Take a look, educate yourself. I'm sure you can find something like it for android as well. If you can't understand how thats better than a text book than theres not a lot that can be done for you in general.
The current flash on that page displays a demo of someone using a textbook. THAT is HOW text books SHOULD BE DONE. It doesn't have to be iBooks or an iPad, but that general concept is freaking awesome and just goes to show how Billy and the Gates foundation in general aren't about helping the world so much as finding another way to rip it off.
They had two things going for them. They had physical keyboards and push email. Basically the best messaging in town.
Then reality hit, Apple and Google intro'd iOS and Android. EVERYONE has push now, and there NO third party crap involved. BES was a horrible pile of crap.
So RIM tried to follow Android/iOS and be all touch based... so you lost all those people. Now you're going to sell the ONE think left that people use you for? I was talking to a client the other day who's statement to us when asking if we should ass support for their blackberry's to our product they responded 'no, they are dying quick enough, we can't want to get rid of all the BES stuff'. So everyone knows they don't want your messaging either.
Dear RIM, you really need to hire someone who has their eyes open to run your company, I don't think you've had anyone that can see or hear (literally) in years with the way you're behaving. This is the sort of thing that should get you arrested for trying to destroy whats left of a company.
isn't going to happen when you keep calling them assholes because they won't support all 6 of you.
If you can't understand why Linux support is going to continue to suck, you really don't need to be posting on the Internet. You like a basic understanding of the way the world works.
I'll give you one basic hint though, as I said, when you keep rallying behind people in your community that throw temper tantrums when the rest of the world doesn't see it the same way and they can't understand why... you pretty much lose any chance of any intelligent company supporting you. The only people who are going to support you are those that can't make it main stream for various reasons and they need a niche market to help them survive... this companies also tend to produce shit products, hence why they are relegated to niche markets for standard products.
Keep calling people assholes and then wondering why you have no friends, go ahead, we'll continue to shake our heads in disappointment that you still haven't grown up.
God I hope not. If you guys are where the evolutionary tree is leading us we better branch hard now.
God knows I don't want to end up being someone elses bitch like you guys are ours now. Maybe in another couple hundred years you guys won't have to do everything we tell you on command too, eh?
All I see is a bunch of pictures of black dudes holding up signs, the images clearly photoshopped, no point in believing any of them are real in any way.
The entire world uses Israel to keep the middle east destabilized so they don't band together and become a problem by controlling oil reserves. No one is going to let anything serious happen over there, and if it did, you have Israel with American military equipment (undisputed second best in the world), which they've upgraded, oh, and they've been fighting with it their entire lives against everyone around them. I wouldn't want to see America fight Israel, I'm fairly certain if they were unleashed they'd have no problem walking across most of the middle east and owning it in about 2 weeks. You need to take a look at history. Israel is not someone you want to deal with when they aren't on their leash.
Its cute that you think anyone outside the middle easy cares about anything more than oil, but its really sad that you're that disconnected from reality.
Lets see, one of them is the company that makes the software... so they actually DO DECIDE the defaults, its really screwed up that you're too stupid to get that part.
The other one helped create the specification we're discussing... so again, they have a little bit of a clue about it.
Basically both authorities are about 10 million times more qualified to discuss YOUR software defaults than YOU are apparently.
AWStats doesn't 'track' you, it simply counts some numbers up from log files. It can't tell you what I bought last tuesday at a participating retailer.
, I can't have any real data in there for testing due to regulatory constraints.
I'd be willing to bet that if you aren't allowed to download it to run locally for testing purposes due to regulations that its almost certainly that you're not allowed to download it and test it live for those very same reasons since you will still end up with the data on your drives. VM with snapshots or unused space and leftover swap (vm, not os)... I'll bet you 5 and pay triple that you're already well past compliance, you just don't know it.
VB6 installs fine as long as you run it as an admin.
Never noticed the slow dragging thing, but then I must admit, I don't use the gui form editor, never really have after initial layout, I find that GUI designers are far more trouble than they are worth and make my RCS logs look ugly.
- Microsoft broke ADO's COM interface in Win7sp1 last year. http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/windowsgeneraldevelopmentissues/thread/3a4ce946-effa-4f77-98a6-34f11c6b5a13 [microsoft.com] When you try to run a program that's early bound to ADO and been compiled on a Win 7 machine, and then install it on an older 32bit OS, all your ADO calls will throw automation errors. We worked around it by compiling the VB code on XP machines before moving to our dev servers. There's no problem compiling on an older machine and running it on a new machine though. This is only a problem if you're early bound to ADO though.
Having had to deal with that very issue... You doing it wrong.
Microsoft RARELY breaks things if you did it as documented, which you were not. This one is certainly not the first one where this has happened, and its certainly not the first time I've had to fix some's code that 'Microsoft broke'.
