At the risk of (-1, Redundant), I'm using Crystal Reports to do Web-based reporting of Process Control Data. It takes some getting used to, but the learning curve flattens out pretty fast. The reports are near-perfect replicas of our old paper forms, and look so much cleaner (partially due to not being 27th-generation Xeroxes.) The web versions are also paper-accurate.
Only downside? You have to configure your web server for it, use ActiveX, use the slower and slightly less featurefull Java Version, use the much slower and much less featurefull HTML version, or a combination of the above. Not pretty.
Hopefully this is enough info for you to evaluate it.
I don't think so. Flight Simulator... yeah great idea, went there to die, huh? MechWarrior 4 was fantastic, best since the 2nd... Ah, hell with that one, right? Links had a couple bad releases, but it's back on track. Halo looks spectacular! MS gave FASA the resources it needed to make Crimson Skies, and it came out great.
How is this an example of good ideas going to die?
Say what you will about the rest of the company, but MS has a pretty schweet games division. MW4, Crimson Skies, FS2002 looks awesome, and now they've got Halo.
There's nothing wrong with letting MS handle this. In fact, I think it'll be better than letting Interplay do it. They've disappointed me recently (Giants, among others) and MS ahs the resources to do the Matrix right.
Look at the Air and Space Museum. We hang the Spirit of St. Louis and Apollo there. There's a Thunderbird in the Smithsonian, if I remember right. Industrial museums abound (Chicago has a quite nice one).
In short, we see fit to exemplify fine examples of function in their own place, just as we exemplify form at art institutes. The beauty is in the function of the program; when it does its work is when it is at its most beautiful.
In the future, when our time is committed to a museum, there will be code in it. Just as we can look at Babbage's machine (where is it, anyway?), others will wish to see what we call our greatest accomplishments, and may judge them to be art. Why ignore them now?
Don't back down! The DMCA doesn't cover security research! This is an opportunity for a young lawyer (does Princeton also have a good law school?) to make a great case that just might break the DMCA.
If anyone has the specific part of the DMCA covering research, please post it.
MSNBC has reported on problems in MS products before... it's not like it's been reduced to a PR arm for MS. I can't remember the specific instance, but it had to do with Office 2000 (SR-1 and the Win2k problem, maybe?). I'm sure there are others as well.
Don't go assuming that there's no truth in anything they say. Granted, there's a bias there, but it's by no means total.
You get a free OS. Or did you write your entire distro yourself?
Let's face it, you either do something yourself or you pay someone to do it for you. If you want a free OS (Linux), put in the time like everyone else towards the common goal. If you want someone else to write it for you (Windows), pay up and don't complain about how they make it.
There's nothing wrong with either way. Just deal with the constraints each method offers.
I can't tell whether or not this guy's tone is sarcastic commentary or how he really is thinking (I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and assume the former), but he has a point.
I'm about to dip my feet into the Linux pool (if my girlfriend ever gives me my spare PC back) and I'm not expecting my machine to at all be stable. I foresee horrible, mangled, train-wreck style crashes ahead, and why? Because I don't know Linux. I admit it. I don't know the first thing about what I'm doing. I have some SunOS 5.6 experience, and that's about it.
I get the feeling that some of those people out there who can't get NT stable just plain don't know NT. My PC here at work, despite being pure crap (PC Chips motherboard, anyone?) has not frozen ONCE since the day I installed Win2k. Daily freezes were the norm in Win98. My primary home PC (also Win2k Pro) only freezes when I do something stupid with a beta driver.
Now, I know that there are some Linux users here who also know the NT side of things, but the vast majority of the "Win2k sucks!" crowd probably wouldn't know the first thing they were doing. I know that when I start on Linux, I won't know the first thing about what I'm doing. And like some Win2k experiences around here, it isn't going to be pretty.
Proof that on the internet, smut drives technology.
I derive some humor in the fighters of one of the internet's biggest nuisances, patents, are aided by the industry responsible for another one of its nuisances, the javascript popup.
It doesn't take a CS grad to do my job. Not even close. But the programming I do in a day (scripted data access in ASP) is far beyond the other 90 percent of the population.
So why should we take up a CS grad's time, who can make a compiler from scratch, when me and my knowledge of VBScript get me by just fine? Leave the important work to them.
