Find a good computer retailer. They can sell you a complete system cheeper then the sum of the parts. This is because the margin on a system is less than the margin on all the parts purchased seperatly.
Oh yeh, don't skimp on the specs!!! Get good stuff
Even if microsoft disclosed the source code, It would still be copyrighted. This means that people can't change it and re-distribute. It also means that you can't copy any of their code. I think it would be useless to developers to look at MS source code as they wouldn't be able to use it.
And for those who think about MS releasing the code and being able to use it like GPL code are on crack
I write this in caps as 90% of coders write a thousand lines of code and then test. The way to do it is: 1) Write your methods from your specification (you do have a specification don't you???) 2) Read the code to make sure it does exactly what the specification says it should 3) Test the method with every type of value it can recieve. 4) fix the bugs in the method 5) re-read the code to make sure it still meets the spec.
I say method, because testing should be on the method level. A method is AT MOST 20-30 lines of code (from O-O point of view) any more and there is too much code and it's to confusing (GUIs are exceptions).
The theory is that if the methods are correct and the specs are correct, the program will work together, but still do unit testing in gradually increasing sizes.
ALSO (in O-O programming (Java,C++,C#,etc)) NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER USE GOTO, EVER If your spec needs a goto statement, re-writeit. I can't stress this enough. GOTO is evil, it's bad, it's taliban! It breaks the flow of the program. Java does not have goto, so you can do without it! Also don't use pointers in C#!!!!!
Ah, the gigahertz trap, you've fallen in it even when trying to disprove it. It is fair to compare AMD and Intel by MHz (to an extent). Both these chips are functionally identical Comparing a G4 and P4 does NOT work, as they use a different archetecure. a P4 uses "Complex Instruction Set" while the G4 (motorola) uses a "simple Instruction Set". This means the G4 can execute more instructions per clock cycle than the P4 due to things like pipelining being easier. The downside is that compilers for the G4 are complex to take advantage of this piplining
Anything can be proved with enough flawed mathematics. Think how many times things have been proven, only to be found flawed later on? That is the foundation of the scientific method.
Jext - Written in 100% Java
- Open Source (hosted on Sourceforge)
- Syntax Highlighting
- virtual workspaces/(switch between projects)
- Auto code macros
- Filemanager, so you can add your current files to be easily opened
- tabbed pages
- fast
- FREE
This breaks the 2 out of 3 rule:-
Fast, Cheap, Good (choose 2)
According to CNN it was an American Airlines boing 767 from boston (unknown how many people on board and if taken forcfully). Clearly a terrorist attack, but no responsibility.
Intelligence has no idea
W. is not going to be happy, this is very bad for him!! where was the CIA??
The president confirms that two planes crashed into the plane.
Full investigation and crap like that.. as per usuall
The tech is there... Broadband cable
The problem is people are not buying. The situation here in australia is that you get your cable (optus or telstra) TV and then you have to pay extra (a lot extra) to get internet. Also they charge ANOTHER installation fee...
Anyway people won't buy broadband if they don't have a need for it, or can't benifit from it. How is your typical email using, instant chat inDUHvidual going to need boradband?
Now if comapanies (the cable ones) offered igh speed services that used the capacity of the cable.. it would start taking off
I see some comments saying this is impinging on personal liberty.
I agree that over 18's should be able to look at everything they want (including drinking alcahol). But the thing is, it's in a PUBLIC PLACE. What if some 10 year old walked passed your terminal at the library and saw your favorite donkey pron site?
Webmail is indistinguishable from other web pages and wouldn't be blocked
What they are talking about is email being sent through outlook or such a program that uses SMTP and POP. Most public places, even my university disble the ports that these operate on because of security. It is a sure fire way of stopping sircam and the sort from infecting the computers
The original source code could still be released under GPL, and any additions made by the company could be licienced under SPL.
This would mean that they would have to release the source code for the GPL stuff, which they do.
Pretty much waht they are doing is making companies pay for the new changes, not the whole thing.
Eg, if I took mozilla say, and added a new option somewhere in the program, then I could resell the program for $1000 per copy, provided that I can find a buyer.. and I will only find a buyer if the option I added is worth the money
Under the GPL I don't have to release the source to my modifications, rather just the original code
I think this change is fair enough.
