I want my visitors to be able to connect via my home
network without sophisticated configuration on their side (and of course, without telling them my WEP password).
Why don't you complain about driving an 18 wheeler to work instead? The obvious answer is: "because that's not what an 18 wheeler was designed for." Check toyota's web site and find for me where it says: "it's terrific for bringing your kids to soccer practice."
Shouldn't be much of a problem. It's not like putting out a competing linux OS is very difficult. Well, I suppose it is, but with 100's of distributions we can say it's possible.
Obviously the longhorn install will be on a little over 100 double sided DVD's. Luckily by then we'll all have 50 DVD-R duplicators that we can legally use thanks the flexibility of the longhorn "burn less copies than the installation CDs" restriction. Also, the install will take a little over 2 weeks and require a 600 character CD key and a fingerprint id that you need to describe over the phone for good measure. The optical scan on the packaging will make sure only YOU can open the box once you've bought it.
Instead of importing and exporting all the time, it would be nice if the mail client simply integrated, using the existing mail folders. There's always features of one client that you want in another, but it's a pain to use two different clients. The operating system (windows and macosx anyway, I don't know about linux) already has the address book / mail folder api's available, why not just use them?
Pretty bold claim. You do realze that corperations might not be the ones that bring this to the world, but universities?
Just because the diagram for the car can be easily copied does not mean everyone will have a fabricator. It also means that it won't cost very much for GM to make that car anymore. What direction does our society take as a result? Everyone can just lay around becase the machines will take care of everything for us. I welcome my job-less happy future.
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The barrels are usually filled with water and can mess your car up if you drive into one or a dozen.
Only if they were to create it after the law was passed, as you cannot punish someone for a law that went info effect after the alledged crime. That's why slave owners weren't jailed.
When you pick a computer, you choose operating systems. When you pick a mp3 player, are no choosing an OS. The mac market is small because there is a HUGE barrier to entry - whether it be other people not using it, or lack of software, or whatever.
With the iPod, you can use it no matter what comptuer you have. There is still a barrier though - the "switchers". There in lies the problem. People who have bought songs using walmart.com and who have the RIO or whatever cannot switch to an iPod and keep their music. I think that Apple is either missing this point or they are hoping it won't affect them.
A solution is not to open Fairplay and the iPod, but make it compatible with all formats. Let people load on their WMA files. Who cares? If they aren't making a ton of money on the songs, then who really cares where they come from? The Microsoft tactic of embrace and destroy should be used here, not the tactic of "let me stay on my island come join me."
I have not used Tcl/Tk. I will read up on it after this post, and I hope you're right and I've been missing this all along. The interview was legit, and I didn't care much about it either at that point. When the guy was like "oh, you should really know.NET it's awsome" I couldn't help to think to myself, "screw this."
I've learned this the hard way. I've done a lot of freelance stuff over the past few years. A few projects have popped up that I thought would never get repeated, and guess what? They have. A lot. My personal home page is a perfect example. If I had written everything correctly before, I could have reused almost every section of my own web site. I'm in the pocess of recoding almost the entire thing so that I can make matter use of my time in the future.
Sorry, but using perl and scheme is not quite as advanced as some of the.NET stuff. Have you ever used VB? ANYONE can make a VB program that works with a database in an hour. Full program, with viewing/creating/editing. I hate (i really do hate) microsoft, but the ease of creating powerful applications in almost no time is really tempting.
And yes, it is enough to be easy. If you think businesses aren't using VB and access you have to get into a city.
Here's an example. I had an interview with PriceWaterhouseCooper. Sound familar? Guess what they asked me? "Have you used.NET?" As soon as they learned I had never touched it the interview was over. They don't give rats ass about C++, Java, Perl. Maybe they are in the minority, but I highly doubt it.
But many of you have ignored the reason why.NET is going to be so popular - it is going to be so damn easy to develop applications. Literally, everything will be taken care of for you. Want to link to a database? No problem, in 20 minutes you will have a database application. Most people here will probably not want to use it, but we aren't the ones making most of the decisions. If a company sees an opportunity to hit 90% of the market (which it wants) and develop the program in half the time, then it will. There is no arguing the economics of this..NET is a formidible beast and yes while most people here say it sucks and they hate it you don't seem to realize most people don't care. Or if they do care, they are willing to set aside their caring long enough to write a program in.NET, which will take all of a few days for a lot of apps.
I think you only really see that on slashdot, because well, that's the slashdot crowd. I've never heard someone say "i know unix cause i have a mac" besides the people that actually do know unix stuff.
Yes the view is a query. But if you are setting up a multiuser environment you might not want people to have direct access to a table, and you let them use a view. Or maybe you need to refer to that view in other queries. I have a view set up that pulls data from around a dozen tables, and I do queries on the view. Why? Because I don't feel the need to write huge 12 table queries every time I need another piece of information.
Wouldn't it make more sense to have open libraries that are operating system independent, for more than just video? Sort of like Java meets open GL.
Also keep in mind that your Linux boot won't support Apple hardware, unless it's a dual boot disk or something, but I don't even know if that's possible.
AOL did have a broadband service at one point - and they still support the customers that signed up initially. I didn't believe it myself till I had to go set up a router at someone's office and there it was. I don't know if they are just leasing the line and providing their own support though. It was DSL.
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Good - my gut touches my left leg but not my right when i lean over.
the solution to the complex config files is a front end that isn't obtrustive but it still helpful. The option to do either would still be there.
I think the single click could be loading the page. As in, visit the site (through a link or whatever) and it molests you up and down.
I want my visitors to be able to connect via my home network without sophisticated configuration on their side (and of course, without telling them my WEP password).
He wants to not give out a WEP password.
