c'mon man. I use Mozilla at home quite a lot and I design web sites (although I do more back end stuff than anything), but let's face the reality of the situation: If I'm designing web sites, I design for IE. Usually, my pages are fairly simple and work just fine in Moz, opera, etc, but I ain't waisting my time making scripts cross-browser compatible, etc, because those folks paying the bill don't care and the customer is always right.
If I cover one eye and look at an object it looks exactly the same, unless I cover my good right eye, then it is blurry. I can still sense 3d fine. I just reached and grabbed very small things with my finger and thumb at varying distances with no problem. However, I have NEVER seen a stereoscopic image. And believe me I've used the techniques everyone says. some people just can't see them.
Ummm, I've argued the same thing. I've done both types of programming (worked in a software house, worked in different industries IT group). I'm against open source because I believe it actually hurts my economic possiblities of being in the latter group WORSE. I want to continue to demand a high salary and I demand it because of some scarcity of people who re-integrate and re-solve the same problems over and over. It may not be glamorous, but damn if it don't pay the rent.
I spent five years being an idealistic newspaperman in a field that "made a difference". Making $22k a year bleeds your idealism real fast once you have a family to provide for. Go be idealistic in a way that impacts someone else's career path, please.
I been in programming for 5 years in business enviroments (and some time at a software house) and have never seen a spec even close to what you describe. You're lucky if you get a generic "business case" statement, let alone a description of the UI.
I agree. The Abyss, while it had some flaws, was a pretty damn good sci-fi movie. On another note, I was surprised not to see any mention of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. A little light on Science, perhaps, but pretty good.
Funny things is, I believe the mind and attitude are WAY underrated in physical health. Folks who worry a whole lot about getting sick always seem to be getting sick. Hmmmm...
As someone who worked on a daily newspaper for five years as a reporter and editor, I can share with you that there is a simliar thing done in newspapers as well. There is not one edition of a day's paper. There are several, distinct press runs and a breaking story may be updated several times. The difference is, there is usually an edition notice somewhere, so there is a written record.
I know at our paper our "archive" (both the old paper/microfiche and the newer electronic one only kept the last, "late, local" version of the paper. I never really thought about it until now.
well, it depends what you mean by "activeX". It is sometimes used as a synonym for "COM object", in which case, most of the.dlls on your avg. win machine are COM.
But, for an actual Activex conrol (with a visual interface), most will have an OCX extension. If you dont want to patch it, search for the file msnchat40.ocx. delete. to be absolutely sure, delete the reg entry for it. There will be an entry in the CLSID section of the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT (just search for the above file in regedit and delete the keys). Actually, if you delete the class pointers to the interface, no program could call it anyway. but deleting them both is the safest way.
First, Outlook != Outlook Express. Once again, I will say, I agree, it's a joke that scripting is on by default in Outlook. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure that one out. Furthermore, I will say that I don't see ANY reason to have Outlook Express (the POP3 client) to have scripting AT ALL (or at the very least requiring a separate download to install)
Also, I don't write Outlook scripts for a living (although I do have several I've writen myself to clean up my mailbox, etc). But, to say it is a feature no one uses (or should use) is wrong. There are businesses that do large portions of there business on Outlook Forms, just as there are lots of folks who have done custom Notes development, and just as there are firms that have done customized oracle forms/applications/workflow development.
For the record I would agree more don't use it. I agree the defaults should be more secure in Outlook. What I was responding to was the suggestion that NO ONE used Outlook/VBA scripting. I can assure you, that is not the case.
okay, according to Smyantec, this is the vulnerablity that the worm exploits. It's dated March 2001.M
Furthermore, the other technote/patch you reference is dated may 2001. Either way, the patch has been out for a while. I agree with you, I think they've done about everything they can to get people to patch. Hell, they have enough trouble to get supposed system administrators to patch their damn web servers (code red, Nimida anyone? Both eploited holes that already had patches available).
