A few years back, I ran a Windows 2000-based University computer lab, one of the most ferocious environments around for keeping desktops working - especially when you have many computer geeks as patrons. My colleagues used DeepFreeze, but I found it superfluous as I NEVER had a machine go down and all I used were the tools built into Windows (GPO, NTFS, User Groups).
If you set the file system permissions correctly and keep all logins in the Users group, it is remarkably difficult to crack these systems.
You speak truth, but the hard reality here is the 500 million plus that Murdoch paid for MySpace was an absolute steal.
If Facebook is valued at $15 billion, it's very safe to assume that MySpace is worth at least half that. Odds are it's closer to twice that but, even with this hyper-unrealistically conservative measure, it's clear that Murdoch made a good investment.
A $150 sound card is probably going to have HD audio. You can get a good monitor for $150. A decent case and PSU that can handle a midrange graphics card can be had for $60-$75.
Few people that would be inclined to build a gaming PC would do so from scratch. I haven't bought a fully new PC since 1992. That one PC has split off into 3 PCs and, on average, I haven't spent more than $150 or so a year. I upgraded majorly for Quake, Quake 2, Quake 3, Doom 3, and Crysis.
The cool thing about a computer is that you can not only play games, but you can make money with them as well.
It could be because I'm a fringe lunatic negro but, after hearing the post 9/11 and "God Damn America" speeches in their totality, my contempt for the media has hit an all-time high.
It is very one-sided and there are factual errors for sure - e.g. the government didn't give black men Syphilis, and the AIDS genocide deal is a bit much to throw around willy nilly for two - but they are in the clear minority and the overall themes of the speeches are very reasonable as mainstream theological discourse.
This whole fascist "love it or leave it" mentality that makes any type of criticism anti-American does a lot more damage than whatever inaccuracies Rev. Wright might have uttered.
Microsoft knew exactly what Netscape was up to; they understood that eventually the www wasn't going to be a globally distributed hypertext document, but a software deployment platform. Netscape was on track to owning that platform, and Microsoft, whose business was built around owning the platform everybody used, decided to displace them.
Uhhhhh, the only reason Microsoft "understood" this was because Netscape was shouting it from the rooftops. They went as far as to say that the browser would make Windows obsolete. It was Netscape's bold vision on the web as an app development platform that woke Microsoft up from their delusions of using The Microsoft Network to co-opt the Internet.
There is nothing in this whole "Web 2.0" hype that Netscape wasn't talking about in 1997.
There are fewer sources for dollars than there are sources for labor. The supply/demand relationship is badly skewed against the guy whose resume gets roundfiled because they're a "job-hopper". Companies want the doormat lapdogs as their employees. Managers want the guys who will take all the shit doled out to them as they cling to "security".
I think the GPs point was that if job hopping became the norm, employers would have no choice but to adjust. They are probably adjusting now - read any HR journal over the last few years and you'll see a lot about the current professional worker shortage.
"Yet the unions haven't killed the foreign auto makers who assemble their cars in US plants using union labor."
I'd guess - I don't know for sure - that's because US production is only a fraction of their overall cost of production. If most of their cars are produced in Japan where the government foots the health care and those savings are less than the import costs plus the additional costs imposed by US unions, then it works out.
Their superior manufacturing techniques are just icing on the cake.
A agree on the analysis and design stuff. With all of the CIS stuff that has been co opted by CS programs over the last ten years, you would hope that this was one but, from my experience, it isn't.
Well said, clearly these guys are complaining that their ivory tower devised business plan is tanking and taking it out on CS programs. Some of the things that they complain about like profiling, and GUI-centric design (what?) can easily be accounted for in Java though the commentary about pointers holds a bit of water.
Regardless, I can tell you now that there is tremendous demand where I am (Atlanta) for semi-competent M/CIS-quality programmers that can render a UI and connect to a DB to perform CRUD stuff.
I agree. On the one level where you have to save the woman inside the school, there are at least five ways to go about it and they are all fun to execute (swimming was by far the least hassle, but you miss out on the high accuracy rifle). That's partly why I got a little annoyed later in the game where it gets much much more linear.
The split screen thing is definitely a difference, but that has to do with more of a perceived lack of demand than anything else and could easily be fixed if companies thought that the PC market wanted it. I remember playing Gears split screen when it first came out and absolutely hating it so count me out of the group of people that give a damn. It was on a widescreen TV though so maybe that made a difference - I doubt it. I own Gears on PC now and I have played it with the X360 controller on my widescreen TV so that's not really an issue.
The first party Microsoft titles are artificially delayed on the PC, but those - and the Grand Theft Auto games, which generally have massive graphical improvements on the PC - are the only ones that seem to have big lead times. If a studio is committed to the PC, you won't have to wait long and it seems like the ease of transition from the 360 to a PC makes this a fairly easy commitment to make.
