Yes you can, and you always have been able to. Try it and see. Unless you're talking about bitmaps, in which case the problem isn't in Windows, but in the chair sitting in front of it.
Thank you for wasting more than a half hour of my life. I reconnected a Win98 box that was on its way out, opened notepad and the MS-DOS Prompt. I typed and selected text in notepad with ^C then tried pasting it into the DOS Prompt with right-click and ^V: nothing. Right-clicking in the prompt window does nothing. I did ^V in notepad, and the text was copied in again. I'm not responding to any more bogus "Oh, yeah, it works, try it" trolls.
Well, you can't implement a secure and stable OS like Linux on a 8088 with 16K or RAM, so Intel, IBM, and MS should sat on their hands and waited until the 386 was available.
Who said it had to be Linux? I had to laugh since I remember using MS DOS and all the problems with boot sector malware and the garden variety trojans. It's got nothing to do with the processor or RAM, it's about being an easy lay. MS has not (until recently) been worried about security - it will run anything for any reason at any time.
It's easy to pass judgement from the perspective of today's bloated PCs. Call me when Linux is ported to the Apple II.
I'm passing judgement from 1982. Today's bloat, by far, belongs to Microsoft, and it's unsecured bloat. Call me when Windows no longer propagates malware and when MS allows all Windows users to do security updates. Otherwise, you're just blowing more MS smoke.
Right click in the console window, select Mark, highlight some text. now you can paste it whereever you want. To paste text in the console, right click -> paste.
You can't paste something copied from somewhere else in the Windows world (clipboard), or vice versa. Right-click is natural for *nix users, it's the first thing tried to paste. I haven't tried it since Win98, nor do I want to. Next.
The motto behind Longhorn is "make it just work" and so every function of Windows is being reexamined to make it fit in with that philosophy.
*Wipes tears away* That's been the problem with MS operating systems and the MS philosophy all along. They don't work well. They don't work securely. They don't work as advertised. They "just work" (barely).
Indeed. But writing command line shells? *jaw hits the floor again*
There are no coders left at Microsoft that have ever used a CLI. This is new territory for them. Can you imagine trying to build a functional terminal/console window/interface while using VisualStudio (TM)(R)(C) and the Windows (TM)(R)(C) API? The real question is, when it's finished, will it finally allow those cutting-edge innovations: copy and paste? If it's only five years, it's worth it.
I live in Fort Lauderdale, FL, maybe 3 miles from where I work, and I easily go through 40+ gallons per week (I drive an 01 Dodge Ram). Most of the time I even work from home.
You need a locking gas cap - or fewer of those Dodge Hemi dragster starts. I live 15 miles from work and don't use 40 gallons in a month.
Nobody with even half a brain actually believes C++ is a good thing.
Oops (no pun intended), I must've lost half my brain while learning C++. There's nothing wrong with OOP when applied correctly to C in the proper situation. There's nothing wrong with C when a procedural approach is better, and in the end, C++ is often just a better C compiler.
My problem is that the book is probably *Meyers doing templates* again. When templates first came out, I was sold on the idea. Years later, it seems that in practice, you have to write ever more code to cover every possible invocation and possible use. Now, it seems to me that templates are more useful to compiler and library writers than in the real programming world.
*Dons hairshirt garment and waits to be burned as a heretic.*
I think SAIC's failure to execute is in small part due to the underpinning technology, in large part due to an FBI leadership that was not on the same page, but mostly due to the fact that the management of this project was mishandled.
SAIC is certainly not blameless, but I think
this is a pretty good summary of what happened. The biggest problem was the FBI trying to add major new requirements to an existing project as a response to 9/11. Agreed, SAIC should have said no, but what defense contractor does that when talking to the government?
Does this help at all? Physicians have been able to practice on the H-1B since 1990.
A bit late to an old discussion aren't you? In any case, the H-1B does not grant foreign doctors an authorization to practice medicine in the US unless they graduated from a US medical school. Otherwise, they are subject to the accreditization rules of the relevant licensing bodies.
