What I have a problem with is perpetual copyright. It seems as though copyright is going to be extended forever if the corportions have their way. It started out at 17? years, and now it's something like 70 years. I know that art is important, but people don't need to profit from their work for that long, otherwise, they will stop producing new stuff once they have enough old stuff to support themselves from. If copyright ran out in 5 years, artists would have much more incentive to produce new works, instead of living off the old ones. And 5 years gives them plenty of time to profit in today's fast paced world.
That's quite an accomplishment for Office 2007. I've never seen a version of MS Office that was perfectly backwards compatible with previous versions. I've even had problems with MS Office being incompatible with itself. That is, if you open a document on a different computer with the same version of MS Office, it sometimes has the formatting changed.
Well, the 1200 RPM isn't that exciting when thre's only 100 bits per inch. Even if the drive ran at 10,000 RPM, it would still be much slower than consumer hard drives of today. And 600 ms seek times are terrible. current seek times are under 10 ms. That's 60 times faster than this drive.
Well, even the TRS-80 ran at 1.77 MHz, which is equivalent to 1,770,000 Hz. Like I said, I highly doubt you ever owned a computer that ran in single digit Hz.
The slowest computer I remember having was a 386 running at 20 MHz. I seriously doubt you ever had a computer that ran in single digit Hz. Possibly single digit MHz, but surely not single digit Hz.
Every hard drive I have weighs at least 1 pound. None of them cost over $150. I think your numbers are a little bit off. Also, you generally don't pay for storage by weight. You can buy an 80 GB drive and a 500 GB drive that weigh pretty much the same right now.
I'd like to seem them try to take the router from the local ISP. That could cause some major problems. Or the DNS root server that facilitated the copyright infringement. Legislation like this shows that the lawmakers have absolutely no clue how the internet works.
This make sense to me in some ways. I know people who were caught poaching fish (catching more than their license allowed). They had their fishing rods taken away, as well as their boat, and the truck that they towed the boat, and just about anything else that was even remotely involved in the crime. It may seem a little excessive, but it's quite a deterrent. Getting your computer taken away for sharing copyrighted content seems to be in alignment with most of the other laws I've seen. Now if this is excessive, than maybe all the other consequences for a lot of other laws are also a problem, but that's a different issue.
If you like to organize your photos by when they were taken, check out Dropshots. It has greatly simplified my photo organizing. Just drag-and-drop your photos from explorer to their handy little system tray app, an all your photos get uploaded and sorted by day.
However, apart from the fact that my Mandriva Laptop (which came pre-installed with Vista) doesn't run a lot of windows programs, it does a lot of stuff that win 2k, win 98 didn't do, and it doesn't take up any extra resources. It can run Compiz Fusion just fine on 512 MB of RAM, and an integrated Intel Video card. Why can't Vista run it's cool 3D desktop on the same? KDE4 touts a lot of new features, and it's going to be faster than the old KDE3. Just because they added new features, doesn't mean it has to run slower, or consume more resources. I shouldn't have to buy a $1000 machine every time I want to upgrade my OS. The OS should be at least as efficient, if not more efficient than the previous version. There is no reason why Vista cannot do what it does on a machine with only 512 MB of RAM. It's just badly coded. If they created a quality product, you wouldn't need a monster machine to run it.
Yes, there is some truly atrocious code out there. However, a lot of it can be accounted for with the fact that the coder just didn't know any better. Most of the time it's some extremely complicated string parsing that could be easily fixed with a few regex's. However, I know a lot of coders who don't even know what regex is, and how much easier it makes your life. I don't know if we should put more blame on companies for hiring people without enough knowledge, or if it's just a problem with "Too much work, Too few good developers". When the choice is either don't get the work done, or get it done, but it might be sloppy, most places choose the latter.
That's one thing that makes VB.Net really nice. They have AND/ANDALSO and OR/ORELSE keywords when working with conditionals. Using AND/OR will evaluate both sides of the expression even when not necessary, and ANDALSO/ORELSE will do a short circuit when possible. It makes the code really clear what it's doing, and lets you do interesting things like "if myObj is Nothing OrElse myObj.objProperty Then". You don't have to remember what it's going to do, because the keyword makes it explicit what's going to happen.
