Yeah, I code 9-10 hours a day. I'm well compensated for it, but when I get home I like to spend time with my son and relax. I'm not going to waste my time entering a programming contest. If I were to program in my spare time, it would be for a project I'm interested in, not some meaningless contest.
No that is wrong. Apple versions the fairplay, so if you bought the song before the change in rules, the old rules applies to this song. The new rules only apply to songs bought after the change.
I suspect that this will lead to developer confusion. One of the main benefits of developing for Windows is that you know that everyone has it. But now, you're application is going to have to check to see what version of Vista it has to see if it can run or not. It will also make it harder to sell your app if it requires one of the more expensive "premium" versions. So people will have to decide whether it is worth spending money on your program as well as having to spend money on upgrading Windows.
My first reference source is britannica.com, which costs money, but is the best encyclopedia I know of. The problem is that it doesn't cover everything that I'm interested in. Especially things that are new or trendy or not so important. For example Wikipedia has an entry for Mike Francesa, Britannica does not. This is fine, I don't care if there are factual inaccuracies in an article about Mike Francesa. Wikipedia has an entry for every football team in the NFL, Britannica does not. You get the point.
I think Wikipedia fills in the gaps that brittanica and more serious encyclopedias can't or won't fill.
Of all the companies that were around in 1705, how many are still in business today? Does anyone know? Off the top of my head I can't think of any. Think of how much the world has changed since 1705, will google even be relevant 300 years from now?
I've owned my iPod for 2+ years now and the battery is still going strong and I use it every day. $50 for a battery every 3 years or so doesn't seem too expensive. How many AA batteries would one go through in a walkman that you used every day for 3 years?
How can anyone trademark such a common name like "Apple?" I thought there was a provision in the law that said you couldn't trademark common names like this. "Intel" yes, "Chip" no.
The way that Google offered its shares, through a Dutch auction, guarantees that the price will go down. The way a traditional IPO is done is that the underwriters buy all the shares. Then they feel out the demand and sell the initial shares at a somewhat lower price to select investors. As soon as it starts trading, these lucky people flip the shares for an easy profit as the pent-up wider demand for the shares is met in the stock market. Using the auction process, they opened the bidding to the public at large and therefore anyone interested in really owning the stock would have already placed their bid. The demand is met by the IPO, not by the trading after the IPO in the aftermarket.
Many alternative browsers like Opera (which I use at work) and Safari (which I use at home) allow you to identify the browser as IE 6.0. I believe this is the default setting for Opera. So those statistics can't be relied upon for the true number of IE and non-IE browsers.
I have a CD that I bought in 1984. It still plays just fine. That's one of the beauty of CDs over vinyl. It plays with the exact same fidelity the 1000 time as the first. Even if I were to concede the point that vinyl sounds better (personally I don't think so), the fact that the vinyl will degrade over time is a strong mark agains the format.
Robotron and Tempest are two of my favorites. My 2 1/2 year old son loves PacMan, so I've been playing that a lot lately too. He just watches now, but I'm sure it will be just a few months before he figures out how to play it.
There's also the fact that not providing any documentation costs less. In fact you can produce the documentation now as a book and people will pay $30 extra for what should come free with the software.
I'll second that. Competition will keep Apple on it's toes so they'll keep improving Safari. Safari is my favorite browser on the Mac now, but I'm glad there are other options.
I remember a few years ago when MSFT was touting their latest "features" in Outlook. Adding html and vbscripting etc. There were quite a few researchers who were saying what a big mistake this is. It would just lead to an explosion in viruses and worms. Now that the obvious has happened, why isn't MSFT held accountable for something that was predicted at the time these "features" were released?
I've coded in many different languages C, C++, Java, C#, to name a few. C++ is still my favorite for a number of reasons:
1) It allows you to write at different levels of abstraction. You can write a function that is pure assembly code. You can write C style functions or you can use OO techniques like inheritence and polymorphism. C++ is the only language that I know that allows you to use templates, which is a level abstraction higher than the class. Java locks you in to OO, there is no choice.
2) I know exactly what my code is doing. There is no runtime layer that is magically doing something.
3) There are a large number of libraries to chose from, including a garbage collector if I want one.
