I wasn't trying to be funny, I was being serious. You think companies put warning labels on their products out of good will? Shyeah, whatever. They put it there for liability, usually as a result of some mishap.
Yeah, just look at Preparation-H. There is a warning label saying do not eat. You know somebody called the company to complain that they ate the tube, and it didn't cure their hemmoroids.
And what about those drying pellets that comes with electronic equipment? You know somebody called up the company/hospital saying something like, "The free chicklets that came with my new stereo system made me sick to my stomach when I tried it"
I have a bunch of boxes I use for dev/test purposes. My primary is a 2Ghz box, and I also have a 800Mhz P-III next to it. Both with 512mb of ram... My apps sure as heck compiles MUUUUUCH faster on the P4 then the P-III. When I run some of my framework apps, you should see the performance. I have a Celery 800 as well. That thing slows to a crawl when I crank up the number of clients, but the P4 continues to fly. The P-III, the animations will slow down a bit. The P4 runs full steam through it...
There truly is no point... Especially in an R&D group like I'm in.... None of my computers are even IT supported. Most of our computers, we expensed, so they are ours, not IT's... The ones that IT did get us, we wiped, and reinstalled. If I were forced to use IT supported software on IT supported hardware, I would never get anything done. Some of the stuff I do, just requires me to do things that IT doesn't like. We try to keep them out of the picture as much as possible;) You just have to take responsibility for your actions, like making sure you don't have a honey pot sitting on the network;)
You must be talking about the 802.11b card... But don't blame intel. Symbol made the card. (or is it cymbol? I forget the spelling)...
But actually, don't get mad at either.. The Vaio is a piece of crap. My Vaio drains the battery MUUUUUUCH faster than my thinkpad.. I also hate how the function keys, the volume wheel, etc etc are all soft keys, meaning you need drivers to get it to work... What a pain... And they didn't work with XP either. And my touch pad on my Vaio is very very quirky... Its so bad, I have to take an external mouse wherever I go.... The eraser point thingy on my thinkpad is much easier to use, and MUCH more reliable. The touchpad on my Vaio always jumps erratically at times, randomly clicking and dragging/screwing things up.
Besides, I like the keyboard illuminator on my thinkpad:)
If you use a thread pool for more than just socket I/O for example.... With some of the optimizations: You can add a work item to the thread pool for a socket read... It blocks.... Now lets say you add another item into the Thread Pool to do something unrelated. Sometimes the thread pool will not spawn a new thread for a while, thus resulting in your other operation not starting immediately... With async I/O, this won't happen.
Except spawning threads/processes takes overhead. So do the context switches... Asynchronous I/O is cheaper. In terms of raw performance, Async I/O will beat a system that spawns new threads for new connections...
Even if you use a thread pool. Lots of systems have optimizations for when a thread pool will spawn a new thread... I've run into it many times. A thread will block, but a new thread will not be spawned by the thread pool immediately... The result is a delay in the response, because the other socket will sit in the queue until the system decides it will spawn a new thread. I'm not talking about the message pump locking or anything, I'm talking about latency in a response. Sometimes this is sensitive. A switch to Async I/O yielded MUCH greater responsiveness. And if you forgo the thread pool, and just spawn a regular worker thread, because it will immediately spawn... Then you introduce the notion of thread ownership....
Literals are objects in.NET in the sense that you can take a literal, type cast it, call methods on it, etc etc... This makes some tasks a lot easier. In java, you cannot type cast a literal, and you sure as hell can't call a method on one...
Right now even the best Java JITS still have parts of the JVM interpreting...
.NET was built such that absolutely nothing is interpreted. The entire thing is compiled up front at execution time, not on a per method basis. But even if Java compiled all the byte code to native up front, parts of the JVM itself is still interpreted.. That's why we have a project here to develop a new JVM that isn't...
Also in.NET everything derives from object, unlike Java... In Java primitives are not Objects... In.NET, that is not the case... Even literals are objects...
Also, I personally prefer the delegate methodology to do events over inner-classes, etc etc...
Also,.NET is built for asyncronous I/O.. Java is not... In Java you have to pretty much spawn a thread for everything... And there is no state object in spawning threads... I had to implement my own thread pool, and add a state object... In.NET, you can use async I/O, and have MUCH MUCH MUCH greater performance... I implemented much of my work in both.NET and Java, and.NET smokes Java in most cases in my experience... I could go on and on and on....
