The scope thing is because the proposed standard went back and forth on that several times. Microsoft happened to base VC++ on a pre-final version of the standard that said the scope is not limited to the for loop.
For (no pun intended) any C++ code I write that I'm not sure will only be used on systems that follow the final standard, I use this little trick I found on usenet:
#define for if(false);else for
That makes for loops behave like the standard says, regardless of what scope rules the compiler follows.
Yeah, I know Firewire 800 is way faster than USB2, and Firewire 400 (which is what most people will be using for quite a while, since there aren't many Firewire 800 peripherals) is slightly faster in real life (USB2 is theoretically faster than Firewire 400, but the benchmarks I've seen have Firewire actually getting a little more out of things like disks), and that Firewire's isosychronous ability and latency guarentees is essential for some applications.
However, when I go down to stores like Best Buy or Circuit City I see a busload (pun intended!) of USB2 hard drives and CD and DVD readers and writers, and just the occasional Firewire drive.
For those of us who like to buy the small things locally instead of mail order, and don't live in one of the areas where there is a nearby Apple dealer...we need USB2.
The reason that PowerPC processors have remained at lower clock speeds than Intel chips is because they can get the same amount of work done, if not more, in less clock cycles than it takes for an Intel chip
No...the reason they have remained at lower clock speeds is because Motorola can't make them go at 3 GHz. If Motorola could produce a 3 GHz PPC, they would.
Well, I have an UltimateTV, not a Tivo, but same idea. Besides using it to watch the Superbowl commercials, it is also good for the game itself. The time it takes them to start one play after the end of the last play is about the length of a commercial, so the skip-30-seconds button works great.
I've read a good explanation for what they are doing. Gates is no dummy. In fact, he's one of the brightest businessmen around. He has first hand experience how rapidly technology can change, and is very aware that almost of Microsoft is built on technology that didn't even exist 10 years before Microsoft started.
He is quite aware that things will continue to change, and everything that is important to Microsoft now might be just a small technology niche in ten years, and he has no intention of letting Microsoft go the way of, say, Data General or Digital. That's why Microsoft is trying to get involved in pretty much everything they can involving computers--cell phones, game consoles, PDAs, entertainment centers, servers, embedded systems, online services, streaming media. The only way to be sure that they remain successful is to try to get in early in everything.
In other words, Microsoft intends to be the next Microsoft.
As much as I don't like Sprint, it's not their fault that people aren't changing the default password
How are people supposed to change a password that they don't even know exists? If you install on Windows using the install CD from Sprint, the existence of that password is hidden. The install program deals with configuring the modem.
Note that if you put the modem into bridging mode, you don't have this problem. Unfortunately, most people probably leave it in routing mode, because the modem then handles PPPoE and provides access to your computer via DHCP and NAT.
If you have PPPoE software on your OS, you can put the modem in bridging mode, and then it won't have an IP address, and so won't be remotely administratable from the WAN side. (It still takes 192.168.1.1 on the LAN side, so you can still administrate locally).
Surprisingly (at least, I was surprised...I had expected Sprint to be one of those providers that doesn't tell you much), on Sprint's support site, they have detailed instructions for switching to bridging mode, both for people with dynamic IP and those with static IP. (Look under the section on configuring for use with game consoles).
I quickly found this problem on my Sprint DSL, and checked a few other addresses "near" mine to see if I had just overlooked something during setup where I was supposed to change the password, and found that most modems were wide open. I informated Sprint, and here was their response:
Thank you for your recent e-mail. I appreciate the opportunity to address your inquiry.
You have reached local password reset only. Please contact your local telephone company for further assistance.
We appreciate your business. If we can be of further assistance concerning your Sprint service, please visit us at http://www.sprint.com, or you may email us at customer.servicenet@mail.sprint.com.
