IMHO all good programmers should think about what will happen if they leave. That is, if you do use all the exotic features of the language then you have to understand that it will be harder for management to find a replacement for you.
so we should or should use these "exotic" features?
ps: at two years programmers still ask others for basic implementation help (whats a function which...). at ten years they have enough reference text to know where to look.
far better uses include using such plants to pick up contaminents from an area. heavily polluted ground can be spread with a crop of said plants. a generation or two latter the ground is now hearlthy for normal plants which would not normally grow in the polluted soil
there was a random album shuffle which i presume did just this on my Gen 1. mp3 cd player: the AVC Soul Player. that thing rocked house, mostly because they continually released new firmware updates.
Only consumer entertainment product i've ever seen with that sort of company dedication. It was great when I got it and it only got better from there. It finally died a couple years ago, and i consider getting another one of the same model.
I'll probably end up with the Ultra 4 in 1 SD media reader/mp3 player/jump drive unit, just for ultra portable factor. And for when I'm mountain biking: skip protection will always only go so far.
The Soul Player predates the iPod by ~5 years and $200+.
and such began mans first steps away from the epoch of scribbling on cave walls.
fundamentally there is no greater advancement than communications. writing and art are the only refinements we've had to language, and i find its shortcomings... well, i dont have a word to describe it.;) (unsuprising but disappointing none the less)
maybe in another two hundred years we will finally have a means of communication which more acurately details our meaning, not just increases the efficiency of passing off what content we can make. beyond the threshold where words fail us.
i think communication is the key to world peace. a pity only the rich will be able to afford it then.
my fifth grade teacher did a smashing job at pounding the geeks shall inheret the earth motto into my head. i cared about nothing but intellectual actualization.
and then i realized there is more to life than being a geek. it was kind of hard to accept in 7th grade. i felt a little betrayed.
self-actualize not only intellectually and philosophically, but grow physically and socially too.
sure they may be developing the worlds biggest baddest hammer yet, but what exactly are the nails?
bio seems to be the only nail worth hitting of yet. even with "infinite" processing power, we still wouldnt know what to do for audio and video reckognition. the problem is less and less a question of "more" and more and more a question of "how".
For the day comes when we find those nails, DragonFly BSD, god willing, strives to fit the bill for the best hammer out there. A new non-mutex locking mechanism designed to facilitate message passing and async design and single system imaging provide low level and high level ends to the google goal.
be careful, when you say a book spends time on internal character development you think a very explicit form of doing so, verbose pages of character development.
earthsea was beautiful in its lack of showmanship and implicit character development. character development through actions not words.
those are a particularly annoying brand of cell phone user, but there is far more of a problem.
the problem is that people are unable to filter out cell phone conversations from ambient noise. with two people talking to each other, silences proceed someone talking again, and we usually have some idea of what to expect in terms of emotion. there are no great suprises. this allows people to filter out ambient conversation.
cell phone users provide us with no expectations. people just start talking at seemingly random intervals, with varying unexpectable emotional content. there's no way to block out such a chaotic signal.
try this little experiment with a friend: walk down the street chatting with a friend. every now and then just forcibly butt in to the conversation. or just- mid sentance- stop. inject random emotional states into simple sentances such as "He had cheese with that!! NOO!!". basically destroy all the normal conversational queuing we normally hand out, make the conversation highly irregular.
you'll find people cannot just ignore your conversation like normal because your not giving them the means to do so. suddenly theres this chaotic element their brains have no means to ignore; we're well trained at ignoring conversation. but add these random elements and theres no pattern to ignore, just chaos.
for full effect, try the same conversational techniques walking down the street by yourself some time.
that is the problem with cell phones. there is no context. its not a conversation. just, at random intervals, someone talking. its a pain in the ass because we cannot ignore you, your conversation is, the way our brains are wired, force fed as immediate and important stimuli into our brain.
cell phone conversations are obnoxious because there is no flow; its merely someone randomly blurting out, there's no context, no flow. the human ear has no idea what to expect next nor when to expect it, half the conversation is unhearable and thus half the conversation becomes impossible to block out. you cannot block out what you cannot expect.
if telephone didnt sound like ass, i'd rather you all talk on speakerphone, that was i could ignore you like i can ignore every other conversation in the world.
i'm tired as fuck of all the self righetous pricks running around thinking their cell phone conversations are as harmless as two people chatting merrily.
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IMHO all good programmers should think about what will happen if they leave. That is, if you do use all the exotic features of the language then you have to understand that it will be harder for management to find a replacement for you.
so we should or should use these "exotic" features?
ps: at two years programmers still ask others for basic implementation help (whats a function which...). at ten years they have enough reference text to know where to look.
far better uses include using such plants to pick up contaminents from an area. heavily polluted ground can be spread with a crop of said plants. a generation or two latter the ground is now hearlthy for normal plants which would not normally grow in the polluted soil
raise the flag that to robots made?
i thought they said everquest.
there was a random album shuffle which i presume did just this on my Gen 1. mp3 cd player: the AVC Soul Player. that thing rocked house, mostly because they continually released new firmware updates.
Only consumer entertainment product i've ever seen with that sort of company dedication. It was great when I got it and it only got better from there. It finally died a couple years ago, and i consider getting another one of the same model.
