In the beginning, ActiveX wasnt supposed to be Platform Dependant. And I guess that kind of makes sense... COM is platform-indepentent. OLE is just a set of COM interfaces that Microsoft uses throughout their operating system and applications. The fact that ActiveX is more or less OLE 2.0 with "Automation" (See IDispatch interface), the reason I think it never made it to it's cross-platform dream was that Microsoft never got around to doing anything with OLE outside of Windows, and no one ever picked up the ball.
*** P.S. Im tired, drunk, and my spelling skills ran away
It is similar to the convienient store/Gas Station Sheetz that is around here in my area... They have a bottom line of profits that a store has to make to stay open. It isnt enough to be profitable, but it has to be profitable by so much, or it gets closed. I am sure Walmart is in the same mindset.... Product X doesnt bring in Y profits, then they simply cant be bothered to sell it
The advantage is they don't HAVE to share the source if they distribute the binary. I can't be sure their exact use, but something that comes to mind is wanting to market a canned OS that uses the linux kernel. Selling it like windows would mean that they would have to make the source available... but there are a lot of instances where it simply makes no sense to give people the ability to fork your code... especially in an OS.
I have to completely disagree. Cybersquatting implies you obtained the domain for nothing more then direct profit of reselling that domain.
What do YOU think the fine line is between appropriate use of a domain and inappropriate? As far as I am concerned, as long as you have a legitimate use for it (This doesnt include name fudging and redirection, like britanyspears.com), then it shouldn't be an issue.
For instance, lets say way back when I wanted to register peanutbutterandjelly.com. It could be because I want to make a site dedicated to peanut butter and jelly lovers, with different combinations, brands, stories about peoples love for the food. Currently Hasbro owns this domain (I think in regards to a cartoon). Would they have more of a right to the domain then I? Why? Because them making money from it is more important then my opinion on my favorite food? What if I HATED peanut butter and jelly and dedicated the website to haters all over the world. Does that give THEM more claim to the domain?
Just because you have a use for a domain doesnt mean that you should have exclusive rights to register it and no one else. If you REALLY think it is that important to have that domain name, then REGISTER IT.
I dunno... I got an old Gateway 386 case that strangely enough holds an ATX board and ATX power supply. It goes right where the VCR used to on the shelves. No sound difference, no real loss of room
I don't think so champ. Indulge me, ever so quickly...
Make 3 pages, called main.html, topframe.html, and bottomframe.html. And dont worry. I took a whole 3 minutes putting this together. No need to thank me.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Top</title> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"> function printframe() { window.parent.mybottom.window.focus(); window.parent.mybottom.window.print(); } </script> This page should never print<br> <form name="PrintTest" method="get" action=""> <input type="button" name="printme" value="Print other frame" OnClick="printframe(); return false;"> </form> </body> </html>
End topframe.html
Begin bottomframe.html
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Bottom</title> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body> <b>Only this page should print!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</b> </body> </html>
End bottomframe.html
Now I even made sure they pass the w3c validator so as to not get blame from having invalid pages. Anyway, that code works perfect in the top browsers... all except Opera. Opera, even the most current version (This has been a bug for as long as I have known in Opera), will print every frame, where as all other browsers will properly print their specific target. I used this perticular example because it is the most recent one I have had the priviledge of dealing with. Believe me, there are hundereds more. Ive got a notebook dedicated specifically to Opera bugs I should watch out for
Opera is one of the FEW pay for Web Browsers, AND it is the most horrible browser *I* have ever used. Especially its crippled javascript implementation is enough to drive a geek to burn villages and blow up trains
Sure it is a whole country that Sierra can't sell to, but I think the very content that they are banning the game for is the very reason a lot of people play the game (or at least got into the series in the first place), so changing it in any regard to get around the sensorship would comprimise the marketability of the game.
Eventually, we will look back on these days when we tried to control the media content people were exposed to and laugh.... or we will all be in cages with a barcode tattooed to our necks.
