What you're talking about is called a sincording, as seen in The 6th Day:) The philosophy touched on by that movie (and your post) is actually quite interesting.
Mozilla ActiveX Control
ActiveX Control Implementation
Not just a similar API
An identical one! That's right, the Mozilla control will implement the IWebBrowser and DWebBrowserEvents interfaces that Microsoft have already defined for Internet Explorer.
Since the Mozilla control implements exactly the same API, it will mean that developers can take existing IE code and port it, sometimes in a matter of minutes!
So you're saying people who don't know any better use MySQL? I recently implemented a very small blog app. The query on my search page uses four nested SELECTs containing an INNER JOIN, an OUTER JOIN and a UNION. To me (someone who writes database driven apps for a living), that is a fairly basic query. Yes, I could have done it with temp tables in MySQL, but it wouldn't have been nearly as clean as my Postgres implementation. It would really stink to be a newbie, pick MySQL, then, as you learn more about the power of SQL, realize that your choice of database is limiting you.
I don't get why so many people are stuck on MySQL. It's lacks some very, very basic features: Views, Triggers, Stored procedures, nested selects. Sure, they promise support for all this in future version, but PostgreSQL supports it NOW. If you want a full-featured open source database, don't use MySQL, use Postgres.
You guys are funny, giving suggestions to the guys at the JPL. I'm sure they haven't considered any of your ideas. It's a wonder they even made it to Mars without your help.
Sorry...mod away.
No, you're not being paranoid. Microsoft is going to use digital signatures all over the place. They'll be attached to contacts. Contacts are now a core object built into the OS. All apps hook into the centralized store. You pick who you trust. I got a book, Introducing Lonhorn for Developers, along with my PDC copy of Longhorn. It talks about security and how it's integrated at every step of the OS. I'm only on page 20, but Microsoft is actually putting a hell of a lot of effort into securing Longhorn. Longhorn will be very good. WinFS will be amazing. Metadata about files is stored in a SQL server allowing you to query your entire document store in fractions of seconds. You can attach authors to documents by dragging that doc onto that person (remember, people are native objects). Think the speed of locate, the power of grep and the robust flexibility of a SQL server. That's WinFS.
Hmm, I went off on a tangent there.
It does allow it to be turned off. You know how you can hide icons in the notification area? You can minimize the sidebar into a collapsible button down there. I know because I watched a presenter do it today when she wanted more screen space for Studio so she could show more screen space. The 4:45 Avalon and databainding session.
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C# pointers are NOT anything like C++ pointers. If you want to pass an object by pointer, you precede that object's name in the function call with "ref." Or "out," depending on what you're trying to accomplish. Like this:
Object myObject = new Object(); ModifyAnObject(ref myObject);
That's it. Now myObject was passed by pointer to ModifyAnObject() and every modification to the object in that method remains there when the call returns. It's the best of both worlds. You get the freedom from pointer errors and you know for certain that it's passed by pointer.
Java is a nice language, but since learning C# I've got to say I don't want to go back. It's simple and clean like Java, but more flexible on many levels. And when Mono finishes implementing Windows.Forms...oh, man, I can't wait. Truly cross platform GUIs that will run native in each OS. It'll be great!
publish a lame crackpot scientific article with many images on it
Yeah, this guy's never taken a physics class, I can tell you that. The fact that he took two different measurements, one with the bulb on, another with it off. He thinks less coils with thicker wire will generate more electricity. There's a bunch of problems here. Good science fair project, but not much more.
2. That you are not allowed to combine or distribute the Software with other software that is licensed under terms that seek to require that the Software (or any intellectual property in it) be provided in source code form, licensed to others to allow the creation or distribution of derivative works, or distributed without charge.
Sheesh...they should have just said, "You can't use our code in any GPL project. Ever. Period." Microsoft is so good at keeping their proprietary monopoly, aren't they?
I actually just got back from a presentation by AMD here at UIUC (and I won a free t-shirt, too). They oulined the whole hammer architecture and how it's going to be a good thing. By putting the north bridge/memory controller on the CPU die, they're able to cut the DRAM latency by 20% over Athlon! Anyone who's designed computer architectures knows that 20% is HUGE! It only takes 54 clock cycles to complete an instruction cycle, including memory access; if there's a cache hit it was around 30. Actually, the memory read process is started in parallel with the cache hit/miss test and then canceled if there's a hit. Memory bandwidth is also going to get pretty ahead of Intel. AMD is really going to step ahead of Intel with the new hammer architecture. In the future...multiple cores on a single die. That means a single chip, multi-processor system. That'll be huge for the server market! Tech talks are fun!
