IPv6 has a large enough address space to give every atom in the known universe its own IP address, and then some.
Try squaring that number and you'll be closer.
However, 340 undecillion addresses will be enough for anything we could possibly do here on earth, unless of course 339,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,000,000,000 of those addresses are reserved for Class AAAAAAAAAA networks.
...that if they could mass-produce it could completely change our lives.
I tell ya, there's a revolution in materials engineering happening. There are so many substances being discovered or created that have radical properties these days. Sooner or later one of them will be mass-produced cheaply and efficiently and we will have space elevators and super-powerful batteries and all kinds of other cool stuff.
You know, it's a good thing Wile E. Coyote never got a hold of a diamond anvil.
True. But certain classified documents do expire... er, the classification expires that is, after a certain number of years. Perhaps, this is one of those cases. I would assume that the Pentagon, or whomever, isn't going to rush out and release everything that could be released, just because the documentations are no longer classified. Hence, a suit might be necessary to get them to go through the trouble.
IANAL nor did I RTFA, or am I doing anything but just talking out my ass, but as I understand it, the FoIA means the government must release any documentation that is not classified in some way. In other words, if the public is allowed to see, the public can ask for it and the government must give it out. I would assume that it would take some digging to get a lot of this kind of documentation, because I'm sure most of it is mouldering boxes in a warehouse somewhere or on a microfiche buried in a file drawer in section J subsection Q in Room 23 of Building 16...
Their stance on DRM makes their AAC criticism look foolish. Do they not have a public relations office?
Sure they do. You didn't think this guy would remain unemployed for very long, did you?
Who do you think came up with these recent statements released by Microsoft?
"We are not afraid of Apple. Allah has condemned them. They are stupid. They are stupid" (dramatic pause) "and they are condemned."
"Those infidels at Apple, they always depend on a method what I call... stupid, silly. All I ask is check yourself. Do not in fact repeat their lies. Microsoft will bring you freedom. Microsoft will honor the faithful with freedom of choice by our glorious innovation and commitment to drive those one-mouse-button infidels into the sea."
"I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that they have started to commit suicide under the walls of Cupertino. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly. "
"Their [Apple's] failure in this regard is abysmal. They want to tell the world changes thought - as a matter of fact, they do not respect the world, they want to tell users and the music-buying public to keep them deceived. We will embroil them and their music service, confuse them and keep them in the quagmire. They have begun to tell more lies about their proprietary system so that they might continue with the perpetration of their crimes of prohibiting freedom. May they be accursed."
"Faltering forces of infidels cannot just take aim at our glorious company and lay besiege to it! They are the ones who will find themselves under siege. Therefore, in reality whatever this miserable Jobs has been saying, he was talking about his own forces. Now even iTunes is under siege."
"ITunes is like the braying of a mule and its customers deluded by promises of choice when they are, in truth, shackled by the proprietary system of an insignificant vendor. May Apple's stomach swell and rupture and its customers come crawling in abject humility to Microsoft's superior offerings. We will bring glorious triumph to those who remain faithful to Allah and his prophet, Ballmer. Gates akbar! Gates akbar!"
It's more than that. I've seen UI performance issues on tools like Quicktime and iTunes that are far worse than you normally see on Windows apps, even bad ones.
Apple's Windows software has some serious problems, and it can't be blamed just on the (admittedly cheesy) Windows API. The real cause of this problem and Microsoft's problems and just about every other problem in the whole industry is that only about 5% of people in the industry are actually qualified enough to do the work right. Most software developers are hacks, posers, or wannabes, and even the ones who aren't seldom know as much as they think they do.
I work with some pretty smart but inexperienced people and it amazes me on a daily basis how little they actually know and how many things they do that to me, violate the most common sense programming. I'm a CS nerd (and a C++ one at that)... I love programming for programming's sake, and as such I've spent a lot of time thinking about some pretty deep and abstract issues. I don't consider myself a superior developer in some elitist way, just someone who spends a lot of time thinking in terms of "pure CS" rather than "applied CS" if you will. Regardless of successfully a program works, I've seen very few real implementations of good OOP in C++ (other than the "hacks" for performance used by things like MFC or STL, where real OO design gives way to the equally or more important idea of performance.
At the end of the day, however, few C++ tools actually make my life easier. Most just replace one set of hassles with another. In software development in general, the fact of the matter is, that most practitioners of it aren't competent. In the big picture, it is such a new discipline, and it is changing so dramatically fast because of the mind-numbing advances in technology, that it's no wonder. We literally can't keep up with our own technology.
For some reason, Apple seems to be incapable of hiring anyone that can get basic Windows UI right. It's not that hard, regardless of the what the granola-eating Mac zealots might think.
King James is PD... most of the newer, and more accurate, translations are still copyrighted. That's why you usually only see the KJV available for download.
