Intel did it long ago with the pentium pro, now its all custom RISC chips with a very small translation layer doing the "emulation" job in realtime. Also thanks to this scheme, you get to enjoy the relative binary compactness of the CISC architecture without having to deal with the horrid native CISC design issues.
As far i know, neither microsoft nor apple did actually stole code. MS-Dos was actually bought (by a stupid low amount, but bought neitherless), and the Xerox copying was made from the ground up based on what they saw, rather than actual code stealing. Unless there's something else i'm not aware of, like the BSD TCP stack thing being actually stolen etc...
They're terrible, but not 1980 IBM terrible. If you think the "think different" fanboys are bad, its because you didn't seen the "Nobody got fired for buying an IBM" ones.
On the other hand, large corporations life off buying smaller innovative companies, and those are being replaced and killed off by the patent trolls. And those patent trolls on other hand aren't as nearly as useful to buy out as they don't actually invent anything.
Indeed there's no such thing as a "do what i mean" function , but generally within the context of the application, its good when you run into a function that is "future proof" enough to not need to heavily hack it or rewrite it whole to do something slightly different.
On other hand, this is a football game where your powerful and athletic team is allowed to murder any rival team that steps into the same field until they're the only team left, and then they use it to just do the hell they want on the field, even if its just 60 minutes of this team relaxing on beach chairs and from time to time flipping the fingers to the audience.
As soon you join a large enough group of humans, this group automatically morphs into an horrible monster that tries to take advantage of everyone else, and the only way to stop it is to pit it against another monster, thus forcing both to make concessions that benefit the mere mortals to thrive.
The capitalism start to fail as soon you get the right to buy yourself a monopoly, and socialism is basically "everything is a monopoly from the get go", so not good idea at all.
Calm down, i'm sure someone is working on a 3D printed, arduino compabitle and IOT enabled solution with brushless motors that can use a software defined radio to talk to a raspberry pi to control an quadcopter.
They have photoshop, which is widely used worldwide by basically everyone involved with any sort of visual media. And also they're walking on the HTML5 visual editors territory.
When posting on facebook, you're unwillingly playing a sinister version of akinator that can use your unrelated data to guess things about you, and probably you simply "gave away tips that your keyboard died" that were picked by the neural network.
First, Freebasic is truly free and runs on several platforms unlike VB that is strictly tied to windows unless you use Wine etc.. Secondly, if you're trying to teach the basics of the basics (variables, if statements etc), an clean environment like the freebasic is much preferable to the visual basic one, as there's no functions, classes and things that are only useful on the vb environment itself like the window editor itself to worry the student and take his time. Of course, if i was going to use it to teach, would be just the basics, getting the student used into how to formulate his own code and having fun doing so and then quickly boot him into something actually decent like python or C.
PC is not the "master race" because it is not a single race, but a variety of different kinds of machines with different kinds of purposes. If you want a PC that can outlast a 3DS or PSVita by a factor of 3 in battery time you can. If you want a really powerful PC that runs all games in 4k, you can. If you want the cheapest box on the block that can run older (and arguably better) games, you can. If you want a serious machine for actually doing serious work, PC is there for that too. And you can run any software you want for it, can write new software for it, can actually write software for several consoles with it.. Its about freedom, not power.
I think they should be clearly distinguished instead of throwing everyone on the same basket. There are those people, like pretty much everyone on the internet that sometimes will get too bored, and will throw some hooks to cause some flame wars etc.. and well, this happens and sometimes its even fun, as it ends killing boredom.
But then there are the stalkers. People that get fixated in making someone's life hell, someone that keeps "chasing the prey", that seeks every place the victim goes and slanders and don't let it go etc.. Those are indeed truly evil and should be clipped somehow.
Most of those actually successful DDos attacks being carried lately are most likely using the so called NTP/DNS amplification attack, where the botnets use the power of the NTP/DNS servers to carry the actual attack by flooding those servers with small requests that return an immense amount of data while faking the ip address of the victim. If you put a limit of how many of those specific requests can be done by an specific IP per second, you stop the whole thing on its tracks, and those people will have to go back into creating absolutely monstrously huge botnets to put any dent on a modern server.
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Intel did it long ago with the pentium pro, now its all custom RISC chips with a very small translation layer doing the "emulation" job in realtime.
Also thanks to this scheme, you get to enjoy the relative binary compactness of the CISC architecture without having to deal with the horrid native CISC design issues.
Most likely just Wily with another silly disguise.
Ads that don't try to install something like alureon on your machine?
