The sony hi-scan 1080i projection TVs, which are only 20 inches deep, run for 2500 at circuit city and the picture is as good as, if not better then, any plasma I've ever seen. Using component video the picture is better then the 36" Wega I owned (and which this replaced).
You make some great points and I would add that you should watch out for reliance on the STL for truly portable code. Quite a few compilers for embedded system don't ship with a working STL, or the libraries only implement small portions of it.
Granted, there are a few STL ports available, but we've experienced headaches getting them to go on some embedded systems compilers, leaving us to come up with our own pure ansi standard library which we use religiously on mac, linux and win32 dev (as well as palm, wince, etc.).
I like the idea, but it defeats the purpose.
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I understand your position, but would like to point a couple of issues with it:
What would stop the MPAA or the RIAA from saying node x is sending out spam (in the form of "pirated" MP3z) and then having him disconnected from the net.
What's to stop the spambot from moving to another IP and declaring to everyone on the net that your node (the original complainer of the spam) is a bad apple and disconnected you from the net.
Think of the potential wide scale mischeif script kiddies could have.
It's essentially the pascal model of units. The interface and implementation are stored in a single file, instead of seperated like in C/C++. The application code is broken up into individual units. XML Parser in one unit, preferences object in another, etc.
Microsoft is going to win the embedded space in the short term future. The ceo of phone.com once said Palm will turn into what Apple is today, a player to sizable, but still, niche market.
The PocketPC platform already has a million developers behind it (anyone that can code straight win32 api can code on the PocketPC). Even VisualBasic idiots can get in on PPC development. And the tools are free, which is a first for Microsoft.
PocketIE on PocketPC and other devices of a similar nature, supports javascript, HTML 3.2 (and then some), XML data islands and other niceties. And it's fast.
So my opinion, Mozilla isn't going to change shit for most people.
Outlook is not just a mail client alone. It's an entire PIM suite.
Second thing, go ahead and whip up your little form in PHP. Now tie it into my marketing database sitting on my desktop. Oh shit you can't. Ok, let's move my database to the server. SQL migration script has been written? Oh shit no it hasn't.
Third thing, go ahead and whip up a little php form that inserts calendar items, to do items, journal entries in my Outlook? Oh wait you can't... damn...
The point, of course, is that comparing outlook and asp/php/jsp stuff really isn't appropriate in an enterprise situation where Marking Manager Mark wants other people in his company to update stuff sitting on his desktop or in his outlook setup.
I do believe that Microsoft showed very little insight when including scripting capabilities
Maybe you should explore a little deeper and then you'd realize that the scripting/forms capability of Outlook (as well as Outlook in general) is meant for enterprise solutions. Bill, in the IT department, can put together a survey form or some other data gathering form for Greg, in the marketing department. They can then email this form to everyone in the enterprise. Everyone fills out the form and the responses get put in a database via outlook and exchange.
Alternately, you can use scripting/forms to write automated interfaces to mass company emails. June, in the PR department, sends out press release notifications to the company. Thanks to Bill, in the IT department, who wrote an outlook template form, June simply needs to type in some simple info and hit send, everything ready formatted to her liking.
Now couple this with calendaring, tasks, contacts, etc. and you start to see a valuable environment for enterprise development.
SO THIS IS THE REASON OUTLOOK INCLUDES SCRIPTING.
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As someone mentioned earlier, name.space is already attempting to alter the way the whole DNS issue works, who is in control, registering gTLDs, etc.
Below is an interesting lawsuit between them and NSI:
First of all the API is hardly crap. It's not ideal, but neither is OpenGL.
If someone where to "port" DirectX to linux, they don't need COM to do it, they simply need to implement the interfaces and create a mechanism for substantiating the objects. Not brain surgery.
And why would MS implement a generic API? BeOS doesn't implement a generic api, no OS vendor implements a generic API. Not to mention DirectX was the inital work of three people at Microsoft, all of whom DID NOT have the SUPPORT of the marketing arm and had a hard time even selling the technology internally to anyone.
It's hardly a MS conspiracy. It IS part of Microsoft heading away from procedural APIs and into OOP APIs.
While I certainly think this "news" article was a little too dramatically titled, the possible implications of what is possible with these bandwidth limiting boxes should certainly be thought of.
Consider TimeWarmer/AOL is about to be running the show on the largest cable internet service in the country. TimeWarmer's interest in protecting media from being pirated could be reduced to installing these bandwidth limiting/service blocking boxes to and from napster on their public network.
