He's asking about VB.NET, not oldschool VB. None of your comments apart from "VB is good if you want code that you can read but not understand" apply.
-VB.NET code will run on freebsd and linux -VB.NET has no known "stability" issues, as it generates mostly the same bytecode C# does -VB.NET is strongly typed as long as you set "Option Explicit On," which everyone does.
Now, I dislike VB.NET, but due to its syntax. Sub/End Sub instead of {} just bugs the shit out of me.
1. That's an unsupported addon, not part of the OS. I could release an extention for Gnome that said "DOS prompt here," but that doesn't magically make bash == DOS
2. That extension has been named "Command prompt here" since windows 2000.
DOS is gone. The Microsoft command prompt, cmd.exe, still exists, but runs on top of the windows subsystem, not the other way around.
How would the laptop get plugged in and on the network?
For something as critical as a PoS network, I'd hope they have the subnet put in a different VLAN using port to MAC mapping. Plug in a random laptop and you won't even get ARP.
Why are your PoS systems not on a seperate network, or at least VLAN? HOW could one of these PoS systems get a virus in the first place to spread it to the others?
No one has ever (seriously) argued that two thumbsticks is able to compete with keyboard + mouse as far as raw accuracy.
The point is that games have progressed since quake2, and it's not about pixel accurate railing. If you want that, go play quake2, or the original UT in instalkill mode on your PC. Or better yet, write yourself a flash game that blinks a white dot on the screen and you score points based on how quickly you click it.
Pixel click accuracy has been taken as far as it can be taken, and it does NOT make games more fun to have to click more and more accuratly. This problem is what led to the "mee tooooo" era of FPS games a few years ago.
Nowadays, a good FPS is an adventure game which uses first person viewing for effect. Many feature either lockons (like metroid prime), or purposely simulate the fact that in a stressful situation WHERE you are is more important that how accurate you can shoot (counter strike).
A mouse and keyboard is MORE ACCURATE, but I would argue is NOT a better controller for FPSs.
1. There is no analog control over movement, so you're stuck with solutions like auto-run, or holding the ctrl key with your pinkey to crawl. 2. It requires a tabletop. Even driving wheels strap onto your leg, but you'd be a fool to try and play with an optical mouse on your couch, with your keyboard cradled... 3. It requires a lot of physical movement, picking up the mouse/etc. 4. The abundance of extra buttons leads to gameplay designs requiring 15 different keys (this is an unfair bitch, but I'll leave it in) 5. Not as throwable, a serious issue when your friend beats you for the 10th time in a row...
The good, to me, of KB+M: 1. accuarcy 2. abundance of keys 3. You already have one with your computer 4. you can buy one VERY specific to what you like. Clicky/curved/colored/extra keys/only 7 keys/etc
Now, if you want to see a "good idea, bad implementation," I actually bought the sidewinder dual strike. It honestly combined the worst of KB+M and the worst of using a pad.... But it was OH so cool to whip out at lan parties!
1. System to System mode. This uses a propriatary (but VERY related to 802.11b) protocol and cannot (natively) be propigated. Consider it much like IPX. This is what game sharing and non-internet games use to allow wireless multiplayer.
2. 802.11b mode. This is a full TCP/IP implementation, which can connect to an infrastructure AP. Both mario kart and animal crossing use this mode to allow internet based multiplayer.
Of course if you'd have done even a single web/wikipedia search on the DS you'd know that.
A public hospital is required to treat anyone, regardless of insurance/etc details. A private hospital is not, although they are required to transport you directly to a public hospital after a basic triage.
So what instances do you have on hand of a C# solution working but generating invalid results which would not have occured by using C++? You made a huge inline claim without really ANY backup!
Your idea is likely not great nor unique. You sound just like everyone who plays a few games, knows NOTHING about programming or game design, and then announces to the world that they have the idea for the PERFECT game, and if only someone would listen to them!
If you'd RTFA, you'd see that Linus mentions this EXACT scenario, and in fact supports it. As long as any changes they made are released (as they must be) under the GPL, then you can run their changes on other hardware.
