Indeed it appears that the murdering action occurs after this time, not during. It isn't "start, murder, drive, murder, drive, murder, arrive, murder" in under 28 minutes.
In addition the challenge included getting off the jet. He'd literally have to be by the door of the jet to get off the plane within ten minutes. In addition the challenge does mention the traffic aspect, so you would have to replicate the traffic on that day.
It's a really stupid move that you would expect of Steve Ballmer, not Apple. it's bull headed and childish.
And if it attacts a monopoly antitrust case, that will be years of costly defence for Apple to waste money and time on. Never mind Europe fining them a billion every year they keep it up.
This move is thus certainly not in their shareholders' best interests.
Apple should erect some walls between its business units, so that the desire to do well in the mobile arena doesn't mean that their systems software unit makes changes to aid that, directly harming consumers.
Yeah, sure, Apple provide XML files in iTunes for third party applications to use for custom sync. But why not just publish a media sync protocol and be done with it.
I personally don't think that Apple have the balls (insert tasteless joke about radiotherapy and cancer here) to actually compete on a level playing field instead of pulling a Microsoft and leveraging their media player monopoly (arguably) to negatively affect a competitor in a different business unit.
On the other hand, Palm should have written their own synchronisation application that tied in with iTunes/WMP/WinAmp/Files + Outlook/iCal/Thunderbird/etc. However the Pre is all cloud-like and probably only needs to get media files on with desktop sync.
Indeed. And if there was a tagging / search failure, you would still be able to view the last umpteen files of type X in the system. Auto-tag and search is what matters, and whilst desktop search / spotlight is there or thereabouts already, the filesystem is still underneath, and still the only option within applications. System default file dialogs need to tie in to desktop search with a file browse via tags mechanism, and the file structure abstracted away.
All I learn from this is that cats that are more insistent (extrovert, cute, lucky to have that purr characteristic), get more food and shelter, and thus a higher chance of survival.
It's like the introvert in the IT closet who won't ask for a pay rise. Yeah, you're stuck eating ramen then, aren't you. GO AND PURR AT YOUR MANAGER. Unless your manager is Catbert...
If you read the article, you would find out that the delivery company arrived several days early, and they wouldn't have known because they thought it was a bright idea to not travel to their new house and set it up, but to visit a relative a plane flight away instead.
I mean, it's bloody obvious to me that once they've got the lorry loaded, they're going to drive straight there and then want to unload it. They don't make money unloading it into temporary storage, or hanging around waiting.
-- "You must wait a little bit before using this resource; please try again later." WHY? How can I have a quick 5 minute Slashdot browse, write a few replies at the same time, and then have to wait 5 minutes to be able to post each one! FAIL. FAIL. FAIL. Just let people post at most ten times in an hour or something, not this useless scheme.
It was cheaper than the alternatives they had, at short notice, on a day where all the stores had sold out of cheaper hardware.
The external battery could be sold on eBay I'm sure. Maybe one of them has a Mac and can use MobileMe, otherwise that is lost money.
I can't help but think that with a normal phone, they would have had to pack a midget as well to change the phone battery. Surely this is an example of external battery packs being more sensible than swappable batteries!
It would be a file library like itunes is a media library. File management would be done by the implementation instead of directly (unless you wanted to, we shouldn't take functionality away).
Some applications could use tag-discovery libraries to automate tag generation.
I'd hope it wouldn't be called "Tagged Document Repository" in the end-user documentation or presentation.
Or you could be less elitist and realise that we're far beyond having to manually file things in this day and age, indeed that is something the computer was meant to eradicate.
A tagged document repository (with versioning history) would be best. Coupled with desktop search and changing the system file open window to be one that lets you use said search and tags to find the file instead of clicking through folders. Most files people want are more recent, so a default view of reverse chronological for the filetypes the application supports would be best.
You do, of course, still need a traditional filesystem view of this repository, and that is probably where the work will go in. Sure, tags could be folders, and you could have multiple ways of drilling down to the same file. You'd probably have a folder hierarchy that shows the most used tags at the highest level, then each subfolder is really a tag filter.
I get annoyed when I spend over five quid on a typical work day (i.e., not going out after work). I often come in under £3. Yeah, I make sandwiches for work rather than going out to buy from the sandwich shop. Filter coffee is free at work, but I mostly drink water. Making decent food from scratch is cheaper than buying pre-made meals, and you can freeze loads for another day.
