It was amazing how quickly I could get a nice looking application up and running and doing something useful. yep gui builders are great for that. The thing with VB is the gui builder is really the only thing going for it and even thats been widely copied.
delphi on the other hand has an equivilend gui builder and a decent backend language and the library source is availible (provided you don't get the bottom end edition) which means you can find out how things really work not just how the docs claim they work. Finally you can avoid the nasty deployment issues of activex controls (which must be registered meaning you need an installer and can't simply run off cd etc)
Ever notice how you can spot a Visual Basic application visually? yep, edit boxes. in most vb apps they are a whole number of grid points high whereas in almost all other apps they take thier natural height.
thats the single biggest giveaway for a VB app i can think off.
I liked delphi myself. good rad frontend (the frontend was a vb clone) and a powerfull language backend. Unfortunately it had a number of annoying problems
1: lack of unicode support in the VCL 2: more recent versions produced bloated executables. 3: lots of stuff in the VCL was declared private or not virtual so even though you had the source you had to copy large chunks of it (which also meant licensing issues should you distribute your source though theese were widely ignored;) ) to customise some stuff.
access also offers a self contained mdb file containing a complete relational database. no need to ship arround a whole directory full of files or hope people have the network setup to connect to your database server. This is especially true if someone wants to carry the DB with them on say a flash stick (assuming its a single user db here) or wants to e-mail off a copy for someone to read and comment on. Easy to back up (just burn one file to CD) etc
If Mysql, squirrelmail, php, perl, apache or any other significant program in the open source community was suddenly "bought out", the brief period of time that it was updated more slowly than usual would be meaningless.
mysql plays the (imo somewhat dirty trick) of putting thier client access libs under the gpl so anyone who wants to use them in a propietry app has to pay and
suppose those licenses became unavailible? would you still wan't to use mysql knowing it would force any code you based on it to be released only under the GPL period?
there is at the bottom of the last page. maybe you just had loading problems (the site timed out once on an entire page for me and needed some refreshing to get all the images. coral cache was even worse)
Power IS determined by Vrms. The reason you have to spec stuff for Vpeak is because of the voltages DO reach vpeak and arcing etc could occur if you only budgeted your spacings/insulators for vrms.
EXACTLY
whereas with DC Vrms=Vpeak so you can spec your insulators smaller for the same power delivery.
as for the capacitive issues they aren't such an issue on overhead lines but they can be a big deal on underground/undersea cables.
the other reason for using DC is to link two AC grids that aren't kept in phase with each other. for example france and the uk.
it won't turn on the way in but with woodscrews the wood has enough springyness that you will get a usable grip (pretty much the same as those ribbed nails you get for wood i'd imagine)
using a screw in this manner is fast while still leaving the possibility of removal should it become nessacery.
i'd imagine you wouldn't manage this with metal though and with plastic i suspect you'd either crack the plastic or get a very poor grip
yeah but i bet some get grey imported and then sold cheap to white box vendors?
Afaict the big advantage of DC distribution for say a datacenter is you can avoid any AC segments whatsoever after your UPS system and at the input to the UPS you can use an efficiantly designed converter with 3 phase input.
single phase AC sucks, we only tolerate it because it can be easilly split out of a 3 phase AC system and it only needs two current carrying conductors.
You'd really think MS would put a little more work into Access to make it easier to scale. They could make an "Access Professional" that could actually scale and they'd make huge money off it.
iirc they offer an "upsizing wizard" which takes a MDB, transfers the data to SQL server and turns the MDB into a (still access based) client interface to the data on SQL server.
1: you can only trap an instruction if its trapable not all instructions are
2: vmware and its ilk don't actually work by instruction trapping because the i386 architecture has lots of subtule differences between kernel mode and user mode that can't be eliminated by trapping techinques. IIRC vmware uses dynamic recompilation techniques on the kernel mode code and runs user mode code straight on the CPU.
he fact that Napster choose to sell music in a format that the iPod doesn't play?
afaict the riaa won't let you sell thier music without drm and apple is quite prepared to break things for and threaten others who try and make ipod compatible drm'd music
sometimes busy waits are nessacery especially in low level code where timing is critical or where there is simply no other way to wait availible.
although its better if your compiler has built in functions for delaying a fixed number of clock ticks. less chance of a compiler change screwing up your code that way.
