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 | I put Ron Paul in this poll, but only because I disagree the least with what I've heard about him. Some of the candidates I have more issues with, others I haven't heard enough about.  |
| | Floating point numbers are not stored precisely in memory. They are usually stored according to the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754]IEEE 754[/url] standard. If you want exact precision, you need to use a 3rd party library or write your own. For most calculations, however, the small degree of error is acceptable.  |
| | Re: composition I recommend you read the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_composition]Wikipedia article[/url] and see if that clears things up. ;) |
| | You can use the key with any Home Premium disc. You're even allowed to buy another copy and change your key after it's been installed (don't know why they have this feature, but it can be useful if you need a quick install but don't have a new key handy). |
| | [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Ordinance_of_1787]Northwest Ordinance[/url] |
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| | Re: c++ os? Yes, you can build an OS in C or C++. Yes you can add a GUI to it (somehow, I'm assuming your OS has one). No, we aren't sitting around hitting refresh so we can answer every post withing the first couple minutes after it's submitted. Yes, it's possible that … |
| | [quote=indienick;304672]And which programming language?[/quote] That consideration should probably be made after the project is decided upon, and if the task of learning the language ends up being preventitive to finishing the project then you'll need to choose a different project. |
| | [QUOTE=bobbyraw;496204]some newer cd drive with not read all type of cd/dvd. if the cd drive state cdr+- it will read all type but if it state cdr- it will not read the + types. check on the fron of the drive or on the top[/QUOTE] Unless some company went really … |
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 | As with any Microsoft product, you'll find opinions very split on this issue. I like Vista a lot more than XP, and it's because of the little things. For instance, I find Aero quite pleasing in that it smoothes a lot of effects, but doesn't interfere (as some of the … |
| | Re: factorials You add an extra year to the result, plus the number of days in the selected month. January 1800 comes out as 396, or 365+31. |
| | Haven't used Ubuntu in a while, but you install stuff either via synaptic (GUI) or apt-get (CLI). As for .mp3 support, it doesn't have it out of the box (main reason I dumped it the second time was the stuff it doesn't have by default). For nvidia drivers, there might … |
| | If you're using Strings in C#, I think the Format method will be fine. quick example: [code] String s = String.Format("Card serial: {0} {1} {2} ...", ResultSN[0], ResultSN[1], ...);[/code] I don't know that this will do the formatting as you want, but there might be ways to do that as … |
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 | [QUOTE=jasimp;485940]Words can be just as painful as a physically punishment.[/QUOTE] Moreso, IMO, but a good smack can get the point across quite well. Of course, abuse should not be tolerated, but I think a little physical consequence does help to train a child. |
 | I'd venture to say they don't work. Your bandwidth is limited, and unless a download accelerator is making the tubes bigger, you won't get any more flow. Unless they have a special feature of compressing the file before you download it, but that seems overly complicated when good avertisting will … |
 | >...will put the customer first before their financial interests If they can increase profits otherwise, I believe, that as a publicly traded company, they are legally obligated to maximize their profits... or at least make a very convincing show of it.  |
| | I have noticed though, that the last couple years, AAPL has fallen on MacWorld. Strange, but the word does fit when considering stocks and investors.  |
 | With Intel pulling out (or getting kicked out), seems like OLPC is having a hard time... |
| | Does this mean we'll start seeing higher speeds too? 1.5Mbps hardly cuts it these days... |
| | The problem with comparing this apple to the rest in the bin is that there's hardly any competition; but we all love to compare things and see how well or poorly they're doing. So comparing it to the Harry Potter books, which are known to be an entertainment phenomenon, MSFT … |
| | It seems to me like Apple is itching to both take over the market and become unpopular with techy people really fast... |
| | For anybody still interested in making gadgets/widgets after reading this, [url=http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb498012.aspx]here[/url] is a good read by a couple guys from Microsoft about how they're handled. Mostly common sense stuff though, but I remembered it after seeing this... |
| | > In fact the majority of flaws in Windows itself are not known before Microsoft themselves discover them and release a patch. Also, at one point, most exploits were reverse-engineered from the patches, and effected between the time the patch was released and the time users actually got around to … |
| | >I would contend that Microsoft should stop playing the blame game and start concentrating on quicker responses, better testing and more open vulnerability disclosure. So many people say that, but do you think it's really feasible for them? Their responses would be a lot quicker if it was safe to …  |
| | I've not had any issues the last few years either. All I've bought in the last 8 years or so have been Seagates (a couple 60GB from back then are still going strong) and WDs (still going strong as well, even after dropping them hard once). |