4) Memory management is not a problem if you use smart pointers. This is the big benefit that Java/C# advocates always point to. I very rarely have to call delete, the smart pointer dtor does the work, but for the rare cases where I need it, I can manage my own memory. Again, it's a matter of choice, I can let the compiler do the work when I want or manage the resources by myself.
5) Automatic management of resources OTHER than memory. Since Java and C# do not have destructors, there is no way to let the compiler clean up other types of resources. For example the std::fstream destructor in C++ closes the file when the variable goes out of scope. I also use classes for entering and leaving a critical section, etc. This is critical flaw in Java/C# in my opinion, since they have exceptions.
6) The latest OS features are immediately available. I don't have to wait for some new library wrapper to use them.
Just for the record, I'm a computer programmer by profession, so I'm not against computers per se. I just think that we should not have computers at all in the actual casting of votes. We should just use paper and ink. It is a technology that everyone understands (and if they don't, they shouldn't vote anyway). It will take longer to tabulate the votes at the end of the day, but so what? The ballots will be open to audits and understood by everyone who can read, not just a small cadre of computer professionals.
I do actually pay for music on the internet, but I'm frustrated by the fragmentation of the content. For example, I pay $9.95 a month for Rhapsody, but there are huge holes in their content. The apple music store has some things Rhapsody does not have, but neither of them has everything I'm interested in. Meanwhile, I can walk over to my local record store and they have CDs from just about every label.
What I don't understand is that record companies complain and whine about how the internet is killing their business, but then when someone like me is willing to pay, these same record companies don't provide everything over the internet. The most frustrating experience I have, is that I listen to an album for a few weeks on Rhapsody and then mysteriously it disappears. Even worse, is that individual songs on an album come and go. I email Rhapsody and they say the record company decided to not make it available anymore. What kind of crap is that? Why are radio stations able to play whatever CD they want, but a pay internet site has to go negotiate for every song on every CD?
The problem is that the record companies don't want to change. They are just hoping the internet will go away and they can continue doing business the way they always have. It's very frustrating. The internet is a great way to download and sample music, but the companies who control it do not make it easy.
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Yeah, I code 9-10 hours a day. I'm well compensated for it, but when I get home I like to spend time with my son and relax. I'm not going to waste my time entering a programming contest. If I were to program in my spare time, it would be for a project I'm interested in, not some meaningless contest.
Enron accounting was illegal, why not Hollywood?
No that is wrong. Apple versions the fairplay, so if you bought the song before the change in rules, the old rules applies to this song. The new rules only apply to songs bought after the change.
I suspect that this will lead to developer confusion. One of the main benefits of developing for Windows is that you know that everyone has it. But now, you're application is going to have to check to see what version of Vista it has to see if it can run or not. It will also make it harder to sell your app if it requires one of the more expensive "premium" versions. So people will have to decide whether it is worth spending money on your program as well as having to spend money on upgrading Windows.
My first reference source is britannica.com, which costs money, but is the best encyclopedia I know of. The problem is that it doesn't cover everything that I'm interested in. Especially things that are new or trendy or not so important. For example Wikipedia has an entry for Mike Francesa, Britannica does not. This is fine, I don't care if there are factual inaccuracies in an article about Mike Francesa. Wikipedia has an entry for every football team in the NFL, Britannica does not. You get the point.
I think Wikipedia fills in the gaps that brittanica and more serious encyclopedias can't or won't fill.
Of all the companies that were around in 1705, how many are still in business today? Does anyone know? Off the top of my head I can't think of any. Think of how much the world has changed since 1705, will google even be relevant 300 years from now?
I've owned my iPod for 2+ years now and the battery is still going strong and I use it every day. $50 for a battery every 3 years or so doesn't seem too expensive. How many AA batteries would one go through in a walkman that you used every day for 3 years?
If they are willing to let one of their best engineers go, then they are going to get eaten alive by the competition.
How can anyone trademark such a common name like "Apple?" I thought there was a provision in the law that said you couldn't trademark common names like this. "Intel" yes, "Chip" no.
The way that Google offered its shares, through a Dutch auction, guarantees that the price will go down. The way a traditional IPO is done is that the underwriters buy all the shares. Then they feel out the demand and sell the initial shares at a somewhat lower price to select investors. As soon as it starts trading, these lucky people flip the shares for an easy profit as the pent-up wider demand for the shares is met in the stock market. Using the auction process, they opened the bidding to the public at large and therefore anyone interested in really owning the stock would have already placed their bid. The demand is met by the IPO, not by the trading after the IPO in the aftermarket.