- Compiling a COM object will automatically register it to the location you compiled it. This might not be possible with UAC on. Haven't tried it with UAC on, but regsvr32.exe won't run properly with UAC on, so I'm assuming VB can't register anything either.
I'm fairly certain it doesn't work in any version of visual studio on Win 6 kernels. I haven't used VS2k10 so it may for it, but automatic registration is extremely against what UAC is there to stop so it makes complete sense for it to not work. Thats one of those 'development requires a unique environment' thing, and its certainly not the only thing. You run your developer account with debugging rights don't you? Another non-standard setting.
You can of course, manually register and turn off auto registration, or run as an admin in which case it works perfectly other than you have to run as an admin. If you're going to use a feature that is directly incompatible with another feature, something has to give.
You sir, are a spoiled brat. Seriously, you have no idea what 'bad' is if you think your desktop is horrible.
no opportunity for upward mobility without shifting to a completely different role that requires a completely different set of skills and training....a tight ceiling on the salary....spending most of your day typing on a computer rather than socializing...and so on. Working long hours without at least collecting overtime pay for them just adds injury to insult.
Ignoring the socializing part since I think you fail to understand that work is about you are performing a service for someone else, not clubbing...
Everything else you listed there is true for virtually every job on the planet.
My god, they fucking expect you TO WORK for a salary?!?! Those sons of bitches! If you want hourly pay, ask for it, I'm 100% certain you're employer would love to give it to you. Go ahead, that'll be a nice way for you to get a clue and what you deserve.
Actually, I'd wager to bet you don't even work summer jobs between school sessions, do you?
Did you seriously just say VisualStudio sucks because it doesn't auto insert brackets? I'm pretty sure thats what you just said once the bullshit was translated out of it. I'm fairly certain you're rather inept at using computers.
Also did you seriously imply that all the VisualStudio editors function the same? I'd take a guess that your problem is whatever LISP addin you used for VisualStudio sucked.
It may not be the best for anyone, but your reasoning for it sucking is pretty ignorant.
Yes, because using American terms to describe the Swedish legal system makes total sense!
They don't charge you until they talk to you. Period. You get a chance to tell your side of the story before they even charge you, as such, when they think you did it, they have to be able to drag your guilty, running from the cops ass back to sweden so they can legally charge you.
If you want to get it over with quickly and you actually aren't guilty of anything, you go in for questioning and then its over.
That's the problem with you conspiracy theorists...you don't think of the simplest solutions. Occam's Razor...
Yea, I don't get that. We (USA) could literally send a uniformed soldier in there to shoot him in the head while he's in the UK, say 'My bad', and they'd give us our guy back and say 'shame on you!!!' and then ask us over for tea later. If we wanted him, we'd have had him long ago.
We don't work like that. Enemies of America have accidents or become the target of international wars. We don't fuck around with trying to get him from you legally, we just shoot him and go home. Its better to ask for forgiveness than permission.
Schiener is kind of going off the deep end these days. He's getting a little too preachy, starting to sound like a laid back RMS.
The reality of it is however, Stuxnet was a far better alternative than any of the likely alternatives such as explosives or other deadly methods of stopping the program.
Seriously, why is it that every time we find a safer, less lethal/damaging way to accomplish the same thing some idiot comes around and pretends that its going to be the end of the world even though its thousands of times less damaging than the bomb it replaced.
They pulled their business because NO ONE IS BUYING THE DEVICES.
Whats difficult to understand here? No one buys these devices anymore, so they'll reducing the amount of manufacturing potential they have rather than keeping a production line ready and costing them to sit idle. This is just another part of the death spiral to everyone with their eyes open.
The profound thing your missing is that as a developer, if you feel the need to debate over the qualities of your language or style of programming (i.e. functional versus OO or whatever) then you have no right to actually be part of the debate.
The language doesn't matter that much, and the people trying to convince you why one is better than the other aren't experienced enough to realize that yet. The more someone implies that one language is the way to go or one style is the way to go for a certain task, the less likely it is that you should believe them.
The people who know what they are doing have no need to tell others about why what they are doing is the right way on slashdot.
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Sorry, he's older than me and hasn't been 'in the field longer than I' in fact, a little bet less actually.
Just because you're fresh out of high school doesn't mean the rest of us are.
http://www.apple.com/education/
Take a look, educate yourself. I'm sure you can find something like it for android as well. If you can't understand how thats better than a text book than theres not a lot that can be done for you in general.
low cost desktops (or laptops) are better for students overall
Not if they don't use them or don't have them with them when they want/need to use them because they are too big/bulky.
