My T21 died back in February. I really loved that thing even though it was pretty slow at 1Ghz. I replaced it with a 15" MacBook Pro. I run VMWare fusion on it for those times I need to run a Windows partition. I'm at a point now where I rarely use those Windows sessions. I use the Mac primarily for Java development using Eclipse, JBoss, Tomcat. I had to do some testing on a Vista desktop a couple weeks ago. After that experience, I appreciated my Mac a whole lot more...
I'm certainly no monitor expert, but if you could somehow jam an 8000x6000 resolution into 15" LCD display, wouldn't the refresh rate be extremely low? It sounds like OLED could offer a much higher rate, thus making that sort of resolution useable.
Come on guys. The grandma is obviously exaggerating. This is a lady who expects to turn on her PC, send and receive email, and play Spider Solitaire once in a while. I'm sure she never expected to have to read up on securing her PC. That's not something the average user should have to worry about.
I actually had BASIC for the Atari 2600. It came with 2 controllers that linked together to make a keyboard. I think it had maybe 2-300 bytes of available memory. You had 2 standard "blocks" you could move around the screen. Ah, those were the days...
In the California-Nevada desert, come see 100 autonomous vehicles fight it out across the desert in this all-out Battle Royale. 20 teams of 5 will be pitted against each other in this fight-to-the-death tournament across the desert. Anything goes as these cars try to block, trample and DDos each other to the finish line...
We should take a few hundred volunteers. Send them to these peoples homes and ask them if they'd like to join the OSS community. We can follow-up the visit with a brochure that we'll gladly mail to them. Just to be sure they got a copy, we can stick a xeroxed copy of one in their windshield before we leave.
I'm suprised to see so many So what? comments about this. Last night I was working on my deck with my Thinkpad. It would have really been nice to be able kick back, shift the monitor off to the side, move the keyboard to a more comfortable position and get to work. It's all about comfort. I spent a little extra for a Thinkpad specificly for the keyboard and I'd have no problem spending a few extra bucks on one of these new ones, should they ever be made available. We take it for granted that our cars all have tilt steering wheels and adjustable seats. I'm sure the the original reaction to these ideas were very similar. But then again, it might be fun to drive around in a porche with a Model T-style steering wheel.
That Salon article was pretty depressing. But what's going to happen to these companies once the demand comes back? I mean, you're going to interview with the company and ask to talk to other people in the department to get a feel for the projects and company in general. Assuming these grossly underpaid people are still there, they probably won't paint a pretty picture for you. I just hope that the companies that are taking advantage of their employees now, will have an impossible time keeping them (and finding replacements) when this all clears up.
What happens if the music industry decides to put together one of these groups? Am I going to receive a letter requesting to see the receipts of all the CD's I purchased that have since been converted to MP3's?
Ever hear of Tucker? The Big 3 were so intimitated by the superior quality of the Tucker automobile that they squashed him right out of business. Approaching any automaker wouldn't excactly be my first choice.
I hated math when I was going to school, as a result I chose CIS instead of CS. I didn't like the accounting, and the other business classes that were required for my business minor, but in my mind it was better than the math. To me, CIS wasn't technical enough, although there were some technical courses in the curriculum. I ended up taking the more technical classes like assembler as electives. As a result of my CIS degree, I'm now writing business applications as an independent contractor. I've worked for a few different companies in the 8 years since I graduated and found that my technical skills put me way ahead of my peers who were more business-oriented. I attend project meetings with the high-level managers from time to time, and have to stop myself from busting out laughing when I see that these people view me as a serious business person. It's the coding I care about the most and I get to do that 95% of the time.
I like having the coding variety in my everyday life. I'm able to come home from work and code a few hours in Delphi, C, PHP or whatever without worrying about getting burnt out writing the same types of apps 12 hours a day.
I picked up a copy of Dreamweaver a couple months ago which included HomeSite 4.5. HomeSite supports syntax highlighting for HTML, PHP, etc. I understand Dreamweaver is coming out with version 4.0 soon.
