Java and C/C++ are platform independent languages. Delphi is Windows only and owned by a company with a very questionable future (forget about Kylix). C# is basically Windows only as well. As far as productivity, it depends what you're doing. Java UI's take longer to implement (that might not even be true for SWT interfaces) but the core language of Java is very fast to write code in. Regarding startup time, Java can take longer but these days you have the option of specifying what role your app will be playing: a long running server app or a desktop application. The latter is designed to start up faster. And finally, no language is a silver bullet. You need to factor in a lot of things when choosing your programming language.
I saw Transporter 2 because the original Transporter was really good and I don't recall a deluge of advertising for it (though I don't watch much TV these days). Too bad #2 didn't live up to the first Transporter.
One movie that surprised me was The Longest Yard by Adam Sandler. Most of his movies were stupid, but this one was a good comedy. Not even as much crudeness as he's usually known for and a lot of laughs with a serious foundation. And the ending wasn't some neat tidy everybody's happy arrangement that you often expect from movies.
Microsoft is way too far behind and way too slow to catch up to Google.
Look at Hotmail. They picked that up in 1997/1998 and have been working on improvements ever since. It's still behind Yahoo mail and Gmail in terms of features and antispam filtering from what I can see. In 2003 they even forgot to renew the hotmail.co.uk domain. Get serious.
November 2004, Microsoft's new search is unveiled, lacking features and depth compared to Google (8 vs 5 billion pages).
July 2005, Microsoft announced MSN Virtual Earth _beta_. Google has already firmly established itself in this area.
And this is just comparing Microsoft and Google. There's the whole world of open source which Gates and company still don't seem to get. They'd rather throw hissyfits and tell people to get a hair cut than treat it seriously. Maybe it's time for Gates to build a $48 billion sandbox and hang it up.
File labelling was around back in the DOS days. An awesome command shell replacement called 4DOS write a descript.ion file in each directory you described files. When you copied files around, the descriptions were copied around, too.
Speaking of disks, I remember the Quantum link disk was one that everyone had and some, like I, decided to just reformat it and use it for something else. At least the "AOL CD" of the day was reusable.:)
I was surprised at the candidness and sense that Gates was making right up until I read the whole hair cutting section - that really turned me off. It's apparent to me that he still doesn't "get" open source and he is blinded by his feelings toward it. That's doing him a huge disservice.
That bothers me, too. If 90% of people were right when they made assertions it wouldn't be so bad, but these days I swear half the people just talk out of their ass. Shit, and just look at all the statistics I just made up on the fly. I'M ONE OF THEM!! ARGH!! FUCK!
I've had a few occasions - I'm sure most people have - where the printer starts printing out nothing but garbage. You'll get high-ASCII characters down the left side of the page and go through reams of paper in no time. Try and stop the damn job - it's usually a bitch to because (I assume) so little data generates so many pages which can be printed quickly from the buffer.
Here's a lengthy article with some interesting bits including *why* people are stealing stuff like clothes and food.
This little toady with his simpering, self-conscious delivery and complete lack of empathy made me ill! Mr. Olshan obviously couldn't figure out that people were taking clothing and sneakers because they were thirsty and soaked to the bone with salt water that was mixed with sewage!! Salt water is hell on sneakers and clothing, especially when one has been in unbearable heat for days without benefit of a fresh-water shower or a nice air-conditioned company-owned SUV!
After Olshan recounted this story, O'Reilly referred to the people in New Orleans as "thugs."
I think GIMP's learning curve is needlessly steep. Some of the common operations one needs to do are hidden with confusing terminology and/or too far down the menu.
I've been tempted over the years to make a Gimp that looks like just PaintShop Pro which IMO is pretty darn easy to pick up from scratch. I don't have the time to learn what it would take to make such changes.
One thing Gimp lacked last time I used it was an easy to use redeye reduction tool. Compare using Google's photo retouching tool's redeye reduction feature which is dead easy and works well.
Compare switching photo software with switching cars. You know what you need (lights, window washer, mirrors, etc.) - you just need to find where they are in the new car. Making things easy to find is the key.
It's so sickening - all the commercialization and corruption and even doping of atheletes. No offense to the atheletes who give it their all, but The Olympics these days are just awfully run and hardly worth watching. If enough people turn their backs to it maybe the atheletes can start something worthwhile and leave the 01ymp1c5 behind.
Well Bush still has awhile to go before he steps down. Plenty of time to set the Military and Dept. of Homeland Security in such a spot that the new president is nothing more than a puppet. Have fun with that fucking whacko.
That's exactly the word that comes to mind when I think of Disney. The formula I see also includes a show of power, 1 or more sinister characters (more than a young kids show, I think), and a few mostly run of the mill and/or bawdy jokes. The romances are pretty cookie cutter as well.
