They are not laughing too much because they themselves are at risk of this sort of thing as well. What's the difference between a C++ programmer and God? God knows he's not a C++ programmer : anon

greghop wrote: technology is neutral, it's people that pull triggers or in other words, technology is a mean to an end. What about freedom and human rights to privacy ? Do you remember that computing, mini-computing and now micro-computing were meant to free people from hard tasks? And now we are to leave in big brother land. This really sound like a bad joke. There is direct link with "terror" and RFID. RFID will be causing terror in our lives if it really does what it's supposed to do. RSS feed

peterchen wrote: recently Recently?? :omg: Stephane has been doing this since he joined CP... ;P You probably just weren't paying attention...and he's had a few name changes since then. :) youd ebtter bnot be taki8ng agvantage o f my mental abilites!1 -David Wulff one night over MSN while totally plastered

Erik Funkenbusch wrote: I'm pretty sure MS will rethink this decision Of course not. Watch those webcasts[^]. The new OS and devices are enabling them. And they keep telling that those OS and devices are enabling us first. This is highly risked though. Before their new stuff reaches critical mass, a few years might be spent waiting for consumers to get convinced of upgrading to the new $costly$ software assurance. Erik Funkenbusch wrote: you must live in a different world than I do Probably, when I talk about SLA, I talk about what a former company I have worked for, a major web hosting company (read: we were hosting the top 5 e-businesses in France). In addition, internet users is used to get everything for free. Now that's the problem. Taking advantage of InternetExplorer to steal user's name and password. Taking advantage of InternetExplorer to steal user's clipboard.

You may hate them, but you can't deny that the likes of Sun, IBM and Apple would do exactly the same if they were in a position to. Certainly, after sampling the product "quality" and "support" of IBM and Sun I'll take MS any day. Anna :rose: Homepage | My life in tears "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work. Trouble with resource IDs? Try the Resource ID Organiser Visual C++ Add-In

This is good and bad news. Good, I am fed up with the way Windows and controls are drawn. If all of this is changed, it also means that the CLR Winforms will also drastically change since today it hardcodes WIN32 plumbing. The OS will have to come with another .NET major run-time. Bad, applications will have to be written for that OS, and won't work on others. If that is true, don't expect corporate people to switch to it. There could be an emulator sold along, but... Longhorn is not an OS, it's a whole new PC : - new and breaking hardware (NGSCB chip, new display cards, ...) - new and breaking OS - new and breaking .NET run-time - new and breaking compilers and dev tools - new and breaking apps

Sigh! Another born in B.C. Canda software company taken away from us. We'll their pricing can't get any higher, can it? ------------

Yeah, the target page is hosted by my very site. I have no real trouble giving an address to send the emails to.

It's nice to see someone with a brain.

BTW, how come everytime I try to access your web page, I get a forbidden access warning? Or is it only for those select few Erica worshippers? :confused:;P Nick Seng (the programmer formerly known as Notorious SMC) God, I pity me! - Phoncible P. Bone

Stephane Rodriguez. wrote: I don't know if this gets to propagate through Europe IIIRC the EU decision is due Sept 1st "Der Geist des Kriegers ist erwacht / Ich hab die Macht" StS sighist | Agile Programming | doxygen

:( cheers, Chris Maunder

This is interesting stuff.

Hey it's the attitude that makes a person hot, not how they look!:cool: Notorious SMC The difference between the almost-right word & the right word is a really large matter - it's the difference between the lightning bug and the Lightning Mark Twain Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please Mark Twain

I am subscribed to it since day one. But quite honestly, I think I am gonna quit it altogether as I tend to think that as a "customer" I don't have to learn the intrinsics of an engine whose implementation is going to change anyway. For any current problem, the work around is to write a dll and use a P/Invoke native call to bypass the CLR itself. It only takes an F-grade know-how to do so. I swallow a small raisin, leaving away all this crap.

G. Steudtel wrote: BASIC has garbage collection. WHAT ??? :eek: Basic doesn't have pointers, it simply cannot create memory in a way that it can leak. Christian I have drunk the cool-aid and found it wan and bitter. - Chris Maunder

Stephane Rodriguez. wrote: --> For those who wouldn't get it, the guy says it's now impossible to find the .NET framework 1.0, After about 10 seconds of navigation, I got to this link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D7158DEE-A83F-4E21-B05A-009D06457787&displaylang=en[^] Stephane Rodriguez. wrote: MS is aggressively ensuring we upgrade to VS.NET 2003. (VS.NET 2002 exclusively uses .NET 1.0, and MS made sure with VS.NET 2003 that VS.NET 2003 would purposedly only be able to use .NET 1.1). VS.NET 2003 can target 1.0 or 1.1 (it defaults to 1.1, however) -- Russell Morris "Have you gone mad Frink? Put down that science pole!"

Stephane Rodriguez. wrote: When you see the immediate benefits of these tools for those wildly posting issues, it's too bad we don't clearly show permanent links to these tools in the forum. Quite cheap an improvement. Interesting thought, maybe you should suggest this to Chris in the Suggestions forum.... Stephane Rodriguez. wrote: So, may be bye bye C# forum and good morning ASP.NET forum! Not sure how much of a UI designer you are for Win32, however if you haven't done much web stuff you will soon hate the limitations. -Nick Parker

I think the reason behind the required registration in order to view the source code was due to a problem with people running spiders which would try to download everything off the website, and as a result would load the server and make access to the website slower for other users. With the registration required to access downloads it would allow Chris to easily disable the offending account. There were problems with banning users by an IP address, etc.

Damn, some of the best names in the industry at the moment. Looks like I'm going to have to get a RSS reader - if only they all weren't so damn crap. Michael 'War is at best barbarism...Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.' - General William Sherman, 1879