... what book would you bring, what CD would you bring, and what language OTHER than Python would you be using (assuming that your computer suvives the sand and wet.)
I think what's important though is that it's probably easier and cheaper to not have to worry about customizing code and hardware for things like security systems and microwaves... perhaps a more complicated chipset running xxxx OS would be cheaper to put in a microwave even for a microwave's hum-drum tasks. Although it's more expensive circutry than is required, because it can be the same chipset used in security systems, cars, etc., it's going to be mass produced and the cost will go down some. Plus, developers can move across from microwaves to car ECM very easily since they're used to working with xxxx OS... they don't have to worry about what's underneath.
Your're right... the statement they made about Tron that seems to suggest Tron was made using only hand-animation is incorrect. It was one of the first movies done with CG sequences. I'm sure not all of them were CG but quite a few were.
Oh great, it has ps and kill. That's a reason to buy, for sure. Does this mean its fully multitasking? And does this mean it has apps that are unstable to the point you would ever have to kill them? Seems like a pretty useless device to me... I'd hate to spend alot of time inputing some notes or addresses just to have to kill my process and lose all my hard work. And ps? I don't have time to worry about what process is running. But that's just me.
. While this may be a win for us, many other organizations are attempting the same thing.
Although I may very well have the same opinion YOU do, speak for yourself. Slashdot isn't a hive mind, where all think alike, swaying with the tides of new Linux distributions and slashing back as a unit at Microsoft innovation... or are "we"?
On #3: you've missed the point of doing impressions. You want to convince people that you're even more real than the real person. Carvey does just that. Did Bush ever say "Wouldn't be prudent?" Nope. But I'm sure he's convinced millions of people that that's a Bush line. He's more Bush than Bush ever was. Now that's an impression.
Thanks, but that's not the vulnerability the slashdot article was talking about. I meant the mime types one... what are the "unusual" mime types that cause IE so much grief?
I'm looking into moving to the southern Idaho/Boise area, and have contacted a few apartments about the possibilities of cable and/or DSL connections.
Two places told me they offer broadband through a company called Tsunami Broadband... is this DSL, cable, or is it something else? Has anyone else tried this service? A lady at one apartment mentioned something about antennas... what the hell is this thing??!!:)
Anyone ever heard of this? Is it a DSL or cable technology... or is it something else? Anyway, they offer it in apartment buildings and offices here in Idaho, and I have the chance to get an apartment that has it. Should I?
But if the company has a limited amount of resources, who's going to be fired? The CD player team. It's more important that the core OS work correctly... you can always go out and buy a CD player if you want one. The same's true for OS X... the CD player's an APP which will come in time, not an OS feature at all.
Your analogy is self defeating... don't you want the transmission to work? It's much more important than having a CD player... regardless of whether two different teams work on each component. Perhaps the CD player team was diverted to improve the transmission to make sure it works...
Regardless, it doesn't matter anyway. I don't think Apple's doing a very good job of making sure the transmission works... this last-week bug fixing stuff never works... aren't they going to test the effect of those bug fixes?... to make sure they didn't introduce any new bugs? OS X should have been fully frozen a long time ago.
What computers would those be? I think the parent post to yours was refering to preemptive multitasking, which is something that that MacOS has never done. Windows has done it since Win95. As far as multitasking goes, MacOS has some support, but usually the applications have to take it upon themselves to do it (i.e. Photoshop filters running in the "background."
I think you may be confusing having multiple programs open at the same time with multitasking... it's not the same thing.
Actually, you can hook to external code with Java. It supports calling native methods. Take a look at JNI... it does exactly what I think you're talking about.
I thought it was interesting that when asked "in what situations would people use Java instead of Python?", Van Rossum didn't even mention the cross platform application of Java as being a reason to use Java.
I don't know much about Python... but is it very cross-platform? Is there a reason you'd use Python over Java if you wanted to run your application in a few different environments?
There's a logical third group... those that think that even this patent's OK. I'm in the that third group. I think One-Click shopping is a novel idea that Amazon had every right to patent. But I also think that the patent's scope was too broad, most likely because of overzealous lawyering.
