I recently bought a pair of Viewsonic p225f's and am very happy with them. There is a slight line from the aperature grille, but it's not a big deal. They are extremely crisp and bright. The colors are amazing. I love going home to them after staring at my Iiyaya Pro510 all day, which is not a bad monitor, either.
I didn't mind spending over $600 per monitor, either. They are worth every penny.
Bottom line : don't go with a cheap monitor. With monitors, you get what you pay for and you don't get what you don't pay for. Do yourself a favor and drop the bucks on a nice one. Count on the monitor being the most expensive part of any system, by far. Your eyes will thank you.
Also, if you're going to be playing any high refresh-rate games, go with a CRT. LCDs are getting better all the time, but they still have much slower transition times, per pixel, then CRTs do.
PC sales have slowed because the PC has matured and the market has reached saturation. That is, everyone who wants a PC probably already has one. Also, it's foolish to believe the days of the PC are numbered. I don't know about you, but I prefer to use a full-size keyboard and 21" display vs. a few buttons and a 4" display. I also prefer my 4.1 setup with a serious subwoofer over some tinny, tiny speaker built-in to a portable device or headphones.
Nothing to see here. Move on.
Not all templates are crutches. STL, as far I can tell the last 2 years of using it, is extremely useful and efficient. I've never had to write another container since using STL. Assuming you have a half-way decent compiler, STL should definately be in your toolbox. It ain't no hammer, either.
This article is not news. Voice communications in the most popular multi-player game engine ever, Half-Life, has been around for years now. This article seems like a blatant XBox info-tisement. I wonder how many advertising dollars MSFT has put into BBC Online's coffers ?
I have a 2002 New Beetle TDI (diesel)
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20 years is a long time. A 1979 VW Rabbit diesel used a naturally-aspirated indirect-injection diesel with basic motor mounts. Indirect-injection is not nearly as efficient as direct-injection, which all modern diesels use today. Also, all modern diesels use computer-controlled turbos to increase power and torque and more accurately control boost pressure. Modern diesels are also much better able to compute exactly how much fuel needs to be injected into each cylinder. No more, no less. Furthermore, through much better motor mount technology, diesels do not vibrate the car any more than gasoline engines do. Improved sound insulation helps to reduce noise as well.
I will attempt to respond to each of your points.
1. They are noisy, and dirty.
My New Beetle is a little noisier at idle than a gasoline-powered version, but is actually quieter on the highway. My car also emits no visible smoke. Therefor, I would not consider it "dirty". In fact, by burning biodiesel, my car actually emits less pollution than a comparably equipped gasoline-powered car.
2. Finding fuel used to be a pain in the ass.
It is true that finding diesel is more difficult than finding gasoline. However, remember that trucks of all sorts run on diesel. So, as long as you can find a highway, you can find diesel.
3. You are constantly tightening things (diesels vibrate like nobody's business)
My diesel vibrates less than my 1995 Mazda Miata.
4. You can't shut them off if they overheat (I think modern diesels have a fuel cutoff. If not, they should!)
I haven't heard of this one. However, I do know that fuel delivery in my TDI is computer-controlled and the computer also monitors the temperature. I have never heard of a TDI overheating nor have I heard of one unable to shut-off. If you have more information about this than I do, please share.
As far as modern diesels go, I had no idea what an amazing car this little TDI is until I actually test-drove one.
-50mpg @ 75mph
-able to out-corner and out-brake 95% of the cars on the road, including "sports cars"
-able to out-accellerate most cars from 0-30 due its fantastic torque
-comes with impressive standard equipment for less than $17,000
Disclaimer : I'm not a VW saleperson or in any way affiliated with VW. I'm just a software engineer who hates spending money at the pump for financial, environmental, and political reasons. I also get a kick out of owning and driving a rather rare and friendly car. I'm planning on getting a 50mpg Jetta Wagon TDI next to replace the 25mpg Mazda Miata. It has great interior room and, equipped with a roof rack, can haul enough 4'x8' sheets of whatever to satisfy the "Home Depot run" requirement. SUVs can kiss my shiny diesel ass:)
The nice thing about the TDI is that they can be easily "chipped" up to 115hp and over 200ft-lbs. of torque while maintaining or actually improving their mileage !! A chipped TDI will beat most cars on the road from 0-30mph.