That just goes to show that the lure of the Wii is not the price. MS and Sony think it's the price, but really it's not. If I just wanted any console, and was going to spend $600, I would buy a PS3. But obviously these people don't want just any console, they want a Wii. That's why they are willing to spend much more than retail. Just for the record, I bought my Wii last April. Got it at, EB, I walked in and they happened to have them in stock. I didn't really look that hard.
Why shouldn't the patient get $100,000 for that sponge left inside them. They (or their insurance company) possibly paid that much for the original operation. And now they patient will have to go into surgery again. Despite how "routine" and "minor" the surgery would be to remove the sponge or other object, there's still a substantial risk for death or further infection with the surgery. Plus they'll probably have to take some extra time off work, if they haven't already missed work from the infection stemming from just having left the sponge in there.
None of what you said refutes the fact that.Net is a very productive environment. Sure you are tied to the IDE, and IIS, and Windows, etc. However, that is what has made everything so productive. I'm not saying that.Net is the best web development environment, although it's what I use for work. By abstracting everything away, you can get a whole lot of work done in a very small amount of time. However, most of the developers I see using.Net, including us at work, stay very far away from their abstraction-drag-and-drop-viewstate-i'm-programming-but-don't-know-what's-going-on-under-the-hood methodologies because it always seems to be limiting you in some way, and is great for small little quick crud apps, but really hurts when you need to do any kind of enterprise development.
You're right, you could use C. If only it somehow hooked into the webserver and had a library of functions that could be used to access different parts of the web request, and send HTML to the output stream. I imagine that it wouldn't be too difficult. Except that string manipulation is extremely cumbersome in C, so maybe that's why it's not too popular on the web, which seems to involve a lot of string processing.
I don't see how this is novel at all. It's the same as calling up the flourist and asking them to deliver flowers to somebody. Except that this is on the internet. Taking a normal everyday task, and attaching "On The Internet" to it should not make it patent worthy. The number of stupid patents that have been created since the internet came about is amazing. I mean, how could sending a gift to somebody be patentable in the first place.
You're right, I'm not a Rails developer. I haven't looked up composite keys. What I was doing in my post was responding to the parent, who thought that composite keys weren't supported, and his short-sighted, narrow minded view that you should never need to use composite keys. It's great to hear that Rails supports this, because it actually lets me take Rails seriously. I wasn't raising the issue, I was responding to other users to seem to think that composite keys is an unneeded feature.
Animal crossing is aware of whatever time you tell it, it is. Every time it starts up the game, it asks you if it has the right time, and lets you adjust it. Then it sets the game clock relative to the actual system clock. So if you set the game clock 3 days ahead, it will always be 3 days ahead of the system until you tell it differently. By writing down the time you last played, you can play once a week, and make it look like you never missed a day, as long as you set the time properly each time you start the game.
But do we really need to analyze network traffic to make randomness in a game? I can get sufficient randomness to create cryptographic keys such that nobody can guess them without analyzing network traffic. It would be cool to use the wifi information for increased randomness in cryptographic applications, but I simply can't see how that level of randomness is necessary for making a game non-repetative.
But you could do the same thing in PHP. The fact that most people don't doesn't really say anything bad about PHP, but just bad about people who generally use it. A lot of people who write PHP leave SQL injection problems. That doesn't mean that it can't be used properly. A lot of people use screwdrivers to stir paint, that doesn't mean that the screwdriver is a terrible tool. You can do unit testing, MVC, and encapsulation all that other recommended stuff in PHP. Just because most people don't, doesn't mean it's a bad tool. If you need a tool to hold your hand and force you to adhere to best practices, then you aren't a very good developer.
