Most people will probably say learn Java, particularly on/.. Java programmers are extremely common. The company I work for had a hell of a time hiring a C# developer with any experience..NET is the future of development on any MS platform. For an entry level position, if you're looking for jobs, I don't think it will matter, but smaller shops are not going to want to spend the time for you to get familiar with the nuances of whatever language they are using. I think that C# has a larger potential for quick rewards right now since there are so few programmers compared to a rising demand. In the long run, though, I don't think it will make much different and the two are similar in most aspects.
Your command of the language dictates how well you communicate - not only on the computer but in almost every area of life. I'm not familiar with any modern living languages that are simple - maybe some tribal dialect where the people do not have that many things in their environment to communicate about? If you want to live in a complex society such as our own, however, you will be better off for being able to communicate not just adequately, but well. The level at which you communicate largely determines your success in life. Grammar, spelling, and basic math are definitely important factors. The computer might help you fudge it but in the long run it boils down to the individual.
One would hope that an individual's thoughts and ability to freely communicate do not become as obsolete for most people as the ability to start a fire by rubbing together two sticks...
After installing Beta 1 that was just released, I would have to say that you are right but with some caveats. We tossed it on a 3GHZ processor with 1GB of RAM and some stock mobo vid chip. It ran fine until you tried to drag a window across another, then it pretty much ground to a halt.
So it will run on less, but what company invests in video cards to support their desktop apps? It's typically been viewed as a waste of money unless someone's doing heavy graphics processing. It would really suck to upgrade a corporate environment only to end up with the look-and-feel of windows 95 on a Pentium 90;) It will be interesting to see where their marketing push starts and how the thing will scale for desktop vs. server, etc.
So you don't say anything and someone else discovers the problem...what then? You failed to notify GM owners, some of whom may have taken action if they had known about the problem. Now you have done something bad by not notifying people. The question is, which serves the greatest good? If such a defect were extant in line of cars, I have little doubt that public disclosure would force such an outcry that a parts recall would be effected immediately to fix the issue. This seems like it's serving society better than otherwise.
Yes, the much-anticipated top-secret controller. It will have - not the piddly 10 to 12 buttons that the competitors have - but a full 110 buttons to enhance your gaming action. The console itself will support not just blu-ray but dvds, cds, and pretty much any other drive you can fit into the expansion bays. The connector to your tv will be a 15-pin cable. It can not only run Microsoft's proprietary software but Linux as well...
Anyone sensible would just drop it into GIMP and apply a difference layer between the earlier and later versions, as I noticed was mentioned elsewhere in the postings...I tried to do it at first but the image was not changing all that quickly; came back after a couple hours and I have a pretty good outline of, well, something. It looks like I could have guessed it if I had the image when it first started.
From the Electric Universe page...An electric comet would forever change the picture of the solar system and force astronomers to consider the overwhelming evidence that electricity lights not only our Sun but also all the stars in the heavens.
When they find the big power cord coming out of the sun, who'll be laughing then, huh?
My experience with web development is that it has, more or less, always been this way. Just because MS's tools favor IE by default is no reason to get in an huff. In the olden days tools used to favor Netscape and getting pages to work in IE was a pain.
Yes, IE is more at fault than FF/whatever, but lots of people use it and if you are writing web apps you should know to test with different browsers. As other posters have mentioned, you can specify to a great extent how to render pages in differenct browsers in ASP.NET - uplevel and downlevel, and you can customize beyond that for each browser specifically.
VS.NET is great as a WYSIWYG dynamic content web page designer. Your friend just needs to clean up his page for Firefox. It is not hard.
Part of my job entails checking my email as a primary means of communication. The study made no mention of whether this was strictly personal usage or not. That, and all the other reasons mentioned, makes it sound like BS to me...
Microsoft has made most of its fortune not by developing a solid and stable OS but by developing something which they could sell the masses (read: home users). The masses, who couldn't care less about security, and who will only become frustrated when something doesn't work out of the box.
I know lots of people who thought that SP2 broke stuff on their computers because it had bugs. For the most part, breaking applications was the price of enhanced security.
I generally log in as root on my linux box at home--sometimes dangerous but much more sensible when it's just me. At least Linux is scalable. Windows has been acceptable for the home user for years and only recently has security become a concern for that group. Windows was only adopted for the enterprise as an extension of their PC stranglehold. It was never meant to go there, IMO.
So, you have a company that has pretty much sucked for the enterprise but dominated the home PC market, and is trying to move forward while staying backwards-compatible. I think you would find the price of supporting old applications and having poor user rights to be much lower than starting clean.
