You didn't mention what platform you're building on, and you also didn't mention exactly what kind of analysis you want to perform.
If you're on Windows, the latest Visual Studio C/C++ compilers include a pretty good (but basic) code analysis tool built in. Just use the/analyze flag to cl.exe.
And I really think that's part of the appeal of Apple products. They're simplified to the point where they just basically work most of the time.
Exactly. And it's important to note that "simplified" actually means "consistent".
For example, every iPod with a screen has basically the same interface. The differences are extremely minor. If you've used an iPod photo, you can pick up an iPod mini and use it in no time, and ditto for the other way around.
Another example: all of Apple's products have a consistent look/feel. Gleaming porcelain white and silver, smooth surfaces with few bells or whistles, and very few parts to have to interconnect with messy wires. Granted, you can get iPods in different colors, but even those still follow the same general stylistic rules.
If there is ANY chance that you could be guilty, you don't stand a chance no matter how innocent you are.
And the blame for that should fall on the flawed U.S. court system. As much as the RIAA's actions are despicable, it sitll is just playing by the rules established by the law.
If you want to fix this, vote for candidates who agree that the U.S. judicial system needs to be changed to a "loser pays all" model, where no one has to pay out anything until the appeals process has been completely exhausted. That's the only approach that's fair to everyone.
Let me know when I can get a 60GB iPhone for the same price as a 60GB iPod, and use it with my existing Verizon Wireless voice-only subscription, and then I might be interested.
Why do this when Microsoft can just acquire Harvard, rename it "Microsoft Office Live University", and print off degress by the thousands using a niffty template and spell-checker?
Excellent! Another natural resource AND lifeform that we can pillage and destroy! And just when we were starting to lose hope and get bored.
Those damn sea creatures have had it too easy for far too long anyway, just lounging around and not doing anything useful for anyone. I say it's high time we round them all up and turn them into something productive!
Yet again, the bill does not appear to deliver on what most observers want: clear protection for making personal use copies of encrypted materials. There is no allowance for consumers to make backups of DVDs, to strip encryption from music purchased online so that it can be played anywhere, or to generally do any of the things that the DMCA has made illegal.
"We are the United States government -- we don't DO that sort of thing!"
Then I have no sympathy for whatever troubles you may endure as a result of changes to the broadcast rules.
In other words, beggars can't be choosers. If you're getting something for nothing, you have no right to complain about the quality of service you get. You don't even have the right to complain when the service goes offline entirely.
The first thing you say when somebody asks you what your idea is should be to describe who will buy it and why.
Note the phrase "who will buy it", because it's important.
A business can make a perfect product that people love because it overwhelmingly satisfies their needs, but if those people aren't willing to pay for it (or pay *enough* for it that the business can make some profit), then it doesn't matter and the business is screwed. Therefore it is not always in a business's best interest to bend over backward to please consumers at the expense of other factors. A product's quality will reach a "good enough" point, beyond which additional improvement just increases costs without making people willing to pay more for it.
You see great examples everywhere of major businesses consistently making this mistake. Look at Apple -- great PCs with strong user satisfaction, great image relative to Microsoft -- yet very few people are willing to pay the price Apple needs to ask to turn a profit per unit, so in the end it's not a very smart business strategy. Steve Jobs keeps making the stupid mistake of maximizing product quality over all else, when a smart business person understands that product quality is just one of many factors that must be balanced to maximize profits.
It's so easy to poke holes in how awful the industry's current strategy is... but I haven't heard anyone convincingly lay out a better strategy. It's truly harder to come up with a good original idea than to rip other people's ideas to shreds.
I will just say this: I think the industry's paranoid, DRM-pushing strategy is based on them hugely misinterpreting the data of recent years.
"Piracy is increasing!" "Our sales are declining!"
Flawed conclusion: Sales are declining due to increased piracy! Flawed course of action: Get more strict about stopping piracy!
Reality: Very few instances of piracy are lost sales; most people pirate just because they can, but if they couldn't, they sure as hell wouldn't go out and buy legitimate copies of everything they've pirated. People will pirate anything regardless of quality, but most people won't pay for content that sucks and just keeps getting worse. Also, you can't expect people to keep paying $18 for a pre-pressed audio CD when they know damn well it only costs $2 to make (since they can do it themselves at home on a PC and know what's involved).
