I am American. Google only lists your definition once, which is why I assumed it was a misinterpretation. I'd assume that word is used more heavily in the UK rather than here though.
Heh. I am not using Firefox or Opera. Good ol' IE. I do have Firefox installed occasionally for questionable sites that I am forced to check.
As for the ads not being made for me. I still hold to the fact that they are horrible and give no reason to try the software other than extremely bad humour (I find it hard to believe Europeans enjoy this; our comedy cannot be that much more advanced...). Taste software? Does that appeal to anyone? I guarantee it does not appeal to the few friends I just showed it too; none of those do. These commercials do not have one ounce of coolness in them, and they make the software much less appealing.
Maybe I do not get the humor of a person screaming, or a persons head falling off (I guess I grew out of that when I passed my teenage years??).
Stupid modern marketing and going for shock value instead of features. The notebook and office ones do not even show Firefox, aside from the link at the end. Oh ya, some rediculously stupid ad for it is going to intrigue me into downloading something.
Feel/Taste/See the difference? TASTE? These are some of the worst "ads" I have ever seen.
Ask yourself WHY would MS give away their research to startups?
So they build software around MS products.
There is no legal basis for them to sue for using the research they were given with a license unless the company did something against the license. Read the license and if it screws you, then do NOT use it. It is that freaking simple. You moron zealots are just to inept to realize that MS, or any big corporation aside from IBM might do something good for themselves and everyone else.
Where is the outrage that IBM is laying off 13,000 employees? Oh, of course! IBM is perfect!
What does MS have to gain from openning this up to startups? There is a money involved license agreement, so there is that obvious piece, but other than that they gain a life time friend from every company using their technology (or a stake in the company). Who are these people going to build their software for, first? Linux, maybe Unix? No. Windows.
It is a huge risk to begin a start up, and to base it on your own research mixed with that of Microsoft's most advanced stuff is going help you get a leg up with the possibility of some very unique software, which opens you up for some very high profit margins.
So small business X has to pay money for the billions of dollars worth of research MS does? Big deal. That's life, but more importantly, that's business.
You guys just cannot stand that it is not open sourced business.
IBM, the company that is cutting around 13,000 jobs? The company that sold their desktop business to the Chinese?
Or maybe, Sun, the company that looks at Java like it is anything close to clean. Eclipse does not even touch Visual Studio in terms of the IDE and I cannot stand to work with it (or Java for that matter) and they did not even make it (ironically, IBM did). Their OS is a joke for our business; no one needs it. Not to mention anything GOOD they have, Microsoft can simply take due to their legal agreement.
Neither company sells desktops and in our business, the other software that works along side our software runs on Windows (similar software in otherwords). No one is touching these codes for a long time to come. When people in our field need Unix, they turn around and get HP Unix boxes.
Microsoft's market position is much more fragile than most people are willing to admit. It's getting to a point where practically no one wants to pay for their OS, especially on sub-$1000 PCs.
Who wants to pay for anything? Do you think my boss really wants to pay me? I do not want to pay for a car. Most Slashdotters do not want (and simply do not) pay for music. Sure, I do not want to pay for my OS, but that is just a part of a long list of things (everything).
Why might MS run into trouble? People do not like being bullied into upgrading through the licensing schemes, especially if it is not worth it. That is their sticky point. It really does not have much to do with the cost of their OS because frankly it's pretty cheap and it only gets cheaper as the license size gets bigger. What do we gain from going to Linux? Nothing. If we did go to Linux, then it would be through a licensed sale exactly like we would with Microsoft, only this time around we need training and new IT people. I am not speaking from a software company perspective, rather I am referring to a large scale, international corporation.
So you know, we did talk about making a Linux version of our software and we actually ruled it out because of the lack of sales that we could generate from doing so. It's still on the table, and we are not going to be screwed should I wake up and the world is suddenly all running on Linux.
Many apps do SQL queries to get the names of the days of the week. And the names of the months. And the abbreviations for same.
The general intent for something like this is for internationalization.
Obviously, they just never got around to doing it for anyone outside of the English language. I do think this stuff could be all cached in a hash table though, and marked by their language name to load the data, which could then be defaulted to English if nothing was found.
