My Eee PC feels like it could take much more of a beating than my full-size Laptop.
Small is good when it comes to rigidity. I don't like to stand anything heavy on the laptop with the lid closed - it doesn't take much weight to flex the lid downwards into the screen. My EEE PC's lid is a lot stronger.
>"The most vicious irony here is that you call the music "crap", but insist on illegally downloading it and, presumably, listening."
You forgot the last part, ie. the "'thank god I didn't pay any money for that', followed by delete" part.
Downloading is a red herring anyway. When I was a kid I (and all my friends) had cassette tapes. I'd sit on Sunday afternoons listening to the top 40 countdown and record the songs I wanted which were being freely broadcast by the RIAA. That would be my mix tape for that week.
They seem to have survived that era, this Internet thing isn't really any different.
Believe it or not, people really do want to support their favorite artists. The stumbling block at the moment is the RIAA, which is ripping them off (see above). Thanks to the RIAA I now feel bad about buying a CD. I know none of the money will go to the artist, it'll all be sniffed up the noses of RIAA executives in the VIP lounges of the world.
>"As long as nobody is forced to buy it, your argument, likewise, holds no water. "
Again, you're only half right. It's not a case of being forced to buy one thing, it's a case of not being able to buy the other. The difference is maybe quite subtle to you, but it's there.
>"My argument still holds: stop stealing and law-suits will stop."
Thing is... I don't want them to stop, the judges are beginning to see the light.
The only thing it would persuade me to do is pop over to The Pirate Bay.
If I've already paid Microsoft for an operating system then I'm not going to feel the tiniest twinge of guilt about downloading the one I really wanted.
Even if I haven't paid, stuff like this doesn't generate much sympathy. I'm more likely to think that a lot of people have paid twice so all I'm doing is "dumpster diving" for the unused copies.
Problem is, electric cars aren't very practical right now. Battery capacity, charge times, etc., all need to improve by an order of magnitude.
Carbon-neutral biodiesels could keep the existing vehicle fleet going until electric cars are fully developed. In Europe about 30% of cars could run on biodiesel right now. The USA has stupid laws which prevent diesel cars from being used there.
The harder you swing it, the more points you get!!
Huge, "I'll show 'em" size swings are to be encouraged when playing, especially after a couple of beers. If you have to wreck the house while trying, no problem.
> does C++ still pull in libraries that are not > needed or too big? My guess is you can exclude > the libraries that you do not need, correct?
It's a function of your compiler, not "C++".
My compiler can link individual functions, it doesn't pull in whole libraries like some of the the old ones did.
> Are there any incompatibilities when using C++ > and migrating to different Operating System > environments any more like their use to be in > the dark ages?
The ISO standard os over ten years old now. On Windows you have VC++, on Linux g++. Both are highly ISO compliant.
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My Eee PC feels like it could take much more of a beating than my full-size Laptop.
Small is good when it comes to rigidity. I don't like to stand anything heavy on the laptop with the lid closed - it doesn't take much weight to flex the lid downwards into the screen. My EEE PC's lid is a lot stronger.
ASUS also makes it very easy to get spare parts - http://estore.asus.com/ in the USA and http://www.asusparts.eu/ in Europe.
Netbooks are defintely the way to go for traveling.
Yep. Getting them to work with the preinstalled apps on a Linux-based Eee-PC would achieve far more than what you're planning:
a) At a fraction of the cost (both in purchase and repairs)
b) In a form factor that most of them will love - have you tried lugging a full-size laptop around for several hours every day?
PS: Don't underestimate point (b)....it's far better to have a machine people will carry and use than some super-expensive "quality" machine.
Came here to say this. Your "restrictions" will fail but what message are you sending to the kids?
Well I would ... but it's completely slashdotted.
Wouldn't it have been a lot easier to put the proper pic instead of that green thing.
There's no enforcement 'cos the senators want their Viagara anonymously.
>"The most vicious irony here is that you call the music "crap", but insist on illegally downloading it and, presumably, listening."
You forgot the last part, ie. the "'thank god I didn't pay any money for that', followed by delete" part.
