>quickly perfected by Microsoft um, that would have been Apple really. Yeah, sure MS got a GUI with Windows 1.0, but it wasn't perfected quickly (and some would argue it's still not perfected). MS didn't get a decent GUI until win95, about 10 yewars after their first GUI
NOt that I thing mining the earth would cause any disasterous effect on our tides, but yes, without the tides our ecosystem would get fucked for quite some times. Don't think about deers, think about food chains, think plankton.
But it's a moot point anyway, no way we can screw up the moon by mining it as you said
yeah, they should have been rigged then, since hubble isn't able to see things on the moon smaller than 100 meters.:-) You can still use the laser reflectors on the moon though. Believe ESA is sending up a probe (or was it someone else?) which *should* be able to check the old apollo stuff. Doubt China would touch the apollo stuff when they get there. After all it stand for one of the greater moments in human history - you don't fuck with that!;-)
oh, enjoyed your journal by the way. i must say I do believe in copyright law, I do not believe in record companies as a middle hand though. When ti comes to software, I'm bit more unsure. I do believe in the OS model. I do not however belive it might be the right path for every single software company out there. Mind you, I do not see it as an xor kind of thing, I do think they can co exist quite nicely next to each other.
damn, it's not gonna work, is it??? If I could fing a way of swapping out the "that's" with nothing and jsut typedef the now to whatever type I'd be surely sorted, but now.... Never tested that actually, if I just do a #define that's it just means that 'that's' is defined (unless the preproc barfs at the ''' char). could I do a:
I wouldn't call it stupid, it more a question of beliveing in good, believing that Murphy's law is defunc or something. Which, I must admit, is a rather broken belief in it self.;-)
And forgetting to delimit your comments will prevent the whole thing from comipiling.
Ah, You might think so! but it does actually compile! I give you one hint:
the preprocessor... *grin*
I's not about repaying debts really, IMHO. It's more about even if france might disagree with you at this time, you ought to respect it. Sometimes your beliefs differ from your friends. Yeah, you can argue about it and be angry, but when it comes to it youy got to respect it. After all (yeah, this is IMHO as well), it's not like the US is under a direct attack for the moment by a invincible enemy. if it was I'd excpect europe to stand up as one man and come to any help we could give. What's happenming now is more... politicts stuff... Noone disagree with Saddam being a bad m-fscker, it just that we're not sure if a war is gonna help or just make the shole situation in the middle east even worse, and yes, we're a hell of alot closer to that area than you are. personally, I believe nothing should happen until the palestine problem is sorted.
Also, I believe IBM's commitment to Linux is a very longterm commitment, and since they help out with the development of the kernel why not try to consilidate their OS platforms? NOw linux has proven itself to be modular enough to run on anything from your mainfram to your PDA, why not stick to it and work hard on improving on the bits it might be lacking in? If they use palm they're under the control of palm, if they use WinCE same thing, but with embedded linux they can actually make the changes they see fit straight away. And they can do this *whitout the need* to develop their own embedded OS! IBM doesn't really care too much about the softwae sales, it's in the harware and (especialy now lately) the services you can sell with the product the money is. just my 0.02SEK
hey, I do c++ for a living and I got a perl developer who does some *really* weird black magic shit with perl. Got the deepest respect for them. Wasn't sure about php, ASP, et, al. but php is pretty much growing into some kind of perl lite, you can do pretty much whatever you want with it. all our parsing and natural language intepretation at work is done in perl. we tried a c++ solution and it sucked basically (might have been because the company tried to force the poor perl developers to rewrite it in c++, which they despised before lunch the first day). I would say, use the right tool for the job
hmmm,c++ doesn't have to be bad, if you just use it carefully and don't belive the OO hype too much. classes and inheritance, et. al. is a good thing imho, if used in moderation. (yeah, I do come from a c background - current work gotta do c++)
check out the/Ze flag
There are some more info regarding VC++ ans ansi there. Also bear in mind that many of MS headers only work with MS extensions (/Ze) on, so if you're using them you're in a bit of trouble.
