Polish standard edition does. It did protest that I have Alcohol 120% installed. After removing it, it installed, but nobody but me could read content of DVD disks I burned since then. (...maybe, just maybe it was a spindle of really crappy disks, and a coincidence, but *shrug*...)
Well, if you can feel "fair"... Several boxes with games I bought collect dust on the shelf, while I play torrented versions. Not gonna risk putting these in my drive. It took me weeks to get my DVD-RW working fully again after SecuROM bundled with Oblivion broke the drivers beyond repair and I couldn't even make copies of my private data.
I'm not sure if they are all HP. I know they all were used in one or another printer manufacturer's devices at certain time.
Yeah, the scanners that require ink were notorious. Scanning required a proprietary app that served simultaneously as printing and printer servicing app. Upon detecting empty cartridges it would only open "replace cartridges" screen and not allow to do anything else until the cartridges were replaced.
Like with the others, I'm not sure if it was HP though.
You click a link on page A to page B Page C in another tab changes style of link to page B from:link to:visited As for a new window with X or Y URL, cross-frame scripting, a pretty neat if dangerous concept. My own case: you pick options in one window, and text of printable document in another window changes live, to match your selections.
C'mon. They are world leader in printer ink cartridge lifetime shortening and protection from copying technology.
Wasn't that them who invented scanner-printer devices that refuse to scan if you don't have ink? Wasn't that them who invented ink level permanent kill switch to prevent refilling? Wasn't that them who invented disabling cartridges based on number of pages printed, ink level notwithstanding? Wasn't that them who invented printer cartridges with built in clock and killswitch to disable full cartridges after specified date?
Who was first to create full C+M+Y+K cartridges so that if you run out of black, printing papers, you have to dump all the color ink as well?
Unfortunately Lexmark beat them to use code of a program as authentication key for a cartridge to sue anyone authenticating their cartridges using the same key under DMCA for copying their code.
This particular building? Yes, it did. It tested in practice technologies of architecture and building engineering that existed only in theory before. It pushed the limits a good way further. The original record-keepers were TV towers, unlivable grider constructions. On top of huge ego show off, this project has financed many years of solid scientific research. New materials were developed, new construction principles invented, new methods of calculating old problems on scale not found before were found and programmed.
Not all science is particle physics, genetics and astrophysics. There is good science behind material durability, construction stability, some really good physics of compound materials, some quite clever chemistry for concrete that would normally explode under such pressures, and so on and so on.
Did you ever use the two side by side? The average '95 PC running Win95 took 10 times as long to boot, file manager took ages to open and display icons, programs took often a minute or more to load and it was hell to configure all the hardware
In the meantime, on Amiga 1200 (no PowerPC CPU) the GUI reactions were nearly instantaneous, programs took 1-2 seconds to load, and mostly all hardware just worked as you plugged it in.
Sure the PC had more RAM and MHz but its OS was more than capable of eating it all up. In the meanwhile, Amiga was fast and lean, and as result definitely more capable.
I got a slightly different approach. I document in second reading. If it took me more than a minute to recall what/how/why a section of my code does, I comment it as soon as I recall what/how/whu it does that. The downside is 2 or 3 pieces of my code I haven't managed to reverse-engineer till this day.
Have you tried to get any valid information from documentation generated by such a system? There are few more frustrating exercises than browsing through 50 different documentations of functions that describe exactly what you see and nothing what you want to know.
The whole difference is between:/* Method name: setMode(mode) sets Mode; Returns: status */
and/* Method name: setMode(mode) sets mode, 1 for verbose, 2 for debug, 0 for standard, -1 for heuristic=fast but inaccurate. Returns: 0 on success, 1-4 code errors, see @error_code for values. */
The first one is not intended for javadoc, it's intended for developers to edit and make the second one out of it. The fact Javadoc will swallow it ok and generate a valid documentation out of it is a design error, not a feature.
