The regulation that the letter cited is one that says ads should look like ads and not like editorial content. It's a legal issue. Maybe if Altavista had a disclaimer at the top of every page it would be kind of like the yellow pages because everyone knows that companies pay to get more space in the yellow pages.
If you have enough dough to waste on a P4, get a Mac instead...
Macs are cheaper than P4 systems?
G4 - from Apple's Online store
$2,199.00
PowerPC G4 533MHz
1MB L2 cache
128MB SDRAM memory
40GB Ultra ATA hard drive
CD-RW Drive
NVIDIA GeForce2 MX
Gigabit Ethernet
56K internal modem
P4 System - from Gateway.com
$1,889.00
Pentium 4 1800 MHz
128MB RDRAM memory
40GB Ultra ATA hard drive (7200 RPM)
CD-RW Drive (12x/8x/32x)
ATI Radeon VE, 64MB DDR, TV-Out, DVI; Firewire Card
SoundBlaster Live!, Boston Acoustics Speakers with subwoofer
10/100 Ethernet Card
56K Internal Modem
And since P4 chips are only around $320, building a system yourself will be even cheaper. Is it even possible to assemble your own G4 system, or is Apple afraid that people might house G4s in non-translucent cases?
I haven't heard anyone call Boing 777s "Rolls Royce's" (if that's even the engine they use). The engine is usually considered a small part of a car or plane. How small of a part the Linux kernel is in a distribution may not be the same as in the car/plane analogy.
People call Ford cars "Fords" because Ford assembles it. If you think along the same lines, it makes sense to call your OS "Debian" or "Mandrake". But then that seems to give more credit than is due to people who don't really write the software (though I don't think maintaining a distribution is easy or anything).
Wow!!! Figuiring out what to call your OS may seem hard but then again...how much does it really matter?
I think it's also reasonable to use the argument that "KIllustrator" wasn't named that way by picking a popular product and adding a 'K'. There are many picture-related words that could have been used but "Illustrator" was probably used because of the fact that another word, "Kill", was formed inside.
Of course, the Adobe argument is probably along the lines of name confusion, not that the author intentionally tried to piggyback his program on theirs' success.
"Acrobat" isn't really as generic as "Illustrator" in the context of the what the software does. "Illustrator" is the name of a drawing program. "Acrobat" is not the name of a back-flipping program.
I don't think it's the functions that the guy was talking about. Though scripting-friendly functions could help, it's the language itself that makes the biggest difference. PHP doesn't require that variables be declared and as a consequence, they can be of any type. Arrays and maps are easy to deal with because of in-language support.
Also, as web applications get larger and larger, scripting languages become more problematic because scripts are usually more difficult to maintain and update. I think PHP is going towards becoming less like a conventional scripting language for this reason.
You assume that Windows is the only software that can be pirated. If someone's not willing to pay the $100 for the OS, try and get them to shell out $500 for Office or even more for Visual Studio.
Not everyone will have morals as strong as yours, your holiness. Obviously, DeCSS increases the number of pirated DVDs. Publishing information about WPA will increase the number of pirated copies of XP.
He bought most of what ended up being DOS from someone else. I think BASIC was an existing language that he ported to a certain platform.
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Aren't inheritance and sub-typing basically the same thing?
It's interesting how you choose data abstraction and encapsulations as the most important aspects of OOP. Those are the features that can be implemented in a procedural language with the most ease. Trying to get inheritance working in a language like C is a lot harder than having a few private fields and making accessor methods.
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With sub-typing, you can catch a whole class of exceptions with one statement. This way, you don't need a different handler for each conceivable error type. Ex: in Java you can just catch all I/O exceptions with the same statement instead of worry about the different exceptions that fall into that category (end-of-file, zip, file not found...). Each of the sub-classes will produce their own specific error message when the toString() method is called so that you don't have to have some gigantic switch statement to provide relevant information).
Does anybody know what the "Requested Connections" parameter is for (down at the bottom right)? If the value represents the limit to which the servers were pushed, it looks like TUX wasn't pushed to the limit...weird (if that's even what the value represents).
I'm not sure if the server could handle doing line-of-sight calculations for all 20 clients. There is also the added complication of semi-transparent surfaces.
As said previously, unless the server renders everything and sends only streamed video to the client, a game is vulnerable (though even with video, a client with enough horsepower could analyze the video and act like an aimbot).
Banning a particular CD key could work. Of course, there is the chance that a cheater has many (possibly other valid users') CD keys at his disposal, but I've heard that it works pretty well.
He did not say that a foul is cheating. He said that committing a foul and claiming it wasn't is cheating.
