Well it was also kind of important for being able to process data that you didn't know the size of until you actually hit the end, especially if you couldn't hold the whole contents in memory at one time, and you needed to be able to do something with it. Think streams where you can't just go back and write the size of the string at the beginning after you've already copied the string. NULL terminated strings are also smaller since it always only uses a single byte, even if the string is (or could be) longer than 255 characters. The size aspect typically isn't all that important today, but it still can be quite useful in memory constrained systems even today.
Not exactly the same. Windows 3.x line died back with Windows ME. Windows XP and beyond are all using a different kernel with a different architecture based on the Windows NT line, but share much of the same public APIs (Win32). You don't "install components to make it more secure", and that hasn't been true for nearly 20 years (20 if you used the Windows NT line). At least no more true than it is for linux, or any other OS. Of course there are packages that attempt to identify and mitigate issues, but so does every other OS, including linux.
I've used one for a while, and I found it very good. I don't understand why you think metro sucks that bad. It's an OS, and you SHOULD only be seeing metro for a few minutes per day. The rest of the time you should be in your applications actually doing things, and neither android nor ipads run any of the applications I need.
LESS can calculate 1 + 1 just fine, as can css. Just not output the way you probably want, perhaps. For example: "margin: calc( 1px + 1px);" works just fine.
You mean like a router with a UI for configuring it? Plenty of system developers need a UI as well -- configuring, monitoring, reporting. I suppose you could code in some system specific front end tools, but why would you?
No, but then you are limited to writing experimental micro-controllers, or desktop applications. Not knowing CSS does pretty much limit you from being able to write any web application, and most phone apps.
The customer paid for a 75Mbps link between him and the first hop. He got that. He didn't pay for a 75Mbps link between him and every possible host on the internet. That's silly.
No. Perhaps we should mostly focus on bigger things, and if they happen to see someone breaking the law, then they can handle it? We shouldn't have officers dedicated to looking out for trivialities, or at least not many.
No. Every person should be prosecuted for every single trivial offense until such time that we realize that many of those trivial offenses should not be offenses at all. By just prosecuting a "random" sample is to burden a select few with a punishment that most get away with. That isn't a fair or just system.
If you want to buy 20 machines today with a Windows OS, the only choice is Windows 8. Even though almost a billion PCs run XP, it is not possible to get a new machine with a legal licensed copy of XP without jumping through numerous hoops and shelling out loads of cash.
Odd, because the very first link I went to on Dell's website for business showed machines with Windows 7. I didn't even have to search.
Microsoft wants us to trust their word that it is not feasible to offer or support XP on new machines. This is not believable. Opening up the source code is the only way to prove or disprove Microsoft's version of the facts.
I haven't heard them say that. It just increases their cost in support for an OS that they get no revenue on, and backporting fixes to it takes considerable resources. Support has been extended multiple times, and even now you can still get support, but you have to buy a support contract from them for it, and yes, it is getting more expensive every year. Feel free to stay on it as long as you want.
Whether you agree or not is not important. Hundreds of legacy code developed for Windows platform using Windows development tools run only on XP and are not supported by 7 or 8. Customers are left with no choice but to rewrite code at great expense, often impossible since the vendors are no longer in business. In my view this represents a lock-in, whereby customers are forced to shell out large sums of money to obtain support for XP legally on new systems by investing in Enterprise Volume License Agreements and associated costs.
So you chose your vendors poorly, who didn't stand behind their poorly written products. I can write code on open source platforms that will likely break in future versions too. I can also pick bad vendors on open source platforms that may go under next week or next year as well. Your argument is irrelevant to your conclusion.
You are talking about insurance benefits. Benefits are earned and used by an employee, much like money is. It would be akin to saying that if an employee decides to buy with their earned money that the company doesn't agree with, that they should be able to deduct the cost of it from that employees paycheck because they don't want to give the employee the money to pay for it. Essentially giving the right to the company to dictate what the money an employee earns can and can not be used for.
To be fair, both were and still are cross platform compatible..NET (BCL) and C# can be run on any platform and contain nothing that is tied to windows. They didn't actually write anything that ran on other platforms, but that was because there was a (mostly) lack of interest on those platforms to do so. However, Mono does run on many platforms and runs.NET code just fine, as did moonlight which was available for the mac ran silverlight stuff. Everything that anyone would need to actually implement.NET on another platform is freely available, and C# was submitted as a standards document.
