The long service life of Macs adds significantly to the installed user base
Actually the installed user base decreases significally the percent Macs are sold: proof: because of the long service life.
That exactly was my point too.
With app.config files put in program's folder (equiv alent to HKLM configuration data) and app.config files put in Applications Data folder under each user's home (equivalent to HKCU configuration data) things can only get better and we might get rid of the registry database
What makes you think publishing the format would hurt Microsoft, you do know that the Word and Excel formats used to be published on their website?
The world is becoming smarter. With the speed the information now becomes known, you have to be quite stupid not to realise that there are free alternatives to Word.
But, also, everybody knows that they are 'not as good'. Good at what? good at writing documents to be displayed with word, good at reading documents wrote with word.
I seriously have no doubt that there are open-source coders that would have no problem with the errors above if they knew the storage format.
So, once that XML is usable from all other alternatives to Word/Excel, everybody will know that "full Word compatibility" will truely mean "full Word compatibility".
AC, you may be 'funny', but actually XML is the only way out of the registry (binary) database on Windows (since the deprecation of.ini files).
10 years from now you will do 'notepad' instead of 'regedit' on all config.. and Windows may become a platform to deploy to with simple 'copy', just like all others.
e.g: RegFreeCOM is only one of the good news.
This will make even people that have a valid licence to preffer the illegal versions:-))
Kidding.
No offense, but this already happens to a lot of software that doesn't have an international selling, like the one that is stuffed in your mouth by governament and it's coded by 'his grandson':p
So windows will end writing a bad sector on my hard drive??
If you want to secure your traffic sign the certificate yourself. Once the first-time-visitor adds it to his repository, it's as good as signed.
And it's secure communication
OTOH, if you want to prevent dephasing and other attaks, yes, you may want an official CA. But nobody can guarantee me what kind of man is the owner of the signed certificate. No CA in the world
He can be evil but more likely he can be plain stupid and allow the private key to be copied by some means.
Of course it is.
Haven't you noticed that even if the number oh Hz (Mhz, Ghz) continues to increase as Moore law says, the performance doesn't have the same increment? (I think it's even an economic law that says this, although it doesn't have a proof for microprocessors).
So the new Hz's that are coming are more sluggish, more slow and young and not that restless as the ones from days back.
Processors' pipes are lenghtening before their speed can manage it.
Therefore, until we get ourself some new type of hardware to code onto, we have to write better code. Even if it's automatically generated by RAD tools, algorithms still count when measuring performance.
ergo:There is no point writing bad code just because processors are faster
On the other side, there are some points in writing slightly slower bad code that can be:
- read later by another developer
- extensible
- produces closer-to-usability programs.
I agree with an upper post that Commodore would do them all, but I won't manage living without today's UIs.
Somebody mod this guy..umm.. or girl.. DOWN, please!!He's trying to steal copyrighted ideas from MPAA! Ever since the first DNA... bla bla
On topic: not only was Hollywood selling only movies (clones of player's performance), now the players themself'll be cloned!! But we know that cloning the clone... whatever
This is my problem too. everytime I look at KDE I get the feeling of a window manager that shivers (or refreshes) and it feels 'unstable'. Menus flickering, Icons redrawing etc. I see all these.
The problem comes when I try to find somebody that notices this too: google helps not, discussion lists either etc. Even people (like: real people) deny that they notice this refreshing/flickering.
This is one of the main reasons I avoid using KDE.. and this is one of the first times I read from somebody that he dislikes the same thing.
It's worse than a bug: it's undescribable and unreproduceable...
Yup. Let's search Msn Spaces and see who's actually writing a blog which includes the word 'Microsoft'. Guess what? It searches with beta.search.msn.com and you guys'll never find out the answer..
Then again, it has _blank targets on links... come on, I know how to middle click something..
Then again you have to remember the password to the dotnet passport.. which I havent' used for years..
That's enough reviewing, passons
Borland did this too with the _real_ Firebird: the free DBMS born from Borland's. Now I don't even remember the name of Borland's product:D.. but Firebird I did use.
That's good because is yet another pace in the direction when all information (http, smtp etc.) will travel encrypted (since today only some pages are served this way, because of the processor loads) and because everytime we hear good about AMD we're happy:P
remember "IE Shines on broken html" article the other week? Test these:http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/mangleme/gallery/ on firefox rc1: they're already fixed
Actually the whole release may just be fixing bugs( and changed the icon on live bookmarks:p )
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If, e.g. 2% are using Macs, and their "service life" is longer, that means less then 2% are sold (every year, for example).
Excuse my allambicated english:)
If I hang around your car enough time with that viros attacking, I can (D)DOS it by consuming it's battery!
The long service life of Macs adds significantly to the installed user base
Actually the installed user base decreases significally the percent Macs are sold: proof: because of the long service life.
