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Yes, I am aware of NT because I've used it since it was in beta. I didn't include it because it was not marketed toward consumers. It was much more of a workstation and server OS while 95 and 98 were the consumer versions.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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WinBuzzer wrote: I am currently writing this article on Microsoft Word on a Windows PC. I could pause my writing now, head to the coffee shop, and finish this piece on my Android smartphone while sipping a latte. ... Then forget my phone in the coffee shop, thereby giving full access to all of my company's documents to whoever picks it up.
Does anyone even think, when they propose stupid ideas like this?
It used to be that you had to infiltrate a building, to steal information.
Networks made it a little easier, because you didn't have to be in the building.
But now all you have to do is hit someone over the head with a baseball bat and take his phone, so not only is all the company's information ridiculously insecure, but almost every employee has become a target for violent criminals.
Here's a tip: If you think of a "COOL!" feature, run it past a few pragmatists, before you rush off and implement it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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We are excited to announce the preview of Azure Dedicated Host, a new Azure service that enables you to run your organization’s Linux and Windows virtual machines on single-tenant physical servers You know, like all the hosting companies already offer
I leave it to you to decide how you feel about the hourly pricing. (all they seem to have up at the moment)
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Meet the classified artificial brain being developed by US intelligence programs "This is the voice of world control. I bring you peace. It may be the peace of plenty and content or the peace of unburied death."
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I don't remember who told it but:
Quote: The biggest danger for us is that we gain in knowledge much faster than we gain in wisdom
What can go wrong?
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Whether you need advice tomorrow or 10 years from now, keep these tips in mind. So you can welcome our future overlords when it's needed
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What's your experience?
(Very obscure reference to a post from long ago.)
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Ah, we're all robots here, so I have no clue
TTFN - Kent
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Do robots debate what it's like to work with a human?
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What's most remarkable about the article is that Frederik Pohl, Isaac Asimov, and others obviously had far greater understanding of the subject seventy years ago that the article writer has today.
But I suppose you've got to let all the know-nothing kiddies have their mindless-social-media-style say, eh?
Let's start a twitter hashtag on it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Oh, let's not.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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On his continuing quest for productivity and performance in the Java language, Brian Goetz, Java language architect at Oracle, along with Alex Buckley, specification lead for the Java language and Java Virtual Machine at Oracle, proposed a set of hyphenated keywords to evolve a mature language in which adding new features can be a challenge with the current set of keywords as defined in the Java SE 12 Java Language Specification. Or is that an 'em-dash'?
"Examples of proposed hyphenated classic keywords would include: non-final, break-with, and value-class. Examples of proposed hyphenated contextual keywords would include: non-null, read-only, and eventually-true." I need to figure out how I can work 'eventually-true' into my next program. It's so aspirational.
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You forgot, this-is-not-a-loop
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Or is that an 'em-dash'? Um, no, they're hyphens[^].
But what is the frugging point?
If I see a hyphen in a statement, I will automatically think that the value of one variable is being subtracted from the value of another, and will be looking for where the result is to be stored.
Talk about utterly useless and confusing "improvements"!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Especially since int res=var1-var2; is valid Java.
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Joe Woodbury wrote: Especially since int res=var1-var2; is valid Java. The problem couldn't be demonstrated more clearly.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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That has to be one of the more idiotic ideas I have read of in a very long time.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Oracle's not managing the language well, IMO.
TTFN - Kent
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They are if they want it to die.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Just over 15 years after the first reported incident of phishing, new research suggests tech companies could be doing more to protect users from the threat of scams. However, greater awareness of the issue is also needed among individuals and organizations. Because they haven't figured out how to remotely slap users' hands?
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Well, the way to train users not to open malicious e-mails is by labelling 80% of them as SPAM.
Then, if they open one of the other 20%, because they trust that you are looking after them, it's their fault for getting infected, not yours.
You want to stop e-mail scams?
0. Set the default option for opening e-mails to plain text.
1. PUT UP A F***ING BIG NOTICE ON EVERY WALL, telling people to not open e-mails that they're not expecting.
There you go: 99% of the hacking problems solved, before they even begin.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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But the email said I had won a holiday!
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Visual Studio receives over 500 feature suggestions from customers every month on the Developer Community website. Closed, as it is not a new icon request
Run on, running joke, run on (yes, I'm ashamed)
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Want to use the GNOME or KDE Linux desktops on your virtual reality headset? A new open-source project aims to let you play games and use your Linux desktop with your VR head-mounted display. Experience the console just like you were living in it!
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