If they are still quality products. The living conditions of those around the world can not be viewed and judged by those in the 1st world. What those living in the 1st world would consider horrible, substandard conditions may be a huge improvement for those who are in the 3rd world. The quality of life needs to be compared to those in their geographic/political regions, not to those in the rest of the world. If one were to actually travel around the world and meet people, you would see that people can be happy without have mass amount of affluence and they may even be happier. I know it had opened by eyes when I had travelled.
You are definitely on to something there. Yes, documentation is important, and no many programmers would rather code than document (in a nutshell). I think your idea to use wikis as a foundation for code is a good idea. It is something that new users can jump into and start documenting from the get go of the application and as users become more skilled in the use of the application, they provide better documentation.
Perhaps what needs to be done when the code goes to alpha or beta release is that a wiki is started with a framework for documentation can be grown onto.
Although the study is skewed and easily debunked, OCG does have a good point here, let's improve the documentation. Unfortunatly, most IT geeks that understand Linux, "don't write so well."
I have run both windows servers and linux servers over the last 10 years and my experience is higher uptime with linux servers. Windows machines deal poorly with memory leaking apps and need rebooting for every service pack or required update. I only need to restart specific processes with linux when there is a justified upgrade.
I, for one, refuse to pay for radio broadcasts. I will buy the unit, but I refuse to subscribe to something that I think should be free (radio). I may have caved for TV, but Cable came about in my formative years, so I don't think that is too far fetched.
FTA:"Is anyone's music collection that interesting?"
Of course my collection is interesting, it's mine and it is interesting to me. I listen to my iPod through the day. Why does he care if my music collection is interesting to others? No-one else listens to my iPod except me. What is John D. getting at? Is he trying to make sense?
If one were to use 33 levels of virtualization on the ARM processor, the efficiency is so great that power may be removed and the system runs on its own efficiency. Yeah! We don't need oil anymore.
If I were to backup a 750GB drive to DVD as I do currently, that would take quite some time and quite a few disks. I am too lazy right now to calculate how man or how much it would cost, but I think I would want to move to a different method of data backup.
The definition of plagiarism is as follows: the act of appropriating the literary composition of another author, or excerpts, ideas, or passages therefrom, and passing the material off as one's own creation. This definition is from:ucblibraries.colorado.edu/about/glossary.htm and is NOT plagiarised.
Seriously, I give false information and scrub cookies regularly, and avoid suspect sites. Oh, one more way, I don't use M$IE. Firefox rules, at least for now.
Free time is the only thing that this contest shows. If you are a great programmer but have a heavy workload, as I would expect of a good programmer, then the odds are that you wouldn't have entered this contest. A good or even great programmer should be too busy working on paying jobs than some contest which would take up you time better spent making money. Borders aren't the issue as you can get a coding job anywhere in the world as long as you can spit out the code.
I did consider Alienware when I wrote my first post. However, Alienware didn't make machines that were visually pleasing. Yes, they were fast; yes, the design was cool; but pleasing, no. They didn't have a polished appearance that made people want to display them and have them out in the open, over time even there users wanted to have a machine that didn't overtake the decor of a room, but complement it. Of course if you are 23 and still live in your parent's house, you don't have a decor, you have stuff; when you have stuff you probably don't have much taste yet.
The casual user will eventually piss off their computer knowledgeable friend when the only reason they call will be for computer support, then the casual user will have to decide whether they want to use OS X exclusively or get another computer where they can get support from the manufacturer and curse Apple for BootCamp.
Not like any of us has had to deal with people like that....
Apple is first and foremost a hardware company, they just happen to have a well designed stable OS. Design is something that Apple is known for and they do know how to make good looking machines for their time. No big PC manufacturer does that as well. Boot Camp is for getting people to buy a mac and then find out that if they use OS X more than XP, they will have greater stability without having to give up their precious games or legacy apps that won't run on or be ported to OS X or flavor of *nix.
Apple plans on selling their portable computers to Lenovo and the desktop computers to Dell, following the leads of IBM and Alienware. Apple will then take the money from those two deals and purchase apple music thereby bringing a long-time battle to a close. Of course this will result in Beatles music being available in iTunes for 9cents per song, to spite Yoko Ono.