Yet another Google project that wakes competition up, just like GMail :)
mmm.. this is interesting. Can you go into details please?:)
Do you write bold, like a 14 year school boy?
..In IE's status bar, maybe..
That exactly was my point too.
With app.config files put in program's folder (equiv alent to HKLM configuration data) and app.config files put in Applications Data folder under each user's home (equivalent to HKCU configuration data) things can only get better and we might get rid of the registry database
I think it's simpler: "two B or not two B"
What makes you think publishing the format would hurt Microsoft, you do know that the Word and Excel formats used to be published on their website?
The world is becoming smarter. With the speed the information now becomes known, you have to be quite stupid not to realise that there are free alternatives to Word.
But, also, everybody knows that they are 'not as good'. Good at what? good at writing documents to be displayed with word, good at reading documents wrote with word.
I seriously have no doubt that there are open-source coders that would have no problem with the errors above if they knew the storage format.
So, once that XML is usable from all other alternatives to Word/Excel, everybody will know that "full Word compatibility" will truely mean "full Word compatibility".
And they'll buy less Word.
AC, you may be 'funny', but actually XML is the only way out of the registry (binary) database on Windows (since the deprecation of .ini files).
10 years from now you will do 'notepad' instead of 'regedit' on all config.. and Windows may become a platform to deploy to with simple 'copy', just like all others.
e.g: RegFreeCOM is only one of the good news.
they heard the case on March 22 or so, if I remember correctly Hey.. it's only a couple of days!! Bad memory? :p
This will make even people that have a valid licence to preffer the illegal versions :-))
:p
Kidding.
No offense, but this already happens to a lot of software that doesn't have an international selling, like the one that is stuffed in your mouth by governament and it's coded by 'his grandson'
So windows will end writing a bad sector on my hard drive??
If you want to secure your traffic sign the certificate yourself. Once the first-time-visitor adds it to his repository, it's as good as signed. And it's secure communication
OTOH, if you want to prevent dephasing and other attaks, yes, you may want an official CA.
But nobody can guarantee me what kind of man is the owner of the signed certificate. No CA in the world He can be evil but more likely he can be plain stupid and allow the private key to be copied by some means.
Of course it is. Haven't you noticed that even if the number oh Hz (Mhz, Ghz) continues to increase as Moore law says, the performance doesn't have the same increment?
(I think it's even an economic law that says this, although it doesn't have a proof for microprocessors).
So the new Hz's that are coming are more sluggish, more slow and young and not that restless as the ones from days back.
Processors' pipes are lenghtening before their speed can manage it.
Therefore, until we get ourself some new type of hardware to code onto, we have to write better code. Even if it's automatically generated by RAD tools, algorithms still count when measuring performance.
ergo:There is no point writing bad code just because processors are faster
On the other side, there are some points in writing slightly slower bad code that can be:
- read later by another developer
- extensible - produces closer-to-usability programs.
I agree with an upper post that Commodore would do them all, but I won't manage living without today's UIs.
Somebody mod this guy..umm.. or girl.. DOWN, please!!He's trying to steal copyrighted ideas from MPAA! Ever since the first DNA... bla bla
On topic: not only was Hollywood selling only movies (clones of player's performance), now the players themself'll be cloned!! But we know that cloning the clone... whatever
I think you should make a third project with the common codebase :)
oh
Wait a minute!
Since when does Gmail support Konqueror?
This is my problem too. everytime I look at KDE I get the feeling of a window manager that shivers (or refreshes) and it feels 'unstable'. Menus flickering, Icons redrawing etc. I see all these.
The problem comes when I try to find somebody that notices this too: google helps not, discussion lists either etc. Even people (like: real people) deny that they notice this refreshing/flickering.
This is one of the main reasons I avoid using KDE.. and this is one of the first times I read from somebody that he dislikes the same thing.
It's worse than a bug: it's undescribable and unreproduceable...
Yup. Let's search Msn Spaces and see who's actually writing a blog which includes the word 'Microsoft'.
Guess what? It searches with beta.search.msn.com and you guys'll never find out the answer..
Then again, it has _blank targets on links... come on, I know how to middle click something..
Then again you have to remember the password to the dotnet passport.. which I havent' used for years..
That's enough reviewing, passons
So lie as much as you can, gives you brains.
Oh, wait..
Borland did this too with the _real_ Firebird: the free DBMS born from Borland's. Now I don't even remember the name of Borland's product :D .. but Firebird I did use.
That's good because is yet another pace in the direction when all information (http, smtp etc.) will travel encrypted (since today only some pages are served this way, because of the processor loads)
and because everytime we hear good about AMD we're happy:P
Everybody'll get TLS'ed
remember "IE Shines on broken html" article the other week? Test these:http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/mangleme/gallery/ on firefox rc1: they're already fixed
Actually the whole release may just be fixing bugs( and changed the icon on live bookmarks:p )