>>I never understood why IDE integration with Source Control is so important.
IMO, the reason it's desirable is because a separate interface for source control changes your focus. I haven't seen any version control software that is really well integrated. Ideally, vcs (small-caps, version control software) should be invisible -- running in the background, checking out files as you need them, saving revisions with each change, maybe version stamping with each day/build/successful test pass/etc., and only intruding into the developer's thoughts when contention for a file exists. For example, if you're a solo developer you shouldn't even see the source control in day-to-day development. Only when you have an "uh, oh" moment and want to go back should you have to think about bringing up an interface or requesting an older file.
With multiple developers, the same thing. So long as nobody needs a file simultaneously for editing, vc stays out of the way. When two people need it, then the software starts asking questions.
Ideally, I'd like vcs to work like The Wayback Machine (archive.org) -- it's just there, always running, making archives in the background without any effort on the part of the web developer/administrator and nobody's the wiser. If you never need an old version, fine. But if you do, it's there for you.
I want technology to make these idiots steer their cars directly into utility poles.
So they want to force viewers to watch obnoxious commercials? Here's some news, Mr. VP -- you can't. And the harder you try, the less success you'll have. You see, you have to entice viewers, not force. This is simply Proof #482 that these 'executives' don't understand that pissed off customers don't buy stuff. True, their real customers are the advertising companies, but stations live and die by their viewer numbers ("share", they call it). Fewer viewers = lower billable rate for ad spots = lower revenue = asshat executive retires early to "persure other opportunities".
You just don't get it -- just like all the rest of you "mac" 'fanbois'. I don't want to reboot. Why should I have to? I don't want to pay for Windows AND OSX. Why should I have to? I don't want to partition off my HDD to have two OS's. Why should I have to? I don't want to have two HDD's; one for each OS. Why should I have to?
And I want global peace, everyone to be a millionaire, and every child to have a pony. Michrech, let me be the first to tell you that you have to make some choices in this world. You can't have it all.
I don't want to reboot. Why should I have to?
Oh, I dunno... maybe to avoid viruses, spyware, adware, hackers, and gain ease of use, more control, real security, better user experience, included high-quality development tools, a real OS built on Mach Unix where you can drop to a terminal and get real work done, etc.? That's up for you to decide. Like I said, it's about choices.
But hey, it's pretty clear from your attitude that no answer is going to be acceptable. You want a Windows box and nothing but Windows is acceptable. That's okay... just say so. (Though I suppose that would make you a fanboy, wouldn't it?) Nobody's forcing you to switch. You asked if something was possible without emulation, I told you it was and now that answer's not good enough. Just as I predicted.
Nice product plug, however, it kinda fits into my NO VIRTUALIZATION SOFTWARE requirement, now doesn't it? Or did you think that because I didn't specifically mention it that it was somehow exempted?
Settle down, Beavis. The "product plug" and mention of Bootcamp was part of my attempt to provide a complete answer. Had I not stated it, I suspect you would have criticized me for giving an incomplete answer. Besides, you said no emulation ("...NOT in VirtualPC/VMWare/Other Emulation Software...") but you didn't mention virtualization. Virtualization is not emulation, do you even understand the difference? You should, since it is significant.
Now run along and play your little hero game on Windows.
>>What do you mean "surely not"? Can I run City of Heroes/Villains or DDO natively on an Apple machine IN OS/X (NOT in Windows dual-booted, and NOT in VirtualPC/VMWare/Other Emulation Software)?
I suspect you're just creating a hypothetical situation in the hopes of finding a combination where you can say "See... the Mac can't do everything I need." But to answer your question, you can run most WinXP software full-speed alongside Mac OS X by using a virtualizer such as Parallels Desktop ($50 - www.parallels.com) However, Parallels Desktop doesn't (yet?) offer 3D acceleration, so BootCamp (which is free) is a better solution for 3D video games. No, with Bootcamp you can't run Final Cut Pro at the same time you play City Of Heroes, but then again, who does? And that's the premise of your original question and the reason I suspect it's a strawman -- who plays videogames while SIMULTANEOUSLY doing their taxes, writing code in Visual Studio, etc.? And if the 60 seconds for a reboot from Mac OS X to WindowsXP is too costly, perhaps you don't have time to be playing video games. Or maybe I just don't get it.
