First off, that was a very well-thought-out reply. Thanks.
No, I was referring to the need for A:, B:, C:, D:, E:, F
Network drives can be referenced by their full UNC paths at all times in Windows, ie "\\FOOSERVER\My_Share\". There's no need to map drives to letters any more. Some folks still do it, out of habit, or for backwards compatibility, or to have those drives show up "mounted" in the GUI. If you don't need an icon to click on, you can just pop open explorer, and type in the UNC path, or use Network Neighborhood to browse to the share.
C:>cd D:/blah/foo/bar C:>dir...list of C:'s contents, not D:/blah/foo/bar's
That's because you don't use the cd command in windows to change drives. You would just type the drive letter ("d:"). Seems counter-intuitive, but we're not going to get in a "which OS is less intuitive" contest are we? 'Cause I think we both know who's gonna win that one. Hint:UNIX.
And those developers, with the blessing of the Registry architecture, abused and neglected the Registry so that it is essentially unmaintainable over time.
This is true. I was thinking about arguing it, because developers are free to use the tens of thousands of equally unmaintainable configuration files UNIX relies on, but you're right. The registry is often a mess. Fortunately, it's getting less and less necessary under.Net.
Also, all of the tools that directly manipulate the device configurations (networks, filesystems, framebuffers, etc.) are all command-line based.
Not being a jerk, but have you used Windows lately? There's either standard DOS shell scripting, or Windows Scripting Host hooks into every conceivable part of Windows. Most functions have both. Every task imaginable is availible through the command line. Not based per se, but that's because Windows is not a headless OS, and was never supposed to be. Not to mention, most major programs have exposed their object models, so OS and application functionality are availible in the same environment. More recently, regEx functionality has been added to the WSH as well.
Ahhh, the cozy world of Microsoft, where Microsoft has kindly eliminated competing companies to make all our lives easier.
I was only stating that as opposed to not providing utilities, MS has provided enough (mostly for free) for anyone to do their jobs. You can run StarOffice/Apache/MySQL if you want, or stick to MS products.
: to take the property of another wrongfully and especially as an habitual or regular practice
So, by your own definition, you're wrong. Copying is not only not stealing, it's not even taking. Turn off your TV once in a while. When you take something, you deprive the owner of its use.
This is only copying without permission, a relatively new type of "crime" created by our legislation to protect the business of intellectual property. "Stealing" was defined long before the idea of IP copying.
anybody riping and collecting works they don't pay for are simply stealing
No, they are NOT. Stealing means depriving the original owner of the use of that material. The RIAA has a long way to go before they can make a direct link between music copying and loss of revenue. All P2P clients are doing is copying music. No more, no less. It's only in the last 100 years that artists and publishers can expect to make money while no one is physically playing their instruments.
It still suffers from architectural kludges like a multi-rooted directory hierarchy
You mean the Desktop/My Computer/C: thing, right? How is that a kludge? It's a feature! Each user can choose his/her own entry point to their files, whichever one suits them.
and the Registry
The Registry is provided as a service to developers writing Windows apps, and is one of the reasons there's so many more end-user apps for it than Unix or Mac. Besides,.net assemblies make the Registry irrelevant.
and it suffers from a lack of useful bundled system tools
Compared to what? Linux, where all of the tools are piled onto the distro, because they're all free? Windows has plenty of management tools, and if so inclined, a Windows user can most likely do his/her job just fine without ever buying a non-Microsoft product (except for maybe WinZip). Of course, there are thrid-party tools everywhere, which is why there's actually Windows developers making money.
Smoking is no different than crapping on the street?
I would say your post is no different to crapping on my computer screen. Now, get over here and clean it up.
You mean I don't have the right to go around spewing disgusting, unsafe pollution wherever the hell I want?
Drive a car? Then shut up.
Control your urge until you get home junkie.
