Look at all the new criminal organizations (spammers) that will be sued and people jailed. I can't wait. Hope new legislation is retroactive to the point the company started spamming. Then for my years of torment, they can get years of jail. YAY! I maybe could sue them and make lots of money for lost time deleting junk. 1 second a message, 100 messages a day, 354 days a year that means, 36,500 seconds a year or 10.14 hours a year. Yes one day worth of work.
memory location 0 does exist. It has to, since all computer systems work on the binary system. Not because there is no virtual memory or some such thing.
logically memory location 0 could be called "beer4Me" that's just a label. The fact is the memory location exists, is useable (by the os) infact I could be mistaken but isn't it a check bit of some sort?
Null pointers do not point to a memory location. That is the whole point of the word NULL. They are pointers to NON-EXISTANT memory locations.
you ask, "how can a memory location be non-existant? isn't that like saying this beer I am drinking doesn't exist?" The other way to think of this is the null pointer is a pointer to an automatic garbage collector. The collector is never full, never empty, just a black hole.
They fool the application into thinking it is sending instructions/data somewhere useful. Just because you have one null pointer does not mean you can't have more, or that you can't create one and name it "PoorCollegeStudentBankAccount" either.
I just don't understand these findings. If we are indeed warming up, fine. However 100 years of sample data in this regard is like saying the haystack is turning into needles, when there is only one needle in the stack. (Don't know if that made sense lol)
100 years of sample data, by any researcher, would be considered rediculious. Especially considering that in earths past there have been hundreds perhaps even thousands of ice ages. You can't tell me that after an ice age, the world warms up because of people. Especially since the data is from only this last century.
Next thing they will try to convince us of is if the world gets cooler, its cause there is too much water caused by hydrogen cars. Give me a break.
I do not doubt humans influence climate change. I doubt whether the climate change is as suggested. In 500 years a change of 1 degree is quite signifigant, but can that be attributed to humans, or is that attributed to the fact we are nearing the top of the warm period and heading toward a ice age?
I say show me the data, show me the sample, give me all the information.
The whole point of this is a STUDY. That doesn't mean it has to have a purpose aside from educational.
I think this is a good idea. However it could lead to the government deciding that everyone was supposed to have a dedicated ip address. That way a simple traceroute could tell them where you were at any given time anywhere in the world. Much like credit card transactions can be tracked by number and location.
They are trying to do this with phone numbers. Although there are benefits to keeping the same phone number, it is alternatively an easy way to keep track of someone.
soemtimes there is more to consider aside from the purchase price of a cpu. If swapping to an athlon requires you to replace your mainboard, suddenly it is not as cheap as just replacing with a celeron. For the low incomer, who got a hand me down system, you will have to stick with products that will work with your hardware. If you have an amd board, or a intel board, you have to stick with them if you don't have the $ to change.
I agree with you. That makes sense, but from an upgrade/replacement perspective, where a motherboard swap is not possible, sometimes it is necessary to settle for inferior.
However, if you have the chance, I do agree bang for the buck the amd line of products is better.
Why do people insist on comparing a celeron to a P4 or athlon?
These cpus are targeted to different markets. Thats like comparing a P4 to a Xeon.
A 2.2ghz celeron is definately a good thing, and the performance is quite good for the price. These are entry level economical chips. My experience is all celerons work on pentium boards of the same class. So if you burn out a P4, why bother spending more money on a P4 when you could cheaply limp your computer on a celeron till the P5 comes out? Then spend the money you saved and get a P5 board too.
The other thing to note here too is that I know for a lot of people who don't have much money, especially kids on student loans, or perhaps even low income families, without the celeron chips, they couldn't get into modern computing. I aplaud intel and amd for coming out with cheaper chips. So what it doesn't compare to a P4? who cares, the consumer is buying it for the price and performance of THAT chip, not because it is slower than a P4.
I don't believe just because work is shared it should necessarily be compared to communism. Communism was a whole philosophy and society. Open source coding is equivelent to having a huge project team, and sharing that work with anyone who is interested.
People don't have to code open source, but people had to be communist over in the USSR. Quite a difference. Forcing people into a belief or way of life is doomed. remember "you can lead a horse to water but you cant make him drink" open source coders are drinking, and non-open source are being led, but not yet drinking
some write for recognition, some write for pleasure, some write just cause they are anti-corporation/microsoft.
I personally write cause it passes the time, and because some projects I can submit and get marks in my classes at university for the projects I do.
I guess to answer you have to examine (or almost have to) a persons beliefs and lifestyle. I believe open source is the way to go for most things, some I don't however.
Financial success is based on getting good people, having limited resources, but lots of ambition to succede.