It is a good question though; MS really should be smart enough to think up a solution to make everyone happier.
Well, 'research' may really just be the same type of marketing 'research' that regular spyware companies do, and sell. The above-boards approach sits a lot better on my stomach though than gator software silently installing itself in the background. I don't think that the anti-spyware groups should flag it as spyware--you presumably know what this one's doing when you download and install it. Maybe just flag it as a warning?
WE GRANT THE GOVERNMENT ITS RIGHTS. PERIOD! Didn't you ever take an American History/Civics class?
Didn't you ever walk out your front door? That statement is a limited truth at best. We endow a political body with the power to rule and make decisions for us. We have a say in that body's makeup, and can attempt to influence its actions, but lobby groups, foreign governments, and various factions within the government itself can do the same. The government's rights are then what the weight of the influential forces will let them get away with, Period.
Just look at the PATRIOT act. Who the hell wants that?
I'm going to buy a Shuffle today. I have looked at cheaper mp3 players for several years and just haven't been happy with any. But, for $99 I get 512 MB drive space, vs. half the space for a $150 Lyra. My girlfriend has the high end Lyra. I don't like the shape and the UI is less than intuitive. The button on it reminds me of the old eraser mice on laptops that I always hated.
What choice do you have?
Become a lawyer...quickly
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I've found a number of ways to work around a lack of requirements. A good specification is one, but if you are so inclined a static prototype can often achieve as much if not more from the customer's perspective. A couple hours of use case gathering with management and the customer can also achieve amazing results, without the need for lengthy documentation or weeks and months of back-and-forth.
Then you just have to convince everyone to stick to what they've agreed to when they ask you to change everything halfway through coding!
I realize that your question is rhetorical, but I believe the rationale behind this is that some potential thief sees that they are stopping everyone at the door and becomes terrified that if he steals something, he will be caught.
I'm sure people still shoplift all the time, but maybe the loss prevention over cost/bad-will ratio is high enough to warrant it. I would be curious to know...it is offensive enough that it really should be warranted.
Yep...the poster you are correcting probably made the mistake of thinking that 1 terabit = 1 trillion bits; still have to count those in powers of 2, as well. 1 kilobit = 1024 bits, etc.
We want the faster computers so we can do things faster but that means those who are destructive are also getting the same toys to play with to make our lives miserable.
Which is the whole point of this research in the first place--making stronger algorithms by attempting to break the current ones. Unless funded by a government or similarly large entity, nobody is going to be breaking your SHA-1 hashes any time in the near future. The private-sector crypto community has developed very rapidly over the last 20 or so years and is capable of keeping up with even a fairly large boost in computing power.
This all may be true, but I have my doubts that they're checking for Wine specifically. And, am I the only one who bothered reading further? Here's the first reply:
When I run the validation program on my genuine Win2k system, I get the
message saying a validation code couldn't be found because of technical
difficulties or because I'm running an unsupported operating system.
When using IE and thus the ActiveX control there is no problem and my
Windows is recognized as genuine.
Looks to me the standalone validation program is seriously broken....
"You see, you have this mat, with different CONCLUSIONS written on it that you could JUMP TO."
I think there's some confusion between analyzing handwriting samples to determine if a particular person wrote the sample (which is a valid practice, if not necessarily a strictly scientific discipline), and making ethereal predictions about one's character based on said sample...
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Most people will probably say learn Java, particularly on /.. Java programmers are extremely common. The company I work for had a hell of a time hiring a C# developer with any experience. .NET is the future of development on any MS platform. For an entry level position, if you're looking for jobs, I don't think it will matter, but smaller shops are not going to want to spend the time for you to get familiar with the nuances of whatever language they are using. I think that C# has a larger potential for quick rewards right now since there are so few programmers compared to a rising demand. In the long run, though, I don't think it will make much different and the two are similar in most aspects.
One would hope that an individual's thoughts and ability to freely communicate do not become as obsolete for most people as the ability to start a fire by rubbing together two sticks...
So it will run on less, but what company invests in video cards to support their desktop apps? It's typically been viewed as a waste of money unless someone's doing heavy graphics processing. It would really suck to upgrade a corporate environment only to end up with the look-and-feel of windows 95 on a Pentium 90;) It will be interesting to see where their marketing push starts and how the thing will scale for desktop vs. server, etc.
So you don't say anything and someone else discovers the problem...what then? You failed to notify GM owners, some of whom may have taken action if they had known about the problem. Now you have done something bad by not notifying people. The question is, which serves the greatest good? If such a defect were extant in line of cars, I have little doubt that public disclosure would force such an outcry that a parts recall would be effected immediately to fix the issue. This seems like it's serving society better than otherwise.
