Until the the network goes down and your document formatting gets totally corrupted. I've seen it happen far too often and is an absolute disgrace. I'd rather have it a bit slower and not have to fix the mess that that shambles of a program makes.
And if you don't like dogs you're automatically disqualified from being a parent? Fair enough, I'd rather be childless than have to spend any extended time with a stupid, barking airheaded mutt.
A parent who doesn't have time to play the game from start to finish in order to ensure that their kid isn't exposed to something they don't think they should be exposed to, i.e., all of them.
Can't you do that already? I'm sure in one of the millions of menus I saw something about pointing to a DB. In any case you can, provided the.xls is simple, use Excel as a simple DB, it's very handy for data-driven VBA/VBScript where having to start Excel to access the data would be ridiculously CPU-intensive.
CDs require me to pay for a lot of songs that I may or may not like, just to get the one or two that I do like. iTunes tries to tell me what I can do with something I bought. Neither is a good option and therefore I'll buy neither.
I used to work in a call centre that used a form in a web browser to log all calls. Every day one poor woman got a spreadsheet with anything up to 100 orders in it. She had to print that off and fill in pretty much the same data for each one into a web form and click submit. It took her at least an hour and was mindnumbing. I wrote a simple VBScript that took the data and filled in the form for her. All she had to do was look it over to make sure it was okay and click submit. That would take her no more than about 10 minutes and was a lot less boring. It meant she spent more time taking calls but every silver lining has a cloud;) I've avoided (and helped others to avoid) a lot of very dull work by creative use of VBScript/VBA.
You are a genius;) If only you were in charge of GUI design at MS (and no I'm not being sarcastic - I can't think of a better way to combat IT illiteracy than with that kind of virtual clue stick bashing).
A smarter worm would be a fair bit harder to write, so I should think there will be less of them, at least for a while, for Vista. Preventing programs from installing themselves will lock out a large proportion of the current nasties, preventing registry updates and access to C:\WIN* will lock out a fair few more. I do agree, while people still blindly install any old crap malware will never go away but that doesn't mean it shouldn't have been made as hard as possible for it to get on in the first place. Running as admin should've been shifted long before now and the bonehead who thought allowing a web browser to blindly install anything the website wanted it to should be made to admin NT 4.0 servers on crap hardware for a year without a firewall, virus checker or being allowed to install any service packs.
Sorry to break your heart but COBOL isn't dead, not quite yet, there are still way too many backend systems written in it for it to go away any time soon.
I would love it if you could purchase episodes of TV programs such as battlestar galactica on DVD's for a few dollars. If that was the case I would have many by now. But once again, the price point is simply too high for many people.
That's just one of many of the reasons for piracy.
Sony IS a technology company and was long before they bought out loads of media companies. Good grief if you didn't want to flamed on pedantdot.org you should have checked that one first.
Because there are too many things that require Windows to run. I don't mean the likes of Office, Quicken or games, I mean niche apps, bespoke apps and devices that only have Windows drivers. Our office for example could pretty seamlessly switch to a Linux desktop were it not for our Windows-only digital dictation system, our bespoke Windows-only information system and our Windows-only footpedals for the aforementioned digital dictation system. Now these may run under Wine/Crossover but that's not so likely since the main work on that score right now is being devoted to getting the popular packages working. There might be a digital dictation package for Linux but there's no way that the information system will be re-written at great expense just to do what it already does. The barrier to another OS removing Windows' desktop dominance is immense, merely being better is nowhere near enough. I'm not saying it will never happen, and I'd love it to but Linux has two disadvantages on the desktop. It's still too hard to do simple things (although this is far more an issue for home users) and there is only an incomplete and as-yet not totally reliable way of running Windows-only apps.
I run mainly as LUA on my XP Home machine and at first it was a total PITA with way too many apps needing admin access to do anything. For those there were two options: run as admin (no way) or use CACLS to grant the LUA access to certain directories in Program Files and a program to allow those that demand admin to run no matter what directory access you grant them. Now I know this is the fault of the app designers but it's pointless to blame the users for not wanting to put up with the tedious aggro of trying to run as LUA (even if they could understand the rather crappy CACLS tool) when everything works on an admin account. However since the expectation of admin access comes from the Win9x days and the fact that WinXP Home has admin rights by default Microsoft can't really avoid the blame on this one.
Simply building a better mouse trap and thinking that people will flock to you is one of those sweet lies that duped engineers believe. It's simply not so.
I wish the fools around here who think that Linux isn't succeeding on the desktop because Windows is so amazing would have this tattooed on their stupid heads.
Now I'm certainly not going to question your expertise and knowledge since you're obviously a lot more knowledgeable than me, but as far as I know ActiveX and MSHTML are only a threat if you browse to malicious websites that can then silently (if your security settings are weak) install all manner of nasties. Since Quicken only uses that to display help files I can't see it being a danger. Better safe than sorry though, although I've kept my XP machine malware-free by not using IE for any internet-related activity.
Unions have in the main been a very positive influence on the situation for the average worker, I never tried to claim they were perfect (name a human-run organisation that is). Anyway the usual proposition for IT workers is a professional organisation; looking at professions that do have that like lawyers and doctors, I'm having trouble seeing how their ability to make money is in any way compromised.
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You're right. Microsoft are evil for a lot of other reasons.
Until the the network goes down and your document formatting gets totally corrupted. I've seen it happen far too often and is an absolute disgrace. I'd rather have it a bit slower and not have to fix the mess that that shambles of a program makes.
