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3. I read this fellow worked for Xerox..NOT directly for Microsoft. This means that MS is dictating hireing practices to subcontractors. Is that legal?
You bet it's legal. It's called Don't send us the same kind of bums you sent us last time!
The XML primarily allows you to specify the layout of widgets on your form (whatever the render happens to be: Windows.Forms or Areo's Canvas class). Sure, it's nice to be able to define this in a standard format, but I'm having trouble figuring out what's the big deal?
The "big deal" is that you don't (always) have to recompile your program code just because you want to change the way the GUI looks. Maybe Longhorn/IE is some day going to be as kick-ass as Mozilla is today...Maybe:-)
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Somebody just pissed up my leg in this thread pointing out that Mozilla wasn't the first project that uses an markup language to describe GUIs. He may be right, but I don't think anybody else except Mozilla has such a kick-ass and complete implementation of the concept. Microsoft probably just has screenshots and they're still busy rewriting the XUL specification:-)
Like I pointed out before, describing GUI elements like dialogs etc. using some sort of markup language is nothing new. Mozilla has already been doing this for years. They call their markup language (it's based on XML) XUL.
Describing user interfaces using markup language like "XAML" is nothing new. Mozilla's user interface is completely based on XUL and scripted with javascript therefore making it "prior art"
So Sony has added an improvement to their degradable media... they don't only become unreadable after a year (The Sony CD-Rs I burned last year are full of read errors), now they even disintegrate after 50 years.
Why can't they come up with a disc that retains its data for at least 50-100 years instead of one that disintegrates?!?!?!
We're working on a nuclear device. It'll probably put out a lot more power than yours. If you're a couple of miles away it will still give you a blast of 5,000 rads of total body exposure all within a tenth of a second. The always say, radiation is not painful. This will be very painful. You will definitely feel the initial blast of photons only exceeded in sheer agony during the last week of your life you spend in agony as you will find your skin peeling off and your internal organs shutting down, slowly one, after the other starting with the liver:-)
Guantamano Bay awaits you... You've just encouraged someone to commit a terrorist act against the United States, and I'm not sure if that's not an act of terrorism all by itself. Yes... they might just come for YOU, dear borgdows (#599861) and throw the book at you. That's the same thing as publicly asking Osama Bin Laden to blow up the Statue of Liberty. The next number you will be known by, dear #599861 will not be your slashdot number.
160,000 bounced mails... less than 60 megabytes of traffic, about as much as three people running windows update or five people downloading Mozilla. Laughable. If they put people like him in the same league with Bin Laden then they should be taken outside and have their bare asses whipped with a rubber hose until they have stopped screaming and started giggling.
I guess they should get a form letter back... "Thank you for taking interest in our Linux license program. Please visit our website for further details and be sure to sign up for our mailing list".
Yes you're right! If you're into rugged survivable notebooks you're definitely into IBM Thinkpads! You know, I keep on dropping mobile phones and notebooks all the time.
I've tripped over the powerchord of my IBM Thinkpad T40 a couple of times now (I sometimes work at the couch table and then forget I've got it plugged in) and each time it really crashed hard onto our stone tile floor.
Tell you what... My wife bitched about the stone floor, the Thinkpads works perfectly and obviously takes a lot more abuse than our flooring!
I think what he means it that usually your female signicant other takes off when you're unemployed leaving you no other choice than channeling your sexual energies through your hands. I had to redirect my energies through that pathway after my old mutual masturbation partner took off because we couldn't afford our accustomed lifestyle. But hey... good riddance too! Now I got a cute plump masochist chick that totally freaks when I strap her to our bed, spank her silly with my belt and "torture" her with a huge solid metal dildo. Life is good.
Maybe but that's exactly the way to hose organizations like the RIAA: Just think what would happen if everybody who owns a cd/dvd burner would put $5 in a fund to pay a bunch of lawyers to make the RIAA short existance thereafter as miserable, humiliating and painful as possible?
If the world switched to GNU/Linux how long would it take before the first state of the art viruses for GNU/Linux would be out? How long would it take if everybody started using Solaris 9? How long for Atheos? How long for OpenVMS? How long if we all ditched our PCs / workstations and got ourselves zSystem mainframes running zOS?... Incidentally, the first virus program that received some publicity ran on IBM compatible mainframes under MVS.