It seems that there's mounting evidence that doing things differently can give you unexpected and off the chart results. Why do so many companies like Disney cling desperately to what they know and then point fingers when things don't go so well? Keep Mickey, who cares.
With grey areas like these surrounding the GNU acronym, it is no wonder most companies approach anything related to it with extra caution. I generally keep my own projects GPL-free because I personally think the GPL is excessively restrictive... if I had to pick a license, I would go with a slightly stricter form of BSD's.
Except who would actually go after someone for innocently using a GPL font in their document? This is a bug in the license IMO. I doubt the intent was to force people to GPL their private documents just because they used GPL'd fonts. More likely the author just wanted people to help make the font better.
All the major newspapers seem to carry the same stories. Nobody seems to dig for the real truth or the opposing viewpoint anymore. As a result, I've totally lost interest in newspapers - paper or electronic. Give me a newspaper that shows both sides of every story. If I'm going to get crap news, I might as well get free crap news. If I get different, interesting news, I'll be willing to pay for it.
Yes, I believe this is the real key to more realistic images. Giving people a dead easy and convenient way to view the images is probably what's holding the idea back.
Take Toronto for example (as a relatively small large city). Lots of violence, and you hear about extremely brutal and hard to explain murders now and then (like the one in the news now).
My believe is that not everyone can handle densely populated areas. It can literally make you crazy if you're not suited to it. I would bet that many of these murderers could have led normal lives if placed in a different environment. I know someone who left the downtown area just because they realized what it was doing to them emotionally. It took time, but what a difference it had on them as a person. You could just see it.
Now imagine a *huge* city and multiply the effects.
Odds are that any lifeform that is adapted to live on Mars will pretty much die immediately on earth, unless contained in an area that has a Mars-like climate. I wouldn't be too worried.
Wow, that's naive. Odds are? Have you watched Jurassic Park yet?
Anyway, I say we blast a bunch of our garbage to Mars and get things rolling, since we can't afford to terraform it properly. Let life do its thing. What if we're the only life in the universe? Maybe it's up to us to spread it.
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Java and C/C++ are platform independent languages. Delphi is Windows only and owned by a company with a very questionable future (forget about Kylix). C# is basically Windows only as well.
As far as productivity, it depends what you're doing. Java UI's take longer to implement (that might not even be true for SWT interfaces) but the core language of Java is very fast to write code in. Regarding startup time, Java can take longer but these days you have the option of specifying what role your app will be playing: a long running server app or a desktop application. The latter is designed to start up faster.
And finally, no language is a silver bullet. You need to factor in a lot of things when choosing your programming language.
I saw Transporter 2 because the original Transporter was really good and I don't recall a deluge of advertising for it (though I don't watch much TV these days). Too bad #2 didn't live up to the first Transporter.
One movie that surprised me was The Longest Yard by Adam Sandler. Most of his movies were stupid, but this one was a good comedy. Not even as much crudeness as he's usually known for and a lot of laughs with a serious foundation. And the ending wasn't some neat tidy everybody's happy arrangement that you often expect from movies.
Microsoft is way too far behind and way too slow to catch up to Google.
Look at Hotmail. They picked that up in 1997/1998 and have been working on improvements ever since. It's still behind Yahoo mail and Gmail in terms of features and antispam filtering from what I can see. In 2003 they even forgot to renew the hotmail.co.uk domain. Get serious.
November 2004, Microsoft's new search is unveiled, lacking features and depth compared to Google (8 vs 5 billion pages).
July 2005, Microsoft announced MSN Virtual Earth _beta_. Google has already firmly established itself in this area.
And this is just comparing Microsoft and Google. There's the whole world of open source which Gates and company still don't seem to get. They'd rather throw hissyfits and tell people to get a hair cut than treat it seriously. Maybe it's time for Gates to build a $48 billion sandbox and hang it up.
File labelling was around back in the DOS days. An awesome command shell replacement called 4DOS write a descript.ion file in each directory you described files. When you copied files around, the descriptions were copied around, too.
Speaking of disks, I remember the Quantum link disk was one that everyone had and some, like I, decided to just reformat it and use it for something else. At least the "AOL CD" of the day was reusable. :)
What do you mean by 'the stars in the galaxy have no "incentive"'? Is the gravity of the black hole not enough to get the stars moving towards it?
I was surprised at the candidness and sense that Gates was making right up until I read the whole hair cutting section - that really turned me off. It's apparent to me that he still doesn't "get" open source and he is blinded by his feelings toward it. That's doing him a huge disservice.
That bothers me, too. If 90% of people were right when they made assertions it wouldn't be so bad, but these days I swear half the people just talk out of their ass. Shit, and just look at all the statistics I just made up on the fly. I'M ONE OF THEM!! ARGH!! FUCK!
