I really don't like this development. Desktop apps tend to be really buggy and never really work as required. Either the feel is slow, you accidentally click somewhere or do something that loses all your work and most of the just doesn't feel as good as desktop app. I can't see anyone serious moving from Google's web-based offerings to Microsoft Office.
This is more accurate IMO. Have had tons of problems with Office at work, especially trying to collaborate on documents (can only use Excel, not Word, can only see others' changes when you save, periodically sharing will be turned off somehow by accident, etc). When I try to change the foreground color of text in Excel, the whole app locks up for 15 seconds or longer. If a virus scan happens to be running everything goes even slower. I really wish we could use Google Docs (can't, proprietary information and all that, we could probably get some sort of local copy with an enterprise license surely though?), the collaboration features are awesome. And the great thing about web apps, at least Google's, is that they do autosaves so your data is safe. Plus managing data backups etc is on their end, and you know they gotta do a better job than we do on our own personal data!
You could say the same for any upload site; the problem is when links to copywritten content are shared publicly. Of course then it makes it possible to find and send in a DMCA takedown request.
There is an addon compatibility tool that you can use to force addons to be enabled, a lot easier and more user-friendly. It is still more of a tool for people that know what they're doing.
Also pretty sure there's some sort of functionality in the addons.mozilla.org site that will automatically update addons to declare compatibility if they don't use any APIs that were changed, or something like that.
The problem is that the progress dialog pre-Vista does not know how many files there are as it starts, so the progress bar may go quickly for a bit then slowly for another bit as it encounters folders with few small files and folders with many large files, respectively.
OK so the article cites localStorage as a problem, but Chrome at least treats it the same as cookies when clearing private data, and in incognito it shouldn't persist localStorage data across sessions (not sure about other browsers).
It also mentions that MS was sticking a JS file in the browser cache to recreate a cookie. This doesn't make sense since any file removed from the cache is just redownloaded, unless a custom version of the JS file is crafted for every client and is set to create a specific cookie value (but this isn't clarified in the article). But it sounds more like ETags are used, having nothing to do with the JS file being cached or not. I'm not sure how ETags work but I can't imagine they would be effective in incognito mode either since cache is never kept (and the article infers this is necessary).
Chrome actually has built-in support for basic NoScript-like behavior. Block all JS and Plugins and you can whitelist sites from the omnibox. Only downside is, unlike NoScript, you only whitelist the domain in the address bar to allow ANY origin script/plugin embedded in it, including ads and tracking scripts and the like. This is also a problem when you have sites like ytmnd or deviantart with tons of domains, but you can always go into options and add a blanket whitelist for the whole domain.
But how far can this logic take us? Let's just shut off water and electricity to the properties of people we don't like. Nothing in the constitution that says they have a right to be able to purchase those services. IMO at some point, conveniences become widespread enough that we start to rely on them, and the providers of that service can then exact control over us by restricting or controlling this service, which previous to our reliance might not have mattered so much.
VirtualBox is not the same as vSphere. You're thinking of VMWare Player or Workstation. I believe Windows Server's Hypervisor is a similar type of thing to vSphere though (I haven't used hypervisor stuff so I don't know) and someone else in these comments mentioned Linux's Xen.
At least the US government requires all software features be fully documented, and easter eggs, by their very nature, tend to qualify as an undocumented software feature. This is why MS doesn't tend to put them in anymore.
This won't happen anymore (ideally). Pretty much the whole point is to eliminate (as much as possible) buffer overflows, invalid memory accesses, memory leaks, and other low-level bugs that easily pop up in C++ programs..NET abstracts away dealing with low-level pointers, everything is "managed" by the framework so it is freed when no longer used (it is still possible to leak memory by keeping references to things you don't use anymore, but the framework can only do so much for you), and various attempts to attack your program with buffer overflows etc to run shellcode wouldn't work because your high-level program doesn't deal with pointers, and.NET internals will stop buffers from overflowing (etc). Oddly enough I have seen my own programs I build crash on launch after a while of not working on them, but a recompile always fixes it. Otherwise I have never seen a.NET program crash unless I did something dumb with unmanaged code.
You largely don't have to worry about that sort of low-level stuff and you can just go build your program (the exception being.Disposing some objects helps with garbage collection). Plus you have a ton of useful libraries already included. Want to pull a file from the web? No problem, create an object to represent your request, a callback to handle the response object, then send it out. Want to parse XML? One function call and you're left with a tree of XMLNode objects to walk. Maybe you can find amazing libraries for C++ but you're starting from scratch (well you had to at one point, at least) and have to check licenses on them all, etc. With.NET you start off with a good base of libraries you can use in your apps for free.
I also love the Window Designer tool in VS, though various Window toolkits for C++ offer similar things IIRC, I just like how I can pull together a skeleton class for my form and begin coding basic functionality immediately.
You mean the runtimes that are shared between all.NET applications? How about the buttons that look just like all other Windows buttons, unless the PROGRAMMER screws them up (which is a lot harder to do after 1.1, where it was easy to miss visual styling).
Ah but if the phone is taken from the suspect, it would seem likely. Smartphones are fairly expensive in terms of both money and investment in a phone contract, so people tend to not leave them laying around I would think.
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This is more accurate IMO. Have had tons of problems with Office at work, especially trying to collaborate on documents (can only use Excel, not Word, can only see others' changes when you save, periodically sharing will be turned off somehow by accident, etc). When I try to change the foreground color of text in Excel, the whole app locks up for 15 seconds or longer. If a virus scan happens to be running everything goes even slower. I really wish we could use Google Docs (can't, proprietary information and all that, we could probably get some sort of local copy with an enterprise license surely though?), the collaboration features are awesome. And the great thing about web apps, at least Google's, is that they do autosaves so your data is safe. Plus managing data backups etc is on their end, and you know they gotta do a better job than we do on our own personal data!
