> Premium services such a "touch tone service" was (and still is I believe) an "option" that must be paid for.
Ironically,"touch tone" service is really only premium service in the eyes of the sales department. From an engineering POV it's actually cheaper way of signalling than make/break pulses.
The only reason in Canada for a civilian to carry a concealed weapon is if they plan to kill somebody with it. Unlike our brethren in the US, we trade hockey cards are recess rather than practice our handgun skills.
If the cops shoot somebody here who is carrying a concealed weapon, they almost certainly have a good reason to do so.
How does the timer in firefox "kick off"? It's obviously not on the branch callback anymore; surely you guys aren't firing an operation callback every 10ms?
Do you know how often in the tracing JIT checks operation callback? How about JM? I'm wondering if this style of benchmark will become increasingly innaccurate as the JS JITs get tighter. Is a super-accurate 10ms timer a goal @moz?
In our backwards little country -- just north of y'all -- the big CDMA vendors have realized that CDMA sucks from pretty much every standpoint that matters. Bell and Telus have rolled out nation-wide HSPA networks.
And I have yet to see a 16-year old girl saying things like "I would have bought an iPhone, except with time-division multiplexing, there is a finite cell capacity; if Apple had rolled out code-division we could simply increase tower load by reducing quality of service"
> so... you throw away java, mono and.net, also kde, gnome,... what's left then??
What do you mean, "What's left?" How about - an entire universe less five apps?
Or let's talk about what we NEED and see where these bits fit in.
I need to type commands at a shell prompt. So I need a terminal. I need to be able to use more than one terminal at once, and don't have the desktop space for 100 computers. So I need some kind of multi terminal display thingy. X11 does that fairly well, when your terminal is an xterm. But straight X11 sucks when you have many windows overlapping and stuff -- so I need a window manager, too; I use fvwm 1.24 (and have for well over a decade). I also need to edit source code; I use emacs for that. Emacs will run in either a terminal window, or an X window.
# end of needs
See how I didn't say "KDE", "gnome", or ".net". I sure as hell don't need a program menu, a start button, or semi-transparent windows with spinning skulls and flames in the background.
My whole stack, end-to-end is written in C or C++, except emacs, which has a bunch of LISP in it. My day-to-day application development is done in C, or a CommonJS dialect when speed doesn't matter and I want a garbage collector, exceptions, and so on.
> I could never recommend an inkjet to anyone, period.
No kidding. And Brother inkjets are worse than any other inkjets due to actively abusive software.
Seriously.
My brother MFC-5440-CNZ lies in pieces on my floor, and deserves it for the behaviour it most recently exhibited: refusing to send a fax because I was out of yellow ink!
To make matters worse, if you don't use it often enough, you have to "purge" the ink, sometimes several times, to get it going again. Of course, this uses vast quantities of ink, so you have to buy a new cartridge after going through this cycle a few times.
The page counter on that brother is 138. I owned it about 3 years, and replaced all the ink in it three times, at a cost of about $60 per replacement. That makes my cost per page to be about $2.30, excluding my time waiting for it to purge many many times and the cost of the unit itself.
I finally got fed up last month when my brother "fell" off my desk, and I bought myself a printer which does what I need it to: an HP Color LaserJet CM1312nfi MFP. It was on sale for $350 CAD.
It's a colour laser with four toner cartridges, scanner, copier, fax, page-feeder, USB, ethernet, postcript, PCL-6, memory card slots, blah blah blah. An excellent desktop printer for a single SOHO user with a mixture of windows PCs and real computers on his desktop.
Hopefully it's at least half as good as the HP LaserJets of yore. I had a LaserJet IIID that lasted 15 years. It failed because the rollers flattened from disuse, and would no longer pick up paper properly.
I guess I've been blessed to only own homes built since the '80s!
Hey, if they're using the ground as the antenna, though -- your EMT should be grounded and hence radiate nicely. They might not be though. This is/., I didn't RTFA.
