Ok, how does "DVR's becoming more and more popular" become "everybody has DVR"? Also, how does you living in the stone age discredit what I said anyway? You would be the minority, sir.
Firstly, COM would be "OLE 2.0". Second, a.NET library CAN be used as a COM lib, but they aren't the same. It uses ".NET Interop" which is a very special marshaling library. Thirdly, you can define a rule saying "Don't initialize any.NET code that calls unmanaged code". The security is implemented in the.NET runtime, so good luck getting around that.
You may want to come down off that horse. It is too high for you. You don't belong on it.
With DVR's becoming more and more popular, the time that a show airs is less and less important. Perhaps the execs realize this and are trying to work it to their advantage. Sometimes you need to take some risks to move forward.
An ActiveX library is not a.NET library. It is a DLL with a "Class Factory" to create your COM objects. Just like any DLL, how exactly are you going to sandbox it properly when the whole development cycle there was access to everything on the system? Can I write to the registry? Can I write to the file system? Can I load another DLL? It would just be a complete mess and still be exploitable in some corner that wasn't planned on. The alternatives being either provide a "safe" only API that ActiveX would have to use, OR you could run the control in a virtual machine of sorts...
And then you'll realize that you just reinvented.NET
On its way out? Hardly. People want to buy a packaged, ready to go product. ESPECIALLY when the mantra is "Works for me. NOTABUG", and "You have the source, YOU fix it"
Personally, I like appearing available all of the time. That way, I don't have the awkward situation of becoming "Available" only to have someone immediately pounce on me who I don't want to talk to. If I am available all of the time, then you have no idea if I am really there. The way it should be.
Yes, but it isn't discrimination to disallow inappropriate conduct. Imagine me walking into Chuck E Cheese with a shirt saying "I like dicks in my ass". They can't throw me out because I would be gay, but because I am shoving it into the face of others that don't care to see it. They would likely boot someone who had "I like the opposite sex you queer monkeys" all the same. They have to draw a line somewhere, and honestly, it is a lot easier to draw the line at "Don't advertise anything about sex, regardless what it is"
Flat out, a PDF is a "vector graphic". Wanting to "fill in what I needed using my keyboard" would work just as nicely as if it was a BMP.
Unfortunately, people see the "Document" bit of PDF and assume it is meant to be used like a Word Document. It isn't. However, Adobe has done some pretty horrible things to their simple format to appease such people and now look at the mess you have.
A PDF should be used as a final output. FINAL. OUTPUT. If you need to make changes to it, you go back to what you created the PDF with, EDIT THAT, then re-render your PDF.
PDF seems to be the poster child for "How to abuse a format in a way that is contrary to its nature". Clients send us PDF's FORMS now... that they want us TO EDIT! Not print out, hand write on, and perhaps fax back... but EDIT IT, like it is a Word Processor document. Explaining to these people why this is an abomination is like telling a hooker not to sleep with the guy with sores all over his body... it falls on deaf ears, and makes baby Jesus cry.
Ultimately, the problem is, we don't know the consequences of these actions until it is too late.
It reminds me of a story I read a long time ago. I swear it was called "The Purple Room" and it was written by Hitchcock or someone similar ("Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind" was certainly inspired by it. I can't find any references to it. I must have some fact wrong).
The story goes something like (please forgive me... it was almost 20 years ago when I read it): A man and a woman madly in love were on a ship which ended up capsizing and sinking. The man survives and is so torn by losing his love that he contemplates suicide. He comes up with an invention called "The Purple Room"... it shoots a purple laser right into the soul of the entrant and makes them forget their most painful memories. One day a woman enters the establishment... in a cloak, and he couldn't see her face. After coming out of the purple room, she takes her hood off and he sees it is his long lost love... but she has no recollection of him at all. Distraught, he goes into the purple room and forgets her too. Now neither of them remembers the best parts of their lives.
While your intentions may be the best, the consequences are likely worse. You have no idea what else you are leaving behind until it is too late.
Regardless whether your intention was humor or not, I have a tiny story relating. I DID try to get my 5 year old daughter to start using Linux. All she does is play web games like playhousedisney.com and noggin.com. I thought it would be perfect. Guess what. NOTHING worked. Flash/Shockwave completely broken. The Java games (as few as there were) constantly broke. So I eventually reinstalled windows, gave her a non-admin account, and made firefox the default shell so explorer never launched. Works great.
I'll concede that perhaps you are correct. It just doesn't seem right. I'll take the time to do some reading. Thanks for at least putting it intelligently enough to give me some food for thought.
