Because Apple licensed it from Adobe. Apple doesn't need to license Acrobat from Adobe. Anyone can legally produce PDFs as long as they provide their own software to do so. If they did license anything, they're probably using actual Adobe software.
The speculated case is an anti-trust case, not copyright, so I'm guessing this has something to do with the new vector graphics format MicroSoft is trying to roll out.
in VB: If (a = b (c)) Then... 1. Is the "=" an assigmnent or comparison? 2. Is b a function or an array? 1. Comparison, because it's an expression. Personally, I'd prefer a language to have "==" and ":=", with no "=" operator, but I've never gotten in trouble with the "=" operator in VB, but I have in C and Java. If you want to complain about boolean handling in VB, look at the fact that AND and OR are alwys bitwise, and the consequences of that.
2. Does it matter? This way, you can start with an array and change it to a function later, if the logic gets more complicated. For the same reason, I love that VB and Pascal don't use parenthesis for no-argument functions.
Mentioned elsewhere, but these MS products are EOL'ed periodically. No support. No bug fixes. No security fixes. One often overlooked consequence of this is that MS drives the techie labor market towards its current offerings; what this means is that you are not going to expect a VB-based product to last, since a few years down the road the Microsoft marketing machine has changed the paradigm and driven developers towards other technologies, limiting the availability of engineers to feed your monster.
That really only happened once, with the conversion to.Net. I have a fair amount of QBX code that I imported to VB, and only the UI bits needed to change.
Sorry, I totally misspoke. I know full well that both Java and.net are JIT compiled languages. I was under the impression that.Net compiled at install-time.
I tried rewriting a computationally intensive bit of code in Borland C++ and the VB6 code was just as fast (I was very suprised by this). By computation, do you mean math? String handling is generally CPU and RAM-bound, as well, and VB6 has abysmal performance at that.
Which bring up the question, do existing RAID controllers support this drive? Just think, 4 disk RAID-0. A three terabyte volume in a standard PC. *drools*
I must question why one would actually enjoy listening to porn music. Do you mean music from porn movies, or audio porn? The latter is good to work out to; somehow, I find I don't get tired nearly as fast when I'm turned on.
So you still need to send up food, but the water will be produced by breathing.... The hydrogen still needs to come from somewhere, though. Or were you thinking there'd be enough in the food that's sent up?
Of course, if you *can* get hydrogen somewhere on the moon, you could make water and do greenhouse farming. You could also make your own fuel for return trips.
Name some other source of comparable entertainment (non-console) that costs less than that. Drugs? It depends on your taste in drugs. If you can find it, LSD is about $6 for 12 hours.
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What percentage of people actually use their consoles as a primary movie player? I think the Revolution ("Wii", whatever) is going to be my first console ever when it comes out, but my family used a PC as our only DVD player for about two years (1999 - 2001). We still watch movies on the PC's fairly regularly, as my wife, my son and I have only one TV, but we also have two PCs that can play DVDs.
Text messaging: I've only met one person over the age of 35 who used this. It seems to have the sole purpose of sending messages silently without tipping off teachers/administrators in a school setting.
That might be true for outgoing messages, but I have my programs at work send an email to my phone when something goes wrong and they need attention. That's quite nice.
PDF... think it would be a better idea to put text in a 3MB pdf instead of a 40k text file, a 43k html formatted doc, or a 1MB Word Document. PDF can contain just about anything. If you're willing to use the built-in fonts (Helvetica, Times and Courier) and the default letter spacing, 40k of text can be nicely formatted in a ~50k PDF. My senior project was a PDF-building library in Java, and for a demo (and not completely-contrived test), I had it make a PDF out of its own JavaDoc; it was 30 pages and around 100k.
A 3MB pdf for 40k of text probably just consists of a series of raster (JPG, TIFF, etc.) images.
Ruby's sigils define scope: local (no sigil), @instance, @@class or $global variable Dude, I think you just sold me on Ruby. I've wanted a language with explicit scope for ages.
His assertion was that if Apache were a company then they would be susceptible to monopoly rules like Microsoft should be. Microsoft didn't run into antitrust trouble over IIS, though, because Apache was (is) a serious competitor. Likewise, Apache has a serious competitor in IIS.
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Because Apple licensed it from Adobe.
Apple doesn't need to license Acrobat from Adobe. Anyone can legally produce PDFs as long as they provide their own software to do so. If they did license anything, they're probably using actual Adobe software.
The speculated case is an anti-trust case, not copyright, so I'm guessing this has something to do with the new vector graphics format MicroSoft is trying to roll out.
in VB: If (a = b (c)) Then ... 1. Is the "=" an assigmnent or comparison? 2. Is b a function or an array?
