Hate to burst your bubble but your shutter glasses only looked 3D. Here's a test. Put on your shutter glasses and attempt to pick up that shotgun from Castle Wolfenstein 3D. See if you can put the barrel in your mouth. Pull the trigger. If the back of your head flies across the room either: 1. You have great, true 3D glasses or 2. you left your shotgun lying on the coffee table again. If the answer is 1, I humble apologize and will admit publicly that you are correct!
Perhaps they are doing us all a great service. Since their patent applies to 3-D graphics and true 3-D graphics don't really exist (as an earlier poster pointed out), by the time real 3-D displays (holographic, I assume) exist this patent will have expired thus opening the realm of 3-D gaming to all without the threat of patent infingement!!! We should send them a thank you letter.
Namespaces have been a god send for the work I've been doing. I've had to write a lot of simple data structures to add high-speed functionality through DLL's to an interpreted scripting language (RadBuilder -- which is actually kind of fun, when was the last time you actually got paid to implement a binary search tree instead of just using some library version?)
Anyway, I can use whatever names I want for my classes and functions since I can wrap the whole thing in a namespace and not worry about conflict. I can call a function "sort" instead of "radbuilder_dll_sort" and not worry that there is a name conflict with some other library I've included.
It doesn't make programming mindless... it's just another tool (one that works for me).
Look at some of the things that C99 added to C for a similar tack, IMHO, that the next generation of C++ (C+=2) should take.
I like the idea of "long long". Perhaps defined as a twice the size of the current compiler's "long" type. Currently, this would allow a 64 bit type for use desktop programmers (128 bit for those of you that get the fancy workstations). Stop the madness before "huge int" becomes the standard.
The beauty of the STL is that it doesn't involve anything that couldnt be implemented on any system. Adding things like multi-threading, any sort of GUI support, or anything else that can't be generalized to work identically on all platforms seems to be a mistake.
I don't use VC++ much, but I think I read (C/C++ UJ) that this is a preference that can be changed to put 'i' in the correct scope. The reason it defaults the way it does is so it doesn't break the various windows headers.
From a quick look at the sketch of the building I'm going to make the uninformed assumption that it is, on average, 250' in radius (about 7~8 times higher that it is wide???). From the article it has 300 stories. (pi * (250' ^ 2)) * 300 = 58,904,862 sq. feet of space which is approx. 589 sq. feet per person (which needs to include a hell of a lot of infrastructure; sewage, elevators, etc.) Still, over 2000 sq. feet for a family of four isn't unreasonable.
Of course, if you start to fill of levels with sewage treatment plants, nuclear reactors, 25,000 parking places, the mayor's penthouse that takes up 4 floors, etc. etc. etc. The space available per family starts to decrease.
Oh my god, my coffee cup is 4" tall but rests on a base that is only 3" wide!!! Ahhhh!!! Hot liquid is spilling all over my compu&*^%$!#@ F-a asddf,,,
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I vaguely remember a sci-fi book called Leaving Horizontal or similar. About a guy that lived on the outside of a huge skyscraper/arcology. I remember it as a well-written and enjoyable story (it even included a working pay-for-service internet) but its been years since I read it. Anyone else remember this?
That's actually a bad thing, IMO. I'd prefer that the language not try to "save me from myself" by doing such conversions behind my back. Give me an overflow exception, please.
Agreed, but with one caveat. If I want a completely type safe language I'll stick with C++. I'll also expect my variables to be initialized before use, my functions to be defined, etc. etc.. If I want to do a quick and dirty test with access to a nice OO methodology, I'll use a scripting language like Ruby.
Also, I'm not really familiar with Perl or Python (dated both, but I'm afraid of commitment), but maybe Ruby, or other lessor-known language (what's Dylan like?), is a chance to get in closer to the ground floor and learn as the language is being developed instead of trying to wade through years of mythology, legends, and anecdotal experience. (It'll probably end up as another unopened.zip file in my downloads directory but it's there if I get motivated...)
Ok class, pay attention... The original poster's comment was that "Oh my god, there is no Rad development IDE on Linux".
However, as I pointed out, there is in fact a Rad development IDE on Linux. It is called RadBuilder. Pretty straight forward, eh??