You are putting a superficial boundary around "states". A hundred million people is a hundred million people. Flat out it should not matter if they are crammed in one building or across half of the US. They represent the population... the population of which is the reason the government exists in the first place. Using states as a middle manager/buffer to the federal government is dangerous... regardless what the forefathers though was right. Maybe it was back then... when there were 13 very individual states and only a handful of citizens.
That was the speculation, but that is all it was, was speculation. Be already had BeIA which you could use much like Windows NT/XP embeddeded Platform Builder. If they really intended on using it, they already had everything they needed from the get-go. Just some drivers would need written.
For one file. Nothing says your "image" can't be multiple files. VMWare has supported this since the beginning. It is such a no-brainer, I don't see why any alternatives wouldn't either.
Precisely my point. You think that somehow the sheep should get more of a vote because he can potentially be dinner... when the decision should be better for EVERYONE AS A WHOLE. Two wolves eating benefits the group much more than all three starving.
It would makes Iowa completely irrelevent in the national elections
Did you even read the SUMMARY: ... This would only go into affect after enough states totaling 270 electoral votes (enough to elect a president) adopted similar resolutions
That means Iowa would hold off on doing this until almost every other state did the same thing. And how can you actually argue FOR the electoral college with a straight face? "equalize the effects of the larger populations" is flat out ridiculous. Why should some rural farmer get more pull than the 10k people jammed into a square mile in new york city? Because they have more land? Population density flat out shouldn't matter. Geography shouldn't matter. One man, one vote, all counted the same. That is the point, sir.
Riddle me this... WHY WOULD YOU WANT to be "conservative"? Why would you be resistant to change? Why would you choose not to be open-minded to the fact that your way may not be the best? I truly don't understand... unless of course you are using "Conservative" as a synonym to "I like things the way they are" and "Liberals" as a synonym for "We want to stir EVERYTHING up... even if it doesn't make sense". Then, of course, this is akin to a PHB throwing out buzzwords.
See, I don't get it. WHY would you name your servers this? If you smack your head or have a hard night drinking, would you know FOR SURE that ServerX is the file server or the database server? Would you code like that? At least make the names useful.
Personally, I like MrDomainController, MrNameServer, MrFileServer, etc. Have a backup? Meet MsDomainController. Need yet another backup? JrDomainController? Need another one? No you don't. See, easy, unambiguous, useful.
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Ok, how does "DVR's becoming more and more popular" become "everybody has DVR"? Also, how does you living in the stone age discredit what I said anyway? You would be the minority, sir.
Firstly, COM would be "OLE 2.0". Second, a .NET library CAN be used as a COM lib, but they aren't the same. It uses ".NET Interop" which is a very special marshaling library. Thirdly, you can define a rule saying "Don't initialize any .NET code that calls unmanaged code". The security is implemented in the .NET runtime, so good luck getting around that.
You may want to come down off that horse. It is too high for you. You don't belong on it.
With DVR's becoming more and more popular, the time that a show airs is less and less important. Perhaps the execs realize this and are trying to work it to their advantage. Sometimes you need to take some risks to move forward.
An ActiveX library is not a .NET library. It is a DLL with a "Class Factory" to create your COM objects. Just like any DLL, how exactly are you going to sandbox it properly when the whole development cycle there was access to everything on the system? Can I write to the registry? Can I write to the file system? Can I load another DLL? It would just be a complete mess and still be exploitable in some corner that wasn't planned on. The alternatives being either provide a "safe" only API that ActiveX would have to use, OR you could run the control in a virtual machine of sorts...
.NET
And then you'll realize that you just reinvented
At night. Duh.
Sure. When is the last time you saw a product from RedHat or Novell or even IBM on the shelf at, say, Best Buy?
On its way out? Hardly. People want to buy a packaged, ready to go product. ESPECIALLY when the mantra is "Works for me. NOTABUG", and "You have the source, YOU fix it"
Right in the summary: bathed it in two perpendicular electric fields
Personally, I like appearing available all of the time. That way, I don't have the awkward situation of becoming "Available" only to have someone immediately pounce on me who I don't want to talk to. If I am available all of the time, then you have no idea if I am really there. The way it should be.
Yes, but it isn't discrimination to disallow inappropriate conduct. Imagine me walking into Chuck E Cheese with a shirt saying "I like dicks in my ass". They can't throw me out because I would be gay, but because I am shoving it into the face of others that don't care to see it. They would likely boot someone who had "I like the opposite sex you queer monkeys" all the same. They have to draw a line somewhere, and honestly, it is a lot easier to draw the line at "Don't advertise anything about sex, regardless what it is"
ROI on their investment
Return On Investment... on their investment. Brilliant!
Flat out, a PDF is a "vector graphic". Wanting to "fill in what I needed using my keyboard" would work just as nicely as if it was a BMP.
