The real problem with ubuntu is not ubuntu itself but all that is around it: frickin windows!
The sole reason why i havent switched entirely yet is for all those family members that knows nothing but windows, feel incapable of re-learning it all and that keeps sending me.pps files!
They're all on MSN and uses office XP. Of course i have ways to just be compatible with them, like running a virtual machine, or dual booting and all, but that's what the problem is, why should i have to make my life harder if my OS cannot help me communicate properly with the people around me. but im not blaming ubuntu, im blaming windows for having such a large userbase composed primarily by grannies and pappies.
With the third installment of the pirates of the caribbean that just came out, of course its gonna beat the matrix. Give a fourth movie to the matrix to re-ignite the same fire and you've got a whole new ball game.
can't believe someone out there thought this would even be a fair comparison.
Maybe Oswald wasnt in for the notoriety, maybe he got paid by a mysterious someone. We dont know. What we do know is that everytime a shooting occurs we make a complete mediatic coverage of it. That's what is appealing to the lunatic, much like in the same way a kid will do things just to get your attention.
This is exactly why people do random acts of shooting, it is glorified.
This is where it starts. Oswald took the role of the bad guy with an opinion. He kills the president and we transform it into a national event!
Now, we have people spending their entire day breaking their brains trying to understand whether Oswald was alone or not, or if he shot once or twice...or... whatever.
So the message we're really sending to all these lunatic and despaired people is that a good way to be heard is to kill people. They will lose their life (which they dont seem to care about) then a ton of people will give them attention by trying to understand them. They will be seen on the internet, the TV, the radio.
I really wish we'd give less attention to that kind of event, so that in the end, its stops being the "in" thing to do if you are despaired.
Heck, maybe they'd even start blaming rock n roll again for violence and leave the gamers alone:)
I agree with you, but that's not how it works...unfortunately.
In this day and age the one with the funding is the one with the thickest study, no matter how right or wrong it is.
Scientists will bring a study claiming the planet is warming up, planet is dying, yada yada yada PR people representing companies like Shell or Esso will bring their own study saying that's not the case.
And the one that people will believe the most is the one that will have receive the most mediatic coverage. Because most people dont bother verifying the claims, after all, if you hear it on tv, it must be true.
Personally, i think the earth isn't doing as bad as we think it is. It certainly would help if we were to finally start acting friendly with our environment, but i don't think we're all gonna die of sun burns or tornados or tidal waves for that matter. I believe that at some point, human race will run out of resources like fuel or even food and water. There are so many of us, that we are a parasite to our own survival in some way.
I believe that unfortunately, someone at some point will throw a nuclear head, I believe we will kill ourselves much before the planet does it. Earth has survived millions of years, going thru various cycles of warm and cold, on it own and life has never died, it just adapted or changed. And once we do die, either because our own stupidity or because south pole melted, earth will still survive and life will start again. That is the cycle earth has gone thru since it began turning.
Of course, that's just my vision and i may completely be wrong, time will tell.
your comment really highlight the fact that ads are there, no matter what the hell they tell us.
From a free content point of view, i would understand, but from a service we already pay for, it just frustrates me. Didnt they used to say that the paying service was there to compensate for the lack of revenue from ads.
and about the patent minefield, you're so right. you can be innovative all you want, but dont you dare being successful, or that is, have money, because someone, somewhere will sue you for it.
>> The development team behind Guitar Hero announced Rock Band
and later on they will announce Rock Star, where you become popular for your controversial songs and famed for holding off even more controlversial shameless fame-seeking attorneys.
A uniquely identifiable line within a product range. A particular product may have many different variation s eg 20 percent extra free, price marked etc. each of these variation would be a unique SKU. www.applause.hu/terms_e.htm
but i will agree that SKU is generally used to refer to the code of the product, not the product itself.
hmpf, i dont even need to like (or hate) linux to see that this is a biased article, probably sponsored.
The guy just spend the whole article deconstructing linux without any kind of factual support.
I was reading his five points and it seems to me that either he got paid for that or he really has no clue about what drives the OSS community. Why is that that everyone that doesn't understand has to bring it down to the money concerns or abstract concepts.
