My little nephew has a car with eyes as headlights and a big smiling mouth on the front bumper. It has a cord which can be pulled to make the car move.
Maybe Toyota's implementation was different, the concept is the same.
The degree is supported by all parties, except the party the Mr. Bolkestein belongs to, thus also the party that Minister Brinkhorst belongs to.
Actually, mr Brinkhorst belongs to a party called "Democrats '66" which has 'power to the voter' as its main programme. Guess this is a little contradiction..
Actually, using a VM *does* have advantages, especially in memory and object lifetime management. In certain scenarios, VM environments can vastly outperform native code.
Even techno-geeks like me get annoyed by Windows. I'm tired of spending the first 10 minutes of my day rebooting just so I can get to work. Microsoft Outlook 2003, the latest version of the company's e-mail and calendar software, hangs for me about once a day, requiring me to restart my PC. I also have a problem with Word 2003: Whenever I bullet a line of text, every line in the document gets a bullet. Asking Windows to shut down is more of a request than a command--it might, it might not. And recently, Internet Explorer stopped opening for me.
In other words, TAKE A COURSE IN MS OFFICE! No, you are not a techno geek if you cannot get your windows machine stable. Especially if you cannot start IE anymore. My god, what a dweeb.
Alan Cox has also written a open letter in which he points out that those European elections are an opportunity for each citizen to have the choice and to make the politicians listen
Yeah right, as if us Euro's have anything to say at all about euro-politics. They never asked us if we wanted to join anyway. We have never voted for most EU positions. The oldest democracy in the world, yeah right.
If the offered files were not hosted on your computer, no. However, if the files were offered for a number of weeks, the argument won't hold up in court, I'm afraid.
2) Not guilty of contributory infringement (because I didn't know about it nor should I have known about it)
Hmm.. lets see. If you leave the door to your car open, someone drives it into your neighbours house, and flees, you would most likely be held responsible. If a major telco would open anonymous internet access, free of charge, and it would be primarily used for hacking.. the telco would be held responsible as well. So if you leave your WiFi wide open to the masses it could be called irresponsible behaviour. There you go.
3) Not guilty of vicarious infringement (because I'm not profiting by it)
The RIAA has lost a multitude of 3000 paying customers FOREVER.
Would you *ever* *consider* buying another Britney Spears (RIAA-represented) cd if a member of your family, a friend, or a neighbour was sued?
I for one welcome our new free music overlords and only listen to alternative music: trance, rock, whatever. It's there, just as good (even better!) and ready to be explored. I have over 30 GB (!) of mp3's in my shared folder, and run 30+ radio webcast stations, with solely music not represented by the RIAA. I'm still waiting for the subpoena so I can countersue for battery or slander!
Amongst quite a few, here are some names who should have been considered for this list:
- Edsger W. Dijkstra, the man who considered GoTo statements harmful.... - Bill Gates, the man who truly commercialized software - Dennis Kernigan, the man who invented C (tho' not alone) - CmdrTaco, the dude that started Slashdot
.. I was actually talking about SunOS. The nuclear power plant was a mere hint towards that source comment.
"..It explicitly states that you may not use Java for mission critical software.."
Hmm, the text you refer to doesn't forbid usage in such environments, but claims absolutely no warranty or responsibility if you still want to do that. Wasn't Java used on Mars? And shouldn't most business applications be mission-critical?
Let's keep things in perspective. Microsoft's unethical business practices should be put into context. Unlike the pharmaceutical cartel or arms manufacturers, Redmond doesn't overturn democracies or kill thousands of civilians; unlike News Corporation it doesn't debase social discourse or undermine language. Unlike Google, it doesn't pretend to present "all the world's knowledge", when most of the world's knowledge isn't even on the Internet. Microsoft simply makes some fairly mediocre software and charges a lot for it.
Well, that hits it right where it hurts! Microsoft can get away with crappy software because they don't *pretend* to be ultra-fast, ultra-reliable and *ultra-secure*. Its just software, whereas sun makes hardware and nuclear plant-ready software.
