I have a pair of Datahands, and they rock. They took about a weekend or so to get used to (the layout is QWERTY-ish, which helps), using gtypist (which I highly recommend as well).
Are they expensive? Yes. But if this is what you do with your life, they're worth the investment, IMO. These aren't your typical stock, mass-produced keyboards, either... they look hand-built, and they're pretty easy to take apart and completely clean out. The keys are optically-driven, so you can't gunk up switches or the like (although you can get the keys sticky, they're fairly easy to clean if you're not afraid to take things apart).
Anyone remember the episode of Law & Order where they had only days to track down a rapist... and tried to use DNA 'fingerprint' to issue a John Doe warrant? Courts rejected it.
As much as I like L&O, I don't think it sets legal precedent.;-)
However several new reports allow this and it's still? waiting for supreme court review. I can't find anything about any further challenges- but I don't know what I'm not searching.
I hope, however, they disallow it as well. Finding your DNA at a crimescene and using that to issue a warrant? Your DNA just means you were there, once, or had contact with someone who was. Some cases may seem "obvious", but this is open to so much abuse.
Another one would be "shakey hands"... metal gear solid 2 actually uses this one IIRC. If you get in a "nervous" situation or are holding the gun too long, you start having problems with steady aim.
Of course, IMO, FPS's are the least advanced, plastic-and-cardboard games still being made. When you have the play control of MGS, the customizability/growth of an RPG, the strategy of an RTS (yes I know about Savage), etc., you'll have a game that's not just last decade's best-seller with new graphics.
This is an obvious coverup by NASA. Look at the reference tile. Upper right corner in the picture provided. It's green, right? Now look at the "tampered" version. It's barely visible.
This, my friends, is an obvious coverup. Of what, you ask? What do you know that is green and would be on Mars? Obviously, Martians! Everyone knows they are green. The only logical explanation is clearly that while we have been watching Mars, Mars has been watching us. To cover up evidence of the little green men, they've tampered with the color so as to make them invisible against the background!
This is so obvious and simple, I don't know why someone else didn't think it up!
(And if you believe this, I've got a tinfoil hat for you for $19.99 plus S&H. Limited time only!)
I'm not sure how the "new economy" has effected unix salaries, but I'd wager the fact that any idiot could and did get an MCSE and would work for $30k is why the staffing costs are so low.
This is Microsoft burning the candle from both ends, again. Microsoft admins are a dime a dozen. This is true. I know many, many MCSE's who can't find jobs anymore, because of market saturation. There are just too many.
Of course, that doesn't mean there are many good ones, which means you have to look harder.
OTOH, while you may be able to pay one $30k, while a Unix admin is $60k, this isn't the whole story either. One Unix admin will be able to manage an order of magnitude or more *nix boxes than a Windows admin will Windows boxes. So, while on the small scale you may have $30k vs $60k, throw 1000 boxes on your network and it'll be more like $300k vs $60k. Now who has the TCO advantage?
I'm even more excited about DQ8 (which looks like the RPG I've always dreamed of), but DQ5 definitely looks cool. Hopefully it will be on the order of DQ7 (which I loved... 3 hours of play before you even see your first battle;-)).
FF12... I'm not any more or less excited about than anything else, and pretty much for the reasons you said. I liked old school Final Fantasy (1-5, and I liked 6, but that really changed the direction of future games); I wish they'd make more like those. Enix got it right with DQ7, IMO. (Of course, I got FF Origins, but I didn't even like the re-translation. There was a lot of nostalgia in many of the original lines, and the new ones aren't any better, just more bland.)
I agree... this is a result of a failing of C, in my view. Or, at least, a lack of proper sophistication. If C had a standard exception mechanism (and you could do it with longjmp, too), then a number of issues would be neatly wrapped up.
The article specifically states that Unices use unsigned 32-bit values to store the number of seconds since 1970. Unfortunately, it's wrong even in that respect, since most Unices have been using larger timevals for some time now.
Actually, it's wrong in that POSIX states this value is signed, which is what causes it to be a problem we have to worry about before the next century. (If time_t was unsigned, various functions, such as time(2) could not return an error code. Similar deal happened with other types, such as size_t, which lead to the 2GB file problem for awhile.)
Micorosft didn't give it away gratis. It was part of the cost of Windows. It was no more "free" than, say, "WIN.EXE" is, or 'COMMAND.EXE', and so on. It's an app that is part of the OS's suite of standard Apps you can't entirely do without. It's not free - it's just that the cost is carried inside another product.
