Obviously those people were inexperienced with Ruby and or Rails. You can add new methods, or override the methods in any class you want. It's very easy to change they way any object behaves. And the concept of code blocks is extremely powerful and flexible (yes, yes, not an original idea - borrowed from Small Talk)...
When you get right down to it, all people really want to know is "what is the performance of this chip" and maybe "how much power it consumes". I think Intel and AMD should both just drop all these silly and confusing names and using some kind of standard naming convention using SpecInt and SpecFp, and some notation for power consumption. Say maybe, for example (si06 for specint2006, sfp06 for specfp2006, w for watts) "Intel si06_nn, sfp06_nn @ 25w". Then picking a cpu would just be a matter of a simple comparison price/performace/watts. Easy on us, and maybe saves them some money by not having pay for people to come up with cool sounding names.
I had one of the original Apple Titanium laptops, and the hinges were metal and broken anyway. Customer service (going all the way up the chain) would do nothing for me. I love Apple, but I think their customer service (personally speaking) sucks. They have this "What problem? We've never heard of that before - it must be you that you have abused/misused our product" attitude even when their are blogs on the internet with thousands of people complaining about that (or any given) problem.
I had to write a registered receipt to Steve Job's before I got any kind of service from them. I do have to give them credit though. The next generation had a solid hinge going across the whole laptop instead of two small ones on each end...
Anyway, I agree. Many laptop manufacturers for some reason just really don't like to repair broken hinges.
I just sent the companies customer service a department a link to this posting on Slashdot to remind them that word of mouth still means something, along with a statement that I would never buy from them. If anyone else has got two minutes to spare, do the same. If they get enough maybe it will help this guy out. What a load of crap...
I've installed Ubuntu on a half a dozen very different machines - both old and new - and hardware detection has always been flawless. No problems with wireless either - not even the Broadcom chips. I either grab the firmware from Windows for the bcm43xx kernel driver, or use NDiswrapper (which I find gets me a better signal).
I just installed Linux on a friends older Dell laptop, and lo and behold, not only was Fusion already running (flawlessly on an 8MB i810 - see Vista try that), I also got a popup telling me that the batteries life (not its charge) was low and needed replacing. I've never seen Windows do that.
I also automatically detected when I plugged in an HP printer and just set it up for me instantly. To get this printer working under Windows I had to go and download 100MB driver "package" that installed all kinds of junk and took half an hour to install.
When was the last time you actually tried to install a decent Linux distro? When Windows 95 was actually current?
If I had mod points, I'd mod you up. That was the best and most complete explanation so far. I totally agree with you. As a graduate with a CS degree I have experienced this first hand time and time again where I work, and personally.
Why do they need to "invent" a separate system at all. Most modern phones have GPS built in, which can be used to determine velocity. I would say anyone traveling over 25 MPH is probably in some sort of vehicle. The GPS could also be used to determine if the location was on a "road". Admittedly this still faces the problem of determining whether the person talking was a driver or a passenger.
eh...what kind of price? Last time I looked you could get a Mac Mini for $599 - if course you have to get your own monitor etc, but when you compare the hardware against an entry level Dell that might go for a similar price it's definitely better. The dell might come with monitor but how much does a 17" lcd cost these days anyway - not THAT much. And Macbooks start $1,099 and they are very nice.
I don't think the whole "Macs are so much more expensive than PC's" applies at ALL anymore.
Don't patronize these places. If the places not swiping cards are doing better than the places that do swipe cards, it won't take long for those that do to cease doing so.
It's not about being drunk. It doesn't take much alchohol to reduce your reflexes. And when driving a car, people shouldn't be doing ANYTHING that causes a reduction reflexes. People don't take driving seriously enough. I think people forget they are flying around in chunks of steel at high speeds and how much damage, death, or disability can be caused by one moment of distraction, or a reflex that's a fraction of a second slower that it might have been. I think the law is just trying to put a limit on how much distraction is "irresponsible", or "negligent".
Internet Explorer IN Windows and Safari WITH Mac OS X are not comparable at all. Microsoft made Internet Explorer "an integral part of the operating system... that you can't remove" (so they said in court). It was the only browser they offered, and they forced it on people. Apple provides Safari with Mac OS X, which uses KTHML, an open source renderning engine - which you can quite easily and safely delete. Not to mention that Apple distributed Internet Explorer on the Mac before developing Safari. The two approaches were entirely different. Whats the harm you ask? Just look at where we are with nternet Explorer today. I think consumers are obviously worse off because of Microsoft's approach.
