come on please... I work with sourcesafe repositories at work (I suffer for my sins in a windows only (currently, but they're shifting) development house) and we're always swearing at the damned thing... but the suits won't let us suck our data out of sourcesafe and stick it into SVN or CVS cos they've been brainwashed by the salesdroids that you can only use visual studio with sourcesafe... (something about tight integration and Microsoft knowing what they're doing with the data)...
personally I think sourcesafe sucks as a repository format as the data is locked up into a highly proprietary database format which is extremely difficult to get data out of if it gets corrupted... take a look at a real system one day and your data is always easily acessible just by deleting the.svn (or.cvs) from the end of the filename...
That's still no excuse for FUD from either CNET or Slashdot, advocate_one. At no point in time did Microsoft ever say the exact words "not reliable or dependable" when it came to open source.
it was here:
"Some people want to use community-based software, and they get value out of sharing with other people in the community. Other people want the reliability and the dependability that comes from a commercial software model. And again, at the end of the day, you make the choice based on what has the highest value to you,"
I suggest you take a course in parsing the information out of statements... the statement in question was "the reliability and dependability that comes from a commercial software model". FOSS having been defined earlier in the quote as the community-based software...
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how did slashdot editors managed to understand "ther people want the reliability and the dependability that comes from a commercial software model.'"" to "OpenSource is unreliable".
follow the link... and read the title of the linked article... oh ye of little faith...;)
You lay out controls visually in Visual Studio (or Express), and control them programmatically from.NET. It takes care of rendering them down to HTML + Javascript, and it's pretty much cross platform friendly.
you must have a different definition of cross-platform friendly to me then... I don't want to use ms windows in any form at all, so I can't develop this Microsoft Atlas stuff on my platform of choice.
oy... what's with this "not for Grandma" meme??? I'm a grandparent and I've been running Linux since 1999... I dumped windows completely back in 2001 as well... couldn't be arsed with all the malware and other crap... and having to run anti-virus and keep it updated... and constantly worrying if I'd be rooted in that window between a new virus breaking out and the anti-virus signatures being updated...
all power to your elbow for getting your Grandma running Linspire... but don't diss her ability to learn... she will amaze you if you let her.
I think the police have been helped enormously by CCTV - it backs up their presence with a more realistic threat of conviction.
oh purleeese... one "hoodied" youth looks just like any other "hoodied" youth... and the police seldom respond in time to catch the perps in the act... merely fast enough to pick up the pieces afterwards... (and that's if you're lucky...)
What we need, is to teach law back in middle school thru high school, as a REQUIRED COURSE, as it used to be waaaay back when. Oh, and Latin, as well, since most of the legal terms are done in Latin (dead language, my fucking ass.) Once people know what's legal and what's not, then, and ONLY then, will we have any good chance of bringing our country back to a prosperous, clean, and stable state. Otherwise, the continuing ingorance involved in "educating" the masses is only going to bring us down to the state where we cannot think, speak, or act for ourselves. We will effectively be in a prison state. Fuck 1984, Early-day Australia, anybody?
they dropped that from the curriculum for the ordinary folk cos they didn't want you getting "uppity" and causing trouble... all they want out of the current education system is sheeple who can only just read/write and do simple sums...
It is not completely clear what Lokheed Martin will do with the patents for the low sonic boom hypersonics and they are rumoured to have a Skunkworks project on it. Noone has seen it yet so the jury is still out on that one.
but fear itself... apparently that's what's really holding people back from trying out FOSS solutions instead of sticking with the cosy world of proprietary pre-packaged "solutions"... that and the fact that the mainstream PC press tends to ignore FOSS cos there's no marketing kickbacks from it in the form of advertising revenue...
My small company lost over $25,000 to google over this... Google was providing "high quality" clicks that were producing one sale in over 1200 clicks. I could walk down the street and slap people across the face and tell them to buy my product and I'd get more sales than one per 1200 people. They're all dirty. Until advertisers figure out and only advertise on selected websites vs the shotgun approach, OR the major search engines take the time to have sale-based payment instead of Pay-Per-Click, the screwing will continue.
It's your job to make the sale, NOT Google's. If your clicks per sale ratio is poor then you have a problem.
Google got them to your page (ie. they made the lead)... it was up to you to actually make the sale (convert the lead)... perhaps you should examine your own site first? it might be confusing and difficult to actually find what they were looking for or your prices were crap compared to other sites or something else may have turned them right off buying from you...