Direct result: my fingers tightly locked around throat of programmer who wrote that. Indirect result:from then on, whenever he purposely uses variable overflow/underflow, he always comments that he does.
...when you wrote 3 lines of code that required well-deserved and richly written 20 lines of comment to explain how they achieve their purpose, and then a change to project makes them obsolete and unnecessary?
OTOH there's still a piece in my major project// uchar reverse_det_ndx[MAX_PROG][MAX_FAZ][MAX_DET][MAX_DPF+1];// TODO: Recall, what did I need this for.
I have a simple rule. If some code deserves 15 lines, it should get 15 lines, be that code or comment. If I can squeeze the code into 3 lines, I ought to sacrifice the remaining 12 lines to comment. If I write 15 lines of self-explainatory code, it requires no further comments.
Reverse hashes are a special case where comment is very desired.
index[ reverse_hash[ value ] ] when you use exotic multiply inherited variables is one point that well deserves good 10 lines of comment the code would require was it a reverse search written as a straightforward loop.
The main thing that would dethrone netbooks would be an external bluetooth keyboard for a smartphone
I don't think so. Too much hassle and problem to use comfortably. Plus still the screen is small.
I have a Palm keyboard. I used it maybe 4 times since I bought it, while using Palm daily. Simply taking it out, opening it and placing the palmtop in the base is too much of a hassle comparing to writing using the screen keyboard.
I have a laptop mouse for my netbook. I hardly ever use it too. Simply where I use my netbook there is no room for a mouse, besides taking it from the bag and plugging it in is more hassle than sticking to the touchpad.
I bet if I used my palm for heavy-duty writing, I would use the keyboard. If I used the netbook for some heavy gaming, I would use the mouse. But they are really poorly designed for these tasks, and the crutch in form of mouse or keyboard doesn't fix the fundamental flaw.
until you find out someone in a village in southern Missouri 140 years ago wrote a song that shares at least 3 main phrases with your most recent hit. You never heard that song, you used your talent to create your own, so what if the old one is different?
Of course with the netbook craze, every laptop manufacturer wanted to release an "eee killer".
That usually meant stuffing more expensive hardware in bigger form factor and charging more money for it. So they were in fact trying to make a netbook that is more like a laptop and less like a netbook. To me, that seems like fundamental lack of understanding of netbook market.
They could have made a true eee killer. Giving it the same specs as eee and reducing price by 20%. The power of netbooks is: - full PC. No ARM, no Android, no weird stuff. It's a PC and runs PC software. - touch-typing keyboard. So you can type with all fingers, not just thumbs. - very portable - CHEAP.
The rest is hardly important although screen that doesn't waste space granted by the form factor is a plus. So is battery life. But GPRS, multi-core CPU, fast gfx cards, DVD-ROMs, all that junk deducts from the value of the product instead of adding to it.
Not really. Many small groups of various organization - communistic, authoritarian (kernel: Linus=GOD), oligarchic (Mozilla: the core group deciding the important stuff plus many random contributors with a reduced power) capitalistic(RedHat), and the groups have a various degree of cooperation - some cooperate, some don't, some rebel and create a branch from ones who don't cooperate. Like real anarchy which has no chance to stand on its own as always small localized communities of various types of government form, Open Source community is anarchy on the large scale, various smaller organizations on the small scale.
Primarily, Slashdot profile has vastly shifted towards Law&Freedom in the tech world. Way less raw tech news, way fewer articles on new devices, new tech, new software and so on. Instead, it has a lot of articles on "Your Rights Online", censorship, politics affecting the net, the war of RIAA vs pirates, freedom of speech and violations against it and so on. It is an excellent news source if this is what interests you, and I visit slashdot precisely for these stories. Devices? Gizmodo and Engadget. DIY - MAKE Blog (though it's not quite as ambitious and a bit too commercialized for my liking.) Kotaku for games too. I'd like to find a good site on news in the software field too, and something with good science news - for now Slashdot fulfills these two roles adequately but not optimally.
