The problem for MS this time around is that everyone was happy with XP. Ok, maybe not everybody was completely happy, but it's pretty stable, and does just about everything most people need it to do. People don't want to go back to having to run something that's buggy, or slows their system down. It's not like with windows 98, where we were still getting frequent BSODs. XP is a pretty good OS, and if people don't want to change, I don't blame them.
Which is exactly why I said it would be nice if they had separate projects. Maybe then it wouldn't be so hard to port it to XP because it wouldn't be married to the kernel.
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Does a beginner programmer really need all those features? Personally, I started out using QBasic. I think it's a good idea to start off simple. You can't expect to know everything as soon as you start. I think it's a good idea to go in small steps. Something like:
Learn about variables and doing simple math
Learn about conditional statements
Learn about looping structures
Learn about functions
Learn about classes/stuctures
Learn about more advanced concepts
Very few languages let you do the first three without worrying about classes and/or functions. If you pick Java as your first programming language you'll have to learn about classes and functions, even to just write your first hello world program. You won't have to know very much, but it's easier to grasp these concepts one at a time. Therefore, I find a good progression of languages to be Basic, C, Java (Or C#,VB.Net,any other OO Language).
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PHP isn't a framework. It's a programming language. You made the same mistake your parent did. You're comparing a framework (RoR) to a langauge (PHP). If you want to compare them, you'll have to compare it to another framework, like CakePHP.
How do you know that stuff you buy isn't made using stuff made in China? Plus I'm not sure if it's possible to live like a normal person in society without somehow supporting china. You buy a drink from McDonald's, the cup is probably made in China. You can try to reduce it, but I don't think you're going to get very far.
IE 7 only runs on XP and Vista. Not windows 2000, which is only about 6 months older than XP.
If you want a new version of IIS, you have to get a new version of windows. There's no way to run IIS 6 on Windows 2000.
MS Office 2007 only supports XP or higher, (including windows 2003).
If only windows were like Linux. I don't really mean in the open-source way, but more in the separate projects way. If DirectX was a separate project from the windows OS, then it would work on windows XP without us having to go hack it. There's no reason why DirectX 10 can't work on windows XP. It's just an artificial limitation that MS through in to get people to buy Vista. MS does this a lot, with IE, IIS, MS Office, DirectX, and many other tools. I don't see why people put up with it.
What does it matter if Bush's approval rating is 0% or 100%? He can't run again, so he might as well do whatever he wants. It's not like he has anything to lose.
They can't lie, but they can stretch the truth. I know a guy who got a Sony cellphone with a 2 Megapixel camera. But the problem was that the images that it saved were so overcompressed that they looked worse than what you could do with the old 1-megapixel-save-to-a-floppy-disk cameras that they had 10 years ago. So while you can't lie about specs, they don't really have to tell you everything about the product.
Or they could just set up a site where you type in actual barcode, or use the built in scanner on your cell phone to go to that url. Just make http://www.barcodedatabase.com/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX go to the product information page.
While I realize that censoring or controlling the news networks in any way is definitely a bad thing, I with that more news in North America showed positive information, whether then just all bad stuff. This is the reason that when I do watch the news, it's usually the morning news. They tend to put positive stories on, while still putting on the important stories so that we know what's going on in the world. I haven't watched evening news in years. It keeps getting worse and worse.
I'm sure that inkjet would be cost effective for me if only the cartridges would stop drying out. I don't print that often, and find that most of the time the ink has dried up before I have the time to use even half of it.
How could they prove that I was sending encrypted data and that I wasn't just sending random data? Sure, you say, who would send random data over the internet. But that's not the point. If they are trying to prove you guilty of sending encrypted data without being a business, then they would have to prove you guilty beyond a reasonable doubt that you weren't sending random data.
How many times should this story repeat until slashdotters learn: all corporations are the same. Not soon after ODF takes over MS Office, we'll be running daily articles of the "but... Sun promised to not be evil!" kind, just like we're doing with former favorites Google, Red Hat, Novell, Adobe etc. etc.
But Sun doesn't control the ODF Format. It doesn't matter if sun becomes evil because they don't control anything. That's where you seem to have it wrong. ODF is an OASIS standard agreed upon by many companies and no one company can just change it when they feel like it. I would like to know which specific deficiencies exist with ODF. Don't complain that it's slow, because that's an application problem, not a file format problem. Just because OO.o is slow, doesn't mean that all word processors that use ODF have to be slow. There are already few out there that are quite faster than OO.o. I think that it's always going to be slower than.Doc, but that's only because.Doc is a big memory dump, and is not made to be readable or understood by anything other than MS word.
