I can think of few things that can destroy an economy faster than having a large amount of workers with ZERO job stability.
What do think caused all of the stock market crashes: volatility. When you have people with no stability, like say working for a few days, then trying to find another job, they spend most of their time trying to find a job rather than actually working and doing something productive. Worse yet, with this kind of stability, people can not even begin to image of buying a house, a car, and I doubt working day to day, you can even get an apartment.
This form of volatile, "at-will" employment is just INSANE.
I suspect that most search engines classify.h as a C file. In reality it could be either, and far and away the most common practice is for C++ to also use.h for header files.
On in extremely rare cases have I seen anything other than.h for C++ headers. Once in a great while, I've come across.hxx (there used to be a company that wrote compilers for Windows shareware developers called Borland that used.hxx or maybe.hpp I think) On SGI, I think I've once or twice seen.hh
A: You should NOT be giving the impression that either Google or Apple use Qt because you found a few independent developers how make apps for Android or iOS which happen to use Qt.
B: The OSX VLC GUI is written with Cocoa/Objective C, the only platform than I know is Qt is Linux.
I haven't used them much on Windows, but Qt apps on OSX are always a train wreck, nothing feels write, everything looks fake (because it is fake, all the controls are emulated), nothing lines up, and all look like a warmed over Win3.1 app with a cheesy emulated OSX skin. Linux is usually the only platform where Qt apps work well.
Who in their right minds would use a closed source proprietary language that is locked to Windows from a company that is NOT Microsoft and is on the verge of their next bankruptcy/sale/???
What could delphi possibly every offer that in not in not available in C#??? With C#, at least you have a solid company behind it (Microsoft). Ive seen this so-called Delphi cross platform and it is an utter joke. The dev environment is completely locked to Windows, the apps it generates don't even vaguely resemble a native Mac application. Visual Studio is freaking FREE, yes, FREE, and supported by an actual company like Microsoft.
The company has such a great track record as well, lets see, it was borland, then they had this brilliant idea to throw everything away and wrap everything around QT, then they threw all that away, went bankrupt and became inprise. Then that went bankrupt, assets were bought by code gear, that went bankrupt, assets bought by what embarcadero now. How long until this joke goes bankrupt.
You want cross platform, use something that actually has a standard like C#, C++ or Java.
I guess Delphi is great for maintaining your shareware windows applications you wrote back in 1995.
How about interacting with others, well Delphi is such a joke that it can't even use a C++ library compiled with MSVC, and what 3 people on the planet actually use Delphi, so I guess you could work with them???
Funny how every company I've ever worked for "used to be Borland shop". Think about it.
400 lines of shell script is just absolutely ridiculously long. These shell scripts co-mingle configuration with business logic, a recipe for disaster. I'm not blaming them, they are a product of their time, the 1970's, back when shell scripts were the only option for configuring a system. Before we had a declarative rule based system of configuration. And then hack upon hack upon hack got added to these shell scripts.
Its the same idea as concatenating a bunch of strings together at run-time to create a sql query. Sure, its quick, dirty but is a security disaster (ever hear of SQL injection). As apposed to having some proper stored procedures in the database itself, and only sending and receiving parameters and data from the database.
A tangled maze of shell scripts was perfectly acceptable in the 1970's but we need to move beyond this, we need to move to a grown up rule based system that cleanly separates business logic from configuration parameters.
However, I don't understand the blatant systemd misrepresentation/hatred
About 80% of the hatred comes from the bandwagon effect. I'll bet the vast majority of the haters have no idea who Poettering, only he's some bad guy we have to hate. The other 20% of the hate comes from graybeard sys admins who know the unique file formats of the 1000 different config utilities Linux has traditionally had and are either afraid to learn anything new or afraid that they might not be so indispensable at their jobs.
What systemd does is give a single consistent way of configuring the system. You want security nightmare, how about the 1000's of freaking shell scripts that call each other in a giant mass of spaghetti to configure a traditional Linux system.
One of the great benefits of systemd is that it is written in C and not a giant mess of shell scripts. With C, you actually get COMPILE TIME CHECKING. With these dammed shell scripts, you have no idea if they work up until they run, and you have no idea what execution path they could go through. Shell scripts are fine a glue code for user programs, but give me something with some static checking like C for critical components.
My home server is an old blue and white Apple G3 running Yellow Dog.
Sure I've added a Sata card and a GB Ethernet a while back and it's got 6 TB in a software raid.
But it's a server, why would a server ever need more processor, all it does is read/write stuff between Ethernet and disk. I'll keep running it until it finally dies.
You expect me to take a paper, especially a physics written in MS Word seriously. Sorry, lost all credibility when a physicist can't even figure out LaTeX.
