But making you aware of the game's existence is a big part of the marketer's job. If they can do that with some positive vibe and a bit of detail to whet your appetite, that's 50% of the job done.
If you read the post, then it turns out they ALWAYS save passwords in plain text to disk. It's just that they "try really hard" to remove them as quickly as possible. Well, that's how I read it.
With a great design like that, seems like critical bugs are just waiting to fall out.
Most laptop owners don't sit in a proverbial flower field and run their laptops. But lots of people do sit on planes or trains for 8 or more hours. I don't know about US domestic flights but on international, I have only occasionally been able to connect my laptop power so far... and the second time it would constantly overload and cut out.
Wouldn't you expect that a "GTO" edition of a card is better than the plain-jane version?
Recently I upgrade my card. If it wasn't for Tom's Video Card charts and some more reviews to round that out, it would have been impossible to tell which cards were better than which - let alone which is the best value.
I really think the numbering and naming schemes do the companies a disservice.
Hi 99, Just to let you know that your posts on Slashdot have made me think about this and realise what a disgusting situation it is. Not that I ever thought that rape jokes were funny, but you've changed me from neutral to opposed...
Well I didn't say that very clearly, but anyway, well done.
Interesting. Germany was one of the hold-outs still using OS/2 more than many other places. So it's perhaps not surprising that German IBMers still harbour a stronger urge to avoid Windows than other parts of IBM.
Yes, that's pretty crap. Obviously because they have no tweeters in it! Hard to believe anyone has the nerve to advertise speakers as "hifi" without tweeters...
The woofer is also kind of small, only 5".
So all in all this "hifi" speaker is about the same quality as a cheap and cheerful set of PC speakers with a small sub. Groovy...
Geez, they don't price like "entry-level". In comparison to what? I'm sure there are even more fancy electronics design systems, but calling Protel entry level seems a little excessive. Middle of the range perhaps...
MusicGiants must really do a lot of business, what with their download page:
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Actually I believe there is no incentive for manufacturers to standardise wall-warts/connectors, because currently they sell lots of highly profitable plugpacks as accessories - one for every device! It's a license to print money compared to just selling the consumer one plugpack.
It's the current that kills you not the voltage Pardon me, but saying something like this just makes you sound ignorant. It's not like you can a current "by itself". It's directly related to voltage. The higher the voltage, the more current will flow through a given resistance. So, arguing which one of the two kills you is like saying that the speed of a car hitting you doesn't matter, it's the weight.
Yeap, runs well in VPC - Innotek even developed the official OS/2 client support so it has a good accelerated video driver and mouse integration. I think Microsoft still support it!
I do my little bits of OS/2 development in VPC now.
It's not that average decent people (or police) change their minds and become spying power hungry scum. It's that the ones who already have those tendencies gravitate towards positions of power. In times of crisis, these people see their opportunity and push. A bit more power for me, a bit less for you. And that makes it easier for those power seekers to get together.
Where does it end up? History shows some examples.
Your comment about source code is very true, and highly relevant to sustainability. However;
Microsoft have been selling CE for some time now and show no sign of throwing it out. Embedded NT/2000/XP have been parallel offerings for those who are willing to have a much bigger system - only marginally "embedded", really just a customised desktop build.
They do release new versions of CE and mostly forget about the old one, but the new ones are pretty much straight supersets of the old, with quibbles. Since with their platform builder you have lots of the source and the ability to keep on customising things yourself, it's not so hard.
Since you're not likely to see many favourable comments about Windows CE on here, I'll chuck in some.
Windows CE is actually fairly cheap now if you go for the basic version - that is kernal-level only, no GUI or desktop - only about $3 per unit. Sure in cost sensitive cases that could still be an issue but for most specialist apps it's not significant.
You do have to buy Platform Builder for around US$700, but that's one off. And you can get a free 30-day eval to see if you like it.
WinCE is basically really good for one particular thing: existing Windows developers. The Win32 API is there,.NET in "compact" form, the tools are similar or the same, and with a little bit of effort you can have code that works on both desktop and CE.
Especially if you have existing code that works on Windows, and uses Win32 to some extent - things like COM - then WinCE is going to be a lot easier to port too.
You also get a few apps that Microsoft support - such as SQLServer CE (really just a one-thread engine, nothing like the full thing) and if you go for the fuller version, PocketOffice and a desktop. Those may be entirely useless, or not.
