2) It avoids "confusing" pointers and references, using the same technique that Visual Basic uses: it just hides the difference, so you never really know whether you're working with a reference or a copy. Having used VB quite a bit, I can tell you that this is really bad. That feature alone would be enough to keep me from going near C#.
That's what Java does. The primitive types (int, char, byte, etc..) are values and all objects are pointers that are automatically dereferenced and referenced as appropriate without any syntactic sugar ala C's "*", Pascal's "^" etc. And I really hate it. It's a not so obvious 'feature' that trips a lot of beginners up (hence half a lecture required to explain to first-year CS types why object1 == object2 doesn't quite work).
Worse still, Java has the String object that is treated like a primitive 90% of the time...
My lecturer released a mock exam a couple of years ago in Word format. One student lacked the ability to read Word files, so they stripped out the control characters and printed the file raw.
Of course, Word had done a partial save. And since my lecturer had made the mock exam by taking the real exam and modifying it, he had a heart attack when the student showed him his printout of the mock exam and said "this is different to another copy someone else printed."
The absolutely laughable thing is, my lecturer then experimented with the 'Fast Save' feature in his version of Word and discovered it did fast saves even when he told it not to.
As a result, nobody on campus spreads stuff around in Word documents anymore. Especially when they're sending their (judiciously censored) letter to the Vice-Chancellor...
Actually, ZDoom (and hence CSDoom, Skulltag etc) contains code from
The original Doom release, under the original license.
Heretic and Hexen, under the Activision license.
That's two, which is enough to cause havoc. Incidentally, ZDoom has a checkered history regarding the inclusion of other code - in one particularly nasty incident, Lee Killough (primarily responsible for Boom, the foundation of most ports including ZDoom) saw code from his MBF port (which he later did, independantly of TeamTNT although based upon Boom) that was not credited.
I think the vast majority concerned (and I'm talking about the Doom community here) agree that the code in ZDoom is a real mess when it comes to licensing and attributing sources.
One of my professors expects all assembly coding to be done through direct translation from a HLL, and if you don't follow his guidelines on how to lay out and comment translated control structures, you lose marks. So if I stripped out all the comments like this (eg BIPUSH 1; IADD//increment i) from the last piece of crud I handed up, I'd probably lose marks.
Is it just me, or could this (whatever it is - 'trojan horse' sounds good to me) do what it does just as well if it were compiled code, rather than a VBS? That way, it could also target the users without scripting enabled.
To whoever wrote this: learn C, or C++, or something better than BASIC. Trust me, it'll do you wonders:)
... that I can be sued for calling a first poster a stupid faggot?
Heh... does it mean that if I post a first post and it gets moderated down, I can sue somebody? After all, being labeled a 'troll' on one of the world's most popular websites can hardly be good for my public image or self esteem.
You're working off classical theory; that gravity is a *force* which is created by mass. In fact, under relativistic theory, gravity curves space itself (and I'm not sure about this, but IIRC that occurs in about 11 dimensions..)
Therefore, the light is travelling in a straight line throughout space, however as space itself is curved it appears to travel in a non-straight (ie curving directly into the black hole:) trajectory.
Well, of course you pay more for access. It costs more to give it to you... just accept that if you choose to live 100km away from the nearest hub, you're going to have to pay the costs of connecting to a hub 100km away.
If you don't like it, than come live in the city:P
Hrmm... you mean the same way that British naval expenditure lead to the discovery of other continents?
Big deal if you created the Internet. Wasn't X.400 standardised in Europe? Didn't the Brits have CIX? Don you think that the Internet is the only thing that could have emerged into a global network?
You could probably lay claim to TCP/IP, and that's it. The modern internet has nothing to do with the old. Most of those 'funds that were supposed to be going to military research' went into laying the original cables and making the original routers, and I can bet you that none of them are in use today. exodus.net and uunet have a lot more claim to the modern internet than the US military does.
Hrmm, what about the link from Britain to France? Traffic can pass through Europe on European-owned cables that never had to do anything with the US. One of the first things they teach in networking courses is that the Internet is just a collection of smaller networks... ours is connected to yours, doesn't make ours yours.
When I get data from, say, www.doomworld.com, it goes from Telefragged to Alter.Net to uuNet (who get paid by iiNet) to iiNet, to me. I don't see anything in there I'm not eventually paying for.
IIRC, at least one version of Microsoft Encarta uses fractal compression (they licensed technology from Interated Systems) to store images. So I'd say it *is* practical.
The page states that the requirements for JPEG2000 include both lossy and lossless compression? The point, I ask? We already have a perfectly decent lossless compression format in PNG. And I'm wary of the benefits of a be-all and end-all format that supports every single conceivable compression format (Anyone remember TIFF? What a mess)
Yes, PNG support is crappy, but wouldn't it be easier to improve PNG support than add JPEG2000 support? (And yes, Quicktime is evil)
More to the point, why is PNG support so pitiful? Maybe if it was defined by standard PNG/1105/ISO-6011-GRAF everyone would have stood up and taken more notice of it. Heck, maybe the responsible thing for the committee to do would be to endorse PNG as it's favoured lossless compression format...
Personally, I can't stand Christianity. And evangelisation really pisses me off. But I don't 'take offense' to all of that software which promotes Christianity in it's help files. I even use some of it. And is it ImageMagik that promotes paganism in it's help files?
Society is only so damn politically correct and oversensitised because they're beliefs that the majority enforce. Until people ignore it, the problem won't go away.
