I was going to say the same thing... this is just a very simple web app, may take more than a few hours though depending on the feature set... like if tours are mon, wed, fri, then showing a calendar with all the tours and which ones are full and for the ones that aren't, how many spots there are left... automatically emailing confirmation to the "customers", and perhaps sending a notice to him as well... etc etc... still nothing too complicated, but could turn into a full days work.
Last time I was in NY was maybe 8 years ago, perhaps thigns have changed. But back then it was horrible. Maybe it was just the building, but I cant imagine how one of the biggest cities on the planet could have clean water as you suggest? I mean obviously they have treatment plants and all, but I've never been to a big polluted city and drinken decent tap water.
If you dont have a net connection, I'd say there's a 99.999999% chance that your computer is probably an old outdated piece of crap that couldnt handle HL2. I mean seriously.. you think there's anyone out there with a 9800 Pro or X800, but yet doesnt have any access to the internet? Please.:P
Right now he has to court the 'swing states', but with popular vote, he'd court 'swing cities'. It changes the balance of power.
Oh come on... For the most part, candidates only visit the major cities anyways, beacuse that's where the most people are, which makes it the most efficient use of their time and money.
Here in the Oregon the only city of decent size is Portland, whose total metro area population is about 1.5 million, which accounts for about half of the state's population. Candidates only visit Portland.
I would have to guess that you dont live in a major metro area, eg LA, NYC, DC, or some other random places like New Jersey. Have you ever tasted the tap water that comes out of these places? You can feel your life shortening by weeks at a time with each gulp of it. It is NASTY and just tastes like chemicals.
I dont live in a big city but hvae visited all places mentioned above. The tap water here in Oregon is pretty good, but I still throw it through a brita filter, because it does help get rid of the slight chemical taste.
Maybe this is the first time you've actually RTFA, but often times submitters' entire summaries will be direct rips of a paragraph from the story, without any quote marks indicating that's it's a quote. In most cases I dont think they're actually trying to rip anyone off and hope no one notices that they plagiarized, I think that usually one of the leading paragraphs from a news story nicely sums up what it's all about so they just copy/paste it and think nothing of it. Not a big deal to me.
This case was slightly weird though, in that he didnt take out the "(news - web sites)" parts that are actualy links on yahoo news. And neither did the editors. The article is now over 6 hours old and they're still there. Sometimes I really do wonder about the intelligence of the editors...
Sorry, I checked with the GF and it's actually an 1150 - not that there's really much difference. It cost $999 and everything in my original post still applies.:P
Sorry, but I jsut dont believe that at all, from my experience. 4-5 hours.. ok, does that include actually using it? eg browsing the web, moving files around, etc? I've never seen any laptop last longer than ~3 hours.
I can maybe believe that 8 hours when youre jus tlistening to music.. but this is probably because the screen shuts off after 5 minutes and that's easily half the power drain.
Yah, exactly... all Apple's protables are advertised with at least 5 hours of battery life. I have an older ibook (white 700mhz G3)... when I first got it, with normal usage I would be lucky to get 2.5 hours, 2 hours was more realistic... And the battery has degnerated overtime and now only lasts 10-15 minutes. One of my friends has a fairly recent powerbook and the battery barely lasts 2 hours with normal usage.
My girlfriends laptop actually gets around 3 hours of life and its more than a year old. I dont know what Dell advertises it as, but my point was that the battery life is better than any Apple that I've seen. The GGP said 1.5 hours for PC laptops... ha..
That's right, the first machine shipped by Apple to have AirPort was an iBook so no it's not a recent change.
iBooks have had SUPPORT for airport for a long time - only very recently do all of them actually come with a card though. That's what I was talking about.
Yah, that's fine, and that's what I do - I didnt go into enough detail. First, I write the code that will utilize methods that dont exist. Then, I write the classes and create dummy methods, that dont do anything yet, but have comments describing their purpose. I usually dont do the return statement though, because there's usually quite a while before. The basic point of my original post was that this apporach is very useful if you know some basics. Adding in return statements is fine and dandy if thats what you want.:)
Who gives a shit man. I'm so sick of hearing about this. Just because the source is not open to the public does not make a product's creator evil. I dont use teh lunix but from what I've heard from my friends, nvidia's drivers are actually pretty damn good. atleast they're trying. be thankful you're not stuck with ati, whose drivers i hear make one want to kill oneself.
I've been looking for an affordable raid5 solution for a long time, and have never seen a MB that supported it onboard. Cool, thanks for the link. The board is 129 on newegg. This is vastly cheaper than even any plain old raid5 controller I've ever seen, which has only been a few. I have never seen one under 200 dollars.:(
I unfortunately wont be ordering it anytime soon, but maybe in 6 months when I can afford a 64 and also 4 large drives. Hopefully 400G drives will be affordable by then. Just think, 1.2 usable terabytes of RAID5 loving storage. Mmmmmmmm.....
