I once installed the 2015 Community edition on a Windows 7 system to check it out, kick the tires, etc.
It shit all over the system, there was no integrated installer (of the type there is when you install Microsoft Office) and it created 'restore points' for every single package and component that it pulled down and installed. I wanted to maybe check out some Visual Basic and C++ and dabble with it a bit.
It installed the whole SQL tool chain, server, etc. There really weren't any options for installing just the components to run VS on a standalone machine, in the fashion that there was with Visual C++ 6.0 back in the day.
The VS installer basically shit all over my system, and uninstalling it would have involved manually uninstalling each component part using the Control Panel. The 'restore points' were totally consumed going way back in 'history' because it set a restore point for each and every fricking component.
Have they gotten any better with that? I am a little bit afraid to try installing it to find out.
I ran a Waffle BBS for a time. It was an odball waffle system, because I was running it on an MS-DOS system, and it was mostly hosted on UNIX systems, I was told.
There was this one punk kid who kept trying to crack it. He'd dial up and just keep throwing esc sequences and random characters out of his modem at my modem. I think he thought my Waffle BBS was running on a UNIX system. It would have served him right to crack his way to an MS-DOS prompt. But when I figured out what he was doing I linekilled him and banned his account.
There is a mylar variety of punched paper tape. I've seen it used to store Printed Circuit Board drilling data. It should also be well-suited to storing ASCII data. I know some of the first programs I ever wrote (in BASIC) were stored that way. It's the only storage we had on the MERITS dialup timesharing system when I was in High School.
Those green hanging folders seem to last forever. When was the last time you saw one wear out to the point where it was thrown away? Typically they seem to last a lifetime.
Maybe some of the creatures and animals in nature should have a right to be left alone.
It doesn't necessarily fit in with peoples' schemes to do "science" and get funding and a livelihood from doing said "science" but maybe if poachers are going to take advantage of the tracking devices (they always will) it's time to leave the animals alone.
Just a thought point. It would be impossible for humans to leave all of nature alone... but really it's worth thinking about.
If you are old enough to remember the browser wars. Both Netscape and I.E. were putting in browser specific features. Netscape was using layers while I.E. pushed CSS. Also Active X which risked security over speed because it made the browser a window frame for their own application.
Netscape started out loudly wanting to replace all other platforms with their web technology. They gave away their browser, which contained proprietary tags, and produced proprietary server technology that their browser could take advantage of.
This doesn't excuse in any form what Microsoft did in response, but Netscape intended to do the same thing that Microsoft did in reaction to their moves.
Netscape, one must remember, was formed out of the move of driving the Mosaic browser technology, which was publicly funded, to a proprietary platform.
When you swing around the term 'obsessed nerd' like it's a cat you are holding by the tail, it makes you seem like a fucking suit. With that low slashdot UID, what the fuck are you doing here on Slashdot? Did you have your secretary buy that account with petty cash?
What exactly is the root of TBL's qualifications to render such a judgement regarding the WWW? He came up with the first implementation of an httpd for his computer at CERN and so now he 'owns' the WWW and can curate it as he sees fit?
That is a ludicrous notion. The inventor of the transistor has not been allowed complete control of how transistors are used in the world.
Did the guy lose his job at CERN and this directorship gig is a consolation position? Give him a small staff to direct and keep him out of the way.
The jargon term for big spenders on mobile games is 'Whale.' Games publishers often tailor their content expressly to keep money rolling in from their 'Whale' customers, who represent a tiny percentage of the game's playing population.
It's a neat and tiny business plan, and the mechanism for tracking whales is built right into the games. You just look at the leaderboard and observe what gidgets and add-ons and items your games 'whale' population is buying. Add more said items on a regular basis.
It's how Supercell harvests millions from Hay Day, it's how Playrix keeps Township development running smoothly and raking in cash. All pioneered by Zynga and Farmville.