You're thinking of Star Trek movies.
Wolfenstein actually had a German release. Stripped all the nazi references and everything (I think the enemies are zombies or something now).
You could say the same for any upload site; the problem is when links to copywritten content are shared publicly. Of course then it makes it possible to find and send in a DMCA takedown request.
There is an addon compatibility tool that you can use to force addons to be enabled, a lot easier and more user-friendly. It is still more of a tool for people that know what they're doing.
Also pretty sure there's some sort of functionality in the addons.mozilla.org site that will automatically update addons to declare compatibility if they don't use any APIs that were changed, or something like that.
The problem is that the progress dialog pre-Vista does not know how many files there are as it starts, so the progress bar may go quickly for a bit then slowly for another bit as it encounters folders with few small files and folders with many large files, respectively.
Modern OSs bypass the BIOS when accessing hardware such as hard drives, where the MBR is stored.
OK so the article cites localStorage as a problem, but Chrome at least treats it the same as cookies when clearing private data, and in incognito it shouldn't persist localStorage data across sessions (not sure about other browsers).
It also mentions that MS was sticking a JS file in the browser cache to recreate a cookie. This doesn't make sense since any file removed from the cache is just redownloaded, unless a custom version of the JS file is crafted for every client and is set to create a specific cookie value (but this isn't clarified in the article). But it sounds more like ETags are used, having nothing to do with the JS file being cached or not. I'm not sure how ETags work but I can't imagine they would be effective in incognito mode either since cache is never kept (and the article infers this is necessary).
Did I miss anything?
To be fair I can imagine a lot of Firefox users not even knowing add-ons exist.
Chrome actually has built-in support for basic NoScript-like behavior. Block all JS and Plugins and you can whitelist sites from the omnibox. Only downside is, unlike NoScript, you only whitelist the domain in the address bar to allow ANY origin script/plugin embedded in it, including ads and tracking scripts and the like. This is also a problem when you have sites like ytmnd or deviantart with tons of domains, but you can always go into options and add a blanket whitelist for the whole domain.
But how far can this logic take us? Let's just shut off water and electricity to the properties of people we don't like. Nothing in the constitution that says they have a right to be able to purchase those services. IMO at some point, conveniences become widespread enough that we start to rely on them, and the providers of that service can then exact control over us by restricting or controlling this service, which previous to our reliance might not have mattered so much.
Depends on whether or not your boss is understanding of you not showing up for work because there's no gas for your car...
VirtualBox is not the same as vSphere. You're thinking of VMWare Player or Workstation. I believe Windows Server's Hypervisor is a similar type of thing to vSphere though (I haven't used hypervisor stuff so I don't know) and someone else in these comments mentioned Linux's Xen.
At least the US government requires all software features be fully documented, and easter eggs, by their very nature, tend to qualify as an undocumented software feature. This is why MS doesn't tend to put them in anymore.
This won't happen anymore (ideally). Pretty much the whole point is to eliminate (as much as possible) buffer overflows, invalid memory accesses, memory leaks, and other low-level bugs that easily pop up in C++ programs. .NET abstracts away dealing with low-level pointers, everything is "managed" by the framework so it is freed when no longer used (it is still possible to leak memory by keeping references to things you don't use anymore, but the framework can only do so much for you), and various attempts to attack your program with buffer overflows etc to run shellcode wouldn't work because your high-level program doesn't deal with pointers, and .NET internals will stop buffers from overflowing (etc). Oddly enough I have seen my own programs I build crash on launch after a while of not working on them, but a recompile always fixes it. Otherwise I have never seen a .NET program crash unless I did something dumb with unmanaged code.
You largely don't have to worry about that sort of low-level stuff and you can just go build your program (the exception being .Disposing some objects helps with garbage collection). Plus you have a ton of useful libraries already included. Want to pull a file from the web? No problem, create an object to represent your request, a callback to handle the response object, then send it out. Want to parse XML? One function call and you're left with a tree of XMLNode objects to walk. Maybe you can find amazing libraries for C++ but you're starting from scratch (well you had to at one point, at least) and have to check licenses on them all, etc. With .NET you start off with a good base of libraries you can use in your apps for free.
I also love the Window Designer tool in VS, though various Window toolkits for C++ offer similar things IIRC, I just like how I can pull together a skeleton class for my form and begin coding basic functionality immediately.
You mean the runtimes that are shared between all .NET applications? How about the buttons that look just like all other Windows buttons, unless the PROGRAMMER screws them up (which is a lot harder to do after 1.1, where it was easy to miss visual styling).
Likely it means the form factor is of a USB stick. I would imagine it needs at least an HDMI port, a USB port, and some sort of power input.
No? So why should Nintendo be worried if they have a monopoly on a ton of popular franchises?
Ah but if the phone is taken from the suspect, it would seem likely. Smartphones are fairly expensive in terms of both money and investment in a phone contract, so people tend to not leave them laying around I would think.
It's still a nightmare, HL2 episode 3 is still nowhere to be seen.
Darn. :(
It can't help XP users pass the time since it requires Vista or 7!
Or it can be an OS that pretends to boot while it does something sneaky, like deleting any incriminating evidence.
Unfortunately, you can't patch users.
I suspect they are being exclusive so they don't blow up their servers before they are sure they can handle the load.