I'm glad you don't mind if they track EVERY move you make, just for the purpose of getting targetted spam. Hope ya don't mind when Ashcroft comes in with the National Guard behind him, to take all that information back to his office so it can be scrutinized over in his efforts to rid the world of the unpure. He may see that you went to crazynakedcollegesluts.com one night and have you burned at the stake the next day.
So you can't just think about what Comcast will do with the information, it's what ANYBODY could do with the information.
It doesn't make one bit of difference if they actually remove all the DLLs that make up internet explorer. The thing that kills competition is that MS puts icons for their own services all over the place.
Look at XP. Go to the Start menu and you have Internet - MSN Explorer. On my new 2000 box, they had a Money bar installed by default into IE that pops up whenever I go to a page that has $xx.xx text in a link.
If these things were never there, and MS had to advertise like everybody else, then it would at least be fair to competitors as well as ISPs that have to deal with users that keep screwing up their settings by clicking on everything on the desktop.
He's not asking what WE'D like in an IDE, he needs something that already has all those features, and I don't think the project he's talking about is writing a new language/IDE.
But to answer the real question as best I can, I can't think of anything that has all those features. But what I'd do if I were you, is to rank the importance of each of those features as it applies to the upcoming project.
Based on my experiences, I'm quite happy with Delphi. It doesn't have multiple inheritence or operator overloading, but it does have function overloading at least. These features aren't generally show stoppers though. I haven't tried Kylix yet so I'm not sure how smooth the transition would be to linux.
In any case, what it comes down to is just pick an language. They ALL have shortcomings and nuances that will take time to learn and overcome if you aren't already familiar with them. So just pick something, code some sample projects, possibly code a prototype of your project if time persists. You can always use this as a chance to learn something new to add to your resume.
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I'm thinking of regular ol dead skin cells dust, as I'm not sure what the original author of this thread was referring to. But yes, I can see how metal shavings can definitely cause a problem with grinding.
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How would it die from dust exactly? The motors are still sealed. Even if dust gets on the platters it shouldn't matter unless the dust is bonded well enough to the platter and there's a large enough pile of it that the head gets damaged by hitting it.
Of course ANY hard drive will suffer from catastrophic failure "after awhile" from just normal use.
They don't charge for the library, just for access to the important things like betas and whatever "secret" information they give you for the $2000 a year they charge for professional access.
As far as the Luna article, WTF makes you think I don't know what I'm doing? I'm sorry, but a front page article titled "What's new in XP" on the Microsoft DEVELOPERS Network constitutes something being released for developers.
Anyways, you probably work for Microsoft, hence the obvious bias. IF you can't find something to complain about, then you just aren't paying attention.
Just get the API help files. They come with ANY professional development environment.
Don't bother with MSDN unless you have hours to spend trying to figure out where information is hiding and you feel like reading propaganda in what are suppose to be technical documents. MSDN is just another place for MS to charge a fee and promote other products.
Just as an example, prior to the release of Windows XP, they had a 4 page article discussing the new features that would benefit developers in XP, and all they could discuss is 32-bit color large icons and new APIs to support Luna, which IIRC required an extra 5 lines per control creation.
Anyways, in using the API Reference, if you're not sure what a parameter is suppose to do because the documentation is confusing, just pass NULL and 9 times out of 10 it'll work.
Doesn't care about financial matters? Are you still living with your parents? Computer geeks don't care about things like 401k or the stock market. We all just keep our cash under our matress.
I've found a way to transfer a googol of data in one second. I'm not ready to release a product yet, or hold public or private demos. But I can tell you that we've done some preliminary experiments involving filling a semi with CDRs and transporting the data for several feet. All we need to do is to refine the process so it doesn't require a 18 wheeler and trillions of CDRs and we'll have a revolutionary product. At out current rate we should have something by Q1 2003.
You can become a part of this exciting development by sending $100,000,000.00 to PayPal account #235224975645.
Who says the need to control things on your machine. By the time this is released, nothing will be stored on your computer, it'll be stored on an SQL Server box a blank password at MS HQ.
It could be educational. Have a hacking contest. AFAIK it's still legal to hack your own network. Regardless of your opinions on the overall benefits of hacking, it still requires learning and implementation. It's wrong to strip a car in 20 minutes, but you gotta know what you're doing to make it happen.
Anyways, even if nobody breaks into any servers or intercepts any transmissions, they'll still have learned a good deal about the protocols and the fundamentals behind how the network/servers work.
I've heard this my whole life. I'm not a physicist though, but it doesn't seem like light and time are one in the same, or even have any effect on the other.
It's not like we calculate time in relation to light except when measuring the distance to stars. Even then it's still light YEARS, so it's being converted to a time unit we understand. It would be like miles per hour, it's just that it's such a large number we use a conversion factor that makes it relatively small.
FTL means faster than light, not backwards through time.
(k) Home networking: The ability to connect more than one computer system to your Residential Power Link Service is available at an additional charge over and above the basic subscription fee. This additional service allows You to connect up to 4 individual machines to your Residential Power Link Service. This service does not permit the operation of a server of any type from your Residential Power Link Service.
