Yes. And then you go to Settings->Safari->Databases and erase any databases you don't want to keep. Just like you clear out cookies you don't want. Cookies that allow "cookie tracking" that "uniquely identifies you to advertisers". From a "managing my private data on my iPhone" perspective, I happen to prefer the databases so far, because they are easier to identify and delete than cookies are.
Also, as far as I can see, the databases are based on sqlite, making it really nice for web developers to keep well-organized data client-side that they can retrieve using standard SQL queries embedded in javascript. I for one would rather have more of my data on my local device where I can easily(see above) delete it than stored out in the cloud. If having a good way to store more data in an organized fashion encourages developers (yes even "evil" ad developers) to store more of my data locally by making local storage more convenient and powerful for those developers, I'm all for that.
If you want to complain about something, complain that mobile Safari doesn't have a private browsing mode, meaning you have to manually delete cache/history/cookies/databases after any browsing you'd prefer to keep anonymous. That stinks IMHO.
So are you still saying you have almost no anxiety or just that you're relieved when you feel it however slight?
I am prone to getting very anxious, and something that could make that all but go away forever would at least illicit further investigation.
That MS Office kicks OO's butt is very true, but if ODF became the de facto standard instead of a Microsoft controlled format, then it might become much more attractive/viable to business with deep pockets to try to make a legitimate office competitor.
Right now dumping a lot of resources into building a competing office sweet would be very risky from a business standpoint, since Microsoft can (if they feel sufficiently threatened) significantly alter the format to break competing products. The second they lose control of the format they lose that ability, which is the real power that they currently have.
An open standard also makes it much more viable for smaller companies and organizations to consider not using a Microsoft product because they don't need the full suite, and feel safe that they can use a different product and not be left in a "document ghetto". It would take awhile for this knowledge to disseminate amongst the unwashed digital masses, but once they figured it out, Microsoft would lose some sales, possibly a big chunk.
To be fair, when claiming IT professionals were the "worst treated evah!", I did put my comments inside a [rant] tag;)
Absolutely, there are other mistreated/maligned professionals in the world. But to be fair (and please correct me if I'm wrong), if you're a pilot - you're manager can't decide to replace you with "Bob's kid who's real smart with planes". Unfortunately that's exactly what can happen in the IT field. A more likely scenario is that Bob's aforementioned progeny would be thrust upon you to "learn the ropes".
Sure, the idea of having an unlicensed, neighborhood kid co-pilot a commercial flight seems absurd. But doesn't having a similarly unqualified, unlicensed, untested kid/young adult be in charge of securing highly sensitive data seem similarly foolish? But it happens all the time. And what's worse, as long as it doesn't blow up in anybodys face, the PHBs think everything is just hunky-dory. This makes them feel justified in getting rid of qualified individuals, and they relish their cost savings (until 1,000/100,000/10,000,000 CC#s or SS#s are lost).
Sure, or maybe the "I have a business major and/or MBA!" Senior Execs who the IT managers undoubtedly report to, need to get a clue and allocate a real budget to their IT staff.
I bet replacing/upgrading/changing the hardware/software that was to blame across TJX's entire corporate infrastructure would have cost much less than the $1 billion dollars that dealing with the current situation could purportedly cost.
[Rant begins here]Now I'm not saying the IT management were blameless either. But the greater issue IMHO is that IT is treated with disdain. IT managers are often treated as something to be tolerated by businesses. This is a horrible backwards, outdated mindset. Unfortunately, IT professionals seem to be doing very little to change this.
At this point, IT is vital, vital to any $10M/year or higher in revenues (to pick an arbitrary number) business. But it is often treated as though it's some glorified janitorial service. Attention MBAs, IT is not there to clean up your screwed up PC and make sure your blackberry works. Sure, that's part of their bailiwick, but until corporate managers start realizing that their business live and die by their IT infrastructure (as the TJX debacle clearly demonstrates), these mistakes will happen over and over again.
