Even as a home user, RDP is the one reason I would use XP Pro over 2k. I don't even bother having seperate home and work environments- I just connect via RDP to my XP machine at work. It's just about as fast as having XP run on the slower local machine, so why not?
Indeed. We have an agreement with MS. We have XP and the rest of the catalog, or plenty of it. We have one license string for each product, and unlimited applications of the code. And no activation.
Hey! Shut up, you! He hates proprietary software! It is teh sux0r! And don't you forget it!
The time he lost waiting for the license to be retrieved probably more than makes up for the time of chasing down one goofed up pointer in a C++ app... *shrug*
Like others have pointed out, RB isn't going to just disappear anytime soon. It's been around a while, and it fills an important niche in Mac OS X development. And, unlike Visual Studio, it targets Mac OS 9/X, Windows and Linux, which can be really darn handy sometimes. There are plenty of decent RAD environments for Windows, but not so much for Linux. There are some options for OS X, but RB is one of the most mature and easy to use ones around.
RB isn't language compatible with anything else, but one thing to point out as far as your compatibility grips is concerned: RB has the handy feature of being able to import and export Visual Basic Form format files. A few times I've been handed a simple VB app that needed to be ported to the Mac, and using RB did it- with the look staying the same and requiring no time to redraw all the forms.
No, it's not the tool for every job, and it's not my primary language. But even as a hardcore Smalltalk programmer, there are the occasional times when RB is really handy.
And, it doesn't benefit REAL much to have a presumably multi-megabyte file downloaded left and right for everyone coming from slashdot, rather than the 100 KB or so worth of website where they could decide if downloading this was something they wanted to do. Elsewhere it wouldn't be too big of a deal, but having a multi-MB file by the link in a/. article is asking is a good way of trying to get REALsoftware.com slashdotted.
by the way, REALbasic is really awesome. I've not used the new Linux or Windows hosted IDEs, but I have used the Mac IDE on OS 9 and OS X quite a bit, targeting Mac OS X, OS 9 and Windows. It's a fun little development environment, great for when you need to whip something up. More approachable (IMHO) than Visual Basic for someone who knows a bunch of "real" programming languages [1], but with little experience with fancy IDEs that needs to get some work done ASAP. Tiny learning curve, and the language supports some more "real" language features than VB6 (though not as many as VB.NET). All in all, I highly reccomended it.
[1] not to call modern BASIC's non-real languages, but I just had to.:P
Except, that doesn't work worth a rip when, like a lot of the spyware-style keyloggers do, the password grabber in question isn't a keylogger per se, but rather just saves the input of all forms on a webpage whenever there is a masked (****) field on the page. It's pretty easily done with some simple VB scripting, and it doesn't take a genius. Way less work than writing a real keylogger, and in this case, much more clever.
When is the last time you setup a TCP/IP network in DOS? It is a major pain in the arse. Maybe MS would be so kind as to provide us with a Linux boot CD with a port of the "pirate" command to Linux. That'd work fine for me.
My favorite is going to christiantalk.net channels and telling folks in the "bible study" and theology channels about how Jesus's name would really be Yeshua or Yehushua, not Jesus; etc. You'll get kicked in no time for that, not that it is suprising.
Oceania has always been at war with East Asia. Oceania has never been at war with Eurasia. Chocolate rations have gone up 10 grams! Doubleplusgood, eh?
Indeed... It's pretty easy to watch sales and get a good deal on a quality window A/C unit. We got one for $120 that cools most of our one bedroom apt (bedroom plus big kitchen, a living room, bathroom and hallway) that costs about $25 for the whole summer to run. it just seems like a helluva lot less work than this... a poor student is a poor student, but for the $75 difference (I don't have any spare fans and garbage cans, which cost money) that poor student could spend the time she'd otherwise be using hauling ice, etc and fill out some of those get-paid-for surveys. among other things, including a "job."
What most people don't seem to realize is that the big desktop CPUs from Intel and AMD are RISC too. That is, they are inside. They have a seperate CISC-RISC translator wrapped around that to get those backwardly compatible x86 instructions working on the internal RISC CPU. This has been the case since the Intel Pentium 6, which was the first CPU from Intel to take this sort of path. This strategy is used by Intel and AMD; I'm not sure about Via, Cyrix or other x86 chip makers. The Nexgen Nx586 was the first CPU to use this design, but I can't say I've heard of a machine that actually used that chip.
