I use Opera which supports typing "g " to do a google search "z " to do an Amazon search, etc. right in the address bar.
I no longer have the ability to do searches in other browsers. I sit dumbfounded for a second or two wondering why the server can't be found. Opera has ruined my browsing on machines without it. (Although I happily found out that it has a non-admin install (at 2.3 MB for download) so I just install it everywhere now).
Not me (I use Opera), but I've known a couple (exactly 2) people who moved back to IE. I've never really bothered grilling them on why they moved back, so I can't tell you the reasons.
I don't know about the INTERNAL TO MS thing, but...
There were several internal workings functions that MS didn't document AT ALL. That's not to say that their documentation was poorly done. On the contrary, it was excellent. None of the undocumented functions would cripple a developers ability to write a program they wanted to write. It simply gave MS an edge in developing certain applications, as an added tool.
MS, for the most part, keeps functions undocumented for support reasons. They have service contracts with many large companies and many of their developers (primarily through MSDN subscriptions) have incident support for development. If you followed the API, your app was GUARENTEED (I mean that in pretty much the strongest way possible) to work on EVERY future version of Windows.
If you wanted to do some snazzy things in the meantime, you could use undocumented features, and your app would break next version.
I have a sneaking suspicion that MS keeps functions undocumented until the version of Windows AFTER they use the function in one of their own programs. That way, they have the ability to change any functionality they want, but they make sure all their own apps are forward-compatible by putting their own "hacks" into the API.
This is supposedly anti-competitive. On the contrary, I think it is a very successful way to compete.;)
I've been using.NET since before VS.NET was released and I've been absolutely amazed at how much ASP.NET is taking off on the Internet.
I fully expected it to do really well in the Intranet environment due its great productivity in simply getting a site up and running. But the Web Controls that ship and the whole layout paradigm MS has gone with, I find horribly lacking.
I use VB.NET all the time for app development, but I cannot bring myself to go through the HASSLE of using ASP.NET. I'm sticking with PHP for now.
Has anyone had any better results than the parent poster and I? Possibly by writing all of your own Web Controls (I've thought about it, but that seemed to be overkill)?
Oh wait, you were serious about that granular control thing, weren't you?
On a more serious note, Windows supports a very granular permission system. It's only a matter of setting permissions. If you're not going to do that on Windows, why would you on WINE?
I think that other options would definitely have to be looked at for WINE. Interestingly enough, as WINE becomes better and better, it will become more and more insecure. Right now, there's still alot of Windows apps that don't work right. Same thing would probably go for virii, etc. As WINE runs more apps, it will run more worms, etc.
I'm pretty sure it's been available for a lot longer than that. The toolkit is what is new. Not the compiler being free. I KNOW the csc and vbc compilers have been free since before VS.NET 2K3
Companies like MS (and really any big API company, OSS excluded) do not document functions so that they can change the interface later. Oftentimes, if it is something as simple as the zip thing, they do not find the benefits to outweigh the risks of a later change breaking compatibility.
I would imagine one could figure out how the dll works by dumping some info from it and playing around (or doing a google search). This allows the vast majority of developers (I know, it probably does not help YOU) to use the undocumented feature without MS taking flak for changing it later on.
Using APIs is like using a scripting language. Great time-saver if the feature is implemented and a huge pain in the bum when it's not. You could always implement the zip functionality yourself;)
Last time I checked cell phones were not a requirement to live. And if your job/business requires it, then that's cost of doing business. You shouldn't live in a capitalist society. You're not ready for the responsibility.
This thing was weighted from the moment they decided to disclude VBScript. They gave points for being "shebang aware" (#!), which also leans the contest towards shell scripts, etc. on Unix only, of course leaving Smalltalk and C# out to dry.
Now I'm not saying that any of these languages should necessarily win (though I'm pretty sure VBS would score pretty high in a fair contest), but this survey is meaningless because the people who conducted it are full of crap.
To be quite honest MS Batch files beat the hell out of most of the competition on many of those categories. I hope no one takes these people seriously.
Don't be so quick to judge. Maybe the poster scores unusually high on standardized tests. He may be in the 99.999 percentile, leaving only 60,000 people in the world smarter than they are. That's not a whole lot.