I hearby submit my patent request for the Animated Scripting Subscription and Web Interactive Promotion Engine (A.S.S.W.I.P.E.)
The A.S.S.W.I.P.E. system is a method of uniquely promoting Web-based advertisements through the use of promotional phrases, movement, bright colors and cute fuzzy animals in order to attract customers to other web sites. Utilizing scripts written in one or more programming languages, A.S.S.W.I.P.E.s are placed at different locations on a web page for a given period of time. Customers will respond by clicking any part of the A.S.S.W.I.P.E. which will send that user to another website. Special promotional consideration will be given to those users who are skilled enough to click an animated element located on the A.S.S.W.I.P.E. such as, but not limited to: a hopping bunny, a flying toaster or possibly a cartwheeling monkey. The destination website will capture the source of the A.S.S.W.I.P.E. through the use specialized server software. The website may use this information to compensate those web page sources for the promotional lead. Should the A.S.S.W.I.P.E. fail to attract the user, the status of the A.S.S.W.I.P.E. will be set to Failed to Lure Unsuspecting Sap Here (F.L.U.S.H.)[patent pending]. Such A.S.S.W.I.P.E.s that are F.L.U.S.H.ed from the system shall be placed at the end of the A.S.S.W.I.P.E. queue and the process will begin again using another A.S.S.W.I.P.E..
I don't see this as a petty violation of the law. By using the CueCat and the software provided, your web purchases and inquiries can be tracked by Digital Convergence. Was this recipient informed of this possibility? This 'petty act' is nothing short of sending a spy into the recipients home.
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My T21 died back in February. I really loved that thing even though it was pretty slow at 1Ghz. I replaced it with a 15" MacBook Pro. I run VMWare fusion on it for those times I need to run a Windows partition. I'm at a point now where I rarely use those Windows sessions. I use the Mac primarily for Java development using Eclipse, JBoss, Tomcat. I had to do some testing on a Vista desktop a couple weeks ago. After that experience, I appreciated my Mac a whole lot more...
According to today's Chicago Sun Times article, none of the text was released until today. The entire essay hasn't been released yet. The following article has a few quotes from the essay...- essay27.article
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/360827,CST-NWS
I'm certainly no monitor expert, but if you could somehow jam an 8000x6000 resolution into 15" LCD display, wouldn't the refresh rate be extremely low? It sounds like OLED could offer a much higher rate, thus making that sort of resolution useable.
Come on guys. The grandma is obviously exaggerating. This is a lady who expects to turn on her PC, send and receive email, and play Spider Solitaire once in a while. I'm sure she never expected to have to read up on securing her PC. That's not something the average user should have to worry about.
I really don't see how they can do that with the Easter holiday and all...
I actually had BASIC for the Atari 2600. It came with 2 controllers that linked together to make a keyboard. I think it had maybe 2-300 bytes of available memory. You had 2 standard "blocks" you could move around the screen. Ah, those were the days...
In the California-Nevada desert, come see 100 autonomous vehicles fight it out across the desert in this all-out Battle Royale. 20 teams of 5 will be pitted against each other in this fight-to-the-death tournament across the desert. Anything goes as these cars try to block, trample and DDos each other to the finish line...
We should take a few hundred volunteers. Send them to these peoples homes and ask them if they'd like to join the OSS community. We can follow-up the visit with a brochure that we'll gladly mail to them. Just to be sure they got a copy, we can stick a xeroxed copy of one in their windshield before we leave.
I'm suprised to see so many So what? comments about this. Last night I was working on my deck with my Thinkpad. It would have really been nice to be able kick back, shift the monitor off to the side, move the keyboard to a more comfortable position and get to work. It's all about comfort. I spent a little extra for a Thinkpad specificly for the keyboard and I'd have no problem spending a few extra bucks on one of these new ones, should they ever be made available.
