I do! In fact, I'm one of the few people who actually likes Ada (I just hate the compile times). However, I also like to have my code work on multiple platforms, and have a GUI, and have better responsiveness than Java 1. So, until someone can show me two things, I'm sticking with C++. What two things?
An ada compiler which works identically on Windows (95, 98, 2K, XP, etc), MacOS X, and Linux. And I'm not sure gnat is there yet.
A GUI toolkit as comprehensive and useful as wxWindows for Ada
Please, show me that. I'll switch to Ada in a heartbeat for everything. Without those two items, though, I'm not budging. Especially since I know that Ada has gone OOP for a long time now.
1Yeah, yeah, I know that Java speed has gotten better for the GUI's. Sorry, but my little 1.3Ghz Athlon with 1G of ram still runs Java apps like a dog. And yes, I mean applications, not applets, and that's with Sun's JRE 1.4 on Linux with kernel rev 2.4. So go away unless you're going to tell me how to make these programs work at a good speed.
it can emulate the structure of fairy cake (obscure reference;)
And then, using the piece of paper (and some highly complex math) we can determine the location of the nearest supercomputer, and go install Linux on it!:)
Hmmm... I can't help but wonder if you know quite what I want in a MythTV/Freevo box.
Very likely, I don't have it precisely. I just hope you're wanting the same things I do.
Although I was never able to record sound using the Gatos software, the biggest problem (and the reason I gave up) was because there is practically no TV-out support, which I really wanted. Did you manage to get TV-out working? And if so, did you use something similar to the AiW 8500?
Nope, I eventually gave up on tv-out support under X, using any drivers. It just wasn't worth it. So, now I use a scan converter (Focus Enhancements TView Micro, to be precise), which manages to (effectively) do the same thing, and does so more nicely in many regards. Oh, and no driver tweaking necessary. Here's what I'll do, though I'll freely admit that it will require some work on your part: You hook up the hardware, and provide me with SSH access. I'll get the drivers working, and get mythtv working on top of that. The only things you'll have to do will be to confirm that sound is properly in sync with video when watching live tv. And yes, I am very serious. One word of warning: You might not be able to use a package manager of just about any sort by the time I'm done, but the system will be an effective mythtv system. If you are interested, email me at michael dot j dot pedersen at verizon dot net, and we can continue from there.
Okay, here's the deal I'll make with you, and I would only expect you to take me up on it if you live close by. If you'll supply the hardware, I'll turn it into a MythTV box that'll do the job. For the record, I live just 20 minutes away from Allentown, PA, over in Washington, NJ. It ain't easy (and speaking as a person who bought an ATI AIW, I know how easy it ain't), but it can be done.
After that, burn to DVD to your heart's content. Oh, and MythMkMovie is getting ready for the 1.0 release finally (within the next two weeks it looks like).
Then in that case, allow me to recommend Focus Enhancements TView Micro scan converter. $90, and it connects VGA out to the composite input on a TV. Step up to the TView Gold, and you can connect it to S-Video In for ~$175.
And, while I'm at it, I've got a script that'll chop out commercials, and make a divx for you, at this site. I'm going to be doing an update, because not all mythtv nuppelvideo files can be encoded directly by mythtv, but that is now fixable.
The article may indeed be heavy on the drama, but it served a very nice use for me. I'd never heard of geocaching, had no clue what it was, and had no idea that other people had ever done it. Now that I know, I'm intending to go do it this weekend. I don't live anywheres near the twin cities (in New Jersey, in fact), and had never heard of twincities.com. So, for me at least, the publishing of this article, and the linking on Slashdot, was a good thing. I'm looking forward to trying it out.
If you are a mu*'er, you might have heard of it. I'm the guy who wrote Mux-In-A-Minute. It was meant to be a drop in system which would allow a new person to have all the code for an entire World Of Darkness environment within a few hours of getting a site to host them.