Where's a link, or even made up data, to show the average hourly power consumption of a TV on standby? And comparing new TVs (many LCD/plasma/RPDLP) power usage to "old" tvs?
All the TV does while it's on standby is keep the IR sensor and a small clock active. It could likely run off a 9v battery for weeks at a time if it had to.
The real worry (and it isn't that big, to be honest) is non-switched ac adapters plugged into ineffecient chargers. If you feel your mobile phone charger, and it's hot, you're burning a lot of electricity and it's not doing anything.
Only if you don't like wine. I drink a LOT of wine, some nice and some cheap. We have a weekly dinner get-together with about 4 bottles of wine, all bagged. We make comments on what we think of the wines (including guessing variety and vintage, as well as cost range), and then unbag them at the end.
If something tastes a TON better than the others, you'll likely pick it up again in the future. There's no placebo effect, as you didn't know what you were drinking. Sometimes it's the $10 bottle that wins, and sometimes it's the $40 bottle.
Either way, the taste difference is not imaginary, it's simply not directly related to price.
That said, I would say that GENERALLY if you go 2x in price, it will taste "better" (depending on your exact likes/dislikes, often more expensive wine become more "varietal" and less easy-drinking). Not every time, and not every comparison, but I'd say the "enjoy-o-factor" of wine vs price of wine follows an upper-right curve, just with a VERY wide scatter.
If you never drink wine, there's no way to compare. Just as bud light tastes nice the first time you drink (due to it having no taste), and as you mature in taste you like big belgian beers (or whatever variety you like) which taste nasty to the beginner, wine is the same way.
For one thing, you'll likely have a "first line" of defence in a NAT router if you go broadband.
Pre SP2, I ran kerio firewall. The few times I had to connect to dialup (traveling for work, no hotel broadband) I got hundreds of "pokes" each hour for various exploits. I was suprised as, being used to being behind NAT, I hadn't even SEEN the "incoming bad connection" popup box for kerio before!
It's 90% there. You cannot schedule new recordings, but I just use mythweb for that anyways.
Problems: -livetv ringbuffer means that skip forward/back doesn't work, you have to fastforward/rewind -if you go past "now," it stops recording and playing due to thinking you're "done" with the file -sometimes a little flakey
Reality: Thunderbird is going to be used at home by a LOT of people using outlook 2003
Reality: Outlook 2003 defalts to a 3 pane view
Cater your default to the lowest common denominator, and make it easy to switch (as they've done). Most people LIKE the 3 pane viewing. (I personally hate it)
It does have a 4 speed manual which runs out of juice right around 95kmph.
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Here's all it took to get it working for me with a DVB-T card in australia:
1. install ubuntu (default preferences, all it asked me was for a username and password) 2. add (via gui, easy to do) the "universe" and "multiverse" repositories (a click list is already there) 3. go to software installer, tell it to grab "mythtv" 4. run mythtv-setup, give it the names of my channels and so on 5. enjoy
What does this prove? See subject for an easy analogy.
My fun/backup car is a 1977 honda civic, complete with manual choke. It takes an act of god to start it, but I have JUST the nack to get it every time. Most people getting into the car wouldn't have any idea what a manual choke is.
Does this mean that anyone who can't start it is not skilled at starting modern day cars?......
Ask your typicall 747 pilot to jump into a spitfire and fly 500km.
You see where I'm going. It's like programmers bitching about no one knowing assembler any more, when no one apart from serious system optimizers (or race car drivers....) need to know it.
Allow me to add: Both "Continental Drift" and "Atomic Theory" are theories, NOT "laws" (as close as a "fact" as you can come in the scientific method).
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He's asking about VB.NET, not oldschool VB. None of your comments apart from "VB is good if you want code that you can read but not understand" apply.
-VB.NET code will run on freebsd and linux
-VB.NET has no known "stability" issues, as it generates mostly the same bytecode C# does
-VB.NET is strongly typed as long as you set "Option Explicit On," which everyone does.
Now, I dislike VB.NET, but due to its syntax. Sub/End Sub instead of {} just bugs the shit out of me.
