Don't fret. The NSA has been so busy editing video for the 9/11 attacks that they just haven't got around to "fixing" the moon walk videos yet. George Lucas doesn't seem too busy lately, maybe they can let him a go at it? Add a few Star Destroyers overhead, and a rubber looking Jabba The Hutt, and it can be done for Christmas DVD release.
900 lbs of Moon rock is proof we were on the moon? Well, if you have 900 lbs of Pluto rock it would be more believable you went to Pluto. Why? Well, the close proximity of the moon to our planet makes it very likely you can find 900 lbs of moon rock on Earth without needing to go to the moon for it.
I run Windows on my new laptop. Due to software I run, I probably would have installed Windows anyways. But Compaq felt it a good idea to "bundle" a bunch of crapware (AOL, tons of trialware, etc) on the box when they preinstalled the OS for me. I would have loved for them to have just sold me a vanilla laptop, cut the price for not including XP (Home Edition = junk), and let me go get and install XP Pro for myself.
Even with the WGA in place, people would still buy Windows.
Actually, if they had to knowingly *buy* Windows, Linux would have a huge chance of becoming the desktop of choice. We are a Walmart community here in the U.S. and cheap is always better. But since Windows comes bundled with PCs the customer never have to go purchase the box (which is easily over $100). The lack of choice ensures Microsoft stays a monopoly.
I personally think there should be a law that new computers come WITHOUT an OS. Yes, I'm including Macs too. Let the users install the OS.
Yeah, lets show these holy types that we are the bigger bigots!
This was a clear case of a commercial company profiting from derivative works of copyrighted material.
I copy my personal DVDs all the time. My kid has destroyed three copies of Finding Nemo to date. But the original is still in perfect condition since I have practiced my right to backups. The menu, advertisements, etc have all been removed. Have I broke the law?
Not the same? Okay, now what if I pay company X to do this service for me. I pay them for a copy of Finding Nemo and ask them to remove the junk. Now, I ask, is the profit they are making in the derivated work or the service they performed in the production of this work? Remember, they had to buy a legitimate copy of Finding Nemo to make the modified version for me, so there was no profit in the original copy price I paid.
Another way of saying that is Iraq was our ally during the Clinton and Carter years.
Clinton was president AFTER Bush Sr. The major ties with Iraq occured during the Reagan administration (you can still find pictures on the internet with Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam) which was AFTER Carter. This relationship soured when Saddam suppressed a Kurd uprising by using biological weapons.
So did a part of IE7 come from Flight Simulator 2004? *scratches head*. Wait, is this a joke? How can a DLL inside the Flight Simulator folder mess with IE7, which is stored in a seperate folder? I could see this as an issue only if Flight Simulator is somehow in the PATH.
Whether you agree with the city planning commission or not (and I do) this is real money Wal-Mart is losing because they chose to be "evil."
That works until the Walmart lobbyists secure enough senators to pass a bill that "deregulates" companies from being bothered by local city councils. Because, according to the current system we have in place, federal rules and laws override state and local rules and laws. I think this, for a democracy, is backwards and it should be: local rules override state which in turn overrides federal . A people-first-bottoms-up approach. Alas, evil corporations like our centralized government.
Doesn't have to be. Stand up and support companies that share and uphold your ideals and beliefs by giving them your money. Or you can go for the cheapest company and help them screw over your fellow man.
We live in a Walmart world, if we like it or not. Cheaper = better. Even if you refuse to shop there, the rest of the population will.
Publicly traded companies know their only duty is to the shareholders. Countries, and the people that live in them, are to be bought and sold. If India is too expensive, move to the next cheaper labor.
According to the "free market" system, poorer countries are suppose to get the jobs over time. The dream idea is that the poor places of the world will eventually level with the rich because of this. I don't see it with such optimism. I see more of a migration pattern where businesses go to cheaper parts of the world when another part becomes too expensive or has rules (employee or environmental protections) that they don't like. In other words, every so many years a proserpous economy will have to suddenly crash and die as all the international migration businesses suddenly disappear to another place to rape and pillage.
Let's face it - Since the pre-1.2 line, 2.6 has some of the worst stability ever seen.
I have actually seen better stability under the current versions of 2.6 as compared to 2.4. Also, 2.5 includes featues in 2.6 (since it was the development branch for that version). 2.5 is not "2.4 plus", but rather "2.6 minus".