I bet you don't like word processors either. But I ask, why take up a graphic designer's time when a simple program can do an acceptable job of formatting text?
Point is, the simpler the task is to accomplish, the more people can get it done and the more efficiently resources are utilized. Things get done when it's easier.
So I could care less about your disdain. As long as my job gets accomplished, that's all that matters.
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The wind from the sun.
A great story on the topic. It appears in a collection of his, The Sentinel.
Windows has plenty of games, and no one thinks it's "frivolous" (well, except for some zealots...)
Face it, entertainment drives the computer market. Or do you think that those 3d cards and gigahertz processors are for Excel?
Sure, we need to get our work done, and big jobs demand big iron in the server department. But we also need some Quake.
And lastly, not every gamer is a "lame AOL'er". It's completely groundless speculation to underrate someone's technical skills simply because they like some Quake every now and then.
Anyone that can crush a quarter using a magnetic field, well... I don't want to be the one who has to walk up to the door of the lab and tell them to stop...
Honestly, please point to the technological innovation preventing Linux from contracting a virus? Post source code showing where this is at.
Seriously, explain your position. My Win2000 box has never caught a virus. I use Outlook 2000 for my mail, and even have it set up to show executable attachments. We had a breakout of the Prolin trojan last week (and I'd like to thank the particular member of the Linux community who tossed THAT little bundle of joy at me), and my machine didn't catch it. Yet you don't see me trumpeting, "Windows doesn't catch virii!"
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Quote: "we hope that plugins will do for filesystems what they did for Photoshop."
What, make them run 55% faster on a Mac than on an equivalent PIII?
At the risk of (-1, Redundant), I'm using Crystal Reports to do Web-based reporting of Process Control Data. It takes some getting used to, but the learning curve flattens out pretty fast. The reports are near-perfect replicas of our old paper forms, and look so much cleaner (partially due to not being 27th-generation Xeroxes.) The web versions are also paper-accurate.
Only downside? You have to configure your web server for it, use ActiveX, use the slower and slightly less featurefull Java Version, use the much slower and much less featurefull HTML version, or a combination of the above. Not pretty.
Hopefully this is enough info for you to evaluate it.
I don't think so. Flight Simulator... yeah great idea, went there to die, huh? MechWarrior 4 was fantastic, best since the 2nd... Ah, hell with that one, right? Links had a couple bad releases, but it's back on track. Halo looks spectacular! MS gave FASA the resources it needed to make Crimson Skies, and it came out great.
How is this an example of good ideas going to die?
Say what you will about the rest of the company, but MS has a pretty schweet games division. MW4, Crimson Skies, FS2002 looks awesome, and now they've got Halo.
There's nothing wrong with letting MS handle this. In fact, I think it'll be better than letting Interplay do it. They've disappointed me recently (Giants, among others) and MS ahs the resources to do the Matrix right.
Look at the Air and Space Museum. We hang the Spirit of St. Louis and Apollo there. There's a Thunderbird in the Smithsonian, if I remember right. Industrial museums abound (Chicago has a quite nice one).
In short, we see fit to exemplify fine examples of function in their own place, just as we exemplify form at art institutes. The beauty is in the function of the program; when it does its work is when it is at its most beautiful.
In the future, when our time is committed to a museum, there will be code in it. Just as we can look at Babbage's machine (where is it, anyway?), others will wish to see what we call our greatest accomplishments, and may judge them to be art. Why ignore them now?
Don't back down! The DMCA doesn't cover security research! This is an opportunity for a young lawyer (does Princeton also have a good law school?) to make a great case that just might break the DMCA.
If anyone has the specific part of the DMCA covering research, please post it.
MSNBC has reported on problems in MS products before... it's not like it's been reduced to a PR arm for MS. I can't remember the specific instance, but it had to do with Office 2000 (SR-1 and the Win2k problem, maybe?). I'm sure there are others as well.
Don't go assuming that there's no truth in anything they say. Granted, there's a bias there, but it's by no means total.
Trust me, they already did a good job of it here in Chicago. Bastards screwed my high-speed access.
I'm hardly a beginner at computers, and I've got all my MP3's lumped into one place. I can browse 'em pretty easy too.
