GO it's the most important thing you can do in your life. My mom went back to school, and ended up graduating when I was 13 and she was in her mid 30's. She had "a degree" before but nothing that could give her the earning potential our family really needed. So she want back to school and thank god she did. When I was in school, the were plenty of almost 30 undergrads in the CS and IT courses. GO GO GO! IT'S NEVER TOO LATE.
I hooked up my SG controller to my PC via a usb adapter and had no issues with "alternating button presses at regular intervals, even when no buttons are being pressed". I quickly hacked together a simple midi program to play music with it. I found the controller responsive and stable when connected to a PC. Maybe you have a defective controller?
If they make the specs public then people will know when the company hacks the drivers to cheat at benchmarks. I'm sure most companies, to some extent, mess with the card to make the benchmark programs happy. It's just too important for them not to manage that kind of publicity. So if the specks were public then they might get caught by someone saying. "HEY your card doesn't do what the benchmarks say it does".
OOOOHHhh that makes perfect sense. I have 20/100 vision. Thats explains why I've never been able to get close to a woman. And all this time they were in arms reach!
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Oh yeah, thats right. My college used it in it's introductory CS classes. It was my first real language experience and it almost drove me from the field. I can't tell you why really but it was just too much. I struggled until I we got to C++ and then, well everything made sense. That seem crazy? It sure did to me. Looking at it now it seems rather wordy. I should download it and get to know it, if only to conquer something that frustrated me so much.
There is no need to chain YOU to the right tools. Your arguments have been eloquent and educated. I prefer to be explicit, because not everyone I work with has that same intuitive sense. I need to be able to tell them specifically what I intend with this or that method. If I throw a SomeImportantExecption and they decide to implement it's catch with a blank block, well, it's not may fault, I told them this can happen. If the compiler didn't force that on them then the blame would be on me for "why did your method fail, fix it". A defense of "why didn't they read the comments/documentation it tells them this can happen" just doesn't cut it. I have worked with a lot of people who focus on just hacking in the current bug fix/enhancement with no regard to the code they are actually writing. Java lets me make them work to ignore important things.
I understand your point about Java not being hacking around friendly. Even the author of Java admitted that Java wasn't designed for smaller programs. For me it's a small price to pay to be able to be able to point the finger when something goes wrong, or to take responsibility.
I learned my lesson with C# and now must be diligent about catching as many reliant exceptions as possible.
It's interesting that you dislike checked exceptions. Unchecked exceptions was one of my most frustrating complaints with C#. With unchecked exceptions you never know when something will go wrong or how it will go wrong. My best example was a library I was using to connect to an FTP server. I was able to quickly write my code to connect and do the job that needed to be done. Nowhere was I informed as to what exceptions could be thrown. So when I finally threw this program out into the whiled firewalls started blocking it and connections kept dropping I had no way of catching the exceptions and doing something intelligent. Catching the generic exception was not informative enough. I had to run it, MAKE the exception happen then find out the class name and THEN I could catch them and do something intelligent about the error. Even then I couldn't MAKE the all the exceptions happen and had to wait for people to find them threw use. Even if there was nice documentation that explained what exception were thrown there is no programmatic contract for letting me know what the hell is going on. If something changes and a new exception is thrown in later version you have no recourse. It might just make the program crash.
I agree with the Java designers, exceptions are part of the methods public definition. It's like not specifying the number of parameters to a method, or if the method returns a value. ( And yes I know there are languages which do not even requite you do these things.)
The only reason to use only unchecked exception is if you have no interest in actually handling errors. You just punt and log the error. In which case I see how a try catch block around the start of a program would save you the keystrokes in ALL those methods that throw those annoying exceptions. I just don't see how you can write a robust program doing that. How could you ever recover from anything?
the sensitivity of the eye may increase after 30 minutes by as much as 250 times (6 magnitudes).
And Brief exposure to bright lights wipe out this improvement almost immediately.
So why is it that you can hardly see where you are going ALL the time? I could see a gradual adjusting of the darkness lever as you settle into a dark area, only to have it wiped out by some bright flash of light. This would be really cool AND really accurate.
Also the flashlight is incredibly contrived. It's not a flashlight it more like a laser. It illuminates a small sharply defined circle and emits no ambient light. Darkness adaption aside, a normal flashlight pointed at the persons feat would emit enough ambient light to make the world at least navigable. I'm all for suspense, and danger, but really, if you have to paint the entire screen black to surprise someone, you're doing something wrong.