VC++ isn't a bad compiler at all, really. They got a quite shitty implementation of the STL lib though(might have changed now - I use VC++ 6). Also isn't properly following the C++ ANSI standard. for example the scope whenyou declare vars in for loops is broken. MS is aware but they can't really fix it easily now, since *lots* of old MFC code would break if they fix it. Yuo can set a flag though to enforce ANSI but it not on by default. Compiler makes quite good code though. If you want a more 'proper' closed source compiler go for Borland's - the command line version is even free on their website! (after a rather hefty registration proc though)
for games maybe something like codeweavers is a better approach, focus on converting DirectX and let the rest (non-graphics part of the game) be up for porting. yeah, we all could use OpenGL, but it seems that more and more games companies starts to use DX instead, unfortunately.
yeah should be ok, apparently ISS got their own rocket onboard now, so they can boost their orbit without the shuttles now. Would probably just be able to keep keep it alive, rather than doing proper research up there though
Indeed, as a european I do hold a few grudges (iraq, war, kyoto, etc, etc, blah, blah, blah) against USA, but when it comes to NASA and your space program I look in ave. Whatever anyone says about you, you're a quite unique country here on earth. I do really hope you're not giving up on space exloration now, without you we're fairly fucked. yeah, the russians know the score as well, but unfortunatelly they're out of money, so it's pretty much up to you now. And no,ESA is not really cutting it, Ariane 5 is pretty much a piece of shit. shit geting a bit of topic, but I'm drunk.
Slashdot Mirror
a link by the way...o chure/it is.html
http://www.oreilly.com/centers/windows/br
They did, they just didn't utilized it very well! ;-) It only worked with VMs though.
THe scheduler for win 95 was pretty much the same, IIRC.
http://www.oreilly.com/centers/windows/brochure/a
In sweden we just pretend they are normal 'v', so you say "ve ve ve".
>quickly perfected by Microsoft
um, that would have been Apple really. Yeah, sure MS got a GUI with Windows 1.0, but it wasn't perfected quickly (and some would argue it's still not perfected). MS didn't get a decent GUI until win95, about 10 yewars after their first GUI
NOt that I thing mining the earth would cause any disasterous effect on our tides, but yes, without the tides our ecosystem would get fucked for quite some times. Don't think about deers, think about food chains, think plankton.
But it's a moot point anyway, no way we can screw up the moon by mining it as you said
yeah, they should have been rigged then, since hubble isn't able to see things on the moon smaller than 100 meters. :-) ;-)
You can still use the laser reflectors on the moon though.
Believe ESA is sending up a probe (or was it someone else?) which *should* be able to check the old apollo stuff.
Doubt China would touch the apollo stuff when they get there. After all it stand for one of the greater moments in human history - you don't fuck with that!
you mean this link?
Walkman is another example.
,Walkmans were called Freestyles for some reason. THink it was some add on TV that caused that, ugh..
Sony Walkman became synonymous with portable tape players so everyone called them Walkmans, even if they weren't made by Sony.
Little note though: In sweden
oh, enjoyed your journal by the way. i must say I do believe in copyright law, I do not believe in record companies as a middle hand though.
When ti comes to software, I'm bit more unsure. I do believe in the OS model. I do not however belive it might be the right path for every single software company out there. Mind you, I do not see it as an xor kind of thing, I do think they can co exist quite nicely next to each other.
now *that's* brave!!
:
damn, it's not gonna work, is it???
If I could fing a way of swapping out the "that's" with nothing and jsut typedef the now to whatever type I'd be surely sorted, but now....
Never tested that actually, if I just do a
#define that's
it just means that 'that's' is defined (unless the preproc barfs at the ''' char).
could I do a
#define that's *
#define brave!! ptr;
typedef char now;
thus it all ends up with a pointer to a pointer to a pointer?
And forgetting to delimit your comments will prevent the whole thing from comipiling.
