It's easier than that. When the spammer calls wait till they tell you what they want and say "Ah! Right! Now, I don't want it but there's a guy here who really does, I'll just go get him". Put the phone on the table. That's it.
You *can* wait until they start saying "hello? hello?" and make up some BS line about him being somewhere else, but that would involve effort.
Traditionally most of the content was (red book?) audio CD's. So that aspect of it at least could be lossy compressed to go over the wire and expanded back out to make a 'virtual' CD image. Hell, the quantity of power the PS3 will have it could be done on the fly. So basically you're looking at shipping some MP3's and maybe fifty megs of data?
Quite. Didn't AMD have socket 754 and socket 940 for a fair while too? I bought my "new spangly and top end" PC just as 939 was coming out and was monster expensive. Of course now (that socket 939 is the new PCI) I've been stitched on dual channel ram and the option of dual core procs. Oh well, shit happens.
There's a sense of irony with Apple having, apparently, no problem getting PPC emulation to work on an Intel x86... and Intel having no joy running x86 emulation on IA64. If I didn't know better it would look to me like IA64 is a bag of crap.
New Zealand has a very large number of very small companies. It's much more common for companies to "outsource" things like email, webhosting etc. and, generally speaking, not bother with servers at all. Of course 90% of the people that provide these services do it on Linux boxes but, of course, they don't show up in the stats.
Nah, I disagree man. I'd like to know more about what the UI problems with workflows are... I'm a really big project-management-software hater and am intrigued to see if there are any experiments with alternative UI's.
It happens to be (about to be) my job too, so you can accuse me of self interest too. But hey - interesting discussion. Better than some halfarsed regurgitated press release, eh?
Y'know maybe they've got a pile of Apple stuff and a pile of other stuff and the Apple stuff works better. Or, perhaps, they're all really fucking busy and don't have time to piss around debating which is best.
I normally have to justify every purchase three times in three different ways to three different execs... just like they send out procedural memos.
Quite. The South Park guys, on the other hand, have to wedge a new show out the door once a week and maybe procedural memos and purchase justifications just don't come into it.
Geek gods, on the other hand, can be hard to manage.
You should have a go at someone who thinks they're a geek god, but is actually completely useless. There was this guy, right, who wrote code that didn't work. If you complain about any single aspect of it, you'll get a two page rant on why he's a better coder than you, complete with links to coderfanboy.com showing why all sorts of clever people say his way is better. Didn't make the code work though.
Small company, got dragged down and died. Yeah, I suck at management.
All I see is bitching, whining and moaning from a people who've never used it. My SO uses Xara X damn near constantly and loves it. She was up the learning curve like a mountain goat. There's good documentation, the/real/ thing ships with a CD full of video tutorials, a whole bunch of things work like they ought to - so much so that since we're so accustomed to things not working properly you initially discount the possibility of whatever you're trying to do actually working.
And it's FAST! Xara was initially written in the mid 90's and the system specs included "pentium processor recommended" so it goes without saying that it goes like a rocket on modern hardware. We're running it on a P3-933 and, just, whoosh.
This is a good piece of kit. Probably the best thing I can advise is finding a windows box and playing with the downloadable demo. Be happy. Get involved in porting it. Fuck Adobe.
As a shareholder, why would I care about profits that wont come until I'm long dead?
Because as your shares in nuclear fusion inc. mature, so it will become apparent that the risk associated with what they're doing is reducing, and that the timeframe for the big payout is closing too. This will add value to the shares.
This is how the biotech market works, but fusion would just be on an (even) longer timeframe.
When people say they'll never use that in the real world, they're absolutely right.
Well, you might not, but I bloody do. I'm not a math teacher, I'm not a mathematician, I'm not an astrophysicist or anything like that. Just another plan joe software engineer except that I come from a mechacnical/marine engineering background. I have a really strong grip on *basic* geometry and it's proven to be one of the most useful things I ever learned.
Once you know it, you'll see if everywhere: How motorbike tyres interact with the road to go round corners; why the angle of the forks matters so much; how to make the spinnaker pole easier to set; how to wedge a chair under a door handle... all sorts of shit. Then there's the whole pile of things you don't know, but at least you know you don't know them. Integrating functions with trigonometric parameters in is a pain in the arse, but at least I know that I need to go and look it up - or get a real mathematician to do it for me.
And this actually fairly basic grip on applied mathematics has proven absolutely critical in differentiating myself from the 'run of the mill' software engineers that I'm effectively in competition against.
It's been really cool. I've enjoyed it. And if someone has managed to simplify the whole thing, I'm going to be really stoked.
