The only way I know of to code a Windows app without using the Windows API is using Java.
You may not be using the Windows API directly, but it's not like Sun could do everything they do without it.
Uh, that book documents NT kernal internals. It's not public and it's not guaranteed to be the same from release to release. Any function call that starts with a 'Zw' is "don't fucking touch it unless you really know what you're doing."
(And not incidentally: we don't need to "tell" people what they "need" to drive. We can tax them based on the size and/or fuel-efficiency of their vehicle, and, like true conservatives, we'll "let the market work.")
Well, we tried that (see Corporate Average Fuel Economy) and the resulting law, written as it was by special interests, put us in the boat we're in today regarding SUVs.
Before you run off and blame "The Big 3" as the worst offenders in that group of special interests, make sure you check out the totally byzantine structure of fleets that the unions demanded...
You are missing the point -- the ANSI standard temperature for fresh hot coffee is 170-205 degrees F. That is hot enough to cause 3rd degree burns. So the expectation is that people who have actually consumed coffee at least once in their life will understand that it is fucking hot and not put a deformable cup full of it between their legs next to their most sensitive of parts. Ergo, Stella herself is fully liable for her actions.
Instead what happens is that people who in normal life understand that coffee and tea are fucking hot change into putty when placed in the jury box. When faced with a little old lady who has clearly suffered they believe that it is their responsibility to apply some cold, hard cash so as to lessen her suffering.
Is that $24 billion in direct costs or direct and indirect costs?
Indirect costs would be things like "defensive medicine" in which the doctor orders a several hundred (or thousand) dollar test that there's a 99% chance you don't need just so he can cover his ass.
McDonald's had reports of injuries before this event; they even knew it was being served too hot to be consumed. McD's refuised to settle, and eventually lost to the tune of $500,000 - then they settled.
The root cause behind McDonald's loss was a poor legal strategy and the stupidity of the jury. McD put boring experts on the stand that put the jury to sleep. When the jury was awake they heard phrases like "statistically insignificant" and thought someone was insulting poor Stella Liebeck.
FWIW, there have been other cases similar to the McD case like McMahon vs. Bunn-O-Matic that have found for the defendants because of information like this:
little digging on our own part turned up ANSI/AHAM CM-1-1986, which the American National Standards Institute adopted for home coffee makers. Standard 5.2.1 provides:
On completion of the brewing cycle and within a 2 minute interval, the beverage temperature in the dispensing vessel of the coffee maker while stirring should be between the limits of 170 degrees F and 205 degrees F (77 degrees C and 96 degrees C).
The upper finished brew temperature limit assures that the coffee does not reach the boiling point which can affect the taste and aroma. The lower temperature limit assures generally acceptable drinking temperature when pouring into a cold cup, adding cream, sugar and spoon.
Cheyenne Mountain was designed that way. Unfortunately nobody took into account Moore's Law and so now the place is colder than a witch's tit in a brass bra...
In addition, milk contains lactose, which is a sugar, and most people get too much sugar as it is.
Unless you buy the lactose-free stuff. Lactose-free cheese and ice cream are also readily available.
So, if given the choice, I'd be much more open to listen to what an engineer has to say about global warming than Leonardo DiCaprio. From all the accounts I've read, Leonardo DiCaprio is actually an intelligent person.
"DiCaprio's no idiot," says one insider. "His questions about the M1
and M2 money supply really impressed the president, and when he
floated a proposal about allowing offshore hedge funds to manage
Social Security, Clinton's ears really perked up. They were smart
questions, tough questions -- not the kind of questions you'd expect
from Barbara Walters."
Other insiders agree. "DiCaprio knows more about currency fluctuations
than Cokie Roberts, Diane Sawyer and Sam Donaldson rolled into one,"
says one source at ABC. "He's not just another pretty face."
The latest CR mentions that they found no significant improvement in "boutique" chicken vs. "factory" chicken when it comes to the harmful bacteria present...
As of.NET 2.0, ngen (.NET assemblies to native code) is actually useful. For it to be useful under Java Sun would have to figure out some way to create an assembly cache that could be used by all installed versions of Java -- something I don't see happening anytime soon.
Expansion joints?;)
Seriously, you wouldn't do it as one long tunnel. But you could set up a series of connected tunnels, where each tunnel terminates at some
point-of-interest between NYC and LA (Whodathunk that people might want to go someplace besides those two cities.)
Don't forget that two of the most important formats, WMA and WMV are controlled by a corporation that has absolutely no interest in licensing them for Linux.
I must have imagined reading this in Embedded Linux Journal:
So how do you get Windows Media and DVD CCA-licensed DVD software on a Linux box? Simple--be an embedded systems vendor. Microsoft claims not to have seen any demand for Windows Media on desktop Linux boxes, but the Windows Media group at Microsoft is only too happy to strike a deal with the embedded Linux market. They package their library for Linux as a self-extracting.EXE file with documentation in Windows Help format, but it works. linked
He's still defended as a hero by neocons.
