The biggest problem with OOP is when people use it too much, and end up with like a million classes.
Example:
class HelloWorldClass {
HelloWorld() {
printf("Hello World!!\n");
}
};
Optical storage is quickly becoming the standard with CD-RW's, etc. I still see the use of 8mm and DLT tapes for backup, but I think any development in the use of tapes to distribute movies, or music is a waste of money. Remember DAT audio tapes, and DAT audio tape drives. They were supposed to catch on, but no one bought them, because CD's were much more practical.
I remember back in the days of cassette tapes, and when tapes used to get eaten by the cassette player (same with VCRs, DLT Tape drives, 8mm tape drives). I don't even own a VCR, and don't want one either (my last one broke). If a movie doesn't come out on DVD, I probably didn't want to see it anyway. If this catches on, I will develop a method of storing movies on 8 track tapes.
I wonder if this could be true? This article is an interview with a company that ported GNOME to Windoze, and is working on a KDE port!!!!
http://www.linuxorbit.com/features/interview2.php3
I know a lot of command line hacks out there who hate to use X, and usually don't even install the X packages. Many people don't want the overhead of X running, especially if they are running a server on an antiquated machine. It should definately be interesting to see what ideas people come up with......
I am a Solaris(x86) user, but I think I might take it offline for a week (or so) and test drive the 2.4 kernel.
I'm glad that Linus doesn't release software before it's time. I don't understand how the critics (and other software companies) can criticize the delay. Especially since it is developed by a group of volunteers, and they give it away for free. Linux may be the only Operating System in which you get more than you paid for. Thanks Linus, and I can't wait to test drive 2.4.
Knowing our luck it will be GNOME in the standard configuration running a couple of terminal windows. They should really make it look nice, and have GIMP up and some other really cool Linux apps.
I hate to run this for you, but you can run VMWare under windows 2000. Then put Linux on VMWare, and then run GNOME on the VMWare Linux. Or even better, port XFree86 to Win 2000,and then run GNOME on it....:-)
Lets see.... I could add some armor plating, and a saw blade, bigger motors. Maybe the next generation battle bots could be semi-autonomous, and sense when it is about to go over the kill saws, or rammed into the wall. I wish battle bots were a little more technical, not just remote controlled cars with weapons. I can just imagine the algorithms.
int kill()
{
sense_moving_object();
while(chase_and_kill()!=OPPONENT_DEAD);
do_victory_dance();
}
You know a lawsuit is BS when they cite statistics, and then say that is proof that a company is guilty of discrimination. Thre is this small software company of 15-20 people, and none of their employees are black. That is not 2.6% (like microsoft) that is 0%. Therefore according to the lawyers who brought the suit against Microsoft, this is the greatest case of discrimination.
The truth is that Microsoft hires mostly Computer Scicence college grads, and there aren't that many black computer science students.
I can't wait until the people of this country actually find out who ends up paying for these BS lawsuits. THE CONSUMER So MS loses a $5 Billion case, so they raise the costs of windows $25. It is like when the auto industry gets sued because some moron can't drive and killed themself. Or when McDonalds gets sued because someone spilled coffee on herself. Don't even get me started on the cigarette lawsuits.
Lawyers are getting rich, and the hard working people of this country are getting stiffed. Lawyers like to create a sense of "lets stick it to the evil corporations", they don't mention the fact that the customer pays for it in the end.
Look at playstation games, you can't make copies of them. That is unless you have a MOD chip in your playstation. It will be the same with the digital TV's. People will find ways to circumvent the technology, and everyone will live happily ever after...:-)
The Ultra Enterprise 10k is one of the best computers ever developed. Dynamic reconfiguration adds extremely to the reliablility of the system. I especially like their idea of having a "spinner" system board that just gets dynamically added when a particular domain is under heavy load. Can you imagine what its successor (running the US3) will have...:-)
DCG needs to get a life. There is no way in hell I could be basically locked in my house only able to order things off of the internet. I actually hate ordering things on the internet. I would rather give a cashier my money, and take my product home that day. Analogy (Buy TV at bestbuy.com wait 3 days, buy at Best Buy the store take it home today)
I actually copyrighted the apple with the bite taken out of the side logo that they use. In order for them to use my "apple bites" logo I must be paid the sum of $1 (one dollar) per machine sold. So I should make about fifty bucks over the next ten years!!!
We should really test out the GPL in court. There is this new show where famous lawyers argue cases for people in front of a judge, it is called Power Of Attorney. I saw Geoffrey Fieger (Jack Kevorkian's attorney, Jenny Jones Murder Trial attorney) argue a case over $1000 dispute. I'm sure he would love to defend the GPL...:-)
When I was 15 I was running a TriBBS BBS. Does anyone who is 15 even know what a BBS is/was. Also does your school have any UNIX/Linux boxes for the students to use?
Forget 12 digits, lets use IPv4 addresses, considering they won't be used for the internet in the near future. I already reserver 127.0.0.1 for my phone number.
