The only reason it usurped FireFox was it's quick load time, but there were a many add-ons luring me back to FireFox.
The key factor for me was incompatibility with Google Desktop. Win+G launches quite a number of things for me, and not being able to launch Chrome was a dealbreaker. Chrome's still hotkey'd but not my default browser for this sole reason.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/255905
MSIs are an open format that you can take apart. Why would you be any more afraid of an.msi package than you would be an rpm or a bff or a jar for that matter?
It seems to me like you're making a mountain out of a molehill. Just suck it up and write in a notebook. You'll spend more time on the solution to your contrived problem than paying attention in class, which is what you shoulda been doing in the first place.
Or... As I plan on learning at the end of this month... I need to meet Mos Def and make sure he brings along his Sub-Etha Sens-o-matic and a couple of towels.
I Completely Agree!!
You're going to spend more time dealing with emulation issues than actually doing your work. It's all well and good to want to try code x86 ASM on a PPC. Dealing with the cross-platform and architecture issues is quite noble, but when it's crunch time and they want you to turn in work on a short timeframe...
Your prof won't care if you wrote it on a PPC or an alpha or did the whole damn thing on punchcards. What he will care about is can you produce what he asked you to produce, and if you're caught up in the semantics of testing iterations, then your going about things the wrong way...
Like everyone else is saying... suck it up and go to a lab or buy the hardware and throw it out your window when (and if) you pass the class.
Don't worry... anything that they need for RvB was taken care of when they flew up to Bungie. They even got them to revert fixes they made to Halo 2 just so they could continue making their silly little movies.
Have you heard of these things call "laptops" or "notebook computers." They're freakin' amazing. They're just like this ultra-portable desktop you want to build, but get this, _They're Flat!!_ How cool is that?!? Hasn't technology brought us so far??
Maybe you could strap one of those old CRTs on top? You'd have a portable computer that everyone from West Beverly High would admire... in 1992...
...and who the heck is this "Kevin, Mitnick" guy you're talking about... Mr. Mitnick Kevin probably catches a lot of grief at airports and in hotels for having a similar name to an infamous character... ^_^
When RotK came out, my girlfriend (who's a huge LOTR fan) and I sat down with a few six-packs and two large pizzas at around 2:30ish and were done with the first two before 10:00ish (yeah... you know chicks... having to take bathroom breaks and pausing to get up and go to the fridge every once in a while) to go stand in line and catch the midnight show on opening night. I imagine if you have plans to watch all three, just write the ENTIRE day off.
I don't think the XBox is failing for any reason other than Japanese pride. My perceptions (ICBW) are that Japanese markets are extremely tough to nearly impossible to break into because of Japanese National pride... I can only equate it to the xenophobia of Russians in the 80s or only buying American-made cars instead of foreign cars.
Japan might have a bunch of pro-Japan and subtly anti-foreign (US) propaganda, but hey... it's strengthening their economy and weakening ours... I'm not suggesting that we all go throw away our PS2s and GCs in favors of an XBox, but I predict that American electronics will never penetrate Asian markets until it's vastly superior and blows everything else out of the water, (which is impossible to do in a hardware war)
...but I ramble...
That's why it's called the bleeding edge...
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I don't know who is and who isn't aware of this rule of thumb, but working at a big Mac development house (no McDonald's jokes plz) taught me one thing. Never ever EVER (shake a baby) buy first revision Apple products. Since the beginning of time, I think Apple has looked at people who buy their newest line not as their first line of customers, but their last team of product testers.
Nearly every Apple product that I've seen come out in the past five years, I've known someone that has to return a Revision A product because Apple just dropped the ball on one thing or another. Don't get me wrong, their products are quite amazing and I'm envious of all my Apple fanatic friends that have everything, but if you're going to be on the bleeding edge and pre-order things before Apple's even done making them, of course you're going to see something wrong with the first batch. If you think otherwise, then why don't you try to release an idiot-proof product to people that want their mp3s automagically synced from their work desktop to their iPod to their car to their laptop to their servers to their friend's computers in the UK. ("it's on my.mac account, why can't you see it on your desktop!?!?")
