And for those of us who actually have sex with living, breathing *bipeds* (of the OPPOSITE sex), can you please let me in on the secret of what exactly a "Screener" is?
Outlook express is a weak email client anyway, and it has no support for automation or external API's except "simple" MAPI which is anything but, and WAB - Windows Address Book - which basically forces you to write spaghetti code to use it...
I have my whole 300 CD music collection ripped to WMA. (You can just turn off DRM).
I don't even know where i would get a program that rips CD's to WMA.
That is a silly thing to say... its called Windows Media Player (duh)
Why does everything always include support for WMA when nobody really uses it?
With WMP 9: Better compression, better audio quality, and, like you said, universal and total support. I guess when you say "nobody" you mean "nobody except the 95% of users out there running Windows"
Anyway, you are totally wrong, every object in C# is derived from 'object'. Same as VB.NET. Same as Managed C++. Etc., etc. How can you argue this point? It is a fact. I still stand by my statements.
Having a weakly typed language is not an advantage. Apparently, script programmers cant deal with specifying that something is an 'int' or 'float' or whatever..NET has really solved this problem, but making it strongly typed, but every typed is derived from 'object', which has a pure virtual 'ToString' which allows you to easily convert anything to a string suitable for printing. Can you see the advantage here?
int a=1; WriteLine("a is type {0} and has value {1}", a.GetType().ToString(), a.ToString());
The beauty of it is when you translate the text. The translator now has option of moving parameters around inside the text. Awesome.
Now go ahead and mod me down for saying something positive about.NET:(
Why are we gloating over the problems of buymusic.com? It wasnt too long ago, I thought I remember people on this message screaming for the ability to download songs for 99cents. In fact Im pretty sure some justified file sharing by saying there was no way to buy individual songs.
Don't miss Softimage at Siggraph, where they are introducing XSI 3.5.
Softimage rocks. XSI was used to make the animation and effects in movies like Toy Story (and its being used for making the model in upcoming Half Life 2).
And by the way, they used to be owned by Microsoft until they were sold off to competitor Avid. May that was one of Microsoft's Mistakes?
And YOU get a -1 for using MSNBC as your news source!
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Its better than not being able to understand his code because YOU ARE LOOKING AT ASSEMBLY, which is what classic ASP provided with the nasty combo of VB script and COM objects.
Oh, did I mention that all ASP.NET web applications are compiled? So they get a huge performance boost over the slower scripted languages (PHP, classic ASP). Like I said, I could go on... (and on...)
can bet your last dollar that Mono is going down in a awe inspiring flaming blimp style
Microsoft fully supports Mono through their own "shared code" initiative. Did you really think they would get this far without Microsoft's support?
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Well, judging from your comment I would say you don't know much about.NET at all.
To me the biggest advantage that ASP.NET provides is complete seperation of code and HTML - I cringe whenever I see them intermingled now (read: PHP or classic ASP)..NET also provides xcopy style deployment (no registry, no components) and side-by-side versioning. Also, you can upgrade an app by copying in new DLLs - while it is running. This is CRITICAL for server deployment. Oh yeah,.NET also lets you mix languages. You can step from VB to J# to C# in your debugger.
I could go on, and on, and on... but why? You have already made up your mind...
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And for those of us who actually have sex with living, breathing *bipeds* (of the OPPOSITE sex), can you please let me in on the secret of what exactly a "Screener" is?
Moderately safe? What does that mean... Safe from moderation?
Outlook express is a weak email client anyway, and it has no support for automation or external API's except "simple" MAPI which is anything but, and WAB - Windows Address Book - which basically forces you to write spaghetti code to use it...
Wouldn't it be natural to have stress in your voice if something has happened in your life causing you to file an insurance claim?
Why is that a problem? I'm pretty sure Windows and WMA will be around a lot longer than something called "ogg varbis".
Does anybody actually have any WMA files?
Yes
That contain music?
Yes
That they actually listen to?