I actually just got back from a presentation by AMD here at UIUC (and I won a free t-shirt, too). They oulined the whole hammer architecture and how it's going to be a good thing. By putting the north bridge/memory controller on the CPU die, they're able to cut the DRAM latency by 20% over Athlon! Anyone who's designed computer architectures knows that 20% is HUGE! It only takes 54 clock cycles to complete an instruction cycle, including memory access; if there's a cache hit it was around 30. Actually, the memory read process is started in parallel with the cache hit/miss test and then canceled if there's a hit. Memory bandwidth is also going to get pretty ahead of Intel. AMD is really going to step ahead of Intel with the new hammer architecture. In the future...multiple cores on a single die. That means a single chip, multi-processor system. That'll be huge for the server market! Tech talks are fun!
My computer caught on fire once. Scared the crap out of me. The wires leading to the PC speaker made contact with the metal case. Something shorted, the wires heated up and the casings on the wires started smoking. Whoops.
The good side was that my computer stopped mysteriously locking up after I took out the speaker. Everything else continued working.
i just checked my firewall log. since 4am this morning till now, i've gotten 145 hits on port 1434! 367 bytes * 145 = 53215 bytes! holy crap, 53kB, how did my site manage to stay up with that kind of excess traffic!?:)
The only issue Im having with Mplayer right now is it has a tendency to put some.viv files upside down when it plays them.. not sure, and not really bothered by it, but it was something i noticed.
uhh, sure, upside-down is perfectly acceptable...?
Everytime that phrase comes to your mind I want you to take a deep breath and think whether you would say that to your non-technical mother/father/granny/whatever.
ummm...we're talking about Linux, right? how many grannys can handle linux? Hell, how many grannys can grasp the concept of a mouse and the Internet. Linux isn't (currently, and hopefully never will be) an OS for Joe Dumb-ass like windows or mac os. it's an OS for hackers/tweakers/progammers. It's designed for people who prefer to memorize and type commands, because they're used to that kind of stuff from writing code and momorizing function names. I want to see Linux succeed, but not at the expense of making it dumb.
Ninja Ents: Was is just me or did the Ents ONLY redirect the river Isen in the book?
The ents redirected the river and destroyed all of Isengard. The only thing they didn't destoy was sauruman's tower because it had some magic that prevented them from doing so. So, yes, in the book, the ents trashed isengard.
The problem is: The first one stayed [largely] true to the book and really felt like it was obviously saying, "Fuck holywood, we're going to make this one right." This one feels much more like, "Hey, we made a really successful movie, so we are God. Let's fuck with whatever we need to to get the holywood weaned audience in and happy."
umm...they filmed all three movies at the same time. So they couldn't have said, "oh the first one was a success, now lets change the second one." They did it all at once. It was planned that way from the beginning. As other people have said, books and movies are very different: in a book, you can have paragraphs of exposition where it's narrated and the plot is explained. In a movie, you have to rely on dialouge and scenery to tell a story. You have to make changes. Peter Jackson said (if you watch the directors commentary to the fellowship) that while he knew that people would be unhappy with some of the changes, he wanted to create an authentic middle earth. So if you don't like the story changes, fine, but appreciate the journey to middle earth.
I COMPLETELY agree! I recently bought the new 4-dvd fellowship of the rings, and was watching it with one of my roomates. He (who has not read the book) kept asking me questions about the story and I kept having answers. He even asked me, "how do you know so much more about the story than I do?" and I said, "because I've read the book, and everything is explained in so much more detail." If you read the book, you'll have such a deep understanding of the movie, it will make the movie so much more exciting for you. Seriously people, read the book, it's worth the thousand+ pages.
No. Redhat makes their money from support. Anyone can download, install, use, and get the source of everything in redhat. But if you need a professional to help you, then you pay for it. Supporting software and creating software are different.
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What you're talking about is called a sincording, as seen in The 6th Day :) The philosophy touched on by that movie (and your post) is actually quite interesting.
I love the marketing spin: "We are exploring ways to add value to Windows XP." That's what you and I call fundrasing.
