As well as Visual Basic.NET and MSIL assembly (for the hard core). That's 6 different programming languages that come with Windows - 7 if you want to include PowerShell.
DOS had QBasic and debug.exe to do some assembly stuff (which was even more hard core).
Yeah, but are were you supposed to know they were from the FCC?
They would announce it and show indentification. They won't come bursting through the windows, wearing all black and with guns blazing. The FCC is a bit more civilized than that.
I use linux at work for linux, not for its apps. Specifically, the homogeneous file system (no c:\ d:\ e:\ monkey business), soft links and standard utilities that have been around for decades and are still useful.
You can mount your drives to look like a subfolder of an existing NTFS drive. They don't have to have drive letters. I just had a look and just found out that this works for CDROM drives too. So you can have your/dev/cdrom if you want. I don't know if you can do this with floppy drives, but I haven't seen one of those for quite some time now.
Soft links were introduced with Vista. Prior to that, you had hard links and junction points.
I have my own collection of utilities that I install on all my systems which I have accumulated over the years. A lot of them are ported from unix utils while the rest are Windows ones.
If power consumption doesn't matter to you, the AMD X2 7750 + 780G + 400w PSU is a much better performer.
Sure, if the size, silence and low power consumption are not important to you then you should not even consider a mini-ITX based system. But based on the linked that you provided, I think that the Zotac system performed well in some of the tests - especially in terms of performance per watt.
It is simply a case of working out what your priorities are.
The thing didn't have built-in connectivity of any kind.
It did have an IrDA interface. I used to connect to the Internet in cafes by sitting my Ericsson mobile phone behind my Libretto 50CT communicating via infrared.
Absolutely. The first version of the current IPv6 stack was released (with source code) for NT4/Windows 2000 in 1998. The first supported version came with XP.
Why? The third definition from my link was "belief that one is deserving of or entitled to certain privileges". I fail to see how that doesn't match a "sense of entitlement". But feel free to link to a better definition if you have one.
Just because the PS3 outsold the Wii for 1 out of 16 months (in one country), doesn't mean that only the hardcore players are left to buy peripherals and software. There are still substantially more Wii owners out there than any of the other consoles, and some of those people are still buying new accessories.
And given that you are obviously a hardcore player (who are apparently now in the minority), your personal preference of which console you use cannot have any bearing on this discussion because you cannot extrapolate it to all other gamers.
That is true, however a TV guide doesn't become a fact until after the shows have been broadcast. Before that time it is a plan.
But I would go one step further. Australian TV networks are terrible at sticking to their schedule. They consistently air their shows late, swap shows to a different time/night without warning or show a different episode that the one that was advertised. I generally consider a TV guide to be a work of fiction.
a perfect example of why many of were taught in school NOT to use an encyclopedia (of any sort) as primary source.
In what way is that a perfect example? How exactly does the wikipedia entry differ from the dictionary definition?
Expecting your due, based on social or other contract is not "entitlement".
Well, yes it is. Look at the definition again ("a right to benefits specified especially by law or contract").
Anyway, what contract did Google enter into when they used open source software. GNU places no limitations on the use of software, only the redistribution of it. And it is not as if you haven't received any benefit from it either, since I am sure that you have used Google products.
No, they are updating an old virus to use the new flaws. Think about it. If the old virus used the same security holes as Conficker then it would not need to be updated.
Ya think??? Surely you didn't really believe that I was serious in saying that nobody at all has Flash installed? There is at least one person out there who has it, and he must spend a lot of time watching videos on YouTube!
Microsoft predates this with their stupid decision to have macros in Word 6.0 back in 1993. The first time that I read about that feature (that the macros could be saved in the document) I said that it would get used for making a virus. It actually took a surprisingly long time for the first virus to be released.
I imagine that there must have been some similar "feature" in spreadsheets before that.
Flash still is the most ubiqious plattform in existance with such frictionless deployment to the end user you'll be hard pressed to find something that even comes close.
I think that you will find that HTML is more common. That's why I can't stand website's navigation menus being made in Flash when pure HTML is much more accessible.
I'm a Linux user, got introduced to it in around '96 and started using it a fair amount in '99. Never experienced library hell or dependency hell. . . As I understand it, Windows/.NET are the only platforms to speak of which suffer from these problems.
And over the same period, what DLL Hell have you encountered or heard of? Sure, back in the 16bit days, DLLs were loaded into the same memory address space to save memory. So even if they were stored in different folders, two different versions of a DLL could not be loaded at once. 32bit and 64bit DLLs do not suffer from this problem.