I have my whole 300 CD music collection ripped to WMA. (You can just turn off DRM).
I don't even know where i would get a program that rips CD's to WMA.
That is a silly thing to say... its called Windows Media Player (duh)
Why does everything always include support for WMA when nobody really uses it?
With WMP 9: Better compression, better audio quality, and, like you said, universal and total support. I guess when you say "nobody" you mean "nobody except the 95% of users out there running Windows"
Does windowsupdate.com carry test versions on the development branch of the kernel?
The most annoying thing about Linux is that people compare it to Windows and point out the differences as "annoying".
Different can be better, but yes, there may be a learning curve... and that can be annoying for some.
Wow, sounds like a great business plan.
I think they have considered allowing such a thing to happen.
.Net running on Linux, etc.
I seem to recall that Microsoft released over 1 million lines of code in their shared source effort to get
No. Next question?
Why dont you just make 10 the loudest number, and make that the highest...?
You guys always complain about bias when the Gartner Group etc., releases a study about how Microsoft is better at this or that.
But I don't see anyone complaining that the OSDL certainly has a vested interested here and is hardly to be expected to provide an unbiased report.
Discuss.
You modded yourself up didn't you ;).
Anyway, you are totally wrong, every object in C# is derived from 'object'. Same as VB.NET. Same as Managed C++. Etc., etc. How can you argue this point? It is a fact. I still stand by my statements.
I meant any language that .NET supports... VB.NET, C#, J#, etc. Can you see the beauty in THAT?
;). Sorry I touched a nerve there ;)
Anyway, it looks like *somebody* is getting defensive about being a script programmer
Having a weakly typed language is not an advantage. Apparently, script programmers cant deal with specifying that something is an 'int' or 'float' or whatever. .NET has really solved this problem, but making it strongly typed, but every typed is derived from 'object', which has a pure virtual 'ToString' which allows you to easily convert anything to a string suitable for printing. Can you see the advantage here?
.NET :(
int a=1;
WriteLine("a is type {0} and has value {1}", a.GetType().ToString(), a.ToString());
The beauty of it is when you translate the text. The translator now has option of moving parameters around inside the text. Awesome.
Now go ahead and mod me down for saying something positive about
Whatever happened to Motorola? Palm and Apple both dropped the Motorola CPU line, and now you don't even see them mentioned as a candidate anymore.
Motorola... The next Xerox??
This seems to be a big slap in the face for Apple's most loyal customers... er, should I say Apple's paying beta testers...
Why are we gloating over the problems of buymusic.com? It wasnt too long ago, I thought I remember people on this message screaming for the ability to download songs for 99cents. In fact Im pretty sure some justified file sharing by saying there was no way to buy individual songs.
Softimage rocks. XSI was used to make the animation and effects in movies like Toy Story (and its being used for making the model in upcoming Half Life 2).
And by the way, they used to be owned by Microsoft until they were sold off to competitor Avid. May that was one of Microsoft's Mistakes?
And YOU get a -1 for using MSNBC as your news source!
Oh, did I mention that all ASP.NET web applications are compiled? So they get a huge performance boost over the slower scripted languages (PHP, classic ASP). Like I said, I could go on... (and on...)
Microsoft fully supports Mono through their own "shared code" initiative. Did you really think they would get this far without Microsoft's support?
Well, judging from your comment I would say you don't know much about .NET at all.
.NET also provides xcopy style deployment (no registry, no components) and side-by-side versioning. Also, you can upgrade an app by copying in new DLLs - while it is running. This is CRITICAL for server deployment. Oh yeah, .NET also lets you mix languages. You can step from VB to J# to C# in your debugger.
To me the biggest advantage that ASP.NET provides is complete seperation of code and HTML - I cringe whenever I see them intermingled now (read: PHP or classic ASP).
I could go on, and on, and on... but why? You have already made up your mind...
Hell, I dont even understand your answer. You really expect this to be a mainstream OS?