Give them enough funds to finish Perl6 - and they'll start Perl7.
I' also getting tired of reading about Perl6
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and I'm about to drop it altogether - both 5 and 6. Franky, coding Perl can be fun, but maintaining and debugging the code written by somebody else - isn't. THis is the implication of having the language with 'the same thing can be done in a 1000 different ways' and the language whose design mostly depends on Larry's whims - and remember that Larry is a linguist by education, and apparently he has somewhat limited understanding of all the issues concerning the 'production quality' language. So - I'll be taking a closer look to apparently minimalistic and restricted Python. Cheers.
well, I live near one of small places, with a web presense, PCSFOREVERYONE.COM. Take a look at their site. But one thing to keep in mind is that it is still may be cheaper to have the PC built for you. Consider the following: (i) they purchase the components (like motherboards, cases) in quantities, so it costs them less. You can purchase the same components from them, but for a higher price. (ii) they are professionals, have diagnostic equipment, (iii) the cost of laber - unless you have a plenty of time on your hands.
I don't believe anyone would ask to write 500 lines of code on CS exam. I remember the exams which had anything to do with coding. Mostly it was like outlining the data structure and algorithms, may be provide some logic, but that's about it. Now I'm taking a course on algorithm performance analysis. Once again, we are asked to outline the algorithm, to provide the logic. Actual code? Why bother?
then dedicated high-end calculators will disappear. I've just read that the Palm is planning $100 PDA. With a sufficently fast processor (like ARM 200Mhz or higher), large display, and good math software, why would I want to buy a high-end calculator?
the red book format uses 16-bit quantization level. our hearing is capable of distinguish the differences equivalent to 18-bit quantization level. with some special techiques (like properly done dithering) red book format may get fairly close to 18-bit level, yet the fact is that this is still 16-bit format. you sound like you don't have any slightest idea about digital recording.
I have the same experience. Runing Win98 on PC with very limited resources (old precessor and only 128MB of memory). Found out to my surprise that Mozilla runs faster than IE. Maintain the latest version of both IE and Mozilla, but using Mozilla most of the time.
please go to musichelponline.com and fill up the feedback form. Tell them that you won't be purchasing anything from UMG. Period. BOYCOTT is the only way to deal with them.
I have nothing against either Apple or iPod but they really shouldn't say things like this:
"With an industry-leading 20 minutes of skip protection, iPod keeps playing without missing a beat. iPod has a 32MB solid-state memory cache, meaning that it has no mechanical or moving parts, so it's not affected by movement of the device."
Well, cache is a cache, but the hard drive is mechanical and it moves. Unless by 'it' they mean 'cache' but the whole sentence appears as if it were the whole iPod which is solid state.
I've found kerberos-controlled and enforced passwords are pretty unreadable. unfortunately, the only places using kerberos I've encountered so far are large universities.
music first of all is a form of human expression and human communication. in this respect I hope the musicians of tomorrow will be the same as today - relying mostly on themselves, to express their feelings and emotions and to communicate them to us, listeners. let robots listen AI-generated music.
Don't know about NT, but I have Win98 with only 128MB of memory, and the ancient process, and Mozilla 0.9.8 and 0.9.9 runs *much quicker* than the latest IE. In fact I'm using Mozilla practically all the time - except for the non-standard web pages (that is, 'viewable only with IE'). It doesn't happen that often, though. In addition, IE crashes on Win98, every once in a while, but quite regularly. It didn't happen with Mozilla yet. Not with 0.9.8 and 0.9.9.
the article in NY Times states that the digital camera equiped with 3.3Mpixels using this technology is equivalent to something like 7.5Mpixels using the traditional technology. It's a good article anyway.
One of the differences: CF (including IBM Microdrive) is removable. iPod uses non-removable 1.5'' Toshiba drive. The fact that it is removable may make the difference. For instance, if you also have a digital camera which uses CF cards. Also with CF you have a choice between a microdrive and a solid state. As to memory capacity, 1.5'' 10GB drive just became available (doubles the capacity of the one used in iPod), so even if IBM comes up with 6GB microdrive next year, 1.5'' format is still the higher capacity. Finally, firewire is a way faster than USB. we need at least usb2.