A good project manager, and a good design are really all you need. The other staff will be successful regardless of skill as long as they are happy and have a feeling of accomplishment.
Personal success is harder to measure. It is based on 90% blood, sweat and tears, and 10% skill and knowledge. Lots of effort leads to success more than lots of brains.
Kind of interesting to hear the speculation about broadband and baseband.
firstly ISDN and DSL services are NOT broadband services. ISDN uses multiple channels on multiple wires. Basic rate isdn uses 2 data carrying channels both rated at 56Kbps. That brings the total to 112Kbps. There is a third channel that carries control signals across those wires at the rate of 16Kbps (which sometimes does act as a data carrying channel) bringing the total to 128kbps. Now I don't think anyone would call their old telephone modem (56K) a broadband device. The difference between the old modem and the ISDN service is that the signal is all digital from the telco to the end user/business. The 56K modem uses an analog signal to the end user. There are varying services isdn offers too, the next step up is 23 carrier channels (data) and one control channel still for a total of 56Kbps*23 + 16Kbps. You can do the math, but the important thing here is that there are 24 wires coming in to the office. This service is quite fault tollerant. It was replaced by the T1 and up services. Which we know requires 24 wires into the office as well.
Both the T1 and ISDN services are not broadband. DSL service is also not broadband either. The DSL service uses one part of the wire to transmit/recieve data, but uses frequency modulation and compression to make this possible. Because we all know without compression the theoretical max bandwidth of a single telephone wire is 56Kbps, there is no way this bandwith can be increased without compression. You only have so many wires into your house.
Cable modems are broadband services. There is no frequency modulation or compression used. The service uses the availible bandwidth of the coax wire to transmit in analogue form. The cable modem then acts much like a dial-up modem translating signals from analogue to digital, and back. The reason that your tv still works is that the availible bandwidth of the coax wire is much more than that of the typical telephone wire. The compression and modulation of the signal is the classifier that make it "broad" or "base" band.
shouldn't they support all platforms regardless of hardware? Isn't that the idea of standardized game development? And that would make sense if they wanted to make some serious $.
Although the majority of gamers are using a windows based system, or a console, it would be nice to get those games on Mac's or Linux systems. I remember a time when the developers would build the games for both windows and macs. What happened to that?
power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
politicians are elected to represent the people, eventhough I am not an american, but a canadian, this still should be true for all citizen representative governments. Why is the US fighting Iraq, if they seek to control their citizens (although not nearly as harshly) in such a way to remove their freedoms? Why did we fight in WWI,WWII, and the other conflicts for freedom, when we allow our politicans to take our rights away?
I do not want to suggest the US government is corrupt, but rather suggest that sometimes the elected representatives loose sight of why they were elected, and by whom. It is up to the people to make them accountable.
Canada is not all sweet and nice either, and the citizens tend to "roll over and play dead" when faced with conflict (not war, but political polarity on issues), we also do not keep our government accountable for the most part either. But we do have a constitution that the government cannot change without a nationwide vote, and that constitution guarentees all canadians freedoms. Do the americans have this or something similar? Because if they do, now is the time to stand up and argue for your rights.
Perhaps these individuals are innocent. I truly believe there are flaws in our laws. Usually the most flawed laws are those that are a direct result of a immediate need. Look at the many other stupid things the government is doing. Here in canada we have a gun control registry that is costing billions. It will not help protect people from illegal or any weapons period. But yet it gives the government a way to keep control over those who are law abiding. Same with this case. If this individual wanted to contribute to terrorists, don't you think he/she would have tried in a less apparent way? Besides the context of "ties to terrorist groups" could mean anything. A brother of a son's friend, could constitute ties to terrorism.
Come on guys, get those real terrorists.
PS: I offer my support for the families and the soldiers fighting abroad.
Mr. Gates has had many many years to get the equation right. I am not going to buy a product from him no matter how much he promotes it, or brags about their code advances.
MS will earn my trust when they go up against products that are considered "secure" and stop comparing their products to their unpatched, or old outdated parent products. If MS were to advertise the truth about the security of their product, I believe I would actually buy it, cause then I wouldn't have a feeling of betrayal, and I would know what I was getting into.
win2k is so much more secure than nt4... that doesn't mean it is secure.
Whomever trusts any news corporation or publication without getting many multiple sources is a fool. Think about these news companies.. Where do they get their money? from advertisers and sponsors... That can modify the impartiality of the group.