I really miss installing slackware from a 6" tall stack of floppies. Much like the sysv init, floppies are a tried and proven technology and we should accept that CDROMs and God forbid, DVDs are just far too radical of an experiment.
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We also need trusted technologies like token ring networks. Just look at what kind of radical experimentation is going on with ethernet: they can't even agree what kind of ethernet we should use, should it be 10 base-t, or maybe 100 base-t or how about 1000 base-t, just too radical changes, we need to stick with what is tried and proven for veteran administrators, like token ring.
I was talking about these hybrid (rubber / NOx) vs liquid (kerosene / O2) engines.
I know conventional solid do make more thrust, but are not controllable -- hence they make a good booster but not a main engine.
It would seem like for a main engine, conventional liquid would give the most thrust and the most controllability.
Don't conventional liquid engines give significantly more thrust per weight of propellent. From everything I've read, these hybrid designs are also far less controllable and have all sorts of odd dynamics as the solid propellent burns away.
Is this even true? I did some goggling, and could not find *any* official or otherwise direct statement from PETA.
In any case, I think PETA badly dilutes its message by frequently saying borderline ridiculous statements.
No living being should be subject to the kinds of torture in medical tests, period!.
That begin said, there is no problem with animals and humans cooperating. Camels carry a load, and in return they are fed and cared for. Whats wrong with that. Its called a *symbiotic* relationship in case you forgot sixth grade ecology. If farm animals are well cared for, and killed instantly for meat, well, I guess I'm sort of essentially OK with that.
They already have, why do you think I switched to a local ISP.
When I used to have comcrap, the moment I turned on a bit torrent client, they throttled my connection both ways down to less than 100 k.
Has anyone seriously used this for anything other than writing Windows shareware in the 1990s?
I really have no problems with the language, even used it in the 1990s, actually pretty decent. But what an idiotic company behind it. Basically Borland's company strategy was: "Lets go muzzle to muzzle against Microsoft with our closed source language that only runs on Microsoft Windows, and lets charge a lot of money for our language thats completely incompatible with, but sort of resembles Microsoft C# when Microsoft lets you have Visual Studio for free".
If they would have open sourced so it could be cross platform, it or had some way of using your existing C++ code they might have had a chance. But yet again, a half way decent environment ruined by a completely idiotic company.
* yes, evidently the new version is "cross platform", but it a joke. The thing only runs on Windows which generates a binary that looks like it has some sort of emulation environment in it, then copy and hope that it runs on a Mac. And, they don't even remotely resemble Mac apps, looks similar to an Gnome/Qt app running on Linux with an OSX theme.
Seems like a cool idea, just concerned about how much overhead the software will cause.
So, basically, it needs to continuously poll the frame buffer, copy over a fairly huge block of data, rip through the pixel data to determine the mean colors, and then set the device color though the USB port.
I really would have preferred an all hardware solution where its a pass through of your DVI / HDMI, and there would be a DSP that analyzed the HDMI stream and set the color accordingly.
Right, I was expecting something exactly like this, and I'm pretty sure there's the equivalent in.net.
I would say, probably 99% of Windows apps are written in either C++ or.net, they would just call either GetVersionEx, or whatever the.net version is, and they would have the exact major and minor version. So, it basically makes no sense using a Java example of getting the OS version string, as essentially nobody uses Java for any tightly integrated desktop app where you need to know exactly what version of Windows you're on.
I do use a number of libraries in my code (C++), and all the ones I've seen give you standard major and minor versions which I check.
Does anybody seriously write any platform specific desktop code in Java that needs to check the Windows version??
What's the standard Windows API, or.net function to get the Windows version string? Doesn't this return actual version numbers and not a string that you have to parse?
They probably only need just TWO employees, a CEO to get the money, and a secretary to collect it.
Every single action Microsoft makes is met with incessant criticism. This makes a lot of sense as for two decades the Microsoft marketing machine has firmly established this universal notion that anything different than Windows is scary, different, and OMG, *incompatible*. That worked very so well as no Windows user wants anything different than what they have right now.
So, all Microsoft should do is just keep printing copies of Windows XP, since that what everyone wants, and just keep collecting the money. Users would be a LOT happier as they would never have to worry about any change, and the CEO would be happy as he can just keep collecting the money with no effort.
I think I might have to give VIM yet another try, thing this will be try 7 or 8 now.
Eclipse used to have an Emacs key binding plugin, but it was abandoned a few years ago, and its !uck&ing annoying going back and forth between Eclipse and Emacs key binding.
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What do think caused all of the stock market crashes: volatility. When you have people with no stability, like say working for a few days, then trying to find another job, they spend most of their time trying to find a job rather than actually working and doing something productive. Worse yet, with this kind of stability, people can not even begin to image of buying a house, a car, and I doubt working day to day, you can even get an apartment.
