I really don't mean to be a troll here, but maybe the problem is the washed-up artists you're listening to? "dogshit that passes for Aerosmith as of late," as if they ever didn't suck?
Good, new music is out there. You like a social/political bent? Go grab Sleater-Kinney's new One Beat, it's phenomenal. Or Wilco's Yankee Foxtrot Hotel, which should be on every geek's playlist simply due to its strange release history (streamed for free for months before it was released, then debuted at #2!).
1) "Starbucks main interest in this is merely to prevent people from sitting around their retail stores and using their computers for free." What computers? The idea is that people bring by their own laptops and use the WiFi access that Tmobile provides.
2) "those who want to even go near the place will be forced to pay Starbucks a damn subscription fee just to try and use what they once where able to use for free." Wrong again. Starbucks doesn't make a nickel off of the access, Tmobile does. Starbucks gets their money from the coffee you drink while sitting around surfing.
The problem here is Tmobile, who wants to charge you for WiFi access instead of letting you use someone else's free access. Get it straight.
1. Starbucks did not "hire" anyone. They signed a contract to let TMobile leave a wireless network node in their franchises, that's it. No money is exchanging hands here.
2. True, Starbucks (correctly) hopes the presence of these nodes will make them money. But they don't manage the technical workings of the node, so any accusations that they're "squeezing out" personaltelco or attempting to put someone out of business is fecetious.
My sister is a Portland Starbucks manager, and a couple days before they rolled out their WiFi access, I had the opportunity to snoop through some of the papers and documents for training the employees and managers.
The short of it is, Starbucks has practically nothing to do with TMobile's WiFi access. The managers and employees know next to nothing about the Internet access except for the fact that it exists, and that if customers want to use the access they should call up Tmobile. That's it, so don't jump down Starbucks throat over this.
Why Tmobile can't simply change their channel is beyond me; I imagine that nobody at Tmobile with any technical knowledge has been alerted to this yet.
We're forgetting about an even more imporant issue -- font embedding. This was a big deal about 5 years ago, everyone wanted a way to be able to embed any typeface you'd like within a document.
MS and Netscape came up with a pair of incompatible solutions. The MS solution is still supported by MSIE 6; I have no idea if the Netscape solution is still supported by Mozilla. Does Mozilla support the MS method? What can be done to achieve a technology that would work in all the major browsers?
When you code for w3c standards, you still wind up spending most of your time in one browser hitting refresh to see how the code turns out. There are dozens -- maybe hundreds -- of little microdifferences, and the browser you spend most of your time in will reflect the finalized design.
(this isn't a good thing, or a bad thing, just an observation)
Are you running the all of those inserts as separate transactions, or inside of a single transaction? By doing the latter (rumor has it), you can even surpass MySQL speeds.
I know it isn't a particularly well-respected language, but Cold Fusion is a fantastic introduction to coding for people who don't know much more than HTML. Ben Forta's ColdFusion MX Web Application Construction Kit can't be beat -- Allaire liked Forta's books so much they made him their Senior Product Evangelist. The Forta book also provides a good foundation for learning SQL and relational database design.
In addition to being sheep, I've found that in my experience, my mac using acquaintences usually have the same burned copy of Quark 4 and Photoshop. Not a troll, just an observation.:)
Compelling design, but a) looks fake as hell (look at the bottom left corner of the top half of the device, just above the graffiti area), and b) I'd hope that the BeOS guys are capable of a better application browser than the same old one all the older Palm OS's use.
1) Cold Fusion MX is now essentially JSP, with chunks of code executed by CFML tags.
2) Bluedragon is a new Java CFML-compatible web application server, promises better performance than CF.
3) I've often heard of Cold Fusion that it makes the easy incredibly easy and makes the difficult impossible. More importantly, like the previous post said, it's the coder, not the language.
I think Transmeta is really missing the boat on not having any OEM motherboards available for system builders and hobbyists. You could make a case for this market being the reason behind AMD's success with the Athlon.
