That's just crazy, you can build a machine that can process 64 bit numbers that still only addresses 32bits at a time. In fact there are many, many vector units have long (64-bit) data handling capabilities. Altivec is a good example of it.
IB is Apple's (from Next) tool that allows you to point and click create a UI. Why even bother with XML when you can just point and click to create the gui and hook it up to real code.
Thus you can have 2 seperate teams, one for designing the nib files and one for the gui. Course this doesn't really seperate out so easily, and the GUI doesn't take much time to create, but the point is that people higher up can create or change the interface without bothering the coders, which is a major goal of this XAML im sure.
I'd also add that Open Hardware allowed for cheap computers which is a corollary to Open Hardware. It just makes sence to build a product that will sell more units.
Back in the late 80's the Mac was far superior to any PC in just about everything but price and userbase. You could do more and do it easier.
I know because I tried to develop one and well, they are not what they are cracked up to be. They don't work well at all. They are a really cruddy way to get around some of the limitations of being local to a hard drive but really don't do much.
It would be a good API it they actually worked on a HTA application. As it stands, you're better off writing your application in JScript.Net rather then try and use the crap that is HTA.
It's like being in a web browser, but you must be local and you have only the most rudimentary access to the local system. You can kind of write to the hard drive. But not really. Yes, it's worse then writing VB. But you still have many of the 'security' problems that regular web applications have. It's hard to spawn new HTA windows since unless you are very careful you end up spawning new internet explorer windows, and even then you can't easily pass data from a parent window to a sub window.
Fortunatly the application I had to write wasn't actually more then a proof of concept and we could not prove that the hta concept would work. If told to do one now, I'd say forget it and write it in C++/C# with a webcontrol.
I'm pretty sure the reason for this is that the movie companies take such a large percentage of ticket revenue that the theaters have to find any way they can to make some money. I'm pretty sure it's because we all put with it!
If you don't want to watch commercials then you should perhaps complain to the manager and walk out of a theatre that shows them. Or only go to theatres that don't show commercials.
Why should finding/reading/writing/indexing a string of bits or grouping a bunch of files in a heirarchy readable to any machine be so troublesome?
Because developers are lazy and stupid. Because they don't think about all the different situations that a filesystem might need to encounter. Because it's faster to NOT support every feature and many times that's why.
CD-ROM disks work everywhere, but they don't support much of anything. Many times they can't even support very long file names, let alone metadata.
3rd party software should have every right to change the data after it is downloaded to the client as long as the client wishes it.
Sorry, but unless you change the way that HTTP works, you can't force people to download content they don't want. The Internet is a pull, not a push medium, unlike TV, you can't edit out stuff in real time. ( You can with TVIO, but it's delayed) With the web, you can choose to download or not download images.
Remember back in the old days when browsers had the feature to only download images when you clicked on them? If a user turned that feature on and didn't download the ad are they stealing? I don't think so. All this software does is automatically turn off the ads. As long as the end user wants this feature ( not like Gator which writes in ads without the user's permission ) I see no problem.
Advertising on the internet doesn't work like TV advertising. Now that computers are getting smarter, it's possiable to edit content on the fly and change it. Technology allows for this.
Updates may be stored locally, but it's a PITA for a non-corp user to download all the service packs and security updates that they need in order to take a normal, fresh windows computer to the state of 'secure and updated'. Windows update is great, but not everyone wants to spend like 3-4 hours downloading and installing all the updates.
Though if one is really serious about having a 'fresh' install I would suggest that they buy a copy of Norton Ghost, it's not that expensive and lets you save a copy of your entire OS to a backup that is easily restorable.
Sorry, in your first post you said that you were talking about a new computer. Then you said that you might sell the old one off.
I'd say that if you plan on never buying a whole new computer and just slowly upgrade then PCs are by far the cheaper and better option all the way. You never have to plunk down a lot of cash to make the transistion.
Mac's are not for you. I have a friend that has had the same case for almost 10 years now. He's just upgraded the components, but kept on building using the same case. So he'd also never consider buying a new computer let alone a mac.
But those that don't have mac's don't understand what it's like to be able to instantly wake up from sleep mode.
IMNSHE (In my not so humble experience) the only computers that consistantly can goto sleep and wake up without problems have been Apple Macs. Dells, homebuilt, Sony, etc... all have problems with sleep mode. Name brand computer work as long as you don't reinstall the software/drivers but if you install your own Windows upgrade or god forbid install linux, then the whole thing stops working correctly. Apple has done an amazing job of ensuring that the sleep mode works well. It's not 100%, sometimes there are problems, but overall it's much better then PCs.
One question, ar you going to put Windows, Linux or BSD on that system, cause you didn't mention it and if you are going to use windows that's another 150+ more for a full copy of Windows XP.