Also, waiting for a game isn't that big of a deal, plus there's the fact that the great PC games will never see a console unless they are severely crippled or the console hits a new generation. I was a pure console gamer until Doom and they have never been a primary gaming platform for me since. To each their own.
Oh there is no doubt that.NET doesn't take care of absolutely everything that the Windows API is capable of executing, my point was just that for Mono to implement the.NET framework it does not have to implement the Windows API.
I've never had to do it, but I think the dllimport feature would allow you to invoke native procedures on whatever specific platform you're using.
It doesn't surprise me that those proprietary Access calls would require Win32 as Access is so totally Windows specific and no other RDBMS requires such intense coddling. It is interesting that GetDriveType() isn't part of the framework though.
Since the.NET framework basically wraps around Windows API calls, emulating Win32 is not necessary to run.NET. That's kind of the whole point of the VM model which the CLR clearly represents.
Well it's not like an update to the.NET framework gets released every week.
Pretty much everybody acts their own self interest - even the "selfless" - and that's generally a good thing as something has to mediate people's actions. Though obviously the scale of the idea of "self" is variable.
"I'd buy a PS3 today if the shooters would use a mouse and keyboard - I'd love to play my shooters on my big screen, but I despise controllers for this purpose."
I have a BFGTech Geforce 8800GTX and it displays on my HDTV just fine. I played Prey on it last night and it completely owns the X360 version.
It's not about personally editing the code. It's about the fact that if Opera goes under, decides to exit the browser market, or gets ultra big-brotherish that a "good" version of the application can be picked up and maintained by somebody else.
The MDI interface was a big reason that I DIDN'T use Opera regularly. If I remember correctly (and I've used Opera for a LONG time) early on there weren't really tabs, you just had to navigate windows like any other MDI app. God I hated that.
I've been using Opera since version 3 and it has always been the fastest browser by a considerable margin. Yet, after all of these years, it has never been my everyday browser because speed really isn't everything.
I use Firefox nowadays because, with the right extensions, it is really the ultimate developer's browser. Between the DOM Inspector, web developer, firebug, and live http headers it's a dream. Plus, it does all else that I need good enough.
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I think referential integrity is what you're thinking of.
This is why you evaluate software BEFORE you spend money on it.
Indeed, but I've found few of these applications that didn't have better written counterparts.
A few years back, I ran a Windows 2000-based University computer lab, one of the most ferocious environments around for keeping desktops working - especially when you have many computer geeks as patrons. My colleagues used DeepFreeze, but I found it superfluous as I NEVER had a machine go down and all I used were the tools built into Windows (GPO, NTFS, User Groups).
If you set the file system permissions correctly and keep all logins in the Users group, it is remarkably difficult to crack these systems.
You speak truth, but the hard reality here is the 500 million plus that Murdoch paid for MySpace was an absolute steal.
If Facebook is valued at $15 billion, it's very safe to assume that MySpace is worth at least half that. Odds are it's closer to twice that but, even with this hyper-unrealistically conservative measure, it's clear that Murdoch made a good investment.
A $150 sound card is probably going to have HD audio. You can get a good monitor for $150. A decent case and PSU that can handle a midrange graphics card can be had for $60-$75.
Few people that would be inclined to build a gaming PC would do so from scratch. I haven't bought a fully new PC since 1992. That one PC has split off into 3 PCs and, on average, I haven't spent more than $150 or so a year. I upgraded majorly for Quake, Quake 2, Quake 3, Doom 3, and Crysis.
The cool thing about a computer is that you can not only play games, but you can make money with them as well.
The EA sports titles run fine with multiple controllers. I have 2 x360 pads (no excuses) and 2 Logitech pads and Madden works great.
It could be because I'm a fringe lunatic negro but, after hearing the post 9/11 and "God Damn America" speeches in their totality, my contempt for the media has hit an all-time high.
It is very one-sided and there are factual errors for sure - e.g. the government didn't give black men Syphilis, and the AIDS genocide deal is a bit much to throw around willy nilly for two - but they are in the clear minority and the overall themes of the speeches are very reasonable as mainstream theological discourse.
This whole fascist "love it or leave it" mentality that makes any type of criticism anti-American does a lot more damage than whatever inaccuracies Rev. Wright might have uttered.
Uhhhhh, the only reason Microsoft "understood" this was because Netscape was shouting it from the rooftops. They went as far as to say that the browser would make Windows obsolete. It was Netscape's bold vision on the web as an app development platform that woke Microsoft up from their delusions of using The Microsoft Network to co-opt the Internet.
There is nothing in this whole "Web 2.0" hype that Netscape wasn't talking about in 1997.
I would agree that power is more important, the issue is that power is pretty much power and "service" is soooooooooo much more.
