No, if you're an idiot, your system has no security.
Intelligent people can make intelligent decisions about what they download and run; idiots will find ways to be idiots with or without ActiveX components; and uninformed dooM$sayers will post ridiculous generalisations backed up by links to ancient articles.
Maybe the students would prefer to learn something that's going to give them a broad range of career opportunities, instead of having a degree in a hobby.
someone just has to look through the executable for strings
Not if you use formulae. You can base them on the date, or have a generated logon/password pair (we use a system like that for rescuing customer's who've locked themselves out.)
My favourite bit is the "opt out" of filtering for over-18s - as much an admission of the intent to masturbate as calling down to the front desk of the Hilton and saying "Yeah, hi, how do I get porn on this TV?"
I don't know what kind of hardware you've got access to, but I'm working with SQL Server databases on dual-Xeon PowerEdges with a couple of Gb of RAM if I'm lucky, and believe me, stick 100 users on it and that starts to slow down way before half a terabyte.
I've only ever worked on one project where the database size went over a gigabyte, and that was for UtiliCorp (domestic gas supply sub). Of course, whether the smaller ones would really benefit from this kind of technology is open to debate. But not here.
Verbs in the passive voice are overused in patent applications. They are made very hard to read because of this. It is being assumed that the claim is as ridiculous as usual.
I already do "appreciate the difference between what people say and what they mean." The only time I ever do precisely what a user asks me to do is when they've really annoyed me and I want revenge.
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Speaking as the creator of the Beehive Forum project: They can bog off. We were here first.
No, if you're an idiot, your system has no security.
Intelligent people can make intelligent decisions about what they download and run; idiots will find ways to be idiots with or without ActiveX components; and uninformed dooM$sayers will post ridiculous generalisations backed up by links to ancient articles.
If Bob had meant us to recycle computers, he wouldn't have given us eBay.
Maybe the students would prefer to learn something that's going to give them a broad range of career opportunities, instead of having a degree in a hobby.
Not if you use formulae. You can base them on the date, or have a generated logon/password pair (we use a system like that for rescuing customer's who've locked themselves out.)
I don't understand. Why would anyone want a thing that wasn't the P800?
My favourite bit is the "opt out" of filtering for over-18s - as much an admission of the intent to masturbate as calling down to the front desk of the Hilton and saying "Yeah, hi, how do I get porn on this TV?"
If everything Andrew Grygus claimed about Microsoft were true, GWB'd have to bomb them for holding America hostile.
My point was that plenty of people use a database which is small enough to fit in RAM.
It was my weird, cryptic way of answering the question "Who uses a database small enough to fit in RAM?"
Do you see?
I don't know what kind of hardware you've got access to, but I'm working with SQL Server databases on dual-Xeon PowerEdges with a couple of Gb of RAM if I'm lucky, and believe me, stick 100 users on it and that starts to slow down way before half a terabyte.
I've only ever worked on one project where the database size went over a gigabyte, and that was for UtiliCorp (domestic gas supply sub). Of course, whether the smaller ones would really benefit from this kind of technology is open to debate. But not here.
Verbs in the passive voice are overused in patent applications. They are made very hard to read because of this. It is being assumed that the claim is as ridiculous as usual.
"becoming"? Say what you like about their operating systems, but Office has been innovating for years.
At least XML's open, unlike, oh, /every/ previous M$ file format.
If it can use XML as a source for mailmerges, then I'll be really interested.
If you compiled a program using gcc 3.0 and deployed it, chances are it's still working now.
If you wrote a script for PHP 4.0 and deployed it, and someone upgrades the PHP runtime to 4.3, chances are it's buggered.
I realise that second thing probably applies to Java VMs too, but I hate Java, so that's cool.
I just upgraded from a Radeon 9000 to a Radeon 9700 and I /swear/ I 5uX0r less now. The only thing holding me back from total domination is my mouse.
I already do "appreciate the difference between what people say and what they mean." The only time I ever do precisely what a user asks me to do is when they've really annoyed me and I want revenge.
No, but it's a real risk. There are terrorists hiding in the milk. That's why we have to bomb Iraq.
This is under Windows; he just checked the "Build In Every Media Player" checkbox in his chosen IDE.