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I can't get you 100mpg, but I can get you this:
mpg : 50mpg @ 70mph
size : New Beetle, Golf, Jetta, or Jetta Wagon
fuel capacity : 15 gallons !!
fuel : regular diesel
price : under $17k !!
I bought my 2002 New Beetle TDI for $16,700. It came with power everything, factory alarm, heated seats, and heated mirrors. I could have even saved about $500 by getting it in the Golf form instead of the New Beetle form.
On top of that, my car can out-corner and out-brake 90% of the other cars on the road. I can also beat most of them from 0-30mph due to great torque from my turbo-charged direction-injection diesel. I also pollute less due to a very efficient burning cycle and by using a blend of biodiesel fuel.
Don't hold your breath waiting for something better to arrive in the States because it won't anytime soon.
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Yes, we really are funny. I am an American and I recently purchased a 2002 New Beetle TDI for 16,700 complete with power everything, heated seats, and heated mirrors. The real kicker is that I consistently get 50 MPGs in mixed city/highway driving. Oh yeah, I can also spank 99% of the cars on the road in cornering and braking and most of them from 0-30 mph (gotta love that diesel torque).
The reason we're funny is that I don't understand why MORE people don't drive these cars. There's even 3 models available : Jetta, Golf and New Beetle.
Another funny thing is that I have a 55 gallon drum of biodiesel that I use sitting in my garage that I purchased for $1.25/gallon !! Granted, that price has gone up recently to around $2.25/gallon, but the point is that me, an average consumer, was able to purchase biodiesel fuel without a lot of hassle at a cheap price. Biodiesel burns cleaner, is better for the engine, is a domestically produced product, is renewable, and contributes much less CO2 to the atmosphere than regular diesel does.
My funny sense of humor often turns to anger and frustration when I see 30-40% of solo commuters driving 15 MPG SUVs at non-optimal speeds. Don't people understand that their $50/week fuel habit only contributes to many of our foreign relation problems, Saddam's Hussein's wallet, and to Al Qaeda ?
There are few ways to be more UNpatriotic than driving a vehicle that gets 2-3 times WORSE fuel economy than a suitable alternative vehicle.
Standard Oil is to be given all of the credit for bringing about the petroleum revolution.
What a crock of crap. Microsoft just happened to sieze (monopolistic) power soon enough in an emerging market (personal computing) that it was able to embrace, extend, and/or extinguish any technology out there and stay on top.
Can anyone name a single Microsoft "innovation" that they didn't steal/buy/extort from some other software company ?
"Only hybrids are here TODAY and fuel cells are just a "hopeful" technology.
Don't forget about diesels. I am NOT a Volkswagen salesman nor am I in any way connected to Volkswagen (I'm a Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) software engineer, if you must know), but you can buy a VW Golf, Jetta, or Beetle with a diesel engine far cheaper (under $17k, brand new) than you can buy an Insight or a Prius and STILL get 50 mpg on less pollution and more torque !! With a diesel engine, you can also use 100% biodiesel fuel, a renewable, lower-polluting energy source grown here in the U.S. that is not much more expensive than regular (petroleum-based) diesel fuel.
"We (America) has arguably more oil than the Arab world."
Ummm...Saudi Arabia itself has 25 percent of the world's known oil reserves. The U.S. only has 3 percent of the world's known oil reserves.
"Electric wheels just dont turn as hard as gas-driven ones. (torque)"
Electric motors actually have more torque, pound-for-pound, than gasoline engines do. Furthermore, electric motors have a perfectly flat torque curve from 0 RPMs, whereas most gasoline engines don't hit their peak torque until at least 1,750 rpm. This means electric motors have a MUCH larger area under the torque curve !! Thus, I would argue electric motors have substantially more torque than gasoline engines. If you don't believe me, check out this link and this link.
Not many people realize this, but every single diesel automobile produced today is capable of burning 100% Biodiesel fuel. Here is how you would buy Biodiesel. Here is a forum site for the only passenger automobile diesel engines available in North America, the TDI. On this site, are forums, among many others, that deal with biodiesel fuel itself, reducing emissions, and getting better fuel economy.
Another little-known fact: approximately 40% of the automobiles sold in Europe today are diesel-powered, yet only 1/3 of 1% of the automobiles sold in the U.S. are diesel-powered.
Is it just me, or does it seem like the future of Palladium will make for an open and shut anti-trust case against Microsoft, AMD, and Intel ?
Steve Jobs, queue up the lawyers !!
