There's hundreds of years of differing styles and composers.
Sure, there's plenty of variety in the composition, but nearly all of it's performed the same boring, restrained, over-perfect way. I noticed when I was in college that, for both classical and jazz, I prefer high-end high school groups to professional (and no one's worse than college groups -- I can't stay awake through those), just because the high school groups still have some roughness to give life to the performance.
If there was a decent supply of classical music with good, visceral performances, it would probably be 2/3 of what I listened to. As it is, I only know of one CD that fits the category, Itzhak Perlman on Paganini's 24 caprices. This is after I played violin in school for 8 years.
Professors are teaching goofy stuff, programmers get a degree but never learned pointers, and the major software is still written in C.
Yes, the major software is written in C, but most programmers don't work on that. Most programmers do information systems work or vertical mrket apps, and systems programming languages like C and C++ are just too much work for too little benefit for that.
From the article: Another irritant for the artists, several lawyers and managers say, is the distribution of the $170 million settlement from MP3.com, an Internet company that offered a music storage service in violation of copyright law.
MP3.Com didn't violate any copyright laws. The labels (we never heard a peep from artists about this one) sued, saying that MP3 was distributing each CD to thousands or millions of people, using just one license. This was complete hogwash, because the my.mp3.com service required the user to prove that they themselves owned a copy of the CD, so mp3.com was playing the CD for each user based on that user's license.
Fortunately most of the people perceived as right wingers are also strict constuctionists.
I think "strict constructionism" is just a convenient excuse to be conservative. These justices are never strict on the "Congress shall make *no* law" clauses in the Bill of Rights. If they were, we would never be able to have things like obscenity laws.
I haven't decided if Display PDF is a good idea or not
Just like Display PostScript, I think it would be a really great idea so long as the interpreter ran on its own CPU, possibly with it's own RAM. Every generation of CPU seems to basically double its speed, and require tripling the component count to accomplish that, and the ratio is gradually getting worse as the easy fixes have already been done. This makes coprocessers a really good way to get performance more cheaply, just so long as they're used steadily. Graphics code, I think, is just begging for it.
Yes, I do work for HP Pavilion support. I lost my job at a Linux based router company, moved, and took the first job I could find. anyway...
Please dont hate me because i work for hp, i dont like it any more than you do... *sighs* Anyone know of any good IT jobs in the lexington, KY area ??
Be careful. This sort of post sounds like a really good way to get fired.
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The biggest problem is that it requires people to stop using the fatally flawed implementations (IE 4.x, NS 4.x). If they could be *forced* to upgrade
The problem is that the browser I like, and many other people like, NetScape Navigator, ended at version 4.7, which is now hopelessly obsolete. NetScape 6 has, unfortunately, jumped on the themes bandwagon with their complete rewrite, so nothing in the user interface really works quite right, even with the "classic" theme. I've been forcing myself to use NetScape 6.2 since I built this computer a month ago, but I'm really tempted to go back to 4.78, and just fire up IE for the occasional page that doesn't look right or gives an obvious error.
Really, though, we cannot help you out all that much more without knowing what kind of project you are working on. Your requirements seem to indicate this is not a small project. As a result, I'd advise against VB.Net, having spent a year working in VB on a project about a third of a million lines of code long. C# has potential (it is a blunted-scissors version of C++) but really isn't mature enough at the moment. Eiffel I have no experience with. Java is great in SOME circumstances but I'd hesitate to recommend it to you without more information. And then there's C++, which I have spoken about in great length here. But C++ is a tricky language to use correctly.
VB.Net mostly looks like VB, but I wouldn't try to draw any conclusions about its suitability on larger projects, based on VB. MS denies it (probably because they'd get sued otherwise), but C# is basically Java, done again with the hindsight of 6 years of heavy use, and the ability to take out the backward compatibility kludges (which are almost as bad as those in VB, when MS Basic has had 26 years to accumulate crap). VB.Net is an alternate syntax to C#, together with a code generator wizard that takes legacy VB as its input.
