Difference is ME was end of the line for the 16 bit kernels, so it didn't really have a future and everyone knew it. Nobody's talking about replacing the XP kernel yet as far as I can tell..
The.NET generics implementation is a little different than the Java and C++ versions, in that only one copy of the template code is generated - if you have a List template, and you have lists of 10 different types of objects, you have 10 copies of the list code. With.NET you have one.
...that bugs me is that there's no way to make a call that will return multiple pieces of data over a long period. Like, I want to connect to a server and say "tell me every time the price of IBM stock changes". I can use SOAP for most of a trader type UI but for streaming the data back to the client, you have to use another protocol (unless I'm missing something).
The dude asking the quesiton here is, I think, a little too worried about overhead - the overhead of XML is fairly tiny, and the overhead of TCP/IP isn't that great either - if both of those really are too much then you're probably on your own as there isn't likely to be a "general purpose" solution that will work for you.
The idea of using an NNTP type protocol for RSS is something I've been pushing for a while. Just change "newsgroup" to "newsfeed" and add a way to authenticate posters and automatically create feeds, and NNTP already takes care of most of the rest of the problems.
Things RSS has been struggling with like character encoding, attachments (enclosures), scaling, and other issues are things that NNTP solved long ago.
RSS + Torrent would be an excellent replacement for binaries newsgroups though.
This isn't politics, it's software. Sticking to a decision that doesn't make sense just because the rules say so isn't in the best interest of anyone, except for the people who want it to be politics.
11 seats on the board and only 12 people were to be voted for? IMHO simply adding one seat to the board would have been better than playing "Gnome Board Survivor" to see who gets voted off the island.. Poor Sri Ramkrishna.
The other weird thing is it sounds like Miguel was disqualified on a technicality? Considering he's the one name that most people probably associate with Gnome, having him miss being on the board because of something like this just seems wrong.
Winamp 5 looks amazingly good. The Internet TV feature is the "Instant On" that Windows Media Player just couldn't get right.
Funny thing is Winamp 5 betas are circulating, and seem to be actively developed with new betas released fairly frequently, but there's no mention on it on the Nullsoft or Winamp pages.
A Google search will find you lots of places to get it though.
Sure but only within the filesystem.. I think what they're talking about here is more like the Linux/proc filesystem, where you can make things other than filesystems look like a filesystem.
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The 264kb DLL file is an Explorer add-on that lets you browse the registry using the Explorer. It doesn't let you do anything with the Registry from the command line.
I've just cut my hand off with a power tool so I'm typing this with one hand. I'm not sure if I should call the hospital or if they have an email address or web form that I can use to submit a request for an ambulance. Does anyone know?
(Some things just don't seem appropriate for Ask Slashdot, ya know?)
OpenOffice actually outputs four different XML files in a zip file when you save a document.. here's what they look like for comparison (for a default document with just the word Hello in it):
"Windows version of the d220 does include a modem option, but it is a Winmodem. HP tells me there is a Linux driver available for it on the Internet."
So if I read this right, you have to go on the Internet and download a driver for the modem in your new PC. Um, unless I have broadband, how am I supposed to get on the Internet to download this driver?
Seems about as smart as putting the installation instructions for your CD-ROM drive on a CD...
Of course it's a calculated risk.. Some people will hate the DRM, but a lot of companies will really like it. Being able to say that a document can only be opened by managers in your company, for example, is worth lots of PHB points.
The reason Microsoft can ask developers to compare C# to C++ is because a developer can use C# to develop a Windows application. A developer can use Java to develop a Java applcation. There's a big difference.
Java is "write once run anywhere", C# doesn't try to do that, and as a result, making a GUI application to run on Windows is much easier and the resulting app has access to more of the strengths of the platform it's built on.
Any functionality I need in a Windows GUI application (like charting or generating a PDF or whatever) I can get as a COM object. There's a good chance that we (the company I work for) already has it somewhere. That same COM object works in C#, VB.NET, C++, even straight C. With Java you have to find Java code to do what you want, or you lose the one big benefit you get with Java - portability.
If the goal is to write a "Windows Application" (and it often is), then there is generally a choice between C++, VB, C#, and VB.NET.
Here's something to think about. Microsoft's patch system authenticates you before it will give you patches (not you specifically, but the Activation Code you're using, I believe).. with the last service pack they made a whole lot of pirated corporate editions not able to use Windows Update.
This doesn't mean all the pirates are going to say "gee, guess I'll go legit and buy a copy", it more likely means they'll stay unpatched.
It would be interesting to know how many systems that are participating in DDoS attacks are not patched because they can't patch because they're illegal copies of Windows...