But I'm sure that you weren't going to pirate it right?
Wait, how many products have come out the awesome dell software labs? I really want to know because last I counted the only software to come out of dell was crappy system management software and it all 'blows.' So until they start producing good, quality software that works I'm going to sit this out.
Maybe they will prove me wrong, but I'm not holding my breath until that happens.
If you get an airport (wi-fi) card installed at the factory, then it's a simple matter of clicking 'share' in the control panel. So she could to have been sharing this.
More likley the RIAA just messed up and got her IP wrong or something.
XBench is one of the worst benchmark programs ever.
Don't trust anything an XBencher has to say about their XBench results. It's all crap. The test fluctuates by 10%-30% just by running it multiple times on the same computer. It's a crappy benchmark. The only reason it gets used at all is because it has a simple interface and thus anyone can run it.
Intrepreting the scores however is like reading palms.
Yeah, but what you were doing was illegal, that is you were letting anyone have access to your music. Without access controls it's the same in my mind as playing a CD in a public area (like a park) with out the proper license.
If you had just implemented access controls to your music it wouldn't be illegal and they wouldn't have killed your bandwidth to boot.
I wish I could mod you up sir,.NET is just another technology and if it works for you then great.
There is no one true technology and at the end of the day, programmers like me (and I'm guessing you), only get paid if their product (code) gets sold. So do what sells and don't let the bias of 'crappy' technology get you down.
Great, now we have another way for people to write code that will turn our machines in to security nightmares. At least with C# the chance for buffer overflows is lessened and the attacker has new and different avenues for exploiting your programs.
Well, FW enclosures do support large drives as this drive shows from Western Digital. So I would assume that some where there is a enclosure that does the same. This is a link to the 250 GB FW/USB drive from Western Digital. I want one;) http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/comb o250 gbse.asp
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Why is it SAD that computers will need to address more then 32-bits worth of space?
I mean for simple word processing it's overkill, but then again so it anything more advanced then an electric typewriter.
As we move more and more content into the digital realm we realize that in order to effectively manuipulate it, we must have more power.
Tivo would not be possible with 16-bit processors. It requires more power then a Commadore 64 or any 16-bit computer can produce.
That's just crazy, you can build a machine that can process 64 bit numbers that still only addresses 32bits at a time. In fact there are many, many vector units have long (64-bit) data handling capabilities. Altivec is a good example of it.
Anyone who has used IB is yawning now . A lot.
IB is Apple's (from Next) tool that allows you to point and click create a UI. Why even bother with XML when you can just point and click to create the gui and hook it up to real code.
Thus you can have 2 seperate teams, one for designing the nib files and one for the gui. Course this doesn't really seperate out so easily, and the GUI doesn't take much time to create, but the point is that people higher up can create or change the interface without bothering the coders, which is a major goal of this XAML im sure.
Try using distcc, as that would reduce it even further when useing multiple computers.
Asuming that compile time is most important to you, if the code runs faster under icc then you should probably use that instead.
I'd also add that Open Hardware allowed for cheap computers which is a corollary to Open Hardware. It just makes sence to build a product that will sell more units.
Back in the late 80's the Mac was far superior to any PC in just about everything but price and userbase. You could do more and do it easier.
I know because I tried to develop one and well, they are not what they are cracked up to be. They don't work well at all. They are a really cruddy way to get around some of the limitations of being local to a hard drive but really don't do much.
It would be a good API it they actually worked on a HTA application. As it stands, you're better off writing your application in JScript.Net rather then try and use the crap that is HTA.
It's like being in a web browser, but you must be local and you have only the most rudimentary access to the local system. You can kind of write to the hard drive. But not really. Yes, it's worse then writing VB. But you still have many of the 'security' problems that regular web applications have. It's hard to spawn new HTA windows since unless you are very careful you end up spawning new internet explorer windows, and even then you can't easily pass data from a parent window to a sub window.
Fortunatly the application I had to write wasn't actually more then a proof of concept and we could not prove that the hta concept would work. If told to do one now, I'd say forget it and write it in C++/C# with a webcontrol.
You could also demand your money back, perhaps...
I'm pretty sure the reason for this is that the movie companies take such a large percentage of ticket revenue that the theaters have to find any way they can to make some money.
I'm pretty sure it's because we all put with it!
If you don't want to watch commercials then you should perhaps complain to the manager and walk out of a theatre that shows them.
Or only go to theatres that don't show commercials.
Since they use it to debug itself it should have no bugs... right? Right?!
Why should finding/reading/writing/indexing a string of bits or grouping a bunch of files in a heirarchy readable to any machine be so troublesome?
