There was a slashdot artical a while ago, here http://slashdot.org/articles/04/01/15/1837242.shtm l which, among others, suggests rewriting code (usually) "introduces new bugs and abandons all the small fixes and tweaks that made the original version work so well.".
If you just want a prewritten program to compile and execute natively on another platform, porting is usually the answer. I don't see how rewriting the entire software is going to be cheaper, especially when much of what is being ported can already be compiled without problem on your target system.
Maybe you haven't noticed, Battlestar airs 10pm EST on SciFi. Why are you comparing the Enterprise timeslot to this? What he was saying was UPN is going to fill Enterprises time slot with a random low cost show, most likely won't be sci fi.
UPN is saying "bye" to 90% of their viewers by dropping Enterprise, I haven't even heard of these other shows (other than WWE I guess from Spike). A possible solution may be to move it to another network where it has a larger view base, but I doubt (sadly) that would happen.
When users "don't follow these terms and we are made aware of an issue, we take the necessary steps, which may include removing the content," she said. Google would not say if it had ever taken such action.
Being google, I'm sure they would be able to come up with an efficient algorithm to search their databases on a regular interval for such content, and either suspend the account pending investigation or take a similar action. It may be difficult for such people to regain membership since it's invite only. I don't see Google shutting down their site or suffering from this problem for too long, they are of course known for their search technology and genius employees.
While Trolltech has long dual-licensed Qt on X11 (Linux, various Unixes), Mac, and embedded, Windows developers have had no options other than a commercial license.
Not specifically. I imagine he's talking about the actual inabilitiy to preform a given task at that time; where as now, it can be done, but the means of doing it (you're referencing Windows right?) can become frustrating.
Gates seems to say that in quite a bit of his interviews. It's hard to imagine he actually believes it, especially given the fact he has been giving a lot of attention to linux recently. If he really understands his competition, he should know his statements on the issue are misguided, and usually flat out wrong. However, the average person has only heard the word "linux" uttered from some distant shadow; knowing nothing about it themselves, and with Gates saying Windows is superior to it, he is trying to sway those who are ignorant of the power of Linux to side with Microsoft. I suppose he is either arrogant enough to actually believe Microsoft is superior to open source all together, or he is of such low moral he is willing to lie to expand his already dominate company... sigh.
One thing that Enteprise was effected was the ship looked fricken great. LCD's all over the damn place and very sharp looking....NOT SOMETHING THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE IT CAME BEFORE KIRK!
Yeah, but how does TOS look now? It's completely unbelievable, the Enterprise ship reflects what current technology may be present in the future. The TOS ship was just a bunch of boxy chairs and some LED's.. you really can't compare the two -- they are from different times.
I thought it was pretty good, and I watched it because it was on TV. I'd much rather watch new episodes of a sci-fi show than reruns of Seinfeld (I love Seinfeld, but when you've seen every episode 10 times you tend to want to watch something else).
I notice some of the comments here lean towards, "the show sucked, it should end." Then don't watch it! And some people didn't, and that's (sadly) why it's ending. But you forget, what's going in this timeslot? Probably NOTHING. So who wins? NO ONE.
if this will apply to my educational version of Microsoft products. Universities in Maryland distribute copies of various Microsoft applications (Windows XP/2000, Office XP/2000/.NET, etc) to students free of charge. Of course these are legal copies, but they do not require a CD-key to install. Perhaps the lack of a key will result in Microsoft assuming it's pirated?
Flawed logic...
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Is IRC All Bad?
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He uses a mere four words to determine how much of the data is "illegal".
Monitoring all 60 channels, I counted the frequency of each keyword over the 36 hour period. Each occurrence was manually verified as being in either a legal or illegal context. For example, two people discussing the new features in the latest version of Microsoft Word would be regarded as a legal context.
Then he uses this information to boldly say...
Based on those keywords being monitored, 99.9% of IRC traffic to the top 60 channels is "illegal".
Of course he's going to get results like this, he's idling in large channels with thousands of people and bots spamming those keywords. For the rest of the channels (which I'm willing to bet is something around 80% of them), much less information is traveling through them (they may not necessarily be idle though). He completely disregards this information though! His analysis seems to be completely based on the frequency of the used keywords, Norton, Microsoft, Symantec, and Jasc; these were probably the most queried words in the warez channels, and renders an inaccurate depiction of the world of IRC.
