For about 15 minutes, I thought you must be someone I worked with. Unless you changed your name though, you appear to be someone named Vincent Platt, from Minneapolis, Minnesota, who worked or works for BORN. You have 3 adopted children, two from Columbia, one from Ecuador. Perhaps it is because of this that you feel superior to others. You're still a whiny bitch. I suggest that if your dick works you go jerk off until the 19th when you'll be able to play Half Life 2.
what person with a real job and family can actually play games on weekdays?
It's pretty easy to play games after work. Though it's tough waking up in the morning if you play until 4AM. As for having a family, that was your fault. You should have kept it in your pants if you didn't want a family.
I probably wouldn't be able to afford to buy a game or a computer to play it on. Personally, I'd rather live in a country where I have an opportunity to make some money.
Hahaha... Commenting about slashdot on slashdot is offtopic (watch me be modded offtopic now too).
Also, asking people to not abuse the moderator power that they are given is pointless. Power corrupts, don't you know. Power that comes with no responsibility and after now hardship is always going to be misused.
...you don't own software. You buy the disks and a box and a license (i.e. a contract) which is revocable at any time by either party. Sorry, but that's just the way it is.
NSIS does this too. You basically install NSIS on your development machine, then you make a.nsi file (a script that tells where to install things). You run NSIS on the.nsi file and it creates a stand-alone executable which will install the application. The.EXE contains all the files of your project and is an interactive installer program (i.e., prompts user for install directory, reads/modifies registry entries, et cetera).
Lasers like this are intended to stop a small number of missiles from a rogue state like Iran or North Korea. As far as the public knows, we would still never be able to do anything against a large number of missiles like what we would have had if we had been in an all-out war with the Soviet Union. That was the whole Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) concept of the Cold War.
Terrorists aren't going to be developing nuclear weapons. To do that, they would need fissile material. For fissile material, they would need a large scale infrastructure of mining and refining. There is more of a danger of a rogue state such as Iran or North Korea giving nuclear weapons to terrorists. Of course, the reason that they don't is because they know that if they did, we would totally destroy them. Now, if Iran were to use a nuclear weapon against Israel or if North Korea were to use a nuclear weapon against Japan or South Korea, it would cause worldwide chaos.
We do keep good relations with large sane countries, by the way.
Anyway, this is a small-scale solution. We do not have a large scale solution at all (as far as we know).
Unions typically prohibit companies from hiring non-union employees...
In the UK that's called a "Closed Shop" and it's illegal - one of the more enlightened reforms of the Thatcher era.
In the U.S., it might be legal and might be illegal, depending on the locality and on the industry. It's definately illegal for them to break the knees of a non-Union worker though. Effectively though, you have a "closed shop" in a lot of industries.
Somehow that guy finds it easier to type "@" than "at". Both require two keypresses. You could argue that the @ version is more difficult since it requires a shift and the "at" version actually uses one home row letter, so it should be easier. My guess is that this guy is a non-native English speaker who thinks that @ is cooler than "at".
This looks like C, but it totally doesn't work. "do" is a reserved word used to initiate a do-while loop and cannot be used for a function name. "try" is reserved as well, though it is only used in systems that handle exceptions (e.g., C++, Java, etc).
Yes, I get the Star Wars reference, but your code is incredibly lame. What kind of coder would name a function "do_not"? The kind I'd like to kill if I had to maintain his code, that's the kind.
That doesn't apply to Ashcroft. Ashcroft clearly thinks that everything is all peachy, that he has secured America from crime and terrorism. A nihilist would be a hippie-type who would want to tear down social organizations like marriage. He is the complete opposite of that.
I understand that you're critical of him because he wants to tear down pornography and recreational drug usage, but you can't call him a nihilist because he doens't believe in those things.
He also said Ashcroft was not involved in the decision.
``The attorney general was not even aware of the situation,'' he said. ``Obviously, he has more important things to do.''
The article did say though that Ashcroft didn't like being photographed in front of the statues. One statue was female with a single breast exposed, the other was male.
Or maybe even some place like Smart & Final (a store that caters to small businesses and small resturants) or maybe a place like Costco. I bet you'll be able to buy 80 pounds of butter for a lower price than the sale price at the supermarket. Supermarkets are basically just large convenience stores.
We got terrible support from TI. I think it was because we were a small company. They promised a lot when we made the decision to go with that architecture. They said they wanted people to do Linux applications with it and that they had a good Linux port they'd give us. The truth was far from that. The Linux port was old and minimal. Sound stuttered under any kind of load and needed to be basically rewritten. Eventually, when we got to production we found out that the OMAP chips we needed in small quantities (several thousand) either weren't going to be available or were going to be a very high price. They had EOL'd the chip before we finished the project (ahead of their own schedule for EOL).
