Not exactly a program name, but not totally off-topic.
...back in the day...
While taking Beginning Pascal, we were learning about giving variables and functions meaningful names. Part of the lesson was that, if you couldn't give a function a short, meaningful name, it was probably doing too much all by itself or its actual task was unclear.
Anyway, it was the intention of one of my fellow students to name his main function (the one that did all the work of his program) "do it". Nice and short and, yes, it describes what the function does (that being "it"). Obviously, no spaces allowed, so this ended up as "Doit".
Instructor upon reading this source code: "What the hell is a doit?" (sounds like "voit")
I've liked that indentifier ever since, and always pronounce it sounding like "voit".
Somebody please mod the parent back down, -1, Wrong.
Jaguar is only Mac OS X 10.2. When you buy it, you don't get 9. Mac OS 9 isn't bundled with Jaguar at all. You do get the Classic environment (that's part of X), but you don't "boot" Classic - that's nonsensical - you boot 9 in Classic. Classic != Mac OS 9. Classic is X's hardware abstraction which will boot 9.
And then, once Windows is running nicely on your x86-based Mac, developers won't need to write Mac software anymore. And then, well, then Apple's in the same business as the rest of the PC makers, and probably dies.
Oops.
And that's the problem with Mac on x86, even in the case where you still have to buy Apple's hardware. You're going to expect that it run your Windows software (it's got an x86 CPU in it!). As soon as that happens, developers start telling their Mac customers, just use the Windows version on your Mac. Little by little, Mac OS goes away and Apple with it.
Yes, the optical mouse just sends "movement" information, but it might be possible to write a driver that would recognize a special, purposely-erroneous set of movement data and then begin interpreting the following data as barcode information which it (the driver) then, somehow, types like a keyboard. It would probably need to be a mouse/keyboard driver pair.
we charge $55 just to check what the codes are for
You know the lift(s) you have in your garage? Those are pretty expensive, too. How much do you charge to lift the car if you have to get underneath it?
You're right it's a tough challenge for them. I don't believe they're up to it, but that's neither here nor there.
It's not our job to figure out what they should do to remain profitable. Hell, if it was our job, we'd take the easy way out and agree not to skip the commercials!
They want (need?) eveything to stay as it is. The point is, stuff changes regardless. They won't be able to stop it.
This is like the Horse and Buggy Manufacturers Association trying to get internal combustion engines outlawed, back in the day. It ain't gonna happen. They need to read the writing on the wall and adapt their business or die.
George Lucas is an out-of-touch-with-the-times idiot.Clearly (you can tell by comparing the movies' grosses!), Anakin Skywalker should have lived in New York and been bitten by a spider. Oh yeah, and it would have been less complicated if he had also fought and defeated Darth Vader at the end of the film.
The point is, since you will always need to store (some) stuff in a lossless fashion (like backups), gains in lossy compression do not cancel gains in media capacity (as the original parent seemed to imply).
With data compression getting better and better, and disks getting bigger and bigger
Is compression really getting better and better? MPEG is getting smaller, but the quality is probably going down at the same time (however imperceptably). Lossless compression, which is what you need for data (= backups), is probably not getting better at the same rate that the disks are getting bigger.
Until writable DVD's come along
You can buy DVD burners right now for like $500. They've been available for more than a year.
Hey, if we're so gone in 10,000 years that we can't understand "don't go in there, radiation!" in 10 or more languages and pictures, then I have to wonder, who are we warning?
My guess: the earth is populated by ugly, chest-bursting aliens who invaded and conquered us. I say, let the evil aliens in there. It's like a giant booby-trap.
Don't fret about it. I guarantee you this guy is not living a happy life. You are probably in a much better situation than he.
It's been said soooo many times before, but everybody always forgets (or never really believes it): cars and boats and planes and whatever else are interesting to look at and touch and play with (for a little while), but happiness is an altogether different thing.
Shouldn't we be worried about something we'd refer to as simply: "The Mars Death"?
Talking about bacteria and Earthly DNA and communicability doesn't seem broad enough to me. I mean, it's another freakin' planet for heaven's sakes. Suppose there's a Mars organism that simply likes to consume something that's rare on Mars but plentiful here and we need that whatever-it-is to live. Uh oh.
But... this is only if we are going to talk about it and try to do something about it. Personally, I'm not worried about the issue.
Some of the stuff is so bleeding obvious now that it's hard to remember that somebody had to do it first.
My favorite: with the first PowerBook (not the first Mac portable) they pushed the keyboard towards the screen to give a place for the trackball and for your palms to rest while typing. Every notebook since then has done that very obvious thing (they also all turned black for a very long time).
In case anyone is interested (without going to the article), the actual figure is something over $40 billion. Not that the long string of comparisons wasn't interesting.:-)
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I think they're probably gonna wait to switch over to the Doom III or HL2 engine.
And then, a while later, the Doom IX or HL8 engine...
REporters have called up the irs with the exact same question and gotten completely opposite answers.
I'd be willing to bet that the US tax code isn't self-consistent.
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Not exactly a program name, but not totally off-topic.
While taking Beginning Pascal, we were learning about giving variables and functions meaningful names. Part of the lesson was that, if you couldn't give a function a short, meaningful name, it was probably doing too much all by itself or its actual task was unclear.
Anyway, it was the intention of one of my fellow students to name his main function (the one that did all the work of his program) "do it". Nice and short and, yes, it describes what the function does (that being "it"). Obviously, no spaces allowed, so this ended up as "Doit".
