Why, when I can get a pretty beefy (relatively speaking) VPS running Windows Server (cheaper if Linux!) for less than my monthly internet bill, with much higher bandwidth allowance and speed, and they manage security patches and whatsnot for me?
Read the terms of services of your ISP carefully. Most (not all, so maybe you're lucky) have a clause with home service that state you cannot use it to host a a full fledged server (with legalese to separate a server in the technical sense from a server the way we talk about it).
In my case, my ISP goes a step further and blocks port 80 in upload. Obviously can just put the site on another port, but....
Valve is a pretty cool company. The DRM they implemented is really a compromise, and aside for the offline restrictions, its pretty much the best middleground you can have today for a game digital delivery platform (compromise as in publishers agree to it and players can still have fun). And while not open source across the board, they ARE very open as far as game industry goes.
If there's only one thing that you could blame on them, is allowing publishers to use custom DRM on top of the Steam DRM. It should have been a rule that only Steam default DRM is allowed... and if the suits disagree, at least have an icon or something next to games to show which DRM it uses. I hate having to look at the forums to tell if a game will hose my computer or not.
I haven't used Wine in years, but according to the wine listing, at least some versions of.NET are fully working.
That being said, while overall the "Microsoft" implementation is more complete (obviously...), the Mono version has many APIs and goodies missing from the "official" version (such as a vastly superior I/O library). In the cases where these libraries can work on the standard version of.NET, it is not uncommon for.NET developers to use them. But not all do.
The mono Reflection lib is another one. I actually wonder if it would work under Microsoft's.NET, because its -way- better than Microsoft's version.
Already does. Windows 7 has some pretty decent adaptative handwriting recognition for fairly complex math notations and converts the result in a format that can be inserted in any MathML application (on the microsoft side, it means Office 2010).
It sucks at first, but when it starts "learning" enough, it works pretty good
Totally agree. Its easy to find someone who can explain to you why use OOP, MVC or normalization and what its good for. You actually need to know something to be able to say when its NOT good and what are the alternatives.
If you can find someone who can give 2 modern alternatives to the MVC pattern and when to use them, you basically filtered 90% of developers right there.
I'm one of the few in these parts that actually love Microsoft products. I used to be a Linux sysadmin, C++ developer, etc, and moved to the Microsoft stack completely willingly because i actually liked it.
That said, Ballmer really screws Microsoft over every damn time he opens his mouth. A lot of product managers and other high profiles employees at Microsoft actually do good work, have good idea, and work on products that have tons of potential, some of which are actually revolutionary. And every damn time, this clown either pulls the plug on it, screw it over with shitty marketing (WPF/E being marketed as Silverlight and a Flash "killer" instead of the cross platform LOB application framework it was supposed to be is one prime example) and by playing catchup to Google and Apple instead of leading on their own ideas.
Seriously, the best thing that could happen to Microsoft is to fire this idiot.
Basically they're codifying fair use so its not up for debate anymore, as opposed to arguing that any copy isn't fair use, or that you can have 1743091749719417 copies and resell them as fair use, as some here like to argue (obviously im exaggerating).
Putting it on paper once and for all is a pretty good idea.
That would work if the -entire- system was different. For the worse, the current system is made in that people who "unfairly" get ahead will directly hurt some people, get grants instead of those that actually deserve them, push down others on lists, and so on.
The impact is significant: indirectly, someone who cheats could ruin someone else's life.
The system shouldn't be that way, but it is. And while the system has to change, getting rid of cheating losers kind of makes sense too in the meanwhile:)
Probably not. It is not all that uncommon for Microsoft to open its source. I mean, it doesn't happen everyday, but they have special facilities for that purpose alone.
It may have changed, but back when i saw it, it was basically a web based code browser that doesn't allow the more simple copying features (like no export and stuff obviously).
If its still what they use, then it definitely cannot (realistically) be built.
The point is that its niche. The range of situations where you need raw speed, yet by-the-book OOP doesn't slow you down too much is very very small. Games and large commercial desktop apps are basically it. Line of business apps will usually go.NET or Java, web apps will go PHP,.NET, Java, PERL, Python, whatever. Drivers will go C/Assembly, specialized backend systems will go C/Assembly, etc.
There's exceptions to everything and i realize this is a gross generalization, but overall it stands, leaving C++ in a pretty small (but significant nevertheless) niche as opposed to C. You need too much speed to use the more high level solutions, but not enough speed to require C or assembly...
There's nothing wrong with their graphic API. If you use DirectX or OpenGL to write the canvas element, it will be hardware accelerated. But like all mainstream operating systems, Windows has several graphic APIs. Some are hardware accelerated, and some are not. Thats not a thing specific to Windows. Get a grip.
-Are you on the same web pages in both browsers? Not all web pages take the same amount of memory (obviously). This can differ by a factor.
-When you're adding up the memory of each process, are you adding up the private working set? If you're on Windows XP with default setting, you're not, and thus the total memory usage is completely wrong with this way of adding it up.
With correct memory calculation, here, for our internal apps, we can honestly only recommend Chrome/Opera and, ironically, IE8. IE6-7 and Firefox work peachy, but the memory usage is totally out of wack.
