Keep in mind that the FAQ refers to the closed StarOffice 5.x, which is only distributed in SPARC or x86 binaries.
OpenOffice, which is to StarOffice what Mozilla is to Netscape, is available in source form (CVS or Rhode Island-sized tarball), so xBSD, PowerPC, and Alpha users don't have to worry about binary-only distribution.
We're not scare-mongering/This is really happening - Radiohead
Hey, anyone can splatter paint on a canvas. Only Jackson Pollack could make it art.
Besides, the joke now is to either come up with an off-the-wall program in the first place (I never would have thought of Frogger in readable Perl, let alone that mess), or pull in the strangest form of obfuscation (Mayan numerals!?)
I still think the ultimate challenge would be obfuscated Python. Real artists would know what to do with significant whitespace!:-)
We're not scare-mongering/This is really happening - Radiohead
Aw, man. The first time I get to use the Overrated moderation, and I'm fresh outta points.
I'm disappointed. A mildly humorous tongue-in-cheek rant, and four people didn't think it was a joke? I know knee-jerk Microsoft bashing is the National Pasttime here, but you guys aren't even trying anymore.
We're not scare-mongering/This is really happening - Radiohead
Actually, it's more like two consoles, with a couple of notable exceptions.
Atari 2600, Mattel Intellivision. Magnavox Odyssey2 lasted the longest of the also-rans.
ColecoVision, Atari 5200. Not much else going on at this time. Mattel Aquarius turned out to be vapour.
Commodore 64. Three-way tie for second between Atari 800, Sinclair Spectrum 48K, and Apple II. None reached C64's critical mass. And before anyone complains, ask yourself this: What program kept you recalibrating your 1541, your word processor, or The Bard's Tale?;-)
Nintendo Famicom/NES. Sega Master System was a distant second, and the Atari 7800 was the desperate act of a dying legend.
Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo. Or, Nintendo Super Famicom, Sega MegaDrive, depending on your longitude. Established the pattern of Sega doing better in N. America than Japan. NEC TurboGrafx 16/PC Engine was well known for kick-starting the CD revolution, but a couple of kick-ass RPGs weren't enough to keep it alive.
SNK NeoGeo. If you had the money, this was as good as it got in those days. If you had the money, that is.
Atari Jaguar. If 7800 was the event horizon, this was the singularity. A moment of silence, so JTS can perform last rites while Hasbro pisses on the grave....
Sony PlayStation, Nintendo 64. Sega Saturn was a flop on both sides of the Pacific, while 3DO and Phillips CDi "converged" too soon.
And so, here we are. Dreamcast is doing better in N. America than Japan, PS2 is the Cabbage Patch Kids 2000, and XBox and GameCube are rumbling in the distance. This looks like it will be an interesting fight.
Here's my two-bit predictions:
Sega must release an enhanced Dreamcast, with DVD and more processing power, or die. Jumping on PS2's scarcity is a smart tactic, but it won't last forever. Sega must prepare for the time that Sony solves their "supply problems" and floods the market with PS2s. Sony has the horsepower, the titles, and the hype machine to trump DC's lower price. And if XBox lives up to its PS2-stomping hype, it will make Dreamcast look like a 2600. Dreamcast has a great foundation. They now need to turn the amps up to 11. Goose up the clock speed on the CPU and the fill rate on the GPU, and switch from GD-ROM to DVD. They can keep up with PS2 this way, prepare for XBox, and stave off bankruptcy. Otherwise, one of the other players will snatch them up for their studios, and kill the hardware.
Nintendo will make this the first serious three-way race. Nintendo always manages to make up for hardware eccentricities (like GC's oddball CD format) with fun games and well-known franchises. They're a perfect example of games selling systems. With Sony and Microsoft hellbent for asphalt, GameCube will happily draft behind them.
PlayStation2 will beat XBox. The console game market is incredibly brand-conscious. Most of Dreamcast's pre-release hype was tempered by disappointment in how Saturn turned out. (I'm sure many people breathed a sigh of relief when Sega announced that Sonic Adventure would be a release-day title for Dreamcast, thus proving that they learned from Saturn's mistakes.) Microsoft's inexperience, reputation for three-version maturity, and overall Evil Empire image will hold XBox back. Besides, they'll be rolling out just in time for PS2 developers to reach their "comfort zone", so first-generation XBox titles, even if they're derived from well-designed PC titles, will be held up to the standard set by second- or third-generation PS2 titles that promise to be nothing short of breathtaking. Unless XBox is equally breathtaking from the word go, it's doomed.
