It's not just the.NET docs. A little gear shifting for the VB or C# examples isn't that bad. I object to stuff missing like the Developers Guide (especially a printed copy for study in the little developer's room or the bus). There's some excellent sites with examples of just about everything (Bless you Dr Bob!), but those guys can afford the top of the line version with controls and tools not in the lowly Pro version.
That said, even doing ASP.NET pages in D8 is fun. (But it's fun in the beta MS product until the end of the month too.) The heavy duty Enterprise price tag won't see many people bootstraping development like in the Turbo Pascal days.
Gosh, really? Of course, you then end up with a bunch of parallel (or mixed) code to load in different versions, and it's isolated from the object code that you're initializing, but that's just me.
But if you're serializing two games, never cross the streams! (Total protonic reversal!)
But seriously, when everything serializes, stuff like game file versions or encrypting the stream on the way through get a lot easier. What happens with the block'o'memory save method when you have to insert one damned int in the middle? Toss all those old saved games?
Dear Miss Manners:
My home economics teacher says that one must never place one's
elbows on the table. However, I have read that one elbow, in between
courses, is all right. Which is correct?
Gentle Reader:
For the purpose of answering examinations in your home
economics class, your teacher is correct. Catching on to this
principle of education may be of even greater importance to you now
than learning correct current table manners, vital as Miss Manners
believes that is.
There are rules, written or not, and they have no pity.
(Of course I meant bandwidth seller, but brandwidth seller sounds good too -- like maybe someone who sells the space on their butt for advertising logos or something à la User Friendly.)
There were frequent mice in my old 12th floor apartment to keep the cat amused. After Mishah passed away, it took the mice a couple years to figure out she was gone, and then Holy Frack! they got bold!
The bit at the top said something about a python! (The FA is/.'ed and there's a brandwidth seller's ad right under that. Hmm.)
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I'm not sure what future Delphi has. One of its advantages was the VCL libraries which were way better than MFC. Now with.NET, Delphi is just another.NET language. Delphi 8 seemed like a clunky mis-step between environments and was replaced in less than a year with Delphi 2005. I doubt I'll upgrade. Borland's documentation has gone from the best to almost non-existant. (And they never document the nickel and dime'ing of missing features from the Pro version vs Enterprise and Architect versions.)
Otherwise the telecom industry would end up fragmented and mostly bankrupty, much like today's airline industry.
One of the reasons that MCI/Worldcom ended up mostly bankrupt was the wave of aquisitions that they indulged in. They'd use the paper value of each aquisition to buy the next one. (With a little criminal accounting along the way.) The savings by operating in volume never materialized and they chopped technical staff to the bone, affecting service.
Alternately, since they don't know if the user is the person who created a deep link into Orbitz, create deep links into everything there and let Orbitz remove all their pages. But your way sounds like less work.
Modem inventor? Bwahahaha! No, not really. Oh sure, he (with D.C. Hayes) did the first "modem on an S-100 card for micro-computers", but not even the first modem for micro-computers, and certainly not the first modem which must go back way before that. (To support User-User Card Punch or something.)
Sure, there were a lot of factors that made the Famine so deadly. Irish tenants who worked the land of absentee lords were allowed to grow their own food in small plots, which were then converted mainly to potatoes because of the large increase in food output. When the blight hit, it kicked the props out from under them. The absentee landlords' land remained planted with a variety of crops, which could have fed the population except for the fscked system backed with troops.
The mono-crop allowed the blight, and the population utterly dependant on it starved. Politics turned the disaster deadly -- it always does. Few famines are due to mere lack of food.
For the third world, the problems are (a) mono crops open to disease or market change, (b) cash crop economies designed to bring in foreign money rather than feed locals, (c) close-sourced GM crops that increase output but make them dependant on big agro-businesses for more expensive seed or fancy chemicals, which feeds back to (a) and (b). Oh, and of course (d) politics in a bad-ass mix with the money from (b). Open source would help with (c) at least...
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It's like they zerg-parasited all those people! Oops, that would be StarCraft.
That said, even doing ASP.NET pages in D8 is fun. (But it's fun in the beta MS product until the end of the month too.) The heavy duty Enterprise price tag won't see many people bootstraping development like in the Turbo Pascal days.
Gosh, really? Of course, you then end up with a bunch of parallel (or mixed) code to load in different versions, and it's isolated from the object code that you're initializing, but that's just me.
Well, when I said toss, I meant toss it at the processor and see what happens naturally.
But seriously, when everything serializes, stuff like game file versions or encrypting the stream on the way through get a lot easier. What happens with the block'o'memory save method when you have to insert one damned int in the middle? Toss all those old saved games?
(Of course I meant bandwidth seller, but brandwidth seller sounds good too -- like maybe someone who sells the space on their butt for advertising logos or something à la User Friendly.)
Ah yes, that's who I was thinking of! ("Hey, isn't this story some kind of slow dupe?")
They're only criminals because they didn't pay for their access, duh. ;)
MSN/Sympatico is like that.
Well of course you need doors! And good strong dead-bolts .. on the outside.
There were frequent mice in my old 12th floor apartment to keep the cat amused. After Mishah passed away, it took the mice a couple years to figure out she was gone, and then Holy Frack! they got bold!
The bit at the top said something about a python! (The FA is /.'ed and there's a brandwidth seller's ad right under that. Hmm.)
I'm not sure what future Delphi has. One of its advantages was the VCL libraries which were way better than MFC. Now with .NET, Delphi is just another .NET language. Delphi 8 seemed like a clunky mis-step between environments and was replaced in less than a year with Delphi 2005. I doubt I'll upgrade. Borland's documentation has gone from the best to almost non-existant. (And they never document the nickel and dime'ing of missing features from the Pro version vs Enterprise and Architect versions.)
One of the reasons that MCI/Worldcom ended up mostly bankrupt was the wave of aquisitions that they indulged in. They'd use the paper value of each aquisition to buy the next one. (With a little criminal accounting along the way.) The savings by operating in volume never materialized and they chopped technical staff to the bone, affecting service.
I'd just close a door between it and me. These things would be even funnier than Daleks with stairs.
Would you let your kid play with security guard balls? Yugh!
Don't know about a mirror, but just follow the link in my sig. (Damn, it was fresh first thing this morning and now it's stale.)
Alternately, since they don't know if the user is the person who created a deep link into Orbitz, create deep links into everything there and let Orbitz remove all their pages. But your way sounds like less work.
Yeah, and there's already too many goofy patents.
Huh. I thought it was because they couldn't sing.
"This does not bode well!" - H.T. Duck.
Modem inventor? Bwahahaha! No, not really. Oh sure, he (with D.C. Hayes) did the first "modem on an S-100 card for micro-computers", but not even the first modem for micro-computers, and certainly not the first modem which must go back way before that. (To support User-User Card Punch or something.)
"There goes my left arm. How am I going to operate my digital watch now?"
The mono-crop allowed the blight, and the population utterly dependant on it starved. Politics turned the disaster deadly -- it always does. Few famines are due to mere lack of food.
For the third world, the problems are (a) mono crops open to disease or market change, (b) cash crop economies designed to bring in foreign money rather than feed locals, (c) close-sourced GM crops that increase output but make them dependant on big agro-businesses for more expensive seed or fancy chemicals, which feeds back to (a) and (b). Oh, and of course (d) politics in a bad-ass mix with the money from (b). Open source would help with (c) at least...