This also has the side effect (an advantage) of being doable at current gas stations with only minor upgrades, if done right. Without (as much) resistance from big lobby gas companies, things would go faster along:)
I can't talk for houghi, but I know -I- would have asked the question either way. I didn't now because houghi asked before me.
Of course the original poster probably would have worded it differently if he was heterosexual, since people tend not to mention their sexual orientation if they're hetero:)
Yes. A lot of large companies have extremely strict rules about harassment. One of my recent employers (extremely large, high profile company everyone here has heard about, and is pretty high in the list) would basically instantly fire you if you so much as flirted with someone. Tolerance was literally zero.
"Hey miss XYZ, you look lovely today". If no complain you're okay. If there is (and there's witness or proof), you're gone.
I have the opposite experience: Chrome renders waaaaaay faster than Firefox for me, even for javascript-less (or almost) pages.
That said, personally, when I say "Firefox is slow", it tends to be a broad way of talking about its start speed and memory usage that make IE look good.
sure you can. As long as you have a list of valid fields you check against, you can just create the query dynamically from the selected field, then parameterize the value.
However, that has a performance penalty: RDBMS will cache the query plan if the query is all the same except for parameters, so you're better off, performance wise, with a query that checks all the fields. If you do something like:
where (field1 = @foo AND @checkField1 = 1) OR (field2 = @foo AND @checkField2 = 1) OR....
Most modern RDBMS will optimize all of the redundant conditions away extremely quickly, and the query plan can be cached
Not that long ago. The Windows 7 preorder volume was rather crazy. Except that you had dozens over dozens of resellers to choose from. Sure, Amazon didn't run out of stock, but a lot of smaller resellers did.
There's no reason to line-up for software anymore. Hardware yes, and while Microsoft does make a few hardware things, its hardly their primary business line. Then again, people DID lineup for the 360.
Considering there are entire extremely complex systems made purely on stored procedures (which, from a client point of view, basically are just a little more than parameterized queries), 99.9% of the time if you cannot parameterized a query, you're doing wrong.
There's nothing stopping you from building a dynamic SQL string with parameters, and get the advantages without the drawbacks if you do it right (like using HIbernate/Nhibernate or equivalent):)
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So how does that work for other mediums, let say, a game? You only pay for online? bye bye single player games.
Or do you pay if the programmers code live on a big screen? :)
Why, when I can get a pretty beefy (relatively speaking) VPS running Windows Server (cheaper if Linux!) for less than my monthly internet bill, with much higher bandwidth allowance and speed, and they manage security patches and whatsnot for me?
Who cares if my ISP blocks port 80 :)
Read the terms of services of your ISP carefully. Most (not all, so maybe you're lucky) have a clause with home service that state you cannot use it to host a a full fledged server (with legalese to separate a server in the technical sense from a server the way we talk about it).
In my case, my ISP goes a step further and blocks port 80 in upload. Obviously can just put the site on another port, but....
Valve is a pretty cool company. The DRM they implemented is really a compromise, and aside for the offline restrictions, its pretty much the best middleground you can have today for a game digital delivery platform (compromise as in publishers agree to it and players can still have fun). And while not open source across the board, they ARE very open as far as game industry goes.
If there's only one thing that you could blame on them, is allowing publishers to use custom DRM on top of the Steam DRM. It should have been a rule that only Steam default DRM is allowed... and if the suits disagree, at least have an icon or something next to games to show which DRM it uses. I hate having to look at the forums to tell if a game will hose my computer or not.
Cant make your end users install stuff. You can only change the tools you use :)
I haven't used Wine in years, but according to the wine listing, at least some versions of .NET are fully working.
That being said, while overall the "Microsoft" implementation is more complete (obviously...), the Mono version has many APIs and goodies missing from the "official" version (such as a vastly superior I/O library). In the cases where these libraries can work on the standard version of .NET, it is not uncommon for .NET developers to use them. But not all do.
The mono Reflection lib is another one. I actually wonder if it would work under Microsoft's .NET, because its -way- better than Microsoft's version.
Already does. Windows 7 has some pretty decent adaptative handwriting recognition for fairly complex math notations and converts the result in a format that can be inserted in any MathML application (on the microsoft side, it means Office 2010).
It sucks at first, but when it starts "learning" enough, it works pretty good
Totally agree. Its easy to find someone who can explain to you why use OOP, MVC or normalization and what its good for. You actually need to know something to be able to say when its NOT good and what are the alternatives.
If you can find someone who can give 2 modern alternatives to the MVC pattern and when to use them, you basically filtered 90% of developers right there.
Wacom already make multi-touch "tablet" meant to be used with your hands. Basically an over sized lap-top touch pad. They're pretty cool.
I'm one of the few in these parts that actually love Microsoft products. I used to be a Linux sysadmin, C++ developer, etc, and moved to the Microsoft stack completely willingly because i actually liked it.
