Ouch! Talk about doing things the hard way! Why don't you just hang it from a small helium-filled blimp, instead. Neutral boyancy, and the air jets for thrust.
Ha! they already tried that, and failed! Check out the Microsoft Actimates. Of course, maybe the reason they bombed was that the first one was (gasp) Barney!
I asked the Connectix people this a few years ago: If I ran RamDoubler for the Mac, then Virtual PC, and ran RamDoubler for Windows, and then loaded Windows, how much memory would I see? They got very confused....
PIF stands for Program Information File (from the Microsoft Department of Redunancy). It's a Windows 3.X hold-over that basically describes how a DOS program is going to run under Windows (full-screen or windowed, how much extended/expanded RAM to allocate, etc).
Thanks to the wonders of Microsoft backward-compatibility, the darn things get treated as execuatables in the Win32 environment.
Even better, if you have a file with a double extension, such as.txt.pif, Outlook shows it as a.txt file, but the OS treats it as a.pif file. Microsoft makes things too easy for the virus creators, don't you think?
Wages of Fear - Sorcerer 1977
Seven Samurai - Magnificent Seven 1960 (okay, this one was pretty good)
The Hidden Fortress - Star Wars 1977
Wages of Fear is amazing, my Dad turned me on to it, beause he saw it in the theatre when it was first released.
But notice how old these movies are; and none of them were made by the Hollywood studios. They haven't had an original idea in decades.
Oh, please, don't give them any ideas. All the studios do these days is shoot sequels and re-makes, and the re-make of "The Wages of Fear" was god-awful.
I jokingly predicted the remake of "Rollerball" and was horrified to hear they were actually releasing it this summer.
Some bright spark in Hoolywood is going to re-make "The Third Man", in a comtemporary setting, starring either Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. On that day I will have to hurt someone.
Movie reviewers tend to get jaded, after having to review at least one movie a week. I've got a friend who does movie reviews for radio, and he's so jaded, he hates almost everything.
Some of it has to do with the fact that he has to review a major release every week, and sometimes the only major release is a complete turkey.
I think reviewers (unless they're karma whores, see the Flithy Critic) just get sick and tired of all the crap they have to watch.
Without naming names, it was an OCX that let us run Excel spreadsheets. We upgraded to fix incompatiblies with Excel, and then found out (it was buried in the readme.txt) that we needed comctl32.dll. The previous version didn't have any dependancies on the DLL (IIRC).
But that was not always the case. There was a time that the only legal way to update comctl32.dll was to install/upgrade IE.
I was working on an application that included the updated comctl32.dll, and this played merry hell with our distribution. We really didn't want to force IE on our customers, but Microsoft and the vendor of the control we were using said we had no other choice.
Beause Windows is the razor and Office is the razor blades. Notepad and Wordpad are in there to annoy you into buying Office. Check the retail price of Office($580) vs the retail price of Windows ($310). Micrsoft doesn't announce its profits by division or product, but I bet Applications makes more money than Operating Systems.
The Mac versions of Word and Excel have almost always been better than their Windows counterparts.
(Yes, I know, Office 6. Common codebase, my ass!)
Word and Excel were on the Mac years before Windows, and were much more robust. The Apple programmers at Microsoft now seem to be running as a 'skunkworks' project; producing good code in spite of the corporate mantra.
I'm sure it's written by Robert himself. If you click on his name on Amazon, you'll see that he's written a number of other books. Unfortunately, his Red Dwarf book, The man in the Rubber Mask seems to out of print at the moment. Pity, it's a very funny read.
Oops. There's a link to safety on the General Atomics website, but when I try it I get a "403 forbidden" error from their server. maybe they still have a few bugs to wrok out?
Somebody 'interviewed' Jeeves awhile ago, just to show how useless the answers were. It was pretty funny; anyone got the link?
Unfortunately, the support site for one of the products I use has AskJeeves as its knowledge base engine. It is absolutely useless for technical support questions!
There's at least couple of NeXT word processors out there: WriteUp and CedarWord. WriteUp is being ported to OS X.
Microsoft should at least release a free PowerPoint viewer for OS X, as they have for Windows, but I agree that PowerPoint is a tool to make uncreative people think they're creative.
And Access isn't the worst database ever; I guess you never had to use Paradox:)
Two points: one, Apple has a buddy relationship with Microsoft, so they're not going to create anything that competes directly with Microsoft products. They used to have an integrated web browser email client (cyberdog) but abandoned it years ago. Appleworks is equivalent to MS Works; it's under-powered for most tasks.
Two: Apple has changed its relationship with the developer community. You no longer have to cough up megabucks for the documentation or tools; they're free for the asking from the Apple Developers' site, and the tools come on the OS X CD. Much better than when you had to spend $500 on CodeWarrior, $200 on Inside the Mac OS, a few years ago.
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Now that's worth paying for!