As a side note, I mentioned that it's not Open Sourse. However, how many Windows based Rad IDE's are available that are Open Source? The doesn't mean you can't give away, sell, or do anything else you want with the software you create with the RAD tools. Or at least that is the case with RadBuilder which I happen to know since my company is selling a software product we built with RadBuilder.
Still following along?? Good, time for a nap now so it will all sink in...
There really isn't any RAD programming system for Linux (Klyx ain't there yet.), so that means a lot of time and effort for something pretty small.
Au Contrairy!!! Check out RadBuilder 3.0 from Emediat Solutions Inc.. I really like this RAD platform and have written a couple of client applications. Excellent string manipulations, a complete widget set (with the ability to extend), an integrated IDE, cross-platform with Windows, and, most importantly, comprehensive HTML documentation.
Sorry if I sound like too much of a booster, but its sad to see good products fall by the wayside due to a lack of exposure.
On the down side, I've heard that they are going to go Open Source but they are not currently... though it is pretty inexpensive (~ $100 for linux I think)
Are you sure? He said, "I thought that only quotes that incoporate an entire sentence -- or at least a sentence fragment -- used this rule." I, however, think slavish devotion to this rule is "looney".
I guess the problem is, right or wrong, very few of us believe that we are stealing from artists. If any theft is involved it is from the marketers, accountants, and lawyers that make so many aspects of modern life a more negative experience. And, in exchange, they are stealing from us the rights we used to have for "fair use". We've all read the stories about truly great musicians dieing in poverty while the "suit" with no musical talent collects all of the royalties and none of us believe the RIAA is acting for the benifit of artists. As many people have noted, its the "Recording Industry Assoc." not the "Musician's Assoc.".
There is a common cause for many of us to root for the underdog, and with impression that only huge companies can influence the law, we are the underdogs and the RIAA is the 300 lb. gorilla. In a larger context, this story is just another episode in the continuing saga of Disney copyright extensions, patent travesties, monopolies crushing the small software companies, attacks on DeCSS and 2600, FUD against open source, etc. etc. etc..
On a smaller scale we do this every time we search for information through google, yahoo, etc.. The more "vague" the concept, the higher the probability that we are going to get a source that isn't in our preselected list of news sources. Unfortunatly, as search engines get better, our opportunity to stumble over tangentally related sources will diminish.
The mayor of D.C. tried to convince the CEO's of the Gas, Electric, Telecom, Cable etc. companies to try and work together before ripping the roads up.
From their response, it was as if he had asked them all to engage in public group sex.
Inevitable disclosure, if applied to high officials in government service could eliminate their ability to become lobbyists. File a few public interest lawsuits against Henry Kissinger, George Stephanopolous, and anybody else who trades on their inside government info.
Wow!! Talk about destroying the economies of Maryland, D.C., and Virginia in about two weeks...
I work for a "Beltway Bandit" and everyone I know works for a similar consulting firm. They ALL have an ex-captain (or some other mid to high level ex military officer) who works in sales and is able to buddy up with all of their old friends in the service. You DON'T get a government contract without an insider...
I'll never forget Cheney's debate with Lieberman when he claimed he never got anything from the goverment. I'm sure he was hired as V.P. at that oil company based on his smile. What a fucking hypocrite...
Someone please explain: What would be the point of having a company called "SSH Communications Security" if the technology is not called "ssh" anymore. A couple of months of all the sys admins using "secsh" or whatever the acronym is changed to, and "SSH Commun..." won't mean much.
Let me try and rephrase this: is the acronym is changed from "ssh" there will be nothing tying "SSH Communications Security" to the technology in the public's mind. Even if he does go to court and win, it seems like a Phyrric victory.
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It's like a god-damned soap opera. No wonder I despise MBAs, lawyers, and other syncophants.
Hate to burst your bubble but your shutter glasses only looked 3D. Here's a test. Put on your shutter glasses and attempt to pick up that shotgun from Castle Wolfenstein 3D. See if you can put the barrel in your mouth. Pull the trigger. If the back of your head flies across the room either: 1. You have great, true 3D glasses or 2. you left your shotgun lying on the coffee table again. If the answer is 1, I humble apologize and will admit publicly that you are correct!