Note: standardized tests, as flawed as they are, are really the only way of coming to some near kind-of estimate of intelligence I know of.
Where do you live? Here, (MI, USA w/ SBC Ameritech as the regional monopolizer) there's no plan anywhere near that cheap for unlimited local calling. Ours for instance is like $15/mo. but only allows 400 local calls a month (enough for us, but certainly not unlimited).
On top of that, toll charges (farther than 1 area code away) are something along the lines of $0.25/minute.
On the other hand, my cell phone's local plan covers two states in which I can routinely make 800 calls without going over on minutes, due to the fact that is is truly unlimited at night and on the weekends.
I don't know what Libertarians you've been talking to, but the ones who actually RUN for office and don't just espouse beliefs are still for public works and services (roads, schools, water,electricity) to a great extent. They just believe that if you untie electric companies' hands, they will provide a service better suited to their customers and not the government's edicts, for example. It may be true that they do not believe in these things on a Federal level (I've never spoken with a Federal candidate), but on state level, they do not want to tear down the system, they just want to get rid of government meddling.
I've taken something a little like this, but it was done with a diamond:
Libertarian X X X X X X X X X X Democrat X X X X X Republican X X X X X X X X X X Facsist
So, on that scale (flipped 90 degrees ccw), it would seem Libertarians are the US's true "left" party, while those like National Socialists would be the "right". Republican and Democrat would both be center. (My answers put me in libertarian's corner).
Seems like this would be a better scale for Americans.
superpower: n. inf. a nation whose military or arms strength is sufficient to eradicate human life.
Seriously though, a superpower a state with the ability to influence events or project power on a wide scale and often have satellites or colonies.
It is suggested that if the EU could become less fragmented, they could be a superpower, but none of the states seperately are really economically strong enough.
China, if it attained stronger nuclear capabilities could also be considered a superpower, not so much due to their strong economy (though it certainly isn't weak), but the size of their army.
USSR used to be one before their collaps (kind of like the EU)
India is another one in the same boat as China.
Japan, it is said could become one due to their very strong economy recent increased military funding.
Brazil is apparently strong enough economically and has but to develop nuclear arms (which they could do any time they wanted).
- source: wikipedia
Apparently my definition stands except I needed to add strong economy. A nation apparently cannot be considered a superpower until they have enough nuclear arms to wipe us all out.:)
Why do people moan and complain about a service but continue to pay the company?
Try some other company. AT&T (my provider) of course has the standard reclamation fees that everyone else has, but other than that, they've been extraordinarily helpful, friendly, and honest, both on the phone and in their stores.
On another note, they (AT&T) are also one of the most expensive providers. As with almost everything, you get what you pay for. If you wanna pay bottom dollar, you get crap.
It's understandable. Most mobile phone service providers give you a free phone to start with, and they still manage to undercut land line providers in cost of service (at least with all the options). It's a rough market; if they can cut corners on customer service to keep costs down, more power to them.
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That actually wouldn't be a bad idea for someone to write. Maybe just a worm that propogated itself and then turned on windows Auto Updates on all the infected machines. Also could periodically check windows update but this would probably be a lot more difficult to do.
The use of the gun in a riot situation is in its interchangable ammo that can take less-lethal rounds. It also has customizable firing rates. You can turn it down a couple of notches and get a good stream to take out an entire crown in no time with few real injuries.
I wonder if the logistics of that would be reasonable. Firing a laser is alot quicker and accurate than firing a return "catching slug". Things like wind resistance, etc. would have to be taken into affect; and there's no real way of determining wind speed 200 feet away.
It still might be possible someday, though. Scientists have a habit of doing things they just shouldn't be able to do.
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I use Opera which supports typing "g " to do a google search "z " to do an Amazon search, etc. right in the address bar.
I no longer have the ability to do searches in other browsers. I sit dumbfounded for a second or two wondering why the server can't be found. Opera has ruined my browsing on machines without it. (Although I happily found out that it has a non-admin install (at 2.3 MB for download) so I just install it everywhere now).
Not me (I use Opera), but I've known a couple (exactly 2) people who moved back to IE. I've never really bothered grilling them on why they moved back, so I can't tell you the reasons.
A woman who understands physics is so hot.