IANAL nor do I even want to be, so I'm sure there is all sorts of legal issues around this, but who would know anyways? Hmm, shit, Bob can't connect to napster anymore, must be down!
Just like a gun, it's down to the ethics of the person holding the device. Do I protect a resource (such as bandwidth for colleges) or do I protect my commercial interests at the sake of violating the privacy of my customers (timewarmer)?
If you used your brain a little you would understand that the only thing that ties it specifically to windows is if you embed an OLE object into the document.
For a document that is purely text, there isn't any reason why you couldn't write a reader for it for any other OS.
People seemed confused by the term OLE Structured Storage, and seeing OLE they assume that somehow it requires OLE. OLE is the interface you use to build the files, and there are a means of embedding data regarding OLE objects in the file as well, however most documents don't use this feature very often.
OLE Structured Storage is an API for creating documents that mimic a mini file system. You can have directories, seperate file streams, etc. all in one file and treat the file as if it were a big empty harddrive. It's actually a very convenient format for writing complex data in binary form.
And, of course, Microsoft could give a shit if your on any other platform then Windows, I don't understand why they would. It's natural a commercial entity would favor their own platform over another's.
That being said, I doubt it would be a major chore to reverse engineer the file format at it's highest level. If I'm not mistaking, there are a couple of libraries for Borland Delphi that reimplement Structured Storage without using Microsoft's API.
Please enlighten us with an example of something Delphi can do with a database that VB can't.
1. Handle it with speed 2. Write custom widgets to deal with the display of the data 3. Get the data from the database using Corba, Midas 4. Fetch a PNG image from a BLOB field, manipulate the pixels via walking pointers, composite it onto another image grabbed from another BLOB and export to JPG. In approximate realtime. 5. Perform multi threaded inserts, selects from and to multiple servers at the same time
Delphi isn't hoping to be anything other then the "delphi of linux". Note that Microsoft hired the head architect of the first two delphi editions and put him directly to work on VB in a weak attempt to catch up and/or match Delphi.
At the very heart of Delphi, and the part of Delphi you will use most is the IDE editor. Not the form designer, not a wizard, but an actual text editor. And one helluva text editor too. Map your own keys, set up your own highlighting, configure it however you want.
Im not so sure the IDE alone is really all that different from stuff like KDevelop, etc. Another thing that people haven't been mentioning is the fact that the IDE uses an OpenTools API which lets you do anything with it, including using your tools if you so choose. There are a variety of alternative programming editors out there that support Delphi in this way.
I don't imagine the license for Kylix is going to be any more expensive then Delphi's current cost which is anywhere from 200 bucks to 2000 depending on which version you get. Note that it includes a C++ compiler as well as ObjectPascal compiler.
Borland's (InPrise) C/C-- Compiler is written in OOP Pascal (product name : Delphi).
Umm no. C++ Builder's compiler is most definitely not written in Pascal. You're confused with the VCL which is largely written in Pascal, but linked as.obj files after compiled with Delphi's compiler. And I'm not certain that is that case in anymore.
Actually the Borland OOP Pascal / Java objects models are almost identical. You want native Java code try Delphi (loose32) / Kylix (happy penguin and loose32 with qt ). Different language, same model..., faster (?) code.
It's not the same model, although there are striking similarities; just like there are striking similarities between the VCL and BEOS's APIs.
Besides templates, macros, and multiple inheritence (which can sort of be done using interfaces instead of classes)... there really isn't an incredible amount of difference between OPascal and C++.
At least they borland and freepascal have implemented it.
No, he means FULL SCENE ANTIALIASING. Apparently you don't play games to understand the importance of this feature, but it makes a scene far more realistic visually.
Am I the only one that has lost complete respect for this band, not because they are suing napster, but because the people who wrote "master of puppets" are acting and talking like a bunch of conservative, white collar republicans?
How did they go from Fade to Black to:
And people who live in the United States live in a Western capitalist society, where most of these things become about marketplace and about fair competitionin the marketplace, and that's what ultimately dictates these prices.
It just strikes me as queer that a band who has sold themselves as crazy heavy metal crushers are basically suits.
As for point one, there is SVG (scaleable vector graphics). IE 5 implements something similar (before people jump to conclusions, Microsoft came up with this before the w3 announced, and have been helping this become a standard).