While I haven't personally seen the problem come up in any OS from this decade, it hasn't completely eliminated the potential to go wrong. So over the years features were added to Windows to plug the gaps. Windows File Protection was introduced in Windows 2000 (superceded by Windows Resource Protection in Vista). Side-by-side assemblies came with XP.
.NET has the concept of versioning built-in to core right from the start.
I have setup limited user accounts since Windows 2000. I did have problems getting the spell check to work in Office 97 without hacking, but since then it is been surprising how many programs have worked.
Security was not a new feature in Vista, although UACs did make things easier.
Because my PC had that same problem under XP, and not in Linux.
Then it is a driver issue, and is still not Microsoft's fault. If other sound cards can support the feature under XP then it is obviously not an operating system limitation.
No. Even with the boxed version of games you still need to connect to their servers to get permission to install the software. Depending on the game, you may have to download all the updates before you are allowed to play in offline mode.
I have a computer that I use to install all the software that I do not trust. That includes games since PC copy protection can cause as much harm as a virus. This computer does not have any network access, so I can't play any game that requires activation.
Even if I did go online, I only have dial up access at home (because I surf more at work!) so that would probably cause dramas when downloading all the required updates.
I do realise that I am in the minority when it comes to maintaining the complete separation between trusted and untrusted systems, so I am sure that most people don't understand the resistance to Steam. I don't care - I just play old games and have moved more to independant games.
Flamebait? Get a sense of humour (and perspective).
Hey thanks for sticking up for me, but you don't have to worry. The people who mod first are the ones who don't read the entire message. Right now I am considered to be an insightful (30%) and funny (20%) troll (20%).
Plus I'm 30% Dolomite, so I can take the flames anyway.
Oh, I see. I was under the impression that the phrase "It just works" was a synonym for something like "It simply works". Apparently it is a synonym for "It barely works".
OK, that was a bit unfair. Every OS gets the occasional problem when doing updates. Assuming that there is a forthcoming fix in the near future, there is no need to obsess about it.
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As well as Visual Basic.NET and MSIL assembly (for the hard core). That's 6 different programming languages that come with Windows - 7 if you want to include PowerShell.
DOS had QBasic and debug.exe to do some assembly stuff (which was even more hard core).
Yeah, but are were you supposed to know they were from the FCC?
They would announce it and show indentification. They won't come bursting through the windows, wearing all black and with guns blazing. The FCC is a bit more civilized than that.
I use linux at work for linux, not for its apps. Specifically, the homogeneous file system (no c:\ d:\ e:\ monkey business), soft links and standard utilities that have been around for decades and are still useful.
You can mount your drives to look like a subfolder of an existing NTFS drive. They don't have to have drive letters. I just had a look and just found out that this works for CDROM drives too. So you can have your /dev/cdrom if you want. I don't know if you can do this with floppy drives, but I haven't seen one of those for quite some time now.
Soft links were introduced with Vista. Prior to that, you had hard links and junction points.
I have my own collection of utilities that I install on all my systems which I have accumulated over the years. A lot of them are ported from unix utils while the rest are Windows ones.
If power consumption doesn't matter to you, the AMD X2 7750 + 780G + 400w PSU is a much better performer.
Sure, if the size, silence and low power consumption are not important to you then you should not even consider a mini-ITX based system. But based on the linked that you provided, I think that the Zotac system performed well in some of the tests - especially in terms of performance per watt.
It is simply a case of working out what your priorities are.
The thing didn't have built-in connectivity of any kind.
It did have an IrDA interface. I used to connect to the Internet in cafes by sitting my Ericsson mobile phone behind my Libretto 50CT communicating via infrared.
They've had IPv6 for a long long goddamn time.
Absolutely. The first version of the current IPv6 stack was released (with source code) for NT4/Windows 2000 in 1998. The first supported version came with XP.
Why? The third definition from my link was "belief that one is deserving of or entitled to certain privileges". I fail to see how that doesn't match a "sense of entitlement". But feel free to link to a better definition if you have one.
Just because the PS3 outsold the Wii for 1 out of 16 months (in one country), doesn't mean that only the hardcore players are left to buy peripherals and software. There are still substantially more Wii owners out there than any of the other consoles, and some of those people are still buying new accessories.
And given that you are obviously a hardcore player (who are apparently now in the minority), your personal preference of which console you use cannot have any bearing on this discussion because you cannot extrapolate it to all other gamers.
You can't copyright a fact.
That is true, however a TV guide doesn't become a fact until after the shows have been broadcast. Before that time it is a plan.
But I would go one step further. Australian TV networks are terrible at sticking to their schedule. They consistently air their shows late, swap shows to a different time/night without warning or show a different episode that the one that was advertised. I generally consider a TV guide to be a work of fiction.
a perfect example of why many of were taught in school NOT to use an encyclopedia (of any sort) as primary source.
