The first amendment doesn't really apply to ANY schools. School newspapers? censored. People putting up private web pages dissing school administrators? Kids harassed into taking down. For that matter, other Bill of Rights routinely violated. Random locker searches, drug dogs sniffing cars in the parking lot.
Hey, I'm 32, so I'm not some high school kid whining about this stuff. It's a JOKE. ---
I'm sorry. I've never posted a "I'm bitter because they didn't post it when I submitted it", because I don't really care if they use mine. I do think it's a little ridiculous when I submit it and they post it FIVE DAYS LATER! I remember thinking when I saw it on zdnet, "I'm surprised I haven't seen this on/."
2001-03-08 21:31:22 Microsoft expands open-Window policy (articles,microsoft) (rejected)
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But as a portal, they ROCK. I'm sorry, I don't know what I'd do without my.yahoo.com. It's a nice place for a public box to keep spam from my email. Mine has customized sports, free fantasy leagues, tv schedule, alubumn releases, saved news clippers, movie listings, yellow pages, directions, contacts/address book/calendar (regulrarly sychronized with my outlook at home and work with a free plugin), snow reports for ski areas I go to, weather for my area... whatever. I LOVE IT. Even there shopping portal is pretty good. I don't even get any spam from them. ---
what table are you looking at? What do you mean "non-cheating" the tests are set up by the TPC ferchristsakes! Price/performance is almost ENTIRELY MSSQL! ---
It's the MSDE engine. The MSDE supports all the functionality of the "full" installation, minus some replication functionality IIRC. MSDE is actually fairly cool for a "small footprint" database. You can take a MSDE database, and do a DB_ATTACH in SQL and you have a full DB. App syntax doesn't need to be changed either. Designed to be used with a mobile device so a mobile user can have a local DB (then set up replication when he plugs in to the LAN). I saw an app that used this one time and it was slick. ---
when he says "microsoft talks to SQL databases " and has it's own OO database.
I mean, ADO now talks to about anything, not just relational DB's. You can use webDAV/XML or SQL to query it. Or write an OLEDB provider and query it however you want. ---
well,
disclaimer IANALP (I am not a Linux programmer).
I'll tell you one use for it. Most of our C++ coders in our Microsoft shop use VB for playing around with a new library/version/whatever. They prototype functions in VB then bounce them to C++ later. Or maybe they decide that, performance isn't a key issue in this COM object (like it's dependent on database access or other disk access for speed) and can just as easily stay in VB without a performance penalty and hand off the object (usually with an interface defined) to one of the VB programmers like me:)
Just thought I'd give you the view from the other side:) ---
We're going to have to accept the realization that for having public archives of Internet material, there are really only two options:
1: Collectively do it ourselves through taxes and the government(s) (what I'm in favor of)
or 2: Actually have a pay service that you pay a monthly fee for.
It simply requires to much manpower and storage otherwise. I mean, can you imagine a library operating through selling advertising? Aside from the practical business realities, would you want to live in a world so corpratized that you have to endure ads in the library? Or strategic "upsells" and "click throughs" that mean when you look in a how-to book a speaker comes to life and says you can buy that saw for $49.95 at Home Depot? (this is pretty similar to what Deja was doing in its late incarnation). ---
No message.
OT: Why can't you post no body and just put (nm) in your subject to save people the trouble of opening it. Lots of folks do this on webboards everywhere, but not on slashdot. ---
Nothing will protect us... from idiots and those who take advantage of them..... people can't be bothered to set there security settings and everytime they get ANYTHING, they just double-click it, infect the file servers, and infect me even though I'm careful... ---
If you have to run outlook, put outlook in the restricted zone. Set restricted zone to turn off, activex, javascript, java, etc....
Don't open attachments that look fishy. I've done these two things and have never gotten a virus (except for once when some other idiot ran an attachement which infected files on network server, and I got the file, but my virus checker caught that and cleaned it up). ---
What's interesting is... I don't think it would be that hard to make.NET cross-platform, even though it isn't yet. As M$ explained it an a conference I was at, the CLR (common language runtime) provides a set of common data types and classes to interact with the system. It is intended as a replacement for the Win32 API. If you implemented a "Pure".net app which only used these calls (no API calls) and data types, why couldn't it run on another plaform which had a VM which supported the same classes, properties and methods? (see the system class in the beta docs here ---
The interesting thing I thought about that is... have you noticed there have been a lot more commercials ridiculing "faggy" import beers by Coors, Bud, and other American swill beers lately? I think, thanks mostly to the microbrewery movement, Americans are discovering real beer. Not that there's anything wrong with a tradition light Pilsner (i.e. Coors & Bud) but people are finding out there's a lot more to beer than that.
