Yes, with that article it all makes sense now! So how long until we have movies now that aren't yet made, or to say it another way, when will then be now?
Does everything need to be officially announced to qualify as an "immediate comment" Blogging seems to be good enough for many other companies. A reply was posted in the IE blog (which IE 7 b2 Preview even adds links to when installed): http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/02/01/522682 .aspx.
And we'd believe their blogs over what they say on TV or in other forms of media why? This is just another way to spread lies, or rather not divulge the whole truth (which is as I was taught a lie).
Someone above seemed to be making that point when envisioning a post that would never be about the majority whip being a real douche (his words). We're not going to learn anything new here we wouldn't have learned elsewhere so I see nothing fantastic about this news.
Zoe and Jayne would still be the hired muscle. In both ass-kicking scenes River was set off by some event (either the subliminal message or her brother getting shot). She's a loaded weapon, but someone still needs to pull the trigger.
But you and a couple other posts a little up the thread are exactly right and I'm surprised that so many Firefly fans missed it: River was a weapon and the series was just starting to make that apparent. The gun scene where she kills 3 guys after only a quick glance (and then not looking again while firing) was a dead give-away to at least one of her "special abilities" "give" to her by the Alliance.
Killing off Book wasn't so much a tragedy as Wash since Book was already on his way out, but has anyone considered that Alan who played Wash didn't want to continue? Would fans be happier if they stuck someone else in the part (like a new O'Niel and Jackson from the movie to the show (don't get me wrong, I like both actors in the show better anyway))? I seriously doubt it.
Maybe you should read the news more often, but the Office 12 formats for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are being standardized through the ECMA just as the CLI and C# were and still are with new versions of either. Or is it just that/.'ers world is crashing down around them since now that Microsoft is producing open standards they have no argument left?
The grandparent post is stating what should be obvious: this is how the government works. People elect officials (who may appoint other officials typically based on their beliefs and ideas) as the governing body. Deel with it. It's not a dictatorship. If you don't like it vote differently next time, or at least go out and vote if you don't.
But hey, none of this really matters very much. In fifty years, we'll either be huddling around post-apocalyptic trash fires to keep warm, or computing will be a ubiquitous utility.
Right - that's quiet the practical outcome of not moving to ODF. Thank you for your very well-thought analysis.
You should also be aware as it's been posted here on/. before that Word, Excel, and PowerPoint formats are being standardized. But I suppose since it's from Microsoft is isn't really open and the ECMA is just lying through their web site that will eventually post the standard.
The top-most post in this thread is close to being right but should amend how geeks get all upset when IT comes into play. It should state that geeks get upset when open source is at stake, not just general IT.
Yes, driving is a privilege but that's not what your parent post was talking about. The post was about the right to a fair and speedy trial and so on. That is a right, not a privilege.
Since IE 4 with Active Desktop Windows has also had this "widget" functionality but people don't tend to use it so many web sites and other content publishers don't utilize it as much.
I can't say I'm surprised by the "if it's M$ it's bad" sort of propaganda, but seriously people: all software needs patching. Windows and *nix alike, if they go unpatched obviously the holes are not mitigated.
Again - Windows NT does not have a runlevel 3. If you want that kind of behavior, install Windows 95, 98, or Me, boot into DOS, and then type "win". You can exit Windows back into DOS and then start Windows. But then you deal with DOS.
Change your runlevel to 5, IIRC, and restart X then. Sure, the more advanced user could just switch to runlevel 3 but any typical user would have to reboot the machine.
And right there you reboot X windows. Same thing, except that Windows doesn't have an "init 3" runlevel...unless you want to go back to DOS-based Win9x and either type "win" or put "win" in your autoexec.bat file. Have a ball.
And you don't think they're trying to avoid bad PR because people that bought 64-bit machines (hey - twice as many bits is twice as good, right?) will find it difficult to use their hardware that's lacking 64-bit drivers. Who do they blame, then? The same company that/. does for every little thing.
When the market is truly ready for it and more 64-bit drivers are available I'm sure they'll put it out for retailers just like the 32-bit platforms.
Maybe people are finally realizing that this is (or at least can be) hard work and that it isn't the "coolest" job on earth and that "computer programmers" don't all write and play cool games all day long.
Going through college, many of my classmates and others at other Uni's and 2-year colleges just jumped on the bandwagon for no other reason than "everyone's doing it and you'll get a great job". Most of them didn't even have any decent experience with computers before coming to college. Heck, even the CS degree required a basic class about how to use Office. I would hope that someone would already have some experience before deciding on a career in computers, but - sure enough - some had to be told what a "right-click" was.
However, by creating an attractive, easy to set up, addictive application, a developer can motivate the average user to break this barrier and try something new.
Consistency is another major factor that contributes to users' use of applications. Windows UI guidelines, however, are to help developers develop UIs that are consistent with most other applications that run on Winodws.