The other side of the coin are the people who work in IT itself. I don't know if it's because we were the ones who were picked on in junior high, or what. But I do know that IT professionals are the most ill-treated group of highly-skilled professionals around. Why there isn't some sort of real guild/league/association of IT professionals eludes me. Look at doctors and lawyers. They have the AMA, and the bar (forgive me if my details here aren't exactly correct, but I think my point is clear), they have specialized degrees, and they don't take sh*t from anyone. Why because they know they have unique knowledge and they expect to be compensated accordingly. And when someone tries to muck up their good racket they have going, their professional organizations lobby groups kick into high gear and start shredding whoever it is that wants to take their candy.
On the other hand, when anyone even tries to mention the idea of some formalized "union-like" IT organization, all of the IT types start screaming bloody murder, and all this weird pseudo-libertarian, free market babble starts gurgling out from their pie holes. Attention IT professionals, this isn't about political philosophy. It's about fighting, scratching, "give me my piece of the pie you *sshole" capitalism. IT professionals need to wake up and take control of their situation. I assure you the big boys at the top of the heap love watching you scramble about at their beckon call while their billions of dollars are funneled through systems you keep running with wire and glue because you don't want to rock the boat by asking for a bigger, strike that, realistic budget.
I'm not sure what the right steps would be to start moving towards forming a professional IT organization with real power (as in you can't get jack done on your computers unless you use someone from our guild anymore than you can litigate or perform surgery with out a bar certified lawyer or board certified doctor), but until that happens, IT workers will be thralls and TJX's and TSA laptop debacles, and IBM outsourcing hoo-ha's etc. will happen based solely on the whims of people who think that Excel macros are software and phone cords are what connect computers on a LAN. And just to be clear, Microsoft, ITT Tech, COMP-TIA, CISCO certifications do not cut the mustard as they do not exist to help you in anyway. The benefit you gain is a sliver of what the organizations who dole them out make from your labor.[Rant ends here]
Even better, you can use many/most existing ActiveX controls with RealBasic.
This is nice because you can get your VB6 application running and still use the ActiveX controls you need, but then start migrating the functionality that the ActiveX controls provide over to native RealBasic controls. Even if you have one or two particular DLL/OCX's that you can't immediately part with, you can still get the rest of the app cross platform.
For example, I have an app that has mostly OS X/Tiger clients, but there is a image scanner that the client has to use, and said scanner can only be accessed by calling a particular ActiveX control. Since RB supports conditional compilation, the application has one code base, but still has a window object that calls the ActiveX scanning control if the app is running on a Windows client. So my client has one Windows XP box to access the scanner, while all of the other users run the app on OS X 10.4. I've tested the client on Ubuntu Edgy Eft as well, though no one uses this build currently.
I also made a video training application that used QuickTime on OS9/OS X, but used Windows Media Player on 98/2000/XP to play back the training videos (they were mpegs), allowing the app to be used on Windows without the (at the time) hassle of trying to get QuickTime for Windows to function. I called WMP using COM through RB, but again, only one Win clients thanks to conditional compilation.
Once you're able to migrate away from all of the ActiveX functionality , you can have access to all the gooey, cross-platform goodness. And even if you can't get rid of that one Active X control, you have the ability to sandbox it and have the rest of the app still be cross-platform.
It should be noted that many functions provided by ActiveX controls and DLLs can be replaced using RealBasic plugins, the most exceptional plugin being Christian Schmitz's MBS Real Basic Plugin.
Sounds like the poster above had a negative experience, but RB2006 has worked great every time I've used it. My understanding is that Real Software switched to building RealBasic in RealBasic so that they had to "eat their own dog food". I find that to be commendable, not arrogant or smug.
I think RealBasic is a great alternative to people who have been working in VB6. Compiled apps are standalone binaries (unless you specifically need a special library, say for using a 3rd party scanner), and so DLL-Hell is avoided on Windows. It has great database support too, using SQLite for local data storage, and connecting to DBs like MySQL, Postgre, SQLServer, OpenBase, and Oracle also. It's object-orientation is also far beyond what VB6 has to offer. Plus it comes with a VB6 importer which can really help if the imported project isn't too big or too much of a mess.
As far as whether RB2006 is "teh sux0r" or not, I think the best way to get a feel for how RB2006 is doing is to read their New Users Group mailing list archive, which gives a good impression of the overall happiness of RB users as well as some insight into the strengths and weaknesses of the language.
