Have you ever just thought that maybe nobody thought twice about it? You make it sound like it was an intentional move to undermine the foundation of the church by placing a cathedral in a game.
Using your logic, it would be wrong to put the GM building in a game. Detroit has the second worse crime rate in America. Does that mean the GM building is off limits to anyone to use in anything? (including movies, books, photos, etc.)
That is quite possibly the worst "flip" I've read. For one you are talking about file formats versus code and your changing licensing fees into license "restrictions".
GP is talking about open standards, not giving away free code without copy restrictions.
If you were to phrase it properly, it still shows disfavor toward Microsoft: If Linus was serious about working with MS in a positive way, he would release proper documentation on the file formats and protocols with no strings attached.
I'm offended by your reference comparing a mouth to a toilet. I think by even describing such information, you are corrupting the minds of children all over the world.
</sarcasm>
WHQL does not guarantee ease of use, installation or compatibility. It just means that it tells Windows what it wants to hear instead of what it might need to hear.
Due to a recent trend in programming. Feminist groups have decided they don't like being referred to as !male. They demand rule defined paring of boolean values "male" and "female" where setting male to false would trigger female equality to true. More on this at 11.
Yeah, but you hit that area with a small nuke and there's bound to be a cat, dog, small child, or a playground in the area that will be hurt as well. The media would have a field day with how horrible the military is. Even if it did take out hundreds or thousands of militant radicals and only one kid (who will likely be raised in the same way.)
...not to mention, I know I was setting myself up for a disappointment, but I really wanted to explore some of these fabled dungeons. Maybe a few not so well known and explore the underworld of Tolkien. I reached the late teens in the 30-day sub of the game and got sick and tired of only advancing in the game through quest after quest after quest... I was sick of quests after 15 levels. That's bad IMHO.
Maybe we are thinking about it too hard then. Not everything has to be parallel. A parallel task can be in the form of copying multiple files, downloading multiple files, opening each file and processing each independently instead of waiting for its time in the list for your one process. There are processes that can be paralleled for mathematics and computations (like calculating PI), but it would require rethinking Mathematics, not logic flow in a program.
[Your sitting in class. Your teacher asks you to pick two classmates. You are to give both these people a task in order to solve your original question without giving them the question itself. The teacher tells you to solve the equation: 22/7. What do you have your two classmates solve?]
Let's look at another scenario:
[Your in the same class, with the same classmates. Each classmate is to help you solve your problem as before. The teacher asks you (with the help of your classmates) to go around the class and describe each student. He hands you one sheet of paper.
Should your two classmates tear their piece of paper in thirds and grab two more classmates to have them help? Would that be too much complexity? Would you get it done quicker by having each classmate choose two classmates (tear their sheets in thirds) until all classmates are chosen and have a sheet of paper to which they will describe themselves and pass it back to the student that picked them?
Some tasks are fairly easy to multi-task and those are the ones that should be simple. Unfortunately, the common programming languages make those tasks harder than they should be. Pure brute force might be faster than trying to figure what to do, how to do it, and which classmate to assign it to. Will one write faster and get more students done then the other? Does that matter?
Multi-tasking in a program can be as simple as one thread redrawing the list of items on the screen while another tracks and updates the position of the scroll bar. Right now, all those happen sequentially. Not because the programmer is "too lazy" to break it off asynchronously, but because the languages in use don't make it easy. (That was probably a bad example. Those tasks are minor and probably best handled sequentially today. But it's the idea that matters.)
How would a string of Chinese characters like beads on a string be any better than a string of alphanumeric characters like beads on a string?
It's simple. We replace the common English words with Chinese symbols so only the Chinese will understand how to program. After that occurs, China will assign 1 billion people to programming the world's PCs and will finally gain true socialist supremacy.
