potential PPC Amiga REAL CHEAP

[adolescent]

lou_dias wrote:

Code: [Select]

Imports System.Management

Dim query As New ManagementObjectSearcher("select * from win32_processor")

For Each cpu As ManagementObject In query.Get()

    Console.WriteLine(cpu("Name"))
    Console.WriteLine(cpu("Speed"))

Next

Since you are dependant on WMI running, what about systems that don't have WMI and/or have it disabled.

[srg86]

Then you have to go off into the Win32 API. Possible in VB but you need to link to some extra dlls

srg86 wrote:
Then you have to go off into the Win32 API. Possible in VB but you need to link to some extra dlls

Which as we all know are written in C/C++.

[adolescent]

Karlos wrote:

There is one language that is actually quite useable for all these purposes and more. And it isn't VB. It's C.

Darn.  I was hoping you'd say C#.  :-?  J#?  :-? :-? :-?

[srg86]

It was written in C/C++. how can a system without the vb runtime dlls in that case hehe LOL

Another reason why VB is sssllllooowwww, those runtimes

(sorry VB is a pet hate of mine)

[adolescent]

One more thing C/C++ can do that VB.NET can't.  Earn you more money.

Software Development Magazine/Salary Survey 2005/Average Salary by Languages Used

For people that don't want to sign up.  (I've removed some of the fluff, mainly because I don't want to admit that a Python programmer makes more than me.  :-D)
     

Code: [Select]


C   $87K   $104K
C++ $87K $104K
J2EE $87K $106K
J2ME $86K $107K
Java $85K $103K
C# $82K $102K
.NET $81K $100K
Cobol   $79K   $99K


Edit: put this thing in a code block so it would line up right.

[koaftder]

with all the flack buzzing around this thread you'd think somebody dropped a mohammad cartoon in here.

[Karlos]

koaftder wrote:
with all the flack buzzing around this thread you'd think somebody dropped a mohammad cartoon in here.

Well, some VB loving infidel did dare to ridicule the good name of C, after all :-D

[Failure]

koaftder wrote:
with all the flack buzzing around this thread you'd think somebody dropped a mohammad cartoon in here.

I'm so sorry.  ^_^

[Karlos]

Don't be, all serious developers know C++ is "da bomb!" :-P

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:-P

[GadgetMaster]

VB.net Suxxxors!!!


 !!!AMOS FOREVER !!!

[Louis Dias]

Karlos wrote:

koaftder wrote:
with all the flack buzzing around this thread you'd think somebody dropped a mohammad cartoon in here.

Well, some VB loving infidel did dare to ridicule the good name of C, after all :-D

Actually, other that pat each other in the back, none of you has changed my preference or opinion.

[Karlos]

lou_dias wrote:

Karlos wrote:

koaftder wrote:
with all the flack buzzing around this thread you'd think somebody dropped a mohammad cartoon in here.

Well, some VB loving infidel did dare to ridicule the good name of C, after all :-D

Actually, other that pat each other in the back, none of you has changed my preference or opinion.

Come on man, don't take it so personally :lol:

Nobody is trying to convert you; just simply point out that none of the reasons you have given make VB.net a better language than any other and none of the reasons you have given make C a worse one than any other. Everybody knows you like VB.net just as you know many of us prefer C etc.

Regardless, if you want to develop serious software for OS4, C/C++ are your only real choices anyway. There was an AMOS project, I don't know where that is up to :-)

[Louis Dias]

Karlos wrote:

Regardless, if you want to develop serious software for OS4, C/C++ are your only real choices anyway. There was an AMOS project, I don't know where that is up to :-)

Oh, I knew that like 10 years ago.  But I've never said that I was going to develop anything for OS4.

back in 95/96 is when I bought Gamesmith 2.0 to develop games for the Amiga and it was all in C.  That's when I went out and took a real C & C++ class but by the time I was done with that, I got an IT job doing PICK BASIC w/UniVerse db programming.  Shortly after that, I found VB and the rest as they say is history.  Needless to say, I've made a career out of BASIC with a dash of Visual FoxPro.

[Louis Dias]

Gee, I'd hate to get back on topic and all but...

http://revolution.ign.com/articles/688/688570p1.html

I'm thinking that mystery connector is for optical digital audio.  I use that on my HD receiver and I believe the connecter has that same exact shape...looks like those Dolby 7.1 rumors are atleast a possibility... Also, it would be sweet if the component video cable I currently own for the GC would plug right in to Revolution.  Doesn't sound so strange when you realize their composite a/v cable has been the same since the SNES...

[adolescent]

lou_dias wrote:
Gee, I'd hate to get back on topic and all but...

That's back on topic?  Or, was "Lou Diaz's Random Nintendo Fanboy Rants" the topic all along and you were just using OS4 as a smokescreen to spread your Pro-Nintendo, Pro-VB.NET, and Pro-Pontiac Fiero propaganda.   :-P