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Look at all the new criminal organizations (spammers) that will be sued and people jailed. I can't wait. Hope new legislation is retroactive to the point the company started spamming. Then for my years of torment, they can get years of jail. YAY! I maybe could sue them and make lots of money for lost time deleting junk. 1 second a message, 100 messages a day, 354 days a year that means, 36,500 seconds a year or 10.14 hours a year. Yes one day worth of work.
memory location 0 does exist. It has to, since all computer systems work on the binary system. Not because there is no virtual memory or some such thing.
logically memory location 0 could be called "beer4Me" that's just a label. The fact is the memory location exists, is useable (by the os) infact I could be mistaken but isn't it a check bit of some sort?
Null pointers do not point to a memory location. That is the whole point of the word NULL. They are pointers to NON-EXISTANT memory locations.
you ask, "how can a memory location be non-existant? isn't that like saying this beer I am drinking doesn't exist?" The other way to think of this is the null pointer is a pointer to an automatic garbage collector. The collector is never full, never empty, just a black hole.
They fool the application into thinking it is sending instructions/data somewhere useful. Just because you have one null pointer does not mean you can't have more, or that you can't create one and name it "PoorCollegeStudentBankAccount" either.
I just don't understand these findings. If we are indeed warming up, fine. However 100 years of sample data in this regard is like saying the haystack is turning into needles, when there is only one needle in the stack. (Don't know if that made sense lol)
100 years of sample data, by any researcher, would be considered rediculious. Especially considering that in earths past there have been hundreds perhaps even thousands of ice ages. You can't tell me that after an ice age, the world warms up because of people. Especially since the data is from only this last century.
Next thing they will try to convince us of is if the world gets cooler, its cause there is too much water caused by hydrogen cars. Give me a break.
I do not doubt humans influence climate change. I doubt whether the climate change is as suggested. In 500 years a change of 1 degree is quite signifigant, but can that be attributed to humans, or is that attributed to the fact we are nearing the top of the warm period and heading toward a ice age?
I say show me the data, show me the sample, give me all the information.
100% agreement can come from a sample of one/one
This could be a bit off topic.
The whole point of this is a STUDY. That doesn't mean it has to have a purpose aside from educational.
I think this is a good idea. However it could lead to the government deciding that everyone was supposed to have a dedicated ip address. That way a simple traceroute could tell them where you were at any given time anywhere in the world. Much like credit card transactions can be tracked by number and location.
They are trying to do this with phone numbers. Although there are benefits to keeping the same phone number, it is alternatively an easy way to keep track of someone.
soemtimes there is more to consider aside from the purchase price of a cpu. If swapping to an athlon requires you to replace your mainboard, suddenly it is not as cheap as just replacing with a celeron. For the low incomer, who got a hand me down system, you will have to stick with products that will work with your hardware. If you have an amd board, or a intel board, you have to stick with them if you don't have the $ to change.
vice versa works too.
I agree with you. That makes sense, but from an upgrade/replacement perspective, where a motherboard swap is not possible, sometimes it is necessary to settle for inferior.
However, if you have the chance, I do agree bang for the buck the amd line of products is better.
I have
A simple power spike will do it.
Surge protectors are only so good.
Why do people insist on comparing a celeron to a P4 or athlon?
These cpus are targeted to different markets. Thats like comparing a P4 to a Xeon.
A 2.2ghz celeron is definately a good thing, and the performance is quite good for the price. These are entry level economical chips. My experience is all celerons work on pentium boards of the same class. So if you burn out a P4, why bother spending more money on a P4 when you could cheaply limp your computer on a celeron till the P5 comes out? Then spend the money you saved and get a P5 board too.
The other thing to note here too is that I know for a lot of people who don't have much money, especially kids on student loans, or perhaps even low income families, without the celeron chips, they couldn't get into modern computing. I aplaud intel and amd for coming out with cheaper chips. So what it doesn't compare to a P4? who cares, the consumer is buying it for the price and performance of THAT chip, not because it is slower than a P4.
last time I checked russia was not communist.
communism ended with the breakup of the USSR. (In that part of the world anyway)
I don't believe just because work is shared it should necessarily be compared to communism. Communism was a whole philosophy and society. Open source coding is equivelent to having a huge project team, and sharing that work with anyone who is interested.
People don't have to code open source, but people had to be communist over in the USSR. Quite a difference. Forcing people into a belief or way of life is doomed. remember "you can lead a horse to water but you cant make him drink" open source coders are drinking, and non-open source are being led, but not yet drinking
some write for recognition, some write for pleasure, some write just cause they are anti-corporation/microsoft.
I personally write cause it passes the time, and because some projects I can submit and get marks in my classes at university for the projects I do.
I guess to answer you have to examine (or almost have to) a persons beliefs and lifestyle. I believe open source is the way to go for most things, some I don't however.
until they decompile the trojan, or find proof otherwise. The burden of proof is on the prosecution.