If you think the only thing important is the fact that it's made of copper, then I hope you don't enroll in any EE classes... You will fail for sure... If all conductors behave the same, then there would be no such thing as a resistor or a capacitor. There would also be no reason to have step-up/down transformers. There would be no limitation on trace length, there would be no limitation on USB and IEEE-1394 cable length, etc etc... you are the one that doesn't know what they are talking about.
The warning is actually on MS's web page.. (Somewhere, not sure where, but I heard it 2nd hand...)
Also, EZ-CD creator 5 will work with Win2000/XP correctly, if you do NOT install anything except just the EZ-CD Creator 5 application. The other apps it comes with, is what is screwing up the file system. I forget which one, but I think its take two... And the patch doesn't work... I haven't tried it on 2000 this way, but at work, it works fine with XP this way...
As a side note, you can hardly get mad at MS for letting Roxio write POS drivers. I mean, I'm sure more people would get pissed at MS, if they started telling companies who can and can't write software...
2. They didn't say the OS was responsible for uptime issues with the hardware, they said the OS crashed frequently. Spending resources making the crashed server work again was the main complaint there, not the expense of having a backup server.
Usually, 99.9% or the time, a Windows Crash can be pinpointed to a POS driver... Which is not the OS's fault, its the driver's author's fault. Roxio EZ-CD Creator 5 anyone?
Bill Gates mentioned Linux is better than Windows, and Microsoft's webmaster told me they've upgraded all their servers to Linux and *BSD
or
George W. Bush called me today and mentioned his political idol is Adolph Hitler
and claim they're actually true, watch me getting get locked up.
But if I say:
I heard that Bill Gates mentioned Linux is better than Windows, and that Microsoft's Webmaster upgraded all their servers to Linux and *BSD.
or
Someone that looks & sounds exactly like GW knocked on my door, and told me his idol is Adolph Hitler.
Watch how I will not get locked up. These are basic issues they cover when you discuss libel, in Law 101.
There is no law that says, "If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then its a duck"... The law says that if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then its an animal that looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, but not neccessarily a duck...
And if you said, you merely "heard that", somebody said/did something, it is not libel, because you did not directly claim he did something. Somebody else did.
people post without reading the entire article? If they did, they would know they didn't "fake" any signatures, nor did they mail the letters themselves.
If you are born from a mother with aids, how is that the baby's fault?
If you are car-jacked, and the guy, sticks a needle in your arm, how is that your fault? (Yes, its happened before)
If you are a nurse, and you get pricked with a contaminated needle, how is that your fault?
If you get a blood transfusion from contaminated blood, how is that your fault? (And if you think that 100% of the blood is safe, and the tests are fool-proof, then, well... good luck to you)
If you take precautions and use a condom, how is that your fault? What, you think its 100% effective? Oh, you should've known? What if the other person doesn't know either? Or what if they didn't tell you? How is that your fault?
Also, last time I checked, there is no such thing as a "world government", hence laws in other countries do not apply to other countries. Though, governments would like to think otherwise...ie If something is trademarked in USA, and a company in Timbaktu is using it, do you think they give a rip? Just look at Nike... They were not allowed to provide uniforms/equipment in the 1992 Summer Olympics because either Nike or the swoosh, (I forget which), is already a trademark in Spain. You think that will make Phil Knight change the name of the company or logo, in the USA? Heeeeeeeeell no!
but since you need enough power to DVD generation this is probably not an option.
Really? I play DVD's on a lowly P-II 450, and it works fine. Then again, its going through a Hollywood Hardware Decoder board;) But then again, noise isn't a big deal at all while watching DVD's, since I have the Digital Out plugged into a Dolby Digital Receiver, connected to 6 nice JBL speakers, and two nice subwoofers with their own Amp/X-over, and my wife loves to crank the volume up on the thing:p
Surprisingly, dropping all that cash on the "Home Entertainment" system was my wife's idea:D So she heard no arguments from me:) Now I just gotta save up for a nice LCD Projector, and I'm set...
