If you think the.NET library is like a wrapper around Win32 or even MFC then I'd wager you've not actually got much experience with either because the differences are vast.
Big time. It's fair to say that MFC is a thin wrapper around Win32, but.Net abstracts a *lot* of stuff out for you and in general makes things so much easier it's not funny. I can write code much more quickly and cleanly with.Net than I could even consider doing with the API directly.
It's the standard 3-prong power cable that you use with most PCs and printers. I imagine they're called "kettle cords" because they're also used for some high-amperage devices like electric tea kettles.
My experience was exactly the opposite . The third party supplies had decent strain reliefs on the cables and were quite reliable, unlike the Apple crap-o-matics that shipped with the G3 iBooks.
I have this "problem" in online forums where I'll write a huge long post, reread it, decide it's crap, and delete it and not post anything.
Same here. Sometimes you just realize that either your opinion isn't going to contribute anything to the discussion, you're going to just end up in a flame war, or by the time you've gotten your thoughts out on the display, you find you just don't care enough anymore.:-)
Not to mention that the concept of "limited" that Congress is operating under is just a farce. Current copyright terms are well in excess of a human lifetime - using the reasoning that Congress continues to put forth when extending terms, it's perfectly legal to permanently assign copyright since the U.S. won't last forever, thus making the new extended term a "limited" time. I'm quite sure that when the idea of copyright was put forth, it wasn't the intent to make society wait in excess of four generations before someone could build on the ideas of others.
I'm sick to death of the way the courts continue to defer to Congress on this matter instead of growing a backbone and doing their damned jobs.
Sure they can, after they find a bunch of engineers willing to work for $15K/year while disregarding all those pesky environmental and other regulations.
if only because cargo is usually quite valuable and time consuming to build.
That's what insurance is for. "Safe" doesn't count for much when getting the rocket into orbit *now* means being able to post that multi-million dollar receivable during the current quarter instead of next, particularly when the decision is made by a beancounter that has no skin in the game.
No, I'm not forgetting it - that budget difference is a critical factor when it comes to whether commercial space travel will work. NASA had the benefit of somewhat expendable military test pilots, which saved a fortune on liability and other concerns, and also had the benefit of being able to use existing military technology for boosters and other hardware for the Mercury and Gemini programs, plus military support for other aspects of the mission.
Never get into space? I suppose that this flight [spacex.com] was a figment of my imagination.
It's not a figment of your imagination, but let's also bear in mind that American commercial space ventures are just now accomplishing what NASA was doing about 50 years ago, and that's with the aid of all the wonderful new tech that has evolved since that time. It's not reasonable to expect they're going to make up that kind of shortfall in a short period of time.
The single pair of eyes also boils down to an argument between you and the charging officer. If we truly lived in a society where "all men are created equal", then the judge would have to give equal weight to both sets of testimony, but we know that doesn't happen often - the officer will get a pass merely because he's an agent of the government. Essentially, the court accepts testimony given under the logical fallacy of argumentum ad verecundiam as fact ("I've taken a class and therefore know definitively how fast he was going by just looking!") and without question. The accused has no real way to defend himself against that assumption, barring some kind of evidence like GPS logs. Even then the judge is as likely as not to discard that evidence out of hand merely because the "evidence" of guilt is being proffered by a law enforcement officer who is assumed to be infallible and to have no incentive to have written the ticket improperly, completely ignoring the influences of monthly quotas, performance reviews, etc.
After fighting with Xen on Linux (and the billion different config instructions.). I finally just installed it in OpenSolaris and was done with it. (It's as simple as an 'apt-get' in debian).
And Xen's totally unavailable in FreeBSD. Sure, you can finally run a FreeBSD guest, but if you want a Xen host on ZFS, OpenSolaris is the only game in town.
It does look very nice. Unfortunately, after years and years of having played in pit orchestras for various theatrical productions, I've developed a distinct preference for the look of hand-written music done by a competent transcriber. I don't know why though - it's often misaligned and ugly, but somehow I just find it easier to read than typeset music.
By ripping off shows and movies they are also hurting the folks who work with the CG departments, lighting and sound, construction etc. Many of these people make an average or slightly above average salary and when people don't pay for content these people suffer.
How, exactly? These people are paid a wage up front during the production of a film, the amount of which is not contingent on how much the movie makes. Unlike actors and the business types, these workers don't get residuals and don't see another penny whether the movie fails or is a blockbuster. The only way these people lose money is if Hollywood decides to slow down production in general.
Just because the Manny the Stuntman puts on a sad face to appeal to peoples' emotions at the RIAA's behest doesn't mean that what he's saying is the truth.