We're not scare-mongering/This is really happening - Radiohead
Re:Wow...the Linux community really IS "the enemy"
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"Suspicious" as in "suspicious of SDMI's true motives." Nothing defamatory about it.
Less caffeine, more deep breaths.
There. Feel better?:-)
Every day we're standing in a wind tunnel/Facing down the future coming fast - Rush
< $300: Palmm100 or IIIxe. I thought I was indulging myself when I bought my IIIx. It didn't take me long to realize that it was the most truly useful thing I've ever owned. Besides, I can laugh at people who struggle with the upkeep of FiloFaxes that look like George Costanza's wallet.
$300 - $1500: TiVo. If only the shows were as intelligent....:-) If you need more motivation, there's now a $100 rebate coupon on their web site.
> $1500: Nissan Skyline GT-R. Grey-marketed in the US by MotoRex. 1999 R34 models start at $85,500, but it is most certainly not what everyone else is driving.
Every day we're standing in a wind tunnel/Facing down the future coming fast - Rush
You mean this? Follow the Advanced Search link on the left navbar from AV's homepage.
Or, if you prefer text mode, you can get something pretty close to Raging, but with Boolean operators and date ranges.
Every day we're standing in a wind tunnel/Facing down the future coming fast - Rush
Re:This makes Microsoft look good
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A) Yes and no. You do have to pay for the Visual C++ compiler. But you can still download the Platform SDK gratis.
B) Amen, brother!
C) Have you seen the price of Qt/Windows? $1550 for one Professional edition license! Either that, or use Qt Free Edition, and write to an X11 library/server for Windows, which is redundant for obvious reasons.
My big problem with Trolltech is that they consider Windows-compatible and Open Source mutually exclusive. Is it GPL eliteism, or are they just trying to stick it to the "evil empire", developers and users be damned?
Every day we're standing in a wind tunnel/Facing down the future coming fast - Rush
Individuals? Not likely. What you're describing could be best described as "negotiated anarchy", which seems self-defeating, because a consensus "government" would probably arise among the negotiators.
I have a feeling that Neal Stephenson was right in Snow Crash: A bunch of gated communities which are franchises of sovereign corporate entities. Some are proponents of a particular ideology, others are plain, vanilla subdivisions (are there any other kind?:-) ) competing for your residential business.
Other corporate entities manage the infrastructure, striking local deals with the franchises. ("So, who's your Sanitation Service Provider for your plan?") Governments deal with the leftover scraps, and poorly at that.
The corporations haven't gotten involved yet, but I've seen this sort of thing happen. 20-some years ago, the Borough of Seven Fields, PA was farmland. The farm was sold to developers, and a subdivision was built. After a while, the residents decided they knew better than Adams Township, drafted a Home Rule Charter, and poof! Instant town! Of course, I remember when everything in southwest Butler County was farmland. Now, you can't spit without hitting a strip mall or big-box store.
Every day we're standing in a wind tunnel/Facing down the future coming fast - Rush
I don't see a problem with catching up on your own time. To a degree, that's the point of using the web as a news resource. No special bulletins, no cable news channels devoting 72 consecutive hours to a celebrity killed before his/her time. And unlike broadcast news, the web's delivery isn't time-bound. You don't have to wait for the anchor to ramble breathlessly for five minutes about how some patently obvious hazard is "dangerous to your children", just to hear a quick three sentence blurb about something genuinely newsworthy.
The night Diana died was Bad Movie Night* for me and my friends. We were all headed out the door after the last movie, when someone stopped the tape to rewind. MSNBC happened to be on, and that's when we all heard that she was in an accident. Ended the evening on a down note. It wasn't until I got home that I heard that she was pronounced dead.
I bumped into a friend late that week, and we were both amazed that MSNBC and CNN were still 24-hour, non-stop, all-Diana-all-the-time, even when there was nothing new to report. Broadcast media was absolutely worthless for two weeks after she died, because the networks didn't want to talk about anything else. That's when I really started using the web for news coverage. I could begrudge a news site an inch or so of screen space for Diana, because all I had to do was scroll down to get to the real news.