I've had a few occasions - I'm sure most people have - where the printer starts printing out nothing but garbage. You'll get high-ASCII characters down the left side of the page and go through reams of paper in no time. Try and stop the damn job - it's usually a bitch to because (I assume) so little data generates so many pages which can be printed quickly from the buffer.
Here's a lengthy article with some interesting bits including *why* people are stealing stuff like clothes and food.
A couple other things:
Search
* allow more than 10 words. There's so much content out there you sometimes need more than 10 words to filter it down to something useful.
GMail
* agree - surface the delete button or at least a delete hotkey.
Groups
* allow me to filter out messages with no replies.
I think GIMP's learning curve is needlessly steep. Some of the common operations one needs to do are hidden with confusing terminology and/or too far down the menu.
I've been tempted over the years to make a Gimp that looks like just PaintShop Pro which IMO is pretty darn easy to pick up from scratch. I don't have the time to learn what it would take to make such changes.
One thing Gimp lacked last time I used it was an easy to use redeye reduction tool. Compare using Google's photo retouching tool's redeye reduction feature which is dead easy and works well.
Compare switching photo software with switching cars. You know what you need (lights, window washer, mirrors, etc.) - you just need to find where they are in the new car. Making things easy to find is the key.
It's so sickening - all the commercialization and corruption and even doping of atheletes. No offense to the atheletes who give it their all, but The Olympics these days are just awfully run and hardly worth watching. If enough people turn their backs to it maybe the atheletes can start something worthwhile and leave the 01ymp1c5 behind.
If your clay self was giving a speech to a thousand people, would you yourself (in the other room) be nervous?
Well Bush still has awhile to go before he steps down. Plenty of time to set the Military and Dept. of Homeland Security in such a spot that the new president is nothing more than a puppet. Have fun with that fucking whacko.
FORMULA
That's exactly the word that comes to mind when I think of Disney. The formula I see also includes a show of power, 1 or more sinister characters (more than a young kids show, I think), and a few mostly run of the mill and/or bawdy jokes. The romances are pretty cookie cutter as well.
It seems that there's mounting evidence that doing things differently can give you unexpected and off the chart results. Why do so many companies like Disney cling desperately to what they know and then point fingers when things don't go so well? Keep Mickey, who cares.
With grey areas like these surrounding the GNU acronym, it is no wonder most companies approach anything related to it with extra caution. I generally keep my own projects GPL-free because I personally think the GPL is excessively restrictive... if I had to pick a license, I would go with a slightly stricter form of BSD's.
Except who would actually go after someone for innocently using a GPL font in their document? This is a bug in the license IMO. I doubt the intent was to force people to GPL their private documents just because they used GPL'd fonts. More likely the author just wanted people to help make the font better.
Linux Standard Base is a standard, not a distro, as far as I can tell. There is a reference implementation, but that's all.
According to my computer, I get
:)
bash: 600,000*: command not found
Maybe it's a regular expression... in which case 600,00000000000000.... (infinite)
What's with the (R) in the story? Must've been posted by their legal department.
All the major newspapers seem to carry the same stories. Nobody seems to dig for the real truth or the opposing viewpoint anymore. As a result, I've totally lost interest in newspapers - paper or electronic.
Give me a newspaper that shows both sides of every story.
If I'm going to get crap news, I might as well get free crap news. If I get different, interesting news, I'll be willing to pay for it.
Yes, I believe this is the real key to more realistic images. Giving people a dead easy and convenient way to view the images is probably what's holding the idea back.
Plus you can mix algorithms with differing computational demands. ie. adler-32 and MD4, like rsync.
http://rsync.samba.org/tech_report/
Take Toronto for example (as a relatively small large city). Lots of violence, and you hear about extremely brutal and hard to explain murders now and then (like the one in the news now).
My believe is that not everyone can handle densely populated areas. It can literally make you crazy if you're not suited to it. I would bet that many of these murderers could have led normal lives if placed in a different environment. I know someone who left the downtown area just because they realized what it was doing to them emotionally. It took time, but what a difference it had on them as a person. You could just see it.
Now imagine a *huge* city and multiply the effects.
Ironically, Microsoft also mixed up his name in the interview, referring to the trivia whiz as "Jenkins."
"Ah, ", continued Ken, "but what's really going to bake your noodle is, would they have spelled it wrong if I hadn't said anything?"
Odds are that any lifeform that is adapted to live on Mars will pretty much die immediately on earth, unless contained in an area that has a Mars-like climate. I wouldn't be too worried.
Wow, that's naive. Odds are? Have you watched Jurassic Park yet?
Anyway, I say we blast a bunch of our garbage to Mars and get things rolling, since we can't afford to terraform it properly. Let life do its thing. What if we're the only life in the universe? Maybe it's up to us to spread it.