The web is increasingly becoming an application delivery. I do my online banking on linux with firefox (and konqueror before that, and netscape 4.7 waaay back when I enjoyed pain). I don't need (and dont have) anything windowsbased.
However at work our intranet is developed arround the standard browser we all have - IE6. Firefox is allowed if you make a buisness case for it, or you unnofically "install" it yourself (of course it runs fine from a network drive or usb keyring). However I have to keep using windows because of certain programs on the intranet that use ActiveX components and VBScript.
While you still need IE, you're tied to Windows. Applications built to work with IE rather then a web browser help microsoft as much as applications built using MFC and DriectX rather than GTK and SDL.
IE is about control, not money. Control leads to money.
So you're saying that you can survive a 150m fall into water? Worst case you'll be dead in a few hours as noone will notice that you've gone over at 3AM.
I have no idea how many people in the UK don't mind donating their organs after they're dead. Personally I see no reason not to. Spread the love, share the life! =D
for most slashdotters its the only way to pass on genetic code
What I didn't know is what methods would assuredly kill me.
Hmm, throw youself off a cliff or 150m high bridge? Rent a car and drive off the cliff? Go skydiving and dont pull the parachute until you're half way down? I dont advise sitting on a high-speed railway as you'll cause more unneccersary grief to the driver and the people who have to clean you up after (in addition to your family that you've already decided dont matter)
Extensions - I have a toolbar that can do tons of stuff, validate the source, disable images, outline non-alt text images etc. Live bookmarks too. "Type and find" - no pesky ctrl-f's getting in the way.
Of course ti's good. IE was good when it exited beta (arround version 3), compared with Netscape which started to die at the same time. Once netscape went bust, development stopped.
Same thing will happen once AdAware and Spybot vanish into obscurity.
I work for News at a major UK broadcaster called The ZZZ. We use a supplier called XXXX to keep track of a couple-thousand hours of broadcast quality video. Central to all this is a program called YYYY - it links all the fragments of video and audio (about 5 frames long each) into a clip. An American Sports channel uses the same system.
Thursday afternoon we lost 7 hours as they're replication controller got its knickers in a twist and replicated a 12-hour clip backwards. We're still in testing so it wasn't critical, but a database that would allow this is not worthy of mission critical.
Of course by the time we had noticed the problem restoring from a backup (which XXXX insist we dont need) would have meant losing just as much video. Merging the databases may have worked but some areas of storage would have been overwirtten.
Actualyl it is, I still have the original comments somewhere. You really dont want goatse engraved in stone though, but back in the day that's all we had.
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Don't worry, to speak we have to open our mouths, and they you'd see our teeth.
That would be funny if you didn't run www.getfirefox.com
The web is increasingly becoming an application delivery. I do my online banking on linux with firefox (and konqueror before that, and netscape 4.7 waaay back when I enjoyed pain). I don't need (and dont have) anything windowsbased.
However at work our intranet is developed arround the standard browser we all have - IE6. Firefox is allowed if you make a buisness case for it, or you unnofically "install" it yourself (of course it runs fine from a network drive or usb keyring). However I have to keep using windows because of certain programs on the intranet that use ActiveX components and VBScript.
While you still need IE, you're tied to Windows. Applications built to work with IE rather then a web browser help microsoft as much as applications built using MFC and DriectX rather than GTK and SDL.
IE is about control, not money. Control leads to money.
What's wrong with stickign a fish in your ear?
to clear /etc/ you would create another one that would need programmers to comply to that?
/etc is a matter of rm -Rf /etc
To clear
Does VB6 not work
Correct
all of a sudden
Incorrect
So you're saying that you can survive a 150m fall into water? Worst case you'll be dead in a few hours as noone will notice that you've gone over at 3AM.
I have no idea how many people in the UK don't mind donating their organs after they're dead. Personally I see no reason not to. Spread the love, share the life! =D
for most slashdotters its the only way to pass on genetic code
What I didn't know is what methods would assuredly kill me.
Hmm, throw youself off a cliff or 150m high bridge? Rent a car and drive off the cliff? Go skydiving and dont pull the parachute until you're half way down? I dont advise sitting on a high-speed railway as you'll cause more unneccersary grief to the driver and the people who have to clean you up after (in addition to your family that you've already decided dont matter)
Seriously, I always use my fingers to do sums, but I have no end of problems with representing Ten on one hand
I mean, they are not exactly a company that can win by skimping on security. If the system is hacked, they pay, not you.
Used to be the case that either they, or the store, paid if someone stole your card and forged your signature.
Now it's the case you pay if someone steals your card and uses your pin.
Getting pin's is easy, most people are too timid to shield the pin from the cashier and the guy looking over their shoulder.
Imagine what would happen if the copyright holder of Happy Birthday just woke up one day and forbid anyone from singing it again?
They did I believe, hence the song in futurama is
#What day is today?#
#It's nibbler's birthday#
#what a day for a birth day#
#lets all have some cake#
Free tin of baked beans with every order!
The Linux in-memory image (including X because Windows has a GUI)
Windows might have a GUI, but what good is a GUI when you have no monitor?
Extensions - I have a toolbar that can do tons of stuff, validate the source, disable images, outline non-alt text images etc. Live bookmarks too. "Type and find" - no pesky ctrl-f's getting in the way.
Of course ti's good. IE was good when it exited beta (arround version 3), compared with Netscape which started to die at the same time. Once netscape went bust, development stopped.
Same thing will happen once AdAware and Spybot vanish into obscurity.
In my understanding of the law you are downloading something, not making a copy and distributing to someone else, so it's legal.
You missed one:
Stock up on:
Canned Food
Water
Yacht Batteries
Guns
Ammunition
Porn
Wow, your signature has it's own job?
Oh.
What train?
Back in the dark days you paid your monthly fee, a per-minute access fee, and your phone call!
Worked out to be about £20/month and 5p/minute off peak, 10p on peak.
I work for News at a major UK broadcaster called The ZZZ. We use a supplier called XXXX to keep track of a couple-thousand hours of broadcast quality video. Central to all this is a program called YYYY - it links all the fragments of video and audio (about 5 frames long each) into a clip. An American Sports channel uses the same system.
Thursday afternoon we lost 7 hours as they're replication controller got its knickers in a twist and replicated a 12-hour clip backwards. We're still in testing so it wasn't critical, but a database that would allow this is not worthy of mission critical.
Of course by the time we had noticed the problem restoring from a backup (which XXXX insist we dont need) would have meant losing just as much video. Merging the databases may have worked but some areas of storage would have been overwirtten.
All very bad.
YEah, It's like ssh to a bourne shell on solaris.
This one goes up to 11!
FIRST CORRECTION
15th actually, and you were wrong anyway.
Actualyl it is, I still have the original comments somewhere. You really dont want goatse engraved in stone though, but back in the day that's all we had.