While I am now a Macbook Pro user, I came from Dell laptops and Dell also offers the option of matte or glossy. So I don't really think there is a problem here. Does anyone actually buy anything other than Dell or Apple?;)
Actually, as I just found out, it is impossible to get a glossy macbook pro at an Apple Store. They *only* stock matte screen macbooks. You are forced to order online if you want a glossy screen. No instant gratification for us glossy screen users.
So I actually found the reverse of what the OP was experiencing. Granted my search was confined to just Apple.
Do not, I repeat, do not set Firefox's user agent string to represent Internet Explorer!!
If you do anything, only remove the firefox string that appears. Masquerading as IE would only help inflate IE's usage would continue to prove this website's point... That Firefox is used by only a fraction of people.
The people who are killing or injuring or severely maiming others are not people who had two beers and hopped in a car to go home. It's being done by the people that HAVE a PROBLEM and are downing a case of beer and covering one eye to make it to the next bar.
Lowering the legal limit from.1 to.08 and further down to.06 or whatever DOES NOT SOLVE ANY PROBLEM. The difference in human beings with a BAC of.06 and.08 is impossible to distinguish and measure. All it does is increase government revenue and keep good people down.
This country needs to come to grips with is that Americans DRINK. Drinking is a part of our society and is not going away. The problem that everyone keeps overlooking is that there is no way to evaluate how intoxicated you are and if you are beyond the legal limit, there IS NO WAY TO GET HOME!
I tell you what, if I KNEW that I was at.09 right before I hopped into my car, I wouldn't drive. I would wait 15 minutes. But how the hell do I know that because there are no consumer devices that accurately tell me and there is nothing at drinking establishments that tell me. I went to a bar in Windsor, Ontario and was blown away by the greatest invention. They had a freakin 25 cent breathalyzer that told you exactly how drunk you were! That's BRILLIANT!
Furthermore, if you live in a city with public transportation, you are fine. But what happens if you live in an urban area, where there is no reliable or cost effective transportation. I invite anyone to come to the Detroit Metro area and try and find a cab ride home. You are going to pay 30 - 50 dollars. Forget about the bus. Forget about the train.
Sure, if you live in downtown New York, this argument doesn't hold water. But how many drunk driving accidents do you have in New York? I wonder how much of that is due to the subway system? Hmm....
So what are doing with all the extra cash we get from persecuting people who had one beer too many? Certainly not building up our infrastructure to SOLVE THE PROBLEM.
They obviously don't know what they are talking about.
Earbuds are horrible devices for sound reproduction. They are comparing one inadequate device with another, more expensive inadequate device.
Skip the earbuds entirely. Go directly to your high-end home stereo and see what happens there with 128Kbps. You'll puke all over yourself from the poor quality. I haven't heard the new stuff off of iTunes, but in my own blind experiments, there is MUCH difference.
Result: The Zune will be dead and gone within six months. Good riddance.
Very insightful article until this remark. Microsoft will sink their entire ship before they let the Zune fail. Its key to their drive into the living room. The Zune may not ever be a financial success, but it will be out there for some time to come.
One thing I didn't realize that he pointed out was that Microsoft's model for payments, while completely asinine, gets rid of a per song credit card authorization fee. That's likely a significant cost in Apple's scheme.
Kid you not. Green olives will spark in the microwave. Place three in a circle with the orange center (forgot what that's called) close to each other and nuke em. Sparks will fly!
The difference is that Gnome is using abstract concepts and ideas that can definitely be attributed to Apple's zen-like taste for UI asthetics. They are not "knocking off" source code. Call it what it really is.
Of course, this isn't a negative post. You can't say that many people in the desktop area have had any original ideas these days.
You can distribute the binaries yourself. All of the hurdles you spoke of just allow users to purchase the program from Sprint's website that is pre-bookmarked in all new phones.
If you ask me, its not worth it. People still have the ability to access other websites, so it becomse a matter of informing them about your software. I have a Treo 650 and just about no one goes through Sprint to download new software.
Just get the book on Photoshop. It is the industry leader. Adobe is the originator of each of those concepts you describe, I believe. Once you know Photoshop, being the complex app that it is, you'll be able to figure out any other app quickly.
If she is thinking about persuing a professional career in graphical editing, Photoshop is it.
