Really? Interesting question. May be area-dependent as well. I've not noticed that myself, but I've mostly worked in acedemic environments rather than corporate. But then again, chewing is something easier to keep from view than smoking- you're not as rank, yellow fingers, etc etc.
I've not read enough about caffeine, but I know some drugs do change brain and/or body chemistry quite a bit. "flushing toxins" does sound quite vague though, yes. In the instance of opiates, when an opiate comes along, whether its morphine or a built-in endorphin, the brain releases a chemical which counters the effects. Research has shown this is what is responsible for the nasty feelings during opiate withdrawl- injecting this counter chemical by itself brings about the same effects as a real withdrawl.
Not a chemical in the general blood stream, but in the brain.
It's too bad the FDA said no to that nicotine water... It's a lot less fucking sick than chew spit all over your workplace in the garbage can and coke cans and mountain dew bottles. Mmm mmm good! Much smaller chance for cancer too. Nothing like having to get your face removed because a cancer is eating it. Double good!
Similar thing for most opiate addictions, heroin included. Physical addiction is gone in 3-4 days, and the rest after that is readjusting to not getting high everyday. But it sure as hell isn't easy- with heroin or nicotine.
Ugh, except CORBA is a huge pain in the ass compared to SOAP or XML-RPC. Does a lot more, though. Shame there isn't something inbetween, more power and flexibility but as easy to use as SOAP or XML-RPC. Languages with decent introspective/reflective capabilities should make it relatively easy to implement such a system.
What you describe is possible using XML-RPC or SOAP. Simply have the data source make calls to the "client" when it has new data. And when that happens, the "client" processes the data, whatever. A setup that did this automatically would probably not be much different than this underneath. Simply have the client register itself as wanting the data, etc etc.
It may be hard to comprehend, but different strokes for different folks.
OpenStep was far from a failed venture. NeXT was started around 1991, with cubes and NeXTSTEP first coming out in 92 or 93. No, it never sold like PCs. Hardware business sucked, so they moved to just the OS, with OpenStep, which ran/runs on m68k NeXT hardware, x86 machines, SPARC and PA-RISC (HP-UX) machines. Again, it wasn't used as widely as NT, 95 or Solaris, but it was used a fair amount in some sectors. Home users were rightly deterred by its price.
Solid software, a lot to like and learn from in there.
I wouldn't consider it a failure- Mac OS X is pretty much OpenStep version 6. And as others have pointed out, OS X is the top Unix seller these days, used on the desktop moreso than the server.
And if you think QNX is another failed venture than you're pretty out of touch...
Hell, and if you're not coding in a compile-cycle intensive language like C, C++ or Java, you can do full development on the 400 MHz XScale as well. In addition to some scripting languages- mostly Dialect, REBOL, and Perl- I code in Smalltalk. Smalltalk is a compiled language, although bytecode-compiled like Java. But the compilation happens when you save the work you've done on a method, which takes a super tiny fraction of a second, and a slightly larger fraction of a second on a machine of this speed- but still usually less than a second!
I have tried GCC for CE on the Sig3 and it is a pain. I wouldn't do C development on something this fast, though I have done it on machines far slower running Turbo C and DOS.
Speed of this box is somewhere mid to late 90s. It may be 400 MHz, but it's not as fast as a 400 MHz P2. Though in the Smalltalk benchmarks I use, it scores somewhere near my K6-2/350 server.
Though, I would happily take a 1 GHz XScale. They exist, but not in any products I know of.
I know, I know. I am nerd. But not a troll. But there is something to be said to having my primary computer ready-to-go in my pocket, usable a second after I hit the power button.
It is a Sigmarion III palmtop. Kind of like a PDA, kind of like a laptop. I do my coding- including compilation, running, and testing, email (well, ssh'd pine), web, etc etc. I use a regular XP or OS X desktop at work, though.
