Totally with you... too bad they contracted Lockheed and therefore nothing will come of it.
$20 million for a new X-Prize would have been a much better idea. Chances of an X-Prize succeeding is about 50% where chances of a $20 million contract to Lockheed coming to anything other than asking for more money is 0%.
How many failed projects due to gross mismanagement of finances will NASA suffer before realizing that giving Lockheed money is just never a good idea.
Were you scrolling through all the comments looking for an opportunity to express your superiority? So, he seems to have read or recall something technical and possibly moderately intelligent about the aircraft. He also makes reference to programs no one else remembers. I honestly have no idea what he's talking about but he sound pretty darn smart to me.
Then you come along and the best you have to offer is to attempt to degrade him for his spelling of a name? You know you missed a few punctuation and other grammar issues in his posting.
How do you feel about the finer points of pronouncing "wingardium leviosa" vs "wingardium leviosah"?
The instant that the name Lockheed showed up, we knew for a fact that this is simply a means of siphoning $20 million of US taxpayer money into the wallets of Lockheed Execs. Before they're through, they'll invest the $20 million into getting $100 million to finished the project "they underestimated the complexity of" and by that, it means that they couldn't figure out how to split $20 million between more than 2 crooks.
Lockheed can't do anything for under a billion dollars. The breakdown is $50 million to do the job and deliver and $950 million into the pockets of people employed entirely by lockheed to suck more money out of the federal budget.
Lockheed is probably the #1 reason we were never able to advance further in the space program before SpaceX and others came around. Lockheed and Boeing have absolutely no interest in building the future. They only ever cared about building bank accounts. When was the last time Lockheed actually managed to do anything related to space without going 20 times over budget and more often than not simply cancelling the project? With how many times Lockheed has screwed NASA, when will the tax payer demand that NASA finds a more reliable source?
Yes I know Lockheed is probably one of the only companies big enough to handle these projects... but make a new X-Prize. Put $20 million in the account for the winner. It certainly worked for space... even now, NASA has been able to move most of their launches away from Russia and rockets are launching more and more reliably every day by a company which is agile and doesn't bitch after every step "We need more money". Bezos will be there before long as well. Bigelow will build space stations. Who the hell needs Lockheed or Boeing in space anymore... they don't even remember which way to point to find it.
So put together another X-Prize... grab the attention of the next Musk wannabe and build a new aircraft industry that is agile and brilliant. Using Lockheed or Boeing is just asking to kill it.
Bickerdyke.... odd name... sounds dangerous... you just cost me like 190 Euro after shipping and MVA with that stinking link. I didn't know I could buy Kool-Aid on this side of the ocean.
To be fair, I come from a really long history of bringing multi-million line projects to up to 80 different platforms (everything from Symbian to Mac to Qnx to Nintendo Wii) and from the beginning of the project focused 100% on portability to begin with... I chose C# because C is for OS Kernels (write those too) and C# is for apps. They're the two universal languages in the sense that they are the two languages who can access APIs on any platform.
I found that with good planning, I have been able to make a program which runs on Windows Store, Windows Desktop, Mac OS X, iPad and Android using all native UI components as well as pixel perfect print support with less effort than I ever put into with Qt or my own homegrown. As a result, I can't really imagine ever writing in anything else again. I let me focus on learning platform APIs and not screwing around with things like SWIG or crazy assed Android C++ adapters.
Oh... let's not forget that by managing my data structures intelligently (my document format is almost as complex as Microsoft Word's), I was able to outperform manually management memory schemas every time and by hooking the garbage collector I was able to implement a memory defragmentor which I've done in C++ in the past and required so much template hell that the code became unmaintainable. By defragging the memory through the GC, I was able to take advantage of language level relocation and as a result, the code is readable and manageable... oh... and quite a bit more performance efficient since it generally runs as a FSM during idle cycles.
C# allowed me through a single language to quickly implement about half a million lines of code and focus more on productivity and less on dicking around with things like SWIFT compiler errors and warnings which look like "Something is wrong an caused a parser error within a 100 lines of line 241 that makes this line think it's a chicken.. please call again later when you comment out 90% of your file and restructure you code to manually find the actual error".
C# compiler errors suck too, but at least the Visual Studio GUI makes it pretty easy to drill down to root cause.
I'll say this much, they started as a development tool company, they always nailed the development tool thing and now with LLVM support offering C standard compliance directly within Visual Studio, I think Microsoft has really nailed it.
Now if they throw enough money at compiling for Mac and iPhone without a Mac that would be awesome. Programming in XCode is so painfully slow it's unbareable. If you made the mistake of buying a Mac Pro and are wondering why it's so damn slow, install Windows 10 on it and use Visual Studio instead and run OS X in a virtual machine to compile against. It's a HUGE improvement.
Last thing to fix I think is getting remote app support for iPhone simulator. Then make it so if I press F5, I get just that Window. I'm using iRapp at the moment which isn't awful, but it's a bit intrusive.
Honestly, I'm kinda with matty on this. I don't really see this as an advertisement. I see this as something that genuinely will be a boon to me since I do all my development using Visual Studio and C# and just yesterday was heading to Xamarin's website to purchase a license and now I think I'll hold off a little since I think it will be part of my MSDN subscription soon.