Now they also do distribute some higher level classes that are tied to the windows platform, but those are the exact things you would expect would be tied. Mostly UI stuff that has no counterpart on other platforms (Forms, etc). Just don't use any classes that contain "Windows" as part of it's name and you should be good to run any of your code on any implementation outside of Microsoft's version for Windows.
High end video cards have always been $600-$1000 ever since the 386 days. Unless you quit your gaming bug before then, you never had a current gen high end video card.
It is still an image/video in three dimensions. Yes, it could be better. But that would require higher resolutions, and better channel separation. True holographic movies would be horrendously expensive to produce and difficult to watch. It's the directors job to tell a story, and direct the viewers attention. True holograms would make that near impossible, and likely detract from the movie more than it would ever add.
As someone who could both use public transportation, or drive (I live in the suburbs, work in the city) -- and have done both, I would be crazy to drive. The train is often faster than I could drive (but not always, depending on the day), but the train doesn't get delayed nearly as often, and doesn't get in nearly as many accidents. Now, I've never been in an accident that was remotely my fault, and even then, I've only been in two while I was driving, the sheer number of close calls from idiots not paying attention is insane. Factor in gas costs and increased maintenance, and the train is by far the cheaper of the two.
On those alone -- safer, faster, more reliable I would take the train. However, I also gain 1.5-2.5 hours of my day back on top of those already compelling reasons.
And by those rules, slashdot must comply as well (assuming they have some relationship with something in the EU), as most of their articles are not much more than links back to other sites.
And there is the problem. You believe that free speech should mean that you can say whatever you want without consequences, and that isn't a right. Never has been, and never should be. You are free to say pretty much what you want, but you must face the consequences for saying it. You should also note that free speech is about what the government can prohibit, while there is no such protection from what private or non-government entities can limit.
Please read your constitution and bills of rights.
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Well it was also kind of important for being able to process data that you didn't know the size of until you actually hit the end, especially if you couldn't hold the whole contents in memory at one time, and you needed to be able to do something with it. Think streams where you can't just go back and write the size of the string at the beginning after you've already copied the string. NULL terminated strings are also smaller since it always only uses a single byte, even if the string is (or could be) longer than 255 characters. The size aspect typically isn't all that important today, but it still can be quite useful in memory constrained systems even today.
OR maybe it had it because DOS and CMD had a similar operand (EQU)
Not exactly the same. Windows 3.x line died back with Windows ME. Windows XP and beyond are all using a different kernel with a different architecture based on the Windows NT line, but share much of the same public APIs (Win32). You don't "install components to make it more secure", and that hasn't been true for nearly 20 years (20 if you used the Windows NT line). At least no more true than it is for linux, or any other OS. Of course there are packages that attempt to identify and mitigate issues, but so does every other OS, including linux.
I've used one for a while, and I found it very good. I don't understand why you think metro sucks that bad. It's an OS, and you SHOULD only be seeing metro for a few minutes per day. The rest of the time you should be in your applications actually doing things, and neither android nor ipads run any of the applications I need.
So if you can do a calculation in HTML and CSS, then it is a programming language?
Ok, here: http://experiments.hertzen.com...
Ooops.
LESS can calculate 1 + 1 just fine, as can css. Just not output the way you probably want, perhaps. For example: "margin: calc( 1px + 1px);" works just fine.
You mean like a router with a UI for configuring it? Plenty of system developers need a UI as well -- configuring, monitoring, reporting. I suppose you could code in some system specific front end tools, but why would you?
No, but then you are limited to writing experimental micro-controllers, or desktop applications. Not knowing CSS does pretty much limit you from being able to write any web application, and most phone apps.
The customer paid for a 75Mbps link between him and the first hop. He got that. He didn't pay for a 75Mbps link between him and every possible host on the internet. That's silly.
I prefer to measure it as 6 milliUSCoalBurningEmissionsYears.
Still not a SI unit, but better.
No. Perhaps we should mostly focus on bigger things, and if they happen to see someone breaking the law, then they can handle it? We shouldn't have officers dedicated to looking out for trivialities, or at least not many.
No. Every person should be prosecuted for every single trivial offense until such time that we realize that many of those trivial offenses should not be offenses at all. By just prosecuting a "random" sample is to burden a select few with a punishment that most get away with. That isn't a fair or just system.
Have you been to any of the expressway oasises? I haven't been to them all, but the northbound one on 294 has a charging station.
If you want to buy 20 machines today with a Windows OS, the only choice is Windows 8. Even though almost a billion PCs run XP, it is not possible to get a new machine with a legal licensed copy of XP without jumping through numerous hoops and shelling out loads of cash.
