I don't think you're using the same Delphi I am:P Fast RAD, yes. Decent IDE, it's got some very nice features but lacks a bunch that I pretty much rely upon, the VCL is excellent in theory (few flaws in implementation, but by and large excellent), and the compiler is lightning fast, but it certainly doesn't make lean executables - in fact, it's notorious for big once. To prevent the need for a runtime, all the VCLs are compiled statically, and a default "hello world" starts out at around 500k.
And I can't stand pascal syntax, but that's just a personal preference - I still use Delphi alot.
I want to know this too. There's a whole lot of people posting about ISPs and overbooking and burstable models and it call comes back to the fact that they have to pay for thier bandwidth. Okay, fine. I can see that. But carry it all back up to whoever actually owns the fiber, whats thier cost? There's recouping the investment, okay, that's fixed. There's maintanence and support, okay, that's (pretty much) fixed. I can't believe that it averages out to more than 3k/month/customer, especially when the cost of lighting more fiber is, again, constant and probably has a minimal affect on the ongoing support costs.
Yeah, but the position, at least as shown in the slides, is pretty moderate and I wouldn't disagree more than trivially with anything there. Obviously can't be Microsoft, who is well known is these parts as claiming that Open Source will make your baby fat and kill your dog.
Constant exposure over a period of time will affect anyones behavior. That's what brainwashing is all about. This is why children, when playing, act out cartoons and things that they see on TV. This does NOT, however, cause the emotional instabilities that are needed to go shoot up a school. You could probably come up with a case or two - but it's hardly somthing that would happen in the general case, violent games or not.
On another note, the idea of regulating ANYONE's access to ANY information is abhorrent and evil. There shouldn't anything stopping a child from buying any movie or game he wants, no matter how violent or sexy, because it's not societies privledge to make those judgments. If your kid is a deviant because he watches bondage porn, or screwed up because he plays GTA all the time, then you need to look at what YOU did to make him that way.
On the other hand, anyone who had sex before the age of 30 and/or within the last 5 years (internet/self/paid/cyber sex doesn't count) is willing to accept the movie on it's own terms, as a retelling of a story rather than a literal recreation, and enjoy it as told by someone with an actual sense of the dramatic, as opposed to Tolkien who probably found suspense in the conjugation of an irregular verb.
That's both circular and stupid. The idea that the market will regulate corporations is the justification for removing regulatry controls over corporations, but you dismiss instances of corporate misbehavior as "occasionally breaking the law".
You're also totally divorced from any shred of reality or logical thinking with the idea that somehow people "doing nothing" somehow punishes a corporation. You have to do just as much work to convince someone to boycott a product as you do to convince them to vote for or against something, and, for large corporations, you have to do it in similar numbers. In fact, since there's often immediate personal downside to voting with your money (higher prices, for example), it's often much harder. Your arguments only hold so far as you define a "well-behaved" corporation as one that makes money. That's easy. Making a corporation behave for the best benefit of society and not for the short-term interest of it's major shareholders, that's hard.
Furthermore, monopolies, which are the inevitable end result of a non-regulated market, aren't subject to market pressures, especially when they control anything essential to life or, more importantly, channels of communication.
The government's job is not to make money, it's to provide for the public trust. It does that in many ways, both through directly spending money (how good do you think our highway system would be if it were privatized? How much more would you pay in direct fees to use it than you do in taxes?) and through legislation.
My files all already have attributes. For example, my todo list has the following:
F:\ - this way I know it's stored on my secondary drive
My Documents \ standardized attribute for generic documents \
TODO \ this is a TODO list
todo03 for 2003 .txt \ a text file
Well, you could go both ways on it. But I can't imagine how they could be. There's no specific law for them, as far as I know, and they don't fall under any other area of contract law (for many of the same reasons EULA's don't). Best you could do would be to sue for nebulous damages that arose from a website giving out your personal info, which you could do privacy policy or no, but you'd have an easier time in court if they had one they violated.
Well, it's not like privacy policies are legally binding or anything, either. You can promise all the privacy you want but be lying through your teeth.
What utter nonsense. I'd like to see some sources for these "studies". Anyone who manages to get the foot into a career without the piece of paper (more and more difficult as the economy tanks) will do just fine after 5 to 10 years. On top of that, the skills you mention are alot more likely to come from work experience that university.
The parent said "experimented", not "explained", and actually is correct - Einstein didn't empirically test most of his theories. Of course, that's not really his fault, since he lacked the tools to do so, so you could look at it another way and be astonished at how correct his theories are, despite the fact that he was unable to test them to exhaustion.