For the most part, these chips aren't available outside the inside-a-CISC package; one exception is the AMD 29000, the RISC chip that made up the innards of AMD's K6-2. I may be wrong about which chip it was precisely, but I do recall it being available seperately as a plain ol' RISC CPU.
Looked at it in this way, one must wonder: did RISC really lose?
This is a free beta. The real, final product is going to cost money. This is nothing new for Microsoft or other companies- just recently they had a few public betas for Visual Studio Express.NET 2005 for VB, C# and web dev. There are others. What's the big deal?
Not that I'd ever get a Blackberry or realyl even a Treo, but while the "S" in SD stands for Secure, as far as I've seen, it's just part of the name. Like "Socialism" in "National Socialism," it really doesn't mean anything. If I put vital information on my SD card on my PocketPC or Palm, and someone steals that card, they have access to that info. Unless I used some other app to encrypt it, but that has nothing to do with SD per se.
Why do you bring up with the S means? Do you know something I don't?
I don't know why any hacking to get "text modes" is required; there already is Darwin for vanilla, non-Apple x86 machines. You can download it and run X11 today, if that's your thing.
Problems with Aqua? Do you mean Quartz? The only problem is with Quartz Extreme, which support certain videocards. Regular Quartz will should work fine on anything, as long as it shows video.
Wow, sounds like you're living a teenage fantasy of having a guy next to you... I don't know what kind of life sitting in bed with a laptop the whole morning is, but the last thing I'd want in that case would be a woman who thinks just like me... Yuck.
I could make a comment about how sexist it is to have the backwards idea that only men should be computer neds... but it's obvious (at least to everyone else), so I'll spare it.
Call me nuts, but I'm the kind of fellow who likes a woman who has similar interests. At least here in the US, a lot of guys are interested in girlfriends and wives who are that first and foremost. I'd rather have someone who is my friend, my best friend. Sure, a lot of guys have girtlfriends with whom they never do anything- other than when they're forced to do something they don't like or perhaps on a very ritualized, compartmentalized "date." The sort of thing they bitch about to their guy friends about having to do.
To me, that sounds kind of like bullshit.
I'd rather have a woman who does things I like to do. We computer-nerd-out together. We play videogames together. We watch movies together. We take walks together. We hike and camp together. We garden together. We go to concerts together. We have overlapping groups of friends. Et cetera, et cetera. Sure, there have to be differences between folks or else you get bored. And we do things apart as well. But it sounds like a silly idea to marry someone who's most important feature is that she'll put out, the rest being incompatible and irrelevant.
The problem is that it'll only support one motherboard, one type of NIC, one graphics card, etc etc
It does come at a shock to a lot of ignorant folks... But things haven't been that way since the Mac 128K, and that's only because it was brand new.
It'll probably be a part of the chipset- all the core libraries probably will look for some identifier to make sure they're on real Apple hardware. Maybe Intel will make special CPUs that return "Genuine Intel (Apple)"... who knows what.
No, Apple doesn't use a Toolbox ROM in the same way it used to. But he didn't say "Good luck doing this without the Apple Classic Mac OS Toolbox ROM...." did he? Macs still have Open Firmware, and there's no reason all sorts of funky checks, ID#s can't be embedded there and a million other places on the motherboard.
I'm not saying it isn't doable, but I doubt it'll be a matter of installing Darwin and duping an OS X86 machine's install.
Me? I'd rather stage a revolution, put in place a crude Stanlinist regime, with me as head of Politburo and as General Secretary. Then I need to buy no ring! MUHAUHA!
sorry, but my post was a drugged-out joke. i mean, apple did drop the x11-like remote ability of {NS,NX}Host, but the rest of it was bullshit. heh. sorry!
Mac OSX can use mice with one to infinite buttons. This isn't System 7.
Ha! Typical loss-of-functionality scenario that Apple keeps trying to force feed us. Some of us remember NeXTSTEP 3.3, which supported zero to infinite plus one mice- and hell, some of us still use it. This thing about mice and OS X- it's almost as bad as the lack of window/application remoting in OS X ala X11. OS X's ancestors had it, in NSHost and NXHost, but Apple decided not to reimplement that little nugget of joy when moving from Display PostScript to Quartz/Display PDF.
Now this! Oh, the injustice! Let's hope we get a tablet mac, that might make up for it.
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They also called it, iirc, LiveScript.
Even as a home user, RDP is the one reason I would use XP Pro over 2k. I don't even bother having seperate home and work environments- I just connect via RDP to my XP machine at work. It's just about as fast as having XP run on the slower local machine, so why not?
