Finally... I wondered how long it would take for someone to actually mention the Neuros. I just finished my rf-jack mod on my Neuros tonight. Once I build a decent antenna tomorrow I'll be able to broadcast up to about 100 ft.
However, I must say that this article is nothing but a troll. It is absolutely impossible to use an iTrip (or a Neuros for that matter) to overpower a commerical station. After modding my Neuros, I CAN override a station, but ONLY if I'm within 6-12 inches of the receiving device's antenna.
I beg to differ... The MSDN library is the best collection of programming references, examples and source that I've ever had the privilege to work with. Programming heaven = dual (or more) monitors, UltraMon, MSDN collection open in 2ndary monitor and VS.NET in main monitor. Unless I'm trying to troubleshoot obscure bugs or work with 3rd party components, I never need anything but MSDN help open. I leave it set in Index mode, filter set to.NET Framework, and if I'm working in a portion of the framework I don't know very well all I have to do is type the name of the Type or Class that I'm working with. Voila, everything I ever wanted to know about that class, complete with examples for the language I'm working in. Not only is the index easy to use, but the actual documentation is very thorough and cross-referenced very well. If I'm looking at the general info page for a DataSet, the first occurrance of the word DataTable is hyperlinked directly to the DataTable docs. In short, its just easy. I have ZERO complaints about VS.NET's help system.
100D? AFAIK, the Digital Rebel's product number is 300D internationally... In the US its known as the Digital Rebel, everywhere else the 300D.
But yes, you're right, the Rebel would be a MUCH better choice since its compatible with ANY Canon EF lense (so pretty much every modern Canon Lense). Its absolutely the best prosumer camera for the buck right now. For anyone who doesn't believe it, just take a look at some of the pics.
I'm on my 5th Sidekick... And it needs to be replaced because the scrolwheel stopped working the day after I got it. The problem is that they refuse to send 'new' Sidekicks and insist on refurb's that aren't properly tested... Every refurb I've gotten back has had something wrong with it.
However.. I'm willing to put up with it because the Sidekick is the ultimate way to be wired everywhere. Email + AIM anywhere (and well integrated with a decent keyboard) is a dream come true. I can type 30 WPM on my SK, most of my friends on AIM can't tell the difference between when I'm on my SK or my pC except for the AutoCaps.
All in all, if the Sidekick hardware was more reliable, there wouldn't be a better phone for geeks out there.
I think the fact that he has a computer that has 386MB of ram is a greater accomplishment than a web server & tcp/ip stack in PHP... 128 + 128 + 128 = 386? How strange... I was always under the impression that 128 * 3 is 384...:P
...the higher-end cameras can even be printed at sizes up to 20x30...
Hehe, yea, the only prob with that is the costs you get into of framing a pic that big... Sheesh.
I got a Canon Digital Rebel a few months ago and had this shot printed at 20x30 on canvas by photoaccess.com. Seeing that I had never printed a 20x30 shot before, I was rather shocked when I went into the local framing store to discover that a decent frame would cost at least $200, and most of the nicer looking ones at $350+.
I just ended up building a frame to stretch the canvas around and hanging it bare. Still looks nice though.
They cut off the development path for a language that most of the MS world counted on, and made a new language super VB. Your only option to not go to.net is to never upgrade your VB app to take advantage of new tech.
Yes, they did. VB6 was a Very Bad Thing(tm). It was antiquated technology, it taught bad techniques, and its means of implementing OOP were incomplete hacks at best. You can't honestly tell me that you think MS would have been better off continuing to branch VB in a seperate direction from the rest of its developer products. The CLR is a Godsend to business programmers. RAD has never been easier nor more efficient. However, I can't even begin to count the number of VB6 "programmers" that I personally know that are refusing to try.NET because they're so resistant to change. Thats the kind of mindset MANY VB6 developers have/had. Why? What reason is there NOT to go down the new path with.NET? A developer tends to have a comfort zone with their language of choice, but if they never learn to venture outside of that comfort zone and try something new, then they will become stagnant and unuseful..NET is (at least in the MS world) that new tech you speak of. Does that mean that everyone who's ever developed a VB6 app should immediately run it through the VB6 migration wizard in VS.NET. No. It means that migration should be on a case-by-case basis based on the benefits provided by.NET. In the same fashion, migrating to.NET just to use the future technology but without any actual added benefits is a bad idea.
