Okay, your hardware is little old and you're using W2K. That explains a lot. I have AMD 2600+, 1.5 GB RAM and Windows XP. I'm not running Anti-Virus or Ad-Aware programs. Well, I've checked my computer couple of times for viruses and found absolutely nothing.
My program works on Linux, FreeBSD and Windows without... reassembling it (is that the correct word?). I don't know if assemblies are portable across different processor architectures, but I guess it runs on StrongARM also (Windows CE). I've never used AIX and so haven't 99% of rest of the world, I couldn't really care less for it.
But Nokia... That's intresting. I didn't know that Nokia makes operating systems. Maybe you meant Symbian? Well, Symbian is so full of crab that I refuse to work on it anymore. Two years of Symbian C++ (my god, they have even twisted C++) was enough.
Haha. I'm using Visual Studio 2005 beta 2 and SQL Express currently. I had VS 2005 beta 1 and SQL Server 2005 beta on my computer earlier; they weren't big successes I have to admit. But this beta 2 is absolutely fabulous! No more hitting CTRL+SPACE to get the code completion to work. No more hassling with IIS when developing ASP.NET sites (VS2005 has built-in development server). Server Explorer is excellent (I think VS2003 had it also, now it has been improved). And heck! I even like generics even though I used to hate templates in C++:)
You got something wrong in your Windows. I'm copying ~10 gig Virtual PC file to another drive and writing this message, playing MP3 from same drive I'm copying (with MWP), using SSH-client and even compiling C#.NET application at the same time. No responsiveness problems, no locking-up or anything. I don't have floppy drive attached so I can't try what it would do, but copying from DVD doesn't cause any problems.
Maybe your hardware is broken?
If you are so paranoid, why don't you just install WinPCap and Ethereal on your machine and see what MS is uploading to their servers. And after that you can come back to Slashdot to throw wild accusations and spread some FUD.
> Accepting the EULA -is- the final step of the transaction. Even though you paid for a box with Microsoft software in it at the cash register, even though you got the bill, paid the money and said "good-bye" to the shopkeeper, you haven't finished the purchase.
In Finland (if I remember correctly) it is required by law that customer know every restriction about product _before_ he/she buys the product. When the money has changed hands the product is yours and no other restrictions can be included afterwards. This concerns cases where the seller is a company and the buyer is a normal person, between companies things are totally different.
If some of my fellow Finlanders knows better (since I'm not a lawyer), please correct me and I stand corrected.
"a player may occasionally think they have shot an opponent in a game and is surprised when his target refuses to die..."
Well, this is normal. This happens in Counter Strike all the time. You think you just emptied the magazine of your AK-47 to other player's back but after a second you get shot yourself. Then you check the damages you made to him from console only to see that every bullet got lost in bit-heaven:)
So we are sending back those anal-probes (remember South Park and Cartman with 30 feet satellite disc coming from his rear end?) they've been installing to us for some time now?
> whens the last time you used ctrl+c and ctrl+v to move and deposit physical objects (rhetorical)?
When was the last time you moved or copied text from one paper to another with moving your hand over it (like you would move mouse), pressing your index finger down, "folding" your papers by moving your hand and lifting your index finger up? I'm not trying to be mean here, but sometimes you can't just mix real world physical objects and computer world virtual objects and especially their functionalities.
But this folding gives me an idea of another kind of drag'n'dropping, which I think I'm going to implement some day. But I'm not telling what it is until I have patented it:)
I don't know how this is going to be in Monad but there is at least one answer to your question number 2.
Monad doesn't have to run the previous program to know the output for the second program. It just inspects program's (assembly's) manifest. I would do it like this:
// ls.exe public class Output { public string Name; public int Size; }
Now Monad just loops through fields and it knows the output "schema." This is called reflection and it's relatively easy way to inspect assemblies, I've used it many times.
