They can give you hints about the data structure you are using. This is a function of the editor in the Integrated Development Environment(IDE).
To give an example if you have a class foo.
foo bar;
bar.
when you hit the period, a list of the possible things you can do with this class is given. Borland's even go so far as to elimate things that you can't do, so for example an assignement to and integer will only show functions or data that return an integer.
Also for visual applications gui's definititly speed up the process. Pop a few buttons down, and the IDE puts the stubs to handle the code into the class. If it wasn't for Delphi and C builder I'm not sure I could have overcome the learning curve of windows programming. (No I'm not a newbie, I just wouldn't have bothered).
On the other hand I like and appriciate the command line tools, and use both on a regular basis.
From Page 119-120, They claim that the original CD acts like the archival CD?!? (Not in my experience!) This report appears biased.
Third, as of last year approximately ninety-eight percent of computer software sold in the
United States was sold on CD-ROM.267 This means that even where consumers are prevented
from making an archival copy, they are still able to reinstall the work in the event of computer
malfunction. In essence, the CD-ROM itself acts as the archival copy. In that case, even if
consumers are prevented from making archival copies as contemplated in section 117, their
software investment is protected from system malfunctions, thus fulfilling the purpose of the
archival exemption as articulated by CONTU.268 Accordingly, we conclude that the evidence at
this time of an effect of title I of the DMCA on the operation of section 117 is not substantial,
and no legislative change is warranted.
so using your numbers providing 250 people, with "nice" computers at $999 a pop, plus $100 for the MS License, = $274750.
Getting commodity hardware at $100 (I'm being very generous here, people will want sound cards and nice graphics). = 25000...
So you are willing to spend a quarter of a million dollars for what? The ability to use Word? I use Corel Wordperfect just fine (IMHO it's better then Word).
I burn CD's for backup. I've yet to burn one for music. Yet I get taxed by the recording industry because of what I might do.
Like the old joke, where a man goes out fishing, then comes back. His wife takes his boat out, for a quiet read. The fish police come up and accuse her of fishing without a license. "I'm not fishing, I'm reading!" she says. The cop says yes but I can see you've got all the equiment in your boat. She turns around and accuses the cop of rape. After all he has all the equipment!
To set in motion the bed, the user will count on added coupons to the package, that give to right the two hours of telephonic attendance and three months saw email. If the validity of the bed to die, the Connective also offers the extendido bed, in the two versions, so that the user can acquire more time to take off its doubts.
The whole user interface (at the gui level anyway) should be in a dialog format (not a gui dialog, but a speaking one).
The session would go something like:
Welcome to hostname,, what is your username? _________
Hello username what is your password? _________
The username or password was not found on the system, push enter to continue. (back to top)
or
OK, username, you are logged in, what would you like to do? (show menu)...
and on it goes. This could even be implemented in text format, and it would leave no confusion to the newbies. The experts would see it as patronizing, but it wouldn't slow them down at all, so they wouldn't mind too much (?)
Central Europe
(Germany, Austria, Switzerland) Adobe Systems Incorporated
Christoph Sahner
csahner@adobe.com
Tel: +49-89-31705-248
really I don't know why there's all this bs. It's
Killustrator isn't it?
Same happened to me, and I spent several weeks reading it to my two boys. The dummy was by far the funniest, where he talks back to the mayor... Even my youngest who was 5 or 6 at the time, loved them (and got the humor).
I've used the same thing in other software as an addon to IE5. My comments follow:
1) It slows things down. Your browser basically goes to a search engine with a list of non-common worlds, and builds hyperlinks to the results inside the page you are looking at. This takes time, so expect pages to load 2 or 3 times as slowly.
2) It's a great way for companies to track what you are looking at. The search engine they look at knows who is doing the requesting, and is used to track data for advertisers. This (besides being immoral) may be used as general data where they don't know specifically who you are, but are tracking the general population, or direct, where you start finding more spam in your mailbox about the places you've been to.
3) The references that the hyperlinks bring up rarly have anything significant, so not only is this technology slow and immoral, but it's useless.
Desktop Development still going strong
on
Mandrake Shakeup
·
· Score: 1
Companies normally go through this type of stuff, to start bemoaning the death of Mandrake is very premature.
It looks upper managment to me. Which means the core developers haven't left, so the distro is still going strong.
The president, CIO, and "other executives" have been fired "as a group."
CTO Jean-Loup Gailly is out.
All the IS team except one is bye-bye.
Some engineers and other "random troops" have either been laid off, taken "voluntary" pay cuts, or have gone from full-time to part-time status.
But the team responsible for developing Mandrake for the desktop, contrary to the rumors, is supposedly going to remain (mostly) intact for the moment. As one Mandrake insider put it, the desktop developers "are still the people who make the product Macmillan [Mandrake's shrink-wrap product distributor] sells that generates income."