There are many people in my organization who still choose to use VB6 for new developments. I choose.NET, because I've not found a better tool yet. Am I a better coder because I use.NET and they use VB6? No, I'm a better coder because I am constantly trying to improve my skills, be it through learning new techniques, algorithms, languages or technology. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to sound cocky, and I'm not trying to toot my own horn here. But I have a serious problem with calling those people anything but scripters. They consistently produce poorly designed applications and databases because it is unfortunately all they know. They are cookie-cutter coders, nothing more.
Even though I'm a programmer who at the moment uses.NET, my job is not to write.NET code, but rather to develop the best and most efficient possible solution I can find for the project. That isn't VB6, nor will it ever be again. It won't be.NET forever, but I'm not going to whine when MS someday goes down another path. I'll use the tools that best suit the job.
Again I state that it would have been a VERY poor decision to just continue to upgrade VB6, a lanaguage which has had very few significant enhancements for 3 or 4 releases. There comes a point when a product must be EOL'd: It is outdated technology that should never be used to begin a new project, because there are many other tools available which can do the job quicker, more efficiently, and produce an overall "Better Solution". It is nothing but a poor business decision to use that technology (in this case VB6) for anything but maintaining legacy applications that are not feasible prospects for migration to.NET.
That's just bullshit. If that's the case, then the S should just be removed from CS, because the whole path to advancement in science is to build on or test prior work.
I'm sorry you feel that way, but you're wrong. Yes, advancement in science does often involve building on past work... But where does that place invention? I'm glad you weren't around to inform history's greatest minds that they aren't allowed to have an original thought or come up with something new... We'd still be living in the stone age.
As far as proving your point, I think I'm far from that
That sounds like something Homestar Runner would say.:P
Re:Developers, Developers, Developers
on
Mono Beta 2 Released
·
· Score: 2, Informative
Talk about some FUD... Give me a break man. You quoted apples, then compared oranges. Microsoft did not intend.NET to be backwards compatible with VB6. It's an entirely different technology. As another poster pointed out, you can run VB6 apps and.NET apps side-by-side with zero issues. VB.NET is not an upgrade to VB6, its an entirely new language. They share syntax in many ways, but VB.NET is an entirely different way of thinking in that its OOP implementation isn't incomplete/just a hack. Why in the world would someone be forced to scrap those millions of man hours when the hours were spent on something that is still usable.
As far as MS possibly breaking existing interfaces in future version of the framework... Yes, its going to happen. However, it isn't an issue. You can still run any version of the framework side-by-side with another version. I have 1.0 and 1.1 installed on my box, and I am able to use apps developed in each. When 2.0 is released, I'll still be able to use apps/libraries that were developed in 1.1/1.0 because I can still have those version of the frameork installed. One of the biggest goals MS has with.NET is to get rid of DLL hell, so they've done a VERY good job of eliminating versioning issues. Multiple versions of a library can coexist on the same machine, and if you want an app to use a newer version of a DLL when it is expecting an older version, you can add some settings to a.config file to tell the framework to use 1.5.248 in place of 1.3.857. (Arbitrary versions, just for example.)
Microsoft is concerned with their own position. Yes, they are. They're a business. What business is not concerned with their own position? However, I (and I can't be the only one I'm sure) don't see the "developer products" side of MS as being quite as bad as the rest, because they're genuinely trying to make the lives of those of us in the business trenches easier. Continuing to move forward in a way that will allow something to NEVER break backwards-compatibility is a good way to stifle innovation. You can't innovate by building on top of something that already exists, you have to scrap it, start fresh, and move on. (And I don't want to hear the Java vs. C# BS, as MS IS doing some things that Java doesn't have yet, especially in 2.0. Yes,.NET is Microsoft's answer to Java, but isn't competition a good thing? Whichever platform you use, they're both going to continue to advance if only because of the existance of the other.)