1. Comparison, because it's an expression. Personally, I'd prefer a language to have "==" and ":=", with no "=" operator, but I've never gotten in trouble with the "=" operator in VB, but I have in C and Java. If you want to complain about boolean handling in VB, look at the fact that AND and OR are alwys bitwise, and the consequences of that.
2. Does it matter? This way, you can start with an array and change it to a function later, if the logic gets more complicated. For the same reason, I love that VB and Pascal don't use parenthesis for no-argument functions.
Mentioned elsewhere, but these MS products are EOL'ed periodically. No support. No bug fixes. No security fixes. One often overlooked consequence of this is that MS drives the techie labor market towards its current offerings; what this means is that you are not going to expect a VB-based product to last, since a few years down the road the Microsoft marketing machine has changed the paradigm and driven developers towards other technologies, limiting the availability of engineers to feed your monster.
.Net. I have a fair amount of QBX code that I imported to VB, and only the UI bits needed to change.
That really only happened once, with the conversion to
Sorry, I totally misspoke. I know full well that both Java and .net are JIT compiled languages. .Net compiled at install-time.
I was under the impression that
I tried rewriting a computationally intensive bit of code in Borland C++ and the VB6 code was just as fast (I was very suprised by this).
By computation, do you mean math? String handling is generally CPU and RAM-bound, as well, and VB6 has abysmal performance at that.
I'm guessing your hard drive still only spins at 7200 RPMs
As hard drive densities increase, there are more bits in that physical space.
No matter what your textbooks may say, "whom" is optional. Deal with it.
Yes, that's an additional meaning. My point was that sex is among gender's meanings.
(one of sex's meanings, anyway -- it has another meaning, as well, although I was more familiar with that one before my son was born)
Nah, I am bi, but I'm not into sweaty.
This is for the room with exercise bikes and rowing machines. There's usually no one else in there when I go in an hour before the gym closes.
I'm not going to spend $1600 on drives, anyway. Still, it's a neat idea.
If you seriously wanted to do something like that, I think some of the more recent nForce 4 motherboards support RAID 0+1.
Work out, not work. Gym, not office.
Which bring up the question, do existing RAID controllers support this drive?
Just think, 4 disk RAID-0. A three terabyte volume in a standard PC. *drools*
I must question why one would actually enjoy listening to porn music.
Do you mean music from porn movies, or audio porn? The latter is good to work out to; somehow, I find I don't get tired nearly as fast when I'm turned on.
There is no confusion between the terms. They're synonyms. "Gender" may mean gender identity as well as sex, but gender *does* mean sex.
Since you understood it, could you enlighten the rest of us?
So you still need to send up food, but the water will be produced by breathing....
The hydrogen still needs to come from somewhere, though. Or were you thinking there'd be enough in the food that's sent up?
Of course, if you *can* get hydrogen somewhere on the moon, you could make water and do greenhouse farming. You could also make your own fuel for return trips.
Name some other source of comparable entertainment (non-console) that costs less than that. Drugs?
It depends on your taste in drugs. If you can find it, LSD is about $6 for 12 hours.
What percentage of people actually use their consoles as a primary movie player?
I think the Revolution ("Wii", whatever) is going to be my first console ever when it comes out, but my family used a PC as our only DVD player for about two years (1999 - 2001). We still watch movies on the PC's fairly regularly, as my wife, my son and I have only one TV, but we also have two PCs that can play DVDs.
Text messaging: I've only met one person over the age of 35 who used this. It seems to have the sole purpose of sending messages silently without tipping off teachers/administrators in a school setting.
That might be true for outgoing messages, but I have my programs at work send an email to my phone when something goes wrong and they need attention. That's quite nice.
PDF... think it would be a better idea to put text in a 3MB pdf instead of a 40k text file, a 43k html formatted doc, or a 1MB Word Document.
PDF can contain just about anything. If you're willing to use the built-in fonts (Helvetica, Times and Courier) and the default letter spacing, 40k of text can be nicely formatted in a ~50k PDF. My senior project was a PDF-building library in Java, and for a demo (and not completely-contrived test), I had it make a PDF out of its own JavaDoc; it was 30 pages and around 100k.
A 3MB pdf for 40k of text probably just consists of a series of raster (JPG, TIFF, etc.) images.
Ruby's sigils define scope: local (no sigil), @instance, @@class or $global variable
Dude, I think you just sold me on Ruby. I've wanted a language with explicit scope for ages.
Of course, I still can't use it at work...
Sure, Firefox is by far the most popular open source browser, but there's also KHTML and several others.
Do any of them not use Gecko?
His assertion was that if Apache were a company then they would be susceptible to monopoly rules like Microsoft should be.
Microsoft didn't run into antitrust trouble over IIS, though, because Apache was (is) a serious competitor. Likewise, Apache has a serious competitor in IIS.
If it happens again, you might want to consider running a Select query, instead.
Can you legally advocate Naziism there?