Under the GPL anyone can resell the code for profit. They are still providing the source code under SPL so they arn't voilating the GPL
This is one step up from the GPL service business model, in that any changes from the code that the company had written, they will get paid for if someone else profits from it.
I think it is too high of the OSS comunity to think that if the single developer released the code under GPL before they thought they could make money from it, then it should be GPL for ever.
OSS developers also have to earn money somehow, and if this software is made by the one person, it is ovious that they have spent lots of time on it.
Standardization in the communications industry works like this:
1) Someone thinks up a cool technology (tokenring)
2) Someone usually thinks up a cool technology like 1) but not quite compatable (ethernet)
3) both (all) competing companies and anybody else who is interested goes to the standards commitiee (ISO, IEEE, etc) where they try and come up with a standard that is a good comprimise
4) sometimes same but incompatable standards are produced and their left to fight it out
In this case Apple invented the technology, but when they put it to the standards commitiee, they loose absolute control over where the technology goes, but they still have a major influence
It seems that the FBI and other crime fighting organizations are opposed to encription as a rule (as long as they can use it). They encourage the use of weak encryption by members of the public (which they can crack in a reasonable time.
What if.. What if.. The legislators put up the DMCA to make people feel they can use dodgy encryption and nobody could break them.
Is the FBI covered by DMCA??
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Open the html document in M$ word and set the margins appropriately. Then get it to scale down and print on one page.
OR
Open it the pictures in Paint Shop Pro (excelent program, free evaluation) and got to print set up and select landscape and fit to page
What like Terminal Services??
Find a good computer retailer. They can sell you a complete system cheeper then the sum of the parts. This is because the margin on a system is less than the margin on all the parts purchased seperatly.
Oh yeh, don't skimp on the specs!!! Get good stuff
Just following up on the discussion on bad programming is this headline:
Californian Blimp makers fill balloon with Hydrogen instead of Helium. It is believed the mistake was due to a programming error.
mmm... Hydrogen firefighting balloon
Even if microsoft disclosed the source code, It would still be copyrighted. This means that people can't change it and re-distribute. It also means that you can't copy any of their code. I think it would be useless to developers to look at MS source code as they wouldn't be able to use it.
And for those who think about MS releasing the code and being able to use it like GPL code are on crack
TEST AS YOU GO!!!!
I write this in caps as 90% of coders write a thousand lines of code and then test. The way to do it is:
1) Write your methods from your specification (you do have a specification don't you???)
2) Read the code to make sure it does exactly what the specification says it should
3) Test the method with every type of value it can recieve.
4) fix the bugs in the method
5) re-read the code to make sure it still meets the spec.
I say method, because testing should be on the method level. A method is AT MOST 20-30 lines of code (from O-O point of view) any more and there is too much code and it's to confusing (GUIs are exceptions).
The theory is that if the methods are correct and the specs are correct, the program will work together, but still do unit testing in gradually increasing sizes.
ALSO (in O-O programming (Java,C++,C#,etc)) NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER USE GOTO, EVER
If your spec needs a goto statement, re-writeit. I can't stress this enough. GOTO is evil, it's bad, it's taliban! It breaks the flow of the program. Java does not have goto, so you can do without it!
Also don't use pointers in C#!!!!!
Ah, the gigahertz trap, you've fallen in it even when trying to disprove it. It is fair to compare AMD and Intel by MHz (to an extent). Both these chips are functionally identical
Comparing a G4 and P4 does NOT work, as they use a different archetecure. a P4 uses "Complex Instruction Set" while the G4 (motorola) uses a "simple Instruction Set". This means the G4 can execute more instructions per clock cycle than the P4 due to things like pipelining being easier. The downside is that compilers for the G4 are complex to take advantage of this piplining
The "Study" does not take into account new web pages that have replaced the old.
But then again it is an interesting piece of trivia
Anything can be proved with enough flawed mathematics. Think how many times things have been proven, only to be found flawed later on? That is the foundation of the scientific method.
C# gets me really rilled up, It just makes me think of good old Billy boy getting of on it and it makes me horny too.