Odd, because the very first link I went to on Dell's website for business showed machines with Windows 7. I didn't even have to search.
Microsoft wants us to trust their word that it is not feasible to offer or support XP on new machines. This is not believable. Opening up the source code is the only way to prove or disprove Microsoft's version of the facts.
I haven't heard them say that. It just increases their cost in support for an OS that they get no revenue on, and backporting fixes to it takes considerable resources. Support has been extended multiple times, and even now you can still get support, but you have to buy a support contract from them for it, and yes, it is getting more expensive every year. Feel free to stay on it as long as you want.
Whether you agree or not is not important. Hundreds of legacy code developed for Windows platform using Windows development tools run only on XP and are not supported by 7 or 8. Customers are left with no choice but to rewrite code at great expense, often impossible since the vendors are no longer in business. In my view this represents a lock-in, whereby customers are forced to shell out large sums of money to obtain support for XP legally on new systems by investing in Enterprise Volume License Agreements and associated costs.
So you chose your vendors poorly, who didn't stand behind their poorly written products. I can write code on open source platforms that will likely break in future versions too. I can also pick bad vendors on open source platforms that may go under next week or next year as well. Your argument is irrelevant to your conclusion.
You are talking about insurance benefits. Benefits are earned and used by an employee, much like money is. It would be akin to saying that if an employee decides to buy with their earned money that the company doesn't agree with, that they should be able to deduct the cost of it from that employees paycheck because they don't want to give the employee the money to pay for it. Essentially giving the right to the company to dictate what the money an employee earns can and can not be used for.
To be fair, both were and still are cross platform compatible. .NET (BCL) and C# can be run on any platform and contain nothing that is tied to windows. They didn't actually write anything that ran on other platforms, but that was because there was a (mostly) lack of interest on those platforms to do so. However, Mono does run on many platforms and runs .NET code just fine, as did moonlight which was available for the mac ran silverlight stuff. Everything that anyone would need to actually implement .NET on another platform is freely available, and C# was submitted as a standards document.
Now they also do distribute some higher level classes that are tied to the windows platform, but those are the exact things you would expect would be tied. Mostly UI stuff that has no counterpart on other platforms (Forms, etc). Just don't use any classes that contain "Windows" as part of it's name and you should be good to run any of your code on any implementation outside of Microsoft's version for Windows.
Of course, you do realize all major motion pictures are shot at 24fps with the exception of a handful.
My first new video card was a nvidia RIVA TNT. Was made by diamond, and I bought it with my 486/25. It was $600.
High end video cards have always been $600-$1000 ever since the 386 days. Unless you quit your gaming bug before then, you never had a current gen high end video card.
It is still an image/video in three dimensions. Yes, it could be better. But that would require higher resolutions, and better channel separation. True holographic movies would be horrendously expensive to produce and difficult to watch. It's the directors job to tell a story, and direct the viewers attention. True holograms would make that near impossible, and likely detract from the movie more than it would ever add.
As someone who could both use public transportation, or drive (I live in the suburbs, work in the city) -- and have done both, I would be crazy to drive. The train is often faster than I could drive (but not always, depending on the day), but the train doesn't get delayed nearly as often, and doesn't get in nearly as many accidents. Now, I've never been in an accident that was remotely my fault, and even then, I've only been in two while I was driving, the sheer number of close calls from idiots not paying attention is insane. Factor in gas costs and increased maintenance, and the train is by far the cheaper of the two.
On those alone -- safer, faster, more reliable I would take the train. However, I also gain 1.5-2.5 hours of my day back on top of those already compelling reasons.
More Doctor fail. The squid brain dalek is only one revision of them.
And by those rules, slashdot must comply as well (assuming they have some relationship with something in the EU), as most of their articles are not much more than links back to other sites.
And there is the problem. You believe that free speech should mean that you can say whatever you want without consequences, and that isn't a right. Never has been, and never should be. You are free to say pretty much what you want, but you must face the consequences for saying it. You should also note that free speech is about what the government can prohibit, while there is no such protection from what private or non-government entities can limit.
Please read your constitution and bills of rights.
That is the freedom of the firefox developers to choose. One choice limits the freedom of the end-user to decide if they want to or not.
Personally, I would have liked a raid array controller that I could hook up my 12-drive raid-6 array and being able to attach it to a laptop.
Or attaching my OCZ Revo for a superfast scratch disk.
Or a 10Gbe connection (or faster) so I can access my local NAS box.
But I understand these aren't mainstream use cases, so what I could use to for isn't popular enough to keep such an option viable by itself.