I think your post has placed my karma understanding in a tailspin. In saying that a bad post about Sony is good karma, you imply that the Slashdot community is anti-Sony, but in doing so you point out a flaw in said community. Now, the community mods you up for pointing out this flaw and you gain karma by indirectly defending Sony's name. You are basically saying something good about Sony and it was good for your karma, right?
Maybe it is time to search the patent database, pull out any Patents tied to Microsoft and list them on the web. Let people vote up or down the patents that could conflict with current standard and try to identify them ourselves instead of waiting...
I was under the impression that MSSQL will treat them the same when it processes. Now, doing a SELECT * will force SQL to reach out for the column names, then retrieve the results, but the difference between COUNT(*) and COUNT(column_name) was pretty much moot. I haven't touched any of our SQL servers much recently, but when I was it was pretty much determined that the difference is either non-existent or damn near close to nothing.
Eh, they still use CF heavily where I work as well. When you get down to the component level, line for line you can't beat CF. I've moved away from Web Development into training software development, but the Web team is doing a ton of fast and neat things with CF. They focus on RAD Web development to meet the demands of an operation not related to web technology and from my experience, it's much quicker to develop a page in ColdFusion than ASP or PHP. For that, I commend CF. However, some of the syntax is a bit wonky, but it hasn't failed to do its task.
It's amazing what money and/or healthy donations can do(?)
But really. Those two quotes seem to contradict each other.
"Microsoft is doing well with DX10 on tightening the specs and the exactness."
Then:
"The new features are not exactly well-thought-out."
Tell me I'm not the only one that noticed that?
The first thing I thought when I read that first quote was the G4s commercials for Collins college... "We just need to tighten up the graphics..."
Why not have Software patents "time out" after a preset time span if nothing was developed by the patent holder using that technology. If the patent holder doesn't take the patent to production in that time span, they forfeit the patent. It's kind of along your lines, but if the patent holder can't prove they used the technology in that time span, then they dissolve all rights to it.
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You give me bad pictures of Bill standing on stage in a cheerleader outfit shouting: "Give me an I! Give me an N! ..."
Have you ever just thought that maybe nobody thought twice about it? You make it sound like it was an intentional move to undermine the foundation of the church by placing a cathedral in a game.
Using your logic, it would be wrong to put the GM building in a game. Detroit has the second worse crime rate in America. Does that mean the GM building is off limits to anyone to use in anything? (including movies, books, photos, etc.)
That is quite possibly the worst "flip" I've read. For one you are talking about file formats versus code and your changing licensing fees into license "restrictions".
GP is talking about open standards, not giving away free code without copy restrictions.
If you were to phrase it properly, it still shows disfavor toward Microsoft:
If Linus was serious about working with MS in a positive way, he would release proper documentation on the file formats and protocols with no strings attached.
Which is pretty much what has already happened.
Sports ...
I've only been through 10 steps... I'll have to wait a few years for the supposed 11th step.
Damnit, it was more of a brain fart than ignorance :P Of course I saw the film! Who here hasn't?
What if God is said particle?
Maybe they were pointing out how a typo could confuse the users while trying to make a joke about DRM? ;)
WHQL does not guarantee ease of use, installation or compatibility. It just means that it tells Windows what it wants to hear instead of what it might need to hear.
...or a sufficient number of computers called the Internet.
Great.. I can see it now:
Due to a recent trend in programming. Feminist groups have decided they don't like being referred to as !male. They demand rule defined paring of boolean values "male" and "female" where setting male to false would trigger female equality to true. More on this at 11.
I think it's:
-10: Retro
+10: Modern
+25: Near Future
+100: Jetsons
Yeah, but you hit that area with a small nuke and there's bound to be a cat, dog, small child, or a playground in the area that will be hurt as well. The media would have a field day with how horrible the military is. Even if it did take out hundreds or thousands of militant radicals and only one kid (who will likely be raised in the same way.)