If I hadn't contributed to at least 30 of those downloads. I install and uninstall Firefox like crazy.
This is no joke, I really do not feel the need for Firefox to be on my computer, but when I find certain sites questionable, then I download Firefox because chances are they are not exploiting it...
You cannot read code before you can write code. Your idea should be the 4th step. Let them do the basics, and then learn to mess with something intermediate. After all, that many lines of code is going to be intimidating to someone not intending to go past that level of the course.
Just make users use phrases. A 40 character password is going to be impossible to guess, yet can be something the person listens to, enjoys, says, anything:
"It's All Over But The Crying." [29 characters, title of a song by the band Garbage]
No password generator is going to guess that.
This reminds me, what is the point of password engines denying special characters? I can understand certain limitations. I have seen numerous engines that disallow spaces, *'s, @'s, etc. Why? That simply makes passwords easier to guess.
This just encourages them to assign more complex, longer, and meaningless assignments since they do not even have to read them.
Professor: Oh, you have more classes than just this one? That sucks, because it takes me a few seconds to grade your 50 page paper. Did I mention I do nothing else for my [LARGE] paycheck and probably have a TA teaching the class at least part of the week? Also, did you notice I probably barely work nine months out of the year [even if I do teach summer school courses], but will likely get paid more than most graduates from here?
I have always had very little respect for my former professors. Here's another reason.
He's not talking about Linux running under Windows. He is talking about a stand-alone version of Linux released by Microsoft that can be packaged with a proprietary driver management program that allows Window's drivers to run easily under Linux (to get all of the Plug n Play capabilities). The idea of Linux under Windows was probably what popped this idea into his head and he used that to show the reader his approach. Looking at a lot of the other replies, most people did not seem to get the point of his article, or maybe you guys only read the first two or three paragraphs.
It's actually quite a good idea and it would definitely make them the standardly picked Linux distribution by any name brand PC maker. Also, the beauty of this scenario for Microsoft is that they benefit from everyone elses work on Linux (just like Novell benefits from Red Hat currently) and the only thing they really have to work on is the driver package.
2. Functionality - Software delivers advertising and various information and promotional messages to your computer screen while you view Internet web pages. iSearch is able to provide you with Software free of charge as a result of your agreement to download and use Software, and accept the advertising and promotional messages it delivers.
By installing the Software, you understand and agree that the Software may, without any further prior notice to you, automatically perform the following: display advertisements of advertisers who pay a fee to iSearch and/or it's partners, in the form of pop-up ads, pop-under ads, interstitials ads and various other ad formats, display links to and advertisements of related websites based on the information you view and the websites you visit; store non-personally identifiable statistics of the websites you have visited; redirect certain URLs including your browser default 404-error page to or through the Software; provide advertisements, links or information in response to search terms you use at third-party websites; provide search functionality or capabilities; automatically update the Software and install added features or functionality or additional software, including search clients and toolbars, conveniently without your input or interaction; install desktop icons and installation files; install software from iSearch affiliates; and install Third Party Software.
In addition, you further understand and agree, by installing the Software, that iSearch and/or the Software may, without any further prior notice to you, remove, disable or render inoperative other adware programs resident on your computer, which, in turn, may disable or render inoperative, other software resident on your computer, including software bundled with such adware, or have other adverse impacts on your computer.
Emphasis mine.
I wish I had the money to hire a lawyer and sue them for blackmail in terms of their practice of installing themselves and trying to make it impossible to remove, unless you are rather good with computers and then selling me software to remove it (obviously I am not buying it and I have never had the iSearch bar, but I have seen other people that had it).
I won't say it of PHP in every scenario, but in every case I have seen and done, PHP has out performed JIT quite easily. Time and time again, I am amazed by the speed of which PHP not only parses files, but then interprets and executes them. Also, I do not believe the Java code is faster than the C++ code even with little benchmarks people like to run; I have never seen it in a real development environment. The native compilation may result in almost as fast as C++ code, but I would not put it in front of C++ code in terms of speed. Of course, speed is not the only judge of a good product or language, so do not misinterpret what I am saying here.