I'm still overweight though:-( - I don't exercise enough (I only walk a couple of miles a day to/from work) and occasionally eat too much (free cookies and chocolate bars at work). I'm 14st 3lbs (197lbs; did once get up to 15st during a previous job). Definitely want to lose a couple more stone, or that amount in fat (even if converted to muscle). At least I know I'm lazy in not doing more exercise and cutting down some portion sizes. It ain't my glands:-)
Sleep is one thing I'm good at getting, well, in the morning when I oversleep for work...
I think it is a good idea if you are out of work or a student, because then you get some CV points and hopefully give yourself an edge over other job applicants in the future. Unless you aren't very good - then it could be a bad idea! Or if you are unfortunate and get a popular platform that ends up with lots of security holes. Still, all good experience.
It was their choice to release their code under an open source license.
I presume that like most good coders, they'll have a decently paying job that is already putting food on the table.
If they wanted to make money from this work, they could have chosen a different license that was more restrictive. They could be offering support or other services for it.
A good example of how free, open source, software benefits everyone.
The submission reads like it's different, and that other people have garnered the ovations for these people's work, but the work is in enabling technology, frameworks. Much like Sun doesn't get an ovation or money when a successful Java project is deployed, I fail to see how this is different.
Nice for the coders to get some recognition however.
It's instant on Windows XP (Core 2 Duo, 2.5G, laptop), and of course code completion works instantly. Clearly nobody would use the software as you describe it.
Which version of Eclipse were you using? Which version of the Java JDK? Are you sure it wasn't running on the gimped Java that comes with Ubuntu by default?
I can just see a Windows user getting ineffectually angry when they lose all their data: "Come and see the insecurity inherent in the system!"
Sad for the users that lose precious data, I doubt they backed up if they can't be bothered to do the bare minimum of free AV and free anti-spyware. Still, they get a weekend to back up now, assuming that they're informed in time.
After that there will be a load of restored from install CD Windows XP machines ready to be taken over again.
Why, I'm right handed and don't use the numberpad often (it's been a while since I played nethack I confess). I want to rest my right hand on the mouse. Right now that means having my right arm at an unergonomic angle.
Remember originally the numberpad doubled as cursors, and there was no middle cursor area on keyboards. The numberpad was what you controlled the screen with, and it was right by your right hand when typing, a quick movement.
Then the cursors got added, and the upside-down T shape is required - note to all the keyboard manufacturers who think a diamond pattern is in any way reasonable. This means one use of the numberpad was eradicated, and now it exists as a large area dedicated for accountancy use. What a waste of space.
Yet keyboards that remove the numberpad often compress the cursors and other keys into the main keyboard, or otherwise compromise the main keyboard. It's depressing really.
Ah, brilliant. My company just downloaded the massive everything included download, but it didn't have SVN for some reason. Gave it to the DBA, he found BIRT mode and started writing reports for us. Maybe it's not Crystal, but then again it's not Crystal!
What? Download from Eclipse website ANYWHERE they like, I like/usr/java/eclipse, but they can leave it on their desktop. Then click the executable and run!
Of course I went this way because Ubuntu has a two release old version of Eclipse in their repository. Another issue actually is that the GTK fonts are too large for Eclipse, I needed to create a custom gtk config to get them looking nice and compact.
Anyway, are modern programmers thick? Do they need hand holding? Did our forebears ask this of us? Oh wait, don't tell me, I've seen.NET weenies suckling the teat of the platform libraries and incapable of writing a basic algorithm. Shame really, C# and F# and some of those languages seem quite cool, the former fixing up Java inefficiencies by taking Java, taking 8 years of experience, and fixing things because backwards compatibility wasn't required. Quite why they call a Map a Dictionary is besides me though, decades of algorithm and data structure theory, and they ignore it.
Why is he talking about Eclipse 3.1 anyway? 3.5 just came out, 3.4 came out a year ago, 3.3 a year before that, 3.2 a year before that...
Does he talk about.NET 1.0? I doubt it.
The only problem Eclipse 3.5 has is the minor hassle of getting SVN working, as it isn't integrated out of the box. I suspect this was because of subclipse and subversive bickering.
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Indeed it appears that the murdering action occurs after this time, not during. It isn't "start, murder, drive, murder, drive, murder, arrive, murder" in under 28 minutes.
In addition the challenge included getting off the jet. He'd literally have to be by the door of the jet to get off the plane within ten minutes. In addition the challenge does mention the traffic aspect, so you would have to replicate the traffic on that day.
