Actually that is bullshit. There is a good reason things like boldface and italics and different font sizes and proportional letters evolved in print media many, many years before email came along. It improves readability. Dramatically.
I seriously wish you snotty i-love-unix-terminal types came who tell everyone in the world that monospace ASCII is good enough for everyone would read a good book about type design. Try Robert Bringhurst's Elements of Typographic Style.
No, ASCII is not good enough. People like you make other people whine about the fact that computer as difficult to use. Remember, these things do not exist for the amusement of techies. They exist so that normal people can increase their efficiency.
I was just about to post the Bild link. LAst weekend Bild had a headline on the front page (on the goddam day the EU constitution was signed!) that the earth is going to flip on its axis and cause massive tidal waves. That was the MAIN headline.
The only one I ever bought involved someone stating that astrologic signs have gone out of alignment since antiquity (they have) and then the paper lamented about how the hell we are now supposed to know our future and if we are all really different than the stars predict. Main headline.
Get real. I have an NT 4 machine which dates from 1995 in production and it never ever crashes. That machine has mucho better uptimes than any Linux servers I have. In fact, its my primary domain controller.
And my dad still runs a machine with 286 Xenix on it. Still works fine. In production.
Been there with a Mylex DAC 960 and believe me, you don't wanna be there. In a server with redundant CPU's, redundant PSU and redundant disks trust the only non-redndant thing, the RAID card, to go pop.
The Mylex stores its RAID stuff on the card itself (not on the disks, as it should) so if the card is screwed, and your people never wrote down the friggin config, you are well, screwed. On a real RADI card the array config is stored in the first few sectors on the disk so when the card goes, you stick the disks on to the new card and you are just fine.
Fortunately we got another old Mylex on EBay and switched the NVRAM chips and it worked....one of the worst days of my life. And I was never happy to see NT 4.0 boot until that day.
Oh well, working for a non-profit tends to be an adventure. My servers stands on bricks to protect them from the occasional flooding.
Uhm, have you ever been on a ship in the middle of the ocean? It is a one-of-a-kind sight. In fact, its bloody boring because its the same in ALL directions!
Reminds me of the time back in the late 80'S where typing PROMPT "Warning: Virus Detected $d$p" on the DOS machines in the computer lab guaranteed that the machine would stay free.
An ArrayList is a list implemented with an Array internally. A LinkedList is a list implemented a slinked list. Both implement the List interface (ie they support the same operations).
The difference is that the one has constanct time appends and inserts (the linked list) while the other one has constant time indexed lookup (the Arraylist). Both are needed because the access patterns of the collection cannot be predetermined by the API.
The naming convention used is quite logical if you bother to look further.
The same naming convention also goes for the other collections in the API, such as Set (HashSet... ) and Map (HashMap...)
Had pretty much exactly the same problems: Latex has different special characters (%, anyone) and no Unicode. And I was translating a German Dissertation with lots of statistics.
Latex is doable but it is too much fuss in the end.
The problem with BASIC is that it does not consist of small things that can be orthogonally combined, which is one of the most important things to learn when you are learning programming.
Each class of things (files, being the most horrid example) has its own syntax. Lists and other data structures are very weird to use.
Well, I DO work at a non-profit org dedicated to promotion of Renewables. I think I am perhaps just very cynical and I have a longstanding interest in things like evolution and history (as in, my idea of tracing my roots is to read up about paleomicrobiology...). I like it because it gives me another perspective of where and what we are and where we are going.
Sigh. Yes, that is the problem in the end, but I have to wonder if this does not come from some kind of human arrogance. So what if we die out? Will the earth's ecosystem die out when we die out? No.
We are just another species, one of zillions. One with the capability of language and the explosive effect it had with reasoning because it allowed us to express abstract thoughts.
But if we die off earth will continue. The problem is one of arrogance, that humans think they are exalted or something. You are not exalted. Your cells are pretty much the same as any eukaryote. Your DNA is 90% similar to that of a chimpanzee.
So is your body. 2 arms, 2 legs, laterally symmetrical, bla, bla bla. You basic functions are the same. Lungs, heart that pumps blood, kidney, liver, all these things do the same job in a chimp and other mammals and, for that matter, reptiles and birds too.
So are most things that makes your personality. Fear, anger, the fight-or-flight-reaction, all comes from animals.
YOU ARE JUST THE SAME.
And earth's ecosystem is what it is all about. We will die out someday, maybe we should get used to the idea.
Earth has had several mass extinctions. Once the entire ocean froze up. We are not the first species to cause mass dieoffs by pumping gas into the atmosphere (Google for Cyanobacteria and Oxygen Holocaust). We could well be in the normal rise after an ice age. Or maybe not.
The question we should be asking is whether it really matters if Florida drowns. The earth will be a different place, sure, but will it be worse? From what perspective? And, the most important question, will it cost less to adapt to the new warmer planet than to carry the cost of preventing the warmup? Maybe we should look at things with a 15000 year timespan, but I seriously do not think politicians or, for that matter, most people are willing to do that.