I'll probably end up with the Ultra 4 in 1 SD media reader/mp3 player/jump drive unit, just for ultra portable factor. And for when I'm mountain biking: skip protection will always only go so far.
The Soul Player predates the iPod by ~5 years and $200+.
Myren
where is 802.20 spawned from? is it a "wiMax" child, or some independent ZigBee esque alternative?
its interesting they'd bother to distinguish between high and low speed mobility. where is the line between the two?
in eitheer situtation you should be able to use the same handoff protocols. that shouldnt need to vary.
whats the use in going past 88 mph anyways?
what particular advantages do this higher frequency piece of spectrum bear over 2.4 and 5 Ghz?
i want some chunk of spectrum where plant matter is not like a black hole for my signal.
and such began mans first steps away from the epoch of scribbling on cave walls.
;) (unsuprising but disappointing none the less)
fundamentally there is no greater advancement than communications. writing and art are the only refinements we've had to language, and i find its shortcomings... well, i dont have a word to describe it.
maybe in another two hundred years we will finally have a means of communication which more acurately details our meaning, not just increases the efficiency of passing off what content we can make. beyond the threshold where words fail us.
i think communication is the key to world peace. a pity only the rich will be able to afford it then.
wasnt there something about 2038 in there? (shadowrun)
the other end of time.
who gives a rats ass?
my fifth grade teacher did a smashing job at pounding the geeks shall inheret the earth motto into my head. i cared about nothing but intellectual actualization.
and then i realized there is more to life than being a geek. it was kind of hard to accept in 7th grade. i felt a little betrayed.
self-actualize not only intellectually and philosophically, but grow physically and socially too.
why bother?
you have to compare the two things you hope to compress against. if you have infinite email, thats infinite ^ 2 comparisons.
The opensource rendition of what you speak is DragonFly BSD and it's eventual goal.
sure they may be developing the worlds biggest baddest hammer yet, but what exactly are the nails?
bio seems to be the only nail worth hitting of yet. even with "infinite" processing power, we still wouldnt know what to do for audio and video reckognition. the problem is less and less a question of "more" and more and more a question of "how".
For the day comes when we find those nails, DragonFly BSD, god willing, strives to fit the bill for the best hammer out there. A new non-mutex locking mechanism designed to facilitate message passing and async design and single system imaging provide low level and high level ends to the google goal.
And, speaking for myself and myself alone, they need your help.
or just trying to get published/reputation.
why yes, i am an expert in gui design.
i did it all for hte rep.
it really is easier when you can lay out a gui then just make it work.
wouldnt be bad except it requires for thought on the part of someone to make sure the back end that does what it does eventually mixes with pretty.
widget macros would be cool. *april *boom**.
i would've believed it
vincent black-shadow
i wonder how the rest of the world fares against these issues. insurance is fairly global ( i imagine ), but is air space regulation?
be careful, when you say a book spends time on internal character development you think a very explicit form of doing so, verbose pages of character development.
earthsea was beautiful in its lack of showmanship and implicit character development. character development through actions not words.
they are going to blaspheme against one of my greater childhood memories.
i reread Wizard this summer. beautiful little Man v. Self. but there's no way they can lace the movie with all the subtle surrealism of the book.
Myren
those are a particularly annoying brand of cell phone user, but there is far more of a problem.
the problem is that people are unable to filter out cell phone conversations from ambient noise. with two people talking to each other, silences proceed someone talking again, and we usually have some idea of what to expect in terms of emotion. there are no great suprises. this allows people to filter out ambient conversation.
cell phone users provide us with no expectations. people just start talking at seemingly random intervals, with varying unexpectable emotional content. there's no way to block out such a chaotic signal.
try this little experiment with a friend: walk down the street chatting with a friend. every now and then just forcibly butt in to the conversation. or just- mid sentance- stop. inject random emotional states into simple sentances such as "He had cheese with that!! NOO!!". basically destroy all the normal conversational queuing we normally hand out, make the conversation highly irregular.
you'll find people cannot just ignore your conversation like normal because your not giving them the means to do so. suddenly theres this chaotic element their brains have no means to ignore; we're well trained at ignoring conversation. but add these random elements and theres no pattern to ignore, just chaos.
for full effect, try the same conversational techniques walking down the street by yourself some time.
that is the problem with cell phones. there is no context. its not a conversation. just, at random intervals, someone talking. its a pain in the ass because we cannot ignore you, your conversation is, the way our brains are wired, force fed as immediate and important stimuli into our brain.
myren
cell phone conversations are obnoxious because there is no flow; its merely someone randomly blurting out, there's no context, no flow. the human ear has no idea what to expect next nor when to expect it, half the conversation is unhearable and thus half the conversation becomes impossible to block out. you cannot block out what you cannot expect.
if telephone didnt sound like ass, i'd rather you all talk on speakerphone, that was i could ignore you like i can ignore every other conversation in the world.
i'm tired as fuck of all the self righetous pricks running around thinking their cell phone conversations are as harmless as two people chatting merrily.
isnt this why they put a sundial on the blasted thing? or was that one of the other things we recently crashed into mars.