Star Wars is a simple space opera with a simple plot. Its spiderman that is the naval gazing oh-so-clever film that he seems to believe has had its day. How much does/. pay this idiot?
MS could never had "dominated" the internet. So maybe they'd have killed off netscape earlier. Doesn't mean much. Unless they respec'ed and patented a replacement for TCP/IP and persuaded IETF to run with it (oink oink flap flap) then MS are no different to Ford or GM etc. They can build as many cars as they like and get everyone to use them but they'll never own the actual roads themselves
Wouldn't it just make a better business case to dump all the kiddies who'll go with Nintendo anyway and produce an online virtual porn park? I mean just think of the VR those 4 datacentres could cook up not to mention the revenue MS could bring in by selling special , umm , attachments for the machine....
So would you be willing to look after all the unwanted kids of abortions were stopped? No, didn't think so. Types like you are great at tub thumping but you all slink away when you have to deal with the consequences of your pathetic views.
If some anti abortionists target a doctor then they should be targeted in return with added interest. For ever doctor killed there should be a massacre of anti-abortion activisits (dressed up as an accident of course like Wacko) when they haved one of their bible thumping meets. They'd soon get the message and if not they'd soon be all dead anyway, No I'm not trolling , these are my genuine views.
Why should I be fired? I didn't set up the rules, thats up to the admins. As for a 2nd seperate network, yeah right, dream on. Where do you work, the CIA? If I need to access the trading systems here I just telnet in from my sparcstation (assuming I had a login), there is no ssh here FYI.
Really? Thats funny because in the last few companies (all large , all banks) I've worked in coders have had access to the production machines as well since the team that wrote the code also did the support.
I;ve written a couple , both in C. It was hard bu t doable. I would have a first clue how to do it in a pure functional language. If a language can't represent a finate state machine its bloody useless for writing intepreters.
Templates are more trouble that they're worth. To make them useful you have to keep the code type neutral the whole way through , and how easy is that to do unless you use an horrendous amount of operator overloading everywhere so making the code nigh on impossible to trace? Templates have their uses but they can be the kiss of death of a project if overused as people simply can't follow what the hell is going on.
Functional programming is completely non intuitive, is bad at being able to represent real worl problems in that the code bloats to as horrendous sphagetti mess (yeah , I'm sure those collage lab examples were great , but it isn't that neat in the real world) and most functional languages run at the speed of recently kneecapped tortoise. Declarative languages such as Prolog were touted decades ago as the saviour of us all, how many places do you find them now? The only survivor is SQL and that gets bit tacked on it to make it procedural and hence usable outside its natural enviroment of a database. Functional languages are another seemed-like-a-good-idea-at-the-time dead end IMO.
The problem is that the other side of the chip heats up. So what you say? Well in most applications its no good cooling something only to dump the waste heat a few millimeters away just so it can leak back into the device/fridge/whatever. You need something to transport that heat away whether than be a fan or a liquid transport system. So I reckon these devices (if they work) will be great for largish appliances and PCs but not much use in your average laptop where there is no room for a fan and just glueing the hot part of the chip to the casing is asking for trouble (and burnt users).
You honestly think that big companies that have hundreds if not thousands of servers and literally use terrabyte disks give a flying fuck about saving a few hundred K of disk space on tools that they find pretty damn essential and will have to install anyway. Grow up.
Oh get real. Go get a real job and then get back to me , you obviously have no clue what its like working in a place that has upwards of a thousand servers where the developers have to have access to the boxes anyway to do their work.
PS: A firewall is connected to the internet , read what I wrote before you try to back up your lame repost with the kiddies fallback of being insulting.
Why would a disgruntled coder bother with packet sniffing? Coders have to have access to the boxes to do their work, they could do far more damager by just trashing the databases. Guess you've never worked in a big company have you?
The XAlloc*Color routines take a hex value of the form #XXXXXX or a colour name which references rgb.txt which stores its colours in 3 decimal format. There are other formats you can pass to these routines but AFAIK they get converted to 24 bit.
Even if X can only display 2^24 colours at a given time it doesn't matter because not even the highest resolution screens have anything close to 2^24 pixels:) Duh.
There might be more than 2^24 colours in the colormap but the Xlib routines only support 24 bit indexing into the colourmap which means that even using the truecolor visual you can only have a maximum of 2^24 colours on screen at any given time.
Why? Because X11R6 only supports a maximum of 24 bit colour. I've always thought X11R7 or X12 was long overdue, perhaps this might provide an added impetus to bringing the spec out.
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Star Wars is a simple space opera with a simple plot. Its spiderman that is the naval gazing oh-so-clever film that he seems to believe has /. pay this idiot?
had its day. How much does
God is a fairy story. Why would scientists want to play god any more than they'd want to play the tooth fairy?
Your wifes a moslem? Bad luck mate, just think,
never being able to eat a bacon sandwich again...
MS could never had "dominated" the internet. So maybe they'd have killed off netscape earlier.