McMaster University did, in fact, recently announce the discovery of the remains of a gigantic ape. Not "the first" or "the only" giant ape, just of "a". While the summary might have benefited from a sentence clarifying that this wasn't the first discovery of Gigantopithecus blackii, and that the exciting part of the discovery was that is showed that these "giant apes" lived at the same time as modern humans, there is nothing inherently false or deceptive in the opening line of the article summary.
Our beloved Slashdot editors do make errors from time to time, but this is not one of them.
Widgets might not be the only Apple product to be inspired by Sun's Looking Glass project.
This screenshot from the Sun website seems very similar to the UI for Apple's new Front Row application that comes bundled with the new iMacs. I recall seeing an animation of this during a demonstration of Looking glass, and I believe the CDs moved in the same "circular 3D plane" motion that Front Row's application icons move in when you are toggling between applications.
Did anyone else realize that the author of the Byte article worked for FTL games? They made the awesome dungeon-crawler "Dungeon Master", which I played religiously on my Amiga 2000 HD back in the day.
It was the first game that truly scared the crap outta me. I had the Amiga hooked up to the stereo (yeah for RCA outs), with my speakers on either side of the monitor for full stereo effect. Had the volume cranked up, and a mummy jumped out from around the corner and hissed at me. I literally fell out of my chair. My party bit the dust too!:)
Any doubts I had that the Amiga was the coolest thing I'd ever owned in my life were totally eliminated in about one second of mummy attack. Awesome. Sorry for the OT post.
I don't understand why you "need" Access to line up the numbers? Do you have some home-grown or purchased Access application that parses the data? Is the data only available via.mdb?
I'd suggest looking at this as a possibility if the data is "trapped" in a.mdb file. Or if you have "rolled your own" Access solution.
Otherwise, I'd look at getting Virtual PC and running Access that way. VPC isn't blazing for games and such - but it should do just fine for running a data sorting program.
You could also setup a work or home PC running Windows for remote access via RDP or VNC and handle the problem that way.
All that being said - if you/your firm have "rolled your own" Access solution, I would just bite the bullet and replace it with FileMaker. It's much easier to use, much more stable, and totally Mac/Windows cross-platform. I think you'll be very happy with the change.
One thing to look out for if your writing a RealBasic application for Linux is DB support. There are many database plugins for RB but I've had issues getting some of them to work properly on Linux (though it's been awhile since I've tried so things may have improved).
Anyway, if you're a licensed VB6 user, you probably have a Windows machine, so why not get the free RB license and give it a whirl. It is a "better basic" than VB6, mostly because it's a real OOP environment and is actively being worked on by a company that lives or dies on it being a good product.
Uh, yeah - you left out the next sentence from TFA. :
"This is not what happened."
So the complete version of the paragraph you quoted reads:
"The most disturbing report was that Steve Jobs, after his Mac OS X Server demonstration went awry, was obviously angry, cut his speech short, and left the stage so abruptly, that when the demo began working, he was long gone. This is not what happened."
In other words, Mac Observer wrote that Mr. Jobs didn't storm off the stage and that they don't understand why Jason O'Grady (whose report is the one being mentioned) claimed that he did.
What, if anything, does this story have to do with adding/decreasing the credence of the "security through obscurity" myth/theory?
Is there something really valuable to be gained by hacking Symbian phones? Some financial motive that gets people motivated to hack. Or is it just an insecure OS easily hacked?
Agrees with me on what? I wasn't advocating any point of view. I was lamenting the fact that important decisions are less and less often being made based on reason.
I tried to make it clear that I though the problem was endemic and not limited to any particular group by mentioning groups from the "left" (environmentalists/animal rights activists) and the "right" (christian conservatives).
I'm not concerned with any one group winning their agenda. I'm concerned about the bitterness and combativeness reaching such high-pitched levels that no problems get solved in a reasoned manner. That no compromises are ever made.
What I am concerned about is fundamentalism in any form. No extreme "only my way is right" viewpoint ever benefits a country or its citizenry in the long run. Instead, it's usually the hallmark of a societies' decline.
I happen to think this is relevant to an issue like nuclear power, where the risks and rewards are complicated, the technology is hard to understand, and there seem to be a "fundamentalist" no-nukes contingent in our society. So if I'm advocating anything, it's not nuclear power, it's a reasoned discussion of nuclear power as an energy source for our county.