Its not as if the earth's oceans are going to go up 2 meter in one horrible night, it will take a few decades. There are things that MAY take a single season (the way warm water in the North Atlantic is carried north and heats up Europe is a system that is apparently somewhat precarious). But in the looong run, it probably does not matter.
SIgh. Yes, that is in the end the problem, but I have to wonder if this does not come from some kind of human arrogance. So what if we die out? WIll the earth's ecosystem die out when we die out? No.
We are just another species, one of zillions. One with the capability of language and the explosive effect it had with reasoning because it allowed us to express abstract thoughts.
But if we die off earth will conitunue. The problem is one of arrogance, that humand think they are exalted or something. You are not exalted. Your cells are pretty much the same as any eukaryote. Your DNA is 90% similar to that of a chimpanzee. So is your body (2 arms, 2 legs, laterally symmetrical, bla, bla bla. You basic functions are the same. Lungs, heart that pumps blood, kidney, liver, all these things do the same job in a chimp and other mammals, and, for that matter reptiles and birds too. So, for that matter are most of what makes your personality. Fear, anger, the fight-or-flight-recation, all comes from animals. YOU ARE JUST THE SAME. And earth is what it is all about. We will die out someday, maybe we should get used to the idea.
The Celeron is noisy. Which is the secondary reason I dumped a Celeron for a WRAP. Just today, in fact.
The Celeron has mechanical parts that can fail. The harddisks pop. The fan goes boom. The CPU fan stops dead in its tracks. Which is the secondary reason I dumped a Celeron for a WRAP. Just today, in fact.
And the WRAP uses almost no current as opposed to the Celeron sucking lots of juice for components Video, HDD, 2 serial ports, a printer a boatload of other crap that is not used in a router. Not to mention the extreme waste of heat in a modern PC case.
The WRAP is a simple dedicated machine that does one job well (I hope, it hasn't arrived yet!)
So if want to wire one to my MP3 collection Sphinx would be better. I am sure I could dynamically create a grammar with my collection to feed into Sphinx.
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I run a WRAP and I can heartily recommend it. Its quite a nice little box that.
They were referring to the earth's axis itself flipping
Actually that is bullshit. There is a good reason things like boldface and italics and different font sizes and proportional letters evolved in print media many, many years before email came along. It improves readability. Dramatically.
I seriously wish you snotty i-love-unix-terminal types came who tell everyone in the world that monospace ASCII is good enough for everyone would read a good book about type design. Try Robert Bringhurst's Elements of Typographic Style.
No, ASCII is not good enough. People like you make other people whine about the fact that computer as difficult to use. Remember, these things do not exist for the amusement of techies. They exist so that normal people can increase their efficiency.
I agree with the Illustrator/Potoshop things but there is quite anice layout program for Linux called Scribus. Check it out. It does PDF/X-3 at least
I was just about to post the Bild link. LAst weekend Bild had a headline on the front page (on the goddam day the EU constitution was signed!) that the earth is going to flip on its axis and cause massive tidal waves. That was the MAIN headline.
The only one I ever bought involved someone stating that astrologic signs have gone out of alignment since antiquity (they have) and then the paper lamented about how the hell we are now supposed to know our future and if we are all really different than the stars predict. Main headline.
The memory efficiency too since you are going to blow the stack.
Get real. I have an NT 4 machine which dates from 1995 in production and it never ever crashes. That machine has mucho better uptimes than any Linux servers I have. In fact, its my primary domain controller.
And my dad still runs a machine with 286 Xenix on it. Still works fine. In production.
Been there with a Mylex DAC 960 and believe me, you don't wanna be there. In a server with redundant CPU's, redundant PSU and redundant disks trust the only non-redndant thing, the RAID card, to go pop.
The Mylex stores its RAID stuff on the card itself (not on the disks, as it should) so if the card is screwed, and your people never wrote down the friggin config, you are well, screwed. On a real RADI card the array config is stored in the first few sectors on the disk so when the card goes, you stick the disks on to the new card and you are just fine.
Fortunately we got another old Mylex on EBay and switched the NVRAM chips and it worked....one of the worst days of my life. And I was never happy to see NT 4.0 boot until that day.
Oh well, working for a non-profit tends to be an adventure. My servers stands on bricks to protect them from the occasional flooding.
Uhm, have you ever been on a ship in the middle of the ocean? It is a one-of-a-kind sight. In fact, its bloody boring because its the same in ALL directions!
Why? THe probe may be designed to float but there is almost certainly more to see on solid surface than a in a homogenous pool of liquid!
Reminds me of the time back in the late 80'S where typing PROMPT "Warning: Virus Detected $d$p" on the DOS machines in the computer lab guaranteed that the machine would stay free.
An ArrayList is a list implemented with an Array internally. A LinkedList is a list implemented a slinked list. Both implement the List interface (ie they support the same operations).
... ) and Map (HashMap...)
The difference is that the one has constanct time appends and inserts (the linked list) while the other one has constant time indexed lookup (the Arraylist). Both are needed because the access patterns of the collection cannot be predetermined by the API.
