Re:Well, good mixed with bad...
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And then the board would cost $200 more. You want super duper graphics for gaming, then buy a real GeForce card. I'm sure they thought about this for 10 seconds and came to the realization that the increased cost would decrease their market significantly.
You mean like Starteam. It looks like a nice package, now if only it could given an accurate status on a file instead of "unknown". It would also be nice if the merge option didn't mangle the code. "1.04" merged with "1.01" somehow works out to be ".1".
Actually, I work in Geneva, about 12 miles from Canadaigua. I live in Penn Yan, even farther away and in a valley where nothing comes in. The Nerve had 95.5 but the dumped it ~6 months ago or so.
You don't like KDE and Gnome? They both look nicer than Windows and both behave very similar to Windows, of course each has their own little quirks. After using Mozilla at home on Mandrake 8.2 I haven't found a site that won't work. Of course manually installing a flash plugin isn't for the average windows user, it's not a big deal to do. The only thing I noticed that didn't work were the DHTML menus certain sites implemented. Not a bid deal either, usually just means 2 clicks instead of one.
I wish the nearby alternative rock ClearChannel owned station would play some of the local artists that they keep advertising for, and holding events at their concerts. All I've heard for 3 years is "XXXXXXXXX at the Penny Arcade" or "xxxxxxxx at the Water St. Music Hall". Never have I actually heard any of the music unless it was a cover band, in which case they just played one of the cover songs over the ad.
The discussions are the result of a single post saying it's not working. Most replies to the primary posts say that everything is working fine for them. Other provide technically inaccurate information such as Kazaa "slowing down" before it just completely stops and then attribute that to port blocking. How about some general skepticism here before ranting about some mega-corp stomping all over the end users rights. Here's one of the initial posts:
"The only way i can search is if i log off and on real fast on kazaa. Doing that i can get one search off. I resume downloads fine jus no searches. I'm running XP if that helps. Can anyone please help. Thanks"
Hmmm, XP, and it works for a couple seconds and then stops. Yeah, rights, there's somebody at the RR NOC sitting there watching all traffic and manually flipping a light switch that controls your port 1214.
The second post linked to in the article is of about the same quality only by a jumpy conspiracy theorist. I couldn't stand to read the other 2.
Was the OpenGL spec (or whatever MS is claiming part of) a cleanroom implementation or did MS recommend it as part of OpenGL? Are their provisions for clean-room implementation?
Of course from the article it sounds like the ukulele has easier chord formations than a guitar (add 2 less strings) so it was probably easier to program.
How about a new/. feature that only provides links for people that are logged in and have posted at least one message in the last week.
Of course the screen shot is only of some new drop shadow support for menus. It's kinda funny that so many geeks are trying desperately to view a darkened border of a couple pixels around a menu.
Re:Why parse XML in the first place?
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We just dumped XML for our primary storage format for an application we're about to release. We're still using it as a backup/restore format though.
The problem was that while our program will generate probably only a few K of data per day in binary format, once you translate that binary data to XML with descriptive tag names and attribute names, it would get to be 100K per day due to the number of attributes per record. After a couple months you may be looking at 10 megs or more. Load/save times were several minutes. We switched to the BDE (I know it sucks) and load times are instant due to being able to load records on demand instead of everything at once.
When you only see maybe 2 minutes of such content per month watching regular TV & movies, you take what you can get. Personally I'd rather watch Office Space for the 10th time than watch Anti-Trust for the 2nd.
I worked at a Xerox factory after high school. I only had one boss tell me I wasn't doing something right. The next day though, there were posters ALL over the clean room with clipart people showing the right and wrong ways of doing it. Talk about overkill.
I got an old HP Laserjet II you can take out to a field if you want. Although you'd probably be too tired to beat the crap out of it after having to lift it out of the trunk of your car.
I work for a small ISP in central NY. A couple years ago, I can't remember which provider it was anymore, but they unplugged us because their paperwork was all screwed up and they didn't think anybody was on the circuit. Then they plugged somebody else into it. It not only took us several hours to find out what the problem was, it took 3 whole days for them to resolve the problem. They wouldn't simply undo what they did, they had to assign us a new circuit and basically refused to escalate the work order. We eventually came back up but lost quite a few customers, understandably.
Whatever happened to ICQ? They were the biggest at one time. A think a lot of people still use it. It's been probably about 4 years since I've used an IM client so somebody chime in if ICQ has become as crappy as MS or AOL's offerings.
Personally, I'd like the Google guys to develop one. Just a bare bones here's-a-box-to-type-in-and-a-send-button without the candy land themes and context menus that fill the screen with every emoticon ever created. Just something that does the job instead of trying to be everything to everybody.
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And then the board would cost $200 more. You want super duper graphics for gaming, then buy a real GeForce card. I'm sure they thought about this for 10 seconds and came to the realization that the increased cost would decrease their market significantly.
You mean like Starteam. It looks like a nice package, now if only it could given an accurate status on a file instead of "unknown". It would also be nice if the merge option didn't mangle the code. "1.04" merged with "1.01" somehow works out to be ".1".
