This is the first I've ever seen Eiffel code. Maybe it's just me, but I thought this review said it's supposed to be easy to read? I can't identify what half of those lines of code are for - I can identify the two lines that actually outpue Hello World, but even that would have been hard in a different example.
What's the point of this language again? I thought it was to combine the power of C/C++ with the ease of VB or something.
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What's the amazing thing about this code and what are its faults? I can't find much info on their website. Some sample code to look at would be really nice just to get a feel for it. Is there a feature list somewhere? A comparison to C/C++/Java?
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We have similar hosting requirements and host with Valueweb. Pretty good customer service, very reliable, and when we evaluated more local options a few months ago, we found that no one even compares with their costs.
I don't work for them and would love to have our servers hosted someplace I can visit it, but unfortunately, the Boston area just isn't popular for hosting facilities. -N
no longer afraid of spending too much time online anymore.
Personally, I don't think I really consider this to be measurable anymore. If I'm at a computer, 9 times out of 10, I'm online even if I'm just recompiling a kernel or typing up a paper. Maybe I'm not actively browsing or chatting or anything, but I consider myself online.
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My first thought when I saw evisa.com was also "electronic visa," like the one I had that let me travel to Australia and back last year. Electronic visas do exist and they have nothing to do with finance or credit.
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...to see people really stick up for what they think is right, especially when so many people aren't willing to play ball with such big corporate identities. This seems to be a a pattern lately.
Hopefully, it can become a huge PR boost to take on a big powerful company and let the common people know more about these sort of conflicts. That can act as extra incentive for small companies to stick up for their rights and further bring attention to these problems.
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And with my threshold at a measly one, very few show up. It seems the only answers to this are the usual: interoperability with others using Microsoft software. The projects that are working for this, like WINE and OpenOffice, will ultimately be what starts more people heading for Linux.
Once they've succeeded in giving people the choice between Linux or Windows with all other apps, hardware, etc being equal, then no one will be stuck using Windows to fit in.
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Have to be careful about over-reliance
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Sensors Gone Wild
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I can imagine that many of the uses for these listed could be great, but over-reliance may be a problem. While it would be nice if everything like this worked like in Star Trek, I can imagine a story in the future where someone calls 911 about a bridge that looks about to collapse that is ignored because the sensors say the bridge is fine.
I know this article doesn't exactly seem to be chock full of information, but the comments can at least be intelligent.
This is different from using a RAM disk and just using RAM for a disk drive. A RAM drive can actually store information - which is something that RAM disks, which aren't really storage devices at all, cannot do.
This even means you can store stuff and it's still gonna be there when you reboot. Although, granted, this isn't exactly new technology. I remember talking with a company at Internet World probably 6 or 7 years ago that sold these things to big companies with deep wallets.
If the cable company is like my DSL support, then they wouldn't install it. Every time I have to call in problems with my DSL line, I have to lie and say I have a windows 98 pc.
Worse than that for my DSL company is their requirement that I send them reports created from a troubleshooting tool in their software to be installed on my Windows PC.
It took months to get my connection working because they didn't know what they were doing and then it went down again in another month when they installed DSL on my phone line for a second time (not removing anything from the first installation of course). Each time they screw up, I've got to dig up that damned software, install it on a Win2K box and rework my network so that that machine is connected to the DSL modem instead of my FreeBSD router.
This may be slightly off-topic, but this quote bothers me.
The movie studios have been in search of a new DVD encryption scheme since the industry standard, known as CSS, was cracked by Linux programmers in 1999.
Why is it that an article having nothing to do with programming or Linux has to make Linux hackers out to be some horribly criminal deviants?
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Does Google have a cache of these sites being blocked and if so, how long will it be before PA starts blocking Google too?
Maybe I'm misunderstanding something here, but if the majority of PA citizens don't want child porn, maybe they shouldn't click on the links. Just like anything I don't want to see on the net, I don't look.
This sounds like a bunch of stupid people being manipulated to me. The PA people are telling their government not to let them see child porn. I think it's more likely that one activist got a question to the public along the lines of "Do you want to stop child porn on the net" and enough people said yes that this passed.
I got this and none of the seemingly endless number of JPGs that made up the rest of the page. I'd say this much is apparent from the page design and willingness to submit to the Slashdot Effect.
