A "free" Windows? Please. If you bought a PC there is a pretty good chance that you have Windows already, no? Dual boot your system if you want to run Windows. If you don't want to use WINE, you're dual booting to ReactOS.
Don't get me wrong though: ReactOS (and WINE) are amazing technical developments, but this whole concept of the need for a "free" Windows seems silly.
... if you read the description of the features that they've added, it isn't as impressive (to me, at least) as you would believe from the magic moniker "refactoring". They merely provide automation to refactoring tasks you could do by hand but which are more time consuming.
The comparison with a compiler is specious. Perhaps a better comparison would be to a macro assembler. But even then, the fact is the editor is not doing anything more than the body sitting on the other side of the keyboard.
What would be interesting, and what wasn't clear from the marketing noise on the site, is whether the editor is performing semantic analysis of the code to deal with aliasing and other issues that crop up when refactoring by hand.
This is not to say these functions aren't useful: they are. But they don't just spin through your code and rewrite it for you. You need to know what you're doing.
The only one I've seen is Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, though to be fair that may not count because it's more CGI anime. Even then the world and story are not related to the FF gaming world, at least as I (minimally) understand it. The other game inspired movies have been dismal.
The Tomb Raiders were awful movies, but this is true about a lot of action movies made now. I don't think the Tomb Raider premise lends itself to movie making: platformer meets FPS does not translater to the screen. It didn't work for Super Mario either.
The key to a good movie is the world and the story line: video games rarely provide that. But video games aren't alone here: few Science Fiction or Fantasy books translate to the screen well. The same with horror: most of the adaptations of Stephen King's books are rotten (The Shining and The Dead Zone being two big exceptions). The screen plays just suck: this was one of the incredible things Peter Jackson and co. did with LotR - the adaptation was done well.
One area where the transition from the printed page to the screen (both movie and video game) has gone well is with manga and anime.
Give me a break. Good software companies spend time to test their product: user testing, functionality testing. Google is very careful to test features before the roll out to the world. Given the size and breadth of the GMail product, this isn't that long.
It makes me think of The Simpsons episode where Moe turns his bar into a family restaurant, and he buys a surplus Navy deepfryer that he says can flash fry a buffalo in 40 seconds. Home responds, "Forty seconds? But I want it now."
I expect that if you want to use such a thing, it will be worth the wait.
For instance, when something seems a little slow I start watching the mysql process list using mysqlcc. I set it to refresh every 5 seconds (but I could set it lower). That is the kind of thing you can not do with phpMyAdmin[...]
You cannot get the auto-refresh, but you can view the process list from phpMyAdmin and kill processes, assuming your permissions allow it.
I just got my first (cost-of-living, at that) raise in three years, and that's with an intervening 10% cut. Companies, those that survived this long into the dot.bomb, and managing to stay afloat by these draconian measures.
Times have changed: when I started in the industry (1992) it was not uncommon to see 15%, 25%, or even 30% raises on a regular basis. Not anymore.
Donald Knuth did this 30 years ago in "The Art of Computer Programming", by providing sample implementations of the algorithms in MIX, his assembly language. There is something to be said for this: he justifies its use in the preface to Volume 1.
Certainly having to learn assembly language gives you a better understanding of the machine: I learned alot peeking and poking (no pun intended) around with the catridge-based monitor on my VIC-20 in 1981, which put me in good stead for when my Apple ][ arrived: remember when the assembler listing for the ROM was included in the box? Those were the days. Of course back then you didn't have much software to use, so you had to write your own. Now you don't have to.
I'm an advocate of starting CS students with a very high-level language, like Scheme. That allows them to learn to _program_ instead of wasting time learning a _language_. Once you know how to program, languages can be picked up relatively easily. As long as the students are exposed to lower-level languages later, things are good. People coming out of good schools knowing Java and Scheme only are in for a rude awakening when they hit the real world.
... rather than patching IE to address this issue they are telling people to manually enter URLs with all the concomitant lossage of session state and such? And they think this is a realistic solution? Ugh. Or did I miss a patch along the lines?
And without being a Microsoft apologist, don't forget that other browsers, included the Sainted Mozilla, were susceptible to varying degrees to the same bug. The difference is that these were patched.
Oh, and the obligatory smartass comment about not using IE: I use Safari on Mac OS X, Konqueror on Linux, and Firebird everywhere else.
After the dot.bomb there is a plethora of programmers and "IT Professionals" out there, and even the good ones are having problems finding jobs. All I can say is that I'm glad I'm not graduating from college right now.
Of course from what I've heard about the state of medicine right now, I'm not so sure you're any better off.
I don't understand why people immediately dismiss a report coming from NIST as being worthless USG noise while many of the same "arguments" against this paper could be made against books like Incident Response: Investigating Computer Crime or Counter Attack or any of the other n+1 books on this topic that exist.
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A "free" Windows? Please. If you bought a PC there is a pretty good chance that you have Windows already, no? Dual boot your system if you want to run Windows. If you don't want to use WINE, you're dual booting to ReactOS.