Hey, the opposite has been done for years. I had a HELL of a time enrolling in music courses because I was a CS major and they were open only to B.Mus students. Turnabout is fair play!
OTOH if they want to teach game development to fine arts students, the answer is simple - make CS 101 or whatever a prerequisite.
A game *design* course that is pure-arts would also be pretty awesome. Especially if it was limited enrollment and you could partner them up with some game development grad students or something.
Actually, that would be a/wicked/ curriculum. CS grad students build game engines, hopefully with some kind of research.novelly bent. Arts undergrad come with up with game play that explores the novel component of the engine. Together they make it happen, and if it doesn't suck, the next year CS undergrads polish it and business majors flog it on shareware CDs or something.
It would be awesome if there was a greasemonkey script that would allow you to draw a box on the screen and then click all the elements inside it for you.
I have a friend who works for an agency that allows him to carry a concealed firearm when traveling on a commercial airliner domestically. A couple of years ago, he had his toenail clippers confiscated....but they let him keep his handgun. It seems he had a permit for the gun..
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> Premium services such a "touch tone service" was (and still is I believe) an "option" that must be paid for.
Ironically,"touch tone" service is really only premium service in the eyes of the sales department. From an engineering POV it's actually cheaper way of signalling than make/break pulses.
Every time I hear about this island nation, I have to wonder "why don't they build a wall around it?
Well, why don't they?
A ten foot wall would give them 10 feet of sea-rise additional lifetime. That could be *decades*, maybe longer.
The only reason in Canada for a civilian to carry a concealed weapon is if they plan to kill somebody with it. Unlike our brethren in the US, we trade hockey cards are recess rather than practice our handgun skills.
If the cops shoot somebody here who is carrying a concealed weapon, they almost certainly have a good reason to do so.
How does the timer in firefox "kick off"? It's obviously not on the branch callback anymore; surely you guys aren't firing an operation callback every 10ms?
Do you know how often in the tracing JIT checks operation callback? How about JM? I'm wondering if this style of benchmark will become increasingly innaccurate as the JS JITs get tighter. Is a super-accurate 10ms timer a goal @moz?
Wow!
What grade are you in?
The truth is an absolute defense in libel and slander cases.
> This rules out Sprint and Verizon for launch.
In our backwards little country -- just north of y'all -- the big CDMA vendors have realized that CDMA sucks from pretty much every standpoint that matters. Bell and Telus have rolled out nation-wide HSPA networks.
And I have yet to see a 16-year old girl saying things like "I would have bought an iPhone, except with time-division multiplexing, there is a finite cell capacity; if Apple had rolled out code-division we could simply increase tower load by reducing quality of service"
> so... you throw away java, mono and .net, also kde, gnome,... what's left then??
What do you mean, "What's left?" How about - an entire universe less five apps?
Or let's talk about what we NEED and see where these bits fit in.
I need to type commands at a shell prompt. So I need a terminal. I need to be able to use more than one terminal at once, and don't have the desktop space for 100 computers. So I need some kind of multi terminal display thingy. X11 does that fairly well, when your terminal is an xterm. But straight X11 sucks when you have many windows overlapping and stuff -- so I need a window manager, too; I use fvwm 1.24 (and have for well over a decade). I also need to edit source code; I use emacs for that. Emacs will run in either a terminal window, or an X window.
# end of needs
See how I didn't say "KDE", "gnome", or ".net". I sure as hell don't need a program menu, a start button, or semi-transparent windows with spinning skulls and flames in the background.
My whole stack, end-to-end is written in C or C++, except emacs, which has a bunch of LISP in it. My day-to-day application development is done in C, or a CommonJS dialect when speed doesn't matter and I want a garbage collector, exceptions, and so on.
> I could never recommend an inkjet to anyone, period.
No kidding. And Brother inkjets are worse than any other inkjets due to actively abusive software.
Seriously.
My brother MFC-5440-CNZ lies in pieces on my floor, and deserves it for the behaviour it most recently exhibited: refusing to send a fax because I was out of yellow ink!