This is about as good as the argument that Napster and its clones only provide the means for file-sharing, but don't necessarily conduct any piracy. The data you're talking about streaming is music and you can't hide that.
Changing the filename extension doesn't change that. They'll just argue that this technology involves streaming music over the internet and so it must be taxed.
I was thinking the same thing. Saying you can't change those numbers because it's against the law is akin to saying you can't steal people's phones because it's againse the law.
However, if phones have to be engraved with the IMEI numbers akin to automotive VINs, maybe actually catching people who've renumbered phones will be easier.
No one reallly knows except Escher, who's unlikely this late in the game the disclose it (ie. he's passed on).
Some theories are that he wanted people to look at it and wonder. Some say he just didn't quite know how to proceed. This guy seems to think he's done what Escher meant to do, but perhaps didn't quite have the mathematical understanding to complete. Escher was always known for not being very book-smart and sort of amazed at what mathemeticians found in his works. He knew he was making them with some structural intent, but never really knew the theories behind what made them seem to click.
...with only a high school education. I've already been brainwashed into thinking a degree is necessary to get anywhere though.
I have trouble believing anyone will take tech people seriously these days without a degree, but I think it's great to see that there's still an opportunity for a true genius to break that belief.
Older Magazines were good
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Ziff Davis Teeters
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I remember liking PC Computing, but that went downhill it's last few years and then became Smart Business Computing or some such non-technical nonsense. Of all the non-journal magazines, they were one of the better ones I found.
Did they do Computer Shopper too? That was great way back when, before they shrunk it to normal size and all. You could find some damned good deals in there (and I think there were some good articles at times too, but that wasn't what I bought it for...).
I hope they come back to a technical crowd at least. There's too much crap about the business of the internet and computers - I want more technical information available to the masses.
I often found it odd that he didn't talk since he could play sounds in recordings just fine. He must have had some DSP capabilities or something. More importantly, he had the understanding of languages of all sorts. I think he just chose to beep instead.
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As much as I'd normally agree with you, Corel tried it and it failed. They built a good deal of user-friendliness into Debian with a modified KDE. It didn't catch on though.
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Re:Well, good mixed with bad...
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nForce2 Preview
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On-Board video doesn't have to be expensive. It's never going to always be the most modern display technology - it's just best to make something that will function.
People will upgrade the video, but better to have something on-board than nothing especially for special uses where running the latest games is not the purpose of the machine. It's all about making the chipset more configurable for different purposes.
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This is the first I've ever seen Eiffel code. Maybe it's just me, but I thought this review said it's supposed to be easy to read? I can't identify what half of those lines of code are for - I can identify the two lines that actually outpue Hello World, but even that would have been hard in a different example.
What's the point of this language again? I thought it was to combine the power of C/C++ with the ease of VB or something.
-N
What's the amazing thing about this code and what are its faults? I can't find much info on their website. Some sample code to look at would be really nice just to get a feel for it. Is there a feature list somewhere? A comparison to C/C++/Java?
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I don't work for them and would love to have our servers hosted someplace I can visit it, but unfortunately, the Boston area just isn't popular for hosting facilities.
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Personally, I don't think I really consider this to be measurable anymore. If I'm at a computer, 9 times out of 10, I'm online even if I'm just recompiling a kernel or typing up a paper. Maybe I'm not actively browsing or chatting or anything, but I consider myself online.
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Yeah, Perl developers.
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My first thought when I saw evisa.com was also "electronic visa," like the one I had that let me travel to Australia and back last year. Electronic visas do exist and they have nothing to do with finance or credit.
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Hopefully, it can become a huge PR boost to take on a big powerful company and let the common people know more about these sort of conflicts. That can act as extra incentive for small companies to stick up for their rights and further bring attention to these problems.
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Once they've succeeded in giving people the choice between Linux or Windows with all other apps, hardware, etc being equal, then no one will be stuck using Windows to fit in.
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Here's another article also about EMI's plans for digital music online. The quote that I like is:
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The product and the category we're delivering is the one they're looking for.
I swear these guys must read
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It's better than c13v3rm0nk3y.
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I can imagine that many of the uses for these listed could be great, but over-reliance may be a problem. While it would be nice if everything like this worked like in Star Trek, I can imagine a story in the future where someone calls 911 about a bridge that looks about to collapse that is ignored because the sensors say the bridge is fine.
