Out of the 3 in my wallet (two Visa, one MC), zero of them have this feature. One of the banks offers that feature on some card types, but they don't say which types, and my card can't be converted to any of them.
5%? Last I checked, it was already quite a bit farther than that. The biggest thing Mono lacks (IME) is a full implementation of System.Windows.Forms, but if you use Gtk# instead, you can easily write a cross-platform GUI.
The fact of the matter is that C# will never be able to erode Java's dominance since it is not cross platform. Don't sell me on the Mono project. It is still a little toy.
Which is it, "never" or "still"? Mono is evolving, and while it's true that today you have to be careful about which Framework classes you use if you want to write a cross-platform.NET app, it's only a matter of time before Mono catches up.
Just-in-time-compiled languages are frequently referred to as interpreted languages. I believe it to be a reasonable definition, since JIT compilation can be seen as a performance optimisation to 'normal' interpretation.
Of course, it can also be seen as a compiler complexity optimization to 'normal' compilation. Look at GCC - many front ends for different languages produce unified intermediate code that can be optimized and processed by a platform-specific back end to produce native machine code. If the intermediate code were saved to disk and then compiled later, you'd have something very much like.NET.
Furthermore, since we're talking about Edit & Continue, the difference between normal compilation and JIT compilation is irrelevant. Supporting a feature like E&C in a true interpreted language would be trivial, since you're directly interpreting the source code. Changes to a C# program, however, are compiled to IL, which is then loaded into memory to replace the original IL, and JIT compiled when it's called - not much different from compiling it directly to machine code and then loading that into memory.
Most of the rest of the world likes the concept of freedom of speech, just as long as it is isn't used to say things that the majority finds repugnant. If Voltaire was alive today, he wold be an American. I pray that in 2050 I can still say that.
Heh. In America, you have freedom of speech, unless the words you're speaking happen to have been spoken earlier by someone else who didn't give you permission to repeat them (copyright). Or unless you're telling someone how to circumvent an access control (DMCA).
Even though the SNES version was better, people were buying the Genesis version for that reason.
I was a huge Mortal Kombat fan and maintainer of the alt.games.mk FAQ back in the day. The SNES version had better graphics and sound than the Genesis version, but it's hard to call it "better" overall. The controls were basically ruined. The Genesis version had crappy graphics, sparse sound effects, and a tinny FM soundtrack, but it felt more like the arcade game because of the controls. BTW, the blood only appeared if you entered a not-so-secret code.
I didn't play the SNES version much, so I can't remember what they did with the fatalities.
Liu Kang, Scorpion, and Sonya kept their original fatalities, but the others were changed. Sub-Zero froze his opponent and shattered him with a backhand punch. Raiden (spelled "Rayden" for the home games) zapped his opponent with electricity and turned him into a pile of ash. Kano reached into his opponent's chest but didn't pull anything out. Johnny Cage kicked his opponent in the stomach.
The changed fatalities weren't all that bad.. you could tell they put some effort into censoring Sub-Zero and Raiden. The Genesis version also had neutered fatalities if you didn't enter the code, but they were quick hacks: Sub-Zero does a super uppercut, Johnny Cage does a super shadow kick, etc.
Because if you write a method call that doesn't exist, you can hit alt-enter and it will create the method for you.
You can do that in Visual Studio 2005 too. Write a call to a method that doesn't exist, and a little blue box appears under the method name. Click the box and VS will offer to create the method stub, using context to figure out the parameter and return types.
Having used both Visual Studio and Eclipse, I must say I like Visual Studio's implementation better. 99% of the time, when the IDE starts autocompleting something while I'm typing, that's exactly what I want it to do. Instead of typing "Dictionary x = new Dictionary();", I can type "di x = new ();" and get the same result. If I don't want to autocomplete something, I can just hit Esc to cancel completion.
Also, Visual Studio has Ctrl+Space too.. but again, it doesn't make you press enter to do the completion. I suppose that's a matter of preference, but I use completion so often that I'm glad I don't have to hit that extra key each time.
It would pretty much cause chaos if it were determined that parents couldn't interfere with their kids constitutional rights.
Yeah.. it's a shame so many parents have become dependent on interfering with their kids' rights. What would we think if our city's chief of police decided ignoring our rights was the only way to keep us in line?
If you want to place a watermark over the whole movie, you have to reencode the whole movie, which is a slow process - much slower than encrypting it, which can be done on the fly while you're burning the DVD. Each individual reviewer's copy would take hours to make instead of minutes.
I guess you must've missed all the criticism directed at the RIAA and similar organizations for doing just what I was referring to - rewriting the law to serve their business model. Copyright term extensions, the DMCA, the proposed INDUCE Act, etc.
