MS SQL Server 2000 and I believe 2005 if you have a SQL query greater than 64k with out a Go before the 64k mark, some of the data will only be partially written to the database, or read from it.
MS SQL Server 2000 and 2005 will sometimes loose a database. I think they finally fixed this in 2000, but every once in a while in 2005 we have to re-attach a database to the server.
I'm not even going to get into it's "standards" support and the many really strange and unexplainable quirks when you combine some basic SQL functionality.
I might point out that Opera until the 9.x series did not pass the Acid2 test either.
Opera did release a version of the Acid2 test that worked around all the standards compliance problems before the 9.x series had and claimed it "Passed" Acid2.
I think it was Opera 9.03 that finally passed the standard Acid2 test.
Because of how the Foveon X3 sensor works, if you have the full sized unprocessed picture, you might not be able to tell the brand of the camera used, but each individual camera probably has a distinctive blur pattern in the red and blue ranges, so if the forensics had the camera they'd be able to identify that specific camera was the one that took the picture.
Our government keeps trying to bring in a version of the DMCA and I've seen many companies destroyed in the US by abuses of the act.
Innovation is alive and well in Canada because we don't have the DMCA. I've seen cases where companies here have survived illegal lawsuits which the DMCA would have killed the company.
I mostly agree with the DRM Bill of Rights except on the "This support must exist for the lifetime of the product."
That's just asking for abuse from the publisher. It should something along the lines of "This support must exist until a patch is released to remove the DRM. This DRM removal patch is required to be easily accessible on the company's web site forever. Any company acquiring the company is also required to provide said patch on their web site."
Though a more recent article stated that the first plant using 15nm won't be online until late 2011, or early 2012 at the latest.
In the silicon production market there is usually about a 5 year, or more, period between when something is announced, and when it is in production. Which means we will see IBM's 22nm process as early as late 2013.
I've never had a blue screen in Vista yet. I've used it for about a month on my main computer (Back to XP) and it is currently the only OS on my laptop.
Now I have had the whole thing lockup when trying to do an analog capture which required a hard reboot, but it didn't blue screen.
To reduce the type of hardware they produce. The Rock Band guitar works on both the PS2 and PS3. With the number of PS2 systems still selling, it's more economical.
If you want to make a game that runs on Xbox, you will be using an advanced version of DirectX 9. Most companies would probably stick to normal DirectX 9 so that they could just be recompiled for Windows XP and Vista. Especially since most gamers are still running XP. Gaming rigs are one of the exceptions to the major computer companies being able to still sell XP.
As for where do I get the information for DX10 not running on the Xbox, read below.
1up reports that ATI has debunked a rumor that Xbox 360 could be upgraded to support DirectX 10 via a patch. "Xbox360 cannot run DX10," an ATI spokesperson told 1up. Currently, Microsoft's console runs an advanced version of DirectX 9, which, according to ATI, features "memory export that can enable DX10-class functionality such as stream-out." http://www.joystiq.com/2006/08/24/xbox-360-cant-run-directx-10-confirms-ati/
1. Make a demo of the game extremely violent, sexual, or something that would really offend Jack.
2. Send him a copy of the demo.
3. Profit as he advertises it to the whole of the US.
Oh come now, Trusted Computing is as good as Play for Sure.
*scratches his head*
Oh that's right, Microsoft was getting rid of that because it was crap, but didn't because they didn't want to completely screw their customers.
I was at the VSLive! Conference in San Francisco in April and they had booth babes. If a Visual Studio Conference can have booth babes, why can't E3 have them anymore?
We try very hard to make sure that other members do not know about things like disciplinary hearings to protect the member that the hearing is about. If you have read the handbook, you will know the procedures that are used in that process. This makes them easier to spot.
For those who have been in the position to read the book, they can spot these things, but also have a better understanding of reasons why something is occurring and will hopefully be less judgmental and not jump to the wrong conclusions.
We do our best to help the transgressor repent and become a fully active member in the Church in good standing. We don't claim to be perfect people. We strive constantly to become better. Thus some people might unrighteous shun someone if they knew they'd been in a disciplinary hearing. In a way we are also trying to protect the people that might make unrighteous choices if they knew about it.
If something involves legal matters then I think the 12th article of faith properly covers that: We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law.
The amount of times UAC prompts me is not when running other applications, but pieces that ship as part of Vista. I want to turn off wireless to preserve power, or go on a plane. Prompt. I want to copy a file. Prompt. I want to do anything of any real use. Prompt.
