Algorithms in C, volumes 1 through 5. Absolutely the best comp sci book out there. One page of Knuth makes me sleepy. Sedgewick reads like a good detective story - you can't put it down.
thinks too much about himself. That's why he's not even a program manager, he's a technical evangelist. When you're not good enough to produce at least something (specs), but have been with the company for a long time - that's the position they give you at MSFT.
Don't judge Microsoft by what he says. There are some brilliant minds there. There are mediocre ones as well (as Robert clearly demonstrates). There are tons of people with iPods also, and some with apple stickers on their cars even. Nobody is hiding anything. When Microsoft releases a product that doesn't suck, I'm the first to buy it. Trouble is, that doesn't happen often, for one reason or another.
Just limit their lifespan to, say, 3 years, and don't give out patents for ridiculous shit (one-click shopping anyone?) and there you go - problem solved. Innovators can profit from their innovations, everybody wins.
Where's an open source product that I could use to talk from Mac OS X (for example) to someone using Windows or Linux PC? I'm fine with having to set up the firewall just right on both ends (to avoid using the server in the middle and make this truly P2P).
I've searched everywhere and it looks like there's no such thing available. I wonder why?
That other companies make LCD displays using panels that didn't meet the Apple quality standard. Reading about QC issues with Dell monitors on all kinds of forums, I think he wasn't lying.
Held and tortured for years without any freedoms whatsoever. Headscarf? Boo fucking hoo. Nazi websites? Try to find a book mocking the black people and Native Americans in your nearest Barnes and Noble.
TV channels ALREADY only show what government tells them to show. Did you see any injured iraqis on TV? And there are tens of thousands of them. Or did you think that "laser guided" bunker busters only blow up the bunkers?
Some newspapers exercise "self censorship" as well. This is just so fucking wrong! And flag burning should in fact be illegal, I think.
Also, do you seriously think that the government doesn't have the means to prevent certain information to get published on the Internet? Do you _seriously_ think so, poor naive lads? I mean, come on, one day you publish something and next day you wake up at Guantanamo bay handcuffed to a railing with a bag over your head.
Funny thing is, Americans sincerely believe that they enjoy the most freedoms of any country in the world. For the time being, I think, the freedom has moved to Europe and Canada. US of A aren't as shiny an ideal of freedom as they once were.
The storage model of Word/Excel/etc. is based around Structured Storage - the storage standard that MSFT includes with every god damn COM toolkit they distribute (including ATL7), and which they've been pushing really hard in the 90's for wider adoption. Nobody cared about it back then, and then XML came in and people started to care even less. The point is, the structure of Word files is not as closed as some would like to think. It's the OLE objects (which in turn use structured storage as well) that make things difficult. But putting their data as binary blobs within XML ain't gonna fix that.
BTW, the word on the street is, the next version of Office will save all its files in XML. Yep, that's right. XML will be default. Now whether or not it will be compatible with XML Office 2003 understands - that's another question.
federal "pound me in the ass" prison? I'm asking because I'm hoping it's the latter. These motherfuckers deserve _harsh_ sentences for what they do. I have no mercy towards them.
Remember when TiBooks came out they've made all other notebooks look old and tired? Well all the other notebooks still look old and tired compared to TiBook, but Apple will have to release something that's better by leaps and bounds. Something that blows TiBook G4 out of the water completely. I'm curious as to what it will be.:0)
And I don't know anything about their support folks because I never needed support. That's good enough for me. However, if speakeasy provided a fixed IP in their $39.95 offering, I'd gladly pay this additional $120 a year to have it.
I'll wait until Tiger comes out. They'll be shipping Tiger with this thing, and I'll save $129 by not buying it down the road. In fact I'll save $79 more because it comes with iLife '05 which my iMac G5 doesn't have yet (and yeah, I'm gonna put Tiger on it, too). There you go, $500 computer, $200 in savings on software.
I'd be all over their offerings. $39.95 is just too much for low-end ADSL these days. Everyone else is offering it for $29.95. They should at least throw in a fixed IP into the deal to make it attractive.
You don't sound like a guy who was "pushed" into management. You sound like a guy who wanted for his management to "push" him into management. There's a subtle difference.
My thinking exactly.:0) With a population of 1.3B, they'll run out of money much sooner than they'll run out of people. Besides, reducing the population is one of their strategic goals anyway.:0)
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They try to sell you their "ipod killers" and digital music. Someone, please, hit them with a clue-by-four.
Algorithms in C, volumes 1 through 5. Absolutely the best comp sci book out there. One page of Knuth makes me sleepy. Sedgewick reads like a good detective story - you can't put it down.
19th century, that is
There was a widespread belief among physicists that there's nothing more to discover in physics. They were wrong. This guy is also wrong.
