1. World War II is past, get over it 2. The 'world' is not a country, nor a continent. It's a collection of many many countries, just like the U.S. 3. Evil people standing up in the 'world' does not mean the 'world' supports them.
Djeez, talk about sweeping generalizations. Oh, and the world does not eat babies and yes, it thinks of the children.
Ehm, the federal government is already spending much more than it earns.
How about cutting wasteful, federal spending and and reducing the deficit.
It would make the US and its citizens less reliant on foreign loans.
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"When you get tired of one place, walk off to the next."
Yeah, sure, and were are you going to walk? You can't have this on the public roads, it won't fit on a sidewalk, so no way you're going anywhere in this.
It's fun but it doesn't have any pratical use, IMHO.
Hope you'll still read this: in addition to Keith_Beef's post, you can press and hold the select button on the now playing screen, and it will show you the option to shuffle... this allows you to jump to and from shuffle mode in a given playlist without having to shuffle it beforehand.
If you have a dock, that's probably your best option.
However, I just like to move my music up AND down using any old tool my OS makes available, not some proprietary piece of software of very poor quality... iTunes.
it stores and plays music in plain mp3 format instead of some braindead apple DB format.
This means I can play my music on the iPod, but also plug the iPod in my computer and play it on my stereo.
Also, I don't like the 6th generation firmware on the iPod. For one, it uses half the available screenspace to show the album cover, which I don't have and which you can't turn off.
Disadvantage of Rockbox is that it has to reverse engineer the software to make use of the hardware, which is hard and which will probably mean they will never quite get the same quality of utilization of the available hardware (battery life, switching between songs, loading etc).
I actually traded my brand spanking new 6th generation iPod because the idiots at Apple encrypt the firmware so that you can't install alternative firmware anymore. I bought a second hand 5th generation iPod with half the capacity to be able to use Rockbox, just because I severly dislike the Apple firmware.
I can tell you, it was the first and last Apple product I bought and will ever buy. If you think out of the box ( in this case: Apple's straightjacket ) they will do their utmost best to block you from utilizing the product like you would want to.
Damn story pops up every time an article is posted that is vaguely connected to music and internet. It's just some PR drone connected to the music industry doing his sorry job.
And you had the bad luck to read it before it was modded into oblivion and took it seriously.
AFAIK Unix systems in general are more designed towards spawning new processes and optimizing the methods for Inter Process Communication thats necessary because of that.
Windows has traditionally leaned towards created threads, which have shared memory and no need for IPC.
So yes, while spawning processes works better on Unix, threads were late to be incorperated, and I think (someone please correct me if I'm wrong) thread performance is still better on Windows than it is on Linux and most other Unix systems.
I agree they are using the same tactics and arguments as Germany then, giving passports to Russians living abroad and then yelling they have to protect Russian nationals, but I don't actually think they're very much interested in expansion.
They are protecting their backyard in a military strategic sense.
Try imagining Mexico joining the Warshaupact... or less hypothetic and more historic, Cuba stationing SU missiles...
Might be, but still there are bound to be hubs, peer points, data exchanges in places where traffic is centralized, e.g. at points where transcontinental cables go through the sea, etc.
I think the protocol is decentralized, but the fysical connections cannot be.
You can hardly connect each and every computer on the globe directly, can you?
I know, for example, that one of the longest or maybe the longest direct connection goes from somewhere in Germany straight through to Japan, some 40.000 kilometres.
This is a good idea, but...... make damn sure you have all the decision making power to be able to take on the task you're making yourself responsible for.
E.g. you can blabber all you like about code quality and procedures, but if your department is understaffed you will not be able to do anything about it.
Also, if someone dictates deadlines for the completion of parts of the software, and you have no influence on these deadlines, you're f**cked too.
Make sure you're not setting yourself up for failure... really, I've been there and it's not a pretty place to be.
"If I buy a $10k Toyota Yaris and the tires fall off, I pretty much figured that was bound to happen.
I buy a $600k Ferrari Enzo and there's a fingerprint on my rear-view mirror, you're damn right I'm driving that thing back to the dealer and demanding he fix it. "
Funny you chose this comparison.
Toyota is know for its absolute dependability, it has the lowest failure rate of all car makes, while Ferrari probably has one of the higher failure rates, because their cars are made to be pretty and fast, not dependable.
I'm pretty sure prices for software where higher in Europe already in the eighties when the dollar was maybe worth 3 -4 dutch gilders, or about 1,5 euro's now.
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A few remarks:
1. World War II is past, get over it
2. The 'world' is not a country, nor a continent. It's a collection of many many countries, just like the U.S.
3. Evil people standing up in the 'world' does not mean the 'world' supports them.
Djeez, talk about sweeping generalizations. Oh, and the world does not eat babies and yes, it thinks of the children.
Ehm, the federal government is already spending much more than it earns.
How about cutting wasteful, federal spending and and reducing the deficit.
It would make the US and its citizens less reliant on foreign loans.
"When you get tired of one place, walk off to the next."
Yeah, sure, and were are you going to walk? You can't have this on the public roads, it won't fit on a sidewalk, so no way you're going anywhere in this.
It's fun but it doesn't have any pratical use, IMHO.
Hope you'll still read this: in addition to Keith_Beef's post, you can press and hold the select button on the now playing screen, and it will show you the option to shuffle ... this allows you to jump to and from shuffle mode in a given playlist without having to shuffle it beforehand.
Yes it took me a while to discover this.
Everyone in favour of another treat for the plundering knights of the 'free' market, throw your hands in the air!
If you have a dock, that's probably your best option.
However, I just like to move my music up AND down using any old tool my OS makes available, not some proprietary piece of software of very poor quality ... iTunes.