I would put the Hotspot JIT VM against ASP.NET any day of the week. The idea of the Hotspot code generation is rediculous. The initial step was revolutionary, and well engineered to significantly increase performance (it executes the bytecodes WHILE it compiles to 'heavily optimized' native code for code it deems as heavily reused). However, the next step is that the VM monitors the code and then may possibly DISCARD the optimization and revert back to the bytecode execution. There are tons of scenarios where you will hit a cycle of user interaction that will require the regeneration of the code.
Now, I accept the idea that it excecutes the bytecodes as it runs the native compilation, but many people are led to believe this in and of itself has no performance impact, when infact it does. Furthermore, the bytecode execution is slow by itself, let alone with the compilation stealing ticks away on its own little thread. Should this only ever possibly be done once, then it would be a more than acceptable issue to wait for, but to face a regeneration is just insane and wasteful.
I don't see how writing Gnome applications in C# benefits Microsoft any more than writing Gnome applications in C++ or Python.
Generally speaking, I agree with you, but if more programmers are using C#, specifically those using it on the job, then those people are generally programming for a Windows environment, and not using GTK#.
The day that WinForms is rewritten by Mono (even if it is just using mappings to GTK#) is the day that it really becomes what it should be, but legally I do not know if that is even allowed because of the proprietary nature of the.NET Framework, as opposed to the ECMA standard that is C#.
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I guess it is not a big deal since the EU isn't going to last.
Good catch.
I hope you are making a joke about the pronounciation of "cache," which even in programming terms stands for storage.
Pretty dumb statement to me.
As for the ads not being made for me. I still hold to the fact that they are horrible and give no reason to try the software other than extremely bad humour (I find it hard to believe Europeans enjoy this; our comedy cannot be that much more advanced...). Taste software? Does that appeal to anyone? I guarantee it does not appeal to the few friends I just showed it too; none of those do. These commercials do not have one ounce of coolness in them, and they make the software much less appealing.
Stupid modern marketing and going for shock value instead of features. The notebook and office ones do not even show Firefox, aside from the link at the end. Oh ya, some rediculously stupid ad for it is going to intrigue me into downloading something.
Feel/Taste/See the difference? TASTE? These are some of the worst "ads" I have ever seen.
There is no legal basis for them to sue for using the research they were given with a license unless the company did something against the license. Read the license and if it screws you, then do NOT use it. It is that freaking simple. You moron zealots are just to inept to realize that MS, or any big corporation aside from IBM might do something good for themselves and everyone else.
Where is the outrage that IBM is laying off 13,000 employees? Oh, of course! IBM is perfect!
What does MS have to gain from openning this up to startups? There is a money involved license agreement, so there is that obvious piece, but other than that they gain a life time friend from every company using their technology (or a stake in the company). Who are these people going to build their software for, first? Linux, maybe Unix? No. Windows.
It is a huge risk to begin a start up, and to base it on your own research mixed with that of Microsoft's most advanced stuff is going help you get a leg up with the possibility of some very unique software, which opens you up for some very high profit margins.
So small business X has to pay money for the billions of dollars worth of research MS does? Big deal. That's life, but more importantly, that's business.
You guys just cannot stand that it is not open sourced business.
Or maybe, Sun, the company that looks at Java like it is anything close to clean. Eclipse does not even touch Visual Studio in terms of the IDE and I cannot stand to work with it (or Java for that matter) and they did not even make it (ironically, IBM did). Their OS is a joke for our business; no one needs it. Not to mention anything GOOD they have, Microsoft can simply take due to their legal agreement.
Neither company sells desktops and in our business, the other software that works along side our software runs on Windows (similar software in otherwords). No one is touching these codes for a long time to come. When people in our field need Unix, they turn around and get HP Unix boxes.
