I wonder if you would be referred to as a charity or non-profit organization. Those are generally free from tax in the USA are they not? (I'm from Canada so I'm not sure).
In that regard, it also would allow for a loophole where you could still get spam from non-profit organizations. But that's hardly as bad as the stuff that comes into my inbox on the average day.
You can still make regular C++ programs with Visual Studio.NET and not have to use the.NET framework.
Otherwise,.NET framework is useless to a game programmer. It adds a lot of bulk and crap that you don't even need in the first place. The first thing you do to make a game is to #DEFINE WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN which takes out all the crap. Then you create a window and use DirectX through it.
Looking at the way the CLR works.. you could I guess make a cross-platform game that way. But who cares? All the hard-core gamers have windows boxes and are interested in getting the most FPS out of their games.
As far as I'm concerned, if you really had to break down and use some windows stuff, you could put the MFC crap in too, but it's going to slow down your game..NET Framework is basically dumping a bunch of more libraries and components on top of what you already have, increasing the overhead and forcing you to compile into a not-quite.exe
It's decent for apps but games are high-performance.
I think the differences between a P4 and a G4 are a little bit less significant than what you are trying to do.
Also, are you actually saying a mac is the equivalent of a pc and a pc is the equivalent of a zx81? Because that seems to be the basis of your argument and it makes absolutely no sense.
Maybe now they'll actually port it to PC so I can emulate a Mac on my PC. By the way, why hasn't anyone done this yet? If you can emulate PC on Mac, it only makes sense that you could emulate Mac on PC.
I think maybe what he's really trying to say is that the elements that make up the colour are not interfering with each other..
I don't know too much about bandwidth at the actual transmission/radio level, but from what I gather from the article, he's saying that if a bunch of people are transmitting green, and another person also transmits green, the signal is still whole and ininterrupted.
What he's saying is that our equipment needs a way to distinguish between each of the transmissions that are all within the green colour. TCP/IP is already doing this by using packet headers.
I don't understand how this is supposed to replace a filter?
Doing this is just going to give someone you trust a list of x rated popups that come up without your consent that you will then proceed to the doghouse for.
Filters are the way to go still. Until they pass laws forcing x-rated material to have a certain HTML code in it which you can then just weed out, filtering is still the best solution.
it was actually very relevant to what it did (I won't say what it stands for though), but alot of the techie users liked it because of the slang use of the word pud. Some of them just liked saying that they were using it just to fit the word into a conversation
Why does this remind me of Fred Flintstone using his feet to propel his car forward?
I guess any space technology improvement is a good one, but does it really need to be so brute-force-ish? Whatever happened to the NASA of old that created the shuttle?
They say that the next generation of space craft is still many years off, but I bet money could dramatically reduce the time frame (money always fixes problems like this - yay capitalism!)
I think it is good to at least gaze into the future of possibilities and while this certainly would make for cheap satellite launches, etc.. I am skeptical at how safe it would be to send humans up or back on it..
Say it comes to a grinding halt 1/2 way up. What on earth do you send to rescue the people off it this time?
There's always an admin account in NT/2K/XP that if the sys admin has setup the network properly, are probably all the same name and password so it only takes knowing one name and password to access any computer.
Also, there are default hidden shares (I think it is scary that these are turned on by default).. for example your C drive is automatically shared. So every computer on most company LANs are sharing their C drive out.. so if anyone knows or can guess a password for that machine, presto.. C: drive access all around.
Well we know that as a high paid exec he can actually afford Apple hardware. I traditionally have hated Mac, but I would be willing to try one if the prices weren't so insanely high. In some cases, I can buy 2 PCs of equal performance for the price of one iMac.
I don't know how great of an idea this would be really.
If you ran multiple VMWare virtual machines at the same time on the same machine, you might have difficulty with each machine having the same ports open (unless you had several network cards, at least one for each virtual machine).
Also, you may run into a few problems where hacking the honeypot would allow the user to access everything on the computer, including the system that VMware is actually running on. That's probably not a desired result.
While I think this would be a very implausible thing to happen, I imagine that nothing is impossible.
It would be worth trying on a machine that you didn't care about, that had limited (Internet-only) connections to the rest of the LAN.
The worst is remembering the kids that you did bully and tease, and having it also done to yourself, realizing how terrible a thing it really is.
I've been teased and been the teaser, and as I look back, the names I remember are the ones of the people that I teased, and I regret it very much indeed.
Actually we need less doctors prescribing mind altering drugs to children for their hyperactivity and ADD.
What they probably need is less sugar in their diet and more love and attention from their parents.
Any kid can become a psychotic on these mind altering drugs like Prozac, Ridalin, etc etc. It doesn't always happen, but it can happen.. is it worth the risk?
I really wish they'd relax on the pricings of Visual Studio.. they should know that students cannot afford to purchase it. I mean, they do have the Student Edition but when you go into the workforce, they're going to have the Enterprise Architect Edition.
Development tools should be free to students. It would ensure that people would have the skills to use the tools as they become available
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I wonder if you would be referred to as a charity or non-profit organization. Those are generally free from tax in the USA are they not? (I'm from Canada so I'm not sure).
In that regard, it also would allow for a loophole where you could still get spam from non-profit organizations. But that's hardly as bad as the stuff that comes into my inbox on the average day.
You can still make regular C++ programs with Visual Studio .NET and not have to use the .NET framework.
