Because I don't like encouraging people to break the law.
Legal writ does not equate to morality.
That's a problem for people who ascribe morality to legality. Just because something is legal does not make it moral. Just because something is illegal does not make it immoral. Morality exist apart from law.
Ho er'body, even the Mayor Reach out and grab for the ho zone laya' Hey ho, how you doin', where you been? Prolly doin' ho stuff, 'cause there you ho again!
I knew deep down when I wrote the word "ludacris", some hip hop fan would post a asinine comment about it. Oh well.:-)
The present invention simplifies the data modeling process and enables its full dynamic versioning by employing a non-hierarchical non-integrated structure to the organization of information.
How exactly is XML non-hierarchal? Every bit of XML I've seen is all data contained in tags that is structured in a hierarchy of other tags. And if XML is hierarchal, then how do these patents apply to XML data, are they claiming it falls under the "non-integrated" data? Heck, I could throw together a text file and transfer the data over like that, and that would non-integrated. Are they planning on patenting plain text too? This is ludicris. Any tech company with a vested interest in software needs to voice their complains about the horrific software patent situation.
A lot of what you say is true. So much so, that I -- formerly a zealous Republican supporter -- am now quiet when politics come up, because I've come to the realization that putting faith in men, especially men involved in politics, is total folly.
I think you've been misinformed about Christians, though. The believers I know are quite loving and forgiving, some of the kindest people I've met. Yes, there are a few bad apples who use belief in God as a weapon (contrast this with Jesus, who taught that of all of Scripture, the greatest laws are to love God and love others). Despite the few bad apples, for the vast majority of Christians, at least the one's I've personally known, they are not in the least bit hateful or persecuting in nature. I hope you haven't encountered one that are.
Yeah. If he is a rightist, he's a really poor representation of what one should be. As both rightist and a video game player, I can say that -- at least for myself -- games have had no real affect on my life. It's entertainment, like going to watch a movie; unless there's something severely wrong with a person, entertainment isn't going to revolutionize the one acts in the real world. Also, if the right is concerned about morality and ethics as it claims to be, the authority of a child's morality and ethics should be placed in the hands of the parents, not some lawsuit-bent lawyer.
I notice some people are calling him a Christian as well, and likewise, if he is a Christian, he's done an utterly poor job representing Jesus. I mean, he called (apparently, in satire) for a game where people piss on the busted brains of dead game shop employees? Oh yeah, that's real Christ-like there Jack. Nevermind the fact that Jesus said to refrain from taking people to court. Ugh.
Not really. His teaming with leftist Democrat Sen. Clinton distanced himself from the right. Couple that with some of his recent angry rants, where he criticizes games for violence "against police officers, women, and homosexuals".
It seems to me this guy is just an angry, litigious scatterbrains, who honestly thought he was on a valid, righteous crusade, only to find out that video games are quite harmless. Now that he's publicly made a fool of himself, and he'll do what he does best: sue, in the hopes of reclaiming some self-dignity.
That's one big difference between Java and.NET/Mono. Java has no concept of primitive value types; everything's a wrapper that gets allocated on the heap (and thus, requires an eventual garbage collection).
In.NET/Mono, we have value types called structs that are allocated on the stack and do not require heap allocation or garbage collection. These lightweight types are quite nice performance wise. Games and other high performance software rely heavily on structs to alleviate garbage collections and keep the heap tidy.
what happens when you add a complex object to the list that only had primitives?
To do this, you would need a non-strongly typed list that can store any type. For.NET/Mono developers, this is the System.Collections.ArrayList. When you put a primitive in an ArrayList, it is boxed into a reference type just as it is in the Java implementation. But with generics, ArrayList is almost useless; we now use System.Collections.Generic.List<int> to store a list of 32-bit integers, strongly typed and efficient. It's really a rare case when you need to add value types (structs) and reference types (classes) together in the same collection. In fact, in my company's 500,000+ lines of code C# application, I can say for a fact that we do not use any such collections; everything's strongly typed.
In any case, I suggest you have a look at this article, which details exactly how Java and C# generics work, what their differences are, and how they differ from C++ templates.
No, it's not really fixed. It's just syntax candy that lets the developer see strongly typed primitives, even though in the underlying JVM, you'll notice that it's still just a list of boxed Objects, thus losing performance and memory benefits with the inducing of boxing and unboxing of each element in the list. Contrast this with the.NET or Mono runtimes, where the runtime actually creates code for storing primitive types, thus gaining a performance and memory benefit.
Intel standing up for the consumer? Umm...Intel has a money stake in this matter: ripping content off of DVDs, CDs, etc. and burning content onto such media requires beefy machines with expensive processors. It's far more likely Intel is standing up rip-able content not for the sake of the consumer, but for the sake of their own bottom line.
Of course, MacWorld reporting such favorable news towards Intel is no kawinki-dink either.
Oh well, I suppose all news is biased in some way or another. Excuse me while I go watch Fox News now.
Really? Flash can do actual 3d with vector graphics, mixing 2d and 3d in independent planes? That, I have never seen. I really suggest watching that entire video and checking it out; once viewed it's quite obvious that this is much more than a Flash competitor.