I was gonna spend some mod points in the thread but the guy is so clueless that i have to put my grain of salt, hoping that he reads it his somewhat alternate version of reality.
why the hell would he attack the security side of linux, if anything, linux is the leader in terms of secure OS. Is it because its less targeted by hackers (that happens to be using linux) or is it because it really is secure ? Time will tell, but the current fact remains that in raw numbers, linux is a lot less breached than well.... the windows OS.
the other thing that made me laugh beyond possible for such an article is whether linux is a myth or not, god, where does he come from. Why does he think SuSE and RedHat aren't cheating but ubuntu and the others are, because there's no box ? because its free ? How do you use *real* metrics, what is a real metrics when you evaluate a concept like linux, why even call it a concept, is it any less real than the NTFS file system or the registry architecture used by windows ? what is that that you can touch with windows/apple that you cannot touch with linux ?
The "journalist" just plugs a bunch of buzzwords but when you get down to it, the article is really empty. Unfortunately, this kind of article will likely be read by people who, having never touched linux, will further be confused and distracted from it.
we keep readin about RFID tags being breached for this, or for that, that the content can be read if you do this, hacked if you do that.
LOL.
How many holes in your armor do you need before you understand that its not bulletproof ?
Its like those electronic voting machines. As far as my knowledge goes, there is yet to exist a tamper proof machine for safe e-Voting. Why are they still going this way how many millions are they gonna spend before they realize it costs less to go the good ole paper ballot way.
>>Congrats on the stupidest comment I've seen today. Glad you liked it.
>>but the difference is that now, for the first time, we have the ability and resources to actually do something about it. Ever heard that phrase that says worst disasters comes from the greatest ideas ?
>>but if a chunk of rock a few miles wide happened to land in the Atlantic or Pacific, the death toll would be in the millions wow, you really know what you're talking about. are tidal waves the only threat you can foresee from asteroids ?
>>the US is the world leader in military spending Yup, your military sure is strong, fire away!
>>For a relatively small amount of money on top of all the other relatively small amount of money we spend... like military!
>>we could have a very good chance at detecting and deflecting anything liable Not that we were scared before but we sure will be sleeping safer now that someone told us they're now watching it. hey wait... what were they doing before then ? we should be dead after years of not paying that insurance!
>>I saw an idea recently where (if we saw it in time), simply strapping an ion engine to the side and gently pushing it for a few months would divert it quite safely Not saying an ION engine would be bad but did that idea or study or whatever it was calculated the new trajectory of the asteroid and what collision it might create by making it take a new trajectory.
>>Don't you think NASA has people (much smarter than you) who have already thought about this? Are these the same people that made the apollo moon landing ? That sure makes it comforting that they're taking care of it.
>>Also FYI, humans were not around in anything like our current form 1 million years ago, and the dinosaurs died out tens of millions of years before that. Not that its of any actual point to my post but if you were half smarter than i am, which in your terms, doesnt make it a big challenge, you should have picked up that i was merely pointing out that earth and its inhabitants have managed to survive "on their own" for many (many) years.
i'm not claiming to be smart and maybe i am an idiot. I just like the Dr. Obvious show on TV. one of the episodes said that if its not broken, dont fix it. What makes you think the universe needs a fix ?
Earth has survived millions of years on its own. We've only been able to *monitor* asteroids for what ? hundred ish years old ?
Why are suddenly asteroids such a problem ? Are they trying to promote a (false) sense of (in)security by making them a threat ?
Hell, we know so little about the actual impacts of a missile delivered space blast that we could actually make safe asteroids unsafe due to the debris and/or change trajectory. possibilities are endless.
Sure we got hit a few times, the strongest (to my knowledge) being a million years ago in the dinosaur era but we survived. History shows that when humans tries to take control of something they don't understand properly they will undeniably cause more problem than they will solve. (WW1, WW2 & Hiroshima are quick examples. Tchernobyl ?)
Well, I'm not sure which part of my comment triggered so much anger in you that you had to post *that*
But at least i got enough balls to log in to show my ID when posting my comments.