Mozilla ActiveX Control
ActiveX Control Implementation
Not just a similar API
An identical one! That's right, the Mozilla control will implement the IWebBrowser and DWebBrowserEvents interfaces that Microsoft have already defined for Internet Explorer. Since the Mozilla control implements exactly the same API, it will mean that developers can take existing IE code and port it, sometimes in a matter of minutes!
So you're saying people who don't know any better use MySQL? I recently implemented a very small blog app. The query on my search page uses four nested SELECTs containing an INNER JOIN, an OUTER JOIN and a UNION. To me (someone who writes database driven apps for a living), that is a fairly basic query. Yes, I could have done it with temp tables in MySQL, but it wouldn't have been nearly as clean as my Postgres implementation. It would really stink to be a newbie, pick MySQL, then, as you learn more about the power of SQL, realize that your choice of database is limiting you.
I don't get why so many people are stuck on MySQL. It's lacks some very, very basic features: Views, Triggers, Stored procedures, nested selects. Sure, they promise support for all this in future version, but PostgreSQL supports it NOW. If you want a full-featured open source database, don't use MySQL, use Postgres.
You guys are funny, giving suggestions to the guys at the JPL. I'm sure they haven't considered any of your ideas. It's a wonder they even made it to Mars without your help. Sorry...mod away.
No, you're not being paranoid. Microsoft is going to use digital signatures all over the place. They'll be attached to contacts. Contacts are now a core object built into the OS. All apps hook into the centralized store. You pick who you trust. I got a book, Introducing Lonhorn for Developers, along with my PDC copy of Longhorn. It talks about security and how it's integrated at every step of the OS. I'm only on page 20, but Microsoft is actually putting a hell of a lot of effort into securing Longhorn. Longhorn will be very good. WinFS will be amazing. Metadata about files is stored in a SQL server allowing you to query your entire document store in fractions of seconds. You can attach authors to documents by dragging that doc onto that person (remember, people are native objects). Think the speed of locate, the power of grep and the robust flexibility of a SQL server. That's WinFS. Hmm, I went off on a tangent there.
I think the new Explorer looks more like Safari. Still no tabs...at least, none that were demoed....
It does allow it to be turned off. You know how you can hide icons in the notification area? You can minimize the sidebar into a collapsible button down there. I know because I watched a presenter do it today when she wanted more screen space for Studio so she could show more screen space. The 4:45 Avalon and databainding session.
C# pointers are NOT anything like C++ pointers. If you want to pass an object by pointer, you precede that object's name in the function call with "ref." Or "out," depending on what you're trying to accomplish. Like this:
Object myObject = new Object();
ModifyAnObject(ref myObject);
That's it. Now myObject was passed by pointer to ModifyAnObject() and every modification to the object in that method remains there when the call returns. It's the best of both worlds. You get the freedom from pointer errors and you know for certain that it's passed by pointer.
Java is a nice language, but since learning C# I've got to say I don't want to go back. It's simple and clean like Java, but more flexible on many levels. And when Mono finishes implementing Windows.Forms...oh, man, I can't wait. Truly cross platform GUIs that will run native in each OS. It'll be great!
"nucular, it's pronounced nucular." -Homer Simpson
publish a lame crackpot scientific article with many images on it
Yeah, this guy's never taken a physics class, I can tell you that. The fact that he took two different measurements, one with the bulb on, another with it off. He thinks less coils with thicker wire will generate more electricity. There's a bunch of problems here. Good science fair project, but not much more.
I didn't know you could use swiss cheese as a reusable space launch vehicle. Check out more photos.
Article 2 of the agreement:
2. That you are not allowed to combine or distribute the Software with other software that is licensed under terms that seek to require that the Software (or any intellectual property in it) be provided in source code form, licensed to others to allow the creation or distribution of derivative works, or distributed without charge.
Sheesh...they should have just said, "You can't use our code in any GPL project. Ever. Period." Microsoft is so good at keeping their proprietary monopoly, aren't they?
I actually just got back from a presentation by AMD here at UIUC (and I won a free t-shirt, too). They oulined the whole hammer architecture and how it's going to be a good thing. By putting the north bridge/memory controller on the CPU die, they're able to cut the DRAM latency by 20% over Athlon! Anyone who's designed computer architectures knows that 20% is HUGE! It only takes 54 clock cycles to complete an instruction cycle, including memory access; if there's a cache hit it was around 30. Actually, the memory read process is started in parallel with the cache hit/miss test and then canceled if there's a hit. Memory bandwidth is also going to get pretty ahead of Intel. AMD is really going to step ahead of Intel with the new hammer architecture. In the future...multiple cores on a single die. That means a single chip, multi-processor system. That'll be huge for the server market! Tech talks are fun!