The only reason I could think of to look at the other apps/books is if and only if this is for personal use only.
You can use MySQL's in-memory cluster replication, which is pretty cool. You can have quite a few nodes, each serving requests against the same database. However, your database size is limited to the amount of RAM a single node can support. That really limits long term scalability of the database. What we just hit 8 GB? What do we do? Sorry, boss, I need another ten grand for an unplanned DB upgrade. Also, if you are used to the atomic transactions InnoDB provides, forget that. The cluster storage system NDB does not support all of the features that InnoDB does.
We chose to go with a Master / Slave option which basically gave us failover within 3 seconds. Any more fine grained monitoring and the CPU performance on the slave gets pretty high. Not ideal, but probably the best option that uses MySQL when you don't want to be tied so much to one platform.
Your personal comments are out of line and show your immaturity in the software world.
Fixing bugs as a result of a lack of unit testing does take effort. In some cases, bugs make it to production. But in the case of enterprise scale web applications backed by complex databases, Unit Testing takes 2 - 3 times as much work. It slows down development as you are not only updating test code along with your application code, but you are also updating your schema *and* your test data.
Don't think I'm not for Unit Testing. Believe me, I'm an advocate of it here at work. In any situation we can (typically our libraries), we have unit tests with JUnit. But it just does not work when:
- you have complex web GUI that cannot be emulated with test frame work.
- you have complex database schema backing your application.
Maybe, but it doesn't work with databases...
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Unless your application is database driven.
As of several months ago, when I last looked, there is no easy way to do automated unit testing on an application that requires a existing dataset for each unit.
DBUnit made an attempt but it was far from realistic and did not scale in anyway to the enterprise level. What?? You mean I have to store my schema as XML? That's re-goddamn-tarded.
Everything ends up a kludge that is extremely difficult to maintain. If people have seen different, please share.
There is enough compromised data out there to keep theives busy for years and years.
While companies say they will cover the costs of what happens to your identity, what if it doesn't happen right away? What if its 5 or 6 years from now? What is your recorse? How do you prove after that much time has passed that your identity was compromised by a particular company? Hell, in that much time, I would probably forget any of this happened.
Like most things in life, I prefer calling something mine. I will never rent my music.
Besides that, who could really listen to all that music in the first place? I use my iPod for more than just playing music. My MP3 collection is 17 GB and even on shuffle I still hear things I haven't heard in years. The rest of the space is storage for files between work, home, and wherever else I am.
1 million songs? It would take you close to 6 years to listen to all of that music.
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A 13 Foot monitor? What a great find!
Am I the only one who read the rant title as "The older I get, the more I realize how much I despise Cunnilingus"
Same here. Same exact story. I'll never touch LVM or any software RAID again. I lost 300 GB of data. In the blink of an eye.
There are some really good analysts out there that know their math. It was probably Enderle, that DOOOSH.
While I am now a Macbook Pro user, I came from Dell laptops and Dell also offers the option of matte or glossy. So I don't really think there is a problem here. Does anyone actually buy anything other than Dell or Apple? ;)
So I actually found the reverse of what the OP was experiencing. Granted my search was confined to just Apple.
I applaud your support of Independence Day and its technological merits.
However, I think what he meant to say was:
"Thank god Macs are compatible with the mothership!"If you do anything, only remove the firefox string that appears. Masquerading as IE would only help inflate IE's usage would continue to prove this website's point... That Firefox is used by only a fraction of people.
The problem with your argument is this.
The people who are killing or injuring or severely maiming others are not people who had two beers and hopped in a car to go home. It's being done by the people that HAVE a PROBLEM and are downing a case of beer and covering one eye to make it to the next bar.
Lowering the legal limit from .1 to .08 and further down to .06 or whatever DOES NOT SOLVE ANY PROBLEM. The difference in human beings with a BAC of .06 and .08 is impossible to distinguish and measure. All it does is increase government revenue and keep good people down.
This country needs to come to grips with is that Americans DRINK. Drinking is a part of our society and is not going away. The problem that everyone keeps overlooking is that there is no way to evaluate how intoxicated you are and if you are beyond the legal limit, there IS NO WAY TO GET HOME!
