For a good year or so I started to graph the number of ellipses and bold statements in his stupid emails against the total number of words in his emails. Looking at the graph now, he had about 1 ellipse for every 30 words, and about 1 bold/underlined word for every 10 normal words. With an average of about 850 words per email, it's easy to see how FRIGGING ANNOYING it got.
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That 45 Mb download gets you everything you need. I haven't tried it off of linux, but I've used the windows install before, and I've been running Be as my main OS for almost 5 years now with no problems.
GUI, web browser, mail, etc all come with it. If you're running linux, you'll be fine in Be.
It brought up the "Your machine will now reboot" message, with only an OK. XP - and possibly 2k as well - introduced new messages that don't have a reboot later option, I've been burned by those a few times.
My laptop came with XP on it - the first time I connected to the internet it downloaded updates (I was on a pretty fast network and didn't notice it happening) - next thing I knew, the thing rebooted and I couldn't search for local files anymore. And it ran slow as ass. So I uninstalled the patches, which is kind of nice that it lets you do (of course it doesn't tell you which patch does what, just gives you the number in the knowledge base). Anyway, the point is that even after uninstalling all those patches, I couldn't search for *local* files unless I was connected to a network of some kind. Go windows update. That's why you don't want some program downloading/installing automagically for you.
Hitachi took them up on it - for a while they actually sold a machine with a BeOS partition on it. The kicker was that they weren't allowed to have a boot menu that allowed the user to choose MS or Be on boot because one of the MS licenses said that Windows has to be the first thing that the user sees when they start the computer for the first time - so it was essentially a hidden partition. Hitachi had a set of instructions on their site that allowed you to activate the Be partition.
While this kid makes some valid points, the one "point" that kept annoying me through the whole thing is that an object is limited when it needs to interact with something it wasn't supposed to. The example he gives is a victim not having a victim.mug() method, so a mugger can't rob him: well, isn't that a good thing? If I design an object for a specific purpose, there's no way I can see into the future and see all the different uses my object may be used for. An object is not carved in stone: if your new app needs a method not provided by my object, then you add that method, and keep the rest. There's no law that says that you can't modify the object. The other example is that in the real world objects interact with unexpected things like trees and earthquakes. True... but this isn't the real world. This is a system where the programmer defines the scope - any external object that wants to interact with my object has to be explicitly added to my object somehow. I don't see how procedural programming, or any other programming paradigm, can see into the future and know everything it has to interact with. I apologize for this probably making no sense.
I dig this flick, it's to Austin Powers 1 what Wayne's World 2 was to Wayne's World. And did anyone else catch the reference to the old SNL sketch with Martin Short (I think) where they were doing the synchronized swimming? In the sketch, Martin Short and some other guy were practicing to become the first men's synchronized swimmers or something like that, and one of the moves that they do in the sketch Austin does in his opening water scene.
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I just wanted to let you know that I know where you got your sig from - I'm a big big fan.
For a good year or so I started to graph the number of ellipses and bold statements in his stupid emails against the total number of words in his emails. Looking at the graph now, he had about 1 ellipse for every 30 words, and about 1 bold/underlined word for every 10 normal words. With an average of about 850 words per email, it's easy to see how FRIGGING ANNOYING it got.
That 45 Mb download gets you everything you need. I haven't tried it off of linux, but I've used the windows install before, and I've been running Be as my main OS for almost 5 years now with no problems. GUI, web browser, mail, etc all come with it. If you're running linux, you'll be fine in Be.
It brought up the "Your machine will now reboot" message, with only an OK. XP - and possibly 2k as well - introduced new messages that don't have a reboot later option, I've been burned by those a few times.
My laptop came with XP on it - the first time I connected to the internet it downloaded updates (I was on a pretty fast network and didn't notice it happening) - next thing I knew, the thing rebooted and I couldn't search for local files anymore. And it ran slow as ass. So I uninstalled the patches, which is kind of nice that it lets you do (of course it doesn't tell you which patch does what, just gives you the number in the knowledge base). Anyway, the point is that even after uninstalling all those patches, I couldn't search for *local* files unless I was connected to a network of some kind. Go windows update. That's why you don't want some program downloading/installing automagically for you.
Hitachi took them up on it - for a while they actually sold a machine with a BeOS partition on it. The kicker was that they weren't allowed to have a boot menu that allowed the user to choose MS or Be on boot because one of the MS licenses said that Windows has to be the first thing that the user sees when they start the computer for the first time - so it was essentially a hidden partition. Hitachi had a set of instructions on their site that allowed you to activate the Be partition.
While this kid makes some valid points, the one "point" that kept annoying me through the whole thing is that an object is limited when it needs to interact with something it wasn't supposed to. The example he gives is a victim not having a victim.mug() method, so a mugger can't rob him: well, isn't that a good thing? If I design an object for a specific purpose, there's no way I can see into the future and see all the different uses my object may be used for. An object is not carved in stone: if your new app needs a method not provided by my object, then you add that method, and keep the rest. There's no law that says that you can't modify the object. The other example is that in the real world objects interact with unexpected things like trees and earthquakes. True... but this isn't the real world. This is a system where the programmer defines the scope - any external object that wants to interact with my object has to be explicitly added to my object somehow. I don't see how procedural programming, or any other programming paradigm, can see into the future and know everything it has to interact with. I apologize for this probably making no sense.
Just an interesting little side note I just figured out, the number of columns with the same length makes a nice little bell curve.
1 row of 29 letters
5 rows of 30 letters
15 rows of 31 letters
5 rows of 32 letters
1 row of 33 letters
Probably doesn't mean anything though.
I dig this flick, it's to Austin Powers 1 what Wayne's World 2 was to Wayne's World. And did anyone else catch the reference to the old SNL sketch with Martin Short (I think) where they were doing the synchronized swimming? In the sketch, Martin Short and some other guy were practicing to become the first men's synchronized swimmers or something like that, and one of the moves that they do in the sketch Austin does in his opening water scene.