One can also run CE on x86 PCs. For a while, I did that on a K6-2 machine that was my main computer, though that has since been made into a fileserver in Linux. Can't fit all of my MP3s and every other file I've had on any a memory card (unless it's a 40 GB PCMCIA HD, though the Sig3 hasn't PCMCIA unlike my last WinCE box), but I don't need most of them, streaming mp3s and mounting the other shares easily via Samba.
I was a Linux and OpenStep guy, still am, though I use more OS X than OpenStep these days. But my primary computer at home is a Windows CE machine. Why? Sound insane? Nah, well, maybe a little.
CE is very much a "real OS," though certainly with some limitations. It is tiny and fast. Apps for it tend to be the same. I've found it to be stable, more so than even the Linux PDAs I've owned and used. In a 32 MB ROM, I've got the OS, Office, a pretty darn modern version of IE, and more. In 128 MB of my SD card, I've got a bunch of Unix apps (including perl, LaTeX, wget, ftp, ssh, python, many others), my whole development environment for my chosen language- Squeak Smalltalk, Emacs for CE, VNC, and other apps. I've got a tabbed web browser that simply embeds IE and is a whopping 40 kb.
I think the source of this problem of yours is that no device that just plays Dave Mathews is worth any price, be it $99 or $399. Maybe 50 cents, but that's about where it ends.
Yeah, the bigger drive is more expensive. The difference between a 2 GB and a 40 GB drive isn't "slight," especially at the size of the drive we're talking about. I bought a 2 GB PCMCIA drive (same kind as in the iPod) for $70 well over a year ago; at the same time, a 30 GB one cost $500. The drives are cheaper a year later, but there is no reason Apple can magically escape the price curve.
or... if you're buying those songs in albums and not individually like a schmuck:
10 GB/7 MB = 1428 songs
1428 songs * (9.99 * 12 songs) = 1188.81
shoulda got a BS not a BA...
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there is your problem- you got a BA and not a BS. A degree in Art, not Science. No one wnats you then, you're just a tree-hugging socialist or something after everything is said and down- when you only have a BA. go back for the BS, take the couple math classes and science with lab and without lab requirements and you will be eaten up.
I wish I could buy a bunch of RFID tags myself, and have my PDA have an RFID reader built-in or as a CF card. I'd love to be able to tag my house and have programming on the PDA take action depending on where you are. For instance, when I walk out the door, get a reminder to make sure to bring some book with me, etc. I could have a timed reminder, but there is a little chance that'd hit right when I'm leaving the house to catch the bus. Do a quick scan in the fridge, find out what 's in there and how old it is- so I throw away what I should and add to my list what I should pick up.
That said, I really am not interested in RFID past that too much. A lot of the potential applications- the one the companies are interested in- are kind of creepy.
I swear- there is second Wilhelm-like scream in Star Wars. Though I can't remember which damn movie, and I don't have a sample of the sound. And isn't the Wilhelm. It's a scream- perhaps when one of the X-wings are blowing up- that I've heard in a lot of other movies, though no where near as much as the classic Wilhelm.
Now that sounds interesting. I was wondering why "chess boxing" would be of any note considering there is no integration at all. You could take any two random activities and smash them together but avoiding creating anything new- Masturbation Hop-Scotch, Nose-picking Line-dancing, etc. Big deal.
Whereas this "chess around the house" sounds like a clever and fun idea. If I liked running or played chess I'd totally try this, to put an extra edge on my matches.
The reason he was modded down had little to do with the painful truth. The difference between his post and yours is the difference between something modded as "insightful" and a troll. If you can't see what he said to be labelled a troll... well, then you must be *really* conservative.:)
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Really? Interesting question. May be area-dependent as well. I've not noticed that myself, but I've mostly worked in acedemic environments rather than corporate. But then again, chewing is something easier to keep from view than smoking- you're not as rank, yellow fingers, etc etc.
