From most of the posts and article doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me about the bar-code LED thing. Sounds like a solution looking for a problem. So I think that this is just a flash in the pan of 'oh look what we can do' sort of thing that might lead to something else practical and unrelated. A bar-code doesn't have a whole lot of information on it and doesn't need to have any more really; cause any more information would likely require more work and infrastructure to support which means this bokcode just got a lot more expensive.
However; with the problem stated in the article wouldn't the rise in augmented reality applications solve the problem of being in front of 20 book shelves and not knowing where your book is?
I actually agree with you as far as consumer rights and the right to tinker.
I am just saying if anything represents itself as something that is not than that is where i say it is fraud or at the very least mis-representation is all.
Nothing like other device manufacturers doing the same trick then it becomes an endless cat and mouse game where no one really wins because everything is lying about who they are or what they do just to work with some service or system.
iTunes yes should be the responsible party in all of this and realize the market they have the means to let other devices and services play in a way where they not forced to 'fake it'
Its my understanding that it works by telling itunes it's an ipod as opposed to a pre device.
Personally i think the pre should be able to sync with itunes as other devices have been able to. However I do not like the idea of the pre screwing around with the USB vendor and device ids to make this work, this to me is fraud and is not good behavior on any hardware or software vendor in my opinion. Which again is my understanding of how the pre actually does the syncing.
As per the parent they should read the available API's and work with apple, cause after all more pre users = more apple/itunes (movie,music,*) store users ?
I will not be convinced of browser privacy modes to be fully effective until browsers decide to also have that carried over into the flash realm.
I have confirmed that even in Safari's private mode; flash ads and programs still set cookies, and they are not erased when the session is closed like everything else. I find it also more frustrating that because it is flash; this cookie information goes across browsers since it is stored outside the realm of the browser.
For the record i also find it frustrating and convoluted on how one must actually go to some web site on adobe.com to remove flash data like that.
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found Chrome 'out-bloated' IE 8, consuming an average of 267MB vs. IE 8's 211MB. This, and recent indications that IE 8 itself consumes more resources than Vista, surely announce a new, very demanding era in Web-centric computing."
Whatever happened to the web being called thin clients. That sounds morbidly obese
I am not old enough to remember when phones themselves were first introduced. However, I am sure the exclusivity was limited to simply I have a phone and you do not sort of thing. I wonder if lan line phones also suffered from using X phone on a Y circuit, and not having it work where you had to buy an X phone for an X circuit? If it was that way in the beginning or early ages of the telephone how long was it before the service and device separated?
I mean anyone can go to best buy, circuit city, or radio shack buy a phone and it works whether you have Qwest or Cox (All i have for options in my area). You certainly are not restricted by cordless phones either and though they are a bit different then cell phones in terms of towers, signals and what not. The phone still works on whomever your provider so if you have a 5$ wired handset from wal-mart or 150$ 3ghz wireless handset family pack. So it is any wonder that the cell phone providers continue to get away which such tripe is beyond me.
This certainly is not the case today, and I really gotta hand it to phone companies woo-ing the general public into thinking a cell-phone along with the provider is like some country club. However we don't see much of 'you are t-mobile we don't serve your kind here' mentality yet, but who knows with starbucks and iphone which implies ATT relationship, who knows?
Same idea I suppose about a super virus; though all of the characters are not controlled by real people. I think the story generally portrays some insight to the idea of what would you do? As most characters in the game if memory serves me right go through serious denial and the emotional factor of the non-infected characters would believe it; creating that foreshadowing moment of when the virus finally takes over and ones benevolence cost them their life.
Personally I hope the story line of any of the resident evil games never comes to pass.
Who knows maybe these researchers should get together make an Resident Evil MMO pick your side diseased or not and see what go down.
Union Pacific Railroad have declined to hire prospective employees due to the fact that they smoke. The reasoning that i heard is that overall the employees get better health premiums. However; it is my understanding that it only applied to new employees as existing employees who did smoke were not terminated.
In the end discrimination for those posting about that angle on this. I don't believe you can count discrimination on lifestyle choices. Hence why we have discrimination laws against attributes that are not (easily) controllable; i.e. gender, race, age etc. Just to drive the point home lots of establishments (restaurants and even bars) have been known to employ smoking bans; and that wasn't discrimination either.