I'd be curious to know if this program was created before or after someone heard about Minority Report ?
While I'm opposed to it on ethical grounds, it sounds legal as long as the justification for arrest is not based solely upon appearing on the list. That is, the arresting officer(s) are going to have to charge the "suspect" with some crime other than appearing on a list.
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Europeans get a month of vacation per year; they get even more (6 weeks?) if they've got some seniority.
Yeah, that's for the Europeans that HAVE jobs. Ever wonder why the European unemployment rate is so high ? European labor is just too expensive. I'll take my 2-week-vacation U.S. job any day over being unemployed, thank you very much.
Not only am I boycotting anything that puts money into the pockets of the RIAA and MPAA, I am also educating my wife, my friends, and anybody else that will listen, about this bill and every previously-passed (DMCA) or proposed (SSSCA and its spin-offs) absurb bill.
So, I figure if only 20% of the population boycotts the RIAA and MPAA, it will make a noticable enough difference that people will listen. If 80% of the population boycotts the RIAA and MPAA (yeah, right), then that will put them out of business.
The best way to hurt the RIAA and MPAA is in their pocketbooks. They no longer make a "product" that I am willing to support. I've always enjoyed books, computer games, and playing my own instruments (violin and piano).
Between computer games, books, and playing my own instrument, I'm set. I have not bought a CD in a long time. I am now going to boycott movie theatres as well, even if it means not going to a movie with my wife that she really wants to go to. I may still rent, though, as the margin from a DVD rental is far less than the margin from a movie ticket.
The best and most legal way to hurt the RIAA and MPAA is to boycot their products, thus cutting of their revenue stream.
Here's my take on the situation :
1) Cable Operators sell service at X$ per month. They had no practical (cost-effective) way to throttle bandwidth, so they offered it as "unlimited" usage, even though they were counting on users to use only a certain amount of bandwidth.
2) Technologies (802.11) and applications (P2P) become common enough that the average bandwidth per user goes beyond what the Cable Operators had originally budgeted for in step (1). As a first step to curb bandwidth usage, Cable Operators target the high-bandwidth users first to help bring the average bandwidth per user down. This is where we are today and what this article, along with many others, have been about.
3) Tiered services technology, which would allow the Cable Operators to offer different sized pipes at different pipes, becomes commonly and affordably available in early 2002. This technology allows Cable Operators to more accurately bill their customers on the amount of resources they are using. However, since the Cable Operators are either:
a) too short on cash to upgrade (Adelphia is in bankrupty court, AT&T is in the process of being acquired by Comcast, Comcast is too busy acquiring AT&T to worry about upgrading their technology, etc.,.)
b) don't see the benefit of upgrading yet (hey, why spend $15 per suscriber to upgrade our head-end when we can just charge all customers more money and make more profit ?)
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c) are in the process of upgrading (GCI Alaska is the ONLY Cable Operator I know of offering tiered services today)
Anyways, that's my story and I'm already stuck to it.
To whom it may concern:
As a citizen of the United States and as a consumer, I am opposed to any legislation which restricts my Fair Use Rights. Digital Rights Management (DRM) is a technology which will greatly restrict my Fair Use Rights by:
1) assuming untrusted software is guilty until proven innocent
2) limting my rights to produce my own music, movies, and software
3) limiting my product choices
4) centralizing control of DRM rights into the hands of a few at the expense of many
In conclusion, I see Digital Rights Managements as the RIAA's and MPAA's declaration of war on the consumer.
How many stand-alone copies of XP have been sold ?
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I wonder how many copies of stand-alone XP have been sold vs. the number of copies Microsoft reports as being "sold" on pre-installed new machines ?
I would hazard to guess that XP, as a percentage, has sold far fewer standalone copies vs. pre-installed copies than any previous Windows release, thus affirming that users are smart enough not to buy into Microsoft crap unless they ahve to. The only Palladium is going to succeed is if M$ and friends buys legislation to outlaw any non-Palladium hardware. Good luck getting the rest of the world to follow that:)
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A garbage collector inflicts a significant run-time overhead to the system it's running on.
Garbage collection is explicitly not in C++ because of this reason. However, there's nothing preventing you from linking in 3rd-party garbage collectors.
Which compilers do not come close to ANSI-C++ ?
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All of the latest versions of the C++ compilers I have used lately are either ANSI-C++ compliant or come damn close to being compliant :
Diab (for embedded systems)
GNU g++
Sun CC
Visual C++ (gasp !)