To make matters worse, if you don't use it often enough, you have to "purge" the ink, sometimes several times, to get it going again. Of course, this uses vast quantities of ink, so you have to buy a new cartridge after going through this cycle a few times.
The page counter on that brother is 138. I owned it about 3 years, and replaced all the ink in it three times, at a cost of about $60 per replacement. That makes my cost per page to be about $2.30, excluding my time waiting for it to purge many many times and the cost of the unit itself.
I finally got fed up last month when my brother "fell" off my desk, and I bought myself a printer which does what I need it to: an HP Color LaserJet CM1312nfi MFP. It was on sale for $350 CAD.
It's a colour laser with four toner cartridges, scanner, copier, fax, page-feeder, USB, ethernet, postcript, PCL-6, memory card slots, blah blah blah. An excellent desktop printer for a single SOHO user with a mixture of windows PCs and real computers on his desktop.
Hopefully it's at least half as good as the HP LaserJets of yore. I had a LaserJet IIID that lasted 15 years. It failed because the rollers flattened from disuse, and would no longer pick up paper properly.
And this is inside the walls?
I guess I've been blessed to only own homes built since the '80s!
Hey, if they're using the ground as the antenna, though -- your EMT should be grounded and hence radiate nicely. They might not be though. This is /., I didn't RTFA.
Hey, the opposite has been done for years. I had a HELL of a time enrolling in music courses because I was a CS major and they were open only to B.Mus students. Turnabout is fair play!
OTOH if they want to teach game development to fine arts students, the answer is simple - make CS 101 or whatever a prerequisite.
A game *design* course that is pure-arts would also be pretty awesome. Especially if it was limited enrollment and you could partner them up with some game development grad students or something.
Actually, that would be a /wicked/ curriculum. CS grad students build game engines, hopefully with some kind of research.novelly bent. Arts undergrad come with up with game play that explores the novel component of the engine. Together they make it happen, and if it doesn't suck, the next year CS undergrads polish it and business majors flog it on shareware CDs or something.
Who the hell runs BX or MT inside a house? NM 14-2 is all over the damn place.
I bid 50 quatloos on the newcomer!
The forum preload thing is interesting.
It would be awesome if there was a greasemonkey script that would allow you to draw a box on the screen and then click all the elements inside it for you.
Sounds like somebody could spend a half day learning some DOM + JavaScript. Then you'd only have to click once!
I tested firefox 3.6 on an old pentium II running Linux and it was slower than IE 6 on a top-of-the-line multicore Windows 7 box!
IE 6 is still king!
The firefox process I am using to post this has been running for 282 hours, used 1491 minutes of CPU time and has an RSIZE of 619M.
I'll bet it would be *half* that if I wasn't using it to run Chatzilla, the IRC-client extension that I use constantly.
I once made an array with six levels of indirection, and used it to look up the address of Kevin Bacon!
> Last time (1995-2000) they tried to make javascript run on the server side. This is nonsense.
Don't look now, but we're trying again. I'm in the middle of writing a large app and have swapped in JS where I would normally fit PHP.
Form validation and utility modules written in the same language on client and server is pretty awesome.
Sit upside down (or turn your TV upside down), and turn the controller upside down.
Voila! You are now holding the stylus with your dominant hand!
You think that's ridiculous?
I have a friend who works for an agency that allows him to carry a concealed firearm when traveling on a commercial airliner domestically. A couple of years ago, he had his toenail clippers confiscated....but they let him keep his handgun. It seems he had a permit for the gun..
WTF?!
He probably didn't realize that the US explicitly restricts imports on textiles - even from other NAFTA member states.
I have no idea why.
A boxer who loses on points is still a loser, even if the other side didn't actually knock him out.
It sounds like that asshole is taking advice from the Americans!
Has Carl Rove moved north?!!!
Man, that's disgusting.
He's so gross, he probably sticks his penis in his wife's vagina!