I don't think it's fair to choose a Xerces debuging session as a measure for DevStudio. Xerces is a typical open source app, written for gcc... There is little or no effort done to add a few lines of code that would make debugging objects in DevStudio easier. Like I said : you can attach a few lines of code to a class to change the debugging display. Easy to do & very practical. I could ask you to do a debugging session of a heavy ATL or COM oriented app in Eclipse... Or do some DirectX debugging in eclipse.
The pointers showing instead of values in the variable watcher is a good example of what.Net offers that is useless.
Offcourse, since you're doing java, pointer arithmetic is non existant, so it's a useless feature for java programmers. Doing C work, I find it indispensible. Additionally, your pointed value is only one click away. On top of that, you can create custom debugger displays in DevStudio : any class/object can have a custom routine to be called and whose result is used as debugger display value.
IMHO, you just didn't seriously work with DevStudio. I'm not an MS fanboy, but if there's ONE thing they did right, its the compiler/editor. Maybe XCode gets near in terms of integration, but it is still too buggy. Eclipse is just fine too, but gets blown away by Devstudio in terms of performance. But somehow, i don't think you're veen listening to my arguments
My folks have macs too, but they still require quite some help. Printing for instance is a pain (the printer icon gets lost every few weeks), and sharing also loses it occasionally. They also tend to fill up their desktop with a gazillion icons that I re-order into the proper folder/thrash every few weeks.
I would go even further : people have an urge to find "truth". They dig thru encyclopedias (weiher its wiki or EB) to find some undeniable statement that they can use as a straw to clutch at.
People should learn to search "fact" instead of "truth". And then do the analysis from the former to the latter themselves.
I wrote my first fractal in 8-bit color, sucker ! On a MacII no less. In Lightspeed (what's in a name...) C (or was it MPW ? don't remember).
The average calculation time was 15min per pixel if i recall correctly. I just left it running the whole weekend and then on monday had to abort it cause someone needed to print and the damd mac couldn't multitask properly (Finder 1.x or so... not even multifinder in those days)
Damd those were the days... I recall spending a whole day trying to find a way to optimize 1 inline asm call... and then re-running a pixel or 2:-)
I also recall my boss being angry about those 120KB image files filling up the 20MB harddisk at breakneck speed:-)
now that I read my own post, I'm really scratching my head... What is a content management system actually for ? I mean, all content needs to be "managed" i none way or the other. Slashdot itself is managed content (supposedly content, and supposedly managed at least)... Even the simplest HTML page is managed content since tags were inserted.
Honestly, can someone explain when one needs a framework like zope ? I have done some DB-based websites, but always felt like learning a complete framework was
a) requiring more time than writing 3 pages PHP from scratch (or copying code from previous projects)
b) a serious server overhead
c) often introducing inconsistencies due to my limited abilities in learning the entire framework
i wish someone could point me to a clear document that explains when to use stuff like zope, webobjects, websphere,...
Another X-Prize contender ?
DukeNukem 3 beta release ?
A new competitor to the Roomba, but this time with shotguns ?
oh well, maybe Zope is an open source application server for building content management systems, intranets, portals, and custom applications. The Zope community consists of hundreds of companies and thousands of developers all over the world, working on building the platform and Zope applications. Zope is written in Python, a highly-productive, object-oriented scripting language. ?
Day of the Tentacle was funny all the way. Not only the dialogue, but also the situations made me laugh several times over. And the solutions you had to come up with. A classic for instance : you need a screwdriver, but can't find it anywhere. After 20min of searching you go back to your car where a burgler is forcing the window. By trading your car-keys (and your car) for his screwdriver, the game got going again.
The issue is that almost all the G4 machines do not have a required 3D card. The quicksilver G4s had a GeF4MX if I recall correctly, which is theoretically sufficient for D3, but if you try to play with it, it's just not doable : as soon as there is a 3+ monster fight, the stuttering is so much that you can't aim properly anymore.