The vast majority of.NET applications written are either websites or internal apps built to meet business needs. The purpose of.NET is to be a RAD framework, you're not likely to see any major apps ported to.NET anytime soon.
Good post. A relationship is all give and take. I think my wife rocks, because she realized that I was going to be a gamer for the rest of my life for the most part, so she in turn decided to try to get into one of my hobbies more. It was cool coming home from work one day to see her kicking butt in Desert Combat. She got into SWG and COH too. =) I in turn have tried to show more interest in her interests. Seems to be working, she doesn't mind if I play games as long as I put them down to give her attention when she needs it.
Ain't gonna happen. Compact flash media has a limited number of times that it can be written. Using one as the main drive in a computer would chew it up. Just think about how often your HDD gets written to during normal computer usage. (mostly swapping/page files)
Actually thats the problem... The majority of people who are rich have become so because they don't spend. Sure they may have nicer things, but its not like they're bankrolling the economy. The collective spending of the everyday average joe does MUCH more for the economy than a few million/billionaires.
Yes, but had you actually taken the test you would have seen that you have no clue which one you're listening to at the time of taking the test. I would wager that 99.9% of the people that take the test will find no perceptible difference in quality. I consider myself to have a fairly good ear and I was rather shocked at how little I was able to identify identical samples in the ABX test by doing more than just guessing.
RTFA... The anti-HIV virus stays with the person for as long as the HIV virus... You couldn't be raped by someone who has HIV and re-contract HIV again. In fact the person who raped you would contract the anti-HIV virus instead and be 'cured'.
Whoever modded this up needs to be slapped. If thats true then why did I (until my Xbox was stolen) have 250GB of usable space in my Xbox? Bioses that allow greater than 120GB drives have been around for many months. Check your facts man.
Slashdot Mirror
Hmm... now that you mention it...
=)
Finally... I wondered how long it would take for someone to actually mention the Neuros. I just finished my rf-jack mod on my Neuros tonight. Once I build a decent antenna tomorrow I'll be able to broadcast up to about 100 ft.
However, I must say that this article is nothing but a troll. It is absolutely impossible to use an iTrip (or a Neuros for that matter) to overpower a commerical station. After modding my Neuros, I CAN override a station, but ONLY if I'm within 6-12 inches of the receiving device's antenna.
I'd be interested in seeing which examples you're speaking of... I personally haven't run into any that don't work.
I beg to differ... The MSDN library is the best collection of programming references, examples and source that I've ever had the privilege to work with. Programming heaven = dual (or more) monitors, UltraMon, MSDN collection open in 2ndary monitor and VS.NET in main monitor. Unless I'm trying to troubleshoot obscure bugs or work with 3rd party components, I never need anything but MSDN help open. I leave it set in Index mode, filter set to .NET Framework, and if I'm working in a portion of the framework I don't know very well all I have to do is type the name of the Type or Class that I'm working with. Voila, everything I ever wanted to know about that class, complete with examples for the language I'm working in. Not only is the index easy to use, but the actual documentation is very thorough and cross-referenced very well. If I'm looking at the general info page for a DataSet, the first occurrance of the word DataTable is hyperlinked directly to the DataTable docs. In short, its just easy. I have ZERO complaints about VS.NET's help system.
100D? AFAIK, the Digital Rebel's product number is 300D internationally... In the US its known as the Digital Rebel, everywhere else the 300D.
But yes, you're right, the Rebel would be a MUCH better choice since its compatible with ANY Canon EF lense (so pretty much every modern Canon Lense). Its absolutely the best prosumer camera for the buck right now. For anyone who doesn't believe it, just take a look at some of the pics.
I'm on my 5th Sidekick... And it needs to be replaced because the scrolwheel stopped working the day after I got it. The problem is that they refuse to send 'new' Sidekicks and insist on refurb's that aren't properly tested... Every refurb I've gotten back has had something wrong with it.
However.. I'm willing to put up with it because the Sidekick is the ultimate way to be wired everywhere. Email + AIM anywhere (and well integrated with a decent keyboard) is a dream come true. I can type 30 WPM on my SK, most of my friends on AIM can't tell the difference between when I'm on my SK or my pC except for the AutoCaps.