(Yes, patches are available in other ways than Windows Update, but Microsoft is doing all their work to make Windows Update easy - maybe what we need is a "rogue Windows Update" for the pirates:)
Dunno about Trilobyte but the Roomba has a little flexible rubber arm with a brush on it that spins around out one side of it.. it flicks stuff out from corners so the main part of the vacuum can get it.
It's not a self-charger, it's a fast charger. You have to take the battery out and put it in the charger (which also means with two batteries you can run it non stop).
The Roomba detects the steps and backs away from them. I stress tested this by putting it on a little landing - maybe 8 square feet of carpet with a precipice on one edge - and it did fine. Better than laying down magnetic strip all over..
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Difference is ME was end of the line for the 16 bit kernels, so it didn't really have a future and everyone knew it. Nobody's talking about replacing the XP kernel yet as far as I can tell..
The .NET generics implementation is a little different than the Java and C++ versions, in that only one copy of the template code is generated - if you have a List template, and you have lists of 10 different types of objects, you have 10 copies of the list code. With .NET you have one.
- Steve
...that bugs me is that there's no way to make a call that will return multiple pieces of data over a long period. Like, I want to connect to a server and say "tell me every time the price of IBM stock changes". I can use SOAP for most of a trader type UI but for streaming the data back to the client, you have to use another protocol (unless I'm missing something).
The dude asking the quesiton here is, I think, a little too worried about overhead - the overhead of XML is fairly tiny, and the overhead of TCP/IP isn't that great either - if both of those really are too much then you're probably on your own as there isn't likely to be a "general purpose" solution that will work for you.
- Steve
The idea of using an NNTP type protocol for RSS is something I've been pushing for a while. Just change "newsgroup" to "newsfeed" and add a way to authenticate posters and automatically create feeds, and NNTP already takes care of most of the rest of the problems.
Things RSS has been struggling with like character encoding, attachments (enclosures), scaling, and other issues are things that NNTP solved long ago.
RSS + Torrent would be an excellent replacement for binaries newsgroups though.
This isn't politics, it's software. Sticking to a decision that doesn't make sense just because the rules say so isn't in the best interest of anyone, except for the people who want it to be politics.
11 seats on the board and only 12 people were to be voted for? IMHO simply adding one seat to the board would have been better than playing "Gnome Board Survivor" to see who gets voted off the island.. Poor Sri Ramkrishna.
The other weird thing is it sounds like Miguel was disqualified on a technicality? Considering he's the one name that most people probably associate with Gnome, having him miss being on the board because of something like this just seems wrong.
- Steve
A Google search will find you lots of places to get it though.
Sure but only within the filesystem.. I think what they're talking about here is more like the Linux /proc filesystem, where you can make things other than filesystems look like a filesystem.
The 264kb DLL file is an Explorer add-on that lets you browse the registry using the Explorer. It doesn't let you do anything with the Registry from the command line.
It would be Verisign buying Google.
Microsoft is in a position to do a lot of stupid things, and generally doesn't.
Verisign is in the position to do a lot of stupid things, and generally does.
I've just cut my hand off with a power tool so I'm typing this with one hand. I'm not sure if I should call the hospital or if they have an email address or web form that I can use to submit a request for an ambulance. Does anyone know?
(Some things just don't seem appropriate for Ask Slashdot, ya know?)
What if your defaults are different than my defaults? What if the defaults change in the next version of the software?
What if you're implementing a viewer and you don't know what the defaults are?
The defaults have to be included in the document somehow.