If it is an advertisement, it kinda worked backwards, I'm going to spend like $2000 less (2 platforms) per year now because of this information. So, Microsoft kinda just lost the $2000 I was about to give them company they're buying.
I remember those types of books fondly and regularly purchased them as well as the academic ones since they were often used to by the developers of the production software themselves. I miss the days of when Mark Russonovich would write entire books about file systems. I miss when Linux programming reference manuals actual were more than just man page dumps. How about when Michael Abrash was rocking the world with graphics books?
There's a real problem. As a man-whore who used to be a programmer but no makes a living licking boots and climbing under desks (I'm an IT consultant and instructor... it pays A LOT more than programming... 4.5x as much actually) I regularly am approached by the big companies about writing books or courses on different topics. The fact is, there is just not enough money in technical books precisely because google is so reliable that companies aren't interested in writing them unless they are purely academic text books they can force students to buy every semester for obscene amounts.
I calculated based on the last offer I received.. it would have been an official certification guide for a major technology. It probably would be able to sell 50,000 copies in 2016 and 2017. The offer I received to write the book would have limited me to about 320 pages and would have paid me approximately $0.80 an hour if I did the job properly.
The answer is that you won't find these types of books anymore.
You can get a little more technical though.
1) UEFI programmer's guide is no too bad. It's not overly informative since the boot process of a modern operating system isn't really as interesting as it used to be. Not only that, there's no real standard beyond the basic file structure to define the boot process. Everything else is really quite dynamic. It's not like when we had to manage to write most of the code to load an OS in 450 bytes because the rest was the partition table.
2) GUID partition tables are really a tricky one. I learned this one by reading the source code to several Linux partitioning utilities. Even now, I struggle to understand how to make a partition resizer which doesn't damage this structure too badly. Of course, I haven't really found myself interested in it.
3) Windows booting. This is pretty well documented in the Windows Driver Development Kit (or whatever it's called this week). It's not awesome documentation, but it really isn't bad. Ever since Windows 8 when they made the major overhaul, it's been probably the most elegant driver structure in any OS. I recommend spending some time with it. Before that it was a nightmare. Today, you can even do driver development directly in Visual Studio (or emacs if you have mental illnesses) and debug directly on a VM or remote machine. The structure has done away with the antiquated linux style and started working towards making something which could provide some decent structure in the OS. Mac OS X is probably still the nicest, but their code quality isn't really what it used to be.
4) Windows structure. Like most OSes, this is currently set in stone and will stay like that for a while. You can try two fairly useful methods.
a) Download the leaked NT4 and Windows 2000 source code files you find online. They are far from complete as they were really just the bits of code licensed from Microsoft to make an alternative to Wine. But they are really really useful.... or so I've heard as I've never seen it myself of course.
b) Download the official source code to Windows CE. It's 100% complete and legit and is an excellent means of learning a great deal about the Win32/64 design approach.
5) Linux structure I can't make any recommendations on this. There were some excellent books back in the early days. These days, it's pretty much read the code. Nearly every page I encounter via Google is either half finished, inaccurate, lacking editing, out-of-date... after all these years, there's not a single series of man pages or help files or anyt
Congrats, you're the moron that when asked a question like "What is the reasoning behind the time zone structure and why can't we just use GMT offsets?", you would respond with "I prefer papayas".
Do you ever take a moment to review your own answers to see if there is any relevance whatsoever to the conversation or do you prefer to just let others smell the diarrhea flowing from your mouth?
I am very happy for you... it seems that not only did you manage to find a program or a tool that suites your needs and makes you happy, but you also seemed to join a religion and if you are truly truly lucky, one day you'll be able to lick the toe jam from Richard Stallman.
The original poster asked a legitimate question which was related to learning how to best understand the internal structure of modern operating systems, boot loaders and maybe even EFI along the way.
This is your chance... a great chance... a true chance to read a question and try and understand what it means, interpret it and formulate a meaningful response that can provide assistance or at least be moderately relevant to the topic. Can you rise to this challenge or shall we hear more about your papayas?
Consider that 40% of humans on earth probably doesn't even understand the question. For that fact, probably most people lack the ability to understand cause and effect beyond what is clearly spelled out to them at the given time in the given context. As such, their decision making process is limited to "Terrorism bad. Terrorism scary. Stop terrorism."
It's the world's dilemma. How do you give people freedom and give them the rights of humanity to be part of the process of choosing representation? Consider what you end up with as leaders using fair rules. You get Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush and Obama. With those kind of choices, we know it's obvious that the current system is failing. The Romans tried an alternative which was to provide weights for voters based on social class. This of course was a less than optimal system because a higher class didn't necessarily mean a smarter person... in fact, it really only meant a wealthier person. So, do we try a system which provides weights to votes based on IQ tests?
Consider this... I've asked this question in rooms full of technical people. I asked how many of them were likely to spend the time on the phone answering questions. The result was an overwhelming "not me". Does this mean that the technical people are giving up their right to be represented because some idiot at Pew report couldn't get anyone but rednecks that can't comprehend the repercussions of such a decision?