You have your PIN and the number on the fob which changes every 30 seconds or so and the server knows the number cause the securID is associated with the card and pin number. Just like credit cards expire securID would expire as well.
This article is pretty bare when it comes to the title of the article. Out of all the content in the article there are few paragraphs that really talk this streaming architecture. I would almost go to say this isn't streaming cause this is just common sense. However it is just a name and that is my two cents. But I have included the article that pretty drives the author's point as the rest of the article is merely setup and post-analysis.
So the moral of this article, if you read and process any decent amount of data, process this data in a serialized fashion; for example use SAX instead of DOM. Also make sure your JDBC connections are tuned correctly to exhibit this 'chunking' behavior or else it won't matter anyways.
From the Article:
Lines 8 through 14 open a connection to the database and configure the statement. It is critical to configure the connection and statement so that the database server does not send the entire result set to the application server, but rather sends chunks on demand. Clearly if the entire dataset is sent in a single piece to the application server, we will have nothing to show for our labors! To accomplish this in MySql 5 requires setting useCursorFetch=true and setting the fetch direction of the statement to ResultSet.FETCH_FORWARD. DB2 automatically chunks the data if the statement is scrollable (either ResultSet.TYPE_SCROLL_INSENSITIVE or ResultSet.TYPE_SCROLL_SENSITIVE).
Finally, note that normally a connection would be obtained from an application server's connection pool, but for the sake of producing an application that can be deployed easily, this example takes a shortcut.
Lines 17-25 loop through the result set, populating a president object and writing it to the page in each pass. This is the crux of the streaming architecture: No more than a single row is kept in memory at once.
Cell phones are hardly the problem, people who do not understand thier own limits are the problem. If cell phones are a distraction than surely someone driving with thier dog on thier lap so they can stick their head of out the driver's window isn't distracting? The list can go on and on and on about what is distracting but what is distracting to some is not distracting to others, that paticular example strikes me odd since i would see it as the most distracting.
We already have laws that enforce responsibility and accountability while driving, no more laws are nessecary in this department. Let people drive and eat, play with thier pet, goose neck at an accident, or talk on the phone if they can do so. Once they are irresponsible with driving, they will pay the consequences and blaming the distraction shouldn't be a trump card.
Apple has always taxed online purchases they are incorparated in every state or something alongs those lines (* i honestly do not what it is *) so they charge taxes anyways on online purchases including iTunes no matter where your billing/shipping addresses are.
So the fact that I live in nebraska and my state does not explictly tax online downloads; i still pay someone taxes on iTunes songs and purchases from the main apple store.
So this post seems to confuse and spread F.U.D, if anything could be surmised from any of this is that governments would like to tax digital media more.
Well not likley because someone is likely to scream discrimination of sorts. As in the real world everyone is *supposed* to be treated fairly even if you can't control yourself ('severely handicapped').
I would imagine that if anything comes of this idea, is that just a server side detection mechanisim that sells ads to vistors saying something similar to spam ads like your computer is infected blah blah blah. However if that ad came from my bank and I was aware that they had this kind of service i would be more inclined to investigate further.
I would see PC gaming to have a nice market until everyone has a decent tv monitor. Cause even though some of the graphic engines in most modern games are very powerful, alas the rendering is still pasted into a generally low resolution screen. So despite the population fortunate to have a nice HDTV or equivlent high resolution television. I would imagine like all software development one must succumb to the lowest common denominator with certain aspects of the design?
Now i do know that the xbox does support the i1080 thing, however few games as i understand it actually take advantage of it.
I don't think the monopoly analogy is good, however this one might be a bit better. Who knows maybe not?
Since it is a hot item in the news, if you look at how athletes have used steroids (performance enhancing drugs) in order to keep up with the demand of fans to perform beyond expectations and be some kind of hero. However most of the press surrounding steroid use is that everyone seems to be using them, ya know if everyone else is doing it why can't I sort of thing. The drug companies say they filled a market, so they aren't at fault. The athletes say it isn't their fault since they buckled under the pressure to succeed. So who is really to blame? I say both, since they had equal responsibilty for thier own actions.