I don't know about the INTERNAL TO MS thing, but...
;)
There were several internal workings functions that MS didn't document AT ALL. That's not to say that their documentation was poorly done. On the contrary, it was excellent. None of the undocumented functions would cripple a developers ability to write a program they wanted to write. It simply gave MS an edge in developing certain applications, as an added tool.
MS, for the most part, keeps functions undocumented for support reasons. They have service contracts with many large companies and many of their developers (primarily through MSDN subscriptions) have incident support for development. If you followed the API, your app was GUARENTEED (I mean that in pretty much the strongest way possible) to work on EVERY future version of Windows.
If you wanted to do some snazzy things in the meantime, you could use undocumented features, and your app would break next version.
I have a sneaking suspicion that MS keeps functions undocumented until the version of Windows AFTER they use the function in one of their own programs. That way, they have the ability to change any functionality they want, but they make sure all their own apps are forward-compatible by putting their own "hacks" into the API.
This is supposedly anti-competitive. On the contrary, I think it is a very successful way to compete.
I've been using .NET since before VS.NET was released and I've been absolutely amazed at how much ASP.NET is taking off on the Internet.
I fully expected it to do really well in the Intranet environment due its great productivity in simply getting a site up and running. But the Web Controls that ship and the whole layout paradigm MS has gone with, I find horribly lacking.
I use VB.NET all the time for app development, but I cannot bring myself to go through the HASSLE of using ASP.NET. I'm sticking with PHP for now.
Has anyone had any better results than the parent poster and I? Possibly by writing all of your own Web Controls (I've thought about it, but that seemed to be overkill)?
*EPLOSIVE LAUGHTER*
:)
Oh wait, you were serious about that granular control thing, weren't you?
On a more serious note, Windows supports a very granular permission system. It's only a matter of setting permissions. If you're not going to do that on Windows, why would you on WINE?
I think that other options would definitely have to be looked at for WINE. Interestingly enough, as WINE becomes better and better, it will become more and more insecure. Right now, there's still alot of Windows apps that don't work right. Same thing would probably go for virii, etc. As WINE runs more apps, it will run more worms, etc.
In summary: Sandboxing would be good.
I'm pretty sure it's been available for a lot longer than that. The toolkit is what is new. Not the compiler being free. I KNOW the csc and vbc compilers have been free since before VS.NET 2K3
Companies like MS (and really any big API company, OSS excluded) do not document functions so that they can change the interface later. Oftentimes, if it is something as simple as the zip thing, they do not find the benefits to outweigh the risks of a later change breaking compatibility.
;)
I would imagine one could figure out how the dll works by dumping some info from it and playing around (or doing a google search). This allows the vast majority of developers (I know, it probably does not help YOU) to use the undocumented feature without MS taking flak for changing it later on.
Using APIs is like using a scripting language. Great time-saver if the feature is implemented and a huge pain in the bum when it's not. You could always implement the zip functionality yourself
Last time I checked cell phones were not a requirement to live. And if your job/business requires it, then that's cost of doing business. You shouldn't live in a capitalist society. You're not ready for the responsibility.
This thing was weighted from the moment they decided to disclude VBScript. They gave points for being "shebang aware" (#!), which also leans the contest towards shell scripts, etc. on Unix only, of course leaving Smalltalk and C# out to dry.
Now I'm not saying that any of these languages should necessarily win (though I'm pretty sure VBS would score pretty high in a fair contest), but this survey is meaningless because the people who conducted it are full of crap.
To be quite honest MS Batch files beat the hell out of most of the competition on many of those categories. I hope no one takes these people seriously.
Don't be so quick to judge. Maybe the poster scores unusually high on standardized tests. He may be in the 99.999 percentile, leaving only 60,000 people in the world smarter than they are. That's not a whole lot.
Note: standardized tests, as flawed as they are, are really the only way of coming to some near kind-of estimate of intelligence I know of.
Win2K has it I believe. Just not installed by default.
You know a while back I actually needed something like this. I don't recall why. It was using ASP, though and there was nothing I could do.
I ended doing it in some other way that probably ran 5 times as fast but took 5 times as long to develop.