True, but don't forget about other MS activities. Like bundling agreements with OEMs, who charged you for Windows even if you didn't want it or have them install it. (If they were even allowed to forego installation!)
Basically, if you bought a system, you got it and paid for it whether you wanted to or not.
Maybe, but the situations are different. Real Media is still very much alive, while Netscape was pretty much dead in the Windows world when the anti-trust lawsuit finally was decided.
(Emphasis mine.) They were still very much alive when the lawsuit was started, however. Netscape was synonymous with the web for quite awhile there. It's funny how you say "netscape" now and people look at you like "what's that?"
Spoilers? Like what? Gollum is Frodo's father? Sam tying the deflector dish to the warp drive to escape Mordor? OTOH, with what I've heard is being cut, maybe I shouldn't be suprised.
It would be cooler if this sort of thing was handled in-game. Sim cops, fbi, etc. Outside of exploiting bugs, DoS attacks, and similar cheating that happens from the outside, resorting to this sort of thing to solve in-game problems just shows a lack of development and forethought on the part of the designers.
This is a pretty good point. And somewhat of a sad one, too. Consider the average jail time for rape is something like 3 years (and in the majority of cases none), it just goes to show the real concern of the system, and this society in general. If there isn't a large amount of money involved, your ruined life don't really matter.
Sickening.
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JavaScript is pretty elegant... if you want a more "full-fledged" language that has similar elegance, even more simplicity/grace, and more libraries, try ruby. Don't let a few surface features or initial impressions fool you into thinking it's anything like Perl (or Python). It would probably make a good beginner language; it certainly makes a great "advanced" language.;-)
I'd say Sun Tzu's 'The Art of War'. Despite being 2,500-odd years old, I can't think of any single text with more plain useful advice for how to manage a major competitive venture of any sort.
While some of this may be good advice, there have been some strong arguments that the current state of the economy hasn't been helped by treating business as war. Business is about making money, not about defeating and humiliating your enemy, and totally obliterating everyone but yourself on the battlefield.
Business is not strengthened by the destruction of other businesses---even your competitors.
However at the same time they should not exclude other types of non-open-source software.
There is very good reason to exclude non-open-source software, all of which have been discussed and experienced repeatedly. As it's been said, this exclusion does not exclude any company, Microsoft or otherwise. Microsoft is free to compete in the open source arena just like everyone else.
I think this is why space is so big. So the idiots don't get out and annoy everyone else. If a civilization is still arguing over silly stuff like this, it won't have time to advance.
IANAP, but this sounds like trying to reverse entropy as much as possible to me. Won't it take more energy to do a reverse computation than you'll save? Where does the lost energy from that go?
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SCO will have a major impact I'm sure. They can make their political contributions in stock options.
I have a pair of Datahands, and they rock. They took about a weekend or so to get used to (the layout is QWERTY-ish, which helps), using gtypist (which I highly recommend as well).
Are they expensive? Yes. But if this is what you do with your life, they're worth the investment, IMO. These aren't your typical stock, mass-produced keyboards, either... they look hand-built, and they're pretty easy to take apart and completely clean out. The keys are optically-driven, so you can't gunk up switches or the like (although you can get the keys sticky, they're fairly easy to clean if you're not afraid to take things apart).
As much as I like L&O, I don't think it sets legal precedent. ;-)
I hope, however, they disallow it as well. Finding your DNA at a crimescene and using that to issue a warrant? Your DNA just means you were there, once, or had contact with someone who was. Some cases may seem "obvious", but this is open to so much abuse.
Another one would be "shakey hands"... metal gear solid 2 actually uses this one IIRC. If you get in a "nervous" situation or are holding the gun too long, you start having problems with steady aim.
Of course, IMO, FPS's are the least advanced, plastic-and-cardboard games still being made. When you have the play control of MGS, the customizability/growth of an RPG, the strategy of an RTS (yes I know about Savage), etc., you'll have a game that's not just last decade's best-seller with new graphics.
Look at the 3-month view. Any recent fluctuations are just a bit of noise.
I want to see it when it takes a dive from ~15 to 1 or 0.5. I think I'll print that graph and have it framed for my wall.
This is an obvious coverup by NASA. Look at the reference tile. Upper right corner in the picture provided. It's green, right? Now look at the "tampered" version. It's barely visible.
This, my friends, is an obvious coverup. Of what, you ask? What do you know that is green and would be on Mars? Obviously, Martians! Everyone knows they are green. The only logical explanation is clearly that while we have been watching Mars, Mars has been watching us. To cover up evidence of the little green men, they've tampered with the color so as to make them invisible against the background!
