None of the above. Electronic books currently are nothing but publishers trying to kill used book resale, and I don't see why anybody should stand for it.
Theoretically though, in time, the e-books should be much cheaper than the equivalent books. And the other reason to use e-books is one of convenience, which if you've got any kind of library you need to slough around with you every time you move house, you'd understand.
Last time I did it, I just wanted to die. And then I decided "No, if I can get all my books on flash memory, I'd be very very happy".
Everyone keeps harping on about network connectivity as a problem.
The next generation of browsers are being designed to have extensive offline capabilities that will allow webapps to work intelligently either online or offline.
You might have other objections to browser apps, but network connectivity will soon fade into irrelevance.
That'd be nice, but CSS is still a lousy POS after how long? I don't have much faith at this point.
Wait a second! Have you ever coded in C++ ? Even if threads are not in the standard library, you have boost, you have Intel's TBB(threading building blocks), besides the native threading library. Do you trust you library in Java? What if the VM screws everything up.
C++ Compilers currently can reorder instructions at will, for scheduling & optimization purposes, and that can affect concurrency unless you use memory barriers.
In my previous experience, only a cat would have ever made it to step 2.
I used to have quite a smart cat with a vocabulary of at least 50 words (at least as far as I could tell). He was an alley cat before we adopted him, and he'd learned a large number of cool skills, including feeding himself from tins, opening doors, and was quite adept at picking up stuff after seeing it once.
Once I opened the sliding window in the dining room, and he was watching. He liked the cool breeze, so whenever he wanted it, he'd spend forever trying to lift up the latch and slide the window. It was too heavy for him to succeed, so he'd try for a bit, and then give up and go try to find a human to do it for him.
Quite the smart kitty. His language skills were (as far as I could tell) based on the pitch shifts in syllables. He'd respond to "Harvey" as his name, as well as "Car key" and "Darr-Deee". He was also quite tactile; if you were lying in bed by him but ignoring him, he'd gently reach up a paw and touch you on the cheek to get your attention.
I'd have loved to have seen what he could have done if he'd had the polydactylous mutation that some cats are getting now.
He's an odd one though; most cats I've met were nowhere near as smart. Same with the dogs - I've only met a couple that bright.
The victorians knew about this... they had things called "ripple seats" in theatres, where they'd plant stooges to laugh at the appropriate time during comedies - doing so would make the comedy funnier. Or any other emotions they wanted to heighten during the production.
Similarly, during scary productions, they'd also have people walking around selling concessions. They'd have a squeeze bulb full of water or powder, which they'd squish at the appropriate time, startling people and making them scream out. This would also ripple through the audience, heightening the effect.
Old stagecraft, old magic tricks. What's old is new again, I guess.
If you can't sell it, open it up! Release it under the GNU GPLv3 and perhaps the content under CC by-sa-nc. There's great stuff coming from the modding community, some mods are even completely new games like Bid For Power, True Combat Elite and Urban Terror (the more recent versions of it are quite well done).
Not a chance in hell of that happening. There's enough proprietary middleware in there (never mind Unreal which is what it's based on) that it'd NEVER. Happen.
This is Microsoft, remember? A monopolist convicted of anti-competitive behavior on two continents. At this point, we don't have to prove it gave bribes; MS has to prove it didn't!
I applaud your sarcasm, but just in case you were serious...
It's a general principle of skepticism that the person making a claim has to prove it.
Eg. I can claim that there's a small green fairy living in my closet.
I could go ahead and say "hey, you don't believe me Joe? Prove that there isn't!", but that's fluffy invalid thinking. If I'm making the claim of behavior/action/existence of A/B/C, I have to provide the proof.
This is the main design characteristic of Microsoft's registry and the differences you mentioned are implementation details.
Yeah, and it's not the part that people complain about.
People complain about it being a brittle, corruptible binary file - a single point of failure if you will[1], with no opportunity to add comments to document entries.
Which isn't a problem with GConf, if it uses XML.
Either way, the registry does have some benefits - such as per-key security settings.
[1] Not so much a problem any more in the past 7 years; there are multiple copies in multiple places, and it's regularly backed up. The other arguments still hold.
