Ok, after like two days, I got it! Hey MustardMan! That was a joke! I hope you quit hot doggin' it and ketchup with the rest of us. Learn to relish the joke and stop being such a sauerkraut! What, did your girlfriend just write you a dijon letter or something?
1) the slashdot moderators got this story and did not have much time to get it out so they skimped on trivial bits like reading the article and so they just submitted it and if you read it you know why I am typing this way.
2) this story is a huge joke and everyone thought it was serious because it was on a purported security site with an official sounding acronym like isecom but if you have any sense at all you can see that its clearly a joke.
Maybe, but remember AT&T (SBC) made the same claim about CLECs, ISPs, and Cable companies when these began offering phone service. And really, the cherry picking claims were/are justified. Of course AT&T will do that, at least at first, just like the startup telcos did. But it would seem that turnabout is fair play. If AT&T wants to cherry pick, let em. It isn't going to hurt anyone, maybe except for the cable companies. But then again, they are in some ways worse monopolies than ol Ma Bell.
Not that I disagree that tabs are nice, but why does everyone and their grandmother starting with Microsoft's Ministry of Truth tout tabbed browsing as the greatest thing to happen to the web since TCP/IP? I mean, it's nice but it's almost like Microsoft spent five years adding tabs to IE6, changing the toolbar around (much to the detriment of the user experience), and adding an anti-phishing filter (which like many, I immediately turned off) that depends on MS maintaining a list of Phishing sites, as though they can keep up with all of the phishing sites. Where's the substance? When I downloaded, I expected something revolutionary seeing as how it took five years. All I got was a hopped up IE6. What's successful about that? Seriously, where's the beef?
Speaking of toolbars, what the *HECK* is up with IE7's toolbar? Some things you don't take creative license with, and if the layout of a browser's toolbar isn't a de facto standard I don't know what is. After months, I still can't find the home button. If it ain't broke, why fix it? Why could they not have taken more time to better implement standards?
I do agree with you, though...I HATE the close button on Firefox's tabs. Have to note that I saw that first on IE7 though.
I have been using eMusic for a while now. They are pretty good, and getting more and more stuff all the time. Still a lot of crap on there, though, but of course that it entirely subjective. But they recently raised prices, or at least effectively did so by decreasing the number of downloads per month but kept the prices the same for the packages. Instead of 40 songs, I get 30 for the same price. Not a huge problem, since its still relatively cheap, but I wonder... are they caving to pressure from the music industry, or are they are building a war chest to snag some deals with major labels? I hope its the latter scenario.
Yeah, notice they offered DRM-less music from a washed up wannabe diva (Jessica Simpson) and a whiny, pasty-faced nancy boy (Jesse McCartney). No self-respecting pirate with any sense of decency would copy and distribute that crap.
Me too, though this was purely coincidental because where I went Pascal was not a pre-req for C. But when I finally got to my C course, which by the end of the year had a dropout rate of 50%, it was relatively smooth sailing. I already knew how to program from my Pascal course, and heck, even the syntax was close enough. This is from someone who took CS courses just as a curiosity, I actually wanted to be an electrical engineer. I say that to make the point that I had no prior programming experience, and yet after just one semester of Pascal, I was ready for C. Pascal is the perfect primer for C; I dare anyone to name a better language for that purpose.
That's great. Those are the ones taking CS courses because they think they will make a lot of money, not because they enjoy learning. They won't last. Leave them alone. They are corporate layoff fodder.
That's right, large corporations do not care. Name a large corporation that wants to be on the bleeding edge. If it ain't broke, then don't fix it. And if there's one thing worse than fixing the unbroke, it's "upgrading" from fixed to broken, as Vista will surely be in at least some fashion.
XP is fairly stable and so what incentive do corporations have for upgrading? Better security? That's laughable, as this is a 1st gen of a new OS from Microsoft we're talking about. More eye candy? Yeah, now *that's* a top priority. If there are no real compelling reasons for the average home user to upgrade, then there are especially no reasons for a company to do so.
