Uh... have you ever tried to reel out a wire up into the sky 100,000 km? Do you not think there might be some difficulty with that? How's it going to... you know... go up?
Looks like a $50 price increase, to me. The Gameboy SP retails at $99 USD right now. If $150 looks like a price drop to you, be sure you convert it to the native currency you're comparing the prices in...
It seems to me there was a much more fitting quote from that episode:
FRY: Wow, I love you guys. Back in the twentieth century, I had all five of your albums.
AD-ROCK: That was a thousand years ago! Now we got seven.
FRY: Cool! Can I borrow your new ones? And a couple of blank tapes?
Robert Young commented on this, saying that Jason Matusow made more claims about Red Hat's business model than he did himself, and this was during the panel about "Open Source business models."
Many of Jason's comments during his presentation were misleading or outright false.
Michelle Levesque isn't even open enough to share the name of the Open Source project being modified, I seriously doubt that Michelle Levesque will bother to share the fruits of the added value added by Michelle's team with the same Open Source world that the project originated from.
I believe that she chose not to disclose the name of the project because this article isn't about any specific piece of software. It's about Open Source software in general. Mentioning a single piece of software means that the discussion becomes, "waah, someone dissed my software, their opinion sucks," or "bah, that project has ample documentation available here." This wasn't the topic of dicussion.
All you've done here is blindly claim that her five points of discussion are lame, and suggest that she is whining because 'Santa' is a fink. I believe this article is intended to help the community recognize these problems and come up with ways to deal with them. It isn't as negative as you make it out to be.
I assume the author isn't aware that the code often contains comments that can be helpful
That's a pretty silly assumption. I would assume that someone writing an article about the problems with open source software is most likely a software developer herself, and would be well aware that comments exist in source code.
Many people have argued that it doesn't do Sun any good to "open source" Java. They might be right. You can argue that an open source Java may have a good chance of becoming _the_ platform for software development, but Sun may no longer profit from it regardless. From Sun's point of view, they really don't see the benefit.
Well, screw them. I don't care about Sun. I'm a programmer, and all I want to do is write a piece of software that I can move from system to system without a lot of pain. Swing is the best toolkit out there for this, right now. It is relatively well documented, consistant, and available to any programming language that can run under the JVM. It can run on multiple operating systems, looking fairly native-like, or with it's own ugly but usable UI where a native look-and-feel isn't available. Some classes, like JOptionPane, actually require fairly small amounts of code to do relatively robust things.
The Java platform has a huge number of libraries available for it, and they work all over the place.
There might be no benefit to Sun in open sourcing Java. But there is benefit to me. I want to be able to rely on Java as a platform, but right now any Java developer would be rather screwed if java.sun.com disappeared. I don't like that risk, and I won't build a Java application (except for consulting work - who cares there) because of it.
(I'm not interested in alternative programming environments, by the way. I already know about them - after all, I don't do Java development, like I said.)
I loved the blackout. I drove from Calgary to Ontario last summer with a friend and his brother, in two cars. I was destined for Ottawa, and my friend for Kirkland Lake in Northen Ontario. About 8 hours after we seperated to head different directions, I arrived in my hotel in Ottawa. I didn't have anything left to do, so I sat down and watched TV for the afternoon.
The TV shut off. But a few minutes later, it was back on. I started seeing news reports of a major blackout affecting a huge area, and realized that... hey, that includes me. My hotel had generators running the entire time, though. After a few hours, when it was apparent that the blackout was here to stay, the hotel turned off the air conditioning. That was the worst the blackout did to me.
My friend... he was stuck in northern Ontario, out of gas, at a gas station with no power. Oh, they had a generator... but they didn't use it to power the gas pumps, just the resturant.
It was a fun vacation for me. I'd have been more upset if I had no power, I suppoe.
Yeah, I tried it. It tends to suck, actually. RSS feeds don't have quite enough information to usefully classify every article that comes up. Especially when a lot of your RSS feeds contain nothing but the title of an article.
