"Soviet Russia"? I think you mean the Soviet Union or USSR? As for being technologically progressive, can you please point out a few innovations from USSR that were "technologically progressive"? As for "being bad for the consumer", do you mean "bad for the citizen" as in lack of democratic rights, or do you mean "bad for consumers", as in "no fridge to buy at store"?
How's the performance of X.org compared to XFree86?
I don't care much about eyecandy or 3D, but if X.org is faster on 2D, I might consider switching. (I use XFre86 with 1920x1200/24b res and on my P4 3.2Ghz with a 128MB card NVidia card, the windows still flicker when moved.)
So you haven't programmed much in any of the two languages, but still prefer Java since it seems cleaner, and can't see why a" sane individual would prefer C# to Java?"
Someone - no one remembers who - suggested invading another Usenet group. A Usenet panty raid! The suggestion was well received by other a.t.'ers. But whom to raid? After much discussion, a likely target emerged:
Rec.pets.cats.
Rec.pets.cats, as you can tell from the name, is a Usenet group for serious cat lovers. It's the kind of place where people like to discuss cat health problems and adorable things their kitties did. If you were able to put all of humanity on a giant spectrum, cat lovers would undoubtedly occupy the frequency opposite people who are alternatively tasteless.
Shocker: There has always been people who can't cope with the real world.
And if some of those use video games as an escapism; it is somehow the video games fault. Remember, this crap is taught by the same legion of psychologists who the last two centuries have given us such fantastic therapies as lobotomy, electro-shocks etc. I am so not impressed.
I remember faking the flu to be able to play Airborne Ranger on C64 for three days in a row.:-)
And yup, I turned out right. Well, still not married, but at least I have enough disposal income to do basically whatever I want to. That whole games-is-evil-thing is just (female) "scientists" or "experts-of-the-day-journalists" trying to score some sensational points. I vividly (almost 30 now, and the age is taking its toll:) remember socializing with other at my age; swapping games, playing two-player etc.
If I were a scientist, I'd be more worried about TOSWTSUTWATUTARNP(*) and their lack of interest in how things work...
(*) That Other Sex Where They Seem Unable To Worry About Things Unless They Are Not Pink.
Now, imagine if some Christian zealots wanted to ban or censor offensive music, lyrics or even games. I mean, if that was to happen in the US, it would cause an outrage!
Netscape opensourced the browser the avoid MS perverting the HTML standards? Netscape perverted the HTML standards all by themselves. The blink tag, frames, JavaScript; most of the crap made its way into Netscape 2.0, and we still suffer from it.
You have two options in the free version of Opera:
A) Relevant text ads, using Google Adsense. Google needs to know which site you're visiting. B) Generic banner ads.
How to select ad model:
1. In Opera, go to File/Preferences/Advertising. 2. Put one hand on the top of your head. 3. If the fingers on the hand mentioned in instruction 2 can feel the presence of tinfoil, select ad model B 4. If not, choose model A
Opera Software has taken much care in the development so that user privacy and security are not compromised. No personal information is collected or shared, and providing ad profile information in the browser is strictly optional. The Opera user's Web usage is not tracked. What is recorded and shared with the advertising service provider is the user's interaction with the relative banner advertising.
In fact, Opera is an exemplary company, and even allows their developers to interact and answer questions on USENET and other forums. I've been a registered user of Opera for some time now, and I've always been amazed by their level of customer support and service.
I'm not sure what you mean by a sensible business model. It is possible to BUY the product, as well as using a free version (with advertising). I guess "sensible business model" according to some regulars here mean "Give it away for free, and buy lots of lottery tickets or hope some investor will bail you out", but that model actually stopped working 4 years ago.
Well, as long as US officials deny the "detainees" the status as prisoners of war and thus the rights one gets with that status, I guess the Geneva Convention really doesn't bother Rumsfeld that much.
When American soldiers get captured and tortured, beaten or whatever, US press and officials are all over the place shouting "Respect the Geneva convention", while the soldiers the US capture are denied that basic right.
Also, it is strange that it doesn't bother the US public more that there are also employees of private companies responsible for torture and interrogation. Why don't the US just outsource the whole war to some company?
That might apply to applications like Gaim, Mozilla etc., but if you're working on applications solving business problems, you'll have know what you are supposed to do and approximately how long it will take.
You can't honestly expect someone to pay you $50-100/hour if you can't give an estimate. So, what is required to make a qualified estimate?
