The description has Markov Matrix written all over it. They are good at learning a language overtime and one of their characteristics is to to "make up" words of subsets of the stuff that it learns. since it learns contextual probability, the words look like they should fit, even though they aren't real words.
I have worked at two places where I had insane hours with no end in sight. it was so frustrating to see the idiot managers screwing things up over and over again and then having to work the hours to cover for them being morons, and they could go home. I just figured that was how things were - but now I am lucky and at a new place that has amazing hours. strict 8:30-5, and I've once had to stay "late" (which was until 6pm instead of 5pm). I get so much more done now. I am blown away - it is like a whole 'nother world. the owner of the company is very into a strong process and not needing to put in hours like that to burn out everyone - and it is really impressive in how well it works. at other jobs there would be days on end where I did nothing, and then would have to work non-stop for two weeks later on. now I just work steadily all week and have easy hours.
I will never go back to another place poorly managed like before.
that said, I then tend to get home and program some more on my own, but on my own projects.
I have a shell where I host my web pages and such... or at least theoretically where I would host them were I to have any. I ssh into that and use pine while at work, and then when I am home I use pop3 to yank it down.
this has worked well for me and I'm gonna stick to it. it isn't free like hotmail, doesn't have a slick web interface... or at least a web interface - but I like it well enough. (it is like free to me because I would have this account whether I were using the e-mail or not)
my inner monologue of music music by chance be the right stuff to put me out. I can sleep pretty much all the time unless I have major stimulants in my system. in fact, today I slept through my alarm and was late for work.
also, for me personally, if I turn up classical music I get vaguely annoyed and can't sleep - but if I crank say Tool, Rage Against the Machine, or even older stuff like Killing Joke - then I'm out like a light. My freshman year of college I scared my roommate on the first day there by falling asleep on the floor with White Zombie blasting on the stereo. he opened the door into my head and I didn't wake up.
I personally don't care about these studies to help me sleep - I do that quite well. I want to know how to stay awake.
if they are using neural nets and time series data - then I would feel better about this. but considering I didn't even click on the link, I guess I can only hope that is what they are doing.
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as with most screenshots, they look fantastic as little thumbnails, and then as they are larger, they look blocky and pixelated - as is what is to be expected.
I'm gonna start just sitting further away from my computer - that will make it always look snazzy
technically I haven't used that in over 2 years - but yeah, I know it. In terms of speed of a program, I prefer C/C++, in terms of speed/ease of writing, I'd prefer Perl or Java. VB tends to be a bit too dumb... if that is even possible.
What are these "annoying factors", I'm setting up a Windows 98 box right now and it keeps dropping into fucking safe mode, not many things more annoying then that.
Oh, I don't envy that - Win98 sucks and I would hate to have that as my dev environment. Don't know why your box is going safe mode, and I don't care - I would venture to guess though that you should check on how the hardware is setup.
As for why I found a Mac annoying, I had to program on them in the labs in college and they would crash all the time. They would freeze up, and if you were lucky, they would have to be restarted - if not, then you had to unplug them. Sometimes it would be bad coding that did it - but more often than not, you could run that code on the machine right next to it and it would be just dandy. Up until OS X I refused to get within 10ft of a Mac after those lab experiences. Programming on it was just overall very unpleasant.
1. They didn't get rid of their OS...they rewrote it. Windows 98 - > XP? HEH. 2. It's based on freebsd retard, get a clue.
They wrote FreeBSD? cool. and yeah, I guess I got that wrong - I had heard OpenBSD. As for comparing Win98 to XP - not sure the relevance there, but they are very different. But you want to slam Win systems I guess - you do that:)
What the hell is a window dressing. You have heard?! Why do you even care about the "command line stuff"...you're coding on windows so you obviously have probably never used much more command line then dos, loser.
A window dressing would be wrapping a fancy UI overtop of FreeBSD (again, I stand corrected on that I said OpenBSD). I care about command line stuff for the same reason I care about it on Windows or any other system - there are many things one can use them for - what exactly do you program? As for the "dos loser" comment, well played - I feel smaller than ever before. Apparently you missed the Linux reference.
I wouldn't want an ignorant person like you tarnishing the reputations of mac users everywhere. Don't use the platform. Stick with windows lamer.
hey, well, I'm sold:)
All those tools and more are availble for the MacOSX. If you'd do some simple research (say on the apple website for starters), you might find a little bit more.
