NOTE: The sample code for this application is in C#. C# was chosen over C++ so beginners could better see the structures of the process, and C# was chosen over Java because of the inherent performance advantages of.NET.
Alan Smithee is no news. Everyone knows about it. Having that name in something previewed by Apple means nothing - and you should all have better things to do. Egads, I mean come on and get a life!
If anyone is not convinced Best Buy is really worst buy, why not visit one of these lovely stores?
And when it finally hits you, ask yourself the next question: what's it like to work inside one of these places?
There are lots of resources online about this, but the basics are the following:
1. Absolutely no employee training.
2. You have to sell up. You have to get customers to take expensive guarantee and support policies.
3. If you don't gut the customers the way they want, you get in trouble.
It's a nightmare for any human being. They run their chain like a freaking ghetto. No one should be in the least surprised by this latest move - what's the other shoe? Asking customers to pay extra for the privilege of shopping with them?
Sorry, but a clever poster and a Konfabulator do not a new OS make.
I'll gladly wait until 2005. I'll gladly wait longer, if this is the best they can come up with. They should concentrate more on the OS and less at getting back at former employees.
I've got no choice at the office. So should I just stop doing online banking at work because the computers happen to use the most popular operating system and browser in the world?
You have to ask?
BTW, the use of the word 'popular' is inappropriate. 'Most used' better fits the bill.
Programming is not a wannabe art, but try to tell Pusher Bill. The grunts that are left working on his miserable platforms must hate him more than ever. As many have said before, Microsoft has harmed the computer industry more than any other thing or group by lowering both people's expectations and their perceptions.
It doesn't matter if it's copyright. And you can, for that matter, copyright almost anything today. And if Apple wanted to nab the Konfab guys, they would try, and in litigation, money equals winning.
The issue is that it's also bad for Apple. As Steve Jobs once said, 'if they don't write software for you, it's good night'. OK, those weren't his exact words, but I can't be bothered to look it up right now. He said that when he was still in Redwood City.
And IBM knew that about their PC, and Bill knew it about his Windows, and about the transition to Windows 95.
Microsoft like to buy up things. They bought up a defragger or two, they bought up some system utilities - they sometimes ship the products as independent such with their OS.
And Apple do that too. On my latest DVD I have a bunch of 3rd party products, all licensed, all provided by Apple. And that's good.
But when they go after the little guy and eclipse his efforts, that little guy might leave the market. Watson, Sherlock, Konfab, Dashboard - there have been dashboards around for at least ten years on many platforms. So what? Exactly. But if Apple nudge the 3rd party people out of the market and are the only ones basically who remain, they will be dead in the water, and they - and Steve - of all people should know it.
why can't people just make things on their own from scratch (like I do, see my site)
Because you're smart and have brains and aren't afraid to apply yourself and you don't turn up an arrogant nose at technology or anything new.
The g/f recently contracted with an AP reporter who wanted a web site and a blog. What for? I asked? What for? she asked. I just want one, he said. Why can't he just put some simple HTML up? I asked. Why can't you, she asked. I want it all done for me so I don't have to bother with it, he answered.
My first impression was that it made GW look like a clueless moron who had no idea what to do. It's as if he can't think on his feet, he needs someone to tell him what to do.
People mentioned them a lot in the build-up to the war. Richard Perl is in there, isn't he? Now that is a scary organisation. Beats the Committee for the Imminent Danger hands down. Yes, they are scum - they're also totally convinced they are right, that they have a manifest destiny to save the world, and that no expense - no amount of human life and suffering - is not worth their achieving their goals.
Organisations like this should be banned and their members brought under intense scrutiny. They're online, so do check them out. And be scared.
It's literally phenomenal how US news media cultivate opinion by ignoring the stories no one wants to hear. Fixing the media in the US would go a LONG way to improving the image of Americans in the world at large. If most Americans really knew what their frat-boy governments were doing in their name, they'd have none of it.
