Really? You are a great person! But alot of open source developers are not like that, or not like that most of the time. Their motivations are a) to solve their own problems b) to solve interesting problems and perhaps c) interact in an interesting development community. I do some free/open source software and my motivations are some combination of those.
Quite so. But in fact there are *different groups* of OSS developers. Some quite earnestly do want to bring software to all users. Some others only write good things that they want. "Coincidentally" the number of highly productive developers doing the latter is more than the former. Another great thing about OSS is that it tends to be written BY the users. That is, just about any field will have some users who are also developers, who can start work on some software that can grow. They WILL have a good idea about what "users" want because they are users themselves.
Of course, the simplest thing to do is buy new fans that have close to the same cfm rating while having a lower dbA rating.
Do you really think that's possible? After looking around for a while, and buying a few, I came to the conclusion that besides really cheap models, most fans of the same size were similar in terms of noise. The solution is to go bigger and slower. It just so happens that many of the "silent" fans ship with a resistor:)
Slightly OT, but that Samsung page is a classic "what now" page for me. A large set of seemingly identical hard drives with no guide as to what I'd want, other than some vague marketing speak .
easytree.org? There doesn't seem to be any policy that you can't download pirated stuff. In fact it looks like the standard kind of "pretend best efforts" piracy site. Enlighten us then...
Just put + in front of it, and Google WILL search for COM.
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The die hard audiophiles insist that at a double blind test is not fair:) It's precisely like a religion - it's a belief that cannot be influenced by rationality.
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Stop spamming. If you at least wrote a new variation on your spam each time, it wouldn't appear so lame. But it's exactly the same as the last one of yours I saw.
Yes, it is spam when you post an unsolicited, unrelated commercial post into a discussion. The fact that the GP was also spamming with his signature doesn't excuse yours.
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80 million windows users? I think you might be out by a few factors...
Random thought, have you read Greg Bear? I like his stories cause he NEVER backs off from the big events. Exampes: The Forge of God, Anvil of Stars, Blood Music.
Not usually. OS memory is allocated in big blocks by the language runtime, so you can usually write far past the end of any particular variable's "correct" space without the OS detecting it.
Although the OS protects other PROCESSES against yours, it doesn't protect you against yourself. And that is the problem: someone can force your (insufficiently robust) code to overrun its buffers and then cause your code to do something else that wasn't intended.
Gaming platforms more powerful than gaming PCs? Where are these? Convenient, yes. Less hassle, yes. Cost effective, yes. But more powerful? You're dreaming. Even at release time consoles are less powerful than PCs of the same time - they have to be, they cost a small fraction. This is what still keeps me on a PC. I love seeing the latest and greatest graphics and the idea of being 2-5 years behind what is possible bugs the heck out of me.
I hate those as well (embedded trailers). Brilliant - now I can't resize the video to be able to see it properly. I don't *need* high res, just let me expand the window!
(Yes I know about finding the.mov in the source. Very tedious)
Representing all the features of modern layout is an extremely complex problem. Everything that tries is complicated - e.g. CSS. Word. RTF. Postscript.
You fail to understand the depth of his insight. What he means is that it should be SKINNED with chrome and leather textures. THEN it will be good.
(Ironically, Microsoft HAVE gone all stupid and made Office look like nothing else in their product family lately. But I guess if it can't change to 733tAnimeXSkin-o-the-day then it's still no good)
Ha, this is so true! I find Word fairly crash-free nowadays, but the formatting is still painful. My favourite one is when Word insists that styles MUST remain the same across a hard page break. You have to have a paragraph end before the page break otherwise it will insist on changing the paragraph before and after to the same style.
Perhaps there is a way around this, but the point is that it doesn't work like you'd expect.
Another example: the automatic numbering and bullet styling is a good idea, but frequently gets it wrong when you're trying to do multiple levels or indenting as well.
I found myself thinking "it must be possible to do better than this...".
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Really? You are a great person! But alot of open source developers are not like that, or not like that most of the time. Their motivations are a) to solve their own problems b) to solve interesting problems and perhaps c) interact in an interesting development community.
I do some free/open source software and my motivations are some combination of those.