For better or worse, your post demonstrates my point.
There's no reasoned argument in your response, just a made up and odd example about tigers jumping through hoops on TV (I'm not sure why you chose such an odd example) and some basic finger pointing, about how those Europeans have even more "wack-jobs" than we do without any relevant information to back up your claim.
The last time I was in Germany (part or Europe) I had a whopper in Berlin. It wasn't a veggie whopper, it was made with beef.
It would be strange if a government allowed people to eat cows but was vehemently against tigers jumping through hoops in commercials. Of course, the German government isn't against tigers jumping through hoops in commercials anymore than they're against beef consumption. This is less surprising considering that "tigers jumping through hoops" is just something you made up.
I am not trying to judge my fellow United States citizens or say that the election of President Bush was wrong. I am pointing out that it seems to me that the discourse over political and social issues seems to be falling out of the realm of reason. With reason being replaced by various forms of fundamentalism . I personally find this a disturbing trend that will lead to more rancor, more attacks against people and institutions, and less of our nations problems being solved because the energy and thought that could have been applied to solutions will instead be wasted on figuring out better ways to get those bible-thumpers/gays/tree-huggers etc..
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Yes. And then you go to Settings->Safari->Databases and erase any databases you don't want to keep. Just like you clear out cookies you don't want. Cookies that allow "cookie tracking" that "uniquely identifies you to advertisers". From a "managing my private data on my iPhone" perspective, I happen to prefer the databases so far, because they are easier to identify and delete than cookies are.
Also, as far as I can see, the databases are based on sqlite, making it really nice for web developers to keep well-organized data client-side that they can retrieve using standard SQL queries embedded in javascript. I for one would rather have more of my data on my local device where I can easily(see above) delete it than stored out in the cloud. If having a good way to store more data in an organized fashion encourages developers (yes even "evil" ad developers) to store more of my data locally by making local storage more convenient and powerful for those developers, I'm all for that.
If you want to complain about something, complain that mobile Safari doesn't have a private browsing mode, meaning you have to manually delete cache/history/cookies/databases after any browsing you'd prefer to keep anonymous. That stinks IMHO.
Anyone have facts to back this up? Not trying to jump down anyone's throat. Genuinely curious if this has been measured.
Also curious if this exploit really only affects IE? If it doesn't affect FireFox doesn't that mean that IE is also part of the problem?
So are you still saying you have almost no anxiety or just that you're relieved when you feel it however slight? I am prone to getting very anxious, and something that could make that all but go away forever would at least illicit further investigation.
That MS Office kicks OO's butt is very true, but if ODF became the de facto standard instead of a Microsoft controlled format, then it might become much more attractive/viable to business with deep pockets to try to make a legitimate office competitor.
Right now dumping a lot of resources into building a competing office sweet would be very risky from a business standpoint, since Microsoft can (if they feel sufficiently threatened) significantly alter the format to break competing products. The second they lose control of the format they lose that ability, which is the real power that they currently have.
An open standard also makes it much more viable for smaller companies and organizations to consider not using a Microsoft product because they don't need the full suite, and feel safe that they can use a different product and not be left in a "document ghetto". It would take awhile for this knowledge to disseminate amongst the unwashed digital masses, but once they figured it out, Microsoft would lose some sales, possibly a big chunk.
To be fair, when claiming IT professionals were the "worst treated evah!", I did put my comments inside a [rant] tag ;)
Absolutely, there are other mistreated/maligned professionals in the world. But to be fair (and please correct me if I'm wrong), if you're a pilot - you're manager can't decide to replace you with "Bob's kid who's real smart with planes". Unfortunately that's exactly what can happen in the IT field. A more likely scenario is that Bob's aforementioned progeny would be thrust upon you to "learn the ropes".
Sure, the idea of having an unlicensed, neighborhood kid co-pilot a commercial flight seems absurd. But doesn't having a similarly unqualified, unlicensed, untested kid/young adult be in charge of securing highly sensitive data seem similarly foolish? But it happens all the time. And what's worse, as long as it doesn't blow up in anybodys face, the PHBs think everything is just hunky-dory. This makes them feel justified in getting rid of qualified individuals, and they relish their cost savings (until 1,000/100,000/10,000,000 CC#s or SS#s are lost).