On the downside however, you may be making compromises for that convenience.
Who knows when Microsoft will raise the cost? I can't believe they make any money at $3 per license, so I half-expect them to raise it back to former levels around $15-20 IIRC in a few years. Or else just stop making it at that basic level.
You're still stuck on Windows. You can see it instead as an opportunity to go multi-platform, and open yourself up to Linux, OSX and whatever else.
There are some limitations of WinCE compared to other embedded operating systems. They haven't been realtime for very long, although it's been getting better. They *require* Unicode for the API - no more codepages and ASCII (except for the C runtime).
You don't get all the code. If you want to really get into the nitty gritty of tuning the OS this will likely be a deal breaker. It also means you won't have the option of supporting it if later MS stop supporting it. That said, embedded hardware tends to stay the same for a long time and you do get quite a lot of CE source these days.
That's some of the things that have gone through my head. We are using WinCE for now, because we have a desktop Win32 app and at the price Linux isn't compelling.
TO be fair, nearly everyone in the middle of the 20th century assumed AI was going to be a solved problem fairly soon. It's only after decades of struggling to get even voice recognition working, that we can clearly see that it's an incredibly hard problem that may never be solved.
Isn't technology terrible? Doing with a few programmers what previously employed thousands of people. Someone should stop this!! What about the children of those poor out-of-work newspaper employees? Won't someone think of the children? WEB SITES MUST BE STOPPED!!!
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But making you aware of the game's existence is a big part of the marketer's job. If they can do that with some positive vibe and a bit of detail to whet your appetite, that's 50% of the job done.
If you read the post, then it turns out they ALWAYS save passwords in plain text to disk. It's just that they "try really hard" to remove them as quickly as possible. Well, that's how I read it.
With a great design like that, seems like critical bugs are just waiting to fall out.
Most laptop owners don't sit in a proverbial flower field and run their laptops. ... and the second time it would constantly overload and cut out.
But lots of people do sit on planes or trains for 8 or more hours. I don't know about US domestic flights but on international, I have only occasionally been able to connect my laptop power so far
Wouldn't you expect that a "GTO" edition of a card is better than the plain-jane version?
Recently I upgrade my card. If it wasn't for Tom's Video Card charts and some more reviews to round that out, it would have been impossible to tell which cards were better than which - let alone which is the best value.
I really think the numbering and naming schemes do the companies a disservice.
Did you play Serious Sam? If not, go buy it. That is that style of gameplay.
Hi 99,
Just to let you know that your posts on Slashdot have made me think about this and realise what a disgusting situation it is. Not that I ever thought that rape jokes were funny, but you've changed me from neutral to opposed...
Well I didn't say that very clearly, but anyway, well done.
Interesting. Germany was one of the hold-outs still using OS/2 more than many other places. So it's perhaps not surprising that German IBMers still harbour a stronger urge to avoid Windows than other parts of IBM.
Yes, that's pretty crap. Obviously because they have no tweeters in it! Hard to believe anyone has the nerve to advertise speakers as "hifi" without tweeters ...
The woofer is also kind of small, only 5".
So all in all this "hifi" speaker is about the same quality as a cheap and cheerful set of PC speakers with a small sub. Groovy...
Has anyone even made a robot that can build a replica of itself, by itself?
Well, Protel is a crappy entry-level package
Geez, they don't price like "entry-level". In comparison to what?
I'm sure there are even more fancy electronics design systems, but calling Protel entry level seems a little excessive. Middle of the range perhaps...
MusicGiants must really do a lot of business, what with their download page:
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Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Source Error:
An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.
Stack Trace:
[NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.]
MusicGiants.download.imDownload_Click(Object sender, ImageClickEventArgs e)
System.Web.UI.ImageClickEventHandler.Invoke(Objec
System.Web.UI.WebControls.ImageButton.OnClick(Ima
System.Web.UI.WebControls.ImageButton.System.Web.
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Spaceships mostly run on hydrogen
I thought most spaceships run on kerosene and (liquid) oxygen. Unless "space shuttle main engines" are most spaceships.
Actually I believe there is no incentive for manufacturers to standardise wall-warts/connectors, because currently they sell lots of highly profitable plugpacks as accessories - one for every device! It's a license to print money compared to just selling the consumer one plugpack.