Ya know, I'm normally a lurker, but this particular comment rankles me a bit. I wrote a package for TinyMUX back in 1997/1998, and released it. For many months after that, I kept hearing how "Oh, you wrote that? This guy I know said it sucked." And when I asked what about it sucked, the person telling me this never knew why it did, just that this guy said it did. Hell, in one instance, I was online when a guy walked into the room flaming that package. I then proceeded to ask him why, and he just kept on ranting about how bad it was. I finally told him that I wrote it, and wanted to know the problems so that I could fix them, and he just shut up. 3 years after my original release date I got my first bug report. 3 years. Here at work, I wrote up some reports that were asked of me, and gave them to the person who asked (by reports, I mean MS Access queries/reports). Those queries had bugs in them. Two months later, the person who asked for them was fired and replaced. The new person, after being here for a week, spotted the errors. The original person never informed me of them. Now, my point? You want to tell me there's tons of feedback out there, but no one's listening? I'm calling bullshit. My own personal experience tells me that if you get any feedback at all, you're damned lucky, and should cherish it as if it's printed in pure gold. So no, Virginia, there is no feedback.
After spending much of my time online in gaming/chat and other online venues I have found that all the online relationships that I ever had (and I am not talking about only romantic relationships/nor am I excluding them), no matter how much friendship/loyalty/love/etc was claimed by both sides, the relationship was really just one of convenience.
Then I am truly sorry for you. Your experiences have been noticeably different from mine, since I've been involved with MUSHes for 8 years now (similar to MUDs, but different codebase). My cycle was one of newbie to pretty good coder to do-nothing. That's me right now. I log in to these sites still just for the friendships I've still got. I haven't written a new line of code in at least four years. But I still log in to say hello to my friends. After all, they're the only part of the whole online experience that matters. And I wish your experiences had been more similar.
There's this little thing called kidnapping. Someday, you should consider looking into it. Now, I'm not sure of the exact number of missing children in this country, but I do know it's at least 6 digits.
The reality is that there are any number of ways for a stranger to grab a hold of your child. I've seen studies (and video tapes) which show that a complete stranger can kidnap a child in under 60 seconds off a playground. Now, imagine a pair of mothers taking their children to the playground (especially if one of them has two children). Being people, the mothers might actually start talking to each other. Now, how easy would it be for a potential kidnapper to grab one of their children? And you would blame the mother for this?
It's not about a parent doing (or not doing) their job. It's about being able to undo the damage done by unscrupulous individuals as quickly as possible. Keep that in mind.
Ah, how many of those in the food industry, constantly beseiged by petulant complainers who can never be satisfied, who'd probably laugh themself silly reading that perception of customer satisfaction.
Actually, I didn't. And I've done about 7 years worth of food service work. It's hard work, generally unrewarding. But I still remember a compliment I received when I was 16 years old (I'm 31 now, just for the record). One of the very few customers I recall, but I do recall him easily, because of that. And yes, it did matter that much to me.
And your tax records and info? Where's that? Oh, and that's hardly a complete medical history. I can guarantee that any doctor you've visited has a lot more information than that. Come on, you don't have anything to hide, do you?
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Actually, I don't fall into any of you categories of illegal behavior. And yet, I won't upgrade to SP3. Why? Microsoft has shown a quite dangerous ability to trash my computer (and everybody else's) just by doing a system upgrade.
I have some custom apps that I've written, some apps I need for work (not written by Microsoft), and apps I need because I'm going to start my own business. And I'm going to give control of this machine to somebody else? Especially to a company which has shown that they are, to put it mildly, able to destroy a system (even by accident)?
No, I don't think so. My data means a little more to me than that. Once Linux satisfies my video editing needs, all Windows partitions are gone. Hmmm, maybe it's time for me to start researching that a bit better. Gotta go!
The sound resonates through your skull; but those vibrations are picked-up by your eardrum, which is a tightly pulled film attached to the nerves that translate its vibrations to sound.
Normally, I don't get so upset at this sort of thing, but for some reason, idiocy like this has pissed me off today. No, the eardrum does NOT translate vibrations to sound, or any other such nonsense.What the eardrum (or timpanum) does is to act as the first step in hearing something.
