But in order for it to work for me, here are my requirements:
1. I must be able to make backup copies of stuff. By backup copies I really mean backup copies to protect the content in case disk gets scratched up or something, not something folks put on eMule. 2. I must have guarantee that my content will still play 20 years from now at least 3. I must be able to use it on all my devices, from cell phone to DAP to car stereo. Using it on my devices must not require extra effort. Everyone in my family must also be able to use the content I purchase on their own devices. 4. I must have a guarantee that I can re-acquire content in a format that's supported by future players (with CD I can rip and convert or re-burn onto something else) 5. I must be able to temporarily give my copy of content to my friends, like I do with CDs. I'm OK with losing access to the content while someone else has access to it. 6. No region locking, ever, for anything. If you want to geographically differentiate movies, localize them into foreign languages and omit the English audio track.
Well, then they'll need to write some apps themselves. I, for one, wouldn't mind GPS integration, even if it has to rely on an external bluetooth GPS module. I want to be able to read word files and modify excel spreadsheets. I want to be able to connect to corporate email through Exchange. I want Flash in that Safari. There's quite a bit that I want. I'll still buy one, even without all this stuff, but I'll be sorely disappointed if it doesn't show up within a year from June 2007. This will be my first cell in over six years. I cut the electronic leash in May 2001.
1. Interview processes are retarded and subjective 2. The person you're interviewing might be a GOD in EMACS but he just can't do it on the whiteboard 3. You've already decided in the first 15 seconds whether you like the guy, everything else is just a stupid game 4. Background, how long the guy has been doing what he's doing and what's on his resume usually plays a more important role than what he can do on the whiteboard (see #3). 5. Some people "freeze" in an unusual stress situation. This doesn't necessarily mean they'll freeze in a stressful "work" situation since the nature of stress is different.
Considering all of the above and excluding clinical cases, I'd offer the guy to come a few days later for another round of interviews if he's experiencing a brain freeze, or offer him to write code in the editor of his choice (or on paper).
First and foremost, don't be an asshole. Don't burn bridges. Operate on the assumption that you DON'T KNOW enough about the guy, because you DON'T. OTOH if there's something that you don't like, particularly if you see the guy just doesn't give a shit about the job, don't hesitate to say NO.
Most of this shit could go away if it was easier to fire people. Then you'd be hired and then fired if you don't perform and day-long interviews (which don't really tell anyone anything anyway) would just go away.
I don't know about Java, but you can do much of this in.NET:
1. Enumerate all the subclasses of a given class, or classes that implement a particular interface, including those supplied in plug-ins, at runtime.
** You can, through reflection
2. Call methods by name.
** You can, through reflection
3. Query whether a delegate object implements a given method, allowing for informal protocols.
** You can, through reflection
4. Handle the case where an object tries to call a method on my object that doesn't exist, to allow the simple creation of generic proxy objects.
** That can never happen in C#
5. Add methods to a class, even if it's part of the standard library and I don't have the source code (I can even do this at runtime, although it's messier, and I haven't ever needed to).
** What's wrong with inheritance?
6. Separate the allocation and initialisation of an object into separate methods, to allow different allocation policies to be implemented (e.g. pools for commonly re-cycled objects) transparently to users of the class.
** Not needed in.NET by design. You can't allocate anything on your own.
Don't you freakin' dare badmouthing the Ribbon without first trying it. This is one of those few things that Microsoft got right and spared no expense on implementation. As far as UI is concerned, I'd put it into the top 10 innovations of the last decade, and I do take the word "innovation" very seriously, particularly when it comes to Microsoft. Office 2007 is going to sell big, and OO will have to copy it. Again.
The idea is from 1980's ferchrissakes. And the dashboard is the best implementation of widgets I've seen. I don't WANT them sitting on my screen. I want press and hold F12 to check things out and I want them to disappear when I release the button. That's what Widgets do.
You sound like a guy who's never used Mac OS X for more than 5 minutes. There's life outside Microsoft bubble and it's pretty vibrant and exciting. Macs just are not what they used to be in mid 90's. Mac OS X stomps all over Vista in pretty much all regards that matter to the consumer (business customers are another story). I pity the fools who are too lazy or stupid to check it out.
Except in Vista it doesn't work and on Mac it does. Oh, and Vista is not available yet. Also, in Vista, it doesn't do hibernate at the time when it goes to sleep. So if you sleep your laptop and remove the battery five minutes later, you're royally fucked without a warning.
Sleep mode in current Apple laptops combines hibernate and sleep. If computer remains powered (i.e. battery doesn't go out or doesn't get removed), the wake up is instantaneous. It is literally ready to go at the tap of a key. If, however, there's a power loss, the wake up will take a bit longer because wake up will be from hibernate mode. Just to verify this, right after I finished typing the previous sentence I closed the lid of my laptop (C2D MBP), detached the power cord and removed the battery and waited 30 seconds. I have then put the battery back in and started the laptop. It woke up from hibernate and I continued typing. A nice touch - on wake up it shows you a slightly blurred version of the desktop the way it was when computer went to sleep.