Aside from the total lack of security by default, and their insistance on routing everything from the Seattle area through Fort Worth, which is 100ms away on Sprintlink, they have been pretty good.:-/
And as far as you or the RIAA or anyone else knows, John Doe (from the article) hasn't either
So what we need is a procedure to figure out if he did break the law. Oh, wait...we have such a procedure. It's called a lawsuit. Oops...to sue someone, you have to at some point know their name.
Sounds like RMS's idea to tax hardware to pay for free software development.
A tax on something to pay for copying is a good idea if it includes a license for that copying. That is, we pay our small tax on ISP access, or sound cards, or speakers, or something, and in exchange, we get unlimited copying rights.
Serial ATA is just slightly under twice as fast as Firewire2, and that is to each drive, whereas that speed is shared among all drives with Firewire.
However, that is not the most important reason that Serial ATA is better than Firewire for replacing ATA: Serial ATA is compatible with ATA as far as the software is concerned. A Serial ATA controller looks like a regular ATA controller. NO software changes are required in the OS. To go to Firewire, you need to get support in your BIOS for booting, and your OS. Quick, without looking, which Firewire controllers work in Linux? All Serial ATA controllers do.
Anything where I really need privacy (grabbing the latest bestiality bukkake kiddie porn, plotting a terrorist attack, etc), I can do over the internet, protected with strong encryption.
All this RFID stuff leaks is where I am, and by correlating that with other people's chips, they can find out who I'm with. All that tells 'em is mundane stuff like who I want to have sex with.
BTW, last time these things came up here, wasn't everyone all anxious for them to come out, so we could buy things by just dumping them in our shopping carts at the store and walking out, with everything automatically scanned and billed? They'll probably deactivate the chips when you leave the store, just because it would make them useless for price scanning if people were bringing working chips into the store.
Wow...that was a pretty good parody. You managed to hit about 1/4 of the loony tax protestor theories. Throw in the "Congress only has authority to make laws for Washington DC" and the "Ohio is not a state" stuff, and the stuff about Admiralty law, and it will be perfect, except for form.
To get the form right, you've got to cite a bunch of cases, including quotes that aren't there, and (my favorite) cite arguments from the briefs filed by the losing side as if they were part of the Supreme Court's decision.
You're kidding, right? Please tell me this is sarcasm
No, he is not kidding. What Palm did, and Apple didn't do, is find out what people actually wanted, rather than what people thought they wanted.
Apple listened to what people said they wanted, and went for zero training over accuracy. Palm figured out that accuracy was way more important to people, even though people said otherwise.
Palm was and is far superior to Newton and PocketPC in almost every way that is actually important to people. PocketPC has been able to somewhat overcome that by massive marketing. Apple didn't have to resources that Microsoft has to market past the fundamental flaw of not really understanding the customer, so Newton never took off.
Just don't turn up. After all, if I receive a letter from Uzbekistan telling me I'm due in their courts (I'm British), there's no reason I have to accept their judgement.
The big problem with this is that most countries have agreed to treaties that obligate them to enforce valid judgements from other countries. If you were to just ignore that letter from Uzbekistan, and then the winners were to come to Britain, you just might find the British courts happily enforceing the judgement.
I don't know how Britain handles it, but in the US when that happens, your only chance at that point is to argue that the original court did not have jurisdiction. If you lose on that point, you don't get to then decide to fight the matter on the facts--you are stuck with the default judgement.
It is almost always a bad idea to simply ignore a court proceding against you, no matter where it is in the world.
Seriously, they are not a U.S. company...the ego of this country thinking it can impose its laws on non-citizens!
This is how it has always been, for all countries. If you help citizens of country X violate country X's laws, you can expect to get sued or tried in country X under country X's laws.
What happens next depends on how you respond. There are three things you can do.
1. Go to country X, concede jurisdiction, and abide by the court's decision.
2. Go to country X and argue that country X's laws should not apply.
3. Ignore country X. You'll lose by default in country X. What then happens depends on your country.
The winner will come to your country to try to enforce the judgement. Your countries laws will then decide if the country X had jurisdiction. If your country decides that X did have jurisdiction, your country enforces the judgement.
