In programming, a value that is passed between programs, subroutines or functions. Arguments are independent items, or variables, that contain data or codes. When an argument is used to customize a program for a user, it is typically called a "parameter." See argc.
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- Just about every new product coming to market is being offered as a service rather than packaged software. But pricing remains something of a mystery. A while back, I started a spreadsheet that plots price points for different saas accounting offerings. At the time I concluded that no-one has figured...
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Apple shares fall below $100 ... again
- Apple shares fall below $100 ... againfor those who bring up stock prices when comparing Mac and PCso we all know (because we've been told by apple fans ) that apple products are better than Microsoft products because apple share prices have gone up and Microsoft's haven't. considering that in...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- HP to jump into smartphones. Why?
- Hewlett Packard is jumping deeper into the crowded smartphone market, announcing plans for an iPaq smartphone that will be marketed toward consumers to be released first in Europe before the end of the year and later worldwide, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. In...
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Mac ready for the enterprise?
- Larry Dignan makes a spirited argument as to why Apple should be working much harder on getting Mac kit into the enterprise. I know it's a Friday afternoon for me and we've already had one false alarm earlier today that got everyone a-Twitter. Only the other day I managed to...
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Apple: Perhaps it needs the enterprise after all
- Apple: Perhaps it needs the enterprise after allThe 35% of Fortune 500 companies......testing the iPhone means "35% of IT departments doing their damn jobs by testing a competing product before coming to the realisation that it isn't as good as their current solution".As for Apple getting a foothold in mainstream...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Is Apple out of ideas?
- In an interesting BusinessWeek story, Arik Hesseldahl asks: "Where does Apple go from here?" For a company who has made a reputation of surprising consumers and resetting the bar, it's a good question. Of course, this question is asked on the heels of a...
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- VIDEO: iTunes, mp3 rippers paved the way for RealDVD
- There's another legal showdown brewing between Hollywood and the techies. RealNetworks and the motion picture studios are headed off to court over RealDVD, just-released software that allows users to rip their personal DVD collections into a PC or portable hard drive. Yeah, just like everyone's been doing with music CDs...
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- RealDVD officially launches, so do lawsuits; Is it 'StealDVD'?
- Update: RealNetworks announced Tuesday that its RealDVD software, which allows you to rip and burn DVDs easily, officially launched. And the lawsuits weren't far behind. In a statement Techmeme, RealNetworks billed RealDVD as a "watershed" product. The software, which goes for $29.99 on sale, allows you to...
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- It's still good to be green, whether it's accidental or not
- One of the IT services companies that closely partners with IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems, released an interesting survey earlier this week that confirms what I've believed for some time: IT managers don't really care about being green in the environmental sense as much as they care about saving money....
- Blog posts 2008-09-28
- Was RIM's Wall Street beating unjustified?
- Shares of Research In Motion got hammered to the tune of more than 27 percent to close the week - this despite a quarterly earnings report yesterday that included a 72 percent jump in profit from a year ago. That just goes to show that, especially in the quick-growth, suddenly-crowded...
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- Memory exhaustion DoS vulnerability hits Google's Chrome
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- Blog posts 2008-09-25
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- Updated: Research in Motion's second quarter results fell short of estimates and the third quarter outlook was weaker than expected too. RIM said Thursday statement that it reported net income of $495.5 million, or 86 cents a share, compared to $287.7 million, 50 cents a share, a...
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- Should engineers fix climate change?
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- Discussion threads 2008-09-25
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- Discussion threads 2008-09-25
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- Discussion threads 2008-09-24
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- Blog posts 2008-09-22
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- News items 2008-09-22
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- Discussion threads 2008-09-22
- Search 2.0: compromising privacy for better results?
- Google has given us access to anything we'd like to find on the Web - so long as we know how to search for it. We have to use keywords - and plenty of them - to submit our searches with enough information to narrow the results into something manageable....
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
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- Discussion threads 2008-09-22
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