Yes, it also supports quite a few nice things (like massively better USB support than its predecessors), but anyone using it on critical systems needs a lobotomy.
You are mentioning the best feature that desktop Linux users probably noticed. Why would usb support be important to Linux servers? 2.6 includes a huge amount of features over 2.4, but sadly most people just didn't notice them. Kernels are not very glamorous but very, very important.
Your user access idea of download information from LDAP or ActiveDirectory sounds pretty scary. Out of curiousity, are you suggesting downloading user id + passwords to access tables? That is not the proper, or secure, way of doing authentication. The typical (and secure) way of handling this is storing a ACL in your apps database (just user id) and sending the credentials to the authentication source (LDAP or AD) for confirmation. I have watched way too many "Access Experts" come to IT departments demanding the capability to have an administrative account on LDAP so they could copy it to their JET database! Bad, bad, bad! If you don't know why I will detail:
1) Access databases are not secure. They are file based and there are tons of programs out there that can easily defeat the cheesy security features it has.
2) Even if you were allowed to sychronize with LDAP or AD, how often is this to be performed? Too often people change their password and then call tech support with the complaint that they can't log in to app X anymore.
You missed major databases like MySQL and sqlite. MySQL is free, has more features than SQL Server Express, and limitless in size. Sqlite is free, about same in feature set compared to JET, and pretty much limitless in size (up to 2 terabytes to be exact). Both databases can be used with Access through ODBC.
On every computer I use with Windows it takes up to 20-30 seconds to launch Java.
Wow. Are you saying to load the virtual machine (which is Java) or to run the program/applet? With applets there is the whole issue of having to download the code to be executed which may take awhile depending on the size of the program. Recent versions of Java cache content nowadays to prevent to the need for constantly downloading (although it does verify what is there is recent). Now, if you are saying the virtual machine is taking that long to start I would be truly mystified. The only time I have ever seen Java take that long of a delay to load the VM was when running on a 486 16-bit version of language on Windows 3.1. I don't even think that computer went much past 20 seconds at worst though. Oh, and before anyone asks IBM had a Java version that ran on 16-bits called "ADK for Win 3.1".
Java is fantastic on Mac OS X. I don't know how fast it is on Linux.
Yeah, I have seen mixed results on different computers. Apple wrote its own Java VM optimized for their systems.
I don't think.NET has this problem, but probably because MS is keeping it memory resident in Vista even if no one is using it.
On Windows prior to Vista,.NET is slower than Java *when no other.NET apps are running*. If there is another.NET app running,.NET loads much quicker. This is because the.NET virtual machine can be shared across apps. Java loads a new instance of the virtual machine for every single app (stupid Java). On Vista, the.NET "realm" will probably always be running (for WinFX) so you can count that.NET will always load faster than Java on that platform. I have no idea if Mono has this capability.
Then again, maybe Mac OS X preloads Java.
Apple should clobber Sun over the head for their inability to figure out how to do this. I've talked to enough Sun developers to know theres a certain level of arrogant ignorance that is actually killing the language. They ignore the development community (unless to copy their OSS efforts) and would not improve the language until forced to by.NET. I keep hoping they will release their iron grip on the language and make it free.
Until then, I'm off to go look at NekoVM as a replacement for all things Java (Neko is pretty smooth and I give props to that anonymous slashdotter who mentioned it to me).
Don't get me wrong - I agree with you in so far as we're not seeing any proof that Microsoft is behind this.
That was a best guess taking the circumstances into consideration. Companies do not make public statements that may alienate a segment of their customers without good reasoning. The only gain that could be seen is Lenova getting cheaper copies of XP/Vista from Microsoft by not supporting their competition. Also, as the anti-trust case against Microsoft proved, Microsoft has used this tactic before.
All in all though, I think this whole public statement is rather moot. Lenova is not even in the top three of computer distributors and it should be noted that those same top three also do not support Linux.
You've stated my point. I don't see any blitting slowness on my machine. I use VS2005 as well.
Then why did you ask what graphics card I was using?
Yes, I have done so and I'm glad I didn't have it.
The problem C# developers experience is the problem of quickly locating classes across multiple projects within one or more solutions. In Java, the forced namespace and file naming convention makes this extremely easy. In C#, you end up using the IDE's poor Find function or the questionable Object Browser. Moving code is also very painful since its not always just an easy case of "cut and paste". You said you prefered not having this defined structure, but what is the actual benefit of not having it?