You get a free OS. Or did you write your entire distro yourself?
Let's face it, you either do something yourself or you pay someone to do it for you. If you want a free OS (Linux), put in the time like everyone else towards the common goal. If you want someone else to write it for you (Windows), pay up and don't complain about how they make it.
There's nothing wrong with either way. Just deal with the constraints each method offers.
Whoever lopped points off of this needs to be clobbered.
This rates at right about Score: 3, Funny.
Someone lacks a sense of humor.
What about my poor white Dreamcast under the TV?
Oh well, at least the games I got are good.
I can't tell whether or not this guy's tone is sarcastic commentary or how he really is thinking (I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and assume the former), but he has a point.
I'm about to dip my feet into the Linux pool (if my girlfriend ever gives me my spare PC back) and I'm not expecting my machine to at all be stable. I foresee horrible, mangled, train-wreck style crashes ahead, and why? Because I don't know Linux. I admit it. I don't know the first thing about what I'm doing. I have some SunOS 5.6 experience, and that's about it.
I get the feeling that some of those people out there who can't get NT stable just plain don't know NT. My PC here at work, despite being pure crap (PC Chips motherboard, anyone?) has not frozen ONCE since the day I installed Win2k. Daily freezes were the norm in Win98. My primary home PC (also Win2k Pro) only freezes when I do something stupid with a beta driver.
Now, I know that there are some Linux users here who also know the NT side of things, but the vast majority of the "Win2k sucks!" crowd probably wouldn't know the first thing they were doing. I know that when I start on Linux, I won't know the first thing about what I'm doing. And like some Win2k experiences around here, it isn't going to be pretty.
"No, Mr. Tux... I expect you to die..."
Proof that on the internet, smut drives technology. I derive some humor in the fighters of one of the internet's biggest nuisances, patents, are aided by the industry responsible for another one of its nuisances, the javascript popup.
And when I first heard it, it was Cisco.
I'm sure there are several variants.
It doesn't take a CS grad to do my job. Not even close. But the programming I do in a day (scripted data access in ASP) is far beyond the other 90 percent of the population.
So why should we take up a CS grad's time, who can make a compiler from scratch, when me and my knowledge of VBScript get me by just fine? Leave the important work to them.
I bet you don't like word processors either. But I ask, why take up a graphic designer's time when a simple program can do an acceptable job of formatting text?
Point is, the simpler the task is to accomplish, the more people can get it done and the more efficiently resources are utilized. Things get done when it's easier.
So I could care less about your disdain. As long as my job gets accomplished, that's all that matters.
The wind from the sun.
A great story on the topic. It appears in a collection of his, The Sentinel.
The doom strategy guide explained these.
DQD is a Dave Taylor reference to dropping classes while you still had a D in college. Apparently this was a common thing.
Spispopd, see the above post.
Windows has plenty of games, and no one thinks it's "frivolous" (well, except for some zealots...)
Face it, entertainment drives the computer market. Or do you think that those 3d cards and gigahertz processors are for Excel?
Sure, we need to get our work done, and big jobs demand big iron in the server department. But we also need some Quake.
And lastly, not every gamer is a "lame AOL'er". It's completely groundless speculation to underrate someone's technical skills simply because they like some Quake every now and then.
It's extremely funny. The author didn't give it enough credit, imho.
Anyone that can crush a quarter using a magnetic field, well... I don't want to be the one who has to walk up to the door of the lab and tell them to stop...
Ah, the wonderful /. humor I thrive on... classic, truly wonderful.
Honestly, please point to the technological innovation preventing Linux from contracting a virus? Post source code showing where this is at.
Seriously, explain your position. My Win2000 box has never caught a virus. I use Outlook 2000 for my mail, and even have it set up to show executable attachments. We had a breakout of the Prolin trojan last week (and I'd like to thank the particular member of the Linux community who tossed THAT little bundle of joy at me), and my machine didn't catch it. Yet you don't see me trumpeting, "Windows doesn't catch virii!"
Just because it hasn't doesn't mean it can't.
The games for it are just fine, if not great. If you don't believe me, pick up Shenmue, MSR, and Sonic Adventure.
As for the case, yeah, you're right.
But there's just as many Nintendo and Sony zealots, so that argument doesn't hold water.