I also am a programmer but have a processing disorder (no pun intended) which is much like dyslexia. As a result my typing is regrettably, deficient. In the programming world compliers are the ultimate spell checker so I tend to catch mistakes rather quickly. Except of course in those languages that assume a new variables the first time you use them. Visual Basic was/is? like that. Option Explicit was my friend.
Anyway tools like the Visual Studio IDE, Eclipse, Delphi, JBuilder and the like have nifty auto completion functionality that has really improved my coding speed. I'm sure vim or emacs can do similar stuff.
Regrettably none of this helps for typing Emails or our dreaded "End of Day" reports at work. It took me about 20 minuets to write this post. Thats like 9.75 words a minute.
I took a class in high school, failed.. miserably... I just have no way to distinguish "fggffrr" from "fggrrff" or for that matter, spell.
My advise is if you are capable of learning to touch type, do so. You never know when you'll be suck at some old decrepit computer and need to quickly accomplish some task with only the keyboard. It's happened to me and I wish to god I could have been better prepared.
This amounts to the same statement made by the Wine developers a few years ago. At the time they were still under the X11 license. The "No one cares what the hell the license is as long as they can get the code" argument only stands up as long as there is no problem with the current license. Then they had problems, and had to change. I'm not GPL fanatic, but the PHP license is rather basic and does not protect against many of the potential code abuses the GPL or LGPL does. I hope they don't have a problem, I hope this never comes up. I hope they all get along and some doesn't come by and screw with them. Unfortunately thought history has shown otherwise.
I agree. It is evident by the shear volume of REAL junk mail I receive that charging for email will not help. US bulk postage is cheap, not 1/100th of a cent, but still many companies make money off sending real junk mail that, um actually costs money to print. This is not the answer.
While this is really cool, it doesn't look like it's active. Things like this though always make me wonder. Why do we layer so much complexity on top of HTTP to create dynamic web applications when what we really want is a statefull protocol like telnet or ssh? Think about it, session management, cookies, servelts, all systems for recording user interaction and determining what they want next, based on what they wanted in the past. How about a terminal that used a full a HTML or even better XUL renderer? Then you could write cross platform "rich client" applications without having to worry about how to fill one combobox based on the current value of another combobox without rerendering the entire page, or silly things like that. You would never have to worry about people hitting the "back" button, or messing with the url to change their post data, or session expiration. I could be wrong, but it seems sometimes web applications are a square peg round hole type problem.
One thing that bothers me about terminal emulators is that all of the "modern" terminal emulators, Konsole, Gnome Terminal, etc., use the OLD color model. Only RXVT and it's derivatives use the "new" color model. The old model had support for 8 colors and blink (twitch), as well as some other more or less useless modes. The "new" color model supports 16 colors. I actually support commercial terminal applications that use the new color model. It's very frustrating that I can't get 16 colors out of xterm,gterm or anything else not from the RXVT codebase. For that matter why are we limited to 16 colors? Why not 256 or higher?
Just about everything you've listed is available from Eclipse. Eclipse is free and runs under Linux, most of the time it's faster then it's windows counterpart. I'm almost sure it's compiled natively on Linux using GCJ.
That being said, V.S. DOES have the niftiest GUI designed I've ever seen. I was very disappointed that I liked it so much. The "anchoring" of widgets so that you don't have to write window resizing code it great. I love Java, but getting GUI stuff to come out exactly the way you want, even with a GUI editor, can be a pain.
I was never impressed with any version of visual studio until.NET.:( I'm so less 133t now.
For a really small X based linux system check out pxes http://pxes.sourceforge.net/. They have an X based system in a 13 meg bootable iso. It's binary compatable with RedHat 8, so it shouldn't be to hard to customise.
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GO it's the most important thing you can do in your life. My mom went back to school, and ended up graduating when I was 13 and she was in her mid 30's. She had "a degree" before but nothing that could give her the earning potential our family really needed. So she want back to school and thank god she did. When I was in school, the were plenty of almost 30 undergrads in the CS and IT courses. GO GO GO! IT'S NEVER TOO LATE.
Good luck.
What about Borland JBuilder? No Turbo version of that?
I hooked up my SG controller to my PC via a usb adapter and had no issues with "alternating button presses at regular intervals, even when no buttons are being pressed". I quickly hacked together a simple midi program to play music with it. I found the controller responsive and stable when connected to a PC. Maybe you have a defective controller?
