I don't think so. The reason there is a tremendous push towards serial right now is because parallel interfaces create more interference at higher frequencies. The theory with serial is that you can push the frequency as high as you want without the interference.
Yet, somehow, in these great United States, they now are getting sued for trying to protect the licensing agreement that no one reads and every just clicks 'agree' onto.
Hmm... let me look to see where in their licensing agreement it says that I agree to having my Master Boot Record destroyed so that my computer won't boot.
Judging by the fact that he has written software for "everything from a pocket pc to an as/400"... I'd say he's not afraid to learn. In fact, he says he's used Linux... so I'm sure he has learned it. But what he is saying is... he's not interested in jumping through hoops to run a single piece of software that someone already wrote.
And I tend to agree with him. I'm a developer and I like to spend my time doing things that no one else has done before.
This won't effect existing.dlls... this "new" technology is part of the.NET framework. Each assembly (which is just a compiled binary of.Net classes) has a version number and guid. When you compile one assembly that references another assembly, there's information that tells the CLR what versions of the referenced assembly are acceptable. There another thing called the Global Assembly Cache that keeps track of the different versions of each assembly.
So, anyway, it will only help future programs. We'll still have to suffer from.dll hell for existing stuff.
It simply jumps to a new point of execution in the code and moves on, saving all the time necessary to push all of the registers and so on onto the stack.
I don't think so. The state of registers between threads is bound to be different... you can't just jump and be done.
Also, there are some capabilities of SPARC processors (i'm not an expert on this so forgive me if i get this wrong) that allow for multiple sets of registers to be "flipped" (kinda like page flipping on graphics cards) to make context switches faster. Solaris may be making use of that to implement LWP. This is something Linux (being x86 biased) couldn't take advantage of.
In light of Intuit's comments about how harmless their software and SafeCast are, I feel that I need to tell everyone about my ordeal with TurboTax.
My workstation at home is running Windows 2000 Professional. Generally, it's pretty stable and I never reboot (unless some stupid software or update I'm installing requires it). About 2 weeks ago, I bought and installed TurboTax.
Over the course of those two weeks I completed and filed my returns. I don't remember having to reboot my computer in this span of time. This weekend, I decided to make my regular visit to Windows Update to grab any product updates or security fixes. There was an IE6 updated that I selected which required a reboot to complete the install (why application installs require OS reboots is something I'll never understand).
Anyway, I reboot the computer. I get halfway through the Windows boot splash screen and BAM. BSOD. I spent the entire weekend trying to determine the problem.
Eventually, I booted off a Windows 98 boot floppy and ran:
fdisk/mbr
Surprisingly, that allowed Windows 2000 to boot. Totally pissed off at this point (and figuring it has something to do with TurboTax and SafeCast) I uninstalled both TurboTax and SafeCast from the "Add/Remove Programs" interface.
Then, just to see if everything was still peachy, I rebooted. BSOD.
fdisk/mbr
Windows 2000 boots. Go to Intuit's site, download their SafeCast uninstaller. Run that.
Reboot. Windows 2000 boots.
So obviously there was still some part of SafeCast left on my machine that was ruining the MBR of my hard drive every single time I booted Windows 2000.
If there are any lawyers here, I would be interested in talking to someone about filing a class action lawsuit. I'm sure there are plenty of other people who have gone through the same crap.
Well... even though the GOP hates the liberals in Hollywood and the media, taking the anti-IP stance would conflict with their pro-business stance. They are essentially between a rock and a hard place. Indifference seems like the best choice.
Intel didn't want to make the jump to 32 bit, so they introduced "segment registers".
Um.... no. Segment registers have been in Intel's products from the beginning (at least since the 8088). It wasn't a band-aid to stall adoption of 32-bit processors as you imply with the above comment.
The current 32-bit processors also have segment registers and you can use them with the "flat" address space. Some OSes (like Linux) just set all the registers to the same segment and never change them. But you could have separate segments for the stack, data, code, etc.
This is horrible. I feel bad for bands that this happens to... groupies don't want to have sex with guys that only make $40K a year. What a shame. And $40K/yr isn't nearly enough to sustain a cocaine habit. How will they ever get on behind the music?
