could give a flying fart about games. If I want to game I'll use my Wii or Xbox 360. It just isn't worth the effort to upgrade hardware all the time to play the latest games.
I guess it is better to buy a whole new console... And wiis are not the price of video cards...
If you ask me, consoles are overrated and are the most expensive way to play games.
On printing, I have no complaints with the linux driver of my HP deskjet, that's an issue to find a well supported printer, it is way too problematic and it is a shame hardware companies don't give a feck about linux. Seriously.
Huh? I have animated cursors for "wait and reading data" it prevents me from thinking the system is just busy when the system has frozen... And animated wait cursors weren't a performance hit back in the windows 95 days and they certainly aren't so today.
I think it was pretty obvious that it would add overhead and therefore drop performance. This study is good for quantifying how much of a performance threat it is. And 43% is not an incredibly bad value in my opinion, it is not even 50%...
So, your last knowledge of php was about version 3.0 ? And then you just skipped it and you still get the right to make these comments?
The alternatives to php are not any more secure than the current version, sorry about that.
"Person X should be raped and murdered"
Should the IPs of those people be released, I guess that they used a proxy, but that doesn't prevent the FBI from finding hackers as far as I know... And they did this multiple times so I just hope these guys get the whole weight of the law. And that this programmer can eventually continue expressing her own opinion cause that's freedom of speech.
What is currently sicking me is the ad in the top of that page "Scoble says blogging will make us richer and improve our sex life..." bew....
I think there are two possibilities with the iphone:
The iphone fails, apple loses money
The iphone succeeds, the ipod loses market
Cost is one thing but it tends to drop down... Now I for one would love to mention that mp3 player + cell phone tend to take too much physical space, If it was possible to have the 2 in one gadget I would choose it before chosing separate stuff...
It sounds as if they are trying "be the model citizen". Check it, SoapBox is not exactly a success, it is definitely not a popular site, and you can say for sure that the success of this site doesn't really matter at all for MS.
On the other hand, if they can exploit this failure and give an argument to viacom in such an strong law suit against google......"google is not showing the same concern of their competitors in fighting piracy infringement blah blah blah"
If you take a look to Jonh Titor's sayings you can easily tell it is a vintage programmer in disguise. The apocalyptic situation he describes is a world full of vb programmers that need to travel back in time so they can borrow an old computer that is able to do some binary executable code translation...
Repeat with me: "Performance is always critical."
Now repeat this: "Optimization for practical programming is always about complexity."
In other words, you can always write faster code in low level languages, but not every programmer actually can do that. Low level languages are only faster if used correctly, if you seriously have no idea or tend to hang yourself after some optimizations (which is the case for like 95%) stay with the languages that have compilers that do the optimization for you.
But this does not mean assembler is irrelevant now, quite the opposite, with time asm programmers will get more and more scarce, however new platforms will keep getting created. People able to make JIT compilers for these platforms would always be necessary, thus the whole low level stuff is still necessary...
On the other hand, it should never get out of the college collection of subjects. Knowing "how things work" is always necessary, you really shouldn't call yourself a Software Engineer if you didn't know how it works. And I would dare to say that learning assembler will make you better when dealing with the high level languages or at least make you appreciate how much the compilers do for you.
Which btw, every computer science student should be able to make a compiler... Automata and grammar theory is already taught (at least I have been taught that...) you should really be able to make a compiler even if you maybe won't ever need it. Or to the least, understand how emulation in general works.
The law would have criminalized Web sites that allow children to access material deemed "harmful to minors" by "contemporary community standards." The sites would have been expected to require a credit card number or other proof of age. Penalties included a $50,000 fine and up to six months in prison
Notice how horribly ambiguous "harmful to minors" by "contemporary community standards." is, I cannot believe such a law was approved, seriously.
It is not a wonder sexual education sites were against this law.
The law would have criminalized Web sites that allow children to access material deemed "harmful to minors" by "contemporary community standards." The sites would have been expected to require a credit card number or other proof of age. Penalties included a $50,000 fine and up to six months in prison.
This is less about child porn and more about parents that want the government to babysit their children for free.
The judge said that parents can protect their children through software filters and other less restrictive means that do not limit others' rights to free speech
Is this from an US judge? I was starting to doubt that they could be able to get such a basic rule. "Concerned parents" should stay away of me and my own children, they should only take care of theirs.
