Exactly, the same thing I was thinking when I was on several UK2 CS servers this week: all free map servers contained at least 1 wallhack luser. And what happened? a complete outburst of flames towards the guy. If you think of it: that must be the reason why he cheats. I mean: what kind of value does a 44-5 score have on a CS map when you just pick up your m60 and shoot everyone through the walls? none. So ignoring the loosers is the best way to let them stop: no attention, no fun for them. --
Programming is about the concept of programming: translate a solution to a problem into programcode so the program code assembles the solution and thus solves the problem.
WHich language you use is totally irrelevant. Teaching programming using Java or C++ of Visual Basic, it's all the same. If you don't understand that the language is not teaching you how to program, but the teacher, you'll also not understand that the question if Java or C/C++ should be the language of choice is irrelevant and in fact, stupid. Yeah, stupid, since asking that question shows you don't understand what programming really is... --
DDE? That's dead for ages on win32.
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Erm... since a year or 3 people use 'automation' with COM on win32 instead of DDE/OLE. I don't think it's really 'visionary' to include DDE code in an application TODAY. To say the least.
Personally I think including an own 'COM' variant in an application for win32 is a bad decision. If they had, the win32 version whould have been finished by now. --
Hey, YOU have to live with that president, I don't. I'm at the other side of the ocean. But I regret it every damn day, when that same ocean increases in size, Bush was elected president, by an ancient system. --
Microsoft can and, if dubious reports are to be believed, may perhaps actually be getting their software reviewed by other professionals, peers if you will, in a source-available-under-onerous-conditions approach, with the result than Windows 2000, while still inferior to GNU/Linux/FreeBSD/etc, is vastly improved over its predicessors.
True for the reviewing part. IBM had more than a 100 people at the MS campus who were doing simply testing and reviewing code for win2k so it would run 100% ok on IBM hardware.
But I had to laugh about the 'while still inferior' part. That was really funny:). Please, understand that 'inferior' means: bad quality, but only for YOU. In YOUR situation. For a COM programmer, it's a heaven on earth. Please realise that, next time you're advocating Linux. thanks. --
He lost the popular vote. In most countries you then loose the election. What's so odd about that? Ah, I see: the US of A tells other countries how they should behave and install a democracy while the US of A itself isn't able to install one / keep one at home.:D --
And thanks in part to a media that has utterly failed to grasp or cover well the real issues involving the soft- and hardware that governs the Net and the Web, the public has no idea that they will be spending billions for years on things they could have -- ought to have -- for free.
Oh, right, like... there is an equivalent OS that _EVERY_ drooley on the planet can understand and WILL use. For free. Like there is a _FREE_ equivalent as good and as powerfull as, say, SQLserver 2000. Or Visual Studio.
because ASP.net works with components that generate the HTML for you, based on what the browser is able to render, so Netscape can survive the.NET age. In fact,.NET development makes it easier for webapplication builders to support more browsers, by just writing 1 codeset, so netscape users are not forced to upgrade when they want to use a certain webapplication. --
Perhaps I don't understand it, as far as I see it, ReiserFS will become a kind of Virtual FileSystem, hosting the actual filesystem units? Or are the 'plugins' add-ons that are not affecting the actual layout of the filesystem on disk? --
XP is nice for novice computer users (XP, the homevariant I mean). It's made very easy for newbies and novices (i.e. almosts every non-tech person;)) to work with a computer. For a geek a bit too much I think. XP (or win2002) for servers is IMHO very good and except perhaps the price, it will probably pug MS on the servermap for good. --
The ASUS GF drivers contain a breakpoint in the OpenGL driver. It's impossible to debug an opengl program using the ASUS GF drivers, since the debugger stops in the OGL driver:). Hopefully the 'cheat'code was THAT particular piece of code so the breakpoint is gone too. --
Allthough this benchmark is about performance, the main reason why people complain about the price of the system is that this particular benchmark's results can be cranked up whenever you add more hardware to the setup, in a linear way. So add twice the hardware and your results will almost double. That's why it's still important to check out the price per transaction. It's sad that SGI used such an expensive system to make the first Linux entry in the TCP benchmarks a fact: the 'lowest TCO on tha block'-remark which is often used among Linux-adebts is getting pale when looking at the price/transaction ratio of this particular result.
TPC has more than 1 chart per benchmark, mostly 1 for raw performance, and 1 for price/performance. Check for example www.tpc.org and click on 'benchmarks' at the left. Select a benchmark from the list and you can select from the charts which one you prefer. In the end, it's the reader who decides WHAT's important, not the benchmark itself.
Sony wouldn't allow porn to be distributed on Betamax. V2000 from Philips, the best videosystem in that time, also had this restriction. VHS however didn't. --
I suspect most Engineers, programers and System Administraters, when left to thier own devices will not choose Win2K
Errm... I know a lot of people who, like me, did CS on a Unix-is-it- university and after that, swapped to win32 because developing software is just as easy and just as fun on win32 as it is on AIX, SunOS/Solaris etc. If you REALLY look at win2k and play with it, and as a developer, build software for it, like an n-tier app using COM+, you'll understand it's fun, and not the crap that was once called win9x. Developers who still want to develop using vi and make, without transactional support and binary object models right inside the OS, AFTER they've seen win2k and visual studio are not that 'independant' in their opinion.
