I shudder to think what fate would befall yanks that did the same... probably get themselves locked up right next to the promoters of the gitmo girlie shows.
Not excatly open source.. not even close. Not cheap either. It's probably an overkill if you only have a couple thousand boxes to manage.
Hiring students - rewarding the apple polishers with jobs - maybe the most cost effective method. It might have benefits from an educational perspective too.
Apple isn't trying to write search engines?
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I beg to differ, Sherlock rules!
But I have yet to put a tiger in my tank, and early reports are that the desktop search tool is greatly improved in.4
I would agree in principal, tho. Apple does one thing and does it well, building cool gizmos. There is some compitition with Microsoft in that M$ has made some forays into the gizmo market - I'm not sure that they will ever get that cool part right tho. Maybe I would feel different if I liked FPS games - I'd rather play paint ball or shoot trap.
Google, like Apple, seems to have tuned in to the complete birth of cool.
but it all depends on what your definition of it is...
Overnight campouts with the boy scouts are often a fifth graders first experience being away from their parents. Only a person without childern and/or of questionable sexual preferences themselves would advocate the involvement of avowed homosexuals in that environment.
I mean who in their right mind would let their kid spend the night with whacko jacko anyway? The boy scouts would very quickly become a "gays only" organization were they to endorse homosexuality.
Homosexuality is bad for a culture/society/sivilization. reproduction comes from hetrosexual contact. And in the long run reproduction is a lot more sustainable than recruitment. the new recruits tend to dilute your doctorine.
\Yeah, that's like sooo outdated, nobody downloades files anymore. And Input/ouput devices have gone the way of the big blue dinosaurs\
all those requirements seem to be relative to computers... where do you live that you couldn't find a merit badge counselor that was qualified to hold those kind of discussions?
BSA in NOT funded with public funds. I don't know where you think you're getting your information but I assure you that you are mistaken, BSA is not supported with government moneies.
I'm not sure how Baden Powell would have felt about IP, he was a little late for the "triangle trade" but he didn't seem to have/take issue with colonization of the third world. I guess they didn't refer to any place as part of the third world back then, there was just one world and as the sun went around that world it never set on the empire.
Much of the British global expansion that was going on during BP's time (1857-1941) was driven by strictly regualted technological advances. The brits had steam engines and guns and the Africans, Indians, and Chineese didn't. Lord Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell of Gilwell, who was merely Lt. General Robert Baden-Powell at the time he founded the boy scouts, spent most of his career in the service of the crown. I don't know for certain, but I wouldn't suspect that he would have been a open source proponet. I think that he probably would have considered the sharing of the inner workings of the British technology with a World Wide audience to be treasonous. But that's purely speculation on my part.
He probably would have deployed troops in Hong-Kong to prevent bootlegging of British DVDs, again, purely speculation from someone who is not one of the 3Gs
you jump to a conclusion / make an assumption that LoC is a problem to be solved. But view the situation from a different perspective, the PHBs that sign the checks for example:
Only things that can be sold hold any value - the source code is like tailings from the mine. Source code, and the comments within are the domain of menials. These menials weep, moan and nash their teeth because of their lot in life. We, the ruling class, must constantly be engaged in the search for cost savings on the path to profit. The song of the menials as they toil is not a source of cost savings, or profit. If they have so much spare time that they can complain about each other's writings they are not working hard enough.
we're doing it the other way around here and it's not working out very well (no, I'm not saying where here is)
Once I had to write a windows 3.11 device driver, so I downloaded the windows device driver developers kit (DDK) from microsquish... It was all 80286 assembler with the comments in spanish. I like assembler: it's not all uptight and regimented like c is, but I would have liked to have been able to read the comments. I was able to get my device driver written & working (& two years later a win95 version but I bailed on the win98), I'm not sure that it would have worked out as well if I didn't understand the example code but I did get the comments. I guess that's what being a PHB would be like.
descriptive variable/constant names are good thing, they only are not sufficient, but a good thing none the less.
The snippett referenced above could be cooler by escewing the use of 'tmp' as a data element name... There may be some extremely rare instances where such usage is warranted. But in large, use of such names is somewhat akin to the use of profanity: the resort of the weak minded when they are at a loss for comunication tools.
Here's another go at it:
\//add elapsed time to fps accumulator and counter
current_update_time = SDL_GetTicks();
msec_since_last_update = current_update_time - last_update;
last_update = current_update_time;
fps_timer += msec_since_last_update;
fps_counter++;
Uh, Korn, or Bourne for that matter, is quite usable by "mere mortals". Those that can't are sub-((human|par)|sentient)
But Apple has truely been a pioneer. I don't think IBM would have ever built a PC if it weren't for Apple'a sucsess.
