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people who whine about people whining about smoking.

Regex ftw: (people who wine about people whining about)+ smoking

minwin is not a total rewrite - its a modular NT kernel. (hence the increment of 1 major version)

They are splitting up the components of it so e.g the graphical server isnt a part of the main kernel to prevent a GUI crash taking out the system

Yeah, they are finally doing it proper IMHO. It is a fairly drastic change from the traditional monolithic OS that Windows has been for so long though. I have high hopes for newer releases.

and sp3 doesnt bring anything new apart from NAP which will not make any difference to 99% of users. Some have reported a small performance boost of under 10%.

SP3 is more of a rollup than a feature release

SPs are not supposed to be feature releases, they are intended to be rollups of existing hotfixes and new patches, as you've well described. XP had major security defects and SP 2 ended up including several architectural changes; however, such an event is a rarity. Amazing how after one outlier, a new standard has been set...

Most people who are Republicans.

Why? Because they have a different perspective, which lends itself better to a capitalist economy?

People who make racists comments in the Geek's Lounge.

Nigga please

People who like to get drunk to destroy their livers.

I do, however, completely agree with you on this one.

wont it be SP3 Jbennet? Are you actually getting rusty?

Correct, SP3 will be out fairly soon.

It's really too bad that Microsft does not have any major (or for that matter even minor) competition. You would think that there are enough smart folks out there that could dream something up that is better for the average consumer.

Minor competition: Mac OS, Linux, Unix.

With 'better' I mean friendlier, less annoying, leaner, with intelligent security build in. I don't even ask for cheaper.

Unfortunately, the main roadblock to that is money. Building an OS isn't cheap in the slightest, and making it secure is increasingly difficult. Friendlier/less annoying would be nice. Future versions of Windows will be based on MinWin, which will be a much leaner kernel (about 25MB, whereas a skimpy Server 2008 install is about 1.5GB; on the other hand, MinWin doesn't even have a window manager, it's just the kernel). I wonder how well it will play with existing Windows APIs though...

I hear OS X is good, but heck, what do I know? I've never used it. Plus it can't really quite just conclusively be installed on a PC...

Never used it, plus I don't like Apple's products in general. Over-(priced|hyped) for what they really are. Besides, their security record for their most recent release (Leopard) is hardly encouraging.

ms have said that future windows releases will be like in the 9x days. with a new OS every 2-3 years

NT7 will probably …

To put your argument into perspective for me, when I was first married in 1962 I could fill the back of a full-size station wagon for $65.00 USD. Today, I could only get MAYBE two sacks.

Yeah, I've heard some of the perspective stories here too. My parents bough their house (other side of town from my apt) for about $60k back 20 years ago. The neighborhood is now selling in the $450k+ range for 30+yr old houses, some not even recently renovated...

I've heard that there's enough oil in the US natural reserves to keep the country going for at least a century. But there's a couple environmentalists who prefer to buy their oil elsewhere at ridiculous prices. Then again, that's just what I've heard...

Of course, these will vary even inside a single country, but here's a few I can estimate quickly for my area:

new house in a smart neighbourhood: $600,000+
apartment (~900 sq. ft.): $1300+/mo

cheap laptop computer: ~$600
cheap desktop computer: ~$400

and one you didn't list: broadband Internet service: ~$45/mo (some are cheaper, some are more, but the speeds are different too so I averaged them)

i read in a MSDN blog about a C#.NET based system.

Probably similar to Sun's approach wherein they had a small bootloader (written in C, IIRC) which would load the JRE and then treat the JRE as the OS

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Note that all of the mass transit proponents live in southern California. They don't know about freezing temperatures, bridge bottlenecks, unpaved roads turning into quagmires, foot-deep snow on unshoveled walks, thunderstorms, and flooded sidewalks.

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Note that mass transportation is not necessarily equal to public buses. :icon_cheesygrin:

About mass transit: the point of mass transit is not to taxi you from point A to point B; rather it's to find a series of points A', B', etc... such that people will be able to make up the difference with their intended route easily. If people weren't scared to walk a little, mass transit can be a very effective system.

