Once we have efficient fusion power plants, our dependance on oil will go away. With fusion, there's too much radioactive crap left behind that no one wants to deal with. Too many people are too scared of another 3-mile island or Chernobyl. Fusion plants would be much safer.
The CEO from the company was at the Ignoble awards 3 or 4 years ago.. He was showing off the wheel chair by climging up and down stairs and doing wheelies.
Are there any 'silent' power supplies out there? I have a Zalman heatpine on the video card, and a Zalman cooler on the CPU, enough RAM so the drives aren't hit once something loads,etc. I bought what was suppoed to be a quiet/silent power supply, but the thing is pretty loud. Any ideas?
*sigh* ******************** VB is Visual BASIC. One of the first languages you learn in school (you should be progressing in your career). I tell all VB "coders" that it is time to take off the training wheels and learn a real language. Have you tried Java or C#? Much better then VB. VB and VB script really suck as a language. The few times I used it I felt like a toddler (I personally want to be challanged at work). VB is fine if you are doing standard cookie-cutter apps. Connect to a DB, display some fields, update some fields, etc. But the language just sucks for anything else. Is has zero built in support for real data structures. It has nothing like the standard template library, though most VB apps are never complex enough (algorithmically) to need something like that. ***********
I learned to program in Pascal, VB was in version 3.0 and Java wasn't even out then...
About the only difference between C# and VB.net is that C# is case sensitive and of course the syntax.
It's good that you want to be challanged. I want to solve business problems and add value to the companies that pay me a lot of money, and I want to do it in a timely fashion. Managers and CIOs don't give a damn what's under the hood. They want to know that it works, and that you get it done on time.
Taining wheels? LOL do you code in assembler then? I tried Java back in the 97 timeframe, it was slow as $hit back then. It's probably gotten better since then. I never had the need for cross-platform functionality, if I did, I would have given Java a more serious look.
It's funny that you mention Java and C#. Please tell me, what can I do with C# and Java that I can't do with VB.Net
And no, you're not correct about the specifics that you mention.
So what if the language name has the word BASIC in it. Would you be more likely to code in it if it was called "Visual Needlessly Complex"?
The abuse of "On error resume next" can be make debugging a nightmare, and error handling in VB6 is something of a pain in general. VB.Net changed the error handling to the Try/Catch/Finally structure.
My knowledge of VB vs other languages is obviously a factor in the development time, but VB does some things, like string manipulation, much more easily than C++. I also didn't have to worry about garbage collection and the like.
It's a great language that can be used to solve 99% of the programing tasks on a Windows platform. So you can't write Linux apps on it, but while 95% of the world, and a larger % of the business world runs Windows, this isn't a real limitation.
I've written multiple custom data analysis apps for fortune 500 CPG companies using VB. It would have taken me a lot longer to accomplish the same task using C++ or any other widely used language.
The downside may be that he needs to consume more calories to function. Since for most of our evolutionary history we've lived on the verge of starvation, being super strong but needing to eat more would have been a disadvantage...
You can shift the odds in your favor at blackjack by playing correctly and counting.
It's much easier, IMHO, to just make money at the poker tables. I play poker in Foxwoods, CT at least once a month and consistantly win. The trick is to just find loose table where you're not the sucker. I'm always amazed at how many people who play poker at the casino don't even know the basic strategy involved.
Learn about a specific industry and become proficient with the tools that they use. For example, learn about sales/marketing and learn how to code with either IRI or AcNielsen or both. Learn about finance and Bloomberg APIs, etc.
You'll do MUCH better if you come across as someone who understands business but also knows how to code as opposed to someone who's just a god at coding.
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Once we have efficient fusion power plants, our dependance on oil will go away. With fusion, there's too much radioactive crap left behind that no one wants to deal with.
Too many people are too scared of another 3-mile island or Chernobyl. Fusion plants would be much safer.
The CEO from the company was at the Ignoble awards 3 or 4 years ago.. He was showing off the wheel chair by climging up and down stairs and doing wheelies.
Worst movie ever. Although I haven't seen the Village yet, heard that that may be worse.
And I really liked the 6th sense and Unbreakable.
That's why Signs was so damn disappointing.
Are there any 'silent' power supplies out there?
I have a Zalman heatpine on the video card, and a Zalman cooler on the CPU, enough RAM so the drives aren't hit once something loads,etc.
I bought what was suppoed to be a quiet/silent power supply, but the thing is pretty loud.
Any ideas?
Thanks
http://www.segue.com/index.asp
When running in AMD64 mode, the number of GPRs is doubled from 8 to 16.
