No one claim IE was a complete rewrite. Even Firefox started with the old Netscape code base.
Big pieces were re-implemented, but a lot of the core logic (I assume) remains unchanged. Too many sites rely upon how IE does things (standards compliant or not).
This is the *huge* issue, that will make or break your decision.
If it's VB6, run for the hills. It's end-of-lifed.
VB.NET is a great place. You'll be able to leverage all of the.NET platform pieces (ASP.NET, SQL integration, WinForms, Avalon, etc). You'll be able to mix-n-match C# code. There is continuing investment in the language and tools. There's already a page dedicated to VB9 with some awesome features I wish were going to be in C#.
If you're betting on a Windows environment, VB.NET is a great place to be.
Your first choice should be "Are we going to bet on.NET?".
If the answer is yes, VB.NET vs. C# vs. Managed C++ is a secondary call.
A priest, a doctor, and an engineer were waiting one morning at the third tee (par 3, 185 yards, slight dog leg to left, water hazard on the right) while a particularly slow group of golfers were flailing away ahead of them.
Engineer: What's with these guys? We've been waiting for 15 minutes!
Doctor: I don't know but I've never seen such ineptitude!
Priest: Hey, here comes the green keeper. Let's have a word with him. Hi George. Say George, what's with that group ahead of us? They're rather slow, aren't they?
George: Oh yes. That's a group of blind fire fighters. They lost their sight while saving our club house last year. So we let them play here anytime free of charge!
Doctor: Wow! Thanks for the scoop George.
Priest: That's so sad. I think I will say a special prayer for them tonight.
Doctor: Good idea. And I'm going to contact my ophthalmologist buddy and see if there's anything he can do for them.
Burn the important files to CD. Get an external harddrive, whatever.
Then nuke the harddrive and start over. In my experience going through the pain of finding all of the problems is worse than finding old install disks. You can also start with a clean build of XP SP2 which makes it *much* harder to get infected.
When you image the machine, make sure you set up at least two partitions so starting over in the future is less painful.
It was made very clear that the build for WinHec was soley provided as a platform to test driver compatability. MS still has a couple of months until it releases Beta 1.
He does state that for very specific scenarios (where you need lots of memory) like Active Directory and SQL, x64 is a huge improvement...with numbers to back it up.
You can get it on a machine and Microsoft will support you. Doesn't sound like Beta to me.
If you were Microsoft, would you like to deal with the long line of tech support calls explaining why the new version of Windows doesn't work on a Pentium Pro.
For the market they are targetting, their sales strategy makes perfect sense.
Everything in Longhorn will be based on the.NET framework and sandboxed, with the Win32 API scrapped. Longhorn's ability to run the Win32 API will be through a compatibility layer, similar to the DOS compatibility layer in XP. However, WinXP's ability to run Indigo and Avalon, the two pillars of Longhorn, will be done through a forward compatibility layer.
No clue where you're getting your information, dude, but that's all false.
Even when parts of the Longhorn shell was being built on managed code (which is no longer the case), there was no "compatibility layer" for Win32. Longhorn will still have all of the Win32 goodness.
The relationship bewteen Longhorn and managed code will be the same as the relationship between XP and managed code.
Read Entering Space by Robert Zubrin. He breaks down the problem of transportation amazingly well. (Besides going into the details about fusion. Just an amazing book.)
His biggest point is the need to bring cost/kg down from $10,000/kg to $100/kg. We can just look at the X-prize for inspiration that this would be possible.
I know China has talked about looking at the moon. No suprise that the White House has also expressed interest: the moon has amazing strategic importance.
Either way, check out the video in my sig, if you haven't voted yet. Or even if you have. Give you something less to bitch about...very interesting after hearing all of the stuff about Swifth Boat Veterans and thrown medals.
Free to set up events. No min or max. Many options for different prices, etc. They even handle mailing the tickets. They take a small % off the top of each ticket to cover their costs.
In their own words:
The only fair-trade ticketing service!
Ticket buyers and event organizers have been held hostage by ticketing companies long enough. Our mission is to keep as much money in everyone's pockets as possible. That way, producers can put on more shows, performers can earn a better living, and ticket buyers can see more shows! That's what building a community is about.
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You almost feel good about buying tickets from them. Crazy...
I think both the Electoral College and the Senate should be scrapped. You had referred to the Senate as an example of why the Electoral College model was acceptable. I was simply saying it's not a good measure of an effective voting model.
As far as Canada, while they don't have a nation-wide election for one candidate, they do have federally run elections pointing out that the country-wide system can work.
