There are XP features that some programs require that are not at all obvious. Just loading the app and clicking for five minutes does not mean that "everything works fine".
Two monitors are a godsend for any kind of GUI development. Debugger goes on one, the app in the other. It's no fun trying to debug a GUI when every time you switch to the debugger you get more draw events.
Definitely. Half-life 2 ran just fine on my box with what is now a $50 video card. Didn't look great compared to on a better card, bot on the other hand, it looked better than Half-Life 1, so who cares?
You'd think a lawyer would have been smart enough to read this.
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Whichever license you plan to use, the process involves adding two elements to each source file of your program: a copyright notice (such as "Copyright 1999 Linda Jones"), and a statement of copying permission, saying that the program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (or the Lesser GPL).
A quick perusal of any GPL'd software in the world would have shown how full of shit the guy was.
What I've often seen is that really smart people can end up being really stupid because they have not yet run into that challenge that really tests them, so they don't have the experience of having to do real intellectual work. I remember a friend in high school who sailed through everything and got a near perfect score on the SAT only to crash and burn, flunking everything his first year. He'd gotten by his entire life on quick thinking, and had never had to do any real intellectual heavy lifting and when confronted with the need, he simply did not have an practice.
This is not to say all really smart people do this. But it is a danger among the smart who never really made themselves work.
I beg to differ. I'm a huge PKD fan, and have read the novel numerous times and while Bladerunner did not slavishly follow the plot of the book (which, in truth, was no where near PKD's best anyway), Scott got the theme.
You do realize that if you convert a lossy format (WMA) into another lossy format (AAC), it's going to sound worse regardless of whether the one is better than the other, right?
The fact is that Sirius is acting a lot like a dot.com company. They're betting that they get a lot more subscribers before they burn through the cash...
Blade Runner was not only a better film then Alien, it was also a more influential one. Don't get me wrong...Alien is one of my top twenty, but Blade Runner is a fundamentally better film. It attempts more and succeeds.
Not necessarily, as airtime is a limited resource. They probably assume that they can put another show in its place that'll bring in more ad revenue. This is quite rational if a show has a strong fan base but gets low overall numbers.
The shows that do best are stuff that appeals enough to lots and lots of people so that they watch it instead of the other channel. (Roughly speaking.) Lots of people watch stuff on TV just because it's there. A show that most people don't care for but that a few people love will do horribly.
DVD sales are the opposite. A show makes lots of money on DVD if it can convince someone to pay $59.95 or more for a season. The only people who are going to do this are rabid fans. So on DVD, a show with a bunch of rabid fans will do better than a show that everyone sort of likes but no one loves.
That's why a "Firefly" can sell more DVDs than "Everybody Loves Raymond". Fewer people like "Firefly", so it got poorer ratings. But the number of people who loved "Firefly" is greater than those who loved "Everybody Loves Raymond", so it sold more DVDs.
If shows start going "straight to DVD", it could be very good for those of us who likes niche shows. Producers will have to worry less about appealing to the entire TV viewing population and will pay more attention to the rabid fanbase.
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I've written GUIs in C# as well, high performance, flashy GUIs. What I found is that C++ is between 2 and 4 times faster for such code.
That may be acceptable, and it may not be. But the performance hit is definitely there, and it is visible to users as a less responsive UI.
There are XP features that some programs require that are not at all obvious. Just loading the app and clicking for five minutes does not mean that "everything works fine".
It's not faster than XP. Turn off all the graphical bullshit so that XP looks like Win2k and it'll run as fast as Win2k.
Two monitors are a godsend for any kind of GUI development. Debugger goes on one, the app in the other. It's no fun trying to debug a GUI when every time you switch to the debugger you get more draw events.
Definitely. Half-life 2 ran just fine on my box with what is now a $50 video card. Didn't look great compared to on a better card, bot on the other hand, it looked better than Half-Life 1, so who cares?
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A quick perusal of any GPL'd software in the world would have shown how full of shit the guy was.
This means that half the applications will put music in "Documents\Music" and the other half will put music in "My Documents\My Music".
How many people will go three days without access to a phone?
Yeah, what a dumb idea.
What I've often seen is that really smart people can end up being really stupid because they have not yet run into that challenge that really tests them, so they don't have the experience of having to do real intellectual work. I remember a friend in high school who sailed through everything and got a near perfect score on the SAT only to crash and burn, flunking everything his first year. He'd gotten by his entire life on quick thinking, and had never had to do any real intellectual heavy lifting and when confronted with the need, he simply did not have an practice.
This is not to say all really smart people do this. But it is a danger among the smart who never really made themselves work.
The MS product that has long had dynamic tabs like Firefox is the Visual Studio IDE.
Good point.
Really, I just want decent OO.
I wish they'd extend it by replacing it with python.
Well, technically you could water the plants with your coffee for all they care. They provide it so that you can give them money.
I beg to differ. I'm a huge PKD fan, and have read the novel numerous times and while Bladerunner did not slavishly follow the plot of the book (which, in truth, was no where near PKD's best anyway), Scott got the theme.
You do realize that if you convert a lossy format (WMA) into another lossy format (AAC), it's going to sound worse regardless of whether the one is better than the other, right?
The fact is that Sirius is acting a lot like a dot.com company. They're betting that they get a lot more subscribers before they burn through the cash...
A dotcom like amazon.com, you mean?
Blade Runner was not only a better film then Alien, it was also a more influential one. Don't get me wrong...Alien is one of my top twenty, but Blade Runner is a fundamentally better film. It attempts more and succeeds.
You need to include the power savings due to the lower cooling requirements.
I bet Google Monday has a dull grey background.
Scanning/copying copyrighted works is perfectly legal. Copyright infringement only occurs when you give the copy/scan to someone else.
(4) should go between (1) and (2)
You must be new here. The rule is that each editor submits his own version of the story.
They found that this was a lot easier than actually reading their own site.
The shows that do best are stuff that appeals enough to lots and lots of people so that they watch it instead of the other channel. (Roughly speaking.) Lots of people watch stuff on TV just because it's there. A show that most people don't care for but that a few people love will do horribly.
DVD sales are the opposite. A show makes lots of money on DVD if it can convince someone to pay $59.95 or more for a season. The only people who are going to do this are rabid fans. So on DVD, a show with a bunch of rabid fans will do better than a show that everyone sort of likes but no one loves.
That's why a "Firefly" can sell more DVDs than "Everybody Loves Raymond". Fewer people like "Firefly", so it got poorer ratings. But the number of people who loved "Firefly" is greater than those who loved "Everybody Loves Raymond", so it sold more DVDs.
If shows start going "straight to DVD", it could be very good for those of us who likes niche shows. Producers will have to worry less about appealing to the entire TV viewing population and will pay more attention to the rabid fanbase.
"Spam" is short for "SPiced hAM".