From personal experience, as a smoker for 15 years, smoking upwards of 2 packs a day, switching to vape HAS made a tremendous impact on my bank account and how I feel. It tastes better than cigarettes (DUH!), my lungs don't hurt, I don't wheeze anymore, my car doesn't smell like ciggarettes, and I don't have ashes everywhere. Switching to vapor has been a solid WIN for me. I have been vaping almost 4 years now and successfully quit smoking. I thought one day I would try and smoke a ciggarette and I couldn't finish it and thought, how the HELL did I start doing this in the FIRST place! So honestly, I don't see how vaping could LEAD a person to smoking...that to me is INSANE. Only a weak minded fool would do that...sadly there are too many of those around.
This argument is silly "We do not want to make it impossible to contact family, first responders or medical professionals in an emergency situation.". The people that have not turned in their Note 7 and gotten a replacement phone that won't explode would be able to contact family, first responders, or medical professionals IF they did turn in their phones.
The phone is dead people! There are no software updates, no new versions of Android, no new features, no support whatsoever. Just turn in the phone, get a new one and when Samsung releases the next version of whatever BIG ass phone you want, get it.
XP had a lot of compatibility problems with hardware and drivers were scarce initially. It wasn't until SP2 that XP became good. I think people forget that fact when they sit around and bash Vista. I really like Vista and Win7 is much faster. The main thing I don't like about Vista is the Visual Studio debugger detaches itself from IIS after a very short period of being on a break point and being idle.
I agree competely. My expeirience with Windows 7 has been very positive. On my hardware, Windows 7 x64 leaves Vista x64 in the dust in all aspects of performance. To me, and the type of computing I do (.NET Development) this version will be a worthy upgrade when it RTM's. I was very surprised to find that the it was able to detect and install all but one driver I needed to make my media card reader work. Although, I have to say the "super bar" is going to take some getting used to, but overall the UI refinements made are welcome.
how many people here bashing Vista have actually used it. Why is everyone so up in arms about upgrading? Its only $450. Vista is much better than XP, by far.
I installed Vista 5384 last night on a Gateway m675 notebook, and so far my experience is pretty good. They seemed to get to speed up a little since 5308. And its true, some things are a little buggy, but MUCH MUCH better than the last build I tried. My overall impression is happy with it, I'll try and use it. THe only problems I have yet to fix are the sound and touchpad. I hate the tap to click. Sound drivers were updated from Microsoft after installation and the driver appears to be working, just no sound coming out of it.
I have the treo 650, third one actually, the last 2 were lemmons. So far this one hasn't let me down too much. But I really want one like the new 700w that Verizon has, but I don't want to switch to Verizon. It would be great if that had a 700c for cingular...
In my experience, I have run accross more VB.NET code that thought, "WTF is this", then "Wow, this is good code". I think that C# developers are more prone to understanding the BCL (Base Class Library) then VB.NET folks. Why you might ask. VB developers were most used to writing there own code to solve a problem, mostly because they didn't have a good API or class library to work with. C# being a new language caused a lot of developers to focus more on the BCL then the language. For example, I know/work with developers that wrote their own "function" or method that return the extension of a filename. I have seen 25 line methods to do that, created by VB developers, where most C# developers would use System.IO.Path.GetExtension method.
Ok, first off, I have programmed in VB since VBDOS days, and I work in an environment that uses VB.NET primary because, the management feels it will be easier to find VB.NET developers then C#. C# and VB.NET are essentially the same, just syntax, however I have found that the using statement in C# is quite nice, although they added it to VB.NET 2005, its not quite the same. I have noticed the VB.NET complier takes longer, and I think its because of the fact VB is wordy. If MyVariable = SomeValue Then... Ened If seems like more to parse then if (MyVariable == SomeValue) {..}. I think C# is cleaner because of the fact its not so wordy. But some will argue that the wordyness is good. I think what it does it make it easier for anyone to learn programming. C# syntax is a little more advanced in my opinion. Where I work, most people that are programmer are not programmers, so VB.NET make's sense, because its closer to english, essentially, IF MY PHONE NUMBER STARTS WITH XXX THEN I MUST BE A USER AND NOT AN ADMISISTRATOR is easy for a non-programmer to understand and code with VB.NET. One of my pet peeves with VB is the Option Strict and Option Explicit. In my opinion, it is ALWAYS good to decare your variables of being a certain type, in other words, NEVER do Dim I, but rather Dim I as integer is better. C# in fact does not let you get away with such mistakes. I just recently converted one of our applications to VB.NET 2005 and VS2005 gave me a crap load of errors saying implicit convertsion from type X to type X is disallowed. This wouldn't happen as much in a C# project, because you were never given option strict, EVERYTHING IS STICT. In my opinion, C# and C style languages encourage better coding, while VB.NET promotes sloppy coding. If you are a VB.NET developer, I don't mean to slam you, but you have to admit, not declaring types and not casting to the right type can lead to stupid bugs.
