> I fully expect this to just rake in its well-deserved awards.
I agree, but you know what sucks, is that an animated film, no matter how well received will ever be able to win an Oscar for Best Picture thanks to the creation of Best Animated Feature category by the Academy a few years ago. Having a separate category for documentaries makes sense to me, but splitting out animation and not action, romance, western, etc. does not.
I saw it last night as well and found myself really liking it. For me, I'm often more interested in disaster films where the main character(s) are simply trying to survive, rather than being the savior of the human race (two somewhat more recent contrasting examples are Will Smith in Independence Day, and Tom Cruise in War of the Worlds). For that reason, I thought the hand held camera effect, some shots being out of frame/focus, not always pointing at the person who is talking, camera pointing at the person who is talking but you can't hear them, worked great. While I didn't think there were any particularly frightening scenes there were some that has a 9/11-esque feel to them that may disturb some people, such as a wall of smoke and ash rushing down one of the streets towards a large number of people.
I'm not going to rush out and see it again today but it would be fun to see it once more in the theater.
The analogy that I came up with when I heard MS was going to give the company I work for version 2 of Sharepoint for free because version 1 was so poor was that of a battered wife.* MS is the abusive husband that promises if you, the wife, come back he'll never hurt you again. Needless to say that powers-that-be who had already decided to accept the offer weren't too pleased with analogy.
My hope is that we'll see a replay of what happened when Apple first released Intel based Macs and a contest was established to see who could be the first to boot XP on the machines (and collect ~$14K in prize money). As soon as a winner was announced it wasn't long before Apple released BootCamp. Hopefully with this announcement we'll see Apple release their SDK for the iPhone.
This comes up a lot on the Sun's Java Fourms and the response I always like to give that when learning Java you should avoid using a full-blown IDE until you can compile and run applications from the command line and use the online javadocs, otherwise you learn a tool, i.e. Eclipse, NetBeans, Intellij, etc., rather than the language and/or "how to program". Saying all that, I do think it's ok if students want to use an editor like JEdit or TextMate, that provides syntax highlighting and code formatting.
I've always felt that the problem is that there is psychological barrier when people are required to pay the $99 subscription fee in one lump sum. I think if it were a monthly fee Apple could possibly charge more (say $9.95 a month) and pick up more subscribers.
I'm convinced that/. readers generally read on a third-grade level. Let's look at what that actually said...
I don't care what the readers read at, but rather that the editors seem to read at such a low level. As the parent pointined out the word could is the second word in the article. Can the editors not pay attention to what they're reading past the first word?
Seeing has how the next version of Server is going to have a built-in Jabber/iChat/XMPP server (scroll down to the "Your Very Own iChat and Blog Servers" section).
Can anyone explain the restriction in F1? Was it getting too dangerous?
We're getting off topic here, but yes. Right up before they changed the rules they had little 2.0 litre four cylinder engines putting out 1000bhp. The cars were simply getting too fast and the FIA (F1's governing body) decided the best way to slow the cars down was to decrease their horsepower. When the FIA banned turbo charging, increased displacement to 3.5 litres and allowed refueling suddenly you saw V8, V10, and V12 engines being employed. Those were interesting times since you saw some teams going with a relatively underpowered, fuel efficient V8 or powerful, fuel inefficient V12, or something in-between. The rules were changed again a few years ago and all the teams how have to run 3.0 litre V10's. However, it's looking like another rule change will be coming for the '06 season which will mandate 2.5 litre V8s. This latest proposed change is to again both slow the cars down and decrease cost.
Once again it sounds like MS is trying to create another product that does everything for everyone. Unlike the typical Apple approach of limiting the features of product, but ensuring that the features it does have work easily and intuitively.
I had a similar question posted to Ask Slashdot a couple of years ago. I went ahead with the purchase of a TiPB (now using an AlPB) and I can my experience has been great. Java and OSX go together very well and there is always a slew of people using PowerBooks/iBooks whenever I attend any Java related event.
One thing that I have noticed with Apple's JDK/JVM is that it does seem to take a little longer to fire up than Sun's JVM on Linux and Windows machines. I'm not quite sure why that is but in general it has been a non-issue.
Ugh, this is horrible advice. The fastest computer of tomorrow won't help with the work you need done today. If you need a new machine now, buy it now, else you'll always be playing waiting game.