Notice, it clearly said telephone calls. What kind of people even talk to these people anymore? What's worse is... do we have an alternative that is better? How would you sample "The American Public"? How would you choose 1000 people throughout America that would represent a sample set? Would you include a physicist from MIT? Would you find a black woman in a trailer home in Alabama? Would you find a 18 year old Jew studying talmud in Omaha? Would you find a 67 year old Imam in a Mosque in Mississippi (is there such a thing?). After you ask them the obvious question, would you explain to them why it's even worth asking the about? Would you explain that this would set a legal precedent that could give the government the power they need to snoop more and more into their own information? Would you ask the again after that? Would you note how their opinions changed when you gave them a new "This is bad... don't do this" feeling? Would you be gaining their opinions or would you be dictating your opinion to them? Would that change whether this represented the Americans as now you've "educated them" and changed their perspective?
The system is completely flawed, but there's no alternative. mass stupidity represents the wide scale human species.We have no way to limit the vast scope of stupid and we can't cure it and we can't leave stupid unrepresented because they do in fact represent the majority.
The problem is... we also can't use the results of some telephone survey to make decisions because it leaves too many other groups unrepresented. Why not ask Pew how many phone calls they had to make to get 1000 responses? That should be enough to disprove the validity of such a report.
First of all, you have no idea what a republican or what communism is... that's ok... 99% of the people in the world don't.
American republicans have pretty much absolutely nothing to do with what a republican is. In fact, a republican and a communist is almost the same thing. Compare Marx and Plato's writings and you'll find they're very similar by Plato comes dangerously close to Scientology at times.
I am for example a communist... and I am a capitalist. I earn as much money as I need and then quite a bit more to pay large amounts of taxes to attempt to redistribute wealth so the guy working at the gas station around the corner for minimum wage will have additional money to live closer by or afford the higher cost of commuting to work. I don't resent him for not trying harder to be more in life. If everyone did, then who would run the gas station which I need. So, I need him to be satisfied collecting the salary his boss pays him while my tax money helps subsidize his income to make him feel motivated enough to do a good job without fear of greater monthly debt.
Welfare is an incredibly important component of civilization. I makes it possible for all of us to benefit. In order for my personal wealth to increase, the general value of said wealth needs to decrease through inflation. Therefore as I earn more, the money I "borrowed" when I was younger will be less expensive for me to pay as I get older. The lower earning classes will continue to be paid less and their ability to negotiate better wages will impede their ability to increase at the same rate as the people like me. They also won't accumulate as much legitimate debt that will leave them with assets increasing in value while the debt decreases. As such, they will never establish themselves and will always require our assistance to provide the services we need like washing the car, mowing the lawn, cleaning the house, etc...
So we pay welfare which is basically paying the wages we should have payed at the cash register to Walmart but instead, we trust the government to pass the additional cost to the people who work at Walmart more than we trust Walmart who actually pays dividends each quarter roughly equal to the amount of welfare being paid to their employees. By doing so, we produce more jobs... at walmart... requiring more welfare to be paid... to allow higher dividends to be paid... to produce more jobs.... etc...
The truth is, whether you support communism and wealth redistribution or not, it will happen all the same... that is of course if you want to buy that $0.39 cheese burger or if you want to get service at that restaurant. Those people need medicine and food. If they can't afford it with our help, they'll instead run themselves into debt which becomes acceptable since when a person feels they can't make ends meet no matter how much they work, they will take on debt and default on it with a clear conscience since they feel like it's no different than bending the rules on a game which is designed specifically to keep them from winning. So, they resort to the "white lie" version of stealing. And instead of trying to solve this problem, we instead treat them with resent and bitch that because "if they wanted more than $7.50 an hour, they should have studied" when in reality, if they did, they would be taking our jobs and nobody would be there to ask us if we want fries with that.
Either you choose to structure a system which supports keeping these people fed, healthy and hopefully with enough money that they can in fact budget it and make do... or you force them into higher paying position leaving the service industry stripped of the labor.... or you leave it as it is, with millions of people digging deeper debt... systems tightening the nooses on them... people being forced more and more into desperation and desperate acts... then people going to prison for trying to steal money to buy milk for their hungry babies... then you can pay to support the p
Are you saying the both regimes are like tin buckets with four rubber wheels on them that when working have the utility value of transportation.... but when there was a problem with the KGB or Stassi it was possible to address the problem with tools you could find in your garage and without any special education where the NSA would have to be re-engineered by a room full of Ph.D.s speaking in a language nobody else understands?
I use a usb gps sensor I built around 1998 which simply measured rate of change, connected via CAN to the speedometer and power steering, considered angle travel as well as using a compass/gimble. Certainly, it wasn't real precise, but it worked quite well. I don't think I used more than two hours in matlab to code it.
I met someone today who uses it... as a last resort.
I've tried finding stuff there, but unlike eBay where you feel like every third vendor is out to scam you... every single listing feels like a scam. I can't even figure out most of the time what the price is or if the offer is for a product or a picture of it. I wonder if all 400 listings for the same product are from the same company experimenting with names or pricing.
If I need a remote control hopping frog, I'll use someplace else.
"Long term study" "Twin study"... waste of f-ing time... Twins long term have almost no more in common than anyone else. It's not like when they were 4 and mommy dressed them the same and they both had to have the blue lollipop.