Yeah, and lets look at how successfull Windows XP N was. No company wants to bundle it. Why would anyone want to buy an operating system that doesn't have any multimedia capabilities out of the box?
I'd like to thank Sony for again, reminding me why I do not buy their products. Its amazing they got this far with this rootkit, I for one hope they get fined heavily.
Agreed, I do not have a college education and I am considered a senior developer where I work. I happen to work with a few people that ARE jealous of that fact that they spent 4 years getting a computer science degree and I am at a higher level and make more money. My wife is a programmer as well and does not have her degree, and yet she schools co-workers who do have degrees all day.
Bottom line, just because someone has a degree does not necessarily make them better. Its the "real world" experience that counts the most IMHO.
I will consede that outlook is not perfect, and people do have problems with virus's and such, but thats because MS is a target. If people were to target the open source products as much they would FIND just as many security holes.
Interesting. So no matter if MS makes a better product, you would choose the inferior product. Outlook makes Evolution seem like a kids toy. Outlook interegrates nicley with other applications, I have found evolution to be a pain to get to work with other programs. Why is it that you hate Microsoft so much?
Same here, download the RC for ubuntu and was immediatly impressed. Don't think I will look back at FC3. It works so much better. And even the KDE desktop looks sharper as well.
Hmm, I will take your word for it, it must not have been as obvious as others. I prefer Fedora Core's installer, it makes it pretty clear, and for that matter so does Debian based distros. Oh well. Thats what I get for making an impluse descision.
Here another bug for you....how about asking the user during installation how they want to partition the drive instead of wiping all of the existing partitions and then installing. I lost my WinXP partition, and now have to re-install it. A little warning would have been nice too. Its not the data loss that bothers me as much as the time it takes to reconfigure everything. Thanks for wasting my time.
I could not agree more. All these users complain about virus's and spyware, but yet somehow I never get them. Its called "Responsible computing". Virus's and Spyware will always exist and continue to reak havoc regardless of operating system/browsers as long as there are people that are stupid enough to click "Yes" to install on all security warning and install software from untrusted sources. I don't feel sorry for alot of these users because they just arent paying attention. When in doubt, don't install it.
AIM is not worth the sweat on my ball sack...Why are we talking about AOL???????????? Anyone who knows anything about techology knows AOL is for the non REAL computer user. I for one will not talk to anyone on AIM, only MSN, and Yahoo..........I don't know anyone who uses AIM...
XP is a piece of shit OS
Maybe you don't know what your doing? I have 10 computers running XP/2003 and ALL my hardware works great. Installed mandrake and half of my hardware was unavailable. Yes the scanner worked, but no wireless, CDRW doesn't burn, only reads CD's...ATI drivers suck (there is no accelerated 3D..) Hmm, shall i go on....
Couldn't agree more! The reason why no one is suing apple is because of all the haters out there. Microsoft is rich and they make a better product. Apple has probobly slipped a few million to zurich for the EU to fund its trial.
Yes, I don't see what the problem is? At least Windows Media Player doesn't take over your PC. Everytime I installed RealOne or whatever its called, you tell it to only associated REAL specific file extensions and it totally ingores your options and configures EVERYTHING. I only wanted it so I can watch.rm or.ram files... Since it assimilates my extension confiurations I refuse to use it. If I run accross a site that only shows Real player, next...Quick time is okay, I hate that it sits in the system tray taking memory by default.
