The counter example is the idea of #include "firmware_for_this_driver.h" or some other very local data that might need sharing between only two or three files. I think the easiest way to think about it is that you generally segregate headers with globally used data/metadata in a separate directory (even more so, if you're producing a library that will be used elsewhere), and keep ones with local use only data in the same directory as the source files. I think this helps you keep internal APIs internal, and published APIs published, because if you're modifying your include path frequently or typing long paths to include files, it should be obvious that something is wrong.
No, you're missing the point. The extra energy comes not from the hydrogen, but from the petroleum burning more efficiently. A certain amount of fuel leaves the vehicle unburned (or incompletely burned), the addition of hydrogen apparently helps this process (I don't understand how), and this was covered in TFA. It seems the energy used in cracking water is easily recovered by having a cleaner, more efficient burn of the fuel.
I'd suggest reading the article, but this is Slashdot. The device isn't hydrogen power, it's more of a hydrogen suppliment to make diesel burn cleaner and more efficiently. It may a useful device, but does nothing to reduce dependance on oil. It cracks water into hydrogen and oxygen and feeds that into the engine, producing a cleaner burn.
The unsaid idea behind that is that they will want to use the records for criminal prosecutions. Having a retention window is invaluable for this. If their surveillance systems put your vehicle in the same area as the crime during the period during which it happened, that can be some very powerful evidence. On the other hands, I'd expect this system to be "leaky" with details so that politicians and other powerful people to find information about people that get in their way (don't you love blackmail?).
Personally, I prefer Sarah Dean's FreeOTFE. It can mount native Linux crypto-loop encrypted filesystems, so it's far easier to use on the Linux side of things. Fairly easy to use on the Windows side, too. It's not open source, though, as it prohibits charging anyone for it, but I'm not worried because it grants all the permissions I would want.
I see you mised these very nice bits of legislation that were recently discussed.. They want to force all computer devices that deal with analog to digital (or vice versa) conversions to implement CGMS-A and VEIL. It's not the first time, either. Every few years, they whine to their bought and paid-for lawmakers (such as Senator Fritz Hollings) and get them to put up a bill that would force the electronics industry to do what the MPAA/RIAA wants, and that spawns lobbying from these industries to get the law shot down.
The only way to use active mode FTP through a NAT box is if the machine has explicit support for active mode FTP (e.g. conntrack_ftp for Linux users). Most devices do include this support, but not all. FTP isn't the only thing broken by NAT without specific intelligence in handling the protocol. Many UDP-based protocols malfunction in NAT environments, including games, and streaming applications. Single connection, TCP-based protocols are not too difficult to NAT, as long as the destination isn't NATed.
This is all based on the typical port-based NAT, not the one-to-one NAT. One-to-one NAT doesn't have all these problems, and is not the most popular form of NAT out there.
Spellbound gives me a fighting chance of having decent spelling. The Web Developer Toolbar comes in handy when working with websites. When you're done adding all the extensions, don't forget the most important one, the kitchen sink.
Or perhaps more usefully, $SYS$EverquestCheats.exe. It's a pity that cheaters are using this to target WoW, when they should be targetting Everquest. It'd be much more fun to pit the Sony departments against each other even more.
"Going Gold" is slang in the software industry for being sent to manufacturing. It has nothing to do with sales, it only means the software is deemed ready to ship.
He's just making himself available for the press, don't cha know? If he got bogged down in a court room, it would steal valuable time away from appearing on Fox and CNN news. How will he carry out his Holy War against gamers while trapped by the Bar's rules of conduct?.
Well, would you blame Microsoft for the vulnerabilities in aspWebCalendar 4.x or ASP Nuke? Or perhaps it's Microsoft's fault that there is a exploitable flaw in Macromedia Flash Player (it's an option during the IE6 install)? If you want to complain about double standards, how about we start with that one?
