Your argument has one flaw. You are assuming that if they donate, they won't play anymore. This is clearly not necessarily true. If someone will play regardless, they can produce extra contributions by turning their in-game items into more cash, possibly more than their subscription cost.
If you are being sarcastic, ever try and use a VCR for the first time? Every menu for every vcr is different from the last. So you have to sit there and plug away at it until you thoroughly understand it.
This is what it's like for people who have never used comptuers for the first time. For people like me, maybe you, who grew up with computers, we have the advantage that there are traditions are always there. Back in the DOS days, you had a driver you had to load. Now in the linux days, it's a module. In windows, it's a driver still. In OS9, it was an extension.
But sometimes as humans, we make mistakes. Yesterday, I couldn't get a piece of software to do what I wanted. I barely read the error and kept plugging away. Finally, I reread the error and fixed it quickly. What it my fault? I won't hesitate and say it was, but point is, if there is some significant number of peopel saying it's hard, it probably is hard. Linux isn't always easy. Neither is windows. The less we need to think, the better.
Buh? Who said anything about drivers and modules? If a lot of people can't figure it out, that's bad, no?
If Bruce couldn't figure it out from the get-go, much less any random shmo, it has a flawed interface. It's been argued and argued again: intuitive interfaces are hard. Easy interfaces are harder.
Linux is hard. Computing in general is hard. Only things that are easy are 4 function calculators. Minus those stupid "c" and "ce" buttons.
BP is smart. Quite smart. Very smart. But he is human. He's liable to make a mistake just like anyone else. If he had an issue, you cannot expand it to everyone who isn't as smart, as he is likely to make a mistake. Furhter more, because one person makes a mistake, it doesn't mean everyone will or everyone won't.
All we have is, a really smart person couldn't do it. Maybe you need a consensus to make sure it wasn't his own fault and that other people can do it, or the opposite.
Depends. What if you can run multiple high capacity tapes at the same time? Even if they hit 10TB, software that can deal with 4 drives at once, in some sort of inteligible fashion, might not be bad. Raid5 tapes anyone?
Google is in the buisness of managing information. Email is a good problem for google, as finding old email, organization and spam filtering is all about information handling. IMs, not so much. I don't think it's the next logical step.
Uh. noo... mod_perl is old as an idea, but it's certainly not legacy in the same way that dbase is legacy. Only thing bad about mod_perl is trying to use it with apache2 in its threaded mode.
Btw, php does not make mod_perl obsolete. Yes, php can be hosted in a lesser secure area, as php scripts assume the user its running as, but that's about it. It's an ugly language full of redundancy, bugs and inconsistent style. j2ee and.net, not so much.
Biggest problem with php, is their "modules" are c-compiled. There is the least portability with it. With perl, perl written modules, not the XS modules, can be easily copied anywhere. j2ee not so much, as the configuration files change format from server to server. But from os to os, they are the same.
This is the 21st century. Integers are 64 bit now. 30k is close to a short, a signed one at that. Such waste. What are schools teaching you these days. Back in my day, an integer was 1 bit! and you liked it!
Not particularly. You can also use graph theory for this. Once you have a means to convert the data into a graph, and a means to convert something like, vertex colouring back into people assignments, it's as easy as your graph colouring algorithm to be. You can do it either brute force, or via a heuristic in reasonable time with a good enough computer. Even in a huge, huge graph.
Then it's a matter of feeding the data at a rate so you don't backlog faster than the amount of data you get in.
If you are wanting an explanation of turning it into a graph, I can spend an hour or so turning the various constraints into one. Just need to know/think about all the constraints, such as, making sure enough staff are moving into the right places to go to a "next flight".
You don't need double buffering to implement opengl and vice versa. The original statement was about OpenGL bringing double buffering. Most modern graphical applications already double buffer w/o OpenGL. Just like I can do OpenGL, or emulate it, w/o double buffering and get the flicker effect. But most card makers who implement 3d, including OpenGL like interfaces, are smarter than that when they write drivers.
OpenGL and double buffering are mutually exclusive. One can implement double buffering in software. OpenGL compatability allows drivers to be written that throws all that drawing stuff to a seperate cpu, namely the one on your video card.
One that lasts you a long time? Sure. I stil am using my 400mhz desktop mac at home, with panther and a good chunk of ram. Macs last a long time, thus, more for your money.
It's knowledge. If your componenets are limited to mechanical, you have an edge over someone else. The simplest I can think of, are locks. If you wished to have a two key system where both keys match, one of these mechanical gates would work well. No electricity required.
When you make a lot of money, and perception is key, egos are insane. You and I, who prolly don't make $200k a year or more and "have power", would readily kill off such a project. But you blemish their unwritten records, and people start getting beligerent, and hard headed. Look at anything in todays age or yesteryear. When money and power get in the mix, common sense goes the other direction.