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From personal experience, as a smoker for 15 years, smoking upwards of 2 packs a day, switching to vape HAS made a tremendous impact on my bank account and how I feel. It tastes better than cigarettes (DUH!), my lungs don't hurt, I don't wheeze anymore, my car doesn't smell like ciggarettes, and I don't have ashes everywhere. Switching to vapor has been a solid WIN for me. I have been vaping almost 4 years now and successfully quit smoking. I thought one day I would try and smoke a ciggarette and I couldn't finish it and thought, how the HELL did I start doing this in the FIRST place! So honestly, I don't see how vaping could LEAD a person to smoking...that to me is INSANE. Only a weak minded fool would do that...sadly there are too many of those around.
This argument is silly "We do not want to make it impossible to contact family, first responders or medical professionals in an emergency situation.". The people that have not turned in their Note 7 and gotten a replacement phone that won't explode would be able to contact family, first responders, or medical professionals IF they did turn in their phones. The phone is dead people! There are no software updates, no new versions of Android, no new features, no support whatsoever. Just turn in the phone, get a new one and when Samsung releases the next version of whatever BIG ass phone you want, get it.
I couldn't have said it better myself. Well said.
XP had a lot of compatibility problems with hardware and drivers were scarce initially. It wasn't until SP2 that XP became good. I think people forget that fact when they sit around and bash Vista. I really like Vista and Win7 is much faster. The main thing I don't like about Vista is the Visual Studio debugger detaches itself from IIS after a very short period of being on a break point and being idle.
I agree competely. My expeirience with Windows 7 has been very positive. On my hardware, Windows 7 x64 leaves Vista x64 in the dust in all aspects of performance. To me, and the type of computing I do (.NET Development) this version will be a worthy upgrade when it RTM's. I was very surprised to find that the it was able to detect and install all but one driver I needed to make my media card reader work. Although, I have to say the "super bar" is going to take some getting used to, but overall the UI refinements made are welcome.
how many people here bashing Vista have actually used it. Why is everyone so up in arms about upgrading? Its only $450. Vista is much better than XP, by far.
I installed Vista 5384 last night on a Gateway m675 notebook, and so far my experience is pretty good. They seemed to get to speed up a little since 5308. And its true, some things are a little buggy, but MUCH MUCH better than the last build I tried. My overall impression is happy with it, I'll try and use it. THe only problems I have yet to fix are the sound and touchpad. I hate the tap to click. Sound drivers were updated from Microsoft after installation and the driver appears to be working, just no sound coming out of it.
I have the treo 650, third one actually, the last 2 were lemmons. So far this one hasn't let me down too much. But I really want one like the new 700w that Verizon has, but I don't want to switch to Verizon. It would be great if that had a 700c for cingular...
In my experience, I have run accross more VB.NET code that thought, "WTF is this", then "Wow, this is good code". I think that C# developers are more prone to understanding the BCL (Base Class Library) then VB.NET folks. Why you might ask. VB developers were most used to writing there own code to solve a problem, mostly because they didn't have a good API or class library to work with. C# being a new language caused a lot of developers to focus more on the BCL then the language. For example, I know/work with developers that wrote their own "function" or method that return the extension of a filename. I have seen 25 line methods to do that, created by VB developers, where most C# developers would use System.IO.Path.GetExtension method.
Ok, first off, I have programmed in VB since VBDOS days, and I work in an environment that uses VB.NET primary because, the management feels it will be easier to find VB.NET developers then C#. C# and VB.NET are essentially the same, just syntax, however I have found that the using statement in C# is quite nice, although they added it to VB.NET 2005, its not quite the same. I have noticed the VB.NET complier takes longer, and I think its because of the fact VB is wordy. If MyVariable = SomeValue Then ... Ened If seems like more to parse then if (MyVariable == SomeValue) {..}. I think C# is cleaner because of the fact its not so wordy. But some will argue that the wordyness is good. I think what it does it make it easier for anyone to learn programming. C# syntax is a little more advanced in my opinion. Where I work, most people that are programmer are not programmers, so VB.NET make's sense, because its closer to english, essentially, IF MY PHONE NUMBER STARTS WITH XXX THEN I MUST BE A USER AND NOT AN ADMISISTRATOR is easy for a non-programmer to understand and code with VB.NET. One of my pet peeves with VB is the Option Strict and Option Explicit. In my opinion, it is ALWAYS good to decare your variables of being a certain type, in other words, NEVER do Dim I, but rather Dim I as integer is better. C# in fact does not let you get away with such mistakes. I just recently converted one of our applications to VB.NET 2005 and VS2005 gave me a crap load of errors saying implicit convertsion from type X to type X is disallowed. This wouldn't happen as much in a C# project, because you were never given option strict, EVERYTHING IS STICT. In my opinion, C# and C style languages encourage better coding, while VB.NET promotes sloppy coding. If you are a VB.NET developer, I don't mean to slam you, but you have to admit, not declaring types and not casting to the right type can lead to stupid bugs.
