A false sense of security when I board an airplane, because all of the nice people chose to register themselves with the government, so obviously there are no terrorists on board.
As I understand it, the idea is that airport security and such will be greatly increased. People who's identity (and therefore background) can be easily identified do not need to go through such rigorus procedures.
If they just ignored people without id and let them board anyway there's no point. 'course I can't really say what they should do or would do...
It's intended to be voluntary like credit cards are. You can do without them, but it's a real pain. (Well, hopefully moreso than credit cards, if the idea goes through.)
Oh, and btw, 255 C (that's minus 255) is below room temperature.
Can we teach these people how to write proper HTML next time? I'm getting really confused trying to figure out if 255 is 255 or if it's really -255. And is it 200 or -200?
I hope Trolltech come out with a more sensible pricing for freeware developers on Windows/Mac which should help QT to gain more acceptance in the non Linux programming community as well.
Do hobby programmers always have to give their stuff away for free? What if I want to write a shareware app and sell it for $20? Sure, it'd be nice for me to give it away, but I'm not rich. Unless it's a very popular program, there's no way I'd get $1500 from something like that.
Sorry Trolltech, your product doesn't interest me in the corporate price range. Microsoft has various versions of VC for this reason, professional, standard, student, etc. Perhaps you guys might wanna look into allowing small customers to license *parts* of the library?
I want to use C++ and lotsa nice OOD that's easier to write, easier to read, easier to expand, easier to debug, and easier to maintain.
In theory, you should be able to write such classes so you can define one flag and the debug stuff will compile away to nothing. (or just a few extra pointers)
So the developers need good machines, everyone else doesn't.
Except some companies are shipping debug builds as their final product. I'm not sure why. (Black & White, for example, includes the debug mfc & msvcrt dlls.)
Interesting. Has anyone done actual tests on the CPU power needed for all the various audio codecs? I'd like to be able to easily see the difference between mp3/ogg/wma/etc.
I only use mp3 atm because back when I started encoding my CDs wma ate processor time like crazy, and if ogg does the same then I'd rather not use it, even if the quality/kbit is better. I'm happy with 64/320 vbr mp3.
Just to be picky, doesn't that refer to the appearance of invalid tags in the old view-source window? IIRC, they blinked, whereas with the blink tag, the contents of the tag blinks, not the tag itself.
Not to say that netscape didn't introduce the blink tag, they probably did.
Hmm, I think I may have misinterpreted your original comment, now that I look at it again.
I read it as constant current source *OR* don't clear on start (which just doesn't work), rather than constant current source *AND* don't clear (which makes sense).
Long, long ago, I had a 40 MB MFM drive. (actually, I still have it, but this was when I *used* it...) While moving it to a different case (or something, I forget what exactly) I dropped it, from about 3 ft above the ground. It hit the edge of my desk, flipped off, hit the edge of the chair, then rolled off onto the ground.
Number of bad sectors after fall: 0.
Now, it could have been that the drive just remapped some damaged sectors, but I don't think they were using that technique back then, and there was no data loss.
Are drives so fragile now? I mean, I wouldn't go dropping them for kicks (or tests, for that matter), but "treat it like an egg"?
Hm, in Windows, programs are stored under "Program Files" and user data is stored under "Documents and Settings" (newer vers, anyway)
Now that's not 100%, but besides stuff stored in the registry most new programs will follow that model. Who says you have to have things 100% seperated?
One of the two Athlons fried in the "heatsink falling off" test was based on the Palomino core, and *had* a thermal diode. Unfortunately, this diode couldn't react to temp increasing as fast as it does when the heatsink is removed. It works fine if the fan dies OTOH, because the temp increases much more slowly.
Unless they've changed how their thermal diode works since then...
The old Intel 8-bit CPU used in PC/XT machines ran at 4.77 MHz... the largest numbers it could operate on natively were generally 8-bits long
Uh... While the 8088 used in the old XT had an 8-bit external bus, it still had 16-bit registers and, I believe a 16-bit internal bus. (The registers were also split into 8-bit registers, but you could do nearly all of your math in 16 bits natively.)
Most, if not all, instructions took several clock cycles to complete and there was no pipelining. They did none of this "starting an instruction before the previous one completes" stuff.
If you're gonna transmit GPS coords, you might as well just trace your pattern on a computer instead of a city.
