Perl's, well, a butt-ugly dinosaur..NET, well, not quite as bad, as long as you don't try and do anything off the beaten track, otherwise your in real trouble. So platform-wise, a slight win for.NET. What's your pain threshold? Environment-wise, go with the small company. Cool workplace or dilbert goes live? I wouldn't even hesitate. So, go with the small company and cope with perl until you can convert the heathens to ruby!
Amazingly enough, polar bears aren't the hot-house flowers...
1. Polar bears lack petals.
2. Polar bears don't live in houses.
Therefore, I feel it safe to conclude that polar bears are seldom, if ever, mistaken for "hot-house flowers".*
* Except in certain coffee-shops in Amsterdam, but since these shops aren't often visited by bears, it's not much of a problem.
I got a mac last January. I like, a lot, and won't be going back anytime soon.
Nitpicks? I miss "cp -r", "top -i" and iptraf. As for the GUI, can I have Ctrl-tab back, please? And, when I'm on a 12in screen I NEED A MAXIMIZE BUTTON THAT ACTUALLY MAXIMIZES. What sick cripplewit thought a "lets-randomly-resize-and-move-your-window" button was a valid replacement???
Apart from that, I love the way PDF "just works". Spotlight's cool. Expose is very handy. The mail.app is useable, but could do with better threading. Searchable mail is a great idea, but when I tried to import my mail archive, about 4GB, it thrashed for about 4hrs and then exploded. iPhoto's perfect for my snaps (but IPTC support would be cool, and I'd like to be able to publish to somewhere other than.mac). iTunes sulks if the samba server with my mp3 collection on isn't mounted first; it tries to play a tune while mounting, but times out and puts a (!) mark as unplayable, so never does that tune again, leading to library rot. The whole searchable metadata is *very* nice. I was a 4DOS junkie and love being able to add my own tags to files. RubyCOCOA is finally a GUI environment that doesn't my my brain hurt. And I love the way I can sync my Treo and the address/calendar/todo is on my laptop and I can even get it from my.mac page too! Very good!
Overall? 8/10, better than anything else I've tried by a good bit. (But I really mean it about the maximize button!)
I think you're confusing reality and theory. And in reality, analog isn't infinite precision. So the medium does matter. (Or can I use a theoretical, infinite bits, infinite sample rate digital data stream for the comparisons?) Real world digital does a better job than real world analog of faithfully reproducing the signal. This can be calculated. It's a fact. Get over it. You've sunk a boat load o'cash into a technically inferior system. Try looking into signal theory, it's all well understood, and the basis for quite a bit of modern techncal goodness, no need to go into "analog's a better sample than a digital sample" pseudoscience. Do you put green pen round your CDs, any any chance??? So, digital is better at "HiFi" (hint - that's "fidelity" in there) than analog. The crunch is: that box you use to listen to music, is it's job to give the most accurate rendition of the signal it can, or the one that's nicest to listen to? Vinyl may well seem to sound better, subjectively. But don't be mislead that analog is technically better than digital - it ain't.
Yes, vinyl is analog. That's why it sucks. What's the noise floor for analog? Waay up from digital. Not just a bit. What about the SNR? And the lower end is not just "crippled" it's flat out broke below 60Hz. And that's usually mono! What about the high end? Vinyl tends to crap out at 16KHz, sure, there's stuff coming off at 25KHz. Shame it's nothing to do with the recording - think track noise. How about the goofy demphasis/remphasis that needs to go on to cram a signal on a track? Are your sure the player's got the *exact* inverse of the recorder? And what's this about CD's "missing" sounds making vinyl "warmer"? Look up Nyquist What CD's are missing, vinyl never had. (Newsflash - analog isn't infinite precision, folks!) Now you may prefer the sound of vinyl, but don't mistake that for better quality of soud reproduction - it ain't.
If they'd stopped the 9/11 crews before that happened, and saw that all they had were some boxcutters, I'd have said exactly the same. I'd have been wrong, but it would still have been right to question. Propaganda has existed throughout history - why should our age be immune?. Quit the lame strawman arguments. A plane being blown up, yes, that is news - saying you've saved a plane but can't show the evidence... Hmm...
Oh, and I did vote for the guys in power. Can I get a refund? But what's that got to do with anything??? You know, you are permitted to think for yourself!