In XP, they have a setting you can turn on to basically download the patches automatically (I'm speaking second-hand here because I haven't used XP, so I may have this wrong), but my father-in-law said he turned it off because it "screwed up his computer"! Oh well.
Yeah. You wouldn't want to go off on a rant without checking the basic facts, right? I mean that would be really stupid. (For the clue-impaired, check the date)
That is equivalent, according to cost of living calculators, to $93K where I live. That's still pretty decent, but no where near what an IT director at a $5 mill or so a year company would make. If you get into the
Indeed. I play Roller Hockey in real life, but I've only been playing for a year and I'm not very good.
but, I can create a player in NHL 2002, take my pic from a digital camera, and watch myself take the feed on a breakaway from Derian Hatcher, deke out Chris Chelios and flip a wrister over Hashek's shoulder to win the cup. Then, I watch my digital alter ego get piled on by my teamates (note: This actually happened in my virtual season about two nights ago).
Maybe you could actually READ THE FREAKIN' LINK he posted instead of just spouting off some m$ bashing nonsense. It's 500k or so download. Is it really so hard to do "windows update" occassionally? If you get the "critical update notification" you don't even need to remember. Personally, I think it should be turned on by default.
I don't understand what world people work in when they make statements like above. Certainly not in the area of the U.S. I work at. Minimal foothold in the development world. I've worked at 4 programming jobs. All were microsoft based. This last one is the only one that even HAD a unix box as part of the network (an oracle/solaris box).
Of these, only one developed and sold sofware as it's primary income stream, so maybe that is the switch.
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c'mon man. I use Mozilla at home quite a lot and I design web sites (although I do more back end stuff than anything), but let's face the reality of the situation: If I'm designing web sites, I design for IE. Usually, my pages are fairly simple and work just fine in Moz, opera, etc, but I ain't waisting my time making scripts cross-browser compatible, etc, because those folks paying the bill don't care and the customer is always right.
If I cover one eye and look at an object it looks exactly the same, unless I cover my good right eye, then it is blurry. I can still sense 3d fine. I just reached and grabbed very small things with my finger and thumb at varying distances with no problem. However, I have NEVER seen a stereoscopic image. And believe me I've used the techniques everyone says. some people just can't see them.
It's a sim. It doesn't need a point. THat's the point of a sim. You don't "win" a simulation.
Ummm, I've argued the same thing. I've done both types of programming (worked in a software house, worked in different industries IT group). I'm against open source because I believe it actually hurts my economic possiblities of being in the latter group WORSE. I want to continue to demand a high salary and I demand it because of some scarcity of people who re-integrate and re-solve the same problems over and over. It may not be glamorous, but damn if it don't pay the rent.
I spent five years being an idealistic newspaperman in a field that "made a difference". Making $22k a year bleeds your idealism real fast once you have a family to provide for. Go be idealistic in a way that impacts someone else's career path, please.
I been in programming for 5 years in business enviroments (and some time at a software house) and have never seen a spec even close to what you describe. You're lucky if you get a generic "business case" statement, let alone a description of the UI.
I agree. The Abyss, while it had some flaws, was a pretty damn good sci-fi movie. On another note, I was surprised not to see any mention of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. A little light on Science, perhaps, but pretty good.
that's the only funny line in the EPI. My wife and I both commented after leaving that it lacked the humor.
Funny things is, I believe the mind and attitude are WAY underrated in physical health. Folks who worry a whole lot about getting sick always seem to be getting sick. Hmmmm...
As someone who worked on a daily newspaper for five years as a reporter and editor, I can share with you that there is a simliar thing done in newspapers as well. There is not one edition of a day's paper. There are several, distinct press runs and a breaking story may be updated several times. The difference is, there is usually an edition notice somewhere, so there is a written record.
I know at our paper our "archive" (both the old paper/microfiche and the newer electronic one only kept the last, "late, local" version of the paper. I never really thought about it until now.
well, it depends what you mean by "activeX". It is sometimes used as a synonym for "COM object", in which case, most of the .dlls on your avg. win machine are COM.
