Wow, you are clever, that little jab at the US, makes you feel powerful huh? That's nice.
I bet you love to bash M$ (oh, see the dollar sign, I'm cool now too!).
Well, seeing how coperate isn't a word, you might want to call it Corporate Amerika (oh, see the 'k', now I'm cool again).
Anyways, tell your mom and dad when they call you up for dinner I said, "Hi!" and that they ought to invest in a dictionary for you on your next birthday. They might even want to get some of their money back from the college, since it didn't help.
you say you have "more than $1550 of development software on my machine"... well if you wanted to start coding with QT... guess what? you just *DOUBLED* your expenses!
BZZZTTT!
What part of "more than" did you not understand?
Anyways.
The only other free toolkit that I know of is gtk. There might be others, but gtk and qt both have their advantages and disadvantages. Over all qt is a complete programming package, similar to MFC. Qt is much more than gtk though. Qt includes IO, database, and many other objects that gtk does not.
With all the supporting libraries that come with qt are similar you do not have to spend two weeks researching what database access api you want to use, or any other sort of issue similar. You simpley pull out the qt database connectivity objects.
Anyways, I'm not a huge qt fan as far as libraries go. I don't care for the qic stuff and such. But, the point is use the tool that will make you more productive. If qt covers its cost use it. But stop the idiot idea that because something is free it makes it better.
Please report to your local slashdot reprogramming center.
Micheal and Tim will be with you shortly.
Re:$1550 just to use it? No thanks.
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$1550? That's nothing. Chump change.
If you are going to write software for a living, $1550 isn't even two weeks of pay. I can say easily where I work that I have more than $1550 of development software on my machine.
If you are starting your own business and writing for profit applications $1550 is a minor business expense compared to your time.
Wow, so the brits are so worked up about this. They are willing to run folks out of town and tar and feather?
You really think that folks will tip/sink boats with shipments coming into the country? You really think activists will vandalize farms that grow GM food?
A couple points: One, if it were truly a market issue, people would decide to buy or not to buy. What you have described is actually anarchists forcing their view on others through threat of force. That is not a market issue anymore than cousin Vinnie with a baseball bat.
Second point is this, if the cops are too busy to prevent the vandalism, maybe they'd be too busy to check out missing persons reports around the farmers trying to raise GM foods.
Couple things here. He has the right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. He also is allowed to travel in those endeavours.
However, the country is allowed (by the people) to make laws. One of those laws happens to be this particular type of passport. If he wishes to travel abroad now (which it becomes implemented) he is required to have his passport.
Nothing is changed here. We have always (within reasonable history) required passports. The only thing now is that the passports have digitalized information on them.
If we are required to show our passports or some form of id for domestic travel this will not be a large jump forward. As it is, for the last number of times I have traveled they require that I have shown my drivers license.
For a supposed tech site, there are a lot of luddites here.
My wife and I are both programmers, so we spend a fair amount of our time sitting infront of computers while at work.
The biggest thing we have found to help is cutting down our portions at meal time. This can be anywhere too.
At dinner, try making less, like just enough to sate your appetite, but not enough to feel full. This takes a little practice. I know I still occasionally will put too much into the pot when cooking.
When you head out for fast food, don't big size the meal. BK, Mc'Ds, Arbys, Wendy's are all terrible for this. Just go for the "normal" size or the small. Also, don't force yourself to eat all the fries, if you are sated at just half, call it good.
At full restaurants you can do this also (and more ideas). Don't feel you have to order the 16oz prime rib just because its a better deal than the 12oz. If you just cannot pass up the deal, plan on taking a doggy bag home with you. This has the added advantage of knowing you are going to eat some for lunch tommorrow that you want to save more for that. Also, if you have a spouse, share a dinner instead of each ordering one, with a plus of being a little cheaper.
Snacking isn't too bad as long as you do it right. Try eating triscuts or wheat thins for snacks instead of donuts or candybars. I find the fill me up quicker, but do make sure you rations a certain number at home and bring them to work with you, so you don't scarf down a full box in one day. Fruit is a good idea too. Especially bananas.:-)
Eating less didn't help us loose much weight, but definitely helped us to stablize our weight. We did lose a little, but you still have a flabbyness if you don't work some muscle.