My problem with Gentoo is that I could never get to a point where it was usable within a reasonable amount of time. I found it extremely frustrating going from Mandriva to Gentoo. In the end, they are all just as configurable. So I don't really see why I should go through the trouble of getting Gentoo to work. You can still mess around with the system just as much in Mandriva as you can in Gentoo. I don't really see the reason it should be hard to install a distro. They can't make it easy to customize every little option, you have to know what you're doing, but I don't see a reason why getting a system up and running should be that difficult.
But if they make the money selling XP does it really matter? As long as you are buying something, they are making money. And since the development costs for XP are probably reclaimed by now, the sales from XP can go towards paying for the development costs of Vista. However, XP costs less than Vista, so they're making less, but they're still making money.
My problem with inkjets is that I print so infrequently that Everytime I go to print something, the printer is clogged and I have to buy new cartridges. If they could fix the problem with clogged inkjets, then there may be some reason for my to buy one.
However, I would love to be able to mod a story down on google news. Don't you hate clicking on a news link on google, only to be brought to some advertisement covered page, where every other word is highlighted such that when you hover it, another ad shows up. It would be really nice if you could mod a story down, so that other users wouldn't have to deal with pages like this, and also so that websites with enough negative karma wouldn't show up in the links at all.
Because they're still virtually killing Linux and making money off the sale of the software. People don't use Linux because Windows is too expensive. Even if windows was free, a lot of people would still use Linux because it's open source, and because it suits their needs.
What's the point. There's patents on just about everything you buy. The foot covers on my baby girls clothes are patented, for antiskid, convertability from socks, to long cuffs, to rolled up cuffs. If you buy a car, part of it goes to cover the costs of the patented items in the car. Also the estimate is completely wrong, as it assumes that the only product that incurs legal costs is windows XP, and that windows XP is the only product they sell. Also it assumes that all legal costs go towards protecting patents.
So how is this different from any other printer leasing service. I'm pretty sure that other manufacturers don't honor warranties unless the work is done by a certified repair person. The definitely won't honor the warranty if bob from accounting decides he's going to "fix" the printer.
I don't have the bandwidth to download all the packages very quickly. What I do have is the available throughput to download all the packages over a day or two. The difference here, is that once I got to install, the entire system is up and running in about 30 minutes. If I had to download the majority of the packages at install time, then I would be waiting several hours. I'd much rather download everything, and have the install go really fast, so that my system is down for a minimal amount of time.
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The problem for MS this time around is that everyone was happy with XP. Ok, maybe not everybody was completely happy, but it's pretty stable, and does just about everything most people need it to do. People don't want to go back to having to run something that's buggy, or slows their system down. It's not like with windows 98, where we were still getting frequent BSODs. XP is a pretty good OS, and if people don't want to change, I don't blame them.
Which is exactly why I said it would be nice if they had separate projects. Maybe then it wouldn't be so hard to port it to XP because it wouldn't be married to the kernel.
- Learn about variables and doing simple math
- Learn about conditional statements
- Learn about looping structures
- Learn about functions
- Learn about classes/stuctures
- Learn about more advanced concepts
Very few languages let you do the first three without worrying about classes and/or functions. If you pick Java as your first programming language you'll have to learn about classes and functions, even to just write your first hello world program. You won't have to know very much, but it's easier to grasp these concepts one at a time. Therefore, I find a good progression of languages to be Basic, C, Java (Or C#,VB.Net,any other OO Language).PHP isn't a framework. It's a programming language. You made the same mistake your parent did. You're comparing a framework (RoR) to a langauge (PHP). If you want to compare them, you'll have to compare it to another framework, like CakePHP.
How do you know that stuff you buy isn't made using stuff made in China? Plus I'm not sure if it's possible to live like a normal person in society without somehow supporting china. You buy a drink from McDonald's, the cup is probably made in China. You can try to reduce it, but I don't think you're going to get very far.
Sorry, That should be
"it's about letting the people who are affected know when it inevitably happens"
IE 7 only runs on XP and Vista. Not windows 2000, which is only about 6 months older than XP.
If you want a new version of IIS, you have to get a new version of windows. There's no way to run IIS 6 on Windows 2000.
MS Office 2007 only supports XP or higher, (including windows 2003).