Sure, or maybe the "I have a business major and/or MBA!" Senior Execs who the IT managers undoubtedly report to, need to get a clue and allocate a real budget to their IT staff.
I bet replacing/upgrading/changing the hardware/software that was to blame across TJX's entire corporate infrastructure would have cost much less than the $1 billion dollars that dealing with the current situation could purportedly cost.
[Rant begins here]Now I'm not saying the IT management were blameless either. But the greater issue IMHO is that IT is treated with disdain. IT managers are often treated as something to be tolerated by businesses. This is a horrible backwards, outdated mindset. Unfortunately, IT professionals seem to be doing very little to change this.
At this point, IT is vital, vital to any $10M/year or higher in revenues (to pick an arbitrary number) business. But it is often treated as though it's some glorified janitorial service. Attention MBAs, IT is not there to clean up your screwed up PC and make sure your blackberry works. Sure, that's part of their bailiwick, but until corporate managers start realizing that their business live and die by their IT infrastructure (as the TJX debacle clearly demonstrates), these mistakes will happen over and over again.
The other side of the coin are the people who work in IT itself. I don't know if it's because we were the ones who were picked on in junior high, or what. But I do know that IT professionals are the most ill-treated group of highly-skilled professionals around. Why there isn't some sort of real guild/league/association of IT professionals eludes me. Look at doctors and lawyers. They have the AMA, and the bar (forgive me if my details here aren't exactly correct, but I think my point is clear), they have specialized degrees, and they don't take sh*t from anyone. Why because they know they have unique knowledge and they expect to be compensated accordingly. And when someone tries to muck up their good racket they have going, their professional organizations lobby groups kick into high gear and start shredding whoever it is that wants to take their candy.
On the other hand, when anyone even tries to mention the idea of some formalized "union-like" IT organization, all of the IT types start screaming bloody murder, and all this weird pseudo-libertarian, free market babble starts gurgling out from their pie holes. Attention IT professionals, this isn't about political philosophy. It's about fighting, scratching, "give me my piece of the pie you *sshole" capitalism. IT professionals need to wake up and take control of their situation. I assure you the big boys at the top of the heap love watching you scramble about at their beckon call while their billions of dollars are funneled through systems you keep running with wire and glue because you don't want to rock the boat by asking for a bigger, strike that, realistic budget.
I'm not sure what the right steps would be to start moving towards forming a professional IT organization with real power (as in you can't get jack done on your computers unless you use someone from our guild anymore than you can litigate or perform surgery with out a bar certified lawyer or board certified doctor), but until that happens, IT workers will be thralls and TJX's and TSA laptop debacles, and IBM outsourcing hoo-ha's etc. will happen based solely on the whims of people who think that Excel macros are software and phone cords are what connect computers on a LAN. And just to be clear, Microsoft, ITT Tech, COMP-TIA, CISCO certifications do not cut the mustard as they do not exist to help you in anyway. The benefit you gain is a sliver of what the organizations who dole them out make from your labor.[Rant ends here]
Even better, you can use many/most existing ActiveX controls with RealBasic.
This is nice because you can get your VB6 application running and still use the ActiveX controls you need, but then start migrating the functionality that the ActiveX controls provide over to native RealBasic controls. Even if you have one or two particular DLL/OCX's that you can't immediately part with, you can still get the rest of the app cross platform.
For example, I have an app that has mostly OS X/Tiger clients, but there is a image scanner that the client has to use, and said scanner can only be accessed by calling a particular ActiveX control. Since RB supports conditional compilation, the application has one code base, but still has a window object that calls the ActiveX scanning control if the app is running on a Windows client. So my client has one Windows XP box to access the scanner, while all of the other users run the app on OS X 10.4. I've tested the client on Ubuntu Edgy Eft as well, though no one uses this build currently.
I also made a video training application that used QuickTime on OS9/OS X, but used Windows Media Player on 98/2000/XP to play back the training videos (they were mpegs), allowing the app to be used on Windows without the (at the time) hassle of trying to get QuickTime for Windows to function. I called WMP using COM through RB, but again, only one Win clients thanks to conditional compilation.
