My problem with C++ style exceptions is that often times I do not have the documentation for a function I'm calling that specifies what exceptions it can throw, and under what conditions it throws the exceptions. Sometimes there are these exceptions are thrown for things I could be handling in the calling function.
And because I don't know what the exceptions the called functions can raise, I'm unable to provide documentation on what exceptions my own function can raise.
C++ style exceptions are half-assed. Java did a much better job. You handle the exceptions generated by any called functions or you explicitly specify that you re-throw those you don't handle.
Yes, there is a language called Z. I believe it is a functional specification language, or something like that. Maybe some other poster will know more about this.
How far do you want to take this? I consider such things as a file open failure due to non-existant file, insufficient privleges, unmounted filesystem, etc., as a 'Normal' condition. If you take it to extremes, your code would look the same as a language without any exception handling capabilites.
Baystar Investments want's to pull out its investment in SCO. Watch the stock fall as Darl does battle on 5 fronts, IBM, RedHat, Novell, AutoZone, Baystar --er make that six - Daimler Chrysler.
It's not about revenge. Its about keeping the guy in a place where you know he's not going to do any more damage to good people in society. It's to protect society.
Lack of intent - my f*kn ass! In Minnesota, if you're trying to flee from the cops in a car, and you hit and kill someone, its called murder! And you get 20 years for it.
Hmm. I never had any problems with my zip drive either. Then again I only used it a half dozen times. I had purchased mine with the expectation that the media would come down to a reasonable price. It didn't. That and the fact that hard drive storage pretty much outgrew the 100 or 250 mB drive so it wasn't much use as a backup medium either. Had they done their job RIGHT and made a reliable drive, and one with cheap media (like $2.00/disk) they might have been able to replace the 1.44 Mb floppy. They certainly would have become more popular.
It's probably best this didn't happen, given the problems people had with the drives. (IOmega probably had to keep the media prices high to cover the costs of replacing/repairing/supporting all that bad hardware.)
Now was that $199 INSTALLED? Looks to me that she was comparing uninstalled MSoft with Installed Linux. How much to install linux vs Windows on a network of boxes? Hmm, now things look a lot different. $199 x 10 + time vs $??? + time
A watchdog timer on the alarm system (that was deadlocked) would probably have prevented this scenareo. And I also agree that displying clocks on the screen is a good way for the operator so see if the display system is functioning properly.
Not having the display system give a visual indication of stale data was also a deficiency.
There also seems to have been a problem in that the data collection and monitoring portion of the system was held up by a malfunctioning alarm system.
You realize that the first nonstop transatlantic flight was made by a couple of Brits, not Lindbergh. He was first to solo. I think the flight by the British really was more important historically, but you won't find it in any American textbooks.
That's ninety-five minutes, or about twice as long as my regular commute
That's nothing. Back a number of years ago, I had a 5 mile, 15 minute commute to work. One day I though, I thought I'ld look into taking a bus to work. Well.. walk 3 blks to bus stop. Take bus to downtown (40 minutes, 20 miles), wait 50 minutes for another bus to take me to work (40 minutes & 20 more miles). Two hours total.
My brother-in-law also looked into taking the bus to work. Same results 2 hours for a trip he normally makes in 10 minutes.
If you've developed software with something like Visual C++, you've probably used 'Wizards'. They essentialy do what you see in the picture. You give the wizard some basic information. It spits out bunches of code.
Those complex soda vendimg machines are just too intimidating for me as well. I guess I just have to go to the supermarket, reach in to the cooler, grab a bottle of pepsi, and pay for it at the checkout counter.
One of the things that DARPA told the entrants was that they could not depend on the GPS signal to be receivable at all locations along the course. Any vehicle that was depending only on the signal was doomed to fail. The vehicles would need to be able to determine their positions and proper course using other sensors as well.
Daimler Chrysler has an active research program in the area of AGVs. These things are further a long than most people realize. There's a pdf article about the state of this research here
I'll tell you what... do you have a car with cruise control? Next time you're on the highway, set it, and watch how closely it's sticking to the set speed, even when you go around bends in the road, up and down hills, etc. Now try staying that close to one speed without the cruise control...
Not all cruise controls are the same. In one of my vehicles the cruise control speed varies by 8-12 mph on hills, curves. I certainly can beat that. The cruise on my other vehicle is much better.
Yes. The company's troubles seemed to start about the time they moved their hq to San Diego.
I think I remember the reasons they gave for it were that they were having problems getting enough talented people in Sioux City, and that they needed
to be closer to where some of their supplier's offices.
From the looks of things, they didn't find the talent they needed in CA. (Or maybe they just weren't about to pay the CA salaries required to get the best talent.)
Like you say the costs of operating from sioux city likely were much lower than they were when operating from CA. They would have had to pay people about twice as much in CA as compared to SD for the same jobs.
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This just looks to be an incremental improvment over their existing 80 GB drive. Nothing revolutionary here. Ho hum.