Make me. Funny thing, smokers actually tend to be more considerate people than our non-smoking counterparts. Just ask any waitress: "Who tips better?" While we huddle outside in the heat/cold to protect your "health" (like exposure to one secondhand cigarette a week makes a bit of difference), pay millions a year in taxes to fund your governments, and have to sit through countless ads telling us how our perfectly legal activity is harming everyone and killing puppies, we still have to listen to comfort nazis like yourself. We'll quit when we're ready, or maybe never, when we die from cancer. Last time I checked, the sign on the door said "America".
If someoene can't stand to languish an hour or so without gassing the rest of the restaurant, perhaps it's time they seriously contemplated quitting.
If someone can't get to work without driving a two-ton vehicle 60 MPH, belching noxious fumes into the air, it's time they seriously thought about getting a new job. Non-smokers are such whiners.
He has a right not to have his life endangered in public places.
Well, no. Like another poster mentioned, he has the right to just not show up, or eat at home. God help the first person in a bar, or the smoking section of a restaurant, who asks me to extinguish my cigarette for health reasons. Smoking's legal.
I choose to fly based on destinations, safety, quality, and comfort, not in that order. No where on that list is the computer operating system used by the reservation clerks.
Do you realize how incredibly stupid this makes you appear in light of your opinion that McD SHOULD be responsible for burning that lady?
Oh, wow. Uh, that remark was in response to the guy that said McD's coffee was too cold now, because of the lawsuit. Since coffee that's too cold isn't going to injure someone (unless it freezes, and slides out of the cup onto their toe), that would make you an idiot. Thanks for playing, Anonymous Coward.
. Look at Austin as an example. When technology moved into Austin, all sorts of new things came up.
Yeah, like pollution, traffic, and cheesey nerds stuffing themselves into blue shirts and khakis, and then stuffing themselves into their overpriced SUVs, then stuffing themselves into 6th street clubs.
Besides, if people are willing to move out to Texas, I dont think upstate New York is any worse.
Spoken like a true non-Texan. You know there's no state income tax here? Oh, and air conditioning has been invented.
And because of her stupidity (Remind me - did McDonalds put a gun to her head and tell her to pour it over herself? I thought not.)
She didn't pour it on herself, she spilled it. And it was too hot to be safe. Thank God it was on her crotch, and not her grandson's face.
everyone who gets coffee from McDonalds gets cold coffee (or at least, coffee which becomes undrinkably cold much faster)
IMO, anyone who is too lazy to brew coffee deserves what they get. No one is holding a gun to your head, telling you to drink McDonald's coffee, are they?
Yes, personal responsibility has value. However, companies have an obligation to make products that are safe.
I wholeheartedly agree. In fact, I think an artist's definition of "work" is inherently flawed. Before there was recorded music, there was music. Somehow, artists and the industry are convinced that if piracy isn't stopped, there won't be anything creative. Bullshit! All the pirates are doing is creating a distribution channel for your artwork, be it literary, visual, or musical. Your "work" is done the moment you leave the studio. Why should you be entitled to money for doing nothing? None of us are paid "royalties" by the companies we work for. We get paid for the time we show up and work. Why should it be any different for so-called creatives? Do they really expect to be paid for something that the recipient didn't?
Randomly? Yes, that's wrong. However, you can cut that 3X10^12 down to aroung 3X10^6 merely by running a dictionary file filled with common last names and append one or two letters after. How do I know this? My personal email address is mccallclAThotmailDOTcom, and many of the spams I recieve are also addressed to mccallca, mccallcb, mccallcc and so on.
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First off, that was a very well-thought-out reply. Thanks.
...list of C:'s contents, not D:/blah/foo/bar's
.Net.
No, I was referring to the need for A:, B:, C:, D:, E:, F
Network drives can be referenced by their full UNC paths at all times in Windows, ie "\\FOOSERVER\My_Share\". There's no need to map drives to letters any more. Some folks still do it, out of habit, or for backwards compatibility, or to have those drives show up "mounted" in the GUI. If you don't need an icon to click on, you can just pop open explorer, and type in the UNC path, or use Network Neighborhood to browse to the share.