I don't smoke pot anymore since my wife doesn't want to be with someone who spend his time getting baked. But it's the only substance that allows me to slow down a little as I'm a little OCD and a little Type-A. A pipe can make the motor stop running for an hour. Of course there are other chemicals, but pharmaceutical cocktails.. event he "harmless ones" bother me since I don't understand what's in them and I'm trusting someone with about as much scientific prowess as the guy who wrote this paper to screw with my mind. So, instead I live at top speed running until the batteries die and once they're recharged, I start again.
The research was utter shit. I would love for stuff like this to be done properly (if it's even possible in medicine... which is highly debatable) so that I might be able to get to the point where I can say "Wife... I was in Amsterdam this weekend and I smoked some hash and watched the crazy people for a while"... instead, while I'm in Amsterdam, I ask the girl at the hotel "Are there any coffee shops around here that focus on coffee and not the other products?"
I don't watch broadcast or Netflix. I pay for a subscription to Netflix and also to a cable TV provider (my wife is stubborn and won't cut the damn cord... even though she watches everything from PVR).
Netflix offers all the shows a person needs to watch on a single platform with a single price without the commercials (I think... I'm pretty sure I haven't seen any). I think there are online sports streaming networks as well, though I don't understand why that can't just be recorded and played back as well.
NBC plays commercials and on the rare occasions I am willing to turn on a TV when I'm in the states, it seems NBC does very little to make this tolerable. They sell airtime to anyone who is willing to pay. I know damn well I don't want to feel like by watching a given program, I'm an optimal candidate to advertise gambling websites to... it makes me feel as if I'm some sleazy loser who pisses money away on powerball tickets. I regularly ask my wife "Do you feel comfortable with being targeted as being a member of a demographic that would buy something or use a service because they jacked up the volume and tried to sucker you into thinking that you have a chance of actually winning when it's absolutely obvious the advertised wouldn't exist if they didn't win more money than they lost?".
NBC often has good shows (I think so at least, I don't really remember) but I can't imagine wanting to watch something that has commercials. If their content is good enough, I'd prefer to pay a few bucks a month and not see them.
America is full of psycho religious zealots that reproduce like rodents. Europe has a far more mature group of people who actually reproduce responsibly.
Of course the combination of higher population age as well as less working age means people in their prime have to work harder to make ends meet because by the time they inherit from their parents, they are nearly retired themselves.
If there is some point or another in which the key is present on the phone, then there is likely a way to use it. The key itself being probably a 3072 bit number itself can't be brute forced or even algorithmically weakened to something meaningful. The user however doesn't type a 3072 bit key each time. The private key is stored on the phone and encrypted with a 8-10 character password which is likely based on the 70 (or so) easily typed characters on the keyboard. So, it's only necessary to weaken the cipher for the key store and brute force the rest. Since almost all mail starts with some form of SMTP header, it is likely a really easy search.
Switzerland has one of the highest gun related death environments in all of Europe. Many weapons found where crime in Europe occurs are traced back to Switzerland.
Read up a bit first : http://www.loc.gov/law/help/firearms-control/switzerland.php
You seem to be quick to blurt out some NRA nonsense... I don't care if you have a gun.. in America, it's a lost frigging cause anyway... there's no fixing the US anyway.. it's like the wild west mixed with religious psychos... I hope Trump wins... builds a wall and locks you people in.
Gun ownership is up and gun crime is down has to be the most single dimensional means of thinking I've ever heard of. As if there's a single variable involved... add more guns and less will be used.
1) It's likely the methods we used for measuring gun crimes has changed.... minor impact to shift 2) Law enforcement has in fact gotten much better 3) The US has placed a measurable percentage of their population into prisons during this time. 4) The criminals are more afraid of getting caught because of mass surveillance, better forensics, etc... 5) Gas stations now have thick bullet proof glass surrounding their cash registers... only in America haha 6) Cash is becoming less common. There is also less than $50 in a cash drawer anymore. The risk vs. the gain doesn't add up 7) The guy in the nice suit one the street has change for a parking meter in his pocket. The teenager with the Nike Airs has a credit card. There's no money to be had anymore from a hold up. 8) Banks have buttons under every counter to call the cops in an emergency. 9) It's easier to simply steal money in large sums through other forms of fraud... why use a gun?
I can go on for a long time... but your argument about more guns = less gun crime is pure stupid. I honestly have no problem with people owning guns for hunting and sport shooting. I do have issues with idiots who think guns are the answer for protection and also think it's really idiotic when people think that if they have enough weapons at home, they can overthrow a tyranny run by a guy with luxury bunkers, armored tanks, drones, etc... it would be like a hoard of flies trying to knock over an elephant.
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Totally with you... too bad they contracted Lockheed and therefore nothing will come of it.
$20 million for a new X-Prize would have been a much better idea. Chances of an X-Prize succeeding is about 50% where chances of a $20 million contract to Lockheed coming to anything other than asking for more money is 0%.
How many failed projects due to gross mismanagement of finances will NASA suffer before realizing that giving Lockheed money is just never a good idea.
