At least I have the courage to publicly stand by my point of view, as opposed to yourself... too gutless to express an opinion using your own name. Artard!
I haven't done much with.NET but I can tell you that J2EE will have a longer life than.NET - the last thing you need is Microsoft changing their APIs yet again to some god-forsaken, bloated, filth. I don't imagine that every healthcare installation uses Microsoft platforms everywhere, either. You're likely to encounter free-thinking IT managers with Linux in various, critical, places where.NET won't cut the mustard. And don't any of you retort with Mono, either. Mono is a curse on FOSS and should be treated with the contempt it deserves!
I personaly don't "get" the plethora of "desktop search software" currently proliferating around the globe. Purveyors of said software would have you believe it's the next killer thing, but personally, anybody who doesn't know - roughly - where they've saved something on their hard drive, probably doesn't deserve to find it anyway.
I would much rather see a Windows search that actually doesn't ignore filenames - such as.asp - in a search simply because Microsoft can not comprehend anybody ever wanting to search for them. I have had to install Agent Ransack (http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/) simply to do a "grep" on my ASP files. This sucks, Microsoft!
The biggest thing that turns me away from anime is the increasing size of the characters' eyes when compared with original anime classics.
The drawings are just so god-damned ugly and laughable with characters that have eyes bigger than their fists and noses smaller than their thumb nails. And the ridiculously coloured hair... The Japanese do have rather strange tastes!
I couldn't name one anime with a similar plot, however, this is probably because the only decent anime was Astroboy and Starblazers, and everything else is just cutesy-crap!
It makes me wince, too, but only when used excessively or by force of habit. I rarely end my sentences with "not" but, on this occasion, I just felt like it, so ner!:-)
If Microsoft were threatening to kill poor, innocent, kittens, I might consider the non-descript brown paper bag with money in it (that may or may not have a dollar-sign on it). Of course, if I were Mayor Quimby, I'd much prefer a brief-case...
What scares me is that Australia will probably end up with copyright and patent laws the same as the United States (which is part of our "free trade" agreement). I guess I can always renounce technology and go back to reading books and using pen and paper, but then, I'm sure Amazon has a patent on "a mechanism for the immediate and periodic loan of printed material from a central repository" (meaning I can't borrow library books, unless it takes more than one step:-)
... and, more importantly, where do I input my credit card number? Microsoft worked hard for every patent they invented and deserve a right to protect it and earn financial reward for it... NOT!
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Why do you label me a "troll" when the PHP documentation is clearly an unprofessional collection of other peoples' ramblings?
This isn't what I would call a nicely collated and well written reference fit for anybody but the most hard-core, open-source-brainwashed, developer to put up with. There is some open source documentation which is actually good, say, Perl, but PHP isn't very coherent!
PHP "documentation" is CRAP!
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How could anybody make sense of what PHP are touting as their "documentation" when it is merely a collection of ramblings from developers who have had all and sundry problems with it over the years.
Give me good, old, Visual Basic documentation any day - at least you have some examples you can make sense of, without having to read (suffer?) through "writing" by people clearly with a limited grasp of the English language.
PS, although I prefer the way Microsoft document their programming languages, I personally much prefer Perl as a language.
After having just searched for "BinaryWrite ASP Stream" to see if it might produce the goods in trying to solve a little web page problem I have, clusty did actually turn up something I hadn't seen before. Maybe it is going to be OK?
Back when Teoma came out I remember thinking the same thing, but soon forgot about it.
And yes, I have seen Linux. I was until a year ago a perpetual new-distro-installing-slut to see if Linux was up to scratch. Sadly, I still have to tinker and fiddle with the thing to even get it to recognise a frigging USB mouse (SuSE 9.0). Said USB mouse (Logitec optical) worked beautifully during the installer, but after rebooting, refused to work in X.
And who really gives a hoot? The fact is that this new "OS" is going to be forgotten about like so many other "look how lovely this new shade of grey is" products!
It's probably called "clusty" because of all the domain-name hogging scum out there getting fat off registering everything they can think of to extort big bucks! Who would have thought of registering google, huh? Back when it first came out I remember thinking "google: what a stupid name!". Now, it has become both a noun and a verb in most peoples' everyday speech
How many times is there an article on slashdot about Yet Another Easy-to-use Linux Distro? I'm sick to death of it. The world does not need another Linux distribution! Get that into your worthless and feeble little brains, people. What the world needs are improvements to existing distributions. Is it any wonder why Windows-slaves give up when it comes to Linux? There is such a thing as too much choice you know!
