Uruguay is a republic and proud if it but in Microsoft's Outlook in Uruguay, the company offended the government by describing Tuesday April 30 as the queen's birthday.
The only useful GUI tool for MySQL I have ever come across is phpMyAdmin. PostgreSQL has a very similar tool in phpPgAdmin http://sourceforge.net/projects/phppgadmin/
> Because if they had no DRM, they'd have no deals with the RIAA members to sell their music. >They'd be limited to indy and public domain stuff, which despite what slashbots will tell you, won't make them a dime.
That is incorrect. You can buy un-DRM'd mp3 format music from http://club.mp3search.ru/ for seventy to eighty cents per album. I don't know why anyone would pay the outragous prices at iTunes.
They used to do just that with the items permanently marked down or going out of season. I think the reson was because they didn't have the computing power to track so many items and their new price. If you wanted to, you could just print out a new bar code with the description and price you want. I am sure they would make the same mistake with RFID.
I fail to see how or why p2p is important here at all. If he put together a website with these documents on it they would be evan more accessable. Or better, perhaps torrents if he cannot host directly. Not having google to search for stuff usually doesn't speed finding documents. So neat, but I think his energies could have been better spent to get these documents out there in a more accesable way.
Filling out that wish form won't help. This is/. so even though they might get thousands of requests, they won't believe them when they see the referring browser is MSIE!
> You can import unprotected WMA files into an iTunes format of your choice, and play them on your iPod.
I think this statement is exactly why you won't see WMA in iTunes. The whole point of iTunes to even extist is to sell iPods, so why would they have it play something that couldn't play on an iPod. That would just confuse the average user.
> That doesn't let Kerry off the hook, but IMO people can be excused for doing dumb things in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. Now, two and a half years later, it's a different story.
No it isn't. Is it really a good idea to not hold your politicians accountable? With you logic we should let Bush off the hook too, right? I love it how things get pinned on Bush for everything wrong but it is okay that a Democrat voted for the same crappy legislation.
Since C# is MS prized new language, it does compile to different, often better object code. Thus, C# winning does not surprise me. I do expect over time MS will optimize VB to match up better with C#.
Not to flame, but I use Visual Studio 2003 on a Windows XP machine at work. It locks up hard at least once a week. It has been a blue screen on occasion, those are actually the more gentle lockups, as the system is trying to dump the memory to disk on those. Albeit, I am not sure what I would do with it anyway, so I just hit the power button and reboot. The typical lockup involves the mouse turning off and yellow lines going across the screen. Those look neat, because I feel like I just killed a TV when I see the lines:D
I suppose to keep this from being a totaly offtopic post, lets talk about C#. As a language it is very nice, the problem with it is in the tools needed to use it. And by that I mean Visual Studio and source safe. Both cause me several hours a week of headaches. From the `I just hit F5 to run and components disapear from my form' to documents checking themself out for no reason and I am not even told about it. I am sure others out there who have used VS 2003 for desktop development can attest to these and others. Do note: I have had far fewer problems with C# when working on an ASP.NET app.
I don't have the answer to this, but I think the best analogy is `is a board game free speach?' Taking away the technology, a video game is basically just a board game.
> 1) Hire/fire. When the work was over, I didn't need the teams any more. With the Indian vendor, I could cut back without worry. With permanent hires, I'd have a serious morale problem.
How is this different that using a local contractor? You did claim that they would not work, so you need to explain this a little further. Other than with the local hire you would have paid someone, who would have then spent the money here in the US,... *money cycles around*... tada, the money comes back because someone is buying your product. Sorry, but that giant sucking sound you hear in your office is not going to go away. You seem to think you are above this, but when you lose your job to overseas I am sure I can expect a post from you on how much the economy sucks and it is all G W Bush's fault, or some other crap!
My cousin is in an electricians union, so I have talked with him about it. For his trade it makes a lot of sense to have the union. It leads to higher quiality work at prices that are competitive for the same reasons localy developed software can be compared to the stuff farmed out to India. Here is where i see a split in union logic in software development (or anything computer related for that matter), My cousin performs his work on building physically located in america where someone in India or China could not work on. With software, it can be developed anywhere, so the pool of labor is too large.
