Maybe I'm just trolling, but how much of Windows CE is non-Microsoft? 50%? 90%? Wouldn't it be nice if it pretty much boiled down to something like this in every file:
#include "ms.h"
And ms.h was just:
/* Copyright 1995-2003 by Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. */
Heck, we might find it that most of it came largely from FreeBSD, or something.
By now, you know of the trick of replacing the www in a New York Times URL with archive in order to bypass the free registration screen. In order to serve your readers better, please start doing so in the article bodies that you post.
For example, this link uses this "feature," and is far more convenient to your readers who wish a certain (if small) level of privacy.
1. Piss of the MPAA with movie/TV viewing capability
2. Piss of the RIAA with new music playing capability
3. Fend off huge hordes of lawyers
4. ???
5. Death!
So, what exactly is that last robot's expression supposed to be (the one being shown the green block of tofu)? I'd expect "disgust," but it's more "intrigue." Chalk that up as a bug in the software?
I'd wager some lame-brain human resources departments (under direction from pointy-haired bosses) will soon start posting job advertisements for this theoretical language on non-existent hardware:
WANTED: Software development engineers and software QA engineers. Require three to five years experience with qubit-based systems (Q#, Qava, etc.).
After all, Java jobs appeared (requiring a minimum four years experience) when Java was just two years old.
They'd lose any CSS licensing if they output 720p. It's against the law (well, the DVD-CCA's laws, at least): output resolution of CSS encoded material is limited to 720x480i.
Call me spoiled. I watch Alias, The Practice, and even Fraser in HDTV every week. HDNet's sports are outstanding. And the recent Olympic games awe-inspiring. Guests to my home are blown away when I fire up PBS's continually-playing demo loop.
Despite the many many nay-sayers, HDTV is here, now.
Yet I keep seeing product announcements (Lindows Media, Mystro, Dish's 721 etc.) boasting competition to the Tivo, yet not a one is capable of handling HTDV. Tivo can't yet either.
I'm having to build my own digital recorder on an PC running (shudder) Windows XP with a MyHD card. The data rate of HDTV is high, but not unmanageable. MyHD records and displays a live program using less than 10% of the processor (1.8GHz P4, I'll grant).
I'm frankly tired of viewing programs with non-square pixels, incomplete color gamuts, and a mere 480 lines of (interlaced) resolution. Wake me when one of these companies does HDTV.
I routinely get into "discussions" with old coworkers about how I can possibly stand my job, which is largely Java-related. It's plenty fast for my tasks (I'm not streaming video), and pretty darn secure. I just sort of sit back and smirk as they rip what little hair remains from their heads struggling to figure out why the vtable gets corrupted on a certain long-lived object but only after an uncertain number of events.
Moreover, my productivity is three times better than with C/C++. (Measured back when I used to have to do Personal Software Process stuff.)
Yes, it's fun to twiddle bits and trap into kernel space by hand sometimes, but dammit, I've got deadlines. I've got to focus on the application if I want to get paid.
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999) written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. A carefully metered, sometimes charming, and ultimately tragic clashing of east and west, old and new.
For every one person I've met that liked the movie, I've met one other that hated it, and 10 others who never even heard of it.
Now you can finally quit your job at 7-11 and start earning a decent income applying all of the metaphysics you studied in college in the new field of metamaterials!
...and therefore, it must be better. Heck, it was definitely better than X10. And who even heard of having an X12, much less as "12" on a volume control!
IBM: Here's one. Judge: Ninepence. SCO: I'm not dead! Judge: What? IBM: Nothing. Here's your ninepence. SCO: I'm not dead! Judge: 'Ere. He says he's not dead! IBM:Yes, he is. SCO: I'm not! Judge: He isn't? IBM: Well, he will be soon. He just filed a 9000 word legal brief.
It's a Panasonic KX-TG2000B. Two incoming POTS lines fan out to 8 separate wireless extensions, each with its own digital voicemail box. You can program it so that certain extensions can dial out on any free line or only a specific line, and incoming calls from certain lines ring only certain extensions and/or hit an auto-attendant.
Recently, telemarketing calls I've been getting go like this:
Hello, this is [different voice] BARBARA [/different voice], and I'd like to talk to you about the exciting benefits of something-or-other. Press ONE if you'd like more details.
Now, I'm already on the state's do-not-call list, but how do I tell these people they've broken the law? If I press ONE, I'm saying I want more details. If I do nothing, their machine hangs up.
My current solution is to use an auto-attendant wherein a caller needs to press my extension number to ring me. Now, their machine talks to my machine, and I never even hear a phone ring.
And my wife said that I watched Alias just for the Jennifer Garner eye-candy. Now I can say it's to keep up on current events!
Wearing headphones doesn't help!
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Sounds like the author needs to brush off his copy of Peopleware. Wearing headphones in a cubicle blocks out the interruptions, but doesn't make you a more effective worker.
The test: two groups of programmers are given a convoluted mathematical problem and are tasked to write a program that solves it. One group works in silence. The other gets tunes to listen to.
The trick: the problem is actually an identity function; the output is just the input.
The results:Nearly everyone wrote a working program. But more people in the silence group discovered it was an identity function and came threw with a one-liner.
Conclusion? Apparently some part of your brain is active when you've got background music on, and is otherwise unavailable for those creative insights, bouts of genius, or other epiphanies. If you work in a cube, it's time to revolt!
Given the fact that so much high tech research and development was made possible through copious use of acronyms, and that acronyms require an alphabet and not idiograms, I applaud China's accomplishment!:-)
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Maybe I'm just trolling, but how much of Windows CE is non-Microsoft? 50%? 90%? Wouldn't it be nice if it pretty much boiled down to something like this in every file:
/* Copyright 1995-2003 by Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. */
#include "ms.h"
And ms.h was just:
Heck, we might find it that most of it came largely from FreeBSD, or something.