Well, like I said, I'm no SQL expert. The only experience I have with SQL is some very simple web projects, and the in-house inventory/order tracking software which was written by someone who overused stored procedures and joins, and never used views or foreign keys. Since the front end for the order tracking software was written in MS Access (which is responsible for enforcing all security), it's not really a surprise. It might mean my view on SQL is a little warped.
"Turkey toners"? I assume you mean tone generators and inductive probes (and the warbling tone they produce)? I've never heard them called that before. They are quite useful devices, though. Especially if you're left in a room full of unlabeled (or poorly labeled) cables. Trial and error in that situation really stinks.
Frankly, a professional should have professional tools. Spending $150 on a toner&probe might seem like a lot at first, but it might pay for itself if you often need to go cable hunting. Spending $500-$5000 on a network/cable test device might seem like a lot, but if it allows you to detect problems the simple ping test wouldn't... It's fine to have trinkets, but when you want to do serious work, you'll need serious tools.
Secondly, Microsoft has offered a free SDK/Platform SDK for years. This is a very comprehensive kit that can be used to develop software.
Have you ever tried developing software using nothing more than the platform SDK? Or the.Net SDK for that matter? For anything more than a couple files, using it becomes unwieldy. That is, of course, unless you like writing nmake makefiles.
The whole focus is wrong anyways - the Express editions of Visual Studio, which have some killer limitations (e.g. complete lack of optimization), are targetted at dabblers. These dabblers would never, in a million years, try getting going with Eclipse or the like. At the most they'd warez an ISO of Visual Studio Pro.
I'm gonna have to call bullshit on this one. I don't know where you got this idea that you get absolutely no optimization in the Express editions, but it's wrong. The one major optimization feature that's missing is profile guided optimizations in VC++. The compiler in the Express editions is the same as the ones in the VS professional edition and.Net framework SDK. Very few optimizations are done for code that targets MSIL by the compiler. The runtime is responsible for those.
Second, there is a surpising number of people who believe that pirating software is unethical. Others live or go to school where pirated software could get them in an awful lot of trouble. These people wouldn't "warez an ISO of Visual Studio Pro", but they could use these products.
Third, it's no secret that uptake of.Net isn't as high as Microsoft would like. Releasing full fledged free development tools that target the.Net framework could speed its adoption quite nicely. It might cut into a very small portion of the market that would purchase VS Standard, but it could also increase the market size, and sell both more copies of VS Pro/MSDN Universal and licenses for Windows Server and SQL Server.
Which brings up the next point - Microsoft has always been relatively hands off about piracy of Visual Studio. That is their tacit real "Free" version. Even Visual Studio 2005 doesn't include activation or any other anti-warez measures.
Of course they are. They even give away products in the Visual Studio family quite often -- I have a copy of Visual Basic.Net 2003 sitting on the shelf (never installed it). Squeezing developers, or those just learning to code could cost them some of those developers, and wouldn't produce any meaningful sales. It's hard enough getting them to upgrade from Visual Studio 6.
MSSQL 2005 Express Edition is basically just a new version of MSDE 2000. They added a management console, upgraded it's engine (to the same code/capabilities as the full SQL Server 2005) and uncrippled it's performance slightly (it's still intentionally crippled, though), but it's still MSDE. It's more accessable now, but still crippled just enough (single CPU only, only uses 1GB RAM max, 4GB max database size) that it doesn't compete with the full products. There's a list of things that were removed/omitted from the express version here.
The grandparent I was replying too clearly stated that it was "MySQL, PHP, PostgreSQL" putting the pressure on MS. Those have everything to do with SQL 2005, and nothing to do with Visual Studio.
Did PHP suddenly become a database now? I interpreted the inclusion of that to mean the entire software stack that comprises web applications, not solely the databases themselves.
What do the charge for the regular version of Visual Studio? A decent amount. $50 is peanuts compared when you add in the cost of media/shipping, etc. They dropped from that tiny amount of profit to none on the lightweight version. Not a huge deal for them.