She get's calls up to 10pm or 6 am to go to a school. She doesn't get milage (even if she goes to more then one school during the day (full time teachers do))
The justification is that supply teachers are paid extra to handle the extra expense and whatnot. Don't think it's fair myself.
If you program for a living, then they must prove that you are using their secrets in your programming. A company cannot deprive you of your livelyhood, just because they think you are using their secrets. Most courts would find that unacceptable. On the other hand, IANAL and if you are looking at slashdot for legel info, you might want to ask a lawyer for information about programming.
I've used Delphi for years, and I've been told that Kylix looks very similar with some improvments. So drawing on my past experience of Delphi this is what to expect from Kylix. First the language is object pascal which, if you know C++ will be very easy to pick up. Instead of != it uses greater and less then signs, instead of {} it uses begin and end. It has classes which are build up as single inheritance, (but there are ways around that). It has a really nice feature called properties. For example when you assign a number to a class variable, the class can be made to automagically call a functions to handle it. Talk about data hiding.
There are also many treasures to be found in the Libraries, and if you get the professional version you get the source for those. Other treasures are found on the web. http://community.borland.com/homepages/dsp is one of my favourites. There you will find components which you can plug into the IDE and use in your own code. It's very powerful and much of it is open source.
The IDE is also good. anytime the editor can help you out it does. For example if you are accessing an instance of a class and want to know what functions or data is available, type the instance, and then a period. (the period deliniates class and function the same as in C++). Up will pop a list of the possible things that can be used from the class at that point, the list is shorted to include only those things which are syntatically valid. Another nice feature is function templating. You design a class and fill in 20 or thirty function prototypes (for example). Then hit that magic key sequence ctrl-shift-C and those functions created for you, including parameters and return values. All you must do is the guts.
I've been waiting for Kylix for a long long time. I'm looking it as a good way to do gui apps in Linux. I think if Kylix is 1/2 as good as Delphi it will be worth the free download and the $999.
I've played with the "muscle wires", they are not slow compared to normal muscles. They also cool down quite quickly. The biggest problem is the amount of power they require, (in order to heat up). The second biggest problem is that they are hard to work with. You can't solder them, you have to crimp them. Still is very neat if power is no problem.
Slashdot Mirror
And you thought Sircam was just for fun!
The Toronto Star has a beautiful artical about DCMA and Dmitry.
Artical here
Great stuff, reminds me of Douglas Adams type of writting.
It will replicate the pint. Just not the beer.
Aren't you being a bit critical?
Excellent sites.
They can give you hints about the data structure you are using. This is a function of the editor in the Integrated Development Environment(IDE).
To give an example if you have a class foo.
foo bar;
bar.
when you hit the period, a list of the possible things you can do with this class is given. Borland's even go so far as to elimate things that you can't do, so for example an assignement to and integer will only show functions or data that return an integer.
Also for visual applications gui's definititly speed up the process. Pop a few buttons down, and the IDE puts the stubs to handle the code into the class. If it wasn't for Delphi and C builder I'm not sure I could have overcome the learning curve of windows programming. (No I'm not a newbie, I just wouldn't have bothered).
On the other hand I like and appriciate the command line tools, and use both on a regular basis.
From Page 119-120, They claim that the original CD acts like the archival CD?!? (Not in my experience!) This report appears biased.
Third, as of last year approximately ninety-eight percent of computer software sold in the
United States was sold on CD-ROM.267 This means that even where consumers are prevented
from making an archival copy, they are still able to reinstall the work in the event of computer
malfunction. In essence, the CD-ROM itself acts as the archival copy. In that case, even if
consumers are prevented from making archival copies as contemplated in section 117, their
software investment is protected from system malfunctions, thus fulfilling the purpose of the
archival exemption as articulated by CONTU.268 Accordingly, we conclude that the evidence at
this time of an effect of title I of the DMCA on the operation of section 117 is not substantial,
and no legislative change is warranted.
I've set up a discussion at the NYTimes page. Here we are all agreed. We need to let the other media know that this is an important topic! here
so using your numbers providing 250 people, with "nice" computers at $999 a pop, plus $100 for the MS License, = $274750.
Getting commodity hardware at $100 (I'm being very generous here, people will want sound cards and nice graphics). = 25000...
So you are willing to spend a quarter of a million dollars for what? The ability to use Word? I use Corel Wordperfect just fine (IMHO it's better then Word).
I don't know about the states, but in Canada there is also a hidden tax on buying cassettes. This is what was used to justify the hidden tax on CDs.
I burn CD's for backup. I've yet to burn one for music. Yet I get taxed by the recording industry because of what I might do.
