I had one of those for about 6 months, and the battery always gave me 5 hours plus a few minutes. With wireless on! Cooling was perfect, no unconfortable heating.
Only problems were cranky keyboard and lousy screen. But it would suit perfectly most common people (ie: non geeks)
Nope, you should just be smart about your office desktop's security settings and perhaps even use the browser-help-object (BHO) listing tool noted in the linked article: http://www.definitivesolutions.com/bhodemon.htm. I just checked my desktop, and it wasn't infected; so I'll still do banking online and continue to be wary of security issues.
That could be translated to "Nope, i dont use a condom because I'm smart, i just carry a AIDS test and check my partners every time".
France also recently banned its Muslim citizens from wearing headscarves and making a living at the same time
Not really, no. France banned the muslim cult of covering women's face. Because it is considered sexual discrimination and opression. France did not ban the religion or race in itself.
Although I cannot say I agree with it. Trying to impose a diferent mindset to someone from a different culture doesnt usually works as expected.
Being a parent IS a full-time job. Especially in the first year (my kid is 14 months old, so I dont know yet if it'll ever get better):)
First of all: being this a very mind-intensive job, we work a lot better if we get proper sleep. In my case, that was the first thing to go. Not all kids are the same though, so you might be luckier than me.
Second, forget about late night coding. No more hacking new technology till 6am. No sir. You'll be too tired.
Third: Productivity will make a steep curve. But dont worry, you'll get back to a "decent" degree in a few months.
Parenting is also a team work. If your wife is understanding and has a quieter life than you, she might ease yours a lot. If that's not the case, YOU will have to understand and share the burden with her.
I was always the type of kid that hears mom calling for hours before leaving the computer and sit for dinner. This is typical among hackers AFAIK. We get in a trance and is hard to snap out of it. And we're lazy too. Of course, that had to change. When you're a parent you have to snap out of it and do the daddy-man. It gets hard to get back to the bug you were fixing. Oh well, life is hard then you die.
You'll eventually look like a normal person, because you'll have to behave like one. That is IMO the turning point, you will never be a obcessed hacker again. There will be other priorities.
But phear not. It's not all that bad:)
The price was far higher than I thought, but it was worth every single minute.
I'm still learning, and every child is different, so dont take my word for it. Your experience will probably be a lot different.
If you have ever coded in one of these languages you would know it increases productivity beyond anything possible in C or C++. They are easier to code, easier to debug, easier to manage.
Yes, so you can build more software with less resources (time/money). We all know that.
You can hire a few cheap lazy programmers and build stuff pretty fast instead of hiring some code gurus and take twice the time. But in the end, the software will run much, much slower on the user than C/C++ does.
Wasnt the software supposed to HELP the user on the first place? Not the programmer nor the software house, but the USER.
C/C++ will easily be phased out as much as ASM was
ASM has never been phased out. Ever thought what a compiler outputs?
Not to mention game development where ASM is pretty much alive.
Being so loosely integrated is one of the major limiting factors on linux advancing anywhere in the desktop world.
Nope, users are.
Linux people (the ones using it for a long time, not the newbies) are usually the guys you find looking at a CLI. Those people use cdrecord instead of a gCDFuckenBurner, vim/emacs instead of kDevelop, and so on...
I like to consider myself one of those people, and I would dare to say:
EYE-CANDY BELONGS TO MOUSE ENGINEERS, WE DONT NEED THAT CRAP!
So, if mouse engineers are the ones needing it, they must be the ones coding it. Which basicaly means it'll take a lot of time.
Here's my philosophy: the computer is here to do my work not the other way around. When I write a program I want to expend my effort only on explaining how it should work and not worrying about things like memory allocation.
Right.
So do it in java so you have less work.
But... the person who is going to use it will have a bad time.
I thought the program was supposed to HELP THE USER AND NOT THE PROGRAMER.
Last year I though about making my own media box (via-based) and so I googled a lot looking for performance issues.
The only place I found (where someone did talk about via processors decoding divx) was somewhere in the newsgroups (cant find the link). And they said it didnt handle it at all.
Please dont tell me it works fine... Not now that i have an Xbox.
i have about 20/30 downloads a day, but when i annouce it at freshmeat i get 200 a day!
i have had a total of about 1100 downloads in one and a half months, and i already have 5 voluntary developers, lots of contributions and i received like 100 emails related to the software
i aint no hero, and my software is not that special, just try it
by the way, check it at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/promanager
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It's a centrino 1.4Ghz.
I had one of those for about 6 months, and the battery always gave me 5 hours plus a few minutes. With wireless on! Cooling was perfect, no unconfortable heating.
Only problems were cranky keyboard and lousy screen.
But it would suit perfectly most common people (ie: non geeks)
... also had a 3 breasted whore
Not sure about you, but taking a dump with a laptop on your lap is weird.
That's what stools are made for.
Do you rest your magazine on your lap while reading it?
Yeah, but the only site still forcing me to use IE is my local bank...
Mail them asking if you need to be Microsoft's client for having an account with them.