New? Jeez, these things have been around since the 80's at least - I remember learning about them in my aeronautical engineering class in high school... Here's an interesting page on the various types of jet engines including the scramjet and a diagram of how it works. It's dated 1994, but I'm sure they were around earlier.
Yes, but the fact that the execs have to push the product back is what the problem is. Either the workers messed up, or the projects were mis-managed. If they were mis-managed, then the employees have every right to wish the execs to be held accountable. I work for a VERY large company, and I can't tell you how many 10's of millions of dollars have been spend on failed project after failed project by the same execs, and they are still collecting thier huge paychecks, while the employees take pay cuts or get laid off. I'm mad about it, so I'm not surprised if people at MS are. I'm not saying they're taking pay cuts, or being layed off, but, jeez, where's the accountability??
sudi IS a way to grant limited root privlieges. Nobody says you have to put:
user ALL=(ALL) ALL
in sudoers. You can be extremely precise in granting privileges with entries like:
%users ALL=/sbin/mount/cdrom,/sbin/umount/cdrom
%users localhost=/sbin/shutdown -h now
If for no other reason, sudo is (somewhat) useful in guarding against automated brute force login attacks - rather than an attacker repeatedly guessing agains a known username (root), they have to guess against unknown user names. Good passords help, but how long/complex can they reasonably be in practice - any any password can be guessed with enough time.
what does the chipset have to do with the encryption method? i have a Linksys "b" router thats over four years old. A firmware upgrade gave me the ability to use WPA (and more). not to mention that on Linux, the encryption is provided by the driver or even third party software.
or you cant take a more logical approach... If it's empty and you fill it half way, it's half full. If it's full and you empty half of it, then it's half empty no?
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Obviously those people were inexperienced with Ruby and or Rails. You can add new methods, or override the methods in any class you want. It's very easy to change they way any object behaves. And the concept of code blocks is extremely powerful and flexible (yes, yes, not an original idea - borrowed from Small Talk)...
your geek card has officially be revoked and your google searchbox removed... ;)
When you get right down to it, all people really want to know is "what is the performance of this chip" and maybe "how much power it consumes". I think Intel and AMD should both just drop all these silly and confusing names and using some kind of standard naming convention using SpecInt and SpecFp, and some notation for power consumption. Say maybe, for example (si06 for specint2006, sfp06 for specfp2006, w for watts) "Intel si06_nn, sfp06_nn @ 25w". Then picking a cpu would just be a matter of a simple comparison price/performace/watts. Easy on us, and maybe saves them some money by not having pay for people to come up with cool sounding names.
what are you talking about? i modded my xbox so i could run Linux on it, which has many apps - not to pirate games.
I had one of the original Apple Titanium laptops, and the hinges were metal and broken anyway. Customer service (going all the way up the chain) would do nothing for me. I love Apple, but I think their customer service (personally speaking) sucks. They have this "What problem? We've never heard of that before - it must be you that you have abused/misused our product" attitude even when their are blogs on the internet with thousands of people complaining about that (or any given) problem. I had to write a registered receipt to Steve Job's before I got any kind of service from them. I do have to give them credit though. The next generation had a solid hinge going across the whole laptop instead of two small ones on each end... Anyway, I agree. Many laptop manufacturers for some reason just really don't like to repair broken hinges.
I just sent the companies customer service a department a link to this posting on Slashdot to remind them that word of mouth still means something, along with a statement that I would never buy from them. If anyone else has got two minutes to spare, do the same. If they get enough maybe it will help this guy out. What a load of crap...
I've installed Ubuntu on a half a dozen very different machines - both old and new - and hardware detection has always been flawless. No problems with wireless either - not even the Broadcom chips. I either grab the firmware from Windows for the bcm43xx kernel driver, or use NDiswrapper (which I find gets me a better signal). I just installed Linux on a friends older Dell laptop, and lo and behold, not only was Fusion already running (flawlessly on an 8MB i810 - see Vista try that), I also got a popup telling me that the batteries life (not its charge) was low and needed replacing. I've never seen Windows do that. I also automatically detected when I plugged in an HP printer and just set it up for me instantly. To get this printer working under Windows I had to go and download 100MB driver "package" that installed all kinds of junk and took half an hour to install. When was the last time you actually tried to install a decent Linux distro? When Windows 95 was actually current?