Your typical American housewife saying she "doesn't like beer" is about like someone saying they don't like bread when all they've eaten is Wonder Bread (plain white bread, for those abroad).
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
This is, probably the clearest item in the Bill of Rights. There's nothing wishy-washy, no qualifications. It says, plain as day, "CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW... abriding the freedom of speech or of the press." And of course, Congress has proceeded to make tons of them and the Supremes have held them up. Why? ---
do you guys (and gals, don't want to be sexist) actually pay attention to such licensing issues?
This is one of the reasons I'm not too excited about using Linux. I have better things to do with my time than worry about some licensing agreement.... ---
sitting in the Noble HS library doing some debate research, as I recall. I remember we were just sort of half-watching..... like many, it affected me greatly. I was so into the space program. ---
Ummm, the article concludes that jscript kills vbscript for an ASP scripting language. Of course, you could just use Perl or any of the other 14 different WSH-compatible scripting engines . .. ---
You know what? (wait for it) I agree. 100%. Those who've been here a while may know I'm not a Linux/OpenSource guy. I use (and program on) Microsoft products and, for the most part, don't care about OpenSource.
But a voting system should be open. No question. This is a no-brainer. ---
... is why in criminal matters (at least here in the U.S.) you are presumed innocent but all someone has to do is SAY I owe them money and I have to go to great lengths to prove I don't in order to get it off my credit card company. ---
If he's going to be breaking into your house and doesn't want to use the windows, why not just use the door?;)
Because that would be far too easy for a 'leet Linux user. ---
Hell, I never go with the default install on any app (and I don't use Linux). The only way you ever know what crap they are putting on there is to click the custom. ---
Ah, the old problem of text only communication. Lack of context. I took it as a flame, because I actually enjoy much of what Katz writes and so many people flame him, I, of course, took what you wrote as a flame..
my apologies... ---
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The first amendment doesn't really apply to ANY schools. School newspapers? censored. People putting up private web pages dissing school administrators? Kids harassed into taking down. For that matter, other Bill of Rights routinely violated. Random locker searches, drug dogs sniffing cars in the parking lot.
Hey, I'm 32, so I'm not some high school kid whining about this stuff. It's a JOKE.
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Yep, advertising doesn't work. That's why companies spend millions and millions on it.
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I'm sorry. I've never posted a "I'm bitter because they didn't post it when I submitted it", because I don't really care if they use mine. I do think it's a little ridiculous when I submit it and they post it FIVE DAYS LATER! I remember thinking when I saw it on zdnet, "I'm surprised I haven't seen this on /."
2001-03-08 21:31:22 Microsoft expands open-Window policy (articles,microsoft) (rejected)
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But as a portal, they ROCK. I'm sorry, I don't know what I'd do without my.yahoo.com. It's a nice place for a public box to keep spam from my email. Mine has customized sports, free fantasy leagues, tv schedule, alubumn releases, saved news clippers, movie listings, yellow pages, directions, contacts/address book/calendar (regulrarly sychronized with my outlook at home and work with a free plugin), snow reports for ski areas I go to, weather for my area... whatever. I LOVE IT. Even there shopping portal is pretty good. I don't even get any spam from them.
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what table are you looking at? What do you mean "non-cheating" the tests are set up by the TPC ferchristsakes! Price/performance is almost ENTIRELY MSSQL!
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It's the MSDE engine. The MSDE supports all the functionality of the "full" installation, minus some replication functionality IIRC. MSDE is actually fairly cool for a "small footprint" database. You can take a MSDE database, and do a DB_ATTACH in SQL and you have a full DB. App syntax doesn't need to be changed either. Designed to be used with a mobile device so a mobile user can have a local DB (then set up replication when he plugs in to the LAN). I saw an app that used this one time and it was slick.
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when he says "microsoft talks to SQL databases " and has it's own OO database. I mean, ADO now talks to about anything, not just relational DB's. You can use webDAV/XML or SQL to query it. Or write an OLEDB provider and query it however you want.