Far the most Linux boxes out there are running RedHat. Within a niche, that's also a monopolistic situation. We're not far away from the day that the averay John Doe will associate 'Linux' with 'RedHat'. --
If you want realplayer, install it. If you want AIM or ICQ, install it. Simple as that. Just because MS ships their own version with their OS, because customers just want A (not 'the', just A) messenger program, A player, A burnprogram, they complain. It's simple: AOL's and other's products are not unique, the customers are not attracted to these products THAT MUCH so they would give MS the finger and install these competing products from AOL and others. Instead, they seem to be satisfied with what they get with XP or any other version with windows.
The same tactic Apple uses btw with their OS-es. OK, MacOSX can't burn CD's because of a bug, but it was intended to be able to burn cd's: an iMac has to come with a full blown OS that can do everything the customer wants. End of story. Same with XP. --
How is the BSD license more economically-sound than the GPL as far as making money off open-source? Wouldn't it just let a company like Microsoft use the code however they want?
Really? Ever understood what's really important when building software? it's not the IMPLEMENTATION. It's the DESIGN, the algorithms behind the implementation. And these are not stored in GPL-ed code, but in research documents, patents, whatever. If MS wants to get some designs implemented, they get the research documents, bring that to their huge staff of university graduated programmers and let them implement these designs, these algorithms. They don't need BSD licensed code, nor will they use it. Why? Because code copied/pasted from a random source.cpp is not maintainable, not fitting a design: it's not a 1:1 transform of the design to implementation, they way people make software. If the design changes you can't change the code at once when you just copy/pasted it from a random sourcefile. When you DID follow the general rules of thumb, you know where and how a certain designblock is implemented and can see where and how it should be changed to match the changed design. It works against you when you just steal an implementation of a lookalike design.
Besides that, MS has a clear policy that no programmer is allowed to use open sourced (whatever license) code, without permission.
How is this done? with 2 camera's, both rendering in 1 part of the screen (left and right, 2 viewports), one in front of you with a 180degrees pov using gluPerspective(180.0...) and one behind you ? or 4 camera's with 4 viewports next to eachother, with a POV of 90 degrees? (like you use when you're creating dynamic cubemaps). --
Erm... how much scalability do you want? -> www.tpc.org. It not only wins every price/performance spot, it also has the top spot in overall performance. That's is not even the biggest news. Their PREVIOUS record was done with using half of the machines they used in the winning setup. They scored almost the half of the current record. So add twice as much machines, get twice as much performance. If that's not scalability, then what is? --
* if workers pee at home and hold up their pee untill they're back home: a lot of time saved which was otherwise spend at the toilets!
* if workers start to camp outside the office instead of driving each morning to work and back in the evening: no more hours wasted in the traffic jam, which can then be spend on business!
* if workers are only allowed to drink water from bottles they have to bring themselves and have to fill at home (or when they're camping outside the office, with rainwater): no more time is wasted at the coffeemachine or watercooler! Which can then be spend on business and work!
* if businesstrips and meetings weren't done face to face but using email: no more time wasted in hotels/planes/dull offices..
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Exactly, the same thing I was thinking when I was on several UK2 CS servers this week: all free map servers contained at least 1 wallhack luser. And what happened? a complete outburst of flames towards the guy. If you think of it: that must be the reason why he cheats. I mean: what kind of value does a 44-5 score have on a CS map when you just pick up your m60 and shoot everyone through the walls? none. So ignoring the loosers is the best way to let them stop: no attention, no fun for them.
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WHich language you use is totally irrelevant. Teaching programming using Java or C++ of Visual Basic, it's all the same. If you don't understand that the language is not teaching you how to program, but the teacher, you'll also not understand that the question if Java or C/C++ should be the language of choice is irrelevant and in fact, stupid. Yeah, stupid, since asking that question shows you don't understand what programming really is...
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Erm... since a year or 3 people use 'automation' with COM on win32 instead of DDE/OLE. I don't think it's really 'visionary' to include DDE code in an application TODAY. To say the least.
Personally I think including an own 'COM' variant in an application for win32 is a bad decision. If they had, the win32 version whould have been finished by now.
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Hey, YOU have to live with that president, I don't. I'm at the other side of the ocean. But I regret it every damn day, when that same ocean increases in size, Bush was elected president, by an ancient system.
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But I had to laugh about the 'while still inferior' part. That was really funny :). Please, understand that 'inferior' means: bad quality, but only for YOU. In YOUR situation. For a COM programmer, it's a heaven on earth. Please realise that, next time you're advocating Linux. thanks.
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Nuff said. Can Katz be replaced by the poster of the parent posting, plz ? (Webword). thanks.
