ok, you're using a 10 year old OS from Microsoft, and you and you think their deep desire for DRM is what stops them making QT available for Win2000?
Are you on fucking crack?
the same applies to OS X.
I've been running OS X for YEARS and I've never seen the ~/Applications folder created automatically, not any applications that install there by default.
Of course, there's absolutely nothing magical about it, and you can (and people do) create a folder named "Applications" (or anything else) in their home dir and install applications into it via drag&drop, as usual.
so what exactly stops a virus writing to the user's home folder under Linux or Windows?
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Of course you can.
I left High school 2 years early, got a diploma (dunno what that equates to in the US?) and now Im contracting in an unrelated discipline (Diploma in Network Engineering, working Web Design/Development).
And before someone mentions $$ - both by previous and current contracts are six figures.
I was somewhat lucky, but I am also living proof you don't always need a piece of paper.
right, because.Net is making every other development language/platform obsolete, and everyone wants to use.net. in simmilar news, AIDS is the new black, and everyone will have it this summer.
you notice the operative word in what you wrote?
"I"
it might kick ass from YOUR perspective, but not necessarily everyone (or anyone) elses.
I don't live in the US, and i'm not american, but from what i've seen, this just seems like something to get him in the whitehouse. surely nobody intelligent enough to actually understand the problems with this law (the big one is trusting known criminals to do the right thing. brilliant!) would be voting for McCain anyway?
what was their unit of measurement?
units of heat generated?
cpu cycles per wall/UPS socket required?
juggleability? (i know its not a word. you tell me a word that relates to how well something can be juggled)
Because jQuery is like XML (or JSON these days), Web 2.0 and AJAX. If you don't have it on your CV these days, you should convince your current employer they need to use it so you can add it to your CV.
NVIDIA provide a Linux driver, and if you sweaty linux types actually used your computer, rather than just continuously reading the lines of code that make it work while masturbating, you wouldn't really care if the driver source code is available or not.
Also-to add to the above. I pay for.Mac (soon to be MobileMe)
it gives me auto synced mail, bookmarks, contacts, storage, gallery etc etc for the aforementioned price. being a contractor, every hour I'm not working is an hour I'm not making money. now at $75/hr exactly how many hours do you think I need to spend finding/configuring these other services that "do exactly the same" over a year, before I'm worse off, from a purely financial point of view.. i'll give you a hint: it's not many.
I got a call this morning from the agency I contract through (in Canberra, AU).
turns out their online timesheet system and their mail is all located in this data center. well unless another US data center just happened to catch fire on the weekend?
lets see, things that don't suck.
ok well try any browser-based application. webmail. rich-text editing for blog posts, website cms'.
* raise window
* resize window
* disable right click
* remove buttons and toolbars and stuff like that
* force people to open images thru javascript
* stupid disabled textarea boxes which the browser can't undo if you close the tab by accident or similair
* clocks, text in status bar, crap like that.
your list of things that are possible with javascript reminds me of bad websites made in 1998. have you actually used the internet between then and now?
do you know what client-side form validation via AJAX is? do you understand how it can save YOU time by removing the need for a full page load when you missed a required field.
do you understand the concept of allowing users to view pieces of related information/images/movies/etc without leaving the page?
when done correctly, most functionality created using javascript can be provided in a "fall-back" method for users without a javascript compatible/enabled browser.
i couldn't give a flying fuck if it's oss, or toss. the ribbon is a pain in the ass. of course microsoft are going to say its a great change. i say bullshit.
also, if it's so fucking great why is it only applied to half the fucking suite? and why is it applied to parts of some apps, but not other parts of the same app?
javascript/ecmascript doesnt suck, but rather the way it's generally used sucks.
people don't say the sun sucks because it causes cancer, while enabling life on earth. they say "don't be a moron, put on sunscreen/hat/etc"
client-side scripting in the web environment is just a tool, like a hammer or a screwdriver or an alligator. how a developer/designer uses it can often be described as criminal but that doesn't make the tool the problem. (unless you consider said developer/designer the tool)
tell me please, exactly how does one turn off the ribbon in Office 2007? the ONLY way i've found to return to the STANDARD, USABLE menu system used by almost every other GUI application in existence is to buy an add-in for office.
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ok, you're using a 10 year old OS from Microsoft, and you and you think their deep desire for DRM is what stops them making QT available for Win2000? Are you on fucking crack?
no, it doesn't actually.
no, they licensed it from AT&T. It later became SCO UNIX
the same applies to OS X. I've been running OS X for YEARS and I've never seen the ~/Applications folder created automatically, not any applications that install there by default.
so what exactly stops a virus writing to the user's home folder under Linux or Windows?