What about EULAs that are deliberately written in a style/technical language unreadable to the majority of the buyers ? Or written with intent to discourage complete reading (a EULA of 125 pages for instance, with 75% of its scentences longer than 10 lines and each one containing 15 buzwords that you have to go lookup online. NOBODY should be asked to read and accept all that. It's just plain stupid)
Why is this news ? 3TB of ram on 2K processors amount to 1.5GB of ram per processor. Is this so ridiculous ? It's about as stupid as mentioning transistor count on a multiprocessor machine.
well, that shows you don't have kids. A baby (not a toddler ! I'm talking about a 1 y that is breast fed only) has diapers that are NOT smelly at all to the parents. I'm really honest : as long as they don't eat/drink anything else than mothermilk, most parents will usually consider the smell of a full diaper as funny and interesting (and informative since it will tell if the baby is sick). Except for the first 2 or 3 times I cleaned my kids (the first few times are a bit eewww indeed because you have a cultural aversion for poop), I never had a disgust.
diapers of other people's kids on the other hand... EEWWWW...
um, yes indeed. I *have* a G5. I have Warcraft both for MacOSX and PC. Whenever my brother comes over, we first have to toss who has to play on the G5 with its FX5200, whereas the PC has a GeForce4ti460000 which beats the G5 anytime. At 75% of the cost
um... warcraft3 is not an FPS, yet barfs out on my iMac when the fighting goes up. The new Sims version looks like crap if you haven't got the VRAM for sufficient textures. More and more games, even not 3D, require a powerful 3D card, just as much as an OS wants a serious graphics card.
apple hardware is just not fit for gaming. They ship the imac with an underpowered 3D card (GeFX 5200, only 64MB Vram, which barely plays UT2004, let alone Doom3) and insufficient RAM.
I always tell friends : buy a mac, and with the money saved by not paying the MS tax, buy yourself a 199$ PS2 for gaming
Testing from Belgium, I can confirm it works now, but the music catalogue is vastly inferior to the US version : Gene Ammons for instance has ONE CD on the belgian iTMS, while the US version has some 15 CD's or so...
Very frustrating. I hope they sync the catalogues fast...
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And vice versa
If your application is not parallelizable, the supercomputer pisses away on you ?
There has never been a document which cannot be forged
I never claimed that. The difference with RFID tags is that you don't need to have physical access to the original object to copy it. Just sitting behind someone on the bus might be sufficient to read out his RFID passport, and rebroadcast it when you want access to his confidential stuff. It will probably not be so easy, and there will most likely be encryption and other protection, but you can not deny that the RF in RFID makes it only less secure (as a sacrifice to the lazy people who don't want to insert a card in a card reader) and adds no substantial advantage.
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I don't think it's fair to choose a Xerces debuging session as a measure for DevStudio. Xerces is a typical open source app, written for gcc... There is little or no effort done to add a few lines of code that would make debugging objects in DevStudio easier. Like I said : you can attach a few lines of code to a class to change the debugging display. Easy to do & very practical. I could ask you to do a debugging session of a heavy ATL or COM oriented app in Eclipse... Or do some DirectX debugging in eclipse.
The pointers showing instead of values in the variable watcher is a good example of what .Net offers that is useless.
Offcourse, since you're doing java, pointer arithmetic is non existant, so it's a useless feature for java programmers. Doing C work, I find it indispensible. Additionally, your pointed value is only one click away. On top of that, you can create custom debugger displays in DevStudio : any class/object can have a custom routine to be called and whose result is used as debugger display value.
IMHO, you just didn't seriously work with DevStudio. I'm not an MS fanboy, but if there's ONE thing they did right, its the compiler/editor. Maybe XCode gets near in terms of integration, but it is still too buggy. Eclipse is just fine too, but gets blown away by Devstudio in terms of performance. But somehow, i don't think you're veen listening to my arguments
My folks have macs too, but they still require quite some help. Printing for instance is a pain (the printer icon gets lost every few weeks), and sharing also loses it occasionally. They also tend to fill up their desktop with a gazillion icons that I re-order into the proper folder/thrash every few weeks.
in that case, this set will provide you with double distraction :-)
I would go even further : people have an urge to find "truth". They dig thru encyclopedias (weiher its wiki or EB) to find some undeniable statement that they can use as a straw to clutch at.
People should learn to search "fact" instead of "truth". And then do the analysis from the former to the latter themselves.
I wrote my first fractal in 8-bit color, sucker ! On a MacII no less. In Lightspeed (what's in a name...) C (or was it MPW ? don't remember).
:-)
:-)
The average calculation time was 15min per pixel if i recall correctly. I just left it running the whole weekend and then on monday had to abort it cause someone needed to print and the damd mac couldn't multitask properly (Finder 1.x or so... not even multifinder in those days)
Damd those were the days... I recall spending a whole day trying to find a way to optimize 1 inline asm call... and then re-running a pixel or 2
I also recall my boss being angry about those 120KB image files filling up the 20MB harddisk at breakneck speed
dude, that website, did you write that yourself ? it's fucking hilarious :-)
now that I read my own post, I'm really scratching my head... What is a content management system actually for ? I mean, all content needs to be "managed" i none way or the other. Slashdot itself is managed content (supposedly content, and supposedly managed at least)... Even the simplest HTML page is managed content since tags were inserted.
