Why do you hate America? BTW: STFU would be better letters because it doesn't duplicate the U. Though charging twice for the same letter sounds like a typical government thing too;-)
Weird that the human brain is still the best garbage filter ever designed. Looking at a significant portion of the population I guess that the saying "takes one to know one" works for the human brain as a garbage filter too;-)
Actually things like the.NET and Java runtime, combined with JIT compiling and optimization, could do exactly that. It could recompile a reasonably abstract definition of a program into exactly the kind of code that your current system needs, on-demand
And with all this fuel economy stuff, soon the old Jaguar adage of "Needs to stop for repairs more than it needs to stop for petrol" will be true again. Suddenly it all starts to make sense!
Well Belgium tried doing just that for Crimes against Humanity once. Take a guess who bullied that country into backing down significantly from that. I'll give you a hint, it wasn't China...
GP >>> How many insecurities has Internet Explorer had since it was launched with XP? I lost count.
P >> So, you don't actually know, then? How can you criticise them meaningfully if you don't know? Saying "I can't remember, but I'm sure it's had lots!" is just spreading FUD.
No, now you are spreading FUD. Not knowing the exact number is different from not knowing at all. I don't know how many grains of sand there are on yonder beach, but I am VERY sure there are lots. Similarly, I haven't counted the exploits, but I do know I have seen quite a few. "Losing count" is certainly not the same as "not having the foggiest clue".
From TFA Seth Hallem, CEO of Coverity, a provider of source-code analysis, noted that the majority of the bugs documented in the study have already been fixed by members of the open-source development community.
A hundred century war ey? That's a mere 10.000 years there. Surprising that England and France were duking it out before the Egyptians had figured out how to stack stones...
I've done a bunch of icons for a commercial application too, and I found working in higher resolutions than the largest desired output is counterproductive. You'll be twiddling details that you just can't see in the final product. What I do, is create icons in the largest size that will actually be used, zoom in until they are about the size of the screen, and vector-draw the desired images in. By using vector drawing, in the proper resolution, I can see the exact final result by zooming out until it's back to 100%, yet the images scale painlessly to lower resolutions where some more detail is inevitably lost, but at least the full-size icons look exactly like I want them.
Using vectors allows me the additional editing power of gradient fills that I can change to my liking when the brass decides on another look, and there's adjustment layers (in Paint Shop Pro 8 anyway) I can use when I need a really "quick and dirty" fix.
Incidentally, my company worked with an artist before, and while the output quality was good, it's really, REALLY _hard_ for the technical department to explain to the artist what an icon should look like (or represent). In the end, my programming knowledge allowed me to script a bunch of annoying operations (putting all the separate icons into one long bitmap, resizing, saving as different formats, reordering icons, etc..), so that every time something changes in the application, the amount of work to bring the icons back up to date is minimal.
They started out singing against the 'man', 'halls of justice painted green, money talkin'
Started out? That's from the first album on the downhill slope - the album that housed the song for their first video (which pissed off a lot of fans at the time). I think it marks the point at which they noticed that money buys you more than "staying true to the scene" does....
Shame to drop so low, for a band that got 2 albums in the Top100 with _NO_ radio support (Kill Em All and Ride The Lightning)...
Simply put: If I can walk up to the bargain bin in the Free Record shop and get about 5 DVDs that I'd love to see for 12-15Euro apiece, while every goddamn CD in the shop is around 20Euro, I decide to get me some movies instead of some music.
Hmm, I just had some other ideas: Movies get shown a lot, in their entirity, on TV, a while after they've been out. Most of the DVDs I buy are movies I've already seen, and want to see again. Full albums don't get played on mainstream TV or on the radio. Most of the time, getting a full SONG is a challenge, because they chop, shorten, radio edited, "videofy" it until it in no way resembles anything on the actual CD. I don't listen to radio these days, unless it's to specialised channels - classical music station for driving, because I hardly know any classical music, and those channels repeat a lot less. Imagine if movies on regular TV were like songs on regular radio... You get the same three movies 15 times a day for 5 months until the "next big thing" arrives for another 5 months...
No, decorators make money by being quicker and better at the job than an average person could be.
Quicker, yes. With less effort to the person hiring them, than doing it yourself, yes. Better? You have to be kidding me. These people have no interest in getting it exactly right for you. They just get it done as fast as possible and get out. They have no personal attachment to the work they are doing. Most of the time, the work is "passable" to "good", but the old saying still goes: "if you want something done right, better do it yourself".
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For the console-like fun experience, you need a stick, a sharpening tool, and one of your eyes.
Nintendo-Hard, look it up.
(I kid, I kid).
Can't you just redirect the gracenote CDDB URLs in your hosts file, to the FreeDB ones?
(See Point 4 here. )
Yeah but on the other hand, your CPU becomes a FANTASTIC cosmic ray detector! I wonder if we could harness that for the SETI-at-home project...
Why do you hate America? ;-)
BTW: STFU would be better letters because it doesn't duplicate the U. Though charging twice for the same letter sounds like a typical government thing too
Actually things like the .NET and Java runtime, combined with JIT compiling and optimization, could do exactly that.