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Yeah, but we'll never know... On the US Treasury homepage, it says that money says money is "Legal Tender for all debts, public and private"...
Then it goes on to say that Federal law does not say that somebody must accept cash for a debt... However, if you look in any dictionary, "Legal Tender", is defined as something that must be accepted when offered. So, then doesn't that blow a hole in the US Treasury's idea, of what it thinks is law? If so, then great..... Now I can make merchants accept cash, instead of "requiring a credit card"....
One would think if your microwave oven is leaking so much in the 2.4 ghz spectrum, to be causing your network to fail, you may have more serious problems:-o Like cooking your coworkers:)
Check the seals on your oven!:D
I heard one women on slashdot say that her oven actually works with the door open:-o
The world will never know.... Its like saying if Slashdot did not exist our IQ would be higher. But we won't know will we? In the case of the RIAA, if I were to "download" MP3s, the RIAA thinks that I would've bought the CD otherwise... Well, SHYEAH right... If not for the MP3, I would just not bother with the damn CD, cause we all know only one song is any good. I won't buy the CD Single, cause god knows I have too many CD's floating around everywhere. I probably would just borrow the stupid thing from a friend, or just copy it down from the radio, MTV, VH-1, or some other means. Most of the MP3s that get collected, I'm sure get collected because they were there, and probably convenien... Hell, I've actually boughten a few CD's becuase I like the MP3 so much. If it wasn't for the MP3 I probably wouldn't even know about the song.... So much for their logic...
I hear many people use that argument with MS's C/C++ compiler.... Besides, that's different. Not implementing certain ANSI features is better than changing the meaning of things, which is what cactus is doing. I mean, those things are in CDDA for a reason. Its like MS going out and saying that for security reasons, "int" will now be a String type.
ALL of sony's consumer digital cameras's are the single chip variety. Many of the camera's in the PRO lineup have three chips. That is one for red, one for green, and one for blue. The quality is an order of magnitude better on the 3 chip variety compared to the single chip variety.
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You just described UPnP (Universal Plug and Play)
I wasn't trying to be funny, I was being serious. You think companies put warning labels on their products out of good will? Shyeah, whatever. They put it there for liability, usually as a result of some mishap.
Yeah, just look at Preparation-H. There is a warning label saying do not eat. You know somebody called the company to complain that they ate the tube, and it didn't cure their hemmoroids.
And what about those drying pellets that comes with electronic equipment? You know somebody called up the company/hospital saying something like, "The free chicklets that came with my new stereo system made me sick to my stomach when I tried it"
So if your PS2 breaks, you have to buy a new game? Whoo hoo, sign me up :)
I have a bunch of boxes I use for dev/test purposes. My primary is a 2Ghz box, and I also have a 800Mhz P-III next to it. Both with 512mb of ram... My apps sure as heck compiles MUUUUUCH faster on the P4 then the P-III. When I run some of my framework apps, you should see the performance. I have a Celery 800 as well. That thing slows to a crawl when I crank up the number of clients, but the P4 continues to fly. The P-III, the animations will slow down a bit. The P4 runs full steam through it...
There truly is no point... Especially in an R&D group like I'm in.... None of my computers are even IT supported. Most of our computers, we expensed, so they are ours, not IT's... The ones that IT did get us, we wiped, and reinstalled. If I were forced to use IT supported software on IT supported hardware, I would never get anything done. Some of the stuff I do, just requires me to do things that IT doesn't like. We try to keep them out of the picture as much as possible ;) You just have to take responsibility for your actions, like making sure you don't have a honey pot sitting on the network ;)
You must be talking about the 802.11b card... But don't blame intel. Symbol made the card. (or is it cymbol? I forget the spelling)...
:)
But actually, don't get mad at either.. The Vaio is a piece of crap. My Vaio drains the battery MUUUUUUCH faster than my thinkpad.. I also hate how the function keys, the volume wheel, etc etc are all soft keys, meaning you need drivers to get it to work... What a pain... And they didn't work with XP either. And my touch pad on my Vaio is very very quirky... Its so bad, I have to take an external mouse wherever I go.... The eraser point thingy on my thinkpad is much easier to use, and MUCH more reliable. The touchpad on my Vaio always jumps erratically at times, randomly clicking and dragging/screwing things up.
