Because Office docs would become a de-facto UNIX standard, just as they are in the Windows world. Thus, more UNIX users would need to rely on MS software
What standard currently holds that role? HTML is impossible to lay out well, PDF is hard to edit. Is there any standard for heavily formatted text?
HELLO? Native OSX apps still use APIs beyond those of XWindows because, quite frankly, XWindows sucks to program for. Though native OSX is probably a lot closer to other OS's than OS9 was, so is Win32.
Operation Overkill 2, the only one I played, didn't work so well once you got into modems with big buffers and compression / error correction. The combat system required too much responsiveness. Alas.
If people only vote for movies they like, the results aren't as useful. "The people who liked this movie, liked it a lot" is a lot less useful a statistic than "60% of the people liked this movie".
It's worse on sites like amazon and audioreview, where people actually own the thing they're voting on - it's compounded with the "I own it so it must be good" reaction many people have.
There's a minimum number of votes required to get in the top 250. They have a formula where even after that a movie still is penalized for having fewer votes (as more people vote, the ranking of the movie approaches the average of their votes - it is otherwise drawn towards the average score of ALL movies (which is still like 6.9, showing IMO a major flaw with online voting))
Mozilla's standards are great, if you want to use what little bit of C++ will work on every compiler on the planet.
This depends of course on the nature of your project, but I think it's fair to assume a non-decrepit compiler. If Visual C++ 1.5 breaks a certain feature, well, Visual C++ 6.0 has been out for over 2 years now.
There are a lot of really useful parts of C++ that are actually fairly well worked out on most modern compilers. For instance, templates are damn handy. There may be some differences between the level of support, but there is generally a very large subset of C++ templates that works on most modern compilers. And they let you do things that make all the rest of the programming safer and easier, like generic containers, like smart pointers.
I frequently run into it on here, but the notion that programmers are a fungible and reallocatable resource is distasteful and wrong.
Programmers who are good at a particular task are good at it because they like it and they understand it well. I'm sure that John Carmack could do a perfectly fine job at writing a GUI or the kernel or improving mozilla or whatever, but if he excells at writing 3d engines, and that's what he wants to do who is any of us to say otherwise. I say we're lucky that his talent and interests are aligned such that we can enjoy them at all! Think of all the people who are like John Carmack but instead of writing 3d games write code that is of no interest to anyone but themselves (this is fine too).
At least you didn't make the claim that open source development is 'wasting its time' with two competing projects. That one REALLY pisses me off.
Prior to win98 (95 and nt4) win-D didn't do anything. Win-M does minimize stuff. See if shift-win-m undoes that. (it says it does in the win98 help, but maybe they added that along with win-d)
From the help system, at least under win98, you can read about. "Windows Logo Key" in the index. It's also somewhere more likely to be found in casual browsing, but since I'm searching, that's what I found.
It's especially stupid if you have to minimize all your windows just for the 5 second job of locating an icon and clicking on it
Mostly OT, but under windows if you hit the WIN-D keybaord combination (that's the windows key, use it like you would use Alt) it hides all your apps, showing you the desktop. Hit it again, and they're back.
A lot of people hate that key, but I use WIN-E, WIN-R and WIN-D all the time. Pressed on its own it's ust irritating, I agree.
One place I worked we used the version control system Continuus/CM. It was a GUI with toolbars with all kinds of weird icons with different colored boxes with lines connecting them in different ways.
The underlying problem is: How do you draw an abstract concept like "Diff this with the version that's in the repository" or "Show me the revision history of this file" in 16x16 pixels?
The answer: Mouse over stuff and use tooltips a lot.:( I hate that.
I used to also believe that ADD was a load of hooey. Until I met my college roommate, John. Nice guy, very creative, very cool.
He had a much more extreme case of ADD than I had seen. When he forgot to take his ritalin, he was unable to get anything done. I don't just mean homework, I mean he wasn't able to stay focused on tv or video games or projects he was working on to procrastinate doing homework. He found that extremely frustrating. When medicated he was still extremely creative and imaginative, but he could put those abilities to use for more than 5 minutes at a shot.
