Actually, it unfortunately seems to be only the mature coders who stress test their work, and attempt to do a thorough job of debugging.
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In so far as I can tell, this was an attempt to demonstrate that Cygwin and Wine can emulate or otherwise recreate their respective environments well enough to run each other, thereby demonstrating their power and quality. But it should also be noted that some people just like stupid computer tricks.
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I have not looked into this, but I would suspect that they are employing a method similar to that of the Samba team. In otherwords, you treat the program (or libraries) in question as black boxes. Put X in, get Y out, then write a function F such that F(X) = Y. The idea is to mimic the functionality, without looking at the actual code.
While this might make for an interesting exercise, I have but one question. Why would you want to run Micrsoft Word, Excel, and Internet Explorer under Linux? From my experience, OpenOffice.org and Mozilla are far better products, and they run natively.
There is one advantage to using high(er) level languages. They often require less code to be written. As an example two Win32 applications, one written in VB and one written in C/C++, the VB application would have far less code. Less code leaves you less room to introduce bugs.
Though good design is above all what any programmer should strive for. And a language that is better designed than VB would be nice.
I've been here a little over a month and this is far more interesting than any case modding story that I've seen. This is the sort of article that I read slashdot for.
I believe that this is an example of what they call "sarcasm". Or it is a possible explanation of the thinking of managers responsible for the current loss of jobs.
Or you could be patient, as life is a pendulum that swings back and forth. Right now it has swung towards a more negative scenario. If you wait (and try to avoid the pit) it will swing back to a scenario that is far kinder to those "in the trenches" of business
From what I saw in the article, those who fought to keep it are librarians. Corporations typically have more money that librarians. So your last sentence would probably be more accurate if you replaced "noise" with "money". It is a disgusting arrangment, but unfortunately it seems to be how this world works.
In anarchy, there would not be laws, because for a country to be in a state of true anarchy, no one would have power over anyone else. To have a law, that law must be enforcable by one means or another. To enforce a law, one person or group must have power over another person or group.
Thank you for pointing out one of the main problems. But as for binary, it would probably be easier to code in hexidecimal, or back in the days of DOS the lovely little program known as "debug" could translate a file full of MOV, INT, CMP, JMP, and suchforth into it's hexidecimal equivalent, adding a OS specific header, if anything at all. It may not be binary, but I would not call it "high-level".
It would probably be accurate to say that a carefully implemented, properly used high level language can typically solve common problems without introducing too many bugs. From what I saw in the essay, the author was saying that these high level languages are not perfectly reliable, but still quite usable, provided that you have a reasonable idea of what is going on below the surface.
From what (little) I know of the workings of legislative bodies, it would be business as usual to pass a bill that amended a previous bill. The one difficulty lies in getting the appropriate politicans to cooperate (which may just involve giving enough money to the appropriate re-election campaigns).
I understand that DirectX may include libraries for other purposes, such as sound, but OpenGL has one purpose, and I was considering the portions of DirectX that are similiar to that of OpenGL, namely that of creating 2D and 3D graphics.
The comment to which I was responding was indicating that Microsoft products get better with time, often surpassing the alternatives. I was relating one notable instance that I was particularly familiar with that was not in agreement that idea. The point being that merely because Microsoft has been working on DirectX for a long time, and has released many revisions, does not mean that it has surpassed other significant alternatives, such as OpenGL.
I've used Microsoft products beginning with DOS and now up to XP. I have more recently begun to use Linux (redhat & debian). I may not know too much about Linux yet, but it is far easier to fix something under linux than it is to fix it under XP. In an effort to cater to those less literate in computers, Microsoft has obscured and hidden configuration settings and critical files to the point where it is almost impossible for someone who knows what they are doing to get XP to operate in the fashion they expect. Furthermore, XP tends to keep multiple records of what you have done on the system, and what documents you have accessed, creating unnecessary files that fill up your system and can be difficult to track down and remove. The last decent Microsoft system was DOS, and that they bought (or stole).
Originally, DirectX had two parts: DirectDraw (2D) and Direct3D. With the release of 8.0, Microsoft dropped DirectDraw, so now DirectX is focused on 3D application entirely.
Actually, in terms of alcohol content, absinthe is equivalent to vodka. Commonly, absinthe is mixed with about an equal amount of water and some sugar (poured over a sugar cube into a glass of water) before it is drunk, mainly to reduce the bitterness of it (absinthe is a wormwood liquor). Absinthe also contains thujone (i think that's the right name), a neurotoxin. This is also currently banned in the U.S.
Some quantum physicists have come to the conclusion that matter is a product of observation, or in other words, the world we live in is a product of our minds, and changes according to how we look at it. I cannot say if this is true or not, but it does nicely account for some of the stranger results that scientists with particle accelerators have found. If this is true, it would mean that we can only really agree on a version of reality, and not completely "prove" anything.
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This would be rather impractical for large books. Cracking any encryption on the book is more likely.
MovieLink would probably not approve of OpenSource DRM software.
Hacker friendly or Cracker friendly?
