Educate the users not to be morons. At our site, we've had trouble working with a university because our ISP removes.exe files from attachments and their server removes.zip files. Pretty hard to exchange executables in that kind of environment.
Now we use an ftp server. All because idiots click on attachments without thinking.
Well, they need to start real soon. Herb Sutter's article in the March Dr. Dobbs points out that processor speed ramps stopped 2 years ago. Optimization is going to be very important in the future--the biggest of which is learning how to write safe multithreaded apps.
Just today we get IBM, Sony, and Toshiba's announcement that their new 8-core chip will power the Playstation 3. (Side note: it will run at 4GHz, which is faster than previous chips, but not 10 GHz, which is how fast chips would be if the speed hadn't flattened out.)
Haven't you been paying attention? Processor speed increases stopped 2 years ago. We can put more transistors on silicon, but the free performance ride is over.
See Herb Sutter's article in the Feb C/C++ Users Journal or the (expanded) one in the March Dr. Dobb's Journal.
I've been saying for about a year or two that PDAs will be squished out between cell phones on the low end and tablet PCs on the high end. There just won't be much market left. The tablet will be the ultimate document reader when it comes down in price a bit (which is the only thing I really use my PDA for now anyway, aside from playing mp3s).
I watched the first 2 execrable seasons hoping it would get better, gave up and then tuned in recently. It's a nearly unwatchable show.
It's frustrating to see a good idea butchered so badly. I turned it on this week and it's another transporter episode! This series has done as much ill to the Trek franchise as Star Trek 5 did. (Well, okay maybe not that much--after all there was Voyager.)
Oh, and I know I'm going to burn some karma here, but I know I'm not alone in feeling this way.
What and IM isn't information? Corporate IM is just like short memos and phone messages. I think even the non-business type would like the ability to archive and search IM conversations.
I know I would. Not being tied down to an OS or hardware architecture would be a bonus as well.
Actually, I believe that this is a free upgrade for all those with a valid version 7 license.
Not according to their docs. Major revision upgrades cost USD15. I'm happy to pay for Opera because it's a great product. I just wish they'd fix this crippling (for laptops) bug.
I love Opera, but every version since 7 (in windows at least) has had a major problem: resuming from hibernation or sleep pegs the processor at 100% for several minutes. Now they're progressing to a major new revision (so I have to pay to upgrade) with no indication that they've fixed this.
Sigh. I'm just lucky that my laptop is hyperthreaded or I would have to uninstall Opera and switch to Firefox as my primary browers (I like Firefox and it's currently my secondary browser--I like Opera much more).
No, downloads are not free. Bandwidth is a limited resource.
I did not "accept that some displace some income". I said it was likely that there was some displacement. However, it's not the only effect of downloading. Because some people download, they end up buying, etc.
Displacing more than $0 in income is way too much. Again basic economics.
The "stealing" concept probably derives from the loss of income a IP holder sustains due to the fact that no one is going to BUY from them what they can download for free. Their property hasn't exactly been stolen as we all know digital content is non-exhaustible. But their INCOME has been STOLEN.
Be careful of what you call fact. Basic economics show that as the price of a good goes down the quantity demanded increases. It is almost guaranteed that if something is free, more people will acquire it than would have paid for it. However, that doesn't mean that no one will pay for it.
Frankly this invalidates the claim that all downloaded copies are depriving anyone of income on the face of it. Some downloads are likely displacing purchases, but certainly not all.
Besides that, downloads aren't free. The consume bandwith that people pay for. My bandwith isn't free--is yours? I pay a good sum monthly for DSL, and when I'm online gaming, I don't want all that used up by downloads, etc.
Of course for people who don't want to acknowledge the laws of economics that's an extremely difficult concept to grasp.
The responses to this article are bizarre. HP is basically saying it doesn't want to develop chips anymore, and Intel got their development team.
Why are people acting like this has anything to do with the success or failure of Itanium? 64-bit systems are indeed the future, and Intel now has a great team of senior designers to help them make Itanium better or produce a completely different 64-bit line.
However, I was phoned at one o'clock in the morning from a Kinko's because someone had to print up a report and the computers there didn't have OO.o.
So you neglected to show them how to (trivially) export to PDF?
I fail to see why a program defaulting to its native format is a problem. Our office is switching over to OO quite successfully and we're thrilled to be free of MS format.
And yes, if you wanted to save as.doc (in Writer) you can set that as the default.
I simply yanked my network cable to force Steam to run in offline mode. Suddenly I didn't have the problem any more. I wish I knew how to force Steam into offline mode from the command line.
