What absolutely amazes me is that in EVERY SINGLE Google China discussion, no one says a dicky bird about MSN China, or Yahoo China, or all these other fucking search engines that have Chinese sites. Why is Google being singled out? because of their "do no evil" policy? Sorry, but I'd consider it more evil to deprive China of Google, even if it is censored.
Which would you prefer, a censored Wikipedia or no Wikipedia? I'd take censored. Something is better than nothing.
So you don't use Linux... why? Win98 may not be supported by Fx 3.0 - Linux support is here to stay, though. Slap a Slackware install on the sucker and watch it purr.
I think I speak for everyone here when I say... HOLY BAD ENGLISH, BATMAN!
Anyhoo; VB may well be the language that many people start their programming careers with, but it shouldn't be. VB is a poorly conceived language in terms of syntax structure and consistency, not to mention that it lacks a vast number of functions which you would expect to be native to the language, not to have to load DLLs to access them.
Also, it's Windows-only and proprietary, and you have absolutely no idea what VB is doing at any given time.
Come on, what other scientist has: 1) Been through the Stargate thousands of times 2) Fired a wide variety of weapons 3) Wiped out several hostile species 4) Saved the world countless times 5) Been into space on a regular basis 6) Been cloned several times 7) Worked with Jack O'Neill, Dr. Jackson and Teal'c 8) Blown up a sun
And too many more things to count... Plus, she's damn sexy.
Explain then, if the Core Duo is so good, why Apple have had to cripple MacOSX - compare a G4 to a MacBook and there is next to no eye candy on the Macbook. And it's far less respionsive than the G4.
Anyway, I don't get why people are so worked up over a 4.1GHz CPU. Wow, your CPU is running at 4100Mhz! Mine's running at 400MHz over spec (2.2GHz) and it's far outperforming the 2.8GHz Celeron machines here at college.
The PS2 came out in March 2000 (Japan). The Gamecube came out in September 2001 (Japan). The Xbox came out in November 2001 (US).
So, the latter two had a full year of technology advancement to take advantage of. Although in the case of the Xbox, there wasn't much innovation involved (can you say Pentium III, GeForce FX5200 and bog standard components?).
The Gamecube had far more innovative design features, and given its size, it's a damn good platform.
My personal favourite is the PS2, for a variety of reasons. However, saying that an FX60 outperforms an FX57, given the time gap between them, is kinda like saying a car built today is far superior to a car built in the 50s. Technology moves fast, as we all should know. Of course the Gamecube is going to look nicer and run faster without optimisation; it's newer technology. But given the fact that the PS2 is still outselling the Xbox even today (quote from Wikipedia: "Currently the PS2 has shipped 101 million consoles as of the end of 2005 compared to the GameCube's 21 million sold and XBox's 24 million sold.").
That suggests that maybe Sony did something right with the console. Just because it doesn't look quite as pretty doesn't neccesarily make it worse; I'd rather have line graphics on a VGA screen for an insanely fun game over a boring-as-fuck game with top-end graphics.
Big Bang. Energy from this explosion reaches zero. Universe starts to collapse back in on itself. Big Crunch. Singularity compresses to a point so small that it can no longer contain itself and explodes. Repeat.
Why do you need to have fixed definitions? That means that if you, for some reason, can't update for two weeks you've got a huge hole in your protection. This is one of the reasons I like AVG much better than any other anti-virus - even without specific detection rules it can guess (with a reasonable degree of accuracy) if a file is infected or not.
1) In use by dozens of large corporations. Has several years of development behind it. 2) Open source, freely linkable and redistributable in any form. 3) Free. 4) Can be compiled to use stdc++, or use its own internal classes. Uses native controls etc where possible. Cross platform. 5) Very easy. Well documented. 6) Very flexible license, few limitations.
And what is this wonderful framework? wxWidgets.
Compiles on Windows, *NIX, Mac, Palm (!), PocketPC (!). Has bindings in Perl, Lua, JavaScript and half a dozen other languages, but is native to C++. Easy enough that a complete noob at C++ (myself) can get to grips with C++ and wxWidgets and have compiled apps running successfully with low resource use inside two weeks.
I recently referred it to a heavy duty programmer who has been in the job for a while (10+ years), and he fell in love with it after about 2 hours of using it. He loved it so much that his company's next major app is going to be written using it.
Dude, since when was figuring out (without manuals, or the internet, or any means of real documentation) how to change autoexec.bat and config.sys sufficiently to be able to actually load games in DOS/Win 3.11 on a 386 *NOT* educational? Since when was that NOT an indication of tech-savviness?
Give a kid a game and he'll play it. Give a kid the promise of a game if he can figure out a puzzle, and chances are he'll try to figure out the puzzle to play the game. Lots of kids like challenges - give them. Help them to learn to think for themselves.
Oh, and definitely get them enjoying reading. It helps immensely:P
I take it you haven't heard of AVG. They already detected it (without releasing a new signature) on Janurary 16th. How? Simple. Heuristics. Oh, and they do a free version.
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Maybe because the PPC arch is better than x86 by a long shot.
Yeah, you might just get the same performance as a beowulf cluster of 386 Linux machines ;)
What absolutely amazes me is that in EVERY SINGLE Google China discussion, no one says a dicky bird about MSN China, or Yahoo China, or all these other fucking search engines that have Chinese sites. Why is Google being singled out? because of their "do no evil" policy? Sorry, but I'd consider it more evil to deprive China of Google, even if it is censored.
Which would you prefer, a censored Wikipedia or no Wikipedia? I'd take censored. Something is better than nothing.
So you don't use Linux... why?