People who use FaceTime to protect themselves from the filthy unwashed have no idea how thankful we are that they self-filter themselves out of our communication streams.
When I am home, I use a Western Electric 2500 set. There are several other business phones as extensions around the house, both of which I got in box lots at an Auction. They have speakerphone and hold functions that I like, but primarily they are just durable landline phones that work and seem to last forever.
It's sad that "what phone they use" has turned into a creepy cultish thing in some circles, like asking somebody what religion they belong to.
I've spent about $40 so far on Pokemon Go, and I think it's the full amount I plan on spending. I expended my item and pokemon storage slots. Fourty bucks is about the same amount of money I've spent on any other Pokemon game, so it just seemed about right.
Personally, I wish there was an option in the Play Store to only display apps that cost money. I have no problem paying a few dollars for an app or a game that I will like. I do have a problem with 'free' apps/games that are obviously anything but free once you try to actually use or play them.
I like also using the Amazon Android app store. They have some of the same games, but they also have rotating set of 'free' games that are usually priced non-zero, including some 'microtransaction games' where the IAP items are designated as 'free' for your copy, if you get it through their app store.
Slashdot Mirror
Move to a state like Indiana, which has NO vehicle emissions inspections.
I once installed the 2015 Community edition on a Windows 7 system to check it out, kick the tires, etc.
It shit all over the system, there was no integrated installer (of the type there is when you install Microsoft Office) and it created 'restore points' for every single package and component that it pulled down and installed. I wanted to maybe check out some Visual Basic and C++ and dabble with it a bit.
It installed the whole SQL tool chain, server, etc. There really weren't any options for installing just the components to run VS on a standalone machine, in the fashion that there was with Visual C++ 6.0 back in the day.
The VS installer basically shit all over my system, and uninstalling it would have involved manually uninstalling each component part using the Control Panel. The 'restore points' were totally consumed going way back in 'history' because it set a restore point for each and every fricking component.
Have they gotten any better with that? I am a little bit afraid to try installing it to find out.
The software will run on a consumer grade i5 Dell desktop that you can buy at Walmart for $499.
That doesn't scale to infinity.
Typically these sorts of arguments are made by advocates of high density housing along rapid transit corridors.
A whole lot of poorly-written waffle, ...
I ran a Waffle BBS for a time. It was an odball waffle system, because I was running it on an MS-DOS system, and it was mostly hosted on UNIX systems, I was told.
There was this one punk kid who kept trying to crack it. He'd dial up and just keep throwing esc sequences and random characters out of his modem at my modem. I think he thought my Waffle BBS was running on a UNIX system. It would have served him right to crack his way to an MS-DOS prompt. But when I figured out what he was doing I linekilled him and banned his account.
Ahem.
Back in the day I had a 5 megabyte hard drive in my system. Since my floppy drives were 360K, it held the equivalent of 15 diskettes worth of data.
A 20mb png image??? Seriously? How may floppy diskettes will it take to back that up? Isn't a picture only worth a thousand words?
There is a mylar variety of punched paper tape. I've seen it used to store Printed Circuit Board drilling data. It should also be well-suited to storing ASCII data. I know some of the first programs I ever wrote (in BASIC) were stored that way. It's the only storage we had on the MERITS dialup timesharing system when I was in High School.
Those green hanging folders seem to last forever. When was the last time you saw one wear out to the point where it was thrown away? Typically they seem to last a lifetime.
Maybe some of the creatures and animals in nature should have a right to be left alone.
It doesn't necessarily fit in with peoples' schemes to do "science" and get funding and a livelihood from doing said "science" but maybe if poachers are going to take advantage of the tracking devices (they always will) it's time to leave the animals alone.
Just a thought point. It would be impossible for humans to leave all of nature alone... but really it's worth thinking about.
If you are old enough to remember the browser wars. Both Netscape and I.E. were putting in browser specific features. Netscape was using layers while I.E. pushed CSS. Also Active X which risked security over speed because it made the browser a window frame for their own application.