Christ.... I cant get an OS X capable machine for less then then $300.... and Mac people arent like PC people. They seem to opt for "Give to Charity" or "Throw it away" when getting rid of an old mac. Ive actually been told "No" when asking if I could have a G3 that was being thrown out. The woman would RATHER it be thrown out then give it to someone who would use it. That wasnt the last either. I have had several Mac people go buy new macs, and before hand Id say "Dont throw your old one out. Ill take it". Sure enough, I come back and look at their new machine... "Where is your old one?" "THe garbage men took it"
CmdrTaco is like that boss we all had that swore he was the best in the world, but in fact he was approaching the worst... but you couldnt fire his incompotent ass because he is the head cheese
Isnt this what Graphic Adventures are? One specifically I have in mind was Phantasmagoria 2. Sure it wasnt that great of a game, but it was a really great interactive movie.
Im there with you man. The only reason people care about this person is because they were known somehow in a cause they cared about.
I guess the poor kid in iraq who's family was blown up and died slowly over says because of loss of blood, due to missing legs, isnt someone to cry over. But if Brittany Spears died...
How about the virtual boy.... 9 AA's, and the GOOD batteries only lasted ~1hour, at best. The dollar store batteries would be lucky to last 10 minutes.
To make this illustration useful, we will play this out with a simple 6-sided die (Singular dice), some paper, and a pen. Make 3 points, number them 1, 2, and 3 respectively. 1 and 2 indicate point 1, 3 and 4 indicate point 2, and 5 and 6 indicate point 3.
Now roll the die initially, which will indicate a starting point. Now roll it again. Draw a dot between the initial point, and the point indicated by the second roll (This may get you nowhere if its the same point indicated). The dot just drawn is your new starting point. Roll again. Draw a dot between your first drawn dot and the point indicated by your new roll. Do this 1/0 times. The closer you get to infinity, the more clear the sierpinski triangle will be. And while the pen/paper/dice version is fun at first, whipping up a quicky program to do it for you may be faster, easier, and plain more satisfying
.. that Sun has a VERY STRICT testing procedure in declaring a VM "Java Compatible". Just because it can run Java code (see Microsoft's Java VM), the implementation being different can cause all sorts of problems. As a matter of fact, this is the major reason for compatibility problems with WINE... little implementation quirks in the win32s could be dependant behavior.
Sometimes I wonder if all of these "Make Java Free!" actually even see the picture that they swear that they are looking at.
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Actually, I think something pretty simple that should happen (in the context of search engine links, not links in general) is that when a visitor searches google, and I click one of the returned links, google should do something like queue that perticular page for respidering. Make it so a page cant enter that queue more then say once a week, and you will find that we come up with less and less broken links.
While this might seem like a LOT for google to be doing on the backend, I would have to think that a majority of the public ends up visiting the same 5-10% of the the internet each day (number pulled from my ass, but an educated guess at least).
Both you and the parent are complete retards. GLUT is more or less a macro library for OpenGL. It does all of the crap you are too lazy to do. That isnt what this article is about and it certainly isnt what SDL is.
I think you are missing what I am actually saying. To put it more in terms that this croud will understand, consider this a "Fork" or a "Derivative" of the PC plaform. Sure, BIOS company X can supply MS-OS-Compliant BIOS's, but that doesnt mean that they cant continue to sell good ol' PC BIOS's too. It doesnt mean that the PC plaform will be gone. After all, Mandrake was based off of Slackware... there is still a Slackware distro, isnt there?
My point being that this is a Not-quite-PC-compatible MS driven platform. Pretty much, it will not be a PC platform. This doesnt mean you have to use it. It doesnt mean that will be the end of PCs. Like the Xbox, sure it runs an X86, but a PC it is not.
Actually, this may not be as horrible as everyone makes it out to be. What I think we will see happening is Microsoft will be responsible for another type of proprietary (maybe the wrong word) machine, like a Mac. Only one operating system was thought of when designing it, while a couple others might pop up on the radar ever so quickly. The only difference between this and Apple with their Macs is there are more 3rd parties involved in this one.
In the meantime, the PC platform will keep on being there, like it has for over 20 years... and companies actually entertaining leaving the PC platform for the Almost-PC-Microsoft platform will come around. I promise.