Besides, if you think not wanting to learn php was the point of my not switching then clearly you have no business posting here since you obviously cannot read.
First I'd like to thank everyone that answered my question. I didn't know the mono project but it does seems like its the answer I'm looking for. Its too bad it doesn't support.net 2.0 but thats something i can live with.
As to your comment, unfortunately, I fit in the old dinosaur environment, happily working for government of canada where we still use windows 2k as dev machines and ASP / vb.bet as the mainstream language.
I plan to be here for as long as I can just because the benefits are good for the family guy that i am.
but that doesn't mean i don't seek challenges and learning opportunities. Just because I won't change my programming languages just yet doesn't mean it never will.
I strongly believe that doing it the baby steps way is good because it allows me to smoothly transition from MS to linux instead of sitting in front of the computer with a huge question mark over my head trying to not only figure out how the OS works but not even knowing how to do a simple "hello world" page, let alone a complete web site.
I plan on having ubuntu as my web hosting/mail server. My dev machine will remain windows XP for now. but maybe, over time when i get comfortable, i'll switch that machine to ubuntu as well but keep developing in vb.net. (i can always game with my good ole PS2), then after a year (or more ? who knows) i'll start playing around with other programming technologies.
I'm a long time windows user, from the DOS days and I've always remained on the windows side of things mainly because at work its all we use. I never saw any point of switching of linux at home knowing that knowledge would not serve me at work.
I'd usually spend efforts trying to improve on things that would help me at work.
Anyway, now im starting a web hosting and web design (very) small company. I'm not really impressed by the direction MS is taking nor by the fees its charging. Vista smells like a truckload of overhead shit that i have zero interest in even trying out. The 2003 line of servers from MS is just too expensive just to avoid mentionning i hate the notion of online activation/tracking.
I've installed Ubuntu and other distros of linux at the time and while I've always got stuck with the file structure and various command lines to learn, i feel this is something i could get the hang of over time.
But what brings me back everytime to windows are my own limitations regarding programming. At work, we do ASP and ASP.net. Not c#, vb.net. I can read c# but i don't really program with it.
I have no interest in learning php, ruby or other languages despite all their advantages. Because at work that's not what we use and I'd rather re-use my skills rather than split into a new branch just because im having something on the side.
so, my question is, is there any (easy) way i could be running the.net framework on ubuntu ? no virtual machine if possible, no emulation, just run.net framework on ubuntu ?
I know its pretty contracdictory but i dont want to install overhead on my server just for the benefit of running.net, I don't think its possible otherwise but that's why im asking to people who knows more about this.
I find it funny when the article says "We're not out to replace World of Warcraft"... what kind of statement is that ? They're almost telling me that they are gonna create a boring game to play.
If from the beginning they don't shoot for the stars, where are they gonna land with their product ?
And this is not the first comment i've read like that. Its like saying WoW is unbeatable ? that it cannot be made better ? That they might as well appeal to another type of gamer because they won't beat WoW ?
How do you think the WoW team got there ? they looked at the best games out there, thought their things out properly and came out stronger and I don't see why Warhammer should do any differently if they expect to make a profit out of their mmo.
Hey, there might be some other great task involved in banking or travel programs but in the end, i don't think its gonna do anything.
If i was paranoid i'd probably say this is a scheme to create jobs and make money.
I've been programming for 10 years now and programs don't generate their own time. well, I never created my own clock anyway, i don't see any need for it.
Whatever daylight saving changes do they are applied to the system clock and programs uses system clock. why would it matter when the OS decides its now 18h instead of 17h ?
The only instance where i can see this causing a problem is when programs monitors the time on a particular day, say the day where daylight is supposed to kick in/out. well that program would be screwed since now its 4 weeks later. But even then, it should be able to get the settings of the OS and not its create its own setting for that.
Its called internationalization settings (try to place that in scrabble) and its commonly accepted to get these settings from the OS just like currency and charsets because its generally not a good idea to create your own system when you've got an API right next to you waiting to help you.