Were you scrolling through all the comments looking for an opportunity to express your superiority? So, he seems to have read or recall something technical and possibly moderately intelligent about the aircraft. He also makes reference to programs no one else remembers. I honestly have no idea what he's talking about but he sound pretty darn smart to me.
Then you come along and the best you have to offer is to attempt to degrade him for his spelling of a name? You know you missed a few punctuation and other grammar issues in his posting.
How do you feel about the finer points of pronouncing "wingardium leviosa" vs "wingardium leviosah"?
The instant that the name Lockheed showed up, we knew for a fact that this is simply a means of siphoning $20 million of US taxpayer money into the wallets of Lockheed Execs. Before they're through, they'll invest the $20 million into getting $100 million to finished the project "they underestimated the complexity of" and by that, it means that they couldn't figure out how to split $20 million between more than 2 crooks.
Lockheed can't do anything for under a billion dollars. The breakdown is $50 million to do the job and deliver and $950 million into the pockets of people employed entirely by lockheed to suck more money out of the federal budget.
Lockheed is probably the #1 reason we were never able to advance further in the space program before SpaceX and others came around. Lockheed and Boeing have absolutely no interest in building the future. They only ever cared about building bank accounts. When was the last time Lockheed actually managed to do anything related to space without going 20 times over budget and more often than not simply cancelling the project? With how many times Lockheed has screwed NASA, when will the tax payer demand that NASA finds a more reliable source?
Yes I know Lockheed is probably one of the only companies big enough to handle these projects... but make a new X-Prize. Put $20 million in the account for the winner. It certainly worked for space... even now, NASA has been able to move most of their launches away from Russia and rockets are launching more and more reliably every day by a company which is agile and doesn't bitch after every step "We need more money". Bezos will be there before long as well. Bigelow will build space stations. Who the hell needs Lockheed or Boeing in space anymore... they don't even remember which way to point to find it.
So put together another X-Prize... grab the attention of the next Musk wannabe and build a new aircraft industry that is agile and brilliant. Using Lockheed or Boeing is just asking to kill it.
Bugger me!
Bickerdyke.... odd name... sounds dangerous... you just cost me like 190 Euro after shipping and MVA with that stinking link. I didn't know I could buy Kool-Aid on this side of the ocean.
My kids will love you though.
I've been doing it as well.
To be fair, I come from a really long history of bringing multi-million line projects to up to 80 different platforms (everything from Symbian to Mac to Qnx to Nintendo Wii) and from the beginning of the project focused 100% on portability to begin with... I chose C# because C is for OS Kernels (write those too) and C# is for apps. They're the two universal languages in the sense that they are the two languages who can access APIs on any platform.
I found that with good planning, I have been able to make a program which runs on Windows Store, Windows Desktop, Mac OS X, iPad and Android using all native UI components as well as pixel perfect print support with less effort than I ever put into with Qt or my own homegrown. As a result, I can't really imagine ever writing in anything else again. I let me focus on learning platform APIs and not screwing around with things like SWIG or crazy assed Android C++ adapters.
Oh... let's not forget that by managing my data structures intelligently (my document format is almost as complex as Microsoft Word's), I was able to outperform manually management memory schemas every time and by hooking the garbage collector I was able to implement a memory defragmentor which I've done in C++ in the past and required so much template hell that the code became unmaintainable. By defragging the memory through the GC, I was able to take advantage of language level relocation and as a result, the code is readable and manageable... oh... and quite a bit more performance efficient since it generally runs as a FSM during idle cycles.
C# allowed me through a single language to quickly implement about half a million lines of code and focus more on productivity and less on dicking around with things like SWIFT compiler errors and warnings which look like "Something is wrong an caused a parser error within a 100 lines of line 241 that makes this line think it's a chicken.. please call again later when you comment out 90% of your file and restructure you code to manually find the actual error".
C# compiler errors suck too, but at least the Visual Studio GUI makes it pretty easy to drill down to root cause.
I'll say this much, they started as a development tool company, they always nailed the development tool thing and now with LLVM support offering C standard compliance directly within Visual Studio, I think Microsoft has really nailed it.
Now if they throw enough money at compiling for Mac and iPhone without a Mac that would be awesome. Programming in XCode is so painfully slow it's unbareable. If you made the mistake of buying a Mac Pro and are wondering why it's so damn slow, install Windows 10 on it and use Visual Studio instead and run OS X in a virtual machine to compile against. It's a HUGE improvement.
Last thing to fix I think is getting remote app support for iPhone simulator. Then make it so if I press F5, I get just that Window. I'm using iRapp at the moment which isn't awful, but it's a bit intrusive.
Honestly, I'm kinda with matty on this. I don't really see this as an advertisement. I see this as something that genuinely will be a boon to me since I do all my development using Visual Studio and C# and just yesterday was heading to Xamarin's website to purchase a license and now I think I'll hold off a little since I think it will be part of my MSDN subscription soon.
If it is an advertisement, it kinda worked backwards, I'm going to spend like $2000 less (2 platforms) per year now because of this information. So, Microsoft kinda just lost the $2000 I was about to give them company they're buying.
WPF is a library that is on top of the .NET framework. It isn't part of the .NET framework. Just like glibc isn't part of the Linux kernel.