So you get the speed of the "regular" sleep with reliability of hibernate. I say - give your money to the competent, vote with your dollar.
Their index is larger than Google's and I find that their results are not much worse than Google's most of the time. When I can't find something through Google, I go to Yahoo and it usually finds it. Their index of images seems larger as well. What keeps me with Google right now is Gmail, super fast personalized homepage, Groups and the habit.
If you live in the US, you can see that the government is scared shitless of doing direct harm to the people. That's the way it should be. American people, on the other hand, don't give a damn about their government doing harm to other countries and peoples. Less educated folks are gullible like children, they believe everything that is shown on TV. There's still a difference between tricking folks into believing that ridiculous things are being done for their own good and just doing things without asking, tricking or explaining, Politburo style.
If they disallow gun ownership I'll move to the country where it's allowed. You see, lack of gun ownership is very convenient if you want to build a police state. You can ram through unruly crowds on a tank, completely invincible. If, on the other hand, people have guns - persons of power will feel a lot less comfortable after committing large scale atrocities against their own people. This applies both locally and on a federal level. Just because there can be a dude with a sniper rifle sitting on the roof.
As far as I'm concerned, guns are the only remaining guarantee of democratic rights that citizens of this country still have. Guns are a great equalizer of power between those in power and those without.
You'd think that the company with their trend of the stock chart would refrain from "predicting" anything. Predict some shit that will boost your stock price for starters.:-)
I've been looking to buy a Wii console for weeks now. It's not available for sale anywhere, unless you want to pay $600 for it or line up in front of the store at 12AM. Is there some sort of availability tracker online that actually shows anything other than "out of stock"?
Soooo, what was your point again? At least Gnome devs aren't fucking everyone's brain with the word "innovation". This is not to say there isn't any - there is. But one must be careful using the word.:-)
The argument would be a lot easier if I didn't actually run RC2. Applications not compiled with DPI-aware manifest look like a steaming pile of shit when scaled due to blur. And that, of course, includes the vast majority of your "old" apps, and even some "new" apps as well, even the ones that ship with Vista - e.g. Calendar. Even apps that _are_ compiled as DPI aware show broken UI and ugly icons in places. I didn't even have to dig deep for this. If most of your apps are not DPI aware, you'll probably be better off running your LCD at a non-native resolution. Which kinda defeats the purpose.
It remains to be seen what Apple's implementation will look like, but if you know Steve Jobs at all he'd rather eat broken glass than release something that doesn't look good.
Another feature stolen from the Mac. Of course a lot of people have never used Macs (pity on them), so they'll never know that a ton of other things that Microsoft has "innovated" in Vista existed (sometimes for decades!) on the Mac.
>> searching is blazing on indexed drives
Compared to what? I find Vista built in search to be utterly lacking compared to, say, Copernic (PC) or Spotlight (on the Mac). I mean, they can't even rip off Spotlight properly. If you're going to offer "search as you type" thing, you better implement it in a way that makes it responsive. The one in Vista chokes immediately after you start typing. And then you sit there and wait for results.
I design and build guitar amplifiers for fun. My highest accomplishment so far was a three-channel preamp. As a rule I reuse the power amp between preamps (50W 6L6 tubes) except when I build low-power ones. Interestingly enough, for any complex (i.e. more than one channel) mass-produced amp it's cheaper to buy the original version most of the time. It doesn't seem that way when you're just starting out though. And if you're thinking about building yours, here's a word of advice - output transformer and speaker are two most important parts in any amp. No matter what you do in electronics before output transformer, the transformer defines at least 60% of the amp's "character" for any given gain. Don't buy Hammond output transformers if you want thick, smooth distortion. They're hi-fi, you won't get it.
I, for one, welcome this tax, but after paying it I'll fire up eMule AND BitTorrent and download 80GB of music, since I've already paid for my sins. See, you can't have it both ways. Either you don't charge this tax or I don't pay for music. It's that simple. For the record, my 4GB nano doesn't have a single illegal tune on it. I buy CDs and rip them into 192kbps VBR AAC files. Oh, and if Universal goes titsup tomorrow - I don't give a shit. I don't listen to any of their artists.
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Bar none. I'd choose a Geo Metro over this.
But in order for it to work for me, here are my requirements:
1. I must be able to make backup copies of stuff. By backup copies I really mean backup copies to protect the content in case disk gets scratched up or something, not something folks put on eMule.
