I'd much rather live in mainland Europe than the US though. Less likely to have my car stolen, be beaten up by muggers or be shot by someone who had a bad day at work. Economic competitiveness at the expense of quality of life doesn't sound like a good deal to me.
And if you don't have anything but Office? I wrote a whole load of automation using VBS and VBA for my last job. It wasn't a programming job, the chances of me getting VB.NET were zero but I did have the built in languages available and with that was able to save myself and my colleagues a lot of tedious repetition. I'd much rather use better methods than this but office automation is not something high on the agenda of most IT departments.
I wish I could compete with the Indians on wages but I'd starve if I tried. Perhaps companies should realise that making their employees poorer is making their customers poorer. Where's the economic advantage in outsourcing if fewer and fewer people can afford to buy your products because of it.
to such nonsense as seatbelt legislation, which criminalizes private choices in an ill-founded attempt to protect people from themselves
Why should my tax money be wasted on scraping your stupid carcass off the tarmac just because you think you have a right to go flying through your windscreen when you have an accident?
The difference is that if you must hang on to that old Perl app, you can get hold of the source and hire someone to make it work. Might be cost-effective if you have millions of lines of Perl code. There isn't that option with VB6, you are required to upgrade and you are required to practically re-learn VB otherwise your apps may not work on the latest version of Windows.
That's life with software. I currently use a 25 year old mainframe application. It isn't very nice, it really is showing it's age, but it does what the business wants a great deal better than a Windows 2003 application would do even if they were willing to spend the money to completely rewrite it.
IBM mainframes still pretty much support software from 30 years ago. Why? Because there'd be trouble from the huge organisations that rely on such software. Longhorn is going to have serious sales problems if it doesn't support VB6 given the millions or maybe billions of lines of VB6 in use.
I wonder how much downtime and lost data has cost in the drive for more productivity. Perhaps if Billy had had some competition we'd really be better off and not just stuck with something that nearly works now.
It's specifically blocking WINE, that has zero to do with piracy prevention. They are preventing someone who has legitimately paid for their software getting any updates because they have the nerve to not want to pay for Windows as well.
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I'm a VBA coder and I've heard of it :P
Having said that I'm also a C++, Java and *gasp* COBOL coder too.
It's the RIAA that's to blame for this idiocy. What does the last A stand for in that acronym?
I'd much rather live in mainland Europe than the US though. Less likely to have my car stolen, be beaten up by muggers or be shot by someone who had a bad day at work. Economic competitiveness at the expense of quality of life doesn't sound like a good deal to me.
And if you don't have anything but Office? I wrote a whole load of automation using VBS and VBA for my last job. It wasn't a programming job, the chances of me getting VB.NET were zero but I did have the built in languages available and with that was able to save myself and my colleagues a lot of tedious repetition. I'd much rather use better methods than this but office automation is not something high on the agenda of most IT departments.
I've got 15 years experience, but that experience is irrelevant now.
I want to compete with them. I can't. They earn less than £10,000 a year. I wouldn't even be able to pay my rent on that kind of salary.
I wish I could compete with the Indians on wages but I'd starve if I tried. Perhaps companies should realise that making their employees poorer is making their customers poorer. Where's the economic advantage in outsourcing if fewer and fewer people can afford to buy your products because of it.
Well I never. But then Mandelson is famous for doing this sort of thing.
http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/details/
I was paying with francs and converted to GBP amounted to £7 for half a litre of lager (approx 3 times UK prices)
to such nonsense as seatbelt legislation, which criminalizes private choices in an ill-founded attempt to protect people from themselves
Why should my tax money be wasted on scraping your stupid carcass off the tarmac just because you think you have a right to go flying through your windscreen when you have an accident?
Nice one :)
I went to Paris a few years ago expecting people to be rude and arrogant and had exactly the opposite experience. The prices are outrageous though.
Jacques has a lot in common with Bill Gates. They're both corrupt and arrogant.
You obviously haven't got much in the way of industry experience or else have worked for some very non-standard organisations.
The difference is that if you must hang on to that old Perl app, you can get hold of the source and hire someone to make it work. Might be cost-effective if you have millions of lines of Perl code. There isn't that option with VB6, you are required to upgrade and you are required to practically re-learn VB otherwise your apps may not work on the latest version of Windows.
That's life with software. I currently use a 25 year old mainframe application. It isn't very nice, it really is showing it's age, but it does what the business wants a great deal better than a Windows 2003 application would do even if they were willing to spend the money to completely rewrite it.
IBM mainframes still pretty much support software from 30 years ago. Why? Because there'd be trouble from the huge organisations that rely on such software. Longhorn is going to have serious sales problems if it doesn't support VB6 given the millions or maybe billions of lines of VB6 in use.
Trouble is my favourite online game, where I have lots of buddies, runs exclusively on Windows. I doubt a console version will ever exist.
I wonder how much downtime and lost data has cost in the drive for more productivity. Perhaps if Billy had had some competition we'd really be better off and not just stuck with something that nearly works now.
Only the white ones it seems.
It's specifically blocking WINE, that has zero to do with piracy prevention. They are preventing someone who has legitimately paid for their software getting any updates because they have the nerve to not want to pay for Windows as well.
You can't disable the web browser, another MS Innovation(TM)
No you don't you just need to have heard of WinMX or any of the other p2p apps.
League is just disturbing and more annoying than funny.
Like what?