So my suggestion, our government prevent the export of all knowledge. It is the only way to save the American software developer!
They don't have their own player per se, but they do make money off all the players that support windows media format. So they still make out in the deal I suppose.
I think this will fail them unlike including IE for one very key difference. Apple already has my CC and I am all setup to buy music. Granted, most computer users don't know what is going on with their computer, they are much more likely to know what is going on with their money.
Actually I was left noticing how much better my music sounds. For a long time my mp3s have had a really scratchy sound that I attributed to my cheapo sound card (I was playing the songs with WinAmp). With iTunes they sounds clear and perfect. So that part of iTunes was a very nice surprise. My only complaint with iTunes is that I am going to buy way too much music.
The dot com age is over. At my company most of those coders have been let go or moved out of programming.
My biggest complaint with PHP is the language is not strongly typed. When I want an int to be an int I want it to stay that way, always! For making complex sites I find that PHP becomes to sloppy because it is so much more difficult to define what goes into and out of a class. Perhaps PHP 5 will improve on this short coming (from what I have read it will help), but in the business world new is over two years old and younger than that is still in infancy.
I think the often overlooked point is even though you pay for the MS software, they do almost nothing to support it. When a virus is circulating the net and you need a patch, do they come out to install it? Nope, so you still need the IT guy around to do so. Fits the same description with linux. A hole is found, a patch is released, now the IT guy needs to install it.
They're just fighting it because it isn't AOL advertising. I had to use AOL to check my e-mail when I was over a friend's house once and holy sheep shit batman. Right when you log on you get assaulted with tons of banner ad spam. AOL just wants an exclusive market for their spam instead of sharing it.
Maybe, but you can turn all that off with one checkbox in the preferences dialog box. If I could turn off spam with one click I know that I would be happy.
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The only useful GUI tool for MySQL I have ever come across is phpMyAdmin. PostgreSQL has a very similar tool in phpPgAdmin http://sourceforge.net/projects/phppgadmin/
> Because if they had no DRM, they'd have no deals with the RIAA members to sell their music.
>They'd be limited to indy and public domain stuff, which despite what slashbots will tell you, won't make them a dime.
That is incorrect. You can buy un-DRM'd mp3 format music from http://club.mp3search.ru/ for seventy to eighty cents per album. I don't know why anyone would pay the outragous prices at iTunes.
They used to do just that with the items permanently marked down or going out of season. I think the reson was because they didn't have the computing power to track so many items and their new price. If you wanted to, you could just print out a new bar code with the description and price you want. I am sure they would make the same mistake with RFID.
I fail to see how or why p2p is important here at all. If he put together a website with these documents on it they would be evan more accessable. Or better, perhaps torrents if he cannot host directly. Not having google to search for stuff usually doesn't speed finding documents. So neat, but I think his energies could have been better spent to get these documents out there in a more accesable way.
Linux is a cancer? Damn! I don't think my hard drive is gonna take to the chemotherapy too well...
Filling out that wish form won't help. This is /. so even though they might get thousands of requests, they won't believe them when they see the referring browser is MSIE!
> You can import unprotected WMA files into an iTunes format of your choice, and play them on your iPod.
I think this statement is exactly why you won't see WMA in iTunes. The whole point of iTunes to even extist is to sell iPods, so why would they have it play something that couldn't play on an iPod. That would just confuse the average user.
> That doesn't let Kerry off the hook, but IMO people can be excused for doing dumb things in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. Now, two and a half years later, it's a different story.
No it isn't. Is it really a good idea to not hold your politicians accountable? With you logic we should let Bush off the hook too, right? I love it how things get pinned on Bush for everything wrong but it is okay that a Democrat voted for the same crappy legislation.
a US stealth bomber, who would win? Or for that matter, who would find whom first?
going on about why you don't need Gigabit? Aren't we all geeks here? Isn't that a good enough reason to get it?
This is offtopic, but fook it!
> Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. -Mark Twain
I think should be rewritten
`Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a Windows user. But I repeat myself.'
Har har har, I KILL me!
Vote QBasic for president in 2004!
Since C# is MS prized new language, it does compile to different, often better object code. Thus, C# winning does not surprise me. I do expect over time MS will optimize VB to match up better with C#.
