With that, I'm not surprised that MS bought all them Apple machines.
Oh wait. They actually do Apple software.
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Since we're into the whole "Witness" mood, I might as well tell my story. It's quite the backwards version of yours though. I went to college at 5'11", weighing about 175. I came back the first year at about 205, I drank entirely too much beer, and didn't exercise very much at all. After this, my second year was no better.
After that, I transfered schools and got involved at the Y. I started running for 10 minutes, then hitting the weight room. I lost about 30 pounds in two weeks, and gained about 20 after that. I was trim, but I didn't really care about my diet that much. In fact, I still don't care about my diet that much. I realize that I need to get a good amount of fat, protein, and carbs... I generally veer towards the first two out of default: they taste better.
My carb intake spikes on weekends, when I'm sampling my collection of fine beers. I'm not too concerned about it though. I figure that I'll burn off any excess on Monday, because I typically do. My routine is fairly full-body, I start with 20-30 minutes of aerobic exercise (usually elipticals because I really don't run well at all). I then go to power cleans, squats, low-rows, and bench. I finish off with biceps, triceps, deltoids and trapezius, and then work on abs.
I don't have a six-pack. In fact, I don't want one. I do have good muscle mass, and could be considered "overweight" by the typical carbo-munching skinny-boy marathon runner scale. I'm 5'11", and weight about 210 lb. I guess I could pass as a football player, but I'm more one for the band.
Weight training is quite possibly the best way to target fat on your body. Running and doing tons of aerobics will burn fat, especially if you go long enough (we're talking >30 minutes), but it's the anaerobics that burn fat immediately. When recommending an exercise routine, I would recommend rounding out your cardio with some sort of weight training. You will see benefits with one or the other, but not as many with both.
That... doesn't make much sense. It's the HDL that is good for you, because it functions as the bullet that breaks up the LDL and VLDL (which both are the big artery cloggers.)
It just makes sense though. HDL is going to be jam packed, and will not be able to bind to anything. It's also smaller, and much faster moving, and also vacates the body much quicker. The LDL/VLDL is the stuff that congeals like butter in your arteries.
I've got a conspiracy theory in the back of my mind that all of the food companies (Kraft, Swanson, yada) cooked up this "study," because they have made such a huge investment in the "Low Fat" trend.
The best way to control your blood pH is by drinking water. You're a chemistry buff, you should know how dilution works. If you're saying that the pH of your blood was so wacked that it caused kidney failure, I'm willing to bet that you spent most of your time sucking down soda and beer... sugar dehydrates you, and alcohol is an ADHI (Anti-Diuretic-Hormone-Inhibitor).
Don't go bad-mouthing ketosis and the diet by virtue of ketones and imbalanced blood pH, because the actual diets recommend regulation of the pH through sufficient amounts of water.
Ketosis is like driving at highway speeds, yes. Ketosis while drinking lots of water is like those speeds in the middle on Arizona, on a very flat and straight road. Ketosis without water is a very foolish thing to do indeed.
I imagine creating an ISO filesystem with the Linux loopback device, and then setting it to read and write would be similar. Of course this isn't possible with Windows.
It would be nice to see a file CD-R driver... Then I could test "burn" things to an ISO, then burn the ISO itself.
Making a parody of something is not the same as using the same exact characters. The cease and desist was about the usage of a copyrighted character. The cover of the magazine was definitely not making a parody, nor was it even explicitly declared that the work was not Groening's. People would buy the magazine thinking that Groening had somehow contributed to it.
The cease and desist letter, then, is not a stupid thing at all. If I took your mug, and plastered it on a "Black Man Killing Machine," wouldn't you do the same thing? Yes, the magnitude of the crime is different, but the crime is the same. Groening had an obligation to send the letter and threaten action, otherwise he would have to allow anyone to stick his characters on anything.
First of all, it would be a tool to spread awareness of the hacking culture to the ignorant, and there are plenty of those people. People will be curious, they'll ask, and you'll say that it's the emblem of a group of people that provide some of the highest quality software on Earth.
Of course, they'll think that it's a company or something, maybe even think that it's a new MS logo or something, but then you clarify... "And get this, it's all free and open!" People get a little surprised at that type of thing.
Now, if only we could get them to remember those tidbits that you drop at work when they get home after work. Most people I know, if I tell them about a great OSS tool and what it does, even if I demonstrate it, they'll come to me in a week and wonder what the same thing is. This might just be fixed if they saw the logo around.
