On another note, did anyone else find it ironic that he is trying to push the ideals of software freedom of creativty and expression...by locking everyone under the same license?
moreover there wasn't a peep about those most restrictive license that HP sells hardware for, Microsoft's. maybe they should put their foot down and refuse to sell products from those vendors
Well, the waste pipe will carry low-level radioactive waste only, but I don't believe it would be beyond a saboteur to hook the output into some critical input (say an air intake, or the water mains for drinking water).
why do democrats always give handouts? I work for my money and I don't want a democrat giving it out to people that don't work.
EXACTLY! stop giving handouts to the phone companies, let them get a job and pay their own way
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quick example. go into Visual Studio, look at the help page for Cache.Item Property in the framework library. tell me what this function returns if the item isn't in the cache. one could assume that it returns Nothing, but you shouldn't have to. Cache.Remove has a Return Value heading telling you that it will return Nothing if the item isn't in the cache.
this sort of problem is all over the documentation, and makes it so that quite frankly the easiest way to learn return values on a lot of functions is to write quick examples and just see what it does. some of their documentation is really good, but some of the basic stuff is just plain missing. return values and parameter explanations is something that i never had a problem with when i was doing unix programming, but maybe i wasn't going too deep into the libraries.
A Beautiful Mind showed you could do a movie with real maths, and more-or-less realistic math geeks.
not that $60M box-office is nothing, but there's plenty of sketchy science movies that did way better at the box office. it seems like ABM was more about the personality of the person than the realistic math, it was an interesting lifestory even after lots of stuff was abridged out of it.
does that mean that they were ready and holding back the PS2 (which is claimed to be the strategy here) or that they weren't ready and tried to fill the gap with talk? it seems like it's the latter from your description
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i have yet to meet the bundle of windows programming documentation that can even give Man pages a run for their money. it can be damned hard to make heads or tails of the expected return values from functions and documentation of all parameters of some function calls. MSDN and the VS.Net integrated documentation are decent, but they really fall short in fully covering the languages included. the sad thing is that their biggest weakness is consistency of layout/format, which is something that you'd think a single company would be able to pull together better than the multiple sources for man pages and the like.
having your own website IP is unrelated to having your own box. i don't know if it's common, but it's very possible to map traffic on port 80 for each of several IP addresses to websites hosted on different ports of the same physical box
moreover ID and its ancestors already used up their share of equal time. from the beginning of civilization until the enlightenment, science was dominated by superstition and mythology. i think science has got several thousand years of exposure owed to it before the ID can argue that it hasn't had equal time. even if you're one of the folk that believes that people have only been around a few thousand years, creationism was still the theory of choice for 80% of that.
if you're a believer in ID/creationism, you should go to bed at night with a prayer of thanks to your god(s)-of-choice that those of us who believe in science aren't as harsh on outsiders as the various churches have been on non-believers.
moderation points have unionized and they're not going to come back to work until they get their demands. they're sick of being passed around from one poster to the next with no say, they want more say. i guess what i'm trying to say is that in Soviet Slashdot mod points choose you.
you can dynamically load content without XMLHttp and without frames, but everything has its limits and i think most of us are sick of supporting netscape 4.7 either way:)
i think his point is that the US media might actually be getting that story first-hand, whereas the South African one is probably getting it from some other source. things rarely get more accurate in the retelling
They ask me if it was dark that night the hyenas showed up and ate the little beagle as he sat typing away on his dog house and then ate all the little round-faced kids, and I tell 'em, "no," it was not even stormy, kind of a calm, half-moon lit night where you'd sit on your deck having some peanuts, until the hyenas arrived of course and then it got so noisy you had to go in the house.
i don't own a GC, but i did own a N64. what i found was that the scattering of good games released for that platform didn't offset the really low number of sports games that were coming out for it (i think i owned it for a year and a half before i could get NBA Live for it) and that was definitely something i was interested in.
you say that there aren't any innovative games for it, i say that you can't play GTA on a GameCube (and a lot of people love that series of games). now the list of innovative games "only on PS2" has certainly shrunk since they've now been released on XBox also, but i'd bet more than half the people that own a PS2 bought their first one before XBox was really even an option. and while the list of games that you can buy on the PS2 and XBox certainly means that you don't have to buy a PS2 to buy them, but that's a selling point for XBox not GC since you can't play them there at all.
i loved my nintendo. i liked my N64. but when it came time to upgrade, i got a PS2 and it was certainly not due to Sony's brand name in electronics.