LOL - right, I'll go right to the source and see what Apple has to say about their products. I'm sure they will be totally open and honest about what parts suck and what parts are great. Right. I asked here b/c I was hoping for more of a real world example over what Apple has to say.
Can you tell us WHY exactly it falls short...I haven't seen one arguement as to why it falls "short", window dressing boy.
My mom used to call me "window dressing boy"... hmm, perhaps this is she - mom? Anyway, the reason I felt Mac fell short in the past ranges from not having the ability to write multi-threaded apps, to disgustingly bad memory management, to the inability to easily access what is going on "behind the scenes" - which, again, is why I refused to look at it prior to OS X - now that this is out, I'm hoping that they are staying more towards the FreeBSD vein (again, a thousand apologies that I got that wrong).
1. Ease of use 2. An actual useable desktop unix platform 3. Fast 4. Easy to code for (using apple provided tools and 3rd party)
There, now was that so hard. You could have skipped so much of the flames and just written that. I find my other systems easy to use. I find several of the X Windows configurations perfectly usable for Linux - although enlightenment is a bit of a memory hog due innately to what it does. Fast... again, that is all relative - I think my stuff now is fast. Easy to code for - THERE - now that is a true difference!
Like I said before, stick with XP and your lame mandrake boxes. Obviously since you're running mandrake you probably don't even now how to admin a linux box anyway. Grow some balls and build a slack or gentoo box lamer.
Thanks for your time AC. As for me not knowing how to admin a linux box - I have run many of the different flavors since 1995 and have just found Mandrake nice to brainlessly install and let it go - in fact - I would guess that is much like the reason you would argue to use the Mac:)
Thanks again, glad to see another mature Mac user.
wow - very good to know. I really like the Ti laptop's looks - but have shied away b/c of the single mouse (yeah yeah, I know), and the fact that the whole thing gets hot.
I would probably end up getting a desktop b/c of that - but good to know.
actually I do care - thanks for the response. there are several things you said in there that sound very convincing. I wasn't trolling - I genuinely wanted a developer's opinion and not some loser in an ad that was too confused by Windows and that is why they switched.
basically, I should look at Mac OS X as unix with a stable X Windows over it that isn't as configurable as X Windows, but is faster.
and I don't mind that I "can't steal" the apps - I would buy them anyway, it is for a business.
if you are asking them actual questions that have definite single answers - what is to stop them from studying for it? wouldn't you rather have someone that can think on their feet rather than those that heard from a friend what your interview was like and studied to do well for that interview?
I am writing software for the PC crowd, and will eventually need to do so for a Mac. I have hated Macs for a long time - I have used them and never could get over huge annoying factors. But now that they got rid of their OS which was awful (for what I needed), and are now OpenBSD, I'm more likely to switch.
I have seen it, and it is really just window dressing as far as I'm concerned. I have heard that the command line stuff is slower now...
Anyway - I'd love for someone to sell me on why I should use this. Things I care about are price to performance ratio. Ease of programming (tools available - need mySQL, php, Perl, Java, C/C++, etc). Cost of maintenance (software and hardware upgrades), etc etc.
I have been over this before in the past on my own, and Mac always falls up short. The only thing that is slightly swaying me towards one now is that I need one to develop on to expand the potential client base available to my software.
Make it easier on me and give me some legitimate reasons that this is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Otherwise, I'm perfectly happy with my WinXP and Mandrake boxes that I have right now. Cheap, never crash, fast, and easy to use.
before I was darn positive I could be playing the new Doom 3 on it and bask in the sheer beauty. Now I have so few colors that I'm not even sure it is still truly color. I wonder if my e-mails and phone numbers will even work with the fewer colors? probably not.
I worked for a company that wrote software for a Japaense company's VoIP phones. Those things had some cool features - you could download pictures off the net and use them as icons on the phone's display, and you could download mp3s and use them as the ringer - a different one for various callers, as well as different "lines".
it was neat to see since really nobody uses them here in the states - but apparently it is really big over there.
Apache is nice and fast for serving up static pages, and really nice with php pages. But in my own personal experience, and this was 2 years ago, Tomcat was really slow. It seemed to be just average with jsp pages, and then the more towards the j2ee route you went, the more worthless it was. we were mainly using it as a quick and dirty testing/training server system, so I would assume that perhaps it has either come a long way since then, or it is only really meant to server jsp pages.
here in Boston a ton of them are painted up for various things. I meant paint them in a way so that as they moved it animated like the images in the tunnel...