It's a really stupid move that you would expect of Steve Ballmer, not Apple. it's bull headed and childish.
And if it attacts a monopoly antitrust case, that will be years of costly defence for Apple to waste money and time on. Never mind Europe fining them a billion every year they keep it up.
This move is thus certainly not in their shareholders' best interests.
I agree with you.
Apple should erect some walls between its business units, so that the desire to do well in the mobile arena doesn't mean that their systems software unit makes changes to aid that, directly harming consumers.
Yeah, sure, Apple provide XML files in iTunes for third party applications to use for custom sync. But why not just publish a media sync protocol and be done with it.
I personally don't think that Apple have the balls (insert tasteless joke about radiotherapy and cancer here) to actually compete on a level playing field instead of pulling a Microsoft and leveraging their media player monopoly (arguably) to negatively affect a competitor in a different business unit.
On the other hand, Palm should have written their own synchronisation application that tied in with iTunes/WMP/WinAmp/Files + Outlook/iCal/Thunderbird/etc. However the Pre is all cloud-like and probably only needs to get media files on with desktop sync.
Build/Buy yourself a Minimig (with the ARM SD controller) or FPGAArcade.
At some point you'll want to do decent graphical output as you design your dream 8-bit computer, so these will make a decent base.
Indeed. And if there was a tagging / search failure, you would still be able to view the last umpteen files of type X in the system. Auto-tag and search is what matters, and whilst desktop search / spotlight is there or thereabouts already, the filesystem is still underneath, and still the only option within applications. System default file dialogs need to tie in to desktop search with a file browse via tags mechanism, and the file structure abstracted away.
All I learn from this is that cats that are more insistent (extrovert, cute, lucky to have that purr characteristic), get more food and shelter, and thus a higher chance of survival.
It's like the introvert in the IT closet who won't ask for a pay rise. Yeah, you're stuck eating ramen then, aren't you. GO AND PURR AT YOUR MANAGER. Unless your manager is Catbert...
If you read the article, you would find out that the delivery company arrived several days early, and they wouldn't have known because they thought it was a bright idea to not travel to their new house and set it up, but to visit a relative a plane flight away instead.
I mean, it's bloody obvious to me that once they've got the lorry loaded, they're going to drive straight there and then want to unload it. They don't make money unloading it into temporary storage, or hanging around waiting.
--
"You must wait a little bit before using this resource; please try again later." WHY? How can I have a quick 5 minute Slashdot browse, write a few replies at the same time, and then have to wait 5 minutes to be able to post each one! FAIL. FAIL. FAIL. Just let people post at most ten times in an hour or something, not this useless scheme.
It was cheaper than the alternatives they had, at short notice, on a day where all the stores had sold out of cheaper hardware.
The external battery could be sold on eBay I'm sure. Maybe one of them has a Mac and can use MobileMe, otherwise that is lost money.
I can't help but think that with a normal phone, they would have had to pack a midget as well to change the phone battery. Surely this is an example of external battery packs being more sensible than swappable batteries!
Wouldn't you rather have the iPhone in your pocket, to receive calls?
However if you have a *spare* iPhone 3G or 3GS, it's a great idea. How many people have spare iPhone 3Gs?
Yeah.
It would be a file library like itunes is a media library. File management would be done by the implementation instead of directly (unless you wanted to, we shouldn't take functionality away).
Some applications could use tag-discovery libraries to automate tag generation.
I'd hope it wouldn't be called "Tagged Document Repository" in the end-user documentation or presentation.
Or you could be less elitist and realise that we're far beyond having to manually file things in this day and age, indeed that is something the computer was meant to eradicate.
A tagged document repository (with versioning history) would be best. Coupled with desktop search and changing the system file open window to be one that lets you use said search and tags to find the file instead of clicking through folders. Most files people want are more recent, so a default view of reverse chronological for the filetypes the application supports would be best.
You do, of course, still need a traditional filesystem view of this repository, and that is probably where the work will go in. Sure, tags could be folders, and you could have multiple ways of drilling down to the same file. You'd probably have a folder hierarchy that shows the most used tags at the highest level, then each subfolder is really a tag filter.
$40 a day! Crikey!
I get annoyed when I spend over five quid on a typical work day (i.e., not going out after work). I often come in under £3. Yeah, I make sandwiches for work rather than going out to buy from the sandwich shop. Filter coffee is free at work, but I mostly drink water. Making decent food from scratch is cheaper than buying pre-made meals, and you can freeze loads for another day.
