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I don't think that Microsoft realizes that they are dealing with a Japanese company. When it comes to price wars the Japanese are RUTHLESS! Keep in mind that Sony has all the costs figured out while this is Microsoft's first try. I would not be surprised to see a $200 PlayStation with sales TRIPLING X-Box sales.
man, i've had that dude linked for years!!!
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What bad thing happens if an Everquester sells one of his/her possesions or characters?!!? I don't understand why Sony are being such pricks about this! What harm comes to them from trading these items freely? Is Sony jealous that they're not getting a piece of the pie? How is this different from buying, selling and trading Magic cards?
microsoft is already pushing it charging $400 for a product that you can get all the equivalent functionality from a free package. i'm talking about staroffice. if microsoft wants to see a mass exodus then they should charge $1000 for their os!
i'm sure this has been discussed before but i'm more than willing to pay for the service that tivo provides. if it were only downloading a tv guide sure it would be a waste of money, but it's more than that! it's an up-to-date tv schedule selected geographically! remember, not everyone has the same channels on their cable systems. when times change (i.e. showing at a special time) tivo knows. i love the suggestion thing. i come home and see suggestions that i might otherwise would not have ever seen. all in all it's a great service and i love it.
open source has already gained critical mass. this ignoramus is acting as if this is something new. some gnu utilites are over 25 years old! where is this even heard of in the commercial/wintel world??
i've seen tons of sites that have the same layouts. alot of times it's because people used the same tool with one of the builtin layouts. if someone apes someone else's style so what? sites continually get redesigned and the styles diverge anyway. which is basically happenned with my biography and the guy whose site i aped. this is a nonissue.
personally, i'm glad that they're illegalizing stuff like this. when things go underground, they become even more rampant. our marijuana laws are a joke. my grandmother smokes weed whenever she wants. anyone that wants to rip dvds will be able to regardless of whether its on a website or not. in fact as it goes underground pirating technology will get better as these big manufacturers outprice themselves from the market and broadband over the internet takes hold.
my policy on software is that i only buy it if it's priced reasonably. if it's not, i copy. why do i buy movies when i could get a videotape copy?? because nowadays they sell for between $9.99 and $14.99. that's called the convenience pricepoint. it's worth it for me to buy it rather than go through the hassle of finding it and copying it. if you don't meet it, you're going to get robbed. period.
t's worth pointing out that, most likely, this issue never would have been raised if the course required the program to compile under g++ on the
schools mainframes/UNIX boxes.
well shit, anyone can get a g++ compiler for free on almost any platform! why would they complain?
the basics to me is text editor and compiler... NOT gui! it drives me nuts when i have to work with programmers that learned exclusively on gui. they don't seem to realize why he ide is really useful and just think all there is to programming is clicking a component and adding code. they have no idea of how the program is really structured and could read code to get themselves out of a paper bag (or however the saying goes). all beginner courses should be taught at the fundemental level not the superficial one!
you should really bring this up with your department head. either that or look for a better teacher or a better school. i'd definitely do the former because it's people like him that produce bad tool dependent programmers rather than real programmers. every programmer should know how to command line compile and link but i know so make that don't know how.
and end up with another microsoft that screws its partners by changing the spec so their products can get to market first? NO THANK YOU! i like it better this way. i'm glad that sun is letting companies that can do it better do it. i use jikes almost exclusively. i use jserv and gnujsp for servlets and am now evaluating caucho. i love the amount of choice i have and the idea that if i change app servers, i don't have to change much code. this is the way it should be!
he's a BRILLIANT musician. but in the context you're speaking, let's remember that he signed his first contract at the age of 17!!! they could have made him sign anything!
Then, SubThreadStarter stops, and FooServer destroys it.
But now the garbage collector will notice that all those ListenerServers's are unreachable from FooServer, and they all get destroyed, although
they may be running and doing useful stuff.
This might not be what you wanted to happen!
if this only happens when you run threads as daemons. if not, they keep on ticking.