It could recompile a reasonably abstract definition of a program into exactly the kind of code that your current system needs, on-demand
An African or a European swallow?
And with all this fuel economy stuff, soon the old Jaguar adage of "Needs to stop for repairs more than it needs to stop for petrol" will be true again. Suddenly it all starts to make sense!
It's a link to a google search for a specific term (contactlog) where the first hit is automatically opened, and links to a very unsafe site.
5 Watts saved on an expected power usage of between 10 and 25 Watts is pretty significant.
See the power usage specs here: http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/storage/hddpower.html, a bit older perhaps, but not that much.
"No, I swear it's not a tinfoil hat! It's a brain heatsink!"
You mean like "theft" is a loaded term for copyright infringement?
If I had points I'd mod the parent up, but the best I can do is reply in agreement, and with the adage
"Build one to throw away, you will anyway".
Well Belgium tried doing just that for Crimes against Humanity once. Take a guess who bullied that country into backing down significantly from that. I'll give you a hint, it wasn't China...
/ 2003/0924bush.htm/ 2003/0930univjstop.htm
http://www.globalpolicy.org/intljustice/universal
http://www.globalpolicy.org/intljustice/universal
Even my Radeon 9200 runs Doom3 just fine. You don't HAVE to turn on all the eye-candy. I'm sure the 9600 will be plenty for most people.
GP >>> How many insecurities has Internet Explorer had since it was launched with XP? I lost count.
P >> So, you don't actually know, then? How can you criticise them meaningfully if you don't know? Saying "I can't remember, but I'm sure it's had lots!" is just spreading FUD.
No, now you are spreading FUD. Not knowing the exact number is different from not knowing at all. I don't know how many grains of sand there are on yonder beach, but I am VERY sure there are lots. Similarly, I haven't counted the exploits, but I do know I have seen quite a few. "Losing count" is certainly not the same as "not having the foggiest clue".
And in YET other news:
Fools and their money were lucky to be together in the first place!
From TFA
Seth Hallem, CEO of Coverity, a provider of source-code analysis, noted that the majority of the bugs documented in the study have already been fixed by members of the open-source development community.
A hundred century war ey? That's a mere 10.000 years there. Surprising that England and France were duking it out before the Egyptians had figured out how to stack stones...
A hundred year's war would do.
I've done a bunch of icons for a commercial application too, and I found working in higher resolutions than the largest desired output is counterproductive. You'll be twiddling details that you just can't see in the final product. What I do, is create icons in the largest size that will actually be used, zoom in until they are about the size of the screen, and vector-draw the desired images in.
By using vector drawing, in the proper resolution, I can see the exact final result by zooming out until it's back to 100%, yet the images scale painlessly to lower resolutions where some more detail is inevitably lost, but at least the full-size icons look exactly like I want them.
Using vectors allows me the additional editing power of gradient fills that I can change to my liking when the brass decides on another look, and there's adjustment layers (in Paint Shop Pro 8 anyway) I can use when I need a really "quick and dirty" fix.
Incidentally, my company worked with an artist before, and while the output quality was good, it's really, REALLY _hard_ for the technical department to explain to the artist what an icon should look like (or represent). In the end, my programming knowledge allowed me to script a bunch of annoying operations (putting all the separate icons into one long bitmap, resizing, saving as different formats, reordering icons, etc..), so that every time something changes in the application, the amount of work to bring the icons back up to date is minimal.
I only smoke baboons.
(Probably obscure Goon Show reference)
They started out singing against the 'man', 'halls of justice painted green, money talkin'
Started out? That's from the first album on the downhill slope - the album that housed the song for their first video (which pissed off a lot of fans at the time). I think it marks the point at which they noticed that money buys you more than "staying true to the scene" does....
Shame to drop so low, for a band that got 2 albums in the Top100 with _NO_ radio support (Kill Em All and Ride The Lightning)...
Simply put: If I can walk up to the bargain bin in the Free Record shop and get about 5 DVDs that I'd love to see for 12-15Euro apiece, while every goddamn CD in the shop is around 20Euro, I decide to get me some movies instead of some music.
Hmm, I just had some other ideas:
Movies get shown a lot, in their entirity, on TV, a while after they've been out. Most of the DVDs I buy are movies I've already seen, and want to see again. Full albums don't get played on mainstream TV or on the radio. Most of the time, getting a full SONG is a challenge, because they chop, shorten, radio edited, "videofy" it until it in no way resembles anything on the actual CD. I don't listen to radio these days, unless it's to specialised channels - classical music station for driving, because I hardly know any classical music, and those channels repeat a lot less.
Imagine if movies on regular TV were like songs on regular radio... You get the same three movies 15 times a day for 5 months until the "next big thing" arrives for another 5 months...
Score: Many, Funny.
No, decorators make money by being quicker and better at the job than an average person could be.
Quicker, yes. With less effort to the person hiring them, than doing it yourself, yes.
Better? You have to be kidding me. These people have no interest in getting it exactly right for you. They just get it done as fast as possible and get out. They have no personal attachment to the work they are doing. Most of the time, the work is "passable" to "good", but the old saying still goes: "if you want something done right, better do it yourself".