Wow, that kicked ass. The worst part is that it is the funniest thing I've read in a while and I can't tell anyone about it because they'd just look at me like...well, like they always do when I try to tell them about something I read on Slashdot...
Go to the GiS page, click on 'Past Shows', go to the bottom, click 'more geeks', on that page you'll see 'Episode 3.1: Test of the Slashdot Emergency Broadcast System This is a service patch for episode 3. 7/29/99'
Uh... if your using 16,384 local variables in a function please goto the mall and get a job selling shoes and never never never ever write another line of code.
Uh... if you didn't realize that that was supposed to be humorous please goto cnet.com and post in the Talkback forums and never never never ever read another Slashdot comment.
I think it may have to do with the fact that GiS released a 'patch' to episode 3. I guess it was supposed to be episode 3.1 but the file name was geeks31.mp3, which would conflict with the next episode if they kept the naming scheme up (since the last one was episode 30).
Then again, it may be that Hemos actually said that, and since the latest episode was episode 30, well, that would be that.
And finally, it may have to do with that Bill Gates quote from like, 1983, where he said something like "64k ought to be enough for anybody", or something like that. The numbers may be wrong, but you get the idea...
every flippin topic that goes through slashdot there is some retard that has to say something about beowulf clusters
And every one of those has to have a reply complaining about the fact that every article has someone talking about Beowulf clusters. Damn, it's like we have a Beowulf cluseter of you people complaining about Beowulf clusters in some kind of recursive Beowulf cluster nightmare.
Microsoft didn't write it, Stardock did, read the post you replied to. The reason it requires so much is that it isn't really part of the window manager, so you've got the Windows drawing routine and the Stardock routine on top of that, each one chewing up its own memory and processor cycles. In E, for example, the Window manager can do the transparency by itself, so the duplication of effort is eliminated. Unfortunately, this is the best you can do in Windows, short of writing your own window manager, which has been done by Litestep, among others.
Konqueror is (according to the web site) a light-weight, fast browser. You can have your cake and eat it too.
A lot of/.ers seem to be stuck on a narrow perception of the 'do one thing and do it well philosophy'. Konqueror does do one thing and do it well, it displays component windows that are implemented as seperate modules of code. One of these happens to be an HTML widget, a widget which does one thing and does it well. Another is a file manager widget, etc. If Konqueror and KParts follow the COM way, then opening Konqueror as just a web browser will not load those other modules into memory, and you will be working with Konqueror, a small wrapper around a (hopefully) powerful web browsing widget.
I'm pretty sure I read on the Phillips site that recording to DVD was coming in a future version. At the time Tivo came out (or even now) DVD media and recording technology weren't really ready for consumer devices yet because of cost and the standards changing every few months.
My E100 lasts for weeks. Of course, I don't use it for extended periods of time, but battery life is not a huge problem. I think it's rated at 8 hours of continuous use, although I haven't recharged it since March.
You're not supposed to make money selling your program as open source. That's the whole point, selling software is a ridiculous idea. If you like doing it, do it, but don't expect a return on it. Some people like mountain climbing but most of them don't make money off of it, they lose money just by doing it (buying equipment, travel, etc). If you want to make money, get a programming job that pays what you want, and write your program in your free time.
I mean, do we really want to see more of Jar Jar? Wouldn't you rather have the original movies with digital sound and picture?
OK, but for real, that lightsabre fight at the end of Ep 1 ruled. When Obi-Wan charges into that room and unleashes a major can of whoop ass on Darth Maul...awwww yeah.
I actually like TPM, it gets better every time I watch it (if you've only seen it once, watch it again). But I'd pay 20 dollars for a DVD that just had the fight scenes on it.
How is this flamebait? Metallica still is a good band. S&M kicks ass and James Hetfield has the best voice in hard rock/metal. Someone mark this as underrated please.
Don't believe the/. hype, Java is a nice language for the web and for RAD. And don't think syntax issues are going to hold a language up, the most used language by far is VB, and that is one ugly language. Anyway, here are two java sites, Hallmark.com and The United States Postal Service.
I just started Mozilla and loaded this page. 'top' shows it as using 20M of memory, and it takes about 5 seconds to load on my K6-2/400.
For the billionth time, people, it's a damn debug release, it's supposed to be bigger and slower.
But, in any case, I have to disagree with you. Mozilla shouldn't be the only help tool, but an XML based help system would be nice. Then it would be possible to write an XSL transformation to view it in Mozilla or a second transform for the command line (or a third for something else and so on). This way the data is written once and just presented differently depending on how you access it (pretty much the whole point of XML/XSL anyway).
I've got an Ericsson KF788 and I'll be getting rid of it ASAP. It sounds fine in the store but it's just not loud enough outside or in a car, and the damn antenna fell off after a few months. I know a guy who is real happy with his Nextell phone (not sure which one it is, haven't really looked at them). One time, we needed to conference someone into a meeting but the room we were in didn't have a phone, so he dialed it on his cell and put it on speaker. The thing was louder than the regular speaker phones! So they might be worth checking out. On the other hand, I still think those Nokias from The Matrix rule...
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Wow, that kicked ass. The worst part is that it is the funniest thing I've read in a while and I can't tell anyone about it because they'd just look at me like...well, like they always do when I try to tell them about something I read on Slashdot...
Oh well, it still ruled.