It all makes sense. Saw this story earlier today. Obviously, NK is buying up all the Zunes. It's the best they can do, after all. Speaking of the third world and mp3 players, am I the only one who thinks the Zune bears an uncanny resemblance to this gem?
thank you. Talk about much ado about nothing. Did nobody else even read the article? Did anyone else get the fact that this theory stands in constrat to others which state the dinosaurs were wiped out by a chain of events rather than one cataclysmic one?
What do you think of when you think of a Word processor?
Word. Ok fair enough. But notice it's not called "Word Processor Application" or "Document Authoring Application". That would be more in keeping with the naming scheme we are discussing.
Actually, the name of the product is "Microsoft SQL Server"
true, but I guess that's why I said SQL Server is the de facto name. Technically not correct, yet people know exactly what you are talking about when you say SQL Server.
Hey look, everybody! An article about cybernetic entomology spawned posts about cybernetic entymology! Only on/.!
I have been programming MSSQL and Oracle for about six years now, day in day out. I have never encountered a "bug" with MSSQL. I have encountered one bug with Oracle. Big deal. Work around it. One bug in six years is not a huge thing.
I suspect that these bugs pose more problems for DBAs/sysadmins than programmers/users. As far as I am concerned, neither one is buggy from the perspective of someone writing software that uses these databases as a back end.
Even if Oracle has more bugs, Oracle is faster and pl-sql is more powerful than T-SQL. That is what matters. A fast DB means a fast application. Oracle spanks MSSQL in terms of getting lots of data quickly. A good query on a well indexed Oracle table beats a good query on a well indexed MSSQL table in every instance that I have ever seen. No hard numbers, but that's according to years of hands on experience.
Microsoft just so happens to be so uncreative that they gave their DB server application a name that is merely a description. Calling it SQL Server is appropriate, since that is, after all, what it calls itself and as far as I know, is the de facto name for the software. Yes, it's a bit like calling a Web Browser WebBrowser. Blame MS for picking a nondescript name.
I miss my Motorola i80s. That was one heck of a phone. It was slimmer than my new Motorola and took one heck of a beating. No joke, I one time got so frustrated with it (actually the battery was getting old and it cut out on me) and threw it against a concrete wall as hard as I could. The body had a large scrape on it and the antenna was actually impacted into the phone so that I could no longger unscrew it. And yet everything still worked! Seriously, that thing was a tank. They sure don't make em like that anymore. If I had known it would have endured that collision with the wall, I'd never have done that and would have just replaced the stinkin battery:D
Read some of the reviews on Amazon, it's actually quite hilarious! For example, you can't use front USB ports to connect this thing. It doesn't understand "plays4sure" (although that's old news). Can't use Media Player (has its own software). Won't play music from other stores (like Urge and Napster, both of which Media Player pushes at you). Bigger screen, but same resolution as an iPod. Doesn't work on 64bit systems. Currently, doesn't work with Vista. Of course, they will say that Vista is in Beta. I say what better time to work out the bugs? What, wait until Vista is officially released _then_ fix bugs? Brilliant!...for Apple, that is.
Want more? How about a point system for buying music that almost always means that you don't use up all your points? WiFi sharing from 3 feet only? You can't use the Zune as a portable hard drive?
People sometimes criticize open source software because things don't always play together well. But a piece of hardware from a company not working with that same company's software/DRM? That's just inexcusable. The only thing that could have caused that is piss-poor communication within Microsoft and a general unwillingness to cooperate. You'd think something as hyped as the Zune would be a priority project that would seamlessly integrate with all other related products by design. So, what's up with Microsoft? Are they unable to get it right or are they unwilling to get it right? What do you think?
As many others have pointed out before, the only good in the Zune is that its nice features will be adopted by other players (like the iPod).
He said that the IT sector should continue to focus on animation and multimedia and outsourcing
That should tell us, in a nutshell, what this guy is all about.
Programmer: "Sir, we've developed software that permits time travel. We'd like you to take a look."
IT Minister: "Time Travel?"
Programmer: "Yes, you see, what we have done is devised a new way to..."
IT Minister: "No animation?!? IT minister want animation! You get animation! Give to me now!"
Programmer: "But sir, this code will allow you to use your computer and go back and fix all of the..."
