Google “Price Decimation” Its an economic term that means Microsoft gets more money when each person pays the maximum they are willing to pay for a given product.   

Given two ways of doing something, regex is almost always slower.

The tools to do this were released at HOPE a few weeks ago, very interesting and very scary. They also mentioned something interesting about the Apple OS’s, whenever you are logged in, the OS keeps a copy of your username and password in cleartext in the RAM. According to them, this was reported to Apple a little over 10 years ago, and they refuse to change it (something about how the UN/PW combo is used for silent elevation, scary on its own…). But when paired with a cold boot attack it is very dangerous.

Sven Groot said:

ZippyV said:

*snip*

Option Strict has no bearing on the problem.

And yes, VB considers Nothing and "" to be equivalent in string comparisons. It has done so since the first version of VB.NET (can't remember how VB6 behaved). I find it a very useful behaviour as writing foo = "" is easier than String.IsNullOrEmpty(foo), which has the same effect.

If you must make the distinction, use String.Compare as Littleguru suggested.

Note that  String.IsNullOrEmpty is much faster then == "". If your in a loop (for example, when parsing a file) you can defiantly see the difference.

See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/ms182279.aspx

dahat wrote:



ScanIAm wrote: He'd better make a lot of money from that book deal...I smell lots of time in civil court in his future.

Which is probably better than some called for alternatives... such as execution.

ScanIAm wrote:



phreaks wrote: This is where you and I have differing opinions. I believe the money I earn is mine, you believe it's the governments'.

I believe that most of it is yours, and some of it is ours (societies).  You are welcome to buy/invade your own uninhabited land somewhere, and build your own society where all money earned goes to you   

using System;

using System.Data;

using System.Configuration;

using System.Collections;

using System.Web;

using System.Web.Security;

using System.Web.UI;

using System.Web.UI.WebControls;

using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;

using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;

public partial class Stat_GetCDF : System.Web.UI.Page

{

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

Response.ContentType = "text/csv";

System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection con = new System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["ConnectionString1"].ConnectionString);

System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand cmd = new System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand("SELECT [Name], [Question], [Choices] FROM [STAT_Fields] WHERE ([SID] = '" + Request.QueryString["SID"] + "') ORDER BY [SortOrder]", con);

System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader read;

con.Open();

read = cmd.ExecuteReader();

System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary<string, string> ColChoices = new System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary<string, string>();

System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary<Int32, System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary<Int32, string>> LookupValues = new System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary<int, System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary<int, string>>();

while (read.Read())

{

ColChoices.Add( "C" + read.GetString(0), read.GetString(2));

}

read.Close();

cmd = new System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand("SELECT * FROM [STAT_tbls_" + Request.QueryString["SID"] + "]", con);

read = cmd.ExecuteReader();

read.Read();

for (int i = 0; i < read.FieldCount; i++)

{

if (read.GetName(i) != "CID")

{

string choicesText = ColChoices[read.GetName(i)];

string[] choices = choicesText.Split(';');

System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary<Int32, string> ChoiceValues = new System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary<int, string>();

int c = 0;

foreach (string choice in choices)

{

ChoiceValues.Add(c, choice);

c++;

}

LookupValues.Add(i, ChoiceValues);

}

}

System.Text.StringBuilder sb = new System.Text.StringBuilder();

for (int i = 0; i < read.FieldCount; i++)

{

if (read.GetName(i) != "CID")

{

int val = read.GetInt32(i);

if (val != -1)

{

sb.Append(read.GetName(i).Substring(1));

}

if (i < (read.FieldCount - 1))

{

sb.Append(",");

}

}

}

sb.AppendLine();

while (read.Read())

{

for (int i=0; i < read.FieldCount;i++)

{

if (read.GetName(i) != "CID")

{

int val = read.GetInt32(i);

if (val != -1)

{

sb.Append(LookupValues[i][val]);

}

if (i < (read.FieldCount - 1))

{

sb.Append(",");

}

}

}

sb.AppendLine();

}

Response.Write(sb.ToString());

con.Close();

Response.End();

}

}

1.       Your programs only using one core, windows is doing everything else on the other one

2.       The external library your using is multithreaded.

This is one of the reasons that its being encouraged for programs to start writing there applications with multithreading in mind. Applications only get a performance boost on multicore systems if they are multithreaded.

