Yeah.. I mean, a "professional" would never use a Microsoft product . . . it might ACTUALLY be the best IT solution to the buesiness problems for the business pays him/her a salary. Better to use a solution that agrees with you agenday. So much more 'leet.
I just can't place an arthur. some relatively unknown, solid english dude. You wouldn't want someone with star power in the role.
Ian Mc.. whathisname, you know Gandalf, could pull a mean Slartibartfast I'd wager...
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hey, did you even read my post? That stuff came thru windows update, downloaded automaticaally, and I said "Sure, install that." that was the extent of my 'tweaking'. Not only that, but I'd wager I can take my windows 98 cd, install fresh & those games will install and run fine (they would need DX8, but the installer would work ok.)
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Ok, well, I call complete BS on this line:
In Windows you have to do alot of stuff to get a game to work but you dont think of it as hard because it doesnt have a "command line"
I just recently bought and installed two games for my windows 2000 pro. system, and I didn't have to do anything for either one. Harry Potter (for my son) and NHL Hockey 2002. Both are pretty graphically intensive (I think I read somewhere that the HP game licensed one of the big engines like Unreal? I could be completely off base on that).
I did *zero* other than run the install on both. Both games work flawlessly and look great on my geforce2MX/Athlon 1 ghz-- hardly the latest and greatest hardware. I do see Nvidia driver updates and DirectX versions, as well as sound card driver updates show up in my windows update notifications and install those, but that is the extent of my tweaking.
Also, I think searching the 'net, finding the right hdparam command to run to make your system run fast, and adding that command to the correct text configuration file so it loads at bootup and downloading and installing a driver (ohh... click "open" after the download) are on completely different PLANETS of difficulty for the typical user.
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why I don't use linux reason #2768. Dude, I just want to play the game! Oh, and I want to get chastized for not knowing (and trying) to run: "hdparm -d1 -c1 -X69/dev/hdx" before having the audacity to post a question somewhere!
who is this company? I've never been given a testing time and/or budget.....
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See. Anything that is based on "reality" is called a "troll" by the/. faithful and modded out of existence, so they don't have to confront these "facts". You are obviously new here:)
I dunno if you can extract the fonts from PDF files... and all of the characters aren't necessarily embedded (you can just embedd the few from that font you use, IIRC)
Right. This is why fonts are so widely copied. I remember this from my graphic artist days. The entire Adobe Font Library was serious $$$ (thousands of dollars. I'm not kidding). But you could buy a $49 knockoff that changed the names and then fire up your font substitution preferences to have Quark or Pagemaker substitue ZappoDings for ZapfDingbats and have few -- not zero, but few -- problems.
the story I always heard was it was trivial for the software distributors to make one tiny change to one character and it was legally a new typeface (it wasn't bit for bit identical).
Yeah, you really have no way of knowing what server-side language they are using on an.ASP page, without seeing the code. Most use VBscript, but many use Jscript, since they have to use it server side to support anything besides IE. but there are lots of supporting scripting engines (I know there is a perlscript, for instance).
Exactly. I cant believe the hours people work. I have been a programmer for 7 years and in professional, post-college employment for 12 years, and I've NEVER worked non-compensated overtime. Not once. Granted, as a programmer, that compensation has always been in comp time, but, what the hey.
My advice? I usually take in the following day, a week at most. And I don't ask. I just leave an email or say something on the way out "hey, I'm heading out... I'm taking those 3 hours I worked for the deployment last Thursday. Have a good one."
Get over yourself. We went over this a while back. Your little USian thing is doomed to fail because:
1: It ignores the fact the the USA is the only country with AMERICA in its name, therefore we are justified in calling ourselves Americans. It also ignores the fact that when you say "Americans" everyone knows you mean "citizens of the United States of America"
Indeed. I have to use this at a client occassionaly (although for the most part I just have it set to forward -- although it took me an hour to figure out how to set up a server rule to do so with the damn thing..)
My favorite quirk. Log in, receive mail, mark some for deletion. Wait awhile, then exit. It demands a password! I understand, intellectually, that it doesn't really delete mail until you exit, for some reason, but YOU CAN'T SKIP IT! It will demand the password for a while, then demand you point to a new mail database or something... It's weird.. the only program in my 20 years of computing that wanted a password to EXIT!
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LOL! Geez... I haven't laughed that hard at a /. post since the OOG the caveman days (where da hell is the OOGster anyway?) -- but me with no mods.
Yeah.. I mean, a "professional" would never use a Microsoft product . . . it might ACTUALLY be the best IT solution to the buesiness problems for the business pays him/her a salary. Better to use a solution that agrees with you agenday. So much more 'leet.