As an aside, I REALLY like the Cirrus Logic EP93xx series chips (especially the EP9315). It's a normal ARM9TDMI core (unlike the weird TI925 core that is on the TI part). They also have an excellent Linux team and were very supportive about getting patches to us and releasing quality code and drivers. They have very compatible Linux drivers for almost everything on the CPU and peripherals on the dev board. We switched from OMAP to EP9315 and in 2-3 months we had new boards built and had ported all of our custom bootloader stuff and small custom Linux drivers and our big applications over. The 9315 with Cirrus's Board Support Package was basically a joy to work with after the nightmare that was OMAP. Cirrus also has apps engineers who will do free schematic reviews. The boards worked (at least partially) the first time!
Ultimately the second system was better (more stable, lighter load on the CPU, more responsive) than it would had been with OMAP. Of course, we were still way behind schedule and management pulled the plug and decided to sell the customer on our next-generation product (which is probably a better deal for them anyway).
Again, I really like the Cirrus Logic EP93xx series parts. They are well supported and there's a nice range of speed/extra perhipherals ranging from the 9301 to the 9315. The Linux port is solid and is a single tree for all of the 93xx parts. They come highly recommended by me.
Last time I checked, fusion reactors required more energy going into them to sustain the reaction than the energy produced from the reaction. In other words, it isn't a generator yet, but more like an appliance. It's not a solution yet.
Also last time I checked, solar energy wasn't cost-effective in large scales, which is why we haven't seen large-scale deployment of the technology.
Yeah, obviously it's more complicated than that. And it wasn't an entire failure, since multiple projects used the same platform. It was only the biggest customer who cancelled. It was mainly the system architecture that was more difficult than it needed to be. There was a main CPU running Linux and a secondary CPU running proprietary DSP code and a rather strange and complicated bridge mechanism between them consisting of shared memory, hardware mailboxes and interrupts. This code was a nightmare to write and debug. Oh, and the DMA was really weird on this system too, making the audio code very difficult as well.
Our boards also deviated heavily from the reference design and we did weird things like putting a hacked IDE device interface (a PLD and some buffers) onto the slow memory bus of the CPU (which worked okay once we wrote some software hacks). Our graphics display chip was also on this very slow external interface.
The specs kept changing all throughout the project. Even a few weeks before the end, they were adding new little software features to it. The applications had changed a LOT from the beginning. We actually built 4 different complete systems based on this architecture (system on chip + peripherals + set of apps). Of course, the only one that was potentially profitable was the one that got cancelled.
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I wasn't aware that that was very common for anything larger than small applications.
For about 15 minutes, I thought you must be someone I worked with. Unless you changed your name though, you appear to be someone named Vincent Platt, from Minneapolis, Minnesota, who worked or works for BORN. You have 3 adopted children, two from Columbia, one from Ecuador. Perhaps it is because of this that you feel superior to others. You're still a whiny bitch. I suggest that if your dick works you go jerk off until the 19th when you'll be able to play Half Life 2.
It's pretty easy to play games after work. Though it's tough waking up in the morning if you play until 4AM. As for having a family, that was your fault. You should have kept it in your pants if you didn't want a family.
I probably wouldn't be able to afford to buy a game or a computer to play it on. Personally, I'd rather live in a country where I have an opportunity to make some money.
Hahaha... Commenting about slashdot on slashdot is offtopic (watch me be modded offtopic now too).
Also, asking people to not abuse the moderator power that they are given is pointless. Power corrupts, don't you know. Power that comes with no responsibility and after now hardship is always going to be misused.
...you don't own software. You buy the disks and a box and a license (i.e. a contract) which is revocable at any time by either party. Sorry, but that's just the way it is.
You want to own software? Write it yourself.
NSIS does this too. You basically install NSIS on your development machine, then you make a .nsi file (a script that tells where to install things). You run NSIS on the .nsi file and it creates a stand-alone executable which will install the application. The .EXE contains all the files of your project and is an interactive installer program (i.e., prompts user for install directory, reads/modifies registry entries, et cetera).
It's similar to WISE, but it's free.
Lasers like this are intended to stop a small number of missiles from a rogue state like Iran or North Korea. As far as the public knows, we would still never be able to do anything against a large number of missiles like what we would have had if we had been in an all-out war with the Soviet Union. That was the whole Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) concept of the Cold War.
Terrorists aren't going to be developing nuclear weapons. To do that, they would need fissile material. For fissile material, they would need a large scale infrastructure of mining and refining. There is more of a danger of a rogue state such as Iran or North Korea giving nuclear weapons to terrorists. Of course, the reason that they don't is because they know that if they did, we would totally destroy them. Now, if Iran were to use a nuclear weapon against Israel or if North Korea were to use a nuclear weapon against Japan or South Korea, it would cause worldwide chaos.
We do keep good relations with large sane countries, by the way.
Anyway, this is a small-scale solution. We do not have a large scale solution at all (as far as we know).
...you keep using that term. I think it does not mean what you think it means.
In the UK that's called a "Closed Shop" and it's illegal - one of the more enlightened reforms of the Thatcher era.
In the U.S., it might be legal and might be illegal, depending on the locality and on the industry. It's definately illegal for them to break the knees of a non-Union worker though. Effectively though, you have a "closed shop" in a lot of industries.
And this system you propose has done so well for Cuba.