Win98 may not be supported by Fx 3.0 - Linux support is here to stay, though. Slap a Slackware install on the sucker and watch it purr.
I think I speak for everyone here when I say...
HOLY BAD ENGLISH, BATMAN!
Anyhoo; VB may well be the language that many people start their programming careers with, but it shouldn't be. VB is a poorly conceived language in terms of syntax structure and consistency, not to mention that it lacks a vast number of functions which you would expect to be native to the language, not to have to load DLLs to access them.
Also, it's Windows-only and proprietary, and you have absolutely no idea what VB is doing at any given time.
Your mouse has moved. Windows needs to restart for these changes to take effect.
Mmm, cleavage.
There is but one flaw to your argument.
Internet Explorer is the most widely used browser, as well as the least compatible.
Instant win.
Come on, what other scientist has:
1) Been through the Stargate thousands of times
2) Fired a wide variety of weapons
3) Wiped out several hostile species
4) Saved the world countless times
5) Been into space on a regular basis
6) Been cloned several times
7) Worked with Jack O'Neill, Dr. Jackson and Teal'c
8) Blown up a sun
And too many more things to count...
Plus, she's damn sexy.
Explain then, if the Core Duo is so good, why Apple have had to cripple MacOSX - compare a G4 to a MacBook and there is next to no eye candy on the Macbook. And it's far less respionsive than the G4.
Anyway, I don't get why people are so worked up over a 4.1GHz CPU. Wow, your CPU is running at 4100Mhz! Mine's running at 400MHz over spec (2.2GHz) and it's far outperforming the 2.8GHz Celeron machines here at college.
The PS2 came out in March 2000 (Japan). The Gamecube came out in September 2001 (Japan). The Xbox came out in November 2001 (US).
So, the latter two had a full year of technology advancement to take advantage of. Although in the case of the Xbox, there wasn't much innovation involved (can you say Pentium III, GeForce FX5200 and bog standard components?).
The Gamecube had far more innovative design features, and given its size, it's a damn good platform.
My personal favourite is the PS2, for a variety of reasons. However, saying that an FX60 outperforms an FX57, given the time gap between them, is kinda like saying a car built today is far superior to a car built in the 50s. Technology moves fast, as we all should know. Of course the Gamecube is going to look nicer and run faster without optimisation; it's newer technology. But given the fact that the PS2 is still outselling the Xbox even today (quote from Wikipedia: "Currently the PS2 has shipped 101 million consoles as of the end of 2005 compared to the GameCube's 21 million sold and XBox's 24 million sold.").
That suggests that maybe Sony did something right with the console. Just because it doesn't look quite as pretty doesn't neccesarily make it worse; I'd rather have line graphics on a VGA screen for an insanely fun game over a boring-as-fuck game with top-end graphics.
You do realise they all share the same codebases, don't you? And integration isn't something that is neccesarily a good thing. *cough*IE*cough*
Big Bang. Energy from this explosion reaches zero. Universe starts to collapse back in on itself. Big Crunch. Singularity compresses to a point so small that it can no longer contain itself and explodes. Repeat.
Did you just put Microsoft and standard on the same page without the word "not"?
Maybe he's taking a page from Microsoft's book.
As far as I know, AVG isn't Bayesian. It is, however, heuristic. You'd have to ask the AVG devs themselves about the exact methodology.
Why do you need to have fixed definitions? That means that if you, for some reason, can't update for two weeks you've got a huge hole in your protection. This is one of the reasons I like AVG much better than any other anti-virus - even without specific detection rules it can guess (with a reasonable degree of accuracy) if a file is infected or not.
1) In use by dozens of large corporations. Has several years of development behind it.
2) Open source, freely linkable and redistributable in any form.
3) Free.
4) Can be compiled to use stdc++, or use its own internal classes. Uses native controls etc where possible. Cross platform.
5) Very easy. Well documented.
6) Very flexible license, few limitations.
And what is this wonderful framework? wxWidgets.
Compiles on Windows, *NIX, Mac, Palm (!), PocketPC (!).
Has bindings in Perl, Lua, JavaScript and half a dozen other languages, but is native to C++.
Easy enough that a complete noob at C++ (myself) can get to grips with C++ and wxWidgets and have compiled apps running successfully with low resource use inside two weeks.
I recently referred it to a heavy duty programmer who has been in the job for a while (10+ years), and he fell in love with it after about 2 hours of using it. He loved it so much that his company's next major app is going to be written using it.
Problem is that they only upgrade it partway. Give us all fucking gig lines and they'll last for more than 2 years.
Why does NO ONE *EVER* mention TA when they talk about RTS?
Dude, since when was figuring out (without manuals, or the internet, or any means of real documentation) how to change autoexec.bat and config.sys sufficiently to be able to actually load games in DOS/Win 3.11 on a 386 *NOT* educational? Since when was that NOT an indication of tech-savviness?
:P
Give a kid a game and he'll play it. Give a kid the promise of a game if he can figure out a puzzle, and chances are he'll try to figure out the puzzle to play the game. Lots of kids like challenges - give them. Help them to learn to think for themselves.
Oh, and definitely get them enjoying reading. It helps immensely
Admit it! You use an Intel! That's why you need such a fat power supply! *COUGH*Paxville*COUGH*
I take it you haven't heard of AVG. They already detected it (without releasing a new signature) on Janurary 16th. How? Simple. Heuristics. Oh, and they do a free version.
http://www.grisoft.com/
You seen the trillion-record table query benchmarks for MySQL? Very impressive stuff coming from the underdog.
Equally, the PS3 will ship with full backward compatibility, giving it a launch game library of over 11,000 titles.