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no, he meant similar. Where VB uses the word Begin , C# uses the character {. That's practically no difference whatsoever.
There is a point for MS making VB only, in that they wouldn't have to create 2 of everything - code samples, documentation, etc. But then I guess C# devs wouldn't feel so superior....
Instead, say:"For the last two years I've been doing support *cough* I mean, remote system administration and business delivery continuation engineering.
You're management potential if you can say that with a straight face.
from TFA: Additionally Microsoft will be developing additional controls, or widgets, to run on top of jQuery that will be easily deployable within your.NET applications. jQuery helpers will also be included in the server-side portion of.NET development
so much for "if we want changes, we'll submit a patch like everyone else"
Yeah, like if I want a review of a product, all I need to do is type the model number into google search and I'll go straight to a review... not ten pages of shopping comparison sites.
if you consider how many other companies use the 'server' distro that is RHEL, it really has been the right business decision to make. Think Oracle and VMware ship RHEL-based systems.
Personally, I always go for CentOS when specifying a server linux distro. I wouldn't use it for a desktop (ubuntu gets that prize). I think its a good thing they specialise in this way.
come to think of it, how long do MS have to release the docs? 8 years not enough, how about 20. Maybe we'll get the interop docs for Exchange 2001, Word 97 and SMB v1.1 around then.
lol. in my experience, documentation lists actual behaviour of the first release. Programmers updating subsequent releases "forget" to update the documentatino too.
PS. There is no such this as 'self documenting' code. Its a fallicy put about by amateur programmers too lazy or undisciplined to write proper documentation.
(note I didn't _have_ to turn it off for any reason, you would if you left it on for extended periods:-)
I use Vista at home, it works (even though I had to buy more RAM), and its ok. The control panel applets are all over the place, and the networking dialogs are dumbed down to the point where a command-line is necessary. But the biggest issue for me is explorer and the disk-accessing "features".
Speedboost seems to thrash my disk all the time, as does the defragger (possibly because speedboost is continually reorganising things), and the search indexes when it wants to, not when its supposed to. Opening a file in explorer to view can take a very long time - it might have soemthing to do with its desire to thumbnail everything, but it can be dire.
File copies even with SP1 take a lot longer than they used to. And don't get me started on the WMI corruption on a clean install - I only noticed when I installed SQL server and received a truly gobbledigook error message about compiling some MOF package. Compiling? on an install? Its all truly too complicated to work reliably.
That's the problem, I had similar issues where the scheduler would crash when trying to add an entry. (and have you seen the number of scheduled tasks the OS put in there by default?!)
I think MS is on a downwards slope now, previous OS releases were always installed and upgraded, but not this one. Vista is a turning point for the company.
Solitaire. Most widely used software application in the history of mankind.
(Note how these are both from the glory days of Win3.1 when software wasn't hugely complex and provide all kinds of 'features' no-one wanted or needed)
Seconded. IBM always did truly excellent documentation that told you everything the system did. I recall the OS/2 manuals I used to have (way back) that were huge and included everything I could consider needing to know.
I suppose you could change which fingertip you used for authentication...
"guard: place your finger in the reader please sir" "you: ah, I got hacked, so I had to change it." "guard: fine, put the appropriate finger in the reader please sir" "you: trouble is, I can't remember which one it was, oh bollocks" "guard: unusual, but if you'd get them out, and place them in the reader please sir"
it'll be like the chip+pin cards that were 'unbreakable'.
Just get a reader, capture the hash that is sent to the verification network (either using a modified reader, or sniffing the wireless signal), and look at the user as they type in their pin code. You do it at restaurants all the time, don't you. Only whereas currently the bank will return any money stolen in this way, now "you" will be going out and buying 2 tons of fertiliser.... (or did you think the terrorists will give up because Jacqi Smith says they have to carry ID cards, lol).
as a working foreigner i expect to receive such a card in the coming months... to which i will probably either burn it, or pointedly refuse to carry it. ever.
or continue to work in the cash-in-hand marketplace. There was a TV documentary about police motorway officers yesterday, they stopped a bloke in a van.. turned out he came into the country with a 6-month visa.. in 1998. He managed to live happily with no documentation whatsoever.