In what way is that a perfect example? How exactly does the wikipedia entry differ from the dictionary definition?
Expecting your due, based on social or other contract is not "entitlement".
Well, yes it is. Look at the definition again ("a right to benefits specified especially by law or contract").
Anyway, what contract did Google enter into when they used open source software. GNU places no limitations on the use of software, only the redistribution of it. And it is not as if you haven't received any benefit from it either, since I am sure that you have used Google products.
Hang on, you say that you could give a crap about seeing the new film?
Well I certainly wouldn't want to sit in your seat during the next session then!
No, they are updating an old virus to use the new flaws. Think about it. If the old virus used the same security holes as Conficker then it would not need to be updated.
Yes. You can't possibly have tested every single application out there, so if you say that I haven't been able to do this then you are lying.
I'm not sure what your meaning of "GPL or even Apache" means, it's rather confusing. One is an open source licensing system, the other is...
the other is an open source licensing system
Ya think??? Surely you didn't really believe that I was serious in saying that nobody at all has Flash installed? There is at least one person out there who has it, and he must spend a lot of time watching videos on YouTube!
Microsoft predates this with their stupid decision to have macros in Word 6.0 back in 1993. The first time that I read about that feature (that the macros could be saved in the document) I said that it would get used for making a virus. It actually took a surprisingly long time for the first virus to be released.
I imagine that there must have been some similar "feature" in spreadsheets before that.
Flash still is the most ubiqious plattform in existance with such frictionless deployment to the end user you'll be hard pressed to find something that even comes close.
I think that you will find that HTML is more common. That's why I can't stand website's navigation menus being made in Flash when pure HTML is much more accessible.
I'm a Linux user, got introduced to it in around '96 and started using it a fair amount in '99. Never experienced library hell or dependency hell.
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As I understand it, Windows/.NET are the only platforms to speak of which suffer from these problems.
And over the same period, what DLL Hell have you encountered or heard of? Sure, back in the 16bit days, DLLs were loaded into the same memory address space to save memory. So even if they were stored in different folders, two different versions of a DLL could not be loaded at once. 32bit and 64bit DLLs do not suffer from this problem.
While I haven't personally seen the problem come up in any OS from this decade, it hasn't completely eliminated the potential to go wrong. So over the years features were added to Windows to plug the gaps. Windows File Protection was introduced in Windows 2000 (superceded by Windows Resource Protection in Vista). Side-by-side assemblies came with XP.
.NET has the concept of versioning built-in to core right from the start.
I went to that site, but all I saw was:
Alternate HTML content should be placed here. This content requires the Adobe Flash Player. Get Flash
So based on that sample, I have to assume that 100% of people on the Internet do not have Flash installed.
I have setup limited user accounts since Windows 2000. I did have problems getting the spell check to work in Office 97 without hacking, but since then it is been surprising how many programs have worked.
Security was not a new feature in Vista, although UACs did make things easier.
Because my PC had that same problem under XP, and not in Linux.
Then it is a driver issue, and is still not Microsoft's fault. If other sound cards can support the feature under XP then it is obviously not an operating system limitation.
No. Even with the boxed version of games you still need to connect to their servers to get permission to install the software. Depending on the game, you may have to download all the updates before you are allowed to play in offline mode.
I have a computer that I use to install all the software that I do not trust. That includes games since PC copy protection can cause as much harm as a virus. This computer does not have any network access, so I can't play any game that requires activation.
Even if I did go online, I only have dial up access at home (because I surf more at work!) so that would probably cause dramas when downloading all the required updates.
I do realise that I am in the minority when it comes to maintaining the complete separation between trusted and untrusted systems, so I am sure that most people don't understand the resistance to Steam. I don't care - I just play old games and have moved more to independant games.
Flamebait? Get a sense of humour (and perspective).
Hey thanks for sticking up for me, but you don't have to worry. The people who mod first are the ones who don't read the entire message. Right now I am considered to be an insightful (30%) and funny (20%) troll (20%).
Plus I'm 30% Dolomite, so I can take the flames anyway.
Oh, I see. I was under the impression that the phrase "It just works" was a synonym for something like "It simply works". Apparently it is a synonym for "It barely works".
OK, that was a bit unfair. Every OS gets the occasional problem when doing updates. Assuming that there is a forthcoming fix in the near future, there is no need to obsess about it.
Why would the judge get kickbacks for jailing juveniles (or others)?
Maybe the judge knew that they were all writing Linux viruses.
Maybe I just haven't had enough coffee...
Obviously. You posted to the wrong story. With any luck someone else will also be caffeine deprived and will mod you as Insightful anyway.