How does a post like this get modded insightful - it says nothing. vb 6 may or may not have been crap, but in many ways, such as debugging, com integration and forms development, it was *way* ahead of everything else - things like runtime debugging, which was just introudced into the.net 2.0 ide's was standard in vb6. And this made it a very fast language for development compared to c++, especially if you used com extensively.
Before you say vb6 is crap I suggest you write a com object in c++ and a vb6. Notice anything different?
They really are the same language in nearly every way that matters to a developer.
C# implements some things, such as event raising (off the top of my head), in very different ways to vb.net, making it more of an excercise than just learning a new syntax.
You're right that if you program in c#/vb.net it is remarkably easy to switch between the two for any competent programmer. But if you're implying that's it's just a case of using a different syntax, you'd be wrong.
At Schiphol airport in Amsterdam they have these tiny black marks on the urinals in the exact spot that results in the least splash damage.
I had read about this a while ago, but actually got to try it out a few years ago when I was there and it definately works, I aimed for it straight away.
Mono and Ubuntu are probably the 2 most important projects out there in terms of bringing linux to the masses. One gives linux a for the masses o/s and the other will, hopefully soon, give linux applications, and it's all about applications, applications, applications isn't it?
If the U.S. gov't tried to do something like this, thousands of people would of have to known about it.
Sure, if the hijackers had been cia agents, but they weren't. But very few ppl would need to know if GWB et al merely planned/encouraged/financed/allowed these actions to take place. And if they did do that spreading rumours that they planned *and* executed the actions helps their cause, because it is obviously ludicrous.
Clinton landed troops on the beaches of Somalia to distract U.S citizens from his growing sex scandal, maybe GWB learnt something from that.
I bought Swat 4 from direct2drive.com a few days ago. Cost $19.99 which is pretty cheap - and they *regularly* drop prices on their games - provided you are willing to wait a while. It took me about an hour to download the 800 megs from fileplanet.
You make it sound like companies left apartheid south africa voluntarily. This was hardly the case. Many, such as Barclays Bank, remained for a long time and where only forced out by heavy international pressure.
And Barclays then just sold the entire bank to a south african company (First National Bank), actually benefitting white controlled corporate south africa at the time.
This may be freedom of speech, but it was also a deliberate attempt by the newspaper in question to generate sensationalism and publicity - and from a muslim perspective must come close to hate speech.
One or 2 of the actual cartoons published made this point clear.
Maybe the "things discovered" earlier were just relatively simpler and more well understood concepts, hence "laws", while later on, things became a bit more complex and uncertain, hence "theories".
Of course MS do marketing... but we're talking about something far more sinister than getting to know your customers.
The ability to profile many people in a very generalised fashion is something of enormous importance to Google, since they can sell this information/the results to the highest bidder in the form of targeted advertising.
There is no way that you can compare this to to MS "getting to know their customers".
It may not be that the computer can't handle it, but that given the enormous amount of taxes he most likely pays, it's in the IRS's interests to treat Gates as a standalone case, to make sure that he is audited correctly.
Isn't it obvious? Microsoft aren't in the business of marketing, Google are. What are MS going to do with your information? Sell it to someone? The risk/reward in that scenario is stupid for MS.
But for Google, getting hold of your surfing habits would be extremely valuable to their business.
Those happen to be the slowest period for submissions appearing in our bin. Around 92% of the B-B submissions were sent in between 5 PM and 1 AM.
Exactly what a smart person would do to increase the chance of their article(s) being accepted. Becoming familiar to an editor surely doesn't hurt his chances either. Why doesn't he submit articles on saturday/sunday afternoon?
Not even sure why I'm arguing this point, since it's obvious this guy is being abusive. Remove the link and how many stories do you think B-B will submit? This guy is a whore, plain and simple. And it's not like his submissions raise the bar with regard to/. stories.
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How does a post like this get modded insightful - it says nothing. vb 6 may or may not have been crap, but in many ways, such as debugging, com integration and forms development, it was *way* ahead of everything else - things like runtime debugging, which was just introudced into the .net 2.0 ide's was standard in vb6. And this made it a very fast language for development compared to c++, especially if you used com extensively.
Before you say vb6 is crap I suggest you write a com object in c++ and a vb6. Notice anything different?
Uhm, just leave off the "end if" in the second example since it's not required.
This is *exactly* the same as { } is not required in c# type syntaxs when you use a single line.
