1 example: Rather than incorporating the typeof() extension that almost every compiler supported, Bjarn decides, nope, we'll call it decltype()
WTF, WTFWTF, WTF... Its stupid shit like this that fucks up the whole damn language _extension_. Use syntax that programmer's already know/use and compilers support rather than making up insane new ones. At least we have C and Objective C.
It should ban any entities with another spectrum in that location in round 1. If no bidders then round 2 allow smaller entities with other spectrums in other areas. ... if still no takers round 3 it should be open to all entities.
This would increase competition in rural areas where there may be no existing infrastructure, but not eliminate the possibility of allowing existing entities to provide service to those areas if no _local_ company wants it.
I noticed this a few years ago and wrote a script that used curl and the wordnet dictionary to query every possible dictionary name + a random string and log the tried combinations. Unfortunately the log ran me out of disk space before I could check to see if it worked, but hopefully it got them to register a few useless domains in the mean time.
Just get some metal screen and make a box to put the comcast router in. (you can just line a small cardboard food container with the screen) Cut small holes to fit power cord, coax and ethernet cable through. Connect the ethernet cable to your own router and BAM!! you are opted out.
Stirling engine would work just as well but more efficiently... Warm-up times prevented their use in the past but that was before hybrids. They are more efficient than getting it from an outlet and can burn nearly any fuel.
The future research is mostly in battery but a Stirling engine with a better drive train would be worth looking into.
Think of a maglev train wrapped around a circular track except the train is the tire (actually probably more like a "twheel") and the rail is the "motor". http://contest.techbriefs.com/2013/entries/transportation-and-automotive/3911
This would make for an incredibly smooth ride, extremely high speeds, independent traction control and many other benefits.
It doesn't even need to be maglev, a simple AC motor where the rotor and stator are swapped and controlled by DC powered SCRs (or whatever) would be fine for non-luxury models.
really, How likely? How many people wait for the cheats before they purchase? vs. How many people can actually get a refund if they don't like it because of the cheating? vs. How many people don't buy a game because they heard there were cheats? It is just as likely that Blizzard is reaping financial benefit and not sharing it with the creators (which is fine, they were never asked to) Besides, the code itself does no harm - only when the users actually use it does it do anything at all. Gunmakers don't go to jail or get sued when someone commits murder with one of their guns.
Provide a fellow geek free room, board, wifi and mentorship for X-months to develop their great idea in exchange for a share of the result. The house is never empty and it may even pay off. Rinse-repeat.
A Posix consortium to establish some standards for self standing games that boot themselves and can only interact with specific partitions (intentionally not NTFS, HFS so a game is less likely to mess with them) If there were better tools for it, game vendors would prefer to build on a single platform that could run on MS*, i*, PS*, etc... It would be up to them whether they wanted to include anything besides their game (a browser for looking up game hints... ok, ok really to serve ads and do in app purchases)
"in which content companies could pay them for faster delivery of Web content to customers" This could be interpreted to allow Netflix (or whoever) to pay local ISPs to host content on local servers so that content doesn't need to go through the slow interwebs. Honestly they should do some modified version of torrent format that prefers seeders on the same ISP so users can provide the hosting.
Its not hard to make them disappear on the server side: 1. mkfifo a named pipe somenthing like <image>sender-receiver-timestamp 2. read the incoming file from the tcp socket and write to the named pipe 2a. verify file is less than the size of the pipe buffer via return value of write 2b. if error or size exceed PIPE_BUF return error message 3. send messages to sender and receiver with unique uri 4. when either the sender or receiver goes to the uri: a the pipe is read back just like a regular file to the tcp socket and the data disappears b since it was never really on the filesystem (it only looks like it) there will be no trace ... at least after a reboot to clear traces in RAM, but you could memcpy zeroes for that 5. run a cleaner daemon that deletes all pipes older than X hours in case they aren't viewed in a timely fashion
6. make the end users agree to an EULA saying that they won't save the data in any way -- no matter what you do the receiver could take a screenshot or take a picture of the screen with a camera
And Radio Shack recommends a separate site for rendering on the remaining Tandy 1000s in operation....(j/k) right whatever, OK Apple you can sell a bunch of pretty machines but can't make them play nicely with regular resources.... mmmKay
Lesson: Don't use a bunch of hacky hacks to make sites work better on devices that you know. Use real world data of width, height and resolution to make it behave on all devices. Why do web devs have such a problem with things like dpi and icon sizes? Its not that hard, but does require some trickery since DPI is not an ECMA standard. Till there _is_ a standard way of getting DPI, Apple needs a button (it has to be a button or something even simpler, because it is for an Apple user) to emulate a standard DPI.
I'm sorry but I will not buy another MS box that wants to charge me for access to services they don't even provide like watching Netflix or Hulu. I've paid enough MS taxes over the years as one time expenses, buying a computer, android phone, etc... With the PS removal of "Other OS" and the Wii forcefully removing dvd playback at a hardware level, I hope the steam box drives them both under. Till then steam gets preferred status followed by wii and games that play on an un-updated PS3 followed by games (for my kids) that are only available for kinect.
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What, is the '++' a replacement for 'ox'?
Oops, misspelled Bjarne, but not by as much as he misspelled typeof.
1 example:
Rather than incorporating the typeof() extension that almost every compiler supported, Bjarn decides, nope, we'll call it decltype()
WTF, WTFWTF, WTF...
Its stupid shit like this that fucks up the whole damn language _extension_.
Use syntax that programmer's already know/use and compilers support rather than making up insane new ones.
At least we have C and Objective C.
voltage?
