There's a reason it is called Longhorn. Because you're really, really going to get screwed this time with all of the DRM.
As someone who pays for the software they run (when commercial) and also pays for the smattering of media they consume, could you please explain exactly how DRM is going to screw me over?
Also, considering that I write and sell commercial software, is a decent, working implementation DRM going to do anything but stop people from stealing (whoops, i mean infringing) from me?
Interesting definition. From all of the slashdot articles I read about various country/county/states forcing microsoft to lower ITS prices, using linux as leverage, I would guess that they no longer hold a monopoly.
I have a samsung i700. It's been dropped on cement about 5 times now. Dropped onto carpet, car floor, etc more times than I can count. It's not a VERY ugly phone, but it still works.
However, I think it is the double tranlation that is the killer. First someone needs to translate the tax code from legalese to english, then from english to code.
It would be interesting if the IRS worked on this problem. Perhaps if they were to supply a text file that contained all of the rules for the year the tax prep software could simply act as an engine to parse this file and ask the right questions. Of course I have no idea if something like this is even possible, given the complexity of the tax codes.
Trudging through tax law every year and coding an application just can't be fun enough to reliably get a group of coders to produce something like this with any regulartity. Can it?
I want access to the source for libraries that I call into directly such as MFC. That would me debug MFC applications better.
You do know that the MFC source is availible, right? Comes with the compiler. Back when I worked a straight job a co-worker of mine actually found a nasty bug in it that was causing us all sorts of problems. He ended up building a patched version and we shipped that with the product until MS fixed it (he reported the bug, supplied the fix).
Does it support turning the power off in the middle of a transaction without corrupting itself or does wikipedia run an older version before that bit was implemented?
First of all.. what about things like Janet Jacksons Nipple "accident"? Why was there such an outrage over the display of a body part common to half of the population?
By the way, don't you recognize this particular company? Same one that helped BushCo purge all those voters in 2000. I think they got out of the voter purging business before 2004, but I haven't really been tracking it.
Off topic, really, but I have to vent. They screwed my wife out of a job this year. We were recently married and they failed her background check on her name on file with the credit bureaus not matching the name on her application. They also dragged ass fixing the problem and had a policy in place to NOT notify they potential employer that they had made a mistake.
I'm taking a C++ class at the local college that's being taught by the Unix guru. The class is using Visual Studio.NET as the IDE (which the instructor is not familar with and is threatening to go to Linux instead).
No offense, but anyone who can't figure out how to use and become familar enough with the visual studio IDE to use it in a teaching environment shouldn't be called a guru of anything. It's extremely simple to use until you want to start doing very complex things. And that's when you start pining for makefiles. I can't imagine you're writing anything that complex for (what your post would indicate is) an introductory c++ class.
Tried using Visual C++ Express edition but it seems more trouble to use (e.g., there's no automatic prompt to prevent the DOS box from disappearing).
Actually, there is. Where it is buried in the settings? Couldn't tell you off the top of my head, but here is something for you to try: Navigate to the directory where the exe is being dumped and run the thing from the command line yourself.
Anyway, I tried compling the sample programs under gcc and g++ on my Linux file server, and I get a lot of errors. I thought C++ (or at least, C) was supposed to portable.;) I would like to learn how to program basic C++ fluently on both platforms.
Not familiar with the book, but unless it is doing something windows specific (and it may be) you should not have any trouble compiling simple programs under gcc and the MS c++ compiler.
AND in addition to generally being a bit more difficult to code (or less efficient when using a cross platform libraries/language) is that it can be a real bitch to support code running on multiple platforms.
I was on the way to a job interview and remembered that they had requested a code sample. I remembered the nifty job I'd done on a DDE interface to netscape (it was small, clean code, and took quite a bit of research and teeth gnashing to get right). I located the source file, printed and printed it out.
During the interview the hiring manager started going over the code with me and having me explain what it did, how it did it, etc. And then he got down to the/* This is fucking bizzare, blah blah */.
I felt pretty sunk. Ended up getting the job, though.
I think I speak for my community (having been a part of it, both as a Linux user and a Linux developer for over a decade, and now president of my LUG), when I say that "Linux users" aren't choosing NOT to pay for software because they don't WANT to, they're not paying for software because they don't HAVE to.
So what you're saying is that FOSS is always better than the commercial alternative? Ok. In your case that may be true. Non-developers, for whom the privilage of having the source code means nothing, have a different opinion. If they did not have I'd most certainly be typing this out using Linux and FireFox.
For YOU, as a developer, there may be nothing that beats FOSS. Any peice of software, no matter how crummy it is compared to a commercial alternative, is better because you can simply add the features you want and fix the problems you encounter.
But I don't sell to people like you.
With all of that said, there might come a day when Linux IS ready and all of the applications ARE there. And if, on that day, there is a paying market for development I'll hang up my nifty MS IDE, learn vi and how to build a proper makefile and move on. If there is no market I'll just find something else to do to put food on the table. *shrug*
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There's a reason it is called Longhorn. Because you're really, really going to get screwed this time with all of the DRM.
As someone who pays for the software they run (when commercial) and also pays for the smattering of media they consume, could you please explain exactly how DRM is going to screw me over?
Also, considering that I write and sell commercial software, is a decent, working implementation DRM going to do anything but stop people from stealing (whoops, i mean infringing) from me?
I'm not trying to spin anything here and did not say that they were never a monopoly. Just that they are not anymore.