What? You are the ignorant one if you think that what you said makes any sense. There is absolutely NO reason for IE to be fully integrated into the OS. It is perfectly reasonable to have the libraries you mentioned separately bundled with the OS without the IE GUI even existing. Thats how most operating systems work: they may have a browser, but it can be removed without destroying the OS web libraries and other essential functionality.
The GUI/Browser, of course, being an approx. 120Kb active X container app. Would you be happy with that being removed? If so, why?
They didn't. That isn't a supposition, it is a fact. Towards the end, they did try to recruit some additional members to counter the influx of Microsoft-sponsored shills, and they certainly did a lot of lobbying, but a pre-built `standing army' of shills? No.
Are you sure?
I hate to say it, but I don't trust IBM on this any more than I trust Microsoft on this. Microsoft's a newbie at the standards thing, IBM is an old hand. I fully expect IBM to have other, less obvious mechanisms to kick around the standards body - after all, they've been working that system for a long long time.
The standards orgs are political machines. Never trust a politician - even politicians who are techies.
Also, Quicktime is not bundled with Mac OSX, it is an integral part of the OS. Explain how you can play movies and songs in finder view without launching an app to do so?
Windows Media Player and IE are not bundled with Windows. They're an integral part of the OS. Explain how you can play movies in Explorer without launching an app to do so.
I think you might have possibly missed an error code that it would return if the buffer wasn't long enough. Of course, you may already have handled that case, but you don't mention it in your description above.
If you selected more than about 100 files, MS's file dialog would fail to properly terminate the returned file names, and cut off the last one arbitrarily.
Which OS version, and what language were you writing this in?
True... For the rest of it, it's worth getting a driveragent.com account... although that doesn't speed up with the install... just lets you track down the drivers faster.
But I never charge $50 for an install. I do all the drivers, the updates, give them free antivirus/adware protection, free productivity apps, etc. My cost is $85.00. I know others have higher costs and some lower. When you consider it takes at least 2 hours to just do the Microsoft updates/service packs (including the option software) -- after the OS has been installed with drivers -- before protection apps and then beautification you should be able to see why $85.00 is not out of line. It can take 4-8 hours just to complete the install with everything.
Wow. You're ripping them off. Cunning.
If you do a slipstream install, you can do it all, unattended.
Bungie really can't be blamed for how bad people are reacting to the game's graphics. As a first party developer they are stuck with the hardware Microsoft designed. Obviously Microsoft didn't do a very good job with the 360's graphics hardware in their rush to get the system out the door when they had to pull the plug early on the first Xbox after the losses became too great.
Dude, the XBOX 360 GPU is the most powerful GPU on any console right now. PS3 whomps its ass on physics because of the Cell, but for graphics, the XBOX 360 wins.
Bandwidth of getting those graphics off DVD media into memory though, that's a different matter. (And btw, BluRay is slower).
If you'd read the whole thing, he does find out about the wonderful formula dependency tree. ODF doesn't have one of these, the cell contents are the cell contents and can be changed without editing 3 or 4 other files. Sure, it means that anything loading an ODF spreadsheet has to build it's own formula dependency tree to handle changes, which makes the loading slightly slower, but it means that programs that just want to write to ODF can, without having to build the formula dependency tree, making writing the files faster.
The formula dependency information isn't required for OOXML - you can leave it out of the file and it will be generated on load. But if you leave it in, it has to be valid.
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None of the above. Electronic books currently are nothing but publishers trying to kill used book resale, and I don't see why anybody should stand for it.
Theoretically though, in time, the e-books should be much cheaper than the equivalent books. And the other reason to use e-books is one of convenience, which if you've got any kind of library you need to slough around with you every time you move house, you'd understand.
Last time I did it, I just wanted to die. And then I decided "No, if I can get all my books on flash memory, I'd be very very happy".
Everyone keeps harping on about network connectivity as a problem.
The next generation of browsers are being designed to have extensive offline capabilities that will allow webapps to work intelligently either online or offline.
You might have other objections to browser apps, but network connectivity will soon fade into irrelevance.
That'd be nice, but CSS is still a lousy POS after how long? I don't have much faith at this point.