It's the current that kills you not the voltage
Pardon me, but saying something like this just makes you sound ignorant.
It's not like you can a current "by itself". It's directly related to voltage. The higher the voltage, the more current will flow through a given resistance. So, arguing which one of the two kills you is like saying that the speed of a car hitting you doesn't matter, it's the weight.
Yeap, runs well in VPC - Innotek even developed the official OS/2 client support so it has a good accelerated video driver and mouse integration. I think Microsoft still support it!
I do my little bits of OS/2 development in VPC now.
It's not that average decent people (or police) change their minds and become spying power hungry scum. It's that the ones who already have those tendencies gravitate towards positions of power. In times of crisis, these people see their opportunity and push. A bit more power for me, a bit less for you. And that makes it easier for those power seekers to get together.
Where does it end up? History shows some examples.
Yeah, those old versions of browsers are really painful.
Yep. Office 2000. Interestingly I *don't* have any inter-operability problems with others using XP or 2003.
Only you can purchase music in the same player you are listening to the music in - a step closer to the consumer.
Or a step further away if you don't have iTunes. A rather large step, at that - 20MB or so.
Your comment about source code is very true, and highly relevant to sustainability. However;
Microsoft have been selling CE for some time now and show no sign of throwing it out. Embedded NT/2000/XP have been parallel offerings for those who are willing to have a much bigger system - only marginally "embedded", really just a customised desktop build.
They do release new versions of CE and mostly forget about the old one, but the new ones are pretty much straight supersets of the old, with quibbles. Since with their platform builder you have lots of the source and the ability to keep on customising things yourself, it's not so hard.
Since you're not likely to see many favourable comments about Windows CE on here, I'll chuck in some.
.NET in "compact" form, the tools are similar or the same, and with a little bit of effort you can have code that works on both desktop and CE.
Windows CE is actually fairly cheap now if you go for the basic version - that is kernal-level only, no GUI or desktop - only about $3 per unit. Sure in cost sensitive cases that could still be an issue but for most specialist apps it's not significant.
You do have to buy Platform Builder for around US$700, but that's one off. And you can get a free 30-day eval to see if you like it.
WinCE is basically really good for one particular thing: existing Windows developers. The Win32 API is there,
Especially if you have existing code that works on Windows, and uses Win32 to some extent - things like COM - then WinCE is going to be a lot easier to port too.
You also get a few apps that Microsoft support - such as SQLServer CE (really just a one-thread engine, nothing like the full thing) and if you go for the fuller version, PocketOffice and a desktop. Those may be entirely useless, or not.
On the downside however, you may be making compromises for that convenience.
Who knows when Microsoft will raise the cost? I can't believe they make any money at $3 per license, so I half-expect them to raise it back to former levels around $15-20 IIRC in a few years. Or else just stop making it at that basic level.
You're still stuck on Windows. You can see it instead as an opportunity to go multi-platform, and open yourself up to Linux, OSX and whatever else.
There are some limitations of WinCE compared to other embedded operating systems. They haven't been realtime for very long, although it's been getting better. They *require* Unicode for the API - no more codepages and ASCII (except for the C runtime).
You don't get all the code. If you want to really get into the nitty gritty of tuning the OS this will likely be a deal breaker. It also means you won't have the option of supporting it if later MS stop supporting it. That said, embedded hardware tends to stay the same for a long time and you do get quite a lot of CE source these days.
That's some of the things that have gone through my head. We are using WinCE for now, because we have a desktop Win32 app and at the price Linux isn't compelling.
TO be fair, nearly everyone in the middle of the 20th century assumed AI was going to be a solved problem fairly soon. It's only after decades of struggling to get even voice recognition working, that we can clearly see that it's an incredibly hard problem that may never be solved.
True, except that pull-downs have a rep for developing waves due to sagging. it's not usually objectionable but it does degrade the picture a bit.
This is a Mozilla enhancement.4 2
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You'll have to manually copy the URL since Bugzilla disables Slashdot links.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1016
Go vote for it
Isn't technology terrible? Doing with a few programmers what previously employed thousands of people. Someone should stop this!! What about the children of those poor out-of-work newspaper employees? Won't someone think of the children? WEB SITES MUST BE STOPPED!!!