2. I must have guarantee that my content will still play 20 years from now at least
3. I must be able to use it on all my devices, from cell phone to DAP to car stereo. Using it on my devices must not require extra effort. Everyone in my family must also be able to use the content I purchase on their own devices.
4. I must have a guarantee that I can re-acquire content in a format that's supported by future players (with CD I can rip and convert or re-burn onto something else)
5. I must be able to temporarily give my copy of content to my friends, like I do with CDs. I'm OK with losing access to the content while someone else has access to it.
6. No region locking, ever, for anything. If you want to geographically differentiate movies, localize them into foreign languages and omit the English audio track.
Well, then they'll need to write some apps themselves. I, for one, wouldn't mind GPS integration, even if it has to rely on an external bluetooth GPS module. I want to be able to read word files and modify excel spreadsheets. I want to be able to connect to corporate email through Exchange. I want Flash in that Safari. There's quite a bit that I want. I'll still buy one, even without all this stuff, but I'll be sorely disappointed if it doesn't show up within a year from June 2007. This will be my first cell in over six years. I cut the electronic leash in May 2001.
1. Interview processes are retarded and subjective
2. The person you're interviewing might be a GOD in EMACS but he just can't do it on the whiteboard
3. You've already decided in the first 15 seconds whether you like the guy, everything else is just a stupid game
4. Background, how long the guy has been doing what he's doing and what's on his resume usually plays a more important role than what he can do on the whiteboard (see #3).
5. Some people "freeze" in an unusual stress situation. This doesn't necessarily mean they'll freeze in a stressful "work" situation since the nature of stress is different.
Considering all of the above and excluding clinical cases, I'd offer the guy to come a few days later for another round of interviews if he's experiencing a brain freeze, or offer him to write code in the editor of his choice (or on paper).
First and foremost, don't be an asshole. Don't burn bridges. Operate on the assumption that you DON'T KNOW enough about the guy, because you DON'T. OTOH if there's something that you don't like, particularly if you see the guy just doesn't give a shit about the job, don't hesitate to say NO.
Most of this shit could go away if it was easier to fire people. Then you'd be hired and then fired if you don't perform and day-long interviews (which don't really tell anyone anything anyway) would just go away.
I don't know about Java, but you can do much of this in .NET:
.NET by design. You can't allocate anything on your own.
1. Enumerate all the subclasses of a given class, or classes that implement a particular interface, including those supplied in plug-ins, at runtime.
** You can, through reflection
2. Call methods by name.
** You can, through reflection
3. Query whether a delegate object implements a given method, allowing for informal protocols.
** You can, through reflection
4. Handle the case where an object tries to call a method on my object that doesn't exist, to allow the simple creation of generic proxy objects.
** That can never happen in C#
5. Add methods to a class, even if it's part of the standard library and I don't have the source code (I can even do this at runtime, although it's messier, and I haven't ever needed to).
** What's wrong with inheritance?
6. Separate the allocation and initialisation of an object into separate methods, to allow different allocation policies to be implemented (e.g. pools for commonly re-cycled objects) transparently to users of the class.
** Not needed in
I call bullshit.
Don't you freakin' dare badmouthing the Ribbon without first trying it. This is one of those few things that Microsoft got right and spared no expense on implementation. As far as UI is concerned, I'd put it into the top 10 innovations of the last decade, and I do take the word "innovation" very seriously, particularly when it comes to Microsoft. Office 2007 is going to sell big, and OO will have to copy it. Again.
Brown is nice as long as it's chocolate brown. But when it's turd brown covered in snot green, that's where I draw the line. :-)
Dude, can we just kill the "who did widgets first" argument forever?
n tosh&story=Desk_Ornaments.txt
Here: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Maci
The idea is from 1980's ferchrissakes. And the dashboard is the best implementation of widgets I've seen. I don't WANT them sitting on my screen. I want press and hold F12 to check things out and I want them to disappear when I release the button. That's what Widgets do.
You sound like a guy who's never used Mac OS X for more than 5 minutes. There's life outside Microsoft bubble and it's pretty vibrant and exciting. Macs just are not what they used to be in mid 90's. Mac OS X stomps all over Vista in pretty much all regards that matter to the consumer (business customers are another story). I pity the fools who are too lazy or stupid to check it out.
...said Nemus, after taking a sip of his $4 coffee.
That's exactly what he said. Open it up and it's ready to go. If your battery goes out when it's sleeping, you resume from hibernate.
Except in Vista it doesn't work and on Mac it does. Oh, and Vista is not available yet. Also, in Vista, it doesn't do hibernate at the time when it goes to sleep. So if you sleep your laptop and remove the battery five minutes later, you're royally fucked without a warning.