How about you catch a clue? You are thinking of Passport, we are talking about the .NET framework.
Agreed. I have two of their USB gamePads and they are very nice and have held up well.. Haven't used any of their other stuff, though.
ah.. that would be good.
I just can't place an arthur. some relatively unknown, solid english dude. You wouldn't want someone with star power in the role.
Ian Mc.. whathisname, you know Gandalf, could pull a mean Slartibartfast I'd wager...
hey, did you even read my post? That stuff came thru windows update, downloaded automaticaally, and I said "Sure, install that." that was the extent of my 'tweaking'. Not only that, but I'd wager I can take my windows 98 cd, install fresh & those games will install and run fine (they would need DX8, but the installer would work ok.)
Also, I think searching the 'net, finding the right hdparam command to run to make your system run fast, and adding that command to the correct text configuration file so it loads at bootup and downloading and installing a driver (ohh... click "open" after the download) are on completely different PLANETS of difficulty for the typical user.
why I don't use linux reason #2768. Dude, I just want to play the game! Oh, and I want to get chastized for not knowing (and trying) to run: "hdparm -d1 -c1 -X69 /dev/hdx" before having the audacity to post a question somewhere!
who is this company? I've never been given a testing time and/or budget.....
See. Anything that is based on "reality" is called a "troll" by the /. faithful and modded out of existence, so they don't have to confront these "facts". You are obviously new here :)
holy crap! Our firm does contracting for another Gov. Agency and I can assure you, their profit margin is FAR larger than 7%.
I dunno if you can extract the fonts from PDF files... and all of the characters aren't necessarily embedded (you can just embedd the few from that font you use, IIRC)
Right. This is why fonts are so widely copied. I remember this from my graphic artist days. The entire Adobe Font Library was serious $$$ (thousands of dollars. I'm not kidding). But you could buy a $49 knockoff that changed the names and then fire up your font substitution preferences to have Quark or Pagemaker substitue ZappoDings for ZapfDingbats and have few -- not zero, but few -- problems.
the story I always heard was it was trivial for the software distributors to make one tiny change to one character and it was legally a new typeface (it wasn't bit for bit identical).
Yeah, you really have no way of knowing what server-side language they are using on an .ASP page, without seeing the code. Most use VBscript, but many use Jscript, since they have to use it server side to support anything besides IE. but there are lots of supporting scripting engines (I know there is a perlscript, for instance).
exactly. That was gonna be my point. I can tell you, most of the ASP+/.NET examples are in C#, not VB
live now. Worry about an alleged retirement later. You might not live that long
Well, that's why I always can find a job :) There are ALWAYS, ALWAYS a job for VB programmers (at least where I live).
ummm, default lower array bound in Visual Basic 6.0 is 0... you have to use Option Base 1 if you want to change the default behavior (see this link
80K... wow, the organization I contract for's enterprise license was $40 mil....
Exactly. I cant believe the hours people work. I have been a programmer for 7 years and in professional, post-college employment for 12 years, and I've NEVER worked non-compensated overtime. Not once. Granted, as a programmer, that compensation has always been in comp time, but, what the hey.
My advice? I usually take in the following day, a week at most. And I don't ask. I just leave an email or say something on the way out "hey, I'm heading out... I'm taking those 3 hours I worked for the deployment last Thursday. Have a good one."
I would never, ever think of doing an 800 page document in either one... PageMaker or Quark is the proper tool for such a job.
do this experiment... Open a photo, save as a low-quality quality JPEG. Repeat 3 times. Look at photo. It gets worse every time.
Get over yourself. We went over this a while back. Your little USian thing is doomed to fail because:
1: It ignores the fact the the USA is the only country with AMERICA in its name, therefore we are justified in calling ourselves Americans. It also ignores the fact that when you say "Americans" everyone knows you mean "citizens of the United States of America"
2: We don't give a shit.
geez. You need more ram. I've a 1.2 ghz celeron with shitty video and 256MB ram and XP runs great.
Indeed. I have to use this at a client occassionaly (although for the most part I just have it set to forward -- although it took me an hour to figure out how to set up a server rule to do so with the damn thing..)
My favorite quirk. Log in, receive mail, mark some for deletion. Wait awhile, then exit. It demands a password! I understand, intellectually, that it doesn't really delete mail until you exit, for some reason, but YOU CAN'T SKIP IT! It will demand the password for a while, then demand you point to a new mail database or something... It's weird.. the only program in my 20 years of computing that wanted a password to EXIT!