Sony and Nintendo both plan to release adaptors for their consoles
So they really don't know what they are saying.
All the consoles to date have not had greater then 32 bits worth of addressing. The new consoles PS2, DC, X-Box (in the GPU) , even Jaguar, have many 128-bit (or larger) data paths and multimedia registers. The PS2 has a over 2000 bit wide bus in the GS, but only 4 Megs of vram. I love how they say the nintendo 64 is actually 64 bits;p
Also they missed the Atari comeback effort in the early 90's after the Genesis came out. Both the Lynx and the Jaguar are not on this graph.
now that we've thought of the children can we stop thinking about them already? I think that it's going to be dinnertime soon.
Actually you've got it backwards...
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Everything in java is passed in functions by value. The wacky thing is that all Objects are accessed by reference. That's why you can't do Object o; o.toString(); Which you can do in C++ because in C++ it thinks that you want to create an Object on the stack with the default constructor. You can't do that in java. You have to do Object o = new Object(); o.toString(); Which is like the code in C++ Object *o = new Object(); o->toString();
Pass by reference and pass by value are 2 different things that can look like the same thing if you're not careful. Since all java objects live on the heap and cannot live on the stack ( like in C, C++ , C# structs ) references are how you access them. Technically, you are passing a reference.. by value. not passing a value by reference since you never had the value of the object to begin with.
So the java function: String myFunc( String s , int x ) would look like this in C++: String* myFunc ( String* s, int x)
Primitives in java live on the stack in functions or in the object on the heap. You can't have a random primitive on the heap. Has to be contained in an object somehow (arrays are objects).
Fun java fact of the day: Java primitives have a Class too. though the only way to reference it is special. The wrapper classes (Integer,Long , Short..etc) have a static final field that contains the Class object representing that primitives class.
are there numbers, real numbers anywhere on which Operating system people are running on their machines? Someone must be paid to do surveys on this stuff. I would be interisted to see the numbers here in the USA where the piracy rate is lower then a place like China. I would bet that the chinese use more up to date software then we do because they pirate more ( and care less about 'hurting' companies whom they pirate from).
my point is that Word shouldn't ever crash. I mean is a Word processor really so complex that it's impossiable to create one that doesn't crash? I program software for a living and I must say that building software that has specific boundrys isn't that hard.
I think that Word crashes because it does too much, tries to be things it's not. It's like, word should be word processing, not word processing, page layout , excel , a drawing program, a 3-d text tool, image editor and god knows what else they try to make it today. Swiss army vs good knife. Anyone who has tried to use word as a page layout tool realizes that it sucks, anyone who uses it as a draw program must realize that there are better products out there.
MS hires all the top talent that they can get ahold of. unfortunatly they keep all those people locked in the MS world of more features and not in reality where normal people need software that works today. People really didn't need a grammer checker for MS word that highlights their errors as they type, what they needed was a stable program that would never lose their work. Does it look good when all you have to advertise about a new product is how it fixes all the problems with the last one? It is not sexy to say, "BUY Word 2005, it won't lose your work like Word 2000!" Not at all sexy, and software has to be sexy and cool to sell.
Comparing boob jobs to broken windows is different, one is a luxury item, something you don't need. And the other is a loss, someone caused you to buy something that you already have. Every house needs windows keep the heat in/out (esp. in places like Alaska), but nobody needs boob jobs to live (well maybe in extreme cases).
Does this number factor in at all the amount of money SAVED by using computers in the first place? Or is it just a measure of how much money we could be saving if software was 100% efficient.
Yeah, they really screwed the pooch on that one. They also decided that losing money on the x-box was a good idea. Well guess what? it wasn't. Sony, Nintendo and Sega never really LOST money on their boxes, they always just BROKE EVEN. Which in the world of business is bad, you can't make any money when you're selling something for the same price you paid for it. MS is losing amost 200 dollars on every box. That means that you have to buy 4 or 5 games for them to break even. Most playstation owners only own 5 or 6 games. Thus you can expect that X-Box owners will own less just because there are less games available for it. So MS is losing money on every box sold, even if you buy games for it.
The new Parhelia is a great new card. It won't appeal to everyone, as it doesn't have the frame rates that everyone seems to think are the only indication of performance in graphics today. Everyone seems to think that fillrate == king and that all the other features are secondary. Which is why nVidia sells most of it's cards with only enough features to get them out the door, most don't have tv out, multiple monitors, tv in, etc. ATI has done a great job of creating multiple products that do many different things.