The prize might have just been plane tickets to a destination of your choice, and not a specific place.
Actually, it unfortunately seems to be only the mature coders who stress test their work, and attempt to do a thorough job of debugging.
In so far as I can tell, this was an attempt to demonstrate that Cygwin and Wine can emulate or otherwise recreate their respective environments well enough to run each other, thereby demonstrating their power and quality. But it should also be noted that some people just like stupid computer tricks.
I have not looked into this, but I would suspect that they are employing a method similar to that of the Samba team. In otherwords, you treat the program (or libraries) in question as black boxes. Put X in, get Y out, then write a function F such that F(X) = Y. The idea is to mimic the functionality, without looking at the actual code.
While this might make for an interesting exercise, I have but one question. Why would you want to run Micrsoft Word, Excel, and Internet Explorer under Linux? From my experience, OpenOffice.org and Mozilla are far better products, and they run natively.
There is one advantage to using high(er) level languages. They often require less code to be written. As an example two Win32 applications, one written in VB and one written in C/C++, the VB application would have far less code. Less code leaves you less room to introduce bugs.
Though good design is above all what any programmer should strive for. And a language that is better designed than VB would be nice.
I've been here a little over a month and this is far more interesting than any case modding story that I've seen. This is the sort of article that I read slashdot for.
I believe that this is an example of what they call "sarcasm". Or it is a possible explanation of the thinking of managers responsible for the current loss of jobs.
Or you could be patient, as life is a pendulum that swings back and forth. Right now it has swung towards a more negative scenario. If you wait (and try to avoid the pit) it will swing back to a scenario that is far kinder to those "in the trenches" of business
From what I saw in the article, those who fought to keep it are librarians. Corporations typically have more money that librarians. So your last sentence would probably be more accurate if you replaced "noise" with "money". It is a disgusting arrangment, but unfortunately it seems to be how this world works.
In anarchy, there would not be laws, because for a country to be in a state of true anarchy, no one would have power over anyone else. To have a law, that law must be enforcable by one means or another. To enforce a law, one person or group must have power over another person or group.
Thank you for pointing out one of the main problems. But as for binary, it would probably be easier to code in hexidecimal, or back in the days of DOS the lovely little program known as "debug" could translate a file full of MOV, INT, CMP, JMP, and suchforth into it's hexidecimal equivalent, adding a OS specific header, if anything at all. It may not be binary, but I would not call it "high-level".
It would probably be accurate to say that a carefully implemented, properly used high level language can typically solve common problems without introducing too many bugs. From what I saw in the essay, the author was saying that these high level languages are not perfectly reliable, but still quite usable, provided that you have a reasonable idea of what is going on below the surface.
Sadly, these traits are seen in a disturbing number of public office holders. The individual to whom you are replying would fit in perfectly.
From what (little) I know of the workings of legislative bodies, it would be business as usual to pass a bill that amended a previous bill. The one difficulty lies in getting the appropriate politicans to cooperate (which may just involve giving enough money to the appropriate re-election campaigns).
I understand that DirectX may include libraries for other purposes, such as sound, but OpenGL has one purpose, and I was considering the portions of DirectX that are similiar to that of OpenGL, namely that of creating 2D and 3D graphics.
The comment to which I was responding was indicating that Microsoft products get better with time, often surpassing the alternatives. I was relating one notable instance that I was particularly familiar with that was not in agreement that idea. The point being that merely because Microsoft has been working on DirectX for a long time, and has released many revisions, does not mean that it has surpassed other significant alternatives, such as OpenGL.
I've used Microsoft products beginning with DOS and now up to XP. I have more recently begun to use Linux (redhat & debian). I may not know too much about Linux yet, but it is far easier to fix something under linux than it is to fix it under XP. In an effort to cater to those less literate in computers, Microsoft has obscured and hidden configuration settings and critical files to the point where it is almost impossible for someone who knows what they are doing to get XP to operate in the fashion they expect. Furthermore, XP tends to keep multiple records of what you have done on the system, and what documents you have accessed, creating unnecessary files that fill up your system and can be difficult to track down and remove. The last decent Microsoft system was DOS, and that they bought (or stole).
Originally, DirectX had two parts: DirectDraw (2D) and Direct3D. With the release of 8.0, Microsoft dropped DirectDraw, so now DirectX is focused on 3D application entirely.
Actually, in terms of alcohol content, absinthe is equivalent to vodka. Commonly, absinthe is mixed with about an equal amount of water and some sugar (poured over a sugar cube into a glass of water) before it is drunk, mainly to reduce the bitterness of it (absinthe is a wormwood liquor). Absinthe also contains thujone (i think that's the right name), a neurotoxin. This is also currently banned in the U.S.
Some quantum physicists have come to the conclusion that matter is a product of observation, or in other words, the world we live in is a product of our minds, and changes according to how we look at it. I cannot say if this is true or not, but it does nicely account for some of the stranger results that scientists with particle accelerators have found. If this is true, it would mean that we can only really agree on a version of reality, and not completely "prove" anything.