Do realize there is more than a single commerical vendor for Jabber? For instance Jive Messenger has an unlimited user license for $4500. Now granted you probably wouldn't want to handle 10,000+ users on a single Jive Messenger instance but there are less expensive options than Jabber Inc. However, with Jabber Inc's solution you can easily scale to hundreds of thousands of users, something that very few, if any, other IM products are capable of.
There is no full GPS unit inside the phone. Instead it takes the GPS signal, does some limited processing, and sends the information to the cell tower it's in contact with. The cell tower has the remainder of the equipment to finish the processing (including knowledge about its own location and the signal it's receiving) and can locate the phone to within the usual resolution of GPS (several meters on a good day)
This isn't necessarily true. Some of the newer phones, such as the Motorola i730 do have full GPS support. Programmically with Java and the GPS API you can select if you wish to use satellite positioning (slower but more accurate) or tower positioning (faster but less accurate).
About a month ago I completed a J2ME training class. We used the Motorola i730 throught the Nextel network. We were able to write a couple of small apps that accessed the GPS network and send the phones location via kXML to a Servlet running half way across the country.
Nextel is very protective of their network, so you do have to jump through hoops to get permission to load apps onto phones "connected" to their network.
According to Macrumors.com they have received confirmation that McDonald's is planning an iTunes give away. Traditionally, Macrumors has been very accurate in their Apple related rumors.
Part of the story is that they were trying to contact Microsoft to transfer it back to them and Microsoft wouldn't pay attention. It's difficult to be a good samaritan some days...
What a wasted opportunity for a perfect "Ask Slashdot" question. I could see it now: "Ok, so I now have in my possession a rather popular domain name, passport.com, and I'm wondering what to do with it? Any/.'s out there have a good suggestion or two?"
Article is/. but one thing worthy of note is that the copy protection on Gamecube also involves spinning the CD the wrong way round.
No, it doesn't. Can we please put this false piece of info to rest. Open up a GC the next time a disk is in there and you'll see it is spinning in the exact same direction as all the other disk based media, clockwise.
That makes sense. As a developer myself (who, despite the accusations, has written much more extensive programs than "Hello World" in Basic;-) I can attest to having a preference towards writing new stuff rather than fixing old stuff. But, since the place I work at has a culture of not releasing software that is buggy or has security issues we do spend a lot of time testing so we can be sure our code is solid. MS seems to be driven by releasing more software, rather than better software, which as has been pointed out, the greater the complexity the more potential problems there are, especially if you're building on top of a poor platform to begin with.
(Oops... hit the 'Submit' button before I was done)
What is fscking wrong with this company? I can't believe that any developer that works for them can be proud of the software they write. Is it just the culture among the developers to care about bugs or security? Do the managers not care? Is it just plain arrogance on everyone's part that they know people will just keep buying their stuff? I'm not trolling, just really curious.
Or roll it into their Xcode (does Apple even use Xcode for work on OSX)? I don't know much about compilers so I'd be curious to know if Apple and Mac developers could make use of this new compiler from IBM?
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> I fully expect this to just rake in its well-deserved awards.
I agree, but you know what sucks, is that an animated film, no matter how well received will ever be able to win an Oscar for Best Picture thanks to the creation of Best Animated Feature category by the Academy a few years ago. Having a separate category for documentaries makes sense to me, but splitting out animation and not action, romance, western, etc. does not.
That explains why SQL Server 2008 will be late.
I saw it last night as well and found myself really liking it. For me, I'm often more interested in disaster films where the main character(s) are simply trying to survive, rather than being the savior of the human race (two somewhat more recent contrasting examples are Will Smith in Independence Day, and Tom Cruise in War of the Worlds). For that reason, I thought the hand held camera effect, some shots being out of frame/focus, not always pointing at the person who is talking, camera pointing at the person who is talking but you can't hear them, worked great. While I didn't think there were any particularly frightening scenes there were some that has a 9/11-esque feel to them that may disturb some people, such as a wall of smoke and ash rushing down one of the streets towards a large number of people.
I'm not going to rush out and see it again today but it would be fun to see it once more in the theater.
The analogy that I came up with when I heard MS was going to give the company I work for version 2 of Sharepoint for free because version 1 was so poor was that of a battered wife.* MS is the abusive husband that promises if you, the wife, come back he'll never hurt you again. Needless to say that powers-that-be who had already decided to accept the offer weren't too pleased with analogy.
* Not to make light of battered women.
My hope is that we'll see a replay of what happened when Apple first released Intel based Macs and a contest was established to see who could be the first to boot XP on the machines (and collect ~$14K in prize money). As soon as a winner was announced it wasn't long before Apple released BootCamp. Hopefully with this announcement we'll see Apple release their SDK for the iPhone.
