I trust this is sarcasm, but in case someone doesn't know any better:
symbolset*'s post is mixing two concepts: RLL and RLE.
One is a compression scheme which stores a string of identical bytes as a single byte and a repeat count.
The other is a family of bit storage or transmission schemes which avoids strings of identical bits to make synchronisation easier.
I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to guess which is which, and which one is actually used in hard drives.
one of they key reasons we chose to force this on them was the sheer amount of work we had to do removing clunky screensaver managers or custom cursors and icons (not to mention the virii accompanying many of these).
Tesla and Watt fought over that one, comparing the relative safety of AC vs DC, a war of pure FUD IIRC.
A correction there: the FUD war was mainly Edison (DC) and Westinghouse (AC), although Tesla was involved on the AC side (he did a lot of the technical stuff).
Watt is actually famous for his work on steam power, not electricity.
I don't know about netbeans, but there is an Eclipse-based web IDE called Aptana which comes with just about every JS library I've heard of - jQuery, Prototype, Scriptaculous, Dojo, ExtJS & YUI, to name a few.
It supports a range of serverside platforms too (ruby, python, php etc).
Is that the kind of thing you're thinking of?
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I was thinking Luke, actually...
Hard drive crash is inevitable.
I trust this is sarcasm, but in case someone doesn't know any better:
symbolset*'s post is mixing two concepts: RLL and RLE.
One is a compression scheme which stores a string of identical bytes as a single byte and a repeat count.
The other is a family of bit storage or transmission schemes which avoids strings of identical bits to make synchronisation easier.
I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to guess which is which, and which one is actually used in hard drives.
* nice id number, btw!
one of they key reasons we chose to force this on them was the sheer amount of work we had to do removing clunky screensaver managers or custom cursors and icons (not to mention the virii accompanying many of these).
Did you actually read his post?
Yeah, I'm holding out for the Personal KeDE project.
... in the U.S., where the automobile probably ranks ahead of diamond jewelry as a universally-recognized status symbol.
It's like that here in Australia, too.
But what do I know? I ride the bus too.
Does the old saying 'For the People' ring any bells?
You mean as in "government of the people, by the people, for the people"?
Extretum?
Are you sure you don't mean Excretum?
This reminds me of the lego pyramids I used to build when I was a kid.
But I think we'll run out of blocks before we reach the peak.
Tesla and Watt fought over that one, comparing the relative safety of AC vs DC, a war of pure FUD IIRC.
A correction there: the FUD war was mainly Edison (DC) and Westinghouse (AC), although Tesla was involved on the AC side (he did a lot of the technical stuff).
Watt is actually famous for his work on steam power, not electricity.
... the flammability and stupidity of people ...
Yeah!
Stupid flammable people...
I don't know about netbeans, but there is an Eclipse-based web IDE called Aptana which comes with just about every JS library I've heard of - jQuery, Prototype, Scriptaculous, Dojo, ExtJS & YUI, to name a few.
It supports a range of serverside platforms too (ruby, python, php etc).
Is that the kind of thing you're thinking of?
Ooh! Good point *mod self down*
Or 11 minutes and 1 second, for that matter.
Why is there an upper limit to this range?