This is going to tank. If you *have* to pay by credit card, their target demographic: young disposable income 20-30ish music loving Japanese don't HAVE credit cards.
My ex-girlfriend at 27 years old had one once, a few years ago, but nolonger. She is not abnormal.
She does buy a boatload of CDs though.
I am truly amazed at the careless sense of invincibility some posters have shown in this discussion. Take my sensei's advice: when someone demands your wallet, the best escape move is to slowly and calmly remove your wallet and hand it over.
Heresay: My sensei also said that another instructor he knew tried to take down a mugger who had a knife and he ended up dead with multiple stab wounds. This would explain the development of my sensei's simpler "hand it over" technique.
So has anyone got better pointers towards the state of their objective-c support? I know they say it is there as a technical preview with no guarantees until they finish, but does it basically work and is slow, or is it unable to compile even modestly complex stuff?
How about, how many bits are in a byte. If the answer is "I don't know", their CS program was a joke. If the answer is "8", then their program might not be a joke. If their answer is "it depends", then they are old. That's a joke, in case you're an idiot. The question though is quite real, and I am surprised at how many people don't know a valid answer.
This was really painful, so I document for you all exactly how to do it. In fact, I did, as step one after the first sign of problems, reinstall fink from the current installer after moving away your existing/sw.
The rest:
1. Do all the following via sudo (or as root if you are feeling lucky) ____________________ Install these binary packages using "apt-get install packagename"
For the following three you have to choose which one, I picked the left option: giflib OR libungif gnome-vfs-ssl-dev OR gnome-vfs-dev python22-shlibs OR python22-nox-shlibs
For some stupid reason, you have to have a TeX implementation, either system or fink installed. I just did "apt-get install ghostscript" and followed the prompts, picking the defaults.
____________________ The following packages are not in stable, so you have to hand copy their.info and.patch files from the dists/unstable to dists/local tree. Use 'fink install packagename'
slib html-tableextract-pm finance-quote-pm fi nance-quotehist-pm g-wrap guppi16 openhbci lib gnugetopt postgresql* libofx gnucash (but first read the following section)
____________________ The gnucash.info file needs to be edited. Any line with '' on it, must have no trailing spaces.
Finally, gnucash wants to update from source many additional packages: $ fink install gnucash
this will install also all these from source:
control-center-dev control-center-shlibs docbook-dtd doxygen g-wrap g-wrap-dev g-wrap-shlibs gal19 gal19-shlibs gal21 gal21-shlibs gnome-core-dev gnome-core-shlibs gnome-libs-dev gnome-libs-shlibs gnome-vfs-shlibs gnome-vfs-ssl-dev graphviz gtkhtml-dev gtkhtml-shlibs guppi16-dev guppi16-shlibs imlib imlib-shlibs libgnugetopt libgnugetopt-shlibs libofx libofx-shlibs libpng3 openhbci openhbci-shlibs opensp3 opensp3-shlibs openssl097-dev openssl097-shlibs orbit orbit-dev orbit-shlibs postgresql73 postgresql73-dev postgresql73-shlibs scrollkeeper
Most people don't have 475 MB accounts at their email provider, they are lucky to have 20 MB
When did slashdot become the site for "most people"? My email/shell account (www.jtan.com) has a 1 gig limit. Once in a while I backup my email, but it lives there and I just use IMAP from wherever to access it.
if you're writing in Obj-C. Using Obj-C, you can dynamically replace instance methods on the fly and call the previously defined method when you're done/before you start (or both, or not at all).
I've been trying this out some myself and it is just amazing. The end result is that third party add-ons to common applications proliferate to provide tiny changes that users want.
Kwerel, do you have links to some good articles on using Obj-C this way? My own adventures with poseas have been somewhat unsuccessful.
So, how's it feel doing something that all of your peers consider reprehensible (annoying) and immoral (theft of bandwidth from open relays, fake headers, the list goes on)?
I will be jumping for joy when ANY platform-agnostic IDE produces an API for introducing new language support. It seems like every time I find a new beautiful language to start using, my then favorite IDE has just finally managed to support whatever language I had just given up using.