Correct conclusion: Sales are declining due to decreasing value proposition (overpriced sucky content on increasingly cheap media). Correct course of action: Aggresively seek out (or create!) better content and promote it; stop promoting crap; drop price-per-unit.
"If the United States found itself under a major cyberattack aimed at undermining the nations critical information infrastructure, the Department of Defense is prepared, based on the authority of the president, to launch a cyber counterattack or an actual bombing of an attack source."
Don't e-mail spammers qualify under that vague definition?
As many as 17,000 people (according to police estimates) watched Senator Barack Obama officially announce his candidacy for President in Springfield, Illinois today.
Obama was quoted as saying: "NOBODY ROCKS LIKE... [quick glance at post-it note on back of guitar]... SPRINGFIELD!"
This is the new combined security and power-save model in Vista. Your PC can't get infected by spyware, no one can hack your home network, and you won't use any power, if the computer just burns the whole place to the ground.
I think it's in the Screen Saver settings someplace:
"[x] Enter Burn-House-to-Ground mode after [ 30 ] minutes of inactivity."
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You didn't mention what platform you're building on, and you also didn't mention exactly what kind of analysis you want to perform.
/analyze flag to cl.exe.
If you're on Windows, the latest Visual Studio C/C++ compilers include a pretty good (but basic) code analysis tool built in. Just use the
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnuke
This was the handiest thing for getting rid of idiots on chat.
Runner-up: ALT-F4 to close a window. Also handy for getting rid of idiots on chat:
Idiot: Hey, my computer is broken, how do I fix it?
Me: Well, first, hit ALT-F4
*** User 'Idiot' has left the room. ***
And I really think that's part of the appeal of Apple products. They're simplified to the point where they just basically work most of the time.
Exactly. And it's important to note that "simplified" actually means "consistent".
For example, every iPod with a screen has basically the same interface. The differences are extremely minor. If you've used an iPod photo, you can pick up an iPod mini and use it in no time, and ditto for the other way around.
Another example: all of Apple's products have a consistent look/feel. Gleaming porcelain white and silver, smooth surfaces with few bells or whistles, and very few parts to have to interconnect with messy wires. Granted, you can get iPods in different colors, but even those still follow the same general stylistic rules.
"Applicants' submissions enjoy a presumption of patentability"
And that's different from the normal process somehow?
I still don't quite understand why people would rush to get Vista. [...] Right now it doesn't even know which end to poop from.
On Slashdot, you poop on Vista.
In Soviet Russia, Vista poops on you!
If there is ANY chance that you could be guilty, you don't stand a chance no matter how innocent you are.
And the blame for that should fall on the flawed U.S. court system. As much as the RIAA's actions are despicable, it sitll is just playing by the rules established by the law.
If you want to fix this, vote for candidates who agree that the U.S. judicial system needs to be changed to a "loser pays all" model, where no one has to pay out anything until the appeals process has been completely exhausted. That's the only approach that's fair to everyone.
Let me know when I can get a 60GB iPhone for the same price as a 60GB iPod, and use it with my existing Verizon Wireless voice-only subscription, and then I might be interested.
So Slashdot is actually capable of having an objective discussion about the merits of MS Office versus OpenOffice. I'm amazed.
So then why is it that Slashdot is incapable of having an objective discussion about the merits of MS Windows versus Linux?
Why do this when Microsoft can just acquire Harvard, rename it "Microsoft Office Live University", and print off degress by the thousands using a niffty template and spell-checker?
NASA will likely shut down its Institute for Advanced Concepts,
to be replaced by the new George W. Bush Institute for Simplistic Concepts.
the model shows that everyone looses if the IPs get their way
If the IPs get their way, trust me, you'll be loose.
Excellent! Another natural resource AND lifeform that we can pillage and destroy! And just when we were starting to lose hope and get bored.
Those damn sea creatures have had it too easy for far too long anyway, just lounging around and not doing anything useful for anyone. I say it's high time we round them all up and turn them into something productive!
Everyone is speaking Swedish -- who can understand THAT anyway?