I can recall when VNC was still on the AT&T labs site and they had this other thing that I thought was really cool and also really disturbing.
You would wear a tag on your shirt, presumably part of an id badge system already in place (or not). In that badge was... something magic - I'd assume a chip of somesort and maybe a transmitter. Then using the gridwork of a hanging ceiling, you would setup monitors at central places in each room (or several over large spaces). Then this would talk to your servers... or maybe the servers would talk to it... whatever.
The end result was you could finger someone and it would say where in the building they were - even with the ability for a graphical system as well (technically could even tie into a camera system, but that wasn't something they showed). So you could be sitting in a meeting, waiting for Larry (Larry is always late, that bastard), and then on your laptop there finger Larry and see that he is in the kitchen and has been there for 3 hours... perhaps Larry had a heart attack and is lying there dead (or just took off his id badge there and ran away, frolicking merrily in fields of poppies... you know, those fields that are near all offices). You could also finger rooms and see all the people in that room - so you could finger the bathroom and see who is in there, or who is gathering around the water cooler.
That alone made me want to start a company. Just to dick around with that.
I consulted on some neural net stuff for a company that does exactly what I said - there are a few of them that all compete.
I am surprised that they share the DB, but I guess it ends up being in their best interests.
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if you are just mentally counting, then they won't hurt you. they will just ask you to leave and intimidate you - but they have some degree of respect for the mental issue.
but if they catch you with a computer or any physical device that is helping you... then, well - at best you will lose the device, and at worst... a lot more.
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that thing totally just blends. I could see how people would just not notice a fire engine red barrel wandering through a party.
The description has Markov Matrix written all over it. They are good at learning a language overtime and one of their characteristics is to to "make up" words of subsets of the stuff that it learns.
since it learns contextual probability, the words look like they should fit, even though they aren't real words.
I have worked at two places where I had insane hours with no end in sight.
it was so frustrating to see the idiot managers screwing things up over and over again and then having to work the hours to cover for them being morons, and they could go home.
I just figured that was how things were - but now I am lucky and at a new place that has amazing hours. strict 8:30-5, and I've once had to stay "late" (which was until 6pm instead of 5pm).
I get so much more done now. I am blown away - it is like a whole 'nother world. the owner of the company is very into a strong process and not needing to put in hours like that to burn out everyone - and it is really impressive in how well it works.
at other jobs there would be days on end where I did nothing, and then would have to work non-stop for two weeks later on.
now I just work steadily all week and have easy hours.
I will never go back to another place poorly managed like before.
that said, I then tend to get home and program some more on my own, but on my own projects.
haven't seen that one before.
I'll have to start using that inappropriately in daily conversation as often as I can muster.
I have a shell where I host my web pages and such... or at least theoretically where I would host them were I to have any.
I ssh into that and use pine while at work, and then when I am home I use pop3 to yank it down.
this has worked well for me and I'm gonna stick to it. it isn't free like hotmail, doesn't have a slick web interface... or at least a web interface - but I like it well enough.
(it is like free to me because I would have this account whether I were using the e-mail or not)
my inner monologue of music music by chance be the right stuff to put me out. I can sleep pretty much all the time unless I have major stimulants in my system.
in fact, today I slept through my alarm and was late for work.
also, for me personally, if I turn up classical music I get vaguely annoyed and can't sleep - but if I crank say Tool, Rage Against the Machine, or even older stuff like Killing Joke - then I'm out like a light.
My freshman year of college I scared my roommate on the first day there by falling asleep on the floor with White Zombie blasting on the stereo. he opened the door into my head and I didn't wake up.
I personally don't care about these studies to help me sleep - I do that quite well. I want to know how to stay awake.
I was like a van halen wannabe - loved it.
if they are using neural nets and time series data - then I would feel better about this.
but considering I didn't even click on the link, I guess I can only hope that is what they are doing.
as with most screenshots, they look fantastic as little thumbnails, and then as they are larger, they look blocky and pixelated - as is what is to be expected.
I'm gonna start just sitting further away from my computer - that will make it always look snazzy
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excellent!
