GUIs are unquestionably faster for simple things. Copy this file here. Select this word that's miles away from the input cursor.
Even for simple tasks I find the CLI faster. A few days ago I was playing with this idea, so I ran a little timer ($time read x) to find out how much time did it take to do simple tasks like the ones you mention. In every tasks, I was faster in the CLI, except for renaming one file.
I might not be the only one, but I grew up playing games in English and I believe most of my learning experience in this language was based on the challenges those games brought on me. I mean, I was 10 or so when I finished Crystalis and Zelda on the NES and I remember finding myself thinking/playing in English when my school friends were learning "my name is...". I think there are fields (like idioms) which can greatly benefit from games, like history, geography. But in the case of mathematics, which requires a great deal of practice not so much.
This is truly the point, the nodes communication is the most important aspect, since you can build up clients from it with whatever technology suits you. This is the only way they are going to beat FB. AFAIR they where using the same protocol used by StatusNet (OStatus) but I might be wrong.
So that's what the 5GB partition I always remove is for. What a waste of time I say. If you're buying a computer with Windows pre-installed, you can be sure that since the very moment you pay for it, you're being Butt-F*#$*%. At least this partition is always good for SWAP.
Anyway, it's a shame that no discs are shipped with computers anymore, since Windows discs are so nice and they make incredible mirrors to shave during shower... And yes, I'm currently shaving with a Windows XP CD that came with my laptop and have another Office 2007 in case this one gets lost. OTOH I collect Ubuntu CD's.
In the USA that is. Remember, not every country in the world has those stupid laws on software patents. Actually, there's a version of FF somewhere around which comes with H264. Anyway, I would like to see WebM take off. About the article, ten years ago no one thought about using XMLHttpRequest to make better looking pages with AJAX and this technology evolved into what it's today. I'm pretty sure that most of the people who support this H264 non-sense today, would be backing IXMLHTTPRequest because it was better in the days (how many ActiveX pages have I puked on, ugh!). But look, some community effort and the current standard was set by Mozilla. I'm sure the video tag will also evolve, even faster than Flash and H264, because it's open and free, to support more features than Flash could imagine and run faster and better than H264 would.
Bad analogy. You need a licence, insurance and if you crash, you could die or loss money.
If you break the computer, you call the IT guys and get over it.
I really believe that companies should be more through on computer expertise than on other things like a second language.
The thing is that a computer, like it or not, is a tool to do your job. Bad GUI, bugs, etc. Are not an excuse for not doing your job. If a carpenter breaks a hammer, he fixes it. If he doesn't know how to use a saw, he spends days learning how to do it.
Yes, this is the best example for why it's very stupid to write a business critical application using microsoft languages for microsoft operating systems, or Mac languages for Mac OSX.
I know not everyone loves Java, but what no one can deny (and if you do, sorry, you're stupid) is that the JVM is the best tool you can have when designing an architecture. Use whatever language on top of the JVM and it will probably work for the next ten years and next 3 Microsoft OS's.
For Debian/Ubuntu:
http://aptoncd.sourceforge.net/
There, now stop whining about what is probably one of the best features of modern distributions. And the brand Linux doesn't have anything to do with this.
Even when so many people download movies, last year was a record year for movie theaters. Also, in Spain we don't have services like Hulu or Netflix, and pretty much every video rental store is closing. The fair copying is only applied to music, movies and books. Software is not in the same page here.
Oh! And the SGAE Tax is being run through many legal instances to study its legality, this tax is paid on every appliance capable of storing and reproducing copyrighted material, even printers and photocopiers, even if you use them for your own stuff... This guys are making millions out of this deal.
It's built on top of Eclipse, so all other tools like version control should work. Anyway, I do work with Java and yes I did sign up to the Beta. I don't see anywhere about license or source code. Let's hope when this guy is done with his thesis releases the beast.
The Japanese already used balloons during WWII to attack American soil. They didn't do any damage, but they did fly from Japan to the US and dropped some explosive payload to terrorize civilians.
Well, you have House, Grey and that chick from Trauma... oh! and ER, so the WHO is probably right. OTOH, the same guys at the WHO said that the "Pigs Flu" or whatever is called there, was a world pandemic that would bring the world to an end if the governments didn't buy the vaccines from big pharmaceutical firms. See that worked out: more people died from normal seasonal flu than from that specific one and Tamiflu didn't even work. Go Pharma Roche!!!
OMG! Really? So a family of four would be paying how much? $1000/month? Damn! I'm in Spain, we've a great public health care system for the moment (things are starting to go wild on some places) but even then, I have a private insurance for specialists which sometimes are overcrowded on the public system so it can be a pain (literally) having to wait a month for a date with the proctologyst (not that I would know:) but in no way we reach such high rates and it includes plenty of things. For the two children we have, one was born in a public hospital (great, all free, no-free tv) and the other on a private one (great too, all free, even tv) and our monthly fee goes up to 400€ for the four of us... including a basic dental plan.
Just who would imagine such a thing on the richest country on the world. Oh well! The Chinese are far better worst
Yes, please do. Every professional Java programmer must read this book. Really, it's not an option. After doing your first "Hello World" you must read this. I wish every language (specially Python) had such a great book like this one.
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It's called Ruby, and it's not a problem, it's a feature, a trendy one.
GUIs are unquestionably faster for simple things. Copy this file here. Select this word that's miles away from the input cursor.
Even for simple tasks I find the CLI faster. A few days ago I was playing with this idea, so I ran a little timer ($time read x) to find out how much time did it take to do simple tasks like the ones you mention. In every tasks, I was faster in the CLI, except for renaming one file.