But you can see it kinda in action on my own aggregator. The software works well, but the bayesian classification is not too useful. I guess part of the problem is also that the majority of my RSS feeds I actually want to read.
I think you have your units skewed. 2(pi)r would be the area of a circle. Because this is a pot, and not a sphere, you would multiple 2(pi)r by the height of the pot.
No. The area of a circle is (pi)r^2. The circumference of a circle is (pi)d, or 2(pi)r. Don't believe I know my 5th grade math? Check it out.
My solution was to drop out of University and move across the country to get away from my roommate.
He didn't use a computer so much as a guitar, though. At any hour of the night. I could live with that sometimes, but the night he came home drunk and smeared feces all over the common bathroom... well, that was just too much.
You can write a cast operator to get around this problem in C++. For example, here's a cast operator inside a smart pointer class:
// This template member function allows you to implicitly cast this pointer // to a CRefPtr<someBaseClass>. template <class newType> operator CRefPtr<newType>() { return CRefPtr<newType>(m_pPtr); };
This cast operator will only work with fairly intelligent C++ compilers, though. GCC and VC7.1 support it, but VC6 did not.
For a while about a year ago, my friend had no Airport card on his laptop like I did. So when he was over at my place, I'd be using my laptop's wireless to get online and do internet sharing on the wired network card. Well, that worked great at home...
But then I'd come into work the next day, hook up my laptop to the network and it would start giving out IP addresses through DHCP to all of the hundred some workstations at my work. Well, suffice it to say, those IP addresses didn't work too well, and it wasn't too hard to track it down. After this incident happened three times, I'm no longer allowed to connect my laptop to the network.
So, I bought my friend (who is also a co-worker) an Airport card, and now he shares his wired network connection with me. So it's all good.
The only online store that seems to work in Canada, at the moment at least, is PureTracks. http://puretracks.com/
Are they good? Well, I was curious enough to download a couple songs even though I only have one Windows machine and it usually isn't hooked up to speakers of any kind. It worked fairly well. Using Windows Media Player is rather annoying, but the songs play correctly and sound pretty good. The service was simple and I encountered no problems from puretracks. So if you're Canadian, and like the idea of downloading WMA files, puretracks may just work for you.
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It's a movie, not a sequel to the video game.
Uh... have you ever tried to reel out a wire up into the sky 100,000 km? Do you not think there might be some difficulty with that? How's it going to... you know... go up?
Looks like a $50 price increase, to me. The Gameboy SP retails at $99 USD right now. If $150 looks like a price drop to you, be sure you convert it to the native currency you're comparing the prices in...
Nope.
It seems to me there was a much more fitting quote from that episode:
The puzzle challenge is trying to comply with those instructions. I figure if you fork() the universe, and make one wait() for the other... hm...
What age is that? I'd like to avoid it.
Robert Young commented on this, saying that Jason Matusow made more claims about Red Hat's business model than he did himself, and this was during the panel about "Open Source business models."
Many of Jason's comments during his presentation were misleading or outright false.
I believe that she chose not to disclose the name of the project because this article isn't about any specific piece of software. It's about Open Source software in general. Mentioning a single piece of software means that the discussion becomes, "waah, someone dissed my software, their opinion sucks," or "bah, that project has ample documentation available here." This wasn't the topic of dicussion.
All you've done here is blindly claim that her five points of discussion are lame, and suggest that she is whining because 'Santa' is a fink. I believe this article is intended to help the community recognize these problems and come up with ways to deal with them. It isn't as negative as you make it out to be.
That's a pretty silly assumption. I would assume that someone writing an article about the problems with open source software is most likely a software developer herself, and would be well aware that comments exist in source code.
Many people have argued that it doesn't do Sun any good to "open source" Java. They might be right. You can argue that an open source Java may have a good chance of becoming _the_ platform for software development, but Sun may no longer profit from it regardless. From Sun's point of view, they really don't see the benefit.
