark Side, frequently for business reasons. Therefore, your "silly question" comment reflects more upon you than upon the questioner.
BTW, has M$ gotten around to adding code validation as you type to C#? I only have VS 2003, and the lack of that validation was beyond annoying.
Having lived through the Disco Scare of the late '70s, I can now confidently say that the Loudness War will also pass. At that time, Rock aficionados (me, too) were convinced that popular music was irreparably damaged. In fact, popular music is now more diverse and, frankly, IMHO, better than ever. As far as loudness, I think a lot of that has more to do with some of the popular genres taking advantage of the technology than anything else. As the genres evolve, the loudness craze will die down. BTW, does anyone remember Phase Linear and Bob Carver? I had one of their boxes that did noise reduction and peak expansion...
Now for the contrarian viewpoint. I have little sympathy for those who violate the law, regardless of their ideological reasons. The people, through their elected representatives, enacted laws regarding classified material. A long time ago, while I was in the military, I found out just how much damage selling old codebooks could do, as Soviet submarines suddenly became almost undetectable. "Outing" an unpopular classified may seem noble, but it is also a direct violation of the trust we all put in those who agree to keep secrets secret. And a tiny minority does not have the right to dictate to the vast majority, at least not in a democracy.
As far as this case, the FBI is infamous for publicly pursuing people who are completely innocent...
Just move to a location upwind of all the pollution. Like, say, 50 miles west of Los Angeles.
I barely know the first thing about Linux, but as a developer, I can say three things. First, I hate Windows' hegemony; two, I think anything that forces M$ to improve their offerings is a Good Thing; three, I feel sorry of Linus Torvalds. Freedom of speech is also a Good Thing, and people should say what they think. But the constant invective directed at Linus, while he tries to keep the wheels on the Linux Express, must be incredibly wearing. Somebody has to call the shots, somebody has to make the final decisions. I wonder if Linus would have made his source public in the first place, if he knew what he was getting into.
Whether these things are appropriate for the authorities to use is an interesting discussion. But what happens, and it will, when these "flashlights" leak out to the public? Great for home defense! Also, they will be great for every petty thief. "Victimless" robberies the easy way. I wonder if short term memory loss goes along with the experience, so that the flashee won't even remember what the assailant looked like...
More likely, the computer driving the apparatus BSOD's.
Correction: He is already going to do it.
I'm not a Linux junkie, but I have worked in IT for a while. "Forking" in UNIX certainly didn't hurt its adoption. It seems well entrenched and perhaps at its strongest point ever. Our new SAP systems are all using it. 300 versions of Linux simply shows that there is a tremendous interest in the OS. Of the 300, I know of only six or seven. I recently chose Ubuntu as a learning platform (it loaded in VMWare). It was that or Fedora, and I had no confusion at all in making my choice.
At first, I was stunned. Then as I read other posts, I realized something. Either M$ actually does something good by preventing anyone from doing this, or everyone in the entire world leaves Windows. Either way, this is good news!
People do not become strong by enduring abuse. As another poster noted, bullying promotes anger, hatred, and violence. Yes, our children are growing up less strong and more selfish, but that is a sign of poor parenting and the declining values of society. Bullying is certainly not a solution to either of those things. However, we do need to teach our children how to respond better to what I would call harsh teasing. Adding more Political Correctness will not stop adverse behavior. Children need to learn to let insults slide off (as long as that is all they are) and go on.
My family computer is a Dell laptop that is over four years old. It still runs great (you go, Dell!), but it was low tech when I bought it, and it needs replaced. With Vista coming out, I am really motivated... To switch to Mac. The only question is Mini or iMac.
Allegorical interpretation (placing a symbolic meaning on each piece of a narrative) does allow any meaning to be assigned to a text. I'm not talking about allegory. Each of the events on the six days of Genesis 1 describes part of the big picture of the evolution of the earth and life on it. Two examples. First, the waters being separated above and below describes the change from the earth being covered with water and the atmosphere being saturated with water vapor to a band of clear air forming between the sea and the clouds. Second, the waters drawing back to expose dry land describes what happened as a result of changes in plate tectonics, when two main convection chambers broke down into several smaller ones. The outcome was Pangaea. The rest of the account describes actual events in the same way.
As our understanding of the world and history improves, we are forced to reassess parts of our understanding of the Bible. However, the Bible has countless times affirmed itself, as it does in the present case.
I came to believe in a god while studying physics in college. Years later, I concluded the God of the Bible was indeed that god. After many more years, I still believe in physics and God. It took a long time, but I finally figured out that the Bible was meant to be understood, not taken in a wooden, literal sense. Now, I am amazed at the picture Genesis 1 draws of evolution. The Bible actually predicted what we have discovered since Darwin, but only if one gets past the idea that "days" has to mean 24 hour periods. As a reformed fundamentalist, I am now embarrassed by those who insist on trying to force their ideas into a weird mold and then justify it as "faith". Why couldn't God create evolution and then have a brief description of the process written?
Many applications need a small to medium size database that contains important but non mission-critical data. MySQL is perfect for those applications. No licensing hassles, no funds requests, no major administrative overhead. I don't have enough experience with MySQL to recommend it for a really critical database, but we do have plenty of need for smaller databases that we can set up quickly. I certainly don't see spending a lot of money on SQL Server (which we are doing) or any other big commercial server to run a bunch of small databases.