The article mentions the Control Center??? Where the hell is it??? I looked all over hell for it on 8.0! It's not on the desktop, not in the menus. For that matter where is the Wine Configuration GUI??? It took me FOREVER just to get my stinking printer working! A PRINTER for crying out loud!!!!!!! And what happened to the Xconfigurator tool???? Their "display" gui tools won't let me set 32-bit colors! Only 16 or 24, and I don't have 24. What, am I stuck with 16? This is an improvement?? I'm not a Linux guru by any means, so someone tell me if I'm just smoking something.
If I had a dollar for everything some idiot writes an article like this....
Face it: there are gaming genres that are unplayable on a console. For instance, I just don't know how anyone can play a FPS on a machine without an analog (methodology, not hardware!) control for aiming. How do you aim quickly and accurately by activating a discrete?
Yeah, what ever happened to the time when you could walk into your neighborhood Radio Shack, and the guy knew exactly what you wanted? Nowadays, I encounter punk kids who look at me with that blank stare and say, "I don't know what you are talking about."
Never say never unless you know what you are taking about. There was some experimentation with transmitting software over the radio in the '80s. Also, the public library in my home town DID have a small collection (same time period) of software that could be checked out like books can. This was back when TRS-80, Apple ][, et. al. where popular.
First of all C/C++ haven't been replaced by C#. Second, C++ is NOT compile into any kind of "bytecode" or run on a virtul machine. Third, you can talk directly to the hardware. Fourth, assembly is not spoken by the hardware, and is not machine code. It is a nmeumonic representation of the machine code. You should get your facts straight.
So a TV show that was made by Americans to entertain Americans is too American? I want to be entertained by what I can relate to, not some artsy-fartsy thing that's got a lot of foreign themes just to be politically correct and pretentious! Get over yourself, your not Andy Worhol.
You watch: now some company is going to implement his idea in their filter software and patent it as their own! They will then threaten to sue anyone else who uses it.
I hate language zealots of all types. All languages have their good points, and most bad points people bring up are biased, uninformed, specious, or just plan ignorance. I never meet a language I didn't like. Well, ok, I don't like Ada...
You can tell from the comments the number of people who never worked in the embedded world. You can not apply PC design methodologies to an embedded system. In the embedded world, the software must be fault tolerant. If must not lock-up; if must always reboot. Embedded Engineers know and except that ALL software has bugs and ALL software will eventually crash. In the event of a crash, the computer must never lockup; it must recover. And while its recovering, a backup computer must take over until the primary computer is up and running again.
As for Ada, you write just as crappy code as you can in any other language. As strongly typed as Ada is, it will not save you from yourself. A bad programmer is just as bad in Ada, as he would be in C. Worse, when that bad programmer forces Ada to use "pointers," they will always be functionally equivilent to void* and contain no type information at all. Why would he do this? For the same reason his code is littered with "use at," he is a bad programmer.
Contrary to popular believe, 1984 was not Orwell's vision of the future. The original title was 1948, the year he wrote it. It was his take on society at the time, not a prophecy of the future. It was his publisher who suggested he transpose the last two digits, to make the book sell better.
Oh horse pucky. I've been using stl in real-time, embedded systems for a few years. Code-bloat and performance are not an issue. And anyone talking of "virtual functions" knows nothing of stl. Besides, if it did use them and your system can't handle the extra nanosecond to do a virtual function call, you have bigger problems.
As for code bloat, if you have that problem, you don't know how to make proper use of the library.
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You are forgeting about a whole host of problems. Arguments with side-effects, local variables, re-entrancy, to name a few.
Hear, Hear!
Tried that; didn't work for me.