Don't shoot the messenger, the voices told me this, they really did.
NPR was talking about this one or two weeks ago. I am sure this will be modded as flamebait, but can't the people contributing the stories here, get stories that aren't old. Geez!
In the last few college courses that I took, the teachers had no problem with tape recorders in the classroom, they had the students put the recorders on lecture so good audio could be achieved and the students took notes and weren't focused on getting every word, knowing that we would have tape to reference later. Those who recorded the class averaged one letter grade higher than those who didn't. Most of us, who recorded, listed to the class while driving home and had two sets of notes, what we took in the class and the rewrite that we made when out of class with our original notes and the tapes.
Yes, Luke hanging out on his uncles farm will make for a lame series, but it could be done well. I doubt it will though, as many posters have already stated, it is going to be butchered.
They could do the romance that Luke had with the girl on another farm, and how she was sold into slavery. They could show Luke being very adept with a laser rifle, but his Uncle never letting him compete in the school shooting team. They could show what Han was doing and how he got the MF. They could show Leia and her trials and tribulations. They could show Vader growing in power and show some of the plans that he was devising and ones that failed due to challenges from the Rebels.
They could do those things and make a compelling show that makes you understand the subtext or lack thereof in IV. But, they won't and the producers will look for easy storylines that include Luke in everything and can be wrapped up in a hour. They will push for episodes that will help market new products instead of telling a good story first.
Kinda makes one sad to be able to know what will be done rather than what should be done.
I don't know which is worse, that it was written or that I understood it right away...
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I am sure that it will take a few generations for this to make it to human medical proceedures, as long as funding is not pulled away. If Christopher Reeve was frozen he might have had a chance in 100 years, if they can bring a frozen person back then.
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If they are still quality products. The living conditions of those around the world can not be viewed and judged by those in the 1st world. What those living in the 1st world would consider horrible, substandard conditions may be a huge improvement for those who are in the 3rd world. The quality of life needs to be compared to those in their geographic/political regions, not to those in the rest of the world. If one were to actually travel around the world and meet people, you would see that people can be happy without have mass amount of affluence and they may even be happier. I know it had opened by eyes when I had travelled.
You are definitely on to something there. Yes, documentation is important, and no many programmers would rather code than document (in a nutshell). I think your idea to use wikis as a foundation for code is a good idea. It is something that new users can jump into and start documenting from the get go of the application and as users become more skilled in the use of the application, they provide better documentation.
Perhaps what needs to be done when the code goes to alpha or beta release is that a wiki is started with a framework for documentation can be grown onto.
Although the study is skewed and easily debunked, OCG does have a good point here, let's improve the documentation. Unfortunatly, most IT geeks that understand Linux, "don't write so well."
I have run both windows servers and linux servers over the last 10 years and my experience is higher uptime with linux servers. Windows machines deal poorly with memory leaking apps and need rebooting for every service pack or required update. I only need to restart specific processes with linux when there is a justified upgrade.
I, for one, refuse to pay for radio broadcasts. I will buy the unit, but I refuse to subscribe to something that I think should be free (radio). I may have caved for TV, but Cable came about in my formative years, so I don't think that is too far fetched.
FTA:"Is anyone's music collection that interesting?"
Of course my collection is interesting, it's mine and it is interesting to me. I listen to my iPod through the day. Why does he care if my music collection is interesting to others? No-one else listens to my iPod except me. What is John D. getting at? Is he trying to make sense?
Does this mean that Adobe will pull the same stunt as UniSys did? Will another format be required for everyone to migrate to?
If one were to use 33 levels of virtualization on the ARM processor, the efficiency is so great that power may be removed and the system runs on its own efficiency. Yeah! We don't need oil anymore.
If I were to backup a 750GB drive to DVD as I do currently, that would take quite some time and quite a few disks. I am too lazy right now to calculate how man or how much it would cost, but I think I would want to move to a different method of data backup.