IMHO:
1. Gut feeling
2. Some experience in the field
3. Add enough time to cope for silly things in your code that stops progress now and then (Those really hard to find in-your-face bugs)
4. Realise there's a difference between time worked on the project and calendar time. You'll find you're using a lot of time waiting for others, configuration management (just getting through to a test server might take days, if the people managing the routers etc are incompetent,overworked, unwilling or just plain lazy or you're introducing some new infrastructure (like a new app server) etc.
5. Divide the project into phases. I usually estimate time to make initial end-to-end contact if it is some kind of integration job, then the main development phase, and finally testing and deployument.
6. Google for known problems with the systems you are using. (I once did a job involving MQSeries, Java and Linux. A google search helped me identify the problems I might face.)
I have learned the same lesson. I hate bureaucracy as much as the next guy, but I really like having a good specification. Most of the programming I do is related to various forms of messaging, and having a detailed spec containing
a) The purpose of the integration (business concepts) b) The protocol c) Examples. Lots of examples
makes the whole process a lot easier.
Especially the business concepts are important. They allow me to foresee where changes and extensions may occur, and I then put more work into those parts.
If you're fortunate enough to have a good project leader, use him to communicate with the other parts involved and make him also document all the changes in the protocol. That will save you a lot of time on the phone and quite a few 'tail -f/var/log/myapp.log':-)
A little off-topic, but is it possible to play FLAC encoded files in iTunes? I'm considering doing a Final Rip And Encoding (tm) of my CD collection, and FLAC seems the way to go
Imagine, during a presentation, being able to yell "If you look at the sales figures damn Sales Figures *hark* S A L E S F I G U R E S GODDAMNIT GIVE ME A SLIDE YOU SORRY REASON FOR A BROWSER for the year..."...:-)
I pointed my browser at http://www.adobe.com/ , clicked the "Get Acrobat Reader" link, selected my operating system and pressed "Download". What's so hard about that?
Hey, this is a site for people who want everything for free and don't expect to pay for anything (except hardware), so why do you think they suddenly should start to approve of paying others for their work?
(Remember, 99,999% of the posters here have never ever contributed one line to open source; however they expect YOU to give them the rights to all of your work.)
If this DJ is such a fucking genious, why couldn't he have made his own album, instead of using someone else's music as a stepping stone? Why couldn't he just have remixed some of his own music?
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"Soviet Russia"? I think you mean the Soviet Union or USSR? As for being technologically progressive, can you please point out a few innovations from USSR that were "technologically progressive"? As for "being bad for the consumer", do you mean "bad for the citizen" as in lack of democratic rights, or do you mean "bad for consumers", as in "no fridge to buy at store"?
How's the performance of X.org compared to XFree86?
I don't care much about eyecandy or 3D, but if X.org is faster on 2D, I might consider switching. (I use XFre86 with 1920x1200/24b res and on my P4 3.2Ghz with a 128MB card NVidia card, the windows still flicker when moved.)
So you haven't programmed much in any of the two languages, but still prefer Java since it seems cleaner, and can't see why a" sane individual would prefer C# to Java?"
I guess you just defined "uninformed opinion."
Quote:
Tinfoil, my son, tinfoil. :-)
There's nothing wrong in rendering a GIF image from inline binary data provided in the SRC attribute of an IMG tag.
Check out RFC 2397 - The 'data' URL scheme
Where Where??? :-)
Congratulations, you found a typo. Now, feel free to get that stick out of your ass.
So, some people can't cope with the real world.
Shocker: There has always been people who can't cope with the real world.
And if some of those use video games as an escapism; it is somehow the video games fault. Remember, this crap is taught by the same legion of psychologists who the last two centuries have given us such fantastic therapies as lobotomy, electro-shocks etc. I am so not impressed.
Ah, lamer. :-)
:-)
:) remember socializing with other at my age; swapping games, playing two-player etc.
I remember faking the flu to be able to play Airborne Ranger on C64 for three days in a row.
And yup, I turned out right. Well, still not married, but at least I have enough disposal income to do basically whatever I want to. That whole games-is-evil-thing is just (female) "scientists" or "experts-of-the-day-journalists" trying to score some sensational points. I vividly (almost 30 now, and the age is taking its toll
If I were a scientist, I'd be more worried about TOSWTSUTWATUTARNP(*) and their lack of interest in how things work...
(*) That Other Sex Where They Seem Unable To Worry About Things Unless They Are Not Pink.
Now, imagine if some Christian zealots wanted to ban or censor offensive music, lyrics or even games. I mean, if that was to happen in the US, it would cause an outrage!