Of course you can. I left High school 2 years early, got a diploma (dunno what that equates to in the US?) and now Im contracting in an unrelated discipline (Diploma in Network Engineering, working Web Design/Development). And before someone mentions $$ - both by previous and current contracts are six figures. I was somewhat lucky, but I am also living proof you don't always need a piece of paper.
fixed that for ya.
between native installs, VMWare/XP+Win2K i have coverage of opera 6 - 9, IE 5 - 8, FF 1 - 3.1, Safari 3+ (soon to include Safari 2).
right, because .Net is making every other development language/platform obsolete, and everyone wants to use .net. in simmilar news, AIDS is the new black, and everyone will have it this summer.
you notice the operative word in what you wrote?
"I"
it might kick ass from YOUR perspective, but not necessarily everyone (or anyone) elses.
according to wikipedia, India is a Federal Republic with Parliamentary Democracy, so where the hell does communism come into this?
I don't live in the US, and i'm not american, but from what i've seen, this just seems like something to get him in the whitehouse. surely nobody intelligent enough to actually understand the problems with this law (the big one is trusting known criminals to do the right thing. brilliant!) would be voting for McCain anyway?
what was their unit of measurement? units of heat generated? cpu cycles per wall/UPS socket required? juggleability? (i know its not a word. you tell me a word that relates to how well something can be juggled)
Because jQuery is like XML (or JSON these days), Web 2.0 and AJAX. If you don't have it on your CV these days, you should convince your current employer they need to use it so you can add it to your CV.
You're an idiot, the ANPR scoping study was initiated LONG before the ALP won government.
Um, no, it just means you have a shit load of low-income households.
That's why they're paid 20 bucks an hour!
Um.. are you under some delusion that $20/hr is a LOT?
NVIDIA provide a Linux driver, and if you sweaty linux types actually used your computer, rather than just continuously reading the lines of code that make it work while masturbating, you wouldn't really care if the driver source code is available or not.
And then they can just come lock up his identical brother while he lives in the attic right?
Also-to add to the above. I pay for .Mac (soon to be MobileMe)
it gives me auto synced mail, bookmarks, contacts, storage, gallery etc etc for the aforementioned price. being a contractor, every hour I'm not working is an hour I'm not making money. now at $75/hr exactly how many hours do you think I need to spend finding/configuring these other services that "do exactly the same" over a year, before I'm worse off, from a purely financial point of view.. i'll give you a hint: it's not many.
I got a call this morning from the agency I contract through (in Canberra, AU).
turns out their online timesheet system and their mail is all located in this data center. well unless another US data center just happened to catch fire on the weekend?
everything you've complained about proves my point. javascript can create GREAT web apps/interfaces, if used correctly.
ok well try any browser-based application. webmail. rich-text editing for blog posts, website cms'.
* raise window * resize window * disable right click * remove buttons and toolbars and stuff like that * force people to open images thru javascript * stupid disabled textarea boxes which the browser can't undo if you close the tab by accident or similair * clocks, text in status bar, crap like that.
your list of things that are possible with javascript reminds me of bad websites made in 1998. have you actually used the internet between then and now?
do you know what client-side form validation via AJAX is? do you understand how it can save YOU time by removing the need for a full page load when you missed a required field.
do you understand the concept of allowing users to view pieces of related information/images/movies/etc without leaving the page?
when done correctly, most functionality created using javascript can be provided in a "fall-back" method for users without a javascript compatible/enabled browser.
i couldn't give a flying fuck if it's oss, or toss. the ribbon is a pain in the ass. of course microsoft are going to say its a great change. i say bullshit.
also, if it's so fucking great why is it only applied to half the fucking suite? and why is it applied to parts of some apps, but not other parts of the same app?
javascript/ecmascript doesnt suck, but rather the way it's generally used sucks.
people don't say the sun sucks because it causes cancer, while enabling life on earth. they say "don't be a moron, put on sunscreen/hat/etc"
client-side scripting in the web environment is just a tool, like a hammer or a screwdriver or an alligator. how a developer/designer uses it can often be described as criminal but that doesn't make the tool the problem. (unless you consider said developer/designer the tool)
tell me please, exactly how does one turn off the ribbon in Office 2007? the ONLY way i've found to return to the STANDARD, USABLE menu system used by almost every other GUI application in existence is to buy an add-in for office.