if they can promptly escape from a maximum security stockade, I doubt we can hold 'em a second time.
Well their adversaries never learn do they? I mean, you leave those guys in possesion of a ball of string, three washing up liquid bottles and some glue and they're going to build a military vehicle with enough firepower to raze a small town to the ground. Who wouldn't see it coming?
They're good shots too; they manage to make people fly through the air with anti-tank missiles, yet let the "fools" live.
Yes, that's true enough, and I'm sure it's fine if you intend to stick to the standard. However, you must be aware of the advantages of developing using the vendor APIs (if only to get around problems with some phones, eg. Siemens totally non-standard Image.createImage() method).
I did start out developing on Linux with the kit, but I found myself having to use the emulators so often it's simply more efficient to stay in Windows now. I just wish more manufacturers would create emulators that work as plugins for the Wireless Toolkit. Nokia are great, but all others are either stand-alone, or Work with Jbuilder or SunOne (I have to switch to SunOne for Siemens for instance). The WTK is ideal for MIDlets - hit one button to build, hit another to test, whereas I find SunOne sluggish and annoying to use.
And I believe that author of the article didn't even try to develop any J2ME application for T720 phone. I did, and J2ME is about 20 times slower than BREW, which makes it completely useless...
I'd be interested in hearing where you got the "20 times faster" statistic from. It's far from useless though, I've seen some previews of some awesome games that are coming on J2ME. If your efforts turned out too slow, then maybe it was your techniques?
You'd think someone so anti-MSFT would have done his little programs under linux.
Although I smell a troll, unfortunately most of the SDKs and emulators are only available for Windows at the moment. You could develop on a linux box, if you installed the extra java APIs I guess, but it's pointless if you can't run the app (unless you're gifted with the ability to write 100% error-free code, blind)...
Yep, there's a huge market for J2ME software - I've written some J2ME games (see sig) that anyone can download for free, and the Pman game alone has taken over 7,000 downloads since it went up! A lot of these are for the T720.
The only slightly irritating part of it is that people download the wrong version of the games for their phones a lot of the time, even though I try to spell it out for them! I guess I'll have to set my site up to redirect based on the phone's user agent...
Once MIDP2 is adopted, hopefully we can just develop for the single platform - at the moment you can't really do that for anything except the simplest games since the manufacturers all deviate from the current spec in one way or another.
I'd LIKE a test character to run around for a few days...it'll save me a lot of frustration and potential hardware accessory damage when I toss my keyboard or gamepad across the room after cursing myself for picking Rodian as my species when it's so damned clear that for my playtype I should have picked Trandoshan (or Wookie or Human or whatever).
Well I'm going for the safe bet by playing as C3PO. That guy kicks ass (well he would if his legs moved more than 3 inches at a time)...
(Yes, this is now completely off topic, so I'm not using my +1 bonus:-) Also, just to keep this on topic with the original discussion of paying for the moon shot with taxes, I pay $0.18 in federal and $0.20 in Minnesota state taxes per gallon. I understand you pay about $2.80 per gallon (50p/litre) in taxes. Right now our national average price per gallon AFTER taxes is $1.38. You pay about $4.70 or so for that same gallon. So not only are you getting raked by your government, but Scotland and Norway are cutting you no deals either, are they?
It's actually worse than that. For every pound we pay for fuel, we pay an additional 5 pounds in taxes (VAT+Excise duty). If we didn't have such massive taxation, we'd have the cheapest fuel in Europe! This all came to light during the fuel protests a couple of years ago, when garages began using posters on their forecourts to show where the money went. I seem to remember that during that time some lorries were paying to cross the English channel, fill up with diesel in France, make the crossing back and STILL save money! Have fuel cell cars or other electric cars taken off over there yet?
No, but then you can see why pushing that adjenda isn't foremost in the Government's mind...
Oh, we're also apparently still not paying enough tax, so we're getting lots of nice toll roads now as well;-)
In 2001 dollars, that would be around $7.20 per day. Now it doesn't seem like Coke or chip money any more, that's almost half a tank of gas,
$7.20 for half a tank of gas! You know living here in the UK, it's just so depressing to read something like that... It's costs me over 50.00UKP to fill my tank here (and no, I don't drive a truck, just a car;-)
None of this stuff is revolutionary, but it does seem to be at least nifty. And that's all google needs at this point.