What neocons? Nixon's party was the Republican party but many of his actions were not those of a conservative -- wage and price caps, EPA as a cabinet level post, creation of HMOs.
Well if you can't have your cake and eat it too, then I expect next time you come up on a bicyclist on a 1 lane road with a double yellow line, you won't feel compelled to pass him, you will just slow down to 15-20 mph and politely follow...
I'll gladly do it with a shit-eating grin on my face the whole time -- if he/she is obstructing traffic (i.e. 10mph under posted limit and/or builds up 5 or more following vehicles) he/she is in for a ticket.
A-fucking-men! The part that annoys me is the potential liability hazard. Some ass-hat "pedestrian with wheels" could zoom into the intersection as I'm making a right turn and wind up under my wheels. If I'm lucky his survivors will get my house. If I'm unlucky they'll get my house and I'll be in prison for vehicular manslaughter.
BUT -- and here is where it gets stupid for real-world conditions -- that braking scenario assumes that you must stop within that two-second gap. Think about this: the only way that would matter is if there is an immobile object two seconds ahead of you. You're driving along, then mysteriously, 315 feet in front of you, something is stopped dead.
This sounds mysteriously like what happened to me last week. Stopped on the 101 northbound near the traffic jam that always materializes near the newly named "University of Phoenix Stadium". Minding my own business and fiddling with the knobs on my radio when all of a sudden -- WHAM!!!!! I was the front car in a four car accident. Dodge Dakota rear-ended a BMW 325, which rear ended a Nissan Maxima, which rear-ended me.
No damage to my car, but I feel for the Dakota owner -- it'll be a close call on whether or not he totaled the Bimmer. And given the criminally low insurance minimums in this state, his insurance company likely won't cover everything which opens the guy up to civil litigation.
I get a lot of time to ponder traffic on the I-10 eastbound and here's my take on a solution:
1) Make interstates tollways through urban areas (to keep people off the interstate for a 2 mile trip)
2) Pass/enforce laws that keep big rigs out of the leftmost lanes
3) Dynamic speed limits. Urban freeways need to be monitored and have the speed limit dynamically adjusted to even out traffic flow. Enforcement of this is the only way I can get onboard with photo radar.
Throw into the mix all the money the drug companies have given to politicians to help maintain the status quo and you begin to see how difficult it is to make changes.
You think that's bad? Check out this industry. Their totals make contributions from PHARMA look like fucking chump change. $93 million in 2006 compared to $15 million. $183 million in 2004 compared to $18 million. Hell, look at the top ten list PHARMA is #10 in 2006 and #16 in 2004.
How about this -- how about we reduce the powers of Congress by not giving them so damn much money to spend. That, and not give the government so much power over us. Then, when the job turns out to be more like mayor of a small town we'll actually get some people in the job that aren't out to grease the skids for their eventual lucrative career as a lobbyist...
I was hoping it was going to be "Harry Potter and the Balance of Earth" and that it would come bundled with a copy of "An Inconvenient Truth" and some moon sapphires...
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The only way I know of to code a Windows app without using the Windows API is using Java. You may not be using the Windows API directly, but it's not like Sun could do everything they do without it.
Uh, that book documents NT kernal internals. It's not public and it's not guaranteed to be the same from release to release.
Any function call that starts with a 'Zw' is "don't fucking touch it unless you really know what you're doing."
(And not incidentally: we don't need to "tell" people what they "need" to drive. We can tax them based on the size and/or fuel-efficiency of their vehicle, and, like true conservatives, we'll "let the market work.")
Well, we tried that (see Corporate Average Fuel Economy) and the resulting law, written as it was by special interests, put us in the boat we're in today regarding SUVs.
Before you run off and blame "The Big 3" as the worst offenders in that group of special interests, make sure you check out the totally byzantine structure of fleets that the unions demanded...
You are missing the point -- the ANSI standard temperature for fresh hot coffee is 170-205 degrees F. That is hot enough to cause 3rd degree burns. So the expectation is that people who have actually consumed coffee at least once in their life will understand that it is fucking hot and not put a deformable cup full of it between their legs next to their most sensitive of parts. Ergo, Stella herself is fully liable for her actions.
Instead what happens is that people who in normal life understand that coffee and tea are fucking hot change into putty when placed in the jury box. When faced with a little old lady who has clearly suffered they believe that it is their responsibility to apply some cold, hard cash so as to lessen her suffering.
Is that $24 billion in direct costs or direct and indirect costs? Indirect costs would be things like "defensive medicine" in which the doctor orders a several hundred (or thousand) dollar test that there's a 99% chance you don't need just so he can cover his ass.
The root cause behind McDonald's loss was a poor legal strategy and the stupidity of the jury. McD put boring experts on the stand that put the jury to sleep. When the jury was awake they heard phrases like "statistically insignificant" and thought someone was insulting poor Stella Liebeck.