Who wants to pay for anything? Do you think my boss really wants to pay me? I do not want to pay for a car. Most Slashdotters do not want (and simply do not) pay for music. Sure, I do not want to pay for my OS, but that is just a part of a long list of things (everything).Why might MS run into trouble? People do not like being bullied into upgrading through the licensing schemes, especially if it is not worth it. That is their sticky point. It really does not have much to do with the cost of their OS because frankly it's pretty cheap and it only gets cheaper as the license size gets bigger. What do we gain from going to Linux? Nothing. If we did go to Linux, then it would be through a licensed sale exactly like we would with Microsoft, only this time around we need training and new IT people. I am not speaking from a software company perspective, rather I am referring to a large scale, international corporation.
So you know, we did talk about making a Linux version of our software and we actually ruled it out because of the lack of sales that we could generate from doing so. It's still on the table, and we are not going to be screwed should I wake up and the world is suddenly all running on Linux.
Why can't Slashdot put in a Javascript counter to show me when I can post? So annoying.
We do not support one Linux product and no one in this field does. There are a few uses for Unix though (calculations that go back a long time).
So do you post this love under MS patches?
Obviously, they just never got around to doing it for anyone outside of the English language. I do think this stuff could be all cached in a hash table though, and marked by their language name to load the data, which could then be defaulted to English if nothing was found.
This is no joke, I really do not feel the need for Firefox to be on my computer, but when I find certain sites questionable, then I download Firefox because chances are they are not exploiting it...
How is that better? None of them get done, that just means your boss is lazier.
You cannot read code before you can write code. Your idea should be the 4th step. Let them do the basics, and then learn to mess with something intermediate. After all, that many lines of code is going to be intimidating to someone not intending to go past that level of the course.
"It's All Over But The Crying." [29 characters, title of a song by the band Garbage]
No password generator is going to guess that.
This reminds me, what is the point of password engines denying special characters? I can understand certain limitations. I have seen numerous engines that disallow spaces, *'s, @'s, etc. Why? That simply makes passwords easier to guess.
A professor get pissy? Hahaha! Maybe it is a rising professor? What a joke for a job.
Professor: Oh, you have more classes than just this one? That sucks, because it takes me a few seconds to grade your 50 page paper. Did I mention I do nothing else for my [LARGE] paycheck and probably have a TA teaching the class at least part of the week? Also, did you notice I probably barely work nine months out of the year [even if I do teach summer school courses], but will likely get paid more than most graduates from here?
I have always had very little respect for my former professors. Here's another reason.
You expected a professor to work? Ha ha ha. Good one.
It's actually quite a good idea and it would definitely make them the standardly picked Linux distribution by any name brand PC maker. Also, the beauty of this scenario for Microsoft is that they benefit from everyone elses work on Linux (just like Novell benefits from Red Hat currently) and the only thing they really have to work on is the driver package.
I wish I had the money to hire a lawyer and sue them for blackmail in terms of their practice of installing themselves and trying to make it impossible to remove, unless you are rather good with computers and then selling me software to remove it (obviously I am not buying it and I have never had the iSearch bar, but I have seen other people that had it).
Good times.
Anything that turns out to be poor quality was a waste of time. Maybe you should look into what you are doing wrong?
I would put the Hotspot JIT VM against ASP.NET any day of the week. The idea of the Hotspot code generation is rediculous. The initial step was revolutionary, and well engineered to significantly increase performance (it executes the bytecodes WHILE it compiles to 'heavily optimized' native code for code it deems as heavily reused). However, the next step is that the VM monitors the code and then may possibly DISCARD the optimization and revert back to the bytecode execution. There are tons of scenarios where you will hit a cycle of user interaction that will require the regeneration of the code.
Now, I accept the idea that it excecutes the bytecodes as it runs the native compilation, but many people are led to believe this in and of itself has no performance impact, when infact it does. Furthermore, the bytecode execution is slow by itself, let alone with the compilation stealing ticks away on its own little thread. Should this only ever possibly be done once, then it would be a more than acceptable issue to wait for, but to face a regeneration is just insane and wasteful.
Ya, I agree, that was a waste of a rant.
The day that WinForms is rewritten by Mono (even if it is just using mappings to GTK#) is the day that it really becomes what it should be, but legally I do not know if that is even allowed because of the proprietary nature of the .NET Framework, as opposed to the ECMA standard that is C#.