Lots of people prefer the form factor of a book for reading. I certainly do - I don't like to read large volumes of text on screen. On top of that, there's the whole "dropping it in the bathtub" factor. And all the e-book he mentions would require would be a mini-computer in the spine and miniaturized version of today's e-paper.
There will always be a supply of old cars and parts to repair them.
No there won't. Cars wear out. Parts wear out. New ones are made. Does your 93 Escort still have the same engine it did in 93? Will it in 10 years?
On the other hand, disabling this stuff will probably be fairly straightforward. But when you get in an accident and can't produce your data recorder, expect your insurance company and quite possibly law enforcment to assume fault on your part.
Except, of course, it wouldn't. As with any industry with a high barrier to entry, the current providers can lock out newcomers. The whole reason we decided to have local monopolies in the first place was so that there'd be some benefit in actually rolling out the wire - how many cable providers do you think there'll be when each and every one needs to run it's own cable network? A regulated monopoly is much better than an unregulated one.
Sure, we could have a "regulated breakup", like with the baby bells, where people who own the cable are required to allow others to provide service over that wire. We saw how well that worked out with DSL, right?
Point of fact: lots of people, including myself, run windows XP for days/weeks/months with no blue screens.
Therefore, the flaw is not inherent in winXP. It's most probably a flaw in some winXP specific driver, or a hardware flaw. If he's a software engineer with 10 years experience, you'd think he might be able to catch the blue screens and at least isolate the problem.
I actually can't think of a single reason why, if you're negotiating open, above board buisness deals, why the terms of that agreement shouldn't be public information. In any industry. However, in the case of a college, which is spending both taxpayer and it's student's money (on thier behalf), the people providing that money most certainly have the right to investigate whats being done with it. Just like how you have the right to investigate whats being done with your 401k or your retirment account.
I'm not really sure the concept of mule characters and bots translates well into real life. But I'm not the pentagon, and I don't have a million dollar budget, so what do I know.
I'm just using the word targeted in two different ways. What I would prefer is ads targeted to me( that is, if I have to have any at all). I do not want adds targeted to my demographic. They don't actually use that data to target anyway, they use it to sell ad space - "See, we're up 4% in the mid-20s male group, so give up lots of ads that show we're hip and young and new". I hate that kind of crap.
There's no way that they'll get any sort of "targeted" advertising from "Male, age blah, lives in blah". All that will do is ensure that you get "default" ads targeted for your demographic. The odds of me actually wanting any of those things is very small.
Military courts have upheld that "enemy combatants", on the other hand, have noonstitutional rights. Personally, I believe that it's the height of hypocrisy to deny those rights to anyone, American or not, but there you go.
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Exactly right. The whole point of Constitutional rights is that they are inherent, essential rights that must not be abridged. The very idea that there exists a "practical compromise" between then and ANYTHING is offensive.
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And I can't stand pascal syntax, but that's just a personal preference - I still use Delphi alot.
I want to know this too. There's a whole lot of people posting about ISPs and overbooking and burstable models and it call comes back to the fact that they have to pay for thier bandwidth. Okay, fine. I can see that. But carry it all back up to whoever actually owns the fiber, whats thier cost? There's recouping the investment, okay, that's fixed. There's maintanence and support, okay, that's (pretty much) fixed. I can't believe that it averages out to more than 3k/month/customer, especially when the cost of lighting more fiber is, again, constant and probably has a minimal affect on the ongoing support costs.
I doubt anyone can administer 1000 unique, different servers. 1000 physical machines that only have a dozen different configurations, maybe.
Yeah, but the position, at least as shown in the slides, is pretty moderate and I wouldn't disagree more than trivially with anything there. Obviously can't be Microsoft, who is well known is these parts as claiming that Open Source will make your baby fat and kill your dog.
On another note, the idea of regulating ANYONE's access to ANY information is abhorrent and evil. There shouldn't anything stopping a child from buying any movie or game he wants, no matter how violent or sexy, because it's not societies privledge to make those judgments. If your kid is a deviant because he watches bondage porn, or screwed up because he plays GTA all the time, then you need to look at what YOU did to make him that way.
On the other hand, anyone who had sex before the age of 30 and/or within the last 5 years (internet/self/paid/cyber sex doesn't count) is willing to accept the movie on it's own terms, as a retelling of a story rather than a literal recreation, and enjoy it as told by someone with an actual sense of the dramatic, as opposed to Tolkien who probably found suspense in the conjugation of an irregular verb.