Yeah, I think that this logo could become the "flare" of the 2000's, but that's when subversion comes into play (and not the new repository thing). We just need some 1337 H4X0R to post a site with a "fake" hacker logo, and then they'll glom onto it. Of course, this logo has to be complicated, involve lots of color, and look really cool on a T-shirt. Then, all you real hackers and hacker supporters can sit back and chuckle, and be content with your own little sublime logo.
Go to Borland's Website and check out their preview of C# Builder, or go here to see their preview of Octane (Delphi for.NET). Both "previews" are available as flash (maybe shockwave, I can't tell the difference). Both "previews" are very graphical, make use of music, and even show an application being built.
Of course, there's no actual information present, and both of the "previews" suck major ass. They aren't really useful at all, except to maybe provide entertainment to those PHB's who are drooling at their desks while tripping on acid.
Needless to say, my desire to purchase either product (C# builder or Octane) is not encouraged in any way. Then again, the price of both does little in that way as well. They probably would have been better off selling Octane as a "Snap-In" extension for Visual Studio than trying to pawn it off as a new IDE.
heh. They only changed the icons and the window shapes... And it's all usable from Gentoo.
I remember the reactions though. People thought that Gnome and KDE were going to be "Integrated," or whatever that means. If you have Qt installed, you ought to be able to run KDE apps from within GNOME, and vice versa.
I run KDevelop from Gnome without a problem. I did this before Redhat went all Icon crazy. I still have a hard time believing that people are so against change that they object to "prettifying" the superfluous parts of a desktop.
At install time, they should allow for the location of "Documents and Settings" to exist on a separate hard disk than just "C:." That's my main bitch. I went through hell to get my "program files" folder on a separate HD, which I then mounted under the "Program Files" folder on my C: drive.
Windows just doesn't have the... niceness that UNIX and it's kin have.
Bill Gates has a history of 'betting the company'. And as 'Chief Software Architect', this time round the final responsibility for any misdesigns lies clearly and personally with Bill. So I can see how he'd be well in favour of spending *whatever* it costs to finally build a secure, reliable, patchable, maintainable OS on personal as well as commercial grounds.
Titles are just that: titles. They mean next to nothing. Bill Gates will be just as responsible for the next release of Windows as he is responsible for the releases of Windows up to that point. Think on it a second... When you hear "Microsoft's President," or "Microsoft's CEO," or "Microsoft's Representative," do you really think of Stevie Boy, or do you get a mental picture of Billie Boy? I sure see Gates whenever I hear those words, and have to think to remember that he usually isn't any of them.
Bill has been the chief motivator, chief "ethical" businessman, and chief faceplate of Microsoft for years and years. When people have a Win98 machine that crashes constantly, they swear "F*ck XX" where XX could be Microsoft or Bill Gates.
I imagine that now, Bill has gotten the picture, and has decided to be a little more open about what he's doing. If it isn't him that motivates, then it's the developers themselves. A movement from within is really the only thing that could push Bill one way or the other, but he probably doesn't even realize that the developers are being open about what they are doing.
But is that entirely wrong? A business is a business is a business. They aren't exercising monopoly powers or anything, they're just releasing developer information for the new version of Windows.
If I were running a business, this would be the things that I'd be doing as well. If it were to be construed as trying to distract developers from OSS alternative, I probably wouldn't give a rat's ass. If it did distract, then it was effective at more than it's actual purpose... But that's not a bad thing.
If MS decided to go to MS shops, and tell them that if they want continued support for MS products, they would have to pay money to upgrade... that's a bad thing. heh.. not like it's ever happened.;-)
If they're C++ old hands, then they are probably writing it in C++. Yes... C++ is offered as a managed language in.NET. However, I highly doubt that they are writing the core components in managed code.
What they might be doing, though, is re-writing their regular C++ compiler so that it checks for boundry errors and such. They're keeping COM around, since MS's version of.NET needs it. Windows Server 2003 is mostly COM, with.NET sitting on top, which is why it suffers many of the same vulnerabilities that Win2K and WinXP have.
What they will change, however, is the API. They might keep win32 around, deprecating it so that developers won't use it, and just promote pure.NET for development of applications. All those snap-ins, folder explorers, games, notepads, yada, will be written for.NET.
Another thing that bugs me is the insistance that.NET has a VM. It's got an inline compiler that compiles code upon first execution, yes, but subsequent executions are made from the compiled form of the code. Everything would be a bit sluggish at first, but blazing afterwards.
Miguel probably knows more about how it's supposed to work.