Hey it finally got modded down a bit, seriously it was +4 insightful I had an urge to do something. I had the karma to spare so I've shown them how lame of a +4 insightful it was.
Yeah seriously, I hate to rush since my car might eventually flip , show fire in the front and then explode... I am very, very cautious when driving...
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I kind of not agree, I think this is the colleges' fault for jumping into vista without actually testing their main applications.
If you ask me, consoles are overrated and are the most expensive way to play games.
On printing, I have no complaints with the linux driver of my HP deskjet, that's an issue to find a well supported printer, it is way too problematic and it is a shame hardware companies don't give a feck about linux. Seriously.
Huh? I have animated cursors for "wait and reading data" it prevents me from thinking the system is just busy when the system has frozen... And animated wait cursors weren't a performance hit back in the windows 95 days and they certainly aren't so today.
I think it was pretty obvious that it would add overhead and therefore drop performance. This study is good for quantifying how much of a performance threat it is. And 43% is not an incredibly bad value in my opinion, it is not even 50% ...
What the heck?
So, your last knowledge of php was about version 3.0 ? And then you just skipped it and you still get the right to make these comments?
The alternatives to php are not any more secure than the current version, sorry about that.
"Person X should be raped and murdered" Should the IPs of those people be released, I guess that they used a proxy, but that doesn't prevent the FBI from finding hackers as far as I know... And they did this multiple times so I just hope these guys get the whole weight of the law. And that this programmer can eventually continue expressing her own opinion cause that's freedom of speech.
What is currently sicking me is the ad in the top of that page "Scoble says blogging will make us richer and improve our sex life..." bew....
hmmm. I think you meant Scientists Create Humans that are only 85% percent sheep
So Microsoft is selling a lot of vista licenses.
But how many people are actually buying the vista licenses? I would say most of those licenses came with a computer?
- The iphone fails, apple loses money
- The iphone succeeds, the ipod loses market
Cost is one thing but it tends to drop down... Now I for one would love to mention that mp3 player + cell phone tend to take too much physical space, If it was possible to have the 2 in one gadget I would choose it before chosing separate stuff...Over inflated law suit amounts... 1 billion dollars! how in earth are they gonna prove that youtube made them lose at least 5% of that ?
It sounds as if they are trying "be the model citizen". Check it, SoapBox is not exactly a success, it is definitely not a popular site, and you can say for sure that the success of this site doesn't really matter at all for MS.
On the other hand, if they can exploit this failure and give an argument to viacom in such an strong law suit against google... ..."google is not showing the same concern of their competitors in fighting piracy infringement blah blah blah"
If you take a look to Jonh Titor's sayings you can easily tell it is a vintage programmer in disguise. The apocalyptic situation he describes is a world full of vb programmers that need to travel back in time so they can borrow an old computer that is able to do some binary executable code translation...
Now repeat this: "Optimization for practical programming is always about complexity."
In other words, you can always write faster code in low level languages, but not every programmer actually can do that. Low level languages are only faster if used correctly, if you seriously have no idea or tend to hang yourself after some optimizations (which is the case for like 95%) stay with the languages that have compilers that do the optimization for you.
But this does not mean assembler is irrelevant now, quite the opposite, with time asm programmers will get more and more scarce, however new platforms will keep getting created. People able to make JIT compilers for these platforms would always be necessary, thus the whole low level stuff is still necessary...
On the other hand, it should never get out of the college collection of subjects. Knowing "how things work" is always necessary, you really shouldn't call yourself a Software Engineer if you didn't know how it works. And I would dare to say that learning assembler will make you better when dealing with the high level languages or at least make you appreciate how much the compilers do for you.
Which btw, every computer science student should be able to make a compiler... Automata and grammar theory is already taught (at least I have been taught that...) you should really be able to make a compiler even if you maybe won't ever need it. Or to the least, understand how emulation in general works.
Breaking news: Windows vulnerability allowed a hacker to leak out the stub of Symantec's prepared joke for April 1st.
It is not a wonder sexual education sites were against this law.
Hey it finally got modded down a bit, seriously it was +4 insightful I had an urge to do something. I had the karma to spare so I've shown them how lame of a +4 insightful it was.
* Expects to get +5 Insightful for this lame post *
But then if the data-server won't even boot, you don't need the room to be oxygen free...
I would worry since C# is getting already more than 1/3 of Java's market.
Yeah seriously, I hate to rush since my car might eventually flip , show fire in the front and then explode... I am very, very cautious when driving...