That brings in precisely zero revenue to recoup the cost of making the film. I hate to break it to you, but there won't be a HitMovie.avi for you to download in a few years if this becomes the norm.
Let me describe a business model to you. I'm going to paint a mural on the fence outside my house, using my own time and money. It's a very intricate mural, so we're talking millions of dollars. I'll put a price tag on it, so everyone knows that if they look at the mural, they have to pay me $10, and I'll get my friends on the city council to pass a law making it illegal to look at the mural without paying.
It's a great idea, don't you think? I should be able to recoup my costs in no time! People on the street will be happy to pay for the work I did, even though I never asked them about it beforehand, and no one would dare to look at my mural without paying. That mural is my product--I made it, so that means I'm the boss of it for the rest of my life--and anyone who looks at it without paying is a dirty thief.
Now, if anyone suggests that painting the mural is a service, and there's no reason for strangers to pay me for a service I performed in the past of my own accord... or if anyone suggests that my business model is fundamentally flawes, and I should make arrangements ahead of time to be paid for my labor if I want to be paid at all... well, they're just a bunch of commies, and my response will be to ignore them and focus on punishing those thieves who refuse to pay.
What is "frog in the well syndrome"? A quick Google search shows that the expression is mainly used by Indian English speakers. I've never heard it before, and although I know what frogs and wells are, I don't understand the phrase.
The original poster never mentioned anything about QuickTime Player. QuickTime is a format and can be played full screen by hundreds of free apps including iTunes.
I suppose you're right, there are projects like QuickTime Alternative that let you watch QuickTime files without Apple's player. They're not very well-known, though, so I fear that any increased popularity of the QuickTime format will only lead to increased use of QuickTime Player.
And then a whole generation will grow up thinking that full-screen video is a luxury feature to be paid for separately. Won't someone please think of the children?;)
Actually, I have used WMP, and I find it to be superior to QT Player in every way. I don't even notice the fast forward button.. if I want to skip ahead, I use the seek bar.
God, I hope not. QuickTime Player is, without exaggeration, the worst video player app I've ever used. It doesn't even work in full screen mode without a paid upgrade.
Star Trek doesn't take place on present-day Earth, it takes place hundreds of years in the future with technology we all know is made up. You know, science fiction. A portable radio is a common device you can buy today, and when Lost gets every aspect of its behavior wrong, that isn't science fiction, it's just lazy writing.
Absentee ballots don't need a third party's signature in my state (Washington), where incidentally, you also don't need to give any reason to vote absentee.
It is character driven with outstanding production values and quality acting.
Now if only they'd put some of that effort into the technical writing.
Remember Sayid's attempt to triangulate the French woman's broadcast from season 1, by placing antennas at various points around the island and turning them on all at once, even though there was only one radio and it wasn't connected to any of them? Or how about when he walked around looking for cellphone-style "bars" on his walkie talkie so he could transmit a distress call? Or when he couldn't transmit because there was a powerful signal on a different frequency? Simply ridiculous.
People have been speculating about the machines in the hatch.. you know, "That computer looks like [system XYZ] but the Execute key only appeared on [system PQRS], so this must be a special lab if it has that kind of custom equipment!" I can't help but laugh, because the writers obviously don't care about making any of the technology realistic.
You clearly have an internet connection, which is all you need for TiVo.
It was dirt cheap to buy and operate. I have unlimited storage capacity.
Those are mutually exclusive: if you want "unlimited" storage capacity, you have to keep buying more tapes. Sure, you can reuse tapes, but you can reuse space on a DVR much more effectively.
I can buy movies cheaper than any DVD, and that fill the frame of my cheap 4:3 TV.
Even on my cheap 4:3 TV, I prefer to watch widescreen.. but you can buy fullscreen DVDs if you really want to. Last time I was at the video store, they had two whole racks of some new release, one widescreen and one fullscreen. (DVD players are also supposed to be able to pan'n'scan widescreen movies on the fly, if you've set it to use P&S instead of letterboxing, but I've never seen it work.)
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Don't forget the occasional disc that gives read errors that translate into unwatchable skipping bullshit or worse. Why does higher tech need to be more fragile?
You must be joking. Scratched DVDs can be resurfaced inexpensively, but a damaged VHS tape is damaged forever unless you want to send it off to some forensic lab. And have you ever had a damaged/dirty VCR "eat" your tape? Impossible with DVDs.
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Out of the 3 in my wallet (two Visa, one MC), zero of them have this feature. One of the banks offers that feature on some card types, but they don't say which types, and my card can't be converted to any of them.
If you find VCDs watchable, you'll be able to watch these too. They're the same resolution, 320x240, and they use a much better codec.
