It would actually be interesting if that plugin simulated the "vinyl warmth" well too, and not just other features of it. From the reviews, I'm a bit unclear about that, but they are giving it a high score. Hmm.
so actually keeping 100% of all software on the box current is harder for Windows than say, Ubuntu. It may be slightly easier in Ubuntu for various reasons, but I'd say it's still quite a challenge to keep 100% of all software used updated at all times for a novice user, even on Linux. The repository-based installs helps a lot, but not all of the software is installed that way, for example.
... and Windows users don't get annoyed by the reminder that pops up every now and then?
But I'm not sure if it's just about the OS bits. This article talks of third party apps. In Ubuntu, such apps are often covered (unlike in Windows) by the auto-updater too in case they came from the Ubuntu repositories, but not ALL of them, for example if they're not covered by the auto updater and one wouldn't care.
And in this survey, they're including Windows installs with even just ONE unpatched application. No wonder the number is so high.
So you mean this means nothing to the millions of C++ programmers out there? Standard compliance on the by far most prominent OS tend to be a big deal, even if it's coming late. I very much agree with the "better late than never" saying here. If I wouldn't, that would mean I'd be pleased with an old non-compliant Visual C++ 6 compiler, which I would definitely not be.
I believe not, but the Resharper and Visual Assist addons have this, for example. Along with a bit worsened performance due to having to real-time analyze every character you type, but for "modern" computers, this should be less of a hassle. The performance hit is clearly noticeable on this Athlon XP 1700+ though. Kind of funny, but I guess we adjust to what hardware we have, even if it means typing into pretty much a text editor becomes slower!
Do they actually have C99 support yet? Doh, the spec isn't even finalized. If they had it in now, you'd complain that they were using unfinalized specs. But to answer your question, yes, it's coming in a free update scheduled for Q1 2008.
In addition, we will also be delivering TR1 support. Portions of TR1 are scheduled for adoption in the upcoming C++0x standard as the first major addition to the ISO 2003 standard C++ library. Our implementation includes a number of important features such as smart pointers, regular expression parsing, new containers (tuple, array, unordered set, etc), sophisticated random number generators, polymorphic function wrappers, type traits and more! We are not currently shipping C99 compatibility or support for special math functions.
You mean ***PAY*** someone to cause the heads of my hard disk to write a few ones and zeroes???? Using your attitude, there are already fees due to copyrights, and they're in this case applied to stuff called music.
I agree, this one could just as well have been a link to the YouTube video, because the actual story here is the spectacular effect, not what they know, or rather don't know.:-)
It is short for The Importance of Being Earnest, and this is also shown on their company profile page.
The name TIOBE stands for "The Importance Of Being Earnest". This is also the name of a comedy play written by Oscar Wilde at the end of the Nineteenth Century. By choosing this name, the founders of TIOBE Software emphasize their sincere and professional attitude towards customers, suppliers and colleagues.
That's not entirely true either; they rarely care here even if it's copyrighted by someone in my own country. Not because they're heartless but because the crime is rated low enough that they can't spare all the resources that would be necessary to efficiently go after these criminals.
From the bottom of slashdot: Btw, I believe one doesn't even have to type that out for it to be true. At least not in the country where I live. Over here, it's more done just by tradition and routine for informative reasons, and I guess to know who to contact for licensing questions. Regardless if you type a copyright notice for something and "reserve your rights" explicitly or not, it's automatically copyrighted.
There are a lot of misinformation spread on the lvllord patch though. The people using it often don't seem to have a good idea of what it actually does, and when it is actually mostly in effect. This should be mandatory reading before binary patching your system files...
How do the tagging system work and pick tags to use anyway? In this article, the tag chewbeccadefense [sic] isn't even spelled right! Did hundreds or dozens of Slashdotters not know how to spell Chewbacca? Sounds pretty much impossible, given the kind of crowd.
Surely there must be some other explanation? *shrug*
I heard that in order to stay out of litigation and make the game different enough, you need to order beans from within the game to produce more vespene gas.
But really, over time I think these BD drives will go down further because of what you say. The HD-DVD vs Blu-ray disc pricings are already quite evened out here already, despite the alleged higher production costs of Blu-ray discs. Similarly, although it's still not competitive with DVD-R's, BD-R discs use to give you more for your money than HD-DVD-R's. If you manage to find yourself a HD-DVD burner, which is pretty hard where I live compared to a Blu-ray burner.
The difference with diamonds here is that not only do they have a documented mathematical structure, but they can also already be constructed artificially. But hey, he might just be the guy who takes the second place for... erm... a kind-of-diamond-looking artificial crystal. It would be interesting to know if any other properties than a fancy look could in theory be attributed to this one thanks to its structure.
Oops, I forgot a "for example" before the "mobile traffic" part. It's just that I think there are a bit too many sneaky ways around those to avoid monitored technology that in the end, good relations with other countries are the most efficient long term methods.
Agreed, what for example London's excessive CCTV's and monitoring help against is rarely the crime, but more about catching the right guys when the deed is done. Of course, if the guys blow themselves up in the process, there's less use for those too. Catching criminals in a pre-crime fashion -- well, all they can do is to try monitor mobile traffic, but there are so many ways for a terrorist with the intention to do something big to avoid that (especially now that this is public knowledge that it's being done) that I'm not sure how efficient that is either.