Because developers are lazy and stupid. Because they don't think about all the different situations that a filesystem might need to encounter. Because it's faster to NOT support every feature and many times that's why.
CD-ROM disks work everywhere, but they don't support much of anything. Many times they can't even support very long file names, let alone metadata.
3rd party software should have every right to change the data after it is downloaded to the client as long as the client wishes it.
Sorry, but unless you change the way that HTTP works, you can't force people to download content they don't want. The Internet is a pull, not a push medium, unlike TV, you can't edit out stuff in real time. ( You can with TVIO, but it's delayed) With the web, you can choose to download or not download images.
Remember back in the old days when browsers had the feature to only download images when you clicked on them? If a user turned that feature on and didn't download the ad are they stealing? I don't think so. All this software does is automatically turn off the ads. As long as the end user wants this feature ( not like Gator which writes in ads without the user's permission ) I see no problem.
Advertising on the internet doesn't work like TV advertising. Now that computers are getting smarter, it's possiable to edit content on the fly and change it. Technology allows for this.
Updates may be stored locally, but it's a PITA for a non-corp user to download all the service packs and security updates that they need in order to take a normal, fresh windows computer to the state of 'secure and updated'. Windows update is great, but not everyone wants to spend like 3-4 hours downloading and installing all the updates.
Though if one is really serious about having a 'fresh' install I would suggest that they buy a copy of Norton Ghost, it's not that expensive and lets you save a copy of your entire OS to a backup that is easily restorable.
Sorry, in your first post you said that you were talking about a new computer. Then you said that you might sell the old one off.
I'd say that if you plan on never buying a whole new computer and just slowly upgrade then PCs are by far the cheaper and better option all the way. You never have to plunk down a lot of cash to make the transistion.
Mac's are not for you. I have a friend that has had the same case for almost 10 years now. He's just upgraded the components, but kept on building using the same case. So he'd also never consider buying a new computer let alone a mac.
But those that don't have mac's don't understand what it's like to be able to instantly wake up from sleep mode.
IMNSHE (In my not so humble experience) the only computers that consistantly can goto sleep and wake up without problems have been Apple Macs. Dells, homebuilt, Sony, etc... all have problems with sleep mode. Name brand computer work as long as you don't reinstall the software/drivers but if you install your own Windows upgrade or god forbid install linux, then the whole thing stops working correctly. Apple has done an amazing job of ensuring that the sleep mode works well. It's not 100%, sometimes there are problems, but overall it's much better then PCs.
One question, ar you going to put Windows, Linux or BSD on that system, cause you didn't mention it and if you are going to use windows that's another 150+ more for a full copy of Windows XP.
But I'm sure that you weren't going to pirate it right?
What you are saying is just use a computer for only email. Which makes sense until you realize that it's expensive and a PITA.
Wait, how many products have come out the awesome dell software labs? I really want to know because last I counted the only software to come out of dell was crappy system management software and it all 'blows.' So until they start producing good, quality software that works I'm going to sit this out.
Maybe they will prove me wrong, but I'm not holding my breath until that happens.
If you get an airport (wi-fi) card installed at the factory, then it's a simple matter of clicking 'share' in the control panel. So she could to have been sharing this.
More likley the RIAA just messed up and got her IP wrong or something.
XBench is one of the worst benchmark programs ever.
Don't trust anything an XBencher has to say about their XBench results. It's all crap. The test fluctuates by 10%-30% just by running it multiple times on the same computer. It's a crappy benchmark. The only reason it gets used at all is because it has a simple interface and thus anyone can run it.
Intrepreting the scores however is like reading palms.
It's like a weather forecast in Boston.
Yeah, but what you were doing was illegal, that is you were letting anyone have access to your music. Without access controls it's the same in my mind as playing a CD in a public area (like a park) with out the proper license.
If you had just implemented access controls to your music it wouldn't be illegal and they wouldn't have killed your bandwidth to boot.
I wish I could mod you up sir, .NET is just another technology and if it works for you then great.
There is no one true technology and at the end of the day, programmers like me (and I'm guessing you), only get paid if their product (code) gets sold. So do what sells and don't let the bias of 'crappy' technology get you down.
to pick our crops. You wanna do it?
I too wish to 'reconnect porn'.
Nothing like connecting back to the porn in the morning, worms free and all.
Great, now we have another way for people to write code that will turn our machines in to security nightmares. At least with C# the chance for buffer overflows is lessened and the attacker has new and different avenues for exploiting your programs.
Sigh.
Well, FW enclosures do support large drives as this drive shows from Western Digital. So I would assume that some where there is a enclosure that does the same. This is a link to the 250 GB FW/USB drive from Western Digital. I want one ;)b o250 gbse.asp
http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/com