But is it more effective than putting kidney bean leaves on the floor? Story was out months ago about this old (OLD) method that works because the leaves have tiny hooks on then that latch on to the bugs' legs. Set them out at night, gather them in the morning and burn.
Unfortunately, I still run into sites that use it for something (including, believe it or not, navigation). I go for periods where I have it disabled, but eventually I want to read a site that requires it and wind up turning it back on. And JavaScript is much, much more pervasive (for example AJAX), making it nearly impossible to turn off.
That's akin to turning off Flash to get rid of ads. Sounds like a good - no, great - idea, until you run into the problem of so many sites depending on it. Better fix would be for the browsers to allow disabling JS on a per-site basis, or better yet, allowing disabling of individual JS APIs (yeah, it could turn site behavior into a clusterf$%k, but I would give up red meat to be able to disable window.open())
I used Eclipse back in the day, but my main problem with it was: it's used for Java, and I despise Java. 2nd problem is that everyone seems to have their own set of plug-ins to get it "usable", so on a new project, you have to deal with 3-4 different chefs telling you how you should cook. VS, on the other hand, is usable straight out of the box, and that includes source control, if using TFS. My problems with VS are: 1) it's got this weird breakpoint quirk where deleting a breakpoint during debugging does actually delete it for all sessions, 2) The debugger too often times out on an evaluation (screwing up all other evaluations) or optimizes away BCL variable watches, 3) it sometimes starts blacking out sections of the IDE (a bug that originated with the WPF conversion), 4) the webdev.webserver40.exe process crashes too much, 5) the exception breaking UI is tedious to use, especially with ASP.Net, as you often have to click through all of ASP's initial exceptions or start debugging, bring up the exception window to turn on exceptions, then debug. 6) periodic UI freezes while it does God-knows-what, 7) orphaned devenv.exe and msbuild.exe processes, 7) it likes to send you to the code analysis window by default rather than stay on Solution, and 8) to this day, you do a search on something, and it highlights "Matching", so your next search doesn't keep your last search...it wants to search your solution for "Matching" (I filed a Connect issue with this, but they rejected it; MS and I disagree about who owns focus). But fantastic intellisense, IMO, and the code contract integration kicks serious ass.
Yeah, there was something like 3 or 4 consecutive VS releases where the advertised an all-new MSDN system, with the last one being "Go look on the web". Some of it's OK, like the Code Analysis window linking directly to rule violations, but the lack of a searchable index or an integrated window drives me nuts.
Is there some kind of tech issue that makes this relevant to Slashdot? It's bad enough that the trial took over CNN and ever political blog on the planet, but Slashdot now? Was Zimmerman an open-source advocate or something?
"I know a few geeks (VERY few) that have WP's"
And I know quite a few. A circle of friends or a circle of co-workers is just that - a closed group of people who tend to have a similar collection of likes/dislikes and is merely a microcosm in a much bigger world. Just another case of "Nobody I knew voted for Nixon."
I don't need to appreciate how expensive stocking items are; they're for sale, and I'm in the market to buy. The markup myself and other customers pay to have something in our hands immediately is intended to cover their costs. If it's not enough, bad on them.
I would have figured by now that brick and mortar stores would have wised up and started carrying more merchandise. But it's 2013, and time and time again, stores don't have DVDs, books, games, you name it. And their response? "We can order it for you." They still do not seem to understand that I can order it myself and *not* have to go back to the store to pick it up. There is plenty of opportunity to exert some kind of competitive advantage, but for some reason, most places don't seem inclined to do so, giving away more and more customers to Amazon.
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"Hey, what happened to cloud-based backwards compatibility?"
Another variant of the old "I don't know anyone who voted for Nixon" line.
Try a friggin' Home Depot. Look for a display that says "Burpee". That fails, try a grocery store...look for an aisle that says "Rice/Beans".
But is it more effective than putting kidney bean leaves on the floor? Story was out months ago about this old (OLD) method that works because the leaves have tiny hooks on then that latch on to the bugs' legs. Set them out at night, gather them in the morning and burn.
Send Robert Redford and Sidney Poitier out to steal whatever device Joux is using to help solve these algorithms, before the mafia does.
