I have implemented something similar using a very small (4MB) linux partition, where at reboot, it copies a fixed partition back over the primary one. It can also pull the partition from a server if it's been lost / damaged / updated on the server. Out of interest, what does deep freeze offer over that? Serious question, I assume it must offer extra features if so many people are advising it's use.
Actually, I think that firefox's reliance on extensions is rapidly becoming a problem. For so many features I'm told to "get a plugin", which often isn't being maintained to the same high standard as the rest of the browser.
I'm happy for many features to be in extensions and a lean, mean version to be provided for those who want it. I'd also like a "bloated" browser as well, full of plugins that are considered useful, carefully maintained, and also checked to make sure they all work well together.
If you knew much about Windows development, you would know that Microsoft spend a HUGE amount of time making sure they don't break popular programs between versions of Windows, and that is based on upgrading a similar code base. Getting wine up to that level would take years, and might not be possible (there are a few "WONTFIX" bugs in Wine due to programs doing horrible things which involve writing all over memory, which would require root access on linux).
The major reason it did badly at the Box Office is everyone "knew" it was a sequel to the Firefly TV series. At some point I might watch Firefly, and then I'll watch Serenity. No-one who hasn't seen Firefly and knew it was a sequel was going to watch it.
While I agree that I still want the spirit of Trek, I'm not convinced this is a bad idea. For a start, the continuity of Star Trek has been messed up beyond belief by Enterprise anyway. While I want things keeping generally the same, I'm not too bothered if maybe some planets get rearrange a little, or the time-line gets a clean-up.
Comparing to Marvel, I think their "Ultimate" universe restart was one of the best ideas they had had in a long time, as while the characters were basically the same, it helped sweep up a lot of rubbish which had built up. It is also a great help to those who haven't seen all the ST series. On one hand, I'd really like a series set after Voyager + DS9. On the other hand I accept you would either have to ignore much of what had gone on in DS9 in particular, or the storyline would be too complex for new viewers.
The message linked to in the post says the person is having trouble with both gmail and sending mail from his own domain. I have also had trouble with sourceforge, where mails from my ISP seemed to be "eaten" about half the time. I've just moved mailing lists off sourceforge, although I'm still using them as their svn support is good. Unless anyone else is having trouble with gmail, I'm tempted to just lay all of the blame at sourceforge.
I went to Upsalla (sp?) in Sweden on holiday a few years ago. The people were nice, the food was great, everywhere was clean and the women were attractive. Now I can also do all the filesharing I want to? I'm moving.
No, you definatly shouldn't use asserts to check input validation, I should have been more clear about that, sorry.
In general, I program with the aim that no assert should ever fire under any cercumstance. Of course, it turns out they then end up firing annoyingly often:)
The kind of design by contract you can get in some langauges is hard to replicate in C++. You can however get a long way, and I believe do a lot of useful work, but ASSERTing on all conditions at the start of functions, and on the return value, where approriate.
I have a lot of this kind of code in my programs and it really helps find bugs, and more importantly find them where they first appear. The big advantage of using C++ and a tiny spot of macros is that they all the ASSERTs can be removed in your final build. Actually, I have 3 level of ASSERTs, mainly categorised on how long I expect them to take, how critical the code is and if the function deals with input from the user, so some level of sanity checks are left in final builds, and there is also a debug version which doesn't take too long (if you start checking all vectors to see if they are sorted at the entry to each function, you can rapidly get very slow code).
After reading your comment, I can't really say anything other than.. go do some university level maths courses, and come back.
Basically, mersenne primes are of the form (2^p)-1, where p is a prime. The reason that these numbers seem to keep turning up as really big primes is that there is a very special test which checks if just this type of number is prime. The Mersenne project is searching it's way through all possible candidates to see if it can find some big primes.
Spore will turn out to be a good idea, but have the odd spot of poor execution. There won't actually be that many ways in which you can evolve creatures, and there will be fairly obviously fixed levels where you progress to another level of evolution. The game when first released will work poorly, and require a series of patches. The CD copy protection will be annoying. There will be many expansion packs.
Don't get me wrong, I think Will Wright is great, and I think this game will be too. But I don't think it's going to "change the face of gaming", any more than the sim, simcity Psychonauts did (sure a lot of people bought the sims, but has it really effected anything else?)
How do you know auto mechanics don't leave tools inside? I'd imagine often it either wouldn't matter, or they would fall out in time. Even if someone did catch one, I doubt "Mechanic left rench in engine" would make the newspaper, whereas "Doctor leaves scapel in person" does everytime it happens.
Also one problem is that lots of people have LCD monitors. If you have a fixed resolution, you are either going to have to stretch it, or leave it in a window. Neither is acceptable. So you'll have to draw a number of different sizes, and have your engine choose the most approriate one.
Also, if you are going "all-out", the amount the animation costs is surely going to compete with one, if not multiple episodes of say Futurama, Family Guy and similar. I think you underestimate the cost of that much animation.