How is this going to impact InstallShield, Wise and NSIS... It's going to be tough to get people to pay $2k for a wizard or fancy interface, but they'll do it (look at MSSQL)...and how long will it be until you see comparable tools that're open source (look at GIMP)...
and MSI is already a bit more robust than NSIS... I think my friend said it best, "Everything has it's place."
MSI has it's place as an installer for people and teams that need the robustness of advertised features and merge modules and transforms......but your average developer who's targeting all the way back to Win95 or even NT4 isn't going to want the overhead of dealing with an MSI installer...
It's just like.NET apps... Sure they're lightweight and powerful, only if you ignore the huge overhead cost up front in putting the system in place. It's not going to change much, the place it's going to have the biggest impact is in encouraging Linux/Apache/MySQL/Perl-Python-PHP development groups to toss in a WiX installer for an easier Windows port of the software...
and why didn't Rob throw up the source code?!? D'OH!!
I think the best (send me money) way to make some custom (send me money) subliminal CDs would be to (send me money) go to your local record shop and (send me money) ask around for help.
I know that I've bought some CDs (with your money) that really motivated me to learn (how to send subliminal messages) material for school and I got those by (send me money) just asking around
So today they're not allowing cell phones? What about tomorrow, when will PDAs not be allowed to be used? Soon it'll be headphones...
If security is such a huge concern, then what about cameras and tape recorders? If it's about spending personal time while "on the clock", then what about the PHB my friend has who plays Star Wars Galaxies half the day... at a major telecom company too...
My point is, why cell phones specifically?
Slashdot Mirror
Don't a lot of sites already implement S&M? Ohh... S+M, not... I gotcha.
What happens in the case that mirrors are present? Is she not allowed to watch herself having sex _while_ having sex?
...just like Wolfram|Alpha
NYSE: VIA corresponds to Viacom, Inc. I don't think CBS/MTV/Sumner Redstone are interested in venturing into microprocessors.
Anyone else wonder, if not for a split second, why CNET needed to avoid being sued by the U.S. Justice Department?
The only reason it usurped FireFox was it's quick load time, but there were a many add-ons luring me back to FireFox.
The key factor for me was incompatibility with Google Desktop. Win+G launches quite a number of things for me, and not being able to launch Chrome was a dealbreaker. Chrome's still hotkey'd but not my default browser for this sole reason.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/255905 MSIs are an open format that you can take apart. Why would you be any more afraid of an .msi package than you would be an rpm or a bff or a jar for that matter?
Sorry... I couldn't help myself: http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?id=1560413&vid=15096 8
It's like you're always stuck in second gear...
It seems to me like you're making a mountain out of a molehill. Just suck it up and write in a notebook. You'll spend more time on the solution to your contrived problem than paying attention in class, which is what you shoulda been doing in the first place.
Or... As I plan on learning at the end of this month... I need to meet Mos Def and make sure he brings along his Sub-Etha Sens-o-matic and a couple of towels.
I Completely Agree!! You're going to spend more time dealing with emulation issues than actually doing your work. It's all well and good to want to try code x86 ASM on a PPC. Dealing with the cross-platform and architecture issues is quite noble, but when it's crunch time and they want you to turn in work on a short timeframe... Your prof won't care if you wrote it on a PPC or an alpha or did the whole damn thing on punchcards. What he will care about is can you produce what he asked you to produce, and if you're caught up in the semantics of testing iterations, then your going about things the wrong way... Like everyone else is saying... suck it up and go to a lab or buy the hardware and throw it out your window when (and if) you pass the class.
Don't worry... anything that they need for RvB was taken care of when they flew up to Bungie. They even got them to revert fixes they made to Halo 2 just so they could continue making their silly little movies.