I've only used one of their products, not sure the model number, but it's a PCI raid controller. I've been using it for about a year now as raid 1 with two 160 gig drives and have had zero issues and its performance is fine.
Every response to the parent has been negative.... "That's horrible advice" etc etc. However, I find myself agreeing with the parent, as long as you have atleast one year experience programming.
For most of the time you're writing code, what you have should not be compileable. Well, doesn't need to be. Since you (hopefully) are doing things top-down, at first you're going to have a lot of empty functions and comments.
How could you disagree with this statement? This is basically writing pseudo code, which is how most things should be done. It's just an OO approach. Write code that utilizes functions / class methods that dont yet exist, this lets you create your logic. Then go in and write the actual methods, which eventually will make your logic work. OO approach lets you focus on logic and fiddle with technicalities later. This is how it should be done.:P
I use both macs and windows quite a bit so I'd like to point out a few things.
Safari is a damn nice browser on OSX. I agree about the minimalist interface, and it is pretty fast considering I use it on a 700mhz G3 (ouch). I've used several versions of firefox on OSX and they seem really crappy and slow. I can understand why a lot of Mac users would be turned off by it. One of the reasons for this though is that they're focusing a majority of their effort on the Windows side of things. This may suck to people who don't use Windows, but it makes sense. They want to make a difference and Windows is over 90% of the market, so of course they're going to focus on that the most.
You cant judge firefox until you've used it on Windows. It is DAMN nice, and blazingly fast. It's also really stable, even with assloads of extensions installed. I have about 10 extensions installed, and I have a crash maybe once every few months. That's average with any other browser I'd say.
That's one of the thigns that sucks about safari though - it's not extensible. You get only what Apple wants you to get. Extensions in firefox are a god send and let you customize your browser exactly the way you want it. This is one of its best selling points, along with the awesome rendering engine (gecko) of course.
So I'm not really sure what my point is, but I guess it sounded like you hadn't tried firefox on anything but OSX. I just wanted to say that on Windows, it kicks serious ass, and Microsoft should be starting to get a bit worried by now.
I'm no fan of dell but the figures you just listed are pure crap.
My girlfriend has an 1100. Now it is a bit bulky and the warranty is totally gay. However, most of your other points are just wrong.
* The battery life is around 3 hours, whic his better than any mac laptop I've ever owned/used. * It has a radeon 9200. * It has a CD-RW/DVD combo drive. * It has svideo out. * It has firewire. * It has a PCMCIA slot for a wireless card, which she has. (All mac laptops come with airport built in these days, but that's a very recent change, it used to be only the high end ones, otherwise you had to spend 99 dollars for a card, which is a total rip off. Wireless cards for PC's are 30-40 dollars which is a negligible price difference).
So let's see... that's 6 points that you were totally wrong about. Good job.
Those of us who understood that all it was, was a pretty version of Doom enjoyed the hell out of the game
I understood that perfectly well but was still very disappointed because it was such a BORING game... I know there's not supposed to be a good or unique plot and you're just going around killing zombies... it looked so freaking good but got old very fast. After less than 5 hours of play I wanted to completely stop playing because I was so bored. Some of hte levels were pretty cool and it was pretty creepy in a lot of parts, but that wore off quickly. Very very disapointing game. I am definitely looking forward to the games that license the engine though - it's gorgeous.
I've heard of knoppix a long time ago. I've burned a CD of knoppix. But I've never actually used it.
I think knoppix is a cool idea and I know they've put in a lot of hard work to put as many fucntional tools as possible on to one bootable cd, but I've just never gotten the oppurtunity to boot into it.:P So sue me.
your story linking to "republican forms get tossed in the trash" mentions absolutely nothing of the sort. it's about some dude found with reg cards in his trunk, but mentions nothing of the party affiliations on them.
I live in the US and am disgusted by the whole election process. There's so much fraud here it makes me sick. What you just described sounds so nice, and it makes perfect sense.
Why DOES someone have to register to vote? It's just ridiculous here. I really do despise my country because of dumb shit like this. Like you said, it's not rocket science. It shouldnt be so freaking complicated.
my FPS could be higher than 60, I havent actually turned on that option to check. But I know that ~60FPS is where you stop being able to tell the diffrence between more FPS, eg its "damn smooth", I was just implying that on my system it is at at least this point.:) But, I also dont have AA or AF turned on.
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Wow, thanks. That's really handy. :)
I was going to say the same thing... this is just a very simple web app, may take more than a few hours though depending on the feature set... like if tours are mon, wed, fri, then showing a calendar with all the tours and which ones are full and for the ones that aren't, how many spots there are left... automatically emailing confirmation to the "customers", and perhaps sending a notice to him as well... etc etc... still nothing too complicated, but could turn into a full days work.