The trick with these rootkit type virtualisations is that in the main they pass all hardware requests straight along to the relevant pieces of hardware. While you can't virtualise a graphics card, you can certainly just let the underlying OS have complete control.
OpenDocument is a standard format for documents that anyone can use. It doesn't have anything to do with voice synthesizing or special screen readers. That's the editor/viewing application's responsibility or capability.
You are witnessing ignorance when someone claims a format is insufficient because a suite of applications supports more functionality.
No, he is making a valid point. Why change to a new standard when your current standard has better software which supports disabled people?
I'm not saying that the change shouldn't occur, just I feel you have unjustly claimed this comment was wrong. He says "OpenDocument-based products do not yet". Thats exactly right. Of course you can say "Well, I'm sure in a year or two this will be fixed, or there will be a poor Office Opendocument converter", but that doesn't help anyone now does it?
While I've done this very thing with success, I would advise md5ing the two files afterwards, as there is a lack of error correction here.
What I actually usually do is run a pass of rsync over the directories. If the files are the same, rsync will do very little work, if there is anything needs fixing, it will get done.
While I would like (2), it just is not going to work with Windows XP, as it will keep complaining you need to re-register whenever you boot into the other version, and all the hardware changes. The only fix would have to come from Microsoft (hahahaha).
Even if you tried doing it with windows 2000/98/95, it would have to somehow cope with the hardware changing on every boot, which is something windows just doesn't cope well with.
You aren't allowed to sign a waiver saying "If you actually sign this then you are crazy", and if that ship blows up with you in it, you can bet the relatives are going to drag you through every court in the land trying to get money. You'd never get insurance against that kind of thing.
The support is being dropped from Firefox 3. Firefox 2, out later this year, will have windows 98 support. Firefox 3, which probably won't be out for another 18 months after that, will be the one without windows 9x support. By that point I would expect to still see some, but even less, windows 9x boxes.
OK, there are two possibilities here. Either you think the police are malicious, or stupid. If they are malicious, they don't need a white noise file, they can just hide some drugs behind your sofa. They aren't stupid, they have qualified computer people, I know some of them. Also any lawyer that costs more than 99p is going to be able to convince a jury, beyond reasonable doubt, that the police can't provide the file is encrypted.
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I have implemented something similar using a very small (4MB) linux partition, where at reboot, it copies a fixed partition back over the primary one. It can also pull the partition from a server if it's been lost / damaged / updated on the server. Out of interest, what does deep freeze offer over that? Serious question, I assume it must offer extra features if so many people are advising it's use.
Actually, I think that firefox's reliance on extensions is rapidly becoming a problem. For so many features I'm told to "get a plugin", which often isn't being maintained to the same high standard as the rest of the browser.
I'm happy for many features to be in extensions and a lean, mean version to be provided for those who want it. I'd also like a "bloated" browser as well, full of plugins that are considered useful, carefully maintained, and also checked to make sure they all work well together.
If you knew much about Windows development, you would know that Microsoft spend a HUGE amount of time making sure they don't break popular programs between versions of Windows, and that is based on upgrading a similar code base. Getting wine up to that level would take years, and might not be possible (there are a few "WONTFIX" bugs in Wine due to programs doing horrible things which involve writing all over memory, which would require root access on linux).
The major reason it did badly at the Box Office is everyone "knew" it was a sequel to the Firefly TV series. At some point I might watch Firefly, and then I'll watch Serenity. No-one who hasn't seen Firefly and knew it was a sequel was going to watch it.
While I agree that I still want the spirit of Trek, I'm not convinced this is a bad idea. For a start, the continuity of Star Trek has been messed up beyond belief by Enterprise anyway. While I want things keeping generally the same, I'm not too bothered if maybe some planets get rearrange a little, or the time-line gets a clean-up.
Comparing to Marvel, I think their "Ultimate" universe restart was one of the best ideas they had had in a long time, as while the characters were basically the same, it helped sweep up a lot of rubbish which had built up. It is also a great help to those who haven't seen all the ST series. On one hand, I'd really like a series set after Voyager + DS9. On the other hand I accept you would either have to ignore much of what had gone on in DS9 in particular, or the storyline would be too complex for new viewers.
The message linked to in the post says the person is having trouble with both gmail and sending mail from his own domain. I have also had trouble with sourceforge, where mails from my ISP seemed to be "eaten" about half the time. I've just moved mailing lists off sourceforge, although I'm still using them as their svn support is good. Unless anyone else is having trouble with gmail, I'm tempted to just lay all of the blame at sourceforge.
I went to Upsalla (sp?) in Sweden on holiday a few years ago. The people were nice, the food was great, everywhere was clean and the women were attractive. Now I can also do all the filesharing I want to? I'm moving.
No, you definatly shouldn't use asserts to check input validation, I should have been more clear about that, sorry.
