And the moral of the story, not to mention the PS vs the Saturn, the DreamCast vs the PS2, and what not, and Nintendo vs Sony, is that the market is fickle, and sometimes technical specs don't matter; sometimes they do. Sometimes, being *the* market matters, and sometimes the new guy is in the right place at the right time with just the right idea.
The Nintendo was the biggest console of the last generation. The Super Nintendo is the biggest console of this generation. Short of giving away Playstations, Sony is NOT going to undermine the launch of the Nintendo 64 unless Nintendo does something spectacularly stupid (like launch with only one game: Mario 64, and not have any others available for 6+ months) which isn't going to happen.
Actually, Gate's greatest strength has always been, IMHO, his ability to say 'I was wrong' and change his direction.
The classic example of this is the Internet. Microsoft's party line was always 'the Internet is going nowhere. Ignore it.' Then, one day in 95/96 or so, he says 'I was wrong. The future is the Internet, and Microsoft is now an Internet company.'
I've long said that the western Education system needs an overhaul, that University needs to be relegated back to being the place for MDs, Lawyers and Engineers, that trades/appreticeships need to be given more legitimacy and pride, and so on.
But three simple course additions to the current system would improve things, I think: logic, debate, Latin.
Logic: So many kids going through public school actually knows how to think anymore. Elementary logic simply is NOT being taught.
Debate: See above, then tack on that so many people seem unable to actually discuss or debate a difference of opinion; only to state theirs, then attack viciously anybody who disagrees.
Latin: Mainly I think this would help produce better English speakers. Hard to think and debate when you can barely speak the language correctly.
See, here's the rub. What makes Iraq a 'rogue state?'
They're not a Democracy? Ooops, neither is Saudi Arabia.
Also, if they're a 'rogue state,' why did America sell them arms during their war with Iran, where America had previously helped overthrow a democratically elected leader, and reinstall the Shah, which led directly to Iran becoming a theocracy?
Clancy's 'Sum of All Fears,' circa 1990 or so, IIRC, has that exact plot; Islamic terrorists build a nuke.
In the afterword, he laments the fact that information on how to build a nuke was SO easy to obtain, he felt obligated to not reproduce it in his book. He mentions calling up Oak Ridges and asking about specs for some of the fabrication machinery, and having blueprints FedEx'd to him the next day.
Security is a *feature,* which means that there are considerations, trade-offs, and decisions that need to be made about it.
The fact that users have been making uninformed decisions (which they have) and that the underlying assumptions of the informed decisions changed so drastically (which they also have) doesn't change that.
The all new Knaughtix distro! Doing something naughty, like surfing porn or cheating on your spouse? With the Knaughtix CD, and an optional floppy disk or USB key with your network settings, you can surf or cheat in safety! Just reboot the machine, and all evidence is gone gone gone!
Fine, you know Peter Molyneux's name. Can you name any of the actual programmers who worked on Fable? In this context, Peter is the pretty face. Name the tech guys.
Is there a particular reason you don't want to discuss it in public?
Well, other than/. not exactly being a good 1 to 1 discussion forum, not to mention not all that suited to posting large amounts of source code, no particular reason.
Sure, okay, but how is it *as a language*?
About what you expect; variables, conditionals, loops. Everything else is negotiable, or available in an object somewhere.
Perl has, to put it mildly, geek mindshare out the royal wazootie. Windows
is the *only* major operating system left that *doesn't* ship with it. It's
used so much on Linux that most major distributions consider it part of their
non-optional must-install core. There are *dozens* of applications on my
desktop that require it. In short, it gets *used*. It gets used quite a lot.
Well, yes. UNIX/Linux/Alikes are text based; therefore, the languages that tended to develop for them are heavily text/string based.
Windows, OTOH, is an object-based OS, therefore the languages are strongly tilted towards running objects.
I also object to the notion that just becuase Perl is popular/useful on UNIX it should ship anywhere else. The right tool for the right job and all that.
When was the last time you downloaded a Windows application and discovered
it was written at least partly in WSH?
Well, to a very large extent, you can take pretty much any ASP code, change Server.CreateObject to CreateObject, and Response.Write to Wscript.Echo, and you're done.
But to more directly answer your question, not very often. However, again, most Windows programs are GUI based, and for RAD they always pushed Visual Basic. Once Windows networks started getting larger, and people started clamouring for more scriptability, out came VBS/WSH.
