True but the author also left out Windows Server but he did count the vulnerabilities in the server applications that come with Mac OS X. This was NOT an apples to apples comparison.
Unfortunately, due to 3D Realms' lack of experience submitting games to the ESRB, it would appear that they were unaware of the various industry guidelines in place and the consequences of not complying with those guidelines.
So how I'm reading this the ESRB is basically saying you can't go out and read the guidelines and be able to submit a game with much success on your first couple of attempts, you have to submit a bunch of times and through trial and error you'll figure out how the guidelines work? It's pretty ridiculous to suggest that the only way you can successfully submit games is by having past experience submitting games.
So you pick a web browser based on how well it supports plug-ins instead of how well it can browse the web? You probably make phone calls on your camera too don't you?:-P
Good argument. The only thing that doesn't settle well with me is your argument based on the groundbreaking technology that ILM developed. That argument doesn't exactly sound objective, it sounds like Star Wars would always be at the top and any other movie would at best get #2 just because they didn't develop the technology first.
But keeping with your arguments I think the film Things to Come deserves a spot on the list. I wasn't around in 1936 to see this one in the theaters but I have to believe this movie was not only groundbreaking but also showed a huge amount of foresight. It was just three years off on its prediction of a second world war and seems to have predicted the concept of the flying wing. Of course it's H.G. Wells I should really thank for that foresight.
If you're a programmer you could grab the source code for a utility I wrote to kill processes by name as they appear and modify it to change the priority any time the process appears. The tool is called Process Hunter Daemon. You can get the source code at my homepage (http://yakko.cs.wmich.edu/~rattles/development/wi ndows/#phunterd).
The benefit of going this route would be that it doesn't matter how someone started the 3D Studio Max executable, it would always get changed to low priority. Actually I might do the modification myself because I'm kind of digging the idea. The list of programs that ProcessHunterD looks for is configurable, you could just as easily make the priority configurable as well so you could change it to give other executables higher priority if you'd like.
Our team has a message board on our intranet with a forum dedicated to social events. Once in a while a social (usually either going out to the bar, a LAN party, team picnic, etc.) thread is created and everyone on the team is invited. The only way you would be the odd (wo)man out in this situation is by choosing not to go.
Try setting up a social outing like this and choose something the guys are interested in (drinking, board/card gaming, LAN party, etc.). It may take a few tries to get a good number of people to go but once you do it can really help break any barriers that had existed prior.
Heck, I'd commend the five and give them promotions. No, make that two promotions! By conciously doing something that explicitly violated their company's policies and then having the honesty to admit that they did something wrong makes these people heroes in my opinion and they should be promoted to management. It takes a lot of balls to do something wrong, admit it, and then expect to be an exception to the rules and consequences. Let's hear it for these five heroic whiners!
And as we all know, the only reason anyone would ever buy a computer is to play games. Yep, that's why I bought my PC running Gentoo and my Powerbook, so I can play all of those games that don't run on those boxes. When was the last time you even went out to look at what games run on a Mac? Of course you can just toss in an opinion-loaded word like "decent" to qualify which types of games run on a Mac so you can weasel your way out of your argument by stating one game that doesn't run natively on a Mac but as far as I'm concerned Civ IV, World of Warcraft, Doom 3, UT 2004, Halo, Call of Duty, Starcraft, Everquest, Dungeon Siege, Medal of Honor, Baldur's Gate 2, Star Wars: KOTOR, Battlefield 1942, The Sims, and Warcraft III are all "decent" games.
Now if you are a Windows afficianado you can still get a Mac and use boot camp and that copy of Windows you're using to run any other game you can think of.
"The CMVP does not provide information regarding the status or reason as in many cases it may be proprietary"
This is one of the most ridiculous statements I've ever read. How is the problem supposed to be fixed if the vendor is never told what the problem is, and so what if it's proprietary? When I read a statement like this it suggests to me that there's doesn't have to be a method behind how they determine what's rejected and what's not, the person(s) deciding could have simply had a proprietary "I'm in a bad mood today and want to take it out on someone" reason.