1. That's an unsupported addon, not part of the OS. I could release an extention for Gnome that said "DOS prompt here," but that doesn't magically make bash == DOS
2. That extension has been named "Command prompt here" since windows 2000.
DOS is gone. The Microsoft command prompt, cmd.exe, still exists, but runs on top of the windows subsystem, not the other way around.
How would the laptop get plugged in and on the network?
For something as critical as a PoS network, I'd hope they have the subnet put in a different VLAN using port to MAC mapping. Plug in a random laptop and you won't even get ARP.
What single feature does mythtv share with a CCTV DVR system that would make it remotely usable for this poster?
Mythtv doesn't even ACTUALLY record video, it relies on V4L for that.
(It does do transcoding itself, though)
Why are your PoS systems not on a seperate network, or at least VLAN? HOW could one of these PoS systems get a virus in the first place to spread it to the others?
No one has ever (seriously) argued that two thumbsticks is able to compete with keyboard + mouse as far as raw accuracy.
The point is that games have progressed since quake2, and it's not about pixel accurate railing. If you want that, go play quake2, or the original UT in instalkill mode on your PC. Or better yet, write yourself a flash game that blinks a white dot on the screen and you score points based on how quickly you click it.
Pixel click accuracy has been taken as far as it can be taken, and it does NOT make games more fun to have to click more and more accuratly. This problem is what led to the "mee tooooo" era of FPS games a few years ago.
Nowadays, a good FPS is an adventure game which uses first person viewing for effect. Many feature either lockons (like metroid prime), or purposely simulate the fact that in a stressful situation WHERE you are is more important that how accurate you can shoot (counter strike).
A mouse and keyboard is MORE ACCURATE, but I would argue is NOT a better controller for FPSs.
1. There is no analog control over movement, so you're stuck with solutions like auto-run, or holding the ctrl key with your pinkey to crawl.
2. It requires a tabletop. Even driving wheels strap onto your leg, but you'd be a fool to try and play with an optical mouse on your couch, with your keyboard cradled...
3. It requires a lot of physical movement, picking up the mouse/etc.
4. The abundance of extra buttons leads to gameplay designs requiring 15 different keys (this is an unfair bitch, but I'll leave it in)
5. Not as throwable, a serious issue when your friend beats you for the 10th time in a row...
The good, to me, of KB+M:
1. accuarcy
2. abundance of keys
3. You already have one with your computer
4. you can buy one VERY specific to what you like. Clicky/curved/colored/extra keys/only 7 keys/etc
Now, if you want to see a "good idea, bad implementation," I actually bought the sidewinder dual strike. It honestly combined the worst of KB+M and the worst of using a pad.... But it was OH so cool to whip out at lan parties!
The DS can communicate wirelessly in two modes:
1. System to System mode. This uses a propriatary (but VERY related to 802.11b) protocol and cannot (natively) be propigated. Consider it much like IPX. This is what game sharing and non-internet games use to allow wireless multiplayer.
2. 802.11b mode. This is a full TCP/IP implementation, which can connect to an infrastructure AP. Both mario kart and animal crossing use this mode to allow internet based multiplayer.
Of course if you'd have done even a single web/wikipedia search on the DS you'd know that.
Examine public vs private hospitals in the US.
A public hospital is required to treat anyone, regardless of insurance/etc details.
A private hospital is not, although they are required to transport you directly to a public hospital after a basic triage.
Google is doing the correct thing here per SPF reccomendations. Mailing lists should be doing the same thing (and mailman does by default now).
So because an internal project at your company is failing, the entire south florida market is against c#?
So what instances do you have on hand of a C# solution working but generating invalid results which would not have occured by using C++? You made a huge inline claim without really ANY backup!
Your idea is likely not great nor unique. You sound just like everyone who plays a few games, knows NOTHING about programming or game design, and then announces to the world that they have the idea for the PERFECT game, and if only someone would listen to them!
If you'd RTFA, you'd see that Linus mentions this EXACT scenario, and in fact supports it. As long as any changes they made are released (as they must be) under the GPL, then you can run their changes on other hardware.
(psssst..... verizon offers a product known as "FIOS"... google it)
The link you posted points to "an initiative," with no stats on current usage to speak of (that I could find in a skim).
The link posted by the reply below yours won't load, but sounds promising.