Have you heard of these things call "laptops" or "notebook computers." They're freakin' amazing. They're just like this ultra-portable desktop you want to build, but get this, _They're Flat!!_ How cool is that?!? Hasn't technology brought us so far?? Maybe you could strap one of those old CRTs on top? You'd have a portable computer that everyone from West Beverly High would admire... in 1992...
...and who the heck is this "Kevin, Mitnick" guy you're talking about... Mr. Mitnick Kevin probably catches a lot of grief at airports and in hotels for having a similar name to an infamous character... ^_^
When RotK came out, my girlfriend (who's a huge LOTR fan) and I sat down with a few six-packs and two large pizzas at around 2:30ish and were done with the first two before 10:00ish (yeah... you know chicks... having to take bathroom breaks and pausing to get up and go to the fridge every once in a while) to go stand in line and catch the midnight show on opening night. I imagine if you have plans to watch all three, just write the ENTIRE day off.
I don't think the XBox is failing for any reason other than Japanese pride. My perceptions (ICBW) are that Japanese markets are extremely tough to nearly impossible to break into because of Japanese National pride... I can only equate it to the xenophobia of Russians in the 80s or only buying American-made cars instead of foreign cars.
Japan might have a bunch of pro-Japan and subtly anti-foreign (US) propaganda, but hey... it's strengthening their economy and weakening ours... I'm not suggesting that we all go throw away our PS2s and GCs in favors of an XBox, but I predict that American electronics will never penetrate Asian markets until it's vastly superior and blows everything else out of the water, (which is impossible to do in a hardware war)
...but I ramble...
I don't know who is and who isn't aware of this rule of thumb, but working at a big Mac development house (no McDonald's jokes plz) taught me one thing. Never ever EVER (shake a baby) buy first revision Apple products. Since the beginning of time, I think Apple has looked at people who buy their newest line not as their first line of customers, but their last team of product testers.
.mac account, why can't you see it on your desktop!?!?")
Nearly every Apple product that I've seen come out in the past five years, I've known someone that has to return a Revision A product because Apple just dropped the ball on one thing or another. Don't get me wrong, their products are quite amazing and I'm envious of all my Apple fanatic friends that have everything, but if you're going to be on the bleeding edge and pre-order things before Apple's even done making them, of course you're going to see something wrong with the first batch. If you think otherwise, then why don't you try to release an idiot-proof product to people that want their mp3s automagically synced from their work desktop to their iPod to their car to their laptop to their servers to their friend's computers in the UK. ("it's on my
...but I ramble...
How is this going to impact InstallShield, Wise and NSIS... It's going to be tough to get people to pay $2k for a wizard or fancy interface, but they'll do it (look at MSSQL) ...and how long will it be until you see comparable tools that're open source (look at GIMP)...
and MSI is already a bit more robust than NSIS... I think my friend said it best, "Everything has it's place."
MSI has it's place as an installer for people and teams that need the robustness of advertised features and merge modules and transforms... ...but your average developer who's targeting all the way back to Win95 or even NT4 isn't going to want the overhead of dealing with an MSI installer...
It's just like .NET apps... Sure they're lightweight and powerful, only if you ignore the huge overhead cost up front in putting the system in place. It's not going to change much, the place it's going to have the biggest impact is in encouraging Linux/Apache/MySQL/Perl-Python-PHP development groups to toss in a WiX installer for an easier Windows port of the software...
and why didn't Rob throw up the source code?!? D'OH!!
I think the best (send me money) way to make some custom (send me money) subliminal CDs would be to (send me money) go to your local record shop and (send me money) ask around for help. I know that I've bought some CDs (with your money) that really motivated me to learn (how to send subliminal messages) material for school and I got those by (send me money) just asking around
So today they're not allowing cell phones? What about tomorrow, when will PDAs not be allowed to be used? Soon it'll be headphones... If security is such a huge concern, then what about cameras and tape recorders? If it's about spending personal time while "on the clock", then what about the PHB my friend has who plays Star Wars Galaxies half the day... at a major telecom company too... My point is, why cell phones specifically?