I'm speaking out of self-interest, of course. I'd like to build a home, rack-mount style server with ultra-low energy requirements. As it is, I'm thinking about going with an iMac motherboard and Darwin, but I'd much rather use a Transmeta system with a standard Linux distribution.
Your comment reminded me of one of my best customers at Software Etc. (don't look at me like that, it was a LONG time ago). Paraplegic, whole left side of his body paralyzed, for life I think. Big time sports gamer, nothing he liked better than picking up the latest basketball titles for the Sega Genesis. I'd really like to see you look him in the eye, talk about how great your football match was, and how you should be able to tell the difference between a game and your life.
Actually, I think the logo gives the company some real credibility. This looks like a logo created by old-school engineers, not some dotcom IPO slick with marketers and graphic designers. If you spent much time around engineers in the 70's and 80's, this logo should feel very familiar.
This sounds strangely like some kind of computer-assisted meditation to me, but that can't be right, because if computer games aren't free speech, it stands to reason that they aren't meditation either.
Or maybe he's just realistic about the strengths and failings of the Macintosh platform? I'd far rather read postings from someone who is actually honest about what sucks about Apple (and is equally honest about what is good!) than someone who just wants to blow Steve Jobs like those dorks at Macslash.
While you had it open, did you happen to notice if the CPU was removable? I have a z505 333mhz, and I'd like to replace it with one of the newer mobile P3 chips. Not for the speed, but for the speedstep (runs cooler).
This tragedy (and, unfortunately, Major News Event) really illustrates how not-getting-it ALL of the websites of major national news providers are. Instead of concise, light website design with a few carefully encoded JPG files, we get bandwidth-heavy Shlockwave and ActiveX "multimedia experiences" that, in the even of an actual story, quickly brings the likes of MSNBC down to its knees. In the meantime, we're left with AP wire stories and phonecalls from my mother.
We're all familiar with the fact that Mhz has become increasingly misleading (and at worst useless) as a form of speed measurement. So what is a better measurement? MIPS? I'd like something a little more broad-ranged than Quake3 benchmarks...
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Good, new music is out there. You like a social/political bent? Go grab Sleater-Kinney's new One Beat, it's phenomenal. Or Wilco's Yankee Foxtrot Hotel, which should be on every geek's playlist simply due to its strange release history (streamed for free for months before it was released, then debuted at #2!).
1) "Starbucks main interest in this is merely to prevent people from sitting around their retail stores and using their computers for free." What computers? The idea is that people bring by their own laptops and use the WiFi access that Tmobile provides.
2) "those who want to even go near the place will be forced to pay Starbucks a damn subscription fee just to try and use what they once where able to use for free." Wrong again. Starbucks doesn't make a nickel off of the access, Tmobile does. Starbucks gets their money from the coffee you drink while sitting around surfing.
The problem here is Tmobile, who wants to charge you for WiFi access instead of letting you use someone else's free access. Get it straight.
1. Starbucks did not "hire" anyone. They signed a contract to let TMobile leave a wireless network node in their franchises, that's it. No money is exchanging hands here.
2. True, Starbucks (correctly) hopes the presence of these nodes will make them money. But they don't manage the technical workings of the node, so any accusations that they're "squeezing out" personaltelco or attempting to put someone out of business is fecetious.
The short of it is, Starbucks has practically nothing to do with TMobile's WiFi access. The managers and employees know next to nothing about the Internet access except for the fact that it exists, and that if customers want to use the access they should call up Tmobile. That's it, so don't jump down Starbucks throat over this.
Why Tmobile can't simply change their channel is beyond me; I imagine that nobody at Tmobile with any technical knowledge has been alerted to this yet.
MS and Netscape came up with a pair of incompatible solutions. The MS solution is still supported by MSIE 6; I have no idea if the Netscape solution is still supported by Mozilla. Does Mozilla support the MS method? What can be done to achieve a technology that would work in all the major browsers?
IMHO, an even more attractive and compact typeface than Verdana. A good Comic typeface would be a step in the right direction too.
Don't forget that the point behind Georgia, Trebuchet, Comic Sans and Verdana was that they were to be extremely legible at small sizes.