Programmers (and fashion models) are authorized to work at will as long as they have an employer. If H-1B programmers had to pass a proficiency test before they were admitted, there would be far fewer of them - I know, I've had to train a few.
Ok, continue with your conspiracy theory. I'm sure the tin foil hat fits tightly.
That's it? That's your final response to all the points in the argument? You haven't refuted a single point or offered any evidence in support of your claims, except to say, "I don't believe it." I don't wear a hat of tin-foil or any other persuasion. A half-century of learning and observation has taught me to believe in the actions - not the claims - of any entity. As Wendell Phillips said, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." It's a shame so many youngsters are willing to give up their liberties. Sleep well, knowing that the government is looking out for you while it's reneging on agreements made with your parents and grandparents in their "tin foil" hats.
Yes, that's what I said, "qualified workers." Please pay attention.
They are doctors - in case you hadn't noticed, our country needs them. But now you're just being rude. If you can't discuss something in a civilized manner, then, well it's not my job to raise you.
I supplied the visa codes relevant to my argument. You have still not provided a visa code or the name of your supposed program. If you think it's rude that I don't blindly accept your fabrications, then so be it.
Your opinions are based on what you wish to believe as well. You seem to think there's some government conspiracy so that the BLS can't be trusted after all.
It doesn't require a lot of thought to realize that people don't suddenly lose their education, experience, and knowledge just because they run out of unemployment benefits. That's what the government's metric is - when people run out of benefits, they're no longer unemployed. I suppose you also believe the government's inflation numbers although they don't include prices the feds have deemed volatile or seasonal. You need a serious dose of skepticism and some training in critical thinking.
Underemployment is just an opinion a worker has but doesn't take the employer into account.
Underemployment is what happens when there is an oversupply of qualified workers. The employers in this case are the root of the problem since they are using federal immigration policy to subsidize their operations and create an oversupply of labor.
Funny - that's how parts of my family got here. You're dead wrong about that.
I notice you didn't supply the visa code for this unknown program that imports lawyers.
I'm sorry - I just don't believe that.
I'm not surprised. Like the rest of your opinions, it's based on what you want to believe instead of facts. The IEEE and the ACM are the two most highly regarded IT professional organizations in the country, whether that fits in with what you want to believe or not.
Once again, I'm forced to say this. Posting as non-AC doesn't make you better than anyone else.
Yes, I've seen *you* post that before. Posting with an ID makes the user accountable. If you're a troll or an idiot, you will soon be posting at -1 and invisible. An AC can post garbage forever and still post at 0.
Aren't you glad your asenine post is now "tracked" back to you?
Aren't you glad the fact that you can't spell asinine can't be tracked back to you, Coward? As usual, nothing but more AC wasted bandwidth.
Or out of benefits. You've swallowed it, hook, line, and sinker. Just because someone takes a certain job to feed their family doesn't mean that they are unqualified to do the job they were trained for. Underemployment is the same as unemployment except to government statisticians who want to make the picture as rosy as possible.
It's unreasonable to believe that everyone who happens to consider themselves a programmer necessarily has the goods to be one. If engineering and programming had larger barriers to entry like law and medicine, it would be a better picture.
There are no government programs designed to import lawyers or doctors, unlike the H-1B which is designed to import programmers.
But if you believe everything that the IEEE is telling you...well nevermind as well - they have protectionist incentives to paint a bleak picture.
The IEEE is an international professional organization. Unlike the ITAA, which is a trade organization that supplies many of the numbers you will see cited in the press. The numbers provided by the IEEE are real numbers. If you can prove otherwise, you will have a real scoop, so please supply your proof.
I'm trying to find someone whose statistics are not government because you believe in a bias there and not from a trade group because I believe in a bias there. Got any suggestions?
Then I'd suggest you google on "Matloff" who is a CS professor in California and has done a lot of work regarding the subject.