The definition of plagiarism is as follows: the act of appropriating the literary composition of another author, or excerpts, ideas, or passages therefrom, and passing the material off as one's own creation. This definition is from :ucblibraries.colorado.edu/about/glossary.htm and is NOT plagiarised.
Seriously, I give false information and scrub cookies regularly, and avoid suspect sites. Oh, one more way, I don't use M$IE. Firefox rules, at least for now.
DDT is not allowed for sale in the US, at least to consumers.
Anyone want to give odds that it gets buried in committee?
Free time is the only thing that this contest shows. If you are a great programmer but have a heavy workload, as I would expect of a good programmer, then the odds are that you wouldn't have entered this contest. A good or even great programmer should be too busy working on paying jobs than some contest which would take up you time better spent making money. Borders aren't the issue as you can get a coding job anywhere in the world as long as you can spit out the code.
I thought vim had everything one could ask for! What am I to do now, but download it and be amazed.
I did consider Alienware when I wrote my first post. However, Alienware didn't make machines that were visually pleasing. Yes, they were fast; yes, the design was cool; but pleasing, no. They didn't have a polished appearance that made people want to display them and have them out in the open, over time even there users wanted to have a machine that didn't overtake the decor of a room, but complement it. Of course if you are 23 and still live in your parent's house, you don't have a decor, you have stuff; when you have stuff you probably don't have much taste yet.
The casual user will eventually piss off their computer knowledgeable friend when the only reason they call will be for computer support, then the casual user will have to decide whether they want to use OS X exclusively or get another computer where they can get support from the manufacturer and curse Apple for BootCamp.
Not like any of us has had to deal with people like that....
Apple is first and foremost a hardware company, they just happen to have a well designed stable OS. Design is something that Apple is known for and they do know how to make good looking machines for their time. No big PC manufacturer does that as well. Boot Camp is for getting people to buy a mac and then find out that if they use OS X more than XP, they will have greater stability without having to give up their precious games or legacy apps that won't run on or be ported to OS X or flavor of *nix.
Apple plans on selling their portable computers to Lenovo and the desktop computers to Dell, following the leads of IBM and Alienware. Apple will then take the money from those two deals and purchase apple music thereby bringing a long-time battle to a close. Of course this will result in Beatles music being available in iTunes for 9cents per song, to spite Yoko Ono.
Don't shoot the messenger, the voices told me this, they really did.
NPR was talking about this one or two weeks ago. I am sure this will be modded as flamebait, but can't the people contributing the stories here, get stories that aren't old. Geez!
In the last few college courses that I took, the teachers had no problem with tape recorders in the classroom, they had the students put the recorders on lecture so good audio could be achieved and the students took notes and weren't focused on getting every word, knowing that we would have tape to reference later. Those who recorded the class averaged one letter grade higher than those who didn't. Most of us, who recorded, listed to the class while driving home and had two sets of notes, what we took in the class and the rewrite that we made when out of class with our original notes and the tapes.
Yes, Luke hanging out on his uncles farm will make for a lame series, but it could be done well. I doubt it will though, as many posters have already stated, it is going to be butchered.
They could do the romance that Luke had with the girl on another farm, and how she was sold into slavery. They could show Luke being very adept with a laser rifle, but his Uncle never letting him compete in the school shooting team. They could show what Han was doing and how he got the MF. They could show Leia and her trials and tribulations. They could show Vader growing in power and show some of the plans that he was devising and ones that failed due to challenges from the Rebels.
They could do those things and make a compelling show that makes you understand the subtext or lack thereof in IV. But, they won't and the producers will look for easy storylines that include Luke in everything and can be wrapped up in a hour. They will push for episodes that will help market new products instead of telling a good story first.
Kinda makes one sad to be able to know what will be done rather than what should be done.
I don't know which is worse, that it was written or that I understood it right away...
I am sure that it will take a few generations for this to make it to human medical proceedures, as long as funding is not pulled away. If Christopher Reeve was frozen he might have had a chance in 100 years, if they can bring a frozen person back then.
You Sir, are why I don't hate Macs just Mac Users....
I am hated for many reasons, many are good reasons, the least of which is the Mac.