Go to the GiS page, click on 'Past Shows', go to the bottom, click 'more geeks', on that page you'll see 'Episode 3.1: Test of the Slashdot Emergency Broadcast System This is a service patch for episode 3. 7/29/99'
Uh... if your using 16,384 local variables in a function please goto the mall and get a job selling shoes and never never never ever write another line of code.
Uh... if you didn't realize that that was supposed to be humorous please goto cnet.com and post in the Talkback forums and never never never ever read another Slashdot comment.
I mentioned this earlier up, but geeks31.mp3 is really supposed to be episode 3.1, it's a patch to episode 3.
I think it may have to do with the fact that GiS released a 'patch' to episode 3. I guess it was supposed to be episode 3.1 but the file name was geeks31.mp3, which would conflict with the next episode if they kept the naming scheme up (since the last one was episode 30).
Then again, it may be that Hemos actually said that, and since the latest episode was episode 30, well, that would be that.
And finally, it may have to do with that Bill Gates quote from like, 1983, where he said something like "64k ought to be enough for anybody", or something like that. The numbers may be wrong, but you get the idea...
There are Perl bindings for Qt. Not that this completely invalidates your point, just letting you know that it's not C++ only.
But what if the cluster was wired with fiber and was used as a giant rendering farm for real-time ray-traced Quake (RTRTQ)?
every flippin topic that goes through slashdot there is some retard that has to say something about beowulf clusters
And every one of those has to have a reply complaining about the fact that every article has someone talking about Beowulf clusters. Damn, it's like we have a Beowulf cluseter of you people complaining about Beowulf clusters in some kind of recursive Beowulf cluster nightmare.
Nice job Mircosfot.
Microsoft didn't write it, Stardock did, read the post you replied to. The reason it requires so much is that it isn't really part of the window manager, so you've got the Windows drawing routine and the Stardock routine on top of that, each one chewing up its own memory and processor cycles. In E, for example, the Window manager can do the transparency by itself, so the duplication of effort is eliminated.
Unfortunately, this is the best you can do in Windows, short of writing your own window manager, which has been done by Litestep, among others.
Critics of the company are sceptical about whether the system will be reliable since it comes on tape.
Thanks, that's the funniest thing I've read all day.
Why would you sue 300,000 (loyal) fans?!?!?!?!?
Well, because they weren't 'loyal' <g>
Yeah, I've always judged how wild and crazy a guy is by what he eats for breakfast.
I'm pretty sure I read on the Phillips site that recording to DVD was coming in a future version. At the time Tivo came out (or even now) DVD media and recording technology weren't really ready for consumer devices yet because of cost and the standards changing every few months.
My E100 lasts for weeks. Of course, I don't use it for extended periods of time, but battery life is not a huge problem. I think it's rated at 8 hours of continuous use, although I haven't recharged it since March.
Yeah, no one would be able to beat you to first post.
You're not supposed to make money selling your program as open source. That's the whole point, selling software is a ridiculous idea. If you like doing it, do it, but don't expect a return on it. Some people like mountain climbing but most of them don't make money off of it, they lose money just by doing it (buying equipment, travel, etc). If you want to make money, get a programming job that pays what you want, and write your program in your free time.
Really? What kind of crazy ass christmas lights do you use that they display text?
I mean, do we really want to see more of Jar Jar? Wouldn't you rather have the original movies with digital sound and picture?
OK, but for real, that lightsabre fight at the end of Ep 1 ruled. When Obi-Wan charges into that room and unleashes a major can of whoop ass on Darth Maul...awwww yeah.
I actually like TPM, it gets better every time I watch it (if you've only seen it once, watch it again). But I'd pay 20 dollars for a DVD that just had the fight scenes on it.
How is this flamebait? Metallica still is a good band. S&M kicks ass and James Hetfield has the best voice in hard rock/metal. Someone mark this as underrated please.
Don't believe the /. hype, Java is a nice language for the web and for RAD. And don't think syntax issues are going to hold a language up, the most used language by far is VB, and that is one ugly language.
Anyway, here are two java sites, Hallmark.com and The United States Postal Service.
ERROR: Undeclared identifier Pants.
i did say i was uniformed....
So you're uninformed and you can't spell? Are you sure you're not the person who posted this article to begin with?
I just started Mozilla and loaded this page. 'top' shows it as using 20M of memory, and it takes about 5 seconds to load on my K6-2/400.
For the billionth time, people, it's a damn debug release, it's supposed to be bigger and slower.
But, in any case, I have to disagree with you. Mozilla shouldn't be the only help tool, but an XML based help system would be nice. Then it would be possible to write an XSL transformation to view it in Mozilla or a second transform for the command line (or a third for something else and so on). This way the data is written once and just presented differently depending on how you access it (pretty much the whole point of XML/XSL anyway).
I've got an Ericsson KF788 and I'll be getting rid of it ASAP. It sounds fine in the store but it's just not loud enough outside or in a car, and the damn antenna fell off after a few months. I know a guy who is real happy with his Nextell phone (not sure which one it is, haven't really looked at them). One time, we needed to conference someone into a meeting but the room we were in didn't have a phone, so he dialed it on his cell and put it on speaker. The thing was louder than the regular speaker phones! So they might be worth checking out.
On the other hand, I still think those Nokias from The Matrix rule...