$50 might be peanuts to Microsoft, but to a hobbyist or student, $50 can be the difference between chosing one technology over another. Plenty of people will pirate the full version of Visual Studio anyway, but providing a no-cost legitimate option may appeal to a large number of people. People who were thinking of targetting PHP or Java may have reason to consider ASP.Net or C# now, instead. If Microsoft was smart, they'd keep it free, or at least find any and every reason to give it away for free at the drop of a hat. Free for a year is a good start...
I guess in your mind they can't possibly decide to give away a lightweight tool for free without being forced to. They can.
There was a reason I put "forced" in quotes. They decided they wanted to try and recapture some of the hobbyist market they had lost to people writing PHP webapps, and made the business decision that they could pull in more licensing funds from server sales if they forfeited the licensing for this product (at least for a time). In addition, uptake of.Net has been far slower than Microsoft would like, so putting out full products to work with this framework could very well speed it's adoption.
They did it with SQL 2000 long before any opensource DBs were anything of a threat. Not everything has to revolve around OSS, much as many/.'ers like to believe.
I never said it does. Quite simply, MSDE was given away to sell SQL Server. For the few tasks MSDE was perfectly suited for (development, and small-scale web apps), they would not be able to sell the expensive Windows Server and SQL server licenses. Between the expensive Microsoft SQL Server and the ubiquitous (although still fairly expensive) MS Access, they needed something to fill the gap. Crippling SQL Server and releasing it as MSDE filled this gap, and provided a handy upgrade path for users that needed more than what Microsoft was prepared to provide with MSDE. Another pure business decision.
The license is perpetual, so you don't have to pay for it later, regardless of how long you use it.
Did you notice they didn't actually say that in that second question. They said the "term of that license", which could be perpetual, or it could be 30 days, or anything in between. Very peculiar wording there, although it's probably just a lawyer-talk to cover their ass.
SQL 2005 Express isn't what's new. What's new is Visual * 2005 Express for free. Until very recently, they were saying that they were going to charge something like $50 for each edition. This is what was "forced" on MS. Someone in Microsoft finally clued into the fact that giving away this software would make them far more money than selling it ever would.
On the other hand, expect companies like Borland to be very upset by this move. This will cut into some of their market (what's left of it), and might finally be enough to push them under.
Something like the Fluke NetTool is far more useful. Not only can you use it for basic connectivity testing, but you can also do cable length and wiring tests. You can use it inline with a computer attached to the switch to monitor how traffic is flowing through. Far more useful than a simple pingable device. It costs about $900-$2,500 (USD, depends on which version you buy), and in my opinion, it's worth it. We use the inline version ($1,500 USD) here.
If you don't like Fluke, there are plenty of other people in the game testing business, but I don't have any experience with their products.
Jack Thompson would take being hit by lightning bolt while playing outside in a thunderstorm waving around a lightning rod as validation of his viewpoint. And he'd probably blame gamers for any harm that came to him. The man is just crazy. I don't think he even knows what he's doing all of the time. One minute Warren Spector is a bitter enemy, the next, he says something useful to Jack, and he morphs into a respected video game developer. Completely, utterly, fully insane.
Exactly, so I'll say it again: "How much is Microsoft paying for this advertising campaign?" I've seen a story or two each and every day about the X-Box 360. If it's not about the supposed shortages, it's about how it's better than the upcoming PS3 and how it'll prevent the PS3 from claiming the #1 spot for the next generation of consoles. This kind of coverage cannot come cheap!
Newton's laws of gravity have been proved wrong, but they're still used. Einstein's theory of relativity is what was used to explain the holes in the laws of gravity. Except, even the theory of relativity doesn't explain everything, either. Does that mean both the laws of gravity and the theory of relativity are bunk? No, it just means we don't know everything, and that there's more to be discovered. The incomplete law and theory are still extremely useful for explaining and predicting real-life phenomena. If (and this is a very big if) this device does appear to defy quantum theory, that does not mean that all of quantum physics is wrong. If one inconsistency was all it took to destroy quantum theories, then it would've been busted years ago. Despite years of searching, physicists still can't harmonize classical physics with quantum physics.
