COM isn't Windows-only. It's a cross-platform technology that happens to be used far more often on Windows than any other platform. However, as anyone who's done anything with IOKit on Mac can tell you, COM isn't limited to just Windows.
I use Vista with 8 cores and 8 GB of RAM, and it runs like a gem. Perhaps your IT people should stop reading/. and actually try the technologies they refuse to run. Of course, I'm sure someone here will simply point out that you need to have such a beefy machine in order to run Vista. Oh look, a cliff for us to jump off!
Based on the success of introducing the cane toad, tamarisk, the bark beetle, the banana slug, the mongoose, or the brown tree snake!
Way to point out only negative examples of bio control without actually pointing out the positive examples like the vedalia beetle, alligator weed flea beetle and numerous parasatoids over the last 100 years.
Sure beats responsible commenting practices, eh?
Uh... if you can opt in to download "illegal" content via P2P, doesn't that just make it easier for the content providers to track you down to sue you?
I'm not sure why this was moderated as a troll seeing as how it's a perfectly valid user experience story. If they were talking about Vista, it'd show up as +5 Insightful.
I've never had an issue with coding on paper like that. Some people complain about debugging.. yeah, nobody writes code perfect on the first try. Writing it on paper forces the programmer to follow their code by hand to see what is REALLY happening to it. This is a great practice to get into, because when you are coding at the keyboard, you better understand what is going on. Is it fair to dock for spelling mistakes? I don't think so.. but is it fair to see if you have the logic there on paper? Certainly!
Slashdot Mirror
COM isn't Windows-only. It's a cross-platform technology that happens to be used far more often on Windows than any other platform. However, as anyone who's done anything with IOKit on Mac can tell you, COM isn't limited to just Windows.
And this deserves to be on the front page of a non-idle post why?
It's also been tried many times and succeeded, as just about any entomologist can point out.
I use Vista with 8 cores and 8 GB of RAM, and it runs like a gem. Perhaps your IT people should stop reading /. and actually try the technologies they refuse to run. Of course, I'm sure someone here will simply point out that you need to have such a beefy machine in order to run Vista. Oh look, a cliff for us to jump off!
What you call a flaw is something the business world calls a necessity.
Based on the success of introducing the cane toad, tamarisk, the bark beetle, the banana slug, the mongoose, or the brown tree snake!
Way to point out only negative examples of bio control without actually pointing out the positive examples like the vedalia beetle, alligator weed flea beetle and numerous parasatoids over the last 100 years. Sure beats responsible commenting practices, eh?
Uh... if you can opt in to download "illegal" content via P2P, doesn't that just make it easier for the content providers to track you down to sue you?
In case you want to put in a reasonable subject line when emailing him, this is House Bill 775.
I'm not sure why this was moderated as a troll seeing as how it's a perfectly valid user experience story. If they were talking about Vista, it'd show up as +5 Insightful.
I've never had an issue with coding on paper like that. Some people complain about debugging.. yeah, nobody writes code perfect on the first try. Writing it on paper forces the programmer to follow their code by hand to see what is REALLY happening to it. This is a great practice to get into, because when you are coding at the keyboard, you better understand what is going on. Is it fair to dock for spelling mistakes? I don't think so.. but is it fair to see if you have the logic there on paper? Certainly!