Prevention of hundreds of deaths is a good thing. If that's what's happening. Who says it is? Are there any other sources agreeing? Is there anything to be gained from a distraction? From fear of terrorism? Where's the money??? I'd rather doubt an honest government than believe a corrupt one: free != gullible. My guess? Yes, there was a plot and lives were saved, and that's now being way overhyped. (What's the chances that, two months from now, there's a very small story that only one plane was involved, and one more shoe bomber???) I'm wondering at such a big story. Don't automatically believe everything you're told, suckerboy.
YES! Have a close look at the NT kernel, there's a lot of VMS in there. It's *very* well thought out. Windows' problem is not the kernel. Think of it as a sandwich. There's all the wholegrain malty goodeness of the kernel, there's the it'll-do, cheap white bread of the user interface. Then there's the DDE/NetDDE/OLE/OLE2/ActiveX/OCX/ALT/COM/DCOM/.NET + Win32/MFC/VB4..6... pain in between. Yep, folks, you heard it here first, windows is a skunk shit sandwich!
I have bad eyesight. I'm not permitted to drive without my specs.*** This is for the sake of other road users. You've got bad spelling. For the sake of everyone else, USE A SPELL CHECKER AND STOP WHINING. (And if cut and paste seems too much like hard work, do even less, and don't bother to post.)
*** Or contacts. Or getting laser correction. Or on private land.
Theories and Laws are not the same thing. A law is a summary of the way the universe works. A theory is a possible explaination. For gas, Boyle summarized observed behaviours very concisely, now know as Boyle's Law. This does not explain anything about how gases work, just what they do. For an explaination, look to kinetic gas theory.
Oh no! Sterility is spreading - soon everything will have inherited it and, erm, *wait just one minute here*... Sterility - heritable ? Spreading???? WFT?!?!?!?
Slashdot Mirror
Objective C ???
Yes you can, just get the receipt for "Hardware interfacing"
Is this speculation or is it an actual sociological theory?
Yes.
No, no, NO! *This* is the dupe. The original was posted next week...
Debian? At least 4 years 'till it hits stable.
John C Dvorak? Is he that profitable a customer for VIAGRA???
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Perl's, well, a butt-ugly dinosaur. .NET, well, not quite as bad, as long as you don't try and do anything off the beaten track, otherwise your in real trouble. .NET. What's your pain threshold?
So platform-wise, a slight win for
Environment-wise, go with the small company. Cool workplace or dilbert goes live? I wouldn't even hesitate.
So, go with the small company and cope with perl until you can convert the heathens to ruby!
Yet.
Hiya George - I didn't know you could type!
Amazingly enough, polar bears aren't the hot-house flowers ...
1. Polar bears lack petals.
2. Polar bears don't live in houses.
Therefore, I feel it safe to conclude that polar bears are seldom, if ever, mistaken for "hot-house flowers".*
* Except in certain coffee-shops in Amsterdam, but since these shops aren't often visited by bears, it's not much of a problem.
That should read "Linux/Stallman", since the majority of his fame derives from the work of L.Torvalds and friends.
If I *know* it's got malware, I can't be sure if it's dead or alive...
I got a mac last January. I like, a lot, and won't be going back anytime soon.
.mac). .mac page too! Very good!
Nitpicks? I miss "cp -r", "top -i" and iptraf.
As for the GUI, can I have Ctrl-tab back, please? And, when I'm on a 12in screen
I NEED A MAXIMIZE BUTTON THAT ACTUALLY MAXIMIZES. What sick cripplewit thought a
"lets-randomly-resize-and-move-your-window" button was a valid replacement???
Apart from that, I love the way PDF "just works". Spotlight's cool. Expose is very
handy. The mail.app is useable, but could do with better threading. Searchable mail
is a great idea, but when I tried to import my mail archive, about 4GB, it thrashed
for about 4hrs and then exploded. iPhoto's perfect for my snaps (but IPTC support
would be cool, and I'd like to be able to publish to somewhere other than
iTunes sulks if the samba server with my mp3 collection on isn't mounted first;
it tries to play a tune while mounting, but times out and puts a (!) mark as unplayable,
so never does that tune again, leading to library rot.
The whole searchable metadata is *very* nice. I was a 4DOS junkie and love being able
to add my own tags to files. RubyCOCOA is finally a GUI environment that doesn't my
my brain hurt. And I love the way I can sync my Treo and the address/calendar/todo
is on my laptop and I can even get it from my
Overall? 8/10, better than anything else I've tried by a good bit.
(But I really mean it about the maximize button!)
