I guess a random human life naturally would have less value than an animal of another species, so the suicide bomber would naturally see reason in the argument.
Very true. Every HTML reference has to have NS2, NS3, NS4, IE2,... IE6, WebTV, Opera, and whether or not an attribute is valid for any of the above.
However, I will still blame Microsoft. Microsoft published that worthless excuse for a web site building app... Frontpage. By the time you realized it was worthless, your pages were so hopelessly bloated with MS Frontpage tags... () Those tags took up a third of the space if you were looking at a website that used MS Themes.
There is an inherent side-effect to making something that is naturally complex more accessible: the discipline involved in skilled craftmanship gets watered down by the masses who can now magically build:
A database--how many corporations have at least one MS Access built DB app, written by an intern, with over 1,000,000 records... An app that has now become a production application for important information?
A user interface--the VC's son-in-law wrote this pretty GUI application in Visual Basic...
A website--now he's ported it to the web. (Could you make it actually do something on the backend?)
There were a few females in my Engineering Math and Computer Science major. I don't recall any in my graduating class that spoke an Indo-European derivative language as their primary language.
> OTOH I don't know if VC++ still lets you compile non-.NET applications).
Yes, I believe you can still compile non-.NET--to the extent that you can always incorporate other DLLs/libs. You can even enforce ANSI C++ via compiler settings. Of course, if you're looking to write a good, moderately portable C++ program--there's no help from MS. Of course, the Java debacle, Microsoft's Frontpage Extensions bloat, etc. proved that.
Most recently, I downloaded Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition. I dabbled in MFC/Visual C++ for a couple of years of my career, and I like keeping up on the latest technology, good or bad. I had read a review of Visual Studio.NET, and I was from the opinion of a former MFC/Visual C++ user--which convinced me to stay away from the MS development products for a while.
The interface was confusing for someone who generally liked the old Visual Studio interface. So, I did what any newbie would do. I started a new project. The whole C++/CLI additions threw me off:
I sense a bit of Tivo-envy on the part of the **AAs. Heck, Tivo is the only way many people have even seen many of these shows. Tivo has been a promoter of shows, in a way not entirely dissimilar from the original incarnation of Napster did for CDs.
If I can't catch important individual shows in a series that I was duped into watching in the first place by carefully edited teasers, then I probably won't watch the show at all. More time for me. I feel my brain rot healing already.
Soon the **AAs will discover that analog holes exist in books, music instruments, and live stages. Hmmm... can't have entertainment that isn't copy-protected. Maybe movie and music reviews will have to be controlled, too... they're contributing to the decline of DVD and CD sales.
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I guess a random human life naturally would have less value than an animal of another species, so the suicide bomber would naturally see reason in the argument.
Again, I must reiterate with:
http://www.peta.org/feat/arafat/
It's more than close to true. Remember their letter to Arafat:
PETA: Leave the Animals in Peace
http://www.peta.org/feat/arafat/
PeTA ought to be thrilled. If we test on less fortunate human beings, that means fewer animals have to suffer.
Very true. Every HTML reference has to have NS2, NS3, NS4, IE2, ... IE6, WebTV, Opera, and whether or not an attribute is valid for any of the above.
However, I will still blame Microsoft. Microsoft published that worthless excuse for a web site building app... Frontpage. By the time you realized it was worthless, your pages were so hopelessly bloated with MS Frontpage tags... () Those tags took up a third of the space if you were looking at a website that used MS Themes.
There is an inherent side-effect to making something that is naturally complex more accessible: the discipline involved in skilled craftmanship gets watered down by the masses who can now magically build:
There were a few females in my Engineering Math and Computer Science major. I don't recall any in my graduating class that spoke an Indo-European derivative language as their primary language.
> OTOH I don't know if VC++ still lets you compile non-.NET applications).
Yes, I believe you can still compile non-.NET--to the extent that you can always incorporate other DLLs/libs. You can even enforce ANSI C++ via compiler settings. Of course, if you're looking to write a good, moderately portable C++ program--there's no help from MS. Of course, the Java debacle, Microsoft's Frontpage Extensions bloat, etc. proved that.
Most recently, I downloaded Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition. I dabbled in MFC/Visual C++ for a couple of years of my career, and I like keeping up on the latest technology, good or bad. I had read a review of Visual Studio .NET, and I was from the opinion of a former MFC/Visual C++ user--which convinced me to stay away from the MS development products for a while.
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The interface was confusing for someone who generally liked the old Visual Studio interface. So, I did what any newbie would do. I started a new project. The whole C++/CLI additions threw me off:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/homepageheadlin
more on C++/CLI:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/02/Pu
Something smells here. I just can't qualify it... this is C++?
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I sense a bit of Tivo-envy on the part of the **AAs. Heck, Tivo is the only way many people have even seen many of these shows. Tivo has been a promoter of shows, in a way not entirely dissimilar from the original incarnation of Napster did for CDs.
If I can't catch important individual shows in a series that I was duped into watching in the first place by carefully edited teasers, then I probably won't watch the show at all. More time for me. I feel my brain rot healing already.
Soon the **AAs will discover that analog holes exist in books, music instruments, and live stages. Hmmm... can't have entertainment that isn't copy-protected. Maybe movie and music reviews will have to be controlled, too... they're contributing to the decline of DVD and CD sales.