It's a great literary work, but 1.) I (and I imagine most people) find 400 year old English very obtuse and hard to read. 2.) Modern translators have gone back to the original Hebrew and Greek, whereas the KJV was translated from the Vulgate.
How hard would it be to disassemble the ROM's? It can't be more than about 10-20k. I bet you could recreate it just fine with a little bit of reverse engineering.
I also don't see how a document of hundreds of pages would be required for a game whose entire source code would probably fit on 20 pages.
I never said MS didn't improve things. There are a number of very good, if minor, improvements in the UI in XP.
However, for every really good idea Microsoft has, they have another one that is so stupid I can't believe it ever made it out of the fever swamps of MS UI research.
"Program Files" in Windows 95 caused me more grief over the years because of people's (including MS) inability to consistently parse files and allow for embedded spaces. It was years before I stopped seeing that.
Also, Microsoft never saw a desktop metaphor they didn't like. Their UI has always been a hodge-podge of every idea they seemed to have been about to come up with, good or bad.
File extension is a piece of meta data that you need to identify what to do with a file. I always loved the Unix philosophy of embedding that information in the first line of the file (for script files and other ASCII beasts).
The Mac solution was the "resource fork", which is a pretty cryptic concept for us old-timer PC folks, but it accomplishes the same thing without the kludge of relying on the user-modifyable name. I find it ironic that Microsoft never impolemented a better solution, although I would suspect that a better solution is easy with NTFS streams: Every file has a "type" stream that describes what it is.
Actually, it's more like 85 years... and it won't be changing in our lifetimes if the law stays the same.
Also, I hate to break it to you, but there have been some advances in most fields in the last 85 years. I don't think the computer science text books from 1918 were very good. Not to mention physics, or most hard sciences for that matter, and the public domain history books don't tell you how the Great War ends!
Your second paragraph is good for gifted and highly motivated students, but for the average student I don't think that would fly. Personally, though, I like the idea.
No, that award would go either to "peronsalized" or "randomly hidden" menus, or even worse the Angry Fruit Salad that is the Windows XP default user interface (code name: Playskool)
No, wait, the real winner is hiding file extensions by default. _That's_ the most useless innovation.
New user: Gee, there's three icons called "setup". I don't know what these cryptic little icons mean.
Microsoft: But file extensions are confusing, and at Microsoft we stole^h^h^h^h^h learned a trick from Apple: Anything that confuses the user should simply be hidden.
New User: Then explain why you completely and arbitrarily rearrange Windows configuration every two years. And what about wireless setup on XP... it's cryptic _and_ useless. Why can't _that_ be easy?!
... or they would spend about $50 per machine to add more memory and save in man-hours in about a day from quicker builds and runs.
But no one listens to me, I only know how to improve things. They'd rather see you spend 10 hours doing it the old inefficient way, than take 20 hours to rewrite and debug it, and an hour every subsequent time you have to do the task.
And yes, I realize with the 1000% or so markup businesses generally pay, the memory would actually cost more than that, but the point is still valid.
There's nothing in the Constitution about most of what the Federal government does. Let's face it, they are eroding that document into meaninglessness by bypassing everything with technicalities. I think the Founding Fathers were brilliant in composing that document, but the overestimated the ethics of those who would implement it many years afterwards.
"When the words don't say what you want, change their meaning." was the motto of the 20th century
The 21st century's may in fact be "To hell with the words anyway."
That's why I look at electronics places like Marlon P Jones (http://www.mpja.com) where they often sell surplus cables and whatnot for a song.
I picked up a set of 5 6' firewire cables for about $6 total.
Same with batteries... the little button batteries for your laser pointer, etc. Retail, they cost $1 - $3 a piece, but you can buy them from an electronics dealer for about $2 for a blister pack of 10.
Sooner or later, the horrible markups will backfire, if people start getting smart and shopping around online.
Yeah, Microsoft has to give X hundred million dollars to schools, which they do by giving them Microsoft products. In other words, they can print money.
I'm sure they were begging to be punished this way. Punish the monopoly by forcing them to lock in another generation of customers.
Exactly what criteria do you need to meet to become a judge? Common sense and a plain reading of law certainly aren't any more.
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IPv6 has a large enough address space to give every atom in the known universe its own IP address, and then some.
Try squaring that number and you'll be closer.
However, 340 undecillion addresses will be enough for anything we could possibly do here on earth, unless of course 339,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,000,000,000 of those addresses are reserved for Class AAAAAAAAAA networks.
Yeah, two months' salary will only get you a Batman suit where the wings peel off when you hit a cliff.
And let's not even go into the jet-powered pogo stick and earthquake pills.
Face it, ACME was undercut.
...that if they could mass-produce it could completely change our lives.