Miguel has told reporters that only an immigration technicality prevented him from becoming a Microsoft employee four years ago - the small print of the H1-B Visa process denied employment to the students who haven't completed their degrees.
there is too much bullshit going on 'for the sake of social justice'. this guy surely deserved to go to prison, not for what he thinks but for his actions.
in 3-5 years a blue laser technology should mature enough to allow for HDTV quality DVDs, with capacity of at least 20GB. this will be the natural step. a tape media isn't just good for repeated playback - as we all know too well.
Palm was planning to move to ARM-based platform, and probably still is. This will make them more competitive, and least in the eyes of the potential buyers. I expect to see some convergence between the hardware from Palm and the bunch.
I gave a try to Liquid Audio which is a flavor of AAC, and was fairly happy with the results. However Liquid Audio is not ISO-compliant implementation of AAC. A Psytel and FAAC are ISO-complient non-encrypted implementations. I haven't tried Psytel but apparently it shows some remarkable results. The major problem with AAC is that it is heavily patent-protected, much worse than MP3. In this respect, OGG is the best since it is free of any restrictions.
From the hardware support, there is MP3CD player from Philips which supports non-encrypted AAC (so it can play Psytel-encoded tracks), and nothing at this point supports OGG though my understanding is that iRiver is working on providing the support
Personally I would rather use AAC given there is a sufficient hardware support. OGG is probably the second best, and most likely will remain a second best after AAC.
Of course, the main motivation for non-MP3 encoding is to push the rate to 128Kbps and lower. At the higher rates MP3 is fine. I'm doing LAME with '--alt-preset standard' which averages about 200Kbps and the result is remarkably good as heard on PC with a good soundcard and decent headphones.
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Give them enough funds to finish Perl6 - and they'll start Perl7.
and I'm about to drop it altogether - both 5 and 6. Franky, coding Perl can be fun, but maintaining and debugging the code written by somebody else - isn't. THis is the implication of having the language with 'the same thing can be done in a 1000 different ways' and the language whose design mostly depends on Larry's whims - and remember that Larry is a linguist by education, and apparently he has somewhat limited understanding of all the issues concerning the 'production quality' language. So - I'll be taking a closer look to apparently minimalistic and restricted Python. Cheers.
well, I live near one of small places, with a web presense, PCSFOREVERYONE.COM. Take a look at their site. But one thing to keep in mind is that it is still may be cheaper to have the PC built for you. Consider the following: (i) they purchase the components (like motherboards, cases) in quantities, so it costs them less. You can purchase the same components from them, but for a higher price. (ii) they are professionals, have diagnostic equipment, (iii) the cost of laber - unless you have a plenty of time on your hands.
I don't believe anyone would ask to write 500 lines of code on CS exam. I remember the exams which had anything to do with coding. Mostly it was like outlining the data structure and algorithms, may be provide some logic, but that's about it. Now I'm taking a course on algorithm performance analysis. Once again, we are asked to outline the algorithm, to provide the logic. Actual code? Why bother?
then dedicated high-end calculators will disappear. I've just read that the Palm is planning $100 PDA. With a sufficently fast processor (like ARM 200Mhz or higher), large display, and good math software, why would I want to buy a high-end calculator?
the red book format uses 16-bit quantization level. our hearing is capable of distinguish the differences equivalent to 18-bit quantization level. with some special techiques (like properly done dithering) red book format may get fairly close to 18-bit level, yet the fact is that this is still 16-bit format. you sound like you don't have any slightest idea about digital recording.
What if some of the Al-Qaida members work for Microsoft. We'll never learn what are the bombs they have planted in the code.
if it's half empty or half full?
I have the same experience. Runing Win98 on PC with very limited resources (old precessor and only 128MB of memory). Found out to my surprise that Mozilla runs faster than IE. Maintain the latest version of both IE and Mozilla, but using Mozilla most of the time.
please go to musichelponline.com and fill up the feedback form. Tell them that you won't be purchasing anything from UMG. Period. BOYCOTT is the only way to deal with them.