.NET platform as well as the compiler is open source and pretty good stuff too.
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I remember those types of books fondly and regularly purchased them as well as the academic ones since they were often used to by the developers of the production software themselves. I miss the days of when Mark Russonovich would write entire books about file systems. I miss when Linux programming reference manuals actual were more than just man page dumps. How about when Michael Abrash was rocking the world with graphics books?
There's a real problem. As a man-whore who used to be a programmer but no makes a living licking boots and climbing under desks (I'm an IT consultant and instructor... it pays A LOT more than programming... 4.5x as much actually) I regularly am approached by the big companies about writing books or courses on different topics. The fact is, there is just not enough money in technical books precisely because google is so reliable that companies aren't interested in writing them unless they are purely academic text books they can force students to buy every semester for obscene amounts.
I calculated based on the last offer I received.. it would have been an official certification guide for a major technology. It probably would be able to sell 50,000 copies in 2016 and 2017. The offer I received to write the book would have limited me to about 320 pages and would have paid me approximately $0.80 an hour if I did the job properly.
The answer is that you won't find these types of books anymore.
You can get a little more technical though.
1) UEFI programmer's guide is no too bad. It's not overly informative since the boot process of a modern operating system isn't really as interesting as it used to be. Not only that, there's no real standard beyond the basic file structure to define the boot process. Everything else is really quite dynamic. It's not like when we had to manage to write most of the code to load an OS in 450 bytes because the rest was the partition table.
2) GUID partition tables are really a tricky one. I learned this one by reading the source code to several Linux partitioning utilities. Even now, I struggle to understand how to make a partition resizer which doesn't damage this structure too badly. Of course, I haven't really found myself interested in it.
3) Windows booting. This is pretty well documented in the Windows Driver Development Kit (or whatever it's called this week). It's not awesome documentation, but it really isn't bad. Ever since Windows 8 when they made the major overhaul, it's been probably the most elegant driver structure in any OS. I recommend spending some time with it. Before that it was a nightmare. Today, you can even do driver development directly in Visual Studio (or emacs if you have mental illnesses) and debug directly on a VM or remote machine. The structure has done away with the antiquated linux style and started working towards making something which could provide some decent structure in the OS. Mac OS X is probably still the nicest, but their code quality isn't really what it used to be.
4) Windows structure. Like most OSes, this is currently set in stone and will stay like that for a while. You can try two fairly useful methods.
a) Download the leaked NT4 and Windows 2000 source code files you find online. They are far from complete as they were really just the bits of code licensed from Microsoft to make an alternative to Wine. But they are really really useful.... or so I've heard as I've never seen it myself of course.
b) Download the official source code to Windows CE. It's 100% complete and legit and is an excellent means of learning a great deal about the Win32/64 design approach.
5) Linux structure I can't make any recommendations on this. There were some excellent books back in the early days. These days, it's pretty much read the code. Nearly every page I encounter via Google is either half finished, inaccurate, lacking editing, out-of-date... after all these years, there's not a single series of man pages or help files or anyt
Congrats, you're the moron that when asked a question like "What is the reasoning behind the time zone structure and why can't we just use GMT offsets?", you would respond with "I prefer papayas".
Do you ever take a moment to review your own answers to see if there is any relevance whatsoever to the conversation or do you prefer to just let others smell the diarrhea flowing from your mouth?
I am very happy for you... it seems that not only did you manage to find a program or a tool that suites your needs and makes you happy, but you also seemed to join a religion and if you are truly truly lucky, one day you'll be able to lick the toe jam from Richard Stallman.
The original poster asked a legitimate question which was related to learning how to best understand the internal structure of modern operating systems, boot loaders and maybe even EFI along the way.
This is your chance... a great chance... a true chance to read a question and try and understand what it means, interpret it and formulate a meaningful response that can provide assistance or at least be moderately relevant to the topic. Can you rise to this challenge or shall we hear more about your papayas?
Consider that 40% of humans on earth probably doesn't even understand the question. For that fact, probably most people lack the ability to understand cause and effect beyond what is clearly spelled out to them at the given time in the given context. As such, their decision making process is limited to "Terrorism bad. Terrorism scary. Stop terrorism."
It's the world's dilemma. How do you give people freedom and give them the rights of humanity to be part of the process of choosing representation? Consider what you end up with as leaders using fair rules. You get Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush and Obama. With those kind of choices, we know it's obvious that the current system is failing. The Romans tried an alternative which was to provide weights for voters based on social class. This of course was a less than optimal system because a higher class didn't necessarily mean a smarter person... in fact, it really only meant a wealthier person. So, do we try a system which provides weights to votes based on IQ tests?
Consider this... I've asked this question in rooms full of technical people. I asked how many of them were likely to spend the time on the phone answering questions. The result was an overwhelming "not me". Does this mean that the technical people are giving up their right to be represented because some idiot at Pew report couldn't get anyone but rednecks that can't comprehend the repercussions of such a decision?
