Done salvia twice. Wouldn't do it a third time. The only way I can describe it is being swept under a rug with no hope of anyone ever finding me again. Also, the idea of being a dried piece of gum on the bottom of someone's shoe comes to mind. Oh, and make sure you have someone to take the pipe out of your hand.
The way I see it, a web app is a new kind of application. It is its own niche where doing certain things is easier or more convenient. We'll need native apps for the forseeable future any time we want to access local hardware or integrate with the user's desktop/mobile device environment. A web browser is just way too much of a sandbox for a lot of applications. Sometimes apps need to interact with each other in ways that apps running in different tabs of a web browser just cannot.
What a load of elitist shit: "Intelligence? That takes work." People are born with intelligence just as much as good looks. Both can be equally enhanced with some work. Geeks aren't intelligent because they've "worked" at it. They're just intelligent and happen to follow some sort of passion. That's it. This chick needs to get over herself. Now, I'm not saying people don't misuse the word "geek," but let's quit it with the arrogance and elitism.
I should also point out that not all people that would be considered "geeks" are especially intelligent. Sci-fi geeks, for example, can be pretty dim in my experience. Just because you're passionate about something doesn't mean you're intelligent. I would normally call an exceptionally intelligent and passionate person a "nerd." Nerds are much more academic, IMO. The way I like to make the distinction is to say that Lisa Simpson is a nerd. Milhouse and comic book store guy are geeks. Well, I suppose you could break it down even further and say Milhouse is a dork. Comic book store guy is a geek. In the real world there is going to be some overlap, but those are the basic categories. Intelligence is just one factor.
If there's a bug and it isn't due to the newer version of Firefox, then you can reproduce the bug with a supported version of FF and report it. I fail to see the problem here. Nobody is forcing you to run the latest, greatest Firefox at all times.
Have you had much problem with backwards compatibility in Firefox? In my experience, if you target an older version, it will work in newer versions. It isn't like targeting IE6 where MS just blatantly implemented things, very basic things, wrong and code that worked on IE6 didn't work on newer browsers (or even browsers of the same vintage)
You don't necessarily have to put the whole machine in standby just to save some power. You can spin down the drive and put the hardware into an idle mode. I THik the issue is that these set top boxes don't have the same kind of power saving features that desktop or laptop PCs do.
Some people use oil. Depends on location. A lot of places are either too rural to effectively pipe natural gas to homes or it just isn't available in the area.
FWIW, my gas furnace is 95% efficient. It is so efficient that the exhaust is cool to the touch. It really depends on where you live. If you live somewhere that gets very cold, you will have to supplement your heat pump with something else.
Yes, quite a bit more inefficient. You need to transport that fuel to the plant also, so I doubt there's a whole lot of difference there. I can't imagine you would use more than a few percent of the total fuel delvered to a home to get the fuel to the home.
Just to give some example numbers. You can get roughly 95% efficiency from natural gas heat with a modern furnace. I assume oil is similar. Now, figure you can get at most 50% efficiency generating electricity at a power plant. Then you lose another 40% in transmission of said electricity. Even assuming 100% efficiency of the electric heat, you're still only getting 30% of the energy out of the original fuel used at the power plant. And that's being generous with the power plant efficiency.
Now, you could probably offset some of that difference between electricity and fossil fuel heat by using a geothermal system, but I honestly don't know how much. There's a pretty big difference to compensate for.
Only if they're seeking money. A programmer who actually cares about programming doesn't want to give it up. Personally, I think technical lead, project manager, or architecture is about as far "up" as I care to go in this business. Beyond that, you're divorced form the code and that's just no fun.
I know I've only been a professional programmer for a few years, but all I can say is that I hope I don't end up using one framework and one language for the rest of my career. That would be awful. Doesn't it kind of depend on what level you're working at? SUre, if you're working at the system level or lower (kernel), you might need tried and true methods like read() and write() that dont' change, but at the higher, application level, shit changes. While I don't think you should necessarily jump to the framework du jour the day it is released, what's really so bad about moving to a new language and/or framework ever X number of years, if only for a change of scenery? Do you really need that kind of stability/longevity or are you balking at the fact that you don't have control over when a a framework is depreciated?
Also, just because a vendor depreciates a framework doesn't mean you have to stop using it. I could be wrong, but it seems to me that most applications on Windows doesn't even use.NET at all. Developers are still writing stuff in C++ using MFC on WIndows and targeting Windows XP.
Why do slashdoters so love to trivialize what the "average person" does with their computer? I know not everyone is a power user, but geez, give people some credit. It is thinking liek this that make stupid things like Chrome OS sound like a good idea.
In reality you have to take some edge cases into consideration when making an investment as big as a car. I may not drive more than 200 miles often, but sometimes I do and I don't want to have to wait for my car to charge over night before I can begin the next leg of my trip. I know more than 10% of Americans are in the same boat. I'm certainly not going to invest $40k in a car and then have to keep a spare economy car on the side just for long trips.
Either way, electric cars are well off my radar for the forseeable future simply because I don't buy new. When I look for a new (to me) car, I'm looking for something used under $7k. I simply cannot justify paying tens of thousands of dollars for transportation.
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Naw, they're just really fun.
There's nothing like 3 years of high school German and 5 years of taking LSD to round out an education.
"Sauer." It is German for "acid." LSD is a German acronym.
Done salvia twice. Wouldn't do it a third time. The only way I can describe it is being swept under a rug with no hope of anyone ever finding me again. Also, the idea of being a dried piece of gum on the bottom of someone's shoe comes to mind. Oh, and make sure you have someone to take the pipe out of your hand.