I have nothing against either Apple or iPod but they really shouldn't say things like this:
"With an industry-leading 20 minutes of skip protection, iPod keeps playing without missing a beat. iPod has a 32MB solid-state memory cache, meaning that it has no mechanical or moving parts, so it's not affected by movement of the device."
Well, cache is a cache, but the hard drive is mechanical and it moves. Unless by 'it' they mean 'cache' but the whole sentence appears as if it were the whole iPod which is solid state.
I've found kerberos-controlled and enforced passwords are pretty unreadable. unfortunately, the only places using kerberos I've encountered so far are large universities.
with MP3 downloads. This is my blessing.
music first of all is a form of human expression and human communication. in this respect I hope the musicians of tomorrow will be the same as today - relying mostly on themselves, to express their feelings and emotions and to communicate them to us, listeners. let robots listen AI-generated music.
Don't know about NT, but I have Win98 with only 128MB of memory, and the ancient process, and Mozilla 0.9.8 and 0.9.9 runs *much quicker* than the latest IE. In fact I'm using Mozilla practically all the time - except for the non-standard web pages (that is, 'viewable only with IE'). It doesn't happen that often, though. In addition, IE crashes on Win98, every once in a while, but quite regularly. It didn't happen with Mozilla yet. Not with 0.9.8 and 0.9.9.
I don't think so. A simple label 'Warning: this is a country music' would suffice.
the article in NY Times states that the digital camera equiped with 3.3Mpixels using this technology is equivalent to something like 7.5Mpixels using the traditional technology. It's a good article anyway.
you don't need to use Microdrive. Any CF card will do it. Of course, CF are more expensive, but still the cheapest among the solid state formats.
One of the differences: CF (including IBM Microdrive) is removable. iPod uses non-removable 1.5'' Toshiba drive. The fact that it is removable may make the difference. For instance, if you also have a digital camera which uses CF cards. Also with CF you have a choice between a microdrive and a solid state. As to memory capacity, 1.5'' 10GB drive just became available (doubles the capacity of the one used in iPod), so even if IBM comes up with 6GB microdrive next year, 1.5'' format is still the higher capacity. Finally, firewire is a way faster than USB. we need at least usb2.
Miguel has told reporters that only an immigration technicality prevented him from becoming a Microsoft employee four years ago - the small print of the H1-B Visa process denied employment to the students who haven't completed their degrees.
there is too much bullshit going on 'for the sake of social justice'. this guy surely deserved to go to prison, not for what he thinks but for his actions.
in 3-5 years a blue laser technology should mature enough to allow for HDTV quality DVDs, with capacity of at least 20GB. this will be the natural step. a tape media isn't just good for repeated playback - as we all know too well.
Palm was planning to move to ARM-based platform, and probably still is. This will make them more competitive, and least in the eyes of the potential buyers. I expect to see some convergence between the hardware from Palm and the bunch.
I gave a try to Liquid Audio which is a flavor of AAC, and was fairly happy with the results. However Liquid Audio is not ISO-compliant implementation of AAC. A Psytel and FAAC are ISO-complient non-encrypted implementations. I haven't tried Psytel but apparently it shows some remarkable results. The major problem with AAC is that it is heavily patent-protected, much worse than MP3. In this respect, OGG is the best since it is free of any restrictions.
From the hardware support, there is MP3CD player from Philips which supports non-encrypted AAC (so it can play Psytel-encoded tracks), and nothing at this point supports OGG though my understanding is that iRiver is working on providing the support
Personally I would rather use AAC given there is a sufficient hardware support. OGG is probably the second best, and most likely will remain a second best after AAC.
Of course, the main motivation for non-MP3 encoding is to push the rate to 128Kbps and lower. At the higher rates MP3 is fine. I'm doing LAME with '--alt-preset standard' which averages about 200Kbps and the result is remarkably good as heard on PC with a good soundcard and decent headphones.
first you start using this next, and then you end up killing your puppy and making a dog stew.