While I agree with most of your post, you should check out the Metamorphosis Demo from JGoodies.com. It really does wonders to make an app feel more native on Windows.
I received my MotoFONE F3 from my friend on Monday this week, and paid him $30 for it. It was indeed locked to Telcel. I purchased an unlock code off of ebay for $15, received it today, and unlocked the phone on the first try. Super easy, and the phone works great on T-Mobile.
It's interesting that I was trying to do the same thing with C++ back in 2000, maybe even 1996. Well, better late than never, I guess. There is a library called "Quantitative Units" that has been accepted into the Boost libraries. The post is here if you'd like to see the current status of the library.
These parts will "snap together" in the Everett plant.
Well, sort of. They seem to have a few issues getting the parts to match perfectly. I'm sure it's a difficult task, but I'd rather not chance design flaws in a multi-million dollar flying brick...
What makes you think the iPhone will run voice calls over IP? It's a traditional GSM phone that uses EDGE data to provide additional services including the visual voicemail. But calls go over the traditional cellular network just like any other phone.
We were in the same boat a few years ago and went with Landesk. It has fully configurable patching of both Microsoft vulnerabilities, as well as dozens of other packages such as Firefox and Adobe. They take care of the core of our software patches and updates, and the rest are easily done with some custom packages. It runs about $60 per machine per year. You can't pay a minimum wage intern to manually patch machines for that little money. It also does full inventories including serial numbers for Windows, Linux, and Apple machines.
I've used SMS from Microsoft, and it works great for Microsoft stuff, OK for other deployments, but didn't deal with Apple or Linux at all.
I have a colleague that has worked with Altiris, and he liked it, but it was a bit more expensive per machine.
All in all, Landesk works very well for us and has saved us countless man-hours and effort to keep our network running.
I'm about half way through On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins and what he proposes in the book fits right in line with this research. It's an interesting read if you're in to that sort of thing.
15 years ago, I switched from Borland C++ to Borland Pascal (I honestly did!) because I enjoyed Pascal's verbosity. I used Delphi for a long time, until.NET came along - then I switched to VB.NET for the same reason.
You may also have a look at Chrome. Delphi (Object Pascal) language that's built on 100%.Net technology and Mono is a well supported target.
Wow, that takes me back. You can do a minimal windows load on a floppy with DOS support using a simple trick. Pack the Windows directory into a RAR self-extractor. The startup disk needs HIMEM.SYS, EMM386.EXE NOEMS, and a RAM disk driver that I believe was called Terje's RAM disk? It installed into XMS instead of EMS. The boot disk would unpack the RAR to the RAM disk, and then you could boot Windows support.
I built a few of these for burnin purposes when I worked at a local computer shop. I might be able to whip one up again in VMWare if it was really useful.
My favorite claim to fame is the same technique with a full Microsoft TCP/IP network redirector (MSCLIENT from Microsoft's ftp site) and two dozen network drivers. When you boot the thing up, it would ask you to push a letter to select the correct computer network type and get on the network appropriately. We used the crap out of that disk.
Can you define "equally as crappy"? We're looking at purchasing a copy of JIRA to manage project tasks across our organization and I'd like to hear about your experiences, both good and bad.
SELECT * FROM foo WHERE bar NOT IN ( SELECT x FROM y WHERE z > 4 ) This is exactly the type of query that Oracle fails miserably to execute. It performs no inner-query optimization, and I'm assuming mysql does the same thing. Oracle's method of operation is to execute the inner query for each row of the outer query, which I believe is per the SQL spec, but I could be wrong. Obviously this is not optimal for when you're just trying to exclude matching records. The most common rewrite of this type of expression is:
SELECT * FROM foo WHERE bar IN (
SELECT bar FROM foo
MINUS
SELECT x FROM y WHERE z > 4 )
This generates a requested keyset in the inner query and will execute an order of magnitude faster as IN queries don't need to be executed for each row if the inner query doesn't reference the outer query. I've taken real-world queries with the NOT IN syntax that ran over several hours (end-of-day transaction reports) and dropped the query time to just a few seconds with this technique.
The sheer amount of design and thought that has gone into the BB user interface is staggering. I've seen so many of these little shortcuts in the two months since I've had my new Pearl that my old Microsoft Smartphone is looking like a tinker toy in comparison.
I just bought a pair of Blackberry Pearl phones; one for me, and one for my wife. The phone has two additional columns of keys, giving enough room to put two QWERTY letters per key. They have a system similar to T9 called SureType that does predictive input.