Hasn't anyone here ever had an idea you thought was unique, just to find out that it wasn't unique after all? Imagine if you had lawyers as agents for your idea, and they went spreading patents (and lawsuits) about vague abstractions of your idea.
The justice system will deal with Amazon's lawyers in time. And after its dealt with, Amazon's patent will be refined to be be detailed enough to describe the parts of the One-Click system that they use that make it unique and useful.
Why does everyone on Slashdot insist on jumping down Amazon's throat about this? It seems like every other story has something to do with it. If it was your idea, would you want everyone attacking you and your business? Think about it... and then go fire your lawyers if you have any before they do this to you.:)
I believe that's what it was. I believe he brought them his "web receipt" showing how much the website said the total was, and told them that Egghead might try to demand additional charges to his credit card. Nothing ever happened like that... Egghead did contact him to ask him to return the items after he already had them in his possession. But they never tried to charge him extra.
I wonder what the real motivation was for Egghead's using the price checking system. Did they have prices changed in this way, or was it to prevent incompetant marking of prices?
A few years ago I had a friend who bought 5 digital cameras off Egghead for some amount between $4 and $5 each. It was just a price mismarking... he didn't hack thier website or anything. He was just looking for a camera and found a REALLY good deal! Of course he let his bank know about the purchase in case Egghead tried to come after him to get him to cough up $400-$500 for each camera instead... but they never did, and he kept (well, OK, he sold 4 of) the cameras. Was this an isolated incident? Perhaps Egghead was worried that they would slip up again?
No, what I am trying to say is that having to have 3 copies of everything you own just so you can have it with you at all times even though you don't own the rights to do so is materialistic and reflects badly on our society. The RIAA's motivations have nothing to do with my commentary.
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And the creators of South Park were INSPIRED by Python's cartoon style.
... what book would you bring, what CD would you bring, and what language OTHER than Python would you be using (assuming that your computer suvives the sand and wet.)
I think what's important though is that it's probably easier and cheaper to not have to worry about customizing code and hardware for things like security systems and microwaves... perhaps a more complicated chipset running xxxx OS would be cheaper to put in a microwave even for a microwave's hum-drum tasks. Although it's more expensive circutry than is required, because it can be the same chipset used in security systems, cars, etc., it's going to be mass produced and the cost will go down some. Plus, developers can move across from microwaves to car ECM very easily since they're used to working with xxxx OS... they don't have to worry about what's underneath.
What exactly do you mean? My friend was playing it 4 days ago. And it is quite good.
Your're right... the statement they made about Tron that seems to suggest Tron was made using only hand-animation is incorrect. It was one of the first movies done with CG sequences. I'm sure not all of them were CG but quite a few were.
Oh great, it has ps and kill. That's a reason to buy, for sure. Does this mean its fully multitasking? And does this mean it has apps that are unstable to the point you would ever have to kill them? Seems like a pretty useless device to me... I'd hate to spend alot of time inputing some notes or addresses just to have to kill my process and lose all my hard work. And ps? I don't have time to worry about what process is running. But that's just me.
That was awesome. Thanks for brightening my day with that odd observation. Funnier than any lame MS joke by far.
. While this may be a win for us, many other organizations are attempting the same thing.
Although I may very well have the same opinion YOU do, speak for yourself. Slashdot isn't a hive mind, where all think alike, swaying with the tides of new Linux distributions and slashing back as a unit at Microsoft innovation... or are "we"?
Well, IE 6 is only a beta, so you can't expect that kind of support anyway.
On #3: you've missed the point of doing impressions. You want to convince people that you're even more real than the real person. Carvey does just that. Did Bush ever say "Wouldn't be prudent?" Nope. But I'm sure he's convinced millions of people that that's a Bush line. He's more Bush than Bush ever was. Now that's an impression.
Thanks, but that's not the vulnerability the slashdot article was talking about. I meant the mime types one... what are the "unusual" mime types that cause IE so much grief?
text/html? 345% more seriously, does anyone have any idea what these "unusual" mime-types are? I have to see this for myself to believe it.