They could use or sell the one they find without infringing on the patent
Actually, patent law prohibits even the private manufacture and use of a patented invention, at least in the U.S. From 35 USC 271(a): "Except as otherwise provided in this title, whoever without authority makes, uses, offers to sell, or sells any patented invention, within the United States or imports into the United States any patented invention during the term of the patent therefor, infringes the patent." (emphasis mine)
It's not a matter of it being open source. VNC is sending huge blocks of pixel data anytime anything changes on the source display, whereas RDP sends much more high-level commands which the client can then use to reconstruct the desktop locally instead of having to retrieve each and every pixel across the wire. XDMCP is another protocol that's somewhat comparable to RDP, and takes advantage of the fact that the X window system was designed to work over a network and thus sends X commands instead of big blocks of pixels. XDMCP offers performance light-years better from the user's perspective than VNC in my experience, and I find it to be almost indistinguishable from sitting at the workstation itself when used over a 100 megabit network. NX is similar to XDMCP in concept, but offers a number of improvements and generally performs better.
Also, RDP is a Windows-specific, proprietary protocol, so while there are Unix RDP clients that can connect to a Windows server, the fundamental differences in the way X and Windows generate their displays make it difficult to create a good RDP server for non-Windows systems. VNC's performance is usually pretty awful, but because it's just moving blocks of pixels around it's fairly easy to create a VNC server for any operating system.
It's not ridiculous that GIMP still remains a piece of shit compared to Photoshop, no matter how much you and every other OSS apologist try to argue otherwise. Adobe does in fact incorporate features requested by users, and by and large it's a lot more stable than GIMP.
I'm already to the point where no one with the city will respond to my phone calls or emails anymore, and the local paper is such a cheerleader for the camera program that getting any kind of story there is a non-starter. About the only avenue left for me to get anyone to listen is to run one of the lights myself and file a civil suit afterwards, and I can't afford the time or money for that right now.
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If you think the .NET library is like a wrapper around Win32 or even MFC then I'd wager you've not actually got much experience with either because the differences are vast.
.Net abstracts a *lot* of stuff out for you and in general makes things so much easier it's not funny. I can write code much more quickly and cleanly with .Net than I could even consider doing with the API directly.
Big time. It's fair to say that MFC is a thin wrapper around Win32, but
It's the standard 3-prong power cable that you use with most PCs and printers. I imagine they're called "kettle cords" because they're also used for some high-amperage devices like electric tea kettles.
My experience was exactly the opposite . The third party supplies had decent strain reliefs on the cables and were quite reliable, unlike the Apple crap-o-matics that shipped with the G3 iBooks.
Well, except for Florida Statutes 776.05, of course, which pretty much gives the officer carte blanche when using force to make an arrest.
Works on my 8900 Curve too - thanks for the tip.
But the sad truth is that there is in fact no Sanctuary.
I have this "problem" in online forums where I'll write a huge long post, reread it, decide it's crap, and delete it and not post anything.
:-)
Same here. Sometimes you just realize that either your opinion isn't going to contribute anything to the discussion, you're going to just end up in a flame war, or by the time you've gotten your thoughts out on the display, you find you just don't care enough anymore.
Not to mention that the concept of "limited" that Congress is operating under is just a farce. Current copyright terms are well in excess of a human lifetime - using the reasoning that Congress continues to put forth when extending terms, it's perfectly legal to permanently assign copyright since the U.S. won't last forever, thus making the new extended term a "limited" time. I'm quite sure that when the idea of copyright was put forth, it wasn't the intent to make society wait in excess of four generations before someone could build on the ideas of others.
I'm sick to death of the way the courts continue to defer to Congress on this matter instead of growing a backbone and doing their damned jobs.
Sure they can, after they find a bunch of engineers willing to work for $15K/year while disregarding all those pesky environmental and other regulations.
if only because cargo is usually quite valuable and time consuming to build.
That's what insurance is for. "Safe" doesn't count for much when getting the rocket into orbit *now* means being able to post that multi-million dollar receivable during the current quarter instead of next, particularly when the decision is made by a beancounter that has no skin in the game.
No, I'm not forgetting it - that budget difference is a critical factor when it comes to whether commercial space travel will work. NASA had the benefit of somewhat expendable military test pilots, which saved a fortune on liability and other concerns, and also had the benefit of being able to use existing military technology for boosters and other hardware for the Mercury and Gemini programs, plus military support for other aspects of the mission.
Never get into space? I suppose that this flight [spacex.com] was a figment of my imagination.