From the statistics standpoint, having 3 letters per key gives you a 33% chance of guessing the right letter. Moving to a system with two letters per key increases those odds to 50%.
I used to own a phone with T9, and I can say without hesitation that the SureType system is way, way better than T9. With T9 I was correcting every 5th or 6th word in a sentence, but now I only correct an average of one word per entire message (3 or 4 sentences). Of all the input methods I've tried so far, this system is hands down the best.
The only way the citizens of the US will support a unilateral decision to invade another country is when a nuke goes off on US soil.
Er, have you been in a coma the last few years, and missed, you know, all that Iraq shit?
Er, did you miss the word "another" above? Yes, we're in Iraq now. Should the US unilaterially invade Iran, North Korea, or any other country in the next 25 years, I'll happily eat crow. In the mean time, I maintain that the US populace is generally peaceful and wants someone in power that is not nearly as polarized as both of the prior candidates were, and both of the next candidates will be. Proof of that is the razor thin winning percentages of the Bush administration.
My vote was for Bush. I admit it. I still say that we're better off than we would have been with Kerry, but it's always possible that's not true. This is not a typical American post. This is a post that reflects the majortiy of the silent voting base. The US is in a terrible situation right now. If we invade any other country, we're going to be ridiculed moreso than we are now, and if we do nothing, we're just "shrugging our shoulders".
The US is now visibly being torn apart by its dual-party system. In the end, the democratic/republican lines will be where the US bleeds the most. We are in serious need of a strong independent political party, maybe one called "The Common Sense Party".
Here's a question for you - what would your country do about North Korea? Would you invade? Or are you going to just shrug your shoulders and do nothing? The answer is not an easy one, and a one line answer is wholly inadequate.
A) I don't believe the US government lied to its allies about WMD's.
B) I do believe that the CIA, MI6, and all several other intelligence agencies said they believed WMD's were in place and a threat.
C) I also believe that Bush has seriously messed up the war in iraq - not the initial invasion, that went well, but the prolonged occupation. He (and many of his crew) believed that the "people of Iraq want to be free, and will fight for it". Bull shit.
D) If you (and the world) seriously believe that Bush *lied* before the war, you need to also attack the other countries that believed there were WMD's, and I don't see anyone saying that the invasion of Iraq was a global conspiracy.
No, the US can't move because the world already thinks we should keep our fucking nose out of other people's business. The only way the US is going to do anything millitarily in the next decade or two is at the behest of the UN. The people in the UN are pretty much impotent (see Darfur) so basically we're going to clean up as best we can in Iraq and go back into a cold war status just bitching about others.
The only way the citizens of the US will support a unilateral decision to invade another country is when a nuke goes off on US soil. The next 25 years are going to be a radioactive bloodbath and hopefully none of it will blow over peaceful countries.
Since I'm not a math major, I'd like to run an idea by you. It seems that string theory dictates 11 dimensions, which in my mind means that there are 11 different variables required to accurately predict the outcome of a string theory equation. 4 of those are X, Y, Z, and T(ime). The rest are showed as tightly folded infinitely small dimensions, which to me, wasn't terribly simple. So I started trying to come up with a different way to represent the extra needed 7 dimensions and have come up with something that may be complete nonsense.
Here goes...
I go back to my High School particle explanation of a "thing"... Imagine a small ball of energy.
This ball of energy can oscillate in 3 dimensions, so you have a frequency of oscillation in X, Y, and Z, called HzX, HzY, and HzZ.
Secondly, this ball can spin on 3 axes as well, so you have a speed of rotation (or oscillation change as needed) about all three axes, called RX, RY, and RZ.
Lastly, this ball has a magnitude (size), called M.
Given a position in space (X, Y, Z), a point in time (T), three oscillation frequencies (HzX, HzY, HzZ), three axes of rotation (RX, RY, RZ), and a size (M), that adds up to 11 characteristics of this "ball" of energy.
Can this model represent the 11 dimensions required by string theory? Does the math even allow for this type of representation?
Again, I'm talking out of my ass here. Any math people please feel free to stand up and prove me wrong.
Exactly. There's no sense in going to IBM's VM solution on *very* expensive hardware for anything but the largest companies. I work for a 100MM/year company and some of IBM's low-end big iron is still vastly more expensive that dual or quad Opteron boxes from Sun. I can use VMWare and do much more with much less, which helps my companies bottom line.
Riiiight, so when my boss asks me to run a couple of Windows 2003 Server instances on our new half-million dollar IBM baby in a VM, what do I tell him?