I tell ya, there's a revolution in materials engineering happening. There are so many substances being discovered or created that have radical properties these days. Sooner or later one of them will be mass-produced cheaply and efficiently and we will have space elevators and super-powerful batteries and all kinds of other cool stuff.
You know, it's a good thing Wile E. Coyote never got a hold of a diamond anvil.
True. But certain classified documents do expire... er, the classification expires that is, after a certain number of years. Perhaps, this is one of those cases. I would assume that the Pentagon, or whomever, isn't going to rush out and release everything that could be released, just because the documentations are no longer classified. Hence, a suit might be necessary to get them to go through the trouble.
IANAL nor did I RTFA, or am I doing anything but just talking out my ass, but as I understand it, the FoIA means the government must release any documentation that is not classified in some way. In other words, if the public is allowed to see, the public can ask for it and the government must give it out. I would assume that it would take some digging to get a lot of this kind of documentation, because I'm sure most of it is mouldering boxes in a warehouse somewhere or on a microfiche buried in a file drawer in section J subsection Q in Room 23 of Building 16...
Their stance on DRM makes their AAC criticism look foolish. Do they not have a public relations office?
... stupid, silly. All I ask is check yourself. Do not in fact repeat their lies. Microsoft will bring you freedom. Microsoft will honor the faithful with freedom of choice by our glorious innovation and commitment to drive those one-mouse-button infidels into the sea."
Sure they do. You didn't think this guy would remain unemployed for very long, did you?
Who do you think came up with these recent statements released by Microsoft?
"We are not afraid of Apple. Allah has condemned them. They are stupid. They are stupid" (dramatic pause) "and they are condemned."
"Those infidels at Apple, they always depend on a method what I call
"I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that they have started to commit suicide under the walls of Cupertino. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly. "
"Their [Apple's] failure in this regard is abysmal. They want to tell the world changes thought - as a matter of fact, they do not respect the world, they want to tell users and the music-buying public to keep them deceived. We will embroil them and their music service, confuse them and keep them in the quagmire. They have begun to tell more lies about their proprietary system so that they might continue with the perpetration of their crimes of prohibiting freedom. May they be accursed."
"Faltering forces of infidels cannot just take aim at our glorious company and lay besiege to it! They are the ones who will find themselves under siege. Therefore, in reality whatever this miserable Jobs has been saying, he was talking about his own forces. Now even iTunes is under siege."
"ITunes is like the braying of a mule and its customers deluded by promises of choice when they are, in truth, shackled by the proprietary system of an insignificant vendor. May Apple's stomach swell and rupture and its customers come crawling in abject humility to Microsoft's superior offerings. We will bring glorious triumph to those who remain faithful to Allah and his prophet, Ballmer. Gates akbar! Gates akbar!"
It's more than that. I've seen UI performance issues on tools like Quicktime and iTunes that are far worse than you normally see on Windows apps, even bad ones.
Apple's Windows software has some serious problems, and it can't be blamed just on the (admittedly cheesy) Windows API. The real cause of this problem and Microsoft's problems and just about every other problem in the whole industry is that only about 5% of people in the industry are actually qualified enough to do the work right. Most software developers are hacks, posers, or wannabes, and even the ones who aren't seldom know as much as they think they do.
I work with some pretty smart but inexperienced people and it amazes me on a daily basis how little they actually know and how many things they do that to me, violate the most common sense programming. I'm a CS nerd (and a C++ one at that)... I love programming for programming's sake, and as such I've spent a lot of time thinking about some pretty deep and abstract issues. I don't consider myself a superior developer in some elitist way, just someone who spends a lot of time thinking in terms of "pure CS" rather than "applied CS" if you will. Regardless of successfully a program works, I've seen very few real implementations of good OOP in C++ (other than the "hacks" for performance used by things like MFC or STL, where real OO design gives way to the equally or more important idea of performance.
At the end of the day, however, few C++ tools actually make my life easier. Most just replace one set of hassles with another. In software development in general, the fact of the matter is, that most practitioners of it aren't competent. In the big picture, it is such a new discipline, and it is changing so dramatically fast because of the mind-numbing advances in technology, that it's no wonder. We literally can't keep up with our own technology.
What was the topic again?
Good point.
But Quicktime has had some kind of weird refresh problem on different systems I've used dating back at least to version 4.
I haven't used iTunes enough to see if it works well, but I have seen it be unresponsive.
For some reason, Apple seems to be incapable of hiring anyone that can get basic Windows UI right. It's not that hard, regardless of the what the granola-eating Mac zealots might think.
King James is PD... most of the newer, and more accurate, translations are still copyrighted. That's why you usually only see the KJV available for download.
It's a great literary work, but 1.) I (and I imagine most people) find 400 year old English very obtuse and hard to read. 2.) Modern translators have gone back to the original Hebrew and Greek, whereas the KJV was translated from the Vulgate.