Sorry to double up, prematurely submitted.
There are fewer sources for dollars than there are sources for labor. The supply/demand relationship is badly skewed against the guy whose resume gets roundfiled because they're a "job-hopper". Companies want the doormat lapdogs as their employees. Managers want the guys who will take all the shit doled out to them as they cling to "security".
I think the GPs point was that if job hopping became the norm, employers would have no choice but to adjust. They are probably adjusting now - read any HR journal over the last few years and you'll see a lot about the current professional worker shortage.
"Yet the unions haven't killed the foreign auto makers who assemble their cars in US plants using union labor."
I'd guess - I don't know for sure - that's because US production is only a fraction of their overall cost of production. If most of their cars are produced in Japan where the government foots the health care and those savings are less than the import costs plus the additional costs imposed by US unions, then it works out.
Their superior manufacturing techniques are just icing on the cake.
A agree on the analysis and design stuff. With all of the CIS stuff that has been co opted by CS programs over the last ten years, you would hope that this was one but, from my experience, it isn't.
Well said, clearly these guys are complaining that their ivory tower devised business plan is tanking and taking it out on CS programs. Some of the things that they complain about like profiling, and GUI-centric design (what?) can easily be accounted for in Java though the commentary about pointers holds a bit of water.
Regardless, I can tell you now that there is tremendous demand where I am (Atlanta) for semi-competent M/CIS-quality programmers that can render a UI and connect to a DB to perform CRUD stuff.
I agree. On the one level where you have to save the woman inside the school, there are at least five ways to go about it and they are all fun to execute (swimming was by far the least hassle, but you miss out on the high accuracy rifle). That's partly why I got a little annoyed later in the game where it gets much much more linear.
Thankfully, the climactic battle was worth it.
The split screen thing is definitely a difference, but that has to do with more of a perceived lack of demand than anything else and could easily be fixed if companies thought that the PC market wanted it. I remember playing Gears split screen when it first came out and absolutely hating it so count me out of the group of people that give a damn. It was on a widescreen TV though so maybe that made a difference - I doubt it. I own Gears on PC now and I have played it with the X360 controller on my widescreen TV so that's not really an issue.
The first party Microsoft titles are artificially delayed on the PC, but those - and the Grand Theft Auto games, which generally have massive graphical improvements on the PC - are the only ones that seem to have big lead times. If a studio is committed to the PC, you won't have to wait long and it seems like the ease of transition from the 360 to a PC makes this a fairly easy commitment to make.
Also, waiting for a game isn't that big of a deal, plus there's the fact that the great PC games will never see a console unless they are severely crippled or the console hits a new generation. I was a pure console gamer until Doom and they have never been a primary gaming platform for me since. To each their own.
Oh there is no doubt that .NET doesn't take care of absolutely everything that the Windows API is capable of executing, my point was just that for Mono to implement the .NET framework it does not have to implement the Windows API.
I've never had to do it, but I think the dllimport feature would allow you to invoke native procedures on whatever specific platform you're using.
It doesn't surprise me that those proprietary Access calls would require Win32 as Access is so totally Windows specific and no other RDBMS requires such intense coddling. It is interesting that GetDriveType() isn't part of the framework though.
Since the .NET framework basically wraps around Windows API calls, emulating Win32 is not necessary to run .NET. That's kind of the whole point of the VM model which the CLR clearly represents.
Well it's not like an update to the .NET framework gets released every week.
Pretty much everybody acts their own self interest - even the "selfless" - and that's generally a good thing as something has to mediate people's actions. Though obviously the scale of the idea of "self" is variable.
errrr... yes it does.
"I'd buy a PS3 today if the shooters would use a mouse and keyboard - I'd love to play my shooters on my big screen, but I despise controllers for this purpose."
I have a BFGTech Geforce 8800GTX and it displays on my HDTV just fine. I played Prey on it last night and it completely owns the X360 version.
It's not about personally editing the code. It's about the fact that if Opera goes under, decides to exit the browser market, or gets ultra big-brotherish that a "good" version of the application can be picked up and maintained by somebody else.
How I wish NT4 or 2000 were (fully) open source.
Yeah well Netscape invented Javascript, SSL, and cookies so nyah nyah.
The MDI interface was a big reason that I DIDN'T use Opera regularly. If I remember correctly (and I've used Opera for a LONG time) early on there weren't really tabs, you just had to navigate windows like any other MDI app. God I hated that.
I've been using Opera since version 3 and it has always been the fastest browser by a considerable margin. Yet, after all of these years, it has never been my everyday browser because speed really isn't everything.
I use Firefox nowadays because, with the right extensions, it is really the ultimate developer's browser. Between the DOM Inspector, web developer, firebug, and live http headers it's a dream. Plus, it does all else that I need good enough.