Are a daylight robbery. First you have to shell out over $200 for the phone itself then they sting you with a connection fee and then they offer you the exclusive $20/month deal. Except the twenty bucks is twenty bucks plus GST plus PST plus $6.95 of, listen to this: "Tower Maintenance Fee". Then once you walk off with the phone there is a charge on your phone whether someone calls you or you call someone. Either way you pay.
Having lived in the UK for quite some time, every Canadian cellphone "Special Offer" feels like a rip-off.
poor service in what? Royal Mail has a superior service to both, USPS and CanadaPost. It is something I know about quite well as I work with them for a living.
Nope. That doesn't solve everything. There are complex build scenarios where I might say, deploy things in two different remote locations but if one of the ftp sessions fails I want to revert the change in both places. It's more than simple version control of files. It may apply to failed unit tests, failed compiles, failed ftp transfers, missing access rigths and a whole host of things that could go wrong during a complex deployment scenario.
You can sort of do it by relying on certains side effects but it's still far from a built-in 'rollback' support where your scripting engine can undo all its former actions on a specified condition.
out of a build/deploy tool. One thing I always envisioned in a build/deploy script is the ability to successfully 'rollback' all the changes applied in case of a failure. Say I tried to move a bunch of files from directory A to B and if one of them lacks write permissions it moves none of the files. This would help us come a long way towards a robust build and deployment strategy. Most install scripts are not only pretty poorly written (expect certain files to reside in specific locations) also in case of failure they leave an inconsistent mess of random files moved or copied around on your drive. We need a build/deploy tool with 'rollback'.
Also, there is little consistency in Ant's syntax. Are they planning on creating a schema or a DTD for Ant so I don't have to perpetually debug my scripts by trial and error? What about a debugger? Ant's getting more and more complex as a scripting engine and it's approaching the point where a debugger would really be useful in some cases.
Have you considered java? Sounds insane, I know but Java3D seems to be coming of age and I've seen some pretty impressive large data visualisation demos written in it. It saves you a lot of headaches with cross platform development issues.
I realise that most people think of Java only as a server side technology but Sun has been putting a lot of effort into making it more appealing to the scientific programming community.
You should really give it another chance.
Yours truly,
You know who, eh?:-)
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Even worse is people assuming that all patterns are good for is what is discussed in the book's examples. For instance, most developers can only apply the bridge pattern to GUI development because that's the example GoF used in their text. It's pretty sad that people find it so hard to translate one problem domain to another.
The other danger of patterns is that certain developers only understand a couple of them really well and they become their 'favourite' patterns. Then every piece of code they touch has to implement one of their three pet paterns. And god forbid if one of those patterns is a 'Singleton'...
Anyone has a link to the complete ranking? Who's number one? Who's last? Actually I have a pretty good idea which countries would be located towards the bottom of that list...
The beginning is a skillful emulation of manifesti such as that of the futurists.
Care to provide an English-to-English translation for us mere mortals? Or are you whoring for karma by formulating sentences that don't make any sense?
What are you talking about? Who's snotty here? Me who has a pragmatic look at thigns or the authors who can't even formulate in their abstract what the hell their paper is all about? They are obviously so kewl and hip that they no longer have to state what the purpose of the paper is! And I'm getting accused of being pertentious? Give me a goddamn break.
Why challenge something when you have no constructive alternative approach to suggest? That's like me coming and saying to the civil engineering society: "Why do you guys build suspension bridges? do the same without the ropes!". Did I challenge them? That's one way of viewing it. Being the pragmatic moron that I am I just see it as making an arse of oneself.
In other words challenge the programming paradigms if you have a better approach in mind and can demonstrate it work at least in an academic experiment. Otherwise: challenge my ass.
OK. So I didn't read the paper... Perhaps it's great but more than likely it's another one of those pointless academic super high level treaties on software construction that really don't help anyone write better software.
When I was in school I read a book titled "Software Construction, a holistic approach" or something along those lines. Over 300 pages of pure irrelevant theoretical nonsense that didn't help me become a better developer one bit. I sense this paper is no different. Maybe I'm wrong but their abstract hasn't sold me on reading the rest either.