If Perl is unsavory to Microsoft for some reason, pick another one -- Python,
Ruby, heck, they have the resources to roll their own, or buy one.
Don't forget that WSH is more-or-less language independant; there's nothing stopping somebody from building a Perl component, if that's not what ActivePerl is already. The two main ones, though, are VBScript and Jscript, and this is intended to leverage skills already possessed in Visual Basic and ASP.
But again, Microsoft wants to leverage it's own perfectly good technologies. And you keep intimating that it has a small mindshare; amoung Windows admins, I'd say it has a perfectly good mindshare.
WSH, like so many other Microsoft things, is largely untouted, aye.
If you want to take this off list, I can send you some examples, but the wonderful thing about WSH is the COM objects; everything in Windows, after all, exposes a COM interface, and WSH can use it. Want to query an ADODB datasource? Go nuts. Want to post form data to a webpage and parse the results? No problem. Futz with your Exchange mailboxes? Easy. Deal with Active Directory? Good old ADSI. And so on.
Actually, one thing here is correct; the Xbox has a unified memory architecture. So, you don't need, say, to copy a texture from system RAM to video RAM; it's just there.
No. What they're doing here is something that happened to have worked, but a) might not have, b) might have given corrupted data, and c) I believe would up giving less precise data (somebody mentioned 1KM of resolution rather than 1M.)
So, it's lucky for them that they managed to salvage something out of it, but it would have been far better and more useful to have had the experiment work properly and get the data they wanted.
This might seem a little harsh, but why are you posting electronically when you could perform the same communications using mailed letters?
I imagine it's not the same data [or rather not the same speed and audience], but still, wouldn't the electricty/materials be better spent on something else if you can make do with a pen and paper?
Don't forget, that in America, you're no longer allowed to give 'references.' You're allowed to confirm date of hire, date of separation, and job title.
He just needs to say 'I was hired, and two weeks later, they cancelled that project, and it's last in, first out.'
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And the moral of the story, not to mention the PS vs the Saturn, the DreamCast vs the PS2, and what not, and Nintendo vs Sony, is that the market is fickle, and sometimes technical specs don't matter; sometimes they do. Sometimes, being *the* market matters, and sometimes the new guy is in the right place at the right time with just the right idea.
The Nintendo was the biggest console of the last generation. The Super Nintendo is the biggest console of this generation. Short of giving away Playstations, Sony is NOT going to undermine the launch of the Nintendo 64 unless Nintendo does something spectacularly stupid (like launch with only one game: Mario 64, and not have any others available for 6+ months) which isn't going to happen.
Oh, wait....
Actually, Gate's greatest strength has always been, IMHO, his ability to say 'I was wrong' and change his direction.
The classic example of this is the Internet. Microsoft's party line was always 'the Internet is going nowhere. Ignore it.' Then, one day in 95/96 or so, he says 'I was wrong. The future is the Internet, and Microsoft is now an Internet company.'
I've long said that the western Education system needs an overhaul, that University needs to be relegated back to being the place for MDs, Lawyers and Engineers, that trades/appreticeships need to be given more legitimacy and pride, and so on.
But three simple course additions to the current system would improve things, I think: logic, debate, Latin.
Logic: So many kids going through public school actually knows how to think anymore. Elementary logic simply is NOT being taught.
Debate: See above, then tack on that so many people seem unable to actually discuss or debate a difference of opinion; only to state theirs, then attack viciously anybody who disagrees.
Latin: Mainly I think this would help produce better English speakers. Hard to think and debate when you can barely speak the language correctly.
Good old Oxygen, at concentrations just slightly higher than earth-atmosphere normal, is highly explosive. How do you think fanning a flame works?
I also seem to recall that at higher concentrations, it becomes highly corrosive.
But if you think THAT's bad, do a google search for the dangers of Di-Hydrogen Monoxide. Nasty stuff.
Exactly. There are no 'late fees,' there is just a 'non-return' fee. They're not advertising rentals of unlimited length.
Or good old http://www.chkrootkit.org.
Sorry, I must have been typing too fast for you. Go *read* the *novel* written sometime around *1990.*
I'm not referring to the *movie* which you would *watch* and which was made around *2003* or so.
The idea here is that when you're going through your kid's chat logs, you'll know WTF they were talking about.
See, here's the rub. What makes Iraq a 'rogue state?'