Quite so. But in fact there are *different groups* of OSS developers. Some quite earnestly do want to bring software to all users. Some others only write good things that they want. "Coincidentally" the number of highly productive developers doing the latter is more than the former.
Another great thing about OSS is that it tends to be written BY the users. That is, just about any field will have some users who are also developers, who can start work on some software that can grow. They WILL have a good idea about what "users" want because they are users themselves.
Do you really think that's possible? After looking around for a while, and buying a few, I came to the conclusion that besides really cheap models, most fans of the same size were similar in terms of noise. The solution is to go bigger and slower. It just so happens that many of the "silent" fans ship with a resistor :)
Slightly OT, but that Samsung page is a classic "what now" page for me. A large set of seemingly identical hard drives with no guide as to what I'd want, other than some vague marketing speak .
easytree.org? There doesn't seem to be any policy that you can't download pirated stuff. In fact it looks like the standard kind of "pretend best efforts" piracy site.
Enlighten us then...
Just put + in front of it, and Google WILL search for COM.
The die hard audiophiles insist that at a double blind test is not fair :) It's precisely like a religion - it's a belief that cannot be influenced by rationality.
Stop spamming. If you at least wrote a new variation on your spam each time, it wouldn't appear so lame. But it's exactly the same as the last one of yours I saw.
Yes, it is spam when you post an unsolicited, unrelated commercial post into a discussion. The fact that the GP was also spamming with his signature doesn't excuse yours.
80 million windows users? I think you might be out by a few factors...
Random thought, have you read Greg Bear? I like his stories cause he NEVER backs off from the big events. Exampes: The Forge of God, Anvil of Stars, Blood Music.
Only happens on certain speed CPUs. It's timing sensitive. Happens to me a lot on my Athlon64 3200 at home, never at all on my laptop P4 1800
He did not say percentage.
on a standardised framework? .net. It's still C++.
I doubt more than a small fraction of code "in" xp or 2003 is
I see. That is impossible because that information is not stored on the net, generally (at least not in public view).
Not with decent quality. Where did you get that idea?
Not usually. OS memory is allocated in big blocks by the language runtime, so you can usually write far past the end of any particular variable's "correct" space without the OS detecting it.
Although the OS protects other PROCESSES against yours, it doesn't protect you against yourself. And that is the problem: someone can force your (insufficiently robust) code to overrun its buffers and then cause your code to do something else that wasn't intended.
You mean like the "NX" protection?
Data memory protection per area is probably one of the biggest parts OF a managed language.
Gaming platforms more powerful than gaming PCs? Where are these? Convenient, yes. Less hassle, yes. Cost effective, yes. But more powerful? You're dreaming. Even at release time consoles are less powerful than PCs of the same time - they have to be, they cost a small fraction.
This is what still keeps me on a PC. I love seeing the latest and greatest graphics and the idea of being 2-5 years behind what is possible bugs the heck out of me.
I hate those as well (embedded trailers). Brilliant - now I can't resize the video to be able to see it properly. I don't *need* high res, just let me expand the window!
.mov in the source. Very tedious)
(Yes I know about finding the
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IEXPLORE.EXE - Application Error ....
(Yes, really)
Representing all the features of modern layout is an extremely complex problem. Everything that tries is complicated - e.g. CSS. Word. RTF. Postscript.
You fail to understand the depth of his insight. What he means is that it should be SKINNED with chrome and leather textures. THEN it will be good.
(Ironically, Microsoft HAVE gone all stupid and made Office look like nothing else in their product family lately. But I guess if it can't change to 733tAnimeXSkin-o-the-day then it's still no good)
Ha, this is so true! I find Word fairly crash-free nowadays, but the formatting is still painful. My favourite one is when Word insists that styles MUST remain the same across a hard page break. You have to have a paragraph end before the page break otherwise it will insist on changing the paragraph before and after to the same style.
:/
Perhaps there is a way around this, but the point is that it doesn't work like you'd expect.
Another example: the automatic numbering and bullet styling is a good idea, but frequently gets it wrong when you're trying to do multiple levels or indenting as well.
I found myself thinking "it must be possible to do better than this...".
Dunno if OO is the answer though
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