Another good thing about competition (for consumers) is that it tends to drop the prices. I have a hard time believing that an iPod costs so much to manufacture, that it has to carry a pricetag of $300+. If Apple sold for $20 over OEM parts, assembly and shipping, the iPod might be cheaper, and Apple would still be making a profit.
How big is the HD? All of the Rio's that I've seen are somewhere in the neighborhood of 128 MB to 512 MB. I think they all have flash drives, which isn't too shabby, but it also limits the storage capacity.
With an IPod, I could load up a crapload of music onto it, at good quality, and probably never have to sync up again.
Make them fill in contact information when creating the accounts, and then actually verify the existance of said person prior to allowing them to post. That would take care of the anonymity issue.
Yeah, it is a bit of work. No, it isn't too difficult to make a quick phone call. Besides, if all goes well, you might actually net a few of the spammers.
heh... functional languages are usually confusing to imperative programmers in general. I remember learning Scheme for the first time. I had a hell of a time unlearning the imperative thought process. After that, I had to learn the thought process of the lambda calculus. The lambda calculus way of thinking is foriegn to most people, which in turn leads to confusion.
I'm not saying that continuations are bad, but rather I understand where the statement about confusion came from.
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I think he was asking whether or not MS was going to write the office suite in C#, not just make it available as a peice-gluer. I read somewhere that MS was going to write.NET versions of most of their client software, but not do it for things like the OS, SQL Server, and various other projects that deal with internals.
COM will never go away, but MS will do it's best to wrap.Net around it so that developers don't have to deal with COM.
Pascal is not meant for serious programming like C is, but Pascal has sorta grown into this business application language, and is far from obsolete.
You also cannot do anything in C++ that you can in C. You can do this in C, but not C++:
void f();/* argument types not mentioned */
void g() { f(2);/* poor style C. Not C++ */ }
Or...
void* malloc(size_t);
void f(int n) { int* p = malloc(n*sizeof(char));/* not C++. In C++, allocate using `new' */ char c; void* pv = &c; int* pi = pv;/* implicit conversion of void* to int*. Not in C++ */ }
These examples were shamelessly ripped from Bjarne's FAQ, which is available Here.
Yeah, it's a bitching about the graphics of the page.
Would if have been too much work to put separators in the first graphic? The thing is confusing enough, but made more so by leading the person to think that it is one long pattern with six different worms doing their own thing.
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With that, I'm not surprised that MS bought all them Apple machines.
Oh wait. They actually do Apple software.
Since we're into the whole "Witness" mood, I might as well tell my story. It's quite the backwards version of yours though. I went to college at 5'11", weighing about 175. I came back the first year at about 205, I drank entirely too much beer, and didn't exercise very much at all. After this, my second year was no better.
After that, I transfered schools and got involved at the Y. I started running for 10 minutes, then hitting the weight room. I lost about 30 pounds in two weeks, and gained about 20 after that. I was trim, but I didn't really care about my diet that much. In fact, I still don't care about my diet that much. I realize that I need to get a good amount of fat, protein, and carbs... I generally veer towards the first two out of default: they taste better.
My carb intake spikes on weekends, when I'm sampling my collection of fine beers. I'm not too concerned about it though. I figure that I'll burn off any excess on Monday, because I typically do. My routine is fairly full-body, I start with 20-30 minutes of aerobic exercise (usually elipticals because I really don't run well at all). I then go to power cleans, squats, low-rows, and bench. I finish off with biceps, triceps, deltoids and trapezius, and then work on abs.
I don't have a six-pack. In fact, I don't want one. I do have good muscle mass, and could be considered "overweight" by the typical carbo-munching skinny-boy marathon runner scale. I'm 5'11", and weight about 210 lb. I guess I could pass as a football player, but I'm more one for the band.
Weight training is quite possibly the best way to target fat on your body. Running and doing tons of aerobics will burn fat, especially if you go long enough (we're talking >30 minutes), but it's the anaerobics that burn fat immediately. When recommending an exercise routine, I would recommend rounding out your cardio with some sort of weight training. You will see benefits with one or the other, but not as many with both.
That... doesn't make much sense. It's the HDL that is good for you, because it functions as the bullet that breaks up the LDL and VLDL (which both are the big artery cloggers.)
It just makes sense though. HDL is going to be jam packed, and will not be able to bind to anything. It's also smaller, and much faster moving, and also vacates the body much quicker. The LDL/VLDL is the stuff that congeals like butter in your arteries.