This is so obvious and simple, I don't know why someone else didn't think it up!
(And if you believe this, I've got a tinfoil hat for you for $19.99 plus S&H. Limited time only!)
This is Microsoft burning the candle from both ends, again. Microsoft admins are a dime a dozen. This is true. I know many, many MCSE's who can't find jobs anymore, because of market saturation. There are just too many.
Of course, that doesn't mean there are many good ones, which means you have to look harder.
OTOH, while you may be able to pay one $30k, while a Unix admin is $60k, this isn't the whole story either. One Unix admin will be able to manage an order of magnitude or more *nix boxes than a Windows admin will Windows boxes. So, while on the small scale you may have $30k vs $60k, throw 1000 boxes on your network and it'll be more like $300k vs $60k. Now who has the TCO advantage?
I'm even more excited about DQ8 (which looks like the RPG I've always dreamed of), but DQ5 definitely looks cool. Hopefully it will be on the order of DQ7 (which I loved... 3 hours of play before you even see your first battle ;-)).
FF12... I'm not any more or less excited about than anything else, and pretty much for the reasons you said. I liked old school Final Fantasy (1-5, and I liked 6, but that really changed the direction of future games); I wish they'd make more like those. Enix got it right with DQ7, IMO. (Of course, I got FF Origins, but I didn't even like the re-translation. There was a lot of nostalgia in many of the original lines, and the new ones aren't any better, just more bland.)
Wait, looking back at Windows what?
I agree... this is a result of a failing of C, in my view. Or, at least, a lack of proper sophistication. If C had a standard exception mechanism (and you could do it with longjmp, too), then a number of issues would be neatly wrapped up.
Ah well, next OS, right? ;-)
Actually, it's wrong in that POSIX states this value is signed, which is what causes it to be a problem we have to worry about before the next century. (If time_t was unsigned, various functions, such as time(2) could not return an error code. Similar deal happened with other types, such as size_t, which lead to the 2GB file problem for awhile.)
It's an Apple battery. That's $99 of quality Apple engineering you're paying for.
Keep It Simple Stupid.
I guess we really can say Perl is sweet 16, never been KISS'd.
True, but don't forget about other MS activities. Like bundling agreements with OEMs, who charged you for Windows even if you didn't want it or have them install it. (If they were even allowed to forego installation!)
Basically, if you bought a system, you got it and paid for it whether you wanted to or not.
(Emphasis mine.) They were still very much alive when the lawsuit was started, however. Netscape was synonymous with the web for quite awhile there. It's funny how you say "netscape" now and people look at you like "what's that?"
Spoilers? Like what? Gollum is Frodo's father? Sam tying the deflector dish to the warp drive to escape Mordor? OTOH, with what I've heard is being cut, maybe I shouldn't be suprised.
It would be cooler if this sort of thing was handled in-game. Sim cops, fbi, etc. Outside of exploiting bugs, DoS attacks, and similar cheating that happens from the outside, resorting to this sort of thing to solve in-game problems just shows a lack of development and forethought on the part of the designers.
Now we know the truth behind the Florida electoral problems!
This is a pretty good point. And somewhat of a sad one, too. Consider the average jail time for rape is something like 3 years (and in the majority of cases none), it just goes to show the real concern of the system, and this society in general. If there isn't a large amount of money involved, your ruined life don't really matter.
Sickening.
JavaScript is pretty elegant... if you want a more "full-fledged" language that has similar elegance, even more simplicity/grace, and more libraries, try ruby. Don't let a few surface features or initial impressions fool you into thinking it's anything like Perl (or Python). It would probably make a good beginner language; it certainly makes a great "advanced" language. ;-)
While some of this may be good advice, there have been some strong arguments that the current state of the economy hasn't been helped by treating business as war. Business is about making money, not about defeating and humiliating your enemy, and totally obliterating everyone but yourself on the battlefield.
Business is not strengthened by the destruction of other businesses---even your competitors.
There is very good reason to exclude non-open-source software, all of which have been discussed and experienced repeatedly. As it's been said, this exclusion does not exclude any company, Microsoft or otherwise. Microsoft is free to compete in the open source arena just like everyone else.
I think this is why space is so big. So the idiots don't get out and annoy everyone else. If a civilization is still arguing over silly stuff like this, it won't have time to advance.
Incredible. The universe is idiot-proof.
IANAP, but this sounds like trying to reverse entropy as much as possible to me. Won't it take more energy to do a reverse computation than you'll save? Where does the lost energy from that go?