Turning on Tools | Options | General | Macro virus protection ought to help.
Yes, I looked at the Word97 menu to validate that...
It strikes me that I know enough VBA that I could probably write some horrific trojan.doc's, lacked I all self respect.
While no great supporter of his Majesty Satanic, this article seems rather a stretch of the/. motto 'News for nerds, stuff that matters'. It's not news, for nerds, nor does it matter.
Come to think of it, such a stunt is likely also possible in Word Basic under Lose3.1, for the 286 diehards out there. Shall we also excoriate Redmond for failing to skin dive in that septic tank of code? Some old bastard in Scotsdale, AZ might be writing his memoir using that application, you know...
And you run into amateur work. I was really quite fascinated, after much study, to realize that some goofball had used JavaScript to force radio buttons to work as combo boxes...
My observation is that the quality of the tools bound the quality of the solution: people don't build a Cadillac from Legos.
How about an anecdote (or two) about a Red Sea-sized problem parted by a slightly unmiraculous, yet nifty, regular expression.
As has been noted elsewhere, the fact that other languages (JavaScript, VBScript) refer to their RegEx syntax as 'Perl-style' is a hefty compliment. Any disgruntlement about that?
Perl6: how soon?
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Can't live simultaneously in the past and the future.
I think the Perl heads are doing a commendable job providing a reasonable transition path.
There will always be the conservatives calling them radical, and the liberals calling them reactionary.
As long as the noise from the peanut gallery is evenly split, they've approached doing it 'right' about as closely as you ever do.
I'm waiting for Perl6 to delve seriously into these 'rules'. How long?
It's all a bunch of religious drivel. People believe one way or the other. No one has anything amounting to an objective argument. Not a bug though, it's a feature: do what you want to with the technology, and let the FUD flooders do their diarrhetic worst...
They seemed to have more technical meat about ten years ago; guess I was less educated then. Extreme Tech actually has some juice. It's certainly less troll-ified than this site...
Dvorak is often not pure advertising. Pure whatremains unkown...
Echo your experience. I was hired into a project where _everything_ was happening on the web server, with extensive cookie usage. JS has been crucial for leveling the resources between client, web- and database servers. People seem stuck in the familiar rut, and looking at a page that has four languages (HTML, JS, VBScript, SQL) decorating it seems to scare the intellectually limp in the crowd. The application learning curve is steeper, but it's a "feature" to know where the code will execute simply based on the default language settings that are common through the application. This is all stated from the relative comfort of an internal database application. Heart goes out to the commercial types forced to jump through their butts with their hair on fire aiming for compatibility; we get to say "IE or ELSE".
We're close with this. In some glorious future, there will be a C++Builder that doesn't care if it's running under Linux, 'Doze, or OS X for that matter. While we're at it, the groovy IDE is nice, but making all of the plumbing interchangeable is a Good Thing. Don't mind paying for well thought-out product, just don't want the blood-on-goatskin experience of dealing with Redmond. I guess CodeWarrior specializes in that sort of platform gymnastics, but their pricing for the Palm version didn't excite a purchase out of me... Anyway, I had gaffed off the upgrade from C++Builder 5 in anticipation of this...
Railroads prophesied all these telecom events. But were railroad-car packets too small to see?
The original Denver and Rio Grande Railway created by the honorable General Palmer in 1870 became the target of eastern finacial influences and the eventual pawn of ruthless railroad barrons, banks, corporate subsidiaries and the courts for more than a century. As other railroads died off in boom and bust cycles the still functioning pieces were absorbed by any survivors along the way.
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SpanishInquisition: wasn't expecting you. Especially in the posititve integers. One of your fans will no doubt mod you down for envy soon enough...
The only winners in these spurious suits are the lawyers. Note similar detrimental effects on healthcare. So we need reform. The real question: what political candidates have the required fortitude? Daresay the political landscape of the US is not promising...
(does anyone actually use Windows Me?). Came on my laptop, a ToeCheezba Satellite, runs tolerably well, and is absolutely not worth the aggravation to upgrade. I'd sooner invest in a dot com than try to install my RH7.2 distro on here. Since you asked.
Piers has it right on the money - depicting a thing, or portraying a thing does not glorify it. Yes and no. The preacher who rails about the bottle sermon after sermon may drive the congregation to drink. In the Iran-Contra hearings, one point that I heard made (and can't attribute, sorry) was that Ollie North sure had a lot of camera time. The effect of that time quantity was to subtly justify him; the average viewer came to simpathize with the upright Colonel getting beat on by them mean old pettifoggers in Congress. Constitution? Sorry...
The point is, a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump...
Cynic that I am, IMO the y2k paranoia was all about preying on the fears of the ignorant to either
Get them to loosen the purse strings and fund spurious projects
Use y2k as a foil to clean up a few old messes
The refreshing thing about the 2.0 kernel attituted is the unwillingness to twist someone's arm to make them upgrade.
