All this in an attempt to be clever in displaying your knowledge of C, and you wound up missing the tiny fact that there is a memset immediately following the declaration. [sigh]
Though they're not very interesting, I have encountered at least two bugs in MS' famed product line. In Win2k without an SP applied, CreateIconFromResource is hopelessly broken. Also, strangely enough, the WININET functions tend to break unpredictably on WinME.
I can agree that most of the software I've used on my PC has had at least a few bugs. It's worth noting that I run nothing but OSS/Free software, so this can't be pinned on MS. However, most of the software I've used that wasn't on the PC had no obvious bugs. I found one bug in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 that involved a reflection in a window in an out-of-the-way location being rendered strangely. Other than that, there were no bugs. It's really pretty rare for me to find a bug in any video games, actually. The software I use on my Visor is the same. And I've never had my synth give me any problems. Now, obviously, all of these other platforms share one thing in common: they are not moving targets. My PS2 is the same as everyone else's. There are a few models of Visors and Palms, but generally, they haven't changed terribly. And a Korg X5D is a Korg X5D no matter where you go. This, I think, is the major problem with PC software- the hardware and software environments are always changing. Anyone that's written software for Windows knows this is a gigantic problem. I wrote a simple program that used the WININET API, and the functions to open a connection worked fine on 98, 2k, and XP, but not at all in ME. The CreateIconFromResource function wouldn't work at all in 2k without installing the service pack. While working on this program, it became painfully apparent why end-user software doesn't always behave as expected.
Eh. I like violent games. I like depressing music. I'm a very polite guy. I'm extremely happy. I don't see your connection. I think you won't find more people like myself replying to such posts as yours and the original because we realize that other people have valid opinions and that sometimes they try to pass off their opinions as fact (whether they realize it or not). There's no point in trying to change someone else.
I'm not going to aggrandize these arts- I don't think I'm really comforted by the content of the games and music mentioned, but I am certainly comfortable with their subject matter.
I live nearby (Lake Ariel, not the trailer park bits, though), and I can attest to the shit-holiness of Wilkes-Barre. If you're going to go anywhere in PA, don't make it W-B.
Bias disclaimer: I don't much care either way about free software or not (though I have a slight bit of opposition to it for reasons too complex to explain here).
I don't see how having a proprietary software portion of a business aids the free software portion. Only one half of that company is going to bring in any serious cash, and I'll let you guess which. What would the point be of sustaining the free half, then?
What I find more interesting is that Alan Cox will be working for Red Hat as long as he's doing GPL'd development.
Oh, sure, he won't be on the payroll, but his work will benefit the company.
'Also, imagine this with me. If you have two of those devices storing light, and one beams light to another, what's in the middle will get "iluminated forever"?'
Sure, if light happens to not reflect off toward the viewer and isn't weakened with distance.
Here're a few nebulous bits from the site to keep the skeptics going:
ZeoSync intentionally randomizes naturally occurring patterns to form entropy-like random sequences through its patent pending technology known as Zero Space Tuner(TM). Once randomized, ZeoSync's BinaryAccelerator(TM) encodes these singular-bit-variance strings within complex combinatorial series to result in massively reduced BitPerfect(TM) equivalents. The combined TunerAccelerator(TM) is expected to be commercially available during 2003.
According to Peter St. George, founder and CEO of ZeoSync and lead developer of the technology: "What we've developed is a new plateau in communications theory. Through the manipulation of binary information and translation to complex multidimensional mathematical entities, we are expecting to produce the enormous capacity of analogue signaling, with the benefit of the noise free integrity of digital communications. We perceive this advancement as a significant breakthrough to the historical limitations of digital communications as it was originally detailed by Dr. Claude Shannon in his treatise on Information Theory." [C.E. Shannon. A Mathematical Theory of Communication. Bell System Technical Journal, 27:379-423, 623-656, 1948]
"There are potentially fantastic ramifications of this new approach in both communications and storage," St. George continued. "By significantly reducing the size of data strings, we can envision products that will reduce the cost of communications and, more importantly, improve the quality of life for people around the world regardless of where they live."
[note - It appears to cure cancer and solve the issue of world hunger]
...These are methods that are derived from classical physics and statistical mechanics and quantum theory, and at the highest level, this mathematical breakthrough has enabled two classical scientific methods to be improved, Huffman Compression and Arithmetic Compression, both industry standards for the past fifty years...