Sleep mode in current Apple laptops combines hibernate and sleep. If computer remains powered (i.e. battery doesn't go out or doesn't get removed), the wake up is instantaneous. It is literally ready to go at the tap of a key. If, however, there's a power loss, the wake up will take a bit longer because wake up will be from hibernate mode. Just to verify this, right after I finished typing the previous sentence I closed the lid of my laptop (C2D MBP), detached the power cord and removed the battery and waited 30 seconds. I have then put the battery back in and started the laptop. It woke up from hibernate and I continued typing. A nice touch - on wake up it shows you a slightly blurred version of the desktop the way it was when computer went to sleep.
So you get the speed of the "regular" sleep with reliability of hibernate. I say - give your money to the competent, vote with your dollar.
"Severe resource constraints"? Since when a datacenter with half a million servers in it is called "resource constraints"?
Their index is larger than Google's and I find that their results are not much worse than Google's most of the time. When I can't find something through Google, I go to Yahoo and it usually finds it. Their index of images seems larger as well. What keeps me with Google right now is Gmail, super fast personalized homepage, Groups and the habit.
If you live in the US, you can see that the government is scared shitless of doing direct harm to the people. That's the way it should be. American people, on the other hand, don't give a damn about their government doing harm to other countries and peoples. Less educated folks are gullible like children, they believe everything that is shown on TV. There's still a difference between tricking folks into believing that ridiculous things are being done for their own good and just doing things without asking, tricking or explaining, Politburo style.
If they disallow gun ownership I'll move to the country where it's allowed. You see, lack of gun ownership is very convenient if you want to build a police state. You can ram through unruly crowds on a tank, completely invincible. If, on the other hand, people have guns - persons of power will feel a lot less comfortable after committing large scale atrocities against their own people. This applies both locally and on a federal level. Just because there can be a dude with a sniper rifle sitting on the roof.
As far as I'm concerned, guns are the only remaining guarantee of democratic rights that citizens of this country still have. Guns are a great equalizer of power between those in power and those without.
You'd think that the company with their trend of the stock chart would refrain from "predicting" anything. Predict some shit that will boost your stock price for starters. :-)
I've been looking to buy a Wii console for weeks now. It's not available for sale anywhere, unless you want to pay $600 for it or line up in front of the store at 12AM. Is there some sort of availability tracker online that actually shows anything other than "out of stock"?
Soooo, what was your point again? At least Gnome devs aren't fucking everyone's brain with the word "innovation". This is not to say there isn't any - there is. But one must be careful using the word. :-)
The argument would be a lot easier if I didn't actually run RC2. Applications not compiled with DPI-aware manifest look like a steaming pile of shit when scaled due to blur. And that, of course, includes the vast majority of your "old" apps, and even some "new" apps as well, even the ones that ship with Vista - e.g. Calendar. Even apps that _are_ compiled as DPI aware show broken UI and ugly icons in places. I didn't even have to dig deep for this. If most of your apps are not DPI aware, you'll probably be better off running your LCD at a non-native resolution. Which kinda defeats the purpose.
It remains to be seen what Apple's implementation will look like, but if you know Steve Jobs at all he'd rather eat broken glass than release something that doesn't look good.
>> highlights the filename but not the extension
Another feature stolen from the Mac. Of course a lot of people have never used Macs (pity on them), so they'll never know that a ton of other things that Microsoft has "innovated" in Vista existed (sometimes for decades!) on the Mac.
>> searching is blazing on indexed drives
Compared to what? I find Vista built in search to be utterly lacking compared to, say, Copernic (PC) or Spotlight (on the Mac). I mean, they can't even rip off Spotlight properly. If you're going to offer "search as you type" thing, you better implement it in a way that makes it responsive. The one in Vista chokes immediately after you start typing. And then you sit there and wait for results.
It'll feature resolution-independent graphics. It'll take Microsoft about 5 years more to match that.
I design and build guitar amplifiers for fun. My highest accomplishment so far was a three-channel preamp. As a rule I reuse the power amp between preamps (50W 6L6 tubes) except when I build low-power ones. Interestingly enough, for any complex (i.e. more than one channel) mass-produced amp it's cheaper to buy the original version most of the time. It doesn't seem that way when you're just starting out though. And if you're thinking about building yours, here's a word of advice - output transformer and speaker are two most important parts in any amp. No matter what you do in electronics before output transformer, the transformer defines at least 60% of the amp's "character" for any given gain. Don't buy Hammond output transformers if you want thick, smooth distortion. They're hi-fi, you won't get it.
I, for one, welcome this tax, but after paying it I'll fire up eMule AND BitTorrent and download 80GB of music, since I've already paid for my sins. See, you can't have it both ways. Either you don't charge this tax or I don't pay for music. It's that simple. For the record, my 4GB nano doesn't have a single illegal tune on it. I buy CDs and rip them into 192kbps VBR AAC files. Oh, and if Universal goes titsup tomorrow - I don't give a shit. I don't listen to any of their artists.