MS: Click here to retract landing gear.
Q105832 The "Click here to retract landing gear" button has no corresponding button to deploy landing gear. This will be addressed in the next hotfix or service pack or feature upgrade or automatic update. Please remain in the air until this is released. Your purchase is important to us.
But that's not really a problem because:
"You have changed the settings of landing gear, please restart for the changes to take effect."
They advertise "travel via the shortest route". Depending on the distance this will quite likely be under the surface due to the spherical shape of the earth.
You wouldn't program a website in C++ anyway, would you? And that's the only domain where PHP is of some use.
As a beginners programming language for standalone apps I would rather recommend Java than C++ because it's easier to use and safer in the sense that those features most frequently leading to programming errors in C/C++ aren't available in Java.
Microsoft deserves kudos for this
Never! All they can expect from me is a kick in the ass. They keep stepping on my toes for fifteen years now. They won't make any points by doing something that I expect as a matter of course.
Maybe fun to play around with for a while, but it can't seriously be considered a programming language. It's a totally inconsistent mixture of C, Perl, Java and whatsoever. The API description already take >2000 pages and keeps growing like leavened dough. Security was discovered only recently and I bet there are a zillion holes still buried inside.
FORTRAN is like VI It's blatantly out of date But it will never die
If you look sharply enough at the FORTRAN syntax you can still see the punch card shine through. And through VI you can look at the typewriter console.
It's a psychological thing that almost prohibits anyone from selling anything that is "small," "tiny," "whatever." "Medium" or "Regular" makes it look better/more appealing.
Holy Sh*t! Now that geeks become aware of this I expect a lot of software packages to change name. Like "tinyDNS" becoming "regularDNS" or, even worse, "nano-tiny" will become "mega-regular".
I bet nobody's ever been compromised through a trojan horse in the build process of Microsoft Word!
I wouldn't bet on that. After all M$ is giving away Word sources. How can you be sure they don't have a trojan horse inside to be able to track down NDA violations?
"The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (09 FEB 02)" stiffy
<storage, jargon> (University of Lowell, Massachusetts) A 3.5-inch microfloppy, so called because their jackets are more rigid than those of the 5.25-inch and the (obsolete) 8-inch floppy disk. Elsewhere this might be called a "firmy".
> If Apple's hardware is better, then how come the following three statements are true? > > 1) x86 processors are faster than the best offerings from Apple.
Just like eggs are brighter than apples.
> 2) x86 hardware gives you much more choice as to hardware and software configurations.
That's obvious. x86 is lower quality ie cheaper and thus sold more often.
> 3) x86 hardware costs less to produce, thusly costing consumers less to purchase.
> A good example, however, is Linux, which was made from word of mouth and its own merits.
Only that Linux is not a product. This is much worse an example.
BTW Linux not being a (commercial) product is the reason why it could get so far. Quality doesn't sell.. Commercialism promotes the inferior. It's sort of Anti-Darwinism: Survival of the cheapest.
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> Probably to the point that they say "Sell only PCs with Windows on them."
;)
That won't be a problem now that it becomes popular to cut windows into your PC case
> Can I get an english translation of the poster's last sentence?
;)
Did he actually pass away writing that article?
Writing on slashdot seems to be really dangerous
> What's the difference between Windows and Linux? 1000's of games...
I always regarded DOS/Windos to be toy systems.
MS: Click here to retract landing gear.
Q105832 The "Click here to retract landing gear" button has no corresponding button to deploy landing gear. This will be addressed in the next hotfix or service pack or feature upgrade or automatic update. Please remain in the air until this is released. Your purchase is important to us.
But that's not really a problem because:
"You have changed the settings of landing gear, please restart for the changes to take effect."
They advertise "travel via the shortest route". Depending on the distance this will quite likely be under the surface due to the spherical shape of the earth.
You wouldn't program a website in C++ anyway, would you? And that's the only domain where PHP is of some use.
As a beginners programming language for standalone apps I would rather recommend Java than C++ because it's easier to use and safer in the sense that those features most frequently leading to programming errors in C/C++ aren't available in Java.
Microsoft deserves kudos for this Never! All they can expect from me is a kick in the ass. They keep stepping on my toes for fifteen years now. They won't make any points by doing something that I expect as a matter of course.
I really like PHP. It's fun. :)
Maybe fun to play around with for a while, but it can't seriously be considered a programming language. It's a totally inconsistent mixture of C, Perl, Java and whatsoever. The API description already take >2000 pages and keeps growing like leavened dough. Security was discovered only recently and I bet there are a zillion holes still buried inside.
FORTRAN is like VI
It's blatantly out of date
But it will never die
If you look sharply enough at the FORTRAN syntax you can still see the punch card shine through. And through VI you can look at the typewriter console.
That's exactly the diff Star{Trek,Wars}
God plays dice?
Holy Sh*t! Now that geeks become aware of this I expect a lot of software packages to change name. Like "tinyDNS" becoming "regularDNS" or, even worse, "nano-tiny" will become "mega-regular".
We only have 250 ml cups over here. OTOH we know that everything is bigger in the US, so why shouldn't cups?
Dvorak is not the only alternative layout and speed is not the only factor. Eg cf http://www.ctdnews.com/past_issues/1995-04.html
** Windows has detected a mouse movement.
** Please restart Windows so changes can take effect.
ROTFLBTCASTC
Movie execs are such honourble citizens and such great contributors to the society.
Yes, they are making those great military ad's like windtalkers.
Only if they had gone broke.
Huh? What makes M$ better about than Worldcom? Only that nobody cares about their "accounting discrepancies" because they still seem to make profit.
I bet nobody's ever been compromised through a trojan horse in the build process of Microsoft Word!
I wouldn't bet on that. After all M$ is giving away Word sources. How can you be sure they don't have a trojan horse inside to be able to track down NDA violations?
"The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (09 FEB 02)"
stiffy
<storage, jargon> (University of Lowell, Massachusetts) A
3.5-inch microfloppy, so called because their jackets are
more rigid than those of the 5.25-inch and the (obsolete)
8-inch floppy disk. Elsewhere this might be called a
"firmy".
Jargon File
(1994-11-03)
There's something in that word that reminds me of last September.
> If Apple's hardware is better, then how come the following three statements are true?
>
> 1) x86 processors are faster than the best offerings from Apple.
Just like eggs are brighter than apples.
> 2) x86 hardware gives you much more choice as to hardware and software configurations.
That's obvious. x86 is lower quality ie cheaper and thus sold more often.
> 3) x86 hardware costs less to produce, thusly costing consumers less to purchase.
s.a.
> A good example, however, is Linux, which was made from word of mouth and its own merits.
Only that Linux is not a product. This is much worse an example.
BTW Linux not being a (commercial) product is the reason why it could get so far. Quality doesn't sell.. Commercialism promotes the inferior. It's sort of Anti-Darwinism: Survival of the cheapest.
> Uh? What's got a national ID to do with terrorism?
Ask George Warlord Bush
You could as well use man lart (unless you were treated with luser -d by sysadmin(1))