Instructor upon reading this source code: "What the hell is a doit?" (sounds like "voit")
I've liked that indentifier ever since, and always pronounce it sounding like "voit".
Perhaps you had to be there.
Somebody please mod the parent back down, -1, Wrong.
Jaguar is only Mac OS X 10.2. When you buy it, you don't get 9. Mac OS 9 isn't bundled with Jaguar at all. You do get the Classic environment (that's part of X), but you don't "boot" Classic - that's nonsensical - you boot 9 in Classic. Classic != Mac OS 9. Classic is X's hardware abstraction which will boot 9.
Well, I hate whatever country you're from because, obviously, everybody there has no sense of humor.
The US did plant a flag on the moon. Doesn't that mean something? What did Neil (or whoever) say when he planted that flag? If he said something like:
"Ours!" or
"We win!" or
"I claim this moon for the United States of America!"
that makes ownership pretty clear, doesn't it?
And then, once Windows is running nicely on your x86-based Mac, developers won't need to write Mac software anymore. And then, well, then Apple's in the same business as the rest of the PC makers, and probably dies.
Oops.
And that's the problem with Mac on x86, even in the case where you still have to buy Apple's hardware. You're going to expect that it run your Windows software (it's got an x86 CPU in it!). As soon as that happens, developers start telling their Mac customers, just use the Windows version on your Mac. Little by little, Mac OS goes away and Apple with it.
Wow, am I a dumbass. Good thing I don't work for NASA. We'd have all sorts of spacecraft going missing.
Anyway, obviously, my maybe solution (parent post) would still require a special mouse.
Yes, the optical mouse just sends "movement" information, but it might be possible to write a driver that would recognize a special, purposely-erroneous set of movement data and then begin interpreting the following data as barcode information which it (the driver) then, somehow, types like a keyboard. It would probably need to be a mouse/keyboard driver pair.
Yes, no?
Anyone read any good books lately?
Is that still allowed?
As a Mac user for many years, all I can say is, " YUCK!"
I never said charging your customers was lame. Charging them $55 when you use one of your tools is very lame.
We generally charge 10-20$ just to pull a car in and lift it up
Nothing wrong with that, but, when you hand your customer the bill for this, what does it look like? Something like this?:
$14.85 - labor
$5.00 - use of lift
$0.05 - use of wrench
$0.10 - paper towel to wipe hands after getting them greasy looking at your car
The code-reader is just another of your tools. You shouldn't line-item charge for its use.
we charge $55 just to check what the codes are for
You know the lift(s) you have in your garage? Those are pretty expensive, too. How much do you charge to lift the car if you have to get underneath it?
That $55 charge is lame.
You're right it's a tough challenge for them. I don't believe they're up to it, but that's neither here nor there.
It's not our job to figure out what they should do to remain profitable. Hell, if it was our job, we'd take the easy way out and agree not to skip the commercials!
They want (need?) eveything to stay as it is. The point is, stuff changes regardless. They won't be able to stop it.
This is like the Horse and Buggy Manufacturers Association trying to get internal combustion engines outlawed, back in the day. It ain't gonna happen. They need to read the writing on the wall and adapt their business or die.
George Lucas is an out-of-touch-with-the-times idiot.Clearly (you can tell by comparing the movies' grosses!), Anakin Skywalker should have lived in New York and been bitten by a spider. Oh yeah, and it would have been less complicated if he had also fought and defeated Darth Vader at the end of the film.
either you get cable or you get nothing
Easy choice.
The point is, since you will always need to store (some) stuff in a lossless fashion (like backups), gains in lossy compression do not cancel gains in media capacity (as the original parent seemed to imply).
With data compression getting better and better, and disks getting bigger and bigger
Is compression really getting better and better? MPEG is getting smaller, but the quality is probably going down at the same time (however imperceptably). Lossless compression, which is what you need for data (= backups), is probably not getting better at the same rate that the disks are getting bigger.
Until writable DVD's come along
You can buy DVD burners right now for like $500. They've been available for more than a year.
Hey, if we're so gone in 10,000 years that we can't understand "don't go in there, radiation!" in 10 or more languages and pictures, then I have to wonder, who are we warning?
My guess: the earth is populated by ugly, chest-bursting aliens who invaded and conquered us. I say, let the evil aliens in there. It's like a giant booby-trap.
Don't fret about it. I guarantee you this guy is not living a happy life. You are probably in a much better situation than he.
It's been said soooo many times before, but everybody always forgets (or never really believes it): cars and boats and planes and whatever else are interesting to look at and touch and play with (for a little while), but happiness is an altogether different thing.
Really. It's true.
Shouldn't we be worried about something we'd refer to as simply: "The Mars Death"?
Talking about bacteria and Earthly DNA and communicability doesn't seem broad enough to me. I mean, it's another freakin' planet for heaven's sakes. Suppose there's a Mars organism that simply likes to consume something that's rare on Mars but plentiful here and we need that whatever-it-is to live. Uh oh.
But... this is only if we are going to talk about it and try to do something about it. Personally, I'm not worried about the issue.
Some of the stuff is so bleeding obvious now that it's hard to remember that somebody had to do it first.
My favorite: with the first PowerBook (not the first Mac portable) they pushed the keyboard towards the screen to give a place for the trackball and for your palms to rest while typing. Every notebook since then has done that very obvious thing (they also all turned black for a very long time).
In case anyone is interested (without going to the article), the actual figure is something over $40 billion. Not that the long string of comparisons wasn't interesting.
So, I can go to the Volvo dealer and get a car without all that stuff and then add the third-party components later?
Yeah, good analogy.