It's amazing what kinds of application can drag down a machine. At work, I have a 450MHz PII running NT 4.0. If I run Sonique in the background with the small window animation displaying, the cycles it sucks up will drag down everything. Window refresh gets a bit interesting, too. I'm sure many who have PCs aren't doing just single tasks, but have multiple tasks running in the background, each one sucking up cycles to the point where something like a 450MHz is no longer adequate in my opinion for "everyday" use.
I can imagine it now. If you've seen The Fast and The Furious motion picture, then it's a natural progression that these devices would be modified by people, and youths because their devices are deliberately underpowered because the government don't want us to commit crimes, hurt ourselves, hurt others, etc. I wonder what a "rice boy" mod to these suits would be? For references, check out Rice Boy Page. Note: "rice boy" isn't slanted towards Asians.
You were probably horrified because you had forgotten back in the 1981/1982 timeframe, IBM was the enemy in the eyes of many in the microcomputer industry and Apple and Microsoft were among of the good guys. Linux wasn't even in the picture. During that time, I had an Apple II at that time and had no ill feelings toward Microsoft.
You've seen episodes 2 and 3? Just because the books have withstood the test of time...so far, doesn't mean their movies will automatically have the same level of success. Call me a skeptic, realist, or cynic.
One can be expressive using Chinese as well, but takes many years of practice. My dad was reading a book of small stories and I had asked about what kinds of stories these were. Each story was about 5-10 pages long. But the text were composed in such a way that a sentence took around several minutes of explanation from my father. He "translated" a paragraph but it took around 45 minutes to an hour.
Every word has the same sound regardless of it's grammatical frame
Not entirely true. There are exceptions although a lot less than that of English. An example is the second character of "bank" where it is pronounced differently when used in another part of a noun or context.
English is quite confusing for beginners because it borrows so much from other languages and there are many exceptions, and different meanings and pronounciation for words with the same spelling.
There are Cantonese-specific characters that are sometimes used in films. An example of which is Jet Li's Fong Sai Yuk I and II. While most of the written language in Southern China is formal--which is pretty much the same as Mandarin--there are differences.
The flamebait is warranted because Microsoft has made a big stink about how they're taking security seriously and claim that it is the most secure version of Windows along with taking extra care in dealing with buffer overflows by auditing their source. Once you make claims like this--as well as that misguided statement where Windows 2000 will not require any patches faux-pas--you're just asking for trouble. It didn't help Microsoft's PR campaign that this exploit was made possible by a buffer overflow either.
Microsoft could learn a thing or two from OpenBSD who is able to actually back up their claim of thoroughly auditing their codebase.
My volume of emails/meetings from various projects have forced me to use Outlook/Exchange 97. While the calendar feature is convenient, there are some things that I hate about Outlook.
1. I like to send stuff in text, but when I reply to people's messages, the editor wants to change the type to html/rich text format. Problem is the Format menu doesn't always allow me to select Plain Text. Sometimes, it is there, othertimes it's gone.
2. Doesn't permit quoted messages to start before where I type. It likes to append everything to the end. This "feature" allows people to be super-lazy (I've done this a few times, too) and quote everything from every other piece of conversation in the thread rather than the relevant parts of the discussion.
3. Searches of the address book whether it is global or local is dumb. In many instances, the system doesn't search for an individual's name properly and it brings up other people's names who don't resemble the name I've typed.
I find that ever since IE 5 and above don't allow me to lock the cookie folder and remain functional for all sites, I tend to use Mozilla to read slashdot, where I only have my slashdot cookie stored in the read-only cookies.txt file.
Is it still true that the more RDRAM you add to a system, the system's latency will increase because of its architecture? If this is so, I would stay away from RDRAM even if it's on par with DDR-SDRAM in terms of price.
Yes, inline comments are nicer, but if there are more than 1 person working on the same source, you'll get conflicts like using tabs rather than spaces and eventually, your comments will not line up and it will look messy. Add people who use UNIX vs. Windows and you'll get line wrap problems. Actually, even in a UNIX world, personal preferences for tabstops will be a nusiance depending what tools you use for editing code. Using a beautifier can be a partial solution but I'd rather not waste more time with doing that.
// get rid of the array for (i = 0; i array_size; i++) free(array[i]); free(array);
Actually, your example isn't more helpful because your comment doesn't tell me more than what the code says. Rather than commenting on the code verbatim, comments should have insight to the code. A comment like "get rid of the input filenames" is better than "get rid of the array."
