Yeah. Benchmarks are interesting and even useful, but they're so extremely context-sensitive that it's hard to compare across non-similar implementations of anything.
Pedantic note: Matchbox is also owned by Mattel (along with Hot Wheels).
Hah, forgot that! It actually makes it even funnier ("brought to you by Mattel, the world's largest women's clothing and automobile manufacturer").
Also, just to make it clear, GGP is wrong, it really does count. It's not just about individual chips in head-to-head competition.
It doesn't count. When Samsung can produce chips that are as powerful and do as much as Intel's chips, then they will have taken the lead, not before then.
It's like saying Matchbox is the number one producer of cars in the world, even though they only make toy cars.
Similar to Mattel at one time (maybe stll, too lazy to check) being the world's largest manufacturer of women's clothing - for Barbie!
It is an evil practice born of corporate interests, just because it could be evilier does not mean we should turn a blind eye to it.
Evil? Really?
I can see sneaky, sleazy, underhanded, or even manipulative, but evil?
Evil is murdering people because you don't like the color of their skin.
Evil is shooting young girls in the face just because they want an education.
Evil cutting people's heads off.
Evil is putting corporate profits before the health and safety of customers or workers.
No one is going to die or become ill because they don't notice the check box.
I agree that opt-out instead of opt-in benefits Yahoo at the expense of the user, but if we keep using 'evil' to describe any behavior we find disgusting, the word loses its power and becomes meaningless when real evil comes along.
Especially with the better mods fans have made. I'm currently addicted to the Caveman2Cosmos mod. You start out in 50,000 BC not even knowing language yet. It's under continuous development and improvement, so I'm practicing up on my coding and modding skills in hope of being able to contribute.
There is: GetVersion()
No one was forced to deal with a string. TFA is talking about third-party developers who may have use the marketing name instead of the recommended API call to check versions.
That's why businesses pay for a support-level agreement. When a problem comes up, it doesn't default to the standard EULA-with-disclaimers. Instead, the terms of the contract apply.
I've seen it. Not a lot, but occasionally. Someone saying (seriously, not sarcastically) they don't want a large share of computer users to use Linux. Some say they really like being in a semi-exclusive little community. Others fear the whole Linux experience will get dumbed down to fit lowest common denominator of user, missing the point that FOSS let's anyone who really wants to make the software as simple-to-use or complicated as they want.
I just went through and checked those registry settings on a laptop with a default Windows 7 SP1 install, and that's how they're already set, except for the built-in administrator account, which on Windows 7 is disabled by default, so any other setting is meaningless. Maybe it was different before SP1, I didn't have a Win7 machine then.
So you're saying you don't know how to avoid race conditions in your program?
Poorly written software can do this on ANY operating system. The problem is with the program you say you wrote, not MSE or the OS.
Do people in LA actually call their subway "the Metro"?
The MTA's trains are named after colors. Most run above ground, but the subway is called the Red Line.
Unless it's the Purple Line, although that still gets called the Red Line a lot.
Bryan with a y is gay and would get along perfectly with bmo because of your obsession with balls.
Bryan with a Y is my mother's maiden name and a perfectly valid spelling of the Irish name. It's the same name as Brian, Brien, or any other spelling and is named after the first high king of Ireland.
Furthermore, I'm gonna say Anonymous Coward is gay because AC is short for, oh, say, Anally Content.
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The highest elevation in Florida is Britton Hill at 105 meters/345 feet above sea level. If you consider that a mountain then you're the dumbass.
The best music is always what was released in the year you were 15.
The year I was 15 .... October 1967 to September 1968 -- oh yeah!
Yeah. Benchmarks are interesting and even useful, but they're so extremely context-sensitive that it's hard to compare across non-similar implementations of anything.
Pedantic note: Matchbox is also owned by Mattel (along with Hot Wheels).
Hah, forgot that! It actually makes it even funnier ("brought to you by Mattel, the world's largest women's clothing and automobile manufacturer"). Also, just to make it clear, GGP is wrong, it really does count. It's not just about individual chips in head-to-head competition.