Thus pretty much now sports are going to need reform since they have been stained with the image that they are all cheaters for not being real athletes with all that dedication they go on and on about. Since this image isn't the kind of image that the goverment (whiny constituents) wants to continue to support, they are getting the a legal snafu. Likewise online gaming with the masses will require reform in the same way.
With that said, I do play FFXI and I must say the gil sellers are annoying buy can be dealt with for the time being. The MMOG type games are still young in culture and will take some time to figure out what people really want from these games and better what they are willing to put up with, for example taking weeks of casual play just to go up one character level. I would suspect that next generation of online games will address this problem in different ways, having the publisher become the item/gil whore for supplemental income in conjuction with subscription fees, is one obivious solution that comes to mind.
Personally I think the games suffer this kind of abuse because of using windows platforms instead of consoles where third party application can run in parralel with the said game. Since it is my understanding that in the FFXI worlds the gil sellers and items whores are people who use XP to play instead of a PS2. Finally my inital comment the game publishers will have to solve this problem since they essentially have created it, and i don't mean that in a negative way either. Players also have the responsibilty to take a stand to people who abuse the game, for example 'STOP paying high in game prices for items because you feel you have to!' try playing the games the way you want.
I am not a fan of grocery convience cards and I tend to agree with the posts that lean towards something like this is a loss-leader from the insurance company, so nothing more needs to be said about that.
What i would like to see is maybe insurance companies giving kick-backs to those who do maintence on cars similar however not exactly like health insurance lord knows american health insurance doesn't have issues either. You get your car fixed/repaired or annual maintence (ala jiffy lube) of some kind you get a discount for keeping your car in good running condition. less obtrusive and certinaly would keep those bastard s blowing black smoke in rush hour traffic from bliding my view.
In a recent agreement between SCO and the Chinese govt. In pursuit to keep their zodiac pristine, the chinese govt. is suing those who choose to raise the popularity of the penguin to super-impose a non-honarable animal onto their zodiac folowers, sources say the chinese govt. claims the addition of the penguin will cause identity crisis worldwide. People are encouraged to still believe that this year is without a doubt the year of the monkey, and not the year of the pengiun. Go Ximian ! </joke>
First off I have no personal feelings for or against the three letter leaders (RMS, ESR). However I think the aforemetioned focus too much about software. Software isn't everything, at least last time I checked ? To illustrate my point I will give this questions to the three lettered leaders and all you other OSS ethusiasts.
Do you grow your own foods, and i mean all of them ? Do you weave and grow your flax, and such for fabrics that you wear ? again all the clothes you wear ?
I am gonna guess that the answer is definte NO for both. Since 1 it takes entirely too much time to do either along with other responsibilities most people have. Secondly it is just easier to put that responsibility on a company that makes it convient in the form of mega superstores/grocery marts. If we all had to make our own clothes, and grow our own food we would not have much time to move forward and create other things to push our social quo to the next level. Same thing with hardware and software we should excerise balance free software as well non-free software competing for the next big thing. Not everyone wants to control the innerworkings of their OS, and or low-level device drivers just so they can type. No most people opt for Mircosoft/Apple/*nix vendors to do that for them so that the user can do something with and possibly make something else to work with it and make thiers as well as others lives a bit easier for them, and the cycle continues.
I enjoy free/open software however some software i would just rather pay for or get the binary and be done with and not have to try and compile it and trudge through any library hell that might incurr. My time is better spent doing things i do better, and in other ways enjoy more. I think free software needs the proprietary software to keep the value of what software is in perspective, since software seems to be ever more expensive as the years pass-on. So to re-iterate keep things in balance and the path should be clear because extremists on any topic are rarely 100% correct.
I imagine they will have to make a few things up to get other characters in the movie, since the game is Samus running around killing creatures, and for a movie that isn't all that interesting. So I would suspect they are going to add more characters for smaus to contend with, either allies or enemies. It will be interesting as to how the come up with different characters to deal with. The movie that comes to mind that seems close would be Aliens. Either way I remain optimistic, it will still be a good game even if the movie is a disaster.
