Even I, a non-hunter, know that around here deer are normally killed with either a lead slug from a shotgun or with buckshot (notice the word "buck" in the name) which is a shell filled with 9 pellets each of which can contribute little shavings of lead into the meat.
I'm not sure it's legal to hunt deer with a rifle at any time in my state unless it's a herd-thinning thing.
Even very complex problems can be made to look simple at various levels of abstraction. Hiding complexity inside objects that represent real-world objects is a good way to make the code that uses those objects simpler.
In development, plan to do at least one major refactoring after the project is feature-complete to move complicatons in and out of abstractions, add new abstractions or collapse old old ones as needed to make things "feel good".
just got an "iHome" BT keyboard for my Nexus 10. Makes chopping through those email replies a lot faster on the road. I was going to get Poetic the keyboard-case thingy but decided I didn't want to carry the keyboard with me everywhere. Also this keyboard is wider than the tablet, so it's better to type on.
When I finally put a stake in the heart of the SCO UNIX system that hosted our legacy accounting system, someone commented "so I guess UNIX is dead now, isn't it?" Then I pointed out that our server infrastructure was still Linux-based, and that the Google Apps we used ran on Linux, and that the NetSuite ERP system we use ran on Oracle Linux, and that the few macs we have were BSD Unix-based, and then the iPhones, iPads, Android phones, Android tablets and well, pretty much everything except the Windows desktops were UNIX-based. I think they were more confused rather than less after that explanation, but it felt good.
I get at least two or three calls a day on my employer-provided cell phone from someone who wants to lower my credit card rates. You have to press "1" to talk to someone about it. If you complain to them or ask who they're calling from they instantly hang up. Unless I'm very busy I always put the phone on speaker and press 1. Then I say hello to the human, and wait for them to say something. If there are other people in ear shot I'll take the phone off speaker and and stage-whisper "die in a fire!" into the phone before hanging up. If there's no one else around I will say something considerably more creative along the same lines. Something that will come to them in their dreams for weeks or months, I hope.
Worst case I cost them some minutes and lowered their rate of return.
I would dearly love buckling spring keys but still the "bend" of my MS "natural" that I have gotten so used to. I can still type faster on a model M - I have several, but the ergo keyboards are so much better for my beat up wrists.
It's not like Microsoft was ever going to be interested in that anyway. They must get cents back from the disk manufacturers for perpetuating their ever-growing temp folders.
And "Pretty much all of Asimov's works" ? Really. The man was ridiculously prolific and was the ultimate polymath. You're talking about 3 slim novels and a handful of short stories. By profession he was a biochemist but also wrote a number of pop-science books that sold far more than anything else.
Since I've been migrating everything I can to OS-agnostic cloud apps for 7 years now they're making it easier than ever to "just say no" to Windows and use something else.
When I started at DEC in 1980 we had a PDP-11 running DEC Standard Mumps that had a program that did email. I believe it was actually called "email" too. It was not new at the time.
It's a point & shoot but the combination of 12 Mpixels, Nikor lens and image stabilization in both still and video modes makes it 10 times as useful as any other P&S I've tried. Also takes 1080P video, fits in your pocket and costs less than $250. It can also do ricks like exposure compensation without burrowing 10 levels into a menu.
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Between OS-X, IOS and Android, this discussion is more than a little comical.
Even I, a non-hunter, know that around here deer are normally killed with either a lead slug from a shotgun or with buckshot (notice the word "buck" in the name) which is a shell filled with 9 pellets each of which can contribute little shavings of lead into the meat.
I'm not sure it's legal to hunt deer with a rifle at any time in my state unless it's a herd-thinning thing.
Even very complex problems can be made to look simple at various levels of abstraction. Hiding complexity inside objects that represent real-world objects is a good way to make the code that uses those objects simpler.
In development, plan to do at least one major refactoring after the project is feature-complete to move complicatons in and out of abstractions, add new abstractions or collapse old old ones as needed to make things "feel good".
just got an "iHome" BT keyboard for my Nexus 10. Makes chopping through those email replies a lot faster on the road. I was going to get Poetic the keyboard-case thingy but decided I didn't want to carry the keyboard with me everywhere. Also this keyboard is wider than the tablet, so it's better to type on.