You know, another neat feature I'd like (which would be extremely simple to add) would be a checkbox on their search forms, which, when checked would make all the search result links open in new windows. I know it's not hard to hold down shift when clicking a link, but I almost always flip back and forth from a single page of results till I find what I'm looking for, so I'd always have it switched on...
He didn't say Athlon XP, I just finished building a dual Athlon MP 2400+ myself. The mother board is a Tyan Thunder K7X Pro, power supply is an Antec True550 EPS12V, and memory is 4 sticks of Corsair's 1GB 266MHz ECC registered memory. I also have Adaptec's 0 channel RAID controller, and 8 18GB Seagate 15K.3 RPM SCA drives. Using built in ATI RageXL video and gigabit LAN. All in a Lian Li PC-626SCA case.
The machine is rock solid from what I can tell, and blazingly fast, and I'm glad I didn't have to pay for it.
So I'm guessing you're either a beta-tester for iD's upcoming Doom 3 game, or a java developer?
I typically mute the ad and pick up a book, but I can often still see the ad.
I'm in the UK, and I just flip channels as soon as an ad appears on Sky. I know that Sky ad breaks are always almost exactly 5 minutes long during a programme (slightly shorter after midnight and between programmes), so I can flip about for 4-5 minutes and not worry about missing anything;-)
The annoying thing is that most of the Sky entertainment channels all play ads at the same time, in some feeble attempt to stop channel surfing I guess. Good job we have the beeb, with zero ads to turn to;-)
Am I missing something here? I mean, we managed to send a bunch of guys over to the moon over 30 years ago with the combined processing power of today's toasters, yet now we have a 33% failure rate on the latest technology, computer designed craft and all that experience?! What are they using cheap taiwanese chipsets and Fujitsu hard drives in these things or something?
Ironic that/. just hard an article about modern consumer goods being unreliable when compared to items from 5 years ago. Looks like the space agencies are following the same path...
Wow, the fastest netscape I've used to date is (IIRC) Netscape 3.x. All subsequent versions have been progressively slower.
Yes well I'm sure I could write a browser that really kicks ass, if, like NS3 it ignores all stylesheets, screws up tables and frames and only parses a handful of tags.
Actually the slowest version of NS I've used was the first effort at V6 - I almost gave up on them when I saw just how bad it was. Mozilla has really come along though - it's very close to IE with dynamic content now - I'm sure it'll pass IE7 for speed, as IE has been getting bigger and slower since V5...
Hey, even if they wanted to put out Office for Linux, I say GREAT! If they started puting out apps for linux, maybe other companies will follow suit, and then maybe we can stop being dependandt on Microsoft for their OS.
And you've just stated the sole reason you WON'T be seeing Office running on a Linux machine anytime sooH^H^H^ever. For many people, Office is the only package they need, so why would they pay for WindowsDMCA in the future if they can just buy Office and put it on a Free OS (which is also handily mostly immune to the virii that infest Windows machines)?
Actually that's an interesting point, would you actually be able to register "questionable" hostnames like fetishsex.kids.us, or Id-have-gotten-away-with-it-too-ifn-it-hadnt-have- been-for-those-those-meddling.kids.us?
[Original poster posits linking to goatse.cx] Of course this raises the question: what is inappropriate content?
I'm pretty sure that goatse would be classed slightly inappropriate for small children. I mean, christ I'm over 30 and I found it traumatic enough to add an entry pointing goatse.cx->127.0.0.1 on my nameserver!
I wanted to confirm what people are saying about the average Joe Schmoe not needing computer power. I'm still running an AMD K6 200 MHz processor from 1997.
Very true, my mother somehow got hold of an old PC for free a short while back (the local college is upgrading) - it was a P133 with 16MB RAM and a tiny 500MB HD;-) It was running Win95, but obviously struggling with the lack of RAM - so I found some old sticks to bring it up to 32MB (I couldn't find any more that would fit) and it more than doubled the speed! It's used for Web+Email and her current fad: geneology; and works fine for this. The Windows installation took up less than 100MB, which surprised me, BTW...
I've set up numerous sites for clients, and myself over the last few years, and now exclusively host on US servers even though I'm in the UK. The reason? bandwidth charges. The standard UK hosting packages give around 5GBpm which is wholely unsuitable for even a medium traffic site - and the charges per GB after that are extortinate. At least, that's my experience. I think it's laughable that so many "packages" quote 1GB disk space, plus DB, and all the bells+whistles, then limit the bandwidth so much it's impossible to make use of the space anyway!
