Tcl already has a tip (rfc-like) in place to handle such feats: rmmadwim, April 2003
I know, I know... Tcl is a scripting language, not an OS, not a processor, yadda yadda. At least someone is thinking ahead here. If they can get it to work in a scripting language, they may be able to get it to work at lower levels..
To answer the question: Visual C++ Express is the one. Lightweight IDE, best compiler, most standards compliant, best debugger... it's a free download so don't waste time looking at anything else.
Since when did MS make anything that was standards compliant? Did you not see the numerous articles about them ripping apart ANSI/ISO C? (memcpy among others).
I'm not going to argue about the lightweight IDE, the code completion is handy, and it does have a nice debugger.... but Code::Blocks is also pretty lightweight, and (at least in linux) has a comparable debugger in it's integration with gdb.
Without it, a game comes off as a cartoon. I don't notice it so much when it's there and have never found it a bother, but when it's not there, it's noticeable. If you shoot somebody in the head with a shotgun and they just fall down without a drop of blood, something is wrong. It's just plain not realistic.
There is a threshold when there's too much, and that comes down to personal preference, and depends on the presentation in the game.
Contra: Kill the bad guy, they simply fall over, no blood, only explosions.
Metal Slug: Same as above, only you can set it so bad guys either sweat or bleed.
Resident Evil 4: More or less a shooting game, more gore, but still had a story to follow. Normal enemies had head explosions, bosses generally were more gruesome. Cutscenes also had a slasher-movie sort of gore.
Fear: More first person shooter and very violent. Cutscenes had some very graphic images.
There is also a Midway game whose name I can't remember (you start in prison, some gate to hell opened or whatever, you have to fight your way out) that just had too much gore for me. I also didn't play FEAR too much, since it was beyond my threshold for violence. To me, Resident Evil is about the limit in terms of overall violence, I just don't see the need for more graphic violence *cough* manhunt *cough*. I also personally think to add lots of blood/gore to Contra would actually destroy some of the entertainment value. It's whole intent is to swarm the player, to have lots of little blood clouds would only serve to blur the screen and hide enemies.
... you've taken "OS", moved it up and now call it "BIOS", the you've taken "browser" and now call it "OS"...
So all you've done is to throw the OS into the hardware, and you've changed the programming language into an internet-delivered language...
Even worse, considering the current state of browser vulnerabilities (javascript hacks, man-in-the-middle attacks, etc...), is there someone out there with the least bit of common sense that thinks putting something with that many commonly attacked holes as the core 'application' on a system is a good idea?
When that happens, all we'll have accomplished is made script kiddies and their "download my warez at this link!" attacks into full-fledged system hackers. No worries about buffer overflow, all we need is javascript injection.
I'm perfectly capable of driving 85 down the freeway, shaving, talking on the cell phone, and rummaging through the back seat looking for the next CD, you insensitive clod!
Or does this read like the venture into a modularized price structure for an Operating System.
You want to Install Windows? $50
You want to Boot Windows? Another $50
You want to Install Applications? That'll be $100
You want to play Blu-Ray? That'll be another $50
You want sound on your Blu-Ray movie? Cough up $35
You want to use your peripherals? (Camera, webcam, ipod, printer, scanner) That'll be $10 per peripheral
After all, even the synopsis says "making selected portions and functionality of the operating system unavailable to the user or by limiting the user's ability to add software applications or device drivers to the computer' until an 'agreed upon sum of money' is paid to 'unlock or otherwise make available the restricted functionality.'", who's to say they don't want to make a Windows Core available for some low price, then add Multimedia capability as a $200 add-on, or Gaming Pack for $150, maybe a Video/Sound Editing pack for $300, or a Small Business Suite for $300?
Reads to me like MS is gonna kick the consumer in the junk, then take their wallet
...Windows cost less with all the adware, spyware, trial that comes pre-installed with the computer.
This statement just doesn't make sense. You'll notice that the crapware you receive on a new machine is dependent on the maker of that machine (Toshiba crapware is different than HP crapware), which tells me that some software makers are likely paying Toshiba/HP/Dell/Gateway/whoever some small amount of money to put their crapware demo on there.
You'll never get the full retail, off-the-shelf, cost of Windows because even OEM's don't pay full price for every copy they distribute. Slashdot discussed for months the "Upgrade to XP" that cost users of Home Premium $90 to "upgrade" the license to Vista Ultimate, which could then be transferred to an XP license. However, you look at the original sticker price for both, and you'll see the difference was really more like $200 for off-the-shelf. Even the difference between upgrade prices was ~100. The OEM prices tell a similar story, with Vista Ultimate being $200, Home Premium at $120.