Somehow that guy finds it easier to type "@" than "at". Both require two keypresses. You could argue that the @ version is more difficult since it requires a shift and the "at" version actually uses one home row letter, so it should be easier. My guess is that this guy is a non-native English speaker who thinks that @ is cooler than "at".
Seagate 5GB CF hard disk, about $250.
That should be enough for a couple of commutes on the subway before you'll want to load something new on it.
pfft. just hide it in a garbage can under some leaves. they'll take it.
do() || do_not(); // try();
This looks like C, but it totally doesn't work. "do" is a reserved word used to initiate a do-while loop and cannot be used for a function name. "try" is reserved as well, though it is only used in systems that handle exceptions (e.g., C++, Java, etc).
Yes, I get the Star Wars reference, but your code is incredibly lame. What kind of coder would name a function "do_not"? The kind I'd like to kill if I had to maintain his code, that's the kind.
Those are only good for a weak signal. If you have a bad signal, i.e. one with lots of noise, it will simply amplify the noise.
That doesn't apply to Ashcroft. Ashcroft clearly thinks that everything is all peachy, that he has secured America from crime and terrorism. A nihilist would be a hippie-type who would want to tear down social organizations like marriage. He is the complete opposite of that.
I understand that you're critical of him because he wants to tear down pornography and recreational drug usage, but you can't call him a nihilist because he doens't believe in those things.
This is a silly argument.
He's a bloody nihilist.
Uh, you don't know what nihilist means.
m-w entry for nihilist.
From the linked article:
He also said Ashcroft was not involved in the decision.
``The attorney general was not even aware of the situation,'' he said. ``Obviously, he has more important things to do.''
The article did say though that Ashcroft didn't like being photographed in front of the statues. One statue was female with a single breast exposed, the other was male.
doh. sorry.
Or maybe even some place like Smart & Final (a store that caters to small businesses and small resturants) or maybe a place like Costco. I bet you'll be able to buy 80 pounds of butter for a lower price than the sale price at the supermarket. Supermarkets are basically just large convenience stores.
TI OMAP 1510/5910, aka major pain in the ass.
We got terrible support from TI. I think it was because we were a small company. They promised a lot when we made the decision to go with that architecture. They said they wanted people to do Linux applications with it and that they had a good Linux port they'd give us. The truth was far from that. The Linux port was old and minimal. Sound stuttered under any kind of load and needed to be basically rewritten. Eventually, when we got to production we found out that the OMAP chips we needed in small quantities (several thousand) either weren't going to be available or were going to be a very high price. They had EOL'd the chip before we finished the project (ahead of their own schedule for EOL).
As an aside, I REALLY like the Cirrus Logic EP93xx series chips (especially the EP9315). It's a normal ARM9TDMI core (unlike the weird TI925 core that is on the TI part). They also have an excellent Linux team and were very supportive about getting patches to us and releasing quality code and drivers. They have very compatible Linux drivers for almost everything on the CPU and peripherals on the dev board. We switched from OMAP to EP9315 and in 2-3 months we had new boards built and had ported all of our custom bootloader stuff and small custom Linux drivers and our big applications over. The 9315 with Cirrus's Board Support Package was basically a joy to work with after the nightmare that was OMAP. Cirrus also has apps engineers who will do free schematic reviews. The boards worked (at least partially) the first time!
Ultimately the second system was better (more stable, lighter load on the CPU, more responsive) than it would had been with OMAP. Of course, we were still way behind schedule and management pulled the plug and decided to sell the customer on our next-generation product (which is probably a better deal for them anyway).
Again, I really like the Cirrus Logic EP93xx series parts. They are well supported and there's a nice range of speed/extra perhipherals ranging from the 9301 to the 9315. The Linux port is solid and is a single tree for all of the 93xx parts. They come highly recommended by me.
Last time I checked, fusion reactors required more energy going into them to sustain the reaction than the energy produced from the reaction. In other words, it isn't a generator yet, but more like an appliance. It's not a solution yet.
Also last time I checked, solar energy wasn't cost-effective in large scales, which is why we haven't seen large-scale deployment of the technology.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
What about the 'u' in flavour, favourite, colour, neighbour, and the others?
Yeah, obviously it's more complicated than that. And it wasn't an entire failure, since multiple projects used the same platform. It was only the biggest customer who cancelled. It was mainly the system architecture that was more difficult than it needed to be. There was a main CPU running Linux and a secondary CPU running proprietary DSP code and a rather strange and complicated bridge mechanism between them consisting of shared memory, hardware mailboxes and interrupts. This code was a nightmare to write and debug. Oh, and the DMA was really weird on this system too, making the audio code very difficult as well.
Our boards also deviated heavily from the reference design and we did weird things like putting a hacked IDE device interface (a PLD and some buffers) onto the slow memory bus of the CPU (which worked okay once we wrote some software hacks). Our graphics display chip was also on this very slow external interface.
The specs kept changing all throughout the project. Even a few weeks before the end, they were adding new little software features to it. The applications had changed a LOT from the beginning. We actually built 4 different complete systems based on this architecture (system on chip + peripherals + set of apps). Of course, the only one that was potentially profitable was the one that got cancelled.