Well making GUI's is very detail oriented, I wouldn't say it is hard just can be very drawn out. So much so it is just easier to just say let them (* end users *) deal with it, or my inteded audience is smart enough to know what i meant (* love that one *). UI programming can seem daunting for a variety of reasons I think, lots of windowing toolkits to choose from, too many if you ask me. Cross-platform GUI programming adds even more complexities even in the Java realm. I think that alot of the open-source software with a few exceptions do the bare minimum to expose the features somewhere and somehow and vow to organize the UI at a later date.
The biggest difference about server-side programming and UI programming is dealing with the amount input variables and state. Since a typical UI has many things going on (* key presses, mouse movements/clicks/drags, paints, etc... *), it is very easy to loose track of something, or not keep track of something at all for the sake of being effecient. Server-side programming tends to be a bit more linear and state is more or less what you need during a session i.e. you accept a connection send / recieve data close the socket lather rinse and repeat. I for enjoy UI programming simply because it is challenging for a variety of reasons, and I think my programming skills and temperment overall improve.
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Now most of my GUI abilities have been shown in my project
iSQL-Viewer. Irregardless of the fact it is in Java and Java doesn't have much prowess as a thick client solution, I have managed to make a fairly clean an professional UI (*IMHO*). Most of my development efforts go to getting the UI stable and keeping the functionality in focus. So I personally invite anyone to give constructive criticisim regarding the GUI that it has, and for those that do, it is done in Swing.
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Software for most people is the look, what they see is what they want to get and if it isn't what they think it is it causes frustration, it work just like other things 70% how you look 20% how you sound 10% what you actually say.
Now not to be completely existential, I would like to give an example of a magic trick where a person is asked to chose a card, and then the magician through some form of pagentry determines the correct card magically.
Now, there are many ways this trick is pulled off, one example is using a trick deck where every other card is the same and they are kind of stuck together so the person doesn't see it when she picks the card as the deck is face down and since the deck is sticky, the magician will often *assist* in picking, and as you might have guessed the card picked was known even before the trick start. So the rest of the trick is more pagentry to distract you from what really went down. So after the trick everyone is amazed and happy. Yet the person who picked the card had the empowerment of choice s/he believed to be picking a unique card from the deck when in fact the card was more or less imposed upon them. So did they have a choice, in terms of the trick no, the choice was made for them for the sake of entertainment.
So in other words, like everything in life there should be balance, strange that psychologists never seem to talk about living a balanced life, they appear to have mostly biased opinions, which these opinions can't justify everyone. Some choices are best left to someone else because they are more skilled/informed than you, and some decisons are best left for you to decide since it may impact you more, like a tatoo or a girl/boyfriend. The real choice is deciding which one is which ?
Because really if the magician didn't pick your card that wouldn't be much fun now would it ?
Actually i have no idea if they make any money on it but.mac accounts sales are probably nice vien of income as well, and even better for those who use it enough to fork out for space upgrades.
Since technically even if you don't own a mac you can still have a.mac account but i think most.mac people own macs ?
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Isn't Africa technically a continent not a country?
However; with the problem stated in the article wouldn't the rise in augmented reality applications solve the problem of being in front of 20 book shelves and not knowing where your book is?
I actually agree with you as far as consumer rights and the right to tinker. I am just saying if anything represents itself as something that is not than that is where i say it is fraud or at the very least mis-representation is all. Nothing like other device manufacturers doing the same trick then it becomes an endless cat and mouse game where no one really wins because everything is lying about who they are or what they do just to work with some service or system. iTunes yes should be the responsible party in all of this and realize the market they have the means to let other devices and services play in a way where they not forced to 'fake it'
Its my understanding that it works by telling itunes it's an ipod as opposed to a pre device. Personally i think the pre should be able to sync with itunes as other devices have been able to. However I do not like the idea of the pre screwing around with the USB vendor and device ids to make this work, this to me is fraud and is not good behavior on any hardware or software vendor in my opinion. Which again is my understanding of how the pre actually does the syncing. As per the parent they should read the available API's and work with apple, cause after all more pre users = more apple/itunes (movie,music,*) store users ?
