As a desktop user he survived the switch from Microsoft to open source save for the few exceptions listed in the article.
Someday I like to see an article about a programmer in a Microsoft ocean (Visual Studio, CE/.NET, Silverlight) who has successfully used alternative open-source tools like MonoDevelop, C#/Mono, Moonlight for a year.
Data must not be disclosed to others without the subject's consent unless there is a legal obligation to do so. You can't sell my details to someone for marketing purposes unless I've said you can - but if the police come knocking demanding my data, that's OK.
Just because the police come asking for the data does not mean it's legal or that you're under obligation to give it. You would definately want to see some legal paperwork first.
he almost comes across as just another salaryman (though a particularly creative and happy one) with a wife and two school-age children at home near Kyoto. He is not tabloid fodder, and he seems to maintain a relatively nondescript lifestyle
Wow, that's the exact same with me, except I don't have the fame.
If you're on Windows anyway, then go with the.NET framework for a custom solution. It contains data access classes (ADO.NET) that can query a database (which is overkill for your needs) but the same data queries can also be applied to CSV text files., Excel spreadsheets, etc. as if they were database tables. ADO.NET will abstract away the true data source for the most part. Therefore effectively, you can use SQL query syntax to manipulate your text file, Excel spreadsheet, or many other formats that you might choose or already have on your disk. It's very powerful and elegant, but may require some research.
Question for you: Do you think Apple Newton having colourless resolution would have benefited well from multi-touch technology? Even if so, how would they have fit multi-touch capability and the processing to handle it into such as small (tongue in cheek) box at the time?
Having been born before the 80s it's weird seeing posts speculating about why a technology was not used for decades. For us having been in the trenches the whole time it's much more obvious.
Go ahead and argue over software; however don't let that stop hardware and sofware getting into the hands of developing nations to teach them, whatever they're being taught on. The more experience you garner, the more easily your skills are transferrable. Just get them started.
The trailer I saw (before Iron Man) actually looked great to me, so I'm taking this with a grain of salt.
When I watch the new Indianna J trailers I see a lot of bad CGI effects that discourage me. And it's the bad kind of bad CGI, where everything looks just slightly off. Even Jurassic Park in the '90s was more realistic than what I see being promoted.
One problem causing lack of a unified UI is that *nix is less about the UI and more about what underlies it, always has been. UI is secondary. While *nix works forward to a UI, Windows is working backwards to having better innards. It's very interesting.
Its sounds cool but it's contrived posturing by a bunch of suits. Any experienced programmer here on Slashdot understands the sheer impossibility of the task of immediate and overall control of one platform let alone all of them. It's good material for movie and television scritps though because in the fantasy world computer efforts work fantastically all the time.
Likely the Air Force needs the attention in order to get money or resources. The various government branches to compete for the money. The more attention you can get the better your chances, and wweeping statements about cool technology efforts like this article can do the trick... even fooling some tech-savvy Slashdot readers into believing the hype.
Just because the guy who posted the article isn't sure whether Microsoft should have acquired Yahoo or not (complains that they didn't, complains that they tried), doesn't mean Steve should go anywhere. Heck it doesn't even provide any good indicator whether Steve should eat Raisin Bran or Captain Crunch at breakfast. I really don't know how to speculate on Steve Balmer in context of Microsoft's actions.
The thing to notice is that not a single one of those applications has a GUI the same as any of the others. There are different toolkits, completely different look and feel, some have menus, some don't;
Do you mean when a developer uses Gnome or KDE they don't have the choice of leaving out the menu or to make the GUI appear different compared to somebody else's application? If they can, then you can get a screenshot on any platform of a "horrible horrible mess" if you want to.
Saying Vista is a disaster because it didn't stop Apple is like saying oxygen is a disaster because it didn't stop carbon dioxide. There's really not a relevant case for the word "disaster" by any means.
Because some classes are static or sealed does not mean the CLR doesn't support full OO features. I known you recognize that but some people reading your post might misinterpret it so I'm clarifying. What it means is some class designers made some arguably bad decisions about how to allow their classes to be used. Sometimes the class designer is Microsoft.
But I'm there with you buddy. If only I could count the number of times I've cursed a class designer because they didn't let me instance it.
In the cases you mentioned I noticed you didn't talk about System.IO.FileInfo or System.IO.DirectoryInfo classes which are the instanceable counterparts of the static System.IO.File or System.IO.Directory classes you listed. Use the static classes for speed against multiple files and directories but if you want an instance wrapper around a file or directory you can easily do that with those other classes.
