Yeah, I get where you're coming from, but at least they only showed the good part of Titanic. You have to admit that they really did a good job on that whole sinking thing. Now if only it had a plot, who knows what they could have accomplished...
I wonder if this question would have been marked up if the moderator had read the article which explicitly stated that IBM will be making the processors for Transmeta...
IE is not "just a COM component", it is a compilation of many COM components which can be reused very easily (that's why the executable is so small for such a large program). Anyone can incorporate a fully featured HTML viewer in their application, and, they can use that same component from several different languagues. This binary reusability is important, because it means a VB developer can use the spell checking from Word or the HTML viewer from IE, both of which are most likely written in C++. Now, the VB developer can do what they do best (drag little boxes around on pretty forms) and the C++ programmers can do the heavy work.
I'm not saying that Mozilla isn't reusable or anything like that, but you do have to give Microsoft credit for COM, which is really a very nice solution to a difficult problem (OLE and cross language component building).
My favorite part is that 5,999,938 is actually called "System and method for creating a new data structure in memory populated with data from an existing data structure". Wow, they dynamically created a new data structure, there's some innovation. Maybe I should start going through my C++ books and applying for patents based on chapter title. I should probably call Microsoft for permission before I write another copy constructor.
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Yeah, I get where you're coming from, but at least they only showed the good part of Titanic. You have to admit that they really did a good job on that whole sinking thing. Now if only it had a plot, who knows what they could have accomplished...
Looks like Howard Stern was there...
Yeah, for real, you guys have posted hundreds of bad stories.
You don't have to read.
Quick, someone register AnanovaAccessories.com so we have somewhere to get her Christmas present.
I wonder if this question would have been marked up if the moderator had read the article which explicitly stated that IBM will be making the processors for Transmeta...
It will affect @Home when they get hundreds of calls from their pissed off users.
IE is not "just a COM component", it is a compilation of many COM components which can be reused very easily (that's why the executable is so small for such a large program). Anyone can incorporate a fully featured HTML viewer in their application, and, they can use that same component from several different languagues. This binary reusability is important, because it means a VB developer can use the spell checking from Word or the HTML viewer from IE, both of which are most likely written in C++. Now, the VB developer can do what they do best (drag little boxes around on pretty forms) and the C++ programmers can do the heavy work.
I'm not saying that Mozilla isn't reusable or anything like that, but you do have to give Microsoft credit for COM, which is really a very nice solution to a difficult problem (OLE and cross language component building).
My favorite part is that 5,999,938 is actually called "System and method for creating a new data structure in memory populated with data from an existing data structure". Wow, they dynamically created a new data structure, there's some innovation. Maybe I should start going through my C++ books and applying for patents based on chapter title. I should probably call Microsoft for permission before I write another copy constructor.