Perhaps they are doing us all a great service. Since their patent applies to 3-D graphics and true 3-D graphics don't really exist (as an earlier poster pointed out), by the time real 3-D displays (holographic, I assume) exist this patent will have expired thus opening the realm of 3-D gaming to all without the threat of patent infingement!!! We should send them a thank you letter.
Namespaces have been a god send for the work I've been doing. I've had to write a lot of simple data structures to add high-speed functionality through DLL's to an interpreted scripting language (RadBuilder -- which is actually kind of fun, when was the last time you actually got paid to implement a binary search tree instead of just using some library version?)
Anyway, I can use whatever names I want for my classes and functions since I can wrap the whole thing in a namespace and not worry about conflict. I can call a function "sort" instead of "radbuilder_dll_sort" and not worry that there is a name conflict with some other library I've included.
It doesn't make programming mindless... it's just another tool (one that works for me).
Look at some of the things that C99 added to C for a similar tack, IMHO, that the next generation of C++ (C+=2) should take.
I like the idea of "long long". Perhaps defined as a twice the size of the current compiler's "long" type. Currently, this would allow a 64 bit type for use desktop programmers (128 bit for those of you that get the fancy workstations). Stop the madness before "huge int" becomes the standard.
The beauty of the STL is that it doesn't involve anything that couldnt be implemented on any system. Adding things like multi-threading, any sort of GUI support, or anything else that can't be generalized to work identically on all platforms seems to be a mistake.
I don't use VC++ much, but I think I read (C/C++ UJ) that this is a preference that can be changed to put 'i' in the correct scope. The reason it defaults the way it does is so it doesn't break the various windows headers.
From a quick look at the sketch of the building I'm going to make the uninformed assumption that it is, on average, 250' in radius (about 7~8 times higher that it is wide???). From the article it has 300 stories.
(pi * (250' ^ 2)) * 300 = 58,904,862 sq. feet of space which is approx. 589 sq. feet per person (which needs to include a hell of a lot of infrastructure; sewage, elevators, etc.) Still, over 2000 sq. feet for a family of four isn't unreasonable.
Of course, if you start to fill of levels with sewage treatment plants, nuclear reactors, 25,000 parking places, the mayor's penthouse that takes up 4 floors, etc. etc. etc. The space available per family starts to decrease.
Oh my god, my coffee cup is 4" tall but rests on a base that is only 3" wide!!! Ahhhh!!! Hot liquid is spilling all over my compu&*^%$!#@ F-a asddf,,,
I vaguely remember a sci-fi book called Leaving Horizontal or similar. About a guy that lived on the outside of a huge skyscraper/arcology. I remember it as a well-written and enjoyable story (it even included a working pay-for-service internet) but its been years since I read it. Anyone else remember this?
So, dude, do you ever think about like, how wasteful cities are? Like, all those cities spread out, like, messing up the nature and stuff.
Arcologies are an excellent idea. In fact I think everyone else should live in one ;)
Sure, the $500 fine is nothing, but what if they make the VP of Marketing do community service? (60 hours @ $1,000 / hour, or whatever he makes...)
That's actually a bad thing, IMO. I'd prefer that the language not try to "save me from myself" by doing such conversions behind my back. Give me an overflow exception, please.
Agreed, but with one caveat. If I want a completely type safe language I'll stick with C++. I'll also expect my variables to be initialized before use, my functions to be defined, etc. etc.. If I want to do a quick and dirty test with access to a nice OO methodology, I'll use a scripting language like Ruby.
Also, I'm not really familiar with Perl or Python (dated both, but I'm afraid of commitment), but maybe Ruby, or other lessor-known language (what's Dylan like?), is a chance to get in closer to the ground floor and learn as the language is being developed instead of trying to wade through years of mythology, legends, and anecdotal experience. (It'll probably end up as another unopened .zip file in my downloads directory but it's there if I get motivated...)
650 comments on slashdot.org as of 4pm EST. Microsoft has finally brought the Linux movement to a standstill. ;)
It looks like their server is back up (or whatever happened). I couldn't get to their web site for the last couple of days, either.
Ok class, pay attention... The original poster's comment was that "Oh my god, there is no Rad development IDE on Linux". However, as I pointed out, there is in fact a Rad development IDE on Linux. It is called RadBuilder. Pretty straight forward, eh??
