Uhm, most of the time when I get some serious hardware to play with it will inspire me to do something with it. Actually it doesn't and that's why I am not a game developer. But a serious game developer should welcome new machines.
Yeez, lucky we have consumer rights here in Europe. 1,5 years of usage is not within the time-frame you would expect from such a product (say, 5 years) and you would get at least 80% reimbursed here in the Netherlands (probably in the form of a refurbished camcorder). That is, if you make a case out of it. Cracks would be a bit more troublesome, since you might have destroyed it yourself.
Another problem with your posting is that it is a single incident, and we cannot be sure if this happens a lot, if you actually owned this camcorder or even if you are really MrJerry. Ok, I'll take the last 2 for granted, but its difficult to create a graph from a test of one out of one. But I bet it's still frustrating for you.
Though I can see your points about moderation (+5 for something that is not true - according to you) I do have two minds about it. The problem is that to get something up to +5 within the short timeframe provided by slashdot, it's impossible to rely on experts only, or to double-check every story submitted. So people tend to look at layout, low/. subscription numbers, etc. In a perfect world this would not be happening, but sometimes such things are unavoidable. Please keep reading/. and post informative replies if you are thinking something is out of order. That will keep us on the right track. It did for this article...
Any program you write completely from scratch with C++ could be compiled for any platform. But if you use a third party API in C++ chances are it is not available to you in source, so you are stuck.
Close, but no cigar. If there are enough binaries for the different platforms, you might not need the code. The bigger problem is that people tend to stack libraries - e.g. on the Windows libraries. That will really get you stuck.
The thing about java is that everyone is forced to distribute "source", or more specifically, bytecode, which amounts to the same thing for cross-system compatibility purposes.
Byte-code is far from source. Though many names (public class names, method & field names) are preserved, none of the code within methods, as well as parameter names will be preserved. Please stick to the Virtual Machine paradigm instead - it pretty much explains itself.
Can you make non-portable "libraries" in Java? Yes.
Well, only if you move outside the Virtual Machine (JNI/exec() calls from the VM), since the default API is available on any supported platform. So that's pretty difficult indeed.
We are probably in the same mind on this issue, but it seems that your explanation is more confusing than it needs to be.
One of the big reason why Java is so interesting is the Sun API. Of course there are many extensions, and many of those are badly written. This is so with ANY language. The default Java API is far from perfect, but it provides a very stable platform to develop against, on any platform.
Actually, I think adobe acrobat is a great product, and getting (slightly) better with each new version. They understand plugins alright.
They forgot one thing though; YOU ONLY NEED TO LOAD FREGGIN' PLUGINS WHEN YOU NEED THEM. Not at application startup time. I am in the security field and I like the way they implement security features. But 99% of the time I am just viewing a PDF converted from some WYSIWYG editor...
Next version, start plugins only when needed (and unload them after use).
Because, as they said themselves, they have INTEGRATED Internet Explorer in the kernel. Not the complete GUI of course, but a lot of the software that does matter. And Outlook uses Internet Explorer to (pre)view messages. In other words, from Outlook you can gain super user rights without many problems, as many virii already have demonstrated. Microsoft forgot the layered software idea, and therefore destroyed security.
You could build hordes of nanobots with this invention and put a swarm in the flightpath of a landing airplane. Sure, most would be destroyed by the plane, the sucktion of the engines and the turbulence, but maybe one of them might hit a pilots eye with its tiny laser beam, the pilot might blink and crash his plane, threatening the USA and - of course - the whole world. This is a much more threatening situation than some terrorists taking flying lessons bang in the middle of the USA.
Espresso machines mysteriously satisfy all the Sims needs, Sims are suddenly comfortable with open relationships, and the social worker no longer cares how they treat their children...
I didn't know that game play had advanced to that level yet. It's almost real! Are we sure that these are hacks, or has the AI finally caught on?
The VIA EPIA boards are actually VERY good value for money, and I think you should reconsider buying one of these boards. They are perfectly fine with a small external power unit as well (I use a 53 watt power supply, which powers the 7200 RPM HDD and DVD player as well. It cost me 139 euro's back then for a 933 CPU and board. The same price will get you a 600 MHz FANLESS CPU and board including 2 x LAN, which you can just leave in open air. Try buying a PC for that kind of money:). Actually, I am going to buy a fanless one as well... Lovely things. Linux support is fine by the way.