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While I agree with most of your post, you should check out the Metamorphosis Demo from JGoodies.com. It really does wonders to make an app feel more native on Windows.
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I received my MotoFONE F3 from my friend on Monday this week, and paid him $30 for it. It was indeed locked to Telcel. I purchased an unlock code off of ebay for $15, received it today, and unlocked the phone on the first try. Super easy, and the phone works great on T-Mobile.
First-hand experience.
A) The carrier you're referring to is TelCel, not TelCal.
B) The MOTOFONE is available all over Mexico, and does indeed work on the US GSM bands.
C) I have a friend down there who just this week purchased an F3 for me. It cost him $28 out of pocket.
D) I will know later next week when he comes to the States if it is unlocked or not.
Well, sort of. They seem to have a few issues getting the parts to match perfectly. I'm sure it's a difficult task, but I'd rather not chance design flaws in a multi-million dollar flying brick...
What makes you think the iPhone will run voice calls over IP? It's a traditional GSM phone that uses EDGE data to provide additional services including the visual voicemail. But calls go over the traditional cellular network just like any other phone.
We were in the same boat a few years ago and went with Landesk. It has fully configurable patching of both Microsoft vulnerabilities, as well as dozens of other packages such as Firefox and Adobe. They take care of the core of our software patches and updates, and the rest are easily done with some custom packages. It runs about $60 per machine per year. You can't pay a minimum wage intern to manually patch machines for that little money. It also does full inventories including serial numbers for Windows, Linux, and Apple machines.
I've used SMS from Microsoft, and it works great for Microsoft stuff, OK for other deployments, but didn't deal with Apple or Linux at all.
I have a colleague that has worked with Altiris, and he liked it, but it was a bit more expensive per machine.
All in all, Landesk works very well for us and has saved us countless man-hours and effort to keep our network running.
I'm about half way through On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins and what he proposes in the book fits right in line with this research. It's an interesting read if you're in to that sort of thing.
15 years ago, I switched from Borland C++ to Borland Pascal (I honestly did!) because I enjoyed Pascal's verbosity. I used Delphi for a long time, until .NET came along - then I switched to VB.NET for the same reason.
.Net technology and Mono is a well supported target.
You may also have a look at Chrome. Delphi (Object Pascal) language that's built on 100%
Wow, that takes me back. You can do a minimal windows load on a floppy with DOS support using a simple trick. Pack the Windows directory into a RAR self-extractor. The startup disk needs HIMEM.SYS, EMM386.EXE NOEMS, and a RAM disk driver that I believe was called Terje's RAM disk? It installed into XMS instead of EMS. The boot disk would unpack the RAR to the RAM disk, and then you could boot Windows support.
I built a few of these for burnin purposes when I worked at a local computer shop. I might be able to whip one up again in VMWare if it was really useful.
My favorite claim to fame is the same technique with a full Microsoft TCP/IP network redirector (MSCLIENT from Microsoft's ftp site) and two dozen network drivers. When you boot the thing up, it would ask you to push a letter to select the correct computer network type and get on the network appropriately. We used the crap out of that disk.
RealBASIC is cross platform and *very* compatible with existing VB code.
Can you define "equally as crappy"? We're looking at purchasing a copy of JIRA to manage project tasks across our organization and I'd like to hear about your experiences, both good and bad.
SELECT * FROM foo WHERE bar IN (
SELECT bar FROM foo
MINUS
SELECT x FROM y WHERE z > 4
)
This generates a requested keyset in the inner query and will execute an order of magnitude faster as IN queries don't need to be executed for each row if the inner query doesn't reference the outer query. I've taken real-world queries with the NOT IN syntax that ran over several hours (end-of-day transaction reports) and dropped the query time to just a few seconds with this technique.
And yes, I'm a certified Oracle DBA.
Is there an accepted good builder now? The article seems to imply this is far from a solved problem. (10 years later!) Yes
It supports many layout models including the JGoodies FormLayout, which is far superior to the old GridLayout system.
I've been using it for the last few years and it works marvelously.
Can you post the bug here, or email it to me? I'd be interested in seeing it, just so I don't run into it while coding...
Thanks man! I didn't know that trick.
The sheer amount of design and thought that has gone into the BB user interface is staggering. I've seen so many of these little shortcuts in the two months since I've had my new Pearl that my old Microsoft Smartphone is looking like a tinker toy in comparison.