What you'd want to send is intersections or simple directions, use GPS to decrypt the message. Ideally, break the trip into many smaller trips and give end-to-end directions, out of order.
Yep, just remember to close the workspace first, MSVC keeps some of the files open all the time and you can't change them then.
That, combined with the strange strings they stick in the #ifdef/#define blocks for headers files and such might lead someone to believe they're checksummed, but it ain't so.
Not sure when this got implemented, but I hadn't noticed it before.
Yeah, programs aren't automatically added, but as someone mentioned below, every time you use "Open With" to open with a different program it's added to the submenu for that file type. Very handy.
Ah, but what if you want to change how ALL of them are handled?
(and they way it is now, if you go into the registry to change it, you can change the.ext item for just that one type to something else. Granted, you probably don't want to go into the registry...)
Can't you configure the extra button to send a key combination in Control Panel? (the software for my button/scroll mouse allows that)
Or does microsoft want every program to be rewritten to take advantage of the extra buttons?
It seems much preferrable to me that the OS decide which buttons do what rather than making the application specifically require support for each and every new device that comes along...
Or (c) they want to be able to blame any ripped copy on the unprotected version. Honestly, they should know by now that no copy protetection is completely foolproof, and they've got laws to catch the "fools" (so to speak) Maybe all they're doing is trying to convince more people that the idea *does* work. (even though it doesn't)
OTOH, I do think it's wrong to lurk using mis-spelled domains. (which I think I had originally meant to mention, but oh well)
In the end, these sites specifically *should* be shut down, but because they are an extereme of false advertising (the domain name does not provide what is expected), not because the alternative is to filter it out.
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A false sense of security when I board an airplane, because all of the nice people chose to register themselves with the government, so obviously there are no terrorists on board.
As I understand it, the idea is that airport security and such will be greatly increased. People who's identity (and therefore background) can be easily identified do not need to go through such rigorus procedures.
If they just ignored people without id and let them board anyway there's no point. 'course I can't really say what they should do or would do...
It's intended to be voluntary like credit cards are. You can do without them, but it's a real pain. (Well, hopefully moreso than credit cards, if the idea goes through.)
Oh, and btw, 255 C (that's minus 255) is below room temperature.
Can we teach these people how to write proper HTML next time? I'm getting really confused trying to figure out if 255 is 255 or if it's really -255. And is it 200 or -200?
how can any hobby programmer afford it ?
I hope Trolltech come out with a more sensible pricing for freeware developers on Windows/Mac which should help QT to gain more acceptance in the non Linux programming community as well.
Do hobby programmers always have to give their stuff away for free? What if I want to write a shareware app and sell it for $20? Sure, it'd be nice for me to give it away, but I'm not rich. Unless it's a very popular program, there's no way I'd get $1500 from something like that.
Sorry Trolltech, your product doesn't interest me in the corporate price range. Microsoft has various versions of VC for this reason, professional, standard, student, etc. Perhaps you guys might wanna look into allowing small customers to license *parts* of the library?
I want to use C++ and lotsa nice OOD that's easier to write, easier to read, easier to expand, easier to debug, and easier to maintain.
In theory, you should be able to write such classes so you can define one flag and the debug stuff will compile away to nothing. (or just a few extra pointers)
So the developers need good machines, everyone else doesn't.
Except some companies are shipping debug builds as their final product. I'm not sure why. (Black & White, for example, includes the debug mfc & msvcrt dlls.)
Will it play (on the original computer) in those old versions of WinAmp that let you play wma files through the wave writer?
Duh, start submitting stories from slashdot a year ago! ;)
Interesting. Has anyone done actual tests on the CPU power needed for all the various audio codecs? I'd like to be able to easily see the difference between mp3/ogg/wma/etc.
I only use mp3 atm because back when I started encoding my CDs wma ate processor time like crazy, and if ogg does the same then I'd rather not use it, even if the quality/kbit is better. I'm happy with 64/320 vbr mp3.
Just to be picky, doesn't that refer to the appearance of invalid tags in the old view-source window? IIRC, they blinked, whereas with the blink tag, the contents of the tag blinks, not the tag itself.
Not to say that netscape didn't introduce the blink tag, they probably did.
Hmm, I think I may have misinterpreted your original comment, now that I look at it again.
I read it as constant current source *OR* don't clear on start (which just doesn't work), rather than constant current source *AND* don't clear (which makes sense).
Sorry to bother you.