.NET framework is useless to a game programmer. It adds a lot of bulk and crap that you don't even need in the first place. The first thing you do to make a game is to #DEFINE WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN which takes out all the crap. Then you create a window and use DirectX through it.
.NET Framework is basically dumping a bunch of more libraries and components on top of what you already have, increasing the overhead and forcing you to compile into a not-quite .exe
Otherwise,
Looking at the way the CLR works.. you could I guess make a cross-platform game that way. But who cares? All the hard-core gamers have windows boxes and are interested in getting the most FPS out of their games.
As far as I'm concerned, if you really had to break down and use some windows stuff, you could put the MFC crap in too, but it's going to slow down your game.
It's decent for apps but games are high-performance.
If you want to make an Apple shine, just do like in the grocery store business.
Spray wax on them.
I think the differences between a P4 and a G4 are a little bit less significant than what you are trying to do.
Also, are you actually saying a mac is the equivalent of a pc and a pc is the equivalent of a zx81? Because that seems to be the basis of your argument and it makes absolutely no sense.
Maybe now they'll actually port it to PC so I can emulate a Mac on my PC. By the way, why hasn't anyone done this yet? If you can emulate PC on Mac, it only makes sense that you could emulate Mac on PC.
you could make it automatically hide or turn invisible when a nice looking woman walks by you
Is there any way to create a Mac application without actually owning a Mac?
It's because they're offering 5 years of service with the software, which is pretty good if you ask me.
I think he's trying to set himself up as the Hoffa of software development land
I think maybe what he's really trying to say is that the elements that make up the colour are not interfering with each other..
I don't know too much about bandwidth at the actual transmission/radio level, but from what I gather from the article, he's saying that if a bunch of people are transmitting green, and another person also transmits green, the signal is still whole and ininterrupted.
What he's saying is that our equipment needs a way to distinguish between each of the transmissions that are all within the green colour. TCP/IP is already doing this by using packet headers.
Just my take on it anyway
I don't understand how this is supposed to replace a filter?
Doing this is just going to give someone you trust a list of x rated popups that come up without your consent that you will then proceed to the doghouse for.
Filters are the way to go still. Until they pass laws forcing x-rated material to have a certain HTML code in it which you can then just weed out, filtering is still the best solution.
In Russia, you don't make game, game makes you!
I'm sure they'll give you a watered down version of the internet via a mandatory web portal complete with coupons and advertisements
Now maybe Sun can port this to their Solaris platform..
I named a program PUD..
it was actually very relevant to what it did (I won't say what it stands for though), but alot of the techie users liked it because of the slang use of the word pud. Some of them just liked saying that they were using it just to fit the word into a conversation
Why does this remind me of Fred Flintstone using his feet to propel his car forward?
I guess any space technology improvement is a good one, but does it really need to be so brute-force-ish? Whatever happened to the NASA of old that created the shuttle?
They say that the next generation of space craft is still many years off, but I bet money could dramatically reduce the time frame (money always fixes problems like this - yay capitalism!)
I think it is good to at least gaze into the future of possibilities and while this certainly would make for cheap satellite launches, etc.. I am skeptical at how safe it would be to send humans up or back on it..
Say it comes to a grinding halt 1/2 way up. What on earth do you send to rescue the people off it this time?
There's always an admin account in NT/2K/XP that if the sys admin has setup the network properly, are probably all the same name and password so it only takes knowing one name and password to access any computer.
Also, there are default hidden shares (I think it is scary that these are turned on by default).. for example your C drive is automatically shared. So every computer on most company LANs are sharing their C drive out.. so if anyone knows or can guess a password for that machine, presto.. C: drive access all around.
Well we know that as a high paid exec he can actually afford Apple hardware. I traditionally have hated Mac, but I would be willing to try one if the prices weren't so insanely high. In some cases, I can buy 2 PCs of equal performance for the price of one iMac.
I don't know how great of an idea this would be really.
If you ran multiple VMWare virtual machines at the same time on the same machine, you might have difficulty with each machine having the same ports open (unless you had several network cards, at least one for each virtual machine).
Also, you may run into a few problems where hacking the honeypot would allow the user to access everything on the computer, including the system that VMware is actually running on. That's probably not a desired result.
While I think this would be a very implausible thing to happen, I imagine that nothing is impossible.
It would be worth trying on a machine that you didn't care about, that had limited (Internet-only) connections to the rest of the LAN.
It's probably more accurate at destroying ICBMs than Star Wars/SDI or whatever you want to call it today.
The worst is remembering the kids that you did bully and tease, and having it also done to yourself, realizing how terrible a thing it really is.
I've been teased and been the teaser, and as I look back, the names I remember are the ones of the people that I teased, and I regret it very much indeed.
Actually we need less doctors prescribing mind altering drugs to children for their hyperactivity and ADD.
What they probably need is less sugar in their diet and more love and attention from their parents.
Any kid can become a psychotic on these mind altering drugs like Prozac, Ridalin, etc etc. It doesn't always happen, but it can happen.. is it worth the risk?
Yup that is what I was referring to. A great scene :) But I couldn't remember which of the Python movies it was.
I just got the mental image of the Red Hat buildings driving up beside the MS buildings in Redmond and them having it out Monty Python style.
Scary.. but.. that's the real way to be a pirate.
I really wish they'd relax on the pricings of Visual Studio.. they should know that students cannot afford to purchase it. I mean, they do have the Student Edition but when you go into the workforce, they're going to have the Enterprise Architect Edition.
Development tools should be free to students. It would ensure that people would have the skills to use the tools as they become available