It'll cool your feet in the winter when it works at its best and in the summer the difference between warm sidewalks and the inside of the boot will not generate any electricity. This means that when you don't mind to wear it, it does not work. When it works, it causes so much discomfort that you choose not to... Mmm.
My views are only from the perspective of owning a WM phone, but the things that I noticed in my own phone (Motorola MPX220) and the HTC WM phone of my dad is that WM is just too much like a desktop OS. This brings round problems like start-up times in excess of a minute and no alarms when the phone is turned off. It must've been an option to start a development from scratch at the time (and it might even be a development from scratch), but the WM OS behaves too much like a desktop OS to ever be successful in embedded applications. Hacking this around will always lag behind the competitors. Starting from scratch could fix it for them, since they usually manage to heave a huge bucket of money into the marketing machine and haul the product through the ditch. They'll be out of the game for a couple of years then.
My experience with OSS docs is that it is often much better than the docs of Propriety products. The rationale that explains this, I think, is that OSS docs/faqs etc if present, is at a level that ensures that the developer does not have to answer too many questions from noobs. With propriety software the focus is often "We need docs to say that we have a complete package that we can sell" That means that the docs are often absolute drivel and takes you no further than what the UI already provided. At the worst it is just a series of screenshots of the menu's stating the obvious, like "File->open: this opens files". Both camps have examples of brilliance and of drivel, but the propriety products surely excel in the drivel department!
Next time I'll add a;) for you...
Running Gentoo, I am in any case from the camp: "Install what you want" and not from the camp "remove what you don't want"
in combination with simple bash for loops can handle most of the image processing joe user needs.
The age of digital photography does see plenty of people composing their own images. These folk, however, will google around and emerge *oops* apt-get install gimp.
I never said trust your spell checker implicitly, I said, use it. There is a huge difference.
We are outsourcing a project to India and I review the code. One of the coders delivered a file absolutely riddled with spelling mistakes. I know that the code was reviewed by one of the senior Indian programmers, so the code had some errors, but the spelling was useless. A few code deliveries later, a module written by the same coder was checked in without review by accident. The quality of the code was absolutely horrendous! Most art or law students would would write better code. It resulted in a breach of confidence within our management that the outsourcing company will not recover from it.
One of the best programmers on our team can not spell to save his life. He also does not touch type (a proficiency I always considered a basic requirement when interfacing with computers for your profession). He thus proves that it is not a hard and fast rule.
That being said, we work in a company where virtually all code is reviewed. Long winded comments introduce maintainability issues, since the comment can diverge from the working in time. Extensive spelling mistakes in them certainly becomes irritating, especially since there are plenty of good editors available with spell checking included. That just points to sloppiness. Not bothering to use a tool's features shows no pursuit of excellence and that certainly places doubts on the rest.
I installed Gentoo on my Acer Aspire One for a very good reason.
The Intel Atom N270 is a rather lightweight processor that unfortunately lacks out of order execution, but it does have a very dandy instruction set. MMX SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 are all supported. With so little power available, it makes even more sense to grab every little bit one can get. Unfortunately, as mentioned, your slant in the post was more in the direction of "out of the box"
1G swap partition. If it's used regularly upgrade RAM.
This is a sensible solution, I think.
My setup has similar swap room. I use system monitor tray with a rather large pixel width. In the sysmon, the Eth IO and swap are enabled. The swap has a very vivid colour. This makes it noticeable when the swap starts to play. This is then followed by a process check and a rationalisation in the running apps. If the app list is what I _need_, then more ram.
The data rate of voip is quite low. It should not be the largest percentage of your usage. You're talking about less than 30MB per hour usage.
Usually the killers are big downloads and video streaming.
Internet radio running 24/7 at 128kbps will amount to about 10G so turning it off when not using it could provide some solace.
Mosaic software's Postilion could do this in 2001. Mosaic is a South African firm that has a number of clients world wide. They also have customers in the US, so the chance that this was available earlier is quite possible.
Tis said that a person is capable of harnessing roughly 5% of his or her mental capacity. My theory is that this test was done on men. What happens with the rest of the of their mental capacity? They think of SEX!! When working in a group of men and women, it seems as if the difference in mental capacity is almost negligible. The only thing is, it is known that women don't think of sex as much as men. This means they use a larger percentage of their mental capacity. So relatively there isn't much in it, but absolutely, men are far cleverer!
Obviously the site is/.ed, but mailto root@localhost?
This calendar will not make it in the Netherlands
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In the Netherlands there are a dismal 7 public holidays. Two of these public holidays are christmas and new year. The Netherlands have a policy that public holidays falling in the weekend don't get transferred to a week day. This would thus mean that the public in the Netherlands lose 2 public holidays! That being Christmas and new year. Surely the people will be daft to switch to this new system.
Then again, maybe the government will adopt it on purpose, since it would mean that the economy has 2 extra working days. The people won't accept it without a compromise though.
Re:Use a Velomobile, they are fast dry efficient
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They are really amazing. My distance to work is 70km and I do it twice a week. Best time for the 70km is 1h53. The superiority of a Velomobile is proven in bad weather conditions. The vehicle is relatively insensitive for wind. This is due to a Cx (wind drag coefficient) of.15 A normal bicycle is above 1. The price is a minor problem. It is only a problem untill you have it. The 9 month delivery time is a major problem.
Yes indeed, we don't all dive into the code when we find a problem. I also develop code. Having someone test it that has no insight as to how it functions underneath is very important to me. Having a second opinion to guide my aesthetics and so forth is imperative. I thus consider feedback on OSS projects on a "Higher level" just as important as contributions to the actual code development. You will quickly find out if your software is userfriendly if you give it to a 50 year old working in the natural gas industry (my industry)!