They're talking about a tube with ~paper-thickness walls (single layer of Carbon-60?). If something like that broke into small sections, I wouldn't think it would really crash, but just drift down sort of like a bunch of kites that lost their strings. It would be expensive to replace, but no catastrophe.
I don't have any idea what would happen if it broke free while mostly intact, but we could always make sure it breaks up in that case. If nothing else, the defense force could just shoot at it.
I think those few ships would probably just be a few missle cruisers in a ring. If there is no legitimate air traffic in that area, they have a lot more leeway to defend the elevator. Anyway, it's not like Aegis cruisers have never shot down airliners before... (U.S.S. Vincennes, late 80's)
Online class availability seems to depend on your major. As far as I can see, private business schools (even non-profit) are pretty good about this, and seem to assume that their students are working. Public schools aren't like this, and my private technical university isn't like that.
My wife's an accounting major at Davenport University, and she has plenty of online classes available. One of my coworkers is an IT major at the same school, and hasn't gone to a classroom for two years. I, however, am a CS major at Lawrence Tech. U., and it appears that the only class I could take online is "Technical and Professional Communications", which is required for all students. Even for that class, though, you still have to show up four times for presentations.
I think Eric (the IT major) still has to go to campus occasionally for administrative stuff, but otherwise he might as well be taking the classes from Hong Kong.
If you want to work in computers, but don't like math, go for an IS degree (It might also be called MIS, CIS, or IT.). They're designed to give you enough computer skills to do business programming (granted, not enough to do systems or scientific programming), and enough business background to have a reasonable understanding of what you're programming. Generally, the math classes stop around Algebra II, and a non-calculus based statistics class (just like the math in a business degree).
I'm going back to school part-time after four years off, where I was (and am) an IS programmer with no degree. I'm taking C.S. (and contemplating math), because that's where my interest is. However, I know the requirements of my own job, and what computer skills are covered in a IS degree, and the IS path is more than enough.
Keep a Spanish minor, though, or even a double major. I doubt you can do much with it alone (even for teaching, you still have an education curriculum), but I expect it can open up interesting specialties in whatever field you do have the skills for.
they would rather hire people with business skills than comp-sci skills, I was told
I seriously think you might have better luck now. It sounds to me like you've gotten a fair degree of business skills. With the C.S. education, you should be pretty valuable for IS work.
I tried this sort of approach once. Supposedly, if your regular project estimates are +-100% off, then you can break it down into a few dozen pieces, and those will each be +-100% off, evening out over the group. When I tried it, my individual estimate error rates went up into the tens of thousands of percents, leaving the total worse than before. Then, with even all the miniscule design decisions made, there was nothing left to keep me interested in the coding, which slowed me down, and I ended up with the single worst subsystem I've ever written at work.
The only thing "technically superior" about digital amps is that they are cheaper to manufacture.
Solid state amps are cheaper to manufacture. Adding digital processing is a more recent development that makes solid state amps (theoretically, any amps, but I don't think tube amps have been done) more interesting and more versatile, which I would have to put in the technically superior category, at least over other solid state amps.
That's already starting to change, though. Line6 is doing very well for themselves with clean solid state amps playing the output of a special purpose computer. The computer emulates the sounds of a dozen or so different types of amplifiers, plus a wide variety of effects.
Now, imagine combining that sort of system with a pickup that keeps a separate signal for each string, and combine them as you see fit. I would absolutely love having the bottom three strings as one signal, and the top three as individual signals. Then I could play a rythm part and three lead parts at once (as coordination allows, of course).
Of course, I think tubes sound like shit, so I may not be a very good barometer of the guitarist community.
So, what country really is free, anymore? We're constantly hearing about the same sort of legislation going through in England and Australia, and most of Europe has weird exceptions to freedom of speech if it happens to be about Nazis. What's left?
The Select line was fairly high-end. I was looking for a comercial PC for my little sister a couple months ago, and we went to the GateWay Country looking for AMD systems. We left, because:
1. The AMD's available were 1.2ghz and 1.4ghz Thunderbirds, that were right at the top of her budget with no accessories.
