If you really think they're overpaid, then you need to stop supporting the industry; stop watching movies. As long as you (and a few million other people) are willing to pay the $8 or $10 to buy a movie ticket, they'll keep making millions. Vote with your wallet.
Microsoft had a MapPoint SOAP web service for 3.5 years, serving 20 million transactions per day. See mms://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msnse/0505/24675/Virtual _Earth/virtual_earth_2005_mbr.wmv (go to 8:15).
It's called "price discrimination:" Get each potential buyer to pay as much as they are willing to pay. From a business perspective, it's smart. From a consumer perspective...be aware. It's not really a "shady" practice. It's the same as haggling with someone, just that the "someone" in this case is a sophisticated computer algorithm.
Parent is absolutely correct. They're not going to throw out a bunch of existing, working, stable code and start over. But new technologies are being written in.NET. Avalon, the desktop graphics engine, is entirely.NET. Likewise for Inidigo, the messaging framework. So, no, the entire OS isn't going to be rewritten in.NET. But Longhorn does mark the first OS wherein.NET is a first class citizen, where the runtime is part of the OS and large portions of the OS are written in.NET. If you don't believe me, check out blogs.msdn.com and read firsthand what actual Microsoft developers are doing. I'll give you a hint: they're building new technologies in.NET.
When I hear new slang (especially when it's categorized with goatse and tubgirl), I look it up on urbandictionary.com. You would have known what the poster was talking about without having to wash your eyes afterwards.
... but lacking in interface designers who understand the software/human interaction.
You're absolutely right. I'm reminded of an interview with Bill Hill, the man who designed ClearType for Windows. He says that the most important operating system is not Windows or Linux or the Mac; it's homo-sapien 1.0, and there's no upgrade in sight.
Del.icio.us is great. Tags for organization and bookmarks living server-side make me very happy. Foxylicious is a Firefox extension that updates your del.icio.us bookmarks daily. I consider it a must-have for a del.icio.us/Firefox user.
Do your taxes for free! Follow the "free file" link from the IRS web site. There are a lot of companies that give you what you need (do it online, efile, direct deposit) without costing you a penny.
(I heard this was a deal that the IRS struck with the private sector. Instead of them rolling their own online app and putting them all out of business, they have to offer this free "back door.")
Man, that sucks. Sometimes I search on Google for a brand name specifically so that I can learn about possible competitors from the ads. I think these ads helps me be a better consumer. I hope they don't go away.
The comments need to be scrubbed not because I know there is anything bad in there (I don't think there really is), it's that I can't be sure that there isn't. So getting rid of them completely is a brute-force approach to making sure nothing slips through. You have to understand that I'm operating in a very risk-averse environment.
People who use firefox fall under those who don't really need it:)
Not true at all. I installed Firefox on my parents' computer and told them, "Use this, it's the best web browser, don't use IE." They took my advice (it makes me proud). I'm sure I'm not the only tech-guy/Firefox advocate who did this.
UIUC's Netfiles has a dedicated SSL accelerator box that sits between it and the world, limiting the impact of SSL's overhead. You can lock down files and directories on Netfiles to specific people, so requiring SSL means that you'll never transmit your active directory password insecurely. It's a good thing, really.
FWIW, I'm staff at UIUC.
If you go to about:config and find the key app.update.interval, you'll see that it's set to 86400000 milliseconds, or one day. Which leads me to believe it checks once every 24 hours.
Give him a break. The guy's a psycology prof, not a CS prof. Just let the man get his work done without accosting him for being unwilling to learn a new platform.
Install the.NET Framework (run Windows Update). It will install one at
%WINDIR%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\csc.exe
You can compile this with csc/out:DrDRMS.exe *.cs
What MPAA and RIAA should really do is write a virus or worm to work its way across the entire Internet and send them a complete file listing of every infected computer. But then claim that they were victims in this tradgedy. And then sue everyone.
What was the last version of Outlook that you actually used? Not looked at once, but used as your primary client. If it's not 2003, you have no right to bash.
When inserting a clarifying phrase into a quote, one encloses it in square brackets and not normal brackets
What you say is true; however, you use parens for summarization. If the original quote was, "I want to make sure he can't get through..." then the parens to summarize "he" to "a user" is correct. Square brackts imply an editor adding something as clarification. Parens are used to reword for clarification.
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If you really think they're overpaid, then you need to stop supporting the industry; stop watching movies. As long as you (and a few million other people) are willing to pay the $8 or $10 to buy a movie ticket, they'll keep making millions. Vote with your wallet.