I might not be the only one, but I grew up playing games in English and I believe most of my learning experience in this language was based on the challenges those games brought on me. I mean, I was 10 or so when I finished Crystalis and Zelda on the NES and I remember finding myself thinking/playing in English when my school friends were learning "my name is...". I think there are fields (like idioms) which can greatly benefit from games, like history, geography. But in the case of mathematics, which requires a great deal of practice not so much.
This is truly the point, the nodes communication is the most important aspect, since you can build up clients from it with whatever technology suits you. This is the only way they are going to beat FB. AFAIR they where using the same protocol used by StatusNet (OStatus) but I might be wrong.
So that's what the 5GB partition I always remove is for. What a waste of time I say. If you're buying a computer with Windows pre-installed, you can be sure that since the very moment you pay for it, you're being Butt-F*#$*%. At least this partition is always good for SWAP.
Anyway, it's a shame that no discs are shipped with computers anymore, since Windows discs are so nice and they make incredible mirrors to shave during shower... And yes, I'm currently shaving with a Windows XP CD that came with my laptop and have another Office 2007 in case this one gets lost. OTOH I collect Ubuntu CD's.
Free browsers will never be able to support H264
In the USA that is. Remember, not every country in the world has those stupid laws on software patents. Actually, there's a version of FF somewhere around which comes with H264. Anyway, I would like to see WebM take off. About the article, ten years ago no one thought about using XMLHttpRequest to make better looking pages with AJAX and this technology evolved into what it's today. I'm pretty sure that most of the people who support this H264 non-sense today, would be backing IXMLHTTPRequest because it was better in the days (how many ActiveX pages have I puked on, ugh!). But look, some community effort and the current standard was set by Mozilla. I'm sure the video tag will also evolve, even faster than Flash and H264, because it's open and free, to support more features than Flash could imagine and run faster and better than H264 would.
Video games are already ridiculously cheap in terms of entertainment time per dollar. They don't need to be any cheaper.
I'm not sure about this. Compared to what? With movies? Yes. With music? Probably. With throwing rocks at birds? I Don't think so! With sex? Depends.
Maybe they should start with a proper website that works on non-MSIE browsers.
Right... I don't like SourceForge at all. Much prefer Launchpad or Google Code.
Bad analogy. You need a licence, insurance and if you crash, you could die or loss money. If you break the computer, you call the IT guys and get over it. I really believe that companies should be more through on computer expertise than on other things like a second language. The thing is that a computer, like it or not, is a tool to do your job. Bad GUI, bugs, etc. Are not an excuse for not doing your job. If a carpenter breaks a hammer, he fixes it. If he doesn't know how to use a saw, he spends days learning how to do it.
Yes, this is the best example for why it's very stupid to write a business critical application using microsoft languages for microsoft operating systems, or Mac languages for Mac OSX. I know not everyone loves Java, but what no one can deny (and if you do, sorry, you're stupid) is that the JVM is the best tool you can have when designing an architecture. Use whatever language on top of the JVM and it will probably work for the next ten years and next 3 Microsoft OS's.
No, but it's doable: http://icculus.org/fatelf/
Not necessarily. Read about what Roman Emperor Sila did.
For Debian/Ubuntu: http://aptoncd.sourceforge.net/ There, now stop whining about what is probably one of the best features of modern distributions. And the brand Linux doesn't have anything to do with this.
Even when so many people download movies, last year was a record year for movie theaters. Also, in Spain we don't have services like Hulu or Netflix, and pretty much every video rental store is closing. The fair copying is only applied to music, movies and books. Software is not in the same page here. Oh! And the SGAE Tax is being run through many legal instances to study its legality, this tax is paid on every appliance capable of storing and reproducing copyrighted material, even printers and photocopiers, even if you use them for your own stuff... This guys are making millions out of this deal.
Yes, you can call them "Methods"... wooow!
It's built on top of Eclipse, so all other tools like version control should work. Anyway, I do work with Java and yes I did sign up to the Beta. I don't see anywhere about license or source code. Let's hope when this guy is done with his thesis releases the beast.
The Japanese already used balloons during WWII to attack American soil. They didn't do any damage, but they did fly from Japan to the US and dropped some explosive payload to terrorize civilians.
they might even get permission from the UN first.
not that they care about this too much
I wonder what apps would be possible on a 2010 alpha chip
Alphlash? AlFlash? Flash for Alpha? Meh! They probably wouldn't support it
SUN's website changing its color to red instead of that gay blue?
He's writting in Italian you insensitive clod!
Well, you have House, Grey and that chick from Trauma... oh! and ER, so the WHO is probably right. OTOH, the same guys at the WHO said that the "Pigs Flu" or whatever is called there, was a world pandemic that would bring the world to an end if the governments didn't buy the vaccines from big pharmaceutical firms. See that worked out: more people died from normal seasonal flu than from that specific one and Tamiflu didn't even work. Go Pharma Roche!!!
I'm paying about $380/month
OMG! Really? So a family of four would be paying how much? $1000/month? Damn! I'm in Spain, we've a great public health care system for the moment (things are starting to go wild on some places) but even then, I have a private insurance for specialists which sometimes are overcrowded on the public system so it can be a pain (literally) having to wait a month for a date with the proctologyst (not that I would know :) but in no way we reach such high rates and it includes plenty of things. For the two children we have, one was born in a public hospital (great, all free, no-free tv) and the other on a private one (great too, all free, even tv) and our monthly fee goes up to 400€ for the four of us... including a basic dental plan.
Just who would imagine such a thing on the richest country on the world. Oh well! The Chinese are far better worst
Yes, please do. Every professional Java programmer must read this book. Really, it's not an option. After doing your first "Hello World" you must read this. I wish every language (specially Python) had such a great book like this one.