In this case, Python parsing support is popping up, while Cocoa has enticed me away. So of course, there is only ONE SINGLE EDITOR on the planet (to my knowledge) that has parsing features for Objective-C (as in code completion and symbol information): CodeWarrior. Sigh.
Would economics work for terrible music? Of course it would! In fact this would also work for bad movies. It already works everywhere else. The only reason that Movies and Music get away with their crazy pricing is that they own or control the major distribution channels.
The natural price of music you think is crap is probably still higher than production cost. For me, I would buy a Celine Dion album for $0.50 just to microwave it. At that price they still make a profit, so yeah, why NOT let economics work?
Germans seem to love him, so by your logic, perhaps everyone else will, too? You are missing Janis' point that the cultural vibe of a country is on its own track with predilections for their own unique stars and styles. If you still disagree, I wonder how big is your collection of bollywood soundtracks? What, you don't like indian music?
I love the idea of online distribution, but I'm not going to pay a nickel for 128kb mp3 audio. Compared to 160kb mp3 or Ogg Vorbis, the quality is just not acceptable as a replacement for my CDs.
And if you read the packaging on the products you buy, then you can easily avoid the GM soy. Of course, your numbers reflect one of the core absurdities of the "GM" label. 100% of all corn produced is genetically modified -- it just happens to have been via a few thousand years of severe artificial selection by humans instead of a few months of direct tampering.
babies fed soy-based formula are much more likely to develop plant/pollen allergies
First, your thoughts on raising dogs provide interesting food for thought. But as far as feeding human babies soy formula, I am surprised that you don't first mention that *all* formulas are inferior to mother's milk if we are discussing the development of a healthy immune system. I would be somewhat hesitant to apply any comparison between dogs and humans though, because, broadly generalizing, we are omnivores (notice our flat rear teeth?) and dogs are carnivores.
To take another animal example, if you feed cornmeal to fish or cows, then their immune systems become impaired. This isn't because of anything inherently bad about corn, it is because these animals have specialized digestive systems that are being subjected to completely foreign foods.
Note: Soy protein doesn't count, as it's not well-utilized and tends to lead to amino acid imbalances [...] it's a broad-spectrum allergin and in excess can bollux your immune system.
Citations please? I'm amazed that with all the evil that soy must be causing, traditional chinese and japanese cuisine are so dependant on soy. I wake up to a soy milk + soy protein shake and actually almost ALL of my protein intake is soy, and I feel great.
Yikes! That'd make you 5'11" 144. That's just downright scrawny.
So what does that make 6' and 130? The only weight I ever seem to gain is muscle when I try really hard to focus on bulk at the gym. What's this weight gaining secret you all share? I just eat three meals a day of whatever I feel like (mostly pasta, soy, vegetables, and seafood).
I don't know why I'm bothering, but as a programmer to another programmer (and yes, some of my code is sold, some has been free):
I think you are going to find only woe if you dwell on the people stealing your product. Why not just write good code, charge a reasonable price, and listen to the customers that pay. The ones that don't aren't worth the time it takes to curse them out. Or you could just focus on endless copy protection schemes and avoid producing anything at all for fear of it being stolen. Sounds fun.
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Aaah I see now. They are selling cash cards at the apple store and a few other retailers in Japan, like Bic Camera. Eh. We'll see.
This is going to tank. If you *have* to pay by credit card, their target demographic: young disposable income 20-30ish music loving Japanese don't HAVE credit cards. My ex-girlfriend at 27 years old had one once, a few years ago, but nolonger. She is not abnormal. She does buy a boatload of CDs though.
You know, you'll find that monolinguals everywhere have this kind of closed-mindedness.
I'm stumped. Is the responder just dense, or attempting humor?
I am truly amazed at the careless sense of invincibility some posters have shown in this discussion. Take my sensei's advice: when someone demands your wallet, the best escape move is to slowly and calmly remove your wallet and hand it over.
Heresay: My sensei also said that another instructor he knew tried to take down a mugger who had a knife and he ended up dead with multiple stab wounds. This would explain the development of my sensei's simpler "hand it over" technique.
