And if one uses Bing Cashback, one is being paid by Microsoft to use Ubuntu and giving them money to shop online using it, perhaps to buy a Linux-friendly netbook and the cycle continues.
Windows Mobile, which unlike Android has always ranged from okay to sorry, must be updated by the phone manufacturers unless you luck out and your model gets attention from ROM cookers. Yet it has lived for over ten years... why would the expectation for Android be any different? Perhaps I am being cynical, but this smells like fear-mongering from parties that still think WinMo has a future.
Whoever is criticizing grammar in comments obviously never had to look through legacy code and ask him/herself "WTF was this developer thinking?!" Or better yet, looking at one's own code written five years earlier and asked him/herself "WTF was I thinking?!" In those cases, any comments at all will provide clues.
We should be encouraging coders to use comments _at all_, not giving incentive to shortchange it because they are going to be graded on stuff the compiler ignores. Any coder stuck with making changes to old code will be very thankful to see long-winded comments.
Let's not forget that code is read many more times than it is written. Yes, it would be nice to have precise comments that tell all. But if a coder wants to go into detail then friggin let him, to suggest otherwise is just dumb.
So when you go on eBay and buy a (nuclear) cell phone battery that says it is shipping from Taiwan, and it blows up in your back pocket, you get to take out the city along with your ass?
I wonder why, they were ashamed of it as soon as they posted it.
I actually watched the whole thing... you guys didn't, so you didn't see the older lady and the oldest lady erupt into passionate lesbian sex. The dudes pulled out weapons and began close-quarters combat. The video ended with the Mac guy emerging from stage right and saying "pwn3d".
I wrote an article for Delphi Developer magazine back in the late 90's on Paradox in client/server and shared network environments. To summarize, it can be done but you really need to move to a database server. Paradox was designed to be a desktop database, and use for anything else is difficult and unreliable, not to mention simply technically inappropriate for the tool.
Database servers are meant to handle that kind of thing for you. I would suggest Firebird or Interbase if you want a more "Borland" (or whatever Borland is now) approach, or look into MySQL or even MS SQL Server Express.
I assume this professor is a state employee of Oregon as an employee of the University of Oregon... I wonder if he puts his job in danger by opposing his employer like that.
Don't get me wrong, I fully support what he is doing. My question is will the retaliation come in an unexpected direction, a firing based on behavior of a state employee or violation of oath to uphold state laws or something as opposed to any anticipated legal action over the posting itself?
As we all know, when someone (usually a non-techie or a PHB) says "All you have to do is blah blah" it usually means it will be far from simple and easy.
... and spruce up the old series with CGI environments... ships in the air and a couple of bantha or dewbacks walking through New Caprica before the attack?
Seriously, in how many ways does this story need to be told? It's why we have re-runs and syndication agreements.
I could see doing something like Richard Hatch's idea of creating a new movie that erases the embarrassment of Galactica 1980 and adds to the story where the original series left off, with as many of the original actors as you can get. But at what point does it get ridiculous? Is this what happens when you let studios own shows instead of the writers?
That has happened to me on lone-gunman projects. It is particularly troublesome when you are determining your own deadline as the writer's block feeds procrastination.
Because this is a lone gunman project you may have an ordered list of development steps or modules to develop in your head. One thing to try would be to mix up the order of development a little in order to jump-start your brain and motivation with something different while at the same time being productive on the project.
Or set up a development schedule with firm delivery milestones and hand it to your boss, and working against a deadline may get the brain moving.
"The new Zune will be based on a custom version of Windows CE, while the iPod Touch runs on the already popular iPhone platform, for which thousands of applications are available."
fails to acknowledge that Windows CE has been around a bit longer than the iPhone OS and has tons of applications available. Just sayin'.
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A sad understatement in retrospect, RIP Challengers.
I wouldn't settle for $1.92 either, those RIAA jerks aren't getting a penny!
I want my two dollars!
And if one uses Bing Cashback, one is being paid by Microsoft to use Ubuntu and giving them money to shop online using it, perhaps to buy a Linux-friendly netbook and the cycle continues.