Why do so many Americans take the view that the Constitution is a priori a good thing in and of itself, and therefore anything that can be seen to conflict with, say, the constitutional right to free speech is in and of itself a bad thing?
And yes, I live in a land with no constitution, cameras on every street corner, and elective dictatorship and bad dentistry blah blah blah.
You just answered your own question.
Anyway... for the ignorant. The Constitution itself says nothing about specific rights that cannot be denied. That is all in the Bill of Rights which consists of the first 10 amendments to the Constitution. The Constitution just defines our system of government. Things like, how the constitution can be amended... length of terms for the President, senators, etc... requirements for holding office (presidents must be at least 35 years old and natural born citizens). It defines how our government works, it sets the boundaries for what the goverment can and cannot do. This is why it is so important. Without boundaries, you have dictatorship.
9/11 wasn't that bad... more babies die every year because of abortion... we aren't going to war with abortion clinics as a result are we?
More kids drown in a bucket of water each year then are shot by hand guns... but who is out there fighting for bucket control?
60% of money put into the welfare system goes to run the beauracracy instead of getting into the hands of people that really need it... so when a bunch of congressman wanted to dismantle the federal welfare system and just block grant money to the states...
oh whatever... this country is full of morons... maybe those fucking europeans are right... we are just a bunch of stupid Americans.
Because they care more about Windows than Outlook. Linux must have been a wake-up call for them years ago. It made them realize they needed to get their act together as far as product quality and reliability is concerned or they would be in trouble. Without their OS "monopoly" MS is nothing. And if you have noticed, Microsoft's OS products (well, the NT based ones anyway) have been getting more and more solid as time goes on. If Win2k3 is as much of an improvement over Win2k as Win2k was over NT4.0... MS is going to make a significant dent into the server market.
ANY language could be made into a.NET language. C++, C#, ASP, VB -- these are the primary languages Microsoft has chosen to use with.NET
ASP is NOT a language. ASP is a framework for writing web applications. You can write ASP pages in any of the.NET languages. For instance, one of the things that ASP provides is Session management. Whether you are writing in VB or C# or Managed C++, ASP will provide you with a "Session" object that it can use to store session state. This object behaves exactly the same way in all languages. It was probably written in C# (I think that's what MS uses for internal.net development) but that doesn't matter because all languages get compiled to MSIL (which is kinda equivalent to java bytecode).
ASP has never been a language... even before.NET. The default language for ASP used to be VB... some people used JScript and there were probably a few other choices. Now, you can use any.NET language in your ASP.NET pages.
The reason you have to sit through commericials is because the film distributors (i.e. Warner Bros, DreamWorks, Sony/TriStar/Columbia Pictures) take about 70% of that $9.00 ticket for the first few weeks the movie is released (which is generally when most of the money is made).
Because of this, you pay high prices for popcorn, soda, candy, etc... and sit through commercials.
All so that the movie industry can continue to pay Nicolas Cage $20mil to star in a shitty movie that barely sqeaked out $40mil (Windtalkers).
Ummm... what does IPv6 have to do with DNS vanishing? With 128-bit IP addresses in an ugly hex-colon notation... DNS will be even more important when people move to IPv6.
The problem with DNS (and SMTP) is that they are protocols developed during a time where everyone on the internet was operating in a cooperative mode. Now that there is a proliferation of SPAM and DOS attacks, these old protocols break down because they were not developed with security in mind.
DNS will not go away. But the protocol will probably change at some point.
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I don't think so. The reason there is a tremendous push towards serial right now is because parallel interfaces create more interference at higher frequencies. The theory with serial is that you can push the frequency as high as you want without the interference.
Yet, somehow, in these great United States, they now are getting sued for trying to protect the licensing agreement that no one reads and every just clicks 'agree' onto.
Hmm... let me look to see where in their licensing agreement it says that I agree to having my Master Boot Record destroyed so that my computer won't boot.
Umm... maybe you need to take the cell phone out of your ass.