I worked with me. With 2 different banks. The "incompatibility problem" was fixed within 3-4 days.
Nope, you should just be smart about your office desktop's security settings and perhaps even use the browser-help-object (BHO) listing tool noted in the linked article: http://www.definitivesolutions.com/bhodemon.htm. I just checked my desktop, and it wasn't infected; so I'll still do banking online and continue to be wary of security issues.
That could be translated to "Nope, i dont use a condom because I'm smart, i just carry a AIDS test and check my partners every time".
Just plain dumb and inefficient.
The above statement is wrong, I apologise. I didnt check the facts first. Stoopid me.
France also recently banned its Muslim citizens from wearing headscarves and making a living at the same time
Not really, no. France banned the muslim cult of covering women's face. Because it is considered sexual discrimination and opression. France did not ban the religion or race in itself.
Although I cannot say I agree with it. Trying to impose a diferent mindset to someone from a different culture doesnt usually works as expected.
I would rather have not one child be sexually abused for losing one of those "inaliable rights" everyone loves.
I would translate that to "I would rather not have Bin Laden blow our buildings anymore in exchange for being violated with the Patriot Act".
Well... I wouldnt count on that one
(the only mgr I had who did not have kids was a complete jerk anyway, and he was soon fired for it).
:)
He was fired for not having kids?
Geez. You work with some sick people.
Being a parent IS a full-time job. Especially in the first year (my kid is 14 months old, so I dont know yet if it'll ever get better) :)
:)
First of all: being this a very mind-intensive job, we work a lot better if we get proper sleep. In my case, that was the first thing to go. Not all kids are the same though, so you might be luckier than me.
Second, forget about late night coding. No more hacking new technology till 6am. No sir. You'll be too tired.
Third: Productivity will make a steep curve. But dont worry, you'll get back to a "decent" degree in a few months.
Parenting is also a team work. If your wife is understanding and has a quieter life than you, she might ease yours a lot. If that's not the case, YOU will have to understand and share the burden with her.
I was always the type of kid that hears mom calling for hours before leaving the computer and sit for dinner. This is typical among hackers AFAIK. We get in a trance and is hard to snap out of it. And we're lazy too. Of course, that had to change. When you're a parent you have to snap out of it and do the daddy-man. It gets hard to get back to the bug you were fixing. Oh well, life is hard then you die.
You'll eventually look like a normal person, because you'll have to behave like one. That is IMO the turning point, you will never be a obcessed hacker again. There will be other priorities.
But phear not. It's not all that bad
The price was far higher than I thought, but it was worth every single minute.
I'm still learning, and every child is different, so dont take my word for it. Your experience will probably be a lot different.
doesn't that patent invalidate any use to the mouse?
If you have ever coded in one of these languages you would know it increases productivity beyond anything possible in C or C++. They are easier to code, easier to debug, easier to manage.
Yes, so you can build more software with less resources (time/money). We all know that.
You can hire a few cheap lazy programmers and build stuff pretty fast instead of hiring some code gurus and take twice the time.
But in the end, the software will run much, much slower on the user than C/C++ does.
Wasnt the software supposed to HELP the user on the first place? Not the programmer nor the software house, but the USER.
C/C++ will easily be phased out as much as ASM was
ASM has never been phased out. Ever thought what a compiler outputs?
Not to mention game development where ASM is pretty much alive.
Being so loosely integrated is one of the major limiting factors on linux advancing anywhere in the desktop world.
Nope, users are.
Linux people (the ones using it for a long time, not the newbies) are usually the guys you find looking at a CLI. Those people use cdrecord instead of a gCDFuckenBurner, vim/emacs instead of kDevelop, and so on...
I like to consider myself one of those people, and I would dare to say:
EYE-CANDY BELONGS TO MOUSE ENGINEERS, WE DONT NEED THAT CRAP!
So, if mouse engineers are the ones needing it, they must be the ones coding it. Which basicaly means it'll take a lot of time.
Here's my philosophy: the computer is here to do my work not the other way around. When I write a program I want to expend my effort only on explaining how it should work and not worrying about things like memory allocation.
Right.
So do it in java so you have less work.
But... the person who is going to use it will have a bad time.
I thought the program was supposed to HELP THE USER AND NOT THE PROGRAMER.
at full resolution?
Last year I though about making my own media box (via-based) and so I googled a lot looking for performance issues.
The only place I found (where someone did talk about via processors decoding divx) was somewhere in the newsgroups (cant find the link). And they said it didnt handle it at all.
Please dont tell me it works fine... Not now that i have an Xbox.
yeah! send 3D Max designers to Mars.
:)
They're cheaper than those 3d scanning machines, plus the bonus of having 3ds files which are compatible with a lot of software these days.
And the crack is everywhere
annouce you utility at freshmeat.net :)
i have about 20/30 downloads a day, but when i annouce it at freshmeat i get 200 a day!
i have had a total of about 1100 downloads in one and a half months, and i already have 5 voluntary developers, lots of contributions and i received like 100 emails related to the software
i aint no hero, and my software is not that special, just try it
by the way, check it at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/promanager