I don't know anything about desktop software. Last desktop app i wrote was for a big telecom company. Looked like crap. Was probably supposed to so I can't judge QT.
I can, however use my knowledge of your previous completely retarded statement to determine that the rest of your post is garbage.
Do you know what Linq to SQL is? If you don't then the next time a discussion about.NET do us a favor and shut the fuck up. The topic of this story is.NET - not the sub-par half-baked free solutions you are so fond of.
Linq to SQL lets you write SQL database code in free-form c#. It is the most useful thing to ever stand between a developer and a database. None of the free stuff has anything close to as useful. Believe me when I say that ASP.NET, C#, SQL are worth the licensing costs.
Too bad that extracting natural gas usually involves pumping massive quantities of toxic chemicals directly in to the ground.
Thanks to the incredibly corrupt Bush Administration, Fracking isn't even subject to the clean water act. The Halliburton Loophole, named after Dick Chaney's true employer, has allowed entire towns to be polluted beyond repair.
Thousands have been sickened by this polluted water. Pets are losing their hair. People are getting cancer. The water out of some homes' faucets is actually flammable!!
First of all, I love the idea. This guy is my hero.
Everyone's a critic, but I feel like this guy's website could use a little help. I know he is a network engineer and not a web developer so I'm going to try not to be a prick about this.
1. Choose a font. Times New Roman is the ugliest font ever. It's the default web font to remind you to pick a font.
2. Just one page? this isn't MySpace. There is enough content on this site for a nice small multipage site. It would definitely make it easier to navigate and find content.
3. Pictures - Find some legal images to use on your site. the badge holding the dollar bill is a good start. Put that as many places as you can.
4. Work on the formatting. The variable width thing is not working for this site. It looks like an unformatted term paper.
Anyways - just a bit of friendly advice. Good work buying the site so the pigs can't have it. Hope you turn it in to something great.
As your link states, the only game on the PS3 that supports the mouse and keyboard is Unreal Tournament. Also, good luck flying a helicopter in Battlefield Bad Company 2 with a real joystick. Not supported on the PS3, but trivial on the PC.
Unfortunately console handicaps have been creeping in to PC games. Just Cause 2, which supports both the XBox controller for windows and a mouse and keyboard does not support a real joystick for flying planes and helicopters on the PC. It's a real missed opportunity, though I'm still happy to fly around using the XBox controller, especially since the flight physics are so unrealistic anyway.
Bottom line: Consoles will never catch up to the PC, and anyone who says otherwise just because one game on the PS3 supports a mouse and keyboard is fooling themselves.
Now I stay up late so that some company I don't care about can turn a profit on my services... And of course so I can afford all the cool stuff that I've grown so fond of.
It's a vicious cycle, and I could use a vacation. I can't really imagine doing anything else though...
I knew the TI-89 was awesome, but when I bought it over 10 years ago I had no idea that in 2010 it would still be the best graphing calculator in the world.
It solves algebra problems. It keeps a useful history of your equations. It's user-friendly. You can write simple (but graphics based) games in BASIC while you sit in class. Or you can play pretty impressive assembly games while you pretend to do your homework.
The TI-89 is what a graphing calculator should be. It's sad to see that TI has gotten greedy.
Where I live, on Dice.com there are 74 open ASP.NET, and 17 open PHP jobs.
You are totally talking out of your ass. I really hope you understand the irony of starting with, "please dont bullcrap if you are not in industry".
I may not be in the dumb, arrogant PHP developer industry, but I can assure you that I am in the industry. There is a good chance that if you haven't used a website that I helped develop, you have at least used one that my company has. Where I work, we use ASP.NET (Primarily.NET) and Java, but not PHP.
But hey, don't let that discourage you the next time you want to post an uninformed and totally inaccurate rant about PHP and how you are in the industry but nobody else is...
If web application development was still as horrible as it was with asp.net 1.1, I would have given up years ago. With.NET 2.0, it finally became usable. When they introduced AJAX update panels, it became far better than anything else in the market.