I think you'll find that _most_ people haven't a clue how any food is made... and if left to fend for themselves in a kitchen with no "convenience" or ready made foods would be severely tested in the task of feeding themselves.
did you even follow the link for NoScript? it does everything you want that adblock can't do. and in combo with adblock, you have next to no crud at all.
you want NoScript... NOT adblock. NoScript blocks all Javascript crap by default and you can selectively temporarily-enable or whitelist stuff that you need.
Having a tag on you doesn't infringe your civil liberties.
to put it politely... bollocks... it infringes my inalienable human dignity. It is an abomination. On a par with the ID numbers tattooed on every Jewish concentration camp inmate.
hmmm, can you imagine Bittorrent with this tech so that you only have to have downloaded at least 50% of the total file to be able to reconstruct the missing bits... wow... that would be some speed increase, if it didn't get slowed down by having all the extra error correction data required...
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personally I think sourcesafe sucks as a repository format as the data is locked up into a highly proprietary database format which is extremely difficult to get data out of if it gets corrupted... take a look at a real system one day and your data is always easily acessible just by deleting the .svn (or .cvs) from the end of the filename...
it was here:
I suggest you take a course in parsing the information out of statements... the statement in question was "the reliability and dependability that comes from a commercial software model". FOSS having been defined earlier in the quote as the community-based software...
need I say any more? ;)
follow the link... and read the title of the linked article... oh ye of little faith... ;)
you must have a different definition of cross-platform friendly to me then... I don't want to use ms windows in any form at all, so I can't develop this Microsoft Atlas stuff on my platform of choice.
all power to your elbow for getting your Grandma running Linspire... but don't diss her ability to learn... she will amaze you if you let her.
ah, so the patent will have expired then???
oh purleeese... one "hoodied" youth looks just like any other "hoodied" youth... and the police seldom respond in time to catch the perps in the act... merely fast enough to pick up the pieces afterwards... (and that's if you're lucky...)
they dropped that from the curriculum for the ordinary folk cos they didn't want you getting "uppity" and causing trouble... all they want out of the current education system is sheeple who can only just read/write and do simple sums...
has anyone heard it???
I'll get my coat...
oy... I said the mainstream PC press... that which relies on advertising revenue from windows software.. read my original comment again
but fear itself... apparently that's what's really holding people back from trying out FOSS solutions instead of sticking with the cosy world of proprietary pre-packaged "solutions"... that and the fact that the mainstream PC press tends to ignore FOSS cos there's no marketing kickbacks from it in the form of advertising revenue...
me, I'd have put one pillow full in the attic and the other in the basement... then at least I'd be certain of taking half of it with me...
memorise and destroy your crib sheet as well... this idiot didn't...
I have this hand held device that could "kill" your chip and leave you helpless...
a suppository will just pass back out. durr...
It's your job to make the sale, NOT Google's. If your clicks per sale ratio is poor then you have a problem.
Google got them to your page (ie. they made the lead)... it was up to you to actually make the sale (convert the lead)... perhaps you should examine your own site first? it might be confusing and difficult to actually find what they were looking for or your prices were crap compared to other sites or something else may have turned them right off buying from you...
I think you'll find that _most_ people haven't a clue how any food is made... and if left to fend for themselves in a kitchen with no "convenience" or ready made foods would be severely tested in the task of feeding themselves.
well, if you're really paranoid you could run it inside a virtual machine... and snoop on the packets themselves yourself.
did you even follow the link for NoScript? it does everything you want that adblock can't do. and in combo with adblock, you have next to no crud at all.
you want NoScript... NOT adblock. NoScript blocks all Javascript crap by default and you can selectively temporarily-enable or whitelist stuff that you need.
I'll second Python and chuck in PyGame for those who want a ready built gaming library, oh and it's cross platform as well........... so you can stick with winders if you really have to... :)
to put it politely... bollocks... it infringes my inalienable human dignity. It is an abomination. On a par with the ID numbers tattooed on every Jewish concentration camp inmate.
'the butler killed him, with the lead pipe in the scullery`
hmmm, can you imagine Bittorrent with this tech so that you only have to have downloaded at least 50% of the total file to be able to reconstruct the missing bits... wow... that would be some speed increase, if it didn't get slowed down by having all the extra error correction data required...