I wasn't commenting on the topic of OSS. I was commenting onthe topic of Stallman.:)
Okay, I guess I'm dense. I don't recall Stallman as being opposed to making money from writing sofware - I believe that's what he does, but I'm willing to be enlightened.
Maybe the poor CS students are all holding out for a $80,000 a year job. Maybe they should move somewhere with a low cost of living and get the $45-50,000 a year job?
I hate anyone who bitches about not find a job. Suck it up.. find something you enjoy doing, but be willing to compromise. You'll find work.
That's what I love about AC posts - all the pontification with none of the worry about it being tied back to the butthead who wrote it.
I know a few recently laid-off programmers who would be very happy with a $45K salary, and they don't live on the coasts. Save the Slashdot bandwidth - ban AC posting!.
You may be the only person so far to have picked up on the (lame) joke.
Are you saying that the H-1B visa's aren't being applied (or accepted) because enough people aren't attemting to immigrate. If that is what you are saying, I find that relatively shocking.
What I'm saying is that the Congress and USCIS recently put up 20,000 new H-1B visas for people that US companies were really whining that they couldn't find in the US, and so far, there haven't been many takers according to the news sources. Given the lack of IT jobs in the US and the growing IT markets in other countries, it's not really surprising. BTW, shocking as it may seem, the H-1B is supposed to be a non-immigrant visa.
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Yes you can, and you always have been able to. Try it and see. Unless you're talking about bitmaps, in which case the problem isn't in Windows, but in the chair sitting in front of it.
Thank you for wasting more than a half hour of my life. I reconnected a Win98 box that was on its way out, opened notepad and the MS-DOS Prompt. I typed and selected text in notepad with ^C then tried pasting it into the DOS Prompt with right-click and ^V: nothing. Right-clicking in the prompt window does nothing. I did ^V in notepad, and the text was copied in again. I'm not responding to any more bogus "Oh, yeah, it works, try it" trolls.
Well, you can't implement a secure and stable OS like Linux on a 8088 with 16K or RAM, so Intel, IBM, and MS should sat on their hands and waited until the 386 was available.
Who said it had to be Linux? I had to laugh since I remember using MS DOS and all the problems with boot sector malware and the garden variety trojans. It's got nothing to do with the processor or RAM, it's about being an easy lay. MS has not (until recently) been worried about security - it will run anything for any reason at any time.
It's easy to pass judgement from the perspective of today's bloated PCs. Call me when Linux is ported to the Apple II.
I'm passing judgement from 1982. Today's bloat, by far, belongs to Microsoft, and it's unsecured bloat. Call me when Windows no longer propagates malware and when MS allows all Windows users to do security updates. Otherwise, you're just blowing more MS smoke.
Right click in the console window, select Mark, highlight some text. now you can paste it whereever you want. To paste text in the console, right click -> paste.
You can't paste something copied from somewhere else in the Windows world (clipboard), or vice versa. Right-click is natural for *nix users, it's the first thing tried to paste. I haven't tried it since Win98, nor do I want to. Next.
It is not necessarily a bad thing that you can't configure everything from the command-line.
Yes, it is. *nix users have understood that for decades. And that's why the "Windows" response to a problem is to reinstall the OS.
My understanding is that Longhorn is no longer in Longhorn.
Then that would leave . . . an empty shell. So why would it take five years to build it?
The motto behind Longhorn is "make it just work" and so every function of Windows is being reexamined to make it fit in with that philosophy.
*Wipes tears away* That's been the problem with MS operating systems and the MS philosophy all along. They don't work well. They don't work securely. They don't work as advertised. They "just work" (barely).
In addition, you are totally ignoring the fact that the guy said THREE to five years. Not Five. He gave a range.
And the original range for Longhorn's shipping date was . . .