The only complication that the internet introduces is that it makes it hard to tell where people you are dealing with are located. Before the internet, generally transactions that might be illegal involved mailing or shipping something, and it was reasonably easy to simply refuse to mail or ship to people in countries where your product might be illegal.
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For (no pun intended) any C++ code I write that I'm not sure will only be used on systems that follow the final standard, I use this little trick I found on usenet:
#define for if(false);else for
That makes for loops behave like the standard says, regardless of what scope rules the compiler follows.
Try NeXT, I don't recall when but it was way before 1998.
The difference between NeXT whenever, Apple in 1998, and Dell now is that Dell waited until most customers have already stopped using floppies.
When Apple dropped the floppy, it was a pain in the ass, because all our other Macs at work had floppies, and we made heavy use of them.
Well, if they need to take a break from movies...maybe it is time for a Star Trek MMORPG. EverTrek, anyone?
Yeah, I know Firewire 800 is way faster than USB2, and Firewire 400 (which is what most people will be using for quite a while, since there aren't many Firewire 800 peripherals) is slightly faster in real life (USB2 is theoretically faster than Firewire 400, but the benchmarks I've seen have Firewire actually getting a little more out of things like disks), and that Firewire's isosychronous ability and latency guarentees is essential for some applications.
However, when I go down to stores like Best Buy or Circuit City I see a busload (pun intended!) of USB2 hard drives and CD and DVD readers and writers, and just the occasional Firewire drive.
For those of us who like to buy the small things locally instead of mail order, and don't live in one of the areas where there is a nearby Apple dealer...we need USB2.
No...the reason they have remained at lower clock speeds is because Motorola can't make them go at 3 GHz. If Motorola could produce a 3 GHz PPC, they would.
Well, I have an UltimateTV, not a Tivo, but same idea. Besides using it to watch the Superbowl commercials, it is also good for the game itself. The time it takes them to start one play after the end of the last play is about the length of a commercial, so the skip-30-seconds button works great.
Huh?
I've read a good explanation for what they are doing. Gates is no dummy. In fact, he's one of the brightest businessmen around. He has first hand experience how rapidly technology can change, and is very aware that almost of Microsoft is built on technology that didn't even exist 10 years before Microsoft started.
He is quite aware that things will continue to change, and everything that is important to Microsoft now might be just a small technology niche in ten years, and he has no intention of letting Microsoft go the way of, say, Data General or Digital. That's why Microsoft is trying to get involved in pretty much everything they can involving computers--cell phones, game consoles, PDAs, entertainment centers, servers, embedded systems, online services, streaming media. The only way to be sure that they remain successful is to try to get in early in everything.
In other words, Microsoft intends to be the next Microsoft.
How are people supposed to change a password that they don't even know exists? If you install on Windows using the install CD from Sprint, the existence of that password is hidden. The install program deals with configuring the modem.
If you have PPPoE software on your OS, you can put the modem in bridging mode, and then it won't have an IP address, and so won't be remotely administratable from the WAN side. (It still takes 192.168.1.1 on the LAN side, so you can still administrate locally).
Surprisingly (at least, I was surprised...I had expected Sprint to be one of those providers that doesn't tell you much), on Sprint's support site, they have detailed instructions for switching to bridging mode, both for people with dynamic IP and those with static IP. (Look under the section on configuring for use with game consoles).
I quickly found this problem on my Sprint DSL, and checked a few other addresses "near" mine to see if I had just overlooked something during setup where I was supposed to change the password, and found that most modems were wide open. I informated Sprint, and here was their response:
:-/
Thank you for your recent e-mail. I appreciate the opportunity to address your inquiry.
You have reached local password reset only. Please contact your local telephone company for further assistance.