As for the P/Invokes, well... I don't have a great answer except it's not a perfect world... yet..NET is a strong leap towards there.
Despite what's underneath Windows, programming it through the.NET platform is very slick. Most of what had to classically be linked to in obscure ways is wrapped in the Framework Class Library. Most people complain it's large but after you learn the basic structure you can find immediately what you need using the documentation. Microsoft has also abstracted away the trickyness of DLLs and you can program against mostly any functionality using your language of choice.
When articles claim Microsoft dropped the ball I think it's more wishful thinking than anything, because Windows programmers are in their Enterprise glory days right now, no longer restricted to VB and half-assed object models. Not anymore. We now have full OO features and much much more, and Java is playing cathup feature-wise. It's nice for a change.
I don't care how messy Microsoft's underlying code is, as long as they've tested it and ensure it works enough for me to program against it. The Microsoft security updates help a lot too. They're very frequent which means there are a lot of security flaws but they take care of them quickly (I'm sure I will get numerous examples where they didn't take care of security quickly but if you're on Windows update you see them coming thought all the time).
The credibility of pure anonymous posts here is very low. If your comment is modded down you may want to open an account and respond using it. In the future you can continue to defend taser, promote the technology and educate under your account.
I found this info interesting because I had always assumed Taser used high voltage on the human body.
Voltage Facts
THE VOLTAGE MYTH
Stun guns rely on voltage to cause pain that will stop an attacker only a percentage of the time. That is why the Air TASER® Weapon has been discontinued. The new Advance Tasers do not rely on voltage. They utilize an advance technolgy that totally interrupts the body's electrical system which is effective 100% of the time.
The next question is WHAT is the advance technology being used?
The irony is Java originated from workong on small hardware devices, and now Sun is scrambling to make it dominant on popular small hardware devices. They've been missing many important junctures along the way since 1995, especially when iPhone or Android can comparatively come in overnight and usurp good portions of the market.
I want the sticky note to die, instead of being planted further into the digital age. Five years ago they banned me from having real sticky notes at work because it ended up a mess -- speaks to my lack of organizational skills and obviously the sticky note didn't help. The sticky note is handy but cannot be organized properly in most contexts.
Instead of individual squares of paper, just type a number of text lines in a text file, one for each item, label the file important.txt on your desktop and encrypt it if need be.
The sticky note's time has passed. It's an item that should stay only in the real tangible world.
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Wow, obviously submitter is jealous and can't get women. How the hell did this story make it onto the /. front page?!?
You laugh but look at this: OO COBOL
As a desktop user he survived the switch from Microsoft to open source save for the few exceptions listed in the article. Someday I like to see an article about a programmer in a Microsoft ocean (Visual Studio, CE/.NET, Silverlight) who has successfully used alternative open-source tools like MonoDevelop, C#/Mono, Moonlight for a year.
Just because the police come asking for the data does not mean it's legal or that you're under obligation to give it. You would definately want to see some legal paperwork first.
Wow, that's the exact same with me, except I don't have the fame.
If you're on Windows anyway, then go with the .NET framework for a custom solution. It contains data access classes (ADO.NET) that can query a database (which is overkill for your needs) but the same data queries can also be applied to CSV text files., Excel spreadsheets, etc. as if they were database tables. ADO.NET will abstract away the true data source for the most part. Therefore effectively, you can use SQL query syntax to manipulate your text file, Excel spreadsheet, or many other formats that you might choose or already have on your disk. It's very powerful and elegant, but may require some research.
Question for you: Do you think Apple Newton having colourless resolution would have benefited well from multi-touch technology? Even if so, how would they have fit multi-touch capability and the processing to handle it into such as small (tongue in cheek) box at the time? Having been born before the 80s it's weird seeing posts speculating about why a technology was not used for decades. For us having been in the trenches the whole time it's much more obvious.
Go ahead and argue over software; however don't let that stop hardware and sofware getting into the hands of developing nations to teach them, whatever they're being taught on. The more experience you garner, the more easily your skills are transferrable. Just get them started.
When I watch the new Indianna J trailers I see a lot of bad CGI effects that discourage me. And it's the bad kind of bad CGI, where everything looks just slightly off. Even Jurassic Park in the '90s was more realistic than what I see being promoted.
One problem causing lack of a unified UI is that *nix is less about the UI and more about what underlies it, always has been. UI is secondary. While *nix works forward to a UI, Windows is working backwards to having better innards. It's very interesting.