On the other hand, there are situations in which mass transit is simply not feasible. In larger cities, (e.g. London, LA, NYC, etc), it works quite well, but I would attribute this to the density of desired destinations (on both ends of the trip). However, in smaller places, like where I live, it's not as effective. We do have public busing, and it does cover a good bit of ground, but it isn't sufficient to replace a car for most families. And then if you were to go out to a rural area, public transit would be either a joke, or a typical government waste of funds.

The Democrats are farther left.

While I don't have a socialist platform to compare to, I find that hard to believe. Seems like American parties tend to be more rightist than European ones. Being too far left would leave the Democrats with too little support as it would be considered very radical.

i like obama > hilary

Same. Especially since he's not likely to be a crybaby in public... :icon_twisted:

dictionary crackers lists usually include common modified versions of words e.g pa55w0rd

As they'd certainly be expected to, but how far would the above-average dictionary go?

Anything that looks remotely like Password is a bad idea. You have something unusual that only you would know, such as merging two words and a date for example.

I've wondered about that. I mean, using 'password' is just dumb, and something like 'p4ssw0rd' is still pretty easy, but it seems like 'p4S$\/V0rD' might hold out till the brute forcing...

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Owing is NOT predicated upon a "real" thing, or on "natural law". It is predicated upon what we want, what we agree to, and the "rules" we have created in hopes of getting what we want.
blah blah blah

You are entirely correct in this part. The concept of "owing" something is entirely an invention of our society. However, it's also a requisite to be in our society. If you can't live with the burden of owing somebody what society says is their due, then you are not fit to be in our society.

That doesn't give them the right to do things that purposely break the old system.

Who says they don't have the right to break compatibility? It's their product, they can do as they wish. Not good for customer experience, but it's their choice.

I have a 1997 computer that is still in use.

Herein lies the issue: technologically, you're living in 4th world environments. I mean, c'mon dude, stop trying to keep the world in the stone age of computing. Go out, spend a couple bucks, get a new system. And ffs, stop whining about the obvious consequences of your own choice; deprecation happens in just about any industry.

Fix the bugs, but don't change the file structures.

Some of the bugs were based on the underlying architectures, never mind the file formats. And in some cases, yes the format was bad and really was the cause of the problem.

I didn't say they didn't owe Adobe. What I said is that, for the two cases actually possible (because the guy doesn't have $650), Adobe didn't get anything either way:
- The guy does without Photoshop.
- The guy copies Photoshop.

So, in the hypothetical situation that I hire you, and you work for two weeks and then if I refuse to pay you, it's the same thing. I don't owe you, because you didn't get anything either way:
- I did the work myself
- I got you to do the work

In some simple cases, a console app will simply have its implementation begin in the Main() method, whereas a Winforms project requires the form to be instantiated in Main() and have the implementation elsewhere. So, I would agree with you that it looks like you have a Winforms project on your hands.

First guess would be that your PATH environment variable is screwed up. If you go to Start, right click Computer, select properties, hit the Advanced System Settings link, and then hit the Environment Variables button, you should be able to find the Path. Make sure it's not empty.

When they charge exorbitant prices for software, it causes piracy. $650 is a ridiculous price. They can charge it only because they have an artificial monopoly power created by government. $65 is a more realistic figure, but they want to get more money from businesses and government by demanding a huge price. This forces individuals out of the market, because they can't afford the $650.

I agree, which is why I don't have a copy of Photoshop. Windows is similarly expensive, but it's not as bad when you account for the fact that it comes with a new system. To expound on this, you can get a copy of Vista Home Premium for about $220, or you can get a computer, monitor, printer, for under $400. Sure, it's a cheap one, but it'll probably be fine for the average user.

Why do they need a new version? To FORCE people to upgrade, because they will then change things so the old one won't work anymore. They make you pay just to stay where you are. This is more unjust monopoly power, where Microsoft and the software manufacturers make you pay repeatedly to stay where you were.

Sometimes it's to make you upgrade. Whether it's Photoshop, Visual Studio, Office, or the latest game from Blizzard, their business model is based on you buying their product. Software companies aren't the only ones doing this. Look at car manufacturers. The average car will last well over 10 years, but the average car …

I Have a trick to beat any Brutforce attack(software)

Um, no, the idea of a brute force attack is simply to try all valid combinations until the correct value is reached. Yours won't beat a brute force attack, simply delay it at best.