In the Tampa Bay area we use 10-digit dialing. 813-XXX-YYYY for Tampa, 727-XXX-YYYY for St. Petersburg/Clearwater, and 352-XXX-YYYY for the sticks. One problem is that many businesses ignore the area code so you only see XXX-YYYY, and just have to figure out what the Area Code is. Now just if I could get the number for the Voyuer Dorm.....:-)
KDE2 is such an improvement, especially for Solaris 8. I am kind of disappointed that Sun went exclusively with GNOME. I use KDE at home, and GNOME at work, and both boxes completely eclipse my Windoze box (that I am forced to have because of M$'s monopoly). I think with window managers such as GNOME and KDE that Microsoft will be forced to provide quality software or else. I would love to see AOL with a Linux port, so the non-techies can have an alternative to M$ windoze!! Most of my friends are tired of the windows crashes and are looking forward to an alternative to Crash-->Reboot-->CRASH-->REBOOT.
People wonder why there isn't a good selection of commercial apps in the Linux realm. It is because of the fact that most Linux hacks want software for free. If I see a nice piece of software that is commercial, I buy it. I don't check to see if a friend of mine will burn it onto a CD for me, etc. I believe open-source and free software have their place in the industry, but commercial software companies shouldn't be demonized for having a different business model.
A Method to Make Revenue From Horrible Software
Spend about $.02 in R&D, spend half of your operating budget reverse engineering somone elses product poorly, while making it incompatible with everything else. Spend half of your operating budget on marketing it to half witted idiots. Then when they find out that your software is extremely buggy, tell them that the bug fix is to upgrade, charge them the upgrade price, and repeat.
-- I think I'll call my company Microsoft...:-)
Aaron
I think that sun has been very helpful to the Linux and Open Source community. Sun wants to run solaris across the board. I use both Solaris, and Linux (My win 98 (Junk) box doesn't count). For a server I like Solaris, because it is much more stable. For an enduser (Windoze Replacement) I like Linux. Oh my god maybe they can coexist. GNOME & K need to mature a little more, and then they can go after the desktop!!!
DOWN WITH MICROSOFT!!!!
Aaron
I am one of the 55% who decreased my purchases to zero. Who wants to pay 14.99 for a CD with only one good song on it, when you can go online and get 12-15 good songs and make the CD yourself? People are cheap by nature, and therefore once Napster starts to charge, there will be a million copycats.
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The biggest problem with OOP is when people use it too much, and end up with like a million classes.
Example:
class HelloWorldClass {
HelloWorld() {
printf("Hello World!!\n");
}
};
Optical storage is quickly becoming the standard with CD-RW's, etc. I still see the use of 8mm and DLT tapes for backup, but I think any development in the use of tapes to distribute movies, or music is a waste of money. Remember DAT audio tapes, and DAT audio tape drives. They were supposed to catch on, but no one bought them, because CD's were much more practical.
I remember back in the days of cassette tapes, and when tapes used to get eaten by the cassette player (same with VCRs, DLT Tape drives, 8mm tape drives). I don't even own a VCR, and don't want one either (my last one broke). If a movie doesn't come out on DVD, I probably didn't want to see it anyway. If this catches on, I will develop a method of storing movies on 8 track tapes.
I wonder if this could be true? This article is an interview with a company that ported GNOME to Windoze, and is working on a KDE port!!!! http://www.linuxorbit.com/features/interview2.php3
I know a lot of command line hacks out there who hate to use X, and usually don't even install the X packages. Many people don't want the overhead of X running, especially if they are running a server on an antiquated machine. It should definately be interesting to see what ideas people come up with......
I am a Solaris(x86) user, but I think I might take it offline for a week (or so) and test drive the 2.4 kernel.
I'm glad that Linus doesn't release software before it's time. I don't understand how the critics (and other software companies) can criticize the delay. Especially since it is developed by a group of volunteers, and they give it away for free. Linux may be the only Operating System in which you get more than you paid for. Thanks Linus, and I can't wait to test drive 2.4.
Knowing our luck it will be GNOME in the standard configuration running a couple of terminal windows. They should really make it look nice, and have GIMP up and some other really cool Linux apps.
I hate to run this for you, but you can run VMWare under windows 2000. Then put Linux on VMWare, and then run GNOME on the VMWare Linux. Or even better, port XFree86 to Win 2000,and then run GNOME on it.... :-)
Lets see.... I could add some armor plating, and a saw blade, bigger motors. Maybe the next generation battle bots could be semi-autonomous, and sense when it is about to go over the kill saws, or rammed into the wall. I wish battle bots were a little more technical, not just remote controlled cars with weapons. I can just imagine the algorithms.
int kill() { sense_moving_object(); while(chase_and_kill()!=OPPONENT_DEAD); do_victory_dance(); }
You know a lawsuit is BS when they cite statistics, and then say that is proof that a company is guilty of discrimination. Thre is this small software company of 15-20 people, and none of their employees are black. That is not 2.6% (like microsoft) that is 0%. Therefore according to the lawyers who brought the suit against Microsoft, this is the greatest case of discrimination.