As for the second part, most HTTP responses are compressed if the client handles gzip and the server handles gzip, which most do. There are ISAPI filters that enable this on IIS, and apache modules that do this same thing too.
Hmm, so you're saying that the American dream is to work hard and one day you'll be "successful", which in a modern classist society means thriving in the upper echelons of money and wealth.
So then how does Microsoft not fit into that? Bill Gates and Paul Allen were broke college kids when they started Microsoft, and they grew Microsoft to where it is today, beit by being sneaky and malicious, or by understanding the system and using it to whatever ends.
Microsoft wasn't always in the position it is in now in being able to bully the market to their will. They got there somehow...
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The sony hi-scan 1080i projection TVs, which are only 20 inches deep, run for 2500 at circuit city and the picture is as good as, if not better then, any plasma I've ever seen. Using component video the picture is better then the 36" Wega I owned (and which this replaced).
Granted, there are a few STL ports available, but we've experienced headaches getting them to go on some embedded systems compilers, leaving us to come up with our own pure ansi standard library which we use religiously on mac, linux and win32 dev (as well as palm, wince, etc.).
It's essentially the pascal model of units. The interface and implementation are stored in a single file, instead of seperated like in C/C++. The application code is broken up into individual units. XML Parser in one unit, preferences object in another, etc.
The PocketPC platform already has a million developers behind it (anyone that can code straight win32 api can code on the PocketPC). Even VisualBasic idiots can get in on PPC development. And the tools are free, which is a first for Microsoft.
PocketIE on PocketPC and other devices of a similar nature, supports javascript, HTML 3.2 (and then some), XML data islands and other niceties. And it's fast.
So my opinion, Mozilla isn't going to change shit for most people.
Outlook is not just a mail client alone. It's an entire PIM suite.
Second thing, go ahead and whip up your little form in PHP. Now tie it into my marketing database sitting on my desktop. Oh shit you can't. Ok, let's move my database to the server. SQL migration script has been written? Oh shit no it hasn't.
Third thing, go ahead and whip up a little php form that inserts calendar items, to do items, journal entries in my Outlook? Oh wait you can't ... damn ...
The point, of course, is that comparing outlook and asp/php/jsp stuff really isn't appropriate in an enterprise situation where Marking Manager Mark wants other people in his company to update stuff sitting on his desktop or in his outlook setup.
WHICH, AGAIN, IS WHY OUTLOOK HAS SCRIPTING.
Maybe you should explore a little deeper and then you'd realize that the scripting/forms capability of Outlook (as well as Outlook in general) is meant for enterprise solutions. Bill, in the IT department, can put together a survey form or some other data gathering form for Greg, in the marketing department. They can then email this form to everyone in the enterprise. Everyone fills out the form and the responses get put in a database via outlook and exchange.
Alternately, you can use scripting/forms to write automated interfaces to mass company emails. June, in the PR department, sends out press release notifications to the company. Thanks to Bill, in the IT department, who wrote an outlook template form, June simply needs to type in some simple info and hit send, everything ready formatted to her liking.
Now couple this with calendaring, tasks, contacts, etc. and you start to see a valuable environment for enterprise development.
SO THIS IS THE REASON OUTLOOK INCLUDES SCRIPTING.
Below is an interesting lawsuit between them and NSI:
http://namespace.pgmedia.ne t/law/appeal/2ndcir-dec.html
Umm, phone.com, who launched WAP and the WAP forum, is an american company.
If someone where to "port" DirectX to linux, they don't need COM to do it, they simply need to implement the interfaces and create a mechanism for substantiating the objects. Not brain surgery.
And why would MS implement a generic API? BeOS doesn't implement a generic api, no OS vendor implements a generic API. Not to mention DirectX was the inital work of three people at Microsoft, all of whom DID NOT have the SUPPORT of the marketing arm and had a hard time even selling the technology internally to anyone.
It's hardly a MS conspiracy. It IS part of Microsoft heading away from procedural APIs and into OOP APIs.
No it's ASP = Application Service Provider.
Here's an article from the other architect of delphi on the guy.
He was also the guy behind the WFC for java that started the lawsuit rolling between microsoft and sun.
Consider TimeWarmer/AOL is about to be running the show on the largest cable internet service in the country. TimeWarmer's interest in protecting media from being pirated could be reduced to installing these bandwidth limiting/service blocking boxes to and from napster on their public network.
