I've only been programming professionally for 3 years now, but already I'm shaking in my boots over having to rethink and relearn the way I've done things to accomodate these massively parallel architectures. I can't imagine how scared must be the old timers of 20, 30, or more years. Or maybe the good ones who are still hacking decades later have already had to deal with paradigm shifts and aren't scared at all?
The same people can grasp that if their car has a defect, the boogie man probably didn't break into it the night before and sabotage their cruise control so it doesn't stay on.
It seems to me that the common thread in mobile device deficiencies is not the hardware or software companies, but rather the cell phone carriers. They are the perennial pessimists when it comes to new technologies, myopic in their fears that a handful of geeks will bring their business crashing down. Instead of embracing and developing them into new and exciting money-making, experience-enriching features, they castrate their own products solely in order to frustrate users. Swap castrate and frustrate freely in the previous sentence.
Imagine 10 years ago if a cell phone carrier told Motorola that their new cell phones were "way too small, anyone could just carry this around in their pocket. What will happen to our public telephone branch?! We have too much invested in the current infrastructure!"
I also experimented with using the vertical screen orientation. However my Samsung monitor is an earlier model without the swivel stand so this involved undoing and redoing several screws (and using that nifty screen rotate feature in the ATI drivers).
Like you, I really fell in love right away. If only I had the option to turn it back easily for TV, movies, and games I'd have left it in the vertical position to this day.
Actually now that I think about it, there was one other caveat. In vertical orientation, the individual RGB subpixels were much more noticable, resulting in a much degraded quality of image. Perhaps this doesn't happen with newer monitors that were actually designed to be rotated?
I think just about every Asian-American family I know of does this. I find it extremely odd when I hear of people who aren't having daddy pay for their education.
My high school physics teacher told us that the winds and temperature are not such huge factors because the atmosphere is really thin... Of course he was kind of a lunatic, so he/I could be wrong.:-D
I ain't a biologist either, but "oxidise" means it consumes oxygen, right? What do you breathe again?
IANABiologistOrChemist, but your rationalization seems quite naive, at best.
Firstly, "oxidized" doesn't necessarily have to do with oxygen at all. I think it refers to the removal of electrons and the resultant "positive" state.
Secondly, even if it did have something to do with oxygen, that doesn't mean it's innocuous. Oxygen is present in a lot of things that we wouldn't want in our bodies... like carbon monoxide, ozone, and dihydrogen monoxide(!!!).
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I've only been programming professionally for 3 years now, but already I'm shaking in my boots over having to rethink and relearn the way I've done things to accomodate these massively parallel architectures. I can't imagine how scared must be the old timers of 20, 30, or more years. Or maybe the good ones who are still hacking decades later have already had to deal with paradigm shifts and aren't scared at all?
I would market this stuff under the trade name 'Dolemite'
But that's just me.
The Exchange ActiveSync protocol can be licensed from Microsoft. Nokia Intellisync is one such third party implementation.
Some kid probably figured out how to bypass the porn filters on the Macs...
I liked this one better. Sadly, no video.
What's the olive oil for?
You can still get the analog signal if you purchase digital cable. You just need a splitter.
I uninstalled the game the next day and haven't played it since.
I take it you lost?
I thought she was pretty amazing in Interview with the Vampire.
Is that supposed to be like the hip way of relating Schrodinger's cat?
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Coffee shops always sell the worst food. I don't care to eat another organic tofu shit brownie evr again.
Maybe if they sold Cheetos and Mountain Dew, they'd get the Wifi geeks to buy more.
The same people can grasp that if their car has a defect, the boogie man probably didn't break into it the night before and sabotage their cruise control so it doesn't stay on.
I believe the correct spelling is "boogety".
It's much more likely that s and t are two arbitrarily-chosen, contiguous letters, in the same vein as x and y, u and v, p and q, etc.
:P
Perhaps s for 'string' and t for 'the next string'.
It seems to me that the common thread in mobile device deficiencies is not the hardware or software companies, but rather the cell phone carriers. They are the perennial pessimists when it comes to new technologies, myopic in their fears that a handful of geeks will bring their business crashing down. Instead of embracing and developing them into new and exciting money-making, experience-enriching features, they castrate their own products solely in order to frustrate users. Swap castrate and frustrate freely in the previous sentence.
Imagine 10 years ago if a cell phone carrier told Motorola that their new cell phones were "way too small, anyone could just carry this around in their pocket. What will happen to our public telephone branch?! We have too much invested in the current infrastructure!"
I also experimented with using the vertical screen orientation. However my Samsung monitor is an earlier model without the swivel stand so this involved undoing and redoing several screws (and using that nifty screen rotate feature in the ATI drivers).
Like you, I really fell in love right away. If only I had the option to turn it back easily for TV, movies, and games I'd have left it in the vertical position to this day.
Actually now that I think about it, there was one other caveat. In vertical orientation, the individual RGB subpixels were much more noticable, resulting in a much degraded quality of image. Perhaps this doesn't happen with newer monitors that were actually designed to be rotated?
Look carefully at the line numbers and also those of the parent post. 10 20 15?
Am I the only one who noticed that the parent poster wrote "a"-ness (say it out loud).
No, but he is recycling his jokes.
I think just about every Asian-American family I know of does this. I find it extremely odd when I hear of people who aren't having daddy pay for their education.
Hmmm, maybe _that's_ why I liked Titan A.E. so much!
But seriously, I tend to enjoy almost every movie I watch. I guess I'm just high on life?
"I tell you everything. He look-a like-a man!"
My high school physics teacher told us that the winds and temperature are not such huge factors because the atmosphere is really thin... Of course he was kind of a lunatic, so he/I could be wrong. :-D
IANABiologistOrChemist, but your rationalization seems quite naive, at best.
Firstly, "oxidized" doesn't necessarily have to do with oxygen at all. I think it refers to the removal of electrons and the resultant "positive" state.
Secondly, even if it did have something to do with oxygen, that doesn't mean it's innocuous. Oxygen is present in a lot of things that we wouldn't want in our bodies... like carbon monoxide, ozone, and dihydrogen monoxide(!!!).
The best part is that my sig is finally ontopic!