If you target any components of anything to a future version of an API
Oh, my fault. I see the issue that you were hung on. I should have written it as such:
There is also rumor on the.NET forums that Microsoft will be releasing new byte codes to.NET that will only work on Microsoft Vista.
There. Like I said earlier, this is similar to the change from 1.0 to 1.1. I must stress that this is ofcourse only a rumor though. Java is also suppose to add a new byte code (1) with their release of 1.6 Dolphin. The major difference is the Java change is suppose to be an "add" whereas the supposed.NET change is a "add and replace". Any "replace" will break backwards compatibility.
Tie Java to some Linux 2.6 kernel APIs and see if your Java runtime will run on 2.4. 2.4 is not forward compatible with 2.6.
Bytecode is not machine code.
You seem to want your Java 3.0 (when it comes around) apps to run on a Java 1.5 runtime, by your examples
I just compiled a "Hello World" with a Java 1.5 compiler and it runs fine on a Java 1.1 virtual machine. So what? Is this suppose to be impossible?
NET is no more limited than Java (and vice versa) in this regard.
Again, left something important out. I should have said Microsoft.NET is limited. Mono seems to have better coverage amongst the platforms since they have virtual machines that can run on various platforms and OS's, new and old. I think that developers who use Mono are at an advantage because of this. There's no reason Microsoft couldn't do the same but I fear they use.NET as a way to force people in to upgrading operating systems to make $$$. It could also be that they have no incentive to support any other platform than the most current version of Windows.
There's a "remove from project" and there's a "delete". "Remove from project"
I'm currently using Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition (8.50727.42). I may be behind on some update that fixes this because I do not have the options you are talking about.
For files, I can delete them or remove them (that is, ofcourse, if I can see them as I complained in my earlier comment about how VS2005 hides files). For projects, which is what I was commenting on, there is only the "Remove" option which only removes it from the solution but not the harddrive. There in no "remove" or "delete" for solutions.
Odd, I haven't had this problem and I have a similar system to what you describe (you have no description of your video card, though,
I don't think I have ever had to worry about a graphics card for 2D widget blitting. Why is VS2005 different? I have also noticed this same slowness in another large.NET app called Paint.NET.
6) Partial classes?... Don't use them if you don't want.
It is not me that is creating these freaks of nature, but rather VS2005 GUI editor. It uses these partial classes for code behinds.
I personally dislike Java's strict file naming rules/conventions for a number of reasons.
Work on something of scale in.NET with multipe coders and you will begin to wish you had it. And even though you can enforce certain rules in your area for coders to follow you are not able to enforce these same rules on others who code you may reuse in your project. I think Microsoft left the strict naming out to appease C++/C programmers but didn't fully understand the disadvantages in doing so.
That's "forward compatibility", not backwards. Backwards compatibility means that Vista will run XP applications. Forwards compatibility means that XP will run Vista applications.
You just pointed out the big difference between Microsoft's.NET and Java:.NET is tied to the OS. That is just silly. Why are they unable to release the runtime (virtual machine) for "older" operating systems like XP? Why should I have to compile code, which is actually just bytecode and not machine code, for two different platforms? I know my Java 1.5 apps still work on Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP, and Vista. Why is.NET so limited?
The good thing about the.NET languages is that they compile to the same "bytecode". In Microsoft's case, this is the MSIL that runs on the CLR.
That is not always true. Unless you put the following line in your AssemblyInfo file your class library, it is likely the resulting byte code can not be used by other.NET languages:
[assembly: System.CLSCompliant(true)]
Visual Studio 2005 Pro includes a development IIS instance
It's actually Cassini. The only real nice thing about this is that Cassini is much lighter than IIS and doesn't run as ASPNET user.
a development IIS instance and SQL Server 2005 Express is included.
Oh gawd they can keep that pile of crap.
more toolbox items are available and virtually all of the components are data aware.
I don't see a real advantage here except that novice programmers may be able to put together a cheap CRUD app. I have yet to see a client actually want only this bare minimum application though.
There are also some major issues I have found with VS2005:
1) It is very slow. I think they wrote the bugger in.NET because you can actually watch the thing redraw itself at times. This from a Pentium 4 with a 1G of memory? I fear the day they upgrade to Vista with this bloated beast in tow.
2) ADO 2.0 looks promising but there seems to be a huge lack of vendor support. Oracle support is still in beta mode.
