Hmm for some reason I didn't think of flash being ActiveX(guess thats correct just one of those instances where I think of it as flash). And those other ones, yeah.... I don't use those and considering you don't have to use the applet HTML markup for them I figured they don't use ActiveX and just hook into the browser a different way.
Heh sorry I've not fully checked it out. Was kinda basing it on statements like this from other pages.
"Which means, suddenly, Microsoft's API doesn't matter so much. Web applications don't require Windows.
It's not that Microsoft didn't notice this was happening. Of course they did, and when the implications became clear, they slammed on the brakes. Promising new technologies like HTAs and DHTML were stopped in their tracks. The Internet Explorer team seems to have disappeared; they have been completely missing in action for several years. There's no way Microsoft is going to allow DHTML to get any better than it already is: it's just too dangerous to their core business, the rich client. The big meme at Microsoft these days is: "Microsoft is betting the company on the rich client." You'll see that somewhere in every slide presentation about Longhorn. Joe Beda, from the Avalon team, says that "Avalon, and Longhorn in general, is Microsoft's stake in the ground, saying that we believe power on your desktop, locally sitting there doing cool stuff, is here to stay. We're investing on the desktop, we think it's a good place to be, and we hope we're going to start a wave of excitement..."
"Microsoft got sued by Sun for creating a proprietary version of Java that only ran on Windows.
When they lost that battle, Microsoft promptly took their toys and claimed they would make their own Java.
And.NET was born. A Java clone that only runs on Windows"
But I was just saying J++ was the first response to Java, which you kinda agree with? I'm not disagreeing that.Net was a response to Java at first though. I doubt they are really worrying much about Java anymore though.
"I find what IBM is doing to Java much more interesting than.NOT or even Sun's plans for Java."
Agreed, I find what IBM is doing with Java quite interesting.
Hell, now if I read what you say it sounds like you want things more like the ACM Programming Contest. Heh, where speed and ensuring you pass all the tests meant to break your program are most important. Unfortunately it churns out programs that no one but the guy who coded it can read either:-p Unless developer time is allowed to increased to ensure correct implementation instead of just quick and dirty prototyping.
I know though that really wasn't you were implying just kinda reminded of the ACM Programming Contest (so if you need programs coded quickly and pass all tests call up the St. Petersburg Team).
Currently a big issue with developing code leading to security issues is rushed schedules. Microsoft has pioneered this and showed its the way to beat your competitors by ensuring you have a new product out right after the fiscal year has turned and IT departments are looking for new software. They might have always been more buggy but they always had a new program out to beat WordPerfect(or WordStar).
I doubt outsourcing all of our coding to India is really going to help make more secure programs either.
Hehe, yeah as open source in the future when Sun is about to die for real and they finally decide to keep that promise they have made so many times;)
From what I understand the VM has been fixed up. But, many programmers like me already have a bad taste in our mouth from Java. Also IBM's VM I hear is really good except you have to license it, but hey hehe they have some idea of you being able to use it eventually on their super computers potentially.
Hehe though I would say Microsoft's first response to Java would more likely be J++.
ActiveX definately seemed made to to make web applications before Microsoft realized that might not be a good idea. Hence DHTML has practically died with IE having no real updates since IE4.
Ummm gosh, the only ActiveX applets I ever saw was right after it was released. Heh, I often say Java is dead on the web (though I know it isn't completely) but now ActiveX is entirely dead except for like the applet on Windows Update:-P
Java's main problems with being taken up I don't think had a thing to do with Microsoft, but more with the lack of Sun wanting to open up Java more to make it a free standard. Instead, Sun wanted to license it.
Hehe imagine what the right 85 lines could do to the linux kernel though. But if someone is going to be malicious I don't think laws or telling them its not ethical is going to stop them:-P
In general WinXP hasn't required reboots and for those that it has normally you can get away with shutting down the appropriate service and restarting it (most the updates do that automatically now). But, yeah can't remember the last time I've seen an update that actually required a reboot so it could modify files then.
Heh should place emphasis on most LucasArts games. I remember how horrible things were with XWing vs Tie Fighter. Heh also remember how easy it was to edit the save files for that game and as result I was a Jedi Master or whatever for the first day it went live.
