While BATCH file scripting in Win2k/XP is pretty powerful, it's very ugly. Bash/csh scripting is much easier and has a few other features that you can't do with BATCH.
Why not just use the windows scripting host, and write the scripts in VBScript, or jscript? It's part of Win2K. Not sure about XP.
Yes. And that's why Compaq and Gateway were threatened with losing their Microsoft distribution licenses if they were to offer alternate operating systems.
Compaq and Gateway willingly signed a contract, with clear terms and restrictions, because they were looking to make as much money as posible, and exploiting Microsoft was a good way. To bitch later on that they can't eat their cake and have it, too, is disingenuous. Life is full of choices, and they can't all be easy and convenient.
Are you paid by Microsoft?
No. Why do you ask? Because I don't see the world the way you do? Should I ask if you're paid by Sun?
Once again, the Microsoft monopoly has shown that it can dictate market direction and consumer desires because it is an unrestrained megalith, responsible to no one.
Only massive government intervention can put an end to this evil domination.
The reason it affects me is that there is no version of Cakewalk Pro Audio for Linux/UNIX, which I would gladly pay for.
Really? Go ask the folks at Cakewalk to write the Linux version, and just send you the bill, because you will gladly pay for it.
The problem isn't that people don't want it to buy it, or Cakewalk doesn't want to write it, it's that no one will pay what Cakewalk would ask to make it worth their while.
Why weren't any Microsoft officers ever convicted of purjury from the last case?
Good point. Perhaps the people who were actually present in the courtroom had a different opinion those those who only read selected excerpts of the court transcripts.
I mean, if one component needs to be replaced/rewritter you just rewrite that one component and be done with it.
That is how Windows works. The argument from MSFT is not that components can't be *replaced*, but that they can't *removed*. In theory, you could find the DLL responsible for HTML rendering, rewrite it, and replace it. You would need to duplicate the API and maintain binary compatability (which COM lets you do), but it's certainly possible. (It's the basis of DLL Hell.) But you can't just yank out DLLs which provide comon functions to multiple applications.
That sounds good in theory, but do you really think Dell or Gateway is going to get some "Backbone" when it would cost them millions, perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
So, lets see: the current situation allows them to make millions, perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars a year, yet it's a problem.
At some point these people had an offer from Microsoft, and had to decide if they were better off accepting it. They did, and they're making money, and would make less money without the deal, but Microsoft is the bad guy.
The problem is these folks want to eat their cake, and have it too.
Interesting idea, but, unlike a sync'ed DVD track, it seems it would be hard to skip ahead if you get bored with an alternative track that's in a single big MP3.
Are there ways to bookmark sections in Mp3's to allow jumping to fixed locations in the track? Then you could jump to specific chapters.
I've been getting notices like this from Register.com for years. Register.com is NOT my domain registrar.
Register.com is my domain register, and I was going to let them know I had received quasi-deceptive latters from VeriSigm and some other company (can't recall).
Come up with some more details and maybe you'll have a point.
Go dig up the bok Programmers at Work, Microsoft Press, 1986, ISBN 0-914845-71-3, and look at the interview with Bill Gates. It includes some source listings, plus there are more listings in the appendix.
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Why not just use the windows scripting host, and write the scripts in VBScript, or jscript? It's part of Win2K. Not sure about XP.
Better "smackware"
Try stealing a book on grammar.
No, it's more like "Sign this contract or change your business. Don't like the terms? Too bad. The world is full of other opportunities."
It seems that, once people have decided to make money a certain way, the rest of the world is somehow obligated to play along. That's bullshit.
Compaq and Gateway willingly signed a contract, with clear terms and restrictions, because they were looking to make as much money as posible, and exploiting Microsoft was a good way. To bitch later on that they can't eat their cake and have it, too, is disingenuous. Life is full of choices, and they can't all be easy and convenient.
Are you paid by Microsoft?
No. Why do you ask? Because I don't see the world the way you do? Should I ask if you're paid by Sun?
Only massive government intervention can put an end to this evil domination.
Really? Go ask the folks at Cakewalk to write the Linux version, and just send you the bill, because you will gladly pay for it.
The problem isn't that people don't want it to buy it, or Cakewalk doesn't want to write it, it's that no one will pay what Cakewalk would ask to make it worth their while.
Good point. Perhaps the people who were actually present in the courtroom had a different opinion those those who only read selected excerpts of the court transcripts.
Seems every week there's a story on Slashdot about how we can all ditch MS Office.
True. I used to file status reports using Zeno's Work Estimation. On each report I just halfed the percentage of remaining work.
What does "weblication" mean? Is it the combination of "web" and "plication"? Or is it web replication? Web complication?
What has this to do with Ruby?
"Machine code? Huh? Direct memory access? Programs can't do any of that!"
It's not that there aren't any choices, it's that there aren't enough super convenient choices.
That is how Windows works. The argument from MSFT is not that components can't be *replaced*, but that they can't *removed*. In theory, you could find the DLL responsible for HTML rendering, rewrite it, and replace it. You would need to duplicate the API and maintain binary compatability (which COM lets you do), but it's certainly possible. (It's the basis of DLL Hell.) But you can't just yank out DLLs which provide comon functions to multiple applications.
So, I guess the people alive yesterday aren't part of the people who have ever lived.
Interesting. Just when does history start?
Shouldn't that be The Scientists, (you know, just like The Man, Them, and Big Business)?
Why not? Do you have some specific evidence to support your conjecture?
Constant interuptions are a major evil.
Developers need to huddle once in a while, but that should happen in a neutral space.
So, lets see: the current situation allows them to make millions, perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars a year, yet it's a problem.
At some point these people had an offer from Microsoft, and had to decide if they were better off accepting it. They did, and they're making money, and would make less money without the deal, but Microsoft is the bad guy.
The problem is these folks want to eat their cake, and have it too.
Yeah, if I wanted to hear complete strangers mouthing off as if their every thought was special I'd just go see the film in a movie theater.
Hell, you can get 3 or 4 secondary audio tracks at the same time like that.
Are there ways to bookmark sections in Mp3's to allow jumping to fixed locations in the track? Then you could jump to specific chapters.
Register.com is my domain register, and I was going to let them know I had received quasi-deceptive latters from VeriSigm and some other company (can't recall).
Kinda ironic. I can just imagine their outrage.
Go dig up the bok Programmers at Work, Microsoft Press, 1986, ISBN 0-914845-71-3, and look at the interview with Bill Gates. It includes some source listings, plus there are more listings in the appendix.
It's a pretty good book, too.
Hollings is a conservative? Wow.