During takeoff, so I think the sibling's comment make more sense so far really. It ought to be easier to protect the airports, where I imagine it's far higher risks (even if they seem low) to be attacked too. It should take a quite different approach to accomplish the same thing in air.
Re:The best tools stay out of the way...
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I agree, the Office 2007 suite is for me the most improved version MS has put out of Office in ages.
It's a bit mind boggling how when you've been used to apps like OpenOffice and Office 2003, you find (after an adjustment period, of course) what you want and that without opening a menu! Exception being when opening files... If there's one UI idea as neat as a tabbed browser, it has to be a tabbed toolbar where one tab is context sensitive.
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Or for free, but kind of the other way around: ;-)
http://www.winamp.com/plugins/details/39214/reviews
It would actually be interesting if that plugin simulated the "vinyl warmth" well too, and not just other features of it. From the reviews, I'm a bit unclear about that, but they are giving it a high score. Hmm.
... and Windows users don't get annoyed by the reminder that pops up every now and then?
But I'm not sure if it's just about the OS bits. This article talks of third party apps. In Ubuntu, such apps are often covered (unlike in Windows) by the auto-updater too in case they came from the Ubuntu repositories, but not ALL of them, for example if they're not covered by the auto updater and one wouldn't care.
And in this survey, they're including Windows installs with even just ONE unpatched application. No wonder the number is so high.
So you mean this means nothing to the millions of C++ programmers out there? Standard compliance on the by far most prominent OS tend to be a big deal, even if it's coming late. I very much agree with the "better late than never" saying here. If I wouldn't, that would mean I'd be pleased with an old non-compliant Visual C++ 6 compiler, which I would definitely not be.
I believe not, but the Resharper and Visual Assist addons have this, for example.
Along with a bit worsened performance due to having to real-time analyze every character you type, but for "modern" computers, this should be less of a hassle. The performance hit is clearly noticeable on this Athlon XP 1700+ though. Kind of funny, but I guess we adjust to what hardware we have, even if it means typing into pretty much a text editor becomes slower!
I agree, this one could just as well have been a link to the YouTube video, because the actual story here is the spectacular effect, not what they know, or rather don't know. :-)
DRM: DRM Rapes Music? ;-)
(or Movies, your choice)
That's not entirely true either; they rarely care here even if it's copyrighted by someone in my own country. Not because they're heartless but because the crime is rated low enough that they can't spare all the resources that would be necessary to efficiently go after these criminals.
There are a lot of misinformation spread on the lvllord patch though. The people using it often don't seem to have a good idea of what it actually does, and when it is actually mostly in effect. This should be mandatory reading before binary patching your system files...
How do the tagging system work and pick tags to use anyway? In this article, the tag chewbeccadefense [sic] isn't even spelled right!
Did hundreds or dozens of Slashdotters not know how to spell Chewbacca? Sounds pretty much impossible, given the kind of crowd.
Surely there must be some other explanation? *shrug*
Hey now, what Vista can do, it can do damn well!
So it's a bit like just giving away a Stone of Jordan in Diablo II? No way!
Only if I get at least ten perfect skulls in return!
I heard that in order to stay out of litigation and make the game different enough, you need to order beans from within the game to produce more vespene gas.
But really, over time I think these BD drives will go down further because of what you say. The HD-DVD vs Blu-ray disc pricings are already quite evened out here already, despite the alleged higher production costs of Blu-ray discs. Similarly, although it's still not competitive with DVD-R's, BD-R discs use to give you more for your money than HD-DVD-R's. If you manage to find yourself a HD-DVD burner, which is pretty hard where I live compared to a Blu-ray burner.
The difference with diamonds here is that not only do they have a documented mathematical structure, but they can also already be constructed artificially. But hey, he might just be the guy who takes the second place for... erm... a kind-of-diamond-looking artificial crystal. It would be interesting to know if any other properties than a fancy look could in theory be attributed to this one thanks to its structure.
Oops, I forgot a "for example" before the "mobile traffic" part. It's just that I think there are a bit too many sneaky ways around those to avoid monitored technology that in the end, good relations with other countries are the most efficient long term methods.
Agreed, what for example London's excessive CCTV's and monitoring help against is rarely the crime, but more about catching the right guys when the deed is done. Of course, if the guys blow themselves up in the process, there's less use for those too. Catching criminals in a pre-crime fashion -- well, all they can do is to try monitor mobile traffic, but there are so many ways for a terrorist with the intention to do something big to avoid that (especially now that this is public knowledge that it's being done) that I'm not sure how efficient that is either.
During takeoff, so I think the sibling's comment make more sense so far really. It ought to be easier to protect the airports, where I imagine it's far higher risks (even if they seem low) to be attacked too. It should take a quite different approach to accomplish the same thing in air.
I agree, the Office 2007 suite is for me the most improved version MS has put out of Office in ages.
It's a bit mind boggling how when you've been used to apps like OpenOffice and Office 2003, you find (after an adjustment period, of course) what you want and that without opening a menu! Exception being when opening files... If there's one UI idea as neat as a tabbed browser, it has to be a tabbed toolbar where one tab is context sensitive.