I've been using asp.net 3.5 lately, and I have to say that I am very happy with this development environment. Every other data access layer feel like a complete waste of time compared to LINQ to SQL. I love the way it helps me produce insanely good work very quickly.
I can't even begin to express my gratitude for the programming language that has paid my bills for the last 3 years.
Those are definitely good points. The security aspect of it really deserves close attention.
At the end of the day you have to weigh the benefits and drawbacks you describe against the possibility that patch Tuesday could kill your application on every computer it is installed on.
So your laughing at the people who suggest ways that the.dll update would not have broken their app?
Are you also laughing at the fact that an application that was perfectly functional on monday up and died on patch Tuesday requiring the code to be recompiled and installed on every computer the app is on?
I've had applications that I use (but didn't write) fail after patch tuesday and be restored by a system recovery only to be killed again the next time the system updates. I'm looking at you ATI all-in-wonder tv tuner driver...
But that's not what you are here to talk about. Nope you're here to broadcast arrogant windbag bullshit.
Apple computers don't even play any of the best video games. You need Windows for that. Why would console makers fear Apple?
I could see why console makers might consider fearing Windows, since Direct X 11 promises better graphics than what is available on any console. Of course the prohibitive cost of a gaming PC means consoles don't really have much to worry about.
Maybe the handheld console makers like Nintendo might fear Apple, if they weren't already laughing all the way to the bank.
Bottom line: This is just more non-sensical Apple loving fluff "news".
Very interesting post. I have also heard horror stories from relatives abroad, though none of them have worried about running out of money due to medical bills.
Recently I went to the Dr. because I had a cold that I was afraid was infectious. My doc touched my belly and sent me down to the ER to check for appendicitis.
A few weeks later I got a bill for over $1000. I have decent (by American standards) insurance. I really can't afford to go back to the hospital, though I was reffered to a specialist.. I hope whatever they found on that expensive CT scan wasn't too important...
By the way, the number one cause of bankruptcy in the US (when we aren't in a depression) is medical bills. If that isn't a sign of a totally broken system I don't know what is.
Overall I have to say that I like my insurance, but if my company didn't offer a group plan I would be stuck in the individual market that specifically excludes the prior conditions that I actually need medical care for.
I'm willing to roll the dice with a goverment plan because one day I would like to start a business, but I simply can't live without company group rate insurance.
Also, for all the great care I get, have spent tens of thousands of dollars if you count my premiums and what my company pays which basically comes out of my pay. I have a feeling that the kind of money I already drop on health care would go a long way in a public / private insurance model.
T-Mobile Sucks But I'm stuck on a contract. Investigate that.
They never mentioned that they would have dead zones all over the place. At work, at bars, friends houses - everywhere. T-Mobile has little dead zones all over the place.
If they aren't going to provide the service they promised i.e. a working cell phone, then I shouldn't be bound to their contract.
But here I am, stuck in 1985 on a cell phone contract that would penalize me $200 for leaving the worst cell phone service I've used in 10 years.
I always enjoy watching somebody who has their head screwed on right destroying the phony arguments of right wing lunatics.
You couldn't have described the tax evasion crowd any better.
Leeches - they consume government services - military protection, social safety nets that keep the country stable, educated workforce, and everything else that comes with living in a modern country.
Then when the time comes to pay the bill for all these services, they can't stop making excuses.
And now what - threatening to move jobs oversees?
Microsoft has been moving jobs overseas as fast as they can for as long as I can remember. Luckily there are some things that Americans still do better than lower cost foreign workers. And now that asshat Ballmer wants to threaten to continue doing what he has been doing for years if Microsoft has to pay its taxes?
Screw Steve Ballmer, and all the other leeches that run and hide when it's time to pay the bill.
Are you fucking joking or is this the best you can come up with in time for first post?
You are wrong.
You are full of shit.
You have no idea what you are talking about.
You have been modded up because slashdot moderators are wrong, full of shit, and have no idea what they are talking about.
Whenever you download a torrent, you must simultaneously upload it. This is required for.torrents to work.
That upload of copyrighted material is the fucking crime.
You fucking moron.
Your scheme of claiming that you were downloading materials for archival purposes or some other nonsense is total fucking bullshit. It is bound to fail, just like you.