The animation that isn't tied necessarily to a timeline; I've never seen it until that video. The animation can occur in response to events or in a storyboard, rather than within a time line of animation.
I was really impressed by the simple demo he threw together; it was thrown together very quick with zero lines of code written, and yet, it looked far better than any Flash stuff I've seen.
Go watch the video on Channel9 and see for yourself. The demo goes on for more than an hour; really, really impressive and well worth your time.
No, Avalon is the user interface API now known as Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). Sparkle is a tool designer that lets you create user interfaces that output to xml files that the user interface can display, known as XAML files. Sparkle will let you create 2d & 3d visuals and export them to XAML files.
Vista was a huge vision: a new metadata-based file system, a new UI shell based on secure, managed code, a new command shell, a new UI based on DirectX that supplants the aged old GDI, a new primary developer API to supplant Win32 including APIs to the new UI and the new cross-platform messaging service, an updated browser, virtual folders, a new development model (look @ MSDN for avalon express applications), just to name a few.
Some of those features just had to be cut back or removed; with all those changes, it's no wonder the OS was delayed so many times. People complained after the delays, and now MS is forced to have smaller, shorter iterations of software releases. As long as they also cut down on the price tag, this will be good for both Windows users and Microsoft itself.
Wow. Ok, I'm not great on the conversions, but isn't 240 megabits/second = 30 megaBytes per second? If that's really the case, I don't think data can even be written to my hard drive that fast. Wow.
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Users like it. True story: I spent 2 weeks adding some great new features and usability enhancements to my app. I spent 5 minutes changing the icons used in the app to nices ones. After deployment, the first 5 things I hear from our users is, "Wow, the icons look great!"
Never underestimate the importance of a beautiful-looking user interface. I'm especially talking to you, GIMP devs!
When you write software for others (e.g. a corporation, or as a programming contract job), I think you'll find that many people need MS Office.doc &.xls file interop.
That's when all this comes into play. As long as I can read and write the format, it matter to me little where the format came from. Everything else is politics.
Frankly, as a developer, as long as I can read the format and output the format without royalties (both of which are explicitly allowed by Office 12 license), then I care little about the utopian ideals put forth by the high-horse OSS zealots.
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Because I don't like encouraging people to break the law.
Legal writ does not equate to morality.
That's a problem for people who ascribe morality to legality. Just because something is legal does not make it moral. Just because something is illegal does not make it immoral. Morality exist apart from law.
Yes, this is Ludacris as well
:-)
Ho er'body, even the Mayor
Reach out and grab for the ho zone laya'
Hey ho, how you doin', where you been?
Prolly doin' ho stuff, 'cause there you ho again!
I knew deep down when I wrote the word "ludacris", some hip hop fan would post a asinine comment about it. Oh well.
From the patent submission,
The present invention simplifies the data modeling process and enables its full dynamic versioning by employing a non-hierarchical non-integrated structure to the organization of information.
How exactly is XML non-hierarchal? Every bit of XML I've seen is all data contained in tags that is structured in a hierarchy of other tags. And if XML is hierarchal, then how do these patents apply to XML data, are they claiming it falls under the "non-integrated" data? Heck, I could throw together a text file and transfer the data over like that, and that would non-integrated. Are they planning on patenting plain text too? This is ludicris. Any tech company with a vested interest in software needs to voice their complains about the horrific software patent situation.
A lot of what you say is true. So much so, that I -- formerly a zealous Republican supporter -- am now quiet when politics come up, because I've come to the realization that putting faith in men, especially men involved in politics, is total folly.
I think you've been misinformed about Christians, though. The believers I know are quite loving and forgiving, some of the kindest people I've met. Yes, there are a few bad apples who use belief in God as a weapon (contrast this with Jesus, who taught that of all of Scripture, the greatest laws are to love God and love others). Despite the few bad apples, for the vast majority of Christians, at least the one's I've personally known, they are not in the least bit hateful or persecuting in nature. I hope you haven't encountered one that are.
Yeah. If he is a rightist, he's a really poor representation of what one should be. As both rightist and a video game player, I can say that -- at least for myself -- games have had no real affect on my life. It's entertainment, like going to watch a movie; unless there's something severely wrong with a person, entertainment isn't going to revolutionize the one acts in the real world. Also, if the right is concerned about morality and ethics as it claims to be, the authority of a child's morality and ethics should be placed in the hands of the parents, not some lawsuit-bent lawyer.
I notice some people are calling him a Christian as well, and likewise, if he is a Christian, he's done an utterly poor job representing Jesus. I mean, he called (apparently, in satire) for a game where people piss on the busted brains of dead game shop employees? Oh yeah, that's real Christ-like there Jack. Nevermind the fact that Jesus said to refrain from taking people to court. Ugh.
Thanks, I wasn't aware of that.
Looks like the some rightist orgs, like the National Institute on Media and the Family, recently denounced ties to him as well, reported here.
homophobic...cookie-cutter Christian Right.
Not really. His teaming with leftist Democrat Sen. Clinton distanced himself from the right. Couple that with some of his recent angry rants, where he criticizes games for violence "against police officers, women, and homosexuals".