For me, the most important advantage was:
it stores and plays music in plain mp3 format instead of some braindead apple DB format.
This means I can play my music on the iPod, but also plug the iPod in my computer and play it on my stereo.
Also, I don't like the 6th generation firmware on the iPod. For one, it uses half the available screenspace to show the album cover, which I don't have and which you can't turn off.
Disadvantage of Rockbox is that it has to reverse engineer the software to make use of the hardware, which is hard and which will probably mean they will never quite get the same quality of utilization of the available hardware (battery life, switching between songs, loading etc).
I actually traded my brand spanking new 6th generation iPod because the idiots at Apple encrypt the firmware so that you can't install alternative firmware anymore. I bought a second hand 5th generation iPod with half the capacity to be able to use Rockbox, just because I severly dislike the Apple firmware.
I can tell you, it was the first and last Apple product I bought and will ever buy. If you think out of the box ( in this case: Apple's straightjacket ) they will do their utmost best to block you from utilizing the product like you would want to.
"Guess what, those working only 40 hours a day won't get anywhere."
Apart from the obvious mistake, this depends quite a lot on where you are going.
If you want to pursue a career, no matter what, working as much as you can until you either burn out or get succesfull your strategy might work.
If you want to pursue a balanced life, with time for a family, hobbies, and a general relaxed attitude, taking it easy might be the way.
It helps if you don't care about your neighbours bank balance or the size of his SUV and house, though.
"Are you... joking?
Or are you a RIAA marketing consultant?"
And the answer is .... B.
Damn story pops up every time an article is posted that is vaguely connected to music and internet. It's just some PR drone connected to the music industry doing his sorry job.
And you had the bad luck to read it before it was modded into oblivion and took it seriously.
Nah ... I'm too lazy to do the exact math, but according to Moore, Gates went to college about 3,5 years later.
His quote was for 640k.
Where's the obligatory whatcouldpossiblygowrong tag?
I mean, come on, use your imagination: a autonomous robotic fleet of cloud spewers gone astray?
AFAIK Unix systems in general are more designed towards spawning new processes and optimizing the methods for Inter Process Communication thats necessary because of that.
Windows has traditionally leaned towards created threads, which have shared memory and no need for IPC.
So yes, while spawning processes works better on Unix, threads were late to be incorperated, and I think (someone please correct me if I'm wrong) thread performance is still better on Windows than it is on Linux and most other Unix systems.
"I'm not so sure that Russia's politics are any worse than China, North Korea, Iran, etc"
Etc. being some weird abbreviation of the United States?
I mean, Russia invaded a neighbouring country and (mostly) left within a month.
Iraq ain't next to Texas baby, and it doesn't look like the US army will be leaving very soon ...
I agree they are using the same tactics and arguments as Germany then, giving passports to Russians living abroad and then yelling they have to protect Russian nationals, but I don't actually think they're very much interested in expansion.
They are protecting their backyard in a military strategic sense.
Try imagining Mexico joining the Warshaupact ... or less hypothetic and more historic, Cuba stationing SU missiles ...
Might be, but still there are bound to be hubs, peer points, data exchanges in places where traffic is centralized, e.g. at points where transcontinental cables go through the sea, etc.
I think the protocol is decentralized, but the fysical connections cannot be.
You can hardly connect each and every computer on the globe directly, can you?
I know, for example, that one of the longest or maybe the longest direct connection goes from somewhere in Germany straight through to Japan, some 40.000 kilometres.
This is a good idea, but ... ... make damn sure you have all the decision making power to be able to take on the task you're making yourself responsible for.
E.g. you can blabber all you like about code quality and procedures, but if your department is understaffed you will not be able to do anything about it.
Also, if someone dictates deadlines for the completion of parts of the software, and you have no influence on these deadlines, you're f**cked too.
Make sure you're not setting yourself up for failure ... really, I've been there and it's not a pretty place to be.
... on this old system with SuSE 9.1, FF 2.0.014, flash 7.
Hoorah for lazy upgrading ;)
come get your emailadresses here!
"My email is notsobright@spamheaven.com, what does that say about me?"
"If I buy a $10k Toyota Yaris and the tires fall off, I pretty much figured that was bound to happen.
I buy a $600k Ferrari Enzo and there's a fingerprint on my rear-view mirror, you're damn right I'm driving that thing back to the dealer and demanding he fix it. "
Funny you chose this comparison.
Toyota is know for its absolute dependability, it has the lowest failure rate of all car makes, while Ferrari probably has one of the higher failure rates, because their cars are made to be pretty and fast, not dependable.
yeah, because we've seen how wonderfully that works in the late 1800/ early 1900's.
Hell, unemployment rates were so low then we actually had to force all our children to work 14 hour days! Just perfect.
You, sir, are an idiot if you believe the power balance between an employer and an employee is even.
So he was being a dick because he could get away with it.
Not much to be proud of.
Hear hear people, I'm being an asshole because nobody is forcing me to be considerate of others.
People like him are the reason we need all these stupid little laws in the first place.
"It would only be like that, if the punishment for stealing a car was less than the purchase price of that car."
Which it would probably be if you organised it as a corporation ...
Just guessing here, but maybe somethings an unsigned int when it should be signed?
I don't know COBOL, so I'm not sure how the variables work.
Maybe it's one of those systems that just works, hasn't needed any maintenance for years and all the expertise on how the system works was lost?
Or maybe the state controller is just waving his magic wand and pulling a rabbit out of his hat?
I'm pretty sure prices for software where higher in Europe already in the eighties when the dollar was maybe worth 3 -4 dutch gilders, or about 1,5 euro's now.