After getting beaten by me at a online game that person subscribed me to Warner Bros Enterntainment mails. For more than 1.5 years now, I've been getting emails that are impossible to get rid of. The unsubcribe link in the mail leads me to a web page that always has said "Error Our systems are offline. Please try again shortly." Amazing, for more than 1.5 years, that function has been non-functioning.
And every email I've tried to send to them has either just disappeared or bounced back.
I work as a consultant and my boss and the sales persons here have asked many times "what.net is" over the last years. Especially when everything was ".Net" it was really hard to explain. Windows.Net, Passport.Net and so on. Sometimes it feels like MS deliberately want people to have a very FUD'ish and fuzzy picture of their stuff. I remember a discussion when Java was pretty new and a fellow consultant argued that ActiveX would do much the same. He is far from dumb, and that makes the point how fuzzy MS marketing really is.
> it has proved to be the right decision in the long-term.
How can you say something like this? If Linux had a debugger from the start, it could be ripped out right now if there was some gain by doing that. By not having it, you only induced developers lots of pain during the last 10-15 years, for those occasions where a debugger really are the right tool for the job.
And yeah, I know some of Linus' theories about how to program, how he thinks asserts and invariants are bad things, I just don't agree with him.
I wonder if MS will let companies like StarForce create signed drivers for Windows Vista. This is interesting since if not, many games will not work in Windows Vista and we will have almost the same scenario as when games were DOS based and NT first came out. But if MS let them, you'll end up defeating the measures taken to create a much more stable operating system.
It seems they made it possible to boot from ordinary CD/DVDs, but with the requirement that the executables are signed. Don't know if that was intentional or not, but if it was I can see how nice it will be to pull down game demos and burn them.
I hesitate to buy an expensive game without trying the game for a while.
With this capability high-quality games with demos out will convince reluctant buyers like me to try and probably buy.
.Net has been referred to as a skinnable language environment. Without much work you end up with C# with another look.
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From my point of view Java isn't even 80's technology. Java is more like Smalltalk-72(not everything is an object) with C-ish syntax. Seems like things must be reinvented a couple of times before the public catches on.
I certainly wasn't expecting this kind of mishmash syntax in their new shell. I think it looks quite horrible actually. Even though all the functionality is there, it looks like they wanted to copy something rather than innovate.
MS has hired a lot of GHC folks, and I expected something along the lines of the elegancy of Haskell. Or at least something with a useful and flexible "core syntax".
If they had said "co-owners" I would have understand why they are upset, but the wording "worker" make the whole thing sound like, "we can get them in droves, so don't pay them too much".
The patterns are not the same for all languages. If you program assembly language you would use patterns for things like sub-routine creating/calling/exiting.
Likewise in C, which has sub-routines built-in, you would probably have patterns related to creating an OO flavour. Instance pattern, inheritance pattern, method call pattern etc.
So if you think that these books are all the same, perhaps you have grown out of the level of computing C/Java/C#/C++/Smalltalk offers and are ready to take the next step. Perhaps CLOS in Common Lisp or Prolog can be a good start?
I think it's bad that DRM takes away habits you have gotten used to and rights you would have had if the media was papes or VHS.
Here in Sweden it is legal to make a copy of a book for personal use. You can read that copy everywhere you want. If the book was electronic you must have some fictious support for DRM and you get locked into other things as well.
And for long-term cultural and historical reasons I think DRM is bad too. Will there be a Rosetta DVD somewhere so that people in the future can read what we were up to?
This is especially interesting since copyright laws intended to grant authors a time-limited exclusive right to reproductions of the work in trade for more creative works.
With DRM you put another layer of non-copyright licensing on top of this. I think there need to be laws regulating this. If it is illegal to make a copy of a movie, why must there be a technological mechanism too then?
I really like HL2, but the loading times are taking away the fun. My computer has 1.5GB of RAM, 3.4GHz P4 and a hard-drive that does 85MB/s. How come it takes like 30-60 seconds in the middle of the game?
What amazes me about Yahoo is that they have banners for stuff that if it were mail, would be marked as spam by their own service. Things like weight-loss pills, green card lottery etc.
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After getting beaten by me at a online game that person subscribed me to Warner Bros Enterntainment mails. For more than 1.5 years now, I've been getting emails that are impossible to get rid of. The unsubcribe link in the mail leads me to a web page that always has said "Error
Our systems are offline. Please try again shortly." Amazing, for more than 1.5 years, that function has been non-functioning.
And every email I've tried to send to them has either just disappeared or bounced back.
For the iPod carrying running persons there's the fresh white MacBook.
:)
For the cool designers there's the black MacBook.
For the party-party people there's now the new Nicotine-yellow colored MacBook.