FWIW, there have been other cases similar to the McD case like McMahon vs. Bunn-O-Matic that have found for the defendants because of information like this:
(emphasis mine)
Cheyenne Mountain was designed that way. Unfortunately nobody took into account Moore's Law and so now the place is colder than a witch's tit in a brass bra...
In addition, milk contains lactose, which is a sugar, and most people get too much sugar as it is. Unless you buy the lactose-free stuff. Lactose-free cheese and ice cream are also readily available.
I'm annoyed at that -- I once played a farmer in a school play and I never got to testify to congress...
http://home.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0
The latest CR mentions that they found no significant improvement in "boutique" chicken vs. "factory" chicken when it comes to the harmful bacteria present...
Glad to know I wasn't the only one who thought of that same thing when I read the PP
As of .NET 2.0, ngen (.NET assemblies to native code) is actually useful. For it to be useful under Java Sun would have to figure out some way to create an assembly cache that could be used by all installed versions of Java -- something I don't see happening anytime soon.
Expansion joints? ;)
Seriously, you wouldn't do it as one long tunnel. But you could set up a series of connected tunnels, where each tunnel terminates at some
point-of-interest between NYC and LA (Whodathunk that people might want to go someplace besides those two cities.)
I must have imagined reading this in Embedded Linux Journal: So how do you get Windows Media and DVD CCA-licensed DVD software on a Linux box? Simple--be an embedded systems vendor. Microsoft claims not to have seen any demand for Windows Media on desktop Linux boxes, but the Windows Media group at Microsoft is only too happy to strike a deal with the embedded Linux market. They package their library for Linux as a self-extracting
He's still defended as a hero by neocons. What neocons? Nixon's party was the Republican party but many of his actions were not those of a conservative -- wage and price caps, EPA as a cabinet level post, creation of HMOs.
In fact the average inflation adjusted price over the last 33 years is about double the 1998 price. How does that work? 1998 was only 8 years ago...
Well if you can't have your cake and eat it too, then I expect next time you come up on a bicyclist on a 1 lane road with a double yellow line, you won't feel compelled to pass him, you will just slow down to 15-20 mph and politely follow... I'll gladly do it with a shit-eating grin on my face the whole time -- if he/she is obstructing traffic (i.e. 10mph under posted limit and/or builds up 5 or more following vehicles) he/she is in for a ticket.
A-fucking-men! The part that annoys me is the potential liability hazard. Some ass-hat "pedestrian with wheels" could zoom into the intersection as I'm making a right turn and wind up under my wheels. If I'm lucky his survivors will get my house. If I'm unlucky they'll get my house and I'll be in prison for vehicular manslaughter.
If we could convince the US government that it was really A-Q and not the oil companies I'm sure we could get the problem licked in no time!
BUT -- and here is where it gets stupid for real-world conditions -- that braking scenario assumes that you must stop within that two-second gap. Think about this: the only way that would matter is if there is an immobile object two seconds ahead of you. You're driving along, then mysteriously, 315 feet in front of you, something is stopped dead. This sounds mysteriously like what happened to me last week. Stopped on the 101 northbound near the traffic jam that always materializes near the newly named "University of Phoenix Stadium". Minding my own business and fiddling with the knobs on my radio when all of a sudden -- WHAM!!!!! I was the front car in a four car accident. Dodge Dakota rear-ended a BMW 325, which rear ended a Nissan Maxima, which rear-ended me. No damage to my car, but I feel for the Dakota owner -- it'll be a close call on whether or not he totaled the Bimmer. And given the criminally low insurance minimums in this state, his insurance company likely won't cover everything which opens the guy up to civil litigation. I get a lot of time to ponder traffic on the I-10 eastbound and here's my take on a solution: 1) Make interstates tollways through urban areas (to keep people off the interstate for a 2 mile trip) 2) Pass/enforce laws that keep big rigs out of the leftmost lanes 3) Dynamic speed limits. Urban freeways need to be monitored and have the speed limit dynamically adjusted to even out traffic flow. Enforcement of this is the only way I can get onboard with photo radar.
America has had Imperial Presidencies since Lincoln.
Throw into the mix all the money the drug companies have given to politicians to help maintain the status quo and you begin to see how difficult it is to make changes.
You think that's bad? Check out this industry. Their totals make
contributions from PHARMA look like fucking chump change. $93 million in 2006 compared to $15 million. $183 million in 2004 compared to $18 million.
Hell, look at the top ten list PHARMA is #10 in 2006 and #16 in 2004.
How about this -- how about we reduce the powers of Congress by not giving them so damn much money to spend. That, and not give the government so much power over us. Then, when the job turns out to be more like mayor of a small town we'll actually get some people in the job that aren't out to grease the skids for their eventual lucrative career as a lobbyist...
I was hoping it was going to be "Harry Potter and the Balance of Earth" and that it would come bundled with a copy
of "An Inconvenient Truth" and some moon sapphires...