I was going to mod you up till I read your last sentence.:)
Open sepcification? The OS is open source. That doesn't mean that anybody in their right mind would want to read through it, but it's available.
Chipset specs are all agreed upon by a standards body, as are the bus specs. It's not like any one manufacturer was keeping a protocol secret so everybody just guessed at it. If you want to see them, go ahead, I'm sure you can find information. It's not going to be dumbed down and summarized for you though. It's going to be white papers with lots of weird electrical diagrams and acronyms.
What we're seeing here is when several layers don't correctly define or handle an error condition. You can compare it to U.S. laws. They define the general outline but don't actually define every possible parameter, they let the courts handle the specific details. Consider the OS the court.
So most likely, something was left out of the spec and assumptions were made by several different manufacturers who each has their own take on how it should be done.
But, since the software is easier to change than the hardware, that's the logical place to fix it. It doesn't take all the complaining and finger pointing that's going on this site. Just fix the damn thing, release an update, and move on. Although it's very interesting to see how so many bruised egos defend themselves in the ways that so many of us complain about when our enemies use those tactics.
Croak? Do you plan on manually detaching the heat sink while it's running? The whole issue is the cooling device being removed, either by force of by the heat sink clamp breaking. Who's to say that this system won't suffer from that problem. Maybe the adhesive or whatever is uses has the possibility of wearing out.
How would you classify N'Sync and Britney Spears? They have no musical talent of their own. They rely on others writing the lyrics and the music, yet many millions enjoy their music. In this case, the major record labels are needed in order to bring together a large number of people to produce the content. It's not like it's some garage band that already has talent, but lacks exposure.
P.S. I don't condone the existence on the above mentioned bands, it's just an example.
I got a P4 1.4GHz at work a few weeks ago. I have a Athlon 800MHz at home. The RC5 client from distributed.net runs at 2.9 Mkeys/s on my home system. My machine at work only runs the client at a whopping 2.4 MKeys. So based on my result, a 3.5GHz P4 would be like a 1.8GHz Athlon.
Flaming/joking aside - anybody know why the RC5 client does so poorly on a P4 compared to a much slower Athlon?
I think I'd fall asleep if the ride was longer than 10 minutes. What are they proposing to do when your car is automatically unloaded and you don't drive away?
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I think the answer to your last question can be summed up in one word. Ego.
Yes ego. It's not just for the criminally monopolists =)
I'm glad you don't mind if they track EVERY move you make, just for the purpose of getting targetted spam. Hope ya don't mind when Ashcroft comes in with the National Guard behind him, to take all that information back to his office so it can be scrutinized over in his efforts to rid the world of the unpure. He may see that you went to crazynakedcollegesluts.com one night and have you burned at the stake the next day.
So you can't just think about what Comcast will do with the information, it's what ANYBODY could do with the information.
It doesn't make one bit of difference if they actually remove all the DLLs that make up internet explorer. The thing that kills competition is that MS puts icons for their own services all over the place.
Look at XP. Go to the Start menu and you have Internet - MSN Explorer. On my new 2000 box, they had a Money bar installed by default into IE that pops up whenever I go to a page that has $xx.xx text in a link.
If these things were never there, and MS had to advertise like everybody else, then it would at least be fair to competitors as well as ISPs that have to deal with users that keep screwing up their settings by clicking on everything on the desktop.
Actually, I was wondering how many /. readers were going to call Handspring just to see how the system works. Is it possible to /. a phone system?
He's not asking what WE'D like in an IDE, he needs something that already has all those features, and I don't think the project he's talking about is writing a new language/IDE.
But to answer the real question as best I can, I can't think of anything that has all those features. But what I'd do if I were you, is to rank the importance of each of those features as it applies to the upcoming project.
Based on my experiences, I'm quite happy with Delphi. It doesn't have multiple inheritence or operator overloading, but it does have function overloading at least. These features aren't generally show stoppers though. I haven't tried Kylix yet so I'm not sure how smooth the transition would be to linux.
In any case, what it comes down to is just pick an language. They ALL have shortcomings and nuances that will take time to learn and overcome if you aren't already familiar with them. So just pick something, code some sample projects, possibly code a prototype of your project if time persists. You can always use this as a chance to learn something new to add to your resume.
I'm thinking of regular ol dead skin cells dust, as I'm not sure what the original author of this thread was referring to. But yes, I can see how metal shavings can definitely cause a problem with grinding.
How would it die from dust exactly? The motors are still sealed. Even if dust gets on the platters it shouldn't matter unless the dust is bonded well enough to the platter and there's a large enough pile of it that the head gets damaged by hitting it.
Of course ANY hard drive will suffer from catastrophic failure "after awhile" from just normal use.
They don't charge for the library, just for access to the important things like betas and whatever "secret" information they give you for the $2000 a year they charge for professional access.
As far as the Luna article, WTF makes you think I don't know what I'm doing? I'm sorry, but a front page article titled "What's new in XP" on the Microsoft DEVELOPERS Network constitutes something being released for developers.
Anyways, you probably work for Microsoft, hence the obvious bias. IF you can't find something to complain about, then you just aren't paying attention.