Matrox's new card has one feature that no other card can match yet, and that's the three monitor support. There is no other single card that has the low price and three monitor support. And no AGP/PCI solution will let you play one game on three monitors.
I don't think that I'll be buying one, but that's just because I don't think that it should cost 50% of your systems total value for the video card.
The whole philosophy of MS software is to add features. The more features you can add to a product before the next release cycle means you can charge more for them. Just as long as they are 'stable enough.' They've been doing this for 27 years. Every product has more features then the last.
This is their reaction to not being able to add more features to their OS. This is a trend that has been going on for many years, basically since Windows 95. Windows 95, if it was a quality implementation of win32 that didn't crash, had almost all the features that an operating system needed. Except for the hardware support that it would need today. It really had a lot. Since the internet they have been adding more and more features to their OS that are in no way related to the traditional defination of 'operating system'. Like the web browser, like.net, programs that run completly in user space that have nothing to do with an 'operating system'.
MS will never focus on making a product 'quality' because it's not exciting. Bill and Co want action, they want people to be excited about the next big thing. It's hard to get excited about something that exactly like what you've got, but will just last longer.
what happens when you hose one script in linux with multiple scripts....
that service doesn't start.
what happens when you hose your one master script file?
the computer doesn't start?
I agree that simpler is better but sometimes you need to be modular and multiple files solves that problem better then one large modular, specially formatted file.
example: xinetd vs inetd, inetd uses one script for all services, it got really really messy. Format couldn't be changed when new options came in... etc. xinetd has one files per service, the files are extendable format. If they decide to change the format of the file in the future, they can without breaking old files.
It's probably the same system...
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that he logged his 10 years of Java experience on as well.;)
but I couldn't find a link to it on their site. Even used their search engine. So where can you buy a laptop that is linux-certified. I just want a laptop that I only have to spend like an hour to get running 100% as opposed to like 20.
This parent post said almost everything I was going to, but one thing that I wanted to add was that the web, if a spider is even able to get to a page, (even if it doesn't follow the robots protocol which the wayback machine does) is only seeing a public page that anyone with an internet connection can get to.
Otherwise you have bad control over your content and need to update your web server to not serve that content. If you don't want people to be able to copy your information then don't give it to them. Or only give it to them in a signed format that cannot be easily duplicated.
It's like being surprised that someone has forwarded an email that you sent them.
You're distributing material that tells the engine to use their copyrighted textures, models... Unless when you save a module it also saves the textures, models, etc. in your module file. (I'm assuming that it doesn't as that would make the modules huge, right?)
It's kind like saying that because you used MS office to write your term paper, that MS owns the copyright to it. Which of course makes no sense.
was actually supposed to be a X-Box launch title. But Bethsoft of course caused the ship date to slip.
Regardless of where the game started, it almost always sells better on the console, unless the console is missing a feature that the game needs. Hell I had simcity for the SNES.
When I mean most I mean by number of pages on the WEB.
Of course you can generate pages that will workon one but not the other, that # is almost infinite. However, browsing around to web, and sending both browsers to the same pages will probably generate more rendering errors in Mozilla and less in IE.
Especially when you start to goto sites that are dynamic since many of these sites block Mozilla (and any non-netscape 4.7/IE client) (like capitalone.com, try paying your bill there with mozilla!)
The only way to kill the MS monopoly is to make sure that the gecko engine gets onto many many devices, even embedded. That's the one area that they don't own yet.
While not quite the same thing, I wouldn't want to use a compiler than would accept sloppy code, or try to do its best with crapped up code. It should report an error to inform the coder what they did wrong, and what would happen if it was used. That's what Mozilla does, it says "This is messed up, it shouldn't be like this at all, I don't know what to do with this", IE says, "Well, I think this is what they MEANT to do, so I'll just do it for them." The latter can be pretty dangerous.
I would'nt want to use a compiler like that either, but I bet that many people would. People who probably shouldn't be programming, but still there are those that would.
then people would get netscape. Look at IE version 2.0. However, IE is a decent browser, not the best but it does most of what people expect it to do. And since people code to it, the web works on it.
It's our job to change that. To make sure that people move to bigger and better browsers.;)
But debug time with Java is much faster then with C. especially when you are doing multiplatform (since Java is supposed to be one platform, though you still get an odd bug). Are you doing GUI? Which widget library are you using? It's much easier if your application is non-gui.
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Sony and Nintendo both plan to release adaptors for their consoles
So they really don't know what they are saying.