I'm still overweight though :-( - I don't exercise enough (I only walk a couple of miles a day to/from work) and occasionally eat too much (free cookies and chocolate bars at work). I'm 14st 3lbs (197lbs; did once get up to 15st during a previous job). Definitely want to lose a couple more stone, or that amount in fat (even if converted to muscle). At least I know I'm lazy in not doing more exercise and cutting down some portion sizes. It ain't my glands :-)
Sleep is one thing I'm good at getting, well, in the morning when I oversleep for work...
I think it is a good idea if you are out of work or a student, because then you get some CV points and hopefully give yourself an edge over other job applicants in the future. Unless you aren't very good - then it could be a bad idea! Or if you are unfortunate and get a popular platform that ends up with lots of security holes. Still, all good experience.
+1 Motherfucking Truth
It was their choice to release their code under an open source license.
I presume that like most good coders, they'll have a decently paying job that is already putting food on the table.
If they wanted to make money from this work, they could have chosen a different license that was more restrictive. They could be offering support or other services for it.
A good example of how free, open source, software benefits everyone.
The submission reads like it's different, and that other people have garnered the ovations for these people's work, but the work is in enabling technology, frameworks. Much like Sun doesn't get an ovation or money when a successful Java project is deployed, I fail to see how this is different.
Nice for the coders to get some recognition however.
Why not?
Your bill can now have:
"Federal Government Location Audio Sensing Fee : $4.99"
on it.
It's instant on Windows XP (Core 2 Duo, 2.5G, laptop), and of course code completion works instantly. Clearly nobody would use the software as you describe it.
Which version of Eclipse were you using? Which version of the Java JDK? Are you sure it wasn't running on the gimped Java that comes with Ubuntu by default?
I can just see a Windows user getting ineffectually angry when they lose all their data: "Come and see the insecurity inherent in the system!"
Sad for the users that lose precious data, I doubt they backed up if they can't be bothered to do the bare minimum of free AV and free anti-spyware. Still, they get a weekend to back up now, assuming that they're informed in time.
After that there will be a load of restored from install CD Windows XP machines ready to be taken over again.
Why, I'm right handed and don't use the numberpad often (it's been a while since I played nethack I confess). I want to rest my right hand on the mouse. Right now that means having my right arm at an unergonomic angle.
Remember originally the numberpad doubled as cursors, and there was no middle cursor area on keyboards. The numberpad was what you controlled the screen with, and it was right by your right hand when typing, a quick movement.
Then the cursors got added, and the upside-down T shape is required - note to all the keyboard manufacturers who think a diamond pattern is in any way reasonable. This means one use of the numberpad was eradicated, and now it exists as a large area dedicated for accountancy use. What a waste of space.
Yet keyboards that remove the numberpad often compress the cursors and other keys into the main keyboard, or otherwise compromise the main keyboard. It's depressing really.
Ah, brilliant. My company just downloaded the massive everything included download, but it didn't have SVN for some reason. Gave it to the DBA, he found BIRT mode and started writing reports for us. Maybe it's not Crystal, but then again it's not Crystal!
What? Download from Eclipse website ANYWHERE they like, I like /usr/java/eclipse, but they can leave it on their desktop. Then click the executable and run!
Of course I went this way because Ubuntu has a two release old version of Eclipse in their repository. Another issue actually is that the GTK fonts are too large for Eclipse, I needed to create a custom gtk config to get them looking nice and compact.
Anyway, are modern programmers thick? Do they need hand holding? Did our forebears ask this of us? Oh wait, don't tell me, I've seen .NET weenies suckling the teat of the platform libraries and incapable of writing a basic algorithm. Shame really, C# and F# and some of those languages seem quite cool, the former fixing up Java inefficiencies by taking Java, taking 8 years of experience, and fixing things because backwards compatibility wasn't required. Quite why they call a Map a Dictionary is besides me though, decades of algorithm and data structure theory, and they ignore it.
Why is he talking about Eclipse 3.1 anyway? 3.5 just came out, 3.4 came out a year ago, 3.3 a year before that, 3.2 a year before that...
Does he talk about .NET 1.0? I doubt it.
The only problem Eclipse 3.5 has is the minor hassle of getting SVN working, as it isn't integrated out of the box. I suspect this was because of subclipse and subversive bickering.
I'm sorry, but Eclipse just runs from the decompressed download, even if it's on your desktop.
If you need help adding a shortcut to your menu when you are a developer, you're in the wrong business. Maybe you need to be using .NET.
Don't give the game away, man!