As a side note, I mentioned that it's not Open Sourse. However, how many Windows based Rad IDE's are available that are Open Source? The doesn't mean you can't give away, sell, or do anything else you want with the software you create with the RAD tools. Or at least that is the case with RadBuilder which I happen to know since my company is selling a software product we built with RadBuilder.
Still following along?? Good, time for a nap now so it will all sink in...
There really isn't any RAD programming system for Linux (Klyx ain't there yet.), so that means a lot of time and effort for something pretty small.
Au Contrairy!!! Check out RadBuilder 3.0 from Emediat Solutions Inc.. I really like this RAD platform and have written a couple of client applications. Excellent string manipulations, a complete widget set (with the ability to extend), an integrated IDE, cross-platform with Windows, and, most importantly, comprehensive HTML documentation. Sorry if I sound like too much of a booster, but its sad to see good products fall by the wayside due to a lack of exposure.
On the down side, I've heard that they are going to go Open Source but they are not currently... though it is pretty inexpensive (~ $100 for linux I think)
They have a support site at www.radbuilder.org
Are you sure? He said, "I thought that only quotes that incoporate an entire sentence -- or at least a sentence fragment -- used this rule." I, however, think slavish devotion to this rule is "looney".
RIAA approved file list in XML format. Intercepted in a SOAP transaction to Napster last night by an anonymous hacker:
<?xml>
<RIAA_APPROVED_FILE_LIST>
</RIAA_APPROVED_FILE_LIST>
Sorry for this response to a troll...
I guess the problem is, right or wrong, very few of us believe that we are stealing from artists. If any theft is involved it is from the marketers, accountants, and lawyers that make so many aspects of modern life a more negative experience. And, in exchange, they are stealing from us the rights we used to have for "fair use". We've all read the stories about truly great musicians dieing in poverty while the "suit" with no musical talent collects all of the royalties and none of us believe the RIAA is acting for the benifit of artists. As many people have noted, its the "Recording Industry Assoc." not the "Musician's Assoc.".
There is a common cause for many of us to root for the underdog, and with impression that only huge companies can influence the law, we are the underdogs and the RIAA is the 300 lb. gorilla. In a larger context, this story is just another episode in the continuing saga of Disney copyright extensions, patent travesties, monopolies crushing the small software companies, attacks on DeCSS and 2600, FUD against open source, etc. etc. etc..
Sure someone will crack it within a day or two.
And three months later it will encoded as a 2000-digit prime number...
On a smaller scale we do this every time we search for information through google, yahoo, etc.. The more "vague" the concept, the higher the probability that we are going to get a source that isn't in our preselected list of news sources. Unfortunatly, as search engines get better, our opportunity to stumble over tangentally related sources will diminish.
The mayor of D.C. tried to convince the CEO's of the Gas, Electric, Telecom, Cable etc. companies to try and work together before ripping the roads up.
From their response, it was as if he had asked them all to engage in public group sex.
In other words, it ain't gonna happen.
Inevitable disclosure, if applied to high officials in government service could eliminate their ability to become lobbyists. File a few public interest lawsuits against Henry Kissinger, George Stephanopolous, and anybody else who trades on their inside government info.
Wow!! Talk about destroying the economies of Maryland, D.C., and Virginia in about two weeks...
I work for a "Beltway Bandit" and everyone I know works for a similar consulting firm. They ALL have an ex-captain (or some other mid to high level ex military officer) who works in sales and is able to buddy up with all of their old friends in the service. You DON'T get a government contract without an insider...
I'll never forget Cheney's debate with Lieberman when he claimed he never got anything from the goverment. I'm sure he was hired as V.P. at that oil company based on his smile. What a fucking hypocrite...
Someone please explain: What would be the point of having a company called "SSH Communications Security" if the technology is not called "ssh" anymore. A couple of months of all the sys admins using "secsh" or whatever the acronym is changed to, and "SSH Commun..." won't mean much.
Let me try and rephrase this: is the acronym is changed from "ssh" there will be nothing tying "SSH Communications Security" to the technology in the public's mind. Even if he does go to court and win, it seems like a Phyrric victory.
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