I know it was down right embarassing to walk into my customers' sites and quote them costs of making system changes to the cyber 2000 and then listen to them extol the speed and time with which they could process that same data with Visicalc on their Apple... Big Blue musta been blushing too.
The only suprise is how long Apple's been in business without Microsoft buying them. I guess that Apple must be percieved as a hardware company by the boys in redmond. Or maybe it's too big of a byte to swallow?
people have always treated me like a mushroom... but I am knocking down less dough that I was half a decade or so ago.
Now I'm working in a.net shop and well, I do get treated like a pariah or mac user or something by my co-workers (I think the original post is on about customer/consumer types rather than peers:-).
But I was a red-headed step-child comin' up so it's water off a duck's back
driving too slow in the fast lane would seem to be more of a courtesy issue rather than an actual infraction. So you're right in that it doesn't warrant lethal force to defend yourself from this crime. On the other hand, drunken driving or speeding do seem to be the sort of crimes that endanger peoples lives and therefore one would be justified in using lethal force to defend themselves
Yes. Electric cars are definately a threat to the American way of life, way more so than the GPL. You guys are all a bunch of commie pinkos for even reading about them.
The fact that this threat comes from RED CHINA says it all. IF we let them build these things we'll be going around on nothin' but bicycles (imported, used flying pigeons, probably) within 10 years.
These weapons of mass transportation must be destroyed! Good thing Bush is in the white house
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Ok, I guess that's a start... But at the company I work for (/^$/) we have kept the helpdesk (entry level) positions and sent the developer jobs offshore. I used to be a developer, I was afraid that I'd get confused in the mornings if I moved to another company - so I'm working the helpdesk now. I didn't have to take a cut in pay so I guess there is a silver lining - but I miss my old buds who have all monstered out to places that still code onshore. And I have some unexpected results to modification requests.
The only flame I have to add is that all the commercial electrics that I've seen were of the wedgie variety and anybody with any cycling sense (or concern for efficiency:-) has already gotten 'bent. I would recommend that you get 'bent too. There are many sites that extol the virtues of the venerable recumbent, too numerous to link to here. But suffice it to say that I rode and commuted (to the tune of 175mi per week) on a wedgie for many a year. The show stopper wasn't the neck and back pain, it wasn't the pressure on the glutes, it wasn't even the numbness in my hands - it was the friction in the squishy bit area.
I've decided that the DX kit (which I don't think is available anymore) followed closely by the SX kit from ZAP (http://www.zapworld.com/) are probably the quickest, easiest way to convert my 'bent (http://www.lightningbikes.com/) to an eBent (or yer wedgie for that matter - both kits were designed for wedgies:-). Both of these kits drive the wheel through a friction roller right on the tire. They were designed to drive the rear wheel, ZAP offers a kit to drive the front wheel too, but it doesn't have the beefy power output of the SX & DX kits
Then when I started looking at yer golden monkey stuff I got to thinking about the relative rpms of my differently sized wheel... I'm wondering how much juice I could generate outta my 16" front wheel - but I ain't bright enough to do that kinda math. Maybe I could get you engineer types to give me a hand?
The 2000 presidential debates were televised by almost every network. Inside the two candidates (in dark suits)debated the virtues of square patterns on the neck tie versus round patterns on the neck tie. Outside, protesters (carrying signs and chanting slogans) were being clubbed by mounted policemen. Only one network covered that. The only candidate I saw outside was Nadar - wearing a t-shirt (i was spending a lot of my evenings in hotels during the 2000 campaigns and hence, watchin' a lot of the tube - it beats drinking although not by much:-)
I wouldn't expect any change from anybody inside, they're too happy with the status quo. The people outside are the ones that are feeling all the pain. Without pain there is no change.
garmin forerunner 201/101. gps logs position every 5 secs. It displays speed and distance, no heart rate or cadence - but you know when you're working hard and when you ain't.
The deal is you don't need to look at the display at all, just wait 'till you get home and dump it onto your pc. Overlay your route over your favorite topo or street map. It makes it neat little graph with you speed displayed as either speed or pace.
As far as just getting where you're going, you're better off not knowing - think about your feet making circles, one at a time, each one rounder than the last, perfect little circles, even pressure all the way around...
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I shudder to think what fate would befall yanks that did the same... probably get themselves locked up right next to the promoters of the gitmo girlie shows.
Not excatly open source.. not even close.
Not cheap either.
It's probably an overkill if you only have a couple thousand boxes to manage.
Hiring students - rewarding the apple polishers with jobs - maybe the most cost effective method. It might have benefits from an educational perspective too.
