Really? Your boss sucks. I do that all the time. She knows I won't work at the company forever, and she wants nice, clean code that the next guy will be able to maintain. If I always just crammed new features in, she'd be screwed when the only person who could work with the mess (me) left.
How is that a troll? I'd be suing if I got that kind of service from an e-mail service provider. They're selling you a service and support. If they don't provide it, you deserve compensation.
There were at least a few - I helped maintain SDLMAME for PowerPC, which, once Apple switched to Intel, seemed to be mainly used on PS3 Linux. In the back of my mind I'd always thought it would be cool to have a PS3 to run SDLMAME on the TV, but I never got around to buying one.
Let's assume for a moment that the darker guy is, in fact, the original, and that he wasn't shopped in for political correctness in the American market. The guy doesn't even look "black" to me - "black" meaning African for the most part. He looks more like someone of south Asian descent (India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, etc.).
If the hearsay is to be believed, the USSR converted a bomber to nuclear ramjet propulsion. It still needed conventional engines to take off and land (don't want to contaminate the airfield); it leaked so much radiation that a crew could only fly it for 48 hours before they'd be exposed to more radiation than is considered healthy; to top it off, the reactor was so big and heavy that the plane could no longer carry any actual bombs. All in all, it was quite useless. The project wasn't a total failure, though: the USA didn't know exactly how useless it was, and expended considerable time and money researching nuclear powered flight to avoid the possibility of a nuclear-powered bomber gap. Ultimately, the arms race in the cold war was more of an attempt to bankrupt the other side than anything else.
It matters because as long as GNU/Linux isn't standardised, and can subtly change behaviour between releases, you don't have a stable platform to target. If you're developing against the UNIX 03 specification, you know that your application will behave as expected on any of these systems. Stability and standardisation means a lot when supportability is a major consideration.
Mod parent up. The GP is trolling. There's plenty of support for OpenVMS if you want to pay HP enough for it. A number of stock exchanges run their systems on it, and the gateways that are installed on-site at stockbroking firms also run OpenVMS (on HP Itanium boxes).
Have you actually used iTunes? You don't need a "special playlist" if you're manually managing your music. The music doesn't become unsearchable on the iPod, either - you still get Genre/Artist/Album grouping. You can create a playlist and tell iTunes to sync only that playlist, but if you do this, the "special playlist" is your own creation. If you don't want to copy the music into iTunes, turn off "Keep iTunes Music folder organized" and "Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library" - then iTunes will just keep references to the music files wherever you stored them. As to making "another copy" on the iPod, you'll always have "another copy" on your music player, no matter how you get it there. I'd be happy to hear some valid criticisms of iTunes, but you haven't given any yet. Hang on, I'll think of a few myself: the iTunes store links you can't turn off, the stupid non-standard scroll bars, the"Genius" misfeature, no longer licensing the device plugin API, etc. There are plenty of real issues to bitch about with iTunes, but the/. trolls always seem to make up their own imaginary ones.
I didn't say anything bad about any other music players. They could be great for all I know. I was simply pointing out that managing a music player's contents manually doesn't scale well with large music libraries.
I have too much music for simple drag and drop to be useful. I like iTunes' smart playlists, which effectively give me a query language into my music library. If you do just want to drag and drop, tell iTunes that you want to manage the music on your iPod manually. You'll still have to use iTunes, but you'll be able to drag stuff on and off the device.
Some Toyota vans from the '80s (Tarago, Coaster, Lite Ace, etc.) have a hydraulic clutch that uses the same reservoir as the brake master cylinder. They don't use it for power steering, though.
It's actually a very thin coating, which is the very reason it has to be so hard - because of the lase wavelength used, a thicker coating causes problems.
VAX may be dead, but VMS is still very much alive. The popular OMX trading system runs on VMS/Itanium. It's the backend of many stock exchanges, including NASDAQ, ASX and HKEx derivatives. The systems seem very reliable with decent performance. (Definitely better than that.NET-based TradElect crap the LSE is now trying to drop like a hot potato.)
Actually, they do have to provide this technology if they want to sell mobile phone network equipment at all. There's a mandatory "lawful intercept" capability that you have to implement if you want to get the gear licensed. That goes for US, UK and EU as well as "axis of evil" countries.
As for youtube they have too much power... decentralize now with the video and audio tags!
Video and audio tags won't change the fact that YouTube gives people what they want: free video hosting with lots of bandwidth (for creators) and one place to find all kinds of video (for consumers). Tags for embedding video and audio won't change that.
On your advice, I just tried booble. I have to say, it's complete rubbish. For each search I tried, all the hits on the first page were advertising, and none of them were even advertising anything remotely related to what I searched for. If you're using a search engine, you want relevant results - not just random advertising.
Just tried it - explicit.bing.com gives you SFW and NSFW - using that domain is just like saying "switch off safe search". AFAICT, there's no "unsafe search" option.
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Really? Your boss sucks. I do that all the time. She knows I won't work at the company forever, and she wants nice, clean code that the next guy will be able to maintain. If I always just crammed new features in, she'd be screwed when the only person who could work with the mess (me) left.
How is that a troll? I'd be suing if I got that kind of service from an e-mail service provider. They're selling you a service and support. If they don't provide it, you deserve compensation.
