I could probably look this up in a 6th grade science book, but why the hell are the planets generally round if such large objects have smashed into them. I wouldn't think there'd be any friction between a planet's surface and space. And if it is from erosion, then how long would such a process take?
Just from general observations, when two things smash into each other they generally don't come off as 2 round pieces.
Like I said, it's a stupid question, but I'm just curious.
If MS writes good documentation then they can't charge you $$$$ for training seminars. C'mon, the poor guys only made something like a measly $25 billion last year. You can't expect them to make enough money by simply screwing you on the OS and the IDE.
Even when it doesn't actually show any true statistics, like how many people were surveyed, or any other minor factors like, did 60% of the people surveyed work at the same company!
I'm sorry but I tend to like my "research" with some sort of graph, and something a little "meatier" that a single percentage bar.
Going by Evans Data's "research" they might as well have used the results from a Slashdot poll.
You're obviously not one of the ones that has had to write components and are speaking on behalf of a group that you have no information on.
I didn't say it was impossible to do anything with objects descended from the VCL, it's just hard to do certain things that can be very important. That makes something sucky.
Also, I haven't seen too many good 3rd party components that have been derived from the standard VCL components.:P
I use Delphi's VCL (as stated). Delphi's VCL sucks as soon as you realize that it's not even a complete encapsulation of all the functionality of standard Windows controls.
Try to derive a component from an existing one and make it do something new. Forget it. All the base functionality is declared in PRIVATE segments which cannot be accessed from descendent classes. So you can either modify the VCL code youself (stupid), or cut-and-paste the entire VCL code (almost as stupid), or start from scratch writing your own encapsulation (complete pain in the ass).
"Maybe its time for a new language born out of practical experience implementing compilers."
Maybe it's time for a new language to be born out of practical experience writing software.
I don't know how it is in Linux, but I really hate having to write several hundred lines of code for a single window w/controls in Window API calls. Personally, I'd like to see MS get rid of those API calls (and don't replace it with ActiveX until ActiveX works). Between the ones that don't work as documented and the rest of them being overly cumbersome, it's just a hassle. Especially when you have to create your own encapsulation objects for those things. I like Delphi because of its encapsulation of the visual components, but their base library sucks in itself in that it doesn't expose all the functionality. And since they saw that it was so important to declare everything as PRIVATE methods, you can't get descendent object to do everything you want either because you don't have access to all the base functionality.
Simplicity shouldn't be taken to the extreme either, and gear a new language towards the non-programmer crowd like MS tries to do.
Of course MS is just making things worse right now by implementing these new Luna APIs for XP. I'm sorry, but I don't know of anybody thats been really dying for the ability to use API calls to put a gradient on a button. In my opinion, this is just MS's attempt at trying to get developers to waste time, so they don't work that hard on developing new products that may compete with MS.
I'll agree with that. Verizon delayed running a trunk to the local cable company for several months. Most likely so they can decide whether they wanted to bother deploying DSL before the cable modems arive.
Once a company becomes a monopoly, they use their power to wipe out the playing field. They do this by failing to provide services to small competitors, or by giving away free products that competitors are charging money for. They know this is anti-competitive when the perform these actions. They know that the end result could be litigation and end in regulation. But the decisions are made, knowing full well that regulation would come only after a couple years in the courts. In the mean time, the monopoly is flourishing, the execs are making a fortune by patting themselves on the backs with bonuses, and if it comes down to being dragged into court and it looks as though the money may stop rolling in, the execs resign. The people that made the decisions got rich, and they're going to keep the money, so what do they care?
The only way to stop this kind of behavior is to provide a fast way of monopolistic evaluation and possible regulation. If the execs knew that they wouldn't have time to screw everybody over for their own personal benefit, then they most likely wouldn't. Personally, I'd like to see regulation over any behavior involving a monopoly. A government official that works onsite, that can immediately ask the question "Why's it taking so long to respond to your competitors request", would be a good thing.
Of course, that's just my opinion, I could be right.
I didn't think that anybody in another country could be prosecuted under the DMCA unless the came to America and tried to publish the information. Wasn't that the whole issue with Dmitri? Or are they referring to this guy's nationality and he already lives in America?
