You can't practically write OO code in languages that do not directly support it. Sure, your nifty templated C++ gets turned into assembly somewhere along the line (in fact a friend of mine developed a simple OO based utility (mini-os actually) in 68k assembly) but how much time are you spending. I think what is meant here is that you can write OO-like programs... encapsulation being the biggest part here, and a lot of discipline. After you've programmed something like C for a few years you almost can't help but do things this way, it's too hard to debug otherwise.
How did you manage to get moded for +1?? This was a most ignorant post and should have been marked -1 Flamebait.
No one I know has more than _1_ ICQ account. (One guy has 2 because his other one got spammed by some stalker.) I've had my account for over 2 years, went through 2 computers and 4 clean reinstalls during that time and 3 ICQ upgrades. Never had to change my account number or get a new one. Never lost my message history file (which now weighs in at over 3 megs).
You must be really uninformed or too dense not to save your/db and/or/new_db files (depends on version). When you reinstall don't you save your email client's mailboxes and folders? Or do you just accept as fact that you'll lose all your past email? Do you go to your ISP and request a new email address? Or do you just re-enter your old info after a reinstall? You know, you can do that in ICQ right from the main menu.
Maybe you should learn how to do minimal backups before trashing a product for not assuming its users are all dumbasses.
Well, this looks to be the rant-on-the-movie thread, so I'll post my take on it here.
I _did_ go to see the movie. I think it sucked. Really sucked. I didn't even have really high expectations. I only expected the backdrops and animation to be any good. And while I wasn't disappointed there everything else was really bad.
The story. While the premise was alright (the exploding earth was really cool and realistic looking with all sorts of ejecta flying around) , the story just wasn't glued thogether. Too many little side plots, nothing really went anywhere.
The music: huh? Whoever came up with the soundtrack (_especially_ for the trailer, eek!) deserves to be shot. The music just didn't fit in. It was pasted in, just like the characters. Someone mentioned it actually worked for one of the final scenes. OK, maybe.
Everything was slow moving, uninteresting, despite the nice graphics (but very Quake-like, dark and brown and green) I was nearly asleep the whole show, and it wasn't even the late show.
Oh wow, thank you thank you! I'm one of those people that totally missed the whole Q2 phenomenon cause I was playing Q1 Team Fortress! What a great mod! And I never did like Half-Life (after being totally unble to get past the first level, which isn't even a level at all, more like an entrance, I guess I must be really dumb or something). I thought TF didn't exist for Q3... is this the official thing, or just something they're calling a similar name?
...remember how they marked pentiums based on highest stable clock speeds rather than manufacturing them all independently for a set speed?
They still do and so does AMD and so does Motorola and IBM. You'd go out of business if you didn't. Silicon does not manufacture perfectly, so if you get a slightly inferior batch you just clock the highest stable speed and sell it as such. I would really love to know how you think AMD does it.
What does this tell you (aside from netscape having WAY too many versions of their browser out)? Even over a year ago the browser war was long won and ms could stop worrying about web standards. This won't change anytime soon.
I myself stopped using netscape a while back because it's just too slow; nest a couple of complex tables and you can be waiting for a rendered page for 15 secs on a p3-500/256MB!) and tended to crash if you had too many windows open (with news sites I usually skim the headlines (slashdot, news.com, salon) and open up each page in a new window so I can go and read them all uninterruped.
At this point in time ie is just the better browser, that's all there is to it. I also love the auto-augment feature in 5.x which will get fonts and plugins via a standardized dialog box. Totally painless.
Well, cheating for whatever reason is only fun to the one doing the cheating. Sure, you want to bring some asshole down a notch, you want to confuse people, you think it's just a game or the game is stupid. It's you who sucks at a game and desperately wants to win. You think it's funny, no one else does. It's all about you you you the cheater. See the pattern yet?
There are absolutely no parallels to hacking in cheating. No one cheats to see if they can do it. Sure, an actual hack is very cool, if you do it yourself and use it once or twice to see if it works. That's fine, and even then it's only you who's amused. As soon as you make yourself an obnoxious cheating moron you ruin the game for everyone. Except you're having fun. But of course that's the real reason isn't it?
The SUVs are bigger (more room to deform before passengers are affected) and stronger (more steel in the frame) and are therefore safer.
Most SUVs (the bigger ones) are built on truck frames, which means they don't compress. Truck design has stopped evolving sometime around the 50s. Look under your SUV. What kind of suspension do you see? Does that level of technology inspire any feeling of security?