So even with professions that goes in the rocket science section it still works by trial and error. forget all the calculations and fancy formulas, most breakthroughs are still done by "mistake"
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Yes i know but the point of text search engine is information in general, not to allow you to plug what you read in your term paper as-is.
whereas the point of code search engine is to allow you to re-use code that's already been written so that you don't have to paraphrase what you've just seen.
I know its hard, or even unfeasible to build code that answer everybody's need, let alone, expect someone else to write a code that'll work for his project AND my project.
im just saying, if we're gonna talk about engines that allow you to find and re-use code, then the engine should be able to distinguish specific implementation from general implementation. Something that once its passed to someone else doesn't require rewriting it or at least, not all of it.
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What code search engines don't tell us is sometimes the code you get just sucks... or is poorly adapted to your need.
i usually search for a function to say, validate a string for phone... or... homemade browser or... whatever, just function to help me do what im trying to do without reinventing the wheel because i know its been done already.
but most of the time when you do find it chances are it wont be adapted to your need, so much that you end up writing your own based on what you've seen. which explain why there are gazillion versions of (example) javascript calendars on the web.
One thing that happens too is that the code just sucks, its buggy, its buggy because of your own rules, or sometimes plain buggy.
I wish there was a checkbox on the page to specify "bug free" or "not sucky".
But that's impossible, if something could be done it would be to store only independent controls or function. things that work on their own. so that i don't need to end up rewriting the whole thing to make it work in my code.
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The real problem with ubuntu is not ubuntu itself but all that is around it: frickin windows!
.pps files!
The sole reason why i havent switched entirely yet is for all those family members that knows nothing but windows, feel incapable of re-learning it all and that keeps sending me
They're all on MSN and uses office XP. Of course i have ways to just be compatible with them, like running a virtual machine, or dual booting and all, but that's what the problem is, why should i have to make my life harder if my OS cannot help me communicate properly with the people around me. but im not blaming ubuntu, im blaming windows for having such a large userbase composed primarily by grannies and pappies.
That is so stupid.
With the third installment of the pirates of the caribbean that just came out, of course its gonna beat the matrix. Give a fourth movie to the matrix to re-ignite the same fire and you've got a whole new ball game.
can't believe someone out there thought this would even be a fair comparison.
lol, agreed.
all the mmo makers out there were waiting for one to be successful to copy it and obtain a working formula.
but heh wait.... isn't it how it worked for decades already ?
Maybe Oswald wasnt in for the notoriety, maybe he got paid by a mysterious someone. We dont know. What we do know is that everytime a shooting occurs we make a complete mediatic coverage of it. That's what is appealing to the lunatic, much like in the same way a kid will do things just to get your attention.
This is exactly why people do random acts of shooting, it is glorified.
... whatever.
:)
This is where it starts. Oswald took the role of the bad guy with an opinion. He kills the president and we transform it into a national event!
Now, we have people spending their entire day breaking their brains trying to understand whether Oswald was alone or not, or if he shot once or twice...or
So the message we're really sending to all these lunatic and despaired people is that a good way to be heard is to kill people. They will lose their life (which they dont seem to care about) then a ton of people will give them attention by trying to understand them. They will be seen on the internet, the TV, the radio.
I really wish we'd give less attention to that kind of event, so that in the end, its stops being the "in" thing to do if you are despaired.
Heck, maybe they'd even start blaming rock n roll again for violence and leave the gamers alone
I agree with you, but that's not how it works...unfortunately.
In this day and age the one with the funding is the one with the thickest study, no matter how right or wrong it is.
Scientists will bring a study claiming the planet is warming up, planet is dying, yada yada yada
PR people representing companies like Shell or Esso will bring their own study saying that's not the case.
And the one that people will believe the most is the one that will have receive the most mediatic coverage. Because most people dont bother verifying the claims, after all, if you hear it on tv, it must be true.
Personally, i think the earth isn't doing as bad as we think it is. It certainly would help if we were to finally start acting friendly with our environment, but i don't think we're all gonna die of sun burns or tornados or tidal waves for that matter. I believe that at some point, human race will run out of resources like fuel or even food and water. There are so many of us, that we are a parasite to our own survival in some way.
