As a dot.net developer I'm really really happy to see mono being integrated by default in more and more big distros. It warms my heart to see that not all the Open Source community is a big rabid stallmanist troll, but that there is common sense there as well. A good technology is a tool, and it's great to have the possibility to use it. Open and Closed source worlds are not exclusive and can happily co-exist with each other.
As a developer that have worked both with Flash and Silverlight (1&2) I must say: give me Silverlight anytime of the day. Working on Silverlight you have access to a large subset of the dotnet platform with gives you a wonderfully organized library of classes that is just waiting for you to be used. In comparation, Flash is just a mess, really.
While this is all cool and dandy, I think my one armed brother is wishing that this technology will fail. Imaging if every platform out there would use this kind of body recognition. How could *he* play when the system is expecting to recognize a "normal" body? Or maybe he will be limited to play solitaire games (if the system doesn't expect you using 2 hands there as well).
Yes, it can easily be something else, but having the same symptoms for EIGHT freaking years and not making a simple test that could confirm or discard a so relatively common disease as Crohns... That makes me wonder.
Interesting: while reading about her symptoms, Crohn's Disease was the first think that came to my mind. And no, I'm not a doctor. So what kind of doctors were seeing her? Veterinary ones?
Calm down. The editor is our friend kdawson. When he choses to not troll directly he just choses some indirect form of trolling. Like putting out an obvious article of a MS employee praising their own products above the competition. Just to get this same reaction. Kdawson is just at work, doing what he does best: trolling.
Well, seriously, what projects have YOU been involved on (Ms related or not) for the community? I mean, it's so easy to flame other people just because they are on the "wrong" (as politically incorrect on/.) projects where you, yourself do nothing at all. I mean I don't know you and I may be wrong, but something tells me that there is a BIG probability that I'm right.
Sometimes different is inferior. Group policies is something you can't live without after you have learned to use it properly. Those administrators that haven't tried it cannot even imagine the power of it. I am sure that some open source project to duplicate (oh no, duplication again!) this feature must be in development somehow at this moment.
Now, I know you are trolling, but so is our old friend kdawson ("for a change"). Really if I'm a seller of netbooks with Linuzz pre-installed, I could easily preinstall a rootkit on it as well. The only difference would be that there would not be any Kaspersky there to tell me about it.
Office 2007 has been a very stable and good version from the start. At my department, in the university I work for, experienced users (like our two secretaries) had some difficulties at first re-learning the new user interface, before they, after some weeks realized what a great invention the ribbon is. Yes, you need to think different here. Forget menus and toolbars. The ribbon is a great thing when you understand that they are somehow like toolbars, but they are dynamic as well. When you realize how the thing work, then you cannot live without it.
Now having PDF as a "native" option (and , as a minor option, odf as well) without installing extra software , this is a real winner. Good work.
Exactly. I use whatever tools I want, and "my freedom" and the limits I want to impose to "my freedom" (whatever THAT is) is only my business. I use the tools I like/need, and there are free tools, commercial, open source ones, binaries only, etc. They help me in my work and I pay whatever *I* think is worth to pay for them. That is my freedom. But having some long bearded troll telling me what my freedom is and what I must do and not do... that's not freedom, that's the closest to catholicism we got on the software arena....
And yes, I use public transport as well. And pay for the service. And no, I cannot repair their buses either if there are problems with them (don't have or want to learn mechanics).
Nah, seriously,/. must learn to separate one of MS employers opinion from the company's opinion.
Now, I could say that the Linux community wants more don.net integration just because Icaza, one of the most active contributors to the Linuzz community advocates this on his blog.
Of course if you want just another inflamatory article on/., just go on...
No, seriously. Gotta love SlashDot. Just submit an anecdotal story (with anti Microsoft content of course) and it may be published in the main page without any research or the minimal am mount of testing. This filter is installed in every single computer in my kid's school and no... Googgle is not blocked. Asked the technician that installed it and... no, out of the box: big G is not blocked either. Of course THIS anecdote would never get published here.
Way to go/., keep throwing your reputation down (not that is there any serious reputation left in this place, ow ever was for that matter).
While it's very possible that this is true, I find this kind of statement incredibly arrogant and tasteless (and I've seen those from Apple, OBSD, as well). That said, Vista post-SP2 is an extremely secure system.
Time machine? Don't need a metrosexual volume shadow copy. And I don't use multiple desktop even in Linux. I only use OSX (which I *detest* by the way) to test my software on it. So, why do I need to upgrade?
Sure my main computer is on XP. I am running OSX Tiger at home and I won't be upgrading to Leopard any time soon. My other computer runs Mandriva 2007. No upgrades either for me. It works. At work I use Vista. What I'm saying is: MS or not: the time where people used to literally stay in line to upgrade an OS are over. Nobody (but a few nerds) cares about that anymore. Ans even some nerds like me have more important things with their lifes to do.