Your second example would be like writing this in c#
if (a==b) b=c;
}
which would get you a compile error too.
This is hardly a problem with Vb syntax, all it means is that VB uses a space for a line deliminator while C# uses a ;
They really are the same language in nearly every way that matters to a developer.
C# implements some things, such as event raising (off the top of my head), in very different ways to vb.net, making it more of an excercise than just learning a new syntax.
You're right that if you program in c#/vb.net it is remarkably easy to switch between the two for any competent programmer. But if you're implying that's it's just a case of using a different syntax, you'd be wrong.
At Schiphol airport in Amsterdam they have these tiny black marks on the urinals in the exact spot that results in the least splash damage. I had read about this a while ago, but actually got to try it out a few years ago when I was there and it definately works, I aimed for it straight away.
Mono and Ubuntu are probably the 2 most important projects out there in terms of bringing linux to the masses. One gives linux a for the masses o/s and the other will, hopefully soon, give linux applications, and it's all about applications, applications, applications isn't it?
If the U.S. gov't tried to do something like this, thousands of people would of have to known about it.
Sure, if the hijackers had been cia agents, but they weren't. But very few ppl would need to know if GWB et al merely planned/encouraged/financed/allowed these actions to take place. And if they did do that spreading rumours that they planned *and* executed the actions helps their cause, because it is obviously ludicrous.
Clinton landed troops on the beaches of Somalia to distract U.S citizens from his growing sex scandal, maybe GWB learnt something from that.
Couldn't you just follow the GPS to your destination?
You want a fancy restaurant? Buy a PC.
Putting a carpark on top of it, is not going to ruin the .. erm ruins. If they ever want to excavate it later on they'll know where it is.
Digg's fine for getting news, but the quality of comments does not rise much above stupid 14 year old.
Did you try searching .
The original GDrive.
And then, of course, there was Bernard Shifman. Wonder how he is doing these days?
I bought Swat 4 from direct2drive.com a few days ago. Cost $19.99 which is pretty cheap - and they *regularly* drop prices on their games - provided you are willing to wait a while.
It took me about an hour to download the 800 megs from fileplanet.
In my book this is far more convenient.
You make it sound like companies left apartheid south africa voluntarily. This was hardly the case. Many, such as Barclays Bank, remained for a long time and where only forced out by heavy international pressure.
And Barclays then just sold the entire bank to a south african company (First National Bank), actually benefitting white controlled corporate south africa at the time.
This may be freedom of speech, but it was also a deliberate attempt by the newspaper in question to generate sensationalism and publicity - and from a muslim perspective must come close to hate speech.
One or 2 of the actual cartoons published made this point clear.
Maybe the "things discovered" earlier were just relatively simpler and more well understood concepts, hence "laws", while later on, things became a bit more complex and uncertain, hence "theories".
Of course MS do marketing... but we're talking about something far more sinister than getting to know your customers. The ability to profile many people in a very generalised fashion is something of enormous importance to Google, since they can sell this information/the results to the highest bidder in the form of targeted advertising. There is no way that you can compare this to to MS "getting to know their customers".
"They still want developers, but only large ones."
That doesn't make sense, why would they then release Visual Studio Express, which is directly intended for small/hobbyist developers?
Life and Death taught me how to remove someones appendix...
It may not be that the computer can't handle it, but that given the enormous amount of taxes he most likely pays, it's in the IRS's interests to treat Gates as a standalone case, to make sure that he is audited correctly.
Isn't it obvious? Microsoft aren't in the business of marketing, Google are. What are MS going to do with your information? Sell it to someone? The risk/reward in that scenario is stupid for MS. But for Google, getting hold of your surfing habits would be extremely valuable to their business.
Mass transit system leads to high density housing - even if it doesn't exist before.
To be fair there is one advert at the bottom, all the other gumpf can be removed.
Good job. And I expect you will get no more stories from B-B, but who cares.
Those happen to be the slowest period for submissions appearing in our bin.
/. stories.
Around 92% of the B-B submissions were sent in between 5 PM and 1 AM.
Exactly what a smart person would do to increase the chance of their article(s) being accepted. Becoming familiar to an editor surely doesn't hurt his chances either. Why doesn't he submit articles on saturday/sunday afternoon?
Not even sure why I'm arguing this point, since it's obvious this guy is being abusive. Remove the link and how many stories do you think B-B will submit? This guy is a whore, plain and simple. And it's not like his submissions raise the bar with regard to