Netscape opensourced the browser the avoid MS perverting the HTML standards? Netscape perverted the HTML standards all by themselves. The blink tag, frames, JavaScript; most of the crap made its way into Netscape 2.0, and we still suffer from it.
The Global Rich List?
You have two options in the free version of Opera:
A) Relevant text ads, using Google Adsense. Google needs to know which site you're visiting.
B) Generic banner ads.
How to select ad model:
1. In Opera, go to File/Preferences/Advertising.
2. Put one hand on the top of your head.
3. If the fingers on the hand mentioned in instruction 2 can feel the presence of tinfoil, select ad model B
4. If not, choose model A
Excerpt from Opera's privacy policy.
In fact, Opera is an exemplary company, and even allows their developers to interact and answer questions on USENET and other forums. I've been a registered user of Opera for some time now, and I've always been amazed by their level of customer support and service.I'm not sure what you mean by a sensible business model. It is possible to BUY the product, as well as using a free version (with advertising). I guess "sensible business model" according to some regulars here mean "Give it away for free, and buy lots of lottery tickets or hope some investor will bail you out", but that model actually stopped working 4 years ago.
Opera actually makes money.
Well, as long as US officials deny the "detainees" the status as prisoners of war and thus the rights one gets with that status, I guess the Geneva Convention really doesn't bother Rumsfeld that much.
When American soldiers get captured and tortured, beaten or whatever, US press and officials are all over the place shouting "Respect the Geneva convention", while the soldiers the US capture are denied that basic right.
Also, it is strange that it doesn't bother the US public more that there are also employees of private companies responsible for torture and interrogation. Why don't the US just outsource the whole war to some company?
It is disgusting.
That might apply to applications like Gaim, Mozilla etc., but if you're working on applications solving business problems, you'll have know what you are supposed to do and approximately how long it will take.
You can't honestly expect someone to pay you $50-100/hour if you can't give an estimate. So, what is required to make a qualified estimate?
IMHO:
1. Gut feeling
2. Some experience in the field
3. Add enough time to cope for silly things in your code that stops progress now and then (Those really hard to find in-your-face bugs)
4. Realise there's a difference between time worked on the project and calendar time. You'll find you're using a lot of time waiting for others, configuration management (just getting through to a test server might take days, if the people managing the routers etc are incompetent,overworked, unwilling or just plain lazy or you're introducing some new infrastructure (like a new app server) etc.
5. Divide the project into phases. I usually estimate time to make initial end-to-end contact if it is some kind of integration job, then the main development phase, and finally testing and deployument.
6. Google for known problems with the systems you are using. (I once did a job involving MQSeries, Java and Linux. A google search helped me identify the problems I might face.)
6. Add 20%
I have learned the same lesson. I hate bureaucracy as much as the next guy, but I really like having a good specification. Most of the programming I do is related to various forms of messaging, and having a detailed spec containing
/var/log/myapp.log' :-)
a) The purpose of the integration (business concepts)
b) The protocol
c) Examples. Lots of examples
makes the whole process a lot easier.
Especially the business concepts are important. They allow me to foresee where changes and extensions may occur, and I then put more work into those parts.
If you're fortunate enough to have a good project leader, use him to communicate with the other parts involved and make him also document all the changes in the protocol. That will save you a lot of time on the phone and quite a few 'tail -f
A little off-topic, but is it possible to play FLAC encoded files in iTunes? I'm considering doing a Final Rip And Encoding (tm) of my CD collection, and FLAC seems the way to go
Imagine, during a presentation, being able to yell "If you look at the sales figures damn Sales Figures *hark* S A L E S F I G U R E S GODDAMNIT GIVE ME A SLIDE YOU SORRY REASON FOR A BROWSER for the year..." ... :-)
I pointed my browser at http://www.adobe.com/ , clicked the "Get Acrobat Reader" link, selected my operating system and pressed "Download". What's so hard about that?
A pity I couldn't find the sketch for the scene where they decapitate Jar Jar.
Text: White House Explains Steel Import Relief Decision So fucking what?
Hey, this is a site for people who want everything for free and don't expect to pay for anything (except hardware), so why do you think they suddenly should start to approve of paying others for their work?
(Remember, 99,999% of the posters here have never ever contributed one line to open source; however they expect YOU to give them the rights to all of your work.)
If this DJ is such a fucking genious, why couldn't he have made his own album, instead of using someone else's music as a stepping stone? Why couldn't he just have remixed some of his own music?