Ssshht, it's sleeping most of the time:
01:11:20 up 136 days, 12:00, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.02, 0.00
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You are probably right. The NY times looses points for not pointing out this fact though. Normally a cut-out would be showing the inside of a *part* of the wheel as well, making it obvious that it is in fact a cut-out. This is needlessly confusing.
The law is supposed to strengthen rules created by society. If any law restricts change within that society then that law should be rewritten. In other words: society is the base, not the law.
I presume that if - after some rigorous testing - this tweel has been found to be a success, the law will change accordingly without to much fuss. If it doesn't, it is time to take a serious look at your political leaders.
I really wanted the Sony (2 x double density disk drive), but it was deemed too expensive by my parents. They bought the darn PC after quite a time of nagging from my side. It even had floppy disks and quite good graphics and sound for that time.
But the most important thing: it came with a MSX DOS & BASIC handbook. The thing booted in BASIC and I became used to loading the first games from that. The first BASIC programs (starting with the print statement in a loop), but in a few years I was even doing assembly stuff. Z80 is a fun and easy processor to program.
The problem back then was finding people with the same interest. There were a few that did some basic C64 stuff and even a few MSX owners around the place, but nothing fancy. The only advanced refference I got later was an MSX 2 reference book, but it was stolen out of the library by a misserable sod, who happens to be my friend until this day. I stole it back and got it laying around somewhere.
Currently the problem is getting a nice programming environment. HTML is just data, and JavaScript is awkward and ugly to program. No programming tools are installed with Windows as well (and Windows scripting is just too much). I wouldn't recommend scripting and OO is a bit much to start off with.
The good thing is the internet. LOGO is still around, and is probably a great thing to start off with (it's free you know). I've got LEGO mindstorms and that learn children the basics really easy, using flow diagrams, but it is pretty expensive (~250 dollars for the one you can program). Anything that is easy to learn and visual may sufice though. And make sure they've got plenty of refferences - get the school involved or something.
If everything fails, fall back to BASIC, even using an MSX emulator if you must. Don't forget to unlearn it though once they get the basics. Visual Basic is the worst PL on the planet.
You could have used it to make a special paintjob for Christmas. Just the first thought that popped into mind. Advertisements on cars (God forbid). Car races (red vs blue). Camouflage. Heat repellant. Dirt removal (first paint, then strip paint and dirt off). Ehm, need more?
Yep, and even then you are missing the visual clues. Saying yes, thank you with your middle finger sticking out for example. Suddenly it means a whole different thing.
Of course, running 2 or more OSes requires 2 or more times the CPU power in order to get similar performance to a one OS machine.
No it doesn't. Typically it isn't the operating system that takes that much CPU time but the applications (thank god). Some requests might be handled slightly slower, but the number of interupts etc. etc. will stay the same. Maybe there would be some trouble with large background tasks (find, defrag etc) but these tend to be rather IO sensitive instead of CPU sensitive.
Obviously approximately the same CPU power stays available for both OS'es. I presume that this won't speed up the CPU itself.
Well, if that kind of thing is called a feature I am calling quits. I've had too much problems with burning MP3 CD's where the filename was too long. With a backup application it is way worse. It should simply support endless filenames. If I wan't my hdd backed up I do not want to be hindered by some stupid application enforcing its standards on me. Especially not when I am in a hurry.
Note that Java supports inner classes, and concatenates the inner class name to the name of the owner class. The class names only have to be about 46 characters long for a class with ONE inner class. This goes only for the compiled classes, the source files do not use the inner class name.
Neh, compilation is pretty fine. You just compile it on the developers machine, and if the PATH and CLASSPATH variables are fine, then the Java application runs fine. I admit that getting those paths right can be sometimes hazardous. Even though Java 1.5 has versioning support and more configuration options, they are not quite there yet.
For your GUI: use SWT to use a GTK toolkit underneath. That will probably solve your X problems, and lets your Application have a native look and feel (which is a must IMHO). Obviously you will have to include SWT in your distribution. But hey, if you develop for windows not every library is pre-installed as well.
The MD5 hack only works for pre-calculated values. There is no way yet (and unlikely to be found in the near future) that calculates a collistion for a particular hash. So while using SHA-1 or newer is better, it would not make a difference in this case. So tripwire is still safe, unless you compromise it deliberately in advance.
Weird, I thought foxes always wear fur coats - their own. Wouldn't call that nude. This particular fox was missing a rather specific bit of coating though.
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...finally I won't get so tired looking for some mussels outside my cave!
Uhm, most of the time when I get some serious hardware to play with it will inspire me to do something with it. Actually it doesn't and that's why I am not a game developer. But a serious game developer should welcome new machines.