They also interviewed 2 cops who stopped 2 Iranian illegal immigrants. The cops said the force policy was to hand them a paper telling them to hand themselves in at the nearest immigration centre and then let them go. Apparently this was because they had so many illegal immigrants they'd be unable to do any other police work if they took them to the station for processing.
Note that neither immigrant did turn up at the centre. So, I think the ID card will no effect on illegal foreign workers, just the mugs like you that applied, filled out the forms, handed over the fees and will probably get sent home when your visa expires. If you'd only snuck in on the back of a lorry, you'd have been fine:-)
Its not the fingerprint you need worry about, its the hash. If I have your hash and I can hack the data stream/server, I can supply your hash directly, bypassing the fingerprint reader. What's the chances of being able to hack a client device to do this, or a server that accepts these? Now when that happens, you can't just revoke the fingerprints and send a new set in the post to the user like you can with a PIN or a passcard.
How easy is it to get a set of hashes for the population? Just wait a while and a laptop or USB stick will appear on ebay before long.
How will an additional ID card help to do anything?
You forget this is to assist the war on terror by making sure every illegal immigrant has one. I guess the Home Secretary thinks all illegals will turn up at the appointed immigration centre, get biometrically verified, pay the £70 for the card, then be free to go about their unlawful business.
Sure they will.
The only people it'll affect are the law-abiding ones, the ones who wouldn't dream of blowing anything up in the first place, the ones who have valid credit card, driving licences and passports anyway.
Sometimes I wish we had George W Bush as our political leader, it'd be an improvement!!!
Key driver of commercial Open source business creation: -(Europe) Creation of a local software industry. -(US) Venture capital/entrepreneur-driven to create big business and make money for investors.
European software is restricted by MS, that's why you see little in the way of commercial Office Apps - everyone buys MS Office. In the US, I guess you have it the same, but to you it is a "local" company selling it.
I guess in the US, people see it as a way of actually competing with MS. Over here, we care more about the quality of the software.
The IIS comment is true, but only for 1 reason - MS persuaded GoDaddy (IIRC) to move all their 'unused' sites to Windows. That registrar has millions of domains registered that have no corresponding site (except a redirect to spam links, obviously) and it is these that are showing up on the stats.
I do see more IIS hosting out there, MS finally woke up and offered the bigger hosting companies Windows Web Edition. Which only shows that competition does work, eventually, and that MS has woken up to the very real threat to their business from OSS.
That last bit is the kicker - its MSs business to deal with anything that will reduce their business, they take it very seriously. That they are taking steps to attract developer and users to the little-value platforms they used to ignore is something we all need to recognise.
yeah, but to date MS products have been better than the alternatives (linux fanbois regardless).
However... fast forward to today. Linux is not just as good (at least, lets not get into arguments here), but its making big inroads into the server marketplace - Oracle sells Oracle, and you get a free OS to run it on (redhat^H^H^H^H^H^H'Unbreakable' linux). VMware sells you the best enterprise virtualisation product... that runs on Linux (RedH^H^H^H ESX).
The desktop is getting close to being good enough to use everyday. If there were more games, home users would go for it in a much stronger way. At the moment, they're tentatively checking it out - at least the non-technical blogs I read have more and more people asking "if anyone has tried this Ubuntu, I need to upgrade and I thought I'd see what it was about".
and so on. That's just Linux, it doesn't count the growth importance of Google, smartphones and web-based computing. (remember there's about 300 million people with internet access, 3 billion have mobile phones, how's that marketplace going to mature over the next 5-10 years?).
Microsoft is still the dominant player, but its fading. Evans Data surve that said there were 74% of all developers targeted Windows in 2006 became 65% in 2007. That worried MS enough to start coughing up cash to PHP and Apache, and starting their own opensource initiatives. They're worried, and rightly so.
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no, he meant similar. Where VB uses the word Begin , C# uses the character {. That's practically no difference whatsoever.
There is a point for MS making VB only, in that they wouldn't have to create 2 of everything - code samples, documentation, etc. But then I guess C# devs wouldn't feel so superior....
Instead, say:"For the last two years I've been doing support *cough* I mean, remote system administration and business delivery continuation engineering.