3) The database wizard seems to only support Microsoft database connectors and Oracle. There is no way to add new ones.
4) Visual Studio hides files from the programmers view. I know they did this to make it "easy on the eyes" for novice programmers but it plays hell when your working as a team with a version control system. And when you delete projects or solutions you will find out that they are actually STILL on the harddrive. Its more of a "remove from view" option than true removal.
5) No Subversion support. There is a plugin called Ankh that does okay but it is limited. I have no idea of any support for CVS.
6) Partial classes? What the f***! This wouldn't be so bad if.NET used Java's strict file naming convention but now I find that I am looking for these "other parts" all over the place.
Mono looks more promising and has a larger selection of languages. It also works on multiple platforms whereas Microsoft's implementation will only work on Windows. There is also rumor on the.NET forums that Microsoft will be releasing new API functions to.NET that will only work on Microsoft Vista. If this is true you can kiss backwards capability goodbye.
The damage level is low (unless you're trained) and you get really tired really quickly.
Fists are concussion weapons. Before man had complicated weapons (pointy sticks) he only had his fists. It is believe that even this early man was a predator of sorts which would fell animals by stunning them with crushing blows or wrestling them to the ground and sufficating them. Now, early man was much stronger than we are today (something like by the order of 3 times stronger) but our fists can do pretty much the same thing: break bones, stun, paralyse, choke, and ultimetly kill.
I want a network attached storage device for home but prices vary from $500 to $2000+. I also want to run my own apps like Subversion. But I can't find any cheap, compact, and power efficient hardware for doing this. Any ideas?
You forgot to mention Verizon and Bell South. Hell, according to Bell South only a couple of their customers care what they do with their personal information or who listens to their phone conversations as long as Bush can remain president. So that makes it A-OK, and thus legal, for them to do whatever.
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Don't fret. The NSA has been so busy editing video for the 9/11 attacks that they just haven't got around to "fixing" the moon walk videos yet. George Lucas doesn't seem too busy lately, maybe they can let him a go at it? Add a few Star Destroyers overhead, and a rubber looking Jabba The Hutt, and it can be done for Christmas DVD release.
900 lbs of Moon rock is proof we were on the moon? Well, if you have 900 lbs of Pluto rock it would be more believable you went to Pluto. Why? Well, the close proximity of the moon to our planet makes it very likely you can find 900 lbs of moon rock on Earth without needing to go to the moon for it.
I run Windows on my new laptop. Due to software I run, I probably would have installed Windows anyways. But Compaq felt it a good idea to "bundle" a bunch of crapware (AOL, tons of trialware, etc) on the box when they preinstalled the OS for me. I would have loved for them to have just sold me a vanilla laptop, cut the price for not including XP (Home Edition = junk), and let me go get and install XP Pro for myself.
Even with the WGA in place, people would still buy Windows.
Actually, if they had to knowingly *buy* Windows, Linux would have a huge chance of becoming the desktop of choice. We are a Walmart community here in the U.S. and cheap is always better. But since Windows comes bundled with PCs the customer never have to go purchase the box (which is easily over $100). The lack of choice ensures Microsoft stays a monopoly.
I personally think there should be a law that new computers come WITHOUT an OS. Yes, I'm including Macs too. Let the users install the OS.
That's hilarious coming from a Mormon.
Yeah, lets show these holy types that we are the bigger bigots!
This was a clear case of a commercial company profiting from derivative works of copyrighted material.
I copy my personal DVDs all the time. My kid has destroyed three copies of Finding Nemo to date. But the original is still in perfect condition since I have practiced my right to backups. The menu, advertisements, etc have all been removed. Have I broke the law?
Not the same? Okay, now what if I pay company X to do this service for me. I pay them for a copy of Finding Nemo and ask them to remove the junk. Now, I ask, is the profit they are making in the derivated work or the service they performed in the production of this work? Remember, they had to buy a legitimate copy of Finding Nemo to make the modified version for me, so there was no profit in the original copy price I paid.
Another way of saying that is Iraq was our ally during the Clinton and Carter years.
Clinton was president AFTER Bush Sr. The major ties with Iraq occured during the Reagan administration (you can still find pictures on the internet with Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam) which was AFTER Carter. This relationship soured when Saddam suppressed a Kurd uprising by using biological weapons.