I've got a conspiracy theory in the back of my mind that all of the food companies (Kraft, Swanson, yada) cooked up this "study," because they have made such a huge investment in the "Low Fat" trend.
heh... Beer was around back then. That's the only dietary supplement that I require. :-)
The best way to control your blood pH is by drinking water. You're a chemistry buff, you should know how dilution works. If you're saying that the pH of your blood was so wacked that it caused kidney failure, I'm willing to bet that you spent most of your time sucking down soda and beer... sugar dehydrates you, and alcohol is an ADHI (Anti-Diuretic-Hormone-Inhibitor).
Don't go bad-mouthing ketosis and the diet by virtue of ketones and imbalanced blood pH, because the actual diets recommend regulation of the pH through sufficient amounts of water.
Ketosis is like driving at highway speeds, yes. Ketosis while drinking lots of water is like those speeds in the middle on Arizona, on a very flat and straight road. Ketosis without water is a very foolish thing to do indeed.
I imagine creating an ISO filesystem with the Linux loopback device, and then setting it to read and write would be similar. Of course this isn't possible with Windows.
It would be nice to see a file CD-R driver... Then I could test "burn" things to an ISO, then burn the ISO itself.
Or other great user oriented distros out there.
Making a parody of something is not the same as using the same exact characters. The cease and desist was about the usage of a copyrighted character. The cover of the magazine was definitely not making a parody, nor was it even explicitly declared that the work was not Groening's. People would buy the magazine thinking that Groening had somehow contributed to it.
The cease and desist letter, then, is not a stupid thing at all. If I took your mug, and plastered it on a "Black Man Killing Machine," wouldn't you do the same thing? Yes, the magnitude of the crime is different, but the crime is the same. Groening had an obligation to send the letter and threaten action, otherwise he would have to allow anyone to stick his characters on anything.
Not everything needs a point, much like your post. :p
Eh. I don't think it's such a bad thing.
First of all, it would be a tool to spread awareness of the hacking culture to the ignorant, and there are plenty of those people. People will be curious, they'll ask, and you'll say that it's the emblem of a group of people that provide some of the highest quality software on Earth.
Of course, they'll think that it's a company or something, maybe even think that it's a new MS logo or something, but then you clarify... "And get this, it's all free and open!" People get a little surprised at that type of thing.
Now, if only we could get them to remember those tidbits that you drop at work when they get home after work. Most people I know, if I tell them about a great OSS tool and what it does, even if I demonstrate it, they'll come to me in a week and wonder what the same thing is. This might just be fixed if they saw the logo around.
Yeah, I think that this logo could become the "flare" of the 2000's, but that's when subversion comes into play (and not the new repository thing). We just need some 1337 H4X0R to post a site with a "fake" hacker logo, and then they'll glom onto it. Of course, this logo has to be complicated, involve lots of color, and look really cool on a T-shirt. Then, all you real hackers and hacker supporters can sit back and chuckle, and be content with your own little sublime logo.
Go to Borland's Website and check out their preview of C# Builder, or go here to see their preview of Octane (Delphi for .NET). Both "previews" are available as flash (maybe shockwave, I can't tell the difference). Both "previews" are very graphical, make use of music, and even show an application being built.
Of course, there's no actual information present, and both of the "previews" suck major ass. They aren't really useful at all, except to maybe provide entertainment to those PHB's who are drooling at their desks while tripping on acid.
Needless to say, my desire to purchase either product (C# builder or Octane) is not encouraged in any way. Then again, the price of both does little in that way as well. They probably would have been better off selling Octane as a "Snap-In" extension for Visual Studio than trying to pawn it off as a new IDE.
heh. They only changed the icons and the window shapes... And it's all usable from Gentoo.
I remember the reactions though. People thought that Gnome and KDE were going to be "Integrated," or whatever that means. If you have Qt installed, you ought to be able to run KDE apps from within GNOME, and vice versa.
I run KDevelop from Gnome without a problem. I did this before Redhat went all Icon crazy. I still have a hard time believing that people are so against change that they object to "prettifying" the superfluous parts of a desktop.
At install time, they should allow for the location of "Documents and Settings" to exist on a separate hard disk than just "C:." That's my main bitch. I went through hell to get my "program files" folder on a separate HD, which I then mounted under the "Program Files" folder on my C: drive.
Windows just doesn't have the... niceness that UNIX and it's kin have.
Except that your example wouldn't even compile.
The correct way of putting it is:
$error.backcolor=#000000;
Bill Gates has a history of 'betting the company'. And as 'Chief Software Architect', this time round the final responsibility for any misdesigns lies clearly and personally with Bill. So I can see how he'd be well in favour of spending *whatever* it costs to finally build a secure, reliable, patchable, maintainable OS on personal as well as commercial grounds.
