The site's crawling for me, so I can't check the prices but either US customers get a heck of price cut or European customers are getting screwed. 2799 comes to about $4310 with current exchange rates.
I don't think that's really the definition of a memory leak. If the reference to an object is still in scope, then it's not really a leak, is it? A leak would be the memory was allocated, used, and then no longer needed (went out of scope, set to null, etc, but the original allocation was never released back into the heap or marked for GC.
My first year of college my intro CS courses were C++ with an additional course of assembly on a RISC box. I couldn't afford out of state tuition so I moved back to my home state and switched colleges. There, I had to retake my intro CS classes as my new college had just started using Java. After learning (at least the basics) of a "real" language, those two Java courses were a piece of cake. I am very glad that I took those C++ classes as it taught me a lot more of the nitty gritty details of memory management, efficiency, etc. But I also appreciate the greater ease of doing things in Java (actually.Net these days for me) as I don't have to worry about all those little details and instead can worry about getting the project done on time and moving on to the next thing.
Have you just tried StatusPosition += 1? Every language has obscure ways of doing things. Just because you can doesn't mean that people use it that way.
I didn't read all the articles linked to, but the affidavit linked to specifically states that computers are authenticated via a MUNET account. So it's not just a MAC address but it's also a username and password. It seems to me that MU position is a little shaky as while indeed anyone could have stolen another users account or it was a shared computer, ultimately it still is the responsibility of the owner. I think a valid comparison could be drawn to if a gun is used in a crime. If the bullet can be traced back to at least the gun, the gun owner is usually at least questioned, are they not?
I can't take credit for the search query. It just came from Yamour Search Engine which is just essentially a front end to Google with some specialized query options.
I understand your point and agree with you to a degree, but welcome to the real world where that isn't always practical, possible, or requested by the person who signs the invoice check.
It depends on the site. The designer should look at who the intended audience is before just making a blanket statement that it's just stupid to not design a site for a 3" screen. I've worked on sites that a mobile/handheld user was likely to access the site and the design should take that into consideration. I've also worked on sites where the intended audience would never view the site on a handheld. Designing it so that it looked just as good on a 3" screen as it did on a 21" would have just been a waste of time and effort.
Yeah, because if I was going to advertise a service to a very geographically limited area with about 60k people, Slashdot is the FIRST place I would look to advertise.
Those are UK Freeview tuners. Which are cheaper specifically because they do not receive HD. The US went for HD from the start, which costs more initially, but it also means that we won't have to toss out a bunch of electronics all over again to maybe get HD by 2012, like will happen in the UK. Some of us have been getting HD for over four years now.
DTV != HDTV. The cheap or free tuners (after coupon) are not high definition, they are only standard. The US is switching over to a digital television...which just happens to include some high definition programming.
Actually, I think instead of a a box with one drive...or two...you will have 10 3.5" or 20 2.5". So you have one big RAID-like cluster with a big "gas gauge" like dial on the front that tells you how much performance you have left...whatever that means. Whoopdedo. But I think that since they use an acronym every other word in the ESJ article that we should be very impressed.
Often that type of lawn "decoration" is used to hide the well head or whatever you call the part of the well that sticks above ground. Don't know if that is the case, but around here, more times then not it is.
What Google software is bundled with Firefox? Granted I haven't installed FF from scratch anytime real recent, but I don't remember Google Toolbar or any other Google software loaded.
As to the homepage, I see a big difference between setting the default home page and auto-installing software. The former is a quick change, doesn't really modify anything on your computer (with a clean install, you wouldn't have a homepage anyway), and a good number of users probably have Google set as their homepage anyways. Why not give them a Firefox branded page. It was the makers of the software that decided to use Google as the homepage, not Google hijacking a different install and loading Firefox for you, setting themselves as the homepage. With Safari, users already have a browser most likely. It takes space on the system and many users probably don't want it. But yet it still installs or at least downloads automagically.