ObSurvivor: I got some of the same thing here in Pittsburgh. Both WCBS and KDKA are owned and operated by CBS, so they probably had a mandate from the network to hype Survivor until they were blue in the face. Here, it was mostly through anchor banter and man-on-the-street sound bites as bumpers. And we didn't get the pre-show. Not that I gave a damn. After all, Bordello of Blood was on Comedy Central.:-)
*: We'd get together at someone's apartment with adequate amounts of pizza, beverages, MST3K-fueled sarcasm, and a stack of Blockbuster's "finest" direct-to-video B-movie cheese. Brain-cell-killing fun for the whole family!
Every day we're standing in a wind tunnel/Facing down the future coming fast - Rush
[Microsoft] has decided not to sell force-feedback mice because people find them distracting and not advanced enough to be of much use on the Web, said Mary Starman, a spokeswoman for Microsoft's hardware division.
Translation (IMHO):
They haven't figured it out yet.
They have figured it out, and they want Logitech to test the waters for them.
If the market accepts the iFeel, watch for MS to "suddenly" unveil their own FF mouse. If the gamers go for it most, it will be a Sidewinder instead of an IntelliMouse.
Every day we're standing in a wind tunnel/Facing down the future coming fast - Rush
BeNews has reported that official, Be-maintained GeForce drivers for BeOS are on their way, courtesy of BeBits. They're just 2D*, but that's still a damn sight better than VESA or greyscale modes.
*: Which stands to reason, since accelerated OpenGL is still in the Real Soon Now stage.
Every day we're standing in a wind tunnel/Facing down the future coming fast - Rush
And the CPU is going to be throttled due to Windows CE.
Good thing XBox will be using the Windows 2000 kernel instead. I'd hate to see a high performance game console crippled by an OS written for Palm-wannabees.
Every day we're standing in a wind tunnel/Facing down the future coming fast - Rush
Qt is already available under a perfectly free software license.
Clarification: Qt Free Edition is already available under a perfectly free software license.
According to TrollTech, Open Source and cross-platform are mutually exclusive. If I'm developing for Linux only, I can use Qt Free Edition. If I want to do cross-platform code for Linux and Windows, even if it is Open Source, I must also buy Qt Professional for Windows, at the single-developer price of $1,550.00.
TrollTech isn't pro-Open/Free as much as they are anti-Microsoft. Proof? Questions 20 and 21 in the Qt Free Edition FAQ. Share all you want. But if you want to share with Windows users, you gotta pay. Not very neighborly of them, is it?
Every day we're standing in a wind tunnel/Facing down the future coming fast - Rush
Hejlsberg: Yes. Microsoft Research in Cambridge has created a generics version of the common language runtime and the C# compiler. We're looking at how to move that forward right now. It's not going to happen in the first release, that much we know, but we are working on making sure that we do things right for the first release so that generics fit into the picture.
He also mentions that generics would be implemented in the Common Language Runtime, which would allow C#, Managed C++, and Visual Basic to all share generic classes.
Every day we're standing in a wind tunnel/Facing down the future coming fast - Rush
I'd like to see someone integrate one of these into a notebook. A stylus would be so much easier to use than a trackpad or eraserhead. Maybe it's time for "pen PCs" to make a comeback?
Every day we're standing in a wind tunnel/Facing down the future coming fast - Rush
And I agree that using Windows 2000 as a base doesn't give me much confidence in the stability of the XBox.
You have less to worry about than you think. So far, I've had no problems with Windows 2000 that couldn't be attributed to my living dangerously. Things like installing pre-release video drivers with nasty "do not use if..." warnings in the readme. The core OS is solid as a rock. Take it from someone who goes between 2000 at home and the [censored] NT 4.0 SP 6.02e23 at work.
Also, keep in mind that XBox will be a typical closed-box game console. Microsoft knows exactly what hardware will be in the system, allowing them to test the hell out of one configuration. They don't have to worry about how an outdated Sprocketech EarBomber sound card interacts with the bleeding-edge Finkelstein Nuclear Armageddon 512 DDR-DVI-GT-R-Vspec video card.
Every day we're standing in a wind tunnel/Facing down the future coming fast - Rush
Great... they're making it easier for us to write stuff to sell to those VB guys...
You say that like it's a bad thing. I get paid rather well for it, myself.
If you need to write unsafe code to ensure that things don't get "accidentally garbage-collected" either the GC is worthless, or you're failing to fully utilize the paradigm.