Preface: I am an apple fanboy ... but ...
iBook for text books has the best damn demo I've ever seen as to why exactly tablets would make freaking AWESOME textbook replacements.
http://www.apple.com/education/
The current flash on that page displays a demo of someone using a textbook. THAT is HOW text books SHOULD BE DONE. It doesn't have to be iBooks or an iPad, but that general concept is freaking awesome and just goes to show how Billy and the Gates foundation in general aren't about helping the world so much as finding another way to rip it off.
They had two things going for them. They had physical keyboards and push email. Basically the best messaging in town.
Then reality hit, Apple and Google intro'd iOS and Android. EVERYONE has push now, and there NO third party crap involved. BES was a horrible pile of crap.
So RIM tried to follow Android/iOS and be all touch based ... so you lost all those people. Now you're going to sell the ONE think left that people use you for? I was talking to a client the other day who's statement to us when asking if we should ass support for their blackberry's to our product they responded 'no, they are dying quick enough, we can't want to get rid of all the BES stuff'. So everyone knows they don't want your messaging either.
Dear RIM, you really need to hire someone who has their eyes open to run your company, I don't think you've had anyone that can see or hear (literally) in years with the way you're behaving. This is the sort of thing that should get you arrested for trying to destroy whats left of a company.
isn't going to happen when you keep calling them assholes because they won't support all 6 of you.
If you can't understand why Linux support is going to continue to suck, you really don't need to be posting on the Internet. You like a basic understanding of the way the world works.
I'll give you one basic hint though, as I said, when you keep rallying behind people in your community that throw temper tantrums when the rest of the world doesn't see it the same way and they can't understand why ... you pretty much lose any chance of any intelligent company supporting you. The only people who are going to support you are those that can't make it main stream for various reasons and they need a niche market to help them survive ... this companies also tend to produce shit products, hence why they are relegated to niche markets for standard products.
Keep calling people assholes and then wondering why you have no friends, go ahead, we'll continue to shake our heads in disappointment that you still haven't grown up.
God I hope not. If you guys are where the evolutionary tree is leading us we better branch hard now.
God knows I don't want to end up being someone elses bitch like you guys are ours now. Maybe in another couple hundred years you guys won't have to do everything we tell you on command too, eh?
All I see is a bunch of pictures of black dudes holding up signs, the images clearly photoshopped, no point in believing any of them are real in any way.
The entire world uses Israel to keep the middle east destabilized so they don't band together and become a problem by controlling oil reserves. No one is going to let anything serious happen over there, and if it did, you have Israel with American military equipment (undisputed second best in the world), which they've upgraded, oh, and they've been fighting with it their entire lives against everyone around them. I wouldn't want to see America fight Israel, I'm fairly certain if they were unleashed they'd have no problem walking across most of the middle east and owning it in about 2 weeks. You need to take a look at history. Israel is not someone you want to deal with when they aren't on their leash.
Its cute that you think anyone outside the middle easy cares about anything more than oil, but its really sad that you're that disconnected from reality.
Awe, 12 year olds with 'tude are so cute.
Lets see, one of them is the company that makes the software ... so they actually DO DECIDE the defaults, its really screwed up that you're too stupid to get that part.
The other one helped create the specification we're discussing ... so again, they have a little bit of a clue about it.
Basically both authorities are about 10 million times more qualified to discuss YOUR software defaults than YOU are apparently.
AWStats doesn't 'track' you, it simply counts some numbers up from log files. It can't tell you what I bought last tuesday at a participating retailer.
Advertising in no way requires tracking. Stop being such an obtuse douche.
, I can't have any real data in there for testing due to regulatory constraints.
I'd be willing to bet that if you aren't allowed to download it to run locally for testing purposes due to regulations that its almost certainly that you're not allowed to download it and test it live for those very same reasons since you will still end up with the data on your drives. VM with snapshots or unused space and leftover swap (vm, not os) ... I'll bet you 5 and pay triple that you're already well past compliance, you just don't know it.
VB6 installs fine as long as you run it as an admin.
Never noticed the slow dragging thing, but then I must admit, I don't use the gui form editor, never really have after initial layout, I find that GUI designers are far more trouble than they are worth and make my RCS logs look ugly.
- Microsoft broke ADO's COM interface in Win7sp1 last year. http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/windowsgeneraldevelopmentissues/thread/3a4ce946-effa-4f77-98a6-34f11c6b5a13 [microsoft.com] When you try to run a program that's early bound to ADO and been compiled on a Win 7 machine, and then install it on an older 32bit OS, all your ADO calls will throw automation errors. We worked around it by compiling the VB code on XP machines before moving to our dev servers. There's no problem compiling on an older machine and running it on a new machine though. This is only a problem if you're early bound to ADO though.
Having had to deal with that very issue ... You doing it wrong.