I've not read enough about caffeine, but I know some drugs do change brain and/or body chemistry quite a bit. "flushing toxins" does sound quite vague though, yes. In the instance of opiates, when an opiate comes along, whether its morphine or a built-in endorphin, the brain releases a chemical which counters the effects. Research has shown this is what is responsible for the nasty feelings during opiate withdrawl- injecting this counter chemical by itself brings about the same effects as a real withdrawl.
Not a chemical in the general blood stream, but in the brain.
It's too bad the FDA said no to that nicotine water... It's a lot less fucking sick than chew spit all over your workplace in the garbage can and coke cans and mountain dew bottles. Mmm mmm good! Much smaller chance for cancer too. Nothing like having to get your face removed because a cancer is eating it. Double good!
Similar thing for most opiate addictions, heroin included. Physical addiction is gone in 3-4 days, and the rest after that is readjusting to not getting high everyday. But it sure as hell isn't easy- with heroin or nicotine.
Ugh, except CORBA is a huge pain in the ass compared to SOAP or XML-RPC. Does a lot more, though. Shame there isn't something inbetween, more power and flexibility but as easy to use as SOAP or XML-RPC. Languages with decent introspective/reflective capabilities should make it relatively easy to implement such a system.
The kind of RPC and IPC problems you mention is what systems like .NET have been designed to solve.
What you describe is possible using XML-RPC or SOAP. Simply have the data source make calls to the "client" when it has new data. And when that happens, the "client" processes the data, whatever. A setup that did this automatically would probably not be much different than this underneath. Simply have the client register itself as wanting the data, etc etc.
I concurr- I never saw what was wrong with just using gzipped XML-RPC or SOAP. Apache mod and everything, almost no setup involved.
binary XML? Is that like "wireless DSL" I've heard advertised in my area?
It may be hard to comprehend, but different strokes for different folks.
OpenStep was far from a failed venture. NeXT was started around 1991, with cubes and NeXTSTEP first coming out in 92 or 93. No, it never sold like PCs. Hardware business sucked, so they moved to just the OS, with OpenStep, which ran/runs on m68k NeXT hardware, x86 machines, SPARC and PA-RISC (HP-UX) machines. Again, it wasn't used as widely as NT, 95 or Solaris, but it was used a fair amount in some sectors. Home users were rightly deterred by its price.
Solid software, a lot to like and learn from in there.
I wouldn't consider it a failure- Mac OS X is pretty much OpenStep version 6. And as others have pointed out, OS X is the top Unix seller these days, used on the desktop moreso than the server.
And if you think QNX is another failed venture than you're pretty out of touch...
Hell, and if you're not coding in a compile-cycle intensive language like C, C++ or Java, you can do full development on the 400 MHz XScale as well. In addition to some scripting languages- mostly Dialect, REBOL, and Perl- I code in Smalltalk. Smalltalk is a compiled language, although bytecode-compiled like Java. But the compilation happens when you save the work you've done on a method, which takes a super tiny fraction of a second, and a slightly larger fraction of a second on a machine of this speed- but still usually less than a second!
I have tried GCC for CE on the Sig3 and it is a pain. I wouldn't do C development on something this fast, though I have done it on machines far slower running Turbo C and DOS.
Speed of this box is somewhere mid to late 90s. It may be 400 MHz, but it's not as fast as a 400 MHz P2. Though in the Smalltalk benchmarks I use, it scores somewhere near my K6-2/350 server.
Though, I would happily take a 1 GHz XScale. They exist, but not in any products I know of.
MUHAHAHA!
I know, I know. I am nerd. But not a troll. But there is something to be said to having my primary computer ready-to-go in my pocket, usable a second after I hit the power button.
It is a Sigmarion III palmtop. Kind of like a PDA, kind of like a laptop. I do my coding- including compilation, running, and testing, email (well, ssh'd pine), web, etc etc. I use a regular XP or OS X desktop at work, though.
One can also run CE on x86 PCs. For a while, I did that on a K6-2 machine that was my main computer, though that has since been made into a fileserver in Linux. Can't fit all of my MP3s and every other file I've had on any a memory card (unless it's a 40 GB PCMCIA HD, though the Sig3 hasn't PCMCIA unlike my last WinCE box), but I don't need most of them, streaming mp3s and mounting the other shares easily via Samba.
