Thanks for the information! I do have to say that I'm a grad student right now so my time and money budget is fairly limited. Netflix is something I will definitely keep in mind when I graduate this this Spring when I hopefully will have a more disposable income. At that point I wouldn't mind doing away with cable and using Netflix to get the TV shows I follow.
I'm aware of what netflix offers and agree with you that it is a good deal. However at 13.99 I'd have to watch (about) 14 movies in a month to break even with my video store. Even if I watched one movie every 3 days my 'mom & pop' store comes out on top. I'm just not a voracious enough of a movie (or TV show) watcher for it to make sense for me.
Just curious, how many discs do you go through (on average) in a month?
About a 2 miles away from my house is a mom & pop video store. If you wait 9-12 months the 'new release' movies go to gallery. I can rent, for a week, three gallery movies @ 3 dollars. Granted you have to wait a while but that's not a big concern for me.
I agree with the parent. Until they (apple/netflix/etc) come down to that price it's not worth it to me. Besides, you do not have to worry about the internet crapping out.
Agreed. Why would I want to manually install 10 libraries (where they themselves might have dependencies that need met) when I can let the system do it. If I was on a system that made me do that I would write a script to automatically update the dependencies. But then I'm duplicating the work of 'yum' and 'apt-get' and whatever else is out there. So why not use a system that has all these things built in? It doesn't make sense to me to make things intentionally hard. Packages that I want to custom make I can still do that but why force all packages to be done that way?
You're correct, I was just not very clear. I meant that when creating an array you end up creating an array one size bigger when you're in the mindset of other languages. It's the only language (I have programmed in) that uses the last index instead of the element size.
VB.NET is as bad. If I remember correctly, when you declare an array's size, that 'size' is for the upper bound. And since VB.NET is zero based you end up making an array 1 size too big. Ie if you want to declare an 8 element array with a constructor val of 7 (7 being the highest index).
1 USB port. Seriously? You can have wired ethernet OR a superdrive OR any of a huge number of wired devices, until you end up getting one of those tiny and somewhat annoying USB hubs which don't seem to be as reliable as having multiple USB ports. I agree with you on only have 1 USB but I disagree with the USB hub not being reliable. I have one for my non-mac laptop which works quite well. It comes with a power supply, which I don't use since that's only required for stuff that needs to be powered (usb harddrive, phone datalink etc) and I typically only have one of those plugged in at a time.
I actually find the hub quite useful. I've never had an issue with Linux or windows recognizing devices. I have a printer/keyboard/mouse hooked in to it so that I only have to plug/unplug one usb cable instead of 3.
From my experience IE7 is much slower than firefox... especially opening tabs. I'm sure it's a different experience with the newer computers but from the outlook of my parents (who have a 5 year old dell that works fine) firefox is much more efficient. I guess that's the bottom line, newer computers can mask some of the bloat (which IE7 has).
As far as designing websites for it I do agree with you. You can finally leave behind some of the ugly hacks you needed to make IE6 work.
Same deal with a guy I knew in high school on a bike. He got hit by a car while crossing the road on it and the doctor told him that he probably would have been hurt more. Though this summer I flipped my bicycle and ending up breaking my elbow. I had scrapes on my helmet that would have been scrapes on my head...
There's always going to be exceptions to the rule.
Believe me, having owned the Atari 400 (my first computer), at that time; I would've given my right arm for a keyboard that good! I don't know...losing an arm would balance out a better keyboard in my opinion.
No, for me it is all about getting work done and I don't want the OS getting in my way or becoming an impediment to accomplishing things and I don't want to have to spend time with all of our students on various flavors of Linux. I've had Ubuntu Dapper on my laptop and have just recently switched to Fedora 8 for a spin. Those two installations (and I'm sure the newer Ubuntus are better) were much less painful then a Windows Installations. I've never had any trouble testing GCC compiled applications on Ubuntu/Fedora and then uploading them to the school's solaris box. Also, those two distros have been very good at automatically providing a good base (Xorg configure/network/desktop).
I'm curious
(a) what type of applications you were writing and
(b) what problems you had with students having different linux distros
(c) how did the OS impede you
I'm sure our circumstances are different but I just haven't experienced what you've mentioned.
I've heard (and from my experiences I think is true) that people who are good at development are not necessarily the best for design, and vice versus. There's always exceptions, and I'm sure some on this site will say that they can do both well. If I was independently writing a software (for the general population) I'd want someone to do the UI, because my mind doesn't work that way.
Besides making UIs that look 'pretty' these are ideas that I've been pointed to in classes here and here. They are useful for both developers and designers of GUIs.