Wait a second! Have you ever coded in C++ ? Even if threads are not in the standard library, you have boost, you have Intel's TBB(threading building blocks), besides the native threading library. Do you trust you library in Java? What if the VM screws everything up.
C++ Compilers currently can reorder instructions at will, for scheduling & optimization purposes, and that can affect concurrency unless you use memory barriers.
Which are hacky, nasty, and hard to grok.
Call me back when I can write a document online without having to worry about the connection losing it for me.
In my previous experience, only a cat would have ever made it to step 2.
I used to have quite a smart cat with a vocabulary of at least 50 words (at least as far as I could tell). He was an alley cat before we adopted him, and he'd learned a large number of cool skills, including feeding himself from tins, opening doors, and was quite adept at picking up stuff after seeing it once.
Once I opened the sliding window in the dining room, and he was watching. He liked the cool breeze, so whenever he wanted it, he'd spend forever trying to lift up the latch and slide the window. It was too heavy for him to succeed, so he'd try for a bit, and then give up and go try to find a human to do it for him.
Quite the smart kitty. His language skills were (as far as I could tell) based on the pitch shifts in syllables. He'd respond to "Harvey" as his name, as well as "Car key" and "Darr-Deee". He was also quite tactile; if you were lying in bed by him but ignoring him, he'd gently reach up a paw and touch you on the cheek to get your attention.
I'd have loved to have seen what he could have done if he'd had the polydactylous mutation that some cats are getting now.
He's an odd one though; most cats I've met were nowhere near as smart. Same with the dogs - I've only met a couple that bright.
The victorians knew about this... they had things called "ripple seats" in theatres, where they'd plant stooges to laugh at the appropriate time during comedies - doing so would make the comedy funnier. Or any other emotions they wanted to heighten during the production.
Similarly, during scary productions, they'd also have people walking around selling concessions. They'd have a squeeze bulb full of water or powder, which they'd squish at the appropriate time, startling people and making them scream out. This would also ripple through the audience, heightening the effect.
Old stagecraft, old magic tricks. What's old is new again, I guess.
For those of us that aren't in the game dev industry, what does it mean when he says "everybody was forced to share tech"?
... it's about halfway down.
Sharing of common technology between studios.
If you can't sell it, open it up! Release it under the GNU GPLv3 and perhaps the content under CC by-sa-nc. There's great stuff coming from the modding community, some mods are even completely new games like Bid For Power, True Combat Elite and Urban Terror (the more recent versions of it are quite well done).
Not a chance in hell of that happening. There's enough proprietary middleware in there (never mind Unreal which is what it's based on) that it'd NEVER. Happen.
Keep dreaming though.
I'm putting my money on nanotube capacitors :)
:)
Modified algae beds / bacteria beds to create the hydrogen, burn it and run a few turbines on the steam, and then fill the capacitors with it
Every house could have several; every car could have them, laptops could have them. It'd be awesome.
Although I've heard some issues with nanotubes not really being in any way shape or form biodegradable...
Their entire site was copied wholesale - down to the flash apps, branding and graphics - by a company in Beijing.
This is Microsoft, remember? A monopolist convicted of anti-competitive behavior on two continents. At this point, we don't have to prove it gave bribes; MS has to prove it didn't!
I applaud your sarcasm, but just in case you were serious...
It's a general principle of skepticism that the person making a claim has to prove it.
Eg. I can claim that there's a small green fairy living in my closet.
I could go ahead and say "hey, you don't believe me Joe? Prove that there isn't!", but that's fluffy invalid thinking. If I'm making the claim of behavior/action/existence of A/B/C, I have to provide the proof.
This is the main design characteristic of Microsoft's registry and the differences you mentioned are implementation details.
Yeah, and it's not the part that people complain about.
People complain about it being a brittle, corruptible binary file - a single point of failure if you will[1], with no opportunity to add comments to document entries.
Which isn't a problem with GConf, if it uses XML.
Either way, the registry does have some benefits - such as per-key security settings.
[1] Not so much a problem any more in the past 7 years; there are multiple copies in multiple places, and it's regularly backed up. The other arguments still hold.