If they make the specs public then people will know when the company hacks the drivers to cheat at benchmarks. I'm sure most companies, to some extent, mess with the card to make the benchmark programs happy. It's just too important for them not to manage that kind of publicity. So if the specks were public then they might get caught by someone saying. "HEY your card doesn't do what the benchmarks say it does".
OOOOHHhh that makes perfect sense. I have 20/100 vision. Thats explains why I've never been able to get close to a woman. And all this time they were in arms reach!
Oh yeah, thats right. My college used it in it's introductory CS classes. It was my first real language experience and it almost drove me from the field. I can't tell you why really but it was just too much. I struggled until I we got to C++ and then, well everything made sense. That seem crazy? It sure did to me. Looking at it now it seems rather wordy. I should download it and get to know it, if only to conquer something that frustrated me so much.
There's no need to chain us to "the right tools".
There is no need to chain YOU to the right tools. Your arguments have been eloquent and educated. I prefer to be explicit, because not everyone I work with has that same intuitive sense. I need to be able to tell them specifically what I intend with this or that method. If I throw a SomeImportantExecption and they decide to implement it's catch with a blank block, well, it's not may fault, I told them this can happen. If the compiler didn't force that on them then the blame would be on me for "why did your method fail, fix it". A defense of "why didn't they read the comments/documentation it tells them this can happen" just doesn't cut it. I have worked with a lot of people who focus on just hacking in the current bug fix/enhancement with no regard to the code they are actually writing. Java lets me make them work to ignore important things.
I understand your point about Java not being hacking around friendly. Even the author of Java admitted that Java wasn't designed for smaller programs. For me it's a small price to pay to be able to be able to point the finger when something goes wrong, or to take responsibility.
I learned my lesson with C# and now must be diligent about catching as many reliant exceptions as possible.
It's interesting that you dislike checked exceptions. Unchecked exceptions was one of my most frustrating complaints with C#. With unchecked exceptions you never know when something will go wrong or how it will go wrong. My best example was a library I was using to connect to an FTP server. I was able to quickly write my code to connect and do the job that needed to be done. Nowhere was I informed as to what exceptions could be thrown. So when I finally threw this program out into the whiled firewalls started blocking it and connections kept dropping I had no way of catching the exceptions and doing something intelligent. Catching the generic exception was not informative enough. I had to run it, MAKE the exception happen then find out the class name and THEN I could catch them and do something intelligent about the error. Even then I couldn't MAKE the all the exceptions happen and had to wait for people to find them threw use. Even if there was nice documentation that explained what exception were thrown there is no programmatic contract for letting me know what the hell is going on. If something changes and a new exception is thrown in later version you have no recourse. It might just make the program crash.
I agree with the Java designers, exceptions are part of the methods public definition. It's like not specifying the number of parameters to a method, or if the method returns a value. ( And yes I know there are languages which do not even requite you do these things.)
The only reason to use only unchecked exception is if you have no interest in actually handling errors. You just punt and log the error. In which case I see how a try catch block around the start of a program would save you the keystrokes in ALL those methods that throw those annoying exceptions. I just don't see how you can write a robust program doing that. How could you ever recover from anything?
forget it.slashdot.org
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sex.slashdot.org
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porn.slashdot.org
no no even better
tits.slashdot.org
just to get the "it" typos
hey.. I didn't say it worked .. just that it had one... I agree with you completely.
I guess thats why XP serviece pack 2 has a built in firewall.
If I were a highly advanced ET
Then your neck would be twice as long, you could light up your entire arm, levitate a mack truck, and wipe the floor with ALF.
Screw those light bulbed fingered bicycle flying wussies.
Open console (alt+ctrl+~)
Type r_gamma 1.4
Totally cool, thank you.
I don't agree at all. The game is frustratingly dark. The truth is your eyes adjust to darkness, and rather well. http://www.mailbag.com/users/ragreiner/eyepercepti on.html
Quote the page:
the sensitivity of the eye may increase after 30 minutes by as much as 250 times (6 magnitudes).
And
Brief exposure to bright lights wipe out this improvement almost immediately.
So why is it that you can hardly see where you are going ALL the time? I could see a gradual adjusting of the darkness lever as you settle into a dark area, only to have it wiped out by some bright flash of light. This would be really cool AND really accurate.