Jonathan Connell* built a mobile robot @ MIT which used a not too dissimilar system for navigation. It counted the number of doors that it passed through, and the number of turns to the left. This robot, Herbert, had the goal of collecting soda cans and would wander about the lab autonomously collecting these cans and returning home but making an appropriate number of entries through doorways and turns to the right using a magnetic compass as a rough guide. There was no internal map, no master plan, to 3D model of the world, no GPS yet this robot was able to navigate very complex, real-world spaces effectively. It's interesting to see that there's a biological model here that validates many of these assumptions.
** I hope I'm correct on the details... I'm going from memory from a reading of Connell's Master's Degree disseration I read probably ten years back... I believe the title was "Minimilist Mobile Robotics" but I'm certain it was published through Academic Press. This was one of the early MIT Mobile Robot Lab robots to use Subsumption Architecture.
Police reported that Gannon "has a history of being verbally abusive" toward police, and that after his arrest, he remarked that the officers "were a bunch of corrupt (expletives)."
At which point the police proved it by arresting him. Maybe the DA and Judge felt left out and wanted a piece of the action?
Excuse me? What's that word again? "ULTRA-portable?" Compared to what, exactly, a steam powered Babbage Difference Engine? That's 20 pounds PLUS the weight of the bag PLUS all the shit you carry around with it including a charger, probably an extra battery (if battery life is as bad as the article says), CDs, mouse, books, etc.
Finally, a/. post that announces an upgrade/release/patch and **explains what that software is**. Now, Evolution is a pretty popular package, but it's not uncommon that I see an announcement that some obscure (to me) component has been patched and I have to follow the link just to learn what the hell the software does.
And don't forget the "Ouch!Hot!Ow!Damn!(tm)" overtemp detection system. In the rare/rumored/unprovable event a MacbookPro(tm) reaches 195 degrees Celcius (as reported by those scurrilous rumor sites) the second- and third-degree burns on your thighs serve as a gentle reminder to take a nice little computing break. Get up. Stretch. Walk around a bit. Bandage wounds. Enjoy!
Rumoured upgrade for os 1.5 -- face recognition engine uses built-in camera to detect pain threshold. Automatically throttles back CPU if user faints, or collapses from blood loss.
>> But cannibalism is illegal in North Korea, so cannibals are summarily dragged into the street and shot in broad daylight in plain sight of everyone to serve as a lesson. And we're sitting here happily slapping our sausages over some blinky lights.
Agreed, the industry is full of FUD, along with other substances.
Noticed a copy of AntiVirus for Mac OSX @ CompUSA last week. $59! Three questions: 1) Who buys this stuff? 2) Why so much? 3) Why?
To my knowledge there is only one virus in the wild for OSX and it never really made an impact. I understand that AV for Mac scans for the billions of Windows viruses, but considering that the Mac is extraordinarily unlikely to become infected, it's similarly unlikely a Mac will pass on a virus. I know it's part of being a good net citizen, but ultimately scanning email is your own responsibility. I don't scan for Linux or mainframe viruses, or iPaq scripts. Why should I scan for Windows viruses?
They're asking this data be retained so that **IF A COURT ORDERED SUBPOENA IS ISSUED** the information will be available. Worried by that? It's quite simple, really. Don't prey on children and don't plan terrorist acts and you'll be fine. If you don't trust the courts to work properly, then your issue is much bigger than this request/legislation.
>>a several-hundred-page long account of the finer points of the early American whaler's life and amateur deck-pacing?
If that's all you got out of the story, then you have my sympathy. I suspect you were simply trying to be funny, but Moby Dick is one of the finest works in English literature. It is excellent and rich; hardly a 500 page story about deck-pacing.