So did a part of IE7 come from Flight Simulator 2004? *scratches head*. Wait, is this a joke? How can a DLL inside the Flight Simulator folder mess with IE7, which is stored in a seperate folder? I could see this as an issue only if Flight Simulator is somehow in the PATH.
No, Bush is above the law. He can ignore them when he wants. The only people Bush answers to is God and oil execs.
Whether you agree with the city planning commission or not (and I do) this is real money Wal-Mart is losing because they chose to be "evil."
That works until the Walmart lobbyists secure enough senators to pass a bill that "deregulates" companies from being bothered by local city councils. Because, according to the current system we have in place, federal rules and laws override state and local rules and laws. I think this, for a democracy, is backwards and it should be: local rules override state which in turn overrides federal . A people-first-bottoms-up approach. Alas, evil corporations like our centralized government.
Doesn't have to be. Stand up and support companies that share and uphold your ideals and beliefs by giving them your money. Or you can go for the cheapest company and help them screw over your fellow man.
We live in a Walmart world, if we like it or not. Cheaper = better. Even if you refuse to shop there, the rest of the population will.
Publicly traded companies know their only duty is to the shareholders. Countries, and the people that live in them, are to be bought and sold. If India is too expensive, move to the next cheaper labor.
According to the "free market" system, poorer countries are suppose to get the jobs over time. The dream idea is that the poor places of the world will eventually level with the rich because of this. I don't see it with such optimism. I see more of a migration pattern where businesses go to cheaper parts of the world when another part becomes too expensive or has rules (employee or environmental protections) that they don't like. In other words, every so many years a proserpous economy will have to suddenly crash and die as all the international migration businesses suddenly disappear to another place to rape and pillage.
Let's face it - Since the pre-1.2 line, 2.6 has some of the worst stability ever seen.
I have actually seen better stability under the current versions of 2.6 as compared to 2.4. Also, 2.5 includes featues in 2.6 (since it was the development branch for that version). 2.5 is not "2.4 plus", but rather "2.6 minus".
Yes, it also supports quite a few nice things (like massively better USB support than its predecessors), but anyone using it on critical systems needs a lobotomy.
You are mentioning the best feature that desktop Linux users probably noticed. Why would usb support be important to Linux servers? 2.6 includes a huge amount of features over 2.4, but sadly most people just didn't notice them. Kernels are not very glamorous but very, very important.
Your user access idea of download information from LDAP or ActiveDirectory sounds pretty scary. Out of curiousity, are you suggesting downloading user id + passwords to access tables? That is not the proper, or secure, way of doing authentication. The typical (and secure) way of handling this is storing a ACL in your apps database (just user id) and sending the credentials to the authentication source (LDAP or AD) for confirmation. I have watched way too many "Access Experts" come to IT departments demanding the capability to have an administrative account on LDAP so they could copy it to their JET database! Bad, bad, bad! If you don't know why I will detail:
1) Access databases are not secure. They are file based and there are tons of programs out there that can easily defeat the cheesy security features it has.
2) Even if you were allowed to sychronize with LDAP or AD, how often is this to be performed? Too often people change their password and then call tech support with the complaint that they can't log in to app X anymore.
You missed major databases like MySQL and sqlite. MySQL is free, has more features than SQL Server Express, and limitless in size. Sqlite is free, about same in feature set compared to JET, and pretty much limitless in size (up to 2 terabytes to be exact). Both databases can be used with Access through ODBC.
On every computer I use with Windows it takes up to 20-30 seconds to launch Java.
.NET has this problem, but probably because MS is keeping it memory resident in Vista even if no one is using it.
.NET is slower than Java *when no other .NET apps are running*. If there is another .NET app running, .NET loads much quicker. This is because the .NET virtual machine can be shared across apps. Java loads a new instance of the virtual machine for every single app (stupid Java). On Vista, the .NET "realm" will probably always be running (for WinFX) so you can count that .NET will always load faster than Java on that platform. I have no idea if Mono has this capability.
.NET. I keep hoping they will release their iron grip on the language and make it free.
Wow. Are you saying to load the virtual machine (which is Java) or to run the program/applet? With applets there is the whole issue of having to download the code to be executed which may take awhile depending on the size of the program. Recent versions of Java cache content nowadays to prevent to the need for constantly downloading (although it does verify what is there is recent). Now, if you are saying the virtual machine is taking that long to start I would be truly mystified. The only time I have ever seen Java take that long of a delay to load the VM was when running on a 486 16-bit version of language on Windows 3.1. I don't even think that computer went much past 20 seconds at worst though. Oh, and before anyone asks IBM had a Java version that ran on 16-bits called "ADK for Win 3.1".