I tell you what, if I KNEW that I was at .09 right before I hopped into my car, I wouldn't drive. I would wait 15 minutes. But how the hell do I know that because there are no consumer devices that accurately tell me and there is nothing at drinking establishments that tell me. I went to a bar in Windsor, Ontario and was blown away by the greatest invention. They had a freakin 25 cent breathalyzer that told you exactly how drunk you were! That's BRILLIANT!
Furthermore, if you live in a city with public transportation, you are fine. But what happens if you live in an urban area, where there is no reliable or cost effective transportation. I invite anyone to come to the Detroit Metro area and try and find a cab ride home. You are going to pay 30 - 50 dollars. Forget about the bus. Forget about the train.
Sure, if you live in downtown New York, this argument doesn't hold water. But how many drunk driving accidents do you have in New York? I wonder how much of that is due to the subway system? Hmm....
So what are doing with all the extra cash we get from persecuting people who had one beer too many? Certainly not building up our infrastructure to SOLVE THE PROBLEM.
They obviously don't know what they are talking about.
Earbuds are horrible devices for sound reproduction. They are comparing one inadequate device with another, more expensive inadequate device.
Skip the earbuds entirely. Go directly to your high-end home stereo and see what happens there with 128Kbps. You'll puke all over yourself from the poor quality. I haven't heard the new stuff off of iTunes, but in my own blind experiments, there is MUCH difference.
Very insightful article until this remark. Microsoft will sink their entire ship before they let the Zune fail. Its key to their drive into the living room. The Zune may not ever be a financial success, but it will be out there for some time to come.
One thing I didn't realize that he pointed out was that Microsoft's model for payments, while completely asinine, gets rid of a per song credit card authorization fee. That's likely a significant cost in Apple's scheme.
That's it! I kept thinking palmolive instead.
Kid you not. Green olives will spark in the microwave. Place three in a circle with the orange center (forgot what that's called) close to each other and nuke em. Sparks will fly!
That's quite a collection of pr0n!
I would very much like to see a comparison of the three against established performers in different languages. For example: mod_perl.
Of course, this isn't a negative post. You can't say that many people in the desktop area have had any original ideas these days.
If you ask me, its not worth it. People still have the ability to access other websites, so it becomse a matter of informing them about your software. I have a Treo 650 and just about no one goes through Sprint to download new software.
Grab any other single book off amazon.com and you'll be better off.
If she is thinking about persuing a professional career in graphical editing, Photoshop is it.
The only reason I could think of to look at the other apps/books is if and only if this is for personal use only.
We chose to go with a Master / Slave option which basically gave us failover within 3 seconds. Any more fine grained monitoring and the CPU performance on the slave gets pretty high. Not ideal, but probably the best option that uses MySQL when you don't want to be tied so much to one platform.
Fixing bugs as a result of a lack of unit testing does take effort. In some cases, bugs make it to production. But in the case of enterprise scale web applications backed by complex databases, Unit Testing takes 2 - 3 times as much work. It slows down development as you are not only updating test code along with your application code, but you are also updating your schema *and* your test data.
Don't think I'm not for Unit Testing. Believe me, I'm an advocate of it here at work. In any situation we can (typically our libraries), we have unit tests with JUnit. But it just does not work when:
- you have complex web GUI that cannot be emulated with test frame work.
- you have complex database schema backing your application.
Unless your application is database driven.
As of several months ago, when I last looked, there is no easy way to do automated unit testing on an application that requires a existing dataset for each unit.
DBUnit made an attempt but it was far from realistic and did not scale in anyway to the enterprise level. What?? You mean I have to store my schema as XML? That's re-goddamn-tarded.
Everything ends up a kludge that is extremely difficult to maintain. If people have seen different, please share.
Maybe they equate a shitty game with shitty movie?
While companies say they will cover the costs of what happens to your identity, what if it doesn't happen right away? What if its 5 or 6 years from now? What is your recorse? How do you prove after that much time has passed that your identity was compromised by a particular company? Hell, in that much time, I would probably forget any of this happened.
Besides that, who could really listen to all that music in the first place? I use my iPod for more than just playing music. My MP3 collection is 17 GB and even on shuffle I still hear things I haven't heard in years. The rest of the space is storage for files between work, home, and wherever else I am.
1 million songs? It would take you close to 6 years to listen to all of that music.