As for changing the "was" to "is" anyone notice that Office 2007 isn't completely Vista compatible? Anyone notice that Microsoft Hardware was really slow on coming out with drivers for Vista. Due to the class action lawsuit we now know why. They are not eating what they are offering and as a programmer I'm leary of implementing Microsoft's latest fad, just for them to deprecate it again. From their security record in Vista so far it's obvious that these things aren't a thing of the past. Heck UAC being annoying is proof enough that they don't really care about security, because it doesn't take a genius to figure out that if you are having to click something all the time, you are going to stop reading it, completely defeating the point of the prompt in the first place and in the process making Vista less secure than XP. Not to even mention their creative accounting on how many security problems have actually been found in Vista, they only count what they've publically disclosed.
RIAA employing companies working illegally. Suing the wrong person. Screwing the artists they are supposed to protect. Screwing the consumers. So what else it new?
In Canada we have the CRIA (Same basic entity) that admitted to collecting more media tax than they were supposed to from customers, and what did they do with this extra money they shouldn't have had? Pocketed it themselves of course. As I understand it, to get money from the CRIA you have to apply to get a portion of it and again, if people don't apply for it, they pocket the money meant for the artists themselves.
Each blank CD, or tape we buy there's a media tax. The money from this goes to the CRIA to distribute to the artists in compensation for people using the blank media for piracy. How the law works here in Canada is when you "buy a CD" you are actually buying a license to that listen to that performance of the song privately. Canadian corporate law is based off of when you pay money, you have to get something in return. This is what makes downloading songs, or transferring them to another media for your own use legal in Canada.
It is legal to download songs in Canada, but it is not legal to download a song and listen to it that you don't have a license to.
It's not that we aren't capable of following the specs. The problem is if you write to Microsoft specifications your program won't work, or some times they change the specs.
This has been one of the complaints in the anti-trust lawsuits against Microsoft is that they don't follow standards and when they provide documentation, usually large portions of it do not match their implementation.
There's one note in the DirectX 5 API that basically said, this is how you should do it, but because of a bug you can't. It will be fixed in the next version. Which that bug survived until at least DirectX 8 and now has been replaced by new functionality. Unless it's a bug that affects end users, Microsoft doesn't care about fixing it.
In Windows 2000 and Windows XP the multimedia timer was broken. This was Microsoft's recommended way of keeping audio and video playing at the right speeds. They said that it was a flaw in their design of the system and because it's in the Kernel we would have to wait for the next version of Windows to fix it, until then we were to find a work around.
I'm not even going to go into the horror that is the Winsock API.
Basically Microsoft tells us to work around their shoddy foundation. Then they start modifying support pillars to balsa wood and ripping out other ones, while in the rare case fixing one or two. Then we are blamed for their screw ups.
It doesn't help that they keep tacking on new APIs that do the same thing as the old ones. What they really need to do is sit down, actually design their systems and implement them correctly. The problem is that is not in their best interest. If they actually made something that worked and kept working, people would not have a reason to upgrade their Visual Studio. It's not in Microsoft's best interest to make something that is well designed and implemented because developers would have no reason to upgrade. Nor would users. We are seeing this with XP versus Vista.
At FutureShop when the 5 pack Harry Potter set came out there were about 3 times the number of Blu-ray packs. The next day when I went in, they were out of the Blu-ray packs only having a few HD DVD and DVD packs left. I also noticed this trend for a few other WB titles that came out in both formats. This speculation about money changing hands is just that speculation. WB already stated publically why they choose the format they did.
Did anyone else notice in the videos:
MSDN Webcast Guy was useless.
Visual Studio Guy was a lazy, forgetful person that messes up people's code.
SQL Server Gal crashed on arrival then needed to quintuple the number of resources needed for the job.
Finally Virtual Labs Guy lost the project.
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MS SQL Server 2000 and I believe 2005 if you have a SQL query greater than 64k with out a Go before the 64k mark, some of the data will only be partially written to the database, or read from it. MS SQL Server 2000 and 2005 will sometimes loose a database. I think they finally fixed this in 2000, but every once in a while in 2005 we have to re-attach a database to the server. I'm not even going to get into it's "standards" support and the many really strange and unexplainable quirks when you combine some basic SQL functionality.
I might point out that Opera until the 9.x series did not pass the Acid2 test either.