I will not be convinced of browser privacy modes to be fully effective until browsers decide to also have that carried over into the flash realm. I have confirmed that even in Safari's private mode; flash ads and programs still set cookies, and they are not erased when the session is closed like everything else. I find it also more frustrating that because it is flash; this cookie information goes across browsers since it is stored outside the realm of the browser. For the record i also find it frustrating and convoluted on how one must actually go to some web site on adobe.com to remove flash data like that.
found Chrome 'out-bloated' IE 8, consuming an average of 267MB vs. IE 8's 211MB. This, and recent indications that IE 8 itself consumes more resources than Vista, surely announce a new, very demanding era in Web-centric computing."
Whatever happened to the web being called thin clients. That sounds morbidly obese
Thanks very informative; i would mod you up if i could.
I am not old enough to remember when phones themselves were first introduced. However, I am sure the exclusivity was limited to simply I have a phone and you do not sort of thing. I wonder if lan line phones also suffered from using X phone on a Y circuit, and not having it work where you had to buy an X phone for an X circuit? If it was that way in the beginning or early ages of the telephone how long was it before the service and device separated?
I mean anyone can go to best buy, circuit city, or radio shack buy a phone and it works whether you have Qwest or Cox (All i have for options in my area). You certainly are not restricted by cordless phones either and though they are a bit different then cell phones in terms of towers, signals and what not. The phone still works on whomever your provider so if you have a 5$ wired handset from wal-mart or 150$ 3ghz wireless handset family pack. So it is any wonder that the cell phone providers continue to get away which such tripe is beyond me.
This certainly is not the case today, and I really gotta hand it to phone companies woo-ing the general public into thinking a cell-phone along with the provider is like some country club. However we don't see much of 'you are t-mobile we don't serve your kind here' mentality yet, but who knows with starbucks and iphone which implies ATT relationship, who knows?
Same idea I suppose about a super virus; though all of the characters are not controlled by real people. I think the story generally portrays some insight to the idea of what would you do? As most characters in the game if memory serves me right go through serious denial and the emotional factor of the non-infected characters would believe it; creating that foreshadowing moment of when the virus finally takes over and ones benevolence cost them their life.
Personally I hope the story line of any of the resident evil games never comes to pass.
Who knows maybe these researchers should get together make an Resident Evil MMO pick your side diseased or not and see what go down.
Union Pacific Railroad have declined to hire prospective employees due to the fact that they smoke. The reasoning that i heard is that overall the employees get better health premiums. However; it is my understanding that it only applied to new employees as existing employees who did smoke were not terminated.
In the end discrimination for those posting about that angle on this. I don't believe you can count discrimination on lifestyle choices. Hence why we have discrimination laws against attributes that are not (easily) controllable; i.e. gender, race, age etc. Just to drive the point home lots of establishments (restaurants and even bars) have been known to employ smoking bans; and that wasn't discrimination either.
You have your PIN and the number on the fob which changes every 30 seconds or so and the server knows the number cause the securID is associated with the card and pin number. Just like credit cards expire securID would expire as well.
So the moral of this article, if you read and process any decent amount of data, process this data in a serialized fashion; for example use SAX instead of DOM. Also make sure your JDBC connections are tuned correctly to exhibit this 'chunking' behavior or else it won't matter anyways.
From the Article: Lines 8 through 14 open a connection to the database and configure the statement. It is critical to configure the connection and statement so that the database server does not send the entire result set to the application server, but rather sends chunks on demand. Clearly if the entire dataset is sent in a single piece to the application server, we will have nothing to show for our labors! To accomplish this in MySql 5 requires setting useCursorFetch=true and setting the fetch direction of the statement to ResultSet.FETCH_FORWARD. DB2 automatically chunks the data if the statement is scrollable (either ResultSet.TYPE_SCROLL_INSENSITIVE or ResultSet.TYPE_SCROLL_SENSITIVE). Finally, note that normally a connection would be obtained from an application server's connection pool, but for the sake of producing an application that can be deployed easily, this example takes a shortcut. Lines 17-25 loop through the result set, populating a president object and writing it to the page in each pass. This is the crux of the streaming architecture: No more than a single row is kept in memory at once.