There is a legitimate need to talk about upgrading, though. The IIWDFWI (If it works...) attitude can have all the benefits of clinging to a bad habit, and said habit can put you in extremis if you ignore it.
My company (and project) is as deep in the habit of !planning as anyone else. Recent firewall implementation is a running disaster.
Thus, keeping an old 2.0 box doing its thing is great. I'd be considering what a cheap drop-in 2.4 box might look like, even get it tested (in that spare time) so that we don't have an 'Ostrich moment'...
Suppose, momentarily, that this currently vaporware system causing such a fuss is fielded. US law may enforce copyright restrictions against reverse engineering, somehow.
Do we then see a Canadian or Mexican black market for tools to circumvent it?
Does the likely anti-trust violation that such a system would represent turn us all into scofflaws, observing the rules about as rigorously as we observe speed limits?
Are the Gnomes of Redmond laughing themselves silly at the crap-storm they've caused in the media via their play-action-fake?
FWIW, I have nothing but good things to say about MS's customer service, and online help resources.
Hopefully, the market will break all tradition and vote against fascist business practices via wallet.
Anyone who argues that no alternatives to MS exist, or that nothing can be done to prevent assimilation deserves it.
Commerce is about transactions. If somebody can convince the market to pay for something, fine. What really draws vacuum is the market's
inability to hold vendor's feet in the fire when they put out yet another piece of turd-ware. Somewhere between the Really Mondo Socialist
and Market Satan extremes lies a utopia of solid work at reasonable prices...
Properly written
This is the discussion. You have to quantify what you mean by efficient. Ease of installation, learning, use, debugging, memory footprint, hard drive footprint, boot time, exception handling, integration, portability, what? While I've done no Java work, I begin to suspect that a large chunk of the people on/. touting a particular language are speaking to justify themselves more than edify the reader...
Software is a means, not an end, to supporting industry. I think O'Reilly is a thoughtful voice of moderation, sitting close to mid-way between BillyG and RMS as he does.
Customer lock-in is the real enemy of business, not the GPL.
Here is the fulcrum of the discussion. For all the software Detroits will roll out increasingly sealed packages to industry, we have hope as long as there are alternatives for the garage mechanic types (like the/. crowd) to play with.
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Turning on Tools | Options | General | Macro virus protection ought to help. Yes, I looked at the Word97 menu to validate that... .doc's, lacked I all self respect. /. motto 'News for nerds, stuff that matters'. It's not news, for nerds, nor does it matter.
It strikes me that I know enough VBA that I could probably write some horrific trojan
While no great supporter of his Majesty Satanic, this article seems rather a stretch of the
Come to think of it, such a stunt is likely also possible in Word Basic under Lose3.1, for the 286 diehards out there. Shall we also excoriate Redmond for failing to skin dive in that septic tank of code? Some old bastard in Scotsdale, AZ might be writing his memoir using that application, you know...
And you run into amateur work. I was really quite fascinated, after much study, to realize that some goofball had used JavaScript to force radio buttons to work as combo boxes...
My observation is that the quality of the tools bound the quality of the solution: people don't build a Cadillac from Legos.
How about an anecdote (or two) about a Red Sea-sized problem parted by a slightly unmiraculous, yet nifty, regular expression.
As has been noted elsewhere, the fact that other languages (JavaScript, VBScript) refer to their RegEx syntax as 'Perl-style' is a hefty compliment. Any disgruntlement about that?
Perl6: how soon?
The interview is with Larry, not Guido, Fido.
Can't live simultaneously in the past and the future.
I think the Perl heads are doing a commendable job providing a reasonable transition path. There will always be the conservatives calling them radical, and the liberals calling them reactionary.
As long as the noise from the peanut gallery is evenly split, they've approached doing it 'right' about as closely as you ever do.
I'm waiting for Perl6 to delve seriously into these 'rules'. How long?
It's all a bunch of religious drivel. People believe one way or the other. No one has anything amounting to an objective argument. Not a bug though, it's a feature: do what you want to with the technology, and let the FUD flooders do their diarrhetic worst...
They seemed to have more technical meat about ten years ago; guess I was less educated then.
Extreme Tech actually has some juice. It's certainly less troll-ified than this site... Dvorak is often not pure advertising. Pure whatremains unkown...
Consider the A-12 Avenger. Prosecution yawns.
After ten years active duty, and one in the Reserves, I can attest that the DOD has few, if any, dreams of efficiency. Keep trying.
Echo your experience. I was hired into a project where _everything_ was happening on the web server, with extensive cookie usage.
JS has been crucial for leveling the resources between client, web- and database servers.
People seem stuck in the familiar rut, and looking at a page that has four languages (HTML, JS, VBScript, SQL) decorating it seems to scare the intellectually limp in the crowd.
