No, the UK will of course try to copy any bad ideas the US comes up with (and probably make them more expensive in the bargain). For example there were recent elections in the UK which were "all-postal" ballots, where "community leaders" were seen filling out a whole bunch of forms (hey, don't worry about that complicated voting business, let us fill out the forms for you:-). So no doubt the UK govt will continue trying to move voting to ever less secure forms...
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On one hand PC and review magazines get outdated very quickly. Those old coverdisks age quite quickly over the years.
On the other hand, "Euroboy" and "Freshmen" magazines in theory work fine for several years... until the hairstyles or underwear become embarrassing to look at (and you really don't want to look at 70s pr0n magazines).
My sister got herself a degree (in politics) but then she met a bloke, so now she wants to help run his dads shops and look after the kids. Getting the degree is not sufficient to make you want to take one of those jobs.
Yes but it will take at least a month (probably more) of downloading in the background before it is ready to be installed, with more than 200Mbytes at lets say 5Mbytes per connected day.
The guy who was in for an interview today makes a living converting code from Java to Java (on mobile phones).
2. Each JVM has its own variety of bugs.
3. Java games take a while to start up, even they are quite small in terms of jar size compared to desktop apps.
4. You have to use outside tools, e.g. the C preprocessor, to get the jar files into a reasonable size, since it doesn't have compile-time constants or enums.
7. It is as standard as visual basic, and less unified (different variations/editions).
The difference between a strongly typed language and a loose one like Java or BASIC (using Variant for all variables), is that the type can be checked at compilation time, instead of maybe possibly at run-time. This catches errors early, and is also more efficient. Java only supports heterogeneous collections (well, homogeneous collections of hidden pointers to objects), whereas in the majority of cases you need collections you should use homogeneous collections. If you intend to have a list of strings you should be able to say so, and the compiler should be able to check all references to the list and ensure the type is correct, rather than leaving it to the run-time library.
For those of us who use make, it is nice to have programs start up in a fraction of a second (as my c++ ones do) when they are being called a hundred times in a row from a simple makefile. I guess that's why ant was invented.
When a large IDE like visual studio 6 takes less than a second to load, but "hello world" in java takes longer, it doesn't give a good impression.
Because it is not designed to teach people programming? It is intended to teach them circuit design, and how video works. The dreamcast does not come with a book called "how to design a dreamcast".
Well obviously the problem was the size. In New Zealand there is a town proudly named "Urenui", which means "big penis", along with the school and shops etc.. I wonder if that will count against passing legislation to make street signs bilingual:-)
Apart from loads of restrictions on its use - to not make anything obscene with it or use it for any commercial purpose - it says that I promise not to assert any intellectual property against Microsoft, now or forever more. So if they break my copyright or patent for something in the future, they can say, "Whoah, didn't Works come preinstalled on your machine? We own you!"
Richard Stallman needs to be told! The GPL has nothing on this license when it comes to viral properties!
The problem I was having (this year) was that remakes of arcade video games from the 1980s ("pac-man" era), noted for having bright colours, looked much poorer on NTSC televisions than PAL televisions, on the taiwanese hardware we were given. I think the arcade machines used direct driving of RGB guns which meant they could get a computer gamut rather than the tiny tv gamut. And yes, the two TV sets we got sent from the USA looked quite different so we couldn't tweak the values:-(
My elderly friends had a useful remote control - their rotary channel tuner had a pulley system attached to the ceiling with which they could easily change channel from their bed. You just had no DIY skills:-)
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No, the UK will of course try to copy any bad ideas the US comes up with (and probably make them more expensive in the bargain). For example there were recent elections in the UK which were "all-postal" ballots, where "community leaders" were seen filling out a whole bunch of forms (hey, don't worry about that complicated voting business, let us fill out the forms for you :-). So no doubt the UK govt will continue trying to move voting to ever less secure forms...
Well I don't miss the £200 a month phone bills!
