Exceptions? You may enjoy checking the return value of every function and writing classes with.is_valid() methods. I don't. You did make sure you checked *every* return value, right?
I'm sorry if this isn't what you meant but I just had to point out that, at least IMHO, exceptions shouldn't be used as return values. Return value is a, well, return value but exception is for something exceptional. For instance AllocateMemory(int len) method would return void pointer pointing to the newly allocated block or throw OutOfMemory exception if system is out of memory.
Thanks for the info! That confirms my hypothesis that thermostat is totally useless thing when doing my purely academical studies. It just slows down the process.
alcohol evaporates faster than water so it is the first liquid to evaporate
Everyone who is or has been a student in some part of their life should know that alcohol vaporizes in 83 Celsius. And in fact my empirical studies, purely academic of course, have shown that the temperature of the liquid does not rise significantly over 83 C until all the alcohol has been evaporated. (Collect it to a flask and filter it through activated carbon. Just remember to toss the first decilitre away or you might get blind.)
Well, yes, but then you could say that we already have Ford so why would anyone want to manufacture any other cars:)
But for example Singularity seems interesting OS. There's a lot of cool ideas, even allthough I'm not sure if they are original MS Research ideas. Plan9 seems rather interesting too. Now I don't know if any of these exotic OSes are used in production or is it even reasonable to do but who knows, maybe some useful ideas flows from them to current or future OSes.
I think diversity is a good thing especially in research.
Especially in an oven, where is the alcohol gonna go?
Through cooling process into a bottle (why waste good stuff?). There is proceeds through my mouth into my stomach. After a couple of hours it ventures on to the sewer system if I only remembered to unzip my pants. Usually it just soaks in to my jeans.
Maybe that would be a sane decision to make but I personally would like to see a totally new OS which is not Yet-Another-Unix-Variant or another Linux distro. I don't mean that there's anything wrong in Unix or Linux or in any other current OS. It's just that, well, new is new, and if they can come up with brand new ideas to do things (and share it with rest of the world on at least some level) then all the better.
In Finland they would shoot you if you are unlucky or arrest you, take your shotgun away and charge you with violent resist, murder one attempt plus some minor things if you are lucky. It's not allowed here to defend your property. Sometimes I hate this socialist country.
This is probably a slippery slope argument but here goes. If we accept that the police is allowed to order you to show any personal information in any case to prove your innocence then why not go further and allow them to install a backdoor on every computer so they can do regular checks that you don't have child porn or illegally downloaded stuff on your computer? You also might have downloaded those files accidentally so police and the government is now actually protecting you from bad stuff and you should be grateful for that!
The thing is, at least to me, that... Well, if we think about Finland where I live this might be easier to explain. We don't have much oppressive laws yet but our politicians are running through them little by little. Change this law here, write a new one there, and remember it's for your own good, of course. For example: "There's a huge amount of child porn in the web pages. Clearly we need to pass a law that censors the internet."
In the end, even if the intentions were good, we will end up in a situation where there are oppressive laws and someone who's not so reluctant to use them.
What really was a miracle was that polar bears shaved their fur, except the fancy looking bristle, moved to Africa and started to call themselved the lion! I saw this explained in a magazine so it must be true.
Oh! The most dreaded reboot! I don't want these reboots on my fricking computer. I just turn it off for the night and boot it in the morning and that's that, but no reboots for me. No way.
There doesn't has to be a "victor" to have a successful smartphone OS.
Of course there have to be or else all the vendors could start producing mediocre products which nobody wants but are forced to buy because there's no alternative. The competition to be number one drives companies to make better products, but I admit that it's not always the best product that wins, it can also be the one with best marketing.
But it doesn't shut down the computer. And if you happen to have SoftIce kernel debugger you can get other colors than blue on your monitor in some special cases:)
I implemented the same with C#/.NET using dynamics. I trapped the calls in DynamicObject.TryInvokeMember method, seek out where I could find the latest implementation of the method being called and passed the call or threw an exception if method was not found. I even wrote Web Service support.
Pretty stupid idea and not very useful in the end but it was fun writing it:)
But it just makes the situation more hilarous! I just can't wait to see what kind of law suits and patents are coming next!
Maybe we should start a web page to track the most ridiculous lawsuits and patents? Maybe somekind of voting system (that itself infringes some patents, I'm sure) where people can vote for the stupidiest case? It would be quite a fun, I'd think:)
Metallica appreciated trading copies of amateur concert recordings but not copies of the studio CDs
I understood that Metallica didn't appreciate Napster to make millions in profit from adds they had on their site. They aren't going to bust your house if you make a copy for your friend though.
And if they were, I'd make a copy this minute from my entire Metallica collection!;)
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I'm sorry if this isn't what you meant but I just had to point out that, at least IMHO, exceptions shouldn't be used as return values. Return value is a, well, return value but exception is for something exceptional. For instance AllocateMemory(int len) method would return void pointer pointing to the newly allocated block or throw OutOfMemory exception if system is out of memory.
