I am sure there are tons more developers working on windows drivers than linux drivers in any consumer performance hardware company...
Plus direct x is just good stuff.
*cough* We (read Verizon) already have consumer VoIP services (Called Voice Wing; super sexy, go buy it). We are also finishing up testing on our fiber to the home lines in Keller Texas (I volunteered for staff duty at the FIOS block party). It's only a matter of time before 30Mbit connections are avilable in your homes guys...
Aaron de Zeeuw
Verizon Creative Development
Anyone that spends more than 100 hours on a client side javascript web application (with an XML datasource) just to see it featured on another corporate site code verbatim without any mention of the original author or the originating corporation (the only two comments they stripped out) in the code behind...
Dave, this one's for you.
his idea is pretty retarded. there is a reason jabber never took off...
if google did test the waters in instant messanging, it would be on a proprietary protocol...
i played around with the jabber SDK, and i wasn't impressed in the least.
"but teaches the student how to learn"
People who have MCSDs (one of the certifications they will prepare you for) you should know how to learn already. If I am paying $60,000 I am paying to become a master of my trade, I can be a well rounded individual for free.
I for one will be sending my children to school with a Dvorak keyboard... Like in handwriting, there can be no one accepted way to type. I took a typing class in 9th grade and my teacher hated me because I kept my left hand at the row above home, and my left hand on the row below. It was just easier for me, and I got some of the highest numbers in the class on the typing clock application she tested us with. Typing should be something you learn on your own time, or at least with fewer constraints.
Back-Stage, Rocky Horror Picture Show, On my laptop (using the coffee shop next door's connection) in my underwear. I was playing Rocky that night... it was before the tank scene.
Unfortunately there is very little we can do to retaliate when one of our favorite systems is being attacked. IMO the problem is not the viruses themselves, the problem is that we still don't have a solution to DDoS attacks. If we can solve the DDoS problem, there will be no point in writing DDoS viruses anymore.
I know that Holland has a TV tax. I had to pay it. I am sure if it's feasable to tax television usage in the Netherlands, the UK would do it too. I do not know if there is a way to find people using untaxes televisions. Dutch people are generally honest, if you tell them there is a tax on walking outside barefoot, they would probably pay it in high percentage.
I would love to see japanese WiFi police in orange jumpsuits wardriving the streets of tokyo, looking for untaxes hotspots...
And underground Yakuza wireless networks would be nifty.
I swear, I'm buying an eMac this weekend so i can feel like "one of the guys" again.
I hope that isn't why we are getting so many apple posts! *gasp*
Seriously though. Getting an eMac. That way I can shut both my Mac and Linux friends up:).
You mean applications made by IBM (the same people that make AIX) run faster in UNIX than on windows? Duh. Beyond a shadow of a doubt it was created for UNIX and ported to windows.
I am not talking about HTML element applications, I am talking about full windows forms applications downloaded and hosted by the browser, but not in the browser... And yes, there are plenty of IE only features out there; which is why there are so many IE only internal applications...
Bringing it all back around: in order to allow developers to use IE as an intranet (trusted) application interface, MS had to open the browser up to scripting and COM. If you have not worked with the Microsoft Web Browser object, you'd be amazed at how much control you can take... IE is at the very least millions of lines of code that was not originally designed to be as open as it is (and it's opened up more and more every version), so naturally there will be a number of issues dealing with overlooked holes in security (which will be fixed in time). Closed source developers who are paid for their work get deadlines, and having worked with Microsoft before, I know that their deadlines do not necessarily include time to reread and fully consider the scope of your code ("welcome to Microsoft, your project was due last week"). For everything it is, that Mozilla isn't; I personally believe that IE is still a strong and efficient product and I will continue using/developing for it.
BTW: Open Source is the Hippie Movement of our generation... You might not like that comment, but it's true.
IE is less of a browser, and more of a gateway into windows as far as I am concerned. As a.Net developer, I have deployed more than a few IE only internal applications that include code written in C++ and C# () that ran on the client. As an interface tool Internet Explorer is extremely powerful. It allows me to write an application in which an internal user logs into a network local site, downloads large binaries, and runs complex forms based applications without installing anything on his computer (which means i can update code without requiring a client software update). Firefox/Mozilla/other hippie browsers do not have that capability.
My girlfriend likes to quilt. I can get in a good amount of gaming while she's quilting...
Watch a movie snuggled up on the couch (complete with blanket comfy clothes and popcorn) with your woman every once in a while, that should cheer her up.
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The secret of (and technique to guarantee) the female orgasm. I'd pay a million dollars for that...
I am sure there are tons more developers working on windows drivers than linux drivers in any consumer performance hardware company... Plus direct x is just good stuff.