OpenOffice actually outputs four different XML files in a zip file when you save a document.. here's what they look like for comparison (for a default document with just the word Hello in it):
:body></office:document-content>
:language>en-US</dc:language><meta:editing-cycles> 3</meta:editing-cycles><meta:editing-duration>PT18 S</meta:editing-duration><meta:user-defin ed meta:name="Info 1"/><meta:user-defined meta:name="Info 2"/><meta:user-defined meta:name="Info 3"/><meta:user-defined meta:name="Info 4"/><meta:document-statistic meta:table-count="0" meta:image-count="0" meta:object-count="0" meta:page-count="1" meta:paragraph-count="1" meta:word-count="1" meta:character-count="6"/></office:meta></office:d ocument-meta>
content.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE office:document-content PUBLIC "-//OpenOffice.org//DTD OfficeDocument 1.0//EN" "office.dtd"><office:document-content xmlns:office="http://openoffice.org/2000/office" xmlns:style="http://openoffice.org/2000/style" xmlns:text="http://openoffice.org/2000/text" xmlns:table="http://openoffice.org/2000/table" xmlns:draw="http://openoffice.org/2000/drawing" xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:number="http://openoffice.org/2000/datastyle " xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:chart="http://openoffice.org/2000/chart" xmlns:dr3d="http://openoffice.org/2000/dr3d" xmlns:math="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:form="http://openoffice.org/2000/form" xmlns:script="http://openoffice.org/2000/script" office:class="text" office:version="1.0"><office:script/><office:font- decls><style:font-decl style:name="Tahoma1" fo:font-family="Tahoma"/><style:font-decl style:name="Arial Unicode MS" fo:font-family="'Arial Unicode MS'" style:font-pitch="variable"/><style:font-dec l style:name="Tahoma" fo:font-family="Tahoma" style:font-pitch="variable"/><style:font-dec l style:name="Times New Roman" fo:font-family="'Times New Roman'" style:font-family-generic="roman" style:font-pitch="variable"/></office:font-decls>< office:automatic-styles/><office:body><text:sequen ce-decls><text:sequence-decl text:display-outline-level="0" text:name="Illustration"/><text:sequence-dec l text:display-outline-level="0" text:name="Table"/><text:sequence-decl text:display-outline-level="0" text:name="Text"/><text:sequence-decl text:display-outline-level="0" text:name="Drawing"/></text:sequence-decls><text:p text:style-name="Standard">Hello.</text:p></office
meta.xml:
< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE office:document-meta PUBLIC "-//OpenOffice.org//DTD OfficeDocument 1.0//EN" "office.dtd"><office:document-meta xmlns:office="http://openoffice.org/2000/office" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:meta="http://openoffice.org/2000/meta" office:version="1.0"><office:meta><meta:generator> OpenOffice.org 1.1.0 (Win32)</meta:generator><!--645m18(Build:8687)-->< meta:creation-date>2003-09-18T11:55:07</meta:creat ion-date><dc:date>2003-09-18T11:56:33</dc:date><dc
settings.xml I can't include because it has a UUEncoded section that Slashdot refuses..
styles.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE office:document-styles PUBLIC "-//OpenOffice.org//DTD OfficeDocument 1.0//EN" "office.dtd"><office:document-styles xmlns:office="http://openoffice.org/2000/office" xmlns:style="http://openoffi
"Windows version of the d220 does include a modem option, but it is a Winmodem. HP tells me there is a Linux driver available for it on the Internet."
So if I read this right, you have to go on the Internet and download a driver for the modem in your new PC. Um, unless I have broadband, how am I supposed to get on the Internet to download this driver?
Seems about as smart as putting the installation instructions for your CD-ROM drive on a CD...
Of course it's a calculated risk.. Some people will hate the DRM, but a lot of companies will really like it. Being able to say that a document can only be opened by managers in your company, for example, is worth lots of PHB points.
Or at least, laptops, and a power inverter in the car to recharge..
>Also, your USA quote is somewhat insulting to people who (like me) lives in other countries.
You left out "you insensitive clod!"
The reason Microsoft can ask developers to compare C# to C++ is because a developer can use C# to develop a Windows application. A developer can use Java to develop a Java applcation. There's a big difference.
Java is "write once run anywhere", C# doesn't try to do that, and as a result, making a GUI application to run on Windows is much easier and the resulting app has access to more of the strengths of the platform it's built on.
Any functionality I need in a Windows GUI application (like charting or generating a PDF or whatever) I can get as a COM object. There's a good chance that we (the company I work for) already has it somewhere. That same COM object works in C#, VB.NET, C++, even straight C. With Java you have to find Java code to do what you want, or you lose the one big benefit you get with Java - portability.
If the goal is to write a "Windows Application" (and it often is), then there is generally a choice between C++, VB, C#, and VB.NET.
- Steve
There's always something better coming, and you wouldn't want to miss out!
Is another usability group, so they can compete.
Here's something to think about. Microsoft's patch system authenticates you before it will give you patches (not you specifically, but the Activation Code you're using, I believe).. with the last service pack they made a whole lot of pirated corporate editions not able to use Windows Update.
:)
This doesn't mean all the pirates are going to say "gee, guess I'll go legit and buy a copy", it more likely means they'll stay unpatched.
It would be interesting to know how many systems that are participating in DDoS attacks are not patched because they can't patch because they're illegal copies of Windows...
(Yes, patches are available in other ways than Windows Update, but Microsoft is doing all their work to make Windows Update easy - maybe what we need is a "rogue Windows Update" for the pirates
- Steve
And they sell such cool stuff. - Steve
Dunno about Trilobyte but the Roomba has a little flexible rubber arm with a brush on it that spins around out one side of it.. it flicks stuff out from corners so the main part of the vacuum can get it.
It's not a self-charger, it's a fast charger. You have to take the battery out and put it in the charger (which also means with two batteries you can run it non stop).
The Roomba detects the steps and backs away from them. I stress tested this by putting it on a little landing - maybe 8 square feet of carpet with a precipice on one edge - and it did fine. Better than laying down magnetic strip all over..