I have seen cubes in stores and unfortunately, they all exhibit these cracks, and they were definitely not mold lines. Each cube had cracks in a different part of the case and they were curved, unlike mold lines, which are straight. There aren't a lot of them but they are there.
Bleemcast does work with copied PSX titles, I know Gran Tourismo 2 works. The reason this capability is there was apparently Sony has a patent on its copy protection system used in the Playstation. If Bleem had implemented that functionality, they would have lost in court due to patent infringement.
I could actually go back to modem at even 28.8 but the funny thing is at certain times of night and very early morning--6pm-12 midnight and 5am-9am--I cannot get a consistent connection on either of my 28.8 (Motorola) or 56K (USR) modems. Most times, I would dial and I would hear a lot of clicking. Picking up my telephone headset doesn't have that problem. But if I had my modem dial, the modems couldn't even recognize a dial tone.
The telephone company will not guarantee data rates on commercial phone lines, so I was SOL. Working from home via an unreliable telephone connection was just not cutting it, and getting a special data line would not be worth the trouble because I can get DSL. My company was sympathetic enough of my frustration that they fasttracked my subscription to DSL (1.5mbps/160kbps).
So the computer science student's foundation doesn't have the concept of error checking in it, and the lack of good error checking will perpetuate as this person writes code in the future.
Your comment is unfounded. Would you prefer to have a program exit or dumping core without any message or something that says "cannot open/some/bogus/path. It is not a readable file"?
It is a lot easier to not check for errno but its existence is there for a reason--to allow programmers to write friendlier code. I have been guilty of not checking for return status/errno in the past and have been burned by this omission during deep production support.
Of course, errors don't apply to you since you write perfect code.
I don't listen to a lot of CDs in my car because the hassle of constantly switching CDs and when I had a CD changer, it was a bigger pain to switch CDs.
So, what is a good MP3-enabled car player that will recognize multi-session discs? I don't feel like maxing out a CD at any given time and would prefer to add new songs as I require.
Another question is are the MP3 players today capable of playing MP3s if they're stored in directories rather than all having to be in the root directory?
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You forgot the chore that took up the most time, according to a friend who ran an arcade in the distant past: wax the playing surface.
It's amazing what kinds of application can drag down a machine. At work, I have a 450MHz PII running NT 4.0. If I run Sonique in the background with the small window animation displaying, the cycles it sucks up will drag down everything. Window refresh gets a bit interesting, too. I'm sure many who have PCs aren't doing just single tasks, but have multiple tasks running in the background, each one sucking up cycles to the point where something like a 450MHz is no longer adequate in my opinion for "everyday" use.
I can imagine it now. If you've seen The Fast and The Furious motion picture, then it's a natural progression that these devices would be modified by people, and youths because their devices are deliberately underpowered because the government don't want us to commit crimes, hurt ourselves, hurt others, etc. I wonder what a "rice boy" mod to these suits would be? For references, check out Rice Boy Page. Note: "rice boy" isn't slanted towards Asians.
You were probably horrified because you had forgotten back in the 1981/1982 timeframe, IBM was the enemy in the eyes of many in the microcomputer industry and Apple and Microsoft were among of the good guys. Linux wasn't even in the picture. During that time, I had an Apple II at that time and had no ill feelings toward Microsoft.
There are what appears to be ventilation holes on top of the halfdome base so mounting it vertically will probably cause overheating.
You've seen episodes 2 and 3? Just because the books have withstood the test of time...so far, doesn't mean their movies will automatically have the same level of success. Call me a skeptic, realist, or cynic.
When I saw Star Wars, I remember seeing "A New Hope" scroll up but not "Episode IV."
I am just happy that I can download a new version under Windows/FreeBSD and install over the existing installation without problems like in the past.
One can be expressive using Chinese as well, but takes many years of practice. My dad was reading a book of small stories and I had asked about what kinds of stories these were. Each story was about 5-10 pages long. But the text were composed in such a way that a sentence took around several minutes of explanation from my father. He "translated" a paragraph but it took around 45 minutes to an hour.
Every word has the same sound regardless of it's grammatical frame
Not entirely true. There are exceptions although a lot less than that of English. An example is the second character of "bank" where it is pronounced differently when used in another part of a noun or context.
English is quite confusing for beginners because it borrows so much from other languages and there are many exceptions, and different meanings and pronounciation for words with the same spelling.
Japan had a simplification period for Kanji as well. Currently, Kanji is a mixture of traditional, simplified, and unique ideographs.