Will every application and library in existence retroactively transmogrify into.net components? We still need the APIs, so we still need pointers. I'd like to make sure my pointers stay put while I'm calling outside my class, and I'm sure the operating system would, too.
Skinable filenames?
No. Segregation of data (source code) and presentation (name of file containing source code). That's one of my biggest pet peeves about Java.
It's a little late for them to start worrying about quality now
I will be using this software every day. I don't give a bloody damn when it gets done. I don't want umpteen service packs to wade through, so more power to 'em! I think that was the single most important statement in the entire interview.
Every day we're standing in a wind tunnel/Facing down the future coming fast - Rush
He is saying you cannot obtain an unsafe pointer and crash the system.
If so, this will be a big change from previous versions of VB, where you can make a valiant attempt to work with pointers through selective use of API calls, antacids, and invocations of divine powers.
More likely, he meant that there won't be an Unsafe Function... declaration or Lock()... End Lock in VB7 equivalent to C#'s unsafe and lock(){}.
...posts about VBScript kiddies...
Grrrrrr. Visual Basic, VBScript, and JScript are not the enemy. VB has nothing to do with it, actually. VB and VBScript are syntactically similar, but the connection ends there. VBScript and JScript run under the Windows Scripting Host. This should be the target of your scorn. It's what allows scripts to run roughshod over a PC without proper security.
Every day we're standing in a wind tunnel/Facing down the future coming fast - Rush
Slashdot Mirror
We're not scare-mongering/This is really happening - Radiohead
If you've never seen them before, you can find them on their web site, in RealPlayer format. Follow the "I Am Sci Fi" link on the right.
My personal faves are Lara Croft losing at Pong and Moby remixing Close Encounters.
We're not scare-mongering/This is really happening - Radiohead
50 years from now, I can see my grandkids asking me: "Pap-Pap, how come everyone in the movies has a comm number like 192.168.something?"
We're not scare-mongering/This is really happening - Radiohead
Keep in mind that the FAQ refers to the closed StarOffice 5.x, which is only distributed in SPARC or x86 binaries.
OpenOffice, which is to StarOffice what Mozilla is to Netscape, is available in source form (CVS or Rhode Island-sized tarball), so xBSD, PowerPC, and Alpha users don't have to worry about binary-only distribution.
We're not scare-mongering/This is really happening - Radiohead
Hey, anyone can splatter paint on a canvas. Only Jackson Pollack could make it art.
:-)
Besides, the joke now is to either come up with an off-the-wall program in the first place (I never would have thought of Frogger in readable Perl, let alone that mess), or pull in the strangest form of obfuscation (Mayan numerals!?)
I still think the ultimate challenge would be obfuscated Python. Real artists would know what to do with significant whitespace!
We're not scare-mongering/This is really happening - Radiohead
Aw, man. The first time I get to use the Overrated moderation, and I'm fresh outta points.
I'm disappointed. A mildly humorous tongue-in-cheek rant, and four people didn't think it was a joke? I know knee-jerk Microsoft bashing is the National Pasttime here, but you guys aren't even trying anymore.
We're not scare-mongering/This is really happening - Radiohead
- Atari 2600, Mattel Intellivision. Magnavox Odyssey2 lasted the longest of the also-rans.
- ColecoVision, Atari 5200. Not much else going on at this time. Mattel Aquarius turned out to be vapour.
- Commodore 64. Three-way tie for second between Atari 800, Sinclair Spectrum 48K, and Apple II. None reached C64's critical mass. And before anyone complains, ask yourself this: What program kept you recalibrating your 1541, your word processor, or The Bard's Tale?
;-)
- Nintendo Famicom/NES. Sega Master System was a distant second, and the Atari 7800 was the desperate act of a dying legend.
- Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo. Or, Nintendo Super Famicom, Sega MegaDrive, depending on your longitude. Established the pattern of Sega doing better in N. America than Japan. NEC TurboGrafx 16/PC Engine was well known for kick-starting the CD revolution, but a couple of kick-ass RPGs weren't enough to keep it alive.
- SNK NeoGeo. If you had the money, this was as good as it got in those days. If you had the money, that is.
- Atari Jaguar. If 7800 was the event horizon, this was the singularity. A moment of silence, so JTS can perform last rites while Hasbro pisses on the grave....
- Sony PlayStation, Nintendo 64. Sega Saturn was a flop on both sides of the Pacific, while 3DO and Phillips CDi "converged" too soon.