Mind you, I'm having my own problems with my current host for my personal site (Liquid Web) - they ignore questions - such as why the server hosting my site is rebooted every few days, and constantly runs with a load avg of 20+ making it sluggish and often serving incomplete pages... starting to rant here now, time to stop;-)
I went out and bought $3000 worth of networking hardware to create a DMZ with border gateways and traffic shapers. Every single packet has to be personally approved by me to get out of my house. Ain't no hacker gonna hack my computer!
Yeah, I noticed you'd added that stuff while I was looking around your hard-drive the other night. Is it any good?;-)
It's a little known fact that the average moggy enjoys the intellectual pursuit of Cat Chess almost as much as sporadic violent confrontations with other random cats.
The rules (based upon observation) are pretty straight forward, and are as follow:
A point is scored by a cat that can simultaneously observe at least 2 other cats.
Any cat observed by 2 other cats simultaneously is out of the game.
That's it - so strategy plays a big part - on the one hand, a high vantage point lends itself to high scoring rounds, but has the increased danger of being spotted by other cats. These games can go on for days though, often ending only in a mass fight or when the competitors fancy some milk and maybe the chance to bat a small bird around for fun.
I've used MySQL with PHP/Perl for a while on various projects, and always half considered Postgres, but since many web hosts don't offer it (why?) never really considered it seriously (don't wish to rewrite a lot of db code - and yes I do know about PEAR with PHP, but it's a performance hit).
So, does PG+PHP match the speed of My+PHP? Is it as thoroughly tested? As I'm moving away from using Perl, I'd be really interested in seeing some benchmarks with this new version of PG...
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if they can promptly escape from a maximum security stockade, I doubt we can hold 'em a second time.
Well their adversaries never learn do they? I mean, you leave those guys in possesion of a ball of string, three washing up liquid bottles and some glue and they're going to build a military vehicle with enough firepower to raze a small town to the ground. Who wouldn't see it coming?
They're good shots too; they manage to make people fly through the air with anti-tank missiles, yet let the "fools" live.
Yes, that's true enough, and I'm sure it's fine if you intend to stick to the standard. However, you must be aware of the advantages of developing using the vendor APIs (if only to get around problems with some phones, eg. Siemens totally non-standard Image.createImage() method).
I did start out developing on Linux with the kit, but I found myself having to use the emulators so often it's simply more efficient to stay in Windows now. I just wish more manufacturers would create emulators that work as plugins for the Wireless Toolkit. Nokia are great, but all others are either stand-alone, or Work with Jbuilder or SunOne (I have to switch to SunOne for Siemens for instance). The WTK is ideal for MIDlets - hit one button to build, hit another to test, whereas I find SunOne sluggish and annoying to use.
And I believe that author of the article didn't even try to develop any J2ME application for T720 phone. I did, and J2ME is about 20 times slower than BREW, which makes it completely useless...
I'd be interested in hearing where you got the "20 times faster" statistic from. It's far from useless though, I've seen some previews of some awesome games that are coming on J2ME. If your efforts turned out too slow, then maybe it was your techniques?
You'd think someone so anti-MSFT would have done his little programs under linux.
Although I smell a troll, unfortunately most of the SDKs and emulators are only available for Windows at the moment. You could develop on a linux box, if you installed the extra java APIs I guess, but it's pointless if you can't run the app (unless you're gifted with the ability to write 100% error-free code, blind)...
Yep, there's a huge market for J2ME software - I've written some J2ME games (see sig) that anyone can download for free, and the Pman game alone has taken over 7,000 downloads since it went up! A lot of these are for the T720.
The only slightly irritating part of it is that people download the wrong version of the games for their phones a lot of the time, even though I try to spell it out for them! I guess I'll have to set my site up to redirect based on the phone's user agent...
Once MIDP2 is adopted, hopefully we can just develop for the single platform - at the moment you can't really do that for anything except the simplest games since the manufacturers all deviate from the current spec in one way or another.
I'd LIKE a test character to run around for a few days...it'll save me a lot of frustration and potential hardware accessory damage when I toss my keyboard or gamepad across the room after cursing myself for picking Rodian as my species when it's so damned clear that for my playtype I should have picked Trandoshan (or Wookie or Human or whatever).