Thank you for making a simple "news for nerds" site more and more bloated and dysfunctional with any new release. Feel free to mod me a troll for expressing my most sincere opinion.
Nah, but it's politically correct here on/. to blame any big corporation for every plague on Earth (except Apple, who are saints). Following that tactic, I have climbed 3 times in my karma from terrible to excellent in no time (really).
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As a dot.net developer I'm really really happy to see mono being integrated by default in more and more big distros. It warms my heart to see that not all the Open Source community is a big rabid stallmanist troll, but that there is common sense there as well. A good technology is a tool, and it's great to have the possibility to use it. Open and Closed source worlds are not exclusive and can happily co-exist with each other.
That's why is called BETA and you can report the problem. I'm sure the folks at bing will be very interested in this issue.
If Tony Iommi can play, I'm sure you can type.
Citation needed. only on slashdot a post like parent's can be modded "insightful". And no, saying ItS JuSt M$It is not a valid argument.
As a developer that have worked both with Flash and Silverlight (1&2) I must say: give me Silverlight anytime of the day. Working on Silverlight you have access to a large subset of the dotnet platform with gives you a wonderfully organized library of classes that is just waiting for you to be used. In comparation, Flash is just a mess, really.
Believe it or not the same happened to me....untill I saw that Microsoft was not mentioned in the article.
While this is all cool and dandy, I think my one armed brother is wishing that this technology will fail. Imaging if every platform out there would use this kind of body recognition. How could *he* play when the system is expecting to recognize a "normal" body? Or maybe he will be limited to play solitaire games (if the system doesn't expect you using 2 hands there as well).
Yes, it can easily be something else, but having the same symptoms for EIGHT freaking years and not making a simple test that could confirm or discard a so relatively common disease as Crohns... That makes me wonder.
Interesting: while reading about her symptoms, Crohn's Disease was the first think that came to my mind. And no, I'm not a doctor. So what kind of doctors were seeing her? Veterinary ones?
Calm down. The editor is our friend kdawson. When he choses to not troll directly he just choses some indirect form of trolling. Like putting out an obvious article of a MS employee praising their own products above the competition. Just to get this same reaction. Kdawson is just at work, doing what he does best: trolling.
Well, seriously, what projects have YOU been involved on (Ms related or not) for the community? I mean, it's so easy to flame other people just because they are on the "wrong" (as politically incorrect on /.) projects where you, yourself do nothing at all. I mean I don't know you and I may be wrong, but something tells me that there is a BIG probability that I'm right.
Sometimes different is inferior. Group policies is something you can't live without after you have learned to use it properly. Those administrators that haven't tried it cannot even imagine the power of it. I am sure that some open source project to duplicate (oh no, duplication again!) this feature must be in development somehow at this moment.
I'll mode you up. kdawson is the slashdot equivalent of a yellow tabloid whore. Move along, nothing to see here.
Now, I know you are trolling, but so is our old friend kdawson ("for a change"). Really if I'm a seller of netbooks with Linuzz pre-installed, I could easily preinstall a rootkit on it as well. The only difference would be that there would not be any Kaspersky there to tell me about it.
Now having PDF as a "native" option (and , as a minor option, odf as well) without installing extra software , this is a real winner. Good work.
And yes, I use public transport as well. And pay for the service. And no, I cannot repair their buses either if there are problems with them (don't have or want to learn mechanics).
It's always Sunday for kdawson, friend.
Give me free beer and I don't care for free speech.
Now, I could say that the Linux community wants more don.net integration just because Icaza, one of the most active contributors to the Linuzz community advocates this on his blog.
Of course if you want just another inflamatory article on /., just go on...
Way to go /., keep throwing your reputation down (not that is there any serious reputation left in this place, ow ever was for that matter).
While it's very possible that this is true, I find this kind of statement incredibly arrogant and tasteless (and I've seen those from Apple, OBSD, as well). That said, Vista post-SP2 is an extremely secure system.
Time machine? Don't need a metrosexual volume shadow copy. And I don't use multiple desktop even in Linux. I only use OSX (which I *detest* by the way) to test my software on it. So, why do I need to upgrade?
Sure my main computer is on XP. I am running OSX Tiger at home and I won't be upgrading to Leopard any time soon. My other computer runs Mandriva 2007. No upgrades either for me. It works. At work I use Vista. What I'm saying is: MS or not: the time where people used to literally stay in line to upgrade an OS are over. Nobody (but a few nerds) cares about that anymore. Ans even some nerds like me have more important things with their lifes to do.
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Nah, but it's politically correct here on /. to blame any big corporation for every plague on Earth (except Apple, who are saints). Following that tactic, I have climbed 3 times in my karma from terrible to excellent in no time (really).