(Oh, and many of my family are Christian. I asked one whether they took offense to the name, and they barely even got the reference)
I remember yeeears ago, PC Plus (Brit mag) gave away a copy of Borland C++ 4.5 and C++ Builder 1.0 on their coverdisk (I believe that the current market versions of these were 5.0 and 1.5 or 2.0 at the time, respectively). Basically, it was intended to accompany the 'learn basic c++' articles inside the magazine.
Since it was intended for learning purposes only, iirc you were prohibited from using the tools in the production of software that was intended to be distributed. I believe that you still find that sort of license on 'academic' versions of software today.
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But given this is mostly a software solution, those little hardware hacks won't work. So how is this relevant?
That's what Java does. The primitive types (int, char, byte, etc..) are values and all objects are pointers that are automatically dereferenced and referenced as appropriate without any syntactic sugar ala C's "*", Pascal's "^" etc. And I really hate it. It's a not so obvious 'feature' that trips a lot of beginners up (hence half a lecture required to explain to first-year CS types why object1 == object2 doesn't quite work).
Worse still, Java has the String object that is treated like a primitive 90% of the time...
The DoJ don't have time for this.. they're too busy protecting the consumer by splitting up Microsoft, remember?
Of course, Word had done a partial save. And since my lecturer had made the mock exam by taking the real exam and modifying it, he had a heart attack when the student showed him his printout of the mock exam and said "this is different to another copy someone else printed."
The absolutely laughable thing is, my lecturer then experimented with the 'Fast Save' feature in his version of Word and discovered it did fast saves even when he told it not to.
As a result, nobody on campus spreads stuff around in Word documents anymore. Especially when they're sending their (judiciously censored) letter to the Vice-Chancellor...
If you can remember the name of the vendor, try http://report.andover.net/cgi-b in/ad_current_ads.pl.
- The original Doom release, under the original license.
- Heretic and Hexen, under the Activision license.
That's two, which is enough to cause havoc. Incidentally, ZDoom has a checkered history regarding the inclusion of other code - in one particularly nasty incident, Lee Killough (primarily responsible for Boom, the foundation of most ports including ZDoom) saw code from his MBF port (which he later did, independantly of TeamTNT although based upon Boom) that was not credited.I think the vast majority concerned (and I'm talking about the Doom community here) agree that the code in ZDoom is a real mess when it comes to licensing and attributing sources.
I've been known to throw in some kludgy, unreliable hack and prefix it with // so sue me ... probably not a good idea these days :oP
One of my professors expects all assembly coding to be done through direct translation from a HLL, and if you don't follow his guidelines on how to lay out and comment translated control structures, you lose marks. So if I stripped out all the comments like this (eg BIPUSH 1; IADD //increment i) from the last piece of crud I handed up, I'd probably lose marks.
Coding is meant to be fun :)
It does.. just select Plain old text instead of HTML Formatted.
Isn't that Plan-9?
Is it just me, or could this (whatever it is - 'trojan horse' sounds good to me) do what it does just as well if it were compiled code, rather than a VBS? That way, it could also target the users without scripting enabled.
:)
To whoever wrote this: learn C, or C++, or something better than BASIC. Trust me, it'll do you wonders
Heh... does it mean that if I post a first post and it gets moderated down, I can sue somebody? After all, being labeled a 'troll' on one of the world's most popular websites can hardly be good for my public image or self esteem.
Somehow I doubt the people that read and post to them consider them crappy.
useless dns names on www
Heh. You, sir, obviously have no idea.
the number of lusers
Please:
Yeah, I caught the Puppets thing. I also heard E2M1 - AC/DC..
Therefore, the light is travelling in a straight line throughout space, however as space itself is curved it appears to travel in a non-straight (ie curving directly into the black hole :) trajectory.
NOT!
If you don't like it, than come live in the city :P
We're paying for our link to America. But we want America to pay for our link to us as well.
Big deal if you created the Internet. Wasn't X.400 standardised in Europe? Didn't the Brits have CIX? Don you think that the Internet is the only thing that could have emerged into a global network?
You could probably lay claim to TCP/IP, and that's it. The modern internet has nothing to do with the old. Most of those 'funds that were supposed to be going to military research' went into laying the original cables and making the original routers, and I can bet you that none of them are in use today. exodus.net and uunet have a lot more claim to the modern internet than the US military does.
Hrmm, what about the link from Britain to France? Traffic can pass through Europe on European-owned cables that never had to do anything with the US. One of the first things they teach in networking courses is that the Internet is just a collection of smaller networks... ours is connected to yours, doesn't make ours yours.
When I get data from, say, www.doomworld.com, it goes from Telefragged to Alter.Net to uuNet (who get paid by iiNet) to iiNet, to me. I don't see anything in there I'm not eventually paying for.
IIRC, at least one version of Microsoft Encarta uses fractal compression (they licensed technology from Interated Systems) to store images. So I'd say it *is* practical.
Yes, PNG support is crappy, but wouldn't it be easier to improve PNG support than add JPEG2000 support? (And yes, Quicktime is evil)
More to the point, why is PNG support so pitiful? Maybe if it was defined by standard PNG/1105/ISO-6011-GRAF everyone would have stood up and taken more notice of it. Heck, maybe the responsible thing for the committee to do would be to endorse PNG as it's favoured lossless compression format...
James Hetfield writes the lyrics, not Lars. Kinda makes sense, since the former is the vocalist and Lars isn't even a native English speaker IIRC.
Society is only so damn politically correct and oversensitised because they're beliefs that the majority enforce. Until people ignore it, the problem won't go away.
(Oh, and many of my family are Christian. I asked one whether they took offense to the name, and they barely even got the reference)
Since it was intended for learning purposes only, iirc you were prohibited from using the tools in the production of software that was intended to be distributed. I believe that you still find that sort of license on 'academic' versions of software today.