I personally would have gone with a triangular base running along the whole bottom of the LCD panel. That's just my opinion, though, and I'm not on the crack/pedestal that Jobs is.
No, that aspect isn't complicated, but you seem to have felt the need to make it that way. All he was asking was whether Konqueror would allow him to browse the web; a simple "yes" would have sufficed.
When someone asks me if they just use IE to browse the web under Windows, I tell them "yes," not "Oh, yeah, but there're Mozilla, Opera, and a bunch of other browsers."
Well, nobody ever told me explicitly that -5000 + 5000 = 0, but I was able to deduce it. Similarly, if I were to take an ASCII code, get the character that corresponds to it, and then get the ASCII code of the character the previous function gave me, you'd think I'd be back where I started.
Yeah, great, let's charge them to interface with the proprietary product. Unfortunately, there's a flaw in this logic: There's no incentive to move to OSS.
Instead of people going, "Jeez, if I switch to OSS, I wouldn't even have to pay for this dumb Exchange connector," they're going to say, "Hmm, I have to pay for Outlook, I have to pay for Evolution (if I want it to function fully with my existing setup,) why bother introducing another OS and mail client into my network?" OSS zealots are very keen on the fact that MS wins on the basis of the end-user's perception of its products. If OSS and MS products are perceived in the same manner, there's no reason for someone to leave MS.
All this does is enforce the idea that the user made the correct choice in choosing MS Exchange.
Besides, I don't think Ximian would be too happy if everyone switched to plain old IMAP. They _want_ people to use their add-on, because otherwise they'd be cashless, which I sense is going to happen anyway.
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Funny, your paper bag code contains errors. Back to those C classes. =)
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All this in an attempt to be clever in displaying your knowledge of C, and you wound up missing the tiny fact that there is a memset immediately following the declaration. [sigh]
Though they're not very interesting, I have encountered at least two bugs in MS' famed product line. In Win2k without an SP applied, CreateIconFromResource is hopelessly broken. Also, strangely enough, the WININET functions tend to break unpredictably on WinME.
I can agree that most of the software I've used on my PC has had at least a few bugs. It's worth noting that I run nothing but OSS/Free software, so this can't be pinned on MS.
However, most of the software I've used that wasn't on the PC had no obvious bugs. I found one bug in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 that involved a reflection in a window in an out-of-the-way location being rendered strangely. Other than that, there were no bugs. It's really pretty rare for me to find a bug in any video games, actually. The software I use on my Visor is the same. And I've never had my synth give me any problems. Now, obviously, all of these other platforms share one thing in common: they are not moving targets. My PS2 is the same as everyone else's. There are a few models of Visors and Palms, but generally, they haven't changed terribly. And a Korg X5D is a Korg X5D no matter where you go. This, I think, is the major problem with PC software- the hardware and software environments are always changing.
Anyone that's written software for Windows knows this is a gigantic problem. I wrote a simple program that used the WININET API, and the functions to open a connection worked fine on 98, 2k, and XP, but not at all in ME. The CreateIconFromResource function wouldn't work at all in 2k without installing the service pack. While working on this program, it became painfully apparent why end-user software doesn't always behave as expected.
Eh. I like violent games. I like depressing music. I'm a very polite guy. I'm extremely happy. I don't see your connection. I think you won't find more people like myself replying to such posts as yours and the original because we realize that other people have valid opinions and that sometimes they try to pass off their opinions as fact (whether they realize it or not). There's no point in trying to change someone else.
I'm not going to aggrandize these arts- I don't think I'm really comforted by the content of the games and music mentioned, but I am certainly comfortable with their subject matter.
I live nearby (Lake Ariel, not the trailer park bits, though), and I can attest to the shit-holiness of Wilkes-Barre. If you're going to go anywhere in PA, don't make it W-B.
See #1 above about "You're". There's plenty of female capitalists as well.
Hmmm... and where's #3, the note about the difference between "there is" and "there are"?
Bias disclaimer: I don't much care either way about free software or not (though I have a slight bit of opposition to it for reasons too complex to explain here).
I don't see how having a proprietary software portion of a business aids the free software portion. Only one half of that company is going to bring in any serious cash, and I'll let you guess which. What would the point be of sustaining the free half, then?
...into a full PDA"
Except the person that posted the story.
When somebody writes in with an Outlook problem, steer them toward Pine or Mutt.
"Pat, help me, I can't get my e-mail!"
"Oh, well, Susan, just reformat your hard drive, install Linux, configure Pine or Mutt (and Fetchmail if you'd like), and I'll help you from there."
