When renewing your TN-1 at the border, if the Customs officer jokes with you and says "so, ever smoked any of that pot they all do up there?"...do not say "well, I've had a puff once in a while"!!!!!!!
Quite frankly, I *love* doing Java development on my Powerbook. I don't develop huge apps, though.
But what I do like is that I can easily have MySQL and Sybase running in the background, a bunch of Office v.X apps open, and still do compilations with little performance penalty. OSX seems to be the master at keeping many apps open without being like mollasses in January -- which is contrary to most of my PC experiences.
And Java works *well* on OSX now. Seemless. Xcode is great (and free), too.
First off, Dreamcasts ran Windows CE which is very much stripped down compared to desktop Windows and more "modular". Just look at the memory footprint between the two for an example of how stripped-down.
Secondly, the Dreamcast toolkit was heavily customized, optimized, and debugged specifically for the Dreamcast platfrom. Much more analogous to an embedded device toolkit than a commercial operating system.
So, no....putting two Athlons inside a keyboard case with Windows XP running on it is not the same kettle-of-fish at all.
...your bands gets picked up by a major label....you're a rock star now.....you sell out a 10 city tour in minutes....then you get up on stage for your first gig....start playing....and your PIECE OF SHIT WINDOWS-POWERED KEYBOARD CRASHES HALFWAY THROUGH THE FIRST SONG!
Or worse....your keyboard gets a nasty virus when you're transferring MIDI files to it which erases your entire sample library from its hard drive.
I was kinda hoping that in a couple of years, my daughter might be old enough for Mindstorms....so glad it's staying in production.
Oh, and one last time....the pluralization is LEGO!!! The product is LEGO. You play with LEGO. The company is LEGO. Americans are the only people on the planet who call is "Legos" or "Legoes".
You're aware the iPod is the biggest selling MP3 player, period?
And that the iPod was so popular in the UK this Christmas, demand outstripped supply? (It was quoted as the most popular gift *period* in the UK this Christmas).
So, maybe you want to rethink if Apple "competes". They might not compete in your view because they actually *create* markets.
Bob: "Damn...had to throw away the contents of my freezer again this morning...all my clothes ran in my washer as well...and now my TV is stuck on PBS..." Fred: "Script kiddies got into your home appliance network again?" Bob: "Yeah, li'll bastards...";-)
I really don't know that I understand (or even agree with) the quality statement.
I routinely work with DB2 UDB and Sybase ASE, less often with Oracle. All of those I can be assured of recovery with and all I would be comfortable deploying in business environment.
I keep MySQL on my laptop because it's a quick'n'dirty database for me to play in and prototype with. I let customers (I'm a gun-for-hire) deploy it for non-business-critical applications such as web site backends, mailing databases, etc. Stuff were rollbacks and point-in-time recovery are less critical.
So given the above, how can you really claim the code is really better "qaulity"? It's like comparing apples and oranges. A Toyoya Corolla is certainly a well built and reliable car, but comparing it to a Hummer or a Porsche is a bit more than subjective.
Maybe the 'quality' they referring to is really just nice indents and comments;-)
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When renewing your TN-1 at the border, if the Customs officer jokes with you and says "so, ever smoked any of that pot they all do up there?"...do not say "well, I've had a puff once in a while"!!!!!!!
(Only half joking here...)
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Imagine...take 10 Euros out of your pocket, and one of those images is MacDonalds, one Coca Cola, one Vodafone ;-)
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Why does my o'scope show that all my AC power is now 10 million cycles second rather than 60?! ;-)
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It's probably equivalent to a $7 bottle of Ontario wine... ;-)
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Quite frankly, I *love* doing Java development on my Powerbook. I don't develop huge apps, though.
But what I do like is that I can easily have MySQL and Sybase running in the background, a bunch of Office v.X apps open, and still do compilations with little performance penalty. OSX seems to be the master at keeping many apps open without being like mollasses in January -- which is contrary to most of my PC experiences.
And Java works *well* on OSX now. Seemless. Xcode is great (and free), too.