This comes up a lot on the Sun's Java Fourms and the response I always like to give that when learning Java you should avoid using a full-blown IDE until you can compile and run applications from the command line and use the online javadocs, otherwise you learn a tool, i.e. Eclipse, NetBeans, Intellij, etc., rather than the language and/or "how to program". Saying all that, I do think it's ok if students want to use an editor like JEdit or TextMate, that provides syntax highlighting and code formatting.
> Chunky. Bacon.
I don't know if anyone else got this but I certainly did.
I've always felt that the problem is that there is psychological barrier when people are required to pay the $99 subscription fee in one lump sum. I think if it were a monthly fee Apple could possibly charge more (say $9.95 a month) and pick up more subscribers.
I don't care what the readers read at, but rather that the editors seem to read at such a low level. As the parent pointined out the word could is the second word in the article. Can the editors not pay attention to what they're reading past the first word?
Seeing has how the next version of Server is going to have a built-in Jabber/iChat/XMPP server (scroll down to the "Your Very Own iChat and Blog Servers" section).
Once again it sounds like MS is trying to create another product that does everything for everyone. Unlike the typical Apple approach of limiting the features of product, but ensuring that the features it does have work easily and intuitively.
One thing that I have noticed with Apple's JDK/JVM is that it does seem to take a little longer to fire up than Sun's JVM on Linux and Windows machines. I'm not quite sure why that is but in general it has been a non-issue.
Ugh, this is horrible advice. The fastest computer of tomorrow won't help with the work you need done today. If you need a new machine now, buy it now, else you'll always be playing waiting game.
Do realize there is more than a single commerical vendor for Jabber? For instance Jive Messenger has an unlimited user license for $4500. Now granted you probably wouldn't want to handle 10,000+ users on a single Jive Messenger instance but there are less expensive options than Jabber Inc. However, with Jabber Inc's solution you can easily scale to hundreds of thousands of users, something that very few, if any, other IM products are capable of.
This isn't necessarily true. Some of the newer phones, such as the Motorola i730 do have full GPS support. Programmically with Java and the GPS API you can select if you wish to use satellite positioning (slower but more accurate) or tower positioning (faster but less accurate).
About a month ago I completed a J2ME training class. We used the Motorola i730 throught the Nextel network. We were able to write a couple of small apps that accessed the GPS network and send the phones location via kXML to a Servlet running half way across the country.
Nextel is very protective of their network, so you do have to jump through hoops to get permission to load apps onto phones "connected" to their network.
Sadly, if you look at the very bottom of the page:
*Please note that this product is a prototype. There are no plans to market it as a commercial product.
I recently broke down and order one of these. It's not quite as small but should be a lot of fun if I can figure out how to fly it.
According to Macrumors.com they have received confirmation that McDonald's is planning an iTunes give away. Traditionally, Macrumors has been very accurate in their Apple related rumors.
What a wasted opportunity for a perfect "Ask Slashdot" question. I could see it now: "Ok, so I now have in my possession a rather popular domain name, passport.com, and I'm wondering what to do with it? Any
No, it doesn't. Can we please put this false piece of info to rest. Open up a GC the next time a disk is in there and you'll see it is spinning in the exact same direction as all the other disk based media, clockwise.
Your company is writing a game that is going to run on MS Windows, I don't agree with some of MS tactics, so I'm not going to buy your game.
Pretty poor logic wouldn't you say? Sadly, it isn't any different than your hiring policy.
That makes sense. As a developer myself (who, despite the accusations, has written much more extensive programs than "Hello World" in Basic ;-) I can attest to having a preference towards writing new stuff rather than fixing old stuff. But, since the place I work at has a culture of not releasing software that is buggy or has security issues we do spend a lot of time testing so we can be sure our code is solid. MS seems to be driven by releasing more software, rather than better software, which as has been pointed out, the greater the complexity the more potential problems there are, especially if you're building on top of a poor platform to begin with.
(Oops... hit the 'Submit' button before I was done)
What is fscking wrong with this company? I can't believe that any developer that works for them can be proud of the software they write. Is it just the culture among the developers to care about bugs or security? Do the managers not care? Is it just plain arrogance on everyone's part that they know people will just keep buying their stuff? I'm not trolling, just really curious.
Or roll it into their Xcode (does Apple even use Xcode for work on OSX)? I don't know much about compilers so I'd be curious to know if Apple and Mac developers could make use of this new compiler from IBM?