Greetz,
Frans
During the '80s the South African government was fighting a war in Angola. The special opps teams were supplied with very strong tablets of speed to keep on going for DAYS. They were said to keep on marching with no desire for food.
I wonder if they also had a walkman with some heavy trance running...
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It'll cool your feet in the winter when it works at its best and in the summer the difference between warm sidewalks and the inside of the boot will not generate any electricity. This means that when you don't mind to wear it, it does not work. When it works, it causes so much discomfort that you choose not to... Mmm.
My views are only from the perspective of owning a WM phone, but the things that I noticed in my own phone (Motorola MPX220) and the HTC WM phone of my dad is that WM is just too much like a desktop OS. This brings round problems like start-up times in excess of a minute and no alarms when the phone is turned off. It must've been an option to start a development from scratch at the time (and it might even be a development from scratch), but the WM OS behaves too much like a desktop OS to ever be successful in embedded applications. Hacking this around will always lag behind the competitors. Starting from scratch could fix it for them, since they usually manage to heave a huge bucket of money into the marketing machine and haul the product through the ditch. They'll be out of the game for a couple of years then.
Are just flat, not in 3D... Work in progress, I'd say. ;)
You mean soon it will not be acceptable to show Neanderthal behaviour any more?! What IS the world coming to...
My experience with OSS docs is that it is often much better than the docs of Propriety products. The rationale that explains this, I think, is that OSS docs/faqs etc if present, is at a level that ensures that the developer does not have to answer too many questions from noobs. With propriety software the focus is often "We need docs to say that we have a complete package that we can sell" That means that the docs are often absolute drivel and takes you no further than what the UI already provided. At the worst it is just a series of screenshots of the menu's stating the obvious, like "File->open: this opens files". Both camps have examples of brilliance and of drivel, but the propriety products surely excel in the drivel department!
Next time I'll add a ;) for you...
Running Gentoo, I am in any case from the camp: "Install what you want" and not from the camp "remove what you don't want"
The age of digital photography does see plenty of people composing their own images. These folk, however, will google around and emerge *oops* apt-get install gimp.
We are outsourcing a project to India and I review the code. One of the coders delivered a file absolutely riddled with spelling mistakes. I know that the code was reviewed by one of the senior Indian programmers, so the code had some errors, but the spelling was useless. A few code deliveries later, a module written by the same coder was checked in without review by accident. The quality of the code was absolutely horrendous! Most art or law students would would write better code. It resulted in a breach of confidence within our management that the outsourcing company will not recover from it.
That being said, we work in a company where virtually all code is reviewed. Long winded comments introduce maintainability issues, since the comment can diverge from the working in time. Extensive spelling mistakes in them certainly becomes irritating, especially since there are plenty of good editors available with spell checking included. That just points to sloppiness. Not bothering to use a tool's features shows no pursuit of excellence and that certainly places doubts on the rest.
So all these guys did, was stop Tregz. Since the discovery of this giant gecho we knew that it was an aggressive beast.
I installed Gentoo on my Acer Aspire One for a very good reason. The Intel Atom N270 is a rather lightweight processor that unfortunately lacks out of order execution, but it does have a very dandy instruction set. MMX SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 are all supported. With so little power available, it makes even more sense to grab every little bit one can get. Unfortunately, as mentioned, your slant in the post was more in the direction of "out of the box"
Using the latest vanilla kernel solves some WiFi problems. It is usually masked.
The rule for swap:
1G swap partition. If it's used regularly upgrade RAM.
This is a sensible solution, I think.
My setup has similar swap room. I use system monitor tray with a rather large pixel width. In the sysmon, the Eth IO and swap are enabled. The swap has a very vivid colour. This makes it noticeable when the swap starts to play. This is then followed by a process check and a rationalisation in the running apps. If the app list is what I _need_, then more ram.
The data rate of voip is quite low. It should not be the largest percentage of your usage. You're talking about less than 30MB per hour usage. Usually the killers are big downloads and video streaming. Internet radio running 24/7 at 128kbps will amount to about 10G so turning it off when not using it could provide some solace.
The purchase of Thawte resulted in a wad of cash that Mark Shuttleworth used to do some nice things with.
Mosaic software's Postilion could do this in 2001. Mosaic is a South African firm that has a number of clients world wide. They also have customers in the US, so the chance that this was available earlier is quite possible.
This is a very nice read about the smaller brother of the Giant squid called the Diablo Rojo
Indeed, vim is a crucial piece of software to enhance your developing speed. Reduce key strokes and thus limit the impact on your hands.
Tis said that a person is capable of harnessing roughly 5% of his or her mental capacity. My theory is that this test was done on men. What happens with the rest of the of their mental capacity? They think of SEX!! When working in a group of men and women, it seems as if the difference in mental capacity is almost negligible. The only thing is, it is known that women don't think of sex as much as men. This means they use a larger percentage of their mental capacity. So relatively there isn't much in it, but absolutely, men are far cleverer!
Obviously the site is /.ed, but mailto root@localhost?
Then again, maybe the government will adopt it on purpose, since it would mean that the economy has 2 extra working days. The people won't accept it without a compromise though.
Yes indeed, we don't all dive into the code when we find a problem. I also develop code. Having someone test it that has no insight as to how it functions underneath is very important to me. Having a second opinion to guide my aesthetics and so forth is imperative. I thus consider feedback on OSS projects on a "Higher level" just as important as contributions to the actual code development. You will quickly find out if your software is userfriendly if you give it to a 50 year old working in the natural gas industry (my industry)! Greetz, Frans
I wonder if they also had a walkman with some heavy trance running...
Burning a DVD or CD over a link is a very good demo of the link speed/ minimum bandwidth. Unfortunately it can go wrong in the demo and will!!