Well I'm going for the safe bet by playing as C3PO. That guy kicks ass (well he would if his legs moved more than 3 inches at a time)...
(Yes, this is now completely off topic, so I'm not using my +1 bonus :-)
;-)
Also, just to keep this on topic with the original discussion of paying for the moon shot with taxes, I pay $0.18 in federal and $0.20 in Minnesota state taxes per gallon. I understand you pay about $2.80 per gallon (50p/litre) in taxes. Right now our national average price per gallon AFTER taxes is $1.38. You pay about $4.70 or so for that same gallon. So not only are you getting raked by your government, but Scotland and Norway are cutting you no deals either, are they?
It's actually worse than that. For every pound we pay for fuel, we pay an additional 5 pounds in taxes (VAT+Excise duty). If we didn't have such massive taxation, we'd have the cheapest fuel in Europe! This all came to light during the fuel protests a couple of years ago, when garages began using posters on their forecourts to show where the money went. I seem to remember that during that time some lorries were paying to cross the English channel, fill up with diesel in France, make the crossing back and STILL save money!
Have fuel cell cars or other electric cars taken off over there yet?
No, but then you can see why pushing that adjenda isn't foremost in the Government's mind...
Oh, we're also apparently still not paying enough tax, so we're getting lots of nice toll roads now as well
In 2001 dollars, that would be around $7.20 per day. Now it doesn't seem like Coke or chip money any more, that's almost half a tank of gas,
;-)
$7.20 for half a tank of gas! You know living here in the UK, it's just so depressing to read something like that... It's costs me over 50.00UKP to fill my tank here (and no, I don't drive a truck, just a car
None of this stuff is revolutionary, but it does seem to be at least nifty. And that's all google needs at this point.
You know, another neat feature I'd like (which would be extremely simple to add) would be a checkbox on their search forms, which, when checked would make all the search result links open in new windows. I know it's not hard to hold down shift when clicking a link, but I almost always flip back and forth from a single page of results till I find what I'm looking for, so I'd always have it switched on...
He didn't say Athlon XP, I just finished building a dual Athlon MP 2400+ myself. The mother board is a Tyan Thunder K7X Pro, power supply is an Antec True550 EPS12V, and memory is 4 sticks of Corsair's 1GB 266MHz ECC registered memory. I also have Adaptec's 0 channel RAID controller, and 8 18GB Seagate 15K.3 RPM SCA drives. Using built in ATI RageXL video and gigabit LAN. All in a Lian Li PC-626SCA case.
The machine is rock solid from what I can tell, and blazingly fast, and I'm glad I didn't have to pay for it.
So I'm guessing you're either a beta-tester for iD's upcoming Doom 3 game, or a java developer?
I typically mute the ad and pick up a book, but I can often still see the ad.
;-)
;-)
I'm in the UK, and I just flip channels as soon as an ad appears on Sky. I know that Sky ad breaks are always almost exactly 5 minutes long during a programme (slightly shorter after midnight and between programmes), so I can flip about for 4-5 minutes and not worry about missing anything
The annoying thing is that most of the Sky entertainment channels all play ads at the same time, in some feeble attempt to stop channel surfing I guess. Good job we have the beeb, with zero ads to turn to
Am I missing something here? I mean, we managed to send a bunch of guys over to the moon over 30 years ago with the combined processing power of today's toasters, yet now we have a 33% failure rate on the latest technology, computer designed craft and all that experience?! What are they using cheap taiwanese chipsets and Fujitsu hard drives in these things or something?
/. just hard an article about modern consumer goods being unreliable when compared to items from 5 years ago. Looks like the space agencies are following the same path...
Ironic that
Wow, the fastest netscape I've used to date is (IIRC) Netscape 3.x. All subsequent versions have been progressively slower.
Yes well I'm sure I could write a browser that really kicks ass, if, like NS3 it ignores all stylesheets, screws up tables and frames and only parses a handful of tags.
Actually the slowest version of NS I've used was the first effort at V6 - I almost gave up on them when I saw just how bad it was. Mozilla has really come along though - it's very close to IE with dynamic content now - I'm sure it'll pass IE7 for speed, as IE has been getting bigger and slower since V5...
