Your outlook on the Apple lawsuit is a bit simplistic. One of the complaints in the suit dealt with Microsoft's addition of overlapping windows to Windows 2.0. Had Apple won, we would all have been buggered. A GUI without overlapping windows is shite. Since Apple wasn't the originator of the technology, it wouldn't have been fair for them to become the sole vendor. That was Xerox's to take, if they wished.
Even if computers had such advanced AI that they could understand human speach on the same level as humans, people would still have trouble. Anything remotely detailed is going to require its own jargon, which people are going to have to learn. Each application would have a layer of jargon on top of the OS/UI's jargon. Also, one never gets complicated things right the first time. If we did, then there wouldn't be any need for pointless meetings.
It could also be a reflection of the typical intelligence and personality profile found in each of these industries. The IT crew, are generally a highly intelligent bunch, with rather introverted personalities.
I'm too lazy to find any references, but highly intellegent people are known to be less happy. To a certain extenet, ignorance is bliss.
Not every hair dresser is as dumb as a post, and I don't mean to be derrogatory, but these people are more likely to be of lower calliber. They are also more likely to be happy.
It really doesn't matter. Sending a man to Mars is just a distraction for Bush. His opion polls are back to pre 9/11 levels, and he needs a distraction. He couldn't start another war, so he proposed to send a woman to Mars. Now, the public either claps their hands and says "Whoopie!", or "What a waste of money!". In the meanwhile fewer people notice that all the jobs are leaving the country, and that the "moral right" is imposing their own closed-minded views upon the rest of the free thinking world. (And no, that wasn't a US = World statement).
Just abouve every IBM clone since the original IBM PC has used a switching powersupply. These things usually can automatically handle voltages from 90~220 at 50 or 60 Hz. Most desktops have a little red switch on the powersupply to change opperating ranges.
Switching powersupplies work by switching the currunt on and off rapidly enough to produce a reduced voltage. Thus the name switching, which has nothing to do with the switch.
That's how it is: Works produced while in the employ of another entity are owned by that entity. Works produced outside of employment (ie: your own time), are owned by the person who produced them. That's the law of the land.
I, too, have a m500, and it works like a champ. Not only do I use the standard apps, but I have Yanoff, Acrobat, WordToGo, and AvantGo. The thing hardly ever requires a reset. When it does, I it the button on the back, and it resets -- no loss of data, and a few seconds of downtime.
Here in Southern California, the cost of living's pretty bloody high. The average cost of a home is $450,000 (257,142 quid) and an average flat will cost you $1,100 - 1,500 per month (628 - 857 quid). Petrol is cheap, at least. I sink a lot of money into commuting 50 miles each way, costing me $230 (131 quid) in rail fares.
I've found that the key difference between mediocre and excellent programmers is whether or not they know assembly language.
This is total claptrap. There is more to computer science than knowing how to twiddle bits with assembly. While I think it's important to know the fundamentals of computer architecture, there are many important things a good developer should know. Having a clear understanding of abstraction is vital. I've seen so many junior developers who cannot solve a problem because they cannot abstract it. They cannot find the generic case -- can't see the forrest for the trees.
A developer must be able to utilize all the tools available to him or her. That means leveraging high level languages, applying libraries, and utilizing design tools like Rational.
Likening good developers to the level of assembly they know is just pure elitism.
One of my problems is that I have to keep fixing various systems nearly every time I see my in-laws. In the end, I just started locking down the machines. I used to believe the machines aren't mine, so I have no right to lock them down. After fixing the WiFi a couple times, because someone farqed the key, I locked the system. I and only I have the admin password. The next Win9x system that gets farqed is getting an upgrade, and locked.
In the light of no WMDs being found, and the likely hood of there never being any, it would appear this whole war was "sexed up". Whether it was by the government of Tony Blair, or George W. Bush, is a different question.
The Beeb has got its facts right more often than the US networks. One event that I recall was the during the invasion of Iraq. The US news agencies were reporting how the US troops were doing such and such, but the pictures were of Land Rovers. US troops don't use LRs, they use Hummers. British troops use Land Rovers.
DPI refers to the density of pixels on the device. Basic lasers have a density of 300 DPI, Mac displays have 72 DPI, and Windows uses 96 DPI.
A 12 pt font should be rendered the same size on either of the three devices; however, the fidelity will be much different. At 300 DPI, you can render every little serif, but at 96 DPI it becomes much cruder, and at 72 DPI, cruder still.