The screws too. I want to see the motherboard. How am I going to drive an RC plane with this thing if it doesn't have at least RS-232 on board? What you mean lose warranty? So can you install a RS-232 connector on it so that I don't lose warranty installing it?...cell phones open up a huge field for annoying deserving, clueless sellers.
Sorry, but this is a truth well established within web portal corporations.
Customer = advertiser Product = ad impressions Essential components of the Product are: - ad itself (usually outsourced to advert/gfx agency) - content within which the ad is displayed (whatever is used to attract the user) - medium (platform to run it on, servers, network infrastructure to serve the ad and so on) - users - audience to view the ads.
The customer is only interested in user receiving the message of the ad. This is what the whole game is about. The rest are just means to reach it: create a catchy ad, display it in a place frequented by target audience, create such a place and attract said audience. The larger the audience the better of course, and getting it may require loyalty, genuine quality, respect, ethics, balance between ads and content and so on, but all in all, the ultimate goal is to show ad to the user.
In the portal company I worked for, the registered user of the portal was acronymed to ZUO, which was acronym in my language: "registered user of [portal name], but was also a funny misspelling of EVIL. And the running joke was that our work would be much easier, faster, smoother and better without them, but the pesky customers demand we don't just embed ads in content of all kinds, they also want we display it to the users and so the users are a necessary evil.
Worse yet, he is creating unhealthy price negotiation environment for all of us. It creates impression in the management that this is the standard salary.
Anyway, high time to request all the benefits that come with an uniform service. You are becoming a soldier. Be one, not a cannon fodder.
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Polish standard edition does.
It did protest that I have Alcohol 120% installed.
After removing it, it installed, but nobody but me could read content of DVD disks I burned since then. (...maybe, just maybe it was a spindle of really crappy disks, and a coincidence, but *shrug*...)
Well, if you can feel "fair"... Several boxes with games I bought collect dust on the shelf, while I play torrented versions. Not gonna risk putting these in my drive. It took me weeks to get my DVD-RW working fully again after SecuROM bundled with Oblivion broke the drivers beyond repair and I couldn't even make copies of my private data.
I'm not sure if they are all HP. I know they all were used in one or another printer manufacturer's devices at certain time.
Yeah, the scanners that require ink were notorious. Scanning required a proprietary app that served simultaneously as printing and printer servicing app. Upon detecting empty cartridges it would only open "replace cartridges" screen and not allow to do anything else until the cartridges were replaced.
Like with the others, I'm not sure if it was HP though.
You click a link on page A to page B :link to :visited
Page C in another tab changes style of link to page B from
As for a new window with X or Y URL, cross-frame scripting, a pretty neat if dangerous concept.
My own case: you pick options in one window, and text of printable document in another window changes live, to match your selections.
The blocker for me is lack of Adblock.
Considering Google is an ad company, I find it very unlikely it will ever be supported.
C'mon. They are world leader in printer ink cartridge lifetime shortening and protection from copying technology.
Wasn't that them who invented scanner-printer devices that refuse to scan if you don't have ink?
Wasn't that them who invented ink level permanent kill switch to prevent refilling?
Wasn't that them who invented disabling cartridges based on number of pages printed, ink level notwithstanding?
Wasn't that them who invented printer cartridges with built in clock and killswitch to disable full cartridges after specified date?
Who was first to create full C+M+Y+K cartridges so that if you run out of black, printing papers, you have to dump all the color ink as well?
Unfortunately Lexmark beat them to use code of a program as authentication key for a cartridge to sue anyone authenticating their cartridges using the same key under DMCA for copying their code.
This particular building? Yes, it did. It tested in practice technologies of architecture and building engineering that existed only in theory before. It pushed the limits a good way further. The original record-keepers were TV towers, unlivable grider constructions. On top of huge ego show off, this project has financed many years of solid scientific research. New materials were developed, new construction principles invented, new methods of calculating old problems on scale not found before were found and programmed.