We appreciate your business. If we can be of further assistance concerning
your Sprint service, please visit us at http://www.sprint.com, or you may email us at customer.servicenet@mail.sprint.com.
Aside from the total lack of security by default, and their insistance on routing everything from the Seattle area through Fort Worth, which is 100ms away on Sprintlink, they have been pretty good.
So what we need is a procedure to figure out if he did break the law. Oh, wait...we have such a procedure. It's called a lawsuit. Oops...to sue someone, you have to at some point know their name.
The jury. The point of disclosing the name is so that it can get that far.
So that's why I see the wheelchair users in the bike lane all the time?
That remark would make sense if a Segway was a kind of bicycle.
ISPs aren't common carriers.
A tax on something to pay for copying is a good idea if it includes a license for that copying. That is, we pay our small tax on ISP access, or sound cards, or speakers, or something, and in exchange, we get unlimited copying rights.
However, that is not the most important reason that Serial ATA is better than Firewire for replacing ATA: Serial ATA is compatible with ATA as far as the software is concerned. A Serial ATA controller looks like a regular ATA controller. NO software changes are required in the OS. To go to Firewire, you need to get support in your BIOS for booting, and your OS. Quick, without looking, which Firewire controllers work in Linux? All Serial ATA controllers do.
Perl is on the list. What commands would you want to use in a shell script that aren't fairly easy to implement in Perl?
All this RFID stuff leaks is where I am, and by correlating that with other people's chips, they can find out who I'm with. All that tells 'em is mundane stuff like who I want to have sex with.
BTW, last time these things came up here, wasn't everyone all anxious for them to come out, so we could buy things by just dumping them in our shopping carts at the store and walking out, with everything automatically scanned and billed? They'll probably deactivate the chips when you leave the store, just because it would make them useless for price scanning if people were bringing working chips into the store.
To get the form right, you've got to cite a bunch of cases, including quotes that aren't there, and (my favorite) cite arguments from the briefs filed by the losing side as if they were part of the Supreme Court's decision.
No, he is not kidding. What Palm did, and Apple didn't do, is find out what people actually wanted, rather than what people thought they wanted.
Apple listened to what people said they wanted, and went for zero training over accuracy. Palm figured out that accuracy was way more important to people, even though people said otherwise.
Palm was and is far superior to Newton and PocketPC in almost every way that is actually important to people. PocketPC has been able to somewhat overcome that by massive marketing. Apple didn't have to resources that Microsoft has to market past the fundamental flaw of not really understanding the customer, so Newton never took off.
The big problem with this is that most countries have agreed to treaties that obligate them to enforce valid judgements from other countries. If you were to just ignore that letter from Uzbekistan, and then the winners were to come to Britain, you just might find the British courts happily enforceing the judgement.
I don't know how Britain handles it, but in the US when that happens, your only chance at that point is to argue that the original court did not have jurisdiction. If you lose on that point, you don't get to then decide to fight the matter on the facts--you are stuck with the default judgement.
It is almost always a bad idea to simply ignore a court proceding against you, no matter where it is in the world.
This is how it has always been, for all countries. If you help citizens of country X violate country X's laws, you can expect to get sued or tried in country X under country X's laws.
What happens next depends on how you respond. There are three things you can do.
1. Go to country X, concede jurisdiction, and abide by the court's decision.
2. Go to country X and argue that country X's laws should not apply.
3. Ignore country X. You'll lose by default in country X. What then happens depends on your country.
The winner will come to your country to try to enforce the judgement. Your countries laws will then decide if the country X had jurisdiction. If your country decides that X did have jurisdiction, your country enforces the judgement.
The only complication that the internet introduces is that it makes it hard to tell where people you are dealing with are located. Before the internet, generally transactions that might be illegal involved mailing or shipping something, and it was reasonably easy to simply refuse to mail or ship to people in countries where your product might be illegal.
I have no idea why anyone would ever need a TB drive at home...but if it comes down to betting, I'll bet with history, and bet they will.