In reality, the fonts aren't rendered correctly. On one platform, they're rendered larger than they should. Probably to overcome the lousy fidelity.
I imagine we're not talking about a linear growth rate, when we're talking about India. There may be scarecely anything coming out of India today, but by time it's noticable, it's probably too late.
Yes, but you are talking about compeating against a society which it is impossible to compeate against. No one can afford to live in the US for a few dollars a day, not unless the economy of the US drops to the level of present day India. That sucking sound you hear is not just programming jobs leaving the US, but every bloody, decent paying, white or blue collar job. This process will continue until hundreds of people have to ride to work on the roof of an Amtrak, and the streets of downtown USA are filled with squaller (sp). We cannot compete against Chinese sweat shops, where the workers live in the factory, and trade bunks as shifts clock in and out. We have build up a certain standard of living in the US, which the corporations are all too ready to give away. We're not just fighting for our jobs, we're fighting for our standard of living, our fucking lives.
I haven't seen a single comment that dish sucks, and you should stick with cable. Now, that's interesting. My experience bares with everyone else's. Switched to DirectTV from Cox Cable in Southern California, six months ago. The picture's better, even with the fee for the extra box and local channels, it's cheaper than cable.
Cox's digital cable service is tiered. There's the family tier, the movie tier, yada, yada. You only get one tier with the base price, then each addition tier is extra. So, if you want BBCA, and IFC, you have to buy two tiers. Not so with DirectTV. The basic fee gets all the bloody channels.
The real decision is, do you want to get anal electrocution (cable), or a hammock on the beach (dish)?
Baby monitors are such a gip. They are basically dummed down, one way, two generation old cordless phones, yet they cost as much and often more than the equivilent cordless phone.
Your most basic corless phone can automatically choose a unused channel from the 10 it has available. Meanwhile your basic monitor can be manually switched between two channels.
For $100 I can get a frequency skipping, and secure cordless phone, but for $100 I get a few flashing lights on a baby monitor.
The whole baby industry runs a giant scam, based upon parent's desire to provide the very best for junior. Baby monitors are yet another example.
Get one of those enormous aluminum cases, with a lot of foam inside. Oh, be sure to get the one with the wheels, 'cause you won't be carrying it.
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I'm not defending Don Bluth, but your supposition that something has to make money in order to be considered good is erroneous. Making money is an indicator of being popular, not necessarily good. There's plenty of popular films that are utter cods wallop. There are also plenty of good films that were utter financial flops.
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Your outlook on the Apple lawsuit is a bit simplistic. One of the complaints in the suit dealt with Microsoft's addition of overlapping windows to Windows 2.0. Had Apple won, we would all have been buggered. A GUI without overlapping windows is shite. Since Apple wasn't the originator of the technology, it wouldn't have been fair for them to become the sole vendor. That was Xerox's to take, if they wished.
Even if computers had such advanced AI that they could understand human speach on the same level as humans, people would still have trouble. Anything remotely detailed is going to require its own jargon, which people are going to have to learn. Each application would have a layer of jargon on top of the OS/UI's jargon. Also, one never gets complicated things right the first time. If we did, then there wouldn't be any need for pointless meetings.
It could also be a reflection of the typical intelligence and personality profile found in each of these industries. The IT crew, are generally a highly intelligent bunch, with rather introverted personalities.
I'm too lazy to find any references, but highly intellegent people are known to be less happy. To a certain extenet, ignorance is bliss.
Not every hair dresser is as dumb as a post, and I don't mean to be derrogatory, but these people are more likely to be of lower calliber. They are also more likely to be happy.
It really doesn't matter. Sending a man to Mars is just a distraction for Bush. His opion polls are back to pre 9/11 levels, and he needs a distraction. He couldn't start another war, so he proposed to send a woman to Mars. Now, the public either claps their hands and says "Whoopie!", or "What a waste of money!". In the meanwhile fewer people notice that all the jobs are leaving the country, and that the "moral right" is imposing their own closed-minded views upon the rest of the free thinking world. (And no, that wasn't a US = World statement).
Just abouve every IBM clone since the original IBM PC has used a switching powersupply. These things usually can automatically handle voltages from 90~220 at 50 or 60 Hz. Most desktops have a little red switch on the powersupply to change opperating ranges.
Switching powersupplies work by switching the currunt on and off rapidly enough to produce a reduced voltage. Thus the name switching, which has nothing to do with the switch.
Except for Henkels. ;-)
That's how it is: Works produced while in the employ of another entity are owned by that entity. Works produced outside of employment (ie: your own time), are owned by the person who produced them. That's the law of the land.
