... is probably an activity that a person carries out so often that it becomes detrimental to their physical and/or mental wellbeing and also they would find it very hard to stop the activity if they tried because of withdrawal symptoms. This could be drug taking, sexual addiction, extreme sports , lots of things really...
"a channel for black people, a channel for hispanic people, "
'course if there was a channel for white people can you imagine the amount of foaming at the mouth there'd be from the politically correct lobby. Yet the above are fiiiine. Its a funny old world.
Thats why they're not using it. If they'd thought up DAB it would be the best thing in the world, because they didn't they're not going to use it. So what if the standard DAB frequencies arn't available, DAB is a protocol not a frequency band. They could easily use it on another free block of frequencies elsewhere just as they did with the GSM phone protocol. But no, they have to push their own system. As usual.
"into consumer electronics so that developers and consumers can really get to work on a stable and long lasting platform"
Standardisation Software its not a problem , just create a console equivalent of OpenGL and stick to it instead of inventing a new API for each new gen console. I don't however see how you can standardise hardware if you want to keep making progress. You can't say "oh yes , we'll keep this memory/IO/bus model for the next 20 years" because next week something better will come along. Yes ok thats what happened with the PC but thats an entirely different market. Console markets rely on people tossing their old ones into the attic and buying a new one every few years with new capabilities and new games. Backwards compat is mainly irrelevant.
is so complex isn't it? Well , I suppose it is for "programmers" who write scripting languages for a living.
Couple of thoughts:
1) Phones run on batteries, the less work they have to do the longer the battery lasts.
2) Phone to base connections are not limitless in capacity. The less data = ie the less formatting-for-idiots type stuff such as HTML and XML - the better.
3) Speed is a factor. Parsing high level text formats takes time. For a few bytes of data this might not be a big deal , but for a lot of data it WILL matter.
I would suggest you go back to your desktop app coding or whatever it is you do and leave the network programming to those of us who have a clue.
"Withing a decade it is likely to go the way of Gopher."
People were saying something similar a decade ago except they said uucp instead of gopher.
"so I do not really see the need for those"
You might not , but a a few million people do.
"You never know who is posting,"
You think people would post to newsgroups if others could get hold of their real name? Bye bye any political posts from people under oppressive regimes them. Hello incarceration for them and spam for the rest of us.
You're a good example of the I-dont-use-it-so-it-has-no-use mentality.
And I don't just mean removing exploits , I mean completely redesigning its config files so its a lot easier to set up and be made secure by non-gurus. There could always be a compat mode with the old.cf file for people who don't want to change. I don't understand why the guys behind sendmail have never done this since I've never found anyone who liked the.cf file or the alternative of writing.m4 files and then converting them into.cf (yuck , what a kludge).
"high-level language of choice and have it compiled to JavaScript"
Sounds like a pretty ambitions brief given the limitations of javascript. Presumably you'd be very limited in what you can do in the other language , for example I doubt some C++ database code would be cross-compiled successfully! Is it meant just for people who only know VBscript or similar or have they really tried to make it work with serious non-scripting languages?
"We should be considering the performance of the engineered product (software or hardware) against the specified requirements."
Buildings are designed to withstand various out of the ordinary events. That doesn't mean they're fullproof. After all , no one expected a 767 to be flown into the world trade centre but I don't think you'd call the fact the building collapsed a design flaw.
Oh for gods sake, frequencies representation of what? Contrast, colour, toenails? I might just as well say "hey , I know , I'll make a frequency representation of this ball!"
No , I don't understand the process , but it might help if someone actually explained it. Guess I'll have to google.
>Ring a bell?
It would have to be a loud bell, I think I just fell asleep.
"A banddand is a range of frequencies you will find in an image"
Range of frequencies of what? Light? It can only go from red to violet and if you've got any white in the image that means (in theory) you'd have ALL the frequencies. Unless you meant frequencies of dogs appearing or something.. Or you're talking bollocks.
"We're worse at seeing disruptions in the high and low range of frequencies,"
"I don't think this is quite deranged and vitriolic enough to be a troll (and it doesn't have the neatness of the average cut-and-paste effort), so it must actually have been composed as a serious post. Scary."
How typically slashdot. Anyone who holds a different view from one of its adolescent posters is "deranged" , and "scary". Grow up.
"We say that non-free software is antisocial because it tramples the users' freedom,"
So in other words no one should charge for software no matter how much time and effort they've put into it because by some tortured logic he believes free software = free user. Err , yeah ok. Presumably he'd extend that logic to music, art , literature or any piece of human endeavour that required effort and he thinks people should share in. The man is just a tragically naive hippy which obviously no clue about human nature or how the world works away from his keyboard. IMO he should just STFU and get on with his coding which is all he's good at.
