People keep on forgetting that a developer does not have to use any new extensions to the CLI or C#. They can continue using whatever is still fully cross-platform.
One might bring up the argument about MS's Java implementation extensions and how no one realized when they were using MS extended or Java base functionality. But I have two points to add to anyone who would make that comment:
1. Java was not complete at the time. There was serious developer desire for more functionality and MS gave them that.
2. The ISO (or even ECMA) standard makes it quite simple to determine what is and is not MS extended. And I'm sure someone could fairly easily (or already has done so) write a utility to check for compatibility with the standard.
I can not think of one possible reason to HATE System.Windows.Forms. I can see some places where it could be a bit better, etc., but to hate it would require an extraordinarily stodgy personality.
I do the NT administration (2k) for an ISP/Web hosting company, and I can attest that our Web Server has not had unplanned downtime. Ever.
There are serious flaws in some of the software out there for Windows, but the OS itself is extraordinarily stable. And an admin that simply takes some time to understand how it works can make it secure as well.
I've seen no objective data indicating that Windows (at least 2k) is less stable than Linux, Unix, BeOS, or anything else. I really think all this hooplah is due to inexperienced admins.
Example: I never had to do any kind of Linux administration before working for my current employer. In fact, I had never even used it except to try it out as a curiosity. And I can attest that I am NOT an experienced Linux admin. I can also attest that my Linux server crashes, locks up, etc. significantly more often than our Windows servers. Why do you suppose that is? That's why I don't buy all this FUD about Windows being unstable (or even to a certain extent insecure as we were unaffected by every NT worm I can think of other than that SQL worm (which isn't really an NT worm, now is it?)).
Maybe admins should stop believing everything they read and actually try to learn how to run a Windows server.
It would be very unusual for a console system to make money its first year or two. They always lose money on the hardware until the hardware is years old. All revenue comes from games and licensing.
And, as far as I can tell, MS is selling at least close to as many games as Nintendo. They _do_ lose more money on each system sold than Nintendo or Sony, but they have the money to wait for it to be profitable.
Really, the only issue with Opera is the stability and some rendering bugs I've found in the latest version (Win).
The browser renders just as good as IE (my preferred rendering engine until Opera 7, for which I still prefer quick FTP usage) and is spot on on standards complience.
One feature I would like to see is custom agent strings, because there are still quite a few web servers out there that will recognize Opera even if it is spoofing another browser (it appends Opera to the end of the user agent string).
Overall, I'd say it's about as sleek and sexy as browser has ever been. And I absolutely cannot stand any of the mouse gestures I've tried for Mozilla. There's something horribly awry with them, though I cannot place what it is.
2. Ummm... yeah they can. They don't usually put in a new ride every year, and at 35$ a ticket, thousands per day, and extra money from concessions, etc. (thus putting off a significant amount of the cost of operation); a rough estimate would indicate that they indeed have plenty of money to invest.
I agree whole-heartedly. Every time they get a new coaster, I am absolutely astounded that they fit yet another one. I heard of vaporous plans a while back to sell off the Magnum due to it's size (footprint) and its againg grandeur. 205 ft.? 70 mph? Come on, we can do much better than that.
The guarantee is that it is Cedar Point. For those not familiar, it is the roller coaster park. Every once in a while someone comes along and tops them with a taller or faster ride for a brief time, but Cedar Point always outdoes them again.
Ignoring wind resistance in skydiving (very important, but makes things far too difficult), it would be 2.5 Gs using your 10 second estimate on skydiving.
But according to real physics, it would be about 1.34 Gs. If this were straight down, though, on would only really experience 0.34Gs. Huh... not very impressive sounding.
On the other hand, it it were straight up, you would experience 2.34 Gs, which sounds a bit more fun.
If the lives of people are more important than the money, why doesn't the Ontario/Canada health care system simply pay the high licensing fees to use the patented technology (assuming it's available for license, and everything is available for license with enough money)?