Isn't it just. I've been a PS2 owner and moderate fanboy for... a while... and it's been great. Then I had a go with a gamecube and just, kinda, liked it. And bought a DS and had a similar experience.
Now with Nintendo being the only company to stand up and say "Fuck HD" and probably keep their historical focus on cheap hardware, fun games and lower load times.... I could be about to buy a Revolution.
Not sure in what way you're saying - good or bad - but I've been using XCode 2 for the last couple of weeks and it's a monster huge improvement on earlier iterations. The "all in one" view is much easier to manage and (sit down) the code sense thing actually works now.
Because of Slashdot's famously high editorial standards, another Piquepaille blog plug gets popped onto the front page.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, another few hundred links that may actually be of interest to nerds and that may actually matter go rotting in the submission queue.
It makes cool flash tutorial things. Looks like it may be easy to use (currently on mac so can't tell). It's free. It runs on Linux. What's *not* to like? (other than no osx version)
So, can someone in the know tell me why I might want to use darwin ports over fink?
A little background: I switched from FreeBSD to Linux (Debian) a few years back purely for the ease of patching. I don't go for this compile from source shit at all and would far rather be receiving the same binaries as everyone else in 1/100th the time. So when I heard that the FreeBSD ports concept was being moved to Apple I was, like, "blah" and continued using Fink. A bit.
Why on earth would I want to use darwin ports? I just don't get it.
I stopped using it because it was a hog, and just slowed down my machine too much.
Dashboard is entirely webkit with JavaScript, it's going to eat CPU power like there's no tomorrow. I'm wondering what was wrong with just writing applications, but I'm obviously in the minority.
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It's easier than that. When the spammer calls wait till they tell you what they want and say "Ah! Right! Now, I don't want it but there's a guy here who really does, I'll just go get him". Put the phone on the table. That's it.
You *can* wait until they start saying "hello? hello?" and make up some BS line about him being somewhere else, but that would involve effort.
Dave
Traditionally most of the content was (red book?) audio CD's. So that aspect of it at least could be lossy compressed to go over the wire and expanded back out to make a 'virtual' CD image. Hell, the quantity of power the PS3 will have it could be done on the fly. So basically you're looking at shipping some MP3's and maybe fifty megs of data?
Dave
Tell you what though, the dual core one will make a *fabulous* number crunching node. Particularly since it has gigE as well.
Dave
Quite. Didn't AMD have socket 754 and socket 940 for a fair while too? I bought my "new spangly and top end" PC just as 939 was coming out and was monster expensive. Of course now (that socket 939 is the new PCI) I've been stitched on dual channel ram and the option of dual core procs. Oh well, shit happens.
Dave
Just an persistent eagerness
Is it related to a urge to be a grammar nazi?
Dave
There's a sense of irony with Apple having, apparently, no problem getting PPC emulation to work on an Intel x86 ... and Intel having no joy running x86 emulation on IA64. If I didn't know better it would look to me like IA64 is a bag of crap.
Oh, hang on.
Dave
New Zealand has a very large number of very small companies. It's much more common for companies to "outsource" things like email, webhosting etc. and, generally speaking, not bother with servers at all. Of course 90% of the people that provide these services do it on Linux boxes but, of course, they don't show up in the stats.
Dave
Nah, I disagree man. I'd like to know more about what the UI problems with workflows are ... I'm a really big project-management-software hater and am intrigued to see if there are any experiments with alternative UI's.
It happens to be (about to be) my job too, so you can accuse me of self interest too. But hey - interesting discussion. Better than some halfarsed regurgitated press release, eh?
Dave
The first picture in the article - showing the substrate against the gate. Are the very visible lumps in that ... ummmm .... atoms?
Y'know maybe they've got a pile of Apple stuff and a pile of other stuff and the Apple stuff works better. Or, perhaps, they're all really fucking busy and don't have time to piss around debating which is best.
I normally have to justify every purchase three times in three different ways to three different execs... just like they send out procedural memos.
Quite. The South Park guys, on the other hand, have to wedge a new show out the door once a week and maybe procedural memos and purchase justifications just don't come into it.
Dave
Geek gods, on the other hand, can be hard to manage.
You should have a go at someone who thinks they're a geek god, but is actually completely useless. There was this guy, right, who wrote code that didn't work. If you complain about any single aspect of it, you'll get a two page rant on why he's a better coder than you, complete with links to coderfanboy.com showing why all sorts of clever people say his way is better. Didn't make the code work though.
Small company, got dragged down and died. Yeah, I suck at management.
Dave
No way man, they sold *hundreds* of NGage's.
