These damn "My Search" people are a curse! If you try to uninstall their stuff on a Windows machine, all it does is remove the uninstall entry in the registry but actually leaves the software running. It took me hours a few nights ago to get their junk off my PC. My Search is a front-end to Google and a number of other search engines. I've no idea why Google (and the other's) allow My Search to do the things they do.
Why can't one software product "beat" it's competition simply by being better? Why the need to litigate? Be No. 1 because your product is the best, not because you need the law to make it No. 1.
The sub-classing of standard classes has been managed successfully in Java for many years. I've never had the problem where a new version of a class has produced a method with a name the same as one I might have written in a sub-class. Anyway, even if it did happen, the likelihood of it causing a problem is very remote. Java very easily distinguishes between (For example) Method(String string) and Method(boolean flag).
Another thing I've found extremely prohibitive with the standard.NET libraries is that they aren't very extensive (Well, at least not when compared to the Java standard libraries). Of course to work around the limitations of the standard libraries we look for 3rd party libraries. In the case of Java, 3rd party libraries are mostly GPLed and free, where 3rd party.NET libraries are almost always commercial products with fees attached to their licensing.
Actually I think that.NET has a very long way to go before it comes close to being an alternative to Java.
The biggest problem I've had with C# development is that many standard classes are declared final, which means they can't be sub-classed. I assume what has happened is that MS has taken short-cuts and has simply written.NET wrappers for old COM stuff.
Every morning when I go out for a jog in the park, I take my laptop computer with me just in case a cyclist, with an attached mobile Wi-Fi hotspot, happens to be getting a bit of exercise at the same time.
It's great! Lugging the laptop around adds to the exercise potential of my jog and being able to read my spam, while in the middle of my jog, really goes a long way to breaking the boredom of exercise regime.
Even if there are a few hiccups, it's still nice to know that there are laptops available that don't have the "Designed for Microsoft" sticker on them.
... but it's nice to know that someone is keeping and eye (or two) on him. I guess just knowing that he is being watched will also help to make him toe the line just like the rest of us have to do.
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... the prohibitively high cost of the recommended standard hardware configuration for Longhorn is also going to effect MS' sales.
Of course, this is all good news for Linux on the desktop.
... phatbot author in a phat jail cell behind some phatbars, and that's only because he doesn't know how to spell FAT!
...in the USA ever take time off from their busy legal schedules to do business?
I got an online chat through ICQ to one of them.
he says, rushing off to buy tickets! I can't wait to be bored to death AND to have it happen in Japanese!
Personally I think I'd rather wait till LOTR is released with runic subtitles.
... that MS is going to end up buying SCO. Then MS will probably GPL Unix, drop all the IP suits and end up trying to look like the good guys.
From a fellow African. Guys I know how it feels but keep up the good work!
These damn "My Search" people are a curse! If you try to uninstall their stuff on a Windows machine, all it does is remove the uninstall entry in the registry but actually leaves the software running. It took me hours a few nights ago to get their junk off my PC. My Search is a front-end to Google and a number of other search engines. I've no idea why Google (and the other's) allow My Search to do the things they do.
...from Longhorn to A-patch-eee. Oops... Hope that doesn't offend anyone at Apache.
... does the garbage collector deal with all those who failed?
Up to "philistines" you only had +1 Funny... Only one word gave you the other +4! Good one!
Easy... Would you consider a well and correctly written VB app to be stable?
The golden rule of programming has always been that clarity and correctness matter much more than the utmost speed.
In the "real world", not only is correctness and clarity more important than speed, but so is stability.
Why can't one software product "beat" it's competition simply by being better? Why the need to litigate? Be No. 1 because your product is the best, not because you need the law to make it No. 1.
The sub-classing of standard classes has been managed successfully in Java for many years. I've never had the problem where a new version of a class has produced a method with a name the same as one I might have written in a sub-class. Anyway, even if it did happen, the likelihood of it causing a problem is very remote. Java very easily distinguishes between (For example) Method(String string) and Method(boolean flag).
.NET libraries is that they aren't very extensive (Well, at least not when compared to the Java standard libraries). Of course to work around the limitations of the standard libraries we look for 3rd party libraries. In the case of Java, 3rd party libraries are mostly GPLed and free, where 3rd party .NET libraries are almost always commercial products with fees attached to their licensing.
Another thing I've found extremely prohibitive with the standard
So now MS will have the monopoly on Spam too?
Actually I think that .NET has a very long way to go before it comes close to being an alternative to Java.
.NET wrappers for old COM stuff.
The biggest problem I've had with C# development is that many standard classes are declared final, which means they can't be sub-classed. I assume what has happened is that MS has taken short-cuts and has simply written
Every morning when I go out for a jog in the park, I take my laptop computer with me just in case a cyclist, with an attached mobile Wi-Fi hotspot, happens to be getting a bit of exercise at the same time.
It's great! Lugging the laptop around adds to the exercise potential of my jog and being able to read my spam, while in the middle of my jog, really goes a long way to breaking the boredom of exercise regime.
Yes! This a router borne worm that even has it's own IP address.
photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html
Even if there are a few hiccups, it's still nice to know that there are laptops available that don't have the "Designed for Microsoft" sticker on them.
... but it's nice to know that someone is keeping and eye (or two) on him. I guess just knowing that he is being watched will also help to make him toe the line just like the rest of us have to do.
Two in the hand is worth one in Kate's Bush.
Error -3647194 - An error occurred during the encryption of your file - Pigeon
A Linux install-fest and they advertised gorillas?