I'll miss that guy. I hope now instead they have a grumpy one that smokes cigars and swears a lot.
I like this guy!
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technically I haven't used that in over 2 years - but yeah, I know it. In terms of speed of a program, I prefer C/C++, in terms of speed/ease of writing, I'd prefer Perl or Java. VB tends to be a bit too dumb... if that is even possible.
What are these "annoying factors", I'm setting up a Windows 98 box right now and it keeps dropping into fucking safe mode, not many things more annoying then that.
Oh, I don't envy that - Win98 sucks and I would hate to have that as my dev environment. Don't know why your box is going safe mode, and I don't care - I would venture to guess though that you should check on how the hardware is setup.
As for why I found a Mac annoying, I had to program on them in the labs in college and they would crash all the time. They would freeze up, and if you were lucky, they would have to be restarted - if not, then you had to unplug them. Sometimes it would be bad coding that did it - but more often than not, you could run that code on the machine right next to it and it would be just dandy. Up until OS X I refused to get within 10ft of a Mac after those lab experiences. Programming on it was just overall very unpleasant.
1. They didn't get rid of their OS...they rewrote it. Windows 98 - > XP? HEH.
2. It's based on freebsd retard, get a clue.
They wrote FreeBSD? cool. and yeah, I guess I got that wrong - I had heard OpenBSD. As for comparing Win98 to XP - not sure the relevance there, but they are very different. But you want to slam Win systems I guess - you do that
What the hell is a window dressing. You have heard?! Why do you even care about the "command line stuff"...you're coding on windows so you obviously have probably never used much more command line then dos, loser.
A window dressing would be wrapping a fancy UI overtop of FreeBSD (again, I stand corrected on that I said OpenBSD). I care about command line stuff for the same reason I care about it on Windows or any other system - there are many things one can use them for - what exactly do you program? As for the "dos loser" comment, well played - I feel smaller than ever before. Apparently you missed the Linux reference.
I wouldn't want an ignorant person like you tarnishing the reputations of mac users everywhere. Don't use the platform. Stick with windows lamer.
hey, well, I'm sold
All those tools and more are availble for the MacOSX. If you'd do some simple research (say on the apple website for starters), you might find a little bit more.
LOL - right, I'll go right to the source and see what Apple has to say about their products. I'm sure they will be totally open and honest about what parts suck and what parts are great. Right. I asked here b/c I was hoping for more of a real world example over what Apple has to say.
Can you tell us WHY exactly it falls short...I haven't seen one arguement as to why it falls "short", window dressing boy.
My mom used to call me "window dressing boy"... hmm, perhaps this is she - mom?
Anyway, the reason I felt Mac fell short in the past ranges from not having the ability to write multi-threaded apps, to disgustingly bad memory management, to the inability to easily access what is going on "behind the scenes" - which, again, is why I refused to look at it prior to OS X - now that this is out, I'm hoping that they are staying more towards the FreeBSD vein (again, a thousand apologies that I got that wrong).
1. Ease of use
2. An actual useable desktop unix platform
3. Fast
4. Easy to code for (using apple provided tools and 3rd party)
There, now was that so hard. You could have skipped so much of the flames and just written that.
I find my other systems easy to use.
I find several of the X Windows configurations perfectly usable for Linux - although enlightenment is a bit of a memory hog due innately to what it does.
Fast... again, that is all relative - I think my stuff now is fast.
Easy to code for - THERE - now that is a true difference!
Like I said before, stick with XP and your lame mandrake boxes. Obviously since you're running mandrake you probably don't even now how to admin a linux box anyway. Grow some balls and build a slack or gentoo box lamer.
Thanks for your time AC. As for me not knowing how to admin a linux box - I have run many of the different flavors since 1995 and have just found Mandrake nice to brainlessly install and let it go - in fact - I would guess that is much like the reason you would argue to use the Mac
Thanks again, glad to see another mature Mac user.
wow - very good to know.
I really like the Ti laptop's looks - but have shied away b/c of the single mouse (yeah yeah, I know), and the fact that the whole thing gets hot.
I would probably end up getting a desktop b/c of that - but good to know.
LMAO - that was a joke right?
I come from a consulting background, so maybe I have a different view on it.
actually I do care - thanks for the response.
there are several things you said in there that sound very convincing.
