The Ukraine has allready suffered from the music industry over zellous rights management.
I can't believe how blatent the corperate sponsership of the sennate is in the US. It seems to be accepted that if a sennitor (or president for that matter) has their campaign funded by a company or interest group then he will legistlate in their favour. It even seems like some companys hedge their bets and back both parites. This is supposed to be a democracy?
I thought the idea was to look out for the interests of the people who vote for you.
I have no dowbt that simmalar things happen everywhere but it is not quite as blatent.
The Fritz chip and related technologies do not help the little people at all. They only help content producers and M$.
However they can use those figures to get more games to the platform, and more sales
True. Unless a significant number of Xboxes are chipped, in which case publishers become more wairy of using xbox. Hence less titles, less sales and bigger loss.
Personaly I think that Xbox linux is a nice idea but it has taken the limelight from PS2 Linux which is provided and endorsed by sony. It is nice that Sony are happy to let you play with their hardware. OK so you have to shell out for a HDD but it is a hell of a lot cheeper than a PS2 dev kit.
If this were true then why does M$ insist on messing about with the UI every time there is an OS upgrade.
Win 3.1 was consistant (though V different from Win 3) 9x/NT were consistant but different, so we had to get used to a new UI and then XP is all different again. To my knowlege/bin is still in the same place it allways has been.
If you wrote a XUL app it would be the same accross all platforms so people will not get confused when you upgrade or change the backend.
Anyway if you really want I am sure there is a mozilla skin that makes it look like IE.
Personaly I think XUL has a lot of potential. I have only looked into it, but it is next on my list of skills to learn.
If it could rid the world of cobol it could be a good thing.
Unfortunaly all the cobol programers (well a lot of them) made a fortune out of Y2K and have hung up their coding hats.
The very little I know about cobol makes me think that it would probably work well with XML. But the very little I know about cobol makes me not want to go near it again EVER.
I used to be the same. I thought MP3s were fine. Then one day I got myself a decent stereo. CDs sounded wonderful on it. Thought i would try some MP3s and I couldn't beleive how bad they sounded in comparison. So if you have never listened to a decent HIFI then save yourself a fortune and don't buy one, stick to playing MP3s on your pc speakers.
Once you start down the HIFI path forever will it haunt your destiny.
Hmm, I do kind of agree with this sentiment.
For anyone working in the industry with any common sense it was not IF the bubble would burst it was WHEN. To my mind it happened much too late. A lot of Sheep/Investors got badly burned and are still staying away from tech stocks because of this.
'The new econimy' still has some merit, take a look at This story on the BBC. Internet company don't have to have many employees to have (potentially) millions of users. If you keep your overheads down and don't piss off the user base you can make money. Problem is people didn't they spent like mad employed far to many people, payed them far too much money, spend WAY too much on ineffective advertising & thought the money would keep coming.
There are some more fundamental issues to do with the current short sighted-Ness of the stock market but this isn't the place to go into them.
K I know the original post was either a moron or a troll but I cant see a little mistake and not correct it.
> assembly is the same language "spoken" by
>computers.
>Because of this, you may sometimes see assembly
>referred to as "machine code".
No. Machine code and Assembly language are different things. machine code is just bytes and is more or less impossible to program in.
Assembler uses aliases for machine instructions variables etc, so it is much easier to program in (than machine code).
>I would like to see the FSF release a GNU-based
>assembly compiler
Unless I am getting very old that would be called an Assembler. Compiling is a different process to Assembling.
Not sure if I would call assembler a superior language but if you are writing low level enough C and you know what you are doing it can speed things up (it can also mess things up big time if you don't know what you are doing).
Connecters are interesting enough (in a VERY strange way), but what I really find interesting are adapters. Especialy for something that you would think is standard like SCSIE. I bought a SCSIE slide scanner thinking it is OK I have a card and a spare cable but no, the back of the device had some strange connecters 2 completely different ones that were also different to the wire that I had. That makes 3 connecters for external SCSIE (that I know of). In the end I had to hunt round Tandy (US read Raidoshack) for an adapter which cost £20. Is there a conspiracy by the cable makers to put as many different types of connecter out there as they can so they can rake in the money selling adapters to unsuspecting Geeks??
