Addendum: I made a slight mistake - apparently login is centralised, everything else is not. But that does mean that in the absence of peers, Skype's network still fails.
Yes. D2 works with any browser based on Gecko, Webkit, or KHTML. It will fail on Trident based browsers (IE, Maxthon, etc) because Slashdot's too lazy to fix it.
No, it's just another example of your moronic blinding hatred of a company. EVERY other software distribution has [frequent, but not necessarily monthly] updates that require a restart like this. Sane software distributions make fixes available as soon as they are ready [including Microsoft, for sufficient values of criticality]. For marketing and big dumb company reasons, Microsoft saves them up for a once a month ordeal instead of letting users have things in a timely fashion and chose their time and size of their pain [at least for the non-important ones. Go figure, huh?]. This problem was significant but is trivial next to threat posed by the 60% of all Linux computers that belong to a botnet [see, I can make numbers up too!].
Sure, there was a problem with Skype's code and Skype admitted to it, but the initiating factor is all Twitter. That's blame casting and Twitter deserves it. The summary mentions the code flaw, so I don't see what your problem besides an outsided [fuck! Even Firefox has no idea what that word means!] love for an incompetent software maker. For anyone to report things differently is to misconstrue things [notice I altered this sentence slightly. Also note that it's no more bullshit than your sentence].
Except that that's not the problem. Skype uses the resources of it's users to do everything, and when a huge portion of their users go offline simultaneously, then log back on at the same time, then no "logon servers" (read: network peers) are available.
If you ask me, peer to peer phone is a stupid idea anyway.
What... in the hells are you talking about? I can leave Notepad open too! Shit, that's not possible because only OSS programs can... stay open? Whaa...?
For the record, I don't like Virtual Desktops (don't even start with me on that one, bitch. My choice).
And, I have Windows machines with very high uptimes. My desktop has uptimes in the months, my server has uptimes in the YEARS. Both Windows. It's not as crash prone as you claim.
Although I'm getting a new PC soon, so I'm trying to work out what OS to use. So far, I'm picking either Vista or Debian (or both). No, I don't want Ubuntu... It's too... brown.
4) Assume its OK to keep customers waiting on hold for 20 minutes just to talk to someone. Score bonus points if the person you finally speak to just redirects you to another 20 minute wait to speak to someone else. Score mega points if any person you speak to redirects you back to an earlier person you have already been redirected by. Oh yes. I'm familiar with that one. Once,I asked for the data usage on my EVDO data plan from my phone provider (no automated way, have to call them for it) and was transferred about six times (two of them through Mobile Faults) before finally getting a person who could answer my question (ironically, in faults. Only they can get your EVDO data usage).
Wow, you are a complete moron! Say you were to own a company... Just because you don't like Microsoft, you'd sentence your company to bankruptcy and your employees to homelessness.
Real smart.
Here's a tip: any company that were to deliberately ignore a 95% market penetration just because they didn't like the vendor of that 95%'s operating system would be in some serious trouble from it's shareholders. Being obligated to protect their financial interests and all that.
Uh, actually, in cases like this, Microsoft requests that the CA who issued the Software Publishing Certificate revoke it. As you well know, certificate publishers publish a list (known as a Certificate Revocation List) which most things that rely on crypto signatures check prior to validating a certificate. The downside of that is that all ATI software for all operating systems become uncertified. If it's WHQL, that's easier. Microsoft merely adds ATI's certificate to their own CRL and the Win64 version of the driver no longer loads, and the Win32 one complains.
If anyone is interested in signing up at Dreamhost, use the following code to get $87 off one year of hosting: Or don't, because he makes a commission if you do that.
It's not that expensive, and it's worth paying a bit more to stop these people who plug Dreamhost-with-referral-links in any relevant story from making any money.
It is perceived as slow to load, but MS Office amortizes some of its load time into Windows' startup. No it doesn't. It loads when you click the icon (or double click, whatever).
Same as OpenOffice.org. Difference is MSO doesn't need to spin up the JRE.