The problem was the limited technology. Game Gear was so ridiculously blurry when the screen scrolled, it was all but unplayable.
In addition, for those who didn't know, there is a little screw on the back of the GBA that you can turn to increase contrast. It's behind the sticker; feel for it.
I'm not sure why Nintendo didn't make this public. Maybe just so colors were consistent.
If it won't follow the standard. If I make an http client that sends "TEG index.html HTTP/0.9" instead of "GET index.html HTTP/0.9" can I bitch when IIS and Apache don't support it?
No, but it's not the IE people who are bitching, it's the server people. I would think most IE people like the fact that their browser works a bit faster.
I know it has been mentioned, but it seems to me to be worth mentioning again. Amazon, in my experience has been wonderful at suggesting music to me. Granted, I usually already own what they are suggesting, but I could tell them that and they'd tell me some more.
Ummm... no you don't. If you want to use Visual Studio.NET, you are correct, but I'm pretty sure the compiler itself works under Win98.
As for the.NET framework, a subset of it is not available under Win98, but most of it is related to NTFS, IIRC.
And if all else fails on the compiler front, you can use mono's and it will work on Windows.
I personally have never had an MS upgrade cause anything to fail, much less something that cost me money to fix. Maybe you should learn to read requirements and installation instructions?
People who think this should not be programmers. Programming is an art and should be treated as such, leaving one's little signature or personal mark.
About box you say? Many companies I know of would not allow you to put your name in their about box.
And that's also like the difference between an authors name printed on the front of a book or their hand signature on the inside cover (or in the binding in this case).
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People keep on forgetting that a developer does not have to use any new extensions to the CLI or C#. They can continue using whatever is still fully cross-platform.
One might bring up the argument about MS's Java implementation extensions and how no one realized when they were using MS extended or Java base functionality. But I have two points to add to anyone who would make that comment:
1. Java was not complete at the time. There was serious developer desire for more functionality and MS gave them that.
2. The ISO (or even ECMA) standard makes it quite simple to determine what is and is not MS extended. And I'm sure someone could fairly easily (or already has done so) write a utility to check for compatibility with the standard.
I can not think of one possible reason to HATE System.Windows.Forms. I can see some places where it could be a bit better, etc., but to hate it would require an extraordinarily stodgy personality.
At my workplace, it would take about 30 minutes.
And our linux servers run Debian anyway, so we're in the same boat there.
I do the NT administration (2k) for an ISP/Web hosting company, and I can attest that our Web Server has not had unplanned downtime. Ever.
There are serious flaws in some of the software out there for Windows, but the OS itself is extraordinarily stable. And an admin that simply takes some time to understand how it works can make it secure as well.
I've seen no objective data indicating that Windows (at least 2k) is less stable than Linux, Unix, BeOS, or anything else. I really think all this hooplah is due to inexperienced admins.
Example:
I never had to do any kind of Linux administration before working for my current employer. In fact, I had never even used it except to try it out as a curiosity. And I can attest that I am NOT an experienced Linux admin. I can also attest that my Linux server crashes, locks up, etc. significantly more often than our Windows servers. Why do you suppose that is? That's why I don't buy all this FUD about Windows being unstable (or even to a certain extent insecure as we were unaffected by every NT worm I can think of other than that SQL worm (which isn't really an NT worm, now is it?)).
Maybe admins should stop believing everything they read and actually try to learn how to run a Windows server.
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...which makes them not shenanigans at all.
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Isn't this old news? Maybe we have data now, but the theory I remember hearing in the eighties.
It would be very unusual for a console system to make money its first year or two. They always lose money on the hardware until the hardware is years old. All revenue comes from games and licensing.
And, as far as I can tell, MS is selling at least close to as many games as Nintendo. They _do_ lose more money on each system sold than Nintendo or Sony, but they have the money to wait for it to be profitable.
I thought MS stopped doing Works...
