If you want more of a good thing, give money to the people behind the good thing. Simple. I want more good games, so I pay the game maker, not the game seller. No used games for me. I'm a software developer, I support my peeps. I would hope they'd do the same for me.
You had the right read on my post. Just trying to cut through the anti-Microsoft bias a bit.
When Microsoft copies something from Apple, there's a huge dustup. When the Java VM starts catching up to CLR features (I have used both extensively) it's "innovating". They both copy each other a lot, obviously, but I get a bit tired of the one-sidedness sometimes.
Where was the headline when NUnit was released?
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That supported attributed programming years ago? Oh I know, NUnit is a port^H^H^H^Hripoff of JUnit so it doesn't count.
Of course Linux is popular among IT staff. Microsoft is "the man" and it's cool to not like the man. However, if I'm a CTO, I'm not going to call down to operations and ask, "Hey, what platform do you guys think we should base our business on?" I'm going to buy the right tool for the job. This isn't a popularity contest.
You can do multiplayer co-op by starting a SINGLE PLAYER game and have people join it. They can join your side or the other side. There will be bots for both.
Only on slashdot can you take an extensive and educational article about architecture, performance, scalability, etc. and boil it down to "it doesn't render properly on firefox" and dismiss it. Hilarious.
Has there been an official statement by Ameritrade that the data was NOT encrypted? All they said was that it was compressed. That COULD mean compressed and encrypted. The person writing the press release was not an operator.
The data was encrypted. According to Ameritrade (my broker), special hardware is required to read the information, even if the tape was found.
All this information was sent in a letter last week.
As a customer, I feel it was nice for them to keep me in the loop, but I don't feel the least bit threatened.
Pretty much every company I've ever worked for uses some sort of courier service to move backup tapes off site. If something happens with that courier, after every reasonable precaution was taken by Ameritrade (which it certainly appears it has), it's pretty much out of their control.
They said what's happened, and what they think the exposure is. What else would you have them do, not send their backup tapes offsite?
When Comcast is offering a two-tuner HD capable PVR for $10/month. None of the homebrew solutions offered are nearly as capable. I'd like to build a PVR myself, but it would just be for fun. And I'd still need the cable box to tune the channels anyway. These solutions proposed assume you don't need a cable box, which is not the case in my area.
And next year, supposedly, Comcast will be offering the Tivo software.
You can put a hundred kill.bat's in there but they never get called. It will transfer control, you need to use "call kill.bat" if you want to continue in the same script.
As a java programmer, I want to see it succeed in the long term, which I think it will. However, if C# begins to become more popular, I will learn and use that too. Why not? It's just a language. I don't subscribe to the "if it's from Microsoft it's evil" nonsense. Use the right tool for the job. My goal is to get paid. If Sun continues to basically ignore the GUI, then the choice for client-side development will be an easy one for all of us.
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Yes, I think that's the point. People want to find ways make money in their field.
However, none of those other studies are proposing to cost consumers billions of dollars in higher energy prices.
Way to keep your eye on the ball.
I'm evil. And loving it! Nobody innovates more than Microsoft. Anyone who says otherwise is kidding themselves.
If you want more of a good thing, give money to the people behind the good thing. Simple. I want more good games, so I pay the game maker, not the game seller. No used games for me. I'm a software developer, I support my peeps. I would hope they'd do the same for me.
It's that kind of clear, level-headed thinking that we just don't care for around here.
You had the right read on my post. Just trying to cut through the anti-Microsoft bias a bit.
When Microsoft copies something from Apple, there's a huge dustup. When the Java VM starts catching up to CLR features (I have used both extensively) it's "innovating". They both copy each other a lot, obviously, but I get a bit tired of the one-sidedness sometimes.
That supported attributed programming years ago? Oh I know, NUnit is a port^H^H^H^Hripoff of JUnit so it doesn't count.
Of course Linux is popular among IT staff. Microsoft is "the man" and it's cool to not like the man. However, if I'm a CTO, I'm not going to call down to operations and ask, "Hey, what platform do you guys think we should base our business on?" I'm going to buy the right tool for the job. This isn't a popularity contest.
You can do multiplayer co-op by starting a SINGLE PLAYER game and have people join it. They can join your side or the other side. There will be bots for both.
Real intuitive, isn't it?
Only on slashdot can you take an extensive and educational article about architecture, performance, scalability, etc. and boil it down to "it doesn't render properly on firefox" and dismiss it. Hilarious.
Spoken like someone who's never produced anything worth copying.
Why do people confuse articles with editorials? He's not reporting news, he's voicing his opinion.
Windows over Linux == trolling.
Linux over Windows == advocacy.
Right?
Has there been an official statement by Ameritrade that the data was NOT encrypted? All they said was that it was compressed. That COULD mean compressed and encrypted. The person writing the press release was not an operator.
The data was encrypted. According to Ameritrade (my broker), special hardware is required to read the information, even if the tape was found.
All this information was sent in a letter last week.
As a customer, I feel it was nice for them to keep me in the loop, but I don't feel the least bit threatened.
Pretty much every company I've ever worked for uses some sort of courier service to move backup tapes off site. If something happens with that courier, after every reasonable precaution was taken by Ameritrade (which it certainly appears it has), it's pretty much out of their control.
They said what's happened, and what they think the exposure is. What else would you have them do, not send their backup tapes offsite?
When Comcast is offering a two-tuner HD capable PVR for $10/month. None of the homebrew solutions offered are nearly as capable. I'd like to build a PVR myself, but it would just be for fun. And I'd still need the cable box to tune the channels anyway. These solutions proposed assume you don't need a cable box, which is not the case in my area.
And next year, supposedly, Comcast will be offering the Tivo software.
You can put a hundred kill.bat's in there but they never get called. It will transfer control, you need to use "call kill.bat" if you want to continue in the same script.
As a java programmer, I want to see it succeed in the long term, which I think it will. However, if C# begins to become more popular, I will learn and use that too. Why not? It's just a language. I don't subscribe to the "if it's from Microsoft it's evil" nonsense. Use the right tool for the job. My goal is to get paid. If Sun continues to basically ignore the GUI, then the choice for client-side development will be an easy one for all of us.