Fact is SUVs are not any safer because they are bigger. They don't compress, there's no crumple zone. Your body takes all the force of the collision. It doesn't matter how much room there is to compress before passengers get squished because there's nothing that compresses in an SUV.
So while you won't feel as much impact when trampling on a little Insight, if your SUV rams into another SUV or an 18 wheeler or a solid object, you're shit out of luck.
Of course the fact that bad laws are destined to get overturned is not much consolation. Until such time as someone with enough money gets bitten by a bad law and it's worth their trouble to challenge it successfully, a bad law is still law and is to be obeyed. And _that_ is the problem.
They're all over the place. Little laws you never give any thought that haven't been challenged yet or are too 'insignificant' to bother with. Every person breaks several laws every week, they're just never caught and prosecuted.
Another way to look at this is that it just gives the cops a reason to hold you. If they can't get any real dirt on you they can always dig something up that no one ever gets charged with, but hey, it's the law!
I find this attitude truly disheartening. One hears of stories about parents trying to keep their kids down, because of their jealousy that their kids may be more successful than they. That sounds a lot like your attitude. If your kids become more successful than you, are you going to start berating them? "So, Mr. Big Shot is too good for this family, eh? Think you're better than your old man, eh? EH?? EH???
No, I think the point was about the attitude. By saying you're worth way more than your puny parents and you're just so much better than they are you're belittling their accomplishemnt of raising you, and trivializing the amount of time (and money) they put in you and all the sacrifices they had to make. Every parent wants their children to be better off than they are, you seem to be going about it the wrong way though. Being rude and arrogant to your parents and thinking less of them just because you make more or have a bigger portfolio shows you're a very small erson.
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But they're going about it the wrong way. Instead of doing it the proper way and having the main page be a server redirect of a very lightweight script (php/asp style) issuing a 302, they have an actual html page with a javascript-constructed refresh meta tag. Combined with a 0 second refresh gets you a useless redirecting page in your back button history that you can't get out of.
No, no, no... this is quite a bit different, as posted earlier. This is about a site pulling a story because it promoted its parent company's competitor. They obviously thought it was a perfectly good story, until word came down 'from above' to take it down.
Normally a news outlet can be counted on to promote its own brand. It is fairly obvious to readers that Times will try not to plug Newsweek. They're expecting that, and it's pretty transparent. Parent/sister/parner company relationships are not, and this can be very deceiving. Why aren't there more stories about widget X? Well, I guess only 1 company makes them and I should buy from them
This is why modern media conglomerates are so dangerous. The age of the independant media outlet are gone. With all news and entertainment controlled by a handful of ulta rich, ultra conservative individuals, how accurate and unbiased is your news? Sure, you're getting all the news (sorta kinda). But you don't have time to analyze and verify every bit of it. There's a lot of very subtle spin on stories. Omission of details, emphasis on a certain aspect of the story, a slightly tweaked wording, it's the difference between, say, 'programmer' and 'hacker', 'european' and 'caucasian', 'well built' and 'large'. By reading a story, who are you to say there's no agenda at work.
So now we have lies, damned lies, statistics and news.
people know that these sites aren't run by MP3Board.com
But they don't always. I was running an mp3 site at one point (silly me;) and some mp3 search engines and directories linked to me. I had people on a daily basis congratulating me on the fine search engine I was running. There are lots of people who think anything linked is still the same site. As mp3s and mp3 search engines go more mainstream expect the clueless quotient to increase.
You can't just move IPs around like that these says. With ASNs and BGP routing it's not doable (not just impractical). Each BGP router already has some 60mb of routes, and that's for the _backbone_ only.
If everyone started breaking off IPs from subnets and moving them around on a daily basis the Internet would quickly come to a screeching halt.
That's all fine and dandy for window shopping. As soon as you try to order anything that fake data will be used to charge and for shipping info. The only recourse would be to phone in (possibly long distance) and place your order. Of course it will take sites a long time to fully convert to P3P, with Netscape 2 and IE 3 still in wide use and lots of legacy stuff to look after. But I'm sure if your browser is P3P capable you will be required to provide information on yourself.
Huh? I really fail to see how you can object to this. You have several domains that have expired, haven't paid to renew them, and now you're disturbed that they'll be taken away and auctioned off to recover the costs?!?
Excuse me while I whip out a clue-stick and knock you on the head, but this whole thing seems pretty logical to me. If anything you're lucky NetSol didn't just take the domains away as soon as they expired and left you with no chance to hold on to them.
You may not like NetSol, and you don't have to pay them to maintain your domain record. But if you let your domain expire without paying you have nothing to complain about. There are costs associated with holding a domain name and you either pay it or lose it.
