I like how, instead of being a whiney bitch and threatening to sue or something stupid like that, he's posted a somewhat humourous website about his freak injury.
I think the Red Octane guys should use him somehow for promoting Guitar Hero II... throw him in a magazine ad or something.
FYI, there is a freeware driver for SB Live that is a zillion times better than the Creative ones.
You tease, you need to supply a link; I couldn't find one on Google because of all the "helpful" sites that just link back to Creative's drivers. My wife's still using a Live!, I bet the 3rd party driver would improve her system.
I'm Canadian, and my memory is shot... I can never remember which format is the "right" one. Being a tech writer doesn't help, since I need to shift in and out of American mode all the time anyway...
I usually use yyyy-mm-dd for things I need to put dates on (or write it out, "Aug. 2, 2006") so they'll sort sanely, since computers are too lazy to sort dates properly.;-)
Those last two movies sucked hard. I think I'll try Jobs instead (and probably keep booting into my existing XP until I get bored of the games I haven't finished yet.
It really depends on what you want to do, and what you're capable of doing.
I've got an honours BA in English; I've been working as a technical writer for computer companies for the past, oh, fifteen years. I've worked with technical writers that have Physics degrees, random community college certificates, etc.
With a Psychology degree, you could get into user-interface design or usability testing, no problem.
SCO's down to only $18 million? That's barely enough for the C-level executives to get their performance bonuses! They'll be practically backrupt, nobody can expect to live on their base salaries alone!
On the other tentacle, it's possible that these chips were nearly ready anyway, and were being delayed for marketing reasons, to avoid competition with the other Core CPUs that Intel is releasing this year.
How about a dual-CPU w/quad cores Mac "Pro" system? *drool*
Bah. Buy a house/car/etc. with cash, invest the rest and you're golden. With basically no large recurring expenses, all you have to do is avoid wasting your interest income in stupid ways.
Actually, he's got a point about Subversion's error messages; they're pretty bad for the "end users"... devs don't care what the server is up to, or how perms are set there, etc. they just want things working. Having a sensible error message that told them "this is probably a server config problem" vs. "your sandbox is hosed, you might want to revert or something" would be really helpful.
Error/exception reporting is a bit of an Achilles heel for software in general though, not just OSS development tools.;-)
IIRC if you install Subversion from Darwinports, it handles all the dependancies sanely; I can't remember if I had to specify the JavaHL stuff by hand, but I do remember that I installed that through Darwinports as well.
Having "grown up" on crazily unstable systems, I tend to save a lot; if my version control system stored a new revision for each save, I'd be up in the hundreds for a big/complex module before it even got to the "ready to compile" stage!
Which would make version control unwieldly, unless you tagged every "real" check in.
These would be a sure-sell in America if they protected against terrorism and destroyed child porn. Tie drugs in there somehow and every airport, carport, doghouse and henhouse will want one.
Canada provides the majority of America's imported oil. We're not exactly "shaky" or "unpredictable" or "building weapons of mass destruction" (unless you count moose).
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I like how, instead of being a whiney bitch and threatening to sue or something stupid like that, he's posted a somewhat humourous website about his freak injury.
I think the Red Octane guys should use him somehow for promoting Guitar Hero II... throw him in a magazine ad or something.
You tease, you need to supply a link; I couldn't find one on Google because of all the "helpful" sites that just link back to Creative's drivers. My wife's still using a Live!, I bet the 3rd party driver would improve her system.
I'm Canadian, and my memory is shot... I can never remember which format is the "right" one. Being a tech writer doesn't help, since I need to shift in and out of American mode all the time anyway...
;-)
I usually use yyyy-mm-dd for things I need to put dates on (or write it out, "Aug. 2, 2006") so they'll sort sanely, since computers are too lazy to sort dates properly.
Those last two movies sucked hard. I think I'll try Jobs instead (and probably keep booting into my existing XP until I get bored of the games I haven't finished yet.
It really depends on what you want to do, and what you're capable of doing.
I've got an honours BA in English; I've been working as a technical writer for computer companies for the past, oh, fifteen years. I've worked with technical writers that have Physics degrees, random community college certificates, etc.
With a Psychology degree, you could get into user-interface design or usability testing, no problem.
Dang, no mod points left; c'mon, people, this is a Simpsons reference!
Then you'll need Snakes on Automobiles to complete the trilogy.
Is your printer supported by CUPS under Linux? Because CUPS is the print engine in Mac OS X.
SCO wasn't a .com company; they actually had products and customers at one point.
SCO's down to only $18 million? That's barely enough for the C-level executives to get their performance bonuses! They'll be practically backrupt, nobody can expect to live on their base salaries alone!
On the other tentacle, it's possible that these chips were nearly ready anyway, and were being delayed for marketing reasons, to avoid competition with the other Core CPUs that Intel is releasing this year.
How about a dual-CPU w/quad cores Mac "Pro" system? *drool*
I can't see it because of all the AOL FREE OFFER, etc. icons all over the damn place.
Bah. Buy a house/car/etc. with cash, invest the rest and you're golden. With basically no large recurring expenses, all you have to do is avoid wasting your interest income in stupid ways.
Having recently moved to Mac OS X, I don't have a predilection for BBEdit; I really like Smultron though, which is free.
... and its speed and svelte memory footprint will remind you of EMACS in the early 90s!
I find it really slow, and prefer to use Fugu for my SFTP needs:
http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/fugu/
Not paying taxes is terrorism, unless you're rich and/or a large corporation.
Actually, he's got a point about Subversion's error messages; they're pretty bad for the "end users"... devs don't care what the server is up to, or how perms are set there, etc. they just want things working. Having a sensible error message that told them "this is probably a server config problem" vs. "your sandbox is hosed, you might want to revert or something" would be really helpful.
;-)
Error/exception reporting is a bit of an Achilles heel for software in general though, not just OSS development tools.
Do not meedle in the affairs of IBM for they are subtle, and quick to anger.
(That is, I have no idea how/why they choose to post things where they do.)
IIRC if you install Subversion from Darwinports, it handles all the dependancies sanely; I can't remember if I had to specify the JavaHL stuff by hand, but I do remember that I installed that through Darwinports as well.
Having "grown up" on crazily unstable systems, I tend to save a lot; if my version control system stored a new revision for each save, I'd be up in the hundreds for a big/complex module before it even got to the "ready to compile" stage!
Which would make version control unwieldly, unless you tagged every "real" check in.
To be fair, it takes a lot of time to sound out all those words.
These would be a sure-sell in America if they protected against terrorism and destroyed child porn. Tie drugs in there somehow and every airport, carport, doghouse and henhouse will want one.
Canada provides the majority of America's imported oil. We're not exactly "shaky" or "unpredictable" or "building weapons of mass destruction" (unless you count moose).
The awesomeness of Tempest 2000, the awesomeness of the first Alien vs. Predator game, and a decent DOOM port?