"One the Seventh day Sun betgotten Java from the earth, and he was please. Bill was pissed off so he took all of Java except the rib and begott C#"
Hmm. I have here next to me, 3 Ultra Star 20Gb drives that failed within one day of each other.. Bye Bye RAID server
Your list reminds me of a statement that can be applied to cars (and most other things including software.
Fast, Cheap, Good
Choose 2 of 3
Jext
- Written in 100% Java
- Open Source (hosted on Sourceforge)
- Syntax Highlighting
- virtual workspaces/(switch between projects)
- Auto code macros
- Filemanager, so you can add your current files to be easily opened
- tabbed pages
- fast
- FREE
This breaks the 2 out of 3 rule:-
Fast, Cheap, Good (choose 2)
-Ope
Todays date is Sept 11
Anyone remember S11 last year?
coincidence? maybe, but it's fuel for conspiracies
According to CNN it was an American Airlines boing 767 from boston (unknown how many people on board and if taken forcfully). Clearly a terrorist attack, but no responsibility.
Intelligence has no idea
W. is not going to be happy, this is very bad for him!! where was the CIA??
The president confirms that two planes crashed into the plane.
Full investigation and crap like that.. as per usuall
Most likely the Chinese Nazi Communists from Russia
The tech is there... Broadband cable
The problem is people are not buying. The situation here in australia is that you get your cable (optus or telstra) TV and then you have to pay extra (a lot extra) to get internet. Also they charge ANOTHER installation fee...
Anyway people won't buy broadband if they don't have a need for it, or can't benifit from it. How is your typical email using, instant chat inDUHvidual going to need boradband?
Now if comapanies (the cable ones) offered igh speed services that used the capacity of the cable.. it would start taking off
http://archive.nytimes.com/2001/09/02/business/02C ONT.html
I see some comments saying this is impinging on personal liberty.
I agree that over 18's should be able to look at everything they want (including drinking alcahol). But the thing is, it's in a PUBLIC PLACE. What if some 10 year old walked passed your terminal at the library and saw your favorite donkey pron site?
Webmail is indistinguishable from other web pages and wouldn't be blocked
What they are talking about is email being sent through outlook or such a program that uses SMTP and POP. Most public places, even my university disble the ports that these operate on because of security. It is a sure fire way of stopping sircam and the sort from infecting the computers
The original source code could still be released under GPL, and any additions made by the company could be licienced under SPL.
This would mean that they would have to release the source code for the GPL stuff, which they do.
Pretty much waht they are doing is making companies pay for the new changes, not the whole thing.
Eg, if I took mozilla say, and added a new option somewhere in the program, then I could resell the program for $1000 per copy, provided that I can find a buyer.. and I will only find a buyer if the option I added is worth the money
Under the GPL I don't have to release the source to my modifications, rather just the original code
I think this change is fair enough.
Under the GPL anyone can resell the code for profit. They are still providing the source code under SPL so they arn't voilating the GPL
This is one step up from the GPL service business model, in that any changes from the code that the company had written, they will get paid for if someone else profits from it.
I think it is too high of the OSS comunity to think that if the single developer released the code under GPL before they thought they could make money from it, then it should be GPL for ever.
OSS developers also have to earn money somehow, and if this software is made by the one person, it is ovious that they have spent lots of time on it.
Standardization in the communications industry works like this:
1) Someone thinks up a cool technology (tokenring)
2) Someone usually thinks up a cool technology like 1) but not quite compatable (ethernet)
3) both (all) competing companies and anybody else who is interested goes to the standards commitiee (ISO, IEEE, etc) where they try and come up with a standard that is a good comprimise
4) sometimes same but incompatable standards are produced and their left to fight it out
In this case Apple invented the technology, but when they put it to the standards commitiee, they loose absolute control over where the technology goes, but they still have a major influence
I don't think I've seen it mentioned here, but
It seems that the FBI and other crime fighting organizations are opposed to encription as a rule (as long as they can use it). They encourage the use of weak encryption by members of the public (which they can crack in a reasonable time.
What if.. What if.. The legislators put up the DMCA to make people feel they can use dodgy encryption and nobody could break them.
Is the FBI covered by DMCA??
--
I write this from the saftey of australia.. I'll throw a few Koala BEARS at them if they come and get me