Exactly. I thought about this a little and thought it was a good idea at first. After all, if it's not a real file, then I'm not pirating, and if it is, then the enforcers are guilty of distributing to pirates.
But I think just the intent is enough. After all, if cops setup a fake coke dealer, does it really matter if I walk up and actually receive the real stuff in the bag or just some powder sugar?
I just love Beyond.com! These days I purchase software strictly on-line (except for games). If a title is not available for immediate download, tough luck.
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You can't practically write OO code in languages that do not directly support it. Sure, your nifty templated C++ gets turned into assembly somewhere along the line (in fact a friend of mine developed a simple OO based utility (mini-os actually) in 68k assembly) but how much time are you spending. I think what is meant here is that you can write OO-like programs... encapsulation being the biggest part here, and a lot of discipline. After you've programmed something like C for a few years you almost can't help but do things this way, it's too hard to debug otherwise.
I love the spike between Friday and Saturday... lots of drunk posting around that time I guess ;)
Somehow I think their workhorse machines are just a little more powerful than that.
No one I know has more than _1_ ICQ account. (One guy has 2 because his other one got spammed by some stalker.) I've had my account for over 2 years, went through 2 computers and 4 clean reinstalls during that time and 3 ICQ upgrades. Never had to change my account number or get a new one. Never lost my message history file (which now weighs in at over 3 megs).
You must be really uninformed or too dense not to save your /db and/or /new_db files (depends on version). When you reinstall don't you save your email client's mailboxes and folders? Or do you just accept as fact that you'll lose all your past email? Do you go to your ISP and request a new email address? Or do you just re-enter your old info after a reinstall? You know, you can do that in ICQ right from the main menu.
Maybe you should learn how to do minimal backups before trashing a product for not assuming its users are all dumbasses.
Yeah, except this won't be used for audio mastering. It's a graphics rendering engine. Sound may be there purely for preview purposes.
I _did_ go to see the movie. I think it sucked. Really sucked. I didn't even have really high expectations. I only expected the backdrops and animation to be any good. And while I wasn't disappointed there everything else was really bad.
The story. While the premise was alright (the exploding earth was really cool and realistic looking with all sorts of ejecta flying around) , the story just wasn't glued thogether. Too many little side plots, nothing really went anywhere.
The music: huh? Whoever came up with the soundtrack (_especially_ for the trailer, eek!) deserves to be shot. The music just didn't fit in. It was pasted in, just like the characters. Someone mentioned it actually worked for one of the final scenes. OK, maybe.
Everything was slow moving, uninteresting, despite the nice graphics (but very Quake-like, dark and brown and green) I was nearly asleep the whole show, and it wasn't even the late show.
Oh wow, thank you thank you! I'm one of those people that totally missed the whole Q2 phenomenon cause I was playing Q1 Team Fortress! What a great mod! And I never did like Half-Life (after being totally unble to get past the first level, which isn't even a level at all, more like an entrance, I guess I must be really dumb or something). I thought TF didn't exist for Q3... is this the official thing, or just something they're calling a similar name?
They still do and so does AMD and so does Motorola and IBM. You'd go out of business if you didn't. Silicon does not manufacture perfectly, so if you get a slightly inferior batch you just clock the highest stable speed and sell it as such. I would really love to know how you think AMD does it.
ie5 - 55%
ie4 - 15%
ns4.7 - 10%
ns4.5 - 5%
ns4 - 5%
ns4.6 - 3%
ns3 - 2% (!?!?)
Compared to february 99:
ie4 - 40%
ns4 - 25%
ns4.5 - 10%
ns3 - 10%
ie3 - 10%
ie5 - 1%
What does this tell you (aside from netscape having WAY too many versions of their browser out)? Even over a year ago the browser war was long won and ms could stop worrying about web standards. This won't change anytime soon.
I myself stopped using netscape a while back because it's just too slow; nest a couple of complex tables and you can be waiting for a rendered page for 15 secs on a p3-500/256MB!) and tended to crash if you had too many windows open (with news sites I usually skim the headlines (slashdot, news.com, salon) and open up each page in a new window so I can go and read them all uninterruped.
At this point in time ie is just the better browser, that's all there is to it. I also love the auto-augment feature in 5.x which will get fonts and plugins via a standardized dialog box. Totally painless.
There are absolutely no parallels to hacking in cheating. No one cheats to see if they can do it. Sure, an actual hack is very cool, if you do it yourself and use it once or twice to see if it works. That's fine, and even then it's only you who's amused. As soon as you make yourself an obnoxious cheating moron you ruin the game for everyone. Except you're having fun. But of course that's the real reason isn't it?