Isn't it about time this ageing whining hippy retired to a commune somewhere? He does nothing but complain about what companies do no matter what. What does he expect? Them to give everything away for free just because its part of Richard Stallmans ideology and Richard Stallman thinks he's God in the open source movement? How does he expect them to make a profit... oh wait, he's a communist anyway , profit is a Bad Thing.
Its time someone quietly took him aside , gave him a nice warm blanket and a mug of horlicks and stuck him in front of a Altair and let him get on with it. Meanwhile the rest of the world can get on with the business of dealing with reality.
"Her parents desperately fought to keep her alive, because she could make sounds, move her limbs, keep solid eye contact on someone"
So can an ant. It doesn't make them human. If the personality is gone and theres no sign of intellect all you have left is a base functioning brain.
"It was downright horrible and state approved MURDER."
In your opinion. Perhaps if you'd been her husband you might have a different opinion. You sanctamonious types are all mouth. I'd love to see one of have to see your wife be a vegetable for years or even decades and see if you still have your arrogant self righteous opinions then.
"Ths drug could have helped her have a normal life, but she did not live long enough to ever have the chance to try it!"
And many people in the middle ages died because they couldn't wait 500 years for anti biotics to be invented. So fscking what?
"you've never had to attach to system processes like IIS"
If something is running with admin priviledges I'd hope you *wouldn't* be able to debug it with normal user rights. However thats completely different to saying that you need special rights to use a debugger!
What is it with the adolescent moderators? Anyone who dares disagree slightly with the line taken by the article gets modded as a troll?? Wtf is going on here??! How excatly was I trolling you amateur hour moron moderator?
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... is probably an activity that a person carries out so often that it becomes
detrimental to their physical and/or mental wellbeing and also they would find
it very hard to stop the activity if they tried because of withdrawal symptoms.
This could be drug taking, sexual addiction, extreme sports , lots of things really...
"a channel for black people, a channel for hispanic people, "
'course if there was a channel for white people can you imagine the amount of foaming
at the mouth there'd be from the politically correct lobby. Yet the above are fiiiine. Its a
funny old world.
I'm surprised they're legal in the US, I'd have thought they'd have forseen these sorts
of problems. Its not rocket science.
Thats why they're not using it. If they'd thought up DAB it would be the best thing in the world, because
they didn't they're not going to use it. So what if the standard DAB frequencies arn't available, DAB is
a protocol not a frequency band. They could easily use it on another free block of frequencies elsewhere
just as they did with the GSM phone protocol. But no, they have to push their own system. As usual.
Hmm , if we'd tried that approach in the 80s then the SNES would still be
the cutting edge console.
"into consumer electronics so that developers and consumers can really get to work on a stable and long lasting platform"
Standardisation Software its not a problem , just create a console equivalent of OpenGL
and stick to it instead of inventing a new API for each new gen console. I don't
however see how you can standardise hardware if you want to keep making progress.
You can't say "oh yes , we'll keep this memory/IO/bus model for the next 20 years"
because next week something better will come along. Yes ok thats what happened with
the PC but thats an entirely different market. Console markets rely on people tossing
their old ones into the attic and buying a new one every few years with new capabilities
and new games. Backwards compat is mainly irrelevant.
"r custom formatting some UDP packet with a custom designed library and sending that?"
Yes , because doing something like:
data.some_info = htonl(info)
strcpy(data.more_info,mytext);
:
:
write(udp_socket,(char *)data,sizeof(mtruct mystruct))
is so complex isn't it? Well , I suppose it is for "programmers" who write scripting
languages for a living.
Couple of thoughts:
1) Phones run on batteries, the less work they have to do the longer the battery
lasts.
2) Phone to base connections are not limitless in capacity. The less data = ie
the less formatting-for-idiots type stuff such as HTML and XML - the better.
3) Speed is a factor. Parsing high level text formats takes time. For a few bytes
of data this might not be a big deal , but for a lot of data it WILL matter.
I would suggest you go back to your desktop app coding or whatever it is you do
and leave the network programming to those of us who have a clue.
"Withing a decade it is likely to go the way of Gopher."
People were saying something similar a decade ago except
they said uucp instead of gopher.
"so I do not really see the need for those"
You might not , but a a few million people do.
"You never know who is posting,"
You think people would post to newsgroups if others
could get hold of their real name? Bye bye any political
posts from people under oppressive regimes them. Hello
incarceration for them and spam for the rest of us.
You're a good example of the I-dont-use-it-so-it-has-no-use
mentality.
"Basically you write the device driver code in C"
I think that says it all.