All in all, if the Sidekick hardware was more reliable, there wouldn't be a better phone for geeks out there.
...with 386 megabytes of memory...
:P
I think the fact that he has a computer that has 386MB of ram is a greater accomplishment than a web server & tcp/ip stack in PHP... 128 + 128 + 128 = 386? How strange... I was always under the impression that 128 * 3 is 384...
Thanks. =)
You can use ANY Canon EF or EF-S lense.
...the higher-end cameras can even be printed at sizes up to 20x30...
Hehe, yea, the only prob with that is the costs you get into of framing a pic that big... Sheesh.
I got a Canon Digital Rebel a few months ago and had this shot printed at 20x30 on canvas by photoaccess.com. Seeing that I had never printed a 20x30 shot before, I was rather shocked when I went into the local framing store to discover that a decent frame would cost at least $200, and most of the nicer looking ones at $350+.
I just ended up building a frame to stretch the canvas around and hanging it bare. Still looks nice though.
They cut off the development path for a language that most of the MS world counted on, and made a new language super VB. Your only option to not go to .net is to never upgrade your VB app to take advantage of new tech.
.NET because they're so resistant to change. Thats the kind of mindset MANY VB6 developers have/had. Why? What reason is there NOT to go down the new path with .NET? A developer tends to have a comfort zone with their language of choice, but if they never learn to venture outside of that comfort zone and try something new, then they will become stagnant and unuseful. .NET is (at least in the MS world) that new tech you speak of. Does that mean that everyone who's ever developed a VB6 app should immediately run it through the VB6 migration wizard in VS.NET. No. It means that migration should be on a case-by-case basis based on the benefits provided by .NET. In the same fashion, migrating to .NET just to use the future technology but without any actual added benefits is a bad idea.
.NET, because I've not found a better tool yet. Am I a better coder because I use .NET and they use VB6? No, I'm a better coder because I am constantly trying to improve my skills, be it through learning new techniques, algorithms, languages or technology. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to sound cocky, and I'm not trying to toot my own horn here. But I have a serious problem with calling those people anything but scripters. They consistently produce poorly designed applications and databases because it is unfortunately all they know. They are cookie-cutter coders, nothing more.
.NET, my job is not to write .NET code, but rather to develop the best and most efficient possible solution I can find for the project. That isn't VB6, nor will it ever be again. It won't be .NET forever, but I'm not going to whine when MS someday goes down another path. I'll use the tools that best suit the job.
.NET.
Yes, they did. VB6 was a Very Bad Thing(tm). It was antiquated technology, it taught bad techniques, and its means of implementing OOP were incomplete hacks at best. You can't honestly tell me that you think MS would have been better off continuing to branch VB in a seperate direction from the rest of its developer products. The CLR is a Godsend to business programmers. RAD has never been easier nor more efficient. However, I can't even begin to count the number of VB6 "programmers" that I personally know that are refusing to try
There are many people in my organization who still choose to use VB6 for new developments. I choose
Even though I'm a programmer who at the moment uses
Again I state that it would have been a VERY poor decision to just continue to upgrade VB6, a lanaguage which has had very few significant enhancements for 3 or 4 releases. There comes a point when a product must be EOL'd: It is outdated technology that should never be used to begin a new project, because there are many other tools available which can do the job quicker, more efficiently, and produce an overall "Better Solution". It is nothing but a poor business decision to use that technology (in this case VB6) for anything but maintaining legacy applications that are not feasible prospects for migration to
That's just bullshit. If that's the case, then the S should just be removed from CS, because the whole path to advancement in science is to build on or test prior work.
I'm sorry you feel that way, but you're wrong. Yes, advancement in science does often involve building on past work... But where does that place invention? I'm glad you weren't around to inform history's greatest minds that they aren't allowed to have an original thought or come up with something new... We'd still be living in the stone age.