Last time I was in NY was maybe 8 years ago, perhaps thigns have changed. But back then it was horrible. Maybe it was just the building, but I cant imagine how one of the biggest cities on the planet could have clean water as you suggest? I mean obviously they have treatment plants and all, but I've never been to a big polluted city and drinken decent tap water.
If you dont have a net connection, I'd say there's a 99.999999% chance that your computer is probably an old outdated piece of crap that couldnt handle HL2. I mean seriously.. you think there's anyone out there with a 9800 Pro or X800, but yet doesnt have any access to the internet? Please. :P
Right now he has to court the 'swing states', but with popular vote, he'd court 'swing cities'. It changes the balance of power.
Oh come on... For the most part, candidates only visit the major cities anyways, beacuse that's where the most people are, which makes it the most efficient use of their time and money.
Here in the Oregon the only city of decent size is Portland, whose total metro area population is about 1.5 million, which accounts for about half of the state's population. Candidates only visit Portland.
I would have to guess that you dont live in a major metro area, eg LA, NYC, DC, or some other random places like New Jersey. Have you ever tasted the tap water that comes out of these places? You can feel your life shortening by weeks at a time with each gulp of it. It is NASTY and just tastes like chemicals.
I dont live in a big city but hvae visited all places mentioned above. The tap water here in Oregon is pretty good, but I still throw it through a brita filter, because it does help get rid of the slight chemical taste.
Maybe this is the first time you've actually RTFA, but often times submitters' entire summaries will be direct rips of a paragraph from the story, without any quote marks indicating that's it's a quote. In most cases I dont think they're actually trying to rip anyone off and hope no one notices that they plagiarized, I think that usually one of the leading paragraphs from a news story nicely sums up what it's all about so they just copy/paste it and think nothing of it. Not a big deal to me.
This case was slightly weird though, in that he didnt take out the "(news - web sites)" parts that are actualy links on yahoo news. And neither did the editors. The article is now over 6 hours old and they're still there. Sometimes I really do wonder about the intelligence of the editors...
Sorry, I checked with the GF and it's actually an 1150 - not that there's really much difference. It cost $999 and everything in my original post still applies. :P
Sorry, but I jsut dont believe that at all, from my experience. 4-5 hours.. ok, does that include actually using it? eg browsing the web, moving files around, etc? I've never seen any laptop last longer than ~3 hours.
I can maybe believe that 8 hours when youre jus tlistening to music.. but this is probably because the screen shuts off after 5 minutes and that's easily half the power drain.
Yah, exactly... all Apple's protables are advertised with at least 5 hours of battery life. I have an older ibook (white 700mhz G3)... when I first got it, with normal usage I would be lucky to get 2.5 hours, 2 hours was more realistic... And the battery has degnerated overtime and now only lasts 10-15 minutes. One of my friends has a fairly recent powerbook and the battery barely lasts 2 hours with normal usage.
My girlfriends laptop actually gets around 3 hours of life and its more than a year old. I dont know what Dell advertises it as, but my point was that the battery life is better than any Apple that I've seen. The GGP said 1.5 hours for PC laptops... ha..
That's right, the first machine shipped by Apple to have AirPort was an iBook so no it's not a recent change.
iBooks have had SUPPORT for airport for a long time - only very recently do all of them actually come with a card though. That's what I was talking about.
Yah, that's fine, and that's what I do - I didnt go into enough detail. First, I write the code that will utilize methods that dont exist. Then, I write the classes and create dummy methods, that dont do anything yet, but have comments describing their purpose. I usually dont do the return statement though, because there's usually quite a while before. The basic point of my original post was that this apporach is very useful if you know some basics. Adding in return statements is fine and dandy if thats what you want. :)
Who gives a shit man. I'm so sick of hearing about this. Just because the source is not open to the public does not make a product's creator evil. I dont use teh lunix but from what I've heard from my friends, nvidia's drivers are actually pretty damn good. atleast they're trying. be thankful you're not stuck with ati, whose drivers i hear make one want to kill oneself.
I've been looking for an affordable raid5 solution for a long time, and have never seen a MB that supported it onboard. Cool, thanks for the link. The board is 129 on newegg. This is vastly cheaper than even any plain old raid5 controller I've ever seen, which has only been a few. I have never seen one under 200 dollars. :(
I unfortunately wont be ordering it anytime soon, but maybe in 6 months when I can afford a 64 and also 4 large drives. Hopefully 400G drives will be affordable by then. Just think, 1.2 usable terabytes of RAID5 loving storage. Mmmmmmmm.....