2. Despite appearences, it's not actually a store; they don't sell computers. What they do is take orders that will then be shipped from across the country (at $95 for shipping), just like you could do at their web site.
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Normal fuel probably meaning regular unleaded at the pump for cars. Jet fuel has much higher octane rating than "normal" fuel so it has more energy, and you don't have to put as much of it in the plane.
I don't think so. Jet fuel is kerosene, which is generally less volatile than gasoline. Aviation gasoline, OTOH is 100 or 110 octane gasoline. That's used for propeller planes, though.
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Why not? They can just mark it as from RealDoll.Com.
True, but making the pilot and copilot unable to get out of the cockpit, either, would. Combine that with tazers and/or safety-slug equiped pistols, and you've got a pretty good defense. Most of what is being ordered currently sounds totally ineffective.
As an aside, it would've been interesting to see the same development done with experienced Visual Basic programmer.
If you're just trying to compare languages, VB has a huge unfair advantage in its development environment. The IDE makes VB practical to use, despite the language being completely pathetic.
VB.Net seems to be fixing most of what's wrong with the language, but they're basically starting over, and have lost some of the debugging abilities that were previously VB's strong point. VB.Net will no longer run interpreted, at all, so you can't edit the code and continue where you left off, and you can't go to an immediate window and execute code directly, while something is running.
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HP Buys Compaq
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Now that I've actually read the article...
Compaq had hoped that Digital Equipment technology would provide it with a competitive edge in new generations of computer servers. But it recently chose to not use that technology and instead go with the technology developed by Hewlett-Packard and Intel.
It sounds like Compaq bought DEC to get Alpha. If they're not using it, they might want to sell it (with a license of the current technology for themselves) to AMD, unless they're afraid of having that competition. If I were the Federal Trade Commission, I'd strongly consider requiring a fair offer to sell, before approving the merger.
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There's hundreds of years of differing styles and composers.
Sure, there's plenty of variety in the composition, but nearly all of it's performed the same boring, restrained, over-perfect way. I noticed when I was in college that, for both classical and jazz, I prefer high-end high school groups to professional (and no one's worse than college groups -- I can't stay awake through those), just because the high school groups still have some roughness to give life to the performance.
If there was a decent supply of classical music with good, visceral performances, it would probably be 2/3 of what I listened to. As it is, I only know of one CD that fits the category, Itzhak Perlman on Paganini's 24 caprices. This is after I played violin in school for 8 years.
Professors are teaching goofy stuff, programmers get a degree but never learned pointers, and the major software is still written in C.
Yes, the major software is written in C, but most programmers don't work on that. Most programmers do information systems work or vertical mrket apps, and systems programming languages like C and C++ are just too much work for too little benefit for that.
From the article:
Another irritant for the artists, several lawyers and managers say, is the distribution of the $170 million settlement from MP3.com, an Internet company that offered a music storage service in violation of copyright law.
MP3.Com didn't violate any copyright laws. The labels (we never heard a peep from artists about this one) sued, saying that MP3 was distributing each CD to thousands or millions of people, using just one license. This was complete hogwash, because the my.mp3.com service required the user to prove that they themselves owned a copy of the CD, so mp3.com was playing the CD for each user based on that user's license.
Fortunately most of the people perceived as right wingers are also strict constuctionists.
I think "strict constructionism" is just a convenient excuse to be conservative. These justices are never strict on the "Congress shall make *no* law" clauses in the Bill of Rights. If they were, we would never be able to have things like obscenity laws.
I haven't decided if Display PDF is a good idea or not
Just like Display PostScript, I think it would be a really great idea so long as the interpreter ran on its own CPU, possibly with it's own RAM. Every generation of CPU seems to basically double its speed, and require tripling the component count to accomplish that, and the ratio is gradually getting worse as the easy fixes have already been done. This makes coprocessers a really good way to get performance more cheaply, just so long as they're used steadily. Graphics code, I think, is just begging for it.