Besides, I like the keyboard illuminator on my thinkpad
If you use a thread pool for more than just socket I/O for example.... With some of the optimizations: You can add a work item to the thread pool for a socket read... It blocks.... Now lets say you add another item into the Thread Pool to do something unrelated. Sometimes the thread pool will not spawn a new thread for a while, thus resulting in your other operation not starting immediately... With async I/O, this won't happen.
Except spawning threads/processes takes overhead. So do the context switches... Asynchronous I/O is cheaper. In terms of raw performance, Async I/O will beat a system that spawns new threads for new connections...
Even if you use a thread pool. Lots of systems have optimizations for when a thread pool will spawn a new thread... I've run into it many times. A thread will block, but a new thread will not be spawned by the thread pool immediately... The result is a delay in the response, because the other socket will sit in the queue until the system decides it will spawn a new thread. I'm not talking about the message pump locking or anything, I'm talking about latency in a response. Sometimes this is sensitive. A switch to Async I/O yielded MUCH greater responsiveness. And if you forgo the thread pool, and just spawn a regular worker thread, because it will immediately spawn... Then you introduce the notion of thread ownership....
Literals are objects in .NET in the sense that you can take a literal, type cast it, call methods on it, etc etc... This makes some tasks a lot easier. In java, you cannot type cast a literal, and you sure as hell can't call a method on one...
Right now even the best Java JITS still have parts of the JVM interpreting...
.NET everything derives from object, unlike Java... In Java primitives are not Objects... In .NET, that is not the case... Even literals are objects...
.NET is built for asyncronous I/O.. Java is not... In Java you have to pretty much spawn a thread for everything... And there is no state object in spawning threads... I had to implement my own thread pool, and add a state object... In .NET, you can use async I/O, and have MUCH MUCH MUCH greater performance... I implemented much of my work in both .NET and Java, and .NET smokes Java in most cases in my experience... I could go on and on and on....
.NET was built such that absolutely nothing is interpreted. The entire thing is compiled up front at execution time, not on a per method basis. But even if Java compiled all the byte code to native up front, parts of the JVM itself is still interpreted.. That's why we have a project here to develop a new JVM that isn't...
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Also, I personally prefer the delegate methodology to do events over inner-classes, etc etc...
Also,
If you think the only thing important is the fact that it's made of copper, then I hope you don't enroll in any EE classes... You will fail for sure... If all conductors behave the same, then there would be no such thing as a resistor or a capacitor. There would also be no reason to have step-up/down transformers. There would be no limitation on trace length, there would be no limitation on USB and IEEE-1394 cable length, etc etc... you are the one that doesn't know what they are talking about.
The warning is actually on MS's web page.. (Somewhere, not sure where, but I heard it 2nd hand...)
Also, EZ-CD creator 5 will work with Win2000/XP correctly, if you do NOT install anything except just the EZ-CD Creator 5 application. The other apps it comes with, is what is screwing up the file system. I forget which one, but I think its take two... And the patch doesn't work... I haven't tried it on 2000 this way, but at work, it works fine with XP this way...
As a side note, you can hardly get mad at MS for letting Roxio write POS drivers. I mean, I'm sure more people would get pissed at MS, if they started telling companies who can and can't write software...
2. They didn't say the OS was responsible for uptime issues with the hardware, they said the OS crashed frequently. Spending resources making the crashed server work again was the main complaint there, not the expense of having a backup server.
Usually, 99.9% or the time, a Windows Crash can be pinpointed to a POS driver... Which is not the OS's fault, its the driver's author's fault. Roxio EZ-CD Creator 5 anyone?
If I state
Bill Gates mentioned Linux is better than Windows, and Microsoft's webmaster told me they've upgraded all their servers to Linux and *BSD
or
George W. Bush called me today and mentioned his political idol is Adolph Hitler
and claim they're actually true, watch me getting get locked up.
But if I say:
I heard that Bill Gates mentioned Linux is better than Windows, and that Microsoft's Webmaster upgraded all their servers to Linux and *BSD.
or
Someone that looks & sounds exactly like GW knocked on my door, and told me his idol is Adolph Hitler.
Watch how I will not get locked up. These are basic issues they cover when you discuss libel, in Law 101.