Notice, it clearly said telephone calls. What kind of people even talk to these people anymore? What's worse is... do we have an alternative that is better? How would you sample "The American Public"? How would you choose 1000 people throughout America that would represent a sample set? Would you include a physicist from MIT? Would you find a black woman in a trailer home in Alabama? Would you find a 18 year old Jew studying talmud in Omaha? Would you find a 67 year old Imam in a Mosque in Mississippi (is there such a thing?). After you ask them the obvious question, would you explain to them why it's even worth asking the about? Would you explain that this would set a legal precedent that could give the government the power they need to snoop more and more into their own information? Would you ask the again after that? Would you note how their opinions changed when you gave them a new "This is bad... don't do this" feeling? Would you be gaining their opinions or would you be dictating your opinion to them? Would that change whether this represented the Americans as now you've "educated them" and changed their perspective?
The system is completely flawed, but there's no alternative. mass stupidity represents the wide scale human species.We have no way to limit the vast scope of stupid and we can't cure it and we can't leave stupid unrepresented because they do in fact represent the majority.
The problem is... we also can't use the results of some telephone survey to make decisions because it leaves too many other groups unrepresented. Why not ask Pew how many phone calls they had to make to get 1000 responses? That should be enough to disprove the validity of such a report.
For Cisco, they already use an IoT standard.. it works great... it's also as easy to implement as H.323 and as well documented as ONCRPC.
You're pretty confused aren't you?
... that is of course if you want to buy that $0.39 cheese burger or if you want to get service at that restaurant. Those people need medicine and food. If they can't afford it with our help, they'll instead run themselves into debt which becomes acceptable since when a person feels they can't make ends meet no matter how much they work, they will take on debt and default on it with a clear conscience since they feel like it's no different than bending the rules on a game which is designed specifically to keep them from winning. So, they resort to the "white lie" version of stealing. And instead of trying to solve this problem, we instead treat them with resent and bitch that because "if they wanted more than $7.50 an hour, they should have studied" when in reality, if they did, they would be taking our jobs and nobody would be there to ask us if we want fries with that.
First of all, you have no idea what a republican or what communism is... that's ok... 99% of the people in the world don't.
American republicans have pretty much absolutely nothing to do with what a republican is. In fact, a republican and a communist is almost the same thing. Compare Marx and Plato's writings and you'll find they're very similar by Plato comes dangerously close to Scientology at times.
I am for example a communist... and I am a capitalist. I earn as much money as I need and then quite a bit more to pay large amounts of taxes to attempt to redistribute wealth so the guy working at the gas station around the corner for minimum wage will have additional money to live closer by or afford the higher cost of commuting to work. I don't resent him for not trying harder to be more in life. If everyone did, then who would run the gas station which I need. So, I need him to be satisfied collecting the salary his boss pays him while my tax money helps subsidize his income to make him feel motivated enough to do a good job without fear of greater monthly debt.
Welfare is an incredibly important component of civilization. I makes it possible for all of us to benefit. In order for my personal wealth to increase, the general value of said wealth needs to decrease through inflation. Therefore as I earn more, the money I "borrowed" when I was younger will be less expensive for me to pay as I get older. The lower earning classes will continue to be paid less and their ability to negotiate better wages will impede their ability to increase at the same rate as the people like me. They also won't accumulate as much legitimate debt that will leave them with assets increasing in value while the debt decreases. As such, they will never establish themselves and will always require our assistance to provide the services we need like washing the car, mowing the lawn, cleaning the house, etc...
So we pay welfare which is basically paying the wages we should have payed at the cash register to Walmart but instead, we trust the government to pass the additional cost to the people who work at Walmart more than we trust Walmart who actually pays dividends each quarter roughly equal to the amount of welfare being paid to their employees. By doing so, we produce more jobs... at walmart... requiring more welfare to be paid... to allow higher dividends to be paid... to produce more jobs.... etc...
The truth is, whether you support communism and wealth redistribution or not, it will happen all the same
Either you choose to structure a system which supports keeping these people fed, healthy and hopefully with enough money that they can in fact budget it and make do... or you force them into higher paying position leaving the service industry stripped of the labor.... or you leave it as it is, with millions of people digging deeper debt... systems tightening the nooses on them... people being forced more and more into desperation and desperate acts... then people going to prison for trying to steal money to buy milk for their hungry babies... then you can pay to support the p
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Are you saying the both regimes are like tin buckets with four rubber wheels on them that when working have the utility value of transportation.... but when there was a problem with the KGB or Stassi it was possible to address the problem with tools you could find in your garage and without any special education where the NSA would have to be re-engineered by a room full of Ph.D.s speaking in a language nobody else understands?
You're a deep and confusing person aren't you?
I use a usb gps sensor I built around 1998 which simply measured rate of change, connected via CAN to the speedometer and power steering, considered angle travel as well as using a compass/gimble. Certainly, it wasn't real precise, but it worked quite well. I don't think I used more than two hours in matlab to code it.
As for CPU, it's a 16mhz z80 derivative... no FP.
I've been told that the white line is needed for a tipsy driver to follow.
Also, when said driver is pulled over, the quality of the YouTube videos will decline based on asking the guy to walk on the white line
I met someone today who uses it... as a last resort.
I've tried finding stuff there, but unlike eBay where you feel like every third vendor is out to scam you... every single listing feels like a scam. I can't even figure out most of the time what the price is or if the offer is for a product or a picture of it. I wonder if all 400 listings for the same product are from the same company experimenting with names or pricing.