...to sudden spikes in memory usage. "Went from using 650 MB RAM idle to 1 Gig... I'll be switching back," said "Kurrier."
So? What is with this obsession with memory usage? Idle RAM has a slightly negative value - it does nothing while still consuming a non-zero amount of energy. How RAM is used is much more important than whether or not it is used. Now, it may be that this guy only has 1 GB of RAM. It could be that this is the result of a problem. But who knows? Not the author.
On both of my machines that run Vista, "free" memory always is somewhere around 0. Anything left over gets used for cache like it should. As long as the cache becomes available quickly when an application needs it, who cares if the "idle" usage is 650MB or 1GB.
Even if they do use it, this would be a good thing as it would prevent others from doing it (unless they paid the additional money to license it). Right?
Even the weenies in Marketing can probably do the task better than an engineer
I'd argue that a pure marketing employee is almost the opposite extreme from why you wouldn't ask an engineer. I work as a web developer implementing my companies own design as well as those designed by outside marketing agencies. By far the most difficult designs are from the marketing company. While we try to beat it into their heads that print is not the the same as web nor is video the same as the web, many times they still treat them as the same.
There is a difference between losing data because a piece of hardware is fried and/or has to be replaced, and losing the data in a usable form because they lost the laptop.
They typically convert your copper POTS line to a fiber based one. From the point of view of your telephone service, there is no difference. You can't have DSL over it though. You can however request that they leave your copper phone line alone if you desire DSL from an CLEC. There is no sunset date for existing Verizon copper but one day eventually Verizon wants will turn off all copper and at that point you will be SOL.
No, not directly. But it wouldn't matter anyways. The amount of extra time that it takes me is relatively a drop in the bucket compared to the entire cost of the site.
Even if cost was a factor, take a look at the browser statistics for December. IE6 has 33% market share vs 21% for IE7. Market share is always going to vary based on the type of site but regardless IE6 still has a sizable market share. The sites I do are primarily marketing sites for the general public, so just saying "It's cheaper if we design the site and test it only with 'modern' browsers" isn't possible. If I was developing a site as an internal application or geared for a specific audience that could be more easily controlled, then things would be different.
We have to test with IE6 as our clients demand it. Of the couple of sites that I've done since starting here, all of the corporate big wigs that sign the payment checks use IE6. So what is pretty simple to do with IE7 or any other browser we have to spend 3x the time checking things out with IE6. Then go back to more modern browsers and make sure none of the hacks we put in affected those browsers.
And it's actually very easy to install multiple versions of IE. See here. It's a nice, tidy installer.
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The site's crawling for me, so I can't check the prices but either US customers get a heck of price cut or European customers are getting screwed. 2799 comes to about $4310 with current exchange rates.
I don't think that's really the definition of a memory leak. If the reference to an object is still in scope, then it's not really a leak, is it? A leak would be the memory was allocated, used, and then no longer needed (went out of scope, set to null, etc, but the original allocation was never released back into the heap or marked for GC.
My first year of college my intro CS courses were C++ with an additional course of assembly on a RISC box. I couldn't afford out of state tuition so I moved back to my home state and switched colleges. There, I had to retake my intro CS classes as my new college had just started using Java. After learning (at least the basics) of a "real" language, those two Java courses were a piece of cake. I am very glad that I took those C++ classes as it taught me a lot more of the nitty gritty details of memory management, efficiency, etc. But I also appreciate the greater ease of doing things in Java (actually .Net these days for me) as I don't have to worry about all those little details and instead can worry about getting the project done on time and moving on to the next thing.
Have you just tried StatusPosition += 1? Every language has obscure ways of doing things. Just because you can doesn't mean that people use it that way.