From the links you talked about, what's the average hourly power consumption of a TV on standby? Or the average continuous draw?
Where's a link, or even made up data, to show the average hourly power consumption of a TV on standby?
And comparing new TVs (many LCD/plasma/RPDLP) power usage to "old" tvs?
All the TV does while it's on standby is keep the IR sensor and a small clock active. It could likely run off a 9v battery for weeks at a time if it had to.
The real worry (and it isn't that big, to be honest) is non-switched ac adapters plugged into ineffecient chargers. If you feel your mobile phone charger, and it's hot, you're burning a lot of electricity and it's not doing anything.
Only if you don't like wine. I drink a LOT of wine, some nice and some cheap. We have a weekly dinner get-together with about 4 bottles of wine, all bagged. We make comments on what we think of the wines (including guessing variety and vintage, as well as cost range), and then unbag them at the end.
If something tastes a TON better than the others, you'll likely pick it up again in the future. There's no placebo effect, as you didn't know what you were drinking. Sometimes it's the $10 bottle that wins, and sometimes it's the $40 bottle.
Either way, the taste difference is not imaginary, it's simply not directly related to price.
That said, I would say that GENERALLY if you go 2x in price, it will taste "better" (depending on your exact likes/dislikes, often more expensive wine become more "varietal" and less easy-drinking). Not every time, and not every comparison, but I'd say the "enjoy-o-factor" of wine vs price of wine follows an upper-right curve, just with a VERY wide scatter.
If you never drink wine, there's no way to compare. Just as bud light tastes nice the first time you drink (due to it having no taste), and as you mature in taste you like big belgian beers (or whatever variety you like) which taste nasty to the beginner, wine is the same way.
For one thing, you'll likely have a "first line" of defence in a NAT router if you go broadband.
Pre SP2, I ran kerio firewall. The few times I had to connect to dialup (traveling for work, no hotel broadband) I got hundreds of "pokes" each hour for various exploits. I was suprised as, being used to being behind NAT, I hadn't even SEEN the "incoming bad connection" popup box for kerio before!
http://www.google.com/search?q=xbmc%20mythtv
It's 90% there. You cannot schedule new recordings, but I just use mythweb for that anyways.
Problems:
-livetv ringbuffer means that skip forward/back doesn't work, you have to fastforward/rewind
-if you go past "now," it stops recording and playing due to thinking you're "done" with the file
-sometimes a little flakey
Reality: Thunderbird is going to be used at home by a LOT of people using outlook 2003
Reality: Outlook 2003 defalts to a 3 pane view
Cater your default to the lowest common denominator, and make it easy to switch (as they've done). Most people LIKE the 3 pane viewing. (I personally hate it)
Thanks for the reply, that had me laughing for a good 5 minutes!
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However, to answer your question, I'd compare it more to your weed whacker than to the tractor. http://www.happychinchilla.com/gallery-old/assort
It does have a 4 speed manual which runs out of juice right around 95kmph.
Here's all it took to get it working for me with a DVB-T card in australia:
1. install ubuntu (default preferences, all it asked me was for a username and password)
2. add (via gui, easy to do) the "universe" and "multiverse" repositories (a click list is already there)
3. go to software installer, tell it to grab "mythtv"
4. run mythtv-setup, give it the names of my channels and so on
5. enjoy
What does this prove? See subject for an easy analogy.
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My fun/backup car is a 1977 honda civic, complete with manual choke. It takes an act of god to start it, but I have JUST the nack to get it every time. Most people getting into the car wouldn't have any idea what a manual choke is.
Does this mean that anyone who can't start it is not skilled at starting modern day cars?
Ask your typicall 747 pilot to jump into a spitfire and fly 500km.
You see where I'm going. It's like programmers bitching about no one knowing assembler any more, when no one apart from serious system optimizers (or race car drivers....) need to know it.
Allow me to add:
Both "Continental Drift" and "Atomic Theory" are theories, NOT "laws" (as close as a "fact" as you can come in the scientific method).
As a parent (in Kansas, no less), I can tell you that evolution is usually not taught as theory, but as fact.
You do not understand what the word "theory" means in a scientific context.