The API is designed for Java/.Net and you think it's a good excuse to learn Ruby? Wouldn't it be a better excuse to learn Java or.Net? Also, you said it yourself that it's a simple app so I don't think you need to bend over backwards "designing" a "full-fledged" Java app either. Just write the simple app using whichever API makes most sense for whatever you're interfacing with. On one side you say you have a Java/.Net API but what do you need to interface that with, another Java/.Net app? If that's the case your decision should be obvious.
If he's a Java developer stuck using Eclipse and running one or more servers locally for test development his system requirements can easily add up to what one might amount to a "miniature semi."
Eclipse without any projects open can consume almost 100 MB of memory, open up a project or two, run a web server, toss in a database server since all web apps seem to need them these days, bring up IE, Firefox, etc. for testing and suddenly 1 GB almost isn't enough...
This is a very specific example but if you work in a very specific development environment then development doesn't necessarily require "little hardware."
Anyway, my solutions are 1) for personal development projects I use my Powerbook and 2) for work I have an IBM Thinkpad that's powerful enough to allow me to Remote Desktop into my desktop computer and develop there and skirt the hardware (and software) requirements. Remoting in can be a bit laggy but none of what I do requires quick refreshes of the screen.
Several people have mentioned shelves in some form or another. I went the exact opposite route and had all shelves and cabinets above my desk area removed. It allowed me to push my display back further to a more comfortable distance/height and it makes my cubicle feel much larger and more open than it actually is. It just makes my work environment feel less cluttered/stressful and more relaxing, which helps me work more effectively.
I had my doubts about what you wrote here so I went out to Google and priced and looked up the power consumption of a 19" Sony Trinitron CRT versus a 19" ViewSonic LCD. The cheapest new Sony I found was $340 and had an active power consumption of 140 W. The cheapest new ViewSonic I found was $400 with an active power consumption of 50 W.
At $0.08 per kWh running the Sony for one month straight without going to sleep it would cost me $8.33 per month to operate. Do the same for the ViewSonic and it would cost $2.98 per month. With a price difference of $60 and a price per month difference in energy used of $5.35 it would be just over 11 months before the LCD saved in energy the $60 it cost you for the purchase up front.
If you used each for another three years before buying a different monitor you would have spent $300 on the Sony just to power it whereas you would have only spent $107 powering the ViewSonic. The $200 difference would pay for half of your next LCD.:)
Now consider the space saved, the continued energy you save, the lesser weight in the LCD, and how frequently the typical person goes through new monitors/displays, I think the LCD is clearly worth the extra $60 up front and will save you in the end.
I don't watch much TV but I discovered that my cable company offers a $20/month discount if I get both cable TV and broadband through them. So I bought the very most basic cable service which was $10 and broadband. So now I get basic cable and broadband for $10 cheaper than I could have bought the broadband alone. If you don't watch much TV it's something to look into.
I'm glad there are still people out there who realize that there is a time and place where hand optimizing code is actually beneficial. Regardless of which language it's not difficult to write inefficient code if you aren't careful (or even if you are and just having one of those days) and compilers don't always do a perfect job either.
How well does this CMP work when you're pulling from a table with 150 million records? What if I want data from this table for each of my 10,000 customers? Do I have to hit the table 10,000 different times or can the container do joins in a smart enough way to get the data efficiently and reliably?
If it means spammers in China, Russia, or anywhere else US anti-spam laws don't apply are using a separate Internet than the US then why wait a whole month? Let's split the Internet now.
We want to share in those revenue streams I'm sorry but how is that not greedy?
And as a consumer I think $.99 for every song is MUCH better than a variable pricing scheme. I can buy any song knowing it's only going to cost me a buck and don't have to worry about that random $3 song that I otherwise would not have bought.
Hi, I'm a CS student and always looking for ways to automate repetitive tasks. Is there any project out there that can do my work for me so that I don't have to?
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True but the author also left out Windows Server but he did count the vulnerabilities in the server applications that come with Mac OS X. This was NOT an apples to apples comparison.