The bit that drives me nuts with the built in refactor is its insistence on rebuilding the entire solution before it can establish what to refactor. I haven't used Resharper enough to really get a feel for it, so I'd suggest just looking at the website for it. It can probably explain better than I can anyway.
As a side note, I toyed with the laptops when they came in, becuse I haden't had a chance to try Vista yet. I do not like it. The Acer locked up on me twice (straight out of the Box! how does MS get away with this?), so I aree with the Olympic comitie, if you have to use Windows (#insert diety here# knows why) then XP or 2000 is the way to go. Don't blame Microsoft for that... Acer are all about dodgy engineering.
Twitter, you are evidence that the Free Software Movement is not all about Freedom of Choice. Far from it, it is about forcing people to use what you want them to. Give it up already. They have their reasons for using Windows (and guess what, there's a pretty damn good chance it's NOT Microsoft! Contrary to popular belief, Microsoft doesn't pay ANYONE to use Windows... everyone who uses it pays!) and it's none of your damn business why that is.
You, Stallman and all the other hypocrites need to shut the fuck up already. To truly idealise Freedom of Choice, you guys need to back the fuck off and realise that choosing Windows is a choice.
I feel fortunate. I work at a hospital, in IT, so if the power does go out I know that my PC (and most others) will be offline because the generators will be powering the ED, Theatres and other very important areas with absolutely no regard for the IT infrastructure. Chances are, we'd be told to go away as well.
fine, then let someone compete with them except let it not be Microsoft. They have shown how they operate and it is not in anybodies best interest that they play in this field/market. And if you have any hope that a Microsoft technology will get you anywhere but roped, lashed, bolted, and tied to Microsoft you are seriously mislead. And yes, being roped, lashed, bolted, and tied to Microsoft is a bad thing. It terminates choice.
And there's nothing wrong with Flash being a monopoly, it's not like they are preventing others from competing. Not to mention they actually hold no control but control over the Flash environment. Are you attempting to compare Adobe with Microsoft in the evil monopoly market? yikes! Wow, I can't help but say this: you're an idiot. You're essentially saying that Adobe should be allowed to hold a monopoly simply because the only people with resources to compete (and desire to) is Microsoft. And that Microsoft should not be allowed to compete in any markets.
How about this: I don't like you, so because of that you are no longer allowed to leave your house. If you do, I will obtain a restraining order and have you arrested. After all, you're my enemy and because of that I should be allowed to do whatever I want and you aren't allowed to interfere.
Finally, someone that knows how to use VS.NET. I asked on freenode's C# channel and got responses that suggested most people there were ignorant of answers (as opposed to me be being an annoying n00b). I come from IDEA and that has some features that are very nice to me. One that I find essential in an IDE is that it gives you immediate feedback on your errors. For example, the instant I type a newline I'll be told that I forgot a semicolon the line above. VS.NET seems to either be EXTREMELY slow with this feedback or only tells you errors when you compile. Waits until compile time to complain about that.
My second favorite feature is I can find my files in a brain-dead way without using the mouse. If I type ctrl-n, it pops up a tiny text box that has focus and I can type the name of a file I want to use to immediately start working in it. I don't have to check if there's already a tab open for it. I don't need to find it in a little explorer. The text box does pattern matching and camel casing (ie: I can type in IOU and it'll suggest the file InputOutputUtil if it exists in my project). Does VS.NET have anything like this? No, but I like the sounds of it. Only really useful for big projects, I guess, but could be done by making a VS.NET add-in. Like Eclipse, you can plug stuff in - which is good.
A dangerous lack of warnings: It seemed to me that VS.NET doesn't warn you of some stupid things you're doing. Now my memory is hazy, but I believe it doesn't tell you about unused variables for example. If you're coding in C#, it whines continuously about unused variables. It also refuses to compile if a function has return paths which don't return a value, and when you try use an undeclared variable.