1. get an old cardboard box big enough to fit your xfinity cable modem and put it in there.
2. wrap it with a metal screen and put holes in it just big enough to fit your coax, power cord and an ethernet cable through
3. hook it up and connect the ethernet cable to your own router
4. use all your bandwidth
It should ban any entities with another spectrum in that location in round 1. If no bidders then round 2 allow smaller entities with other spectrums in other areas. ... if still no takers round 3 it should be open to all entities.
This would increase competition in rural areas where there may be no existing infrastructure, but not eliminate the possibility of allowing existing entities to provide service to those areas if no _local_ company wants it.
I noticed this a few years ago and wrote a script that used curl and the wordnet dictionary to query every possible dictionary name + a random string and log the tried combinations. Unfortunately the log ran me out of disk space before I could check to see if it worked, but hopefully it got them to register a few useless domains in the mean time.
"Lays 18,000 Off Workers"
I think that beats Jenna Jameson's record.
What a difference a transposition makes.
Open invention network.
Just get some metal screen and make a box to put the comcast router in. (you can just line a small cardboard food container with the screen)
Cut small holes to fit power cord, coax and ethernet cable through.
Connect the ethernet cable to your own router and BAM!! you are opted out.
Stirling engine would work just as well but more efficiently... Warm-up times prevented their use in the past but that was before hybrids. They are more efficient than getting it from an outlet and can burn nearly any fuel.
The future research is mostly in battery but a Stirling engine with a better drive train would be worth looking into.
Think of a maglev train wrapped around a circular track except the train is the tire (actually probably more like a "twheel") and the rail is the "motor".
http://contest.techbriefs.com/2013/entries/transportation-and-automotive/3911
This would make for an incredibly smooth ride, extremely high speeds, independent traction control and many other benefits.
It doesn't even need to be maglev, a simple AC motor where the rotor and stator are swapped and controlled by DC powered SCRs (or whatever) would be fine for non-luxury models.
Over 3 million lines of bugs for what is essentially a database frontend.
really, How likely? How many people wait for the cheats before they purchase? vs. How many people can actually get a refund if they don't like it because of the cheating? vs. How many people don't buy a game because they heard there were cheats?
It is just as likely that Blizzard is reaping financial benefit and not sharing it with the creators (which is fine, they were never asked to)
Besides, the code itself does no harm - only when the users actually use it does it do anything at all. Gunmakers don't go to jail or get sued when someone commits murder with one of their guns.
does pepper spray also kill bugs?
Provide a fellow geek free room, board, wifi and mentorship for X-months to develop their great idea in exchange for a share of the result. The house is never empty and it may even pay off. Rinse-repeat.
A Posix consortium to establish some standards for self standing games that boot themselves and can only interact with specific partitions (intentionally not NTFS, HFS so a game is less likely to mess with them)
If there were better tools for it, game vendors would prefer to build on a single platform that could run on MS*, i*, PS*, etc...
It would be up to them whether they wanted to include anything besides their game (a browser for looking up game hints... ok, ok really to serve ads and do in app purchases)
"in which content companies could pay them for faster delivery of Web content to customers"
This could be interpreted to allow Netflix (or whoever) to pay local ISPs to host content on local servers so that content doesn't need to go through the slow interwebs.
Honestly they should do some modified version of torrent format that prefers seeders on the same ISP so users can provide the hosting.
The are called CWIS aka r2d2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx_CIWS
How many times does it need to be said?
feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish...
my vote goes to advancing text2speech and voice recognition for one http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/, computer vision http://www.cmucam.org/
Its not hard to make them disappear on the server side:
1. mkfifo a named pipe somenthing like <image>sender-receiver-timestamp
2. read the incoming file from the tcp socket and write to the named pipe
2a. verify file is less than the size of the pipe buffer via return value of write
2b. if error or size exceed PIPE_BUF return error message
3. send messages to sender and receiver with unique uri
4. when either the sender or receiver goes to the uri:
a the pipe is read back just like a regular file to the tcp socket and the data disappears
b since it was never really on the filesystem (it only looks like it) there will be no trace
... at least after a reboot to clear traces in RAM, but you could memcpy zeroes for that
5. run a cleaner daemon that deletes all pipes older than X hours in case they aren't viewed in a timely fashion
6. make the end users agree to an EULA saying that they won't save the data in any way
-- no matter what you do the receiver could take a screenshot or take a picture of the screen with a camera
And Radio Shack recommends a separate site for rendering on the remaining Tandy 1000s in operation....(j/k) right whatever, OK Apple you can sell a bunch of pretty machines but can't make them play nicely with regular resources.... mmmKay
Lesson:
Don't use a bunch of hacky hacks to make sites work better on devices that you know. Use real world data of width, height and resolution to make it behave on all devices.
Why do web devs have such a problem with things like dpi and icon sizes? Its not that hard, but does require some trickery since DPI is not an ECMA standard.
Till there _is_ a standard way of getting DPI, Apple needs a button (it has to be a button or something even simpler, because it is for an Apple user) to emulate a standard DPI.
Not on new machines. The new ones physically cannot play them regardless of homebrew.
I'm sorry but I will not buy another MS box that wants to charge me for access to services they don't even provide like watching Netflix or Hulu. I've paid enough MS taxes over the years as one time expenses, buying a computer, android phone, etc... With the PS removal of "Other OS" and the Wii forcefully removing dvd playback at a hardware level, I hope the steam box drives them both under. Till then steam gets preferred status followed by wii and games that play on an un-updated PS3 followed by games (for my kids) that are only available for kinect.