and, even if they found a suitable disk drive, how will they run the software necessary to interpret the information on the disk?
If you saw the first NerdTV interview with Andy Hertzfeld you'd have heard his story of having to write a custom piece of software so that he could read an ancient Mac disk with the source code for MacDraw on it. Fun stuff, but I doubt my grandkids would be that resourceful.
One of the best features of mozilla is the ctrl +/-/0 thing to control font size.
Try it out on the old and the new/. and judge for yourself but the new layout is a definate setback for me since I normally browse slashdot after increasing the font size.
Take special note of what happens at the transion from italic to normal text after bumping up the font. The problem may be even worse when viewed in IE as that thing can have some really adverse reactions to italic text combined with CSS driven layouts.
Moving the conversation to written form followed by conversation is how the marriage encounter program works. They place further constraints on things by pushing you to only write about your feelings and do so in the form of a love letter but once you give up on that bit (Neither my wife nor I could cope) you end up with a great tool for diffusing conflict.
Another use of the technique is to try it out with non-conflict related topics to stir up feelings and inspire conversations. It sounds dumb, but if you are in a rut after 10 years (13 for us) it's a nice tool to have in the shed.
pr0n jokes aside, I can see where I could suck up most of 300GB with some 'high quality' home movies of the kids at various school performances. A nice new digital twist to the tried and true torturing of visiting relatives via amature video.
The memorization of text thing may be more universal. I used to know a few bible thumpers who could rattle off significant chunks of it. They tended to be really good about pulling out random bits to support whatever argument they were making.
You missed the point or just had your own to make. I can't tell.
We have in Dune and HGTTG two films made bad (some say extremely bad) by trying to maintain some ties to the books while leaving the hardcore 'get-a-life' fans barking because they cut too many ties to the book.
There are plenty of good sci-fi adaptations out there (Bladerunner also comes to mind) that leave the book behind. but what I'm more curious to know about are examples of great non-scifi novels that have been turned into incomprehensible movies.
A: Hell yes they should. All linux kernels should download with at least two copies of the GPL to comply with thie requirement.
Honestly, Oracle can charge whatever they want. Let the market decide if it's a good idea. Gotta wonder what they are going to do when cell style processors start going into app/db servers though.
Amen. I saw lots of C++ CFD code that was abstracted to uselessness. Most science and engineering students of the time did not realize how ugly they were making things by abstracting some class for a basic operation and putting a million instances in a loop to run that operation using polymorphism.... Oops! Hey, why is the C++ version so damn slow? I saw plenty of CS grads who should have known better doing this kind of junk too.
On the other hand. It was possible to do good work too. I was a big fan of Blitz++ and other more mundane uses of templates and operator overloading. Some of the more elegant (very easy to read but doing alot of work efficiently) code I wrote was only possible in C++. I was dissapointed that none of it would ever translate into the languages to come sense those abilities have been blacklisted by the powers of language design.
It's not the quality or reputation of the shcool that counts so much. That's almost always something that rises with didstance from the institution anyway. Every good school has it's share of lousy professors and vice versa. The most highly reputed schools will have a real crap shoot of big name, brilliant professors that either can't teach to save their lives or are the best lecturers you've ever heard.
What really matters (to me) is the quality of your peers. Sure you are learning, but relative to what and who? Are you making frieds that you will want to call on later in life for references and job leads? Are they challenging you to keep up with their abilities? Are they brilliant but too competitive or arogant to be partners in learning?
So I guess we have passed the smell test here even if I did obfuscate my code with bad variable name choices. I don't feel too bad about it since you made me read python;-p.
Now the real question is how do I get/. to indent
my code properly?
But in this case the marketing campaign has
become part of the product. And appearantly, quite a few folks feeling that it's enhancing the quality of
the game for them. It's all a little weird for me (What's with the name, anyway?) but I'm not sure I'd lump this into
the same category as pay for play and secret decoder
rings.
OS X may have many advantages but after reading
Ars' recent bit about the new dual G5 boxes wherein they claim that
...it seems with this machine that the hardware has finally caught up with the GUI.
I feel like it would be a step backward. A well thought out, intuitive interface is nice and all but as long as I know what I'm doing I'd rather stay with something more responsive.
Do your homework right after class, and enjoy your evenings.
This is the best advice you've gotten. Just do the f'ing homework. Do it early, do it late, whatever, but just do it. All of it.
I'm no more intelligent than most of the folks that I went to school with except that I did my homeork and things worked out very well.
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and, even if they found a suitable disk drive, how will they run the software necessary to interpret the information on the disk?
If you saw the first NerdTV interview with Andy Hertzfeld you'd have heard his story of having to write a custom piece of software so that he could read an ancient Mac disk with the source code for MacDraw on it. Fun stuff, but I doubt my grandkids would be that resourceful.
One of the best features of mozilla is the ctrl +/-/0 thing to control font size.
/. and judge for yourself but the new layout is a definate setback for me since I normally browse slashdot after increasing the font size.
Try it out on the old and the new
Take special note of what happens at the transion from italic to normal text after bumping up the font. The problem may be even worse when viewed in IE as that thing can have some really adverse reactions to italic text combined with CSS driven layouts.
