The problem with this is that the majority of people can't build their own computer. They don't know how. This practically forces them to buy windows, and they'll figured "hey, I pyed good money for this, i'm sure gonna use it." Or they'll buy a mac (which is less likely if they've never had one before). So this is definitely bad, even if us geeks can make our own.
What happens when people start borrowing and then copying? I know it's the same as copying rented movies, but they've already lost that battle. That won't stop them from making the same argument here. The best they could do I guess would be another stupid FBI warning. (Which is pretty funny to see in a DIVX)
Do you think that AIML will ever have any type of advanced pattern matching (something similar to regular expressions) or has it been decided to keep the patterns simple? I know there are a lot of smart people out there who could write some great AIML if they could use more advanced patterns.
Worldcom isn't going bankrupt because it was trying to keep up with the demand from users. It's going bankrupt because it was poorly managed, just like ENRON. They used edceptive accounting to hide the fact that they were losing a lot of money.
#2 is a bug I found in Borland C++ Builder (can't remember which version, may have been a demo.)
All programs built with that compiler won't run on the first of January every year. It's not a Y2K think, either. No error or anything, they just don't run at all. I got like 5 emails from people using one of my programs telling me it suddenly stopped working and sure enough, I tried it and it wouldn't start. Neither would my other programs. Next day it started up fine. I didn't even use any dates in the programs. Go figure.
#2 isn't really a bug, but a problem with floating point arithmetic. The fmod() function (floating point %) doesn't always return 0.0 when it should. I set up a breakpoint and checked the values going in and it was very obvious that the one was divisible evenly by the other, but fmod returned a very tiny number instead of zero. Or it return a number just barely smaller than the divisor. I tried putting in some tolerance, but it wasn't a predictable tolerance and always seemed to return a number just outside of my range. Hmmph.
Oh, and one more! MS decided to use macros for the max() and min() functions instead of inline templates, so I spent all day trying to find a bug caused by an expression being evaluated twice inside a max() macro.
Yeah, that'd be interesting...people walking around talking to the voices in their heads...and you'd never know if they were insane or just had an implant. Maybe more psychos would go undetected by claiming that they had one.:)
Why is it that hardware manufacturers don't allow for 3rd party driver development? How could open specs hurt their sales? Their goal is to sell hardware, right? Well if 3rd party drivers allow their hardware to work under other OS's then more people will be willing to buy their hardware. Isn't that a GOOD thing for them? And even if someone wants to hack out a way to use their hardware for something it wasn't intended to do, don't they still have to buy the hardware? Why does it matter what the hardware is bought for if the company still gets paid for it? I think it would be a much better plan to have open specs and allow for cross-platform support for their products.
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I hope he's not hosting the web server on the same cluster. It's already down. :)
Who's gonna come up with the first PDA virus that can be transmitted via handshakes? Careful who you touch...they may be infected...
The problem with this is that the majority of people can't build their own computer. They don't know how. This practically forces them to buy windows, and they'll figured "hey, I pyed good money for this, i'm sure gonna use it." Or they'll buy a mac (which is less likely if they've never had one before). So this is definitely bad, even if us geeks can make our own.
*cough*APPLE*cough*
I used to respect them. Oh well.
What happens when people start borrowing and then copying? I know it's the same as copying rented movies, but they've already lost that battle. That won't stop them from making the same argument here. The best they could do I guess would be another stupid FBI warning. (Which is pretty funny to see in a DIVX)
Do you think that AIML will ever have any type of advanced pattern matching (something similar to regular expressions) or has it been decided to keep the patterns simple? I know there are a lot of smart people out there who could write some great AIML if they could use more advanced patterns.
Worldcom isn't going bankrupt because it was trying to keep up with the demand from users. It's going bankrupt because it was poorly managed, just like ENRON. They used edceptive accounting to hide the fact that they were losing a lot of money.
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#2 is a bug I found in Borland C++ Builder (can't remember which version, may have been a demo.) All programs built with that compiler won't run on the first of January every year. It's not a Y2K think, either. No error or anything, they just don't run at all. I got like 5 emails from people using one of my programs telling me it suddenly stopped working and sure enough, I tried it and it wouldn't start. Neither would my other programs. Next day it started up fine. I didn't even use any dates in the programs. Go figure. #2 isn't really a bug, but a problem with floating point arithmetic. The fmod() function (floating point %) doesn't always return 0.0 when it should. I set up a breakpoint and checked the values going in and it was very obvious that the one was divisible evenly by the other, but fmod returned a very tiny number instead of zero. Or it return a number just barely smaller than the divisor. I tried putting in some tolerance, but it wasn't a predictable tolerance and always seemed to return a number just outside of my range. Hmmph. Oh, and one more! MS decided to use macros for the max() and min() functions instead of inline templates, so I spent all day trying to find a bug caused by an expression being evaluated twice inside a max() macro.
Yeah, that'd be interesting...people walking around talking to the voices in their heads...and you'd never know if they were insane or just had an implant. Maybe more psychos would go undetected by claiming that they had one. :)
Why is it that hardware manufacturers don't allow for 3rd party driver development? How could open specs hurt their sales? Their goal is to sell hardware, right? Well if 3rd party drivers allow their hardware to work under other OS's then more people will be willing to buy their hardware. Isn't that a GOOD thing for them? And even if someone wants to hack out a way to use their hardware for something it wasn't intended to do, don't they still have to buy the hardware? Why does it matter what the hardware is bought for if the company still gets paid for it? I think it would be a much better plan to have open specs and allow for cross-platform support for their products.