Well, that's true, but what's the penalty for being wrong in this case?
you don't have to treat it like an egg
Long, long ago, I had a 40 MB MFM drive. (actually, I still have it, but this was when I *used* it...) While moving it to a different case (or something, I forget what exactly) I dropped it, from about 3 ft above the ground. It hit the edge of my desk, flipped off, hit the edge of the chair, then rolled off onto the ground.
Number of bad sectors after fall: 0.
Now, it could have been that the drive just remapped some damaged sectors, but I don't think they were using that technique back then, and there was no data loss.
Are drives so fragile now? I mean, I wouldn't go dropping them for kicks (or tests, for that matter), but "treat it like an egg"?
you don't test/clear on rebooting the CPU
Last I checked, SDRAM was *still* DRAM that needs periodic refreshing to keep it's contents. Is this wrong?
Now, you could use flash with a SRAM/SDRAM cache to speed things up...
Hm, in Windows, programs are stored under "Program Files" and user data is stored under "Documents and Settings" (newer vers, anyway)
Now that's not 100%, but besides stuff stored in the registry most new programs will follow that model. Who says you have to have things 100% seperated?
One of the two Athlons fried in the "heatsink falling off" test was based on the Palomino core, and *had* a thermal diode. Unfortunately, this diode couldn't react to temp increasing as fast as it does when the heatsink is removed. It works fine if the fan dies OTOH, because the temp increases much more slowly.
Unless they've changed how their thermal diode works since then...
The old Intel 8-bit CPU used in PC/XT machines ran at 4.77 MHz ... the largest numbers it could operate on natively were generally 8-bits long
Uh... While the 8088 used in the old XT had an 8-bit external bus, it still had 16-bit registers and, I believe a 16-bit internal bus. (The registers were also split into 8-bit registers, but you could do nearly all of your math in 16 bits natively.)
Most, if not all, instructions took several clock cycles to complete and there was no pipelining. They did none of this "starting an instruction before the previous one completes" stuff.
If you're gonna transmit GPS coords, you might as well just trace your pattern on a computer instead of a city.
What you'd want to send is intersections or simple directions, use GPS to decrypt the message. Ideally, break the trip into many smaller trips and give end-to-end directions, out of order.
Yep, just remember to close the workspace first, MSVC keeps some of the files open all the time and you can't change them then.
That, combined with the strange strings they stick in the #ifdef/#define blocks for headers files and such might lead someone to believe they're checksummed, but it ain't so.
Not sure when this got implemented, but I hadn't noticed it before.
Yeah, programs aren't automatically added, but as someone mentioned below, every time you use "Open With" to open with a different program it's added to the submenu for that file type. Very handy.
Ah, but what if you want to change how ALL of them are handled?
.ext item for just that one type to something else. Granted, you probably don't want to go into the registry...)
(and they way it is now, if you go into the registry to change it, you can change the
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Say it straight! We're talking aliens here, right?
Can't you configure the extra button to send a key combination in Control Panel? (the software for my button/scroll mouse allows that)
Or does microsoft want every program to be rewritten to take advantage of the extra buttons?
It seems much preferrable to me that the OS decide which buttons do what rather than making the application specifically require support for each and every new device that comes along...
Intellectual property is not 'stuff'. IP is to property as FoolsGold is to Gold.
Hmm, I don't think that analogy quite fits, perhaps:
Yeah, I know those don't work exactly either, I think credit:gold is probably the best, but thinking these up is hard work! I'm gonna go lie down...
Or (c) they want to be able to blame any ripped copy on the unprotected version. Honestly, they should know by now that no copy protetection is completely foolproof, and they've got laws to catch the "fools" (so to speak) Maybe all they're doing is trying to convince more people that the idea *does* work. (even though it doesn't)
(likely was the original poster's point...)
This one is funny: http://www.ioccc.org/1990/westley.c
No clue what it does, but it's arranged as a series of letters.
And you've gotta read the hint file for http://www.ioccc.org/1995/heathbar.c.
I can't find the one I wanted to link to... It was a program to print a maze, in the shape of a maze, that spelled the word "MAZE". Quite beautiful.
If I want crap, I should be able to get it.
OTOH, I do think it's wrong to lurk using mis-spelled domains. (which I think I had originally meant to mention, but oh well)
In the end, these sites specifically *should* be shut down, but because they are an extereme of false advertising (the domain name does not provide what is expected), not because the alternative is to filter it out.