Indeed. We have an agreement with MS. We have XP and the rest of the catalog, or plenty of it. We have one license string for each product, and unlimited applications of the code. And no activation.
Hey! Shut up, you! He hates proprietary software! It is teh sux0r! And don't you forget it!
The time he lost waiting for the license to be retrieved probably more than makes up for the time of chasing down one goofed up pointer in a C++ app... *shrug*
Like others have pointed out, RB isn't going to just disappear anytime soon. It's been around a while, and it fills an important niche in Mac OS X development. And, unlike Visual Studio, it targets Mac OS 9/X, Windows and Linux, which can be really darn handy sometimes. There are plenty of decent RAD environments for Windows, but not so much for Linux. There are some options for OS X, but RB is one of the most mature and easy to use ones around.
RB isn't language compatible with anything else, but one thing to point out as far as your compatibility grips is concerned: RB has the handy feature of being able to import and export Visual Basic Form format files. A few times I've been handed a simple VB app that needed to be ported to the Mac, and using RB did it- with the look staying the same and requiring no time to redraw all the forms.
No, it's not the tool for every job, and it's not my primary language. But even as a hardcore Smalltalk programmer, there are the occasional times when RB is really handy.
And, it doesn't benefit REAL much to have a presumably multi-megabyte file downloaded left and right for everyone coming from slashdot, rather than the 100 KB or so worth of website where they could decide if downloading this was something they wanted to do. Elsewhere it wouldn't be too big of a deal, but having a multi-MB file by the link in a /. article is asking is a good way of trying to get REALsoftware.com slashdotted.
:P
by the way, REALbasic is really awesome. I've not used the new Linux or Windows hosted IDEs, but I have used the Mac IDE on OS 9 and OS X quite a bit, targeting Mac OS X, OS 9 and Windows. It's a fun little development environment, great for when you need to whip something up. More approachable (IMHO) than Visual Basic for someone who knows a bunch of "real" programming languages [1], but with little experience with fancy IDEs that needs to get some work done ASAP. Tiny learning curve, and the language supports some more "real" language features than VB6 (though not as many as VB.NET). All in all, I highly reccomended it.
[1] not to call modern BASIC's non-real languages, but I just had to.
Except, that doesn't work worth a rip when, like a lot of the spyware-style keyloggers do, the password grabber in question isn't a keylogger per se, but rather just saves the input of all forms on a webpage whenever there is a masked (****) field on the page. It's pretty easily done with some simple VB scripting, and it doesn't take a genius. Way less work than writing a real keylogger, and in this case, much more clever.
When is the last time you setup a TCP/IP network in DOS? It is a major pain in the arse. Maybe MS would be so kind as to provide us with a Linux boot CD with a port of the "pirate" command to Linux. That'd work fine for me.
From the passwords I've seen stuck on post-it notes 'i' isn't the rarest character in passwords... ;)
My favorite is going to christiantalk.net channels and telling folks in the "bible study" and theology channels about how Jesus's name would really be Yeshua or Yehushua, not Jesus; etc. You'll get kicked in no time for that, not that it is suprising.
Oceania has always been at war with East Asia. Oceania has never been at war with Eurasia. Chocolate rations have gone up 10 grams! Doubleplusgood, eh?
nope, from the photos in the FA it looks like he lives off-campus in a rented house.
Indeed... It's pretty easy to watch sales and get a good deal on a quality window A/C unit. We got one for $120 that cools most of our one bedroom apt (bedroom plus big kitchen, a living room, bathroom and hallway) that costs about $25 for the whole summer to run. it just seems like a helluva lot less work than this... a poor student is a poor student, but for the $75 difference (I don't have any spare fans and garbage cans, which cost money) that poor student could spend the time she'd otherwise be using hauling ice, etc and fill out some of those get-paid-for surveys. among other things, including a "job."
What most people don't seem to realize is that the big desktop CPUs from Intel and AMD are RISC too. That is, they are inside. They have a seperate CISC-RISC translator wrapped around that to get those backwardly compatible x86 instructions working on the internal RISC CPU. This has been the case since the Intel Pentium 6, which was the first CPU from Intel to take this sort of path. This strategy is used by Intel and AMD; I'm not sure about Via, Cyrix or other x86 chip makers. The Nexgen Nx586 was the first CPU to use this design, but I can't say I've heard of a machine that actually used that chip.
For the most part, these chips aren't available outside the inside-a-CISC package; one exception is the AMD 29000, the RISC chip that made up the innards of AMD's K6-2. I may be wrong about which chip it was precisely, but I do recall it being available seperately as a plain ol' RISC CPU.
