Cool, that is exactly what I had in mind. I was thinking after my post that you could just use Yahoo! Groups as an online meeting place, and CommunityZero seems to be similar.
As I hear about these continual massive layoffs, I wonder if the ex-employees are keeping in touch. Most of them probably haven't looked for a job lately, so it will take them a little time to get back in to it. Also it's important for them not to feel bad about it. They will go through a life-changing event, and there will be hundreds or thousands of people going through the same thing in a conveniently small geographical area, so it would be great for them to help each other and at least use each other for networking.
I guess I'm just proposing something like www.exemployees-forum.com.
Yes, I'm a whiner. I'll take that risk if one mod somewhere thinks twice next time before modding. Also I must point out you're whining about my whining.
Mods: Here's a clue. The parent post is a troll, not mine. Netbeans is one of the fastest apps, there are not many out there. The fact that I was mistaken about it using Swing does not make me a troll.
Hello World is a valid performance test for my application. I'm writing a small app that needs to start instantly, and I was testing with the.NET components loaded.
The parent poster just criticized without saying anything constructive, I would not advice blindly following his recommendation.
Only the fastest Java desktop applications are usable on my PIII 1.2GHz, namely NetBeans and Eclipse, and that's because they don't use Swing. I wrote a Hello World app in C# and it took 2 seconds to start. Language performance will continue to count until we all have 3+ GHz machines.
Say what you will about.NET and Java, but there are hoardes of programmers waiting for the average PC to be fast enough to run managed code without breaking a sweat. When entry level computers are in the 2-3GHz range, managed applications will be very popular.
I also agree with the other poster about word processing being a much more complicated task today than you think.
I agree. Doing the entire game peacefully is not easy (or even as fun). I'm just saying it does make you think, and going around killing aimlessly isn't encouraged like it is in GTA3.
Has anyone seriously solved GTA3 without killing anyone? Even if it's possible, it must be superhumanly hard. The game pushes and prods you in to killing every step of the way. One mission (spoiler warning) off the top of my head is to snipe eight people on a ship before they can kill your friend. Maybe there's a series of missions you can do without killing anyone, but even if there is.. if you buy GTA3 and never hurt anyone you really aren't getting your money's worth. There also is no real reason in GTA3 not to kill; the worst that can happen is you lose your stuff.
Deus Ex, on the other hand, always gives you the opportunity to go the peaceful route. If you kill, things can get harder, and people you care about might die. The storyline is so engrossing and the characters so deep (as opposed to GTA3) that I found myself taking time to go the non-killing route in many cases. The game rewards this behavior in a realistic way. Everything doesn't turn out perfectly if you don't kill, and it is sometimes hard not to, but it really makes you think twice.
Even if software was written to create music that fooled people into believing a human wrote it, would people want to listen to it? When I listen to music, I want to know there's a real person behind it, who is going through the human experience just as I am. Maybe if a robot, or even body-less artificial life, some day composes music it will be worth listening to, but true human-composed music will always have some appeal to it.
I am very competent with HTML, UNIX tools, and designing/building/maintaining web sites. I used to use my.plan as my blog by writing a web interface in Perl for people to browse entries and even search through them.
LiveJournal made me scrap it though. It has a well-defined network interface, and a solid official client so I can update my journal from anywhere (and I could choose from 10s of others if the official client gives me trouble). It also allows web updates. At $60/year it is cheaper than buying a new domain, and I want a separate one to keep it anonymous. And finally I didn't want to bother writing a comment system, which LiveJournal provides.
All the GeForce 4 Ti4x00 cards I've seen can drive two monitors at once with nview, as long as you have a DVI-analog converter for the second monitor. I'm not sure if you can go analog->DVI for two digital monitors.
I just checked, and the Radeon 8500 and 9700 both do the same thing.
Thanks Tom! To show my appreciation, I'll post your copyrighted work on Slashdot so people don't give you any page views.
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Don't Star Trek transporters send your actual body as energy in a "matter stream"? I thought they even went so far as to keep track of which part is which, so your brain molecules end up in your brain.
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Why? I can't imagine it actually wipes the entire drive. Can't you take the drive and plug it in to another machine to recover the data?