Well, screw them. I don't care about Sun. I'm a programmer, and all I want to do is write a piece of software that I can move from system to system without a lot of pain. Swing is the best toolkit out there for this, right now. It is relatively well documented, consistant, and available to any programming language that can run under the JVM. It can run on multiple operating systems, looking fairly native-like, or with it's own ugly but usable UI where a native look-and-feel isn't available. Some classes, like JOptionPane, actually require fairly small amounts of code to do relatively robust things.
The Java platform has a huge number of libraries available for it, and they work all over the place.
There might be no benefit to Sun in open sourcing Java. But there is benefit to me. I want to be able to rely on Java as a platform, but right now any Java developer would be rather screwed if java.sun.com disappeared. I don't like that risk, and I won't build a Java application (except for consulting work - who cares there) because of it.
(I'm not interested in alternative programming environments, by the way. I already know about them - after all, I don't do Java development, like I said.)
I loved the blackout. I drove from Calgary to Ontario last summer with a friend and his brother, in two cars. I was destined for Ottawa, and my friend for Kirkland Lake in Northen Ontario. About 8 hours after we seperated to head different directions, I arrived in my hotel in Ottawa. I didn't have anything left to do, so I sat down and watched TV for the afternoon.
The TV shut off. But a few minutes later, it was back on. I started seeing news reports of a major blackout affecting a huge area, and realized that ... hey, that includes me. My hotel had generators running the entire time, though. After a few hours, when it was apparent that the blackout was here to stay, the hotel turned off the air conditioning. That was the worst the blackout did to me.
My friend... he was stuck in northern Ontario, out of gas, at a gas station with no power. Oh, they had a generator... but they didn't use it to power the gas pumps, just the resturant.
It was a fun vacation for me. I'd have been more upset if I had no power, I suppoe.
Firefly next, please.
Hey, that's me!
Yeah, I tried it. It tends to suck, actually. RSS feeds don't have quite enough information to usefully classify every article that comes up. Especially when a lot of your RSS feeds contain nothing but the title of an article.
But you can see it kinda in action on my own aggregator. The software works well, but the bayesian classification is not too useful. I guess part of the problem is also that the majority of my RSS feeds I actually want to read.
It does not 'beg the question'.
Yes, I can. The 2d mario games were better than the 3d mario games. ... that wasn't so hard. :)
No. The area of a circle is (pi)r^2. The circumference of a circle is (pi)d, or 2(pi)r. Don't believe I know my 5th grade math? Check it out.
2(pi)rh would give you the circumference. (pi)r^2 would give you the area.
My solution was to drop out of University and move across the country to get away from my roommate.
He didn't use a computer so much as a guitar, though. At any hour of the night. I could live with that sometimes, but the night he came home drunk and smeared feces all over the common bathroom... well, that was just too much.
Leave school.
Yes, it still has the 60 second page load time out.
You can write a cast operator to get around this problem in C++. For example, here's a cast operator inside a smart pointer class:
This cast operator will only work with fairly intelligent C++ compilers, though. GCC and VC7.1 support it, but VC6 did not.
What's the backup for, then?
... since they are USB work with everything.
For a while about a year ago, my friend had no Airport card on his laptop like I did. So when he was over at my place, I'd be using my laptop's wireless to get online and do internet sharing on the wired network card. Well, that worked great at home...
But then I'd come into work the next day, hook up my laptop to the network and it would start giving out IP addresses through DHCP to all of the hundred some workstations at my work. Well, suffice it to say, those IP addresses didn't work too well, and it wasn't too hard to track it down. After this incident happened three times, I'm no longer allowed to connect my laptop to the network.
So, I bought my friend (who is also a co-worker) an Airport card, and now he shares his wired network connection with me. So it's all good.
The only online store that seems to work in Canada, at the moment at least, is PureTracks. http://puretracks.com/
Are they good? Well, I was curious enough to download a couple songs even though I only have one Windows machine and it usually isn't hooked up to speakers of any kind. It worked fairly well. Using Windows Media Player is rather annoying, but the songs play correctly and sound pretty good. The service was simple and I encountered no problems from puretracks. So if you're Canadian, and like the idea of downloading WMA files, puretracks may just work for you.