So as well as spending money on M$ licenses and being locked into M$ products, they also need to spend money on M$ training programs that further lock them into M$ products, is that right? And all this money comes from where exactly? Do they use the money they would spend on food? Seems to me that you are the one that is wrong.
As far as that is concerned ANY installer should have to be authenticated as an ADMINISTRATOR before the install can proceed. I think this small step would curb many of the issues with spyware, adware, toolbars, etc.
Yes, apart from the facts that many windows users log in as administrator and that ActiveX has no security model, but it would surely help the problem.
(seriously, I do it all the time, it takes no more extra time to take a desktop someplace than it does to take a laptop)
Yes, excuse me while I unplug this big bunch of cables and attempt to carry them along with a 21 inch CRT, desktop PC, keyboard and mouse, try to walk down the stairs and fall flat on my face, injuring myself and smashing the hardware to pieces.
The point is not going to the extremes of saying "anything related to pot is poison!" and "pot is not harmful at all!"
Pot is rarely harmful in moderate recreational use. The problems come from heavy use and when people have a predisposition to mental illness. Since recreational users by far the largest group, these kinds of statements are not so far-fetched. Compared to alcohol, pot is hardly harmful. You can kill yourself with a few bottles of spirits but you'll pass out and whitey on the floor before cannabis can do any harm, then wake up with a bad case of the munchies. The people in charge don't want you to know that cannabis is not harmful since you'd also know then how retarded the laws are surrounding cannabis.
Don't call people who smoke pot "druggies". It's not fair to tar them with the same brush as heroin and cocaine addicts. How would you like it if I called you an "alcie" or a "druggie" because you enjoy a beer at the weekend?
Yes, because I trust a site named cannabis news to give me unbiased reporting of the effects of cannabis.
I also trust cigarette companies to tell me all the negative side effects of smoking tobacco.
Yes, because comparing a multi-billion dollar corporation to a small, non-profit web organisation is not at all retarded.
hint: like when Duchamp presented a urinal at an art exhibition? I don't think the art establishment found that very funny but it opened the world up to a whole new genre of art.
Complete bollocks.
Things are rarely that black and white. I think you're missing something.
Yeah, and 640k should be enough for everybody. What if I want to spend all day making VOIP calls or video conferencing? That 30GB will be used up quite fast.
Great design,/. ! At least with the old design the font was consistently sans-serif. I appreciate the serif bits are probably using browser default font but if you're going to change the font for part of the page, do it for the whole damn thing. I'm not changing my default font for the benefit of/. Serif and sans-serif do not work together, it just looks awkward.
Javadoc doesn't seem to suffer from the problems you mentioned. Most IDEs will insert and format Javadoc comments. When you have a One True Way of doing things, there's no problem sticking to it.
Quite so. I went to the movies the other day and there was a warning along the lines of "downloading movies illegally funds organised crime". This is complete FUD. These fuckers will stop at nothing.
Yes - 3D engines in flash have to be written in actionscript, the excution of which is slow. There are flash plugins available that have hardware acceleration of vector graphics, but I don't know any that have 3D acceleration. Shockwave has 3D hardware accleration, but apart from 3D modelling or visualisation apllications, how many desktop apps need to use 3D graphics?
The animation that isn't tied necessarily to a timeline; I've never seen it until that video. The animation can occur in response to events or in a storyboard, rather than within a time line of animation.
Flash has this. Movie clips can be triggered in response to script actions, there's no need to use the timeline. All the action can occur on frame 1. Movie clips are also composite objects that can contain graphics, UI elements and other movie clips. Scripts can be placed at different levels and scopes.
it was thrown together very quick with zero lines of code written, and yet, it looked far better than any Flash stuff I've seen
Flash stuff can look decent too, it all depends on the quality of the demo.
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And I see an insulting troll replying to someone who has a legitimate concern.
I see a bruised accident victim not being able to call home.
Broadband via donkeys?
So as well as spending money on M$ licenses and being locked into M$ products, they also need to spend money on M$ training programs that further lock them into M$ products, is that right? And all this money comes from where exactly? Do they use the money they would spend on food? Seems to me that you are the one that is wrong.
All well and good, but many people are stupid as shown by the number of completely ignorant posts on /. modded as +5 funny or +5 informative.
Who's Gee? M is the fellow you want.
Somebody didn't RTFA.
Or better still, put your boss's staper in jelly.
You've never tried a Thinkpad R5x, have you? Warm, yes. Hot, never.
Nice idea, thanks for the entertainment value!
It's certainly not a cure all, but yes I think it is fairly safe (as long as you're not driving or operating machinery, etc!).
Don't call people who smoke pot "druggies". It's not fair to tar them with the same brush as heroin and cocaine addicts. How would you like it if I called you an "alcie" or a "druggie" because you enjoy a beer at the weekend?
I think the saying "knowlegde is knowing you don't know everything" is particularly apt in this case.
Yeah, and 640k should be enough for everybody. What if I want to spend all day making VOIP calls or video conferencing? That 30GB will be used up quite fast.
Great design, /. ! At least with the old design the font was consistently sans-serif. I appreciate the serif bits are probably using browser default font but if you're going to change the font for part of the page, do it for the whole damn thing. I'm not changing my default font for the benefit of /. Serif and sans-serif do not work together, it just looks awkward.
Javadoc doesn't seem to suffer from the problems you mentioned. Most IDEs will insert and format Javadoc comments. When you have a One True Way of doing things, there's no problem sticking to it.
Quite so. I went to the movies the other day and there was a warning along the lines of "downloading movies illegally funds organised crime". This is complete FUD. These fuckers will stop at nothing.
Yes - 3D engines in flash have to be written in actionscript, the excution of which is slow. There are flash plugins available that have hardware acceleration of vector graphics, but I don't know any that have 3D acceleration. Shockwave has 3D hardware accleration, but apart from 3D modelling or visualisation apllications, how many desktop apps need to use 3D graphics?