What we do is walks. I used to be a runner, but my knees don't hold out much after a 1/2 mile anymore. Walking is fun because you can actaully talk while doing it with your spouse (wives love talking, and its healthy for the relationship). Its also fairly low impact and you don't feel terribley exhausted when finished. We throw in some of those hand weights (1-3lbs) also to allow for a little toning in the arms also.
While you won't see changes terribely fast (10-15lbs in about 4 months) it does happen. We chose to do it this way as we think it will help us the most in long run. We just watch our rations, but still eat the good/yummy stuff. We do some exercise, which gets us off our duffs and away from the games at night. Over all, its a lifestyle change without all the negatives of doing it radically and easier to maintain.
Bah, give him a break, he "Drinks Alot." Which would probably explain "Alot" instead of "ALot" in his user name. He might just not be sober enough to spell right. Lord knows I probably am spelling things wrong as I type here too.
Why don't you just go to the "real f---ing bookstore?"
If you don't like how an online business does things, don't use the online business.
If you don't realize the difference between a brick and mortar store providing physical access the the product and an online store providing a digital copy of the product, you need to get your head examined.
Basically they would be giving the book away. My guess is that the publisher has a problem with that.
Original point, if you don't like the rules, don't play the game.
Assuming the DNA sequence data is larger than the checksum size, there will be multiple possibilities for matches. Then you have a number (more than one) possible match, so you have to harrass more than one person.
Sorry, but that's like saying cholera is not bad as long as I don't catch it.
Wrong.
What you are missing is that cholera can be contracted without your specific intent to infect yourself with it (cholera is a bacteria infection, not a virus just for note).
You cannot "accidently" insert GPL code into your project. Someone has to intentionally insert that code. That is what you are missing, there is intent when using GPL'd code.
People do not intentionally insert viruses into themselves (minus vaccines, but that is a different story) that will harm themselves.
The lunch thief in my drilling crew was the motorman, who did five years in Kingston pen for armed robbery.
Claimed he was "reformed", so I guess he didn't really consider sandwich theft to be much of a crime.
I was tempted to add ex-lax or something worse just for him, but never got around to it.
Truth to tell, I don't think I'd ever have gotten around to pissing off the guy who was convicted of armed robbery too. Especially after he claims to have been "reformed" and is still stealing my lunch.
I wonder why it is so hard to find a full set of DNA.
I'd have thought that we had the tech to get gobs of DNA from all the different cells that we can salvage then take peices, even if from different cells, and then recombine them to get one full peice?
In theory the DNA should be the same in each cell, so if you take just find where the overlaps are between broken peices... Ah, what do I know, I'm just a code monkey...
At work we often work with multipage tiff images (~650MB) that we need to pull individual images out of. We currently have a poorly implemented hack to do it, but I am looking to find a better library to do this. I was wondering if anyone has a decent java library that they know about.
Ideally something that works with msjava (java 1.1). I know in java 1.4 there is jai, but atleast immediately that does not seem to be a very understandable api.
What you are doing here (which is the whole point of copyright) is depriving the creator of the content an oppertunity to make money from their efforts.
With a physical item there is actaul deprivation of property, but most importantly the deprivation of value of the property. In an effort to allow people to make money through an additional avenue, other than production or direct service, copyright allows people to make money on ideas. These ideas are copyrighted so that the folks working on them can sustain a living and so that the artist does not have to either enter the manufaturing industry or services industry. It is an industry in and of itself.
While you may disagree with it, it is the law of the land. You have a choice, follow the law or break the law. In addition to this choice you also have the right to attempt to bring about change in the law.
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Coperate Amerika
Wow, you are clever, that little jab at the US, makes you feel powerful huh? That's nice.
I bet you love to bash M$ (oh, see the dollar sign, I'm cool now too!).
Well, seeing how coperate isn't a word, you might want to call it Corporate
Amerika (oh, see the 'k', now I'm cool again).
Anyways, tell your mom and dad when they call you up for dinner I said, "Hi!" and that they ought to invest in a dictionary for you on your next birthday. They might even want to get some of their money back from the college, since it didn't help.
you say you have "more than $1550 of development software on my machine" ... well if you wanted to start coding with QT... guess what? you just *DOUBLED* your expenses!