Sound waves travel through the air, striking the eardrum. The eardrum vibrates, causing the bones of the middle ear to vibrate as well. Now, I can't remember the order of vibration, but I can tell you that one of those three bones is attached directly to the eardrum, and it, in turn, causes the other two to vibrate. Finally (and I'll admit that my knowledge becomes more hazy here), the third bone is attached directly to the cochlea (or inner ear), which translates those vibrations from the third bone directly into nerve impulses, which are sent to the brain.
The eardrum itself is nothing more than the starting point for the whole sequence. If you can directly vibrate the bones correctly, you can create a sound which nobody else can hear.
If you're attracted to someone, try flirting. If you're afraid of scaring them off with flirting, well, your hoving from a distance because you don't want to frighten them is actually scarrier than your flirting with them. At least with flirting they know what's up.
That's one of those things that was hardest for me to figure out. I'm still not the greatest at it. I'll admit it, I suck at social skills (though I've recently decided I will be better, and think I am getting better).
If you get rejected...hey, it happens. And it's not the end of the world.
You're right, it's not. There are times, though (like this attempt at a relationship) that it certainly feels that way. Most rejections I can handle easily. The one type of rejection that I can not stand, though, is the "You're a really sweet guy" line. Speaking from the male side of the fence to any women who might be reading: Please don't use this line. I'd rather be repulsive and rejected than sweet and rejected.
Ya know, someday, there's going to be an easy answer to one of these questions. Unfortunately, I expect to be dead for at leasta thousand years before it's found. Still, your answer is correct, and now I know I should have realized that right away. Thank you.
Now I can't speak for all the other myriad geeky girls our there, but I don't want a guy who's going to: * Drool over me 'cause I'm pretty, plus I run gentoo
Now, what about worshipping such a woman? I know of one who is a proto-geek, and I think the absolute world of her. With some patience, and some luck, I'll marry her someday. So, I'm trying to learn everything I can to avoid putting her off, and am worried that, by thinking too highly of her, I might make her desire to leave (this is just one of my worries, and a new one to boot, since I read your post). Care to shed some insight for a hopeful soul?
Those of you looking to read some good S.F. & F that is on par with Ender's Game for being cool and visual should read Cobra (by Timothy Zahn) and the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (by Stephen R. Donaldson)
Thank you for that recommendation. I've read Ender's series, and I've read the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Ur-Lord and White Gold Wielder. I can honestly say that no other books have ever had the punch that those series did.
Ender's Game taught me what horror really is. And The Wounded Land showed me one of the most beautiful moments in any book I've ever read (around page 180, it actually brought tears to my eyes, when the Giants got their caamora.
So, I'll be picking up Cobra tomorrow, and hoping for the same greatness.
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So, you don't believe in secure languages, eh?
I do! In fact, I'm one of the few people who actually likes Ada (I just hate the compile times). However, I also like to have my code work on multiple platforms, and have a GUI, and have better responsiveness than Java 1. So, until someone can show me two things, I'm sticking with C++. What two things?
Please, show me that. I'll switch to Ada in a heartbeat for everything. Without those two items, though, I'm not budging. Especially since I know that Ada has gone OOP for a long time now.
1Yeah, yeah, I know that Java speed has gotten better for the GUI's. Sorry, but my little 1.3Ghz Athlon with 1G of ram still runs Java apps like a dog. And yes, I mean applications, not applets, and that's with Sun's JRE 1.4 on Linux with kernel rev 2.4. So go away unless you're going to tell me how to make these programs work at a good speed.
And then, using the piece of paper (and some highly complex math) we can determine the location of the nearest supercomputer, and go install Linux on it!
Very likely, I don't have it precisely. I just hope you're wanting the same things I do.
Although I was never able to record sound using the Gatos software, the biggest problem (and the reason I gave up) was because there is practically no TV-out support, which I really wanted. Did you manage to get TV-out working? And if so, did you use something similar to the AiW 8500?