When you code for w3c standards, you still wind up spending most of your time in one browser hitting refresh to see how the code turns out. There are dozens -- maybe hundreds -- of little microdifferences, and the browser you spend most of your time in will reflect the finalized design.
(this isn't a good thing, or a bad thing, just an observation)
Are you running the all of those inserts as separate transactions, or inside of a single transaction? By doing the latter (rumor has it), you can even surpass MySQL speeds.
They should hire DJ Shadow to mix the IBM and PWC corporate theme songs together (currently number 3 and 5 on the charts, respectively).
I know it isn't a particularly well-respected language, but Cold Fusion is a fantastic introduction to coding for people who don't know much more than HTML. Ben Forta's ColdFusion MX Web Application Construction Kit can't be beat -- Allaire liked Forta's books so much they made him their Senior Product Evangelist. The Forta book also provides a good foundation for learning SQL and relational database design.
In addition to being sheep, I've found that in my experience, my mac using acquaintences usually have the same burned copy of Quark 4 and Photoshop. Not a troll, just an observation. :)
Compelling design, but a) looks fake as hell (look at the bottom left corner of the top half of the device, just above the graffiti area), and b) I'd hope that the BeOS guys are capable of a better application browser than the same old one all the older Palm OS's use.
2) Bluedragon is a new Java CFML-compatible web application server, promises better performance than CF.
3) I've often heard of Cold Fusion that it makes the easy incredibly easy and makes the difficult impossible. More importantly, like the previous post said, it's the coder, not the language.
4) blow it out your ass
No kidding? most people don't have PS2s either. I don't plan on having one anytime in the forseeable future.
:)
On top of that, I find requiring a $200 console for one crappy gave sort of annoying.
I am glad that this particular game is PC compatible. They need to do this more often
Chapter this, section that, blah blah, how about the important stuff: What kind of animal is on the cover?
I think Transmeta is really missing the boat on not having any OEM motherboards available for system builders and hobbyists. You could make a case for this market being the reason behind AMD's success with the Athlon.
I'm speaking out of self-interest, of course. I'd like to build a home, rack-mount style server with ultra-low energy requirements. As it is, I'm thinking about going with an iMac motherboard and Darwin, but I'd much rather use a Transmeta system with a standard Linux distribution.
Your comment reminded me of one of my best customers at Software Etc. (don't look at me like that, it was a LONG time ago). Paraplegic, whole left side of his body paralyzed, for life I think. Big time sports gamer, nothing he liked better than picking up the latest basketball titles for the Sega Genesis. I'd really like to see you look him in the eye, talk about how great your football match was, and how you should be able to tell the difference between a game and your life.
Actually, I think the logo gives the company some real credibility. This looks like a logo created by old-school engineers, not some dotcom IPO slick with marketers and graphic designers. If you spent much time around engineers in the 70's and 80's, this logo should feel very familiar.
This sounds strangely like some kind of computer-assisted meditation to me, but that can't be right, because if computer games aren't free speech, it stands to reason that they aren't meditation either.
Or maybe he's just realistic about the strengths and failings of the Macintosh platform? I'd far rather read postings from someone who is actually honest about what sucks about Apple (and is equally honest about what is good!) than someone who just wants to blow Steve Jobs like those dorks at Macslash.
While you had it open, did you happen to notice if the CPU was removable? I have a z505 333mhz, and I'd like to replace it with one of the newer mobile P3 chips. Not for the speed, but for the speedstep (runs cooler).
This tragedy (and, unfortunately, Major News Event) really illustrates how not-getting-it ALL of the websites of major national news providers are. Instead of concise, light website design with a few carefully encoded JPG files, we get bandwidth-heavy Shlockwave and ActiveX "multimedia experiences" that, in the even of an actual story, quickly brings the likes of MSNBC down to its knees. In the meantime, we're left with AP wire stories and phonecalls from my mother.
We're all familiar with the fact that Mhz has become increasingly misleading (and at worst useless) as a form of speed measurement. So what is a better measurement? MIPS? I'd like something a little more broad-ranged than Quake3 benchmarks...
Those things are wicked supa-cool
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