Indeed. But writing command line shells? *jaw hits the floor again*
There are no coders left at Microsoft that have ever used a CLI. This is new territory for them. Can you imagine trying to build a functional terminal/console window/interface while using VisualStudio (TM)(R)(C) and the Windows (TM)(R)(C) API? The real question is, when it's finished, will it finally allow those cutting-edge innovations: copy and paste? If it's only five years, it's worth it.
I live in Fort Lauderdale, FL, maybe 3 miles from where I work, and I easily go through 40+ gallons per week (I drive an 01 Dodge Ram). Most of the time I even work from home.
You need a locking gas cap - or fewer of those Dodge Hemi dragster starts. I live 15 miles from work and don't use 40 gallons in a month.
However, library writers do actually exist in the real world! How else do all those libraries get written?
Yes, I should have chosen a better adjective than real. :)
Nobody with even half a brain actually believes C++ is a good thing.
Oops (no pun intended), I must've lost half my brain while learning C++. There's nothing wrong with OOP when applied correctly to C in the proper situation. There's nothing wrong with C when a procedural approach is better, and in the end, C++ is often just a better C compiler.
My problem is that the book is probably *Meyers doing templates* again. When templates first came out, I was sold on the idea. Years later, it seems that in practice, you have to write ever more code to cover every possible invocation and possible use. Now, it seems to me that templates are more useful to compiler and library writers than in the real programming world.
*Dons hairshirt garment and waits to be burned as a heretic.*
Has anyone else noticed that the captchas are getting harder and harder. Pretty soon I'm not going to be able to prove I'm human.
Get an account - they're free. I had to do only one about a week ago.
I think SAIC's failure to execute is in small part due to the underpinning technology, in large part due to an FBI leadership that was not on the same page, but mostly due to the fact that the management of this project was mishandled.
SAIC is certainly not blameless, but I think this is a pretty good summary of what happened. The biggest problem was the FBI trying to add major new requirements to an existing project as a response to 9/11. Agreed, SAIC should have said no, but what defense contractor does that when talking to the government?
That's a terrific idea, I wish I had thought of that.
You did. Wow, that's deep, and possibly recursive. Now, we can only hope the thread is reentrant-safe. :)
Does this help at all? Physicians have been able to practice on the H-1B since 1990.
A bit late to an old discussion aren't you? In any case, the H-1B does not grant foreign doctors an authorization to practice medicine in the US unless they graduated from a US medical school. Otherwise, they are subject to the accreditization rules of the relevant licensing bodies.
Programmers (and fashion models) are authorized to work at will as long as they have an employer. If H-1B programmers had to pass a proficiency test before they were admitted, there would be far fewer of them - I know, I've had to train a few.
Ok, continue with your conspiracy theory. I'm sure the tin foil hat fits tightly.
That's it? That's your final response to all the points in the argument? You haven't refuted a single point or offered any evidence in support of your claims, except to say, "I don't believe it." I don't wear a hat of tin-foil or any other persuasion. A half-century of learning and observation has taught me to believe in the actions - not the claims - of any entity. As Wendell Phillips said, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." It's a shame so many youngsters are willing to give up their liberties. Sleep well, knowing that the government is looking out for you while it's reneging on agreements made with your parents and grandparents in their "tin foil" hats.
Maybe we're all posting on a website, but it's really a computer. Huh?
A website that really exists only as a computer process. Wow. That's deep.
Qualified workers.
Yes, that's what I said, "qualified workers." Please pay attention.
They are doctors - in case you hadn't noticed, our country needs them. But now you're just being rude. If you can't discuss something in a civilized manner, then, well it's not my job to raise you.
I supplied the visa codes relevant to my argument. You have still not provided a visa code or the name of your supposed program. If you think it's rude that I don't blindly accept your fabrications, then so be it.
Your opinions are based on what you wish to believe as well. You seem to think there's some government conspiracy so that the BLS can't be trusted after all.
It doesn't require a lot of thought to realize that people don't suddenly lose their education, experience, and knowledge just because they run out of unemployment benefits. That's what the government's metric is - when people run out of benefits, they're no longer unemployed. I suppose you also believe the government's inflation numbers although they don't include prices the feds have deemed volatile or seasonal. You need a serious dose of skepticism and some training in critical thinking.