Yes, I do have to install extra codecs to watch those formats you've mentioned, but it's a no-brainer install and I don't have to go compiling shit and downloading the missing libraries that I will inevitably find. In short, compiling shit yourself these days is a right bitch. The fact that an RPM isn't necessarily a Red Hat RPM doesn't help!
Oh, and Windows Media Player has this extremely difficult-to-implement feature whereby fullscreen video will see the buttons down the bottom slide away after a few seconds. Now how hard could that be?
if (window.fullscreen)
window.buttons.visible = false;
Gigabit between buildings on site, 100mb switches in each building. Either 2mb or 10mb between each site (mostly 2mb). Heavily used by people surfing the 'net and the odd video conference. I personally don't think this is enough...
We've got ip-tel at work and it's a right bitch at times - almost like talking to someone over on a mobile. There's nothing worse than having the beginnings and endings of someone's speech cut off!
Even with QoS, ip-tel is over rated. "It should do that"... yeah, right!
... out of the box, that is! If there was a Linux distro that could play - perfectly and without random pixels everywhere - XviD, DivX 3, 4, and 5, MPEG, ASF, etc, then that would be worth installing.
And before you say "you can compile that support in yourself", let me say to you: get lost! I'm sick to death of having to locate some retard's package of some frigging codec just to watch a movie in sub-standard quality than I can get with Windows Media Player (on my dual boot machine).
Oh, and it sure would be nice if those retarded GUI designers for things like Noatun, Video LAN, and the rest, could put the control buttons in the same bloody window as the video itself. I mean, how bloody difficult could it be? But NOOOO, I have to go ALT-TAB'ing to find that other window.
And I'm sick of seeing the endless stream of articles asking "Is Linux ready for prime time?". The answer is a definite no!
There are dozens of XML:whatevers or XML-thingymajigs. I'm sick to death of hearing about today's latest incarnation of some shitty XML add-on or incarnation!
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At least I have the courage to publicly stand by my point of view, as opposed to yourself... too gutless to express an opinion using your own name. Artard!
I haven't done much with .NET but I can tell you that J2EE will have a longer life than .NET - the last thing you need is Microsoft changing their APIs yet again to some god-forsaken, bloated, filth. I don't imagine that every healthcare installation uses Microsoft platforms everywhere, either. You're likely to encounter free-thinking IT managers with Linux in various, critical, places where .NET won't cut the mustard. And don't any of you retort with Mono, either. Mono is a curse on FOSS and should be treated with the contempt it deserves!
I personaly don't "get" the plethora of "desktop search software" currently proliferating around the globe. Purveyors of said software would have you believe it's the next killer thing, but personally, anybody who doesn't know - roughly - where they've saved something on their hard drive, probably doesn't deserve to find it anyway.
.asp - in a search simply because Microsoft can not comprehend anybody ever wanting to search for them. I have had to install Agent Ransack (http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/) simply to do a "grep" on my ASP files. This sucks, Microsoft!
I would much rather see a Windows search that actually doesn't ignore filenames - such as
The biggest thing that turns me away from anime is the increasing size of the characters' eyes when compared with original anime classics.
The drawings are just so god-damned ugly and laughable with characters that have eyes bigger than their fists and noses smaller than their thumb nails. And the ridiculously coloured hair... The Japanese do have rather strange tastes!
Thanks, that works a treat. I no longer have to throw out my newly-delivered Slashdot t-shirt from ThinkGeek :-)
I'm using Firefox 1.0 and the left column (with the Login, Why Login, fields, etc) is rendering over the top of the main column.
I notice that IE doesn't suffer from this today... Some days are good, others not so good.
What gives?
I couldn't name one anime with a similar plot, however, this is probably because the only decent anime was Astroboy and Starblazers, and everything else is just cutesy-crap!
But that means no more having to find cracks on P2P networks... what a shame!
It makes me wince, too, but only when used excessively or by force of habit. I rarely end my sentences with "not" but, on this occasion, I just felt like it, so ner! :-)
If Microsoft were threatening to kill poor, innocent, kittens, I might consider the non-descript brown paper bag with money in it (that may or may not have a dollar-sign on it). Of course, if I were Mayor Quimby, I'd much prefer a brief-case...
