With such a long impressive list of credentials, surely you must know that getting hardware manufacturers to release the specs needed to support their hardware is about as fun as a trip to the dentist.
Do you realize that there are very few circumstances that you are REQUIRED to give anyone your SSN? Two that spring to mind are your employer and your bank for tax purposes. You are free to tell the utility companies, your university, and pretty much everyone else that asks for it to piss off. If they don't make alternative accomodations for you, they are in violation of federal law. SSNs were never meant to be a means of general purpose identification.
I'm not sure how it is where you live, but the La state court identifies defendants based on name and birthdate. It seems to work fine for them.
Should I feel sorry for all of those poor people that decided using peoples SSN as a primary key in their databases? I don't. Every second year CS student learns that it's not a good choice.
He tells the programmers they need to break the FM lock on record labels and band managers. "Get to know them," he says. "Get the guy some free tickets to the circus for his kids. Or get him some blow."
That's a good way to get nailed by the FCC. Assuming the programmer gets to know the guy, and he does the programmer a similar favor, they've just engaged in a practice known as "payola." The FCC isn't too keen on it.
???? You're handcrafted code is nearly identical to the generated code. Both sample contain the same lines of FUNCTIONAL code. Compilers could care less about nonessential whitespace when they generate a binary.
Surely you're a troll. No one remotely familiar with programming could be that stupid.
It seems we have different definitions for "push" technology. Netscape beat you to this business model 5 years ago with Netcaster. I believe this is what the parent post was referring to. "Subscription based email delivery services" (A mailing list I have to pay to get on?) seem to be a lower tech version of Netcaster.
"So, when I publish an article on my website, if you're a subscriber, the article will be dropped directly into your inbox. Bam... value via delivery, not content. Sometimes, the article will arrive to the subscriber's email prior to being published on the site."
Your magazine analogy is totally flawed as well. I'm pretty sure Doctor Dobb's Journal would agree that their value is in their content and not their delivery means. If you disagree, try scanning the latest issue and distributing it yourself. It shouldn't take too long for their attack lawyers to show up at your front door.
You must be referring to a different OS X than the one sold by Apple. Apple's OS X runs on a hybrid Mach/BSD kernel and is a Unix that can trace its ancestors all the way back to V7. The Windows NT line was inspired by Digital's VMS. The answer to your question is no.
You should really do some research before you try to sound smart. Might I suggest:
The #1 reason Linux hasn't captured the desktop market from MS is that MS products are still too easy to steal. I guarantee you when MS finally gets that issue solved, home users will be switching in droves. Very few home users are willing to lay out the cash required for XP + Office + Photoshop + whatever other unlicensed software that is on their drives.
M: This XYZ product sounds very interesting. I'm a little busy at the moment though. Could I get your home number so I can call you back later to talk about it?
T: We can't give that information out sir.
M: Is it because you don't like being called at home by complete strangers?
Wouldn't keeping a static binary of your utility on removable media be easier? Why bring the files to the utility when you can bring the utility to the files?
The Macintosh is a movement; a movement centered around the idea that computers should be easy for EVERYONE to use. Part of that ease of use comes from consistency. Woe to the developer that ignores the Apple Human Interface Guidelines. Unless the product is developed by the mothership (Apple), users will avoid it like the plague.
I believe the biggest problem for GNUStep is that few people use Objective C. That is a big speedbump to people adapting their legacy code.
Not really. Objective-C is a superset of C, so C code is not a problem. You can also instantiate and use C++ objects from Objective-C, so C++ code is not a problem. As a matter of fact, you can instantiate and use Java objects in Objective-C code. Anyone who's familar with Java or C++ should be able to pick up Objective-C in an afternoon.
If you can break out F1 engines, I trump you w/ top fuel dragsters as the representitives for large displacement motors. 7-8k horsepower. 4 second 1/4 miles. Thanks.. Please play again.
I believe they ARE weighted by $$$. A good friend of mine, who must remain unnamed because I don't know about the terms of his NDA, told me last August about marketing at his company bidding for placement on Google.
As a resident of one of the states mentioned above I'm semi-screwed. Both of my senators are Democrats. What I did do was post a nice piece explaining the situation in plain english with hyperlinks to the Foxnews story, Wired story, and the bills contents to a messageboard on the regions largest ISP. I intend to write the editors of area newspapers tomorrow. As a former TV station employee, I know who to get ahold of in that business, so I might just give them a call and see if they're interested in running a piece on the subject. I'm pretty sure local stations would be pretty pissed if they put 2+2 together and realized if video on demand takes off they're going to be out of the loop even more than cable has already made them.
I've been coding for "whatever Apple calls NeXTStep now" for the last couple of years, and I've yet to find the network transparent windowing system you claim it contains. I used to work with BeOS, and I didn't see it there either. The closest I got to "remoting" apps on either system was running an X server. Perhaps you would like to provide some links to back up your claims rather than use this as an opportunity to MS bash?