I'm glad you had a class in Michael Moore. All good neocons should.
Unfortunately, you are missing several points which are obvious to the rest of us who don't disguise a twisted perspective in a cloud of pseudo-impartiality.
1. You're assuming your reaction to Moore's filmmaking is the intent Moore had behind it and the same reaction anyone else watching his films would have. This is a basic, fundamental mistake, and in many ways is a cornerstone of fascism. You defend your right make everyone else see things the way you want them to see them.
2. Michael Moore, as others are stating in this forum, is giving you opinions. Michael Moore is not making 'documentaries', and 'documentary' is after all only a word, and only someone grievously emotionally disenfranchised would get hung up on the semantics of the word and forget the meaning behind it. Moore is giving you his opinions: the way -he- sees things, and he's good at communicating as well, which is why people like his films.
And if Michael Moore thinks there is a connection between two events spaced seven years apart, then so be it: that is his opinion. You don't have to subscribe to it, but to accuse him of 'manipulating' when you have no proof whatsoever is almost tantamount to wearing your neocon badge on your lapel.
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NOTE: The sample code for this application is in C#. C# was chosen over C++ so beginners could better see the structures of the process, and C# was chosen over Java because of the inherent performance advantages of .NET.
What morons. what total losers.
Oh it's an MP3 only?
How lame! You say 'I just posted'?!??
You're incredibly lame!
Alan Smithee is no news. Everyone knows about it. Having that name in something previewed by Apple means nothing - and you should all have better things to do. Egads, I mean come on and get a life!
people bitten by spiders don't generally become ultra-powerful
Aw! They do too!
If anyone is not convinced Best Buy is really worst buy, why not visit one of these lovely stores?
And when it finally hits you, ask yourself the next question: what's it like to work inside one of these places?
There are lots of resources online about this, but the basics are the following:
1. Absolutely no employee training.
2. You have to sell up. You have to get customers to take expensive guarantee and support policies.
3. If you don't gut the customers the way they want, you get in trouble.
It's a nightmare for any human being. They run their chain like a freaking ghetto. No one should be in the least surprised by this latest move - what's the other shoe? Asking customers to pay extra for the privilege of shopping with them?
'Best Buy' is a direct lie.
Conferences like these always give me a lift.
I have a photographic memory. When working on military projects, I have to leave it at home.
It's a lot of discs, but it's not news, and for two reasons:
1. Only M1 was any good. M2 and especially M3 really bit it.
2. We thought it was futuristic, only to find out it was all inspired by some freaking dominatrix.
Oh yeah, there's a third reason: Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer think it's cool. Then it's definitely not news.
Move on. Go home. Dinner's ready.
Sorry, but a clever poster and a Konfabulator do not a new OS make.
I'll gladly wait until 2005. I'll gladly wait longer, if this is the best they can come up with. They should concentrate more on the OS and less at getting back at former employees.
I've got no choice at the office. So should I just stop doing online banking at work because the computers happen to use the most popular operating system and browser in the world?
You have to ask?
BTW, the use of the word 'popular' is inappropriate. 'Most used' better fits the bill.
Programming is not a wannabe art, but try to tell Pusher Bill. The grunts that are left working on his miserable platforms must hate him more than ever. As many have said before, Microsoft has harmed the computer industry more than any other thing or group by lowering both people's expectations and their perceptions.
Maybe we should tell John Ashcroft about open source database and copying solutions?
And he'd listen?
Just do your job and vote the summabitches out of office and the world will thank you.
It's been a long four years and the planet can't survive four more and neither can you.
But strippers don't have their mammas chaperoning the clubs to make sure the bad bad directors don't get too much boobie in the shots.
The smartest thing Kirsten's mother ever did was put the 't' on the end of their family name.
The film tops the original in every way, despite Kirsten Dunst.
Wow - it must REALLY be good!
It doesn't matter if it's copyright. And you can, for that matter, copyright almost anything today. And if Apple wanted to nab the Konfab guys, they would try, and in litigation, money equals winning.