*sigh*
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VB is Visual BASIC. One of the first languages you learn in school (you should be progressing in your career). I tell all VB "coders" that it is time to take off the training wheels and learn a real language. Have you tried Java or C#? Much better then VB. VB and VB script really suck as a language. The few times I used it I felt like a toddler (I personally want to be challanged at work). VB is fine if you are doing standard cookie-cutter apps. Connect to a DB, display some fields, update some fields, etc. But the language just sucks for anything else. Is has zero built in support for real data structures. It has nothing like the standard template library, though most VB apps are never complex enough (algorithmically) to need something like that.
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I learned to program in Pascal, VB was in version 3.0 and Java wasn't even out then...
About the only difference between C# and VB.net is that C# is case sensitive and of course the syntax.
It's good that you want to be challanged. I want to solve business problems and add value to the companies that pay me a lot of money, and I want to do it in a timely fashion. Managers and CIOs don't give a damn what's under the hood. They want to know that it works, and that you get it done on time.
Taining wheels? LOL do you code in assembler then?
I tried Java back in the 97 timeframe, it was slow as $hit back then. It's probably gotten better since then. I never had the need for cross-platform functionality, if I did, I would have given Java a more serious look.
It's funny that you mention Java and C#. Please tell me, what can I do with C# and Java that I can't do with VB.Net
And no, you're not correct about the specifics that you mention.
So what if the language name has the word BASIC in it. Would you be more likely to code in it if it was called "Visual Needlessly Complex"?
The abuse of "On error resume next" can be make debugging a nightmare, and error handling in VB6 is something of a pain in general.
VB.Net changed the error handling to the Try/Catch/Finally structure.
My knowledge of VB vs other languages is obviously a factor in the development time, but VB does some things, like string manipulation, much more easily than C++. I also didn't have to worry about garbage collection and the like.
I don't understand why people keep knocking VB.
It's a great language that can be used to solve 99% of the programing tasks on a Windows platform.
So you can't write Linux apps on it, but while 95% of the world, and a larger % of the business world runs Windows, this isn't a real limitation.
I've written multiple custom data analysis apps for fortune 500 CPG companies using VB. It would have taken me a lot longer to accomplish the same task using C++ or any other widely used language.
Except that there were times, like during the ice age, when food was very scarce.
Also, there were often times of extended drought, etc.
The downside may be that he needs to consume more calories to function. Since for most of our evolutionary history we've lived on the verge of starvation, being super strong but needing to eat more would have been a disadvantage...
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/9812 387412/qid=1086193953/sr=1-7/ref=sr_1_7/103-108181 9-9473438?v=glance&s=books
Some of these flies have preactically stopped aging...
My buddy Brian wrote an article about longevity/immortality for the humanist.
It's the cover story in the May/June issue.
http://www.thehumanist.org/
I don't know of a direct link to the full article... but it's worth picking up a copy in a bookstore.
You can shift the odds in your favor at blackjack by playing correctly and counting.
It's much easier, IMHO, to just make money at the poker tables. I play poker in Foxwoods, CT at least once a month and consistantly win.
The trick is to just find loose table where you're not the sucker.
I'm always amazed at how many people who play poker at the casino don't even know the basic strategy involved.
http://asylum.apocalypse.org/pub/u/zonker/fpp/html /trebuchet.html
Learn about a specific industry and become proficient with the tools that they use.
For example, learn about sales/marketing and learn how to code with either IRI or AcNielsen or both. Learn about finance and Bloomberg APIs, etc.
You'll do MUCH better if you come across as someone who understands business but also knows how to code as opposed to someone who's just a god at coding.
It looks like the chipset can more than hold its own, even with beta drivers.
d s/ nf3/n250/001.htm0 04q2/nforce3-250gb /index.x?pg=1
http://www.gamers-depot.com/hardware/motherboar
http://techreport.com/reviews/2
Sikorski employs a lot of people in CT, and Lieberman and Dodd still have a lot of pull.
So far, the company is telling the employess that it's business as usual.
I'm curious if this happens all over the world or only in the states.
Can anyone who grew up outside of the US comment?
http://www.prolink.com.tw/new_web/products/multime dia/PlayTV%20HD_new.htm
caught a press preview this week:
1) much more action than the first one
2) less dramatic/emotinal slowdown.
3) Golum is the best done CGI character to date.
can't wait to see it again
Damn,
If I remember correctly, it's about 30 feet per atmoshere of pressure.
That's a lot of pressure.
I have to agree. I'm highly skeptical of this story.
Sounds like something out of the Weekly World News.
This is going to create such a stir, that it won't last even a week.
http://www.dvdplusrw.org/