Titles are just that: titles. They mean next to nothing. Bill Gates will be just as responsible for the next release of Windows as he is responsible for the releases of Windows up to that point. Think on it a second... When you hear "Microsoft's President," or "Microsoft's CEO," or "Microsoft's Representative," do you really think of Stevie Boy, or do you get a mental picture of Billie Boy? I sure see Gates whenever I hear those words, and have to think to remember that he usually isn't any of them.
Bill has been the chief motivator, chief "ethical" businessman, and chief faceplate of Microsoft for years and years. When people have a Win98 machine that crashes constantly, they swear "F*ck XX" where XX could be Microsoft or Bill Gates.
I imagine that now, Bill has gotten the picture, and has decided to be a little more open about what he's doing. If it isn't him that motivates, then it's the developers themselves. A movement from within is really the only thing that could push Bill one way or the other, but he probably doesn't even realize that the developers are being open about what they are doing.
But is that entirely wrong? A business is a business is a business. They aren't exercising monopoly powers or anything, they're just releasing developer information for the new version of Windows.
If I were running a business, this would be the things that I'd be doing as well. If it were to be construed as trying to distract developers from OSS alternative, I probably wouldn't give a rat's ass. If it did distract, then it was effective at more than it's actual purpose... But that's not a bad thing.
If MS decided to go to MS shops, and tell them that if they want continued support for MS products, they would have to pay money to upgrade... that's a bad thing. heh.. not like it's ever happened. ;-)
If they're C++ old hands, then they are probably writing it in C++. Yes... C++ is offered as a managed language in .NET. However, I highly doubt that they are writing the core components in managed code.
What they might be doing, though, is re-writing their regular C++ compiler so that it checks for boundry errors and such. They're keeping COM around, since MS's version of .NET needs it. Windows Server 2003 is mostly COM, with .NET sitting on top, which is why it suffers many of the same vulnerabilities that Win2K and WinXP have.
What they will change, however, is the API. They might keep win32 around, deprecating it so that developers won't use it, and just promote pure .NET for development of applications. All those snap-ins, folder explorers, games, notepads, yada, will be written for .NET.
Another thing that bugs me is the insistance that .NET has a VM. It's got an inline compiler that compiles code upon first execution, yes, but subsequent executions are made from the compiled form of the code. Everything would be a bit sluggish at first, but blazing afterwards.
Miguel probably knows more about how it's supposed to work.
Another good thing about competition (for consumers) is that it tends to drop the prices. I have a hard time believing that an iPod costs so much to manufacture, that it has to carry a pricetag of $300+. If Apple sold for $20 over OEM parts, assembly and shipping, the iPod might be cheaper, and Apple would still be making a profit.
How big is the HD? All of the Rio's that I've seen are somewhere in the neighborhood of 128 MB to 512 MB. I think they all have flash drives, which isn't too shabby, but it also limits the storage capacity.
With an IPod, I could load up a crapload of music onto it, at good quality, and probably never have to sync up again.
Make them fill in contact information when creating the accounts, and then actually verify the existance of said person prior to allowing them to post. That would take care of the anonymity issue.
Yeah, it is a bit of work. No, it isn't too difficult to make a quick phone call. Besides, if all goes well, you might actually net a few of the spammers.
Why not just ban the IP for 24 hours. That would work better.
heh... functional languages are usually confusing to imperative programmers in general. I remember learning Scheme for the first time. I had a hell of a time unlearning the imperative thought process. After that, I had to learn the thought process of the lambda calculus. The lambda calculus way of thinking is foriegn to most people, which in turn leads to confusion.
I'm not saying that continuations are bad, but rather I understand where the statement about confusion came from.
I think he was asking whether or not MS was going to write the office suite in C#, not just make it available as a peice-gluer. I read somewhere that MS was going to write .NET versions of most of their client software, but not do it for things like the OS, SQL Server, and various other projects that deal with internals.
COM will never go away, but MS will do it's best to wrap .Net around it so that developers don't have to deal with COM.
Wrong.
Pascal is not meant for serious programming like C is, but Pascal has sorta grown into this business application language, and is far from obsolete.
You also cannot do anything in C++ that you can in C. You can do this in C, but not C++:
Or...
These examples were shamelessly ripped from Bjarne's FAQ, which is available Here.
Yeah, it's a bitching about the graphics of the page.
Would if have been too much work to put separators in the first graphic? The thing is confusing enough, but made more so by leading the person to think that it is one long pattern with six different worms doing their own thing.