There are Cantonese-specific characters that are sometimes used in films. An example of which is Jet Li's Fong Sai Yuk I and II. While most of the written language in Southern China is formal--which is pretty much the same as Mandarin--there are differences.
Computers may be cheaper in China than the U.S., but the average income in China aren't even close to that in the U.S.
The flamebait is warranted because Microsoft has made a big stink about how they're taking security seriously and claim that it is the most secure version of Windows along with taking extra care in dealing with buffer overflows by auditing their source. Once you make claims like this--as well as that misguided statement where Windows 2000 will not require any patches faux-pas--you're just asking for trouble. It didn't help Microsoft's PR campaign that this exploit was made possible by a buffer overflow either.
Microsoft could learn a thing or two from OpenBSD who is able to actually back up their claim of thoroughly auditing their codebase.
My volume of emails/meetings from various projects have forced me to use Outlook/Exchange 97. While the calendar feature is convenient, there are some things that I hate about Outlook.
1. I like to send stuff in text, but when I reply to people's messages, the editor wants to change the type to html/rich text format. Problem is the Format menu doesn't always allow me to select Plain Text. Sometimes, it is there, othertimes it's gone.
2. Doesn't permit quoted messages to start before where I type. It likes to append everything to the end. This "feature" allows people to be super-lazy (I've done this a few times, too) and quote everything from every other piece of conversation in the thread rather than the relevant parts of the discussion.
3. Searches of the address book whether it is global or local is dumb. In many instances, the system doesn't search for an individual's name properly and it brings up other people's names who don't resemble the name I've typed.
I find that ever since IE 5 and above don't allow me to lock the cookie folder and remain functional for all sites, I tend to use Mozilla to read slashdot, where I only have my slashdot cookie stored in the read-only cookies.txt file.
Is it still true that the more RDRAM you add to a system, the system's latency will increase because of its architecture? If this is so, I would stay away from RDRAM even if it's on par with DDR-SDRAM in terms of price.
Yes, inline comments are nicer, but if there are more than 1 person working on the same source, you'll get conflicts like using tabs rather than spaces and eventually, your comments will not line up and it will look messy. Add people who use UNIX vs. Windows and you'll get line wrap problems. Actually, even in a UNIX world, personal preferences for tabstops will be a nusiance depending what tools you use for editing code. Using a beautifier can be a partial solution but I'd rather not waste more time with doing that.
// get rid of the array
for (i = 0; i array_size; i++)
free(array[i]);
free(array);
Actually, your example isn't more helpful because your comment doesn't tell me more than what the code says. Rather than commenting on the code verbatim, comments should have insight to the code. A comment like "get rid of the input filenames" is better than "get rid of the array."
I have seen cubes in stores and unfortunately, they all exhibit these cracks, and they were definitely not mold lines. Each cube had cracks in a different part of the case and they were curved, unlike mold lines, which are straight. There aren't a lot of them but they are there.
Bleemcast does work with copied PSX titles, I know Gran Tourismo 2 works. The reason this capability is there was apparently Sony has a patent on its copy protection system used in the Playstation. If Bleem had implemented that functionality, they would have lost in court due to patent infringement.
I could actually go back to modem at even 28.8 but the funny thing is at certain times of night and very early morning--6pm-12 midnight and 5am-9am--I cannot get a consistent connection on either of my 28.8 (Motorola) or 56K (USR) modems. Most times, I would dial and I would hear a lot of clicking. Picking up my telephone headset doesn't have that problem. But if I had my modem dial, the modems couldn't even recognize a dial tone.
The telephone company will not guarantee data rates on commercial phone lines, so I was SOL. Working from home via an unreliable telephone connection was just not cutting it, and getting a special data line would not be worth the trouble because I can get DSL. My company was sympathetic enough of my frustration that they fasttracked my subscription to DSL (1.5mbps/160kbps).
So the computer science student's foundation doesn't have the concept of error checking in it, and the lack of good error checking will perpetuate as this person writes code in the future.
Your comment is unfounded. Would you prefer to have a program exit or dumping core without any message or something that says "cannot open /some/bogus/path. It is not a readable file"?
It is a lot easier to not check for errno but its existence is there for a reason--to allow programmers to write friendlier code. I have been guilty of not checking for return status/errno in the past and have been burned by this omission during deep production support.
Of course, errors don't apply to you since you write perfect code.
So, what is a good MP3-enabled car player that will recognize multi-session discs? I don't feel like maxing out a CD at any given time and would prefer to add new songs as I require.
Another question is are the MP3 players today capable of playing MP3s if they're stored in directories rather than all having to be in the root directory?