Benchmarks? Why do you want benchmarks from OpenBSD? Everybody knows it sucks compared in speed to other OSes so there really isn't need for benchmarks. OpenBSD was never about speed but security and all the "benchmark" I need is this: http://secunia.com/product/100/
But doesn't MS discourage you from using form example long datatype and tell you to use macro LONG instead? I thought those macros was designed just for situations like this where you are porting your app from 32 bit to 64 bit environment.
First, Windows CE has a s**t load of documentation in MSDN and device manufacturers produce more. Symbian on the other hand has so lousy documentation that it's dangerous to human psyche to read that and it has many errors and so on.
Second, Windows CE emulators works as a dream. Sybmian emulators are like crippled version of the real phone with many features missing. This means that you can't debug any software that uses for example phone features.
Some databases are able to rollback to a specified date. When they see that database has been tampered they will surely (hopelly) check backup db also. And if that is tampered too, they will just roll the whole database back to day before you commited your horrible act:)
So you are saying that if you don't know every god damn API in Windows, you can't write software? For crying out loud browse to msdn.microsoft.org or choose different OS like Linux where everything is so open.
What I've read is that there is some mechanism which controls "pain signals" traveling in body. It is very good for survival when you are running away from some axe-murderer and your ankle is hurt or something. But anyway, maybe that mechanism has something to do with placebo effect desribed in TFA.
In one of my former job (software company, about 50 employees) our HR manager was a guy whose last position was working as job interviewer at McDonalds. Do I really have to say more?:)
gets(buffer); if (userIsAllowedToDoAnythingHeLikes) {
gets(buffer);
system(buffer); }
No when user writes 101 bytes to buffer that boolean value is overwritten and it isn't false anymore. Proper way would be to replace that gets function with fread and make sure that user can't write anything over 100 bytes.
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Okay, your hardware is little old and you're using W2K. That explains a lot. I have AMD 2600+, 1.5 GB RAM and Windows XP. I'm not running Anti-Virus or Ad-Aware programs. Well, I've checked my computer couple of times for viruses and found absolutely nothing.
... reassembling it (is that the correct word?). I don't know if assemblies are portable across different processor architectures, but I guess it runs on StrongARM also (Windows CE). I've never used AIX and so haven't 99% of rest of the world, I couldn't really care less for it.
My program works on Linux, FreeBSD and Windows without
But Nokia... That's intresting. I didn't know that Nokia makes operating systems. Maybe you meant Symbian? Well, Symbian is so full of crab that I refuse to work on it anymore. Two years of Symbian C++ (my god, they have even twisted C++) was enough.
Haha. I'm using Visual Studio 2005 beta 2 and SQL Express currently. I had VS 2005 beta 1 and SQL Server 2005 beta on my computer earlier; they weren't big successes I have to admit. But this beta 2 is absolutely fabulous! No more hitting CTRL+SPACE to get the code completion to work. No more hassling with IIS when developing ASP.NET sites (VS2005 has built-in development server). Server Explorer is excellent (I think VS2003 had it also, now it has been improved). And heck! I even like generics even though I used to hate templates in C++ :)
It's good to be VSIP.
You got something wrong in your Windows. I'm copying ~10 gig Virtual PC file to another drive and writing this message, playing MP3 from same drive I'm copying (with MWP), using SSH-client and even compiling C#.NET application at the same time. No responsiveness problems, no locking-up or anything. I don't have floppy drive attached so I can't try what it would do, but copying from DVD doesn't cause any problems. Maybe your hardware is broken?
If you are so paranoid, why don't you just install WinPCap and Ethereal on your machine and see what MS is uploading to their servers. And after that you can come back to Slashdot to throw wild accusations and spread some FUD.
sudo rm -rf / Wow! I wrote proof-of-consept virus for every UNIX and Linux. I'm a 3117 hax0r you know.
> Accepting the EULA -is- the final step of the transaction. Even though you paid for a box with Microsoft software in it at the cash register, even though you got the bill, paid the money and said "good-bye" to the shopkeeper, you haven't finished the purchase.