Opera did release a version of the Acid2 test that worked around all the standards compliance problems before the 9.x series had and claimed it "Passed" Acid2.
I think it was Opera 9.03 that finally passed the standard Acid2 test.
Because of how the Foveon X3 sensor works, if you have the full sized unprocessed picture, you might not be able to tell the brand of the camera used, but each individual camera probably has a distinctive blur pattern in the red and blue ranges, so if the forensics had the camera they'd be able to identify that specific camera was the one that took the picture.
Our government keeps trying to bring in a version of the DMCA and I've seen many companies destroyed in the US by abuses of the act.
Innovation is alive and well in Canada because we don't have the DMCA. I've seen cases where companies here have survived illegal lawsuits which the DMCA would have killed the company.
From what they've said so far, Windows Azure is just Microsoft hosting your applications on their distributed network.
They were touting all these "great" things, but really that's all it really is.
I mostly agree with the DRM Bill of Rights except on the "This support must exist for the lifetime of the product."
That's just asking for abuse from the publisher. It should something along the lines of "This support must exist until a patch is released to remove the DRM. This DRM removal patch is required to be easily accessible on the company's web site forever. Any company acquiring the company is also required to provide said patch on their web site."
I saw some NiCd AA Batteries at Walmart in the Halloween section recently, but no, like the rest of the article the information is useless.
http://www.eetimes.com/news/semi/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=10810046
Though a more recent article stated that the first plant using 15nm won't be online until late 2011, or early 2012 at the latest.
In the silicon production market there is usually about a 5 year, or more, period between when something is announced, and when it is in production. Which means we will see IBM's 22nm process as early as late 2013.
Call me crazy, but I think that the Palm Trio beat the iPhone to market by 5 years. That's the first touch screen phone I recall and think of.
I've never had a blue screen in Vista yet. I've used it for about a month on my main computer (Back to XP) and it is currently the only OS on my laptop.
Now I have had the whole thing lockup when trying to do an analog capture which required a hard reboot, but it didn't blue screen.
To reduce the type of hardware they produce. The Rock Band guitar works on both the PS2 and PS3. With the number of PS2 systems still selling, it's more economical.
Pubs are where terrorists go to plan their next attacks, so Pubs are out also.
If you want to make a game that runs on Xbox, you will be using an advanced version of DirectX 9. Most companies would probably stick to normal DirectX 9 so that they could just be recompiled for Windows XP and Vista. Especially since most gamers are still running XP. Gaming rigs are one of the exceptions to the major computer companies being able to still sell XP.
As for where do I get the information for DX10 not running on the Xbox, read below.
1up reports that ATI has debunked a rumor that Xbox 360 could be upgraded to support DirectX 10 via a patch. "Xbox360 cannot run DX10," an ATI spokesperson told 1up. Currently, Microsoft's console runs an advanced version of DirectX 9, which, according to ATI, features "memory export that can enable DX10-class functionality such as stream-out."
http://www.joystiq.com/2006/08/24/xbox-360-cant-run-directx-10-confirms-ati/
I give no guarantees this will work.
1. Make a demo of the game extremely violent, sexual, or something that would really offend Jack.
2. Send him a copy of the demo.
3. Profit as he advertises it to the whole of the US.
Oh come now, Trusted Computing is as good as Play for Sure. *scratches his head* Oh that's right, Microsoft was getting rid of that because it was crap, but didn't because they didn't want to completely screw their customers.
Bill Gates does credit Steve Jobs as teaching him how to do business. Though from what I've read, Jobs is a little more ruthless.
I might be wrong with your draconian DMCA laws, but isn't there already case presidence with the case involving the X86 architecture?
I was at the VSLive! Conference in San Francisco in April and they had booth babes. If a Visual Studio Conference can have booth babes, why can't E3 have them anymore?
In Canada that would be unlawful termination.
Actually even if he was guilty, they would have had to tell him before he went outside why he was fired, or he would have grounds for compensation.
We try very hard to make sure that other members do not know about things like disciplinary hearings to protect the member that the hearing is about. If you have read the handbook, you will know the procedures that are used in that process. This makes them easier to spot.
For those who have been in the position to read the book, they can spot these things, but also have a better understanding of reasons why something is occurring and will hopefully be less judgmental and not jump to the wrong conclusions.
We do our best to help the transgressor repent and become a fully active member in the Church in good standing. We don't claim to be perfect people. We strive constantly to become better. Thus some people might unrighteous shun someone if they knew they'd been in a disciplinary hearing. In a way we are also trying to protect the people that might make unrighteous choices if they knew about it.