This form of volatile, "at-will" employment is just INSANE.
I suspect that most search engines classify .h as a C file. In reality it could be either, and far and away the most common practice is for C++ to also use .h for header files.
.h for C++ headers. Once in a great while, I've come across .hxx (there used to be a company that wrote compilers for Windows shareware developers called Borland that used .hxx or maybe .hpp I think) On SGI, I think I've once or twice seen .hh
On in extremely rare cases have I seen anything other than
But who would do that?
A: You should NOT be giving the impression that either Google or Apple use Qt because you found a few independent developers how make apps for Android or iOS which happen to use Qt.
B: The OSX VLC GUI is written with Cocoa/Objective C, the only platform than I know is Qt is Linux.
I haven't used them much on Windows, but Qt apps on OSX are always a train wreck, nothing feels write, everything looks fake (because it is fake, all the controls are emulated), nothing lines up, and all look like a warmed over Win3.1 app with a cheesy emulated OSX skin. Linux is usually the only platform where Qt apps work well.
What could delphi possibly every offer that in not in not available in C#??? With C#, at least you have a solid company behind it (Microsoft). Ive seen this so-called Delphi cross platform and it is an utter joke. The dev environment is completely locked to Windows, the apps it generates don't even vaguely resemble a native Mac application. Visual Studio is freaking FREE, yes, FREE, and supported by an actual company like Microsoft.
The company has such a great track record as well, lets see, it was borland, then they had this brilliant idea to throw everything away and wrap everything around QT, then they threw all that away, went bankrupt and became inprise. Then that went bankrupt, assets were bought by code gear, that went bankrupt, assets bought by what embarcadero now. How long until this joke goes bankrupt.
You want cross platform, use something that actually has a standard like C#, C++ or Java.
I guess Delphi is great for maintaining your shareware windows applications you wrote back in 1995.
How about interacting with others, well Delphi is such a joke that it can't even use a C++ library compiled with MSVC, and what 3 people on the planet actually use Delphi, so I guess you could work with them???
Funny how every company I've ever worked for "used to be Borland shop". Think about it.
400 lines of shell script is just absolutely ridiculously long. These shell scripts co-mingle configuration with business logic, a recipe for disaster. I'm not blaming them, they are a product of their time, the 1970's, back when shell scripts were the only option for configuring a system. Before we had a declarative rule based system of configuration. And then hack upon hack upon hack got added to these shell scripts.
Its the same idea as concatenating a bunch of strings together at run-time to create a sql query. Sure, its quick, dirty but is a security disaster (ever hear of SQL injection). As apposed to having some proper stored procedures in the database itself, and only sending and receiving parameters and data from the database.
A tangled maze of shell scripts was perfectly acceptable in the 1970's but we need to move beyond this, we need to move to a grown up rule based system that cleanly separates business logic from configuration parameters.
However, I don't understand the blatant systemd misrepresentation/hatred
About 80% of the hatred comes from the bandwagon effect. I'll bet the vast majority of the haters have no idea who Poettering, only he's some bad guy we have to hate. The other 20% of the hate comes from graybeard sys admins who know the unique file formats of the 1000 different config utilities Linux has traditionally had and are either afraid to learn anything new or afraid that they might not be so indispensable at their jobs.
What systemd does is give a single consistent way of configuring the system. You want security nightmare, how about the 1000's of freaking shell scripts that call each other in a giant mass of spaghetti to configure a traditional Linux system.
One of the great benefits of systemd is that it is written in C and not a giant mess of shell scripts. With C, you actually get COMPILE TIME CHECKING. With these dammed shell scripts, you have no idea if they work up until they run, and you have no idea what execution path they could go through. Shell scripts are fine a glue code for user programs, but give me something with some static checking like C for critical components.
My bet would be 15-20 years. Originally, I'd guess it would be closer to 20 years, but being a RedHat employee, he might speed up the process.
Can you 3D print vertebrae out of adamantium?
Had to ask.
What about neck injury for always tilting your head up an down.
My home server is an old blue and white Apple G3 running Yellow Dog.
Sure I've added a Sata card and a GB Ethernet a while back and it's got 6 TB in a software raid.
But it's a server, why would a server ever need more processor, all it does is read/write stuff between Ethernet and disk. I'll keep running it until it finally dies.
You expect me to take a paper, especially a physics written in MS Word seriously. Sorry, lost all credibility when a physicist can't even figure out LaTeX.
I really miss installing slackware from a 6" tall stack of floppies. Much like the sysv init, floppies are a tried and proven technology and we should accept that CDROMs and God forbid, DVDs are just far too radical of an experiment.
