well I was going to enter into a rational argument with you about fairness, freedom and the ineffecuality of government programs, but after looking at your website I'm not going to bother, you're obviously a complete whacko.
which do you think hurts the poor more, repealing the estate tax or the current social security program?
Since the signal strength of a single transmitter is limited wouldn't it be possible to build two transmitters very close to each other (possibly owned and operated by different people) transmitting on slightly different frequencies and thereby increase the effective bandwidth? Or would they interfere too much?
Not necessarily. It would be simple for a JIT to recognize that the for's terminating condition was sufficient as a bounds-check and yank the check for the array index. Microsoft's.NET VM does exactly this.
the IID->interface mapping is needed by cross-apartment marshalling. when marshalling/unmarshalling an interface in the channel COM needs to locate the proxy/stub code for that interface. the mechanism for doing this involves a registry lookup.
But what does VS.NET use? IDE generated code of course.
Sure, but you don't have to see that code. In fact, the default is set so you don't see it, and in general you don't ever need to.
On the other hand source code is much more preferable to separate binary resources. Firstly it all in the same file, so your project management becomes much simpler. Secondly it's trivial to support source control systems (CVS, SourceSafe, etc...) - with binary resources it's hard to track incremental changes.
One of the features most requested for early versions of Visual Basic was to convert the form layout resources from binary into text and embed them in the form source file for exactly these reasons. And they did this, although you don't see the textual representation of the resources in the editor - they're hidden just as before (unless you explicitly want to see them). Microsoft didn't just do this because they thought it might piss you off, they did it because people asked them to, and it makes sense. Besides, it's not like it's 'gobs' of code, but even if it was, who cares?
probably soon after they tell their OS department that they only have to design, develop and test their software on one box with no user serviceable parts, very limited addon capabilities, and the limitation that they only have to run one program at any one time.
it doesn't really matter does it? if $50 is a price you're willing to pay for 1 year's worth of gaming then that's what you'll get. If after that you don't want to pay for the next year (for whatever reason) you don't have. It's not like they're going to come round to your house and take the box away from you: you'll still be able to play the games, just not online.
I liken it to cigarettes. Say I buy a pack of cigarettes, and the next day the price doubles (for whatever reason). I can still smoke the cheaper pack I bought the day before (until I've finnished them) but I may refuse to buy any more packs after that due to the price hike. You could say that that's an evil thing to do since cigarettes are addictive, but I'd say that's my problem, not theirs.
In reality I doubt the price will change much at the end of the year unless they believe that the market will accept it. Unless, of course they gain a monolopy advantage or enter into a price-fixing cartel with their competitors.
the XBox doesn't contain a modem, it just has a regular twisted-pair ethernet interface which connects directly to your broadband modem via a cat5 cable. the XBox just talks IP which is bridged/routed by your modem.
oh, and another thing: something that I used alot was returning multiple tables from stored procedures to reduce the number of queries, like this:
CREATE PROCEDURE myProc @param int
AS
SELECT * FROM tbl1 WHERE foo=@param;
SELECT * FROM tbl2 WHERE bar=@param;
and then being able to iterate through the different rowsets on the client.
I couldn't find any way to do this easily on any of the other DBMSs I tried (I didn't try Oracle).
I've done something along the same lines: porting an IIS/ASP/MSSQL application to JSP/*, and although I was using Linux for the OS I found the same thing: that mySQL way woefully lacking in features that I had taken for granted on MSSQL. I ended up using PostgreSQL because it had many more of the features that I wanted, but still I found things like the stored procedure support, XML support, and the optimizer to be way behind. It does have a really good set of builtin functions (like regex string searching, etc...) which is something I've always thought MS has dropped behind on.
I have noticed that many spammers are adding random crap to the end of their messages. This tactic is specifically designed to circumvent products like cloudmark. If you're running Outlook, try spambayes, it uses some pretty complicated statistics to determine whether or not an incoming message is spam, and it works surprisingly well. It requires a certain amount ofo technical knowledge to set up, though.
Spambayes is simply the best spam filter I've ever seen. It's not a 'release' quality product but it's filtering is the best I've seen. There's an excellent plugin for Outlook which monitors your inbox and places spam in a 'spam' folder or an 'unsure' folder depending on your settings and its classification of incoming messages. It also notices when you move messages into/out of these folders and re-trains its database accordingly.
I believe they also have a POP3 proxy and an SMTP proxy is on its way. The automation for these is not quite so refined, however.