Its sounds cool but it's contrived posturing by a bunch of suits. Any experienced programmer here on Slashdot understands the sheer impossibility of the task of immediate and overall control of one platform let alone all of them. It's good material for movie and television scritps though because in the fantasy world computer efforts work fantastically all the time. Likely the Air Force needs the attention in order to get money or resources. The various government branches to compete for the money. The more attention you can get the better your chances, and wweeping statements about cool technology efforts like this article can do the trick ... even fooling some tech-savvy Slashdot readers into believing the hype.
Well, what about the original keyboard the first copy of the email was input from.
Parent contains misinformation. Silverlight does not "exist only for Windows". See here (Microsoft supports Windows and OSX) and here (Linux).
So the MIAA should leave Torrentspy alone just like they don't touch Google and Microsoft, but shoul,d go after the downloaders and uploaders instead.
Make the Woz your friend.
Just because the guy who posted the article isn't sure whether Microsoft should have acquired Yahoo or not (complains that they didn't, complains that they tried), doesn't mean Steve should go anywhere. Heck it doesn't even provide any good indicator whether Steve should eat Raisin Bran or Captain Crunch at breakfast. I really don't know how to speculate on Steve Balmer in context of Microsoft's actions.
Do you mean when a developer uses Gnome or KDE they don't have the choice of leaving out the menu or to make the GUI appear different compared to somebody else's application? If they can, then you can get a screenshot on any platform of a "horrible horrible mess" if you want to.
Saying Vista is a disaster because it didn't stop Apple is like saying oxygen is a disaster because it didn't stop carbon dioxide. There's really not a relevant case for the word "disaster" by any means.
Because some classes are static or sealed does not mean the CLR doesn't support full OO features. I known you recognize that but some people reading your post might misinterpret it so I'm clarifying. What it means is some class designers made some arguably bad decisions about how to allow their classes to be used. Sometimes the class designer is Microsoft. But I'm there with you buddy. If only I could count the number of times I've cursed a class designer because they didn't let me instance it. In the cases you mentioned I noticed you didn't talk about System.IO.FileInfo or System.IO.DirectoryInfo classes which are the instanceable counterparts of the static System.IO.File or System.IO.Directory classes you listed. Use the static classes for speed against multiple files and directories but if you want an instance wrapper around a file or directory you can easily do that with those other classes. As for the P/Invokes, well... I don't have a great answer except it's not a perfect world ... yet. .NET is a strong leap towards there.
When articles claim Microsoft dropped the ball I think it's more wishful thinking than anything, because Windows programmers are in their Enterprise glory days right now, no longer restricted to VB and half-assed object models. Not anymore. We now have full OO features and much much more, and Java is playing cathup feature-wise. It's nice for a change.
I don't care how messy Microsoft's underlying code is, as long as they've tested it and ensure it works enough for me to program against it. The Microsoft security updates help a lot too. They're very frequent which means there are a lot of security flaws but they take care of them quickly (I'm sure I will get numerous examples where they didn't take care of security quickly but if you're on Windows update you see them coming thought all the time).
The credibility of pure anonymous posts here is very low. If your comment is modded down you may want to open an account and respond using it. In the future you can continue to defend taser, promote the technology and educate under your account.
You say "improperly referred to as tasers" and then use the word "taser" repeatedly to describe them...
Voltage Facts
THE VOLTAGE MYTH
Stun guns rely on voltage to cause pain that will stop an attacker only a percentage of the time. That is why the Air TASER® Weapon has been discontinued. The new Advance Tasers do not rely on voltage. They utilize an advance technolgy that totally interrupts the body's electrical system which is effective 100% of the time.
The next question is WHAT is the advance technology being used?
The irony is Java originated from workong on small hardware devices, and now Sun is scrambling to make it dominant on popular small hardware devices. They've been missing many important junctures along the way since 1995, especially when iPhone or Android can comparatively come in overnight and usurp good portions of the market.
I want the sticky note to die, instead of being planted further into the digital age. Five years ago they banned me from having real sticky notes at work because it ended up a mess -- speaks to my lack of organizational skills and obviously the sticky note didn't help. The sticky note is handy but cannot be organized properly in most contexts. Instead of individual squares of paper, just type a number of text lines in a text file, one for each item, label the file important.txt on your desktop and encrypt it if need be. The sticky note's time has passed. It's an item that should stay only in the real tangible world.