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Anonymous Coward 12/08/2005 10:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Man, IUnknown is what any programmer would call the base class of an object orientated system. IUnknown is the given name because when a COM (Microsoft invented COM - Component Object Model) object is referenced through it´s IUnknown pointer the type is ´unknown´. One can Query the type by calling the QueryInterface method .. for example IUnknown *ptr = some_com_object; some_com_object->QueryInterface(IID_Direct3DTexture); This will tell the programmer if he´s dealing with a d3d texture or not. If someone can think of a more appropriate type name then let us know but I think IUnknown is pretty self descriptive. |
Anonymer Held 12/08/2005 10:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I should add that the idea of these "black spaces" or hidden spaces is extremely interesting to me. I should explain for those who don´t know me (lucky you!), that I have dreams from time-to-time where people (usually a single individual) explains something to me. There was a dream that involved these "black spaces." The dream began with me in a classroom. Of course, I was the only one there. A woman (occult symbolism = negative or black) was standing in front of a ... anyone want to guess? Anyone? Anyone? Buehler? ... a BLACKBOARD. Again, "black." She was giving a lesson in how the memory worked. Now she went onto say that when you remember something, and here it switched from her "SAYING" this to me and from me "SEEING" what she was saying - like seeing a movie. I saw the image of how we remember as a hand at a piano keyboard pressing down on the black keys ... like playing a chord. I believe five black keys were being held down at once. As you can see, these dreams only leave me with more questions than they answer. Have no idea what the hell that means, but I sure do remember the dream ... and the lady. |
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Anonymous Coward 12/08/2005 10:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "Very cool. Wish I understood it more." If you´re really interested then this snippet of code is written in C++. There must be millions of c++ programming pages and many extensive books. Programming is pretty interesting as it´s an abstraction of electronics and is simply logic executing on a CPU. The most common and usually first written programme by anybody is called "Hello World". In c++ this would look a bit like ... ////////////////////////// #include int main(int argc, char **argv) { cout << "Hello World << endl; } ////////////////////////// Microsoft have recently released their latest .net framework and compilers for free should you wish to play around. I think they´re on their site for download under the name "Microsoft Visual Studio .net 7 development tools". |
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Anonymer Held 12/08/2005 10:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Huh! RE: "Are you saying Adam Weishaupt?" "I´m" not saying anything. That´s why the article is in quotes. I am just quoting what was written on the web link provided. Everything outside the quotes is what I wrote. Everything in the quotes is what is on the website and has a different author. In terms of the name of the magician in the book, I have absolutely no idea. Anyone? |
Anonymous Coward 12/08/2005 10:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Someone is old enough to remeber the strange "trick" hidden in microsoft windows 95 first release? Been 10 year so i dont remember well the right keys, but i have done it when i read about it on a review, and worked, when you clicked a combinason of 3 key a little window pop-up showed the programmers name and some weird objects like skulls, and other strange names. For a short period it was on every forum, but then is got in the silence without knowing why microsoft would put such strange thing inside his OS. |
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Anonymer Held 12/08/2005 10:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | RE: "Someone is old enough to remeber the strange "trick" hidden in microsoft windows 95 first release?...when you clicked a combinason of 3 key a little window pop-up showed the programmers name and some weird objects like skulls, and other strange names. ..." Is this true? I´ll try to do a search and see if I can find out more. All I know about computers is how to turn them on. That´s it! |
ArizonaOne 12/08/2005 10:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "RE: "Someone is old enough to remeber the strange "trick" hidden in microsoft windows 95 first release?...when you clicked a combinason of 3 key a little window pop-up showed the programmers name and some weird objects like skulls, and other strange names. ..." Is this true? I´ll try to do a search and see if I can find out more." Yes, it´s true. I remember that. There were several strange things people turned up. I think some of them were referred to as Easter eggs. It was fun finding them, but very puzzling as to why they were put in there. OH I remember one was pong game. |
Anonymous Coward 12/08/2005 10:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | There used to be an easter egg on the early versions of internet explorer as well. In the help --> about box you could do something with the mouse and it would slide a hidden panel open revealing the names of the programmers. You get them in games as well, most programmers would admit that the temptation to build back doors into their software is highly tempting and so easy to do .. nobody would ever notice. |
ArizonaOne 12/08/2005 10:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Here´s a site with info on Easter eggs: [link to www.aarp.org] |
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Anonymer Held 12/08/2005 10:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The RA-C - RE: "Micro was used to mean small, and soft was used to refer to software, it was their mission to write software programs as small and efficient as possible with as little code as possible." Really? I thought Apple used more elegant language? Also they didn´t write anything. They bought, copied or stole everything they needed. I don´t think Bill Gates did this alone. I don´t believe any of it. |
Anonymous Coward 12/08/2005 10:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | if you´re interested in *real* programming, though, shun both c++ and microsoft operating systems like the plague. java´s where it´s at, baby, and on a unix/linux-type environment! don´t be a fascist geek like the other d00d on this thread.... |
Anonymous Coward 12/08/2005 10:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | C++ is platform independent. This guy obviously knows everything and can explain why linux is written in C++. It comes in c++ source code and is compiled by the GNU cross compiler. Java is a SUN technology and is free yet really decent java servers such as IBM websphere cost more than your two arms put together. Stick with C++, it was first and it will be last. |
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Anonymous Coward 12/08/2005 10:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I would assume anything running on a main frame has some serious power as it´s the machine and not the language that are important. If you want to get real performance you could right everything in assembly language but then you´d be doing a lot of overtime [more]. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 130473 United States 08/13/2006 10:08 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | as a computer programmer, my conclusion about Windows is that it has been designed *intentionally* to be difficult to use, difficult to program applications for, filled with bugs, and spies on the user. on the other hand, much of modern linux software seems to be a copy of the same design principles, although is usually more reliable and is improving every day due to the efforts of volunteer programmers around the world. let me give you an example from Windows XP: to change system hardware settings, one must go to 'start', then 'control panel', then 'system', and 'device manager', then select the device. here's a better way: why not just have a simple search that you could just start typing the name of the device and it goes right there? if this is a feature in the next Windows, then good, but what took them so long to add such an obvious feature? the desire to keep ordinary users slow, confused, and dependent on "experts". if you want to switch to linux from windows, there are many online articles you can read. some will suggest a type of linux called "freespire" or "linspire" that attempts to mimic the windows interface to make the transition easier. linux is totally free, and its design is continually audited and improved by volunteer programmers, and not kept secret and sold by a monopoly like Microsoft. |