Learn.net and you can mix and match between c++, c#, vb(dunno why you would want to), F# etc. It really gives you more options then anything else I know of.
This really actually proves evolution all the more. Currently human beings are virtually stagnate from an evolution standpoint. The amount people reproduce(and the traits they pass on accordingly) is determined largely by belief systems and/or the inability to figure out how to use birth control. With the advent of "designer babies" desirable physical characteristics will once again supplant undesirable ones.
In a way yes. The acid tests are by no means comprehensive. Acid 2 focuses primarily on CSS and Acid 3 focuses on DOM/ECMAscript. A browser can completely tank acid 3 and still render most things just fine. (I use noscript and don't notice ill effects on most websites)
Acid tests aside, IE7 is certainly not the best browser out there, but it is way the hell better then IE6 and probably an easier sell to those still on IE 6.
So when I go down to the store, grab myself a copy of Linux (Lets suppose for a moment I can actually find a store that carries a GPL'd work), make modifications to it, and sell binary only copies of those modifications, that's cool too? I've inserted a physical object that I OWN into the computer and I've never signed a contract regarding my use of it.
For better or worse, software licensing is just the way things have to be done due to the lack of marginal cost in producing software.
Not that I'd be surprised if the findings of the OP were completely correct, but this "article" really has no proof of it's claims. For all we know the OP is a bad programmer who doesn't know how to use the sound mixer.
Just as I don't support the RIAA trying to litigate its way to market share, I'm not going to support Mozilla/Opera trying to sue IE into oblivion rather then out innovating it. IE is a crappy program and with half a business plan and some patience they should prevail without firing the lawyer cannons.
They should just set up a program where people can turn in old laptops, stick new batteries in them, and then ship 'em over to those who need them. New netbooks cost more then a used laptop and aren't really faster.
The place I'm at now uses Team Foundation Studio. It works well, though might be more then a smaller shop needs. The last place I was at used trac, but AFAIK, it doesn't have a very robust method of accounting for bug dependencies.
If Microsoft really cares about these things, why have they continued to hack on Trident, which has been so far behind in both of those areas? Why not just adopt Gecko or Webkit as the IE/Windows rendering engine?
I sometimes wonder this myself. I think it comes down to two things: 1) They tightly couple IE as an activex control into a great many things. This would not be permissible under the GPL, so Gecko is right out. I think that would still be fine under lgpl/WebKit though. 2) If they start replacing each component of the windows suite with indiviudal apps that perform better, they would have a reduced set of things they were selling as an OS and have a harder time justifying the prices they charge.
they're doing more to undermine web standards with things like Silverlight
I'd double check that. Silverlight is much more open then its only real competitor (flash). Heck, MSFT put in a good amount of work just this week to help get video streaming in moonlight working for the inauguration. Silverlight is much easier to develop in then Flash as an added bonus.
You're listening to 107.329847 papapapAAAAAAAAANNNNNNDDDOOOOORRRAAAA the best/freshest/greatest music in the [insert geographic region]. Now we will assault your ears with 30 5-second clips of the the most overplayed/overmixed songs on the radio!
Silverlight is actually much easier to develop for then flash in many regards. Any.net developer can jump right into it. I would get used to Silverlight's existence and make it work for you rather then bemoan any industry successes it may have.
If you don't like being unable to use Silverlight on Linux, stop whining about it and contribute some time to the moonlight project. Show them how well the OSS development model works.
Joint Parenting (Insurance Coverage, School Records)
Medical Decisions on Behalf of Partner
Certain Property Rights
Reduced Rate Memberships
Sick Leave to Care for Partner
Visitation of Partner's Children
Visitation of Partner in Hospital or Prison
Wrongful Death (Loss of Consort) Benefits
Access to Military Stores
Assumption of Spouse's Pension
Bereavement Leave
Immigration
Insurance Breaks
Medical Decisions on Behalf of Partner
Sick Leave to Care for Partner
Social Security Survivor Benefits
Sick Leave to Care for Partner
Tax Breaks
Veteran's Discounts
Hospital/Prison Visitiation
And probably more that I'm not aware of.
Having these benefits makes living in California a more attractive proposition to Gay people and, as such, working for Google in California a more attractive proposition. Ergo, proposition 8 has economically harmed Google and they are well within thier rights to make a fuss about it.
A lot of DRM is overly burdonsome to the user. I don't really see iTunes as being so. It lets you burn purchased songs to CD without any complaint. Even if Apple's DRM servers go belly up, you'll still have CDs that work just fine.
Like most, if not everybody here, I think DRM is a ineffectual annoyance that should be gotten rid of. However, I'm not sure this warrants firing the lawyer cannons. This country already has enough lawsuits going on. Voting with your wallet and not buying the came would probably get the point across.