It's not a figment of your imagination, but let's also bear in mind that American commercial space ventures are just now accomplishing what NASA was doing about 50 years ago, and that's with the aid of all the wonderful new tech that has evolved since that time. It's not reasonable to expect they're going to make up that kind of shortfall in a short period of time.
It's hay (Bermuda and bahia), and they're good ol' boys. :-)
The single pair of eyes also boils down to an argument between you and the charging officer. If we truly lived in a society where "all men are created equal", then the judge would have to give equal weight to both sets of testimony, but we know that doesn't happen often - the officer will get a pass merely because he's an agent of the government. Essentially, the court accepts testimony given under the logical fallacy of argumentum ad verecundiam as fact ("I've taken a class and therefore know definitively how fast he was going by just looking!") and without question. The accused has no real way to defend himself against that assumption, barring some kind of evidence like GPS logs. Even then the judge is as likely as not to discard that evidence out of hand merely because the "evidence" of guilt is being proffered by a law enforcement officer who is assumed to be infallible and to have no incentive to have written the ticket improperly, completely ignoring the influences of monthly quotas, performance reviews, etc.
Maybe, but in the meantime it's a frigging hard-knock life.
And that same basic concept is still in use on every diesel-electric locomotive in the world. :-)
After fighting with Xen on Linux (and the billion different config instructions.). I finally just installed it in OpenSolaris and was done with it. (It's as simple as an 'apt-get' in debian).
And Xen's totally unavailable in FreeBSD. Sure, you can finally run a FreeBSD guest, but if you want a Xen host on ZFS, OpenSolaris is the only game in town.
It does look very nice. Unfortunately, after years and years of having played in pit orchestras for various theatrical productions, I've developed a distinct preference for the look of hand-written music done by a competent transcriber. I don't know why though - it's often misaligned and ugly, but somehow I just find it easier to read than typeset music.
By ripping off shows and movies they are also hurting the folks who work with the CG departments, lighting and sound, construction etc. Many of these people make an average or slightly above average salary and when people don't pay for content these people suffer.
How, exactly? These people are paid a wage up front during the production of a film, the amount of which is not contingent on how much the movie makes. Unlike actors and the business types, these workers don't get residuals and don't see another penny whether the movie fails or is a blockbuster. The only way these people lose money is if Hollywood decides to slow down production in general.
Just because the Manny the Stuntman puts on a sad face to appeal to peoples' emotions at the RIAA's behest doesn't mean that what he's saying is the truth.
They could use or sell the one they find without infringing on the patent
Actually, patent law prohibits even the private manufacture and use of a patented invention, at least in the U.S. From 35 USC 271(a): "Except as otherwise provided in this title, whoever without authority makes, uses, offers to sell, or sells any patented invention, within the United States or imports into the United States any patented invention during the term of the patent therefor, infringes the patent." (emphasis mine)
It's not a matter of it being open source. VNC is sending huge blocks of pixel data anytime anything changes on the source display, whereas RDP sends much more high-level commands which the client can then use to reconstruct the desktop locally instead of having to retrieve each and every pixel across the wire. XDMCP is another protocol that's somewhat comparable to RDP, and takes advantage of the fact that the X window system was designed to work over a network and thus sends X commands instead of big blocks of pixels. XDMCP offers performance light-years better from the user's perspective than VNC in my experience, and I find it to be almost indistinguishable from sitting at the workstation itself when used over a 100 megabit network. NX is similar to XDMCP in concept, but offers a number of improvements and generally performs better.
Also, RDP is a Windows-specific, proprietary protocol, so while there are Unix RDP clients that can connect to a Windows server, the fundamental differences in the way X and Windows generate their displays make it difficult to create a good RDP server for non-Windows systems. VNC's performance is usually pretty awful, but because it's just moving blocks of pixels around it's fairly easy to create a VNC server for any operating system.
For Muslims Mohammad isn't "a guy", he is their most sacred prophet
Big deal. That doesn't give them the right to murder someone just because they took offense at what he said.
It's not ridiculous that GIMP still remains a piece of shit compared to Photoshop, no matter how much you and every other OSS apologist try to argue otherwise. Adobe does in fact incorporate features requested by users, and by and large it's a lot more stable than GIMP.
Prove me wrong.
Having spent about 20 years doing professional Windows development, and about 10 years of paid Linux work, I think he's made some reasonable points.
I'm already to the point where no one with the city will respond to my phone calls or emails anymore, and the local paper is such a cheerleader for the camera program that getting any kind of story there is a non-starter. About the only avenue left for me to get anyone to listen is to run one of the lights myself and file a civil suit afterwards, and I can't afford the time or money for that right now.