So has anyone got better pointers towards the state of their objective-c support? I know they say it is there as a technical preview with no guarantees until they finish, but does it basically work and is slow, or is it unable to compile even modestly complex stuff?
Why is it so impossible to find any of these headsets at local electronics stores (let alone an official T-Mobile, cingular, ATT, or Verizon store).
All I can find is some crappy bulky looking Belkin headset and a huge Jabra one at Circuit City. What a joke!
How about, how many bits are in a byte. If the answer is "I don't know", their CS program was a joke. If the answer is "8", then their program might not be a joke. If their answer is "it depends", then they are old. That's a joke, in case you're an idiot. The question though is quite real, and I am surprised at how many people don't know a valid answer.
This was really painful, so I document for you all exactly how to do it. In fact, I did, as step one after the first sign of problems, reinstall fink from the current installer after moving away your existing /sw.
.info and .patch files from the dists/unstable to dists/local tree. Use 'fink install packagename'
i nance-quotehist-pmb gnugetopt
.info file needs to be edited. Any line with '' on it, must have no trailing spaces.
The rest:
1. Do all the following via sudo (or as root if you are feeling lucky)
____________________
Install these binary packages using "apt-get install packagename"
For the following three you have to choose which one, I picked the left option:
giflib OR libungif
gnome-vfs-ssl-dev OR gnome-vfs-dev
python22-shlibs OR python22-nox-shlibs
gtkhtml guile libghttp libglade popt date-manip-pm dlcompat-dev guile-dev bonobo-dev control-center-dev db3 docbook-dsssl-nwalsh docbook-dtd expat expat-shlibs gal19 gconf-dev gdbm gdbm-shlibs gmp gmp-shlibs gnome-core gnome-core-dev gnome-core-shlibs gnome-libs-dev gnome-print-dev gnumeric gtk-doc gtkhtml-dev intltool libjpeg libole2 libole2-shlibs libpng3 libpng3-shlibs libpoll libpoll-shlibs libtiff libxml2 libxml2-bin libxml2-shlibs libxslt libxslt-shlibs netpbm oaf-dev openjade openssl-dev openssl-shlibs pkgconfig python sgml-entities-iso8879 tcltk tcltk-dev tcltk-shlibs digest-md5-pm html-parser-pm compress-zlib-pm html-tagset-pm libnet-pm libwww-pm mime-base64-pm uri-pm autoconf25 daemonic fileutils gawk libpng libtool14 libtool14-shlibs m4
For some stupid reason, you have to have a TeX implementation, either system or fink installed. I just did "apt-get install ghostscript" and followed the prompts, picking the defaults.
____________________
The following packages are not in stable, so you have to hand copy their
slib
html-tableextract-pm
finance-quote-pm
f
g-wrap
guppi16
openhbci
li
postgresql*
libofx
gnucash (but first read the following section)
____________________
The gnucash
Finally, gnucash wants to update from source many additional packages:
$ fink install gnucash
this will install also all these from source:
control-center-dev control-center-shlibs docbook-dtd doxygen g-wrap g-wrap-dev g-wrap-shlibs gal19 gal19-shlibs gal21 gal21-shlibs gnome-core-dev gnome-core-shlibs gnome-libs-dev gnome-libs-shlibs gnome-vfs-shlibs gnome-vfs-ssl-dev graphviz gtkhtml-dev gtkhtml-shlibs guppi16-dev guppi16-shlibs imlib imlib-shlibs libgnugetopt libgnugetopt-shlibs libofx libofx-shlibs libpng3 openhbci openhbci-shlibs opensp3 opensp3-shlibs openssl097-dev openssl097-shlibs orbit orbit-dev orbit-shlibs postgresql73 postgresql73-dev postgresql73-shlibs scrollkeeper
Most people don't have 475 MB accounts at their email provider, they are lucky to have 20 MB
When did slashdot become the site for "most people"? My email/shell account (www.jtan.com) has a 1 gig limit. Once in a while I backup my email, but it lives there and I just use IMAP from wherever to access it.
if you're writing in Obj-C. Using Obj-C, you can dynamically replace instance methods on the fly and call the previously defined method when you're done/before you start (or both, or not at all).