Microsoft is well on its way to becoming SCO.
Confirmed here ... it was down for about an hour including the admin control panel.
One nice thing about multi-tennancy is problems get attention immediately.. they simply cannot be ignored.
When I finally put a stake in the heart of the SCO UNIX system that hosted our legacy accounting system, someone commented "so I guess UNIX is dead now, isn't it?" Then I pointed out that our server infrastructure was still Linux-based, and that the Google Apps we used ran on Linux, and that the NetSuite ERP system we use ran on Oracle Linux, and that the few macs we have were BSD Unix-based, and then the iPhones, iPads, Android phones, Android tablets and well, pretty much everything except the Windows desktops were UNIX-based. I think they were more confused rather than less after that explanation, but it felt good.
I get at least two or three calls a day on my employer-provided cell phone from someone who wants to lower my credit card rates. You have to press "1" to talk to someone about it. If you complain to them or ask who they're calling from they instantly hang up. Unless I'm very busy I always put the phone on speaker and press 1. Then I say hello to the human, and wait for them to say something. If there are other people in ear shot I'll take the phone off speaker and and stage-whisper "die in a fire!" into the phone before hanging up. If there's no one else around I will say something considerably more creative along the same lines. Something that will come to them in their dreams for weeks or months, I hope.
Worst case I cost them some minutes and lowered their rate of return.
I would dearly love buckling spring keys but still the "bend" of my MS "natural" that I have gotten so used to. I can still type faster on a model M - I have several, but the ergo keyboards are so much better for my beat up wrists.
It's not like Microsoft was ever going to be interested in that anyway. They must get cents back from the disk manufacturers for perpetuating their ever-growing temp folders.
What about SSL? We're looking into expanding our use of an SaaS ERP system into China. If it requires SSL will it stop working some day?
And "Pretty much all of Asimov's works" ? Really. The man was ridiculously prolific and was the ultimate polymath. You're talking about 3 slim novels and a handful of short stories. By profession he was a biochemist but also wrote a number of pop-science books that sold far more than anything else.
Since I've been migrating everything I can to OS-agnostic cloud apps for 7 years now they're making it easier than ever to "just say no" to Windows and use something else.
Cool.. I did the same thing in 7th grade only we had mark-sense cards. It was an after-school class with a math teacher in West Vancouver, BC.
We ran our batches on Friday afternoon. If you made a syntax error (or a smudgy mark) the compile-edit loop length was 1 week.
Basic+2 on RSTS/E on an 11/70, with DEC VT50 and VT52, and Lear-Siegler ADM-3A terminals... 1978 too,
Cool idea - Just like an AC-130 but with a cable instead of a chain of hot lead (or depleted uranium)
not any more than I had to...
When I started at DEC in 1980 we had a PDP-11 running DEC Standard Mumps that had a program that did email. I believe it was actually called "email" too.
It was not new at the time.
It's a point & shoot but the combination of 12 Mpixels, Nikor lens and image stabilization in both still and video modes makes it 10 times as useful as any other P&S I've tried. Also takes 1080P video, fits in your pocket and costs less than $250. It can also do ricks like exposure compensation without burrowing 10 levels into a menu.
It had a keyboard. I think it was a DEC LA120.
Yeah done that.. paper jams were a bitch, though.
I remember even going to the trouble of cutting one of the leads in the RS-232 cable to make the logging printer a true write-only device.
won't tell you about Eric.
Oracle To Bring Disgrace to Linux ? Just saying, is all.
I started with Newton-Waltham Savings Bank, who was bought by Baybank, etc. etc.. and my mortgage was with Countrywide.
I have friends who used to be Shawmut customers, and Sunbank customers in FL and KeyBank customers in NY.. they're all stuck with BoA now.
In the process of switching out of BoA myself now. Just have to find a place to land my rollover IRA. Thinking TD Ameritrade.