There are holes in just about every theory or law out there. The holes and flaws don't make the theories false all by themselves. Sometimes the holes exist because of something that is not yet understood. Sometimes they exist because the theory being tested does not fully explain that which is being tested. And sometimes they exist because the theory is incorrect. One discovery may be enough to throw a theory into question, but so long as it describes observed phenomenon well enough, it may still be used for a very long time.
You seem to ignore one important detail -- SDTV still has a lot of life left in it. HD capable televisions haven't reached down into the low-end yet, and current TVs will probably still last 8-10 years before they need to be replaced. Plenty of TVs last 20 years before they finally bite the dust. It will likely take 10 to 20 years before HDTV-capable sets outnumber SDTV sets, and another 10-20 years past that before the SD sets are finally at a negligible number (like B&W TVs sets are today). Heck, I have a 7 year old TV that doesn't even have composite or S-Video connectors.
Untill virtually every 20+ inch television sold is HD capable, HDTV will remain a niche product.
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The counter example is the idea of #include "firmware_for_this_driver.h" or some other very local data that might need sharing between only two or three files. I think the easiest way to think about it is that you generally segregate headers with globally used data/metadata in a separate directory (even more so, if you're producing a library that will be used elsewhere), and keep ones with local use only data in the same directory as the source files. I think this helps you keep internal APIs internal, and published APIs published, because if you're modifying your include path frequently or typing long paths to include files, it should be obvious that something is wrong.
No, you're missing the point. The extra energy comes not from the hydrogen, but from the petroleum burning more efficiently. A certain amount of fuel leaves the vehicle unburned (or incompletely burned), the addition of hydrogen apparently helps this process (I don't understand how), and this was covered in TFA. It seems the energy used in cracking water is easily recovered by having a cleaner, more efficient burn of the fuel.
I'd suggest reading the article, but this is Slashdot. The device isn't hydrogen power, it's more of a hydrogen suppliment to make diesel burn cleaner and more efficiently. It may a useful device, but does nothing to reduce dependance on oil. It cracks water into hydrogen and oxygen and feeds that into the engine, producing a cleaner burn.
The unsaid idea behind that is that they will want to use the records for criminal prosecutions. Having a retention window is invaluable for this. If their surveillance systems put your vehicle in the same area as the crime during the period during which it happened, that can be some very powerful evidence. On the other hands, I'd expect this system to be "leaky" with details so that politicians and other powerful people to find information about people that get in their way (don't you love blackmail?).
Personally, I prefer Sarah Dean's FreeOTFE. It can mount native Linux crypto-loop encrypted filesystems, so it's far easier to use on the Linux side of things. Fairly easy to use on the Windows side, too. It's not open source, though, as it prohibits charging anyone for it, but I'm not worried because it grants all the permissions I would want.
I see you mised these very nice bits of legislation that were recently discussed.. They want to force all computer devices that deal with analog to digital (or vice versa) conversions to implement CGMS-A and VEIL. It's not the first time, either. Every few years, they whine to their bought and paid-for lawmakers (such as Senator Fritz Hollings) and get them to put up a bill that would force the electronics industry to do what the MPAA/RIAA wants, and that spawns lobbying from these industries to get the law shot down.
This is all based on the typical port-based NAT, not the one-to-one NAT. One-to-one NAT doesn't have all these problems, and is not the most popular form of NAT out there.
Spellbound gives me a fighting chance of having decent spelling. The Web Developer Toolbar comes in handy when working with websites. When you're done adding all the extensions, don't forget the most important one, the kitchen sink.
Or perhaps more usefully, $SYS$EverquestCheats.exe. It's a pity that cheaters are using this to target WoW, when they should be targetting Everquest. It'd be much more fun to pit the Sony departments against each other even more.
"Going Gold" is slang in the software industry for being sent to manufacturing. It has nothing to do with sales, it only means the software is deemed ready to ship.