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For the fancy box. tiny tiny tiny nice looking boxes for entertainment centres are hard to find.
Your argument has one flaw. You are assuming that if they donate, they won't play anymore. This is clearly not necessarily true. If someone will play regardless, they can produce extra contributions by turning their in-game items into more cash, possibly more than their subscription cost.
Will this be another MSAV? What ever happened to that tool?
This is what it's like for people who have never used comptuers for the first time. For people like me, maybe you, who grew up with computers, we have the advantage that there are traditions are always there. Back in the DOS days, you had a driver you had to load. Now in the linux days, it's a module. In windows, it's a driver still. In OS9, it was an extension.
But sometimes as humans, we make mistakes. Yesterday, I couldn't get a piece of software to do what I wanted. I barely read the error and kept plugging away. Finally, I reread the error and fixed it quickly. What it my fault? I won't hesitate and say it was, but point is, if there is some significant number of peopel saying it's hard, it probably is hard. Linux isn't always easy. Neither is windows. The less we need to think, the better.
If Bruce couldn't figure it out from the get-go, much less any random shmo, it has a flawed interface. It's been argued and argued again: intuitive interfaces are hard. Easy interfaces are harder.
Linux is hard. Computing in general is hard. Only things that are easy are 4 function calculators. Minus those stupid "c" and "ce" buttons.
All we have is, a really smart person couldn't do it. Maybe you need a consensus to make sure it wasn't his own fault and that other people can do it, or the opposite.
The difference is, MS fails at both at the same time frequently.
You are right. But it mimics the uid of the user set for the file in question as if it were that uid.
An error in my phrasing of that.
A minor quib. JSPs get compiled into servlets, usually. At least tomcat does. It turns the jsp into java source extending servlet or something like.
Depends. What if you can run multiple high capacity tapes at the same time? Even if they hit 10TB, software that can deal with 4 drives at once, in some sort of inteligible fashion, might not be bad. Raid5 tapes anyone?
Doesn't google desktop already do this?
Google is in the buisness of managing information. Email is a good problem for google, as finding old email, organization and spam filtering is all about information handling. IMs, not so much. I don't think it's the next logical step.
Btw, php does not make mod_perl obsolete. Yes, php can be hosted in a lesser secure area, as php scripts assume the user its running as, but that's about it. It's an ugly language full of redundancy, bugs and inconsistent style. j2ee and
Biggest problem with php, is their "modules" are c-compiled. There is the least portability with it. With perl, perl written modules, not the XS modules, can be easily copied anywhere. j2ee not so much, as the configuration files change format from server to server. But from os to os, they are the same.
Gah, I said vertex colouring when I meant network flow. My bad. :)
This is the 21st century. Integers are 64 bit now. 30k is close to a short, a signed one at that. Such waste. What are schools teaching you these days. Back in my day, an integer was 1 bit! and you liked it!
Then it's a matter of feeding the data at a rate so you don't backlog faster than the amount of data you get in.
If you are wanting an explanation of turning it into a graph, I can spend an hour or so turning the various constraints into one. Just need to know/think about all the constraints, such as, making sure enough staff are moving into the right places to go to a "next flight".
Tnx, I've been trying to understand "Orthogonality". How does it work in linear algebra?
You don't need double buffering to implement opengl and vice versa. The original statement was about OpenGL bringing double buffering. Most modern graphical applications already double buffer w/o OpenGL. Just like I can do OpenGL, or emulate it, w/o double buffering and get the flicker effect. But most card makers who implement 3d, including OpenGL like interfaces, are smarter than that when they write drivers.
OpenGL and double buffering are mutually exclusive. One can implement double buffering in software. OpenGL compatability allows drivers to be written that throws all that drawing stuff to a seperate cpu, namely the one on your video card.
Which week and which calendar so I know to avoid your bad jokes?
One that lasts you a long time? Sure. I stil am using my 400mhz desktop mac at home, with panther and a good chunk of ram. Macs last a long time, thus, more for your money.
Agreed. I'd like to see how much money was lost or required to fix damages versus the cost of fixing the security holes that should be fixed anyway.
1. prior versions of netbeans auto-genned fugly code for the gui's you laid out.
2. Many people I know do visual coding by hand, similar to html to some degree.
It's knowledge. If your componenets are limited to mechanical, you have an edge over someone else. The simplest I can think of, are locks. If you wished to have a two key system where both keys match, one of these mechanical gates would work well. No electricity required.
When you make a lot of money, and perception is key, egos are insane. You and I, who prolly don't make $200k a year or more and "have power", would readily kill off such a project. But you blemish their unwritten records, and people start getting beligerent, and hard headed. Look at anything in todays age or yesteryear. When money and power get in the mix, common sense goes the other direction.