Many alternative browsers like Opera (which I use at work) and Safari (which I use at home) allow you to identify the browser as IE 6.0. I believe this is the default setting for Opera. So those statistics can't be relied upon for the true number of IE and non-IE browsers.
J&R computer world in NY City sells Apple. Their prices are competitive and the help is as good as you get in any retail stores these days. http://www.jr.com/JRSectionView.process?EndecaURL= t&N=500011
I have a CD that I bought in 1984. It still plays just fine. That's one of the beauty of CDs over vinyl. It plays with the exact same fidelity the 1000 time as the first. Even if I were to concede the point that vinyl sounds better (personally I don't think so), the fact that the vinyl will degrade over time is a strong mark agains the format.
I've been reading for months about people using gmail. When are the rest of us going to get an account?
Robotron and Tempest are two of my favorites. My 2 1/2 year old son loves PacMan, so I've been playing that a lot lately too. He just watches now, but I'm sure it will be just a few months before he figures out how to play it.
There's also the fact that not providing any documentation costs less. In fact you can produce the documentation now as a book and people will pay $30 extra for what should come free with the software.
I'll second that. Competition will keep Apple on it's toes so they'll keep improving Safari. Safari is my favorite browser on the Mac now, but I'm glad there are other options.
I remember a few years ago when MSFT was touting their latest "features" in Outlook. Adding html and vbscripting etc. There were quite a few researchers who were saying what a big mistake this is. It would just lead to an explosion in viruses and worms. Now that the obvious has happened, why isn't MSFT held accountable for something that was predicted at the time these "features" were released?
1) It allows you to write at different levels of abstraction. You can write a function that is pure assembly code. You can write C style functions or you can use OO techniques like inheritence and polymorphism. C++ is the only language that I know that allows you to use templates, which is a level abstraction higher than the class. Java locks you in to OO, there is no choice.
2) I know exactly what my code is doing. There is no runtime layer that is magically doing something.
3) There are a large number of libraries to chose from, including a garbage collector if I want one.
4) Memory management is not a problem if you use smart pointers. This is the big benefit that Java/C# advocates always point to. I very rarely have to call delete, the smart pointer dtor does the work, but for the rare cases where I need it, I can manage my own memory. Again, it's a matter of choice, I can let the compiler do the work when I want or manage the resources by myself.
5) Automatic management of resources OTHER than memory. Since Java and C# do not have destructors, there is no way to let the compiler clean up other types of resources. For example the std::fstream destructor in C++ closes the file when the variable goes out of scope. I also use classes for entering and leaving a critical section, etc. This is critical flaw in Java/C# in my opinion, since they have exceptions.
6) The latest OS features are immediately available. I don't have to wait for some new library wrapper to use them.
Just for the record, I'm a computer programmer by profession, so I'm not against computers per se. I just think that we should not have computers at all in the actual casting of votes. We should just use paper and ink. It is a technology that everyone understands (and if they don't, they shouldn't vote anyway). It will take longer to tabulate the votes at the end of the day, but so what? The ballots will be open to audits and understood by everyone who can read, not just a small cadre of computer professionals.
I do actually pay for music on the internet, but I'm frustrated by the fragmentation of the content. For example, I pay $9.95 a month for Rhapsody, but there are huge holes in their content. The apple music store has some things Rhapsody does not have, but neither of them has everything I'm interested in. Meanwhile, I can walk over to my local record store and they have CDs from just about every label. What I don't understand is that record companies complain and whine about how the internet is killing their business, but then when someone like me is willing to pay, these same record companies don't provide everything over the internet. The most frustrating experience I have, is that I listen to an album for a few weeks on Rhapsody and then mysteriously it disappears. Even worse, is that individual songs on an album come and go. I email Rhapsody and they say the record company decided to not make it available anymore. What kind of crap is that? Why are radio stations able to play whatever CD they want, but a pay internet site has to go negotiate for every song on every CD? The problem is that the record companies don't want to change. They are just hoping the internet will go away and they can continue doing business the way they always have. It's very frustrating. The internet is a great way to download and sample music, but the companies who control it do not make it easy.