If you haven't noticed, I'm funny and enjoy having fun. Enjoy my site, tell me if you use my projects. Don't take it too seriously though, it's all an act. It looks like slashdot may have been hoodwinked.
What ever happened to email or mobile phone text? That's why I stopped using facebook. You get an email that says you have to log in to check your message when it'd be so much simpler if facebook sent you an email with the message. That's what led me to culling those 'friends' that you haven't talked since high school and putting a profile that only lists my email to contact me. The only new information those sites give me is information about people you wouldn't normally spend the effort to keep in touch with (In my opinion at least).
Plus those stupid vampire/pirate invitations. Sorry, I can waste my time better.
Pine is installed on my university's unix box, that the comp sci students do their work. If I'm on campus, I'll frequently ssh into that box to use pine instead of using webmail. For all the 'fancy-ness' of these webmail's AJAX crap, pine still outperforms them. So yeah, I'd agree with you that pine still has a use.
Thanks for you reply! I'd much rather know it's reasonably stable then be on the cutting edge anyways. Dapper's 'non core' stuff is not very fresh. For example, Firefox is currently at 1.5 (at least through the packages). If FreeBSD would save me time in checking that stuff for updates then it sounds worth it...
You are correct. It's been 4 years since Microsoft has developed IE for the Mac and two years since it was supported.;). See here. Even though this is the case, a certain individual at my university will complain to our web team that a page doesn't work correctly with Mac IE.
Maybe I didn't expand on my comments enough because I agree with what you said. In fact, my part time job in college is/was coding website from a design. I agree that WSYWIG's destroy that design. There is a place for them though... for the content area that users need to update. There's where the CMS's come in to play. They're (IMHO) for the secretaries of departments (as an example) that need to do updates and don't have the time to use HTML. CMSs will also limit the damage they can do where giving full FTP access can't or where giving FrontPage access can't. That's where I'm coming from.
Oh, and if you can do both designing and developing my hat goes off to you.
Thanks for your comment. I've been running Ubuntu's Dapper for a while and I'd like to update my system because some of the tools are outdated, like gcc From what I've read, FreeBSD makes it easy to upgrade between versions where Ubuntu, I've found, makes it hard to jump between versions. At least that's the case with long term support (LTS) Ubuntu version.
From your experience, does FreeBSD keep fairly close to the latest stable version of typical unix/linux programs in their packages (if that's the term FreeBSD uses)? I'm thinking of gcc, and others of that ilk. I figure it'll be up to me to keep up with my favorite IDE, and programs of that sort, but it'd be nice for the system to keep track of the typical 'standards'.
Agreed.
Designer creates the look of the website.
Developer makes the site.
CMS is only for editing the content section of an end user, only so the IT staff doesn't waste time doing content update.
It's fairly infrequent that someone excels in both Designing and Developing a site (from my little experience at least).
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Thanks for the information! I do have to say that I'm a grad student right now so my time and money budget is fairly limited. Netflix is something I will definitely keep in mind when I graduate this this Spring when I hopefully will have a more disposable income. At that point I wouldn't mind doing away with cable and using Netflix to get the TV shows I follow.
I'm aware of what netflix offers and agree with you that it is a good deal. However at 13.99 I'd have to watch (about) 14 movies in a month to break even with my video store. Even if I watched one movie every 3 days my 'mom & pop' store comes out on top. I'm just not a voracious enough of a movie (or TV show) watcher for it to make sense for me.
Just curious, how many discs do you go through (on average) in a month?
About a 2 miles away from my house is a mom & pop video store. If you wait 9-12 months the 'new release' movies go to gallery. I can rent, for a week, three gallery movies @ 3 dollars. Granted you have to wait a while but that's not a big concern for me. I agree with the parent. Until they (apple/netflix/etc) come down to that price it's not worth it to me. Besides, you do not have to worry about the internet crapping out.
Agreed. Why would I want to manually install 10 libraries (where they themselves might have dependencies that need met) when I can let the system do it. If I was on a system that made me do that I would write a script to automatically update the dependencies. But then I'm duplicating the work of 'yum' and 'apt-get' and whatever else is out there. So why not use a system that has all these things built in? It doesn't make sense to me to make things intentionally hard. Packages that I want to custom make I can still do that but why force all packages to be done that way?
You're correct, I was just not very clear. I meant that when creating an array you end up creating an array one size bigger when you're in the mindset of other languages. It's the only language (I have programmed in) that uses the last index instead of the element size.