Yes, I do work for HP Pavilion support. I lost my job at a Linux based router company, moved, and took the first job I could find. anyway...
Please dont hate me because i work for hp, i dont like it any more than you do... *sighs* Anyone know of any good IT jobs in the lexington, KY area ??
Be careful. This sort of post sounds like a really good way to get fired.
The biggest problem is that it requires people to stop using the fatally flawed implementations (IE 4.x, NS 4.x). If they could be *forced* to upgrade
The problem is that the browser I like, and many other people like, NetScape Navigator, ended at version 4.7, which is now hopelessly obsolete. NetScape 6 has, unfortunately, jumped on the themes bandwagon with their complete rewrite, so nothing in the user interface really works quite right, even with the "classic" theme. I've been forcing myself to use NetScape 6.2 since I built this computer a month ago, but I'm really tempted to go back to 4.78, and just fire up IE for the occasional page that doesn't look right or gives an obvious error.
Really, though, we cannot help you out all that much more without knowing what kind of project you are working on. Your requirements seem to indicate this is not a small project. As a result, I'd advise against VB.Net, having spent a year working in VB on a project about a third of a million lines of code long. C# has potential (it is a blunted-scissors version of C++) but really isn't mature enough at the moment. Eiffel I have no experience with. Java is great in SOME circumstances but I'd hesitate to recommend it to you without more information. And then there's C++, which I have spoken about in great length here. But C++ is a tricky language to use correctly.
VB.Net mostly looks like VB, but I wouldn't try to draw any conclusions about its suitability on larger projects, based on VB. MS denies it (probably because they'd get sued otherwise), but C# is basically Java, done again with the hindsight of 6 years of heavy use, and the ability to take out the backward compatibility kludges (which are almost as bad as those in VB, when MS Basic has had 26 years to accumulate crap). VB.Net is an alternate syntax to C#, together with a code generator wizard that takes legacy VB as its input.
They're talking about a tube with ~paper-thickness walls (single layer of Carbon-60?). If something like that broke into small sections, I wouldn't think it would really crash, but just drift down sort of like a bunch of kites that lost their strings. It would be expensive to replace, but no catastrophe.
I don't have any idea what would happen if it broke free while mostly intact, but we could always make sure it breaks up in that case. If nothing else, the defense force could just shoot at it.
I think those few ships would probably just be a few missle cruisers in a ring. If there is no legitimate air traffic in that area, they have a lot more leeway to defend the elevator. Anyway, it's not like Aegis cruisers have never shot down airliners before... (U.S.S. Vincennes, late 80's)
Online class availability seems to depend on your major. As far as I can see, private business schools (even non-profit) are pretty good about this, and seem to assume that their students are working. Public schools aren't like this, and my private technical university isn't like that.
My wife's an accounting major at Davenport University, and she has plenty of online classes available. One of my coworkers is an IT major at the same school, and hasn't gone to a classroom for two years. I, however, am a CS major at Lawrence Tech. U., and it appears that the only class I could take online is "Technical and Professional Communications", which is required for all students. Even for that class, though, you still have to show up four times for presentations.
I think Eric (the IT major) still has to go to campus occasionally for administrative stuff, but otherwise he might as well be taking the classes from Hong Kong.
If you want to work in computers, but don't like math, go for an IS degree (It might also be called MIS, CIS, or IT.). They're designed to give you enough computer skills to do business programming (granted, not enough to do systems or scientific programming), and enough business background to have a reasonable understanding of what you're programming. Generally, the math classes stop around Algebra II, and a non-calculus based statistics class (just like the math in a business degree).
I'm going back to school part-time after four years off, where I was (and am) an IS programmer with no degree. I'm taking C.S. (and contemplating math), because that's where my interest is. However, I know the requirements of my own job, and what computer skills are covered in a IS degree, and the IS path is more than enough.