BZZZTTT!
What part of "more than" did you not understand?
Anyways.
The only other free toolkit that I know of is gtk. There might be others, but gtk and qt both have their advantages and disadvantages. Over all qt is a complete programming package, similar to MFC. Qt is much more than gtk though. Qt includes IO, database, and many other objects that gtk does not.
With all the supporting libraries that come with qt are similar you do not have to spend two weeks researching what database access api you want to use, or any other sort of issue similar. You simpley pull out the qt database connectivity objects.
Anyways, I'm not a huge qt fan as far as libraries go. I don't care for the qic stuff and such. But, the point is use the tool that will make you more productive. If qt covers its cost use it. But stop the idiot idea that because something is free it makes it better.
Reminds me of a signature I had once...
The ultimate dutch dilemma: free manure.
Only the US does bad things.
Please report to your local slashdot reprogramming center.
Micheal and Tim will be with you shortly.
$1550? That's nothing. Chump change.
If you are going to write software for a living, $1550 isn't even two weeks of pay. I can say easily where I work that I have more than $1550 of development software on my machine.
If you are starting your own business and writing for profit applications $1550 is a minor business expense compared to your time.
BZZZTTT!
It would really be:
Binary: 01 + 10 + (10 * 10) = 111 people.
All of them were downloaded by pirates!
No one actually paid for mozilla!
Those greedy bastards!
Wow, so the brits are so worked up about this. They are willing to run folks out of town and tar and feather?
You really think that folks will tip/sink boats with shipments coming into the country? You really think activists will vandalize farms that grow GM food?
A couple points: One, if it were truly a market issue, people would decide to buy or not to buy. What you have described is actually anarchists forcing their view on others through threat of force. That is not a market issue anymore than cousin Vinnie with a baseball bat.
Second point is this, if the cops are too busy to prevent the vandalism, maybe they'd be too busy to check out missing persons reports around the farmers trying to raise GM foods.
Not quite.
Couple things here. He has the right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. He also is allowed to travel in those endeavours.
However, the country is allowed (by the people) to make laws. One of those laws happens to be this particular type of passport. If he wishes to travel abroad now (which it becomes implemented) he is required to have his passport.
Nothing is changed here. We have always (within reasonable history) required passports. The only thing now is that the passports have digitalized information on them.
If we are required to show our passports or some form of id for domestic travel this will not be a large jump forward. As it is, for the last number of times I have traveled they require that I have shown my drivers license.
For a supposed tech site, there are a lot of luddites here.
My wife and I are both programmers, so we spend a fair amount of our time sitting infront of computers while at work.
:-)
The biggest thing we have found to help is cutting down our portions at meal time. This can be anywhere too.
At dinner, try making less, like just enough to sate your appetite, but not enough to feel full. This takes a little practice. I know I still occasionally will put too much into the pot when cooking.
When you head out for fast food, don't big size the meal. BK, Mc'Ds, Arbys, Wendy's are all terrible for this. Just go for the "normal" size or the small. Also, don't force yourself to eat all the fries, if you are sated at just half, call it good.
At full restaurants you can do this also (and more ideas). Don't feel you have to order the 16oz prime rib just because its a better deal than the 12oz. If you just cannot pass up the deal, plan on taking a doggy bag home with you. This has the added advantage of knowing you are going to eat some for lunch tommorrow that you want to save more for that. Also, if you have a spouse, share a dinner instead of each ordering one, with a plus of being a little cheaper.
Snacking isn't too bad as long as you do it right. Try eating triscuts or wheat thins for snacks instead of donuts or candybars. I find the fill me up quicker, but do make sure you rations a certain number at home and bring them to work with you, so you don't scarf down a full box in one day. Fruit is a good idea too. Especially bananas.
Eating less didn't help us loose much weight, but definitely helped us to stablize our weight. We did lose a little, but you still have a flabbyness if you don't work some muscle.
What we do is walks. I used to be a runner, but my knees don't hold out much after a 1/2 mile anymore. Walking is fun because you can actaully talk while doing it with your spouse (wives love talking, and its healthy for the relationship). Its also fairly low impact and you don't feel terribley exhausted when finished. We throw in some of those hand weights (1-3lbs) also to allow for a little toning in the arms also.