Even if they haven't stopped it, Works is relatively insignificant to MS.
Really, the only issue with Opera is the stability and some rendering bugs I've found in the latest version (Win).
The browser renders just as good as IE (my preferred rendering engine until Opera 7, for which I still prefer quick FTP usage) and is spot on on standards complience.
One feature I would like to see is custom agent strings, because there are still quite a few web servers out there that will recognize Opera even if it is spoofing another browser (it appends Opera to the end of the user agent string).
Overall, I'd say it's about as sleek and sexy as browser has ever been. And I absolutely cannot stand any of the mouse gestures I've tried for Mozilla. There's something horribly awry with them, though I cannot place what it is.
It's the teletubby hill, man.
2. Ummm... yeah they can. They don't usually put in a new ride every year, and at 35$ a ticket, thousands per day, and extra money from concessions, etc. (thus putting off a significant amount of the cost of operation); a rough estimate would indicate that they indeed have plenty of money to invest.
I agree whole-heartedly. Every time they get a new coaster, I am absolutely astounded that they fit yet another one. I heard of vaporous plans a while back to sell off the Magnum due to it's size (footprint) and its againg grandeur. 205 ft.? 70 mph? Come on, we can do much better than that.
The guarantee is that it is Cedar Point. For those not familiar, it is the roller coaster park. Every once in a while someone comes along and tops them with a taller or faster ride for a brief time, but Cedar Point always outdoes them again.
Ignoring wind resistance in skydiving (very important, but makes things far too difficult), it would be 2.5 Gs using your 10 second estimate on skydiving. But according to real physics, it would be about 1.34 Gs. If this were straight down, though, on would only really experience 0.34Gs. Huh... not very impressive sounding. On the other hand, it it were straight up, you would experience 2.34 Gs, which sounds a bit more fun.
Obviously you've never had the opportunity to have Windows Update bother you whenever a fix is implemented.
If the lives of people are more important than the money, why doesn't the Ontario/Canada health care system simply pay the high licensing fees to use the patented technology (assuming it's available for license, and everything is available for license with enough money)?
The problem was the limited technology. Game Gear was so ridiculously blurry when the screen scrolled, it was all but unplayable. In addition, for those who didn't know, there is a little screw on the back of the GBA that you can turn to increase contrast. It's behind the sticker; feel for it. I'm not sure why Nintendo didn't make this public. Maybe just so colors were consistent.
Actually, I think they learned from Sega that coming out with several new systems without backwards compatibility estranges your customers.
... sorry, I forgot to add that it's assuming 1 trillion keys checked per computer per second.
1 in 2.49e594
If it won't follow the standard. If I make an http client that sends "TEG index.html HTTP/0.9" instead of "GET index.html HTTP/0.9" can I bitch when IIS and Apache don't support it? No, but it's not the IE people who are bitching, it's the server people. I would think most IE people like the fact that their browser works a bit faster.
I know it has been mentioned, but it seems to me to be worth mentioning again. Amazon, in my experience has been wonderful at suggesting music to me. Granted, I usually already own what they are suggesting, but I could tell them that and they'd tell me some more.
Ummm... no you don't. If you want to use Visual Studio .NET, you are correct, but I'm pretty sure the compiler itself works under Win98.
As for the .NET framework, a subset of it is not available under Win98, but most of it is related to NTFS, IIRC.
And if all else fails on the compiler front, you can use mono's and it will work on Windows.
I personally have never had an MS upgrade cause anything to fail, much less something that cost me money to fix. Maybe you should learn to read requirements and installation instructions?
You've been able to do this for a while with the MS IDEs. Some programmers just suck and don't use it.
People who think this should not be programmers. Programming is an art and should be treated as such, leaving one's little signature or personal mark. About box you say? Many companies I know of would not allow you to put your name in their about box. And that's also like the difference between an authors name printed on the front of a book or their hand signature on the inside cover (or in the binding in this case).