So how I'm reading this the ESRB is basically saying you can't go out and read the guidelines and be able to submit a game with much success on your first couple of attempts, you have to submit a bunch of times and through trial and error you'll figure out how the guidelines work? It's pretty ridiculous to suggest that the only way you can successfully submit games is by having past experience submitting games.
Y'know, with all of these 'freedoms' that the people like and enjoy so much it must be difficult to make laws.
$19 million right down the crapper!
So you pick a web browser based on how well it supports plug-ins instead of how well it can browse the web? You probably make phone calls on your camera too don't you? :-P
Good argument. The only thing that doesn't settle well with me is your argument based on the groundbreaking technology that ILM developed. That argument doesn't exactly sound objective, it sounds like Star Wars would always be at the top and any other movie would at best get #2 just because they didn't develop the technology first.
But keeping with your arguments I think the film Things to Come deserves a spot on the list. I wasn't around in 1936 to see this one in the theaters but I have to believe this movie was not only groundbreaking but also showed a huge amount of foresight. It was just three years off on its prediction of a second world war and seems to have predicted the concept of the flying wing. Of course it's H.G. Wells I should really thank for that foresight.
If you're a programmer you could grab the source code for a utility I wrote to kill processes by name as they appear and modify it to change the priority any time the process appears. The tool is called Process Hunter Daemon. You can get the source code at my homepage (http://yakko.cs.wmich.edu/~rattles/development/wi ndows/#phunterd).
The benefit of going this route would be that it doesn't matter how someone started the 3D Studio Max executable, it would always get changed to low priority. Actually I might do the modification myself because I'm kind of digging the idea. The list of programs that ProcessHunterD looks for is configurable, you could just as easily make the priority configurable as well so you could change it to give other executables higher priority if you'd like.
Our team has a message board on our intranet with a forum dedicated to social events. Once in a while a social (usually either going out to the bar, a LAN party, team picnic, etc.) thread is created and everyone on the team is invited. The only way you would be the odd (wo)man out in this situation is by choosing not to go.
Try setting up a social outing like this and choose something the guys are interested in (drinking, board/card gaming, LAN party, etc.). It may take a few tries to get a good number of people to go but once you do it can really help break any barriers that had existed prior.
Heck, I'd commend the five and give them promotions. No, make that two promotions! By conciously doing something that explicitly violated their company's policies and then having the honesty to admit that they did something wrong makes these people heroes in my opinion and they should be promoted to management. It takes a lot of balls to do something wrong, admit it, and then expect to be an exception to the rules and consequences. Let's hear it for these five heroic whiners!
And as we all know, the only reason anyone would ever buy a computer is to play games. Yep, that's why I bought my PC running Gentoo and my Powerbook, so I can play all of those games that don't run on those boxes. When was the last time you even went out to look at what games run on a Mac? Of course you can just toss in an opinion-loaded word like "decent" to qualify which types of games run on a Mac so you can weasel your way out of your argument by stating one game that doesn't run natively on a Mac but as far as I'm concerned Civ IV, World of Warcraft, Doom 3, UT 2004, Halo, Call of Duty, Starcraft, Everquest, Dungeon Siege, Medal of Honor, Baldur's Gate 2, Star Wars: KOTOR, Battlefield 1942, The Sims, and Warcraft III are all "decent" games.
Now if you are a Windows afficianado you can still get a Mac and use boot camp and that copy of Windows you're using to run any other game you can think of.
"The CMVP does not provide information regarding the status or reason as in many cases it may be proprietary"
This is one of the most ridiculous statements I've ever read. How is the problem supposed to be fixed if the vendor is never told what the problem is, and so what if it's proprietary? When I read a statement like this it suggests to me that there's doesn't have to be a method behind how they determine what's rejected and what's not, the person(s) deciding could have simply had a proprietary "I'm in a bad mood today and want to take it out on someone" reason.
The API is designed for Java/.Net and you think it's a good excuse to learn Ruby? Wouldn't it be a better excuse to learn Java or .Net? Also, you said it yourself that it's a simple app so I don't think you need to bend over backwards "designing" a "full-fledged" Java app either. Just write the simple app using whichever API makes most sense for whatever you're interfacing with. On one side you say you have a Java/.Net API but what do you need to interface that with, another Java/.Net app? If that's the case your decision should be obvious.