I believe that unfortunately, someone at some point will throw a nuclear head, I believe we will kill ourselves much before the planet does it. Earth has survived millions of years, going thru various cycles of warm and cold, on it own and life has never died, it just adapted or changed. And once we do die, either because our own stupidity or because south pole melted, earth will still survive and life will start again. That is the cycle earth has gone thru since it began turning.
Of course, that's just my vision and i may completely be wrong, time will tell.
if only i could mod you up, i would!
your comment really highlight the fact that ads are there, no matter what the hell they tell us.
From a free content point of view, i would understand, but from a service we already pay for, it just frustrates me. Didnt they used to say that the paying service was there to compensate for the lack of revenue from ads.
and about the patent minefield, you're so right. you can be innovative all you want, but dont you dare being successful, or that is, have money, because someone, somewhere will sue you for it.
There are only two things in this world that you cannot escape: taxes and the wow graveyard
>> The development team behind Guitar Hero announced Rock Band
and later on they will announce Rock Star, where you become popular for your controversial songs and famed for holding off even more controlversial shameless fame-seeking attorneys.
...just not a common term for it.
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http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=define%3A+sku
and if you look in the results
A uniquely identifiable line within a product range. A particular product may have many different variation s eg 20 percent extra free, price marked etc. each of these variation would be a unique SKU.
www.applause.hu/terms_e.htm
but i will agree that SKU is generally used to refer to the code of the product, not the product itself.
it seems a pretty obvious answer to me.
...but free, secure and open source...
put aside the fact that the softwares you mentionned are emulators, not OS,
it would steal users from windows.
imagine, having an OS the same as windows, friendly for computer illiterate
need i explain more ?
I'd really be curious to see Microsoft dive in the OSS and try to come up with a business plan.
My take on it is that MS realizes that OSS is here to stay and that its gaining due in part but not totally to their crappy vista.
So they said "if people are gonna move to OSS, we'll follow them" - as they say "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em"
but that's highly hypothetical and way too optimistic, with MS, there's always a snake somewhere trying to bite you in the arse.
That said, lets assume they do jump in the boat, i'd be curious what they would do to keep making money with OSS.
hmpf, i dont even need to like (or hate) linux to see that this is a biased article, probably sponsored.
The guy just spend the whole article deconstructing linux without any kind of factual support.
I was reading his five points and it seems to me that either he got paid for that or he really has no clue about what drives the OSS community. Why is that that everyone that doesn't understand has to bring it down to the money concerns or abstract concepts.
I was gonna spend some mod points in the thread but the guy is so clueless that i have to put my grain of salt, hoping that he reads it his somewhat alternate version of reality.
why the hell would he attack the security side of linux, if anything, linux is the leader in terms of secure OS. Is it because its less targeted by hackers (that happens to be using linux) or is it because it really is secure ? Time will tell, but the current fact remains that in raw numbers, linux is a lot less breached than well.... the windows OS.
the other thing that made me laugh beyond possible for such an article is whether linux is a myth or not, god, where does he come from. Why does he think SuSE and RedHat aren't cheating but ubuntu and the others are, because there's no box ? because its free ?
How do you use *real* metrics, what is a real metrics when you evaluate a concept like linux, why even call it a concept, is it any less real than the NTFS file system or the registry architecture used by windows ? what is that that you can touch with windows/apple that you cannot touch with linux ?
The "journalist" just plugs a bunch of buzzwords but when you get down to it, the article is really empty. Unfortunately, this kind of article will likely be read by people who, having never touched linux, will further be confused and distracted from it.
This is so funny (in a sarcastic kind of way),
we keep readin about RFID tags being breached for this, or for that, that the content can be read if you do this, hacked if you do that.
LOL.
How many holes in your armor do you need before you understand that its not bulletproof ?
Its like those electronic voting machines. As far as my knowledge goes, there is yet to exist a tamper proof machine for safe e-Voting. Why are they still going this way how many millions are they gonna spend before they realize it costs less to go the good ole paper ballot way.
Sometimes, simpler is better.
>>Congrats on the stupidest comment I've seen today.
... like military!
Glad you liked it.