C:>cd D:/blah/foo/bar
C:>dir
That's because you don't use the cd command in windows to change drives. You would just type the drive letter ("d:"). Seems counter-intuitive, but we're not going to get in a "which OS is less intuitive" contest are we? 'Cause I think we both know who's gonna win that one. Hint:UNIX.
And those developers, with the blessing of the Registry architecture, abused and neglected the Registry so that it is essentially unmaintainable over time.
This is true. I was thinking about arguing it, because developers are free to use the tens of thousands of equally unmaintainable configuration files UNIX relies on, but you're right. The registry is often a mess. Fortunately, it's getting less and less necessary under
Also, all of the tools that directly manipulate the device configurations (networks, filesystems, framebuffers, etc.) are all command-line based.
Not being a jerk, but have you used Windows lately? There's either standard DOS shell scripting, or Windows Scripting Host hooks into every conceivable part of Windows. Most functions have both. Every task imaginable is availible through the command line. Not based per se, but that's because Windows is not a headless OS, and was never supposed to be. Not to mention, most major programs have exposed their object models, so OS and application functionality are availible in the same environment. More recently, regEx functionality has been added to the WSH as well.
Ahhh, the cozy world of Microsoft, where Microsoft has kindly eliminated competing companies to make all our lives easier.
I was only stating that as opposed to not providing utilities, MS has provided enough (mostly for free) for anyone to do their jobs. You can run StarOffice/Apache/MySQL if you want, or stick to MS products.
: to take the property of another wrongfully and especially as an habitual or regular practice
So, by your own definition, you're wrong. Copying is not only not stealing, it's not even taking. Turn off your TV once in a while. When you take something, you deprive the owner of its use.
This is only copying without permission, a relatively new type of "crime" created by our legislation to protect the business of intellectual property. "Stealing" was defined long before the idea of IP copying.
anybody riping and collecting works they don't pay for are simply stealing
No, they are NOT. Stealing means depriving the original owner of the use of that material. The RIAA has a long way to go before they can make a direct link between music copying and loss of revenue. All P2P clients are doing is copying music. No more, no less. It's only in the last 100 years that artists and publishers can expect to make money while no one is physically playing their instruments.
It still suffers from architectural kludges like a multi-rooted directory hierarchy
.net assemblies make the Registry irrelevant.
You mean the Desktop/My Computer/C: thing, right? How is that a kludge? It's a feature! Each user can choose his/her own entry point to their files, whichever one suits them.
and the Registry
The Registry is provided as a service to developers writing Windows apps, and is one of the reasons there's so many more end-user apps for it than Unix or Mac. Besides,
and it suffers from a lack of useful bundled system tools
Compared to what? Linux, where all of the tools are piled onto the distro, because they're all free? Windows has plenty of management tools, and if so inclined, a Windows user can most likely do his/her job just fine without ever buying a non-Microsoft product (except for maybe WinZip). Of course, there are thrid-party tools everywhere, which is why there's actually Windows developers making money.
And, this has to do with user interface design how?
You are comparing apples and oranges.
This coming from the moron that compared a compact disc to a puppy?
You can choose where to breathe, yet I can't choose where to smoke. So, you're wrong, and a coward.
Smoking is no different than crapping on the street?
I would say your post is no different to crapping on my computer screen. Now, get over here and clean it up.
You mean I don't have the right to go around spewing disgusting, unsafe pollution wherever the hell I want?
Drive a car? Then shut up.
Control your urge until you get home junkie.
Make me. Funny thing, smokers actually tend to be more considerate people than our non-smoking counterparts. Just ask any waitress: "Who tips better?" While we huddle outside in the heat/cold to protect your "health" (like exposure to one secondhand cigarette a week makes a bit of difference), pay millions a year in taxes to fund your governments, and have to sit through countless ads telling us how our perfectly legal activity is harming everyone and killing puppies, we still have to listen to comfort nazis like yourself. We'll quit when we're ready, or maybe never, when we die from cancer. Last time I checked, the sign on the door said "America".