I know this article doesn't exactly seem to be chock full of information, but the comments can at least be intelligent.
This is different from using a RAM disk and just using RAM for a disk drive. A RAM drive can actually store information - which is something that RAM disks, which aren't really storage devices at all, cannot do.
This even means you can store stuff and it's still gonna be there when you reboot. Although, granted, this isn't exactly new technology. I remember talking with a company at Internet World probably 6 or 7 years ago that sold these things to big companies with deep wallets.
If the cable company is like my DSL support, then they wouldn't install it. Every time I have to call in problems with my DSL line, I have to lie and say I have a windows 98 pc.
Worse than that for my DSL company is their requirement that I send them reports created from a troubleshooting tool in their software to be installed on my Windows PC.
It took months to get my connection working because they didn't know what they were doing and then it went down again in another month when they installed DSL on my phone line for a second time (not removing anything from the first installation of course). Each time they screw up, I've got to dig up that damned software, install it on a Win2K box and rework my network so that that machine is connected to the DSL modem instead of my FreeBSD router.
I hate Verizon.
The movie studios have been in search of a new DVD encryption scheme since the industry standard, known as CSS, was cracked by Linux programmers in 1999.
Why is it that an article having nothing to do with programming or Linux has to make Linux hackers out to be some horribly criminal deviants?
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Does Google have a cache of these sites being blocked and if so, how long will it be before PA starts blocking Google too?
Maybe I'm misunderstanding something here, but if the majority of PA citizens don't want child porn, maybe they shouldn't click on the links. Just like anything I don't want to see on the net, I don't look.
This sounds like a bunch of stupid people being manipulated to me. The PA people are telling their government not to let them see child porn. I think it's more likely that one activist got a question to the public along the lines of "Do you want to stop child porn on the net" and enough people said yes that this passed.
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I got this and none of the seemingly endless number of JPGs that made up the rest of the page. I'd say this much is apparent from the page design and willingness to submit to the Slashdot Effect.
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Here's a great idea... I can see it now.
Those stupid hackers are DDOSing our server again.
Does anyone really think that those DOS attacks on their servers somne weeks ago helped anyone to side against the RIAA?
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This is about as good as the argument that Napster and its clones only provide the means for file-sharing, but don't necessarily conduct any piracy. The data you're talking about streaming is music and you can't hide that.
Changing the filename extension doesn't change that. They'll just argue that this technology involves streaming music over the internet and so it must be taxed.
-N
I was thinking the same thing. Saying you can't change those numbers because it's against the law is akin to saying you can't steal people's phones because it's againse the law. However, if phones have to be engraved with the IMEI numbers akin to automotive VINs, maybe actually catching people who've renumbered phones will be easier.
Some theories are that he wanted people to look at it and wonder. Some say he just didn't quite know how to proceed. This guy seems to think he's done what Escher meant to do, but perhaps didn't quite have the mathematical understanding to complete. Escher was always known for not being very book-smart and sort of amazed at what mathemeticians found in his works. He knew he was making them with some structural intent, but never really knew the theories behind what made them seem to click.
I have trouble believing anyone will take tech people seriously these days without a degree, but I think it's great to see that there's still an opportunity for a true genius to break that belief.
Did they do Computer Shopper too? That was great way back when, before they shrunk it to normal size and all. You could find some damned good deals in there (and I think there were some good articles at times too, but that wasn't what I bought it for...).
I hope they come back to a technical crowd at least. There's too much crap about the business of the internet and computers - I want more technical information available to the masses.
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R2-D2 did not talk
I often found it odd that he didn't talk since he could play sounds in recordings just fine. He must have had some DSP capabilities or something. More importantly, he had the understanding of languages of all sorts. I think he just chose to beep instead. -N
As much as I'd normally agree with you, Corel tried it and it failed. They built a good deal of user-friendliness into Debian with a modified KDE. It didn't catch on though.
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On-Board video doesn't have to be expensive. It's never going to always be the most modern display technology - it's just best to make something that will function.
People will upgrade the video, but better to have something on-board than nothing especially for special uses where running the latest games is not the purpose of the machine. It's all about making the chipset more configurable for different purposes.