Developers don't honor this - and I see it both on closed- and open-source platforms, though on the latter more often - are only shooting themselves in the foot. Some applications - very few, IMO - benefit from a different look, such as media players. Most desktop applications (or even console apps using ncurses or something) should be consistent so that users don't have to learn a whole new program all over that isn't consistent with the other applications they use.
Who said it's insecure out of the box? I realize this is/. - one big, happy bandwagon - but serious try using it and reading about it. All unnecessary services are shutdown and not even IIS is installed by default (unless you get the web edition of 2003).
From the article: 'Free software is far better on the dimensions of cost, power and quality...if the source code is proprietary, it is hidden from the general population. This robs them of a tremendous source for learning.'"
BS! I learned everything about Windows programming from a very young age by reading the documentation and examining the headers in the Platform SDK and didn't need to look at the source and still produce quality components. The documentation coming from Microsoft is far better than what I typically found for *nix.
How many devs actually look through all the QT source when developing KDE apps or the Qtk source for GNOME? Documentation exists for a reason and if you can't understand that then how much better will the actual source be?
Microsoft is running a company and should not be expected to open everything up just because people want in. My question to the/. community is why - if you hate "M$" so much - do you want to see the source?
You can use JScript to script the Office DOMs. They're both automation clients that provide engines for the Windows Script Host. The Office DOMs are automation server that provide functionality through IDispatch or dual interfaces.
Now, if you're talking about macros and code-behind for Office documents, then you're actually talking about VBA (Visual Basic for Applications), which is actually VB - not VBScript - tied to a particular automation server EXE.
...it would seem is to double the memory and more than double the cost. People will buy it, because if 256 MB is great than 512 MB must be even better! Right?
If it serves no purpose, currently - as the articles state they do - then why do it? It will increase the cost to build and, therefore, the private to consumers even if the profit margin were constant. This really just seems like a ploy to get more of your money.
When the card - and moreover the software that utilizes such features on the card - are vastly improved then bumping up the memory may be warranted.
Apparently you've forgotten about over half of the U.S. there in the middle. It's also mostly open land and produces the vast majority of the food you eat.
Bad parenting - or just an utter lack of any parenting - is a major cause of most problems, true, but what I found most aggravating is that the suit says the game "trained" him to shoot those 3 men. How much training is required to pull a little trigger with the open end pointing at someone? Not even bad parents need to teach that.
Having just arrived in the Pacific Northwest this year, I was disappointed when the Cascade Mountains received little to no snow and my wife and I couldn't go skiing. At least I didn't buy a season pass like many did. How unfortunately for them.
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Yes, with that article it all makes sense now! So how long until we have movies now that aren't yet made, or to say it another way, when will then be now?
Does everything need to be officially announced to qualify as an "immediate comment" Blogging seems to be good enough for many other companies. A reply was posted in the IE blog (which IE 7 b2 Preview even adds links to when installed): http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/02/01/522682 .aspx.
And we'd believe their blogs over what they say on TV or in other forms of media why? This is just another way to spread lies, or rather not divulge the whole truth (which is as I was taught a lie).
Someone above seemed to be making that point when envisioning a post that would never be about the majority whip being a real douche (his words). We're not going to learn anything new here we wouldn't have learned elsewhere so I see nothing fantastic about this news.
Zoe and Jayne would still be the hired muscle. In both ass-kicking scenes River was set off by some event (either the subliminal message or her brother getting shot). She's a loaded weapon, but someone still needs to pull the trigger.
But you and a couple other posts a little up the thread are exactly right and I'm surprised that so many Firefly fans missed it: River was a weapon and the series was just starting to make that apparent. The gun scene where she kills 3 guys after only a quick glance (and then not looking again while firing) was a dead give-away to at least one of her "special abilities" "give" to her by the Alliance.
Killing off Book wasn't so much a tragedy as Wash since Book was already on his way out, but has anyone considered that Alan who played Wash didn't want to continue? Would fans be happier if they stuck someone else in the part (like a new O'Niel and Jackson from the movie to the show (don't get me wrong, I like both actors in the show better anyway))? I seriously doubt it.
Maybe you should read the news more often, but the Office 12 formats for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are being standardized through the ECMA just as the CLI and C# were and still are with new versions of either. Or is it just that /.'ers world is crashing down around them since now that Microsoft is producing open standards they have no argument left?
The grandparent post is stating what should be obvious: this is how the government works. People elect officials (who may appoint other officials typically based on their beliefs and ideas) as the governing body. Deel with it. It's not a dictatorship. If you don't like it vote differently next time, or at least go out and vote if you don't.
Right - that's quiet the practical outcome of not moving to ODF. Thank you for your very well-thought analysis.
You should also be aware as it's been posted here on /. before that Word, Excel, and PowerPoint formats are being standardized. But I suppose since it's from Microsoft is isn't really open and the ECMA is just lying through their web site that will eventually post the standard.