Furthermore, why not sue Blizzard for warden or Valve for Vac? The fact is, while annoying, these programs don't really cause problems 99% of the time for non-infringing uses. Hundreds of programs have had securom for years and just now it somehow becomes a problem
Microsoft is a corporation whose purpose is to increase wealth for its shareholders. If it does not issue dividends or increase the value of it's outstanding shares, it is not serving its purpose.
Companies should stick to their core competencies. Microsoft is a not an investment company. It should increase the wealth of its shareholders by doing what its good at (software) so they can invest in the next big thing. Boneheaded investments in "the next big thing" (*cough*ebay/skype*cough cough*) are usually poorly received in the investment world.
Buying it back reduces the amount of outstanding stock, so the earnings per share from future dividends is likely to be higher. 40 billion is about 6% of the outstanding MSFT stock, so all future dividends will be split among the other 94% and each share will be a bit larger. From an investors standpoint, this is roughly equivalent to issuing a dividend. The advantage, from MSFTs perspective over a dividend is that this will A) make the stock stats look better longer and B) gives the investment world a signal that they believe their stock to be undervalued. Also executive bonuses are often tied to EPS:/
My thanks to those of you above willing to indulge me in this line of questioning. I think I'm coming to see how OSS can work in more instances. I'm not sure I advocate it in all instances, but we've made progress. (and shame on whoever modded my first post flamebait. I thought this was an interesting and largely well mannered discussion)
Do you think it would be a violation of your free speech rights if you got fired for putting a myspace page up with slander or libel about your boss?
At the risk of nitpicking:
Libel is the written act of defamation. Slander is the oral act of defamation. The MySpace page almost certainly contained only libel. (Unless the student recorded herself and posted that.)
While I do like the cleaner design and higher degree of reliability offered at w3.org, w3schools does offer a really fast way to look up simple syntax issues. w3.org has a pretty big ratio of text to information I need at times. I think they both serve a purpose.
If they really were trying to prove corruption they'd have surely hacked the other candidates as well. Especially McCain and Biden who have been in Congress long enough to have a thousand times what either Palin or Obama would have.
It is possible that the other three politicians are in fact not hiding anything.
It is also possible that the other three simply selected better passwords and we'll hear about their emails in a couple weeks:p
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Learn .net and you can mix and match between c++, c#, vb(dunno why you would want to), F# etc. It really gives you more options then anything else I know of.
Can you hear Darwin howling?
This really actually proves evolution all the more. Currently human beings are virtually stagnate from an evolution standpoint. The amount people reproduce(and the traits they pass on accordingly) is determined largely by belief systems and/or the inability to figure out how to use birth control. With the advent of "designer babies" desirable physical characteristics will once again supplant undesirable ones.
20/100 on the Acid3 is "close"?
In a way yes. The acid tests are by no means comprehensive. Acid 2 focuses primarily on CSS and Acid 3 focuses on DOM/ECMAscript. A browser can completely tank acid 3 and still render most things just fine. (I use noscript and don't notice ill effects on most websites)
Acid tests aside, IE7 is certainly not the best browser out there, but it is way the hell better then IE6 and probably an easier sell to those still on IE 6.
So when I go down to the store, grab myself a copy of Linux (Lets suppose for a moment I can actually find a store that carries a GPL'd work), make modifications to it, and sell binary only copies of those modifications, that's cool too? I've inserted a physical object that I OWN into the computer and I've never signed a contract regarding my use of it.
For better or worse, software licensing is just the way things have to be done due to the lack of marginal cost in producing software.
Not that I'd be surprised if the findings of the OP were completely correct, but this "article" really has no proof of it's claims. For all we know the OP is a bad programmer who doesn't know how to use the sound mixer.
Wonder why those agencies are using such an "unsecure" platform...?
Me too.
DHS has been hacked
FBI has been hacked
Navy has been hacked
Air Force has been hacked.
Microsoft pulled in 51 billion last year. Apple pulled in 24. I wouldn't say those two are "nearly equal".
Just as I don't support the RIAA trying to litigate its way to market share, I'm not going to support Mozilla/Opera trying to sue IE into oblivion rather then out innovating it. IE is a crappy program and with half a business plan and some patience they should prevail without firing the lawyer cannons.
They should just set up a program where people can turn in old laptops, stick new batteries in them, and then ship 'em over to those who need them. New netbooks cost more then a used laptop and aren't really faster.
The place I'm at now uses Team Foundation Studio. It works well, though might be more then a smaller shop needs. The last place I was at used trac, but AFAIK, it doesn't have a very robust method of accounting for bug dependencies.
Obama is blocking almost every policy matter still pending from Bush. This is just one of many issues being blocked until the Obama administration can get caught up and take an official stance on it. He may well "side with Bush", but he hasn't really done so yet.