How about using a few of those 64 general purpose/floating point registers first instead of making so many trips to memory? I am by no means a PPC asm guru, but I managed to make about half as many trips to RAM in a Short to Float conversion function.
I am a master control operator, the bastard that inserts commercials into your favorite shows, for KTVE and KARD the local NBC and Fox affiliates respectively.
There is a minute amount of black space between commercials. At my station we pad spots by 3 frames on each end, for a total of 6 frames between two spots. NTSC broadcast video runs at a rate of 30 frames per second, so that yields about 1/5 of a second between commercials. BTW, we do crossfade on every transition.
Slightly offtopic:
Many people seem to operate under the assumption that the media business rakes in money had over foot. This simply is not true. We own two of the four television stations in a decent market(140's) . We operate both stations from the same facilities using the same staff and most of the same equipment and are barely staying afloat. The next time you think about bitching about the # of commercials in your favorite show, consider the alternative, not seeing your favorite show at all.
Isn't this exactly what Microsoft is trying to achieve with the CLR in dotNET? Write objects in any language, and call them transparently from any other language. I know ActiveState has ported PERL and Python. I'm not sure if anyone has done PHP.
Before you call the post clueless, you should take the time to read it. I didn't see the journaling capabalities touted anywhere. What I saw being touted was the fact that it stores metadata with the files. This is a very impressive feature of Be's fs.
No I'm not a Be lover. I gave up developing for their platform a couple of years ago. I do like their tech though.
I've been using personal computers for eighteen years, and believe your story of this history of computing is wrong. The IBM PC was designed to be an open system. IBM used off the shelf components, which was a very was a very non-IBM sort of thing to do. The only thing they were secretive about was the machines BIOS, a concept that had been used by Kildall's CP/M. To quote Fire in the Valley, "Because Estridge (of IBM) owned an Apple II, he had leaned toward an open architecture at the outset. With Gate's encouragement, IBM defied its tradition of secret design specifications and turned its first personal computer into an open system." IBM did in fact go after the first clone maker, Compaq, for reverse engineering the IBM PC's BIOS. They lost because Compaq had done their homework and had come up with a cleanroom copy of the BIOS. The only reason MS became the giant it is today is the fact that IBM was selling PC-DOS for $49 a copy and CP/M for $249 a copy. That and a STUPID mistake by IBM, letting MS license DOS to people other than IBM. Microsoft's software wasn't any cheaper than anyone one elses. Some of their products were cheaper, and some were more expensive. Most were inferior products. Please tell me what gave you this idea.
I've used Netscape (pronounced Mozilla) since the initial release, and I don't EVER remember them charging people for personal use. They charged companies, but not the "downloading public". The reason people moved away from NS is the fact that IE surpassed it in technical merit.
If you'd like to know the true history of the Personal Computer, rather than relying on information you heard from a friend, or a friend of a friend, pick up a copy of Fire in the Valley
You state that Microsoft's grass is greener. Microsoft didn't grow greener grass; they torched all of the other sheep rancher's fields.
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Altavista had this at one point.
Do you realize that there are very few circumstances that you are REQUIRED to give anyone your SSN? Two that spring to mind are your employer and your bank for tax purposes. You are free to tell the utility companies, your university, and pretty much everyone else that asks for it to piss off. If they don't make alternative accomodations for you, they are in violation of federal law. SSNs were never meant to be a means of general purpose identification.
I'm not sure how it is where you live, but the La state court identifies defendants based on name and birthdate. It seems to work fine for them.
Should I feel sorry for all of those poor people that decided using peoples SSN as a primary key in their databases? I don't. Every second year CS student learns that it's not a good choice.
????
You're handcrafted code is nearly identical to the generated code. Both sample contain the same lines of FUNCTIONAL code. Compilers could care less about nonessential whitespace when they generate a binary.
Surely you're a troll. No one remotely familiar with programming could be that stupid.
It seems we have different definitions for "push" technology. Netscape beat you to this business model 5 years ago with Netcaster. I believe this is what the parent post was referring to. "Subscription based email delivery services" (A mailing list I have to pay to get on?) seem to be a lower tech version of Netcaster.
You did.
"So, when I publish an article on my website, if you're a subscriber, the article will be dropped directly into your inbox. Bam... value via delivery, not content. Sometimes, the article will arrive to the subscriber's email prior to being published on the site."
Your magazine analogy is totally flawed as well. I'm pretty sure Doctor Dobb's Journal would agree that their value is in their content and not their delivery means. If you disagree, try scanning the latest issue and distributing it yourself. It shouldn't take too long for their attack lawyers to show up at your front door.