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The Ukraine has allready suffered from the music industry over zellous rights management. I can't believe how blatent the corperate sponsership of the sennate is in the US. It seems to be accepted that if a sennitor (or president for that matter) has their campaign funded by a company or interest group then he will legistlate in their favour. It even seems like some companys hedge their bets and back both parites. This is supposed to be a democracy? I thought the idea was to look out for the interests of the people who vote for you. I have no dowbt that simmalar things happen everywhere but it is not quite as blatent. The Fritz chip and related technologies do not help the little people at all. They only help content producers and M$.
If this were true then why does M$ insist on messing about with the UI every time there is an OS upgrade. Win 3.1 was consistant (though V different from Win 3) 9x/NT were consistant but different, so we had to get used to a new UI and then XP is all different again. To my knowlege /bin is still in the same place it allways has been.
If you wrote a XUL app it would be the same accross all platforms so people will not get confused when you upgrade or change the backend.
Anyway if you really want I am sure there is a mozilla skin that makes it look like IE.
Personaly I think XUL has a lot of potential. I have only looked into it, but it is next on my list of skills to learn.
If it could rid the world of cobol it could be a good thing. Unfortunaly all the cobol programers (well a lot of them) made a fortune out of Y2K and have hung up their coding hats. The very little I know about cobol makes me think that it would probably work well with XML. But the very little I know about cobol makes me not want to go near it again EVER.
I used to be the same. I thought MP3s were fine. Then one day I got myself a decent stereo. CDs sounded wonderful on it. Thought i would try some MP3s and I couldn't beleive how bad they sounded in comparison.
So if you have never listened to a decent HIFI then save yourself a fortune and don't buy one, stick to playing MP3s on your pc speakers.
Once you start down the HIFI path forever will it haunt your destiny.
Hmm, I do kind of agree with this sentiment. For anyone working in the industry with any common sense it was not IF the bubble would burst it was WHEN. To my mind it happened much too late. A lot of Sheep/Investors got badly burned and are still staying away from tech stocks because of this. 'The new econimy' still has some merit, take a look at This story on the BBC. Internet company don't have to have many employees to have (potentially) millions of users. If you keep your overheads down and don't piss off the user base you can make money. Problem is people didn't they spent like mad employed far to many people, payed them far too much money, spend WAY too much on ineffective advertising & thought the money would keep coming. There are some more fundamental issues to do with the current short sighted-Ness of the stock market but this isn't the place to go into them.
K I know the original post was either a moron or a troll but I cant see a little mistake and not correct it. > assembly is the same language "spoken" by >computers. >Because of this, you may sometimes see assembly >referred to as "machine code". No. Machine code and Assembly language are different things. machine code is just bytes and is more or less impossible to program in. Assembler uses aliases for machine instructions variables etc, so it is much easier to program in (than machine code). >I would like to see the FSF release a GNU-based >assembly compiler Unless I am getting very old that would be called an Assembler. Compiling is a different process to Assembling. Not sure if I would call assembler a superior language but if you are writing low level enough C and you know what you are doing it can speed things up (it can also mess things up big time if you don't know what you are doing).
Connecters are interesting enough (in a VERY strange way), but what I really find interesting are adapters. Especialy for something that you would think is standard like SCSIE. I bought a SCSIE slide scanner thinking it is OK I have a card and a spare cable but no, the back of the device had some strange connecters 2 completely different ones that were also different to the wire that I had. That makes 3 connecters for external SCSIE (that I know of). In the end I had to hunt round Tandy (US read Raidoshack) for an adapter which cost £20. Is there a conspiracy by the cable makers to put as many different types of connecter out there as they can so they can rake in the money selling adapters to unsuspecting Geeks??