Ummm Gameboy Pocket was just a smaller Gameboy. Kinda like the PSOne is a smaller PSX (surprised after that you didn't mention the GBA SP). And the Gameboy Color was like the exact same as the Gameboy except they changed the screen and video processor slightly to add color (same processor and sound chip).
Now backwards compatibility in the Advance was nice and wasn't to be expected but they knew it would help convince people get the GBA. I think it was in part because they wanted to be able to sell the new versions of the GB pokemon games to the people with GBA SP and GBA without having different games though.
"If Gameboy Pocket games had suddenly not been able to play Gameboy games, we'd be seeing the PSP walk all over the Gameboy Advance. As it stands, most people are more interested in the DS than the PSP"
Wait? um what are you talking about you even say later the DS will not play old Gameboy games but here you are saying because it will it stomped over the PSP. The real reason the DS stomped over the PSP is because Nintendo had really surprised people with the 3d Graphics. People thought it was just going to be a dual screen GBA and were pleasantly surprised. Nintendo know's how to keep secrets and then surprise and hype up people almost every year at E3 and thats why people were raving about the DS and not the PSP (which everyone is worried is going to cost potentially more than new consoles and just so one can play the same games they already have on the PS2 and then have to purchase those games again for $50).
"the DS is not a replacement for the GBA -- which is why the DS will not play old Gameboy games"
I was thinking something more along the lines to save money myself but if you want to say so...
Just curious why you say Nintendo is headed in that direction? They haven't lost gobs of money on the GCN (unlike Microsoft with the XBox). Now they did lose money due to the inflation of the Yen.
"Nintendo's net profit dropped by a massive 50.7 percent, falling to 33.2 billion yen ($297 million) for its financial year 2004. However, Nintendo's downfall was not due to a lack of business. The company's sales were up 2.1 percent to 514.8 billion yen ($4.61 billion), and its operating income was also up by 7.6 percent to 107.7 billion yen ($966 million). Rather, Nintendo's decline is directly attributed to its one-time foreign exchange loss of 67.8 billion yen ($608 million), which emerged from revaluation of its foreign currency assets, courtesy of the rising yen and the falling dollar. The company expects to get back on track in the upcoming year, forecasting sales of 530 billion yen ($4.7 billion) and a net profit of 70 billion yen ($620 million) for FY2005."
I sure wouldn't think Nintendo a company that has always been profitable except for the first half last year due to things not in there control and doesn't look to be happening to the extreme it did is suddenly going to die.
Sorry about that messed up msg i posted before
Just curious why you say Nintendo is headed in that direction? They haven't lost gobs of money on the GCN (unlike Microsoft with the XBox).
Now they did lose money due to the inflation of the Yen.
"Nintendo's net profit dropped by a massive 50.7 percent, falling to 33.2 billion yen ($297 million) for its financial year 2004.
However, Nintendo's downfall was not due to a lack of business. The company's sales were up 2.1 percent to 514.8 billion yen ($4.61 billion), and its operating income was also up by 7.6 percent to 107.7 billion yen ($966 million). Rather, Nintendo's decline is directly attributed to its one-time foreign exchange loss of 67.8 billion yen ($608 million), which emerged from revaluation of its foreign currency assets, courtesy of the rising yen and the falling dollar. The company expects to get back on track in the upcoming year, forecasting sales of 530 billion yen ($4.7 billion) and a net profit of 70 billion yen ($620 million) for FY2005."
http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/05/27/news_60994 53.html
I sure wouldn't think Nintendo a company that has always been profitable except for the first half last year due to things not in there control and doesn't look to be happening to the extreme it did is suddenly going to die.
Well you could just get the OS and if you really want to a new machine, but MS does have viewers for all their document files of course only for their OSs.
Guess no one really before few centuries ago was a scientist then. Then again untill recently they called themselves Natural Philosophers.
(If you are wondering why I say this its due to the scientific method wasn't really around till around Newton's time and heh Newton disliked the idea of the hypothesis. He wrote some quite flaming letters to reviewers of his work who called part of his work a hypothesis)
You get another license plate if you own more cars. You aren't required to carry over your license plate to a new car either when you get rid of a car. And actually whether plates can transfer over and stay with the person depends on the state the person lives in.