Nope, I eventually gave up on tv-out support under X, using any drivers. It just wasn't worth it. So, now I use a scan converter (Focus Enhancements TView Micro, to be precise), which manages to (effectively) do the same thing, and does so more nicely in many regards. Oh, and no driver tweaking necessary. Here's what I'll do, though I'll freely admit that it will require some work on your part: You hook up the hardware, and provide me with SSH access. I'll get the drivers working, and get mythtv working on top of that. The only things you'll have to do will be to confirm that sound is properly in sync with video when watching live tv. And yes, I am very serious. One word of warning: You might not be able to use a package manager of just about any sort by the time I'm done, but the system will be an effective mythtv system. If you are interested, email me at michael dot j dot pedersen at verizon dot net, and we can continue from there.
Mysterious. Very mysterious indeed.
Okay, here's the deal I'll make with you, and I would only expect you to take me up on it if you live close by. If you'll supply the hardware, I'll turn it into a MythTV box that'll do the job. For the record, I live just 20 minutes away from Allentown, PA, over in Washington, NJ. It ain't easy (and speaking as a person who bought an ATI AIW, I know how easy it ain't), but it can be done.
After that, burn to DVD to your heart's content. Oh, and MythMkMovie is getting ready for the 1.0 release finally (within the next two weeks it looks like).
Then in that case, allow me to recommend Focus Enhancements TView Micro scan converter. $90, and it connects VGA out to the composite input on a TV. Step up to the TView Gold, and you can connect it to S-Video In for ~$175.
And, while I'm at it, I've got a script that'll chop out commercials, and make a divx for you, at this site. I'm going to be doing an update, because not all mythtv nuppelvideo files can be encoded directly by mythtv, but that is now fixable.
The article may indeed be heavy on the drama, but it served a very nice use for me. I'd never heard of geocaching, had no clue what it was, and had no idea that other people had ever done it. Now that I know, I'm intending to go do it this weekend. I don't live anywheres near the twin cities (in New Jersey, in fact), and had never heard of twincities.com. So, for me at least, the publishing of this article, and the linking on Slashdot, was a good thing. I'm looking forward to trying it out.
what the hell. first post?
If you are a mu*'er, you might have heard of it. I'm the guy who wrote Mux-In-A-Minute. It was meant to be a drop in system which would allow a new person to have all the code for an entire World Of Darkness environment within a few hours of getting a site to host them.
Ya know, I'm normally a lurker, but this particular comment rankles me a bit. I wrote a package for TinyMUX back in 1997/1998, and released it. For many months after that, I kept hearing how "Oh, you wrote that? This guy I know said it sucked." And when I asked what about it sucked, the person telling me this never knew why it did, just that this guy said it did.
Hell, in one instance, I was online when a guy walked into the room flaming that package. I then proceeded to ask him why, and he just kept on ranting about how bad it was. I finally told him that I wrote it, and wanted to know the problems so that I could fix them, and he just shut up. 3 years after my original release date I got my first bug report. 3 years.
Here at work, I wrote up some reports that were asked of me, and gave them to the person who asked (by reports, I mean MS Access queries/reports). Those queries had bugs in them. Two months later, the person who asked for them was fired and replaced. The new person, after being here for a week, spotted the errors. The original person never informed me of them.
Now, my point? You want to tell me there's tons of feedback out there, but no one's listening? I'm calling bullshit. My own personal experience tells me that if you get any feedback at all, you're damned lucky, and should cherish it as if it's printed in pure gold. So no, Virginia, there is no feedback.
Then I am truly sorry for you. Your experiences have been noticeably different from mine, since I've been involved with MUSHes for 8 years now (similar to MUDs, but different codebase). My cycle was one of newbie to pretty good coder to do-nothing. That's me right now. I log in to these sites still just for the friendships I've still got. I haven't written a new line of code in at least four years. But I still log in to say hello to my friends. After all, they're the only part of the whole online experience that matters. And I wish your experiences had been more similar.
The reality is that there are any number of ways for a stranger to grab a hold of your child. I've seen studies (and video tapes) which show that a complete stranger can kidnap a child in under 60 seconds off a playground. Now, imagine a pair of mothers taking their children to the playground (especially if one of them has two children). Being people, the mothers might actually start talking to each other. Now, how easy would it be for a potential kidnapper to grab one of their children? And you would blame the mother for this?