If something involves legal matters then I think the 12th article of faith properly covers that:
We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law.
The amount of times UAC prompts me is not when running other applications, but pieces that ship as part of Vista. I want to turn off wireless to preserve power, or go on a plane. Prompt. I want to copy a file. Prompt. I want to do anything of any real use. Prompt.
As for changing the "was" to "is" anyone notice that Office 2007 isn't completely Vista compatible? Anyone notice that Microsoft Hardware was really slow on coming out with drivers for Vista. Due to the class action lawsuit we now know why. They are not eating what they are offering and as a programmer I'm leary of implementing Microsoft's latest fad, just for them to deprecate it again. From their security record in Vista so far it's obvious that these things aren't a thing of the past. Heck UAC being annoying is proof enough that they don't really care about security, because it doesn't take a genius to figure out that if you are having to click something all the time, you are going to stop reading it, completely defeating the point of the prompt in the first place and in the process making Vista less secure than XP. Not to even mention their creative accounting on how many security problems have actually been found in Vista, they only count what they've publically disclosed.
RIAA employing companies working illegally. Suing the wrong person. Screwing the artists they are supposed to protect. Screwing the consumers. So what else it new?
In Canada we have the CRIA (Same basic entity) that admitted to collecting more media tax than they were supposed to from customers, and what did they do with this extra money they shouldn't have had? Pocketed it themselves of course. As I understand it, to get money from the CRIA you have to apply to get a portion of it and again, if people don't apply for it, they pocket the money meant for the artists themselves.
Each blank CD, or tape we buy there's a media tax. The money from this goes to the CRIA to distribute to the artists in compensation for people using the blank media for piracy. How the law works here in Canada is when you "buy a CD" you are actually buying a license to that listen to that performance of the song privately. Canadian corporate law is based off of when you pay money, you have to get something in return. This is what makes downloading songs, or transferring them to another media for your own use legal in Canada.
It is legal to download songs in Canada, but it is not legal to download a song and listen to it that you don't have a license to.
It's not that we aren't capable of following the specs. The problem is if you write to Microsoft specifications your program won't work, or some times they change the specs.
This has been one of the complaints in the anti-trust lawsuits against Microsoft is that they don't follow standards and when they provide documentation, usually large portions of it do not match their implementation.
There's one note in the DirectX 5 API that basically said, this is how you should do it, but because of a bug you can't. It will be fixed in the next version. Which that bug survived until at least DirectX 8 and now has been replaced by new functionality. Unless it's a bug that affects end users, Microsoft doesn't care about fixing it.
In Windows 2000 and Windows XP the multimedia timer was broken. This was Microsoft's recommended way of keeping audio and video playing at the right speeds. They said that it was a flaw in their design of the system and because it's in the Kernel we would have to wait for the next version of Windows to fix it, until then we were to find a work around.
I'm not even going to go into the horror that is the Winsock API.
Basically Microsoft tells us to work around their shoddy foundation. Then they start modifying support pillars to balsa wood and ripping out other ones, while in the rare case fixing one or two. Then we are blamed for their screw ups.
It doesn't help that they keep tacking on new APIs that do the same thing as the old ones. What they really need to do is sit down, actually design their systems and implement them correctly. The problem is that is not in their best interest. If they actually made something that worked and kept working, people would not have a reason to upgrade their Visual Studio. It's not in Microsoft's best interest to make something that is well designed and implemented because developers would have no reason to upgrade. Nor would users. We are seeing this with XP versus Vista.
Warner Brothers was saying going into the Christmas season that they would see if Blu-ray or HD DVD sold more.
http://www.nytimes.com/paidcontent/PCORG_317734.html?ex=1355029200&en=aeecb2e8108fe379&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
At FutureShop when the 5 pack Harry Potter set came out there were about 3 times the number of Blu-ray packs. The next day when I went in, they were out of the Blu-ray packs only having a few HD DVD and DVD packs left. I also noticed this trend for a few other WB titles that came out in both formats. This speculation about money changing hands is just that speculation. WB already stated publically why they choose the format they did.
Did anyone else notice in the videos: MSDN Webcast Guy was useless. Visual Studio Guy was a lazy, forgetful person that messes up people's code. SQL Server Gal crashed on arrival then needed to quintuple the number of resources needed for the job. Finally Virtual Labs Guy lost the project.