Yup, "escape" velocity is the velocity necessary for a body to leave orbit. "terminal" velocity is the speed at which the frictional forces acting on a falling body equal the gravitational force, which is probably what he meant to say.
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which do you think hurts the poor more, repealing the estate tax or the current social security program?
Since the signal strength of a single transmitter is limited wouldn't it be possible to build two transmitters very close to each other (possibly owned and operated by different people) transmitting on slightly different frequencies and thereby increase the effective bandwidth? Or would they interfere too much?
yup and there's the the income tax the poor folks paid before they even got the chance to pay the sales tax.
The price of a bullet, damn that's cheap! Here in the good ole US of A they take half of everything you own.
try spambayes. works great.
Not necessarily. It would be simple for a JIT to recognize that the for's terminating condition was sufficient as a bounds-check and yank the check for the array index. Microsoft's .NET VM does exactly this.
the IID->interface mapping is needed by cross-apartment marshalling. when marshalling/unmarshalling an interface in the channel COM needs to locate the proxy/stub code for that interface. the mechanism for doing this involves a registry lookup.
no shit. here in california it's illegal to carry any sharp object capable of causing grevious bodily harm - like a pen, for example.
On the other hand source code is much more preferable to separate binary resources. Firstly it all in the same file, so your project management becomes much simpler. Secondly it's trivial to support source control systems (CVS, SourceSafe, etc...) - with binary resources it's hard to track incremental changes.
One of the features most requested for early versions of Visual Basic was to convert the form layout resources from binary into text and embed them in the form source file for exactly these reasons. And they did this, although you don't see the textual representation of the resources in the editor - they're hidden just as before (unless you explicitly want to see them). Microsoft didn't just do this because they thought it might piss you off, they did it because people asked them to, and it makes sense. Besides, it's not like it's 'gobs' of code, but even if it was, who cares?
not so at all. I have been using the excellent, free spambayes filter and it works remarkably well, even for small spam corpora. 500 spams is plenty.
probably one with big, flashing, non-descript flashing panels and silly beeps.
buying new versions of IE?
probably soon after they tell their OS department that they only have to design, develop and test their software on one box with no user serviceable parts, very limited addon capabilities, and the limitation that they only have to run one program at any one time.
I liken it to cigarettes. Say I buy a pack of cigarettes, and the next day the price doubles (for whatever reason). I can still smoke the cheaper pack I bought the day before (until I've finnished them) but I may refuse to buy any more packs after that due to the price hike. You could say that that's an evil thing to do since cigarettes are addictive, but I'd say that's my problem, not theirs.
In reality I doubt the price will change much at the end of the year unless they believe that the market will accept it. Unless, of course they gain a monolopy advantage or enter into a price-fixing cartel with their competitors.
the XBox doesn't contain a modem, it just has a regular twisted-pair ethernet interface which connects directly to your broadband modem via a cat5 cable. the XBox just talks IP which is bridged/routed by your modem.
CREATE PROCEDURE myProc @param int
AS
SELECT * FROM tbl1 WHERE foo=@param;
SELECT * FROM tbl2 WHERE bar=@param;
and then being able to iterate through the different rowsets on the client. I couldn't find any way to do this easily on any of the other DBMSs I tried (I didn't try Oracle).
I've done something along the same lines: porting an IIS/ASP/MSSQL application to JSP/*, and although I was using Linux for the OS I found the same thing: that mySQL way woefully lacking in features that I had taken for granted on MSSQL. I ended up using PostgreSQL because it had many more of the features that I wanted, but still I found things like the stored procedure support, XML support, and the optimizer to be way behind. It does have a really good set of builtin functions (like regex string searching, etc...) which is something I've always thought MS has dropped behind on.
I have noticed that many spammers are adding random crap to the end of their messages. This tactic is specifically designed to circumvent products like cloudmark. If you're running Outlook, try spambayes, it uses some pretty complicated statistics to determine whether or not an incoming message is spam, and it works surprisingly well. It requires a certain amount ofo technical knowledge to set up, though.
I believe they also have a POP3 proxy and an SMTP proxy is on its way. The automation for these is not quite so refined, however.
Yup, "escape" velocity is the velocity necessary for a body to leave orbit. "terminal" velocity is the speed at which the frictional forces acting on a falling body equal the gravitational force, which is probably what he meant to say.
terminal velocity. escape velocity implies an upward component.
none of these are linux innovations, and in fact NT had POSIX.1 compliance long before linux.
mountains in the ski resort in whistler, BC. longhorn is the name of a bar between the two mountains.