Regardless of how insightful your very long post may be, calling andromeda "another great show" made it lose all credibility with me.
Also, the "thinking" shows of all the treks we're almost always the worst ones, because "thinking" usually made characters and drama take a back seat to the eureka of the last 15 minutes. I believe trek, in all its forms, was best with large scale drama, like wars, or spies, or secret weapons. In this type of framwork there's plenty of opportunity for drama, suspense and characters.
Also, in other opinions, "earth, final conflict" is also horrible, but I still watch it for a small sci-fi fix. Farscape can be a very good show but for a while there it took a serious nosedive, must have changed writers or something and they didnt know the characters anymore. Lexx has been pretty good the last season with the fire and water planets, but its not really sci-fi, but then again, you could just have the robot head start babbling about transphasic fields or tetrion emmissions for a few minutes and it would have as much science as trek. Stargate is by far the best sci-fi series there is now, its got lots of drama, cool wormholes, good and evil, mythology, honor, intersteller politics, babes, guns, explosions, a pinch of timetravel, great characters and good humor. Can you tell I have Tivo:)
I cant understand it. Does it mention anything about watching one program while recording another ON ANOTHER CHANNEL? My tivo doesnt do that and its a MAJOR PAIN IN THE ASS. And believe it or not I live alone, I cant imagine what its like for families. I do understand that some of this difficulty lies in the speed of encoding and decoding, and others are that tivo is usually downstream from a cable box and will only get one signal at a time. I guess they need to put a cable box inside tivo so they can tune, split and descramble the signal any way they want
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this is great news, a cross platform toolkit that is currently very accepted by developers and widely used.
If this had happened a few years ago microsoft would have gone after this just as they went after java and quicktime. But now they have to sit back and watch as a cross-platform toolkit actually becomes the favored toolkit of developers, as it has become, or seems to have the ability to.
First of all, I really wish they'd put in a println function, I really hate typing "\n"
but then again
sub println{ print "$_[0]\n";}
print "hello";
in other thoughts, the 'is' in
%node{VALUE} = $val is Found(0);
kinda scares me because it reminds me of applescript. I dont remember applescript, but I've done some sizeable things in it, and its so close to a natural language that you get confused and start programming in english. Its good that spoken language and programming languages look so different, otherwise I'd accidentally start speaking in code.
First of all, I really doubt the actual quicktime engine/algorithms makes many api calls to the OS, whether its carbon/coco/whatever. If it did it probably couldnt be called "quicktime". I also am pretty sure that it existed before the carbon standard. Second of all, I was refering to killer apps, not the mountain of useful but sometimes hobby quality unix apps. Third of all, I was posing a question for a debate, I didnt want to make you angry, very sorry about that. Although you did reinforce my antagonistic argument by saying
"oh wait, the whole catching on thing doesn't work when only 5% of all computer users can use the program." My argument was- what if opensource (for lack of better term) was more guarded with its license, would it still be such an underdog
And thank you for finally making it clear to me that much of the intelligent debate about "stuff that matters" has been ported from/. to http://www.kuro5hin.org/
Oh, and sorry for the maXOS think, I of course meant OSX, I've got too many acronyms to remember and I think some of them are starting to share the same storage in my brain.
I looked into this, the threads arent native, they are implemented inside the ruby interpreter, so you do get the advantage of coding threads, but you wont get any of the advantages of executing threads, like you would want for tweaking performance on multi-cpu machines, or working around blocking calls in a server. Proof if this is that ruby threads work even in DOS
We're running a small site and we seek out free promotion, and ironically we're an anti-spam site:). I've tried to get free publicity from slashdot with an "ask slashdot", but no success. (Usually the question I would ask is if anybody notices the huge volume of spam that comes through email harvested through/. postings). Anyway, this a good start, not because of slashdots hits, but because a lot of slashdot visitors will give something free publicity if they've looked at it carefully and judged it to be worthy. In other words, we've found slashdot to be a good way to start word of mouth. We've been given links off peoples personal sites, and even are in a few sigs, and not just mine:). But be warned, fishing on slashdot is a good way to snag some script kiddies. This is probably not applicable to you, but we also get free promotion from awards like "usatodays most useful site of the week" or the bogus coolsiteoftheday. But thats way too much information for this posting:)
AFAIK there is a methodology in software programming that builds space shuttle quality software, and it actually speeds up the process because a lot of time isnt wasted in digging up all the bugs. Its not about object orientation, or even about extreme programming, dude, but actually an evolution of structured-programming (huh?) with a little formal method thrown in, Cleanroom http://shop.barnesandnoble.com/textbooks/booksea rc h/isbninquiry.asp?userid=0NDTAXIZHS&mscssid=GE64HB NXPE9D8K2P9V4J83X49281124E&isbn=0201854805
If you knew anything about sneakemail you would know that "g4hu5001@sneakemail.com" is not my real email address. Why else do you think I would mention it here in a story about disposable cc numbers??? To just "pimp" it? And why so hostile?
