Firewire can be connected in a multitude of different ways, to different devices. It therefore needs a fairly complex protocol.
ATA can be connected in very few ways to only one controller. It therefore has a nice, simple protocol.
The simpler the protocol, the higher the throughput, because you're not having to send messages and wait for replies to work out where things are going.
XML isn't a replacement for Java or C++. Neither is HTML. You're looking at three seperate areas there. HTML is a page description language. C++ and Java are data processing languages. XML is a data description language.
You can certainly describe a page using XML, and I see no reason why you couldn't construct a programming language using XML syntax, but how on earth are you going to store data in C++ or Java?
You know, I can just as easily stare out of the window, get lost in thought, chat to my workmates, use notepad to write haiku, etc, etc.
If you want people to work, give them engaging work, make sure they have timescales and then hold them to them, with oversight to ensure they are getting the work done.
As long as they get the work done, who cares what else they get up to?
whereas lots of us are quite happy to sit hacking Perl or playing with servers until 4am.
I'm going to assume either sarcasm or that you're referring to geek society here. Most peoples lives revolve around their social life, not hacking on perl or playing with servers.
Say some jerk comes to the message board and starts doing mean things like trolling. So you punish him or her appropriately. However, then one of your established users begins to start trolling, so you go lightly on him or her, because he or she is respected and had a bad day. Well, that's not good.
Say some jerk comes to a club you run and starts doing mean things like snapping at the other members. So you throw them out. And then one of your older members comes in one day and snaps at some people and you go lightly on them, because you respect them and they've had a bad day. Well that's good. Because it's your club and you get to make value judgements about who you like and don't like and who you trust and don't trust.
Because real life isn't so simple you can boil it down to a set of rules and then stop thinking because you just follow them.
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And the same could be said of every frippery, from computer games to fast cars (to slow cars) to expensive dinners.
If you ate rice and fish every day and sent the savings you made to the starving children of Africa, you'd save dozens of lives. I don't see people doing it though.
I go to (for instance) my email program, open 5 or 6 links from my mailed news, and then find that I don't have 6 new windows, but that I've lost one (or more) of my open windows.
Slightly. But I wouldn't have thought it was _that_ bad.
What would be worse would be the fact that you enter a cell and leave it again before you've even got a proper lock-on. Hand-offs aren't supposed to happen every 10 seconds...
I've thought about this for about 5 minutes now, and I cant' see why your 5-mile radius is larger when you'er a mile up than when you're on the ground.
This isn't a viable system for micropayments. At best, it's a way of password protecting your website.
It doesn't, in fact, tell you anything other than how to password protect your folders. At the end it mentions "Use Paypal or something similar to accept money", but that's not the solution to the problem of micropayments, because you can't use Paypal to pay people 10c, which is the highest that micropayments go.
Did the editors actually understand what they were posting when they posted it?
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Yeah, I noticed as I hit "Submit" and then felt stupid.
Firewire can be connected in a multitude of different ways, to different devices. It therefore needs a fairly complex protocol.
ATA can be connected in very few ways to only one controller. It therefore has a nice, simple protocol.
The simpler the protocol, the higher the throughput, because you're not having to send messages and wait for replies to work out where things are going.
So _nano_particles (10^-6) are _micro_scopic (10^-9).
Gosh, there's a surprise.
You can use XSL to translate any XML document into a different format. So your old documents should be convertable.
If your subdialect keeps changing, that's down to the people defining the syntax, not the language itself.
XML isn't a replacement for Java or C++. Neither is HTML. You're looking at three seperate areas there.
HTML is a page description language.
C++ and Java are data processing languages.
XML is a data description language.
You can certainly describe a page using XML, and I see no reason why you couldn't construct a programming language using XML syntax, but how on earth are you going to store data in C++ or Java?
Yup.
As far as the combination of price, usability, hardware compatability and software compatability goes, Windows is far, far better than any of those.
You know, I can just as easily stare out of the window, get lost in thought, chat to my workmates, use notepad to write haiku, etc, etc.
If you want people to work, give them engaging work, make sure they have timescales and then hold them to them, with oversight to ensure they are getting the work done.
As long as they get the work done, who cares what else they get up to?
whereas lots of us are quite happy to sit hacking Perl or playing with servers until 4am.
I'm going to assume either sarcasm or that you're referring to geek society here. Most peoples lives revolve around their social life, not hacking on perl or playing with servers.
Say some jerk comes to the message board and starts doing mean things like trolling. So you punish him or her appropriately. However, then one of your established users begins to start trolling, so you go lightly on him or her, because he or she is respected and had a bad day. Well, that's not good.
Say some jerk comes to a club you run and starts doing mean things like snapping at the other members. So you throw them out. And then one of your older members comes in one day and snaps at some people and you go lightly on them, because you respect them and they've had a bad day. Well that's good. Because it's your club and you get to make value judgements about who you like and don't like and who you trust and don't trust.
Because real life isn't so simple you can boil it down to a set of rules and then stop thinking because you just follow them.
Make your own online snowflakes here.
And the same could be said of every frippery, from computer games to fast cars (to slow cars) to expensive dinners.
If you ate rice and fish every day and sent the savings you made to the starving children of Africa, you'd save dozens of lives. I don't see people doing it though.
Well she dies at the end of season 1 for a few minutes.
And I liked most of season 6. There's a few duff episodes, but overall I was rather fond.
Which time?
I clicked on the story thinking "I wonder if anyone has compared this to DirectX 8/9 so that I can see what the relative merits are."
I find two comments. One of them's pretty funny, right enough, but where are the hardcore geeks??
I mean, how would the back button help?
I go to (for instance) my email program, open 5 or 6 links from my mailed news, and then find that I don't have 6 new windows, but that I've lost one (or more) of my open windows.
That's not at all useful to me.
How would a back button work?
And the workarounds don't actually work either, as various people have commented in the thread.
Now, if they'd just produce a Windows version, I could switch to that.
(I'd be using Mozilla if it wasn't for this bug)
Slightly. But I wouldn't have thought it was _that_ bad.
What would be worse would be the fact that you enter a cell and leave it again before you've even got a proper lock-on. Hand-offs aren't supposed to happen every 10 seconds...
could it be that it's slower because you're sharing with 300 other passengers, half of whom are downloading from Kazaa?
I've thought about this for about 5 minutes now, and I cant' see why your 5-mile radius is larger when you'er a mile up than when you're on the ground.
My family had one of those. 4 hour tapes, double sided, displayed the current position in hours and minutes.
Pretty sweet. Shame they never caught on.
If something's fairly priced, nobody's going to take the time to copy
And who decides what's "fair". Because I sure as hell know that the customer's idea of fair is a lot less than what the company's idea is.
My fair price for the latest Britney album? Free, or even negative.
My fair price for the next U2 album - proably up to $30.
Your milage will almost certainly be varying like a motherfucker.
I know that multiple languages can compile to Java Bytecode.
.NET, and I'm wondering if Java can do it too.
Can anyone tell me if one Java-compiling language can use objects written in another one?
To me, this was a major advantage of
I know this is /. and all, but I have 4 friends with home networks and not one of them runs Linux in any form.
This isn't a viable system for micropayments. At best, it's a way of password protecting your website.
It doesn't, in fact, tell you anything other than how to password protect your folders. At the end it mentions "Use Paypal or something similar to accept money", but that's not the solution to the problem of micropayments, because you can't use Paypal to pay people 10c, which is the highest that micropayments go.
Did the editors actually understand what they were posting when they posted it?