Unfortunately, people see the "Document" bit of PDF and assume it is meant to be used like a Word Document. It isn't. However, Adobe has done some pretty horrible things to their simple format to appease such people and now look at the mess you have.
A PDF should be used as a final output. FINAL. OUTPUT. If you need to make changes to it, you go back to what you created the PDF with, EDIT THAT, then re-render your PDF.
PDF seems to be the poster child for "How to abuse a format in a way that is contrary to its nature". Clients send us PDF's FORMS now... that they want us TO EDIT! Not print out, hand write on, and perhaps fax back... but EDIT IT, like it is a Word Processor document. Explaining to these people why this is an abomination is like telling a hooker not to sleep with the guy with sores all over his body... it falls on deaf ears, and makes baby Jesus cry.
Ultimately, the problem is, we don't know the consequences of these actions until it is too late.
It reminds me of a story I read a long time ago. I swear it was called "The Purple Room" and it was written by Hitchcock or someone similar ("Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind" was certainly inspired by it. I can't find any references to it. I must have some fact wrong).
The story goes something like (please forgive me... it was almost 20 years ago when I read it): A man and a woman madly in love were on a ship which ended up capsizing and sinking. The man survives and is so torn by losing his love that he contemplates suicide. He comes up with an invention called "The Purple Room"... it shoots a purple laser right into the soul of the entrant and makes them forget their most painful memories. One day a woman enters the establishment... in a cloak, and he couldn't see her face. After coming out of the purple room, she takes her hood off and he sees it is his long lost love... but she has no recollection of him at all. Distraught, he goes into the purple room and forgets her too. Now neither of them remembers the best parts of their lives.
While your intentions may be the best, the consequences are likely worse. You have no idea what else you are leaving behind until it is too late.
How is this different than Cube World?
Regardless whether your intention was humor or not, I have a tiny story relating. I DID try to get my 5 year old daughter to start using Linux. All she does is play web games like playhousedisney.com and noggin.com. I thought it would be perfect. Guess what. NOTHING worked. Flash/Shockwave completely broken. The Java games (as few as there were) constantly broke. So I eventually reinstalled windows, gave her a non-admin account, and made firefox the default shell so explorer never launched. Works great.
I'll concede that perhaps you are correct. It just doesn't seem right. I'll take the time to do some reading. Thanks for at least putting it intelligently enough to give me some food for thought.
You are putting a superficial boundary around "states". A hundred million people is a hundred million people. Flat out it should not matter if they are crammed in one building or across half of the US. They represent the population... the population of which is the reason the government exists in the first place. Using states as a middle manager/buffer to the federal government is dangerous... regardless what the forefathers though was right. Maybe it was back then... when there were 13 very individual states and only a handful of citizens.
That was the speculation, but that is all it was, was speculation. Be already had BeIA which you could use much like Windows NT/XP embeddeded Platform Builder. If they really intended on using it, they already had everything they needed from the get-go. Just some drivers would need written.
For one file. Nothing says your "image" can't be multiple files. VMWare has supported this since the beginning. It is such a no-brainer, I don't see why any alternatives wouldn't either.
Precisely my point. You think that somehow the sheep should get more of a vote because he can potentially be dinner... when the decision should be better for EVERYONE AS A WHOLE. Two wolves eating benefits the group much more than all three starving.
It would makes Iowa completely irrelevent in the national elections
... This would only go into affect after enough states totaling 270 electoral votes (enough to elect a president) adopted similar resolutions
Did you even read the SUMMARY:
That means Iowa would hold off on doing this until almost every other state did the same thing. And how can you actually argue FOR the electoral college with a straight face? "equalize the effects of the larger populations" is flat out ridiculous. Why should some rural farmer get more pull than the 10k people jammed into a square mile in new york city? Because they have more land? Population density flat out shouldn't matter. Geography shouldn't matter. One man, one vote, all counted the same. That is the point, sir.
Riddle me this... WHY WOULD YOU WANT to be "conservative"? Why would you be resistant to change? Why would you choose not to be open-minded to the fact that your way may not be the best? I truly don't understand... unless of course you are using "Conservative" as a synonym to "I like things the way they are" and "Liberals" as a synonym for "We want to stir EVERYTHING up... even if it doesn't make sense". Then, of course, this is akin to a PHB throwing out buzzwords.
I thought I had mono once for an entire year. Turned out I was just really bored.
See, I don't get it. WHY would you name your servers this? If you smack your head or have a hard night drinking, would you know FOR SURE that ServerX is the file server or the database server? Would you code like that? At least make the names useful.
Personally, I like MrDomainController, MrNameServer, MrFileServer, etc. Have a backup? Meet MsDomainController. Need yet another backup? JrDomainController? Need another one? No you don't. See, easy, unambiguous, useful.