Dear Slashdot Editors:
By now, you know of the trick of replacing the www in a New York Times URL with archive in order to bypass the free registration screen. In order to serve your readers better, please start doing so in the article bodies that you post.
For example, this link uses this "feature," and is far more convenient to your readers who wish a certain (if small) level of privacy.
Thank you,
Your loyal readers.
1. Piss of the MPAA with movie/TV viewing capability
2. Piss of the RIAA with new music playing capability
3. Fend off huge hordes of lawyers
4. ???
5. Death!
So, what exactly is that last robot's expression supposed to be (the one being shown the green block of tofu)? I'd expect "disgust," but it's more "intrigue." Chalk that up as a bug in the software?
Due to the people at slashdot.org linking to this site without asking the owners or the hosters...
What, do these guys work for the Dallas Morning News?
And I am going to have a big knife just in case the parachute tangles.
I hope he secures the knife well in the cockpit. After all, we wouldn't want it to suddenly fly loose and cause him bodily harm or even death.
This time, I actually read the article, and it's insanely funny!
I'm not sure why. Probably because it's British.
They'd lose any CSS licensing if they output 720p. It's against the law (well, the DVD-CCA's laws, at least): output resolution of CSS encoded material is limited to 720x480i.
Call me spoiled. I watch Alias, The Practice, and even Fraser in HDTV every week. HDNet's sports are outstanding. And the recent Olympic games awe-inspiring. Guests to my home are blown away when I fire up PBS's continually-playing demo loop.
Despite the many many nay-sayers, HDTV is here, now.
Yet I keep seeing product announcements (Lindows Media, Mystro, Dish's 721 etc.) boasting competition to the Tivo, yet not a one is capable of handling HTDV. Tivo can't yet either.
I'm having to build my own digital recorder on an PC running (shudder) Windows XP with a MyHD card. The data rate of HDTV is high, but not unmanageable. MyHD records and displays a live program using less than 10% of the processor (1.8GHz P4, I'll grant).
I'm frankly tired of viewing programs with non-square pixels, incomplete color gamuts, and a mere 480 lines of (interlaced) resolution. Wake me when one of these companies does HDTV.
Don't mod me up, but don't mod me down either.
Or just play it safe and check the "Post Anonymously" box, OK?
I routinely get into "discussions" with old coworkers about how I can possibly stand my job, which is largely Java-related. It's plenty fast for my tasks (I'm not streaming video), and pretty darn secure. I just sort of sit back and smirk as they rip what little hair remains from their heads struggling to figure out why the vtable gets corrupted on a certain long-lived object but only after an uncertain number of events.
Moreover, my productivity is three times better than with C/C++. (Measured back when I used to have to do Personal Software Process stuff.)
Yes, it's fun to twiddle bits and trap into kernel space by hand sometimes, but dammit, I've got deadlines. I've got to focus on the application if I want to get paid.
Already more than 300 replies, and not a single one visible. Sheesh.
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999) written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. A carefully metered, sometimes charming, and ultimately tragic clashing of east and west, old and new.
For every one person I've met that liked the movie, I've met one other that hated it, and 10 others who never even heard of it.
Now you can finally quit your job at 7-11 and start earning a decent income applying all of the metaphysics you studied in college in the new field of metamaterials!
...and therefore, it must be better. Heck, it was definitely better than X10. And who even heard of having an X12, much less as "12" on a volume control!
It's near Oklahoma and Utah, right? I mean, I hardly recognize this "Governor Tony Blair."
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No, I'm not Amero-Centric.
IBM: Here's one.
Judge: Ninepence.
SCO: I'm not dead!
Judge: What?
IBM: Nothing. Here's your ninepence.
SCO: I'm not dead!
Judge: 'Ere. He says he's not dead!
IBM:Yes, he is.
SCO: I'm not!
Judge: He isn't?
IBM: Well, he will be soon. He just filed a 9000 word legal brief.
It's a Panasonic KX-TG2000B. Two incoming POTS lines fan out to 8 separate wireless extensions, each with its own digital voicemail box. You can program it so that certain extensions can dial out on any free line or only a specific line, and incoming calls from certain lines ring only certain extensions and/or hit an auto-attendant.
It's the auto-attendant feature I like the best.
My current solution is to use an auto-attendant wherein a caller needs to press my extension number to ring me. Now, their machine talks to my machine, and I never even hear a phone ring.
But I'd still like to cause them some pain.
And my wife said that I watched Alias just for the Jennifer Garner eye-candy. Now I can say it's to keep up on current events!
Sounds like the author needs to brush off his copy of Peopleware. Wearing headphones in a cubicle blocks out the interruptions, but doesn't make you a more effective worker.
The test: two groups of programmers are given a convoluted mathematical problem and are tasked to write a program that solves it. One group works in silence. The other gets tunes to listen to.
The trick: the problem is actually an identity function; the output is just the input.
The results:Nearly everyone wrote a working program. But more people in the silence group discovered it was an identity function and came threw with a one-liner.
Conclusion? Apparently some part of your brain is active when you've got background music on, and is otherwise unavailable for those creative insights, bouts of genius, or other epiphanies. If you work in a cube, it's time to revolt!
Given the fact that so much high tech research and development was made possible through copious use of acronyms, and that acronyms require an alphabet and not idiograms, I applaud China's accomplishment! :-)
I'm all for a female Starbuck, so long as she too is a womanizer. (Yes, I have the typical fantasies of a straight male.)