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I should add that money isn't the only incentive to publish on paper. Being published itself is a sort of validation that most in academia need to survive, as well as those outside of it can use to further their career. It also insures that your work will sit in libraries for hundreds if not thousands of years to come, which web publishing can't guarantee. And finally, it usually means more people will read your work, take it more seriously, and refer it to others.
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...for the same reason serious Linux users don't use Linux to be cool.
Every dollar spent on technology is a dollar that doesn't go toward buying another book. It pained me to hear librarians who, when asked on a local radio show what they would do with $100,000, would spend it all on IT when their book collections are so modest.
Sharing the Internet with the public is a worthy goal, but for most avenues of knowledge, books and periodicals are still the way to go. When authors decide to spend the years it takes to create a great book, they publish it on paper so they can make money, not on the web. Librarians realize this and focus their efforts on creating collections of printed works that are carefully catalogued and chosen for their intellectual value.
Sharing local collections with the world is being undertaken by the Library of Congress in two separate projects. National works of art are at http://memory.loc.gov/, and the LOC is helping other countries with putting their materials online at http://international.loc.gov/.
Here's a CUJ article with a freeware script to "decrypt" STL error messages. I haven't tried it, but it seems the author keeps it up-to-date, and supports a good range of compilers including gcc 2.95.x/3.x and MSVC++ 6/7.
The USDA has tolerances for all sorts of horrible things you don't want to think about, and you can bet that companies push those things to the limit. These include rat hairs per bar of candy, grams of feces per box of cereal, and fly heads per pound of meat.
200 million somatic cells per liter? That sounds like a lot, but is it really? The U.S. has one of the healthiest food supplies in the world, thanks largely to the USDA.
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But because there are so many people with TI's, there is a much bigger community and consequently more software you can use with them.
Cool, that is exactly what I had in mind. I was thinking after my post that you could just use Yahoo! Groups as an online meeting place, and CommunityZero seems to be similar.
As I hear about these continual massive layoffs, I wonder if the ex-employees are keeping in touch. Most of them probably haven't looked for a job lately, so it will take them a little time to get back in to it. Also it's important for them not to feel bad about it. They will go through a life-changing event, and there will be hundreds or thousands of people going through the same thing in a conveniently small geographical area, so it would be great for them to help each other and at least use each other for networking.
I guess I'm just proposing something like www.exemployees-forum.com.
Yes, I'm a whiner. I'll take that risk if one mod somewhere thinks twice next time before modding. Also I must point out you're whining about my whining.
Mods: Here's a clue. The parent post is a troll, not mine. Netbeans is one of the fastest apps, there are not many out there. The fact that I was mistaken about it using Swing does not make me a troll.
.NET components loaded.
Hello World is a valid performance test for my application. I'm writing a small app that needs to start instantly, and I was testing with the
The parent poster just criticized without saying anything constructive, I would not advice blindly following his recommendation.
Yes, it was.
Only the fastest Java desktop applications are usable on my PIII 1.2GHz, namely NetBeans and Eclipse, and that's because they don't use Swing. I wrote a Hello World app in C# and it took 2 seconds to start. Language performance will continue to count until we all have 3+ GHz machines.
Say what you will about .NET and Java, but there are hoardes of programmers waiting for the average PC to be fast enough to run managed code without breaking a sweat. When entry level computers are in the 2-3GHz range, managed applications will be very popular.
I also agree with the other poster about word processing being a much more complicated task today than you think.
I agree. Doing the entire game peacefully is not easy (or even as fun). I'm just saying it does make you think, and going around killing aimlessly isn't encouraged like it is in GTA3.
Has anyone seriously solved GTA3 without killing anyone? Even if it's possible, it must be superhumanly hard. The game pushes and prods you in to killing every step of the way. One mission (spoiler warning) off the top of my head is to snipe eight people on a ship before they can kill your friend. Maybe there's a series of missions you can do without killing anyone, but even if there is.. if you buy GTA3 and never hurt anyone you really aren't getting your money's worth. There also is no real reason in GTA3 not to kill; the worst that can happen is you lose your stuff.