Recent results. Google only seems to be getting updated once every couple months. I know they must be pulling down a lot of data, but every other search engine seems to have more recent information that Google does. Anybody have any actual stats of googles refresh?
Didn't you realize that you can't inform people about things that happen in the world without first calling your lawyer and having them find out if you're violating the DMCA.
Just so you know, $50,000 is the going rate for bail.
Slashdot should start an annual geek hoax award. Let people vote on whether or not they consider certain websites/products to be hoaxes or not. The winner is the one that fools the largest percentage.
Does anybody remember some story on here about some PCI card that turned out to be a hoax?
Ok, I know it's a lot of servers, but the company that runs Hotmail, also wrote the OS that is insecure. This company release a warning, what, like 6 months ago, and also released a patch at the same time. They have been claiming that this is a major security hole since then and strongly encourages everybody to install the patch, yet they themselves don't.
Somehow, when I picture a server farm, I see this clean, organized room with nice neat racks. With everything that happens with MS's servers, all I can envision is a building reminiscent of a level from Diablo. Something dark & gloomy with servers just sitting on workbenches with their hard drives just hanging out of the side of the case and the motherboard coated in 1/2" of dust.
How can you forget a bunch of servers. I work for a small ISP so we're not the most organized place, but hell, all we have is two racks for modems & routers, and a dozen boxes sitting on the floor for servers. But we at least have pieces of paper tacked to the wall with a list of IP addresses, server names, functions and OS. We install the patches on all of our machines just fine.
All you need is a list of all the servers. Then take that list around with you and after you install the patch, put a little "X" next to the server on the list. Not really complex guys. Of course this is Microsoft, they're probably running little handhelds with WinCE, connecting wirelessly to a MSSQL server that seems to simply misplace records for the hell of it.
Maybe if they guys so embarrassed he could let his co-workers and his employer in on what happened. It's one of those things you joke and laugh about with your buddies.
Back before I was born, my parents got hauled in for questioning because they looked like a couple a criminals that were robbing stores in the area. Of course, they had to go to the station and be questioned and prove their identity before they were allowed to leave. So this guy got off pretty easy.
This is at least one of the most nicely worded threats I've read so far. Besides, they state right in the letter that they should be contacted to discuss licensing and they want to fully support the adoption of AC-3. So TALK TO THEM.
Typical open source response though.
"Look, a company sent us a letter and they're saying that they don't want to give everything away for free like we do. We must stop them and save the world from tyranny!"
Meanwhile, regardless of the OS the open source developers are using, they're using processors and other hardware created by big commercial entities. Maybe those hardware companies don't have a problem giving away all the specs or complete source code but THEY ARE SELLING HARDWARE, not software.
Taco had it right a few weeks ago when he slapped the hands of all the pro-linux groups.
I'm not exactly sure what the open source extremists want from the big guys. If they open their source code, would you use it after you spent years complaining their software sucked? Would you fix it for them, when you know you'd look like a hypocrit for helping a company you've previously bashed. Are you too lazy to find your own solutions for todays software solvable problems? Of course most of what open source is, is start with the idea from a big company, and then just write a program to duplicate all the functionality. Doesn't sound terribly creative to me. Besides, the big companies aren't taking any money away from you, because YOU'RE GIVING AWAY EVERYTHING FOR FREE! So what the hell is everybody complaining about.
They've accomplished a major technological breakthrough and have created a revolutionary system.
For those of you unaware of the actual technical merit of this patent, it basically involves taking a whole bunch of things that have been around for 6 years or so, and slapping them together.
You don't need to reverse engineer anything. Write your own service that sits on top of the file system and simulates the standard file sharing protocol on a different port. Who says you need to connect to MS's NEW file sharing layer.
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I could probably look this up in a 6th grade science book, but why the hell are the planets generally round if such large objects have smashed into them. I wouldn't think there'd be any friction between a planet's surface and space. And if it is from erosion, then how long would such a process take?
Just from general observations, when two things smash into each other they generally don't come off as 2 round pieces.
Like I said, it's a stupid question, but I'm just curious.