I wasn't trolling - I genuinely wanted a developer's opinion and not some loser in an ad that was too confused by Windows and that is why they switched.
basically, I should look at Mac OS X as unix with a stable X Windows over it that isn't as configurable as X Windows, but is faster.
and I don't mind that I "can't steal" the apps - I would buy them anyway, it is for a business.
Thank you for your response.
if you are asking them actual questions that have definite single answers - what is to stop them from studying for it?
wouldn't you rather have someone that can think on their feet rather than those that heard from a friend what your interview was like and studied to do well for that interview?
I am writing software for the PC crowd, and will eventually need to do so for a Mac.
I have hated Macs for a long time - I have used them and never could get over huge annoying factors.
But now that they got rid of their OS which was awful (for what I needed), and are now OpenBSD, I'm more likely to switch.
I have seen it, and it is really just window dressing as far as I'm concerned.
I have heard that the command line stuff is slower now...
Anyway - I'd love for someone to sell me on why I should use this.
Things I care about are price to performance ratio. Ease of programming (tools available - need mySQL, php, Perl, Java, C/C++, etc). Cost of maintenance (software and hardware upgrades), etc etc.
I have been over this before in the past on my own, and Mac always falls up short.
The only thing that is slightly swaying me towards one now is that I need one to develop on to expand the potential client base available to my software.
Make it easier on me and give me some legitimate reasons that this is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Otherwise, I'm perfectly happy with my WinXP and Mandrake boxes that I have right now. Cheap, never crash, fast, and easy to use.
before I was darn positive I could be playing the new Doom 3 on it and bask in the sheer beauty. Now I have so few colors that I'm not even sure it is still truly color.
I wonder if my e-mails and phone numbers will even work with the fewer colors?
probably not.
I worked for a company that wrote software for a Japaense company's VoIP phones. Those things had some cool features - you could download pictures off the net and use them as icons on the phone's display, and you could download mp3s and use them as the ringer - a different one for various callers, as well as different "lines".
it was neat to see since really nobody uses them here in the states - but apparently it is really big over there.
Apache is nice and fast for serving up static pages, and really nice with php pages.
But in my own personal experience, and this was 2 years ago, Tomcat was really slow. It seemed to be just average with jsp pages, and then the more towards the j2ee route you went, the more worthless it was.
we were mainly using it as a quick and dirty testing/training server system, so I would assume that perhaps it has either come a long way since then, or it is only really meant to server jsp pages.
here in Boston a ton of them are painted up for various things.
I meant paint them in a way so that as they moved it animated like the images in the tunnel...
that way the people standing waiting on the train can see it as it pulls in, and as it pulls out (if the train is too croweded for the to get on).
okay, okay, not as cool.
the magnet door coil in cryptonomicon is the coolest.
I want those all over the place.
my credit cards would never work in person.
I can recall when VNC was still on the AT&T labs site and they had this other thing that I thought was really cool and also really disturbing.
You would wear a tag on your shirt, presumably part of an id badge system already in place (or not). In that badge was... something magic - I'd assume a chip of somesort and maybe a transmitter.
Then using the gridwork of a hanging ceiling, you would setup monitors at central places in each room (or several over large spaces).
Then this would talk to your servers... or maybe the servers would talk to it... whatever.
The end result was you could finger someone and it would say where in the building they were - even with the ability for a graphical system as well (technically could even tie into a camera system, but that wasn't something they showed).
So you could be sitting in a meeting, waiting for Larry (Larry is always late, that bastard), and then on your laptop there finger Larry and see that he is in the kitchen and has been there for 3 hours... perhaps Larry had a heart attack and is lying there dead (or just took off his id badge there and ran away, frolicking merrily in fields of poppies... you know, those fields that are near all offices).
You could also finger rooms and see all the people in that room - so you could finger the bathroom and see who is in there, or who is gathering around the water cooler.
That alone made me want to start a company. Just to dick around with that.
lol - Ocean's 11 reference?
I consulted on some neural net stuff for a company that does exactly what I said - there are a few of them that all compete.
I am surprised that they share the DB, but I guess it ends up being in their best interests.
if you are just mentally counting, then they won't hurt you. they will just ask you to leave and intimidate you - but they have some degree of respect for the mental issue.
but if they catch you with a computer or any physical device that is helping you... then, well - at best you will lose the device, and at worst... a lot more.