The main reason for enforcing the namespaces is to not pollute the naming scope and to keep the code better organized.

In C, for example, there are neither classes nor namespaces. This means any function has to have a unique name and you can easily end up with a bunch naming conflicts.

In C++, there are classes, which help alleviate a small bit of the problem (as related operations are grouped together), and there are namespaces as well. The namespaces allow you to group classes in a more logical manner. For instance, variations of a vector class can represent a 2D vector, a 3D vector, or an alternative to an array. Since the names for all 3 of these would conflict, with namespaces we can still call each class vector but have them reside in different naming scopes. C++, however, doesn't strictly enforce a namespace structure, so if you create a class named string and put it in the global scope, then it will have a name conflict with any other class named string in the same scope.

C# makes you put your code in namespaces to avoid global type name conflicts. This doesn't totally eliminate the conflicts though, because you can bring whole namespaces into scope with the using clause. When that happens, you need to refer to the classes by Namespace.ClassName to distinguish between them.

Different framework versions is a possible cause. What did you and your co-worker each use to create the projects?

As to their properties, most of them should not be modifiable.

I think (and hope/pray/etc...) that Hillary's campaign is going downhill. I only saw the first little bit of the Democrat debates last night, but they were already poking hard at her and she wasn't keeping very cool. I missed the part AD is referring to, but it doesn't surprise me at all. And I agree that Obama's lack of reliance on the race issue is something to be lauded.

Of the little bit I saw, Obama did impress me the most. Richardson was a self-promoting joke, and the other two were spouting the word change with very actual platform behind it. As one of the Republican candidates mentioned, "change can be for the good, or it can be for the bad." The Democrats can say they're going to change the country all they want, but they better spell out how they intend to do that. Obama seemed the most willing to put down some details. Again, that's just what I saw in a short clip.

So I just watched part of the debates in NH (which is the first I've really paid any attention to the race), and I must say, I was surprised. I didn't see all of it (obviously, as it's still going on, but I don't care as much about the democrat candidates), but what little I did see was rather enlightening. As I mentioned before, I voted in this poll for Ron Paul, but after seeing him in action tonight, I was rather disappointed. If I could, I'd change my vote to either Guliani or Huckabee, as I thought they addressed the issues best. As for the Democrat candidates, if they weren't using the word "change" in every sentence, I might be able to figure out if they're saying anything of value or not...

Most governments keep tab of their underlings already in secret, why not make it official and be honest about it!

Because I don't want my information that accessable. I don't want my parents to have online access to their records either. With the rising sophistication of phishing attacks and other methods of stealing data over the Internet, it's just plain dumb to put such sensitive personal information, especially for the entire country, on the publicly accessible Internet.

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9840073-7.html?tag=nefd.lede She makes a good point (I've only r4ead the title). I really haven't been following the American election at all. What are they all planning? "Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others?"

So, the title ("Clinton: Time to digitize all American medial records") immediately reinforced my poor opinion of the her platform. And yes, it does sound like they're playing to every little niche because, in reality, they are. That's how they maximize votes.

The reason this article title caused my impression of her platform to worsen is that it is still simply unrealistic. Yes, it would be quite beneficial for all of the records to be electronic - but only to the point where it becomes costly. How would it become costly? Well, aside from any facilities that don't have the facilities already in place, there's the issue of keeping track of the data. The UK has had problems with this in the past; the idea that my personal files are so easily compromised really freaks me out. As Clinton points out:

"We go online to buy things from Mongolia, we go online to do our banking, but we can't go online in a secure, encrypted, confidential way to get access to our medical records," she lamented.

Which is true, but it's not the same. We get to choose whether to buy stuff on line. At that point, we choose what information we give to the other company. Presumably, that small bit …

i just want 2 know that is it possible to make web applications using vb.net 2005 if yes then how? According 2 my knowledge for making web applications we must create our application in asp.net, we cann't make it in vb.net .

just give me some tips i just want to clear my confusion that whether we are able to make our web applications in vb.net or no.

