This kind of pisses me off. What happened to the "can do" attitude of NASA? That was what was great about NASA is that they would laugh at problems like this and find ways to overcome them. The guy says, "I do not see how the problem of this hostile radiation environment can be easily overcome in the future,". When has any problem encountered is the field of space travel and exploration been easily overcome?
I am using the 50110 build which when I downloaded it was labeled as Beta 2. I didn't even realize that they had posted a newer build until reading this post. I'll go get it and try it out:) Hopefully, it will resolve some of the issues that I have been seeing.
I have been using VS 2005 beta 2 for my day to day work for about a month now. It is functional, but I crash half a dozen times a day. There particularly seems to be problems with the code parsing in header files. I've noticed that if I start a method definition and stop midway through the line of code, after a second or so the parser will come alive, choke and die. I'm tempted to send the crash report to microsoft, because I believe in being an active beta participant, but I'm not really comfortable sending dumps of all of my open file buffers to Microsoft. I guess that the moral of the story is that unless you get some perverse thrill out of using bleeding edge pre-release software (like I do), then No, this software is not really ready for production use.
There are some very nice improvements in the new version though. One of my favorites is the visibility of data in the debugger. When you hover over a variable in the debugger, the popup tooltip is now interactive so that you can drill into structures or popup memory windows directly from the tooltip without have to add a watch variable.
The reason that spam is so prevalent is because it is considerably cheaper than many other forms of mass marketing. I think that the government should impose a tax on spam driving the price up so that it is at least competitive with snail mail mass marketing. This would reduce the amount of spam, and generate a lot of tax dollars that could be used for upgrading the nations technology infrastructure.
Wasn't there any authentication or encryption in this software? I can't believe that just stealing the source code to a piece of software like this would give someone full reign of the satellite system. With a system like this you ought to be able to hand the source code out on the streets and not have it affect the security or the stability of any production systems.
Sometimes I wonder if Bill Gates pulls stunts like this just to amuse himself... then he sits back and watches as all the slashdotters come up with conspiracy theories.
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This kind of pisses me off. What happened to the "can do" attitude of NASA? That was what was great about NASA is that they would laugh at problems like this and find ways to overcome them. The guy says, "I do not see how the problem of this hostile radiation environment can be easily overcome in the future,". When has any problem encountered is the field of space travel and exploration been easily overcome?
I am using the 50110 build which when I downloaded it was labeled as Beta 2. I didn't even realize that they had posted a newer build until reading this post. I'll go get it and try it out :) Hopefully, it will resolve some of the issues that I have been seeing.
I have been using VS 2005 beta 2 for my day to day work for about a month now. It is functional, but I crash half a dozen times a day. There particularly seems to be problems with the code parsing in header files. I've noticed that if I start a method definition and stop midway through the line of code, after a second or so the parser will come alive, choke and die. I'm tempted to send the crash report to microsoft, because I believe in being an active beta participant, but I'm not really comfortable sending dumps of all of my open file buffers to Microsoft. I guess that the moral of the story is that unless you get some perverse thrill out of using bleeding edge pre-release software (like I do), then No, this software is not really ready for production use.
There are some very nice improvements in the new version though. One of my favorites is the visibility of data in the debugger. When you hover over a variable in the debugger, the popup tooltip is now interactive so that you can drill into structures or popup memory windows directly from the tooltip without have to add a watch variable.
Actually, if you watch the videos, he does have some trivial ideas for dealing with electrical, plumbing and reinforcement.
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Sure, I suggest this over a year ago and get moderated down to a '1'. Someone else suggests it, and it gets its own article on Slashdot.
The reason that spam is so prevalent is because it is considerably cheaper than many other forms of mass marketing. I think that the government should impose a tax on spam driving the price up so that it is at least competitive with snail mail mass marketing. This would reduce the amount of spam, and generate a lot of tax dollars that could be used for upgrading the nations technology infrastructure.
Wasn't there any authentication or encryption in this software? I can't believe that just stealing the source code to a piece of software like this would give someone full reign of the satellite system. With a system like this you ought to be able to hand the source code out on the streets and not have it affect the security or the stability of any production systems.
Sometimes I wonder if Bill Gates pulls stunts like this just to amuse himself... then he sits back and watches as all the slashdotters come up with conspiracy theories.