Don't forget, sneakemail.com is the perfect complement to disposible cc numbers. If you dont trust a e-commerce company with your cc number, why would you trust them with your email address?
I'm glad to see that their prices have come down so much, now I could consider oracle an option. 6 months ago they were astronomical, and to my amazement, I verified the prices by asking another certified reseller (another branch of our company). Maybe the current economy has forced them down. Still, you were off 5x, you said a few thousand, but its actually $10,800:)
Not only DID we pay this ammount for the pentiumII install, but I used their web site to generate the other figure of the ppro180. Keep in mind this is for a web site and not a developers license. Thats how they getcha.
That a very reasonable price and very un-oracle like. I've priced a 2x ppro180 and my company bought oracle for a client for a dual 400 pentium II, both for a public web server, and both prices were about $200,000-250,000 dollars. Those prices make any alternative look good.
I agree many people learn better outside the classroom, and often at a pace that makes a CS students look like they're in kindergaten, they laugh at this blind devotion to a degree when the actually knowdledge of these graduates is just random sections of a few text books, less then what they usually pick up at a bookstore in a day.
Also, I dont believe there is any degree that proves you are a good programmer which is much more important than a "computer scientists" in terms of demand and employment.
Also, whats this dogma about math being so essential to computer programming??? Take for example apache, slashdot, navigator and linux. How much math is in there? And if there is, how much is not wrapped in a nice library? C'com people, isnt it obvious, programming isnt about math or calculations, its about good writing. You have to be good at explaining to BOTH the compilier/interpreter AND other programmers what your program should do.
To all those arrogant cs degree holders who think you're what its all about think about this: somebody who is self educated in the programming business has proven that they can do it again when the technology changes, degree holders have proven then can pass tests and labs, who would you hire?
I'm a professional programmer and to a minor extent a professional artist (painter). Having studied famous painters, especially on the subject of color and composition I have no doubt that the good artists are the ones that were/are EXTREMELY analytical, and that is what usually set them apart from the soon forgotten artists. You can argue they they were color/composition programmers (at least the painters). They follow complex rules, they look at designs from a high up architecural point of view all the way down to the level of the pigments and mediums and substrate. All the good artists, from davinci to picasso may have been emotional and passionate and even crazy, but they always developed their artwork in a very objective, deliberate, and analytical way.
I'm amazed at how little know it is that the Princton review SAT prep books PROVE that the SAT/GRE is completely defective and also PROVE that you can get a good score without even reading the questions. I could go into the theory here but wont, just go to the bookstore and read the first few pages of any one of their books. Its also not well known that the questions arent carefully crafted and designed with built in levels of difficulty but are actually written by a motely crew of students, secretaries, and other employees and their worthiness and difficulty are actually determined by how well they test in trials- any easy question everybody gets right, a difficult question is one that a high percentage of test takers that got more questions right got right. Actually knowing this process is how you can take the test without reading the questions. So basically, the tests are composed up of questions that are carefully crafted by professonals to judge aptitude (or acheivement) but are actually thrown in to a Question Galapagos Islands where they are selected for by statistics generated by how trial testers handle them. There's a lot more evil to the SAT, like how the company that makes them lies about their effectiveness, and the fact that they actually have a monopoly on all scholastic testing. I wish I could remember the names of the books on this subject, especially one written by an investigative reporter, but its been a while.
Maybe the separation between the cli and the gui is artificially imposed by the window manager and all those windows. Lately I've gotten annoyed by all the dragging, resizing, mousing, and shading that my mouse and hand are perpetrating, and I was thinking, cant we get rid of these windows? Did the invention of the mouse lead us down the wrong path? I'm sure I've never seen a mouse on any of the Star Trek shows.
I have a relevant follow up to this astutes persons comment. A long long time ago, memory loss happened too, but this time it was much more severe, and experts correctly blamed it on *writing*. Before common use of reading and writing memory systems were used often and because of them many people had massive capacity to remember. The fact that school ever forced you to remember anything and didnt teach you these ancient memory systems is a incompetence beyond belief, like teaching a ditch digger to dig with a spoon.
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Regardless of how insightful your very long post may be, calling andromeda "another great show" made it lose all credibility with me.
Also, the "thinking" shows of all the treks we're almost always the worst ones, because "thinking" usually made characters and drama take a back seat to the eureka of the last 15 minutes. I believe trek, in all its forms, was best with large scale drama, like wars, or spies, or secret weapons. In this type of framwork there's plenty of opportunity for drama, suspense and characters.