Not to flame, but I use Visual Studio 2003 on a Windows XP machine at work. It locks up hard at least once a week. It has been a blue screen on occasion, those are actually the more gentle lockups, as the system is trying to dump the memory to disk on those. Albeit, I am not sure what I would do with it anyway, so I just hit the power button and reboot. The typical lockup involves the mouse turning off and yellow lines going across the screen. Those look neat, because I feel like I just killed a TV when I see the lines :D
I suppose to keep this from being a totaly offtopic post, lets talk about C#. As a language it is very nice, the problem with it is in the tools needed to use it. And by that I mean Visual Studio and source safe. Both cause me several hours a week of headaches. From the `I just hit F5 to run and components disapear from my form' to documents checking themself out for no reason and I am not even told about it. I am sure others out there who have used VS 2003 for desktop development can attest to these and others. Do note: I have had far fewer problems with C# when working on an ASP.NET app.
> Do you drive a car or truck? Was it made in America? That's a loaded question since there really is no such thing anymore...
:D
... It really makes it look like lycono stopped there. Muhahaha.
Sure there is, you buy a Toyota or a Honda
Wasn't that a good snip at the
I don't have the answer to this, but I think the best analogy is `is a board game free speach?' Taking away the technology, a video game is basically just a board game.
> 1) Hire/fire. When the work was over, I didn't need the teams any more. With the Indian vendor, I could cut back without worry. With permanent hires, I'd have a serious morale problem.
How is this different that using a local contractor? You did claim that they would not work, so you need to explain this a little further. Other than with the local hire you would have paid someone, who would have then spent the money here in the US,... *money cycles around*... tada, the money comes back because someone is buying your product. Sorry, but that giant sucking sound you hear in your office is not going to go away. You seem to think you are above this, but when you lose your job to overseas I am sure I can expect a post from you on how much the economy sucks and it is all G W Bush's fault, or some other crap!
My cousin is in an electricians union, so I have talked with him about it. For his trade it makes a lot of sense to have the union. It leads to higher quiality work at prices that are competitive for the same reasons localy developed software can be compared to the stuff farmed out to India. Here is where i see a split in union logic in software development (or anything computer related for that matter), My cousin performs his work on building physically located in america where someone in India or China could not work on. With software, it can be developed anywhere, so the pool of labor is too large.
So my suggestion, our government prevent the export of all knowledge. It is the only way to save the American software developer!
Uhh, the last part was a joke. See, funny.
They don't have their own player per se, but they do make money off all the players that support windows media format. So they still make out in the deal I suppose.
I think this will fail them unlike including IE for one very key difference. Apple already has my CC and I am all setup to buy music. Granted, most computer users don't know what is going on with their computer, they are much more likely to know what is going on with their money.
Actually I was left noticing how much better my music sounds. For a long time my mp3s have had a really scratchy sound that I attributed to my cheapo sound card (I was playing the songs with WinAmp). With iTunes they sounds clear and perfect. So that part of iTunes was a very nice surprise. My only complaint with iTunes is that I am going to buy way too much music.
Sure if it was coded by former vb guy w/o a clue.
Welcome to the Real World.
The dot com age is over. At my company most of those coders have been let go or moved out of programming.
My biggest complaint with PHP is the language is not strongly typed. When I want an int to be an int I want it to stay that way, always! For making complex sites I find that PHP becomes to sloppy because it is so much more difficult to define what goes into and out of a class. Perhaps PHP 5 will improve on this short coming (from what I have read it will help), but in the business world new is over two years old and younger than that is still in infancy.
I think the often overlooked point is even though you pay for the MS software, they do almost nothing to support it. When a virus is circulating the net and you need a patch, do they come out to install it? Nope, so you still need the IT guy around to do so. Fits the same description with linux. A hole is found, a patch is released, now the IT guy needs to install it.
They're just fighting it because it isn't AOL advertising. I had to use AOL to check my e-mail when I was over a friend's house once and holy sheep shit batman. Right when you log on you get assaulted with tons of banner ad spam. AOL just wants an exclusive market for their spam instead of sharing it.
Maybe, but you can turn all that off with one checkbox in the preferences dialog box. If I could turn off spam with one click I know that I would be happy.