Microsoft had a MapPoint SOAP web service for 3.5 years, serving 20 million transactions per day. See mms://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msnse/0505/24675/Virtual _Earth/virtual_earth_2005_mbr.wmv (go to 8:15).
It's called "price discrimination:" Get each potential buyer to pay as much as they are willing to pay. From a business perspective, it's smart. From a consumer perspective...be aware. It's not really a "shady" practice. It's the same as haggling with someone, just that the "someone" in this case is a sophisticated computer algorithm.
Parent is absolutely correct. They're not going to throw out a bunch of existing, working, stable code and start over. But new technologies are being written in .NET. Avalon, the desktop graphics engine, is entirely .NET. Likewise for Inidigo, the messaging framework. So, no, the entire OS isn't going to be rewritten in .NET. But Longhorn does mark the first OS wherein .NET is a first class citizen, where the runtime is part of the OS and large portions of the OS are written in .NET. If you don't believe me, check out blogs.msdn.com and read firsthand what actual Microsoft developers are doing. I'll give you a hint: they're building new technologies in .NET.
When I hear new slang (especially when it's categorized with goatse and tubgirl), I look it up on urbandictionary.com. You would have known what the poster was talking about without having to wash your eyes afterwards.
You're absolutely right. I'm reminded of an interview with Bill Hill, the man who designed ClearType for Windows. He says that the most important operating system is not Windows or Linux or the Mac; it's homo-sapien 1.0, and there's no upgrade in sight.
Del.icio.us is great. Tags for organization and bookmarks living server-side make me very happy. Foxylicious is a Firefox extension that updates your del.icio.us bookmarks daily. I consider it a must-have for a del.icio.us/Firefox user.
Do your taxes for free! Follow the "free file" link from the IRS web site. There are a lot of companies that give you what you need (do it online, efile, direct deposit) without costing you a penny.
(I heard this was a deal that the IRS struck with the private sector. Instead of them rolling their own online app and putting them all out of business, they have to offer this free "back door.")
Man, that sucks. Sometimes I search on Google for a brand name specifically so that I can learn about possible competitors from the ads. I think these ads helps me be a better consumer. I hope they don't go away.
From that guys blog:
If you're interested in a free desktop weather app for Windows that doesn't suck, check out Weather CornerAlert. It's unobtrusive and lightweight.
(Microsoft; its you I'm looking at!)
Programmers exploit increased CPU speed. This is NOT just a Microsoft problem. Look at recent releases of KDE and Gnome.
They really don't need a firefox version anyway..
People who use firefox fall under those who don't really need it :)
Not true at all. I installed Firefox on my parents' computer and told them, "Use this, it's the best web browser, don't use IE." They took my advice (it makes me proud). I'm sure I'm not the only tech-guy/Firefox advocate who did this.
UIUC's Netfiles has a dedicated SSL accelerator box that sits between it and the world, limiting the impact of SSL's overhead. You can lock down files and directories on Netfiles to specific people, so requiring SSL means that you'll never transmit your active directory password insecurely. It's a good thing, really. FWIW, I'm staff at UIUC.
That's what I think too. Go to about:config, find the key app.update.interval and you'll see that it's 86400000 milliseconds, or one day.
If you go to about:config and find the key app.update.interval, you'll see that it's set to 86400000 milliseconds, or one day. Which leads me to believe it checks once every 24 hours.
When we Pledge Allegiance to the Penguin, do we do so Under God? Or is that unconstitutional?
I know people who are worse at english.
So do I...unfortunately, he's the President.
(Yeah, yeah, offtopic.)
www.weathercorneralert.com
Give him a break. The guy's a psycology prof, not a CS prof. Just let the man get his work done without accosting him for being unwilling to learn a new platform.
I don't even have a C# compiler.
.NET Framework (run Windows Update). It will install one at
%WINDIR%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\csc.exe
/out:DrDRMS.exe *.cs
Install the
You can compile this with csc
What MPAA and RIAA should really do is write a virus or worm to work its way across the entire Internet and send them a complete file listing of every infected computer. But then claim that they were victims in this tradgedy. And then sue everyone.
I have a la carte programming right now. It's called bittorrent. It works like a charm and it's included in the cost of my high speed Internet.
What was the last version of Outlook that you actually used? Not looked at once, but used as your primary client. If it's not 2003, you have no right to bash.
When inserting a clarifying phrase into a quote, one encloses it in square brackets and not normal brackets
What you say is true; however, you use parens for summarization. If the original quote was, "I want to make sure he can't get through..." then the parens to summarize "he" to "a user" is correct. Square brackts imply an editor adding something as clarification. Parens are used to reword for clarification.