IANAL nor do I even want to be, so I'm sure there is all sorts of legal issues around this, but who would know anyways? Hmm, shit, Bob can't connect to napster anymore, must be down!
Just like a gun, it's down to the ethics of the person holding the device. Do I protect a resource (such as bandwidth for colleges) or do I protect my commercial interests at the sake of violating the privacy of my customers (timewarmer)?
For a document that is purely text, there isn't any reason why you couldn't write a reader for it for any other OS.
People seemed confused by the term OLE Structured Storage, and seeing OLE they assume that somehow it requires OLE. OLE is the interface you use to build the files, and there are a means of embedding data regarding OLE objects in the file as well, however most documents don't use this feature very often.
OLE Structured Storage is an API for creating documents that mimic a mini file system. You can have directories, seperate file streams, etc. all in one file and treat the file as if it were a big empty harddrive. It's actually a very convenient format for writing complex data in binary form.
And, of course, Microsoft could give a shit if your on any other platform then Windows, I don't understand why they would. It's natural a commercial entity would favor their own platform over another's.
That being said, I doubt it would be a major chore to reverse engineer the file format at it's highest level. If I'm not mistaking, there are a couple of libraries for Borland Delphi that reimplement Structured Storage without using Microsoft's API.
1. Handle it with speed
2. Write custom widgets to deal with the display of the data
3. Get the data from the database using Corba, Midas
4. Fetch a PNG image from a BLOB field, manipulate the pixels via walking pointers, composite it onto another image grabbed from another BLOB and export to JPG. In approximate realtime.
5. Perform multi threaded inserts, selects from and to multiple servers at the same time
Delphi isn't hoping to be anything other then the "delphi of linux". Note that Microsoft hired the head architect of the first two delphi editions and put him directly to work on VB in a weak attempt to catch up and/or match Delphi.
They still aren't even close.
At the very heart of Delphi, and the part of Delphi you will use most is the IDE editor. Not the form designer, not a wizard, but an actual text editor. And one helluva text editor too. Map your own keys, set up your own highlighting, configure it however you want.
Im not so sure the IDE alone is really all that different from stuff like KDevelop, etc. Another thing that people haven't been mentioning is the fact that the IDE uses an OpenTools API which lets you do anything with it, including using your tools if you so choose. There are a variety of alternative programming editors out there that support Delphi in this way.
I don't imagine the license for Kylix is going to be any more expensive then Delphi's current cost which is anywhere from 200 bucks to 2000 depending on which version you get. Note that it includes a C++ compiler as well as ObjectPascal compiler.
If you want to be slow then be slow. Nobody is making you use Delphi or even entertain the idea of using it.
Umm no.
Umm no. C++ Builder's compiler is most definitely not written in Pascal. You're confused with the VCL which is largely written in Pascal, but linked as .obj files after compiled with Delphi's compiler. And I'm not certain that is that case in anymore.
Actually the Borland OOP Pascal / Java objects models are almost identical. You want native Java code try Delphi (loose32) / Kylix (happy penguin and loose32 with qt ). Different language, same model..., faster (?) code.
It's not the same model, although there are striking similarities; just like there are striking similarities between the VCL and BEOS's APIs.
The entire MacOS, at one point, was written in Pascal.
Besides templates, macros, and multiple inheritence (which can sort of be done using interfaces instead of classes) ... there really isn't an incredible amount of difference between OPascal and C++.
At least they borland and freepascal have implemented it.
No, he means FULL SCENE ANTIALIASING. Apparently you don't play games to understand the importance of this feature, but it makes a scene far more realistic visually.
How did they go from Fade to Black to:
And people who live in the United States live in a Western capitalist society, where most of these things become about marketplace and about fair competitionin the marketplace, and that's what ultimately dictates these prices.
It just strikes me as queer that a band who has sold themselves as crazy heavy metal crushers are basically suits.
As for the second part, most HTTP responses are compressed if the client handles gzip and the server handles gzip, which most do. There are ISAPI filters that enable this on IIS, and apache modules that do this same thing too.
the sinister mister earache.
So then how does Microsoft not fit into that? Bill Gates and Paul Allen were broke college kids when they started Microsoft, and they grew Microsoft to where it is today, beit by being sneaky and malicious, or by understanding the system and using it to whatever ends.
Microsoft wasn't always in the position it is in now in being able to bully the market to their will. They got there somehow ...
It's still the American dream.