I agree with the OP that if Dell/HP were to beef up their tech support with some Linux knowledge (or at least set up a couple links to Ubuntu forums), they could easily whack a couple hundred off the price of a new machine. At most we'll see the OEM price of the OS knocked off, never full retail.
Actually, I happen to be a musician and I disagree.... Touring has always made musicians truckloads more money than CDs ever have. CD sales are just used by huge record companies as a revenue stream for themselves and as an indicator telling them who to send on huge tours.
I have yet to find/see any actual numbers on production (recording, mixing, mass-producing, and profit) sales for CD's/DVD's, as opposed to touring (travel costs, venue fees, other costs like 'per diem', hotels, gas, etc...). It seems like there would be fewer middle-men on concert tours, so more of the proceeds can go to the artist, but without any concrete numbers, how can we tell?
Anybody have a cost breakdown on tours? on CD's? on DVD's?
I personally have a few bands that I have no problem coughing up $15 on a new CD. When I learn about new music, I want to check it out before I buy it (otherwise I'd be blowing whole paychecks on music, most of which would be crap).
Homer: I made a make-up gun to shorten time women spend getting ready
Marge: Homer, I don't think women will like being shot in the face
Homer: Women will like what I tell them to like.
Marge: Homer! You've got it set on whore!
Yes, you read that right. Microsoft is deprecating parts of an ISO Standard all by themselves. Not that this should surprise anyone. I would have absolutely no objection to them proposing to WG14 to deprecate those functions; heck, I'd encourage it! But besides going out and deciding to 'deprecate' parts of the standards, the replacement functions actually violate those same standards.
In order to deprecate parts of the ISO Standard, they'd first have to implement the ISO Standard. Granted I haven't looked over the MS C definition with a fine toothed comb, but all of my attempts at cross-platform development in C over the past decade have ended in fantastic failure because of MS taking something good (like the ISO standard), deciding it wasn't for them, and making their own version. They didn't conform to ISO in the first place. These 'deprecations' are really not much more than them making sure their broken functions have different names.
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I know, I know... Tcl is a scripting language, not an OS, not a processor, yadda yadda. At least someone is thinking ahead here. If they can get it to work in a scripting language, they may be able to get it to work at lower levels..
India: Hello, how may I help you today?
Customer: My computer has a blue screen
India: One second while I type that in... (15 minutes later). Have you tried shutting up and restarting your computer?
don't forget the most important feature: M-x dunnet
To answer the question: Visual C++ Express is the one. Lightweight IDE, best compiler, most standards compliant, best debugger ... it's a free download so don't waste time looking at anything else.
Since when did MS make anything that was standards compliant? Did you not see the numerous articles about them ripping apart ANSI/ISO C? (memcpy among others).
I'm not going to argue about the lightweight IDE, the code completion is handy, and it does have a nice debugger.... but Code::Blocks is also pretty lightweight, and (at least in linux) has a comparable debugger in it's integration with gdb.
You say people put in an SSN without dashes when your website requests them?
put a damned example on your site, like this: nnn-nn-nnnn
Details of the process are available at the American Chemical Society for $30.
I think they meant:
Details of the process were available on The Pirate Bay a month ago.
Shims work.
Surely it applies to programming as well?
They do... They're called "hacks", and often come from a poor design decision and result in uglier code that's more difficult to maintain.
Attention Australian p2p users. MediaSentry's lame-ass tactics are now working within our borders. If you're gonna do it, don't get caught, like me.
and open bars generally don't help with game progress.
Without it, a game comes off as a cartoon. I don't notice it so much when it's there and have never found it a bother, but when it's not there, it's noticeable. If you shoot somebody in the head with a shotgun and they just fall down without a drop of blood, something is wrong. It's just plain not realistic.
There is a threshold when there's too much, and that comes down to personal preference, and depends on the presentation in the game.
There is also a Midway game whose name I can't remember (you start in prison, some gate to hell opened or whatever, you have to fight your way out) that just had too much gore for me. I also didn't play FEAR too much, since it was beyond my threshold for violence. To me, Resident Evil is about the limit in terms of overall violence, I just don't see the need for more graphic violence *cough* manhunt *cough*. I also personally think to add lots of blood/gore to Contra would actually destroy some of the entertainment value. It's whole intent is to swarm the player, to have lots of little blood clouds would only serve to blur the screen and hide enemies.
Start them young, I bet you'll have kids in the playground huddled around a couple of these helmets fighting each other for the next hit.
Pedistate Helmet, the new gateway drug.
So, no OS. Browser becomes OS....
... you've taken "OS", moved it up and now call it "BIOS", the you've taken "browser" and now call it "OS"...
So all you've done is to throw the OS into the hardware, and you've changed the programming language into an internet-delivered language...
Even worse, considering the current state of browser vulnerabilities (javascript hacks, man-in-the-middle attacks, etc...), is there someone out there with the least bit of common sense that thinks putting something with that many commonly attacked holes as the core 'application' on a system is a good idea?