Now, I will be the first to admit that ADD is overdiagnosed, but to say that it's just a stupid name for kids who are simply different is to deny people like John any medical assistance, and to condem him to a life of spinning his mental wheels, when he'd rather take the perscribed drugs to balance his brain chemistry so he can do the stuff that he wants to.
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Please explain how it is infeasable to back up PS2 games, but not to pirate them.
Thanks, Timothy, for your unwarranted alarmism. Saying that "any web page you visit or any email you open can take over your computer, steal sensitive files, destroy your machine, anything," with the implication there's nothing you can do about it is ridiculous.
An accurate summary of the article:
Any web page you visit or any email you open can cause a dialog box to pop up, prompting you to save or open a file. The filename may be wrong on this dialog. If you choose open, you recieve no farther warnings before potentially malicious code is run. If you choose save, it prompts you where to save it, and saves it there. (At that point it's relatively safe - if the filetype is still wrong, you can't execute it, if it's not wrong, you can see it's an exe).
A patch wouldn't help much - the people who are up on things enough to install it are the same people who will know to take the SIMPLE PRECAUTION of not opening unknown files directly off the web.
It is a shame that due to a bug in their browser MSIE doesn't run sirens and blinking lights and threaten the possible destruction of your computer every time you try to run any code that you didn't write yourself, but it doesn't exactly open your box up to the world or anything.
In conclusion, let me say screw you and your shitty biased reporting, slashdot.
I use win2k. Photoshop (and for that matter everything else) works great. I've had a few problems with it's multiple monitor support (if you disable or move the second monitor, Photoshop's palettes and dialogs don't move, so they're lost, off of the screen, until you put your screens back where they were), but I don't think I've had it crash ever (Before I figured out what was going on with the monitors, I thought it got wedged once though, but was just stuck in an off-screen dialog box). That's 6.01. Don't use 6.0 if you value your TCP/IP stack.
I beleve win 95 should have support given untill ether the entire 9x range is dropted or if the time were Microsoft is broken up ( so unlikely )
I really don't understand - why should they keep 95 along as long as ME? Anyone who's dropping 95 because it's now unsupported is unlikely to migrate to 98 (as opposed to ME or 2k or XP)...
My gut reaction is 'it would be nice if every company could support every product indefinitely', but that's flawed - by dropping support, they encourage users to move on, making life easier for developers and support staff everywhere.
I just wonder if there is a way to Force a upgrad of direct x?
There obviously is no way to force anyone to do anything. There are plenty of computers that aren't plugged into a network or modem, that work fine the way they are. Microsoft cannot send out mind-control rays to force upgrades. All they have ever been able to do to 'force' upgrades is offer things people want along with the upgrade. "I have to upgrade to Win98 so FAT32 works*", for instance.
*Assuming you installed with the original Win95, not OSR2.
I'm not an artist, I'm a programmer. But even so, if you tried to take away my PhotoShop, I would try to take away parts of your body. The GIMP can do some of the things that PhotoShop does. Does that mean it's an adequate replacement? Well, I've never met anyone who runs a PhotoShop-capable OS and the GIMP. (Though I am sure there are some who dodn't have the money and aren't willing to pirate software, and used up their free month of Paint Shop Pro, and so on.)
PhotoShop is 11 years old (originally written to manually draw the scene where the 'russian water tentacle' splashes to the ground in the film The Abyss), and every major release has included significant improvements, the addition of worthwhile features, and generally more polish. When I look through the menus I don't think "bloat, bloat, bloat", I think "Wow, I wish it had that feature in version 5.5, when I was trying to blah blah blah", and "What does this thingy do? *fiddle fiddle* WOW, THAT'S USEFUL!"
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Certainly in the ballroom scene in Beauty in the Beast there was considerable CGI.. that predates the Lion King.
Postscript has been largely replaced with PDF which is basically the same thing with more packaging, no?
TeX I accept as a reasonable answer.
Because Office docs would become a de-facto UNIX standard, just as they are in the Windows world. Thus, more UNIX users would need to rely on MS software
What standard currently holds that role? HTML is impossible to lay out well, PDF is hard to edit. Is there any standard for heavily formatted text?