And so, here we are. Dreamcast is doing better in N. America than Japan, PS2 is the Cabbage Patch Kids 2000, and XBox and GameCube are rumbling in the distance. This looks like it will be an interesting fight.Here's my two-bit predictions:
We're not scare-mongering/This is really happening - Radiohead
"Suspicious" as in "suspicious of SDMI's true motives." Nothing defamatory about it.
:-)
Less caffeine, more deep breaths.
There. Feel better?
Every day we're standing in a wind tunnel/Facing down the future coming fast - Rush
< $300: Palm m100 or IIIxe. I thought I was indulging myself when I bought my IIIx. It didn't take me long to realize that it was the most truly useful thing I've ever owned. Besides, I can laugh at people who struggle with the upkeep of FiloFaxes that look like George Costanza's wallet.
:-) If you need more motivation, there's now a $100 rebate coupon on their web site.
$300 - $1500: TiVo. If only the shows were as intelligent....
> $1500: Nissan Skyline GT-R. Grey-marketed in the US by MotoRex. 1999 R34 models start at $85,500, but it is most certainly not what everyone else is driving.
Every day we're standing in a wind tunnel/Facing down the future coming fast - Rush
You mean this? Follow the Advanced Search link on the left navbar from AV's homepage.
Or, if you prefer text mode, you can get something pretty close to Raging, but with Boolean operators and date ranges.
Every day we're standing in a wind tunnel/Facing down the future coming fast - Rush
A) Yes and no. You do have to pay for the Visual C++ compiler. But you can still download the Platform SDK gratis.
B) Amen, brother!
C) Have you seen the price of Qt/Windows? $1550 for one Professional edition license! Either that, or use Qt Free Edition, and write to an X11 library/server for Windows, which is redundant for obvious reasons.
My big problem with Trolltech is that they consider Windows-compatible and Open Source mutually exclusive. Is it GPL eliteism, or are they just trying to stick it to the "evil empire", developers and users be damned?
Every day we're standing in a wind tunnel/Facing down the future coming fast - Rush
Mage = Neuromancer, with magic instead of tech.
Shadowrun = Neuromancer, with magic and tech.
Same old story, different eye candy. I think Katz has officially become "too hip for the room."
Every day we're standing in a wind tunnel/Facing down the future coming fast - Rush
Individuals? Not likely. What you're describing could be best described as "negotiated anarchy", which seems self-defeating, because a consensus "government" would probably arise among the negotiators.
:-) ) competing for your residential business.
I have a feeling that Neal Stephenson was right in Snow Crash: A bunch of gated communities which are franchises of sovereign corporate entities. Some are proponents of a particular ideology, others are plain, vanilla subdivisions (are there any other kind?
Other corporate entities manage the infrastructure, striking local deals with the franchises. ("So, who's your Sanitation Service Provider for your plan?") Governments deal with the leftover scraps, and poorly at that.
The corporations haven't gotten involved yet, but I've seen this sort of thing happen. 20-some years ago, the Borough of Seven Fields, PA was farmland. The farm was sold to developers, and a subdivision was built. After a while, the residents decided they knew better than Adams Township, drafted a Home Rule Charter, and poof! Instant town! Of course, I remember when everything in southwest Butler County was farmland. Now, you can't spit without hitting a strip mall or big-box store.
Every day we're standing in a wind tunnel/Facing down the future coming fast - Rush
I don't see a problem with catching up on your own time. To a degree, that's the point of using the web as a news resource. No special bulletins, no cable news channels devoting 72 consecutive hours to a celebrity killed before his/her time. And unlike broadcast news, the web's delivery isn't time-bound. You don't have to wait for the anchor to ramble breathlessly for five minutes about how some patently obvious hazard is "dangerous to your children", just to hear a quick three sentence blurb about something genuinely newsworthy.
:-)
The night Diana died was Bad Movie Night* for me and my friends. We were all headed out the door after the last movie, when someone stopped the tape to rewind. MSNBC happened to be on, and that's when we all heard that she was in an accident. Ended the evening on a down note. It wasn't until I got home that I heard that she was pronounced dead.
I bumped into a friend late that week, and we were both amazed that MSNBC and CNN were still 24-hour, non-stop, all-Diana-all-the-time, even when there was nothing new to report. Broadcast media was absolutely worthless for two weeks after she died, because the networks didn't want to talk about anything else. That's when I really started using the web for news coverage. I could begrudge a news site an inch or so of screen space for Diana, because all I had to do was scroll down to get to the real news.