>>but the difference is that now, for the first time, we have the ability and resources to actually do something about it.
Ever heard that phrase that says worst disasters comes from the greatest ideas ?
>>but if a chunk of rock a few miles wide happened to land in the Atlantic or Pacific, the death toll would be in the millions
wow, you really know what you're talking about. are tidal waves the only threat you can foresee from asteroids ?
>>the US is the world leader in military spending
Yup, your military sure is strong, fire away!
>>For a relatively small amount of money
on top of all the other relatively small amount of money we spend
>>we could have a very good chance at detecting and deflecting anything liable
Not that we were scared before but we sure will be sleeping safer now that someone told us they're now watching it. hey wait... what were they doing before then ? we should be dead after years of not paying that insurance!
>>I saw an idea recently where (if we saw it in time), simply strapping an ion engine to the side and gently pushing it for a few months would divert it quite safely
Not saying an ION engine would be bad but did that idea or study or whatever it was calculated the new trajectory of the asteroid and what collision it might create by making it take a new trajectory.
>>Don't you think NASA has people (much smarter than you) who have already thought about this?
Are these the same people that made the apollo moon landing ? That sure makes it comforting that they're taking care of it.
>>Also FYI, humans were not around in anything like our current form 1 million years ago, and the dinosaurs died out tens of millions of years before that.
Not that its of any actual point to my post but if you were half smarter than i am, which in your terms, doesnt make it a big challenge, you should have picked up that i was merely pointing out that earth and its inhabitants have managed to survive "on their own" for many (many) years.
i'm not claiming to be smart and maybe i am an idiot. I just like the Dr. Obvious show on TV. one of the episodes said that if its not broken, dont fix it. What makes you think the universe needs a fix ?
What a bottle of encapsulated crap pills!
Earth has survived millions of years on its own. We've only been able to *monitor* asteroids for what ? hundred ish years old ?
Why are suddenly asteroids such a problem ? Are they trying to promote a (false) sense of (in)security by making them a threat ?
Hell, we know so little about the actual impacts of a missile delivered space blast that we could actually make safe asteroids unsafe due to the debris and/or change trajectory. possibilities are endless.
Sure we got hit a few times, the strongest (to my knowledge) being a million years ago in the dinosaur era but we survived. History shows that when humans tries to take control of something they don't understand properly they will undeniably cause more problem than they will solve. (WW1, WW2 & Hiroshima are quick examples. Tchernobyl ?)
Well, I'm not sure which part of my comment triggered so much anger in you that you had to post *that*
But at least i got enough balls to log in to show my ID when posting my comments.
Besides, if you think not wanting to learn php was the point of my not switching then clearly you have no business posting here since you obviously cannot read.
First I'd like to thank everyone that answered my question. I didn't know the mono project but it does seems like its the answer I'm looking for. Its too bad it doesn't support .net 2.0 but thats something i can live with.
As to your comment, unfortunately, I fit in the old dinosaur environment, happily working for government of canada where we still use windows 2k as dev machines and ASP / vb.bet as the mainstream language.
I plan to be here for as long as I can just because the benefits are good for the family guy that i am.
but that doesn't mean i don't seek challenges and learning opportunities. Just because I won't change my programming languages just yet doesn't mean it never will.
I strongly believe that doing it the baby steps way is good because it allows me to smoothly transition from MS to linux instead of sitting in front of the computer with a huge question mark over my head trying to not only figure out how the OS works but not even knowing how to do a simple "hello world" page, let alone a complete web site.
I plan on having ubuntu as my web hosting/mail server. My dev machine will remain windows XP for now. but maybe, over time when i get comfortable, i'll switch that machine to ubuntu as well but keep developing in vb.net. (i can always game with my good ole PS2), then after a year (or more ? who knows) i'll start playing around with other programming technologies.
I'm a long time windows user, from the DOS days and I've always remained on the windows side of things mainly because at work its all we use. I never saw any point of switching of linux at home knowing that knowledge would not serve me at work.
.net framework on ubuntu ? no virtual machine if possible, no emulation, just run .net framework on ubuntu ?