There's three things missing: calendar, contacts and I don't think MS Dynamics CRM integrates with it very well.
Thanks for the info! That confirms my hypothesis that thermostat is totally useless thing when doing my purely academical studies. It just slows down the process.
Everyone who is or has been a student in some part of their life should know that alcohol vaporizes in 83 Celsius. And in fact my empirical studies, purely academic of course, have shown that the temperature of the liquid does not rise significantly over 83 C until all the alcohol has been evaporated. (Collect it to a flask and filter it through activated carbon. Just remember to toss the first decilitre away or you might get blind.)
Well, yes, but then you could say that we already have Ford so why would anyone want to manufacture any other cars :)
But for example Singularity seems interesting OS. There's a lot of cool ideas, even allthough I'm not sure if they are original MS Research ideas. Plan9 seems rather interesting too. Now I don't know if any of these exotic OSes are used in production or is it even reasonable to do but who knows, maybe some useful ideas flows from them to current or future OSes.
I think diversity is a good thing especially in research.
Through cooling process into a bottle (why waste good stuff?). There is proceeds through my mouth into my stomach. After a couple of hours it ventures on to the sewer system if I only remembered to unzip my pants. Usually it just soaks in to my jeans.
Maybe that would be a sane decision to make but I personally would like to see a totally new OS which is not Yet-Another-Unix-Variant or another Linux distro. I don't mean that there's anything wrong in Unix or Linux or in any other current OS. It's just that, well, new is new, and if they can come up with brand new ideas to do things (and share it with rest of the world on at least some level) then all the better.
The meaning of life is to start and to end. And pay taxes between.
In Finland they would shoot you if you are unlucky or arrest you, take your shotgun away and charge you with violent resist, murder one attempt plus some minor things if you are lucky. It's not allowed here to defend your property. Sometimes I hate this socialist country.
Agreements between parties does not override written law.
Uh. As far as I know that would be illegal around here where I live.
Internet voting system would be great, great thing! I could finally observe, with 100% profe, that my wife votes correctly.
This is probably a slippery slope argument but here goes. If we accept that the police is allowed to order you to show any personal information in any case to prove your innocence then why not go further and allow them to install a backdoor on every computer so they can do regular checks that you don't have child porn or illegally downloaded stuff on your computer? You also might have downloaded those files accidentally so police and the government is now actually protecting you from bad stuff and you should be grateful for that!
The thing is, at least to me, that ... Well, if we think about Finland where I live this might be easier to explain. We don't have much oppressive laws yet but our politicians are running through them little by little. Change this law here, write a new one there, and remember it's for your own good, of course. For example: "There's a huge amount of child porn in the web pages. Clearly we need to pass a law that censors the internet."
In the end, even if the intentions were good, we will end up in a situation where there are oppressive laws and someone who's not so reluctant to use them.
What standard you are talking about? Wikipedia: HTML5 is currently under development.
What really was a miracle was that polar bears shaved their fur, except the fancy looking bristle, moved to Africa and started to call themselved the lion! I saw this explained in a magazine so it must be true.
Oh! The most dreaded reboot! I don't want these reboots on my fricking computer. I just turn it off for the night and boot it in the morning and that's that, but no reboots for me. No way.
They have one dimension more to exploit now :P
Of course there have to be or else all the vendors could start producing mediocre products which nobody wants but are forced to buy because there's no alternative. The competition to be number one drives companies to make better products, but I admit that it's not always the best product that wins, it can also be the one with best marketing.
But it doesn't shut down the computer. And if you happen to have SoftIce kernel debugger you can get other colors than blue on your monitor in some special cases :)
I implemented the same with C#/.NET using dynamics. I trapped the calls in DynamicObject.TryInvokeMember method, seek out where I could find the latest implementation of the method being called and passed the call or threw an exception if method was not found. I even wrote Web Service support.
Pretty stupid idea and not very useful in the end but it was fun writing it :)
Are you insinuating something? I'm a married man!
Or first... Well, I think you know what. That thing which involves bees and flowers.
But it just makes the situation more hilarous! I just can't wait to see what kind of law suits and patents are coming next!
Maybe we should start a web page to track the most ridiculous lawsuits and patents? Maybe somekind of voting system (that itself infringes some patents, I'm sure) where people can vote for the stupidiest case? It would be quite a fun, I'd think :)
I understood that Metallica didn't appreciate Napster to make millions in profit from adds they had on their site. They aren't going to bust your house if you make a copy for your friend though.
And if they were, I'd make a copy this minute from my entire Metallica collection! ;)
You heretic! God created the aliens. Who are we to question the workings of god?!
I can't seem find sarcasm tag so just assume it's there.