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What I have a problem with is perpetual copyright. It seems as though copyright is going to be extended forever if the corportions have their way. It started out at 17? years, and now it's something like 70 years. I know that art is important, but people don't need to profit from their work for that long, otherwise, they will stop producing new stuff once they have enough old stuff to support themselves from. If copyright ran out in 5 years, artists would have much more incentive to produce new works, instead of living off the old ones. And 5 years gives them plenty of time to profit in today's fast paced world.
That's quite an accomplishment for Office 2007. I've never seen a version of MS Office that was perfectly backwards compatible with previous versions. I've even had problems with MS Office being incompatible with itself. That is, if you open a document on a different computer with the same version of MS Office, it sometimes has the formatting changed.
Well, the 1200 RPM isn't that exciting when thre's only 100 bits per inch. Even if the drive ran at 10,000 RPM, it would still be much slower than consumer hard drives of today. And 600 ms seek times are terrible. current seek times are under 10 ms. That's 60 times faster than this drive.
Well, even the TRS-80 ran at 1.77 MHz, which is equivalent to 1,770,000 Hz. Like I said, I highly doubt you ever owned a computer that ran in single digit Hz.
The slowest computer I remember having was a 386 running at 20 MHz. I seriously doubt you ever had a computer that ran in single digit Hz. Possibly single digit MHz, but surely not single digit Hz.
Every hard drive I have weighs at least 1 pound. None of them cost over $150. I think your numbers are a little bit off. Also, you generally don't pay for storage by weight. You can buy an 80 GB drive and a 500 GB drive that weigh pretty much the same right now.
The police will probably hold the item in custody until they make a decision one way or the other.
I'd like to seem them try to take the router from the local ISP. That could cause some major problems. Or the DNS root server that facilitated the copyright infringement. Legislation like this shows that the lawmakers have absolutely no clue how the internet works.
This make sense to me in some ways. I know people who were caught poaching fish (catching more than their license allowed). They had their fishing rods taken away, as well as their boat, and the truck that they towed the boat, and just about anything else that was even remotely involved in the crime. It may seem a little excessive, but it's quite a deterrent. Getting your computer taken away for sharing copyrighted content seems to be in alignment with most of the other laws I've seen. Now if this is excessive, than maybe all the other consequences for a lot of other laws are also a problem, but that's a different issue.
If you like to organize your photos by when they were taken, check out Dropshots. It has greatly simplified my photo organizing. Just drag-and-drop your photos from explorer to their handy little system tray app, an all your photos get uploaded and sorted by day.
However, apart from the fact that my Mandriva Laptop (which came pre-installed with Vista) doesn't run a lot of windows programs, it does a lot of stuff that win 2k, win 98 didn't do, and it doesn't take up any extra resources. It can run Compiz Fusion just fine on 512 MB of RAM, and an integrated Intel Video card. Why can't Vista run it's cool 3D desktop on the same? KDE4 touts a lot of new features, and it's going to be faster than the old KDE3. Just because they added new features, doesn't mean it has to run slower, or consume more resources. I shouldn't have to buy a $1000 machine every time I want to upgrade my OS. The OS should be at least as efficient, if not more efficient than the previous version. There is no reason why Vista cannot do what it does on a machine with only 512 MB of RAM. It's just badly coded. If they created a quality product, you wouldn't need a monster machine to run it.
Yes, there is some truly atrocious code out there. However, a lot of it can be accounted for with the fact that the coder just didn't know any better. Most of the time it's some extremely complicated string parsing that could be easily fixed with a few regex's. However, I know a lot of coders who don't even know what regex is, and how much easier it makes your life. I don't know if we should put more blame on companies for hiring people without enough knowledge, or if it's just a problem with "Too much work, Too few good developers". When the choice is either don't get the work done, or get it done, but it might be sloppy, most places choose the latter.
That's one thing that makes VB.Net really nice. They have AND/ANDALSO and OR/ORELSE keywords when working with conditionals. Using AND/OR will evaluate both sides of the expression even when not necessary, and ANDALSO/ORELSE will do a short circuit when possible. It makes the code really clear what it's doing, and lets you do interesting things like "if myObj is Nothing OrElse myObj.objProperty Then". You don't have to remember what it's going to do, because the keyword makes it explicit what's going to happen.