Once you're able to migrate away from all of the ActiveX functionality , you can have access to all the gooey, cross-platform goodness. And even if you can't get rid of that one Active X control, you have the ability to sandbox it and have the rest of the app still be cross-platform.
It should be noted that many functions provided by ActiveX controls and DLLs can be replaced using RealBasic plugins, the most exceptional plugin being Christian Schmitz's MBS Real Basic Plugin.
Sounds like the poster above had a negative experience, but RB2006 has worked great every time I've used it. My understanding is that Real Software switched to building RealBasic in RealBasic so that they had to "eat their own dog food". I find that to be commendable, not arrogant or smug.
I think RealBasic is a great alternative to people who have been working in VB6. Compiled apps are standalone binaries (unless you specifically need a special library, say for using a 3rd party scanner), and so DLL-Hell is avoided on Windows. It has great database support too, using SQLite for local data storage, and connecting to DBs like MySQL, Postgre, SQLServer, OpenBase, and Oracle also. It's object-orientation is also far beyond what VB6 has to offer. Plus it comes with a VB6 importer which can really help if the imported project isn't too big or too much of a mess.
As far as whether RB2006 is "teh sux0r" or not, I think the best way to get a feel for how RB2006 is doing is to read their New Users Group mailing list archive, which gives a good impression of the overall happiness of RB users as well as some insight into the strengths and weaknesses of the language.
Upon re-reading TFA I realize that you are right, I am wrong, and I just have to deal with that.
McMaster University did, in fact, recently announce the discovery of the remains of a gigantic ape. Not "the first" or "the only" giant ape, just of "a". While the summary might have benefited from a sentence clarifying that this wasn't the first discovery of Gigantopithecus blackii, and that the exciting part of the discovery was that is showed that these "giant apes" lived at the same time as modern humans, there is nothing inherently false or deceptive in the opening line of the article summary.
Our beloved Slashdot editors do make errors from time to time, but this is not one of them.
Tell that to WalMart. Always exploited workers, always.
Widgets might not be the only Apple product to be inspired by Sun's Looking Glass project.
This screenshot from the Sun website seems very similar to the UI for Apple's new Front Row application that comes bundled with the new iMacs. I recall seeing an animation of this during a demonstration of Looking glass, and I believe the CDs moved in the same "circular 3D plane" motion that Front Row's application icons move in when you are toggling between applications.
And here's the coral cache link for it....
i mages/category1015.aspx
http://bink.nu.nyud.net:8090/photos/news_article_
[Rant] Is it so freaking hard to post the link as a Coral Cache link???
i ew1
You just take the existing url www.test.com/stuff.htm and add ".nyud.net:8090"
www.test.com.nyud.net:8090/stuff.htm
Or for this site:
http://pdc.xbetas.com.nyud.net:8090/?page=o12prev
That's it! It's easy and would let sooo many more people see the article.[/rant]
Speaking of Amiga...
:)
Did anyone else realize that the author of the Byte article worked for FTL games? They made the awesome dungeon-crawler "Dungeon Master", which I played religiously on my Amiga 2000 HD back in the day.
It was the first game that truly scared the crap outta me. I had the Amiga hooked up to the stereo (yeah for RCA outs), with my speakers on either side of the monitor for full stereo effect. Had the volume cranked up, and a mummy jumped out from around the corner and hissed at me. I literally fell out of my chair. My party bit the dust too!
Any doubts I had that the Amiga was the coolest thing I'd ever owned in my life were totally eliminated in about one second of mummy attack. Awesome. Sorry for the OT post.
I don't understand why you "need" Access to line up the numbers? Do you have some home-grown or purchased Access application that parses the data? Is the data only available via .mdb?
.mdb file. Or if you have "rolled your own" Access solution.
I'd suggest looking at this as a possibility if the data is "trapped" in a
Otherwise, I'd look at getting Virtual PC and running Access that way. VPC isn't blazing for games and such - but it should do just fine for running a data sorting program.
You could also setup a work or home PC running Windows for remote access via RDP or VNC and handle the problem that way.
All that being said - if you/your firm have "rolled your own" Access solution, I would just bite the bullet and replace it with FileMaker. It's much easier to use, much more stable, and totally Mac/Windows cross-platform. I think you'll be very happy with the change.