Eric
I just bought a pair of Blackberry Pearl phones; one for me, and one for my wife. The phone has two additional columns of keys, giving enough room to put two QWERTY letters per key. They have a system similar to T9 called SureType that does predictive input.
From the statistics standpoint, having 3 letters per key gives you a 33% chance of guessing the right letter. Moving to a system with two letters per key increases those odds to 50%.
I used to own a phone with T9, and I can say without hesitation that the SureType system is way, way better than T9. With T9 I was correcting every 5th or 6th word in a sentence, but now I only correct an average of one word per entire message (3 or 4 sentences). Of all the input methods I've tried so far, this system is hands down the best.
Er, did you miss the word "another" above? Yes, we're in Iraq now. Should the US unilaterially invade Iran, North Korea, or any other country in the next 25 years, I'll happily eat crow. In the mean time, I maintain that the US populace is generally peaceful and wants someone in power that is not nearly as polarized as both of the prior candidates were, and both of the next candidates will be. Proof of that is the razor thin winning percentages of the Bush administration.
My vote was for Bush. I admit it. I still say that we're better off than we would have been with Kerry, but it's always possible that's not true. This is not a typical American post. This is a post that reflects the majortiy of the silent voting base. The US is in a terrible situation right now. If we invade any other country, we're going to be ridiculed moreso than we are now, and if we do nothing, we're just "shrugging our shoulders".
The US is now visibly being torn apart by its dual-party system. In the end, the democratic/republican lines will be where the US bleeds the most. We are in serious need of a strong independent political party, maybe one called "The Common Sense Party".
Here's a question for you - what would your country do about North Korea? Would you invade? Or are you going to just shrug your shoulders and do nothing? The answer is not an easy one, and a one line answer is wholly inadequate.
A) I don't believe the US government lied to its allies about WMD's.
B) I do believe that the CIA, MI6, and all several other intelligence agencies said they believed WMD's were in place and a threat.
C) I also believe that Bush has seriously messed up the war in iraq - not the initial invasion, that went well, but the prolonged occupation. He (and many of his crew) believed that the "people of Iraq want to be free, and will fight for it". Bull shit.
D) If you (and the world) seriously believe that Bush *lied* before the war, you need to also attack the other countries that believed there were WMD's, and I don't see anyone saying that the invasion of Iraq was a global conspiracy.
No, the US can't move because the world already thinks we should keep our fucking nose out of other people's business. The only way the US is going to do anything millitarily in the next decade or two is at the behest of the UN. The people in the UN are pretty much impotent (see Darfur) so basically we're going to clean up as best we can in Iraq and go back into a cold war status just bitching about others.
The only way the citizens of the US will support a unilateral decision to invade another country is when a nuke goes off on US soil. The next 25 years are going to be a radioactive bloodbath and hopefully none of it will blow over peaceful countries.
Since I'm not a math major, I'd like to run an idea by you. It seems that string theory dictates 11 dimensions, which in my mind means that there are 11 different variables required to accurately predict the outcome of a string theory equation. 4 of those are X, Y, Z, and T(ime). The rest are showed as tightly folded infinitely small dimensions, which to me, wasn't terribly simple. So I started trying to come up with a different way to represent the extra needed 7 dimensions and have come up with something that may be complete nonsense.
Here goes...
I go back to my High School particle explanation of a "thing"... Imagine a small ball of energy.
This ball of energy can oscillate in 3 dimensions, so you have a frequency of oscillation in X, Y, and Z, called HzX, HzY, and HzZ.
Secondly, this ball can spin on 3 axes as well, so you have a speed of rotation (or oscillation change as needed) about all three axes, called RX, RY, and RZ.
Lastly, this ball has a magnitude (size), called M.
Given a position in space (X, Y, Z), a point in time (T), three oscillation frequencies (HzX, HzY, HzZ), three axes of rotation (RX, RY, RZ), and a size (M), that adds up to 11 characteristics of this "ball" of energy.
Can this model represent the 11 dimensions required by string theory? Does the math even allow for this type of representation?
Again, I'm talking out of my ass here. Any math people please feel free to stand up and prove me wrong.
Exactly. There's no sense in going to IBM's VM solution on *very* expensive hardware for anything but the largest companies. I work for a 100MM/year company and some of IBM's low-end big iron is still vastly more expensive that dual or quad Opteron boxes from Sun. I can use VMWare and do much more with much less, which helps my companies bottom line.
Riiiight, so when my boss asks me to run a couple of Windows 2003 Server instances on our new half-million dollar IBM baby in a VM, what do I tell him?