Why don't you complain about driving an 18 wheeler to work instead? The obvious answer is: "because that's not what an 18 wheeler was designed for." Check toyota's web site and find for me where it says: "it's terrific for bringing your kids to soccer practice."
Shouldn't be much of a problem. It's not like putting out a competing linux OS is very difficult. Well, I suppose it is, but with 100's of distributions we can say it's possible.
Obviously the longhorn install will be on a little over 100 double sided DVD's. Luckily by then we'll all have 50 DVD-R duplicators that we can legally use thanks the flexibility of the longhorn "burn less copies than the installation CDs" restriction. Also, the install will take a little over 2 weeks and require a 600 character CD key and a fingerprint id that you need to describe over the phone for good measure. The optical scan on the packaging will make sure only YOU can open the box once you've bought it.
Instead of importing and exporting all the time, it would be nice if the mail client simply integrated, using the existing mail folders. There's always features of one client that you want in another, but it's a pain to use two different clients. The operating system (windows and macosx anyway, I don't know about linux) already has the address book / mail folder api's available, why not just use them?
Pretty bold claim. You do realze that corperations might not be the ones that bring this to the world, but universities?
Just because the diagram for the car can be easily copied does not mean everyone will have a fabricator. It also means that it won't cost very much for GM to make that car anymore. What direction does our society take as a result? Everyone can just lay around becase the machines will take care of everything for us. I welcome my job-less happy future.
The barrels are usually filled with water and can mess your car up if you drive into one or a dozen.
Only if they were to create it after the law was passed, as you cannot punish someone for a law that went info effect after the alledged crime. That's why slave owners weren't jailed.
I realize this is directed as windows / unix, but i'm throwing out my 2 cents for the mac.
BBedit, transmit, cssedit, mysql, php, ircle, AIM, photoshop, dreamweaver, ms office
When you pick a computer, you choose operating systems. When you pick a mp3 player, are no choosing an OS. The mac market is small because there is a HUGE barrier to entry - whether it be other people not using it, or lack of software, or whatever.
With the iPod, you can use it no matter what comptuer you have. There is still a barrier though - the "switchers". There in lies the problem. People who have bought songs using walmart.com and who have the RIO or whatever cannot switch to an iPod and keep their music. I think that Apple is either missing this point or they are hoping it won't affect them.
A solution is not to open Fairplay and the iPod, but make it compatible with all formats. Let people load on their WMA files. Who cares? If they aren't making a ton of money on the songs, then who really cares where they come from? The Microsoft tactic of embrace and destroy should be used here, not the tactic of "let me stay on my island come join me."
I have not used Tcl/Tk. I will read up on it after this post, and I hope you're right and I've been missing this all along. The interview was legit, and I didn't care much about it either at that point. When the guy was like "oh, you should really know .NET it's awsome" I couldn't help to think to myself, "screw this."
I've learned this the hard way. I've done a lot of freelance stuff over the past few years. A few projects have popped up that I thought would never get repeated, and guess what? They have. A lot. My personal home page is a perfect example. If I had written everything correctly before, I could have reused almost every section of my own web site. I'm in the pocess of recoding almost the entire thing so that I can make matter use of my time in the future.
Sorry, but using perl and scheme is not quite as advanced as some of the .NET stuff. Have you ever used VB? ANYONE can make a VB program that works with a database in an hour. Full program, with viewing/creating/editing. I hate (i really do hate) microsoft, but the ease of creating powerful applications in almost no time is really tempting.
.NET?" As soon as they learned I had never touched it the interview was over. They don't give rats ass about C++, Java, Perl. Maybe they are in the minority, but I highly doubt it.
And yes, it is enough to be easy. If you think businesses aren't using VB and access you have to get into a city.
Here's an example. I had an interview with PriceWaterhouseCooper. Sound familar? Guess what they asked me? "Have you used
But many of you have ignored the reason why .NET is going to be so popular - it is going to be so damn easy to develop applications. Literally, everything will be taken care of for you. Want to link to a database? No problem, in 20 minutes you will have a database application. Most people here will probably not want to use it, but we aren't the ones making most of the decisions. If a company sees an opportunity to hit 90% of the market (which it wants) and develop the program in half the time, then it will. There is no arguing the economics of this. .NET is a formidible beast and yes while most people here say it sucks and they hate it you don't seem to realize most people don't care. Or if they do care, they are willing to set aside their caring long enough to write a program in .NET, which will take all of a few days for a lot of apps.
I think you only really see that on slashdot, because well, that's the slashdot crowd. I've never heard someone say "i know unix cause i have a mac" besides the people that actually do know unix stuff.
Yes the view is a query. But if you are setting up a multiuser environment you might not want people to have direct access to a table, and you let them use a view. Or maybe you need to refer to that view in other queries. I have a view set up that pulls data from around a dozen tables, and I do queries on the view. Why? Because I don't feel the need to write huge 12 table queries every time I need another piece of information.
Wouldn't it make more sense to have open libraries that are operating system independent, for more than just video? Sort of like Java meets open GL.
Also keep in mind that your Linux boot won't support Apple hardware, unless it's a dual boot disk or something, but I don't even know if that's possible.
AOL did have a broadband service at one point - and they still support the customers that signed up initially. I didn't believe it myself till I had to go set up a router at someone's office and there it was. I don't know if they are just leasing the line and providing their own support though. It was DSL.
The new filemaker finally supports the relational model. I haven't personally tried it yet however.
Ah yes, lightning. Can't wait for that.
I think he was referring to the functions in the database. The only reason to have them in PHP is for portability.
Usability doesn't mean "avoids security." It means the interface is easy to use.
I agree with you, and here's my example. A button on the desktop that says "Turn Firewall On". Easy to use, makes computer more secure.