I, too, have a m500, and it works like a champ. Not only do I use the standard apps, but I have Yanoff, Acrobat, WordToGo, and AvantGo. The thing hardly ever requires a reset. When it does, I it the button on the back, and it resets -- no loss of data, and a few seconds of downtime.
Here in Southern California, the cost of living's pretty bloody high. The average cost of a home is $450,000 (257,142 quid) and an average flat will cost you $1,100 - 1,500 per month (628 - 857 quid). Petrol is cheap, at least. I sink a lot of money into commuting 50 miles each way, costing me $230 (131 quid) in rail fares.
A developer must be able to utilize all the tools available to him or her. That means leveraging high level languages, applying libraries, and utilizing design tools like Rational.
Likening good developers to the level of assembly they know is just pure elitism.
One of my problems is that I have to keep fixing various systems nearly every time I see my in-laws. In the end, I just started locking down the machines. I used to believe the machines aren't mine, so I have no right to lock them down. After fixing the WiFi a couple times, because someone farqed the key, I locked the system. I and only I have the admin password. The next Win9x system that gets farqed is getting an upgrade, and locked.
The Beeb has got its facts right more often than the US networks. One event that I recall was the during the invasion of Iraq. The US news agencies were reporting how the US troops were doing such and such, but the pictures were of Land Rovers. US troops don't use LRs, they use Hummers. British troops use Land Rovers.
It should also be the same size on a screen.
DPI refers to the density of pixels on the device. Basic lasers have a density of 300 DPI, Mac displays have 72 DPI, and Windows uses 96 DPI.
A 12 pt font should be rendered the same size on either of the three devices; however, the fidelity will be much different. At 300 DPI, you can render every little serif, but at 96 DPI it becomes much cruder, and at 72 DPI, cruder still.
In reality, the fonts aren't rendered correctly. On one platform, they're rendered larger than they should. Probably to overcome the lousy fidelity.
I imagine we're not talking about a linear growth rate, when we're talking about India. There may be scarecely anything coming out of India today, but by time it's noticable, it's probably too late.
Yes, but you are talking about compeating against a society which it is impossible to compeate against. No one can afford to live in the US for a few dollars a day, not unless the economy of the US drops to the level of present day India. That sucking sound you hear is not just programming jobs leaving the US, but every bloody, decent paying, white or blue collar job. This process will continue until hundreds of people have to ride to work on the roof of an Amtrak, and the streets of downtown USA are filled with squaller (sp). We cannot compete against Chinese sweat shops, where the workers live in the factory, and trade bunks as shifts clock in and out. We have build up a certain standard of living in the US, which the corporations are all too ready to give away. We're not just fighting for our jobs, we're fighting for our standard of living, our fucking lives.
I haven't seen a single comment that dish sucks, and you should stick with cable. Now, that's interesting. My experience bares with everyone else's. Switched to DirectTV from Cox Cable in Southern California, six months ago. The picture's better, even with the fee for the extra box and local channels, it's cheaper than cable.
Cox's digital cable service is tiered. There's the family tier, the movie tier, yada, yada. You only get one tier with the base price, then each addition tier is extra. So, if you want BBCA, and IFC, you have to buy two tiers. Not so with DirectTV. The basic fee gets all the bloody channels.
The real decision is, do you want to get anal electrocution (cable), or a hammock on the beach (dish)?
That would be the guy who flipped the switch in the first place.
Baby monitors are such a gip. They are basically dummed down, one way, two generation old cordless phones, yet they cost as much and often more than the equivilent cordless phone.
Your most basic corless phone can automatically choose a unused channel from the 10 it has available. Meanwhile your basic monitor can be manually switched between two channels.
For $100 I can get a frequency skipping, and secure cordless phone, but for $100 I get a few flashing lights on a baby monitor.
The whole baby industry runs a giant scam, based upon parent's desire to provide the very best for junior. Baby monitors are yet another example.
No it's not. It only proves that there is a perpetual supply of "replacements". Works the same for the tobacco industry.
One Mars rover, which fell out of sky. Please call Jeff at 555-555-1234.
Err, not that I have one.
Get one of those enormous aluminum cases, with a lot of foam inside. Oh, be sure to get the one with the wheels, 'cause you won't be carrying it.
I'm not defending Don Bluth, but your supposition that something has to make money in order to be considered good is erroneous. Making money is an indicator of being popular, not necessarily good. There's plenty of popular films that are utter cods wallop. There are also plenty of good films that were utter financial flops.