I've read through the comments, and decided to comment myself. I hope I'm not repeating what everyone else has said.
I started writing BASIC in elementary school. I learned some from my mother, and some from my fifth grade teacher. I never got very far with it, because in sixth grade I learned Perl at a Boy Scout camp. The first real program I wrote was Tic-Tac-Toe, and it was a good three hundred lines of Perl. By the end of middle school, I had written a few JavaScripts and began to dabble in C++. In ninth and tenth grades, I learned C and PHP on my own, and Java through the "Programming and Computer Concepts" class (which has since been renamed, though to what I don't know). I continued learning Java in eleventh grade (with the "AP Computer Science" class)--I even got a 5 on the "A" exam (highest score, not a very complex exam, though). I also continued learning C, with the help of Kernighan and Ritchie's "The C Programming Language", 2nd edition. I've written programs that use basic Unix file I/O, Berkeley sockets, forking, and POSIX multithreading.
I know two other kids in my grade who know Unix/Linux well, and a handful who program well. It's not many, out of a class of 250 or so, but it's still a good few, especially since I go to a rural school.
Yeah, there's no intelligence pre-requisite for Slashdot moderation. It took them a decade to get the CPU right, surely no one expected them to jump onto this right away and meet with incredible success?
Oh, and every time you buy a Viiv-branded machine, an Angel gets its wings. Now I'm a troll.
This is crap. It's not even well-written crap, which makes it pure bullshit. There's more nonsense "terminology" in this article than I've seen in a long time. The belief that the "legacy applications" are the reason that the dot-com boom failed is unjustified. Business don't fail because of software, good, bad, or indifferent. And they're sure as hell not going to succeed because of it, either.
From the article,
"Now Oracle, Microsoft (MSFT), and SAP (SAP) must respond to the SaaS movement while trying to avoid cannibalizing their existing software business in the process."
This is a bald-faced attempt at spreading fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Microsoft produces the operating system that most home/business clients use, and Oracle produces one of the most common commercial databases, both of which are staple products, and are required for this "software-as-a-service" to function. They won't be "cannibalizing their existing software business[es]" any time soon.
So, I feel it is necessary to add another "myth" to this page:
Myth #9: This article is a reliable source of information
It should be noted that utilites like ntpasswd can grant any user access to any local account, including Administrator. Of course, the users who know how to do THAT generally fall into a more select group, and are probably working on the wrong side of the IT line.
With the limited number of mainstream applications that actually use multiple threads, the dual core CPUs are currently under-utilized. So, the natural response is therefore to double the number of cores, which will require additional licensing for Windows, and won't even be used by any (end-user) programs.
The ESRB does a fine job. It competently rates games on an easy-to-understand scale. The organization provides a guideline--which is what any rating system is--allowing people who are concerned about the nature of content in a game to know more about it. It is not a force for media control or change, which is what this review wants it to be, but merely a tool--one that any individual can choose to follow or ignore. Simply because this reviewer want parents to pay more attention to what their kids are doing doesn't mean the ratings system is failing. Their metrics are nonsense and their grade is meaningless.
Firefox has no native sound-producing capabilities. All of the sound is produced by media or applets that invoke a plug-in (Windows Media, Quicktime, Flash, Java applets, etc.). This would be impossible to write into the Firefox code. The only reasonable way to adjust this is to use Downloads: View & Edit Actions and modify all audio types to save to disk. Someone mentioned something about a flash muter, which would then also take care of Flash animations. It is rather uncommon for Java applets to play sound as the applet API can only play 8-bit mono files of a specific format (AU, I believe).
I had similar problems on one of my set-ups. I usually use Windows 2000, but my dad's company uses Windows XP SP2. The laptop would connect successfully and have full signal strength, but wouldn't grab the DHCP lease that was given to it by the router. I tried releasing the lease and re-acquiring without no success.
I've since dropped WEP with a firmware upgrade that allows my router to support WPA2/PSK which I've fully implemented. My advice: use AT LEAST WPA, WPA2 if possible (check web sites of access point/router for firmware upgrades).
A 128-bit WEP key should be 26 characters (use hex values) anyway.
