But wasn't that the whole point? If you lock Explorer into the OS and lock Explorer into market, doesn't that take necesarily take the legacy OS (and its price tag) into the future with it?
I just cannot understand why anyone is shocked by this 'struggle'. As a representative democracy, the US is enternally in danger of 'losing it all' to one faction or another. Given, in our day, it's the money concentrated in corporations which buys legislation. Money was always supposed to buy legislation, it's a fact, but in the agrarian days, the concentration wasn't as serious and the representatives weren't professional. It's facile to shrink this down to government versus 'us,' censorship versus First Amendment. Moving around the Net, downloading news and p0rn, has little or nothing to do with the First Amendment. It's the liberty clauses in the 5th and others which we should be invoking. And then the conundrum... Right now, vast tracts of the Internet are OWNED by massive corporations, which do not have to legally bind to any clause of liberty or speech. Placing the international considerations aside, wouldn't it take a greater government involvement to 'liberate' these lines and subject them to Constitutional tests? In other words, a better question to ask is, where does Government belong on the Net?
I never really had a problem with it, but it's a matter of style. I had to lol, I had the same problem with a few PERL packages, ended up doing the reverse in CF for a work tracking system. At the end of the day I had it talking to pagers and cutting ad-hoc graphs of response time for particular tech support people. [Jeez, they hated me for that one...] It drives C/PERL people up the wall, but it's a godsend if you have to hand off the app to a bunch of people who only know a bit of HTML. It really cuts down the phone calls.
Dunno about the buggy comment, I routinely have CF templates doing dozens of complex queries against Oracle 7 and 8, Access, SQLServer, text files, you name it... It may have more to do with microsoft's bastardization of SQL than the drivers, many of which are, by the way, supplied through the OS, not CF...
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But wasn't that the whole point? If you lock Explorer into the OS and lock Explorer into market, doesn't that take necesarily take the legacy OS (and its price tag) into the future with it?
I just cannot understand why anyone is shocked by this 'struggle'. As a representative democracy, the US is enternally in danger of 'losing it all' to one faction or another. Given, in our day, it's the money concentrated in corporations which buys legislation. Money was always supposed to buy legislation, it's a fact, but in the agrarian days, the concentration wasn't as serious and the representatives weren't professional. It's facile to shrink this down to government versus 'us,' censorship versus First Amendment. Moving around the Net, downloading news and p0rn, has little or nothing to do with the First Amendment. It's the liberty clauses in the 5th and others which we should be invoking. And then the conundrum... Right now, vast tracts of the Internet are OWNED by massive corporations, which do not have to legally bind to any clause of liberty or speech. Placing the international considerations aside, wouldn't it take a greater government involvement to 'liberate' these lines and subject them to Constitutional tests? In other words, a better question to ask is, where does Government belong on the Net?
I never really had a problem with it, but it's a matter of style. I had to lol, I had the same problem with a few PERL packages, ended up doing the reverse in CF for a work tracking system. At the end of the day I had it talking to pagers and cutting ad-hoc graphs of response time for particular tech support people. [Jeez, they hated me for that one...] It drives C/PERL people up the wall, but it's a godsend if you have to hand off the app to a bunch of people who only know a bit of HTML. It really cuts down the phone calls.
Dunno about the buggy comment, I routinely have CF templates doing dozens of complex queries against Oracle 7 and 8, Access, SQLServer, text files, you name it... It may have more to do with microsoft's bastardization of SQL than the drivers, many of which are, by the way, supplied through the OS, not CF...