Ah, You might think so! but it does actually compile! I give you one hint:
the preprocessor... *grin*
I's not about repaying debts really, IMHO. It's more about even if france might disagree with you at this time, you ought to respect it. Sometimes your beliefs differ from your friends. Yeah, you can argue about it and be angry, but when it comes to it youy got to respect it. After all (yeah, this is IMHO as well), it's not like the US is under a direct attack for the moment by a invincible enemy. if it was I'd excpect europe to stand up as one man and come to any help we could give. What's happenming now is more... politicts stuff...
Noone disagree with Saddam being a bad m-fscker, it just that we're not sure if a war is gonna help or just make the shole situation in the middle east even worse, and yes, we're a hell of alot closer to that area than you are. personally, I believe nothing should happen until the palestine problem is sorted.
If you're a true man of danger:
....
void foo(void *stuff) {
srand((unsigned)time(NULL));
switch(rand() % 5) {
case 0:
int *ptr = (int*)stuff;
break;
case 1:
char *ptr = (char*)stuff;
case 2:
std::string *ptr = (std::string*) stuff;
}
now *that's* brave!!
}
Also, I believe IBM's commitment to Linux is a very longterm commitment, and since they help out with the development of the kernel why not try to consilidate their OS platforms? NOw linux has proven itself to be modular enough to run on anything from your mainfram to your PDA, why not stick to it and work hard on improving on the bits it might be lacking in? If they use palm they're under the control of palm, if they use WinCE same thing, but with embedded linux they can actually make the changes they see fit straight away. And they can do this *whitout the need* to develop their own embedded OS! IBM doesn't really care too much about the softwae sales, it's in the harware and (especialy now lately) the services you can sell with the product the money is.
just my 0.02SEK
hey, I do c++ for a living and I got a perl developer who does some *really* weird black magic shit with perl. Got the deepest respect for them.
Wasn't sure about php, ASP, et, al. but php is pretty much growing into some kind of perl lite, you can do pretty much whatever you want with it.
all our parsing and natural language intepretation at work is done in perl. we tried a c++ solution and it sucked basically (might have been because the company tried to force the poor perl developers to rewrite it in c++, which they despised before lunch the first day). I would say, use the right tool for the job
hmmm,c++ doesn't have to be bad, if you just use it carefully and don't belive the OO hype too much. classes and inheritance, et. al. is a good thing imho, if used in moderation.
(yeah, I do come from a c background - current work gotta do c++)
not sure about palm OS but symbian got both peremptive MT and protected mem.
Ah sorry, typo from me, what you're looking for is the /Za flag, same link though...
check out the /Ze flag
There are some more info regarding VC++ ans ansi there. Also bear in mind that many of MS headers only work with MS extensions (/Ze) on, so if you're using them you're in a bit of trouble.
I figure something out with setjmp/longjmp then
}
VC++ isn't a bad compiler at all, really. They got a quite shitty implementation of the STL lib though(might have changed now - I use VC++ 6). Also isn't properly following the C++ ANSI standard. for example the scope whenyou declare vars in for loops is broken. MS is aware but they can't really fix it easily now, since *lots* of old MFC code would break if they fix it. Yuo can set a flag though to enforce ANSI but it not on by default. Compiler makes quite good code though. If you want a more 'proper' closed source compiler go for Borland's - the command line version is even free on their website! (after a rather hefty registration proc though)
for games maybe something like codeweavers is a better approach, focus on converting DirectX and let the rest (non-graphics part of the game) be up for porting. yeah, we all could use OpenGL, but it seems that more and more games companies starts to use DX instead, unfortunately.
yeah should be ok, apparently ISS got their own rocket onboard now, so they can boost their orbit without the shuttles now. Would probably just be able to keep keep it alive, rather than doing proper research up there though
Indeed, as a european I do hold a few grudges (iraq, war, kyoto, etc, etc, blah, blah, blah) against USA, but when it comes to NASA and your space program I look in ave. Whatever anyone says about you, you're a quite unique country here on earth. I do really hope you're not giving up on space exloration now, without you we're fairly fucked. yeah, the russians know the score as well, but unfortunatelly they're out of money, so it's pretty much up to you now.
And no,ESA is not really cutting it, Ariane 5 is pretty much a piece of shit.
shit geting a bit of topic, but I'm drunk.