On one hand PC and review magazines get outdated very quickly. Those old coverdisks age quite quickly over the years.
On the other hand, "Euroboy" and "Freshmen" magazines in theory work fine for several years... until the hairstyles or underwear become embarrassing to look at (and you really don't want to look at 70s pr0n magazines).
IIRC in previous versions of Word you had to turn "fast save" off in order for it to save the file correctly. That helped a lot.
My sister got herself a degree (in politics) but then she met a bloke, so now she wants to help run his dads shops and look after the kids. Getting the degree is not sufficient to make you want to take one of those jobs.
Yes but it will take at least a month (probably more) of downloading in the background before it is ready to be installed, with more than 200Mbytes at lets say 5Mbytes per connected day.
Groan! Oh for a few mod points...
On the labels of US music CDs.
The guy who was in for an interview today makes a living converting code from Java to Java (on mobile phones).
2. Each JVM has its own variety of bugs.
3. Java games take a while to start up, even they are quite small in terms of jar size compared to desktop apps.
4. You have to use outside tools, e.g. the C preprocessor, to get the jar files into a reasonable size, since it doesn't have compile-time constants or enums.
7. It is as standard as visual basic, and less unified (different variations/editions).
The difference between a strongly typed language and a loose one like Java or BASIC (using Variant for all variables), is that the type can be checked at compilation time, instead of maybe possibly at run-time. This catches errors early, and is also more efficient. Java only supports heterogeneous collections (well, homogeneous collections of hidden pointers to objects), whereas in the majority of cases you need collections you should use homogeneous collections. If you intend to have a list of strings you should be able to say so, and the compiler should be able to check all references to the list and ensure the type is correct, rather than leaving it to the run-time library.
You should put all your DLL files into c:\windows\system32, since that is on the path. Nothing could possibly go wrong.
When a large IDE like visual studio 6 takes less than a second to load, but "hello world" in java takes longer, it doesn't give a good impression.
Because it is not designed to teach people programming? It is intended to teach them circuit design, and how video works. The dreamcast does not come with a book called "how to design a dreamcast".
OTOH I can read my magazine while walking along the street at midnight :-)
You did see that chinese guy who was in the parade at the olympics right :-) 7 foot 5 or something like that...
Well obviously the problem was the size. In New Zealand there is a town proudly named "Urenui", which means "big penis", along with the school and shops etc.. I wonder if that will count against passing legislation to make street signs bilingual :-)
Discworld Convention 2004 starts tommorow. Are you going? :-)
Apart from loads of restrictions on its use - to not make anything obscene with it or use it for any commercial purpose - it says that I promise not to assert any intellectual property against Microsoft, now or forever more. So if they break my copyright or patent for something in the future, they can say, "Whoah, didn't Works come preinstalled on your machine? We own you!"
Richard Stallman needs to be told! The GPL has nothing on this license when it comes to viral properties!
And the shockingly bad television, or am I thinking of NZ there...
Nothing like sharks, blue-ringed octopus, crocodiles and jellyfish to give aussies incentives to swim faster :-)
And the UK just gets a silver for synchronised diving - with the least identical pair since Schwarzenegger and DeVito in Twins!
The problem I was having (this year) was that remakes of arcade video games from the 1980s ("pac-man" era), noted for having bright colours, looked much poorer on NTSC televisions than PAL televisions, on the taiwanese hardware we were given. I think the arcade machines used direct driving of RGB guns which meant they could get a computer gamut rather than the tiny tv gamut. And yes, the two TV sets we got sent from the USA looked quite different so we couldn't tweak the values :-(
My elderly friends had a useful remote control - their rotary channel tuner had a pulley system attached to the ceiling with which they could easily change channel from their bed. You just had no DIY skills :-)
I can buy an audio calibration thingy for $25 or so but to raise the detection frequency a little to RGB it gets much more expensive. :-(
And since NTSC (never the same colour) is notorious for not being able to display yellow or other "hot" colours, some improvements would be nice.