With all their billions in the bank, why can't they just pay for the translations? I can't believe that a government would spend resources doing translation work for Microsoft.
Of course, M$ is going to try to get away with not having to pay for it. But I doubt governments (and of course just those of relatively low-population countries) will want to assist funding for them, seeing as how they have such a huge war chest.
I feel confident that gov's will prefer to fund translation on Linux, and M$ will be forced to pay for the their own translation anyway, if they want to get into the market.
The spam in question was a pharmaceutical firm, and one morning I got just about 50 'undeliverable mail' messages with my email address as the sender. I never got any complaint letters, and it hasn't happened since (that was about Sep 21, 2003 give or take a day).
I figure I never got the flak because no one ever comes to my site anyway...
I agree. When I'm coding, often I have to write and rewrite a few functions until the code is in good shape. It would drive me batty to have someone else changing my code before I've had a chance to get it all down, though I don't mind someone sitting beside me making comments - then at least I can explain what I'm doing, or say "Just give me a few minutes."
For the same reason, I disable instant grammar and spell checking - it really interferes with the flow.
Hi,
I remember when MS came out with their first version of the Standard Template Library. Or maybe it was a subsequent release in which they introduced this bug. Anyway, it was a few years ago.
The code in question was there to copy a string or a container class. It was a trivial function. Source code was included, and it looked something like this. Please forgive me if the syntax isn't right, I've been writing Java, Python, Php and Perl this week, and it's been ages since I did templates:
template copy( T * dest, const T * src )
{
while ( src )
*dest = *src++;
}
Notice how dest doesn't increment. And this is a development library from Microsoft. No wonder we're in such an aweful mess.
Does anyone else remember this one?
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Hi, I'm seriously considering moving over to Suse. Right now I'm running RH9.1. I'm wondering: upgrade or do a fresh install?
With all their billions in the bank, why can't they just pay for the translations? I can't believe that a government would spend resources doing translation work for Microsoft.
Of course, M$ is going to try to get away with not having to pay for it. But I doubt governments (and of course just those of relatively low-population countries) will want to assist funding for them, seeing as how they have such a huge war chest.
I feel confident that gov's will prefer to fund translation on Linux, and M$ will be forced to pay for the their own translation anyway, if they want to get into the market.
Sure,after reading and understanding 40M lines of code, or however many there are...
I had exactly the same thing happen to me.
The spam in question was a pharmaceutical firm, and one morning I got just about 50 'undeliverable mail' messages with my email address as the sender. I never got any complaint letters, and it hasn't happened since (that was about Sep 21, 2003 give or take a day).
I figure I never got the flak because no one ever comes to my site anyway...
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I agree. When I'm coding, often I have to write and rewrite a few functions until the code is in good shape. It would drive me batty to have someone else changing my code before I've had a chance to get it all down, though I don't mind someone sitting beside me making comments - then at least I can explain what I'm doing, or say "Just give me a few minutes." For the same reason, I disable instant grammar and spell checking - it really interferes with the flow.
He he he! I can see why! Even though I've never once used a label myself in C or C++ code. That's brilliant.
Hi, I remember when MS came out with their first version of the Standard Template Library. Or maybe it was a subsequent release in which they introduced this bug. Anyway, it was a few years ago. The code in question was there to copy a string or a container class. It was a trivial function. Source code was included, and it looked something like this. Please forgive me if the syntax isn't right, I've been writing Java, Python, Php and Perl this week, and it's been ages since I did templates:
template copy( T * dest, const T * src )
{
while ( src )
*dest = *src++;
}
Notice how dest doesn't increment. And this is a development library from Microsoft. No wonder we're in such an aweful mess. Does anyone else remember this one?