Ha! they already tried that, and failed! Check out the Microsoft Actimates. Of course, maybe the reason they bombed was that the first one was (gasp) Barney!
I asked the Connectix people this a few years ago: If I ran RamDoubler for the Mac, then Virtual PC, and ran RamDoubler for Windows, and then loaded Windows, how much memory would I see? They got very confused....
These old Infocom games may be the best reply to all the whiners asking "What good are Java Applets, anyway?"
Thanks to the wonders of Microsoft backward-compatibility, the darn things get treated as execuatables in the Win32 environment.
Even better, if you have a file with a double extension, such as .txt.pif, Outlook shows it as a .txt file, but the OS treats it as a .pif file. Microsoft makes things too easy for the virus creators, don't you think?
Wages of Fear - Sorcerer 1977
Seven Samurai - Magnificent Seven 1960 (okay, this one was pretty good)
The Hidden Fortress - Star Wars 1977
Wages of Fear is amazing, my Dad turned me on to it, beause he saw it in the theatre when it was first released.
But notice how old these movies are; and none of them were made by the Hollywood studios. They haven't had an original idea in decades.
I jokingly predicted the remake of "Rollerball" and was horrified to hear they were actually releasing it this summer.
Some bright spark in Hoolywood is going to re-make "The Third Man", in a comtemporary setting, starring either Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. On that day I will have to hurt someone.
Some of it has to do with the fact that he has to review a major release every week, and sometimes the only major release is a complete turkey.
I think reviewers (unless they're karma whores, see the Flithy Critic) just get sick and tired of all the crap they have to watch.
Without naming names, it was an OCX that let us run Excel spreadsheets. We upgraded to fix incompatiblies with Excel, and then found out (it was buried in the readme.txt) that we needed comctl32.dll. The previous version didn't have any dependancies on the DLL (IIRC).
I was working on an application that included the updated comctl32.dll, and this played merry hell with our distribution. We really didn't want to force IE on our customers, but Microsoft and the vendor of the control we were using said we had no other choice.
Mormonism is, along with Scientology and Islam, one of three religions officially recognized by the editors this web site
It can't be a serious site, can it? It's just a big joke, right? (Please don't tell me I'm wrong.)
Beause Windows is the razor and Office is the razor blades. Notepad and Wordpad are in there to annoy you into buying Office. Check the retail price of Office($580) vs the retail price of Windows ($310). Micrsoft doesn't announce its profits by division or product, but I bet Applications makes more money than Operating Systems.
Sorry you took it that way, it wasn't intended to be mean.
The Mac versions of Word and Excel have almost always been better than their Windows counterparts.
(Yes, I know, Office 6. Common codebase, my ass!)
Word and Excel were on the Mac years before Windows, and were much more robust. The Apple programmers at Microsoft now seem to be running as a 'skunkworks' project; producing good code in spite of the corporate mantra.
(I read it on the internet, so it must be true!)
Okay, am I the only one who finds this more than a little ironic/
mod +1 Irony, Total 3.
Yeah but Terraserver is running on MS SQL, which gives you a 1 in 1000 chance of ending up in Fiji.
I'm sure it's written by Robert himself. If you click on his name on Amazon, you'll see that he's written a number of other books. Unfortunately, his Red Dwarf book, The man in the Rubber Mask seems to out of print at the moment. Pity, it's a very funny read.
"What are we going to do tonight, Bill?"
And this is old news, here's when I first submitted it:
2001-05-15 14:01:23 Copy Protected CDs Arrive (articles,news) (rejected)
Oops. There's a link to safety on the General Atomics website, but when I try it I get a "403 forbidden" error from their server. maybe they still have a few bugs to wrok out?
Unfortunately, the support site for one of the products I use has AskJeeves as its knowledge base engine. It is absolutely useless for technical support questions!
1997? Ha! that's nothing. You should have had to work in the DOS version, with just QBE, no SQL support.
"What are we going to do tonight, Bill?"
There are some interesting comments over there, too.
"What are we going to do tonight, Bill?"
Microsoft should at least release a free PowerPoint viewer for OS X, as they have for Windows, but I agree that PowerPoint is a tool to make uncreative people think they're creative.
And Access isn't the worst database ever; I guess you never had to use Paradox :)
"What are we going to do tonight, Bill?"
Two points: one, Apple has a buddy relationship with Microsoft, so they're not going to create anything that competes directly with Microsoft products. They used to have an integrated web browser email client (cyberdog) but abandoned it years ago. Appleworks is equivalent to MS Works; it's under-powered for most tasks. Two: Apple has changed its relationship with the developer community. You no longer have to cough up megabucks for the documentation or tools; they're free for the asking from the Apple Developers' site, and the tools come on the OS X CD. Much better than when you had to spend $500 on CodeWarrior, $200 on Inside the Mac OS, a few years ago.
"What are we going to do tonight, Bill?"