Yes. Lets read another book promoting a fringe school of economics that, after being around for over 100 years, is still without any sort of rigorous mathematical basis nor even supported by any imperical testing. Ron Paul believes in it, so it must be the glorious truth.
I sometimes wonder this myself. I think it comes down to two things: 1) They tightly couple IE as an activex control into a great many things. This would not be permissible under the GPL, so Gecko is right out. I think that would still be fine under lgpl/WebKit though. 2) If they start replacing each component of the windows suite with indiviudal apps that perform better, they would have a reduced set of things they were selling as an OS and have a harder time justifying the prices they charge.
I'd double check that. Silverlight is much more open then its only real competitor (flash). Heck, MSFT put in a good amount of work just this week to help get video streaming in moonlight working for the inauguration. Silverlight is much easier to develop in then Flash as an added bonus.
You're listening to 107.329847 papapapAAAAAAAAANNNNNNDDDOOOOORRRAAAA the best/freshest/greatest music in the [insert geographic region]. Now we will assault your ears with 30 5-second clips of the the most overplayed/overmixed songs on the radio!
every other song.
Silverlight is actually much easier to develop for then flash in many regards. Any .net developer can jump right into it. I would get used to Silverlight's existence and make it work for you rather then bemoan any industry successes it may have.
If you don't like being unable to use Silverlight on Linux, stop whining about it and contribute some time to the moonlight project. Show them how well the OSS development model works.
Its not just tax breaks. It's
And probably more that I'm not aware of.
Having these benefits makes living in California a more attractive proposition to Gay people and, as such, working for Google in California a more attractive proposition. Ergo, proposition 8 has economically harmed Google and they are well within thier rights to make a fuss about it.
A lot of DRM is overly burdonsome to the user. I don't really see iTunes as being so. It lets you burn purchased songs to CD without any complaint. Even if Apple's DRM servers go belly up, you'll still have CDs that work just fine.
Like most, if not everybody here, I think DRM is a ineffectual annoyance that should be gotten rid of. However, I'm not sure this warrants firing the lawyer cannons. This country already has enough lawsuits going on. Voting with your wallet and not buying the came would probably get the point across.
Furthermore, why not sue Blizzard for warden or Valve for Vac? The fact is, while annoying, these programs don't really cause problems 99% of the time for non-infringing uses. Hundreds of programs have had securom for years and just now it somehow becomes a problem
Mod parent overrated. Mod grandparent insightful.
Microsoft is a corporation whose purpose is to increase wealth for its shareholders. If it does not issue dividends or increase the value of it's outstanding shares, it is not serving its purpose.
Companies should stick to their core competencies. Microsoft is a not an investment company. It should increase the wealth of its shareholders by doing what its good at (software) so they can invest in the next big thing. Boneheaded investments in "the next big thing" (*cough*ebay/skype*cough cough*) are usually poorly received in the investment world.
Buying it back reduces the amount of outstanding stock, so the earnings per share from future dividends is likely to be higher. 40 billion is about 6% of the outstanding MSFT stock, so all future dividends will be split among the other 94% and each share will be a bit larger. From an investors standpoint, this is roughly equivalent to issuing a dividend. The advantage, from MSFTs perspective over a dividend is that this will A) make the stock stats look better longer and B) gives the investment world a signal that they believe their stock to be undervalued. Also executive bonuses are often tied to EPS :/
My thanks to those of you above willing to indulge me in this line of questioning. I think I'm coming to see how OSS can work in more instances. I'm not sure I advocate it in all instances, but we've made progress. (and shame on whoever modded my first post flamebait. I thought this was an interesting and largely well mannered discussion)
Do you think it would be a violation of your free speech rights if you got fired for putting a myspace page up with slander or libel about your boss?
At the risk of nitpicking:
Libel is the written act of defamation. Slander is the oral act of defamation. The MySpace page almost certainly contained only libel. (Unless the student recorded herself and posted that.)
One day, maybe, we can write quality app with C#/.NET, but until then, you'd need to hook up with all the legacy Windows API - Win32, COM, etc.
Just because you can doesn't mean you have to. I use C# all the time and rarely make win32/COM calls from it.
While I do like the cleaner design and higher degree of reliability offered at w3.org, w3schools does offer a really fast way to look up simple syntax issues. w3.org has a pretty big ratio of text to information I need at times. I think they both serve a purpose.
If they really were trying to prove corruption they'd have surely hacked the other candidates as well. Especially McCain and Biden who have been in Congress long enough to have a thousand times what either Palin or Obama would have.
It is possible that the other three politicians are in fact not hiding anything.
:p
It is also possible that the other three simply selected better passwords and we'll hear about their emails in a couple weeks