Windows Mobile, which unlike Android has always ranged from okay to sorry, must be updated by the phone manufacturers unless you luck out and your model gets attention from ROM cookers. Yet it has lived for over ten years... why would the expectation for Android be any different? Perhaps I am being cynical, but this smells like fear-mongering from parties that still think WinMo has a future.
Done. +1 to the poster who said there is some round transportation implement being reinvented here.
That is one of my biggest peeves as well. I cringe when I read or hear it.
Whoever is criticizing grammar in comments obviously never had to look through legacy code and ask him/herself "WTF was this developer thinking?!" Or better yet, looking at one's own code written five years earlier and asked him/herself "WTF was I thinking?!" In those cases, any comments at all will provide clues.
We should be encouraging coders to use comments _at all_, not giving incentive to shortchange it because they are going to be graded on stuff the compiler ignores. Any coder stuck with making changes to old code will be very thankful to see long-winded comments.
Let's not forget that code is read many more times than it is written. Yes, it would be nice to have precise comments that tell all. But if a coder wants to go into detail then friggin let him, to suggest otherwise is just dumb.
The Linux virus via WINE, or S-WINE bug.
And a lot of beer, card games, and magazines to pass the time.
Didn't that throw up any red flags for ANYONE?
So when you go on eBay and buy a (nuclear) cell phone battery that says it is shipping from Taiwan, and it blows up in your back pocket, you get to take out the city along with your ass?
I wonder why, they were ashamed of it as soon as they posted it.
I actually watched the whole thing... you guys didn't, so you didn't see the older lady and the oldest lady erupt into passionate lesbian sex. The dudes pulled out weapons and began close-quarters combat. The video ended with the Mac guy emerging from stage right and saying "pwn3d".
I wrote an article for Delphi Developer magazine back in the late 90's on Paradox in client/server and shared network environments. To summarize, it can be done but you really need to move to a database server. Paradox was designed to be a desktop database, and use for anything else is difficult and unreliable, not to mention simply technically inappropriate for the tool.
Database servers are meant to handle that kind of thing for you. I would suggest Firebird or Interbase if you want a more "Borland" (or whatever Borland is now) approach, or look into MySQL or even MS SQL Server Express.
I assume this professor is a state employee of Oregon as an employee of the University of Oregon... I wonder if he puts his job in danger by opposing his employer like that.
Don't get me wrong, I fully support what he is doing. My question is will the retaliation come in an unexpected direction, a firing based on behavior of a state employee or violation of oath to uphold state laws or something as opposed to any anticipated legal action over the posting itself?
I thought we were talking about a Slashdot question that only had the CowboyNeal answer as a choice.
We didn't think we were doing anything pioneering at the time
Yeah, that's what the ASCII art inventors and the creators of GIF at CompuServ said.
As we all know, when someone (usually a non-techie or a PHB) says "All you have to do is blah blah" it usually means it will be far from simple and easy.
... and spruce up the old series with CGI environments... ships in the air and a couple of bantha or dewbacks walking through New Caprica before the attack?
Seriously, in how many ways does this story need to be told? It's why we have re-runs and syndication agreements.
I could see doing something like Richard Hatch's idea of creating a new movie that erases the embarrassment of Galactica 1980 and adds to the story where the original series left off, with as many of the original actors as you can get. But at what point does it get ridiculous? Is this what happens when you let studios own shows instead of the writers?
They won't see this.
There has got to be a use somewhere... boots, S&M wear, something...
Then again what is Pascal without Borland anymore?
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
That has happened to me on lone-gunman projects. It is particularly troublesome when you are determining your own deadline as the writer's block feeds procrastination.
Because this is a lone gunman project you may have an ordered list of development steps or modules to develop in your head. One thing to try would be to mix up the order of development a little in order to jump-start your brain and motivation with something different while at the same time being productive on the project.
Or set up a development schedule with firm delivery milestones and hand it to your boss, and working against a deadline may get the brain moving.
Mod me down for defending Microsoft, but the note
"The new Zune will be based on a custom version of Windows CE, while the iPod Touch runs on the already popular iPhone platform, for which thousands of applications are available."
fails to acknowledge that Windows CE has been around a bit longer than the iPhone OS and has tons of applications available. Just sayin'.
Al Gore invented game play. And then the Internet.