I actually just got back from a presentation by AMD here at UIUC (and I won a free t-shirt, too). They oulined the whole hammer architecture and how it's going to be a good thing. By putting the north bridge/memory controller on the CPU die, they're able to cut the DRAM latency by 20% over Athlon! Anyone who's designed computer architectures knows that 20% is HUGE! It only takes 54 clock cycles to complete an instruction cycle, including memory access; if there's a cache hit it was around 30. Actually, the memory read process is started in parallel with the cache hit/miss test and then canceled if there's a hit. Memory bandwidth is also going to get pretty ahead of Intel. AMD is really going to step ahead of Intel with the new hammer architecture. In the future...multiple cores on a single die. That means a single chip, multi-processor system. That'll be huge for the server market! Tech talks are fun!
My computer caught on fire once. Scared the crap out of me. The wires leading to the PC speaker made contact with the metal case. Something shorted, the wires heated up and the casings on the wires started smoking. Whoops.
The good side was that my computer stopped mysteriously locking up after I took out the speaker. Everything else continued working.
...start buying cloths again instead...
I think you meant chlothes.
i just checked my firewall log. since 4am this morning till now, i've gotten 145 hits on port 1434! 367 bytes * 145 = 53215 bytes! holy crap, 53kB, how did my site manage to stay up with that kind of excess traffic!? :)
The only issue Im having with Mplayer right now is it has a tendency to put some .viv files upside down when it plays them.. not sure, and not really bothered by it, but it was something i noticed.
uhh, sure, upside-down is perfectly acceptable...?
command-line ... works perfectly for me
Everytime that phrase comes to your mind I want you to take a deep breath and think whether you would say that to your non-technical mother/father/granny/whatever.
ummm...we're talking about Linux, right? how many grannys can handle linux? Hell, how many grannys can grasp the concept of a mouse and the Internet. Linux isn't (currently, and hopefully never will be) an OS for Joe Dumb-ass like windows or mac os. it's an OS for hackers/tweakers/progammers. It's designed for people who prefer to memorize and type commands, because they're used to that kind of stuff from writing code and momorizing function names. I want to see Linux succeed, but not at the expense of making it dumb.
This is a synopsis of every review of the movie available on the Inernet:f =critic&intl=us
http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&id=1804738128&c
Ninja Ents: Was is just me or did the Ents ONLY redirect the river Isen in the book?
The ents redirected the river and destroyed all of Isengard. The only thing they didn't destoy was sauruman's tower because it had some magic that prevented them from doing so. So, yes, in the book, the ents trashed isengard.
The problem is: The first one stayed [largely] true to the book and really felt like it was obviously saying, "Fuck holywood, we're going to make this one right." This one feels much more like, "Hey, we made a really successful movie, so we are God. Let's fuck with whatever we need to to get the holywood weaned audience in and happy."
umm...they filmed all three movies at the same time. So they couldn't have said, "oh the first one was a success, now lets change the second one." They did it all at once. It was planned that way from the beginning. As other people have said, books and movies are very different: in a book, you can have paragraphs of exposition where it's narrated and the plot is explained. In a movie, you have to rely on dialouge and scenery to tell a story. You have to make changes. Peter Jackson said (if you watch the directors commentary to the fellowship) that while he knew that people would be unhappy with some of the changes, he wanted to create an authentic middle earth. So if you don't like the story changes, fine, but appreciate the journey to middle earth.
I COMPLETELY agree! I recently bought the new 4-dvd fellowship of the rings, and was watching it with one of my roomates. He (who has not read the book) kept asking me questions about the story and I kept having answers. He even asked me, "how do you know so much more about the story than I do?" and I said, "because I've read the book, and everything is explained in so much more detail." If you read the book, you'll have such a deep understanding of the movie, it will make the movie so much more exciting for you. Seriously people, read the book, it's worth the thousand+ pages.
You mean like Redhat?
No. Redhat makes their money from support. Anyone can download, install, use, and get the source of everything in redhat. But if you need a professional to help you, then you pay for it. Supporting software and creating software are different.