IT Minister: "Good good, we send to India and have them make animation. Does it play DVD?"
Programmer: falls over dead
IT Minister: "oOOooo, that what I call open sores programming!"
one thing that Internet Explorer has always beaten FF on is rendering speed.
and
(even Robert Scoble recently blogged that "Firefox 2 was a LOT faster on AJAX"
Heck yes Firefox is faster with AJAX. I have a page that gets a 60K JSON object and Firefox 1.5 processes it so much faster and cheaper than IE7 even does. Maybe Firefox renders slower, I dunno, I haven't noticed, but when it comes to executing Javascript Firefox wins hands-down. I can't wait until I get Firefox 2 on my work PC so that I can see it move even faster as it surely will. On many applications these days, rendering speed is but a small part of perceived performance (from user's perspective, I mean).
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Yeah, I personally cannot wait for the Decade of Vista Bugs!
Ok, after like two days, I got it! Hey MustardMan! That was a joke! I hope you quit hot doggin' it and ketchup with the rest of us. Learn to relish the joke and stop being such a sauerkraut! What, did your girlfriend just write you a dijon letter or something?
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That's what I meant to say.
1) the slashdot moderators got this story and did not have much time to get it out so they skimped on trivial bits like reading the article and so they just submitted it and if you read it you know why I am typing this way.
2) this story is a huge joke and everyone thought it was serious because it was on a purported security site with an official sounding acronym like isecom but if you have any sense at all you can see that its clearly a joke.
Ok, it hurts writing like that.
Hey! You! MustardMan! Hear that? Yup. That was a joke flying over your head.
Seriously, chill.
Not that I disagree that tabs are nice, but why does everyone and their grandmother starting with Microsoft's Ministry of Truth tout tabbed browsing as the greatest thing to happen to the web since TCP/IP? I mean, it's nice but it's almost like Microsoft spent five years adding tabs to IE6, changing the toolbar around (much to the detriment of the user experience), and adding an anti-phishing filter (which like many, I immediately turned off) that depends on MS maintaining a list of Phishing sites, as though they can keep up with all of the phishing sites. Where's the substance? When I downloaded, I expected something revolutionary seeing as how it took five years. All I got was a hopped up IE6. What's successful about that? Seriously, where's the beef?
Speaking of toolbars, what the *HECK* is up with IE7's toolbar? Some things you don't take creative license with, and if the layout of a browser's toolbar isn't a de facto standard I don't know what is. After months, I still can't find the home button. If it ain't broke, why fix it? Why could they not have taken more time to better implement standards?
I do agree with you, though...I HATE the close button on Firefox's tabs. Have to note that I saw that first on IE7 though.
I have been using eMusic for a while now. They are pretty good, and getting more and more stuff all the time. Still a lot of crap on there, though, but of course that it entirely subjective. But they recently raised prices, or at least effectively did so by decreasing the number of downloads per month but kept the prices the same for the packages. Instead of 40 songs, I get 30 for the same price. Not a huge problem, since its still relatively cheap, but I wonder... are they caving to pressure from the music industry, or are they are building a war chest to snag some deals with major labels? I hope its the latter scenario.
Yeah, notice they offered DRM-less music from a washed up wannabe diva (Jessica Simpson) and a whiny, pasty-faced nancy boy (Jesse McCartney). No self-respecting pirate with any sense of decency would copy and distribute that crap.
Me too, though this was purely coincidental because where I went Pascal was not a pre-req for C. But when I finally got to my C course, which by the end of the year had a dropout rate of 50%, it was relatively smooth sailing. I already knew how to program from my Pascal course, and heck, even the syntax was close enough. This is from someone who took CS courses just as a curiosity, I actually wanted to be an electrical engineer. I say that to make the point that I had no prior programming experience, and yet after just one semester of Pascal, I was ready for C. Pascal is the perfect primer for C; I dare anyone to name a better language for that purpose.
That's great. Those are the ones taking CS courses because they think they will make a lot of money, not because they enjoy learning. They won't last. Leave them alone. They are corporate layoff fodder.