For those who have not read it, Moby Dick is a story about how the single-minded need for revenge, fueled by hatred, can grow to consume both the hunted and the hunter. It is a warning about the dangers of human emotion, especially anger, and contains a remarkable subtale concerning loyalty, honor and friendship; it is a serious and cautionary story about obsession and emotion. But it has big words, and big ideas, and requires patience and consideration to read and time to reflect upon. For those reasons it may not be suitable for everyone.
For those, I recommend Bugs Bunny or the Three Stooges, or maybe Treasure Isle.
In fact, we here on Slashdot are partly to blame. I mean, we've known about the Evil Bit* for years and what have we done? Nothing. Actually worse than nothing -- we laughed about it.
Well, after a few hax0rs are locked up in jail I can't wait to ask them "who's laughing now, funny guy?"
(And just between you and me, word has it that **electricity** is involved in 100% of computer hacking cases. I say it's time to dig up Edison and Tesla and try them for conspiracy!)
I have no problem with in-game ads. It's those interminable in-game focus groups and surveys that make a game unplayable.
Yeah, but unlike real life, when a person comes up to you in a game and asks "Excuse me sir, do you have a to share your opinions about..." you can go postal & shoot them. Can you say "target rich environment?"
"You wanna know my opinion about beef jerky? Well, here's what I think... BLAMBLAMBLAMBLAMBLAM! -click- (reload) BLAM! Anything else I can clear up for you today?"
Actually I do, I invent a lot, and get paid a lot to invent. Copyrights and patents probably benefit me more than most people
If you're paid to invent, then you are almost certainly paid for your inventions. You are not the owner. Your employer is the owner, as I suspected.
The best inventors are not those who copy, they are those who invent. They take an existing design and improve it. Simple copiers are just that.
The fact is that is someone copies something I create, then that immediately give's me a competitive advantage, a reputation advantage, and a fisrt mover advantage. Does it give me a monopoly on distribution? No, but so what that's not a right.
Then, right here and now, grant all your inventions to the public domain. According to your argument that will not affect you negatively, and in fact may even be an advantage.
Go ahead. List 'em right here:
I _____________________________ hereby release my rights to the following inventions to the public domain: ________________________________________
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>>I never understood why IDE integration with Source Control is so important.
IMO, the reason it's desirable is because a separate interface for source control changes your focus. I haven't seen any version control software that is really well integrated. Ideally, vcs (small-caps, version control software) should be invisible -- running in the background, checking out files as you need them, saving revisions with each change, maybe version stamping with each day/build/successful test pass/etc., and only intruding into the developer's thoughts when contention for a file exists. For example, if you're a solo developer you shouldn't even see the source control in day-to-day development. Only when you have an "uh, oh" moment and want to go back should you have to think about bringing up an interface or requesting an older file.
With multiple developers, the same thing. So long as nobody needs a file simultaneously for editing, vc stays out of the way. When two people need it, then the software starts asking questions.
Ideally, I'd like vcs to work like The Wayback Machine (archive.org) -- it's just there, always running, making archives in the background without any effort on the part of the web developer/administrator and nobody's the wiser. If you never need an old version, fine. But if you do, it's there for you.
Truly LOL! Funniest post I've read all day.
I want technology to make these idiots steer their cars directly into utility poles.
So they want to force viewers to watch obnoxious commercials? Here's some news, Mr. VP -- you can't. And the harder you try, the less success you'll have. You see, you have to entice viewers, not force. This is simply Proof #482 that these 'executives' don't understand that pissed off customers don't buy stuff. True, their real customers are the advertising companies, but stations live and die by their viewer numbers ("share", they call it). Fewer viewers = lower billable rate for ad spots = lower revenue = asshat executive retires early to "persure other opportunities".
Oh, I dunno... maybe to avoid viruses, spyware, adware, hackers, and gain ease of use, more control, real security, better user experience, included high-quality development tools, a real OS built on Mach Unix where you can drop to a terminal and get real work done, etc.? That's up for you to decide. Like I said, it's about choices.
But hey, it's pretty clear from your attitude that no answer is going to be acceptable. You want a Windows box and nothing but Windows is acceptable. That's okay... just say so. (Though I suppose that would make you a fanboy, wouldn't it?) Nobody's forcing you to switch. You asked if something was possible without emulation, I told you it was and now that answer's not good enough. Just as I predicted.