You're also totally divorced from any shred of reality or logical thinking with the idea that somehow people "doing nothing" somehow punishes a corporation. You have to do just as much work to convince someone to boycott a product as you do to convince them to vote for or against something, and, for large corporations, you have to do it in similar numbers. In fact, since there's often immediate personal downside to voting with your money (higher prices, for example), it's often much harder. Your arguments only hold so far as you define a "well-behaved" corporation as one that makes money. That's easy. Making a corporation behave for the best benefit of society and not for the short-term interest of it's major shareholders, that's hard.
Furthermore, monopolies, which are the inevitable end result of a non-regulated market, aren't subject to market pressures, especially when they control anything essential to life or, more importantly, channels of communication.
The government's job is not to make money, it's to provide for the public trust. It does that in many ways, both through directly spending money (how good do you think our highway system would be if it were privatized? How much more would you pay in direct fees to use it than you do in taxes?) and through legislation.
F:\ - this way I know it's stored on my secondary drive
.txt \ a text file
My Documents \ standardized attribute for generic documents \
TODO \ this is a TODO list
todo03 for 2003
Well, you could go both ways on it. But I can't imagine how they could be. There's no specific law for them, as far as I know, and they don't fall under any other area of contract law (for many of the same reasons EULA's don't). Best you could do would be to sue for nebulous damages that arose from a website giving out your personal info, which you could do privacy policy or no, but you'd have an easier time in court if they had one they violated.
Well, it's not like privacy policies are legally binding or anything, either. You can promise all the privacy you want but be lying through your teeth.
What utter nonsense. I'd like to see some sources for these "studies". Anyone who manages to get the foot into a career without the piece of paper (more and more difficult as the economy tanks) will do just fine after 5 to 10 years. On top of that, the skills you mention are alot more likely to come from work experience that university.
The parent said "experimented", not "explained", and actually is correct - Einstein didn't empirically test most of his theories. Of course, that's not really his fault, since he lacked the tools to do so, so you could look at it another way and be astonished at how correct his theories are, despite the fact that he was unable to test them to exhaustion.
Lots of people prefer the form factor of a book for reading. I certainly do - I don't like to read large volumes of text on screen. On top of that, there's the whole "dropping it in the bathtub" factor. And all the e-book he mentions would require would be a mini-computer in the spine and miniaturized version of today's e-paper.
No there won't. Cars wear out. Parts wear out. New ones are made. Does your 93 Escort still have the same engine it did in 93? Will it in 10 years?
On the other hand, disabling this stuff will probably be fairly straightforward. But when you get in an accident and can't produce your data recorder, expect your insurance company and quite possibly law enforcment to assume fault on your part.
That's very true, but just de-regulating them won't exactly help either. All you'll get is fewer channels and higher prices.
Sure, we could have a "regulated breakup", like with the baby bells, where people who own the cable are required to allow others to provide service over that wire. We saw how well that worked out with DSL, right?
Therefore, the flaw is not inherent in winXP. It's most probably a flaw in some winXP specific driver, or a hardware flaw. If he's a software engineer with 10 years experience, you'd think he might be able to catch the blue screens and at least isolate the problem.
I actually can't think of a single reason why, if you're negotiating open, above board buisness deals, why the terms of that agreement shouldn't be public information. In any industry. However, in the case of a college, which is spending both taxpayer and it's student's money (on thier behalf), the people providing that money most certainly have the right to investigate whats being done with it. Just like how you have the right to investigate whats being done with your 401k or your retirment account.
And they need to study MMORPGs to see how they make it work? Man, our army is in pretty sad shape.
I'm not really sure the concept of mule characters and bots translates well into real life. But I'm not the pentagon, and I don't have a million dollar budget, so what do I know.
Absolutely. Despise flash all you want, but it's better than java for at least 90% of the things you'd want an applet for.
I'm just using the word targeted in two different ways. What I would prefer is ads targeted to me( that is, if I have to have any at all). I do not want adds targeted to my demographic. They don't actually use that data to target anyway, they use it to sell ad space - "See, we're up 4% in the mid-20s male group, so give up lots of ads that show we're hip and young and new". I hate that kind of crap.
There's no way that they'll get any sort of "targeted" advertising from "Male, age blah, lives in blah". All that will do is ensure that you get "default" ads targeted for your demographic. The odds of me actually wanting any of those things is very small.
Military courts have upheld that "enemy combatants", on the other hand, have noonstitutional rights. Personally, I believe that it's the height of hypocrisy to deny those rights to anyone, American or not, but there you go.
Exactly right. The whole point of Constitutional rights is that they are inherent, essential rights that must not be abridged. The very idea that there exists a "practical compromise" between then and ANYTHING is offensive.