But, for an actual Activex conrol (with a visual interface), most will have an OCX extension. If you dont want to patch it, search for the file msnchat40.ocx. delete. to be absolutely sure, delete the reg entry for it. There will be an entry in the CLSID section of the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT (just search for the above file in regedit and delete the keys). Actually, if you delete the class pointers to the interface, no program could call it anyway. but deleting them both is the safest way.
First, Outlook != Outlook Express. Once again, I will say, I agree, it's a joke that scripting is on by default in Outlook. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure that one out. Furthermore, I will say that I don't see ANY reason to have Outlook Express (the POP3 client) to have scripting AT ALL (or at the very least requiring a separate download to install)
Also, I don't write Outlook scripts for a living (although I do have several I've writen myself to clean up my mailbox, etc). But, to say it is a feature no one uses (or should use) is wrong. There are businesses that do large portions of there business on Outlook Forms, just as there are lots of folks who have done custom Notes development, and just as there are firms that have done customized oracle forms/applications/workflow development.
For the record I would agree more don't use it. I agree the defaults should be more secure in Outlook. What I was responding to was the suggestion that NO ONE used Outlook/VBA scripting. I can assure you, that is not the case.
okay, according to Smyantec, this is the vulnerablity that the worm exploits. It's dated March 2001.M
Furthermore, the other technote/patch you reference is dated may 2001. Either way, the patch has been out for a while. I agree with you, I think they've done about everything they can to get people to patch. Hell, they have enough trouble to get supposed system administrators to patch their damn web servers (code red, Nimida anyone? Both eploited holes that already had patches available).
In XP, they have a setting you can turn on to basically download the patches automatically (I'm speaking second-hand here because I haven't used XP, so I may have this wrong), but my father-in-law said he turned it off because it "screwed up his computer"! Oh well.
Yeah. You wouldn't want to go off on a rant without checking the basic facts, right? I mean that would be really stupid. (For the clue-impaired, check the date)
There are LOTS of places that use Outlook automation/workflow apps. I've worked at two. Just FYI.
That is equivalent, according to cost of living calculators, to $93K where I live. That's still pretty decent, but no where near what an IT director at a $5 mill or so a year company would make. If you get into the
I HATE oracle. I'm sorry, but Oracle is more proprietary (sp?) than anything ever dreamed up in Microsoft's worst wet dreams.
Indeed. I play Roller Hockey in real life, but I've only been playing for a year and I'm not very good.
but, I can create a player in NHL 2002, take my pic from a digital camera, and watch myself take the feed on a breakaway from Derian Hatcher, deke out Chris Chelios and flip a wrister over Hashek's shoulder to win the cup. Then, I watch my digital alter ego get piled on by my teamates (note: This actually happened in my virtual season about two nights ago).
I mean, your damn add/remove programs won't work if you remove IE. Neither will my Quicken deluxe either.
there is no product called outlook server... do you mean Exchange? If so, you might want to say so.
I have no [f*cking] mod points. [but] I think that it [the parent post] is really [damn] hilarious!
ditto. It requires a brain and the ability to understand a few dialogs in the "security settings". Rules out about 80% of the population.
Maybe you could actually READ THE FREAKIN' LINK he posted instead of just spouting off some m$ bashing nonsense. It's 500k or so download. Is it really so hard to do "windows update" occassionally? If you get the "critical update notification" you don't even need to remember. Personally, I think it should be turned on by default.
Whoops! Well, that makes sense. my bad.
I don't understand what world people work in when they make statements like above. Certainly not in the area of the U.S. I work at. Minimal foothold in the development world. I've worked at 4 programming jobs. All were microsoft based. This last one is the only one that even HAD a unix box as part of the network (an oracle/solaris box).
Of these, only one developed and sold sofware as it's primary income stream, so maybe that is the switch.