"Gun companies would do pretty much anything to avoid advertising to kids. Kids don't have money, jobs, and can't buy guns anyway."
Yeah, it pays much more to lobby to start a war in Irak. *cough*Hallibur*cough*. Dick*cough*eney*cough*.*sigh*
Yup. I'd personally say "try harder with {X}HTML", but in case it fails utterly, SVG will definately be the way to go! It will be much harder for you though to transform XML into printable SVG than into XHTML.
Why do you think when you were getting shafted in the old days the term often used was "This was a railroad job" or "We railroaded those guys off the map" and so on... it was because the railroads had lots of power and generally screwed over the little guy
And nowadays, you can replace these sayings by "This was a lawyer job" or "We sued those guys off the map". *sigh*
I know what kind of "amazing code" CS freshmen produce. In fact, there are a lot of them who produce "amazing code", I did.
However, ask these freshmen to design you a large scale project. Even if they can produce a small amount of code that seemingly do amazing stuff, they will have much more trouble when they will try to design a large scale project.
And even if they succeed, their large scale code will probably be as bad as MS code, which is a huge scale project.
One thing I learned in the past few years (I started my CS in 99), is that back then, I produced bad code, even if I thought I produced "amazing code" (And yeah, compared to my other CS fellows, it *was* amazing code).
Thus, I can safely say that even if I think that I produce amazing code right now (I really think I do:) ), I will probably produce much better code in a few years.
I don't really want to sound harsh, but being a CS freshman, you *inherently* write "half-assed, incomplete software". The problem is that you will probably never have the "how NOT to write half-assed, incomplete software" course. You will have to self-teach you this.
Microsoft developers are not complete ass. In fact, most of them are pretty good. Don't think that as a CS freshman, you are better than them.
That is exactly what I'm looking for too. And as you say, most 17" LCD screens have no DVI input. I will probably buy the dell 17" ultrasharp, which is now at 700$ CAN and looks good (and has DVI input).
This year ICFP was my first try in a programming contest ever. This ant thing was really cool, and creating an AI in only 72 hours was really tough. Unfortunately, I couldn't even create a functional AI in time (I think it is because I spent too much time building a cool ant AI visualiser:) ), so I didn't really participate to the contest, but I tried:)
I guess that actually using s functional programming language do help. Anyway, the winners deserve their unlimited bragging rights.
I am currently struggling. The fight is extremely tough. I know I shouldn't. This is waste of money... but there are 3 main reasons for me to buy this:
- I will finally own the ENGLISH version. When I bought the VHS set, I was a clueless teen, and I wasn't clever enough to buy english versions. I *hate* french versions of movies. The french voices in most movies sound so... gay!
- The movie quality is a concern. I will finally see that movie at high resolution.
- I guess that... the box look and feel and smell (!) would be a distant third. (Edgar modified quote in FFVI. Believe it or not, I restarted a game yesterday. Still the best game ever... Darnit, I'm definately in a nostalgic period...)
Opera still has the "Opera word in the user agent I think. The user agent looks like "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Opera 7.54 [en]"
"Esc" works... I personally have trouble getting used to that kind of bar. In every other program, CTRL+F pops a window in the middle of the screen. I sometimes think that the CTRL+F is broken... until I look down. And I don't really like the fact that the search is incremental. Well. I guess I will be used to it in a couple of days...
Adobe has a linux version of it's plugin. Well yeah, maybe it should work with SVG out of the box, but my point is that it is very possible to view SVG files with Firefox:)
I can guess how he came to the decision of doing something nasty (in a timed bomb manner) instead of making it "not working".
The way I understand how crackers work, they just deassemble the binary, play with a couple of instructions, and if it work, publish the crack, along with their nickname so the can get their fame. The cracker will not test the program for 3 days after he cracked the program to make sure everything works fine, he will crack another program... to get more fame.
However, what a software developer can do is to set boobie traps in the code by making the software look like it has been sucessfully cracked. However, a couple of days after, bang! the timed bomb strikes. Thus, it makes the cracks pretty much useless.
I do more or less the same thing. However, if the program can't access my server and the key is valid, the program will run without problem. Besides, I ask the customer's e-mail along with the key, and the key is not generated from the e-mail. Thus, only my server and the customer know the e-mail that goes with the key. They can't have their number highjacked then.
I loosened the process a lot in my lasts version, because I think it is *much* more important *not* to piss paying customer than piss non-paying ones.
I accepted piracy. In fact, I changed my philosophy: "pirates" are a part of your userbase. They might even make word of mouth publicity. Thay may report bugs. The may suggest useful features.
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Lazarus is not the compiler, it is the IDE. Freepascal is the compiler.
name your hack. you can do pretty much everything with pascal (well, I only know object pascal...)
ok, I should have said lockheed, but halliburton is still a blatant example of how usa work.
