On one hand, as a programmer I don't like the idea of coming up with a great idea, but being a smaller company take a few months to develop it. Word gets out and some bigger company makes a very similar product and is able to release it before mine. Then again some software patents are rediculous. MS tried to patent generating list from tag words in source code in Visual Studio. Maybe they did develop it first, but that has become a standard IDE feature now. Only bigger ideas should be patentable. If one company keep releasing new features and another one just copies them, the original will still win. But if both do and they bounce new ideas off eachother, this will help both, so let the best one win. There should also be time frame when you can patent software. It's pretty f**ked up to let everyone use the FAT system then 10 years later patent it and charge royalties.
Didn't Google purchase 5% of AOL? Why should AOL have any say on what Google does. Hopefully Google can push AOL to do things (like AIM -> Jabber). I am not too worried, so far Google hasn't become evil so I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. They will prob only have small icons with a kb size limit. They tend to do these things right...
I've always heard GOTO was faster, that was never the problem. People don't like them because of maintainability. OOB is easier for large complex applications and tracing a mess of GOTO statements, especially on code that isn't yours, is a nightmare!
I graduated from UCSB and here are my thoughts...
The first 3-4 years you get a broad range of required classes. I had almost no CS experience coming to college so I learned a lot. After (mixed in with) these courses you take 4 CS electives. I choose a networking, 2 database and a security class. There were some logic/theory classes that I though were boring and had no coding invloved but they do help in teaching you how to think a certain way. Even the classes I hated, looking back I can see how they help. I do think there are other things that could be cut back on. Do we really need 5 quarters of calculus, 2 of statistics, and 3 of physics (3 quarters = 2 semesters)? Sure for some it helps, but not most. Making some of that optional and allowing us to take more electives would be better I think. Plus as far as I know, there is no scripting languages (Perl, PHP, etc)or XML classes offered.
I graduated and managed to get a job doing web programming. I had learned Perl before hand on my own and done some perl/mysql websites. For the job I picked up PHP, XML and more perl/mysql. Honestly if you know any language picking up new ones is infinitely easier and perl/php and easy to learn. Some classes would have been nice though.
-Jesse
Heard of CueCat? The did something like that. They distributed them through Radio Shack. I don't think it worked out well for them though.
Plus people modified them to become regular barcode scanners:)
-jesse
You are right! That is because AIDS (ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME) is a generic term for all immune system problems. It has become synonymous with HIV (not HIV Virus, that is redundant!).
I find it hard to believe that there is no cure for HIV though. We do spend a lot of money on it, but it's helping. Maybe no magic cure now, but people with HIV can live fairly normal lives (See Magic Johnson) for years now due to the drug cocktails developed. We're getting closer all the time.
Who knows maybe this crocodile serum will help or lead to something better maybe it's nothing, but it is pessimist like you that will guarantee no progress.
Well sure, I agree that I rarely look past the first page or two of search results. But it does mean something when one produces more, more data, which is valuable. Say you tweak your query to limit it more, then you are searching within the subset of the original results. The real test is, are all of the original results relevant? I could write an engine that very loosely returned results but they wouldn't be helpful.
I own XP, but as soon as Longhorn (aka Windows Vista) comes out I'll be sure to get a pirated copy. Then when I get caught, I get a discount on a legitamate copy:-)
The title says Windows XP Lite. I assume that means you aren't getting ALL the Pro features. There are lots of things in windows that aren't easily accessible. Special options for IE, reg tweaks for the OS etc. If microsoft includes Pro features on the Home disk and just disables them, enabling them should be allowed. Hex editing the source is touchy, but at least people are buying Home version. Definitely better than getting a Warez of Pro.
-In 3001, Google has become an UNIVERSAL standard and reaches far ends of space. It is at this time that stuck up, multi dimensional race queries google, "What is the meaning of life, the universe and everything?". Google replies, "Did you mean: What is 6 times 7?"
How can they patent this? It is a fairly standard feature now, eclipse and codeguide both use it. The new IE is supposed to have a built in pop-up blocker. Can XXXX (i dunno who made the first popup blocker) patent popup blockers?