You're management potential if you can say that with a straight face.
and pulling in 5x her old salary. Worked for me for about a year, then took a job with a startup ..... And well... yes, she was cute
yup. she used you for your money and when that ran out she threw you aside like an old shoe. Just like all my old girl friends too :-)
If......
from TFA: .NET applications. jQuery helpers will also be included in the server-side portion of .NET development
Additionally Microsoft will be developing additional controls, or widgets, to run on top of jQuery that will be easily deployable within your
so much for "if we want changes, we'll submit a patch like everyone else"
that kind of applies to all scripting languages. Besides, how many others are embedded in the browser?
Yeah, like if I want a review of a product, all I need to do is type the model number into google search and I'll go straight to a review... not ten pages of shopping comparison sites.
if you consider how many other companies use the 'server' distro that is RHEL, it really has been the right business decision to make. Think Oracle and VMware ship RHEL-based systems.
Personally, I always go for CentOS when specifying a server linux distro. I wouldn't use it for a desktop (ubuntu gets that prize). I think its a good thing they specialise in this way.
perhaps they saw the source code in question.....
IBM's documentation is excellent.
Perhaps its just too complete, accurate and encompassing for you. Perhaps you'd prefer "Dick and Tom code VB" type documentation instead?
come to think of it, how long do MS have to release the docs? 8 years not enough, how about 20. Maybe we'll get the interop docs for Exchange 2001, Word 97 and SMB v1.1 around then.
lol. in my experience, documentation lists actual behaviour of the first release. Programmers updating subsequent releases "forget" to update the documentatino too.
PS. There is no such this as 'self documenting' code. Its a fallicy put about by amateur programmers too lazy or undisciplined to write proper documentation.
(note I didn't _have_ to turn it off for any reason, :-)
you would if you left it on for extended periods
I use Vista at home, it works (even though I had to buy more RAM), and its ok. The control panel applets are all over the place, and the networking dialogs are dumbed down to the point where a command-line is necessary. But the biggest issue for me is explorer and the disk-accessing "features".
Speedboost seems to thrash my disk all the time, as does the defragger (possibly because speedboost is continually reorganising things), and the search indexes when it wants to, not when its supposed to. Opening a file in explorer to view can take a very long time - it might have soemthing to do with its desire to thumbnail everything, but it can be dire.
File copies even with SP1 take a lot longer than they used to. And don't get me started on the WMI corruption on a clean install - I only noticed when I installed SQL server and received a truly gobbledigook error message about compiling some MOF package. Compiling? on an install? Its all truly too complicated to work reliably.
That's the problem, I had similar issues where the scheduler would crash when trying to add an entry. (and have you seen the number of scheduled tasks the OS put in there by default?!)
I think MS is on a downwards slope now, previous OS releases were always installed and upgraded, but not this one. Vista is a turning point for the company.
Solitaire. Most widely used software application in the history of mankind.
(Note how these are both from the glory days of Win3.1 when software wasn't hugely complex and provide all kinds of 'features' no-one wanted or needed)
you need to get reading a little more about what's in the current STL and C++0x specs.
Ok, they missed XML from the c++ specs, that's probably a good thing.
Seconded. IBM always did truly excellent documentation that told you everything the system did. I recall the OS/2 manuals I used to have (way back) that were huge and included everything I could consider needing to know.
MQSeries also comes to mind as good.
I suppose you could change which fingertip you used for authentication...
"guard: place your finger in the reader please sir"
"you: ah, I got hacked, so I had to change it."
"guard: fine, put the appropriate finger in the reader please sir"
"you: trouble is, I can't remember which one it was, oh bollocks"
"guard: unusual, but if you'd get them out, and place them in the reader please sir"
it'll be like the chip+pin cards that were 'unbreakable'.
Just get a reader, capture the hash that is sent to the verification network (either using a modified reader, or sniffing the wireless signal), and look at the user as they type in their pin code. You do it at restaurants all the time, don't you. Only whereas currently the bank will return any money stolen in this way, now "you" will be going out and buying 2 tons of fertiliser.... (or did you think the terrorists will give up because Jacqi Smith says they have to carry ID cards, lol).
as a working foreigner i expect to receive such a card in the coming months... to which i will probably either burn it, or pointedly refuse to carry it. ever.
or continue to work in the cash-in-hand marketplace.
There was a TV documentary about police motorway officers yesterday, they stopped a bloke in a van.. turned out he came into the country with a 6-month visa.. in 1998. He managed to live happily with no documentation whatsoever.