What most compilers got hung up on, in my experience, was templates. Now that STL has been out a while, it's forced any decent compiler to come up to spec..
Does Greenlee have his Ph.D. yet ?
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When I was at GA Tech ('93-'98), Greenlee only had a Master's degree and was an "instructor" rather than a flavor of "Professor" such as "Assistant Professor", "Associate Professor", "Full Professor", or "Professor Emeritus". Does he have a Ph.D. yet ? I actually liked his sadistic teaching style, even though most people didn't.
Though, nothing about Greenlee is suprising. He tends to have pretty extreme viewpoints.
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I didn't mind spending over $600 per monitor, either. They are worth every penny.
Bottom line : don't go with a cheap monitor. With monitors, you get what you pay for and you don't get what you don't pay for. Do yourself a favor and drop the bucks on a nice one. Count on the monitor being the most expensive part of any system, by far. Your eyes will thank you.
Also, if you're going to be playing any high refresh-rate games, go with a CRT. LCDs are getting better all the time, but they still have much slower transition times, per pixel, then CRTs do.
If you repeat a lie enough times, it is eventually perceived as the truth.
PC sales have slowed because the PC has matured and the market has reached saturation. That is, everyone who wants a PC probably already has one. Also, it's foolish to believe the days of the PC are numbered. I don't know about you, but I prefer to use a full-size keyboard and 21" display vs. a few buttons and a 4" display. I also prefer my 4.1 setup with a serious subwoofer over some tinny, tiny speaker built-in to a portable device or headphones. Nothing to see here. Move on.
Not all templates are crutches. STL, as far I can tell the last 2 years of using it, is extremely useful and efficient. I've never had to write another container since using STL. Assuming you have a half-way decent compiler, STL should definately be in your toolbox. It ain't no hammer, either.
This article is not news. Voice communications in the most popular multi-player game engine ever, Half-Life, has been around for years now. This article seems like a blatant XBox info-tisement. I wonder how many advertising dollars MSFT has put into BBC Online's coffers ?
I will attempt to respond to each of your points.
My New Beetle is a little noisier at idle than a gasoline-powered version, but is actually quieter on the highway. My car also emits no visible smoke. Therefor, I would not consider it "dirty". In fact, by burning biodiesel, my car actually emits less pollution than a comparably equipped gasoline-powered car.
It is true that finding diesel is more difficult than finding gasoline. However, remember that trucks of all sorts run on diesel. So, as long as you can find a highway, you can find diesel.
My diesel vibrates less than my 1995 Mazda Miata.
I haven't heard of this one. However, I do know that fuel delivery in my TDI is computer-controlled and the computer also monitors the temperature. I have never heard of a TDI overheating nor have I heard of one unable to shut-off. If you have more information about this than I do, please share.
As far as modern diesels go, I had no idea what an amazing car this little TDI is until I actually test-drove one.
-50mpg @ 75mph
-able to out-corner and out-brake 95% of the cars on the road, including "sports cars"
-able to out-accellerate most cars from 0-30 due its fantastic torque
-comes with impressive standard equipment for less than $17,000
Disclaimer : I'm not a VW saleperson or in any way affiliated with VW. I'm just a software engineer who hates spending money at the pump for financial, environmental, and political reasons. I also get a kick out of owning and driving a rather rare and friendly car. I'm planning on getting a 50mpg Jetta Wagon TDI next to replace the 25mpg Mazda Miata. It has great interior room and, equipped with a roof rack, can haul enough 4'x8' sheets of whatever to satisfy the "Home Depot run" requirement. SUVs can kiss my shiny diesel ass :)
Civic : 93hp, 113ft-lbs., 46/51mpg, $18,684
Golf TDI : 90hp, 155ft-lbs., 42/49mpg, $17,495
The nice thing about the TDI is that they can be easily "chipped" up to 115hp and over 200ft-lbs. of torque while maintaining or actually improving their mileage !! A chipped TDI will beat most cars on the road from 0-30mph.
