A long time ago, in a country far far away... (if you live in the U.S. anyway:).
Some young kid asked his Father or Grandfather the story-teller (or Keeper of the Truth) what a Rainbow was. Of course, the teller had no idea, so they started a story. Perhaps it was a story about a flood they heard about or remembered; or perhaps they were very spiritual (or perhaps just mental as many religious figures have been thru the ages) and they said it was some kind of promise from GOD.
Anyway, as stories always do, it grew and grew (and probably merged with other "great flood" myths) and eventually became the story of Noah's Ark.
btw, you can use the same logic to figure out where many of the stories / rules came from in the Bible / Qur'an / whatever particular ancient religious text you care to name.
From the extremetech.com article: System requirements are pretty steep - you'll need an 800mhz processor, and an OpenGL capable ATI Radeon or nVidia GeForce or NForce graphics card. As you can imagine, the pre-beta was not very stable, but the beta world should be much more reliable.
How many "WalMart Moms" have systems of this caliber? I know most of my non-tech friends have machines that are less powerfull than this. They have never seen a need to upgrade their machines because they do everything they need just fine. You can (text) chat on AIM (or Yahoo or wherever) with a Pentium II 300 if that's what you've got.
And even for the people with newer machines, how many of the "cheap" home systems come with Radeon's or GForce's??? A quick check on Dell.com and Gateway.com shows that those are optional video cards; so how many non-techies changed that option when they decided that "dude, I'm gettin' a Dell"?.
Just my $0.02, but I think they might not have the potential audience they want just from their machine requirements.
Check out Martin Fowler's Enterprise Architecture Patterns, some of them can apply to any type of GUI. The MVC pattern does not just have to apply to single components of a window. But there is a difference between creating the GUI architecture for a CAD type program as opposed to a Business type program. For example: CAD programs can have thousands (or more) of objects on the screen at the same time; so modelling each as an object will bring your program to it's knees (using the Prototype pattern can help here).
You might try searching google for 'CAD GUI' or something similar; I've seen articles / web pages that discuss GUI's that are not database backed / business related, but I don't know the addresses off-hand.
On a sheet of paper, draw a line separating the paper into two halves. In one half write "UI Module" and in the other half write "Database Interface Module".
Actually, this is considered bad form in an OO design. The UI "Module" (classes) should only talk to the Model classes, while the Model classes may or may not talk directly to database classes. They may be mapped to database tabels thru an indirection layer.
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...but I'm afraid I can't (yet) impute a beefy profit stream to Usenet nostalgia.
It isn't all nostalgia. If I have a programming question regarding Java, posts from pre-'99 have value, if it is regarding C++, it has even more value. They need to play up the corporate subscription route more.
I once saw a suggestion for removing TLD's completely. Allow almost any type of expression for a domain name: 'ice.cream', 'nike.shoes', 'gatoraid.drink', etc...
How hard would it be to design a system like this??? I realize that the current system would not be compatible with something like this, but how much of it would need to be replaced to implement this kind of system?
OK, if I understand this correctly, they view animal and human genes differently. Yet if I remember right (but I may be wrong, dammit Jim, I'm a programmer not a geneticist), humans and chimps share >90% of their genes.
So if I were to patent a chimp gene that was present in a human, would I own the human gene also? Even if was not legal to patent human genes? Which takes precedent? (Answer: The lawyer fees:)
>I've got friends and acquantances who stand a >real good chance of loosing their homes to the >storm surge projected on Florida's coasts.
Yeah, but unless they are stupid, they knew there was a chance they would get hit by a hurricane when they moved to a coastal area in Florida. People near a coast in Florida have no right to complain about anything having to do w/ hurricanes, just like people in California have no right to complain about earthquakes or people in the midwest who live in a flood plain. You knew about them when you moved there.
If I or anyone else has a fascination with it, it's a free country!!! People complaining about things like this just amaze me.
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Some young kid asked his Father or Grandfather the story-teller (or Keeper of the Truth) what a Rainbow was. Of course, the teller had no idea, so they started a story. Perhaps it was a story about a flood they heard about or remembered; or perhaps they were very spiritual (or perhaps just mental as many religious figures have been thru the ages) and they said it was some kind of promise from GOD.
Anyway, as stories always do, it grew and grew (and probably merged with other "great flood" myths) and eventually became the story of Noah's Ark.
btw, you can use the same logic to figure out where many of the stories / rules came from in the Bible / Qur'an / whatever particular ancient religious text you care to name.
You'll shoot your eye out kid!!! -- An apple fired from one of the guns almost took out the eye of a middle-aged man near the Baltic coast.
How many "WalMart Moms" have systems of this caliber? I know most of my non-tech friends have machines that are less powerfull than this. They have never seen a need to upgrade their machines because they do everything they need just fine. You can (text) chat on AIM (or Yahoo or wherever) with a Pentium II 300 if that's what you've got.
And even for the people with newer machines, how many of the "cheap" home systems come with Radeon's or GForce's??? A quick check on Dell.com and Gateway.com shows that those are optional video cards; so how many non-techies changed that option when they decided that "dude, I'm gettin' a Dell"?.
Just my $0.02, but I think they might not have the potential audience they want just from their machine requirements.
Check out Martin Fowler's Enterprise Architecture Patterns, some of them can apply to any type of GUI. The MVC pattern does not just have to apply to single components of a window. But there is a difference between creating the GUI architecture for a CAD type program as opposed to a Business type program. For example: CAD programs can have thousands (or more) of objects on the screen at the same time; so modelling each as an object will bring your program to it's knees (using the Prototype pattern can help here).
You might try searching google for 'CAD GUI' or something similar; I've seen articles / web pages that discuss GUI's that are not database backed / business related, but I don't know the addresses off-hand.
On a sheet of paper, draw a line separating the paper into two halves. In one half write "UI Module" and in the other half write "Database Interface Module".
Actually, this is considered bad form in an OO design. The UI "Module" (classes) should only talk to the Model classes, while the Model classes may or may not talk directly to database classes. They may be mapped to database tabels thru an indirection layer.
There is some great discussion of this at Martin Fowlers website.
It isn't all nostalgia. If I have a programming question regarding Java, posts from pre-'99 have value, if it is regarding C++, it has even more value. They need to play up the corporate subscription route more.
I once saw a suggestion for removing TLD's completely. Allow almost any type of expression for a domain name: 'ice.cream', 'nike.shoes', 'gatoraid.drink', etc...
How hard would it be to design a system like this??? I realize that the current system would not be compatible with something like this, but how much of it would need to be replaced to implement this kind of system?
OK, if I understand this correctly, they view animal and human genes differently. Yet if I remember right (but I may be wrong, dammit Jim, I'm a programmer not a geneticist), humans and chimps share >90% of their genes.
So if I were to patent a chimp gene that was present in a human, would I own the human gene also? Even if was not legal to patent human genes? Which takes precedent? (Answer: The lawyer fees :)
>real good chance of loosing their homes to the
>storm surge projected on Florida's coasts.
Yeah, but unless they are stupid, they knew there was a chance they would get hit by a hurricane when they moved to a coastal area in Florida. People near a coast in Florida have no right to complain about anything having to do w/ hurricanes, just like people in California have no right to complain about earthquakes or people in the midwest who live in a flood plain. You knew about them when you moved there.
If I or anyone else has a fascination with it, it's a free country!!! People complaining about things like this just amaze me.