Chefs?
Yet again, the bill does not appear to deliver on what most observers want: clear protection for making personal use copies of encrypted materials. There is no allowance for consumers to make backups of DVDs, to strip encryption from music purchased online so that it can be played anywhere, or to generally do any of the things that the DMCA has made illegal.
"We are the United States government -- we don't DO that sort of thing!"
Then I have no sympathy for whatever troubles you may endure as a result of changes to the broadcast rules.
In other words, beggars can't be choosers. If you're getting something for nothing, you have no right to complain about the quality of service you get. You don't even have the right to complain when the service goes offline entirely.
I don't know anyone who relies on over-the-air broadcast for their television. Everyone I know with a television has either cable or satellite.
It's cheap enough these days, and far superior, so why would anyone still need to rely on over-the-air anyway?
The first thing you say when somebody asks you what your idea is should be to describe who will buy it and why.
Note the phrase "who will buy it", because it's important.
A business can make a perfect product that people love because it overwhelmingly satisfies their needs, but if those people aren't willing to pay for it (or pay *enough* for it that the business can make some profit), then it doesn't matter and the business is screwed. Therefore it is not always in a business's best interest to bend over backward to please consumers at the expense of other factors. A product's quality will reach a "good enough" point, beyond which additional improvement just increases costs without making people willing to pay more for it.
You see great examples everywhere of major businesses consistently making this mistake. Look at Apple -- great PCs with strong user satisfaction, great image relative to Microsoft -- yet very few people are willing to pay the price Apple needs to ask to turn a profit per unit, so in the end it's not a very smart business strategy. Steve Jobs keeps making the stupid mistake of maximizing product quality over all else, when a smart business person understands that product quality is just one of many factors that must be balanced to maximize profits.
It's so easy to poke holes in how awful the industry's current strategy is... but I haven't heard anyone convincingly lay out a better strategy. It's truly harder to come up with a good original idea than to rip other people's ideas to shreds.
I will just say this: I think the industry's paranoid, DRM-pushing strategy is based on them hugely misinterpreting the data of recent years.
"Piracy is increasing!"
"Our sales are declining!"
Flawed conclusion: Sales are declining due to increased piracy!
Flawed course of action: Get more strict about stopping piracy!
Reality: Very few instances of piracy are lost sales; most people pirate just because they can, but if they couldn't, they sure as hell wouldn't go out and buy legitimate copies of everything they've pirated. People will pirate anything regardless of quality, but most people won't pay for content that sucks and just keeps getting worse. Also, you can't expect people to keep paying $18 for a pre-pressed audio CD when they know damn well it only costs $2 to make (since they can do it themselves at home on a PC and know what's involved).
Correct conclusion: Sales are declining due to decreasing value proposition (overpriced sucky content on increasingly cheap media).
Correct course of action: Aggresively seek out (or create!) better content and promote it; stop promoting crap; drop price-per-unit.
I hope no one here will forget about the 2nd law of thermodynamics...
"Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife"? I hardly see how that's relevant.
Just because something hasn't been reported on slashdot doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Well, shit. There goes my proof for the non-existence of God.
"If the United States found itself under a major cyberattack aimed at undermining the nations critical information infrastructure, the Department of Defense is prepared, based on the authority of the president, to launch a cyber counterattack or an actual bombing of an attack source."
Don't e-mail spammers qualify under that vague definition?
(I hope beyond hope that the answer is "yes".)
As many as 17,000 people (according to police estimates) watched Senator Barack Obama officially announce his candidacy for President in Springfield, Illinois today.
Obama was quoted as saying:
"NOBODY ROCKS LIKE... [quick glance at post-it note on back of guitar]... SPRINGFIELD!"
I should patent "a method for blindly validating incomprehensible complex written proposals without merit" and then sue the patent office.
"Well, this is your problem right here -- this thing's set to EVIL!"
This is the new combined security and power-save model in Vista. Your PC can't get infected by spyware, no one can hack your home network, and you won't use any power, if the computer just burns the whole place to the ground.
I think it's in the Screen Saver settings someplace:
"[x] Enter Burn-House-to-Ground mode after [ 30 ] minutes of inactivity."