All the consoles to date have not had greater then 32 bits worth of addressing. The new consoles PS2, DC, X-Box (in the GPU) , even Jaguar, have many 128-bit (or larger) data paths and multimedia registers. The PS2 has a over 2000 bit wide bus in the GS, but only 4 Megs of vram. I love how they say the nintendo 64 is actually 64 bits ;p
Also they missed the Atari comeback effort in the early 90's after the Genesis came out. Both the Lynx and the Jaguar are not on this graph.
in money we trust.... or maybe power...
or for you carlin fans.. how about joe pesci?
now that we've thought of the children can we stop thinking about them already? I think that it's going to be dinnertime soon.
Everything in java is passed in functions by value. The wacky thing is that all Objects are accessed by reference. That's why you can't do
..etc) have a static final field that contains the Class object representing that primitives class.
Object o;
o.toString();
Which you can do in C++ because in C++ it thinks that you want to create an Object on the stack with the default constructor. You can't do that in java. You have to do
Object o = new Object();
o.toString();
Which is like the code in C++
Object *o = new Object();
o->toString();
Pass by reference and pass by value are 2 different things that can look like the same thing if you're not careful. Since all java objects live on the heap and cannot live on the stack ( like in C, C++ , C# structs ) references are how you access them. Technically, you are passing a reference.. by value. not passing a value by reference since you never had the value of the object to begin with.
So the java function:
String myFunc( String s , int x )
would look like this in C++:
String* myFunc ( String* s, int x)
Primitives in java live on the stack in functions or in the object on the heap. You can't have a random primitive on the heap. Has to be contained in an object somehow (arrays are objects).
Fun java fact of the day:
Java primitives have a Class too. though the only way to reference it is special. The wrapper classes (Integer,Long , Short
that you have to say in your post.... (this is a joke)
/. for as long as I have, I guess that it's true, some people are just humor impared.
But, after reading
are there numbers, real numbers anywhere on which Operating system people are running on their machines? Someone must be paid to do surveys on this stuff.
I would be interisted to see the numbers here in the USA where the piracy rate is lower then a place like China. I would bet that the chinese use more up to date software then we do because they pirate more ( and care less about 'hurting' companies whom they pirate from).
my point is that Word shouldn't ever crash. I mean is a Word processor really so complex that it's impossiable to create one that doesn't crash? I program software for a living and I must say that building software that has specific boundrys isn't that hard.
I think that Word crashes because it does too much, tries to be things it's not. It's like, word should be word processing, not word processing, page layout , excel , a drawing program, a 3-d text tool, image editor and god knows what else they try to make it today. Swiss army vs good knife. Anyone who has tried to use word as a page layout tool realizes that it sucks, anyone who uses it as a draw program must realize that there are better products out there.
MS hires all the top talent that they can get ahold of. unfortunatly they keep all those people locked in the MS world of more features and not in reality where normal people need software that works today. People really didn't need a grammer checker for MS word that highlights their errors as they type, what they needed was a stable program that would never lose their work. Does it look good when all you have to advertise about a new product is how it fixes all the problems with the last one? It is not sexy to say, "BUY Word 2005, it won't lose your work like Word 2000!" Not at all sexy, and software has to be sexy and cool to sell.
Comparing boob jobs to broken windows is different, one is a luxury item, something you don't need. And the other is a loss, someone caused you to buy something that you already have. Every house needs windows keep the heat in/out (esp. in places like Alaska), but nobody needs boob jobs to live (well maybe in extreme cases).
Does this number factor in at all the amount of money SAVED by using computers in the first place? Or is it just a measure of how much money we could be saving if software was 100% efficient.
Yeah, they really screwed the pooch on that one. They also decided that losing money on the x-box was a good idea. Well guess what? it wasn't. Sony, Nintendo and Sega never really LOST money on their boxes, they always just BROKE EVEN. Which in the world of business is bad, you can't make any money when you're selling something for the same price you paid for it.
MS is losing amost 200 dollars on every box. That means that you have to buy 4 or 5 games for them to break even. Most playstation owners only own 5 or 6 games. Thus you can expect that X-Box owners will own less just because there are less games available for it. So MS is losing money on every box sold, even if you buy games for it.
The new Parhelia is a great new card. It won't appeal to everyone, as it doesn't have the frame rates that everyone seems to think are the only indication of performance in graphics today. Everyone seems to think that fillrate == king and that all the other features are secondary. Which is why nVidia sells most of it's cards with only enough features to get them out the door, most don't have tv out, multiple monitors, tv in, etc. ATI has done a great job of creating multiple products that do many different things.