Ok, maybe we don't need to go that far, but how about equipping offices with the cone of silence
That just goes to show that the lure of the Wii is not the price. MS and Sony think it's the price, but really it's not. If I just wanted any console, and was going to spend $600, I would buy a PS3. But obviously these people don't want just any console, they want a Wii. That's why they are willing to spend much more than retail. Just for the record, I bought my Wii last April. Got it at, EB, I walked in and they happened to have them in stock. I didn't really look that hard.
Why shouldn't the patient get $100,000 for that sponge left inside them. They (or their insurance company) possibly paid that much for the original operation. And now they patient will have to go into surgery again. Despite how "routine" and "minor" the surgery would be to remove the sponge or other object, there's still a substantial risk for death or further infection with the surgery. Plus they'll probably have to take some extra time off work, if they haven't already missed work from the infection stemming from just having left the sponge in there.
Couldn't the same be said about all the wind turbines we're setting up stopping/slowing the wind?
That's OK, in 20 years when we really need the power, there won't be any more fish in the sea, so there will be no fishing industry to complain.
None of what you said refutes the fact that .Net is a very productive environment. Sure you are tied to the IDE, and IIS, and Windows, etc. However, that is what has made everything so productive. I'm not saying that .Net is the best web development environment, although it's what I use for work. By abstracting everything away, you can get a whole lot of work done in a very small amount of time. However, most of the developers I see using .Net, including us at work, stay very far away from their abstraction-drag-and-drop-viewstate-i'm-programming-but-don't-know-what's-going-on-under-the-hood methodologies because it always seems to be limiting you in some way, and is great for small little quick crud apps, but really hurts when you need to do any kind of enterprise development.
You're right, you could use C. If only it somehow hooked into the webserver and had a library of functions that could be used to access different parts of the web request, and send HTML to the output stream. I imagine that it wouldn't be too difficult. Except that string manipulation is extremely cumbersome in C, so maybe that's why it's not too popular on the web, which seems to involve a lot of string processing.
I don't see how this is novel at all. It's the same as calling up the flourist and asking them to deliver flowers to somebody. Except that this is on the internet. Taking a normal everyday task, and attaching "On The Internet" to it should not make it patent worthy. The number of stupid patents that have been created since the internet came about is amazing. I mean, how could sending a gift to somebody be patentable in the first place.
You're right, I'm not a Rails developer. I haven't looked up composite keys. What I was doing in my post was responding to the parent, who thought that composite keys weren't supported, and his short-sighted, narrow minded view that you should never need to use composite keys. It's great to hear that Rails supports this, because it actually lets me take Rails seriously. I wasn't raising the issue, I was responding to other users to seem to think that composite keys is an unneeded feature.
Animal crossing is aware of whatever time you tell it, it is. Every time it starts up the game, it asks you if it has the right time, and lets you adjust it. Then it sets the game clock relative to the actual system clock. So if you set the game clock 3 days ahead, it will always be 3 days ahead of the system until you tell it differently. By writing down the time you last played, you can play once a week, and make it look like you never missed a day, as long as you set the time properly each time you start the game.
But do we really need to analyze network traffic to make randomness in a game? I can get sufficient randomness to create cryptographic keys such that nobody can guess them without analyzing network traffic. It would be cool to use the wifi information for increased randomness in cryptographic applications, but I simply can't see how that level of randomness is necessary for making a game non-repetative.
But you could do the same thing in PHP. The fact that most people don't doesn't really say anything bad about PHP, but just bad about people who generally use it. A lot of people who write PHP leave SQL injection problems. That doesn't mean that it can't be used properly. A lot of people use screwdrivers to stir paint, that doesn't mean that the screwdriver is a terrible tool. You can do unit testing, MVC, and encapsulation all that other recommended stuff in PHP. Just because most people don't, doesn't mean it's a bad tool. If you need a tool to hold your hand and force you to adhere to best practices, then you aren't a very good developer.