Also, in other opinions, "earth, final conflict" is also horrible, but I still watch it for a small sci-fi fix. Farscape can be a very good show but for a while there it took a serious nosedive, must have changed writers or something and they didnt know the characters anymore. Lexx has been pretty good the last season with the fire and water planets, but its not really sci-fi, but then again, you could just have the robot head start babbling about transphasic fields or tetrion emmissions for a few minutes and it would have as much science as trek. Stargate is by far the best sci-fi series there is now, its got lots of drama, cool wormholes, good and evil, mythology, honor, intersteller politics, babes, guns, explosions, a pinch of timetravel, great characters and good humor. Can you tell I have Tivo
I cant understand it. Does it mention anything about watching one program while recording another ON ANOTHER CHANNEL? My tivo doesnt do that and its a MAJOR PAIN IN THE ASS. And believe it or not I live alone, I cant imagine what its like for families. I do understand that some of this difficulty lies in the speed of encoding and decoding, and others are that tivo is usually downstream from a cable box and will only get one signal at a time. I guess they need to put a cable box inside tivo so they can tune, split and descramble the signal any way they want
this is great news, a cross platform toolkit that is currently very accepted by developers and widely used.
If this had happened a few years ago microsoft would have gone after this just as they went after java and quicktime. But now they have to sit back and watch as a cross-platform toolkit actually becomes the favored toolkit of developers, as it has become, or seems to have the ability to.
Now we need to work on cross-platform C++
First of all, I really wish they'd put in a println function, I really hate typing "\n"
but then again
sub println{ print "$_[0]\n";}
print "hello";
in other thoughts, the 'is' in
%node{VALUE} = $val is Found(0);
kinda scares me because it reminds me of applescript. I dont remember applescript, but I've done some sizeable things in it, and its so close to a natural language that you get confused and start programming in english. Its good that spoken language and programming languages look so different, otherwise I'd accidentally start speaking in code.
First of all, I really doubt the actual quicktime engine/algorithms makes many api calls to the OS, whether its carbon/coco/whatever. If it did it probably couldnt be called "quicktime". I also am pretty sure that it existed before the carbon standard. Second of all, I was refering to killer apps, not the mountain of useful but sometimes hobby quality unix apps. Third of all, I was posing a question for a debate, I didnt want to make you angry, very sorry about that. Although you did reinforce my antagonistic argument by saying
/. to http://www.kuro5hin.org/
"oh wait, the whole catching on thing doesn't work when only 5% of all computer users can use the program." My argument was- what if opensource (for lack of better term) was more guarded with its license, would it still be such an underdog
And thank you for finally making it clear to me that much of the intelligent debate about "stuff that matters" has been ported from
Oh, and sorry for the maXOS think, I of course meant OSX, I've got too many acronyms to remember and I think some of them are starting to share the same storage in my brain.
sorry, I mean OSX, I've got too many acronyms in my head.
sneakemail does the same thing, but you dont need a domain
I looked into this, the threads arent native, they are implemented inside the ruby interpreter, so you do get the advantage of coding threads, but you wont get any of the advantages of executing threads, like you would want for tweaking performance on multi-cpu machines, or working around blocking calls in a server. Proof if this is that ruby threads work even in DOS
We're running a small site and we seek out free promotion, and ironically we're an anti-spam site :). I've tried to get free publicity from slashdot with an "ask slashdot", but no success. (Usually the question I would ask is if anybody notices the huge volume of spam that comes through email harvested through /. postings). Anyway, this a good start, not because of slashdots hits, but because a lot of slashdot visitors will give something free publicity if they've looked at it carefully and judged it to be worthy. In other words, we've found slashdot to be a good way to start word of mouth. We've been given links off peoples personal sites, and even are in a few sigs, and not just mine :). But be warned, fishing on slashdot is a good way to snag some script kiddies. This is probably not applicable to you, but we also get free promotion from awards like "usatodays most useful site of the week" or the bogus coolsiteoftheday. But thats way too much information for this posting :)
sorry, link
AFAIK there is a methodology in software programming that builds space shuttle quality software, and it actually speeds up the process because a lot of time isnt wasted in digging up all the bugs. Its not about object orientation, or even about extreme programming, dude, but actually an evolution of structured-programming (huh?) with a little formal method thrown in, Cleanrooma rc h/isbninquiry.asp?userid=0NDTAXIZHS&mscssid=GE64HB NXPE9D8K2P9V4J83X49281124E&isbn=0201854805
http://shop.barnesandnoble.com/textbooks/bookse
If you knew anything about sneakemail you would know that "g4hu5001@sneakemail.com" is not my real email address. Why else do you think I would mention it here in a story about disposable cc numbers??? To just "pimp" it? And why so hostile?