The about to be released version of RealBasic does allow the IDE to run on Linux and is written in RealBasic.
This implies that its Linux support will be more robust than the current version's.
Also, if you have a VB 6 license, you can get a free RealBasic Standard for Windows license through April 15th.
One thing to look out for if your writing a RealBasic application for Linux is DB support. There are many database plugins for RB but I've had issues getting some of them to work properly on Linux (though it's been awhile since I've tried so things may have improved).
Anyway, if you're a licensed VB6 user, you probably have a Windows machine, so why not get the free RB license and give it a whirl. It is a "better basic" than VB6, mostly because it's a real OOP environment and is actively being worked on by a company that lives or dies on it being a good product.
HTH
And do I have to pay for those new Linux distributions? Or that new version of Open Office?
And do you not have to pay for the new version of Windows or MS Office?
Not that I'm against paying for software, but let's compare apple's to apple's.
eXeem Lite 0.18
Giving it a spin in VPC7/Win2ksp4 on 10.3(Panther) and it seems to run great, even in the background.
And since it's a virtual machine, I don't really care if it gets mucked up.
Uh, yeah - you left out the next sentence from TFA. :
"This is not what happened."
So the complete version of the paragraph you quoted reads:
"The most disturbing report was that Steve Jobs, after his Mac OS X Server demonstration went awry, was obviously angry, cut his speech short, and left the stage so abruptly, that when the demo began working, he was long gone. This is not what happened."
In other words, Mac Observer wrote that Mr. Jobs didn't storm off the stage and that they don't understand why Jason O'Grady (whose report is the one being mentioned) claimed that he did.
If you look at Yeahronimo's website, there's talk about selling ringtones and realtones (presumably for cellphones).
Maybe they want to make a C64 emulator for cellphones and sell/rent old C64 games to cellphone customers.
What, if anything, does this story have to do with adding/decreasing the credence of the "security through obscurity" myth/theory?
Is there something really valuable to be gained by hacking Symbian phones? Some financial motive that gets people motivated to hack. Or is it just an insecure OS easily hacked?
Here is the Google cache of the page. The Coral Cache was going very slow for me.
Agrees with me on what? I wasn't advocating any point of view. I was lamenting the fact that important decisions are less and less often being made based on reason.
I tried to make it clear that I though the problem was endemic and not limited to any particular group by mentioning groups from the "left" (environmentalists/animal rights activists) and the "right" (christian conservatives).
I'm not concerned with any one group winning their agenda. I'm concerned about the bitterness and combativeness reaching such high-pitched levels that no problems get solved in a reasoned manner. That no compromises are ever made.
What I am concerned about is fundamentalism in any form. No extreme "only my way is right" viewpoint ever benefits a country or its citizenry in the long run. Instead, it's usually the hallmark of a societies' decline.
I happen to think this is relevant to an issue like nuclear power, where the risks and rewards are complicated, the technology is hard to understand, and there seem to be a "fundamentalist" no-nukes contingent in our society. So if I'm advocating anything, it's not nuclear power, it's a reasoned discussion of nuclear power as an energy source for our county.
For better or worse, your post demonstrates my point.
There's no reasoned argument in your response, just a made up and odd example about tigers jumping through hoops on TV (I'm not sure why you chose such an odd example) and some basic finger pointing, about how those Europeans have even more "wack-jobs" than we do without any relevant information to back up your claim.
The last time I was in Germany (part or Europe) I had a whopper in Berlin. It wasn't a veggie whopper, it was made with beef.
It would be strange if a government allowed people to eat cows but was vehemently against tigers jumping through hoops in commercials. Of course, the German government isn't against tigers jumping through hoops in commercials anymore than they're against beef consumption. This is less surprising considering that "tigers jumping through hoops" is just something you made up.
I am not trying to judge my fellow United States citizens or say that the election of President Bush was wrong. I am pointing out that it seems to me that the discourse over political and social issues seems to be falling out of the realm of reason. With reason being replaced by various forms of fundamentalism . I personally find this a disturbing trend that will lead to more rancor, more attacks against people and institutions, and less of our nations problems being solved because the energy and thought that could have been applied to solutions will instead be wasted on figuring out better ways to get those bible-thumpers/gays/tree-huggers etc..