Not all science is particle physics, genetics and astrophysics. There is good science behind material durability, construction stability, some really good physics of compound materials, some quite clever chemistry for concrete that would normally explode under such pressures, and so on and so on.
Well, pay royalties on using paper, gunpowder and compass and then you can argue about China ripping off your IP.
Did you ever use the two side by side?
The average '95 PC running Win95 took 10 times as long to boot, file manager took ages to open and display icons, programs took often a minute or more to load and it was hell to configure all the hardware
In the meantime, on Amiga 1200 (no PowerPC CPU) the GUI reactions were nearly instantaneous, programs took 1-2 seconds to load, and mostly all hardware just worked as you plugged it in.
Sure the PC had more RAM and MHz but its OS was more than capable of eating it all up. In the meanwhile, Amiga was fast and lean, and as result definitely more capable.
I got a slightly different approach. I document in second reading. If it took me more than a minute to recall what/how/why a section of my code does, I comment it as soon as I recall what/how/whu it does that.
The downside is 2 or 3 pieces of my code I haven't managed to reverse-engineer till this day.
Have you tried to get any valid information from documentation generated by such a system?
There are few more frustrating exercises than browsing through 50 different documentations of functions that describe exactly what you see and nothing what you want to know.
The whole difference is between: /* Method name: setMode(mode)
sets Mode;
Returns: status
*/
and /* Method name: setMode(mode)
sets mode, 1 for verbose, 2 for debug, 0 for standard, -1 for heuristic=fast but inaccurate.
Returns: 0 on success, 1-4 code errors, see @error_code for values.
*/
The first one is not intended for javadoc, it's intended for developers to edit and make the second one out of it. The fact Javadoc will swallow it ok and generate a valid documentation out of it is a design error, not a feature.
...also: there are four legal endings to a case statement.
Anything else is a syntax error.
code:
for(unsigned char x=limit; x>=limit; x--) // no comments whatsoever
{
do_something_with(x);
}
Direct result: my fingers tightly locked around throat of programmer who wrote that.
Indirect result:from then on, whenever he purposely uses variable overflow/underflow, he always comments that he does.
...when you wrote 3 lines of code that required well-deserved and richly written 20 lines of comment to explain how they achieve their purpose, and then a change to project makes them obsolete and unnecessary?
OTOH there's still a piece in my major project // uchar reverse_det_ndx[MAX_PROG][MAX_FAZ][MAX_DET][MAX_DPF+1]; // TODO: Recall, what did I need this for.
I have a simple rule. If some code deserves 15 lines, it should get 15 lines, be that code or comment. If I can squeeze the code into 3 lines, I ought to sacrifice the remaining 12 lines to comment. If I write 15 lines of self-explainatory code, it requires no further comments.
Reverse hashes are a special case where comment is very desired.
index[ reverse_hash[ value ] ] when you use exotic multiply inherited variables is one point that well deserves good 10 lines of comment the code would require was it a reverse search written as a straightforward loop.
The main thing that would dethrone netbooks would be an external bluetooth keyboard for a smartphone
I don't think so. Too much hassle and problem to use comfortably. Plus still the screen is small.
I have a Palm keyboard. I used it maybe 4 times since I bought it, while using Palm daily. Simply taking it out, opening it and placing the palmtop in the base is too much of a hassle comparing to writing using the screen keyboard.
I have a laptop mouse for my netbook. I hardly ever use it too. Simply where I use my netbook there is no room for a mouse, besides taking it from the bag and plugging it in is more hassle than sticking to the touchpad.
I bet if I used my palm for heavy-duty writing, I would use the keyboard. If I used the netbook for some heavy gaming, I would use the mouse. But they are really poorly designed for these tasks, and the crutch in form of mouse or keyboard doesn't fix the fundamental flaw.
until you find out someone in a village in southern Missouri 140 years ago wrote a song that shares at least 3 main phrases with your most recent hit. You never heard that song, you used your talent to create your own, so what if the old one is different?