Dave
All I see is bitching, whining and moaning from a people who've never used it. My SO uses Xara X damn near constantly and loves it. She was up the learning curve like a mountain goat. There's good documentation, the /real/ thing ships with a CD full of video tutorials, a whole bunch of things work like they ought to - so much so that since we're so accustomed to things not working properly you initially discount the possibility of whatever you're trying to do actually working.
And it's FAST! Xara was initially written in the mid 90's and the system specs included "pentium processor recommended" so it goes without saying that it goes like a rocket on modern hardware. We're running it on a P3-933 and, just, whoosh.
This is a good piece of kit. Probably the best thing I can advise is finding a windows box and playing with the downloadable demo. Be happy. Get involved in porting it. Fuck Adobe.
Dave
As a shareholder, why would I care about profits that wont come until I'm long dead?
Because as your shares in nuclear fusion inc. mature, so it will become apparent that the risk associated with what they're doing is reducing, and that the timeframe for the big payout is closing too. This will add value to the shares.
This is how the biotech market works, but fusion would just be on an (even) longer timeframe.
Dave
When people say they'll never use that in the real world, they're absolutely right.
... all sorts of shit. Then there's the whole pile of things you don't know, but at least you know you don't know them. Integrating functions with trigonometric parameters in is a pain in the arse, but at least I know that I need to go and look it up - or get a real mathematician to do it for me.
Well, you might not, but I bloody do. I'm not a math teacher, I'm not a mathematician, I'm not an astrophysicist or anything like that. Just another plan joe software engineer except that I come from a mechacnical/marine engineering background. I have a really strong grip on *basic* geometry and it's proven to be one of the most useful things I ever learned.
Once you know it, you'll see if everywhere: How motorbike tyres interact with the road to go round corners; why the angle of the forks matters so much; how to make the spinnaker pole easier to set; how to wedge a chair under a door handle
And this actually fairly basic grip on applied mathematics has proven absolutely critical in differentiating myself from the 'run of the mill' software engineers that I'm effectively in competition against.
It's been really cool. I've enjoyed it. And if someone has managed to simplify the whole thing, I'm going to be really stoked.
Dave
Isn't it just. I've been a PS2 owner and moderate fanboy for ... a while ... and it's been great. Then I had a go with a gamecube and just, kinda, liked it. And bought a DS and had a similar experience.
Now with Nintendo being the only company to stand up and say "Fuck HD" and probably keep their historical focus on cheap hardware, fun games and lower load times.... I could be about to buy a Revolution.
I suspect it's either that or 'do nothing'.
Dave
XCode 2.x is a big improvement but it's still hopeless compared to MSDE.
Agreed on that. Have you tried AppKiDo though? Very useful little thing.
Dave
XCode's just the same way for the Mac.
Not sure in what way you're saying - good or bad - but I've been using XCode 2 for the last couple of weeks and it's a monster huge improvement on earlier iterations. The "all in one" view is much easier to manage and (sit down) the code sense thing actually works now.
Dave
all the hardware I've used since 1996 and on has absolutely refused to play my Ace of Base MP3s
:)
Ahhh! Just as I was thinking there had been no significant improvements in computing, there it is - real progress.
Dave
Especially given that Brew and Mobile Java have such a head start.
Because of Slashdot's famously high editorial standards, another Piquepaille blog plug gets popped onto the front page.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, another few hundred links that may actually be of interest to nerds and that may actually matter go rotting in the submission queue.
Jesus wept. What have we done to deserve this?
Dave
I do but, and here's the fun part, the discovery protocol is the cups internal protocol and not zeroconf/rendezvous/bonjour at all.
Do I, as a mac fanatic, have any use for zeroconf/rendezvous/bonjour at all? Nah. It has to be said, I don't really get it.
Dave
It makes cool flash tutorial things. Looks like it may be easy to use (currently on mac so can't tell). It's free. It runs on Linux. What's *not* to like? (other than no osx version)
Dave
So, can someone in the know tell me why I might want to use darwin ports over fink?
A little background: I switched from FreeBSD to Linux (Debian) a few years back purely for the ease of patching. I don't go for this compile from source shit at all and would far rather be receiving the same binaries as everyone else in 1/100th the time. So when I heard that the FreeBSD ports concept was being moved to Apple I was, like, "blah" and continued using Fink. A bit.
Why on earth would I want to use darwin ports? I just don't get it.
Dave
I stopped using it because it was a hog, and just slowed down my machine too much.
Dashboard is entirely webkit with JavaScript, it's going to eat CPU power like there's no tomorrow. I'm wondering what was wrong with just writing applications, but I'm obviously in the minority.
Dave