As far as proving your point, I think I'm far from that
That sounds like something Homestar Runner would say. :P
Talk about some FUD... Give me a break man. You quoted apples, then compared oranges. Microsoft did not intend .NET to be backwards compatible with VB6. It's an entirely different technology. As another poster pointed out, you can run VB6 apps and .NET apps side-by-side with zero issues. VB.NET is not an upgrade to VB6, its an entirely new language. They share syntax in many ways, but VB.NET is an entirely different way of thinking in that its OOP implementation isn't incomplete/just a hack. Why in the world would someone be forced to scrap those millions of man hours when the hours were spent on something that is still usable.
.NET is to get rid of DLL hell, so they've done a VERY good job of eliminating versioning issues. Multiple versions of a library can coexist on the same machine, and if you want an app to use a newer version of a DLL when it is expecting an older version, you can add some settings to a .config file to tell the framework to use 1.5.248 in place of 1.3.857. (Arbitrary versions, just for example.)
.NET is Microsoft's answer to Java, but isn't competition a good thing? Whichever platform you use, they're both going to continue to advance if only because of the existance of the other.)
As far as MS possibly breaking existing interfaces in future version of the framework... Yes, its going to happen. However, it isn't an issue. You can still run any version of the framework side-by-side with another version. I have 1.0 and 1.1 installed on my box, and I am able to use apps developed in each. When 2.0 is released, I'll still be able to use apps/libraries that were developed in 1.1/1.0 because I can still have those version of the frameork installed. One of the biggest goals MS has with
Microsoft is concerned with their own position.
Yes, they are. They're a business. What business is not concerned with their own position? However, I (and I can't be the only one I'm sure) don't see the "developer products" side of MS as being quite as bad as the rest, because they're genuinely trying to make the lives of those of us in the business trenches easier. Continuing to move forward in a way that will allow something to NEVER break backwards-compatibility is a good way to stifle innovation. You can't innovate by building on top of something that already exists, you have to scrap it, start fresh, and move on. (And I don't want to hear the Java vs. C# BS, as MS IS doing some things that Java doesn't have yet, especially in 2.0. Yes,
The vast majority of .NET applications written are either websites or internal apps built to meet business needs. The purpose of .NET is to be a RAD framework, you're not likely to see any major apps ported to .NET anytime soon.
Good post. A relationship is all give and take. I think my wife rocks, because she realized that I was going to be a gamer for the rest of my life for the most part, so she in turn decided to try to get into one of my hobbies more. It was cool coming home from work one day to see her kicking butt in Desert Combat. She got into SWG and COH too. =) I in turn have tried to show more interest in her interests. Seems to be working, she doesn't mind if I play games as long as I put them down to give her attention when she needs it.
Yea, not only that, but the theatres in Indy SUCK. Heck, they have better theatres in Evansville. AMC needs to get with the program.
Ain't gonna happen. Compact flash media has a limited number of times that it can be written. Using one as the main drive in a computer would chew it up. Just think about how often your HDD gets written to during normal computer usage. (mostly swapping/page files)
Actually thats the problem... The majority of people who are rich have become so because they don't spend. Sure they may have nicer things, but its not like they're bankrolling the economy. The collective spending of the everyday average joe does MUCH more for the economy than a few million/billionaires.
The cure virus doesn't get killed. It stays with the person for the rest of their life (as well as the standard HIV).
Yes, but had you actually taken the test you would have seen that you have no clue which one you're listening to at the time of taking the test. I would wager that 99.9% of the people that take the test will find no perceptible difference in quality. I consider myself to have a fairly good ear and I was rather shocked at how little I was able to identify identical samples in the ABX test by doing more than just guessing.
RTFA... The anti-HIV virus stays with the person for as long as the HIV virus... You couldn't be raped by someone who has HIV and re-contract HIV again. In fact the person who raped you would contract the anti-HIV virus instead and be 'cured'.
Whoever modded this up needs to be slapped. If thats true then why did I (until my Xbox was stolen) have 250GB of usable space in my Xbox? Bioses that allow greater than 120GB drives have been around for many months. Check your facts man.
Roses are red, VIOLETS are blue, all my base are belong to you... Clever sig =) Just wanted to point out that Violets is misspelled.
Whoops, left out the +64
Now THAT was funny! Oh to have mod points right now.
That would be just my luck, to be getting a triple-bypass and have the doctor keel over.
He said cumulative. 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + 16 + 32 = 127.