A much better approach would have been to count the total number of messages his clients received, and sort them out by "illegal" and "legal" context; removing the number of repeat lines from the warez spam channels (usually from the bots), and you would be left with a much more realistic outlook.
I started programming in QuickBasic around 8 years ago. I remember making a program which asked simple questions like, "Enter your name:", and it would reply, "Hello." For some unknown reason, it fascinated me. I started reading through the documentation which was provided with QBasic, learning as much as I could. Within months I created a nice little tile-like maze game.
I doubt this type of solo introduction would be effective with kids today, but starting them out with an easy language which is not very in depth, such as QB, and having the ability to produce some sort of low level game would probably help hook them (unless they are just completely uninterested).
In the end, and no matter which way they get started, it is going to boil down to their own motivation, and their wanting to learn it.
I am now a second year college student majoring in Computer Science, and program in C and C++.:)
The company could have saved some money by researching this before purchasing the license. It was fairly common knowledge, or at least easy to find on the net, that Carmack had been planning on releasing the code under the GPL for quite some time. If the company was willing to wait (and they may not have been), they could have used the GPL'ed version to create their commercial game, and before releasing it purchased and moved to a commercial license from id. It's free development time, but at the expense of giving the whole world the opportunity to create free games using the same technology they want to profit from.
On a side note, I admire id and Carmack for their open source efforts.
I spell it that way on purpose, and "loose" was a typo. Geesh:\ My point was the parent in which I replied was both invalid an irrelevant to the topic.
Nintendo is known for their generally cartoonish games for the whole family. What probably happened was some poor kid search for something like "zelda hints" on Google and stumbled upon SG. Maybe his mother walked by when he opened it and flipped out, sending Nintendo a nasty letter not knowing anything about the situation other than her underage son had pornography on the screen.
It's sort of lame Nintendo wants them to remove it, but if this is the case it's certainly understandable that Nintendo is at least asking for it to be removed; they want to remain the "fun for all ages" company.
"Virii" is an acceptable plural of "virus". There is some controversy over it, but it's rather silly. It seems the only people who really care are those who don't recognize it as a word, those who do don't mind people saying "viruses".
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There was a slashdot artical a while ago, here http://slashdot.org/articles/04/01/15/1837242.shtm l which, among others, suggests rewriting code (usually) "introduces new bugs and abandons all the small fixes and tweaks that made the original version work so well.".
If you just want a prewritten program to compile and execute natively on another platform, porting is usually the answer. I don't see how rewriting the entire software is going to be cheaper, especially when much of what is being ported can already be compiled without problem on your target system.
Maybe you haven't noticed, Battlestar airs 10pm EST on SciFi. Why are you comparing the Enterprise timeslot to this? What he was saying was UPN is going to fill Enterprises time slot with a random low cost show, most likely won't be sci fi.
- All of Us
- Eve
- Enterprise
- Girlfriends
- Half and Half
- Kevin Hall
- One on One
- Missy Elliott Project
- Second Time Around
- WWE Smackdown
- Top Model 3
- Vibe Awards
- Veronica Mars
UPN is saying "bye" to 90% of their viewers by dropping Enterprise, I haven't even heard of these other shows (other than WWE I guess from Spike). A possible solution may be to move it to another network where it has a larger view base, but I doubt (sadly) that would happen.Being google, I'm sure they would be able to come up with an efficient algorithm to search their databases on a regular interval for such content, and either suspend the account pending investigation or take a similar action. It may be difficult for such people to regain membership since it's invite only. I don't see Google shutting down their site or suffering from this problem for too long, they are of course known for their search technology and genius employees.
Sirius has 3 satelittes. XM has 1.
Some of them are bad, others are pretty good.
I still use Verdana though, (please don't hurt me!)
That's not true, I installed Qt3 on my Windows machine and I had the option of using the GPL.