HELLO? Native OSX apps still use APIs beyond those of XWindows because, quite frankly, XWindows sucks to program for. Though native OSX is probably a lot closer to other OS's than OS9 was, so is Win32.
Operation Overkill 2, the only one I played, didn't work so well once you got into modems with big buffers and compression / error correction. The combat system required too much responsiveness. Alas.
If people only vote for movies they like, the results aren't as useful. "The people who liked this movie, liked it a lot" is a lot less useful a statistic than "60% of the people liked this movie".
It's worse on sites like amazon and audioreview, where people actually own the thing they're voting on - it's compounded with the "I own it so it must be good" reaction many people have.
There's a minimum number of votes required to get in the top 250. They have a formula where even after that a movie still is penalized for having fewer votes (as more people vote, the ranking of the movie approaches the average of their votes - it is otherwise drawn towards the average score of ALL movies (which is still like 6.9, showing IMO a major flaw with online voting))
Mozilla's standards are great, if you want to use what little bit of C++ will work on every compiler on the planet.
This depends of course on the nature of your project, but I think it's fair to assume a non-decrepit compiler. If Visual C++ 1.5 breaks a certain feature, well, Visual C++ 6.0 has been out for over 2 years now.
There are a lot of really useful parts of C++ that are actually fairly well worked out on most modern compilers. For instance, templates are damn handy. There may be some differences between the level of support, but there is generally a very large subset of C++ templates that works on most modern compilers. And they let you do things that make all the rest of the programming safer and easier, like generic containers, like smart pointers.
I frequently run into it on here, but the notion that programmers are a fungible and reallocatable resource is distasteful and wrong.
Programmers who are good at a particular task are good at it because they like it and they understand it well. I'm sure that John Carmack could do a perfectly fine job at writing a GUI or the kernel or improving mozilla or whatever, but if he excells at writing 3d engines, and that's what he wants to do who is any of us to say otherwise. I say we're lucky that his talent and interests are aligned such that we can enjoy them at all! Think of all the people who are like John Carmack but instead of writing 3d games write code that is of no interest to anyone but themselves (this is fine too).
At least you didn't make the claim that open source development is 'wasting its time' with two competing projects. That one REALLY pisses me off.
Prior to win98 (95 and nt4) win-D didn't do anything. Win-M does minimize stuff. See if shift-win-m undoes that. (it says it does in the win98 help, but maybe they added that along with win-d)
From the help system, at least under win98, you can read about. "Windows Logo Key" in the index. It's also somewhere more likely to be found in casual browsing, but since I'm searching, that's what I found.
It's especially stupid if you have to minimize all your windows just for the 5 second job of locating an icon and clicking on it
Mostly OT, but under windows if you hit the WIN-D keybaord combination (that's the windows key, use it like you would use Alt) it hides all your apps, showing you the desktop. Hit it again, and they're back.
A lot of people hate that key, but I use WIN-E, WIN-R and WIN-D all the time. Pressed on its own it's ust irritating, I agree.
One place I worked we used the version control system Continuus/CM. It was a GUI with toolbars with all kinds of weird icons with different colored boxes with lines connecting them in different ways.
:( I hate that.
The underlying problem is: How do you draw an abstract concept like "Diff this with the version that's in the repository" or "Show me the revision history of this file" in 16x16 pixels?
The answer: Mouse over stuff and use tooltips a lot.
I used to also believe that ADD was a load of hooey. Until I met my college roommate, John. Nice guy, very creative, very cool.
He had a much more extreme case of ADD than I had seen. When he forgot to take his ritalin, he was unable to get anything done. I don't just mean homework, I mean he wasn't able to stay focused on tv or video games or projects he was working on to procrastinate doing homework. He found that extremely frustrating. When medicated he was still extremely creative and imaginative, but he could put those abilities to use for more than 5 minutes at a shot.
