Actually no. NT4 required you to download the NT4 Option Pack, and install IIS from that. I have no idea if that was over compiled for the Alpha, MIPS or PPC versions.
Logistical obstacles that can be overcome by releasing it on the Internet via a paid download.
It's an X-box game. Right now live supports downloading levels (including ones you pay for - thanks PGR2, those were shitty). Whilst it might not be hard to imagine you could offer a complete game for download that's going to be a very very big file.
"It sucks, really, that you have to pay an additional $50-$100, or more, for an Apple iPod just so you can carry the music that only iTMS sells"
But how much of a gap is there in the selection that iTunes offers against Walmart, Napster (the legal one - stop that) and the MSN Music store offers? Is there really "music that only iTMS sells"?
OK, but is the iTunes market share not driven by the ownership of an iPod? That's what I'm questioning. It's all very well to say iTunes is the "biggest and best", but I doubt that matters to people as long as a store that supports their device contains 95% of the music they want.
A lot of manufacturers seem to think that adding a screen and video playback somehow makes their product an "iPod killer".
That may be true, but they'd never say it. It's lazy journalists that call anything that plays digital audio an "iPod killer" that have made the label meaningless.
WMP 9 and WMP 10 no longer default to ripping with DRM enabled, so that hasn't been true for 1.5 years.
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yes, you can use the online stores that have 2% of the market, 3% of the market, and 7% of the market
But does the end user care, as long as the music they want is available for purchase? Doubtful. With all the major labels, and a lot of the minors on all the stores most people will use the store that works for their device and not worry about anything else. It's when you try to track down a hard to find piece of music the problems arise. If you're a Beatles fan you're right out of luck.
Of course there's other "choice" available with WMA, you can choose a device from another vendor, you're no longer locked into Apple as controller of the format, seller of the music and only "manufacturer" of the portable device that plays it.
some idiot set of spotty 17 year olds parked on the corner of your street in their Civic, complete with spoilers which are half the size of the car, blacked out windows, neon lights flashing under the body and the rear seats replaced with bass speakers.
Up goes Netstumbler, or whatever and lo there's a connection there, "riceboy". You connect with the well documented passwords and there's the hard drive, full of ghetto rap.
Hmm, so if I drag and drop this Vanilla Ice track and delete their "music"....
(In all seriousness removable drive in a USB2 cradle would be a nice way to provide for these devices, and you could take it out at night for security if necessary)
Actually I've seen problems with some old IBM NAS devices. We had around.75Tb of streaming video we needed to host and a NAS solution (rather than a SAN) worked quite well, we could put really cheap streaming servers and feed the content off a NAS cluster.
There were 2 problems really (excluding that it was a "Windows Powered" device, that part actually worked well - cue -1 Troll). IBM's clustering software was so primative that you had to mirror hardware exactly. Right down to the memory, processors and even the model number of the NAS. Kind of hard to do when products are no longer sold and you want to add a new NAS into the cluster.
What was worse though was the redundancy. Yes we had redundant drives, power supplies, fans, even processors (if one died it would keep going). We were quite smug. Until the motherboard blew up. On both NASes. Within 12 hours of each other. With no external influences like overheating or power fluctuations. And the engineer says that it was a common problem. And took 48 hours to find replacement parts, then the storage array decides that because the motherboard has changed it's not going to mount. And another 24 hours to get that fixed.
The new motherboard on one machine lasted for 2 weeks before blowing again.
Microsoft said that it has published the specification for MHT and that it offers a free software development toolkit for the digital rights management system, enabling anyone to develop a new software application to decode and read the files using another browser.
Well thats ok then. Now where's that format? Oh www.microsoft.com/download/mht-fileformat.mht.....
But regardless of that, MSFT has never done any User Education itself.
Yes, SuSE arranged for Alan Cox to visit my home after my first install to guide me through getting X to work. He ate all my chocolate biscuits though.
Setting aside your rant the point being do you see RedHat attempting to educate? SuSE? Aside from manuals and help text of course. Nope. Why the heck should they?
Actually the friend list is on the MSN servers, tied to your passport account.
The only reason it's easy to use MSN Messenger for this is there's a sort of exposed API. It includes listing your friends, getting their status and so on. *HOWEVER* you do have to be logged on first.
