Rather hard, as the resolution on a synaptics cPad is around 128 x 128 monochrome. A friend of mine has one on his Toshiba laptop, and while it's kinda cute, it's not terribly useful.
Well, there's always Relatable and their audio fingerprinting technology. Given an MP3, you can get a key to determine artist, album, etc. Kind of like what Napster did in 2001. MusicBrainz uses Relatable for their community music database.
Well, I suspect that he's going to finally finish his (long-term) development project for Intentional Programming, much as the article said. Intentional Programming is an interesting approach to development, where your source isn't represented as a text file, but as a tree & set of transforms. When I saw a presentation about 8 years ago, it was quite reminiscent of a Lisp system with programmable unparsers to render the source tree (it's NOT a flat representation) in almost any source language you chose (e.g., Pascal, C, C++, or VB). It will be interesting to see where it has gone since then.
WP can read its old file formats, assuming that you don't care about formatting. WP 6 for Windows (the last version of WP I used on a regular basis) made GROSS changes to the formatting of WP 5 DOS files - to the point of leaving the file unreadable.
To be sure, WP might have improved since. But it certainly left a bad taste in my mouth at the time.
So turn autonumbering off. Or, for that matter, use the index feature. Want two columns? Put a section break before & after the index, and set the section to be two columns. Takes about, oh, 2 minutes.
I love Linux users. So fast to tell other people how to read manuals; so slow to read the manuals themselves.
What the heck did you have them buy? You can get an MSDN Universal subscription for $2500, which includes Dev Studio, ALL versions of Windows (XP, Me, 98, 2K Workstation/Server, etc.). Compuware DevPartner is $1500; Wise installer is $750. That still leaves $15,000 unaccounted for.
Note that Microsoft does not support making functional complete backups under Windows XP. Look at Microsoft's policy about this: Q314828 Microsoft Policy on Disk Duplication of Windows XP Installation [microsoft.com]. Only those who work with Microsoft software will understand the true meaning of Microsoft's policy. Since almost all programs use the registry operating system file, if you cannot make a functional copy of the operating system you cannot make a functional copy of all your application installations and configurations. There are other software companies that try to fix this, but the fixes don't work well, and Microsoft can, of course, break their implementations, as they have often done with other kinds of competitors.
I'm sorry, that seems not to be the case. The link you post has *everything* to do with corporate installations and *nothing* to do with backups. Many corporate sites use disk duplication software (Ghost, etc.) in order to make sure that all their systems have exactly the same software, configured in exactly the same way. Windows XP (and Windows 2000 before it) will have duplicate security IDs if you use the same image on different machines and you don't use the sysprep tool mentioned in the link.
You most certainly can (and I have) use disk imaging software to back up and restore your system, complete with registry.
The theremin, in the hands of a skilled player (e.g., Clara Rockmore) can produce incredible music, similar to an electric violin. Try listening to track 1, disc 1 on the OHM history of electronic music compilation; it's simply amazing.
If you have *any* version of word, you can read and write *any other* version of Word; Microsoft ships installable converters for every single version of Word dating back to Word 1.0 for DOS. Try going to the Office Downloads site and oh, I don't know, download the Word 97/2000 converter. There's one for Word 2002, as well.
NCs died because Microsoft dissed them and did their best to kill them. Oh please. NCs died because they were dickless workstations with a new label pasted over them. Dickless workstations died because the performance sucked. God, I remember running a Sun 3/80 w/o local disk - the performance quadrupled with a local disk cause it didn't need to swap over the ethernet.
Sigh. The Word 2000 (and XP) file format is well documented; however, you do have to sign an NDA in order to obtain it. Further, it is *not* dependent on processor type, and so forth - MacWord reads WinWord files (and vice versa).
When you rewrite code, you're throwing out lots of accumulated bug fixes. Every one of those lines was put there for a reason. Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean that it's wrong.
Go ahead and refactor; but for god's sake, don't dump & rewrite! Look at this for further explanation
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Rather hard, as the resolution on a synaptics cPad is around 128 x 128 monochrome. A friend of mine has one on his Toshiba laptop, and while it's kinda cute, it's not terribly useful.
Well, there's always Relatable and their audio fingerprinting technology. Given an MP3, you can get a key to determine artist, album, etc. Kind of like what Napster did in 2001. MusicBrainz uses Relatable for their community music database.
Well, I suspect that he's going to finally finish his (long-term) development project for Intentional Programming, much as the article said. Intentional Programming is an interesting approach to development, where your source isn't represented as a text file, but as a tree & set of transforms. When I saw a presentation about 8 years ago, it was quite reminiscent of a Lisp system with programmable unparsers to render the source tree (it's NOT a flat representation) in almost any source language you chose (e.g., Pascal, C, C++, or VB). It will be interesting to see where it has gone since then.
WP can read its old file formats, assuming that you don't care about formatting. WP 6 for Windows (the last version of WP I used on a regular basis) made GROSS changes to the formatting of WP 5 DOS files - to the point of leaving the file unreadable.
To be sure, WP might have improved since. But it certainly left a bad taste in my mouth at the time.
MS Works Word Processor is a completely different program from MS Word. It's more closely related to the text editor in Microsoft Publisher.
So turn autonumbering off. Or, for that matter, use the index feature. Want two columns? Put a section break before & after the index, and set the section to be two columns. Takes about, oh, 2 minutes.
I love Linux users. So fast to tell other people how to read manuals; so slow to read the manuals themselves.
What the heck did you have them buy? You can get an MSDN Universal subscription for $2500, which includes Dev Studio, ALL versions of Windows (XP, Me, 98, 2K Workstation/Server, etc.). Compuware DevPartner is $1500; Wise installer is $750. That still leaves $15,000 unaccounted for.
I'm sorry, that seems not to be the case. The link you post has *everything* to do with corporate installations and *nothing* to do with backups. Many corporate sites use disk duplication software (Ghost, etc.) in order to make sure that all their systems have exactly the same software, configured in exactly the same way. Windows XP (and Windows 2000 before it) will have duplicate security IDs if you use the same image on different machines and you don't use the sysprep tool mentioned in the link.
You most certainly can (and I have) use disk imaging software to back up and restore your system, complete with registry.
The theremin, in the hands of a skilled player (e.g., Clara Rockmore) can produce incredible music, similar to an electric violin. Try listening to track 1, disc 1 on the OHM history of electronic music compilation; it's simply amazing.
If you have *any* version of word, you can read and write *any other* version of Word; Microsoft ships installable converters for every single version of Word dating back to Word 1.0 for DOS. Try going to the Office Downloads site and oh, I don't know, download the Word 97/2000 converter. There's one for Word 2002, as well.
Nahh, it's easier to bitch and moan.
NCs died because Microsoft dissed them and did their best to kill them. Oh please. NCs died because they were dickless workstations with a new label pasted over them. Dickless workstations died because the performance sucked. God, I remember running a Sun 3/80 w/o local disk - the performance quadrupled with a local disk cause it didn't need to swap over the ethernet.
Sigh. The Word 2000 (and XP) file format is well documented; however, you do have to sign an NDA in order to obtain it. Further, it is *not* dependent on processor type, and so forth - MacWord reads WinWord files (and vice versa).
Go ahead and refactor; but for god's sake, don't dump & rewrite! Look at this for further explanation