On the original subject, I have all my emails, that I've wanted to save, for the past 10+ years. There is no excuse for the world's only super power to lose email.
On the subject of Lotus Notes, as a first time Notes user for the past 7 months, it's not that bad.
It's a bit slower to launch (which may be due to our virus scanning which even slows down Eclipse thanks to it scanning jars) but it's never crashed and the only hang-ups we have are typically related to the network and the server. It's not bloated either. I can run it all day on top of Eclipse, Photoshop, FF, IE and Fireworks with no problems and we have shitty Dells.
From my experience in IT, people will gladly blame the developer of a program rather than take blame that their infrastructure is shit which, imo, is the real problem half the time.
Having said all that Notes' UI leaves a lot to be desired and that is probably its biggest problem. If it sorted that out then it'd be on par of Outlook if not better.
As much as I like hand coding (all my sites are hand coded) for a business it makes no sense and if you have a decent CMS, like Vyre Unify, and decent designers on hand then you site shouldn't look like some cookie cutter web site.
They can take your domain away if you provide false information on your whois which seems more extreme than revoking domains from spammers and criminals if you ask me.
To be honest, criminals probably buy the bulk of the domains being bought so that is probably why they're not that bothered about stopping them.
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I hate shaving so it sounds like I might have a future in inventing programming languages. I better get to work while I'm young and can drink my fortunes away.
The point of SSD drives, imo, is the fact it makes a laptop more portable as in the fact it's safer to carry around without worrying about the hard drive head crashing into the disk because your bus vibrates or because you moved it.
I don't care what the write speed is if it's safer while I'm walking about with it.
Let me put it this way. I only use MS office because I have to at work. I don't use it at home and I'll never use it at home unless I'm actually paid to use it and it grows breasts.
Microsoft has said that UAC is meant to be annoying to force developers to do things properly to avoid it.
Sounds like they're just doing things more on the proper side. I'm sure Vista isn't that secure but at least they've made some sort of effort even if it's poorly thought out.
Rather than have UAC come up and have the user simply ok anything that comes up. They should have stopped the program from running at all. Developers can just rely on users clicking ok because, as annoyed as they may get, most won't switch to Linux or even Mac. So where is the incentive not to annoy the customer?
Perhaps they prefer Orkut? Then again I don't use Orkut so I don't know if it's in a better situation.
I would imagine Blogger is better and more well know so they should drop Orkut and focus on one but if Blogger is really popular already they may feel they don't have to waste the resources.
They haven't had an album in awhile. James' drinking must be really bad or maybe they've realised their music has gotten increasingly worse after Justice.
If they do a Radiohead model, at best, I'll pay nothing but download it multiple times to eat up their bandwidth and not listen to it.
I hope selling out was worth ruining their reputation.
Just because he can write one program himself doesn't mean the code is optimal or written well. It doesn't mean he understands OOP, MVC, UML or could work well within a team.
While I believe most people with any real level of intelligence can program if they really want to there is a lot more to programming than point and clicking through a few visual studio menus.
From my experience a lot of VB users don't think they need that because in their minds if they haven't needed those skills yet then why should they ever need them? It breeds laziness.
That, of course, doesn't mean everyone is like that. Like with anything there are expections but I think the real determining factor is the fact that someone can be a Java, Python, etc programmer and easily pick up VB for a project but rarely will it happen the other way around.
They're nice to watch and nice to play but I think my problem is it lacks complete control. It's a cross between a game of skill and a game of luck and I'd rather know my score bites because I suck.
VBscript does have a lot of clueless people behind it but the language itself is faulty because it lacks so many obvious methods and why should I have to write:
if(something) then
do something
end if
No semi colons make it looks messy, 9 characters rather than two {} and it doesn't do multi line comments.
Maybe VB net has fixed some of these issues but the language is just asking to be used by newbies with little regard for security because it teaches bad habits imo.
There is always Lotus Notes which isn't perfect but neither is Outlook and I personally prefer Lotus Notes.
Also, you may mock Open Source, but it's just as viable as anything MS does and in fact I've been noticing Open Office cropping up more often and it's no surprise that the security firms I've dealt with seem to mainly use Linux and other Open Source products.
The end of the sales for XP does not mean the end of support so they won't be selling something unsupported and even if MS quit supporting it tomorrow then Dell would still provide support.
Besides the fact MS already plans on selling XP home for some time (to cover the laptop market) means they're not going to give up XP support until at least they quit selling that.
Actually one of our sites was effected and it does filter out quotes. So I suspect it comes down to how MS did something wrong yet again.
Since we did not write the software that was affected that was one of the first things we checked.
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On the original subject, I have all my emails, that I've wanted to save, for the past 10+ years. There is no excuse for the world's only super power to lose email.
On the subject of Lotus Notes, as a first time Notes user for the past 7 months, it's not that bad.
It's a bit slower to launch (which may be due to our virus scanning which even slows down Eclipse thanks to it scanning jars) but it's never crashed and the only hang-ups we have are typically related to the network and the server. It's not bloated either. I can run it all day on top of Eclipse, Photoshop, FF, IE and Fireworks with no problems and we have shitty Dells.