The truth is that Microsoft hires mostly Computer Scicence college grads, and there aren't that many black computer science students.
I can't wait until the people of this country actually find out who ends up paying for these BS lawsuits. THE CONSUMER So MS loses a $5 Billion case, so they raise the costs of windows $25. It is like when the auto industry gets sued because some moron can't drive and killed themself. Or when McDonalds gets sued because someone spilled coffee on herself. Don't even get me started on the cigarette lawsuits.
Lawyers are getting rich, and the hard working people of this country are getting stiffed. Lawyers like to create a sense of "lets stick it to the evil corporations", they don't mention the fact that the customer pays for it in the end.
Look at playstation games, you can't make copies of them. That is unless you have a MOD chip in your playstation. It will be the same with the digital TV's. People will find ways to circumvent the technology, and everyone will live happily ever after... :-)
The Ultra Enterprise 10k is one of the best computers ever developed. Dynamic reconfiguration adds extremely to the reliablility of the system. I especially like their idea of having a "spinner" system board that just gets dynamically added when a particular domain is under heavy load. Can you imagine what its successor (running the US3) will have... :-)
DCG needs to get a life. There is no way in hell I could be basically locked in my house only able to order things off of the internet. I actually hate ordering things on the internet. I would rather give a cashier my money, and take my product home that day. Analogy (Buy TV at bestbuy.com wait 3 days, buy at Best Buy the store take it home today)
A No Brainer
I actually copyrighted the apple with the bite taken out of the side logo that they use. In order for them to use my "apple bites" logo I must be paid the sum of $1 (one dollar) per machine sold. So I should make about fifty bucks over the next ten years!!!
We should really test out the GPL in court. There is this new show where famous lawyers argue cases for people in front of a judge, it is called Power Of Attorney. I saw Geoffrey Fieger (Jack Kevorkian's attorney, Jenny Jones Murder Trial attorney) argue a case over $1000 dispute. I'm sure he would love to defend the GPL... :-)
When I was 15 I was running a TriBBS BBS. Does anyone who is 15 even know what a BBS is/was. Also does your school have any UNIX/Linux boxes for the students to use?
Forget 12 digits, lets use IPv4 addresses, considering they won't be used for the internet in the near future. I already reserver 127.0.0.1 for my phone number.
In the Tampa Bay area we use 10-digit dialing. 813-XXX-YYYY for Tampa, 727-XXX-YYYY for St. Petersburg/Clearwater, and 352-XXX-YYYY for the sticks. One problem is that many businesses ignore the area code so you only see XXX-YYYY, and just have to figure out what the Area Code is. Now just if I could get the number for the Voyuer Dorm..... :-)
KDE2 is such an improvement, especially for Solaris 8. I am kind of disappointed that Sun went exclusively with GNOME. I use KDE at home, and GNOME at work, and both boxes completely eclipse my Windoze box (that I am forced to have because of M$'s monopoly). I think with window managers such as GNOME and KDE that Microsoft will be forced to provide quality software or else. I would love to see AOL with a Linux port, so the non-techies can have an alternative to M$ windoze!! Most of my friends are tired of the windows crashes and are looking forward to an alternative to Crash-->Reboot-->CRASH-->REBOOT.
People wonder why there isn't a good selection of commercial apps in the Linux realm. It is because of the fact that most Linux hacks want software for free. If I see a nice piece of software that is commercial, I buy it. I don't check to see if a friend of mine will burn it onto a CD for me, etc. I believe open-source and free software have their place in the industry, but commercial software companies shouldn't be demonized for having a different business model.
A Method to Make Revenue From Horrible Software Spend about $.02 in R&D, spend half of your operating budget reverse engineering somone elses product poorly, while making it incompatible with everything else. Spend half of your operating budget on marketing it to half witted idiots. Then when they find out that your software is extremely buggy, tell them that the bug fix is to upgrade, charge them the upgrade price, and repeat. -- I think I'll call my company Microsoft... :-)
Aaron
I think that sun has been very helpful to the Linux and Open Source community. Sun wants to run solaris across the board. I use both Solaris, and Linux (My win 98 (Junk) box doesn't count). For a server I like Solaris, because it is much more stable. For an enduser (Windoze Replacement) I like Linux. Oh my god maybe they can coexist. GNOME & K need to mature a little more, and then they can go after the desktop!!! DOWN WITH MICROSOFT!!!! Aaron
Flamebait, No. It is basically the reverse arguement of what all of these governmental conspiracy nuts have been saying.
I am one of the 55% who decreased my purchases to zero. Who wants to pay 14.99 for a CD with only one good song on it, when you can go online and get 12-15 good songs and make the CD yourself? People are cheap by nature, and therefore once Napster starts to charge, there will be a million copycats.
The reason against P2Pfs.... In a newbie chat room... Q: How do I re-compile the kernel A: mount -t p2pfs / eth0 (Or however the command would work)