Where do you live? Here, (MI, USA w/ SBC Ameritech as the regional monopolizer) there's no plan anywhere near that cheap for unlimited local calling. Ours for instance is like $15/mo. but only allows 400 local calls a month (enough for us, but certainly not unlimited).
On top of that, toll charges (farther than 1 area code away) are something along the lines of $0.25/minute.
On the other hand, my cell phone's local plan covers two states in which I can routinely make 800 calls without going over on minutes, due to the fact that is is truly unlimited at night and on the weekends.
I don't know what Libertarians you've been talking to, but the ones who actually RUN for office and don't just espouse beliefs are still for public works and services (roads, schools, water,electricity) to a great extent. They just believe that if you untie electric companies' hands, they will provide a service better suited to their customers and not the government's edicts, for example. It may be true that they do not believe in these things on a Federal level (I've never spoken with a Federal candidate), but on state level, they do not want to tear down the system, they just want to get rid of government meddling.
My apologies for clicking submit instead of Preview.
Should have spaces to make it like a diamond. Anyone know how to make slashcode space something? I assumed ECODE would do it...
I've taken something a little like this, but it was done with a diamond:
So, on that scale (flipped 90 degrees ccw), it would seem Libertarians are the US's true "left" party, while those like National Socialists would be the "right". Republican and Democrat would both be center. (My answers put me in libertarian's corner). Seems like this would be a better scale for Americans.superpower: n. inf. a nation whose military or arms strength is sufficient to eradicate human life.
:)
Seriously though, a superpower a state with the ability to influence events or project power on a wide scale and often have satellites or colonies.
It is suggested that if the EU could become less fragmented, they could be a superpower, but none of the states seperately are really economically strong enough.
China, if it attained stronger nuclear capabilities could also be considered a superpower, not so much due to their strong economy (though it certainly isn't weak), but the size of their army.
USSR used to be one before their collaps (kind of like the EU)
India is another one in the same boat as China.
Japan, it is said could become one due to their very strong economy recent increased military funding.
Brazil is apparently strong enough economically and has but to develop nuclear arms (which they could do any time they wanted).
- source: wikipedia
Apparently my definition stands except I needed to add strong economy. A nation apparently cannot be considered a superpower until they have enough nuclear arms to wipe us all out.
Thats the only way I've ever been able to accomplish it. I NEVER remember how to exit that damnable program.
I stared blankly at emacs once...
You mean covered in bear skins? I'm confused...
ummm...
The following Northern states are shall issue:
WA, OR, ID, MT, WY, ND, SD, MN, MI, IN, OH, PA, WV, VA, CT, VT, NH, ME, MO, KY
The following are ALL of the states that are NOT shall issue:
CA, NE, KS, IA, WI, IL, NY, MD, DE, NJ, RI, MA, HI
Of these; all except NE, KS, WI, IL still have a restricted right to carry. Only those four do not allow you to conceal carry
You have been maleducated.
Mod parent up!
Why do people moan and complain about a service but continue to pay the company?
Try some other company. AT&T (my provider) of course has the standard reclamation fees that everyone else has, but other than that, they've been extraordinarily helpful, friendly, and honest, both on the phone and in their stores.
On another note, they (AT&T) are also one of the most expensive providers. As with almost everything, you get what you pay for. If you wanna pay bottom dollar, you get crap.
It's understandable. Most mobile phone service providers give you a free phone to start with, and they still manage to undercut land line providers in cost of service (at least with all the options). It's a rough market; if they can cut corners on customer service to keep costs down, more power to them.
That actually wouldn't be a bad idea for someone to write. Maybe just a worm that propogated itself and then turned on windows Auto Updates on all the infected machines. Also could periodically check windows update but this would probably be a lot more difficult to do.
The use of the gun in a riot situation is in its interchangable ammo that can take less-lethal rounds. It also has customizable firing rates. You can turn it down a couple of notches and get a good stream to take out an entire crown in no time with few real injuries.
It's a perfect riot suppression gun.
I wonder if the logistics of that would be reasonable. Firing a laser is alot quicker and accurate than firing a return "catching slug". Things like wind resistance, etc. would have to be taken into affect; and there's no real way of determining wind speed 200 feet away.
It still might be possible someday, though. Scientists have a habit of doing things they just shouldn't be able to do.