And what about importation? When did that become a word? What's wrong with import?
"the import of almost all hard drives would actually cease" reads so much more easily.
Last time I criticised an editor's English I was modded down (bye-bye Karma) but clear, succinct language really makes a difference in reducing the cognitive friction involved in parsing and understanding a sentence.
This clearly proves that Windows is rubbish. I think we can draw a line under the discussion there.
Seriously though I love the way news is reported these days (and I mean mainstream news rather than Slashdot and its look-a-likes). You can't just tell a story without having a first hand witness. "My gran died in a rubbish care home", or "My teachers at school couldn't control my class" and so on. As if individual's experiences can be representative of the whole.
Your statements are false for Vista. Even admin user runs without admin rights on Vista and has to escalate to get them.
My point was that the editor stated that the Linux development model meant Linux was inherently more secure. That seems to say that the choice of development process determines how secure your system is. I don't see why that should be so a priori, and would like to be be told of the justification.
Seriously the story title is exceedingly hard to understand (and I am actually English!) so why is my comment flamebait? Oh that's right, the first rule of Slashdot is nobody criticises Slashdot...
Borland do this and it's a real boon when working with a framework/library to be able to see the source and debug it. It's an obvious move that will make.NET and VS more attractive.
Linux is obviously the benchmark for any project that wants to take on an entrenched proprietary market leader. While Sun insist on owning everything in OpenOffice/StarOffice my bet is that it will never be able to take on MS Office in the way the Linux takes on Windows.
Truly what Linus has been doing all these years is remarkable.
I read this and thought of Joel Spolsky's recent blog post: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/09/18.html/. I imagine MS know just what they are doing and are positioning Vista for the typical desktop computer of about 18 months from now.
Let's just wait and see before we declare MS to be dead!
I don't work for Hydro but my company produces the software that was used in the early analysis of this work (before Hydro stole the idea from my client). There's no bother keeping it stable, it's cheap to install which means that the energy is affordable and should be a big success.
I've just got done on my credit card. The transaction in question was named as wwwcard. When you look this up it's a virtual credit card. What happens is you use your real credit card to charge up a virtual one. You can then generate single use credit card numbers on your wwwcard. I guess the main use it to buy porn without your wife knowing since the actual purchase is not shown on your real credit card bill, just the wwwcard.
What I guess happened to me is that someone used my details to charge up their wwwcard and then made a payment with it. The problem here is that nothing is being delivered to my house so all the posters that say, "What's the problem - you've can't collect the goods because they are delivered to the cardholder's bill address?", it ain't so.
Such a service as wwwcard almost seems designed to facilitate credit card fraud.
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Didn't we do this one already?
.....they will likely come up empty handed!
Grammatically correct for sure, but clear? No.
And what about importation? When did that become a word? What's wrong with import?
"the import of almost all hard drives would actually cease" reads so much more easily.
Last time I criticised an editor's English I was modded down (bye-bye Karma) but clear, succinct language really makes a difference in reducing the cognitive friction involved in parsing and understanding a sentence.
This clearly proves that Windows is rubbish. I think we can draw a line under the discussion there.
Seriously though I love the way news is reported these days (and I mean mainstream news rather than Slashdot and its look-a-likes). You can't just tell a story without having a first hand witness. "My gran died in a rubbish care home", or "My teachers at school couldn't control my class" and so on. As if individual's experiences can be representative of the whole.
Where do you want me to begin?
Not quite loser!
Your statements are false for Vista. Even admin user runs without admin rights on Vista and has to escalate to get them.
My point was that the editor stated that the Linux development model meant Linux was inherently more secure. That seems to say that the choice of development process determines how secure your system is. I don't see why that should be so a priori, and would like to be be told of the justification.
Seriously the story title is exceedingly hard to understand (and I am actually English!) so why is my comment flamebait? Oh that's right, the first rule of Slashdot is nobody criticises Slashdot...
"Retailers Fighting To No Longer Store Credit Data"?? In ten years, couldn't you even learn how to write in English? Ouch!
How much money do subscribers pay?
Borland do this and it's a real boon when working with a framework/library to be able to see the source and debug it. It's an obvious move that will make .NET and VS more attractive.
Subject says it all really!
Linux is obviously the benchmark for any project that wants to take on an entrenched proprietary market leader. While Sun insist on owning everything in OpenOffice/StarOffice my bet is that it will never be able to take on MS Office in the way the Linux takes on Windows.
Truly what Linus has been doing all these years is remarkable.
This is a nascent area and so of course there is lots of choice and lots of different thoughts of how best to support parallel development.
In due course there will be consensus and the few winners will emerge.
Same as it ever was.
......why don't you try re-inventing the wheel?!
And what about the OSS maps?
I read this and thought of Joel Spolsky's recent blog post: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/09/18.html/. I imagine MS know just what they are doing and are positioning Vista for the typical desktop computer of about 18 months from now.
Let's just wait and see before we declare MS to be dead!
Claire Bennett?
Oh please! You'll be talking about FOSS porn next!
Insightful? Really? Seems like the dumbing down of Slashdot continues apace....
I don't work for Hydro but my company produces the software that was used in the early analysis of this work (before Hydro stole the idea from my client). There's no bother keeping it stable, it's cheap to install which means that the energy is affordable and should be a big success.
I'll install this when I get sent an ODF document. Maybe not for a while then.
Why is that so hard to believe? Or are you displaying the typical /. bias?
I've just got done on my credit card. The transaction in question was named as wwwcard. When you look this up it's a virtual credit card. What happens is you use your real credit card to charge up a virtual one. You can then generate single use credit card numbers on your wwwcard. I guess the main use it to buy porn without your wife knowing since the actual purchase is not shown on your real credit card bill, just the wwwcard.
What I guess happened to me is that someone used my details to charge up their wwwcard and then made a payment with it. The problem here is that nothing is being delivered to my house so all the posters that say, "What's the problem - you've can't collect the goods because they are delivered to the cardholder's bill address?", it ain't so.
Such a service as wwwcard almost seems designed to facilitate credit card fraud.