I hereby provide due warning that you are in knowing and unlawful infringement of US Patent #20050160457 (" Annotating programs for automatic summary generations"). We are eager to hear from you as soon as possible to discuss a settlement.
Why do we need this? D is a beautiful, well-appointed systems programming language. It's got a gcc front-end. It's got garbage-collection if you want, custom memory management if you want. It's got embedded assembly if you want. And it's fast
I thought we were staying with C++ because of all the code that's already written in it...
they just want to make sure that no one goes home and is surprised by what they've purchased. If this report is true, that's one hell of a surprise.
Yes indeed. Surprising that when you search on the internet and then download a mod that unlocks sex scenes that aren't accessible unmodded through any gameplay mechanic, you get sex scenes. That'll be a huge surprise!;-)
Better yet, if you want to prevent software patents here simply patent "A method to convince a panel that Software Patents are a good idea". If they look close to getting software patents through, sue them for patent infringement... IP's a serious business.
For extra credit: find out a way to patent one-click political figure purchases
I couldn't disagree more -- I've used various versions of Eclipse and its editor feels like a toy next to JBuilder (comparing the latest version of Eclipse 3 to JBuilder 2005). Yes, unfortunately JBuilder has a lot of bloat that I don't use. It's the actual coding interface that feels rock solid to me: it gets indentation right and does lots of handy things that make my life a lot easier (fori0foo.length). I could just write my code. It flowed (as much as Java code can flow) right out of me. It should be noted that I don't trust most of JBuilder's wizards. I'll only use with any confidence the basic things like "add field" and "surround with try/catch" when I forget about a library's exceptions
By comparison, my experiences with Eclipse was just like my (short) experience with Macromedia Director's code editor: I was battling the editor to get it to do things My Way so I could write my code. Things like auto-closing of quotes seemed like a handy feature, but ended up causing a lot of friction between me and the editor.
Perhaps Eclipse meshes better with the way you write your code. When I use JBuilder or Visual Studio 2005 the code feels like it's flying onto the screen. I'm not as stressed and I finish my day happy, not wanting to kill The Idiot who thought [insert niggle here] was a good idea.
I can write code in Eclipse as well as I can in JBuilder (and likewise with notepad), but I'm much more productive in JBuilder.
As far as I'm concerned, everybody (that I know in the java world) is (and has used for some time) Borland's JBuilder. It's an amazingly nice IDE that's of far higher quality IMO than Eclipse (although the swing interface does drive me a little mad)
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It would be fair enough if they had an IE-only alternative for common web problems like rounded corners on things; it strikes me that the IE team are incredibly lazy - all they've managed to do is write an RSS reader and add tabs in how many years?
It's really odd, especially because they have stiff competition from Firefox. In Visual Studio, the competition from Eclipse and other free IDEs is showing: Visual Studio 2005 is a really smart, really well designed development environment.
But that's not in microsoft's best interests. They're a company, after all. They're in a perfect position: they can make their operating system require a faster processor and more memory. Do you think Intel, AMD and the various memory makers aren't "very grateful" of the extra business they get from the dizzyingly high requirements of Windows nowadays?
Not that I like Encarta but Microsoft probably employ professional editors and consult experts of the field they're writing about...
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completely useless to anyone interested in retaining the right to freely use their computer.
Mod me down for going counter to public opinion but you can still freely use your computer without sourcecode. That Apache comes with source means nothing to me: I don't edit it -- I have neither the knowledge of the codebase nor the time to merge my changes into every new version -- so I'm just about as free with Apache as with a closed-source webserver (source-code wise anyway)
But Microsoft's Xbox 360 has 1 teraflop of processing power! And Sony's Cell processor has 2 teraflops of performance! And they're tiny and cost only a few hundred. Yay microsoft and sony! </Naive belief in Microsoft and Sony marketing blurb>
Something that will prompt you with a menu, allows you to order, you pay with a credit card and get a wifi connection immediately or you pay the coffee girl when she brings you your order and you get the connection when she completes the transaction.
Hurrah! You're slowly but surely paving the way towards a socially dysfunctional society of people too lazy to get up out of their seats or attract a waitresses attention. I, for one, salute you!
Obviously they're showing 0 self-respect by not only using the wifi and not paying the company but taking up space in the shop: no self-respect, no manners...
Am I the only one whose local coffee shops offer bottomless tea/coffee?
That'd be a pretty cool idea... imagine if tablet PCs allowed you to do a little doodle as your password. If you get it structurally close to the stored version then you're allowed access...
(You only need one case on a wafer, and therefore only have one lot of overhead. A typical SIMM board has 9 chips, therefore 9 times the overhead. To get 100 times the memory, you'd currently need 900 chips, which would be 900 times the overhead. But you'd STILL only need one wafer, because you can get over 900 chips off a single wafer.)