Yeez, lucky we have consumer rights here in Europe. 1,5 years of usage is not within the time-frame you would expect from such a product (say, 5 years) and you would get at least 80% reimbursed here in the Netherlands (probably in the form of a refurbished camcorder). That is, if you make a case out of it. Cracks would be a bit more troublesome, since you might have destroyed it yourself.
Another problem with your posting is that it is a single incident, and we cannot be sure if this happens a lot, if you actually owned this camcorder or even if you are really MrJerry. Ok, I'll take the last 2 for granted, but its difficult to create a graph from a test of one out of one. But I bet it's still frustrating for you.
2650 degrees kelvin? Are they going to produce some kind of metal?
Though I can see your points about moderation (+5 for something that is not true - according to you) I do have two minds about it. The problem is that to get something up to +5 within the short timeframe provided by slashdot, it's impossible to rely on experts only, or to double-check every story submitted. So people tend to look at layout, low /. subscription numbers, etc. In a perfect world this would not be happening, but sometimes such things are unavoidable. Please keep reading /. and post informative replies if you are thinking something is out of order. That will keep us on the right track. It did for this article...
Any program you write completely from scratch with C++ could be compiled for any platform. But if you use a third party API in C++ chances are it is not available to you in source, so you are stuck.
Close, but no cigar. If there are enough binaries for the different platforms, you might not need the code. The bigger problem is that people tend to stack libraries - e.g. on the Windows libraries. That will really get you stuck.
The thing about java is that everyone is forced to distribute "source", or more specifically, bytecode, which amounts to the same thing for cross-system compatibility purposes.
Byte-code is far from source. Though many names (public class names, method & field names) are preserved, none of the code within methods, as well as parameter names will be preserved. Please stick to the Virtual Machine paradigm instead - it pretty much explains itself.
Can you make non-portable "libraries" in Java? Yes.
Well, only if you move outside the Virtual Machine (JNI/exec() calls from the VM), since the default API is available on any supported platform. So that's pretty difficult indeed.
We are probably in the same mind on this issue, but it seems that your explanation is more confusing than it needs to be.
One of the big reason why Java is so interesting is the Sun API. Of course there are many extensions, and many of those are badly written. This is so with ANY language. The default Java API is far from perfect, but it provides a very stable platform to develop against, on any platform.
Actually, I think adobe acrobat is a great product, and getting (slightly) better with each new version. They understand plugins alright.
They forgot one thing though; YOU ONLY NEED TO LOAD FREGGIN' PLUGINS WHEN YOU NEED THEM. Not at application startup time. I am in the security field and I like the way they implement security features. But 99% of the time I am just viewing a PDF converted from some WYSIWYG editor...
Next version, start plugins only when needed (and unload them after use).
Because, as they said themselves, they have INTEGRATED Internet Explorer in the kernel. Not the complete GUI of course, but a lot of the software that does matter. And Outlook uses Internet Explorer to (pre)view messages. In other words, from Outlook you can gain super user rights without many problems, as many virii already have demonstrated. Microsoft forgot the layered software idea, and therefore destroyed security.
You could build hordes of nanobots with this invention and put a swarm in the flightpath of a landing airplane. Sure, most would be destroyed by the plane, the sucktion of the engines and the turbulence, but maybe one of them might hit a pilots eye with its tiny laser beam, the pilot might blink and crash his plane, threatening the USA and - of course - the whole world. This is a much more threatening situation than some terrorists taking flying lessons bang in the middle of the USA.
Espresso machines mysteriously satisfy all the Sims needs, Sims are suddenly comfortable with open relationships, and the social worker no longer cares how they treat their children...
I didn't know that game play had advanced to that level yet. It's almost real! Are we sure that these are hacks, or has the AI finally caught on?
The VIA EPIA boards are actually VERY good value for money, and I think you should reconsider buying one of these boards. They are perfectly fine with a small external power unit as well (I use a 53 watt power supply, which powers the 7200 RPM HDD and DVD player as well. It cost me 139 euro's back then for a 933 CPU and board. The same price will get you a 600 MHz FANLESS CPU and board including 2 x LAN, which you can just leave in open air. Try buying a PC for that kind of money :). Actually, I am going to buy a fanless one as well... Lovely things. Linux support is fine by the way.
Ssshht, it's sleeping most of the time:
01:11:20 up 136 days, 12:00, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.02, 0.00
You are probably right. The NY times looses points for not pointing out this fact though. Normally a cut-out would be showing the inside of a *part* of the wheel as well, making it obvious that it is in fact a cut-out. This is needlessly confusing.