And why would the government dislike having you pay another fee to them everytime you need your license plate replaced. Heh can't you see yourself getting into a fender bender and the license plate shatters. Then you end up getting arrested for driving without a license plate.
Just want to mention PubMed while being primarily medical and biology related its definately better at searching for those articles there rather than citeseer (now CiteSeer I find is great for CS articles and such though).
Deformable environments where anything can be destroyed I'm afraid are well beyond the processing power of any system really. At least if you want it realistic. Though the Prey engine was claimed to be able to do it it and the Red Faction engine kinda did it to a limited degree (you could blow holes in dirt and dig tunnels:-p)
People just like variety in weapons and apparent weapon damage so not surprising how a bunch of weapons which really about kill anyone in the same amount of time have their differences exaggerated.
When I worked at a law firm at tech support and we billed someone for 3 hours of research by our lead attorney it meant that he had spent 3 hours of research himself not his paralegals.
The other stuff does get charged just at a lower rate and such.
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Hmm for some reason I didn't think of flash being ActiveX(guess thats correct just one of those instances where I think of it as flash). And those other ones, yeah.... I don't use those and considering you don't have to use the applet HTML markup for them I figured they don't use ActiveX and just hook into the browser a different way.
Heh so true, and I also agree with the other poster to the parent on improving one's tools (or writing new ones).
"Which means, suddenly, Microsoft's API doesn't matter so much. Web applications don't require Windows.
It's not that Microsoft didn't notice this was happening. Of course they did, and when the implications became clear, they slammed on the brakes. Promising new technologies like HTAs and DHTML were stopped in their tracks. The Internet Explorer team seems to have disappeared; they have been completely missing in action for several years. There's no way Microsoft is going to allow DHTML to get any better than it already is: it's just too dangerous to their core business, the rich client. The big meme at Microsoft these days is: "Microsoft is betting the company on the rich client." You'll see that somewhere in every slide presentation about Longhorn. Joe Beda, from the Avalon team, says that "Avalon, and Longhorn in general, is Microsoft's stake in the ground, saying that we believe power on your desktop, locally sitting there doing cool stuff, is here to stay. We're investing on the desktop, we think it's a good place to be, and we hope we're going to start a wave of excitement..."
The trouble is: it's too late."
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html
And I guess in part this also agrees with what you said since by having proprietary items they are trying to ensure items work on Windows only.
But I was just saying J++ was the first response to Java, which you kinda agree with? I'm not disagreeing that
"I find what IBM is doing to Java much more interesting than .NOT or even Sun's plans for Java."
Agreed, I find what IBM is doing with Java quite interesting.
I know though that really wasn't you were implying just kinda reminded of the ACM Programming Contest (so if you need programs coded quickly and pass all tests call up the St. Petersburg Team).
I doubt outsourcing all of our coding to India is really going to help make more secure programs either.
From what I understand the VM has been fixed up. But, many programmers like me already have a bad taste in our mouth from Java. Also IBM's VM I hear is really good except you have to license it, but hey hehe they have some idea of you being able to use it eventually on their super computers potentially.
ActiveX definately seemed made to to make web applications before Microsoft realized that might not be a good idea. Hence DHTML has practically died with IE having no real updates since IE4.
Java's main problems with being taken up I don't think had a thing to do with Microsoft, but more with the lack of Sun wanting to open up Java more to make it a free standard. Instead, Sun wanted to license it.
That article where they microwaved them completely ignored the little fact that all they did was microwave the metal strip in them.
Hehe imagine what the right 85 lines could do to the linux kernel though. But if someone is going to be malicious I don't think laws or telling them its not ethical is going to stop them :-P
In general WinXP hasn't required reboots and for those that it has normally you can get away with shutting down the appropriate service and restarting it (most the updates do that automatically now). But, yeah can't remember the last time I've seen an update that actually required a reboot so it could modify files then.
Heh should place emphasis on most LucasArts games. I remember how horrible things were with XWing vs Tie Fighter. Heh also remember how easy it was to edit the save files for that game and as result I was a Jedi Master or whatever for the first day it went live.
Now backwards compatibility in the Advance was nice and wasn't to be expected but they knew it would help convince people get the GBA. I think it was in part because they wanted to be able to sell the new versions of the GB pokemon games to the people with GBA SP and GBA without having different games though.