That said, Ballmer really screws Microsoft over every damn time he opens his mouth. A lot of product managers and other high profiles employees at Microsoft actually do good work, have good idea, and work on products that have tons of potential, some of which are actually revolutionary. And every damn time, this clown either pulls the plug on it, screw it over with shitty marketing (WPF/E being marketed as Silverlight and a Flash "killer" instead of the cross platform LOB application framework it was supposed to be is one prime example) and by playing catchup to Google and Apple instead of leading on their own ideas.
Seriously, the best thing that could happen to Microsoft is to fire this idiot.
Basically they're codifying fair use so its not up for debate anymore, as opposed to arguing that any copy isn't fair use, or that you can have 1743091749719417 copies and resell them as fair use, as some here like to argue (obviously im exaggerating).
Putting it on paper once and for all is a pretty good idea.
That would work if the -entire- system was different. For the worse, the current system is made in that people who "unfairly" get ahead will directly hurt some people, get grants instead of those that actually deserve them, push down others on lists, and so on.
The impact is significant: indirectly, someone who cheats could ruin someone else's life.
The system shouldn't be that way, but it is. And while the system has to change, getting rid of cheating losers kind of makes sense too in the meanwhile :)
Probably not. It is not all that uncommon for Microsoft to open its source. I mean, it doesn't happen everyday, but they have special facilities for that purpose alone.
It may have changed, but back when i saw it, it was basically a web based code browser that doesn't allow the more simple copying features (like no export and stuff obviously).
If its still what they use, then it definitely cannot (realistically) be built.
if you don't put those, they'll take their car. The amount of people who'll take a car to go what would have been a few minute walk is staggering.
The point is that its niche. The range of situations where you need raw speed, yet by-the-book OOP doesn't slow you down too much is very very small. Games and large commercial desktop apps are basically it. Line of business apps will usually go .NET or Java, web apps will go PHP, .NET, Java, PERL, Python, whatever. Drivers will go C/Assembly, specialized backend systems will go C/Assembly, etc.
There's exceptions to everything and i realize this is a gross generalization, but overall it stands, leaving C++ in a pretty small (but significant nevertheless) niche as opposed to C. You need too much speed to use the more high level solutions, but not enough speed to require C or assembly...
There's nothing wrong with their graphic API. If you use DirectX or OpenGL to write the canvas element, it will be hardware accelerated. But like all mainstream operating systems, Windows has several graphic APIs. Some are hardware accelerated, and some are not. Thats not a thing specific to Windows. Get a grip.
Two things:
-Are you on the same web pages in both browsers? Not all web pages take the same amount of memory (obviously). This can differ by a factor.
-When you're adding up the memory of each process, are you adding up the private working set? If you're on Windows XP with default setting, you're not, and thus the total memory usage is completely wrong with this way of adding it up.
With correct memory calculation, here, for our internal apps, we can honestly only recommend Chrome/Opera and, ironically, IE8. IE6-7 and Firefox work peachy, but the memory usage is totally out of wack.
This also has the side effect (an advantage) of being doable at current gas stations with only minor upgrades, if done right. Without (as much) resistance from big lobby gas companies, things would go faster along :)
I can't talk for houghi, but I know -I- would have asked the question either way. I didn't now because houghi asked before me.
Of course the original poster probably would have worded it differently if he was heterosexual, since people tend not to mention their sexual orientation if they're hetero :)
Yes. A lot of large companies have extremely strict rules about harassment. One of my recent employers (extremely large, high profile company everyone here has heard about, and is pretty high in the list) would basically instantly fire you if you so much as flirted with someone. Tolerance was literally zero.
"Hey miss XYZ, you look lovely today". If no complain you're okay. If there is (and there's witness or proof), you're gone.
Its rare that someone will say something that makes Windows fall in the "open" category.
I have the opposite experience: Chrome renders waaaaaay faster than Firefox for me, even for javascript-less (or almost) pages.
That said, personally, when I say "Firefox is slow", it tends to be a broad way of talking about its start speed and memory usage that make IE look good.
sure you can. As long as you have a list of valid fields you check against, you can just create the query dynamically from the selected field, then parameterize the value.
However, that has a performance penalty: RDBMS will cache the query plan if the query is all the same except for parameters, so you're better off, performance wise, with a query that checks all the fields. If you do something like:
where (field1 = @foo AND @checkField1 = 1) OR (field2 = @foo AND @checkField2 = 1) OR ....
Most modern RDBMS will optimize all of the redundant conditions away extremely quickly, and the query plan can be cached
Not that long ago. The Windows 7 preorder volume was rather crazy. Except that you had dozens over dozens of resellers to choose from. Sure, Amazon didn't run out of stock, but a lot of smaller resellers did.
There's no reason to line-up for software anymore. Hardware yes, and while Microsoft does make a few hardware things, its hardly their primary business line. Then again, people DID lineup for the 360.
Considering there are entire extremely complex systems made purely on stored procedures (which, from a client point of view, basically are just a little more than parameterized queries), 99.9% of the time if you cannot parameterized a query, you're doing wrong.
There's nothing stopping you from building a dynamic SQL string with parameters, and get the advantages without the drawbacks if you do it right (like using HIbernate/Nhibernate or equivalent) :)