I would say that UML is useful just to make sure everybody's using roughly the same notation on their napkin diagrams.
Oh, and there's already a bunch of software out there that makes it easier for you to draw UML when you store your docs on a Wiki or something, rather than a large napkin server...
The bizarre thing is that the age of consent in the UK is 16, wheras for child porn laws a child is defined as being 'under 18'. Therefore it is quite possible to have a picture (or soon, it seems, a drawing) that is illegal of an act that is totally legal.
If a 17 year-old photographs him or herself having sex, does that make them a sex offender?
But it was a 'decently advanced OS' for consumer-level hardware. Sure, there was more advanced stuff out there but it was all on vastly more expensive machines.
Of the two operating sytems that ran on consumer hardware, Mac OS although having a slightly better UI was still hampered by cooperative multitasking and being limited to the Apple hardware, and OS2/Warp just wasn't that much better than Windows 95.
Your points about MFC are well made but have little to do with modern Windows development.
Unless you're maintaining legacy code, you'd use the.net framework, which is excellent. There's really no need for Microsoft to get in something like QT from an external source - the.net stuff they've already written does a very good job.
Even on something like a PSP, most of the code will be in C++ or C. A few odd bits might be optimised in assembler, but the majority of the game team will not write any assembler. It's still useful to be able to read assembler, though.
I don't think the ASM for the Cell is that tricky - but most of the time you'd still use C or C++ - just so much more maintainable and straightforward to write.
For current-gen consoles, there's not a great need to write very much assembler (even SPU code on the PS3 is commonly done in C or C++), but being able to read and understand assembler is still a very useful skill.
Er... Russia still has over 5,800 active nuclear warheads (As compared to a little over 5,100 belongin to the USA). Their conventional army isn't as powerful as the United States' but they're still quite capable of Mutually Assured Destruction.
You want worse than that? Take a step back... If 25 million records were lost and the entire population of the UK is 60 million, that means darn near half the population is "on the dole."
It's Child Benefit, not 'the dole'. Child Benefit is paid to the primary carer of all children in the UK, and is not means tested. According to the article, 7.5 million families are affected, which from the figure of 25 million people, results in an average of 3.3333 people's details per family.
Guy Hands is the founder and CEO of the private equity firm Terra Firma Capital Partners that bought EMI, not the head of EMI.
I'm sure as the owner of the owner of the company he holds a fair amount of sway, but he's not in charge of running the company. The directors of EMI Music Publishing UK can be found at the bottom of this page:
I have a Toyota Corolla Verso, a seven-seater compact MPV which quite happily fits me, my wife and our four children. I don't know which children's seat you've got installed in your car, but we've got a Jané Indy Plus for our youngest, and it can hardly be considered small. It takes up one seat.
The only thing I can imagine is that you've got some kind of enormous cages for you cats. Seriously. My car can fit five adults and two children, and it's not much bigger than a hatchback. I find it incomprehensible that you can possibly require a SUV for your small family. It sounds to me as if you'd be much better served with an MPV or a compact MPV, or maybe an estate car. They all have loads of space, and your small child will find it much easier to climb in and out of.
Oh, you're right - I'm sure that the software that comes with the iPhone will be lovely, but if the software you want isn't on there, you're a bit screwed because as I understand it, the iPhone platform isn't open for others to write software on.
To be honest, you might as well say all Windows Mobile based phones are iPhone rivals. I would prefer to say it's just a competitor in the smartphone space, as iPhone will be when it arrives.
I own an earlier HTC WM5 smartphone model, and I'm guessing that despite having a new swish frontend, it'll still be not quite as nice to use as the iPhone will be. However, the big draw is that being Windows Mobile based, you'll be able to run any software you want on it without having to go through Apple, unlike the iPhone.
The iPhone is dangerous and disruptive in this respect. If consumers can grow a pair and tell the cellphone companies they'd rather have an unencumbered, standards-based service than a proprietary, locked in, shaft-the-consumer service, then we will see real positive change in the cellphone industry.
Er... newsflash! That is in no way new. You can already buy standalone GSM phones and then get a SIM-only plan or a pay-as-you-go SIM.
As I understand it the iPhone will only work on Cingluar... doesn't sound particularly unencumbered to me.
But it's not quite that simple; Nintendo has an advantage over the third-party developers in that they also designed the hardware. For the first games of their big brands that can be very useful as they get much longer to play with the hardware. For instance, Mario 64 actually drove many of the design decisions behind the N64. That's not to diminish the ability of Nintendo's dev teams; they are excellent and have been much more successful than the other first-party dev teams.
You're making no sense. Sure, a company's web presence rests on their domain name, but the cost doesn't scale with the size of the business. It's such a drop in the ocean. You should be much more worried about the cost of paper clips, as it's likely to have a much higher impact on a company's bottom line.
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why risk your email account like that? Laziness?
Why risk our email accounts like what?
You mean having google administer them? It's a risk I'm prepared to take for the convenience of not having to administer my own server.
I guess you could call it laziness but I prefer to call it 'making better use of my time'.
I would say that UML is useful just to make sure everybody's using roughly the same notation on their napkin diagrams.
Oh, and there's already a bunch of software out there that makes it easier for you to draw UML when you store your docs on a Wiki or something, rather than a large napkin server...
The bizarre thing is that the age of consent in the UK is 16, wheras for child porn laws a child is defined as being 'under 18'. Therefore it is quite possible to have a picture (or soon, it seems, a drawing) that is illegal of an act that is totally legal.