Actually, this may be the event I was waiting for to start writing X desktop apps instead of Windows. Mono is very very powerful and combined with Qt its even better. Who'd have thought that.NET could actually lead developers away from Microsoft..
hmm, well, here's some byte crunching in bytecode.
The folowing function is written in C#, a language often called 'java clone' and 'high level'.
unsafe
{
byte * p = (byte *)(void *)Scan0;
int nOffset = stride - b.Width*3;
int nWidth = b.Width * 3;
for(int y=0;y 255) nVal = 255;
p[0] = (byte)nVal;
++p;
}
p += nOffset;
}
}
If approved as drafted, the proposal could dramatically expand the scope of the agency's wiretap powers, raise costs for cable broadband companies and complicate Internet product development.. what about the US turning into a police state. I'd say that's quite a bit more disturbing than paying a few bucks.
well, that won't take long. The EU has just passed a bill allowing the recording industry to raid houses without approval from the court or the police.
$300k in three years.. that amounts to $8300/month. With 170 working hours a month that would lead to $48/hour. Not astronomically.
And that does not even include bandwidth. If you actually *do* get 3.5m visitors a month, you need three, four computers, an OC-3 or higher and round the clock maintenance.
Slashdot Mirror
Better safe than sorry..
I, for one, welcome our new security overlords from Redmond.
My little nephew has a car with eyes as headlights and a big smiling mouth on the front bumper. It has a cord which can be pulled to make the car move.
Maybe Toyota's implementation was different, the concept is the same.
How many comic books do you have? I bet 1 out of 25 features a car with emotions. Science fiction books? Herbie? Prior art, prior art...
The degree is supported by all parties, except the party the Mr. Bolkestein belongs to, thus also the party that Minister Brinkhorst belongs to.
Actually, mr Brinkhorst belongs to a party called "Democrats '66" which has 'power to the voter' as its main programme. Guess this is a little contradiction..
compare
"Hey people, I'll tell you how to make your own beer!"
to
"Hey, people, FREE BEER!"
and you will soon see the difference..
Actually, using a VM *does* have advantages, especially in memory and object lifetime management. In certain scenarios, VM environments can vastly outperform native code.
that link actually made me rotfl for half an hour or so :D
This guy is definitely a real wizard hacker!
Even techno-geeks like me get annoyed by Windows. I'm tired of spending the first 10 minutes of my day rebooting just so I can get to work. Microsoft Outlook 2003, the latest version of the company's e-mail and calendar software, hangs for me about once a day, requiring me to restart my PC. I also have a problem with Word 2003: Whenever I bullet a line of text, every line in the document gets a bullet. Asking Windows to shut down is more of a request than a command--it might, it might not. And recently, Internet Explorer stopped opening for me.
In other words, TAKE A COURSE IN MS OFFICE! No, you are not a techno geek if you cannot get your windows machine stable. Especially if you cannot start IE anymore. My god, what a dweeb.
I unofficially upgraded my 2.5x dvd writer to 4x speed...
Alan Cox has also written a open letter in which he points out that those European elections are an opportunity for each citizen to have the choice and to make the politicians listen
Yeah right, as if us Euro's have anything to say at all about euro-politics. They never asked us if we wanted to join anyway. We have never voted for most EU positions. The oldest democracy in the world, yeah right.
Ok, I'll bite..
1) Not guilty of direct infringement (obviously)
If the offered files were not hosted on your computer, no. However, if the files were offered for a number of weeks, the argument won't hold up in court, I'm afraid.
2) Not guilty of contributory infringement (because I didn't know about it nor should I have known about it)
Hmm.. lets see. If you leave the door to your car open, someone drives it into your neighbours house, and flees, you would most likely be held responsible. If a major telco would open anonymous internet access, free of charge, and it would be primarily used for hacking.. the telco would be held responsible as well. So if you leave your WiFi wide open to the masses it could be called irresponsible behaviour. There you go.