The article mentions the Control Center??? Where the hell is it??? I looked all over hell for it on 8.0! It's not on the desktop, not in the menus. For that matter where is the Wine Configuration GUI??? It took me FOREVER just to get my stinking printer working! A PRINTER for crying out loud!!!!!!! And what happened to the Xconfigurator tool???? Their "display" gui tools won't let me set 32-bit colors! Only 16 or 24, and I don't have 24. What, am I stuck with 16? This is an improvement?? I'm not a Linux guru by any means, so someone tell me if I'm just smoking something.
If I had a dollar for everything some idiot writes an article like this.... Face it: there are gaming genres that are unplayable on a console. For instance, I just don't know how anyone can play a FPS on a machine without an analog (methodology, not hardware!) control for aiming. How do you aim quickly and accurately by activating a discrete?
Yeah, what ever happened to the time when you could walk into your neighborhood Radio Shack, and the guy knew exactly what you wanted? Nowadays, I encounter punk kids who look at me with that blank stare and say, "I don't know what you are talking about."
Yes, you can record it. This hitch is that you cannot then give that recording away. That would be illegal.
Never say never unless you know what you are taking about. There was some experimentation with transmitting software over the radio in the '80s. Also, the public library in my home town DID have a small collection (same time period) of software that could be checked out like books can. This was back when TRS-80, Apple ][, et. al. where popular.
Welcome to the degadation of the human race. Fasten your seatbelt; it's gonna be a long ride.
Hey, don't lump all us Americans in your racist, war-mongering, ignorance, trailer-trash rant. Its people like you that give us a bad name.
are there pink, fluffy clouds in your world, too?
First of all C/C++ haven't been replaced by C#. Second, C++ is NOT compile into any kind of "bytecode" or run on a virtul machine. Third, you can talk directly to the hardware. Fourth, assembly is not spoken by the hardware, and is not machine code. It is a nmeumonic representation of the machine code. You should get your facts straight.
So a TV show that was made by Americans to entertain Americans is too American? I want to be entertained by what I can relate to, not some artsy-fartsy thing that's got a lot of foreign themes just to be politically correct and pretentious! Get over yourself, your not Andy Worhol.
'nuff said.
How come some people always think "random" when they hear "statistical"?
That is the same logic used by Microsoft for ensuring the security of their software. How good does that work?
You watch: now some company is going to implement his idea in their filter software and patent it as their own! They will then threaten to sue anyone else who uses it.
Is this guy for real?
I hate language zealots of all types. All languages have their good points, and most bad points people bring up are biased, uninformed, specious, or just plan ignorance. I never meet a language I didn't like. Well, ok, I don't like Ada...
0???? Mod this guy up!!! THAT was funny!
You can tell from the comments the number of people who never worked in the embedded world. You can not apply PC design methodologies to an embedded system. In the embedded world, the software must be fault tolerant. If must not lock-up; if must always reboot. Embedded Engineers know and except that ALL software has bugs and ALL software will eventually crash. In the event of a crash, the computer must never lockup; it must recover. And while its recovering, a backup computer must take over until the primary computer is up and running again. As for Ada, you write just as crappy code as you can in any other language. As strongly typed as Ada is, it will not save you from yourself. A bad programmer is just as bad in Ada, as he would be in C. Worse, when that bad programmer forces Ada to use "pointers," they will always be functionally equivilent to void* and contain no type information at all. Why would he do this? For the same reason his code is littered with "use at," he is a bad programmer.
Read my earlier post.
Contrary to popular believe, 1984 was not Orwell's vision of the future. The original title was 1948, the year he wrote it. It was his take on society at the time, not a prophecy of the future. It was his publisher who suggested he transpose the last two digits, to make the book sell better.
Oh horse pucky. I've been using stl in real-time, embedded systems for a few years. Code-bloat and performance are not an issue. And anyone talking of "virtual functions" knows nothing of stl. Besides, if it did use them and your system can't handle the extra nanosecond to do a virtual function call, you have bigger problems. As for code bloat, if you have that problem, you don't know how to make proper use of the library.
The best that could come out of this is the removal of the strangle-hold the middle-east has over us because they have most of the oil.