Deus Ex, on the other hand, always gives you the opportunity to go the peaceful route. If you kill, things can get harder, and people you care about might die. The storyline is so engrossing and the characters so deep (as opposed to GTA3) that I found myself taking time to go the non-killing route in many cases. The game rewards this behavior in a realistic way. Everything doesn't turn out perfectly if you don't kill, and it is sometimes hard not to, but it really makes you think twice.
Even if software was written to create music that fooled people into believing a human wrote it, would people want to listen to it? When I listen to music, I want to know there's a real person behind it, who is going through the human experience just as I am. Maybe if a robot, or even body-less artificial life, some day composes music it will be worth listening to, but true human-composed music will always have some appeal to it.
Which provider do you use? $20/month gives me very reliable service with great tech support. I've wasted a lot of time with cheap web hosts.
$30/yr at register.com
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$270/year
I am very competent with HTML, UNIX tools, and designing/building/maintaining web sites. I used to use my .plan as my blog by writing a web interface in Perl for people to browse entries and even search through them.
LiveJournal made me scrap it though. It has a well-defined network interface, and a solid official client so I can update my journal from anywhere (and I could choose from 10s of others if the official client gives me trouble). It also allows web updates. At $60/year it is cheaper than buying a new domain, and I want a separate one to keep it anonymous. And finally I didn't want to bother writing a comment system, which LiveJournal provides.
You have to hold a trigger whenever you're using it? Did some surgeons that treat RSI come up with this?
All the GeForce 4 Ti4x00 cards I've seen can drive two monitors at once with nview, as long as you have a DVI-analog converter for the second monitor. I'm not sure if you can go analog->DVI for two digital monitors.
I just checked, and the Radeon 8500 and 9700 both do the same thing.
Thanks Tom! To show my appreciation, I'll post your copyrighted work on Slashdot so people don't give you any page views.
Copyright of all documents and scripts belonging to this site by Tom's Guides Publishing LLC 1996 - 2002. Most of the information contained on this site is copyrighted material. It is illegal to copy or redistribute this information in any way without the expressed written consent of Tom's Guides Publishing. This site is NOT responsible for any damage that the information on this site may cause to your system.
Don't Star Trek transporters send your actual body as energy in a "matter stream"? I thought they even went so far as to keep track of which part is which, so your brain molecules end up in your brain.
Why? I can't imagine it actually wipes the entire drive. Can't you take the drive and plug it in to another machine to recover the data?
I should add that money isn't the only incentive to publish on paper. Being published itself is a sort of validation that most in academia need to survive, as well as those outside of it can use to further their career. It also insures that your work will sit in libraries for hundreds if not thousands of years to come, which web publishing can't guarantee. And finally, it usually means more people will read your work, take it more seriously, and refer it to others.
...for the same reason serious Linux users don't use Linux to be cool.
Every dollar spent on technology is a dollar that doesn't go toward buying another book. It pained me to hear librarians who, when asked on a local radio show what they would do with $100,000, would spend it all on IT when their book collections are so modest.
Sharing the Internet with the public is a worthy goal, but for most avenues of knowledge, books and periodicals are still the way to go. When authors decide to spend the years it takes to create a great book, they publish it on paper so they can make money, not on the web. Librarians realize this and focus their efforts on creating collections of printed works that are carefully catalogued and chosen for their intellectual value.
Sharing local collections with the world is being undertaken by the Library of Congress in two separate projects. National works of art are at http://memory.loc.gov/, and the LOC is helping other countries with putting their materials online at http://international.loc.gov/.
Here's a CUJ article with a freeware script to "decrypt" STL error messages. I haven't tried it, but it seems the author keeps it up-to-date, and supports a good range of compilers including gcc 2.95.x/3.x and MSVC++ 6/7.
The BIOS doesn't know that. It's just telling you what to do when you get a working one that's plugged in.
Plug the keyboard in and hit F9. It makes sense.
The USDA has tolerances for all sorts of horrible things you don't want to think about, and you can bet that companies push those things to the limit. These include rat hairs per bar of candy, grams of feces per box of cereal, and fly heads per pound of meat.
200 million somatic cells per liter? That sounds like a lot, but is it really? The U.S. has one of the healthiest food supplies in the world, thanks largely to the USDA.