Underemployment is just an opinion a worker has but doesn't take the employer into account.
Underemployment is what happens when there is an oversupply of qualified workers. The employers in this case are the root of the problem since they are using federal immigration policy to subsidize their operations and create an oversupply of labor.
Funny - that's how parts of my family got here. You're dead wrong about that.
I notice you didn't supply the visa code for this unknown program that imports lawyers.
I'm sorry - I just don't believe that.
I'm not surprised. Like the rest of your opinions, it's based on what you want to believe instead of facts. The IEEE and the ACM are the two most highly regarded IT professional organizations in the country, whether that fits in with what you want to believe or not.
He's saying "software should be Free", not saying "software should be free", eh?
Yup, sounds like a capitalist with a principle to me. :) If only there were more of them.
Once again, I'm forced to say this. Posting as non-AC doesn't make you better than anyone else.
Yes, I've seen *you* post that before. Posting with an ID makes the user accountable. If you're a troll or an idiot, you will soon be posting at -1 and invisible. An AC can post garbage forever and still post at 0.
Aren't you glad your asenine post is now "tracked" back to you?
Aren't you glad the fact that you can't spell asinine can't be tracked back to you, Coward? As usual, nothing but more AC wasted bandwidth.
Exactly - they are employed.
Or out of benefits. You've swallowed it, hook, line, and sinker. Just because someone takes a certain job to feed their family doesn't mean that they are unqualified to do the job they were trained for. Underemployment is the same as unemployment except to government statisticians who want to make the picture as rosy as possible.
It's unreasonable to believe that everyone who happens to consider themselves a programmer necessarily has the goods to be one. If engineering and programming had larger barriers to entry like law and medicine, it would be a better picture.
There are no government programs designed to import lawyers or doctors, unlike the H-1B which is designed to import programmers.
But if you believe everything that the IEEE is telling you...well nevermind as well - they have protectionist incentives to paint a bleak picture.
The IEEE is an international professional organization. Unlike the ITAA, which is a trade organization that supplies many of the numbers you will see cited in the press. The numbers provided by the IEEE are real numbers. If you can prove otherwise, you will have a real scoop, so please supply your proof.
I'm trying to find someone whose statistics are not government because you believe in a bias there and not from a trade group because I believe in a bias there. Got any suggestions?
Then I'd suggest you google on "Matloff" who is a CS professor in California and has done a lot of work regarding the subject.
I wasn't commenting on the topic of OSS. I was commenting onthe topic of Stallman. :)
Okay, I guess I'm dense. I don't recall Stallman as being opposed to making money from writing sofware - I believe that's what he does, but I'm willing to be enlightened.
Maybe the poor CS students are all holding out for a $80,000 a year job. Maybe they should move somewhere with a low cost of living and get the $45-50,000 a year job?
I hate anyone who bitches about not find a job. Suck it up.. find something you enjoy doing, but be willing to compromise. You'll find work.
That's what I love about AC posts - all the pontification with none of the worry about it being tied back to the butthead who wrote it.
I know a few recently laid-off programmers who would be very happy with a $45K salary, and they don't live on the coasts. Save the Slashdot bandwidth - ban AC posting!.
(nice nickname by the way...).
You may be the only person so far to have picked up on the (lame) joke.
Are you saying that the H-1B visa's aren't being applied (or accepted) because enough people aren't attemting to immigrate. If that is what you are saying, I find that relatively shocking.
What I'm saying is that the Congress and USCIS recently put up 20,000 new H-1B visas for people that US companies were really whining that they couldn't find in the US, and so far, there haven't been many takers according to the news sources. Given the lack of IT jobs in the US and the growing IT markets in other countries, it's not really surprising. BTW, shocking as it may seem, the H-1B is supposed to be a non-immigrant visa.