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In the beginning, ActiveX wasnt supposed to be Platform Dependant. And I guess that kind of makes sense... COM is platform-indepentent. OLE is just a set of COM interfaces that Microsoft uses throughout their operating system and applications. The fact that ActiveX is more or less OLE 2.0 with "Automation" (See IDispatch interface), the reason I think it never made it to it's cross-platform dream was that Microsoft never got around to doing anything with OLE outside of Windows, and no one ever picked up the ball.
*** P.S. Im tired, drunk, and my spelling skills ran away
... if all of these viruses were something more then a rip-off of a rip-off of a rip-off of someone elses code.
It is similar to the convienient store/Gas Station Sheetz that is around here in my area... They have a bottom line of profits that a store has to make to stay open. It isnt enough to be profitable, but it has to be profitable by so much, or it gets closed. I am sure Walmart is in the same mindset.... Product X doesnt bring in Y profits, then they simply cant be bothered to sell it
The advantage is they don't HAVE to share the source if they distribute the binary. I can't be sure their exact use, but something that comes to mind is wanting to market a canned OS that uses the linux kernel. Selling it like windows would mean that they would have to make the source available... but there are a lot of instances where it simply makes no sense to give people the ability to fork your code... especially in an OS.
I have to completely disagree. Cybersquatting implies you obtained the domain for nothing more then direct profit of reselling that domain.
What do YOU think the fine line is between appropriate use of a domain and inappropriate? As far as I am concerned, as long as you have a legitimate use for it (This doesnt include name fudging and redirection, like britanyspears.com), then it shouldn't be an issue.
For instance, lets say way back when I wanted to register peanutbutterandjelly.com. It could be because I want to make a site dedicated to peanut butter and jelly lovers, with different combinations, brands, stories about peoples love for the food. Currently Hasbro owns this domain (I think in regards to a cartoon). Would they have more of a right to the domain then I? Why? Because them making money from it is more important then my opinion on my favorite food? What if I HATED peanut butter and jelly and dedicated the website to haters all over the world. Does that give THEM more claim to the domain?
Just because you have a use for a domain doesnt mean that you should have exclusive rights to register it and no one else. If you REALLY think it is that important to have that domain name, then REGISTER IT.
I dunno... I got an old Gateway 386 case that strangely enough holds an ATX board and ATX power supply. It goes right where the VCR used to on the shelves. No sound difference, no real loss of room
Is this the same reason that Apple died when competing agains the IBM PC compatible.... oh wait...
Make 3 pages, called main.html, topframe.html, and bottomframe.html. And dont worry. I took a whole 3 minutes putting this together. No need to thank me.
Begin main.html
End main.html
Begin topframe.html
End topframe.html
Begin bottomframe.html
End bottomframe.html
Now I even made sure they pass the w3c validator so as to not get blame from having invalid pages. Anyway, that code works perfect in the top browsers... all except Opera. Opera, even the most current version (This has been a bug for as long as I have known in Opera), will print every frame, where as all other browsers will properly print their specific target. I used this perticular example because it is the most recent one I have had the priviledge of dealing with. Believe me, there are hundereds more. Ive got a notebook dedicated specifically to Opera bugs I should watch out for
Opera is one of the FEW pay for Web Browsers, AND it is the most horrible browser *I* have ever used. Especially its crippled javascript implementation is enough to drive a geek to burn villages and blow up trains
Sure it is a whole country that Sierra can't sell to, but I think the very content that they are banning the game for is the very reason a lot of people play the game (or at least got into the series in the first place), so changing it in any regard to get around the sensorship would comprimise the marketability of the game.
Eventually, we will look back on these days when we tried to control the media content people were exposed to and laugh.... or we will all be in cages with a barcode tattooed to our necks.
While I personally say "Gib" as in "Green", too many other places have I heard it pronounces "jib" for it not to come from some sort of reference...