I was a Linux and OpenStep guy, still am, though I use more OS X than OpenStep these days. But my primary computer at home is a Windows CE machine. Why? Sound insane? Nah, well, maybe a little.
CE is very much a "real OS," though certainly with some limitations. It is tiny and fast. Apps for it tend to be the same. I've found it to be stable, more so than even the Linux PDAs I've owned and used. In a 32 MB ROM, I've got the OS, Office, a pretty darn modern version of IE, and more. In 128 MB of my SD card, I've got a bunch of Unix apps (including perl, LaTeX, wget, ftp, ssh, python, many others), my whole development environment for my chosen language- Squeak Smalltalk, Emacs for CE, VNC, and other apps. I've got a tabbed web browser that simply embeds IE and is a whopping 40 kb.
I think the source of this problem of yours is that no device that just plays Dave Mathews is worth any price, be it $99 or $399. Maybe 50 cents, but that's about where it ends.
Yeah, the bigger drive is more expensive. The difference between a 2 GB and a 40 GB drive isn't "slight," especially at the size of the drive we're talking about. I bought a 2 GB PCMCIA drive (same kind as in the iPod) for $70 well over a year ago; at the same time, a 30 GB one cost $500. The drives are cheaper a year later, but there is no reason Apple can magically escape the price curve.
iPod batteries aren't free. Therefore there will always be idiots who cry about them.
Most custom laptop and PDA batteries are $70-120, some even up to $200. It sucks, but what do you expect?
or... if you're buying those songs in albums and not individually like a schmuck:
10 GB/7 MB = 1428 songs
1428 songs * (9.99 * 12 songs) = 1188.81
there is your problem- you got a BA and not a BS. A degree in Art, not Science. No one wnats you then, you're just a tree-hugging socialist or something after everything is said and down- when you only have a BA. go back for the BS, take the couple math classes and science with lab and without lab requirements and you will be eaten up.
mmm, munch munch BS CS student.
Nope, but I know what you mean. I really should get around to making a sample of it.
It's a long scream, goes gradually down in pitch over the course of the scream, rather than the low to high pitch of the Wilhelm.
Elijah is a black name?
I mean, it's not like it's Tyronequah or something.
Why the hell would it matter if Will Smith played the Robot or not? Unless he's a shitty actor or something.
I wish I could buy a bunch of RFID tags myself, and have my PDA have an RFID reader built-in or as a CF card. I'd love to be able to tag my house and have programming on the PDA take action depending on where you are. For instance, when I walk out the door, get a reminder to make sure to bring some book with me, etc. I could have a timed reminder, but there is a little chance that'd hit right when I'm leaving the house to catch the bus. Do a quick scan in the fridge, find out what 's in there and how old it is- so I throw away what I should and add to my list what I should pick up.
That said, I really am not interested in RFID past that too much. A lot of the potential applications- the one the companies are interested in- are kind of creepy.
I swear- there is second Wilhelm-like scream in Star Wars. Though I can't remember which damn movie, and I don't have a sample of the sound. And isn't the Wilhelm. It's a scream- perhaps when one of the X-wings are blowing up- that I've heard in a lot of other movies, though no where near as much as the classic Wilhelm.
Anyone have any idea what I'm talking about?
Now that sounds interesting. I was wondering why "chess boxing" would be of any note considering there is no integration at all. You could take any two random activities and smash them together but avoiding creating anything new- Masturbation Hop-Scotch, Nose-picking Line-dancing, etc. Big deal.
Whereas this "chess around the house" sounds like a clever and fun idea. If I liked running or played chess I'd totally try this, to put an extra edge on my matches.
The reason he was modded down had little to do with the painful truth. The difference between his post and yours is the difference between something modded as "insightful" and a troll. If you can't see what he said to be labelled a troll... well, then you must be *really* conservative. :)