I came on a CD with this book http://vig.prenhall.com:8081/catalog/academic/pro
Not specifically. I imagine he's talking about the actual inabilitiy to preform a given task at that time; where as now, it can be done, but the means of doing it (you're referencing Windows right?) can become frustrating.
Gates seems to say that in quite a bit of his interviews. It's hard to imagine he actually believes it, especially given the fact he has been giving a lot of attention to linux recently. If he really understands his competition, he should know his statements on the issue are misguided, and usually flat out wrong. However, the average person has only heard the word "linux" uttered from some distant shadow; knowing nothing about it themselves, and with Gates saying Windows is superior to it, he is trying to sway those who are ignorant of the power of Linux to side with Microsoft. I suppose he is either arrogant enough to actually believe Microsoft is superior to open source all together, or he is of such low moral he is willing to lie to expand his already dominate company... sigh.
Yeah, but how does TOS look now? It's completely unbelievable, the Enterprise ship reflects what current technology may be present in the future. The TOS ship was just a bunch of boxy chairs and some LED's.. you really can't compare the two -- they are from different times.
I notice some of the comments here lean towards, "the show sucked, it should end." Then don't watch it! And some people didn't, and that's (sadly) why it's ending. But you forget, what's going in this timeslot? Probably NOTHING. So who wins? NO ONE.
There is also a Warcraft III board game and a Civilization one, both based on their predecessor computer versions.
if this will apply to my educational version of Microsoft products. Universities in Maryland distribute copies of various Microsoft applications (Windows XP/2000, Office XP/2000/.NET, etc) to students free of charge. Of course these are legal copies, but they do not require a CD-key to install. Perhaps the lack of a key will result in Microsoft assuming it's pirated?
Another interesting "motivational speech" from Microsoft...
http://fun.sdinet.de/movies/developers.mpeg (1.6MB)
Then he uses this information to boldly say...
Of course he's going to get results like this, he's idling in large channels with thousands of people and bots spamming those keywords. For the rest of the channels (which I'm willing to bet is something around 80% of them), much less information is traveling through them (they may not necessarily be idle though). He completely disregards this information though! His analysis seems to be completely based on the frequency of the used keywords, Norton, Microsoft, Symantec, and Jasc; these were probably the most queried words in the warez channels, and renders an inaccurate depiction of the world of IRC.
A much better approach would have been to count the total number of messages his clients received, and sort them out by "illegal" and "legal" context; removing the number of repeat lines from the warez spam channels (usually from the bots), and you would be left with a much more realistic outlook.
That series diverges, it doesn't converge to zero.
I doubt this type of solo introduction would be effective with kids today, but starting them out with an easy language which is not very in depth, such as QB, and having the ability to produce some sort of low level game would probably help hook them (unless they are just completely uninterested).
In the end, and no matter which way they get started, it is going to boil down to their own motivation, and their wanting to learn it.
I am now a second year college student majoring in Computer Science, and program in C and C++. :)
On a side note, I admire id and Carmack for their open source efforts.
very well done. I bet that beast runs 50MHz faster now. I would put a few more stickers on it though, and push it up to 60.
I spell it that way on purpose, and "loose" was a typo. Geesh :\ My point was the parent in which I replied was both invalid an irrelevant to the topic.
Your point? Loose a password for anything and you have to go through hell to get it back. You're friend (is it you?) was just careless.
Nintendo is known for their generally cartoonish games for the whole family. What probably happened was some poor kid search for something like "zelda hints" on Google and stumbled upon SG. Maybe his mother walked by when he opened it and flipped out, sending Nintendo a nasty letter not knowing anything about the situation other than her underage son had pornography on the screen.
It's sort of lame Nintendo wants them to remove it, but if this is the case it's certainly understandable that Nintendo is at least asking for it to be removed; they want to remain the "fun for all ages" company.
It takes the same time as any other distribution; Gentoo is not a kernel.
Your iPod or PDA. Slashdot had a story on it a while back here http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/04/07/27/1528218.s html?tid=176&tid=137&tid=159&tid=218.
"Virii" is an acceptable plural of "virus". There is some controversy over it, but it's rather silly. It seems the only people who really care are those who don't recognize it as a word, those who do don't mind people saying "viruses".
There is more information about it here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virii.