I have an excuse ready to get out of any legal threats.
Yes, from a web developer's point of view, IE 7 is a huge upgrade.
There are still some differences between Firefox and IE 7, but they are much smaller than the horribly broken browser that is IE6.
This isn't so much about the guy using the web browser as it is about the guy who has to write the html for it.
By the way...
I think whoever came up with HTML and CSS was smoking crack. There are so many inconsistencies and bizarre rules that it's impossible for me to believe that a sane person came up with all this.
Whenever I see an inconsistency between how Firefox and IE do something, half the time I side with IE. I know standards matter, but how 'bout putting down the crack-pipe and putting your ego in check next time you come up with "standards" that millions of people have to deal with.
I say this as somebody who writes high profile web applications that must look right in all major browsers (including IE6).
I use VMWare running Windows XP as a VM to VPN in to my work (and use Remote Desktop) all the time.
Needless to say this was damn tricky to get working correctly.
I used alot of network management software to try to allow XP on VMWare to VPN in to work, and this stuff was often horribly broken on Ubuntu. Some stuff would partially work while other stuff didn't work at all. Very frustrating.
You would figure a Linux distro would have better support for network software.
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"PHP is better than any .net crap."
ASP.NET is better than PHP. Write it down.
I don't know anything about desktop software. Last desktop app i wrote was for a big telecom company. Looked like crap. Was probably supposed to so I can't judge QT.
I can, however use my knowledge of your previous completely retarded statement to determine that the rest of your post is garbage.
Do you know what Linq to SQL is? If you don't then the next time a discussion about .NET do us a favor and shut the fuck up. The topic of this story is .NET - not the sub-par half-baked free solutions you are so fond of.
Linq to SQL lets you write SQL database code in free-form c#. It is the most useful thing to ever stand between a developer and a database. None of the free stuff has anything close to as useful. Believe me when I say that ASP.NET, C#, SQL are worth the licensing costs.
Too bad that extracting natural gas usually involves pumping massive quantities of toxic chemicals directly in to the ground.
Thanks to the incredibly corrupt Bush Administration, Fracking isn't even subject to the clean water act. The Halliburton Loophole, named after Dick Chaney's true employer, has allowed entire towns to be polluted beyond repair.
Thousands have been sickened by this polluted water. Pets are losing their hair. People are getting cancer. The water out of some homes' faucets is actually flammable!!
citation needed?
First of all, I love the idea. This guy is my hero.
Everyone's a critic, but I feel like this guy's website could use a little help. I know he is a network engineer and not a web developer so I'm going to try not to be a prick about this.
1. Choose a font. Times New Roman is the ugliest font ever. It's the default web font to remind you to pick a font.
2. Just one page? this isn't MySpace. There is enough content on this site for a nice small multipage site. It would definitely make it easier to navigate and find content.
3. Pictures - Find some legal images to use on your site. the badge holding the dollar bill is a good start. Put that as many places as you can.
4. Work on the formatting. The variable width thing is not working for this site. It looks like an unformatted term paper.
Anyways - just a bit of friendly advice. Good work buying the site so the pigs can't have it. Hope you turn it in to something great.
I hardly type anything in to my HTC Incredible. Google's voice recognition, which is enabled on every textbox works just about perfectly.
Seriously, get an Android phone, try out the speech recognition text entry, and then tell me speech recognition is dead.
As your link states, the only game on the PS3 that supports the mouse and keyboard is Unreal Tournament. Also, good luck flying a helicopter in Battlefield Bad Company 2 with a real joystick. Not supported on the PS3, but trivial on the PC.
Unfortunately console handicaps have been creeping in to PC games. Just Cause 2, which supports both the XBox controller for windows and a mouse and keyboard does not support a real joystick for flying planes and helicopters on the PC. It's a real missed opportunity, though I'm still happy to fly around using the XBox controller, especially since the flight physics are so unrealistic anyway.
Bottom line: Consoles will never catch up to the PC, and anyone who says otherwise just because one game on the PS3 supports a mouse and keyboard is fooling themselves.
