or all these mormon yahoos a bunch shady, greedy assholes? byu must be the only school that doesn't just forget - but proactively discourages - business ethics. oh well, what do you expect from a group of people that used to encourage white slaver... uh, i mean, polygamy...
... corporate espionage. seriously, besides the "fun factor" of having a camera built into the zire 71, why would you put such a thing into it knowing that it could be used for stealing corporate secrets?
generally, i use a pda to store appointments, phone numbers, addresses and notes. i don't need a camera or phone or any other high tech gadgetry built in. when will palm and others get this? i use my pda for just that - a personal digital assistant. not a personal photographer, personal communicator, or anything else.
in fact, the only rational i have for this that the cheap, garbage camera they have built into each unit really only cost them 10 bucks, but they can charge another 100 bucks for the added "functionality".
i expect that there will be lots of sony consumer electronics (dvd players, entertainment systems) embedded with ps3 technology. scea has been fighting to keep the ps series as a game console only, but MS is forcing them to integrate the ps3 with dvd/music/internet technology...
conversely, sometimes i wonder if MS is striving to be the north american Sony (tablet pc, xbox, windows ce, keyboards, mice, etc...)
I do all my home development on an old AMD K6-2 450. This way, I know that any software I release will run with acceptable performance on systems that most people have.
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Actually, what really kills projects is the reluctance of managers to allow designers to step back and redesign the existing architecture. Sometimes a pattern turns out to be more of a handicap than a benefit, and in an ideal situation, you would step back and redesign that part of the architecture.
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I've heard of idiots who rate the quality of any potential design by how many patterns it has in it.
Actually, a lot of the patterns overlap:
The Singleton is a subset of Factory, and an Abstract Factory is a subset of Factory.
However, for all the knowledge it contains it has a price tag to match. If you can get it used and cheap, do so.
Or get your company to pay for it. They did for my copy...
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Actually, those patterns are very much language independent (at the time of the books writing, they were using smalltalk examples). Design patterns act as a way to communicate a larger idea or concept to the user. It's easier to tell another OO designer that a "singleton" is a good creational pattern for a particular task, than if I were to go into detail on how to implement a single, shared instantiation mechanism in (your language of choice here).
However, a lot of people fall into a trap of using a pattern they just learned to solve any problem. Ever see factories within factories? I have. It's not pretty. The patterns aren't meant to be used "as is", either. They're meant to be modified to fix a problem.
For someone just starting out in C++, I'd advise them to avoid using pattern initially, and sticking with simpler solutions. When the problemspace becomes more complex, then one may want to reconsider reading the "Gang of Four" book for ideas on solving the problem.
it seems that mozilla, as a whole, will evolve into a framework of reusable components that will transcend the browser application itself.
this will pose to be a problem for microsoft; why bother using microsoft components, which are bound to windows, when i can program across multiple platforms using mozilla components?
or does anyone remember that far back? the pentium III processor architecture was going to allow a special hardware code to be embedded on each processor, unique to each machine so that web transactions would be safer.
however, due to the public backlash about having "big brother" track what their computers were doing, they allowed users to disable that hardware code from being detected.
the hardcoded serial on those pentium III were just a precursor to palladium, however. think of it more of a proof of concept that such a device would work. intel was always heading toward palladium.
ogg vorbis is a new compression technique that rivals that of mp3 and wma. unlike mp3 and wma, however, ogg vorbis has been patented under the gpl, which will allow developer, manufacturers, and end users to avoid the licensing fees normally associated with compression/encoding technologies.
ogg vorbis is less lossy of a format than that of mp3, and it also has been shown to yield an output file 10 - 17% smaller than that of mp3 and wma, without significant loss of fidelity.
i don't that would work, due to the sheer number of advances in technology that could easily be catagorized into "AI".
would GTA3 be in the same catagory as alicebot? you could catagorize both of those under "AI", however, i would think gta3 more appropriately belongs in games and alicebot in the CS section.
"AI" is just too loose of a term to make a category out of; why not just make a category called "Computer Technology" and bundle all the articles under that banner?
1. The kids who watched the movie will be old enough to play the games 2. It doesn't overkill the Star Wars fanfare 3. Releasing a game 2 years from now will keep Star Wars in the public's mind...
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JessLeah... that is a sexy name. You sound like a hot piece of ass; do you have any pics online? a/s/l?
sorry, UW is not - nor will ever be - the 'MIT of Canada'. UW isn't even in the same fuckin ballpark as MIT...
seriously, just shut the fuck up. at least come up with *something* original if you're going to try karma whore for a funny post...
your daughter's a fuckin whore. at least a mormon boy won't shoot in her eye ;)
does this version of mozilla coffee come with a coffeemaker? or the kitchen sink?
or all these mormon yahoos a bunch shady, greedy assholes? byu must be the only school that doesn't just forget - but proactively discourages - business ethics. oh well, what do you expect from a group of people that used to encourage white slaver... uh, i mean, polygamy...
i just see a fatass in that pic.