He's just making himself available for the press, don't cha know? If he got bogged down in a court room, it would steal valuable time away from appearing on Fox and CNN news. How will he carry out his Holy War against gamers while trapped by the Bar's rules of conduct?.
Well, would you blame Microsoft for the vulnerabilities in aspWebCalendar 4.x or ASP Nuke? Or perhaps it's Microsoft's fault that there is a exploitable flaw in Macromedia Flash Player (it's an option during the IE6 install)? If you want to complain about double standards, how about we start with that one?
Well, like I said, I'm no SQL expert. The only experience I have with SQL is some very simple web projects, and the in-house inventory/order tracking software which was written by someone who overused stored procedures and joins, and never used views or foreign keys. Since the front end for the order tracking software was written in MS Access (which is responsible for enforcing all security), it's not really a surprise. It might mean my view on SQL is a little warped.
Frankly, a professional should have professional tools. Spending $150 on a toner&probe might seem like a lot at first, but it might pay for itself if you often need to go cable hunting. Spending $500-$5000 on a network/cable test device might seem like a lot, but if it allows you to detect problems the simple ping test wouldn't... It's fine to have trinkets, but when you want to do serious work, you'll need serious tools.
Second, there is a surpising number of people who believe that pirating software is unethical. Others live or go to school where pirated software could get them in an awful lot of trouble. These people wouldn't "warez an ISO of Visual Studio Pro", but they could use these products.
Third, it's no secret that uptake of .Net isn't as high as Microsoft would like. Releasing full fledged free development tools that target the .Net framework could speed its adoption quite nicely. It might cut into a very small portion of the market that would purchase VS Standard, but it could also increase the market size, and sell both more copies of VS Pro/MSDN Universal and licenses for Windows Server and SQL Server.
Of course they are. They even give away products in the Visual Studio family quite often -- I have a copy of Visual Basic.Net 2003 sitting on the shelf (never installed it). Squeezing developers, or those just learning to code could cost them some of those developers, and wouldn't produce any meaningful sales. It's hard enough getting them to upgrade from Visual Studio 6.MSSQL 2005 Express Edition is basically just a new version of MSDE 2000. They added a management console, upgraded it's engine (to the same code/capabilities as the full SQL Server 2005) and uncrippled it's performance slightly (it's still intentionally crippled, though), but it's still MSDE. It's more accessable now, but still crippled just enough (single CPU only, only uses 1GB RAM max, 4GB max database size) that it doesn't compete with the full products. There's a list of things that were removed/omitted from the express version here.
On the other hand, expect companies like Borland to be very upset by this move. This will cut into some of their market (what's left of it), and might finally be enough to push them under.
If you don't like Fluke, there are plenty of other people in the game testing business, but I don't have any experience with their products.
Jack Thompson would take being hit by lightning bolt while playing outside in a thunderstorm waving around a lightning rod as validation of his viewpoint. And he'd probably blame gamers for any harm that came to him. The man is just crazy. I don't think he even knows what he's doing all of the time. One minute Warren Spector is a bitter enemy, the next, he says something useful to Jack, and he morphs into a respected video game developer. Completely, utterly, fully insane.
Exactly, so I'll say it again: "How much is Microsoft paying for this advertising campaign?" I've seen a story or two each and every day about the X-Box 360. If it's not about the supposed shortages, it's about how it's better than the upcoming PS3 and how it'll prevent the PS3 from claiming the #1 spot for the next generation of consoles. This kind of coverage cannot come cheap!
There are holes in just about every theory or law out there. The holes and flaws don't make the theories false all by themselves. Sometimes the holes exist because of something that is not yet understood. Sometimes they exist because the theory being tested does not fully explain that which is being tested. And sometimes they exist because the theory is incorrect. One discovery may be enough to throw a theory into question, but so long as it describes observed phenomenon well enough, it may still be used for a very long time.
Untill virtually every 20+ inch television sold is HD capable, HDTV will remain a niche product.
I think their version is far more amusing.