.net, I don't think its possible otherwise but that's why im asking to people who knows more about this.
I'd usually spend efforts trying to improve on things that would help me at work.
Anyway, now im starting a web hosting and web design (very) small company. I'm not really impressed by the direction MS is taking nor by the fees its charging. Vista smells like a truckload of overhead shit that i have zero interest in even trying out. The 2003 line of servers from MS is just too expensive just to avoid mentionning i hate the notion of online activation/tracking.
I've installed Ubuntu and other distros of linux at the time and while I've always got stuck with the file structure and various command lines to learn, i feel this is something i could get the hang of over time.
But what brings me back everytime to windows are my own limitations regarding programming. At work, we do ASP and ASP.net. Not c#, vb.net. I can read c# but i don't really program with it.
I have no interest in learning php, ruby or other languages despite all their advantages. Because at work that's not what we use and I'd rather re-use my skills rather than split into a new branch just because im having something on the side.
so, my question is, is there any (easy) way i could be running the
I know its pretty contracdictory but i dont want to install overhead on my server just for the benefit of running
So, is it possible ?
I find it funny when the article says "We're not out to replace World of Warcraft" ... what kind of statement is that ? They're almost telling me that they are gonna create a boring game to play.
If from the beginning they don't shoot for the stars, where are they gonna land with their product ?
And this is not the first comment i've read like that. Its like saying WoW is unbeatable ? that it cannot be made better ? That they might as well appeal to another type of gamer because they won't beat WoW ?
How do you think the WoW team got there ? they looked at the best games out there, thought their things out properly and came out stronger and I don't see why Warhammer should do any differently if they expect to make a profit out of their mmo.
Hey, there might be some other great task involved in banking or travel programs but in the end, i don't think its gonna do anything.
If i was paranoid i'd probably say this is a scheme to create jobs and make money.
I've been programming for 10 years now and programs don't generate their own time. well, I never created my own clock anyway, i don't see any need for it.
Whatever daylight saving changes do they are applied to the system clock and programs uses system clock. why would it matter when the OS decides its now 18h instead of 17h ?
The only instance where i can see this causing a problem is when programs monitors the time on a particular day, say the day where daylight is supposed to kick in/out. well that program would be screwed since now its 4 weeks later. But even then, it should be able to get the settings of the OS and not its create its own setting for that.
Its called internationalization settings (try to place that in scrabble) and its commonly accepted to get these settings from the OS just like currency and charsets because its generally not a good idea to create your own system when you've got an API right next to you waiting to help you.
So even with professions that goes in the rocket science section it still works by trial and error.
forget all the calculations and fancy formulas, most breakthroughs are still done by "mistake"
Yes i know but the point of text search engine is information in general, not to allow you to plug what you read in your term paper as-is.
whereas the point of code search engine is to allow you to re-use code that's already been written so that you don't have to paraphrase what you've just seen.
I know its hard, or even unfeasible to build code that answer everybody's need, let alone, expect someone else to write a code that'll work for his project AND my project.
im just saying, if we're gonna talk about engines that allow you to find and re-use code, then the engine should be able to distinguish specific implementation from general implementation. Something that once its passed to someone else doesn't require rewriting it or at least, not all of it.
What code search engines don't tell us is sometimes the code you get just sucks ... or is poorly adapted to your need.
... or ... homemade browser or ... whatever, just function to help me do what im trying to do without reinventing the wheel because i know its been done already.
i usually search for a function to say, validate a string for phone
but most of the time when you do find it chances are it wont be adapted to your need, so much that you end up writing your own based on what you've seen. which explain why there are gazillion versions of (example) javascript calendars on the web.
One thing that happens too is that the code just sucks, its buggy, its buggy because of your own rules, or sometimes plain buggy.
I wish there was a checkbox on the page to specify "bug free" or "not sucky".
But that's impossible, if something could be done it would be to store only independent controls or function. things that work on their own. so that i don't need to end up rewriting the whole thing to make it work in my code.
go tell that those that spent like 2k or 5k for buying one on eBay... THEY must be sorry right now.
Exclusivity does have a price tag on it.