Also the flashlight is incredibly contrived. It's not a flashlight it more like a laser. It illuminates a small sharply defined circle and emits no ambient light. Darkness adaption aside, a normal flashlight pointed at the persons feat would emit enough ambient light to make the world at least navigable. I'm all for suspense, and danger, but really, if you have to paint the entire screen black to surprise someone, you're doing something wrong.
I also am a programmer but have a processing disorder (no pun intended) which is much like dyslexia. As a result my typing is regrettably, deficient. In the programming world compliers are the ultimate spell checker so I tend to catch mistakes rather quickly. Except of course in those languages that assume a new variables the first time you use them. Visual Basic was/is? like that. Option Explicit was my friend.
... I just have no way to distinguish "fggffrr" from "fggrrff" or for that matter, spell.
Anyway tools like the Visual Studio IDE, Eclipse, Delphi, JBuilder and the like have nifty auto completion functionality that has really improved my coding speed. I'm sure vim or emacs can do similar stuff.
Regrettably none of this helps for typing Emails or our dreaded "End of Day" reports at work. It took me about 20 minuets to write this post. Thats like 9.75 words a minute.
I took a class in high school, failed.. miserably
My advise is if you are capable of learning to touch type, do so. You never know when you'll be suck at some old decrepit computer and need to quickly accomplish some task with only the keyboard. It's happened to me and I wish to god I could have been better prepared.
You have all 10 of his fingers???
Oh I see... you keep the last 3, hence why he can only use 7. It all makes sense now.
This amounts to the same statement made by the Wine developers a few years ago. At the time they were still under the X11 license. The "No one cares what the hell the license is as long as they can get the code" argument only stands up as long as there is no problem with the current license. Then they had problems, and had to change. I'm not GPL fanatic, but the PHP license is rather basic and does not protect against many of the potential code abuses the GPL or LGPL does. I hope they don't have a problem, I hope this never comes up. I hope they all get along and some doesn't come by and screw with them. Unfortunately thought history has shown otherwise.
How about Captian Power? You could play AGAINST the TV. For thouse of us lacking social companionship, TV was GOD!
True but all you could use it for would be to make pop-corn.
I agree. It is evident by the shear volume of REAL junk mail I receive that charging for email will not help. US bulk postage is cheap, not 1/100th of a cent, but still many companies make money off sending real junk mail that, um actually costs money to print. This is not the answer.
While this is really cool, it doesn't look like it's active. Things like this though always make me wonder. Why do we layer so much complexity on top of HTTP to create dynamic web applications when what we really want is a statefull protocol like telnet or ssh? Think about it, session management, cookies, servelts, all systems for recording user interaction and determining what they want next, based on what they wanted in the past. How about a terminal that used a full a HTML or even better XUL renderer? Then you could write cross platform "rich client" applications without having to worry about how to fill one combobox based on the current value of another combobox without rerendering the entire page, or silly things like that. You would never have to worry about people hitting the "back" button, or messing with the url to change their post data, or session expiration. I could be wrong, but it seems sometimes web applications are a square peg round hole type problem.
One thing that bothers me about terminal emulators is that all of the "modern" terminal emulators, Konsole, Gnome Terminal, etc., use the OLD color model. Only RXVT and it's derivatives use the "new" color model. The old model had support for 8 colors and blink (twitch), as well as some other more or less useless modes. The "new" color model supports 16 colors. I actually support commercial terminal applications that use the new color model. It's very frustrating that I can't get 16 colors out of xterm,gterm or anything else not from the RXVT codebase. For that matter why are we limited to 16 colors? Why not 256 or higher?
Just about everything you've listed is available from Eclipse. Eclipse is free and runs under Linux, most of the time it's faster then it's windows counterpart. I'm almost sure it's compiled natively on Linux using GCJ.
.NET. :( I'm so less 133t now.
That being said, V.S. DOES have the niftiest GUI designed I've ever seen. I was very disappointed that I liked it so much. The "anchoring" of widgets so that you don't have to write window resizing code it great. I love Java, but getting GUI stuff to come out exactly the way you want, even with a GUI editor, can be a pain.
I was never impressed with any version of visual studio until
For a really small X based linux system check out pxes http://pxes.sourceforge.net/. They have an X based system in a 13 meg bootable iso. It's binary compatable with RedHat 8, so it shouldn't be to hard to customise.
good luck
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Tools-> Change Case -> UPPERCASE
in Word and
Format -> Case /Character -> Uppercase
in OpenOffice
That being said, my company requires me to write code in all caps. *Shiver* I don't think I'll ever get used to it.