The issue is that it's also bad for Apple. As Steve Jobs once said, 'if they don't write software for you, it's good night'. OK, those weren't his exact words, but I can't be bothered to look it up right now. He said that when he was still in Redwood City.
And IBM knew that about their PC, and Bill knew it about his Windows, and about the transition to Windows 95.
Microsoft like to buy up things. They bought up a defragger or two, they bought up some system utilities - they sometimes ship the products as independent such with their OS.
And Apple do that too. On my latest DVD I have a bunch of 3rd party products, all licensed, all provided by Apple. And that's good.
But when they go after the little guy and eclipse his efforts, that little guy might leave the market. Watson, Sherlock, Konfab, Dashboard - there have been dashboards around for at least ten years on many platforms. So what? Exactly. But if Apple nudge the 3rd party people out of the market and are the only ones basically who remain, they will be dead in the water, and they - and Steve - of all people should know it.
why can't people just make things on their own from scratch (like I do, see my site)
Because you're smart and have brains and aren't afraid to apply yourself and you don't turn up an arrogant nose at technology or anything new.
The g/f recently contracted with an AP reporter who wanted a web site and a blog. What for? I asked? What for? she asked. I just want one, he said. Why can't he just put some simple HTML up? I asked. Why can't you, she asked. I want it all done for me so I don't have to bother with it, he answered.
She dropped the contract.
Such are people - the other kind.
... and until then we'll always have /. - never underestimate its power (seriously).
-Nod to Taco-
Oh oh - a neocon is pissed... My my...
For the rest of you: read parent carefully. THIS is why the US is hated so in the rest of the world: this is EXACTLY why.
Learn a lesson.
Well put, Scooby!
My first impression was that it made GW look like a clueless moron who had no idea what to do. It's as if he can't think on his feet, he needs someone to tell him what to do.
This surprises you?
People mentioned them a lot in the build-up to the war. Richard Perl is in there, isn't he? Now that is a scary organisation. Beats the Committee for the Imminent Danger hands down. Yes, they are scum - they're also totally convinced they are right, that they have a manifest destiny to save the world, and that no expense - no amount of human life and suffering - is not worth their achieving their goals.
Organisations like this should be banned and their members brought under intense scrutiny. They're online, so do check them out. And be scared.
Yes, yes. Very very true.
It's literally phenomenal how US news media cultivate opinion by ignoring the stories no one wants to hear. Fixing the media in the US would go a LONG way to improving the image of Americans in the world at large. If most Americans really knew what their frat-boy governments were doing in their name, they'd have none of it.
Bravo, but:
a petty, spiteful, dim-witted, bloody-handed little fool - and the figurehead of a murderous power elite
We don't need Moore to tell us what we already know.
I hope he brings that summabitch down.
I'm glad you had a class in Michael Moore. All good neocons should.
Unfortunately, you are missing several points which are obvious to the rest of us who don't disguise a twisted perspective in a cloud of pseudo-impartiality.
1. You're assuming your reaction to Moore's filmmaking is the intent Moore had behind it and the same reaction anyone else watching his films would have. This is a basic, fundamental mistake, and in many ways is a cornerstone of fascism. You defend your right make everyone else see things the way you want them to see them.
2. Michael Moore, as others are stating in this forum, is giving you opinions. Michael Moore is not making 'documentaries', and 'documentary' is after all only a word, and only someone grievously emotionally disenfranchised would get hung up on the semantics of the word and forget the meaning behind it. Moore is giving you his opinions: the way -he- sees things, and he's good at communicating as well, which is why people like his films.
And if Michael Moore thinks there is a connection between two events spaced seven years apart, then so be it: that is his opinion. You don't have to subscribe to it, but to accuse him of 'manipulating' when you have no proof whatsoever is almost tantamount to wearing your neocon badge on your lapel.
Cheap shit is still shit.