Keep a Spanish minor, though, or even a double major. I doubt you can do much with it alone (even for teaching, you still have an education curriculum), but I expect it can open up interesting specialties in whatever field you do have the skills for.
they would rather hire people with business skills than comp-sci skills, I was told
I seriously think you might have better luck now. It sounds to me like you've gotten a fair degree of business skills. With the C.S. education, you should be pretty valuable for IS work.
I tried this sort of approach once. Supposedly, if your regular project estimates are +-100% off, then you can break it down into a few dozen pieces, and those will each be +-100% off, evening out over the group. When I tried it, my individual estimate error rates went up into the tens of thousands of percents, leaving the total worse than before. Then, with even all the miniscule design decisions made, there was nothing left to keep me interested in the coding, which slowed me down, and I ended up with the single worst subsystem I've ever written at work.
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has ruled that U.S. Federal Courts do not have jurisdiction in domain names disputes.
The only thing "technically superior" about digital amps is that they are cheaper to manufacture.
Solid state amps are cheaper to manufacture. Adding digital processing is a more recent development that makes solid state amps (theoretically, any amps, but I don't think tube amps have been done) more interesting and more versatile, which I would have to put in the technically superior category, at least over other solid state amps.
That's already starting to change, though. Line6 is doing very well for themselves with clean solid state amps playing the output of a special purpose computer. The computer emulates the sounds of a dozen or so different types of amplifiers, plus a wide variety of effects.
Now, imagine combining that sort of system with a pickup that keeps a separate signal for each string, and combine them as you see fit. I would absolutely love having the bottom three strings as one signal, and the top three as individual signals. Then I could play a rythm part and three lead parts at once (as coordination allows, of course).
Of course, I think tubes sound like shit, so I may not be a very good barometer of the guitarist community.
Mac OS is several years older, too.
So, what country really is free, anymore? We're constantly hearing about the same sort of legislation going through in England and Australia, and most of Europe has weird exceptions to freedom of speech if it happens to be about Nazis. What's left?
Or are more than half of the new changes mentioned taken from Age of Empires, and Warcraft/Starcraft style games?
The Select line was fairly high-end. I was looking for a comercial PC for my little sister a couple months ago, and we went to the GateWay Country looking for AMD systems. We left, because:
1. The AMD's available were 1.2ghz and 1.4ghz Thunderbirds, that were right at the top of her budget with no accessories.
2. Despite appearences, it's not actually a store; they don't sell computers. What they do is take orders that will then be shipped from across the country (at $95 for shipping), just like you could do at their web site.
Normal fuel probably meaning regular unleaded at the pump for cars. Jet fuel has much higher octane rating than "normal" fuel so it has more energy, and you don't have to put as much of it in the plane.
I don't think so. Jet fuel is kerosene, which is generally less volatile than gasoline. Aviation gasoline, OTOH is 100 or 110 octane gasoline. That's used for propeller planes, though.
Why not? They can just mark it as from RealDoll.Com.
True, but making the pilot and copilot unable to get out of the cockpit, either, would. Combine that with tazers and/or safety-slug equiped pistols, and you've got a pretty good defense. Most of what is being ordered currently sounds totally ineffective.
As an aside, it would've been interesting to see the same development done with experienced Visual Basic programmer.
If you're just trying to compare languages, VB has a huge unfair advantage in its development environment. The IDE makes VB practical to use, despite the language being completely pathetic.
VB.Net seems to be fixing most of what's wrong with the language, but they're basically starting over, and have lost some of the debugging abilities that were previously VB's strong point. VB.Net will no longer run interpreted, at all, so you can't edit the code and continue where you left off, and you can't go to an immediate window and execute code directly, while something is running.
Now that I've actually read the article...
Compaq had hoped that Digital Equipment technology would provide it with a competitive edge in new generations of computer servers. But it recently chose to not use that technology and instead go with the technology developed by Hewlett-Packard and Intel.
It sounds like Compaq bought DEC to get Alpha. If they're not using it, they might want to sell it (with a license of the current technology for themselves) to AMD, unless they're afraid of having that competition. If I were the Federal Trade Commission, I'd strongly consider requiring a fair offer to sell, before approving the merger.