It doesn't count. When Samsung can produce chips that are as powerful and do as much as Intel's chips, then they will have taken the lead, not before then.
It's like saying Matchbox is the number one producer of cars in the world, even though they only make toy cars.
Similar to Mattel at one time (maybe stll, too lazy to check) being the world's largest manufacturer of women's clothing - for Barbie!
Gaah! Slipped up on the quotation! Add my voice to those asking for ability to edit posts.
I say we ship men off to mars. Woman don't like us, well let's see them get by without us. /s
Mars? Are you kidding? They'll just milk us for our sperm and make us write jokes.
It is an evil practice born of corporate interests, just because it could be evilier does not mean we should turn a blind eye to it.
Evil? Really? I can see sneaky, sleazy, underhanded, or even manipulative, but evil? Evil is murdering people because you don't like the color of their skin. Evil is shooting young girls in the face just because they want an education. Evil cutting people's heads off. Evil is putting corporate profits before the health and safety of customers or workers. No one is going to die or become ill because they don't notice the check box. I agree that opt-out instead of opt-in benefits Yahoo at the expense of the user, but if we keep using 'evil' to describe any behavior we find disgusting, the word loses its power and becomes meaningless when real evil comes along.
Especially with the better mods fans have made. I'm currently addicted to the Caveman2Cosmos mod. You start out in 50,000 BC not even knowing language yet. It's under continuous development and improvement, so I'm practicing up on my coding and modding skills in hope of being able to contribute.
There is: GetVersion()
No one was forced to deal with a string. TFA is talking about third-party developers who may have use the marketing name instead of the recommended API call to check versions.
That's why businesses pay for a support-level agreement. When a problem comes up, it doesn't default to the standard EULA-with-disclaimers. Instead, the terms of the contract apply.
I've seen it. Not a lot, but occasionally. Someone saying (seriously, not sarcastically) they don't want a large share of computer users to use Linux. Some say they really like being in a semi-exclusive little community. Others fear the whole Linux experience will get dumbed down to fit lowest common denominator of user, missing the point that FOSS let's anyone who really wants to make the software as simple-to-use or complicated as they want.
You shouldn't sign YOUR posts when posting AC, either.
Link leads to a virus. You have been warned.
No it doesn't, it leads to what it says, the winhelp2002.mvps.org site's host file page. Oh, yes, you're AC, the easy, cowardly way to troll!
I just went through and checked those registry settings on a laptop with a default Windows 7 SP1 install, and that's how they're already set, except for the built-in administrator account, which on Windows 7 is disabled by default, so any other setting is meaningless. Maybe it was different before SP1, I didn't have a Win7 machine then.
So you're saying you don't know how to avoid race conditions in your program? Poorly written software can do this on ANY operating system. The problem is with the program you say you wrote, not MSE or the OS.
Don't FOSS developers have wives, grandmothers, and kids?
For that they'd have to have sex - you know, like with another person.
Do people in LA actually call their subway "the Metro"?
The MTA's trains are named after colors. Most run above ground, but the subway is called the Red Line. Unless it's the Purple Line, although that still gets called the Red Line a lot.
I take my chances with free market, at least it is not going to push the world into another war.
Yes, because two media moguls would never twist news coverage to force a government into a war it didn't want just to feed their circulation rivalry.
Bryan with a y is gay and would get along perfectly with bmo because of your obsession with balls.
Bryan with a Y is my mother's maiden name and a perfectly valid spelling of the Irish name. It's the same name as Brian, Brien, or any other spelling and is named after the first high king of Ireland. Furthermore, I'm gonna say Anonymous Coward is gay because AC is short for, oh, say, Anally Content.
2+2 is more than 5 for extremely large values of two
... and extremely small values of five
but does anyone else think it looks like Balmer's doing a "sieg heil" in the picture at ItWorld.com?