Just my 2 cents (Canadian).
-psy
Drop cannabis seeds all over the area....the mines will become apparent as the local stoners try and harvest the crop :-)
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...IP over avian carrier!
..because there was never any "danger" of it being good!
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First off, Dreamcasts ran Windows CE which is very much stripped down compared to desktop Windows and more "modular". Just look at the memory footprint between the two for an example of how stripped-down.
Secondly, the Dreamcast toolkit was heavily customized, optimized, and debugged specifically for the Dreamcast platfrom. Much more analogous to an embedded device toolkit than a commercial operating system.
So, no....putting two Athlons inside a keyboard case with Windows XP running on it is not the same kettle-of-fish at all.
-psy
...your bands gets picked up by a major label....you're a rock star now.....you sell out a 10 city tour in minutes....then you get up on stage for your first gig....start playing....and your PIECE OF SHIT WINDOWS-POWERED KEYBOARD CRASHES HALFWAY THROUGH THE FIRST SONG!
Or worse....your keyboard gets a nasty virus when you're transferring MIDI files to it which erases your entire sample library from its hard drive.
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I was kinda hoping that in a couple of years, my daughter might be old enough for Mindstorms....so glad it's staying in production.
Oh, and one last time....the pluralization is LEGO!!! The product is LEGO. You play with LEGO. The company is LEGO. Americans are the only people on the planet who call is "Legos" or "Legoes".
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Or maybe Dubya thought that spacecraft ran on gasoline, and his family would clean up from being the sole NASA fuel provider for the missions? ;-)
;-)
Or maybe he's longing to go home...I mean, you didn't really think he was *human* did ya?
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Has anyone explained slowly, and carefully to Bush that there's no oil on the moon or mars? ;-)
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Actually, Quebec, Canada has much less tolerance than France...
:-)
And, yes...I've been to France recently...I spent 2.5 months on the Cote d'Azur last year
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Please excuse our xenophobic and jingoistic tendancies. Ya'll have a nice day now!
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You're aware the iPod is the biggest selling MP3 player, period?
And that the iPod was so popular in the UK this Christmas, demand outstripped supply? (It was quoted as the most popular gift *period* in the UK this Christmas).
So, maybe you want to rethink if Apple "competes". They might not compete in your view because they actually *create* markets.
-psy
There's a crumpled Coca Cola can visible in one of the pictures? Could it be that this is actually the Mojave Desert?! ;-)
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*ALL* cases? There's been one case in the U.S. and one suspected case in Canada....
;-)
Feeling a little jingoistic today, are we?
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I should probably mention I'm Canadian, and that was sarcasm ;-)
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When you can just conveniently blame Canada?
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Bob: "Damn...had to throw away the contents of my freezer again this morning...all my clothes ran in my washer as well...and now my TV is stuck on PBS..." ;-)
Fred: "Script kiddies got into your home appliance network again?"
Bob: "Yeah, li'll bastards..."
-psy
I really don't know that I understand (or even agree with) the quality statement.
;-)
I routinely work with DB2 UDB and Sybase ASE, less often with Oracle. All of those I can be assured of recovery with and all I would be comfortable deploying in business environment.
I keep MySQL on my laptop because it's a quick'n'dirty database for me to play in and prototype with. I let customers (I'm a gun-for-hire) deploy it for non-business-critical applications such as web site backends, mailing databases, etc. Stuff were rollbacks and point-in-time recovery are less critical.
So given the above, how can you really claim the code is really better "qaulity"? It's like comparing apples and oranges. A Toyoya Corolla is certainly a well built and reliable car, but comparing it to a Hummer or a Porsche is a bit more than subjective.
Maybe the 'quality' they referring to is really just nice indents and comments
Just my 2 cents (Canadian),
-psy
You mean they've got drills and saws and stuff running Linux now?! Man, it'll be toasters next... ;-)
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Shame nobody stopped to mention that Rich Stevens passed away in 1999.
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He said the US will go back to Vietnam! Not the moon! Silly rabbits...
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