Lack of useful highlighting: If I recall, VS.NET does not highlight local and instance variables differently. Is there any way to turn this on in VS.NET? To my knowledge, no. Sounds sort of useful though. MSDN recommends you use different case conventions for local vs global variables anyway (to allay confusion, potentially even so your typical Vim/Emacs developer can also read the code easily).
Code navigation: If I'm looking at some code that says "foo.bar();" and I want to know the implementation of bar(), I can ctrl-click on it or ctrl-b with the cursor over it and it instantly jumps not only to the file where bar() is defined, but the bar() method. Does VS.NET have any capability like this? Right click > Go to Declaration (I think that's it). You can, of course, key bind that too.
Now, I'm going to answer my own questions here by saying VS.NET can do this with a plugin made by the same guys that make IDEA. It's called resharper and you can get it here: http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/features/index. html But the thing that confuses me is that most VS.NET users think it's the best IDE ever without using this plug-in so I want to know if VS.NET can already do this stuff out-of-the-box. Resharper is definitely awesome. The built in Refactoring is... in a word, terrible. It was tacked on late, and is only half finished. I would like to see improvement on that, so I look forward to seeing Orcas (and hope it actually DOES fix it).
DirectSound, DirectPlay and DirectInput are being phased out in favour of XACT, Live, and XInput respectively (that's the Xbox's native DirectX implementations)
That, and the Canadian broadcaster that also funds it (or is that another program? I think it's Dr Who, but it's the best example anyway) might just object to having content they paid for given away to free to people who haven't paid for it.
My opinion on this is largely neutral, since I'm not (technically) a UK citizen and therefore it's not really my business.
If only the folks in the USA would get that through their thick heads too: it's none of their business.
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Addendum: I made a slight mistake - apparently login is centralised, everything else is not. But that does mean that in the absence of peers, Skype's network still fails.
Yes. D2 works with any browser based on Gecko, Webkit, or KHTML. It will fail on Trident based browsers (IE, Maxthon, etc) because Slashdot's too lazy to fix it.
No, it's just another example of your moronic blinding hatred of a company. EVERY other software distribution has [frequent, but not necessarily monthly] updates that require a restart like this. Sane software distributions make fixes available as soon as they are ready [including Microsoft, for sufficient values of criticality]. For marketing and big dumb company reasons, Microsoft saves them up for a once a month ordeal instead of letting users have things in a timely fashion and chose their time and size of their pain [at least for the non-important ones. Go figure, huh?]. This problem was significant but is trivial next to threat posed by the 60% of all Linux computers that belong to a botnet [see, I can make numbers up too!].
Sure, there was a problem with Skype's code and Skype admitted to it, but the initiating factor is all Twitter. That's blame casting and Twitter deserves it. The summary mentions the code flaw, so I don't see what your problem besides an outsided [fuck! Even Firefox has no idea what that word means!] love for an incompetent software maker. For anyone to report things differently is to misconstrue things [notice I altered this sentence slightly. Also note that it's no more bullshit than your sentence].
Except that that's not the problem. Skype uses the resources of it's users to do everything, and when a huge portion of their users go offline simultaneously, then log back on at the same time, then no "logon servers" (read: network peers) are available.
If you ask me, peer to peer phone is a stupid idea anyway.
You aren't responsible for the atrocity of sites like IGN are you?
If you ask me, all "rich media" ads need to be banned and the people responsible forcibly removed from the gene pool.
Shut the fuck up Twitter. You somehow manage to twist anything to being about MS don't you?
What... in the hells are you talking about? I can leave Notepad open too! Shit, that's not possible because only OSS programs can ... stay open? Whaa...?
For the record, I don't like Virtual Desktops (don't even start with me on that one, bitch. My choice).
And, I have Windows machines with very high uptimes. My desktop has uptimes in the months, my server has uptimes in the YEARS. Both Windows. It's not as crash prone as you claim.
Although I'm getting a new PC soon, so I'm trying to work out what OS to use. So far, I'm picking either Vista or Debian (or both). No, I don't want Ubuntu... It's too... brown.