. We also need trusted technologies like token ring networks. Just look at what kind of radical experimentation is going on with ethernet: they can't even agree what kind of ethernet we should use, should it be 10 base-t, or maybe 100 base-t or how about 1000 base-t, just too radical changes, we need to stick with what is tried and proven for veteran administrators, like token ring.
I was talking about these hybrid (rubber / NOx) vs liquid (kerosene / O2) engines. I know conventional solid do make more thrust, but are not controllable -- hence they make a good booster but not a main engine. It would seem like for a main engine, conventional liquid would give the most thrust and the most controllability.
Don't conventional liquid engines give significantly more thrust per weight of propellent. From everything I've read, these hybrid designs are also far less controllable and have all sorts of odd dynamics as the solid propellent burns away.
So, you're telling me that the FreeBSD kernel now has to be compiled with support for every piece of hardware out there?
Are you fucking serious? FreeBSD no longer supports drivers that were not statically compiled into the kernel?
This is either a joke or has to be the most idiotic thing I've ever heard of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Is this even true? I did some goggling, and could not find *any* official or otherwise direct statement from PETA.
In any case, I think PETA badly dilutes its message by frequently saying borderline ridiculous statements.
No living being should be subject to the kinds of torture in medical tests, period!.
That begin said, there is no problem with animals and humans cooperating. Camels carry a load, and in return they are fed and cared for. Whats wrong with that. Its called a *symbiotic* relationship in case you forgot sixth grade ecology. If farm animals are well cared for, and killed instantly for meat, well, I guess I'm sort of essentially OK with that.
They already have, why do you think I switched to a local ISP. When I used to have comcrap, the moment I turned on a bit torrent client, they throttled my connection both ways down to less than 100 k.
Has anyone seriously used this for anything other than writing Windows shareware in the 1990s?
I really have no problems with the language, even used it in the 1990s, actually pretty decent. But what an idiotic company behind it. Basically Borland's company strategy was: "Lets go muzzle to muzzle against Microsoft with our closed source language that only runs on Microsoft Windows, and lets charge a lot of money for our language thats completely incompatible with, but sort of resembles Microsoft C# when Microsoft lets you have Visual Studio for free".
If they would have open sourced so it could be cross platform, it or had some way of using your existing C++ code they might have had a chance. But yet again, a half way decent environment ruined by a completely idiotic company.
* yes, evidently the new version is "cross platform", but it a joke. The thing only runs on Windows which generates a binary that looks like it has some sort of emulation environment in it, then copy and hope that it runs on a Mac. And, they don't even remotely resemble Mac apps, looks similar to an Gnome/Qt app running on Linux with an OSX theme.
Seems like a cool idea, just concerned about how much overhead the software will cause.
So, basically, it needs to continuously poll the frame buffer, copy over a fairly huge block of data, rip through the pixel data to determine the mean colors, and then set the device color though the USB port.
I really would have preferred an all hardware solution where its a pass through of your DVI / HDMI, and there would be a DSP that analyzed the HDMI stream and set the color accordingly.
Right, I was expecting something exactly like this, and I'm pretty sure there's the equivalent in .net.
.net, they would just call either GetVersionEx, or whatever the .net version is, and they would have the exact major and minor version. So, it basically makes no sense using a Java example of getting the OS version string, as essentially nobody uses Java for any tightly integrated desktop app where you need to know exactly what version of Windows you're on.
I would say, probably 99% of Windows apps are written in either C++ or
I do use a number of libraries in my code (C++), and all the ones I've seen give you standard major and minor versions which I check.
Does anybody seriously write any platform specific desktop code in Java that needs to check the Windows version??
.net function to get the Windows version string? Doesn't this return actual version numbers and not a string that you have to parse?
What's the standard Windows API, or
Can't believe I'm the first one to comment about adamantium replacement bones.
Once adamantium is set, it can't be broken, so an additive printing system like 3D printing would be perfect for making adamantium parts.
They probably only need just TWO employees, a CEO to get the money, and a secretary to collect it.
Every single action Microsoft makes is met with incessant criticism. This makes a lot of sense as for two decades the Microsoft marketing machine has firmly established this universal notion that anything different than Windows is scary, different, and OMG, *incompatible*. That worked very so well as no Windows user wants anything different than what they have right now.
So, all Microsoft should do is just keep printing copies of Windows XP, since that what everyone wants, and just keep collecting the money. Users would be a LOT happier as they would never have to worry about any change, and the CEO would be happy as he can just keep collecting the money with no effort.
I think I might have to give VIM yet another try, thing this will be try 7 or 8 now.
Eclipse used to have an Emacs key binding plugin, but it was abandoned a few years ago, and its !uck&ing annoying going back and forth between Eclipse and Emacs key binding.