It surprises me that after what Rambus has done, that standards orgs don't require that all patents, copyrights, whatever be donate to the public domain if it turns out that any member (or members org) has a patent, copyright, etc. on anything in the standard. If you don't want to lose your patent, you don't get to participate in making a standard.
Why wouldn't you use the tool that makes your life easier? A free tool, at that. And it installs easily on a thumb drive, but I suppose that would be too heavy for you to carry around.
As for hunting them down one by one, I assume you've memorized all the libraries, functions and options in your language of choice, so you never have to refer to documentation.
I love the term 'bloated code'. C# doesn't include stuff that isn't used, unlike some other languages. The only code from the library that would be included is the Range object.
As for how it's simpler, it's easier to read, and less prone to errors. And, as the original poster said, he's not talking about one time use, he's talking about multiple uses. So your strawman argument doesn't hold water.
String myString = "this is a string";
Char[] myChar = myString.ToCharArray();
Yeah, I can see why you'd have a problem converting a string to ascii.
As for the switch/case statement, it's part of the design. Fallthrough is a big source of bugs, so in C# they decided not to allow it. As for your use of goto's (and and senior programmer that believed you), that's just plain ignorance and lack of ability.
Yeah, because right clicking on the code and selecting "Go to definition" from the pop-up menu is so difficult and takes so long to do.
You don't need to know the ranges to know if your code will work. By creating a range tester, you can test that code once, and use it everywhere. You seem to be advocating recreating a range test everywhere you need it, adding to the complexity of your code, making it harder to read and maintain.
This is an utterly ridiculous idea. It taxes those who don't download copyright-infringing files to pay for those who do - and who will probably continue to download much more than $5-worth of tracks, subsidised by others.
Illegal downloaders need to stop freeloading off the rest of us and pay for the things they want.
Same can be said for luxury sales tax, income tax, welfare, social security, etc. The government has a long history of taxing one group so another can get what they want, why do you think they will stop now?
No need to replace anything. Isn't this what the original Napster did? Send music from servers to multiple media players?
Napster - 1998. Patent from someone who stole Napsters idea - 1999.
(1) Would this cover gene therapy?
(2) I guess we'll never have cures for any more diseases, or does drug trials not count as human experimentation?
(3) CO2 emmissions? Everyone does it. Not even counting waste products (or trash).
(4) The Catholic church wants to talk about social injustice? Maybe they should clean their own house first.
(5) How much does the church pull in each year? it is important for all parishoners to understand that giving is not optional (it is actually one of the six precepts of the Church)
(6) See above.
(7) No more medications for you. Or are there 'good' drugs and 'bad' drugs?
surely surpass the bandwidth quota of the person hosting it.
There are hosts that actually don't have bandwidth limits. Hostgator.com comes to mind, and only $15/month (and no, I don't work for them or get anything for talking about them).
what does "coca-cola" mean to people whose grandparents were slaves on coca-cola plantations?
um, nothing? The first Coca-Cola recipe was invented in Columbus, Georgia, by John Stith Pemberton, originally as a cocawine called Pemberton's French Wine Coca in 1885.
Same thing in Portland, Oregon. Every little tiny town around Portland has FIOS, but in the biggest city in Oregon, can't get it and they don't know when, if ever, they will.
A machine is an expression of an idea, it isn't an idea. I am free to express the idea in a different way, and the extent to which it is different is what patent law needs to determine.
For example, changing your red wires to blue wires: Not different.
Using background cosmic radiation instead of electrical wires connected to the patient: Different.
But that is the way it is supposed to work. You can patent the device that predicts heart attacks, but you can't stop people from making other devices that predict heart attacks if they use a different method than yours. The idea "lets predict heart attacks" is not patentable, the machine that does it is.
The response, paraphrased: We realize that all of the characters in the new base game are middle of the road complexity-wise, none of them as complex as 3E wizard and none of them as simple as 3E fighter. Later material will introduce some more complex choices.
See, I heard him say (paraphrased): We are giving you the boring classes, so you'll spend more money on our products later to get the interesting classes.
Maybe we should just set the clocks so the sun comes up at noon. That way you'll get to see a beautiful sunrise over lunch, it will be nice and bright outside when you get home, and the sun will set sometime after you go to sleep.
Reminds me of my first day in Grad school. Our instructor asked everyone why they wanted to get a MS, most said they are going for PhD, MS is just a stepping stone. He then asked "What are you going to do with a PhD? Get hired by some university, get microscopic raises and then they will hire on new people at a higher pay rate than you make."
You don't make the big bucks distributing GPL code. Microsoft makes the big bucks distributing their stuff. They don't want to get into supporting it (would you?), so they want to maintain their current business model.
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It surprises me that after what Rambus has done, that standards orgs don't require that all patents, copyrights, whatever be donate to the public domain if it turns out that any member (or members org) has a patent, copyright, etc. on anything in the standard. If you don't want to lose your patent, you don't get to participate in making a standard.
Try printing the char array as integers, it's the ascii values.
dozen or more thumbdrives for all the different languages I am forced to work on is so much more convenient that notepad
.NET will never take less than 2 hours.
.NET languages) have very good compilers.
.NET.