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He lost the popular vote. In most countries you then loose the election. What's so odd about that? Ah, I see: the US of A tells other countries how they should behave and install a democracy while the US of A itself isn't able to install one / keep one at home. :D
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Oh, right, like... there is an equivalent OS that _EVERY_ drooley on the planet can understand and WILL use. For free. Like there is a _FREE_ equivalent as good and as powerfull as, say, SQLserver 2000. Or Visual Studio.
Open your eyes.
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because ASP.net works with components that generate the HTML for you, based on what the browser is able to render, so Netscape can survive the .NET age. In fact, .NET development makes it easier for webapplication builders to support more browsers, by just writing 1 codeset, so netscape users are not forced to upgrade when they want to use a certain webapplication.
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Perhaps I don't understand it, as far as I see it, ReiserFS will become a kind of Virtual FileSystem, hosting the actual filesystem units? Or are the 'plugins' add-ons that are not affecting the actual layout of the filesystem on disk?
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XP is nice for novice computer users (XP, the homevariant I mean). It's made very easy for newbies and novices (i.e. almosts every non-tech person ;)) to work with a computer. For a geek a bit too much I think. XP (or win2002) for servers is IMHO very good and except perhaps the price, it will probably pug MS on the servermap for good.
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I've XP beta 2 and Mandrake 8.0 on one harddrive, and both boot fine, using the nice mandrake bootmenu. So where's the beef?
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The ASUS GF drivers contain a breakpoint in the OpenGL driver. It's impossible to debug an opengl program using the ASUS GF drivers, since the debugger stops in the OGL driver :). Hopefully the 'cheat'code was THAT particular piece of code so the breakpoint is gone too.
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TPC has more than 1 chart per benchmark, mostly 1 for raw performance, and 1 for price/performance. Check for example www.tpc.org and click on 'benchmarks' at the left. Select a benchmark from the list and you can select from the charts which one you prefer. In the end, it's the reader who decides WHAT's important, not the benchmark itself.
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Sony wouldn't allow porn to be distributed on Betamax. V2000 from Philips, the best videosystem in that time, also had this restriction. VHS however didn't.
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Errm... I know a lot of people who, like me, did CS on a Unix-is-it- university and after that, swapped to win32 because developing software is just as easy and just as fun on win32 as it is on AIX, SunOS/Solaris etc. If you REALLY look at win2k and play with it, and as a developer, build software for it, like an n-tier app using COM+, you'll understand it's fun, and not the crap that was once called win9x. Developers who still want to develop using vi and make, without transactional support and binary object models right inside the OS, AFTER they've seen win2k and visual studio are not that 'independant' in their opinion.
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Far the most Linux boxes out there are running RedHat. Within a niche, that's also a monopolistic situation. We're not far away from the day that the averay John Doe will associate 'Linux' with 'RedHat'.
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The same tactic Apple uses btw with their OS-es. OK, MacOSX can't burn CD's because of a bug, but it was intended to be able to burn cd's: an iMac has to come with a full blown OS that can do everything the customer wants. End of story. Same with XP.
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So in fact the 4 90degrees POV renderings in 1 framebuffer should do? (i.e. 4 rectangles, all screenheight high and 1/4th of the width).
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Really? Ever understood what's really important when building software? it's not the IMPLEMENTATION. It's the DESIGN, the algorithms behind the implementation. And these are not stored in GPL-ed code, but in research documents, patents, whatever. If MS wants to get some designs implemented, they get the research documents, bring that to their huge staff of university graduated programmers and let them implement these designs, these algorithms. They don't need BSD licensed code, nor will they use it. Why? Because code copied/pasted from a random source.cpp is not maintainable, not fitting a design: it's not a 1:1 transform of the design to implementation, they way people make software. If the design changes you can't change the code at once when you just copy/pasted it from a random sourcefile. When you DID follow the general rules of thumb, you know where and how a certain designblock is implemented and can see where and how it should be changed to match the changed design. It works against you when you just steal an implementation of a lookalike design.
Besides that, MS has a clear policy that no programmer is allowed to use open sourced (whatever license) code, without permission.
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How is this done? with 2 camera's, both rendering in 1 part of the screen (left and right, 2 viewports), one in front of you with a 180degrees pov using gluPerspective(180.0 ...) and one behind you ? or 4 camera's with 4 viewports next to eachother, with a POV of 90 degrees? (like you use when you're creating dynamic cubemaps).
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Erm... how much scalability do you want? -> www.tpc.org. It not only wins every price/performance spot, it also has the top spot in overall performance. That's is not even the biggest news. Their PREVIOUS record was done with using half of the machines they used in the winning setup. They scored almost the half of the current record. So add twice as much machines, get twice as much performance. If that's not scalability, then what is?
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* if workers start to camp outside the office instead of driving each morning to work and back in the evening: no more hours wasted in the traffic jam, which can then be spend on business!
* if workers are only allowed to drink water from bottles they have to bring themselves and have to fill at home (or when they're camping outside the office, with rainwater): no more time is wasted at the coffeemachine or watercooler! Which can then be spend on business and work!
* if businesstrips and meetings weren't done face to face but using email: no more time wasted in hotels/planes/dull offices..
oh wait...
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