So apt-get dist-upgrade (credit card number) ?
As far i know, neither microsoft nor apple did actually stole code.
MS-Dos was actually bought (by a stupid low amount, but bought neitherless), and the Xerox copying was made from the ground up based on what they saw, rather than actual code stealing.
Unless there's something else i'm not aware of, like the BSD TCP stack thing being actually stolen etc...
They're terrible, but not 1980 IBM terrible.
If you think the "think different" fanboys are bad, its because you didn't seen the "Nobody got fired for buying an IBM" ones.
On the other hand, large corporations life off buying smaller innovative companies, and those are being replaced and killed off by the patent trolls.
And those patent trolls on other hand aren't as nearly as useful to buy out as they don't actually invent anything.
But grittier, dark and edgy?
Indeed there's no such thing as a "do what i mean" function , but generally within the context of the application, its good when you run into a function that is "future proof" enough to not need to heavily hack it or rewrite it whole to do something slightly different.
And say "thank you, my past self for making this so easy to understand and versatile!".
On other hand, this is a football game where your powerful and athletic team is allowed to murder any rival team that steps into the same field until they're the only team left, and then they use it to just do the hell they want on the field, even if its just 60 minutes of this team relaxing on beach chairs and from time to time flipping the fingers to the audience.
Well, you need an actual harassment to press the police button in first place.
As soon you join a large enough group of humans, this group automatically morphs into an horrible monster that tries to take advantage of everyone else, and the only way to stop it is to pit it against another monster, thus forcing both to make concessions that benefit the mere mortals to thrive.
The capitalism start to fail as soon you get the right to buy yourself a monopoly, and socialism is basically "everything is a monopoly from the get go", so not good idea at all.
Calm down, i'm sure someone is working on a 3D printed, arduino compabitle and IOT enabled solution with brushless motors that can use a software defined radio to talk to a raspberry pi to control an quadcopter.
Yes, it can run Mad Dog McCree in several different formats.
The best games you can play on PC run at 240p/480p.
You're asking a industry that been pushed into graphics for 20+ years to do something they just can't into anymore.
They have photoshop, which is widely used worldwide by basically everyone involved with any sort of visual media.
And also they're walking on the HTML5 visual editors territory.
When posting on facebook, you're unwillingly playing a sinister version of akinator that can use your unrelated data to guess things about you, and probably you simply "gave away tips that your keyboard died" that were picked by the neural network.
First, Freebasic is truly free and runs on several platforms unlike VB that is strictly tied to windows unless you use Wine etc..
Secondly, if you're trying to teach the basics of the basics (variables, if statements etc), an clean environment like the freebasic is much preferable to the visual basic one, as there's no functions, classes and things that are only useful on the vb environment itself like the window editor itself to worry the student and take his time.
Of course, if i was going to use it to teach, would be just the basics, getting the student used into how to formulate his own code and having fun doing so and then quickly boot him into something actually decent like python or C.
There are several mods and romhacks that allow you to play as a powerful girl on the PC.
PC is not the "master race" because it is not a single race, but a variety of different kinds of machines with different kinds of purposes.
If you want a PC that can outlast a 3DS or PSVita by a factor of 3 in battery time you can.
If you want a really powerful PC that runs all games in 4k, you can.
If you want the cheapest box on the block that can run older (and arguably better) games, you can.
If you want a serious machine for actually doing serious work, PC is there for that too.
And you can run any software you want for it, can write new software for it, can actually write software for several consoles with it..
Its about freedom, not power.
I think they should be clearly distinguished instead of throwing everyone on the same basket.
There are those people, like pretty much everyone on the internet that sometimes will get too bored, and will throw some hooks to cause some flame wars etc.. and well, this happens and sometimes its even fun, as it ends killing boredom.
But then there are the stalkers.
People that get fixated in making someone's life hell, someone that keeps "chasing the prey", that seeks every place the victim goes and slanders and don't let it go etc..
Those are indeed truly evil and should be clipped somehow.
We're on 2015, which means the trend now is to chase down the bronies.
Most of those actually successful DDos attacks being carried lately are most likely using the so called NTP/DNS amplification attack, where the botnets use the power of the NTP/DNS servers to carry the actual attack by flooding those servers with small requests that return an immense amount of data while faking the ip address of the victim.
If you put a limit of how many of those specific requests can be done by an specific IP per second, you stop the whole thing on its tracks, and those people will have to go back into creating absolutely monstrously huge botnets to put any dent on a modern server.