They also interviewed 2 cops who stopped 2 Iranian illegal immigrants. The cops said the force policy was to hand them a paper telling them to hand themselves in at the nearest immigration centre and then let them go. Apparently this was because they had so many illegal immigrants they'd be unable to do any other police work if they took them to the station for processing.
Note that neither immigrant did turn up at the centre. So, I think the ID card will no effect on illegal foreign workers, just the mugs like you that applied, filled out the forms, handed over the fees and will probably get sent home when your visa expires. If you'd only snuck in on the back of a lorry, you'd have been fine :-)
Its not the fingerprint you need worry about, its the hash. If I have your hash and I can hack the data stream/server, I can supply your hash directly, bypassing the fingerprint reader. What's the chances of being able to hack a client device to do this, or a server that accepts these? Now when that happens, you can't just revoke the fingerprints and send a new set in the post to the user like you can with a PIN or a passcard.
How easy is it to get a set of hashes for the population? Just wait a while and a laptop or USB stick will appear on ebay before long.
How will an additional ID card help to do anything?
You forget this is to assist the war on terror by making sure every illegal immigrant has one. I guess the Home Secretary thinks all illegals will turn up at the appointed immigration centre, get biometrically verified, pay the £70 for the card, then be free to go about their unlawful business.
Sure they will.
The only people it'll affect are the law-abiding ones, the ones who wouldn't dream of blowing anything up in the first place, the ones who have valid credit card, driving licences and passports anyway.
Sometimes I wish we had George W Bush as our political leader, it'd be an improvement!!!
but there was part 2 of the post:
Key driver of commercial Open source business creation:
-(Europe) Creation of a local software industry.
-(US) Venture capital/entrepreneur-driven to create big business and make money for investors.
European software is restricted by MS, that's why you see little in the way of commercial Office Apps - everyone buys MS Office. In the US, I guess you have it the same, but to you it is a "local" company selling it.
I guess in the US, people see it as a way of actually competing with MS. Over here, we care more about the quality of the software.
The IIS comment is true, but only for 1 reason - MS persuaded GoDaddy (IIRC) to move all their 'unused' sites to Windows. That registrar has millions of domains registered that have no corresponding site (except a redirect to spam links, obviously) and it is these that are showing up on the stats.
I do see more IIS hosting out there, MS finally woke up and offered the bigger hosting companies Windows Web Edition. Which only shows that competition does work, eventually, and that MS has woken up to the very real threat to their business from OSS.
That last bit is the kicker - its MSs business to deal with anything that will reduce their business, they take it very seriously. That they are taking steps to attract developer and users to the little-value platforms they used to ignore is something we all need to recognise.
yeah, but to date MS products have been better than the alternatives (linux fanbois regardless).
However... fast forward to today. Linux is not just as good (at least, lets not get into arguments here), but its making big inroads into the server marketplace - Oracle sells Oracle, and you get a free OS to run it on (redhat^H^H^H^H^H^H'Unbreakable' linux). VMware sells you the best enterprise virtualisation product... that runs on Linux (RedH^H^H^H ESX).
The desktop is getting close to being good enough to use everyday. If there were more games, home users would go for it in a much stronger way. At the moment, they're tentatively checking it out - at least the non-technical blogs I read have more and more people asking "if anyone has tried this Ubuntu, I need to upgrade and I thought I'd see what it was about".
and so on. That's just Linux, it doesn't count the growth importance of Google, smartphones and web-based computing. (remember there's about 300 million people with internet access, 3 billion have mobile phones, how's that marketplace going to mature over the next 5-10 years?).
Microsoft is still the dominant player, but its fading. Evans Data surve that said there were 74% of all developers targeted Windows in 2006 became 65% in 2007. That worried MS enough to start coughing up cash to PHP and Apache, and starting their own opensource initiatives. They're worried, and rightly so.
so therefore.... they should invest that $40bn in something like Linux, Open Document Format, or Google...
wow.. that chair nearly hit me, where did that come from?
so its not reliant on a bloated OS that no-one wants anymore, not even MS as they're busy thinning XP down so it runs on subnotebooks and MIDs.
If Linux gets mnore of a foothold, and Google gets more users for Android/smartphone based apps... its pretty much goodbye Microsoft.