I can't get you 100mpg, but I can get you this: mpg : 50mpg @ 70mph size : New Beetle, Golf, Jetta, or Jetta Wagon fuel capacity : 15 gallons !! fuel : regular diesel price : under $17k !! I bought my 2002 New Beetle TDI for $16,700. It came with power everything, factory alarm, heated seats, and heated mirrors. I could have even saved about $500 by getting it in the Golf form instead of the New Beetle form. On top of that, my car can out-corner and out-brake 90% of the other cars on the road. I can also beat most of them from 0-30mph due to great torque from my turbo-charged direction-injection diesel. I also pollute less due to a very efficient burning cycle and by using a blend of biodiesel fuel. Don't hold your breath waiting for something better to arrive in the States because it won't anytime soon.
Yes, we really are funny. I am an American and I recently purchased a 2002 New Beetle TDI for 16,700 complete with power everything, heated seats, and heated mirrors. The real kicker is that I consistently get 50 MPGs in mixed city/highway driving. Oh yeah, I can also spank 99% of the cars on the road in cornering and braking and most of them from 0-30 mph (gotta love that diesel torque). The reason we're funny is that I don't understand why MORE people don't drive these cars. There's even 3 models available : Jetta, Golf and New Beetle. Another funny thing is that I have a 55 gallon drum of biodiesel that I use sitting in my garage that I purchased for $1.25/gallon !! Granted, that price has gone up recently to around $2.25/gallon, but the point is that me, an average consumer, was able to purchase biodiesel fuel without a lot of hassle at a cheap price. Biodiesel burns cleaner, is better for the engine, is a domestically produced product, is renewable, and contributes much less CO2 to the atmosphere than regular diesel does. My funny sense of humor often turns to anger and frustration when I see 30-40% of solo commuters driving 15 MPG SUVs at non-optimal speeds. Don't people understand that their $50/week fuel habit only contributes to many of our foreign relation problems, Saddam's Hussein's wallet, and to Al Qaeda ? There are few ways to be more UNpatriotic than driving a vehicle that gets 2-3 times WORSE fuel economy than a suitable alternative vehicle.
Standard Oil is to be given all of the credit for bringing about the petroleum revolution. What a crock of crap. Microsoft just happened to sieze (monopolistic) power soon enough in an emerging market (personal computing) that it was able to embrace, extend, and/or extinguish any technology out there and stay on top. Can anyone name a single Microsoft "innovation" that they didn't steal/buy/extort from some other software company ?
Don't forget about diesels. I am NOT a Volkswagen salesman nor am I in any way connected to Volkswagen (I'm a Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) software engineer, if you must know), but you can buy a VW Golf, Jetta, or Beetle with a diesel engine far cheaper (under $17k, brand new) than you can buy an Insight or a Prius and STILL get 50 mpg on less pollution and more torque !! With a diesel engine, you can also use 100% biodiesel fuel, a renewable, lower-polluting energy source grown here in the U.S. that is not much more expensive than regular (petroleum-based) diesel fuel.
Click here for more info.
Ummm...Saudi Arabia itself has 25 percent of the world's known oil reserves. The U.S. only has 3 percent of the world's known oil reserves.
"Electric wheels just dont turn as hard as gas-driven ones. (torque)"
Electric motors actually have more torque, pound-for-pound, than gasoline engines do. Furthermore, electric motors have a perfectly flat torque curve from 0 RPMs, whereas most gasoline engines don't hit their peak torque until at least 1,750 rpm. This means electric motors have a MUCH larger area under the torque curve !! Thus, I would argue electric motors have substantially more torque than gasoline engines. If you don't believe me, check out this link and this link.
Not many people realize this, but every single diesel automobile produced today is capable of burning 100% Biodiesel fuel. Here is how you would buy Biodiesel. Here is a forum site for the only passenger automobile diesel engines available in North America, the TDI. On this site, are forums, among many others, that deal with biodiesel fuel itself, reducing emissions, and getting better fuel economy. Another little-known fact: approximately 40% of the automobiles sold in Europe today are diesel-powered, yet only 1/3 of 1% of the automobiles sold in the U.S. are diesel-powered.
Is it just me, or does it seem like the future of Palladium will make for an open and shut anti-trust case against Microsoft, AMD, and Intel ? Steve Jobs, queue up the lawyers !!
I'd be curious to know if this program was created before or after someone heard about Minority Report ? While I'm opposed to it on ethical grounds, it sounds legal as long as the justification for arrest is not based solely upon appearing on the list. That is, the arresting officer(s) are going to have to charge the "suspect" with some crime other than appearing on a list.
Europeans get a month of vacation per year; they get even more (6 weeks?) if they've got some seniority. Yeah, that's for the Europeans that HAVE jobs. Ever wonder why the European unemployment rate is so high ? European labor is just too expensive. I'll take my 2-week-vacation U.S. job any day over being unemployed, thank you very much.
