In the very first paragraph I read "IBM, for one, is..." - and found myself ROFL!:-)
Snebjorn
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The problem is that many of these gadgets are still in the process of being defined. Any manufacturer who decides to relax because their product doesn't need more features will go under.
I'm old enough to feel satisfied with a mobile phone that can be used only to place and receive calls, but my kids certainly aren't.
As far as I can tell a programmer's status in the Perl community is directly linked to his/her ability to write code that looks like assembler. The language doesn't enforce this, it's a cultural phenomenon.
The Python culture, on the other hand, seems to favour clearness and apologies in the comments for weird constructs.
If micropayment system really take off we'll all be finding our inboxes suddenly swamped with a whole new category of spam: sleazy offers for products that claim to give us "free" access to all those mp-based services..
I've been advocating the use of STL on almost every project I've been on since 1998 - it really sounds like a great idea - and STL has paid me back with portability/upgrade problems almost every time.
STL would be great if it actually worked between compilers/OS versions, but I still feel like I'm running a risk whenever I go for a solution based on STL instead of coding everything from scratch in C.
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One of my former colleagues had a product name thought up for this type of device at least four years ago: SmellBlaster(tm)
Snebjorn
In the very first paragraph I read "IBM, for one, is..." - and found myself ROFL! :-)
Snebjorn
The problem is that many of these gadgets are still in the process of being defined. Any manufacturer who decides to relax because their product doesn't need more features will go under.
I'm old enough to feel satisfied with a mobile phone that can be used only to place and receive calls, but my kids certainly aren't.
There's darwinism for you.
Snebjorn
As far as I can tell a programmer's status in the Perl community is directly linked to his/her ability to write code that looks like assembler. The language doesn't enforce this, it's a cultural phenomenon.
The Python culture, on the other hand, seems to favour clearness and apologies in the comments for weird constructs.
Snebjorn
If micropayment system really take off we'll all be finding our inboxes suddenly swamped with a whole new category of spam: sleazy offers for products that claim to give us "free" access to all those mp-based services..
Snebjorn
You can't reliably work with your intellectual property created with Microsoft products unless you pay Microsoft money!
How about a poster campaign hammering this message into the mind of the average consumer/computer user?
Snebjorn
This is by far the best set of rules about release nomenclature I've ever seen - can I keep it? /Snebjorn
Or the new Unix guru Saddam...
The advice "get a good compiler" obviously makes sense - and I've seen it being followed in a corporate environment.
The next step is to get two or more compilers to actually agree on what the STL definition really means.
/Snebjørn
I've been advocating the use of STL on almost every project I've been on since 1998 - it really sounds like a great idea - and STL has paid me back with portability/upgrade problems almost every time.
STL would be great if it actually worked between compilers/OS versions, but I still feel like I'm running a risk whenever I go for a solution based on STL instead of coding everything from scratch in C.
/Snebjørn