Unfortunately, I still run into sites that use it for something (including, believe it or not, navigation). I go for periods where I have it disabled, but eventually I want to read a site that requires it and wind up turning it back on. And JavaScript is much, much more pervasive (for example AJAX), making it nearly impossible to turn off.
That's akin to turning off Flash to get rid of ads. Sounds like a good - no, great - idea, until you run into the problem of so many sites depending on it. Better fix would be for the browsers to allow disabling JS on a per-site basis, or better yet, allowing disabling of individual JS APIs (yeah, it could turn site behavior into a clusterf$%k, but I would give up red meat to be able to disable window.open())
The success of the most popular computer these days (the smartphone) is predicated on how much freakin' shareware (aka 'apps') is available for it.
"Duck Dynasty: The Movie" will make you feel better.
I feel your pain.
All they need is a neural network...a learning comput-AHH.
I used Eclipse back in the day, but my main problem with it was: it's used for Java, and I despise Java. 2nd problem is that everyone seems to have their own set of plug-ins to get it "usable", so on a new project, you have to deal with 3-4 different chefs telling you how you should cook. VS, on the other hand, is usable straight out of the box, and that includes source control, if using TFS. My problems with VS are: 1) it's got this weird breakpoint quirk where deleting a breakpoint during debugging does actually delete it for all sessions, 2) The debugger too often times out on an evaluation (screwing up all other evaluations) or optimizes away BCL variable watches, 3) it sometimes starts blacking out sections of the IDE (a bug that originated with the WPF conversion), 4) the webdev.webserver40.exe process crashes too much, 5) the exception breaking UI is tedious to use, especially with ASP.Net, as you often have to click through all of ASP's initial exceptions or start debugging, bring up the exception window to turn on exceptions, then debug. 6) periodic UI freezes while it does God-knows-what, 7) orphaned devenv.exe and msbuild.exe processes, 7) it likes to send you to the code analysis window by default rather than stay on Solution, and 8) to this day, you do a search on something, and it highlights "Matching", so your next search doesn't keep your last search...it wants to search your solution for "Matching" (I filed a Connect issue with this, but they rejected it; MS and I disagree about who owns focus). But fantastic intellisense, IMO, and the code contract integration kicks serious ass.
Yeah, there was something like 3 or 4 consecutive VS releases where the advertised an all-new MSDN system, with the last one being "Go look on the web". Some of it's OK, like the Code Analysis window linking directly to rule violations, but the lack of a searchable index or an integrated window drives me nuts.
Odds are, they're about to announce Surface 2, hence the price drop.
LOL...FTW!
Is there some kind of tech issue that makes this relevant to Slashdot? It's bad enough that the trial took over CNN and ever political blog on the planet, but Slashdot now? Was Zimmerman an open-source advocate or something?
"I know a few geeks (VERY few) that have WP's" And I know quite a few. A circle of friends or a circle of co-workers is just that - a closed group of people who tend to have a similar collection of likes/dislikes and is merely a microcosm in a much bigger world. Just another case of "Nobody I knew voted for Nixon."
Computers are tools of science, so maybe Florida really did intend on banning them.
They'd be well served to either adopt point releases (unless they already to, in which case, DAMN!) or use month/year as the version.
I don't need to appreciate how expensive stocking items are; they're for sale, and I'm in the market to buy. The markup myself and other customers pay to have something in our hands immediately is intended to cover their costs. If it's not enough, bad on them.
I would have figured by now that brick and mortar stores would have wised up and started carrying more merchandise. But it's 2013, and time and time again, stores don't have DVDs, books, games, you name it. And their response? "We can order it for you." They still do not seem to understand that I can order it myself and *not* have to go back to the store to pick it up. There is plenty of opportunity to exert some kind of competitive advantage, but for some reason, most places don't seem inclined to do so, giving away more and more customers to Amazon.
It's called "Trials HD". And there was another sequel after that.
Another stupid smartphone app coming to a screen near you.
"The Clone Wars", "More Clone Wars", and "Still More Clone Wars". Wait, no, that was the cartoons.
That's a new one on me. Never even heard of it before.