Sorry to have to disagree... but when I've smoked enough I somehow don't have the energy to drink:-) I just lie there, drifting away while pleasant thoughts and fantasies enter my mind and sometimes leave it before I've had a chance to really dig into them and I then spend a minute or two trying to remember what it exactly was I was thinking about before I somehow loose track and some other entertaining thought or concept makes me chuckle in delight... Hell... I've even had CNN on for hours and I was too stoned to find the remote and change the channel... and tell you what, after I while I found it hilarious:-)
I don't know what the traffic regs are in the jurisdiction you live in but over here you have to let fire engines, police and ambulances pass no matter what and if that means pulling over, even into the bus lanes, you have to do it... because if you don't the fire engine has the right to shove you right into the intersection if it has to... and no matter what you'll be in deep shit for obstructing rescue efforts... oh and what's more... If there's someone under your car for some reason please do get out first and check whether it's safe to move your car before getting zapped by the redlight camera. Even here in the Reich maybe not the Ordnungsamt (department that fines all enemies of the public order) but the courts will be fairly compassionate if there is a real necessity of rescuing someone trapped under a car. They might just fine you anyway but they wont suspend your license because you had a damm good reason:-)
Everything. As a vehicle owner I have to pay for it, or rather the expensive transponder box, I have to pay for it when it breaks, I have to make sure it's data such as what insurance I have and other DMV stuff is kept up to date... And as a taxpayer I have to pay for sensors and receivers for every 200ft of road, for every intersection, for every stoplight, I have to pay the cost of communicating with all those roadside boxes, I have to pay the cost of the computer systems involved, I have to pay the cost of the people running the system...
just so that big brother can a.) fine me for going a little over the speed limit...
b.) can years hence accurately tell where I am right now or where I was on a certain date at certain time.
You know, Bob, I usually don't fuck up bad on the road but hey...
Not really. It's more the alcoholic beverages industry as well as pharma and medical that want marijuana outlawed because it could potentially really cut into their profits. I myself have no desire to drink when I've smoked pot. In addition to that long time consumption of pot does not have by a long shot the same kind of serious health risks that alcohol consumption has. And what's even better... smoking pot gives me ideas... something the government and the moralists absolutely hate.
The only thing I can think of in reply to your post is maybe they don't want healthy blacks with fresh new ideas.
My ex-girlfriend hit me over the head with my Nokia 6210 shrieking "you dirty cocksucker!" before she threw it at my face though she missed and it whizzed by my left ear hitting the wall. Now the display doesn't work anymore. Too bad the Nokia 6210 was a pretty neat phone, I had a far more meaningful relationship with that phone instead of with her in the end:-)
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Enterprising crackers use Sub7 Enterprise Edition. :-). It is happening right now on a corporate PC near you.
3. I read this fellow worked for Xerox..NOT directly for Microsoft. This means that MS is dictating hireing practices to subcontractors. Is that legal?
You bet it's legal. It's called Don't send us the same kind of bums you sent us last time!
The XML primarily allows you to specify the layout of widgets on your form (whatever the render happens to be: Windows.Forms or Areo's Canvas class). Sure, it's nice to be able to define this in a standard format, but I'm having trouble figuring out what's the big deal?
:-)
The "big deal" is that you don't (always) have to recompile your program code just because you want to change the way the GUI looks. Maybe Longhorn/IE is some day going to be as kick-ass as Mozilla is today...Maybe
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Mozilla main site Somebody just pissed up my leg in this thread pointing out that Mozilla wasn't the first project that uses an markup language to describe GUIs. He may be right, but I don't think anybody else except Mozilla has such a kick-ass and complete implementation of the concept. Microsoft probably just has screenshots and they're still busy rewriting the XUL specification :-)
"XAML" is what they want to use to describe GUI elements. Something like
<dialog title="Longhorn General Application Fault">
<button id="idok">Crash System</button>
<button id="idcl">Trash System</button>
</dialog>
Like I pointed out before, describing GUI elements
like dialogs etc. using some sort of markup language is nothing new. Mozilla has already been doing this for years. They call their markup language (it's based on XML) XUL.
Describing user interfaces using markup language like "XAML" is nothing new. Mozilla's user interface is completely based on XUL and scripted with javascript therefore making it "prior art"
Oh come on, slashdot! Payment over mobile phones is so 1990ies! Over here in Germany schemes and rackets like have gone under and been resurrected countless times.
This is definitely not news for nerds nor stuff that matters.
So Sony has added an improvement to their degradable media... they don't only become unreadable after a year (The Sony CD-Rs I burned last year are full of read errors), now they even disintegrate after 50 years.
Why can't they come up with a disc that retains its data for at least 50-100 years instead of one that disintegrates?!?!?!
We're working on a nuclear device. It'll probably put out a lot more power than yours. If you're a couple of miles away it will still give you a blast of 5,000 rads of total body exposure all within a tenth of a second. The always say, radiation is not painful. This will be very painful. You will definitely feel the initial blast of photons only exceeded in sheer agony during the last week of your life you spend in agony as you will find your skin peeling off and your internal organs shutting down, slowly one, after the other starting with the liver :-)
Guantamano Bay awaits you... You've just encouraged someone to commit a terrorist act against the United States, and I'm not sure if that's not an act of terrorism all by itself. Yes... they might just come for YOU, dear borgdows (#599861) and throw the book at you. That's the same thing as publicly asking Osama Bin Laden to blow up the Statue of Liberty. The next number you will be known by, dear #599861 will not be your slashdot number.