Like the old joke, where a man goes out fishing, then comes back. His wife takes his boat out, for a quiet read. The fish police come up and accuse her of fishing without a license. "I'm not fishing, I'm reading!" she says. The cop says yes but I can see you've got all the equiment in your boat. She turns around and accuses the cop of rape. After all he has all the equipment!
To set in motion the bed, the user will count on added coupons to the package, that give to right the two hours of telephonic attendance and three months saw email. If the validity of the bed to die, the Connective also offers the extendido bed, in the two versions, so that the user can acquire more time to take off its doubts.
I see you saw the sarcasim in my post. (I was afraid it wasn't obvious).
Welcome to hostname,, what is your username? _________
Hello username what is your password? _________
The username or password was not found on the system, push enter to continue. (back to top)
or
OK, username, you are logged in, what would you like to do? (show menu)...
and on it goes. This could even be implemented in text format, and it would leave no confusion to the newbies. The experts would see it as patronizing, but it wouldn't slow them down at all, so they wouldn't mind too much (?)
What do you think of the general idea?
Central Europe (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) Adobe Systems Incorporated Christoph Sahner csahner@adobe.com Tel: +49-89-31705-248 really I don't know why there's all this bs. It's Killustrator isn't it?
Same happened to me, and I spent several weeks reading it to my two boys. The dummy was by far the funniest, where he talks back to the mayor... Even my youngest who was 5 or 6 at the time, loved them (and got the humor).
I've used the same thing in other software as an addon to IE5. My comments follow:
1) It slows things down. Your browser basically goes to a search engine with a list of non-common worlds, and builds hyperlinks to the results inside the page you are looking at. This takes time, so expect pages to load 2 or 3 times as slowly.
2) It's a great way for companies to track what you are looking at. The search engine they look at knows who is doing the requesting, and is used to track data for advertisers. This (besides being immoral) may be used as general data where they don't know specifically who you are, but are tracking the general population, or direct, where you start finding more spam in your mailbox about the places you've been to.
3) The references that the hyperlinks bring up rarly have anything significant, so not only is this technology slow and immoral, but it's useless.
IMHO
Where do you want to go from here,
changes to...
You can't hand out free software here!
It's www.reiserfs.com
The president, CIO, and "other executives" have been fired "as a group." CTO Jean-Loup Gailly is out. All the IS team except one is bye-bye. Some engineers and other "random troops" have either been laid off, taken "voluntary" pay cuts, or have gone from full-time to part-time status. But the team responsible for developing Mandrake for the desktop, contrary to the rumors, is supposedly going to remain (mostly) intact for the moment. As one Mandrake insider put it, the desktop developers "are still the people who make the product Macmillan [Mandrake's shrink-wrap product distributor] sells that generates income."
She get's calls up to 10pm or 6 am to go to a school. She doesn't get milage (even if she goes to more then one school during the day (full time teachers do)) The justification is that supply teachers are paid extra to handle the extra expense and whatnot. Don't think it's fair myself.
If you program for a living, then they must prove that you are using their secrets in your programming. A company cannot deprive you of your livelyhood, just because they think you are using their secrets. Most courts would find that unacceptable. On the other hand, IANAL and if you are looking at slashdot for legel info, you might want to ask a lawyer for information about programming.
I've used Delphi for years, and I've been told that Kylix looks very similar with some improvments. So drawing on my past experience of Delphi this is what to expect from Kylix. First the language is object pascal which, if you know C++ will be very easy to pick up. Instead of != it uses greater and less then signs, instead of {} it uses begin and end. It has classes which are build up as single inheritance, (but there are ways around that). It has a really nice feature called properties. For example when you assign a number to a class variable, the class can be made to automagically call a functions to handle it. Talk about data hiding. There are also many treasures to be found in the Libraries, and if you get the professional version you get the source for those. Other treasures are found on the web. http://community.borland.com/homepages/dsp is one of my favourites. There you will find components which you can plug into the IDE and use in your own code. It's very powerful and much of it is open source. The IDE is also good. anytime the editor can help you out it does. For example if you are accessing an instance of a class and want to know what functions or data is available, type the instance, and then a period. (the period deliniates class and function the same as in C++). Up will pop a list of the possible things that can be used from the class at that point, the list is shorted to include only those things which are syntatically valid. Another nice feature is function templating. You design a class and fill in 20 or thirty function prototypes (for example). Then hit that magic key sequence ctrl-shift-C and those functions created for you, including parameters and return values. All you must do is the guts. I've been waiting for Kylix for a long long time. I'm looking it as a good way to do gui apps in Linux. I think if Kylix is 1/2 as good as Delphi it will be worth the free download and the $999.
I've played with the "muscle wires", they are not slow compared to normal muscles. They also cool down quite quickly. The biggest problem is the amount of power they require, (in order to heat up). The second biggest problem is that they are hard to work with. You can't solder them, you have to crimp them. Still is very neat if power is no problem.