I'm not against reading academic papers. In fact I really appreciate reading a good paper on an interesting research topic (like the paper on AOP I read a while back) but those '10,000 feet view of the discipline' papers rarely have enough substance in them to make reading them worth the time invested.
Re:1702FP is from Samsung
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Interesting... Is it based on a Samsung panel though? Or is the panel supplied by someone else and Samsung just does the electronics?
Re: Those aren't LCDs people buy
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link please...
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They arent! 1900FP and 1800FP are rebadged Samsungs. 1702FP is a rebadged Philips IIRC and 2000FP is an Acer.
Re: Those aren't LCDs people buy
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1702FP is NOT made by Samsung. 1800FP and 1900FP are.
Re:The resolution still isn't up to par...
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Time will fix that. Desktop LCDs are still early adopters' technology. The cost premium now because they've only been in the consumer market for a couple of seasons (at least the large sized ones). The economies of scale will drive the price down in a couple of years and the response times and viewing angles are getting better literally every month. This is the beginning of the end of Cathode Ray Tube. The game is over. LCDs have won even if most consumers aren't aware of it yet... Buying a CRT now is essentially investing in obsolete technology.
Re:The resolution still isn't up to par...
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Text will never look as sharp on your 19" CRT as it will on a DVI equipped LCD. You get what you pay for. Deal with it.
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This roundup is not representative of what most people tend to buy. There is a huge thread
on arstechnica that covers most LCDs that are good value today.
Personally, I would only consider the Dell 1702FP (a beaufiful 17" DVI panel) or the Dell 2000FP (a huge 20" panel that can be had for $1300 if you apply some Dell discounts). Samsungs are OK but I don't like their panels' piss poor black reproduction. If you want your computer to look hip go get a Samsung, but if you want a screen that delivers beautiful images then Dell is the better vendor even if their case styling isn't as nice.
Perhaps at first it will seem as it worked out. But when they reached some goals they'll probably fall out with each other over little issues.
No they won't, if they wisen up and draw some lessons from the way James Jones had things organized...
Re:Walter Williams wrote an article about this pla
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Bullshit!
Reverend Jones did just fine, at least for a little while...
Re:Why does a 15" LCD TV cost 3x an LCD display?
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Err.. I beg to differ. Most LCD panels (the stand alone ones, not the laptop crap) have angles of around 170 degrees, horizontal and vertical. This is for all intents and purposes, as good as any CRT. If there is anything that can be complained about with modern LCDs it's the rise/fall time which may cause fast games to look blurred. I'm not a gamer so I don't care.
To me the quality of text on an LCD is so much better than a CRT there is no comparison. For the record I don't shop for low end displays: My old 19" Eizo CRT has just been replaced with a brand new Dell 2000FP and the difference in picture quality is absolutely astounding. The only snag is that for an LCD to shine it must be driven through the DVI input. For any LCD RGB~DVI==NIGHT~DAY
Let's go after some poor Russian chap. Luckily the US doesn't have snipers out on the loose shooting random people like ducks, it is essential that they concentrate on some low key, harmless, russian coder to boost their egos a little.
A bit like with Iraq really, the US failed to capture Osama so they're now after (fingers crossed) easier targets to make them appear less incompetent in the public eye. Seems like trying to prove that the country still works even though hardly anyone still believes that it does.
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Having lived in the UK for quite some time, every Canadian cellphone "Special Offer" feels like a rip-off.
poor service in what? Royal Mail has a superior service to both, USPS and CanadaPost. It is something I know about quite well as I work with them for a living.
Nope. That doesn't solve everything. There are complex build scenarios where I might say, deploy things in two different remote locations but if one of the ftp sessions fails I want to revert the change in both places. It's more than simple version control of files. It may apply to failed unit tests, failed compiles, failed ftp transfers, missing access rigths and a whole host of things that could go wrong during a complex deployment scenario.
You can sort of do it by relying on certains side effects but it's still far from a built-in 'rollback' support where your scripting engine can undo all its former actions on a specified condition.