It's kinda, like, real hard to find something that isn't frickin' there!
I think you're confusing reality and theory. And in reality, analog isn't infinite precision. So the medium does matter. (Or can I use a theoretical, infinite bits, infinite sample rate digital data stream for the comparisons?)
Real world digital does a better job than real world analog of faithfully reproducing the signal. This can be calculated. It's a fact. Get over it. You've sunk a boat load o'cash into a technically inferior system. Try looking into signal theory, it's all well understood, and the basis for quite a bit of modern techncal goodness, no need to go into "analog's a better sample than a digital sample" pseudoscience.
Do you put green pen round your CDs, any any chance???
So, digital is better at "HiFi" (hint - that's "fidelity" in there) than analog. The crunch is: that box you use to listen to music, is it's job to give the most accurate rendition of the signal it can, or the one that's nicest to listen to? Vinyl may well seem to sound better, subjectively. But don't be mislead that analog is technically better than digital - it ain't.
Yes, vinyl is analog. That's why it sucks. What's the noise floor for analog? Waay up from digital. Not just a bit. What about the SNR? And the lower end is not just "crippled" it's flat out broke below 60Hz. And that's usually mono! What about the high end? Vinyl tends to crap out at 16KHz, sure, there's stuff coming off at 25KHz. Shame it's nothing to do with the recording - think track noise. How about the goofy demphasis/remphasis that needs to go on to cram a signal on a track? Are your sure the player's got the *exact* inverse of the recorder? And what's this about CD's "missing" sounds making vinyl "warmer"? Look up Nyquist What CD's are missing, vinyl never had. (Newsflash - analog isn't infinite precision, folks!) Now you may prefer the sound of vinyl, but don't mistake that for better quality of soud reproduction - it ain't.
So the guys who shot the wrong guy and then lied about it for the next week say they've done a wonderful job this time. And you wonder why I'm worried?
If they'd stopped the 9/11 crews before that happened, and saw that all they had were some boxcutters, I'd have said exactly the same. I'd have been wrong, but it would still have been right to question. Propaganda has existed throughout history - why should our age be immune?. Quit the lame strawman arguments. A plane being blown up, yes, that is news - saying you've saved a plane but can't show the evidence... Hmm...
Oh, and I did vote for the guys in power. Can I get a refund? But what's that got to do with anything??? You know, you are permitted to think for yourself!
Prevention of hundreds of deaths is a good thing. If that's what's happening. Who says it is? Are there any other sources agreeing? Is there anything to be gained from a distraction? From fear of terrorism? Where's the money???
I'd rather doubt an honest government than believe a corrupt one: free != gullible.
My guess? Yes, there was a plot and lives were saved, and that's now being way overhyped.
(What's the chances that, two months from now, there's a very small story that only one plane was involved, and one more shoe bomber???)
I'm wondering at such a big story. Don't automatically believe everything you're told, suckerboy.
Nope, this won't play too well on Al Jazeera. Fox News will love it, though. Those are the interests this will serve.
YES! Have a close look at the NT kernel, there's a lot of VMS in there. It's *very* well thought out. Windows' problem is not the kernel. Think of it as a sandwich. There's all the wholegrain malty goodeness of the kernel, there's the it'll-do, cheap white bread of the user interface. Then there's the DDE/NetDDE/OLE/OLE2/ActiveX/OCX/ALT/COM/DCOM/.NET + Win32/MFC/VB4..6... pain in between. Yep, folks, you heard it here first, windows is a skunk shit sandwich!
I have bad eyesight. I'm not permitted to drive without my specs.*** This is for the sake of other road users.
You've got bad spelling. For the sake of everyone else, USE A SPELL CHECKER AND STOP WHINING.
(And if cut and paste seems too much like hard work, do even less, and don't bother to post.)
*** Or contacts. Or getting laser correction. Or on private land.
Theories and Laws are not the same thing. A law is a summary of the way the universe works. A theory is a possible explaination. For gas, Boyle summarized observed behaviours very concisely, now know as Boyle's Law. This does not explain anything about how gases work, just what they do. For an explaination, look to kinetic gas theory.
Oh no! Sterility is spreading - soon everything will have inherited it and, erm, *wait just one minute here* ...
Sterility - heritable ? Spreading???? WFT?!?!?!?
Right, so I carve a skull and crossed bones. Buried tresure, anyone???
There's been a nag screen in Windows for years. It's blue, it deletes all your work and only goes when you upgrade to Linux...