The top-most post in this thread is close to being right but should amend how geeks get all upset when IT comes into play. It should state that geeks get upset when open source is at stake, not just general IT.
Yes, driving is a privilege but that's not what your parent post was talking about. The post was about the right to a fair and speedy trial and so on. That is a right, not a privilege.
Since IE 4 with Active Desktop Windows has also had this "widget" functionality but people don't tend to use it so many web sites and other content publishers don't utilize it as much.
I would just stick my dog in that creepy cemetery on the hill behind our house, despite the Native American legends.
...then my already creepy son.
...then my wife. Hot.
I can't say I'm surprised by the "if it's M$ it's bad" sort of propaganda, but seriously people: all software needs patching. Windows and *nix alike, if they go unpatched obviously the holes are not mitigated.
Again - Windows NT does not have a runlevel 3. If you want that kind of behavior, install Windows 95, 98, or Me, boot into DOS, and then type "win". You can exit Windows back into DOS and then start Windows. But then you deal with DOS.
Change your runlevel to 5, IIRC, and restart X then. Sure, the more advanced user could just switch to runlevel 3 but any typical user would have to reboot the machine.
And right there you reboot X windows. Same thing, except that Windows doesn't have an "init 3" runlevel...unless you want to go back to DOS-based Win9x and either type "win" or put "win" in your autoexec.bat file. Have a ball.
And you don't think they're trying to avoid bad PR because people that bought 64-bit machines (hey - twice as many bits is twice as good, right?) will find it difficult to use their hardware that's lacking 64-bit drivers. Who do they blame, then? The same company that /. does for every little thing.
When the market is truly ready for it and more 64-bit drivers are available I'm sure they'll put it out for retailers just like the 32-bit platforms.
Maybe people are finally realizing that this is (or at least can be) hard work and that it isn't the "coolest" job on earth and that "computer programmers" don't all write and play cool games all day long.
Going through college, many of my classmates and others at other Uni's and 2-year colleges just jumped on the bandwagon for no other reason than "everyone's doing it and you'll get a great job". Most of them didn't even have any decent experience with computers before coming to college. Heck, even the CS degree required a basic class about how to use Office. I would hope that someone would already have some experience before deciding on a career in computers, but - sure enough - some had to be told what a "right-click" was.
Consistency is another major factor that contributes to users' use of applications. Windows UI guidelines, however, are to help developers develop UIs that are consistent with most other applications that run on Winodws.
Developers don't honor this - and I see it both on closed- and open-source platforms, though on the latter more often - are only shooting themselves in the foot. Some applications - very few, IMO - benefit from a different look, such as media players. Most desktop applications (or even console apps using ncurses or something) should be consistent so that users don't have to learn a whole new program all over that isn't consistent with the other applications they use.
Who said it's insecure out of the box? I realize this is /. - one big, happy bandwagon - but serious try using it and reading about it. All unnecessary services are shutdown and not even IIS is installed by default (unless you get the web edition of 2003).
BS! I learned everything about Windows programming from a very young age by reading the documentation and examining the headers in the Platform SDK and didn't need to look at the source and still produce quality components. The documentation coming from Microsoft is far better than what I typically found for *nix.
How many devs actually look through all the QT source when developing KDE apps or the Qtk source for GNOME? Documentation exists for a reason and if you can't understand that then how much better will the actual source be?
Microsoft is running a company and should not be expected to open everything up just because people want in. My question to the /. community is why - if you hate "M$" so much - do you want to see the source?
I certainly did, but unlike most posters I actually searched first to see if the topic was already started. <g>
These things are supposed to orginate in another galaxy, though. Why do they have to take over ours first? Thor? Help!
Yes, but this one actually works and is funny!
There's definitely something wrong when only the wealthy can decent (or any) representation for justice.
I hope this case is seen as frivolous and the defendant should be able to have court costs paid by the plaintiff.
You can use JScript to script the Office DOMs. They're both automation clients that provide engines for the Windows Script Host. The Office DOMs are automation server that provide functionality through IDispatch or dual interfaces.
Now, if you're talking about macros and code-behind for Office documents, then you're actually talking about VBA (Visual Basic for Applications), which is actually VB - not VBScript - tied to a particular automation server EXE.
...it would seem is to double the memory and more than double the cost. People will buy it, because if 256 MB is great than 512 MB must be even better! Right?
If it serves no purpose, currently - as the articles state they do - then why do it? It will increase the cost to build and, therefore, the private to consumers even if the profit margin were constant. This really just seems like a ploy to get more of your money.
When the card - and moreover the software that utilizes such features on the card - are vastly improved then bumping up the memory may be warranted.
Apparently you've forgotten about over half of the U.S. there in the middle. It's also mostly open land and produces the vast majority of the food you eat.
Having just arrived in the Pacific Northwest this year, I was disappointed when the Cascade Mountains received little to no snow and my wife and I couldn't go skiing. At least I didn't buy a season pass like many did. How unfortunately for them.