Yeah, and lets look at how successfull Windows XP N was. No company wants to bundle it. Why would anyone want to buy an operating system that doesn't have any multimedia capabilities out of the box?
I'd like to thank Sony for again, reminding me why I do not buy their products. Its amazing they got this far with this rootkit, I for one hope they get fined heavily.
Finally someone said it.
Agreed, I do not have a college education and I am considered a senior developer where I work. I happen to work with a few people that ARE jealous of that fact that they spent 4 years getting a computer science degree and I am at a higher level and make more money. My wife is a programmer as well and does not have her degree, and yet she schools co-workers who do have degrees all day.
Bottom line, just because someone has a degree does not necessarily make them better. Its the "real world" experience that counts the most IMHO.
What do you use? notepad?
I will consede that outlook is not perfect, and people do have problems with virus's and such, but thats because MS is a target. If people were to target the open source products as much they would FIND just as many security holes.
Interesting. So no matter if MS makes a better product, you would choose the inferior product. Outlook makes Evolution seem like a kids toy. Outlook interegrates nicley with other applications, I have found evolution to be a pain to get to work with other programs. Why is it that you hate Microsoft so much?
Same here, download the RC for ubuntu and was immediatly impressed. Don't think I will look back at FC3. It works so much better. And even the KDE desktop looks sharper as well.
Hmm, I will take your word for it, it must not have been as obvious as others. I prefer Fedora Core's installer, it makes it pretty clear, and for that matter so does Debian based distros. Oh well. Thats what I get for making an impluse descision.
Here another bug for you....how about asking the user during installation how they want to partition the drive instead of wiping all of the existing partitions and then installing. I lost my WinXP partition, and now have to re-install it. A little warning would have been nice too. Its not the data loss that bothers me as much as the time it takes to reconfigure everything. Thanks for wasting my time.
I could not agree more. All these users complain about virus's and spyware, but yet somehow I never get them. Its called "Responsible computing". Virus's and Spyware will always exist and continue to reak havoc regardless of operating system/browsers as long as there are people that are stupid enough to click "Yes" to install on all security warning and install software from untrusted sources. I don't feel sorry for alot of these users because they just arent paying attention. When in doubt, don't install it.
AIM is not worth the sweat on my ball sack...Why are we talking about AOL???????????? Anyone who knows anything about techology knows AOL is for the non REAL computer user. I for one will not talk to anyone on AIM, only MSN, and Yahoo..........I don't know anyone who uses AIM...
XP is a piece of shit OS Maybe you don't know what your doing? I have 10 computers running XP/2003 and ALL my hardware works great. Installed mandrake and half of my hardware was unavailable. Yes the scanner worked, but no wireless, CDRW doesn't burn, only reads CD's...ATI drivers suck (there is no accelerated 3D..) Hmm, shall i go on....
Couldn't agree more! The reason why no one is suing apple is because of all the haters out there. Microsoft is rich and they make a better product. Apple has probobly slipped a few million to zurich for the EU to fund its trial.
Yes, I don't see what the problem is? At least Windows Media Player doesn't take over your PC. Everytime I installed RealOne or whatever its called, you tell it to only associated REAL specific file extensions and it totally ingores your options and configures EVERYTHING. I only wanted it so I can watch .rm or .ram files... Since it assimilates my extension confiurations I refuse to use it. If I run accross a site that only shows Real player, next...Quick time is okay, I hate that it sits in the system tray taking memory by default.