The login information (under XP) is part of the "secure" profiles service (hence you have to use the manage passwords part of the user accounts control panel applet to clear out saved details)
Was that when some attention-starved sluts starting showing off their boobs...
You sound like you think this is a bad thing.
Anyway, it's not like IM is a professional tool, it started off as a quick way to send little messages and grew. Think about the main user base teenage kids, folks in their early twenties and geeks. Of course it's a reasonable guess to say 50% of that user base is male. So that's geeky males, student males or males going through hormone hell. Of course it became a requsitie when breasts appeared.
If we're supposed to have a collection of rocks, what the heck would paper be doing in there? More often than not, reasonable coding should prevent this
That is not what generics do, that's what your base collections of type object does. Generics (at least in c#) allow you to write templated code like
class List<T> {...}
where T is the type parameter. it actually comes time to create a List object, you say List or List. Now your list is a type safe list of ints or Customers, instantiated at runtime. You cannot mix ints and Customers in the same list.
The Java implementation is a compiler hack. It casts everything to objects, so in theory you could mix because it's just a compiler trick. Worse because everything is really an object you can't reflect over the List and work out what type it is a list of.
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You're comparing the wrong things though.
The Java SDK and compiler are free. The.net SDK and compiler are free.
Visual Studio, the editing environment isn't, but provided you can write a make file (well, sorta) you're sorted. Of course there's always Sharp Develop if you must have a free IDE
Generics? Ugh.. you mean we have to see that nasty template crap from C++ again?
I can only talk about this from a C# POV but no, hell no.
The template crap from C++ was nothing more than a preprocessor/compiler trick. It took the templates and expanded it out, making it heavy, fat and inflexible.
Generics are build into the CLR now, type safe and fast, especially when building things like primitive collections, where you no longer have boxing getting in the way of speed.
No, it's marketing. It doesn't seem enough to simply release/sell a *nix OS any more. Package up 4 CDs worth of ISO images with 17 different text editors and hey, you can say you get all this software which you have to pay extra for on Windows.
Of course add to this an install that doesn't explain what the differences are, dependencies that fill your hard drive, stuff that fights with each other when you just tell it to install everything because you don't know what else to do and frankly it rapidly becomes a useless marketing exercise.
However, the BBC is not funded by the government. There is an edict about the license, but that's as far as it goes. Of course if you had been watching it throughout that last little spat in Iraq the BBC's non-government bais was obvious.
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Actually no. NT4 required you to download the NT4 Option Pack, and install IIS from that. I have no idea if that was over compiled for the Alpha, MIPS or PPC versions.
Logistical obstacles that can be overcome by releasing it on the Internet via a paid download.
It's an X-box game. Right now live supports downloading levels (including ones you pay for - thanks PGR2, those were shitty). Whilst it might not be hard to imagine you could offer a complete game for download that's going to be a very very big file.
But how much of a gap is there in the selection that iTunes offers against Walmart, Napster (the legal one - stop that) and the MSN Music store offers? Is there really "music that only iTMS sells"?
And lo, the MSN music store (launched today, wait for that story) has exactly the same rules.
OK, but is the iTunes market share not driven by the ownership of an iPod? That's what I'm questioning. It's all very well to say iTunes is the "biggest and best", but I doubt that matters to people as long as a store that supports their device contains 95% of the music they want.
That may be true, but they'd never say it. It's lazy journalists that call anything that plays digital audio an "iPod killer" that have made the label meaningless.
WMP 9 and WMP 10 no longer default to ripping with DRM enabled, so that hasn't been true for 1.5 years.
But does the end user care, as long as the music they want is available for purchase? Doubtful. With all the major labels, and a lot of the minors on all the stores most people will use the store that works for their device and not worry about anything else. It's when you try to track down a hard to find piece of music the problems arise. If you're a Beatles fan you're right out of luck.
Of course there's other "choice" available with WMA, you can choose a device from another vendor, you're no longer locked into Apple as controller of the format, seller of the music and only "manufacturer" of the portable device that plays it.
I read the entire StarTrek Unity novel in one go in a flight
Yea, but how many pages can it take to reveal "The new particle with the stupid name did it"?
Can't you just imagine it....
some idiot set of spotty 17 year olds parked on the corner of your street in their Civic, complete with spoilers which are half the size of the car, blacked out windows, neon lights flashing under the body and the rear seats replaced with bass speakers.