What? You are the ignorant one if you think that what you said makes any sense. There is absolutely NO reason for IE to be fully integrated into the OS. It is perfectly reasonable to have the libraries you mentioned separately bundled with the OS without the IE GUI even existing. Thats how most operating systems work: they may have a browser, but it can be removed without destroying the OS web libraries and other essential functionality.
The GUI/Browser, of course, being an approx. 120Kb active X container app. Would you be happy with that being removed? If so, why?
They didn't. That isn't a supposition, it is a fact. Towards the end, they did try to recruit some additional members to counter the influx of Microsoft-sponsored shills, and they certainly did a lot of lobbying, but a pre-built `standing army' of shills? No.
Are you sure?
I hate to say it, but I don't trust IBM on this any more than I trust Microsoft on this. Microsoft's a newbie at the standards thing, IBM is an old hand. I fully expect IBM to have other, less obvious mechanisms to kick around the standards body - after all, they've been working that system for a long long time.
The standards orgs are political machines. Never trust a politician - even politicians who are techies.
1. Have IBM and other friendlies back a lot of shills for Prefeffed membership just like Microsoft did.
What makes you think IBM didn't already have a bunch of people sitting in the ISO membership lists?
Assuming they didn't is kind of naive.
The overwhelming majority of these (new IIS) servers are secure and stable. ...and on parked (read: static) domains.
That used to be the case for Apache, and people were jumping up and down claiming it was the second coming.
Basically, Netcraft need to report by # of IPs per server type, not # of domain names.
Also, Quicktime is not bundled with Mac OSX, it is an integral part of the OS. Explain how you can play movies and songs in finder view without launching an app to do so?
Windows Media Player and IE are not bundled with Windows. They're an integral part of the OS. Explain how you can play movies in Explorer without launching an app to do so.
Linux and Windows getting bundled as options? I want BSD in the box as well. If BSD isn't included as an option for customers, that's anticompetitive.
KB article covering this problem.
I think you might have possibly missed an error code that it would return if the buffer wasn't long enough. Of course, you may already have handled that case, but you don't mention it in your description above.
If you selected more than about 100 files, MS's file dialog would fail to properly terminate the returned file names, and cut off the last one arbitrarily.
Which OS version, and what language were you writing this in?
True... For the rest of it, it's worth getting a driveragent.com account... although that doesn't speed up with the install... just lets you track down the drivers faster.
But I never charge $50 for an install. I do all the drivers, the updates, give them free antivirus/adware protection, free productivity apps, etc. My cost is $85.00. I know others have higher costs and some lower. When you consider it takes at least 2 hours to just do the Microsoft updates/service packs (including the option software) -- after the OS has been installed with drivers -- before protection apps and then beautification you should be able to see why $85.00 is not out of line. It can take 4-8 hours just to complete the install with everything.
Wow. You're ripping them off. Cunning.
If you do a slipstream install, you can do it all, unattended.
Bungie really can't be blamed for how bad people are reacting to the game's graphics. As a first party developer they are stuck with the hardware Microsoft designed. Obviously Microsoft didn't do a very good job with the 360's graphics hardware in their rush to get the system out the door when they had to pull the plug early on the first Xbox after the losses became too great.
Dude, the XBOX 360 GPU is the most powerful GPU on any console right now. PS3 whomps its ass on physics because of the Cell, but for graphics, the XBOX 360 wins.
Bandwidth of getting those graphics off DVD media into memory though, that's a different matter. (And btw, BluRay is slower).
If you'd read the whole thing, he does find out about the wonderful formula dependency tree. ODF doesn't have one of these, the cell contents are the cell contents and can be changed without editing 3 or 4 other files. Sure, it means that anything loading an ODF spreadsheet has to build it's own formula dependency tree to handle changes, which makes the loading slightly slower, but it means that programs that just want to write to ODF can, without having to build the formula dependency tree, making writing the files faster.
The formula dependency information isn't required for OOXML - you can leave it out of the file and it will be generated on load. But if you leave it in, it has to be valid.
OOXML is wholly un-XML-ish.
It doesn't re-use existing ISO and W3C standards, whose behaviors have already been publicly vetted
Which is probably a good thing. Have you seen the complete mess that is CSS these days? Even John Nagle hates the damn thing.