"If Gameboy Pocket games had suddenly not been able to play Gameboy games, we'd be seeing the PSP walk all over the Gameboy Advance. As it stands, most people are more interested in the DS than the PSP"
Wait? um what are you talking about you even say later the DS will not play old Gameboy games but here you are saying because it will it stomped over the PSP. The real reason the DS stomped over the PSP is because Nintendo had really surprised people with the 3d Graphics. People thought it was just going to be a dual screen GBA and were pleasantly surprised. Nintendo know's how to keep secrets and then surprise and hype up people almost every year at E3 and thats why people were raving about the DS and not the PSP (which everyone is worried is going to cost potentially more than new consoles and just so one can play the same games they already have on the PS2 and then have to purchase those games again for $50).
"the DS is not a replacement for the GBA -- which is why the DS will not play old Gameboy games"
I was thinking something more along the lines to save money myself but if you want to say so...
"Nintendo's net profit dropped by a massive 50.7 percent, falling to 33.2 billion yen ($297 million) for its financial year 2004. However, Nintendo's downfall was not due to a lack of business. The company's sales were up 2.1 percent to 514.8 billion yen ($4.61 billion), and its operating income was also up by 7.6 percent to 107.7 billion yen ($966 million). Rather, Nintendo's decline is directly attributed to its one-time foreign exchange loss of 67.8 billion yen ($608 million), which emerged from revaluation of its foreign currency assets, courtesy of the rising yen and the falling dollar. The company expects to get back on track in the upcoming year, forecasting sales of 530 billion yen ($4.7 billion) and a net profit of 70 billion yen ($620 million) for FY2005."
gamespot.com
I sure wouldn't think Nintendo a company that has always been profitable except for the first half last year due to things not in there control and doesn't look to be happening to the extreme it did is suddenly going to die. Sorry about that messed up msg i posted before
Just curious why you say Nintendo is headed in that direction? They haven't lost gobs of money on the GCN (unlike Microsoft with the XBox). Now they did lose money due to the inflation of the Yen. "Nintendo's net profit dropped by a massive 50.7 percent, falling to 33.2 billion yen ($297 million) for its financial year 2004. However, Nintendo's downfall was not due to a lack of business. The company's sales were up 2.1 percent to 514.8 billion yen ($4.61 billion), and its operating income was also up by 7.6 percent to 107.7 billion yen ($966 million). Rather, Nintendo's decline is directly attributed to its one-time foreign exchange loss of 67.8 billion yen ($608 million), which emerged from revaluation of its foreign currency assets, courtesy of the rising yen and the falling dollar. The company expects to get back on track in the upcoming year, forecasting sales of 530 billion yen ($4.7 billion) and a net profit of 70 billion yen ($620 million) for FY2005." http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/05/27/news_60994 53.html
I sure wouldn't think Nintendo a company that has always been profitable except for the first half last year due to things not in there control and doesn't look to be happening to the extreme it did is suddenly going to die.
I'm not sure if you are serious or not?
Hehe yes and in plenty of places they have almost centuries of experience unsecuring those ballot boxes :-P
Well you could just get the OS and if you really want to a new machine, but MS does have viewers for all their document files of course only for their OSs.
(If you are wondering why I say this its due to the scientific method wasn't really around till around Newton's time and heh Newton disliked the idea of the hypothesis. He wrote some quite flaming letters to reviewers of his work who called part of his work a hypothesis)
You get another license plate if you own more cars. You aren't required to carry over your license plate to a new car either when you get rid of a car. And actually whether plates can transfer over and stay with the person depends on the state the person lives in.
And why would the government dislike having you pay another fee to them everytime you need your license plate replaced. Heh can't you see yourself getting into a fender bender and the license plate shatters. Then you end up getting arrested for driving without a license plate.
Just want to mention PubMed while being primarily medical and biology related its definately better at searching for those articles there rather than citeseer (now CiteSeer I find is great for CS articles and such though).
People just like variety in weapons and apparent weapon damage so not surprising how a bunch of weapons which really about kill anyone in the same amount of time have their differences exaggerated.
The other stuff does get charged just at a lower rate and such.