They're no replacement for DVDs or TiVo, though.
5%? Last I checked, it was already quite a bit farther than that. The biggest thing Mono lacks (IME) is a full implementation of System.Windows.Forms, but if you use Gtk# instead, you can easily write a cross-platform GUI.
The fact of the matter is that C# will never be able to erode Java's dominance since it is not cross platform. Don't sell me on the Mono project. It is still a little toy.
.NET app, it's only a matter of time before Mono catches up.
Which is it, "never" or "still"? Mono is evolving, and while it's true that today you have to be careful about which Framework classes you use if you want to write a cross-platform
Just-in-time-compiled languages are frequently referred to as interpreted languages. I believe it to be a reasonable definition, since JIT compilation can be seen as a performance optimisation to 'normal' interpretation.
.NET.
Of course, it can also be seen as a compiler complexity optimization to 'normal' compilation. Look at GCC - many front ends for different languages produce unified intermediate code that can be optimized and processed by a platform-specific back end to produce native machine code. If the intermediate code were saved to disk and then compiled later, you'd have something very much like
Furthermore, since we're talking about Edit & Continue, the difference between normal compilation and JIT compilation is irrelevant. Supporting a feature like E&C in a true interpreted language would be trivial, since you're directly interpreting the source code. Changes to a C# program, however, are compiled to IL, which is then loaded into memory to replace the original IL, and JIT compiled when it's called - not much different from compiling it directly to machine code and then loading that into memory.
Most of the rest of the world likes the concept of freedom of speech, just as long as it is isn't used to say things that the majority finds repugnant. If Voltaire was alive today, he wold be an American. I pray that in 2050 I can still say that.
Heh. In America, you have freedom of speech, unless the words you're speaking happen to have been spoken earlier by someone else who didn't give you permission to repeat them (copyright). Or unless you're telling someone how to circumvent an access control (DMCA).
What, you think VB.NET and C# are interpreted languages? Funny.
Even though the SNES version was better, people were buying the Genesis version for that reason.
I was a huge Mortal Kombat fan and maintainer of the alt.games.mk FAQ back in the day. The SNES version had better graphics and sound than the Genesis version, but it's hard to call it "better" overall. The controls were basically ruined. The Genesis version had crappy graphics, sparse sound effects, and a tinny FM soundtrack, but it felt more like the arcade game because of the controls. BTW, the blood only appeared if you entered a not-so-secret code.
I didn't play the SNES version much, so I can't remember what they did with the fatalities.
Liu Kang, Scorpion, and Sonya kept their original fatalities, but the others were changed. Sub-Zero froze his opponent and shattered him with a backhand punch. Raiden (spelled "Rayden" for the home games) zapped his opponent with electricity and turned him into a pile of ash. Kano reached into his opponent's chest but didn't pull anything out. Johnny Cage kicked his opponent in the stomach.
The changed fatalities weren't all that bad.. you could tell they put some effort into censoring Sub-Zero and Raiden. The Genesis version also had neutered fatalities if you didn't enter the code, but they were quick hacks: Sub-Zero does a super uppercut, Johnny Cage does a super shadow kick, etc.
Because if you write a method call that doesn't exist, you can hit alt-enter and it will create the method for you.
You can do that in Visual Studio 2005 too. Write a call to a method that doesn't exist, and a little blue box appears under the method name. Click the box and VS will offer to create the method stub, using context to figure out the parameter and return types.
Having used both Visual Studio and Eclipse, I must say I like Visual Studio's implementation better. 99% of the time, when the IDE starts autocompleting something while I'm typing, that's exactly what I want it to do. Instead of typing "Dictionary x = new Dictionary();", I can type "di x = new ();" and get the same result. If I don't want to autocomplete something, I can just hit Esc to cancel completion.
Also, Visual Studio has Ctrl+Space too.. but again, it doesn't make you press enter to do the completion. I suppose that's a matter of preference, but I use completion so often that I'm glad I don't have to hit that extra key each time.
Edit & Continue is back in Visual Studio 2005.. for both VB.NET and C#, I believe.
It would pretty much cause chaos if it were determined that parents couldn't interfere with their kids constitutional rights.
Yeah.. it's a shame so many parents have become dependent on interfering with their kids' rights. What would we think if our city's chief of police decided ignoring our rights was the only way to keep us in line?
If you want to place a watermark over the whole movie, you have to reencode the whole movie, which is a slow process - much slower than encrypting it, which can be done on the fly while you're burning the DVD. Each individual reviewer's copy would take hours to make instead of minutes.
I guess you must've missed all the criticism directed at the RIAA and similar organizations for doing just what I was referring to - rewriting the law to serve their business model. Copyright term extensions, the DMCA, the proposed INDUCE Act, etc.
