oh and riiiiiight, microsoft would want to break applications? no way, theres always a legacy story. as with any other OS release, application compatibility is a huge priority.
what are you talking about? icons as representations of files provide a clear way to see class info (icon says its an image file), and the text underneath is instance info (filename says exactly what image file it is). besides being useful for that, icons present a larger click target, they're easily identified as an object and they're almost universally understood.
both the icon and the text are good; what's your beef?
note that between win98 and nt4 there was no directory location change, it was %windir%\Profiles\%username%. XP is no different from 2000. so there's only been one change.
additionally, its not like you should ever see this directory path except if youre using a legacy app.
Re:Definition of Developer
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thus ESR is wrong. it is indeed interesting how ESR is totally out of touch from the real world.
oh so they "probably" did this and that. of course you have way more experience in this field than any of the people who work on this project. could the test have actually meant something and been successful? no way!!! to you, thats CRAZY TALK!
strip doesnt do anything to optimize the unoptimized debug code.
why this wont make you a pool shark
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it may help a beginner who doesnt know the angles yet, but any decent player can tell you that you also have to know exactly where to hit the cue ball.
in the technical description it says this is designed for two-ball practice scenarios where you sink a ball and leave the cue ball in a particular spot. however in a real game, putting the cue ball where you want it will often require follow (topspin), draw (bottomspin), or left/right spin as well. the one picture of the laser path of the cue ball going off in a straight line doesnt quite match the reality where the cue ball's path is parabolic until it stops sliding on the table and begins rolling.
anyway, what separates the good players from the average is cue ball control and strategy, and strategy isn't covered by this machine so it'll still take practice, practice, practice to get better.
its not hit quite straight on. the laser looks to be depicting the path of the cue ball, which is reasonable for this shot. of course it doesnt tell the user that they have to hit a stop shot in order for the cue ball to come off in a perfectly straight line.
what are you talking about? the navy inquiry found no fault in NT. here, you try this: write a program that divides by zero and run it on NT. as with any other good OS, the program shuts down and the OS keeps going. user mode code cannot cause a blue screen, makes sense.
in the navy's case the crashed program was enough to call the computers "down", and that makes sense too. the only thing that doesnt make sense is the attribution of blame to the OS for an app problem.
Sadly, it runs windows so no one will actually want to use one for real work
and:
It has all the trimmings, like those "made for windows 2k stickers" that get the screen all nasty when you close it.
what do stickers have to do with anything? and whats the point of saying you cant do work on it? are those comments just so CmdrTaco will put the story up? slashdot is pathetic.
the difference between the DMA and the gun lobby is that the gun lobby is fighting for your rights. so dont bring them into it, you cant compare the two since one organization invades your inbox and the other allows you to protect yourself.
that said, yep the DMA will definitely only do things that are in its own best interest.
from article: But, Cerasale said, a federal requirement that consumers "opt in" instead of "opt out" of bulk e-mail is unacceptable. "We think the opt-in creates a true noneconomic model," Cerasale said. "We don't believe you get a viable economic model in opt-in."
so the Direct Marketing Association is still a bunch of scumbags after all...
you lost all credibility in your first paragraph saying that XP was a minor upgrade. hint: obscure version numbers in the OS dont necessarily correspond to feature sets.
when you roll a marble around a hole in a rubber mat (whatever that means), theres friction. if the earth was constantly losing kinetic energy because it was rubbing on some gigantic thing in its orbit, itd fall in too.
on the other hand, all you need is ONE paranoid, warring spacefaring race to make life miserable for all others. distrust between races is a more stable state than a big happy family.
in the long run the prevalent race in a given area will be determined by if it outcompetes other races. think about it, if we went to another star and came across another sentient species, would we really let them develop to the point where they could get off their planet and possibly get the upper hand on us? sure they'd be behind on the technology curve, but they'd always be a big unknown compared to humans. id say we'd monitor them and shut them down if they got too ambitious.
if we dont spread around the galaxy before the aliens, we probably never will.
where do you get this 99.9% number? that's stupid.
there are 100 million cars, and people drive them one time per day. ASSUME that they work right 99.9% of the time, holy crap 100,000 people DIE from cars every day!! oh wait, no they dont.
closed-source businesses have extensive testers, who of course are all paid to find bugs, so they have specialized tools to stress the products and find more bugs.
in addition to that pool of people, they can also roll out the product internally and get the same thousands of people using the product in real-world scenarios.
if anything, QA is where the open-source projects have the most work to do. its very hard to find people who think writing test tools is as exciting as writing the actual product, but if you pay them then they'll write anything you want.
Re:of course 15 coders makes for less bugs
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fyi i work on a project with developers in the hundreds. and yes, of course the core team im on is a small portion of the total, but no, when people call out bug totals that always applies to the whole product.
of course 15 coders makes for less bugs
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if these projects average 15 coders, on average they're also significantly less complex projects, and then of course on average theyll have less bugs.
also, if you have a team of people who are PAID to find bugs, theyll find more.
chess is not "trivial" just because computers are better than humans at it. when the computers and their future pattern-matching algorithms etc. drop your precious GO too, youll still play it just like millions of people play chess.
go will just be the last to fall, after backgammon, checkers, connect4, chess, etc. after go, theres always music composition, poetry writing, etc. that the machines will beat us at.