And BTW, insulting the editors gets annoying after about the millionth time or so.
Wow, so they've passed the 1 millionth mistake mark already?! Was there an anouncement? An online party??
Dammit, now I'll have to wait another couple of years until mistake 2,000,000 comes around...
Hey, even if they wanted to put out Office for Linux, I say GREAT! If they started puting out apps for linux, maybe other companies will follow suit, and then maybe we can stop being dependandt on Microsoft for their OS.
And you've just stated the sole reason you WON'T be seeing Office running on a Linux machine anytime sooH^H^H^ever. For many people, Office is the only package they need, so why would they pay for WindowsDMCA in the future if they can just buy Office and put it on a Free OS (which is also handily mostly immune to the virii that infest Windows machines)?
I got an Phd for making an essay about the fact that Star Wars could not be real... not in this galaxy nor any other!
Why do you people keep taking my childhood dreams away from me? Why? Why?!
.. if you want to register goatse.kids.us ...
- been-for-those-those-meddling.kids.us?
Actually that's an interesting point, would you actually be able to register "questionable" hostnames like fetishsex.kids.us, or Id-have-gotten-away-with-it-too-ifn-it-hadnt-have
[Original poster posits linking to goatse.cx]
Of course this raises the question: what is inappropriate content?
I'm pretty sure that goatse would be classed slightly inappropriate for small children. I mean, christ I'm over 30 and I found it traumatic enough to add an entry pointing goatse.cx->127.0.0.1 on my nameserver!
I wanted to confirm what people are saying about the average Joe Schmoe not needing computer power. I'm still running an AMD K6 200 MHz processor from 1997.
;-) It was running Win95, but obviously struggling with the lack of RAM - so I found some old sticks to bring it up to 32MB (I couldn't find any more that would fit) and it more than doubled the speed! It's used for Web+Email and her current fad: geneology; and works fine for this. The Windows installation took up less than 100MB, which surprised me, BTW...
Very true, my mother somehow got hold of an old PC for free a short while back (the local college is upgrading) - it was a P133 with 16MB RAM and a tiny 500MB HD
I've set up numerous sites for clients, and myself over the last few years, and now exclusively host on US servers even though I'm in the UK. The reason? bandwidth charges. The standard UK hosting packages give around 5GBpm which is wholely unsuitable for even a medium traffic site - and the charges per GB after that are extortinate. At least, that's my experience. I think it's laughable that so many "packages" quote 1GB disk space, plus DB, and all the bells+whistles, then limit the bandwidth so much it's impossible to make use of the space anyway!
;-)
Mind you, I'm having my own problems with my current host for my personal site (Liquid Web) - they ignore questions - such as why the server hosting my site is rebooted every few days, and constantly runs with a load avg of 20+ making it sluggish and often serving incomplete pages... starting to rant here now, time to stop
I went out and bought $3000 worth of networking hardware to create a DMZ with border gateways and traffic shapers. Every single packet has to be personally approved by me to get out of my house. Ain't no hacker gonna hack my computer!
;-)
Yeah, I noticed you'd added that stuff while I was looking around your hard-drive the other night. Is it any good?
It's a little known fact that the average moggy enjoys the intellectual pursuit of Cat Chess almost as much as sporadic violent confrontations with other random cats.
The rules (based upon observation) are pretty straight forward, and are as follow:
A point is scored by a cat that can simultaneously observe at least 2 other cats.
Any cat observed by 2 other cats simultaneously is out of the game.
That's it - so strategy plays a big part - on the one hand, a high vantage point lends itself to high scoring rounds, but has the increased danger of being spotted by other cats. These games can go on for days though, often ending only in a mass fight or when the competitors fancy some milk and maybe the chance to bat a small bird around for fun.
I've used MySQL with PHP/Perl for a while on various projects, and always half considered Postgres, but since many web hosts don't offer it (why?) never really considered it seriously (don't wish to rewrite a lot of db code - and yes I do know about PEAR with PHP, but it's a performance hit).
So, does PG+PHP match the speed of My+PHP? Is it as thoroughly tested? As I'm moving away from using Perl, I'd be really interested in seeing some benchmarks with this new version of PG...
If only someone could come up with a way for people to communicate with each other in some intuitive way on these things - I'd buy that for a dollar!
Are the editors out to lunch today? This is a duplicate from a day or two ago.
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