But then I just finished the game today, so I probably won't be needing that fix for a while. I was a bit disappointed in the ending. Unlike the first one, this tried to establish more relationships with other characters (Eli Vance, Alyx, Barney, etc.) and I don't think the ending lived up to that.
Which is why exceptions shouldn't simply be used for "exceptional" situations. They should be used when the current scope can't deal with the problem reasonably.
Exceptions are no silver bullet. Once they're introduced, you need to make sure all your code is at least exception-neutral (techniques like RAII suddenly become very important). The best time to do that is at the initial design--hence introducing exceptions in an existing codebase should be done carefully and conservatively.
That being said, if done well, exceptions can make code easier to understand, be less error-prone, and can remove a lot of busy work. If done well, mind you.
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Educate the users not to be morons. At our site, we've had trouble working with a university because our ISP removes .exe files from attachments and their server removes .zip files. Pretty hard to exchange executables in that kind of environment.
Now we use an ftp server. All because idiots click on attachments without thinking.
Just today we get IBM, Sony, and Toshiba's announcement that their new 8-core chip will power the Playstation 3. (Side note: it will run at 4GHz, which is faster than previous chips, but not 10 GHz, which is how fast chips would be if the speed hadn't flattened out.)
I guess you didn't notice: http://www.pixelglow.com/macstl/valarray/.
See Herb Sutter's article in the Feb C/C++ Users Journal or the (expanded) one in the March Dr. Dobb's Journal.
I've been saying for about a year or two that PDAs will be squished out between cell phones on the low end and tablet PCs on the high end. There just won't be much market left. The tablet will be the ultimate document reader when it comes down in price a bit (which is the only thing I really use my PDA for now anyway, aside from playing mp3s).
Sorry, that's just another transporter episode.
$67M gross worldwide, with a $60M production budget and $33M marketing. Now that, folks, is a bomb. (I wasn't even interested in downloading it.
It's frustrating to see a good idea butchered so badly. I turned it on this week and it's another transporter episode! This series has done as much ill to the Trek franchise as Star Trek 5 did. (Well, okay maybe not that much--after all there was Voyager.) Oh, and I know I'm going to burn some karma here, but I know I'm not alone in feeling this way.
An air burst does not cause local fallout. See here for more detail.
I know I would. Not being tied down to an OS or hardware architecture would be a bonus as well.
Sigh. I'm just lucky that my laptop is hyperthreaded or I would have to uninstall Opera and switch to Firefox as my primary browers (I like Firefox and it's currently my secondary browser--I like Opera much more).
I did not "accept that some displace some income". I said it was likely that there was some displacement. However, it's not the only effect of downloading. Because some people download, they end up buying, etc.
How is that basic economics?Frankly this invalidates the claim that all downloaded copies are depriving anyone of income on the face of it. Some downloads are likely displacing purchases, but certainly not all.
Besides that, downloads aren't free. The consume bandwith that people pay for. My bandwith isn't free--is yours? I pay a good sum monthly for DSL, and when I'm online gaming, I don't want all that used up by downloads, etc.
Of course for people who don't want to acknowledge the laws of economics that's an extremely difficult concept to grasp.
claiming to invent a technology? They aren't doing something new, but it is new to the consumer market.
Why are people acting like this has anything to do with the success or failure of Itanium? 64-bit systems are indeed the future, and Intel now has a great team of senior designers to help them make Itanium better or produce a completely different 64-bit line.
MSN messenger that is. Does anyone expect MS to produce a search tool that isn't full of security holes?
I fail to see why a program defaulting to its native format is a problem. Our office is switching over to OO quite successfully and we're thrilled to be free of MS format.
And yes, if you wanted to save as .doc (in Writer) you can set that as the default.
I hate Steam. I hate the user agreement. But it is quite simply the best game I've ever played.
HL2 is a great game. But give Havok its proper credit.
But then I just finished the game today, so I probably won't be needing that fix for a while. I was a bit disappointed in the ending. Unlike the first one, this tried to establish more relationships with other characters (Eli Vance, Alyx, Barney, etc.) and I don't think the ending lived up to that.
Moving to a different market has long been one of the best ways of improving your job situation. Why should it be any different now?
I left in 2000 when it was obvious the bubble was bursting.
He should have checked if there was an XBox version of NOSMOKE.EXE. It's a documented problem.
Exceptions are no silver bullet. Once they're introduced, you need to make sure all your code is at least exception-neutral (techniques like RAII suddenly become very important). The best time to do that is at the initial design--hence introducing exceptions in an existing codebase should be done carefully and conservatively.
That being said, if done well, exceptions can make code easier to understand, be less error-prone, and can remove a lot of busy work. If done well, mind you.