If I had mod points, I'd mod you up. That was the best and most complete explanation so far. I totally agree with you. As a graduate with a CS degree I have experienced this first hand time and time again where I work, and personally.
Why do they need to "invent" a separate system at all. Most modern phones have GPS built in, which can be used to determine velocity. I would say anyone traveling over 25 MPH is probably in some sort of vehicle. The GPS could also be used to determine if the location was on a "road". Admittedly this still faces the problem of determining whether the person talking was a driver or a passenger.
It's called a counter suit.
Then you should be using Linux ;)
eh...what kind of price? Last time I looked you could get a Mac Mini for $599 - if course you have to get your own monitor etc, but when you compare the hardware against an entry level Dell that might go for a similar price it's definitely better. The dell might come with monitor but how much does a 17" lcd cost these days anyway - not THAT much. And Macbooks start $1,099 and they are very nice. I don't think the whole "Macs are so much more expensive than PC's" applies at ALL anymore.
Don't patronize these places. If the places not swiping cards are doing better than the places that do swipe cards, it won't take long for those that do to cease doing so.
would you mind if i made that my sig? ;)
... which kinda taste like chicken
It's not about being drunk. It doesn't take much alchohol to reduce your reflexes. And when driving a car, people shouldn't be doing ANYTHING that causes a reduction reflexes. People don't take driving seriously enough. I think people forget they are flying around in chunks of steel at high speeds and how much damage, death, or disability can be caused by one moment of distraction, or a reflex that's a fraction of a second slower that it might have been. I think the law is just trying to put a limit on how much distraction is "irresponsible", or "negligent".
Internet Explorer IN Windows and Safari WITH Mac OS X are not comparable at all. Microsoft made Internet Explorer "an integral part of the operating system ... that you can't remove" (so they said in court). It was the only browser they offered, and they forced it on people. Apple provides Safari with Mac OS X, which uses KTHML, an open source renderning engine - which you can quite easily and safely delete. Not to mention that Apple distributed Internet Explorer on the Mac before developing Safari. The two approaches were entirely different. Whats the harm you ask? Just look at where we are with nternet Explorer today. I think consumers are obviously worse off because of Microsoft's approach.
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Education/SpaceSettl ement/Nowicki/SPBI104.HTM
New? Jeez, these things have been around since the 80's at least - I remember learning about them in my aeronautical engineering class in high school ... Here's an interesting page on the various types of jet engines including the scramjet and a diagram of how it works. It's dated 1994, but I'm sure they were around earlier.
Yes, but the fact that the execs have to push the product back is what the problem is. Either the workers messed up, or the projects were mis-managed. If they were mis-managed, then the employees have every right to wish the execs to be held accountable. I work for a VERY large company, and I can't tell you how many 10's of millions of dollars have been spend on failed project after failed project by the same execs, and they are still collecting thier huge paychecks, while the employees take pay cuts or get laid off. I'm mad about it, so I'm not surprised if people at MS are. I'm not saying they're taking pay cuts, or being layed off, but, jeez, where's the accountability??
sudi IS a way to grant limited root privlieges. Nobody says you have to put: user ALL=(ALL) ALL in sudoers. You can be extremely precise in granting privileges with entries like: %users ALL=/sbin/mount /cdrom,/sbin/umount /cdrom
%users localhost=/sbin/shutdown -h now
If for no other reason, sudo is (somewhat) useful in guarding against automated brute force login attacks - rather than an attacker repeatedly guessing agains a known username (root), they have to guess against unknown user names. Good passords help, but how long/complex can they reasonably be in practice - any any password can be guessed with enough time.
what does the chipset have to do with the encryption method? i have a Linksys "b" router thats over four years old. A firmware upgrade gave me the ability to use WPA (and more). not to mention that on Linux, the encryption is provided by the driver or even third party software.
That's it... I'm outraged. I'll NEVER buy another CD from any company affiliated with the RIAA!! I can't believe this!
on KDE4. Interesting stuff. http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/01/ 12/kde4.html
or you cant take a more logical approach ... If it's empty and you fill it half way, it's half full. If it's full and you empty half of it, then it's half empty no?