"Gun companies would do pretty much anything to avoid advertising to kids. Kids don't have money, jobs, and can't buy guns anyway." Yeah, it pays much more to lobby to start a war in Irak. *cough*Hallibur*cough*. Dick*cough*eney*cough* .*sigh*
Good luck.
Yup. I'd personally say "try harder with {X}HTML", but in case it fails utterly, SVG will definately be the way to go! It will be much harder for you though to transform XML into printable SVG than into XHTML.
And nowadays, you can replace these sayings by "This was a lawyer job" or "We sued those guys off the map". *sigh*
Isn't it the CHM format you are talking about?
As long as you do the same, you should be ok.
I know what kind of "amazing code" CS freshmen produce. In fact, there are a lot of them who produce "amazing code", I did.
:) ), I will probably produce much better code in a few years.
However, ask these freshmen to design you a large scale project. Even if they can produce a small amount of code that seemingly do amazing stuff, they will have much more trouble when they will try to design a large scale project.
And even if they succeed, their large scale code will probably be as bad as MS code, which is a huge scale project.
One thing I learned in the past few years (I started my CS in 99), is that back then, I produced bad code, even if I thought I produced "amazing code" (And yeah, compared to my other CS fellows, it *was* amazing code).
Thus, I can safely say that even if I think that I produce amazing code right now (I really think I do
I don't really want to sound harsh, but being a CS freshman, you *inherently* write "half-assed, incomplete software". The problem is that you will probably never have the "how NOT to write half-assed, incomplete software" course. You will have to self-teach you this.
Microsoft developers are not complete ass. In fact, most of them are pretty good. Don't think that as a CS freshman, you are better than them.
That is exactly what I'm looking for too. And as you say, most 17" LCD screens have no DVI input. I will probably buy the dell 17" ultrasharp, which is now at 700$ CAN and looks good (and has DVI input).
This year ICFP was my first try in a programming contest ever. This ant thing was really cool, and creating an AI in only 72 hours was really tough. Unfortunately, I couldn't even create a functional AI in time (I think it is because I spent too much time building a cool ant AI visualiser :) ), so I didn't really participate to the contest, but I tried :)
I guess that actually using s functional programming language do help. Anyway, the winners deserve their unlimited bragging rights.
I`ll sure do better for the next year's ICFP...
As I said, I'm too young to know that :)
Advertising "in movies" always existed! Fedex in Cast away. Don't tell me you didn't think THAT was advertisement!
And dolorian (I don't know how to spell it, I'm too young) in back to the future (We also see his Nike shoes a lot in that movie...).
That the kind of comment I needed to read to resist the temptation of wasting my money on that.
I am currently struggling. The fight is extremely tough. I know I shouldn't. This is waste of money... but there are 3 main reasons for me to buy this:
- I will finally own the ENGLISH version. When I bought the VHS set, I was a clueless teen, and I wasn't clever enough to buy english versions. I *hate* french versions of movies. The french voices in most movies sound so... gay!
- The movie quality is a concern. I will finally see that movie at high resolution.
- I guess that... the box look and feel and smell (!) would be a distant third. (Edgar modified quote in FFVI. Believe it or not, I restarted a game yesterday. Still the best game ever... Darnit, I'm definately in a nostalgic period...)
Opera still has the "Opera word in the user agent I think. The user agent looks like "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Opera 7.54 [en]"
"Esc" works... I personally have trouble getting used to that kind of bar. In every other program, CTRL+F pops a window in the middle of the screen. I sometimes think that the CTRL+F is broken... until I look down. And I don't really like the fact that the search is incremental. Well. I guess I will be used to it in a couple of days...
An interesting start would be to count the number of downloads from MSIE user agents...
Adobe has a linux version of it's plugin. Well yeah, maybe it should work with SVG out of the box, but my point is that it is very possible to view SVG files with Firefox :)
I can guess how he came to the decision of doing something nasty (in a timed bomb manner) instead of making it "not working".
The way I understand how crackers work, they just deassemble the binary, play with a couple of instructions, and if it work, publish the crack, along with their nickname so the can get their fame. The cracker will not test the program for 3 days after he cracked the program to make sure everything works fine, he will crack another program... to get more fame.
However, what a software developer can do is to set boobie traps in the code by making the software look like it has been sucessfully cracked. However, a couple of days after, bang! the timed bomb strikes. Thus, it makes the cracks pretty much useless.
You can't buy a car and the clone a million time.
Despite the fact that this comment is being modded "Funny", I would also mod it Insightful. It is a very likely possibility...
I do more or less the same thing. However, if the program can't access my server and the key is valid, the program will run without problem. Besides, I ask the customer's e-mail along with the key, and the key is not generated from the e-mail. Thus, only my server and the customer know the e-mail that goes with the key. They can't have their number highjacked then.
I loosened the process a lot in my lasts version, because I think it is *much* more important *not* to piss paying customer than piss non-paying ones.
I accepted piracy. In fact, I changed my philosophy: "pirates" are a part of your userbase. They might even make word of mouth publicity. Thay may report bugs. The may suggest useful features.