Wait a minute!
Anyone sensible would just drop it into GIMP and apply a difference layer between the earlier and later versions, as I noticed was mentioned elsewhere in the postings...I tried to do it at first but the image was not changing all that quickly; came back after a couple hours and I have a pretty good outline of, well, something. It looks like I could have guessed it if I had the image when it first started.
When they find the big power cord coming out of the sun, who'll be laughing then, huh?
Yes, IE is more at fault than FF/whatever, but lots of people use it and if you are writing web apps you should know to test with different browsers. As other posters have mentioned, you can specify to a great extent how to render pages in differenct browsers in ASP.NET - uplevel and downlevel, and you can customize beyond that for each browser specifically.
VS.NET is great as a WYSIWYG dynamic content web page designer. Your friend just needs to clean up his page for Firefox. It is not hard.
Part of my job entails checking my email as a primary means of communication. The study made no mention of whether this was strictly personal usage or not. That, and all the other reasons mentioned, makes it sound like BS to me...
I know lots of people who thought that SP2 broke stuff on their computers because it had bugs. For the most part, breaking applications was the price of enhanced security.
I generally log in as root on my linux box at home--sometimes dangerous but much more sensible when it's just me. At least Linux is scalable. Windows has been acceptable for the home user for years and only recently has security become a concern for that group. Windows was only adopted for the enterprise as an extension of their PC stranglehold. It was never meant to go there, IMO.
So, you have a company that has pretty much sucked for the enterprise but dominated the home PC market, and is trying to move forward while staying backwards-compatible. I think you would find the price of supporting old applications and having poor user rights to be much lower than starting clean.
It is a good question though; MS really should be smart enough to think up a solution to make everyone happier.
Well, 'research' may really just be the same type of marketing 'research' that regular spyware companies do, and sell. The above-boards approach sits a lot better on my stomach though than gator software silently installing itself in the background. I don't think that the anti-spyware groups should flag it as spyware--you presumably know what this one's doing when you download and install it. Maybe just flag it as a warning?
Didn't you ever walk out your front door? That statement is a limited truth at best. We endow a political body with the power to rule and make decisions for us. We have a say in that body's makeup, and can attempt to influence its actions, but lobby groups, foreign governments, and various factions within the government itself can do the same. The government's rights are then what the weight of the influential forces will let them get away with, Period.
Just look at the PATRIOT act. Who the hell wants that?
My next question is...did you then try to pay the cashier for your order with the 50c piece?
I'm going to buy a Shuffle today. I have looked at cheaper mp3 players for several years and just haven't been happy with any. But, for $99 I get 512 MB drive space, vs. half the space for a $150 Lyra. My girlfriend has the high end Lyra. I don't like the shape and the UI is less than intuitive. The button on it reminds me of the old eraser mice on laptops that I always hated.
What choice do you have?
Become a lawyer...quickly
Then you just have to convince everyone to stick to what they've agreed to when they ask you to change everything halfway through coding!
I'm sure people still shoplift all the time, but maybe the loss prevention over cost/bad-will ratio is high enough to warrant it. I would be curious to know...it is offensive enough that it really should be warranted.
Yep...the poster you are correcting probably made the mistake of thinking that 1 terabit = 1 trillion bits; still have to count those in powers of 2, as well. 1 kilobit = 1024 bits, etc.
Or you could just look at the page's history to see that this is, in fact, a valid excuse.
Which is the whole point of this research in the first place--making stronger algorithms by attempting to break the current ones. Unless funded by a government or similarly large entity, nobody is going to be breaking your SHA-1 hashes any time in the near future. The private-sector crypto community has developed very rapidly over the last 20 or so years and is capable of keeping up with even a fairly large boost in computing power.
When I run the validation program on my genuine Win2k system, I get the message saying a validation code couldn't be found because of technical difficulties or because I'm running an unsupported operating system. When using IE and thus the ActiveX control there is no problem and my Windows is recognized as genuine. Looks to me the standalone validation program is seriously broken....
"You see, you have this mat, with different CONCLUSIONS written on it that you could JUMP TO."
But please flame me if I'm wrong;)
Sheesh...
What's your ip address dude?
Ummm...E flat, umm...C sharp, er, no wait, that was a D! D! crap! Start over...G, umm...
I think there's some confusion between analyzing handwriting samples to determine if a particular person wrote the sample (which is a valid practice, if not necessarily a strictly scientific discipline), and making ethereal predictions about one's character based on said sample...