Netscape started out loudly wanting to replace all other platforms with their web technology. They gave away their browser, which contained proprietary tags, and produced proprietary server technology that their browser could take advantage of.
This doesn't excuse in any form what Microsoft did in response, but Netscape intended to do the same thing that Microsoft did in reaction to their moves.
Netscape, one must remember, was formed out of the move of driving the Mosaic browser technology, which was publicly funded, to a proprietary platform.
And I honestly hope they make everyone use chrome, the alternative is so shit as a web developer..
You could say the same thing as a Macromedia Flash developer.
It would make me cry to have huge hands, too. Nobody but the really stretched out hags would want me to fist them.
Yes, I *have* had my small hands complimented for that.
Anyone over the age of 12 still playing Nintendo games should be ashamed of themselves.
I watch Sailor Moon, and I'm 57.
I'm ashamed for the human race that you exist.
But what if I want Flashes and Silverlights to only be installed on other people's equipment who choose to install it?
What if I don't want a Flash and a Silverlight embedded into each and every browser that it's possible for me to use?
What '20 years of dictating web standards' tells me is that TBL has had his shot at it, and it's time for somebody else to get a chance.
When you swing around the term 'obsessed nerd' like it's a cat you are holding by the tail, it makes you seem like a fucking suit. With that low slashdot UID, what the fuck are you doing here on Slashdot? Did you have your secretary buy that account with petty cash?
What exactly is the root of TBL's qualifications to render such a judgement regarding the WWW? He came up with the first implementation of an httpd for his computer at CERN and so now he 'owns' the WWW and can curate it as he sees fit?
That is a ludicrous notion. The inventor of the transistor has not been allowed complete control of how transistors are used in the world.
Did the guy lose his job at CERN and this directorship gig is a consolation position? Give him a small staff to direct and keep him out of the way.
Obviously, this is the result of global warming, since mankind has always had a greater effect on the climate than we are willing to acknowledge.
DemocraticUnderground festered nicely into nothingness on the eve of the last election.
Did I mention how nicely?
A name like Brianna is never real.
Well, on an alternate plane of reality it probably is. Like, Honey Boo Boo's mom's name could be Brianna.
The jargon term for big spenders on mobile games is 'Whale.' Games publishers often tailor their content expressly to keep money rolling in from their 'Whale' customers, who represent a tiny percentage of the game's playing population.
It's a neat and tiny business plan, and the mechanism for tracking whales is built right into the games. You just look at the leaderboard and observe what gidgets and add-ons and items your games 'whale' population is buying. Add more said items on a regular basis.
It's how Supercell harvests millions from Hay Day, it's how Playrix keeps Township development running smoothly and raking in cash. All pioneered by Zynga and Farmville.
People who use FaceTime to protect themselves from the filthy unwashed have no idea how thankful we are that they self-filter themselves out of our communication streams.
When I am home, I use a Western Electric 2500 set. There are several other business phones as extensions around the house, both of which I got in box lots at an Auction. They have speakerphone and hold functions that I like, but primarily they are just durable landline phones that work and seem to last forever.
It's sad that "what phone they use" has turned into a creepy cultish thing in some circles, like asking somebody what religion they belong to.
I've spent about $40 so far on Pokemon Go, and I think it's the full amount I plan on spending. I expended my item and pokemon storage slots. Fourty bucks is about the same amount of money I've spent on any other Pokemon game, so it just seemed about right.
Personally, I wish there was an option in the Play Store to only display apps that cost money. I have no problem paying a few dollars for an app or a game that I will like. I do have a problem with 'free' apps/games that are obviously anything but free once you try to actually use or play them.
I like also using the Amazon Android app store. They have some of the same games, but they also have rotating set of 'free' games that are usually priced non-zero, including some 'microtransaction games' where the IAP items are designated as 'free' for your copy, if you get it through their app store.