Doesn't mean much. Unless they respec'ed and patented a replacement for TCP/IP and persuaded
IETF to run with it (oink oink flap flap) then MS are no different to Ford or GM etc. They can build
as many cars as they like and get everyone to use them but they'll never own the actual roads themselves
Wouldn't it just make a better business case to dump all the kiddies who'll go with Nintendo
anyway and produce an online virtual porn park? I mean just think of the VR those 4 datacentres
could cook up not to mention the revenue MS could bring in by selling special , umm , attachments
for the machine....
Wonder if Wolfram got a bit pissed off when he :)
saw The Matrix and realised they stolen his idea?
So would you be willing to look after all the
unwanted kids of abortions were stopped? No,
didn't think so. Types like you are great at
tub thumping but you all slink away when you
have to deal with the consequences of your
pathetic views.
If some anti abortionists target a doctor then they should be targeted in return with added interest. For ever doctor killed there should be a massacre of anti-abortion activisits (dressed
up as an accident of course like Wacko) when they haved one of their bible thumping meets. They'd
soon get the message and if not they'd soon be all dead anyway,
No I'm not trolling , these are my genuine views.
Why should I be fired? I didn't set up the rules, thats up to the admins. As for a 2nd seperate
network, yeah right, dream on. Where do you work, the CIA? If I need to access the trading systems
here I just telnet in from my sparcstation (assuming I had a login), there is no ssh here FYI.
Really? Thats funny because in the last few companies (all large , all banks) I've worked
in coders have had access to the production machines as well since the team that wrote the
code also did the support.
Next...
I;ve written a couple , both in C. It was hard bu t doable. I would have a first clue how to do it
in a pure functional language. If a language can't represent a finate state machine its
bloody useless for writing intepreters.
Templates are more trouble that they're worth. To make them useful you have to keep the code type
neutral the whole way through , and how easy is that to do unless you use an horrendous amount
of operator overloading everywhere so making the code nigh on impossible to trace? Templates have
their uses but they can be the kiss of death of a project if overused as people simply can't follow
what the hell is going on.
Functional programming is completely non intuitive, is bad at being able to represent
real worl problems in that the code bloats to as horrendous sphagetti mess (yeah , I'm sure
those collage lab examples were great , but it isn't that neat in the real world) and most
functional languages run at the speed of recently kneecapped tortoise. Declarative languages such
as Prolog were touted decades ago as the saviour
of us all, how many places do you find them now?
The only survivor is SQL and that gets bit tacked on it to make it procedural and hence usable
outside its natural enviroment of a database.
Functional languages are another seemed-like-a-good-idea-at-the-time dead end IMO.
Scottish, Irish , Welsh , Yorkshire, West Country, Birmingham, London?
Well , not just a laptop but anything small which rather defeats one point of it which is its small
size.
The problem is that the other side of the chip heats up. So what you say? Well in most applications
its no good cooling something only to dump the waste heat a few millimeters away just so it can
leak back into the device/fridge/whatever. You need something to transport that heat away
whether than be a fan or a liquid transport system.
So I reckon these devices (if they work) will be great for largish appliances and PCs but not much
use in your average laptop where there is no room for a fan and just glueing the hot part of the
chip to the casing is asking for trouble (and burnt users).
You honestly think that big companies that have hundreds if not thousands of servers and
literally use terrabyte disks give a flying fuck about saving a few hundred K of disk space
on tools that they find pretty damn essential and will have to install anyway. Grow up.
Oh get real. Go get a real job and then get back to me , you obviously have no clue what its like
working in a place that has upwards of a thousand servers where the developers have to have access
to the boxes anyway to do their work.
PS: A firewall is connected to the internet , read what I wrote before you try to back up your
lame repost with the kiddies fallback of being insulting.
Why would a disgruntled coder bother with packet sniffing? Coders have to have access to the boxes
to do their work, they could do far more damager by just trashing the databases. Guess you've
never worked in a big company have you?
The XAlloc*Color routines take a hex value of the form #XXXXXX or a colour name which references
rgb.txt which stores its colours in 3 decimal format. There are other formats you can pass to
these routines but AFAIK they get converted to 24 bit.
Even if X can only display 2^24 colours at a given time it doesn't matter because not even the :) Duh.
highest resolution screens have anything close to 2^24 pixels
There might be more than 2^24 colours in the colormap but the Xlib routines only support 24
bit indexing into the colourmap which means that even using the truecolor visual you can only have
a maximum of 2^24 colours on screen at any given time.
Sorry , in the Xlib spec only 24 bit colour is supported. 1 byte each for RGB.
Why? Because X11R6 only supports a maximum of 24 bit colour. I've always thought X11R7 or X12 was
long overdue, perhaps this might provide an added impetus to bringing the spec out.
I'm sure there was an NT 1 buried somewhere in a lab at MS at one point but it sure never made it :)
to the outside world!