<spoof> A method, apparatus, and software are disclosed for assisting an internet user in surfing more effiently by providing a unified way for web surfers to locate popups and supress them while browsing. The popups are supressed in "real time" as the web surfer browses the net and generates new popups. </spoof>
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On one hand, as a programmer I don't like the idea of coming up with a great idea, but being a smaller company take a few months to develop it. Word gets out and some bigger company makes a very similar product and is able to release it before mine. Then again some software patents are rediculous. MS tried to patent generating list from tag words in source code in Visual Studio. Maybe they did develop it first, but that has become a standard IDE feature now. Only bigger ideas should be patentable. If one company keep releasing new features and another one just copies them, the original will still win. But if both do and they bounce new ideas off eachother, this will help both, so let the best one win. There should also be time frame when you can patent software. It's pretty f**ked up to let everyone use the FAT system then 10 years later patent it and charge royalties.
-Jesse
Didn't Google purchase 5% of AOL? Why should AOL have any say on what Google does. Hopefully Google can push AOL to do things (like AIM -> Jabber). I am not too worried, so far Google hasn't become evil so I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. They will prob only have small icons with a kb size limit. They tend to do these things right...
-Jesse
I've always heard GOTO was faster, that was never the problem. People don't like them because of maintainability. OOB is easier for large complex applications and tracing a mess of GOTO statements, especially on code that isn't yours, is a nightmare!
-Jesse
I graduated from UCSB and here are my thoughts... The first 3-4 years you get a broad range of required classes. I had almost no CS experience coming to college so I learned a lot. After (mixed in with) these courses you take 4 CS electives. I choose a networking, 2 database and a security class. There were some logic/theory classes that I though were boring and had no coding invloved but they do help in teaching you how to think a certain way. Even the classes I hated, looking back I can see how they help. I do think there are other things that could be cut back on. Do we really need 5 quarters of calculus, 2 of statistics, and 3 of physics (3 quarters = 2 semesters)? Sure for some it helps, but not most. Making some of that optional and allowing us to take more electives would be better I think. Plus as far as I know, there is no scripting languages (Perl, PHP, etc)or XML classes offered. I graduated and managed to get a job doing web programming. I had learned Perl before hand on my own and done some perl/mysql websites. For the job I picked up PHP, XML and more perl/mysql. Honestly if you know any language picking up new ones is infinitely easier and perl/php and easy to learn. Some classes would have been nice though. -Jesse
Heard of CueCat? The did something like that. They distributed them through Radio Shack. I don't think it worked out well for them though. Plus people modified them to become regular barcode scanners :)
-jesse
You are right! That is because AIDS (ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME) is a generic term for all immune system problems. It has become synonymous with HIV (not HIV Virus, that is redundant!).
I find it hard to believe that there is no cure for HIV though. We do spend a lot of money on it, but it's helping. Maybe no magic cure now, but people with HIV can live fairly normal lives (See Magic Johnson) for years now due to the drug cocktails developed. We're getting closer all the time.
Who knows maybe this crocodile serum will help or lead to something better maybe it's nothing, but it is pessimist like you that will guarantee no progress.
Well sure, I agree that I rarely look past the first page or two of search results. But it does mean something when one produces more, more data, which is valuable. Say you tweak your query to limit it more, then you are searching within the subset of the original results. The real test is, are all of the original results relevant? I could write an engine that very loosely returned results but they wouldn't be helpful.
I own XP, but as soon as Longhorn (aka Windows Vista) comes out I'll be sure to get a pirated copy. Then when I get caught, I get a discount on a legitamate copy :-)
-Jesse
mine rattles a lot and the clutch pedal squeaks...but that's just cause the pos is made of plastic. -Jesse
The title says Windows XP Lite. I assume that means you aren't getting ALL the Pro features. There are lots of things in windows that aren't easily accessible. Special options for IE, reg tweaks for the OS etc. If microsoft includes Pro features on the Home disk and just disables them, enabling them should be allowed. Hex editing the source is touchy, but at least people are buying Home version. Definitely better than getting a Warez of Pro.
-In 3001, Google has become an UNIVERSAL standard and reaches far ends of space. It is at this time that stuck up, multi dimensional race queries google, "What is the meaning of life, the universe and everything?". Google replies, "Did you mean: What is 6 times 7?"