Microsoft RARELY breaks things if you did it as documented, which you were not. This one is certainly not the first one where this has happened, and its certainly not the first time I've had to fix some's code that 'Microsoft broke'.
- Compiling a COM object will automatically register it to the location you compiled it. This might not be possible with UAC on. Haven't tried it with UAC on, but regsvr32.exe won't run properly with UAC on, so I'm assuming VB can't register anything either.
I'm fairly certain it doesn't work in any version of visual studio on Win 6 kernels. I haven't used VS2k10 so it may for it, but automatic registration is extremely against what UAC is there to stop so it makes complete sense for it to not work. Thats one of those 'development requires a unique environment' thing, and its certainly not the only thing. You run your developer account with debugging rights don't you? Another non-standard setting.
You can of course, manually register and turn off auto registration, or run as an admin in which case it works perfectly other than you have to run as an admin. If you're going to use a feature that is directly incompatible with another feature, something has to give.
A career in tech is bad enough as it is....
You sir, are a spoiled brat. Seriously, you have no idea what 'bad' is if you think your desktop is horrible.
no opportunity for upward mobility without shifting to a completely different role that requires a completely different set of skills and training....a tight ceiling on the salary....spending most of your day typing on a computer rather than socializing...and so on. Working long hours without at least collecting overtime pay for them just adds injury to insult.
Ignoring the socializing part since I think you fail to understand that work is about you are performing a service for someone else, not clubbing ...
Everything else you listed there is true for virtually every job on the planet.
My god, they fucking expect you TO WORK for a salary?!?! Those sons of bitches! If you want hourly pay, ask for it, I'm 100% certain you're employer would love to give it to you. Go ahead, that'll be a nice way for you to get a clue and what you deserve.
Actually, I'd wager to bet you don't even work summer jobs between school sessions, do you?
ActionScript is JavaSCRIPT, not Java. Entirely different beasts no matter the name. They have no relation to each other.
In contrast, the third-party .NET code generator
You're doing it wrong.
Did you seriously just say VisualStudio sucks because it doesn't auto insert brackets? I'm pretty sure thats what you just said once the bullshit was translated out of it. I'm fairly certain you're rather inept at using computers.
Also did you seriously imply that all the VisualStudio editors function the same? I'd take a guess that your problem is whatever LISP addin you used for VisualStudio sucked.
It may not be the best for anyone, but your reasoning for it sucking is pretty ignorant.
Yes, because using American terms to describe the Swedish legal system makes total sense!
They don't charge you until they talk to you. Period. You get a chance to tell your side of the story before they even charge you, as such, when they think you did it, they have to be able to drag your guilty, running from the cops ass back to sweden so they can legally charge you.
If you want to get it over with quickly and you actually aren't guilty of anything, you go in for questioning and then its over.
That's the problem with you conspiracy theorists...you don't think of the simplest solutions. Occam's Razor...
Yea, I don't get that. We (USA) could literally send a uniformed soldier in there to shoot him in the head while he's in the UK, say 'My bad', and they'd give us our guy back and say 'shame on you!!!' and then ask us over for tea later. If we wanted him, we'd have had him long ago.
We don't work like that. Enemies of America have accidents or become the target of international wars. We don't fuck around with trying to get him from you legally, we just shoot him and go home. Its better to ask for forgiveness than permission.
Schiener is kind of going off the deep end these days. He's getting a little too preachy, starting to sound like a laid back RMS.
The reality of it is however, Stuxnet was a far better alternative than any of the likely alternatives such as explosives or other deadly methods of stopping the program.
Seriously, why is it that every time we find a safer, less lethal/damaging way to accomplish the same thing some idiot comes around and pretends that its going to be the end of the world even though its thousands of times less damaging than the bomb it replaced.
Except Apple didn't patent it. Novell did. Apple bought the patent.
Neither the poster or editor (duh, its timothy) have any idea how patents work I guess.
You don't know what you're talking about on every level. There is nothing accurate about your post.
They pulled their business because NO ONE IS BUYING THE DEVICES.
Whats difficult to understand here? No one buys these devices anymore, so they'll reducing the amount of manufacturing potential they have rather than keeping a production line ready and costing them to sit idle. This is just another part of the death spiral to everyone with their eyes open.
The profound thing your missing is that as a developer, if you feel the need to debate over the qualities of your language or style of programming (i.e. functional versus OO or whatever) then you have no right to actually be part of the debate.
The language doesn't matter that much, and the people trying to convince you why one is better than the other aren't experienced enough to realize that yet. The more someone implies that one language is the way to go or one style is the way to go for a certain task, the less likely it is that you should believe them.
The people who know what they are doing have no need to tell others about why what they are doing is the right way on slashdot.