Wow, you are a complete moron! Say you were to own a company... Just because you don't like Microsoft, you'd sentence your company to bankruptcy and your employees to homelessness.
Real smart.
Here's a tip: any company that were to deliberately ignore a 95% market penetration just because they didn't like the vendor of that 95%'s operating system would be in some serious trouble from it's shareholders. Being obligated to protect their financial interests and all that.
HAL isn't a piece of software, it's a class of software.
The Windows Kernel also has a Hardware Abstraction Layer.
Uh, actually, in cases like this, Microsoft requests that the CA who issued the Software Publishing Certificate revoke it. As you well know, certificate publishers publish a list (known as a Certificate Revocation List) which most things that rely on crypto signatures check prior to validating a certificate. The downside of that is that all ATI software for all operating systems become uncertified. If it's WHQL, that's easier. Microsoft merely adds ATI's certificate to their own CRL and the Win64 version of the driver no longer loads, and the Win32 one complains.
It's not that expensive, and it's worth paying a bit more to stop these people who plug Dreamhost-with-referral-links in any relevant story from making any money.
Or Logitech SetPoint, whichever.
Same as OpenOffice.org. Difference is MSO doesn't need to spin up the JRE.
The bit that drives me nuts with the built in refactor is its insistence on rebuilding the entire solution before it can establish what to refactor. I haven't used Resharper enough to really get a feel for it, so I'd suggest just looking at the website for it. It can probably explain better than I can anyway.
A kernel (ring 0) driver? Hell yes they should. Well, shouldn't, but there's no way to stop it.
Remember, there's only two rings on modern 64-bit processors (blame Intel and AMD for that) - Kernel Mode (ring 0) and User Mode (ring 3).
Anything loaded into the same space as the kernel is able to crash things with little effort, and ATI and Nvidia are very good at that.
Twitter, you are evidence that the Free Software Movement is not all about Freedom of Choice. Far from it, it is about forcing people to use what you want them to. Give it up already. They have their reasons for using Windows (and guess what, there's a pretty damn good chance it's NOT Microsoft! Contrary to popular belief, Microsoft doesn't pay ANYONE to use Windows... everyone who uses it pays!) and it's none of your damn business why that is.
You, Stallman and all the other hypocrites need to shut the fuck up already. To truly idealise Freedom of Choice, you guys need to back the fuck off and realise that choosing Windows is a choice.
I feel fortunate. I work at a hospital, in IT, so if the power does go out I know that my PC (and most others) will be offline because the generators will be powering the ED, Theatres and other very important areas with absolutely no regard for the IT infrastructure. Chances are, we'd be told to go away as well.
I sure hope so. The sooner Frontpage dies, the better.
Even Microsoft hates it, and that's saying something!
And there's nothing wrong with Flash being a monopoly, it's not like they are preventing others from competing. Not to mention they actually hold no control but control over the Flash environment. Are you attempting to compare Adobe with Microsoft in the evil monopoly market? yikes! Wow, I can't help but say this: you're an idiot. You're essentially saying that Adobe should be allowed to hold a monopoly simply because the only people with resources to compete (and desire to) is Microsoft. And that Microsoft should not be allowed to compete in any markets.
How about this: I don't like you, so because of that you are no longer allowed to leave your house. If you do, I will obtain a restraining order and have you arrested. After all, you're my enemy and because of that I should be allowed to do whatever I want and you aren't allowed to interfere.
Moron.
DirectSound, DirectPlay and DirectInput are being phased out in favour of XACT, Live, and XInput respectively (that's the Xbox's native DirectX implementations)
That, and the Canadian broadcaster that also funds it (or is that another program? I think it's Dr Who, but it's the best example anyway) might just object to having content they paid for given away to free to people who haven't paid for it.
My opinion on this is largely neutral, since I'm not (technically) a UK citizen and therefore it's not really my business.
If only the folks in the USA would get that through their thick heads too: it's none of their business.