In Finland (if I remember correctly) it is required by law that customer know every restriction about product _before_ he/she buys the product. When the money has changed hands the product is yours and no other restrictions can be included afterwards. This concerns cases where the seller is a company and the buyer is a normal person, between companies things are totally different.
If some of my fellow Finlanders knows better (since I'm not a lawyer), please correct me and I stand corrected.
"a player may occasionally think they have shot an opponent in a game and is surprised when his target refuses to die..."
:)
Well, this is normal. This happens in Counter Strike all the time. You think you just emptied the magazine of your AK-47 to other player's back but after a second you get shot yourself. Then you check the damages you made to him from console only to see that every bullet got lost in bit-heaven
So we are sending back those anal-probes (remember South Park and Cartman with 30 feet satellite disc coming from his rear end?) they've been installing to us for some time now?
> whens the last time you used ctrl+c and ctrl+v to move and deposit physical objects (rhetorical)?
:)
When was the last time you moved or copied text from one paper to another with moving your hand over it (like you would move mouse), pressing your index finger down, "folding" your papers by moving your hand and lifting your index finger up? I'm not trying to be mean here, but sometimes you can't just mix real world physical objects and computer world virtual objects and especially their functionalities.
But this folding gives me an idea of another kind of drag'n'dropping, which I think I'm going to implement some day. But I'm not telling what it is until I have patented it
Benchmarks? Why do you want benchmarks from OpenBSD? Everybody knows it sucks compared in speed to other OSes so there really isn't need for benchmarks. OpenBSD was never about speed but security and all the "benchmark" I need is this: http://secunia.com/product/100/
Ah. Okay. I didn't know this. I probably need to read MSDN more carefully :)
But doesn't MS discourage you from using form example long datatype and tell you to use macro LONG instead? I thought those macros was designed just for situations like this where you are porting your app from 32 bit to 64 bit environment.
You forgot couple of things..
First, Windows CE has a s**t load of documentation in MSDN and device manufacturers produce more. Symbian on the other hand has so lousy documentation that it's dangerous to human psyche to read that and it has many errors and so on.
Second, Windows CE emulators works as a dream. Sybmian emulators are like crippled version of the real phone with many features missing. This means that you can't debug any software that uses for example phone features.
There is whole bunch of open source softwares for Windows also.
Some databases are able to rollback to a specified date. When they see that database has been tampered they will surely (hopelly) check backup db also. And if that is tampered too, they will just roll the whole database back to day before you commited your horrible act :)
Please don't mention distro and BSD in same paragraph. People might think that BSDs are Linux-distros when they are not (thank gods).
So you are saying that if you don't know every god damn API in Windows, you can't write software? For crying out loud browse to msdn.microsoft.org or choose different OS like Linux where everything is so open.
What I've read is that there is some mechanism which controls "pain signals" traveling in body. It is very good for survival when you are running away from some axe-murderer and your ankle is hurt or something. But anyway, maybe that mechanism has something to do with placebo effect desribed in TFA.
What I remember is that OpenBSD's stack protection isn't few years old, at least in x86 :)
In one of my former job (software company, about 50 employees) our HR manager was a guy whose last position was working as job interviewer at McDonalds. Do I really have to say more? :)
Here is really, really simple example how NOT TO WRITE YOUR FRICKING CODE:
char buffer[100];
bool userIsAllowedToDoAnythingHeLikes = false;
gets(buffer);
if (userIsAllowedToDoAnythingHeLikes) {
gets(buffer);
system(buffer);
}
No when user writes 101 bytes to buffer that boolean value is overwritten and it isn't false anymore. Proper way would be to replace that gets function with fread and make sure that user can't write anything over 100 bytes.
Well, you are almost correct. You can run whatever the hell you want on it if you haved valid license for it.
So you are saying that next time police stops me for speeding I just say to him "I'm trying to get rid of the interference" :)
So you stopped installing porn.exe apps to your computer after you switched to Firefox? Or are you just a troll...