Also, there is little consistency in Ant's syntax. Are they planning on creating a schema or a DTD for Ant so I don't have to perpetually debug my scripts by trial and error? What about a debugger? Ant's getting more and more complex as a scripting engine and it's approaching the point where a debugger would really be useful in some cases.
Have you considered java? Sounds insane, I know but Java3D seems to be coming of age and I've seen some pretty impressive large data visualisation demos written in it. It saves you a lot of headaches with cross platform development issues.
I realise that most people think of Java only as a server side technology but Sun has been putting a lot of effort into making it more appealing to the scientific programming community. You should really give it another chance.
Yours truly,
You know who, eh? :-)
The other danger of patterns is that certain developers only understand a couple of them really well and they become their 'favourite' patterns. Then every piece of code they touch has to implement one of their three pet paterns. And god forbid if one of those patterns is a 'Singleton'...
Anyone has a link to the complete ranking? Who's number one? Who's last? Actually I have a pretty good idea which countries would be located towards the bottom of that list...
Crap. that reply wasn't actually meant for your comment... Sorry.
Care to provide an English-to-English translation for us mere mortals? Or are you whoring for karma by formulating sentences that don't make any sense?
What are you talking about? Who's snotty here? Me who has a pragmatic look at thigns or the authors who can't even formulate in their abstract what the hell their paper is all about? They are obviously so kewl and hip that they no longer have to state what the purpose of the paper is! And I'm getting accused of being pertentious? Give me a goddamn break.
In other words challenge the programming paradigms if you have a better approach in mind and can demonstrate it work at least in an academic experiment. Otherwise: challenge my ass.
When I was in school I read a book titled "Software Construction, a holistic approach" or something along those lines. Over 300 pages of pure irrelevant theoretical nonsense that didn't help me become a better developer one bit. I sense this paper is no different. Maybe I'm wrong but their abstract hasn't sold me on reading the rest either.
I'm not against reading academic papers. In fact I really appreciate reading a good paper on an interesting research topic (like the paper on AOP I read a while back) but those '10,000 feet view of the discipline' papers rarely have enough substance in them to make reading them worth the time invested.
Interesting... Is it based on a Samsung panel though? Or is the panel supplied by someone else and Samsung just does the electronics?
link please...
They arent! 1900FP and 1800FP are rebadged Samsungs. 1702FP is a rebadged Philips IIRC and 2000FP is an Acer.
1702FP is NOT made by Samsung. 1800FP and 1900FP are.
Time will fix that. Desktop LCDs are still early adopters' technology. The cost premium now because they've only been in the consumer market for a couple of seasons (at least the large sized ones). The economies of scale will drive the price down in a couple of years and the response times and viewing angles are getting better literally every month. This is the beginning of the end of Cathode Ray Tube. The game is over. LCDs have won even if most consumers aren't aware of it yet... Buying a CRT now is essentially investing in obsolete technology.
Text will never look as sharp on your 19" CRT as it will on a DVI equipped LCD. You get what you pay for. Deal with it.
Personally, I would only consider the Dell 1702FP (a beaufiful 17" DVI panel) or the Dell 2000FP (a huge 20" panel that can be had for $1300 if you apply some Dell discounts). Samsungs are OK but I don't like their panels' piss poor black reproduction. If you want your computer to look hip go get a Samsung, but if you want a screen that delivers beautiful images then Dell is the better vendor even if their case styling isn't as nice.
Didn't quite get the joke did we?
No they won't, if they wisen up and draw some lessons from the way James Jones had things organized...
Reverend Jones did just fine, at least for a little while...
To me the quality of text on an LCD is so much better than a CRT there is no comparison. For the record I don't shop for low end displays: My old 19" Eizo CRT has just been replaced with a brand new Dell 2000FP and the difference in picture quality is absolutely astounding. The only snag is that for an LCD to shine it must be driven through the DVI input. For any LCD RGB~DVI==NIGHT~DAY
A bit like with Iraq really, the US failed to capture Osama so they're now after (fingers crossed) easier targets to make them appear less incompetent in the public eye. Seems like trying to prove that the country still works even though hardly anyone still believes that it does.