From my experience in IT, people will gladly blame the developer of a program rather than take blame that their infrastructure is shit which, imo, is the real problem half the time.
Having said all that Notes' UI leaves a lot to be desired and that is probably its biggest problem. If it sorted that out then it'd be on par of Outlook if not better.
I think most people can agree that patents have lost their original scope and have just become a way to make money.
It may be a bit harsh but I would love to see 8 years worth of patents revoked.
However it won't make much of a difference if people are still allow to make the same silly patent requests. That needs to be sorted out ASAP.
As much as I like hand coding (all my sites are hand coded) for a business it makes no sense and if you have a decent CMS, like Vyre Unify, and decent designers on hand then you site shouldn't look like some cookie cutter web site.
Who needs the internet when we have AOL?
It's a shame they don't have full access to all Microsoft products to test this long before the release date.
They can take your domain away if you provide false information on your whois which seems more extreme than revoking domains from spammers and criminals if you ask me.
To be honest, criminals probably buy the bulk of the domains being bought so that is probably why they're not that bothered about stopping them.
I will for his kidneys.
I hate shaving so it sounds like I might have a future in inventing programming languages. I better get to work while I'm young and can drink my fortunes away.
The point of SSD drives, imo, is the fact it makes a laptop more portable as in the fact it's safer to carry around without worrying about the hard drive head crashing into the disk because your bus vibrates or because you moved it.
I don't care what the write speed is if it's safer while I'm walking about with it.
Let me put it this way. I only use MS office because I have to at work. I don't use it at home and I'll never use it at home unless I'm actually paid to use it and it grows breasts.
Microsoft has said that UAC is meant to be annoying to force developers to do things properly to avoid it.
Sounds like they're just doing things more on the proper side. I'm sure Vista isn't that secure but at least they've made some sort of effort even if it's poorly thought out.
Rather than have UAC come up and have the user simply ok anything that comes up. They should have stopped the program from running at all. Developers can just rely on users clicking ok because, as annoyed as they may get, most won't switch to Linux or even Mac. So where is the incentive not to annoy the customer?
Perhaps they prefer Orkut? Then again I don't use Orkut so I don't know if it's in a better situation.
I would imagine Blogger is better and more well know so they should drop Orkut and focus on one but if Blogger is really popular already they may feel they don't have to waste the resources.
I just prefer it. Different strokes for different folks and all that stuff.
They haven't had an album in awhile. James' drinking must be really bad or maybe they've realised their music has gotten increasingly worse after Justice.
If they do a Radiohead model, at best, I'll pay nothing but download it multiple times to eat up their bandwidth and not listen to it.
I hope selling out was worth ruining their reputation.
Just because he can write one program himself doesn't mean the code is optimal or written well. It doesn't mean he understands OOP, MVC, UML or could work well within a team.
While I believe most people with any real level of intelligence can program if they really want to there is a lot more to programming than point and clicking through a few visual studio menus.
From my experience a lot of VB users don't think they need that because in their minds if they haven't needed those skills yet then why should they ever need them? It breeds laziness.
That, of course, doesn't mean everyone is like that. Like with anything there are expections but I think the real determining factor is the fact that someone can be a Java, Python, etc programmer and easily pick up VB for a project but rarely will it happen the other way around.
I'm hoping for Planet of the Apes mobsters.
They're nice to watch and nice to play but I think my problem is it lacks complete control. It's a cross between a game of skill and a game of luck and I'd rather know my score bites because I suck.
Even when choices were limited between the likes of Pac Man and Pinball, I could never really see what was so exciting about Pinball.
It can be fun, don't get me wrong, but any more than 15 minutes and it starts to get boring really fast, imo.
Agreed which is why I suggested the paid solution Lotus Notes first. ;)
To be fair to fanboyism, none of it is as bad as a high paid CEO throwing chairs and making school yard threats against Google.
THe cases against Java and C++ sound like they come from someone with no experience....like a vbscript "programmer". ;)
VBscript does have a lot of clueless people behind it but the language itself is faulty because it lacks so many obvious methods and why should I have to write:
if(something) then do something end if
No semi colons make it looks messy, 9 characters rather than two {} and it doesn't do multi line comments.
Maybe VB net has fixed some of these issues but the language is just asking to be used by newbies with little regard for security because it teaches bad habits imo.
There is always Lotus Notes which isn't perfect but neither is Outlook and I personally prefer Lotus Notes.
Also, you may mock Open Source, but it's just as viable as anything MS does and in fact I've been noticing Open Office cropping up more often and it's no surprise that the security firms I've dealt with seem to mainly use Linux and other Open Source products.
The end of the sales for XP does not mean the end of support so they won't be selling something unsupported and even if MS quit supporting it tomorrow then Dell would still provide support.
Besides the fact MS already plans on selling XP home for some time (to cover the laptop market) means they're not going to give up XP support until at least they quit selling that.
Actually one of our sites was effected and it does filter out quotes. So I suspect it comes down to how MS did something wrong yet again. Since we did not write the software that was affected that was one of the first things we checked.