If MS writes good documentation then they can't charge you $$$$ for training seminars. C'mon, the poor guys only made something like a measly $25 billion last year. You can't expect them to make enough money by simply screwing you on the OS and the IDE.
Even when it doesn't actually show any true statistics, like how many people were surveyed, or any other minor factors like, did 60% of the people surveyed work at the same company!
I'm sorry but I tend to like my "research" with some sort of graph, and something a little "meatier" that a single percentage bar.
Going by Evans Data's "research" they might as well have used the results from a Slashdot poll.
You posted as an AC so you could go back and mod yourself up didn't you?
Have you ever seen the movie Office Space? Got a cordless screwdriver?
Anyways, what I usually do is to clean my desk once a month. Anything I haven't touched in the last month I put in somebody elses inbox.
You guys are going to call Cisco BEFORE you screw up the configuration this time right?
You're obviously not one of the ones that has had to write components and are speaking on behalf of a group that you have no information on.
:P
I didn't say it was impossible to do anything with objects descended from the VCL, it's just hard to do certain things that can be very important. That makes something sucky.
Also, I haven't seen too many good 3rd party components that have been derived from the standard VCL components.
"And don't be surprised, its gonna go up and down like a yo yo"
And this is different from the current servers how?
Sorry, I would have posted this sooner, but it took 5 minutes for comments.pl to load.
I use Delphi's VCL (as stated). Delphi's VCL sucks as soon as you realize that it's not even a complete encapsulation of all the functionality of standard Windows controls.
Try to derive a component from an existing one and make it do something new. Forget it. All the base functionality is declared in PRIVATE segments which cannot be accessed from descendent classes. So you can either modify the VCL code youself (stupid), or cut-and-paste the entire VCL code (almost as stupid), or start from scratch writing your own encapsulation (complete pain in the ass).
"Maybe its time for a new language born out of practical experience implementing compilers."
Maybe it's time for a new language to be born out of practical experience writing software.
I don't know how it is in Linux, but I really hate having to write several hundred lines of code for a single window w/controls in Window API calls. Personally, I'd like to see MS get rid of those API calls (and don't replace it with ActiveX until ActiveX works). Between the ones that don't work as documented and the rest of them being overly cumbersome, it's just a hassle. Especially when you have to create your own encapsulation objects for those things. I like Delphi because of its encapsulation of the visual components, but their base library sucks in itself in that it doesn't expose all the functionality. And since they saw that it was so important to declare everything as PRIVATE methods, you can't get descendent object to do everything you want either because you don't have access to all the base functionality.
Simplicity shouldn't be taken to the extreme either, and gear a new language towards the non-programmer crowd like MS tries to do.
Of course MS is just making things worse right now by implementing these new Luna APIs for XP. I'm sorry, but I don't know of anybody thats been really dying for the ability to use API calls to put a gradient on a button. In my opinion, this is just MS's attempt at trying to get developers to waste time, so they don't work that hard on developing new products that may compete with MS.
2 != 2. It really equals 1.999987834637462
Anybody that programs for Windows is familiar with the phenomenon of constants simply changing their values whenever the hell the OS feel like it.
I'll agree with that. Verizon delayed running a trunk to the local cable company for several months. Most likely so they can decide whether they wanted to bother deploying DSL before the cable modems arive.
Once a company becomes a monopoly, they use their power to wipe out the playing field. They do this by failing to provide services to small competitors, or by giving away free products that competitors are charging money for. They know this is anti-competitive when the perform these actions. They know that the end result could be litigation and end in regulation. But the decisions are made, knowing full well that regulation would come only after a couple years in the courts. In the mean time, the monopoly is flourishing, the execs are making a fortune by patting themselves on the backs with bonuses, and if it comes down to being dragged into court and it looks as though the money may stop rolling in, the execs resign. The people that made the decisions got rich, and they're going to keep the money, so what do they care?
The only way to stop this kind of behavior is to provide a fast way of monopolistic evaluation and possible regulation. If the execs knew that they wouldn't have time to screw everybody over for their own personal benefit, then they most likely wouldn't. Personally, I'd like to see regulation over any behavior involving a monopoly. A government official that works onsite, that can immediately ask the question "Why's it taking so long to respond to your competitors request", would be a good thing.