I didn't read all the articles linked to, but the affidavit linked to specifically states that computers are authenticated via a MUNET account. So it's not just a MAC address but it's also a username and password. It seems to me that MU position is a little shaky as while indeed anyone could have stolen another users account or it was a shared computer, ultimately it still is the responsibility of the owner. I think a valid comparison could be drawn to if a gun is used in a crime. If the bullet can be traced back to at least the gun, the gun owner is usually at least questioned, are they not?
I can't take credit for the search query. It just came from Yamour Search Engine which is just essentially a front end to Google with some specialized query options.
Maybe.
I understand your point and agree with you to a degree, but welcome to the real world where that isn't always practical, possible, or requested by the person who signs the invoice check.
It depends on the site. The designer should look at who the intended audience is before just making a blanket statement that it's just stupid to not design a site for a 3" screen. I've worked on sites that a mobile/handheld user was likely to access the site and the design should take that into consideration. I've also worked on sites where the intended audience would never view the site on a handheld. Designing it so that it looked just as good on a 3" screen as it did on a 21" would have just been a waste of time and effort.
Yeah, because if I was going to advertise a service to a very geographically limited area with about 60k people, Slashdot is the FIRST place I would look to advertise.
Actually, I think instead of a a box with one drive...or two...you will have 10 3.5" or 20 2.5". So you have one big RAID-like cluster with a big "gas gauge" like dial on the front that tells you how much performance you have left...whatever that means. Whoopdedo. But I think that since they use an acronym every other word in the ESJ article that we should be very impressed.
Often that type of lawn "decoration" is used to hide the well head or whatever you call the part of the well that sticks above ground. Don't know if that is the case, but around here, more times then not it is.
What Google software is bundled with Firefox? Granted I haven't installed FF from scratch anytime real recent, but I don't remember Google Toolbar or any other Google software loaded.
As to the homepage, I see a big difference between setting the default home page and auto-installing software. The former is a quick change, doesn't really modify anything on your computer (with a clean install, you wouldn't have a homepage anyway), and a good number of users probably have Google set as their homepage anyways. Why not give them a Firefox branded page. It was the makers of the software that decided to use Google as the homepage, not Google hijacking a different install and loading Firefox for you, setting themselves as the homepage. With Safari, users already have a browser most likely. It takes space on the system and many users probably don't want it. But yet it still installs or at least downloads automagically.
Even if they do use it, this would be a good thing as it would prevent others from doing it (unless they paid the additional money to license it). Right?
By definition, how can 3 completely separate companies be a monopoly. I think oligopoly would be a better term.
There is a difference between losing data because a piece of hardware is fried and/or has to be replaced, and losing the data in a usable form because they lost the laptop.
They typically convert your copper POTS line to a fiber based one. From the point of view of your telephone service, there is no difference. You can't have DSL over it though. You can however request that they leave your copper phone line alone if you desire DSL from an CLEC. There is no sunset date for existing Verizon copper but one day eventually Verizon wants will turn off all copper and at that point you will be SOL.
No, not directly. But it wouldn't matter anyways. The amount of extra time that it takes me is relatively a drop in the bucket compared to the entire cost of the site.
Even if cost was a factor, take a look at the browser statistics for December. IE6 has 33% market share vs 21% for IE7. Market share is always going to vary based on the type of site but regardless IE6 still has a sizable market share. The sites I do are primarily marketing sites for the general public, so just saying "It's cheaper if we design the site and test it only with 'modern' browsers" isn't possible. If I was developing a site as an internal application or geared for a specific audience that could be more easily controlled, then things would be different.
You apparently don't work in the real world where your paychecks are determined by having your website viewable by the largest possible audience.
We have to test with IE6 as our clients demand it. Of the couple of sites that I've done since starting here, all of the corporate big wigs that sign the payment checks use IE6. So what is pretty simple to do with IE7 or any other browser we have to spend 3x the time checking things out with IE6. Then go back to more modern browsers and make sure none of the hacks we put in affected those browsers.
And it's actually very easy to install multiple versions of IE. See here. It's a nice, tidy installer.