My problem with C++ style exceptions is that often times I do not have the documentation for a function I'm calling that specifies what exceptions it can throw, and under what conditions it throws the exceptions. Sometimes there are these exceptions are thrown for things I could be handling in the calling function. And because I don't know what the exceptions the called functions can raise, I'm unable to provide documentation on what exceptions my own function can raise. C++ style exceptions are half-assed. Java did a much better job. You handle the exceptions generated by any called functions or you explicitly specify that you re-throw those you don't handle.
Yes, there is a language called Z. I believe it is a functional specification language, or something like that. Maybe some other poster will know more about this.
How far do you want to take this? I consider such things as a file open failure due to non-existant file, insufficient privleges, unmounted filesystem, etc., as a 'Normal' condition. If you take it to extremes, your code would look the same as a language without any exception handling capabilites.
I've already got a 3-D desktop. The killer app is the monitor & keyboard that sets on top of it.
I think they'll agree to pay SCO's $699 licensing fee for that $1000 in case SCO's claims for linux infringment are uphelld.
Baystar Investments want's to pull out its investment in SCO. Watch the stock fall as Darl does battle on 5 fronts, IBM, RedHat, Novell, AutoZone, Baystar --er make that six - Daimler Chrysler.
It's not about revenge. Its about keeping the guy in a place where you know he's not going to do any more damage to good people in society. It's to protect society.
Lack of intent - my f*kn ass! In Minnesota, if you're trying to flee from the cops in a car, and you hit and kill someone, its called murder! And you get 20 years for it.
Hmm. I never had any problems with my zip drive either. Then again I only used it a half dozen times. I had purchased mine with the expectation that the media would come down to a reasonable price. It didn't. That and the fact that hard drive storage pretty much outgrew the 100 or 250 mB drive so it wasn't much use as a backup medium either. Had they done their job RIGHT and made a reliable drive, and one with cheap media (like $2.00/disk) they might have been able to replace the 1.44 Mb floppy. They certainly would have become more popular.
It's probably best this didn't happen, given the problems people had with the drives. (IOmega probably had to keep the media prices high to cover the costs of replacing/repairing/supporting all that bad hardware.)
Now was that $199 INSTALLED? Looks to me that she was comparing uninstalled MSoft with Installed Linux. How much to install linux vs Windows on a network of boxes? Hmm, now things look a lot different. $199 x 10 + time vs $??? + time
I don't know about a single proton, but IIRC it's not very many.
A watchdog timer on the alarm system (that was deadlocked) would probably have prevented this scenareo. And I also agree that displying clocks on the screen is a good way for the operator so see if the display system is functioning properly.
Not having the display system give a visual indication of stale data was also a deficiency.
There also seems to have been a problem in that the data collection and monitoring portion of the system was held up by a malfunctioning alarm system.
You realize that the first nonstop transatlantic flight was made by a couple of Brits, not Lindbergh. He was first to solo. I think the flight by the British really was more important historically, but you won't find it in any American textbooks.
That's nothing. Back a number of years ago, I had a 5 mile, 15 minute commute to work. One day I though, I thought I'ld look into taking a bus to work. Well.. walk 3 blks to bus stop. Take bus to downtown (40 minutes, 20 miles), wait 50 minutes for another bus to take me to work (40 minutes & 20 more miles). Two hours total.
My brother-in-law also looked into taking the bus to work. Same results 2 hours for a trip he normally makes in 10 minutes.
If you've developed software with something like Visual C++, you've probably used 'Wizards'. They essentialy do what you see in the picture. You give the wizard some basic information. It spits out bunches of code.
Those complex soda vendimg machines are just too intimidating for me as well. I guess I just have to go to the supermarket, reach in to the cooler, grab a bottle of pepsi, and pay for it at the checkout counter.
So what did you do? Talk to your significant other all night?
.. to 'WorstEnergy'.
One of the things that DARPA told the entrants was that they could not depend on the GPS signal to be receivable at all locations along the course. Any vehicle that was depending only on the signal was doomed to fail. The vehicles would need to be able to determine their positions and proper course using other sensors as well.
How old are you? I'ld bet that this type of vehicle will be around within 50 years. (Actually I wouldn't as I probabably won't be around by then.)
Probably about half of the two-car accidents.
Daimler Chrysler has an active research program in the area of AGVs. These things are further a long than most people realize. There's a pdf article about the state of this research here
I'll tell you what... do you have a car with cruise control? Next time you're on the highway, set it, and watch how closely it's sticking to the set speed, even when you go around bends in the road, up and down hills, etc. Now try staying that close to one speed without the cruise control...
Not all cruise controls are the same. In one of my vehicles the cruise control speed varies by 8-12 mph on hills, curves. I certainly can beat that. The cruise on my other vehicle is much better.
I think I remember the reasons they gave for it were that they were having problems getting enough talented people in Sioux City, and that they needed to be closer to where some of their supplier's offices.
From the looks of things, they didn't find the talent they needed in CA. (Or maybe they just weren't about to pay the CA salaries required to get the best talent.)
Like you say the costs of operating from sioux city likely were much lower than they were when operating from CA. They would have had to pay people about twice as much in CA as compared to SD for the same jobs.