The law is supposed to strengthen rules created by society. If any law restricts change within that society then that law should be rewritten. In other words: society is the base, not the law.
I presume that if - after some rigorous testing - this tweel has been found to be a success, the law will change accordingly without to much fuss. If it doesn't, it is time to take a serious look at your political leaders.
I really wanted the Sony (2 x double density disk drive), but it was deemed too expensive by my parents. They bought the darn PC after quite a time of nagging from my side. It even had floppy disks and quite good graphics and sound for that time.
But the most important thing: it came with a MSX DOS & BASIC handbook. The thing booted in BASIC and I became used to loading the first games from that. The first BASIC programs (starting with the print statement in a loop), but in a few years I was even doing assembly stuff. Z80 is a fun and easy processor to program.
The problem back then was finding people with the same interest. There were a few that did some basic C64 stuff and even a few MSX owners around the place, but nothing fancy. The only advanced refference I got later was an MSX 2 reference book, but it was stolen out of the library by a misserable sod, who happens to be my friend until this day. I stole it back and got it laying around somewhere.
Currently the problem is getting a nice programming environment. HTML is just data, and JavaScript is awkward and ugly to program. No programming tools are installed with Windows as well (and Windows scripting is just too much). I wouldn't recommend scripting and OO is a bit much to start off with.
The good thing is the internet. LOGO is still around, and is probably a great thing to start off with (it's free you know). I've got LEGO mindstorms and that learn children the basics really easy, using flow diagrams, but it is pretty expensive (~250 dollars for the one you can program). Anything that is easy to learn and visual may sufice though. And make sure they've got plenty of refferences - get the school involved or something.
If everything fails, fall back to BASIC, even using an MSX emulator if you must. Don't forget to unlearn it though once they get the basics. Visual Basic is the worst PL on the planet.
You could have used it to make a special paintjob for Christmas. Just the first thought that popped into mind. Advertisements on cars (God forbid). Car races (red vs blue). Camouflage. Heat repellant. Dirt removal (first paint, then strip paint and dirt off). Ehm, need more?
Use the TV screen as monitor? You *must* be single! Oh wait, this is slashdot.
Yep, and even then you are missing the visual clues. Saying yes, thank you with your middle finger sticking out for example. Suddenly it means a whole different thing.
Of course, running 2 or more OSes requires 2 or more times the CPU power in order to get similar performance to a one OS machine.
No it doesn't. Typically it isn't the operating system that takes that much CPU time but the applications (thank god). Some requests might be handled slightly slower, but the number of interupts etc. etc. will stay the same. Maybe there would be some trouble with large background tasks (find, defrag etc) but these tend to be rather IO sensitive instead of CPU sensitive.
Obviously approximately the same CPU power stays available for both OS'es. I presume that this won't speed up the CPU itself.
Well, if that kind of thing is called a feature I am calling quits. I've had too much problems with burning MP3 CD's where the filename was too long. With a backup application it is way worse. It should simply support endless filenames. If I wan't my hdd backed up I do not want to be hindered by some stupid application enforcing its standards on me. Especially not when I am in a hurry.
Note that Java supports inner classes, and concatenates the inner class name to the name of the owner class. The class names only have to be about 46 characters long for a class with ONE inner class. This goes only for the compiled classes, the source files do not use the inner class name.
Still, 100 characters is a bit much.
Neh, compilation is pretty fine. You just compile it on the developers machine, and if the PATH and CLASSPATH variables are fine, then the Java application runs fine. I admit that getting those paths right can be sometimes hazardous. Even though Java 1.5 has versioning support and more configuration options, they are not quite there yet.
For your GUI: use SWT to use a GTK toolkit underneath. That will probably solve your X problems, and lets your Application have a native look and feel (which is a must IMHO). Obviously you will have to include SWT in your distribution. But hey, if you develop for windows not every library is pre-installed as well.
No, that is:
The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
The MD5 hack only works for pre-calculated values. There is no way yet (and unlikely to be found in the near future) that calculates a collistion for a particular hash. So while using SHA-1 or newer is better, it would not make a difference in this case. So tripwire is still safe, unless you compromise it deliberately in advance.
Sorry, but I don't believe a word of it. NOBODY listens to embedded midi's.
Weird, I thought foxes always wear fur coats - their own. Wouldn't call that nude. This particular fox was missing a rather specific bit of coating though.