...
Honestly, can someone explain when one needs a framework like zope ? I have done some DB-based websites, but always felt like learning a complete framework was
a) requiring more time than writing 3 pages PHP from scratch (or copying code from previous projects)
b) a serious server overhead
c) often introducing inconsistencies due to my limited abilities in learning the entire framework
i wish someone could point me to a clear document that explains when to use stuff like zope, webobjects, websphere,
Hmm.. what could Zope be ? Lemme guess ?
Another X-Prize contender ?
DukeNukem 3 beta release ?
A new competitor to the Roomba, but this time with shotguns ?
oh well, maybe Zope is an open source application server for building content management systems, intranets, portals, and custom applications. The Zope community consists of hundreds of companies and thousands of developers all over the world, working on building the platform and Zope applications. Zope is written in Python, a highly-productive, object-oriented scripting language. ?
um.. under water, on a vertical wall, while playing drums...
drunk offcourse
Day of the Tentacle was funny all the way. Not only the dialogue, but also the situations made me laugh several times over. And the solutions you had to come up with. A classic for instance : you need a screwdriver, but can't find it anywhere. After 20min of searching you go back to your car where a burgler is forcing the window. By trading your car-keys (and your car) for his screwdriver, the game got going again.
Nuts...
and some duct tape ! Doom3 is frustrating as hell from that perspective.
but where would you draw the line ???
The issue is that almost all the G4 machines do not have a required 3D card. The quicksilver G4s had a GeF4MX if I recall correctly, which is theoretically sufficient for D3, but if you try to play with it, it's just not doable : as soon as there is a 3+ monster fight, the stuttering is so much that you can't aim properly anymore.
What about EULAs that are deliberately written in a style/technical language unreadable to the majority of the buyers ? Or written with intent to discourage complete reading (a EULA of 125 pages for instance, with 75% of its scentences longer than 10 lines and each one containing 15 buzwords that you have to go lookup online. NOBODY should be asked to read and accept all that. It's just plain stupid)
Why is this news ? 3TB of ram on 2K processors amount to 1.5GB of ram per processor. Is this so ridiculous ? It's about as stupid as mentioning transistor count on a multiprocessor machine.
Oh well, we all now it's a slow news day, right
well, that shows you don't have kids. A baby (not a toddler ! I'm talking about a 1 y that is breast fed only) has diapers that are NOT smelly at all to the parents. I'm really honest : as long as they don't eat/drink anything else than mothermilk, most parents will usually consider the smell of a full diaper as funny and interesting (and informative since it will tell if the baby is sick). Except for the first 2 or 3 times I cleaned my kids (the first few times are a bit eewww indeed because you have a cultural aversion for poop), I never had a disgust. diapers of other people's kids on the other hand... EEWWWW...
nope. They took a functional baby and analyzed its core dump :-)
um, yes indeed. I *have* a G5. I have Warcraft both for MacOSX and PC. Whenever my brother comes over, we first have to toss who has to play on the G5 with its FX5200, whereas the PC has a GeForce4ti460000 which beats the G5 anytime. At 75% of the cost
um... warcraft3 is not an FPS, yet barfs out on my iMac when the fighting goes up. The new Sims version looks like crap if you haven't got the VRAM for sufficient textures. More and more games, even not 3D, require a powerful 3D card, just as much as an OS wants a serious graphics card.
apple hardware is just not fit for gaming. They ship the imac with an underpowered 3D card (GeFX 5200, only 64MB Vram, which barely plays UT2004, let alone Doom3) and insufficient RAM.
I always tell friends : buy a mac, and with the money saved by not paying the MS tax, buy yourself a 199$ PS2 for gaming
Testing from Belgium, I can confirm it works now, but the music catalogue is vastly inferior to the US version : Gene Ammons for instance has ONE CD on the belgian iTMS, while the US version has some 15 CD's or so...
Very frustrating. I hope they sync the catalogues fast...
And vice versa
If your application is not parallelizable, the supercomputer pisses away on you ?
Dear Marc, do you guys use floppies ?????
There has never been a document which cannot be forged
I never claimed that. The difference with RFID tags is that you don't need to have physical access to the original object to copy it. Just sitting behind someone on the bus might be sufficient to read out his RFID passport, and rebroadcast it when you want access to his confidential stuff. It will probably not be so easy, and there will most likely be encryption and other protection, but you can not deny that the RF in RFID makes it only less secure (as a sacrifice to the lazy people who don't want to insert a card in a card reader) and adds no substantial advantage.