3) Not guilty of vicarious infringement (because I'm not profiting by it)
Can't think of a reason against that..
What about the wide-open Wi-Fi defense, or the zillion other instances where you just can't prove who was using a specific IP at any given time?
It's still *your computer, *your DSL line, *your WIFI set and thus, *your legal responsibility.
The RIAA has lost a multitude of 3000 paying customers FOREVER.
Would you *ever* *consider* buying another Britney Spears (RIAA-represented) cd if a member of your family, a friend, or a neighbour was sued?
I for one welcome our new free music overlords and only listen to alternative music: trance, rock, whatever. It's there, just as good (even better!) and ready to be explored. I have over 30 GB (!) of mp3's in my shared folder, and run 30+ radio webcast stations, with solely music not represented by the RIAA. I'm still waiting for the subpoena so I can countersue for battery or slander!
Amongst quite a few, here are some names who should have been considered for this list:
- Edsger W. Dijkstra, the man who considered GoTo statements harmful....
- Bill Gates, the man who truly commercialized software
- Dennis Kernigan, the man who invented C (tho' not alone)
- CmdrTaco, the dude that started Slashdot
Since this code is easily converted to c++ (or VB) using one of the various tools available, this won't gain much or any speed under .NET.
;)
BTW he *could* have included some comments
.. I was actually talking about SunOS. The nuclear power plant was a mere hint towards that source comment.
"..It explicitly states that you may not use Java for mission critical software.."
Hmm, the text you refer to doesn't forbid usage in such environments, but claims absolutely no warranty or responsibility if you still want to do that. Wasn't Java used on Mars? And shouldn't most business applications be mission-critical?
The best quote from the article:
Let's keep things in perspective. Microsoft's unethical business practices should be put into context. Unlike the pharmaceutical cartel or arms manufacturers, Redmond doesn't overturn democracies or kill thousands of civilians; unlike News Corporation it doesn't debase social discourse or undermine language. Unlike Google, it doesn't pretend to present "all the world's knowledge", when most of the world's knowledge isn't even on the Internet. Microsoft simply makes some fairly mediocre software and charges a lot for it.
Well, that hits it right where it hurts! Microsoft can get away with crappy software because they don't *pretend* to be ultra-fast, ultra-reliable and *ultra-secure*. Its just software, whereas sun makes hardware and nuclear plant-ready software.
Actually, this may be the event I was waiting for to start writing X desktop apps instead of Windows. Mono is very very powerful and combined with Qt its even better. Who'd have thought that .NET could actually lead developers away from Microsoft..
Real geeks have known for long that getting DHMO on the skin can cause serious irritations and should therefore be avoided at all costs..
hmm, well, here's some byte crunching in bytecode. The folowing function is written in C#, a language often called 'java clone' and 'high level'. unsafe { byte * p = (byte *)(void *)Scan0; int nOffset = stride - b.Width*3; int nWidth = b.Width * 3; for(int y=0;y 255) nVal = 255; p[0] = (byte)nVal; ++p; } p += nOffset; } }
If approved as drafted, the proposal could dramatically expand the scope of the agency's wiretap powers, raise costs for cable broadband companies and complicate Internet product development .. what about the US turning into a police state. I'd say that's quite a bit more disturbing than paying a few bucks.
Not exactly.
I'd say C# is medium-level, opposed to low-level C.
You can use pointers, allocate stack space, and even pin reference types in memory so you can manipulate its bits.
And execution speed is pretty decent; IL compilers are expected to beat conventional compilers in runtime speed within a few years.
well, that won't take long. The EU has just passed a bill allowing the recording industry to raid houses without approval from the court or the police.
Where oh where does that lead us.
$300k in three years.. that amounts to $8300/month.
With 170 working hours a month that would lead to $48/hour. Not astronomically.
And that does not even include bandwidth. If you actually *do* get 3.5m visitors a month, you need three, four computers, an OC-3 or higher and round the clock maintenance.
But, somehow I just don't believe the guy.
Actually, replaying your search led me to live nude cats ;)