Where did you get this from? Don't you have to take the time to rewrite the entire block even if you only change one byte? You have to with hard drives too afaict. but since the VM system is based on swapping 4K pages in and out this isn't really an issue anyway.
writing to anything other than the system drive without the users permission still strikes me as a very bad idea though.
i remember all sorts of enthusiasm about XP
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then we discovered that the much hyped improved dos support was still piss poor compared to 9x and the only real advantage over 2K was the boot time.
There are workarounds like punycode to register domain names with non-ascii characters. there are but ofc to use them for the entire name (and not end up with a mixed chineese/roman alpabet name) you need to use them in the root zone which icann is unlikely to do.
if the PRC does TLDs in chineese characters i suspect they will slowly be accepted outside as long as they don't clash with anything existing.
i was under the impression that for in print books they were buying them and scanning them destructively (its almost certainly cheaper to pay for the book, cut the spine off and run it through a sheet feeder than to scan it in book form)
i had (still have but currently don't use) a machine where the onboard sound wouldn't work properly with linux.
playing stereo files was fine, but attempt to play anything mono and it would play at double speed for a few seconds then crash the entire sound subsystem.
If machines get cleaned faster than they get infected, the virus, worm or trojan will die. the problem is there is a core of machines that will stay infected until they get unusablly slow because thier users don't care.
so whilst removal rate may exceed infection rate at times you will still hit a point where there is a core of infected systems you can't do anything about.
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It was amazing how quickly I could get a nice looking application up and running and doing something useful.
yep gui builders are great for that. The thing with VB is the gui builder is really the only thing going for it and even thats been widely copied.
delphi on the other hand has an equivilend gui builder and a decent backend language and the library source is availible (provided you don't get the bottom end edition) which means you can find out how things really work not just how the docs claim they work. Finally you can avoid the nasty deployment issues of activex controls (which must be registered meaning you need an installer and can't simply run off cd etc)
Ever notice how you can spot a Visual Basic application visually?
;) ) to customise some stuff.
yep, edit boxes. in most vb apps they are a whole number of grid points high whereas in almost all other apps they take thier natural height.
thats the single biggest giveaway for a VB app i can think off.
I liked delphi myself. good rad frontend (the frontend was a vb clone) and a powerfull language backend. Unfortunately it had a number of annoying problems
1: lack of unicode support in the VCL
2: more recent versions produced bloated executables.
3: lots of stuff in the VCL was declared private or not virtual so even though you had the source you had to copy large chunks of it (which also meant licensing issues should you distribute your source though theese were widely ignored
access also offers a self contained mdb file containing a complete relational database. no need to ship arround a whole directory full of files or hope people have the network setup to connect to your database server. This is especially true if someone wants to carry the DB with them on say a flash stick (assuming its a single user db here) or wants to e-mail off a copy for someone to read and comment on. Easy to back up (just burn one file to CD) etc
If Mysql, squirrelmail, php, perl, apache or any other significant program in the open source community was suddenly "bought out", the brief period of time that it was updated more slowly than usual would be meaningless.
mysql plays the (imo somewhat dirty trick) of putting thier client access libs under the gpl so anyone who wants to use them in a propietry app has to pay and
suppose those licenses became unavailible? would you still wan't to use mysql knowing it would force any code you based on it to be released only under the GPL period?
there is at the bottom of the last page. maybe you just had loading problems (the site timed out once on an entire page for me and needed some refreshing to get all the images. coral cache was even worse)
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the image with the whole tower can be found at http://www.short-media.com/images/articles/tower_
btw the article submitter was in canada not the USA.
no the EU as a whole doesn't, two of the countries that make it up do.
Power IS determined by Vrms. The reason you have to spec stuff for Vpeak is because of the voltages DO reach vpeak and arcing etc could occur if you only budgeted your spacings/insulators for vrms.