And if you don't like dogs you're automatically disqualified from being a parent? Fair enough, I'd rather be childless than have to spend any extended time with a stupid, barking airheaded mutt.
A parent who doesn't have time to play the game from start to finish in order to ensure that their kid isn't exposed to something they don't think they should be exposed to, i.e., all of them.
I dont need to think I have global media to do that for me.
ROTFLMAO :D
Can't you do that already? I'm sure in one of the millions of menus I saw something about pointing to a DB. In any case you can, provided the .xls is simple, use Excel as a simple DB, it's very handy for data-driven VBA/VBScript where having to start Excel to access the data would be ridiculously CPU-intensive.
Well if you're a Brit, an Canook or an Aussie you're pretty much the same thing (woohoo I'm gonna burn now)
CDs require me to pay for a lot of songs that I may or may not like, just to get the one or two that I do like. iTunes tries to tell me what I can do with something I bought. Neither is a good option and therefore I'll buy neither.
I used to work in a call centre that used a form in a web browser to log all calls. Every day one poor woman got a spreadsheet with anything up to 100 orders in it. She had to print that off and fill in pretty much the same data for each one into a web form and click submit. It took her at least an hour and was mindnumbing. I wrote a simple VBScript that took the data and filled in the form for her. All she had to do was look it over to make sure it was okay and click submit. That would take her no more than about 10 minutes and was a lot less boring. It meant she spent more time taking calls but every silver lining has a cloud ;)
I've avoided (and helped others to avoid) a lot of very dull work by creative use of VBScript/VBA.
You are a genius ;) If only you were in charge of GUI design at MS (and no I'm not being sarcastic - I can't think of a better way to combat IT illiteracy than with that kind of virtual clue stick bashing).
A smarter worm would be a fair bit harder to write, so I should think there will be less of them, at least for a while, for Vista. Preventing programs from installing themselves will lock out a large proportion of the current nasties, preventing registry updates and access to C:\WIN* will lock out a fair few more. I do agree, while people still blindly install any old crap malware will never go away but that doesn't mean it shouldn't have been made as hard as possible for it to get on in the first place. Running as admin should've been shifted long before now and the bonehead who thought allowing a web browser to blindly install anything the website wanted it to should be made to admin NT 4.0 servers on crap hardware for a year without a firewall, virus checker or being allowed to install any service packs.
Sorry to break your heart but COBOL isn't dead, not quite yet, there are still way too many backend systems written in it for it to go away any time soon.
I would love it if you could purchase episodes of TV programs such as battlestar galactica on DVD's for a few dollars. If that was the case I would have many by now. But once again, the price point is simply too high for many people.
That's just one of many of the reasons for piracy.
What a good idea, being able to sit on a bus and jack off to your favourite pornstar. The other passengers would love that.
Sony IS a technology company and was long before they bought out loads of media companies. Good grief if you didn't want to flamed on pedantdot.org you should have checked that one first.
60lbs is hardly 'lightweight' unless you're talking about boxers.
Because there are too many things that require Windows to run. I don't mean the likes of Office, Quicken or games, I mean niche apps, bespoke apps and devices that only have Windows drivers. Our office for example could pretty seamlessly switch to a Linux desktop were it not for our Windows-only digital dictation system, our bespoke Windows-only information system and our Windows-only footpedals for the aforementioned digital dictation system. Now these may run under Wine/Crossover but that's not so likely since the main work on that score right now is being devoted to getting the popular packages working. There might be a digital dictation package for Linux but there's no way that the information system will be re-written at great expense just to do what it already does. The barrier to another OS removing Windows' desktop dominance is immense, merely being better is nowhere near enough. I'm not saying it will never happen, and I'd love it to but Linux has two disadvantages on the desktop. It's still too hard to do simple things (although this is far more an issue for home users) and there is only an incomplete and as-yet not totally reliable way of running Windows-only apps.
I run mainly as LUA on my XP Home machine and at first it was a total PITA with way too many apps needing admin access to do anything. For those there were two options: run as admin (no way) or use CACLS to grant the LUA access to certain directories in Program Files and a program to allow those that demand admin to run no matter what directory access you grant them.
Now I know this is the fault of the app designers but it's pointless to blame the users for not wanting to put up with the tedious aggro of trying to run as LUA (even if they could understand the rather crappy CACLS tool) when everything works on an admin account.
However since the expectation of admin access comes from the Win9x days and the fact that WinXP Home has admin rights by default Microsoft can't really avoid the blame on this one.
Simply building a better mouse trap and thinking that people will flock to you is one of those sweet lies that duped engineers believe. It's simply not so.
I wish the fools around here who think that Linux isn't succeeding on the desktop because Windows is so amazing would have this tattooed on their stupid heads.
Now I'm certainly not going to question your expertise and knowledge since you're obviously a lot more knowledgeable than me, but as far as I know ActiveX and MSHTML are only a threat if you browse to malicious websites that can then silently (if your security settings are weak) install all manner of nasties. Since Quicken only uses that to display help files I can't see it being a danger. Better safe than sorry though, although I've kept my XP machine malware-free by not using IE for any internet-related activity.
Thank you, I'm sick and tired of people who will never be computer experts being blamed for shoddy software by computer experts.
From the article: "Open source is unreliable" so you can't trust Firefox or OpenOffice.
Unions have in the main been a very positive influence on the situation for the average worker, I never tried to claim they were perfect (name a human-run organisation that is). Anyway the usual proposition for IT workers is a professional organisation; looking at professions that do have that like lawyers and doctors, I'm having trouble seeing how their ability to make money is in any way compromised.
Or IMac for short.