The problem being that your yield suddenly drops to 0 when you have to produce a huge wafer. It's nice to use multiple wafers because then you can throw away those that don't work (or relegate them to a lower speed rating)
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I hereby provide due warning that you are in knowing and unlawful infringement of US Patent #20050160457 (" Annotating programs for automatic summary generations"). We are eager to hear from you as soon as possible to discuss a settlement.
...on the completion of DebConf 1998!
Ah but I do jest. Huzzah for Debian, my favourite distro
Why do we need this? D is a beautiful, well-appointed systems programming language. It's got a gcc front-end. It's got garbage-collection if you want, custom memory management if you want. It's got embedded assembly if you want. And it's fast
I thought we were staying with C++ because of all the code that's already written in it...
Better yet, if you want to prevent software patents here simply patent "A method to convince a panel that Software Patents are a good idea". If they look close to getting software patents through, sue them for patent infringement... IP's a serious business.
For extra credit: find out a way to patent one-click political figure purchases
I couldn't disagree more -- I've used various versions of Eclipse and its editor feels like a toy next to JBuilder (comparing the latest version of Eclipse 3 to JBuilder 2005). Yes, unfortunately JBuilder has a lot of bloat that I don't use. It's the actual coding interface that feels rock solid to me: it gets indentation right and does lots of handy things that make my life a lot easier (fori0foo.length). I could just write my code. It flowed (as much as Java code can flow) right out of me. It should be noted that I don't trust most of JBuilder's wizards. I'll only use with any confidence the basic things like "add field" and "surround with try/catch" when I forget about a library's exceptions
By comparison, my experiences with Eclipse was just like my (short) experience with Macromedia Director's code editor: I was battling the editor to get it to do things My Way so I could write my code. Things like auto-closing of quotes seemed like a handy feature, but ended up causing a lot of friction between me and the editor.
Perhaps Eclipse meshes better with the way you write your code. When I use JBuilder or Visual Studio 2005 the code feels like it's flying onto the screen. I'm not as stressed and I finish my day happy, not wanting to kill The Idiot who thought [insert niggle here] was a good idea.
I can write code in Eclipse as well as I can in JBuilder (and likewise with notepad), but I'm much more productive in JBuilder.
As far as I'm concerned, everybody (that I know in the java world) is (and has used for some time) Borland's JBuilder. It's an amazingly nice IDE that's of far higher quality IMO than Eclipse (although the swing interface does drive me a little mad)
SharpDevelop is a pretty nice (free) IDE for C#.
I'm actually very fond of the documentation. It's rather complete, well laid out... and the APIs aren't as buggy as Java's
This isn't a dupe. The previous update didn't allow you to zoom in so close on, for example, London.
It would be fair enough if they had an IE-only alternative for common web problems like rounded corners on things; it strikes me that the IE team are incredibly lazy - all they've managed to do is write an RSS reader and add tabs in how many years?
It's really odd, especially because they have stiff competition from Firefox. In Visual Studio, the competition from Eclipse and other free IDEs is showing: Visual Studio 2005 is a really smart, really well designed development environment.
But that's not in microsoft's best interests. They're a company, after all. They're in a perfect position: they can make their operating system require a faster processor and more memory. Do you think Intel, AMD and the various memory makers aren't "very grateful" of the extra business they get from the dizzyingly high requirements of Windows nowadays?
Yay Microsoft! King of innovation. They have the menu bar below the tablist. Truely innovation I'm sure people will pay for (in more ways than one).
;-)
Any word on how many bugs they'll have introduced, their png and css standards compliance support?
Good to see that RSS is integrated into the OS. That's something every kernel lacks these days
Not that I like Encarta but Microsoft probably employ professional editors and consult experts of the field they're writing about...
...and I for one welcome our new non-addage-spouting overlords!
More importantly, why don't google set seven? If they set only one then Yahoo is obviously leading the field!
But Microsoft's Xbox 360 has 1 teraflop of processing power! And Sony's Cell processor has 2 teraflops of performance! And they're tiny and cost only a few hundred. Yay microsoft and sony!
</Naive belief in Microsoft and Sony marketing blurb>
Hurrah! You're slowly but surely paving the way towards a socially dysfunctional society of people too lazy to get up out of their seats or attract a waitresses attention. I, for one, salute you!
Obviously they're showing 0 self-respect by not only using the wifi and not paying the company but taking up space in the shop: no self-respect, no manners...
Am I the only one whose local coffee shops offer bottomless tea/coffee?
This pretty much sums up all the discussion required on this news article, doesn't it? Go slashdot user brevity and succinctness!
In all seriousness though, whatstops wifi users from sitting in a car outside? or in the shop nextdoor?That'd be a pretty cool idea... imagine if tablet PCs allowed you to do a little doodle as your password. If you get it structurally close to the stored version then you're allowed access...
You know it's slashdot when we rely on our browser first to tell us that the story's a dupe before we bother using our memories
What, like Mexico?