Judging by the fact that he has written software for "everything from a pocket pc to an as/400"... I'd say he's not afraid to learn. In fact, he says he's used Linux... so I'm sure he has learned it. But what he is saying is... he's not interested in jumping through hoops to run a single piece of software that someone already wrote.
And I tend to agree with him. I'm a developer and I like to spend my time doing things that no one else has done before.
Dude... seriously. Upgrade to Windows 2000 Professional... you'll be much happier.
This won't effect existing .dlls... this "new" technology is part of the .NET framework. Each assembly (which is just a compiled binary of .Net classes) has a version number and guid. When you compile one assembly that references another assembly, there's information that tells the CLR what versions of the referenced assembly are acceptable. There another thing called the Global Assembly Cache that keeps track of the different versions of each assembly.
.dll hell for existing stuff.
So, anyway, it will only help future programs. We'll still have to suffer from
Yeah... cause I certainly want to pay to do the job the /. editors should already be doing.
It simply jumps to a new point of execution in the code and moves on, saving all the time necessary to push all of the registers and so on onto the stack.
I don't think so. The state of registers between threads is bound to be different... you can't just jump and be done.
Also, there are some capabilities of SPARC processors (i'm not an expert on this so forgive me if i get this wrong) that allow for multiple sets of registers to be "flipped" (kinda like page flipping on graphics cards) to make context switches faster. Solaris may be making use of that to implement LWP. This is something Linux (being x86 biased) couldn't take advantage of.
Dude... awesome sig.
Umm... why is this funny? The sentence you quoted clearly states that the battery is 2,200 years old, not the article.
In light of Intuit's comments about how harmless their software and SafeCast are, I feel that I need to tell everyone about my ordeal with TurboTax.
/mbr
/mbr
My workstation at home is running Windows 2000 Professional. Generally, it's pretty stable and I never reboot (unless some stupid software or update I'm installing requires it). About 2 weeks ago, I bought and installed TurboTax.
Over the course of those two weeks I completed and filed my returns. I don't remember having to reboot my computer in this span of time. This weekend, I decided to make my regular visit to Windows Update to grab any product updates or security fixes. There was an IE6 updated that I selected which required a reboot to complete the install (why application installs require OS reboots is something I'll never understand).
Anyway, I reboot the computer. I get halfway through the Windows boot splash screen and BAM. BSOD. I spent the entire weekend trying to determine the problem.
Eventually, I booted off a Windows 98 boot floppy and ran:
fdisk
Surprisingly, that allowed Windows 2000 to boot. Totally pissed off at this point (and figuring it has something to do with TurboTax and SafeCast) I uninstalled both TurboTax and SafeCast from the "Add/Remove Programs" interface.
Then, just to see if everything was still peachy, I rebooted. BSOD.
fdisk
Windows 2000 boots. Go to Intuit's site, download their SafeCast uninstaller. Run that.
Reboot. Windows 2000 boots.
So obviously there was still some part of SafeCast left on my machine that was ruining the MBR of my hard drive every single time I booted Windows 2000.
If there are any lawyers here, I would be interested in talking to someone about filing a class action lawsuit. I'm sure there are plenty of other people who have gone through the same crap.
Well... even though the GOP hates the liberals in Hollywood and the media, taking the anti-IP stance would conflict with their pro-business stance. They are essentially between a rock and a hard place. Indifference seems like the best choice.
How about generating some kind of report from a log file?
Intel didn't want to make the jump to 32 bit, so they introduced "segment registers".
Um.... no. Segment registers have been in Intel's products from the beginning (at least since the 8088). It wasn't a band-aid to stall adoption of 32-bit processors as you imply with the above comment.
The current 32-bit processors also have segment registers and you can use them with the "flat" address space. Some OSes (like Linux) just set all the registers to the same segment and never change them. But you could have separate segments for the stack, data, code, etc.
This is horrible. I feel bad for bands that this happens to... groupies don't want to have sex with guys that only make $40K a year. What a shame. And $40K/yr isn't nearly enough to sustain a cocaine habit. How will they ever get on behind the music?
Why do so many Americans take the view that the Constitution is a priori a good thing in and of itself, and therefore anything that can be seen to conflict with, say, the constitutional right to free speech is in and of itself a bad thing?