The application learning curve is steeper, but it's a "feature" to know where the code will execute simply based on the default language settings that are common through the application.
This is all stated from the relative comfort of an internal database application. Heart goes out to the commercial types forced to jump through their butts with their hair on fire aiming for compatibility; we get to say "IE or ELSE".
Pandora did a great job hosting. Approx 24 attendees. All normal. Only one suit in site, mine. Kyocera6035 does Slashdot.
We're close with this. In some glorious future, there will be a C++Builder that doesn't care if it's running under Linux, 'Doze, or OS X for that matter.
While we're at it, the groovy IDE is nice, but making all of the plumbing interchangeable is a Good Thing.
Don't mind paying for well thought-out product, just don't want the blood-on-goatskin experience of dealing with Redmond.
I guess CodeWarrior specializes in that sort of platform gymnastics, but their pricing for the Palm version didn't excite a purchase out of me...
Anyway, I had gaffed off the upgrade from C++Builder 5 in anticipation of this...
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity... (Solomon)
-1 Offtopic SpanishInquisition: wasn't expecting you.
Especially in the posititve integers.
One of your fans will no doubt mod you down for envy soon enough...
Your ability to differentiate between the Demmicans and the Republocrats is commendable.
So, how do we tweak the system to reward integrity?
The only winners in these spurious suits are the lawyers.
Note similar detrimental effects on healthcare.
So we need reform. The real question: what political candidates have the required fortitude?
Daresay the political landscape of the US is not promising...
-1 Offtopic, in a good mood, karma running over my dogma.
Hitler, he only had one ball,
Rommel, had two but very small,
Himmler, had something sim'lar,
But only Goebbels, had no balls, at all.
--heard this was a British infantry bit in WWII
(does anyone actually use Windows Me?).
Came on my laptop, a ToeCheezba Satellite, runs tolerably well, and is absolutely not worth the aggravation to upgrade.
I'd sooner invest in a dot com than try to install my RH7.2 distro on here.
Since you asked.
Piers has it right on the money - depicting a thing, or portraying a thing does not glorify it.
Yes and no. The preacher who rails about the bottle sermon after sermon may drive the congregation to drink.
In the Iran-Contra hearings, one point that I heard made (and can't attribute, sorry) was that Ollie North sure had a lot of camera time.
The effect of that time quantity was to subtly justify him; the average viewer came to simpathize with the upright Colonel getting beat on by them mean old pettifoggers in Congress.
Constitution? Sorry...
The point is, a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump...
Get them to loosen the purse strings and fund spurious projects
Use y2k as a foil to clean up a few old messes
The refreshing thing about the 2.0 kernel attituted is the unwillingness to twist someone's arm to make them upgrade.
There is a legitimate need to talk about upgrading, though.
The IIWDFWI (If it works...) attitude can have all the benefits of clinging to a bad habit,
and said habit can put you in extremis if you ignore it.
My company (and project) is as deep in the habit of !planning as anyone else. Recent firewall implementation is a running disaster.
Thus, keeping an old 2.0 box doing its thing is great. I'd be considering what a cheap drop-in 2.4 box might look like, even get it tested (in that spare time) so that we don't have an 'Ostrich moment'...
The title gave me a sexylaid attack as well, but you beat me to the punch...
US law may enforce copyright restrictions against reverse engineering, somehow.
Do we then see a Canadian or Mexican black market for tools to circumvent it?
Does the likely anti-trust violation that such a system would represent turn us all into scofflaws, observing the rules about as rigorously as
we observe speed limits?
Are the Gnomes of Redmond laughing themselves silly at the crap-storm they've caused in the media via their play-action-fake?
FWIW, I have nothing but good things to say about MS's customer service, and online help resources.
Hopefully, the market will break all tradition and vote against fascist business practices via wallet.
Anyone who argues that no alternatives to MS exist, or that nothing can be done to prevent assimilation deserves it.
Commerce is about transactions.
If somebody can convince the market to pay for something, fine.
What really draws vacuum is the market's
inability to hold vendor's feet in the fire
when they put out yet another piece of turd-ware.
Somewhere between the Really Mondo Socialist
and Market Satan extremes lies a utopia of
solid work at reasonable prices...
Properly written /. touting a particular language are speaking to justify themselves more than edify the reader...
This is the discussion.
You have to quantify what you mean by efficient. Ease of installation, learning, use, debugging, memory footprint, hard drive footprint, boot time, exception handling, integration, portability, what?
While I've done no Java work, I begin to suspect that a large chunk of the people on
sitting close to mid-way between BillyG and RMS as he does.
Here is the fulcrum of the discussion.
For all the software Detroits will roll out increasingly sealed packages to industry,
we have hope as long as there are alternatives for the garage mechanic types (like the