XPCOM is by no means a re-implementation of MS COM. They share some basic ideas (and so does CORBA, if we're going that far), but "reimplementation" is not a word I would use.
Another thing to point out is that you can bridge almost any API into XPCOM. XPCOM and WebKit isn't an XOR, you could (probably) provide XPCOM interface to WebKit
We went through this last time. Intel release the "Host Controller Interface" which defines how USB host controller chips talk to the CPU. The USB group did release and define a USB 3 spec previously.
Companies are welcome to create their own host controller interface to compete with Intel (and people did for USB 1.1).
In my experience, users usually don't know what they want. Or worse, they'll ask for something, but really want something else.
This idea works better if you have a professional UI designer work up some designs and present those to the users.
You should use your users to generate ideas for your interface, and also as a checkpoint for your interface. But giving them too much input will screw up your end results.
Actually, it uses either PTP or MTP to talk to you camera over USB. Your USB hard drive is a mass storage device which most likely uses SCSI commands over USB.
In either case, the OS presents it to you like its an external hard drive.
Get your eyes checked. Seriously. Get to an optometrist and make sure your vision is OK. If the screen is a little out of focus, you could be squinting to compensate for it and not even notice that you are doing it. And that could easily be giving you headaches.
How come every time someone talks about Javascript, they talk about how people hate it? I have always attributed the hate to the suckage of the HTML DOM, which is kinda unfair to blame Javascript for. Anyone got some more insight into why Javascript sucks?
When I go to sell my house, I will not be doing "For Sale By Owner". When I go to purchase my next house, I will be calling a realtor to help me find it.
The Realtor that helped me buy my first house was invaluable in walking me through a process I had never been through before. All the forms to fill out, what to look for when looking at the house, what the next steps are, etc. etc.
I wonder how many of the people saying "I don't need a realtor" have actually been through the home buying process. I wouldn't want to do it alone.
Huh? It takes more than just the same processor to be able to run the same apps. You gotta have the same operating system. And running Vista on a cell phone doesn't sound like a good idea to me (the mouse is a poor interface for a cell phone).
Almost all application code written today is done in some portable manner. Writing custom assembly specific to a processor in an application is only done in certain performance critical things (ffmpeg anyone?). This is one of the reasons that Apple was so easily able to move from PPC to X86.
I think the guesses on price are totally off. My guess is the price of the box is going to be $299 and that the rentals will be EXACTLY the same price they are in the store.
#1 - First generation hardware is always expensive. I'm sure if it is successful, they will do a cost reduced version that is a lot more competitive with the low end AppleTV
#2 - If Blockbuster is involved, there is no way they are undercutting the prices at their stores. No way.
Sigh. The reason Linux always reports all your memory as being used in the page cache where it caches pages that are read from block devices (like you hard disk). Physical pages in memory that are unused (as opposed to virtual pages that your application just hasn't accessed yet) are used to store data read from disk in case you need to access it again. If you application starts to actually use pages that it allocated (like accessing things in shared libraries), linux will dump those disk cache pages from physical memory and start using those pages for the data your app needs. It can easily do this because it knows it is just a copy of what is on the disk and could easily be recovered.
Take a look at "Understanding the Linux Kernel" from ORA for 2 excellent chapters on how all this works.
Only in the US do you have competing cell phone standards. This fragments the cell phone market. If I have a cool phone, to reach to full US market I have to create like 3 different version of it (one for each cell standard).
In japan (or the rest of the world), you make a GSM phone and you can reach the entire market. In the US, you get to pick AT&T or T-Mobile (and both of them are smaller providers).
The GSM Carriers (T-Mobile and Cingular/AT&T) in the US already do this. They don't care what kind of phone you have or where you got it from, just that you have a proper SIM card in it.
Still, I don't like having to choose a car based on which satellite radio service comes pre-installed,
Simple answer then. Don't. At least all the stock sat radio units I've seen suck compared to any of the aftermarket ones you install. Even XM's entry level Roady has a better display that your stock GM radio
Due to thin cornea's, I opted to have PRK done on my earlier this year (rather than LASIK). I have no plans on doing supersonic flight thought, and am VERY VERY happy with the results.
The quick pro/con list of PRK vs. LASIK:
pro PRK: no cutting of the cornea
con PRK: can be more painful longer healing time
The results of both procedures are exactly the same.
This is a trick that all service industries (Sat. Radio, directv, etc.) use for subscriber count. The subscriber count is the number of people, over the lifetime of the product, that have subscribed. Not the same as the current number of subscribers. Blizzard is *NOT* collection 6 million * $15 a month in subscription costs!
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And why would they apologize? As far as they are concerned, there was a 911 call from your house yet no emergency. If anyone should apologize, it should be the phone company... And good luck with that...
I'm a software developer. I don't do application programming nor do I do system programming. And frankly, I think I would be bored to tears in either of those positions. So where is the Software Developer salary survey?
To do the moon search in the example. This will solve the problem of people fighting over command names.
But it still isn't going to work because the number of possible commands is going to grow to such a point that no one will remember what command to use! When I use bash and tab complete on "x", I get 119 possible completions. With this command line, type "com." and you get thousands of possible completions. Maybe it will be sucessful if it never catches on and doesn't have to scale...
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Whoa there buddy. Close but no cigar.
XPCOM is by no means a re-implementation of MS COM. They share some basic ideas (and so does CORBA, if we're going that far), but "reimplementation" is not a word I would use.