I work as a consultant and my boss and the sales persons here have asked many times "what .net is" over the last years. Especially when everything was ".Net" it was really hard to explain. Windows.Net, Passport.Net and so on. Sometimes it feels like MS deliberately want people to have a very FUD'ish and fuzzy picture of their stuff. I remember a discussion when Java was pretty new and a fellow consultant argued that ActiveX would do much the same. He is far from dumb, and that makes the point how fuzzy MS marketing really is.
> His assertion was that if Apache were a company then they would be susceptible to monopoly rules like Microsoft should be.
Even if they continue doing what they do now, give away all the source-code under a liberal license?
The Senate can KISS MY ASS!!!
(I live in Sweden)
So basically they patented a GUI with static text saying "Buffering..."? :-)
> it has proved to be the right decision in the long-term.
How can you say something like this? If Linux had a debugger from the start, it could be ripped out right now if there was some gain by doing that. By not having it, you only induced developers lots of pain during the last 10-15 years, for those occasions where a debugger really are the right tool for the job.
And yeah, I know some of Linus' theories about how to program, how he thinks asserts and invariants are bad things, I just don't agree with him.
God save Steve and his fascist regime!
Mmmmmm, woooooooormmm baaaaaacooooon.
That's what I bought. Did get 1GB RAM though. For that price you get the OS, and AppleWorks which will do for most people.
Very silent, very reliable. Highly recommended.
I wonder if MS will let companies like StarForce create signed drivers for Windows Vista. This is interesting since if not, many games will not work in Windows Vista and we will have almost the same scenario as when games were DOS based and NT first came out. But if MS let them, you'll end up defeating the measures taken to create a much more stable operating system.
It seems they made it possible to boot from ordinary CD/DVDs, but with the requirement that the executables are signed. Don't know if that was intentional or not, but if it was I can see how nice it will be to pull down game demos and burn them.
I hesitate to buy an expensive game without trying the game for a while.
With this capability high-quality games with demos out will convince reluctant buyers like me to try and probably buy.
Brilliant!
.Net has been referred to as a skinnable language environment. Without much work you end up with C# with another look.
From my point of view Java isn't even 80's technology. Java is more like Smalltalk-72(not everything is an object) with C-ish syntax. Seems like things must be reinvented a couple of times before the public catches on.
I certainly wasn't expecting this kind of mishmash syntax in their new shell. I think it looks quite horrible actually. Even though all the functionality is there, it looks like they wanted to copy something rather than innovate.
MS has hired a lot of GHC folks, and I expected something along the lines of the elegancy of Haskell. Or at least something with a useful and flexible "core syntax".
Can't you just run it in a M-x shell? :)
What are your comments to very performant implementations like L4 and Qnx?
If they had said "co-owners" I would have understand why they are upset, but the wording "worker" make the whole thing sound like, "we can get them in droves, so don't pay them too much".
Regards, Tommy
The patterns are not the same for all languages. If you program assembly language you would use patterns for things like sub-routine creating/calling/exiting.
Likewise in C, which has sub-routines built-in, you would probably have patterns related to creating an OO flavour. Instance pattern, inheritance pattern, method call pattern etc.
So if you think that these books are all the same, perhaps you have grown out of the level of computing C/Java/C#/C++/Smalltalk offers and are ready to take the next step. Perhaps CLOS in Common Lisp or Prolog can be a good start?
Explain to the shareholders why even a single bit of the 2 only products that makes profit should be opened.
The only time opening anything would be motivated is when the products already or soon will be irrelevant due to open source competition.
"What is Inkscape? Unfortunently, noone can be told what Inkscape is, you have to download and make install it yourself" :)
I think it's bad that DRM takes away habits you have gotten used to and rights you would have had if the media was papes or VHS.
Here in Sweden it is legal to make a copy of a book for personal use. You can read that copy everywhere you want. If the book was electronic you must have some fictious support for DRM and you get locked into other things as well.
And for long-term cultural and historical reasons I think DRM is bad too. Will there be a Rosetta DVD somewhere so that people in the future can read what we were up to?
This is especially interesting since copyright laws intended to grant authors a time-limited exclusive right to reproductions of the work in trade for more creative works.
With DRM you put another layer of non-copyright licensing on top of this. I think there need to be laws regulating this. If it is illegal to make a copy of a movie, why must there be a technological mechanism too then?
I really like HL2, but the loading times are taking away the fun. My computer has 1.5GB of RAM, 3.4GHz P4 and a hard-drive that does 85MB/s. How come it takes like 30-60 seconds in the middle of the game?
Regards, Tommy
What amazes me about Yahoo is that they have banners for stuff that if it were mail, would be marked as spam by their own service. Things like weight-loss pills, green card lottery etc.
Makes you wonder about ethics.
Regards, Tommy
I know, but it only makes it more strange how the dispose problem will function
Regards, Tommy