 | While I can understand that people might prefer to have the two objects combined for convenience's sake, the i* craze (cult?) is a bit out of hand. Apple could market pocket lint as iDunnowhat and people'd buy it just because it was an Apple product, I swear. |
| | Your last post was so fun, I couldn't wait for this one :P 4. There have been severe security issues with IE 6 and earlier, which came out in 2001 and by 2005 (the date of your cited article) had proven itself to be a huge security risk. And, as … |
| | Wow, I LOLed. 1. Buffer Overflows are still all over the place. Anyone who knows anything about low level code knows that. People who are only used to Java, .NET managed code, or just about any other interpretted language will typically make the same mistake, whether they be Microsoft fanboys … |
| | If the authoritative figure disagrees with a popular majority on the meaning of a phrase, then who is right? ;) (I agree with the Brits too) About the blog post, however: why is Microsoft making deals with all the distros? Why not just do one with the OpenOffice team (and … |
| | I might try it out if I hear enough good things, but so far I've seen more comments about Vista-ish resource usage |
| | I still find that I get a lot of blurry images when I don't take time to stop and wait for the camera to catch up. I think thi s new device would create a true point-and-shoot camera, without the couple seconds of letting the device focus itself. |
| | Small wonder there's so many problems with malware spreading these days...  |
| | >...the only difference is that microsofts OS is not good enough >to be seen as any kind of a threat to the rest of the >computing world. Windows is a good OS, though it has big resource requirements. Almost all of the non-malware related crashes are caused by 3rd party …  |
| | >Oh come on. Install a real operating system everywhere >and the problem will disappear on its own. That's the battle we >should be fighting, not expecting the law to step in. Great idea. Got one handy? And are you sure it'll never be compromised? Not to mention that user applications … |
| | Whew, drives are getting huge for laptops. My little 60GB seems so much smaller than it did a few years ago... I wonder how well the security would work though. If someone were to steal the drive, keeping the encryption keys in hardware (or firmware?) would still allow them to … |
| | I think this is great. I doubt that Redhat will be much affected (as pty mentioned), but I'm interested to see how successful it is. Remember, a lot of consumers will be afraid to make the jump, and IMHO the software on Windows is still a lot better. However, the … |
| | What about subtle viruses that turn an innocent computer into a spam bot in the background? Those could still originate from the US/EU and nearby connected nations (IIRC, eastern bloc countries are also a large source of spam...). Creating a botnet can't be that hard given the number of exploits … |
| | Is flash memory able to take the read/write load of a hard drive? I though that flash mem would fade after a few thousand writes, which seems pretty easy to do on a hard drive, what with temporary files and virtual memory. And at only 32GB, they'd have to target …  |
| | Doing this might get some people to switch, but I doubt it will have much effect. There are already other distros that do this (Debian, anyone?), and most of the *buntu users don't really care about OSS if it means a loss of features. Maybe this is a move to … |
| | Activations will likely still work. Afterall, they did say that 3rd parties can still sell licenses. And since they've already dropped support for SP1 (since October, IIRC), this really isn't much of a surprise. If anything it's good that they're moving past a product with known problems and trying to … |
| | There's also the possibility that they want to space out the releases of the iPhone and Leopard for various business reasons. Two I can think of would be to: a) let consumers build their wallets back up after the iPhone, and b) to be able to have two large product …  |
| | Yet another reason to be dissatisfied with the people who make our laws (though they know nothing about what the laws concern). Sometimes I feel like I should try getting involved in government, sometimes I feel like I should run away and hide before being hit by the overwhelming ignorance … |
| | I don't think a browser is a place for integrating social networking. That's just MHO, but it doesn't fit. The reason I don't use Opera is because they have too many integrated features. Firefox's balance between a simple browser, yet customizability with add-ons is very nice. As to this particular … |
| | > Huh? The Mac Pro was dual-dual Xeon before now. But now it's dual quad. I'm not a mac fan, but I don't think that was an option before ;) That said, any idea how 8 cores performs compared to, say, 2 or 4? All my machines are still single-cores, …  |
| | All the stickers I've seen had 3 levels of compatibility: not compatible, Vista compatible, and Vista Ultimate compatible (or something similar, I forget the exact words). IMHO this case should be thrown out... |
| | about the links: when you post something in [noparse][url=<some url>]<link name>[/url][/noparse] tags, be sure to put the http:// or else it will be a relative path. about the topic: you might look into building a [URL="http://silverlight.net/"]Silverlight[/URL] app. Note: Silverlight 1.0 is unmanaged. I've not used it myself, but it looks … |
| | Re: Pagefile? Yay for thread necromancy :P [QUOTE=~s.o.s~;306819]If you want to know whether you are actually using your hard disk space as virtual memory or no, just look at the total memory usage -- its its greater than your physical RAM then yes you are using your virtual memory otherwise no.[/QUOTE] This … |
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