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I've read through the comments, and decided to comment myself. I hope I'm not repeating what everyone else has said. I started writing BASIC in elementary school. I learned some from my mother, and some from my fifth grade teacher. I never got very far with it, because in sixth grade I learned Perl at a Boy Scout camp. The first real program I wrote was Tic-Tac-Toe, and it was a good three hundred lines of Perl. By the end of middle school, I had written a few JavaScripts and began to dabble in C++. In ninth and tenth grades, I learned C and PHP on my own, and Java through the "Programming and Computer Concepts" class (which has since been renamed, though to what I don't know). I continued learning Java in eleventh grade (with the "AP Computer Science" class)--I even got a 5 on the "A" exam (highest score, not a very complex exam, though). I also continued learning C, with the help of Kernighan and Ritchie's "The C Programming Language", 2nd edition. I've written programs that use basic Unix file I/O, Berkeley sockets, forking, and POSIX multithreading. I know two other kids in my grade who know Unix/Linux well, and a handful who program well. It's not many, out of a class of 250 or so, but it's still a good few, especially since I go to a rural school.
Yeah, there's no intelligence pre-requisite for Slashdot moderation. It took them a decade to get the CPU right, surely no one expected them to jump onto this right away and meet with incredible success?
Oh, and every time you buy a Viiv-branded machine, an Angel gets its wings. Now I'm a troll.
Because I'm not.
This is crap. It's not even well-written crap, which makes it pure bullshit. There's more nonsense "terminology" in this article than I've seen in a long time. The belief that the "legacy applications" are the reason that the dot-com boom failed is unjustified. Business don't fail because of software, good, bad, or indifferent. And they're sure as hell not going to succeed because of it, either. From the article, "Now Oracle, Microsoft (MSFT), and SAP (SAP) must respond to the SaaS movement while trying to avoid cannibalizing their existing software business in the process." This is a bald-faced attempt at spreading fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Microsoft produces the operating system that most home/business clients use, and Oracle produces one of the most common commercial databases, both of which are staple products, and are required for this "software-as-a-service" to function. They won't be "cannibalizing their existing software business[es]" any time soon. So, I feel it is necessary to add another "myth" to this page: Myth #9: This article is a reliable source of information
Yes actually, I do. I had no idea someone else had coined the term first, though. So much for originality, eh?
The pink color burns my eyes. It's like a white-hot searing rod of pre-adolescent girlyness being thrust through my optic nerve.
It should be noted that utilites like ntpasswd can grant any user access to any local account, including Administrator. Of course, the users who know how to do THAT generally fall into a more select group, and are probably working on the wrong side of the IT line.
Windows XP Professional supports up to two CPUs. Not four.
Didn't think ahead before I posted it.
You make a valid point.
With the limited number of mainstream applications that actually use multiple threads, the dual core CPUs are currently under-utilized. So, the natural response is therefore to double the number of cores, which will require additional licensing for Windows, and won't even be used by any (end-user) programs.
The ESRB does a fine job. It competently rates games on an easy-to-understand scale. The organization provides a guideline--which is what any rating system is--allowing people who are concerned about the nature of content in a game to know more about it. It is not a force for media control or change, which is what this review wants it to be, but merely a tool--one that any individual can choose to follow or ignore. Simply because this reviewer want parents to pay more attention to what their kids are doing doesn't mean the ratings system is failing. Their metrics are nonsense and their grade is meaningless.
Firefox has no native sound-producing capabilities. All of the sound is produced by media or applets that invoke a plug-in (Windows Media, Quicktime, Flash, Java applets, etc.). This would be impossible to write into the Firefox code. The only reasonable way to adjust this is to use Downloads: View & Edit Actions and modify all audio types to save to disk. Someone mentioned something about a flash muter, which would then also take care of Flash animations. It is rather uncommon for Java applets to play sound as the applet API can only play 8-bit mono files of a specific format (AU, I believe).
I had similar problems on one of my set-ups. I usually use Windows 2000, but my dad's company uses Windows XP SP2. The laptop would connect successfully and have full signal strength, but wouldn't grab the DHCP lease that was given to it by the router. I tried releasing the lease and re-acquiring without no success. I've since dropped WEP with a firmware upgrade that allows my router to support WPA2/PSK which I've fully implemented. My advice: use AT LEAST WPA, WPA2 if possible (check web sites of access point/router for firmware upgrades). A 128-bit WEP key should be 26 characters (use hex values) anyway.