Java is fantastic on Mac OS X. I don't know how fast it is on Linux.
Yeah, I have seen mixed results on different computers. Apple wrote its own Java VM optimized for their systems.
I don't think
On Windows prior to Vista,
Then again, maybe Mac OS X preloads Java.
Apple should clobber Sun over the head for their inability to figure out how to do this. I've talked to enough Sun developers to know theres a certain level of arrogant ignorance that is actually killing the language. They ignore the development community (unless to copy their OSS efforts) and would not improve the language until forced to by
Until then, I'm off to go look at NekoVM as a replacement for all things Java (Neko is pretty smooth and I give props to that anonymous slashdotter who mentioned it to me).
Wow! I didn't know it could do that! Now I'm off to the "My Documents" to do some versioning...
Don't get me wrong - I agree with you in so far as we're not seeing any proof that Microsoft is behind this.
That was a best guess taking the circumstances into consideration. Companies do not make public statements that may alienate a segment of their customers without good reasoning. The only gain that could be seen is Lenova getting cheaper copies of XP/Vista from Microsoft by not supporting their competition. Also, as the anti-trust case against Microsoft proved, Microsoft has used this tactic before.
All in all though, I think this whole public statement is rather moot. Lenova is not even in the top three of computer distributors and it should be noted that those same top three also do not support Linux.
Sorry if our technical conversation ruined your concentration in trying to find porn. Shouldn't you be getting back to your finger painting anyways?
You've stated my point. I don't see any blitting slowness on my machine. I use VS2005 as well.
.NET forums that Microsoft will be releasing new byte codes to .NET that will only work on Microsoft Vista.
.NET change is a "add and replace". Any "replace" will break backwards compatibility.
.NET is limited. Mono seems to have better coverage amongst the platforms since they have virtual machines that can run on various platforms and OS's, new and old. I think that developers who use Mono are at an advantage because of this. There's no reason Microsoft couldn't do the same but I fear they use .NET as a way to force people in to upgrading operating systems to make $$$. It could also be that they have no incentive to support any other platform than the most current version of Windows.
Then why did you ask what graphics card I was using?
Yes, I have done so and I'm glad I didn't have it.
The problem C# developers experience is the problem of quickly locating classes across multiple projects within one or more solutions. In Java, the forced namespace and file naming convention makes this extremely easy. In C#, you end up using the IDE's poor Find function or the questionable Object Browser. Moving code is also very painful since its not always just an easy case of "cut and paste". You said you prefered not having this defined structure, but what is the actual benefit of not having it?
If you target any components of anything to a future version of an API
Oh, my fault. I see the issue that you were hung on. I should have written it as such:
There is also rumor on the
There. Like I said earlier, this is similar to the change from 1.0 to 1.1. I must stress that this is ofcourse only a rumor though. Java is also suppose to add a new byte code (1) with their release of 1.6 Dolphin. The major difference is the Java change is suppose to be an "add" whereas the supposed
Tie Java to some Linux 2.6 kernel APIs and see if your Java runtime will run on 2.4. 2.4 is not forward compatible with 2.6.
Bytecode is not machine code.
You seem to want your Java 3.0 (when it comes around) apps to run on a Java 1.5 runtime, by your examples
I just compiled a "Hello World" with a Java 1.5 compiler and it runs fine on a Java 1.1 virtual machine. So what? Is this suppose to be impossible?
NET is no more limited than Java (and vice versa) in this regard.
Again, left something important out. I should have said Microsoft
Oh, I forgot to comment on this:
There's a "remove from project" and there's a "delete". "Remove from project"
I'm currently using Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition (8.50727.42). I may be behind on some update that fixes this because I do not have the options you are talking about.
For files, I can delete them or remove them (that is, ofcourse, if I can see them as I complained in my earlier comment about how VS2005 hides files). For projects, which is what I was commenting on, there is only the "Remove" option which only removes it from the solution but not the harddrive. There in no "remove" or "delete" for solutions.
Odd, I haven't had this problem and I have a similar system to what you describe (you have no description of your video card, though,
.NET app called Paint.NET.
...