Settle down, Beavis. The "product plug" and mention of Bootcamp was part of my attempt to provide a complete answer. Had I not stated it, I suspect you would have criticized me for giving an incomplete answer. Besides, you said no emulation ("...NOT in VirtualPC/VMWare/Other Emulation Software...") but you didn't mention virtualization. Virtualization is not emulation, do you even understand the difference? You should, since it is significant.
Now run along and play your little hero game on Windows.
>>What do you mean "surely not"? Can I run City of Heroes/Villains or DDO natively on an Apple machine IN OS/X (NOT in Windows dual-booted, and NOT in VirtualPC/VMWare/Other Emulation Software)?
I suspect you're just creating a hypothetical situation in the hopes of finding a combination where you can say "See... the Mac can't do everything I need." But to answer your question, you can run most WinXP software full-speed alongside Mac OS X by using a virtualizer such as Parallels Desktop ($50 - www.parallels.com) However, Parallels Desktop doesn't (yet?) offer 3D acceleration, so BootCamp (which is free) is a better solution for 3D video games. No, with Bootcamp you can't run Final Cut Pro at the same time you play City Of Heroes, but then again, who does? And that's the premise of your original question and the reason I suspect it's a strawman -- who plays videogames while SIMULTANEOUSLY doing their taxes, writing code in Visual Studio, etc.? And if the 60 seconds for a reboot from Mac OS X to WindowsXP is too costly, perhaps you don't have time to be playing video games. Or maybe I just don't get it.
On the upside, the ants had no trouble finding personal injury attorneys to take their case.
Jonathan Connell* built a mobile robot @ MIT which used a not too dissimilar system for navigation. It counted the number of doors that it passed through, and the number of turns to the left. This robot, Herbert, had the goal of collecting soda cans and would wander about the lab autonomously collecting these cans and returning home but making an appropriate number of entries through doorways and turns to the right using a magnetic compass as a rough guide. There was no internal map, no master plan, to 3D model of the world, no GPS yet this robot was able to navigate very complex, real-world spaces effectively. It's interesting to see that there's a biological model here that validates many of these assumptions.
** I hope I'm correct on the details... I'm going from memory from a reading of Connell's Master's Degree disseration I read probably ten years back... I believe the title was "Minimilist Mobile Robotics" but I'm certain it was published through Academic Press. This was one of the early MIT Mobile Robot Lab robots to use Subsumption Architecture.
Funniest comment I've read in a long time! Well done!
"Cold. Hungry. Using Dialup.
Please help."
>>It would be good for lan parties, but I suspect it's really a way to get people to take their work PC home.
2Gb Pen drive. 4 ounces vs 25 pounds.
I agree with your sentiment. These luggables are a solution in search of a problem.
>>"ultra-portable PCs..." "...20 pounds"
Excuse me? What's that word again? "ULTRA-portable?" Compared to what, exactly, a steam powered Babbage Difference Engine? That's 20 pounds PLUS the weight of the bag PLUS all the shit you carry around with it including a charger, probably an extra battery (if battery life is as bad as the article says), CDs, mouse, books, etc.
Who would this appeal to? I just don't get it.
Finally, a /. post that announces an upgrade/release/patch and **explains what that software is**. Now, Evolution is a pretty popular package, but it's not uncommon that I see an announcement that some obscure (to me) component has been patched and I have to follow the link just to learn what the hell the software does.
Thanks!
And don't forget the "Ouch!Hot!Ow!Damn!(tm)" overtemp detection system. In the rare/rumored/unprovable event a MacbookPro(tm) reaches 195 degrees Celcius (as reported by those scurrilous rumor sites) the second- and third-degree burns on your thighs serve as a gentle reminder to take a nice little computing break. Get up. Stretch. Walk around a bit. Bandage wounds. Enjoy!
Rumoured upgrade for os 1.5 -- face recognition engine uses built-in camera to detect pain threshold. Automatically throttles back CPU if user faints, or collapses from blood loss.