If someoene can't stand to languish an hour or so without gassing the rest of the restaurant, perhaps it's time they seriously contemplated quitting.
If someone can't get to work without driving a two-ton vehicle 60 MPH, belching noxious fumes into the air, it's time they seriously thought about getting a new job. Non-smokers are such whiners.
He has a right not to have his life endangered in public places.
Well, no. Like another poster mentioned, he has the right to just not show up, or eat at home. God help the first person in a bar, or the smoking section of a restaurant, who asks me to extinguish my cigarette for health reasons. Smoking's legal.
I choose to fly based on destinations, safety, quality, and comfort, not in that order. No where on that list is the computer operating system used by the reservation clerks.
I have a 9-inch cock, but I never installed a window in my pants. I say, let someone else find out the old-fashioned way ;)
I know. 128-byte limit for sigs.
Do you realize how incredibly stupid this makes you appear in light of your opinion that McD SHOULD be responsible for burning that lady?
Oh, wow. Uh, that remark was in response to the guy that said McD's coffee was too cold now, because of the lawsuit. Since coffee that's too cold isn't going to injure someone (unless it freezes, and slides out of the cup onto their toe), that would make you an idiot. Thanks for playing, Anonymous Coward.
. Look at Austin as an example. When technology moved into Austin, all sorts of new things came up.
Yeah, like pollution, traffic, and cheesey nerds stuffing themselves into blue shirts and khakis, and then stuffing themselves into their overpriced SUVs, then stuffing themselves into 6th street clubs.
Besides, if people are willing to move out to Texas, I dont think upstate New York is any worse.
Spoken like a true non-Texan. You know there's no state income tax here? Oh, and air conditioning has been invented.
Flamebait, my ass! That shit was funny! I give it my own personal +1, Funny.
And because of her stupidity (Remind me - did McDonalds put a gun to her head and tell her to pour it over herself? I thought not.)
She didn't pour it on herself, she spilled it. And it was too hot to be safe. Thank God it was on her crotch, and not her grandson's face.
everyone who gets coffee from McDonalds gets cold coffee (or at least, coffee which becomes undrinkably cold much faster)
IMO, anyone who is too lazy to brew coffee deserves what they get. No one is holding a gun to your head, telling you to drink McDonald's coffee, are they?
Yes, personal responsibility has value. However, companies have an obligation to make products that are safe.
I wholeheartedly agree. In fact, I think an artist's definition of "work" is inherently flawed. Before there was recorded music, there was music. Somehow, artists and the industry are convinced that if piracy isn't stopped, there won't be anything creative. Bullshit! All the pirates are doing is creating a distribution channel for your artwork, be it literary, visual, or musical. Your "work" is done the moment you leave the studio. Why should you be entitled to money for doing nothing? None of us are paid "royalties" by the companies we work for. We get paid for the time we show up and work. Why should it be any different for so-called creatives? Do they really expect to be paid for something that the recipient didn't?
Unless you're a windows developer.
Considering the hooplah around here for kernel v.1.002300897RC3, it's significant enough.
I think we all know the jump from Windows 2000 to XP Pro was not a "major revision" at all. Just some pretty graphics for the kiddies.
.dlls, new runtimes for everything, etc, etc. WinXP is a huge change.
Read this. Not to mention personal firewalling, side-by-side
Nice work, fucktard. I hope you get the gift of anal rape for your 15th birthday.
Randomly? Yes, that's wrong. However, you can cut that 3X10^12 down to aroung 3X10^6 merely by running a dictionary file filled with common last names and append one or two letters after. How do I know this? My personal email address is mccallclAThotmailDOTcom, and many of the spams I recieve are also addressed to mccallca, mccallcb, mccallcc and so on.
Which is programmed into the sending fax machine. It's not CallID or anything.
Your journal isn't accepting comments it seems.
D-Virginia.
Hopefully, you browse at -1 like I do.