Interesting definition. From all of the slashdot articles I read about various country/county/states forcing microsoft to lower ITS prices, using linux as leverage, I would guess that they no longer hold a monopoly.
I have a samsung i700. It's been dropped on cement about 5 times now. Dropped onto carpet, car floor, etc more times than I can count. It's not a VERY ugly phone, but it still works.
Yes, I am clumsy.
However, I think it is the double tranlation that is the killer. First someone needs to translate the tax code from legalese to english, then from english to code.
It would be interesting if the IRS worked on this problem. Perhaps if they were to supply a text file that contained all of the rules for the year the tax prep software could simply act as an engine to parse this file and ask the right questions. Of course I have no idea if something like this is even possible, given the complexity of the tax codes.
Trudging through tax law every year and coding an application just can't be fun enough to reliably get a group of coders to produce something like this with any regulartity. Can it?
I wish the states would run grocery stores and perhaps clothing stores. Would be much nicer to have a lower bill at the end of each week.
If it makes less people willing to use flash then less "developers" will want to use the thing and perhaps it can start dying a well deserved death.
I have it on good authority that he took a shortcut.
I want access to the source for libraries that I call into directly such as MFC. That would me debug MFC applications better.
You do know that the MFC source is availible, right? Comes with the compiler. Back when I worked a straight job a co-worker of mine actually found a nasty bug in it that was causing us all sorts of problems. He ended up building a patched version and we shipped that with the product until MS fixed it (he reported the bug, supplied the fix).
Does it support turning the power off in the middle of a transaction without corrupting itself or does wikipedia run an older version before that bit was implemented?
Tech support retards are not geeks. They are cretins with one clue cell more than the idiots they service.
First of all .. what about things like Janet Jacksons Nipple "accident"? Why was there such an outrage over the display of a body part common to half of the population?
FYI: Men have nipples, too.
Tom, that man just cut you off!
Why would you use ,8,1 if it was not an autoloading program?
What's even better is when the professor wrote the textbook. Had that happen in a psychology and maths class. I hate you, Dr. Charles Rees.
By the way, don't you recognize this particular company? Same one that helped BushCo purge all those voters in 2000. I think they got out of the voter purging business before 2004, but I haven't really been tracking it.
Off topic, really, but I have to vent. They screwed my wife out of a job this year. We were recently married and they failed her background check on her name on file with the credit bureaus not matching the name on her application. They also dragged ass fixing the problem and had a policy in place to NOT notify they potential employer that they had made a mistake.
I'm taking a C++ class at the local college that's being taught by the Unix guru. The class is using Visual Studio .NET as the IDE (which the instructor is not familar with and is threatening to go to Linux instead).
;) I would like to learn how to program basic C++ fluently on both platforms.
No offense, but anyone who can't figure out how to use and become familar enough with the visual studio IDE to use it in a teaching environment shouldn't be called a guru of anything. It's extremely simple to use until you want to start doing very complex things. And that's when you start pining for makefiles. I can't imagine you're writing anything that complex for (what your post would indicate is) an introductory c++ class.
Tried using Visual C++ Express edition but it seems more trouble to use (e.g., there's no automatic prompt to prevent the DOS box from disappearing).
Actually, there is. Where it is buried in the settings? Couldn't tell you off the top of my head, but here is something for you to try: Navigate to the directory where the exe is being dumped and run the thing from the command line yourself.
Anyway, I tried compling the sample programs under gcc and g++ on my Linux file server, and I get a lot of errors. I thought C++ (or at least, C) was supposed to portable.
Not familiar with the book, but unless it is doing something windows specific (and it may be) you should not have any trouble compiling simple programs under gcc and the MS c++ compiler.
_what everyone else said_
AND in addition to generally being a bit more difficult to code (or less efficient when using a cross platform libraries/language) is that it can be a real bitch to support code running on multiple platforms.
And them complain more about how bloated the thing is?
Or do you just want the installation to be as confusing (choices do add to confusion) to install as that other operating system?
I wouldn't be so sure. I'm sure a casino would like to know for a few different reasons how many of its chips are leaving the casino.
They should be able to get pretty darned close using simple math.
I was on the way to a job interview and remembered that they had requested a code sample. I remembered the nifty job I'd done on a DDE interface to netscape (it was small, clean code, and took quite a bit of research and teeth gnashing to get right). I located the source file, printed and printed it out.
/* This is fucking bizzare, blah blah */.
During the interview the hiring manager started going over the code with me and having me explain what it did, how it did it, etc. And then he got down to the
I felt pretty sunk. Ended up getting the job, though.
I think I speak for my community (having been a part of it, both as a Linux user and a Linux developer for over a decade, and now president of my LUG), when I say that "Linux users" aren't choosing NOT to pay for software because they don't WANT to, they're not paying for software because they don't HAVE to.
So what you're saying is that FOSS is always better than the commercial alternative? Ok. In your case that may be true. Non-developers, for whom the privilage of having the source code means nothing, have a different opinion. If they did not have I'd most certainly be typing this out using Linux and FireFox.
For YOU, as a developer, there may be nothing that beats FOSS. Any peice of software, no matter how crummy it is compared to a commercial alternative, is better because you can simply add the features you want and fix the problems you encounter.
But I don't sell to people like you.
With all of that said, there might come a day when Linux IS ready and all of the applications ARE there. And if, on that day, there is a paying market for development I'll hang up my nifty MS IDE, learn vi and how to build a proper makefile and move on. If there is no market I'll just find something else to do to put food on the table. *shrug*
No, microsoft should be working on increasing shareholder value.