It's not about a parent doing (or not doing) their job. It's about being able to undo the damage done by unscrupulous individuals as quickly as possible. Keep that in mind.
Actually, I didn't. And I've done about 7 years worth of food service work. It's hard work, generally unrewarding. But I still remember a compliment I received when I was 16 years old (I'm 31 now, just for the record). One of the very few customers I recall, but I do recall him easily, because of that. And yes, it did matter that much to me.
And your tax records and info? Where's that? Oh, and that's hardly a complete medical history. I can guarantee that any doctor you've visited has a lot more information than that. Come on, you don't have anything to hide, do you?
I have some custom apps that I've written, some apps I need for work (not written by Microsoft), and apps I need because I'm going to start my own business. And I'm going to give control of this machine to somebody else? Especially to a company which has shown that they are, to put it mildly, able to destroy a system (even by accident)?
No, I don't think so. My data means a little more to me than that. Once Linux satisfies my video editing needs, all Windows partitions are gone. Hmmm, maybe it's time for me to start researching that a bit better. Gotta go!
But, I always thought of Loki as one of those less pleasant gods, the kind you'd more or less want to avoid what he gives away...
Sorry, couldn't resist :)
You mean that second amendment? The one which basically states that individual security belongs in the hands of the individual?
Yes, those other freedoms do count. And if you want them, take them. But do it without infringing on my personal freedoms. It's not that difficult.
Normally, I don't get so upset at this sort of thing, but for some reason, idiocy like this has pissed me off today. No, the eardrum does NOT translate vibrations to sound, or any other such nonsense.What the eardrum (or timpanum) does is to act as the first step in hearing something.
Sound waves travel through the air, striking the eardrum. The eardrum vibrates, causing the bones of the middle ear to vibrate as well. Now, I can't remember the order of vibration, but I can tell you that one of those three bones is attached directly to the eardrum, and it, in turn, causes the other two to vibrate. Finally (and I'll admit that my knowledge becomes more hazy here), the third bone is attached directly to the cochlea (or inner ear), which translates those vibrations from the third bone directly into nerve impulses, which are sent to the brain.
The eardrum itself is nothing more than the starting point for the whole sequence. If you can directly vibrate the bones correctly, you can create a sound which nobody else can hear.
Nor should you run it on Solaris. At least the versions I've seen really do kill all, leaving with not much more than a power cycle to fix things.
That's one of those things that was hardest for me to figure out. I'm still not the greatest at it. I'll admit it, I suck at social skills (though I've recently decided I will be better, and think I am getting better).
If you get rejected...hey, it happens. And it's not the end of the world.
You're right, it's not. There are times, though (like this attempt at a relationship) that it certainly feels that way. Most rejections I can handle easily. The one type of rejection that I can not stand, though, is the "You're a really sweet guy" line. Speaking from the male side of the fence to any women who might be reading: Please don't use this line. I'd rather be repulsive and rejected than sweet and rejected.
Ya know, someday, there's going to be an easy answer to one of these questions. Unfortunately, I expect to be dead for at leasta thousand years before it's found. Still, your answer is correct, and now I know I should have realized that right away. Thank you.
* Drool over me 'cause I'm pretty, plus I run gentoo
Now, what about worshipping such a woman? I know of one who is a proto-geek, and I think the absolute world of her. With some patience, and some luck, I'll marry her someday. So, I'm trying to learn everything I can to avoid putting her off, and am worried that, by thinking too highly of her, I might make her desire to leave (this is just one of my worries, and a new one to boot, since I read your post). Care to shed some insight for a hopeful soul?
Thank you for that recommendation. I've read Ender's series, and I've read the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Ur-Lord and White Gold Wielder. I can honestly say that no other books have ever had the punch that those series did.
Ender's Game taught me what horror really is. And The Wounded Land showed me one of the most beautiful moments in any book I've ever read (around page 180, it actually brought tears to my eyes, when the Giants got their caamora.
So, I'll be picking up Cobra tomorrow, and hoping for the same greatness.