It's like purchasing a car and recieving a beautiful brochure image with a note saying the rest of the car will be delivered in a year or two.
No, it's more like buying a car, ricing it up with a 4' spoiler, and then complaining that the car cover the manufacturer sent you doesn't fit anymore.
The root cause of a lot of these problems are viruses, spyware, and adware, which is funny because those problems are what SP2 is supposed to fix.
I think it's supposed to PREVENT them, not FIX them. Better for me that all those spamming machines are now bluescreening on startup. Better for you because it's job security. What's to not like?
That's a fallacy. Everything only runs as root IF YOU LOG IN AS ROOT. It's the same on Linux.
If all the grandmas out there start using Linux, are you going to teach them all about sudo and chmod or will frustrated "tech support" family members just give up and tell them to log in as root?
The government isn't trying to keep you from getting into space or to the moon. They're trying to keep you from crashing your ill-conceived tank full of explosive fuel into MY house!
Why wireless? If you spent ANY TIME with a wireless system? Ever find that Cat5e cable you ran thru the walls at home is No Longer Necessary?
Yes, I have wireless at home. No, I've never found that the cat5e I ran (2 totally independant networks) is no longer necessary. Ever transferred 10GB of MP3s over your 802.11b?
It's not like Microsoft developers will have much choice in the matter. The new Visual Studio is bult around.NET, the title gives it away: "Visual Studio.NET 2003."
You can still write plain old c or c++ in vs.net, and the compiler is better than the one in vs6. The only thing I'm aware of that you can't do anymore is write code in vb or [whatever ms's javaish is called] without using the clr.
Doesn't Python duplicate one of the most hated "features" of VB, i.e. using whitespace to mark ends of things (lines, blocks, whatever)? Why is it terrible when VB does it but a great feature when Python does it?
Don't get me wrong here, I hate VB and all that it stands for. It encourages terrible coding practices. I do, however, hate Python worse. What if I want an extra line break in there to logically separate things?
No, read the book again. TCP is a reliable protocol that is built on top of IP, which is an unreliable protocol. UDP, which is also an unreliable protocol, is also built on top of IP.
Just think of all the new territory being covered by Microsoft et. al... Of course they can't be held responsible for all the unknown types of bugs, right?
kinda makes you wonder what assumptions did they make to restrict power input?
...Kinda makes me wonder what assumptions you're making about Intel's new chips...
In all seriousness, in the -heat- dissipation race, I think AMD wins... The Athlon dissipates what, nearly TWICE the heat as a Coppermine P3? But even farther ahead than that, the Voodoo3-3000 in my box is what you can feel from the next room over...
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C# 2.0's implementation of generics removes the casting, whereas Java 1.5's implementation just hides it.
Note that rumour has it there was a generics package for 1.4 that implemented it the Right Way, but Sun apparently wanted to go the quick way.
I have a 1920x1200 15" in a bag next to me. Damn nice.
That's a fallacy. Everything only runs as root IF YOU LOG IN AS ROOT. It's the same on Linux.
If all the grandmas out there start using Linux, are you going to teach them all about sudo and chmod or will frustrated "tech support" family members just give up and tell them to log in as root?
The government isn't trying to keep you from getting into space or to the moon. They're trying to keep you from crashing your ill-conceived tank full of explosive fuel into MY house!
I'd say the simplest validation of MS's business model is the $40bn they have in the bank.
Mark
That's never been true in any multi-user version of Windows (NT/2K/XP/2K3).
the prototype compiler with generic support has been available for months.
Yeah, there's been one for c# for most of a year. Get it here.
Why wireless? If you spent ANY TIME with a wireless system? Ever find that Cat5e cable you ran thru the walls at home is No Longer Necessary?
Yes, I have wireless at home. No, I've never found that the cat5e I ran (2 totally independant networks) is no longer necessary. Ever transferred 10GB of MP3s over your 802.11b?
Mark
It's not like Microsoft developers will have much choice in the matter. The new Visual Studio is bult around .NET, the title gives it away: "Visual Studio .NET 2003."
You can still write plain old c or c++ in vs.net, and the compiler is better than the one in vs6. The only thing I'm aware of that you can't do anymore is write code in vb or [whatever ms's javaish is called] without using the clr.
Oh, you mean the Proxomitron (rewrites html, too... so you can just edit all tags into tags... or whatever.
http://www.proxomitron.org/
It's the principle. I really like the brackets and semicolons. I hate whitespace-delimited languages.
Doesn't Python duplicate one of the most hated "features" of VB, i.e. using whitespace to mark ends of things (lines, blocks, whatever)? Why is it terrible when VB does it but a great feature when Python does it?
Don't get me wrong here, I hate VB and all that it stands for. It encourages terrible coding practices. I do, however, hate Python worse. What if I want an extra line break in there to logically separate things?
IE has been resuming downloads over HTTP since 5.0 at least, and maybe into 4.x somewere.
Of course, if you're biased towards FTP, then go ahead and ignore that fact.
Me, I'll download anything I can over HTTP instead of FTP (in IE! Gasp!). If it's bigger than a couple hundred megs, I use wget.
I had 3 mod points yesterday, and I woulda blown one on this. Definately worth it.
Did you mean Proxomitron, maybe? I know it has rules in the default config for playing with referer headers.
Just sniffed it. Looked RFC-compliant to me. Browser was IE6 on W2k, server was IIS5 on W2k.
Nobody bothered to check it before they go nuts?
"Wah? Is this serious? Does he mean UDP?"
No, read the book again. TCP is a reliable protocol that is built on top of IP, which is an unreliable protocol. UDP, which is also an unreliable protocol, is also built on top of IP.
Are YOU a troll?
(hmm. Am I?)
Just think of all the new territory being covered by Microsoft et. al... Of course they can't be held responsible for all the unknown types of bugs, right?
So, he's never mentioned Open Source! Burn him! Must be completely evil!
Ahh, that harmonious steady state...
kinda makes you wonder what assumptions did they make to restrict power input?
...Kinda makes me wonder what assumptions you're making about Intel's new chips...
In all seriousness, in the -heat- dissipation race, I think AMD wins... The Athlon dissipates what, nearly TWICE the heat as a Coppermine P3? But even farther ahead than that, the Voodoo3-3000 in my box is what you can feel from the next room over...