EXACTLY
whereas with DC Vrms=Vpeak so you can spec your insulators smaller for the same power delivery.
as for the capacitive issues they aren't such an issue on overhead lines but they can be a big deal on underground/undersea cables.
the other reason for using DC is to link two AC grids that aren't kept in phase with each other. for example france and the uk.
it won't turn on the way in but with woodscrews the wood has enough springyness that you will get a usable grip (pretty much the same as those ribbed nails you get for wood i'd imagine)
using a screw in this manner is fast while still leaving the possibility of removal should it become nessacery.
i'd imagine you wouldn't manage this with metal though and with plastic i suspect you'd either crack the plastic or get a very poor grip
yeah but i bet some get grey imported and then sold cheap to white box vendors?
Afaict the big advantage of DC distribution for say a datacenter is you can avoid any AC segments whatsoever after your UPS system and at the input to the UPS you can use an efficiantly designed converter with 3 phase input.
single phase AC sucks, we only tolerate it because it can be easilly split out of a 3 phase AC system and it only needs two current carrying conductors.
i've sometimes wondered if it would be worth learning the greek keyboard layout just so you could quickly type stuff like this.
ofc that doesn't help you with typing equations that can't be written neatly in plain text.
You'd really think MS would put a little more work into Access to make it easier to scale. They could make an "Access Professional" that could actually scale and they'd make huge money off it.
iirc they offer an "upsizing wizard" which takes a MDB, transfers the data to SQL server and turns the MDB into a (still access based) client interface to the data on SQL server.
1: you can only trap an instruction if its trapable not all instructions are
2: vmware and its ilk don't actually work by instruction trapping because the i386 architecture has lots of subtule differences between kernel mode and user mode that can't be eliminated by trapping techinques. IIRC vmware uses dynamic recompilation techniques on the kernel mode code and runs user mode code straight on the CPU.
but the only obvious REASON for them to do it would be if they are getting bribed by intel.
it seems like amd wants this info as part of its anti-trust case against intel not to attack skype.
If they are listing other placenames as well try using those to exclude them
e.g. pc perhiperals stockport -southport
unfortunately however this won't work if they give each placename its own page.
he fact that Napster choose to sell music in a format that the iPod doesn't play?
afaict the riaa won't let you sell thier music without drm and apple is quite prepared to break things for and threaten others who try and make ipod compatible drm'd music
sometimes busy waits are nessacery especially in low level code where timing is critical or where there is simply no other way to wait availible.
although its better if your compiler has built in functions for delaying a fixed number of clock ticks. less chance of a compiler change screwing up your code that way.
Where did you get this from? Don't you have to take the time to rewrite the entire block even if you only change one byte?
You have to with hard drives too afaict. but since the VM system is based on swapping 4K pages in and out this isn't really an issue anyway.
writing to anything other than the system drive without the users permission still strikes me as a very bad idea though.
then we discovered that the much hyped improved dos support was still piss poor compared to 9x and the only real advantage over 2K was the boot time.
There are workarounds like punycode to register domain names with non-ascii characters.
there are but ofc to use them for the entire name (and not end up with a mixed chineese/roman alpabet name) you need to use them in the root zone which icann is unlikely to do.
if the PRC does TLDs in chineese characters i suspect they will slowly be accepted outside as long as they don't clash with anything existing.
i was under the impression that for in print books they were buying them and scanning them destructively (its almost certainly cheaper to pay for the book, cut the spine off and run it through a sheet feeder than to scan it in book form)
thats true for now certainly but do you really thing ms won't be pushing it out with vista.
i had (still have but currently don't use) a machine where the onboard sound wouldn't work properly with linux.
playing stereo files was fine, but attempt to play anything mono and it would play at double speed for a few seconds then crash the entire sound subsystem.
this was tested with a then current knoppix.
because by offering both you maximise the chances your applet can run
.net and java applets whilst sticking to one codebase.
so it would be a good thing if you could offer both
If machines get cleaned faster than they get infected, the virus, worm or trojan will die.
the problem is there is a core of machines that will stay infected until they get unusablly slow because thier users don't care.
so whilst removal rate may exceed infection rate at times you will still hit a point where there is a core of infected systems you can't do anything about.