There is no law that says, "If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then its a duck"... The law says that if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then its an animal that looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, but not neccessarily a duck...
And if you said, you merely "heard that", somebody said/did something, it is not libel, because you did not directly claim he did something. Somebody else did.
people post without reading the entire article? If they did, they would know they didn't "fake" any signatures, nor did they mail the letters themselves.
If you are born from a mother with aids, how is that the baby's fault?
If you are car-jacked, and the guy, sticks a needle in your arm, how is that your fault? (Yes, its happened before)
If you are a nurse, and you get pricked with a contaminated needle, how is that your fault?
If you get a blood transfusion from contaminated blood, how is that your fault? (And if you think that 100% of the blood is safe, and the tests are fool-proof, then, well... good luck to you)
If you take precautions and use a condom, how is that your fault? What, you think its 100% effective? Oh, you should've known? What if the other person doesn't know either? Or what if they didn't tell you? How is that your fault?
Also, last time I checked, there is no such thing as a "world government", hence laws in other countries do not apply to other countries. Though, governments would like to think otherwise...ie If something is trademarked in USA, and a company in Timbaktu is using it, do you think they give a rip? Just look at Nike... They were not allowed to provide uniforms/equipment in the 1992 Summer Olympics because either Nike or the swoosh, (I forget which), is already a trademark in Spain. You think that will make Phil Knight change the name of the company or logo, in the USA? Heeeeeeeeell no!
etc etc etc
but since you need enough power to DVD generation this is probably not an option.
;) But then again, noise isn't a big deal at all while watching DVD's, since I have the Digital Out plugged into a Dolby Digital Receiver, connected to 6 nice JBL speakers, and two nice subwoofers with their own Amp/X-over, and my wife loves to crank the volume up on the thing :p
:D So she heard no arguments from me :) Now I just gotta save up for a nice LCD Projector, and I'm set...
Really? I play DVD's on a lowly P-II 450, and it works fine. Then again, its going through a Hollywood Hardware Decoder board
Surprisingly, dropping all that cash on the "Home Entertainment" system was my wife's idea
Yeah, but we'll never know... On the US Treasury homepage, it says that money says money is "Legal Tender for all debts, public and private"...
Then it goes on to say that Federal law does not say that somebody must accept cash for a debt... However, if you look in any dictionary, "Legal Tender", is defined as something that must be accepted when offered. So, then doesn't that blow a hole in the US Treasury's idea, of what it thinks is law? If so, then great..... Now I can make merchants accept cash, instead of "requiring a credit card"....
One would think if your microwave oven is leaking so much in the 2.4 ghz spectrum, to be causing your network to fail, you may have more serious problems :-o Like cooking your coworkers :)
:D
:-o
Check the seals on your oven!
I heard one women on slashdot say that her oven actually works with the door open
Now if only bluetooth can give you power wirelessly, we can get rid of the power cable too :) heh heh
The world will never know.... Its like saying if Slashdot did not exist our IQ would be higher. But we won't know will we? In the case of the RIAA, if I were to "download" MP3s, the RIAA thinks that I would've bought the CD otherwise... Well, SHYEAH right... If not for the MP3, I would just not bother with the damn CD, cause we all know only one song is any good. I won't buy the CD Single, cause god knows I have too many CD's floating around everywhere. I probably would just borrow the stupid thing from a friend, or just copy it down from the radio, MTV, VH-1, or some other means. Most of the MP3s that get collected, I'm sure get collected because they were there, and probably convenien... Hell, I've actually boughten a few CD's becuase I like the MP3 so much. If it wasn't for the MP3 I probably wouldn't even know about the song.... So much for their logic...
I'm sure south... If this was north, I'm sure the regime there would've executed them... Either that or commend them, and download all their warez ;)
I hear many people use that argument with MS's C/C++ compiler.... Besides, that's different. Not implementing certain ANSI features is better than changing the meaning of things, which is what cactus is doing. I mean, those things are in CDDA for a reason. Its like MS going out and saying that for security reasons, "int" will now be a String type.
ALL of sony's consumer digital cameras's are the single chip variety. Many of the camera's in the PRO lineup have three chips. That is one for red, one for green, and one for blue. The quality is an order of magnitude better on the 3 chip variety compared to the single chip variety.