"Thanks, Pat! You're my hero!"
What I find more interesting is that Alan Cox will be working for Red Hat as long as he's doing GPL'd development.
Oh, sure, he won't be on the payroll, but his work will benefit the company.
'Also, imagine this with me. If you have two of those devices storing light, and one beams light to another, what's in the middle will get "iluminated forever"?'
Sure, if light happens to not reflect off toward the viewer and isn't weakened with distance.
Here're a few nebulous bits from the site to keep the skeptics going:
ZeoSync intentionally randomizes naturally occurring patterns to form entropy-like random sequences through its patent pending technology known as Zero Space Tuner(TM). Once randomized, ZeoSync's BinaryAccelerator(TM) encodes these singular-bit-variance strings within complex combinatorial series to result in massively reduced BitPerfect(TM) equivalents. The combined TunerAccelerator(TM) is expected to be commercially available during 2003.
According to Peter St. George, founder and CEO of ZeoSync and lead developer of the technology: "What we've developed is a new plateau in communications theory. Through the manipulation of binary information and translation to complex multidimensional mathematical entities, we are expecting to produce the enormous capacity of analogue signaling, with the benefit of the noise free integrity of digital communications. We perceive this advancement as a significant breakthrough to the historical limitations of digital communications as it was originally detailed by Dr. Claude Shannon in his treatise on Information Theory." [C.E. Shannon. A Mathematical Theory of Communication. Bell System Technical Journal, 27:379-423, 623-656, 1948]
"There are potentially fantastic ramifications of this new approach in both communications and storage," St. George continued. "By significantly reducing the size of data strings, we can envision products that will reduce the cost of communications and, more importantly, improve the quality of life for people around the world regardless of where they live."
[note - It appears to cure cancer and solve the issue of world hunger]
...These are methods that are derived from classical physics and statistical mechanics and quantum theory, and at the highest level, this mathematical breakthrough has enabled two classical scientific methods to be improved, Huffman Compression and Arithmetic Compression, both industry standards for the past fifty years...
I personally would have gone with a triangular base running along the whole bottom of the LCD panel. That's just my opinion, though, and I'm not on the crack/pedestal that Jobs is.
As far as the stealing goes, why not place the swivel base inside of a locked portion of a table and put the monitor stem through a hole?
Preach on, brother, preach on...
"I like to play children's songs in minor keys."
Ahh, good, so I'm not the only one.
No, that aspect isn't complicated, but you seem to have felt the need to make it that way. All he was asking was whether Konqueror would allow him to browse the web; a simple "yes" would have sufficed.
When someone asks me if they just use IE to browse the web under Windows, I tell them "yes," not "Oh, yeah, but there're Mozilla, Opera, and a bunch of other browsers."
Though I'm a bit cautious about him, I like his views on wher "Atlantis" could be because they coincide with my own hypothesis. =)
Well, nobody ever told me explicitly that -5000 + 5000 = 0, but I was able to deduce it. Similarly, if I were to take an ASCII code, get the character that corresponds to it, and then get the ASCII code of the character the previous function gave me, you'd think I'd be back where I started.
It's not wasted money if someone gets to eat because MS paid them to do it.
I bet you think FDR's New Deal was a waste of money, too.
Man, you're obviously not from Brooklyn. 20 blocks is nothing- my mom and I used to walk four to eight miles per day, easily.
I've been saying that forever. I think it should be part of the Slashdot logo.
No, the newsforge article explicitly states that this was not the reason.
Yeah, great, let's charge them to interface with the proprietary product. Unfortunately, there's a flaw in this logic: There's no incentive to move to OSS.
Instead of people going, "Jeez, if I switch to OSS, I wouldn't even have to pay for this dumb Exchange connector," they're going to say, "Hmm, I have to pay for Outlook, I have to pay for Evolution (if I want it to function fully with my existing setup,) why bother introducing another OS and mail client into my network?" OSS zealots are very keen on the fact that MS wins on the basis of the end-user's perception of its products. If OSS and MS products are perceived in the same manner, there's no reason for someone to leave MS.
All this does is enforce the idea that the user made the correct choice in choosing MS Exchange.
Besides, I don't think Ximian would be too happy if everyone switched to plain old IMAP. They _want_ people to use their add-on, because otherwise they'd be cashless, which I sense is going to happen anyway.
Funny, your paper bag code contains errors. Back to those C classes. =)