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I don't think that Microsoft realizes that they are dealing with a Japanese company. When it comes to price wars the Japanese are RUTHLESS! Keep in mind that Sony has all the costs figured out while this is Microsoft's first try. I would not be surprised to see a $200 PlayStation with sales TRIPLING X-Box sales.
he's old news and my page is even better!!!
winpoet was bought from another company... even so, the alternative, enternet 300, is ten times worse!!!
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What bad thing happens if an Everquester sells one of his/her possesions or characters?!!? I don't understand why Sony are being such pricks about this! What harm comes to them from trading these items freely? Is Sony jealous that they're not getting a piece of the pie? How is this different from buying, selling and trading Magic cards?
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i have everything else on yahoo. i love yahoo messenger but the only other person i know that uses it is my girlfriend! please god make it so!
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check out arm's jazelle technology. it does just about what you're talking about!
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microsoft is already pushing it charging $400 for a product that you can get all the equivalent functionality from a free package. i'm talking about staroffice. if microsoft wants to see a mass exodus then they should charge $1000 for their os!
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awesome hardcover by frank miller! about the spartans and stuff.... great colors by lynne varley too!
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i'm sure this has been discussed before but i'm more than willing to pay for the service that tivo provides. if it were only downloading a tv guide sure it would be a waste of money, but it's more than that! it's an up-to-date tv schedule selected geographically! remember, not everyone has the same channels on their cable systems. when times change (i.e. showing at a special time) tivo knows. i love the suggestion thing. i come home and see suggestions that i might otherwise would not have ever seen. all in all it's a great service and i love it.
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case closed.
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open source has already gained critical mass. this ignoramus is acting as if this is something new. some gnu utilites are over 25 years old! where is this even heard of in the commercial/wintel world??
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michael milken is a venture capitalist i believe. what hypocrisy!
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i've seen tons of sites that have the same layouts. alot of times it's because people used the same tool with one of the builtin layouts. if someone apes someone else's style so what? sites continually get redesigned and the styles diverge anyway. which is basically happenned with my biography and the guy whose site i aped. this is a nonissue.
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my policy on software is that i only buy it if it's priced reasonably. if it's not, i copy. why do i buy movies when i could get a videotape copy?? because nowadays they sell for between $9.99 and $14.99. that's called the convenience pricepoint. it's worth it for me to buy it rather than go through the hassle of finding it and copying it. if you don't meet it, you're going to get robbed. period.
this action is useless.
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well shit, anyone can get a g++ compiler for free on almost any platform! why would they complain?
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hilarious!
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the basics to me is text editor and compiler... NOT gui! it drives me nuts when i have to work with programmers that learned exclusively on gui. they don't seem to realize why he ide is really useful and just think all there is to programming is clicking a component and adding code. they have no idea of how the program is really structured and could read code to get themselves out of a paper bag (or however the saying goes). all beginner courses should be taught at the fundemental level not the superficial one!
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you should really bring this up with your department head. either that or look for a better teacher or a better school. i'd definitely do the former because it's people like him that produce bad tool dependent programmers rather than real programmers. every programmer should know how to command line compile and link but i know so make that don't know how.
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so is intel a licensee of arm or not?
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and end up with another microsoft that screws its partners by changing the spec so their products can get to market first? NO THANK YOU! i like it better this way. i'm glad that sun is letting companies that can do it better do it. i use jikes almost exclusively. i use jserv and gnujsp for servlets and am now evaluating caucho. i love the amount of choice i have and the idea that if i change app servers, i don't have to change much code. this is the way it should be!
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i guess the same could be said about compaq vs sun.
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bullish. saving the word attack as a word file takes 19k.
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he's a BRILLIANT musician. but in the context you're speaking, let's remember that he signed his first contract at the age of 17!!! they could have made him sign anything!
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But now the garbage collector will notice that all those ListenerServers's are unreachable from FooServer, and they all get destroyed, although they may be running and doing useful stuff.
This might not be what you wanted to happen!
if this only happens when you run threads as daemons. if not, they keep on ticking.
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