If I need a remote control hopping frog, I'll use someplace else.
build a gsm, 2g, 3g or LTE network that doesn't suck first.
I dread travelling to the states for fear of US broadband
I was hoping for your post.
"Long term study" "Twin study"... waste of f-ing time... Twins long term have almost no more in common than anyone else. It's not like when they were 4 and mommy dressed them the same and they both had to have the blue lollipop.
I don't smoke pot anymore since my wife doesn't want to be with someone who spend his time getting baked. But it's the only substance that allows me to slow down a little as I'm a little OCD and a little Type-A. A pipe can make the motor stop running for an hour. Of course there are other chemicals, but pharmaceutical cocktails.. event he "harmless ones" bother me since I don't understand what's in them and I'm trusting someone with about as much scientific prowess as the guy who wrote this paper to screw with my mind. So, instead I live at top speed running until the batteries die and once they're recharged, I start again.
The research was utter shit. I would love for stuff like this to be done properly (if it's even possible in medicine... which is highly debatable) so that I might be able to get to the point where I can say "Wife... I was in Amsterdam this weekend and I smoked some hash and watched the crazy people for a while"... instead, while I'm in Amsterdam, I ask the girl at the hotel "Are there any coffee shops around here that focus on coffee and not the other products?"
Holy schnikies!
Just about every person who is worried someone might think they were a loser if they say they didn't
I don't watch broadcast or Netflix. I pay for a subscription to Netflix and also to a cable TV provider (my wife is stubborn and won't cut the damn cord... even though she watches everything from PVR).
Netflix offers all the shows a person needs to watch on a single platform with a single price without the commercials (I think... I'm pretty sure I haven't seen any). I think there are online sports streaming networks as well, though I don't understand why that can't just be recorded and played back as well.
NBC plays commercials and on the rare occasions I am willing to turn on a TV when I'm in the states, it seems NBC does very little to make this tolerable. They sell airtime to anyone who is willing to pay. I know damn well I don't want to feel like by watching a given program, I'm an optimal candidate to advertise gambling websites to... it makes me feel as if I'm some sleazy loser who pisses money away on powerball tickets. I regularly ask my wife "Do you feel comfortable with being targeted as being a member of a demographic that would buy something or use a service because they jacked up the volume and tried to sucker you into thinking that you have a chance of actually winning when it's absolutely obvious the advertised wouldn't exist if they didn't win more money than they lost?".
NBC often has good shows (I think so at least, I don't really remember) but I can't imagine wanting to watch something that has commercials. If their content is good enough, I'd prefer to pay a few bucks a month and not see them.
America is full of psycho religious zealots that reproduce like rodents. Europe has a far more mature group of people who actually reproduce responsibly.
Of course the combination of higher population age as well as less working age means people in their prime have to work harder to make ends meet because by the time they inherit from their parents, they are nearly retired themselves.
If there is some point or another in which the key is present on the phone, then there is likely a way to use it. The key itself being probably a 3072 bit number itself can't be brute forced or even algorithmically weakened to something meaningful. The user however doesn't type a 3072 bit key each time. The private key is stored on the phone and encrypted with a 8-10 character password which is likely based on the 70 (or so) easily typed characters on the keyboard. So, it's only necessary to weaken the cipher for the key store and brute force the rest. Since almost all mail starts with some form of SMTP header, it is likely a really easy search.
Switzerland has one of the highest gun related death environments in all of Europe. Many weapons found where crime in Europe occurs are traced back to Switzerland.
Read up a bit first : http://www.loc.gov/law/help/firearms-control/switzerland.php
You seem to be quick to blurt out some NRA nonsense... I don't care if you have a gun.. in America, it's a lost frigging cause anyway... there's no fixing the US anyway.. it's like the wild west mixed with religious psychos... I hope Trump wins... builds a wall and locks you people in.
Gun ownership is up and gun crime is down has to be the most single dimensional means of thinking I've ever heard of. As if there's a single variable involved... add more guns and less will be used.
... minor impact to shift
1) It's likely the methods we used for measuring gun crimes has changed.
2) Law enforcement has in fact gotten much better
3) The US has placed a measurable percentage of their population into prisons during this time.
4) The criminals are more afraid of getting caught because of mass surveillance, better forensics, etc...
5) Gas stations now have thick bullet proof glass surrounding their cash registers... only in America haha
6) Cash is becoming less common. There is also less than $50 in a cash drawer anymore. The risk vs. the gain doesn't add up
7) The guy in the nice suit one the street has change for a parking meter in his pocket. The teenager with the Nike Airs has a credit card. There's no money to be had anymore from a hold up.
8) Banks have buttons under every counter to call the cops in an emergency.
9) It's easier to simply steal money in large sums through other forms of fraud... why use a gun?
I can go on for a long time... but your argument about more guns = less gun crime is pure stupid. I honestly have no problem with people owning guns for hunting and sport shooting. I do have issues with idiots who think guns are the answer for protection and also think it's really idiotic when people think that if they have enough weapons at home, they can overthrow a tyranny run by a guy with luxury bunkers, armored tanks, drones, etc... it would be like a hoard of flies trying to knock over an elephant.