Then again, there was that period when it seemed everyone was calling gif's "jifs"
Christ.... I cant get an OS X capable machine for less then then $300.... and Mac people arent like PC people. They seem to opt for "Give to Charity" or "Throw it away" when getting rid of an old mac. Ive actually been told "No" when asking if I could have a G3 that was being thrown out. The woman would RATHER it be thrown out then give it to someone who would use it. That wasnt the last either. I have had several Mac people go buy new macs, and before hand Id say "Dont throw your old one out. Ill take it". Sure enough, I come back and look at their new machine... "Where is your old one?" "THe garbage men took it"
CmdrTaco + Normal Day = Dupe
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CmdrTaco is like that boss we all had that swore he was the best in the world, but in fact he was approaching the worst... but you couldnt fire his incompotent ass because he is the head cheese
Isnt this what Graphic Adventures are? One specifically I have in mind was Phantasmagoria 2. Sure it wasnt that great of a game, but it was a really great interactive movie.
Im there with you man. The only reason people care about this person is because they were known somehow in a cause they cared about.
I guess the poor kid in iraq who's family was blown up and died slowly over says because of loss of blood, due to missing legs, isnt someone to cry over. But if Brittany Spears died...
You dont need a girlfriend to write/get letters to/from one!
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How about the virtual boy.... 9 AA's, and the GOOD batteries only lasted ~1hour, at best. The dollar store batteries would be lucky to last 10 minutes.
Something easier and more fun...
To make this illustration useful, we will play this out with a simple 6-sided die (Singular dice), some paper, and a pen. Make 3 points, number them 1, 2, and 3 respectively. 1 and 2 indicate point 1, 3 and 4 indicate point 2, and 5 and 6 indicate point 3.
Now roll the die initially, which will indicate a starting point. Now roll it again. Draw a dot between the initial point, and the point indicated by the second roll (This may get you nowhere if its the same point indicated). The dot just drawn is your new starting point. Roll again. Draw a dot between your first drawn dot and the point indicated by your new roll. Do this 1/0 times. The closer you get to infinity, the more clear the sierpinski triangle will be. And while the pen/paper/dice version is fun at first, whipping up a quicky program to do it for you may be faster, easier, and plain more satisfying
.. that Sun has a VERY STRICT testing procedure in declaring a VM "Java Compatible". Just because it can run Java code (see Microsoft's Java VM), the implementation being different can cause all sorts of problems. As a matter of fact, this is the major reason for compatibility problems with WINE... little implementation quirks in the win32s could be dependant behavior.
Sometimes I wonder if all of these "Make Java Free!" actually even see the picture that they swear that they are looking at.
Actually, I think something pretty simple that should happen (in the context of search engine links, not links in general) is that when a visitor searches google, and I click one of the returned links, google should do something like queue that perticular page for respidering. Make it so a page cant enter that queue more then say once a week, and you will find that we come up with less and less broken links.
While this might seem like a LOT for google to be doing on the backend, I would have to think that a majority of the public ends up visiting the same 5-10% of the the internet each day (number pulled from my ass, but an educated guess at least).
I guess you are right (Assuming its not an ION). My mistake.
You botched it, sir.
The joke doesnt really make sense unless it is a hydrogen atom, which has one proton and one electron.
Both you and the parent are complete retards. GLUT is more or less a macro library for OpenGL. It does all of the crap you are too lazy to do. That isnt what this article is about and it certainly isnt what SDL is.
I think you are missing what I am actually saying. To put it more in terms that this croud will understand, consider this a "Fork" or a "Derivative" of the PC plaform. Sure, BIOS company X can supply MS-OS-Compliant BIOS's, but that doesnt mean that they cant continue to sell good ol' PC BIOS's too. It doesnt mean that the PC plaform will be gone. After all, Mandrake was based off of Slackware... there is still a Slackware distro, isnt there?
My point being that this is a Not-quite-PC-compatible MS driven platform. Pretty much, it will not be a PC platform. This doesnt mean you have to use it. It doesnt mean that will be the end of PCs. Like the Xbox, sure it runs an X86, but a PC it is not.
Actually, this may not be as horrible as everyone makes it out to be. What I think we will see happening is Microsoft will be responsible for another type of proprietary (maybe the wrong word) machine, like a Mac. Only one operating system was thought of when designing it, while a couple others might pop up on the radar ever so quickly. The only difference between this and Apple with their Macs is there are more 3rd parties involved in this one.
In the meantime, the PC platform will keep on being there, like it has for over 20 years... and companies actually entertaining leaving the PC platform for the Almost-PC-Microsoft platform will come around. I promise.