Of course, that's just my opinion, I could be right.
Hint: Its called "reading the article before posting".
What for? Nobody else does unless there's cool pictures or video.
I didn't think that anybody in another country could be prosecuted under the DMCA unless the came to America and tried to publish the information. Wasn't that the whole issue with Dmitri? Or are they referring to this guy's nationality and he already lives in America?
Recent results. Google only seems to be getting updated once every couple months. I know they must be pulling down a lot of data, but every other search engine seems to have more recent information that Google does. Anybody have any actual stats of googles refresh?
Thanks, couldn't for the life of me remember what is was that they claimed the card could do.
Didn't you realize that you can't inform people about things that happen in the world without first calling your lawyer and having them find out if you're violating the DMCA.
Just so you know, $50,000 is the going rate for bail.
Slashdot should start an annual geek hoax award. Let people vote on whether or not they consider certain websites/products to be hoaxes or not. The winner is the one that fools the largest percentage.
Does anybody remember some story on here about some PCI card that turned out to be a hoax?
Ok, I know it's a lot of servers, but the company that runs Hotmail, also wrote the OS that is insecure. This company release a warning, what, like 6 months ago, and also released a patch at the same time. They have been claiming that this is a major security hole since then and strongly encourages everybody to install the patch, yet they themselves don't.
Somehow, when I picture a server farm, I see this clean, organized room with nice neat racks. With everything that happens with MS's servers, all I can envision is a building reminiscent of a level from Diablo. Something dark & gloomy with servers just sitting on workbenches with their hard drives just hanging out of the side of the case and the motherboard coated in 1/2" of dust.
How can you forget a bunch of servers. I work for a small ISP so we're not the most organized place, but hell, all we have is two racks for modems & routers, and a dozen boxes sitting on the floor for servers. But we at least have pieces of paper tacked to the wall with a list of IP addresses, server names, functions and OS. We install the patches on all of our machines just fine.
All you need is a list of all the servers. Then take that list around with you and after you install the patch, put a little "X" next to the server on the list. Not really complex guys. Of course this is Microsoft, they're probably running little handhelds with WinCE, connecting wirelessly to a MSSQL server that seems to simply misplace records for the hell of it.
Maybe if they guys so embarrassed he could let his co-workers and his employer in on what happened. It's one of those things you joke and laugh about with your buddies.
Back before I was born, my parents got hauled in for questioning because they looked like a couple a criminals that were robbing stores in the area. Of course, they had to go to the station and be questioned and prove their identity before they were allowed to leave. So this guy got off pretty easy.
This is at least one of the most nicely worded threats I've read so far. Besides, they state right in the letter that they should be contacted to discuss licensing and they want to fully support the adoption of AC-3. So TALK TO THEM.
Typical open source response though.
"Look, a company sent us a letter and they're saying that they don't want to give everything away for free like we do. We must stop them and save the world from tyranny!"
Meanwhile, regardless of the OS the open source developers are using, they're using processors and other hardware created by big commercial entities. Maybe those hardware companies don't have a problem giving away all the specs or complete source code but THEY ARE SELLING HARDWARE, not software.
Taco had it right a few weeks ago when he slapped the hands of all the pro-linux groups.
I'm not exactly sure what the open source extremists want from the big guys. If they open their source code, would you use it after you spent years complaining their software sucked? Would you fix it for them, when you know you'd look like a hypocrit for helping a company you've previously bashed. Are you too lazy to find your own solutions for todays software solvable problems? Of course most of what open source is, is start with the idea from a big company, and then just write a program to duplicate all the functionality. Doesn't sound terribly creative to me. Besides, the big companies aren't taking any money away from you, because YOU'RE GIVING AWAY EVERYTHING FOR FREE! So what the hell is everybody complaining about.
They've accomplished a major technological breakthrough and have created a revolutionary system.
For those of you unaware of the actual technical merit of this patent, it basically involves taking a whole bunch of things that have been around for 6 years or so, and slapping them together.
Wow, new technology never ceases to amaze us.
You don't need to reverse engineer anything. Write your own service that sits on top of the file system and simulates the standard file sharing protocol on a different port. Who says you need to connect to MS's NEW file sharing layer.