While you won't see changes terribely fast (10-15lbs in about 4 months) it does happen. We chose to do it this way as we think it will help us the most in long run. We just watch our rations, but still eat the good/yummy stuff. We do some exercise, which gets us off our duffs and away from the games at night. Over all, its a lifestyle change without all the negatives of doing it radically and easier to maintain.
Insert your right to swing your fist ends at my nose comment here.
Bah, we all know that no one would ever need more than 640 ip addresses.
Tin Foil Hat Theory:
Microsoft modified it's search engine before the article went live to make sure it could make these silly allegations seem real.
Granted, the other side of me suggests if you had searched "apple" in msn you would have found only entries on fruit.
Bah, give him a break, he "Drinks Alot." Which would probably explain "Alot" instead of "ALot" in his user name. He might just not be sober enough to spell right. Lord knows I probably am spelling things wrong as I type here too.
Why don't you just go to the "real f---ing bookstore?"
If you don't like how an online business does things, don't use the online business.
If you don't realize the difference between a brick and mortar store providing physical access the the product and an online store providing a digital copy of the product, you need to get your head examined.
Basically they would be giving the book away. My guess is that the publisher has a problem with that.
Original point, if you don't like the rules, don't play the game.
You're just upset we're better than you.
idiot
Actaully, I'd say an md5 checksum is worse.
Assuming the DNA sequence data is larger than the checksum size, there will be multiple possibilities for matches. Then you have a number (more than one) possible match, so you have to harrass more than one person.
Enemy-territory was the only thing I've used to download with bittorrent.
Bud, bad luck:
check this out.
Some guy named ADOT Troll posted your comment.
That and he got better karma than you.
Sorry, but that's like saying cholera is not bad as long as I don't catch it.
Wrong.
What you are missing is that cholera can be contracted without your specific intent to infect yourself with it (cholera is a bacteria infection, not a virus just for note).
You cannot "accidently" insert GPL code into your project. Someone has to intentionally insert that code. That is what you are missing, there is intent when using GPL'd code.
People do not intentionally insert viruses into themselves (minus vaccines, but that is a different story) that will harm themselves.
The lunch thief in my drilling crew was the motorman, who did five years in Kingston pen for armed robbery.
Claimed he was "reformed", so I guess he didn't really consider sandwich theft to be much of a crime.
I was tempted to add ex-lax or something worse just for him, but never got around to it.
Truth to tell, I don't think I'd ever have gotten around to pissing off the guy who was convicted of armed robbery too. Especially after he claims to have been "reformed" and is still stealing my lunch.
IANAMolecularBiologist
I wonder why it is so hard to find a full set of DNA.
I'd have thought that we had the tech to get gobs of DNA from all the different cells that we can salvage then take peices, even if from different cells, and then recombine them to get one full peice?
In theory the DNA should be the same in each cell, so if you take just find where the overlaps are between broken peices... Ah, what do I know, I'm just a code monkey...
I don't think this is how KDE does it, but you might want to look into this to get the effect your are desiring. .Xdefaults
Granted, you will need to know what are the keys to the values OO.org might use.
At work we often work with multipage tiff images (~650MB) that we need to pull individual images out of. We currently have a poorly implemented hack to do it, but I am looking to find a better library to do this. I was wondering if anyone has a decent java library that they know about.
Ideally something that works with msjava (java 1.1). I know in java 1.4 there is jai, but atleast immediately that does not seem to be a very understandable api.
Anyways, we'll see if this gets any hits.
I see this whine all the time.
What you are doing here (which is the whole point of copyright) is depriving the creator of the content an oppertunity to make money from their efforts.
With a physical item there is actaul deprivation of property, but most importantly the deprivation of value of the property. In an effort to allow people to make money through an additional avenue, other than production or direct service, copyright allows people to make money on ideas. These ideas are copyrighted so that the folks working on them can sustain a living and so that the artist does not have to either enter the manufaturing industry or services industry. It is an industry in and of itself.
While you may disagree with it, it is the law of the land. You have a choice, follow the law or break the law. In addition to this choice you also have the right to attempt to bring about change in the law.