What scares me is that Australia will probably end up with copyright and patent laws the same as the United States (which is part of our "free trade" agreement). I guess I can always renounce technology and go back to reading books and using pen and paper, but then, I'm sure Amazon has a patent on "a mechanism for the immediate and periodic loan of printed material from a central repository" (meaning I can't borrow library books, unless it takes more than one step :-)
... and, more importantly, where do I input my credit card number? Microsoft worked hard for every patent they invented and deserve a right to protect it and earn financial reward for it... NOT!
Why do you label me a "troll" when the PHP documentation is clearly an unprofessional collection of other peoples' ramblings?
This isn't what I would call a nicely collated and well written reference fit for anybody but the most hard-core, open-source-brainwashed, developer to put up with. There is some open source documentation which is actually good, say, Perl, but PHP isn't very coherent!
How could anybody make sense of what PHP are touting as their "documentation" when it is merely a collection of ramblings from developers who have had all and sundry problems with it over the years.
Give me good, old, Visual Basic documentation any day - at least you have some examples you can make sense of, without having to read (suffer?) through "writing" by people clearly with a limited grasp of the English language.
PS, although I prefer the way Microsoft document their programming languages, I personally much prefer Perl as a language.
After having just searched for "BinaryWrite ASP Stream" to see if it might produce the goods in trying to solve a little web page problem I have, clusty did actually turn up something I hadn't seen before. Maybe it is going to be OK?
0 416966), the world's latest addition to the steaming heap of soon-to-be-abandonware :-)
Back when Teoma came out I remember thinking the same thing, but soon forgot about it.
And yes, I have seen Linux. I was until a year ago a perpetual new-distro-installing-slut to see if Linux was up to scratch. Sadly, I still have to tinker and fiddle with the thing to even get it to recognise a frigging USB mouse (SuSE 9.0). Said USB mouse (Logitec optical) worked beautifully during the installer, but after rebooting, refused to work in X.
Hey, mabye I should install Syllable 0.5.4 (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=124146&cid=1
And who really gives a hoot? The fact is that this new "OS" is going to be forgotten about like so many other "look how lovely this new shade of grey is" products!
It's probably called "clusty" because of all the domain-name hogging scum out there getting fat off registering everything they can think of to extort big bucks! Who would have thought of registering google, huh? Back when it first came out I remember thinking "google: what a stupid name!". Now, it has become both a noun and a verb in most peoples' everyday speech
Like I said, the interface is crud!
How many times is there an article on slashdot about Yet Another Easy-to-use Linux Distro? I'm sick to death of it. The world does not need another Linux distribution! Get that into your worthless and feeble little brains, people. What the world needs are improvements to existing distributions. Is it any wonder why Windows-slaves give up when it comes to Linux? There is such a thing as too much choice you know!
I wonder how come they call Cosmos 1 the first craft to use solar sails, then?
Oh, and Windows Media Player has this extremely difficult-to-implement feature whereby fullscreen video will see the buttons down the bottom slide away after a few seconds. Now how hard could that be?
Gigabit between buildings on site, 100mb switches in each building. Either 2mb or 10mb between each site (mostly 2mb). Heavily used by people surfing the 'net and the odd video conference. I personally don't think this is enough...
We've got ip-tel at work and it's a right bitch at times - almost like talking to someone over on a mobile. There's nothing worse than having the beginnings and endings of someone's speech cut off!
Even with QoS, ip-tel is over rated. "It should do that"... yeah, right!
... out of the box, that is! If there was a Linux distro that could play - perfectly and without random pixels everywhere - XviD, DivX 3, 4, and 5, MPEG, ASF, etc, then that would be worth installing.
And before you say "you can compile that support in yourself", let me say to you: get lost! I'm sick to death of having to locate some retard's package of some frigging codec just to watch a movie in sub-standard quality than I can get with Windows Media Player (on my dual boot machine).
Oh, and it sure would be nice if those retarded GUI designers for things like Noatun, Video LAN, and the rest, could put the control buttons in the same bloody window as the video itself. I mean, how bloody difficult could it be? But NOOOO, I have to go ALT-TAB'ing to find that other window.
And I'm sick of seeing the endless stream of articles asking "Is Linux ready for prime time?". The answer is a definite no!
There are dozens of XML:whatevers or XML-thingymajigs. I'm sick to death of hearing about today's latest incarnation of some shitty XML add-on or incarnation!