It's not about making it illegal to lose the information, it's about letting the people who when it inevitably happens.
If only windows were like Linux. I don't really mean in the open-source way, but more in the separate projects way. If DirectX was a separate project from the windows OS, then it would work on windows XP without us having to go hack it. There's no reason why DirectX 10 can't work on windows XP. It's just an artificial limitation that MS through in to get people to buy Vista. MS does this a lot, with IE, IIS, MS Office, DirectX, and many other tools. I don't see why people put up with it.
What does it matter if Bush's approval rating is 0% or 100%? He can't run again, so he might as well do whatever he wants. It's not like he has anything to lose.
How is that more convenient than buying a laser printer and replacing the toner cartridge once every 3 years?
They can't lie, but they can stretch the truth. I know a guy who got a Sony cellphone with a 2 Megapixel camera. But the problem was that the images that it saved were so overcompressed that they looked worse than what you could do with the old 1-megapixel-save-to-a-floppy-disk cameras that they had 10 years ago. So while you can't lie about specs, they don't really have to tell you everything about the product.
Or they could just set up a site where you type in actual barcode, or use the built in scanner on your cell phone to go to that url. Just make http://www.barcodedatabase.com/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX go to the product information page.
While I realize that censoring or controlling the news networks in any way is definitely a bad thing, I with that more news in North America showed positive information, whether then just all bad stuff. This is the reason that when I do watch the news, it's usually the morning news. They tend to put positive stories on, while still putting on the important stories so that we know what's going on in the world. I haven't watched evening news in years. It keeps getting worse and worse.
I'm sure that inkjet would be cost effective for me if only the cartridges would stop drying out. I don't print that often, and find that most of the time the ink has dried up before I have the time to use even half of it.
How could they prove that I was sending encrypted data and that I wasn't just sending random data? Sure, you say, who would send random data over the internet. But that's not the point. If they are trying to prove you guilty of sending encrypted data without being a business, then they would have to prove you guilty beyond a reasonable doubt that you weren't sending random data.
My problem with Gentoo is that I could never get to a point where it was usable within a reasonable amount of time. I found it extremely frustrating going from Mandriva to Gentoo. In the end, they are all just as configurable. So I don't really see why I should go through the trouble of getting Gentoo to work. You can still mess around with the system just as much in Mandriva as you can in Gentoo. I don't really see the reason it should be hard to install a distro. They can't make it easy to customize every little option, you have to know what you're doing, but I don't see a reason why getting a system up and running should be that difficult.
But if they make the money selling XP does it really matter? As long as you are buying something, they are making money. And since the development costs for XP are probably reclaimed by now, the sales from XP can go towards paying for the development costs of Vista. However, XP costs less than Vista, so they're making less, but they're still making money.
My problem with inkjets is that I print so infrequently that Everytime I go to print something, the printer is clogged and I have to buy new cartridges. If they could fix the problem with clogged inkjets, then there may be some reason for my to buy one.
However, I would love to be able to mod a story down on google news. Don't you hate clicking on a news link on google, only to be brought to some advertisement covered page, where every other word is highlighted such that when you hover it, another ad shows up. It would be really nice if you could mod a story down, so that other users wouldn't have to deal with pages like this, and also so that websites with enough negative karma wouldn't show up in the links at all.
Because they're still virtually killing Linux and making money off the sale of the software. People don't use Linux because Windows is too expensive. Even if windows was free, a lot of people would still use Linux because it's open source, and because it suits their needs.
What's the point. There's patents on just about everything you buy. The foot covers on my baby girls clothes are patented, for antiskid, convertability from socks, to long cuffs, to rolled up cuffs. If you buy a car, part of it goes to cover the costs of the patented items in the car. Also the estimate is completely wrong, as it assumes that the only product that incurs legal costs is windows XP, and that windows XP is the only product they sell. Also it assumes that all legal costs go towards protecting patents.
So how is this different from any other printer leasing service. I'm pretty sure that other manufacturers don't honor warranties unless the work is done by a certified repair person. The definitely won't honor the warranty if bob from accounting decides he's going to "fix" the printer.
I don't have the bandwidth to download all the packages very quickly. What I do have is the available throughput to download all the packages over a day or two. The difference here, is that once I got to install, the entire system is up and running in about 30 minutes. If I had to download the majority of the packages at install time, then I would be waiting several hours. I'd much rather download everything, and have the install go really fast, so that my system is down for a minimal amount of time.