Regards
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If you mean using VB 2005 Express, then no you can't make a website (but you can get the Visual Web Developer Express). If you mean in general, then it the answer is "kinda". You can make a web site, which uses ASP.NET to render the front end, but all the logic (e.g. database interaction, binding data to controls, handling transitions between pages) can be done in VB.NET.

- Making a copy is different in one way from stealing a copy from a dealer. When a shoplifter steals a copy of a CD from a dealer, the dealer is out the money he paid the manufacturer for the CD. It is a real monetary loss. But if someone copies the same CD for personal use, nobody has directly lost any money.

This is one of the arguments that bugs me the most. While I can understand the logic you're using, it's still inaccurate. I'll use Photoshop as my example. How many people are honestly willing to spend $650USD so they can dink around with photos on 4chan, or otherwise use the software for a hobby? And yet, how many people acquire a disc or a disc image with which to install and use the software? Adobe's getting none of the payback they deserve for all these users. And while you may also argue that "they're just losing the costs of the install disc and box" you're wrong. They make an investment of thousands (if not millions) of dollars in labor to get a new version out the door. If they aren't able to get back and satisfactory profit from that investment, then they're not going to continue. Ditto with Microsoft. The software industry probably loses billions in profit because of piracy (of course, that does add up quickly with suites costing up to $10k or more). Fortunately, they've so far been profitable enough to continue making - and …

I put Ron Paul in this poll, but only because I disagree the least with what I've heard about him. Some of the candidates I have more issues with, others I haven't heard enough about.

>>Afterall, Red Hat makes about $330 million per year
If they give their software away for nothing then how can they make any money? They have to be selling $330 million worth of something. What that shows is that it is not the open source programs that make money but the spin-offs that are sold for $$$. And the assertion that YOU CAN MAKE MONEY ON OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE. is false. It's not the open source that makes money -- if it was then it wouldn't be open source now would it :) You can't have it both ways -- you can given something away for free and get $$$ for it too.

Getting into technicalities, AFAIK the GPL and most open source licenses don't prohibit selling the software. And Red Hat seems to do well enough selling the support service (though, I don't know how much they've contributed to the software either - the cost of all that development (which in this case was largely mitigated by existing GPL projects) may also be prohibitive to some companies).

>If we didn't get paid for our work then there would be no software for you and others to steal.

How many times do I have to reiterate this? Are people just plain stupid? YOU CAN MAKE MONEY ON OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE.

AFAICT, nobody has said otherwise. And they'd be stupid if they did. Afterall, Red Hat makes about $330 million per year (according to google finance). But that's about 60% of what VMware makes, or 5% of what Google makes, or 1.5% of what Cisco makes, or 0.8% of what MSFT makes (all of these based on 2006 or 2007 Gross Profit values according to Google). Which companies do you think pay better? Which company would you rather work for? Which company would you rather own? And yeah, I know you'll say Red Hat, if only because you're an idealist.

On a similar, I probably wouldn't be in software if I wasn't getting the same opportunities and I doubt I'm the only one. You know how many people at my school wanted desperately to work for Red Hat? 0, so far as I know. Google? about 150 (e.g. the whole department). Amazon? probably again about 30 of them. Microsoft? Probably about 40. VMware, Cisco, etc...? Probably around a dozen each.

Now, take away all the closed source software that we have today and have had for the past couple decades, and where are we left? Probably with something quite reminiscent of *nix systems in the 80s. They …

Someone give me one reason why I shouldn't "pirate" software? Why should I let corporations control my activities and my life?

So, do you "pirate" from the corporation that makes your clothes? Or the one that sells your clothes? How about the one that owns the gas station at the corner? How about the one that makes the car you drive, or the bus or the subway? Or the one that builds the house/apartment you live in? You've already let all these corporations "control" your activities and life. Why is it suddenly OK to pirate from a commercial (open or closed-source) software company?

Piracy being one of the best trollbait topics available for discussion, I may as well chip in. :icon_twisted:

On the one hand, I'll also agree that a lot of it is due to limited business models otherwise. I'll admit that I've done it with various media before (lots of anime, and my only defense is that I would never have ended up buying the merchandise had I not pirated it first, and also some music which I haven't been able to find otherwise - yes, even iTunes store (and similar) are severely lacking).