You must be referring to a different OS X than the one sold by Apple. Apple's OS X runs on a hybrid Mach/BSD kernel and is a Unix that can trace its ancestors all the way back to V7. The Windows NT line was inspired by Digital's VMS. The answer to your question is no.
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You should really do some research before you try to sound smart. Might I suggest:
http://www.levenez.com/unix/
http://www.bell-l
http://www.winntmag.com/Art
The #1 reason Linux hasn't captured the desktop market from MS is that MS products are still too easy to steal. I guarantee you when MS finally gets that issue solved, home users will be switching in droves. Very few home users are willing to lay out the cash required for XP + Office + Photoshop + whatever other unlicensed software that is on their drives.
T: Hello, is Mr. Foo in?
M: You're speaking w/ him
T: I'd like to tell you about our XYZ product...
M: This XYZ product sounds very interesting.
I'm a little busy at the moment though. Could I get your home number so I can call you back later to talk about it?
T: We can't give that information out sir.
M: Is it because you don't like being called at home by complete strangers?
T: *silence*
M: (click)
Wouldn't keeping a static binary of your utility on removable media be easier? Why bring the files to the utility when you can bring the utility to the files?
The Macintosh is a movement; a movement centered around the idea that computers should be easy for EVERYONE to use. Part of that ease of use comes from consistency. Woe to the developer that ignores the Apple Human Interface Guidelines. Unless the product is developed by the mothership (Apple), users will avoid it like the plague.
Is that the same Denmark that Lars Ulrich is from? Oh sweet irony.
If you can break out F1 engines, I trump you w/ top fuel dragsters as the representitives for large displacement motors. 7-8k horsepower. 4 second 1/4 miles. Thanks.. Please play again.
I believe they ARE weighted by $$$. A good friend of mine, who must remain unnamed because I don't know about the terms of his NDA, told me last August about marketing at his company bidding for placement on Google.
As a resident of one of the states mentioned above I'm semi-screwed. Both of my senators are Democrats. What I did do was post a nice piece explaining the situation in plain english with hyperlinks to the Foxnews story, Wired story, and the bills contents to a messageboard on the regions largest ISP. I intend to write the editors of area newspapers tomorrow. As a former TV station employee, I know who to get ahold of in that business, so I might just give them a call and see if they're interested in running a piece on the subject. I'm pretty sure local stations would be pretty pissed if they put 2+2 together and realized if video on demand takes off they're going to be out of the loop even more than cable has already made them.
The X Windowing System has no concept of widgets.
I've been coding for "whatever Apple calls NeXTStep now" for the last couple of years, and I've yet to find the network transparent windowing system you claim it contains. I used to work with BeOS, and I didn't see it there either. The closest I got to "remoting" apps on either system was running an X server. Perhaps you would like to provide some links to back up your claims rather than use this as an opportunity to MS bash?
How about using a few of those 64 general purpose/floating point registers first instead of making so many trips to memory? I am by no means a PPC asm guru, but I managed to make about half as many trips to RAM in a Short to Float conversion function.
I am a master control operator, the bastard that inserts commercials into your favorite shows, for KTVE and KARD the local NBC and Fox affiliates respectively.
There is a minute amount of black space between commercials. At my station we pad spots by 3 frames on each end, for a total of 6 frames between two spots. NTSC broadcast video runs at a rate of 30 frames per second, so that yields about 1/5 of a second between commercials. BTW, we do crossfade on every transition.
Slightly offtopic:
Many people seem to operate under the assumption that the media business rakes in money had over foot. This simply is not true. We own two of the four television stations in a decent market(140's) . We operate both stations from the same facilities using the same staff and most of the same equipment and are barely staying afloat. The next time you think about bitching about the # of commercials in your favorite show, consider the alternative, not seeing your favorite show at all.
Isn't this exactly what Microsoft is trying to achieve with the CLR in dotNET? Write objects in any language, and call them transparently from any other language. I know ActiveState has ported PERL and Python. I'm not sure if anyone has done PHP.
Before you call the post clueless, you should take the time to read it. I didn't see the journaling capabalities touted anywhere. What I saw being touted was the fact that it stores metadata with the files. This is a very impressive feature of Be's fs. No I'm not a Be lover. I gave up developing for their platform a couple of years ago. I do like their tech though.
I've used Netscape (pronounced Mozilla) since the initial release, and I don't EVER remember them charging people for personal use. They charged companies, but not the "downloading public". The reason people moved away from NS is the fact that IE surpassed it in technical merit.
If you'd like to know the true history of the Personal Computer, rather than relying on information you heard from a friend, or a friend of a friend, pick up a copy of Fire in the Valley
You state that Microsoft's grass is greener. Microsoft didn't grow greener grass; they torched all of the other sheep rancher's fields.