so, java as a language - it's ok java as a platform - SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I so agree. Java was designed and developed with programmers in mind, NOT sysadmins. It may be a great language to code, but my heart sinks every time I come across it wearing my sysadmin hat.
6. The discussions are a waste of time 7. There is too much irrelevant information
eg a search for Clint Eastwood turns up this sort of stuff:
Filmography-
# The 77th Annual Academy Awards (2005) (TV) (also archive footage).... Himself - Winner: Best Picture, Best Director/Nominee: Best Actor in a Leading Role
Personally I rely on The All Movie Guide (http://www.allmovie.com/ much more, the writing is more mature and the information isn't diluted with crap you're not interested in.
A guy I used to work with was obsessed with the idea of augmenting his body with technology. Even went so far as to talk quite seriously about having his brain taken out of his skull and wired to machines as being the ultimate for him. Anyhoo, we were talking one day over lunch, and he was saying how neat it would be to have your brain wired to a mechanical hand, so all you had to do was think and the machine would move. I suggested to him what about having a computer wired into your hand, so you could program it to control your hand. He started getting excited at this, so I took it one step further - Hey! What if, ok, you took the wires from your brain and interfaced them with the wires in your hand! Then all you would have to do is think and your hand would just, like MOVE! He was practiacally wetting himself at this, jumping up and down in his chair, spilling lunch all over the place. The rest of the table were finding it hard to contain themselves as well.
I've been using Miranda for 6 months now on my work machine, and I've been very pleased with it. It just works, simple, un-bloated, and the UI doesn't look like the circus just rolled into town.
Sad to say it, but the only reason Russia signed was because it increases their chances of joining the WTO. There aren't any such compelling reasons for the US.
The one feature that has made the iPod what it is, is its original design. Apart from its looks and maybe the interface there is very little else that sets it apart from any similar products. Why is it only Apple that seem to be able to come up with anything original looking?
Apart from maybe the Olympus devices, the competition either play iPod wannabe, or fall back on the standard boring generic small electronic device look. How difficult can it be to hire some of the must be thousands of talented designers around and come up with something interesting?
Incidentally, the same can be said for the mobile phone industry which is devoid of interesting, innovative design. Apple could make a killing there in the same way if they wanted to.
They just need a little more focus from the various governments.
Of course this is the krux of it. The problem isn't that individuals carry on driving SUVs, or don't think about conserving power. The solution needs to happen top down. Big changes need to be made in the way we live, and this can only really happen when governments take the initiative.
But governments are reluctant to do anything about it because the results of any such legislation won't be 'voter visible' for a long time to come, and dare I say it, there's no buck to be made.
You obviously don't live in England. The rail infrastructure is so bad they have enough problems getting the trains to run on the rails let alone network traffic.
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so, java as a language - it's ok
java as a platform - SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I so agree. Java was designed and developed with programmers in mind, NOT sysadmins. It may be a great language to code, but my heart sinks every time I come across it wearing my sysadmin hat.
I saw this recently and thought how well it summed up Jobs' presentations, very funny:
P OD.mov
http://vpwpartners.blogs.com/SNLJOBSIPOD/JOBSSNLI
And by a strange co-incidence most slashdot readers' interactions with women produce exactly opposite results.
From the article - Chase said he thought that Wikipedia was a "gag" Web site
So presumably he didn't think he needed to take it down?
There are other Bollywoods I didn't know about?
6. The discussions are a waste of time
.... Himself - Winner: Best Picture, Best Director/Nominee: Best Actor in a Leading Role
7. There is too much irrelevant information
eg a search for Clint Eastwood turns up this sort of stuff:
Filmography-
# The 77th Annual Academy Awards (2005) (TV) (also archive footage)
Personally I rely on The All Movie Guide (http://www.allmovie.com/ much more, the writing is more mature and the information isn't diluted with crap you're not interested in.
Orlando..
I seem never to be able to upgrade gaim
Em, emerge gaim?
..cos a number of chicks I've met turned out to be like giant dinosaurs...
Try porting Windows to the XBox! Ha! ... Wait..
A guy I used to work with was obsessed with the idea of augmenting his body with technology. Even went so far as to talk quite seriously about having his brain taken out of his skull and wired to machines as being the ultimate for him. Anyhoo, we were talking one day over lunch, and he was saying how neat it would be to have your brain wired to a mechanical hand, so all you had to do was think and the machine would move. I suggested to him what about having a computer wired into your hand, so you could program it to control your hand. He started getting excited at this, so I took it one step further - Hey! What if, ok, you took the wires from your brain and interfaced them with the wires in your hand! Then all you would have to do is think and your hand would just, like MOVE! He was practiacally wetting himself at this, jumping up and down in his chair, spilling lunch all over the place. The rest of the table were finding it hard to contain themselves as well.
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. - George Orwell
nah, can't say it.
The Mars machinery had been cruising southward across the open parking lot-like landscape of Meridiani Planum full of lager
Just let him sleep it off, apart from a headache he'll be alright in the morning.
Its trademark 'sink plunger' attachment also reveals a terrifying new function.
It now does toilets as well?
a new type of bacteria that after being frozen 32,000 years
This is obviously a meaning for the word new I hadn't previously come across
Ah, that will be why I don't get them then, as I'm using Flashblock. Another reason to block flash, as if I needed one.
I want to know how they managed to balance what looks like a very real cat on this case.
Mod this up!
I've been using Miranda for 6 months now on my work machine, and I've been very pleased with it. It just works, simple, un-bloated, and the UI doesn't look like the circus just rolled into town.
Even Russia managed to ratify it recently.
Sad to say it, but the only reason Russia signed was because it increases their chances of joining the WTO. There aren't any such compelling reasons for the US.
The one feature that has made the iPod what it is, is its original design. Apart from its looks and maybe the interface there is very little else that sets it apart from any similar products. Why is it only Apple that seem to be able to come up with anything original looking?
Apart from maybe the Olympus devices, the competition either play iPod wannabe, or fall back on the standard boring generic small electronic device look. How difficult can it be to hire some of the must be thousands of talented designers around and come up with something interesting?
Incidentally, the same can be said for the mobile phone industry which is devoid of interesting, innovative design. Apple could make a killing there in the same way if they wanted to.
First, getting BSD up and running as a desktop requires a bit of work and a certain comfort level working with the command line.
:) out of the experience :
h andbook/desktop-summary.html
The instant workstation meta-port may take some of the pain (fun
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/
They just need a little more focus from the various governments.
Of course this is the krux of it. The problem isn't that individuals carry on driving SUVs, or don't think about conserving power. The solution needs to happen top down. Big changes need to be made in the way we live, and this can only really happen when governments take the initiative.
But governments are reluctant to do anything about it because the results of any such legislation won't be 'voter visible' for a long time to come, and dare I say it, there's no buck to be made.
or send the traffic through the rails
You obviously don't live in England. The rail infrastructure is so bad they have enough problems getting the trains to run on the rails let alone network traffic.
Three words I never thought I would see so close together.
..a large percentage of the world's IT staff are unhappy, and a large percentage of the world's IT is Windows based... Hum....