Don't get me wrong though: ReactOS (and WINE) are amazing technical developments, but this whole concept of the need for a "free" Windows seems silly.
... if you read the description of the features that they've added, it isn't as impressive (to me, at least) as you would believe from the magic moniker "refactoring". They merely provide automation to refactoring tasks you could do by hand but which are more time consuming.
The comparison with a compiler is specious. Perhaps a better comparison would be to a macro assembler. But even then, the fact is the editor is not doing anything more than the body sitting on the other side of the keyboard.
What would be interesting, and what wasn't clear from the marketing noise on the site, is whether the editor is performing semantic analysis of the code to deal with aliasing and other issues that crop up when refactoring by hand.
This is not to say these functions aren't useful: they are. But they don't just spin through your code and rewrite it for you. You need to know what you're doing.
The only one I've seen is Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, though to be fair that may not count because it's more CGI anime. Even then the world and story are not related to the FF gaming world, at least as I (minimally) understand it. The other game inspired movies have been dismal.
The Tomb Raiders were awful movies, but this is true about a lot of action movies made now. I don't think the Tomb Raider premise lends itself to movie making: platformer meets FPS does not translater to the screen. It didn't work for Super Mario either.
The key to a good movie is the world and the story line: video games rarely provide that. But video games aren't alone here: few Science Fiction or Fantasy books translate to the screen well. The same with horror: most of the adaptations of Stephen King's books are rotten (The Shining and The Dead Zone being two big exceptions). The screen plays just suck: this was one of the incredible things Peter Jackson and co. did with LotR - the adaptation was done well.
One area where the transition from the printed page to the screen (both movie and video game) has gone well is with manga and anime.
Give me a break. Good software companies spend time to test their product: user testing, functionality testing. Google is very careful to test features before the roll out to the world. Given the size and breadth of the GMail product, this isn't that long.
It makes me think of The Simpsons episode where Moe turns his bar into a family restaurant, and he buys a surplus Navy deepfryer that he says can flash fry a buffalo in 40 seconds. Home responds, "Forty seconds? But I want it now."
I expect that if you want to use such a thing, it will be worth the wait.
The HTML 4.0 specification, Section 18, includes examples of including scripts in JavaScript, VBScript, and TCL in a an HTML document.
The definition of prior art must not include HTML. Sad. I'm not sure what is original or non intuitive about this. Jeesh.
For instance, when something seems a little slow I start watching the mysql process list using mysqlcc. I set it to refresh every 5 seconds (but I could set it lower). That is the kind of thing you can not do with phpMyAdmin[...]
You cannot get the auto-refresh, but you can view the process list from phpMyAdmin and kill processes, assuming your permissions allow it.
Amen. My thoughts exactly.
I just got my first (cost-of-living, at that) raise in three years, and that's with an intervening 10% cut. Companies, those that survived this long into the dot.bomb, and managing to stay afloat by these draconian measures.
Times have changed: when I started in the industry (1992) it was not uncommon to see 15%, 25%, or even 30% raises on a regular basis. Not anymore.
Donald Knuth did this 30 years ago in "The Art of Computer Programming", by providing sample implementations of the algorithms in MIX, his assembly language. There is something to be said for this: he justifies its use in the preface to Volume 1.
Certainly having to learn assembly language gives you a better understanding of the machine: I learned alot peeking and poking (no pun intended) around with the catridge-based monitor on my VIC-20 in 1981, which put me in good stead for when my Apple ][ arrived: remember when the assembler listing for the ROM was included in the box? Those were the days. Of course back then you didn't have much software to use, so you had to write your own. Now you don't have to.
I'm an advocate of starting CS students with a very high-level language, like Scheme. That allows them to learn to _program_ instead of wasting time learning a _language_. Once you know how to program, languages can be picked up relatively easily. As long as the students are exposed to lower-level languages later, things are good. People coming out of good schools knowing Java and Scheme only are in for a rude awakening when they hit the real world.
Just a crash? Just a crash? Give me a break. If the machine goes down, you're hosed. How convenient.
What would the reaction be if s/OpenBSD/WinXP/g and the response was from Microsoft was "it's just a crash." Imagine. Oy.
... rather than patching IE to address this issue they are telling people to manually enter URLs with all the concomitant lossage of session state and such? And they think this is a realistic solution? Ugh. Or did I miss a patch along the lines?
And without being a Microsoft apologist, don't forget that other browsers, included the Sainted Mozilla, were susceptible to varying degrees to the same bug. The difference is that these were patched.
Oh, and the obligatory smartass comment about not using IE: I use Safari on Mac OS X, Konqueror on Linux, and Firebird everywhere else.
After the dot.bomb there is a plethora of programmers and "IT Professionals" out there, and even the good ones are having problems finding jobs. All I can say is that I'm glad I'm not graduating from college right now.
Of course from what I've heard about the state of medicine right now, I'm not so sure you're any better off.
I don't understand why people immediately dismiss a report coming from NIST as being worthless USG noise while many of the same "arguments" against this paper could be made against books like Incident Response: Investigating Computer Crime or Counter Attack or any of the other n+1 books on this topic that exist.
Harumph.