They're not a Democracy? Ooops, neither is Saudi Arabia.
Also, if they're a 'rogue state,' why did America sell them arms during their war with Iran, where America had previously helped overthrow a democratically elected leader, and reinstall the Shah, which led directly to Iran becoming a theocracy?
Clancy's 'Sum of All Fears,' circa 1990 or so, IIRC, has that exact plot; Islamic terrorists build a nuke.
In the afterword, he laments the fact that information on how to build a nuke was SO easy to obtain, he felt obligated to not reproduce it in his book. He mentions calling up Oak Ridges and asking about specs for some of the fabrication machinery, and having blueprints FedEx'd to him the next day.
No.
No no no.
Security is a *feature,* which means that there are considerations, trade-offs, and decisions that need to be made about it.
The fact that users have been making uninformed decisions (which they have) and that the underlying assumptions of the informed decisions changed so drastically (which they also have) doesn't change that.
The all new Knaughtix distro! Doing something naughty, like surfing porn or cheating on your spouse? With the Knaughtix CD, and an optional floppy disk or USB key with your network settings, you can surf or cheat in safety! Just reboot the machine, and all evidence is gone gone gone!
Sure, the PC may or may not be her's. But she still can't break the laws saying 'thou shalt not eavesdrop on other people's private communications.'
Fine, you know Peter Molyneux's name. Can you name any of the actual programmers who worked on Fable? In this context, Peter is the pretty face. Name the tech guys.
Well, other than /. not exactly being a good 1 to 1 discussion forum, not to mention not all that suited to posting large amounts of source code, no particular reason.
About what you expect; variables, conditionals, loops. Everything else is negotiable, or available in an object somewhere.
Well, yes. UNIX/Linux/Alikes are text based; therefore, the languages that tended to develop for them are heavily text/string based.
Windows, OTOH, is an object-based OS, therefore the languages are strongly tilted towards running objects.
I also object to the notion that just becuase Perl is popular/useful on UNIX it should ship anywhere else. The right tool for the right job and all that.
Well, to a very large extent, you can take pretty much any ASP code, change Server.CreateObject to CreateObject, and Response.Write to Wscript.Echo, and you're done.
But to more directly answer your question, not very often. However, again, most Windows programs are GUI based, and for RAD they always pushed Visual Basic. Once Windows networks started getting larger, and people started clamouring for more scriptability, out came VBS/WSH.
Don't forget that WSH is more-or-less language independant; there's nothing stopping somebody from building a Perl component, if that's not what ActivePerl is already. The two main ones, though, are VBScript and Jscript, and this is intended to leverage skills already possessed in Visual Basic and ASP.
But again, Microsoft wants to leverage it's own perfectly good technologies. And you keep intimating that it has a small mindshare; amoung Windows admins, I'd say it has a perfectly good mindshare.
WSH, like so many other Microsoft things, is largely untouted, aye.
If you want to take this off list, I can send you some examples, but the wonderful thing about WSH is the COM objects; everything in Windows, after all, exposes a COM interface, and WSH can use it. Want to query an ADODB datasource? Go nuts. Want to post form data to a webpage and parse the results? No problem. Futz with your Exchange mailboxes? Easy. Deal with Active Directory? Good old ADSI. And so on.
Actually, one thing here is correct; the Xbox has a unified memory architecture. So, you don't need, say, to copy a texture from system RAM to video RAM; it's just there.
No. What they're doing here is something that happened to have worked, but a) might not have, b) might have given corrupted data, and c) I believe would up giving less precise data (somebody mentioned 1KM of resolution rather than 1M.)
So, it's lucky for them that they managed to salvage something out of it, but it would have been far better and more useful to have had the experiment work properly and get the data they wanted.
If you remember from your high school graphing, y=mx+b; rise over run and all that.
It's true! At least, from a certain point of view....
This might seem a little harsh, but why are you posting electronically when you could perform the same communications using mailed letters?
I imagine it's not the same data [or rather not the same speed and audience], but still, wouldn't the electricty/materials be better spent on something else if you can make do with a pen and paper?
What's wrong with Windows Scripting Host?
There is that, there is that indeed.
No, not really.
Don't forget, that in America, you're no longer allowed to give 'references.' You're allowed to confirm date of hire, date of separation, and job title.
He just needs to say 'I was hired, and two weeks later, they cancelled that project, and it's last in, first out.'