I beg to differ, Sherlock rules!
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But I have yet to put a tiger in my tank, and early reports are that the desktop search tool is greatly improved in
I would agree in principal, tho. Apple does one thing and does it well, building cool gizmos. There is some compitition with Microsoft in that M$ has made some forays into the gizmo market - I'm not sure that they will ever get that cool part right tho. Maybe I would feel different if I liked FPS games - I'd rather play paint ball or shoot trap.
Google, like Apple, seems to have tuned in to the complete birth of cool.
but it all depends on what your definition of it is...
Overnight campouts with the boy scouts are often a fifth graders first experience being away from their parents. Only a person without childern and/or of questionable sexual preferences themselves would advocate the involvement of avowed homosexuals in that environment.
I mean who in their right mind would let their kid spend the night with whacko jacko anyway? The boy scouts would very quickly become a "gays only" organization were they to endorse homosexuality.
Homosexuality is bad for a culture/society/sivilization. reproduction comes from hetrosexual contact. And in the long run reproduction is a lot more sustainable than recruitment. the new recruits tend to dilute your doctorine.
\Yeah, that's like sooo outdated, nobody downloades files anymore. And Input/ouput devices have gone the way of the big blue dinosaurs\
all those requirements seem to be relative to computers... where do you live that you couldn't find a merit badge counselor that was qualified to hold those kind of discussions?
BSA in NOT funded with public funds.
I don't know where you think you're getting your information but I assure you that you are mistaken, BSA is not supported with government moneies.
gay is not ok in the BSA.
I'm not sure how Baden Powell would have felt about IP, he was a little late for the "triangle trade" but he didn't seem to have/take issue with colonization of the third world. I guess they didn't refer to any place as part of the third world back then, there was just one world and as the sun went around that world it never set on the empire.
Much of the British global expansion that was going on during BP's time (1857-1941) was driven by strictly regualted technological advances. The brits had steam engines and guns and the Africans, Indians, and Chineese didn't. Lord Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell of Gilwell, who was merely Lt. General Robert Baden-Powell at the time he founded the boy scouts, spent most of his career in the service of the crown. I don't know for certain, but I wouldn't suspect that he would have been a open source proponet. I think that he probably would have considered the sharing of the inner workings of the British technology with a World Wide audience to be treasonous. But that's purely speculation on my part.
He probably would have deployed troops in Hong-Kong to prevent bootlegging of British DVDs, again, purely speculation from someone who is not one of the 3Gs
you jump to a conclusion / make an assumption that LoC is a problem to be solved. But view the situation from a different perspective, the PHBs that sign the checks for example:
Only things that can be sold hold any value - the source code is like tailings from the mine.
Source code, and the comments within are the domain of menials. These menials weep, moan and nash their teeth because of their lot in life. We, the ruling class, must constantly be engaged in the search for cost savings on the path to profit. The song of the menials as they toil is not a source of cost savings, or profit. If they have so much spare time that they can complain about each other's writings they are not working hard enough.
it's been my observation that programmers that work in assembly are more disciplined and neater than those that work in oh, say VB or c# for example.
Now, it's harder to draw such broad generalizations about perl coders, some are elegant and others are, well... like a kid with finger paints.
I've read quite a bit of source that led me to believe that the author must have been choking his chicken
...then off shore the coding
we're doing it the other way around here and it's not working out very well (no, I'm not saying where here is)
Once I had to write a windows 3.11 device driver, so I downloaded the windows device driver developers kit (DDK) from microsquish... It was all 80286 assembler with the comments in spanish. I like assembler: it's not all uptight and regimented like c is, but I would have liked to have been able to read the comments. I was able to get my device driver written & working (& two years later a win95 version but I bailed on the win98), I'm not sure that it would have worked out as well if I didn't understand the example code but I did get the comments. I guess that's what being a PHB would be like.
descriptive variable/constant names are good thing, they only are not sufficient, but a good thing none the less.
The snippett referenced above could be cooler by escewing the use of 'tmp' as a data element name... There may be some extremely rare instances where such usage is warranted. But in large, use of such names is somewhat akin to the use of profanity: the resort of the weak minded when they are at a loss for comunication tools.
Here's another go at it:
\//add elapsed time to fps accumulator and counter
current_update_time = SDL_GetTicks();
msec_since_last_update = current_update_time - last_update;
last_update = current_update_time;
fps_timer += msec_since_last_update;
fps_counter++;
maybe that's no %$#^* better
Uh, Korn, or Bourne for that matter, is quite usable by "mere mortals". Those that can't are sub-((human|par)|sentient)
But Apple has truely been a pioneer. I don't think IBM would have ever built a PC if it weren't for Apple'a sucsess.