And how is your "working legal system" going to affect a US corporation? Australia... Isn't that where the term "Kangaroo Court" originated from?
160,000 bounced mails... less than 60 megabytes of traffic, about as much as three people running windows update or five people downloading Mozilla. Laughable. If they put people like him in the same league with Bin Laden then they should be taken outside and have their bare asses whipped with a rubber hose until they have stopped screaming and started giggling.
I guess they should get a form letter back... "Thank you for taking interest in our Linux license program. Please visit our website for further details and be sure to sign up for our mailing list".
Yes you're right! If you're into rugged survivable notebooks you're definitely into IBM Thinkpads! You know, I keep on dropping mobile phones and notebooks all the time.
I've tripped over the powerchord of my IBM Thinkpad T40 a couple of times now (I sometimes work at the couch table and then forget I've got it plugged in) and each time it really crashed hard onto our stone tile floor.
Tell you what... My wife bitched about the stone floor, the Thinkpads works perfectly and obviously takes a lot more abuse than our flooring!
I'm not confident that most of the Internet population would understand that they need to remove the REVOVE.THIS.TO.EMAIL.ME part of my address.
If they don't even understand how to mail you, what makes you think they understand what you wrote?
With 4 gigs chock full of arcade machine roms I don't give a flying fuck, and neither do you, I suppose.
I think what he means it that usually your female signicant other takes off when you're unemployed leaving you no other choice than channeling your sexual energies through your hands. I had to redirect my energies through that pathway after my old mutual masturbation partner took off because we couldn't afford our accustomed lifestyle. But hey... good riddance too! Now I got a cute plump masochist chick that totally freaks when I strap her to our bed, spank her silly with my belt and "torture" her with a huge solid metal dildo. Life is good.
Maybe but that's exactly the way to hose organizations like the RIAA: Just think what would happen if everybody who owns a cd/dvd burner would put $5 in a fund to pay a bunch of lawyers to make the RIAA short existance thereafter as miserable, humiliating and painful as possible?
If the world switched to GNU/Linux how long would it take before the first state of the art viruses for GNU/Linux would be out? How long would it take if everybody started using Solaris 9? How long for Atheos? How long for OpenVMS? How long if we all ditched our PCs / workstations and got ourselves zSystem mainframes running zOS? ... Incidentally, the first virus program that received some publicity ran on IBM compatible mainframes under MVS.
Sorry to have to disagree... but when I've smoked enough I somehow don't have the energy to drink :-) I just lie there, drifting away while pleasant thoughts and fantasies enter my mind and sometimes leave it before I've had a chance to really dig into them and I then spend a minute or two trying to remember what it exactly was I was thinking about before I somehow loose track and some other entertaining thought or concept makes me chuckle in delight... Hell... I've even had CNN on for hours and I was too stoned to find the remote and change the channel... and tell you what, after I while I found it hilarious :-)
I don't know what the traffic regs are in the jurisdiction you live in but over here you have to let fire engines, police and ambulances pass no matter what and if that means pulling over, even into the bus lanes, you have to do it... because if you don't the fire engine has the right to shove you right into the intersection if it has to... and no matter what you'll be in deep shit for obstructing rescue efforts... oh and what's more... If there's someone under your car for some reason please do get out first and check whether it's safe to move your car before getting zapped by the redlight camera. Even here in the Reich maybe not the Ordnungsamt (department that fines all enemies of the public order) but the courts will be fairly compassionate if there is a real necessity of rescuing someone trapped under a car. They might just fine you anyway but they wont suspend your license because you had a damm good reason :-)
just so that big brother can a.) fine me for going a little over the speed limit ...
b.) can years hence accurately tell where I am right now or where I was on a certain date at certain time.
You know, Bob, I usually don't fuck up bad on the road but hey...
Not really. It's more the alcoholic beverages industry as well as pharma and medical that want marijuana outlawed because it could potentially really cut into their profits. I myself have no desire to drink when I've smoked pot. In addition to that long time consumption of pot does not have by a long shot the same kind of serious health risks that alcohol consumption has. And what's even better... smoking pot gives me ideas... something the government and the moralists absolutely hate. The only thing I can think of in reply to your post is maybe they don't want healthy blacks with fresh new ideas.
My ex-girlfriend hit me over the head with my Nokia 6210 shrieking "you dirty cocksucker!" before she threw it at my face though she missed and it whizzed by my left ear hitting the wall. Now the display doesn't work anymore. Too bad the Nokia 6210 was a pretty neat phone, I had a far more meaningful relationship with that phone instead of with her in the end :-)