When that happens, all we'll have accomplished is made script kiddies and their "download my warez at this link!" attacks into full-fledged system hackers. No worries about buffer overflow, all we need is javascript injection.
*points at desktop* It's on the Hard Drive.
ducks
I'm perfectly capable of driving 85 down the freeway, shaving, talking on the cell phone, and rummaging through the back seat looking for the next CD, you insensitive clod!
Or does this read like the venture into a modularized price structure for an Operating System.
You want to Install Windows? $50
You want to Boot Windows? Another $50
You want to Install Applications? That'll be $100
You want to play Blu-Ray? That'll be another $50
You want sound on your Blu-Ray movie? Cough up $35
You want to use your peripherals? (Camera, webcam, ipod, printer, scanner) That'll be $10 per peripheral
After all, even the synopsis says "making selected portions and functionality of the operating system unavailable to the user or by limiting the user's ability to add software applications or device drivers to the computer' until an 'agreed upon sum of money' is paid to 'unlock or otherwise make available the restricted functionality.'", who's to say they don't want to make a Windows Core available for some low price, then add Multimedia capability as a $200 add-on, or Gaming Pack for $150, maybe a Video/Sound Editing pack for $300, or a Small Business Suite for $300?
Reads to me like MS is gonna kick the consumer in the junk, then take their wallet
Without my Li-Ion battery, I'll have to start using the stove to cook meals.
Sony may not always play nice, but at least they haven't been charged with monopolistic business practices (that I'm aware of, anyway).
...Windows cost less with all the adware, spyware, trial that comes pre-installed with the computer.
This statement just doesn't make sense. You'll notice that the crapware you receive on a new machine is dependent on the maker of that machine (Toshiba crapware is different than HP crapware), which tells me that some software makers are likely paying Toshiba/HP/Dell/Gateway/whoever some small amount of money to put their crapware demo on there.
You'll never get the full retail, off-the-shelf, cost of Windows because even OEM's don't pay full price for every copy they distribute. Slashdot discussed for months the "Upgrade to XP" that cost users of Home Premium $90 to "upgrade" the license to Vista Ultimate, which could then be transferred to an XP license. However, you look at the original sticker price for both, and you'll see the difference was really more like $200 for off-the-shelf. Even the difference between upgrade prices was ~100. The OEM prices tell a similar story, with Vista Ultimate being $200, Home Premium at $120.
I agree with the OP that if Dell/HP were to beef up their tech support with some Linux knowledge (or at least set up a couple links to Ubuntu forums), they could easily whack a couple hundred off the price of a new machine. At most we'll see the OEM price of the OS knocked off, never full retail.
Actually, I happen to be a musician and I disagree. ... Touring has always made musicians truckloads more money than CDs ever have. CD sales are just used by huge record companies as a revenue stream for themselves and as an indicator telling them who to send on huge tours.
I have yet to find/see any actual numbers on production (recording, mixing, mass-producing, and profit) sales for CD's/DVD's, as opposed to touring (travel costs, venue fees, other costs like 'per diem', hotels, gas, etc...). It seems like there would be fewer middle-men on concert tours, so more of the proceeds can go to the artist, but without any concrete numbers, how can we tell?
Anybody have a cost breakdown on tours? on CD's? on DVD's?
I personally have a few bands that I have no problem coughing up $15 on a new CD. When I learn about new music, I want to check it out before I buy it (otherwise I'd be blowing whole paychecks on music, most of which would be crap).
...and my girlfriend loves hers...
I stopped believing you somewhere around here ;-)
What's the difference between Delta Burke and Delta airlines?
20 pounds!
Homer: I made a make-up gun to shorten time women spend getting ready
Marge: Homer, I don't think women will like being shot in the face
Homer: Women will like what I tell them to like.
Marge: Homer! You've got it set on whore!
Yes, you read that right. Microsoft is deprecating parts of an ISO Standard all by themselves. Not that this should surprise anyone. I would have absolutely no objection to them proposing to WG14 to deprecate those functions; heck, I'd encourage it! But besides going out and deciding to 'deprecate' parts of the standards, the replacement functions actually violate those same standards.
In order to deprecate parts of the ISO Standard, they'd first have to implement the ISO Standard. Granted I haven't looked over the MS C definition with a fine toothed comb, but all of my attempts at cross-platform development in C over the past decade have ended in fantastic failure because of MS taking something good (like the ISO standard), deciding it wasn't for them, and making their own version. They didn't conform to ISO in the first place. These 'deprecations' are really not much more than them making sure their broken functions have different names.
Your girlfriends are stereotypically overweight?
It wasn't me that copied your work... it was firefox. Sue them.