Try working out. If you run (or even walk) 3 miles a day, you'll find that you won't be as fat and you won't have sweaty fingers, either!
... corporate espionage. seriously, besides the "fun factor" of having a camera built into the zire 71, why would you put such a thing into it knowing that it could be used for stealing corporate secrets?
generally, i use a pda to store appointments, phone numbers, addresses and notes. i don't need a camera or phone or any other high tech gadgetry built in. when will palm and others get this? i use my pda for just that - a personal digital assistant. not a personal photographer, personal communicator, or anything else.
in fact, the only rational i have for this that the cheap, garbage camera they have built into each unit really only cost them 10 bucks, but they can charge another 100 bucks for the added "functionality".
i expect that there will be lots of sony consumer electronics (dvd players, entertainment systems) embedded with ps3 technology. scea has been fighting to keep the ps series as a game console only, but MS is forcing them to integrate the ps3 with dvd/music/internet technology...
conversely, sometimes i wonder if MS is striving to be the north american Sony (tablet pc, xbox, windows ce, keyboards, mice, etc...)
if certain people didn't abuse the back button, either...
I do all my home development on an old AMD K6-2 450. This way, I know that any software I release will run with acceptable performance on systems that most people have.
Actually, what really kills projects is the reluctance of managers to allow designers to step back and redesign the existing architecture. Sometimes a pattern turns out to be more of a handicap than a benefit, and in an ideal situation, you would step back and redesign that part of the architecture.
Actually, a lot of the patterns overlap:
The Singleton is a subset of Factory, and an Abstract Factory is a subset of Factory.
Facades are Composites of interfaces.
An Adapter is a type of Facade.
(ad nauseaum...)
However, for all the knowledge it contains it has a price tag to match. If you can get it used and cheap, do so.
Or get your company to pay for it. They did for my copy...
Actually, those patterns are very much language independent (at the time of the books writing, they were using smalltalk examples). Design patterns act as a way to communicate a larger idea or concept to the user. It's easier to tell another OO designer that a "singleton" is a good creational pattern for a particular task, than if I were to go into detail on how to implement a single, shared instantiation mechanism in (your language of choice here).
However, a lot of people fall into a trap of using a pattern they just learned to solve any problem. Ever see factories within factories? I have. It's not pretty. The patterns aren't meant to be used "as is", either. They're meant to be modified to fix a problem.
For someone just starting out in C++, I'd advise them to avoid using pattern initially, and sticking with simpler solutions. When the problemspace becomes more complex, then one may want to reconsider reading the "Gang of Four" book for ideas on solving the problem.
it seems that mozilla, as a whole, will evolve into a framework of reusable components that will transcend the browser application itself.
this will pose to be a problem for microsoft; why bother using microsoft components, which are bound to windows, when i can program across multiple platforms using mozilla components?
or does anyone remember that far back? the pentium III processor architecture was going to allow a special hardware code to be embedded on each processor, unique to each machine so that web transactions would be safer.
however, due to the public backlash about having "big brother" track what their computers were doing, they allowed users to disable that hardware code from being detected.
the hardcoded serial on those pentium III were just a precursor to palladium, however. think of it more of a proof of concept that such a device would work. intel was always heading toward palladium.
Is the ramification this will have on furniture. Will that bookshelf be covered under the DMCA if the chips is programmed under a proprietary license?
ogg vorbis is a new compression technique that rivals that of mp3 and wma. unlike mp3 and wma, however, ogg vorbis has been patented under the gpl, which will allow developer, manufacturers, and end users to avoid the licensing fees normally associated with compression/encoding technologies.
ogg vorbis is less lossy of a format than that of mp3, and it also has been shown to yield an output file 10 - 17% smaller than that of mp3 and wma, without significant loss of fidelity.
i don't that would work, due to the sheer number of advances in technology that could easily be catagorized into "AI".
would GTA3 be in the same catagory as alicebot? you could catagorize both of those under "AI", however, i would think gta3 more appropriately belongs in games and alicebot in the CS section.
"AI" is just too loose of a term to make a category out of; why not just make a category called "Computer Technology" and bundle all the articles under that banner?
Why? Because:
1. The kids who watched the movie will be old enough to play the games
2. It doesn't overkill the Star Wars fanfare
3. Releasing a game 2 years from now will keep Star Wars in the public's mind...