Cell phones are hardly the problem, people who do not understand thier own limits are the problem. If cell phones are a distraction than surely someone driving with thier dog on thier lap so they can stick their head of out the driver's window isn't distracting? The list can go on and on and on about what is distracting but what is distracting to some is not distracting to others, that paticular example strikes me odd since i would see it as the most distracting.
We already have laws that enforce responsibility and accountability while driving, no more laws are nessecary in this department. Let people drive and eat, play with thier pet, goose neck at an accident, or talk on the phone if they can do so. Once they are irresponsible with driving, they will pay the consequences and blaming the distraction shouldn't be a trump card.
Apple has always taxed online purchases they are incorparated in every state or something alongs those lines (* i honestly do not what it is *) so they charge taxes anyways on online purchases including iTunes no matter where your billing/shipping addresses are.
So the fact that I live in nebraska and my state does not explictly tax online downloads; i still pay someone taxes on iTunes songs and purchases from the main apple store.
So this post seems to confuse and spread F.U.D, if anything could be surmised from any of this is that governments would like to tax digital media more.
Well not likley because someone is likely to scream discrimination of sorts. As in the real world everyone is *supposed* to be treated fairly even if you can't control yourself ('severely handicapped').
I would imagine that if anything comes of this idea, is that just a server side detection mechanisim that sells ads to vistors saying something similar to spam ads like your computer is infected blah blah blah. However if that ad came from my bank and I was aware that they had this kind of service i would be more inclined to investigate further.
I would see PC gaming to have a nice market until everyone has a decent tv monitor. Cause even though some of the graphic engines in most modern games are very powerful, alas the rendering is still pasted into a generally low resolution screen. So despite the population fortunate to have a nice HDTV or equivlent high resolution television. I would imagine like all software development one must succumb to the lowest common denominator with certain aspects of the design?
Now i do know that the xbox does support the i1080 thing, however few games as i understand it actually take advantage of it.
I don't think the monopoly analogy is good, however this one might be a bit better. Who knows maybe not?
Since it is a hot item in the news, if you look at how athletes have used steroids (performance enhancing drugs) in order to keep up with the demand of fans to perform beyond expectations and be some kind of hero. However most of the press surrounding steroid use is that everyone seems to be using them, ya know if everyone else is doing it why can't I sort of thing. The drug companies say they filled a market, so they aren't at fault. The athletes say it isn't their fault since they buckled under the pressure to succeed. So who is really to blame? I say both, since they had equal responsibilty for thier own actions.
Thus pretty much now sports are going to need reform since they have been stained with the image that they are all cheaters for not being real athletes with all that dedication they go on and on about. Since this image isn't the kind of image that the goverment (whiny constituents) wants to continue to support, they are getting the a legal snafu. Likewise online gaming with the masses will require reform in the same way.
With that said, I do play FFXI and I must say the gil sellers are annoying buy can be dealt with for the time being. The MMOG type games are still young in culture and will take some time to figure out what people really want from these games and better what they are willing to put up with, for example taking weeks of casual play just to go up one character level. I would suspect that next generation of online games will address this problem in different ways, having the publisher become the item/gil whore for supplemental income in conjuction with subscription fees, is one obivious solution that comes to mind.
Personally I think the games suffer this kind of abuse because of using windows platforms instead of consoles where third party application can run in parralel with the said game. Since it is my understanding that in the FFXI worlds the gil sellers and items whores are people who use XP to play instead of a PS2. Finally my inital comment the game publishers will have to solve this problem since they essentially have created it, and i don't mean that in a negative way either. Players also have the responsibilty to take a stand to people who abuse the game, for example 'STOP paying high in game prices for items because you feel you have to!' try playing the games the way you want.
I am not a fan of grocery convience cards and I tend to agree with the posts that lean towards something like this is a loss-leader from the insurance company, so nothing more needs to be said about that.
What i would like to see is maybe insurance companies giving kick-backs to those who do maintence on cars similar however not exactly like health insurance lord knows american health insurance doesn't have issues either. You get your car fixed/repaired or annual maintence (ala jiffy lube) of some kind you get a discount for keeping your car in good running condition. less obtrusive and certinaly would keep those bastard s blowing black smoke in rush hour traffic from bliding my view.
Wonder if they will sue over trademark infringement ?