If a 17 year-old photographs him or herself having sex, does that make them a sex offender?
But it was a 'decently advanced OS' for consumer-level hardware. Sure, there was more advanced stuff out there but it was all on vastly more expensive machines.
Of the two operating sytems that ran on consumer hardware, Mac OS although having a slightly better UI was still hampered by cooperative multitasking and being limited to the Apple hardware, and OS2/Warp just wasn't that much better than Windows 95.
My programs were readable for me with goto. If yours were not, that's your own fault.
There. Fixed that for you.
and it still takes me 1/2 hour to go about 2 miles across town
Why not just take a bike? That's a 10 minute ride.
... but if you can't fix it, unbootable and bricked are pretty much the same thing.
Your points about MFC are well made but have little to do with modern Windows development.
.net framework, which is excellent. There's really no need for Microsoft to get in something like QT from an external source - the .net stuff they've already written does a very good job.
Unless you're maintaining legacy code, you'd use the
Even on something like a PSP, most of the code will be in C++ or C. A few odd bits might be optimised in assembler, but the majority of the game team will not write any assembler. It's still useful to be able to read assembler, though.
I don't think the ASM for the Cell is that tricky - but most of the time you'd still use C or C++ - just so much more maintainable and straightforward to write.
For current-gen consoles, there's not a great need to write very much assembler (even SPU code on the PS3 is commonly done in C or C++), but being able to read and understand assembler is still a very useful skill.
Er... Russia still has over 5,800 active nuclear warheads (As compared to a little over 5,100 belongin to the USA). Their conventional army isn't as powerful as the United States' but they're still quite capable of Mutually Assured Destruction.
I'm sat in London's West end, but it seems to think that I'm actually in East Finchley. Still needs a little work, I think.
You want worse than that? Take a step back... If 25 million records were lost and the entire population of the UK is 60 million, that means darn near half the population is "on the dole."
It's Child Benefit, not 'the dole'. Child Benefit is paid to the primary carer of all children in the UK, and is not means tested. According to the article, 7.5 million families are affected, which from the figure of 25 million people, results in an average of 3.3333 people's details per family.
Of course, none of this would be a problem if we could actually attach fonts to web-pages.
Guy Hands is the founder and CEO of the private equity firm Terra Firma Capital Partners that bought EMI, not the head of EMI.
I'm sure as the owner of the owner of the company he holds a fair amount of sway, but he's not in charge of running the company. The directors of EMI Music Publishing UK can be found at the bottom of this page:
http://www.emimusicpub.com/worldwide/around_the_world/united-kingdom_home.html
I have a Toyota Corolla Verso, a seven-seater compact MPV which quite happily fits me, my wife and our four children. I don't know which children's seat you've got installed in your car, but we've got a Jané Indy Plus for our youngest, and it can hardly be considered small. It takes up one seat.
The only thing I can imagine is that you've got some kind of enormous cages for you cats. Seriously. My car can fit five adults and two children, and it's not much bigger than a hatchback. I find it incomprehensible that you can possibly require a SUV for your small family. It sounds to me as if you'd be much better served with an MPV or a compact MPV, or maybe an estate car. They all have loads of space, and your small child will find it much easier to climb in and out of.
Oh, you're right - I'm sure that the software that comes with the iPhone will be lovely, but if the software you want isn't on there, you're a bit screwed because as I understand it, the iPhone platform isn't open for others to write software on.
http://www.htctouch.com/
To be honest, you might as well say all Windows Mobile based phones are iPhone rivals. I would prefer to say it's just a competitor in the smartphone space, as iPhone will be when it arrives.
I own an earlier HTC WM5 smartphone model, and I'm guessing that despite having a new swish frontend, it'll still be not quite as nice to use as the iPhone will be. However, the big draw is that being Windows Mobile based, you'll be able to run any software you want on it without having to go through Apple, unlike the iPhone.
Reminds me a bit of the 'Alice' project from CMU - they seem to have a similar visual programming metaphor:
http://alice.org/
The iPhone is dangerous and disruptive in this respect. If consumers can grow a pair and tell the cellphone companies they'd rather have an unencumbered, standards-based service than a proprietary, locked in, shaft-the-consumer service, then we will see real positive change in the cellphone industry.
Er... newsflash! That is in no way new. You can already buy standalone GSM phones and then get a SIM-only plan or a pay-as-you-go SIM.
As I understand it the iPhone will only work on Cingluar... doesn't sound particularly unencumbered to me.
But it's not quite that simple; Nintendo has an advantage over the third-party developers in that they also designed the hardware. For the first games of their big brands that can be very useful as they get much longer to play with the hardware. For instance, Mario 64 actually drove many of the design decisions behind the N64. That's not to diminish the ability of Nintendo's dev teams; they are excellent and have been much more successful than the other first-party dev teams.
Quick nit-pick: you forgot Digital Cable in your list of Digital TV providers in the UK...
No, I'm not joking. ZX BASIC was miles ahead of Commodore BASIC.
;-)
But of course the BBC's BASIC shat on them both from a great height...
Shame if you wanted all eight colours you only had a horizontal resolution of 160 pixels, though
What an idiotic statement.
You're making no sense. Sure, a company's web presence rests on their domain name, but the cost doesn't scale with the size of the business. It's such a drop in the ocean. You should be much more worried about the cost of paper clips, as it's likely to have a much higher impact on a company's bottom line.