.NET with multipe coders and you will begin to wish you had it. And even though you can enforce certain rules in your area for coders to follow you are not able to enforce these same rules on others who code you may reuse in your project. I think Microsoft left the strict naming out to appease C++/C programmers but didn't fully understand the disadvantages in doing so.
.NET and Java: .NET is tied to the OS. That is just silly. Why are they unable to release the runtime (virtual machine) for "older" operating systems like XP? Why should I have to compile code, which is actually just bytecode and not machine code, for two different platforms? I know my Java 1.5 apps still work on Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP, and Vista. Why is .NET so limited?
I don't think I have ever had to worry about a graphics card for 2D widget blitting. Why is VS2005 different? I have also noticed this same slowness in another large
6) Partial classes?
Don't use them if you don't want.
It is not me that is creating these freaks of nature, but rather VS2005 GUI editor. It uses these partial classes for code behinds.
I personally dislike Java's strict file naming rules/conventions for a number of reasons.
Work on something of scale in
That's "forward compatibility", not backwards. Backwards compatibility means that Vista will run XP applications. Forwards compatibility means that XP will run Vista applications.
You just pointed out the big difference between Microsoft's
The good thing about the .NET languages is that they compile to the same "bytecode". In Microsoft's case, this is the MSIL that runs on the CLR.
.NET languages:
.NET because you can actually watch the thing redraw itself at times. This from a Pentium 4 with a 1G of memory? I fear the day they upgrade to Vista with this bloated beast in tow.
.NET used Java's strict file naming convention but now I find that I am looking for these "other parts" all over the place.
.NET forums that Microsoft will be releasing new API functions to .NET that will only work on Microsoft Vista. If this is true you can kiss backwards capability goodbye.
That is not always true. Unless you put the following line in your AssemblyInfo file your class library, it is likely the resulting byte code can not be used by other
[assembly: System.CLSCompliant(true)]
Visual Studio 2005 Pro includes a development IIS instance
It's actually Cassini. The only real nice thing about this is that Cassini is much lighter than IIS and doesn't run as ASPNET user.
a development IIS instance and SQL Server 2005 Express is included.
Oh gawd they can keep that pile of crap.
more toolbox items are available and virtually all of the components are data aware.
I don't see a real advantage here except that novice programmers may be able to put together a cheap CRUD app. I have yet to see a client actually want only this bare minimum application though.
There are also some major issues I have found with VS2005:
1) It is very slow. I think they wrote the bugger in
2) ADO 2.0 looks promising but there seems to be a huge lack of vendor support. Oracle support is still in beta mode.
3) The database wizard seems to only support Microsoft database connectors and Oracle. There is no way to add new ones.
4) Visual Studio hides files from the programmers view. I know they did this to make it "easy on the eyes" for novice programmers but it plays hell when your working as a team with a version control system. And when you delete projects or solutions you will find out that they are actually STILL on the harddrive. Its more of a "remove from view" option than true removal.
5) No Subversion support. There is a plugin called Ankh that does okay but it is limited. I have no idea of any support for CVS.
6) Partial classes? What the f***! This wouldn't be so bad if
Mono looks more promising and has a larger selection of languages. It also works on multiple platforms whereas Microsoft's implementation will only work on Windows. There is also rumor on the
The damage level is low (unless you're trained) and you get really tired really quickly.
Fists are concussion weapons. Before man had complicated weapons (pointy sticks) he only had his fists. It is believe that even this early man was a predator of sorts which would fell animals by stunning them with crushing blows or wrestling them to the ground and sufficating them. Now, early man was much stronger than we are today (something like by the order of 3 times stronger) but our fists can do pretty much the same thing: break bones, stun, paralyse, choke, and ultimetly kill.
I have several old computers but I avoid using them for several reasons:
1. they are rather large.
2. they are noisy.
3. they consume too much power. I want to run a NAS 24-7.
Someone mention the KuroBox a few posts up from me. The KuroBox looks like what I am looking for but I am reading threads for other options.
I want a network attached storage device for home but prices vary from $500 to $2000+. I also want to run my own apps like Subversion. But I can't find any cheap, compact, and power efficient hardware for doing this. Any ideas?
You forgot to mention Verizon and Bell South. Hell, according to Bell South only a couple of their customers care what they do with their personal information or who listens to their phone conversations as long as Bush can remain president. So that makes it A-OK, and thus legal, for them to do whatever.