Looked at it in this way, one must wonder: did RISC really lose?
This is a free beta. The real, final product is going to cost money. This is nothing new for Microsoft or other companies- just recently they had a few public betas for Visual Studio Express .NET 2005 for VB, C# and web dev. There are others. What's the big deal?
Not that I'd ever get a Blackberry or realyl even a Treo, but while the "S" in SD stands for Secure, as far as I've seen, it's just part of the name. Like "Socialism" in "National Socialism," it really doesn't mean anything. If I put vital information on my SD card on my PocketPC or Palm, and someone steals that card, they have access to that info. Unless I used some other app to encrypt it, but that has nothing to do with SD per se.
Why do you bring up with the S means? Do you know something I don't?
aww.... no more OpenFirmware? How am I to play pong without booting the machine anymore?!
I don't know why any hacking to get "text modes" is required; there already is Darwin for vanilla, non-Apple x86 machines. You can download it and run X11 today, if that's your thing.
Problems with Aqua? Do you mean Quartz? The only problem is with Quartz Extreme, which support certain videocards. Regular Quartz will should work fine on anything, as long as it shows video.
Wow, sounds like you're living a teenage fantasy of having a guy next to you... I don't know what kind of life sitting in bed with a laptop the whole morning is, but the last thing I'd want in that case would be a woman who thinks just like me... Yuck.
I could make a comment about how sexist it is to have the backwards idea that only men should be computer neds... but it's obvious (at least to everyone else), so I'll spare it.
Call me nuts, but I'm the kind of fellow who likes a woman who has similar interests. At least here in the US, a lot of guys are interested in girlfriends and wives who are that first and foremost. I'd rather have someone who is my friend, my best friend. Sure, a lot of guys have girtlfriends with whom they never do anything- other than when they're forced to do something they don't like or perhaps on a very ritualized, compartmentalized "date." The sort of thing they bitch about to their guy friends about having to do.
To me, that sounds kind of like bullshit.
I'd rather have a woman who does things I like to do. We computer-nerd-out together. We play videogames together. We watch movies together. We take walks together. We hike and camp together. We garden together. We go to concerts together. We have overlapping groups of friends. Et cetera, et cetera. Sure, there have to be differences between folks or else you get bored. And we do things apart as well. But it sounds like a silly idea to marry someone who's most important feature is that she'll put out, the rest being incompatible and irrelevant.
The problem is that it'll only support one motherboard, one type of NIC, one graphics card, etc etc
... who knows what.
It does come at a shock to a lot of ignorant folks... But things haven't been that way since the Mac 128K, and that's only because it was brand new.
It'll probably be a part of the chipset- all the core libraries probably will look for some identifier to make sure they're on real Apple hardware. Maybe Intel will make special CPUs that return "Genuine Intel (Apple)"
No, Apple doesn't use a Toolbox ROM in the same way it used to. But he didn't say "Good luck doing this without the Apple Classic Mac OS Toolbox ROM...." did he? Macs still have Open Firmware, and there's no reason all sorts of funky checks, ID#s can't be embedded there and a million other places on the motherboard.
I'm not saying it isn't doable, but I doubt it'll be a matter of installing Darwin and duping an OS X86 machine's install.
...but if you ask the average woman in the US if she wants a "new" diamond or a larger pawn shop diamond, I'm betting "new" wins 100% of the time.
thank the lawd some of us have uncommon women. what other kind of woman sits with you in bed, each on a laptop, the whole morning?
Personally, I'd rather buy the ring.
Me? I'd rather stage a revolution, put in place a crude Stanlinist regime, with me as head of Politburo and as General Secretary. Then I need to buy no ring! MUHAUHA!
sorry, but my post was a drugged-out joke. i mean, apple did drop the x11-like remote ability of {NS,NX}Host, but the rest of it was bullshit. heh. sorry!
Ha! Typical loss-of-functionality scenario that Apple keeps trying to force feed us. Some of us remember NeXTSTEP 3.3, which supported zero to infinite plus one mice- and hell, some of us still use it. This thing about mice and OS X- it's almost as bad as the lack of window/application remoting in OS X ala X11. OS X's ancestors had it, in NSHost and NXHost, but Apple decided not to reimplement that little nugget of joy when moving from Display PostScript to Quartz/Display PDF.
Now this! Oh, the injustice! Let's hope we get a tablet mac, that might make up for it.