Of course with the netbook craze, every laptop manufacturer wanted to release an "eee killer".
That usually meant stuffing more expensive hardware in bigger form factor and charging more money for it. So they were in fact trying to make a netbook that is more like a laptop and less like a netbook. To me, that seems like fundamental lack of understanding of netbook market.
They could have made a true eee killer. Giving it the same specs as eee and reducing price by 20%.
The power of netbooks is:
- full PC. No ARM, no Android, no weird stuff. It's a PC and runs PC software.
- touch-typing keyboard. So you can type with all fingers, not just thumbs.
- very portable
- CHEAP.
The rest is hardly important although screen that doesn't waste space granted by the form factor is a plus. So is battery life. But GPRS, multi-core CPU, fast gfx cards, DVD-ROMs, all that junk deducts from the value of the product instead of adding to it.
"That leaves room for a speed race"
Whenever I see another "eee killer", I ask one question: What is the price? More than eee? Sorry, this won't fly.
Not really. Many small groups of various organization - communistic, authoritarian (kernel: Linus=GOD), oligarchic (Mozilla: the core group deciding the important stuff plus many random contributors with a reduced power) capitalistic(RedHat), and the groups have a various degree of cooperation - some cooperate, some don't, some rebel and create a branch from ones who don't cooperate.
Like real anarchy which has no chance to stand on its own as always small localized communities of various types of government form, Open Source community is anarchy on the large scale, various smaller organizations on the small scale.
Somehow I don't think being a buffer between corporate interests of Microsoft and anarchistic open source community is a dream job of anyone.
Primarily, Slashdot profile has vastly shifted towards Law&Freedom in the tech world. Way less raw tech news, way fewer articles on new devices, new tech, new software and so on. Instead, it has a lot of articles on "Your Rights Online", censorship, politics affecting the net, the war of RIAA vs pirates, freedom of speech and violations against it and so on. It is an excellent news source if this is what interests you, and I visit slashdot precisely for these stories. Devices? Gizmodo and Engadget. DIY - MAKE Blog (though it's not quite as ambitious and a bit too commercialized for my liking.) Kotaku for games too. I'd like to find a good site on news in the software field too, and something with good science news - for now Slashdot fulfills these two roles adequately but not optimally.
Yes, I'm interested.
Please, open it. I wanted to see the connectors.
The screws too. I want to see the motherboard. How am I going to drive an RC plane with this thing if it doesn't have at least RS-232 on board? What you mean lose warranty? So can you install a RS-232 connector on it so that I don't lose warranty installing it? ...cell phones open up a huge field for annoying deserving, clueless sellers.
Sorry, but this is a truth well established within web portal corporations.
Customer = advertiser
Product = ad impressions
Essential components of the Product are:
- ad itself (usually outsourced to advert/gfx agency)
- content within which the ad is displayed (whatever is used to attract the user)
- medium (platform to run it on, servers, network infrastructure to serve the ad and so on)
- users - audience to view the ads.
The customer is only interested in user receiving the message of the ad. This is what the whole game is about. The rest are just means to reach it: create a catchy ad, display it in a place frequented by target audience, create such a place and attract said audience. The larger the audience the better of course, and getting it may require loyalty, genuine quality, respect, ethics, balance between ads and content and so on, but all in all, the ultimate goal is to show ad to the user.
In the portal company I worked for, the registered user of the portal was acronymed to ZUO, which was acronym in my language: "registered user of [portal name], but was also a funny misspelling of EVIL. And the running joke was that our work would be much easier, faster, smoother and better without them, but the pesky customers demand we don't just embed ads in content of all kinds, they also want we display it to the users and so the users are a necessary evil.
Worse yet, he is creating unhealthy price negotiation environment for all of us. It creates impression in the management that this is the standard salary.
Anyway, high time to request all the benefits that come with an uniform service.
You are becoming a soldier. Be one, not a cannon fodder.