I used to stay up late programming for fun.
Now I stay up late so that some company I don't care about can turn a profit on my services... And of course so I can afford all the cool stuff that I've grown so fond of.
It's a vicious cycle, and I could use a vacation. I can't really imagine doing anything else though...
Hitler was interrupted by Kanye West who said that Barack Obama has the craziest pronouncements ever. Hope & Change. Things are looking better :-)
I knew the TI-89 was awesome, but when I bought it over 10 years ago I had no idea that in 2010 it would still be the best graphing calculator in the world.
It solves algebra problems.
It keeps a useful history of your equations.
It's user-friendly.
You can write simple (but graphics based) games in BASIC while you sit in class.
Or you can play pretty impressive assembly games while you pretend to do your homework.
The TI-89 is what a graphing calculator should be. It's sad to see that TI has gotten greedy.
Where I live, on Dice.com there are 74 open ASP.NET, and 17 open PHP jobs.
You are totally talking out of your ass. I really hope you understand the irony of starting with, "please dont bullcrap if you are not in industry".
I may not be in the dumb, arrogant PHP developer industry, but I can assure you that I am in the industry. There is a good chance that if you haven't used a website that I helped develop, you have at least used one that my company has. Where I work, we use ASP.NET (Primarily .NET) and Java, but not PHP.
But hey, don't let that discourage you the next time you want to post an uninformed and totally inaccurate rant about PHP and how you are in the industry but nobody else is...
If web application development was still as horrible as it was with asp.net 1.1, I would have given up years ago. With .NET 2.0, it finally became usable. When they introduced AJAX update panels, it became far better than anything else in the market.
I've been using asp.net 3.5 lately, and I have to say that I am very happy with this development environment. Every other data access layer feel like a complete waste of time compared to LINQ to SQL. I love the way it helps me produce insanely good work very quickly.
I can't even begin to express my gratitude for the programming language that has paid my bills for the last 3 years.
Not only that, but this rule has resulted in a ton of information being deleted from Wikipedia. It actually seems to get less useful every day.
Wikipedia is dead. Where is the next Wikipedia? Where does the spirit of the original Wikipedia live?
Those are definitely good points. The security aspect of it really deserves close attention. At the end of the day you have to weigh the benefits and drawbacks you describe against the possibility that patch Tuesday could kill your application on every computer it is installed on.
So your laughing at the people who suggest ways that the .dll update would not have broken their app?
Are you also laughing at the fact that an application that was perfectly functional on monday up and died on patch Tuesday requiring the code to be recompiled and installed on every computer the app is on?
I've had applications that I use (but didn't write) fail after patch tuesday and be restored by a system recovery only to be killed again the next time the system updates. I'm looking at you ATI all-in-wonder tv tuner driver...
But that's not what you are here to talk about. Nope you're here to broadcast arrogant windbag bullshit.
Instead of referencing the .dll in \Windows\System\ why don't you reference a copy of the .dll in \Program Files\Your Stupid App\ ?
Seems like a simple fix to me, though I'll admit most of my .dll experience comes from the asp.net/c# world.
How does an iPhone compete with an XBox 360 or a PS 3 as the summary implies? It doesn't.
An iPhone at best competes with a DS, and even then, it's a sad comparison. It only really works if you put on your iPose blinders.
You don't even need to read the summary to see that this article is totally retarded.
Apple computers don't even play any of the best video games. You need Windows for that. Why would console makers fear Apple?
I could see why console makers might consider fearing Windows, since Direct X 11 promises better graphics than what is available on any console. Of course the prohibitive cost of a gaming PC means consoles don't really have much to worry about.
Maybe the handheld console makers like Nintendo might fear Apple, if they weren't already laughing all the way to the bank.
Bottom line: This is just more non-sensical Apple loving fluff "news".
Very interesting post. I have also heard horror stories from relatives abroad, though none of them have worried about running out of money due to medical bills.
Recently I went to the Dr. because I had a cold that I was afraid was infectious. My doc touched my belly and sent me down to the ER to check for appendicitis.