>> But cannibalism is illegal in North Korea, so cannibals are summarily dragged into the street and shot in broad daylight in plain sight of everyone to serve as a lesson. And we're sitting here happily slapping our sausages over some blinky lights.
Torrent?
(mumbles to self...) Let's see... motion sensors, ambient light sensors, lots of indicator LEDS, backlit keyboard. Yep, we've got everything we need!(/mumbles)
Coming soon, from a black-hat hacker near you:
Siezure-O-Rama 1.0 !! Now, with 38% more unconsciousness!
Agreed, the industry is full of FUD, along with other substances.
Noticed a copy of AntiVirus for Mac OSX @ CompUSA last week. $59! Three questions:
1) Who buys this stuff?
2) Why so much?
3) Why?
To my knowledge there is only one virus in the wild for OSX and it never really made an impact. I understand that AV for Mac scans for the billions of Windows viruses, but considering that the Mac is extraordinarily unlikely to become infected, it's similarly unlikely a Mac will pass on a virus. I know it's part of being a good net citizen, but ultimately scanning email is your own responsibility. I don't scan for Linux or mainframe viruses, or iPaq scripts. Why should I scan for Windows viruses?
Or am I missing something?
Now, if only we could add a web interface to a sentry gun...
It's a Video Game. It's National Security. It's two, TWO, two games in one!
>>It's nothing but Mycarthyism.
Perhaps. But that's not necessarily a bad thing. Remember that McCarthy exposed quite a few soviet spies.
As Whittaker Chambers said "Innocense seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does."
They're asking this data be retained so that **IF A COURT ORDERED SUBPOENA IS ISSUED** the information will be available. Worried by that? It's quite simple, really. Don't prey on children and don't plan terrorist acts and you'll be fine.
If you don't trust the courts to work properly, then your issue is much bigger than this request/legislation.
>>a several-hundred-page long account of the finer points of the early American whaler's life and amateur deck-pacing?
If that's all you got out of the story, then you have my sympathy. I suspect you were simply trying to be funny, but Moby Dick is one of the finest works in English literature. It is excellent and rich; hardly a 500 page story about deck-pacing.
For those who have not read it, Moby Dick is a story about how the single-minded need for revenge, fueled by hatred, can grow to consume both the hunted and the hunter. It is a warning about the dangers of human emotion, especially anger, and contains a remarkable subtale concerning loyalty, honor and friendship; it is a serious and cautionary story about obsession and emotion. But it has big words, and big ideas, and requires patience and consideration to read and time to reflect upon. For those reasons it may not be suitable for everyone.
For those, I recommend Bugs Bunny or the Three Stooges, or maybe Treasure Isle.
In fact, we here on Slashdot are partly to blame. I mean, we've known about the Evil Bit* for years and what have we done? Nothing. Actually worse than nothing -- we laughed about it.
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Well, after a few hax0rs are locked up in jail I can't wait to ask them "who's laughing now, funny guy?"
(And just between you and me, word has it that **electricity** is involved in 100% of computer hacking cases. I say it's time to dig up Edison and Tesla and try them for conspiracy!)
Evil Bit info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_bit
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/14
Yeah, but unlike real life, when a person comes up to you in a game and asks "Excuse me sir, do you have a to share your opinions about..." you can go postal & shoot them. Can you say "target rich environment?"
"You wanna know my opinion about beef jerky? Well, here's what I think... BLAMBLAMBLAMBLAMBLAM! -click- (reload) BLAM! Anything else I can clear up for you today?"
If you're paid to invent, then you are almost certainly paid for your inventions. You are not the owner. Your employer is the owner, as I suspected.
The best inventors are not those who copy, they are those who invent. They take an existing design and improve it. Simple copiers are just that.
Then, right here and now, grant all your inventions to the public domain. According to your argument that will not affect you negatively, and in fact may even be an advantage.
Go ahead. List 'em right here:
I _____________________________ hereby release my rights to the following inventions to the public domain:
________________________________________
But you won't because I'm right.
Checkmate.