Just get the API help files. They come with ANY professional development environment.
Don't bother with MSDN unless you have hours to spend trying to figure out where information is hiding and you feel like reading propaganda in what are suppose to be technical documents. MSDN is just another place for MS to charge a fee and promote other products.
Just as an example, prior to the release of Windows XP, they had a 4 page article discussing the new features that would benefit developers in XP, and all they could discuss is 32-bit color large icons and new APIs to support Luna, which IIRC required an extra 5 lines per control creation.
Anyways, in using the API Reference, if you're not sure what a parameter is suppose to do because the documentation is confusing, just pass NULL and 9 times out of 10 it'll work.
More like trying to close all the damn popups... or... uh... so I've been told.
Doesn't care about financial matters? Are you still living with your parents? Computer geeks don't care about things like 401k or the stock market. We all just keep our cash under our matress.
I've found a way to transfer a googol of data in one second. I'm not ready to release a product yet, or hold public or private demos. But I can tell you that we've done some preliminary experiments involving filling a semi with CDRs and transporting the data for several feet. All we need to do is to refine the process so it doesn't require a 18 wheeler and trillions of CDRs and we'll have a revolutionary product. At out current rate we should have something by Q1 2003.
You can become a part of this exciting development by sending $100,000,000.00 to PayPal account #235224975645.
Who says the need to control things on your machine. By the time this is released, nothing will be stored on your computer, it'll be stored on an SQL Server box a blank password at MS HQ.
It could be educational. Have a hacking contest. AFAIK it's still legal to hack your own network. Regardless of your opinions on the overall benefits of hacking, it still requires learning and implementation. It's wrong to strip a car in 20 minutes, but you gotta know what you're doing to make it happen.
Anyways, even if nobody breaks into any servers or intercepts any transmissions, they'll still have learned a good deal about the protocols and the fundamentals behind how the network/servers work.
I've heard this my whole life. I'm not a physicist though, but it doesn't seem like light and time are one in the same, or even have any effect on the other.
It's not like we calculate time in relation to light except when measuring the distance to stars. Even then it's still light YEARS, so it's being converted to a time unit we understand. It would be like miles per hour, it's just that it's such a large number we use a conversion factor that makes it relatively small.
FTL means faster than light, not backwards through time.
They may let you, but you'll pay more. It's kind of strange that they capitalized "You" in stating who is responsible for the setup.
From Adelphia's TOS
(k) Home networking: The ability to connect more than one computer system to your Residential Power Link Service is available at an additional charge over and above the basic subscription fee. This additional service allows You to connect up to 4 individual machines to your Residential Power Link Service. This service does not permit the operation of a server of any type from your Residential Power Link Service.
I was going to mod you up till I read your last sentence. :)
Open sepcification? The OS is open source. That doesn't mean that anybody in their right mind would want to read through it, but it's available.
Chipset specs are all agreed upon by a standards body, as are the bus specs. It's not like any one manufacturer was keeping a protocol secret so everybody just guessed at it. If you want to see them, go ahead, I'm sure you can find information. It's not going to be dumbed down and summarized for you though. It's going to be white papers with lots of weird electrical diagrams and acronyms.
What we're seeing here is when several layers don't correctly define or handle an error condition. You can compare it to U.S. laws. They define the general outline but don't actually define every possible parameter, they let the courts handle the specific details. Consider the OS the court.
So most likely, something was left out of the spec and assumptions were made by several different manufacturers who each has their own take on how it should be done.
But, since the software is easier to change than the hardware, that's the logical place to fix it. It doesn't take all the complaining and finger pointing that's going on this site. Just fix the damn thing, release an update, and move on. Although it's very interesting to see how so many bruised egos defend themselves in the ways that so many of us complain about when our enemies use those tactics.
Croak? Do you plan on manually detaching the heat sink while it's running? The whole issue is the cooling device being removed, either by force of by the heat sink clamp breaking. Who's to say that this system won't suffer from that problem. Maybe the adhesive or whatever is uses has the possibility of wearing out.
You speak english. You don't need the asian version.
How would you classify N'Sync and Britney Spears? They have no musical talent of their own. They rely on others writing the lyrics and the music, yet many millions enjoy their music. In this case, the major record labels are needed in order to bring together a large number of people to produce the content. It's not like it's some garage band that already has talent, but lacks exposure.
P.S. I don't condone the existence on the above mentioned bands, it's just an example.
rol, ror, rcl, rcr, shl or shr?
He he, how is faster MHz an advantage if it doesn't actually work faster?
I got a P4 1.4GHz at work a few weeks ago. I have a Athlon 800MHz at home. The RC5 client from distributed.net runs at 2.9 Mkeys/s on my home system. My machine at work only runs the client at a whopping 2.4 MKeys. So based on my result, a 3.5GHz P4 would be like a 1.8GHz Athlon.
Flaming/joking aside - anybody know why the RC5 client does so poorly on a P4 compared to a much slower Athlon?
I think I'd fall asleep if the ride was longer than 10 minutes. What are they proposing to do when your car is automatically unloaded and you don't drive away?
I think manufacturing discs that can't be read by ANY device is next on their agenda.