Another thing to point out is that you can bridge almost any API into XPCOM. XPCOM and WebKit isn't an XOR, you could (probably) provide XPCOM interface to WebKit
How come I never have mod points when a comment truely deserves modding up...
We went through this last time. Intel release the "Host Controller Interface" which defines how USB host controller chips talk to the CPU. The USB group did release and define a USB 3 spec previously.
Companies are welcome to create their own host controller interface to compete with Intel (and people did for USB 1.1).
Your broadcasters had equal opportunity to bribe as well...
In my experience, users usually don't know what they want. Or worse, they'll ask for something, but really want something else.
This idea works better if you have a professional UI designer work up some designs and present those to the users.
You should use your users to generate ideas for your interface, and also as a checkpoint for your interface. But giving them too much input will screw up your end results.
Actually, it uses either PTP or MTP to talk to you camera over USB. Your USB hard drive is a mass storage device which most likely uses SCSI commands over USB.
In either case, the OS presents it to you like its an external hard drive.
Get your eyes checked. Seriously. Get to an optometrist and make sure your vision is OK. If the screen is a little out of focus, you could be squinting to compensate for it and not even notice that you are doing it. And that could easily be giving you headaches.
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IP traffic is going to double? I better go out and buy me some more Cisco routers to handle the problem!
If only I could moderate this +6 should have been in the original writeup....
How come every time someone talks about Javascript, they talk about how people hate it? I have always attributed the hate to the suckage of the HTML DOM, which is kinda unfair to blame Javascript for. Anyone got some more insight into why Javascript sucks?
When I go to sell my house, I will not be doing "For Sale By Owner". When I go to purchase my next house, I will be calling a realtor to help me find it.
The Realtor that helped me buy my first house was invaluable in walking me through a process I had never been through before. All the forms to fill out, what to look for when looking at the house, what the next steps are, etc. etc.
I wonder how many of the people saying "I don't need a realtor" have actually been through the home buying process. I wouldn't want to do it alone.
Huh? It takes more than just the same processor to be able to run the same apps. You gotta have the same operating system. And running Vista on a cell phone doesn't sound like a good idea to me (the mouse is a poor interface for a cell phone).
Almost all application code written today is done in some portable manner. Writing custom assembly specific to a processor in an application is only done in certain performance critical things (ffmpeg anyone?). This is one of the reasons that Apple was so easily able to move from PPC to X86.
I think the guesses on price are totally off. My guess is the price of the box is going to be $299 and that the rentals will be EXACTLY the same price they are in the store.
#1 - First generation hardware is always expensive. I'm sure if it is successful, they will do a cost reduced version that is a lot more competitive with the low end AppleTV
#2 - If Blockbuster is involved, there is no way they are undercutting the prices at their stores. No way.
Sigh. The reason Linux always reports all your memory as being used in the page cache where it caches pages that are read from block devices (like you hard disk). Physical pages in memory that are unused (as opposed to virtual pages that your application just hasn't accessed yet) are used to store data read from disk in case you need to access it again. If you application starts to actually use pages that it allocated (like accessing things in shared libraries), linux will dump those disk cache pages from physical memory and start using those pages for the data your app needs. It can easily do this because it knows it is just a copy of what is on the disk and could easily be recovered.
Take a look at "Understanding the Linux Kernel" from ORA for 2 excellent chapters on how all this works.
Only in the US do you have competing cell phone standards. This fragments the cell phone market. If I have a cool phone, to reach to full US market I have to create like 3 different version of it (one for each cell standard).
In japan (or the rest of the world), you make a GSM phone and you can reach the entire market. In the US, you get to pick AT&T or T-Mobile (and both of them are smaller providers).
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I need a calculator that can do hex, and shifts, and bitwise operations. I mean I love my TI LCD Programmer, but I really miss the shift operations...
The GSM Carriers (T-Mobile and Cingular/AT&T) in the US already do this. They don't care what kind of phone you have or where you got it from, just that you have a proper SIM card in it.
Simple answer then. Don't. At least all the stock sat radio units I've seen suck compared to any of the aftermarket ones you install. Even XM's entry level Roady has a better display that your stock GM radio
Due to thin cornea's, I opted to have PRK done on my earlier this year (rather than LASIK). I have no plans on doing supersonic flight thought, and am VERY VERY happy with the results.
The quick pro/con list of PRK vs. LASIK:
pro PRK:
no cutting of the cornea
con PRK:
can be more painful
longer healing time
The results of both procedures are exactly the same.
This is a trick that all service industries (Sat. Radio, directv, etc.) use for subscriber count. The subscriber count is the number of people, over the lifetime of the product, that have subscribed. Not the same as the current number of subscribers. Blizzard is *NOT* collection 6 million * $15 a month in subscription costs!
And why would they apologize? As far as they are concerned, there was a 911 call from your house yet no emergency. If anyone should apologize, it should be the phone company... And good luck with that...
I'm a software developer. I don't do application programming nor do I do system programming. And frankly, I think I would be bored to tears in either of those positions. So where is the Software Developer salary survey?
It needs some sort of namespaces. An example:
org.archive.search moon
To do the moon search in the example. This will solve the problem of people fighting over command names.
But it still isn't going to work because the number of possible commands is going to grow to such a point that no one will remember what command to use! When I use bash and tab complete on "x", I get 119 possible completions. With this command line, type "com." and you get thousands of possible completions. Maybe it will be sucessful if it never catches on and doesn't have to scale...
According to http://www.dictionary.com/, both mouses and mice are for computer mice.