In a recent agreement between SCO and the Chinese govt. In pursuit to keep their zodiac pristine, the chinese govt. is suing those who choose to raise the popularity of the penguin to super-impose a non-honarable animal onto their zodiac folowers, sources say the chinese govt. claims the addition of the penguin will cause identity crisis worldwide. People are encouraged to still believe that this year is without a doubt the year of the monkey, and not the year of the pengiun. Go Ximian !
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However I think the aforemetioned focus too much about software. Software isn't everything, at least last time I checked ? To illustrate my point I will give this questions to the three lettered leaders and all you other OSS ethusiasts.
Do you grow your own foods, and i mean all of them ?
Do you weave and grow your flax, and such for fabrics that you wear ? again all the clothes you wear ?
I am gonna guess that the answer is definte NO for both. Since 1 it takes entirely too much time to do either along with other responsibilities most people have. Secondly it is just easier to put that responsibility on a company that makes it convient in the form of mega superstores/grocery marts. If we all had to make our own clothes, and grow our own food we would not have much time to move forward and create other things to push our social quo to the next level. Same thing with hardware and software we should excerise balance free software as well non-free software competing for the next big thing. Not everyone wants to control the innerworkings of their OS, and or low-level device drivers just so they can type. No most people opt for Mircosoft/Apple/*nix vendors to do that for them so that the user can do something with and possibly make something else to work with it and make thiers as well as others lives a bit easier for them, and the cycle continues.
I enjoy free/open software however some software i would just rather pay for or get the binary and be done with and not have to try and compile it and trudge through any library hell that might incurr. My time is better spent doing things i do better, and in other ways enjoy more. I think free software needs the proprietary software to keep the value of what software is in perspective, since software seems to be ever more expensive as the years pass-on.
So to re-iterate keep things in balance and the path should be clear because extremists on any topic are rarely 100% correct.
I imagine they will have to make a few things up to get other characters in the movie, since the game is Samus running around killing creatures, and for a movie that isn't all that interesting. So I would suspect they are going to add more characters for smaus to contend with, either allies or enemies.
It will be interesting as to how the come up with different characters to deal with. The movie that comes to mind that seems close would be Aliens. Either way I remain optimistic, it will still be a good game even if the movie is a disaster.
The biggest difference about server-side programming and UI programming is dealing with the amount input variables and state. Since a typical UI has many things going on (* key presses, mouse movements/clicks/drags, paints, etc... *), it is very easy to loose track of something, or not keep track of something at all for the sake of being effecient. Server-side programming tends to be a bit more linear and state is more or less what you need during a session i.e. you accept a connection send / recieve data close the socket lather rinse and repeat. I for enjoy UI programming simply because it is challenging for a variety of reasons, and I think my programming skills and temperment overall improve.
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</shameless-self-promo>Software for most people is the look, what they see is what they want to get and if it isn't what they think it is it causes frustration, it work just like other things 70% how you look 20% how you sound 10% what you actually say.
Now, there are many ways this trick is pulled off, one example is using a trick deck where every other card is the same and they are kind of stuck together so the person doesn't see it when she picks the card as the deck is face down and since the deck is sticky, the magician will often *assist* in picking, and as you might have guessed the card picked was known even before the trick start. So the rest of the trick is more pagentry to distract you from what really went down. So after the trick everyone is amazed and happy. Yet the person who picked the card had the empowerment of choice s/he believed to be picking a unique card from the deck when in fact the card was more or less imposed upon them. So did they have a choice, in terms of the trick no, the choice was made for them for the sake of entertainment.
So in other words, like everything in life there should be balance, strange that psychologists never seem to talk about living a balanced life, they appear to have mostly biased opinions, which these opinions can't justify everyone. Some choices are best left to someone else because they are more skilled/informed than you, and some decisons are best left for you to decide since it may impact you more, like a tatoo or a girl/boyfriend. The real choice is deciding which one is which ?
Because really if the magician didn't pick your card that wouldn't be much fun now would it ?
Actually i have no idea if they make any money on it but .mac accounts sales are probably nice vien of income as well, and even better for those who use it enough to fork out for space upgrades.
.mac account but i think most .mac people own macs ?
Since technically even if you don't own a mac you can still have a