He'll get over it. I was pretty enthusiastic during my first year there, too. Then the whole Dilbert-likeness of it all started driving me insane.
thinks too much about himself. That's why he's not even a program manager, he's a technical evangelist. When you're not good enough to produce at least something (specs), but have been with the company for a long time - that's the position they give you at MSFT.
Don't judge Microsoft by what he says. There are some brilliant minds there. There are mediocre ones as well (as Robert clearly demonstrates). There are tons of people with iPods also, and some with apple stickers on their cars even. Nobody is hiding anything. When Microsoft releases a product that doesn't suck, I'm the first to buy it. Trouble is, that doesn't happen often, for one reason or another.
Just limit their lifespan to, say, 3 years, and don't give out patents for ridiculous shit (one-click shopping anyone?) and there you go - problem solved. Innovators can profit from their innovations, everybody wins.
Where's an open source product that I could use to talk from Mac OS X (for example) to someone using Windows or Linux PC? I'm fine with having to set up the firewall just right on both ends (to avoid using the server in the middle and make this truly P2P).
I've searched everywhere and it looks like there's no such thing available. I wonder why?
That other companies make LCD displays using panels that didn't meet the Apple quality standard. Reading about QC issues with Dell monitors on all kinds of forums, I think he wasn't lying.
Plus, Dell monitors look like ass.
Regular use of keyboards could damage the wrists. Oh, wait...
Held and tortured for years without any freedoms whatsoever. Headscarf? Boo fucking hoo. Nazi websites? Try to find a book mocking the black people and Native Americans in your nearest Barnes and Noble.
TV channels ALREADY only show what government tells them to show. Did you see any injured iraqis on TV? And there are tens of thousands of them. Or did you think that "laser guided" bunker busters only blow up the bunkers?
Some newspapers exercise "self censorship" as well. This is just so fucking wrong! And flag burning should in fact be illegal, I think.
Also, do you seriously think that the government doesn't have the means to prevent certain information to get published on the Internet? Do you _seriously_ think so, poor naive lads? I mean, come on, one day you publish something and next day you wake up at Guantanamo bay handcuffed to a railing with a bag over your head.
Funny thing is, Americans sincerely believe that they enjoy the most freedoms of any country in the world. For the time being, I think, the freedom has moved to Europe and Canada. US of A aren't as shiny an ideal of freedom as they once were.
Just put it into your own *.pst after two weeks. There you go, problem solved. They can delete anything they want. You already have your own copy.
The storage model of Word/Excel/etc. is based around Structured Storage - the storage standard that MSFT includes with every god damn COM toolkit they distribute (including ATL7), and which they've been pushing really hard in the 90's for wider adoption. Nobody cared about it back then, and then XML came in and people started to care even less. The point is, the structure of Word files is not as closed as some would like to think. It's the OLE objects (which in turn use structured storage as well) that make things difficult. But putting their data as binary blobs within XML ain't gonna fix that.
BTW, the word on the street is, the next version of Office will save all its files in XML. Yep, that's right. XML will be default. Now whether or not it will be compatible with XML Office 2003 understands - that's another question.
And move out of your parents' basement.
federal "pound me in the ass" prison? I'm asking because I'm hoping it's the latter. These motherfuckers deserve _harsh_ sentences for what they do. I have no mercy towards them.
Sex, drugs and rock and roll. They shoot people for using drugs, and sex can be dangerous as well if it results in pregnancy.
Remember when TiBooks came out they've made all other notebooks look old and tired? Well all the other notebooks still look old and tired compared to TiBook, but Apple will have to release something that's better by leaps and bounds. Something that blows TiBook G4 out of the water completely. I'm curious as to what it will be. :0)
And I don't know anything about their support folks because I never needed support. That's good enough for me. However, if speakeasy provided a fixed IP in their $39.95 offering, I'd gladly pay this additional $120 a year to have it.
I'll wait until Tiger comes out. They'll be shipping Tiger with this thing, and I'll save $129 by not buying it down the road. In fact I'll save $79 more because it comes with iLife '05 which my iMac G5 doesn't have yet (and yeah, I'm gonna put Tiger on it, too). There you go, $500 computer, $200 in savings on software.
I'd be all over their offerings. $39.95 is just too much for low-end ADSL these days. Everyone else is offering it for $29.95. They should at least throw in a fixed IP into the deal to make it attractive.
You don't sound like a guy who was "pushed" into management. You sound like a guy who wanted for his management to "push" him into management. There's a subtle difference.
My thinking exactly. :0) With a population of 1.3B, they'll run out of money much sooner than they'll run out of people. Besides, reducing the population is one of their strategic goals anyway. :0)
If Devs are unwilling to work for free, corp will be unwilling to give their stuff away. They've paid for it, after all.
To write and document those APIs. So can you give me one reason why they should give them away for free?