The naming convention used is quite logical if you bother to look further.
The same naming convention also goes for the other collections in the API, such as Set (HashSet
Had pretty much exactly the same problems: Latex has different special characters (%, anyone) and no Unicode. And I was translating a German Dissertation with lots of statistics.
Latex is doable but it is too much fuss in the end.
Been there done that. All the horrors with metacharacters and difficulties with page layout made me switch to FO
However, Latex's output looks better than FOP's. Only just slightly.
And in a surprise announcement, tomorrow OQO will reveal that Duke Nukem Forever has been released exclusively for their platform!
The problem with BASIC is that it does not consist of small things that can be orthogonally combined, which is one of the most important things to learn when you are learning programming.
Each class of things (files, being the most horrid example) has its own syntax. Lists and other data structures are very weird to use.
But it does have its moments.
Well, I DO work at a non-profit org dedicated to promotion of Renewables. I think I am perhaps just very cynical and I have a longstanding interest in things like evolution and history (as in, my idea of tracing my roots is to read up about paleomicrobiology...). I like it because it gives me another perspective of where and what we are and where we are going.
Sigh. Yes, that is the problem in the end, but I have to wonder if this does not come from some kind of human arrogance. So what if we die out? Will the earth's ecosystem die out when we die out? No.
We are just another species, one of zillions. One with the capability of language and the explosive effect it had with reasoning because it allowed us to express abstract thoughts.
But if we die off earth will continue. The problem is one of arrogance, that humans think they are exalted or something. You are not exalted. Your cells are pretty much the same as any eukaryote. Your DNA is 90% similar to that of a chimpanzee.
So is your body. 2 arms, 2 legs, laterally symmetrical, bla, bla bla. You basic functions are the same. Lungs, heart that pumps blood, kidney, liver, all these things do the same job in a chimp and other mammals and, for that matter, reptiles and birds too.
So are most things that makes your personality. Fear, anger, the fight-or-flight-reaction, all comes from animals.
YOU ARE JUST THE SAME.
And earth's ecosystem is what it is all about. We will die out someday, maybe we should get used to the idea.
Earth has had several mass extinctions. Once the entire ocean froze up. We are not the first species to cause mass dieoffs by pumping gas into the atmosphere (Google for Cyanobacteria and Oxygen Holocaust). We could well be in the normal rise after an ice age. Or maybe not.
The question we should be asking is whether it really matters if Florida drowns. The earth will be a different place, sure, but will it be worse? From what perspective? And, the most important question, will it cost less to adapt to the new warmer planet than to carry the cost of preventing the warmup? Maybe we should look at things with a 15000 year timespan, but I seriously do not think politicians or, for that matter, most people are willing to do that.
Its not as if the earth's oceans are going to go up 2 meter in one horrible night, it will take a few decades. There are things that MAY take a single season (the way warm water in the North Atlantic is carried north and heats up Europe is a system that is apparently somewhat precarious). But in the looong run, it probably does not matter.
SIgh. Yes, that is in the end the problem, but I have to wonder if this does not come from some kind of human arrogance. So what if we die out? WIll the earth's ecosystem die out when we die out? No.
We are just another species, one of zillions. One with the capability of language and the explosive effect it had with reasoning because it allowed us to express abstract thoughts.
But if we die off earth will conitunue. The problem is one of arrogance, that humand think they are exalted or something. You are not exalted. Your cells are pretty much the same as any eukaryote. Your DNA is 90% similar to that of a chimpanzee. So is your body (2 arms, 2 legs, laterally symmetrical, bla, bla bla. You basic functions are the same. Lungs, heart that pumps blood, kidney, liver, all these things do the same job in a chimp and other mammals, and, for that matter reptiles and birds too. So, for that matter are most of what makes your personality. Fear, anger, the fight-or-flight-recation, all comes from animals. YOU ARE JUST THE SAME. And earth is what it is all about. We will die out someday, maybe we should get used to the idea.
The Celeron is noisy. Which is the secondary reason I dumped a Celeron for a WRAP. Just today, in fact.
The Celeron has mechanical parts that can fail. The harddisks pop. The fan goes boom. The CPU fan stops dead in its tracks. Which is the secondary reason I dumped a Celeron for a WRAP. Just today, in fact.
And the WRAP uses almost no current as opposed to the Celeron sucking lots of juice for components Video, HDD, 2 serial ports, a printer a boatload of other crap that is not used in a router. Not to mention the extreme waste of heat in a modern PC case.
The WRAP is a simple dedicated machine that does one job well (I hope, it hasn't arrived yet!)
Now I am going to be scared whenever a dog sniffs my butt.
Well, the only thing better than watching porn is making it.
But curiously, drinking deuterated water is apparently poisonous.
That would hardly make Fortran efficient, but then in comparison to C++...
So if want to wire one to my MP3 collection Sphinx would be better. I am sure I could dynamically create a grammar with my collection to feed into Sphinx.