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well, disclaimer IANALP (I am not a Linux programmer). I'll tell you one use for it. Most of our C++ coders in our Microsoft shop use VB for playing around with a new library/version/whatever. They prototype functions in VB then bounce them to C++ later. Or maybe they decide that, performance isn't a key issue in this COM object (like it's dependent on database access or other disk access for speed) and can just as easily stay in VB without a performance penalty and hand off the object (usually with an interface defined) to one of the VB programmers like me :)
Just thought I'd give you the view from the other side :)
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We're going to have to accept the realization that for having public archives of Internet material, there are really only two options: 1: Collectively do it ourselves through taxes and the government(s) (what I'm in favor of) or 2: Actually have a pay service that you pay a monthly fee for. It simply requires to much manpower and storage otherwise. I mean, can you imagine a library operating through selling advertising? Aside from the practical business realities, would you want to live in a world so corpratized that you have to endure ads in the library? Or strategic "upsells" and "click throughs" that mean when you look in a how-to book a speaker comes to life and says you can buy that saw for $49.95 at Home Depot? (this is pretty similar to what Deja was doing in its late incarnation).
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No message. OT: Why can't you post no body and just put (nm) in your subject to save people the trouble of opening it. Lots of folks do this on webboards everywhere, but not on slashdot.
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Nothing will protect us ... from idiots and those who take advantage of them..... people can't be bothered to set there security settings and everytime they get ANYTHING, they just double-click it, infect the file servers, and infect me even though I'm careful...
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If you have to run outlook, put outlook in the restricted zone. Set restricted zone to turn off, activex, javascript, java, etc.... Don't open attachments that look fishy. I've done these two things and have never gotten a virus (except for once when some other idiot ran an attachement which infected files on network server, and I got the file, but my virus checker caught that and cleaned it up).
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And exactly what scientific, peer-reviewed journal did this appear in? Did I just miss the citation? If not, who cares...
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What's interesting is ... I don't think it would be that hard to make .NET cross-platform, even though it isn't yet. As M$ explained it an a conference I was at, the CLR (common language runtime) provides a set of common data types and classes to interact with the system. It is intended as a replacement for the Win32 API. If you implemented a "Pure" .net app which only used these calls (no API calls) and data types, why couldn't it run on another plaform which had a VM which supported the same classes, properties and methods? (see the system class in the beta docs here
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The interesting thing I thought about that is ... have you noticed there have been a lot more commercials ridiculing "faggy" import beers by Coors, Bud, and other American swill beers lately? I think, thanks mostly to the microbrewery movement, Americans are discovering real beer. Not that there's anything wrong with a tradition light Pilsner (i.e. Coors & Bud) but people are finding out there's a lot more to beer than that.
Your typical American housewife saying she "doesn't like beer" is about like someone saying they don't like bread when all they've eaten is Wonder Bread (plain white bread, for those abroad).
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really. Is there anyone who DOESN'T have a login to this? I always laugh when I see Microsoft stuff on a pirate site.. why? Go download it!
Also, msdn.microsoft.com works just fine, btw...
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
This is, probably the clearest item in the Bill of Rights. There's nothing wishy-washy, no qualifications. It says, plain as day, "CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW ... abriding the freedom of speech or of the press." And of course, Congress has proceeded to make tons of them and the Supremes have held them up. Why?
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do you guys (and gals, don't want to be sexist) actually pay attention to such licensing issues? This is one of the reasons I'm not too excited about using Linux. I have better things to do with my time than worry about some licensing agreement....
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sitting in the Noble HS library doing some debate research, as I recall. I remember we were just sort of half-watching..... like many, it affected me greatly. I was so into the space program.
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Ummm, the article concludes that jscript kills vbscript for an ASP scripting language. Of course, you could just use Perl or any of the other 14 different WSH-compatible scripting engines . . .
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You know what? (wait for it) I agree. 100%. Those who've been here a while may know I'm not a Linux/OpenSource guy. I use (and program on) Microsoft products and, for the most part, don't care about OpenSource.
But a voting system should be open. No question. This is a no-brainer.
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If he's going to be breaking into your house and doesn't want to use the windows, why not just use the door? ;)
Because that would be far too easy for a 'leet Linux user.
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Hell, I never go with the default install on any app (and I don't use Linux). The only way you ever know what crap they are putting on there is to click the custom.
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Ah, the old problem of text only communication. Lack of context. I took it as a flame, because I actually enjoy much of what Katz writes and so many people flame him, I, of course, took what you wrote as a flame.. my apologies...
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