Downloading is a red herring anyway. When I was a kid I (and all my friends) had cassette tapes. I'd sit on Sunday afternoons listening to the top 40 countdown and record the songs I wanted which were being freely broadcast by the RIAA. That would be my mix tape for that week.
They seem to have survived that era, this Internet thing isn't really any different.
Believe it or not, people really do want to support their favorite artists. The stumbling block at the moment is the RIAA, which is ripping them off (see above). Thanks to the RIAA I now feel bad about buying a CD. I know none of the money will go to the artist, it'll all be sniffed up the noses of RIAA executives in the VIP lounges of the world.
>"As long as nobody is forced to buy it, your argument, likewise, holds no water. "
Again, you're only half right. It's not a case of being forced to buy one thing, it's a case of not being able to buy the other. The difference is maybe quite subtle to you, but it's there.
>"My argument still holds: stop stealing and law-suits will stop."
Thing is ... I don't want them to stop, the judges are beginning to see the light.
...the RIAA will keep on ripping off artists and producing bland, over-compressed, payola-driven crap instead of music.
http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love/print.html
http://www.beforethemusicdies.com/
http://www.janisian.com/article-internet_debacle.html
The problem is that helicopters simply don't go that high. The air's too thin.
If they did you can bet there'd be tourist flights to the top of Everest.
The only thing it would persuade me to do is pop over to The Pirate Bay.
If I've already paid Microsoft for an operating system then I'm not going to feel the tiniest twinge of guilt about downloading the one I really wanted.
Even if I haven't paid, stuff like this doesn't generate much sympathy. I'm more likely to think that a lot of people have paid twice so all I'm doing is "dumpster diving" for the unused copies.
So are small, economical gasoline cars ... but Americans are buying SUVs just in case they might, one day, need to tow something.
Problem is, electric cars aren't very practical right now. Battery capacity, charge times, etc., all need to improve by an order of magnitude.
Carbon-neutral biodiesels could keep the existing vehicle fleet going until electric cars are fully developed. In Europe about 30% of cars could run on biodiesel right now. The USA has stupid laws which prevent diesel cars from being used there.
The harder you swing it, the more points you get!!
Huge, "I'll show 'em" size swings are to be encouraged when playing, especially after a couple of beers. If you have to wreck the house while trying, no problem.
Personal responsibility is soooo 1980s.
Um, getting hold of the disk is the easy part (they don't weigh much).
the problem is they don't know how to analyze what's on it.
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/real.programmers.html
A good programmer should be able to write FORTRAN code in any language.
RAII is the reason you shouldn't be using C any more (ie. C can't do it).
"I think I might like Obj-C over C++, due solely to the really nice init/release/autorelease mech for memory allocation"
This is RAII...
Obj-C is Ok, but locks you into Mac-only development.
C++ is a better bet in the long term. It has ugly syntax, sure, but you get used to that.
...it's the only way to be sure.
> does C++ still pull in libraries that are not
> needed or too big? My guess is you can exclude
> the libraries that you do not need, correct?
It's a function of your compiler, not "C++".
My compiler can link individual functions, it doesn't pull in whole libraries like some of the the old ones did.
> Are there any incompatibilities when using C++
> and migrating to different Operating System
> environments any more like their use to be in
> the dark ages?
The ISO standard os over ten years old now. On Windows you have VC++, on Linux g++. Both are highly ISO compliant.
"c# shows no signs of being limited in anything i intend to do"
Which leads to the correct answer to the OP's question.
ie. First decide what sort of programs you're going to write, then choose something suitable.
...you mean "C++". This is 2008, nobody should be using C except as a last resort.
...by removing all the crap from web pages.
All that flash+advertising isn't free to download.
I heard it was the Linux version which had this limit.
It's certainly not true for Windows - I have the proof in front of me.
I did of course mean "16 million"...
(give or take)
Most of the big blocks of addresses are *very* badly distributed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IP_address_blocks
Does Palo Alto research center need 24 million IP addresses? I'm pretty sure it doesn't.
etc.
By next year it could be as much as seven or eight!