It would be nice if someone who knew more than me would comment on how the xscale processors may have figured into Apple's decision.
I think Cringely may have brought it up a few weeks back.
Moving the conversation to written form followed by conversation is how the marriage encounter program works. They place further constraints on things by pushing you to only write about your feelings and do so in the form of a love letter but once you give up on that bit (Neither my wife nor I could cope) you end up with a great tool for diffusing conflict.
Another use of the technique is to try it out with non-conflict related topics to stir up feelings and inspire conversations. It sounds dumb, but if you are in a rut after 10 years (13 for us) it's a nice tool to have in the shed.
pr0n jokes aside, I can see where I could suck up most of 300GB with some 'high quality' home movies of the kids at various school performances. A nice new digital twist to the tried and true torturing of visiting relatives via amature video.
The memorization of text thing may be more universal. I used to know a few bible thumpers who could rattle off significant chunks of it. They tended to be really good about pulling out random bits to support whatever argument they were making.
The finding could revolutionize the field of electronics, providing a leap ahead for everything from computers to batteries to medical equipment.
Too bad... If they had said it would help win the war on terror they might have gotten some future funding out of this impressive find.
I'll have to get back to you on that. What font size should I use?
You missed the point or just had your own to make. I can't tell.
We have in Dune and HGTTG two films made bad (some say extremely bad) by trying to maintain some ties to the books while leaving the hardcore 'get-a-life' fans barking because they cut too many ties to the book.
There are plenty of good sci-fi adaptations out there (Bladerunner also comes to mind) that leave the book behind. but what I'm more curious to know about are examples of great non-scifi novels that have been turned into incomprehensible movies.
From TFA
Did the script veer too far away from the source
material or tie itself in knots trying to keep
faith with it?
Bizarrely, I think the answer is both.
Wow, it's like Dune all over again. Gotta wonder
why sci-fi is so hard to get right. Maybe this
phenomena is not unique to the genre?
TFA goes on to mention in the conclusion that gamers may like the ability to do real work in the background while not interupting their game.
What the average user gets out of this? Hopefully a nice price cut on all those boring single core procs sometime soon.
> If /. wants to be taken seriously, ....
There's your problem right there. If you don't take this place seriously then it's not such a bad place to hang out.
Q: Should Dual Cores Require Dual Licenses?
A: Hell yes they should. All linux kernels should download with at least two copies of the GPL to comply with thie requirement.
Honestly, Oracle can charge whatever they want. Let the market decide if it's a good idea. Gotta wonder what they are going to do when cell style processors start going into app/db servers though.
Amen. I saw lots of C++ CFD code that was abstracted to uselessness. Most science and engineering students of the time did not realize how ugly they were making things by abstracting some class for a basic operation and putting a million instances in a loop to run that operation using polymorphism.... Oops! Hey, why is the C++ version so damn slow? I saw plenty of CS grads who should have known better doing this kind of junk too.
On the other hand. It was possible to do good work too. I was a big fan of Blitz++ and other more mundane uses of templates and operator overloading. Some of the more elegant (very easy to read but doing alot of work efficiently) code I wrote was only possible in C++. I was dissapointed that none of it would ever translate into the languages to come sense those abilities have been blacklisted by the powers of language design.
> 18. /. owners modding down anything disagreeing with the Slashbot secular, pro-Linux, uniformity.
/. owners."
19 should have been "Tin foil cap-sporting nerds complaining about linux biased moderation by
Oh well.
LoL, I can just see the look on my wife's face now. Thank god, for all our sake she isn't married to you! :-)
It's not the quality or reputation of the shcool that counts so much. That's almost always something that rises with didstance from the institution anyway. Every good school has it's share of lousy professors and vice versa. The most highly reputed schools will have a real crap shoot of big name, brilliant professors that either can't teach to save their lives or are the best lecturers you've ever heard.
What really matters (to me) is the quality of your peers. Sure you are learning, but relative to what and who? Are you making frieds that you will want to call on later in life for references and job leads? Are they challenging you to keep up with their abilities? Are they brilliant but too competitive or arogant to be partners in learning?
Good luck!
Looks more like brainfuck source to me.
Don't you try to out-obscure me buddy. Pablo Picaso may have been an asshole, but I'm no chump.
Now the real question is how do I get /. to indent
my code properly?
Good idea! And while we're at it, let's move all programming classes to brainfuck.
But in this case the marketing campaign has become part of the product. And appearantly, quite a few folks feeling that it's enhancing the quality of the game for them. It's all a little weird for me (What's with the name, anyway?) but I'm not sure I'd lump this into the same category as pay for play and secret decoder rings.
This immunity comes from having a $2K+ mortgage payment. The effect is also known as hypersensitivity or just-plain-bitterness.
I know my first thought was "Wow, that's some graphics card we're taling about... hahaha... grouble, grr...."
This is the best advice you've gotten. Just do the f'ing homework. Do it early, do it late, whatever, but just do it. All of it. I'm no more intelligent than most of the folks that I went to school with except that I did my homeork and things worked out very well.