Now, I will be the first to admit that ADD is overdiagnosed, but to say that it's just a stupid name for kids who are simply different is to deny people like John any medical assistance, and to condem him to a life of spinning his mental wheels, when he'd rather take the perscribed drugs to balance his brain chemistry so he can do the stuff that he wants to.
Please explain how it is infeasable to back up PS2 games, but not to pirate them.
Sounds dumb, but it's still better having one big power plant than lots of little power plants, in terms of fuel efficiency.
Thanks, Timothy, for your unwarranted alarmism.
Shit, change that to Michael. I suck.
Thanks, Timothy, for your unwarranted alarmism. Saying that "any web page you visit or any email you open can take over your computer, steal sensitive files, destroy your machine, anything," with the implication there's nothing you can do about it is ridiculous.
An accurate summary of the article:
Any web page you visit or any email you open can cause a dialog box to pop up, prompting you to save or open a file. The filename may be wrong on this dialog. If you choose open, you recieve no farther warnings before potentially malicious code is run. If you choose save, it prompts you where to save it, and saves it there. (At that point it's relatively safe - if the filetype is still wrong, you can't execute it, if it's not wrong, you can see it's an exe).
A patch wouldn't help much - the people who are up on things enough to install it are the same people who will know to take the SIMPLE PRECAUTION of not opening unknown files directly off the web.
It is a shame that due to a bug in their browser MSIE doesn't run sirens and blinking lights and threaten the possible destruction of your computer every time you try to run any code that you didn't write yourself, but it doesn't exactly open your box up to the world or anything.
In conclusion, let me say screw you and your shitty biased reporting, slashdot.
Read the article, retard. It still asks you if you want to open or save the file. Save is safe.
Only if they're for sale somewhere.
How Godel's Theorem is true yet the real world (which contains mathematics) is neither inconsistent nor incomplete?
What makes you think the real world is neither inconsistent nor incomplete?
I use win2k. Photoshop (and for that matter everything else) works great. I've had a few problems with it's multiple monitor support (if you disable or move the second monitor, Photoshop's palettes and dialogs don't move, so they're lost, off of the screen, until you put your screens back where they were), but I don't think I've had it crash ever (Before I figured out what was going on with the monitors, I thought it got wedged once though, but was just stuck in an off-screen dialog box). That's 6.01. Don't use 6.0 if you value your TCP/IP stack.
I beleve win 95 should have support given untill ether the entire 9x range is dropted or if the time were Microsoft is broken up ( so unlikely )
I really don't understand - why should they keep 95 along as long as ME? Anyone who's dropping 95 because it's now unsupported is unlikely to migrate to 98 (as opposed to ME or 2k or XP)...
My gut reaction is 'it would be nice if every company could support every product indefinitely', but that's flawed - by dropping support, they encourage users to move on, making life easier for developers and support staff everywhere.
I just wonder if there is a way to Force a upgrad of direct x?
There obviously is no way to force anyone to do anything. There are plenty of computers that aren't plugged into a network or modem, that work fine the way they are. Microsoft cannot send out mind-control rays to force upgrades. All they have ever been able to do to 'force' upgrades is offer things people want along with the upgrade. "I have to upgrade to Win98 so FAT32 works*", for instance.
*Assuming you installed with the original Win95, not OSR2.
I'm not an artist, I'm a programmer. But even so, if you tried to take away my PhotoShop, I would try to take away parts of your body. The GIMP can do some of the things that PhotoShop does. Does that mean it's an adequate replacement? Well, I've never met anyone who runs a PhotoShop-capable OS and the GIMP. (Though I am sure there are some who dodn't have the money and aren't willing to pirate software, and used up their free month of Paint Shop Pro, and so on.)
PhotoShop is 11 years old (originally written to manually draw the scene where the 'russian water tentacle' splashes to the ground in the film The Abyss), and every major release has included significant improvements, the addition of worthwhile features, and generally more polish. When I look through the menus I don't think "bloat, bloat, bloat", I think "Wow, I wish it had that feature in version 5.5, when I was trying to blah blah blah", and "What does this thingy do? *fiddle fiddle* WOW, THAT'S USEFUL!"
What you say was true until the Athlon.