It is a good analogy because it shows how arbitration could work without a central authority.
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Which is why GoTo.com wasn't included in the complaint.
The regulation that the letter cited is one that says ads should look like ads and not like editorial content. It's a legal issue. Maybe if Altavista had a disclaimer at the top of every page it would be kind of like the yellow pages because everyone knows that companies pay to get more space in the yellow pages.
If you have enough dough to waste on a P4, get a Mac instead...
Macs are cheaper than P4 systems?
G4 - from Apple's Online store$2,199.00
P4 System - from Gateway.com
$1,889.00
And since P4 chips are only around $320, building a system yourself will be even cheaper. Is it even possible to assemble your own G4 system, or is Apple afraid that people might house G4s in non-translucent cases?
So you believe the Quicktime authors spent as much time optimizing playback for x86 chips as they did for the G3 and G4?
...or should it be called a Beowulf cluster cluster?
I haven't heard anyone call Boing 777s "Rolls Royce's" (if that's even the engine they use). The engine is usually considered a small part of a car or plane. How small of a part the Linux kernel is in a distribution may not be the same as in the car/plane analogy.
People call Ford cars "Fords" because Ford assembles it. If you think along the same lines, it makes sense to call your OS "Debian" or "Mandrake". But then that seems to give more credit than is due to people who don't really write the software (though I don't think maintaining a distribution is easy or anything).
Wow!!! Figuiring out what to call your OS may seem hard but then again...how much does it really matter?
I think it's also reasonable to use the argument that "KIllustrator" wasn't named that way by picking a popular product and adding a 'K'. There are many picture-related words that could have been used but "Illustrator" was probably used because of the fact that another word, "Kill", was formed inside. Of course, the Adobe argument is probably along the lines of name confusion, not that the author intentionally tried to piggyback his program on theirs' success.
"Acrobat" isn't really as generic as "Illustrator" in the context of the what the software does. "Illustrator" is the name of a drawing program. "Acrobat" is not the name of a back-flipping program.
How would "Adobe Illustrator" pens be OK? If "KIllustrator" is an infringment on "Illustrator", would "K Illustrator" be legal?
I don't think it's the functions that the guy was talking about. Though scripting-friendly functions could help, it's the language itself that makes the biggest difference. PHP doesn't require that variables be declared and as a consequence, they can be of any type. Arrays and maps are easy to deal with because of in-language support.
Also, as web applications get larger and larger, scripting languages become more problematic because scripts are usually more difficult to maintain and update. I think PHP is going towards becoming less like a conventional scripting language for this reason.
You assume that Windows is the only software that can be pirated. If someone's not willing to pay the $100 for the OS, try and get them to shell out $500 for Office or even more for Visual Studio.
Not everyone will have morals as strong as yours, your holiness. Obviously, DeCSS increases the number of pirated DVDs. Publishing information about WPA will increase the number of pirated copies of XP.
He bought most of what ended up being DOS from someone else. I think BASIC was an existing language that he ported to a certain platform.
Aren't inheritance and sub-typing basically the same thing?
It's interesting how you choose data abstraction and encapsulations as the most important aspects of OOP. Those are the features that can be implemented in a procedural language with the most ease. Trying to get inheritance working in a language like C is a lot harder than having a few private fields and making accessor methods.
With sub-typing, you can catch a whole class of exceptions with one statement. This way, you don't need a different handler for each conceivable error type. Ex: in Java you can just catch all I/O exceptions with the same statement instead of worry about the different exceptions that fall into that category (end-of-file, zip, file not found...). Each of the sub-classes will produce their own specific error message when the toString() method is called so that you don't have to have some gigantic switch statement to provide relevant information).
Does anybody know what the "Requested Connections" parameter is for (down at the bottom right)? If the value represents the limit to which the servers were pushed, it looks like TUX wasn't pushed to the limit...weird (if that's even what the value represents).
I'm not sure if the server could handle doing line-of-sight calculations for all 20 clients. There is also the added complication of semi-transparent surfaces. As said previously, unless the server renders everything and sends only streamed video to the client, a game is vulnerable (though even with video, a client with enough horsepower could analyze the video and act like an aimbot).
TFC and CS may be a free download but you have to buy Half-Life (a lot of vulnerabilities are because of the engine, not the MODs).
Banning a particular CD key could work. Of course, there is the chance that a cheater has many (possibly other valid users') CD keys at his disposal, but I've heard that it works pretty well.
He did not say that a foul is cheating. He said that committing a foul and claiming it wasn't is cheating. It is a good analogy because it shows how arbitration could work without a central authority.