:)
In general, I program with the aim that no assert should ever fire under any cercumstance. Of course, it turns out they then end up firing annoyingly often
The kind of design by contract you can get in some langauges is hard to replicate in C++. You can however get a long way, and I believe do a lot of useful work, but ASSERTing on all conditions at the start of functions, and on the return value, where approriate.
I have a lot of this kind of code in my programs and it really helps find bugs, and more importantly find them where they first appear. The big advantage of using C++ and a tiny spot of macros is that they all the ASSERTs can be removed in your final build. Actually, I have 3 level of ASSERTs, mainly categorised on how long I expect them to take, how critical the code is and if the function deals with input from the user, so some level of sanity checks are left in final builds, and there is also a debug version which doesn't take too long (if you start checking all vectors to see if they are sorted at the entry to each function, you can rapidly get very slow code).
52 weeks a year? so they get 1 day off, 2 on leap years?
After reading your comment, I can't really say anything other than.. go do some university level maths courses, and come back.
Basically, mersenne primes are of the form (2^p)-1, where p is a prime. The reason that these numbers seem to keep turning up as really big primes is that there is a very special test which checks if just this type of number is prime. The Mersenne project is searching it's way through all possible candidates to see if it can find some big primes.
Woo! I love primes!
factor 581445: 3 3 3 5 59 73
defeated....
Or increasing the chance the bugger would shoot him after getting the ipod?
Spore will turn out to be a good idea, but have the odd spot of poor execution. There won't actually be that many ways in which you can evolve creatures, and there will be fairly obviously fixed levels where you progress to another level of evolution. The game when first released will work poorly, and require a series of patches. The CD copy protection will be annoying. There will be many expansion packs.
Don't get me wrong, I think Will Wright is great, and I think this game will be too. But I don't think it's going to "change the face of gaming", any more than the sim, simcity Psychonauts did (sure a lot of people bought the sims, but has it really effected anything else?)
How do you know auto mechanics don't leave tools inside? I'd imagine often it either wouldn't matter, or they would fall out in time. Even if someone did catch one, I doubt "Mechanic left rench in engine" would make the newspaper, whereas "Doctor leaves scapel in person" does everytime it happens.
I also wish I could find whoever it was who decided anonymous was a good name for a default login, although nowadays it is falling out of use.
You think anyone will buy a 640x480 game?
Also one problem is that lots of people have LCD monitors. If you have a fixed resolution, you are either going to have to stretch it, or leave it in a window. Neither is acceptable. So you'll have to draw a number of different sizes, and have your engine choose the most approriate one.
Also, if you are going "all-out", the amount the animation costs is surely going to compete with one, if not multiple episodes of say Futurama, Family Guy and similar. I think you underestimate the cost of that much animation.
The trick with these rootkit type virtualisations is that in the main they pass all hardware requests straight along to the relevant pieces of hardware. While you can't virtualise a graphics card, you can certainly just let the underlying OS have complete control.
No, he is making a valid point. Why change to a new standard when your current standard has better software which supports disabled people?
I'm not saying that the change shouldn't occur, just I feel you have unjustly claimed this comment was wrong. He says "OpenDocument-based products do not yet". Thats exactly right. Of course you can say "Well, I'm sure in a year or two this will be fixed, or there will be a poor Office Opendocument converter", but that doesn't help anyone now does it?
While I've done this very thing with success, I would advise md5ing the two files afterwards, as there is a lack of error correction here.
What I actually usually do is run a pass of rsync over the directories. If the files are the same, rsync will do very little work, if there is anything needs fixing, it will get done.
*shock*. As usual, unreleased product from company A beats released product from company B. Feel tree to either do {A,B} = {Intel,AMD} or {ATI,nvidia}
While I would like (2), it just is not going to work with Windows XP, as it will keep complaining you need to re-register whenever you boot into the other version, and all the hardware changes. The only fix would have to come from Microsoft (hahahaha).
Even if you tried doing it with windows 2000/98/95, it would have to somehow cope with the hardware changing on every boot, which is something windows just doesn't cope well with.
You aren't allowed to sign a waiver saying "If you actually sign this then you are crazy", and if that ship blows up with you in it, you can bet the relatives are going to drag you through every court in the land trying to get money. You'd never get insurance against that kind of thing.
Don't rush.
The support is being dropped from Firefox 3. Firefox 2, out later this year, will have windows 98 support. Firefox 3, which probably won't be out for another 18 months after that, will be the one without windows 9x support. By that point I would expect to still see some, but even less, windows 9x boxes.
OK, there are two possibilities here. Either you think the police are malicious, or stupid. If they are malicious, they don't need a white noise file, they can just hide some drugs behind your sofa. They aren't stupid, they have qualified computer people, I know some of them. Also any lawyer that costs more than 99p is going to be able to convince a jury, beyond reasonable doubt, that the police can't provide the file is encrypted.