And yes, I live in a land with no constitution, cameras on every street corner, and elective dictatorship and bad dentistry blah blah blah.
You just answered your own question.
Anyway... for the ignorant. The Constitution itself says nothing about specific rights that cannot be denied. That is all in the Bill of Rights which consists of the first 10 amendments to the Constitution. The Constitution just defines our system of government. Things like, how the constitution can be amended... length of terms for the President, senators, etc... requirements for holding office (presidents must be at least 35 years old and natural born citizens). It defines how our government works, it sets the boundaries for what the goverment can and cannot do. This is why it is so important. Without boundaries, you have dictatorship.
9/11 wasn't that bad... more babies die every year because of abortion... we aren't going to war with abortion clinics as a result are we?
More kids drown in a bucket of water each year then are shot by hand guns... but who is out there fighting for bucket control?
60% of money put into the welfare system goes to run the beauracracy instead of getting into the hands of people that really need it... so when a bunch of congressman wanted to dismantle the federal welfare system and just block grant money to the states...
oh whatever... this country is full of morons... maybe those fucking europeans are right... we are just a bunch of stupid Americans.
Because they care more about Windows than Outlook. Linux must have been a wake-up call for them years ago. It made them realize they needed to get their act together as far as product quality and reliability is concerned or they would be in trouble. Without their OS "monopoly" MS is nothing. And if you have noticed, Microsoft's OS products (well, the NT based ones anyway) have been getting more and more solid as time goes on. If Win2k3 is as much of an improvement over Win2k as Win2k was over NT4.0... MS is going to make a significant dent into the server market.
ANY language could be made into a .NET language. C++, C#, ASP, VB -- these are the primary languages Microsoft has chosen to use with .NET
.NET languages. For instance, one of the things that ASP provides is Session management. Whether you are writing in VB or C# or Managed C++, ASP will provide you with a "Session" object that it can use to store session state. This object behaves exactly the same way in all languages. It was probably written in C# (I think that's what MS uses for internal .net development) but that doesn't matter because all languages get compiled to MSIL (which is kinda equivalent to java bytecode).
.NET. The default language for ASP used to be VB... some people used JScript and there were probably a few other choices. Now, you can use any .NET language in your ASP.NET pages.
ASP is NOT a language. ASP is a framework for writing web applications. You can write ASP pages in any of the
ASP has never been a language... even before
If every closed software publisher that opens a product gets treated like this, you won't see many more.
Not really because no one really cares about anything micheal says anyway.
Sometimes I wonder if he actually enjoys looking like an idiot.... hmmm....
Well... at least people will finally stop calling 3.5" floppies "hard disks"... you know because they are not as floppy as 5.25" ones.
Oh... and this guy I know must be rich because he "bought the internet" the other day. I didn't know best buy owned it...
The reason you have to sit through commericials is because the film distributors (i.e. Warner Bros, DreamWorks, Sony/TriStar/Columbia Pictures) take about 70% of that $9.00 ticket for the first few weeks the movie is released (which is generally when most of the money is made).
Because of this, you pay high prices for popcorn, soda, candy, etc... and sit through commercials.
All so that the movie industry can continue to pay Nicolas Cage $20mil to star in a shitty movie that barely sqeaked out $40mil (Windtalkers).
Please... if you are going to do the "In Soviet Russia" comment... do it right... somethink like:
In Soviet Russia...
Gameboy plays YOU!
Ummm... what does IPv6 have to do with DNS vanishing? With 128-bit IP addresses in an ugly hex-colon notation... DNS will be even more important when people move to IPv6.
The problem with DNS (and SMTP) is that they are protocols developed during a time where everyone on the internet was operating in a cooperative mode. Now that there is a proliferation of SPAM and DOS attacks, these old protocols break down because they were not developed with security in mind.
DNS will not go away. But the protocol will probably change at some point.
Why do this when all the pollution is on the other side of the planet. Who cares.
I know you are nothing but a troll... but I just had to reply so that I could make an ignorant anti-tree-hugger comment.