Sabot wrote:

Chill out guys! It's Scoble!

We should be supporting him not giving a kick in the nutts.

W3bbo wrote:



CannotResolveSymbol wrote: I've got a little 13" RCA...  don't use it much. I get cable through my school, who I assume gets it from Charter (I think that's the local cable provider here).  About 60ish channels, with a few inserted by the school to broadcast events and such. The school seems to be on a plasma-screen buying frenzy lately, though:  they're popping up all over the place (even just to display our digital signage:  sounds like a good way to get a plasma TV to die within two years to me).

Plasma-screens don't provide the best bang-per-buck. Most of the schools in the UK have gone with projector systems. For that you get a 100"+ display with pretty decent resolution, and since they use standard ceiling mounts you can easily replace them in a matter of minutes.

As for myself... We've got 3 "real" TVs (1 in the kitchen, 1 in the spare bedroom, 1 in the living room), and two TV-enabled 'puters. Good thing TV License fees are per-household, not per-TV.

z33driver wrote:

Hackers is fun - and its got a young Angelina Jolie.  Hackers 2 is cool, a little more geeky/techie.  Sneakers.

BlackTiger wrote:

Why you voted for such moron? I mean Bush.

Just read this:
http://www.space.com/news/061007_bush_spacepolicy.html
http://www.counterpunch.org/gagnon08082003.html

I was impressed by moronity of this! What Bush thinking about? Is  he some kind of God? "His bloody excellence and magesty, World Police Creator"? New World Ruler? Or just stupid idiot?

That's why rest of the world hates US. Bcoz of things like that. Nobody likes any kind of police. Everybody hates "world police".

figuerres wrote:



DavidJSmith wrote:  alanmc wrote:  *gratuitious self promotion* My client library and gregors (the guy who wrote a tracker for summer of code) tracker are both cross platform. They can be verified to work on linux, windows and macos. They work out of box on any platform that Mono or the MS.NET framework supports (which is quite a lot!). On the otherhand, BTSharp (currently) is windows only. I just tested it. So while it's written in a crossplatform language, it wasn't written in a cross-platform way. Of course, it might be an easy fix, then again it might not. The author would probably update his library to be more cross-platform if enough people bugged him. Hey folks,    David Smith here.  Creator of BTSharp (http://btsharp.com).  I've tested the current version of BTSharp on Mono, and I was happy to have it working in about 20 minutes.  There will be a release for mono when the library is released out of Beta. Cheers, David Smith.

http://btsharp.com/Buy.aspx

I am confused by that page....

looks like it's a pay-as-you-go thing wich seems odd....

peer filesharing - who pays for the transfer?
how can I write an app that uses this?

do users get nag screens to pay him to trasnfer more files?

blowdart wrote:


"once you accept ONE UAC prompt in IE7 it disables the protection for subsequent browsing until you completely restart IE7"

Charles wrote:

I'm definitely getting one. It's built for the future, just like the XBox...
C

W3bbo wrote:



Programous wrote: They could only sue the user, they can't sue Microsoft (ex: you can't sue CD makers if the user illegaly copies a CD).

Okay then, so why is the **AA suing Limewire & co?

Personal responsibility has gone out of the window nowadays, especially as far as media corporations are concerned.

W3bbo wrote:



Programous wrote: And the way the Zune works (according to rumers) is that it sets a  tag in the index saying the file was from wireless and stores the  play count, so is ok by CC. And I'm betting in under a week someone will find how to break into the index and "uncheck" the files.

Perhaps it goes like that for "normal" files (i.e. MP3s and OGGs (MS: it does have OGG Vorbis support, right? ) but if it's got WMA DRM then it'll do the usual stuff on top of the 3day/3play thing.

Thing is, what if there was a license that says that the playback and distribution of the file cannot be altered without prior consent of the author?