The SUVs are bigger (more room to deform before passengers are affected) and stronger (more steel in the frame) and are therefore safer.
Most SUVs (the bigger ones) are built on truck frames, which means they don't compress. Truck design has stopped evolving sometime around the 50s. Look under your SUV. What kind of suspension do you see? Does that level of technology inspire any feeling of security?
Fact is SUVs are not any safer because they are bigger. They don't compress, there's no crumple zone. Your body takes all the force of the collision. It doesn't matter how much room there is to compress before passengers get squished because there's nothing that compresses in an SUV.
So while you won't feel as much impact when trampling on a little Insight, if your SUV rams into another SUV or an 18 wheeler or a solid object, you're shit out of luck.
They will have to in order to allow vote-in nominees, who currently need support of 10 or 15% of members. Where will they get that list from?
They're all over the place. Little laws you never give any thought that haven't been challenged yet or are too 'insignificant' to bother with. Every person breaks several laws every week, they're just never caught and prosecuted.
Another way to look at this is that it just gives the cops a reason to hold you. If they can't get any real dirt on you they can always dig something up that no one ever gets charged with, but hey, it's the law!
No, I think the point was about the attitude. By saying you're worth way more than your puny parents and you're just so much better than they are you're belittling their accomplishemnt of raising you, and trivializing the amount of time (and money) they put in you and all the sacrifices they had to make. Every parent wants their children to be better off than they are, you seem to be going about it the wrong way though. Being rude and arrogant to your parents and thinking less of them just because you make more or have a bigger portfolio shows you're a very small erson.
But they're going about it the wrong way. Instead of doing it the proper way and having the main page be a server redirect of a very lightweight script (php/asp style) issuing a 302, they have an actual html page with a javascript-constructed refresh meta tag. Combined with a 0 second refresh gets you a useless redirecting page in your back button history that you can't get out of.
Normally a news outlet can be counted on to promote its own brand. It is fairly obvious to readers that Times will try not to plug Newsweek. They're expecting that, and it's pretty transparent. Parent/sister/parner company relationships are not, and this can be very deceiving. Why aren't there more stories about widget X? Well, I guess only 1 company makes them and I should buy from them
This is why modern media conglomerates are so dangerous. The age of the independant media outlet are gone. With all news and entertainment controlled by a handful of ulta rich, ultra conservative individuals, how accurate and unbiased is your news? Sure, you're getting all the news (sorta kinda). But you don't have time to analyze and verify every bit of it. There's a lot of very subtle spin on stories. Omission of details, emphasis on a certain aspect of the story, a slightly tweaked wording, it's the difference between, say, 'programmer' and 'hacker', 'european' and 'caucasian', 'well built' and 'large'. By reading a story, who are you to say there's no agenda at work.
So now we have lies, damned lies, statistics and news.
But they don't always. I was running an mp3 site at one point (silly me ;) and some mp3 search engines and directories linked to me. I had people on a daily basis congratulating me on the fine search engine I was running. There are lots of people who think anything linked is still the same site. As mp3s and mp3 search engines go more mainstream expect the clueless quotient to increase.
If everyone started breaking off IPs from subnets and moving them around on a daily basis the Internet would quickly come to a screeching halt.
Why should I have to pay to watch ads?
Why do you pay for cable and put up with ads every 10 minutes?
Even NetSol doesn't expect payment for already paid-for domains. I must be missing half the story or something...
That's all fine and dandy for window shopping. As soon as you try to order anything that fake data will be used to charge and for shipping info. The only recourse would be to phone in (possibly long distance) and place your order. Of course it will take sites a long time to fully convert to P3P, with Netscape 2 and IE 3 still in wide use and lots of legacy stuff to look after. But I'm sure if your browser is P3P capable you will be required to provide information on yourself.
Excuse me while I whip out a clue-stick and knock you on the head, but this whole thing seems pretty logical to me. If anything you're lucky NetSol didn't just take the domains away as soon as they expired and left you with no chance to hold on to them.
You may not like NetSol, and you don't have to pay them to maintain your domain record. But if you let your domain expire without paying you have nothing to complain about. There are costs associated with holding a domain name and you either pay it or lose it.
But I think just the intent is enough. After all, if cops setup a fake coke dealer, does it really matter if I walk up and actually receive the real stuff in the bag or just some powder sugar?
I just love Beyond.com! These days I purchase software strictly on-line (except for games). If a title is not available for immediate download, tough luck.