I must admit it's better than SourceSafe from MS.
Actually, I work in Geneva, about 12 miles from Canadaigua. I live in Penn Yan, even farther away and in a valley where nothing comes in. The Nerve had 95.5 but the dumped it ~6 months ago or so.
No, I was talking about the Nerve 95.1. I'm about 30 miles southeast of Rochester and I can't pick up WBER.
You don't like KDE and Gnome? They both look nicer than Windows and both behave very similar to Windows, of course each has their own little quirks. After using Mozilla at home on Mandrake 8.2 I haven't found a site that won't work. Of course manually installing a flash plugin isn't for the average windows user, it's not a big deal to do. The only thing I noticed that didn't work were the DHTML menus certain sites implemented. Not a bid deal either, usually just means 2 clicks instead of one.
I wish the nearby alternative rock ClearChannel owned station would play some of the local artists that they keep advertising for, and holding events at their concerts. All I've heard for 3 years is "XXXXXXXXX at the Penny Arcade" or "xxxxxxxx at the Water St. Music Hall". Never have I actually heard any of the music unless it was a cover band, in which case they just played one of the cover songs over the ad.
I'd vote for a reference article caching server first.
The discussions are the result of a single post saying it's not working. Most replies to the primary posts say that everything is working fine for them. Other provide technically inaccurate information such as Kazaa "slowing down" before it just completely stops and then attribute that to port blocking. How about some general skepticism here before ranting about some mega-corp stomping all over the end users rights. Here's one of the initial posts:
"The only way i can search is if i log off and on real fast on kazaa. Doing that i can get one search off. I resume downloads fine jus no searches. I'm running XP if that helps. Can anyone please help. Thanks"
Hmmm, XP, and it works for a couple seconds and then stops. Yeah, rights, there's somebody at the RR NOC sitting there watching all traffic and manually flipping a light switch that controls your port 1214.
The second post linked to in the article is of about the same quality only by a jumpy conspiracy theorist. I couldn't stand to read the other 2.
And they can use that wonderfully accurate facial recognition technology to differentiate between good and bad guys and kill the right one.
Hehe, whoops. Must have been thinking about copyrights. Too many laws I guess.
Was the OpenGL spec (or whatever MS is claiming part of) a cleanroom implementation or did MS recommend it as part of OpenGL? Are their provisions for clean-room implementation?
Nothing that advanced is creating their music.
Tiny Tim tribute?
Of course from the article it sounds like the ukulele has easier chord formations than a guitar (add 2 less strings) so it was probably easier to program.
I want to see a full sized lego drummer though.
How about a new /. feature that only provides links for people that are logged in and have posted at least one message in the last week.
Of course the screen shot is only of some new drop shadow support for menus. It's kinda funny that so many geeks are trying desperately to view a darkened border of a couple pixels around a menu.
We just dumped XML for our primary storage format for an application we're about to release. We're still using it as a backup/restore format though.
The problem was that while our program will generate probably only a few K of data per day in binary format, once you translate that binary data to XML with descriptive tag names and attribute names, it would get to be 100K per day due to the number of attributes per record. After a couple months you may be looking at 10 megs or more. Load/save times were several minutes. We switched to the BDE (I know it sucks) and load times are instant due to being able to load records on demand instead of everything at once.
New York. If you want you can just pay for shipping ;)
When you only see maybe 2 minutes of such content per month watching regular TV & movies, you take what you can get. Personally I'd rather watch Office Space for the 10th time than watch Anti-Trust for the 2nd.
I worked at a Xerox factory after high school. I only had one boss tell me I wasn't doing something right. The next day though, there were posters ALL over the clean room with clipart people showing the right and wrong ways of doing it. Talk about overkill.
Wow, that's really messed up.
I got an old HP Laserjet II you can take out to a field if you want. Although you'd probably be too tired to beat the crap out of it after having to lift it out of the trunk of your car.
I work for a small ISP in central NY. A couple years ago, I can't remember which provider it was anymore, but they unplugged us because their paperwork was all screwed up and they didn't think anybody was on the circuit. Then they plugged somebody else into it. It not only took us several hours to find out what the problem was, it took 3 whole days for them to resolve the problem. They wouldn't simply undo what they did, they had to assign us a new circuit and basically refused to escalate the work order. We eventually came back up but lost quite a few customers, understandably.
will Larry personally convert all my existing code so it will work under Perl 6?
You can mod your Athlon so it's extra crispy just by taking off the heat sink.
Whatever happened to ICQ? They were the biggest at one time. A think a lot of people still use it. It's been probably about 4 years since I've used an IM client so somebody chime in if ICQ has become as crappy as MS or AOL's offerings.
Personally, I'd like the Google guys to develop one. Just a bare bones here's-a-box-to-type-in-and-a-send-button without the candy land themes and context menus that fill the screen with every emoticon ever created. Just something that does the job instead of trying to be everything to everybody.
Actually I totally forgot about that compatibility mode switch. I'll have to try that when I get home. Thanks.