Actually, if I recall correctly, Microsoft puts out some bigger drivers too. If you go to windowsupdate.com with an Nvidia card, you'll often see a driver published by Microsoft for that card. Be very careful about using it, though, as it can often cause problems.
i think you're referring to their versions of DirectX, which i think is higher up the chain than what we would call a driver
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you'd have to keep her because people wouldn't believe you if you just told the story?
or maybe they're just more successful at that hiding?
people that value silence above else and still want a *media center pc* are a tough crowd to please
quick example. go into Visual Studio, look at the help page for Cache.Item Property in the framework library. tell me what this function returns if the item isn't in the cache. one could assume that it returns Nothing, but you shouldn't have to. Cache.Remove has a Return Value heading telling you that it will return Nothing if the item isn't in the cache. this sort of problem is all over the documentation, and makes it so that quite frankly the easiest way to learn return values on a lot of functions is to write quick examples and just see what it does. some of their documentation is really good, but some of the basic stuff is just plain missing. return values and parameter explanations is something that i never had a problem with when i was doing unix programming, but maybe i wasn't going too deep into the libraries.
does that mean that they were ready and holding back the PS2 (which is claimed to be the strategy here) or that they weren't ready and tried to fill the gap with talk? it seems like it's the latter from your description
i have yet to meet the bundle of windows programming documentation that can even give Man pages a run for their money. it can be damned hard to make heads or tails of the expected return values from functions and documentation of all parameters of some function calls. MSDN and the VS.Net integrated documentation are decent, but they really fall short in fully covering the languages included. the sad thing is that their biggest weakness is consistency of layout/format, which is something that you'd think a single company would be able to pull together better than the multiple sources for man pages and the like.
i think what you mean to say is :
"I bought a MSI K8N Neo board for work. Not a defect! I stopped using competitors and pour through newegg reviews ever since."
having your own website IP is unrelated to having your own box. i don't know if it's common, but it's very possible to map traffic on port 80 for each of several IP addresses to websites hosted on different ports of the same physical box
moreover ID and its ancestors already used up their share of equal time. from the beginning of civilization until the enlightenment, science was dominated by superstition and mythology. i think science has got several thousand years of exposure owed to it before the ID can argue that it hasn't had equal time. even if you're one of the folk that believes that people have only been around a few thousand years, creationism was still the theory of choice for 80% of that.
if you're a believer in ID/creationism, you should go to bed at night with a prayer of thanks to your god(s)-of-choice that those of us who believe in science aren't as harsh on outsiders as the various churches have been on non-believers.
moderation points have unionized and they're not going to come back to work until they get their demands. they're sick of being passed around from one poster to the next with no say, they want more say. i guess what i'm trying to say is that in Soviet Slashdot mod points choose you.
you can dynamically load content without XMLHttp and without frames, but everything has its limits and i think most of us are sick of supporting netscape 4.7 either way :)
i think his point is that the US media might actually be getting that story first-hand, whereas the South African one is probably getting it from some other source. things rarely get more accurate in the retelling
also, it doesn't appear to work [anymore]
a lightsaber without the saber is just a handle, and a $200K handle is only interesting when it's a line item on a defense budget
exactly, my commenting strategy is "eventually"
i think that should be "emergencies" in quotes
i don't own a GC, but i did own a N64. what i found was that the scattering of good games released for that platform didn't offset the really low number of sports games that were coming out for it (i think i owned it for a year and a half before i could get NBA Live for it) and that was definitely something i was interested in.
you say that there aren't any innovative games for it, i say that you can't play GTA on a GameCube (and a lot of people love that series of games). now the list of innovative games "only on PS2" has certainly shrunk since they've now been released on XBox also, but i'd bet more than half the people that own a PS2 bought their first one before XBox was really even an option. and while the list of games that you can buy on the PS2 and XBox certainly means that you don't have to buy a PS2 to buy them, but that's a selling point for XBox not GC since you can't play them there at all.
i loved my nintendo. i liked my N64. but when it came time to upgrade, i got a PS2 and it was certainly not due to Sony's brand name in electronics.