"Well if you want to be technical about it, a JavaScript app can do anything an app in Java (or C++ or any other language) can do."
Care to give a URL that will point to some device driver code
written in Javascript?
And I don't just mean removing exploits , I mean completely .cf file for people who don't want .cf file or the alternative of writing .m4 files and then .cf (yuck , what a kludge).
redesigning its config files so its a lot easier to set up
and be made secure by non-gurus. There could always be a
compat mode with the old
to change. I don't understand why the guys behind sendmail
have never done this since I've never found anyone who liked
the
converting them into
"high-level language of choice and have it compiled to JavaScript"
Sounds like a pretty ambitions brief given the limitations
of javascript. Presumably you'd be very limited in what you
can do in the other language , for example I doubt some C++
database code would be cross-compiled successfully! Is it
meant just for people who only know VBscript or similar or
have they really tried to make it work with serious non-scripting
languages?
"We should be considering the performance of the engineered product (software or hardware) against the specified requirements."
Buildings are designed to withstand various out of the ordinary
events. That doesn't mean they're fullproof. After all , no one
expected a 767 to be flown into the world trade centre but
I don't think you'd call the fact the building collapsed
a design flaw.
>frequency representation
Oh for gods sake, frequencies representation of what? Contrast, colour,
toenails? I might just as well say "hey , I know , I'll make a frequency
representation of this ball!"
No , I don't understand the process , but it might help if someone
actually explained it. Guess I'll have to google.
>Ring a bell?
It would have to be a loud bell, I think I just fell asleep.
"A banddand is a range of frequencies you will find in an image"
Range of frequencies of what? Light? It can only go from
red to violet and if you've got any white in the image
that means (in theory) you'd have ALL the frequencies.
Unless you meant frequencies of dogs appearing or
something.. Or you're talking bollocks.
"We're worse at seeing disruptions in the high and low range of frequencies,"
Do you have a clue what you're on about?
Yo hangin wit da homeboys wen yooz write dem rhymes 'bout dem pics man?
Dude - nicely cut and pasted.
"I don't think this is quite deranged and vitriolic enough to be a troll (and it doesn't have the neatness of the average cut-and-paste effort), so it must actually have been composed as a serious post. Scary."
How typically slashdot. Anyone who holds a different view from one of its
adolescent posters is "deranged" , and "scary". Grow up.
You're right, its even worse:
"We say that non-free software is antisocial because it tramples the users' freedom,"
So in other words no one should charge for software no matter how much
time and effort they've put into it because by some tortured logic he
believes free software = free user. Err , yeah ok. Presumably he'd extend
that logic to music, art , literature or any piece of human endeavour
that required effort and he thinks people should share in. The man is just a
tragically naive hippy which obviously no clue about human nature or how
the world works away from his keyboard. IMO he should just STFU and
get on with his coding which is all he's good at.
Care to post a link to this supposed article Mr Coward or are you just
trying out some transparent BSing in the hope of getting me modded down?
Isn't it about time this ageing whining hippy retired to a commune
somewhere? He does nothing but complain about what companies do
no matter what. What does he expect? Them to give everything away for
free just because its part of Richard Stallmans ideology and Richard
Stallman thinks he's God in the open source movement? How does he expect
them to make a profit... oh wait, he's a communist anyway , profit is a Bad Thing.
Its time someone quietly took him aside , gave him a nice warm blanket
and a mug of horlicks and stuck him in front of a Altair and let him
get on with it. Meanwhile the rest of the world can get on with the business
of dealing with reality.
"Her parents desperately fought to keep her alive, because she could make sounds, move her limbs, keep solid eye contact on someone"
So can an ant. It doesn't make them human. If the personality is gone
and theres no sign of intellect all you have left is a base functioning
brain.
"It was downright horrible and state approved MURDER."
In your opinion. Perhaps if you'd been her husband you might have a
different opinion. You sanctamonious types are all mouth. I'd love to see
one of have to see your wife be a vegetable for years or even decades
and see if you still have your arrogant self righteous opinions then.
"Ths drug could have helped her have a normal life, but she did not live long enough to ever have the chance to try it!"
And many people in the middle ages died because they couldn't wait 500
years for anti biotics to be invented. So fscking what?
"you've never had to attach to system processes like IIS"
If something is running with admin priviledges I'd hope you *wouldn't*
be able to debug it with normal user rights. However thats completely
different to saying that you need special rights to use a debugger!
Bullshit. I've used the debugger in VC++ and never needed anything
of the sort.
What is it with the adolescent moderators? Anyone who dares disagree
slightly with the line taken by the article gets modded as a troll??
Wtf is going on here??! How excatly was I trolling you amateur hour
moron moderator?