I know it was down right embarassing to walk into my customers' sites and quote them costs of making system changes to the cyber 2000 and then listen to them extol the speed and time with which they could process that same data with Visicalc on their Apple... Big Blue musta been blushing too.
The only suprise is how long Apple's been in business without Microsoft buying them. I guess that Apple must be percieved as a hardware company by the boys in redmond. Or maybe it's too big of a byte to swallow?
people have always treated me like a mushroom... but I am knocking down less dough that I was half a decade or so ago.
.net shop and well, I do get treated like a pariah or mac user or something by my co-workers (I think the original post is on about customer/consumer types rather than peers:-).
Now I'm working in a
But I was a red-headed step-child comin' up so it's water off a duck's back
driving too slow in the fast lane would seem to be more of a courtesy issue rather than an actual infraction. So you're right in that it doesn't warrant lethal force to defend yourself from this crime. On the other hand, drunken driving or speeding do seem to be the sort of crimes that endanger peoples lives and therefore one would be justified in using lethal force to defend themselves
Ditto, even to the point that I have banished my sub-ordinates after midnight.
Yes. Electric cars are definately a threat to the American way of life, way more so than the GPL. You guys are all a bunch of commie pinkos for even reading about them.
The fact that this threat comes from RED CHINA says it all. IF we let them build these things we'll be going around on nothin' but bicycles (imported, used flying pigeons, probably) within 10 years.
These weapons of mass transportation must be destroyed! Good thing Bush is in the white house
WHAT!?!!? no Kaypro?!
not even a breif mention of CP/M
roger
Ok, I guess that's a start...
But at the company I work for (/^$/) we have kept the helpdesk (entry level) positions and sent the developer jobs offshore. I used to be a developer, I was afraid that I'd get confused in the mornings if I moved to another company - so I'm working the helpdesk now. I didn't have to take a cut in pay so I guess there is a silver lining - but I miss my old buds who have all monstered out to places that still code onshore. And I have some unexpected results to modification requests.
I'd like to get in on that email thread...
The only flame I have to add is that all the commercial electrics that I've seen were of the wedgie variety and anybody with any cycling sense (or concern for efficiency:-) has already gotten 'bent. I would recommend that you get 'bent too. There are many sites that extol the virtues of the venerable recumbent, too numerous to link to here. But suffice it to say that I rode and commuted (to the tune of 175mi per week) on a wedgie for many a year. The show stopper wasn't the neck and back pain, it wasn't the pressure on the glutes, it wasn't even the numbness in my hands - it was the friction in the squishy bit area.
I've decided that the DX kit (which I don't think is available anymore) followed closely by the SX kit from ZAP (http://www.zapworld.com/) are probably the quickest, easiest way to convert my 'bent (http://www.lightningbikes.com/) to an eBent (or yer wedgie for that matter - both kits were designed for wedgies:-). Both of these kits drive the wheel through a friction roller right on the tire. They were designed to drive the rear wheel, ZAP offers a kit to drive the front wheel too, but it doesn't have the beefy power output of the SX & DX kits
Then when I started looking at yer golden monkey stuff I got to thinking about the relative rpms of my differently sized wheel... I'm wondering how much juice I could generate outta my 16" front wheel - but I ain't bright enough to do that kinda math. Maybe I could get you engineer types to give me a hand?
You can't run Open Source code on Windoze without destroying the American way of life!, pinko
The 2000 presidential debates were televised by almost every network. Inside the two candidates (in dark suits)debated the virtues of square patterns on the neck tie versus round patterns on the neck tie. Outside, protesters (carrying signs and chanting slogans) were being clubbed by mounted policemen. Only one network covered that. The only candidate I saw outside was Nadar - wearing a t-shirt (i was spending a lot of my evenings in hotels during the 2000 campaigns and hence, watchin' a lot of the tube - it beats drinking although not by much:-)
I wouldn't expect any change from anybody inside, they're too happy with the status quo. The people outside are the ones that are feeling all the pain. Without pain there is no change.
garmin forerunner 201/101. gps logs position every 5 secs. It displays speed and distance, no heart rate or cadence - but you know when you're working hard and when you ain't.
The deal is you don't need to look at the display at all, just wait 'till you get home and dump it onto your pc. Overlay your route over your favorite topo or street map. It makes it neat little graph with you speed displayed as either speed or pace.
As far as just getting where you're going, you're better off not knowing - think about your feet making circles, one at a time, each one rounder than the last, perfect little circles, even pressure all the way around...