Not only am I boycotting anything that puts money into the pockets of the RIAA and MPAA, I am also educating my wife, my friends, and anybody else that will listen, about this bill and every previously-passed (DMCA) or proposed (SSSCA and its spin-offs) absurb bill. So, I figure if only 20% of the population boycotts the RIAA and MPAA, it will make a noticable enough difference that people will listen. If 80% of the population boycotts the RIAA and MPAA (yeah, right), then that will put them out of business.
The best way to hurt the RIAA and MPAA is in their pocketbooks. They no longer make a "product" that I am willing to support. I've always enjoyed books, computer games, and playing my own instruments (violin and piano).
Between computer games, books, and playing my own instrument, I'm set. I have not bought a CD in a long time. I am now going to boycott movie theatres as well, even if it means not going to a movie with my wife that she really wants to go to. I may still rent, though, as the margin from a DVD rental is far less than the margin from a movie ticket.
The best and most legal way to hurt the RIAA and MPAA is to boycot their products, thus cutting of their revenue stream.
Here's my take on the situation : 1) Cable Operators sell service at X$ per month. They had no practical (cost-effective) way to throttle bandwidth, so they offered it as "unlimited" usage, even though they were counting on users to use only a certain amount of bandwidth. 2) Technologies (802.11) and applications (P2P) become common enough that the average bandwidth per user goes beyond what the Cable Operators had originally budgeted for in step (1). As a first step to curb bandwidth usage, Cable Operators target the high-bandwidth users first to help bring the average bandwidth per user down. This is where we are today and what this article, along with many others, have been about. 3) Tiered services technology, which would allow the Cable Operators to offer different sized pipes at different pipes, becomes commonly and affordably available in early 2002. This technology allows Cable Operators to more accurately bill their customers on the amount of resources they are using. However, since the Cable Operators are either: a) too short on cash to upgrade (Adelphia is in bankrupty court, AT&T is in the process of being acquired by Comcast, Comcast is too busy acquiring AT&T to worry about upgrading their technology, etc.,.) b) don't see the benefit of upgrading yet (hey, why spend $15 per suscriber to upgrade our head-end when we can just charge all customers more money and make more profit ?) or c) are in the process of upgrading (GCI Alaska is the ONLY Cable Operator I know of offering tiered services today) Anyways, that's my story and I'm already stuck to it.
To whom it may concern: As a citizen of the United States and as a consumer, I am opposed to any legislation which restricts my Fair Use Rights. Digital Rights Management (DRM) is a technology which will greatly restrict my Fair Use Rights by: 1) assuming untrusted software is guilty until proven innocent 2) limting my rights to produce my own music, movies, and software 3) limiting my product choices 4) centralizing control of DRM rights into the hands of a few at the expense of many In conclusion, I see Digital Rights Managements as the RIAA's and MPAA's declaration of war on the consumer.
I wonder how many copies of stand-alone XP have been sold vs. the number of copies Microsoft reports as being "sold" on pre-installed new machines ? I would hazard to guess that XP, as a percentage, has sold far fewer standalone copies vs. pre-installed copies than any previous Windows release, thus affirming that users are smart enough not to buy into Microsoft crap unless they ahve to. The only Palladium is going to succeed is if M$ and friends buys legislation to outlaw any non-Palladium hardware. Good luck getting the rest of the world to follow that :)
A garbage collector inflicts a significant run-time overhead to the system it's running on. Garbage collection is explicitly not in C++ because of this reason. However, there's nothing preventing you from linking in 3rd-party garbage collectors.
All of the latest versions of the C++ compilers I have used lately are either ANSI-C++ compliant or come damn close to being compliant : Diab (for embedded systems) GNU g++ Sun CC Visual C++ (gasp !) What most compilers got hung up on, in my experience, was templates. Now that STL has been out a while, it's forced any decent compiler to come up to spec..
When I was at GA Tech ('93-'98), Greenlee only had a Master's degree and was an "instructor" rather than a flavor of "Professor" such as "Assistant Professor", "Associate Professor", "Full Professor", or "Professor Emeritus". Does he have a Ph.D. yet ? I actually liked his sadistic teaching style, even though most people didn't. Though, nothing about Greenlee is suprising. He tends to have pretty extreme viewpoints.