A few weeks later I got a bill for over $1000. I have decent (by American standards) insurance. I really can't afford to go back to the hospital, though I was reffered to a specialist.. I hope whatever they found on that expensive CT scan wasn't too important...
By the way, the number one cause of bankruptcy in the US (when we aren't in a depression) is medical bills. If that isn't a sign of a totally broken system I don't know what is.
Overall I have to say that I like my insurance, but if my company didn't offer a group plan I would be stuck in the individual market that specifically excludes the prior conditions that I actually need medical care for.
I'm willing to roll the dice with a goverment plan because one day I would like to start a business, but I simply can't live without company group rate insurance.
Also, for all the great care I get, have spent tens of thousands of dollars if you count my premiums and what my company pays which basically comes out of my pay. I have a feeling that the kind of money I already drop on health care would go a long way in a public / private insurance model.
T-Mobile Sucks But I'm stuck on a contract. Investigate that.
They never mentioned that they would have dead zones all over the place. At work, at bars, friends houses - everywhere. T-Mobile has little dead zones all over the place.
If they aren't going to provide the service they promised i.e. a working cell phone, then I shouldn't be bound to their contract.
But here I am, stuck in 1985 on a cell phone contract that would penalize me $200 for leaving the worst cell phone service I've used in 10 years.
Heh.
I always enjoy watching somebody who has their head screwed on right destroying the phony arguments of right wing lunatics.
You couldn't have described the tax evasion crowd any better.
Leeches - they consume government services - military protection, social safety nets that keep the country stable, educated workforce, and everything else that comes with living in a modern country.
Then when the time comes to pay the bill for all these services, they can't stop making excuses.
And now what - threatening to move jobs oversees?
Microsoft has been moving jobs overseas as fast as they can for as long as I can remember. Luckily there are some things that Americans still do better than lower cost foreign workers. And now that asshat Ballmer wants to threaten to continue doing what he has been doing for years if Microsoft has to pay its taxes?
Screw Steve Ballmer, and all the other leeches that run and hide when it's time to pay the bill.
The Magic Wand has been around for years.
I can't believe that Microsoft is abusing the patent system.
I'm going to have to agree with the /. repetitive comment filter on this one.
Are you fucking joking or is this the best you can come up with in time for first post?
You are wrong.
You are full of shit.
You have no idea what you are talking about.
You have been modded up because slashdot moderators are wrong, full of shit, and have no idea what they are talking about.
Whenever you download a torrent, you must simultaneously upload it. This is required for .torrents to work.
That upload of copyrighted material is the fucking crime.
You fucking moron.
Your scheme of claiming that you were downloading materials for archival purposes or some other nonsense is total fucking bullshit. It is bound to fail, just like you.
I have an excuse ready to get out of any legal threats.
And no, I'm not posting it here.
Just learn something useful.
I learned asp.net during my free times (and instead of some of my required studying) while I was an undergrad.
I barely graduated and there is a bidding war for my talent every time I look for a job.
Most importantly - Be very good at what you do.
Yes, from a web developer's point of view, IE 7 is a huge upgrade.
There are still some differences between Firefox and IE 7, but they are much smaller than the horribly broken browser that is IE6.
This isn't so much about the guy using the web browser as it is about the guy who has to write the html for it.
By the way...
I think whoever came up with HTML and CSS was smoking crack. There are so many inconsistencies and bizarre rules that it's impossible for me to believe that a sane person came up with all this.
Whenever I see an inconsistency between how Firefox and IE do something, half the time I side with IE. I know standards matter, but how 'bout putting down the crack-pipe and putting your ego in check next time you come up with "standards" that millions of people have to deal with.
I say this as somebody who writes high profile web applications that must look right in all major browsers (including IE6).
I use VMWare running Windows XP as a VM to VPN in to my work (and use Remote Desktop) all the time.
Needless to say this was damn tricky to get working correctly.
I used alot of network management software to try to allow XP on VMWare to VPN in to work, and this stuff was often horribly broken on Ubuntu. Some stuff would partially work while other stuff didn't work at all. Very frustrating.
You would figure a Linux distro would have better support for network software.