I've only used one of their products, not sure the model number, but it's a PCI raid controller. I've been using it for about a year now as raid 1 with two 160 gig drives and have had zero issues and its performance is fine.
There are two solutions that would be pretty easy I think, I'm not sure which would be better.
a) Delay displaying alert() calls until the tab is activated by the user.
b) When alert() is called, make the tab that called it become active automatically. This should provide a good visual cue of who it belongs to.
I think I would prefer the first option just so I wouldnt be distracted by the alert() box until I was going to use that tab anyways.
Every response to the parent has been negative.... "That's horrible advice" etc etc. However, I find myself agreeing with the parent, as long as you have atleast one year experience programming.
:P
For most of the time you're writing code, what you have should not be compileable. Well, doesn't need to be. Since you (hopefully) are doing things top-down, at first you're going to have a lot of empty functions and comments.
How could you disagree with this statement? This is basically writing pseudo code, which is how most things should be done. It's just an OO approach. Write code that utilizes functions / class methods that dont yet exist, this lets you create your logic. Then go in and write the actual methods, which eventually will make your logic work. OO approach lets you focus on logic and fiddle with technicalities later. This is how it should be done.
I use both macs and windows quite a bit so I'd like to point out a few things.
Safari is a damn nice browser on OSX. I agree about the minimalist interface, and it is pretty fast considering I use it on a 700mhz G3 (ouch). I've used several versions of firefox on OSX and they seem really crappy and slow. I can understand why a lot of Mac users would be turned off by it. One of the reasons for this though is that they're focusing a majority of their effort on the Windows side of things. This may suck to people who don't use Windows, but it makes sense. They want to make a difference and Windows is over 90% of the market, so of course they're going to focus on that the most.
You cant judge firefox until you've used it on Windows. It is DAMN nice, and blazingly fast. It's also really stable, even with assloads of extensions installed. I have about 10 extensions installed, and I have a crash maybe once every few months. That's average with any other browser I'd say.
That's one of the thigns that sucks about safari though - it's not extensible. You get only what Apple wants you to get. Extensions in firefox are a god send and let you customize your browser exactly the way you want it. This is one of its best selling points, along with the awesome rendering engine (gecko) of course.
So I'm not really sure what my point is, but I guess it sounded like you hadn't tried firefox on anything but OSX. I just wanted to say that on Windows, it kicks serious ass, and Microsoft should be starting to get a bit worried by now.
I'm no fan of dell but the figures you just listed are pure crap.
My girlfriend has an 1100. Now it is a bit bulky and the warranty is totally gay. However, most of your other points are just wrong.
* The battery life is around 3 hours, whic his better than any mac laptop I've ever owned/used.
* It has a radeon 9200.
* It has a CD-RW/DVD combo drive.
* It has svideo out.
* It has firewire.
* It has a PCMCIA slot for a wireless card, which she has. (All mac laptops come with airport built in these days, but that's a very recent change, it used to be only the high end ones, otherwise you had to spend 99 dollars for a card, which is a total rip off. Wireless cards for PC's are 30-40 dollars which is a negligible price difference).
So let's see... that's 6 points that you were totally wrong about. Good job.
Those of us who understood that all it was, was a pretty version of Doom enjoyed the hell out of the game
I understood that perfectly well but was still very disappointed because it was such a BORING game... I know there's not supposed to be a good or unique plot and you're just going around killing zombies... it looked so freaking good but got old very fast. After less than 5 hours of play I wanted to completely stop playing because I was so bored. Some of hte levels were pretty cool and it was pretty creepy in a lot of parts, but that wore off quickly. Very very disapointing game. I am definitely looking forward to the games that license the engine though - it's gorgeous.
I've heard of knoppix a long time ago. I've burned a CD of knoppix. But I've never actually used it.
:P So sue me.
I think knoppix is a cool idea and I know they've put in a lot of hard work to put as many fucntional tools as possible on to one bootable cd, but I've just never gotten the oppurtunity to boot into it.
Oh wait, just kidding. :P Give me a break man. Drudge is extreme republican bias, citing him for anything is just a joke.
your story linking to "republican forms get tossed in the trash" mentions absolutely nothing of the sort. it's about some dude found with reg cards in his trunk, but mentions nothing of the party affiliations on them.
I live in the US and am disgusted by the whole election process. There's so much fraud here it makes me sick. What you just described sounds so nice, and it makes perfect sense.
Why DOES someone have to register to vote? It's just ridiculous here. I really do despise my country because of dumb shit like this. Like you said, it's not rocket science. It shouldnt be so freaking complicated.
my FPS could be higher than 60, I havent actually turned on that option to check. But I know that ~60FPS is where you stop being able to tell the diffrence between more FPS, eg its "damn smooth", I was just implying that on my system it is at at least this point. :) But, I also dont have AA or AF turned on.