That's right, large corporations do not care. Name a large corporation that wants to be on the bleeding edge. If it ain't broke, then don't fix it. And if there's one thing worse than fixing the unbroke, it's "upgrading" from fixed to broken, as Vista will surely be in at least some fashion.
XP is fairly stable and so what incentive do corporations have for upgrading? Better security? That's laughable, as this is a 1st gen of a new OS from Microsoft we're talking about. More eye candy? Yeah, now *that's* a top priority. If there are no real compelling reasons for the average home user to upgrade, then there are especially no reasons for a company to do so.
It all makes sense. Saw this story earlier today. Obviously, NK is buying up all the Zunes. It's the best they can do, after all. Speaking of the third world and mp3 players, am I the only one who thinks the Zune bears an uncanny resemblance to this gem?
thank you. Talk about much ado about nothing. Did nobody else even read the article? Did anyone else get the fact that this theory stands in constrat to others which state the dinosaurs were wiped out by a chain of events rather than one cataclysmic one?
heh heh...I just noticed you said "look at the box"
You must be new here, they don't have boxes on warez sites, silly!
Hey look, everybody! An article about cybernetic entomology spawned posts about cybernetic entymology! Only on
could have been worse still...it could have been called iMail or something equally repulsive.
I have been programming MSSQL and Oracle for about six years now, day in day out. I have never encountered a "bug" with MSSQL. I have encountered one bug with Oracle. Big deal. Work around it. One bug in six years is not a huge thing.
I suspect that these bugs pose more problems for DBAs/sysadmins than programmers/users. As far as I am concerned, neither one is buggy from the perspective of someone writing software that uses these databases as a back end.
Even if Oracle has more bugs, Oracle is faster and pl-sql is more powerful than T-SQL. That is what matters. A fast DB means a fast application. Oracle spanks MSSQL in terms of getting lots of data quickly. A good query on a well indexed Oracle table beats a good query on a well indexed MSSQL table in every instance that I have ever seen. No hard numbers, but that's according to years of hands on experience.
Microsoft just so happens to be so uncreative that they gave their DB server application a name that is merely a description. Calling it SQL Server is appropriate, since that is, after all, what it calls itself and as far as I know, is the de facto name for the software. Yes, it's a bit like calling a Web Browser WebBrowser. Blame MS for picking a nondescript name.
Read some of the reviews on Amazon, it's actually quite hilarious! For example, you can't use front USB ports to connect this thing. It doesn't understand "plays4sure" (although that's old news). Can't use Media Player (has its own software). Won't play music from other stores (like Urge and Napster, both of which Media Player pushes at you). Bigger screen, but same resolution as an iPod. Doesn't work on 64bit systems. Currently, doesn't work with Vista. Of course, they will say that Vista is in Beta. I say what better time to work out the bugs? What, wait until Vista is officially released _then_ fix bugs? Brilliant!...for Apple, that is.
Want more? How about a point system for buying music that almost always means that you don't use up all your points? WiFi sharing from 3 feet only? You can't use the Zune as a portable hard drive?
People sometimes criticize open source software because things don't always play together well. But a piece of hardware from a company not working with that same company's software/DRM? That's just inexcusable. The only thing that could have caused that is piss-poor communication within Microsoft and a general unwillingness to cooperate. You'd think something as hyped as the Zune would be a priority project that would seamlessly integrate with all other related products by design. So, what's up with Microsoft? Are they unable to get it right or are they unwilling to get it right? What do you think?
As many others have pointed out before, the only good in the Zune is that its nice features will be adopted by other players (like the iPod).
Programmer: "Sir, we've developed software that permits time travel. We'd like you to take a look."
IT Minister: "Time Travel?"
Programmer: "Yes, you see, what we have done is devised a new way to..."
IT Minister: "No animation?!? IT minister want animation! You get animation! Give to me now!"
Programmer: "But sir, this code will allow you to use your computer and go back and fix all of the..."
IT Minister: "Good good, we send to India and have them make animation. Does it play DVD?"
Programmer: falls over dead
IT Minister: "oOOooo, that what I call open sores programming!"
"And I want my 15 min of slashfame for suggesting it."
If only your subject line had read "Frist psot" or something...tsk tsk