I've been trying this out some myself and it is just amazing. The end result is that third party add-ons to common applications proliferate to provide tiny changes that users want.
Kwerel, do you have links to some good articles on using Obj-C this way? My own adventures with poseas have been somewhat unsuccessful.
What resolution does it record at? Several people have made incomprehensible posts thus far about it.
Anyone? The PDF says "OET Docket No. 02-380" but the comment submission form rejects 02-380.
So, how's it feel doing something that all of your peers consider reprehensible (annoying) and immoral (theft of bandwidth from open relays, fake headers, the list goes on)?
I will be jumping for joy when ANY platform-agnostic IDE produces an API for introducing new language support. It seems like every time I find a new beautiful language to start using, my then favorite IDE has just finally managed to support whatever language I had just given up using.
In this case, Python parsing support is popping up, while Cocoa has enticed me away. So of course, there is only ONE SINGLE EDITOR on the planet (to my knowledge) that has parsing features for Objective-C (as in code completion and symbol information): CodeWarrior. Sigh.
In all the responses thus far I haven't seen any actual suggestions of worthwhile things we could say in our comments to the LOC. Anyone?
Would economics work for terrible music? Of course it would! In fact this would also work for bad movies. It already works everywhere else. The only reason that Movies and Music get away with their crazy pricing is that they own or control the major distribution channels.
The natural price of music you think is crap is probably still higher than production cost. For me, I would buy a Celine Dion album for $0.50 just to microwave it. At that price they still make a profit, so yeah, why NOT let economics work?
"It's completely legal and supports the artists"
How much money do the artists actually see when you download a song?
Germans seem to love him, so by your logic, perhaps everyone else will, too? You are missing Janis' point that the cultural vibe of a country is on its own track with predilections for their own unique stars and styles. If you still disagree, I wonder how big is your collection of bollywood soundtracks? What, you don't like indian music?
I love the idea of online distribution, but I'm not going to pay a nickel for 128kb mp3 audio. Compared to 160kb mp3 or Ogg Vorbis, the quality is just not acceptable as a replacement for my CDs.
And if you read the packaging on the products you buy, then you can easily avoid the GM soy. Of course, your numbers reflect one of the core absurdities of the "GM" label. 100% of all corn produced is genetically modified -- it just happens to have been via a few thousand years of severe artificial selection by humans instead of a few months of direct tampering.
babies fed soy-based formula are much more likely to develop plant/pollen allergies
First, your thoughts on raising dogs provide interesting food for thought. But as far as feeding human babies soy formula, I am surprised that you don't first mention that *all* formulas are inferior to mother's milk if we are discussing the development of a healthy immune system. I would be somewhat hesitant to apply any comparison between dogs and humans though, because, broadly generalizing, we are omnivores (notice our flat rear teeth?) and dogs are carnivores.
To take another animal example, if you feed cornmeal to fish or cows, then their immune systems become impaired. This isn't because of anything inherently bad about corn, it is because these animals have specialized digestive systems that are being subjected to completely foreign foods.
Note: Soy protein doesn't count, as it's not well-utilized and tends to lead to amino acid imbalances [...] it's a broad-spectrum allergin and in excess can bollux your immune system.
Citations please? I'm amazed that with all the evil that soy must be causing, traditional chinese and japanese cuisine are so dependant on soy. I wake up to a soy milk + soy protein shake and actually almost ALL of my protein intake is soy, and I feel great.
Yikes! That'd make you 5'11" 144. That's just downright scrawny.
So what does that make 6' and 130? The only weight I ever seem to gain is muscle when I try really hard to focus on bulk at the gym. What's this weight gaining secret you all share? I just eat three meals a day of whatever I feel like (mostly pasta, soy, vegetables, and seafood).
I don't know why I'm bothering, but as a programmer to another programmer (and yes, some of my code is sold, some has been free):
I think you are going to find only woe if you dwell on the people stealing your product. Why not just write good code, charge a reasonable price, and listen to the customers that pay. The ones that don't aren't worth the time it takes to curse them out. Or you could just focus on endless copy protection schemes and avoid producing anything at all for fear of it being stolen. Sounds fun.