Grade 6? Then he writes better than most of /.
How hard would it be to disassemble the ROM's? It can't be more than about 10-20k. I bet you could recreate it just fine with a little bit of reverse engineering.
I also don't see how a document of hundreds of pages would be required for a game whose entire source code would probably fit on 20 pages.
I never said MS didn't improve things. There are a number of very good, if minor, improvements in the UI in XP.
However, for every really good idea Microsoft has, they have another one that is so stupid I can't believe it ever made it out of the fever swamps of MS UI research.
"Program Files" in Windows 95 caused me more grief over the years because of people's (including MS) inability to consistently parse files and allow for embedded spaces. It was years before I stopped seeing that.
Also, Microsoft never saw a desktop metaphor they didn't like. Their UI has always been a hodge-podge of every idea they seemed to have been about to come up with, good or bad.
File extension is a piece of meta data that you need to identify what to do with a file. I always loved the Unix philosophy of embedding that information in the first line of the file (for script files and other ASCII beasts).
The Mac solution was the "resource fork", which is a pretty cryptic concept for us old-timer PC folks, but it accomplishes the same thing without the kludge of relying on the user-modifyable name. I find it ironic that Microsoft never impolemented a better solution, although I would suspect that a better solution is easy with NTFS streams: Every file has a "type" stream that describes what it is.
Actually, it's more like 85 years... and it won't be changing in our lifetimes if the law stays the same.
Also, I hate to break it to you, but there have been some advances in most fields in the last 85 years. I don't think the computer science text books from 1918 were very good. Not to mention physics, or most hard sciences for that matter, and the public domain history books don't tell you how the Great War ends!
Your second paragraph is good for gifted and highly motivated students, but for the average student I don't think that would fly. Personally, though, I like the idea.
I don't.
The question is: Why would everyone else think the plural of "virus" should be "virii"?
No, that award would go either to "peronsalized" or "randomly hidden" menus, or even worse the Angry Fruit Salad that is the Windows XP default user interface (code name: Playskool)
No, wait, the real winner is hiding file extensions by default. _That's_ the most useless innovation.
New user: Gee, there's three icons called "setup". I don't know what these cryptic little icons mean.
Microsoft: But file extensions are confusing, and at Microsoft we stole^h^h^h^h^h learned a trick from Apple: Anything that confuses the user should simply be hidden.
New User: Then explain why you completely and arbitrarily rearrange Windows configuration every two years. And what about wireless setup on XP... it's cryptic _and_ useless. Why can't _that_ be easy?!
Microsoft: Shut up, that's why!
... or they would spend about $50 per machine to add more memory and save in man-hours in about a day from quicker builds and runs.
But no one listens to me, I only know how to improve things. They'd rather see you spend 10 hours doing it the old inefficient way, than take 20 hours to rewrite and debug it, and an hour every subsequent time you have to do the task.
And yes, I realize with the 1000% or so markup businesses generally pay, the memory would actually cost more than that, but the point is still valid.
I assume you were referring to Sonic's business archnemeses... Nintendo's mascot. /me imagines scene:
...soooo much!
Sonic: I hate Luigi soooo much!
Lisa Simpson: No, you're from Sega: You hate Dr. Robotnik.
Sonic:
That's my point, exactly.
Not all of us want just to be entertained. Some people like to troll /.
Like that's better?
...I'm sure you've got some body cavities you're not using at the moment.
There's nothing in the Constitution about...
There's nothing in the Constitution about most of what the Federal government does. Let's face it, they are eroding that document into meaninglessness by bypassing everything with technicalities. I think the Founding Fathers were brilliant in composing that document, but the overestimated the ethics of those who would implement it many years afterwards.
"When the words don't say what you want, change their meaning." was the motto of the 20th century
The 21st century's may in fact be "To hell with the words anyway."
Even if there is a true "donation" involved, I'm sure Microsoft is like, "Dude, you got change for a billion?"
That's why I look at electronics places like Marlon P Jones (http://www.mpja.com) where they often sell surplus cables and whatnot for a song.
I picked up a set of 5 6' firewire cables for about $6 total.
Same with batteries... the little button batteries for your laser pointer, etc. Retail, they cost $1 - $3 a piece, but you can buy them from an electronics dealer for about $2 for a blister pack of 10.
Sooner or later, the horrible markups will backfire, if people start getting smart and shopping around online.
Yeah, Microsoft has to give X hundred million dollars to schools, which they do by giving them Microsoft products. In other words, they can print money.
I'm sure they were begging to be punished this way. Punish the monopoly by forcing them to lock in another generation of customers.
Exactly what criteria do you need to meet to become a judge? Common sense and a plain reading of law certainly aren't any more.