We take it for granted that our cars all have tilt steering wheels and adjustable seats. I'm sure the the original reaction to these ideas were very similar. But then again, it might be fun to drive around in a porche with a Model T-style steering wheel.
for getting me all worked up. My fiance snorts when she laughs. I was hoping one of these books would help her(me?) out...
Carpentry shmarpentry. Hacking is the only art form that fights back. Perhaps it's more like boxing...
That Salon article was pretty depressing. But what's going to happen to these companies once the demand comes back? I mean, you're going to interview with the company and ask to talk to other people in the department to get a feel for the projects and company in general. Assuming these grossly underpaid people are still there, they probably won't paint a pretty picture for you. I just hope that the companies that are taking advantage of their employees now, will have an impossible time keeping them (and finding replacements) when this all clears up.
You mean to tell me that I don't need a 300 baud modem to hack into a production system?
What happens if the music industry decides to put together one of these groups? Am I going to receive a letter requesting to see the receipts of all the CD's I purchased that have since been converted to MP3's?
Hey, isn't next year going to be the last season of The Soprano's? Maybe Bill should approach HBO and pitch a new show...
Ever hear of Tucker? The Big 3 were so intimitated by the superior quality of the Tucker automobile that they squashed him right out of business. Approaching any automaker wouldn't excactly be my first choice.
I hated math when I was going to school, as a result I chose CIS instead of CS. I didn't like the accounting, and the other business classes that were required for my business minor, but in my mind it was better than the math. To me, CIS wasn't technical enough, although there were some technical courses in the curriculum. I ended up taking the more technical classes like assembler as electives. As a result of my CIS degree, I'm now writing business applications as an independent contractor. I've worked for a few different companies in the 8 years since I graduated and found that my technical skills put me way ahead of my peers who were more business-oriented. I attend project meetings with the high-level managers from time to time, and have to stop myself from busting out laughing when I see that these people view me as a serious business person. It's the coding I care about the most and I get to do that 95% of the time. I like having the coding variety in my everyday life. I'm able to come home from work and code a few hours in Delphi, C, PHP or whatever without worrying about getting burnt out writing the same types of apps 12 hours a day.
I picked up a copy of Dreamweaver a couple months ago which included HomeSite 4.5. HomeSite supports syntax highlighting for HTML, PHP, etc. I understand Dreamweaver is coming out with version 4.0 soon.
I hearby submit my patent request for the Animated Scripting Subscription and Web Interactive Promotion Engine (A.S.S.W.I.P.E.) The A.S.S.W.I.P.E. system is a method of uniquely promoting Web-based advertisements through the use of promotional phrases, movement, bright colors and cute fuzzy animals in order to attract customers to other web sites. Utilizing scripts written in one or more programming languages, A.S.S.W.I.P.E.s are placed at different locations on a web page for a given period of time. Customers will respond by clicking any part of the A.S.S.W.I.P.E. which will send that user to another website. Special promotional consideration will be given to those users who are skilled enough to click an animated element located on the A.S.S.W.I.P.E. such as, but not limited to: a hopping bunny, a flying toaster or possibly a cartwheeling monkey. The destination website will capture the source of the A.S.S.W.I.P.E. through the use specialized server software. The website may use this information to compensate those web page sources for the promotional lead. Should the A.S.S.W.I.P.E. fail to attract the user, the status of the A.S.S.W.I.P.E. will be set to Failed to Lure Unsuspecting Sap Here (F.L.U.S.H.)[patent pending]. Such A.S.S.W.I.P.E.s that are F.L.U.S.H.ed from the system shall be placed at the end of the A.S.S.W.I.P.E. queue and the process will begin again using another A.S.S.W.I.P.E. .
I don't see this as a petty violation of the law. By using the CueCat and the software provided, your web purchases and inquiries can be tracked by Digital Convergence. Was this recipient informed of this possibility? This 'petty act' is nothing short of sending a spy into the recipients home.