Up goes Netstumbler, or whatever and lo there's a connection there, "riceboy". You connect with the well documented passwords and there's the hard drive, full of ghetto rap.
Hmm, so if I drag and drop this Vanilla Ice track and delete their "music" ....
(In all seriousness removable drive in a USB2 cradle would be a nice way to provide for these devices, and you could take it out at night for security if necessary)
There were 2 problems really (excluding that it was a "Windows Powered" device, that part actually worked well - cue -1 Troll). IBM's clustering software was so primative that you had to mirror hardware exactly. Right down to the memory, processors and even the model number of the NAS. Kind of hard to do when products are no longer sold and you want to add a new NAS into the cluster.
What was worse though was the redundancy. Yes we had redundant drives, power supplies, fans, even processors (if one died it would keep going). We were quite smug. Until the motherboard blew up. On both NASes. Within 12 hours of each other. With no external influences like overheating or power fluctuations. And the engineer says that it was a common problem. And took 48 hours to find replacement parts, then the storage array decides that because the motherboard has changed it's not going to mount. And another 24 hours to get that fixed.
The new motherboard on one machine lasted for 2 weeks before blowing again.
Doubtful, unless GAIM is exposing the right activeX object, interfaces and using the MSN Messenger GUID (which would cause real big problems)
Well thats ok then. Now where's that format? Oh www.microsoft.com/download/mht-fileformat.mht .....
But regardless of that, MSFT has never done any User Education itself.
Yes, SuSE arranged for Alan Cox to visit my home after my first install to guide me through getting X to work. He ate all my chocolate biscuits though.
Setting aside your rant the point being do you see RedHat attempting to educate? SuSE? Aside from manuals and help text of course. Nope. Why the heck should they?
The only reason it's easy to use MSN Messenger for this is there's a sort of exposed API. It includes listing your friends, getting their status and so on. *HOWEVER* you do have to be logged on first.
The login information (under XP) is part of the "secure" profiles service (hence you have to use the manage passwords part of the user accounts control panel applet to clear out saved details)
Was that when some attention-starved sluts starting showing off their boobs...
You sound like you think this is a bad thing.
Anyway, it's not like IM is a professional tool, it started off as a quick way to send little messages and grew. Think about the main user base teenage kids, folks in their early twenties and geeks. Of course it's a reasonable guess to say 50% of that user base is male. So that's geeky males, student males or males going through hormone hell. Of course it became a requsitie when breasts appeared.
That is not what generics do, that's what your base collections of type object does. Generics (at least in c#) allow you to write templated code like
where T is the type parameter. it actually comes time to create a List object, you say List or List. Now your list is a type safe list of ints or Customers, instantiated at runtime. You cannot mix ints and Customers in the same list.
The Java implementation is a compiler hack. It casts everything to objects, so in theory you could mix because it's just a compiler trick. Worse because everything is really an object you can't reflect over the List and work out what type it is a list of.
You're comparing the wrong things though.
The Java SDK and compiler are free. The .net SDK and compiler are free.
Visual Studio, the editing environment isn't, but provided you can write a make file (well, sorta) you're sorted. Of course there's always Sharp Develop if you must have a free IDE
C# does not have it. For 75% of circumstances using multiple interfaces does the same trick anyway.
I can only talk about this from a C# POV but no, hell no.
The template crap from C++ was nothing more than a preprocessor/compiler trick. It took the templates and expanded it out, making it heavy, fat and inflexible.
Generics are build into the CLR now, type safe and fast, especially when building things like primitive collections, where you no longer have boxing getting in the way of speed.
Ground control staff have to wear groucho mark fake glasses and moustaches. It's the law.
Of course add to this an install that doesn't explain what the differences are, dependencies that fill your hard drive, stuff that fights with each other when you just tell it to install everything because you don't know what else to do and frankly it rapidly becomes a useless marketing exercise.
Well if your fellow country men will lap up 70s-90s programmes don't blame the BBC for selling them at a profit.
Are you being served - 1972-83
Waiting for god - 1990-94
However, the BBC is not funded by the government. There is an edict about the license, but that's as far as it goes. Of course if you had been watching it throughout that last little spat in Iraq the BBC's non-government bais was obvious.
Of course if your friends run windows, and don't update then ....
512Mb of RAM to make it useful? That's taking being a Windows replacement a bit too far.