Don't forget, sneakemail.com is the perfect complement to disposible cc numbers. If you dont trust a e-commerce company with your cc number, why would you trust them with your email address?
oh, I'm talking about Enterprise, and it does look like their prices have come down, but are still very high
I'm glad to see that their prices have come down so much, now I could consider oracle an option. 6 months ago they were astronomical, and to my amazement, I verified the prices by asking another certified reseller (another branch of our company). Maybe the current economy has forced them down. Still, you were off 5x, you said a few thousand, but its actually $10,800
Not only DID we pay this ammount for the pentiumII install, but I used their web site to generate the other figure of the ppro180. Keep in mind this is for a web site and not a developers license. Thats how they getcha.
That a very reasonable price and very un-oracle like. I've priced a 2x ppro180 and my company bought oracle for a client for a dual 400 pentium II, both for a public web server, and both prices were about $200,000-250,000 dollars. Those prices make any alternative look good.
I agree many people learn better outside the classroom, and often at a pace that makes a CS students look like they're in kindergaten, they laugh at this blind devotion to a degree when the actually knowdledge of these graduates is just random sections of a few text books, less then what they usually pick up at a bookstore in a day.
Also, I dont believe there is any degree that proves you are a good programmer which is much more important than a "computer scientists" in terms of demand and employment.
Also, whats this dogma about math being so essential to computer programming??? Take for example apache, slashdot, navigator and linux. How much math is in there? And if there is, how much is not wrapped in a nice library? C'com people, isnt it obvious, programming isnt about math or calculations, its about good writing. You have to be good at explaining to BOTH the compilier/interpreter AND other programmers what your program should do.
To all those arrogant cs degree holders who think you're what its all about think about this: somebody who is self educated in the programming business has proven that they can do it again when the technology changes, degree holders have proven then can pass tests and labs, who would you hire?
pros:
70's space decor on every alien planet!
cassiopia
opening credits
arrogant attitude ("you think you're enemy sucks", "well, you've never seen a battlestar")
temporary employment for Randolph Mantooth
cons:
terrible science (the galactica ran outta gas and they came to a dead stop!)
please help me add to the lists
I'm a professional programmer and to a minor extent a professional artist (painter). Having studied famous painters, especially on the subject of color and composition I have no doubt that the good artists are the ones that were/are EXTREMELY analytical, and that is what usually set them apart from the soon forgotten artists. You can argue they they were color/composition programmers (at least the painters). They follow complex rules, they look at designs from a high up architecural point of view all the way down to the level of the pigments and mediums and substrate. All the good artists, from davinci to picasso may have been emotional and passionate and even crazy, but they always developed their artwork in a very objective, deliberate, and analytical way.
I'm amazed at how little know it is that the Princton review SAT prep books PROVE that the SAT/GRE is completely defective and also PROVE that you can get a good score without even reading the questions. I could go into the theory here but wont, just go to the bookstore and read the first few pages of any one of their books. Its also not well known that the questions arent carefully crafted and designed with built in levels of difficulty but are actually written by a motely crew of students, secretaries, and other employees and their worthiness and difficulty are actually determined by how well they test in trials- any easy question everybody gets right, a difficult question is one that a high percentage of test takers that got more questions right got right. Actually knowing this process is how you can take the test without reading the questions. So basically, the tests are composed up of questions that are carefully crafted by professonals to judge aptitude (or acheivement) but are actually thrown in to a Question Galapagos Islands where they are selected for by statistics generated by how trial testers handle them. There's a lot more evil to the SAT, like how the company that makes them lies about their effectiveness, and the fact that they actually have a monopoly on all scholastic testing. I wish I could remember the names of the books on this subject, especially one written by an investigative reporter, but its been a while.
First we're squishing cats into jars, and now dogs between panes of glass, my god people, what are we doing to our pets?
Maybe the separation between the cli and the gui is artificially imposed by the window manager and all those windows. Lately I've gotten annoyed by all the dragging, resizing, mousing, and shading that my mouse and hand are perpetrating, and I was thinking, cant we get rid of these windows? Did the invention of the mouse lead us down the wrong path? I'm sure I've never seen a mouse on any of the Star Trek shows.
I though it was discovered that that person in canada didnt have Eidola?
I have a relevant follow up to this astutes persons comment. A long long time ago, memory loss happened too, but this time it was much more severe, and experts correctly blamed it on *writing*. Before common use of reading and writing memory systems were used often and because of them many people had massive capacity to remember. The fact that school ever forced you to remember anything and didnt teach you these ancient memory systems is a incompetence beyond belief, like teaching a ditch digger to dig with a spoon.