There were at least a few - I helped maintain SDLMAME for PowerPC, which, once Apple switched to Intel, seemed to be mainly used on PS3 Linux. In the back of my mind I'd always thought it would be cool to have a PS3 to run SDLMAME on the TV, but I never got around to buying one.
Let's assume for a moment that the darker guy is, in fact, the original, and that he wasn't shopped in for political correctness in the American market. The guy doesn't even look "black" to me - "black" meaning African for the most part. He looks more like someone of south Asian descent (India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, etc.).
If the hearsay is to be believed, the USSR converted a bomber to nuclear ramjet propulsion. It still needed conventional engines to take off and land (don't want to contaminate the airfield); it leaked so much radiation that a crew could only fly it for 48 hours before they'd be exposed to more radiation than is considered healthy; to top it off, the reactor was so big and heavy that the plane could no longer carry any actual bombs. All in all, it was quite useless. The project wasn't a total failure, though: the USA didn't know exactly how useless it was, and expended considerable time and money researching nuclear powered flight to avoid the possibility of a nuclear-powered bomber gap. Ultimately, the arms race in the cold war was more of an attempt to bankrupt the other side than anything else.
More likely it was a PDP-8 as you usually booted a PDP-11 from DECtape. On the other hand, it could've been a hobbyist kit computer, like an Altair.
The funniest thing about that post is that you didn't even manage to spell his name properly!
Isn't the venerable Compact Disc a "digital album format" already? That's why it doesn't degrade with repeated playback, after all.
It matters because as long as GNU/Linux isn't standardised, and can subtly change behaviour between releases, you don't have a stable platform to target. If you're developing against the UNIX 03 specification, you know that your application will behave as expected on any of these systems. Stability and standardisation means a lot when supportability is a major consideration.
Mod parent up. The GP is trolling. There's plenty of support for OpenVMS if you want to pay HP enough for it. A number of stock exchanges run their systems on it, and the gateways that are installed on-site at stockbroking firms also run OpenVMS (on HP Itanium boxes).
Have you actually used iTunes? You don't need a "special playlist" if you're manually managing your music. The music doesn't become unsearchable on the iPod, either - you still get Genre/Artist/Album grouping. You can create a playlist and tell iTunes to sync only that playlist, but if you do this, the "special playlist" is your own creation. If you don't want to copy the music into iTunes, turn off "Keep iTunes Music folder organized" and "Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library" - then iTunes will just keep references to the music files wherever you stored them. As to making "another copy" on the iPod, you'll always have "another copy" on your music player, no matter how you get it there. I'd be happy to hear some valid criticisms of iTunes, but you haven't given any yet. Hang on, I'll think of a few myself: the iTunes store links you can't turn off, the stupid non-standard scroll bars, the"Genius" misfeature, no longer licensing the device plugin API, etc. There are plenty of real issues to bitch about with iTunes, but the /. trolls always seem to make up their own imaginary ones.
I didn't say anything bad about any other music players. They could be great for all I know. I was simply pointing out that managing a music player's contents manually doesn't scale well with large music libraries.
I have too much music for simple drag and drop to be useful. I like iTunes' smart playlists, which effectively give me a query language into my music library. If you do just want to drag and drop, tell iTunes that you want to manage the music on your iPod manually. You'll still have to use iTunes, but you'll be able to drag stuff on and off the device.
Since Sarah Palin said so!
Some Toyota vans from the '80s (Tarago, Coaster, Lite Ace, etc.) have a hydraulic clutch that uses the same reservoir as the brake master cylinder. They don't use it for power steering, though.
It's actually a very thin coating, which is the very reason it has to be so hard - because of the lase wavelength used, a thicker coating causes problems.
Columbus wasn't Italian. He's probably referring to Amerigo Vespucci or someone.
VAX may be dead, but VMS is still very much alive. The popular OMX trading system runs on VMS/Itanium. It's the backend of many stock exchanges, including NASDAQ, ASX and HKEx derivatives. The systems seem very reliable with decent performance. (Definitely better than that .NET-based TradElect crap the LSE is now trying to drop like a hot potato.)
Actually, they do have to provide this technology if they want to sell mobile phone network equipment at all. There's a mandatory "lawful intercept" capability that you have to implement if you want to get the gear licensed. That goes for US, UK and EU as well as "axis of evil" countries.
It's the same equipment they sell to the US, UK and others, and they're in compliance with UN and EU regulations. Why is it suddenly evil and deserving of punishment when another government decides to use it?
Kids! This is the only real game called APB!
Video and audio tags won't change the fact that YouTube gives people what they want: free video hosting with lots of bandwidth (for creators) and one place to find all kinds of video (for consumers). Tags for embedding video and audio won't change that.
There's one of those for Google here.
On your advice, I just tried booble. I have to say, it's complete rubbish. For each search I tried, all the hits on the first page were advertising, and none of them were even advertising anything remotely related to what I searched for. If you're using a search engine, you want relevant results - not just random advertising.
Just tried it - explicit.bing.com gives you SFW and NSFW - using that domain is just like saying "switch off safe search". AFAICT, there's no "unsafe search" option.