*cough* We (read Verizon) already have consumer VoIP services (Called Voice Wing; super sexy, go buy it). We are also finishing up testing on our fiber to the home lines in Keller Texas (I volunteered for staff duty at the FIOS block party). It's only a matter of time before 30Mbit connections are avilable in your homes guys... Aaron de Zeeuw Verizon Creative Development
Anyone that spends more than 100 hours on a client side javascript web application (with an XML datasource) just to see it featured on another corporate site code verbatim without any mention of the original author or the originating corporation (the only two comments they stripped out) in the code behind... Dave, this one's for you.
Yeah, that is misleading. Linux is 11+ times as expensive!
his idea is pretty retarded. there is a reason jabber never took off... if google did test the waters in instant messanging, it would be on a proprietary protocol... i played around with the jabber SDK, and i wasn't impressed in the least.
When will this ever end! What's better? Apples or Oranges?
"but teaches the student how to learn" People who have MCSDs (one of the certifications they will prepare you for) you should know how to learn already. If I am paying $60,000 I am paying to become a master of my trade, I can be a well rounded individual for free.
Now i can complete my futurama collection :)
How are they going to limit sharing to "Just a few friends" i wonder...
Enter: Microsoft DRM
I for one will be sending my children to school with a Dvorak keyboard... Like in handwriting, there can be no one accepted way to type. I took a typing class in 9th grade and my teacher hated me because I kept my left hand at the row above home, and my left hand on the row below. It was just easier for me, and I got some of the highest numbers in the class on the typing clock application she tested us with. Typing should be something you learn on your own time, or at least with fewer constraints.
Next Up: Solitaire, The missing manual.
Back-Stage, Rocky Horror Picture Show, On my laptop (using the coffee shop next door's connection) in my underwear. I was playing Rocky that night... it was before the tank scene.
Unfortunately there is very little we can do to retaliate when one of our favorite systems is being attacked. IMO the problem is not the viruses themselves, the problem is that we still don't have a solution to DDoS attacks. If we can solve the DDoS problem, there will be no point in writing DDoS viruses anymore.
I know that Holland has a TV tax. I had to pay it. I am sure if it's feasable to tax television usage in the Netherlands, the UK would do it too. I do not know if there is a way to find people using untaxes televisions. Dutch people are generally honest, if you tell them there is a tax on walking outside barefoot, they would probably pay it in high percentage.
I would love to see japanese WiFi police in orange jumpsuits wardriving the streets of tokyo, looking for untaxes hotspots... And underground Yakuza wireless networks would be nifty.
I swear, I'm buying an eMac this weekend so i can feel like "one of the guys" again. I hope that isn't why we are getting so many apple posts! *gasp* Seriously though. Getting an eMac. That way I can shut both my Mac and Linux friends up :).
All you're buying is the name, and the 30 extra hours some designer spent on look and feel. "Think different"... yeah, whatever...
You mean applications made by IBM (the same people that make AIX) run faster in UNIX than on windows? Duh. Beyond a shadow of a doubt it was created for UNIX and ported to windows.
that's german, not dutch :-P
I am not talking about HTML element applications, I am talking about full windows forms applications downloaded and hosted by the browser, but not in the browser... And yes, there are plenty of IE only features out there; which is why there are so many IE only internal applications...
Bringing it all back around: in order to allow developers to use IE as an intranet (trusted) application interface, MS had to open the browser up to scripting and COM. If you have not worked with the Microsoft Web Browser object, you'd be amazed at how much control you can take... IE is at the very least millions of lines of code that was not originally designed to be as open as it is (and it's opened up more and more every version), so naturally there will be a number of issues dealing with overlooked holes in security (which will be fixed in time). Closed source developers who are paid for their work get deadlines, and having worked with Microsoft before, I know that their deadlines do not necessarily include time to reread and fully consider the scope of your code ("welcome to Microsoft, your project was due last week"). For everything it is, that Mozilla isn't; I personally believe that IE is still a strong and efficient product and I will continue using/developing for it.
BTW: Open Source is the Hippie Movement of our generation... You might not like that comment, but it's true.
IE is less of a browser, and more of a gateway into windows as far as I am concerned. As a .Net developer, I have deployed more than a few IE only internal applications that include code written in C++ and C# () that ran on the client. As an interface tool Internet Explorer is extremely powerful. It allows me to write an application in which an internal user logs into a network local site, downloads large binaries, and runs complex forms based applications without installing anything on his computer (which means i can update code without requiring a client software update). Firefox/Mozilla/other hippie browsers do not have that capability.
My girlfriend likes to quilt. I can get in a good amount of gaming while she's quilting... Watch a movie snuggled up on the couch (complete with blanket comfy clothes and popcorn) with your woman every once in a while, that should cheer her up.