Yeah! And then remove all of the wood, metal, and fabric from Mexico so they can't build ladders and ropes to climb over it!
If he's a Java developer stuck using Eclipse and running one or more servers locally for test development his system requirements can easily add up to what one might amount to a "miniature semi."
Eclipse without any projects open can consume almost 100 MB of memory, open up a project or two, run a web server, toss in a database server since all web apps seem to need them these days, bring up IE, Firefox, etc. for testing and suddenly 1 GB almost isn't enough...
This is a very specific example but if you work in a very specific development environment then development doesn't necessarily require "little hardware."
Anyway, my solutions are 1) for personal development projects I use my Powerbook and 2) for work I have an IBM Thinkpad that's powerful enough to allow me to Remote Desktop into my desktop computer and develop there and skirt the hardware (and software) requirements. Remoting in can be a bit laggy but none of what I do requires quick refreshes of the screen.
Several people have mentioned shelves in some form or another. I went the exact opposite route and had all shelves and cabinets above my desk area removed. It allowed me to push my display back further to a more comfortable distance/height and it makes my cubicle feel much larger and more open than it actually is. It just makes my work environment feel less cluttered/stressful and more relaxing, which helps me work more effectively.
That's pretty impressive, I don't even think I could flip through all 52 cards in 30 seconds.
I had my doubts about what you wrote here so I went out to Google and priced and looked up the power consumption of a 19" Sony Trinitron CRT versus a 19" ViewSonic LCD. The cheapest new Sony I found was $340 and had an active power consumption of 140 W. The cheapest new ViewSonic I found was $400 with an active power consumption of 50 W.
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At $0.08 per kWh running the Sony for one month straight without going to sleep it would cost me $8.33 per month to operate. Do the same for the ViewSonic and it would cost $2.98 per month. With a price difference of $60 and a price per month difference in energy used of $5.35 it would be just over 11 months before the LCD saved in energy the $60 it cost you for the purchase up front.
If you used each for another three years before buying a different monitor you would have spent $300 on the Sony just to power it whereas you would have only spent $107 powering the ViewSonic. The $200 difference would pay for half of your next LCD.
Now consider the space saved, the continued energy you save, the lesser weight in the LCD, and how frequently the typical person goes through new monitors/displays, I think the LCD is clearly worth the extra $60 up front and will save you in the end.
I don't watch much TV but I discovered that my cable company offers a $20/month discount if I get both cable TV and broadband through them. So I bought the very most basic cable service which was $10 and broadband. So now I get basic cable and broadband for $10 cheaper than I could have bought the broadband alone. If you don't watch much TV it's something to look into.
Is this the same University of Florida that extracted rat neurons for a flying experiment in this article?
I'm glad there are still people out there who realize that there is a time and place where hand optimizing code is actually beneficial. Regardless of which language it's not difficult to write inefficient code if you aren't careful (or even if you are and just having one of those days) and compilers don't always do a perfect job either.
How well does this CMP work when you're pulling from a table with 150 million records? What if I want data from this table for each of my 10,000 customers? Do I have to hit the table 10,000 different times or can the container do joins in a smart enough way to get the data efficiently and reliably?
If it means spammers in China, Russia, or anywhere else US anti-spam laws don't apply are using a separate Internet than the US then why wait a whole month? Let's split the Internet now.
Syncing does work with the most recent firmware on the V710. With a small property file hack you can get syncing to work with iSync in OS X as well.
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See this article:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2005
We want to share in those revenue streams
I'm sorry but how is that not greedy?
And as a consumer I think $.99 for every song is MUCH better than a variable pricing scheme. I can buy any song knowing it's only going to cost me a buck and don't have to worry about that random $3 song that I otherwise would not have bought.
Hi, I'm a CS student and always looking for ways to automate repetitive tasks. Is there any project out there that can do my work for me so that I don't have to?