VB.NET is as bad. If I remember correctly, when you declare an array's size, that 'size' is for the upper bound. And since VB.NET is zero based you end up making an array 1 size too big. Ie if you want to declare an 8 element array with a constructor val of 7 (7 being the highest index).
;)
correct me if I'm wrong, I'm too lazy to verify
I actually find the hub quite useful. I've never had an issue with Linux or windows recognizing devices. I have a printer/keyboard/mouse hooked in to it so that I only have to plug/unplug one usb cable instead of 3.
I would say you're not cynical enough. My opinion is that the illusion of fairness will be broken.
From my experience IE7 is much slower than firefox ... especially opening tabs. I'm sure it's a different experience with the newer computers but from the outlook of my parents (who have a 5 year old dell that works fine) firefox is much more efficient. I guess that's the bottom line, newer computers can mask some of the bloat (which IE7 has).
As far as designing websites for it I do agree with you. You can finally leave behind some of the ugly hacks you needed to make IE6 work.
A hoopy frood always knows where his towel is.
Same deal with a guy I knew in high school on a bike. He got hit by a car while crossing the road on it and the doctor told him that he probably would have been hurt more. Though this summer I flipped my bicycle and ending up breaking my elbow. I had scrapes on my helmet that would have been scrapes on my head...
There's always going to be exceptions to the rule.
How is Yahoo improving my inbox when I don't have a yahoo account?
I'm curious
(a) what type of applications you were writing and
(b) what problems you had with students having different linux distros
(c) how did the OS impede you
I'm sure our circumstances are different but I just haven't experienced what you've mentioned.
I've heard (and from my experiences I think is true) that people who are good at development are not necessarily the best for design, and vice versus. There's always exceptions, and I'm sure some on this site will say that they can do both well. If I was independently writing a software (for the general population) I'd want someone to do the UI, because my mind doesn't work that way.
Besides making UIs that look 'pretty' these are ideas that I've been pointed to in classes here and here. They are useful for both developers and designers of GUIs.
Al Gore would eat you alive if you heard that ... and frankly it looks like he's done it before.
If you haven't noticed, I'm funny and enjoy having fun. Enjoy my site, tell me if you use my projects. Don't take it too seriously though, it's all an act. It looks like slashdot may have been hoodwinked.
Plus those stupid vampire/pirate invitations. Sorry, I can waste my time better.
Except when people discuss about not discussing it ... which is actually counter-productive to their argument ;)
Pine is installed on my university's unix box, that the comp sci students do their work. If I'm on campus, I'll frequently ssh into that box to use pine instead of using webmail. For all the 'fancy-ness' of these webmail's AJAX crap, pine still outperforms them. So yeah, I'd agree with you that pine still has a use.
Thanks for you reply! I'd much rather know it's reasonably stable then be on the cutting edge anyways. Dapper's 'non core' stuff is not very fresh. For example, Firefox is currently at 1.5 (at least through the packages). If FreeBSD would save me time in checking that stuff for updates then it sounds worth it...
You are correct. It's been 4 years since Microsoft has developed IE for the Mac and two years since it was supported. ;). See here. Even though this is the case, a certain individual at my university will complain to our web team that a page doesn't work correctly with Mac IE.
Maybe I didn't expand on my comments enough because I agree with what you said. In fact, my part time job in college is/was coding website from a design. I agree that WSYWIG's destroy that design. There is a place for them though... for the content area that users need to update. There's where the CMS's come in to play. They're (IMHO) for the secretaries of departments (as an example) that need to do updates and don't have the time to use HTML. CMSs will also limit the damage they can do where giving full FTP access can't or where giving FrontPage access can't. That's where I'm coming from.
Oh, and if you can do both designing and developing my hat goes off to you.
Thanks for your comment. I've been running Ubuntu's Dapper for a while and I'd like to update my system because some of the tools are outdated, like gcc From what I've read, FreeBSD makes it easy to upgrade between versions where Ubuntu, I've found, makes it hard to jump between versions. At least that's the case with long term support (LTS) Ubuntu version.
From your experience, does FreeBSD keep fairly close to the latest stable version of typical unix/linux programs in their packages (if that's the term FreeBSD uses)? I'm thinking of gcc, and others of that ilk. I figure it'll be up to me to keep up with my favorite IDE, and programs of that sort, but it'd be nice for the system to keep track of the typical 'standards'.
Agreed.
Designer creates the look of the website.
Developer makes the site.
CMS is only for editing the content section of an end user, only so the IT staff doesn't waste time doing content update.
It's fairly infrequent that someone excels in both Designing and Developing a site (from my little experience at least).