You've hit the nail on the head. Everyone here (with the exception of a few, of course) is in it for themselves and no one else. Sad world.
I'm looking into moving to the southern Idaho/Boise area, and have contacted a few apartments about the possibilities of cable and/or DSL connections.
:)
Two places told me they offer broadband through a company called Tsunami Broadband... is this DSL, cable, or is it something else? Has anyone else tried this service? A lady at one apartment mentioned something about antennas... what the hell is this thing??!!
thanks....
Anyone ever heard of this? Is it a DSL or cable technology... or is it something else? Anyway, they offer it in apartment buildings and offices here in Idaho, and I have the chance to get an apartment that has it. Should I?
But if the company has a limited amount of resources, who's going to be fired? The CD player team. It's more important that the core OS work correctly... you can always go out and buy a CD player if you want one. The same's true for OS X... the CD player's an APP which will come in time, not an OS feature at all.
Your analogy is self defeating... don't you want the transmission to work? It's much more important than having a CD player... regardless of whether two different teams work on each component. Perhaps the CD player team was diverted to improve the transmission to make sure it works...
Regardless, it doesn't matter anyway. I don't think Apple's doing a very good job of making sure the transmission works... this last-week bug fixing stuff never works... aren't they going to test the effect of those bug fixes?... to make sure they didn't introduce any new bugs? OS X should have been fully frozen a long time ago.
What computers would those be? I think the parent post to yours was refering to preemptive multitasking, which is something that that MacOS has never done. Windows has done it since Win95. As far as multitasking goes, MacOS has some support, but usually the applications have to take it upon themselves to do it (i.e. Photoshop filters running in the "background."
I think you may be confusing having multiple programs open at the same time with multitasking... it's not the same thing.
The PalmOS version is cool... is there a BSD version?... I didn't see it on the versions page.
Actually, you can hook to external code with Java. It supports calling native methods. Take a look at JNI... it does exactly what I think you're talking about.
I thought it was interesting that when asked "in what situations would people use Java instead of Python?", Van Rossum didn't even mention the cross platform application of Java as being a reason to use Java.
I don't know much about Python... but is it very cross-platform? Is there a reason you'd use Python over Java if you wanted to run your application in a few different environments?
There's a logical third group... those that think that even this patent's OK. I'm in the that third group. I think One-Click shopping is a novel idea that Amazon had every right to patent. But I also think that the patent's scope was too broad, most likely because of overzealous lawyering.
:)
Hasn't anyone here ever had an idea you thought was unique, just to find out that it wasn't unique after all? Imagine if you had lawyers as agents for your idea, and they went spreading patents (and lawsuits) about vague abstractions of your idea.
The justice system will deal with Amazon's lawyers in time. And after its dealt with, Amazon's patent will be refined to be be detailed enough to describe the parts of the One-Click system that they use that make it unique and useful.
Why does everyone on Slashdot insist on jumping down Amazon's throat about this? It seems like every other story has something to do with it. If it was your idea, would you want everyone attacking you and your business? Think about it... and then go fire your lawyers if you have any before they do this to you.
I believe that's what it was. I believe he brought them his "web receipt" showing how much the website said the total was, and told them that Egghead might try to demand additional charges to his credit card. Nothing ever happened like that... Egghead did contact him to ask him to return the items after he already had them in his possession. But they never tried to charge him extra.
I wonder what the real motivation was for Egghead's using the price checking system. Did they have prices changed in this way, or was it to prevent incompetant marking of prices?
A few years ago I had a friend who bought 5 digital cameras off Egghead for some amount between $4 and $5 each. It was just a price mismarking... he didn't hack thier website or anything. He was just looking for a camera and found a REALLY good deal! Of course he let his bank know about the purchase in case Egghead tried to come after him to get him to cough up $400-$500 for each camera instead... but they never did, and he kept (well, OK, he sold 4 of) the cameras. Was this an isolated incident? Perhaps Egghead was worried that they would slip up again?
No, what I am trying to say is that having to have 3 copies of everything you own just so you can have it with you at all times even though you don't own the rights to do so is materialistic and reflects badly on our society. The RIAA's motivations have nothing to do with my commentary.