Then the defense would have to prove the defendant didn't build the trojan.
interesting
Financial success is based on getting good people, having limited resources, but lots of ambition to succede.
A good project manager, and a good design are really all you need. The other staff will be successful regardless of skill as long as they are happy and have a feeling of accomplishment.
Personal success is harder to measure. It is based on 90% blood, sweat and tears, and 10% skill and knowledge. Lots of effort leads to success more than lots of brains.
Kind of interesting to hear the speculation about broadband and baseband.
firstly ISDN and DSL services are NOT broadband services. ISDN uses multiple channels on multiple wires. Basic rate isdn uses 2 data carrying channels both rated at 56Kbps. That brings the total to 112Kbps. There is a third channel that carries control signals across those wires at the rate of 16Kbps (which sometimes does act as a data carrying channel) bringing the total to 128kbps. Now I don't think anyone would call their old telephone modem (56K) a broadband device. The difference between the old modem and the ISDN service is that the signal is all digital from the telco to the end user/business. The 56K modem uses an analog signal to the end user. There are varying services isdn offers too, the next step up is 23 carrier channels (data) and one control channel still for a total of 56Kbps*23 + 16Kbps. You can do the math, but the important thing here is that there are 24 wires coming in to the office. This service is quite fault tollerant. It was replaced by the T1 and up services. Which we know requires 24 wires into the office as well.
Both the T1 and ISDN services are not broadband. DSL service is also not broadband either. The DSL service uses one part of the wire to transmit/recieve data, but uses frequency modulation and compression to make this possible. Because we all know without compression the theoretical max bandwidth of a single telephone wire is 56Kbps, there is no way this bandwith can be increased without compression. You only have so many wires into your house.
Cable modems are broadband services. There is no frequency modulation or compression used. The service uses the availible bandwidth of the coax wire to transmit in analogue form. The cable modem then acts much like a dial-up modem translating signals from analogue to digital, and back. The reason that your tv still works is that the availible bandwidth of the coax wire is much more than that of the typical telephone wire. The compression and modulation of the signal is the classifier that make it "broad" or "base" band.
shouldn't they support all platforms regardless of hardware? Isn't that the idea of standardized game development? And that would make sense if they wanted to make some serious $.
Although the majority of gamers are using a windows based system, or a console, it would be nice to get those games on Mac's or Linux systems. I remember a time when the developers would build the games for both windows and macs. What happened to that?
right on, I am all over it! looking forward to the day when ram is as cheep as hard disk space.
power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
politicians are elected to represent the people, eventhough I am not an american, but a canadian, this still should be true for all citizen representative governments. Why is the US fighting Iraq, if they seek to control their citizens (although not nearly as harshly) in such a way to remove their freedoms? Why did we fight in WWI,WWII, and the other conflicts for freedom, when we allow our politicans to take our rights away?
I do not want to suggest the US government is corrupt, but rather suggest that sometimes the elected representatives loose sight of why they were elected, and by whom. It is up to the people to make them accountable.
Canada is not all sweet and nice either, and the citizens tend to "roll over and play dead" when faced with conflict (not war, but political polarity on issues), we also do not keep our government accountable for the most part either. But we do have a constitution that the government cannot change without a nationwide vote, and that constitution guarentees all canadians freedoms. Do the americans have this or something similar? Because if they do, now is the time to stand up and argue for your rights.
Perhaps these individuals are innocent. I truly believe there are flaws in our laws. Usually the most flawed laws are those that are a direct result of a immediate need. Look at the many other stupid things the government is doing. Here in canada we have a gun control registry that is costing billions. It will not help protect people from illegal or any weapons period. But yet it gives the government a way to keep control over those who are law abiding. Same with this case. If this individual wanted to contribute to terrorists, don't you think he/she would have tried in a less apparent way? Besides the context of "ties to terrorist groups" could mean anything. A brother of a son's friend, could constitute ties to terrorism.
Come on guys, get those real terrorists.
PS: I offer my support for the families and the soldiers fighting abroad.
Mr. Gates has had many many years to get the equation right. I am not going to buy a product from him no matter how much he promotes it, or brags about their code advances.
Besides OS X looks cooler...
MS will earn my trust when they go up against products that are considered "secure" and stop comparing their products to their unpatched, or old outdated parent products. If MS were to advertise the truth about the security of their product, I believe I would actually buy it, cause then I wouldn't have a feeling of betrayal, and I would know what I was getting into.
win2k is so much more secure than nt4... that doesn't mean it is secure.
Whomever trusts any news corporation or publication without getting many multiple sources is a fool. Think about these news companies.. Where do they get their money? from advertisers and sponsors... That can modify the impartiality of the group.