1) Switching to national popular vote is hard. 2) The Senate is not democratic.
Answers:
1) First, saying its hard doesn't make it not right. You know what an easier voting system would be? Let the oldest son of the guy in power take over when that guy dies. Are we going for easy or fair here?
Secondly, we sent a man to the fucking moon! Canada has federalized elections and they work fine. India some how gets 1.2 billion people to vote. It's not an intractable problem.
2) You assume the Senate is a good model. It's not.
16.3% of the US population elects half the Senate.
Let's assume for a second that the House and the Senate have equal power (most would claim that the Senate has more, but let's keep things simple.)
So if the Senate has half the power then half the Senate has a quarter of the power, right?
Basically we could climate all of the Representatives from the House from least populated 25 states AND A THEY WOULD STILL HAVE DISPROPORTIONATLY MORE POWER!!
If anything the Senate is MORE unfair than the Electoral College.
An important lesson that they don't teach in school, kids: the political structure of the US wasn't set up to be fair; it was set up to be agreed upon. (And, maybe, slightly better than a monarchy.)
It's nearly impossible for a 3rd party to gain visibility in the US because plurality elections. The Electoral College makes this worse because a candidate won't even gain visibility unless they reach the plurality of votes in any given state. It's possible that a 3rd party could get the largest popular vote across the country but not win a single individual state.
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Open Source Software buggy? With security problems? Shipped with known issues before it's ready?
That's impossible. Only big, evil, money-grubbing, corporations do that.
I mean, you could easily misspell IE7 as Firefox. The letters are right next to each other on the keyboard.
(Yes, I really like flame. It's a sickness. I need help.)
No one claim IE was a complete rewrite. Even Firefox started with the old Netscape code base.
Big pieces were re-implemented, but a lot of the core logic (I assume) remains unchanged. Too many sites rely upon how IE does things (standards compliant or not).
Mod the parent up.
.NET platform pieces (ASP.NET, SQL integration, WinForms, Avalon, etc).
.NET?".
This is the *huge* issue, that will make or break your decision.
If it's VB6, run for the hills. It's end-of-lifed.
VB.NET is a great place.
You'll be able to leverage all of the
You'll be able to mix-n-match C# code.
There is continuing investment in the language and tools. There's already a page dedicated to VB9 with some awesome features I wish were going to be in C#.
If you're betting on a Windows environment, VB.NET is a great place to be.
Your first choice should be "Are we going to bet on
If the answer is yes, VB.NET vs. C# vs. Managed C++ is a secondary call.
http://domains.live.com/
Microsoft is already offering this. It's been around for about a month, I think.
http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=8053 3
Amazingly good discussion and demos!
A priest, a doctor, and an engineer were waiting one morning at the third tee (par 3, 185 yards, slight dog leg to left, water hazard on the right) while a particularly slow group of golfers were flailing away ahead of them.
...
Engineer: What's with these guys? We've been waiting for 15 minutes!
Doctor: I don't know but I've never seen such ineptitude!
Priest: Hey, here comes the green keeper. Let's have a word with him. Hi George. Say George, what's with that group ahead of us? They're rather slow, aren't they?
George: Oh yes. That's a group of blind fire fighters. They lost their sight while saving our club house last year. So we let them play here anytime free of charge!
Doctor: Wow! Thanks for the scoop George.
Priest: That's so sad. I think I will say a special prayer for them tonight.
Doctor: Good idea. And I'm going to contact my ophthalmologist buddy and see if there's anything he can do for them.
After a short pause
Engineer: Why can't these guys play at night?
Burn the important files to CD. Get an external harddrive, whatever.
Then nuke the harddrive and start over. In my experience going through the pain of finding all of the problems is worse than finding old install disks. You can also start with a clean build of XP SP2 which makes it *much* harder to get infected.
When you image the machine, make sure you set up at least two partitions so starting over in the future is less painful.
There is an interview with Martin Taylor and Bill Helf in two parts on Channel9.
Interesting stuff...
The splash screen to Win2K is a bitmap obviously blown up by 200% or so.
Slow down, turbo.
The splash screen is displayed before the video driver is loaded, hense the lack of color depth and resolution.
If you're gunna flame, check your facts first.
It was made very clear that the build for WinHec was soley provided as a platform to test driver compatability. MS still has a couple of months until it releases Beta 1.
Please hold your flame till then.
It's like they ran Solitare on Win95 and XP and since they saw no difference, XP is clearly no better.