On the other hand, I totally agree that it is theft, and as such, a form of crime. Should a person be sued for $500 per song shared on a P2P network? Perhaps that's overkill, but the perpetrator is still guilty of theft. Furthermore, the justification of "I wouldn't use it otherwise" has absolutely no grounds to stand on. If you wouldn't use it otherwise, don't use it now. If you're using it now, then you can no longer make the claim as it has been invalidated by your actions. There's a lot of products that are sold to people who "would not have bought it" - hell, that's what the whole marketing industry is about.

Vastly oversimplified answer: GDP.

Installing IIS should be fine. The VS webserver will allow to to run an ASP.NET website from your local machine, but only when you start it through VS. When you debug a website this way, VS fires up the webdev.webserver.exe and attaches the debugger to it.

If you wanted to host your website from a machine, you need IIS. To create this website, you would create an IIS hosted website in VS, work on it, and then hit run or debug. When you hit debug this way, VS attaches the debugger to IIS and IIS is what actually serves the site.

So, having IIS should not be a problem. And as unhelpful as it sounds, I can say that it "works on my machine."

hm... I don't see any reason why that wouldn't work. As much as I hate the idea, have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling .NET and VS?

Any recent (past hundred years or so) incidents you've got in mind?

I was mainly referring to the fact that Islam is not the only religion that's ever been blamed for grievous crimes. But I suppose we should digress, as AD suggested.

Keeping the discussion on a religious note though, I do appreciate the OP putting atheism as an option. There are some atheists who are worse about forcing their beliefs on people than most evangelists of whatever religion... they're like GNU zealots or something, just with a different goal... :icon_twisted:

I have a pretty good idea, but I can't remember what the official date is... :P

I hope it's safe to say "first quarter of 2008"

Unfortunately, the basis of a good encryption is that anyone who doesn't have the key can't open the file. In this case, the lock has forgotten which key is correct, which means it will assume that any key given is incorrect. It looks like you're out of luck.

Didn't they say they were gonna stop selling XP? Or have they not done that yet?

While most manufacturers are moving to Vista, I believe XP will still be supported for a while to come. Afterall, there will be an SP3 that comes out I think when Vista SP1 launches. XP will probably stick around till the system after Vista is released.

Do you have XP Pro? - Home doesnt have IIS so theres some fiddling required. Also you must be logged in as an administrator and be a member of the Debuggers group and have opened the necessary ports in your firewall

VS ships with it's own web server so that developers can test their websites without having IIS installed on the local machine :icon_wink:

@choudhuryshouvi: since this happens for web apps and winforms apps, it almost sounds like your .NET runtime is messing up. Is it possible for you to post your web app, and I can try running it on my machine?

Violence committed in the name of a religion. I have pretty well had it with this islamic crap.

Not that the Muslims are the only one's who've ever done that...

Try using an ImageButton instead of a Hyperlink and set the PostBackUrl instead of using onClick="..."

seredipity, I'm pretty sure you mean Vista SP1.

That said, most any computer store that sells a decent amount of software should still carry XP. Heck, even the MSFT company store still has a lot of it... :icon_wink:

Welcome to the Internet(TM) where Trolls(TM) run rampant on open-topic forums.

I voted for all of them because, while a small amount may be bearable, all of them in sufficient proportions (which for me is perhaps a bit little) start to get under my skin...

Did you read the thread?
Ive been sayng that for the the last few pages!

I did read the thread. You've all been going on about the power supply. I'm talking about form factor in general. And for the record, this thread is still only one page.

some newer cd drive with not read all type of cd/dvd. if the cd drive state cdr+- it will read all type but if it state cdr- it will not read the + types. check on the fron of the drive or on the top

Unless some company went really stupid in the last couple weeks, there's never been a + for CDs.

I don't know about HPs, but I know Dells (in addition to having the bare minimum hardware) are a huge pain in the butt to swap components in and out of.

Chuck Norris.:twisted:

Chuck Norris doesn't need to hack passwords... he just brute forces them with a roundhouse kick to the face!

Sorry, couldn't resist :D