What the hell is wrong with people that they think it's okay for big companies to re-write the law to fit their business model?
You're right, what are those RIAA apologists thinking?
Oh, wait...
That brings in precisely zero revenue to recoup the cost of making the film. I hate to break it to you, but there won't be a HitMovie.avi for you to download in a few years if this becomes the norm.
Let me describe a business model to you. I'm going to paint a mural on the fence outside my house, using my own time and money. It's a very intricate mural, so we're talking millions of dollars. I'll put a price tag on it, so everyone knows that if they look at the mural, they have to pay me $10, and I'll get my friends on the city council to pass a law making it illegal to look at the mural without paying.
It's a great idea, don't you think? I should be able to recoup my costs in no time! People on the street will be happy to pay for the work I did, even though I never asked them about it beforehand, and no one would dare to look at my mural without paying. That mural is my product--I made it, so that means I'm the boss of it for the rest of my life--and anyone who looks at it without paying is a dirty thief.
Now, if anyone suggests that painting the mural is a service, and there's no reason for strangers to pay me for a service I performed in the past of my own accord... or if anyone suggests that my business model is fundamentally flawes, and I should make arrangements ahead of time to be paid for my labor if I want to be paid at all... well, they're just a bunch of commies, and my response will be to ignore them and focus on punishing those thieves who refuse to pay.
What is "frog in the well syndrome"? A quick Google search shows that the expression is mainly used by Indian English speakers. I've never heard it before, and although I know what frogs and wells are, I don't understand the phrase.
The original poster never mentioned anything about QuickTime Player. QuickTime is a format and can be played full screen by hundreds of free apps including iTunes.
;)
I suppose you're right, there are projects like QuickTime Alternative that let you watch QuickTime files without Apple's player. They're not very well-known, though, so I fear that any increased popularity of the QuickTime format will only lead to increased use of QuickTime Player.
And then a whole generation will grow up thinking that full-screen video is a luxury feature to be paid for separately. Won't someone please think of the children?
Actually, I have used WMP, and I find it to be superior to QT Player in every way. I don't even notice the fast forward button.. if I want to skip ahead, I use the seek bar.
God, I hope not. QuickTime Player is, without exaggeration, the worst video player app I've ever used. It doesn't even work in full screen mode without a paid upgrade.
Star Trek doesn't take place on present-day Earth, it takes place hundreds of years in the future with technology we all know is made up. You know, science fiction. A portable radio is a common device you can buy today, and when Lost gets every aspect of its behavior wrong, that isn't science fiction, it's just lazy writing.
Absentee ballots don't need a third party's signature in my state (Washington), where incidentally, you also don't need to give any reason to vote absentee.
It is character driven with outstanding production values and quality acting.
Now if only they'd put some of that effort into the technical writing.
Remember Sayid's attempt to triangulate the French woman's broadcast from season 1, by placing antennas at various points around the island and turning them on all at once, even though there was only one radio and it wasn't connected to any of them? Or how about when he walked around looking for cellphone-style "bars" on his walkie talkie so he could transmit a distress call? Or when he couldn't transmit because there was a powerful signal on a different frequency? Simply ridiculous.
People have been speculating about the machines in the hatch.. you know, "That computer looks like [system XYZ] but the Execute key only appeared on [system PQRS], so this must be a special lab if it has that kind of custom equipment!" I can't help but laugh, because the writers obviously don't care about making any of the technology realistic.
I don't have to connect it to a phone line.
You clearly have an internet connection, which is all you need for TiVo.
It was dirt cheap to buy and operate. I have unlimited storage capacity.
Those are mutually exclusive: if you want "unlimited" storage capacity, you have to keep buying more tapes. Sure, you can reuse tapes, but you can reuse space on a DVR much more effectively.
I can buy movies cheaper than any DVD, and that fill the frame of my cheap 4:3 TV.
Even on my cheap 4:3 TV, I prefer to watch widescreen.. but you can buy fullscreen DVDs if you really want to. Last time I was at the video store, they had two whole racks of some new release, one widescreen and one fullscreen. (DVD players are also supposed to be able to pan'n'scan widescreen movies on the fly, if you've set it to use P&S instead of letterboxing, but I've never seen it work.)
Don't forget the occasional disc that gives read errors that translate into unwatchable skipping bullshit or worse. Why does higher tech need to be more fragile?
You must be joking. Scratched DVDs can be resurfaced inexpensively, but a damaged VHS tape is damaged forever unless you want to send it off to some forensic lab. And have you ever had a damaged/dirty VCR "eat" your tape? Impossible with DVDs.