...not to mention, I know I was setting myself up for a disappointment, but I really wanted to explore some of these fabled dungeons. Maybe a few not so well known and explore the underworld of Tolkien. I reached the late teens in the 30-day sub of the game and got sick and tired of only advancing in the game through quest after quest after quest... I was sick of quests after 15 levels. That's bad IMHO.
Maybe we are thinking about it too hard then. Not everything has to be parallel. A parallel task can be in the form of copying multiple files, downloading multiple files, opening each file and processing each independently instead of waiting for its time in the list for your one process. There are processes that can be paralleled for mathematics and computations (like calculating PI), but it would require rethinking Mathematics, not logic flow in a program.
[Your sitting in class. Your teacher asks you to pick two classmates. You are to give both these people a task in order to solve your original question without giving them the question itself. The teacher tells you to solve the equation: 22/7. What do you have your two classmates solve?]
Let's look at another scenario:
[Your in the same class, with the same classmates. Each classmate is to help you solve your problem as before. The teacher asks you (with the help of your classmates) to go around the class and describe each student. He hands you one sheet of paper.
Should your two classmates tear their piece of paper in thirds and grab two more classmates to have them help? Would that be too much complexity? Would you get it done quicker by having each classmate choose two classmates (tear their sheets in thirds) until all classmates are chosen and have a sheet of paper to which they will describe themselves and pass it back to the student that picked them?
Some tasks are fairly easy to multi-task and those are the ones that should be simple. Unfortunately, the common programming languages make those tasks harder than they should be. Pure brute force might be faster than trying to figure what to do, how to do it, and which classmate to assign it to. Will one write faster and get more students done then the other? Does that matter?
Multi-tasking in a program can be as simple as one thread redrawing the list of items on the screen while another tracks and updates the position of the scroll bar. Right now, all those happen sequentially. Not because the programmer is "too lazy" to break it off asynchronously, but because the languages in use don't make it easy. (That was probably a bad example. Those tasks are minor and probably best handled sequentially today. But it's the idea that matters.)
That's already happening... Have you ever prices MS SQL server on a per processor level?
I think your post has placed my karma understanding in a tailspin. In saying that a bad post about Sony is good karma, you imply that the Slashdot community is anti-Sony, but in doing so you point out a flaw in said community. Now, the community mods you up for pointing out this flaw and you gain karma by indirectly defending Sony's name. You are basically saying something good about Sony and it was good for your karma, right?
Maybe it is time to search the patent database, pull out any Patents tied to Microsoft and list them on the web. Let people vote up or down the patents that could conflict with current standard and try to identify them ourselves instead of waiting...
I was under the impression that MSSQL will treat them the same when it processes. Now, doing a SELECT * will force SQL to reach out for the column names, then retrieve the results, but the difference between COUNT(*) and COUNT(column_name) was pretty much moot. I haven't touched any of our SQL servers much recently, but when I was it was pretty much determined that the difference is either non-existent or damn near close to nothing.
Eh, they still use CF heavily where I work as well. When you get down to the component level, line for line you can't beat CF. I've moved away from Web Development into training software development, but the Web team is doing a ton of fast and neat things with CF. They focus on RAD Web development to meet the demands of an operation not related to web technology and from my experience, it's much quicker to develop a page in ColdFusion than ASP or PHP. For that, I commend CF. However, some of the syntax is a bit wonky, but it hasn't failed to do its task.
It's amazing what money and/or healthy donations can do(?)
But really. Those two quotes seem to contradict each other.
"Microsoft is doing well with DX10 on tightening the specs and the exactness."
Then:
"The new features are not exactly well-thought-out."
Tell me I'm not the only one that noticed that?
The first thing I thought when I read that first quote was the G4s commercials for Collins college... "We just need to tighten up the graphics..."
Why not have Software patents "time out" after a preset time span if nothing was developed by the patent holder using that technology. If the patent holder doesn't take the patent to production in that time span, they forfeit the patent. It's kind of along your lines, but if the patent holder can't prove they used the technology in that time span, then they dissolve all rights to it.