Then you're all three. They're certainly not mutually exclusive categories.
The way I see it, a web app is a new kind of application. It is its own niche where doing certain things is easier or more convenient. We'll need native apps for the forseeable future any time we want to access local hardware or integrate with the user's desktop/mobile device environment. A web browser is just way too much of a sandbox for a lot of applications. Sometimes apps need to interact with each other in ways that apps running in different tabs of a web browser just cannot.
Nerd: Builds robots.
Geek: Role plays a robot
Dork: Dances like a robot
What a load of elitist shit: "Intelligence? That takes work." People are born with intelligence just as much as good looks. Both can be equally enhanced with some work. Geeks aren't intelligent because they've "worked" at it. They're just intelligent and happen to follow some sort of passion. That's it. This chick needs to get over herself. Now, I'm not saying people don't misuse the word "geek," but let's quit it with the arrogance and elitism.
I should also point out that not all people that would be considered "geeks" are especially intelligent. Sci-fi geeks, for example, can be pretty dim in my experience. Just because you're passionate about something doesn't mean you're intelligent. I would normally call an exceptionally intelligent and passionate person a "nerd." Nerds are much more academic, IMO. The way I like to make the distinction is to say that Lisa Simpson is a nerd. Milhouse and comic book store guy are geeks. Well, I suppose you could break it down even further and say Milhouse is a dork. Comic book store guy is a geek. In the real world there is going to be some overlap, but those are the basic categories. Intelligence is just one factor.
If there's a bug and it isn't due to the newer version of Firefox, then you can reproduce the bug with a supported version of FF and report it. I fail to see the problem here. Nobody is forcing you to run the latest, greatest Firefox at all times.
Have you had much problem with backwards compatibility in Firefox? In my experience, if you target an older version, it will work in newer versions. It isn't like targeting IE6 where MS just blatantly implemented things, very basic things, wrong and code that worked on IE6 didn't work on newer browsers (or even browsers of the same vintage)
Possibly it is some kind of single sign-on issue so it is more complicated than just terminating your OWA session.
You don't necessarily have to put the whole machine in standby just to save some power. You can spin down the drive and put the hardware into an idle mode. I THik the issue is that these set top boxes don't have the same kind of power saving features that desktop or laptop PCs do.
Some people use oil. Depends on location. A lot of places are either too rural to effectively pipe natural gas to homes or it just isn't available in the area.
FWIW, my gas furnace is 95% efficient. It is so efficient that the exhaust is cool to the touch. It really depends on where you live. If you live somewhere that gets very cold, you will have to supplement your heat pump with something else.
Yes, quite a bit more inefficient. You need to transport that fuel to the plant also, so I doubt there's a whole lot of difference there. I can't imagine you would use more than a few percent of the total fuel delvered to a home to get the fuel to the home.
Just to give some example numbers. You can get roughly 95% efficiency from natural gas heat with a modern furnace. I assume oil is similar. Now, figure you can get at most 50% efficiency generating electricity at a power plant. Then you lose another 40% in transmission of said electricity. Even assuming 100% efficiency of the electric heat, you're still only getting 30% of the energy out of the original fuel used at the power plant. And that's being generous with the power plant efficiency.
Now, you could probably offset some of that difference between electricity and fossil fuel heat by using a geothermal system, but I honestly don't know how much. There's a pretty big difference to compensate for.
That's where the white female whales at.
Only if they're seeking money. A programmer who actually cares about programming doesn't want to give it up. Personally, I think technical lead, project manager, or architecture is about as far "up" as I care to go in this business. Beyond that, you're divorced form the code and that's just no fun.
We have a lot of coal, but getting at it is a messy, ugly business. Have you seen what srip mining looks like? Do no want!
I think at least half of the warnings were jokes. A few Engrish translation errors and the remaining were just dumb.
And you're responding to me with this.... why?
I know I've only been a professional programmer for a few years, but all I can say is that I hope I don't end up using one framework and one language for the rest of my career. That would be awful. Doesn't it kind of depend on what level you're working at? SUre, if you're working at the system level or lower (kernel), you might need tried and true methods like read() and write() that dont' change, but at the higher, application level, shit changes. While I don't think you should necessarily jump to the framework du jour the day it is released, what's really so bad about moving to a new language and/or framework ever X number of years, if only for a change of scenery? Do you really need that kind of stability/longevity or are you balking at the fact that you don't have control over when a a framework is depreciated?
Also, just because a vendor depreciates a framework doesn't mean you have to stop using it. I could be wrong, but it seems to me that most applications on Windows doesn't even use .NET at all. Developers are still writing stuff in C++ using MFC on WIndows and targeting Windows XP.
Why do slashdoters so love to trivialize what the "average person" does with their computer? I know not everyone is a power user, but geez, give people some credit. It is thinking liek this that make stupid things like Chrome OS sound like a good idea.
So what is your point? I'm a single guy living by myself. How many cars should I own?
In reality you have to take some edge cases into consideration when making an investment as big as a car. I may not drive more than 200 miles often, but sometimes I do and I don't want to have to wait for my car to charge over night before I can begin the next leg of my trip. I know more than 10% of Americans are in the same boat. I'm certainly not going to invest $40k in a car and then have to keep a spare economy car on the side just for long trips.
Either way, electric cars are well off my radar for the forseeable future simply because I don't buy new. When I look for a new (to me) car, I'm looking for something used under $7k. I simply cannot justify paying tens of thousands of dollars for transportation.
You also have to factor in periodic battery replacement. That's a pretty major cost that people forget about with electrics.