It seems to me this guy is just an angry, litigious scatterbrains, who honestly thought he was on a valid, righteous crusade, only to find out that video games are quite harmless. Now that he's publicly made a fool of himself, and he'll do what he does best: sue, in the hopes of reclaiming some self-dignity.
That's one big difference between Java and .NET/Mono. Java has no concept of primitive value types; everything's a wrapper that gets allocated on the heap (and thus, requires an eventual garbage collection).
.NET/Mono, we have value types called structs that are allocated on the stack and do not require heap allocation or garbage collection. These lightweight types are quite nice performance wise. Games and other high performance software rely heavily on structs to alleviate garbage collections and keep the heap tidy.
.NET/Mono developers, this is the System.Collections.ArrayList. When you put a primitive in an ArrayList, it is boxed into a reference type just as it is in the Java implementation. But with generics, ArrayList is almost useless; we now use System.Collections.Generic.List<int> to store a list of 32-bit integers, strongly typed and efficient. It's really a rare case when you need to add value types (structs) and reference types (classes) together in the same collection. In fact, in my company's 500,000+ lines of code C# application, I can say for a fact that we do not use any such collections; everything's strongly typed.
In
what happens when you add a complex object to the list that only had primitives?
To do this, you would need a non-strongly typed list that can store any type. For
In any case, I suggest you have a look at this article, which details exactly how Java and C# generics work, what their differences are, and how they differ from C++ templates.
No, it's not really fixed. It's just syntax candy that lets the developer see strongly typed primitives, even though in the underlying JVM, you'll notice that it's still just a list of boxed Objects, thus losing performance and memory benefits with the inducing of boxing and unboxing of each element in the list. Contrast this with the .NET or Mono runtimes, where the runtime actually creates code for storing primitive types, thus gaining a performance and memory benefit.
Intel standing up for the consumer? Umm...Intel has a money stake in this matter: ripping content off of DVDs, CDs, etc. and burning content onto such media requires beefy machines with expensive processors. It's far more likely Intel is standing up rip-able content not for the sake of the consumer, but for the sake of their own bottom line.
Of course, MacWorld reporting such favorable news towards Intel is no kawinki-dink either.
Oh well, I suppose all news is biased in some way or another. Excuse me while I go watch Fox News now.
Thanks for the info.
Really? Flash can do actual 3d with vector graphics, mixing 2d and 3d in independent planes? That, I have never seen. I really suggest watching that entire video and checking it out; once viewed it's quite obvious that this is much more than a Flash competitor.
The animation that isn't tied necessarily to a timeline; I've never seen it until that video. The animation can occur in response to events or in a storyboard, rather than within a time line of animation.
I was really impressed by the simple demo he threw together; it was thrown together very quick with zero lines of code written, and yet, it looked far better than any Flash stuff I've seen.
Go watch the video on Channel9 and see for yourself. The demo goes on for more than an hour; really, really impressive and well worth your time.
Read the article, or watch the video where several guys talk about it and demo it. I must say, I'm impressed; it easily blows away Flash.
No, Avalon is the user interface API now known as Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). Sparkle is a tool designer that lets you create user interfaces that output to xml files that the user interface can display, known as XAML files. Sparkle will let you create 2d & 3d visuals and export them to XAML files.
Interesting, I didn't know that. Thanks for the info.
Vista was a huge vision: a new metadata-based file system, a new UI shell based on secure, managed code, a new command shell, a new UI based on DirectX that supplants the aged old GDI, a new primary developer API to supplant Win32 including APIs to the new UI and the new cross-platform messaging service, an updated browser, virtual folders, a new development model (look @ MSDN for avalon express applications), just to name a few.
Some of those features just had to be cut back or removed; with all those changes, it's no wonder the OS was delayed so many times. People complained after the delays, and now MS is forced to have smaller, shorter iterations of software releases. As long as they also cut down on the price tag, this will be good for both Windows users and Microsoft itself.
Wow. Ok, I'm not great on the conversions, but isn't 240 megabits/second = 30 megaBytes per second? If that's really the case, I don't think data can even be written to my hard drive that fast. Wow.
Very well said. I think Slashdot has for too long confused freedom software with no-cost software.
Mirrordot, Coral Cache.
Users like it. True story: I spent 2 weeks adding some great new features and usability enhancements to my app. I spent 5 minutes changing the icons used in the app to nices ones. After deployment, the first 5 things I hear from our users is, "Wow, the icons look great!"
Never underestimate the importance of a beautiful-looking user interface. I'm especially talking to you, GIMP devs!
When you write software for others (e.g. a corporation, or as a programming contract job), I think you'll find that many people need MS Office .doc & .xls file interop.
That's when all this comes into play. As long as I can read and write the format, it matter to me little where the format came from. Everything else is politics.
Frankly, as a developer, as long as I can read the format and output the format without royalties (both of which are explicitly allowed by Office 12 license), then I care little about the utopian ideals put forth by the high-horse OSS zealots.
Step one is done, in Office 12. All formats are zipped XML + media resources in thier native format.
Ya think so? The article headline implies that security updates will be included in the year's end version.
I guess we'll have to wait a few days and see.