ObSurvivor: I got some of the same thing here in Pittsburgh. Both WCBS and KDKA are owned and operated by CBS, so they probably had a mandate from the network to hype Survivor until they were blue in the face. Here, it was mostly through anchor banter and man-on-the-street sound bites as bumpers. And we didn't get the pre-show. Not that I gave a damn. After all, Bordello of Blood was on Comedy Central.
*: We'd get together at someone's apartment with adequate amounts of pizza, beverages, MST3K-fueled sarcasm, and a stack of Blockbuster's "finest" direct-to-video B-movie cheese. Brain-cell-killing fun for the whole family!
Every day we're standing in a wind tunnel/Facing down the future coming fast - Rush
- They haven't figured it out yet.
- They have figured it out, and they want Logitech to test the waters for them.
If the market accepts the iFeel, watch for MS to "suddenly" unveil their own FF mouse. If the gamers go for it most, it will be a Sidewinder instead of an IntelliMouse.Every day we're standing in a wind tunnel/Facing down the future coming fast - Rush
- Slashdot will get sued for posting it
- Rand Race will get sued for submitting it
- I'll get sued for posting a reply to it
- everyone else will get sued for reading it.
Of course, this did come from the Mac-rumor equivalent of segfault, so anyone who didn't post may be off the hook.Every day we're standing in a wind tunnel/Facing down the future coming fast - Rush
BeNews has reported that official, Be-maintained GeForce drivers for BeOS are on their way, courtesy of BeBits. They're just 2D*, but that's still a damn sight better than VESA or greyscale modes.
*: Which stands to reason, since accelerated OpenGL is still in the Real Soon Now stage.
Every day we're standing in a wind tunnel/Facing down the future coming fast - Rush
Every day we're standing in a wind tunnel/Facing down the future coming fast - Rush
According to TrollTech, Open Source and cross-platform are mutually exclusive. If I'm developing for Linux only, I can use Qt Free Edition. If I want to do cross-platform code for Linux and Windows, even if it is Open Source, I must also buy Qt Professional for Windows, at the single-developer price of $1,550.00
TrollTech isn't pro-Open/Free as much as they are anti-Microsoft. Proof? Questions 20 and 21 in the Qt Free Edition FAQ. Share all you want. But if you want to share with Windows users, you gotta pay. Not very neighborly of them, is it?
Every day we're standing in a wind tunnel/Facing down the future coming fast - Rush
Every day we're standing in a wind tunnel/Facing down the future coming fast - Rush
I'd like to see someone integrate one of these into a notebook. A stylus would be so much easier to use than a trackpad or eraserhead. Maybe it's time for "pen PCs" to make a comeback?
Every day we're standing in a wind tunnel/Facing down the future coming fast - Rush
Also, keep in mind that XBox will be a typical closed-box game console. Microsoft knows exactly what hardware will be in the system, allowing them to test the hell out of one configuration. They don't have to worry about how an outdated Sprocketech EarBomber sound card interacts with the bleeding-edge Finkelstein Nuclear Armageddon 512 DDR-DVI-GT-R-Vspec video card.
Every day we're standing in a wind tunnel/Facing down the future coming fast - Rush
Will every application and library in existence retroactively transmogrify into
No. Segregation of data (source code) and presentation (name of file containing source code). That's one of my biggest pet peeves about Java.
I will be using this software every day. I don't give a bloody damn when it gets done. I don't want umpteen service packs to wade through, so more power to 'em! I think that was the single most important statement in the entire interview.
Every day we're standing in a wind tunnel/Facing down the future coming fast - Rush
More likely, he meant that there won't be an Unsafe Function... declaration or Lock()... End Lock in VB7 equivalent to C#'s unsafe and lock(){}.
Grrrrrr. Visual Basic, VBScript, and JScript are not the enemy. VB has nothing to do with it, actually. VB and VBScript are syntactically similar, but the connection ends there. VBScript and JScript run under the Windows Scripting Host. This should be the target of your scorn. It's what allows scripts to run roughshod over a PC without proper security.
Every day we're standing in a wind tunnel/Facing down the future coming fast - Rush
+5, Funny?! It's things like this that make me wonder if the moderation system really is cracked.
Every day we're standing in a wind tunnel/Facing down the future coming fast - Rush