Watch Bill's keynote. He doesn't claim random desktop bench marks will run faster.
He does state that for very specific scenarios (where you need lots of memory) like Active Directory and SQL, x64 is a huge improvement...with numbers to back it up.
You can get it on a machine and Microsoft will support you. Doesn't sound like Beta to me.
If you were Microsoft, would you like to deal with the long line of tech support calls explaining why the new version of Windows doesn't work on a Pentium Pro.
For the market they are targetting, their sales strategy makes perfect sense.
Take a look at Microsoft Security Bulletin MS05-019.
If you are running SP2, none of the flaws is considered worse that "moderate".
1) The criticality of a fix depends on the OS. A critical bug is Win2k may be only moderate in XPSP2, but it's always advertised as just "critical".
2) This is good proof that (at least my Microsoft's analysis of criticality) XPSP2 does improve security dramatically, even in the face of defects.
IANARS, but I think the need for heat shields is precipitated by the deceleration of from orbit velocity.
If you are falling straight down, your velocity would start at the terminal velocity of your height and slowly decrease as the atmosphere got denser.
Coming in from orbit you are going *much* faster than terminal velocity.
Even when parts of the Longhorn shell was being built on managed code (which is no longer the case), there was no "compatibility layer" for Win32. Longhorn will still have all of the Win32 goodness.
The relationship bewteen Longhorn and managed code will be the same as the relationship between XP and managed code.
Trust me...
Touche.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
-- Albert Einstein
Read Entering Space by Robert Zubrin. He breaks down the problem of transportation amazingly well. (Besides going into the details about fusion. Just an amazing book.)
His biggest point is the need to bring cost/kg down from $10,000/kg to $100/kg. We can just look at the X-prize for inspiration that this would be possible.
I know China has talked about looking at the moon. No suprise that the White House has also expressed interest: the moon has amazing strategic importance.
Depends who wins :-)
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Either way, check out the video in my sig, if you haven't voted yet. Or even if you have. Give you something less to bitch about...very interesting after hearing all of the stuff about Swifth Boat Veterans and thrown medals.
http://www.thekerrymovie.com/goingupriver.mov.tor
The story: hippy response to TicketBastard.
Free to set up events. No min or max. Many options for different prices, etc. They even handle mailing the tickets. They take a small % off the top of each ticket to cover their costs.
In their own words:
You almost feel good about buying tickets from them. Crazy...
Now we're just getting into details.
I think both the Electoral College and the Senate should be scrapped. You had referred to the Senate as an example of why the Electoral College model was acceptable. I was simply saying it's not a good measure of an effective voting model.
As far as Canada, while they don't have a nation-wide election for one candidate, they do have federally run elections pointing out that the country-wide system can work.
Slow down turbo.
You make two arguments:
1) Switching to national popular vote is hard.
2) The Senate is not democratic.
Answers:
1) First, saying its hard doesn't make it not right. You know what an easier voting system would be? Let the oldest son of the guy in power take over when that guy dies. Are we going for easy or fair here?
Secondly, we sent a man to the fucking moon! Canada has federalized elections and they work fine. India some how gets 1.2 billion people to vote. It's not an intractable problem.
2) You assume the Senate is a good model. It's not.
16.3% of the US population elects half the Senate.
Let's assume for a second that the House and the Senate have equal power (most would claim that the Senate has more, but let's keep things simple.)
So if the Senate has half the power then half the Senate has a quarter of the power, right?
Basically we could climate all of the Representatives from the House from least populated 25 states AND A THEY WOULD STILL HAVE DISPROPORTIONATLY MORE POWER!!
If anything the Senate is MORE unfair than the Electoral College.
An important lesson that they don't teach in school, kids: the political structure of the US wasn't set up to be fair; it was set up to be agreed upon. (And, maybe, slightly better than a monarchy.)
Really?
How much time have candidates spent in Wyomming? Alaska? The Dakotas? Montana? Wyomming?
The truth: the EC does not give "small states" any more visibility. Worse, they avoid New York, California, and Texas.
Is it unfortunate that no one goes to Cheyenne or Sioux Falls? Sure.
Is it unforgivable that no candidate goes to NYC or LA? Absolutely!
It's nearly impossible for a 3rd party to gain visibility in the US because plurality elections. The Electoral College makes this worse because a candidate won't even gain visibility unless they reach the plurality of votes in any given state. It's possible that a 3rd party could get the largest popular vote across the country but not win a single individual state.
Solution:
Check out a simulation of IRV http://fixthesystem.net/