And how do you compile after you find the bugs?
debugging some dodgy
Your poor debuging skills are not a reason to not use a language.
Of course, while you are whacking out bloat
What bloat? C# (and other
I'm the poor sod who'll have to come back in 5 years and try to work out what is wrong with it.
Yeah, because all software is bug free, except that written in
Why wouldn't you use the tool that makes your life easier? A free tool, at that. And it installs easily on a thumb drive, but I suppose that would be too heavy for you to carry around.
As for hunting them down one by one, I assume you've memorized all the libraries, functions and options in your language of choice, so you never have to refer to documentation.
String text;
// do your text stuff here
using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader("SomeFile.txt")) {
while ((text = sr.ReadLIne()) != null) {
}
}
Yep, real hard. 2 whole lines to open and read a file.
I love the term 'bloated code'. C# doesn't include stuff that isn't used, unlike some other languages. The only code from the library that would be included is the Range object.
As for how it's simpler, it's easier to read, and less prone to errors. And, as the original poster said, he's not talking about one time use, he's talking about multiple uses. So your strawman argument doesn't hold water.
String myString = "this is a string";
Char[] myChar = myString.ToCharArray();
Yeah, I can see why you'd have a problem converting a string to ascii.
As for the switch/case statement, it's part of the design. Fallthrough is a big source of bugs, so in C# they decided not to allow it. As for your use of goto's (and and senior programmer that believed you), that's just plain ignorance and lack of ability.
Yeah, because right clicking on the code and selecting "Go to definition" from the pop-up menu is so difficult and takes so long to do.
You don't need to know the ranges to know if your code will work. By creating a range tester, you can test that code once, and use it everywhere. You seem to be advocating recreating a range test everywhere you need it, adding to the complexity of your code, making it harder to read and maintain.
a factor of 20 performance improvement takes about 6 to 8 years
It was a cost reduction of a factor of 20, not a performance improvement.
This is an utterly ridiculous idea. It taxes those who don't download copyright-infringing files to pay for those who do - and who will probably continue to download much more than $5-worth of tracks, subsidised by others.
Illegal downloaders need to stop freeloading off the rest of us and pay for the things they want.
Same can be said for luxury sales tax, income tax, welfare, social security, etc. The government has a long history of taxing one group so another can get what they want, why do you think they will stop now?
No need to replace anything. Isn't this what the original Napster did? Send music from servers to multiple media players? Napster - 1998. Patent from someone who stole Napsters idea - 1999.
(1) Would this cover gene therapy?
(2) I guess we'll never have cures for any more diseases, or does drug trials not count as human experimentation?
(3) CO2 emmissions? Everyone does it. Not even counting waste products (or trash).
(4) The Catholic church wants to talk about social injustice? Maybe they should clean their own house first.
(5) How much does the church pull in each year? it is important for all parishoners to understand that giving is not optional (it is actually one of the six precepts of the Church)
(6) See above.
(7) No more medications for you. Or are there 'good' drugs and 'bad' drugs?
surely surpass the bandwidth quota of the person hosting it.
There are hosts that actually don't have bandwidth limits. Hostgator.com comes to mind, and only $15/month (and no, I don't work for them or get anything for talking about them).
Every website makes money off of advertising
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what does "coca-cola" mean to people whose grandparents were slaves on coca-cola plantations?
um, nothing? The first Coca-Cola recipe was invented in Columbus, Georgia, by John Stith Pemberton, originally as a cocawine called Pemberton's French Wine Coca in 1885.
Same thing in Portland, Oregon. Every little tiny town around Portland has FIOS, but in the biggest city in Oregon, can't get it and they don't know when, if ever, they will.
A machine is an expression of an idea, it isn't an idea. I am free to express the idea in a different way, and the extent to which it is different is what patent law needs to determine. For example, changing your red wires to blue wires: Not different. Using background cosmic radiation instead of electrical wires connected to the patient: Different.
But that is the way it is supposed to work. You can patent the device that predicts heart attacks, but you can't stop people from making other devices that predict heart attacks if they use a different method than yours. The idea "lets predict heart attacks" is not patentable, the machine that does it is.
The response, paraphrased: We realize that all of the characters in the new base game are middle of the road complexity-wise, none of them as complex as 3E wizard and none of them as simple as 3E fighter. Later material will introduce some more complex choices.
See, I heard him say (paraphrased): We are giving you the boring classes, so you'll spend more money on our products later to get the interesting classes.
Maybe we should just set the clocks so the sun comes up at noon. That way you'll get to see a beautiful sunrise over lunch, it will be nice and bright outside when you get home, and the sun will set sometime after you go to sleep.
How about the thousands of dollars people have spent on software that won't run under Ubuntu?
The Jeffersons and Maude were both spinoffs from All in the Family.
He could be implying that he no longer finds it enjoyable, as he did in the past
Reminds me of my first day in Grad school. Our instructor asked everyone why they wanted to get a MS, most said they are going for PhD, MS is just a stepping stone. He then asked "What are you going to do with a PhD? Get hired by some university, get microscopic raises and then they will hire on new people at a higher pay rate than you make."
You don't make the big bucks distributing GPL code. Microsoft makes the big bucks distributing their stuff. They don't want to get into supporting it (would you?), so they want to maintain their current business model.