Matrox's new card has one feature that no other card can match yet, and that's the three monitor support. There is no other single card that has the low price and three monitor support. And no AGP/PCI solution will let you play one game on three monitors.
I don't think that I'll be buying one, but that's just because I don't think that it should cost 50% of your systems total value for the video card.
The whole philosophy of MS software is to add features. The more features you can add to a product before the next release cycle means you can charge more for them. Just as long as they are 'stable enough.' They've been doing this for 27 years. Every product has more features then the last.
.net, programs that run completly in user space that have nothing to do with an 'operating system'.
This is their reaction to not being able to add more features to their OS. This is a trend that has been going on for many years, basically since Windows 95. Windows 95, if it was a quality implementation of win32 that didn't crash, had almost all the features that an operating system needed. Except for the hardware support that it would need today. It really had a lot. Since the internet they have been adding more and more features to their OS that are in no way related to the traditional defination of 'operating system'. Like the web browser, like
MS will never focus on making a product 'quality' because it's not exciting. Bill and Co want action, they want people to be excited about the next big thing. It's hard to get excited about something that exactly like what you've got, but will just last longer.
what happens when you hose one script in linux with multiple scripts....
that service doesn't start.
what happens when you hose your one master script file?
the computer doesn't start?
I agree that simpler is better but sometimes you need to be modular and multiple files solves that problem better then one large modular, specially formatted file.
example: xinetd vs inetd, inetd uses one script for all services, it got really really messy. Format couldn't be changed when new options came in... etc.
xinetd has one files per service, the files are extendable format. If they decide to change the format of the file in the future, they can without breaking old files.
that he logged his 10 years of Java experience on as well. ;)
but I couldn't find a link to it on their site. Even used their search engine. So where can you buy a laptop that is linux-certified. I just want a laptop that I only have to spend like an hour to get running 100% as opposed to like 20.
This parent post said almost everything I was going to, but one thing that I wanted to add was that the web, if a spider is even able to get to a page, (even if it doesn't follow the robots protocol which the wayback machine does) is only seeing a public page that anyone with an internet connection can get to.
Otherwise you have bad control over your content and need to update your web server to not serve that content. If you don't want people to be able to copy your information then don't give it to them. Or only give it to them in a signed format that cannot be easily duplicated.
It's like being surprised that someone has forwarded an email that you sent them.
You're distributing material that tells the engine to use their copyrighted textures, models... Unless when you save a module it also saves the textures, models, etc. in your module file. (I'm assuming that it doesn't as that would make the modules huge, right?)
It's kind like saying that because you used MS office to write your term paper, that MS owns the copyright to it. Which of course makes no sense.
was actually supposed to be a X-Box launch title. But Bethsoft of course caused the ship date to slip.
Regardless of where the game started, it almost always sells better on the console, unless the console is missing a feature that the game needs. Hell I had simcity for the SNES.
When I mean most I mean by number of pages on the WEB.
Of course you can generate pages that will workon one but not the other, that # is almost infinite. However, browsing around to web, and sending both browsers to the same pages will probably generate more rendering errors in Mozilla and less in IE.
Especially when you start to goto sites that are dynamic since many of these sites block Mozilla (and any non-netscape 4.7/IE client) (like capitalone.com, try paying your bill there with mozilla!)
The only way to kill the MS monopoly is to make sure that the gecko engine gets onto many many devices, even embedded. That's the one area that they don't own yet.
I would'nt want to use a compiler like that either, but I bet that many people would. People who probably shouldn't be programming, but still there are those that would.
then people would get netscape. Look at IE version 2.0. However, IE is a decent browser, not the best but it does most of what people expect it to do. And since people code to it, the web works on it.
;)
It's our job to change that. To make sure that people move to bigger and better browsers.
damn that is a sweet effect!
It does use a lot of CPU, but oh well. That's what the CPU is for right?
But debug time with Java is much faster then with C. especially when you are doing multiplatform (since Java is supposed to be one platform, though you still get an odd bug).
Are you doing GUI? Which widget library are you using? It's much easier if your application is non-gui.
because IE renders most Mozilla pages fine, but mozilla doesn't render all IE pages fine.
Since Mozilla is the 'better browser' but doesn't accept sloppy coding, IE has an advantage.
There is not a huge difference inbetween the commands that Mozilla accepts but IE doesn't.
say that you're IE? Wow, that must account for like a huge market right? All those curl people who also use Opera and say they are IE.