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youve actually had problems with sql server?
oh and riiiiiight, microsoft would want to break applications? no way, theres always a legacy story. as with any other OS release, application compatibility is a huge priority.
in win2k and above, applications are generally prevented from stealing focus from another application. thus the flashing entry in the taskbar.
what are you talking about? icons as representations of files provide a clear way to see class info (icon says its an image file), and the text underneath is instance info (filename says exactly what image file it is). besides being useful for that, icons present a larger click target, they're easily identified as an object and they're almost universally understood.
both the icon and the text are good; what's your beef?
... cmd supports it. createfile supports it. ... ??
note that between win98 and nt4 there was no directory location change, it was %windir%\Profiles\%username%. XP is no different from 2000. so there's only been one change.
additionally, its not like you should ever see this directory path except if youre using a legacy app.
thus ESR is wrong. it is indeed interesting how ESR is totally out of touch from the real world.
oh so they "probably" did this and that. of course you have way more experience in this field than any of the people who work on this project. could the test have actually meant something and been successful? no way!!! to you, thats CRAZY TALK!
strip doesnt do anything to optimize the unoptimized debug code.
it may help a beginner who doesnt know the angles yet, but any decent player can tell you that you also have to know exactly where to hit the cue ball.
in the technical description it says this is designed for two-ball practice scenarios where you sink a ball and leave the cue ball in a particular spot. however in a real game, putting the cue ball where you want it will often require follow (topspin), draw (bottomspin), or left/right spin as well. the one picture of the laser path of the cue ball going off in a straight line doesnt quite match the reality where the cue ball's path is parabolic until it stops sliding on the table and begins rolling.
anyway, what separates the good players from the average is cue ball control and strategy, and strategy isn't covered by this machine so it'll still take practice, practice, practice to get better.
its not hit quite straight on. the laser looks to be depicting the path of the cue ball, which is reasonable for this shot. of course it doesnt tell the user that they have to hit a stop shot in order for the cue ball to come off in a perfectly straight line.
what are you talking about? the navy inquiry found no fault in NT. here, you try this: write a program that divides by zero and run it on NT. as with any other good OS, the program shuts down and the OS keeps going. user mode code cannot cause a blue screen, makes sense.
in the navy's case the crashed program was enough to call the computers "down", and that makes sense too. the only thing that doesnt make sense is the attribution of blame to the OS for an app problem.
Also, looking at the 'Top Donations by Industry', you may notice that Microsoft is, conspicuously, the only entry under 'Computers/Internet.'"
i call bullshit. this fact alone means the site has a hidden agenda and the info should be taken with a huge grain of salt.
the database they were using faulted on a divide by zero. nothing to do with NT.
Then why are you here?
for the laughs, of course!
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Sadly, it runs windows so no one will actually want to use one for real work
and:
It has all the trimmings, like those "made for windows 2k stickers" that get the screen all nasty when you close it.
what do stickers have to do with anything? and whats the point of saying you cant do work on it? are those comments just so CmdrTaco will put the story up? slashdot is pathetic.
the difference between the DMA and the gun lobby is that the gun lobby is fighting for your rights. so dont bring them into it, you cant compare the two since one organization invades your inbox and the other allows you to protect yourself.
that said, yep the DMA will definitely only do things that are in its own best interest.
from article: But, Cerasale said, a federal requirement that consumers "opt in" instead of "opt out" of bulk e-mail is unacceptable. "We think the opt-in creates a true noneconomic model," Cerasale said. "We don't believe you get a viable economic model in opt-in."
so the Direct Marketing Association is still a bunch of scumbags after all...
you lost all credibility in your first paragraph saying that XP was a minor upgrade. hint: obscure version numbers in the OS dont necessarily correspond to feature sets.
when you roll a marble around a hole in a rubber mat (whatever that means), theres friction. if the earth was constantly losing kinetic energy because it was rubbing on some gigantic thing in its orbit, itd fall in too.
on the other hand, all you need is ONE paranoid, warring spacefaring race to make life miserable for all others. distrust between races is a more stable state than a big happy family.
in the long run the prevalent race in a given area will be determined by if it outcompetes other races. think about it, if we went to another star and came across another sentient species, would we really let them develop to the point where they could get off their planet and possibly get the upper hand on us? sure they'd be behind on the technology curve, but they'd always be a big unknown compared to humans. id say we'd monitor them and shut them down if they got too ambitious.
if we dont spread around the galaxy before the aliens, we probably never will.
where do you get this 99.9% number? that's stupid.
there are 100 million cars, and people drive them one time per day. ASSUME that they work right 99.9% of the time, holy crap 100,000 people DIE from cars every day!! oh wait, no they dont.
closed-source businesses have extensive testers, who of course are all paid to find bugs, so they have specialized tools to stress the products and find more bugs.
in addition to that pool of people, they can also roll out the product internally and get the same thousands of people using the product in real-world scenarios.
if anything, QA is where the open-source projects have the most work to do. its very hard to find people who think writing test tools is as exciting as writing the actual product, but if you pay them then they'll write anything you want.
fyi i work on a project with developers in the hundreds. and yes, of course the core team im on is a small portion of the total, but no, when people call out bug totals that always applies to the whole product.
if these projects average 15 coders, on average they're also significantly less complex projects, and then of course on average theyll have less bugs.
also, if you have a team of people who are PAID to find bugs, theyll find more.
chess is not "trivial" just because computers are better than humans at it. when the computers and their future pattern-matching algorithms etc. drop your precious GO too, youll still play it just like millions of people play chess.
go will just be the last to fall, after backgammon, checkers, connect4, chess, etc. after go, theres always music composition, poetry writing, etc. that the machines will beat us at.
AI is always a moving target for people isnt it?